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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
BASS VS.. SHAD.

AT the last session of the Legisla-
ture a committee of which Senator
Ycrkes is chairman was appointed to
look into tho fishery interests Of the
State. This committee we understand
has arranged with the Reading Rail.
way Company, which controls the
Susquehanna canal, that a plan for a
fishway through the Columbia dam,
conforming to the natural bottom ofthe
river, shall be prepared in consulta-
tion with the engineers Of the railway.
This first movement Of the committee
in discharge of its duty is very good,
and possibly may result in securing q
fishway through the Columbia dam
that will let the fish through Thus
far the efforts TO this end have been
signal failures, the shad being unable
to ascend the rapids Of the Fish Com.
missioner's fishways. The people Of
the upper waters OF the Susquchanna
have been looking for their promised
shad for a long while, and must be
quite tired of waiting for them Pro.
badly they have given up the cxpecta.
tion Of ever seeing their brilliant sides
flash upon the banks Of the streams as
they fall in satisfying numbers from
the embracing seine. We fear that
they have cause Tor their despair. II
may be, and we do not see why II can
not be, that proper avcnue can be
made for the fish through the Colum-
bia dam and If this Is effected, the
upper waters Of the river win ovcnt.
ually be as well supplied as the lower
and yet the hshway will not, perhaps,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
HAPPY HUSBANDS

There is no rule which philosophers
can devise, says the London Spectator,
for choosing either husbands or wives
wisely that has very much effect, for
the young do not trust the old upon
that subject and choice for women,
especially, is by no means so free as
we all affect TO believe. Not one wo-
man in fifty, unless she is for some
reason--such as fortune, rank, or beau
ty--a great "catch," has anything like
real power OF selection among ad-
mirers and even when she has she often
gives itaway, in obedience toa passing,
possibly sensible, possible laundering
fancy that she has found an ideal. But
we should have said there were two
broad rules still worth teaching, be-
cause they had some chance Of being
believed, and they were these.
Let the woman's first requisite be q
man whose home will be to him O rest,
and the mans first object be q woman
who can make home restiul. 1t is the
man with many interests, with en-
crossing occupations, with plenty OF
people to fight, with n struggle to
maintain against the world, who is the
really domestic man, in the wile's
sense, who enjoys home, who is tempt
ed to make a friend of his wife, who
relishes prattle, who feels in the small
circle where nobody is above him, and
nobody unsympathetic with him. as if
be were in heaven of ease and repair
alton. The drawback OF home life, its
contained possibilities of insipidity,
sameness and consequent weariness, is
never present to such a man. lie is
no more bored with home than with
sleep. He no more tires of his wife
than of his own happier moods He
is no more plagued with his children
than with his own lighter thoughts.
The worry and the sameness and the
WEAKNESS are all outside, and home no
more insipid than bis berth to sailor
or his tent to a soldier on active SER
vice. He gets from the homo just the
change, the flip, the pleasant stimulus
which the idle man receives from the
society he happens to enjoy. There is
not much champagne in lie, anyhow,
but for the active man most Of the lit.
tie is at homo.-RWdi Home.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
EDUCA7 7TON AND CRIME.

