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Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22
NKW HARDWARE sToREi
j. a. j. HARRIS.

j. a. j. HARRIS.
NO. Q, BROCK ERHOff ROW
A new aud complete Hardware Store ha'
been opened by the undersigned in Brock
rrhofrs new building where they are pre-
pared o. sell an kinds u Building aud Houss
Furnishing Hardware. Iron, Steel. Nails.
Buggy wheels IN ,cits, Champion Clothes
Wriager, Mill Saws, Circular aud Hand
saws, lennon Saws. Webb Saws, Ice Cream
FrceKers, Bath Tubs, Clothes Racks, fnl
assortment of Glass aud Mirror Plate Of al
sizes. Picture Frames, WheelharrowS
Lamps, Coal oil Lamps, Betting, Spakes
Rclloes. aud Hnbs, Piows, Calilyators. Corr
PloWs Plow Points, Shear Mold Board
aud Cuitivater Teeth. Table Cutlery. Shov
els. Spades aud Porks Locks. Hinges
screws, Sash SPRING.. Horse-Shoes, Nails
Norway Rods. oils. Lard, LubricAting
Coal, Linseei, Tanners Anvila. Vices, Bel
lows, Screw Plates. Blacksmilhs Tools
Factory BELLS, House Belle, Dinner Bells
Gong Bells. Tea Brlls Grindstoncs. carpcn
ter Tools. Fruit Jar aud Cans, Paints, Oils
VArnlshcs received aud for sale nj
iuneSgs ,ly. J. 81 J. HARRIS
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&TMR New two-story frame dwell
@5TTTfM ling honsc. "a good new bank
H34 lHR barn. and all necessary out
sNz& buildings, and also tenant
house; well OF good water at the main
farm house, also well of water at tenant
house. and n stream Of running water
through the land, and n" stones upon the
land A good young orchard on the pre-
mises, and all kinds Of choice fruit near
the house. This farm adioin- Jas. VI Ciin-
tick, Widow Gregg. Cyrus burst, aud
farm occupied by Philip burst.
ALSO, another farm known r. the Hor-
ner farm on Nitfany mountain, about
mile FROM Centre Hall, containing 212
AcRrG, " which about l2j acres consist Of
good young ehSsnut timberland. Tho inl-
PROPONENTS are "a tEo story dwelling house
aud barn. aud Slso tenant house. IG has
large orchard and all kinds of fruit, and
several good spriugs Of water This farm
Il well suited for dividing into two FARMS
For further particulars apply to
GEORGE DURST,
lSsp. Gun. Centre Hall
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22

EXECUToRS NOTICE. Letters tes-
IL taneAtsry 10 the estate of Daniel
Dsrr, late Of Potter township, Centre coun-
ty, decd, having been granted 10 the un-
dsrsigned. all persons indebted to the said
estate are requested to make immediate
seltlelement, and those having claims to
present them duly authenticated FOR pay
ment JAcoD SPANGLER,
sept - Gw. Executor
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22

The pFopFietors offer 10 the travelling
public, and 20 their country fiiends, fret
class accommodation and careful sttcn-
finn to the wants o. guests st all times, at
fair rates. Careful hos.lers and good stable
ling for horses. An excellent table well
served. A Bar supplied with fne liquors.
Servants well trained md everything fe-
quisite IN first class HUGsl eEar location
! in the business part Of the town, near the
Post Office. the Court House. the Chur-
ches the Banks, aud the , incipsl place,
place for those who visit Bel.ef1rte on busi-
or pleasure.
An Omnibus will carry passengers
and baggage to aud from all trains
free Of charge.
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22

The following paragraphs were part
of our article. in last weeks issue. on
breaking ground for our railroad. but
were crowded cut;
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22

Are YOU registered!
Read the Registry Act in an other
column, and do not fail to register.
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-22

