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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-05-29
Volume 80.
110etrU.
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THOUGHTS BY THE SEASIDE.

sat at eve upon the pebbly shore,
The round, red sun had faded in the west,
Leaving soft cloudlets of the palest rose
Where he had fingered and the evening breeze
Was hushed to tender signing, and the tide
Was gently sinking to its lowest ebb,
While the lone sea-birds mourned its failing
strength,
In plaintive notes whose tones were consonant
With the sad inner voices of my thoughts.
The desolate shore stretched far and wildly forth
Its bare brown arms to embrace the truant sea
Which still receded from the longing touch,
While O. er the echoing, boundless waste heard
Deep sounds, like rolling of his chariot wheels,
As though he Knocked the lonely waiting shore
With parting promise of his quick return.
And thus thought, thousands of human hearts
Waste vain desires upon the intangible,
Grasping at Friendship, faithless summer bird
That tswift takes wing when winter cloudsappear
Pining for love. that frail and perishing flower,
Dreaming of Hope fulflled-ah where's the
heart
Can chronicle the truth and constancy
Of hopes delusive smile,-thirsting for joys,
Which in the tasting vanishes; feeling void
In the poor craving breast-still asking more
And destined never to be satisfied.
But while thus sat musing, 10 there came
Into my sadden'd d soul thought of peace:
Is there not friendship closer than brothers
Undying and Interchangeable as are
Those lofty mountains, which to thee appear
Almost to reach the skies? Is there not love
Boundless and fathemless, and vast as is
Yon distant ocean, stretching out afar?
Are there not promises which never fail
The soul that trusts in them; and hopes whose
fruit
Is tenfold sweeter than our hearts desire?
Thou knowest where to look-none ask in vain;
And having once attained those precious gifts
Thou'lt seek no more the worlds vain feeting
joys. -BZackwooPs Magazine.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-05-29
What to Do in Case Of Accident.

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University,
gives the following short rules for ac-
tion in cases of accident, which will be
found usefnl to remember:
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing;
dash water in them; remove cinders,
ETC., with the round point of lead
pencil.
Remove water from the ear by tepld
water; never put a hard instrument in
the ear.
If any artery is cut, compress above
the wound; if a vein is cut, compress
below.
Ifchoked, get on all fours aud cough.
For slight burns, dip the part in cold
water; if the skin is destroyed, cover
with varnish.
Smother FIRE with carpets, etc;
water will often spread burning oil,
and increase the danger. Before pass
ing through smoke take a long breath,
and then stoop low: but if carbolic
acid gas is suspected, walk erect.
Suck poisoned wounds, unless your
moth is sore; enlarge the wound, or,
better cut out the part without delay,
hold the wounded part as long as can
be borne to hot coal or end Of a cigar.
In case of poisoning excite vomiting
by tickling the throat, or by warm
water and mustard.
For acid poisons, gave alkalies for
alkaline poisons, give acids-white of
egg is good in most cases; in case of
opium-poisoning give strong coffee,
and keep moving.
If in water, float on the back with
the moose and mouth projecting.
For apoplexy, raise the head and
body; for fainting, lay the person flat.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07
The Racing Season Of 1873.

There have been great gaps made
in the ranks of horses since last fail
The mighty Longfellow win never
again be saddled on race track, nor
will his old opponent, Kingfsher-
Lyttleton and Gleneleg, too, are in
capatacitod for further training. But
the majority OF those who have done
great things are well and fourishing
Joe Daniels, Monarchist, Harry Bas-
sett, Alarm, Helmbold, Saucebox, Lon
don, Abd-el. Koree, Alroy, Aureola,
Ortalan, Tubman, Hubbard, " oodbine
and other public favorites arc all on
the war path, and some rafting and
exciting struggles are sure TO be wit
messed when they meet A change in
the weights has been made by the
Saratoga and Monmouth Park Associ.
ations, the six.year.old weight, which
used to DO lis pounds, being reduced
TO ia pounds, which is now the maxi.
mum weight. There is no doubt that
the change will be beneficial in one
respect, as the old horses formerly
had great disadvantage. But il
would have been q wise step for the
associations to raise tho scale OF
weights all through, so as to obviate
the difficulty which exists of procur-
ing good riders. The weight for three
year-olds in the purse races is only
ninety pounds, far too small, and il is
Of course next TO impossible TO got a
good rider at this weight The mania
Tor fast time is one reason for the low
scale, and there can be no objection to
having il raised. A threo.year.old
that cannot carry 100 pounds two
miles is not worth the expense Of
training.
Not taking into account tho four
days racing at Baltimore, as that city
is rather beyond the limits Of the mot
ropolitan circuit, we find that be.
tween the 7th OF June and the 10th OF
August there will be twenty-six days
racing, during which about ninety
races will be contested. Last yoar
34S race.horses ran at the great meet.
ings, two-thirds OF them in Now York
State, and II is certain there win be
even more this year. With more
horses in training than ever before
known, with more money given to be
run for, and with the increasing taste
for this kind Of sport among the peo.
pie, arc we wrong in predicting that
the coming season vii. be far more
brilliant than any previous one p
Those who have studied the subject
will, VIC think, agree with this opinion.
-Neu York Sun.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07
: Stupidities.

