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FOB
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A clean towel for avery oup toner.
Alio dealer ia
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JAMES H. TURNER,
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neeeatary blank for mi under tht Pen, cm aad
Bonnty lawa, ai well aa blank Cecili, etc. AH
legal anattera entraated to bia eare will recelvt
prompt attentioa. May Tth, IBTV-tf.
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M FACTO B SB ARB BBALBB IH
Harness, Bridles Saddles, Collar, and
JJorse-Furnishing Goods.
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Uomtia, Ao., alwaya an hand anrt for eala at the
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HEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
4TPumpa always qi, hand and aiado to order
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aaiweea ibird ana roarto.
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THOMAS H. FORCEE,
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Timber aad ttawed Lumber of all klnda.
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ailed. Ijyf 1
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u
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wltb a fall eepply af perfeotly para Bad
lrs.ll trars, Idedletaee, Cbrmleels aad Totlal
Amelee. Tbeea ttratrs baea baasi ..laeiad wlih
(reel sere aad are gaaraalaMl ia be aarfootly
pera aad reliable. I wul teaaiy araoa.l attea.
tiiia be tbU aopartaeesat, oad will abMrfall, aire
aay ad.iea aaa latemeiiea ta reward ba medteiaea
bee af akaria. BR. V J. BUVKB.
Claariala. Pa, tea. 1, Ilee-it
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THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW,
BT ALI.KH W. kOafUKRAXa.
Another year baa baa gone b?unj rticall;
Loat in tbe great ooan of the iaat ;
Aa from lha skr (ha tint now-flakea fall
Aad dliappoar 1b depth of ooeaa vast.
Another page In tlie great book of life
We'te written In tbe fear that bow la gone;
Tbera ii oar reeord ia the dallj at rife.
Our Uiurei aianr, our trinu.hs woo.
We turn In aorruw from the aln-itainej pae
To look upon an uf bar pge dtirrit(en yet ;
With h ii b rnolve we nil r.ur fj'jwsra rngagv
T write a reeord we will not rrgret.
W e'll writ a pi'irer ani (llrloar oree 1
Mnre lo?e t" Him on high aad all below
We'll writ oar better tnmicbt tod nobler deed,
Aa tltoNew Voir aguUeo raoomntiouuie and go,
And thankful for tbe mrrolee of the pat,
Trutiing fur what the future hat in itore ;
Thus wa will gather treaaura that will lait
When to ourlirea tlie. New Year oornen no more.
i'BBFiKLD. I'a. Januarl lit, last.
THE TERRIBLE YEAR AT
UAXD.
THE END OF THE WORLD TO COME IN
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EKIHTT
ONE MOTHER BniPTON'S
I'ROI'nECr 05IEN8 AND
EXPLANATION" OF
THEIR FALLACV.
Tb. world to an end shell eome
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Molhae Skiptom'l J'topktcj.
It would bo diflicull to duKcribo all
llio BiniHtcr predictions that have, aa
by common ixmn-nt, bucDoonounlritluii
uiion tbu cominir yi'ur. Tliu sooth-
auyora, diviners, orttclu mskon., antrol
ourii, and wirards autm to bavt) com
bined lticuHtiiit;irttoilUun it. super-
stiuous peoplool t'Viiy norl, and some
who are not willini'io admit I hut they
are aupurnlilinus regard the year 1881
witb more or Iuhn anxious expuctalion
and dread. Aa tho eanb, on Sew
V car's Day, swung out into another
round about the aun, it went to moot
a bout ol'evd omens. It will go cursed
by tbeomaucy and hiblioniauey. Aoro
niaoey and ineleoroinancy will glare
at it from comuu ufid shooting slurs.
Oneiroumncy will intereupt its path
with visions tl evil and noinaney will
shake the ominous, backward-reading
nuiueruls '1881' beloru it. U will be
btaet with scare irow (inures by arith
muney, and with menacing phrases by
alk'homancy. Yet there is no reason
why persons ot good digestion did
not go to sleep on New Year's night
confident that, alter having encounter
ed the average quuiility ol storm and
sunsbine, the one horse bull that we
call the world will bring them sale
through the perils ol its hvo hundred
million mile flight round to the start
ing point again.
THE 0II17.KII MARVEL.
Timid persons fust began to look
forward with some tilurni to the yeur
that is about to open, when, several
yeuiB ago, the key to llio somewhat
prophetic symbolism of tbe (ileal
Pyiumid ot Jypt was made public,
bucked by the name and reputation of
the British asirunomer, l'iuAa iSluj tb.
Others, using ilr. Smylb'sobservations
and measurements, have gone much
lurtber than he did in drawing start
ling iulerunces ; but no one can read
his book'wilboul perceiving bow pow
erfully it mtiBt allecl those who buve
the slightest leaning towards supersti
tion or cteiluliiy. besides, this rucord
of explorations and experiences in the
heart ot gypl s greatest marvel has
all tho charm and interest of Dr.
Schliemann's description! ot his dis
coveries in Homer's Troy. Such a
book cuuld not well bo neglected by
the world of readers ; and, by the na
ture of the human mind, many of its
readers woro sure to bo imbued with
its ominous dogmas. So tho belief, or
at least tho suspicion, spread that tho
secret chambers ot the Ureal 1'yramid,
under Divine guidance bore tho most
mystical character in all history. Mel
chisedek, King of Salem, foretold,
among uther things, thai the Christian
era would end in 1881.
MOTH Ed S1I1PTON.
In Bpito of our belongings and our
contempt, and .because this is tho
year of 1881, llio majority ot news
papers published in the r.nghsh
language have lelt that their read
ers had a right to see some por
tion of Mother Shiplon's prophecy,
and buve given it to them generously.
indeed, so many various scraps ol
this precious document havo been
printed at one time and another that
it ono should put them together it
would take almost as many years as
Mother Shipton lived in order to read
them ; and we cannot help thinking
that ingenious penny a-lincrs havo sup
plied versiclesto the good dame to help
her out, with a nolilu disregard ol au
thenticity, and a discreet knowledge
that tour hundred years and over are
likely to render anything of a legend
ary character more or less corrupt and
incorrect uny way.
