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' I cannot do much," said a littlo star "To malto the dark world bright I JJy silvery beams caimot struggle far, Through the folding gloom of night I Tint I'm only a part of God's great plan, And I'll cheerfully do the best I can I" Wlint is the use," said a fleecy cloud,' "Of those few drops that I hold ? Thry w ill hardly bend tho lily proud, ThonRh caught in hnr onp of gold I Tot I am part of Clod's groat plan, ;!x my treasures I'll give as woll as I can ?" .A child went morrily forth to play, Hut a thought, like a silver thread, Kept winding in and out all day, Through the happy golden head j Mothor said : "Darling, do all you can, For yon arq.a part of God's great plan I" Rhe tnow no more than the gloaming star, - Ntr the ctbud with its chalice full, llitr, why, ant for what, all strange things were ; She was only a child at school I JlSul bhe thought, " It is part of God's groat plan, "That even I Bhould do all that I can I" So she hoi pod a younger -child along, When the rood was rough to the feet. And she sang from the heart a little song That wo all thought passing sweet ; And her father, a weary, toil-worn man, flaid I, I, too, will do tho best I can." Our best I Ah I children, the best of ns Must hide onr faces away, When the Lord of the vineyard comes to look At onr task at tho close of the day I But for strength from above, 'tis the Master's plan, We'll pray, and we'll do the best that we can A CONFESSION. Mont men would hesitate at telling ruch a story of themselves. Bat I am convinced that it will afford a sugges tion of mercy toward such as do fall, and noma ru ay be turned away from temptation by its recital. I bad been an under clerk In a large establishment for many years. Natur ally economical, my savings bad at tained to such a respectable tnm tbat 1 ventured upon, married life, quite as much as a refug(from the monotony of mv inexpensive;tetyle of living as in obedience to thofce ye arcings of nature which a no an is either very foolish o rnjr unit uvv vw urru iu uud WMUli. Tiike mott men, however, whose adven tures of this kind are not followed by . the comfort and ease which depend upon money for .their possession, in the course of time I came to repent the un dertaking; for I was in debt, and my family bad increased, while my income had not kept paoe with my expenses. My wife lacked the courage to practice the proper self-denial which would be consequent upon a retrenchment of our expends. I was daily annoyed by duns. I had borrowed money in every avail 'able quarter, and a walk in the publio streets was literally denied ito me by the fear of encountering' some one to whom I was in debt for house expenses. Returning home late one night, jaded by a listless stroll through the town, I fcund the junior member of the firm awaiting me. The house had received intelligence, After business hours, of a transaction entered '.into on their ac count, which secured the immediate transmission to an isolated inland town of several thousand dollars, together with certain papers and statements necessary to conclude the affair. It was ) A - - " a ., .ii. A. a 3 . i m too important a maiier to ue intrusted to the insecurity and uncertainty of the mail. Upon a consultation of the mem bers of the firm I had been selected to perform the necessary two days' jour ney. I accepted the mission with alac rity, for tho reason, among others, that it would be such a recreation as would divert my thoughts for a time from the perplexities of my miserable condition. . With the usual foresight of the firm everything necessary to my prompt de parture had been prearranged. The needful papers and accounts, and the indispensable money required to finish tho transactions, were placed in my hands in an envelope addressed to the gentleman who had acted as agent of the concern in the matter. A letter of instructions wero also inclosed. I remember well the brigtit Septem ber morning on whioh I started on horseback and aono on my jouruey, of which I accomplished half the first day, arriving , at a farmhouse, whose occu pants unhesitatingly granted my peti tion for a share for the night in its humble hospitality. The weather had grown colder as the evening came on, and by the time I had reached tue bouse I experienced a sen Bible chill. I had with me a flask of liquor, and was furnished, at my re' quebt at bedtime, with a small quantity of hot water witn wliicn to compound sort of punch, as an antidote to the cold I annrehended having taken. I Lad removed the package of money from my pocket and laid it on the table, with a view of putting it under my pa low before going to bed. As U lay on the table the addretis was uppermost; on the left-hand upper coiner was meruorandum. S5.000 inclosed." was (standing with my back to the door. Buccecdiniy a few moments of entire silence I heard a Btet behind me, and almost thought a breath upon my face. Turning suddenly round l beheld my - hoat with the hot water I bad called for in a tumbler in his hand, lie was quite besi.le me, and his eyes rested, or 1 fiiiici.'l they rested, on the package ' ,:i ? '. .. t..' lo. I must confess I was sensibly startled by this incident. My concern was not diminished by observ ing that he had removed his boots from his