CENTRE DEMOCRAT SUPPLEMENT--THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895. “Pennsylvania Dutch.” DE BOOKMULTY VALLEY, In Boekmult Valley woona mere Der Harr wase shunt we long Un doh mit pemcil un bobbeor, Gebt's leedls un gesong. De barga um uns room sin hoch Un's dahlie isch so eng, Mere lawfa Rinnernonner noach Tsu-tswet ware's shunt tsu eng Mi leeve fraw, de is so dick, Un ieh bin g'wiss net din Gate's navanowner uff de bricl Ligt anes shun uanna drin Os we de glacher in der ket So gates im Boekmult dahl Dos woo mer navanonner wott Tsu eng ware's ivverall 34 Mere drawga oll ga-peggde shoe Der shushter kon net naa Mere lawfa grawd Mer kon sich net r lem Himme om drma Fs wasser lawft—ware wase we weil Der wake lawft barrick nuff ; Un won der buck himmel 1 1 } yo Y Yuckel hinna drufl Hucked Mere bl swivrla doh Un de ol Mer kon ken wmtza bowera doh Km howver un km hoy. onsa nix os t n®roy , Mer koeha nix os noodla doh r dompknepp ware's tsu eng d olles uff de braiding aw ror n gor Es house shiate longwels ivver'm ! Un's wasser lawft barrick-nunne En hil fr hawna uff'm doch Grayed regs, blitz un dunner smer Un won's ¢'mohl boll middawg is Don KO Doh sehin So bis o ] git yked mer ia de hee, limg dorrich en ris Don gait de soon shunt unnersicl De sh De hinkle wa Un On fler ul hucka uff ISCILA De shtarnas sin H 1 Es sl pinrawd Un's liehtliio m Mer lmogt sich } Bakimmert & 1 5 il S18 Dera # Os noehtell, fu Mer saned So bis on u Der mawga is far maisichlceit Un net far soweri, Un bi uns oldta Boekmult lei Is aw ken breweri ' | Mere shtomma oll fun Adam hare Un fun der Afie aw Of course, Ich denk de Atie wore Am Ad. si arshte fraw | De shlong de hut de Afe fershtift | Des con mer lmsa in der Shrift i I | Mere wissa dos de ardt shtil De Afe hut era mon ; fr Ware's lsesa will un con shiate Is flat un gor net rund In dos de soon gons drum-rum gal { | i { | um gait In fier-un-tswonsich Aweck mit duckter-shtuft un law bbes Don galt are tsu der duckie: Un wrdt mit huns Won aner « shpeert fet g'schmiert uch nemot mer ne a # | dai aogepulsliber. Mares 055 SHALL sme— hiermond IRCKE Ware's 8 y sa eng brading ¢ moc FabLUmp un » OT SAawy, umima weld Arrica lo banks nin ced nix os blank | fordala sh’ ro 08 Nei De reicha deeb do gona fry, Trotz® trinl, proof an tence un Ls orma, in de breseod nel, Un des is~INDEPENDENCE ! Der tox-mon dare eoomed del mohls yolr Tn ft Per kond iddered uns de toxa wlawt coomed hinna noach led una de oxel. i i nshtric in Bockmult Valley woona mere Un knoocha unser dake ; Un olles shunsht, des doona mere « Os nuch der oldta wake. 50 we se ols far olders hen- De oldia Boekmult leit ; Bo we se hunnert yohr shunt hen, So doona mere nach helt, “ Mer esss won mer hungerich sin, Un drinka far der dorsht ; Mer shiuppa won mer fardich sin In frogs net “was kusht's 7" Hallwa Sires s Works ew (las chink” would have done it Garden and Carpet Cleaning William Doak desires the public to | | and going after tho Know that he is prepared to make gare den and flower He carpet; enrpot talkken up and delivered beds or addross by 1am y © ean lon hie Prices reasonable It ought not to insult a business man | or any other, if he owes a just debt to be asked for the sum in a gentlemanly way. the man ought not to feel iL nec essity to bluff the man he owes in an ungentlemanly manner, either. Busi ness transactions are not entirely one sided, neither was the world built Jfor the bristle race exclusively. { our pockets to purchase the | and turkeys wo desired, for on this oo | house we met the | | lot of fowls wore pecking grain ' DOs { small company of | know we had | horses, and to escape | fowls over the back of y i INT i alno cleans : handed {it to the sa on Pine | BILL LET GO OF THE MULE'S EAR. But Not Until He'd Added a Chapter to the History of the War, In the rotunda of the Auditorium ho tel soveral veterans of the war of the rebellion were seated around in a cirtlot telling of some of their war experiences, one of them relating the following in- cident: “Our regiment Was in camp at Har. per’s Forry, and one bright morning a comrade and I secured permission to visit a farmhouse some distance away, where wo know there was some poultry. We rode horses and had some money in casion wo had made up our minds to | forego foraging, but later cirenmstances | arose that made it Boo | forges our good resolutions, Turning our | horses into