It is a curious document, this old
lady's prophecy, lint sinceone of the
features lulled to f i a 1 tall in the year 1828
she having deelured, it is said, thai
London stieets should be deluged in
blood when the dragonof llow church
and tho grasshopper ol the Uoyal Ex
change should meet, which event hap
pened, without the expected result, at
a time when both ol these vanes lay
together in a stono mason's yard
wailing repairs sinco that timo peo
ple have not expected so much ol
Mother Shipton as they onco did.
"Around lha world tnouphts shall fly
In tbe IwiobliBi of sn eyo
Water eb.ll y.t more wonders de,
Mow .trengo, It .ball be true."
runs ono ot the quutniins in a copy
that may be as doubllul as all thereat,
propbes) ing alter the laul.
'Throuia Iba bills seen sball ride,
Ana bo borea or as. be at bte slriei
tlid.r walare men sball walk,
bbali ride, sball sleep, sball talk,"
runs another; and although alio skips
tho telephone and the phonograph and
the pbutopbone, she winds up with
something having rather a special in
terest to our owu gouoralion :
' Fire aad water eb.ll woadars de,
K.(land sball adasil a Jew
Aad il. world ta aa eod shell eume
la elfhlooa hundred and eiabty.ooe.
As England has, with considerable
emphasis, and moro than once, accept
ed tho remarkable tun ol old Isaac
Disraeli lor her 1'rime Minister, this
baa been taken as a tiillilluiont ot the
prophecy. So Lord lieac onliold's dra
matic personality ia made a principal
figure in tht murky cloud of evil
prophocy that bangs over 1881.
' riRIIIELIA. ' '
As if tho evil eye ol Mother Shipton,
and the mystical menace ol tho Ureal
1'yramid, were not enough for one
poor twelve-month bear, lha "horrors
of the perihelia" have been denounced
uHn the coming year. About two
years ago certain pamphlets were cir
eulated about tba country purporting
10 Da written by men ol euionuej, aud
predicting that awlul consequence to
mankind would result Irom all tbe
great planets reaching Ibeir perihelia,
or ncareet point to the aun, together.
According to thee prophet the sinis
CLEARFIELD,
ter effects of the perihelia were to bo
gin making their appearanco this Full,
whon Jupiter passed his perihelion,
and noxt year the scythe of death was
to bo nut to the harvest in the lar east.
and toswoep westward, with a swathe
as broad as the continenls, until it
reached the Pacific Ocean. Tho nar
row Atlantic, was to be no more than
a brooklet in tho path of this terrible
harvester. Plagues, famines,, pesti
lences, fire, earthquakes, floods, and
tornadoes wore to scourge tho human
race until only a Tew remained, like
Noah and his family, to repooplu the
earth with a sturdier and more Uod
fearing race.
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.
So much alarm was caused by this
bocus-pocus of pretended science and
propheev. i hat somo i cul m.m nfscienco
-Mr. Proctor amonffothors were at
tho pains to show that so far as these
predictions professed to rest upon
Hcieimtio facts they were baseless.
Tho great pianola will not bo in peri
helion together at any timo. It is true
lliul several ot tho chief planets wi
reach their perihelion within a few
years, and that is rare tor them to bo
grouped so closo together as they will
be at onetime this j car. It is also
true that remarkable coincidences have
been observed between the existence
of great storms on the sun, that pro
(luce oloctrical disturbances and psssiblo
meteorological changes upon theeut lb,
and tho presence of Jupiter near his
potibelion. Astronomers have also
suspected that the iufluenco of some
ot the other great planets upon the
earth can be perceived, but they bttve
never discovered any reason to believe
that tno combined lorco ot all the
planets could, under any csj-'iimstancos,
produce upon the earth a thousandth
purl of the evil elFoct ascribed to them
by the ostrologors, if indeed they pro-
duco any evil effect whatever.
ASTllOLOOY.
Slill tho astrologicul almanacs for
ibis year are repeating subslnntiully
the samo predictions ot evil things to
negin, it not to culminate, in 1881.
llecause, as they suy, the tuvuges ol
Black Death in Ihcmiddloiigcstullowcd
llio nearly coincident perihelia of four
greul planets, they predict similar con
scquuhucs trout llio configuration of
llio planets now. But neither in their
premised nor tbeir inferences does
science recognize any validity.
lu trulh, however, tbe astrologers,
not less than the astronomers and all
star gazers, will have plenty of pho
nomina in the heavens to occupy their
attention lor tho next twelve months.
The sky will not present such brilliant
pageants again this century. There
will bo a remarkable series of conjuuc
lions, and double and triple conju na
tions. The most interesting ol the
greul twenty-year conjunction of J n pi
ter haturn in April, ibis conjunction
is one of tho strongholds of the astrolo
gers. As it occurs in the ring Taurus,
which they say rules Turkey and Ire-
laud, lliejr it-l eeklv, on suunt rrt' fo-
cent occurrences, in predicting very
momontous effects in thoso countries
from tho conjunction. Thcro will also
he conjunctions of Jupiter and Murs,
Venus aqd Jupilor, Saturn and Venus,
and the far-away giants Uranus and
Neptune will play a part in this ro
markable planetary levco.
Venus will reach her greatest bright
ness in tbe Spring, and will be so hril
limit as to be visible at noonduy. Ilur
delicate crescent will be a favoriio ob
ject in tho amateur astronomer's tele
scope Saturn will open still wider in
its wonderful rings, and will bo one of
tho chief attractions of the evening
sky for several months. Jupiter will
not loso much of his prosent brilliancy
beloro he becomes a morning star in
April. Mara will begin to brighten in
tho latter part of tho year, and then
his snowy poles and shadowy conti
nenla will again becomo tbo admira
tion of those who gazo through tclo
scopes. In short, there will be no end
of attraction in tbe starry heavens, and
all tbe prognostications of tbo sooth
sayers will not bo ablo to darkon the
sky of 1881.
