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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
Why Aunt Sallie Never Married.


"Now, Aunt Shllic, do please tell US
why you never got married. You re,
member you said once that when you
were girl you were engaged to a
minister, and promised us you would
tell us about II some time, Now, aunt,
please tell u.s."
"Woll, you see, when | was about
seventeen years old | was living in
Utica, in the State of New York.
Though Isay it myself, | was quito a
good looking girl then, and had sew.
eral beaux. Tho one that took my
fancy was a young minister, very
promising young man, and remarka.
bly, pious and steady. He thought II
good deal of me, and kind of took a
fancy to him, and things went on until
VIC were engaged. Ono evening he
came to me, and put bis arms around
mo and kind OF hugged me, when |
got excited and some Illustrated. IL
was long time ago, and don't know
but what might have hugged back q
little. ! was like any other girl, and
pretty soon pretended to DO mad at
It, and pushed him away, though i
wasn't mad bit. You must know
the house where / lived was in one OF
the back streets OF the town. There
were glass doors in the parlor which
oponcd over the street. These doors
were drawnto to. stepped back little
from him, and when hc came up close
| pushed him back again. pushed
him harder thnn / intended to; and
don't you think, girls, the poor fellow
lost his balance and fell through one
of tho glass doors into the street"
"Oh, nunty! Was he kiiledw
"No; he fell head fret, aud rs he
was going | caught him by the legs Of
his trousers. / held on for moment
and tried to pull him back, but his
suspcndcrs gave way, and the poor
young man fell clear out of his pauta.
looms into parcel Of ladies and gen
tlcmen along the street. The moment
he touched the ground he got up and
left that place in torriblc hurry. !
tell you II was a sight to be romem-
bered. How that man did run lie
went out west, and believe be is now
preaching out in Illinois. But ho ncv.
or married. lie WAS very modest, and
suppose he was SO badly frightened
that time that he never dared trust
himself near woman again. That
girla, is tho reason why ] never mar
ricd. / felt very bad about IL for 3
long timc---for ho was real good
man, and I've olicn thought 10 myself
that we should have been very happy
If his suspcndcrs hadn't given way
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
The Monarch of the Sea,

According to Captain Scoresby's es.
innate, a whale sixty feet in length
will weigh seventy tons, or as much
us three hundred fat oxen, while the
oil taken from il will be about thirty
tons. IL is common saying among
whalemen that il requires thirty faith.
oms of water for three hundred bar.
relcr 10 swim in. aH
,o. The ssss Of aHS sle tight whale a. arc Of
fence are by far the most efficient
weapon the animal possesses, sending
n whalc-boat and its crew full thirty
feet into mid air, and often killing
many of the men These flukes are
not placed vertically, as in other fish
but transversely, and parallel to the
surface of the water; so that whales
have been known 10 swim on at the
ratio of a mile an hour after death, the
onward movement being caused by
the waves giving to the fukes an al
most lie-lke propulsion. The point
Of junction between the flukes and the
main body of the animal is extremely
small, and the tendons at this part
are easily severed with a spade. -
The head, from which the whale
bone Is obtained is q most singular
structure, and nicely adapted to the
use Of tho cetacean. In shape it has
been compared and very appropriately,
10 round-tood fat soled shoe with
straight sides. Tho lower jaw is from
eight to ten feet wide where it unites
with the body, but becomes smaller
toward the extremity, resembling,
when cleaned OF the flesh, a blantly
pointedarch about seven feet in length.
Tho skull or crown bone, which serves
as tho upper jaw, is single bone,
slightly rounded on the top, and four
or FIVE feet wide at the neck, but also
smaller al the extremity. 1t is TO
this bone that the slabs of what is
usually termed tho whalebone are fas-
tened. They are in pieces of from
two to ten feet in length, about twelve
inches wide at the top, tapering down
gently and curving inward, ill at the
lower end they arc moro points. =
The pieces radinte edgeways, from
what may DO called the ridge pole OF
the roof Of the mouth, about a quarter
Of an inch in thickness and half an
inch apart. s.1ai ~ aG aAliaiia 9
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
The Mormon Bible.

