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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr , Editor and TrBLisnEn
ELK COUNTY -THE REPUBLICAN PAIiTV.
Two Dollars tkr Annum
VOL. I.
RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1871.
NO. 1G.
UHT8EY AND I AKK Ot T.
ST WILL M. CARLETON.
Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'cm
Rood nnd stout ;
For things at borne are crossways, aud Betsey
nnd I are out.
We, who have worked together so long as
man and wife,
Must pull in single harness for the rest of our
nairni me.
" What is tho matter V sny you. I swan, It's
hard to tell I
Most of the years behind us wo've passed by
very well ;
I have no other woman, she has no other
man
Only we'vo lived together ns long as we ever
can.
So I have talked with Betsey, and Betsey has
talked with mc,
And so we've agreed together that wo can't
never agree ;
Not that we've catehed each other In nny ter
rible crime :
Wu've been a-gathering this for years, a little
ilk a lime.
There was a stock of temper we both had for
a Biart,
Although we never suspected 'twould take us
two apart ;
1 had my various fallings, bred In the ilesh and
bone :
And Betsey, like all good women, had a tem
per ui uur uwu.
Tho first thing I remember whereon we disa
greed Was something concerning heaven a differ-
eiiuo in our creea ,
Wo arg'ed tho thiug at breakfast, we arg'ed
the thing at tea,
Aud the more wo arg'ed the question the more
we uiuu i agree.
And tho next that I remember was when we
lost a cow :
Bhe had kicked tho bucket for certain, the
question was only How r
I held my own opinion, nnd Betsey another
had:
And when wo were done n-talkiu, wo both of
us were mau.
Aud the next that I remember, it started iu a
joKe ;
But full for a week it lasted, aud neither of us
spoke.
And tho next was when I scolded because she
broke a bowl j
And she said I was mean and stingy, nnd had
n't any soul.
And so that bowl kept pouriu' dissensions in
our cup ;
Aud so that blamed cow-critter was always
a-comiu' up ;
Aud so that heaven we arg'ed no nearer to us
But it gave us a taste of somcthin' a thousand
times as hot.
And so the thing kept workin'and all the sclf-
sume way ;
Always somcthin' to arg'c, aud somcthin'
sharp to say ;
And down on us cauio tho neighbors, a couple
dozen Btrong,
And lent their kindest sarvlco for to help the
thing uloug.
And there has been days together and many
ii weary wecK
We was both of us cross and spunky, and both
too proud to Boeak :
Aud I have been thlukin' and thinkln', the
wuuiu oi mc winter anu mil,
Ii I can't live kind with a woman.
woman, why, then,
I won't at all.
And so I have talked with Betsey, nnd Betsey
has talked with me,
Aud wo have agreed together that wo can't
never agree ;
And what is hers shall be hers, and what is
mine shall be mine ;
Aud I'll put it in the agreement, uud take it to
ner to sign.
Write on tho paper, lawyer tho very first par
agraph Of all the farm and live-stock that she shall
have her half;
For she has helped to earn it, through many a
weary uay,
And it's uolhin' moro than justice that Betsey
has her pay.
Glvo her the house and lioruestead a man can
thrive and roam :
But women are skeery critters, unless they
nave a some ;
And 1 have always determined, and never
failed to say,
That Betsey never should want a home if I was
tuken away.
There is a little hard money that's drawiu'
tol'rable pay :
A couple of hundred dollars laid by for a
rainy day ;
B.iio in tho hands of good men, uud easy to get
ut:
Put In another clause there, aud give her half
Ul bUUL
Yes, I sco yon smile, elr, at my givln' her so
much;
Yes, divorco is cheap, sir, but X take no stock
in such !
True and fair I married her, when she was
blithe and young ;
And Betsey was al'ays good to rae, exceptin'
with her tongue.
Once, when I was young as you, aud not so
smart, perhaps,
For me she mittened a lawyer, and several
other chap ;
Aud all of them wus flustered, and fairly tuken
down,
Aud I for a time was counted the luckiest mau
iu town.
Onee when I had a fever I wou't forget It
soon
I was hot as a basted turkey and cruzy as a
loon;
Never an hour went by me when she was out
of sight.
She nursed mo true and tender, and stuck to
me day aud night.
And if ever a house wa tidy, uud vcr a
kitchen cleuu,
Her house and kitchen was tidy as any I ever
seen ,
And I don't complain of Betsey, or uuy of her
acts,
Exceptiu' when we've quarreled, aud told each
other tacts.
Bo draw up tho paper, lawyer, and I'll go
home to-ulght,
And read the agreement to her, and see If it's
all right ;
Aud theu, in the morals', I'll sell to a tr.uliu
man I know,
And kiss the child that was left to us,' aud out
In the world I'll go. .
