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Year: 1875

To CLEAN Colo CHAINS.-Put the
chain in small glass bottle with
warm water, little tooth powder
and some soap. Cork the bottle aud
shake it for minute violently. The
friction against the glass polishes the
gold, and the soap and chalk extract
every particle of dirt and grease from
the interstices of a chain of the most
intricate patters; rinse in clear cold
water, wipe with towel, and the pol
ish will surprise you.
Year: 1875

No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities
of the American people than
a sure and safe cure for
Fever and Ague. Such
we are now enabled to offer,
with n perfect certainty that
Year: 1875

Some Of the Philadelphia papers, slurring the
Press suggest that it is quite time for Colonel
Forney to return. But their own prospect is sad
by comparison-they have no Colonel Forney's
return to look for.
Year: 1875

Some very erroneous ideas have lately
been aired in the columns Of our contem-
poraries in regard to the remuneration Of
medical men for professional services. 1t is,
in fact, argued that doctor succeeds fnan-
cially in proportion to his incapacity, which,
pushed step further, would establish that
all the rich doctors are inefficient practition-
ers, and that if a medical man is poor that
fact is to be accepted as an evidence Of his
talent. There is only one more step to be
taken in the direction of this reasoning,
which must necessarily be that the people at
large who are practised upon are drivellers
and idiots. Any reasoning which ends at
this point must, if its processes are accurate,
start from erroneous views. Some physicians
of great capacity have lived and died poor in
these times and in all times; but they were
generally, perhaps, men like Harvey, greater
as inquirers as explorers in the wilds Of
medical knowledge, than as practitioners
merely They neglected practice for science
But the history Of the profession will estab-
lish that if any really capable practitioner
fails financially it is because Of the posses
sion Of some offensive eccentricity. Physi-
clans who have common sense as
well as genius always succeed. They
secure comfortable incomes after reasona-
ble time, and some fortune eventually. The
argument that the doctor who cures case in
one or two visits and gets therefore only
one or two fees is worse off than the blum
derer who keeps on with the same case for
thirty or forty days and gets thirty or forty
fees takes small view. 1t is necessary to
60 beyond that case. Which of two such doc
tors does the next neighbor send for when a
case arises ? Sooner or later, if the tedious
illness were the result Of laundering, it
becomes known and the way that doctor is
handled in the public speeches Of that
family and all other families to the remotest
thread of connection may we'll be caution
to medical men who make mistakes, or to
all, if any such there be, who may be
tempted to deal with their patients maladies
from the financial rather than from the
medical point Of view No, it is in medicine
as in all other practical activities success
attends capacity and industry. If man
gets but two or three fees out Of o case he
has thousands Of cases on which to collect
this little tax but if he counts his forty fees
on case he will be fortunate if he counts
forty cases in q year.
Year: 1875

The Severe Storm from the Southwest.


The storm reported as having passed over


Little Rock, Ark, and Louisville, Ky, on


Friday night and Saturday morning and IN


Aicting considerable damage at both places,


accounts for the mysterious Development OF
an area Of low barometer at Philadelphia


distinct from that Of the storm which passed


down the St Lawrence Valley during Satur-
day. also for the display Of danger signals at
Galveston and New Orleans. We com
mented on both Of these facts in our article
of yesterday, but owing to the absence Of any
meteorological news from the South for the
twenty-four hours preceding the time Of
writing, we could only surmise the cause Of
the adoption of these precautionary meas
ures. Now, however, everything is ex-
planned by the accounts Of the movement Of
the storm through Arkansas and Kentucky.
The condition Of cloudiness that prevailed
all over the entire country is also accounted
for. While the northwestern storm was
whirling eastward over the lakes another
storm of equal violence was travelling
toward us from the southwest, having been
generated on the eastern slopes Of the
Rocky Mountains in Texas and Northern
Mexico. The two disturbances thus
converged on the comparatively narrow ter
Titory between New York and Buffalo, and
have ere this united their forces in passing
northeastward through the outlet OF the St.
Lawrence Valley. The southwestern storm
was a land storm in contradistinction to those
that are cyclonic in character and oceanic in
origin. We have frequently described in our
articles the process Of the generation OF these
disturbances on the eastern slopes Of the
mountain ranges, and need not repeat them.


