The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, March 14, 1895, Image 7
1H * “alive! That's horrid this is only a proof.’ trying to prove by making “ject,” as the photographers term their | young woman ‘demonstrated that FUN IN THE GALLERY . The Millionaire Miner's Free and Fesy THE PHOTCGRAPHER DOESN'T AL. WAYS SEE INE HUMOROUS SIDE. The Woes With Which Me Is Deset by 2 All Sorts and Conditions of Men-It Is a ‘Basiness Where Mach Knowledze of Ho. man Nature Is Necessary, “Ob, my goodness gracious, Wh give a picturs like that friends for worlds me 3nt, Mis Blank, ankes 7. I wonldu’t ove of my you forget shat “A proof, is it? And what wera you ik like 100 years old or had vir before the picture me boy that? That I am been through a fev was taken?’ : “Miss Blank, I think you aro a little nnreasonable. This is nothing but a proof, and all of those dark shallows and hard lines will be toned down [| admis, as it is, it doos not co yon justics’ == “Justice? Well, I should say not. I ain't very coneeited about my looks, but if I thought I was as hideons as that - picture makes mo I'd wear a mask." This, in substance, ix a dialogne in a ‘photograph gallery a fow days ago. A woman had ‘come into see hor proofs,” and the clerk had blandly handed the | eanse of all the commotion over the | showcase, behind which she had in. trenched herself. The customer, or *‘snb- patrons, was mad as soon as she saw the peoof behind © the showease | would have given paints to a politician, She was thoroughly in earnest or confl- i dential or friendly or a little bit tron- bled, all in one breath. [It was apparent that sho had been there before, and she she was wall ao quainted with the promises was truthful. She knew that it wasn't fair to judgo the plate by the proof, and, what is more, she needed in convino- | ing the sabject that this was the case. “Very well, Miss Blank,’ she eaid whin the atmosphere had ciearcd what. "Wa wiil finish sowne of them, and you coms in and sco ‘em, and if yom feel then 48 you ¢0 now we won't ask you to take * As the door ¢losed th ranged some photographs « on the showaase, look away gpace for afew moments and mur “Op, bommie,’ and thén went back and threst hor bead into tho poliamet ‘Pontrivance where she was making ogly people look a little less eo, and there was silence in the room. “Do you have many cases of that kind to handle?’ the photographer was asked. SOMA. ant’ a clerk rear. ¥ A 1 into IY 4, are some people who are bound to kick anyway. Bunt 1 have noticed that such charaaters have more self conceit than they are entitled to. We have all kinds “of peeple to handle.’’ And then follow ed a little dissertation which would in- terest subjects, and ; .rticular’y tha wo men, who have ever tried and intend to try conclusions with the camera The | stock remark which at some time near: ly every subject utters as sho cores in- ! to the presence of the camera cyclops is that she hud ‘‘about as soon have a tooth pulled as to have a pictare taken.’ But that time honored platitade has He. | tle excuse for existence nowadays, said * the photographer, because in all of the | - best galleries pictures are taken by short | ing than the « _ éxposure, which is practically instanta- _peous. The people who know more about | photography and tho art of getting a good likeness taan does the operator | often cause him some annoyance and a | } deal of amusenient. *In deciding upon & pose for the | face,’ continned the photographer, ‘wo must exorcise great care. In the few sde- ‘onds that we have to look at the subject we must decide (provided, of conrze, we are allowed to decide) Witt pesition of . the face will give the best It is true of almost everybody that one side of the face faquite markedly better look - other, and for this reason comparatively few full face or fromt vie photos are taken. But sometimes wo likeness, shave to deal with individoals who in- * “himself in exact ht Ba fricmd which showed ‘1 took that view «ward one wh sist upon a pose of the faco that is dis tinctly bad. Not long ago a certain man came to me with the protog the face He said ho wanted a pi ly that position happened that the model which ho mls mitted had an unusually good profile, in clear profile sto of and consequently the picture was quite | effective. Bat my sabjeet’s profile wis faulty. Indeed he had a nose ‘as was a nose.” It was gigantic. 