WnATHIIALL WEDRl.XKt
The editor of tbo Science discusses
at length tho valua ot the different
articles of food which generally enter
into daily consumption. Chocolate,
ho says, Irom ita largo proportion of
albumen, is the most nulrittvo bever
age, but at tho sumo timo, from it
quantity ot tat, lha most diflicull to
digest. It aromatic substances, how
ever, strengthen the digestion. A cup
of chocolate is an excellent resoralivo
and invigorative oven for weak per
sons, provided their digestive organs
aro not too delicate. Cardinal Ilicho
lieu attributed to chocolate his health
and hilarity during bis later years.
Tea and cotree do not u fiord this ad
vantage. Albumen in tea leaves, and
legumin in Coffee berries, aro repre
seated in very scanty proportions.
Tbo praise of lea and coffee as nutri
livo auhslunces is, therefore, hardly
warranted. Tea and coffee, though o
themselves not difficult ot digestion,
lend to distuib the digestion of albu
minous substancos by precipiiulmg
them from Ibeir dissolved state. Milk,
thorefoie, il mixed with tea or coffee,
is more difficult of digeslion than il
taken alone, and coffee alono without
cream promotes digestion ufler dinner
by increasing ol llio dissolving juices.
Tho volatile oil of coffee and the tin
pyreumulic and aromatic mailers ol
chocolato accelerate tho citculution,
which, on tbo oilier hand is claimed
by tea. Tea and coffee both excite
the activity of the brain and nerves.
Tea, il is said, increase! tbo pover of
digesting tho impressions wo havo re
ceived, c rentes a thorough meditation,
and, in spito ol tho movements of
thoughts, permits tho attention to he
fixed on a certain subject On tho
other band, il tea is takeu in excess, it
causes an increased irritability ol the
nerves, characterized by sleeplessness,
with a general feeling ol restlessness
and trembling of the limbs. Coffee,
also, il taken in excess, produces sleep
lessness and many banef ul effects very
similar to those arising from lea-
drinking. Colfeu, however, produces
greater oxnitoment, and a sensation ol
restlessness and heat onsues. For
throwing off this oondition fresh air is
tho host antidote.
A Californian who had failed in a
lawsuit brought to obtain a divorco
Irom his wile chanced to read that
the tireek poet Anacreon was choked
to death by a grapo seod. Transport
ed by the thought thus auggesled to
bim, be broke out in exclamation :
"ByJovol l know what I'll do. I'll
buy a vineyard."
a -aw i m
"And how does Charlie like going to
school I " kindly Inquired a good man
of a little six year old boy. "I like to
go well 'nougb," roplied the boy in
genuously, "but 1 don't iika laying
alter 1 get there."
'9 & i
PRINCIPLE, NOT MEN.
PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19,
"ALL'S WEI THAT ENDS
IV.LL."
At tho form'Ain ot Khakcspoaro's
"All's Well Tht Ends Well" lies Boo
caccio's story I "tidella at Narbona."
The English fot may or may not havo
understood Lilian and studied bis
llionio in its riginal language ; it is
probable that o availed himself of tho
translation bj William Painter con
tained in his Palace of Pleasuro," a
collection of )manccs published in
1575. Tho mm incidents of the nov
elette reappear t tho play, now char
acters being aaed by the dramatist.
Gillotta becomellelena, and Beltramo
is anglicized inti Bertram the Count
ess, Parolles, anctho Clown havo no
existence in tho taliun story, and of
course the moro unio scenes ol tho
play, in whiclAK"roll"o Rom-ialty
ligures, are .-otTe etilribiiu-d to
Shakesnua. Upol tho story of
Udells of Nurbons, it may bo notod,
was also foundod " Viirinia," 0ne of tho
oldest of Italian cuuidics, written by
liurnado Accoltl, and printed in l.ilj
"All's Well That liuh Well" was first
printed in the first fUio eolloclion of
Shukospouro's plafs, 11)21. It has
been judged howovjr thai "All's Well
That Ends Well" umo into existence
some five and tweny ycuis before that
dato, and was realh tbe ctmedy which
Francis Mores, in lis littlt book called
"Paladis Tamia," published in 15'J8,
relerrcd to under tno till ol "Love's
Labors Won," no other ,)lay bearing
that name, having boon discovered,
while, as Mulono Las urgid, no other
piny could bavo boino thatnamo with
so much propriety as "All's Well That
Ends Well." Coleridge is tf the same
opinion, describing tho plaj as "origi
nally intended as ilio coutturpart of
'Love's Labors Liui,' " Dunaiiiis the
name of ono of tho Lord's Attending
upon tho King of XaVarre il "Love's
Labors Lost," and two Dumiuns,
French Captains serving in (he Flor
entine wur, appear in "All's Well That
Ends Well ;" otherwise the pltys can
hardly bo said to resemble each other,
or can bo only cotihidered as compan
ions with little corrtsponttencebetweon
them. That the comedy has come
down to us in a cotrected and altered
form has been oft el maintained. "No
intelligent poison'declnres Mr. Furni
vull, "can read the play without being
struck by the contrast of early and
late woiu in it. the anil tormiihly ol
tbe rhymed I ti Iked between Helena
and the King is due, not to etiquette,
but to Shakespeare a curly time; so
also the end of llio play," Ac All the
) cur Hound.
HOW FOOD IS A D UL TERA TED.
There has been so much loose talk
about tbe adulterations of food, thai it
is important to find out what aro tho
exact facts regarding them. If tbe
general statements of some of the
alarmists who havo written on the
subject have a correct basis of fuel on
which tn . -hi..;
praclicod to so great an extont and is
of such a character that what we cat
and drink is alwars liable to contain
poison.
