Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, September 13, 1883, Image 2
Untold, A fsee may bo noelul-white lo oovor a heart that'* -tolling; And a face may bo full of light over a lio-trl that's brooking ! Tia not tho hoaviost grief for which wo wear tto willow; Tho tears bring alow robot which only wot tho pillow. Hani may bo burdens Ixirnn, though friends would tain unbind them; Raider nro crosses worn where nono euro God can find them. For tho loved who leave our side our souls are well-nigh riven; But ah' for the graves wo liido, have pity, tender Heaven ! Bott lie tho words and sweet that soot ho the spoken sorrow; Alas ! for tho weary leet that tuny not rest tomorrow. .Maryarrl K. Sanjtltr. THE JUDGES WIFE. Judge Shickleton, one of tho most prominent jurists in Arkansaw, at a banquet the other night, related an interesting reminiscence of the early days of Arkansatv. i " I came here," said tho judge, "just after 1 had been admitted to the bar in a Northern State. Like the ave rage young lawyer, I was poor, and actually thirsted for a case. Shortly after I arrived, I went to a mountain district, and stopped at a small town where court was in session. There wax considerable excitement in the town over the trial of a young man who had l>eon indicted for murder. The older lawyers were loth to engage in the prosecution, so the young prose cuting attorney was working single handed. I met him the second day after my arrival, and when he learned that I was a lawyer, he said: " ' I am glad to see you, for I know that, as a young man in the profes sion, you of course want an introduc tion to the people of the State. Nothing so quickly and effectually introduces a man like parti-ipan y in an important case. I am at pres ent prosecuting, for murder, a young fellow named Dawes. He is its guilty | as guilty can be, and should by all means hang, yet I fear, with so much opposition, that I will not be able to as sist justice to a proper punishment of the terrible crime. Now, what I want you to do is to assist me.' " I did not at all relish the idea that my tirst case should be one of tragedy, and that my tirst money derived from law should be blood money ; but seeing no other opening, and fearing that none other would present itself, I consented. Just be fore we reached the argument in tie case. the prosecuting attorney was taken violently ill, leaving the entire conduct of the case devolving upon me. This, to me. put a dreadful pha-e on the affair, ami for a time I meditated whether or not 1 would run away from the country and seek my fortune elsewhere, but finally deciding that [ could never la-come a lawyer without making sacrifices in the dis charge of my duty, I resolved to re main ami do niy best. I studied the case carefully. T went to the place, a short distance away, and examined the ground where the murder had been committed. I found a witness who had not l>een summoned, and upon the whole did good detective work. The arguments lagan. 1 nerved myself to the point, and made the last speech I could possibly for mulate. I was somewhat surprised at my own powers, and at the interest I was taking in the case. The pris oner, a handsome fellow, would at times look at ine in mute appeal, but I knew that he was guilty, i estale lished the. fact that the defendant had quarreled with an old man named Shannon, and that shortly afterwards he went to Shannon's field and shot him from the fence. I made every point so clear that I could s<-e the jurymen shaking their heads when an illustration was strikingly vivid. The counsel for the defense, composed of old lawyers, whose fame had long since ls-en established, looked at me in astonishment. They met me. and wanted a compromise. I knew nothing hut justice, and justice knew no compromise. Finally, the case went to the jury. Within five minutes afterward a verdict of guilty was ren dered. "An appeal to the supreme court was taken, but the decision of the court below was sustained, and the young man was hanged. " I did not settle in the town, for the scene became repulsive. I moved to another part of the .State, where I soon established a good practice. "One day, about three years after ward, I met. at a northern watering place, a beautiful young woman, whose husband was dying of consumption. iShe seemed so devoted to him, con sulted his every whim, and was so eeuuous about his comfort, that 1 was attracted toward her. She did not seem to doubt her husband's