THE TIMES N15WHL00MFIKL1), PA., tXTOllliH 25, 1881.
)rolHKi'il loooniotlva wlilxtle from the
direction of the edition.
"Tliere'e the train now I" pxi'lulnia
Mr, ltuoli.
"Yh, anil tliere'H your Mary wltli the
t,weetltrltr," miys Htuitiuli, n a gill of
twelve with a handful of wild roues
conies In at, the gitte. "Thank you,
Mary, I wouldn't have mlsNed of tlicin
jlowerx, not for anything. You iniint
'ome over to-niorrow J thrre'll he annie
hody for you to play with."
" Yea'in," Mary replU'a with n Miy
smile.
" What Is It about Hume lirlor ronen V"
Mrs Ilolihlna null of Mis. Hush ng
they walUeil away together, leaving
Hannah to receive the travellers ulone.
"Why, Elder Dale told Hannah very
particular, that he wanted her to have
some sweet-brier rosea on the tea-table
when they got here no other Mowers
otilyJiiHt them. Funny notion, Isu't
JtV"
womeniiTgermany.
EVKUYWIIKUK in Continental Eu
rope there Is a contempt for and an
-opprefwlon of woman. Everywhere
there Is laid on her the menial drudgery
that niUHt be done, hut which men will
not asslrit In doing, nor for the perform
ance of which will they provide median
4cal appliances as American men do.
JSvery where (die Is robbed of a proper
compensation for her labor. lut Ger
many, the land of literature, science,
scholarship, music, art, culture to
whose universities we scud our rods for
thorough mental equipment the land
that boasts of lis advanced civilization
this Germany leads In mean treatment
of women, nod has a pre eminence hi
that kind of civilization which leave
nothing undone to exalt man, hut Ih
content to regard and treat woman us a
serf.
The country was In the perfection of
Us midsummer beauty ns we Journeyed
-through It. But I could not enjoy Its
beauty, for here, as In Virginia years and
years iigo, women were forced Into em
ployments ununited to them, degraded
to extreme menial service, and robbed of
all that makes life worth living to u
"Woman.
Eight-tenths of all the agricultural
laborers were women. They were hoe
ing the immense sugar-beet fields, or, on
their hands and knees, were weeding
where a lioe could not he safely used,
staggering under heavy loads of manure,
which they brought from a distant place
of deposit, they distributed It as It was
needed. They were mowing, raking,
pitching the hay on carts, or loading It
s It was pitched. They were reaping,
and stacking the grain in the fields, or
tearing it home on their heads and
'Shoulders, which had been so loaded that
we scrutinized long nnd closely, before
we discovered the motive power of the
Qieripatetio graiu stacks marching away.
In the llelds where the first crop had
teen removed, women were driving the
ox or cow to plough for we saw no
ploughing with a yoke of oxeu A the
ox or cow was dispensed with, and one
woman drew the plough while auother
held It.
If there was extra hard work to be
done, loaded carte to be hauled away,
wheelbarrow loads removed, the work
was assigned to women, who bent them
selves to the tusk with patient and per
aistent energy, while meu looked on,
emoklug their eternal pipes, without to
much as lifting a ringer hi help. Scan
tily dressed, generally bare-headed lu the
blazing sun, quite as often bare-footed
and bare-legged, they were bronzed in
complexion, thin of flesh, bent and Ine
lastic in figure, without joy lu their
'Work, or hope In their faces.
For work of a day, twelve hours long,
when these women boarded themselves,
uey are paid an average of twenty-five
cents. When they are boarded by their
-employers, their wages average ten and
twelve cents a day. Men doing the same
work, working side by side with these
women, receive nearly twice as much.
tHard as is this farm work, women pre
fer it to house-service, when they have
the strength for It as the great majority
of house servants work for board and
-clothlug, and very meagre board and
clothing at that.
"When we went to Gcrmuu cities we
saw what Was more repellant I Women,
fcare-footed, or wearing modern clogs,
were at work everywhere In the streets,
with brooms of rods, and stiff brushes,
wlth hoes and shovels and hand-carts,
directing the floods of the gutters, clear
ing them of debris, shoveling it into
carts, aud repairing whatever damage
the heavy rain had wrought.
