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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
PLANTING TREES.

The original Of the following, which is trans
lation from the French Of Lafontaue, must have
been suggested by the passage 10 Cieero's beauti
iul essay, De Seneoiuie. In which, speaking Of th
unsel6sbnsss Of a good old man, be says;
Serif obores qua alisro seeulo prosint .-( II,
plants trees that to benefit another generation
man Of eighty years was planting
"lia, ha" laughed out three striplings from ,h,
village.
planting ut eighty-had this task been tllage
Or building houses, or aught else you please,
The folly might have passed as less worth nothing
But-planting trees lIo must indeed bo doing
Why, In the name Of all that's odd, old neighbor
What fruit can such as you expect to gather
From this ridiculous aud driitless lAbory.
You who already are a great-grandfather
What! do you think to rival 10 his years
Mcthusaleh for shame. Do penance rather
For your past errors Mourn your sins with tears
Abandon hopes aud plans that so III suit your
Ago and gray hairs Give over looking wildly
Out through the vista Of boundess future
An these are but for u' and such as We"
"Thoy are no. even for you,' replied the old man
mildly
"Youlh may be just as nigh eternity
As age. What though the pitfalls Of existence
BE covered DER with flowers in lieu Of SHOWS,
Who shall lOremeasurc the brief distance
Between this dim dreams birth and close.
The winged bolts Of death are swim to strike
Life in its growing as decline
The pallid Parcu play their game alike
With your days and with mine.
Who, which Of US four, shah be the one
To gaze last on the glory Of the sum-
Molcst mo not, then. Leave me 10 enjoy
The hours that yet remain to me. love
To think my great grandchildren will enjoy
The shade and shelter Of this embryo grove.
Meantime live, breathe, and may even
Share, for some years to come, the gifts Of Heaven
Alas! even | may see the morning light
Shine more than once, young men, upon your
graves"
The old man spakea truth which timo revealed -
Boating, soon after, on a stormy night,
One OF these youths was buried n the waves
second was cut of upon the battlefield
The third fell 49, and in four Heeting weeks
His bier wasdfessed with deaths pale plumes.
So died the three thus early fated
And while the tears rolled down his cheeks
The old man sculptured on their tombs
The story have here narrated.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS

The debate in the Senate last week
on the Pension Appropriation bill
brought into still stronger light the
appalling burdens thrust upon the
Treasury by the arrears of Pension
act of March 3, 1879.
When, seven weeks ago, Mr., Hub
bell announced that s2i2, 900, 900 would
probably be needed for pension arrears
alone, the country was astonishcd for
the friends of the Arrears act had pro.
cured its passage by pretending that
500, 900, 900 would settle all the claims.
When, fortnight ago, Commissioner
Bentley unohicially declared that, first
and last the Arrears act would add
over $40, 900, 900 to the burdens of the
country, there was fresh shock Of
surprise and alarm. But now Senator
Davis, Of West Virginia, has laid be.
fore Congress official estimates from
Mr.. Bentley, showing that the prodig.
ious sum OF s5l0,000,000 will be re.
quired to meet expenses incurred under
the Arrears act alone.
The first fruits of that stupendous
stroke Of recklessness are to be seen in
the pending bill To the annual ap-
preparation has been ADDED this week
s17,692,03l6 for additional army
pensions, s560,27I99 for additional
navy pensions, and $50, 900 Tor fees of
examining surgeons. Thus the annu.
al appropriation has already been in.
creased more than eighteen millions.
The sum required now every year Tor
pensions is over fifty millions and
these annual payments will grow larg.
er until they reach, as the Commis.
soner ertimates, sixty millions. AT
or near that sum, which dwaris other
expenditures for routine administra.
tion, the pension burden is likely 10
remain for years.
What Congress has done for the
country by It's reckless pension legis.
lation is manifest in comparing the
annual pension disbursements since
the war. They reached their maxi.
mum, it was supposed, in 1871, when
they amounted to s33,0fT, 1888 63.
Three years later, in 1874, they bad
fallen 10 s3O,593, ,79i So The year
following, they fell to s29, ,5S3, 1868
and in 1878 they had dropped to s26,.
s45, ,4l5.l7. There was a natural de-
crease, since with the lapse of years
deaths diminish the number of pen.
sioners. That year Congress came In
with additional legislation, so that now
we are paying over fifty millions.
In 1874 the number Of applications
for pensions was 1874 in 1880 the
number was I'LL ,4G6. Tho provisions
Tor giving not only future pension TO
those who might apply, but arrears,
on an average, TO $1,000
or $1,000 for each successful claim,
caused this enormous increase of ap.
plications. Yetthe country would not
have been unsenerous without the
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