We will only add that the sites of generation
Of these great land storms in the United
States are generally southwark of the fortieth
parallel, the warm, humid atmosphere being
supplied from the Atlantic Ocean and the
Gulf Of Mexico. Our predictions Of lake dis
asters have been borne out by the latest tele-
grams. On the Atlantic Ocean the violence
of the winter storms is felt in the northern
latitudes, which are avoided at this season
by navigators. We do not anticipate, there
fore, any losses at sea from the storms now
passing except in the vicinity Of the American
coast. The first snow of winter fell in New
York city yesterday, as the HERALD predicted,
although "Old Probabilities" limited the
area Of snowfall to the New England States.
Year: 1875

Dun WASHINGTON DISPATCHES this morn
ing reveal a new scheme. 1t seems that an
effort Is to be made to obtain an interpreta-
ton Of the act Of Congress sanctioning
the issue Of District of Columbia bonds,
which will make the interest payable IN
gold This Is carrying the Public Credit
act too far, as neither Congress nor the
country ever contemplated any such pay
mont except in the current money at the
time Of such payment
Year: 1875

Mn KERNAN's WIsDoM.-Messrs. Herman
and Seymour have taken the advice Of the
HERALD in their visit to New York and
Brooklyn and kept out Of local quarrels.


Mr. Herman said the other night:-'I don't
take any part in your local canvass. don't
say for whom you should VOTE / urge you
to look to It and select as many as possible
Of those who are in favor of reform. have
no word to say to you about your local CAM
Year: 1875

The more we see of the proceedings against
the editors Of the Times on the part of q
vassal Of Tammany Hall the more we regard
it as q blow at the independence Of the press,
and as being another Of those foolish ex-
pedients by which Boss Kelly has striven to
retain his power, upon the principles laid
down by Boss Tweed. The editor Of the
Times is the representative of political or
ganization, and in the progress Of the can
vass he has had occasion to say some severe
things of his opponents This is his priv
ilege and duty. lie is as much entitled to
his rights in this respect as any other
citizen. lie has a high responsibility to his
party and to his readers. For leader Of Tam
many Hall to have him arrested upon frivo-
lous pretext during the canvass and to
threaten him with a series Of libel suits
when the election is over is to show a dizrc-
gard for freedom Of opinion which is only
Characteristic Of the manner in which he has
governed his political organization. The
result Of this controversy between John
Kelly and the Times will be to strengthen
that journal in the affection Of the republi-
can party and of its readers who have had
occasion in the past to admire its courage
and independence and who will not fail to
honor these qualities again, even when they
are measured against the prowess of pow
erful, unreasoning political leader
Year: 1875

The INDEPENDENT PRESS AND Politics. We
observe that Boss Kelly, in his furious speech
at Tammany Hall, Saturday evening, ar
raigned the independent press Of New York
for not being more subservient to his will.
We can imagine no higher compliment to
journalism in this city than to find itself
under the ban Of political leader, especially
Of one Of the dynasty of bosses. Nothing is
more to the credit Of the independent press
Of New York than the war that it has made
upon this whole boss system, upon one
leader after another, constantly refusing to
bow down to the one man power, insisting
that politics shall be the expression Of in
dependent thought, Of popular sovereignty,
Of freedom Of opinion, Of conventions whose
voice represents the true will Of the party.


Whatever the result Of the battle may be to-
morrow, the power shown by theindependent


press, the harmony Of action and the unity
Of purpose, the refraining from personality
and vituperation, the strenuous support Of
the peoples rights will be remembered as
new claim on behalf Of the press, to be con-
sidcrcd the palladium Of our free institutions.
Year: 1875

