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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

The boys who play at marbles will
like TO know that the chief place of manu-
facture is at Oberstein, in Germany,
where arc located extensive agate quar-
ries and mills, the refuse material being
worked up into spherical toys, principally
for the American market.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12
THE PHILADELPHIA Times has the follow

The Philadelphia Times has the follow
ing among its notes and opinions The
word tote Ito carry) long in vogue in
Southern Delaware and Maryland, and
said to be negroism, is of ancient and
honorable origin, from an old legal term
toliere, to carry up case to a higher
court, which came to be known as the
writ of toll, which was pronounced tote.
1t was applied particularly to cases
"carried up" from the barons' court, in
old English times, to the county court,
and was as dear TO the yeOmanry as the
common law itself. Therefore, let us
not ridicule tote as a mere Maryland
and Delaware provincialism, originating
with the former slaves of those States,
but class 1t as belonging to one of the
first families" of words.
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Measles I'm Fiji.

1t has been reported that the measles
have broken out in the Fiji Islands, anC
have ragged with such awful severity tha1
no less than fifty thousand of the ma
tives have died of the disease. There
has never been trustworthy census o.
Fiji, but the number of deaths from this
disease are said to have been much more
than one in ten of the whole population;
probably more than one in six. Such q
mortality in the United States would
take away seven million people.
1t will doubtless seem strange to many
persons that disease SO common, and
so little dreaded among us, should have
proved so fatal among the Fiji Islanders.
To be sure, there are many deaths from
measles in America, but they are mostly
among class of people who either will
not or can not take care of themselves.
There is q reason, however, for its
severity among savages
Every boy who has had the measles
knows that he is not likely to have the
disease q second time. But it. may not
be SO we'll known that all maladies of
this kind become milder in their effects
in passing through successive generations.
Thus a whole race will in time become
so accustomed to a disease that it be-
comes almost harmless. In well-to- do
families the treatment for measles Isl Ow
quite simple, and where proper care is
taken there is little danger of fatal
result.
The Fijians have not this gradually
acquired power of resistance. The Eu-
ropeans have carried the mild type of
the measles to the islands, and it has
taken its most violent and fatal form at
once. The people do not know how to
treat it, and their habits almost render
ordinary treatment Intellectual. So the
epidemic has had clean sweep, and its
effect has been terrible. This, however,
is only sort of repetition of history.
Savage men are swept away by the dis
eases of civilization when civilized men
appear among them. The Indians of our
own country were destroyed by the
thousand by that product of civilization,
smallpox. Consumption was unknown
to the Sandwich Islands when Captain
Cook visited them. 1t is now the scOurge
of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and scarcely
one-tenth the population the first Euro
peans found there remains.
1t is unfortunate for Great Britain,
which has but just annexed Fiji, that
this terrible epidemic has occurred.
Some of the chiefs, upon whom the Eng
lish relied to reconcile the Fijians to the
change of rulers, have fallen victims to
it. The common people will see in the
plague a result of the political move
ment, and it will be more difficult to
persuade them that it was wise change.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

You needn't believe it unless you want
to, but there is horse in Jackson, Mich,
that is fifty-one years old. He was
foaled in Clarence, Erie county, N: Y,
in 1924, and his name is Romp. He
hasn't a single puff or windgall on his
legs, and does good days work every
day.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

A FARMER in Charlton found q way to
make balky horse go. He took him TO
a strange town and put him up at auc-
tion. He went for $S5.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12
Darling / am growing o-hold
And then we rose up and made sortie

And then we rose up and made sortie
for that young man, en- mosse. We
twined our brawny hands in his golden
locks and dragged him down to the press
room, and had the boys run him through
the double-cylinder press till they had
worked off an edition of 5000 of him,
and then we dashed his CORY carcass, a
fattened, chaotic aggregation of rags
and ruin, out on the sidewalk, where the
needless feet of busy men would trample
it into the dust of the earth. Send us
another original vocalist and composer.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

ALTHOUGH in its infancy, the raisin
crop of California is estimated to yield a
profit of $500, 900 annually.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

Miss MoLLIE ALLEN, of Lockport.
California, has notary's certificate to
show that she has killed four hundred and
thirty-two squirrels with her rife. An
admirer Of Mollie exhibits a card (the
ace of clubs) through which the fair
markswoman had put five bullets at sew
enty-five yards distance, and the holes
made by the five bullets can be covered
with five dollar gold piece.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12
LONGING.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

- 80
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
Near In tfe forest
l know a glade;
Under the tree-tOps
A secret shade.
are the curtains,
Blossoms the floor !,
Voices OF water
Sing evermore.
There, when the sunsets
Lances Of gold
Pierce, or the moonlight
Is silvery cold,
Would that an angel
Led tfee to me-
So out of loneliness
Love should be.
Never the breezes
Should lisp what we say,
Never the waters
Our secret betray.
Silence and shadow
After might reign,
But the old life be ours
Never again.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

