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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02


She was at one of the union school
houses half an hour before school
opened. She had Linda with her.
She was a tall woman, forty years
old, with g jaw showing great deter
mination, and Linda" was sixteen,
and rather shy AMI pretty good look
ing. The mother said she hadn't
been in the city long, and that it was
her duty to get Linda into school and
see that she was properly educated.
When the teacher came the mother
boldly inquired:
You know enough to teach, do
your"
Il think l do" replied the teacher,
blushing deeply.
And you ieel competent TO govern
the scholars, do you p"
"Yes'm."
"Do you pound 'em with a ferrule,
or lick 'em with q whip ?"
I'VE seldom resort to punishment
here" replied the embarrassed
teacher.
That's better yet" continued the
mother. Il know that if Linda
should come home all pounded up I'd
feel like killing some one. suppose
you are of a respectable character,
amt you"
"Why-ahem-wby-" stammer-
ed the teacher, growing white and
then red.
Il expect you are" continued the
woman. Its well enough TO know
who oGr children are associated with.
Now, then, do you allow the boys
and girls to sit together ?"
No. ma'an."
That's right They never used 10
when / was young, and | don't think
Linda is any better than | am.
Another thing: Do you allow any
winkingy"
ANY what ?" exclaimed the puz-
lied teacher.
"Do you allow a boy to wink at a
girl! ~ asked the woman.
Why, no."
Il was afraid you did. Linda is
as shy as a bird, and if she should
come home SEINE night and tell me
that she had been wlnked at l don't
knew what I'd do. Now, another
thing-do you have a beau :"
"Why-why-" was the stammer-
ed reply.
Il think you do" resumed the wo-
wan severely. Il know just how ii
works. When you should be explain
ing what an archipelago is you are
thinking OF your Richard, and your
mind is way, way off,"
But, madam
Never mind any explanation" in
terrupted the woman. II want Lin.
da brought up to know joggerfy,
figures, writing, and spellograpby
and if you've get a beau, and are
spooking to the theatre one night, a
candy-pulling the next, a horse-race
the next, and so on, your mind can't
be on education. Come, Linda, We'll
90 to some other school house"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
Seine Cartons Facts about Tools

Every mechanic knows that old
tools, which have been laid aside
or lost for a long time, seemed to
have acquired additional excellency
of quality. Razors which have lost
their keenness and their temper, re-
cover, like mankind, when given time
to recuperate. A spring regains it.
tension when allowed TO rest. Far
mers leave their scythes exposed TO
the weather, sometimes from one sea-
son TO another. and find their quality
improved by it. Boiler makers fire.
quenlly search old boilers careful
when reopened for repairs after a long
period Of service, to find any tools
that NAV have been left in them when
last repaired, and if any are found,
they are almost invariably of unusual
~ fine quality. The writer when a
boy in the shop, frequently, if de-
MED the use Of their tools by the
workmen. looked about the scrap
shop, and under the window, for
tools purposely or earelessly drop
ped by the men and when one was
found badly rusted by long exposure,
il proved TO be one of the best Of
sociological Mechanic.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
AIIint TO Young Mechanics.

Two things are uppermostin almost
every industrious young mans mind
the desire to make and save money
and TO be established in business, fol
himself. Now as encouragement tC
persevere in that industry, also In
faiihfulness, close attention 10 bust
ness, and also in Improvement of the
mind, We suggest that q few dollars
placed atsinterest will grow in amount
wonderfully fast if the interes; is al
so invested and a few dollars regu.
larry added TO it. The evenings US
uslly spent in idleness, if devoted to
scientific, practical books and papers,
will, in q few years, make a young
man educated and prepare him for
directing an establishment of bis own.
Remember it is the most skillful. ar
%iistic, and finished workman that ris,
es above his fellows. When you
have mastered your trade and end
your mind stored with useful hints
and thoroughly scientific knowledge,
then turn to a partnership or part 10
terest in business with your employ
ers. Your standing and the little
capital saved viii help you wonder
fully. If such a part interest is not
practicable, select smother industrius
colaborer and commence in a one-sto-
~ one roomed office with n narticular
specially of which you are thorough
masters Push to completion in per-
feet workmanship such small orders
as you can persuade the public to ex-
tend to you Remember that person.
integrity, and industry
will 10 9 few years bring their re-
ward. They always have and they
wili.-Nechanical Journal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
A Discriminating witness.

