OUR FATHERLAND, From the shores where Hberty's portal Blines fair to earth's ultimate span; From prairies where Lincoln immortal . Won loftiest manhood of man; ! From bevond those mountain peal hoary Where Fremont, the brave, saw, each way, Our after tite transcendent glory: From tho land of Calhoun and Clay; Americans! make thy song ever At the God of all nation's command: Our fatherland swe From th lakes (0 the far Lio pi ta both oceans, Grande! AT A NEGRD FUNERAL. Ceremonie Davs Sti i y Prevailing in Lie o be Wad } soma cist dense w stopped that” 1 weird, m trees and come only a 8 anate from the road. We upon invest scar dobouched into grounds whi hamlet in & It was a st and one that | than our own around a now five negroes wot hands and were movi while they wailed forth dirs vals would ojaculate wild, incoherent wor In the midst of the circle, at the head of the grave, an old woman sat who rocked back. ward and forward, Her eves rolled and she moved in a Imechani al wav was the widow of the dec } recjuired part in the ceremony to loudly mo:n at appointed intervals during the singing. Something in this way their hymn sounded, as nearly as I could eateh the words: De white horse he rode, Wid de sickle in he hand, And slew down our brudder From among our earthly band, A moan! sister, moan | * And here the widow would reintroduce her beathenish incantations. These were kept up for some time, when suddenly they ceased and the negroes prostrated themselves upon the ground, while the minister, a tall, very dark negro, stood and offered upa prayer After ths “amen” was uttered they rose and two of the number took from a basket near ely Kain wildly, This , and it was her some articles with which they decorated the | grave, as if they were placing upon the tomb | Y*$tors were handled and boomed by these ! men. To the mine owner they are perfect floral offerings. They then slowly formed in procession and silently marched out of the inclosure. My friend and I, curious to decide what the peculiar mode of grave decoration was, proceeded to the spot where an old man was shouldering his spade to quit the place. f “Why, old man," said I, “what are thos things they have left on the grave! Bottles, shoes, a jug! Why, what does it all mean? “Well, boss,” said the ebony grave digger, with an air of importance, “you see, we puts de articles dat de departed brudder use to use on de grabe for to keep away de bad sperrits, and I spose it is a sort ob “spectful way ob treating de memory ob de lost sister or brud- | der. You see, dars de bottle dat he take the medicine from when he be sick. And dars de Jug’t had de last dram he drunk ‘fore be joined de temperance meetin’, an’ de boots I de golden slippers dat be put on when he jine de ban’ up yander,”" and a beam of placid faith illuminated the old black face. It certainly was a strange sight. Here were numberless graves, all bearing the same pict. | Children's graves were | decorations. aresque dec covered with broken toys, tin horns, gaudily colored clay cats, dogs, and owls. One mound | I i, aga with age, and | procedure in civil trials in courts on the oon- | tinent on the occasion of my visit to Europe. on it rested in dilapidation an old hat and the remnants of a banjo, also a clay pipe, and a coon skin. Near by them was the grave of a blacksmith, with the implements of his crafs | wedged in the ground, and rusty borse shoes | length, and the judge has very little to sy. formed a circle around the mound —Atlants | | the judge, who asks all the questions and the Constitution, The Short Halr Craze. but the disease has broken out again, and the koadachey dames, married coquets and girls who go the pace have taken up the fad again. The “close cat” is ordered, and then follows a coiffure a la Cupid. This ployed by barbers in turning the mustache ends of club men. An heated by steam is used in the operation, con- suming an hour or so. The curls are short, close, but thick little ringlets exactly like those that the sculptors have identified the ind boy with. Only fifty cents is charged wr the drowsing, which is remarkably cheap, bnsidering the tenacity of the curls. Think # curs for three weeks retailing at fifty dents-curls, too, that women can sleep in, and look pretty in, which is best of all feat ured. No dressing is needed to keep the head sightly, : When the fair damsel arranges her toilet after getting in and out of numberlews skirts, it is only necessary to run a rack comb diag onally through the lanky tresses to have them as roguish and graceful as though twistediby nature's own curling iron. Indeed, the curls are improved by much tossing and blowing about, and if the girl is half pretty, and any place under 25, she is sure to have in her aunty wig a captivating air. Inter Ocean. Steel Engravigg of Washington, A bad boy in a Massachusetts viliage sar. prised and pleased bis teacher by promising to contribute a fine steel engraving of Wash fugion to ald in decorating the school room on Feb. 2. The teacher left a large spice among the evergreen trimmings on the wall, «nd the boy brought her a two cent postage