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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
Scenery and Bumps.

In Nevada recently two rival coaches
started out on parallel roads, each four
team on the gallop. The New Yorker
being the only passenger in one coach
took seat with the driver. He endured
the first five miles very well, as the road
was pretty smooth, but he finally care
lessly observed:
'"This pace is rather hard on the horses
isn't it p
"Oh, no; they are used to it. L
haven't begun to swing em yet r. was
the reply.
eff we were going a little slower L
could enjoy the scenery much better.
eyes, l s'pose SO, but this line isn't
run on the scenery principle.
That ended the conversation until the
horses turned a corner and the stage
rode around it on two wheels. Then the
Yorker remarked
81 suppose you sometimes meet with
accidents ?"
"Almost every dayp was the brief
reply.
'Isn't there danger of something Civ
ing way?"
"Of course, but we've got to take our
chances. Glang there.
At the end of another mile the passen-
ger controlled his voice sufficiently to
inquire:
"What if we shouldn't reach Red
Hill at exactly two o'clock? am in no
hurry"
"No, I s'pose not, but I've got to do it
or lose ten dollars"
"How?"
'I've got an even ten bet that can
beat the other stage into Red Hill by
fifteen minutes, and I'm going to win
that money if it kills horse p
''Say, hold on !" exclaimed the other
as he felt for his wallet, "I like to ride
fast, and Tn not bit nervous, but do
hate to see horses get worried. Here's
$40 for you and let's sort o. jog along
the rest of the way and get chance to
smoke and talk about the Indians p
"Whoa, there Come down with you
gentle now-take it easy and don't
fret 7" called the driver as he pulled in
and reached for the greenbacks with one
hand and his pipe with the other, and
thereafter the New Yorker had more
scenery and less bumps.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
Coloring Walls

Ceilings and walls are often finished
in distemper, but very often turn out
unsatisfactory, from the want of know
ledge in the mixing and laying on. Alb
sorption in the wall should be checked
or stopped, or one part will absorb more
color than another, and an uneven or
or spotty appearance result. Various
preparations are used for preparing
walls and to stop absorption. One OF
these is to mix about a dozen pounds of
the best whiting with water, adding
thereto enough parchment or other size
to bind the color, about two ounces of
alum, and the same weight of soft soap
dissolved in water; mix well and strain
through q screen or coarse cloth. In
mixing the distemper, one writer says,
''Two things are essentially necessary ::
clean and well washed whiting, and pure
iellied size" The whiting should be
put to soak with sufficient soft water to
cover it well and penetrate its bulk.
When soaked sufficiently, the water
should be poured off, which will remove
dust from the whiting. 1t then may
then be beaten up to a stiff paste by the
hand or spatula. Size is next added and
mixed together. Care should be taken
not to break the Jelly of the size any
more than can be avoided.
Another caution is that distemper
should be mixed with jellied size to lay
on well-the color then works cool and
floats nicely but when the size Is used
hot, it drags and gathers and works dry,
producing a rough wall. A little alum
added to the distemper hardens 1t and
helps to dry it out solid and even. The
best size is made from parchment clip
pings, which are put into an iron kettle
filled with water and allowed to stand
twentv-four hours till the pieces are
thoroughly soaked, then they are boiled
for five hours, and the scum removed.
The liquid is then strained through a
cloth. For mixing cOlors the whiting
and the color required, finely ground,
are dissolved separately and then mixed
to the required tint. For example,
lampblack mixed with whiting, makes
gray, and the most delicate to the dark
est shades may be obtained. For French
gray the whiting required is taken and
soaked in water, and Prussian blue and
lake finely ground in water are added to
produce the necessary shade or tint.
Buff may be made by dissolving in like
manner, separately, whiting and yellow
ochre. A little Venetian red gives a warm
tone. A good salmon tint is produced
by adding to the dissolved whiting lit
tie of the same red, just sufficient to
tinge. Drabs of various tints can be
easily made by grinding up finely little
burnt umber and mixing it with the dis
solved whiting. The sooner the distem-
per color dries after being laid on, the
better, and the best plan is to close win
dows and doors during laying, and throw
them open afterward.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
Trips OF the Sort.

