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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10
A BEAUTIFUL OLD LEGEND.
: ,L0MoNS TEMPLE.

r'""y'0f'd ,''om he GERMAN Of Fsodor, By 4. r
Berg.
I" honor God. and praise his holy name.
he wise King Solomon purposcd I" build
temple ot surprising excellence.
The plans had Ion" been carefully prepared
And master builders only waited for
The royal call 10 set the corner stone.
Already had been brought from distant shores.
From lTrian quarrie>. squared and numbered
stones:
And for the inside. ccdarS. frs and gold.
But still the King in deepest silence sat.
Still undecided. way ring in his mind.
As To the place which. of all Others would
Best suit the grand and lofty plan in view.
Then came to solomon. whose ovcrshadowed brow
Had cast IA gloom upon his subjects all.
\ faithful servant. who addressed him thus:
o. hearkcn. king. what happened lately here
Pcrchancc the truth Of this most touching tale
Serves to diSpci all further gloomy doubts:
Two brothers dwell near by Jerusalem.
The oldest is with wife and children hies>'d.
Whereas the younger brother lives alone.
4 stone and an acacia tree near by
Divide their fields apart, which nearly are
Alike i'll value and aike in size
Twas harvest time. And on the fresh mOwn fields
The golden ears stood bound in swelling ShravcS.
Aud shock on shock bespoke the rich reward
From Him who says: Faint not and We shall
reap,
Then. in Inc night while chatting with his si,ou>"
The Oldest BROTHER said: You know. my love
The gracious Lord. whose every gilt j. good.
Has blessed Us with Il harvest rich and rare
What we have rcapcd this year amply Sustain,
Ourselves and children. Thanks be to the Lord.
Bat my poor brother was not blessed like
With harvcSt+ rich: for many sad mishars
Have decinated what he thought to reap.
And to the future he must look with care.
Therefore I'll 20. and OF the largest -icavc<
The best I'll choose. and in the Silly night
Convey them to my b:oth"r'S field. and there
Add them to his in such n cunning way
That he'll not know whence the rich blcssin"
comes.
And gladly seconds him his loving wife
But at the very heur Snliloguizei
The younger brother thu; Though truly not
My fields have yielded as iondly hoped.
The Lord, no less. be thanked thousand timcs.
| am alone. For me there i. enough
But my poor brother--iUw pity him,
His harvest scarcely yields him Il support:
Much more t.un lie needs richer store.
lie is not witclcsS. chidlcSs. like myself:
Therefore I'll 20. and OF the largest Shcaves
The best I'll choose. and in the Silly night
Convey them t" my brothers field. and there
Add them IL his. i'll such cunning way
That he'll not know whence the rich blessing
cutuer.
And where the landnark4 hy tn nuacu tree
Divide the acres Lo. behold. There meet,
With sheaves upon their heads. these brothers
dear
- Hold! cried the king. for thou hast said enough.
Now craftsmen come and masters, Let us build
On that same spot hallOwcd by brothers love.
There shall the temple i'll its glory rSc.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

For half century an army o: laborers
has been employed in the construction of
railroads. There are 10 data to show the
millions of cubic yards of earth thrown up,
nor The millions of tons of iron ore and coal
consumed in the construction and mainte-
nance OF roads whose length exceeds 40 900
miles: nor the number of men employed.
We can only give free scope TO the magma
ton in thinking of the vast multitude wed-
ing the pick and spade for Il half century
along the lines and in the mines: working
in foundries, furnaces, rolling mills, and
machine shops; building locomotives, cars,
and the machinery used in their construc-
ton (engiueS, latheS; planning, bolt rivct,
screw machines) ,--enginrerS, machiuist>,
carpenters, .joincrs, painters, decorators, ul-
holSterers. superintendent. o>crseerS, archi-
tect$. designers. mathematicianS. draughts-
men, inventors, chemists, men of Il high
order of intellect in every branch of science
and industry. From whence came they,
and what We're they doing! They came
from farms, workshops, and counting roo:lS:
they We're swinging the scythc. welding the
sledge planning boards, or following some
other occupations.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10

\ lady writes thus to the Christian at
Work: 81 wish you would say word
about putting ones religion into ones work.
Last year ! built a new house, and got r
protesting Christian man to paint it. lie
makes good prayers at the prayer meetings
and saws good word of advice to the
young. But he didn't fill the nail holes of
the outer and upper trimmings with putty.
and he didn't paint the top edge of the
doors of the upper story. He took care t.
slight his work just where he thought i;
wouldn't be discovered. But the nails were
drawn out by the sun, causing a leak. so
that his neglect in this direction was dis
covered; then, having occasion to have the,
top of one door planned So il might shut,
again his sighted work told its story.
have "discounted that mans piety and
prayers evsr since. Perhaps this painter
treated me rs he did because am widow.
Anyway, prefer Christians who will fill
up the nail holes with putty, and paint the
tops Of the upper doors."'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10
EMIGRATION.

