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SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, AND WHOLE INTER ESSEX COUNTY, *T. Y., THURSD I of enry description executed with prompt- I,«, and atjow prices. Reading notices, among reading matter, 5 cents per line. Business cards (not occupying more Bum one inch space) 18 per year. Legal advertising at rates prescribed by law. Other advertising rates made tyown on BirttT, marriage and death notices are fros. Correspondence of public interest solicited from all parts of the county. The subscription price of the POST AWD GAZBTTB is $1.50 per year, payable strict. ly In advance. • . fleam BUSINESS CARDS. ani Counsellor at Law, lfitown, JSusex County. JV. Y. KTTB B. BIHIIOP, and Counsellor at Law, MoHah. E*$«x County. N. T. jflVNTON <fc CON WAV , I Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, 1 Keewille. N. Y. T-jBWITT STAFFORD, Attorney and'Counsellor at Law, 04 Wall St. New York. Attorneys and Counsellors at law , KenecilUi. JV. Y. XiBTIN FINCH. FRANKLIN A. »OWI. jlRKDEKK-K t \ HALE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, «2 MrOormirk lilock. Chicago. III. G. \•\\\•\• Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Upper Jay, Essex. Co.. N. Y. TTARRV I1ALK, Attorney and Counsellor - at Law, ElizaMhtotrn. Ester, County. N. Y. •ore** 1 inrK, pitiorney and Counsellor at Law, 837 Madison Are.. Albany. N. Y. llciind Pension Notary, Dotecttve Service and Tux Land nuslnnsfl aSpoofailty. Branrli Offlpo Crown Point. N. Y. [Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, FJiinbelliloim. Essex County. N. Y. ION TOND. - - W. BCOTT BROWN. T) KHAR I) L . HAND , Counsellor at Law, Elmabethtown. N. Y. JIOUXAND t'. KKI,I,O<JU, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, KlunhetMmcn, JF.tSffl} Oounlv. N. Y. TTTALDO A (JHOVKR, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law , Porl Henry, Essex County. N. Y. vi Ki.no. - - M. D. onovBB. PHOTOGRAPHERS. 1 Itt. JOHNSON, PHOTOGRAPHER, Crown Point. Essex County. N. Y. HOTELS. THE BERKELEY, |J?. £ WOODRUFF, - Proprietor. »nac Lake Village, Franklin Co., tf.Y. ALLEN H0TJSE7\ i HENRY ALLEN, Proprietor. Isik* Placid, N. Y. I Oneofiho most desirable summer resorts In tno Adirondacks. THE WINDSOR, (AVIHONDACKS.) | ft KELLOGG, - - Proprietor. Zllxabethtown, E»»ex Co., If. Y. •r and coitacns ace icstH; fine lawn te: croquet fciynindi MANSION HOUSE, I WILLIAM SIM0ND8, - Proprietor. m, S. I. RICHARDS HOUSE, \USRRIT A. CLARK, - Proprietor Westport, y. Y. Livery connected with house. WEED HOUSE, | MOSTFORT WEED, - Proprietor. Westport, X. Y. 4* oift) attention patH totScal and commer- r-First-claea Livery. s SHERMAN HOUSE, 0. L. BUTTERFIELD. - Proprietor. Storiah, Essex County, N. Y. I Gm*i. plo il8 ant and airy rooms ; 1% mNee 1 from Tnrt Henry, and 3 miles from the celebrated Ore Beds of Mlneville. Ffno carriage drives, croquet lawn and livery. BANES. First National Bant OF PORT HENRY. N. Y. I We are desirous of extending our relations I with the people of Essex county, and take I thin occasion to invite the opening of de- I Posit accounts, the purchase and sale of I wreign and domestic bflla oi exchange, the I collection of coupons, and the transaction I of all general banking business. I P*BTIOi:i,AR ATTKNTION GlVBN TO StJPPLY- ixo INVESTORS WITH UNITED STATES BONDS, As also the Exchange or Purchase of same. 'We ami RailroadJBonds bought and sold. F.'s . ATWELL , Cashier. SCHOOLS. ELIZABETHTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL EUZABETHTOWN, ESSEX Co., N . Y. h i- W. n. COATES, - Principal. The PALLTKKSI, 1888, of this School, will ^mence September 10th. There will be 8 Teachers Class during this termand those *»Wng to join it should apply immediately. , '-ocfttion arlmirable; Instruction practi- j «»ad thorough. Terms aa reasonable •\» any similar school in Northern N<r~ »wk- The three departments will be coi *f«l by able teachers. struction will be given in instrumental ic to pupii s desiring it. jpils from other schoolBand candidates t J * tlldnt 8 certificates may be ad- d to itegent's examination upon ap- .^r circulars containing fufther particu- *£address the principal. B y order of Board of Education. R L HND Pi .it . „ f Board of Education. R. L. HAND, President. POETRY. Let's of tener tulk «t noble deeds. And rarer of tnt bad onet, And flag a iv>u t 0U r bapm days, An« not about tne sad ones. We ware not made ta fret and BtM. Ana when grtei Bfeeps to w«k»ft Bright happmes. t, «Unding b I^efB find the sunny side of men, ' Or be believers In It: AUgrntth«rel8ineverT»oul That takes tbe palna to win it. Oh I thew s » slumbering good In all, And we perchance may wake it • Our hands contain th» magic wand: This life is wnat we make I t Then liew a to those whose loving hearts Shed light and Joy about them? Thanks be to them for countless gems We ne'er had known without them. Oh I (Ms should be a happy world To aH who may partake It; The fault's our own If tt M not - Thtt Ute is what we make it. , -Bottom TrantoHfi. MISCELLANY. CHILDREN TO MARRY. John Byrnes was a bachelor, crusty and! rich ; he had never married- never thought of suoh a folly, as he oalled It, but onoe in hi* life, and then vainly—«nd yet, by a really singular oombinatio* of oiroum- stanoes, he found himself, at the age of sbrty, with three ohildren to marry. Ohildren, he called tjuaa, though irreality they ware well grown young people enongh, and of marriageable np«. And as to their needing to be provldeu for, that was true, oertainly, in Mabel 8yme8' case—\Little Mab,\ her uncle oalled her. But it oould not be truthfully spoken of John Howard, who earned a salary and supported himself j nor of Catherine Otay. ' • Handsome Cathy,\ .he was oftener (sailed, who, in addition to being like little Mab, John Sytaes' own niece, was an heirsss in her own right to quite a pretty little fortune. The way they all oame into the old man's care was thi*: Mabel oame first. Her father was John's younger mid only brother, and married the girl on whom our old bachelor had, in his youth, onoe and for all, set hit heart. Failing to get her, sinoe she prefer- red his younger and poorer brother, he re- mained single and growled at all her sex. When little Mabel, her mother's image, was sixteen years old, her father suddenly died. Tbe widow speedily followed him, leaving her child to her brother-in-law's id former lover's) core. John 8ymes re- ceived her as a legacy from the loved and lost, and oberished her tenderly. \ Her mother married wrong,\ he would say, sagely, seoure that none knew how and 'by. \ Poor Jem wasn't the man for her at alL If .she'd marrK' the right man she'd be alive, and riob mi... appy to-day. That's what comes! of girls choosing husbands for themselves? I'll choose for you, little Mab, when your time comes, and so you'll be sure i marry wisely.\ < Little Mab said not a word against his ncy. Her heart was young, and sad for her parents' death, nor had it awakened to yet. Nevertheless, when young John Howard came on the scene it fluttered a little, and she blushed as she wondered whether Uncle John's ohoice of a husband fpr her oould possibly fall upon him. He was twenty-two and held a position in bank His father, now dead, had been Mr. Byrnes' confidential olerk for years, and Byrnes had poid for thi voung man's educa- tion, and, on the fati, - s death, received him into his house. This happened almost immediately after Mabel come, and she was gkd of a youthful companion who** sympa- thy aad kindness sheered her. go these young people became warm •fi4end£ and, as might have been naturally expected, after a time something more. Mr. Symes, never seemed to think of their fall- ing in love, however. For more than a year ae allowed them to take pleasure in each other's society without any restraint, occa- sionally holding forth to each and both upon the matrimonial views he held for them, and his intention of selecting their future partners, but never appearing to think for a moment that they might choose for themselves, still less that they might choose each other. \ He'll never consent to our marriage,\ said Mabel, despondently, as they talked over their hopes and fears. \ If he had had any such ideas for us, would he not have told us ? But I believe he intends you for my cousin Catherine, who is his only sister's child, and rich. She is an orphan, like our- selves, and was left in Uncle John's care, and is just returning home from her school in Europe. And if he has formed such plans, John, I ought not to stand in the way, for Cathy is a very handsome girl, with money, and you are a young man with your way to make in ihe world, and I am poor and nobody.\ And she wept a little tor poor \ Nobody,\ rho was not to be allowed to have evan her But John stood up bravely for \ Nobody,* ; her in bis arm* and kissing her ••novemy little 'Nobody, . \ and she shall be ' Somebody' some day if she becomes my wife, I promise you. Why, I am abk to take car* of you, dearest; I earn enough for two of us to be happy on. Marry me, my darling, without a word to a single soul, before Cathy comes, and no on* can part us afterward.\ It will seem incredible to oM, wise heads that snob, a piece of folly as John proposed should have been perpetrated, but it was, nevertheless. One bright summer morning, very early indeed, our two lovers slipped away to a certain quiet church, and there, without a word to any one but the minister ad a pew-opener, got married. They were absurdly happy afterward. They used to get together and talk orer their future prospects upon all possible^oc- casions, and ran all sorts of risks of being found out. But either fortune favored them, or Unole Byrnes was more than usually blind, for he never, though be often spoke of them as children to be \married off, \seemed to notice or suspect them. « He never even thinks of such a thing,\ •aid Mabel, in dismay. \ It doesn't.occur , him that we might fall in lore. And her* weZZuall y married for thk week part, and Cathy coming to-morrow. And to-morrow Cathy came. Uncle Symes examined her quite «««\My- ^ ^ •• You're handsome, child, like your poor mother,\ ' * \ ' rm \ 1 *\ *\\* rtnlM to John! trembling, on his arm, Tve got three cMU dren to marry, it seems. It's well {hi* JO* * rjtfBfWNi and y N1 mate you proi arly- wandaUl\ • f r Apparently he meant to set abofat this task without loss of time. F \ My dear,\ said he to littU Mab, mine, with good business pros- peots, and something to back them, who, I think, might win your favor—a husband, my little Mab.\ She jumped up exdtedly. \ I couldn't\ the cried. «' It's quite lav . JssibVUnoje John* my heart k not my own to giv^ and I couldn't bear to meet him. I'm grateful to you for all you've ohosen for me ; Indeed, indeed I can't.\ And she darted out of the room. \Hadn't you better hear his name7\ Unole Symes oalled after her, but she didn't hear or heed. t Thi» took place in tne' library, after din- ner, the *srvants were gone and they were •ittlng together. Unole Symes smoked his oigar quietly in eriUnoe for awhile. Cathy looked half startled, half amused; John \ looked uneasily in his mind for some excuse to follow her. Unole Byrnes removed his oigar and laid it down. \ Pve got you ohildren to marry,\ said he, \ and I mean to do li I ohose a hue- band for Mab a year ago; and I guess, in spite of her nonsense now, she'll marry him. I made my plan, for you, John, just in the same way, and I hope you'll not be foolish enough to cross them.