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The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-04-26
The Ceniellnlal.

Governor Hattranit informs us that
the State Of Pennsylvania has appropri.
ated a million Of dollars TO the Centen.
nial, the city Of Philadelphia has given q
million and o half, and IL is probabletllat
80 further sum Of one million dollars
viii, within d few weeks, =" be devoted TO
the same object. This amounts to three
aud q half millions from one State alone.
These appropriations do not include tho
priyate subscriptions from individuals
in Pennsylvania, which will probably
amount to another million. This Is GER
tainly a noble work for one State to do,
says the New York Herald, and that pa
per adds: We trust that our own State
will not be tardy. The government has
appropriated half million, which, how
ever, will be devoted 10 the display Of
the various departments Of the general
administration. New York will certainly
aim to make q display worthy Of supre-
macy as the Empire State. We cannot
afford to be under obligations 10 our
friends in Pennsylvania for the opportu-
nifty Of SO doing. II is not the habit Of
New York to be dependent upon others
whore either her honor or her interests
are concerned. We trust that the Logis-
lature will vote an appropriation that
will enable New York 10 make an ap-
pearance ut the exhibition worthy Of our
greatness and the magnitude OF the oc-
casion. .s.- ID
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IA paariIsIan Theil.

i IT, u .
In England and France, when they can
have Americans TO help them, thoy can
get up as Systematic q robbery as the
United States itself can offor. A Paris
money changer joins TO his buAiness o
trade in expensive nick-nacits. Nearly
each day for the last six months m
American has made small purchases in
the shop. With the ease and volubility
Of his pleasant race, this gentleman had
fallen into habit Of exchanging long
gosips within. DelapierTe, who looked
on him as one OF his best customers.
The other morning the American ar
rived as,ttstial with q friend. NJ. Della
pierre had Just taken out d bag Of money
and ynluablcs, which he placed in tho
window wbile talking. eiaThera lie, OF
course, q money-changer's grating be-
tween II and the shop. Presently en-
tered third person, who bought a'silyer
teapot, which the assistant ,pa6lsedup
and carried 10 the address given. When
he had gone the American produced n
claw, sush as gas globes ara set upon,
and snidcarelessly to tho money changer:
"I wish you would sec II you have
glasslto ft this claw" NJ. Delapierre
went with him into the back shop and
sought o globe to match, leaving the
friend alone. 1t appears that he imme-
diately opened the grating, seized tho
little bag OF valuables, aud called out:
" Haven't you found glass yeti" The
American came back, chose some small
articles to be sent home, and then went
of quietly with his companion. Not for
half an hour afterward did N. Delapietre
discover his loss, which amounted 10
e12,OOO, half Of II in bank notes and
gold, and the rest in checks md nego-
liable paper a theft 80 patiently COM
,cocted, 50 soaudaciously carried out, says
Paris paper, Ia worthy Of notice. Like
our own bank forgers, these men had
plainly some capital, besides cool brain
ind cold resolution. They could afford
10 whit six months, and 10 buy silver tea
pots and triaes Of that sort. ~
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lie Adrertlses There.

When man is very anxious TINT the
public should know something for in
stance, that he Inns lost some bonds and
wants TO recover them, says the Adrer5
Using Gazette, his very first impulse,
whether lie be regular advertiser or
not, Is to fly to the newspapers. You
never hear him say on snch occasions,
"What's the use Of adyertising" Ho
simply sits down satisfied, as though
the thing were accomplished and tho
bonds "all but" back into his hands
once more. But when II comes to btisii;
ness and he Is told he should advertise,
he seems to forget all this-or very many
merchants do, and reiterate, "whats the
use Of Il, etc. Now here are two pur-
poses 10 DO served, exnctly alike, !. O., to
mike known his wants to the public, and
both arc to some extent Of q kind, for in
one he offers reward, and in the other
large inducements. Yet he too often
fails to SEQ tho connection that linderlies
all advertising transactions, and illogic-
ally makes up his mind that what is
good for the gander is not good for the
goose, and so remains, more or less, as
lar as his regular businessis concerned,
in the condition Of the latter.
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A New England Farm.