DUBLIC SALE.-Tbo under iened
will offer f,r sale Hn the dth dny at
October lS7l
AVAILABLE FAGM
situated iu Ps.,erleNuaSip, Cen re county
Pa. ah11t 3 m 'as East at Haa.-hurg, nua 4
mile. West OF C.ntra iIiii containing
TWO HUNDRED ACRES,
more er jess. about ono hundred & seven
IS Acre- sg suil lArm !, the ha-t hmo stone
iard. ia high tate utcu.tvatirn, aud the
balance il the he,l of timber, consisting 81
Oak. Chestnut Gc. Sc, and iswcll supplied
with water hy a never falling running
stream, alsuH never falling well "ieXceileni
water.
The building on the farm arc very nm
ple, consisting ot largo tory iramn
dwelling. u tenant house large bank barn,
with Rll necessary 9u'blildiuEs. such V
wash house with running watcrin N, wagon
house. smoke housc. carriage house, hns
house. tvc., ail In good order Also an
ORCHARD OF CHOICE
fruit. second 70 none in ,he state, consist
ing of apples. uears peaches, plums, cher
ris-, Sc. Tho above farm affords uu OPP
portunty Tor valuable investment, and %
very desirable home Ii is known o. tho
late residence of Samuel Spaugler, decd.
TERMS -Oue-thirl t5 remain In the
farm Us "a dover during the liz. of the Wild
ow. Interest t1 he paid annually one
third % be paid ON confirmation of sale
the balance in enc year thereafter with IN
terest To br secured bv bond aud mort
gage on the pyomisel
| MARGARET ~PANGLER.
EZRA l.. SPANGLER,
augll.st Executor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

SOMETHING ABOUT YoURsELF.-Sup-
posing your age be fifteen or thereabouts,
| can figure you up to a dot. You have
100 bones and 800 muscles; your blood
weighs % pounds; your heart is five
inches in length and three inches in
diameter; it beats 20 times per min
ute, 4, 200 times per hour, 100,S00 per
day, and 3G,772 .2U0 per year. AT each
beat little over two ounces Of blood
are thrown out of it; and each day it
throws out and discharges about seven
tons Of that wonderful fluid.
Your lungs will contain about gallon
of air, and you inhalc 1000 gallons per
day. The aggregate surface of the air
cells of your lungs, supposing them to
be spread out, exceeds 10000 square
inches. The weight Of your brain is
three pounds when you are man it
will weigh eight ounces more. Your
nerves exceed 100000 in number.
Your skin is composed of three layers,
and varies from one fourth toone eighth
OF an inch in thickness. The area Of
your skin Is about LOO square inches,
and you are subject to an atmospheric
pressure of fifteen pounds to the square
inch. Each square inch Of your skin
contains $500 sweating tubes, or per.
spriatory pores, each of which may b,
likened to little drain tile one fourth
of AN inch long, making an aggregate
! Of
body, of POI ,lG5 feet, or little ditch foi
the drainage of the body almost forty
mi!es long.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

MOUNT SINAI.-At a recent meeting
held in Cambridge, Eng, on behalf of
the Palestine Fund, it was stated by
Captain II. S. Palmer, of the Royal En-
gineers, employed in the survey Of the
Holy Land, that Mount Sinai must be
identified with the mountain row called
Gebel Musa. At this place fine cliff
fronts an extensive plain, and, it is as
serted, in every particular corresponds
to the requlrments Of the sacred narra-
tive. The tradition Of the country,
Captain Palmer stated, points to still
higher peak of Gebel Musa, which is
hidden from the plain, as the place
where the stone tables of the law were
delivered TO Moses, and the cliff men.
toned above is believed to be tho spot
where the law was proclaimed to the
people assembled in the plain below.
The scientific survey now prosecuting
in Palestine, will settle many questions
that have long been in dispute in refer
ence to the precise locality of the places
mentioned in Scripture. The claims of
Gebel Musa have been argued against
by DR.. Edward Robinson and other
travellers, on the ground that no large
plain capable of containing the Israeli
ties existed in its neighborhood; but
these views have been refuted by the
recent survey. Gebel Musa is the Mount
Sinai, according to tradition, and upon
it are built a Christian church and a
Mohammedan mosque.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19
Conversation of Women.

1t is very well to call the conversation
of women triiling and frivolous; lift is
pleasant and grateful it is all that can
be desired. Conversation should be the
relaxation, not the business of Gfc; and
the moralists, who require that it should
be always of an ''improving" character,
have no idea of its proper social uses.
Improving Have we not sermons,
good books, lectures, institutions, and
complicated educational machinery of
all kinds TO improve us all Off the face
Of the earth, if nature did not oppose a
little wholesome duncehood TO this
swee ping tide of instruction" Must the
schoolmastcr follow us into our little
holiday?
If the "Quecns OF society" will only
give Us talk which shall be bright with.
out ill.natured sharpness, playful with
out sillincss-if they will show Us that
affectation, vanity, jealousy, and SLAM
der arc not necessary ingredients in the
social dialogue, but that, rather, they
give all an ill.savor to the wittiest and
the cleverest play of words-if they re.
member that good humor, sympathy,
and the wish to please for the sake of
giving pleasure, will lend a charm to
the most commonplace thoughtsa eX-
pressions, their conversation will elm
prove" lis perhaps, quito as much as
most popular lectures and some popular
sermons.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19
HOO ND'S
GERMAN BII'TE'I6,S,
OOD PURIFIERS
they are the Creates