a grasstiold which was but | a short distance from the house, we left t them to graze at will spary for us to On roaching the ior on an old fash foned porch that ran the whole front of the quaint farmhouse. Itold the farmer that we had come $0 buy some of his poultry, at which his southern blood be- gan to boil. He swore he'd rather seco every chicken and turkey on the place rot before hb would sell to any Gd Yankee for a timos what thoy were wor “That sottled is with us not stand such an straightway to he ry thousand Wa could insult and went barn, where a fine It did take us long 80 Ha the logs of a goodly number of chickens and turkeys As I was in the aot of tying up the legs | of a proud gobbler I looked up, and to uy dismay saw commis f Con up the lane a foderate cavalry at a glance, I w to reach our n foot was impos In the barnyard were two fine, wing my string of one and jump I took in the situatio not gible sleek mules. Thr astride the ani: that was the first name of my comrade —t0 follow my exampla He did so, and I took she lead for the camp. The mule that I was on had mken but a fow jumps when I heard Pill shout He's balked, Jim ure enough the had mfodorates close at hand, and I shouted back " The C wore | to Bill 111 ily “Crawl on his neck and chew is ear.’ Bill lost no $time in trying the exper. iment. He got the end of the animal's long ear iuto his mouth and began oper- ations. The mule gave a squeal, like that of a stuck pig, and rusbed madly after its mats, whish I was riding on, for dear life. Suddenly I saw something loom up and rush past ma. It was Bil nl Bill's teeth were im he animigl’s ear, and blood 1 the side : 1 Bill & errible we winko the ard the Confeder- They fired at us, were not Bik I am sure that uld not have hit Bill, for ho was arried along at a great speed ugh the pickets line of on through the cami I's mule, the fowls bobbing lown at every jur Aso ¢ ana : nas Ik ous of reach of the enemy I all of my lung power and wa Were gathered shouteg “ Lot go the mule'd ear, Bill; we're bt go. He finally be mule, whose like a big bel showed Bill bad mule's ear off Bill heard me and sucgeedad ia stopping sides went in snd o lows. An examinati chewad over half # Bill allowed it was the tonghost bis of meat he had ever tackled, but that night be got square on roses $urkey and chick- Wo loss two of bho best horses in ur army. —Chioagd ane, 1. Dog. i #lationed on the corner of Each and Rission sireots yes torday with a mache shat an investor ponld spin around, aid “if it stops at a h yer get shefWwatch, bus if it don'ts yer #nre of on foke.'’ Buch was the language of she akir A man stood by #il watched thin ates. He saw several riven to epocula irs, but the brig stocl index nover stolon i the watch or tho revolver. He qrried a very stout cal Going up to the Srntable he st abreast of the watch &d he 3 fairly up and d@n. He put down gave tho inex a twist, i to y surprise of al opped right over watch wd and wed, and ried to look as if bo liked it. After dositing the watch in his pocket the steer edged around table till ho ssocfabreast of the re volver. Thocane w ain held straight up and down, and ther nickel was thrown on the tab The index was sont flying around, 41 it stopped right over the revolver, fo crowd was too surprised to cheer ag-nore, and before the fakir had recovel | his composare the stranger walked An officer from orf} by had watched the Dog The streets fakir wat a few mis ¥ on Kid, an choeored h at the ships near ole proceeding, anger asked pers The stranger r, who found it yands, It was a mission to sce the ¢ weighed edght or nig | powerful magnet, “It was ono of thfclevorons Cases of dog eat dog that I effr saw,'’ said tho navigator, «San Frafisco Examiner, or Fhating. ating has again Kermons and The eraze for rolle | broken out in the ncfghern portion of the city, and in Joong around for a place to build a rink > great was the demand for ono that jhe manngers se- cored an abandoned fhurch on North Front street, from the} uipit of which a few years ago sormfl) after sermon against what was tetfpod the evil of roller skating waa ohod, «Philadel phia Call i chickens THE TOOTHSOME PEANUT. Ten Million Dollars Spent Annually In Amerion For This “¥Frull” A man incidoutally asked a street vender if his peanuts were firs class, and the response to the inquiry was sar- prising. | “No,” said tho vender, ‘“‘you