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NOEL B. LKK,
Pukll.liora.
Cards.
W. C. ARNOLD,
A COLLECTION OFFICB,
CURWENSVILLB,
Clearfield Coualj, Feoa'a. 6y
LAW
J.2
raoa. a. u'r
CTRUI OOBOoB.
MURRAY & GORDON,
ATTORNEYS, AT LAW,
. m.KinviKi.n. pa...
y-Offlee In Pta'a Optra Monro, oeeood floor.
:I0'74 .
' FRANK FIELDING,
ATTOBNEY-A'f-IiAW,
Cleartleld, ft.
Will etteud to oil buelnees oDtruated hi him
piomplly oud Ultbfully. aovH'7l
W1LLIAB A. WALLAOB.
babbt r. wallapb.
PATID.L. KOROO.
jobs w. waiobBT.
WALLACE 4. KREBS,
(Humeoaera la Wolloao A Fielding,)
ATTORN EY8-AT-LAW,
I1-1J7I . ClaarUald, Pa.
A. Q. KRAMER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Haol KaUU ood Colloolioa Agent,
tl.EAltKIEl.K, PA.,
Will promptly alltnd to all legal kullneaa oa
Ira.t.d lo bla oara.
,fttr0Koe wilb John II. Fulford, oppoaila the
Court Kouaa,
opril l-am- .
rosars i. a'asALkV. bakibl w. a'coabv.
McENALLY & MoCURDY,
, ATTORN KYS-AT-LAW,
Cleartleld, Pa.
Legal bualneoa allanilad to promptly with)
J.twlitjr. Ornoe oa Seoood street, above Iba Pint
Notional Hank. Jan:l:74
G. R. BARRETT,
Attoenkt AND Counhislor AT Law,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Having resigned bia Judge.bip, baa reoumed
ha praotioe nf tba law la bia old oAoa at Clear
lel.l, IS. Will altaod thaooorlaof Jeffaraoa and
.Jilt ooontlaa whao eperially tataloed la eonoeelloa
oitk raai.ieat oouoeel. S:14:7S
WM. M. McCULLOUGH,
ATTORN KY AT LAW,
Clearnald, Pa.
nsr-OrTjeo la Court llooea. (rSherlf'e OOaa).
Legal boainaaa promptly attended to. Ilrel ealate
bwuglil eua eoiit. I
" aTWWA L T E R S ,
ATTOKNF.Y AT LAW,
Clearltclrl. Pa.
tet-OBire la nroham'o Row. (decl-ly
A TTORN EY-AT-LA W,
NiltTt ' t'learnolel. Pa.
WALTER BARRETT,
ATTOUNKY AT LAW.
'- Clearfield, Pa. ''
M-nffloa In Old Woaltra lloltl kolldlag,
eoruer of Sooond and Maraat gu. aoall.H.
ISRAEL. TEST.
. .TTORN BY AT LAW.
CltmrfleU, Pa.
ptr OBea l tho Coort Hooao. J'U.'IT
JOHN H. FULFORD,
ATTOHNKY AT LAW,
tloarUeld. Pa.
fUf Of oa on Matkot alraat, opp. Coort Iloato,
Jaa. I, IB74. .
O H nTT c u t"t l e,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
tnd Krai Batata Agaut, Clcarttold, Pa.
ilrii.o on Tblrd atraat. bat. Cham AWalnat,
S-Roapaotfall7 ofara kia aarrieaaia aalllof
ad buylal laada In Olaarlold and adjolalai
'oootioa aod wltb aa oipariaaoool ooor twaotr
aara ao a aoraayor, lattora btaiaalf that ha oaa
randar aallitMtioa.t iraa. 'i
J. BLAKE WALTERS,
RRAL ESTATE BROKER,
AND DBALBB IB
Saw 1K nnl laimbor,
OLKARPIKLD, PA.
Boo la arahatn'a Row." . i-M-l,
" J.J. L INGLE,
ATTOBNEY-AT - LAW,
lilt (tareola, CloarOeld Co., Pa. J:pd
J. S. B ARN H ART,
ATTORN BY. AT- LAW,
Hllofoula. Pa.
Will practlca la L'learBald and all of tba Coarta of
too 21th Judicial diitriot. Raal oatata baiiooaa
aad ooiloetioa of alaioia nado apoeialtlaa. al'Tl
DR. W. A. MEAN8,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
LUTIIERBUURO, PA.
Will attead profaeeional oalla promptly. ao10'70
DR. T. J. BOYER,
PHYSICIAN AND SUROKON,
OOoo on Markot Street, Clearfield. Pa.
POSloa hourtt k to 13 a. Bt., and t to 8 p. at
QiTlErk. BCHEUBER, "
HOkKEOPATHIC PUYSIC1AN,
I OOoo la raeldeaoo a Market at.
April II, 1071. ClearOeld, Pa.
: J. H. KLINE, M. O.,
HY8ICIAN & SURGEON,
IAVIKQ looated at PonnlrlJ, Pa., ofera kia
proreaelonal aorvleea to the people of thet
do end aurrouoding oouotry. All oalla promptly
aadad to. ot. I t
A. J. P. BURC H FIEL D,
to Surgeaa of tho 83d Regiment, Peonaylvaota
'olanleere. ha.lna tetaraod from the Army,
for. bla profeaaioaal aoroioaa tothaelUien.
f Clearfleld eoanty.
aar.Pri,ro.ataBol oalla aromotlv attoaded to,
aa oa Soooad atraol, formarlyooaopled hj
!. Weoda. (apriOOJI
JR. H. B. VAN VALZAH,
t l.KAHI'ICI.I), PKNN'A.
FF1CE IX MASONIC BUILDING.
fUr OBea koura From II to 1 P. M.
M.y i, im.
rA. JEFFERSON L1TZ, '
J WOODLAND, PA.
Will promptly attend all oalla la tho liaoof ki.
vtoeatuB. bo.i-i
D. M. DOHERTYa
AkTIIONABLR BARBER A HAIR DRK8HKR
CLKAUKIELD, PA.
Shop la rooa
(aly 14, t6 y
I formerly oeeapted by Naugla
Market etnak
JARRY BNYDKR7
(Formerly witb Lew Sekoler.)
BARBER AND 1IAIRDHI88ER.
Tkop oa Markot At., oppoetta Court Hnaee.
.leea towel for every ooetomer. mey to,
76.
0. W." WEAVER A CO., '
RUGGI8TS k APOTnECA RIE8,
CURWENIVILLK, PA.
Valrre ia all klada af Draga, Madielaea, Paa
Oooala aad DraKgtala' ffanortea, a
arwasarllle, Mareh IT, 1(76. ' ' K
' GEORGE If.' FERGUSON, .
WITU
. v. LirrncoTT&co.,
VT8 A 0X18, BOOTS k 8H0KS,
Wtl H Market Btrtt, nilart.lpila. ,
1 1 1 1 ..,;" . . . . . ' I' : :
GEO. B. QOODLAKDEB, Proprietor, ' u ' :V' PRINCIPLE8, NOt MEN. TEBMSr$2 per annum In Adranoe.
VOL'iO-WHOLE NO. 2470. y:i'T CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1876. NEW SERIES-VOL. 17, NO. 19.
(Cnxtt.
JOHN D.THOMPSON,
Joitloa af too Poaoa and SorlroBor,
CurwoaoTllla. Pa.
CollaaUoa aiada aad taaaoa aromptlt
paid ovor.. . tonaj iiii
RICHARD HUGHES,
, JUBT1CC or TM PEACE ,
roa
Decatur Totcnihlp,
, OaeaoJa MIIW P. O.
ja l (,11,1 bo.lnxa ontrailod to him wilt bo
proaipUr altoadod to. .. raoh!9, "It.