Aud oue thing put in the paper, that first to
me didn't occur;
That when I am dead as last she'll bring me
back to ber ;
And lay me under I be muples I planted years
When ha and I wa fcappy before wo sjuor
reled so.
And when she dies I wish that sho would bo
laid by me,
And, lyln' together In silence, perhaps wo will
agree ;
Aud, If ever we meet In heaven, I wouldn't
think it qneer
If we loved each other the better because wo
have quarreled here.
Toledo Blade.
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AUST JEM'S UOXXET.
Did you ever watch a canary flying
about in its cage, and turning its Lead
knowingly from side to side, as if it were
in deep meditation upon some' subject
through all its restless hurry? Well,
very much after that same fashion, Miss
Jemima Veer went Hitting abont in the
little drab house under the hill one bright
spring morning. (She shook out the
white muslin curtains with a tender re
spect for their old age, and arranged
them so that the darns sttould not show,,
placed a cushion carefully over damages
wrought by little feet in the seat of the
old-fashioned rocking-chair, and dusted
the tall clock in the corner as faithfully
as if its long hand were not missing.
In truth, that room was a sort of hospital
for disabled furniture ; but then the in
valids all had such a cozy, well-cared-for
look that one never thought of noticing
their deficiencies ; and the little brown
eyed, brown-haired woman who bustled
about among them was as bright and
cheery as need be. But this day there
was an unsolved problem looking out
from the eyes, and no v and then Miss
Jemima would come to a momentary
pause in her occupation, and strike an
interrogation-point attitude at the end
of some mental question. At last she
stopped by one of the windows, and
drew from her pocket a somewhat faded
green-and-silver purse a lean, dyspeptic-looking
purse, that flopped about in
a downcast way, as if uware that it
would be called upon to deliver up .what
it had not got. Miss Veer's thorough
fingers searched its utmost depth, then
turned it wrong side up and shook it,
that no shirking penny might be hidden
away in its corners. The amount in her
hand was small enough when nil was
done. She counted it forward and back
ward, but it didn't grow any either way ;
so she closed her fingers over it, with the
faintest breath of a sigh, and suid, with
a decided shake of her head :
" I can't do it. Teddy wants new
shoes, Hob mutt have a jacket, and a bon
net isn't to be thought of."
Which didn't follow at all ; for she
thought of it more vigorously than ever
after having ascertained beyond a doubt
that there was no money to buy a new
one. She did not need to look at the one
she had worn all winter to see how shab
by it was ; she could feel that, even with
it. away up stairs in the bandbox. It
hud been twisted and turned, made and
remade, from year to year, until it was
" poor but respectable" no longer, besides
being all out of season ; and so her head,
berett of its ancient shelter, went seeking
a new covering. When the housu was
all in order, and Rob and Teddy lauda
bly employed in trying to plow up the
back yard with the flour scoop, she went
up stairs, and from among the cast-off
treasures of a certain old red chest in the
attic iished up a straw bonnet immense
in size, yellow in color, and of shape in
describable. She laughed at the effect
as she tried it on before her tiny mirror ;
but, after all, it was not a laughing
matter; indeed, it seemed more like a
crying one as she turned tho antique
affair on her hand and wondered soberly
what it would be possible to make of it.
Upon her meditations there suddenly
broke the slight rustle of a stiff dress,
and the sound of a footstep that spoke of
dignity and one hundred and filty
pounds, and announced the coming of
Aunt Hester. It was the only announce
ment that lady thought it necessary to
make ; for she entered without the for
mality of a knock, seated herself in the
rocking-chair, or attempted to do so,
but immediately resumed her feet again.
" If urn ! I advise you to put that
chair out of the way, Jemima. One
can't be always remembering that the
bottom is broken out," she remarked,
severely : " unless, indeed, you intend it
as a trap to catch your friends in."
" If that was the object, I'd set it just
outside the gate, and try to catch them
before they got in," Miss Jemima whis
pered, rebelliously, to herself, as she
arose to bring forward another chair a
sound, substantial wooden one.
Aunt Hester surveyed it doubtfully, as
if she suspected some deception, but
finally settled herself in it, shook her
black alpaca into proper folds, and said :
" I thought I would call to see how
you were getting on."
It did occur to Jemima that if she bad
known of her coming she would have
got so far on as to be out of sight ; but
she only answered, quietly, " About as
usual we are, thank you, Aunt Hester."