A RoBIN RoosT.-Down near Old
Rocky Hill, one mile from Settles mill,
near Glasgow, Kentucky, is a robin
roost that equals the pigeon roost OF
olden times. A cedar thicket of about
sixty acres furnishes the birds a lodg.
ing place. About sundown every even.
ing constant streams from every direc-
tion pour into the grove and almost
obscure the heavens in their fight.
Night finds almost every bush in the
thicket bending with its red.breasted
load. For the past few weeks lovers
OF sport for miles around have visited
the place, and every night the thicket
is illuminated with the torches Of men
with clubs and sacks gathering the
ieathery harvest. Mr.. Smith has
killed over 1000 and hundreds are car.
ried away every night, but they don't
seem to decrease there are millions Of
them. Large quantities have been
sold in town. They are very fat and
make, when well cooked, dish good
enough for anybody.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1881.

to dry out. The suggestion is worthy
Of consideration.
Alter the selection OF site and the
proper planting of the trees, ii is i'm
portant that We give our orchard prop
er attention and care. We do not at
tempt TO raise crop of corn or tobacco
without manuring and cultivating. We
sometimes think it expedient TO put
$50 worth Of manure to an acre fol
tobacco. But as the seasons come
around we look for crop of apples
never thinking that the trees too want
manure and cultivation.
Ten dollars worth of manure to the
acre in the shape of wood ashes or
supcrphosphate would no doubt be a
paying investment, adding not only
vigor TO tho tree, but also sizo and
beauty to the fruit. Trees are very
greateful for cultivation. 1t is aston.
ishing what vigor, with the aid OF
manure, it will put into trees.
A plot Of ground was dug and ma.
nured, and has been annually top.dress,
cd for few years for an experimental
grape patch. On this plot stood an
old dwarf pear, over twenty FIVE years
old, poor, stunted thing. This, un.
der treatment, took a new lease of lite,
and is now as thrifty as fruit tree
can be. Where it is impracticabIe to
continue cultivation, the next best thing
is to sow to grass and give liberal
treatment afterwards. An annual top
dressing Of fertilizer, rich in potash
and phosphoric acid, to the amount of
from two TO four hundred weight to
the acre, would make a crop of grass
and keep the trees thrifty. The first
cutting OF the grass could be made into
hay while the second should be spread
over the ground where it would act as
II mulch and as a manure. 1t has been
recommended by good authority that
a top dressing Of halt O cart load of
road.wash or earth from bitches,
swamps, &c, spread around each tree
is highly beneficial.
Orchards so situated where the wash
from roads and hillsides can be con.
Quoted over them, are always among
the best bearers This may also be
hint for selecting q site. The secret of
success with orchards, therefore, would
appear to be to great extent in our
own control.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
WHEAT USED ron COOKING
PURPOSES.

