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Democratic Heetin0-Ra ttroad Matters
Special to the Star.
COLUMBUS, o., May There was a
large number of leading politicians pres
ent at the Democratic gathering here
yesterday. The meeting was held at
Thurman Hall, which was crowded
throughout the day. Among those who
attended were Hon. s. f. Cary, g. N. D..
Bloss, s. 8. Harris. @. O. Archer and
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ola thoughts.


Nothing is more strange than the
lncessant reproduction OF old thoughts
under the gaise Of new and advanced
opinions. 1t would seem as if the
human mind, with all its restless ac-
tiyity, was destined to revolve in an
c1dless circle Its progress is mark
ed by many changes and discoveries;
1t sees and understands far more
clearly the facts that lie along the
line of the route, and the modes or
laws underswhieh these facts occur;
but this route in its higher levels al
ways returns upon itself Nature
and all its secrets become better
known and the powers Of Dature are
brought more under human control
but the sources Of nature and life and
thought-all the ultimate problems
of being-neyeF become more clearly
intelligible. Not only SO, but the
last efforts Of human reasoning on
these subjects are even sometimes
not greatly liz form, they are in sub
stance the same. Bold as the course
OF scientific adventure has seemed
Tor time, it ends very much as it
began; and men Of The nineteenth
century lookoyer the same abysses
Of speculation as did their foreiathers
thousands eli years before. Ne
philosophy Of theism can be said to
have advanced beyond the book Of
Job; and Professor Tyndall, address
ing the world from the throne Of
modern science-which the chair Of
the British Association ought to be-
repeats the thoughts Of Democritus
and Epicurus, as the last guesses Of
the modern scientific mind-Blact-
4r.gI
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EarIy Vegetables.

A "wGrm garden is not very well
suited to celery, cabbage, horse rad
ish, turnips, and other fall crops.
Nor is it at all favorable to raspber-
ries and many fruits, most Of which
indeed prefer to grow where the
ground does not get over warm IN
summer time, but for early yegeta-
bles, site which has a dry bottom
and lies to the southeast is an excel
lent thing to have
Most early vegetables DO not re-
quire a great heat TO bring them for
ward, and this is particularly the case
with radishesi and lettuce. If the
earth is kept from freezing, and the
SUMS heat alone brings them forward
several weeks sooner than il the seed
is not sown till the winter is wholly
gone. For this purpose mere boxes
or frames sloped to the sun, and
covered with straw, mats or boards,
when there is danger Of frost at
night. is enough TO bring on these
vegetables considerably earlier than
other people get them in the ordina-
ry way, and especially are they ear
lier If the ground slopes 10 the sun
as we have suggested Asparagus.
rhubarb, beans, and the vegetables
that are priced for their earliness all
come on much earlier on these sunny
slopes than many persons have an
idea
or course every one can have no
selection Of size Most have 20 take
whatever spot ,Aey can get, but it is
often to be noted that when people
have a choice they do not select
wisely. We have rarely seen gar
der which was selected with the view
20 the best place for spring, summer
or fall vegetables, though this could
be made 70 suit ali. 1t is one thing
or the other-a good spring or
good fall site. These suggestions
therefore may help some People-ve
hope at least in regard to early vege-
MARYLAND Farmer.
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Cremation in Alaska.