Jake was called upon in the Re-
corder's Court to give testimony in
favor Of the good character of Pete,
who had been on q Christmas ben
der.
"0b, yes, sab, / knows him better'D
any niger in Atlanta"
lis be sober and industrious?."
Dat 'pends pom de kashion, Judge;
sometime he's sober, and some time
he's 'dustrious, sab"
When is be sober?'
Mos g~inerally when be amt got
no money, Judge"
when is he INDUSTRIOUS
"Jis' bout the same time, sah."
Suppose be has money!
Den he's putty lierble TO be de
drums and lazies' niger dat de
good Lord eber put bref into-lat 5
de truf."
Pete was i~ncarcerated the next
minute.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
sn.ripx ,ne cena.ehe. rie,ure..

To-day l have been busy showing
the Alphabetical Object Teacher, =
kaleidoscope and s,ercoscopic views
/ have been surprised. as well as
amused, a. me effect produced by
the exhibition of the latter. As a
body, the Indians Of this country
who have never been East, and, as q
consequence, have seen but few white
people, are disposed to disbelieve the
accounts they receive respecting their
numbers, magnitude OF their towns
and cities. and the extent Of the coun-
try they occupy They believe that
their own people who have been East
have been duped by some kind Ct
~sorcery, or, as they would say, med
icine."
They also think it is impossible to
make an imaginary picture. Hence
a picture is to them proof positive
of the existence of an original. Con-
sequently, my exhibiting towns,
buildings, rural scenes, and soldiers,
has had q most convincing effect
This was much heightened by hav-
ing some mountain Genes from Col
orado. familiar to them, and which
they recognized at cnce. This was
10 fact, the strongest adducible evil
dence that the accounts they had re-
ceived were so far from being exag-
erations that the half had not been
told them.
One middle aged mar who has al
WAYS treated these reports with the
utmost skepiieism, was particularly
struck with them. He could not
sufficiently express his surprise, but
beat upon his mouth in utter aston
ishmeHt
Sun Boy. who had often told him
what be saw in tie East, would say
to him in Kiowa, what you thinb
now2 You think all lie now? You
think ell chiefs who have been 10
Washington fools now?n
Again and again would be look
them over. with his hand upon BIZ.
mouth, dumb with amazement. AT
ter he had looked them over severa.
times, being a war chief, be called il
his warriors, and exhibited the pic
lures to them, talking to them all the
time.
] could understand but 8 part, YET
could gather such expressions q;
these:
Look. see what a mighty power,
full people they are.,r meaning white
people. I'VE are foolsl We don't
know anything. We just ike wolye:
running wild on the plains
Such an effect on the wal chief,
and warriors cannot but be very sal
utary, and must csnduce much
toward lettering them from going on
the war-path against such a mighty
powerful people" | could but wish
that a good s~tereoseope with suitable
pictures could be exhibited in every
Indian camp in the land, and proper
ly explained to the people, Quail.
er among the Indians.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
What He Had TO Say.

Jonas X. Swee.water, you are
charged with imbibing too much fire.
water, and what have you to say
about it?" asked the Court.
Blamed sly" replied the prisoner
in a hollow voice.
at may be Jonas, but don't couct
yeur belief in such language. We
will have the officer sworn"
81 want a lawyer" exclaimed The
prisoner.
"What for?"
"To knock the under-piuning oui
from under this hash housed"
"Mr. Sweetwater, the English Ian.
guage offers q large variety of word.
more suitable than you are using"
We'll, now, you let me out of her,
or III make things buzz"
What's that?r
"Ill make this old earavansary rec
hot" said Jonas.
Jonas X. Whatsvourname, | fine
You $50 or send you up for three
months, and If you have over two
words to say about it I'll make it bal
a year."
you will?"
You try it on"
They gazed at each other.
The boys rose from behind tht
stove.
Jonas X. wanted to, but didn't
and Bijah led him away.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
The Race.