Major b. A. Bracket, Deputy United
States Marshal, and Colonel J. d. Cur.
ney, who have returned to st. Panl,
Mimi, after being bound fourteen
days at Appleton, and in the vicinity
Of Bigstone county, report the situa.
tioE in that section as fearful They
visited as many farmers as they could
reach, and describe their condition as
almost deplorablo.
Many Of tho houses were shanties
erected TO fill the requirements of the
homestead laws These were com
pletely covered with snow, and cgress
and entrance were made by tunnels,
Most of the families were entirely out
OF wood they had consumed all their
hay for fuel, and were new burning
wheat Tor cooking purposes. Owing
to the fact Of their house being par.
TALLY or completely buried in the snow,
there was in those he visited no real
suffering from cold, but should another
cold spell visit them before the oppor.
tunity is given them to replenish their
fuel supply, there must be terrible
suffering and great loss of life
So far as known when Major Braclx.
EFT left Appleton, there had been only
one death from freezing, Mrs. Chap.
man, living some thirty miles beyond
Lac qui Parle county. Appleton has
population of between POO and 500,
and it was estimated that there was
not more than halfa cord of wood and
two or three:tons Of coal in the whole
town. The hotel had but three sticks
of wood. All, however, are economic
ing on fuel, and arrangements have
been made to secure fresh supply
from a popolar grove a few miles dis.
tant, and, if the worst comes, there are
the railroad buildings, warehouses, &C.,
the destruction of which for fuel is
already being canvassed. But the
scattered settlers on the praries have
no such modes of relief as this, and
their possible fate is fearful TO contem.
plate.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
KNOW TIL YSELFl

The editor of the Philadelphia Record
dilates over the subject in this manner:
He who thoroughly knows himself has
gone far toward knowledge of man.
kind. The individual is an epitome of
the race, and the one man is always
and everywhere the complete incarna.
ton of humanity. There may be diff.
ierences in the adjustment and degree
Of the various faculties, passions and
emotions, and diversity reaching
through an endless series in the com.
blnation, proportion and relation of
qualities but under all these dissimi.
laritics and special characteristics that
go to make up separate personal iden.
titles there is a substantial unity Of
essence and nature. The human race
is but a phrase signifying the aggrega.
ton OF distinct human souls. There is
no actual power, sentiment or effec.
tion that does not belong to the aver
age man. Ones own heart and mind
If one has but learned the art of self
stndy-is the most authoritative source
of genuine and Trustworthy under.
standing Of human nature. The true
criterion of philosophic theories is their
accord with what we find within. If
there is nothing there that responds to
what we find in speculative system
1t is safe to reject the system as a false
one.
From this position, however, it does
not follow that there is not higher
knowledge than that which is derived
from introverslon. Man is finite, and
the light that Is selfevolved is not the
fullest and clearest illumination which
can come TO him. There are truths
that reason cannot discover from the
reports OF the senses or by any amount
OF inward exploration, bat which it can
accept, when externally presented to
1t, without derogatiOn to its dignity or
violence to its rights. The commonest
facts Of nature-those most evident to
eye, ear and touch--are essentially un.
Ineligible to the wisest OF us. But
as we do not disbelieve them merely
because they are beyond our power to
thoroughly understand them, so neither
ought we to disbeieve the historically
established facts of the supernatural
order for tho poor reason that we are
unable to explain them to ourselves or
to our fellows, A mystery is not an
absurdity. If it were so that most
familiar phenomena around us, mex
plcable without exception as they are,
must be regarded as absurd. The car.
dinal ideas which elevate the intell-
gence Of man above that OF the brute
the postulates Of the infinite and the
immortal--are profound and impene-
trable mysteries to our thinking, And
yet they are mental necessities which
we cannot shut out from our assent
which are part and parcel Of the very
fabric Of our thought. We cannot
grasp these ideas in their symmetry
and wholencss, but we perceive them,
and perceiving, we accept them. Itis
not irrational to hold that in the vast
realm Of possibility there are verities
which only Divine revelation can make
known to us, and which are mysteries
solely because of their kinsbip with
the infinite.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD .-
The Eleudiei RdHlrdy Journal says
William IL Vanderbilt received check
on December 3lst, for s47G,00O, being
interest for the past three months on
his investments in the United States
bonds. The Government pays him
this enormous sum four times each and
every year Besides the investment
of $4,000 in government bonds, thus
indicated Mr. Vanderbilt is believed TO
own more than Sl00,O0O,0O0 OF rail.
road securities. He is the largest in
dividual owner Of the stock of the fol.
lowing named roads, several of which
are almost his exclusive property
New York Central Harlem, New
Haven, Fourth avenue horse, Spuyten
Duyvil and Port Morris, Canada South.
ern, Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern, Michigan Central, Northwestern
and Rock Island. He owns also large
line in the Union Pacific and the Erie
Railroads, the Western Union Tele.
graph, the Wagner Parlor Company,
the Albany Bridge the Merchants Dis.
patch, and in oeveral other express and
transportation Companies. He has
large investments in French rentes and
in British consols. He owns large
ranch in Colorado and has some very
valuable real estate in New York city.
His fortune is without historic prece
dent. Several English noblemen own
lite interests IN large estates, but this
gigantic fortune is without entail. Mr..
Vanderbilt is unquestionably the rich.
est man now living or that ever lived.
1t is extremely probable that he is
worth more than any two men that
ever lived. AS this vast accumulation
is the result of a tariff levied on the
public transit and traffic within %
years past, its vastness suggests grave
doubts as TO the public policy OF giving
to any individual such great aud un.
restrained power.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