which is the glory Of our literature and
which enriches the literature Of All tongues
OF what value are the works Of the fathers
whose lives were given 10 the contemplation
Of the holy mysteries of faith and whose
words have been the comfort Of generations
Of men? OF what uso arc the schools Of
learning devoted % the education Of relig-
ioUs teachers. when two gentlemen without
more than an average education may set the
hearts Of Christian communities on fire like a
\ burning prairie2 The success Of Moody and
/ Sankey, If II may be called success, is a re-
Election upon our whole Christian SYSTEM SO
far as its literature its schools and its diyines
are concerned But is il 4 real success? Do
not these gentlemen draw crowds in Brooklyn
merely because they drew crowds in Lon
don Do not our people fook to the Rink
and the Tabernacle to sec what power it was
that astonishod the religious world Of Lon
don 30 they not find that the eloquence
Of Moody and the melody Of Sankey repre-
sent what We see at every summer camp
meeting, ana that they attracted the English
merely because it was novelty, like the
shows Of Banum OF the humor Of Artemus
Ward? What we hear in Brooklyn may be
heard at Ocean Grove OF Martha's Vineyard
every summer. The methods of Moody and
Sankey are the methods of the exhorter, the
colporteur, the class leader. Once the curl
osity Of the people is satisfied the revival will
die away. There will be no longer these
eager crowds, the two evangelists themselves
will lapse into the ordinary life Of devout
clergymen, and marvel in after years at the
celebrity which attended their ministrations
in London and New York


As to whether these religious excitements
are Of permanent value, SO far as the moral
elevation Of the people is concerned, we do
not now inquire. Any influence which
draws the minds Of the people to q contem-
plation Of divine things, Of the lessons Of
Holy Scriptures and the observance of the
Commandments, cannot but do good. OF
the hundreds who flock to the Rink and the
Tabernacle, and who feel moved by the ex-
trayagance Of the preacher or the melody Of
the singer to change their lives and become
Christians many will fall away, many will
find the temptations Of the world too allur-
ing and the burden Of religious life too
hard to bear. But there are others, we trust,
who will find an enduring peace in the faith
Of Christ. And if even one sinner in ten
thousand should be led to a permanent re-
pentance the evangelists Of Brooklyn may
have the consolations of the Gospel for be-
lieving that their work, however much we
may criticise it, has not been altogether in
vain.
Year: 1875

CUBAN INDEPENDENCE. According to Min
lister Cushing's instructions the attitude Of
the United States toward Spain on the Cuban
question is one Of expectancy, and they mean,
if they mean anything the speedy recog-
milton of the Republic. The arguments by
which this position is justified were equally
forcibIe at any time during the last five
years, but it is possible that armed interven-
ton will grow out of this sudden deter
mination Of the government at Washington.
Whatever may be the result, the wlole coun-
try will be in as lively state Of expectancy
as the administration.
Year: 1875

A Two-EDGED SwoRD.-We have several
communications from excited partisans
whose judgment is warped by the canvass
saying that one Of the reasons why Recorder
Hackett should not be reelected is that he is.
a Catholic. We have no means of knowinG
whether the Recorder is a Catholic or not.
he is good enough judge to be very good
Christian. Whether Catholic or not we ara
sure he will administer justice This intro<
ducing religious questions into an election
canvass is q two-edged sword that will do
endless harm. 1t is one of the most mis-
chievous Of John Kellys extraordinary ex<
pedients
Year: 1875

paign. am here to urge you according 70
your own judgment and conscience to give
your support to the State ticket and to vote
for the best men for Senate and Assembly
and TO stand by Samuel J. Tilden Of your
own city" Mr.. Herman showed commend
able wisdom in this advice and ia following
out the course laid down for him by tn
HERALD
Year: 1875

THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES are getting
ready for the Guibord funeral but as yet
only one regiment has received orders to pre-
pare for the event II is to be hoped that
lie occasion will pass of quietly and without
blOOdshed
Year: 1875

TIE YACHTING SEASON, one Of the most
brilliant in many years, IS reviewed in the
HERALD this morning. we present on inter-
osting rfsun6 Of tie regattas and matches
sailed during the year and call attention to
Tie record as a fit tribute @ the growth Of
AQUATIC sports.
Year: 1875

