"BEHIND THE BARS. | AN TIARY GIVEN BY A PRISONER. The Amont of Joy Find in His How Prisoners Employ Their or Misery a Convict May Incarceration / Lelsure Hours, - {Buffalo Courier Interview, | “Life is about what whether guarded doors stand between him and one makes it, aud fon Lars freedom, or the whole world is his to wander ino at will,” | said a prisoner at the brie county peniten @iary to a reporter The speaker and his companion were standing in one of the corridors of the mail department, gaz. ng upward at the whitewashed cells which rose tier above tier to the roof, f peculiar sounds harmoniously Highs and strangely but not in broke upon their groans, whispered con cersation, cheerful chit-chat, the subdued votes of a familiar by mn, and the air of a avorite ballad s {tly whispered, told of he varied moods of the occupants of the narrow apartments. The speaker was re lating sume of his peculiar personal ex periences and striving to convey to his companion some idea of what it means to be “behind the bars ” “When a man is sent here for a long term, ” he continued, “the umount of en jovment or misery he ges out of hs in carcera ion depends cutirely on himself At first, of course, the con. nement chafes him and he lougs to regain his freedom but after becoming accustomed to his new surroundings this impatience or restraint is succeeded by a sort of philosophical resignation. He bas tried the strength of the bars and looked into the resolute faces of the Keepers in vain for some sign of weakness, and he concludes that escape perforce of physical prowess or the bri bery of the attendants is out of the ques tion. The city papers say no more about his case; his friends, one after another, cease to call upon him, and he comes to the conclusion that he been forgotten by the world, noth ng remains save to + serve out the time of his sentence in a living tomb and strive by cheerful compliance with the prison regulations to cut short the period of penal servitude. With the short term men it is different. The ex pectation of an early return to their ac customed haunts keeps them from form ing any settled habits or laying out any plan of procedure “The more intelligent a long-term is. the less he suffers. The illiterate and the dull are apt to become morose and melancholy, and spend their time in un availing lamentations, while the educated and ambitious man feels that he has made a grave mistake in life and sets his mind at work to devise some means of regain ing a portion of what he has lost With out a purjose in life an intelligent pris oner would go crazy A few days age one of the prisoners brought me the model of an ingenious and complicated machine which be had invented since his incarceration, and this model is now in the hands of a patent solicitor with a fair probability of the inventor reaping a handsome reward for his industrious brain work. Another man who recently completed a five years terms here, wrol a technical work on electro plating dur ing the odd hours spent in cell Uthers are skillful whittlers, and wonderful things with their jack-Kuive One of these whittlers carved a handsome model of a lake steamer, Ws Aw feet long, out of a solid block. aud hited it up with cabins, smoke stacks, paddle wheels, masts, and all ojher features and furnishings of one of the fresh-water boats. 1his was placed on exhibition in a down town show w.ndow and aitrac.ed much atte.tion. ¢ thers make a careful study of certain games, such as checkers, chess, ete, and in time develop wonder. ful skill. Then there is a certain class whose chief aim seems to be to gather as much money as possible, so as to go out into the world with enough to give them » business start. “Une or two have property which is managed for them by their families or agents, and these give up their thoughts to the best course to pursue in the manag ment of their possessions There are, perhaps, two or three who devote all their spure time to the formation of plans for escape, but these are destined to noth ing save disappointment Still, if they ire not easily discouraged, even this occu- a ion of mind is better than none at all, oh it keeps them from despair and mel ancholia Even prison life can not crush out individuality, and we have here lnvet erate punsters, good story-ielle:s, misan thropes, violent infidels, devout believers, sgotists, men as humble as | riab Heep, and all the other types of character common to the outside world We even have our poets “1 believe if a long timer has a special talent be should be given full opportunity to cultivate it Fociely has no right to permanently dwarf a man’s powers while he is undergoing punishment for some misdeed as a warning to others. The ends sf justice are suf ciently satisfied when the intelligent man is compelled to un jergo the ignominy