The development of manufactures and the
construction of railroads called for such a
vast number of laborers that We could not
supply the demand. and we summoned them
from other Lands. | call attention to the
fact that not ill the beginning of manutac-
turing, not till we began to use machinery,
was there any great amount OF emigration
to this country.
The statistics of emigration reach back to
1870. when the number of cnligrant> was
between 1000 and 5000 per annum BY
1850 the number had increased to $1,000 in
1910 to $4,000 per annum. In 1915 there
We're but 1858 miles of railway in opera
ton, but that year was marked by Il new
departure in railway construction. by 1850
the railway mileage had doubled. and the
emigration had gone up to :ai9,0O0 per an
num- In 1896 he mileage was Ii, 12S, and
the rmigrantS that wear We're 421 900 the
largest number arriving i'll any year. Since
1870, more than 5000, 900 enig,"tS have ar
rived in this country. Whoever will take
time /" study the emigration statistics i'll
connection with the use of machinery the
development of all our industries, will see
that there is Il remarkable correlation be-
tween the two that tie mare mochinerH ~"
hod the greater tie den,"nd fo, hahor.'
Undoubtedly our unoccupied lands called
Il large portion of the 9,0o0,000 to these
Shores but aside from that, there was de
mand for labor that could not be supplied
by our own population, and there was at
the same time a steady advance, us | shall
show, in the prices paid for labor.
While this development was going on in
this country, there was a corresponding
movement in Great Britain and Europe,-a
con slant satisfaction of agricultural and
mechanical laborers, and an advance in
wages, as on this side the Atlantic
To BE CONTINUED.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10
SELECT LITERATURE.
LABOR AND THE NATURAL FORCES
From tie .tti,,n'ic .lfDnthV.

BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10
MODERATE DRINKING.

y commission of the British Parliament.
which has for some time been occupied in Il
close investigation of the subject of the
traffic in and consumption of Intoxicating
drinks, witha view also to get the fullest i'll
formation and the clearest understanding
possible i'll regard to the relation between
the use of liquors and the physical and
moral condition of the human race, has
made long report, which apparently set
ties nothing. although it does perhaps SET
the subject i'll Il fuller light. The testimony
WAS sought of the leading medical experts
and Psychologist in the United Kingdom,
and this was found to agree in nothing en-
cept as to the alarming growth and extent
of the vice, and the necessity of some means
being adopted to control it, but what those
means should be no two witnesses concur.
red about.
In New York a society has just been or
ganized, at we'll attended meeting ut
Chickering Hail. the object of which is TO
encourage moderation in the use of intoyi
eating drinks. The meeting was noticeable
for the number of business men who were
present and took part in it-indeed, the
society was expressly organized under the
auspices of the successful business men of
the city-such as +. Il. Thurber, Peter
Cooper, Thurlow Weed, Dr. Crosby, and
persons of n like practical turn of mind.
The speakers recognized the frightful evils
of intemperance, but recognized further the
fact that the majority of the people We're
not ready to accept the extreme views Of the
total abstinence party. Hence they deemed
it expe,lient to be content with mtigatiu.
the evil until it could be effectually dc
stroyed, and, with this end in view, the So
ciety proposed four separate sorts of pledges.
all upon honor, to meet the varying views
of the subscribers to moderation. One
pledge bound the signer not TO drink during
business hours, another not to % treat nor
be treated third, to drink only fermented
liquors in moderation. and to abstain from
all distilled liquors, while the fourth form
Of pledge was to total abstinence for a limitci
period. The SIN has received specimens OF
the pledges taken by members of this soci-
ETY., as well as copy of its circular "Thc
Golden Mean, with the songs and music.
&c, intended to be used at its meetings.
The fundamental principle of the society
seems to be that of moderation in all things.
demanding in response to n moderate view
of the whole temperance question, that its
subscribers should pledge themselves to
illustrate, by their own conduct, the posi-
bility of moderation in drinking. The
word moderate" however, is too apt IL be
construed to suit each mans particular APP
petite, and only too many so-called "mod-
crate drinkers tread upon path which is
narrow and perilous as the bridge in the
"Nision of MirZa.'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10
AN ECCENTRIC MAN DEAD.
Joseph Smith, the Root Carver, Dies at an
Old Age.