'Better fifty years Of Europe than cycle
of Cathay." There arc some IN South
America who are ready to apply, with
change of Names the thought Of this verse;
Better very little Of the United States, even
as it is, than all the possibilities Of Brazil.
They went away in bitterness Of heart, but
none will contemplate their return with any
other sentiments than those Of sympathy.
and pity for misfortunes and ruined illus
sions. Few can have forgotten the circum<
stances in which some of the people Of the
South went away when the final catas
trophe of the Confederacy came, MOI
the spirit Of their departure. But now
that all the hopes they then had are seen
only as blasted ones-now that many have
persisted and that all have returned who
could command the means-there can be no
heart so hard as not to wish Godspeed to
the man-of-war which the government, in
temper we cannot too highly commend, has
sent to bring home the poor remainder.
They went because they would not be
citizens Of the United States on any terms.
They had fought for government inde<
pendent Of ours but had failed to obtain it,
and they would 60 to exile and foreign
death rather than look upon the restoration
Of the hated authority. They would give ia
other lands the little advantage Of theiI
labor and to its battles their yalor. None
but themselves have suffered in the hot fire
of that passionate departure /; no resentment
can slumber in any breast, and we rejoice
that there may be little left of life for soma
Of them at home and among friends.
Year: 1875

WAGHER's MUSICAL IDEAS find almost as
many expounders ia this country as ia Ger
many. and to these as well as to most read
ers Of taste and culture the opinions Of Won
Bulow reproduced in the HERALD this morn
ing will prove an entertaining and instruc-
tive chapter.
Year: 1875

The NAVY DEPARTMENT is very active in
bringing our scattered ships into our
own waters No special significance may
attach 70 this on account Of our relations
with Spain, but il any event il IS better to
have our navy near home rather than to
employ the few soaworthy ships We possess
in iunketing in distant ports.
Year: 1875

The city census is now being taken,
and is taken at time when it shows to
our disadvantage, because of so many Of
our citizens being absent for the winter.
Although the census is not yet complete,
it shows over four hundred voters now
in the city, 116 school children, and IS
children under four years Of age.
Year: 1875

Let Is keep such of the Sunday customs as
are salutary because they are salutary; and
Of this sort are rest, recreation, the social
meeting of relatives and friends, and public
ass mblage for religious instruction. In
this way all classes can have benefit from
the common freedom, each obtaining the
particular solace he requires, undisturbed
By the fact that Others are differently en-
ployed. Those who want ceremonies of
worship can assemble for that purpose in
the churches; those who want religious In
struction, can meet for that purpose; those
who want simply rest, or social enjoy
ment, can stay at home; those who went
quiet recreation abroad can seek it. While
If any one chooses to spend that day in CIV
ing help, physical, mental or spiritual, to
the many who are in need, he will have
made the best use of Sunday-the
best use, whether he shall have spent it
in saving wood for the sick widow, or in
taking poor children out into the country
for recreation, or in explaining the love of
God to one who has been left in doubt and
darkness by the preaching of some theology
of the lachrymose, bilious and dismal sort,
such as from time to time gives spells of
spiritual collie to the godly man of the Tele-
0rdph
Year: 1875

A private letter from ex-Gov, Stookdale
to Hon. E. ID. Linn states that "if the
Convention does not realize the hopes Of its
friends it will be great misfortune. / am
sure that if the spirit which governs the
delegation from this district prevails, the
Constitution will be all that could be hoped.
So far as we are concerned, we are not only
ready to adjust fairly its provisions in view
of other interests and notions than our own,
but we are willing to work faithfully and
all the time to make the instrument all 1t
should be. There are, no doubt, greater
expectations upon the par, of some than can
be realized. Many seem to regard human
government as omnipotent, capable of cur
ing all evils. OF course, they will be dis
appointed. But as far as conflicting views
and interests can be harmonized into an ex-
preston Of the general wisdom of the peo-
Pile, l think and hope and pray that our
work may prove successful"
Year: 1875

Judge John FL. Reagan made most SEN
sible and thoughtful speech yesterday, as
admirable as brief. 1t was literal truth as
every journalist of the country, worthy the
name, must confess. The distinguished
gentleman said that "organs" had become
whether set up to promote the aims OF q
party or of clique or ring or any individ-


ual deserved little confidence. The people
presume that these organs are paid for ser
vices rendered, and declarations of policy
and opinion made by an organ are mere
copies of DEGREES issued by their masters,


or by the ring or clique which the organ
represents. Independent journalism does
not involve independence of party, but of
party leaders. Parties we must have.


These must subsist while people
differ in reference to the theory
of the American system of government.