"Aunt Jem ! Aunt Jem!" cried Kob
and Teddy, making a rush from the
yard, getting terribly mixed up in the
door-way, and each trying to explain
the other's remarks before he had made
any. " 'Deed, Aunt Jem, we won't hurt
it any a rumbreller to build a barn
with ; 'cause we can't put our horse i no
where : and we want it top o' the chicken-coop.
Say, may we
" Yes, dear, yes ; but don t be so noisy,
boys. Don't you see Aunt Hester is
here '(" answered Auut Jem, indulgent
but distressed.
" Yes ; that's why we don't want to
come in for," answered Teddy, with re
freshing frankness. " Won't you please
to nana the ruiuoreiier out, Aunt Jem f
Aunt Jem produced the umbrella, in
full consciousness that her visitor was
watching with grim disapproval, and was
prepared for the speech that came next.
" You are spoiling those children,
Jemima completely spoiling them. I
am really astonished at you."
It was a point upon which the lady's
astonishment had become chronic, so
Jemima did not attempt to lessen it, and
a momentary silence ensued.
"Ah !" said Aunt Hester, in a more
gracious tone, after her eyes had scanned
every other article in the room, and
rested finally on the bonnet. " W bat do
you propose to do with that, my dear'r"
"I don't know," answered Jemima,
rather disconsolately.
"I recollect that bonnot. I thought
it looked familiar, and I remember now.
It was one my daughter Susan wore for
a season or so, and then gave to your
mother," pursued Aunt Hester, growing
complacent over the memory of by-gone
benevolence. "It is a very excellent
braid, with a great deal of wear in it.
Out of shape, to be sure, but I think it
cculd bo made over into a very suitable
bonnet for you."
The " very excellent" article had ap
peared old enough and ugly enough be
fore, but it looked a trifle older and
uglier still to poor Jemima now, though
Bhe scarcely knew why. She turned it
about on her hand, and fell to wonder
ing a little drearily why it was she never
had any thing new any thins all her
own. It seemed to her that all her life
she had been obliged to build upon
other people's foundations, to make
straight where others had blundered,
and take up things where others had
stopped. Her work never came to her
in the raw material ; it was always what
somebody else had used, or spoiled, or
begun. Back through the twenty-eight
yeurs of her life, so nearly as she could
remember, it had been the same. House
keeping cares had fallen early upon her
childish shoulders, when her invalid
mother died. Then there had been the
constant planning and working to pro
cure what her careless, improvident
father did not provide, to eoonomize
where he wasted ; a pretty sister to bo
snubbed by and worked for, until she
made a runaway marriage with a gen
tlemanly scamp ; and the same sister to
console and care for during what re
mained of her brief life, when she came
back, deserted and broken-hearted. Kob
and Teddy were the legacies she left.
Well, they were not Jemima's own, ei
ther ; but they were a wonderful comfort
to her. The very thought of them made
ber pause suddeuly in the midst of her
questioning whether she would not have
builded better and more successfully if
she could have laid her own corner
stones reared a structure of her own
instead of filling breaches in the broken
walls of others. Those two little faces
stopped the train of " might have beens,"
and made her murmur, woman that she
was, " Dear boys ! I wouldn't give Hum
up for uny thiug !"
"It can be whitened, prtssed into
Bhape, and made very presentable,"
broke in Aunt Hester's voice.
" True," answered Jemima, slowly,
thinking of her life instead of her bon
net. " Yes, I hope it will be made pre
sentable at last, though it does uot look
so now."
" Why, it's tho best of braid," inter
posed Aunt Hester, with some severity.
She fancied the remark was a slight dis
paragement of daughter Susan's taste
a thiug not to be tolerated.
That tone aroused Jemima from her
reverie at once. She discovered the
good qualities of the braid immediately,
and Aunt Hester, somewhat mollified,
took her departure.
" Send it to a milliner's, and have it
bleached nnd made over ; advice very
easy to give, but not quite so easy to
take, under -the circumstances," com
mented Jemima, left to herself again.
" No, most excellent bonnet, you will
have to submit to being sewed over by
my own fingers, and no others, and take
such bleaching as I can give you. Pity,
considering your past grandeur, but it
can't be helped."
She was an energetic little woman,
and so in a very short space of time she
had arranged in the back yard a closely
covered barrel, with a pan of coals
sprinkled with brimstone placed in the
bottom of it, and the antiquated straw
fastened near the top, aud left to whiten
in the smoko. Bob and Teddy were
duly advised of the contents of the bar
rel, and warned not to molest it ; and
theu Miss Jemima went cheerily back to
the house and her work of darning small
stockings and planning for diminutive
jackets. The out-of-door world was very
lovely that spring morning, and sho stole
glances at it now and then through the
little window delighting in the fresh
green grass and blossom-laden trees of
the tiny yard in front, and watching
with kindly, human interest the oc
casional passers-by on the road beyond.
