The Potter journal and news item. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, May 23, 1873, Image 1
KEWS ITEM. Jno. S. Mann, Proprietor. VOLUME XXIV, NO. 43. flie POTTER JOURNAL AND MAYS itfai. rrBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT fOUDEKSPOUT, PA. (Office in Ohnsted Block.) fLRMS, 81.7" Pf.k Yeah in Advance. j D o, S Mann, * fi. F. Hamilton, Proprietor. Publisher. C. J. CURTIS, Attorney l.aw aiwl District Attorney, ojjice 'OX MA IX St., {over the Post OJice, COUDERSPORT, PA., Solicits all business pretaining to liN profession. Special attention given to collections. JOHSS. MASX. ARTnrR B. MAX.* , JOHN S. MANN A SON, Attorneys at I-aw ami Conveyancers, COI'DFRSPORT, PA.. C illectioa® promptly atterdeH to. Arthur B. Manu. General lii-uraucc Agent A Xoiarv Public. S. S. GREENMAN, ATTORNEY AT taw, .(office over forster's store,) COUDERSPORT, PA. A 0 OLMSTED T>. C* LARKABEF. ; OLMSTED & LARRA3EE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT X.AW (Office in Olmtted Block,) CoUDERSPOItT, PE XX'A. SETH LEWIS, Attorney at Law and Tnsnrarce Agent, LEWISVILLE, PA. A. M. REYNOLDS, DENTIST, (nFPirF IS OI.MTEIt BtnrK.) COUDERSPORT, PA. Baker House, Ri.ows &• Kei.lt. Prnpr's. Corner of SECOND and EAST Streets, COUDERSPORT, FEXN'A. Every attention piM to tb° ennvenience and ; comfort of guest*. S j-i .no 1 stabling attache I. LewirvHle Corner of MAIN and NORTH Streets, LEWISVILLE, PA. Aj-tjood Stabling attached. PEARSALL & WEBSTER, PAINTFPS, YAl>'-ST. above SECOND, (over French's store,) i .Got PEKSPORT, PA. H. -•> Pa'arintr. OlßKlng. Orafeine, OaleJir.inlnjr. ; Gloss-tlttishiMr, Paper-hansrinir. etc., done with npat'ies-t, promptness and dispatch in all eases, and satisfaction guar a it t i e d . stiXEt) PAINTS fcr sale. 242 V 1 X S. T!IOM"SOV J. 8. MANN THOMPSON & IV!ANN. "tii.P"' w Dnig*. Medicines, Books, Stationery, F/S?!CY r 0' 1 "S P-!"T<; nil? U'll P£PEP,£C„ ! o~>r. ,V /n n wl T* ird Bt*. % COI T DERSPORT, PA. S. F HAMILTON, POOH JND JOB PRINTER (Corner M<iin and Third.) COUDERSPORT. PA. 0. M. ALLEN, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LEWISVILLE, PA. Ai! work guaranteed to give satisfaction. D. J. CROWELL, UanTr.s.H. Ball Jointer S: BTtinr Machine, SINNKM Alii ININO. Cameron CO., Pa. i>.t the SI DR. CXJTHHIXOUC MACIIIXKto Jilt fr.n, Is t„ op, jnrh,^. <i "Repairing; Machines ami General Custom Work done to order. ' 2422— tf John Grom, II ois .s ( k . Si ai * Ornamental, Bcrorativr & .fresco PAINTER, COUDERSPORT, PA. GAINING and PATER HANGING done with neatness and dispatch. Ntisfaction guaranteed. ■ W(llM u i'h iIAKF.It IIOIYSE ul be promptly attended to. 1). H. NEEI'E, CARRIAGE factory, <OUI )ERSP(>RT. PENX'A. > J,. Mods of Wagon-making. Blacksndthing, ', .V l '-'' ( 'u' rlage Trimming am! Repairing done ' " i'h neatness and durabUitv. Charges C. BREUNLE, M -VRIf 1. E YV <)l{ Iv , COUDERSPORT, PA ''.'.ments. Headstones, etc., finished to order, '"aterial, style and workmanship, on "•ost reasonable terms. „ v ! ",'"cV'* h V ,> mall or ,cft theofflee of .lorn fcA*lTEM *11! prompt What a Baby Thinks. Who can tell what a baby thinks? When it wakes from its forty winks, And rubs its face into numerous kinks. And sta; ts at the iiglit that comes in at the chinks I Of its rock a by nest, and gaps and b'iuks— j Who can tell what a baby tiiinks? Who has courage to hazard a guets | As to what the baby may thimk of its dress, Trimmed and ruffled to such ex.-ess? Of what tiie baby may think of the mess For the headache, toothache and stomach dis tress, And for all its al'iugs, more or less? W hat does It think when it wakes in the night \\ ith all the pretty things out at sight. And nobody Stirling and "making a light?" Does it think its condit m is far from"light, And that hig folks are far from po ite. And that daikne-ss is meant fur a personal sight? Is that the reason it takes de'ight In screaming with all its jieisona! might. And rousing the neighbors at dead of night? ' And what do you think the baby thinks? i Looking around like a mild-eyed lynx, Watching the snow that ii inkles and chinks j While papa is wanning Its catnip drinks j Over a candle that glimmers and blinks. Humming and drumming out "Captain Jinks," i What do you think the baby thinks? Do you say that babies are tliink'.ess things? With no other iglit than in .timt bi ings, With brains as downy as bilberries' wings And heads as empty as a hell i hat swings? I Do you thin that babies are tiiinkless things? Then when does the tliink begin to grow? And when does the mind begin to show? And when does the baby begin to know That