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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
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There is no country in the world
where there are So many toy-shops, so
many children's fairs, or where older
people do 80 much for young people, as
in Japan. AS a general rule, japanese
children are seldom known to be pun
shed. They are greatly petted, and do
not quarrel and cry so much as children
In our own country, and are always
good-natured, contented and happy.
The children are 80 unusually good,
some persons say, because their parents
let them do as they please yet, if they
were better taken care of and better
governed, perhaps there would not be 30
many sore-eyed, sore-headed, crooked
backed children as there are.
Boys seldom play ball, but find their
enjoyment in tops, stills and kites, somo
Of which are six fef square and very
gay in appearance, and others are made
TO sing as they fly through the air.
Another choice game Is battledore
and shuttlecock. The battledore is a
wooden bat, and the shuttlecock is a
round seed stuck round with feathers.
The boys az they play sing that the wind
may blow, and the girls that it may be
aim So that their shuttlecocks may fly
straight, As for Mother Goose" liter
ature in the way Of story books, lullabys
and nursery rhymes, they are as plenti-
full as in our own land, but all are char
acteristio of their country. In our
games, for instance, Of "puss wants o
corner" and prisoners base" the
devil takes the place Of puss or the Off
eer. japanese children are peculiarly
fond Of playing make-believe, and
will pretend to be sick and send for the
doctor. There arc "make- believe" tea
parties, weddings and even funerals.
Games of cards are very popular, and
some of them are played after the man
ner Of our "old maid" Forfeits are n
part of almost every game, and consist
sometimes in painting the faces of the
boys with ink and sticking straw in the
girls hair. Christian Adpo-
oukS
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
Farm Scenes In New York.

The cider mill challenged the bows
attention in the fall, when apples were
brought by the cart-load and dumped in
huge piles on the ground, then carried in
large baskets to the hopper, to be con-
verted into pomace. The steady old
horse turned the creaking mill. When
the pomace was put into form and
pressed the sweet juice ran out into
tubs that invite sampling. Cups and
glasses were barbarism the only
proper instrument for tasting and test
ing was the long, bright straw. No
cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as
that new cider. 1t was good sport to
ant hens eggs, in obscure manger cor
~, or high hay y-mows, or in the tall,
landing grass to see the swarming bees
settle on limb of tho near peach tree,
and watch the process of hiving them /;
to ride on high loads of fragrant hay to
trap the sly woodchuck, and see his grit
Us n prisoner; to follow the harvesters
atield, and stack the clean oat-sheaves
in shocks" and to see the same oats
fly from under the alternating fails.
About the best fun of all was in the
huskings on the great barn floor. Here
were at once activity and repose, indi-
vidual excellence and social enjoyment.
Every man has his stories to tell. The
gray-haired grandfather recsunted his
arly exploits, and told how his nimble
eet used to trip those of heavier and
stronger wrestlers. "Stand up n min
ute" he would say to his best hired
man and, taking him by the collar and
elbow, he would illustrate his youthful
SCIENCE" and send his man tottering
across the floor. Hardly less was the
sport of shearing time, when the boys
were allowed to hold the big shears and
trim the sleeps feecy legs. The shear
ing was preceded by general sheep
Sashing, at the bridge on the nearest
poss-road. 1t was "high jinks for the
Joys to stand waist-desp in the water,
pass along the swimming sheep, and give
the larger lambs useless bath by them
selves. Martin Kellogg, In September
Californian.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09