The subject Of "convict labor or OF
the employment of prisoners, which a
committee Of the Legislature is now
examining, is undoubtedly very impor.
tant, and involves great many ques-
tions on the solution of which the
most experienced students of penology
are not at all agreed. The inquiry
has, however already suggested other
subjects of far more general interest
than that of the employment of prison
ers, aud subjects which do not require
for their discussion the training of a
specialist. Mr.. Richard Vaux, in an
experience of many years IN the man
agement of the Eastern Penitentiary
and in the careful study of penal sys-
tens, has gained knowledge which
entities him to speak as with authority,
and we have no doubt that his tcsti-
mony before the Legislative committee
was as intelligent and well considered
as anything the committee is likely to
hear Yet thore is just one point in
all his long address which the general
public will notice and understand, and
which has already attracted more at
tention than would be bestowed upon
n years discussion of convict labor.
g. | imploro you, gentlemen OF the Leg.
islature," said Mr.. Vaux, "to look at
our statistics. They show that our
prison is occupied to very great ex-
tent by unapprenticed convicts. OF all
the young men under twenty-five years
Of ago admitted to the prison seventy
five per cent are without a trade and
ninety per cent. are educated. The
State has donc so much for intelligent
labor and nothing for trade education.
Something should be done TO make
trade education MS dignlfod as intelli-
gent labor"
What a terrible satire upon onr boast
cd free school system is conveyed in
this word educated - Nine-tenths
of the young criminals sent to the
pententiary have enjoyed its advan-
tages, but three fourths Of them have
never learned TO do an honest stroke
of work. Surely there must be some.
thing very wrong about a system
which thus recruits the great army OF
idlcrs and criminals, and it is not won
derlul that many thoughtful men be.
liovc, though they scarcely dare TO
speak il aloud, that our public schools
are an evil rather thana good. Nor is
the fault in any wise obscure. Our
public schools accomplish little because
they attempt too much and because
what they do attempt is not what a
bread common sense would suggest.
We are all so wise nowadays, or so
bent upon becoming wise, that we have
no time to be honest or useful. And
our children must be wiser still, and
learned in all the mysteries of modern
science They must have their poor
little brains crammod iull of all kinds
of impossible knowledge, Of names and
dates and numbers and unintelligiblc
rules, till thero is absolutely no room
left TO hold any of the simple truths OF
honor and duty and morality which
former generations deemed more inn
portant that all the learning of the
books. They are taught to read, which
is well, but nobody thinks of teaching
them how or what TO read, and the use
they mako of their knowledge is TO
study dime noycsand flash newspapers.
fri.,.- 4. a., ,ou,,i,t n ANN la a ona a moi hor
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

they leave school utterly ignorant OF
all that it is most essential for them TO
know, and with just sufficient smatter-
ing of so-callcd knowledge to destroy
forever their usefulness in the state Of
life TO which they have been called.
Every observant reader knows that
we do not misrcprcsent the practical
working, in four cases ont Of five, of
our existing common school system.
1t is no wonder that it furnishes Grim
inals. five have not given these boys
and girls an idea that labor is some
thing beneath them, at least we have
done nothing to teach them to work.
And out side of the schools there is no
provision for their learning anything
A limited number of boys are allowed
TO pick up, as best they can, some su.
perfcial knowledge Of a trade and i'm
mediately TO assume the airs of accom-
plished workman, but skilled labor, in
the sense in which our fathers under
stood it, is nearly extinct among the
American BORN, and nobody attempts
anything TO revive it. As for our girls,
they come out ofschool not only Who'll
ly ignorant Of every kind of domestic
industry, but with an actual distastc,
if not contempt, for ii, and fit Tor
nothing but TO read flash novels and
wait for somebody to come and marry
them. If we maintained these schools
on purpose TO instruct our youth in
idleness we could not succeed better.
And idleness is the parent Of crime
1t is necessary TO recognize existing
evils before we begin TO talk about rem
edies In this case the evils are very
great and are year by year increasing |
the remedy is not a simple one nor
easily applied, but remedy there
must be. 1t is 10 be sought first Of all
in checking the expansion Of what we
call our educational system and bring
ing the public schools back to the sim.
pie and solid work which "common
schools ought to do. Whether indus
trial training can be grated upon them,
or what provision can best be made
for it, is too elaborate n problem TO |
enter into here, but that the welfare of
society, which is the one purpose of our
public schools, demands something be-
yond what they now accomplish, will
not be disputed by any intelligent OBJ
server PHILADELPHIA Times.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 1877
bring the fish TO those who so long
hovo hnn,,arad for hmm