this is true or that is so? , When yon find out will you please let me know ? : ——— [From the Independent.] About Lanes. Soothing my sick little hoy last night with the eelclnated and vener able nuraery rhyme about the black sleep, whose wool was to be shared between the master, the dame, and , the little boy who u lives in the lane," I found my thoughts and sympathies | somehow specially enlisted in that mysterious lad. Aipl thus gradually the general idea and theme of lanes ; came uppermost, j That little boy in the lane, what right or title had he to a share in the sable fleece? Ilad it been a golden fleece, would his claim have been equally valid? ! Evidently he was not a one-third proprietor of the sheep herself; but only a part of the wool was going to him, out of some special considera tion. Was he sick? Was he poor? Or was lie a lame boy who could not race and skate with the other lads of the neighborhood? Perhaps his ! father was dead and his widowed mother one of those hard-working. I washing, sciubbing women who toil and moil with endless drudgery to keep their children's heads just above the black waters of sta va ti<n. . doubt if anybody, even the learned editor of Note.- and Queries could confidently answer these ques tions ; nor is any answer required. This boy is typical. He belongs to | the great Lare tjibe of humanity. And this tribe is just as distinctly marked among mankind as are the Gipsies or any other. What is a lane? It is not a boule vard, not an avenue, not a street, or a highway. It is the bottom on the descending scale of passageways. It is a low way; it is narrow, untidy, otten unpaved, looking up with meek eyes at the rears of houses and the sides of stables. No splendid carriage, with liveried driver and footmen, ever rolls along its mud. Beautiful ladies, with sweet children, in holiday attire, out for the sun and air. never stroll down Jit in long processions of gayety. j | The regiments on parade seem never to think of the lane in their line of i march; so that the marvels of drum ; 1 I and fife belong to the outside world for the laners. Torchlight proces-, sions, that make all sorts of other I mistakes, never to far forget them selves as to stray into the alley; but they go flashing and smoking and sputtering up Broad Way, Wide Avenue and Spacious Boulevard till they go out. These may lie the people spoken of as "in darkness and the shadow of death," waiting-fev some great light to arise, something lietter and less expensive than gas at so much per thousand feet. These laners are, at least, not the people who have diamond weddings, go to the opera and take trips to the Alps or Yoscnnte. Their travel con sists chiefly in straying around the corner, into the streets and avenues, , to steal a glance at the big world in whose shadow they dwell. They are ' outside the popular routes for tour- COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1878. ists, quite back from the banks of the great channels of human l fe. They only hear the roar and are sometimes spattered with the dirty foam of these impetuous streams. But, if you have sufficient curiosi ty and will take the pains to lpok in to them, you will find them veritable little ways for small folk to live and ... die in. As a sample, there is Needle Lane. It is broad enough, to be sure, to al low the sewing-girls who are hived in it to draw their threads; but still so narrow that only the smallest wages can ever get into it. Now and i tjieii some benevolent sunbeam I spends an hour or two there, looking after pale geraniums and consump i tive roses, or trying to start a smile on pools of dirty water, that only re spond with a ghastly grin. It must have been at one end of this narraw, low way that the poetical car of Tom Hood caught the pathetic tones of his familiar dirge— "S;itch, stitch, stitch, Through poverty, hunger and dirr, Sewing at once, with a doul>:e thread, A shroud as wc.l a3 a shirt." But somehow ignorance, vice and misery are able to flourish in these lanes. They even seem to find abun dant entrance and facile progress i where intelligence, morality and hap piness cannot possibly squeeze through. Some of the good people who aie ' given to preaching say; Go now into tiiese places and biuld there a church, so shttll that purifying institution, cleanse the whole neighborhood. But would it not be almost as sen . sible, good people, to create somehow an outward current from those neigh r> borhoods, that should set, at least every Sunday, toward the squares and avenues, to disembogue into the line churches already bunt and only about