These last were not many, for it was
only a quiet village road ; but presently
there passed a team with an unusual
load a large, heavy millstone. The
driver walked beside it as it moved
slowly along, aud following it a short
distance behind was another person,
whom Jemima scanned more closely
a man some thirty three or four years of
age, medium-sized, bronzed and bearded,
aud dressed in a plain suit of gray. There
was nothing very remarkable iu his ap
pearance; nevertheless, he was a person
age of some interest to the villagers as
being tho new owner of the mill over the
hill. The former owner had failed to
make it profitable, and for a year or two
it had stood idle. When, therefore, it
was known that it had been sold, and
was to be repaired aud put in running
order, there was a variety of opinions
and some shaking ox beads among the
sages of the little place. There were
some who carried their disinterested
kindness so far as to inform the new
comer that it " wouldn't pay," he would
"sink money," etc. To all of which
Cade Barclay listened good-naturedly.
answering but little, except with his
frank, sunny smile, and then went
steadily on his way, apparently quite
undisturbed by their predictions.
Of the merits of the Question or the
man Jemima knew nothing; but there
was a quiet, resolute air about him, a
certain self-reliance and determination
betraying itself even in his firm, quick
step as he passed, that gave her the im
pression that he saw quite as clearly
into his own affairs as others could see
for him, and made her fancy that she
should trust bin judgment as soon as
that of the wisest of them all. The
road wound around the little house, and
up over the hill at tho back of the gar
den, so that the great wheel and its
owner disappeared from her view at the
front window while she was still think
ing of them. So little that was new
came to disturb the serenity of the place
that it wag not marvelous that the peo
ple indulged in speculations concerning
this enterprise, or that Jemima, in her
nook, should feel some interest in it.
Her meditations were still tending in
that direction, when suddenly there
came a rushing, rolling sound, a crash
ing as of breaking bushes, a scream from
Rob and Teddy that would have done
credit to two Indians, ad then some
thing struck the corner of the house so
heavily as to make it all jar and tremble.
Jemima sprang to her feet, and was
out at the door in an instant. The boys
were certainly not killed ; she saw that
at a glance; neither were they injured
in lung or limb, for the shouting and
gesticulating were wild and furious.
"Aunt Jeml Oh, Aunt Jem, look I
Just look !"
Aunt Jem did look at the broken
back fence, leveled currant-bushes, flat
tened flower-beds, and last at the front
yard, where reposed the cause of all tho
mischief the large millstone.
" It corned tumbling the hill right
down on to our back yard, and some of
the fence was there besides the currant
bushes, nnd Rob and me we yelled, you'd
better believe !" lucidly explained the
astonished Teddy.
" It is a mercy you were not killed,"
began Aunt Jem's trembling lips ; but
Rob interrupted her with another vocif
erous " Oh, look !" and pointed to a
brisk bonfire that was springing up in
front of them. Jemima's bleaching ap
paratus had been overturned, and the
coals emptied out of the pan had sot
the barrel in a blaze. A bucket or two
of water soon extinguished the fira ;
but alas for the bonnot I it was wofully
blackened instead of whitened, and
burned beyond all possibility of making
over.
The group gathered about the ruins
in dismay, for the children were quick
to detect the look of trouble in Aunt
Jem's face, and even they understood
the case well enough to know that arti
cles destroyed were not always easily
replaced.
" No one hurt, I hope V" said a voice
just beside them a manly voice, though
a trifle hurried and anxious.
Jemima looked up, met the kindly,
questioning glance of a pair of blue
eyes, and recognized Mr. Barclay. She
started a little, not having noticed his
approach, but she answered, promptly,
" No, Sir ; no one hurt in the least."
" Really, I don't know how such an
accident could have happened," he re
marked, as if even yet bewildered by
tho affair. " There must have been
some carelessness in loading the stone, I
suppose ; for when we were part way
up the hill the wagon tilted a little, and
tho stone slipped off and came crashing
down. Its force was mostly spent be
fore it reached your place, but I see it
has done damage enough as it is ;" and
swift, comprehensive glance swept
flower-beds and broken bushes.
" Nothing very serious nothing but
what a little labor will make right
again," courageously and politely re
sponded Mis Jemima, noticing the di
rection his eyes had taken.
" No, it won't," interposed Master
Teddy ; " 'cause Aunt Jem's bonnet
what she had a-bleachin' in the barrel
is all burned up. It was goin' to be
her Sundayest one, too ; an' now she
can't go to uieetiu' nor nothin' ; only
I'll lend you my hat. Aunt Jem."