bring the fish TO those who so long
have hungered for them.
The future trouble in the shad sup
ply will not bc with fishways but with
the fish themselves, and Tor reason
that will keep the fish out of the river
even at its mouth. Yearly Tor several
years shad have been growing scarcer
in the Susquebanna and to discover the
reason why is far more important
duty Of Mr.. Yerkes' committee than to
solve the problem OF the Columbia
fishway, which obviously does not
need TO be solved II there are shortly
to be no shad in the river below the
dam. The marked diminution in the
shad supply we think will be found to
have Just commenced, and the signif-
cance of its occurrence just after the
Susquehanna has been stocked with
black bass will naturally strike the
committee II they find the fact to be
as we understand il. II has only been
sufficiently plentiful i;rthc river to af-
ford much sport to the fishermen.
Last year for thc first time good
strings of large fish rewarded the rod.
But for several years tho small bass
have been Numerous enough to make
serious havoc among the young shad
and TO keep millions of them from find
ing their way to the ocean. The bass
is a very active and voracious fish and
we think the committee will be able to
abundantly satisfy itself upon inquiry
that they do destroy in vast quantities
the young shad. If this is so, the be-
ginning Of the end of the shad fishing
in the Susquehanna is imminently
threatened. With the bass yearly in
creasing in size and numbers and yearly
cutting down the supply of young
shad going down to the ocean, it fol.
lows that the present decrease in the
shad will each spring become
more clearly perceptible, if it be true
that those that come back to the river
to spawn are the same that themselves
were spawned in il. Some think that
this is not the source OF our supply,
but that the mature shad are acciden-
tally guided in the selection Of their
ground, ascending the river
which they find fullest of water us
they pass up the coast. Susquehanna
fishermen say the shad are always
most numerous in years when the river
is highest, Should this theory bo cor
rect the black bass will not do us the
damage we fear; but the current Of
opinion is that generally the fish revisit
the waters Of their infancy.
We hope that the committee will
look into this important natter that
il, the danger from the bass is such as
it seems, measures may II possible be
adopted to remove it. We can better
spare the bass than the shad, Tor there
is no comparison between the quality
Of the two fishes, nor their value as
food The abundance Of the shad in
their season, their size, their delicacy,
and the facility with which they are
harvested unite TO make them the fish
Of fish for poor and rich.--Lancasier
IufgUi1e0rgr
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27


lRoN OF ANTIoUITY.-The oldest
pieces Of iron (wrought.iron) now
known are probably the sickle-blade
found by Belzoni under the base of a
sphinx in Kernac, near Thebes; the
blade found by Colonel vyse imbedded
in the masonry Of the Great Pyramid,
the portion OF a crosscut saw cxhumed
at Nimrod by Mr.. Layard, all of which
are now in the British Museum. A
wrought bar of Damascus steel was
presented by King Porus to Alexander
the Great, and the razor steel of Chi.
ma for many centuries has surpassed
all European steel in temper and du.
rabilty Of edge The lIindoos appear
to have made wrought-iron directly
from the ore, withoutpassing through
the furnace from time immomorial,
and elaboratoly wrought masses OF
iron are still found in India, which date
from the carly centuries of the Chris.
tian era.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
AFFECTION IN BIRD LIFE

The fidelity and afiectionatc intima.
cy Of married bird-life appears most
conspicuously in pairs OF the grosbealS
family and in small parrots. Here is
perfect harmony of will and deed.
The two swcethearts appear unwilling
to leave one another's company for a
moment all their life they do every
thing together-eating and drinking,
bathing, and dressing Of feathers, sleep
ing and waking. Various degrees Of
affection aud harmony are disccrniblo
on close observation Among the
small grosbeaks, pairs of which sit to-
gether, the intimate relation is never
disturbed even over the feeding. cup
there is no quarreling. They stand
highest in this respect among birds.
Love tokens are exchanged by pressing
of beaks together-a veritable kissing,
accompanied by loving gestures
They are also moro sociablc, and even
at nesting time moro peaceable, than
other birds, In the case Of other gros.
beaks, when the male bird sits by the
female in the nest, there are various
demonstrations Of affection, but also
slight occasional disputes, especially
about feeding time. Next in order
como the small parrots, which also ap-
pear almost inseparable. The male
bird feeds his companion with seeds
from the crop. This goes on quite
regularly during tho Matching, and un-
til the young are somewhat grown.
During all this time tho hen bird,
which broods alone, never leaves the
nest but for a few minutes, and the
cock shows such affcclionate care that
the whole day he seems to do nothing
but take food and give it again. Yet
even this loving union is marred from
time to time, even during the Matching
time, with quarrels that even come to
blows. Again, the male bird Of a pair
of chailinchcs only occasionally sits on
the eggs Or young, but he watches the
nest very carefully, singing to his mate
the while, accompanies the hen in
fight, and helps her in feeding the
young - Chambers Journal
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
SCIENCE AND CREDULITY.