Youth Is q continual intoxication it
Is the fever of reason.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12
IT'S loving and serving,
The Highest and Best (;
'Tis onward, unswerving-

THEinconsistencie in our photography
are something fearful to contemplate.
Tongue spells tongue" and the
man that first spelled it so should have
been hongue. Ache spells cache"
and that's all you can mache out of it.
Eight spells "eight," no m sitter how
you depreceight the idea; and that
a-i-s-l should spell "aisle" and f-e-i-g-n
"feign," is enough to make anybody
smaisle, if the, effort were not too
Il
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

New ENGLAND is infested:with tramps
such fellows as eat at the free soup
houses and'sleep at the police stations in
the cities during the winter. They will
not work when the chance is offered. In
several places the authorities set them to
work sweeping the streets in payment
for food and lodging, and the result is a
radiance of vagrants.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

The North German Gazette, comment
ing on the recent submission of Catholic
clergymen to the law for the admins
tration of church property, says the
Episcopate has thereby abandoned the
principle hitherto maintained that the
politics of ecclesiastical matters can only
be regulated by means of Independent
arrangements between the State and
church. The Gazette infers that the
Roman Curia had given permission to
the clergy to decide for themselves, at
the same time assuring them that de-
cision in favor Of submission to the law
will not be regarded as an act of disobe-
dience to the Papal authority. "This,"
continues the Gazette, "may be consid-
cred as hanging struggle between the
political and ecclesiastical powers, and
the Catholic Episcopate will probably
urge upon Rome the necessity of extend
ing still further freedom of action in these
matters" 4srYYr1
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TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

"GATHER ye 70, es while ye may,
Old Time is still a-hying
And the same flower that smiles to-day,
Tomorrow NAV be dying.u
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24
Old SANTA CLAUS.

Old Santa Claus sat alone in his den,
With his leg crossed over his knee,
While a comical looked peeped out at his
eyes;
For funny old fellow was he.
His queer little cap was tumbed and torn,
And his wig il was all awry;
And he sat and mused the whole day long.
While the hours went flying by.
He had been as busy as busy could be,
In filling his bag with toys;
He had gathered his nuts and baked his pies
To give to thu girls and boys.
There were dolls for The girls and whips for
the boys,
With wheelbarrows. horses and draws.
And bureaus and trunks for the dollys new
clothes,
All these in his pack he displays.
OF candies, too, both twisted and striped,
He had furnished plentiful store,
While raisins and figs, and prunes and
grapes,
Hung mp on peg by the door.
81 am almost ready" quoth he, quoth he,
And Christmas is almost here;
But one thing more-I must write them a
book,
And give TO each one this year.
So he clapped his specs on his puffy nose,
And, seizing the stump of pen,
He wrote more lines in one little hour
Than you ever could read in ten
He told them stories, all pretty and new.
And wrote them all out in rhyme;
Then packed them away with his box of
toys,
To distribute one at a time.
And Christmas eve, when all were in bed,
Right down the chimney he few;
And stretching the stocking leg at the top,
He clapped in a book for you.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24
lFrom the Catholic Record for December.
CHRISTMAS HYMN.

Welcome to Thee, heavily Stranger,
Gladstone shall Thy advent be
Tho Thy birih-p place was a manger,
Nature saw her Col in Thee
Whilst Thy 1owiy home was wanting
All that earthly joys could bring,
Seraphs hyms of joy were chaunting.
Unto Thee, earth's new born King.
In Thy stable birth place lowly,
Angels waited Thy behest
Whilst Thy mother, maiden holy,
Clasp'd Thee TO her spotless breast;
Shepherds who their f1ocks were tending
In Bethlehem's lonely plains by night :
Saw the heavily host descending,
Filled with wond ring, strange delight
They their flocks left unprotected,
Wand ring DER the plains afar
Through devious ways TO Thee directed
BY Thy radiert natal star.
Wise men, too, with presents laden,
Jewels rare, and perfumes sweet
From lands afar rich robes array'd in,
Came to worship at Thy feet.
A nd in alteration kneeling -
On Thy happy natal day,
We like them 20 Thee appealing -
Turn not Thy sweet face away;
God and God-like. condescending,
As on the day that saw Thy birth,
Mercy, (with Thy justice blending),
Show unto US, sous of Earth -
Tighten Thou the load of sorrow,
Ease of pain the piercing smart;
Let us hope and comfort borrow
From the love that fills Thy Heart,
Mems fierce passions ali assuaging,
Ger the earth let discord cease;
The "better part let man engage in,
Guided by the hand Of peace
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24

