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RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA.,' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875. :
NO. 31.
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Tim Double Harvest.
Tho farmer iat t his kitchen door,
Bmoking bin uooiiday pipe,
Ami over the fields his eye were cast,
Where the grain, eo goldeu ripe,
Noddod away
Through the summer day,
With shadow and sunshine hard at play,
Down by the gate the fanner saw
(And he chuckled low in his glee)
Two, whowhisppred together there.
" So 1" said the farmer, " I see 1
If I guess aright,
And their ekiee are bright,
ere'll be harvesting soon with main and
might."
o weeks went by. and the old barn groaned
With the might of ban-ft l store ;
it the farmer laughed, for well he knew
There remained one harvest more,
Since Cupid had sown,
With grain of his own,
A crop that love must harvest alone.
The farmer sat at his kitchen door
When the eveniDg meal was done,
And he laid a kiss on his daughter's brow,
And welcomed his new-found son (
And the harvest time,
With wedding bells' chime,
Sang its days into merry rhyme.
JOHN JONES, SICK MAN.
The Wny JI. Qnnd tell the Ntory of Sick.
ncs In the Family
lie was "grunting aronnd" for two or
three days before he -would give tip.
Mrs. Jones advised him to take pills or
quiuino, Imt ho said he gaessed he'd be
all right as soon as the weather changed
again. On the third morning he had a
high fever and couldn't stand tip.
Mrs. Jones seemed delighted. He
hadn't been sick before for thirteen
years, and she had a splendid stock of
herbs and powders and liquids in the
pautry.
"Now, just give right np, John Wash
ington," she replied, as he groaned and
sighed and declared that he'd get up and
go down town as usual if it killed him.
"Thero, let me turn your pillow over,
hang your clothes in the closet, and then
I'll run in and make you some toast."
Ho had to submit. She darkened the
bedroom, put a clean spread on the bed,
and a grand smile covered her face as
she sailed into the kitchen.
Sarah Jane, you go and fan your
father with a newspaper and keep the
flies off n him while I get the poor man
something to eat. Your father is a very
sick man, Sarah Jane, and I can't say
that yon won't be fatherless next week
at this time !"
Sarah wont in and Mrs. Jones rushed
from the stove to tho pantry. She toast
ed four large slices of bread, broke three
eggs into hot water, got down a pint
glass of jelly, sent for half a pound of
crackers, and in about half an hour she
had the sick man's breakfast ready.
" I don't care what all the doctors in
the laud say," she remarked as she drew
three chairs within his reach and loaded
them down with the provisions. "I
know that people can't be sick without
something on their stomach."
He tasted the toast, sipped at the tea,
groaned, growled, and sighed and she
pleaded.
"Now, John, do try and eat some
thing. I kuow just how bad you feel,
and I know you haven't any appetite,
but do try." I
" Oh I" he groaned as his stomach re
belled against the food.
"Poor man! poor man 1" she sighed,
as she placed her hand on his head.
' John Washington, if you should die
this would be a sad house ! I don't be
lieve I could stand up under the blow
over tlireo weeks, and I know the chil
dren would give right up 1"
" nadu't we better have a doctor ?" he
inquired, becoming frightened.
" Not now, John not until we see
that I can't do you any good. I know
those doctors to a T. They'd come here
and dose and dose and made a great bill,
and you'd probably die just the Bame."
She carried out the food, put on a ket
tle of water, got out a clean towel, and
as sho entered the bedroom with a dish
of warm water in her hand she said : '
" Now, then, I must wash your feet
and cut your toe nails."
She sat beside the bed, took his foot
in her lap, and that sweet smile on her
lace proved that Ins illness would be a
gain to her of a pound of flesh per
day.
"My soul 1 but I'm glad I thought to
wash your feet !" she exclaimed, as she
rubbed them with the wet towel. " I
wouldn't have had any of the neighbors
come in and see these feet for all we
are worth. "
She wanted to scrape the solos with
an old case-knife, but he wouldn't per
mit it. Sho, however, got out the shears
and had a good time cutting his toe
nails and digging under them. She work
ed industriously for half an hour, and
then held the last foot off and looked at
it admiringly, and said :
"There I I'll take my dying oath that
you've got the cleanest feet in this
town."
He half admitted that he felt better,
and, greatly encouraged, she sent Sarah
Jane out to pull some horseradish leaves.
These were trimmed, laid on the stove,
rolled in her hand, and she went back to
Mr. Jones and said :
Now, then, we'll put on the drafts."
She put a leaf on the sole of each foot,
tied clean cloths over them, hunted up
clean socks, and worried them on over
the cloths, and, as she tucked the spread
down, she asked:
" Now, John Washington, don't you
feel better a little better ?"