We took an early drive through Mun
ich, before the city had awakened. Early
as was the hour, the sun only just touch
ing the lips of the msjestlo Bavaria,
women were astir everywhere. They
were collecting the offal and refuse from
houses and stores; sweeping yesterday's
dirt from the streets into piles, which
other women shoveled into hand carts ;
clearing the tracks of the tram-cars from
obstructions; harnessed into bakers' and
tullk carts, and distributing their sup.
piles to their customers ; scrubbing the
floors of shops; moving In all directions
to prepare for the business of the day,
that men might not only find their
hreakfust ready, on rising, but the streets
aud the shops In tidiness and order.
Wandering among the architectural
wonders of Vienna, where everything
old and ugly Is being displaced by modern
and beautiful structures, we halted he
side a magnificent building In process of
erection, to study Its design. Imme
diately, we canio upon women mixing
mortar, and far above us, at a dizzy
height, snw other women climbing lad
ders, bearing on their head: and should
ers hods of brick, stone and mortur, for
the use of masons.
We spent a day In the picture gallery
at Dresden ; I stepped out on the street,
und found myself launched In a stream
of women, all bending under the loads
of the baskets strapped to their backs,
each of which Is made to carry sixty
pounds. Home were young, hut many
were past middle age, and sonic were
white-haired, tottering under their load,
their sad eyes looking Into mine wearily
and hopelessly,
lu some of the towns of Wurtemburg
there are brigades of women water-carriers
attached to the lire departments.
They buy their own equipment of fire
costume and tin water-pull, und at stated
times are drawn up in line before the
district Inspector, to go through a drill
aud sham lire to test their efiloleucy. In
sliortr there Is no sort of menial work
that Is not done by German women, and
Austrian women ns well. I have seen
them sawing und splitting wood on the
streets, aud then carrying It on their
backs up several stories into houses. I
have seen them moulding brick ; tin.
loading freight cars ut depots; building
the road-beds of railroads ; getting stone
out of quarries ; yoked with clogs, cows
and oxen, pulling heavy loads along the
highways; making and mending the
roads; repairing the embankments of
canals ; dredging rivers nnd small
Streams-for the sake of the fertilizing
mud ; doing any drudgery that n.eu are
glad to be rid of.
The German universities, to which we
send our sons, each of which numbers
its students by thousands and its emi
nent professors by hundreds, are not for
German women, llurdly Is a "higher
education for women" thought of lu
Geimuny. The German woman is com
pletely subordinate to the German man,
who treats her as his intellectual Inferior,
and evidently so regards her. He Is
willing she should share the beer garden
with Mm, and the theatre, but not the
university nor the field of literature.
Ia A Dizzy Tower.
A New York Journalist, who has Just
climbed a shot tower, 175 feet tall, thus
tells in the Mar of that city how he felt :
The reporter followed and climbed,
and climbed, until his feet ached. It
was one continued narrowclrcle, mount
ing higher and higher into the vaults of
the heavens above. The helix of the
stairs were so narrow that the reporter
was in continual dread test he should
run against aud dash his brains out.
Then ills head grew dizzy, and it was no
longer possible for him to tell whether
he was going up or down, or merely
chasing himself around a circle with a
bewitched lantern as his guiding star.
At first an effort was made to reach some
clear perception of what was going on,
but it was soon abandoned lu hopeless
bewilderment.
There was one thing certain, however,
and that was that however cool the top
of the tower might be Its interior was
very warm, and that each moment it
seemed to be growing warmer. This,
added to the dizziness and the fatigue of
climbing, rendered the ascent anything
but pleasant. There suddenly occurred
an incident which banished all thoughts
of dizziness, fatigue and heat. This was
the sudden descent of a shower of hot
shot through the narrow opening around
which the stulrcase circled.
"Good heavens 1 What's thatV" ex
claimed the reporter, as he pressed him
self against the outor railing.
"That? Why that's the shot going
down. They pour the melted lead thro'
a sieve at the top, and by the timeitgets
to the bottom it forms itself into globules
of lead, or shot, as we call it."
"And do they pour it down in that
reckless manner r" Isn't it liable to
scatter V"
"Oh, no, not if they're steady up
above."
It was very comforting to know that
if the boiling lead was poured down by a
steady hand, it would graze one's elbow
by about au inch, and if not, that a
shower of molten lead would fall upon
one's head and shoulders.
To descend was about as risky as to
keep on climbing up more so, In fact,
for the shot was more apt to scatter do w
below than it was near its poiut of de
parture; at least that was how the re
porter reasoned with what little powers
or reasoning were left in him.