The Hebrew race are supposed &c
number from 5000, 600 to 1000, 900,
any the Hebrew Leader tells Us
that:
The Jews were eve q great race
from the time they first became a
nation, and it is as impossiblet to CON-
pure or approximate their numbers,
looking back into Israel's antiquity
when Terah and Abraham jsurneyed
southwark from Mesopotamia, a it is
now. If however, We bear in mind
the old prophecy that the descendants
Of Abraham shall become as numer-
ous a. the stars Of the heaven and the
sands Of the sea, we opiDe that the
dimensions of Palestine would be
found rather too limited, and hardly
answering all requirements, but we
doubt whether that land willever be.
come the home of Israel, despite ira
ditiOn, for the very reason that they
have strengthened in dispersion, and
grown under the favorable auspices
Of civilization to become one of the
most important and formidable PEG.
pies on the face Of the globe, preserv
ing q distinctive individuality, hel(
together under the most trying and
adverse circumstances by q faitl
irtner than Sinai's Mount from which
il was promulgated
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
A Portuguese Sportsman.

He had some experience OF wood.
cock, hare, and r~ed-legged partridge
shooting, and likewise of hunting
sith dog and gun, wolves, which be
never by any chance shot. This fact
does not astonish anybody who has
seen a Portuguese gun loaded. A
small handful of native aud slmos,
harmless powder, o little grass or a
leaf or two, and an equal handful o.
shot Of all sizes, rammed down with
a huge wad upon it Of extempore
manufacture, constitute the charge.
The gun is fired, the wolf escapes,
and, what is more remarkable than
this, the sportsman who holds the
gun also escapes. The doge are usu,
ally as unsuccessful as their masters
in catching the d~eet-footed wolf
nevertheless the wolf continues to bt
the favorite sport Of the Portuguese
The good padre had many thrilling
stories Of uncaught wolves, and was
moreover eloquent in his accounts Of
the thrush shooting about Cimbra
and the crow shooting near Oporto
Crows? Are they game birds
You annet eat them, can you ?" "Tc
be sure | can they are the best game
in the world said the padre; stew
ed in vinegar, there is really nothing
so GOOD --ErQmiueT.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
Magic.

Some months since an Englishman
named Atkinson bought a country
place near Pithiyiers, in France. For
many weeks thereafter, carpenters
and masons were busily employed in
repairing and altering the chateau;
and after their work had been com
pleted, Mr.. Atkinson issued invita-
tons for o large dinner party to all
the most prominent families in the
neighborhood. The guests arrived
at 6 O'Clock, and OF taking their seats
at the dinner table noticed with sur
prise that there was not even one
servant to be seen. The soup was
consumed in silent astonishmeDt-
When all had partaken Of it, the host
sounded a whistle, add as if by mag
ic the soup plates disappeared, and
three magnificent silver platterS each
containing a roast goose, appeared.
Little cries of terror were heard from
the ladies. Mr.. Atkinson took no
note Of his guests surprise, but re-
marking that it vas a very warm
evening, whistled again and the whole
ceiling disappeared, the hosts black
coat vanishing at the same moment,
leaving him clothed in a white suit.
The guests, alarmed, were about to
rise from their chairs when they
found themselves, their chairs, and
the table suddenly raised FIVE Feet
above the floor. They however,
were soon lowered again to the floor.
and all took refuge in hasty flight
from the demonlac abode,
A judicial Investigation was insti
tuted, and 1t was found that Mr.. At.
kinson had been for ten years the
chief macbinist at Convent Garden
theatre in London, where be had
amassed a nice little fortune. TIE
dinDer was a little freak to indulge
his fondness for bis old pursuit.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
The Young Man from the country

Young man, your lemon colored
moustache and the set of your trous-
ers betoken that yeu are a stranger
al these crossroads" observed His
Honor to the next
He was q young nan with a bad
crook in his back, q lonesome look in
his eyes, and a used up appearance
around his shirt-front. Otherwise
be was a fine young man, and lacked
nothing but q pair of boots with red
tops.
No. don't reside in New York
be answered; II live out here quite a
long ways"
How far?n
The prisoner besitated, looked
around in an anxious manner, anu
then answered.
Il amt used to this, and l don't
know what to say, | never had 8
lawsuit before in my life, and | DOM
know where my witnesses areln
Young man, rural innocence Turk,
in your eve. l hear the meadow
breezes signing through your hair
aud the warts on your hands REMIND
me of the days when | rode 10 spell
ling school with q red-Seaded cir
aud licked every boy in town VIII,
said she wasn't as pesit as Queer
Victoria. You got drunk. l know
just how it came about, and | thinl
the law can forgive yo9. Did vol
have any luggage"
Yes, a satchel."
well, you make a bee line for tia
sstchel. Tie the handles together
balance it ever your shoulder on
stick, and then get up and streak il
for home. City life has its charms
but if l were you I'd hang arount
home and enjoy that peaceful lift
which the plough turns up will
every furrow, and which a jackas.
can't demolish by kicking right alon:
for ten thousand years.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
me Legal ssauss Of Married women
I'm Pennsylvania.