and disgrace of a prison cell, and after incarceration the idea shou d be reform rather than revenge Iie prisoner should be given full scope in his efforts to prepare himself for an wonorsble career of industry when his wntence has expired. If he is prepared to enter one of the learned professions, or excels i one of the fino arts, so much the better. Society applauds the man who cvises from a bootblack to positions of wealth and honor, and there is no reason why she should turn a cold shoulder upon the reformed culprit or refuse to recog: size his genius becouse he has siept in » prison cel’. “A short-term prisoner is never ina better condition for reform than when be leaves Li.s place, the whisky is all out of Lim, bis person is clenn, he has become in some degree habituated to daily Inbor, hie uead is clear, his digestive power: good, and his mind in a measure freed rom evil influences. Let him return to his former uaunts and old time associates and all will be lost. Then, if ever, society should throw about him her protecting arm and see that he is started on the right road “All this may scem rose colored to you but we who are inside know more of the aature of the so called criminal clas es, snd. while it would be idle to expect a general reform, 1 feel confident thit a sufficient number would Le saved from going back to their old ways to make the iystom a success. ” blended Ars has and man his fashion pera That Karly Spring Congh. Buffalo Express. “Listen! What do you hear? A cough? What does it indleate? |) erhaps a tick'e in the throat; perhaps bronchitis "thus » tent ne advertisement. Ob, no, t indientes that the young man with the suit. bat and Waterbury watch i trying to attract the attention of the young woman in the Newmarket op posite, INSIDE VIEW OF THE FENITEN® | ARTIST:C MECHANICS, Praction], Day-Waorking Toilers Who Stand High In Selentifie Specialtios [Scientific American, | A recent notice of a mechani: in Mas | 3 p | suchusetts who is an expert in that depart. | ment of natural history of which the bul { other and tery is the chief representative, suggests similar instances, il may Le { that the exaciness required in mechanical A chorus | | | | plate } { | | | | | | i | | | | | joiner, | Hora of New England than some | authors | fields, pastures | hs haunts when he | season. ” | two instances show | authors was naturally artistic rather than mechanical work deveiops a taste for close study, or it muy be that natwial history and pure science be ome plensant toils to the mon- otony of mechanical work; but it is the fact that some practical, day working mechanics stand high ln some scientine | specinitics | There is a machinest—a fine tool maker —~who is well known, and widely known, nu amateur astronomer. He Las con ributed importantly to the science und is uot sarpassed in nicety and preciseness io designing astronomical mechauism, Another is an expert steel engraver by sho'ce and us a pastime, and yet, weredi ble as it may appear, he is a smith o forger, handling steel and iron in bars and the heavy hammer of the bincksmith all day, and doing delicate steel engray ing at night or on “of hours He has nearly finished designing and engraving a series of plates representing the child sa legend of the “1 eath of Cock t.obin, ” the proofs of which are really fine One left the machine shop three years ngo and set up as Al CLEraver on _ewaeiry, and similar articles Ile originates all his designs, and rarely makes a se ond drawing. He is a wonderful producer of elegant and legible monograms. A sel of six silver buttons for a vest, all uniformed in geneg! design and no two alike in par ticulars, very artistic and yet he designed and engraved the six while the customer waited —perhap s an hour. These that the bent of the Is There is a young man, 30 better years old, a authority on the of the books The by ways are hour “in the herb who 1s of text aud has un He is not surpassed as a LCL epted woods | alist, und is quoted as authority where he {is known | man, a machinist, | acts at call in setting bones and when another went into the shop. He reducing that he is in the professionals, who A surgeon was spoiled sprains He is so successfu the confidence of | are not ashamed to profit by Lis sugges | to its ultimate a faculty | that is not uncommon in the shops | outside i} {one eye | powerful magnet without avail | cut out the obtrus.ve | penknife blade las he might ina f tions This mechanic, however, only carrics and a practice It is rare, indeed. that in (ase of an ordinary accident in the shop there is necessity for aid. When the writer was no gster, he lodged a piece of the sharp hammer bardened head of a cold chisel in The “shop surgeon” a plied a ‘hen he particle with a keen making an incision just ger A youn professional { surgeon who