BBO. ALIBBT......B8NaT AblBBTw. W. ALBBBT
W. ALBERT 1. BROS.,
M aaafaotarora A oitooalTO Doalara I a
Sawed Lumber, Square Timber, &o.,
: WOOULAMll, riNM'A.
-OrJeri aollottad. Bill. ll.d oa aaort not lea
ana raaooBamo tortaa.
Addrau Woodland P. O., Olaartald Co., Pa.
ol6.l ' W AiLBKHT A BKOS.
FRANCIS COUTRIET,
MERCHANT,
ProBekollla, t laarlleld County. Pa.
Koapa oonitantly oa band a full aaaortfflont of
urv uooda. llaruwaro. urooariaa, ana Trj,ui(ia
uaualla kopt la a rotail atura, wnion win no aom,
for oath, aa okoap aa alaawhero la tha oounty.
rronobTtllo, .luaa 47, 1001-17.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
MALI
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
GRAHAMTON, Pa.
Al, tittoilrt mDnfkctorr nd UaUr It Bqatrt
Tinbar intl Biwm ituiubvroi ait mk
CVOnlirf nllotted nt I1 blllt promptly
REUBEN :HACKMAN
House and Sign ..Painter tnd Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Petiu'a
tr,Wlll ixtenlt jobt In hit Hot urotnptljr and
to ft workmanlike manntr. a(r4,AT
G. H." HAL Cr
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR. CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
at-Pnmpa alwaya oa band aad roada to ordar
on abort aotioo. Fipoa borad oa roaaonaoio taraaa
All work warroatod to rondar oatiafaetion, and
dallvarod If daalrod. , aaylitlypd
E. AT B I GLE R & CO ,'
. OBALIRS III
SQUARE TIMBER,
aad aaaaufaoturara of
AI.l. KINDS OF Al-:n I.IJIMBlin, '
I-77J ChEARPIRLD, PRNN'A. .
JAS. B. GRAHAM, .
daalar la .
Seal Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
8IIIN0LB8, LATH, A PICKETS,
OtlO'TS Claarlald, Pa, '
JAMES iiTf CH ELL,"- 7"
BBALBB IB '
Square Timber & Timber Lands,
joins CLEARFIELD, PA.
, ttEMOVAL.
REIZENSTEIN L BERLINER,
who. Mala daatar (
GEMS' FIRMSH10 GOODS,
Hara roMovad to 187 Chunk atroat, katweaa
Franklia aad Whit, ata., Mew York. Jy3l 71
JAMES H. LYTLE,
Ik Krataer'a Dulldlug, ClaarOold, Pa.
Daalar la Orooatlaa, Prorl.loBa, Vagatablaa,
Praita, Flour, Food, oto., ato. '
aprU'76-tf
QOMK AND SETTLE.
nartng taken By krotberlato partanrebip, I
daaira to aara aiy old aooouota oloaMl . I there
fore giro notice to all who kaow theaiaalree in
debted to aio to come forward aooa aad eottlo Bp,
ao tbat wo oaa take a new departure.
ClearOeld, July 14, "76-lf. P. at. CARDON.
JOHN A. STABLER,
llAKKR, Market St., Clrarteld, Pa.
Fre.h Broad. Ruak, nolle. Plea aad Cokoa
oa band or made to order. A genera) aaeortment
of Coafoetlonarloa, Fruit, and nuta la nocl.
Ieo Cream and Oyatara io araaoa. Roloon aearly
oppoiilo tha PoatoOeo. Prlora Koaeroto.
Marob 10-76.
ITIOR bALK Tbe nodaririiad offara for
4 eala a ralaabla towa propart; In tba borough
of Claarflald, Lot SOilSI faaL with a eo4 twe-
tor; plank home tbaraon eraeUd, wltb tbraa
room dowa itairt and four bed room up attain.
AIm, eewing rooa aad bath rooa on eoeood floor.
Uoaae flniihad eomplata from eallar to attio
Good don Ma poroa ana Rood water, rriee rei
ooable and paymanti eair.
j0ftug7J WM. jM.MoOULLOnOH
9. I. HINT Utfl, (
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER.
AID PI A Lift II
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
OrmJum't Jtam, Mark StrtH,
CLEAR KIKI.P, PA.
All klodi of rtuairlng )o my Una promptly at-
from
3.1,
ended to.
Apri
1874.
fjivery tttable.
TIIS anderelgned bejri leave to Inform thepob
Its that ha if -now folly pn-pero- to aoeommo
date all In tbe way of faraiihtng Heea, Baffgiea,
lladdlee and Harneea, on the ahorteat notlea and
an reasonable terme. Rreldanee oa Loeeat atreet,
betweea Third and Foarth.
GBO. W. AKARI1ART.
Oleartald. Feb. 4.1IT4.
MITCHELL WAGONS.
. The Best ii the Cheapest) .
Tbomaa Rellty baa rreelred another larve let ef
"Mitehall WaRooi," wbinb are amonf the very
beet manufactured, aad whteh be will eell at the
moat reaaeaable rata. Mil atoak Ineludea almoet
all daaeriptioai of wagnna larfraand email, wide
aod narrow track. Call an aee them.
apr74 ' THdMAri RRILLY.
ANDREW HARWICK,
Market Street, t IcarOeld, Pa..
MANDPAOTDlia Ain naALBa IN
HARNESS, PA It D LBS, RHIDLRS. COLL ARB,
and all klndi of
ffORSM FURNISHING OO0DS.
A fell atoak ef Oaddlere Hardware, Bruabaa,
Oomhe, Blank ata, Rohae, etaM alwaya oa head
and for aale at the lewaet eaeh prteee. All kinda
ef repalrtoK promptly nttended to.
All klada f bidae taken In kiefaefife far har
naa and repairing. All kinda of bar unfa leather
kept en hand, and for aala at a tmall profit.
The baolaeei iil he ander tbe immedlafe
tapervlilon of Job a 0. Harwich, f
Claarlald, Jaa. I, 187.
AIZE&SCUVAITZ,
(late Oto Evani A Co.,)
MILITARY UNIFORMS
AND
, EQUIPMENTS,
Nf. II08 MARKET STREET, Pill I A.
Baade, Companloe, Ao., forai.brd. Ramplaa,
Rbotograpba and arlfmeaaarlag diroetloaa eoal
oe,
MERCHANT TAILORS A CLOTHIERS,
1100 MARKET RTRRIT,
Jely 14, '76-ly Pkila.
IJNDKRTAKI N0. '. "
Tba aadonlgaod are aaw fully prepared la
eorry a tka kuataoaa of
UNDERTAKING,
AT RRAB0RABLI XATIB, .
Aad roewoMrally oollelt tka aaraBaa of Ikaao
aeodiag aaok aarrtooa. TROCTMAPJ,
JAMIS la LIAVT.
CleorOeld, Pa., Pok. 10, 1074.
J;.'.. )
LOVI COMtt TO ALU
A mother bald epon bar kaea
liar roar boy of Hum war three,'
And touad him ill
uti and touad bin dewi)
daaoad oa bla erown f -.
Till all the our I.
While thua eha'iane aad aniwarad be
" Lore m my iweet for I lore 4l.ee." v
An nrobird ipread 1U hloifomi onf, ' '
While buiy beaa fl( rouod alnuit) - a
Baupalb Iti bounht a youth and maid , v.-.
Tllaahad Ilka tba bleraoma ererhaad '
Wilh downrait look tbrn taurtoarfd be t ,
"Lore ue, dear tfl, far lore thee." ' .
A hall of it ata, tower of pride, - ?