Our theory is that of the original Jefferson
ian Democracy; but inside the party, as
thus defined by this leading principle, the
STATESMAN is the organ of no man or set of
men in or out of Texas. Therefore the sue
cess of the STATESMAN. 1t is denounced
with the utmost bitterness by men who have
been accustomed to have ''organs" do all
their dirty work and serve them with profit
less but unfaltering fidelity. But the peo-
pie approve the very facts and incidents
and pecullarities of journalism which the
whippers-in of the party and oficeholders
are apt to condemn. If the paper be true
to the principles and philosophy of govern
ment in which Democracy consists, the
masses of the people ask no more. Beyond
this they would have fearless independence
and capacity and ooldness to assail any
leader or condemn any act of personal sell
fishness or personal ambition, however great
the idol guilty of the crime or blunder.
The people never questioned the Democracy
of the STATESMAN because it disapproved
the policy of Judge Ireland. The circula-
ton of the STATESMAN still grew apace
but party leaders howled and their hired Or
gans growled and we were formally extru


ded from the Democratic church by an
''organ." 1t was brutum fulnlen in the ears
of the people and independence won popu-
lar confidence. Sensible, intelligent gen.
tlemen, personally attached to Judge Ire,
land and lifelong Democrats differed from
us in opinion, and adhering to the Judge,
were pleased that newspaper had the
courage to tell what it conceived to be the
truth in defiance of the clamor of placemen
and of organ-grinders. Judge Reagan is
| right. An ''organp does not deserv popular
respect or confidence, and cannot secure it.
The fortunes of the STATESMAN in this city,
and throughout the State demonstrate this
fact In truth Democratic newspapers in
Texas having that independence which has
marked our course, as we have earnestly
and honestly sought to shape il, are the
successful newspapers of Texas. 1t would
perhaps be invidious to name them, but re


cent events have made them quite conspic


uous, and illustrate as we'll the truth o.
Judge Reagan's declaration that organs
are undone, and their day is past. Th'
people prefer the unbought, unrestrained


honest, if mistaken, opinions and declara
tions of an untrammeled newspaper press
Year: 1875

The Belton Journal says ''If the good
people of Galveston will have sense enough
OR what would answer, perhaps, just as
well, can get money enough--to push the
Galveston and Santa Fe road, now graded
thirty-fve miles and ironed six, through
rapidly to this place, they will not only
have one of the best paying roads in the
State, but also a road which will rebound
more to the interest and prosperity of Gal
weston than all others in the State put to-
gether."


This is true enough; but it is even more
important that the ownership of this road
remain with the builders and that il be
built as Gen. Bragg designed, at the least
possible cost per mile. Then it would be
enabled to reduce rates of freight charges
to minimum and to the extent that II
competed with existing lines, would render
services of incalculable value to the whole
population of Texas.
Year: 1875

IL anybody wants to know why the free
school system is not popular in Bonham,
they will find an exposition of the mystery
in the statement of the Enterprise, to the
effect that the establishment of negro
school within the corporate limits few
years ago, brought several families of dark
les from farms in the country to town to
educate their children, and now to give
Bonham special privileges on the free school
question would bring the rest of that
population to the town. We don't object
to the cost of educating fair share of the
peripatetic darkies who pay no taxes, but to
have the whole colored population of the
country drawn into the town limits is rather
rough on corporation taxpayers. Then,
too, such mass of negroes may be inducted
into the place that they will gain control of
the offices and ravage and destroy till Bon
ham becomes desolate. This evil may be
provided against by the Convention, which
may restrict suffrage in corporation cleo
tions to taX-payers
Year: 1875

THE principal stenographer of the Red
Cloud agency investigating commission lost
the trunk Containing the largest and most
important part of the testimony taken be-
fore it, and at very great expense. 1t dis
appeared somewhere between Kansas City
and ST. I.ouls. on last TUESDAYS train.
When the commission merss IN washing,
ton, it will have to commence operations in
the absence of most important evidence.
Delano evidently seems willing that the play
shall go on, but is more than willing that
the principal character shall be left out.
Fifty days have been spent in vain, and uR-
less something is contriysd TO stop renew.
al of the matter, another long period viii
elapse ere we viii be able to get at the same
facts. OF course the people believe the tes
timony ''lost" was abstracted BY some pimT
of Delano.