MORE WORK FOR MURPHY.

A New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer has discovered a
barroom exclusively patronized by
ladies, real bona fde ladies. at is as
respectable as it is unique. It is in
Broadway, close to Stewards great
mart and Wallack's Theatre. The
front is respondent with plato glass,
and the store itself is elegantly fitted
up. One side is devoted to the sale Of
confectionery. That shows the pro.
prietor's shrewdness, for women proba-
bly, would not go in if there was moth.
ing but a bar The bar runs along
the opposite side, and is about the
same in style as those of the best cafes,
though the marble counter is little
lower. An immense mirror faces the
and the back bar is adorned
with cut glasses and decanters. Instead
of a beer-pump, however, there is a
soda fountain. Piles Of lemons, an
ornamental lemon-squeezer, groups of
bottles, and pyramids of
silver Tom.and.Jerry cups, make
display AS gorgeous as can be found on
any bar in the city. Two bartenders,
of the regulation pattern, with their
hair and mustaches carefully brushed,
glistening on their polished
shirt-fronts, and the sleeves Of their
white coats turned up to the elbows,
are constantly on duty. The women
walk up just like little men. The en-
Ierpriso has been under way only
lew weeks, and is already an eslab.
ished success, Hard liquors are not
sold, except in mixed drinks, as in
rom.and-Jerries, on which the run
turing the present cold weather is
brisk. They are made hot and sweet,
The next most popular drink is hot
punch, composed of rum, lemon juice,
water, and dash of brandy. Some.
lines seltzer is ordered in place of the
water. Hot coffee, chocolate, and lem.
1nade are also sold in large quantities.
On days of moderate temperature the
,al is for cold lemonade, claret, punch,
and soda water. While |
was there recently, the pop of the ale
bottle was momentary, and the lever
II the lemon.squeezer was in almost
constant motion. Women stand three
leep IN front Of the bar Two com.
1anions drank together, and each paid
or her own dissipation but, as a rule,
he gentle tipplers gracefully initiated
polite bar.room manners, though they
we're given to slipping their beverages
ilowly, instead of tossing them into
heir mouths like so much medicine.
asked one of the bartehders why he
lid not keep lager beer on tap, since
New York women drink II at home
md in the concert garden so gener
lily. He said oh, we want to 20
low at first don't want to startle our
customers too much. But wen give
EN- beer as soon as warm weather is
lcre. "-Forneys Progress.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

The London Neios, in recent arti.
Gle, claims that Americans follow every
thing that is initiated in England, and
says "they even follow us in our Greek
revlvals, Sophocles is to be recited by
the youth of Harvard because the
youth of Oxford acted Escbylus."
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Sunlight and Shade is the title of
new volume by John b. Cough, the
well known temperance orator tire.
cords the personal experiences of the
author, with incidents, anecdotes, and
"reminiscences Of thirty.seven years
labor on the platform.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

A contract has just been agreed upon
between the authorities of Florida and
|. Coryel, Of Jacksonville, and A. b.
Linderman, representing capitalists of
Philadelphia and tho Pacific coast, TO
drain Lake Okeechobec, in Southern
Florida. II the scheme is carried out
100000 acres of the best sugar land
iu the world will be reclaimed. The
territory will include the celebrated
Everglades, and will be in extent just
twice as large as the State Of New Jer.
sey. When the contract is fulfilled,
Florida can produce moro sugar than
the United States now consumes.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Prof Swings Club Essays have re.
Gently appeared in book form. Prof
5. disapproves of studying French or
any other language until master of the
mother tongue is achieved. lie desig.
mates language as "the greatest of the
fine arts
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