A Sitka correspondent Of the San
Francisco Alta, in a recent letter
writes:
The Hoona tribe Of Indians, a few
weeks ago sent deputation Of well
armed warriors to this place, where
the Sitkas live, to treat with them
for the fun value Of a certain
demised sqgaw Of the Hooua tribe.
whose existence d Sitka buck a few
months ago beforehand, by the ac-
cidental discharge Of his gun, cut
short The council was held last
night on the beach at Indian Town,
few yards from our commanding
officers house; the HOonas taking
care to leave some Of their number
in the canoes and a6oat. Evidently
the red men are not Of an over-con-
fding nature After much arguing
for and against, the cash value Of the
defunct lady Of HoOna descent was
found to be one thousand yards of
calico, four camphor-wood boxes,
fourteen muskets and sixty blankets.
Terms, cash. The succeeding night
was then devoted to a universal
spree in the Indian town in honor Of
their guests A few nights after,
when the HoOnas had gone home
Chileat Indian, who was on a visit
to his Sitka brethren, repaid their
hospitality by making mince meat
of a stalwart Sitka warrior, and then
abscondiDg. The Indians body,
two days after his crossing the Styx,
was consigned to the funeral pile, as
is the custom Of the Sitkas.
'The cremation grounds are with
in from fifty TO three hundred yards
distant from the commanding officers
residence. and as / stood near his
house taking items Of the imposing
exercises, the wind waited delicious
fumes from the burning flesh right
over, into, and all around the house.
The cup filed with fre-water, freely
passed among the mourners squatted
around the blaze, which at times
leaped to height Of not less than
ten feet, while a stalwart buck with
a pole was working hard all the while
stirring up the fire and turning over
the body.
But the mourners finally, one by
one, were overcome by grief and 9TH
er manifest causes, and were led
away by eommiserating acquain-
tances, while the corpse became re-
duced to ashes and charred bones,
which were then collected and "gath-
cred to his fathers" in q sort ef large
dog kennel or chicken-house on stills,
each Of which constitutes a family
mausoieum, aud is never moro than
twenty yards from the family resi-
dence while under the ash-box bur
row dozens Of coyote dogs, also be-
longing to the family, whose accord
ed privilege it is to there make their
| homes"
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let, when the school house cannot be
had. But | want what is owed to
me. 1t is a small amount to you it
means thousands of dollars to me.
| shall be home in a few days to
square up. Let "Doc" have the
money now, before / go. There is
not one of you, man or woman, from
Christiana to Dublin, that would
not stick his head in the FIRE TO serve,
whether be ever expected anything
for it or not. Get his receipt before
| go home, and his soul will rejoice.
l love you myself, as mother low
eth her first born; but love to pay
my debts better than | love any man,
woman or child, on the face of God
Almighty's green earth and, by the
Great Eternal and the Continental
Congress, l propose to do it, if l
have 20 make costs fer every man in
Fillmore county. Now let's have
the spondulicks, and see how sweet
and pretty / can smile upon yon-
Yours, earnestly,
G. S. POWERS.
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Requirements OF the Quince.

This fruit prefers low yet we'll
drained situation, soil not light nor
yet too heavy, thorough culture when
young at least, an occasional dress
ing of wosdashes and salt, careful
extraction of the borer, and mulch
ing The demand in our markets for
ounces is on the increase, and a
healthy, productive orchard will pay
well. but to say that there is "untold
wealth" in that particular branch Of
pomology is to state the cats much
more strongly than the facts war
rant. The comparatively new can
ming business has increased the call
for ounces, as it has of every other
fruit, and be who is soonest able to
offer supply will reap the benefit.
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The ThIers Victory.

A good many years ago one of the
most notorious thieves in the United
States had confidential conversation
with gentleman who is now one of
our most efficient detectives, and ex-
pressed desire to reform. "Why
do you wish to live so much on the
square," said the gentleman. "Be-
cause" +" replied the thief, IL have a
wife and children to whom am
very much attached; they have no
idea of the mode in which | am
making my living; the children are
growing up, and are beginning to
wonder why 1 leave home so often,
and what do; and if ever am to
reform now is the time. The gentle
man warmly approved the idea, and
to further it loaned the man several
hundred dollars with which to begin
an honest business. The reformed
man at once broke of all his associa-
tions, lived q perfectly honest life,
would have no dishonest person call
on him, devoted himself for years
closely to business, raised his family
respectfully, did great many acts of
unostentatious charity, and died not
long since esteemed by all who knew
him. His children are doing well
and are highly respectable. The
money advanced was long since re-
paid
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Death I'm the Cellar.

Many farmers are in the habit OF
putting all kinds Of vegetables in .he
cellar and then banking close, and
presently all sorts Of odors come up
the cellar stairs, for there are onio ms,
turniDs. apples, snd pork; often but
ter and milk are kept there, and one
imparts odor to the other, making
a perverted mixture comparable to a
Dutch boarding house, where every
thing is sour but the vinegar. Veg
etables that impart strong odor
should not be put in the cellar at all,
or at least in small quantities. No
more than . bushel of turnips should
ever be put in cellar. but some pat
in the crop Of an acre Of ruta bagas,
which soon begin to sweat, when
they taint the whole house. The
true way is to have an outdoor eel
lar for vegetables, especially south
of Pennsylvania. A cellar under a
barn is useful, and there all the
odorous vegetables should be stored,
permitting the cellar under the house
to he kent as sweet and clean as any
ofthe rooms above. Medical men
are well aware that cellars originate
tevers. and some have given the
name "celIar-fever" TO the diseases
that originate from foul cellars.
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The Romance Of II.