Known to the Medical world, and will eradi-
of the Digestive Organs, pr Diseased Liver, in a
shorter time than any other known remedies.
til WHOLE SUPREME COURT OF pENNsYLvANIA
SPEAK FOR THESE REMEDIES.
who would ask for moro Dlsnlhed and Stronger
Testimony?
Hon. GEORGE W. WOODWARD, formerly Chtcf JUS
Gce QfMc Supreme court Of Pennsylvania, at pres
ent Member Of fCongress from Pennsyiuania urites'
PHILADELPHIA, March 10th, 1867.
| find "Hooland's German Bitters" is u good
tonic, useful in diseases of the digestive organs
and of q eat benefit in cases OF debility and want
OF nervousaction in the system. Yours, truly,
GEORGE w. WOODWARD.
.lIon. JAMES THOMPSON CAic( Justice Of uie Si-
lFcHc court Of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2S 1867.
IconsIder "Hoonands German Bltters" n valua-
BILE medicine in case of attacks of Indigestion or
Dyspepsia. I can certify this from my expert.
cncc of it. Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
Hon. GEORGE SHAswooD, Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, June ], 1863
Have found by experience that "Hoonand's
German Bitters" is very good tonic, relieving
dyspeptic symptoms almost directly.
GEORGE SHAHSWOOD.
Hon. VIM. f. Rogers, Mayor ofhe city Of Bu0alo
". Y
Mayors Office, Buffalo, June % 1869.
have used "Hoofland's German Bitters and
Tonic in my family during the past year, and
can recommend them as an excellent tonic, I'M
parting tone and vlgor to the system. Their use
has been productive OF decidedly beneficial
effects, WM +. ROGERS.
Hon. James NJ. Wood, Er- Mayor Of IIWiamsport
Id.
lands German Tonic TO any one who may be
afflicted with Dyspepsia. had the Dyspepsia SO
badly 1t was impossible to keep any food on my
stomach, and become so weak as not 10 be able
TO walk half mile. Two bottles ofTonic effected
u perfect cure. JAMES NJ. WOOD.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19
PA, FRIDAY. MAY 10. 1871


The Cameron (Pa,) Herald has the
following sensible remarks:
Marriages are happy when they take
place from pure love, between twoper-
sons who arc already thoroughly ac-
quainted with each other, and who are
quite content with each other as they
then are.
First, Love must be the motive. Mar.
riages of convenience, ,as they are called,
most always turn out TO be anything
but convenient, and, on the contrary,
exec edingly inconvenient.
If people marry for money, even if
the money be obtained, the husband or
wife who is taken with it, is, of course
and necessarily, regarded merely as an
incumbrance, 10 be endured for the sake
of the more highly priced pecuniary
acquisition. Then, if it chance that the
coveted money be not received, or that
it be subsequently lost, the situation is
still more deplorable, for the incum-
brance alone remains without the COM
pensation calculated upon for its endur.
ance, and becomes all the more unendur-
able.
If people marry for what is called
position, they marry for something
which cannot be obtained In that way.
A sound title to position can only be
got by merit, never by matrimony.
Secondly, Happy marriages can only
take place between people who are well
acquainted and who are satisfied with
each other as they are.
Young persons who are so blinded by
love that their judgment is rendered
torpid, who are unable to perceive each
others faults, and who marry, in real
form, an imaginary character, are soon
and sadly undeceived by the experience
of married life; and such matches arc
most miserable.
| SO of those who marry, not because
they are satisfied with each other a:
they now are, but who are quite conf
dent of their ability to change the char
acter of the person they wed. Such
| hopes prove delusive. Do not be de
ceived by the idea that you can remoulc
a character already cast, in consequence
Of assuming the matrimonial relations
The probability is, that the objectiona
BILE or disagreeable qualities which yot
already perceive will increase, and no
diminish after marriage, while the pos
sibility of discovering new ones Away
exists.
These suggestions may be heede'
with advantage by the endless process
ion continually moving to the gate q
| mutrimonyD
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19
COL. DEM. -. VOL. XXXV.. NO. 13
Probycrbs of all Nations.