/ find in my scrap-book, set down
there thirty years ago, an item which
may be of interest at the present time,
when the Mormon problem is evil
IDENTIFY approaching q civilized solu-
ton. The truth Of the statement
herein given was youched for in my
presence by man who was above
deceit. The origin of the "Book of
Mormon" SO called, has been n puzzle
TO many, much OF it being evidently
the production of a cultivated mind,
and yet springiDg to light from the
hands Of illiterate men. ...r
1t was written, in 1Sl2-13, as a lii.
erary recreation, by Rev. Solomon
Spaulding, q graduate. Of Dartmouth
College, atthat timc residing in New
Salem, Ohio; and, as no wrote ii, it
professed to be historical romance
of lost race, the remains Of whose
numerous mounds and inscriptions
are found on the banks Of the Ohio. -
After the work had been completed
the author had thoughts OF having il
printed, and for that purpose he gave
the manuscript into the hands Of q
printer, in whose office IL remained
for several years, but the design Of
printing was not carried into execu-
tion. AS foreman in tho printing
office whore Mr.. Spaulding's romance
was lodged was employed Sidney Rig
don, who afterward figured conspicu-
ously in Mormon history aud there
is no doubt that he copied the manu-
script and subsequently, gave it to
Smith. Upon the appearance of the
Book of Mormon, in 1880, there were
those living to whom Mr.. Spaulding
had read parts of his romance, aud
they recognized bis verbinge in the
book. Upon search the original man.
uscript was found among the papers
of the deceased clergyman, and on
comparison the Mormon Bible proved
to have been not materially altered
from this parent text. Of course the
discovery soon made considerable talk.
A great many people went to see the
manuscript, and at the expiration of
q few weeks it mysteriously disap.
pcared. AS there was Mormon
preacher in New Salem at the time,
with proselytes at his heels, the mys-
terry Of the disappearance was not
very deep. as.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18


AGooD RUIZ MFR. Theodore Thorn.
as adopted some rules governing the
Cincinnati musical, festival, which il
strikes us would bc well applied to
other entertainments. Tho doors Of
the hall were opened an hour before
the singing began, giving ample time
for the audience to get their seats
When the orchestra struck up, the
doors were closed, and were closed
until the first piece on the programme
was finished. Between the last two
numbers in the list pause was al
lowed for the departure of those who
did not wish to remain until the end.
Then the. doors were again closed and
kept closed until tho very last note OF
the concert had died away.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

Nothing in music, poetry or elo-
quencc will thrill one with such OK.
quisitc Joy as to have his back itch
and an artist to scratch it. 1t is as
true as singular that not one woman
in a thousand can scratch back as il
ought to be scratched. To do it sue
cessfully requires patience, a dclica-
cy, judgment that few indeed pos
sess. Many wife has struggled on
to accomplish her mission, being q
faithful worker, u clevor counselor, a
keen manager, aud yet falling lar short
OF success simply because she conld
enthusiastically scratch her husband 8
back, while tho man bns deserted his
home aud drowned his manhood in
the flowing bowl.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
A Race Dying Out.

