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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
The Story Of Captain Nathan Hale.

One hundred years ago September %,
within the limits of New York City,
Captain Nathan Hale, of the Conti-
mental army, was hung as a spy, without
the formality of a trial and under cir
cumstances of peculiar atrocity. He
was but twenty-one years of age, a grad
uate of Yale, and man whose fine lit
erary attainments are perpetuated by his
granddaughter, Rev. Edward Everett
Hale. The New York World gives some
interesting "reminiscences of this hero
martyr and says: Tradition has pre-
served picture of gallant young sol
dier, who in April, 1776, encamped his
company in the fields near our Bunker
Hill at Broadway and the Bowery, and
who in September of the same year
crossed the Sound at Norwalk on his
perilous errand. Twenty-one years old
in June. bright-eyed and athletic, he
was dressed in a frock of white linen
fringed, such as officers then wore, with
yellow ribbon in his cockade to mark
his rank in lieu of epaulettes. He had
his fire-lock slung behind (all officers
wore them thus), and at his side was a
sword that was worn by his uncle,
Nathan Hale, who was killed by shell
at the siege of Louisburg in 1745. When
equipped for the perilous work of spy,
Captain Hale changed his uniform for a
plain suit of citizens clothes, with a
round, broad.brimmed hat. He was set
ashore at Huntington, Long Island, and
thence proceeded through the British
camps on Long Island and at New York.
After passing safely to the outposts OF
the British army he stopped at tavern
called the "Cedars," where he was seen
and recognized by Tory cousin, a dissi-
pated young man named Samuel Hale,
who had received many favors at his
hands in former times. This double
traitor betrayed him to the British. say
ing that he was a captain in the Cont
mental army and spy. General Howe
was then residing at the Beekman
House, near the present junction of First
avenue and Fifty-first street. Hale was
brought before him, and frankly owned
his name, rank, and object. This was on
the 2lst of September, l776, just one
week from the day on which Washington
had given him his secret instructions at
the Murray House, on Murray Hill.
Howe had Hale hung without a trial,
and the infamous Provost Marshal Cum
ningham tore up the letters he wrote to
his mother and betrothed on the morn
ing of his execution. He died like a
hero, saying with his last breath, I" re-
gret that have but one life to give for
my country" The place Of his burial is
unknown, but is within the city limits.
At the time of Captain Hale's execution
he was engaged to be married to young
lady in Connecticut. She survived him
seventy-fve years, and though she
yielded to the opportunities of friends
and married, she never forgot her youth
full lover. When she came to die, at the
age of ninety-three, the last word she
spoke was Nathan"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Died of Bad Air.

A source of diseases from which our
ancestors were exempt may be traced to
what we term modern Improvements.
In the old colonial houses, there were no
ramifcations of water-pipes, no water
closets, and no wide-mouthed hoppers
on the chamber floors for getting rid of
the waste, that found its way at once to
place provided for 1t beyond the con-
fines of the house. In this they had to
submit to what we would call great
deprivation, but, on the other hand,
they knew nothing of diphtheria, and
kindred diseases. Stiggins said, when
interviewed on the liquor question, :" 1t
there is any one of them less odious
than another, it is the liquor called
rum" And we may say, that, II there
is a difference in the ways of getting rid
| of house waste. the sewer is better than
the open vault. But. while the sewer
NAV be made effectual in removing that
which emits gases deadly to man, 1T is
equally true, that il may prove to be
the more dangerous of the two, in that,
II not properly trapped and perfectly
ventilated, it will lead the poison into
our dwellings, instead of removing it to
a distance, where 1t can do no harm.
The contents of the vaults saturates the
whole of the surrounding earth, poisons
the spring and the wells, and finds its
way in little currents through the in.
terstices of the foundation.wal of oul
houses; there 1t throws off gases toe
slight to attract attention, but too deadly
to be inhaled by the inmates with i'm
punity. The soilpipe is an improve
ment on this; but If it be not tight IL
all its parts, or il there be any imper
fectly soldered or calked joints, woe be
tide the man who sleeps near it; for thu
destroying angel is abroad, and will fine
him as surely as he lies down and rise
up in an atmosphere 80 charged with tn
germs of disease.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Subjects for Thought.