feet, and was then standing as he had come up. in his stockings. My first im- Eulse and act was to take the water out of is band. Not being quite ready to use it I put the envelope of money on the top of it as the most convenient thing to keep it hot. I did not turn the sn- ferscription down ward, because I feoied t would betray the suspicion which I now positively entertained of evil in tentions on the part of my entertainer, who bad quitted the room as noiselessly as be had entered. I imagined a great many ways in which he could have become acquainted with the cause of my journey, and came rapidly to the conclusion that my employers' funds were in danger. That they were actually so became evident before the night bad passed. I recalled the man's counte nance vividly to my recollection, and examined from memory his features, so as to make some estimate of the char acter with which I had to deal. Thy sically he was more than mv equal. When I fljfit alighted at the house it struck me I had seen him before, and after some moments of further and pro found reflection I distinctly recalled hha to my mind as a merchant who had dealt with our firm during my early connection with it, and who had failed through the dishonesty of friends whom he had assisted. I remembered him as having been spoken of as disgusted with trade, and as having sought a home in the wilderness with his family, and earning a living literally by the sweat of his brow. There were but two bedrooms in the house, both on the same floor, a passage which commenced at the head of the stairs dividing them. While the thoughts which I have related were passing through my mind I beard voices in the other bedroom and quietly opened my door, which my host had closed behind him. Standing out in the passage I could distinguish a man's and woman's voioe. At first their lan guage was unintelligible, but gradually my ear became accustomed to the duty I endeavored to put it to, and I could distinguish that the burden of their talk was their domestic expenses, and the general current of thejr thoughts was the difficulty of getting through with certain undertakings they bad in contemplaion or had commenced. It was . evident that the man .was more hopeful than the woman. My excited imagination at once framed the theory that the treasure in my possession was designed by them to solve this diffi culty, and that the reluctant man was being urged on by the less scrupulous tt braver woman. A sudden movement of one of them toward the door caused me to retreat into my room. I heard the bolt of their door moved, and supposing it was to unfasten it, hurried back into my own aptfrtment and caught at the envelope, intending to hasten it out of sight In my eagerness to grasp it, it fell off the tumbler with the watered side upper most and opened! Ihe wafers bad been so far dissolved by the heat and rjowF"! 99 "pU't in two, leaving one half of each (there were three) on the flap, wnd the other half of each on the body of the envelope. Meanwhile, there was no sign or sound of an inroad into my room, which 1 had seen it was impossible to fasten the door save by moving some of the furniture against it. I became convinced that as yet everything was safe, and yielding to a feeling of curiosity I drew the money 1vrm ( na infilnonpd a n . 1 Ann n t Pri tt. AMI1 I There were ton one thousand dollars bills I I was astounded, and lor the time forgot the fear that so recently har assed me. I looked at the memorandum on the back of the envelope. It was " 55,000." The letter was opened before me. I read it over. It named $5,(1(111 as the sum inclosed. There was evidently an error. I counted it over again. Ten thousand dollars was the sum before met Again and again I counted it. I had been used to handling large sums' and counting large sums of money daily ; but I actu ally found more difliculty in arriving at the actual count of ten bank bills before me than I ever before or since encountered in counting any sum, how ever largo or however numerous the notes. Finally, putting a chair against the door, I spread the notes out singly on the little table, in a row, and counted them with my linger. Then I made two rows of five notes each and again counted them ; then five rows of two each and counted them. I finally, though slowly, became satisfied that I had in my possession double the amount of money I was expected to deliver to my employers' agent. Temptation enteied my soul. Five thousand dollars - would relieve me of all my debts. Here it was within my grasp. I had 'but to seal up the en velope by rewetting the wafers, inclosing but half the money, and deliver it sealed to the agent, and my trust would be, to all appearances, faithfully discharged. Once the thought occurred to me that possibly it was a trap set for me by my employers. But their confidence in me was unbounded, and the suspicion was formed only to be dismissed. I do not attempt to glaze over the disbon eaty of what I contemplated, but I had been so unceasingly worried by domes tic troubles arising from limited re sources, and so persecuted by cred itors, that I almost argued myself into the conviction that appropriating the money was simply authorized self defense. I would pay all my debts, get clear with the world once more, iusitit upon my