From The amount of talk about In
dian matters by Congress the Ameri-
can of average Information would
naturally assume that the United
States had upon it's hands copper
colored population Of at least half a
million, and the same American would
be at first greatly inclined to doubt
the statement that, setting aside the
so-caled civilized tribes, there are less
than 100000 Indians within the limits
Of our entire country, 10 1860 the
number Of the "unciviized" was set
down at 44,02l. At the present time,
according to the Commissioners ro-
port, there are but 1880. Should
this frightful ratio Of decrease con-
tinuc, the beginning of the next cen
tury will see this portion of the alb
original race OF North America swept
from the face of the earth The sun
civilized" tribes, which go to make up
the figures quoted, include parts Of
the wcll-known Shawnees, Delawares,
Wyandottes, Senecas, Comanches, Sacs
and Foxes, Pottawattomies, Miamis,
Kaws and Osages, with a few New
Mexico Apaches, and remnants Of
other tribes once rich and powerful in
Pennsylvania and New York, but now
almost extinct. These tribes, num-
bering 1888 souls, are worth, not in.
cluding their land, s3,l72, 40S..-
They cultivate COOS acres, and pro-
duced in 1871 total of 1872, 900 bushels
Of grain, or about 8 bushels TO each
man, woman and child. They have
AZ, 100 horses, cattle and shocp, worth
81 ,69l 900, and they raise every year
1000 tons Of hay, worth $4,000.
Eight of the tribes have wcll-regulat-
ed schools, sixteen in number, ON
ploying in 1871 thirty.four- teachers,
and imparting instruction TO 654 chill
dren, at a cost of SIG, 700 for the year.
In 1871, beside the grain yield, the
Indian Territory produced $4,000
worth of raw cotton In view of these
facts, the extraordinary rate of NOR
talty apparent is fairly unaccounta
Ne II cannot be ref;prred to . ,.bs
mortality is greatest among that por-
tion which has refused to adopt the
manners and customs of civilization.
One thing is plainly evident, and that
is, that the race " doomed, and that
nothing can save it from carly extinc-
ton.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
0verwork--A Sensible Protest.

A great amount of very pcrnicious
twaddle has lately been published on
the subject OF the alleged overwork in
which many OF the greatest, and pos
sibly some Of the least, men of the
present generation indulge, in the pur-
spit either Of wealth and fame, or high
social position. Work is divine
Without work, human life would be
intolerable, and man would be little
else than q sponge, an oyster, or q
limpet upon the rock, which only ex.
ists to imbibe the nourishment that
they are too imbecile or too powerless
70 seek. But like all tho abundant
blessings spread around mankind,
vork is only beautiful and good in its
degree. IL muet bo used, and not
abused. Too much of anything is
not good for us. Vice itself is but
virtue degenerated and dissipated by
being forced into extremes. In like
manner, work, II not carried beyond
the point at which all the functions of
mind and body are exercised without
undue strain upon either, is one of the
greatest, If not the very greatest of all
the blessings that are showered upon
tho human race. There is far too
great disposition in oil countries to
look upon labor as something inflicted
upon man as a curse for his disobcdi-
enco, TO interpret literally, and not
according 10 the spirit, the penalty
laid upon Adam, and 10 take advant-
age.of the misintcrpretations to shirk
labor altogether, or to impose it un-
duly upon the weaker This doctrine
requires not only encouragement, but
disproofj for the inevitable result of
its adoption would be either to reduce
men TO tho state Of savages, when the
only labor undertaken would be that
Of the chase OF wild animals or the
capture of birds and fish TO provide
food for the sustcnance OF life, or the
establishment Of slavery, when mono
but slaves would work upon the com.
pulsion Of their lord and masters
But work, looked upon with the eye
of reason, is the choicest advantage of
our mortal state, the only motive
power that keeps not only men, but
the solar system and all the countless
orbs of the boundless universe OF God,
in condition of healthy and progress
sivc perpctuity.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

CAMEos. - Rome is now the chief
seat of tho art Of cameo cutting, two
of which are produced-those cut in
hard stone and those cut in Shells
The stones most valuable for this pur-
pose nre the oriental onyx and the
sand-onyx, provided they have two
different colors in parallel layers. :
The value Of the stone is greatly in,
creased for this purpose if IL has four
or ys dheTspt h sol0rs l2c il il RAE ,psSas Is ay
sist in making the device of the cameo.
For example, a specimen Of stone,
which has four parallel layers, may
be useful for o cameo Of Minerva,
where the ground would be dark
gray, the face light, the bust and he'll
met black, and tho crest over The hel
met brown or gray. All such canoes
are wrought BY lapidary's lathe with
pointed instruments of steel. and by
means OF diamond dust. Shell canoes
are cut from large shells found on the
African and Brazilian coasts, and gen.
orally show two layers, one white and
the other pale coffee color or deep
red orange. The subject is cut with
small steel shisels out OF the white
portion of tho sholl Stones adapted
for cameo cutting are dense, thick,
and consist usually Of three layers Of
different colored she'll material.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
How TO Brory AN ARrlcLr ron pu