A MAIDEN once said, ''I'll not mate with
a man who has not fortune great 50
she pUuted and waited, aud scorueG to be
mated. Shes a maiden yet-age, Is
Aeo York Commercial idreT'tfSer. A mai
den once Thought, Il cannot be bought
u marry man VINO Is poor but the
man he drank beer, died driving .keer,"
aIid twelve orphans went out from her
door. lis letter To wait and be aged AS
than To marry the average man : foI there's
trouble ahead for the maiden who'll we'd
the very first person she can.-Loussp,He
Courier J0arHaL. Il maiden once cried.
Now, whatever bctide, I'll marry a man
who Is wise, but, his wise views asserted.
she pouted and filrted each sickened full
soon of the prize. Scan. mag. was the
case; twas am awful disgIacc said ;hs
Jadge, in decreeing divorce and the wo-
mans fool who general rule will adopt
III deciding her coursc.-!St. Louis Repub-
ttcdn. But most of the giils dash their
frizzes and cuils) make their minds up.
quite early in life, to take any one who'll
let himself be done - the point is. to he
some ones wife. And the poor silly ciaus
who are caught in their traps will find ont
when IL Is too late, that a girl who was
charming can be AN alaTmingly terrible. ILL.,
tempered mate Only this much is certain.
once back OF the cuIiain, the younp man
who marries will find that the fellow who
weds VIII deserve all he gets and get all
he deserves, of its kimd-Iafer- Ocson
Now the maidens all swear by their pur-
chased bHck hair, they'll be blest If thew
wed any scaTp of poet especially ono
who at women pokes fun. ami rhymes i'm
prose form. so that no one would know il.
-Phfld. Times.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24

How TO CHOOSE CHRISTMAS GIFTs.-A
writer says, apropos of choosing Christ
mas presents /: The usual practice in choos-
ing Christmas gifts is to start out with a
full porimOnnae and come home with it
empty, having secured dozen book,
print and curiosity shops to ''fiud enough
pretty things to go round" The gift sent
to one friend might have been offered with
equal Ic'y to a hundred others.
Now ey ybcly (worth remembering at
all on Christmas Day. has fancy, or
whim, or association, which a trihe will
recall and CRAFTY. Now that we have so
little money, let us set our brains to work
20 remember these whims or hobbies, and
to find the suggestive trifies and our word
for it, we will startle our friends with a
more real pleasure than if we had sent
them the costliest unmeaning gift. There
must be nice discrimination, too, i'm as
sorting these trifies. There are certain
folks whom we know to be sorely i'm need
of articles for the wardrobe, and to whom
we must, therefore, give utterly useless
follies, because they know that we know
IT and there are other and better folk in
like condition who will receive a collar or
pair of gloves with as hearty aud sincere
feeling as though the offering were a strain
of Christmas music. There is one cousin
whose gift must smell of the shops and the
dollars paid for it, and another who If we
send her our worn copy Of George Herbert,
or the little broken vase which has stood
for years on the little study table, would
receive them with wet eyes, aud find them
fragrant with old memories.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24
Il CHRLSTM4S LEGEND.

1t was Christmas eve. The night was
very dark and the snow falling fast as
Herman, the charcoal burner, drew his
cloak tighter around him, and the wind
whistled fercely through the trees of the
Black Forest. He had been to carry a
load to castle near, and was now hasten
ing home to his little hut. Although he
worked very hand, he was poor, gaining
barely enough for the wants of his wife
and his four little children. He was think
ing of them, when he heard faint wall
ing. Guided by the sound, he gropcd
about and found little child, scantily
clothed, shivering and soGbIng by itself in
the snow.
''Why, little one, have they left thee
here all alone 30 face this cruel blast ~
The child answered no,lIing, but looked
piteously up in the charcoal burners face
"Well, l cannot leave thee here. Thou
would'st be dead before the morning."
So saying, Hermann raised it in his
arms, wrapping it in his cloak and warm
ing its little cold hands in his bosom.
When he arrived at his hui, he put down
the child and tapped at the door, which
was Immediately thrown open, and the
children rushed to meet him.
"Here, wife, is guest to our Christmas
Eve SUPPER said he, leading in the little
one, who held timidly to his finger with its
tiny hand.
"And welcome he is," said the wife,
Now let him come and warm himself by
the fire.
The children all pressed round to vel
come and gaze 1T the little newcomer.
They showed him their pretty fir-tree,
decorated with bright, colored lamps in
bonor of Christmas Eve, which the good
mother bad endeave,ed to make .fete for
the children.
Then they sat down to supper, each
child contributing of its portion for the
guest, looking with admiration at its clear,
blue eyes and golden hair, which shone so
as to shed brighter light in the little
room and as they gazed, it grew into a
sort of halo round his head, and bis eyes
beamed with a heavenly lustre. Soon two
white wings appeared larger and larger,
and then the beautiful vision vanished
spreading out his hands as in benedict:on
over them.
Herman and his wife fell on their knees
9xclaiming, in awe-struck voices ..The
holy Christ-child ~ and then embrac aced
their wondering children i'm JOY and thank
fulDess that they had entertained the
Heavenly Guest.
The next morning, as Herman passed
by the place where he had found the fair
child, he saw cluster OF lovely white
flowers, with dark green leaves, looking as
though the snow itself had blossomed
Herman plucked some, and carried them
reverently home To his wife and children,
who treasured the fair blossoms and tend
ed them carefully in remembrance of that
wonderful Christmas Eve, calling them
Chrysanthemums !; and every year. as the
time came round, they put aside a portion
of their feast and gave it to some poor lit
tie child, according to the words of the
Christ :-''Inasmuch as We have done it
unto one OF the least of these my brethren,
We have done it unto me. .''-Florence Sean
nail, in st. Nicholas
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24