" Hush, hush, Teddy I ' whispered
Aunt Jem, pressing the little fat hand
that slid into hers, iu appreciation of
the offered sympathy, though her faco
grew suddenly rosy, and it required
some effort to betray no discomposure.
" No, Sir ; there's not much hariu done.
I am thankful it is no worse."
" So am I. Some one might have been
killed by it," he answered, gravely,
stealing a curious glance at the charred
barrel, meanwhile, and pondering
Teddy's remark. Not very well versed
in millinery matters was Cado Barclay.
A sister he had never had, and his
mother had been dead now nearly a
year. Where the neat, Quaker-like
bonnets she had woru during her life
time came from it never had occurred
to him to inquire ; but ho felt tolerably
certain that they had not been conjured
out of a barrel in the back yard. He
knew that there were places where such
articles were sold, and fancied that most
Indies bought them. Brewing them at
home, in barrels, over a -ire, struck him
as rather an original plan, and be strong
ly suspected, Teddy's lament taken into
account, that it indicated a shortness of
funds. He was very sorry for the mis
chief his rolling stone had caused, and
this particular part of it seemed tho
most difficult to remedy.
" You must let me compensate as far
as possible for the trouble I have caused
you," he began ; but Miss Jemima so
quickly and decidedly declared the in
jury of no consequence thut there was
nothing more to be said. His honest
heart was still perplexing itself over
the problem when a Bin all specimen of
the canine race presented itself to view,
and Teddy caught it up.
"This is my dog; he came to live
with us without nobody askin' him.
Aunt Jem don't like him much 'cause he
ain't a Newfounder ; he's a rat terror."
" Ah ! is ho '" said Mr. Barclay, be
coming suddenly interested. " Such an
animal is very useful about a mill some
times, where there are a great many
rats and mico. I wouldn't mind giving
five dollars for him, if you were willing
to let him go. Would you sell him for
thaff"
" Yes, Sir," answered Teddy, prompt
ly; and a bill was pressed into the
little palm, and the dog transferred to
its new owner.
Miss Jemima viewed this proceeding
rather doubtfully ; still as she was not
consulted in the matter, and the gen
tleman appeared as much interested in
tho bargain as Teddy himself, she did
not quite see how to interfere. The
dog might be valuable ; she really did
uot know. Mr. Barclay Beemed won
derfully well satisfied himself, and held
fast to his purchase as if it were a rare
prize, while he discussed .with ' Miss
Jemima the removal of the ponderous
ornament from the front yard.
" You will, at least, let me come and
help put this garden into order again,"
he said, aa he turned away a proposi
tion she could not hardly have declined,
even if he had given her a chance to do
so, which he did not.
" Now, Aunt Jem, now you can have
a bonnet ; and not an old smoked one,
either," said Teddy.
And Aunt Jem did have a new bon
net a pretty white chip, with fresh,
spring-like green ribbons, that it seemed
a positive luxury to her to put on. You
would think a respectable bonnet could
scarcely be purchased for so small a sum.
Mr. Barclay bad entertained some fears
on that subject too, though he had of
fered as high as he had dared for the
dog ; but he was perfectly satisfied when
he saw her come into church the next
Sunday, leading Rob and Teddy. Was
she to blame for enjoying the whole
service better because of those soft, be
coming ribbons that framed her pretty
brown hair and quiet face ? No ; she
did not think about her bonnet ; she
only felt it ; but when she was at home
again, slowly untying the strings before
her little mirror, she whispered softly to
herself, " I do believe the Great Love
that blesses all our lives cares for our
happiness even in such little things as
these, else all this wouldn't have hap
pened so strangely."
It took a good many evenings to get
those flower-beds into perfect order
again, but Mr. Barclay persevered in his
work with praiseworthy fidelity ; and
having bestowed so much labor upon
them, it was natural that he should feel
a more than ordinary interest in them,
and visit them frequently all through
the summer. There were many happy
evenings spent in the tiny moonlit
portico, with the conversation wandering
to deeper than floral Bubjects ; and he
learned to look upon that spot as a little
haven of peace, and gentle, thoughtful,
unselfish Aunt Jem as the pleasantest
of companions. So it happened that
when the autumn came he won her con
sent to his taking care of her flower-beds
and buying her new bonnets always.
Aunt Hester, who, like many another
worthy lady, was an unconscious wor
shipper of success, greatly approved of
Mr. Barclay. She was very gracious in
her commendation of the arrangement,
remarking, with an unwonted attempt
at facetiousness, that she did not know
that she could " ever believe again that
rolling stones gather no moss."
Franklin and lVhitcflcld An Interest
ing Itoininiscencp.