The present age, we suppose, prides
itself on being scientific, il it is any
thing. The achievements of civil en-
gineering, the subtle problem of chemi-
cal analysis extended to the furthest
limits Of stellar space, and hundred
other applications of science, mark the
times we live in. The fact cannot be
disputed yet there are other facts
equally well attested, which are not
quite so flattering, and which serve to
show that the scientific habit oflooking
at things is by no means very widely
diffused How is it that tho vagaries
of tablc-tmning found SO many 6eliev-
crs2 When Faraday produced an ap.
paratus to demonstrate its fallacy, how
many converts did he make? Look at
the tens Of thousands of people in
America who credit fortune-teller /;
who would as soon doubt the influence
of the moon on the weather as their
own existence. No there are many
scientific men in the world, but the
mass Of our people is not scientific. 1t
is even questionable whether thespread
of knowledge could ever make it so. 1t
becomes all the more important that
everyone who has the opportunity
should cultivate, as far as he can, the
scientific temper Of mind and he will
do well TO begin with respectable OBJ.
servanee Of the rules OF evidence.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

BEE EATEns.--Tho mootcd question
as to whether toads cat bees has been
settled by M. Brunei, u writer in La
Nature, who asserts that, going into
his garden one day, just before a storm,
he observed the bees crowding into
their hives. Near one Of the hives
was toad which every now and then
rose on his fore legs and made dart,
with surprising quiclsness towards
blades of grass. lie was found to be
devouring bees which were resting on
tho grass blades awaiting their chance
to enter the hive. NJ. Brunet waited
until twelve victims had been devour-
cd, expecting TO sec tho toad's voracity
punished with sting, but no such no.
suit occurred. Tho toad was twice
removed TO quite a distance from tho
hives, both times he returned TO the
spot IN q few hours
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
THE WATER MILL

Listen to the water mill
All the lirelong day
How the clicking Of the wheel
Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind
stirs the greenwood leaves;
From the field the rcapers sing,
binding up the sheayes,
And memory 0'cr my mind
ASS spell Ia cast
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past,
Summer winds revive no more
Leaves strewn over earth and main,
Aud the sickle no'er can reap
Tue gathered grain again
And the ripping stream flows on,
Tranquil, deep, and still
Never gliding back again
To the water mill.
Truly speaks the proverb old,
With meaning vast
"The mill will never grind
With the water that is past"
Take the lesson to yourself,
Loving heart aud true;
Golden years are heoting byi
Youth is passing too.
striveto make the most Of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time will mover bring you back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while love shall last--
The mill will never grind
With the water that Is past.
Work while yet the daylight shinos,
Man Of thought and will;
Never does the slrcamlet glide
Useless by the mill
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams upon yout way,
All that you can call your own
Lies in this-to-day.
Power, intellect aud health
May not always last
The mill will mover grind
With the water that is past.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

WARNINd TO OPIUM BATERs.--0nc
OF the saddest cases--not only sad, but
unusually tragic--is that OF Mrs. Isaac
G. Perkins, OF Chicago, thrice married,
thrice divorced, and finally a paupcr
corpse, and ali owing to q lovSior the
fatal drug-opium. Her last husband
was Mr.. Isaac G. Perkins, Of Hyde
Park. During all these years she con
tinued tho use Of this paralyzing sub.
stance. She sank lower and lower and
became hopeless slave to it. She
dragged the husband down with her
in her descent. This terrible habit
stripped him of money and property
and plunged him into a life of misery
and poverty. Little by little his effects
have been surrendered. Year after
year he saw his wife gradually assim.
ilating TO a thing unnatural, until the
exhausted and drugged nature yielded
up It's life, and its spirit took It's flight.
What is the result? The husband
penniless, ruined, and half crazed, has
made an appeal to the authorities of
Hyde Park for the paltry sum Of $50
with which to give his wilcs body q
decent burial. The sum was given,
thanks to the generosity of the Board
of Trustees. What q fall From ro.
spectabiliiy and happiness to opium
and a paupcr's grave.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
HOW RIcH MEN BEGIN LIFE.

