NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., NOVEMBER 10, 1880.
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ARRANOEMKNT OF PABSKNGEK TRAINS
OCTOBERttith, 1880.
. Trains Leave Htirrlsburg an Follows t
For New York via Allentown, at 6.00, .06a. m.
and 1,45 p. m. . ..
For New York via Philadelphia and "Bound
Brook Route," .t( 8.W a. m. and Mfp. m.
For Philadelphia, at O.tO, 8.0ft, (through car)
9.50 a. rn.,1.4B and 4.0U p.m. , , i
For Heading at .U), 8.05, 9.60 a. m., 1.45, 4.00,
and 8.0t p. in. . . .
For rottsvllle. at 8.00, 8.05, 9.50 a.m. and 4.00
n. in., and via Bchuylklil and Husqiiehaiina
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riving at HarrtsDiirg, 1.60, 8.20 p. in., and
12 3o A Hi
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Leave Heading, at 4.50, 8.U0, 11.5U a. m., 1.3i ,0.15,
and 10.85 p. m . .
Leave Puttsvltle vlaSchuylklll and Susquehanna
Branch, 8.a. in. . . . .
Leave Allentown, at 6.25,9.00 a. m., 12.10, 4.50,
andv.05p. in. .
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A Peculiar London Feature.
THE dust yards of London in the time
of Dickens' "Boflln's Bower" were
nothing In comparison to what they
were twenty years after, owing to its
vast and rapid growth, its sanitary ar
rangements, and the contending rivalry
of the contractors to get the work, and
the vast amount of wealth invested in
its collection. Indeed, great fortunes
have been made as well as lost in this
very business, and corporations of Lon
don, instead of paying to have the, dust
removed, were receiving five and six
thousand pounds per annum for that
prlvilege.so that to be " dust contractor"
either meant to be a very rich man or a
wealthy company ; and now to describe
the system of their work.
One of the things that strikes a stran
ger, and more especially a foreigner, in
London, if he happens to stroll that
way about half-past six in the evening,
especially in the summer, is, in crossing
Hyde or the Queen's park, to meet a
number of women and girls, poorly clad
and looking very dirty, each one with a
large flag basket on her head filled to
overflowing and looking heavy enough
to crush her into the earth, and all hur
rying toward Westminster, in the poor
part of which most of them live. They
are returning home from their work in
the dust yards of Faddington.
Come with me reader, and I will in
troduce you there at their busiest time.
As we turn into the wharf on the banks
ofthe canal, where the yards are situ
ated, one is surprised at the immense
number of large one-horse carts going
in loaded and coming out empty. They
are strongly built and alike, and very
large, requiring a short ladder for the
men to load them ; with magnificent
Flemish horses, not one of which cost
less than 100 to 125 each, and strong
heavy harness in proportion. Each cart
has the name of the contractor and the
cart written on it in large, white letters
and figures, so that the public can make
report of any neglect, ill behaviour, or,
in fact, anything that would warrant it,
the authorities being very strict as to
this. Here we are at the first yard, but
we will go on to the next, the largest
one.
Here, what a busy scene bursts upon
the view ; carts entering one after an
other, continually, each driver handing
in at the office window a ticket with the
number of his cart as a tally as to how
many loads he collects in a week the
men being paid by the load. Having
discharged his load, he goes out by the
other gate, so as not to clash with the
Incoming ones. Within the yard
(which stands upon from two to three
acres of ground, independent of offices,
stables, etc.,) all seems bustle and con
fusion, but it is not so. Each one knows
bis or her work, aud has to do It, too all
being paid by the piece, so there is no
loafing or skulking, as It is called, there,
Along the yard, from the front, or road,
to the canal, are rows of women facing
each other, with a hill of dust between
them, sometimes four,soruetimes six aud
even eight rows. .