water, but underneath all was still and
fair and beautiful and shrouded in
mystery no man could penetrate. The
sunken city lay revealed in this brief
hour OF sunset TO the rapt watchers
overhead.
Neither spoke o word, but, straining
their eyes to see more, gazed at the
shadowy beauty Of the scene and listened
to the wild, sad music Of the bells.
Strange visions foated before their be-
wildered sight, and the deserted streets
and lonely grandeur Of the buried city
told to each silent watcher a widely.
different tale.
The young man with glowing eyes be-
held beneath him all his hopes and de-
sires reached and fulfilled. All that
he worked to possess awaited him in the
sunken city, peopled with the shadows
of those he loved, rich with the wealth
he longed for, teeming with the fruition
Of his proudest hopes. His life and it's
completion lay there; If he would but
take the step and reach it and what
should hold him back2
And the other man, older in work and
disappointment than in years, saw be-
meath him in the sunken city all the past
joys of his life return. Those whom he
had loved and lost walked through the
deserted streets, and his bygone youth,
rich with the hopes now dead, shone al
luringly before his eyes. One down.
ward plunge, and he could regain it ALL
With start both men rose in the lit
tie boat ready to leap into the waves,
when suddenly with faint, echoing
sound the music of the bells broke and
died into silence, and the glories be-
meath grew dim and indistinct before
| their straining eyes. Tower and turre.
and gilded roof melted softly away into
nothingness, and they saw only the lap.
ping waters growing gray and misty in
the approaching gloom.
With shudder the young man drew
back from the edge of the boat. cit 10
over" he said, 1.-The spell is past and
night is coming on. We must return to
the shore without delay, and in the real
world and following out my own life |
will gain all that have seen shadowed
forth to-day. My path lies before me
and 7 am eager to tread it. Let as
hasten back.
But the other did not heed him. His
eyes were fixed upon the water. Be-
meath lay hidden the golden vision OF
the past and he could never hope to re-
produce it on earth. An overwhelming
yearning seized him. All that he valued
lay in the sunken city and he would Join
them there.
There was faint cry, . sudden
plunge, and the young man sat alone
within the boat as the twilight darkened
into night
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
An Artists struggles.

Most Of our readers have heard Of,
and many may have seen, Banvard's
great Panorama Of the Mississippi"
1t is said that the author Of this i'm
mense work conceived its idea and de-
tsrmined ON its execution when he was
a mere boy, during q trip across the
Mississippi in q row-boat at sunset.
The story of his after-hfe is a record of
singular persistency and success in car
rying ont boyish dream.
When his father died, John Ranvard
was left poor, friendless lad, and OBJ
tanned employment with a druggist.
But, 50 fond was he of sketching the
hkenesses of those about him on the
walls with chalk or coal, that his master
told him he made better hkenesses than
pills so poor John lost his situation.
He then tried other p84.--, and met
with many disappointmenta. Finally he
obtained eno.vh money TO begin his
great work. He bought . small skift,
and set of alone on his perilous ad-
venture.
He travelled thousands Of miles, cross
ing the Mississippi backwards and for
wards TO secure the best points for
making his sketches. All day long he
went on sketching, and. when the sun
WAS about to set, he either shot wild
fowl on the river, or, hAulilg the little
boat ashore, went into the woods, with
his rifle, to shoot game.
After cooking and eating his supper,
he turned his boat over on the ground,
and crept under it, rolling himself up in
blanket to sleep for the night, safe
from the falling dews and prowling ami
mails.
Sometimes for weeks together he
never spoke TO human being. In this
manner he went on sketching for more
than 400 days before the necessary
drawings were finished, and then he SET
10 work in good earnest 10 paint the
picture.
He had only made sketches in his
wanderings. After these were completed
there were colors and canvas to be
bought, and large wooden building 30
be erected, for he determined TO paint
them on one piece of canvas. and thus
make a panorama
When il was finished il covered three
miles Of canvas. and represented range
of scenery 5000 miles in extent and
that all this magnificent work was exc
cuted by poor, fatheriess. moncyless
lad ought TO make us ashamed Of giving
up any undertaking worth pursuing,
merely because it would cost us some
trouble.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09

