THK TIMES, NEW BLOUM FIELD, PA., MAY 18, 1880.
RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R.R.
AlA.MiSBMENT OF FABBKNHHlttHAINB
Mi 10thTl880.
Trains Leave Harrlsbitrg as Follows :
For New York via Allentown, at U5, 8.06 a. m.
For Nnw'v'ork via Philadelphia and "Bonmj
Brook Koiite," il.4u, (Fast Exp.) .& m. and
1.4fl I). Ill, , . ...
Thrmwh car arrives In New York at IS noon.
For Philadelphia, at S.lfl, 6.4J (Fast hxp) S.Ud,
(through car), 9.r.0 a. ra., l-4Sand 4.00 u. in.
Forfiea.lliiK,at6.1S..4)(Bast Kxp.) 8.1)5. 9.60
. 111., 1.4n.4.(Hi, and 8.( p. . .
ForPottsvllW. ate.l.Oos, 9M a.m. ami 4.00
ft. m.t and Tia Hclmylklll and busiiimliaiina
Ilranch at M0 p.m. or Auburn, at 6.30 a. in.
For Allentown, at 6.15, 8.05, S.tua.m... 145 and
4,TlieM6, S.0K a. m. and 1.45 p. m. trains have
through oars fur fietv Voik, via Allentown.
BUNDAY8 I
For New York, at 5.20 a. m.
For Allentown and Way Stations, at 5.20 a. m.
For Head in g, l'liildelaphltt, and W ay dial Ion,
atl.4o p. in.
Trains Leave Tor Harrlsburg ns Follows t
Iave New York via Allentown, 8 45 a. in , 1.00
antra 30 p. in.
Leave New York via "Bound nrook Route.' ana
Philadelphia at 7.45 a. in., 1. 30 and 4.W p. in., ar
riving hi, Han Iwnni k, 1 50. H.Uti p. in., ami 9.01 p.m.
M'liroiiqli cur. New Vork to tiarri.stmrtf.
Leave lull delphln, nt 9.45a. in., 4.U0. niul S.50
(K.iit Kxp) and 7 45 p. in.
Leave t'ottsvllle.O.Uti, 8,10 ft. m. and 4.40 p. n.
Leave Heading, at 4.60, 7.25,11.50 a. in., 1.3 ,0.15,
7.45 and lil.:tt p. in .
Leave I'ottsvilln vlaSchuyiklll and Susquehanna
Branch. 8.25 a. in.
Leavo Allentown, at 5.d0, 9.03 a. in., 12.10, 4,30,
and 9.05 p. in.
BUNDAYS
Leave New York, at B 3 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.45 p.m.
Leave Heading, at 7.35 a. in. and 10.35 p. m.
Leave Allentown. at 9.05 p. ni.
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and 9.30 p. m.
heturnlnii, leave 8TEELTON dally, except
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except Saturday and Sunday. 0.10 p. m., and oa
Haturuayonly 4.10, 0.30. 9,5up. in.-
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THE MAJOR'S CIGAR.
Jtl " Well, Mnjor Is tlmt you Y How
nre you V"
We met at a rail way Junction, anil, If
he hail not spoken first, I should not
have recognized uiy Virginia comrade of
'04. It was not merely the dlugulse of n
Bilk hat and tthaven cheeks, but as I
told htm, after we had chatted a little
about each other's ups and downs since
the war 1 was sure this was the first
time I ever saw hlui away from the ta
ble without a cigar In his mouth.
"Haven't smoked for five years,"
was his renly. " I'm ' down' on lobao
co as thoroughly as you ever were."
" Good I Tell me all about It."
We locked arms and sauntered up and.
down the platform. Dropping the dirt
louge, this was the substance of his
story :
"It was a sudden conversion. I nev
er was quite so easy in mind over the
habit when you used to banter me
about it as I pretended to be. 1 Intend
ed, all the time, to Uiper oil' when I got
home from the army, and not smoke so
much. But one summer I went oil on
some business lor our company, which
kept me up in the mountains, among
the charcoal burners, three days longer
than I expected. I got out of cigars,
and couldn't get any, for love or money.