I have seen one hundred and fifty
women in this very yard. Each one
has a large sieve before her and the pro
cess Is (his: The fillcr-lo, one man to
every three women (she is surrounded
by old baskets and receptacles of every
description) throws a shovel of dust lu
to her eeive; she sifts it and then com
mences sorting. First she picks out all
the straws, hay and vegetables 6f every
description, and throws Into a large
basket ; this Is called soft core, and is
the most useless and profitless of all that
is collected in the yard, being At for
nothing but manure. Next all the wood
is picked out ; this Bhe puts in her own
basket, it being her perquisite ; then
comes rags of all Borts, which are duly
deposited in their receptacle : next all
the paper, books, etc.; after that all the
leather, boots and shoes; then come
window and other glass, bottles, vials,
etc., crookery and earthenware for road
beds, all to their baskets, now come
bones, a most important item; next
comes what calls for the closest search-
ing,viz., metals, iron,brass, copper, etc.,
gold silver and Jewelry.
You Bmlle I Many of these find their
way to the dust-yard through the care
lessness of servants. Watches, bracelets
earrings, rings, knives, forks, spoons,
etc., all these are carefully picked out
and handed to the hlllman, or sub-con
tractor, who deposits them in the office,
in case they should be inquired after; if
not, after a reasonable time, they are
sold, and she gets a share. A sharp
lookout is kept by the hlllmen to see
that they don't secrete any, and woe be
tide them if caught; if not handed over
to the law, instant dismissal Is the result
and a forfeit of what Is due her as wages
not much, because in most yards they
pay nightly; but they never get a
chance to return to the yard. All they
find in trinkets, etc., outside of plate or
jewelry ,is theirs, and many are the curi
ous articles to be seen in their homes,
adorning their mantle-shelves or side
boards, some quite rare and very valua
ble. The last thing she picks out is all the
coal, which is also hers to the full of her
basket, all over belonging to the sub
contractor. This done, she empties the
cinders into another basket and is ready
for another shovelful, and so she goes
on. Bhe gets four pence a load and Is
supposed to sift about three a day of so
many bushels. One shilling a day with
fuel, are their earnings. They are limited
to that, aud when done can go, but they
hardly ever get done before night, that
is 0 o'clock,, when they all .leave off,
whether they have sifted the quantity
or not, but those who do not, soon get
spotted and are discharged. They want
the quantity done, as the flller-ln is paid
by the day, as is also the boy (one to
every six women) to carry away the full
baskets and supply them with others.
The sub-contractor gets four pence a
load what he pays the women from
the contractor for sifting, and has to
pay his fillers, boys and others, also
finding sieves, shovels, rakes, picks.etc,
out of the marketable articles that are
picked out of the dust. It seems almost"
Incredible, but is the fact, that many of
these men make a good living and even
competencies out of it. Now I will
show you how. Come with me into the
shed. Here is another busy scene.
Here are men sorting and arranging the
metals, which amount to a considerable
quantity in the course of a week. There
another party sorting, washing and siz
ing bottles and vials. They are all sold
to doctors and druggists. Here is anoth
er party sorting rags. The white ones
are all picked out and carefully washed
by a machine, bringing the best price as
best white rags.
Here is woolen cloth, silk, ticking
matting, etc., all converted in money.
Here, also, are the bones, which amount
to tons in the course of a week, and the
waste paper.bagful after bagful, amount
ing also to tons, and the old boots and
shoes the best of which are bought by
what are called renovaters, and worked
up again, the refuse, by some peculiar
process, being converted into size. In
faot, there is nothing scarcely used in
domestloor commercial life but what
finds its way, some time or other, into
the dust yard. Of course, the greater
quantity comes from the houses of the
wealthier portion of the community,
who when moving, if anything Is brok
en or nearly wore out or damaged, or
they are tired of it, it is thrown into the
dust bin, and from thence to the yard,
there being little chance of its being ab
ducted by the collector or dustmen on
the road, the man being watched by the
lookout man, hence it is that you can
get almost anything second-hand there,
each yard having a perfect museum of
articles, which are sold at retail when
wanted, the sub-contractor depending
upon his regular weekly collections and
sales for his expense. Of these, rags
form the greatest item, being as much
as all the rest ; bones and paper come
next, metals and other things follow in
rotation, bo that from all sources the
average weekly receipts amount to
about sixty pounds(00),belug sufficient
to pay Ills employees and leave a hand
some residue for himself. I know of
one of these men who saved enough to
emigrate to America, go out West and
buy a large farm, where I believe he is
now living and prosperous.
THE AMBIDEXTROUS REPORTER.