recov ery, and when one evening I aski-d her if she did not think that he was sinking rapidly, her large, lustrous eyes filled with tears, and in a choking voice she replitsi : " • I don't think that lie is slck enough to die.' •'' Hut you should he prepared for the worst,' I suggested "' I cannot bo prepared for it. No preparation can lighten the blow. If ho dies, it is my desire to go too.' Hut you cannot go without com mitting suicide, and you certainly cannot contemplate such a terrible step.' -•-Oh, I don't know," she exclaimed, • I don't like to think about it.' "The consumptive grew worse rapidly, hut his wife was still hope ful. for lie would talk of what he intended to do when Ic recovered. One night, about twelve o'clock. 1 was summoned to tin- JSH tr fellow's riMiin. He lay gasping for breath, and his wife, beautiful even in grief, sat holding his hands. The end soon came, and 1 saw her how her magnifi cent head in despair. "He was buried, in compliance with a request that ho made, on the mountain, where a little stream flowed, and where a tree, covered with wild, beautiful vines, shaded a grassy plot. " I did not Mrs. Delure, Un fair widow, for a few days after the funeral. Then she came to bid me good-bye. "When the memory of your hus band affords a melancholy pleasure, instead of a deep grief, will you not write to me?" I \ski*|. "'I don't know,' she replied. -I don't feel as though 1 shall ever again feel dis|>osed to write, but I thank you for tin- deep interest you have taken in me, and hope some day to meet you again.' "• You are young, Mrs Delure, and so nil I. We may live a long tint • We may meet again. I would lik-- though, to gain one promise; tliit, ; five years from now, you will write to me,if for nooth'-r purpose than telling me that your are well.' •"But I may not lie well.' she re plied, with a faint snub- that went to my heart. " * Then promise to t--ll in • w '.ether you are sjck or w ell -' "Why, if 1 am living. I will be either siek or well, and if I'm dead. I cannot write, you know.' and again the faint smile, like a softened twi light. Pas-ed over her face. "• Write to rue anyway? " "'I will," she -iid, as she enteral the hark. 'I will write just a< soon as I can.' " I return--1 to Arkanxuw and r-- suined my pro-dire, but business - are did not remove the image of that lieautiful fare. Day an I night my thoughts, sometiur-H anxious almost lieyond endurance, wandered lwi-'k t > the watering place. Once 1 dreamed of that quiet, s.i-l smile, and awak ing, I found that the fir-t beams of a rising moon were lighting my cham ber. "Two years pasxixl. and I h<- rd nothing from Klla, as I had learned to think of her. At last I determined to go again to the watering phiee. One eveuing, after I had ls-en there a few -lays, I was strolling ->n tin mountain, when I chanced to -tr-.1l near Del ore's grave. Hearing voices, f approached cautiously 1 xt-x-d lw ] hind a tree. The inonn --ante out. and I saw Mrs. I>elur- and a man sitting near the grave. "• I cannot mam you,' she said, i ' You have le-en very kind to me, I an-1 have greatly aided me in getting i my achool, but 1 cannot marry you.' •"Do you ever expect to marry j again ?' he aked. i j "• I don't know-. There is one man whose memory 1 Iwve. lie was with - me when my husband died. If I were to ever .marry any one I would ; marry him. 1 promised to write to ■ him, and I have tried a do/en times, [ i but each letter sc-ni--il like a love letter." j "I could stand no more, and ex • I claiming • Klla,' I rushed from my hi-l - it* place and caught her in my arms . The man looked on for a moment, and turn-sl away, t "Our arrangements were so>n com t pleted. Our wedding was quiet and ( simple, and immediately after the oere mony, we started for my home in Ar r kansaw. I " We began housekeeping at once, i, and I know there was not a happier 1 man in town than I. One evening, while Klla an-1 I were sitting in the - twilight, she said : H •" I never saw a man so little in e terested in any one's history as von i, are. You have been acquainted with me a long time now. and have never a asked me anything about my former I self.' "' Your present self,' I replied, 'bA longs to me; your former self did not. I am never anxious about anything that does not belong to me.' "' Do you know that I used to live in this state?' " ' Did you?' I asked, in surprise. "' Yes,' she said, in a saddened tone. • I have been three times mar-' ried. My