In forty-eight hours I was more uncom
fortable and unstrung than I ever was
before In all my life. I act ually borrow
ed an old Irishman's filthy clay pipe
and tried to smoke it. I thought of that
miserable summer we spent crawling
about the trenches in Virginia, and I
wished I was there again with a cigar
In my mouth ! Then I began to realize
what a shameful bondage 1 was In to a
mere self indulgence. 1 a fellow who
secretly prided himself on his self-control
and nerve and manliness ; who
never flinched nt hard fare or rough
weather a downright slave to a bad
habit, unnerved and actually unfit for
business for luck of a cigar. It made
me mad at myself. I despised myself
for my pusillauiinity.
Going Into the mutter a little further,
I found that the money I had spent for
cigars in a dozeu years would have paid
for my house and furnished it; would
have met all the bills for my wife's little
summer trip to Europe with me, which
has been her one air cnstlo eo long. I
saw that I had actually smoked away
more money that I had laid out for our
library, or periodicals, and our Intellect
ual culture generally. Cigars had cost
me nearly twice as much as I had given
to church work, missions and charity.
My conscience rose up at the record. I
knew I could not prove any equivalent
for the outlay. It had not fed me, it
had not strengthened me; It had sim
ply drugged me. Kvery cigar had
mode the next cigar a little more neces
sary for comfort. To use a mild word
it had been a useless expenditure.
My detention up there in the moun
tains wub calculated to open my eyes to
my domestic shortcomings, and I saw,
as I never had before, how selfish, unso
cial, tobacco had made me at home. I
smoked before I was married and my
wife never entered any protest against
my cigars afterward. But our first ba
by was a nervons thing, and the doctor
told me it would not do for it to breathe
tobacco smoke. Bo I got in the way of
shutting myself up in the library, even
ings, and after every meal, to enjoy my
cigar. As I look at it now, nothing is
more absurd than to call it a social hab
it. It's a poor pretense of sociability
where a man is simply intent on his
own enjoyment. My wife owns up now
that my tobacco tainted breath and to
bacco saturated clothing were always
more or less of a trial to her. The satis
faction it has given her to be rid of a
tobacco atmosphere, and the thought of
my contemptible, selfish iudifl'erence to
her comfort all those years, have hum
bled me, I tell you. And I wouldn't ex
change my own daily satisfaction now
adays in being a cleaner man inside
and outside for the delight that any
body gets of his cigars.
I didn't need to go out of my own
doors to find reasons enough for giving
up the habit, hut I think I found still
stronger ones, after all, when I went
away from home. The more I thought
about the harm tobacco does In the
community at large, the more sure I felt
that it was time for me to stop giving it
the moral support of my example. I
don't take as much stock as some folks
do in tobacco stories. It depends a good
deal on what sort of grandfathers a
man had whether they bequeathed him
to the temperament of an ox or a race
horse, the constitution of a bull dog or a
little tan terrier. The doctors dlfler on
this matter, and the evidence is strong
enough to convict on the other counts
of the indictment anyhow. I know I
smoked too much, and that my nervous
system Is the worse for it. And I thluk
the people who are likely to be hurt
most by it are Just the ones who are
most likely to smoke excessively. And
then I've noticed that the medical men
who stand up fur tobacco are always
men who use It, and are liable to the
suspicion of straining a point in Justifi
cation of their own self-iutlulgeuce.
On one point, though, I believe the
authorities agree. No one denies that It
is a damaging indulgence for boys. It
meanB a good deal when smoking is for
bidden to the pupils In the poly tech dIo
schools in Paris and the military schools
In Germany, purely for hygienic rea
sons. The governments of these smok
ing nations are not likely to be national
on that matter. But the use of tobacco
by our American boys and young men
is excessive and alarming. We ought
to save our rising generation for belter
wn k than they can do if tobacco saps
the strength of their years, and makes
the descent easier, as, no doubt, It often
does, to worse vices. I don't know how
to fiirglve myself for the temptation I
set before my Sunday School class of
bright boys,year after year by my Bniok
lug habits. I always hoped that they
didn't kuow that I smoked, but of
course they did. It Isn't In the family
cither that the selfishness of habits Is
most appurent. I don't believe, other
things being equal, there Is any other
class of men who show such a disregard
in public for other people's comfort as
tobaco users do. I don't mean the chew
ers who Bplt In country churches and
leave their filthy puddles on car floors.
