BY 0. D.
'Twas two o'clock at Hari-isburg
When to Willianifport I took the train,
And as I bad not sloop enough
I prepared to sloep again.
When a female with much baggage
Andbandhoxos half a score,
Came and took a seat beside me
With her boxes on the floor.
She was one of llio?o lair creatures
Seldom in romance Keen,
She, I thought was all of fifty
Or perhaps three limes Kixieen.
She was dressed in latest fashion,
And on her head a hat she wore
Filled with flowers of all colors,
. And protruded a loot or more,
9-
She was tall, thiu and scrawny
And, in fact quite masculine,
And her nmplo dress of saiiu
Spread an awful Criiiolino.
But, without my leavo or license
Slio did spread it over me
Ah! thinks I my handsome lady
You are making rather free.
Innvoico she then addressed me,
Neither musical nor sweet,
Sir 1 I've a little pet dog
Who wants to have your scat.
Hare you madam f said I smiling
Indeed that is rather oool,
Where 1 cane from we learn manners,
You never troubled such a school.
Hut you're welcome to it mad.im.
For your Dog now take my seat,
'Surely such a handsome lady
From me should but politeness meet.
Take it, and I took another,
And in it soon I sleeping lay,
And slept without once waking,
Till the dawning of the day.
Cretan ChUr.
Among the bravo ruen who, in the
ill-fated Island of Crete, are sustaining,
single-handed, against a powerful and
brutal foo the cause of civilization, there
is one whose portrait, as we find it to
bo drawn in a Greek journal, is worthy"
of a place besides the figures of a Horn
erio hero. Demetrius I'etropoulaki is
indeed a striking proof, if ooe were
needed, that the ancient blood of Greece
still runs iu the veins of living uicd.
Seventy years of war and sufforinsc have
left their mark upon the gigantic form ;
fatigue iind wounds and exposure have
left visible inroads upon the iron frame.
Half patriarch, half cavalier, there is an
expression of resignation to suffering
on his face, and a look as of a dying h
on in his half closed black eye, while
an affable smile of goodness dwells ou
his lips, beneath his long, heavy mous
tache, and his hands are slashed with
saber cuts, and ho has been so riddled
with balls that when ho speaks you can
liear every word produce a painful hiss
ing in his breast. All over his nui-lyr-
cd flesh is written '.he epic of his life.
An unchanging gentleness, an august
serenity, exhale, as it were, from his
person. Tho impression ho leaves up
on you is that of thejust roan who, con
teut with the past and assured ot peace
with God, awaits his hour in confidence.
Chief of a powerful clan in Maina, that
small district, the home of the ancient
Spartan, which Iho Tuiks have never
been abla to penetrate, Demetrius Pct-
topoulaki has remained faithful to the
manners ot his auccstors, and the white
tunio aDd scarlet sash the splendid
costume of Shandehcrs still lend their
aid to enhanco tho majesty of his per.
son. Careless cf the presence of men,
he falls upou his knees at his wonted
hour, and prays to the Cod of battles,
as a patriarch might have prayed, or a
Highland Chief. l?y day he journeys
on, over niouutains and through val
leys, on his sorrel mule, stopping on
the way sometimes through fatigue aud
pain. At night ho spreads a bit of car
pet, and stretches himself out on it, and
thus discourses with his faithful follow
ers on the perils they havo encouutercd,
and of the victory that is to' come. He
himself never sleeps, only slumbers ;
rising up gently it ho hears ono of his
companions restlessly uioviug iu order
Jo spread over him his own eolo cover
ing, and theu returns to lie on the bare
ground. When the hour of battle is
co mo his son Leonidas heads tho phal.
anx, and followed by his son George
I'etropoulaki ; for three generations of
this heroic raoo ara fighting there for
tho freedom of Crete. The chief will
remain behind until the lust pillicar is
in line, and then seated on bis mule,
he rides or tranquil and fearless into
tho midst of tho balls, with his majestic
cry of On, my children ! " 01 such
men as these, the accounts we have from
Crete make little meution, yet it is such
men as theso who alono make those ac
counts credible, for tho world has nev
er witnessed a spectacle of greater en
durance and moio astounding heroism
tVau is exhibited daily in tho lives of
theso Cretan volunteers for liberty.
