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S, ISTW-Iy* ARMAS'S HOTEL, A * o|fj.ia!ta Onart llimae, BELLRFONTN, PA. • TERMS <1.14 PER DAY. * fnod f.lvery attached. l-lp 11IRARD HOUSE, v fXIKNKRCHESTNUT AND NINTH BTREETfI, rnuearau. Thl hooee. yromlaent la a city famed for Ite ooOl fortal.la hoteb, la ke|it In etery reapmt aqoal In any Bnt rlMa hotel! In tna country. Owing to tba atrin gency of the tlmaa, the price of board hsa len red need I" ". wiuu per day. J. M'K IBBIN. U* M—ofW. LYROCKERHOFF HOUSE, BELLEFONTE, PA. HOUSEAL A TIiLLKR, Proprietore. Good Sample Room on First Floor, A#-Free Rnaa to and from all Train. Special rata* to a Itnaaaea end Jarura. l-lj ©he Centre democrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Largait, Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY. ENGLISH KINGS. A friend writes inc tliut recently hearing a discussion among several proiuineut divines regarding the suc cessions of some of the English kings, ami they being unable to decide or agree upon what the line was, she gave them the proper order of the succes sion, and quoted as her method of recollection the following rhyme, long familiar to her but entirely new to them. They were surprised as well as delighted at its simplicity, and com pleteness, and one editor of a well known religious journal secured a copy for publication: First "William the Normun, Then William his son ; Henry, Stephen ami llenry, Then* Richard an<l John. Next Henry the Third, Kdwards one, two, and three, Ami again, after ltichard, Three Henrys we sue. Two Kdwards, third ltichard, If rightly 1 guess ; Two Ilenrvs, sixth Kdward, queen Mary, queen Hess. Next Jamie, the Scotsman, And Chatl s whom they slew; Yet received after Cromwell Another Charles, too. Next James the Second Ascended the throne, And good William and Mary Together canto on ; Till Anne, George Four, And fourth William all past. God sent us Victoria, May she long ho the last 1 KISSIA'S (01,H CI.IMF. A writer in the Loudon Pall Mall Gazette says: The Russians have a great knack for makiug their winters pleasant. You feel nothing of the cold in those tightly built houses where all the doors and windows are double and where the rooms arc kept warm by big stoves hidden in the walls. There is no damp in a Russian house; and the inmates may dress indoors in the lightest of garbs, which contrast oddly with the mass of furs and wraps which they don w hen going out. A Russian can atl'ord to run no risks of exposure when he leaves his house for a walk or a drive. He covers his head and ears with a fur bonnet, his feet and legs with felt boots lined with wool or fur, which are drawn o.i over the ordiuary hoots and trousers and reach up to the knees ; he next cloaks himself iu an ampfe top coat with fur collar, lining ami cuffs ; and he buries his hands iu a pair of fiugerlcss gloves of seal or bearskin. Thus equi|*ed, and with the collnr of his coat raises! all around so that it muttles him up to the eves, the Russian expoaes only his nose to the cold air, and he takes care fre quently to give that a little rub to keep the circulation going. A stranger, who is apt to forget that precaution, would often get his nose frozen if it were not for the courtesy of the Russians, who will always warn him if they see his uose "whiteuing," and will unhidden, help him to chafe it vigorously with snow. In Russiur. cities walking is just pos sible for men during winter, hut hard ly st>for ladies. The women of the lower order wear knee boots ; those of the shopkeoping classes seldom venture out at all ; those of the aristocracy go out in sleighs. These sleighs are by no means ph'asant vehicles for nervous people, for the Kalmuck coachmen drive thetn at such a terrific pace that they frequently enpsize, but persons not destitute of pluck find their mo tion most enjoyable. It must he add ed, that to be spilled out of a Russian sleigh is tantamount only to getting a rough tumble on a soft mattress, for the very thick furs iu which the vic tim is sure to be wrapped will be enough to break the fall. The houses and hovels of the Rus sian working clofmw are as well warm ed as those of the aristocracy. A stove is always the principal item of furniture in them ; and these contri vances are used to sleep ou as well as to cook in. The mujik, having no bed, curls himself up ou his stove at his time for going to rest; sometimes he may be found creeping right into the stove and enjoying the delights of a good vapor bath. The amount of heat which a Russian will stand is amazing, and his carelessness in facing the cold afterward not less so. On n Saturday, which is washing day all over Russia, you may see in a village a mujik, who has been cooking him self in his stove till he is of a color like a boiled lobster, rush naked into the snow* aul roll himself in it like a dog till lie glistens all over to his sat isfaction. It seems monstrous that one of the Russian's principal protec tions against the cold —his heard—was laitl under penalty hy Peter the Great, and subsequently by Elizabeth and Catharine 11., when they were trying to civilize their subjects acoofding to the custom of the west. These three sovereigns all laitl a tax ou beards; entering cities on market tiays were required to exhibit in proof that they hatl paid their tax a brass coin stamped with a bearded face autl the words "boroda liguaia tiagnta" (the beard tax has been settled). This absurd impost was abolished by Paul; but the effect of it still survives in a manner; for the beard is still consitl cred "bad form" in aristocratic cir cles. Military officers wear only mus tache and whiskers; diplomatists and other civil servant* eschew the whisk er*, and generally reap their laces al together. A Russian with a heard is pretty sure to be either u "pope" or a member of one of the classes below the upper middle. # THE TMAIMNG OF UIIM.S. • The Rev. W. (hidden, of Spring field, Mas.