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CHINA-MAKING AT TRENTON, n. There
are lG great pottery establishments in Tren-
ton, n. j. In them are invested between
million aud half and two millions of dollars
and their annual sales amount TO nearly the
same figures. Their buildings cover large
tracts of ground, and give employment to
about 1000 persons Their grimy, stained
buildings seem TO be as old as Trenton but
the industry is in reality new one. 1t is
only about twenty-five years ago that the first
pottery was established. II is there yet. 1t
made only yellow or Rockingham ware
Other potteries started out TO make only yell
low ware, but the grades Of goods made in
Trenton improve every year, and there is now
only one yellow ware pottery there. East
Liverpool, o., is the great center of yellow
ware manufacture. 1t is nearly us great a
pottery center as Trenton. Trenton owes its
good fortune, in this respect, to its situation.
1t has no clay, except some black dirt that is
used for the manufacture of the boxes that
the crockery is laid in to be A" fired" The
clay used in Trenton comes from Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The
clay near the Amboys is the best in the mar
ket. poor man in South Amboy borrowed
a little money few years ago, purchased a
lot of ground, and began selling the clay
that lies under its surface. He has dug great
shafts and tunnels, and is said TO have earned
a fortune of $500, 600. Trenton's handiness
to New York and Philadelphia, and its rail
roads. canal and river, are its attractions to
the potters Among the workmen in the pot
teries are many Englishmen and Irishmen, but
Americans are learning TO do good work.
There are designers and decorators from Min
toms great English tile works, and from Tiff
fany's in New York, employed TO decorate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05

remember when / was but boy that q
man got into the rapids here, having been
carried down III a boat which was broken to
pieces. He had the good fortune to be dash.
ed on a rock. to which he cluug 1t was at
the height of the season-August, if | recol
Iceland he clung there for fully thirty six
hours Every body streamed out Of the no
tells and the village the banks of the river,
particularly on this side, We're thronged with
people anxious to do something to save him.
Dozens of plans were suggested some at
tempted, but they all failed. Thousands OF
dollars were offered TO anybody who would
rescue him. The desperate situation of the
man had been telegraphed all over the coun-
try, and every train brought crowds Of pas
sengers hither to witness IL with their own
eyes. He WAS encouraged by shouts from
the banks, but whether he could understand
anything said is doubtful.
The world is said to be- sympathetic Il is,
or appears to be unsympathetic, because the
object for which sympathy is asked is alb
stract. When it is tangible, visible, all is
changed There was an eXemplhcation.
This poor wretch could be seen. He was an
ordinary uueducated man but he was II man,
and the brotherhood and sisterhood of the
race went out to him in pity aud intense en-
gerness to rescue him. Women of fashion,
JLaSe club men, selfish worldlngs, grew pale
as they watched the unhappy wretch, SO yiy-
id was their sympathy
Many persons sat up all night looking
across the seething, roaring waters at the
small dark figure still clinging to the rock.
The morning came; renewed efforts were
made, but they all miscarried. Tho crowd
had increased; it was immense. Everybody
was excited. Tears were in the women =
eyes; the pallor cleaned through the rouge
Of 6 - 1
be done Must the poor fellow perish be-
fore our facesy Is there no way to rescue
him Such questions were necessarily ask
cd but, alas no reply could be given.
The man had good courage and great
strength. He clung to the rock with the des-
peration of dying soul To lose his hold
was to be dashed over the cataract. Appar-
atus and contrivances arrived from Buffalo
New experiments and new failures. Hoarse
shouts still rang across the rapids to hold ON,
to be of good heart. The stoutest heart that
ever throbbed could not gripe that rock for
ever. 1t was wonderful how he had endured
A fresh idea had come to the minds of half a
dozen mechanics. They were laboring to
throw out hawser; every muscle was strain
ed every eye was bent upon their work.
Suddenly the man slipped away. He was
exhausted; he threw up his arms he dashed
toward the cataract low groan as from
one breast quaked through the throng; the
thousands shivered with terror. A black Oh
ject for n moment longer in the he'll of the
waters and then disappeared forever, There
was an agony of relief No one moved no
one spoke for while. All looked in the di-
rectiOn where the figure had been swallowed
up. 1t was the enchantment of terror it
was the chill of tragedy distinctly wrought
which froze every one for the moment to the
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Miscellany.