In his biography of the celebrated
evangelist Whitefield, just published in
Loudon, Mr. J. P. Gladstone gives this
anecdote :
It was not only the ignorant and ex
citable that yielded to the extraordinary
fascination of Whitefield's oratory. No
shrewder listener ever stood in front of
him than the celebrated Benjamin
Franklin ; and how little even he was
able to resist tho charm is shown by the
amusing story which he tells of himself.
Whitefield had consulted Franklin about
the locality of his proposed orphan
house, but had refused to act on his ad
vice; aud the refusal had determined
Franklin not to subscribe. " I happened
soon after," eays Franklin, " to attend
one of his sermoiiB, in the course of
which I perceived he intended to finish
with a collection, and 1 silently resolved
ho should get nothing from me. I had
in my pocket a handful of copper money,
three or four silver dollars, nnd five pis
toles in gold. As he proceeded I began
to soften, and concluded to give him the
copper. Another stroke of his oratory
made me ashamed of that, and deter
mined me to give tho silver; and he fin
ished so admirably that I emptied my
pocket wholly into the collector's dish,
gold and all." If any one could have
resisted the spell, one would have
thought it must have been Chesterfield ;
yet even of him it is said that on one
occasion when Whitefield was describing
a blind mau groping his way unawares
towards a precipice, till he stumbled on
the edge m the act of taking the last
fatal step over, the peer could not help
springing forward in an agony from his
seat, exclaiming, " Good God ! he is
gone
I"
Something About Teeth.
Why do some people's teeth come out
more readily than others ' The reasons
for this are probably many. About the
middle of the last century Peter Kalm, a
Swede, visited America, and wrote sensi
bly about what he saw. He observed a
frequent loss of teeth among settlers
from Europe, especially womeu. After
discussing and rejecting many modes of
explanation, he attributed it to hot tea
and other hot beverages ; aud came to a
general conclusion that " hot feeders lose
their teeth more readily than cold feed
ers." Mr. Catlin, who some years ago
had an interesting exhibition of Indian
scenery, dresses, weapons, ifco., noticed
that North American Indians had better
teeth than the whites. He accounts for
the difference in this strange way that
the reds keep the mouth shut, whereas
the whites keep it open. The teeth, he
says, require moisture to keep their sur
faces in good working order ; when the
mouth is open, the mucous membrane
has a tendency to dry up, the teeth lose
their needed supply of moisture, aud
thence come discoloration, toothache,
tic-douloureux, looseness, decay, and
eventual loss of teeth. Mr. Catlin scolds
the human race generally for being less
sensible than the brutes in this respect,
and the white race specially in compari
son with the red. We keep our mouths
open far too much ; the Indian warrior
sleeps, hunts, and smiles with his mouth
shut, and respires through his nostrils.
Among the virtues attributed by him to
closed lips, oue is excellent when you
are angry, keep your mouth shut.
Cltamher' Journal.
Sheriff Morse, of Portsmouth, last fall
took possession of ten barrels of liquor
in that city on au attachment, stored
and locked them up. It is said a few
days after he went to get the liquor, and
found a gimlet-hole iu each barrel, and
all as dry as when they came from the
cooper. An opening had been made in
to the cellar from a narrow passage-way,
aud now the State is f 1000 out by the
operation.
The "Old Soldier of tlio Revolution."
An old New Yorker, in relating his
recollections of the city, tells the follow
ing good story :
Many years ago, a little withered old
man might have been seen seated on a
box, standing on the sidewalk, on the
northerly side of Chatham square, just
at the commencement of the Bowery.
I had frequently noticed him in passing
along the square, and thought him the
most pitiful and disgusting-looking ob
ject that I had ever seen. A coarse piece
ot brown pasteboard bung suspended
from his neck, upon which was inscribed
in large capitals the following : " I am
a Poor Blind Soldier of the Revolution."
With uncovered head there he sat, day
after day, silently soliciting such contri
butions as the charitable public might
see fit to bestow upon him. His general
appearance denoted him to be a very
old man, and very much enfoebled by
age. Indeed, some of the Sunday papers
had said that he was a hundred years
old, but if he was he was certainly a
very smart person for one of his age.
Nobody seemed to know him, or from
whence he came, but everybody talked
about him, aud wondered how he had
managed to live so long. His head was
one-half bald, and the other half was
profusely adorned with long, flow
ing snow-white hair. His faco was
shriveled and wrinkled, and of a pallid
and death-like hue. He looked, iudeed,
an object of pity, but more of disgust.
