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now APES CATcH cRABs.

4 traveller in Java relates the following anu.
sing scene, which he witnessed in the comma
ny of acme of the natives:
| After walking close up to the old campaign.
| they were upon the point of turning back,
when young fellow emerged from the thick
ct, and said few words TO the mandoor. The
latter turned with laugh to Frank. and ask
ed him if he had ever seen apes catch crabs
Frank replied in the negative, and the man
door taking his hand. led him gently and
cautiously through the deserted village, to a
spot which the young fellow had pointed out,
and where the old man had formerly planted
hedges, rendering it an easy task for them to
approach unobserved.
At length they reached the boundary of the
former settlements dry, sandy strip of beach,
whers all vegetation ceased, ard only a single
tail pandanus tree, whose roots were thicklv
lnteriaced with creeping plants, formed as it
were the advanced post of the vegetable king
dom. Behind this they crawled along, and
cautiously raising their heads, they saw sever
al apes, at distance Of two or three hundred
PAGES, who were partly looking for something
as they walked up and down the beach, while
others stood motionless.
1t was the long tailed, brown variety, and
Frank was beginning to regret that he had not
his telescope with him, to watch the motions
of these strange beings more closely, when
one Of them, tremendous large fellow, be-
gan to draw nearer to them. Carefully exam
lining the ground. over which he went with all
fours, he stood at intervals to scratch himself
or to snap at some insect that buzzed around
him. He came so close that Frank fancied he
must scent them, and give the alarm to the
other monkeys, when suddenly passing over
little elevation covered with withered reedy
grass, he discoveed party Of crabs, parading
mp aaid down on the hot sand With bound
heNSas amongst them, but not quick enough to
catch single one; for the crabs, though ap-
parently so clumsy, darted like lightning into
quantity of small holes or cavities, which
made the ground here resemble seive, and
the ape could not thrust his claws after them,
fer the orifice was too narrow.
The mandoor nudged Frank gently to draw
his attention, and they saw the ape, after
crawling up and peeping into the various
holes, with his nose close to the ground, sud-
denly seat himself very gravely by one of
them, which he fancied most suitable He
then brought round his long tail to tbs front,
thrust the end Of it into the cavity, until he
met with an obstacle, and suddenly made
face which SO amused Frank. that he would
hare laughed loudly. had not the mandoor
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VOL. 2.--NO. 80.
uIsToRY OF DRUNKENNESS.


Or. Turner. in an address which he deliver
ed at the Broadway Tabernacle on the Eth OF
November, in behalf of the L. S. lnebriass
Asylum, in speaking of the influence which
inebriety has upon nations, uses the following
language:
Iuebriety is the first disease Of which We
have any record. 1t dates its existence from
the birth of the grape, the formation of wine
from which was one of the first discoveries OF
man. We find nothing in the medical records
of theEgyptians TO prove that it was recogniz-
ed as disease. Esculapius, Hippocrates and
Galen are likewise silent on the subject. Yet
we have for the recorder of the pathology Of
inebriety, the most renowned man of the sn-
cient or modern times. Solomon describes
the r1alady in the most significant language.-
cat the last it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like an adder" Thus we have sacred his
tory to establish tie fact that inebriety waS
the most frightful and destructive disease then
known comparing it to the venomous bite Of
serpent and the deadly sting Of the ad6s-.
which have no specifc-no cure.
We are compelled to trace the influence of
this disease in all nations rather than individ-
uals, and from our opinions from the facts of
history which record the rise and fall OF races
and nations. When the seeds Of this deadly
malady were sown by the great men of Baby
lon, Egypt, Greece and Rome, in their Bac-
chanal feasts, then the greatness of these
mighty nations began to decline, and their
chosen people perished and passed away Ba-
bylon, with all her glory and magnifcence, fell
into the hands Of the Persians, when her ru-
lers were drunken with wine, and her people
were maddsned by the Intoxicating bowl.
By inebriety Egypt lost her ruler, the world
her couquerer, in the death of Alexander tho
Great, in the thirty-thrd year of his age
The historian pens the fact that he perished
through self-indulgence-by disease ssthat
bitcth like serpent and stingeth ike m ad
der"
Polished Greece, the grand depository OF
the arts and sciences of the civilized world.
the residence of the historian, philosopher.
statesman and physician, was the first which
erected temple to the god Bacchus. Little
did her great men consider that they we're ded-
| icating tcInpIe to god on whose alter would
be sacrificed the glory OF their beloved coun.
try.
The Bacchanalian feasts in the Roman En-
piTe were the cause of her degenerated coun-
ellis and her weak government. Inebrety was
the malady that destroyed the Roman states,
man, general and soldiers. Thus Rome foil
by this physical and moral conts gion, and the
dark ages followed in her downfall.
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CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1856.