\ John rose up, resolute and pale. \ I've ohosea for myself, sir,\ said he. '' You spoke too late. I can't take the lady you design tor me. I owe you muoh, and 1 mean to pay it some day, but I can't give up my free will, and let you dispose of my heart and life as if they were pieces of prop- erty. I gave both away a long time ago, as was my right. I wish I could have had your consent; but I saw that that was hope- less. No, I can't marry the lady you have ohqeen for me; it's impostibk.\ \How do you know?\ asked Uncle Byrnes, diyly. \You haven't even asked me her name.\ \Her name can make no difference,\ said John, getting more excited, as he fear- ed that he was going to have Cathy offered to him before hi. very face. \ Pardon me, air,'i and he rose to leave the room. \ I'll show you tbe thing k impossible, presently.\ And he darted out at the door. Unole Byrnes' kughed quietly. \ They'll end by taking the partners Pve ohosen, you'll see,\ said he to Cathy, con- tentedly. \ I've got you ohildren to marry sensibly, and Til do it, too.\ The door flew open, pushed by an excited hand, aad John entered with Mab upon bk arm. They were both prepared for depart- ure, and Mab was crying. '' Forgive me, dear uncle,\ she cried; \ I loved him to t\ \ Feeling swr* that we never should bare your oonsent we married without it,\ said John, resolutely. \ This k my precious wife, and I don't regret having married her, sir, even if I lost your favor forever by it\ Unole Byrnes oaoe mote took the cigar from his lips. Why should you, John ?\ said he quiet- ly. \ Why should you lose my favor ? You wouldn't hear the name of the girl I ohose for you—well, you've married the girl I ohose 1\ There was a ory of bewilderment and joy, and Meb's arms were around tbe old man's aeok. \ I thought you never even- dreamed of our falling in love 1\ she cried. Uncle Byrne* laughed as he caressed her. \ Too sharp to let you see it, dear. If I had, you'd have run contrary, both of you, and fallen in love with some one eke. Why, I was present at your wedding. ' Let them think they're having it all their own way,' said I. You thought I meant John for Cathy, but Cathy's been engaged this past year, with my consent. Billy geese I ' Leave them alone, and they'll oome home,'thought I; and here you are, on see. I left yon to your own natural bents—a plan which 1 recommend to all old folks who, like me, have ohildren to marry.\— Charlotte M. 8tunley-McKen.no. , WAITER' S CALLS. i said] to \ Three up, ooff I\ oalled the waiter. The report* looked ouriously to see what the nnnraal order meant The waiter brought (he customer three small cakes and cap of coffee. \ One brown buck,\ cried another waiter. In a few minutes he brought the customer a 'plate of buekwheat cakes done brown. \Beef and \and \ham and\ ware fre- quently heard, and the order* were filled with beef and beans and ham and eggs. Give me a plate of beans,\ he the waiter. fbe plate of Boston strawberries,\ yel- led that functionary. The old gentleman was startled, but soon received his favorite dish at a cost of ten oente, while New York strawberries wpuld have cost him fifty. | OtaoignajSi quail, have it fat,\ WM the uextotder. Th* cook out off a large slice of fat pork and put it on the range. All waiters,\ said the proprietor, who sat at tbe door to see that no man escaped without paying hk bill, \ have a system of revtaOpS and a peculiar nomenclature for food. Some of our oustoineru know tbk technical form of ordering so well thai they use it themselves.\ A well dressed man here entered, and, taking a seat at the table, ordered the waitei to bring him two fishbalk. \Oneakcre.buttons cried the waiter, while the cook softly repeated. \ sleeve-bat. DICKIMS AS A DRB8SBR. Mr.Diekensatnoperiodofhislifew.sa oomot or tasteful dresser, s»yt an English writer. Hfljfcas too fond of stripes and oolors. I remember meeting him one day to tbe Btrand about the year 1886. He was evidently just going into the country, for h* VM alii) In anastonJshinff oOftmxM. that might have been worn by a lion oomique at» mode hall. On another occasion, when Iwasleesaeof the Egyptian Hall, during theabsenoeof poor Albert Smith in China, » gentJsman called but left no ame \What kind of • looking penton w»» 1 asked of the lackey in charge, thinking at getting a clue to the caller. The tlt f U»bMU*i*a Mrtpfon, he remarked: <• I should say, sir, by hk dress, he wa. a respectable sort of aaa.\ Subsequently I discovered that it was Mr. Dickens who had looked, ia, and whose toggery had thus misled the ineniaL A man who at any period of hk life could wear at the •am* moment a aim. ion velvet waktooat and yellow kids must tare had a vicious notion of combining oolon. And yet how humorously the novel, kt could describe the bad drawing of the characters he^reated.—£M&>» Herald. YOtfBMITB PALLS. It is not recorded in any work that I am tware of who the parties ware Out discov- ered the Yo^mite. The recent geographies, oyolopeediaa ancT books of historical record, which give brief notice of that wonder of oreation, are silent as to the men who first penetrated the valley and gazed with aston- ished eyes upon tbe world-renowned wonder of nature, and merely mention tbe fact that the discovery was made by a party \ in pur- suit of a band of Indians who bad made themselves troublesome to the whites, and who were understood to have a stronghold in the mountains, where they imagined they were safe from any attack, and in which they sought refuge when obliged to retreat from the neighborhood of the settlement.