-., recently sent out circulars to mothers in that city asking, 1. W hat arc the, most common defects in the training of our girls? 2. What principles of conduct are most impor tant, and what habits are essential to the development of noble and useful womanhood? At a public meeting the results of his inquiries have been given. Female habits of dress were referred as more injurious than male habits. Most women, too, take much less out door exercise than is good for them. The lack of exercise is largely caused by foolish dress, which makes active exertion impossible. It is gen erally of improper nature and unsuita bly adjusted, and creates many of the nervous diseases of woman. Another mistake on the part of many girls is in passing their time out of school hours in idleness and frivolous amuse ments, doing aud learning nothing. The speaker thought that more is done in wealthy families to teach the daugh ters habits of industry than in those of moderate circumstances. A corres ponilcnt referred to one woman who says that she is proud that her daugh ter never did any sweeping ; another would not let her child do any kitchen work. Another mistake is to make dress the main business of life. One letter referred to a woman who said over her young infant, "I am so glad it is a girl, I can dress her so much finer than I could a boy," ami Mr. Gladden added, "(>, woman, to what depths of degredatiou you have fallen when you can look in the face of a baby and have such a thought as that find lodgment for an instant in your mind ! What can such a woman do but destroy the soul of her children. Still, lie thought the woman not wholly to blame, because their vanity is stim ulated by the foolish admiration of men ; the girl that catches a husband only by line dress too often finds that the prize she has won is a broken heart. The uext mistake is devoting too much time to novel reading, which exercises morbid and unreal ideas of life and a craving that can never be gratified. It is mental dissipation of a dangerous character —scarcely less so than that of drink. Another mis take is to early initiation into the frivolities of society. The average young lndy of Springfield, according to the lecturer, imikca her debut at three, when she begins to go to the children's jiarties, in dress elaborate enough for a fancy ball, and is in structed iu the acts of vanity and co quetry. At six or eight she is a mem ber of clubs, and enioys frequent evenings out. One good woman wrote that she had the heartache for the un natural, unhealthy and stimulating excitement of the roller skating rink, which has none of the advantages of out-door skating. The last error al luded to is the neglect to honor, and obey parents. Some sad instances were brought forward to show that too often a girl of thirteen regards herself as her own mistress, and passes her time at parties, sociables, etc., or on the street, instead of studying. A correspondent narrated the facts about four respectable families in one con gregation in the city, in throe of which there was one daughter each and in the other there were three. Kacli of the first three left school when she wanted to, jiosscd as much time-on the street as she pleased, and is now a by-word and a reproach. The other three likewise went to ruin while their parents were attending the prayer meeting, and professed to know noth ing of their daughters' habits. WHY PEOPLE ARE POOR. It is stated on excellent authority, that "poor hnve ye with you always." The remark was true when uttered, and it has been true ever since, and, from appearance, ever will be. There are those who have no disposition to save ; who "live from hand to mouth," so to speak ; who take no thought of Having enough for the [iresent hour, they arc content, ami eave the future to take care of itself. If property were to be equally divided Monday morning, before Saturday night the majority would he in desti tute circumstances, dead broke, while the prudeut and saving would be on the road to pecuniary independence. One class of people spend whatever money they can get hold of, and as fast as they can get it, while others with the same means coming into their hands, judiciously invest it, and become rich. There are those who not only do not know how to save, hut they do not know how to spend. If they get anything it goes for what they do not need ; tor articles that could be dispensed with. Those who arc desti tute of the comforts of life, as a rule, may blame only themselves therefore. If