1 saw right away that a profile of his face would bo anything but flattering to the owner, and I tried to break it to him gently, * “Bat,” he said, ‘yon admit that this is a fine photo, and | know that the like- pess is excellent. Why can’t you gut the samo results from my face? I think 1am quite as good looking as he is, don't you? 44 “That isn't tho point,’ said I, be cause 1 didn’t want to hurt the man's | feelings. ‘You knige. that no two faces are alike, and 1 am enly télling you that a profile is not your best view “Bat he wasn't satisfied and insisted on a profile, su rather than of his face and afier ich ! thought was Letter. The next day he came in to see his proofs. [showed lim the profile first There was no overlooking that nose locined ‘op ke Hoan Tow fr Ferry. I pitied the poor chap. He i ul up from oe proof ot reed Lord! bo bk * “The came G1 things,' © veg ha ing him the a good deal second proof vas badly bored abo locked at first one au proof for a minute bath back to mo gud said an ne, ‘You may develop the other “And I didn’t need to be told w hich was tho ‘other oae.’ **Springfie id Repub- lican. Te it LL “xd nk - i 1g, Then he bh gn . 3 ANithoed and But the diplomacy of the | And she | ¥ + oa 2 pArty gowns. aph of n | It so. atiger bin Nnith's a FAIR AND HIS WORKMEN. Way of Getting Information. Senator Fair was rarely known to dis- charg a miner. A parent oould not have been kinder to them. Smoking was forbidden in the mines. Fair had a free and easy way of dropping down the ghafts at unexpected hours and making himself agreeable. One night he smelled tobacco smoke. in a crossent end paternal, t rn a chunk of ore and chatted with bis ‘i aid pr Own osently, to get he: vay. from ail the business wathora on. the saxface. Dye know, I'd a. smoke? Do any of haps happen to have a pipe wi’ ' jiet like to have you Jt nm? Miner Smith, a new hand, eagerly drow a pipe from a hole in the rock, and bis millionaire puffed away at the cutty, and when he departed left his blessing behind him. “Brown, '’ said the senator to the ! superintendent half an hour later in his office, ‘discharge that man Smith who's workin in crosscut No. 8 on the 2, 400. He's been smokin.’ | A body of rich ore was struck ina | drift, and speculative reasons made it | necessary to hide the news from the | publio for a few days The senator, in | his flannel shirt and oilskin hat, sat | down with the resting miners in the ' drift, and picking a pieco of rock from a passing car remarked: “That's pretty good stuff. Don’t you | think so, boys?’ There was a murmur of respectful as- sent from a few. “What do you think of it, Johnson?’ with Fair's ways, examined the rock’ | and said it | Several others did | (of supernatural darkness “eritically, shook his head: “looked barren to him. the «same, Mi. er Morphy, a comparative tenderfoot, sow an opportunity to dis- tinguoish bineeif. ‘That rock, go all the way from $150 to $300 a ton, “Ah, murmured the senator admir- ingly, ‘yon’ ro a miner, Murphy. Smiling { he senator seated himself | | ing to Plutarch, the wrt NATURE, A ——— rol WC QUEER FREAKS CF : Occasions When the Sun lecame a Tisek and Demdenegd Orb. The. ancient historians eral instances of the -un “going vat’ or failing to shine and give forth its gsual amount of heat anid light for pe. riods of time varying in three hours to sexeral montbs: Accord. year 44 B. C, was iW “sveak and rimating Li ie thos perio in which pale’ for a 009 AS {334 i ro pording to i | riod ended with ° ! sky | pherio explosions, rifts | canopy of blue above | rare and unuec friend and employer | gir, will : vv tof the great