A Rockland county (N. y girl,
who was recently finished" at q
fashionable seminary, has begun a
diary. Her mischievous young
brother cut out the first entry and it
got into print Here is a portion Of
it: Sunday night-It hasjust struck
twelve and / am still writing.
What are, these thoughts that surge
across my heart? What is this strange
longing after the unattainable? Am |
what l really seem, or is it as it
were, not 30 much the infnitesimsl
as the unspeakable? Let me be calm.
| have reresd Don Juan to-day.
Ah! alas! will there ever be another
Byron? May there not be somewhere,
coming toward me from the mist Of
the mountain top, or the flowers Of
the valley, some suncrowned youth
whor-
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ATS Our Baby''

L. j. Wolfe is not an old man he
is not young man, but he is mar
ried man, and has been for several
years. He lives one mile west of
Westport, but no children climb up
on his knee when the day deelinsth
and twist the cats tail and listen to
burglar stories. Yesterday morning
he went to the fodder shock to get
provender for bis mileh COW, and as
be stopped to pull the ears be sud
denly discovered midway in the
shock what be at FIRST took to be q
horse blanket. He picked it up and
unrolled it, and discovered two
bundles of red flannel. He unrsveled
these and there lay girl baby, about
four or FIVE hours old. He took 1t 70
the house and showed it to Mrs W.
She remarked that it bad blue eyes;
and then she looked into her hus-
bands eyes to satisfy herself that she
hadn't been mistaken. Wolfe neio
up his hand and said be would swear,
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AQUEER "AD."
How Minnesota MerehantAsksH His
Debtors TO Pay Up.

NOTICE.
My DEAR SIR.-I want to ask you
a plain question, in all kindness and
sincerity, and would like to have you
answer it honestly and eandidly
not in two or three years or months,
but now! this week Supposing
YOU were poor as Jok's turkey, and
had invested $4,000 or $4,000 in an
enterprise which you design to make
an exclusively cash business; sup
posing, as matter of accommodation
and good nature, you had trusted 1t
out all over the country, from h-ll
to Jherico; supposing you had kept
adding your means, and still putting
it on your book for few days"
until your funds were played out,
like old Foot's prayer meeting; sup
posing you had claims coming against
YOU in the hands of business men
who had accommodated you in good
faith, and eled their money ;suppos-
ing You bad some pride in you, and
meant to be square-toed and punctu-
al, and hated to see man whom
you owed, when you didn't have the
legal tender in your tvowserS to
pay his just and lawful demands,
worse than you would to see an In
Jun or the devil; and supposlng
those whom you had accommodated
felt perfectly easy and coDtented,
"shied the track when you wanted
to see them, and told the wife OF
their bosom to answer "Not at
home" or came into town and left
without paying even part; suppos-
ing they held your money, and wait
ed for wheat to come upto so cents
or 81, or pork to bring s. or s6 a
hundred, what would you do?
Would you let your debts go, "and
smile. and smile, and be william :"
or would you sue every mothers son
of them that didn't pay you if it was
the last business you transacted IN
town!
If YOU were an honest man you'd
do the latter, and that's just what
| I'll be compelled to do. and shall do,
| il the Lord is God or there's a king
in Israel!
l don't want money to look at q
can earn enough for that; don't
want any to salt down / never could
make it keepl; but out of several
thousands trusted out, humbly want
few hundreds, and I'll be id if |
won't have it, or ah execution return
ed nulla bona.
have, in addition to erecting an
expensive store in Fountain, been
seduced into investing over 81 600 in
a new hall, which is an ornament as
well as convenience to the town at
large. As you know, | was prom
ised $400 cash, to assist me. Well,
out of this little $400 | have received
just twenty-six dollars. | don't ex.
peet any more, and don't want 1t
The hall is done! 1t is mine, and TO
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The Control of the Next House OF Rep
resentatiyes.


The very suggestive statement,
says the Albany Journal, is made
that eighty,fUe members Of the nert,
or Fourty.fo fourth Congress, either
serued in he rebel army or held posi-
tions under the rebel government.
We suppose the number embraces
those in the Senate as well as those
in the House. And yet there can
only be very few in the Senate. We
do not know the exact number, but
an examination of the list shows
that it probably does not exceed five
at the most. The remainder are in
the House.
What does this statement mean Z
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Devoted TO Science.

Devotion to science becomes alarm
ing. A young Frenchman recently
issued the following advertisement;
"a young man Of twenty, healthy,
and possessing a strong constitution,
offers himself as q subject to a doc
tor or medical student. He is will
ling to undergo any kind Of opera
ton, even at the risk Of its proving
fatal, on payment Of 92OO, as be is
in want Of that sum to carry out q
scientific experiment"
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The Ascension.
BY WILLIAM CULLEN rEyAvr.