There are few things more productive
of evil in domestic life than thoroughly
bad temper. 1t does not matter what
form that temper may assume, whether
it is of sulky kind that maintains per-
feet silence for many days, or the madly
passionate, which vents itself in absolute
violence. Ill-temper at any age is a bad
thing; it never does anybody any good,
and those who indulge in it feel no bet
ter for it. After the passion has passed
away one sees that he had been very fool
ish, and knows that others see it too.
Bad temper in the aged is, perhaps, the
most trying of all it is indeed pitiable
sight to see the wrinkled cheek of an old
person ahame with the fires of anger and
passion. Since anger is useless, and an
unspeakable misery to its victims, why
should it be INDUCED in at all
No trait of character is more valuable
in wife than the possession of sweet
temper. Home can never be made happy
without it. 1t is like the flowers that
spring up in our pathway, reviving and
cheering us. Let man 60 home at
night, weary and worn out by the tolls
of the day, and how soothing is word
dictated by sweet disposition 1t is
sunshine falling on his heart. He ishappy
and the cares of life are forgotten. A
sweet temper has soothing influence
over the mind of the Whole family. When
it is found in the wife and mother, you
find kindness and love predominating
over the natural feelings of bad heart
Smiles, kind words and looks, character.
ize the children, and peace and love
have their dwelling there.
True happiness is of retired nature
and an enemy to pomp and noise il
arises, in the first place, from the enjoy,
ment of ones self, and in the next, from
the conversation and friendship of few
select companions. False happiness loves
to be in a crowd, and to draw the eye
of the world upon her. She does not re-
ceive any satisfaction from the applause
which she gives herself, but from the ad
miration which she raises in others.
The greatest man is he who chooses
right with the most invincible resolu
tion; who resists the sorest temptation
from within and without; who bears th'
heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calm
est in the storms, and the most fearles
under menaces and frowns; whose reli
ance on truth, on virtue and on God, j
most unfaltering.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Scientific.

The only satisfactory detective Of
blood-stains, and the animal from which
they have been derived, is the micro
scope. When avery thin film of human
blood is pressed between two plates of
glass, as in ordinary microscopic work,
and examined under tolerably high
power of the instrument, the well knewn
red fluid is seen in reality to consist of a
perfectly colorless liquid, known as the
serum, and of an immense number of
minute solid particles floating in this
LIQUID. These latter particles are the
blood-corpuscles; the vast majority of
these bodies appearing of a reddish
yellow hue, while few are seen to be OF
white color. Thus, the color of the
blood is entirely due to the presence OF
these little globules, which exists in such
numbers that the fluid presents to the
unassisted sight uniformly red appear
ance. The blood of all animals contains
corpuscles or globules of one kind OF
another; and IL is from the different
characters presented by the blood
globules of different animals that ths
microscopic is enabled TO distinguish the
! vital fluid of one from that of another
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Scientific Reporting.
New York Graphic.l


1t is generally supposed that the Pho-
nographic reports of lectures printed IN
our metropolitan papers are essentially
correct and can be depended on ana
their publication has been claimed as
one of the triumphs Of modern journal
ism. The art Of reporting seems as yet
TO have been poorly mastered by those
who practice it, and the great dailies, as
thew call themselves, have little reason
to pride themselves on their achievements
thus far. Professor Huxley's lecture was
reported verbatim in the Tribune and
Times on Tuesday morning, and each
was prefaced with the customary flourish
of trumpets; yet there were over three
hundred differences between these two
verbatim reports, and some of the differ
ences are of an important character.
We have not space to give many OF
them but the following, taken at random,
serve as an illustration: "Symbolical
conception" in one was given "Symbol-
ical sections" i'm the other; Undue
ton" said one, deduction" said the
other. "Father Suarez" was printed
] "Father Schwarri" in one report ana
left out of the other altogether. Personai
notions" in one was rendered "specuia-
tive notions" in the other, and one omit, 7,
ted the "doctrine of uniformitarianism.,
Herbaria was reported in one "herbens
and in the other "herbarri, ana the
"perplexity of one was balanced by
the complexity" of the other. Such
differences show how untrustworthy
these 40 called verbatim reports are, and
how small is the basis for good deal oi
journalistic biag. As Professor Huxley
speaks very slowly indeed there is nc
good reason why he should be incorrectly
reported, at least why he should be re-
ported as uttering scientific nonsense
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Some Smuggling Tricks.

