®he Crattt fltwotfat. ■ ♦ BELLEFONTK, PA. Th* LsrgMt, Cheapest wad Best Paper PUBLISHED IK CENTRE COUnTT, How Hazing Was Stopped. Sullivan's Appearance at " (fuaktr at Har vard Collect, Krora the Milwaukee tiuu. Many have wondered why there has not been a hazing at Harvard for the past three months. Iu all that time there has not been a ease of hazing re ported, and some have come to the con clusion that the haters have met with a change of heart. It is not exactly a change of heart, but a change of clothes that ails them. We are in formed that the hazing has been effec tually broken up. dust after Sulli van whipped Hyatt ho was called to Harvard, and a plan of breaking up hazing was unfolded to him by the faculty and he fell into it readily. He was to attire himself as Quaker young man, and apply for admission as a freshniau and let nature take its course. On the tir>t day of April Mr. Sullivan appeared at the college under the uatin of Abija Watson, and was assigned to a room and placed ou the roll of fresh men. His appearance was commen ted on, ami a- he passed through the grounds with his peculiar garb, young men shouted, "Shoot the hat!" "(Jet onto his nibs?" and other collegiate literature. It was all Mr. Sullivan could do to restrain himself from w hip ping a couple of dozen of the boys then and there, hut he decided to wait until the proper time, when he would be able to get enough for a mess. That evening he was approached by a young man who pretended to be .his frieud, and invited him to accompany him to a room where a few boys were going to open a few bottles of wiue. Abija verily he didn't go much on this sinful beverage, but to oblige his friend he went with him to a large room where seventy smart young fellows were con gregated with all the appliances for hazing. Sullivan savs there were -even ly, but the faculty only found sixty five smart Alecks when the door was opened, but Sullivan thinks a few may liave jumped out of the window and took to the woods. It seems that when they got the "Quaker" into the room they locked the door, and the ringlea der told the peaceful man to strip oil his coat, vest and shirt. He objected, but finally took them off. Some of the fellow* who have since got out of the hospital say they noticed when he removed his shirt that he ■ put up like a hired man, and they thought it queer that a (Quaker should have an arm as big as a canvas-ed | ham. They then told him to "prepare j to meet his God," and got out the iron j to brand him on the back. He then told them that he knew he was in ; their power and was willing to submit j to anything that was right, but lie asked as a favor not to bear on too hard, as he was of a nervous tempera ment and might faint Then they de- ; tided not to brand him until later, but would throw him up in a blanket first. 80 they got the blanket first and tipped .Sullivan over in it, nnd about twenty of the smartest hazer took hold of the aides und tossed him i up. When he came down he knocked lour fellows senseless with his fists, kicked four more across the room ami 1 then got on his feet and began to knock thrm right and left. He had knocked down about twenty and had tipped to spit on his hands when the ! rest of the hnzers huddled in a corner and proposed to put an end to the slaughter. One said : "Oh, good Mr. 1 <{uaker, please let its alone. We lie long to respectable families, and won't do so any more." Sullivan looked at them and said: "Ft is hazing yez want. Well, yez can have plintv," and he went at them, am) in nlx>ut fifteen minutes he corded up the whole gang, and hazing was broken up in Harvard college. As he threw his coat and shirt across his arm and walked out of the room, and met the faculty in the hall, he said: "Throw water iu their face, and they will re gain consciousness in from ten minutes to half an hour," and he shook hands with the faculty, receiver! his five hun dred dollars and left for New York with his trainer, Billy Madden, who was sitting on the fence outside wait ing for him. "Fot kind of a time did yez have wid de b'ys?" aked Mr. Madden, as he helped Mr. Hullivan on with his shirt and changed the (Quaker hat for another. "Verily, friend William," said (Quaker Sullivan, as he county the roll of bills to see that the faculty did not above any counthrfeit* on him,"it was the evint of the season." And thev started for Cornell uni- Tensity, at Ithaca. The Virtues of Coffee. A Drink That it ExhilaraSng ami Jimrfiaal to the Tram tb* Fhiliwielpbia Tins*. The action of coffee is directed chiefly to the nervous system. It pro dnoea a warming, cordial impression on the stomach, quickly followed bjr a diffused. Strreeable and nervous excite ment, which extends itself to the cer> brat functions, giving rise to