Here is the place; right over the hill
Runs the path took:
You can see the gap in the old wall still,
And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook.
There is the house, with the gate red.barred,
And the poplarH tall;
ANA the barns brown length and the cattle. yard,
And the white horns tossing above the wall.
There are the bee-hives ranged IN the sun;
And down by the brink
OF the brook are her poor flowers, weed o'orruu,
Pansy and daGodil rose and pink
A year has gone as the tortoise goes,
Heavy and slow;
Ana the same rose blows, and the same sun glows,
And the same brook sings Of year ago.
There's the same sweet clover smell in the breeze
And the Juno sun warm
Iangles his wipgs Of hre in the trees,
Setting, as then, over Fernside farm.
mind me how with lovers care.
From my Sunday coat
brushed of the burrs, and smoothed my hair
And cooled at the brookside my brow and throat
Since we parted, month had passed.
To love, year;
Down through the beeches looked at last
On the little red gate and the wellsweep near.
can soc it all now,-the slsntwise rain
OF light through the leaves,
The sundOwn's blaze ON her windOw-p pane,
The bloom Of her roses under the caves,
Just the same as = month before
The house and the trees,
The barns brown gable, the vine by the door,
Nothing changed but the hives of bees.
Before them, under tho garden wall,
Forward and back
Went dreariy singing the chore-girl small
Dressing each hive with a shred Of blacf.
Trembling, listened; the summers sun
Had the chill Of snow;
For knew she was telling the bees Of one
Gone on the journey We all must go.
Then said to myself my Mary weeps
For the dead To-day;
Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps
The fret aud the pain Of his age away"
But her dog whned low; on the doorway sill,
With his cane to his chin,
The old man sat; and the chore-girl still
Sung to the bees stealing out aud in.
And the song she was singing ever since
In my ears sounds on:
stay at home, pretty bees fly not hence!
Mistress Mary is dead and gone!'
j. e. Wbifiisr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05
Coffee TaVerns Oa a Substitute for GrOg-
shops.

Temperance reformers are coming very gen.
orally to understand that the cause which they
advocate cannot be successfully advanced un-
less something is supplied to the subjects of
the reform to take the place Of the indulgence
which they are asked to abandon. The vice
of intemperance is a social one, and it origi-
mates in perverted social instincts which, be-
ing cheated out of their proper qualification,
are diverted into irregular and harmful chan
nels. A large proportion of the subjects of
the grosser forms of intemperance are men
and women who have no homes or whose
homes are not happy ones To man who,
when his days work is over, has no pleasant
or comfortable place to 60 TO, the saloon, with
its light and music, its opportunity for talk
with his fellows and the fatal excitement of
the stimulants sold over its bar, offers mani
fold temptations. In the case of such man,
it is NOT enough to point out the perls of his
course or to show him how certainly its end
is ruin aud death. He drifts along stolidly
to his doom, with his eyes open, content to
relieve the hardness and barrenness of his life
with some play of the social instincts at what
ever hazard or cost. To bring such q man
out of his debasing habits the effort must be
made not only to supply him with higher mo-
tives, but to fill the vacuum which will be
left in his life when the social light and
warmth of the saloon are withdrawn from it.
hctOtAlllkll luOSt ltlll pcIhutt EtlOInltIhs VINO
labor for permanent results rather than for
transient Impressions, attempt TO satisfy the
social needs of those for whom they work by
providing bright and pleasant places for them
to meet in and innocent forms of recreation.
Holly-tree inns, coffee rooms, reading rooms,
cheap concert and lecture courses, and rooms
for smoking and checker-playing constitute
an excellent antidote for intemperance, and
the work of providing and sustaining them
is one in which all good citizens - even
those who do not concern themselves with the
moral aspects of the matter-should take
share.
In England the necessity of this sort of
work is better appreciated than it is here, and
commands the sanction and cooperation of
many wealthy and influential men. DIR. Guy
Ter, in the Independent gives an account of
the Coffee Tavern" movement or Cocoa
House" enterprise which is being carried on
at present in England on an extensive scale.
The undertaking is 80 prosperous that it main
tains handsome journal, the Coffee and Pub
lie House News the weekly issues Of which
are filled with accounts of the opening of new
coiIee-houses and cocoa-tree inns in London,
Glasgow, Manchester and all the principal
cities in the kingdom. Among the public
men who have given addresses at the opening
of these enterprises are the Lord Chancel-
lor, Mr.. Gladstone Lord LittletOn, Thomas
Hughes, and the Home Secretary, Mr.. Cross.
These cOfee-taverns soon become self-sup-
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NO. 80.