My visit to the Smugglers' Museum
taught me great deal concerning human
ingenuity and "the tricks that are vain"
The lynx-eyed official who acted as my
conductor, first opened cabinet, and
drawing out something, handed it to me
for inspection.
"What would you call that ?' he said.
Ireplied, l 81 should call it broom
stick"
"You are right" he said, "and here
are others like it, Now, I'll tell you
something about them. Broomsticks are
imported in good quantities, you should
know, and some years ago a parcel OF
them were brought to the Custom House,
and for some reason best known to the
consignees, never claimed. They re-
mained on our hands, and were laid aside
as lumber in one of our offices. One day,
by some means, piece came of the end
of one of these broomsticks, when it was
found that the stick had been followed
out so as to make sort of long box,
which throughout its whole length was
stuffed full Of tobacco. For long time
past, you see, tobacco had been smuggled
in that way, until we discovered it. An
other dodge was to compress tobacco in
the form of leather boOt-sole. This
trick often succeeded. Can't look into
every pair of shoes, you KNOW, rightly
observed my guide. "Nice coil of rope,
that, isn't it?" was the question put to
me as my feet caught in an ordinary coil
of black tarred rope, as it seemed. A
minute ago should have acquiesced; q
nice coil of rope it would have been, but
now l had grown suspicious. 1t occurred
to me that smelling would enlarge ones
knowledge, so / raised it to my nose
Tobacco, unmistakable tobacco. " Yes
it's tobacco" said my guide; "and hard
enough it is, when you examine hundreds
of coils of rope by the light of lantern
to detect the imitation ones. You can
always be smelling. Now, here's clever
affair-a pigeon-cage. Pigeons are inn
ported in considerable numbers. Nov
you observe this cage is SO made tina
the birds are in several stories, and tha
each bird has a space to itself. Very
we'll; all under and around about thos
separate spaces you see what seems to b
dead woodwork, but, in point of fact, tn
woodwork is all hollow. These holloy
parts were filled with tobacco, and SNUG
gled year after year; the trick was onl.
discovered by accident"
Among other devices l was show
boxes with false bottoms, jackets an
waistcoats with false Innings; but thes
things were spoken of disparagingly b
my guide, altogether 80 failing in clover
ness as to elicit neither his admiratio
nor mine. These contrivances were rel
resented to have done good service ono
for the smuggling, not only of tobacco
but tea, and, still more, lace. But,
he added, "the successful days of smul
glers are over; we're wide awake, nov
and the man or woman who expects
cheat us must get up pretty early in tn
| morning"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
YOU Ask we HOW L LIVE.
BY JOSEPH HoBBINs.

Living friendly, feeling friendly,
Acting fairly TO all men,
Seeking TO do that TO others
They may do to me again.
Hating no man, scorning no man,
Wronging none by word or deed;
But fCrbearing, soothing, serving,
Thus live-and this my creed.
Harsh condemning, fierce contemning,
Is OF little Christian use;
One soft word OF kindly peace
Is worth torrent OF abuse;
Calling things bad. calling men bad,
Adds but darkness to their night;
III thou wouldst improve thy brother
Let thy goodness be his light.
/ have felt and known how bitter
Human GOODNESS makes the world,
Ey'ry bosom round me frozen
Not an eye with pity peaIPd;
Still my heart with kindness teemlng
Glads when other hearts are glad,
And my ears q tear-drop indeth
At the sight Of others Sad.
All be kind-life hath no secret
For our happiness like this;
Kindly hearts are seldom sad ones,
Blessing ever briDgeth bliss;
Lend helping hand to others,
Smile though ali the wsrld should frown ;
Man is man, we all are brothers,
Black or white or red or brown.
Man is man through all gradations,
Little recks 1t where he stands,
How divided into nations,
Scattered over many lands;
Man is man by form and feature,
Man by vice and virtue too,
Man In all one common nature
Speaks and binds us brothers true.
Pen and PLotc.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