1t was Catharine Lawler who took the
head of the procession in the Mayors
Court, Chicago, and began
"Ah I'm glad to see your Honor
looking so well Looks now as if the
backbone of winter was broken, doesn't
it?"
eyes, rather How do You feel after
being drunk and disorderly last night 2"
''Say, won't your Honor look over it. !"
81 have let you off about six times,
haven't I?"
'Just six, your honor, and this will
make seven. What are seven little
grains of mercy 10 a woman who has to
work like a naygur for iving?"
Lets see? You have always had an
excuse for being drunk ?"
''Yes, sir, always"
''The last time your excuse was that
You took whisky for chills p
eyes, sir, and haven't had sign of
one since"
"And what did you take it for this
time p
''To break up a fever, your Honor,
and besides that / have five small
Children"
"Where are they?"
''Well, your Honor, they are dead, of
course, but I'm thinking of them every
hour III the day, you know. If you
should send me up don't know how me
husband would get along"
"Where is hep"
"Well, sir, think he's sailing out of
the port of Buffalo this summer"
"Well, I'll have to send you up this
time. have given you all the show You
could hope for, but you get drunk every
two weeks as regularly as clock-work."
ooh, no, sir-only once in twenty
years. Indeed, sir, but this will be only
seven times"
Cant do it. shall send you up for
-
''For two hours, sir"
''FOr thirty days" "
'Oh, sir, make it twenty"
''No."
twenty-five.
'No."
''Ihen for twenty and a-haf.
Thirty days, Catharine, and Bijah
will give you "A seat on the Moorish divan
to wait for the buggy"
"Very well, your Honor, and I'll take
the divan up there wild me to lie on
when infustrated with the heat. Your
Honor is a gentlemen, and l hope you'll
live to give me at least a dozen more
trips of the sort.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
The Kayak.

The KAYAK of the Greenlander is the
frailest specimen of marine architecture
that ever carried human freight. 1t is
eighteen feet long and as many inches
wide at its middle, and tapers, with an
upward crlrving line, to point at either
end. The boat is graceful as duck and
light as a feather. 1t has no ballast and
no keel, and it rides almost on the sur
face of the water. 1t is, therefore,
necessarily top-heavy. Long practice is
required to manage it, and no tight-rope
dancer ever needed more steady nerve
and skill of balance than this same
savage kayaker. Yet, in this fral craft
he does not hesitate to ride seas which
would swamp an ordinary boat, or to
break through surf which may sweep
completely over him. But he is used to
hand battles, and, in spite of every for
tune, he keeps himself upright. We
have been assured, however, by persons
familiar with Arctic cruising, that the
Kayaker does sometimes come to grief
by the capsizing of his canoe. The skirt
of his sealskin waterproof shirt being
firmly lashed to the cOaming of the well
of the kayak, he becomes so chilled by
the cold water, and exhausted by his
struggles to free himself from his canoe,
that death by drowning overtakes the
poor fellow in spite of all his presence of
mind and nautical skill. As long as he
retains his double-bladed paddle under
water there is fair chance of the
kayaker righting himself, but when that
is lost his chances of getting safely to
land are poor indeed,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
An Electric Fire TelI-Tale.

There are several devices for enabling
the rise of temperature accompanying
an outbreak of fire at particular place
in building to ring an alarm-ben by
means of an electric current. There is
the mercurial thermometer, in which the
mercury column, on expanding by the
increased temperature, makes contact
between two platinum electrodes fused
into the tube, and completes the circuit /;
and there is an arrangement IN which
the bimetallic spring, fixed at one end,
is free to curve under the unequal ex-
plnsion of the two metals, and close o
circuit in that way. A still simpler plan
has been recently contrived by M. u.
Dupre, in which the contents of the
automatic keys are kept apart by piece
of suet or tallow, which ON melting by
the heat allows them to come together
through the operation of a small weighr
attached to the uppermost contact bat.
The tallow is not of course placed i'm
mediately between the contacts, for in
that case the fat would act as an in
sulator, and prevent the flow of the cur
rent. The apparatus is readiusted after
an alarm by charging it with fresh tai
lows
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21