The occasional and the regular visitor
along the WisSahiclon remembers the curl
Gus adornmentS in the rooms of Smiths
Maple Spring hotel. Joseph Smith, the
proprietor of this place, is dead. He was
eighty-one years old, and came to this city
some two or three years ago, when he rented
the Maple Springs hotel, on the Wissa-
hickon, just Il short distance above Ridge
avenue.
Seine years ago, when Mr.. Smith first
came to this country, he settled in Ashland,
Schuylkill county. Here he developed the
peculiar ideas which have since made him
famous. One day he went into the noun
tains to procure some gnarled roots to orna-
ment some flower boxes He was peculiarly
struck by the tortuous windings of the lau-
rel root One of these he took home and
with ease carved an owls head from it.
At odd times he continued his researches,
and soon his little house was too small to
contain the results Of his handiwork. When
he took possession of the hotel, he transfer
red his curiositieS to it, and they proved
quite an attraction. His fame spread, and
he began to be known by the name of
"Rooty" Smith.
In one of the terrible accidents that SO
often result in loss of life in the mining re-
gion, from premature explosions, Il friend of
Mr. Smith was killed by being struck by
flying fragment of coal. As a memcnto of
his friend, Smith obtained the fragment that
L,I =, Ia. inf rl ,,f;
ed Il bust of the unfortunate miner that is
said to hc Il striking likeness, and is now i'll
the collection. During his life he took Il
mournful pleasure in pointing it out to his
| visitors. and never seemed to tire of telling
the story.
! His eccentric collection included bustS of
| Henry Ward Beccher, Boss Tweed and
other well known persons. A year ago he
was stricken with paralysis, but recovered
sufficiently Il short time ago to begin work
upon a window for his museum. This was
of stained glass of fantastic design, and re-
mains unfinished Mr.. Smith died on
Wednesday, Fhjlo. Rcc0Td.
courage is always greatest when blend
| ed with meeknesS, intellectual ability is
most admired when it sparkles i'll the set
ting of modest self-distrust, and never
does the human soul appear 50 strong as
when it foregoes revenge and dares to for
give an injury.
A lecturer who had been criticised for
'being too long-winded," referred to the
fact, and said, II shall speak as long as |
please" The critic, who was among the
audience, cried out, GAN right If you'll
only stop speaking when you stop pleasing,
we shall Inc satisfied"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-10

rhincry Were To come to 4 Stand-Stll nor
only the operatives would he thrown ont of
employment. hut the agricultural labnrers
us we'll 1t is the stripping OF machinery
| rather than its Introduction that throws
men ont of employment, and that is just
what has happened. Why the machinery
stopped is another matter, upon which
| shall have sonethin" to say farther on
Before the invention of the cotton gin, the
seeds of cotton We're separated from the
fibre by hand; only about four pounds of
| fibre per day could thus be prepared by mus
cular labor, whereas the amount cleaned by
Il gin is about four thousand pounds per day.
As the crop last year aggregated about ,
100000, 600 pounds, it is plain that if cleaned
by hand il would have required 30, n0O, 900
days work, Yet it was cleaned by l.6o0 ma
chimes, working through the year: the diff
ference in cost hcing about $4,000 against
500, 0Oo, 600.
No argument is needed to show that such
an amount could not have been produced
under the old method. From this preSrnta-
ton We see that by employing the for..e5 of
natur" we may with mechanism use the
materials of nature as it would not he pos
sibc for It's to do by muscular effort for the
supplying of our wants: that, practically,
Their" is no limitation to the qualification of
our desires: that in this unlimited gratitica-
ton We administer to orr comfort, well-he-
ing, and happiness.
The growth of the manufacture of cotton
will he seen by the following exhibit:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Newspaper Laws.