WHEN the Earl of Bradford was brought
before Chancellor Loughborough to be ex-
amined upon application for statue OF lu-
macy against him, the chancellor asked him !:
"How many legs has sheep?''
''Does your Lordship mean live or
dead sheep?' answered Earl Bradford
us it not the same thing ?'' said the
Chancellor.
"No, my Lord, said Bradford, there is
much difference. A living sheep may have
four legs; dead sheep has only two.
There are but two legs of mutton the two
fore legs are shoulderes.''
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24
THE OLD CONSTITUTION.

A correspondent writes from Annap.
oils, Nd, thus amusingly: "a full
length figure of Gen jackson has been
received, and is to day being erected
on a suitable pedestal in the grounds
of the Naval Academy. If any one
thinks that Andrew Jackson should
not have a place in the naval school,
he will be enlightened by the follow
ing bit of naval history: During Jack
sons first term, the famous frigate
Constitution was undergoing extern
sive repairs at the Charlestown Navy
yard, under the supervision oi Com
modore Jesse o. Elliot. This thor
ough- h-going Democrat caused the old
tiddle-shaped prov of the historic ship
to be taken down, and a wooden
model Of the conqueror of Pakenham
to be raised in its place At this sac
rilege the old Wings OF Boston grew
indignant, and the figure was hardly
comfortably settled in its niche, be-
fore an intrepid marine scaled the
heights of the Constitution and cut the
Presidents head off. The indignant
Elliot stuck it on again, and set a
guard to watch it, but the same willy
executioner eluded the watch one
dark night, and the headless trunk
met the eyes of the confounded Com
modore on his rounds the next morn
ing. A second time the head was re-
covered by the indefatigable Elliot,
and rumor hath it that the President
sent him to sea in command of the
Mediterranean squadron, to save his
own head and reward the unquench-
able zeal of his admirer Even Jack
son, however, could hardly pat him on
the back, when the party zeal Of this
same officer led him to fill his gun
deck with jackasses on his homeward
voyage, and to set ON foot and to SUBJ
scribe to a testimonial service of plate
to be presented, not to the President,
but to Commodore Elliot. A court
martial sentenced him to four years
suspension from duty, but it appears
that all the jackasses in America must
have been convinced of his unselfish
wish to improve their breed, and
signed petition in his behalf; for We
find that he was restored to duty be-
fore the expiration Of his term OF
sentence. The figure-head was, how
ever, suffered to rest in peace, and
seems to have followed, unmolested,
all the subsequent fortunes of the an
cient ship, until its arrival at Phila-
delphia, where it is now being set in
order for the coming Exposition. AS
it would be manifestly inappropriate,
with all Difference to thc contrary opin-
ion of the eccentric Commodore, to as
sociate Andrew Jackson with timbers
that speak more audibly than the
oak of DodoDa, of Hull and Balm
bridge, of Chauncey and Stewart, of
Decatur and SOlaers. the figure of the
President has been removed. and
sent, at the request of the Superin-
tendent OF the Naval Academy, to
Annapolis. The figure is bareheaded,
and wears q dress suit of the time,
over which an ample cloak falls, gath
cred at the throat with the usual cord.
A roll of manuscript is held in the
right hand, and the left is buried in
the breast of his ass-buttoned and
voluminouS waiSt-coat. The likeness
which the features bear to the orig
inal is not bad, and the hair, at any
rate, stands up with perfect archaolo-
gical accuracy"
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HE WEEKLY SUN.
rs. NEW YORK. 1926.

saieen hundred and seyenty-six is the Cen
l gar. Il Is also the year in which an
| .lOn House Of Representatives., the first
| TOE var. Will be ia power at Washington,
ne year yt the twenty third election of q
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and everything connected with them will
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a.slati1n; and will, IL is To be hoped, lay
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