'With parka and gardrnrat Ita ajja i t - I
In rairet eloak a bnrd of fame 1 ,ntf
Crime wvotnff to a aobla damoj -' V
He ang with iwceUst taalatly i - -"
Love tua, my queen, for I Me (hoe.? . .
A flld of battle, d-rk wltb olxhl'" ' '
A feelilefflean oflantaVn llxhti M1 , '
A warriitr dyler, droj) br drup, ., . '.,' ,
A wlftj'a port lio'oui ai hi prupf , .
leatb atrlbrt bit dart aa laipath be :
" Love me, my love, fur I love thee.'.' , '
All btarti am it lore j tome liitao tb Vmi
Be ud i out to tome oua tbla requaat j ,
Io ebililhood'i hour, in uanhuoil'a jflma, t
In roulh, In a (a, tn evary clime,!' '
Where'er thaworda thethno)(ht wtl! be t ,
44 Love me, my love, for I Ioyo tbt-e.". .
THE TKKROHHOF THHLOHT.
M. Jules Vonm, in liis work, "Tbo
Myoturioun Ifltiittl," dejiteta thefiqrlfiiK
of a certain ix)Ulwain ttoti ntriull
ialand, niter s solitary roaitlcnco there
of twelve j ean Uurutio-fi. This uttbnp-
py person is described boini; cover
ed ovor bio entire body witb tbiek
suit of liuir, giving him tlio attpoct of
An )0. llo wan devoid ol speech, save
certain unintolliiriblo ooundn, nd bia
intellect ia a blank. Evidently his rea
son And memory of languiitro have both
boen IojI tor u scrim oi years. Tbe
vilivns of ,bl poorroatiire are thoae
oi un animal, and it is iiuuits are ftltlty
and brutal in the extreme. XI o resists
the efforts mado to Capture him, and
makoa ropoutixl but futilo endeavors
to escape. . . '
Un tho island ia also discovered the
dwelling originally occupied by tbo
boatswain during tbe period of his
advent, but now evidently long since
fallen to desuetude. It contains some
cooking utensils, amunilion and tiro
arms, a Itible, and some seeds, so tbat
the castaway had within his reach the
means ol appeasing hunger, comforta
ble aheltor, mid a tuir amount of food
for tho mind. Despite all this be had
lost his reason, fired his dwelling, and
lived liko a wild beast in tbe loroat
Having most of the essentials which
contribute to comfortable cxiatenco in
communities, tha man bad doubtless
become msano Irotn lack ol companion
ship. . At frst, probably tho bla war)
novel, and engaged ills intellectual luc
ullies by tho dtalts which it made up
on them. Furlhor on, he longed lor
sight of a human fuce, for human sym
pathy una companionship, litis tlewtre
grow upon him, becoming at length
tbo one absorbing thought, which mas
tered and excluded all others. Then
tho desire lor physical exertion waned;
tho mind, dead to all else but its in
tense longing for fellowship, corroded
and fed upon itoolf; reason wandered,
tottered, and fell, and tho man became
a more animal. Having been of a
somewhat fierce and attractable torn-;
peramcnt before insanity; Ire became a
wild fejpd norvously-energotio animal.;
Then came a season of exposure to tbe
elemonts, and A life od by tbe lower
animals, during which, nature wrought
her mystonous change tn him, and
set her poculiar marks upon bis person.
He acquired a euit of thick hair in lieu
of clolbos, and his facial development
intensified , into that of an ape. All
f his happened because the boatswain
lacked companionship. Jl0 was Inst
to the world. 1 ' . i i , ,
' Alter his capture the lost Insano man
gradually recovered his sanity. By
degrees tho tones of his former lun-gnago-rotuhied
to bim; and ho resum
ed it use upon occasion. But tho ma
jor portion of tbe twelve years passed
upon the island were, and ulways
would bo a blank to him. He had no
mora memory ot them than if they bad
never existed. , . ,
But, unfortunately, M. Jules Verne
deals in Action anil we must accept uia
BtiitemcnU! cum grano tnlit. Now, let
tbo writer relate a veritable history :
In tbo year 1831, a Mr. Davis, an
officer ol tbo Hudson Bay company,
loft York factory, oa tbo Hudson Bay,
in tho annual vessel visiting tbat port,
destined for England. He took witb
him his two eldest daughters for the
purpose of having them 'educated in
England, leaving bis wile and remain
ing children at an interior fort in tbe
company s torritory. Mr. Davis Was
a highly educated englishman, ol
stanch physique and unshaken intclloot.
No question ol his sanity had ever
bcon raised, or tbat ho was not tbe
peer of any in- bia rank in life. Tbo
vessel enjoyed a prosporous voyago
and roacbed London in safety. . ilr.
Davis plaocd his daughters in a Biiila
ble school, and then paused tome timo
in visiting among his relatives in that
vicinity. At length ho received no
tice from the company's oflioo in Fan
church street, that a vessel would sail
for York factory on a certain dalo, in
which lie would bo assigned a state
room. It was intended to send two
vessels that season with the annual
outfit, ono to precede tho other by a
week or more.
Mr, Davia sailed in tho first shin,
which encountered heavy wvathsr at
most IVom tho time of starting. The
scams of the Towel wore opened by
tbe violence of tho elements, so that
almost continual pumping was neces
sary. As the American ooast was
noarcd, the condition of tbo vessel be
came more precarious, unliLonestormy
morning, she went down near a rocky
island ol considerable extent. IS earn-
all tbe veaael's craw and passengers
who ootild swim effected an escape to
laud. This number at that time was
not supiKisod to include Mr. Davis, al
though be was known to be an export
swimmer, lie aid not, however, ap
pear on .the island antl wus naturally
supposed to be drowned. Ih. misera
ble survivors remained upon the rock v
coast about a week, when the second
vessel pausing took off what remained
of them alive. This shin roacbed York
lactory in safety and reported Mr. Da
vis as drowned with tyiltscift'OriNTlbt'rs.
Word was sent to that etttcci to his
family and relatives and his accounts
adjusted with the company. He was
a genllomao of some wealth and bia
family were Icll in Com lot table clrcum
stance. The vessel remained at York
for a month, taking on her cargo ol
I urs, and then aet sail lor JMiglanU.
As she was passing by the rooky i
land, tho scene of tbo rcscuo of the
first ships survivors, the lookout an
nounced tbat he aaw a man sitting up
on one of the rocks, Tho statement
was received with incredulity at first,
but the sailor reHted it with ao mo ok
assurance tbat tho captain mounter
to the eroastres lo look for himself.
Sure enough, there was a mas (ittiac
oa tbe rocks. The ohip at oao head
ed for the island, and Ahchorer. While
the anchor was being cast, and tho
boat lowered and manned, the casta'
way approached tho vessel and out
upon a rooa: in piain view, its n wuit
inrf for tho arrival of tha boat's orow,
Ho was clothed, and apparently in good
outward repair, considering tbe cir
oumstancos, and was rocogmzod by the
contain and tonio of tbo orow who
knew him as Mr. Davis. lhcy hailed
bim, but bo returned no answer. No
particular attention was paid to this,
however, and tho boat was pulled rap
idly to land. What was the astonish-
mont of the crew, when tho boat nenrv
od tho shore, to Aoe Mr. Davis leave his
seat and run rapidly toward tbe in
terior ot the island I They landed and
I. ; . I.,,, c. :iwt n nn.,Ai,A
him before be became lost to sight
among the rocks. A tolerably thor
ough search of tho rocks resulted in no
further indications ol bis prescnco,and
the chase Wat reluctantly given up.