We have at this writing travelled
fourteen continuous weeks, visiting the
schools of the county, aud still the
work is not completed. Chest and
Burnside townships are receiving our
attention this week We hope to com.
plcte thework about the middleofMarch
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Prot, Richard A. Proctor, the dis
tinguished English Astronomer, who
is now IN Australia, states that he will
return to England by way of San Fran.
cisco and New York, instead OF going
via the Indian Ocean, as was his pre-.
vious intention.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Tho New York World says: "Mr.
Longfelow can take worthless sheet
Of paper, and by writing poem on II
make II worth $50. That's genius.
Mr.. Vanderbilt can take a sheet of
paper and by writing a few words on
Il can make it worth s5O,000,000.
That's capitaln
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Miss Mamie Irwin, teacher of Con.
gress Hill school, in Girard township,
will leave for Philadelphia early in
April, where she expects TO attend the
National School Of Elocution and Ora.
tory during the Summer.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Rev. D. II. Campbell, pastor of the
Fruit Hill Presbyterian church, was
elected to a seat on the Jordan town.
ship School Board, at the recent elec.
tion. Rev. Campbell has manifested
deep interest in the educational affairs
of that township, and will prove val.
liable addition TO the new Board.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

The editor of the New England
Journal Of Education says that the av.
erage Yankee schoolboy knows more
about English history than any one
eminent English writer in a hundred
knows about American society and
affnirs-
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

A BLUSDER.-- Burdette the Hack.
eye man, upon his return from an east.
ern lecturing tour, among other things
remarked to bis wife, that the worst
thing about kissing a Pittsburgh girl
is, that you carry the marks of coal
dust about your nose and other feat.
ures till you reach the nearest pump.
How did you learn that2" remarked
the wife. "Ob, another fellow told
me sol" be replied.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Thelanguage ofthc school.room may
easily be too fixed and formal. II
should be the easy and fluent speech OF
conversation. The plastic language Of
familiar talk Is more potent instru.
ment Of culture than tho precise form.
ulas and definitions, and the textbook
English Of the pedagogue.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Our Acknowledgements are due Messrs.
Alex. Murray, Of Girard, John Reno
and Lewis Picard, Of Covington, and
George Heckendorn, OF Karthaus, for
iavors received while travelling in
their midst
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Judge jerks, of Brookville, has dc.
elded that parents surrender all author.
ity over their children while the chill.
dren are in school, and that the teacher
has the sole right to say what they
shall or shall not study.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

James NJ. Davidson, teacher OF Driit.
wood school, in Lawrence township,
had his thigh dislocated while coasting
on the evening of February 9th. The
school has been temporarily suspended
on account of the accident
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

The printers and school officers seem
TO be especially remembered by Mr.
Jacob Hummel member OF the Brady
township School Board. He has Just
paid his compliments to the County
Superintendonts family in the accep-
table gin of one bushel of delicious ap-
plies. We esteem the favor very much.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Two little daughters of Joseph Seyler,
Jr., of Brady township, acquitted them.
selves very creditably in the singing of
a song at the evening session Of the
Pine Swamp Institute, February 10Th.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

There is only a gap of fifty miles
between the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad going West ard the
Southern Pacific coming East. When
rails are laid over this gap, there will
be a new all.rail connection across the
continent from ocean to ocean.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

A number Of private schools will be
in session in the county the present
year. Circulars have already been is.
sued for Lumber City and Curwens.
vile. The former TO be under the
management of Messrs. Moore and
Weber, and the latter under Prof J. A.
Gregory.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

Vermont has just given women the
same rights as men, TO vote and hold
offices in school meetings. The new
law also makes women eligible to the
office OF town clerk and town superin.
tendent OF schools.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09

1t is said that the Pope is thinking
Of series of books for children, to be
used in the schools of Rome, and may
take the works Of the Catholic Pnblica.
tion Society, New York, as their model.