increased -vigor of imagination aod intellect, -without any subsequent confusion or •atupor, such as are characteristic of narcotics. Coffee oontains essential principles of nutrition far exceeding ill importance its exhilarating proper ties and in one of the most desirable ar ticles for sustaining the system in cer tain prostrating diseases. As compar ed with the nutrition to be derived from the best of soups coflee has decid edly the advuntngo and is to lie pre ferred in many instances. The medici nal effects of coffee are very great. I n intermittent fever it has been used by eminent physicians, with the happiest effects, in cutting short the attack, and if properly managed is better in many casee than the sulphate of qui nine. In that low state of intermittent, as found 011 the banks of the Mississippi river and other innlarial districts, accompa nied with enlarged spleen and torpid liver, when judiciously administered it is one of the surest remedies. In yel low fever it bus been used by physi cians, and with some it is their main reliance after other necessary remedies have been admistered ; it retains tissue change, and thus becomes a conserva tor of force in that state in which the nervous system tends to collapse, be cause the blood has become impure; it sustains the nervous power until the depuration and reorganization of the blood are accomplished, and bus the advantage over other stimulants in in ducing no injurious secondary effects. In spasmodic asthma its utility is well established, as in whooping cough, stu por, lethargy and such troubles. In hysterical attacks, for which in many cases a physician can form no diagnosis coffee is a great help. Coffee is op|>osed to malaria, to all noxious vapors. As a disinfectant it has wanderfnl powers. As an iu.-tan taneous deodorizer it has no equal f r the sick-room, as ull exhalations are immediately neutralized by -imply passing a chafing-dish with burning coffee grains through the room. It may be urged that an article pi -sing such powers and capacity for such engergetic action must be injurious an article of diet ot habitual employment, and not without deleterious pruM rtie- ; hut no corro|K>miing nervous disar rangements have been observed after its effects have disappeared, as an si-en in narcotics and other stimulants. The action imparted to the nerves is natu ral and healthy. Habitual coffee drinkers generally enjoy good health. Some of the oldest people have used coffee froiu earliest infancy without feeling any depressing react! n. such as is prcduccil l>v alcoholic stimulant.-. Scorching a Skull. .1 Stnniecl off, and at length the entire upper portion of the crani um seemed to be loom-. Then it was tlint the mother brought the child to Dubuque and consulted a physician. After hearing her story the physician came to the conclusion that the child's head had been literally baked by the fire, before which it had slept that eventful night. lie also discovered thnt the child's life was in danger, and that it would be im|*>n*ihlc to prevent the upper portion of the skull from coming off lie took the child under treatment, and in a short time he re moved a piece of skull three or four inches long and over two inches wide. The operation was very delicately per formed, and in a few weeks a thin membrane formed, which protected the brnin. The child lived and thriv ed, and is to-day a young woman, al though she will always be compelled to wear a wig. The parents feel un der lasting obligations to the physi cian, and to this day show their ap preciation. The story seems almost incredible, but is entirely true. The Habit of Work. There is scarcely anything of greater importance to a young man than that he should acquire early the habit of regular application to some pursuit. Many persons, who are not of an indo lent nature live on, from day to day, from month to month, from year to year, without accomplishing anything worth while. They wonder that others are auocew- j fill, and they are not; that othera pro-' gross and they remain stationary. Tin difficulty with them is thai although they are not particularly averse to lubor, tliey have never learnt how to work to advantage. They have never formed tlio habit ofregular, systematic application. Desultory and merely impulsive efforts are attended by verv insufficient and unsatisfactory results. The first requisite is to know what you want to accomplish. Have some purpose—some plan. Then see to it (but the sun does not set on u day in which something has not been done to carry forward that plan—to promote that purpose. Have, so fur as possible, regular hours of work, and let no light inter ruption interfere with them. If you take a day's reeeation, be sure on the morrow you promptly resume your work, and give to it the benefit of re freshed strength and renewed vigor. At the end of every week, regularly review your wo,'k. Consider just how much you have accomplished. If you are satisfied with what you have done, it will bring to you a feeling of repose and content. If you find you should have done more, tliun make sure that the coming wn-k shall show nu iin - provemet ton the. past. Finally, let nothing —no matter what —daunt or discourage you. (ilory in a resolute ami invine hlo will! If nil young men now coining on the stage would scrupulously observe these instructions, what an increase of sue cess and huppincss there would !