first husband was named Dawes, Imt he was a bud man, and died by the hand of the law.' "(ir-'at heavens, I had hung her hus band." Hopkinton Traveller. A SINGULAR STOUT. The I,ntr I'rofraeor I'aluirr antl Ills Peru liar i;iprrlrnra. In tho "Life of Professor Palmer," who, it will be remembered, was Uill-sl by Arabs when engaged upon a rnid sion in connection with the lute Kgypt iiui war, there is a remarkable story told of an event which happened to liiui when a youth in London. He was thr<-uten<sl w ith symptoms of pul monary disease, and tho doctors told him that he bad but a few months to live. Helieving this report, he gave up his clerkship, and returned to his aunt at Cambridge; and Mr. Walter j Hesant, who writes the "Lif.e" vouch | ex for what next happened. There w as at a time a certain herbalist living ut Cambridge, nam-si Shcrring hain. Now the profession of herbalist is -n-- which still exists, and is even extensively, though obscurely prac ticed, although ordinary people know, as a rule, little about it. The follow ers of the craft, in fact, preserve tho oM traditions concerning the efficacy i of certain drugs and herbs, tin sit -if which are quite common, and may lie gathered in the fields. There is no disease which t hey -In not profess to cure by the administration :>f these herbs, and their pharmuco|H-ia is, or osis| to be before the I|-'I ay of the pro fession, very extensive. I have been by a physician that many of the herbs used bv herbalists -lo actual ly p ISSI-VS the valuable modir.il proper iu-s attributed to them, though they have been supplanted by other drugs "f more re-ent I.- -v.-ry ami more ef fi .c lous action. There are still, iti i n't, thousands f people especially in fhe gr--at tosio, who woull not will ingly consult any other d'tor than the herbalist, and they arestr-mg l-elievers in the powers .if majority, feverfew, dandelion, eam-uiule, and other plants ; which the old women formerly gatli ered in the h-xlgi-t for th<- curing of the village folks The man Sherring ham was .-n-- of the unlicensed prac titioners. Now, whether I'aimer went to consult him, oroneof las friends s went. or, which is quite jx-ssilde, lie himself knew Calmer and volunteered -11- -x|>eri--iue and skill. I know not; l-llt at all events, he did listen tobher ringhani, did take liis advice, and did follow the treatment recommended by him. ft was simple; it consisted of a single s-rong >i .• of 1-d-e.lia, a herb who h produces I am told, effects simi lar to those of hemlock. The patient was first si'i/isl with a v iulent attack of ■ -muting; then a cold chill laid hold of his , and slowly mounted upwards; it froze hi* limbs, which he could not move, and struck his heart which c.-a- l to lie.V, and his throat, which ceased to breathe. They bad sent for a d'" tor by this time. "I felt myself," h" aid, describing this experience, --j f,.| myself-lying, I was lidtig kill-d by tins drear fill cold sprea ling all over me. I was quite I certain that my last moments had ar r riv.sl Hy my liedsjde stood my aunt, p.Mvr soul, crying. I saw- the doctor feeling a pulseless wrist, watch in hand; the cold dews of death were on f my forehead; the cold hand of death was on my limits. I'p to my lij-s. but . n-> higher, I thought f was actually dead, and could see and hear, but not f speak, not even when the doctor let ( my hand fall uje-n the pillow an-1 said I solemnly, "He is gone'" I "There was n > pain, except the feel ) ing of intense cold," he used to add, n--r was he iri any concern, except ( that he wished he had finished a cer tain Imok lie had began, and he won- I -h-r-xl whether in the next world ho would have a chance of finishing it. ( "The art of -lying," he would say. "is I nothing to what people think. 1 have ( been -lead myself, an-1 ought te know." An-1 then ? I Then he recovered. Ho recovered , ' suddenly. New strength came to him; h-- not. only got the !>etter of this poi s -n. but the lolielia. or something else, , got the 1 tetter of Ills disease. The r consumption was arrested, andhe was f no more troubled for the rest of his life, except on one occasion with any morn anxiety about his lungs. This strange story is aiisoliitelv true, and (( is know nto all who knew I'aliner at I I that time. r on.-third of the K-listo Island, one i" J <ff the famous ".Sea l.xUn la," Is owned I by n<-gr --x MARKIAUE IS CIIISA. •low !!