THE Kansas City Time says : There
is a reporter at the Times office who
writes with equal rapidity with either
hand. He is an ambidexter, and a bold
bad one at that. When ther e is a rush
of work at the office, and the devil is
shouting " coppee" like a fiend incar
nate, thjis useful reporter sits down at
his desk in full company front, and with
a pencil in each hand, slings off local
happenings by the yard. He writes on
two sheets at once, and don't let his
right hand know what his left band is
driving at, but it is driving all the
same.
Recently he got a little off his mental
base, and attempted to write up a dog
fight and a wedding in high life at the
same time, lie got things mixed. His
hands ran clear away with the gray
matter in his skull, and things became
terribly confused. This is the way his
items telescoped each other :
At Grace Church, last night, the nup
tials of Mr. Thomas Johnson and Miss
Julia Lawrence were celebrated in most
magnificent style ; a costly floral horse
shoe being directly over the alter, and
when the yellow cur saw the flames of
anger darting from the eyes of the brln
die fyste, he opened with, the strains of
the wedding march. As the handsome
couple walked down the aisle the excit
ed crowd began to get frantic, and there
were yells of " Sick 'em Bull ;" "At
him now, Towser," as the spectators be
came interested in the fight. The bride
was elegantly attired in pure white gar
ments of the most costly fabric, and she
wore the traditional white veil and a
wreath of otange blossoms had him by
the neck, and his tongue began to loll
out and his eyes to turn somersaults as
if in the customary black dress Buit,
white gloves, ears cropped close to his
head. He was a disreputable looking
dog in the beginning, and ought to have
been whipped for being so homely. He
is of a good family, and is engaged in
one of the most extensive manufactur
lng establishments in the West. But
the yellow cur seemed to be getting the
advantage, as he now succeeded in get'
ting a death grip, on the throat of the
big brindle,and when be tenderly kissed
the bride according to the ancient cus
torn, his back was covered with mud
and his off hind leg was terribly chewed
up. Among the costly presents received
by the happy pair were a fine grand
piano from the father of the bride, hair
had been scalded from his back, and one
eye seemed to have been struck with an
augur. After a short bridal tour the
happy couple will settle down to one of
the hardest-fought' battles the reporter
ever witnessed, and it was difficult to tell
which dog had been punished worst.
The fight ended at exactly 4:48, after
having been bitterly contested at the
residence of the bride's parents, and he
was taken to his owner's home in a
wheelbarrow. He will probably never
recover, and if he does will be totally
blind, besides being permanently lame
in the left hind leg ; the beautiful bride
received the congratulations of a host of
friends. - The groom is one of our most
promising young men, and his owner
dreads the possibility of losing him, as
he fears that he can never replace' him
The father of the bride is one of our
wealthiest merchants, and the yellow
fyste limped off with a knowing look In
his eye and a saucy curl in his tail, as
much as to say, " Who else wants to try
me ?"
The ambidexter wob summarily "fir
ed."
A Tough Story.
There is a tough story from Leadville.
It is told by the officiating physician:
The middle part of last week one of
the best young-ladies in Leadville she's
sweet as a peach, too came to my office
in the evening, and told me with a great
deal of embarrassment that she wanted
me to help her out of some trouble.
Well, from her manner, my suspicions
were aroused and I began to question
her closely. And what the deuce do
you think ? Well the confounded little
fool had had the name of the young
fellow whom she used to be engaged to
tatooed on the calf of her leg. Now she
she's lust about to get married to quite a
different party, and had sense enough to
see that the marking would likely kick
up a big row In the family. Bhe was
awfully distressed and ready to submit
to almostanything, even a surgical oper
atlon, to " wipe out the spot.'
I was puzzled at first, but after studying
over it a little while, I happened to re
member that I had read somewhere in
some old scien title magazine that tatoo-
Ing may be removed by going over the
design with a needle dipped in ink. It
, was a forlorn hope, but I thought
would try It, and, taking ber little foot
delicate position, wasn't it for a mar
ried matt V I carefully went over the
letters. It must have hurt, but she nev
er whimpered, and when it was all over
I told her to go home and come again In
a couple days. Well, sir, when she
came again I had the satisfaction of
knowing that the letters had faded into
an indistinguishable blue line. The op
eration Is a perfect success, and she Is the
happiest girl in Leadville. I got $50 for
the Job. Let's go and have a smoke.