Resuming their dizzy ascent, a plat
form wag ut lust reached where there
glowed a red-hot furnace, on which was
placed a hissing pot of boiling lend. Two
men were at work there pouring the
dippers full of the metal Into a pan with
n sieve-Ilka bottom, through which It
full Into a well of water at the foot of the
lower. The atmosphere on this plati
form was too warm to make a prolonged
stay agreeable, and the ascent was con
tinued. What amount of time It look to
reach the top Is not known. It seemed
to be about six weeks ; hut the watch
man said It was not quite so long, and
he appeared to be a truth telllng man,
When the lop was gained, however, the
reporter was far from Inclined to cry
"Excelsior I" What he felt like doing,
and did In fact do, was to seat himself on
the last step and try to breathe.
After a time he succeeded, nnd with
time also the whirling seiisnllon In his
head began to nbale, Then lie looked
from the tower to the ground, 171 feet
below, and drew back to the centre of
what seemed to him a ridiculously nar
row platform. Home people say that
when they stand upon a great height
they feel a desire to Jump dowu. Not
the slightest longing of that kind arose
In the Star reporter's breast. He felt
that he would like to get do A n, but the
Jumping process never even suggested
Itself to him. The desire to descend was
not lessened by the discovery that the
lower was swaying to and fro In the
breeze, and that he expected each mo.
ment to see It topple over.
Just us day hud fully opened, the
watchman of the tower thrust his head
above the scuttle door and bade the re
porter good morning. If he wished to
get some Idea of shot-making, now was
the time, he said, as he was about to
make his last tour of the tower and
building, and could explain the details
ns he went around. The explanations
were given Intelligently and fully, and
the following Is an attempt to summarize
the information obtained :
Lend shot, though sometimes made of
lend alone, are almost Blways formed of
mi alloy of arsenic and lead, the arsenic
being Introduced In the form of nrsnnlous
ueld or the sulphuret (orplment). The
object of the addition of the arsenic Is to
render the hard, brittle qualities of the
lead, which Is contaminated by Iron and
antimony, softer and more ductile, and
of the proper consistence, when melted,
for taking the globular form.
Up In the lofty apartment, from which
descends the stream of lead, stand two
meu, their hands inensed In thick bags
aud grasping heavy Iron ladles with
which they dip out the molten metal
from the kettle aud pour it Into the col
lenders. Blistering as the molten metal
Is, the men dash their ladles into It us if
it were water. This Is hard labor, and
rapid besides, for the lead runs through
the collender almost like quicksilver ;'
while if it Is allowed to become a little
chilled in the bottom of the vessel then
the holes are stopped, and the careless
workmen have no easy Job In cleaning
them. Five tons of lead are often thrown
dowu In half an hour In the establish
ment visited. The collender Is simply a
copper pan' the bottom of which Is per
foraled and which rests In an iron ring.
In fulling to the base of the tower the
particles of semi-fluid lead, acted upon
alike over their whole surface by a cur
rent of air, are made to assume the
globular form, and by the time they
reach the bottom they are sufllclently
hardened by cooling to bear the shock
of striking the surface of the water iu
the well below.
The size of the shot Is only approxi
mately fixed by the sizes of the holes in
the collenders. The mass is always
larger than the hole from which It ex
udes, and, as the period of dropping Is
not exactly uniform, perhaps half a doz
en sizes are produced from the same
sieve. Again, large sized shot require to
be dropped from a greater height than
small sized, and while in some cases 100
feet is sufllcient, in others an elevation
of 150 feet is hardly enough.
After the shot have reached the bot
tom of the well they are at once lifted
out by an elevator and thrown upon an
inclined drying table, over which they
slide, falling ultimately intoa wire gauze
rotating cylinder. Here they are rolled
and ground together, and In this way the
minute burrs upon them are removed.
From the cylinder another elevator lifts
the shot upon a screening table. This
consists of a series of places arranged at
gradually decreasing heights. Between
each there is an interval. The shot be
ing started at the end of the highest
plane will, if perfect, roll from one plane
to another, jumping over the interme
diate spaces; if imperfect, however, the
latter becorie pitfalls Into which, sooner
or later, it tumbles and is carried off into
a receptacle, the contents of which go
back to the melting kettle. The good
shot, after passing this ordeal, reach the
separators. This is for convenience in
future separating.