wife's adopting my views of living, sava raouey, get inta business for myself and finally pay baokthe sum. I concluded to leave the envelope unfastened until the morning, so as to give myself that muoh more time be fore finally deoiding upon an act which all my arguments with myself had not made entirely reoonoiluble. Arrived at this conclusion, my attention again turned to my host and his wife. I could hear bis voice alone now. It had been sounding alone in an elevated tone for some moments. I crept quiet ly to the partition dividing their apart ment from the passage. The bright autumn moon, which was on their side of the house, shone through their win dow, and through the spaces between the shrunken planks of the partition and out into the passage, and upon its noor m brilliant tars of light, it was easy for me to see what was passing within the room. Man and wife were kneeling at their bedside in prayer. The man with uplifted head and closed eyes, uttering an earnest supplication, his wife beside him and one arm passed affectionately through one of his, and her head resting against his breast. They were kneeling at the side of their bed opposite me, and his face was plainly visible, its calm and pious expression at tho moment was a sufficient rebuke to my unjust suspicions. I began to listen in time to hear him say: "Par don, Oh, merciful father, not only the sins of Thy bumble servant and bis household, but turn the hearts of those who have done evil unto him, who have wished him injury, and who harbored unjust suspicions of him. Bless such, Oh, Lord, and preserve tbem in order that they may turn from their ways and seek the path of righteousness." Ills serious, earnest and manly voice struck a chord in my J heart, not only in sympathy with the honest and tender supplication that was passing his lips, but contrition ftr the wrong I had done him by my suspicions. I involuntarily compared him, whatever were bis good or bad deeds, at least an humble peni tent before his God, with the wretch that I had deoidod but a few moments ago to make of myself by the misappro priation of my employers' money, and still, however, by the relief it could ob tain for me would not quite give way to the feeling of lepentanoe which was knocking for admission at my breast. I had half decided to turn away and drive these better thoughts from my mind, when I observed something mo e in a small crib that was plaoed at the side and toward the foot of the bed. Its occupant, a grandchild, whose parent they had informed me were dead, awakened probably by its grandfather's voice, rose up, looked around, and set tled down upon its knees, and clasping its little hands as its grandfather's were clasped, and looking upward, out through the window at the moon whose bright light fell full upon its darling face, began moving its lips as if trying to repeat the words. Nothing so like an angel ever met my sight. The grandfather began the Lord's prayer. The little fellow seemed to have this by heart. He repeated it word for word, bis tiny, silvery voice sounding in sweet accord. I could not turn away nor anv longer resist the better emotions whioh I had hitherto kept down . A rush of repentant feel ing passed through me with an effect that shook every fiber. I fell upon my knees, and with tears streaming from my eyes joined in the concluding words of the prayer. I need not say I changed my mind with regard to the money. I passed quiet night and rose early, hastening away toward my journey's end, so as to give myself the least possible time or opportunity lor changing my new formed resolution. In handing the package to the agent I said to him that, as there was money in it, it might as well be opened in my presence to Bee that it was all correct, etc lie, of course, discovered the error and handed me back the amount that was over, with which I returned home and delivered it up to its proper owners in due time. it was fortunate for me In every way that I pursued the course I had adopted. It appeared that the money had been obtained from the bank after bank hours, in the absence of the teller, from one of the officers. There were no loose notes on hand of the larger denominations, but there were sheets of thousands and five hundreds signed by the president and cashier. Either two sheets were picked no in mistake for one, or the wrong batch of sheets' seleoted from that is, thou sauds were taken instead of five hun dreds. The notes were hurriedly clipped, strapped and indorsed "$5,000," without recounting, and so enveloped and handed over to me. The bank had discovered the error, and no doubt was entertained but that the missing money was with me. Whether I should have had the face to withstand the imputation, even with the appar ently undisturbed condition of the en velope in my favor, is more than I can Bay, but I doubt it. ' But the notes, in pursuance of a pre caution still in use in some banks, were payable to the order of one of the clerks and had not been indorsed by him. I could not, therefore, have used them, or if,ro they could have been traced back to me. I found also that the numbers bad been carefully ascer tained of all I had taken with mo, and thus another chanoe of detection ex isted. What an escape I Upon returning and entering the counting-room I