\ The main fact is as stated. The discovery was by a small party who were in pursuit of the Indian*. I happened to know the prin- cipal actors in that affair, and being a lover of historical accuracy, even! in small mat- tors, beg leave to recall a few incidents, by way of renunisoenoe of bygone days—the good old days of '48. I wintered in '49 on the Tuolumne Blver, and I will so far digress as to say it was the severest winter I ever passed in California, although my ex- perience extended to nearly twenty years' subsequent reddenee, all of which was passed in the mountain regions of the ooun- .try, extending from Fuget Sound to the Tulare Lakes. In the spring of that year, partner, Alonso Ridley, and myself packed a mule and started on a prospecting tour toward the Mercedes River, and reach- ed a small stream, a tributary of that river, where we located a trading post. The stream was called MatoeU's Creek, since and now named Coulterville. A few miles be- low the mouth of the brook, on ibe main river Meroedes, distant about ten miles, was a beautiful little valley known at \ Happy Valley,\ the abiding place of a numerous tribe of Indians. A white man had come among them about the time of the discovery of gold and gamed the oonfldenoe of the tribe, and at toe time t knew him •zeroised supreme oontroL The tribe consisted of about 500 men And Worn**, ot as tbsy were mora commonly oallad,\ buok* and •quawi.\ They mined and worked for him and all the gold flowed into his treasury. By obtaining a constant supply of Indian goods and trink- ets, which he did by running a large papk train to the ooast, ha kept ttum contented and reaped the benefit of their labor. How be obtained suoh supremady over not only that tribe but all tbe Indians with whom ht oame in contact was and is a mystery tome. There was nothing imposing in his personal appearance; on the oontrary he was small in •taton, bu* attWa, qulok In motion, and fearless. I hare known many men who had great sway and oontrol over the Indians, but never one like him. James Savage, Major Savage, or Jim Savage, a* he was more oommonly called, was tbe man. The amount at gold that he eoUectod was im- mense, and when he went below to the coast it was Mattered with a profuse hand, a* though he knew where to And more, which ha certainly did. H* was finally killed in a personal difficulty \ on Xing'* River, by *j white man, eonoeming a disputed land o. In 1851 all the Indiana in Southern California living in the mountain melons seemed possessed of the war spirit 'What, evar aa? have been the originating cause of (his fading, the fact ssist* that nil that regfefe of oooatry in the Maripnsa and Her. oajles was ia a state of war eidteutent, and in all camps there was the greatest vigSanot and every man on the alert, and a general warfare was carried on for some time. It was literally \war to the knife and the knife to the hilt\ It was after a raid by a wild band, which had attacked and committed depredations on a mining camp, that a small party of whites, under the direction and command of James Savage and my partner, Aknzo Ridley, followed and penetrated the Yosemite Valley, which expedition resulted In their coming upon the great natural won- der—the Yosemtte Fall. This was in the early part of 1851. On the return of the partylbad the account of the discovery from Bldkjy himself, who was an enthual astio admirer of the mountain life which he had adopted, and together we passed through many adventurous scenes, both by \ flood and field.\ Savage was a western man, and as I have stated was afterward killed.-- Bot. tonPoa. concerningm., of \ A young bride's fet- ters,\ I here give you m* version of the rtory of my private affair., which have been •udadowly thrown upon tbe public, in suchanuncalkdfor manner. The sensa- tional report, that my husband's death in- volved $9,000,009, wu'stmply an ingenious dodge to call attention to a oruel-f ettgred scandal of me, utterly fake—out of whole cloth, and worthy of the brant of a fiend, as to the origiaatar. Previous to my marriage with Mr. Paige, I had married when <wry young, and was afterward a widow with two children, living at mother's residence, in the city of ohnrches. I was a writer, and had been writing literature when a young unfettered girl, up to afewmonths previous to my marriage with Mr. Simon B. Paige. My mother wrote for periodical., yean ago, and now lives redred. My younger sister k a very tucoettful authorm, who, proud of our family name, used her own nonp, and not a aon-d* plume to bear her fame. After Mr. Paige and I had passed a happy honey- moon, we removed west, where hk mills snd a great amount of other property was located. Although b* was A great many year* older than myself, yet no, couple ever lived happier. Hk fearful suicide occurred in less than three month* after I became his bride, and was as follow*: My late husband, Mr. Paige, became unfortunately known to the publio by the burning of the Beekwith House, at Oahkosh, WisL, in which hk former agea wife perish- ed. It wei alleged that Mr. Paige offered •5,000 for thejeoovery of hk unfortunate wife's bod/, dead or alive, from the fourth floor of the taming hotel. A brave fireman dashed through the crowd, fought through fire and smoke and crashing timbers, and in great peril—amid the intense, breathless excitement of the sorrowful spectators, suo- oeeded in bringing the unfortunate, lifeless body of tbe wile to her agonized friends. Later, thk fircatan brought suit to recover the $5,000 he alleged wa* prosiked him by Mr. Paige. Singularly thk oate was fought irlyla LAUOHTBR AS A M8DICIN8. A short time sinoe two individual, wen *ing in one room very rick, one with brain fever and th* other with an aggravated case of the mumps. They were so low that watchers were needed every night, and' tt was thought doubtful if the one sick <rf fever oould recover. A gentleman was en- gaged to waieh over night, his duty