A NEW process for the preservation OF
forage crops in their green state is be-
ing tested at Suffield, CT. Into cutter,
which goes by steam, are run half a
dozen corn-stalks at time, which are
cut into very small pieces. Afterward
they fall into slide which takes them
to vault fourteen by twenty-six feet
and ten deep, which has thick concrete
walls, and is capable of holding eighty
Ave tons of this feed. When the vault
is filed and closely packed down, thirty
tons of stone is placed on top. 1t is
claimed that the fodder will keep green
and retain its sweetness as long as il is
kept covered, thus making II one of the
best as we'll ms the cheapest kinds of feed
obtainable for cattle the year round. II
is not intended, however, that this feed
shall be sold, and indeed IL could not be,
as after twenty-four hours exposure fer
mentation would set in, which, of course,
would ruin it 1t can be taken out only
little at a time as IL Is needed for use.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
PLEASANTRIRS.

An ounce Of conviction II worth q
pound of concern
FoR whom was Eve mads7 For Adj
AIMS Express Company.
"WHY should we celebrate WaAhing-
tons birthday more than mine 2" asked
a teacher. Because he never told q
lie !" shouted a little boy.
"PLEAsE to understand" said the
honorable Billie the other day, I'm
not such a fool as 1 look" "No," said
Bob, "that would be too much"
A HUSBAND telegraphed TO his wifs
"What have you for breakfast, and how
is the baby?" The answer came
Breakfast cakes and measles"
The world is always interested 10 know
the last words of q man. It doesn't care
so much about those Of woman. She
has her last word all through life.
"DoE'T you dare 70 kiss me onoa,-
she cried with blazing eyes
At John, who felt himself collapsed
To half his uEuAl size.
81 won'L" be said" please pardon me,
And will Be 20 nioe-"
Che smiled and said: " Dear John, didn't
Say you shouldn't kiAs me tuioe."
A YOUNG lady surprised the gentle
manly clerk by Offering him 80 cents in
payment for q dollar purchase. "It
amounts to 81, If you please" said the
gentlemanly clerk. 81 know it does"
was the answer, "but papa Is only pay
ing 80 cents on the dollar now."
"PRIsosER at the bar" said the
Judge, "is there anything you wish to
say before sentence is passed upon
you?" The prisoner looked wistfulIy
toward the door, and remarked that he
would like to say, GOOD evening" if it
would be agreeable TO the company.
A PARTY of scapegraces, meeting Q
pious old man named Samson, one Of
them exclaimed, "Ah, now we're safei
Well take Samson along with us and
then, should We be set upon by thou
sand Phiistines, he'll slay them all.
my friend" quietly responded the old
man, "to do that 1 should have to bor-
row your iaw-bone.
SIZE was 4-year-old blonde, general
ly quiet and tractable, but mamma had
provoked her. 81 don't love you any
more, mamma :" Every well, dear, you
needn't" "Well, 1 don't love you
"All right, dearie, mamma will try to
get along" "Well, l do love you; but
don't feel just like it now"
LITTLE RoBBY came home in Boston
with his new hat limp as a dish-cloth.
"For goodness sake r. cried his mother,
"where have you been?' Robby began
to whimper as he replied, "a fsller
threw my hat into the frog pond
"Oh, Robbyw exclaimed his sister,
"you threw it in yourself. saw you
do itw "Well," said Robby, con.
temptuously, "Ain't feller7"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
Emperor Alexander's Marriage.