1 uo rialional lioara ot irauo has
lately awarded prizes for essays on the
adulteration of lood and drink, and lor
d raits ol laws for it prevention. Tho
essay of Mr. O. W. Winger, ol London,
received the first prize, and it is cer
tainly a very clear, practical, and ex
haustive discussion ot tho subject.
From thut essay, and also from tho
essays winch took tho second and
third prizes ollereil, we will make up
a summary of tho facia.
llio public will be relieved when
they boar that there is no satisfactory
evidence presented to show that dan
gerous adulterations arc at all common
among ns. There in plenty of adul-
leratioD, beyond a question ; but It is
almost universally ot a sort rather to
defraud tho purchaser than to injure
tbe health and imperil the life of the
consumer. Tbe article sold is not
wholly what il is represented to bo,
but the substances introduced into il,
or mixed with it to cheapen its manu
facture or to give moro attractiveness
to its appearance, aro usually innoxious.
When the London Lanctt, twenty
years ago, undertook a thorough anal
ysis of lood and drugs to detect adul
teration, it found that about C5 per
cent, ot tho samples examined vfuro
sophisticated. Somo of them, as, for
instance, tbo mixture of flour with
mustard, wore although harmless, and,
indeed, demunded by the taste ot the
public ; and tho most serious of tho
others have sinco that day fallen into
disuse, lea was then almost univer
sally adtiltuiated ; the practice has en
tirely ceusod since that lime. Alum
wub commonly found in bread ; now it
ia very seldom used in bread muking.
1'ickles were invariably contaminated
with copper; now thai adulteration is
very rurc.
The watering of milk, ol course,
goes on slill; but both hero and in
Englund effective measures for lessen
ing the extent ol the fraud have been
introduced, imitation butter is sold
in great quantities ; but oleoinargerinu
is not injurious to health, nnd the only
necessity With regard tn it, so far as
the laws aro concerned, is to compel
Us sale for what it actually is; to pre
vent its being palmed off on purchasers
aa geiiutno Duller.
Wines and spirits show a larger
proportion ot adulteration, but gener
ally this has bciti simply dilution with
water. A good wine iu watered, an
interior is mixed with a superior qual
ity, and then toned to the color and
flavor of tho best by the addition of
loroigu substances, such as burnt sugar
and tannin. Molasses, water, and aall
aro put in porter and stout; glycerine
ia mixed with beer, and various sub.
stances are added to liquors and wines ;
but they aro almost invariably of a
sort to justify tho conclusion reached
in 1873 by a Committee of lha English
House ol Commons that "in the nia'ttir
ol adulteration, the public werecheated
rather than poisoned." Sugar ia adul
luralod with glucose; butler and cheese
aro colored with annotto; spices are
mixed with various foreign substances
and chickory, burnt augur, and roasted
peas aro put in coffee; hut people can
eat tbein all without danger to life,
and generally without direct danger
to health. Poisonous coloring mallets
are somolimes used in conleclionery,
but even such cases are rare,
Mr. Winger has been ablo to find
only about twoniy or thirty caaos In
England during the last five year in
which it would have been lust to proa-
ecu to a vender under tho more aerioua
charge of selling articles injurious In
the health, except only the cases nt
somo expensive drugs and tbe lew
case ol milk Irom diseased cows.
And yet "m arly or quito oso sixth ol
the food sold is adultorated so as to
cheat the consumer pocket."
In the matter ol drugs, however,
the adulterations are more alarming.
Aa wa bar befora pointed out, It Ia of
prime Importance that tba physician
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1881.
should be ublo to rely upon a drug not
only as pure, but also us of standard
strength. Any deviation in strength,
quality, or purity from the standard
sot down in the pharmacopoeia, which
seriously affect the medicinal or cur
ative effects of the drug, is dangerous,
and should be mudo severely punisha
ble. Thcro is also a kind of adultoration
ol food and drink which is fortunately
uncommon, porhaps, but which is so
dangerous when it does occur, thut
legislation must provide heavy penal
ties for its suppression. Tho use t
occulus indicus in "beer, tho contami
nation ol tinnod goods with lead or
ethor poisonous metals, and poisonous
coloring of conleclionery, are examples
ol such adulteration. And in the case
of drugs we have children's powders
or aluopinaj dratuarhto wonta-tningr. poi
sonous doBcB of opi ii in or other narcotics.
Wo must, thorelore, treat adultera
tion, first, as a means of cheating; and
second, as deleterious to health, mak
ing tho penalty in tho second case, of
course, much heavier than in tho first.
Xew York Sun.
ABOUT HOME.
Tho Herald says that tbo Kov. Dob
ert Collyer delivered a lecture on tho
10th in Chickoring Hall, beloro the
Young Men's Hebrew Association, on
"Something About Home." During his
discourso tho reverend lecturer said :
"If preachers over exhaust tbe Bible
so that they must find a new store ot
texts to preach from 1 think this is sure
to bo ono of thorn, 'There is no place
liko homo.' It may bo but a butter
sort of prison or bouse of bondugo or a
more meeting houso, with short inter
vuls between the long services, but it
is home. Mr. Mill had a ruthless way
with his boy, John Stuart Mill. lie
would maku a great man of bim. He
made the man, but ho lost tho child,
because ho let him havo no real child,
hood. Tho condemnation, which is
never quite uttered, but it is alwavs
felt in the siory of a great man's life,
is tn me liko tho resentment ot a soul
robbed of its birthright to all the joy
there is in tho mourning world It is
tho same thing again, in a less noble
way, wilb Charles Dickons. The boy
was robbed of bis childhood, as il
seems, through the general worthless
ncss of his father. There is not a man
or woman in tbo world from whom 1
may not sooner hope to got a favora
ble verdict than from thoso boys and
girls of mine, if for any roaMin-under
tho stars I filch from thorn this ono
gift a homo. They may stand on tho
crest lino of forty years and say in
their hearts, 'My father wronged me ;
ho robbed mo of all that was best in
tho best days I shall ever see. 1 bail
no real homo.' A man or woman may
have to face bard work and pinching
times, but then wu can all face them
together and koop good cheer in the
simple things that cost nothing and
cannot ho bought with irold. The m.k
nig ol many a man has lain in the seem
ing failure of bis poor striving father.