Jlut history will some day do them jus
tiae, and when that day come.', tho
rand old Chief Petropoualki will form
the leading figure in tho awful drama
which barbarism and civilization aro
enacting, ai Kdmoni Dosinuzas says,
behind closed doors, injbo blood-souk-cdjlsland
of Crete.
"I say, boy how far do these rooks
run into tho sea !" asked of a half clad,
frowsy-haired fisherman's sou, on the
tast coast of Scotlatid.
'They dinua ruu avi, zur ; they joost
lie still there."
fcirTho population of New York in
1800 was 5111,131. It has been four
times doubled in ouo hundred years.
Paris has been doubled withiu thirty
two years ; London within forty years,
uud Vienna within forty four.
I nfi &JLR IIP I &
RIDGWAY, PENNA. NOVEMBER 7, 1SG7.
JOHN F. MOORE, Editor & Proprietor. VOLUME SEVEN NUMBER 35.
From the New Yors Evening Ga:;elte.J
" The r the World"
Jlanlon JMrblc,
Though very unlike Henry Macken
zie's hero, Manton Marble is gonerally
known in New York, and tho country
at large, os tho "Man of tho World."
Ho is emphatically puch. and no cfio
who knows him can say that tho World
is not worthy of him." His rise in jour
nalism has been rapid, lie was hardly
known ten years ago, nnd now his repu
tation is only second to that of Grcoley,
Bennett and Raymond ns tho ejitor-iu.
chief of ono of the four great quartos of
tho metropolis. lie is a native of Mas
sachusetts, wo believe, and began his ca.
reer, after taking his degreo at college,
in Uoston. Tho story is that in his vc.
ry early manhood he wont, entirely un.
known, into a newspaper office (the
Traveller, wo think), in that city, and
asked for a situation.
"What can you do?" inquired tho
managing editor.
"Anything at nil," said the self confi.
dent Marble. "Try me on a loader, a
paragraph, a criticism or a review ; it's
all tho same to me."
" Have you ever had any journalistic
experience V
"No, but I have written a good deal,
aud I know I can suit you if you'll on
ly give me a chance."
"Well, I like your self. reliance. It
argues well, and I judge from your "man
ner and conversation you aro educated,
and havo scou something of the world.
He hud not seen so much of it then as
he has siuco. I am favorable impress
ed with you."
Give mo a trial ; that is all I ask ; I
don't wish to sound my own praises. I
want to work. I have long had a fancy
for journalism ; and I intend to wiitc
for some newspaper; if not for this, for
some other."
" That's the right spirit young man.
Now, I remember, Forrest plays Lear
to-night, aud I havo no ono to send to
tho theatre. Will you undertake tho
job ?"
"Certainly. Can I write at length ?"
"Yes, you shall have two columns,
aud I'll see what you can do."
Tho next morning tho journal con
tained two columns of graceful, learned,
and often brilliant criticism of the actor,
with a careful examination of tho text, a
reference to Scotch histcry, and a fine
analysis of tho churactcr, which delight,
ed tho managing editor, charmed his
readers and secured Marble a position
at once at what was then regarded in
the City of Notions as a liberal salary.
Mr. Marble remained on the Hoston
press for several years, but, desiring a
largo field for his journalistic capacity,
came to New York soon after tho World
was started as a one ceut religious paper.
He wcut into the offke first, wo think,
as a general writer, but soon besamo the
managing editor, and afterwards the ed-itor-dn-chicf.
Through all the changes
of tho paper he not only retained his
place, but rose higher and higher, and
secured a larger and larger interest in
the establish want. To what extent ho
is a partner in the World no one knows j
but ho is supposed to own at least a
quarter or a third of it, for he almost
entirely controls aud directs its political
andjournalisticcour.se. Ha has never
had connection with any other newspa
per in the city, but has given all his en
crgy, time and talents to the buildiug up
of tho World, which is now the ablest
us well as the most pro.uincut Democrat
ic organ in tho country.