• ' Fiction I'owhere. Truth ThftNH it Kir in fib Fjtult <1 S hnai name ever could have done. Y'hen Henry was a mere babe —say three months of ng<—his father and mother died in Allegheny City and left him all a'one in the world. They also left a little three-old daugh ter in the same woeful plight, but Henry could hardly be expected to know it at hi- tender age, and if the daughter realized what was woing on she soon forgot entirely The little folks were both promising children, and they had been orphans hut a little while wi.cn Henry adopted hv Mr. John A. Stemmer, now of this plare, while his si-ter, Annie M., wa* taken to the bosoms of Mr. and Mrs. Kinanuel Myers, of Herlin, Somerset county. Time flew. Tliechihlren grew apare. Henry's school dnrs were ended, and one bright day he found himself so near a man in stature that, giving wav to the d'-ire which had been tugging at him for years, he off to be a soldier in the armv of the west. Reserved hi time, was honorably d scharged.came back to Johnstown, and after knocking about for a wbile, got on the Coal A" Iron Police force. Annie M. stayed with her foster-parents until the right young man en me along, < one Joseph Hanger , and then, with tearful adieus, -lie left them and went to brighten hi. homc. We can now bring our storv to a close to one month ago. Still Henry was unaware of the existence of a flesh nnd-hlnod relation, and his si tcr did not know that she had a broth er somewhere in the world. Henry, in Ids wide rambles as an officer, chanted one day, some two weeks since, to strike a man who had known his father, and in conversation with him he learned for the first time that when he was left an orphan a lit tle si-ter shared the same fate. The gentleman, however, could enlighten him no further. Brotherly love and the detective spirit burned in his breast and at the first opportunity he started on the hunt of his long-lost sister. He first visited Allegheny, where, after a tedious search, got on her track through people who remembered his parents. They said they thought the girl had lieen taken to Myersdale, Somerset county, and thither he journeyed, but he could ienrn nothing of her there, and was just on the |Kint of quiting the place when he met Mr. Benjamin I). Morgan, of Berlin, who told him of of a girl that had been adopted by a Mr. Myers at his home some twrnty-six year* ago. Hope was again high, and Henrv accompanied him to Berlin, where he found his sister—married, now, and fhe mother of children older than himself or herself when they were seperatcd, but overjoy to aee him all Ihe same. This story soon spread throughout the village, and the good people marveled much, while all declared they would have known Henry ■id Annie were brother and sister, but to look at them. Wasted Eloquence, Some time ago we (jot a new pi egg for thiw office, and for a number of week* it wag our chief delight to take viaitora through the mechanical de partment of the paper, politely and cheerfully explaining to tnoni a thou gand thinga that we didn't know any thing about. The foreman uaed to nay that we did pretty well, although he uaed to goioetimea caution tin about the uae of certain term* in certain waya. You ee a man who ia not a practical printer haa to txuat a good deal to his memory and chance to help him out, and he don't alwaya uae the correct ecientiflc name. One day Colonel Stanton, the chief paymaster of the department, entered the Boomerang office to puy hit* sub scription, imd tell us Home blood-curd ling anecdotes about different engage ments in which the pay department had waded in blood and came off more than conqueror. After we had ladled out a few lines to him relating to our frontier life, we took him into the press room and showed him the new press, lie manifested a good deal of interest in the thing, and ask ed a good many questions which wis answered iti our usual graphic style. Then we went into this newsroom. We could see by the frown on the fore man's brow that we were making some awful breaks, but what can you do when you have a visitor who must In: cutertuined and who keeps it-king about these things that you don't know anything about? After a while the colonel scorned to lose his interest in our description ol how a newspaper was made. At fir.