• Ilrtdo is rrrd to lII* I.room •id llovr ll* Makii || rr Ilia \ If*. On the wedding day the guests as semble in the bridegroom's house. Then a procession is formed, consist ing of friends, hands of music, and fcedan chairs divorated in red and gold, with bearers in red coats and dressed in a sort of livery, sometimes wearing j ■ml caps. The procession starts from | the house with a courier at the head, lie hears a large piece of pork on a i tray, to keepolT malicious demons who ! may he lurking on the street corners 1 and in the alleys. These demons are supposed to tackle the pork, and while they are thus husied the procession ' passes on without heing affected hy their evil inlluence. All tliis time the hride Is at her own house, arraying herself in her hest dress and richest jewels. Her hair is bound tin and ar- | ranged in due form and style hy a , skilled matron. After tliis her lieail ! dress is donned. It usually consists of some rich material sprinkled with ornaments. A large mantle is then thrown over her. It completely covers her. Last of all an enormous hat, as large as an umbrella, is placed on her head. It conies down to tier shoulders, j completely hiding her face. Thus j ngg'sl, she takes tier scat in the r<sl gilt marriage chair, called kwa kiau. When concealed in this chair she is carried to her husband hy four men. When the hride is seated in the chair, her mother or some other rela tive locks the door, and the key is giv- , en to the best man. 1 suppose he turns it over to the bridegroom on reaching ins house. The procession returns with more care and more style. I saw one during a ramble in a Chinese tow n. As tin- 1 >rid- was ls>rne past us we gave her three cheers. I dare say that all lu r children will be either knock-kneed or bow-legged, be. cause of the cheers of the barbarians. Hood luck to the poor bott!ed-up otic. She had the best wishes of all our par- , ty, as we followed the pri* <--*jon for some squan** to the gr< at astonish ment of all the < hinamen on the street. As the procession approached the hridegrooiu's door a band stationed there struck up a tune, and lire-crack- j crs were let off by the le>x until the bride was < arricd within the gate The go-tictween then got the key from the bridegroom and opened the door of the sedan chair. As the bride , alighted she was saluted by a small child at the side .d the old man. The j groom was closeted within the house, and she went in to seek him. Mm still wore the enormous hat and mantle. When she found the groom he greob*l her with gnat gravity. They lth , kppr <arhcd the ancestral tablet and l>)we<l their heaiLs three times. They next took scats at a small table tear ing two goblets tied together with thread and containing wine. The go between scvrrl the thread, but the brul" failed to quench her thirst, ow ing to her enormous hat and mantle. The two were now man and wife. ; The husband took the hat and inantle from the bride, and for the first time In his life had a look at her. After he had looked at her for some minnb-s j Jio called in his friends and guests. They scrutinized her and made no j bones of expressing their opinions con cerning her charms. The females gave their tongues full Slope, and had no mercy on the poor hride. she took it all without making any disagreea ble answer, for fear that the match would lie considered an unlucky one. These cruel criticisms ended, she was introduced to her husband's parents, after which she saluted her own father and mother. The wedding feast was then served, the sexes eating in differ ent apartments. The males were served by the bridegroom and his relative*, and the females by the females hy the hride and her mother in-law. assisted hy servants. The two sexes rarely *tt down at tin 1 same ta ble. Marring" is very common among the Chinese. You hardly ever come across a girl of sixti-en or eighteen who is not tied down to some man. If a woman Commits adultery after marriage she Is decapitated under the law. Why I "Why," said a defeated candidate. 1 am I like the earth f" "Because," said a listener, "you are covered with dirt," "Wrong ; guess again." "Because you are always 'round." "Wrong; try another." "Because you are wicked." "Try again." "Give It up. Why are you ?" I "Well, It's because I'm flattened at L the polls."