do not | got first class peanuts in shis country in {this way. The best peanuts aro used for {other purposes. They are wade into | meal and grits by scientific men, and in | Germany they are prepared for sick people in the hospitals. The peanuts you get in candy are the very poorost grade, and some of the ‘burns almonds’ | CURIOUS BEDSTEADS., One Made of (old and Another of Glass, An Electric Bed, Although the majority of mankind is content with the conventional bedstead, { manufacturod either from wood, iron or brass, there exist cortain individuals whoso tastes, as regards this necessary | | Washington represented the {and the habits of thought article of domestic furniture, are by no means so simple. Buch, for instance, was the Parisian gentleman who a short time ago ordered from a firm fn Faris a golden bedstead, every pars of which, even down to the lathes, was mado of this precious metal | which you ges are nothing more than | At firss sight shis certainly looks Jike fourth rate peanuis. ”’ ‘Where did the peanat eomo from?’ yet who knows but that the gentleman | H “From Central and Soush America, { They grow shere in long pods, and the pods contain from four so five kernels. | They were carried $0 the old world in tho early days, and in the seveumenth century they constituted the chief smple of Africa. You will find if you look it up that the slave dealers of Africa in those days used to load their ships with peanuts to bo used ae food for sheir hu man cargoes. The nogroes who were imported from Africa $0 shis eountey brought over she peanut, and they were scatterod and fired grew in Yicgiuia And now this oounsry is ralsing the crop, and, owing $0 American shrewd ness, the nus is ground aud weed for varions purposes and shipped all over the world, “I rockon you know,'' the vender continued, ‘thas peanum in a sermin condition are more nutritious tham beef When specially prepared, shey rank with beans and peas. The peanut fs said to contain 20 per cent of prowia smd 40 per cent of fat. What is known as pea- nut meal consaing 33 per cent of prowmin nd 8 per cent of fat. Is is she cheapest of all food maserials.'’ In 1 and 1865 manufactured largely in four southern states and was employed as a subse for olive oil. In face, one druggies ad- mitted, some of she ‘olive oil" sold mow in this untry is noshing more shan peanut oil. Nearly all of she olive oil sold in she United States is mixed with part of the peanut ul furnish from 30 to 00 per cent of she weighs of their kernels in oll. Bomevmes peanut oil is used for lghsing, and, again, is is utilized bo advanage in the making of soap and as a lubricant in machine shope The American peanut is larger botter flay 1 than does ntain so much oil as the African nut. The “eake’’ which is left after extracting the oll makes excellent foed for cattle and is used very largely z we in Germany, where it 0 t0 $283 a ton. This coun- Germany the suggestion it gived in relation So the edible qualitios peannts, amd the depart ment of agriculture is now inveesigat ing the method of Germany in she way in which thas country bas handled the nut, and the resals is to be.publiched RA1 Pour and any other, bus is Ie OG8 Tv by the department for the baenefis of the Sintes is of now produces peanuts annually, unde The oml world's unts $0 abous 800,( exportation from Africa ndia to Europe during the last nounted $0 nearly 400,000, Of shis quansisy 228,000,000 # wero delivered as the pory of Marseilles, the bulk of {¥ being pressed for oil It is estimated that $10, 000,000 worth of peanuts are saten every year in the United States, ‘and most of the quan- tity, i% Is said, is consumed between meals and as odd simes —Chioago Post vie Within she Law's Limit The game was poker, and the players were wen prominent in American pub- lio life. One was a statesman from Ken- tucky and the other Judge “"Tom' Nel- son of Indiana, ex-minister $0 Mexico, and one of the brightest wits America | hore bas produced. A western senator dealt tho cards. There was a careful “‘skin- ning'' of indicators on she part of the participants, and Judge Nelson found prossce he result such as to guarantees the ad- visability of chipping in. The Kentuck- jan did likewise with an eagerness that denoted strength in his particular direo- tion. The others dropped ont The Kentuckian and the Hoosier each de- manded a single card, and the senator deftly flirted shem off tho deck. For a fow minutes the bering progressed “Two blues bettar, Tom.’ “Two more shan you, "’ “I'll have to lift you about so many, I'm sorry, but you must moet a further increase of ivory,’ So it went until the Kentuckian be. gan to dvhbs the efficiency of the three ten #pots ho held in his lefs band, There was too much in the pot $0 al- low him to lay down, so he sighed and called the judge, with the words: “What have yon got, Tom? “Queens,” was the sententions re Epon se “How many?’ queried the Kentnck- ian, “One,” thundered she diplomas poanut oll was | were 1 “‘Do of unwarrantable xtray 1000 oxLravagan in- any m looked upon it in the nature of an vestments, which Id at ment roalias ) #0 inoli Equally whieh an old only sasted the Pi tifle knowledge ed for her use that gluse casters of a bed the retention and so she argued that a bed posed entirely of woul still Dbetver eoutrivance A she had sueh & glass bedstead construct ed, which on completion proved to be by no means an inartistic piece of fur- niture. Apropos of electricity, early in the present century un Dr. Grahame, fortune Blass prove rdingly A OQUBCK ] ' who made and loss a large ver the “Temple of Hygiene, '' was in the habis of selling electrio bedstends at the price of $300 apiece, the property of which advertised, to reo juvensase she persons who slept in them a well as to beauty and health, As a matser of faet, these bedsteads noshing more ones, with a bamery attached, while all hat sould be said thelr favor was that shey were perfectly harmless But by far the most curious kinds of bedeteads are to for in what we may erm mechanical bedsteads, whick some people of eccentric from time $0 time A retired sea captain not aetuslly i what one way call declared so bis friend unless he felt the moti sen. Night after night this un gentleman kept awake, th Aan A beds, he Was nom give han ordin ir il habits Merial sleep ore age to his is occurred to his medi ¥ considerable ( inst that something might to produce, by mechanical veut which A consul engineer resulted in 1 which, 5 moyen i H MWEINeQ a bedetead by mea: ory, moved the matiress uj captain was $0 sleep up and dosing in every way the eff nue wed a greats success, nnd the captain was no | Tiversiar, insomnia — Now dy desired. This bedstead pr York Vortiser The New Ilirth of India. No one for the worl tell whats Alexander did d when be made wiih enn the Greek IMNRUAgy OONXeusiYe and which in after jewel setsing for she maschles of the Son of Man, the no « ) fv ! spland the in guage. That there are millions of § in India cannot be denied. has been i Yoars no ii troduction of the English lan iterates Education too long to the fow and pot $0 the many. Nor is shis pecul- far $0 India. The masses have always been allowed to burrow in ignorance, and compulsory education is far from an active law in this enlightened During the reign of Pericles i Augustus in Rome, the masses knew nothing of the refining and transform. ing air of iatellectual communion, and in the fairest of all where schools are numerous and gleam like gems upon the plains, where books are widely circulated, where the printing are dropping daily millions of leaves, the black band of {lliteracy is sosn stretching hundreds of miles, and mixed with whe wheat of high literature, temperance and moral beauty are the tares of drunkenness, ling and lecherous writings, all itted to abound. And if the ben 1 Hindoo once shrew her child we have parents comini ns villainous and black. Better throw an infant into the river, with the hope it will be eared for by a loving God, than to offer grown children as living sacri floes on the bloody altars of Bacchus, Moloch and Mars. The besotted deb- auchee is a more frightful spectacle than a Hindoo mother flinging her babe to a crocodile or under the crushing wheels of Juggernaut If we are looking only for vices, we can find them as easily in America as in India, ns easily in ‘palace docked, church jeweled Boston'' as in Lucknow or Bombay. —Home and Country. confined land, n Grooon, ba ca 7d IANO, gam! pen ight ranges tting deeds Jenny Lind’s Volos, Jonny Lind's voice, at its best, was you take me for a bigamist? Wash. | a high soprano of bright and remark. ington Post, Nig mud Costly Keys The keys to the fron gates which are | o Jower. Jaced at either end of she corridor in koy cost $16 and oconpied