YY ealln ana ease, it we are not wise,
may prove to bo anything but to our
advantage."
Ibe lecturer concluded by rolemng
to tho defective systems ol cducutiou
obsorved in tbo homesof many children.
1 heir parents, bo said, gave them no
room for expansion of thought. What
tho fatbor and mother were, the chil
dron should be also ; they should play,
eat and pass tbeir youthful days alter
the stereotyped lushion ot their ances
tors, in a way which must bo mani
festly injurious to the risinggoueralion,
and ono which cannot always leave
the most pleasant impressions in tho
minds ol children treated in this injudi
cious way.
THE CZAR AND JUS FAMILY.
Paris Dl.pateu ta the London Telegraph
Some further detuils respecting the
morganatic marriage of the Emperor
nl iiussia are published In the Figaro.
1 bo ceremony came off last Summer
at tbe Castle ol Tsarkoe Solo during
llio manoeuvres at tbo hrasnoi camp.
Tho witnesses were Count Alexander
Adlerberg, Minister ol the Court; (Jen.
Kyteef, ono of the Czar' Aides do-
Camp, and an intimato friend of his
Majesty, Count Milutine, .Minister ol
V ar, and Uenura! lions .Mchkolt, now
Ministorof tbe Interior. There is, it
appears, no truth in the report that the
Czar askod bis uncle, tbe Emperor
William, to grant the 1'rincess Dolgo
rouki a high title. Tho second wile is
styled tho Princess Yotiiicff, one ol the
titles bolonging to the Komanolts. Al
first, aa is well known, tho marriage
was not woll rocuived by tho different
members of the imperial family, somo
ol whom tho CzurewiU'h, for exam.
pie spent the Summer at the baths of
llupsal, while others, as llio lualid
Dukos Coustuntino and Vladimir, came
to Franco. -But, little by little, a spirit
of conciliation has gained tho upper
band, thanks in a great measure, ac
cording to Fiijarn, to lha initiative of
the Duchess ol Edinburg. The aamo
change is noticeublo 'among the other
classes ot liussian society. At first tho
marnago was only alluded to with the
utmost reservo in tho higher circles,
while now it is openly mcntiorod even
among tho people. There has even
been a rumor at SI. Petersburg that it
was to bo officially announced ero long,
and it is again reported that the Czar
will resign a portion of his duties to
bis oldest son at the Now Tear.
To be Carried in Your Pocket.
Keep good company or none. Never
ho idle, if your hand cannot bo uso
fully employed, attend to tbo cultiva
tion of your mind. Always speak the
truth. Mako few promises. Live np
to your engagements. Keep your own
secrets, if you have any. W lion you
spoak to a person, look bun in the lace.
Good comsny and good conversation
aro lha very sinews of virluo. Good
character is above all things else.
Your character cannot bo essentially
injurod, except by your own acta. If
any one speaks evil of you, lot your
lilo bo such that no one will believe
bim. Drink no kind of intoxicating
liquors. Ever live (misfortune exoep
ted) within your income. When you
retire to bed, think over what yon
have boon doing during tho day. Make
no haste to be nob, it you would proa
per. Small and steady gains give com-
petoncy, with tranquility ol mind.
Nover play at any came of chance.
Avoid temptation, though yon fear
yon may not withstand it. Earn money
before you spend it. Nover run into
debt unlosa you can see your way. to
gel out ol It. IN over borrow II yon
can possibly avoid it. Do not marry
unlit you aro able to support a wile.
Never speak ovil of any one. Be just
before you aro genorouo. Keep your
sell innocent it you would be happy.
Save when you ara young, that you
may spend when you ara old. Head
over the above maxima at least onoe a
woek Exchange
NEW
CORN FOR FUEL.
AHAIII THE "LAST ItESonT" IN THE WOOD
LESS NORTH W EST FACTS ABOUT
ITS I'SE.
There aro localities in tho West and
Northwest whore scarcity ol Inol has
forced poonlo to burn corn again this
Winter. The frequont recurrence of
the fuel famine in Ihoso places leads a
correspondent of tho St. Louis Pioneer
I'rcst to suggest what lie calls a prac
tical solution ot the problem. Coal
cannot bo found, and tho use of wood
will soon exhaust, the available supply
of thut article; corn is the only sub
stitute, and must be tho fuel of tbo fut
ure. For stoves it Is snporior to any
othor substanco, hard coal alone ex
cepted, and it is choaper than anything
that is likely to be used as fuel. Two
or ihreewaurow of uoiu evill wtitjjj
ordinary family a year's supply for
fuel; and this writer alleges that tho
samo corn sold in the market, and the
proceeds turnod into wood or coal, will
not begin to do it. Of course, be
sneuks of tho fur Northern prairies.
Corn may bo used in either a wood or
coal stove without anychango cf grates,
and mako a steady, hot fire, which can
bo regulated as readily as a coal fire.
Two bushels of corn in tho ear, it is
estimated, will koop a comfortablo fire
tho coldest day. liegarding tho
squoamisbnosB about burning an arti
cle that is used for food, ttie writer
says pointed!': "1 would sooner have
an acre of corn that can bo replaced in
a single year, than to burn an aero of
timber that takes years to replace,
ovon on the score of sentimont." l'hcro
is common sense in this. If it is
cheaper for people on fertilo prairies to
raise their fuel as they do their food,
and give what little timber they have
for othor purposes, scuiimenlulsqueam.
ishncss should not deter them from do
ing so. Moro cooked food is daily
thrown away than would feed the
hungry poor, and it is done without
compunction. While thcro can be no
excuse for this wastefulness, there is
good reasons for burning corn, when il
is of more value as fuel than tho pro
coeds would be il used in the purchase
ol wood or coal.