" Oh, I dunno 1" he groaned, turning
over.
She turned over his pillow, put a
damp cloth on his forehead, counted his
pulse, and whispered:
" See if you can't catch a little sleep
while I go and wash the dishes. "
When she went out Sarah Jane had
her brother William harnessed to a chair
and was driving him around the kitchen
for her horse.
" What ! didn't I tell yon that your
father was dangerously ill ?" exclaimed
the mother, as she boxed their ears. "It
would be a pretty story to go out that
you children were playing horse when
your father lay dying?"
The children subsided, aud as the
mother piled the dishes together and
carefully scraped the crumbs from each
Elate on to a platter she couldn't help
nt wonder now she would look in
crapes. Her husband was well known, be
longed to the Odd Fellows oud a de
bating society, and of course everybody.
woul turn out to the funeral. She would
have lota of sympathy, and the head
man of the Odd Fellows would see that
the funeral passed off all right. She
wouldn't ever marry again, of course,
though it would be hard for her to bring
np two small children and settle up her
husband's business and earn her own
support. She would be the "Widow
Jones," and if she smiled at all it must
be a faint smile, and if she talked she
must have a handkerchief ready to wipe
the tears from her eyes.
As the last dish was wiped her revery
was broken by a howl from William,
who had fallen over a log in the back
yard.
" What! howling like that when your
dear father is dying 1" she exclaimed as
she shook him right and left.
He subsided and she sent Sarah Jane
down to the market after some lean mut
ton to make the invalid a nice broth.
" The poor man !" she sighed, as she
started for the bedroom. She reached
it to find hiui out of bed and dressed
and ready to go down town. The horse
radish drafts were hanging on the bed
stead, the pillow was on the floor, and
the spread her best was in a heap
under the bed.
"Why, John Washington?" she ex
claimed, raising her hands.
"I'm going downtown," he replied,
in a determined voice.
" And hain't you going to have a fit of
sickuoss?"
" No, hanged if I will."
And the poor woman sat down and
cried. All the herbs and powders and
liquids must remain on the shelves, and
she might not have a chance to cut his
toe nails again for a whole year.
Graphic.
Useful Hints and Suggestions.
A good test for gold or silver is a piece
of lunar caustic, fixed with a pointed
stick of wood. Slightly wet the metal
to be tested, and rub it gently with the
caustic. If gold or silver, the mark will
be faint; but if au inferior metal, it will
be quite black.
Cider may be purified by isinglass,
about one ounce of the latter to the
gallon. Dissolve in warm water, stir
gently into the cider, let it settle, and
draw off the liquor.
Glossed shirt bosoms: Take two
ounces of fine white gum arabio powder,
put it in a pitcher and pour on a pint or
more of water, and then, having cov
ered it, let it stand all night. In the
mon.ing pour it carefully from the dregs
into a clean bottle, cork, and keep it
for use.
When boilers are ordinarily fed with
hard water, it is worth while to save the
drippings of tho exhaust pipe, the con
densation of the safety valve blow-off,
and that from the cylinder, and use tha
water thus obtained to fi.Ul the boiler af
ter blowing off. The result will be sur
prising in effect in loosening scale.
Cider may be preserved sweet for
years, by putting it up in airtight
cans, after the manner of preserving
fruit. The liquor should le first settled
and racked off from tho dregs, but fer
mentation nlionlil not he allowed to com
mence before canning1.
Some weeds can be killed and prevent
ed from growing in gardens by watering
the ground with a weak solution of car
bolio acid, one part pure crystalizod acid
to 2,000 parts water. Sprinkle from a
wateriug pot.
A teaspoonfnl of arabio gum water
stirred in a pint of starch, made in the
usual way, will give to lawns, white or
printed, a look of newness, wheu nothing
else can restore them, after they have
been washed.
To make a handy paint, break an egg
into a dish and beat slightly. Use the
white only, if for whita paint; then stir
in coloring matter to suit. Bod lead
makes a good red paint. To thin it, use
a little skimmed milk. Eggs that are a
little too old to eat will do for this very
well. Scientific American.
A Faded Flower.
"Who's this?" asked the Detroit
court as a man of forty stood befoie the
bar dirty, ragged and outlandish in
look aud dress.
"Martin Henry Jackson," was the
answer.
" Well, you are the meanest looking
old vagrant I ever saw. You look as if
you had slept with the hogs."
"How can I help it ?" asked the fel
low. " Hang it, man, if I had but one fin
ger and one toe left I'd put in a better
appearance than you do or blow my head
off."
" I hain't any work and no money."