at is tho popular opinion that no
money eau be made on the so-called
worn ont hill-town farms Of New Eng
land; but the experience OF Mr.. William
q. Warren, OF Windsor, Massachusetts,,
Is to the contrary. His farm contains
two. hundred aeres, little more than
half cleared land, aud cost him 81, 500.
The stock kept tile past year was sixteen
cows, two horses, three heiiersRnd hogs.
He worked up his own milk into butter
and cheese on account OF distance from
the factory. His working force consisted
Of himself end wife, and daughter and
boy twelve years Of age, and ono hired
man. His sales Of butter and cheese
for tho year ending February 1, 1876,
we're 81, ,161. 20; pork, Sis; calf hides,
SIS; apples and cider, $40, Total,
$l,311,70. His outgoes were: hired
man (seven months, $3.50; taxes, S02;
for meal fed not raised on farm, Si3. IA.
Total, S2S5.74, leaving for the labor Of
himself and family and interest Of his
capital invested q balance Of 81, ,025. 90.
His cheese has sold ut the door at an
average OF thirteen cents per pound, and
the butter at MI ayerage, Of thirty cents
per pound. In years Of higher prices he
has done mueh better than tho past year.
He has lived on three different farms in
Windsor during the last thirty years,
has always driven q good team, lived
well, worked steadily, and steadily made
money, leaving each farm better than he
found 1t. He has steadily pursued tue
system Of keeping only q moderate
stock Of good natiye COWS and Of keeping
them well; Of doing his own work as fal
as possible, and Of raising tho provisions
for his family and the grain md root
for his stock rs much as possible on lii
own fartn; never hesitating, however, Il
buy meal when his own granary rum
low. There are many farms in the tow1
that will keep rs much stock and more
than his that can be bought for from
50, ,5e0to $1,000, with rs much woot
on them, not as good buildings and mo-
so sheltered rs Mr.. Watren's, II will
be seen that tho income, counting ii
pork and calf hides sold as we'll as but
ter and cheese, was SS0.73 per COW
Counting out the meal bought tor stock
reduces tho average TO S7S per COW
again counting ont, in addition to mea
bought, the interest on tho land Mt sever
per cent. and still you have S5s.31 lei
per COW. How many dairy farmers liv
ing on land Tint cost from $50 to S20t
per acre can reckon out interest on lani
and meal bought for COWS, teams ant
hogs and show navorage Of S59.31 pei
COW leftl And II you cannot do II, VIII,
Is your, land worth 10 much, aud why dc
you still say nothing can be mado farm
ing back on the hillsf = = a.
4 = gfd1s 10 4ii' lsf li- fN' ift .HlI %
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The western Wheat Crop.

The winter wheat in the West has been
smothcred. The sudden thaw aud rains
In the Inter part Of February, followed
Immediately by heavy sleet and intense
cold, report from Chicago says, have
been mainly instrumental in killing, or
"snothering" as II Is called, the great
quantity Of winter wheat planted all
over this Western country. In some
parts Of the country tho farmers are
plowing up their fields sowed with wheat
last fall. This Is in tho uplands. In tho
lowlands, where there Is some moisture
there is hope Of q partial crop, but not
one-third OF q crop exists In tile ontire
Northwest. Ono broker, who has
travelled extensively through Illinois,
Wisconsin, and Michigan, says he could
cat all the wheat which will be grown in
those Statos, 81
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Tic Arts Of a Hundred Years Ago.

One hundred years ago what man
discovered in tile arts he concealed.
workmen were put upon oath, in tho
name OF God, never to reveal tleprocess
used by their employers. Doors were
kept closed, artisans going out were
searched, visitors were rigorously ex-
cluded from admission, and false opera
tions blinded the workmen themselves.
The mysteries Of every craft wore
helged in by thicksct fences Of emPiri-
cal pretensions and judicial affirmation.
The royal manufactures Of porcelain,
for example, were long carried on in Eu-
rope with spirit Of Jealous exclusive
ness. His majesty Of Saxony was espe.
cially circumspect. Not content with
tile oath OF secresy imposed upon his
work people, he would not abate his
kingly suspicion in favor Of brother
monarch. Neither king nor kings dele:
gate might enter the tabooctl walls Of
Nelson. What is erroneously called
the Dresden porcelain that exquisite
pottery of which the world has never
seen tho liko-wns produced for two
hundred years by process SO secretthat
neither the bribery Of princes nor tho
garrulity Of tho operatyes ever revealed
: Other discoveries hayo been less sue
cessfully guarded, fortunately for the
worll. The manufacture Of tinware in
England originated in q stolen secret.
Few readers need to be informed that
tinware is simply thin iron plated with
tin by being dipped into the molten
metal. In theory Il is M easy matter to
clean the surface Of iron, dip 1t into n
bath Of the boiling tin and remove 1t en-
yeloped with tho silvery metal to place
for cooling. In practice, however, the
process Is one OF tho most difficult in the
arts. II was discovered in Holland and
guarded from publicity with the utmost
vigilance for nearly half o century. Eng
land tried in vain TO discover tile secret
until james Sherman, Cornish miner,
crossed the Channel, insinuated himself
master OF tho secret, and brought 1t
homo. The secret Of manufacturing
cast steel was also Rtealthily obtained,
aud IL Is now within the reach Of all ar-
HgnnH.
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HOW \. q cross ths Street.