porting and some of them pay dividends to
the stockholders In the manufacturing town
of Bradford a Coffee Tavern Company has
been organized which has opened eight diff
ferent houses for the sale Of coffee, tea, CO.
Goa, and wholesome food to male and female
visitauts The largest of the buildings cost
$50, 0OO its daily receipts amount to 500,
and its cash sales of refreshments during six
months amounted to $1,000. II has din
ing-saloon a club room, reading-room,
smoking-room, layatory, and several other
apartments, but not a drop of intoxicating
drink is allowed on the premises. Hon. W.
f. Forster is one of the foremost promoters
Of this enterprise. As an illustration of what
has been already done in this direction in
American cities DIR. Cuyler writes
A band of devoted Christian women in my
congregation, joining with several other kin
dred spirits, opened one in this part of Brook.
lyn last winter. 1t was on limited scale
but it furnished an evening refuge 10 many
poor lads and TO several laboring men, who
might otherwise have drifted into the dram
dens. In connection with cheap meals and
reading-r room, familiar talks were made to the
inmates and occasional Christian services of
prayer and song were held. A wise caution
must be observed, lest these establishments
assume too much of the asylum character
on the one hand, or of religious meetings ON
the other. They should be entirely social
cheerful and free from sensual temptation;
but have no compulsory features which will
repel the very class who need them the most
In Albany a noble building has been opened
for religious and reformatory purposes and
to it is attached q department similar to the
British coGee-tavern. All meats and drinks
are sold and the idea of gratuitous charity is
entirely discarded"
Establishments of n similar sort ore in m
GRAFTON in Boston, but on no large scale, aud
supported by no concert Of action. Is it not
time for our large-hearted citizens to ask
themselves and each other whether an oppor-
tunty for wise philanthropy is not offered
them in this direction and whether it ought
not to command, as DIR. Cuyler says it does in
England, 'the best brains, the warmest hearts,
and the most liberal purses in our city p
Boston JourRdL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05

A dentists sign-Drawing, music, and dane
ing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05

the better grades of toilet and table ware. A
little while ago nothing better than or, am col
ored stone china, and blue stone, and stone
porcelain ware was made in Trenton Now
there are establishments that make real china,
and others that manufacture grade Of stone
china that they claim looks as well and wears
better than French china, and is the same in
everything except that it is not translucent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05

Three melons went sailing out In the West,
Nutmeg, water and musk
Three little boys at evening dusk
While nature broOded in damp suspense,
Climbed over a ten-rail, eight-foOt fence
And slowed a melon beneath each vest.
Three little c1lics appeared that night
And tackled the cherubs three %
Oh the groans, the pain, the misery,
The cramp, the gripe and the inward hurt,
The fate that the doctors couldn't avert
Three undertakers at mornings light.
Yet melons go sailing everywhere,
And women are born TO weep,
And boys will forage while farmers sleep,
And COLES will come where melons go,
And so will doctors, and every woe
That points the way to the golden stair.
50. LOHis Iimes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-05
Stout Goods for Outdoor Work,

Owr prices are ar bottom figures. We tpW not be
uHdcrsOh!
You will make money by examining stock be-
fore purchasing.
so Remember the place-the old stand in Fisk
Block.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Foolish.

To think the moro a man eats
the fatter and stronger he will be-
come.
To believe that the more hours
children study the faster they will
learn. sfa
To conclude that If exercise is
good, tho more violent it is, the
more good is done.
To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
To act on the presumption that
the smallest room in the house is
large enough 10 sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately bet
ter, is good for the system, without
regard to ultcrior effects.
To cat without an appetite, or to
continue to eat after it has been
satisfied, merely to crafty the taste.
To cat hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the
brief time it is passing down the
throat, at the expense ola whole
night Of disturbed sleep, and u
weary waking in the morning.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Dcceptirc Distances on the
IiUiHs.

