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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
Simon CamerOn's Railroad.

Standing to-day looking out uDon
the stretch OF railroad which winds
from this thriving city off toward
the State Capital, an old gentleman
said DO YOU know that Simon
/ Cameron built this railroad from
here to Harrisburg? And how he
Z did have to fight against the pre,C-
dices Of the Stubborn German FARM
ers who lived along the line Of the
route! l rec0llect, he continued.
"of my father telling me years ago
of the public meeting which Rlr.
Cameron called at MiddletoWa TO
further the building OF this railroad.
There was o good crowd present
and a bright man, q good talker.WLo
was then tie AttoIHey General Of
the state, made q very spread-eaele
/ speech, but the subject was too big
Tor him, It Slipped from his grasp,
and he failed to state clearly tie
1 real object Of the meeting
Mr.. Cameron, finding his orator
lacking in the essential element OF
practical statesmen, took the stand
himself and explained what he
wanted to do Ii then took two
days to 90 TO Philadelphia from
Harrisburg. Mr.. Cameron stated
that when the railroad was built
YOU could eat breakfast at home in
the morning. GO 70 Philadelphia,
spend several hours, and take sup
per at home again IN the evening.
This statement was altogether too
much for the quiet farmers so long
used to the stage coach, and when
the meeting broke up there was
only one man in the whole crowd
who took any stock in Mr.. Gamer
on's statement. \ short time after
the meeting was over he approach
ed AIr. Cameron in the country ho-
tel and scid: ~Simon you made
that story little too big. You
might 80 down one day and come
back the next, but both ways in one
day is too much for an honest mind
to believe. | think. myself, the
railroad VIII be q great thing for Us
but not so great as that The next
day he sent Mr.. Cameron one of his
best cows with It's calft to show his
respect for Mr.. Camer0n's foresight
and TO emphasize his faith in his
building the railroad.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
The Colors of Flowers and Lcaves.

We have genrell supposed That
the colors of flowers are due To a
variety of matters color in
fact being a distinct chemical com
bination. But Professor Schneider.
of the Vandois Society Of Natural
Science, has proved by experiment,
that by putting spirits of wine and
adding an alkaline acid to an isolat-
ed color of plnat, all the colors
which flowers present may be OBJ
tanned. For instance, peOny
flower will with alcohol give 4 red
dish violet fluid. Add salt of sorrel
and it becomes a pure red; and BY
the addition of soda this red VIII
change into a violet, blue or o
greenish shade occording to the
quantity of alkali used. The green
coloring matter iii the leayes OF
plants is called ehlorophyll, and the
professor supposes that this is the
only original eoloring matter in
plants; but being modified by GER
tain agents-lor in all plants there
are acid or alkaline matters-or by
transmitted light, this chlorophyll
furnishes all tints of flowers and
leaves. 1t has been aseertained
that tannin with chlorophyll chang
es the colors of the green leaves in
autumn to red. Professor Schnetz-
Ter himself changed peony seprals
from green to red with salt of sorrel
and the green liquid solution ol
soda with the peonY blossom and
alcohol became red when he trans
mitted light through it. He there
Efore concludes that chlorophyli is
the only source of color in plants,
the others being merely the results
of atmospheric alkaline action upon
that coloring matter.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
might do for Methuselah or an
archangle, but for the ordinary NOR

might do for Methuselah or an
archangle, but for the ordinary NOR
tals-n
Don't, Charlie y | cried, break
ing down suddenly. IL have been
a vain idiot. l was so proud OF
my own virtue, and it's nothing
but vice, after all. | have been
beginning to see it for ever so long,
and | am ready to say that l will
never waste time to be punctual
again"
''Don'tl' said Charlie, laughing.
This month has done me no end OF
good, for i was inclined to run
things too close. Inever was exact
ly late, but often made a precious
tight shave of it. Well help each
other after this, won't we little wo-
man? You'll spur me on, and I'll
rim you in, and we will neither of
us get out of temper with the other.
Is it bargain?"
His hand was out, and his good,
honest eyes were shining into mine,
and, before | knew it, my arm was
around his neck, and | was promis-
ing anything and everything.
SO that was the end of the first
and last quarrel that threatened to
oyershadow our married life.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
ROSES.