Among the more credulous of the sai
lors it was ot oourso bclioved to bo
Davis' wraith : but tbe practical cap
tuin and crew, who bad known tho
man woll, insisted on his bodily pros
onccy and ao reported it on tbo arrival
in London. The alory was received
somewhat incredulously, however, and
finally dropnod from mind. ' '
i The following season, novorlheloHS,
the lookout of another vessel mado the
sume discovery, and anothor landing
ensued, with the same results. Davis
disappeared suddenly, but' entirely.
He still wore tbo clothing he had on
when wrockod, though in a sadly tat
tered condition. . After that he was
seen again in a nude state.
In tho fourth year after, his ship
wreck a party landed from a compa
ny's vessel and endeavored to catch
him. Tboy pursued bim closely and
used every means to -close his avenues
of escape. But Davis ran with almost
incredible speed, leaping high rocks
witb apparent esso, and at length es
caped from sight altogether. On thia
occasion he was covered lightly with
a ooat of bair. . In tho seventh year
the unfortunate man was seen, I be
lieve, for the lost time, having then a
heavy suit of hair over bis entire body,
and a beard of great length. He was
at that timo somo fifty-six years of ago.
Tho attempts mado to capture bun,
and the circumstances of bis condition,
were but littlo noised abroad by the
officers of the company on account of
bis alluotcd family ; but no ono, nnaiiy,
expressed the least doubt ot his identi
ty, or that he bad becomo craned un-"
dor tha terrible conditions ol tho ship
wreck. The story reached the writer
through a daughter of Mr. Davis, and
was corroborated by officers of tho
company cognizaut Of the circum
stances; so he relies implicitly upon its
veracity.
Hero aguin wus an insanity brought
ubout by the lost of human associa
tion, augmented, perhaps, in this in
stance, by the lack of matter to at
tract the mind., luyis certainly was
supplied witb food probably from tho
sbell-fiah and seals cast up by the sea
-.-and shelter ol sufficient warmth to
protect him front tbe inclement weather.
so that it must have been influences ex
traneous from dread of death, from
lack of mere animal necessaries, which
produced the insanity. The extreme
tear ot man manifested by him was
probably caused by that general feel
ing ot terror which seizes tost persons
and rentiers them fearful of every ani
mate object, or it may have been the
result of a revulsion of fooling upon a
subjuok which occupied every power of
thought when sano mat is, tne in
tense desire to tee a human litce. Do-
vis being a man of strong mind, and of
active, energetic bnmta, would oe lia
ble to more violent feelings of terror,
despair, and desire fur companionship,
than a person ot loss mental acumen
and ot more apathetic temperament.
ills mind would eat lUell out lor mora
rapidly 'than would that of a compar
atively ignorant person. Tho higher
tho intellectual staodard of tbo lost in
dividual, up to a certain point, and the
mora gregarious his habits of lifo have
boen, tbo sooner and more severely
will tho lost fooling attack his sanity
io the majority of instances. I recall
an instance ol this fact in tho case of a
passing acquaintance, a Mr. James
Mackenzie.
This gentleman wasacloi'k in charge
ot a trading post at tooorgelown, Aim
hesot, who started in tho winter sea
son, along with throe others, to visit
Kort Harry. Tbe moans of convoy-
anco constated ol mulct and a wagon
instead of tho ordinary winter travel
ing apparatus ot tbs country snow
shoes and dog sledges. Mr. Mackon-
r.io was a first-ruto traveler, and accus
tomed from boyhood to such work.
He knew the country well, and, tora
man ol but strong constitution, the se
verity of the winter' cold had too low
terrors for him. At a place called Pine
River Crossing, ho volunteered, as the
party wilb which be traveled hud run
short of provisions, and their wagon,
In consequence of bad Weather, travel
ed heavily, to push onward alono, witb
the intention of sending back assist
ance from tbo fort. Ho followed
the track correctly until nightfall,
when he lost his way, probably in
an attempt to find a shorter route.
Tho succeeding morning ho resumed
his journey, but in the wrong direction ,
and, alter another night spent on the
plain, running about in a circle to pre
serve warmth, his third day'a travel
brought him within thirty miles of tho
fort, and very far from the track. Hero
hope seems to have deserted hi in ; and
alter hanging a portion ot bis clothing
on a tree to attract tho intention ol
any passer by, bo lay down and wus
lror.cn to death. When his dead body
was recovered, ho lay with one hand
on bia heart, tbe other containing a
oompass. ,
It was easily romprehonded by the
experienced plain travolors who found
the body, that Mr. Mackonaie, on real
izing himself as lost, mnsl bave grown
so excited as to lose his presence of
mind, or ho would bave known bia
nerosaary genoral position with regard
to the river, and have acted otherwise
than be did. With his practical knowl
edge of tho use of the eoiniewa, and of
the country 'over which be traveled,
be could havo brought himsclt to any
point be -choso; but the. lost feeling
had berel him of reason within throe
days. Beiug of more than average in
tellectuality, and ol gregarious bubils,
he siiccomod with corresponding ra
pidity. - Tho Influence .of this fooling upon
those of a lower order of culture, and
of a different temperament, may be
soon in the caae of a hall brood, named
lavlo, personally known to the writer.
This person was by occupation a voya
gtvr during the summer season, and'a
trapper and hunter in tha winter. His
mental standing was vory ordinary,
being unable to road or write, and bia
habit' aoaUi.tio, living much alone.
Some of bit ponies having strayed off
upon, the prutrio . during the wtntor
m.ntba, Lavie went in quest of them.
The, prairio was a native health te him,
which bt had troddun from infancy
with the same asunranne thatordinary
mortals walk tho pavements. Ho had
no fear of being lost; every depression
in the snow clud earth, every stunted
shrub, wus a landmark to izuido him
on his way, Yet, alter an ubsenco of.
ball a day, a atorm aroso which ob
scured tho landscape, and l.avlo. des-
pito his pruirio-crafl, found himself
lost, jto neeepttpii mu nittiuiion, anu
knowing that any oll'orts lo oxtricate
himself until ollor subsidence of the
storm would provo lruitlesa. set about
making preparations for bis safety
from Iroczing. Ho attached liimsell
to a clump ot cotton-wood trees as a
landmark, and walked in a circle about
it. Might camo on, and ho still walk
ed. Day followed, and night again
found him still walking, with the atorm
unabated. - At length bia moccasins
wore off bis feet. Ho took tbo long
uiittens from hit hands, and tied tbein
to bis feet in lieuvif shoes. Then be
walked on through tho third, fourth
and fittli days and nWhts, supporting
lile by chewing bis leather bunting
shirt. Tho sixth morning ho found
his feet fror.cn, and striking the beaten
fiuth like bits of wood; his hands in a
ilto condition, and his fitco but littlo
better. During that day, however,
somo wandering Indians discovered
bim in an apparently dying condition.
They took Inm to a neighboring mili
tary post, and, after tho Burgeon hnd
bereft bim of portions of both feet and
hand), and taken apiece from ltisfaco,
Lnvic got woll.
When found by tho Indians, it is
worthy of romark that with tho ex
ception of exhaustion, tha man was
mentally more acnto than when ho
was first lost. During all those fear
ful days and nights the combination of
terror, Uonpair, and, abovo all, longing
for tullowship, which really constitute
the lost feeling, had striven against
that dull intellectuality and apathetic
temperament in vain. There wore an
indiUoronoe to, and an iguorance of tbo
finer parts of tho torture, which effectually-
shielded him from danger.