handed the Burplus back to my senior, with a feeling some what of pride, but mixed up with other feelings not easily described. My precaution of having tho money opened by the agt-nt in my presence wan. highly commended, and the possi bility of his misappropriating the undue amount, as very little personal knowledge of him was possessed by the firm, was duly discussed. What was said on this point brought blushes to my own cheeks. In course of time my senior account ant was taken into the firm. I was put n his position, and with his salary I saved money, finally got into business on my own account, and am now, as you know, rich. I never forgot my former host and his grandohild; but at the death of the former I took charge of the boy. He is now my partner and the husband of my daughter. Ken York's Biter Thieves. New Tork has a large number of pro fessional thieves, many of whom ap parently lead an honest life and are not known as dishonest members of society except to a small circle of friends. Chief among the claw referred to, says a metropolitan paper, are river thieves or pirates, all of whom at some period of their lives learned the art of hand ling an oar either as an accomplishment or in the line of duty. If one of these should be found basking in the snn- icht and mentally mapping out his duties for the night, he could easily I plead that he was an honest man out of employment. Groups of these fellows can be seen lounging around the Erie 1 basin in the daytime, playing cards or gazing at the vessels at anchor. As a rule these men are rough-looking fel lows, although many appear honest enough. Some of them live in tene ment houses in New York or Brooklyn, and have good reputations not only among their neighbors but also in their own families. Many are young men, the sons of honest parents with whom they live. Each one knows how to dis pose of the articles which find thetr way into bis possession. There are a num ber of persons who make money by buy ing stolen goods from river pirates. The junkmen, at best, are regarded with suspicion. Some of them, beside purchasing junk from the masters of vessels, will steal whatever they can ay their bands on. If a boy or an ap prentice should be found alone on a vessel the junkman will offer him a trifling sum for some of the gear or stores. Watchmen on vessels at anchor in the stream are sometimes in oollu- sion with the junkmen, by whom they are well paid. Aooording to the genu ine boatmen, such as those at the Bat tery, the junk business, although it is licensed by the authorities, is dishonest, and the men who follow it should be classed as pirates. On dark nights the watchmen of the vessels at anchor in the bay are told to keep a sharp lookout. Every approach ing small boat is viewed with suspicion. If the latter should be bailed and Bhould fail to answer, but row hastily away the watchman can feel himself free to fire at the retreating boat without being called to account for bis conduct. There are usually two or three pistols in the cabin of a vessel, and a crew, when warned, is able to repel a boating of river pirates, or at least to af' jact the attention of the vessels in the neighborhood. Consequent! 1 the pirates have to prroeed with great caution. They usually select a dark night for making an attack on a vessel at anchor, if it is summer they gen erally pass themselves as honest work men enjoying a quiot row, but if it is winter they g on their dishonest mis sion with the expectation of meeting with danger. If the captain of a schooner anchored jn the bay is known to have money in his possession the pirates are apt to select that vessel. When trade is brisk and quantities of rum, molasses or other liquids are left on the piers, the river pirates row in under the docks and bore holes through the planks in the flooring and into the hogsheads above. The liquid pours through the holes and is caught by the men in the boat below. One night in the spring of 1880 a boat con taining four river pirates approached a fleet of coasting schooners anchored in Flushing bay. But the alarm was given in time and the crews were prepared to defend themselves. One of the pirutes in endeavoring to escape fell overboard and was drowned. Several of the crews in the neighborhood were aroused and the three remaining pirates were caught and were arraigned before the authori ties next morning. In a day or two the trio were "railroaded to Sing SiDg." This proved a wholesome lessoi, and for some time afterward no attack was made on a vessel at anchor. There have been a number of cases of collu sion between diahonest dock watchmen and river pirates. The former wait until the coast is clear and then give their confederates the signal to ap proach and begin operations, while they mount guard and stand in readiness to give them warning of the approach of any one. lint lot the watenmen on me vessels the river pirates would come on board and cut all the ropes below the belaying pins and carry them off. George M. Pullman, the palace car man, got his start financially in mining in Chicago. He was worth less than 8100,000 when he began the tJeeping car business, and now has a $400,000 home at Chicago, besides elegant sum mer places on the St. Lawrence and at Long Branch. The Pullman palace car company now