They're hogs. A man would be consid
ered a rowdy or a boor who should will
fully spatter mud on the clothing of a
lady as she passed him on the sidewalk.
But a lady to whom tobacco fumes are
more ofl'enslve thau mud, can hardly
walk the streets these days but that
men who call themselves gentlemen
nnd who are gentlemen in most other
respects blow their cigar smoke into
her face at almost every step. Smokers
drive non-smokers out of the gentle
men's cabins on the ferry boats, and the
gentlemen's waiting rooms in railway
stations, monopolizing these public
rooms as coolly as If they only had any
right in them. I can't explain such
phenomena except on the theory that
tobacco befogs the moral sense and
makes them specially selfish. Take the
people of Germany, for instance. No
other western people are such smokers,
and no others are so boorish In their be
havior especially towards women. I
don't insist that one fact explains the
other, but I have my suspicions."
The Major's train pulled in just then,
and, as he took my hand to say good-bye
Its smoking car drew his parting shot :
" See here. Did you ever reflect how
the tobacco habit levies Its taxes on ev
erybody V The railway company fur
nishes an extra seut to every Binoker,
which in the nature of the case, must
be paid for by an extra charge on all
the tickets of the passengers. What a
rumpus It would raise if the Legislature
should attempt to furnish luxuries to
auy special class at the public cost in
this way. How we'd vote 'em down I
I vote against this thing by throwing
a wny my cigar I"
TrictU of Shop Lifters.
ANEW YORK merchant speaking
of shoji lifters says : When the
article stolen Is a trifle, we watch the
woman so as to remember her face, but
usually do nothing more. Not frequent
ly we see thefts committed by women
that we believe are not habitually tres
passers, but were urged on by strong
temptation and poverty. Such women
we take to a private room. We tell
them our suspicion. If they confess
and give us what prove to be their right
names and addresses we let them go.
But all this is very delicate matter, and
to make a mistake Is very dangerous.
You must know that shoplifters are gen
erally among the best dressed and most
respectable looking women that come In
our store. I stood at the second story
skylight one day looking aimlessly
down pn the first floor. I saw two ele
gantly1 dressed women putting away
rolls of silk ribbon. I watched them,
and there wasn't any doubt about It. I
hastened down and told the floor walk
er. He was astounded. I persisted and
he spoke to the woman. They were vi
olently indignant. As they walked to
wards the door we saw them throw the
rolls of ribbon among some boxes be
tween two counters. We had them fol
lowed. They lived in an elegant brown
stone house in Forty-eighth St.
. "Professional shoplifters," continued
the speaker, "very often wear great
cloaks. They can put away a good deal
under them. By raising their folded
arms under their cloaks they conceal the
added size the stolen artioles give them.
They have a pocket made in the front
of their dresses big enough to hold a
number of large packages. Why, when
we unloaded a woman here one day, we
took out of that pocket all that a good
sized boy could carry on his outstretch
ed arm. I remember how indignant
that woman was when accused.
" I was walking through the store one
day when a clerk told me that he
thought a woman he was serving, had
stoleu some Leghorn hats. I walked
up to her and raised her arms suddenly.
Twenty-two hats fell to the floor. You
know what Leghorn lints are. They
are made of a kind of grass and fold
close together. She had concealed f 17
worth. She said tlmt sho had picked
them up on the floor and was going to
put them where the rest of the hats were
kept. We arrested her.
" The hahds of an experienced shop,
lifter work faster than the eyes of au ob
server. A Central Office detective
standing in the store one tiny saw a wo
man putting away silk handkerchiefs.
She'd hold one up as if to examine It
and then she'd suddenly . pass it unto
her other hand and then Into a big front
pocket with Biich lightning like rapidity
that the detective couldn't tell what she
was doing but he thought she was put
ting them back on the counter. He
made a Btudy of the subject and caught
her.