Sotno of the papers had declared that he
was a leper, aud cautioned their readers
uot to go near him ; others said that he
was just what ho purported to be, an old
Revolutionary soldier, aud that it was a
disgrace to the patriotism of the country
to allow him to be seen in the streets
begging. This state of affairs continued
for mouths, without anybody being able
to obtain a cluo to his history. Some
few shunned him as they would the
plague, but more pitied him and contri
buted to his relief.
One day I noticed a party of Bowery
roughs skylarking on the sidewalk just
below where the old veteran was sitting,
and I hauled up for a few minutes to see
the sport. They soon arrived in the vi
cinity of the man of unknown years,
when one of tho heartless scamps, losing
all his love and veneration lor things
holy and Revolutionary, seized the
whitened locks of the old mau in his
iron grasp, when lo! the centenarian,
forgetting all his assumed infirmities,
sprung upon his feet in a trice, and the
next moment he went bounding across
the square at a rate of speed never be
fore witnessed in that locality, leaving
his venerable locks aud the outer skin of
his face dangling in the hands of the
brutal rowdy. And so this poor old
blind soldier of the Revolution turned
out to be a slender youth of seventeen,
with hair as black us night, and with
racing abilities that it would be safe to
bat on. The old Continentaler pointed
down Oliver street, with several hundred
dirty ragged urchins close upon his heels,
and shouting at the top of their voices :
"Stop that old Revolutioner crackee!
how he runs 1"
The roughs had a jolly time over the
Revolutionary relics left in their posses
sion, and the lookers-on had a good time.
It was, I doubt not, the laBt appearance
of the young rogue upon that or any
other stage in the character of a Blind
Old Soldier of tho Revolution.
John Wesley's First Sermon in Ameri
ca History vs. Romance.
A short time since we copied in these
columns a btatemcnt from the Bruns
wick (Ga.) Appeal, to the effect that a
number of Methodist divines, togother
with some friends, proceeded recently to
St. Simon's Island, to visit and have
photographed tho venerable live oak un
der the umbrageous branches of which
John Wesley, the founder of Method
ism, preached his first sermon in Ameri
ca. It is probable that the picture will
be engraved ou steel and offered for
gale.
The live oak referred to, says the Sa
vannah ltepuUUan, is a magnificent one,
and has cast its shadow upon many a
lively group in the Husu times ot St. Jsi
mon's ; the Farmers' Club House, to
which all the islanders were accustomed
to resort on one day of every week, hav-
iug stood in immediate proximity. For
its own sake, as well as tor its social his
tory, the tree should be photographed,
for there is nothing approaching it on
the Atlantic coast.
But we never before heard that this
monarch of the forest had a religious
history. The Church of Frederica, es
tablished by Charles Wesley, not John,
was originally located, and still stands
a portion ot its original timbers being
yet incorporated with the-oftentimes re
newed buildings in a beautiful grove
ot live oaks, some bait mile or more iu
the rear of the town, or the site once oc
cupied by the town, nothing of which
remains but a few brick and tabby ru
ins. John Wesley, the great founder of
Methodism, was occasionally at the
Frederica settlement, aiding in tho work
ot bis brother wbicb, unfortuuatelv.
was not a very successful one but his
"first sermon in America" was not
preached ou St. Simon's. His firs re
ligious ministrations in this country
were delivered on Tybee, on tho arrival
of the immigrant ship that bore him
hither, and consisted ot thankserivinar to
God for the safe deliverance of himself
and fellow-passengers, having landed for
the special purpose. This wag in Feb
ruary, 1736. The party then came up
the river, and John Wesley' "first ser
mon in America," according to his own
private journal, was preached in . the
Court House in Savannah, on Sunday.
March 7th, 1730, the text being the
epistle for the day, the 13th chapter of
1st Corinthians.
We dislike to spoil a handsome little
photographio speculation, but this is
nistory.
A Springfield (Mass.) man has collect
ed 1,200 specimens of the eggs of 400 of
the 700 varieties of North American
birds known to the ornithologists, and
nas collectors busy sun in gathering.
MISCELLAKEOUS ITEMS.
Among the emigrants recently ar
rived iu this country from Scotland is a
Collie dog, said to be able to control five
hundred sheep. Ho is to be taken to
Colorado.
Some very elegant parasols have just
come into the market, which cost front
1 200 to S300. The tops are of lace,
either black or white, and the handles
of some ore' of carved coral, while
others are of gold, with a vine of silver
and gold leaves.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue decides that " the dust produced in
the manufacture ot smoking tobacco,
and which cannot be used as tobacco or
snuff, may be sold by the tobacco manu
facturers to farmers as a fertilizer for tho
land."