-t in- would look surprised ami agitated over some rash statement we would make, but after a little while he seem ed to i are very little about what wo said, and acted almost rude; so w>- braced up and went at it to explain how tvpe wn- Het, and as we stood by it casts jut vacated hy one of the compositors, we told him w here ail tin* letters were, and explained the whole philosophy o setting a gaily, locking it, proving it, making up, etc., etc. fie re were a number of other officers I present, and they all seemed gn-atlv j pleased and tried to draw us out on this subject, which pn -cnt- so much that is of interest to the novice. finally Colonel Stanton yawned a little, stepped up to the vaeaut ease, took the stiek in his left hand, and gazed eariie.-ly at the "copy " <>f an article on " An act to provide I r the retirement of the armv w rm at the age ot sixty-two. ' His then lit >tit ■ >r dear life like a man • ting liv the thousand and hope* to niuk<-!*au Fran •iseo betore the cold wlieath' r - t- in. lie dumped hi- stick in the right place, resumed hi- w rk rlnsrfully, ; and staid with it till the arti !•• wa. • all up, and then said he gin 1 he'd I have to go. We lis iked around at tl e officers to see how they felt. They m-crncd cheer- I ml and pleased about something. 'i'uey knew that that meek and gen tle fraud was all old printer nil the titnc, and when we c were making a courteous, self-forgetful as- of our- If nil the time, explaining tin* opi rati i, of a printing office, not only Stanton but all the re-t of them were winking | at the foreman, and even the devil wa in the scheme. I- that we don't even dare to , -how a young lady how a printing pre** works, and tlieotter day a man who was born without arms, and who, therefore, wouldn't make much of a I compositor, wanted to sis- how a pajn-r ' wa< made, but we put him off on the foreman and excused our-elf from be i ing a pfofi'.ioiml guide to the median it al part of the Boomrrnnj any more. Once we allowed ourself lo art a* guide for He v. Mr. Hall of this place, tiecausc it wn nothing more thin right that we thould l>e civil to a cl< rgyman. After wo hail told him a great di al about the in* and out* ot the printing business, and Mr. Hall had gone, the city editor -aid ; "You are the most genial newspaper directo ry and specimen catalogue and price li-t of printera'aupplv 1 ever caw. You thought you pin veil it on that gray haired clergyman in gocl cha|c prob ably. You fooled away an hour right in the middle of the day showing oIF how to print a p*|>cr. when you don't know a lowrr-cae roller-mold front an italic shooting-stick. Mr. Hall atuck type all the (ir-t part of hi* life for Sam Howie*, hut he has go te 1e oe without telling you ao because he was afraid you might feel had. Now, if you don't quit acting a* guide to thia paper I'm going to reign. | can't stand it to be humiliated thia way. It is wearing toy young life in sorrow away."— Hill A'yr. - • -^tmrnmrn — An Old Story Kevi-ed. Mr. Sehwt and thr Xorthrm Pan Ac 11. >,!■ road (Sww pony. The New York Sun Washington correspondent writes na follow* : On Saturday last we quoted from the Washington eorreapondencc of the Now York Sun n atatement concerning a certain transaction of Mr, Carl Schuri with the Northern Pacific Compaur. The article seems to have ottraetcii mncli attention, and no many application* have been aent for copies of the paper that we republish the ar ticle, our Saturday'* edition being ex hausted. It i* as follow*: " A most remarkable caae of the in fluence of a certain railroad corporation upon Carl Kchurx ha* just been un earthed. In Oct I*Bo, a commission, at the head of which was Maj. Clarke, Deputy Commissioner of Pennsylvania was appointed to examine fifty miles of the Northern Pacific railroad just finished, and report whether it was constructed in accordance with law. By one of those mistakes which ; sometimes happen in the beat regulat ed families, thia commission was com posed of men who honestly discharged the duty assigned them. Of course Carl rtchurr. never contemplated such action. The commission examined the road and, in December, 1880, made a report recommending the re jection of the fifty miles, because it did not conform jn it* construction to the requirement* of the law, some of the rail* being old ones taken up from other roads, the bed not being pro|Msr ly constructed, etc. " Almost simultaneous with the fil ing ol this report came a letter from Mr. Hillings, president of the North ern Pacific, in which he inclosed a private contract agreeing that if the Secretary would accept the road and issue