— Merchant-Tratvller. The government of the United States does not own an acre of public land within the borders of Tennessee. I A HKKAD FACTOR?. A I'arlalati Ksiabllsh mcnl for Nahlni • he Maff of Ufa. There is now lxdng erected in oneoi the suburbs of I'aris, says a letter from that city, an establishment in which the visitor may see wheat come in at one door in sacks and go out at ths other in shape of loaves of bread. I mud hardly add that in each one of I the various steps of this great ineta i morphosis mechanical appliances wilL I as far as possible, take the place ol manual lalor. The following is ths ! routine of the process that will be adopted at this establishment: As sisin as the wheat has arrived and its ' weight and quality verified, it is emptied from the sacks into an u: der ground tank, where an elevator takes it up to the top of the building, where there are three store rooms, one for the I hard, one for the half-hard and one j for the soft wheat. From here it is ! conveyed either hy its own weight through pipi-s, or by means of another elevator to the cleaning stores, and then automatically into duster,' I and lastly into the "ventilator," which blows away the last speck of dust. It is now ready for the grinding-stones, j hut before rem hing them it pa-scs j through the '•dampening screw," which imparls to it such a degree of dampness as may h considered im -s -sary in order to facilitate its transfor mation into dour. As it leaves the screw it is sei/i-d bv two "Hungarian : cylinders." When the grain has paints :<d through these cylinders it has Imi-oiiu- Uiulangc. or'uulsilted flour, and the cylinder- have a capacity of 10/kO jxiunds of boulange jer day. Mill, in an automatic manner, the(XJU lange passes on to the "bluteni*" or (silting doth*. whieh ar- so arranged as to at once separate the various grades of flour from each other, and wliicli are thereupon transported to store rooms that do not materially differ from those from which the grain j started. The bran is pa'ked into sacks holding l" 1 ' |iounds each, and is ready for sale. The flour on the ot(i-r hand is not yet at th" end of its ad venture*. The mixing of the dougii is done in the Ik-liry mixer, an inven tion that tunis out <V<O jsiunds of dough every twenty minutes. Tiie I dough passe* tiirougli two cast iron rollers, and as it puss-'** an automatic knife cut- it into njual-si7'*l mor> ls, which fall ujxin an endless canvas le-lt that conveys them to the workmen, who, with rapid motion, shape each lump of dough into a loaf, place them separately in flannel-lined baskets of i the exa't si/c of the loaf and pile them on tricycles, 120 on each tricycle, which conveys them to the oven. . This oven is a gallery fifty feet in length and divided into two cham bers. The oven is heated froin lieJow and the loaves are carried through it by means of an endless chain, which pasM-s over drums at a rate of speed that >an be regulated according to tho size of the ioaves and the heat of tho oven and in such a manner thut as one unbaked loaf enter* the oven at one end a baked loaf i-stu-s at the other. As they leave the oven they are placed 1 on wicker trays and carried to the | cooling-room. from whence they are delivered to the customers by wagons. It may interest the reader to know that in France 133 pounds of bread can !*• made from 100 jxmnds of flour, that 100 pounds of flour can lie pro duced from 133 pounds of wheat, and that the annual consumption of bread in this city is 113 pounds i>er head of jHipulation. More than Men. A good story is told <>f Lamartine in the Revolution of 184*. At the Hotel de Mi"" Lamartine received the an nouncement that a deputation of Ves uviennes demanded an interview. Three women strongly resembled the famous poiaardm of the First Rev olution. The doors of his cabinet were throw n open, and the apartment was presently filled hy these fierce-look ing dames, whose dishevelled locks and uncouth garb presented anything but an attractive spectacle. Monsieur de Lamartine bowed, and begged to know whether he could lie of any service to his visitors. "Citizen," replied the foremost among them, standing with anus akimbo in front of her comrades, "the Vesuviennes have resolved to send you a deputation to express their admiration of your conduct There are fifty of us, and in be name of all tho Vesuviennes, we, fifty In number, have come to kiss you." The poet gave one glance at the forest of un kempt hair and the rubicund cheeks of the unwashed Venusen, and thus re plied—"Citoyennes, I thank yon for the sentiments you inspire mo with; hut allow me to remark that patriots of your stamp are more than women—they are men. Men do