Ue simply did not know onougn to ex-
tieriunce any feelings which would
iuvo wrecked a higher order of intel
lect. True, ho knew that if the storm
subsided he could escape; but this as
surance could not of itself bave tup
ported him after the fourth day, prob
ably, when be bad been capable of
entertaining it, the lost feeling would
have overcome him. :
Among .. the numerous instances
which have come to tho personal no
tice of tho writer as illustrative of the
fact that a visitation of the lost feeling
almost invariably produces insanity,
and that, generally speaking, the high
er the order of intelligence (always up
to a certain point) of the lost person,
tbo more painful, if not fatal will the
insanity provo, 1 know ol none better
than tbe following:. t -
J bore was employed as a larm hand,
in a curtain place where tbe writer re
sided, a deserter from the United
Htates army. He was a young man
of rather more than ordinary aliilily,
and tolerably conversant with prairio
life. It was the custom of tho furm
ors of tbat region to cut hay at some
distuuee on tbo prairie in the rear of
their farms, stack It on the spot, and
baul.il lo the barns in tho winter as
required. In accordance with this es
tablished usage, tbe young man in
question was despatched witii ox-sleds
ono winter's day alter hay. Ho took
with him, for the sake of company, a
boy belonging to a neighboring farm
a little lad about twelve years of age,
and not particularly bright They did
not expect to be absent over tlneo or
four hours. Tho stacks of bay Were
distant about two miles from tbo farm
house, on tho prairie, antl entirely out
of sight of fences or other landmarks,
but a well beaten track led to them.
About two hours alter their depart
ure, a terrific storm aroso, rendering
objects lit tha distance of a lew yards
iuvisiblo by reason of tho swirl of
snow driven by the tierce wind. Homo
fear was eutei tainod for the aufcty of
tho lads, but It was argued that by
that time they would bavo reached tho
stacks, and, by digging into them,
could remain in sulely until the subsi
dence of the atorm. At all events, no
ono could go to their relief. Tho even
ing wore on with no abatement in
the violenco of tho storm; antl, as it
was impossible to extend aid to tbo
sufferers, tboy remained out all night.
In tbo morning tho oxen they liad
driven out were fountl in tho cuttle
yard. They bad their yoko on, and
hud evidently been loosed and turned
adrift. In tho afternoon oi tbo day
a party wan organized ' to visit tbe
stacks, and witb considerable difficulty
proceeded tbero. They found the road
entirely obliterated, and tbo snow
drilled in fuutasliu shapes over tbe
prairie. Reaching tho slacks, no trace
of either man or boy was found; and
a lurthcr search of throe oonsocutive
days failed ol tangible results. Un the
fourth day, however, tbo boy was
found under a snow drift, frozen stiff.
Ho had all his clothes on, and was ev
idently following the trail of the cattle
when overcome by the cold. About a
hundred yaids distant, in a directly
opposite direction, the shoes, milieus,
cup and outer shirt of tho man were
found in the snow, but no traco of tho
owner. The experienced prairie men
engaged In the search--announced im
mediately that ho had discarded his
clothing in a fit of Insanity, anil dis
continued tho search as useless. VThen
tho snow melted from tho ground in
Ibe spring, the body of the unfortu
nate man was discovered sittingat tho
base ol a treo on tho banks of a stream
six miles away. It was entirely desti
tute of clothing, saving a (tingle gar
ment, '
Now, hero was a boy of dull intel
lect following a Judrtiou course on be
ing lost, and using the calmest reason
in bis efforts to escape ; and an intel
lectual man who became crazed by tho
same circumstances within twenty-four
hours. Sol that it is to be understood
thai the loot person must necessarily
be possessed ol intellectual culture in
order to becomo crazed by the lost
feeling, or tbat an uncultivated person
poosowd an immstiity, hy reason of
hia comparative Ignorance, from that
feeling and its general consequences.
It simply goes to augment the massol
proof tending to show that the feeling
of terror, despair, ami desire for sym
pathy and companionship, acting upon a
cultivated mind, unhinge it from the
sheer capacity of that mind to more
aeutcly and intensely experience them
than can tbe untutored intellect which
ia on a piano below such keen appre
ciation ot lit titoaot, Th very com
bination going to make up the lost
feeling must bavo boen educated up to
a certain standpoint by tbe general
culture of tbe individual before it can
so totally and entirely askume posses
sion of bim as toindueelnsanity. Then,
too, the insanity pmducd comes un
der that class of mental aberrations
known as temporary, In this resrct
at. least, that wbeo tho lost insane is
placed in tbe companionable of bit fel
low again, bit intelligence gradually
returns, tnd he becomes, alter a timo,
at sane as before. Thero art), of oourso,
exceptions lo this nilo, but it is true in
nine caaos out of ton. 7. M. Iiobinsrm
in Applrton.
Till! FLORIDA SKASOX A BOUT
A correspondent of tbo llarllord
(Conn.) 7'imcs, writing from St. Augus
tine, l-'la., under date of A pril 13, tnys:
It seems odd to see "tho fashionable
season" reversed and tho crowd of ho
tel plcasuro-scekers leaving for, instead
of setting out from, their homos, now
when Summer is just fairly beginning.
The hotels of Florida aro now practi
cally ompty and are closing. ' "The
season" It about ended, ' Every day
witnesses the departure of tho belated
ones, whose baggage on tho hotel piaz
zas awaits tbe omnibus for the cars.
The few who are new left are few in
deed and they are going. Another
woek and "tho Ancient City" will bo
given over to its long Summer drowse.
And yet tho inhabitants all say they
enjoy the Hummer most. It is a long,
but not an intensely hot season ; and
the resident population, left to itself,
gives Itself up to the quiet .Summer en
joyment which its fine situation and
climate afford. They have sailing and
boating on this beautiful bay, by moon
light as well as .in the breezy after
noonsand a cool, fresh breeze springs
up nearly every day tbe Hummer
through. Other parts of Florida have
had the same story to tell that tbe
Summer is as pleasant aa tbe Winter.
It seems to be a fact that the climate
of Florida is the beat, on tho whole, to
bo found in tho United Htates. Ho
wonder it Is becoming popularwlth
northern Winter tonrists, pleasure
seekers and invalids. To tho sports
man, Florida offers the finest field in
the Union for bunting and fishing aa
the increasing crowd of sportsmen,
overy Winter, aufilclently atteeta.
Down on tho Indian river a lagoon
of the tea, on tbo Atlantic aido, extend
ing nearly 200 miles up and down the
coast the three or four tavorns now
existing aro full, every Wlntor, with
sportsmen frem the North, whoso tales
of camping and sporting adventures in
nshing and hunting are enougu to
arouse tbo enthusiasm of everybody.
Tho climate down there is such as to
render that region, what is safe here
to predict it will become, tho best sani
tarium in the world. Already a good
many sufferers from pulmonary com
plaints aro trying it, being willing to
brave its drawbacks in tha shape of
loneliness and rude ways of living, for
the sako of its balmy and unrivaled
wintry air. It hat a Winter climato
which ia probably quite oqnul to that
of Naasuu ; and it will in due time be
come known for its Winter fttiits and
vegetables. ' '
This calls to mind tho fact that a
grower of strawberries, of whom 1 pur
chased a basketful for breakfast this
morning, has shown what this climate
can do for fruit, oven in this Tegion.
This man, an immigrant from Georgia,
has a place eighteen miles South of St.
Augustine, where he is raising a big
crop of children and strawberries. He
drovo to this city with his first lot of
strawberries last Uhrlalmus, and be told
them Bt tbe fancy prico of 12 50 per
quart. Onthefttbof January, became
with his first regular load, and sold the
lruit at f 1 a quart coming, I believe,
twice a wook. About the 1st of Feb
ruary his prico was 75 cents. It is
now 25 cents, and the strawberry sea
son is about over.
But other fruit ut coming on. Black
berries bavo been ripo for somo time
and some plums are ready to pick.