-
must pe important 10 remember,
or II would not DC so seriously asserted,
that Cornelius Nanderpllt began HE
with an old plrogue, running between
staten Island ana New YORK CITY, car
rylng garden stun TO the market with
s2,OOO ors5,OOo raised from this source,
he entered steadily upon increasing
enterprises unul he had rad amassed the
enormous sum oil soo,ooV,oVo to seO,'
oVo, ,Ogo,
a. !: Stewart hrst bought a lew laces
alauctlon,and opened his way tosuccess
IN a dlngy little shop on Broadway,
New York, near inc site OF the whole.
sale establishment Years OF rigid
honesty, shrewd management, ana
wisdom IN Things ooth great ana small,
maze MN inc monumental merchant
oi the nineteenth century.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

HoSEsTy.-lSvcry man likes homes
ty in one way or another. This man
likes TO see IT in another, enjoying the
sight Of Il as that Of a costly luxury
which he cannot afford to indulge IN ;
while that man, wiser and truer, bav.
ing lost all else, hugs it as his priceless
fortune, and gloats over ita bis secret
and snfllcing treasure.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

ANOTHER PLouou-A young clcr.
gyman, who is successful pastor, was
telling a retiring missionary that he
entered college and the theological
seminary with the intention of becom.
ing q missionary, when the veteran
broke out with "Ahl you turned
back after putting your hand to the
plough p "No," was the answer; ~
Just took another plough
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

Nothing undcrmincs ones faith in a
mans libcralty to the church 80 much
as to see him stick bis hands down
deep into his pockets rs the contribu-
ton box is travelling his way, look as.
tonIshcd, and then remark TO his next
ncighbor: ave got on my other pants.'
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

RIonrEous VENGEAScE,--So Some one
having urged Tasso TO ayenge himself
upon a man who had done him many
injuries, he said, "f wish to take from
him neither his property nor his life,
nor his honor but only his ill.will TO-
wards me"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

SruDy.-To study successfully. the
body must be healthy, tho mind at
ease, and time managed with great
economy, Persons who study many
hours in tho day should perhaps have
two separate pursuits going on at the
same time--one for one part ofthc day,
and the other for the other and these
of as opposite nature as possible, that
tho mind may be refreshed by change,
and all the bad effects of lassitude
avoided There is one piece Of advice
in life Of study which we think no
one will object 10, and that Is, every
now and then to be completely idle TO
do nothing at all indeed, this part OF
a life of study is commonly considered
as so decidedly superior TO the rest,
that Il has almost obtained an exclusive
preference over those other parts Of
The system, with which we wish TO see
II connected.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27

QUAKER CurEHrss. "A Quaker hav-
ing been cited as witness in a case
before the Sessions, ono Of the magis-
tratcs, who had been n blacksmith,
desired to know why he would not
take of his hat. alt is privilege"
said the Quaker, "that tho laws and
liberties of my country indulge people
Of my religious mode of thinking in"
AT / had Il in my power" replied the
Justice, al would have your hat nailed
10 your head" 81 thought" said
Obadiah, dryly, " that thou hadst given
over the trade Of driving nails"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
ANDREW n ARWlCk,
Market street. Clearfleid. Pa.
MANUFACTURE AND DEALERiS
SADDLES, BRlDLEs, COLLARS,

and all kinds Of
MORSE FURNISHING GOODS
A full stock Of saddlers Hardware, Brushes,
Combs, Blankets, Robes, ETC., always on hand
and for sale at the lowest cash prices. All kinds
Of repairing promptly attended TO-.
All kinds NJ hides taken In exoharge for har-
ness and repairing. An kinds Of barnes leather
kept on hand and for sale Al = small profit.
Clearhell, Jan. 10, 1875.