"There you are, fat and healthy as
the head cook on a steamboat, and yet
you loaf around the streets, chew apple
cores, sleep in sheds and put up with
anything rather than do a stroke of
work. I wish I could send you up for a
thousand years."
"What have I done?" asked the" old
vag.
" Nothing, nothing at all. That's what
ails you. If you should get in the way
of a Bogardus kicker, you'd be too lazy
to move. Oh ! it makes me mad to see
anybody moping around like a sore-heeled
dog when he might be somebody.
I'll chalk you for six months, and if you
don't leave Detroit as soon as your time
is out I'll buy a mule and turn him
loose on you." free Press.
Last Words of " Long Horse."
Crowa who have reached the old agency,
at Helena, Minn. , report the following
as the parting address of the Crow chief,
Long Horse, to his warriors :
"I shook hands with the white man
when I was a boy he will mourn my
death I say to you now, always stay
with the whites and hear what they say,
and you will do well."
To his son he said : " Never shako
baud with the Sioux, but rather die as
I die."
" Lay me down to sleep," and he died
without a struggle.
A WAR REMINISCENCE -
The Army of the Potomac Relieving Hen.
iHcCli'lInn or t'oinmandThe True Story.
Gen. 0. F. Buckingham contributes
to the papers the true story of the re
lieving of Gen. McOlellan of the com
mand of the army of the Fotomao and
the appointing of Gen. Burnside thereto.
He says: I was at that time on special
duty at the War deportment, my office
being adjoining the secretary's private
room. On the evening of the sixth of
November, about ton o'clock, the secre
tary sent for me to come to his office,
where I found him with Gen. Halleck.
He told me that he wanted me to gp and
find the headquarters of the army of the
Potomac, and spent some time n giving
minute directions as to the route I should
take. Just before I left, he handed me
two envelopes, unsealed, telling me to
take them to my room, and, having read
them, to seal them up. I was thunder
struck to find that one of the envelopes
contained two orders for McOlellan
one from the President, relieving him
from the command of the army, and tho
other from Gen. Halleck, ordering him
to repair to some town in New Jersey,
and report by letter to the War depart
ment. The other envolope contained
two orders for Burnside one from the
President, assigning him to the command
of the army, vice McOlellan, and the
other from Gen. Halleck, directing him
to report what were his plans.
Before leaving next morning, I saw
the secretary at his house, and he ex
plained to me his reasons for sending an
officer of my rank on an errand like that.
The first was, that he feared Burnside
would not accept the command; and my
instructions were to use, if necessary,
the strongest arguments to induce him
not to refuse. The second reason, though
a characteristic one, had very little foun
dation. The secretary had not only no
confidence in McClellan's military skill,
but he very much doubted his patriotism,
and even loyalty, and he expressed to
me some fear that McOlellan would not
give up the command, and he wished,
therefore, that the order should be pre
sented by an officer of high rank, direct
from the War department, so as to carry
the full weight of the President's au
thority. He directed me to see Burn
side first and get his decision. If he
consented to accept, I was then to see
McClellan; but, if not, I was to return
at once to Washington.
I found Burnside about fifteen miles
south of Salem, where his division was
halted, and he alone in a little chamber.
Closing the door, I made known my
errand. He at once declined the com
mand. Whatever my private opinion
may have been my duty was to follow
the directions of the secretary of war,
and, if possible, overcome his objections.
It happened, however, knowing as I did
that the President was resolved at all
events to remove McClellan, that I felt
fully satisfied that he (Burnside) ought
to accept, and urged him to do so.
Among other objections, he urged his
want of confidence in himself, and his
particularly friendly relations to McClel
lan, to whom he folt under the strongest
obligations. I met these objections by
stating that McClellan's removal was re
solved upon at any rate; and that, if he
(Burnside) did not accept tho command,
it would be given to Hooker (who be
came, in fact, Burnside's successor).
He at length consented to obey the or
ders aud I requested him to go with me
to find McClellan. We returned to Sa
lem, whence I had ridden on horseback
through a snow storm, and I had my lo
comotive fixed up the same evening, and
on it we proceeded about five miles up
the railroad to McClellan's camp. About
eleven o'clock we found him, alone in
his tent, examining papers; and, as wo
both entered together, he received us in
his usual kind and cordial manner.
My task was not only a painful one,
but particularly distasteful to me in view
of my friendly feelings for McClellan.
But, as the blow had to come, I was glad
that it was not to be given through an
unkind hand and in a mortifying way.
Gen. McClellan has himself borne testi
mony to the kind manner in which I
communicated the order, and I can bear
testimony to his prompt and cheerful
obedience to it.
( healing Not Profitable.