Shoplifters often Btenl our valises and
baskets, nnd then go around the Btore
filling them up. We kuow a good many
of the profession. We sent a man to
the trial of Mr. and Mrs. Volkener, who
were accused lately of an attempt to pol
Bon Mr. Blair, of Chatham, N. Y. You
remember It was said that Mrs. Volken
er and Mrs. Connolly, who lived with
her, were shoplifters. He came back
nnd said the face of the big woman (Mrs
Connolly,) was a familiar one In our
Btore.
" The worst things shoplifters do," he
said In conclusion, "Is to steal from
our customers. They are very fond of
taking pocket books and valises. We
would a great deal rather they would
steal from us, for the victims are sure
to give the store where they are robbed
a bad reputation. Not long ago a lady
who had $128 In Bllver In a valise rested
It on the counter a moment and It dis
appeared. She found an old one in Its
place. We believe that the thieves who
stole it knew that she had the money,
and followed her for a long distance."
Ihe Coldest Town on the Globo.
Those who aro dissatisfied with the
mild winter we have had . can go to
Yakoostk, the commercial emporium of
all East Siberia a town which Hum
boldt and other travelers have pro
nounced the coldest on the globe. This
town, Jakatsk or Yakootsk, Is on the
left bank of the river Lena, 02 1' north
longitude 11SP 41' caBt, and distant from
St. Petersburg 6,021 miles. The ground
remains continually frozen to the depth
of 1100 feet, except In midsummer, when
it thaws three feet at the surface. Dur
ing ten days In August the thermometer
marks 85 ; but from November to Feb
ruary It ranges from 42" to 03 below
zero, and the river is solid ice for nine
months out of twelve.
The entire Industry of the place pop
ulation about 7000 is comprised In can
die works, and yet it is the principal
market of Eastern Siberia for traffic
with the hunting tribes and the Burials.
The former, mostly nomadic, having
large herds of horses and cattle, bring to
market butter, which Is sent on horse
back to the port of Okhotsk. The Bu
rlats, also nomadic, bring quantities of
skins of sables, foxes, martins, hares,
squirrels and the like.and many of them
are sold at the great fair in June, which
with May, is the active period of the
year. In May the collected goods are
conveyed to the seaports, whence they
are Bent in every direction. The mer
chandise, chiefly fun and mammoth
tusks, sold at the fair amount in value to
400,000 roubles, ($300,000.)
The town stands on a plain surround
ed by lofty and dreary mountains. The
streets present a strange aspect, being
composed of houses of European struct
ure, standing apart, while the interven
ing spaces are occupied by the winter
" yoorts" or huts, of the northern no
mad tribes. These huts have earthen
roofs,doors covered with hairy hides and
windows of ice. There is a large stone
cathedral, another church, a great stone
market-place and a wooden fort with
four half-sunken towers.
Its large trade gives this strange town
some importance it being the empori
um for, among other things, the trade
in the ivory from the fossil ele
phants, which have been for untold ages
frozen into the ' thlck-rlbbed ice" on
the shores of the Artie Sea, and in other
places in Siberia. These antediluvian
mammoths lived when Siberia was a
" mild-mannered" country as to climate
and before the great and mysterious cat
aclysm happened that tilted the earth
over upon a different inclination to its
orbit. .
Feminine Freaks.
A young girl arrived in London from
Scotland. She was about seventeen,
and was, she said, the daughter of a
Presbyterian minister. She had come
to marry a Zulu, and, accompanied by
one of the oldest and most ill-favored of
these dusky savages, she presented her
self to the manager of the Aquarium
and made known her wish. In vain he
remonstrated with her ou her folly.
She replied that her heart was given.
He suggested that she would only be one
of many wives when her contemplated
husband returned toZululaml, but she
petslstid. Finding that It was Useless
to reason with her, Bhe was told she
could not marry without the consent of
her parent, and was sent b.tck to Soot
land to obtain It.