Most fortunately these extravagances did not
turn the brain of the youthful soldier. He
possessed too much real courage and good
sense to waste his fame on individual quarrels,
and his future efforts for ssthe bubble reputa-
tion'' were at the cannons mouth on the field
of battle for this same little Hussar was no
other than the brave General Trobriant, whose
name became so distinguished in all the con-
quests of the succeeding campaigns of his
country, and who, after attaining many high
honors of rank and fortune, became so DISCUS
ted with long interval of peace and retire
ment, that, throwing up all his hard won lau-
rels, he departed for Sicily, TO commence new
career of glory, starting as at first, with his
good sabre simple Hussar, which he knew
so well how to handle.
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rYEARN FOR THE SPRING.

yearn for the Spring, when the birds shall sing,
And each morning awake fresh flowers;
We have waited long for the lark's blythe cong,
And the lengtheninS evening hours
A shroud of snow had lain on the earth,
An icy hand on each stream,
The sun in the sky oped it's languid eye,
And sent but sickiy CLEAN;
And the frosty breeze Enoaned among the trees,
And the rafting hail and rain
Came sweeping past, with an angry blast,
And dashed 'ga;nst the window pane
And never flower in the stormy hour,
Dared raise up its tiny head
For eli gentle things fed the Summers wing,
Or else IN the snow lay dead!
yearn for the Spring, when the birds shall sing,
And each morn shall awake new flowers;
We have listened long for the WOODLANDS song,
And the thrush at the evening hours
lis beauteous time when the bud first bursts,
And child-like the young leaf stands,
And catches the drops of the gentle shower
In its small and velvety hands
When the tender grass feels the south wind pass
IN its chariot unseen,
And old mother Earth, ut the new Spring birth,
Arrays her in robes of green
When the unbound stream, as if in dream,
Murmurs on to its unknown home,
And tells the tall reeds, onward it speeds,
That the fair Lady Spring hath come
oh, yearn for the Sprng--for tho balmy Spring
Who floats like fairy queen,
And toucheth the land with magic wand
Till ell beeuteous things
long to be out at the early dawn
When the eastern light is new,
Among the odors borne from the scented thorn,
And the showers of silvery dew,
Oh i cannot tell how my soul doth swell
With an inward happiness;
FOR simple TO De is bliss to me,
For the which my God bless
With an unknown source comes nameless force
Which pervades my being through
a Joy, and love, and strength from above,
And l seem TO be mado anew
Oh. come then, spring-iet the woodlark's sing
Let the foweret ope its eye;
Like the lark ID soar to the heavens blue floor
Like the flower, gaze up to the sky.
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raised his finger warningly-and directly the
ape drew out his tail with jerk. AT the end
of it, however, hung the desired booty, fat
crab, by one OF its claws, and swinging it
round on the ground with such violence as to
make it loose its hold, he took it in his left
paw, picked up stone with the other, and af-
ter cracking the she'll. devoured the savory
contents with evident satisfaction.
Four or FIVE he thus caught in succession,
on each occasion when the crab nipped him
making face OF heroic resignation aud pain,
but each time he was successful, and he must
have found in the dainty dish, and the revenge
for the nip, abundant satisfaction for the pain
he endured, or else he would not have set TO
work so soon again.
Thus then the ape, quite engaged with the
sport, and without taking his eyes of the
ground, had approached to within about
twenty PAGES of the party concealed behind
the pandanus tree. Here, again, the ground
was full of holes, aud looking out the one he
conjectured TO be the best, he threw in his
line once more, and probably felt that there
was something alive within, for he awaited the
result with signs of the most eager attention
The affair, however, lasted longer than he
anticipated; but being already well filled by
his past successful hauls, he pulled up his
knees, laid his arms upon them, bowed up his
head, and half closing his eyes, he assumed
such resigned and yet exquisitely comical
face, as only an ape is capable of putting on
under these circumstances.
But his quiet was destined to be disturbed IN
a manner as unsupported as it was cruel. Hc
must have discovered some very interesting
object in the clouds, for he was staring mp
there fixcdly, when he uttered a loud yell, left
hold OF his knees, felt with both hands for his
tail, and made bound in the air, as if the
ground under him was growing red hot. At
the end OF his tail, however, hung gigantic
crab, torn with desperate energy from his H.
ding place, and Frank, who could restrain
himself no longer, then burst into laugh.
The mandoor at first retained his gravity
but when the ape, alarmed by the strange
sound, looked up and saw men and then boun-
ded away at full speed with his tornentor
SUN 0IusrTug at the emu taii, the old man
could no longer refrain either, and they both
lughed till the tears ran down their cheeks
The ape, in the meanwhile, flew across the
| narrow strip OF sand, followed by ali the 9th
ers, towards the jungle, and in q moment after
not single one was visible.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19