Onenorning a respectable looking
and quite wealthy farmer, who was gen
erally known as a very close shaver,
whenever he had a chance, brought his
butter handsomely done up in pound
rolls. This was at a time when it was
scarce aud worth three shillings, quick
sales at that price, which no doubt had
induced him to scant the weight of each
roll. Unexpectedly the weigh master
saw his butter opened for sale, when
he prepared his tost scale to weigh
it ; while doing so the farmer in his
anxiety, quick as thought, slipped a ten
dollar gold piece out of his vest pocket,
and while the weigh master's back was
turned, thrust it into the top roll, as ho
thought, uuperceived by any one.
The roll was taken up and it weighed
full woight, which satisfied him without
weighing any other ; but while he was
putting up his scales, a Quaker gentle
man who had been standing near by,
and had seen the whole transaction,
came np and inquired the price of but
ter. " Three shillings," said the farmer.
"Put me that roll in my kettle," says
the Quaker, poiuting to the roll with the
gold piece in.
Fanner "I have sold that roll to a
friend."
" No, thee has not thee can give thy
friend another roll; they are all good
and weigh alike." He turned and ques
tioned the weigh master, who said to the
farmer: "He was entitled to that
roll, or any roll he chose to take, if they
were priced to him." With this the
Quaker took up the gold roll and placed
it in his kettle, then laid down three
shillings ; aud as he was going he coolly
told the farmer, " Thee will not always
find cheating profitable."
A Stampede of Potato Bugs.
Since the potato vines commenced to
dry up in New Jersey, the armies of
bugs lately feeding upon them seem to
havo been starved out, and are now
crawling over roads and fields in consid
erable numbers, apparently bound north
or east. Tho individual bugs scarcely
cross i -ach others' path, but move in par
allel lines., .The tramped bodies of large
numbers may be seen anywhere in thu
country roads.
- - - Au Old Time Execution.
There are but few people now living
in Pennsylvania who can remember the
excitement in the State from one border
to another, when, in 1809, Susanna Cox
was hanged in Heading.: Nevertheless,
the affair did create a tremendous feel
ing. An old gentleman, who was present
nt the execution, now tolls us of the af
fair. Susanna Cox was charged with the
murder of her new-born infant, and the
law, more stringent in its execution then
than now, declared that she must die.
Thousands of people from all the coun
try around visited Beading to witness
the execution, and the gallows of new
scantling was erected so that all men,
women and children could have a good
view of the sad exhibition. The old gen
tleman says : I observed the cart inside
the ring with her coffin, being driven up
under the gallows by the executioner,
and about three paces behind the cart,
Susanna Cox, in her white dress, having
a broad black ribbon around her waist,
and a minister on each side of her dress
ed in black, were slowly stepping along,
having tha dreadful object, the gallows
and the cart, with her coffin, and in which
she must shortly lie a corpse,' in view
right before her. -
The gallows was so high that they had
to put the coffin crosswise on the cart.
She was then lifted on the cart by two
men ; from there they lifted her tip and
stood her on the coffin. While thus en
gaged, the horse made a kind of move,
when they were all three very nearly
tilted over. Here, while others were
procuring something more to stand on
in ordor to reach the top of the gallows
and fasten the rope, she stood pensive
and alone on her coffin under the gal
lows. Now all arrangements being made, the
executioner on one side, and the sheriff,
or some other on the other, took the
horse by tho reins and drove him for
ward. She was drawn from her coffin
with a jar that fairly made the gallows
quiver when her weight became sus
pended on the rope. She twirled and
swung to and fro for a few seconds.
Presently her hands, which she had kept
erect, suddenly dropped, retaining her
white handkerchief in them. The exe
cutioner, who was not the sheriff, but
some other man, then grasped her feet,
raised them a little, and then gave her a
jolt, for which, as I am told, he got a
severe beating the next day by some cit
izens of Beading. Her head lay on her
shoulder I think on the right while
the rope was suspended on the opposite
side ; while her black slippers were
down over her heels ; but being tied
over the instep? were prevented from
falling off. After being thus suspended
in the air for about fifteen minutesr and
having been the object of thousands of
her fellow mortals, who gazed on her, I
trust, with aching hearts ond streaming
eyes, the cart was then backed under
and her lifeless body taken down, placed
in the coffin and taken away.
. Something About Advertising.
The man who says it don't pay to ad
vertise is, just as likely as not, doing it
in some way, all the time. If the mer
chant hangs a few of his goods outside
the door he is advertising. If a cabi
netmaker hangs a chair or other article
of furniture at his shop door, he is ad
vertising. If a man loses a horse or a
cow and tells every one be meets, he is
advertising his loss. The doctor who
has a boy to run into church and coll
him out in haste, is advertising.