a decoitful man Is more hurtful than
open war.
A fox should not be on The jury at a
goose's trial.
Justice will not condemn even the
devil wrongfully.
A great fortune is great slavery.
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for
fool.
a good word for bad one is worth
much and costs little. ..
An old dog cannot alter his way of
barking.
An idle brain is the DEVILS workshop.
a penny worth of mirth is worth
pound of sorrow.
Avarice increases wealth.
A small leak will sink great ship.
Bacchus has drowned more men than
Neptune.
Expect nothing from him who promi-
ses great deal.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow
be fixed.
Grleving for misfortune is adding gall
to WormWOOd.
Good bargains are pickpockcts.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you
are asked for it.
Have not the cloak TO make when it
begins to rain.
He who would catch fish must not
mind getting wet.
lie that is idle might be better en-
ployed.
He that would stop every mans
mouth must have good deal of meal.
He that makes himself an ass must
not take it i'll if men ride him.
lie that knows not when to be silent
knows not when to speak.
He that fears you present will hate you
absent.
If an ass goes travelling he'll not
come home horse.
If better were within, better would
come out.
1t is more easy TO praise properly than
to bear it.
1t is hard for an empty bag to stand
upright.
1t is pity that those who taught US
to talk did not also teach us to hold our
| tongues.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

How Coffee Is Cultivated.

The manner Of cultivating the coffee
plant varies but little in the several
central American States.
The coffee beans are first planted in
hot beds, from which they sprout, and
shoot FIVE or six inches high, when they
are removed singly, and taken to the
fields which have been prepared to re-
ceive them. There the young sprouts
are planted anew, in rows, with space
of from four to six feet between each
plant. For two years they need no
more except an occasional plowing out
of the weeds which spring up around
them. The third year the plant is from
three to four feet high, and commences
to bear, producing about pound OF
coffee fruit. Each year adds to tho
size and productiveness Of the tree, till
it reaches about ten feet in height after
which 1t gives product of from 20 to
80 pounds of green fruit.
The coffee fruit resembles in shape,
size and color, a plump cranberry, and
grows cliuging closely to the small,
lateral branches of the tree. On some
plantations the trees are dwarfed, for
the double purpose of increasing the
fruitage aud facilitating picking.
The timc OF picking the crop ranges
from December to March. When the
fruit is ripe, all hands are employed
men, women and children-and rs fast
as picked the berries are sent TO the
mills. In case of rain the Kernels arc
rapidly gathered under shelter, as rain
upon them while drying would cause
irreparable injury; and, on some plan
tations, machines for drying by hot air
have been introduced. After few days
in the sun, the kernels become dry and
Grips then thrown into circular
trough, large wooden rollers, shod with
iron, crush the shell and liberate the
two beans which each shell contains.
The bean has still another coating-its
skin-which is the hardest of all to re-
move, but, through long continued at
triton with the iron.shod rollers, this
also is mostly removed, and the tanning
mill cleans the bean by blowing away
the loosened skin and broken shells.
Before long tables sit the natives
young and old ,chattering and laughing,
singing as they work, and on these Ia
bles are poured the beans as they come
from the tanning mill. Each Indian
holds basket in his or her lap, and
with both hands rapidly picks out sep.
arately, every perfect bean, till there
remains on the table nothing but bro
ken and imperfect coffee. The hands
are paid at this work 50 much per quiu-
tai, of 100 pounds, and skillful pickers
make good wages. 1t takes G6O pounds
os the fruit, as it comes from the tree,
toproduce 100 pounds of clean market
able coffee.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

AN anecdote of Mr.. Calhoun, which
we find in the New York Tribune, illus
trates the tone Of the public men Of his
time, and contrasts with that of our day
when you may put money into Presi-
dents hand with as little ceremony as
you would drop aims into the hat Of a
beggar:
The following anecdote of John G..
Calhoun, as told by William Schouler,
on the authority of the late Hon. Abbott
Lawrence: "Somc time before 1910, Mr..
Calhoun wrote to Mr.. Lawrence that he
had been adding to his landed estates,
and would like to obtain loan Of $l0,.
600 or So, 900 in Boston, where money
was more plenty than in South Carolina
and the rate of interest not SO high, for
the payment of which. he would give
his notes and a mortgage upon his es-
tate, which would be ample security.
Mr.. Lawrence said he consulted Mr..
Nathan Appleton and one or two other
wealthy citizens of Boston upon the
subject, and it was agreed to raise the
money for him and take no security for
the repayment but his own note. Mr.
Lawrence informed Mr.. Calhoun Of the
arrangement which he had made, and
expressed his qualification that it was
in the power Of himself and n few Of
his friends to do kindness to one SO
distinguished, whose life had been de.
voted to the service of his country. Mr..
Calhoun Immediately wrote back, de-
clining the offer, and Withdrawing his
original request. He said it did not
agree with his sense of propriety to ac-
cept loan upon such terms; that in
the discharge of his public duties he
did not wish to be embarrassed by a
sense of obligation to any one"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