S UN L 10 JIT.
Tho sun, if you will only open your
house to bim, is a faithful physician,
who will bo pretty constant in al tend
ance, and who will send iu no bills.
Many years ago glass was something
of a luxury, but now we can all have
good sized windows.and plenty of them,
at moderate cost, and there is no ex
cuse for making mure loopholes, through
which the aun cast but halt an eye, aud
from which one can guin only narrow
glimpses of tho beatifiil outer world.
If buy windows aro too expensive, a
very dosirablo substitute can bo had by
placing two ordinary sized windows
sido by eido with a wide capacious
lodge at tno bottom lor seats or lor
plant. A room with a window like
tins cannot fail to ha cheery, and us
effect in a aimplo cottage houso is quito
sumptuous. There is likeu iso in its
favor tbe tact that it is loss exposed
than the deop bay window to outer
heat and cold.
In a kitchen or in a child's bedroom,
or in an attio where the walls are low,
two half windows set sido by sido and
made to slide or to open on hinges,
admit a broad, generous light, and give
an apartment a pretty and pleasing
rustic air.
Lot tho builder endeavor to have all
rooms In daily uso, especially bedrooms
and sitting rooms, well lighted by the
sun. "To sleep on unsunned beds in
unsunned chambers, and to work day
altor day in unsunned rooms, is the
unrcpenled sin ol ball tho nation, vig
orously affirms a prominent writer.
But Hub should not bo said ol that part
of the nation living in tbe oountry tar
Irom those towering brick walla whose
steps take hold on basoment kitchens,
and in whoso depressing shadows many
lives must necessarily be spent. In
the country, with a whole sky to draw
from, let there be light I 1 f any rooms
in the bouse must iouk solely to tho
north lor illumination, let them be tho
parlor and tho spare chamber. People
who come and go can bo cnuertul lor a
while in a north-windowed apartment,
hut tho constant dwellers in a houso
need its sunniest rooms. Farm Hornet.
WINTER II UTTER.
How difficult it is to got good win
ter mudo butter. Ollon 1 know by
the taste just where tbo difficulty lies.
Butter makers sometimes let the cream
stand too long beloro skimming, and
one can hardly believe, from the tasle,
that their butler is really Ircsh. Somo
times a butter flavor comes from lack
ot care in keeping the rising cream
undisturbed. The puns aru dipped
into, and in skimming for butter the
second rising over a part of the pan,
which has a somewhat bitter navor,
goes in with the heller cream, and
spoils tho laslo of the whole. Then
the cream may bo Kepi in tuo lar too
long beloro churning, while the bultor
maker waits lor enough cream lo ac
cumulate to mako it worth while to
churn. It would be belter in this caso
to bring lha butter by stirring it in
tho jar with a ludlo or pudding slick,
if enough cream cannot be gathered
within a woek (at longest in cold
weather) to fill llio churn ao as to work
il woll. In this caso, skim the cream
off very slowly, or fiee from milk,
and if yon stir each skimming in with
the others as you put it in tbo larithis
should always bo done), and then warm
tho cream moderately beloro churning,
it is no difficult task to bring the butter
by stirring. 1 have eaten excellent
butler mado in hub way. Hume per
sons never mako good butter in winter,
because ihoy keep their milk among
bad od rs, aa in a cellar with turnips
and other vegetable. Correspondent
in American Ajriculturitt.
STORMs'lNAEHRASKA.
One of the faults of the climalo, saya
a Nebraska loiter, is the .terrible
alorins, tbeir frequency at certain
times, and their suddenness. Ul these
storms there are two kinds tho wind
Btorin and the dust storm. Which is
worst is hard to lull, A most unpleas
ant peculiarity of tho storm is il ap
pearance on the very shortest notice.
Vcnnor, who is considered by some as
a tolerable good weather prophet in
the East, would be lost here. Some
limoa when there are all the indica
tions of an approaching storm, there
is no storm, and vice versa when the
air is clear and pleasant, a storm may
conio scudding along in twenty min
utes. The wind are often Tory se
vere and are very baneful. They some
time blow for week at a time. The
common tree hero are the Cottonwood
and box older. Many of these are
blown to shreds by the wind, such is
it force, and the sollne of the fibre
of lbs wood. Olten tba wind blow
so briskly that one can scarcely keep
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his footing in the street, and if a grocer
or dry goods merchant chances to
leivo boxes or casks out ol doors be
baa the pleasuro of seoingthom blown
down tho street, and vory likely if his
signboard is loose it will follow after.
No wonder that runaways are frequent
in Lincoln. Tbo soil is vory porous,
and it takes but a few hours to reduce i
a mudpnddlo to a heap of dust, anil
then if the wind blows yon have what
is known here as dust storm. Tho
streets are not paved and the wind has
full sweep. The air is tilled with dust
at these times, and life is but a burden,
and this lasts often for weeks. J t is
impossible to keep clean.
WHAT VOICES INDICATE.
There aro light, quick, surface voices
that involuntarily seem to titter tho
slang, "I won t no ur ti to. rue
man's 'words may assure you of his
strength of purpose and reliability, yet
bis tone contradicts bis speech.
Thcro are low, deep, Blrong voices,
whore the words seem ground out, as
if tbe man owed humanity a grudge,
and meant to pay it some day. That
mun's opponents may well tremble,
and his friends may trust his strength
of purpose and ability to act.
There is tho course, boistorous, dic
tatorial tono, invariably adopted by
vulgar persona, who have not sufficient
cultivation to understand their own
insignificance.