A man cannot do business without ad
vertising, and the only question should
be, the best way to advertise. If you
have a lot of personal property to sell,
which is best, to write out a few notices
that not one in fifty will stop to read, or
go to the printer and have a lot of well
displayed posters ? If you are in busi
ness of any kind, is it not better to keep
a regular standing advertisement, in
your homo paper, that will stare your
friends and customers in the face every
weok, rather than trust to the old fogy
idea of " Oh, they all know me 1"
But, says Mr. Saveall, advertising
costs money. Very true, and so does
everything else ; and it is a good thing
for you that advertising does cost some
thing. If it did not, ery little worth
less concern would stand as good a
chance of being known as the very best
and most useful. If you want the people
to know you have anything to sell, ad
vertise it in your home paper first, then
in your neighboring papers. The man
who has a reputable busiuess, and
spends the most in a liberal system of
advertising, is the one who makes the
mcst money. This is a truth well veri
fied by the experience of those who have
tried it.
Imported for Anolher.
The Montreal Gazette records a love
story in its local columns. It reads thus :
It is stated that a young man who four
years ago left the old country and settled
in a place near Toronto, where he bought
a farm, sent for a young lady that he
loved when at home, and came to Mon
treal to await her arrival. She remained
at the house of the young man's friend
here, aud everything was going as merry
as a marriage bell until they attended a
picnio a few days before the intended
marriage, when the fair one, who was in
troduced to a coachman of good appear
ance, got married to him before the other
man who brought her over knew any
thing about it. He felt greatly disap
pointed, but returned home a wiser and
more fortunate man for his escape.
Quiet Millionaires.
A Tribune correspondent, writing
from Virginia City, says he has seen
there three men, each worth not less
than twenty millions of dollars, going
about quietly among tho men in the
common garb of the laborer, with noth
ing to distinguish them from the ordi
nary mine hand no diamond studs, no
big rings, no flashy watch choius, uo
broadcloth. One of these gentlemen has
spent years in foreign travel, and has
mingled in polite society in other coun
tries ; another, who spends most of his
time in San Francisco, rules the market
there, and is to that coast what Commo
dor Viderbilt is to- New York : the
third i accustomed to direct hundreds
of men and employ millions of 'capital.
Yet these three men, when seen about
their mines, would be taken for foremen
or overseers. '
WHAT ARE SHAkERS f
. v
An Editor Tell no Abont Ann l,rv her
Persecutions nnd her Power lltr Work
. In the New World Whnt Shaker Be
Here. ' i , T ,
The Albany Times publishes a ser
mon recently delivered by Elder George
Albert Lomas, of the New Lebanon
Shakers, in which he gives a sketch of
Ann Lee and the first ShakeM that loft
England for the new world. Ann Lee,
the founder of the order, descended
from England, having Manchester as a
birthplace, the daughter of a poor, ig
norant, but industrious blacksmith a
man who came honestly by his ignorance,
and as honestly transmitted the bliss of
ignorance to a large family of children.
At fin early day she claimed that she en
joyed visions, and as she matured these
visions did -mot cease. She married
Abraham Stanley, by whom she had four
children, all of whom died when infants.
She then joined a society of Shakers, her
husband, who had grown tired of her,
gladly giving his permission. ' Ann Lee
did not live a very peaceful life. Elder
Lomas says : Her thundering testimony
against the lusts of the flosh aroused
such bitter hate that she" wis' arrested,
cast into a dungeon in which she r could
in nowise: straighten herself,; and there
left to starve, her cell door not being
opened for two full weeks. ; She came
out in a tolerably good condition, . but
for some remark of hers, was again ar
rested and arraigned for blasphemy.
Taken by the mob ' before 1 several
ministers of the established church, the
mob asked permission to brand her
cheek and bore her tongue, the penalty
of the blasphemer. The ministers
asked her to speak in unknown tongues
she said she could not without the aid
of the spirit. The spirit moved and she
spoke for four honrs in seventy-two
tongues and dialects. These judges ad
vised the mob to let her go in peace ;
but resolving themselves into execution
ers, they led her and the companions in
to a valley to stone them to death.
Through Providential interference, they
quarreled among'themselves after throw
ing a few harmless shots, and abandoned
their wicked design. She was spiritually
directed to journey to America, where,
she told her disciples, " God had a
chosen people, and where He was then
preparing the land for the setting up of
His church."
They embarked upon a condemned
vessel the Mariah, Capt. Smith, of New
York. The spirit had previously led
them forth in dances, in battles of
spiritual warfare, shaking and howling,
and other grotesque maneuvers. These
began on shipboard; the captain, en
raged, threatened to cast them all over
board if the same was repeated. It was
repeated, and in the midst of a storm;
and while the captain was preparing to
put his threat into execution, a plank
started from the ship's bow, and the
waters rushed in like a flood. All hands
were at the pumps, but many times their
number would not meet the necessity.