half full? Is it not the philos ; ophj of salvation to get people out of themselves ? If you were to make a feast for your poor neighbors, which would you do? Would you take your well ' tilled baskets into the lanes and 1 spread the loaves and roasts on those little dingy tables; "or would you open your own house, with the gay sunlight flashing 011 piles of clean crockery, glowing in the bright col ors of velvet carpets and dancing on picture ! wall and tinted ceiling? Of course, it would depend upon the object you had in view. If you : aimed to compromise with obligation you would doubtless take the feast in baskets. But, if you had the un usual grace to do the godlike tiling, you would probably invite in the , needy guests. The truest results of religion can not be secured so well by sending missionaries into Mud Alley as bv I getting the people out of the alley into Broad Avenue. It is the .alley itself that breeds moral pestilence. The Kingdom of Heaven does not commission its messengers to stand at the entrance and fling in a hand ful of tracts on Total Depravity, as the method and means of conversion; but reach inward, rather, the white hand of charity a-nd drag out the de pravity into some clean place, where the sun shines and the water runs, ' ai d there can be a washing of faces : and souls To be sure, there is 110 statute commanding the wealth of the land ' to give itself any concern about these lanes. It may be necessary to hire i policemen to show their stars occa sionally in such vicinities, for the purpose of order and personal secu rity, just as anybody will help pay I for a cuiin to keep a bear out of ' mischief. But the main idea is understood to be self defense. If there j$ danger of cholera, require the health officers to do their duty, for the protection ' of the avenues. Or, if ignorance, vice and wretchedness are likely to infect the fine neighborhoods, why, of course, look after them. But this whole theory of protect ing Broad Way against Narrow Lane as the partial method of social economy is false and vicious, to say nothing of injustice. When the Third Napoleon wished to prevent mobs and barricades, he converted the lanes of Paris into spacious boulevards, because it is not so easy to obstruct a boulevard, ! ! and the nervous fingers of the mob cannot pick stones out of a cement . pavement. Iu short, the Emperor abolished lailhs, so far as he went. : And so long as there are lanes in the world there will be the elements of mobs, the lairs of crime, the dens of vice and wretchedness. Nor ought the unfortunate good people to be (driven, by any allowed social force, into those narrow passages where the unfortunate bad do congregate Ly their vile affinities. The true evangelization of cities, it would seem, must include water, air, gas and sunlight. The municipal authorities themselves have mission ary work to do. Would it not be quite as sensible to vote appropria tions for the extinction of lanes as I for parades and welcome to foreign j 1 princes or native politicians? Society makes its own volcanoes • and the lava is generally ignited in the lanes. 1 If the good people of the earth | would make up their minds t > abol ish these narrow ways, cost what it might, they woul 1 probably find that by this very process they hail cast ; up the high way and broad way of j the Lord for the Heavenward jour ney of humanity. Instead, therefore, of dividing the black fleece with that little boy in the , lane, take him out of the lane alto get her. [From Hie Keystone Hood Templar.] What shall we do with Our Sons and Daughters. It must be evident to any observer I that the difficulty for middle families to provide their children with the means of earning a liveli hood is increasing. In a country like this, provided with such bound less resources, this might at first seem incredible, and in fact, there is no ne cessity that it should be so. The fault lies not with the country but with the people. All the young men want to be capitalists, speculators, un*r j chants, lawyers, or to follow souv other genteel occupation requiring little manual labor. The dream of the young girls is to be simply contract rich marriages and have for eign servants to wait upon them. The inevitable result is approaching. Genteel occupations have become an American speciality; they are the worst paid and most uncertain of all kinds of labor, because the market is ( overstocked. One book-keeper has j a salary of five thousand dollars a year, straightway a hundred incipi ent ones delude themselves with the idea that they can reach such a posi tion. Even