CHARITY IN BAR-RooMs.-Some
months ago gentleman attached con-
tribution box to a wooden pillar in a
South Brooklyn bar-room, for the
Little Sisters of the Poor" Two of the
sisters came one day, and the key was
duly placed in their charge. They took
the two or three dollars which had accu-
mulated in the box, and did not return
for two months, when they found thirty
three dollars and fifty cents to their
credit in bills, half dollars, quarters and
nickels.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

BY ELIZABETH CUMMINGS.

We need young man to stir the people
And lead them to the fold"
The deacons said :: We ask your resignation,
Because you're growing eld."
The pastor bowed his deacoRs out In silence,
And tenderly the gloom
OF twilight hid him and his bitter anguish
Within the lonely room.
Above the violet hills the sunlight's glory
Hung like crown OF gold,
And from the great church spire the bells sweet
anthem
Adown the stiffness rolled.
Assembled were the people for Ged's worship;
But In his study chair
The pastor sat unheeding, while the south wind
Caressed his snow-white hair.
smile lay on his lips. His was the secret
OF sorrows glad surcease,
Upon his forehead shone the benediction
OF everlasting peace.
Z" The ways Of Providence are most mysterious"
The deacons gravely said,
AS wondering eyes, and scared, the people crowded
About their pastor-dead.
" We loved him I" wrote the people on the coffin,
In words of shining gold
And 'bove the broken heart they set statue
OF marble, white and cold.
The end 2 All, ne-the undiscovered country
Somewhere In brightness lies
Though only space and stars may be discerned
BY mans shortsighted eyes.
Home Journal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
Moody and Sankey Hymns.

1t is a fact, which tens of thousands
who sing what are known as the Moody
and Sankey hymns perhaps never
thought of, that many Of them have no
particular religion in them at all, and
that they can be sung and are, in fact,
sung by Jews as we'll as Christians, and
by outside worldings as well rs both:
Let any one examine the text of Hold
the Fort" "Only an Armor Bearer" "
or " Pull for the Shore" and he will at
once see that they are quite as fit for a
tabernacle as for Presbyterian meeting
house, ,,or for Mohammedan mosque as
either. Indeed, there are those who,
hearing some Of them sang for the first
time in theaters, like "The Sweet by
and By" never imagine that they were
written as hymns or intended TO be used
as part of the church services at all.
The most sublime illustration of con
fidence in your fellow-man is going into
| a restaurant and ordering hash,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12
MINOR TOPICS.

NEWS from Panama states that, in an
engagement August 81, at Las Chaucos,
in the Cauca, between the rebels and the
Government forces, the rebels lost more
than one thousand in killed and wounded,
while the Government forces lost two
hundred killed and three hundred
wounded. The rebelsengaged numbered
six thousand five hundred men, and the
Constitutional forces three thousand two
hundred.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

The Providence Star tells big story
about a young m IN of that city who,
years ago, spent all his money in vain
attempt to make Russian iron, went to
Russia, determined to become life con-
vict, learn the art, ard, if possible, es-
cape. For forty years girl he had
promised to marry had been waiting for
him, and, last week, he wrote her that he
was on his way back.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

NATURALIsTs of the Meteorological
Society of Scotland noticed last year that
herrings in fresh water rose to the sur
face only when the temperature had fall
len below twelve degrees Reaumur. Fish
ermen now, when they do not find the
fish near the surface, drop their ther.
mometers until they fall TO the required
point, and lower their nets in accord.
ance, with great success.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