stamp. One of the Four. The late Profesor Edward R Bill was a sophomore at Yale when Jobn Brown wes killed, and wns one of the four students who on that oconsion broke Into the chapel and it with mourning emblems, New ark Tribune, mom cle ! should be gotten rid of, if possible, and that ' mine owner comes to thera with a request | a greater value, be (the promoter) will nego ! of his original valuation, and retaining the “spose is de shoes dat he gwine to change for | All honest miners are most anxious to get rid | hoped that the public will soon learn to treat | thes men with the neglect they deserve — | like it is in America—the attorneys examine, The a hal died Sie ago. | was much interested in a trial that I witnessed | bench, and one of them, as if endeavoring to | bring out all the facts, interrogated a witness improved curler | A, EN ROUTE TO TRIESTE. Curious Scenery In AustrinsSemi-Tropls eal Vegetation of the Adriatie, Bt. Poter is scarcely mora than twenty. five miles as the crow flies from the shore of the Adriatic at Trieste, But as far as resem- blance or suggestion fs concerned it might be at the antipodes. Imagination can scarcely conceive that a semi-tropical sea shore as dreamy ns that of the lotus eaters lies so near to harren, wind swepp hills, towering into peal that are the abomination of desolation, Dut though the re with its goood ont v curious, summits ns bald MI £ you tra forms of stone, I with cas LN f at tion, the k nature end face ¢ What a paradise this n men of the stone age, with tools, weapons and domestic ute tiful and cheap. But men who were n ges came here and tolled and dely very dawn of antiquity Rome absorbed Italy, the Adriatic and its « ita brown shores, its efforvescont life bubbled up and frothed over this rim of hillson to | this plateau that I have endeavored to de scribe. — Aastria Cor. Ban Francisco Chrond muterial for nails so plen tsava ed in the , and later, when when its galleys plowed ities and villages dotted St. Louls' “Mining Promoters.” There is one closes of men in this city who is the clams of wining “promoters.” These | men are leeches, at once upon the mine own ers and the public, and have done more than any others to bring mines and mining into disrepute. These are the men who boom worthless mines, and nearly all properties which have resulted in loss to Bt Louis in. sharks, and rob both him and the public, Their mode of procedure is as follows: A that they piace his property certain price, offering a fair remun eration for his services This the pro moter will not accept, but says that if the owner will represent his property as being of at a tiate a male, giving the owner the amount excess himself. Thus a mine, which would pay well upon the price at which the owner | is willing to sell, falls to yield an adequate return upon the inflated value due to the ma- nipulations of the promoter, and miners and mining are brought into disrepute, and the public robbed for the benefit of the broker of this old man of the sea, who has fixed him smif upon the mining trade, and 1% is to be Globe Democrat Interview, Civil Courts on the Continent. I was very much interested in the mode of In England a trial is conducted very much cross examine and reexamine witnesses at On the Continent the witness is examined by lawyers have nothing to sy. Especially is this true in Germany, France and Austria, | at Paris There were three judges on the in & very searching manner. It looked odd to see the lawyers in the case sitting opposite consists in having what is called a the judges but saying nothing; I don't think curl, the process being the same as that em | the average American lawyer could have | stood it. At the conclusion of the evidence | the lawyers can address the court, and when | | the thimble being cast at the foun PROGRESS IN JAPAN, A ——— HOW THE PEOPLE BEGAN FARMING ON THE AMERICAN PLAN, Manufacturing Agrienltural Tmplements Under Dilenltionss=Trial of the First FlowsThe Natives Groatly Astonished. Watching a Mowing Machine at Work, In a fow days tartiing notice fs bits i I recolved the that the g ernment the plow work At the appl came, with a good deal of ceren P ww was sucoessliully tried mont and delight of the oflicials were very great, presents to the mech first foreign plow ever constructed in Japan, Our little shop gradually grew until it became We made everythin jos who had made the quite a factory g teed on a farm except mowing and reshing ma : 3 chines, Weeven made thimble skein wagons vy of the navy « rien I bad to guess at the width of the track, baving forgotten the width of the rack of our wagons. When finished they looked well and worked well, but I now know that they were four inches wider than even the old Hlinols wide track wagons The most difficult task was to make spring steel fork tines and spring steel tooth for bay ! rakes, but we did both i NEMPEN HARNESS In the hurry of this work some oversights were bound to be made. One was in making harness. When all ready for that, we found that there was very little harness leather in Japan, and there was no time to import it. | What