A story is told of two English
men who started from Denver,
Colorado, for u walk to tho noun
tains before breakfast, an appar-
emily easy task, as the mountains
did not appear more than a milo
or Two awar. After walking for all
hour without seeming to have
made any progress toward the de-
sired goal, one Of them became dis
couragcd and concluded TO return
for his breakfast; aiterward he took
a carriage and went in search Of
his friend, whom he found on tho
bank of Il small ditch. Ills friend
inquired what he intended to do.
lie replied, to wade the ditch. His
friend said there was no necessity
for that, as it was less than three
feet across, and lie could easily
jump it. "l'ou can't tell anything
about it in this country rcspon-
lied the other; 1T may be thrco
hundred feet across for ought |
know" His morning walk proved
to extend about fifteen miles before
he reached tho foothills.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Taste for Rc0tiing

Sir John lTerschel has declared
that IF lie wero to pray for Il taste
which should stand up under cv-
cry variety of circumstances. and
be Il source of happiness and cheer
Fulncss to him through life, it
would be 4 taste for reading"
Give Il man, he allirms, that taste.
and the means of gratifying it, and
you cannot Enil of making him
good and happy; for you bring
him i'll contact with society in all
ages, with the tendercst, the bravcst
and the purest men who havo
adorned humanity, making him Il
donizcn ofall nations, contompo-
rary cfall times and giving him a
practical proof that the world has
been created for him,his solace and
for his cnioymcnt.-Scien'itic Amer
lean.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28

A poor IIindoo, having been re.
leased from the cares Of the world.
and from Il scurvy wife, presented
himself ut the gate of Brahma's
paradise.
slave you been through purga'
tory!" asked the god.
"No! but I've been married." llo
answered seriously.
"Comc in, then; its all tho
same"
At this moment arrived another
man, just dcfunct, who begged Of
Brahma to go in also.
"Soitly! softly! have you been
through pursatory%
"No! but what Of that? Did
YOU not admit, Il moment ago, ono
who had not been there any more
than II"
"Certainly; but he has been
married"
Married? Who are you talking
to? | have been married twice ~
"Ohl pshaw" replied Bralrma,
"gct away! Paradise Is not for
fools ~
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Uisc Sayings from 0Hiriotc.

Self praise deprcciatcs.
Wit and humor belong to genius
alone.
A bad cloak often covers q good
drinkcr.
A soldier had better smell gun
powder than musk.
We are all rs God made us, and
sometimes Il great deal worse.
Gy the streets of "By-and.by"
one arrives at the house Of "Nrv-
er."
Virtue is more prosecuted by the
wicked than beloved by the right
cous.
There is no book so bad hut that
something good may be found in
it.
between the Eyes" and "no" of a
woman would not undertake to
thrust the point Of 4 pin.
All women, let them be ever so
homely, are pleased to hear them
selves celebrated for their beauty.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Quick VII Ui,LS.

Years ago, into n wholesale gro
Gerry in Boston, walked a tall mus
cular man, evidently 4 fresh conner
from some backwood town in Maine
or New Hampshire. AccoSting the
first person he met, who was the
merchant himself, he asked:
"Iou don't want to hire 4 man
in your store, tlo you?"
swell, | don't know; what can
you do?'
"Do?' said the man; II rather
guess ] can turn my hand to almost
anything. What do you want
donc?'
"Well, if ! was to hire a man, ii
would be one that could lift well, a
strong, wiry fellow; one, for in
stance that could shoulder Il sack of
coffee like that yonder, and carry
it across the floor and never lay it
down."
There, now, captain" said the
countryman, "that't just me. I
kin lift anything | hitch to; YOU
can't suit me better. What vii
you give man that can suit you?"
I'll tell you. Tfyou will shoul-
der that sack of coffee and carry
it across the store twice and never
lay it down, l will hire you for u
year ut 500 per month.
Done !" said the stranger; and
by this time every clerk in the
store had gathered around and was
waiting to join in the laugh against
the man, who, walking up to the
sack, threw il across his shoulder
with perfect ease, rs it was not cx-
'r"mely heavy, and walking with it
twice across the floor, went quietly
to large hook which was fastened
against the wall, and hanging it
up, turned to tho merchant and
said:
"Thcr, now, it may hang there
till doomsday; | shall never lay it
dozen. What shall 1 so ut, Mister?
Just give me plenty to do and 800
per month and its all right"
The clerks brokc'into a laugh.and
the merchant, discomiittcd yet sat
istied, kept his agreement, and to-
day the green countryman is the
senior partner in the firm and
worth million dollars.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28
Boys Vanted.