The captain, pale as death, informed all
of their inevitable fate, and bid them
prepare for the king of terrors. " Cap
tain," said Ann Lee, "there shall not
a hair of our heads perish 1 I see two
angels at the most, from whom I received
this message !" Then came a mighty
sea, and the plank was secured in its
place. Persecution ceased on that vessel.
The Shakers were indeed tho captain of
that vessel the remaiuder of the voyage,
and we have the testimony of the captain
that, " had not that people sailed in his
vessel he never would have seen Ameri
ca !" On the sixth day of August, 1774,
they landed in New York. America was
convulsed with great dissatisfactions.
Passing np Pearl street they came to a
house at the door of which sat a woman.
Halting, they stated they had come to
preach the everlasting gospel to America,
and that tho Lord had directed them to
that house. They were cared for hero
until they had homes of their own.
Some months after they passed up the
river to Albany. Here they were chal
lenged, being suspected as British spies,
aud although Mother Ann invariably
predicted the success of the American
cause, yet, because they would neither
take the oath, nor tight, they were cast
into prison. Although confined, they
were treated very kindly by the authori
ties of that old JJutcli city, and the pos
terity of their keepers seem never to
have learned to be unkind to the pecu
liar people called Shakers. Many ex
pressed themselves with horror at the
idea of confiniug religions refugees in
dungeons while the country was strug
gling for liberty of conscience. " The
earth opened its mouth and helped the
woman in the person of uov. Oeorge
Clinton, who released tho persecuted
Shakers.
Our founder " fled into the wilder
ness " and remained three years and a
half. She gathered many truth-loving
souls. She traveled extensive, meet
ing with persecutions in tho Eastern
States almost too incredible to toll.
Having planted her testimony upon a
pure and imperishable basis, establishing
a new mission of Jesus, by teaching and
example, making prominent purity of
life as an essential in the character of
Christians, and attesting the truth, that
the soul of woman is capable of receiv
ing the spirit of Christ equally well with
man, she departed this life, less than fifty
years old, having labored in this country
a little more than ten years. Snoh ore,
indeed, the outlines of one who was most
stubborn in support of principle an
English disposition, whose bluffness was
turned to Rood account, and who suffered
nearly all things rather than let the right
go down an undaunted prophetess and
savior to her sex and race. The Shakers
do not worship Ann Leo, She was the
medium of revelations which to them
are exceedingly good. We revere the
spirit with which she was baptized, be
cause its operations in the soul were
identical with those in Jesus. blie was,
with us, the fulfillment of the prophecy
of Christian love, beheaded in Crom
well s tune: "Out of thee, oh, kng
land, shall a bright star arise, whose light
and voioe will make the heavens snake
and knock under with submission to the
blessed Jusus." The. principles enun
ciiitod by Ann Lee can LeRt be referred
to by answeriug tho question: ,." Who
are the Shakers " The Shakers are. a
people whose line of conduct ia lu agree
ment with certain Christian principles in
troduced or revived by a goodly sort of
a woman, Ann Lee, i fter their almost
total extinction from the practice of the
race These may be' classed under the
general heads of " Common Property,"
" INon resistance, "ueiipacy in jjiie,
and r " Distinction of Government."
They believe God find Christ to be dual
amnities, father and mouier. iney De
lieve Jesus became Christ or anointed
by a life prepared through an exceeding
self-denial; and they believe the same
causes will produce the same effects upon
all making all Christ by continuously
living the life Jesus led.
A Long Somnambulistic Ride.
Samuol Howe, a very respectable citi
zen of Locust Hill, about eight miles
from Great Bend, Pa., has for some time
been in a very feeble condition, suffer
ing from dropsical affection. He is
sixty-seven years of age, and has been
able to get about lately only with the aid
of others. Early one morning his wife
awoke, and, to her surprise and alarm,
discovered that he was not in bed. His
clothing lay where it had been plaoed
the night before, and Mrs. Howe was at
once seized with the fear that her hus
band had ' dragged himself somewhere
and killed himself to get rid of his suf
ferings, one searched the house with
out finding any trace of him, and then
repaired to the barn. The barn door
was. wide open and a look inside re
vealed the fact that the horse was gone.
Mrs. Howe now aroused Mr. Schouten,
a neighbor. He came to her assistance,
and examining the ground about the
barn found horse tracks leading to the
road and along the road in tho direction
of Harpersvillo. Schouten hitched up
his team and, arousing another neighbor,
Mr. .Pintz, to accompany him, started to
follow up the horse's tracks aud see
whether they were in any way con
nected with the disappearance of the old
man.