was to be done was a very serious question. My mental resources were nearly | exhanste when | remembered having wen | the negroes down south during the war plow. fng with rope barnes. Acting upon that, | bad made 20 sots of hemp harness, every | piece in the same shape aa in leather barnes, | and they answered a very useful purpose There was not a piece of leather about them as we usd canvas for the collars I found that 1 had not done with the plow question. Some portions of the pasture were covered with chestnut bushes, and the ground was full of large roo, s¢ much so that no ordinary plow could cut them. In order to prepare this ground for plowing, roen were put to grubbing out these roots. At even the extremely low price at which labor is paid there | soon saw that to grob out thes bushes would be an expensive operation. | therefore bad a plow made thet could not be broken. torent ysix plow we attached nine horses, three abreast, and with it we went through the chestnut bushes ss though they bad been rushes When the horses were thoroughly broken and the plowmen had gained experience, one man ooukd plow from threes to three and one-half acres per day with this big plow THE NATIVES ASTONISHED. Noar to our operations were large old farm. Ing districts with a numerous population By the time our plows and barrows were sue. cessfully running the fame of the foreign farm had spread to thes people, and they came flocking In, wholes villages making Journeys to we the wonderful foreign imple ments work. With their mode of digging up the soil with a mattock an eighth of an scre is a good day's work for aman, When the farmers, who bad never seen any other than mattock tillage, saw this great plow tarning its twentysix inch furrow st the rete of thires sores per day, they held up their hands aod cried, “Wonderful! Wonderful ™ Through the wholeof the first year our labor saving machinery drew crowas of native farmers, some from & distance of more than 100 miles, and these journeys were mostly made on foot, A greater wonder than the plow, even, were | the mowing machines. Bome of the pasture divisions wers clear of brush, smooth ae a house floor, with fine gras for bay. A pair the verdict is returned can appeal to a higher | of Japaness ponies, with a fifty-four inch court if they want to.—(lobe Democrat A Generous Colleetor, Thomas Collier, the New London poet, has a passion for collecting. His book of auto. | graphs of poets and literary people from all | 1 from these simple people, parts of the world is very complete and he takes much pride in exhibiting it to callers, At one time he was imerested in collecting | coins. He had a valuable series near com | pletion when he learned that a friend had a similar series even nearer the full number than bis own, and, further, that the coins | missing from his friend's collection were all in his own, Without hesitation he despoiled his series of the coins required to complete his | friend's, and sent them to him. It was act of generosity that only those can fully apprec ate who bave been possessed of the collecting mania. Said Collier, making light of it; “Whot a mean man | would have been to play the dog in the manger just for a fow colnet. 1% was better that one collection should bo complete than that both should ever retain lmperfoct, "New York Sun, A Shekel of Christ's Time. A young woman of Boston was recently presented with a very valuable coin, a shekel | of the time of Christ. Ble took it to a jew. eler to have it mounted with pearls as a breastpin, and when she went for it was hor rifled foiind that Sha lewalsr ud scoured off all the sacred accu of and the shekel shone as bright as a new nick It whos ali right to forgif your enemies, but # Lon can lok ‘em first it comes easter und last longer, ) Wo Ee | sickle bar mower, could easily cut from | twelve to fifteen acres per day, while with & Japanese gram knife a quarter of an sore was a good day's work. The sight of these mowers cutting a swath fifty four inches wide, as fast as horses could walk, took the breath away DANGEROUS CURIOSITY, How the machine did it was the mystery, aa the sickle and bar when work was being done was hidden in the gras. Their curiosity | would lead them directly in front of the ma- They invited me to a dinner and sent When l | arrived on the ground selected for the farm | It was made of wrought steel, cut a | inch furrow, snd was strong | enough to go through any obstacle. To this THE SLAVE TRADE. AN OLD ENGINEER TELLS WHAT HE KNEW OF THE BUSINESS, In the Days Wheat Negroes Weve Proonght From Africa and Sold In New Ore lonns «= White Girls Sold to Aliican Chiefs, tid William Jack Hay the other day, “Iw MORE OR LESS STRATROY oroed 10 tay fl girls wery s Was always more or less strategy ¥ oomsented rod. The Bra 10 remsin 3 the over the aw wountry afforded would be at | ‘ and through the , throats of the captain and his pron tars, they tent to wall for o in vain, partly genera’ ly remained, semingly ur return, but always waited We would make up our load of slaves, turming a certain number of them in | each evening and storing them