To the young lady whose intricate
overskirt is held in innumerable folds by
many pins, it may seem hardship that
her yearly allowance of pins is only
about 140. Such, however, is the case
with each individual IN the United
States on an equitable division of the
pins yearly sold in this country. But
the Indians in the West are not supposed
to use their full allowance, and collar
buttons have so far done away with the
use of pins by gentlemen generally that
the young lady may perhaps provide her
self with some one else's allowance. The
pins made in the United States are made
by fourteen factories. Their annual
production for several years past has
beep bf,eelp} about 1000, 100000 pins. This
years, the demand remaining about the
same. A few of these 1000, 900, 900 are
swallowed by children, a number are
bent up in schools and placed in vacant
and inviting chairs, and some millions
get into cracks of floors, and the rest for
the most part are scattered along the
byways and highways, where they have
dropped from dresses and been left to
work their way into the earth.
The importation of English pins is
small, and the expectation of pins from
the United States is confined to Cuba,
South America and parts of Canada,
where, however, but few pins are sent
England supplies almost the whole world
outside the United States.
The raw material-the brass and iron
wire from which all American pins are
made-is from the wire mills of this
country, and much of the machinery for
their manufacture is of American inven-
ton and patent.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
COwing a Tramp.

Mrs. Deacon Grover, who was the
widow of the late Mr.. Mcconnell, OF the
town of Horseheads, New York, is lady
approaching sixty years of age, kind
hearted and charitable but spirited
woman. One day recently she was
visiting her son, Augustus Mcconnell,
in Horseheads, who keeps a bachelor
sort of farm in the town. By bachelor,
We mean not q lonesome place, nor an
ill-kept one, but one In which the alb
sence of women is a noticeable feature.
During her visit Mrs. Grover was sitting
at table sewing, something that Is
necessary even in bachelor establish
ment. She was alone in the house. A
person appeared who answered well the
description of tramp. He said he was
hungry, and, the lady's sympathies being
aroused, she drew her gold-rlmmed
spectacles from her eyes and, laying
them on the table, went down into the
cellar for some bread and m eat for him.
When she returned she noticed that her
spectacles were gone from the table.
With the toothsome prOvender on plate
still in her hand she said you've got
nv gold specs" The tramp denied the
charge. She reiterated it and the stran-
ger reiterated his denial. She quietly
laid the plate on the table, went to Il
bureau and taking a revolver therefrOm,
her son keeping a weapon of this kind
in every room in the house, as she knew,
she pointed it at the tramp and told him
if he didn't lay those specs on the table,
she would shoot him where he stood.
The tramp took the specs from his
pocket, and mildly laid them on the
table. ''Now," she said, "eat what !
have brought for you and get out. ;" He
ate and departed. When her son Au-
gustus appeared, the spirited old lady
again took the revolver from the bureau
and said to him: Augustus, how do
Won cock this weapon Q"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
THE PATH TO SUCCESS.

The path 10 success, tho no smooth thoronghiare
Is forbidden TO none, 'tis as free as the air;
Yet many who boldly set forth on the track,
Ere the Journeys half DER shrink gnobly back.
For the phantom of Failure Oft looms ON the sight
Whose terrors unreal the timid alright,
And obstacles many wayfarer daunt,
Which those who persist rarely fail tosurmount.
By efforts spaSmodic success Is ne'er won,
But only by plodding untiringly on,
Those who lag 10y the way ever seek II IN VAIN;
They alone, who keep moving, the end can attain
For when to a halt lack of energy leads,
rhe bourne of success from the traveller re'edeS :
More remote il becomes at each needless delay
And ON Homes far horizon at length fades away.
wen Genius, unbacEed 10y resolute SOUL
Nust ever fall short of the coveted goal
Where plain Mediocrity often arrives,
Because for its object il ceaselessly strives
Then be earnest, undaunted; II you'd win success
Along the rude pathway increasingly press
I ~ no obstacles stay you, no hardship appall'
II defiant of failure, you'll not fail at all
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21
How Coffee came to be Used.