Applet do not flourish in Florida. The
fruit, for a large section of this Rtato,
is tho orange. Nowhere else, not even
in the West Indies, do such delicious
omuges grow as those which can be
raised in Florida. And thousands are
going into orango-raising as a business.
When wild lands can be secured, undor
tho homestead law, for 'the improve
ments and 11.25 an acre, on which
thero can bo grown, by butldingthe
the seedling sweet orange trees, from
100,000 to 200,000 oranges in si years
from tho start, and the prico hero in
Florida is three cents apiece, by tho
quantity, It will bo seen that orange
culture ynyn better in Florida than
seed le.il tobacco in Connecticut. On
the great river of Florida evorybody
is buying land who can ; nnd evorybody
who lias a tract of land is setting out
"aour stumps" for budding, or planting
sweet seeds for building ; and orange
grovo after orange grovo greets tho
tourist's eye, as ho journeys up tho
mighty river on a steamer and scans
the tclllumenta in the wooda along the
flat shores. Jn the ganlans and grounds
1 Falatkn, and every other place on
the river, the universal rule ia to plant
tho orange tree, 'thousands on thou
aantls of young trees are seen growing
thickly Irom the sued, in what may be
termed orange hedges, to bo thinned
out and replanted, or sold ; and in throe
or lour years from Ibis date the Dum
ber ol bearing orange trues on tuo
Joliua will bo increased to the extrent
of hundreds ol thousands.
11 ore at St. Augustine almost overy.
body has a few orange trees at woll as
the inevitnlilo fig ; but this is not yet,
nnd may not become, the great orango
growing rcirion. Tho ancient little
city itself is too box-liko and compact
to admit ol mueb orange growing witu
in its limits, though somo of the finest
oranges that were ever seen are grown
two miles awar-r-on tho " North river."
Here in tho town itself more attention
is given to ornamental gardening, a
mailer which has been neglected in
other pnrts of Florida, , ,,
. ltoo.es clamber on tho trellises and
walls, and bloom all Winter; the fig
tree unfolds its wide, green leaves,
amonn which the young tigs are now
as large aa pullet's eggs chiefly tbo
Southern purple fig, though tho white
fig of commerce also grows here ;
plums and peaches do well; tho Japan
plum flourishes a delicious fruit ; tho
paw-paw lilts its singular trunk and
and palm suggesting top, beneath which
tho green fruit now shows its crowded
dusters, growing out of tho trunks, or
stem, Heaii! ; the banana everywhere
spreads its broad, green leaves, among
which tho young fruit ia now aa largo
as good sired pickles ; tulips flamo by
the side of ahowy beda of petunias and
varbenas ; and in many grounds the
date-palm hits ita tropical looking form
and waves its great feathery fronds in
tho balmy air; I'rido of-China trees
disclose their modest blossom of pale
purple, and a great number and varie
ty of other ornamental trees are seen.
Among them the mocking birds hold
high carnival. On one treo, whilo sit
ting out on the piazza before breakfast.
I counted half a dozen ot these joyous
songsters of the South, which number
in two minutes increased to eighteen
bv constantly Cominff how arrivals.
The mnoic of the mocking bird is ono
or tbe charms or riorkla, and Ft. Au
gustine teomt lo be iti especial home.
Of this ancient town (the oldest In
North America) to many descriptions
bave been published that any now one
would be like a description of tho most
familiar European town in Murray's
(uido-book. Evorybody it supposed
to know about itsquaint, narrow streets
and coqnina houses, its Minorean in
habitants, and its various suggestions
of some oltl Spanish town of tho Mid
dle Ages. Wo reach it now by the
littlo railroad, which, starting Irom
Tocol, a dreary nnd inline settlement
on tho tit. Johns, lorty-iiino miles anove
Jacksonville, traverses a perfectly flat
country of scattered pines and occa
sional "hammocks" for a distanoo of
fiflocn miles to tho tea-oatuary, or
" river," back ol St. Auguatiue luro I
Thero you take an omnibus (if you
choose) tbrno-quartort ol a mile Into
town, for DU cunts; and tn town you
find three itood hotels and "any num
ber" of boarding-houses, which aro
more or lost hotels on a small scale ;
rates f10 a week at these; (3 and 14
a day at the hotels.
One gets a pleasant Impression of St
August mo at its entrance, which ia
through a sylvan lane, shaded with
bowery garden trees on either band,
and unfolding glimpsot into beautiful
gardens, filled with all manner of semi
ironical lruit and bloom. From this
shady lane tho visitor emerges into
othors all closo upon the plaza. This
is a public green and square, oruainoo
by the Spaniards, who have lelt in it a
monument, inscribed in Spanish, to tbe
glory ol the Constitution of 18 1 2. Noar
by is a little box of a city market. The
x'.,rtl, !,! nf the anti aro is chiefly oc
cupied by the ancient Cathodraf, the
quaintost u-lic of solid old church archi
tecture to bo found in tho United States,
and a bigger and moro rambling wood
en structure in tho ebapo of a groat
modern botol the Bt Augustine.
There aro ancient buildings ot coqnina
between this botol and the docks, and
at tho water aro a very considerable
number of fine littlo yachts for sailing
parties, as well as a little steamer (tbe
Mayflower, built at Springfield, Mass.)
tn take nartics to tlio "North beach"
and the other bathing ground on the
seaward sido of Anastasia Island. Ono
or two Now York clubs now have their
Winter rendezvona bore, and impart a
little style to the scene. We tried .the
sea-bathing the first day of our arrival,
and had a good swim in the Atlantic
waves on the 12th of April adclight
ful experience, which was a trifle modi
fied by various warnings to boware ot
sharks. A school of porpoises took
possession of the spot the moment we
wentout But the dangerfrom sharks
is mostly imaginary; no injory from
tbeso voracious monsters baa been re
ported. At tbe North beach the break
ers come combing over and dashing
tbemselvos away in foam, to fino effect.
Tho new light-house rears itself like a
gigantic barber polo, all striped in black
and white, and conspicuous from afar.
It it a bad coast, with fow harbors,
from Fcrnandinadown to tho Southern
keys that look ovor to Cuba.
And thia mention of Cuba suggests
another Winter resort with the tropics
the harbor and town of Nassau, in
the Bahamas, wbicb will toon bo nude
(for those who can afford it) a regular
part of the Florida Winter trip. Steam
era havo been running there thia Win
ter from Savannah ; but that ia rather
far North. People want to go to Nas
sau, if at all, from a Florida port They
want to make that trip a part of the
Florida visit Mr. Ballard, of St. Au
gustine, tella me he expecta to have
this to arranged next Winter, and that
a steamer will sail regularly from St
Augustine for tho Bahamas, making
the trip down and across the Gulf
Stream to Nassau in twonty-four hours.
If this can be dono, and the round trip
be mado for S40 or (50, a host of North
ern visitors will noxt Winter mtko
their first acquaintance witb tho trop
ics by this trip, returning to St Augut
tinn in one. four, or tix days, as they
choose, according to tbo attractions of
the Bahama! and- the Royal Victoria
Hotel; tonne 13 per day "in gold,"
Messrs. Groon-baekera I .