l. A postmaster is required to give
notice by letter, (returning a paper
does not answer the law when sub
scriber does not take his paper out o
the office, and state the reasons for its
not being taken any neglect to do so
makes the postmaster responsible to
the publisher for the payment.
=. Any person who takes a paper
from the pOstoilice, whether directed
to his name or another, or whether he
has subscribed or not is responsible for
the pay.
3. If any person orders his paper
discontinued he must pay all arrear-
ages, or the publishers may continue
to send it until payment is made, and
collect the whole amount, whether it
be taken from the office or not. There
can be no legal discontinuance until
the payment is made.
4. If the subscriber orders his paper
to stop at certain time, and the pub
Usher continues to send, the subscriber
is bound to pay for it, if he takes it Qua
of the post office. The law proceeds
upon the ground that man must pay
for what he uses.
5. The courts have decided that re-
fusing to take newspaper and peri.
odicals from the post-office or remov-
ing and having them uncalled for, is
prima facia evidence of Intentional
fraud.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Brandy Camp Pencilings.

Saturday night it showed about
four inches.
The thermometer stood 8 degrees
above zero Friday morning and Il
above zero Saturday.
-"Vale" should remember people
living in glass houses should never
throw stones.
Banks McAllister started last Sun
day to sell fruit trees for Chase
Brothers.
We have often heard of gentlemen
going to the train to see their fair one
off but this time it was a young lady.
r. II. comes down on the creek
and gets sick, so much so, that he has
to be taken home in a buggy. How
is this Reuben?
There is nothing that beats light
Ming for speed unless it is "Vale''
some morning when he hears the
supervisor on the stairs calling him to
get up it is time to so home for his
mother doesn't know he's out.)
VIM. Tolbert of Brockwayville is
working for J. S. Hyde at the Brandy
Camp hotel.
i am sorry to have Mr.. Cuneo
think al, G. A" has to go so far for his
locals and then he is SO hard hearted as
not to give in any.
We never went so often to one
place that we ate them out of house
and barn that we had to take the
piece of the old shanghai rooster that
went through the fence last and two
or three cold bucllwheat cakes and
put in our coat pocket for two sup
pers and breakfast for two and tie up a
small bundle of hay and put in one
end of bag and few nubbins of corn
in the other and tie it ON behind the
saddle and then tell the old folks at
home you are going to town, but
for all this "Vale' says all the advan-
tage that IL. c. A." has over him is
he has shorter distance to go.
l.. &. A.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Personal Items.

j. i. Brown, of Wilcox, was in
town yesterday.
-Enos Hays was in town Monday
with a load of apples.
Frank Nichols and Cal. Luther
failed to get the deer. .
b. l. Taylor was in town thi.
week and called at THE ADVOCATE
office.
Harry Wilson has finished the
houses he was building at Grants
tannery.
Sheriff Oyster took Mrs. John
Quinn to Dixmont insane asylum on
Monday last. 't-
VIM. Chesney and Henry Beales
started for New York on Tuesday to
join the cavalry branch of the U. S.
regular army.
Capt. Schnning has received in
structions to have Company H meas
ured for new great coats.
j. r. Taylor received an order
last week for forty barrels of winter
apples at 40 cents bushel.
Mr.. S. X. Whitmore, of Clarion
county, life insurance agent and
brother of our townsman Judge j. X
Whitmore, has been spending several
days in our midst
The chap who was sentenced to
thirty days in Jail for selling liquor
contrary to law, said he couldn't go to
Jail as he had 5000 worth of beer
which would spoil. He went all the
same.
Capt. P. r. Smith is once again a
resident of our village which fact we
are pleased to note. Captain Smith
has an interest in the new tannery to
be built the coming spring in Spring
Creek township.
"A. n. Raub, of Lock Haven, Pa,
will lecture before the Elk county
Teachers Institute, Dec. go. Tod
Ford, of Ohio, Dec. 3lst. Col. j. s.
Sanford, of New York City, Jan. lst.
The list will be completed next week.
Simon Lamb and Mary Lamb,
his wife, were committed to Jail 10y
Esquire Mead on Tuesday last in de-
fault of the payment of s., II fines and
cost in a trial on a charge of profanity
and drunkenness, brought by NJ. T.
French.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Work of the Census.