being Ia the ooune of the night both watcher and nun* fell asleep. The man with the mump, lay watchiaefte slock, aad saw that U\WM daefogW* the fever patient hk pokoa. He was unabk to apeak aloud or to move any portion of hk body except hk arms, but seizing a pillow, he managed to strike fee watcher lathe face with i t Thus snd. deal? awakened; the watcher hkseat, felling to the ieor, sad awakened both the auras aad the ferer patient The Incident struck the sick mea as very 2udi- orow, and tbey laughed heartily at H for aom* fifteen or twMtyalnutM. When the doctor eame in the morning he ftnud hit patient vasty improved; said he nevar knew *o sudden a torn tor the batter, and now both are up and weU. Who *ays laugh- tsr k not the best medkfttef And tide of anosaar ease. A at the throat, which atkagtb. beeam* so *wol- lea that bk Ufa was * \ * — g is life was despaired of. Hie «me to bis bedside to Wd him Saoh individual shook hand* w*b fee dying weefiag. Last oi a •batts* tt» met* ith Tt bd with Tt. band* over toy a*. It , ttorou a slgnt that the patient was to leu*^ art l*4g*Mleo heartily that q)o«:k*«k«SBdhiauBt was. ti' HMRS. SIMON B. PAIOS. 1 Bride • / A* Late vf-Ht** the &H*wt*c ta R*«ard Her K*ce.t Bertrvd Sea*. dal V*tt*nu M».Ei,rTo B : In regard to many g gy g bitterly la several oou and by ita peculiar feature gained notoriety, and was soon to be tried again, together with a #30,000 libel snit also brought by this fireman, which worried my poor husband, and caused him fioVSfhm? fondl* however, m evfl as well as good report On Sabbath morning, March 11th, 1869,1 bade my husband the usual tender good-bye, and repaired with my litUe son and daughter to the Spisoopal Cathedral. Mr. Paige went to the hotel of- fice after my departeae, and conversed pleasantly with our aoaehman and others. Two houn later upen my return, I was hor- rified to find him dead in bed, the revolver with whioh he had taken his life, clutched tightly in kk hand. On a chair by bis oouoh, he had pencilled upon his business oaid,af*mdmoteofftueweU to me, assign- ing no cause for the rash act The note d \ My tear, dear »4fe ;\ and was Tow lotU%c A«M»ond, &»*».\ Hcnoe, even on the threshold of another world, Us last thoughts were of met Turf- men are anxious to learn whether I Intend putting my husband's fine trotting horse* on the Hew York track next season; I dc not, as they were disposed of nearly a year ago. Neither do I Intend to build a mam- moth hotel at Coney Island, as soon at my estates are settled, as lately stated in the Brooklyn SagU. I shall however, devote the remainder of my life to fine arts and literature, and continue the good ™»i»ng that was mine before my cruel persecutions, when I was a happy girl, joyous and onfet- fII UBS.SlKDnB.Pini.. Brooklyn, L. L, May 15th, 1884. MAKING A LEAD PENCIL. It* O**t aad It* Fr*flt*..A Pencil *f Prekl*. Wrio Interest. What does it cost to make a lead pen- cil r said the manufacturer. \ First let me tell you how we make a pencil. See thk fine black powder? That's graphite. It costs twenty-five cents a pound. This white substance k German clay. It comes across ooean as ballast in sailing vessels, and all it oosts us k freight. We mix thk clay and thk powder together and grind them in a mill, allowing moisture to be added dur-' ing the process, until the two are thor- oughly assimilated and are reduced 1 to a paste about the consistency of putty. Thk paste we press into these dies, each one of whioh k the sise of a pencil lead, except in length. There are four leads in one of these. After they are pressed we cut them into the proper length and bake them in an oven kept at a very high heat. There we have the ked made. Bs hardness k regulated by the greater or less amount of clay we mix with the graphite—the more clay we put in the harder the lead. \The cedar we use comes principally from the swamps of Florida, and k obtain- ed entirely from the fallen trees that Us there. The wood k delivered teas in blocks •awed to pencil length*, some thick, to re- cette the lead, and otfwn thin, for the piece that kghud over the lead. The block* are •awed for four psaeik each. They are gtoovedbyaaaw.thegroovcbaEagthep where the lead k to He. \ The leads are kept ia hot ghw, aad at* placed in Hie grooves as the blocks a n ready. Wbentt^ k oon* the thin block k glaedfasttotaetafokoae. WbeadrytiM blocks anruthroKigh a ma«fain* that oats the psaeik apart Asa they are through* ataeUa* that shape* aad 1 nkhe* them, and they are ready to be in bunohes, boxed and put out i \Thadtfarent grade* in value we mad* by flnttinanipuktion of th* graphite. Here ts a pencil that k about tbe average quality need in every-day business. It costs a littk more than on»-quarter of a oent to get it ready for market We sell H to dealers at one hundred per oent profit ead the dealer makes much mere than that Of tbk grade an operator and the machinery will Matty makefl,600aday. \ There k a pencil in that case*. It's a cheap looking thing, kn't it5L Dont look fnrtBmoretfaaaaoeatdoesitr WeU, tt womldtake* ten-dollar bill to buy that The oedar that surround the lead ia that pencfl was eentorks <rtd I guess, jfelef ore any oedar that k standing to^ay began to grow. was taken from » marl bed in Orange ^.N-Y-.tadept h of 60 feet and ttwes found a mastodon's nsnains. TOBACCO * PANACEA. A writer in Health and Home says: « 1 ought at the outset to state that I never chewed, smoked, nor snuffed tobaooo; I believe, however, that it on several ooeasions bas saved my life, and in other respects been of essential service to me and many of unfriends. The first instance I can remem. bar of its us* a* a remedy for inflammations was seeing Tom Kelly, when I was a small boy, spurt Its juice from bis mouth