Under this head, DR.. Hall, in his
Journal Of Health, humorously dis.
courses on the tendency of tho times
as follows:
1t is really n great wonder that
everybody is not dead and buried, and
tho world itself used up entirely, if
the thousandth part Of what is told us
about microscopical and other eds
coveries," 30 called, is true. Ono man
will have il that tho glorious Union
over which the stripes and stars float
40 proudly will soon become depopu.
lated, because respectable people don't
have children; another has discovered
myriads Of bugs in the chatelaines
and waterfalls Of the ladies', boring
into their skulls and sucking out all
the remaining brains of tho dear do.
llightiuls. A German sdpdn now tolls
US that every sip OF tea we take is full
Of oily globulcs which get into the
lungs direct, weaken them, set up
cough, and the person dies of consump-
tion. Another man has found that
tho purcst spring water, clear as cIys.
tai to all appearance, if let alone will
deposit sediment which generates
typhoid fever; hence he proposes that
everybody shall quit drinking water.
Another says that bread has so much
lime in it that il is turning us all 10
bono, and makes us stiff in the joints,
that being the reason we have no 1.-the,
sprightly old men nova days; hence
We arc full Of limps and rheumatics
long before our time, therefore we had
better quit eating bread altogether,
and live on rice and sago and tapioca
The water cure folk assure us that
pork and beans and ham and eggs are
full of abominable trichine, and that,
il one is swallowed and gets fairly
nestled into the system, he, she or il
will breed million more in short
time, and that roast beef has juvenile
tape worms in it. And here come
Tom, Dick, and Harry, all in a row,
loaded down with microscopes and spy
glasses which show as plain as day
that the air is swarming with living
monsters and putrid poisons, which
hy into the mouth and crawl up the
nose and creep into the ear; hence it
is death to breathe such pestilential
air, and that the best way is to keep
the mouth shut, plug up the nose, and
ram cotton into the ears.
/ Ever so many learned professional
gentlemen have been torluring poor
figures for years TO make them tell
the s.upendous fib that everybody is
either crazy or soon will be; that the
annual increase is ten per cent, con.
sequently in eleven years everybody
will be crazy, and more TOO.
The fact is that the people who
spend their time Matching out these
tomfooleries, ought to be put 10 work
and be made TO earn an honest living.
This world has been pretty well taken
care of for some thousands of years,
increasing in comfort and wealth and
life, the average length OF which last
has doubled within two centuries, and
the population perhaps increased three
fold and the presumption is that the
Great Maker of all will so arrange all
the antagonistic forces of life for the
future as eventually to make "the
wilderness and solitary place to be
glad, and the desert to rejoice and
blossom as the rose" aud the race be
bapny still
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

Some time ago a New Hampshire
farmer discovered large toad near
his beehive, actually at work catch
ing and devouripg bees. With that
wonderful forbearanco and kindness
Of heart characteristic to New Hamp-
shire farmers, bc tcnderly picked up
that frog and carried him half q mile
away from the hive The next morn.
ing that identical frog was back again
at the old stand, actively at work as
before. He again took him up and
carried him long milo away and
dropped him; but 10 twenty.four
hours he was back again, reducing the
number OF bees as successfully as ever.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

Thirty years ago a young man en-
tered the city Of New York in an al
most penniless condition, and without
n single acquaintance in the grea
wilderness Of houses. To-day hi
name is known wherever humanity
brcathes. 1t is spoken in every city
and is as familiar to the workerin tn,
mines as to the worker in the mills
and wherever language is known ant
ideas expressed, the name Of this pon
nilcss, unknown and uncoutb lad o
some thirty years ago, is uttered. i
was John Smith.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

The clerk Of San Francisco law. !.
yer guarded against tho possibility Of
forgetting the secret OF tho combina.
tion lock by writing II upon piece Of
paper and pasting il upon the knob Of
tho safe. Ho found il hard to dodge
the well.boupd law books that were
thrown at his head when tho lawyer
discovered il, and IL now seeking q
desk in another Office.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