they have anything they do not take care of it They buy articles that peoplo in better circumstances would tbiuk they could not afford. So they are always poor. Relieve their wants to-day and they are no better off* to-morrow. They are bound not to save —to have nothing, and are gen- crnlly bound to be in debt if they can find anybody that will trust them. Of course we understand that people are soimtimei unfortunate. They get sick, or those dependeut on them be come so. We know that people ure sometime* overtake/! by misfortune; but vyherc there i* one case of this kind there are fifty in which the entire trouble may be found in the .lack of disposition to save. Mcttcriilcli oil Ta I ley ru ii U and Fouclk . From I'rliin* Metier lilt li'n Memoir*. Talleyrand possessed unusual intel lectual ability. My long-continued re lations with him made nie aware that his whole character more adapted hiin to destroy than to create. A priest, his temperament led him to irreligious courses. Of noble birth, "lie pleaded for the uprooting of his class ; under the Republican rule lie forswore, the Republic ; under the Empire lie was constantly inclined to conspire against the Emperor; under the Bourbon*, lastly, he labored for the overthrow ot the legitimate dynasty. To hinder uuy definite course from being taken— for that Talleyrand was ulwuys ready. In the contrary direction 1 could nev er discover equal ability. Napoleon so estimated him, and with justice. In one of our couversations, which took place in consequence of one of the many withdrawals of Talleyrand from the Ministry, the Emperor said to me, "If I want anything done I do not employ the Prince of Benevento. I turn to him when I want a thing not to be done which I wish to ajqu-ar to want." I'ouche was a complete contrast to Talleyrand. lii consequence of the contradictory character of the two men, the word "rivalry" was not ap plicable to them. Their opposition was radical, for it had its source iu difference of character. Foucbe had been a priest, like Talleyrand, and had stained himself with blood aud mire ; while Talleyrand lost himself in the theories of that school culled the Eng lish school, l-'ouchc was an enemy to all theories ; he wa* a practical man, deterred by no obstacles. Thorough ly acquainted with the French mind, he went forward with the time, but always in extremes, convinced a* he was that in this manner only an ex treme end could bo attained. Never had these two meu any [mints of con tact, unless their paths crossed in fol lowing out some conspiracy aguiust the existing order of thiugs. The Czar or Twenty-five Years. The present year is to be celebrated in Russia a* completing twenty-five years of the Czar's reign, aud tbe In dustral Exhibition which is to be held at Moscow iu the coming May will . doubtless be as |>opiilar with the Rus i sians a* even that of 1872. But such an anniversary brings with it an omin ; ous suggestion of the grim old proverb, ] "Evil awaits the Czar of twenty-five years," which Russian history has so 1 strangely verified. Ivau the Terrible* first twenty-five years were brilliantly successful, but after 1588 caiue the i loss of all bis Western conquests, the | successive death of three wives, the ; murder of his sou and heir, and the fastening of a frightful disease upon himself. Peter the (ireat's Turkish reverses, and the deplorable death of his son Alexis, came after the twentv ! fifth year of his reign. The twenty-sixth j of Alexander I.'s ravaged St. Teters | burg with n fearful inundation, while a formidable plot against himself aud his own death came a year later. In the twenty-sixth year of Nicholas be | gun the intrigues which led to the ; < 'rimenn war ; and the present Czar, now just about to pans the perilous limit, sees his wife dying by inches, his tliroue undermined by rebellion, ami a foreign war looming ou the ho ! rizon. 44 Heath's Boor." 'Death's door' is a significant name. A correspondent lias been at 'Port du Mort,' as the French call it, and has a rather sensational and tragic story to tell regarding the little green hay and Lake Michigan strait. This occurred, he says, in February, 1877, and has never before been published. Mention ing that nearly the whole tribe of Pot tawatomie Indians were drowned in trying to cross the strait, the corres pondent says that two winters ago an old fisherman and his sou sailed from Detroit harbor oji their return UrSister Bay, where they lived. They disap |H-ared aud were uot seen again for forty days. One day about tbe middle of March the lighthouse keeper ou ('- na island saw two men driftiug down with the ice out of Death's Door. They snt upright in*thc stern of the boat, side by side. The old man sat with his arms folded, slightly bent forward, resting thetn on his knees. The son was bolt upright. As the boat passed with the swift, curreut and cracking ice the keeper scrutinized them witn his spy-glass. To his surprise neither of the men moved. He adjusted his glass again, bringing them nearer. Then he saw that they were both dead and frozen stiff. Icicles were hanging from the old man's beard. On his hat was frozen snow. His face wore the expression of a man in the deepest ag ony. Tbe sou's features