securely in the | this each day, we | bold, and, by repeating would, with the chief's help, soon got as many as we cared to sal] with. They were never | obstreperous, and seetned perfectly content as | long as they got plenty to eat, and were joy. | {ous in their barbaric conversations fn the | Occasionally one would die, and | { we would throw him into the sea, and then | the others would make strange motions. | | | ship's bold, | think they worshiped the sun and moon { when in their own country.” for two servant girls™ | never hoped to accomplish anything until we had made peace with the chief of the tribe, and this could most always be done with two girls We never left more than theres with | the Bead of a tribe.” “What kind of slaves did you prefer to bring ™ i frequently brought them all up on deck, but when a storm cane they would drop back to | the hold in an instant at the wave of a white | band. They were obedient, and I pever | knew one to show any inclination to be other. | wine, “What report wonld you give on your re | turn of those girls who went out wilh youl® THEY LEARNED THR TRUTH. but on one cocasion a girl whom we left hap pened to belong to a pretty good family, and | | when we returned to New Orleans ber friends | | were on hand to meet ber, and when she did | | not appear they bescught the captain eagerly ; 8 to what had become of ber. He informed | them that she bad preferred to remain in the | sunny land until the good ship returned. This | did not at all satisfy them, and they pushed | their inquiries day and night until they jearned the truth, and Capt. Johnson (for this was his name) was in danger of being mobbed, when he quietly set sail one evening and passed down the river and out through the gulf, and I never heard of him after ward.” “Then you did not return to Africa “No: it was just at this time that 1 bad an offer to take charge of an engine on Yhe first steamboat ever run on the lower Mississippi, and 1 socepted it.” “When you were in the slave trade did you ever return to the place from where you see cured your previous eargof” “No, indeed; we would always goto some | other point, but we heard afterward that the | girls Joft there did much good for the natives, | ekg Shai 1b aes soc and work ” 1 Africans have any idea at the time | that they were being sold into slavery?” | “Not the slightest. They thought from the | signe that had been made to them thet they | ware coming to a place where all was lovely; | where the sun shone brigister and the moon | looked larger, and to eat tropical fruit would be their chief employment. Bad, indead, must | they have felt when they began to realise that . they bad been sold into slavery, from which Pit was as impossible for them to extricate | themselves as it would be to change the color | of their own skin.” | “How many did you bring to America | in alle” “I kept no record of this mysell, but on cline, in spite of the warnings of the driver, | land it wos found necessary to have a | | mounted attenviant with each machine to save | | over during the three years | was with the | ship, and I suppose the total number would “| be at least 7,000." EN Piutes Snowed Under, “Where wore they kept in Sew Orleans until they were sold away for yon ona plate. —Now York Sun urance tbat | “And could you get a ship load of negroes | “Yeu, sir; thats what we did. Of course, | | there were more or Jess trinkets given, but we | “We always picked up the young bucks, | say from 17 to 30 years old. We also brought | | 8 number of females about the same ages. We | “They were, as a rule, never inquired after, | Groceries, SECHLER & CO. Prov sions, FOREIGN FRUITS and CONFECTIONE MARKET MEAT 4 wo A v th We have now on exhibition and sale the | complete assortment o >» A EF. —r ; mT S,< ever’shown in Bellefonte, at the very lowest prices, which at any snd all times can be relied on. Lace Curtaius {0 Great variety with all the fixtures belonging thereto. Window Bimds and fixtures, in fact everything in the House Keeping line, including Sheeting, Pillow Casings, Tickings, &ec., &c, &e. We bande the +ROCHESTER CLOTHING<- And are the only Clothing dealers in town who do, and will sell you a well made good fitting suit at the sameg prices asked you for slop shop trash. Try it once. +4 S. & A. LOEB. “ancer, Eryuipeins, Boils, Pimples, Ulcers, Sore Eyes, Seald Head, Tet. Tor, Balt Rionm, Mercurial and all have best Lhe standard 1, CO8TI Thomas Adams, of Hig Sandy, Ky. says “Nel, ery’ Pllis seed hundreds of dollars th dottors Bile in hin erunty © Bold by Drageis 8 ' : i RATWAY. TM one Sehgal, Alarm, Bilaodale, Pos, tied mand Pott inenn, Dedata, soe wn few of the Friuipal pais resend WIS vend Abiamipm of hte fog y mays or uth 8 nite SP ad eo ap Mm oy WE i i i : | a a ER EE a Co | FEMALE REGULATING PILLS. Si SR PRESBYTER'ANS be gn Foon "i Eo eg wy fi Ean AER EE wo ADE W wea SEF ER. ww Pacey v teres its Tea we wil Ian The ol. La « fo yam ERG aul Ban Bo Ursin. Omo CE Rent Bor moving decid rite srg eal sw Wag St Lk Bln PRE TL aie amma asia LOW TOURIST RATES
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