arta onesn tArians | reonr i coral montha Hingininhed ight) in © year D., nnd, ac dE Ad S pras CANNY “iia fun od 5 ih Y 1 i raves bug 11% 1dde, ‘strange 7 gurh asc loud atmos in the vaniwd cand in divers ot ¥s fr phenomena, ab) li te 26 sunt year 1001, on Sept. {sno Homboldt's “Cosmoed’’), the san tnrned suddenly black and remained sa for threo hours and did not regain its norinal condition for several days. According to the noted Helmuth's ‘‘Solar Energy,’ tho days of seeming inactivity on the part of the sun, the days foliowing the sudden blackening of the great orb, were noted for a peculiar greenish tinge and. are marked in old Spanish, French and Ival- ian records as ‘‘the days of the green sun.’’ February, 1106 A. D., is noted ‘in the annals of marvelous phenomena as a month in which thorewwere several days that ‘‘the sun appeared dead and black, like a great circnlar cinder float ing in the sky." “On the last day of Fehrnary, 1208,” says Cortevza, an old Spanish writer on astronomy, astrology and kindred sub Miner Johnson, who was acquainted | jects, ‘'the sun appeared to suddenly go ! out, causing a darkness over the conntry In 1241 the Euro- 'y for abong six hours pean countries experienced another siege which the superstitions writers of that time attrib. uted to (vod 's displeasure over the result of Lieg: 1 5 ¢ \ patio 1112 2b { Louis Republ ic. Yon | | understand your business.’ Then to the | superintendent in the dffice’ presently: . The Wonderful OQualities « f | “Brown. discharge Murphy from that | (drift. Hol { Inter Oce ean. TENNYSON’ M'S FLOWERS. The Poet Makes Many Beferences to Bean : gifal filessoms In His Works Termyson speuks of a and white ag 5 when it and truly tbe privet, Jeaves and small, white flowers, looks EX111 a8 1 flowers, {like n very Puritan for neatness and | References to the flowers of | i by a xlemlor, simplicity. otr gardens, of © course, abound, and | many will occur at once to the Tenn “Well, no, not many. Of course there J many y gon reader. The rose and the lily play more than a commonplace part in “Maud,” where indeed all the flowers are interested spectators of tho drama | Passages such as A walk of roses ran from door to dece, A walk of lilies crossed 18 to the bower, from the *‘Idylis’'’ might have been | written by many others, and bell flow- ers, though we say be grateful to Ten- | nyson for preserving the old fashioned 'pame ‘Canterbury bells’’ are easily para}leled from many posta | the beautiful line, Love like ap Alpine | haretiell, hung with team, ** deserves an nows too much. ''~—Chicago | clean cen an ns A. AR ARO BOTH FOOD. AND POISON. the Cassava Plant of Pray : Amo ng t 1a plants seh for man a foremost ; to tha cassava or which Rio tapioca eR VANDI with its prim J kL tt r pra ; The bei hit to which the cassava plant Jom 4 to 8 feet. It rises Ww dy knotted stalk, furs pished with slterpate palniated loaves, and springs from a tough, branched woody root, the tender collateral fiberd of which swell into farinace: like tubers, brown cxternally and of great size, sometim:s weighing 80 The rind being removed, the tubers 15 attains varies ile are reduced to a pulp by rasping or by | holding them against a wheel or grind- stona The pulp is washed with water, pressed and baked upon iron plates and ‘now becomes Rio tapioca, while the Perhage ‘ form it is imported under the name of | starch floats off in the water, in which | Brazilian arrowroot. | especial mention. He bss written o | | in the cassava root. The juice is a rap- | ‘February Fair Maid," and it forms a | | poems to the snowdrop, which is styled | fitting part of bis picture of *‘St. Agnes’ {Eve,” which, as W. K Henley bas | pointed ont, is so dazalingly pure in its | { whitenees and a contrast to Keats’ bril. Hanty colored pom on the same sub- of the early spring, with its violets, ‘tired and bas avowed his especial love for April, being an Elizabethan in this, as in many other things, so that it as garprising to find comparatively little mention of the affodil. It is hardly to be found i dv ae, except in Mand" and the “Sonnet to the Nineteenth Cen- tury,” “Her daffodil and crocus.’ Perchanca Tenny- son felt that it tnd Len 80 folly cele brated ol BET ta becoma hackneyed te in Bite ¥ o ¥ Ais Its errs 1 Words. hl Fleat of Incandescent Law ps. It has been shown that cotton wool, cotton cloth and black silk would be set en fire in two to six minutes if satnrat- primroses and crocuses, our poet is never | | pepper pet, Life and death are trangely blended | idly destroying poison, the meal a na- | | tritfous and agreeable | food. The poison. | ous juice of the tubers is removed by heat or ‘washing, but if the recently ex- tracted juice bo drunk by cattle they | soon die in convulsions i with meat aud seasoned, | wholesome and very nutritious soup. In If it is boiled it forms a Jamaica they make uso of it to preserve the ment, game, ponitry, otc, that left after meals in what is known as the h kept iy. havi pos in use for this purpose for over 20 ir ng | YONTR Ep dears i in this roaming moon of | beans “and pay t "Baked Beans and Brown Bread, In a number of New En tha local t town. Mata: tak: marks nach nth the bax 1 3% owner and Next mn rning Fin aL and invest 10 more i i is an an using si ight ed with india rubber and packed around | the bakeshop to their an nr lecyrle glow lamp of 32 candle pow- , but would not take fire if not sata- ne with india rubber. Captain Exler ho now found that a 16 candle lamp, gunk in alin reaches a maximum temperators of 94 degrees C., and 4 25 candle lamp 101 degrees C, (213 degrees F.}. A layer of gunpowder, ecrasite or puiveralent pyroxylin was not set on fire, but when sp.cad og wood or other matarial opaque to heat rays the ecrasite melted, the gunpowder lost ita sulphur, and its niter melted, the pryoxylin dark- ‘ened and the wood charred lamps in a cavity of wood the tempera tare rose to 215 degrees C., still with: cut igniting the explosives, however Tha breaking of a lamp did not explods | pryoxylin or ganpowder, but fired an ixplosive gasecms mixtare —St Louis Past- Dispatch, : Eres. When choosing egos, apply the tongne t the larger end of the egg, and if it fichi warin it may be relied on as being fresh. Ancother nu fr «x of an egy is to bits Hight, and if the egy looks wil if thick, it is stale, and attached eN wie of ascertaining the d to the ele ar it w il 8 lie it to the iigan’s Puaried Wall, .i ti yh vall in Ever : tmas ove “whi > date all ibe decoration moved from the churches, if i a bean put brown bread on the i the ing to see a line 2 0 f colt of one Good, old fashioned bro Proper ace beans Hore ia a {ann ton brown bread of tie ¢ white flour, 2 graham cups o cup of rye or cup of molasses | soar | Steam for threo he With two soda, one-half teaspo milk and 11; ¢ an h eaten wi half 1 Ia the oven for bread shoul ! ta Jeft over can either or toasted. — Exchang : the Key, the For Bicycles 138 device for big yi tated machine can be If the Lies An ingen 18 fi steering gear it 1s tion the side of the pay : 1 HOR Rear io Ked and a ride off with i 1 1f ratns mention sev. | | raps the le length from Bisentiall her In the loser, who does not show the card underneath, maatn int sus parsnip- | ars TOWLE | a—— GERMAN WHIST. ! § ! Ome of the Terr Iritercsting Games of Curls | For Teo Hands, Thera ure, £, gon, VOTy games undisonve two the best, TT eome we mirviv | * x nwt Aft na of this «1 known, and per A ! jerman whist, 18 Sus - 1.11% % y a4 pan f skill, there vnt of Ze oven Tuck combined to ue is always last mo- dd face up- he pack. ib {TDAPs LHrOMa- out the gama, The dealer's vik.a-vis pl first by | leading as card, Laler must fol- low suit a8 in. whi ho. cannot, eithes trump or thn card The first trick and whoever picks it ap trump card from the tap of The ecard lelow this is drawn iY a and 1 w on the table, draws the pack iS no its f 1808, third card on pack is now turoed up and will belong tothe winner of the second trick, tl joser tin and so on