afterward examiped the eye | has | and station of the i | scribed said that it was a “very creditable job funeral of a Chinese Frinece, Pal’ Mall Gazette The funeral of the Chinese Prince Lau u. the cousin of the Emperor {uang Su, been conducted with all the pom due to the exalied The re ceremonies de Cease i the ing place Six RIAVOS, « Learin proce sion h ince whi accom panied ains of the w ded ¢ to his asi uy thirty green cloth and ge, representing the funer followed by in red and carryviog with the tities tues of the dead Next can iwenly sg 240 hounds o ce = the camels, mules, 15 hea : n garment g & huge wooden sl of the s 100 u SAVES tablets in honors, and vir These dressed Were i fine waagn lo orlamen he Fu, i Ru sedan longing horses, | chairs, and the private carriage, drawn by | a mule. sixteen servants dressed in greeo silk bore an arm.chair covered with a | tiger skin, a regiment of cavalry and in fantry followed, then the body servants | and camels, thirty two priests with temple | music, and finally the colin, borne by | eighty servanls and covered with a silk pall. The emperor was represented by | six empty carriages, behind which walked | the grandees | riages Prince Lau Fu's arms, ca clothes. tents, ete, were all burned as 8 winding up of the festivities the Had Found Him. { hicaro He ald A preity young mamma, with a Little girl by ber side nearly as pretty as herself, was being entertained by a male stranger, who bad struck up au ac uaintance through the usual and always convenient mediumship of the little girl The stranger did all the talking. He was one of these men who thiok they know every thing, but only rarely get a good chance to tell it. The lady answered only in monosylmbles The little girl listened patiently and demurely for a time, and then began to fidget arvund in her seal Finally, as the stranger stopped for breath, she said “Mamma, you've found one, sin t you'” “What, my dear?” “Why, don't you remember what you wld paps when he said you d be lonesome on thecars? You sald youd find some bore to talk you to sleep. * Mamma looked out of the window and the stranger suddenly thought he had Letter go into the smoking car to find his friend. Depopulstion of France [Boston Transcript The depopulation of France has been receiving much attention from the Paris savants,. M. [unier proposes that the government take legal steps to facilitate marriages, 10 search oul the | ateruity of infants, 10 accord prizes or immunity from taxation to parents having more than two children, to guarantee secrecy to any mother who may wish to leave her child at a foundling hospital, “and to extend the protection of the state to all children “morally abandoned " Fioce the year 1500 the French birth rate has fale from 52.9 to 25.5 per 1,000 inhabitants The “Sorrewful Tree." Chicago Hera'd | Near Bombay, on the island of Goa there Is a singular ble termed the “sorrowful tree ” suse it only flourishes in the night. At sunset no flowers are 10 be seen, and yot an hour after it is full of them, They ylalda sweet smell, but the sun no sooner begins to shine upon them than some of hem fall off, and thus it continues flowering in the wight during the whole year Yuewination in Pry wis Vacelnation is earried oi | so strictly in the Prussian army that not a soldier has died of smallpox since 1870. If the same system could be applied to ho whole pop ulation of Europe it is believed that the disesse would disappaar In five years Ok, Oz, Al and Po wr the four post offices in the United States whow names eontale "nly two letiers. | the the | “0nd MANUAL OF ARMS, fArmy and Navy Journal] “Present arms!” There they are Both stretched out to mo Strong and steady, smooth and white, Fair as arms can be, “Gound arm 7 On the floor, Picking up his toys, Breaking all within bis reach, Busiest of boys, “Right wheel” off h's cart; “Lott wheel!” too, 1s gomo: Horsey's head is broken off, Horsey 's tail is torn, “On'ek stop!” “Forward march; Crying, too, he comes: Had a battle with the cat “Cratched off bofe my fumi!” “Shoulder arms!” hore at last, tound my neck thay close, Poor little sol lier boy OF wo quarters goes, The Zerebn. Minneapolis Tribune | The zereba is n striped animal of the order of Pachydermata. It is graminivor and is usually formed of sand and water barrels. Its chief habitat is central n, but frequents the neighbor- d of Tamai, where Fnglishmen get in- it for the purpose of being killed by It bus sup, osed that the wooden horse of Troy was a zercba In ort where it will eat der ir preferred, ous t also hie sid Arabs been ETIRNS un fed Is scarce doers rah . f the rol ne of th { i once I arnum i ¢ made it out of a broncho with a paint bruh sod two pots of black paint Oune day one of the water barrels burst and washed the paint off He ex plained it by saying that