The journal, though it is quite eco
nomically managed, has always contriv
ed to have some of tho best writers on
its staff of editors and correspondents
that aro to be found in tho metropolis.
And this selection of able men for the
different departments has been made by
Mr. Marble, who seems to have, liko
Charles A. Dana, the rare faculty of get.
ting the right men in the right place.
Two or thrco years ago Mr. Marble
married a young lady of wealth and ac
complishment in this State, and has since
devoted himself more t.i domesticity
than journalism. Ho still supervises
aud directs the political and editorial
partof tho paper, leaving to subordinates
the general management.
Mr. Marblo is a gentleman of rare
culture, a fine Idles Utrea and classical
scholar, aud deeply versed In the mys
tcries both of transcendal and positive
philosophy. Ha has Btudied tho ad
vanced thinkers profoundly and earnest
ly, and is intimately acquainted with
Kent and Hegel, Comto und Cousin,
L'u'jklo and Herbert Spencer. He
writes very gracefully and forcibly ; and
though uianyjarticles not his arc attribu
ted to his pen, it is safe to eay that soino
of tho very best which appear on tho
excellently. written fourth pago of the
Worll are exclusively his property.
His political oppenents havo often de
clared biiu iusiocore; insisting that any
man ot his mental training uud culture
must be a Republican of necessity. It
is fair to suppose, however, that Mr.
Marblo knows his own cr mictions bet
ter than others ; nor is it impossible for
a student of liberal philosophy to be a
Democrat.
Personally, Mr. Marblo is probably
about fifty yean of a;;c, though tho pre
mature appearance of .pray in his hair
makes him perhaps look a Trifle older,
lie is below tho medium stature, rather
heavy set, easy and graceful in his move
ments, and of prepossessing and winning
address, lie is q'tito handsomo, and
has decidedly a foreign look'with 'c:i.;t
of Oriental comeliness in his face, such
a.s is often seen iu tho inheritors o.' Ilo.
brew blood after it has coursed for two
or three generations through what is
cthnologiclly styled "Christian" veins.
Ho is, however, of puritan stock, we be
lieve; but in u-st be, as they would say
in the South, rather of Norman than
Saxon lineage.
If ho were attired iu purple doublet,
with a carbine swung to his back, a
peaked hat, streaming with ribbons, put
upon bis head, and thrust upon the
stage of tho Academy to mako love to
Zerlina in Italian song, no ono would
suspect he was not the proper person
for a sentimental bandit.
Mr. Marble is much tho handsomest
of the prominent editors of Now York ;
lives iu ease, even luxury ; enjoys the
library and his dinner ; lounges and tails
gracefully at tho Manhattan Club; is a
power in his party and a pleasant gen
tleman in society and that very raio
thiug a highly successful and material
ly prosperous journalist while sitll
young and iu the possession of perfect
health.
The lirglnla Election.
With a slear white majority of 13,000
votes, the State was so gerrymandered
that tho negroes were enabled to elect
5(3 delegates and tho whites only 43,
when it should have been the reverse
50 whito conservatives and 43 nogro
radicals. Tho negroes had been drilled
so well, aud were iu such dread of their
mean white managers, that they voted
almost unanimously for the ur-iuinces of
tho Radical party, no matter who were
their opponents. And not only this, but
by violeuco and threats they prevented
the blacks that desired to do so, from
voting tho Conservative ticket. Iu Al
bemarle county, one of tho richest and
most populous counties iu tho State,
Judge Alexauder Rivers, who has been
a Republican all his life, before, during,
aud since tho war a man of intelli
gence, wealth aud position in society
did not receive a dozen negro votes;
a man named Thompson, from your
State, who was publicly denounced as
totally unworthy by the Uni'ed States
officer, and a ucgto named Taylor, wcri
elected almost unauimously over him.