throvgh- out the pack. - has 13 cards in As tricks of two are diffi distinct, it is generally fonnd ad to pile then riminately time being mr out al the end © In pluying pary whist yaiuations, and whan the last cards hav w hich ree : hand until the end. th Like count nual vhs i dealer of points < psal if, . bag i Ww away a useless | : 2 tial to the r interests. In this way the player | - 1 i i directed against rod reas handed card | ALIEN LANDOWNERS iN AMERICA. Evils of T- ying he Rack Renting System In This Country. That English aristocrats shonld rule large demains in tse United States and | role them from London is at first a dif- ' fienlt thing to isn! { Pesto two | "erence the annual rentals of the vast do- | but which will greatly | “affect the destiny of the hundreds of : {main 1 v » an ured, the | Not until it is peers and poeresses } een ATH grasp. borne in mind that of Great Britain pristors ia our country iy along owns 3, noise, fowa and Nebra 111 fire of a apparent will ba ara directly bronght he tobe a union in Lon landowning of drastic measures aro which, it is believe Sn not only in- Aye £ he id acres absentee in BP ‘ brought iv yi 187131 Twos irre 10 than 1t for there lon of the Ameri. ling ever been HI Yet, is involved, | thousands wha dwell upon it { For some time past it has been evi- | { dent to the foreign landowners that | tion on their part was essen. | It is well known | oneerted | to those who have ever casually looked the | by the | The | i aell into the matter that foreign landown- ing has much impeded the development | of the western commonwealths. These great jandowners positively refuse. to They prefer to establish a system | lof agencies and bailiffs, with the result again drawing | | ! sulted. The state legislatores have done | their best to deal with the question, | | bat heretofore with only indifferent suc- | rightly or | emasw mace the scapegoat of this He has for years been | a thorn in the path of one state admin. | and his shrewd. | | peed in evading every provision of law | has extorted the | Thos Senlly | best | i Living- | uit to keep { vieable | for the | out in the nthe sd at tha how TAZ 0 i up, and PAR fead the | { Choliy Indorses MeoAllister, and Both Jump py of Ak t il HY 43 drawing ther wneath. Fhe player is Bappy whe to playing dst 13 cards, finds hno- self with ans long suit asd the majority of tramps Rabinstein. Rubinstein, the famons pianist, went to confession one day in the Kasan ca- thedral in St. Petersturg. After the when it comes | | man is more espatin of writing, and that very serious complications have re- | VY ise wrongly, whale baosiness CORE, sunt Reully, is, istration after auother, bind i of thousands awns in Illinois the parts of the o Shes of Logan, stan and Tags swell, The state in 1857 alien Innd law, directed solely To syvade it he + insisted clause 1 admiratio practically IY Na provement b it axation. — Basten Herald. AUTHORITIES TN SNOBS., into the Society Tomds, The end is certainly drawing near when Mae begins to write aatohiogra- | phy. Ha tank np terday, a subject upon which no living | said: ennfession he stepped to the ‘‘sacristy | book’’ to inscribe bis name. The offici- and profession. ““Robinstein, artiss,”” came the an- SWer. “Na “You give instruction in some insti- tute?’ “No. I am a musician.” ““Then you are employed stanew hure?’ “I told you once na.’ © Well, how, then, shall 1 describe you hers?’ | wear the garb of society.’ ating priest asked him his name, rank | s Hite the case exactly! Do you see? Do | you understand? *Y ou are in service at some theater?’ And again: i “If we should exainine into tio mata- | physics of sucbbery, I should say that a pod is the result of two component ! foroes. Given a man of absorbing ambi - tion and place him. in an eavironment | where this unscrupulous ambition for | social supremacy will bs cherished and The two men locked at each other sev- ren eral moments. Then a "wise thought,” in his own estimation, came to the priest “What is your father?” he asked, his eyes brightening. "Me srehant « of 1 nid class ‘Then,’ cried the priest, with joy. last we } ¢ who yon are! Wa of a mer he REM F Target. The Sie said Te ebm 13 pro. ¥ § FRET YS E CLT uenoring very Ber 8 f hers v tiv Ceend.’ 