SUNDAY HEALING
"Playing Drunk as Papa Does."
" My early practice," said a doctor,
was successful, and I soon attained an
enviable position. I married a lovely
girl ; two children were born to us, and
my domestic happiness was complete.
But I was invited often to social parties
where wine was freely circulated, and I
soon became a slave to its power. Be
fore I was aware of it I was a drunkard.
My noble wife never forsook me, never
taunted me with a bitter word, never
ceased to pray for my reformation. We
were wretchedly poor, so that my fami
ly became pinched for dally bread. One
beautiful Sabbath my wife went to
church, and left me on' a lounge sleeping
off my previous night's debauch. I was
aroused by hearing something fall heav
ily on the floor. I openetl my eyes and
saw my little boy of six years tumbling
on the carpet. His older brother said to
him : ' Now get up and fall again.
That's the way papa does. Let's play
we are drunk.' I watched the child as
he personated my beastly movements in
a way that would have done credit to
any actor. ' I arose and left the house,
groaning in agony and remorse. I
walked off miles In the country, thinking
of my abominable sin, and the example
I was setting before my children. I
solemnly resolved that with God's help,
I would quit the cup, and I did. No
lecture I ever heard from Mr. Gough
moved my soul like the spectacle of my
own sweet boys, 'playing drunk as papa
does.' "
Praying and Giving.
A rich youth in Rome had Buffered
from a dangerous illness. On recover
ing his heart was filled with gratitude,
and be exclaimed, " O, Thou all-sufficient
Creator; could man recompense
Thee, how willingly would I give Thee
all my possessions." Hermes, the herds
man, heard this, and said to the rich
youth : " All good gifts come from
above ; thither thou canst send nothing.
Come follow me." He took him to a
hut, where there was nothing but
wretchedness and misery. The father
lay on a bed of sickness, the mother
wept, the children ' were destitute pf
clothing and crying for bread. Hermes
said, "Bee here, an altar for the sacrifice;
see here the Lord's representatives."
The youth assisted them bountifully ;
and the poor people called him an angel
of God. Hermes smiled and said, "Thus .
turn always thy grateful countenance,
first to Heaven and then to earth.
gg"When the sound of the triangle
striking the closing hour had died away '
to a mere whisper, Brother Gardener
extended his arms and said: "Life's
pathway am up hill an' down, an' 'cross
lots. De road runs 'longside o' cane
brakes, whar de wolves howl an' make
de chil'n afeared ; ober ribbers whar de
olemen an' de women may git lost;
frew dark woods in which strong men
tremble as de midnight breeze whispers
in de tree tops. We are aU on a journey.
We are all gwine to de same place. Fast,
as we git dar we am put on de right
hand an' de left, an' it am a court o'
judgment dat nebber skips a day or ad
journs for an hour. De man who does
de mos' prayin' may not git dar befoah
all de res', but I'se figgered it up an' I
believe de straight way am de bes' way.
Git de compass pint an' den move on,
lendin' a dollar heah speakln' a kind
word dar bracin' up de weak cheerin'
de lowly puttln' out boaf ban's all de
time for de chil'n to lean on. We will
now bulge outward to our home."
How to Cure the Worst Drunkard.
Dr. Unger insists that the following
remedy will cure the cravings of the
worst drunkard in the land. Take one
pound of best, fresh, quill red Peruvian
bark, powder it, and soak it in one pint
of diluted alcohol. Afterward strain
and evaporate it down to half a pint.
Directions for its use : Dose a teaspoon
ful every three hourv the first and sec
ond days, and occasionally moisten the
tongue between the doses. It acts like
quinine, and the patient call tell by a
headache if he is getting too much. The
third day take as previous, but reduce
the dose to one-half teaspoonful. After
ward reduce the dose to fifteen drops,
and then down to ten, then down to
five drops. To make a cure it takes
from five to fifteen days, and in extreme
cases thirty days. Beven days are about
the average in which a cure can be ef
fected, i .
EW In the sight of God no mau i.i
poor but him who is wanting iu good
ness, and no man is rich but him who
abounds in virtue.