The roses, nay love them not.
They only bring to me
sad thoughts that waken in my hear,
4 bitter memory.
loved her As man can love
But once-and even yet
Though have learned how to forgive,
'Tis harder TO forget.
Since then the Summer sun has shone
Full of DER hill and plain
For me no sun can ever make
This earth 50 bright again.
I've seen thc roses bloom and fade
Fall Oft since then, blt they
Will never look the same to me
Until my dying day.
The white rose has a purer ,int,
The red a deeper glow,
They breathel swecter perfume then
All me, how long ago
love them not, they but recall
All that | would forget
\ Giithless woman whom loved,
And whom must love yet.
When summer roses die no more.
When life knows no regre;,
When summer sunshine fades no more,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04

HAmasEUEG, April 2l--The Com
mission appointed to take into con-
sideration the advisabiliiy Of max
ing relormatory home OF the
Huntingdon Penitentiary, as well
as the buying OF the Philadelphia
House Of Refuge, to be for the same
purpose, have prepared n report,
which they VIII submit when the
act relating thereto comes up. They
recommend that the Huntingdon
Peni,entiaFy be adopted for the pur-
pose suggested, but DO not advise
the purohaseof the House Of Refuge.
1t IS also suggested that in the man
agement Of refoFmatories the plan
IA use in Eimira be adopted.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
improvement for Mind and Body

For genuins merit there is no ton.
ic sold that begins to compare with
Parker's Ginger Tonic. One 90 ct.
bottle contains more life and strength
restoring power than a bushel o.
malt or a gallon of pure milk. As
an appetizer, blood purifier and kid
ney corrector, it meets with aston
ishing success, and invalids find its
use promptly followed by renewed
energy and vivacity, mental and
physical improvement, and gradual
restoration to perfect health. See
other coluuns.-O0nmercioi.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
\ Losing Joke.

A prominent physician Of Pitts
5urgh said jokingly toa lady patient
who was complaining OF her con
tinued i'll health, and ofhis inabili-
ty to cure hct, " try Hop Bitters y
The lady took itin earnest and used
the Bitters, from which she obtained
permanent health. She now laughs
at the doctor for his Joke, but he IS
not so wei pleased with it, as 1t cost
him a good patient.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04

4 preacher whose delight it was
to startle his hearers said that there
were three things which a woman
should both lie and not be at the
same time. First She should be ike
The snail, always keeping within her
own house; bat she should not be
Ike the snail which carries all it has
upon its back. Second, she should
be like an echo and speak when she
is spoken TO; but she should not be
like m echo, which always man
aecs to have the last word Third
she should be Ike the town clock
and always keep time and regulari-
~; but she should ret be ike the
town clock, which speaks so lovd
that ali The town can hear it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04

Ifany person will invent ma
chine for impanelinga California jury
that will return q verdict of murder
in the first degree where the victim
i worth 100000 we viii guarantee
that the inventor is likely TO 90
to posterity without ever seeing the
machine put to test.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04

Every man has three characters
that which he has, that which he
exhibits. and that which he thinks
he has.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-04
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Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
DOCTORS.

A good deal of criticism is being
lavished by "A number of leading news
papers upon the treatment of Presi-
dent Garfeld's wound by his physi.
clans. The Chicago Times, following
in the track of the New York Herald
and the Boston Globe, declares that
the people have lost confidence in the
medical attendance at the White
House, and loudly calls for a change
in physicians, while a score OF smaller
journals, whose opinion is only the
echo of the leading dailies, chime in
and insist that the presidents
life is being endangered by
incompetency and his suiferings
~protracted by medical maltreatment.
We cannot see that this theory is
borne out by the case. Much capital
is made by some papers out of the
fact that President Garfield's wound
was treated ON the theory that the
bullet had passed through the liver.
AS the Springfield Republican ably
points out, while the first conjectures
as to the location of the bullet have
proven to be mistaken, those coniec-
lures were not the basis of any medi,
cal treatment, nor could they be.
There vas only one policy of treat,
ment SO long as the wound
gave no evidence of ha,,
ing pierced the abdominal
cavity and that IA to keep the patient
quiet and well nourished, assisting
nature to do her part in healing the
wounds. Whether the liver was
pierced or not, no other curse was
possible than exactly the one which
was carried out under the supervision
and ADVICE of Drs. Agnew and Hamil-
ton. The disposition to hail every
new ~deyelopent in the case as evil
dence that everything which had gone
before was wrong is the sheerest non
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

Carl SCHURz tells the following in
cident of a personal visit to Spotted
Tail ON his reservation, and of Spotted
Tails return visit to the White House:
"When years ago a government
commission visiting the Sioux nation
sent for Spotted Tail to meet them at
a certain point, he replied: III ] had
anything to say to you ] would go
where you are. But if you have
something to say TO me you must
come where ! am In the autumn of
1877 n large delegation of Sioux Wis
tied Washington and had a council
with the president in the famous east
room of the White House. Spotted
Tail, when asked to let the president
know what he had to communicate,
said that he would not speak uutil all
the other chiefs had spoken. So they
made their speeches one after another,
standing up before the president with
great solemnity. When they had
spoken, Spotted Tail rose and asked
one of the attendants by gesture to
put his chair Immediately in front of
the president. This done, Spotted
Tail ~gravely sat down and talked to
the president, not in the usual orator
ial style, but in a more familiar man
ner, as it coversing with an equal"
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
northwest of Kearney. It is feared the
u.....I Ill $500. fl