St. Augustine it a busy little placo in
tho Winter, every other shop being a
"curiosity shop," whore Northern dol
lars are spent tor alligators' toeth sot
on orange tree canot ; for various Flori
da birds of plumage ; for polished tea
beans, and a world of othor pretty
trash. One old darkey, In a dingy
shop in a by-slrcct, wo found busily at
work making vases, alligators, urns,
etc., out of coquina I '
' It is this Northern trade that it tbo
hie of St Auguslino, as it is of Florida
mostly. Tbo financial stringency, tho
mild Vinter, and thcgonoral saving-tip
of money "for tho Centennial," have
kept thousands back who would other
wise have visited Florida this Winter ;
yet the hotels havo been well filled
lioro at St Augustine especially and
next Winter there will be a grand
rush ; and they will come early. ' I
ovorheard ono old, bloated bond-holder
sharply drilling a negro yesterday, as
to tho kintl ol fire-wood lie must havo
ready for his open firo-place by the
20lh ef "next November." Vum nw-
I71MS W'tVIBIM.' 'i
Sailing down the majeslio St Johns
river, I was once moro impressed with
Its remarkable breadth, and with tho
fnct that water distances are deceptive.
It waa hard to beliovo that those shores
were five miles apart ; but such was
the truth at several points on that no
ble stream. It reminded mo that in a
recent lettor I greatly underrated tho
area of Silver Spring, up the Ocklawa
ha. That remarkable fountain, clear
as crystal and ot various depths, rang
ing from 40 to 80 feet, is in fact vory
nearly five acres In oxtent Ono year
ago our parly put it at two, ami this
year at a still smaller figure. So of the
size of tho giant cyprww treat up the
Ocklswaha.- I estimated somo of thorn
to stand "fully 90 feetV In fact tboy
Krovo lo be 120 in height I and somo
ave been cut which measured 130, and
84 feet to the first branch. '
. Wo are going to visit tome of the
gardens of St Augustine, and also tho
ancient tort, whore for a year or two
past about seventy "bad Injuns" have
been kept, who were captured out on
tho plains and sont oft down here be
causo of their peculiar crimes. They
are of various tiibos, and bad fellows
mostly. Yet tbe visitors (ladies ospo
cially) havo petted them, and they
have boon permitted to walk tho streets.
But last week ono nf them disclosed to
Captain Pratt a bad plot tbey bad in
view, to escape perhaps to do tome
thing worao and now White Horse, a
Kiowa chief and leador, ia In chains
and a dungeon and to are some of the
others.
"My ton," said an old man, "beware
of prejudices. Thoy art like rata, and
men's minds are like traps ; prejudices
get in easily, but it it doubtful if tbey
ever get out."
Two hundred and thirty thousand
cukio feet ot tbe best pine are used In
making the 20,000,0,000 matches pro
dnecd Tn the United State gnnnally.
SUGAR DSET8 A)tD JIEET
SUGAR.
Sugar laoxtuntively mado from boot
in France, and frequent at'.ompta have
boen made to lutroduco the culture of
boots for siitrsr in this country. It Is
found, however, that Inlior is so much
dearer hrre ts o itke away the profits.
Even in i'liitico bcetsuiii'cultiire wus
originalnl I v lliu flint Napoleon ata
time when l ranon was shut out from
the world's markets, ami compelled to
produce everything within Usulf. Un
der tbesu circumstances boot sugar
making was a success. After peace
was declared heavy duties almost
prohibitory in their nature were lev
ied on sugars imported into France,
and by these meant rathor than natu
ral profitableness of tbe operation beet
sugar manufacture has been maintain
ed. In this country we have the sugar-cane
and the sugar maple ; but our
tariff, though high enough to warrant
making of sugar from these, will not
allow tbe expenditure of largo sums
for tho more expensive manufacture of
bout sugar. As no ono wishes to bave
all sugar consumers taxed more heavi
ly by higher dutiea on that necessity,
it it probable that tugar making from
boots will cover become an important
American industry. At the natural
prices of sugar that is, without a tar
iff, boots are worth moro as food for
stock than to make into sugar. Still
tbe subjoct it an interosing one, and
we copy from tbe Massachusetts
J'touahman tho following interoaline
report of a conversation its editor had
a lew years ago with a Frenchman be
tween Cologne and Paris.
i in the vicinity ol Cologne there
wore immense fields of the sugar beet,
and It was about the time ot the bar
vest, when the roots were being pull
ed and taken in great cart loads to the
tugar foetorioa. We remarked that
"all the beets on those loads appear
to be about the tame size, and rather
small. Do they try to get them of
that sner Why don t they grow
them larger?" ' '
. A large tizod root contains lest tu
gar than a imallcr sized ono. That it
well aottlod both by our acicntiDo men
and by experience in the augar manu-
. . . . 1 1 1 . j . ,
lactones, idi win una ino sugar va
ries in beeta from 5 to 12 per cent,
and tbe larger varieties not only bave
loss sugar but usually contain more
water. It is well ascertained tbat tbe
usual average of sugar in the Silesian
beet and tho varieties cultivated for
the tugar is about ten per cent, but in
the other varieties, like the mangold,
the proportion it much less."
"Is the sugar as good at that from
tho sugar-cane, do you think?"
"It it precisely the same In qnality
if it is well made, and you will find it
every whore on the. tablo, for your cof
fee, aa rich and white aa tbe best lump
tugar from the cano."
"How ii it about tbo wasto 7 Is tho
whole of tbo sugar of the boot capable
of being erystalized ?"
"Avery particle, i lue process ot
manufacture it now to perfect that
thero need be no loss ; but practically
in making sugar in France a part of it
becomes molasses or syrup, which
duet not crystallize, so thai the actual
amount ot sugar it, perhaps, not more
than D or Ii pur cent, or about one
halt of tbe amount present in the root,
but the Other half becomes molasses in
tbe process ot tugar making, and ia
used as tucb. , . . ,
"You say , t he a mailer roots contain
more tugar. Don't the weather and
soil havo some Influence on that ?"
"Oh, yet the sugar is affected by a
great many circumstancos. Tbe tea
son, whether dry or wot, tbe kind of
manure used, the soil, the timt of har
vesting, and other things bave as much
influence, perhaps, at the use of tbe
roots and the variety. Vory strong
and forcing manures make a ranker
growth but tho percentage of augar
will be less. Saline manures generally
have to be used witb caution. Com
mon salt will promote a great growth,
but though useful in tmall quantities
it would lessen tho proportion of sugar
very much, if applied too largely.
And to forcing, ammonical manures
add to the proportion of water in tbe
root" , ,
Do thoy alwaya tako the roots di
rectly from the field lo the sugar
house?"
They generally do, There it moro
sugar in the fresh root You take a
root fresh in October, and you may
tind say a to 1U per cent ot sugar,
but let it lie until January, and you
will bare but 6 or 8 per cent., and if
it lies until rebruary it will contain,
probably not more than 4 or 5 per
cent at tho most I suppose tho su
gar changos into woody fiber in the
process of drying too much."
now ao tuoy make tne tugar r
"Tbo roots aro perfectly cleaned or
washed in a machine, water being used
without stint Then tbey go into a
simple cylindrical machine worked by
Bteain or water, where they are rasped
or irrated into a ported nuln. to pre
vent clogging a utile stream oi water
is made to trickle down ovor tbo rasper
when in operation. Then they put the
pulp Into bags and pile the bags up
under the press, each bag separated by
a porloruted plate Irom tho othors,
and put on the pressure, at first light,
lotting tho juiro run off, and gradually
increasing until the whole is extracted.
Tbo bags are tttkon out once or twice
in tho process and put in differently so
at to exposo all surfaces and corners
to the pressure: The details diffor
somewhat in different manufactories,
but they are in the main the tamo."
" What proportion of the juice can
they get out?"
"Tboy usually got not Air from 80
per cent of juice, and portions from
4 to 8 per cent may be left in tne pulp,
which now takes the form of a cake.
Then the juico it clarified, which is
usually effected by tbe addition of hy
drate of lime during tbe process of I
evaporation, lo evaporate me juice
to the point of crystallization it la put
Into largo pant heated by steam.
"How much lime it used to clarify
the juice?"