~ II| d
4 II ladies' who see o team approaching
las they are crossing o street will Glance
to sec whether the driver observes them,
and finding that he does, will walk along
as though there ! was 20 danger what;
ever, they win be much more safe than
they generally arc at present under such
circumstances. Many ladies' get fright
oned on seeing o team near them, go
ahead o little, dodge back, glance about
them with look Of extreme bewilder-
nent, and thon make q grand rush, as
likely las not going in the direction, they
should not 90, the driver Of the team
meanwhile refining his horses first to the
right and then to the left, anxious to
avoid ihaicting injury, but unable to
guess even where the lady will jump to
next. ~ nv lt'il
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Useful knowledge.

a man walks three miles in an hour;
Ia horse trotS seven; steamboats, run
eighteen; sailing vessels ten; alow rivers
flow four; rapid rivers seven; moderate
wind blows seven; storm moves thirty.
six; hurricane, eighty; rifle ball, ono
thousand; sound, seven hundred and
forty!tlir6e; light 100000; electricity,
2s0,000. A barrel Of flour weighs 100
pounds; O barrel OF pork, two hundred;
barrel Of rice, six hundred; barrel OF
powder, twenty-five; firkin OF buttor,
tifty-six;, tub of butter, eighty-four.
Wheat, beans and clover seed, sixty
pounds to tho bushel ;corn, rye and flax
seed, fifty-six; buckwheat, fifty.two;
barley, forty.eiglit; oats, tliirty.tiye;
bran, twenty; timothy seed, forty.fve;
coarse salt, eighty.tlye. Sixty drops
make q draclm, eight drachms m
ounce, four ounces gill, sixteen gillsa
pint, sixty drops o teaspoonful, four
teaspoonfuls tablespoonful or half On
ounce, two tablespoonfuls an ounce,
eight tablespoonfuls o gill, two gills q
coffee cup or tumbler, six fluid ounces a
teacupful. -Four thousand eight hundred
and forty square yards, an acre, q square
mile, six hundred and forty acres. To
measure an acre: 900 feet on each side,
makinga square mere, within an inch.
Thereare 1880 languages. Two per-
sons die. every second. A generation is
fifteen years; average OF life, thirty.one
years. The standing army In Prussia,
warItimes, 1900, 200; France, 100000;
r. Russia, ,o0o, 900; Austria, s25, 900;
Italy, 200, 900; Spain, 100 600; Belgium,
95, 900; England, "a, 900; United States,
"a, 900. Roman Catholics in the United
States, 100000. Mails in New York
city are one hundred tons per day. New
York consumes six hundred beeyes
daily, seven huudred calves, 10000
sheep, 10000 swine, in winter.
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beloved Demetri, bathed in the blood
that welled forth from the death, wounds
her murtlerous hand had inhistad. He
itwas, then, whose boyish passion had
been reciprocated by her young attend
ant he II was for whom NedI had de-
yised the love meeting which had TINT
morning changed hGr own Jealous fears
into dreadful certainties. He ii was, oh
God, upon whom her imaginary wrongs
had just been so birbarously avenged
The similarity Of names, Of dress, had
deceived her, Why had she not thought
OF this beforei Whyl Docs suspicion
ever pause TO reason or reflect I Is not
jealousy blind rs love (whose dark
shadow II Is said to be)l all this passed
through her mind with the rapidity Of
lightning, as that one awful glance re-
yealed 70 her the extent Of her crime.
No words escaped her lips, but, as II
struck by a thunderbolt, shefell heavily
forward by the side Of the beloved son
whose life had fallen q sacrifice TO the
rash md ungoyernable suspicious Of the
jealous wife.
The first use that Thyra made OF her
returning faculties was to cast herself at
the feet Of hon husband, and make q full
confession Of the feelings which had
driven her 10 commit so desperate o
decd, imploring death at his hand in ex-
piation OF her crime.a But death, Which
would have terminated her earthly tor-
ments, was boon which the exasperated
husband was resolved not 10 grant her,
"Woman," said he, 'syot shall live Ia
die a thousand DEATHS every day. You
shall live TO curse the day on which you
were born. You shall live TO expiate,
in lingering tormentsof mind, the misery
you have inflicted on me.
And ginaexible IN his determination,
he caused his uniortnnate wife TO be con
yeyed TO the Rock Of Babake, where, ii
rudely constructed stone chamber, she
wps condemned TO drag out o miserable
existence, without being suffered 10 OK
change word with my lhnmanbeing,ant
with no companionship save her owr
wretched thoughts. Her senses failet
under her severe punishment; but mad
ness, instead Of bringing oblivion To he
woes, seemed TO have impaired new
activity to her faculties Of suffering
Every evening % darkness covered th,
earth, the poor maniac ifancied herself
again IN actor in the dreadful scenei
which stained her soul with tho fou
guilt Of murder; and the frenziet
shriaks she uttered during the nighi
were heard from afar, waking the echoes
Of that dreary solitude rLntil daylight
brought with It ia temporary cessation O
her agonies in the calm Of exhaustion.
One day, lot last, when her attenden
who daily brought her supplies Of foot
entered her prison, she had disappeared
Every part Of the rocltwas searched, but
no yestige Of her was ,tBbe found, MOI
could any tracc Of her be discovered II
account for her mysterious eyanishment
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Items Of Interest.