the certificate which entitled it to 2000,000 acres of land, the corn puny bound itself not to u-k for a pat ent until the road was rebuilt in ac cordance with law. "Mr. Hillings statd that this cer tificate was necessary to enable the company to borrow money. Secretary Schurz issued the certificate in the face of the fact tliut a report was on file in his department declaring that the company was not entitled to the land li.ii au-e of its non-compliance with the law in building the road. Thus the company sold its mortgage bonds on that land and road when the road was not completed and there was no title to the laud. "< nti you point in the history of this country to another transaction of a -imilur character? Wa- it not just what was to be expected from an ad ministration conceived in fraud and living in hvpocrisy ? "In IHHI, after Arthur became President, thi* fifty mile* of road wa re-examined and accepted. An exam ination of the records of the Interior Department will prove the truth of what I have stated unless they have have been changed within a week." ■ ♦ Robert Toombs' Tailing H-altb. •vx* ant.a J Among the eminent lawyer* in at tendance u|Kiti the Western A' Atlan ,t c Hailroad bn-eca-e the nn>-t cor '-l ieu> u- wa- (ten. Robert Toombs, who appeared a- counsel for one of the It Pn -i'l'-M ('. H. Pbioixjr, "J the Georgia Railroad. He was most con spicuous because tif the great change which ha- recently taken place in his physical condition. Within the past few months h ; - eyesight ha- nearly failed him. and his once full face ha gr wn thin and wrinkled. Amid thi wreck of the physical man can be -•■ en trace- of u loss of mental power also. Y<-t, to the eye of hi- friends an 1 admirers, lie is great even in ru ins. A glance at his stately yet feeble form reveals what he must have been ,at his let, and there are still gleams of intellectual fire from his now slug gish hrnin that remind as of his ri|s-st mental efforts. (Ine thing about Gen i eral Toombs i- worthy of enmuu nda ; lion. He is frank and out-spoken, and nil the world knows how he feels inwardly. He ha- a kinder heart and a more generous disposition than i generallv assigned to him. His loving and tender devotion to his estimable wife, who i- nl-o in feeble health, is the one bright and beautiful feature of his character. It in possible that her influence may yet bring to hii closing hours of life the sweets, ('hrislain faith and triit that made Senator Hill's death-bed so peaceful and radiant. Lawyers and Editors in Japan Society in the Japanese capital ha lieen much |>ertnrbed hy a hitter feud bet wen ihe newspaper editor- and the native lawyers. In an evil hour the ; editor of the leading journal, the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, delivered his soul of a diatnlie against lawyers in general. He aspersed their motives, declared i them selfish and mercenary in all their : dealings, and, in short, held up the profession to public reprobation. The I gentlemen of the long robe nothing loth, accepted the challenge, and for -IX long months the battle raged. Mo tions and tountermoeion were made in court after court of the empire. By a tour de force the editor, who was at first unable to obtain the services of a -ingle lawyer, brought over to his own -ide the individual who led the van of his opponents. The flight now became more even, and was ultimately settled by the editor explaining that his words were understood in a Pickwickian sense. In the course of the contest another editor a-sailed one of the lawyers, and was rewarded for hi* pains by an action, in which the plain tiff claimed £.'1,000,000 as damages, with the alternative of a letter of apol j ogy in every newspaper in Japan, or 1 that the defendant, arrayed in a peni j tent's garb, should kneel for 100 days liefore the plaintiff's house or io a fre quented thoroughfare. The court de clined to accept either of the plantifTs suggestions; it found (he editor guilty of libel and fined him £l, with twen ty days' imprisonment. Bbort Guide to Bankruptcy. t.,n.