Among matters of Information FREE
quently sought is that Of the legal
status of married women in this
State. In looking over tie Penn
Monthly for December, we found a
very clear and able article on this
important subject, from which ws
make the following synopsis:
a married woman is entitled TO
maintenance by her husband during
bis lifetime; a right which she may
enforce Git be neglects or refuses to
provide for herself and her children)
by making contracts for n-ecessaries,
for which be is liable. Upon bis
death, she is entitled 10 common law
dower,in his real estate, after the pay
ment of his debts. If be dies mites
tate, she may have statutary dover,
viz: One-third of the real estate, OF
which be died seized, for life, and
one-third Of the personal estate abso-
lutely, in case be leaves children; il
not, one-half of the personal estate;
or, in case he has left a viii, she may
elect between taking the legacy there
in contained or the rights given her
under the statute-and in addition.
$500 of his estate for the support of
herself and her children is exempted
from sale for the payment of his
debts. In her own property she is
entitled 10 the free use and enjoyment
along with her husband, and holds it
free from any liability for his debts;
she is also entitled to her separate
earnings when her intention to claim
them is filed of record. Her proper
ty may be liable for a judgment re.
covered against him for her torts, or
on a judgment against both for nee
essaries entered into by herself alone,
if the husband has nothing ON which
execution may be had, and it is al
ways liable for contracts entered In
TO by her before marriage. BY a
trust for cher separate USE" either
real or personal property may be so
settled that she shall receive the in
come, but neither she mol her hus-
band can have any control of the es-
tate, nor shall it be liable for any OF
her debts II engagements. But such
a trust must be made during cover
ture or an immediate contemplation
of marriage, and cannot survive a
discoverture. We also find that the
contracts Of a married woman and
any agreement to bind her separate
estate without her husbands con-
sent are absolutely void except in
certain cases. Those are, contracts
for the repair or improvement Of Der
real estate, transfers of railroad com-
psnies or corporatins created under
the laws of this State, checks and re-
ceipts to banks for money on deposit
with them, aud contracts for the pur-
chase Of sewing machines. In case
of her husband ~neglecting or refusing
to provide for her, she may become a
feme sole trader, and thereby con
trac. as though she were unmarried.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
III
L did not i0vc him. Long ago
f,x.c.d or~cs ICave him NJ.

sts not sovc him. Long ago
rais not love him bat to-day
lreAo rs
why was saa. whea never yet
Has my ear kn0"n q io3
o~.r ,ha. whispered nc: Ane why
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
Chinese Method Of Cooking Rice.

Take a clean stew pan with a close
fitting lid then take g clean piece OF
white muslin large enough to cover
over the top of the pan and hang
down inside nearly to the bottom.
Into the sack thus formed place one
pound of rice, pour over it two cup
fuls of water, and put on the lid of
the pan so as to hold up the muslin
and fit tight all around. Place the
pan on q low fire, and the steam will
cook the rice. More water may De
added when necessary, but the pan
must not be heated hot enough to
create too much steam, or the lid viii
blow off
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

A cable dispatch from Rome to the
New York Freemaa's journal states
thst Allegheny City, Pa, has been
made q Catholic diosese. R. Rev.
Bishop Domenec. now of Pittsburgh,
has been named its FIRST bishop, the
transfer being at his own request, and
the Very Rev. j. Quigg, of Altoona,
has been appointed bishop of Pitts
burgh.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

A Michigan ex-soldier writes tc
the Grand Rapids Eagle that it was
pretty hard to be an Andersonvills
prisoner. but that in his widest
dreams it never occurred TO him that
the men who ruled his prison would
one day be defending their infamous
conduct in the very halls of the ma
ton be vas suffering to save.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

General Beauregard has the good
sense to present his petition TO Con-
gress for the removal Of his political
disabilities, TO the granting of which
there viii not be a single objection.
Toombs and his kind, however, want
US to beg their pardon, and Sam
Cox and Ben Hill insist that we shall
do it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

Mrs. Gen. b. c. Wood, eldest
daughter of Zachary Taylor, died
lately in Frieburg, Germany. The
other living children of Taylor are a
daughter in Winchester, Va, and
Gen Richard Taylor, of La, who
was q Confederate officer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
Some novel cIo;rs ~ ba;,

Some novel claims are being pre-
sented to Congress by the South for
settlement, among which is one in be-
half of the State Of West Virginia,
for the payment of toll over a road
along which the Northern armies
moved, without stopping to settle at
the gates.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

Mrs. Amy Rigg adyertises in q
Texas paper that she is able to whip
either one of the two women she saw
walking on her husbands arm q few
nights before. What an Amy-able
woman she must be.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
Ne,o Advertisements.
Ne,c Advertisements. n
Holm T. BLYMYER,
DEALERIh
Hardware. Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints,
OILS. &C., &C..