"Orthogrnmmnnin, Is what they arc
calling the rage for spelling matches.
An Oneida man adyertises for o peddlcr
who won't swear. Next he will want u
boy with feathers on his legs.
A corn whisk will take off anything
on your coat, and corn whisky Will take
of the coat Of your stomach. p
A Christmas disappointment -"1t's II
lovely doll, dear grandpa and grandma;
but-but-Id been hoping 1t would be
twins" p 1lI7
Theinfant sovereign Of China assembled
the throne under the honorary title OF
Kwang Su, the best translation Of which
Is continuation Of glory"
The grasshoppers in the Western
States are around the railway stations
these warm spring mornings, to see who
comes 10 purchase seed wheat.
Hartford doesn't care about spelling
match Ms long as she can go out and
look at this sign, which is put up near
the stone bridge: "Bolier and Engin
for sale." i.l.f
It don't make any difference whether
poems on "spring' are written on ono
side Of the paper or on two sides. They
stand tho same chance Of publication
either way.
A little girl at Richmond, Ind, tho
other day, swallowed o glass earring.
She lay eight days with It In hcr bron-
chial tubes and then cougled 1t up 50
that n surgeon cut 1t out. Her recovery
is expected. 'p @
Tho most convincing evidence TINT
merchant Is enterprising and up to tho
times Is afforded by tho iberality with
Which he adyertises. That's the yay it
strikes newspaper readers, and they arc
the best customers.
Broom corn was introduced into our
country by Dr.. franklin. While OK
amining q corn whisk (imported) he nc.
cilently found q single seed, which no
planted in his garden, and from Which
the corn was propagated. ~ e
The largest and wealthiest village in
tho country is Kalamazoo, Michigan,
which has 1850 inhabitants, hvc rail-
roads, several millions Of manufactures,
and half dozen banks and colleges. 1t
has never applied for o city charter.
A tramp in q lookup was overheard
describing to o crowd Of his brethren tho
best places for getting lodgings and food
between New York and Boston, Illus.
trating his remarks with arough chart
which he had prepared as tho result OF
his experiences. aa-.las
A clergyman in ono Of our Eastern
cities was met by q soedy-looking mat
with o flask Of whisky in his pocket,
who inquired; "sir, is this the nearest
road to the almshousep mo, sir"
replied tho Clergyman, pointing to tho
bottle; "but that Is"
There is q young fellow in Portland
whose future depended upon tho result
Of the Brooklyn trial, because the girl
le loved promised to marry him II Bee
cher was pronounced innocent; other
wise she declared that her confidence In
man would be destroyed and she would
never wed.
A ship at sen sprung leak. The hole
in It's bottom was Just one foot square.
There was but board onthc ship-this
was sixteen inches long and nine inches
wide. II had precisely the requisite
number OF square inches, and tho car.
penter cut it in two pieces only, and
these two pieces just fitted the hole.
How did lie do It'd
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Arahesques.

Whom Sll tho paaes arc hun !aith frost,
Wild Wizari-Nork Of silver lace,
I wheel my sofa on the rug
Before tho anrient caimasy-placei
And, basiing in the ire-lisht's glow, /.
Ihoar tie hemlock cllirp and sing,
Az II within il rliliy core strae, ,rt
1t held tlio hAppy heart Of spriag.
Fstdou4I noysr sang like that,
Nor he OF shtras, III be sworn.
Iionlse, and blow white rings Of smoke,
Anawa.chltiieni, lightly upward borno.
The curling vreAihs lllIo tarbana seem
otsiient alayes that como aud 20,
otyiziers packed With craft and crime,
Whom l bohead from time to time,
with pIpe-stcm, at a single blow.
Aud now and then fragrant cloud
Takes gracious shape, at my doairc,
Aud at my side my lady stands,
unyinda her veil With snowy hands
AbhAdcEy shapc a breath Of arol
Glove iyou were only horO
Beside mo in this mellow light,
Though all the bittOr winds should blow,
And ali the ways DO choked with snow,
'Twonldbc a true Arabian nishtil
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what Compound Interest Does.