A similar case occurred in Henrico,
where Mr. Franklin Stearts was the
caudidato, nominated by Republicans,
only claim to their suffrage, was that ho
hid in tho swamps during the war, aud
because ho was a member of the Leauge
aud their President. Iu Mecklenbur"
county a -:.,-o ivho cannot read or
isn't'; anil who has been convicted Jtvc
times ia the court Jor utttuin;, teas elec
ted ocer a resectable Uaimi man. All
over the eastern portion of the State, the
same lesultK havo been seemed; but tho
above will give you a sample of how
Virginia and Virginians are to be t;ov
eriied in tho fu'.uie. The candidate for
this city, consist lbs notorious llunni
cutt, tho corrupt aud uV.estable Under
wood, an Iiishmau named Monisiey, a
disgrace to his gallaut countrymen, aud
two negroes. These men received only
City white votes in the whole city, uud
were denounced publicly by some of
their own gang as scoundrels and pcrjur.
crs. Tho respectable Northern meu
among us did not and would not vote for
them; They were elected by lraud, a
the card from Mr. Gilmer to General
Schofield abundantly shows. The Pros,
id -jut of the registration board, 0:13 Rose,
(by uo means a sweet one,) on tho last
day of election said ho "ho didn't care
a d n for all the people in Rich
mond ;" some of his friends had bet ou
tho Radical majority of so much, and lie
iutcuded they should win.
Wiiisiuxa Giuls. Show mo a
girl who will daro to whistle in these
days when everything natural even to
tho hair of your head, is at a discount,
aud I'll show you a girl who can be do.
pendsd upon, one who will not fail you
in time of need, and will give you the
true hearty grasp, tho cordial baud
shake, tho warm, genuine welcome, no
tip of tho kid glove, und a cold "how
do you do ;" who can brave danger, look
toil in the face without shrinking, 'laugh
with those that laugh, aud weep with
thoso that weep,' us well ai whistle ; who
can iu bort tako tho world as sho finds
it, rough and rugged, not go thiough
life as though sho was walking on eggs
and afraid of cracking a shell, who deuls
iu subjtauco, not shadow.
t
SibscniBE 1'on hie Advocate.
tftlull: In S'lah SJtatrhur
liSff.y IF;n! Trfisrft!; . tutor-
stllr.d VifJlcr 7Sornion ,!ispi
ees.
At a Mormon theatre, not Inns ago.
they played " Othello." Othello was
represented, as usual, but polygomy de
manded more than oni Dest'.emnna, ?o
there was liltccn Mrs. Othollos for this
Moor to be jealous of. The consoquenc
w.u ho grew fifteen times as jealous as
any other Othello on the stigc, aud rav.
cd and ranted fifteen times as loud. The
actor win undertook the part has becu
laid up in bed ever since.
In the first plaoo thcro wore fifteen
Rribantios clamoring for thoir daught
ers, who had eloped an! married the
Moor. Tho text, had to Lo changed a
little of courso. When brought before
the Senators, charged with winning fif.
teen young women of Caucasian blood
by tho use of charms, love powders, ctc.;
he said :
" Their fathers loved me, oft invited me ;
Still qucstsoned metlie dory of my life,
From year to year; the battles sieges,
fortunes
That had passed."
Fifteen mortified aud repentant fath.
ers immediately regretted that they had
seemed to countouanco ucgro equality
by inviting the blhck meu to their homes
although ho had fought nobly during
tho war. Then Othello drew a touch
ing picture of tho sympathies which his
tale excitod iu tho breast of the fifteen
young women ; how they would hurry
through their housework to listen to it,
half washing their breakfast things and
leaviug tho chamberwork uutil after,
noon. Ho found at length pliant
hour," when the fifteen susceptible
young women are a'l together, aud drew
from them, a prayer of earnest heart,"
that he would give them the story en
tire in one number, which they got in
fragments from day to day. He con
sented, and did beguile tears from fif
teen pairs of eyes when speaking of
some distressful stroke that his youth
suffered. Fifteen women -power sighs
rewarded bis story, and then they swore
fifteen of 'm
" They wished they had not heard it, yot
they wished
That heaven had made them such a man."