NEw VARIETY OF FowLs.-Sinoe tho war
with Russia new kind of domestic fowl has
been introduced into England from the Black
Sea, and is likely to prove formidable rival
to the Shanghai and and Cochin China. 1t is
quite as large as the Barndoor-fowl, is crested,
and has feathered legs, its color is generally
all white or black-when the latter, of 4 raven
hue, and glossy. This bird is pugnacious,
and its movements are very lively. It's most
distinguished popularity is, however, in the
.--,r,o;-,ant of the tail feathers. These are
very few, and do not pro- "S III o'uei p'iu''
but drop down and lie close to the oouy' 80
that the creature appears tailless, and when
its head is erect it scarcely has the appear
nnce of a bird.-,dYm Journal.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19

How TO KEEP SMoKED HANs.-Hams can be
secured and sweetly preserved through sum-
mer, by packing them in cobs in the following
manner; first, layer of cobs in the bottom Of
the casll; then hams and cobs until you finish
the whole. Be particular that they do not
come in contact with each other. Unbroken
cobs would prefer, but broken ones selected
will answer. 1t twonld be necessary to take
them out once in summer, and give them 3
dry rubbing. Your cask should stand upon $
bench, in dry. cool cellar. Having packed
in this way, the cobs absorb the heat and air,
sufficient to keep them fresh and fine. 1t has
been nay practice for more than ten years, to
treat my hams in this way, and have never
lost one.-You take them out perfectly clean,
not plastered, not ashed, not creased neither
is there any chat to be swept of. Cask to be
standardization Farmer.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19

dUASo.-At the last meeting of the New
York Farmers Cuba resolution was adopted
recommending all the Agricultural Societies
IN the United States, to unite in petition to
our government to take possession Of all Guam
ISLANDS which have been, or may be, discov-
cred by Americans, for the benefit of the Uni
ted States and of the discovcrers-the taking.
OF such possession TO occur only on islands un-
inhabited, and entirely out of the maritime
Jurisdiction of other nations. The Farmers
Club took the initiative last June, in request
ing our government to extend its protection
to two guano islands discovered by American
shipmasters insthe Pacific. and the United
States frigate Independence was despatched
to the islands for that purpose, several months
ago. 1t is estimated that, with the encour-
agement of our government, pure guano can
be furnished to American farmers at three
fourths or even one-half the cost of the Peru
Wan article.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19
THE POSITION oF WOMEN.