The shot are next elevated to the top
cylinder of a series arranged on an in
cline. They are conical in form and in
clined, and are covered with perforated
sheet brass. Each cylinder serves as a
sieve for a particular )m of shot, retain
ing that and allowing all smaller slates to
eene. The shot, ns the cylinder re.
volves, traverse Its entire length, nod
then the small ones run out Into the
next cylinder below, and thus the sift,
lug goes on until each cylinder has pick,
ed out the particular cluss of shot to
which it Is adapted,
The sizes of shot are standard. The
smallest s known as "dust," and then
comes No. 112, which Is 0,05 Inch In
diameter, 2,ft(l shot going to the ounce.
The slues then Increase by one-hundredth
r on Inch to up to tweuty.three hun
dredths, of which there are twenty-four
shot to the ounce.
The shot being now assorted, m1InIi
lug alone remains to he done. This Is
accomplished by placing the shot to.
gether with plumbago In a box, which
Is rapidly rotnted. This Imparts the
glossy black smoothness demanded by
sportsmen. The shot are then weighed,
bagged and are ready for commerce.
Buckshot, which range In size from
twenty-two to thhty-two hundredths of
an Inch, are moulded. The moulds con.
Hist of a series of pivoted bars, the outer
pair of which have handles. The upper
edges of these bars are hollowed to form
the moulds, so Hint when they are closed
together, the upper half of each cavity
unite and It Is only necessary to pour
the lend Into the apertures. The shot
are thus at once moulded to the proper
size, so that rumbling and polishing only
are subsequently required.
THE CONTENTS OF AN EMPTY BARREL.
GAZE nt an empty barrel. It has not
the eppearance of possessing Unca
pacity of exciting men to fierce hate and
deeds of blood. But listen. The Fin
negan brothers reside In the same house.
Now It chanced the other day that
James wanted to :ack stuirin a barrel,
und he wanted the barrel perfectly dry.
Ho he set the article out In the backyard
where the sun would shine on It. He
did not explain this to his brother, and
when Michael came along aud saw the
barrel there he thought : "If that barrel
stands there It will dry up and fall to
pieces." As it was a good barrel he de
sired to save It, and so got a pall and
filled the barrel with water. Then he
left, aud presently James came out to
see the barrel. He found It full. "Dang
It," said he, "why can't they let things
alone!" and he dumped the barrel. He
hadn't been gone ten minutes when
Michael returned. Happening to glance
at the barrel he observed that It was
empty. He thought the water had
leaked out and proceeded to refill It.
When James came round again to see
if the barrel was dry, he was put
lutoastateof great wrath. He dump,
ed the barrel and went to tell his
mother not to use it for a cistern.
And while he was gone Michael strolled
around again. "Begorra, that bar'l
lakes fasht," he remarked, and was
rather ugly at having to lug another
barrelful of water to refill it. But he
did It, and when James found it that
time he was so mad lie danced up und
down and tore his hair and swore. He
duipped the barrel, and as he did so
Michael looked out of the window aud
saw him. In a minute they were fuce
to face In the yard. " What d'ye mane,
makln' me work.by dumpln' the barTi"'
yelled Michael. "Ye dang fool, why
can't ye lave it alone?" asked James
In a whisper that could be heard in the
next yard. When two brothers fight
they always put more ugliness into It
than they would with anyone else. But
a policeman heard the racket aud came
in and separated them and bore them
to the station. Thus you see thata tight
came out of the empty barrel.
About Cheek.
No, my son, cheek Is not better than
wisdom ; it is not better than modesty ;
It is not better than anything. Don't
listen to the siren who tells you to blow
your own horn or it will never be tooted
upon. ' The world Is not to be deceived
by cheek, and it does search for merit,
and when it finds it, merit Is rewarded.
Cheek never deceives the world, my son.
It appears to do so to the cheeky man,
but be Is the one who is deceived. Do
you know one cheeky man In all your
acquaintance who Is not reviled for his
cheek the moment his back is turned t
Almost everybody bates a cheeky man,
my son, Society tires at the brassy
glare of his face, the noisy assumption
of bis forwardness. The triumphs of
cheek are only apparent. He bores his
way along through the world, and fre
quently better people give iyay for him.
But so they give way, my boy. for a
man with a paint-pot In each band. Not
because tbey respect the man with the
paint-pots particularly, but because they
want to take care of their clothes. You
sell goods without it, and your custo
mers won't run and bide in the cellar
when tbey see you coming.
tW Love's secret ia to be always do
ing things for God, and not to mind Ik
cause they are such very little ones.
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Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Baokaohe, Soreness of the Chest, Gout,
Quinsy, Son Throat, Swellings and
Sprains, Burns and Scalds,
General Bodily Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet
and Ears, and all other Paint
and Aches.