The young ladles of the Maryland
State Formal School afe stated to have
made a decidedly new departure In the
matter of personal appearance, and now
appear without the frizzes and bangs or
Piccadilly fringe so commonly and in
many cases so unbecomingly worn by
girls of the period. The metamorphosis
It Is said to have come about by the
principal, Professor M. A. Newell, who,
having had his salary cut down by the
Legislature, was probably of the opinion
that there were some other tblugs which
could also be curtailed In the school, and
particularly the time spent In curling
and crimping, which should and could
be more profllubly employed. It ap
pears that the young ladles took the
Professor at his word, and now appeal'
in all the glory of beauty unftdorneit by
puffs, frizzes or bang, and In ye primi
tive style Of ye maiden of Puritan lo age.
Even more than this, It Is said on good
authority that the change effected does
not unfavorably disturb the lout enscm
ble of the school, but rather adds to the
general attractiveness.
Another girl had a pretty diploma tied
with pink ribbon, from one of our best
young ladies' colleges. Iu conversation
with a daring and courageous young
man, after he had detailed the dangers
nnd delights of riding ou a locomotive,,
she completely upset hh opinion of in
dependent education of the sexes by In
quiring, " How do they steer locoiuo-.
lives, anyhow ?"
SUNDAY HEADING
eT Living Is death ; dying Is life.
We are not what we appear to be. On
this side of the grave we are exiles, on
that citizens ; on this side captives, oin
that freemen ; on tills side di.sgmlsed,
unknown, on that disclosed and pro
claimed as the sons of God. To us who
are christians It Is not a solemn but a de
lightful thought that perhaps nothing but
the opaque bodily eye prevents us from
beholding the gate which Is' open just
before us, and nothing but the dull ear
prevents us from hearing the ringing of
those bells of Joy which welcome us ,to
the heavenly land ?
CaT At a religious meeting In Wiusted,
Conn., on a recent Sunday, the wife of a
well known citizen told how much re
ligion had done for her and how much
better Bhe was with it than without it.
When she had spoken au other sister
got up and expressed a fervent hope that
If the religion hud done for the pre
ceding speaker all that Bhe had said she
would soon become good enough to pay
her the fifty cents Bhe owed her. Ite
llglon that does not make the professor
honest bus not taken hold of them at
the right end.
It Is not the whitewash ou the fence
that keeps it together, but the rough
posts, which no one Bees. It Is not a
man's pretense that gives him bis val
ue but the motives which are hidden
from view. '
Keep Yourself out of Sight.
.A gentleman with fishing-tackle and
other necessary appliances, went forth
to a stream where he toiled all day and
caught nothing. Toward afternoon he
espied a little ragged urchin with a
tackle of the most primitive order taking
the fish out of the water with marvel
ous rapidity. Perfectly amazed, be
watched the lad for a while, and then
went and asked him if he could explain
why he was so successful, iu spite of his
meagre outfit, while the expensive ap
paratus could catch nothing. The boy
promptly replied, " The flsh'll no'
catch, Blr, as long as ye dinna keep yer
sel' oot o'slcht."
Here is a suggestive lesson for " fish
ers of men." They may epeud much
care on style and rhetorical adornment,
iu all of which they may attract much
attention to themselves, and yet utterly
fail to win men to Christ. " Keep your
self out of sight" the wisest advice
that can bo given for only thus can the
sinner be brought face to face with the
Saviour. " For we preach not ourselves
but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and our
selves your servants for Jesus' sake."
Reverence.
A Minnesota correspondent sends this
to the Editor's Drawer of " Harper'
Magazine for May :
" We have had for many years in tbht
county, as clerk of the District Court, an
intelligent and careful German, who,
during the sessions of the court is very
fastidious about violations of decorum.
Recently in an Important trial a some
what bumptious' young man from the
rural districts was called as a witness,
and took his place on the stand without
removing his hat. He was then told to
hold up his hand, which he did, and
the clerk proceeded to administer the
customary oath, reading it from the
statute. He bad read about half way
through, when, happening to glance up
over his spectacles, he noticed that the
witness had not removed his hat. The
clerk slowly lowered the book, and gat
ing intently at the youug man, said:.
" Look here-, sir, when you swear before
me and Gott, take off your hat, sir l"