the animal had zerebro spinal meningius. A small zerel a is called a zecebellum, rather difficult animals to The best way 10 treat one is to estublish it. That done you can in good order toward Haiheen ebas are [| / y 1" handie or r most famous in history | | was that manufactured by P. T and yellow | retreat | Ta | manieb if Csinan will let you) and, after | an strict corresponden exercising press faiches cen orship over ts, send home dis that you have killed 1,600 x and would like to be appointed to a ce in Missouri. Should this be re used you can open a real estate office in 2 smal: frontier town to find and then open ut in Uw premi-es, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith hat done Can till a vigilance com mittee is med and then go back to the land of white men and endow a home for orphaus sMying reds bire a man in the veighborhood, gaia a saloon with a faro lay you wail f 107 shay ng and Hoot Blacking. New York Grachie The luxury of an American thing that rnglishmen hear about and which they are s 10 eX] ‘ shave is » a good deal generally anx whea they arrive on having ried it they a delusion and a snare hman himself and look in abridger in Crience AMter UIury is Fugh our shure say the Every that is why tra eling Americans vain fur an artistic capillar London Ihe American asserts that no where but in his native Innd are true art ists with the razor to be found A shave every morning Is as much a part of the average Eng ishman’s toilet as as he calls it, a “bawth ’ hrioks from shaving him somehow considers it a thing be neath his dig ty 10 shaves mil, Or Ameri ani Is a i (84) ef when he can hire a man rms a far mote ardu when he! ns his | an Ingle nothing ting than a suggestion peri hon ever ACL hn Aan that dackens Lis Dools A man may i= a suard. a drunkard, may not pay his may live by his wils or want of : amd s«cording to vel be a “gentle that and be is « Aw The Ler man s wils g'ish notion may but let it once be ‘known i% wn ils he led soc el Origl vs of “OM Mickory Boston Buaget Jackson was ers who had Gen known among the served under him as Hickory, a sobriquet given him furing the \ reek war H's brigade was makiog a forced march without baggage or tents, to surprise the lod ans in one of their wil and were for several days exposed to the peltings of » the rain freezing as it fell ‘ackson got a severe cold mplain, as he tried to sleep ina muddy bottom smong his haif-fr.zen sol ders. Capt Allen aud his brother John cut down a stout hickory tree, peeled off the bark ad made a covering for the gen eral, who was with difficulty persuaded to crawl into it The next mornin sold lnges, and nights March storm tseD nol « a drunken citizen en tered the camp, and seeing the tent kicked it over. As Jackson crawled from the ruins the toper cried. “Hello. Old Hick. ory. come out of your bark and fine us in | Thenceforth the general was | a drink'” known in camp at “Old Hickory, " and the | back | National Life Insurance| = so. caus ar but did | | | | | | | when be was talked of as a presidential | candidate the nickname was adopted by hs supporters Yanderbilt Brothers’ “Comet.” (hiewo Tritmne | Two of William H. Vanderbilt's grand. | sons, William H and Cornelius Jr., have | a taste for publishing, and print a monthly | journal called The Comet, which they print | under the firm name of \ anderbilt Broth ers, editors and proprietors, 1 West Fifty seventh street, the father. Mr. Corpelius Vanderbilt, They write their own matter, set it up in type, and print it from a press they brought home with them a short time ago from Europe. They are proud of their produc tion, which is really a handsome specimen of typography. It is not large, but it is peat in design as well as exe ution, No. i contains an offer of “a handsome pen- knife for the Lest original story in two chapters, not exceeding 250 words in a chapter. * Pay of the British Soldier. (London Letter | residence of their | | | A private in an Foglish infantry regi | ment receives 24 cents a» day; a lance cor poral, 81 cents; corporal, 41 cents; lance sergeant, 5) cents color sergeant, 75 cents, and quartermas. ter sergennt, 31. These rates are subject to the following deductions, vie: One cent a day for washing, and 6 cents a day for groceries and vegetables These con sist of ten, coffee, sugar, potatoes, and green vegelables After these deductions, then, the pay of a linesman is 17 cous a day. but, as he has to provide his own underclothing, further deduction of 2 cents daily is made, thus reducing his actual pay to 15 cents Mark Twain's Sucoess, Mark Twain is sald to have cleared $35, 000 from his reading tour this season This is doubtless the largest sum over realized by an author, from readings of his own writings, sloce Dickens made his famous American tour Patents In Mexion, Patents