1t is somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the use of the
common beverage of coffee, without
which few persons in any half or wholly
civilized country in the world, now make
breakfast. At the time Columbus dis
covered America, it had never been
known or used. It only grew in Arabia,
and Upper Ethiopia. The discovery of
its use as beverage is ascribed to the
Superior of monastery in Arabia, who,
desirous of preventing the monks from
sleeping at their nocturnal services,
made them drink the infusion of coffee,
upon the reports of the shepherds that
their focks were more lively after brows-
ing on the fruit of that plant. It's
reputation spread through the adjacent
countries, and in about two hundred
years it had reached Paris. A single
plant, brought there in TIA, became
the parent stock of all the French coffee
plantations in the West Indies. The
Dutch introduced it into Java and the
East Indies, and the French and Span
ish all over South America and the West
Indies.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-07-21

Mercy is sometimes an insult to juI
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13
OBSERVATIONS OF REV. GABE
TUCKER.

You msy notch "a de palms a. a mighty risky plan
To make your judgement BY de cloes dat kivers up q
man:
For l hardly reeds to tell yen how often You come
ecross
4 fifty dollah saddle on a twenty dollah boss.
An: wukin' III de groun's you dskiFer IS you 90,
Dat &c fines shuck may hide the meanes' nubDlns ID 3
row.
] tfnk q man has got a very slender chance Tor Heben
Oats holds on to his pietY but one day ont oh sehen:
Dat talks about &c sinners wild a heap Of so1em cha
An nehers drop a nickel into Dc missionary hat;
DATE foremost in de meeting house for raising al
the chimes.
But LAYS side his ligion wild his Sunday pantaloons:
I ncber Judge o people dat / meet along de way
BY de places whar dey come fun an de houses whar
day stay;
For de bantam chickens awful 70 I'd of roostin' pretty
high,
An de turkey-bnzzard -ai1s above de eagle in de- sky,
Uey k&tchee little minnies in de middle of de sea.
An you finds &c smalIes' 'possnm up de biggest kind
,t n
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13
Where lily tine .Je@MnetGef

To answer that question two vessels are
now On their way to the Arctic seas upon
the Pacific and one upon the Atlantic. The
Corwin and Rogers will follow the track Of
the Jeanette through Behring's strait, and
will search the seas in the vicinity Of
Wrangell Land, where Captain belong Is
believed to have passed the first winter after
his departure from San Francisco, two years
ago the 9Th Of next month II traces Of the
explorers are found in Wrangell Land, the
search party will be able to conjecture with
tolerable accuracy the course the Jeannette
mus have taken during the summer Of 1880,
tits probable that she is in distress in the vi
einity of the New Siberian Islands, o. that
she il attempting a passage along the cast
coast OF Greenland to the Atlantic. If she is
pursuing the latter course, Commander Wad-
leigh, Of the Alliance. who il to search the
seas between spilzbergen md Greenland,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13
-saHw +%%ssEDe ; GEp~-----
"A Terrible. q sssf hi EA Experience.