Thero is tho incredulous tone, that
is full of a covert sneer, or a secret
"You can't-dnpe-mo sir" intonation.
then there is tho whining, beoeoch
ing voice, that says "sycophant" as
plainly as it it uttered tho word. It
cajoles and flatters you ; its words, say,
1 lovo yon, 1 admire you ; you aro
everything that you should bo."
then thcro is the tender, musical,
compassionate voice, that sometimes
goes with shurp loaturcs (as they in
dicate merely intensity of tooling) ond
sometimes blunt features, but always
with a genuine beuevolenco.
11 you are full of affection and pre
tense, your voico proclaims it.
If you aro full of honesty, strength
and puposo, your voice proclaims it.
It you are cold and culm and brm
and consistent, or tickle and foolish
and deceptions, your voice will be
equally triithtelling.
lou can not change your voice from
a natural to nn unnulural tone, with
out it being known that you aro do
ing so.
SEDEXTARY II A HITS.
The alarming increaso of late years
in tho proportion of sudden deaths is I
beginning to attract tho attention ol
statisticians. It is largely due, no
doubt, to moro general mental activity
without a proportionate increase in
bodily exercise. Tbe busy life of the
age demands a constant hurry and ex
citement, aud taxes tho physical pow
ers to the utmost to keep np in the
raoo lor money getting. One of tho
disadvantages of introducing facilities
of transportation is tbo temptation to
cut short timo and distance by tbe
bubituul use ot steam cars and horse
cars evon in tbo daily transit from the
dwelling to tho oflico. A sedentary
occupation beget an almost uncon
querable aversion to regular exercise,
and the result of yielding to tho indis
position is thut tbe mental powers,
kept at a steady tension for years,
will some day suddenly relax and leavo
their abuser either lifeless or a help
less paralytic To literary aud pro
fessional men is vigorous and regular
exerciso especially needful, and tho ex
ample of its effects in a bale old age
will suggest thcmjolves to every ono.
The oxerciso needed to keep the mind
in tone and the physical lorco unabat
ed np to tbe four score years and ten,
is not a daily spin behind a last step
ping horse, but tho long swinging gait
which pitta the wdlker over a country
road al tbe rato of four or five miles
an hour, and Bends tbe blood pulsing
with invigorating hlu to every portion
of tho system. Two hours exercise
a day, so tar from being a waste of time,
ta a positive economy, supplying tbe
nervous force for moro and belter
work in ten hour than the man ol
street cars and carriages can get out
of twelve. Aew London Iclrgrain.
Tbe phrase, "It takes nine tailors
lo make a man," though used in con
tempt, has an origin that docs honor
to the knights of the goose. In 1742
a homeless orphan lad applied lor as
sistance at a fashionable London tai
lor's where nine journeymen were em
ployed. Tho boy's condition stirred
the bencvolenco of tho nine who each
gavo bim ono shilling. With thisslen
dor capital tho youth started in the
flint business, and in timo became very
rich, and retired Irom trade. Then, in
stead of having a conl-ol'arms, he em
blazoned upon bis spoons and panels
the grateful motto, "Nino tailors made
mo a man.
"Have a blotting pad, sirT" asked
a peripalelio dealer, reaching out one
of thiHO absorbents. "How do you
fasten the thing on f " inquired Jones,
after turning it over and over. "Fast
en iton I " exclaimed tho poddlor,"what
do you moan 7 "What do 1 mean
i'vo had experience in this pad busi
ness. 1 ve bought them lor the bead
stomach and liver, and this is Iho first
one 1 ever saw with no tacklo on it.
No, I don't want it. Oooddayt" Tho
man enw it was no nss tn argue with
June.
Ho packed his valise in his bed
room, ihcn carefully raised the .sash
and attached to tba well-worn handle
the end ot a long whip lush. Softly
ho lowered lu treasure, and thought
how tho landlord would sweur when
be arose iu tbo morning and found
that bia man was not there. Slowly
the valise descended into tho darkness
of night, whon the voico of the land
lord shouted : "Lot go, I've got it all
right I "
.W) wa
"Charlie' Durling." We have ro
coived your poem, entitled "When the
liluebirds Sweetly Sing," and will
nave il until the bluebird got here,
VTe are alwaya obliged to carry over a
lot of bluebird and robin and daisy
poetry, but it cornea bandy in tbe
.Spring when wo clean the windows
"Now 1 nndomtand," remarked Ol
denborg, with a sigh, aftor vainly try
ing to got a viow of the stage over
the bonnet in Iront of bim, "now 1 un
derstand what they mean by the
'height of fashion ' " '
A Galveston man, who baa a mule
for sale, bearing that a frioud in an
adjoining town wanted to buy a mulo,
telegraphed him : "Dear Friend : if
you are looking fur a No. 1 mula don't
forget me.
-a use, si
Maiden ladv'a Quotation slichtlv al
tered from an old aphorism "When
singleness la bliss lis lolly to wives.
EDUCATIONAL.
. 1IV1I.L. McQUOWN.
In tho long run it is work alone that
seta human lives to music, and reduces
to harmony tho strife ot existence.
D r. A . M . Hills preson ted M is M am ie
Irvin with a volumo of poema, as a
recognition of her ability as a publio
reader.
W. W. McCullongh, formerly loach
'f. iO Sandy township. Ibis county, is
attending a Normal school at Paola,
Kansas.
Tbo estimated value of school prop
erty in Clearfield county is ?183,1I0,
which exceeds that ol uny of tho
neighboring counties.
Knox, Bradford, Goshen, Brady,
Sandy, liulich and Huston township
teachers are holding very successtul
District Institutes.
Mr. G. W. Emigh inform us that
the schoola ot Uoutzdulo borough
opened Mouduy, January 17tb, having
been closed one nioiiin on account oi
sickness.
The ('berry Tree Record bus estab
lished an "Educational Column." It is
edited by Mr. McCirery ol the Cherry
Tree public schools, and is made very
interesting.
Thcro aro now employed in the State
ot Pennsylvania 9,732 male teachers
and 1 1,013 female teachers, an increase
of 1-5 mule and 40 femalo teachers
over last year.