"save the pennies and the dollars
will take care OF Themselves" used to be
the advice the wise old gentlemen gayo
TO the boys. AS our excellent savings
banks are ready to help those who are
50 wise as to lay up their savings, the
young people especially can find food for
profitable reflection in tho following
table, showing tho product Of weekly
savings at q compound interest at six per
cont, and deposits commence interest
the first day OF eacll month:
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All slnners.

A curate, preaching To the women Of
his parish, in the interior Of Colombia,
said; nThere ia one among my audience
OF 30 scandalous behavior that 1 haya
resolyed-but no, 1 will give no names,
because that would not be Christian
charity. But 1 will just throw my bon
net at her, That you may know who she
is," The good curato then took oil hta
bonnet and made as II ho was about 70
throw It, shouting, "That is tho yilo
woman u All tho women present held
down thoir heads 10 avoid the bonnet
d Dios tirmoicol" exclaimed the cure y;
nI thought there was only one sinners
but i 40 conscience accuses all Of ycu.9
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He Won.

ygAParis paper contributes o story Of an
Englishman, now residing in Paris, in
tho enjoyment Off large fortune, for
which he was indebted to his prowess
as o member Of the Oxford crew some
years since. During the race his boat
was apparently losing, whom his uncle,
ahoutlhg from the bank, promised him
the hand Of his daughter should Oxford
win. Stimulated by the promise, Mr..
0xon induced his comrades 10 further
and successful efforts, aud ho was re-
warded not only by tho hand Of his
cousin, but also by the inheritance Of
his unclo's fortune, which had been
largely increased BY the bets upon the
race.
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Ilfe nnd Death.

The Carlisle table Of mortality comes
as near the truth of tho grave fatality Of
a community, perhaps, as at present
possible. This table is tho result Of
observations, continued for many years,
as TO the population Of Carlisle, q city in
England, and Is used as an authority IN
life insurance calculations in America
and Europe. According to this table, OF
10000 children born: l8
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Tho Parisians devour 1OO,OOO,000 Of
apples ever winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease Of
dyspepsia and bilious affections In Paris
Il owing TO the increased consumption Of
this fruit, which, he naintainS Is IN
admirable prophylactic aud tonic, ns
we'll "a q very nourisling and easily
digcsted article Of food. ~
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wmnIsa iBoY.-ADetro Free Press
nowshoy about ten years old ran after q
pedestrian and urged him yehemently TO
purchase paper. Tho man made no
answer until the hoy had followed him o
whole block, and then he halted dandsaid:
'.Boy, II YOU don't stop annoying me I'll
call 4 policeman ''Don,t 90 TO any
trouble n replied the lad rBuy o pa-
per d me aud IN call a policeman for
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Leaving one of the 10000 pcrsons
living at tile expiration Of 104 years.
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TbG 9emofrat.

RATns OF. ADVERTISING. 9.
one Iuaro, ton llnes or iSss one InlcrtiOn sl'oo
M. s sarsss sssn ~ I,esiti~ 1000
l1o.tourth oi Column. n months. .'..''SS'vv11 "
ohe-hAlf acolumn, u months, ." .....'...22'oooo .2 ~
One column, 70 months. ..,.,,,...,:..,.,.io'VV
Local notices 70 cents pST line, rhieh inrss
DO paid IN advance. Five DO Sta Wy " 80
charged for announcing can1int" i%
county, and ten dollars for State ar' y.
8. otlces Lengthy Obituary nol.ceS
must 10 paid for. gS-All legal nstlesa
are charged to The attorney presenting
them.
Special rates TO partic, desiring more @aa ON
ToB PRTNTLNG G
Nnnily and prnmntlY Executed at thla Onlno.
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CARBON COUNTY.

SWEEINA TEI COUNTY.
W =. Snbr-. Chairman,
COmWisiOnsFS I liam Evans.
flames Calhoun.
shsrig T.. A. McPhve.
CISrE-A. Mcintosh.
PROBATE .J4dy.-Jas. A. Brennan, sV. Of. TrsAS 7.
Isyes sOr- Nm A. johnson.