They requested him, if ho knew of
any promisiug young man of good in
como who was in love with them, to
teach Lint how to repeat that entertain
iug yarn of his, and that would woo
them. On these fifteen hints be spoke :
"They loved me for tho dangers I had
passed,
And 1 loved them that Hi ay did pity them,
Ilorc come the ladies, let them witness it."
Then the fifteen Desdemonas enter,
perceiving a divided duty bctweeu their
husband and the filte"ou patcrnals, but
they shako their papas and cling to the
Moor, thus administering a salutary re
buke to tho opposers of uuivereil suf
frage. The plot progresses. Iago excites
the jealous rage of Othello by pretend
ing to find fifteen pocket hunkcrchie-fs,
that the Moor had given his wives, iu
Cassio's bedchamber. They were neat
ly embroidered handkerchiefs, with a
butterfly in one corner and his initials
"G. W. 0." (George Washington
Othello,) in red.
It was hard to make Othello bolievc
for some time that Lis fifteen wives hud
gone back on him, but tho wily und
treiicherous Iago plies his arts so skill
fully that the Moor is at length convin
ced, and resolves to avenge his honor,
that had received fifteen deadly stabs,
by making hiuiiclt a widower. This ha
accomplishes by smothering his fifteen
wives in their fifteen separate bed.
chambers with fifteen different bolsters,
being called befor'o the curtain by tho
enraptured audienco at tho death of
each of the fifteen Desdemonas.
A Day. A Day 1 It has riseu upon
U3 from tho great deep of eternity, girt
round with wonder ; emerging from
the womb of darkness , a new creation
ofjlifo and light spoken iuto being by
tho word of God. In itself ono entire
and perfect sphere of space and timo,
filled aud emptied of tho eun. Every
past geucratiou is represented iu :.t ; it
is tho flowering oP a!l history, aud iu so
much it is richer and better than all
other days which have proccded it.
And wo have been recreate! to new
opportunitcs, with new powers called
time, this centre of all coming lifo.
And it is for to day's work wo have
bet-n endowed ; it is 'for this wo aie
pressed und surrounded with these
faculties. The sum of our entire being
is concentrated hero : and to-day is
all the timo wo absolutely have.
Chajiiii,
Jt4j"A well known minister iu New
i ork repudiates tho reoeived theory of
their being music in Heaven. Ho de
clares that his choir has given hiiu so
much trouble on earth, that the idea of
music iu toe world to como is wholly
repugnant to his idea of eternul peace
aud rest. ' ' ,' - i
I
( oitctrtiiHx ..W.tu,
Wonder tit homo by fairiliariiy
cease lo excite astonishment ; Vtt
thence it happens that many know but
little about the " hou-io we l:ve in "
tho human body. f'n look upon a
hou.-c from the outside, j u t a.s a whole
or unit, never thinking of the many
rooms, tho curious passages, mi l tlm
ingenious internal urrangcaiuiits of tl.e
house, or of tho woudurf'ul truetur of
tho man, the harmony and tho udaption
of all his parts. "
In the human skeleton, about tho
timo of maturity, are l(j." hones.
The muscles are abjut o'J'J iu num
ber. Tho length of tho alimentary canal
is about 3li feet.
The amount of blond in an adult
averages o J pounds, or full ouo fifth tho
entile length.
Tho heart U six inches in longth and
lour inches iu diamoler, and beats 7l)
times per minute, 4, '-00 tint s per hour,
UOO.SUO times per day, 510.772,000
times per year, 2,50,410,000 iu three
score nod ton, und at . each, beat two
and a half ounces of blood arc thrown
out of it, one hundred and scvcnty-fivo
ounces per minute, six hundred and
fifty-six pouuds per day. All the blood
in the body ptssca through tho heart
in thrco minutes. Th'i3 little organ, by
its ceaseless industry
I.i the ollot'ed span
The l'slauiist gvve to man.
lifts tho enormous weight of 370,700,
200 tons.