There arc always boys enough in
the market, but some Of them are
Of little Use. The kind that are
always wanted are: l. Honest; .
Pure; 8. Intelligent; 4. Active; 5.
Industrious; G. 0bedicnt; {.
Steady; $. ObIising; 8. Polite; 10.
Neat. 80.
One thousand first-rate places
are open for ono thousand boys who
come up to this standard.
Many of these places Of trade and
art are already filled by boys who
lack some important points, but
they will soon be vacant.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28

Captain Greenwcll cut down a
blue gum treo on his grounds, says
the Santa Barbara, California
Press, that was planted seven years
ago. II was scvcnty-eight feet
high, and measured six feet III cir
cumtcrence at the butt, When
planted It was Il slender Shrub
about three feet high, and now it
will cut up at least cord and II
half of stove wood. The growth
during the seven years was seventy
five feet, or ten and scyrn.cightlIs
feet II wear.
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Educational.
SAVE FRsGNG $40 TO $50
A YEAR ny ATTENDING
TIE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,

luU GlNtH NuuMiL bNh"Vhi
GLENIILLE, Gilmcr Co., W. w.,
which has full Normal Course, an ad-
vluccd course, and department Of music.
In every study the most careful and
thorough work is always done.
Fail Term bcgins September 9th, 1878,
Winter Term begins January 9th, 1879.
Spring Term begins April Tth, 1870.
Much Advantage is Gained
to those who teach during the year, by at
tending two months in the fall, getting
"lcavo Of absence, " from November till
March, md returning in the spring.
Engagements to begin teaching at tue
middle ofNoyCmber can bc made in Gilner
or other counties now.
For catalogue and particulars regarding
FIFE TUITION sec tue County Superin-
trndent, orwr,tcto S5 M B. So &
7. MARCELLUS MARSHALL,
Principal
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
or TIE NAILS.

Ciarkshurg-daily except Sandays-leavcs
Wcson at s 4. M-NrrivCs At 1 P. ".
BraxtOn Court llOuse-daIly cxccp, Sun
,days-arrives at lIieston by a:9n P. H., and
leaves Weston same day at $40 p. ".
Glcnvillc-lcaves liics,on at a. NJ. on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridnys-arrivcs
at6 P NJ Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satar-
days. fr'
Bucklmnnon-nrrivcs At Weston !" ".
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays-lcavCs
Weston . P NJ. same days.
PhiIippi-nrrivcs nj Weston Tuesdays mad
Fridays ut GP.M Leaves Weston Ilrlpcs.
day aud Saturdays nt A. N.
Mount plensAnt-leavcs Weston Mondays
and Thursdays at I A.M.-arrIvCs Tuesdays
aud Fridays by 8 =. ".
West UniOn-Hrrivcs Mondays at 7. N.
leaves Weston Tuesdays Mt A. ".
Sand fork-oure u wcek-leaves Weston
MondaysAt Q ~. M.-alrivcs Mondays ut 8
+. 81.
T4r- raltics having mail to 60 should
bring Il 10 the Office half al hour before The
departure Of the mails. ~
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-06-28

a young man of Germany and
his bctrOthcd tied themselves to-
gcthcr and jumped into apond.
The coldncss of the water produced
Il change in the young mans ar
dent feelings, and he freed himself
and made for the shore, leaving the
,lamscl to her fate. He was lately
sentenced To three years and nine
months in prison for the pcrtor-
lIHilrC,