The following is a partial LIST of goods in Stock: Carpenters Tools,
Planes Saws, Hatchets, Hammers hisels, Plane Irons Dies, &c, Black
smiths Goods, Bellows. Anyis, Vices, Files, Hammers, &c Saddey
Hardware, Tab Trees, Gig Saddles, Hames, Buckles, Rings, Bits and Tools
Table Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Spoons and Razors. the
largest stock in Somerset County. Painters Goods, a full stock White
Lead, Colored Paints for inside and outside painting, Paints Oh, all cdors'
Varnish, Turpentine, Flaxseed Oil, Brushes, Japan Dryer, Walnut STAINS,
&c. Window Glass of all sizes and glass cut TO any shape The best Coal
Oil always on hand. Our stock OF Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprises
very elegant STYLES. Ditston's Circular Muley and Cross Cut Saws. Mill
Saw Files of thebest quality. PoreelainIined Kettles Handles of all kinds
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
sHOyELs. FORKS. SPADES. KES. ;

Mattocks, Grub Hoes, Picks, Scytbes, Sneaths, Sledges, Mason Hammers,
Cast Steel, Step Ladders, Carriage and Tire Bolts of all sizes. Looking
Glasses, Wash Boards, Clothes Wringers, Meal Sleeves, Door Mats, Baskets,
Tubs. Wooden Buckets, Irvine, Rope all sizes, Hay Puleys, Butter Prints,
Mop Sticks, Traps, Steelyards, Meat Cutters and Suffers, Traces, Cow
Chains. Halter Chains. Shoe, Dust and Scrub Brushes, Horse Brushes, Cur
nv Combs and Cards. Door Locks, Hinges, Screws, Latcbes and everything
in the Builders line. Caps, Lead, Shot, Powder and Safety Fuse, &c, &c,
The fact is, keep everything that belongs to the Hardware trade. 1 deal
exclusively in this kind of goods and give my whole attention to it Per-
sons who re building, o any one in need of anything in nv line, will find
ii to their advantage to give me a call | Will always give a reasonable
credit to responsible persons. l thank my old customers for their patronage
and hope this season to make many new ones. Don't forget the place
No, 3,"BAER'S BLOCK
April s "a. JOHN F. BLYMYER.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

No, sir" said . weary looking
man on 4 street car to an individual
BY his side. IL wouldn't marry the
best woman alive. I've been o dry
goods clerk too long for that
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-03-15
iIAElI> Kingsley MORAL CDl-H,

CIl>Klr> KI>G~LEY'> MORAL COURAGE.
History at Cambridge, We had occasion TO
speak more than once with some degree
of strength Of some of the writings which
he put in that character The mere fact
of his death cannot make those writings
better or worse; bat fact which hap
pcncl some while before his death made
:, wide difference in the way in which
any fair critic would look NJ them One
act Of Mr. king>lcv's life might well be
taken a wipin- ont all old scores on the
ground Of anything that he said or
did rs professor. To put the matter in
plain words. he WAS appointed to an Of
flee for which he WAS unfit. and when he
found out his unitn,S>, he gave up that
office.
We are not speaking without booA
when we say that Mr.. Kingsley gave up
his prote>sTShlp, not from caprice, not
from WEAKNESS, not from the ambition of
any hiycer post. but from the honest
conviction that he had made a mistake
in accepting the Office ut all An act
like this may fairly be set against the
original mistake and against any other
mistake that followed it. 1t was the act
of a uSt man. and something more than
a just man. 1t was the act of a man who
had clcarncss of moral vision enough
to see what WAS right even when it told
against himself. and ii is an act which
rs yet stands by itself. 1t is IN act which
rs yet has no imltatOrs. even where an
imitation of it would have been most for
the welfare of learning.-LOna0a S,unr-
dan RcricW