WINTER is coming. The leaves are
reddening along their tips like young
womsn's ears when she is proposed TO hy
o man of sixty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

GLADSTONE risesat seven o'clock every
morning, and at eight o'clock walks to
prayers in the village church. He drinks
bitter beer with his breakfast, glass or
two of claret at dinner, and sometimes a
glass of port later. An egg beaten up in
sherry, and secured in tiny glass jar, is
the fortifier with which he supplies him.
self when about to make one of his
speeches of three or four hours dura-
tion.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN New
TON, who has had charge of the He'll
Gate Improvements, is a native of Vir-
ginia, and was graduated at West Point
in 1912. He was second in his class, en-
tered the Engineer Corps and was As
sistant Engineer in the construction of
Fort Warren in 1916. He constructed
the defense of Washington, and took an
active part in the battles of South Moun-
tain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettys-
burg, siege of Atlanta, etc.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

A SUBSTITUTE for gunpowder has been
invented in England, in the shape of
paper impregnated with chemical COM
bination of chlorate of potash, nitrate of
potash, prussiste ofpotash, and chromate
of potash, coupled with little powdered
charcoal and tinder. The paper is rolled
around these latter in the desired sizes
for cartridges. The advantages offered
are that no danger ofexplosion exists ex
cept from actual contact with fire, the
interior of the arm is not soiled, less
smoke and less rebound are made than
with gunpowder, and less damage takes
place from humanity. Very satisfactory
trials have been male of the new
material.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

AGRICULTURE is depressed in Greece.
A French traveller says: The Greeks as
sert that they were not born for agricul-
ture, and l am afraid they are right.
The Greek finds himself in the right
places at the door of the shop, or on the
deck ofa vessel. Greeks who cultivate
the ground feel themselves humiliated.
Despite the efforts of the Government
the people will not turn to their rich
soil. The farming classes live poorly.
They have good mules, small, swift, and
hardy horses; small and thin, but we'll
shaped cattle, and quantities of sheep
and goats, whose milk they drink. 1t
costs 5000 to establish flock of one
hundred sheep which then yields about
800 year. Cabbages and onions are
the staple garden vegetables. Apples,
pears, and cherries are bad lemons
oranges, and olives good. The soil is
for the most part very fertile. One of the
chief evils is the minute division of
land. Although not tenth of the coun-
tryis under cultivation, very few farmers
have more than couple of acres, and
three or four persons often have claims
upon different crops on the same farm,
the olives belonging to one, the beans to
another, and so on. The farmers have nc
ambition, and only care just to live
One-fourth of the year isdevoted to hol
idays.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-12

A LONDON Times dispatch from Bel
grade says that there is much reason to
fear that Prince Milan and his Ministers
are no longer their own masters in the
question OF peace or war. If the war is
continued, and everything points in that
direction, it will be a Russian war in
Servia until it becomes something more
1t is stated on Turkish authority, that
the Porte is averse to formal armistice
because that would infame the fanatic
element, with which it would be unabl,
to cope. For the same reason the Port,
may be affected to consent to the condi
tions of peace submitted by the Powers
but the crisis admits of no hesitation
1t is believed that the only chance lie
in Turkeys prompt acceptance of all tn,
conditions of the Powers; that also i
her own best policy, for in week Their
may be different army in the Servial
field. Hundreds of Russians are arriv
ing daily. For one officer at Belgrade
in Servian uniform, you meet twenty il
Russian. The situation is most alarm
ing for the peace of Europe. The SAM
correspondent, referring to the note O
M. Ristics, siys: cit is my conviction
that the proposal of any armistice vii
scarcely afford even n chance of stavin
off larger war than has been bithert
waged between the Turks and Servian,
and then the defeat Of Turkey is NOR
than probable. The delay of single da
may prove vital to Turkey and the ger
eral peace Of Europe"