into tiu eye of his horse very red from inflammation. He stated that he was curing tt in that way. While carelessly riding a wild horse the ani- mal sprang against the fence and knocked me off, so that I lit on the ground with so muoh violence as to sprain my. right ankle very severely. After enduring aeiere pain for some houn I thought of trying tobacco. I sent for some leaves, and had them wet and wrapped around the ankle, and placed the poultice over them to keep them moist Within an hour the pain ceased and I slept through the night The njxt morning on examing the ankle, instead of its being swol- len, it appeared rather lees than its natural aize; the skin had a wrinkled appearance and was very white. My next application of it was to a severe gunshot wound. A bullet ranged through my leg, from near the ankle, so as to come out on the opposite side, just below the knee, cutting the mus- oles and nerves and making a long and very painful wound. I lost so muoh blood that I was carried from the field in an insensible condition. I sent my servant for some to- bacco, enveloped the wounded leg in it, and kept it wet with the cloths over it. Tbe pain in an hour or two diminished and the heat and throbbing ceased, and I rested more quietly than I had been doing. I have heard of a number of coses where erysipelas has been cured by persons whose attention I had oalled to the use of tobacco. I also, last 8ummer, when in New York, by apply- ing largcpoultices of tobacco to my hip, cured myself of a terribly painful attack of sciatica, whioh had been greatly 1 aggravated by the treatment of two physicians. One evening, in Washington, I found two of my friends sitting with their boots off. They both were suffering from bunions of long standing. I advised the use of tobaooo, and *e y immediately sent for it and applied i t Application for a single night made a per- manent cure, as they have assured me, though two or three years hate elapsed. About two yean ago one of the North Caro- lina members of Congress on my suggestion relieved himself in the same manner, and lays there has been no return of the sore . Corns on the toes can be cured in like 11 Science has made wonderful progress In the last few yean, and after awhile there will be no bald-beads,\ said one of the few wonderful scalp-surgeons. \ I intend to open a large office in New York, and if there is a bald head in it in twelve months, it will not be my fault\ \What has brought about this rapid stride?\ \ You must know that the scalp la oom- posed of three layers of skin ; underneath all these lies the root of the hair. When tbe outer skin is imbedded with dandruff and grease and the follicles dosed, how ii the root going to sprout out ? Well, I will toll you. . It can't. You have seen flowers droop under a heavy formation of dirt and snow ? Well, when this weight is removed the flower bud puts forth under the balmy influence of sunshine and air, and so it is with the roots of the hair when tbe outer skin is removed. Oh, yes; by my blistering process, the outer skin is taken off, just as the sunburnt skin peels off your face when you visit the oonntry summer resorts. And again, the scalp is loosened, the follicles are opened, and the hair grows right out. No, the roots of the hair never die. It :» f\ popular impression that they do, but i+ in erroneous. I can grow hair on the gloss'ost bald head in New York. Cutting the Laii injure* it. I have adopted the Parisian plan of burning tbe hair. The hair is full of life, and when out its vegetation oozes out. By burning, just as you would singe a oat. the end of the hair is dosed and ite life and strength is thus thrown back into wt*. Of ooune among the bald-head- ed, men predominate largely; yet there more bald-headed women than you would imagine. The men don't care, and do not wear false hair. But wouldn't a bald-headed woman in a ball room look loal ? Must you go ? Well, come and we me when yoo get bald-headed.\ CURING AN ELEPHANT'S CORNS. Dootorlnc the •• L,»*ht of Asia'* »» Feet fw • 100 a day. \ How is the light of Asia ?\ said a News reporter to an agent of the great Forepaugh ihow yesterday. * Ob, in excellent health,\ replied the agent, \ but he has been troubled witb corns. In Siam the pampered beast stood upon velvet cushions, and I suppose had bis feet attended daily by * native manicure. When Federigo T. Salve took charge of the elephant? at Penang the [ Chinese opium muggier who brought him to that place warned him that the Light of Aisa was not accustomed to standing ' on a hard floor. Turkish rugs were used under his feet until the show left Philadelphia. On the can, however, tbe attendants, neglected to pad the floor, and in three or four days th« •acred elephant was limping like a confirm, ed cripple. Then a white elephant does not appear to have, the courage that a black one \Why so r \ Well, I hardly know why, but I tup- pose it is because white ones are petted from birth and don't know what it is to have the ttoel point of a trainer's hook jabbed into them every few minutes. As soon as the Light of Asia's corns began to trouble him he became a* pettish as a child. He would stand for houn alternately lifting his feet while the tears trickled down his trunk, and he whined piteously. Prof. Nathaniel B. Vosberg, an attache of the Philadelphia Zoological garden and a famous veterinary surgeon, was telegraphed for. He went tc Allentown and operated successfully or the princely beast's pedal extremities. \ Did he cut them ?