were at rest aud bis eyes glassy in their stare. The boat swept by, and neither boat nor occupant* were ever seen afterward. Gixjby clutches the empty air when ambition ceases to breathe. From the Atlantic Monthly. HELEN OF TYRE. nv iiKsnr w. Lotioykllow. \Vhut phantom is this that appears Through tho purplo mists of tn* years, Itself hut a mist like these? A woman of cloud and of lire ; It is she j it is Helen of Tyre, The town in the midst of the seas V O Tyre ! in thy crowded streets The phantom appears and retreats, Arid the Israelites, that sell Thy lilies arid lions of brass, Look up as they see her pass, And murmur "Jezebel ! " Ttien another phantom is seen At her side, in a gray gerbadine, With beard that flouts to his waist ; It is Uinion Magus, the seer ; , He speaks, and she pauses to hear The words he utters in hasth. He says: "From this evil fame, From this life of sorrow and shame, I will lift thee arid make thee mine! Thou hast been (Jueeri Caridoce, Arid Helen of Troy, arid siialt be The Intelligence Divine! " Oh, sweet as tho breath of rnorn, To the fallen ""d forlorn Are whispered words of pfaise, For the famished heart believes The falsehood that tempts and deceives, And the promise that betrays. So she follow" from land to land The wizard's beckoning hand, as a leaf is blown by the gust, Till she vanishes into niglii! O reader, stoop'down ami write With thy linger in the dust. O town in the midst of the seas, With thy rafts of cedar trees, Thy merchandise arid thy ships, Thou too art become as naught, A phantom, u shadow, a thought, A name upon men's lips. THE IMPORTATION OF VOTEKS. CONCLTSIVE EVIDENCE SHOWING BADKAL TRICKERY WITH THE NEGROES. The Kxodug committee occupied one of the Court of Claim's room* on the ground floor of the Capitol yester day, and will in future hold it* sit ting* there. Owing to the interrup tion caused by imperative committee call* on Senator* Vance and Pendleton, the session was confined to the exami nation of Mr. K. 11. Borden, a land owner and bank president of Golds- Iniro, N. C., and T. C. Groom*, of (reenca*tle, lud., the testimony of the latter being ouly just beguu when an adjournment occurred at noon. Mr. Borden, who sub-rents portion* of bis farm to negro tenants, and employs others a* laborers, was examined a* to the condition, labor, profits and future prospects of both of these classes, and in explaining the "landlord and tenant act" of the State. The sub-farmers, he said, are not restricted in their land productions, but are permitted to raise garden truck and anything else they choose, and to keep hogs, etc., for sub sistence. Their main efforts are di rected to raising corn and cottOn, and where the owner furnishes equipments he gets usually one-third of the crop ; when the renter owns his stock and implements the landlords gets one fourth of the crop as rent. The crop, which means only the cotton and corn, is mortgaged to the landlord, un der the landlord and tenant act, for security. The act applies to whites and blacks alike, and was passed to protect the laud from dishonest or ir responsible renters. In many instan ces the landlord would not get his money otherwise. The colored labor ing element, which is ahoOt seventy five {>cr centum of the whole, is, as a general tbiug, composed of thriftless negroes who do not appear to care to accumulate money, am! only desire to lire and eat. The laborers can aver age from $8 to 110 a month and found from January t<> September, and then to the latter jiartof December, if skill ful and industrious, can earn $1 to 81,50 per day pickiug cotton. Any disposed to save money could do so. The most kindly feeling exists be tween the rnoes, and there are never any race difficulties. Election days are generally the most quiet of the year, aud the negroes generally vote first. Gov. Vance —And are good voters? Mr. Borden—Yes, sir; they are good voters and all vote one way. Mr. Blair took charge of Mr. Bor den aud cross-questioned him closely on the landlord arfd tenant act. The crops are divided and the tenant markets his own share. When the tenant desires credit which he cannot get he obtains orders from the land lord on the merchant against his crop. This, Mr. Blair tried to make appear, was a combination between the land lord and merchant to cheat the negro tenant, but reckoned without his host, Mr. Borden replying that the prices charged were no higher than under any other circumstances, and tbe land lord was doing the negro a favor, for it always occurred when the latter could not obtain store credit. Mr. Blair also tried to make the witness express the sentiment that the negroes oomplaiued of tbe act, but Mr. Borden replied that he bad never heard of any general complaiat, although jpoli ticians tried to make capital of it. The act enabled the tenant to secure laud without money, and was rather in his interest. Mr. "Blair endeavored to secure an acknowledgment that the act was to be regarded as implying that the negroes were universally con sidered to be dishonest This enabled Gov. Vance to get in a good back stroke at bis Republican colleague by stating that there was a law in New Hampshire against stealing, but that did not imply that all of