3 Phren it she r On urronnlings, “This was aey mii Cryo] t rofasid to and ft the WAY my Master, for by an ass [ am hiladeiphia Record. Right. of " £ 80me hiways Keep to the tl 2 times REET i ¥ ' of tenes of OWN The “mal, | encouraged by those who thrive on aduo- lation, and you have the snob.” Dau'tcherkuow? Yas, we all da Nobody in New York has got such a distinetive and distinguished social po- ition that any one need bother his head to toady to him. Persons of the bx 4 i 5 3 Droeadin iG are the Lest wt social posit d men of lead the most of course wi ii aud AVON, Wii arg pot birth Tes J us beset by toads ius yird this ho pot #0 randy wand ioe lire PENALTY pile Congressmin’ surprising mma an itn exer tions #11 him some garden ment of ag teamed too peed was at government with thé aity for private landed pro. | sunt Seals | in Iie | ¢hn—doss the sig- | landlords | it now the matter | Americans | shortly | the question of spobs yes- | **A snob toadies to therich and prom- | inent persons of society, feeling that be | { owes his social support to them, and is | utterly indifferent’ to those who do not | pENsYLYAN, : I~ -EPFE A ——— AN "iyi $ Tomine i fhiiadeiphi ® Time Table, EAWTW ya, 9:08 A M.—druie ms dei sanpary Harriet yg thous, arms Ne# Yark . Washin 5! fron W frome Kune wo i 3:39 P M.—Train 6 datiy + Hurrishiar md inlerinasd ng at Pi i pine wt oh ame ms PPE trun Frat RTE a HW Fhilbede! ot Fi pry xT PE TET wr ir Aur wiathd Tom we Ca Hilmiel! i WrgEE og WL sp FP. M~Tiwin 2 Cally © interests, and a series | scheduled, | mia srw rriients As 5 haiaes ou i eephitn, Lda. New week days sod LFS a. tn, ou Sot 0a wm Waalin : Pullman cars sid passes x86 Fie Erfe and Willlamsport to Fhilsdeiphin sengers in sleeper for Baltimore wn ingioh will be transferred (10e w, showpwr x) Hurrisbary, Pooseg, from Erie to Phlladelphis »no wo nort Lo Baltirsore, 5 WESTWARD a M.—~Trsin 1, dally © Xopl “huang or Ridgway Duns; Clermont and (ie Hhedinis uta stations Lemves Ridgway st i8 Pow A. a smn oy a wn TIT dias ae | 6.97 P.M Tain 1, sunamy | Kaueand Suin HJ xcept ’ THROUGH TRAINS FOR DRIFTWOu FROM THE EABT AXD SOUTH. aay 13 M—-— Philadel sod inglon 7.50 a. m.. Baltimor Wilkeabmrre, 1215 a 1n.: daily ck8 am m. | CHES Car from Philadel ag oar mw Williubor: . £4) Por A ‘’ “iy. Piss bay ieavws Now Yc/¥ 31 890 p . Fa 1120 p WW. shington,, P wim mare, 11:4 P. Ag Hy arriving at Deify from TL ia ioe = & ub sab. hyton and Baltimore 10 Wilameport rough Jattunifwron ches Corn Phd to Erie, timore 0 'W Hilsmsport, | TRAIN | leaves Renovo at 58% n ma, Tar her Sunday, arriving st Driftwood 7 FTOHNSONBURG RAILROGAD, ; (Daily except Bundsy, 7 THAIN iV leaves Ridgway sl ww. 1m Job » sonburg slide. m, arriving at ( Jermont 140 uw. 1. TRAIN 20 leaves Clortnont st 0a. m., a riving ar Johnsonbarg at Liddd m. IN. aoe Ridgway at 130 noun . DEW AY AN] *C 1K ARFIELD aH R' DALLY BERCEPT SUNDA SOUT HWA RID AX 9B EE STATIO lady ww fxiand Han Mill Haven Cray ied Khaorin dis ‘Blue Hook Viseynrd Rup miTier U Rirewk Modin Harve Falls C reek ; © DoBaols NS LEAVE RIDGWAY, Westwarg Train §, 11:34 8 3 Train 1, 2h _Truluw 3 Bp WOOD § A Ne 1% 0 TRAI East ward Train § 7:17 ». m, Train ou, 1:45 py ma. : Train . 7 758 ™ w oP RA _re : I [53 wat 3 * Reech (reek Railroad. ‘MM FC & MN RK ERK Oo, Levenn, CONDENSED TIME TABLE Head Up : fend ows Exp Mail Feb, 4, 1885, Fxp Mad NoSt No. i Pu ru ee meanslanioe he AEE ' i 1 1 0) id vIAT... 3 iz 1 Lv. AT iin PRS nr J - Westover er To Lv i" io ro KerOOr. 738 Kerrmsoor.., ANEW Miiiport... RA, (Hunts ceevaers oo Mithila, FLA demrfieda Jui P . 8 . 8 4 5 Chama r thoi ou User Theidd Wewnling i RU | SE § PE Harris Wd : 3 Weekdays (HLH A ML Mu ralimen Baila fi Hie! null BUFFALT, RESTER & 7:01, I IN «1810 ciik dept i TRAINS A aut d