has over 12U0 cars run ning in this country which cost ovtr 815,000,000. The paragrapher who wants to get off some dry humor during the day fchould eat ea'lt codfish for breaifatt. Fieturr of Ancient Extravagance. Grassns, when a candidate for the consulship, gave a feast of 10.000 tables, to which all the citizens of Rome were indiscriminately invited. Caspar, to celebrate the funeral of a daughter, gave one of 22.000 tables, with accommoda tion for three guests at each Thii en tertainment was repeated and excoeded for his triumph, He brought together more gladiators and wild beasts than wero ever produoed on any former oc casion in an amphitheater, but his ex hibitions of this kind were so com pletely outshone that it were a waste of time to dwell upon them. In a document annexed to his testament, Augustus states as a title to publio gratitude that ho had exhibited 8,000 gladiators and brought more than 3,500 wild beasts to be killed in the circus. In the course o the festivities institu ted by Titus to celebrate the opening of the colosseum, 5,000 wild beasts were let loose and killed by the gladiators. The Emperor Probus collected for a single show 100 lions, 100 lionesses, 1C0 Libyan and 100 Syrian leopards, 800 bears and GOO gladiators. Having caused the cirous to be planted with trees to resemble a forest, ho let loose 1,000 ostriches, 1,000 stags, 1,000 does and 1,000 boars, to be hunted by the populace, who were to keep whatever they could catoh or kill The fiercer animals were enoountered by the gladi- ators. It does not appear how long the show lasted. Tiberius, whose life at Capri was a disgrace to human nature, was fonder of saving money than of spending it, and be left an immense sum in the treasury, which his successor, Caligula, managed to dissipate in two years by extravagance of the most senseless kind. As if in rivalry of Cleopatra, he swal lowed precious stones dissolved in vinegar, and caused his guests to bo helped to g"ld (which they carried awaj) instead of bread and meat. - One of his favorite amusements was shower ing money among the populaco from the Basilica of Julius Caesar. He built galleys of cedar, covered with jjwelry, and large enough to contain vines and fruit trees, and bad canals cut for them along the coast. The stable of his favorite horse, which he talked of naming Consul, was of marble, the trough of ivory, the harness of purple, and the collar of pearls. The set of i meralds and pearls worn by one of his wives, Lollia Paulina, was valued at 400,000 sterling. The principal extravagance of Clau dius was in publio games. Ono of the shows organized for him was a naval combat on a lake, in which the galleys were manned by 19,000 men. He was fond of good cheer, . and was in the habit of inviting himself to the tables of the rich. He came on one occasion with 60J persons in his train. It whs to Nero that Tacitus applied the expression, incrcdibitium cupitor. What he not only desired but achieved in t he way of. cruelty and vice would o deolared incredible if Roman bistory bad not already shown what "revolting atrocities may be conceived by a diseased imagi nation and executed by irresponsible Eowor. After the burning of the city e gratified bis taste, in entire disre gard of the proprietors, in rebuilding it. He at once appropriated a number of the sites and a large portion of the' publio grounds for his new palace. The porticos, with their ranks of columns, were mile long. The vestibule was large enough to contain the colossal statue of bim, in silver and gold, izu leet high, from whioh the colosseum got its name. The interior was gilded through out. and adorned with ivory and mother of-pearl. The ceilings of the dining rooms were formed of movable tablets of ivory, which ahed flowers and per fumes on the company : the principal caloon had a deme which, turning day and night, imitated the movements of the terrestrial bodies. When this palace was finished he exclaimed : " At last 1 am lodged like a man." nis diadem was valued at half a million. His dresses, which he never wore twice, were stiff with embroidery and gold. He fished with purple lines and hooks of Kold. Henever traveled with less man a thousand carriages. The mules were shod with silver, the muleteers clothed with the finest wool, and the attendants wore bracelets and necklaces of gold. Five hundred sbe-asscs followed his wife Poppsfia in her progresses, to sup ply milk for her bath. He was fond of figuring in the circus as a charioteer and in the theater as a singer and actor. He prided himself on being an artist, and when his possible deposition was hinted to him be said that artists could never be in want. There was not a vice to which he was not given, nor a crime which he did not commit. Yet the world, exclaims Suetonioas, en dured this monster for fourteen years; and he was popular with the multitude, who were dazzled by bis magnificence and mistook his senseless profusion for liberality. Oa the anniversary ox his death, during many years, they crowd ed to cover his tomb with flowers. The utmost excess in gluttony was reached by Vitellus, who gave feasts at which 2,000 fishes and 7,000 birds were served up. He prided himself on bis culinary genius, and laid every quarter of the empire under contribution to supply materials for a dish, which con tained livers of mullet, brains of pheas ants and peacocks, tongues of flamin goes, roe of lampreys, etc. Tacitus states that he spent what would be tan tamount to several millions " ' " 'U less than eight months in t iDg to eat. London Quaj How to Make a Man Mad.. There never have been more than three men who have cared a snap what the papers said about them. We rwall to mind a New Hampshire man who Nrtid he hadn't the least interest in any thing of the sort And when ho heard tbat a certain weekly had spoken of him as a prominent citizen, he drove seven teen miles in a pouring rain and ovt r a muddy road to get a copy of tbat paper, bteause he wanted t.