Mr. BUir's constituent* were thieve*. Mr. Groom* the Indiana witness, ha* been a resi dent of Greencustle for forty-three years, and brought a file of the Green eastlc Winner with him. Ile testified that George Langsdalc, its editor, ha* beeft postmaster of Grecncastle for two term* and is a stalwart Republi eau, while hi* paper, the Manner, i* the Republican organ for I'utnam county. After the election of (tetobcr, I*7B, when all of the Democratic, county candidate* except one were elected by twelve to fifteen thousand majority, and the Democratic State ticket by it large overplus, the Jinn | ner, of November 2*, 1878, pub i lished the following italicised editorial: : "Since the negroes of the South have j been deprived of their civil rights, we. j suggest that thev move to this side of the Oh io, and assist in making a solid North in 1880. Come to Indiana." And the leading editorial published in t lie same paper, December 12, I*7*. appealing to the negroes again to come to Indiana and make a solid North in I*Bo, was also put in evidence. It said it was the duty of the negroes to do so before the new census should in crease the number of enemies of their race in Congress, while their coining would increase their friends in that body, and keep the party which was •their friend in power. At' this )M>int the committee adjourned until Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Napoleon at the I'lay. The Metternich and Remusat mem oirs have revived interest in Napoleon. Here is a description of the conqueror at Krfurt, in 1807, when the Ojmedie- Francaise was sent on from France to play before an audience of kings and princes: "Facing the stage had been | placed two arm-chairs for the two Fhu perors (Napoleon and Alexander), ou either side of which were ordinary ' chair for kings and princes. A roll jof drums was heard without. 'lt is the ! Emperor,' ran through the audience. I' You fools,' cried a French officer | angrily to his drummers,'what are you i doing ! That is only a king.' A < ier ; man sovereign entered; three others j followed him at a little distance. It 1 was thus without noise or ostentation 1 that the Kings of Saxony, Bavaria aud | Wurtcmberg apjeared. "Finally a louder roll of drums was | heard. All eyes were directed with ! uneasy curiosity toward the entrance, jAt last he appeared, that most in* | comprehensible man of that meet iu | concievable time. Clad as usual in : the most simple of costumes, he made a very slight how to the sovereigns present who had been waiting so long and took his arm-chair on the right of the Emperor of Russia, his stout and not very shapelv figure contrasting with the spleudid stature of Alexander. "The four kings took their seats and the play began—the '(Edipus' of Vol taire. Vainly, Talma and Raucourt | displayed all their art, exerted all their talent; none of us had eyes or attention for the stage. The gendar : raes'at the door of our box, it should be 1 said, spared no effort to complete our j defective education and in the inter | missions between the acts gave us les | sous in etiquette to be observed in the presence of the master of the world. •'Put down your opera-glass; the Em j peror doesn't want to be stared at,' cried one. Another'added 'Sit straight; don't crane your necks ; the Emperor won't have it,' The impertinence was supreme, hut wc followed the example j of the kings and princes before us and j put up with it. "Immediately afterwards Napoleon, who had seen the play a hundred times in all probability, settled himself cozily in his arm-chair and went to sleep. • To us it was singular to see sleeping thus soundly the terrible man whose plaus involved the happiness or suffer ing of half the world. We could not grow weary of gazing with wonder blent with awe upon that profile like a fine autique medallion, seen against the background of Alexander's dark uniform." A Russian Story, Mr. Rarry in his work, "Russia iu 70," tells of the time when slavery was an institution iu that couutry. A certain ironmaster caused a man who hail offended him to be locked up in an iron cage, and kept him confiued in it for a certain length of time. At last when he was absent on a journey, the case of the wretched prisoner came to the knowledge of the governor of the province. The governor caused the man, cage and all, to be brought to the government town, aud invited the tyrannical ironmaster to dinner. After the diuuer was over the govern or sent for a quail in a wooden cage, and offered to sell it for 10,000 roubles. • The offer being treated as a joke, the Eovernor said he had a more valuable ird to sell, and told his servant to bring it iu. Folding doors flew open, and the iron cage with its miserable captive was set dowu before the aston ished great. "Now," said the governor, "what do you think of that for a quail ? But this is a very cxpeusive bird, I want 20,000 roubles for him." "All right," said the alarmed pro- Erietor, "1 will buy this one; semi iiu down to my works without the cage, aud your 'roeasengfer shall bring you the amount." The matter was thus pleasautly set tled, and the oompany adjourned iu undisturbed harmony to their coffe.\
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