The Westminster Review contains an article
on the positions occupied by women in differ
ent nations from which we derive the follow
ing:
The Mehammedans nearly all believe that
woman has no soul. This is not taught in the
oran, but is countenanced by the fact that in
the Prophets Paradise, houris are given to the
faithful instead of their earthly wives. The
Chinese make slaves Of their women in this
world, and deny them any hope of compensa-
ton hereafter. NJ. Hue states that the Chi
nese women, in the Southern provinces, have
formed a sect called ''abstinents," who live
wholly on vegetables. They think that after
death, if they have been faithful to their VOWS
and abstinence, they will return to life men.
In Western Australia, female children are al
ways betrothed few days after their BIRTH
Should the first husband die before the girl at
tains maturity, she belongs to his heir. In
New Zealand, if a girls future husband should
die, no other man can make q proposal to her.
Among the Hindoos, widows may not marry
again. In China, parents bargain for the mar
riage OF their children while they are yet un-
! BORN. The New Hollanders steal their wives !;
'0L'i" "rte'sPta 10 escape from her
ssap'or' ne at once thrusts spear through the
'Aeshy part of her leg or thigh.
Of all methods or UUVarufifg Hrf'7; %
purchase 10 ..Ivst universal. 1t is prac-
ticed by the Africans, by the black and brown
races of the Indian Archipelago, and by near
ly all the nations of Asia. The Circassian wo-
men prefer being sent to Constantinople and
sold. Six girls, intended TO be sold as slaves
were taken from a Turkish vessel recently bv
the Russians. They were informed that they
could either marry Russians or Cossacks, their
own free choice, or be taken to GERMANY
lastly be sold at Constantinople. Without
moments consideration they exclaimed sto
Constantnople to be sold ~
In Siam and Cochin China, men invariably
purchase their wives, but the women have one
prlyilege-the parents cannot sell them against
their will. In Japan presents are made to the
bride who transfers them to her relatives to
deiray the expense and trouble in bringing
her. In China woman is sold without being
consulted on the subject and has to obey ev-
cry one in the fnmily of her purchaser without
exception Her husband can strike her, starve
her, sell her, and even let her out for a longer
or shorter period. A large number of women
are thus driven to suicide, when the husband
manifests great deal of emotion being under
the necessity of buying another wife.
Truly woman, even more than man, should
be the warm supporter of Christianity, and all
institutions based upon Justice ard Freedom.
For wherever there are Heathenism and Iniu,-
tice, she is the greatest sufferer.
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The Brooklyn Eagle thinks in rhyme, that
shawls should be worn for the following raa-
sons :-''If you want to be in fashion, wear 4
shawl if to ladies an attraction, wear a shawl ;
if to sheep and COWS a terror, or like shaas-
hais in full feather, or even rags upon the
heather, wear shawl; if your hips are badly
moulded, or your shirt and vest unfolded, are
unpleasant to behold, wear shawl; if you're
counting some gay linnet, wear a shawl; you
might wrap your lassie in it, in your shawl
It's like charity on pins, and hides multitude
of sins, although It causes grins, does your
shawl. If you wish 10 be dandy, wear
shawl; or have = cover handy, wear shawl
In a word, it is most useful article, as you
may wrap your feet, head, body, knees; make
seat, blanket, bed, a mug, pillow,
wrap-rascal, or Scotch plaid, OF your shawl"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19
MYSTERIES OF THE AIR