"It depondt a littlo upon the detrroe
of impurity in it, but ordinarily about
five or tlx parts ot lime will clarity It
perfectly. Tho impurities, consisting
of various substances, riaa to the sur
face in the form or scum and are re
moved. The hot juice is run through
animal charcoal and rendered quite
colorless. When, concentrated suffi
ciently, which ia known by its specific
f rarity, it la run into molds to cryttal
izo." " W hat becomes of tho refuse or cake.
after the juice ia pressed oat ?"
"That it broken np and given to
cattle. It it worth something for feed
ing and in mixture, or io connection
wilb other ubtlanoet posaeasot con
siderable nutritive properties."
" W bat it tbe ordinary yield of tugar
boots per acre ?".
"Not far from twelve tons, bnt it
varies considerably according to toil
and mode of enltlvatlon." i -'
TUB BEECUER- TILTOX SCAN-
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MR. FRANCIS D. MOULTON CALLS ON Til IE
BIT. HRNRT WARD BIRCH BR TO PORM
AH IMPARTIAL TRIBUBAL TO TRT TBI
QUianos.
Hinry Ward Bbicbir Sir : If it
were possible without adding to tba
agony with which conscience will fol
low yon on aooouut of your unfaithful
ness, fulse swearing, and adultery ; for
I bave not yet grown to selfish in Book
ing vindication for the wrongs you
hava done me and mine as to forgot
your past contrition, or to believe that
notwithstanding your wickedness you
do not suffer great sorrow ou account
of your crimes; but injustice to society
which you have outraged ; to myself,
whom you have wronged ; to my family,
whom you have vilified, I muat bring
forward an issue, it possible, to deter
mine whether you ought to be in tbe
pulpit or I ought to be in prison. ' It
is due to social order, the well being
of tbo community, and religion, which
It brought into eontempt, that you
should leave tho one or 1 go into the
othor. ......
Yon have made preli ncc, t-vr sine
callingtogvtherlho Invest igstii.g. Com
mittee of your church, that ou du
alized a fair and full investigation of I he
charges against you; and yet, know
ing your guilt, you availed yoursell ol
every expedient that your wily coun
sel could auggeat or your own ingenuity
devise to evado impartial inquiry and
suppress the facta.
At one ot the instruments ot lucn
evasion, to Injure my credit at a wit.
noss. vou procured bv vour own per
jury an iudictment against me for libel
upon yoursell, in a statement which
your counsel, Benjamin F. Tracy, In
your namo, begged mo to withhold
from the Investigating Committee, of
which ho was also counsel, and which
I only published io vindication of toy-
self tfom your false charges, afterward
maao to ino tame committee, l nis
indictmont too did not dare to prose
cute, but procured, through a willing
instrumont against my protest ana
reiteration of charge against you, to
be taken out or court oy a none pros
equi. To endeavor to bring tho' iaaue be
tween us to a competent tribunal, I
commenced a auit against you for mali
cious prosecution, wherein both the ques
tions of your adultery and porjury
must bo in issue before a jury ot your
countrymen. Again evading the in
vestigation ol tho facta before the only
tribunal known to tbe laws of your
country, you avoided tho trial by de
murring to my allegations, and admit
ting that if all I aaid of your adultery
and porjury were true, yet yoi wore
not bound to answer my complaint, be
cause of the eucceaa of your legal trick
in getting rid of the indictment which
you bad so falsely and maliciously ob
tained for your purpose of evasion.
You demurred to eludo investigation,
notwithstanding from your pulpit yon
declared your willingness and dosire to
be tried before a tribunal that could
compel witnesses, but not before foxes
and wolves, alluding to a -proposed
council of ministers. You were talk
ing then to an audience of your own
choice, and for effect Tbey thought
you brave, and cheered you to the
echo. Tbey believed you. - I did not,
and do not now : but I propose to hold
you, il I can, to your own declaration.
Boing now desirous only of submit
ting the issue between us to a compe
tent and impartial tribunal, and de
termined that you shall do to, or admit
your intention to avoid and ovade it, I
submit the following propositions :
I will to amend my complaint that
the issue shall be, if it it not so offered
now, tbat by your perjury you caused
me to be indicted for libel lor saying
tbat you were an adulterer, you then
well knowing that what I said wat
true.
Waiving all formalities, I will go to
trial upon tbia issue alone, and f will
agree that all witnesses shall be beard,
without technical objection, who know
anything of any tact tending to prove
tbat issue, either of their own knowl
edge or by the gtatement ot either
party concerned in tho double crime,
or any other testimony the tribunal
before which tho trial it had shall
choose to hear.
' At I do not deal re to get any money
from you by my suit, which would
porhapt be paid from the fundi oi the
church, which ought to be devoted to
a bolter uao than indemnifying you
against theoonBequeneet of your crime,
1 will ask no damages whatever, tave
the nominal turn of ono dollar, if the
issue is found in my favor.
I will submit this iaaue to a jury
summoned in the ordinary modo, but
if you say it would be impossibb to
gotan unprejudiced and intelligent jury
in the ostial way, I will consent that
ex-President Wooltoy, of Yale College,
shall select the jury, or I will leave ill
selection to Geo. C. Robinson of Brook
lyn, who was elected deacon of Ply
mouth Church by acclamation, and
whom you declared on oath on tbe
witness stand to be "one of tbe excel
lent ot the earth," or to any man those
gentlemen can agree upon.
If neither of those propositions is
satisfactory to yon, I will name a man
and you can anothor, and they two
shall agree upon a third to act at rot
oree under a rule of the court
If those offers are objected toby
you, I am willing tbat Thomas it.
Sborman and your brother Edward
Boochor, thall select tix mon, and I
will name two mon to select tix others,
neither yon nor I, nor our representa
tives, to object to the men so chosen,
and the verdict ot tbe majority to be
peopled by us at the final decision of
the case.
I think my propositions are not open
to any moral objection, and I challenge
you onoe more to a trial that will set
tle the qnostion whether you ought to
be in the pulpit or I in tho penitentiary.
You need not ask why 1 do not go
before tbe commission contrived by
your partisans in and out of the Ad
visory Council. The issue now ia, did
you commit perjury, or diti. 1 and my
wife commit perjury at the trial in the
City Court ? I aad 'those doaroat to
me havo as deep an interest in tho
proper decision ot that question as you
have. If my picked friends were to
institute a tribunal to decide it, you
would properly distrust It impartiality
and refute to go before it i our pick,
od frionds have instituted such a tri
bunal, and I at properly distrust it
Impartiality and decline it judgment
The apider't parlor doe not look in
viting to tht fly. If college profossort
and doctors of divinity do not tee tb
validity ot my distrust, tho aane and
fair mon who love justice and took for
the tmth do aeo it Some fair and just
mon fail to tee why innocence tbould
shrink from the established modes of
judicial inquiry, and should fly for
refuge to arttully-dovised molhods in
which candid men have no confidence.
Francis D. Moolton.
Brookltn, Ajiri25, 1876.
Max a Biqinnino. Uow many a
poor, idlo, hesitating, erring outcast it
now creeping, bit way tnrongh the
world, who might bave held up hit
head and p roan red, il, instead ot put
ting off his resolutions of amendment
and industry, ha had made a beginning.
A beginning, and a good beginning,
too, it necessary. Tbe tint weed pulled
up in the garden, the first time a manly
"I will" is said, the first aeed put in
tb ground, tb first pound put in the
savings' bank, and lb first milt trav
eled in journey, are all very import
ant things. They make a beginning
and thereby hope, a promise, aa Ba
sil ranc ia bold out tbat you aro in
earnest in wbat you bar undertaken.
1 Dandies and nanny-goat never fell
to pride them sel ret on their kid.