The horse was tracked to Harpers-
ville, and from there to other villages,
through all of which it had passed with
out stopping. It was easily followed,
the tracks being fresh and undisturbed.
The trail was kept as far as Colesville,
Broome county, where it led to a house
in the village and stopped. Schouten
and Pintz made inquiries at this house
and found that it was occupied by a
brother-in-law of Mr. Howe's, and that
the old gentleman was there abed. He
had ridden up to the house on horse
back about six o'clock in the morning,
bare-headed, and with only his night
clothes on. Entering, he had said to his
brother-in-law :
" I am very tired and want to go to
sleep."
His relatives were greatly startled at
his singular advent among them, and at
first thought he was insane. They soon
discovered, however, that he was in a
state of somnambulism, and at once put
him to bed. Schouten and Pintz ar
rived at the house about eight o'clock,
and the old gentleman was still asleep.
Tho gravest fears were expressed as to
the result of his extraordinary ride, his
physical condition being so precarious.
Mr. Howe awoke soon after the arrival
of the men searching for him. He was
completely dumbfounded when told
where he was. He had no recollection
of anything since retiring to bed tho
night before. Beyond a slight soreness
and fatigue he complained of no bad
effects of the rido, and, to the surprise
of every one, arose nimbly from bed and
dressed himself in some clothes of his
brother-in-law's and walked about with
an ease and activity he had not exhibited
for many months. He required no aid
to get into the wagon to return homo,
and was quite fresh upon reaching Lo
cust Hall.
A singular fact connected with the
case is that Mr. Howe never was known
to get up in his sleep before. He had
not been a mile away from home in a
long time, nor ridden on horseback for
many years.
The Arabian Horse.
The Emir Abd-el-Kader, in his " Ob
servations on tho Horse," says: If you
wish to go very fast, choose a horse with
high withers and small flanks. The
tail should be thick euough to fill the
space between the thighs." "The tail
resembles the vail of a girl betrothed."
The eye of a horse should incline lazily
toward the nose, like that of a man who
squints. "It resembles the eve of a
coquette who tries to peep from under
her veil." The ears should resemble
those of an antelope, the nostrils should
ue large, the fetlock joints email, the
forelock thick. " In the time of danger
mount a norse whose forehead is cover
ed with thick hail-. " The cavities inside
the nostrils should be entirely black; if
they are partly white, the horse is only
of medium value. The hoofs should be
rounded, and on the interior like the
hollow of a drinking cup: the froes firm
and dry; the fetlocks thick, resembling
tne uarK piumes nniden under the winga
of the eogle, and, like them, they become
black in the heat of the battle; the hoofs
firm. " They walk on their hoofs as on
the stones of a stagnant water covered
with moss.
"When my horse goes for an object
he makes a noise resembliner that of the
wings of a flying eagle, and his neighing
resembles the plaintive tones of the
nightingale. His neck is as long and
graceful as that of a male ostrich. His
eye is black as night and full of fire. In
elegance he resembles a picture hanging
on the walls of a palace, and he is as
stately as the palace itself."
The old emu? was evidently poetical as
wen as warlike.
His Sou-In-Law.
Archduke Maximilian, of Bavaria.
went recently to Vienna to visit his
daughter, the Empress of Austria. He
always travels quietly, and was mistaken
for a businessman by a talkative Austrian
tradesman who occupied the same com
partment in the train, and wno, after
telling all about his own affairs, asked
the archduke where he was going.
" Going to Vienna." "On business V
"No; to visit my daughter, who mar.
ned an Austrian." " Is your son-in-law
in good business?" "Well, tolerably
good, but , troublesome at times."
" What ishe?" - "The Emperor." The
tradesman won rutverri,l with mmfnai'n
- . ,.av.s UUM.UIW'U,
and notwithstanding the laughing pro
testations of the archduke he darted
irora the carriage at the very first ston
I piug 1'ittce,
Items of Interest.
Spain is conscripting boys of fifteen.
Tie-back trousers for men are proposed.
India has 750,000 acres devoted to the
cultivation of opium.
There will be a surplus wheat crop in
Kansas of 13,000,000 bushels.
Wvominff Territory has one saloon to
every hundred and eighty inhabitants.
TIia Mormons are educating twenty-
five girls at Salt Lake City to be physi
cians. If walls have ears, planks sometimes
speak did you ever near stage whis
pers ?
Eight hundred paper mills in the
United States produce annually $70,000,
000 in stock.