No Preparation n earth equals St. Jamma Oft, as.
mnf,uri; imiln nw rh-up KxU-innI lieiticdy.
A trial mml. tit the eoinpn naively iHllliiic outlay
ef Ml Onla, nii'l every itr siinVrlhK with iu
can have chitip mul poHtlve iriHr of lis claim.
lllreotlniis In Eleven languages,
SOLD BY ALL DRnooiRTS AND DEALERS IS
MEDICINE,
A.VOGELER & CO.,
llnttlnwrf, M4., V. H. A.
May a.lSHl y
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CENTRAL STORE
NEWPORT, PENN'A.
Now offer tits public
A KAIIK AND KLICOANT ArlHOKTMKNT Of
DRESS GOODS
Consisting of all shade suitable for the season
BLA CK A L PA CCA 8
AND
Monvniny Goods
A SPECIALITY.
BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED
M TJ BLIN B,
AT VARIOUS PltlCKH.
AN BIILR! SELECTION OK PR1NTB'
We sell and do keep s good quality of
SUQARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS
And every tlilug undor the litmd of
GROCERIES I
Machine needlei and nil for all niakei of
Maolilues.
To be convinced that our good are
CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST,
ISTO CALL AND KXAMINK STOCK.
No trouble to uliow oodi.
Don't forRet the
CENTRAL STORE,
Newport, Perry County, Pa.
HELP
Vournf lvc hy mikliiir nmnry wh-ii a iroMeu
(!han! In nlTcri'd, tlnrnty alwftyn kHi,rr
lvrtv from vinir tlfxir. Thiu.lu. .i-.. .
take rtvanUvn of the kiwI i-Iihim fur funking immry
tint rnlT.T..il,riiicrlly Iwi oine wealthy, while tlio
wliotlo nrt lrniniveaitrh ehahrea remnlii lu poverty
Yik want many men, wmieti, bora and vlrla to work for
tiarhrhl In their own lornlltlea. The buxliieaa will nay
more than ten flmea ordinary waxea. Wn furnlah ail
pi.iialve outfit anil all thut you need, free. No one
whneniraireafailato make money verr raiddly Yon
can devote your whole time to the work, or only roiir
aj.are inoniHiite. FiSl Information and all that la neeile.1
out free. Addreaabi'IJiMON a CO., 1'urtlaiMi, ilalna
INSTATE NOTIOB.-Notlcf) la huroby given.
1J thatlttM-a of ailinlhlatrntlon on theeatate
'' v. H. H. ltlehinoiid late of Torone town. , in,
ferry County, i'a., deeeaaed, have bemi granted
to the iindeiralKiieU. I'. O. Address Landlauurg,
l'errv County, fa.
Allperanria Indebted to aald eaf ate are refiiet
en to make Immediate payment and thrme liavInK
clalma will preaent them duly authenticated for
settlement to
ALBERT E. RfCHMOND.
Chas. If. Hwilet, Att'y. Administrator
May 10. 1H1.
Permanent Employment.
WANTKD.-I1. If. Patty ft Co.. nuraerv
men. want a few good reliable men toaell
tree, vine and ahritba. ihroiiith thia ruare. They
froinliettteady employment to vnod aaletmen
ortull part'culara addreaa li. If. Fatcv. Co..
Geneva, N. Y. 37 4
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RAND BOULEVARD HOTEL,
Corner 30lb t. and II road way,
WAY YORK.
On Both American & European riant.
Fronting on Central Park, the Grand Boule
vard, Broadway and Fifty Ninth Street, this Ho
tel occupies the entire square, and waa built and
furnialied at an eiia-use of over ItoO.utD. It la
oue of the moat elegant a well aa flnett located
In the city i haa a paaaeoRer Klevator and all
modern improvements, and Is within oue t'luare
of the depot of the With and Eighth Avenue
Elevated li. k. Cars and still nearer to the Btoad
way cars convenient and accessible from all
parts of the city. Kooms with board. 11 per day.
Special rates for families and permanent guests.
Aug 21. 'e0 1) J (E. HASKELL, Proprietor.
E.tate of Samuel Miller, Deceased.
LETTERS of Administration on the above
estate having been granted to the under.
aiKiied. a persons Indebted to ald estate are re
quested to make payment, and tbo having
claims to present the same without delay to
WALLACE DbWITT, Administrator.
8epL 2J. liLJ ( liarrmburg. fa.