- soethe market reports in it. We have had tfct little transaction in mind for sometime, and it suggested to us a racket whi'di we have worked,with great success. We i select as a victim some man, ambitions of famo but who never has had the priv ilege of gazing upon his name in print more than two or three times in his life. We go to him and say: "Did you seo that item about you in the paper the other day. Great skid, wasn't it ?" Im mediately his face lights up. He is ail interest. There is an eager look in hig eye. "No," he says, "I didn't seo it Didn't know of itl When was it? What, paper was it in? What did it say?'' And we reply : " Oh 1 hold on I One question at a time." "Well, what paper was it in?" he asks. He is breathlessly eager for an answer. Tho reply, . deliberately : " What paper ? Well, we don't exaotly remember. Think it was one of the city papers, but wouldn't be certain. It may have been a suburban paper. Possibly it was a Western exchange." He looks gloomy, but hope springs eternal in the human breast. You think it was city paper V he asks. "Yes." " How long ago did it appear ?"' Don't ; know exactly. Saw it only two or three days af?o, but it might have been an old paper." "Well, what did it say?" he asks, in desperation. "Ohit was a very plea-ant little item " " Yes, but what did it say ?" Oh, we don't remember what it said. Just remember seeing it." "Why didn't you save it for me?'' "Why, thought of course you'd see it." "Well, I'll go and look over the files of the city papers and see if I can find it." "Dear boy," we say, "you'll find it much easier to find a needle in a bundle of hay. Think of the inter minable task of examining the files of seven or eight daily papars for a month back." The utter hopeless ness of his ever seeing that paragraph dawns upon him. His face assumes a looU or abjeot misery, de spair and baffled curiosity. When we meet him three days later he is just get ting over the feeling of gloom and set tling down to solid hatred of us for not saving the item for bim. Boston Post. Vinegar's Yotarles. "Do you know or have you ever heard why. it is that negro women drink vinegar ?" asked a gentleman of a Time reporter one day last week. The scribe professed the profonndest ignorance in regard to the matter, but he immediately set to work 1 9 find an answer to the question. In the first Lplace he inquired of several negto women it tuey everarans vinegar. " Yes," f aid one, "Idrirk it all the time, especially when I am ironing, and the women in our yard drink it, too." "Does it do you any good?" " Yes; it is cheaper than whisky, atd it keeps up a person wonderfully. I don's know why I began it because the others did, I reckon. It hurt me at first, made me feel sick at the stomaoh, but when I got over this feel ing I felt a good deal better. It's especially good after smoking a pipe, and leaves a kind of cooling feeling be hind." ' " How muoh of it do yoa tako at a dose?" "About two tablespoonfuls. The first dose I took was about a teaspoouf ul, but I know some ladies who take as much as a quarter of a teacupful. If I took that much it would make niek." " How did the habit first b a ?" 11 Some of the ladies used . -ake it, when feeling badly, and it did them so much good that others followed the example. The men folks can't drink: vinegar, and don't like the women folks to take it, but they do it though." The reporter subsequently saw an uptown lady who is at the head of a large boarding house. In answer to questions propounded to her, Bhe said: "Oh, yes, I have had a number of col ored women in my employ who were greit vinegar drinkers. The way I fnnnd it all oat was in this way; I had a washer and ironer who ate very little. 1 al ways kept a bottle of vinegar in my kitchen where 1 could get it easily. One day I went to take it from the shelf and found that the bottle was nearly empty. I was not annoyed at this, al though a little bit surprised, but con cluded to keep the vinegar under lock and key. The next day the servant came to me and askedfor alittla vinegar. I asked her what she wanted it for and she answered, "todrink." She theu told me that she always drank it, and that u. br a nowerof eood. I have no ticed that those women who are the , reatest whisky drinkers, are also the greatest vinegar drinkers." tp Or leans Democrat. It appears that bromide of potassium, which is so extensively used as an anti dote for sleeplessness, is largely com posed of lead, and those wno emi-ioy are exposing tnemseives to wi inc. This statement is made by a Ger man chemist
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