in Europe there is too j much gentility, but is in a great measure counteracted by millions of working-men. There, a collier makes more than a banker's clerk, just as a common laboring man will make as | much as an ordinary clerk in this 1 city; more in fact if we take the difference of situations and exigen cies of dress into consideration. To look for an ordinary clerk's place is really a desperate undertak ing, and the young stranger who conies to the city will find it a North Pole expedition in search of an un certainty. Parents too oltcn delude themselves with the belief that their ' j children have extraordinary capaci ties and are bound to succeed in life ("anyhow." A great deal of stuli" has been written on the advantages of ! | education, energy, etc., as if the edu ' | cation which is not practical, and the : ; energy which is not well directed, ' 1 ever achieved anything. Every day ' | we see foreigners, ignorant even ot ' j our language, commence at the bot tom of the scale and work upwards, while genteel men are just where they were years ago. If young men 1 do as many Germans do, devote their time to some manufacturing specialty ' and obtain a practical and scientific ' knowledge of it, they would find a • large field before them in a country ' like this, where special talents in so • many branches are wanting. Parents may fiud it difficult to provide their sons with even an ordinary educa tion. but making "book-keepers," or ' shopmec, or salesmen of them is about the worst thing they can do. The market is full and will be "ful l lt-r" ungrammaucal though the phrase 3 may be. Too many try to cling to > metropolitan life and thus they waste ' away their talents in the over-crowd < ed hive. There is a crying need for reform in education of youth. We see evi ' denoes of this in the army of place seekers, who become politicians at ■; first and often settle down into gamb lers and rowdies afterward. We see it in the hundreds of briefless lawyers and "patientless" if not im patient physicians, in the vast multi tudes of gentlemen who live by their wits and who so often complain that they know nothing practical. Men of brains may always get along, \ though often with difficulty, but the mediocre ones will go to the wall— I unless they turn to something prac | tical. The future of girls is still more uncertain and dangerous. Without natural supporters in a city like this jit is beset with difficulties, th more ; so that they seldom kntDV anything practical. The extravagance of the average young lady, an 1 her false idea as to respectability, Ac., keep | many a young man from marryii-g; and as housekeeping is onerous enough under the most favorable cir cumstances, it becomes almost im possible under such conditions. The movement, started by certain ladies, would be productive ot great ! benefit if properly directc 1, but cer tainly it is not competing with men in ik-1 Is which re pure muscular strength and energy that women ean ! hope to succeed. There are several • branches monopolize! by men which j could be as well filled by women and ! it is toward these that §Ups should | be first taken. ttt [Fr in the Christ! ui Cui >c.] Bulb Farms in Holland. Very few of our florists have any itlen of the extent of the bulb busi ness in and around the old Dutch city of Haarlnn. True, some kinds of bulbs can be and are grown in the vicinity of Amsterdam, the linage , and other Holland towns, but the • peculiar nature of the soil at Haarlem defies all coirp tition in raising large, : healthy hyacinth bulbs. In this coun try, and throughout Europe as well, , save only t ! e above-named point, hy acinths will deteriorate under the inosl careful treatment; but at Haar lem florists will flower the same plant year after year without any percepti ble diminution of its vigor. The sup rficial observer cannot de feet anything in the nature of the soil to ac count for the superior quai itv of the bulbs grown here, but a careful examination discloses the fact | that it contains a certain amount of decayed vegetable tissue, although the surface-soil is apparently pure sand, and yet this laud commands 5 2000 per acre when sold. The soil for bulbs is prepared one year in advance by digging in a very | heavy coat of pure cow manure and planting potatoes therein. The suc ceeding season, all heat and rank effluvia having passed away, the set.