A western engineer has invented q
hot water pump with which TO squirt
hot water on TO deaf persons who walk
on the track Thus another source ol
interesting items is rutblcssIy cut cfl
by the inventive genius ofthis country
Next they will invent non-explosive
kerosene, and then what will the
newspaper itemizers doY
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

allow hollow il sounds !" said a
patient under the movement cure, as
the physician was vigorously pound
ing his ohcst. "Oh, that's nothing y
said tho doctor "wait till we got to
tho head -
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

An individual who was arrested in
Boston the other day for stealing a
musical instrument, complained Bit
terly Of the puritanical city, where
they put a,an in the jug for taking
a born.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

The uglcst man in Tennessee has
been photographed, and the Clarks-
willie artist, who had the nerve aud
stomach to do it. is rapidly becom-
ing wealthy by selling duplicates to-
doctors who use them TO make people
sick.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

A little negro waiter was sent 10
call gentleman to dinner, and found
him using toothbrush "Well," said
the landlandy, "Ycs, mistrcss,d rec ly,
he's es sharpening his teeth y
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

A leading lecturer classiics his audi
ence Ms follows: The "still aitcntivcs,'
the quick responsives,' the "hard-
to lifts" the "won'tapplauds,' and
tho "get-up-aud-g go.outs."
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

AWoRo OF KINDNESS.
How softly on the bruised heart
word Of kindness falls,
And to the dry and psrched soul
The moistning tear-drop calls;
Oh, II they knew who walked the earth
Mid sorrow, grief and pain,
The power n word Of kindness hath
'Twcre paradise again.
The weakest and the poorest may
The simple pittance give, Il
And bid delight TO withered hearts
Return again and live;
Oh, what is life II love be losti
II mans unkind to man.
Or, what the Heaven that waits beyond
This brief and mortal span'
As stars upon the tranquil sea
In minute glory shine,
30 words Of kindness In the heart
Reflect the source divine;
Oh, then be kind, who'er thou art
That breathes the mortal breath,
Aud II shall brighten all thy life
And sweeten even death.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

"a coffin, said an Irishman, is tho
bon-e that man can I've IN wbsn be
10 dead, -
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-07

HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE!
The House and Lot on the corner Of Mar
ket and Fifth streets Cicarhed, Pa, 10 for sale.
The lot coptain, nearly an acre Of ground. The
house Is a large double frame, containing nine
rooms, For terms and other information spply
~ the sislirrtsr, at ID. rcs, oece 49,,
povl1 - "@N'''
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THE REPUBLICAN.
CLEARFlELD, PA.
A WORD OF xlspsrs,

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY :, 1879.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

How THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE STANDS
THE TEST OF TIME.-The Lock port Journal
says {" 1t is now some twenty years since
the great Suspension Bridge was built over
Niagara River. The question of it's safety
has recently been agitated, and critical in
vestigatlon has accordingly been made by
the Ohio engineer and directors Of the
Great Western Railway. The caps on the
towers covering the cables have been re-
moved, and the cables found to be as per-
feet in all respects as ever they were
But most important of all, the anchorage
Of the cables was thoroughly inspected.
The masonry over one of them was remov-
ed for about IL feet, or below where the
wires are attached to the anchor chains.
A portion of the cable is imbedded in
water lime cement. For twenty years
this has been there. yet on removing it and
rubbing the paint off the wires, the latter
were found as bright and perfect as when
placed there, the cement having preserved
the wire and anchor chains intact. The
examination was made in the presence Of
competent engineers. who have expressed
themselves as above to the directors of
the bridge company"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21
goetru.
Tie River Time.
By OWEN MEREDITH.

OH a wonderful stream is the River Timei
And it flows through the realm of Tears
WIN lsultless rhythm and musical rhyme,
And broadening sweep and a surge sublime,
As 1t bends with the ocean of years.
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow,
And the summers like buds bctweeni
And the ears and the sheaves how they come and
go
On the rivers breast with its ebb and flow,
AS they glide in the shadow and sheeni
There's magic isle up the River Time,
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's clondless sky and tropical cline,
And voice as sweet as a vesper chime,
And the Junes with the roses are staying.
And the name of that isle is the Long Ago."
And we bury treasures there
There are brows beauty and bosoms Of snow
(They are he 'ps ofdust, but loved them SOY,
There are tlinkets and tresses of hair.
There fragments of songs that nobody sings,
And part of an infants prayer;
There's Il narp unswept and IA lutte without strings
There are broken vows and pieces Of rings,
Aud the ga meuts that she used to wear.
There are hands which are waved when that fairy
shore
By the mirage is lifted in air,
Aud sometimes hear, through the turbulent
rear,
Sweet voices we've heard in the days gone before
When the wind down the river Is fair.
Oh remembered for aye be that blessed Isle,
All day of life till night
And when evening comes with its beautiful smile
And en- eyes are co-ed to slumber awhile,
May that q eenwOOd Of soul be in sight.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