Good Shepherd, wilt thou leave
In this low vale the flock that was thy care
Alone TO pine and grieve,
While through the purer air
Thou risest up to fields forever fair?
They who, supremely blest,
Until the dawn Of this unhappy day,
Leaned on thy loving breast,
To whom on earth shall they
Hearken or look, when thou art far away2
What comeliness or grace
Can they whose eyes beheld thy beauty see
In other. form or face?
What music will not be
Harsh TO the cars that hearkened once to thee?
Who nsw''upon. the deep
Shall look and curb its fury? Who shall lay
The stormy winds asleep?
What lode-stars friendly ray,
when thine is hid, shall guido the vessels way
why change our happy state,
o enyious cloud to heIplessness and fear?
How proud Of their rich freight
Thy shining folds appearl
How blind and wretched thou dost leave us her'
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WHOLE NO. 1853.

but the good wife didn't require il
SO the new founding was encom-
passed about with new linen, and
Mrs. w. sat down to make baby
clothes, while Wolfe got out in the
floor and danced and sung and hit
his wife on the back of the head and
"hollered" "Bully for US. It's our
young one, isn't it, Mrs. Wolfe? and
didn't cost cent did it, Hurrabr'
And then he went out and hitehed up
a yolk OF calves, and drove all around
the house, yelling like an Indian.
The little stranger has a good home
and may yet be the queen of its
realm. Here's luck to- the baby
Kansas CITY Times.
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Was waiting.

A stranger was making some IN
quiries Of a policeman in regard to
the price of real estate in the city,
having about made up his miRd to
settle here. He had on such fear
ful dirty shirt that the officer was
forced to remark about it, when the
man replied: "Well, I've kinder
been waiting to see whether ! should
buy or not, and as soon as make up
my mind about it I'm going to put
on q clean oue.u
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lIe Paused There.

A man took q seat on the head of
an empty -four barrel and remarked !;
II got down the gun and loaded her
up heavy, and just as was -"
At this point the head fell in and the
man, or about half of him, disappear
ed, while his legs doomed up like
schooner's masts He was helped
out, and a boy was hired to rub
sweet oil on his back, but in spite of
the earnest entreaties of the crowd
be would not go on with the story.
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over the Door.

The story is told that while an
old New York politician, now living
in some unknown part Of the old
world. was ornamenting the place az
Greenwich, be pat number Of casts
of famous pieces Of statuary about
The orouDd. Boss Tweed inspected
tbem "Wh0 is that he asked I;
and the politician answered, THAT
i Mercury, the God Of merchants
and thieves" Good" said Tweed,
chats bully! Put him over the font
door -
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IL you love others, they viii love
you. If you speak kindly to them
they will speak kindiyto you. Love
is repaid with love, and hatred with
hatred. Would you hear sweet
and pleasing echo, speak sweetly and
pleasantly yourself.
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----777
Srr.rnR M0RToNls

DENAIUE -AVIsAV-F PIT
amendment providing for a direct
vote on President and Vice Presi-
dent, - thus dispensing with the
Electoral College, seems very hksiy
to pass Congress and be submitted
to the Legislatures. 1t is non-par-
tissn. and will probably be adopted
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Use what talent you possess. The
woods would De very silent II no
birds sang there but those which sing
best.
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"a sweet return" exclaimed the
husband when his wife threw the su-
gar basin at MIN,
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YOUNa Mes, never say die y hen
there's 8 psir-O-dice within your
reach.
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Banks
CORNER MAIN AND FRANKLIN STREETS,
YOUNGSTOWN, PA,

Accounts of Merchants and
other business people solicit.
ed. Drafts negotiable in All
parts of the country for SAFE
Money Loaned and Collections
Made. Interest at the rate oil
Six Per Cent. per annum al
lowed on Time Deposits.
Savings Deposit Books 1ssu.
ed. and Interest COnpOundea
Semi-amnuaIIy when desired
A General Banking Business Transacted
Tab
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DR. L. G. MILLER, after Twelve I've
-. sotiye practice In ShanksyI,Ie, Ia. ~
nov located at s3ae5Sss @ groeoaai ls5 Ss ser
tee on ~; -. -iti7ens of Somerset and vicihil!
9ice in ais Drug store, opposite the IN iAI, i,nes
fI1nse vvbere he can be consulted III a'I
1rlless Professionally engaged.
EN- Ia calls promptly answered
dec Is 's1ly.
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Pennsylvania comes forward with
an educated pig. Penn. slways vas
a great place for pigs.
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Having leased lass laleuii:aoeHt and well known I'VE
l- -. - ,,ess surs in informing his friends and
~. vnbiie generally that he viii spare neither
G oalps nor expense 70 make ihis house an that
poSia ue est ss- sifl attend 10 the sanJs ef Gus
onL.sIss 80 he table viii Al all times be laden
With The hest the market affords Mr 81 - ID lay
wan may al an 'liii'' D. LAYAN.
mmar25
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Miscellaneous.
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