The czar of Russia is believed to have
married the Princess Dolgorouki, al
Ehough the czarina was so recently upon
her death-bed in the royal palace at St.
Petersburg. His children protested
Against the ceremony, and all but one OF
biz sons left the country in order to avoid
attending the nuptials. The ceremony
vas so secret that little is known as to
he terms of the union, although it is
E1nerally believed that the marriage is
nlorganatic, the Princess Dolgorouki
Freeing for herself and children TO make
uo claims to the throne or possessions OF
ne car Had he contracted marriage
mon other terms, his sons might have
sAown resentment more vigorously than
~ sulking in foreign lands. The czar
d not always been free from suspi-
ions that nihilists have obtained secret
Encouragement, II not aid, from his own
1ousehold. He would not willingly add
u his avowed enemies his own sons. His
marriage will be more likely to increase
E|lan to diminish his unpopularity. Ad-
MIRA Popof has been made sick by
anxiety lest nihilists should introduce
Explosives on board the new yacht Liva-
Il, which the czar named in honor of
o. country of the Princess Dolgorouki's
Ianily. Livadia, where the pair now are
= prosecutors of their sovereign aver
1T an Internal machine is now secreted
il he yacht, and the car may find, If he
Undertakes a wedding journey on board
1t craft, that his admiral is not the on
r Pop-of on board. The czar of Rus
~ h likely to lack nothing of excite
mt for his diversion during the remain
- Of his life, and a singular feature of
~ case Is that consciousness Of his
=sdeeds gives him the apprehension
tt retribution will follow him In q Sc
f|=s Of attacks which will at last pros
&c him as the victim of assassins.-
=. Nail.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
Human Work and Human Waste.

Work means waste, equally TO a hu.
man body and q locomotive engine.
"More work, more waste" is a motto
alike true of the mechanics ap-
paratus and Of the mechanic himself.
Not an action, We repeat, is performed
by us which is not accompanied by an
expenditure of force derived from and
accompanied by proportional waste of
substance. The movements Of muscles,
the beating of the heart, the winking OF
an eyekd, the thinking thought, entail
wear and tear upon the muscles that
work and the brain-cells that think.
Every action necessitates bodily waste
and corresponding physical repair.
Waste, however, cannot Of necessity be
single and final process in living
body-unless, indeed, we were born
with full complement of matter, and
we're permitted in the order of nature to
live on the principals with which we
bad been provided, instead of wisely us.
ing that principal as a means Of gaining
livelihood through the interest it ac-
quired. That we are not so constituted
Is an evident fact, hence our bodies de.
mand pretty constant repair as a CON-
panion action to that of work, labor and
duty. This process of repair consists in
the reception of matter from the outer
world, in the transformation OF this mat
ter into ourselves, and in its utilization
IN the work and repair of the frame.
Such matter we shortly name food, and
The processes whereby it is converted
INTO our own bodily substance we term
digestion. Chambers Journal.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09

THR recent colliery explosion in I'm
gland has melted some historical statis-
tician TO an enumeration of similar dis
asters in that country, who finds that in
the number of lives lost this one will
frank with the explosion of the Cymmer,
near Pontypridd, in July, 1856, when ia
men we're sacrificed TO the insanely reck-
less practice of testing headings sup
posed to be dangerous by approaching
lighted candles TO them; of Lundhill, in
February, 1857, when 1S9 men of 200
we're killed of the Risca colliery, where,
in December, 1860, 142 miners were slain
by an explosion caused by one of their
number uncovering his lamp to light his
pipe; of the Oaks, in December, 1866
(seventy lives had been lost there in
March, 184D-when $40 men were
stricken down of Fenrdale, in Novem-
Der, 1867, when but three souls of 40
we're saved; of the Swartho Main, in
December, 1875, when 135 lives were
lost; of the Blantyre pit, in October,
1877, when 400 men and boys were
killed; Of the Wood pit, ut Haydock, in
June, 1873, when 1s3 perished of the
Abercarne colliery, in September OF tho
same year, when the death-list contained
26O names, and Of the fatal Risca, where
two months ago 119 men were blown on
Of existence"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09