northwest of Kearney. 1t is feared the
wound will prove fatal
There is a general complaint Of a scarci.
ty of laborers for farm and railroad work,
In some parts of the country operations
are greatly impeded by the lack of q
sufficient number of men to do work.
Already 1900 head of cattle have been
shipped over the Sioux City & st. poul
road, from O'Neill City. There are 10. 900
or 1900 head of cattle in that vicinity to
come over the s. G. 4 p. road the present
season.
Fred Sachtjen, living near Madison. had
the misfortune to have the lower half of
two of his fingers ON the right hand crushed
by getting them in the cog wheels Of =
reaper on Wednesday of last week. They
had to be amputated.
The Milwaukee railroad company is
making arrangements to avoid another
winters blockade by putting large guam.
titles of coal all along Their various lines
and thereby save the people from the
severity of storms another year, should
they come.
The people of Crete have decided to
build a railroad from Crete to Milford and
also one from trete to Firth by the way of
Olive Branch. The whole distance will
only be thirty miles, and there is capital
enough in Crete, Milford and Firth to or.
ganize q company.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Joice, at Lewis.
burg, are the fond parents of n new toy
baby. weighing only two and one-half
pounds. The young chap stands fifteen
inches in his boots and can wear q lady's
finger ring on his arm.
An accident occurred three and one.half
miles south OF Tecumseh on Thursday
afternoon last, by which Ralph Hecka-
thorn, a thirteen year old lad, received
such injuries that he died the following
day at 2 o'clock. While e~ndeavoring to
cut out some cattle belongingto his mother
from n herd of cattle, the horse upon which
young Heckathorn was riding ran over a
steer, throwing the bow off, and the steer
and horse both rolling over him, crushing
and b~ruising him in a terrible manner
johnson County Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

sense. The best medical testimony in
this country and Europe, including
the London Lancet has united in APP
proving a course of treatment which
has made public in its minutest de-
tails by the attending physicians.
The fact is that president Garfield
on July 2, vas Frustrated at deaths
door from a severe wound in his back
and the abdominal region, that, in
spite of several relapses, due 70 ac-
cummulsting pus, and incident to ~
cry gunshot wound, he has so far re-
covered as to take nourishment ade-
quate to the current drain upon his
system, and hat all his physicians
unite in promising his speedy recov'
erv. Give the doctors fair paly.
They have more at stake in their bat
tie against failure than most of their
critics give them credit for
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
SECTION B, article 8 of the constitu.
ton of Nebraska saws:

SECTION b, article 8 of the constitu-
ton of Nebraska says:
"All fines, penalties and license
moneys arising under the general laws
of the state shall belong and be paid
over to the counties respectively
where the same may be levied or m
posed, and all fines, penalties and
moneys arising under the rules, by
laws and ordinances of cities, Villages,
towns, precincts or other municipal
subdivisions less than n county shall
belong to and be paid over to the same
respectively"
The Slooumb law went into effect
on the I'd of June and all acts and
ordinances previously passed regulat-
ing the traffic in liquor have been a
dead l,tier since that date.
In Omaha and in every city, town
or village where no ordinance has
been enacted in conformity with the
statute regulating the liquor traffic,
the fines and penalties imposed by
the courts for violations of the statute
since the I'd of June will, under the
section of the constitution afore cited.
belong to the county school fund,
and these fines and penalties will con-
tinue to go to the county school fund
as long as no ordinance is passed to
regulate the issue of liquor license in
conformity with the statute.
Should the city council of Omaha
fail to pass such an ordinance our city
school fund would soon be exhausted
and our public schools would have to
be closed. 1t therefore becomes the
imperative duty of our city council to
pass the ordinance regulating the
liquor traffic without delay. Our
school fund, during tbs present year,
will at best fall considerably below the
estimate of the board of education,
and We cannot afford to lose a dollar
that can legitimasely be collected for
the support of our city schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

THE national brotherhood of car
penters, which held its annual session
at Chicago last week passed a series
of resolutions that cannot fail to in
terest working men in all sections of
the country. The resolutions endorse
a call for a universal labor congress,
to be held in Pittsburg, on No
vember 18th, of the present year,
They recommend in the interest of
their trade: LIST, shorter hours of
labor; I'd, uniform wages winter and
summer; Sd, the support for public
office only such men, irrespective of
party, as best represent the laboring
classes; 4th, the enactment of laws
that will build up American commerce
and laws that will abolish monopolies,
the establishment of local bureaus
and facilitate the employment of work
ingmen. Lastly, they pledge them.
selves to use no article manufactured
in q reformatory institution.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