David E. Porter, son of tho admiral,
has accepted a position on the staff of
the Khedive.
" I have bought my first last," was
the remark of a cobbler when he set up
business for himself.
Of the 20.000 persons arrested in Eng
land last year for debt, one-fourth were
able but unwilling to pay.
Althonch it is generally done, it is not
necessary to bump against each separate
stair in falling down stairs.
A Chicago clergyman says he never
feels so familiar with Satan as when rid
ing over a cobblestone pavement.
Dublin and Belfast ore the only cities
in the British islands, outside of Lon
don, that support seven daily papers.
Statisticians say that there are now
over two million " Williams " in the
United States, without counting the lit
tle bills.
Most of the men who spent 500 to
$1,000 to get to the Black Hills have been
heard from. They are coming out to
borrow more money.
It has been raining in the country. A
rostio lover writes : "Dear Mary Why
Kant Kum Rownd to Nite yn no well
Enuff i aint Got no Kanoo."
Old daddy-long-legs has a mission.
He has been observed to devour the
larvre of the terrible potato beetle, and
there are prayers for his health.
It is all explained this row about the
Chicago custom house. There are three
bottles of whisky in the corner Btone,
and the building has got to come down.
What people should know That if
they spoil a stamped envelope when ad
dressing it they can get tho value iu
stamps by presenting it at the post
office. A Baltimore servant girl the other
morning tried that good old time-honor
ed plan of lighting the kitchen lire with
kerosene. JNotlmig has benzine ot ncr
since. .
Doctor to wounded CarliBts "Why
did you not seek shelter behind the
rocks ?" " The rocks were too few, and
had all been occupied by our officers,
doctor.
Somebody kindly sends us a. fac simile
of the autograph of John C. New ; but
really we don't like the color or size of
the paper which contains it. Eochcstcr
Democrat.
This is the way it goes. Miss Clara
Rose, of Philadelphia, had 87,000 ex
pended on her Latin, French, and Ger
man education, and then married a mau
who has to buy his butter half a pouud
at a time.
A husband in Massachusetts can't
make up his mind on the currency ques
tion, and so he refuses to allow his wito
any pin-money until a decision can be
arrived at.
The city court of Louisville, Ky. , re
cently decided that newspaper men have
a right to carry deadly weapons, if deem
ed necessary for self-defense, while in
the discharge of journalistic duties.
Colonel Baker pays the following sums
for his famous railway ride in England :
Value of commission, 0,000 ; fine,
JE500 ; cost of prosecution, 1,500, and
of defense, 1.000, Total, say $15,000.
Of all the vices avarice is the most
generally detested ; it is the effect of an
avidity common to all men ; it is because
they hate thos i from whom they expect
nothing. The greedy misers rail at sor
did misers.
The three wonders of the world at
present, says an exchange, are : How
fluff accumulates in vest pockets, where
pms go to, and why a man wlien lie
comes out of a saloon looks one way and
goes the other.
A mixture of peroxide of manganese
and water glass is recommended to be
applied to cooking stoves when they are
red hot, as it is said to make a good
blacking, not as liable to burn off as
common black lead.
Kingston girls are opposed to introduc
ing the letter carrier system in that city.
" The idea 1 says one of them, " of
having letters left at the house ! Then
we can't go to the post-office, and won't
have any excuse for going down town.
In 1776 Massachusetts had 295,080 in
habitants : in 1790, 378,787 : in 1800,
423,345 ; in 1810, 472,040 ; in 1820, 523-
159 ; in 1830, 610,408 ; in 1840, 737,(599 ;
in 1850, 994,514 ; in I860, 1,231,006 ; in
1870, 1,457,351, and now about 1,640,
000. Nothing new about pull-back skirts
after all, In the reign of Edward II., of
England, a monkish chronicle records
that the ladies "wore such straight
clothes they were constrained to have
long foxes' brushes sewed within to hold
them forth."
O'Connell, in addressing a jury, having
exhausted every ordinary epithet of
abuse, stopped for a word, and then add
ed, this " uaufrageous ruffian." When
afterward asked by his friends the mean
ing of the word, he confessed he did not
know, but said " he thought it sounded
well"
Calcraft, for many years the hangman
in England, and now superseded by a
younger man, was a puzzle to news
paper reporters. He wouldn't interview
worth a penny. He invariably whisper
ed in the ear of his victims just before
tho fatal moment, and it has never been
discovered what he said.
The Chicago Advance says : A friend
of ours has a little niece, whose mother,
thinking it time for her to put away her
childish things, informed her that Santa
Glaus was no person at all ; there was no
such person. Whereupon the child sol
emnly asked : Mamma, have ypu been
telling me lies about Jesus Christ too?