Let man roll little air in his mouth, and
what IS that ? Let Napoleon twist it between
his lips, and all the world is at war give it TO
a Fenelon, and ne shall manage it with his
tongue that there shall be everywhere peace
1t is bat little agitated air that sets mankind
in motion. If we could live without air. we
could not talk or hear any sounds without IL
. There would be blazing sun and a black sky
-sunshines mingled with thick darkness; and
there would be an awful silence. There is less
aiE in the upper than in the lower regions of
the atmosphere; the bottom crust Of air is, OF
course, densest. Suassure fred pistol on
the summit Of Mont Blanc and the report WAS
Ike the swapping Of stick. There is well
at Fulda three hundred palms deep; throw
stone down it, and the noise it makes in it's
descent will be like the firing Of park Of can
non. 1t goes down among the dense air, and
also ii reverberates. When man speaks, he
strikes sir with his throat and mouth as the
stone strikes water, and from his tongue IS
from the stone spread undulating circles with
immense rapidity. These circles may bs
checked ard beaten back in their course as it
is with the waves of sound made 10y the stons
tumbling down well, beaten back and furi-
ously multiplied. At the castle Of Simonetti.
near Milan, one low note of music will beset
concert; for the note is echoed to and fro by
BIZ the great wings of the building that reject
and multiply a sound jast as two mirrors re-
fleet aud multiply alighted candle. Sound is,
in fact, reflected just as light is, and may ba
brought quite in the same way 10 focus.
4 word spoken in the focus of one eliipsc
will be heard in the focus OF an opposite ell
lipse hundreds of ymds away. Such a princ;-
pie Was illustrated oddly in the great church cf
Agrigentun,, Sicily. The srchiteot-perhaps
intentionally-bniit several coatessionals -cf
an elliptical form, with. corresponding opPn-
site ellipses, in which, whoever stood, heard
all the secrets whispered to the priest. a hor-
rible amount of scandal sprang up in town
nobody's sins were safe from getting into IN
accountable publicity. The church soon bo-
came such temple of truth that nothing Was
left 70 be hidden IL it but at last by chance
discovery wss made of the tale telling stonss,-
and the walls had their ears stopped.
The nutchnnan who refused take o.o dol
Kar bill because it might be altered frons'
prefers stage travelling to railroads. go
per, he says, rides aim eight b. &
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TRANscESDEErAL-vERT. enthusiast
tic exponent of ''Free Love" gives the fol-
lowing very lucid description OF what 1t is -
'Free loyeis essentially and solely spherical
element-one of the fundamental spiri tual har-
monies--a primordiai inseparability of the
eternities-a primogenial co-efEcent of the
supersensible Zones-a cognate principle of
original materiality, flowing lineally towards
matrimonial, social and moral cor,soRance in
the universal and eternal .jsuz OF things 20
can he played on a harp Nv thousand
strings, sperits Of just men made perfec'."
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WHAT Is FASHION Dinner at midnight.
and headache in the morning. What is idle
ness' Working yellow mountains on pink
subsoil- or blue-tailed dog in sky-colored
convulsions. What is ioy1 To count your
money and find it run over hundred dollars.
What is knowledge7 To be away from home
when people come TO borrow books and UNI
brellas. What is contentments To sit in the
house and see other people stuok in the mud
In other words, 10 be Sstx-, off than your
neichhors. a
The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-11-06
HELLO! HERE HELLO!
Let Us FELL You.

-A-AN--S -Iv0--<--A--<A- NSS 0A07S. I.
* g AVE got tho all-iiredcst, biggest, clc;nesL
ID u. sweetest aud incest, (iakc care they'll tun,-
bic down on you) lot of Sugars, Corecs, r .rs,
Preserves, Molasscs, Riccs, Almondses, Raj,
senses, Fishes, Spices, Nut,ncgscs Nluccaronics,
and everything else That people eat, drink, aud
make use OF, that ever was open for exhib.
Ition aud sale in this or any other inland town.
Their Stuck Is entirely new, md fresh, having
been selected but few weeks, and from the
best houses in tho city; und they intend TO do
business upon little more extensive scale than
Lyons: he keeps every thing that Gentlemen
'oear, but they arc going to keep every thing
that Ladies and Gentlemen eat: while LYONS
provides for the outer man. they will provide for
the inner man-and it would be- well here to re
mark, tlIat theirs is not exclusively a whole
sale establishment. There will always be some
one present to wait on those who may want small
quantities. Their object is to accommodate all
who may f., disposed 10 patronize them barter
nnd trade for any and everything that will do to
eat, drink, or wear. They've salt enough now on
hand to salt down the Cincinnati Convention
Soda aud Salaratus enough 10 raise il again, aud
get up u slavery excitement Cigars enough
(gat out of the way Vcsuvius, they're right after
you) to smoke it after it is raised, and Lard
enough to slide Kansas clean Into South Carroll.
M, where we can make 4 savclIolding State out
OF her, and by that time thcyIl have Groceries
enough to feed all those who have been futipled
by the slide.
They invite all who are in the habit now u
days Of cutting, and are not afraid of buying ANY,
thing 'ioay so high np above Columbia and
Hamburg" to drop in for IL fow moments und
take n look Mt their stock (; they ore only few
steps from the Court House, and ocnpy the
well fitted aud much enlarged room formerly oc.
cupicd by Mr.. II. S. KERR.
April O. 1856 81 tf
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