A SIMPLE METHOD OF IMPROVING THE
HEALTH OF CITIEs.-Dr. Alfred Carpenter
of London, strongly recommends the con-
nection of all house drains with one of the
chimneys, or with special ventilating
pipe leading to the roof Of the dwelling.
By this simple arrangement a circulation
Of air through the sewers is obtained, and
the foul gases, instead of entering the
house to produce typhoid and other dlseas-
es, would be oxygenized, rendered innocu-
Gus and dissipated.
In New York and other cities, there
are thousands of unhealthy dwellings, made
so by the back pressure of air from the
sewer pipes. which would be instantly
cured by the use of few feet of pipe to
connect the house drains and water closet
pipes with the chimneys. We believe that
the passage of a law requiring the insertion
Of such pipes would be an excellent sani-
tary provision. We compel the owners Of
tenement houses to place fire escape lad
ders upon the outside of their buildings, as
means Of saving life in case of conAagra.
ton. But far greater number of lives
might be saved if owners were compelle ed
to put in vent pipes as above Indicated
Noxious air from the sewers is one Of the
main causes of disease and death in al
large towns.-Scientifc american.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21
agricultural.
For the Freeman.

FRUIT-BEARING TREEs.-In many orchards
there are trees that produce no fruit. The
owners may have wondered hundred times
why this barrenness. Tuey have resorted to
prunlr z and sJme other expedients, but often
to little effect. Tie trees Experimental upon
sometimes are young and promising, but no
improvement is realiz d. To what alterna
tive may we resort? FIRST, let the pruning
be postponed as late as July or August; this
delay enables the primer to see all dead limbs
and remove them, it likewise reduces tue
fruit that the remaining portion may be more
perfect and still more, the wound heals much
sooner than when taken off early Second
We should rene nber that the soil has been
exhausted OF its fruclifying elements and
needs to be restored. Leaves, decayed wood,
&C., will be found a sure remedy, if applied
sooner or later, to bring on bearing add to
these, lime, salt and ashes, and ere long the
barren will be fruitful. B.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

SEED PoTAToEs-WHJLE OR CUT.-It is
rataer strange that question 30 easily
settled as it would seem this might be-, still
remains as Undecided as twenty years ago,
whether 1t is better to plaut potatoes Whole
II tv cut them into pieces and plant less than
one potato IN a hill. The very fact that it
does remain unsettled is pretty good evidence
Lnat 1t does not MAX much difference on a
Z neral average. Good yields are produced
uuder both methods in COOL seasons and Oh
good ground, and poor returns from b)th
methods, the seasons and land not being
favorable. We once tried the following ex-
pertinent We planted 10 the same ga, den
where the groun was as unifrm IN fertility
ds It well could be, a given number OF hills with
large, whole potatoes, the same number with
sui seed, tour pieces Ia hill, and an equal
number of hils with four small potatoes IN
each. Tney all had the same care and were
dug at the same time, and the hills planted
with large potatoes, whole, yielded ull d
third more than the hills planted with Gu,
potatoes, and iull twice as much as those
planted with small ones. This settled the
question in our minds, that tie way to get
the greatest yield from given quantity of
land, was to plant good-sized whole p 'tatoes.
We have seen small otatoes planted by the
eide of large ones, and never failed to see a
palpable difference IN the product in favor OF
the larger seed. We have read many 40
counts of very large products from given
quantity OF cut seed, and readers in such
cases are quite apt to infer that therefore
that Is the surest method of getting great
yield per acre. A distinction we think may
very properly he made here. If the object
is to get the greatest possible yield from a
given quantity OF seed, the surest method in
our judgment is to cut the seed as much as
1t will bear, putting one good eye in hill
or two weaker ones. But il tue object is to
get the greatest possible yield from given
quantity OF land, then we are clearly OF the
opinion that planting large potatoes whole
Will secure 1t.
This question being settled in the farmer's
mind, tie only other one is a coroliary oil
this, whether the price OF seed or the land il
OF cniefest Importance; whether he will sac.
rIfice the use of his land to make the most VI
his seed, or Uice rersa. 10 Short if he would
make the most possible use of his seed, hs
will cut 1t and make it 60 as far as he can
but if he cares less about the quantity o.
seed, and more about the product OF his land
he will plant larg. potatoes, whole. Year'
ago, when potatoes were worth but twenty
five cents a bushel in market, and only ffteeI
OF twenty IN the farmers cellar, there wa
but very little cutting of seed, and greater
yields per acre were obtained then than now
under the more general habit of cutting
That the land was less worn we will no
question, but still We think portion Of il
was due to planting good-sized whole. pota
toes.
Philosophically speaking. we do not se'
why the same law does not pertain to pota
toes that does to all other crops-the plum p
est, largest seed being the best to plant o.