In Mexico cost from #10 to £500, socording to the ideas of the office there as to the importance of the inven. don covered. The usual rate Is $24 sergeant, 58 cents; | the hold | prices. COMPARATIVE WORTH or BAKING POWDERS. — ROYAL (boiutels Pure) a GRANT'S (Alum Powder». RUMFORD'S, when free. HANFORD'S, when fresh... REDHEADS ............. SS — CHARM (Alum Powder) * ... AMAZON (Alum Powder) %.. ER CLEVELAND'S auort wt jor PIONEER (San Francisco). . Em CZAR euvevsnenssanns es RE DR. PRICE'S SNOW FLAKE Grofr's)..... LEWIS’ PEARL (Andrews & Co.).. MECRER'S... «execs ss ILLETIS 0s cox euenens ——- ANDREWS £0. “Regal im BULK (Powder sold loose)... I RUMFORD'S, when not tress REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder, “1 have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which 1 purchased in the open market, and find it « Swposed of of tartar powder of a high degree © phosphates, or other lojurious substances, sure and wholesome ingredients merit, and does not contain either alum of itis a cream E. G. Love, Ph.D.” “It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure, “1 have examined a package of Royal the market. stance. Hexny Moxrox, PhD. ' “1 have analyzed a package of Royal Baking Powder it is composed are pure sod wholesome, I find it entirely free from alum, President of Stevens Institute of Technology.” H. A. Morr, Po.D.” Baking Powder, purchased by myself in terra alba, or any other injurious sub- The materials of which Jana Haves, State Assayer, Mass.” 8.1 The Roval Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors at the Vienna World's Exposition, 1573 ; versal endorsement fr Health all over the world, wn eminent Nore—The above Dracuax {llustrates the comy Powders, as shown by Chem al Analysis a Prof. Schedler only proves what every « at the Centenn American Institute, New York, and at State Fairs th No other article of human food has ever receive Yi vty N Christ Da expen A pound can of each powder was taken, the 1 each can calculated, the result belug as indicat d. Th servant consumner of the jal, Fhiladeiphis, 1%76 . at the yout the country. h high, emphatic , and uni- 3 y tix and R 4 ’ y physicians, wnlists, and Boards arative worth of various Baking Prof. Schedler. yume In | nents made by tal leavening power or ¥ is practical test for worth by loyal Bakiog Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it cosls a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds, it {s far more ec age of better work. A single trial f fair minded person of these facts ® While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to ywders ranked bel of strength than other p ing that they have any value are 10 be avoided ss dangerous, All alum p the Royal Baking Powder will wmomical, and, besides, affords the advant- | convince any be of a higher degres tL 10 be taken as Indicst- wders, no matter bow high their strength, yw them, it Is ne Walter W. Bayard, DRUG STORE, Ir Wilket son on Allegheny street, an l u am wi Keey cout full line of MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, &e tantiy on hand =» DRUGS, ODORS OF PERFUM SACHET 1'oW DEKN " es I =» AN al wr dy. Prepared Negha all FHL CO, or MONTPELIER, Vr. I neorporaied n 1845, famete $3 HEN INN), Surplus $1.000 000 $1000 Bonds soli nents Tepe ' st the rx nsial srw prevable wn yearly IRL ration of X) yours ow at previous desth, or a stipulated | amount payable in cah at the end of WMiy year Brat, their sur render R. M. McENALLY, Soecial AqL? Office Doar North of Post Office RELLEFONTE, I'A swlter the on Quick Railway Rockford, HL. Jan, 1880, This ia to certify tha! we have appointed | Femk P. Blair, sole agent for the sale of ovr | Mick Train Railroad Watches in the tmen " Bellefoute ! Time, Rock roan Waren Conrany, BY HOSMER P,. HULLAND, See. Having most thoroughly tested the | Rock ford Quick Train Watches for the inst three yesrs, | offer them with the fullest confidence us the hest made and most reliable time keeper for the money | that ean be obtained | [fully guarantee every Watch for two years. | FRANK P. BLAIR, | No. 2 Brockerhoff Rov. | All other American Watches at vedueed Dignrox, Jan, 27, 1882, The Rockford wateh purchased Feb, 1879, has performed better than any | Watch | ever had, Have oarvied it] every day and at ao time has it been irregular, or in the least unreliable, ! cheerfully recommend the Rockford Watch, HORACE B. HORTON, at Dighton Furnace Co, Tavxron, Sept, 18, 188], The Rockford Watleh runs very ac: curatel; ; better than any watch | ever owned, and | have had one that cost $150. Can recommond the Rockford Watch to everybody who wishes a fine timekeeper, 8. P. HUBBARD, M. D, This is to certify that the Rockford Watch bought Feb, 22, 1870, has run very well the past year. 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