How TO BEGIN AN ARTICLE FOR PuB-
LIcArioH.-A great many people arc
apt to bit upon happy IDEAS in society,
and when they 60 home they write
them out for publication; and most o.
these good folks know how bard it is
TO begin an article satisfactorily, a
word to them commence with your
very finest writing and most beauti-
fully-roundcd sentences. Introduce
your subject in your most elaborate
style, be poetical, rhetorical, didactic,
as your mood may be, and when you
think fit gradually drop into the dis
cussion Of the subject. matter. When
the article is finished, begin at The
opening sentence, and read IL until you
find you have commenced TO say some
thing to the point. Stop at this place;
strike out everything before it, and
let your article begin just there, You
will then probably find that il opens
well, and that by collecting al your
labored composition in one place where
it can be readily stricken out, you will
have saved yourself NIL the trouble
that would have been necessary had
it been scattered through Tho article.
-Scribner's for Nay.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

WHERE oUR GOLD GOES 'To.--lt is
estimated that fifteen per cent of our
gold product is melted down for man
ufacturc, thirty-6vo per cent. goes to
Europe directly, twenty-five per cent
goes TO Cuba, fifteen per cent. To. Bra
zil,. FIVE per cent. TO China, Japan, and
India, leaving fivc per cent. for domes-
tic use. Fiily per cent. of that which
goes TO Cuba and Brazil ultimately
which goes TO Europe, from whence
lour-iiiths of their whole supply goes
10 India. where IL is absorb bed and dis
appears from sighc in a mysterious
manner, For many years this absorps
tion Of gold, and silver as well, has
been going on in the East Indies and
China.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
The cRetel Nut,

Thcrc 10 q fascination in the botof
nut more extraordinary than the to.
bacco passion. Tho consumption of
tho latter in chewing alone, in the
United States, 10 o modern phenomo;
non. An invotcrate chcwcr may bayor
moral resolution enough TO break cf
the habit, though IL rarely happens
that an effort is madc TO do 90, as ap
apology is found for continuing briit.
tice that is positively destroying tho
foundations Of health. Once addicted
to chewing tobacco, to abandon Il is
an achievement few have the hnppi-
ness to perform, notwithstanding the
melancholy mortality of men 10 the
meridian Of life who aro constantly
being destroyed by the subtle influence
Of. that strange plant on ltho nervous,
system. Thus sudden palsy of the
heart, palsy Of a limb, palsy ofone.
half Of the tongue, and even instanta-
neous death, are traccablc by physi.
clans TO excessive use Of tobacco. but
the vice Of bctcl nut chewing is still
moro remarkable. When this is cs-
tablished there seems no retreat. The
victim wears out his teeth, gums and
digestion, and dies with an unsatisfed
longing for another quil., Bctcl put
trees thrive In most parts Of tropical
India, the Indian Archipelago and tho
Philippine Islands. They grow up
gracefully about thirty feet, rarely
moro than eight inches in diameter.
II is an areca catechu. Penang is the
universal name Of the nut 10 those
places whore II is. produced; hence
Palo Penang means betel nut island.
AT six years of age tbetree commences
bearing nuts of tho size Of d small
pullets egg, of u bright yellow color,
enclosed in a husk similar TO that of
the cocoa nut within is sperical nut,
very much like a nutmeg. Broken, d
bit Of il is wrapped up with a piece Of
unslacked lime in o peculiar leaf, the
Siri 'betclpiper, extensively cultivated
for that purpose. The gums and mu,
cous membrane of the mouth are
quickly stained q brick red the teeth
crumble to level with the gums, and
in that condition an inveterate betel
chewer is wreiched without supply,
There are large plantations of bette!
nut trees in Java TO meet the demand
for home consumption and that in dis.
tant provinces. To augment the plea
sure, those who can afford it add to-
bacco to the limo. -... p,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18
Dipping the Hand into Molten Iron.