<. ■ :ts they are called, or more properly young bulblets, are planted and the subsequent growth is really aston ishing. I The method of propagating hya cinths is very interesting and. al though a tedious operation, develops some new ideas to American florists. ' Large, sound bulbs are essential for ' the purpose, and are selected from i the whole salable stock. They are jthen removed to a room where the ! workmen carefully cut out the bot tom or root end, inakiug a basin as it were to the bulb. They are after ward placed upon a rack in a shed ' to dry and in a short time removed . to the open air, where the sun's pow (| er aids tin* (trying operation still 1 more, and after a time are again I placed on racks in the shed. The ■ ensuing spring they are planted and ' by midsummer great numbers of lit -1 * 0 j tie bulblets are formed 011 the cut I I portion. •! The following year these are sown , thickly in rows and by the ensuing , autumn will grow to the size of mar -; bles. Four or five years are ueces . sary to perfect a salable bulb, and • the increase from each one of the pa . rent bulbs is generally from thirty to forty young ones. Another method of increasing the ,! hyacinth is to make two deep inei )| sious crosswise on the bottom of the j I bulb and cultivate, very nearly as .; above described, the small bulblets ' forming at the scarified lines. The theory of bulb growth, upon which the propagating operation de pends, presents such an interesting as well as beautiful study in physio logical botany that I cannot resist the temptation of explaining the pro cess, although I fear at the risk of incurring the censure of my anti-bo tanical readers. Bulbs are in reality ; underground branches and are not roots for the reason that the latter are never furnished with buds nor , leaves. Subterranean branches, on the; other hand, are always supplied with buds and mostly with branch like appendages that answer to and are of the same general character as leaves, but not foliage, because all ' leaves no not assist plant growtn. Now. the hyacinth bnib, for instance is composed of a great number of l scales, these are the leaves as it were on the underground stem or branch, and the bulb will bo found carefully concealed in the centre. The scales 1 are the receptacles or storehouses containing the mass of nutriment collected by the foliage during the previous summer; so that when the cutting process is resorted to, numer ous other buds are developed on the : stem (ouch containing a tiny bud with scale-like leaves) in precisely the same manner that ' he black berry and other "suckering" plants devel op dormanr, buds. The true roots; emanate from the base of the bulb and resemble long white libers. During a recent visit to the Haar lem bulb farms I found tuat the ' bulbs had in >stly been gatlpare 1 an 1 stored in the im nenee drying houses, an irnporaant re-} usite to every es tablishment. These are kept scru pulously clean in every part, anl es pecial attention is paid to the venti lation. Long racks fanned of nar ; row laths ex ten I the whole length : of the buildings, one above another, • about two feet distant, from the floor to the roof. The bulbs arc arranged , very neatly and evenly thereon with -! each variety distinctly marked; but . they present so many marked fea -j tures, small in themselves, it is true, ■ that the skilled gardener is enabled to name each kind as he rapidly passes along without looking at the respective labels. A constant cur rent of warm pure air passes over • the surface of the and they are ■ vigilantly watched, so that any de ■ caved portion shall be immediately . removed. The crocus, tulip, ranunculus, ane " mono, snow-drop, etc., propagate themselves no readily that it is use-, less to resort to artificial means, con ; sequently they may be seen here in endless profusion. The Dutch hate a very useful method of growing the well-known Lay of the Valley. This pretty lit , tie favorite has a habit of extending its underground branches—generally , 'called roots—in every direction, so that it oou becomes weed-like in character; but t!i- growers, by fre quently clipping off these straggling stems, with their terminal buds, read* ■ ily induce a multitude of fibers to form, hence a clump is the result. ■ which commands an advanced price. . i Thev use the variegated-leaved va • riety for edging beds, and a pretty ; border it makes, too, with its eon s 1 spumous white bauds and stripes. In Krclage's collection one can • find almost everything known in the ; way of bulbs and tubers. Lilies arc a decided speciality and a bed of the ' i enormous L. giganteum several feet i Li >h, covered with large flowers, O - ~ 'made a grand sight. Justly is il I named, for the plants are truly gi i ga ie in size. L. chalcedouicum, i ° ■ with brilliant