SUPERINTENDENT WALKER GETTING
READY FOR BUSINESS - PENNSYI.-
NANiA DIVIDED INTO TEN DIS
TRICT.
The formation of supervisors dis
tricts under the provisions of the
census act, of March :, 1879, has been
completed by Superintendent Walker,
except in regard to the states of Mas
sachusetts and California. The list
has been approved by Secretary
Schurz. The details are of interest,
for the reason among others, that the
appointment of supervisors must be
made in each instance by selection
from applicants residing within the
boundaries Of the respective districts.
These officers, which will practically
contro! the thousands of appointments
necessary for the work of taking the
census, are to be filled by the list of
January. General Walker Says that
in the formation of districts reference
has bcen bad solely to the eXigencies
of-enumeratonduGto the geographic
cal features Of states, and to existing
conditions of settlement, occupation
and intercOmmunication. 1t results,
as was to be expected, that the dis
tricts vary greatly in population and
in territorial extent. New York is di-
vided into eleven districts, New Jersey
tNK-n
Ohio eight. The states of New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Delaware, Colorado, California.
Oregon and Nevada, the District OF
Columbia and the territorie. will form
one supervisors district each. Penn
syivania is divided into ten districts.
They are:
Ist Observation-Disclosures county.
lid District-Chester, Delaware and
Lancaster counties.
lid District-Berks, Dauphin, Leb-
anon, northumberland and Schuyl-
kill counties.
WITH District-Bucks, Carbon, Le-
hlSi, MonlSomefy ana ortnamptOn
counties.
With District-Columbia, Lackawan-
ma, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour, Pike,
sullivan, Wayne, and Wyoming coun-
ties.
With District-BradiOrd Cameron
Lycoming, Mexican, Potter, Susque-
hanna and Tioga counties.
With District Adams, Centre,
Cleartield, Clinton, Cumberland, Frank
lin, Fulton, Huntingdon, ,'Juniata, Mif-
film, Perry, Snyder, Union and York
counties.
With District - Bedford, Blair,
Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana,
Somerset and Westmorcland counties.
IAth District-Allegheny, Beaver,
Lawrence and Washington counties.
Nth District - Armstrong, Butler,
Clarion, Crawford Elk, Erie, Forest,
Jefferson, Mercer, Venango and War
rem counties.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
BrOckpOrt Scribbling.

Our winter is here and the woods
are full of hunters and the "Dear'sn
have no rest
Thomas Burchfield came from
Ridgway the other day with plug
hat and a pipe in his mouth for he has
began to smoke.
The way that young gentleman
sloshed up to young lady the other
day was cautiCn, he leaned up to her
like a sick kitten to hot brick and
took her by the wing and up Main
street and across the bridge we do not
know the umber; brother Bill was
.alonYgtoo. - 80
Why don't that fellow send in his
Locals to the Democrat, if he is ever
going 10 is he afraid or has he forgot
his name, we would advise him as a
friend to send them to the ADVOCATE,
for that swamper am hard pill.
The Ring hunt was not Of much
account.
-Swamper made box the other
day 16 feet loong that looked like a
coffin, with a partition in the middle
so to leave room for him in one end
and the devil in the other, and hole
to lrok through at each other and not
get to fighting after the cover was
nailed down.
John Bauder and Sam Platt
killed deer last Sunday.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Gen. Grants Power of Self -Controll.
IFrom the New York Post, Rep

from the New York Post, Rep,l
Evidently among the other qualities
of General Grant is an extraordinary
power of self-control. How many men
could have gone through such an eX-
perience as his of the last three years
and borne themselves as he has done
Wedo not mean public men of the Unit
ed States merely, but of any part of the
world. How many of them would
have avoided an exhibition of the
smaller human weaknesses, intense
self consciousness, the foibles of
vanity and conceit intolerable egotism
and other tiresome incidents of an Of
fensive personality? How many of
the Disraelis, with their theatrical pois-
ings and studied effects, would have
done so? How many of the fluent
and restless and fussy GladstOnes?
How many men anywhere, except
those royalty born to formal adulation
and taught to receive it, with formal
indifference, as a mere formality?
General Grant has never once failed to
put the country foremost-not with
an affected modesty, in the character
of the humble and self-sacrificing
patriot, but with quiet, manly sin
GRITTY. and az matter Of course,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
Howe Sewing Machines.

Among the great variety of goods of
every description for sale at
POWELL & KINIE's
Will be found an assortment of the
celebrated Elias Howe, Jr., Improved
Sewing Machines-the best machine
now manufactured-they having been
appointed sole agents for Elk county.
They will keep on hand fuckers.
Corders, Hemmers, Braiders and Ruff.
tiers, Needles, Sewing-machine Oil
Thread, &C., &c. Will also furnish at
any time detached parts for said ma
chine. A II at greatly reduced prices.
and will be sold on accommodating
terms with approved security.
EIDGwAY. Aug. 20 '-A