tho time of a skilled workman for a week. are made of steel, entirely hand wrought, and the designs are artistic and compli |onted. The locks on the gates are un- usually powerful, and it is explained dinary audience, that the councilmen feared lost lobby- | woiinred musicians also. Nothing like | fats might secure an entrance 0 the | the Philadelphia city hall, where conn. phenomenal length of breath and oil chambers are to be, rre marvels of strength and workmansh/ p. Tho New | gq... yianissimo while maintaining the | fod only | York manufacturer claimed thas each quality unchanged. really marvelons, and ber performance | Thig food is given them in the They | of eadenza passages was ehix svinuashatiopnalite vagrhinm foam being stronger, clearer and richer than Sho had also very large, | well developed lungs that gave her abled her to tone down a note 10 tho Her exccution was never equaled before or since. She usually invented her ows: cadenzas and modified them in a way that electrified not only the or- but the most highly the furore she excited had over been |ohambers. The boits ran up and down’ poo before in England or Amerioa | from the door to the ceiling, and noth | po, {ng short of a dynamite chargeor a bat- 24 hours to have an opportunity to pur. | toring rat conld induce them to give way Lm ochinse, at an extravagant rate, a tioket Exchange. to one of her concerts. —- a gor | on. ple were known to stand in line for TWO TYPICAL Lincoln snd Jackson, VW of the Pe A writer whose 4 Washington was 1 peats an assorti ooln wns the ' mong our presidents the rest in cultivati mn that nes It is « ’ life roanliz above ti 19) piration « I SECS ANG ¥ s did nos know this himself his that ho w th e, sit Yim Lhe palivicl Li Vays i nasional onee yon gime of she ¢ giniaand M then, nev to re-establi uns an Linc wiih : } Jackson wos | a man of ish that He Was me Saxon serf o he fourteenth oentury tae Pe pie ig TO say, different e. Jackson rep in a ess now whether the he Ki 1 the the two 1s York Moride a A Marion Crawford's Rapid Writing. “Twas told the other day,’ I sal *“that yon wrote ‘The Thre Fates’ In gaven aay riginal form Afterward two chaj book publieati : Parish' 1 wrote in 3 ne chag a day, of about 5,000 words. Both of those stories were easy to write, because I was perfectly liar with the back ground of each. I had once studied sil- vor carving with a skilled workman, and the idea suggosted itself to me to write a story about an atheist who should put his life and soul into the carving of a crucifix. With that fora motive, the story wrote itself. In the ‘The Lonely Parish,’ I found 1) a pr unredeemed, given to my publishers, for a novel ata certain date, as I had a@eady sold the novel wl for them toa magazine lication. So 1 looked ar nemory for some spot which was so thoroughly familiar that I need not invent details, but sim ply call them up from my + mediately n fami mise ught I Regis in LCR in Hertf Hat fi 1 was sont as nj apil lifted that villag: and put it int he extent of certain i dlitios, we Robart Clare's M vagazin my story, even real names and in Mo 1 Bridges Wolf Dog Teams In the North, *“One of the novel sights at Edmond town, N. W. T.," said H. H. Schaefer of Moncton, N. B., "was a dog train which arrived from the north, There wore 100 teams, four dogs toa toam each drawing a sledge holding about 500 weight of furs. The drivers and at tendants of these dogs were Indians and half breeds. They had traveled about 800 miles in a little over a woek. “These dogs are known as ‘huskies,’ a cross betwoen the gray wolf of Canada and the ordinary dog, and their aver LOWS wenv anid y ! and as savage as their an eT VIR wolves, which they greatly resemble These animals, despite the heavy Jonds they haul and the long distances they make each day--newrly 50 oil afare one whitefish each day weigh. we wholes Bg | ing not moro than a pound and a half evening at the end of a day's journey, end they devour the food ravenonsly. Meat can not be given them, as it makes them wild and flerce. During my stay at Fa mondtown one of these brutes escaped from the pack and ran amuek through the town, mapping at everybody and | everything it passed, and it oreated a reign of terror before it was These dogs, when broken, are valued mt $25 to $50 each, according to sise and strength.’ —Chicago Times.
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