Noticing that the sides of the summit were
streWn with boards, beams and debris, my
guide explained that what | saw was the re-
suit of the great January gale. He added:
Late in the afternoon my cDmrade, Sergt.
NJ, came to where ] was lying sick abed,
and said, There's going to be the devil TO
pay, 50 [ guess Ill go and make everything
snug"
"By nine in the evening the wind had in
creased TO 100 miles an hour, with 8 heavy
sleet. At midnight the velocity Of the
storm was 1870 miles. and the exposed Their
mometer registered a degrees below zero.
Within, the stove red, we could hardly get it
above freezing inside the house. Water
froze within three feet Of the fre-in fact,
where you are sitting.
this time the noise outside was deafen-
ing. About / o'clock the wind rose to $50
miles. 1t was now blowing a hurricane. The
wind, gathering up all the loose ice of the
mountain, dashed it against the house with
one continued roar. I lay wondering how
long the building would stand this, when al
at once came a crash. M--shouted to me
to get up but | had tumbled out in a hurry
on hearing athe glass go. You see, | was
dressed TO keep myself warm in bed.
"Our united efforts were hardly equal to
closing the storm shutters from the inside,
but we finally succeeded, though the lights
went out when the wind came in, and we
worked in the dark
He rose to show me how the shutters Of
thick oak were first secured by an iron bar,
and secondly by strong wooden buttons firm
~ screwed into the window frames.
eve had scarcely done this resumed
Doyle, s'and were shivering over the fire
when a heavy gust Of wind again burst open
he shutters as easily as if they had never
been fastened at al. We spraDg to our feet.
After a hard tussle we again secured the
windows by mailing q cleat to the floor,
against which one end Of a board was fixed,
using the other end as a lever. You under
stand ?" | nodded. "Well, even then it was
| all we could do to force the shutters back in
TO place. But we did it. We had to do it.
'1he rest of the night was passed in mo-
menta'y expectation that the building would
blown into mans ravine, and we with
it. At o'clock in the morning the wind
registered 1856 miles. It had shifted then
from east to northeast. From this time it
steadily fell to ten miles, OF 8 o'clock. This
was the biggest blow ever experienced on
the mountain" -.
%.sSuppose the house had gone, and the hotel
stood fast, could you have affected an en-
trance?" / asked.
eve could not have faced the gale"
mot for a hundred feet? Not ina matter
Of life and death?"
Impossible. The wind would have lifted
US from our feet like bags Of wool. We
would nave been dashed against the rocks
and smashed like egg-shells," was the quiet
reply.
''And for 50 many hours you expected to
be swept into eternity ?"
1--WE did what we could. Each wrapped
himself in blankets and quilts, binding these
tightly around him with ropes, to which were
attached bars of iron, 80 that if the house
Went BY the board we might stand 9 chance
a slim one-of anchoring somewhere,
somehow. !"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13

should be able to meet and relieve her. #
she has been disabled, the surviving members
OF her crew will probably be discovered by
contemporary, The Tribune. is Of our Cpl y
ion that the Jeanette is likely to appear in
waters where she was last seen-hetween
Herald Island and Wrangell Dond." We in
cline to think that after she was last seen by
Captain Barnes, Of the Sea Breeze, Septem-
Der 3, 1879, she preceded % WTangell Land,
where Captain DeLong devoted the winter
TO explorations, and that the following sea-
son she made her way toward the Atlantic,
where we may hope the Alliance will find
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13
--1e q Nd3Dk - %saNkss~---
Send FOR Mother

"Dear me! Il wasn't enough for me tc
nurse and raise q family Of my own, but now
when | am old and expected to take a little
comfort here, it is all the time send for mo-
ther. " And the dear old soul growls and
grumbles, but dresses herself as fast as she
can, Notwithstanding. After you have
trottea her off, and got her safely in your
home, and she flies around administering her
remedies and rebukes by turns, you feel
easier. II is right now, or soon will be
mothers Gomez!
In sickness, no matter who is there or how
many doctors quarrel over your case, every
yhing goes wrong, somehow, until you send
for mother.
In trouble, the first thing you think of is to
send for mother.
But this has its ludicrous as well as touch
ing aspect. The verdant young couple to
whom the haby's extraordinary grimaces and
alarming yaWns, which threaten the disl0ca-
ton Of its ,chin its sleeps, which it accom-
plishes with its eyes half open and no per
ceptible hutter OF breath on its lips-causing
the young TO imagine it is dead this time, and
10 shrek out Send for mothern' in tones Of
~anguish-this young couple, in the light Of
the experience which three or four babies
bring, find that they have been ridiculous and
given mother q good many trots for nothing.
Did any one ever send for mother and she
fail to come? Never, unless sickness or the
infrnities of age prevented her. AS when,
in your childhood, those willing feet res
pended to your call, 50 they do still, and will
continue to do as long as they are able. And
when the luminous N which none yet
disregarded, though it will be . happy day
for her, il will be q dark and sad one for you
when God, too, will send for your mother.