| i Triumph. While one of the Boeniac delegates who waited ujxin the Kmperor Franz Josef al the llofburg, a few weeks ago, was staying in Vienna, the owner of the hotel in which he lodged became a bankrupt. Hearing ofhia host'* mis hap, the worthy IW sought an expla nation of the term "bankruptcy," and having thoroughly mastered its mean ing, proceeded, on hi* return to his native village, to impart his informa tion to sundry of the Faithful,his near relatives and close family connections. "This, O my brothers," he observed, "is the true and proner way to be come a bankrupt. First you must hire a shop. Then you write to a rich merchaot*, in far distant cilias, inviting them to forward tbeir wares to you for sale, and pledging yourself to ]y them within a few months. As soon as you shall have received suffi cient merchandise you must sail it for cash or hide it carefully away. Than must you go to the judge and *av to him: 'Beloved of Allah ! I am a bankrupt. Here are JLo. They afl . all I have in the world.' The judge will keep ill of the t-i and pro'laou you in bankruptcy ; the other JLI will he divided among those who supplied you with goodf". Later on you will remove to another town and begin thin good and cosy business (JV er again. Tlitm may the panning bitterness of in solvency he converted into the abiding sweetness of u comfortable indepen dence. Buchesm! Upon mv head IM it!" • The Hew Explosive-Vint*. I'lU'lon M*n< hat*r fliMfilitn. A consular report from Sweden i-- sued by the Foreign Office gives n de scription of a new explosive called schiiatine, which, it is said, has compe ted most favorably with dynamite. Sebastine appears to be an explosive based U|*>n nitroglycerine, but safer to handle than the ordinary dynamite, while more powerful in effect and cheaper to purchase. The greater "iifetv of sclm-tine depends on two cir cumstances—first, that the explosive oil is more completely ab-nrlx-d and bound by a specially prepared kind of charcoal and other ingredients, and, i secondly, that in ordinary cases it re. quires no percussion cap to explode. As to use in mining, it is reported that j the new selm-tine exploded simply by the fuse, providing the bore hole i j properly secured by a stronger wad | ding, as in an ordinary charge ofblast ' itig powder. According to offieial statements there ha- not lus n out -ing le itislaure of accident lmpjwning when u-ing the ti< w sebasiit:*. The Swedish (iovcrnment having or'ered trial- of- hastine agnitist dviiaruite, it is said to have been proved that s*-bas tine was far superior in effect and als.ut equal in force to Kuglish gun cottou when used in torfiedoes. The Consul at (iothenburg adds: "As an explosive of great power, and offering -uperior security, particularly for min ing and similar purposes. I would n corumend the new -abanine, or, more pr perlv, its improve*) form, virite. to tin- notice of Her Majesty's (Joverti -1 nient." An Old Veteran. Wall so.et a-wft. "Hid you ever worry over your stock transactions?" wn a-ked of an old veteran who bad made his pile in < alifomia" I "Never." "How large a sum did you ever have at stake ?" "Kxactly $232,000. I bought that much stock in the High Flyer mine when the stock was selling at par. One day the stock Ix-gan to drop, and in four hours I saw it fall to If." "And what did you do?" "Went home and went to bed." "\\ hat! could you sleep with such an anxiety on your mind ?" "Never slept sounder in my life." "And how was it the next day ?" "Hock dropjK"d to 13. and was wiped ofT the list before night." "And then you lost your all ?" "Oh. no, mv friend. While this stock was going down on me iny 5,000 shares iu the Diamond ran up to 52' I, and I cleared so*o,ooo in one after noon. I was intending to donate the $232,000 to the church anyway, hut it so happened that our congregation -truck a gold mine in digging the cellar for an edifice, and so everything I turned out for the best." A FtOATixo FiKi.il.—lll Colorado is a ten acre field, which is siniplv a ; subterranean lake covered with soil about eighteen inches deep. On the soil is cultivated a field of corn which rroduces thirty bushels to the acre, f any one will take the trouble to dig a hole to the depth of a spade handle he will find that it will fill with water, ami by using a hook and line fish five or six inches long may bo caught. The fish have neither scales nor eyes, ami arc perch-like in sha|>c. The grotiml is a black marl in nature and iu all probability was at one time au open body of water, which accumulated vegetable matter, which has iucrca-ed from lime to time, until now it has a crust sufficiently atroug and rich to Kroduce fine corn, although it has to e cultivated by hand, as it is not strong enough to be-ar the weight of a horse. While harvesting, the hands catch great strings of fish by making a hole through the earth. A person rising on his heels and coming down suddenly can see the growing corn shake ail amuod bim. A WAMIXOTO* clerk who had a keg of sjiecie drop on his fingers is one of the few people who ever had too much cash on hand. IT is said that the war in Kgyrt has raised the price of mummies. People who have not yet bought their winter stock of mummies will regret to learn this. THE most exaggerated dispatch* * come by the fish line. IT is a man with • swelled jaw who realises that silencw is golden. THE spectacle of a lot of bald-bead ed men In bathing is said to rejiemb.'p an animated game of billumb. jfMiSfe&r Aw.