The lungs will contain about ono
gallon of air at their usual degree of
inflation. We breath on un average
1,2C0 times per hour, inhale GOO gal
lons of air or 21,000 gallons per day.
Tho aggregate surface of tho air cells of
Jilib lungs exceeds 20,000 squaro inches,
au area very nearly equal to the floor of
a room twelve lcet squaro.
The averago weight of the brain of
an adult male is thrco pounds and eight
ounces, of a female two pouuds and
four ouuees. The nerves are all con
nected with it, directly or by the spinal
marrow, The nerves, together with
their brauchesand minute ramifications,
probably exceed 10,000,000 in number,
forming a " body guard " outnumber
ing by far tho greatest army ever mar
shalled !
Tho skin is composed of thieo layers,
and varies from one fourth to one.eight
of an inch in thickness. lis average
area in an adult is estimated to be 2,
000 squaro inches. The ntinosphcrio
pressure being about fourteen pounds to
the square iuch, a person of modium
sizo is subjected to a pressure of 40,000
pouuds ! Pictty tight tug.
Each squaro iuch of skin contains 3,
500 sweating tubes, or respiratory pores,
each of which may bo likened to a little
drain. tile, one-fourth of an iuch long,
inakiug un agcgate length of the en
tiro surface of the body of 201,106 feet,
or a tile ditch for draining tho body al
most forty miles long.
Man is mado murvclously. Who is
eager to investigate tho curious, to
witness tho wonderful works of Omni
potent Wisdom, let him no longer wan
der the wido world round to seco them,
but examine himself. " The proper
study of mankind is man. Oincianuti
Journal of C'tmwrett.
Rules kou Measurement. Tho
following rules for luea-mring corn and
liquids will bo useful to many of our
readers.
1. Shucked CWi-mcasuro the length,
width jand depth of tho crib in feet;
multiply these threo dimensions and
their product by eight ; then cut off
two figures to tho right ; thoso ou tho
left will be as many barrels, and thoso
on the right so many hundredths of a
birrel.
2. Unsliueh:d Cum Multiply as in
ruio 1st, in the above example, and tho
product obtained by 5 ; then cut off
two figures on tho right ; those on the
left will bo so many barrels, and thoo
on tho right so many hundredths of a
barrel,
For grain, fruits, heilw, in house ot
box, find tho length, bredth and depths ;
multiply them Together ; then annex
two cyphers aud divide tho product by
121 ; auswer iu biuhcL, pecks uud
quarts.
51. Liquid Fiud the length in inches
from the bung, the under odgo, to tho
chime ; multiply it itto iuelf twice
and tho product by 570; Answer in
gallons, quarts, pints and gills.
Measuring 3iJ7 feet ou each side, and
you have, lacking an inch, one squar
acre.
t--syAn Irishirau went to confession,
aud while relating his sins his cyclic
on a plug of tobacco sticking half out
of ono cf the pockets of his father con
fessor's pauts. Tho furtive instinct of
the son of the Green Islo was tempted
beyond its strength by tho sight ; so
heedless of timo and place, ho slyly
transferred, " tho bit 'o backy " into his
own pocket, aud after enumerating a
long ierics or violations of tho command
of God and tho holy church, ooncluded
ly saying , " au sure, father, I stole a
plug o' tobaccy." " You must either
nstore it or its valuo to the owner,"
suid tho priest. " Take it thin, yer riv.
crence," said Pat, producing tho stolen
article. " 1 don't want it,,' replied tha
priest, " give it to the uwuer, I ay.' -'
Sure au' I offered it to the ownor,"
said Put, " an' uot a bit would ho take,
yer rivorenoo." " Oh, if that's the oase
you may keep it." " Thanks to y-r
riveronce," rejoined Pat, pocketing tha
weed, " I'm iiddy lor the absolution."