not I embrace each other. We shako hands." • And they did. till he was almost sorry . he had not made it kisses aftr all. HCIMTIFIC HCBAPB. M. HeLesseps states that the evapoi* ating power of the nun l.n lean on the aite of the proposed inland sea of .Sa hara than on the Bed Sea, and he does not anticipate that the waters will dry up. Geological examination reveals in the delta of the Mississippi, along a space of :$OO miles, ten distinct forests of buried trees. Maid cypresses with a diameter of twenty-live feet have been found. A t'iiinese imperial decree has iieen issued ordering that the telegraphic lines between Woonsung and Shang hai, and between Ainoy and ifaihon, are to be constructed ly the Chinese thctuselves and not by Kuropeaus or other foreigners. I'rof. Joseph J.e t'outc has come to the conclusion tiiat the supjiosod hu man footprints at < arson, Nevada, are the tracks of a large plantigrade qua druped. He adds that there i an abundant room lor honest difference of opinion in the matter. It is maintained by some scientists that the aroma of fruits increases with the latitude, while the sweetness de creiujes. Many herbs, su> han caraway, are ru ber in essential oils in Norway than in more southern regions. The ••fleet i asrriU-d to the influence of the prolonged light of the summer months. Among Russian geologists the belief appears tii be settled that granite pubs, one,- thought to lie of ignoo'is and eruptive origin, are really of aqueous formation. The granite -if the rapuls of the Itnieper, when close ly examined, show stratification, and under the microscope they are -ao-n 'u contain drops of brown water. l)r. Julien came to the following conclusions in regard to th" life of st n< s. defining life as the jieri-d dur ing which the -tone presented a decent appearance. Coarse brownstone, best used out of tin- sun. from five to fif t'- :i y< trs. I.:ttiiinut<-d fine brown stiii..-from twenty-five to fifty years. Compart fine brow nstone from one to two f . ntiir.es. Nova -tia stone will pro),ably last from fifty toone hundred \c..rs. Ohio sandstiine. the best of the sandstones, psi y>ars; Caen stone, fr m thirty-five to forty years ; coarse loloinite marble, forty ydti; flat mar ble, ixty y ir.s; pure calcareous mar ie. fr-'iii fifty to one hundred y-ars, granite, from seventy-live to JiJO years, wording to variety . The (onstcrn.itlon an Owl Made. The action of the Washington mon ument is watched most carefully and its every movement register*--!. TWQ plummets are suspcndisl in its inside, one from a height of job feet and tlx other from a height <>f 15© feet. Th* movements of these are compared many times a day. The movement of one should le about one and one-hall times that of the other if there were no irregular internal movement <>n the part of the structure Hut the regis ter shows that the movement is irreg ular in lsith direction and in sire. Sometimes the plummets move iu op posite directi- ns and sometimes in the same. Sometimes the top moves a little, hut its whole sway since the foundation was strengthened has l>een only one-quarter of an inch All of these movements are very slight, and ran only he detected with a micro scope. The longer plummet line is en raged in a wooden box, to prevent the atmosphere having any effect upon it, and since the finding that the spiders had once drawn the line out of the perpendicular, a careful investigation is made daily, to see that the lines are not influenced by outside causes. Once, when great consternation was caused by the irregularity of the line, it was found that an owl was (torched upon the top of the line. It was caught, killed, stuffed and given to Mrs. Hayes, and It is now probably on exhibition at Fremont She Took the Medicine. The doctor had loved her long an-t well, but dare not mention it At length she l*>eame indisposed and sent for him. He could see nothing mater ially wrong with her, except a little j irregularity about the heart, and at length she asked: ••Well, doctor, what do you think ought to bo done for me." Replied the doctor, "I don't know ol any letter way than to go to the coun ty clerk's and get a matrimonial pen script ion." -What and get married—why whs in the world would have raeT* ••I will." replied the doctor. "Oh. dear me, if that Is the kind oi medicine you are going to give me, it won't le so bad to take afte all. will it dear." replied the rapidly reviving young lady. —W'iVfcW ( W. !'.,) fere pr*ssibU.