MATTHEW VAssAR, the nephew of
the founder of Vassar college, and
since the unclc's death, one of the
trustees of that institution, died last
week in Poughkeepsie. New York.
Last May Mr.. NAssAR and his broth
er, JOHN Guy, gave ample proof of
their bounty by presenting to trus-
tees the title deeds to the Vassar
Home for Aged Men, in Poughkeep-
sic. The institution is on the corner
of Main and Vassar streets, and is
built on the site of the first house
that was erected in that city. This
was in the year 1902, and was the first
house built by an ancestor of the Vas
sars.
This historic old property Mr.. Mat
thew Vassar and his brother fitted up
for the accommodation of fifty aged
men, selecting the board Of managers
without regard to religious denomi-
nation and endowing it with $50, 900
invested in the best securities. The
property itself was valued at more
than $40, 900. In making the pre-
sentation Mr.. Vassar took occasion to
say that as Providence had blessed
him and his brother John with some
of this worlds goods, they had
deemed it proper to do something for
their fellow men; that they had come
to the conclusion that old men who
had no one to care for them were es-
pecially deserving, and that was the
reason of the presentation of the Vas
sar home to the trustees that day.
Mr.. Vassar loaves n large property.
will be sincerely regretted by the
citizens of Poughkeepsie, and his loss
will be greatly felt by the institution
of which, since his uncle's death, he
has been the guiding spirit.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

IT now looks as If the democratic
state central committee would assume
the responsibility of nominating the
supreme judge and university regents
for their party, but we presume the
republican state committee will call
the state convention as usual.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

DIR. AGSEw denies the alleged in
terview IN which he stated that the
presidents wounds had never been
dangerous. 1t will now be IN order
for the Herald to retract its SANDER
Gus intimation that President Gar
fields condition has been used by the
republican party forpolitical purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

GoyERNoR BLAcKBURN, Of Ken
lucky, is quoted as a medical authori-
ty on the presidents case. Black
burns most notorious medical expert
ence was his attempt to innoculate the
north with yellow fever during the
war by importing infected clothing
from Havana.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

The government director of the
Union Pacific will soon take his de-
parture for Europe to attend the
Methodist .ecumenical council, but we
presume hat Union Pacific trains
will continue to run with as much
regularity and speed as if the impos-
ing double dignitary remained in
Omaha in the full majesty of his Of
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

WHILE Americans who are ignorant
of their W country r fiocking in
crowds to Europe, sensible English
men are pouring into this country To
siew wonders which they declared
cannot be paralleled abroad. Every
berth in the ocesn steamers from now
until October is engaged.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

The railroads seem to have an af-
fectiona.e regard for members of the
late Nebraska legislature. Jim Ky
ner, who waxed eloquent over the
great benefits of the corporations to
the people, has been rewarded by a
twenty-five mile contract Oh the new
Inion Pacific extension through How
d county, and Church Howe, that
rdy granger, has recuperated from
late sickness sufficiently to engage
10 arduous duties Of a right Of
attorney for the Missouri Pacific
any.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

The international Electrical exhib-
ition begins in Paris on Wednesday.
The United States has the third larg-
est exhibit and Edison is on hand
with a 10 full of patented inven-
tions.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

GENERAL SHERMAN recently in
formed the Canadians that the United
States was generally in favor of the
annexation Of the Dominion to the
republic. In the meantime the Cana
dams are annexing themselves as
rapidly as possible by emigrating to
the new west.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
Our Glorious independents.

What can be more gloriauskhan to bt
independent o1suffering, causedby dyspep'
sia. indigestion, constipation, sick head
ache, or other diseases emanating from
the stomach. This can be easily gained
by a timely use OF Burdock Blood Bitters,
Price sl.O0, trial size 10 cents. eodlw
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

VENNoR comes pretty near hitting
the bulls eye again. The cold wave
he predicted more than a month ago
for the present week has put in its
first installment.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

Pool Commissioner Fink has
ordered eastbound freights from Chi
caso advanced to 20 cents. Dispatches
from New York say that all the reads
Will disregard Fink's order. The pools
are rebellious
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

The assessed valuation Of railroads
in Indiana was raised $5,S36,0 900 this
year over that of 1880. In Nebraska,
although more miles of road were
built than in Indiana, the assessment
of 1881 was only a trifle over that of
1880.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

OR druggists will soon drive a
profitable business. Under the Slo-
oumb law whisky, gin, rum, wine,
ale, beer and other stimulants can be
sold by druggists for medicalpurposes,
without license. All that is needed
is a doctor to prescribe the medicine
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15

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