Theodore Parker, a distinguished
American and rationalistic theologian,
was born at Lexington, Mass. on the
oath of August, 1910. His education
was begun on his fathers farm, and there
he continued 10 study even after he had
entered Harvard College in 1880. In
1894 he entered the theological school,
in which he remained about two years
He first began to preach in Barnstable
in 1895. In April of the following year
he married Miss Lydia Cabot, and soon
after he settled AZ Unitarian minister at
West Roxbury. His views had previ-
ously been but little in advance Of the
average Unitarianism of the time, but
his growing acquaintance with De
Wette, Eichborn, Paulus Bauer, and
others, was not long in producing a
change in his opinions. His new
doctrines gave offense to some of the
more conservative New England Uni
tarians, and, after his discourse on the
IEhHsltHt liill IeIInhueub III SHTlht-
ianity," the opposition 10 him became
much more decided. In 1Sl3 he visited
Europe, returning in the summer of
1914. Soon after his return he began TO
preach in Boston at the Melodeon,
where he was regularly installed in
1915, He was the principal editor of
the Massachusetts Quarterly. In addi.
ton to his duties as minister, and his
laborious intellectual pursuits, he gave
numerous lectures on various subjects.
His health having become greatly inn
paired by his unceasing and intense ac-
tivity, in February, 1859, he visited
Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and in
the following summer went TO Europe,
spending the winter of 1S59-60 at Rome.
He left Rome in April, 1860, and with
difficulty reached Florence, where he
died on the 10th of May. OF his extern
siye collection of books he left tho prin-
cipal part, amounting TO II, 100 volumes
and $500 pamphlets. to the Boston
Public Library.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09
A Chinese Romance.

Living in village in the province Of
Kwangtung were two brothers. "Broth-
err" said the younger, one day, "you
are 40 years OF ago, why don't you
marry? At this rate we shall never be
able to perpetuate our fathers family,
nor to raise for ourselves any sons
agains: our declining years."
"The reason I do not marry" re-
cponded the other, els that cannot
afford it-otherwise I would )" where
upon the younger Of the two implored
his brother to sell him, and buy wife
with the proceeds
The proposal was Indignantly secuted
10y the elder. "What," said he, eek
change brother for wife2 Never I
A wife may at any time be able to pro-
cure, but can never get another broth
er."
But u wealthy neighbor, overhearing
the conversation, called upon the two,
entered into an insinuating colloquy
with the elder man, and finished by Of
fering him 80 taels of silver for his hung
ii. The temptation was too strong the;
young man was sold and went into vol
untary captivity to his new master, re-
ceiving boarding and lodging in return
for his services, while the elder went out
and bought wife with the money. On
the arrival of this lady at home, she be-
gan to question her lord as TO the where
abouts of his brother. 81 always heard
she said, that there were two of you ;
what has become Of him ?"
"My dear" replied her spouse, "the
fact is, l have sold him and, what is
more, if had not done so, 1 should
never have been able to get you"
His wife was greatly shocked; and,
going back TO her fathers, she told him
the whole story, beseeching him to fur
nish her with means of bringing back
her brother-in-law. Two days afterward
she returned ioyfully with the necessary
amount, which she deposited for safety
under her bed but, alas short time
only elapsed before the box containing it
most strangely disappeared. This so
affected her mind that she tired to hang
herself; and was so far successful that
she was put into q coffin, and taken ont
TO be buried. Present at the funeral
WAS a sister of the widower, swathed up
10 the eyes in white bandages, and
mourning piteously. Suddenly there
came on fearful thunderstorm the
rain poured down in torrents, crash -ons
ceeded crash, and flash followed flash,
until one ribbon of flame passed through
the body of the disconsolate sister-in-
law, stretching her a corpse upon the
ground. As she fell her jacket opened,
and out tumbled the missing coin. The
same flash that killed her shattered the
coffin, and aroused the apparently-dead
wife; and 30 the Judgment of heaven
WAS fulfilled. The false sister WAS
speedily packed away in the coffin, and
buried the husband and wife trudged
piously home with their recovered treas
ure the younger brother WAS redeemed
from slavery, and the family lived hap
PLY together for the remainder Of their
lives.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-09

AMERICAN oysters are taken TO Europe
now, not alone for immediate, but for
prospective, consumption. The Schles-
wig owners of oyster beds have already
laid down good many American oysters,
and new company has just been formed
for doing the same thing ON a vastly-in-
creased scale. SO with each year Amer
ica becomes more and more the food
supplier Of the Old World, ne we'll as on
an augmenting scale the recipient Of her
Surplus population.