Thc thing has been done over and
over again. observed DR.. Carpenter in
a recent lecturc--that man has gonc
and held his hand iu such stream Of
molten iron, and has done II without
tho least injury all that Is required
being TO have his hand moist, aud if
his hand is dry, he has merely to dip
it in water, aud he may hold his hand
for certain time in that stream OF
molten iron without receiving any in
Jury whatever. This was exhibited
publicly Mt a meeting of the British
Association at Ipswich, many years
ago. II is one Of the miracles OF sci
cncc, 30 TO speak ills perfectly cred
iblc to scientific men, because they
know the principle upon which it hap
pens, aud that principle is familiar to
you all, that IL you throw a drop Of
water upon hot iron, the water retains
its spherical form, and does not spread
upon IL and wet IL, Vapor is brought
to that condition by intense heat that
il forms sort Of film, or atmosphere,
between tho hand and the hot iron,
and for time that atmosphere is not
too hotto be perfectly boarabc. There
are number OF these miracles Of sci
cnce which We believe, however in
credible Mt first sight they may ap-
pear, because they can bc brought 10
the test of experience and can be at
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

A four.hundred acre sugar. beet field
has been seen, recently, by the editor
Of the PdcVic Rural Press, at Davis
vile, Yolo county, Cal. The bcets
were in rows, about fifteen ioeighteen
inches apart, and were up four or five
inches. twenty-five Cinnamon, with
hoes, were "swccping in broad platoon
to and fro across the field, cxtirpating
the few small weeds that had made
their appearance since planting
These bects belong to the Sacramento
Valley Beet Sugar Company, which
has 1000 acres of them under cult,
walton.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

There are now about three hundred
thousand Indians in the jurisdition of
the United States. Seventy thousand
of these are in Alaska, and cut no fig
ure in any discussion Of cur govern
mental Indian policy, according 70
official reports, fifly thousand may be
classcd as civilized; twenty thousand
as partially so and the remainder
one hundred and sixty thousand-arc,
says Col. Boundinot, as wild as when
Columbus first planted the cross and
the standard Of Spain on the shores of
this continent.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

ROLLING MILLs.--It is estimated
that one-tenth of the entire population
OF the United States is dependent for
support upon the production of iron:
The value of the metal annually man
ufactured is s9O0,000,000, and $40, 900
workmen are employed in the indus;
try, the aggregate Of whose wages
reaches s6O0,000,000. There has been
a vast increase of furnace capacity and
additional machinery put in by our
W, .i7o,, s,.s, .,nu 7,,vio Is WY plvss
pct vr stiii further grUwtu.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

The people of Copenhagen have q
way ofremoving snow from the streets
which seems at once practical and cx-
peditious. The town authorities give
u small sum OF money 10 owners of
horses and wagons as u sort Of retain
ing foe, for which they are bound, i'm
mediatcly after any fall of snow, 10
send their horses and wagons and cart
it away at so much per day. 1t is
dumped into the river, or upon the
ice, If the river is frozen. So well
does the plan work that six inches
fall of snow is often removed within .
day and half.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-06-18

A very handsomely dressed young
man, who was waiting at his horses
head for his girl, Sunday afternoon,
and desired TO demonstrate to tho
watching neigbbors how familiar ho
could be with such an animal, put tho
head Of the noble beast in bis. bosom,
and just then the animal sneezed, and
well anybody who has seen horse
snoeze can picture to himself the state
of that shirt bosom, collar and vest.
just as well as one Of the old masters
could do IL