In Os weero county, N. Y., the ladies of a
village have met and resolved that they
" will not accept the company of any
young man who uses tobacco in any
form, unless the night is very dark and
the road muddy, tor tho space of sixty
days from date."
Henry Allen, of Pittsflold, Mass., who
has been growing deaf gradually tor tho
last six years, had a wanp removed irom
his ear recently, which he now remem
bers took up its abode there at the time
the deafness commenced to trouble him.
A New Haven paper gays " there is ft
horse chestnut tree iu front of the old
General Green place, on Water Btreet,
which blossoms ouly ou the north side
one year and the south Bid the next,
while every seventh year it blossoms
treely on all its branches. This year
the blossoms are on the south s:de.
The most learned woman in the world
is said to be Princess Dora d'lstra. She
reads and speaks fifteen languages, has
writen novels, historical and philosoph
ical works, is au honorary member of
ten learned societies and is, notwith
standing, quite good-looking.
The rules of a Portland savings bank
prohibiting the drawing out of a small
er amount than $1, a boy took the fol
lowing mode of getting only 23 cents,
which wus all ho wanted. He took tho
$1 and went out. In about five min
utes he returned, deposited the ex
tra 75 cents, and took his departure,
highly satisfied at the success of bis
financiering.
One of tho most costly and magnifi
cent and probably much the largest
photographio portrait lens ever made is
one produced for Mr. Mayatt, tho cele
brated .hnghsli photographer. It is an
achromatic- lens, ten and one-half inches
iu diameter, and will take portraits of
any size, from the smallest miniature up
to very nearly the full life stature. It
is made of glass of the whitest and
purest description, and its size admits so
large a volume of lip ht ta"t photographs
covering a space of ten inches by twelve
inches may be done in eight seconds.
In the open air, groups of fifteen to
twenty persons each faco about the
size of an English sovereign, aud the
whole picture two feet long and two
feet wide can be taken with uu ex
posure of ten seconds. The cost of
manufacturing this lens was upwards of
oue thousand dollars.
The production of sheet iron plates
coated with copper and brass is a now
branch of industry in England, which
has excited considerable attention
among manufacturers. It is claimed
for this product that the plates present
great advantages to the makers of fin
ished goods, compared with tinned or
galvanized plates, as they can be an
nealed as much as requisite during tho
process of stamping, without injury to
the copper or brass coating ; aud that
they also are superior to sheet copper or
sheet brass, because articles manufac
tured from them are not so readily bent
or dented as when they are mado of
brass or copper, and they can be bur
nished, planished, or spun, and so
brought up to any required degree of
finish. On this account the material is
specially adapted to the manufacture of
lamps, candlesticks, and all kinds of
goods hitherto made by stamping from
sheet brass or sheet copper, aud at a
greatly reduced cost
It appears from recent statistics of the
industry and manufactures of Birming
ham, that the following wonderful re
sults comprise the aggregate of oue
week's labor in that vast British work
shop : 14,000,000 pens, 6,000 bedsteads,
7,000 guns, 300,000,000 cu1; nails, 100,
000,000 buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5,000,000
copper or bronze coins, 20,000 pairs of
Bpectacles, six tons of papier-macho
ware, 4,000 miles of iron and steel wire,
ten tons of pins, five tons of hair pins,
hooks and eyes, and eyelets, 130,000
gross of wood screws, COO tons of nuts,
screw-bolts, spikes, and rivets, fifty tons
of wrought iron hinges, 300 miles' length
of wax for vestas, forty tons of refined
metal, forty tons of German silver, 1,000
dozen of fenders, 3,500 bellows, 1,000
roasting-jacks, 150 sewing-machines, K00
tons of brass aud copper wares, besides
an almost endless multitude of miscel
laneous productions, of which no defi
nite statistics can be given.
What is called " Leliographio print
ing " is proposed to be accomplished by
the following method a recent foreign
invention caseine or curd of milk being
prepared in a peculiar manner for sub
sequent use in the formation of casting
blocks, printing blocks, and in treating
the gurfvees of paper. The plan is to
take the milk which has become sour
and get by keeping and separate from it
the grease and other extractive matters
by the following process ; The milk u
churned when sour and set by natural
c lUBts and put iuto a bag and allowed
to drain for about twenty-four hours,
when boiling water is poured upon it,
and it is then subjected to a squeezing
process ; after this the best result is ob
tained by pouring water at - about half
boiling temperature upon it. It is aguin
squeezed and allowed to stand until it in
cooled down, aud then washed welt in
clear, oold water, with continuous
squeezing, to remove all the grease and
milk as effectually aa possible. When
dry the residuum becomes hard and
granular, and is the substanae casein
which is the object of the invention,