FROM THE KANSAS CoLoNIsTs We
learn the following facts about the cole
ny that left Lancaster on the 1lth of
April, for Kansas, from one ofthe men,
bers who has returned to his family in
Conestoga Centre. He states that west
of Waterville there is no fertile land,
except narrow strips Of bottom land
along the large streams, and that there
is no timber except very narrow belts
along the Republican and Solomon rivers
and that consists exclusively of cotton
wood, which is worthless for building
purposes. The esmall streams are entirely
destitute of timber, except occasionally
little of species Of scrub oak, which
grows to the height often or twelve feet.
Many of the streams that appear of con-
siderable size as laid down on the maps,
are so small that man can step over
any of them, even at this season, and in
Summer they dry entirely up. The set
tiers are all anxious to sell, and they
could not speak highly enough of the
country, until they learned that the
colonists did not intend to buy claims,
but to settle upon homesteads then, and
only then, would they tell the true state
of affairs. Last year the corn crop was
an entire failure no rain fell from the
time of planting until the time it should
have been harvested. There is very little
food and DO money in the country, and
no prospect of matters gettingany better.
Even the much vaunted game is myth.
Very little ground has been turned by
the plow, and that principally-if not
| Xcusively-bOttom land. 1t seems the
plains, or Great American Desert, arc
only adapted TO grazing, and can never
become an agricultural coun try, except
such spots as can be irrigated. In Repub-
liccounty, where the colony had intend
ed to locate, all the fertile (bottom) land
was already pre- empted. On account of
the sterility Of the land and the i'm.
| poverished condition of the few squat.
ters, the emigrants became entirely
disheariened. Great indignation was
felt, and freely expressed against the
leaders ofthe movement, and the colony
was disrupted, part returning to their
homes, part scattering to various points
in the West. and part were finally
conciliated and agreed to 60 to Rocks
county-the third county west of Repub
lie. The probability is that after arriving
there, they will also disperse to othel
points of the West, not lying in tht
Great American Desert. In.
tsWigeHcer,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19

SLURs on WOMEN.-Of oil evils pre-
valent among young men, we know of
none more blighting in its moral effects
than to speak slightiugly of the virtue
Of women. Nor is th're anything in
which young men arc so thoroughly
mis-. aiken, as the low estimate they form
of the integrity of wOncn-not of their
own mothers and sistO3, but of Others,
who they forget, are somebody else's
mothers and sisters. AS rule, no per-
son who surrenders to this debasing hab
it is to be trusted with any enterprise
requiring integrity of character. Plain
words should lie spoken on this point,
for the evil is general one, and deep
rooted. If young men are sometimes
thrown into the society of thoughtless
or lewd women, they have no more
right to measure all other women by
what they see Of these, than they would
have to estimate the character of honest
and respectable citizens upon the devel-
opments of crimes in our police courts.
Let our young men remember that
their chiefhappinessoflife depends upon
their utter faith in women. No world
ly wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy,
no generalization can cover or weaken
this fundamental truth. 1t stands like
the record of God itself-for ii is moth
ing less than ths-and should put an
everlasting seal upon lips that were
wont TO speak slightingly of women.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-19
Social Honor,

Every person should cultivate nice
sense of honor. In a hundred different
ways this most fitting adjunct of the
true lady or gentleman is often tried.
For instance, one is the guest of fam
lily where, perhaps, the domestic ma
chinery does not run smoothly. There
is sorrow in the house unsupported by
the outer world. Sometimes it is dis
sipatcd son, whose conduct is shame
and grief to his parents; sometimes a
relative whose eccentricities and pecu-
liarities are a cloud on the home. Or,
worst of all, husband aud wife may not
be in accord, and there may be often
bitter words spoken, and harsh recrimi.
nations. In any of these cases the guest
is in honor bound to be blind and deaf,
as far as people without are concern ed.
If a gentle word within can do any
good, it may well be said; but to go
forth and reveal tho shadow of ALI uu-
ha. py secret to any one, even your
nearest friend, is an act of indeicacy
and mcanness almost unparalleled.
Once in the sac.ed precincts of any
home, admitted to its privacy, sharing
its life, all that you see and hear is a
sacred trust 1t is as really contempti-
BILE TO gossip Of such things as it would
be to steal the silver or borrow the
books and forget to return them.