\ \Out them,\ repeated the showman, \ why he fairly carved them. Took slivert as big aa a saucer off three corns and treat- ed the others with ointment Then each foot of the 'Light of Asia' was swaddled in oushion Saturday with a soothing lotion. After that he walked without pain, and has been doing so ever since. Prof. Vosburg said that the elaphast would in time grow accustomed to hard floor*. In the mean- time his corns will have to be cared for once a week, and that isn't a small matter, for Vosburg charged $100 for the job in Allen- town.\— Newark New. A PRETTY PREDICAMENT. There comes a time fat the life of a man whose besetting sin is charity when he be- rin. to wonder if it isn't better to be cold, blooded and frigid to all whom be ohance* to meet. I have a young friend who is just now thinking over tide proposition. His sympathetic nature was played upon by the polkhed hk book daily. Although thk very charitable young man had no super- abundance of wealth, he had two pain of troanen. One pair %as of the .pic-ana spaa, latest cut, and costly pattern. They had hang three days, however, ia hk room, waiting for an event on which he had set hk heart. Tne pair he was wearing had given way ia several places to the cam of time. The other day, whiksoftaaed the bootsblaok's poverty, he gave him an order OT hi. landlady for on* pair of trou- sere; hk expectation at the time was to bt at hk room and shift the old for the new before the wretch of the curbstone oould deliver the order. Later in the day be went to his room aad divested himself oi the ancient raiment Be saw hk boy down on the sidewalk, aad thinking to relieve him of a Journey tip staitt, he pitched tb* trousers out of the window, with the re- mark, \ Tbare they are.\ He then went tt hk wardrobe tat the new attire, bat noihiaf waathere. Hesearebedthe room wttbool avail. He hunted to the window to call back hk boy, but he had vanished H* looked hk door and faooeeded ia rousing bk landlady, who had a keyhole interview wtth him from the hafl. She informed him tiiatshehad received hk note some 1 before aad had delivered to the boy th* article mentioned. The young man the* realised that the urchin on the sidewalk to whombehadihrownhis old trousers; not the on* to whom be had givea 4*w MEM. FOR BALDHBADED MEN. COLORED P4UCSJN FLORIDA. In an Interesting article upon Florida, published in the currant number of Our Otmtlntt*, Hary A. Denlson says; The element of color hen is a distinct study in itself, and differs widely from the same phase of humanity in the Middle and North- ern States. Most of the blacks I have seen are muoh like Bret Bart*'* \ Heathen Obi- nee \ of the childlike and bland type, ir> dicated in the poem. They have the ap. pearanoe of utter innocenoe and the most blissful ignorance. They \ d'no » this and \d'no\that, but. they do know how to draw the dimes from your pocket to thein, and their varied devioes indicate that they make it the study of their live, to secure the greatest possibk returns for the smaflest possible favors. They are bay and con- tented. Their log cabins redden, morning and night, with fire* of pitoh-pine with whioh the woods abound; their small patches of land yteld them cotton, com and bananas. .Some of them a n the fortunate posaesson of a few ton or twenty-year-old orange trees, and, in suoh a osss, they will work for no one. The pig that root* round the cabin door, and is, indeed, one of the family, will, in time, supply them with pork and bacon and a few roasts. Then a n 'possums in the woods, wild duck sad trout to be had at the lakes, and what little silver they gather from their aid to household labor among the whites olothes them decent- ly. Why, indeed, should they take thought of the morrow t A USB FOR FLYINC)PIOBONS. I know many peopk in thk oountry who have as their special bobby the breeding and flying of pigeons in a private way, quite independent of dubs—people who never go very far away from home without taking a pigeon or two along wtth them to •end back with news of their safe arrival or their tuooess or non-success in matten of business. I had the following told me by a friend and have no reason to doubt the truth of it: A gentleman of rather shy disposition came down from London to a town not a hundred miles from Warwick, benton proposing to a young lady with whom he was greatly in love. She was the daugh- ter of well-to-do landowner and a fancier of Antwerp carriers. The Londoner, however lacked the courage or opportunity of pop- ping the question. He was bold enough, though, before taking leave, to beg the Loan of hk lady-love's pete, just \to tell her of hk safe arrival in town.\ The bird re- turned from London the same day. and in the little quill it bore to its mistress a i sage—that, after all, might n»ore simply and naturally bare been conveyed by lip - to wit a declaration and a proposal. A more awful though innocent way of getting out of a difficulty could hardly have been devised. It was successful, too.— Ohtmbm* Journal. A MODEL. I0E-CHE6T. During the month of March I built an ice-chest for this Summer. It was not hand- some, but tt was roomy, and would be verjr nice for the season of 1884, I thought It worked pretty well through March aad April, bat as the weather begins to « up that ice-chest is about the warmest place around the house. Then is aetaelly a glow of hea* around the loe-oh.es* that I don't notice etaewnen. I've shown it to several pengBal friends. They seem to think thai tt ieW built tightly enough for an ioe- ohest My brother looked at tt yesterday, and said that his idea of an ice-chest mis that tt ought to be tight enough at least to hold the larger chunks of toe so thai they would not escape through the pores of the ice-box. Heaaya he never built one, bot it stood to reason that a refrigerator like that ought to be constructed so that it would keep the cows out of i t You don't wj«t to b*v« a refrigerator that the kttle at* get Ihro^ the encks of andeaiupyoar straw- berries