scarlet flowers, was , 7 | dazzling in color, whilst the pure - snow-white tubes of the L. longiflo . rum was charming in its purity. L. auratum, conspicuous alike for its L larsre bloom, with a distinct golden ; band on each petal, and luxuriant - foliage; L. martagon, the favorite - Turk's cap, in almost innumerable I shades of color; and lastly, although - far from least, the beautiful varieties ■ of L. speciosmn, better known as L. laficifoliurn, were exceedingly at ; tractive. It really wonderful how much ? attention is paid by the Dutch to i what we in America term common < wild flowers. The true lover of flowers judges ♦ S. P. Hamilton, Publisher. S 1.75 A YEAR none too Common for his admiration; and just here, as entirely <ij>ropn.<. allow mo to quote from Professor ' Itusseli, the eminent microscopic bot lauist: - Cunningly, wisely, and full of a secret, hidden meaning, a thou sand forms of the lower vcgctatble life look up iuto the faces of pedos | trians M ho. with repressed curiosity and not quite willingly, tread them under foot. They are leaves of the great folio, marginal notes on the i pages of the book of Nature, often, and to many, and fur a Ici.e period to every one, hieroglyphs whose de ciphering would repay all the requi site toil." But to- resume: take the lovely little Anemone nemoross, or native •* Wild-flow IT." It IS here GTTRW-N in 1 quantity, with a double form of the • flower as well. And then another of our well-known harbingers of sprjjig, the Hepatica triloba,or - I.iv er-leaf," sporting into various unique 'col <>rs and forms. Even the little . Clay tonia virginica. or ••Spring Beau ty," and the less showy I'olvyonn - turn biflorum ami P. giganteum, the " Smaller and Great Solomon's Seals," are cultivated with the great est care. 1 noticed an well Ix-ds of Sanquinaria Canadensis, or u Blood root," and close beside it Erythroni um Americanuin, or -Dog's-tooth violet," (the latter litle only by cour tesy). Our native lilies, L. Puila j delphicum, E. ('ate-.bai, L. Cana -1 ense and 1.. Superbuin received the fostering cave of their owner equalh with those that had received high sounding titles. The collection of Iris, or - Flags," is especially worthy of remark, ami the weH-known I. Germanics, or "German Flag," by skillful hybrid; ization has sported into such a diver sity of color th it the li-t of names, with descriptions of each, would form quite a little volume. Every tint is here represented, froui pure white to the deepest shade qf indigo, and very many with delicate vine- Like markings on the richly-colored petals. The American botanist will delect his own lovely species, I. Versicolor and E Virginica, as in all other ge nera oi" bulbous an I tuberous plants. It is perhaps needless to add they become vastly improved by careful and generous cultivati >n. A LEGITIMATE INFERENCE. —that .1 dentist's office is a draw ing-room. A PLEASING instance of what an earnest, faithful woman can do sin gle-handed comes to us from North Carolina. Oil' the lower coast is Barker's Island, inhabited by poor fishermen, .both white and black, among whom went tbout nine years ago .Miss Bell, the daughter of a Rhode Islam* clergyman. .Slie took with her wonderful crmrgy and per severanoi. and in time, with the aid of her friends, she established a farm where the natives said nothing could i>e raised. But under her personal supervision men and boys have been taught practical farming and are shown the capabilities of the island. The good effects of this labor are seen now in the garden patches o 1 about their own cabins. Close by the farm is a scboolhi use where .Miss Bell teaches four hours daily for -about seven months of the year. The children are bright and interest ed in their lessons, while cleanliness is taught as a cardinal virtue. On ! Sunday there is a school and morn ing meeting, at which this woman teaches the simple Gospel truths. Says a local paper, "Miss Bell's iu , Alienee is felt through all the region ! aud her hands should be strength ened. She is about fifty years oi age aud the vicissitudes of her life have fitted her well f< , the arduous work. She has great tact with the people and to ihein she is the law, while at the same time she sympa thizes in their joys and sorrows, feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, the sick and is every way thoroughly absorbed in In r endeavor to enlighten and Christianize the inhabitants of Barker's Island. s ' I'nion. A RECENT work on gardening is Called -The Six of -pades." -The Bake's I'rogres.s' would not IK au inappropriate title for r "fpii-l.