Three vory useful School Directors
have- (lied since ine tqieimig ot iuu
schools in the Fall, viz : Wm. Murray,
of (Jirurd; Jason Kirk, of Lumber
city, and lr. 1). I). Crouch, of Cur
wensville. Now Washington borough has con
ti ibuted twelve teachers the present
term to the schools of tbe county. Wo
doubt very much it thero is another
town in tho county which has sent out
so many educators in one year.
As in a man's life, so in his studies.
I think it is the most beautiful and
humane thing in the world, so to min
gle giavity wilb pleasure, lhattboono
may not sink into melancholy, nor tho
other rise up into wantonness. Pliny.
The following roport was submitted
to tho Department for tho month ol
December, 1880 : Certificate annulled,
1 ; examinations, 2 ; number ol schools
visited, 41 ; number ol Directors acs
companing Superintendent, 18; Miles
travelled, HH2; official letters written,
48.
At this writing, almost two weeks
ahead of tho tune of publication, we
cannot give any definite inlormation of
thovisilof lion. Henry Uouck, Dopniy
Slate Superintendent, to our county.
If tho arrangements aro completed,
however, circulars and other notico
will be circulated beloro this item
reaches tho public.
Air. Jno. Shuflor, Secretary of Brady
township School Board, informs us
that their Board huspurchuscd apicco
of land in tho Harislelt school district,
and has mado nil duo arrangements
I lor the erection of a now school huild
! ing tho approaching Summer. Brady
I.. ..I, a n wu ti t ho limes in all imnrovc
nicnis pertaining to their schools and
school properly.
During tho lust and oAd weok of
December wo visited New Washing
ton borough, and in doing so we
travelled 75 miles. Wo wore accom
panied by Messrs. Levi Bundurlin and
Henry Stcirncr. of the Boll township
School Board, and Messrs. John M.
Cummings, Adam Broth and Henry
Nctrjr., ot Now Washington Dorougn.
Bradlord township has boon unfortu
nate In not being able to retain tho teach
ers employed at the beginning of the
school term. Their iducos have been
supplied, however, with very excellent
teachers. Mr. M. S. Barnes, of Cam
eron county, succeeds L. M. Mitchell
at Woodland ; Mr. S. D. Bndey, of
Pike township, succeeds S. J. Miller at
Jacksnns; and Mr. 1). S. Lansbcrry
succeeds Mertie liublor at Egypt.
IntboSlateSupurimoiidunl'sBtatisti.
cal report of Institutes hold in tho
State, wo find the three lust Institutes
held under our predecessor in 18iu,
1S7C and 1877. wore attended in tho
aggregate by 402 teachers and 102
Directors. lhcir entire cost was
1751.50, of which amount Ibe county
paid J382, or 54 porcent. ol the cost.
Tbo three Institutes held by as in tho
years 1S78, 1879 and 18S0 were at
tended by MM teacners ana iuu ui
rectors, and cost in tho aggregate
11.530, ot which amount tbe county
paid 1352, or 3G per cent of tho enliro
cost.
Tho following persons were award-
ed premiums lor exhibiting the best
specimens of tbe several classes at the
Institute exposition :
rcholabr' WORR.
Best .paeiaisB of snap drawiag-.M.ud irwla,
W.terford sobool.
De.t spocln.n of portrait drawing Msry K.
6boie, liiltiuctieiB ochool.
Bert speeimra of landsoapa drawlaf J. Clarrle
ll.jorty.
TRArnaRR wosk.
tlest school r.fiorl W. T. Hoaokasaa, Lawrenoe.
Best poo drswiox A. R. Lambert, Lswreoca.
U..I pro(rasine W II. Liddle, Sandy.
Best Boecnoea af pea drawingLouisa Prtoee,
Hon) til. la.
Second best rpeelmea af peartl drAwinfLlfsle
Bedding. Iloutldale.
L. Scrin.tt, 1 ,
WM. PuStLBTOBAIT. j
Cummittleo.
Mr. Lewis Brown, ot Lawrence in.
Icpendent, exhibited somo very excel
lent pen drawing but by some mentis
it was overlooked. A diploma, will bo
awarded to tho above persons in a
short timo.
TIIR OOOD gt'ESTIONER.
1. He is a teacher, not a mere ex
aminer. Ho questions tor tho purpose
of imparting knowledge, not lor find
ing out what the pupil knows.
" I. tie asks tho questions in tho or
der in which a subject should bn In
vestigated, making his pupils for tb
timo searchers alter truth, and himself
their leader and guide.
3. Ho knows tho mind tho order
of IU growth and the method ot ita
thought and no auapisj nis worst
to it.
4. Ho exorcises all the focullioa of
the mind, and asks tho vory questions
necessary to develop and strengthen
them.
6. Ho asks lew question. Ho
chooses carefully his words. Every
scolcnco mean something, and every
word I tbe right ono.
C. He waste no time in delays, but
pusbcB hisinqiiirios with a good degree
of rapidity, and keeps up the beatcf
intellectual lilo by rapid and sharp
blows.
7. He knowa what he want, and
drive straight lor it He allow do
side issues, discussion", or inelevant
questions lo throw bim off bis track.
H. lie leads bis pupils to the moun
tains of knowledge, where they ran
see truths Ibey never saw before. U
show tbera new view, of subjects, ao
that tbey are olten astonished and do-
lighted.
9. Ho never question! for the pur
pose ol displaying his own knowledge,
but keeps himself in tha background,
and tbe truth in tba lore-front, When
bo is through, bis pupil think of what
Ibey have been taught, and dot of tha
teacher.
10. lie is an enthusiast, lie be
hove in himself enough lo give him
the confidence necessary to secure bii
success.
1 1. He novor leavo his subjeot until
a definite, clear, Concise and conclusive
result Is reached. This is kept a a
valuable addition to knowledge, il
leaves nothing at loos ends. Earnn.