on ice, he says. A neighbor of mine wha onoe built a hen resort of laths, aad UkeaBrarilnutasa let corral, ssyi my enough, only toat it is not MVjajhutH would work h* thought if I could keep tt. fever out of my loe-ohest tenoed to death for f, Th* WerM k SMt WM*. Ho «nt r is in ooftM rou Where one ma? hid* to: ThewtndstluxmgBatlltaspaoasw . Through all its shadows flit, the Oar. Awttarontremtlmffoisrabnok,\ In thickest duaKaf tangle* aoade, To it* own Heart, when all i t ttOL Some poet openec-eyea at nlgtot, May catch the meaamff of Its trill, And mesh tt in bis net of soar, ** • And m^igtt down the tBxoagtns; rears, A lav to stir the listening world More than tbe rolling of Ow sphere*. . TO HAHDLE A CUM. Tbe first thing to be learned b to stead properly. Plant both your feet neterally and firmly on the ground, so that the Jotota of jroor kgs a n neither stiff nor beat ,• tbea lean the upper part of your body slightly forward. Grip the guastook Jut behind the guard with the right hand, tb* fore-fin- ger lightly touching the foremost trigger, that is, the trigger of the right-hand barrel; The stock of the gun, a few mches ia front of the guard, must rest easily in tbe hollo* of tbe left hand., Hold the mus k of the gun up and slanting away from you, so that the lower end of the butt is just lower than your right elbow. Now, if both hammers have been cocked, and you gentry and swiftly draw tbe butt of the gun up to and against the hollow of the right shoulder, you will find yourself in. good position fos taking aim, whioh is best done by keeping both eyes wide open, and looking straight over the rib between the barrel, with the right eye., j You will soon discover the tsltek of doing this, by fixing your aim with both eyes open, and then, holding tt perfectly steady, •losing the left eye ; if the Hae of sight now changes, you hav+not lighted correct, ly { if tt remains fixed, th* aim \ has been taken with the right eye. \ Be oanful after firing never to set your gun down with a hammer up. That is the of many deplorable aeddeato. To ivoid accident you must be eoastaattr on the alert and cauMoas, no* overtook™*; ren the slightest precaution.-*™* Marvin and Mi B& HwUtr$, fty Mem. tiee Tkmpton, in St.NisAoiat. CLBAW COM8. \ Do you really love me, Beryii\ A pair of soft, lustrously** looked ur inquiringly into th* face of Harold Wyvern*, sad over the sweet girlish face swept a. wave of pallor, quickly! followed by a tunny mile as she saw by the expression of Harold's face that the question had not been isked in seriousness. 11 How you frighten me^l\ she said, nest- ling cjose beside him in the confloing. trust, ful way that is so <n*rabteristio of woman when she is about to lay pipe for a new bonnet \ If you had been in earnest, Harold, I believe your words would have broken my heart\—and stepping to the other side of the conservatory, into which they bad wandered after the last watte, aha need steadfastly out into the deepening gloom of a November night \Poor little birdling\ said Harold to himself, \ how madly she loves me I My words, even though spoken ! in jest, have affected her strangely, and the steals away for an instant to oonoealth. tear, that can. not be restrained.\ ! Harold had neve* been arrested for know, ing too much. He was a young man of singularly pun life and tight pants, sad never onoe had then swept across th* un- decked horizon of hi* lawn-tennis and cigarette existence the ooM, stolid fact that ifter whirling in the dreamy measures of a waltz even fee best of women love to steal a while away and stand unostentatiously on the ride of their feet in order that their I OOTM may throb untrammelled | in all the buoyant ^kdnees of a temporarily removed slipper.— (JUoago Tribvnt. BOARDIHO AM ELEPHANT. It costs on an average W a day to mp> ply abeattaj •lephaat wtth hay sad tnA I bread whioh .» bis stapk artid* of diet \ Of course,\ continued the ageat, ^ bis; Vast win eat twice as much as a sfll one. ! hiea, sgsia, some an what dnas psopk tall 'good show feeder.,* that to, their mouth, are open all day taking in peanuts, eaady, cakes and fruit from people who visit the show. An animal of that kind wifl eat but littk of the food provided for him by his keeper. I have known an elephant to break loose at night and raid the aaad* booths and, although standing knee-deep In peanuts and sweetmeata, prefer to make | meal off half a do»en willow baskets aad two or three gannybags. A meal of that appears to hurt them. Their (parataskas wondrnfal as tbs of aa ostrich. Forepaugh'. sacred watte elephant is the dasntfMt beast I ever knew wtth a trank. ! Hk daily food costs $10 and it mast b* justsoorhe will not touch it. In the morning after being sponged with tepid! sweet milk he is given a dosen slieed oranges. Heeato&iem vary dsiatily, Uft- ing eachslioe separately aad placing H oa theeadofhktongae,wheaeeitp*sstsinro his throat. A.eachmonal*de«downbi* thMsshaeEoseslrisejres tte a gourmand, grn&fr vim sstisfa*^ and slaps his sides joyowb/ with his paint hnsh tail. Aa hour laser be k given bread sad snfik sad tbea tw* dosen bananas. lath* cran- ing be has mor* fr«H aad between aeeei be mamohes clover bay, sprinkled with ar sad #**.\—A*t«fcr Vnte*. ' A men was atreetedforldciciag ia oldlt*. low. After en ntml-sHn, fhe /asstoe of tbePeaeessidt \It was my iakatko, i to fin* you §10, bat having j« t learned ' xhe victim w » a ii«nber& the 1 ~ Mun.Istadhfatofeil, *row into tbs «*< BaasdMs Mate Her *•*> \ M Bernaners k healthy \ said a Jteasjta staiidwofnantheoOierdaV. 'Tre tende* d f b S tain of fleeh bed aay limit •*>• Mstr DM* •^.^ i | Carson keen. ffect a «,« ss^teteetNaaanerswheal it not dehd, sadlgotfa*. ' -^ \ n bed aay ued the hug* me** of animal« a**dt*re*4l«hl dltlM
