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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

an acre OF redwood land IS moderate
and within bounds. This would
give the sum of 81, 800 per acre as q
starting point, with redwood lumber
at $1S per NJ, the lowest point it
has reached in San Francisco.
Take, now, the Mad river tract OF
36, 900 acres. A very simple cal.
culation will reveal the fact that the
value OF timber on that tract, at the
above rates, amounts to $64 800 900,
There are sixteen and one-half times
as much redwood in Humboldt
county as on Mad river. Multiply
the value of the Mad river tract six
teen and one-half times, and you
have over billion of dollars as the
value of the whole, at ALI estimate
low in price for lumber, and scant,
very scant, as to the productiveness
of the land per acre. I am aware
that these are large figures. But
under favorable conditions a red
wood claim of 160 acres is valuable.
One of my acquaintance in this
county was asked some years ago to
advance few thousand three or
FOUR dollars to purchase a claim
which was for sale. He declined.
The claim was sold, the purchaser
realized over $50, 900 from the sale
OF " stumpage" on the tract, and the
timber being cleared off, the whole
tract is now first-class farm, worth
from $15, 900 to $4,000. On the
other hand, another of my acquain-
tances holds a United States patent
to 16O acres, possibly not much in
ferior to the one just above alluded
to. If he were disposed to sell, he
admits that $4OO is the most he
could expect to receive for it. Let
a railroad tap it and it would be
worth $50 900, so he says, on the
signing of deed. And I believe
him. This leads me to remark that
the accessibility of the supply of
redwood is becoming q serious
question here. The belt Of timber
which skirts the bay shows the effect
OF over twenty years cutting and
culling. The feasibility of rafting
on Eel and Mad rivers, to such an
extent as to keep up the supply for
the mills already built, has not been
fully established. Elk river, one of
the best streams for rafting purposes
in the county, has become somewhat
impaired, as to usefulness, by sunken
logs. These, however, are being re-
moved; but at its best, Elk river is
only one source of supply. It has
come to be pretty we'll understood
by mill men that railroads will have
to be resorted to keep up the sup
ply of logs" .
1 call attention to these facts, not
with view to advertise Humboldt,
but simply to introduce the state
ment that the same extravagant,
wasteful system against which you
animadvert in your article of the
18th inst, has prevailed there for
years, until very recently.
Within the past three months.
however, a mill complete, in its ap-
pointments, has been constructed on
Humboldt Bay, fer the express pur-
pose OF utilizing what has hitherto
been considered mere waste and con.
signed to the dump-fres. I am very
sorry that 1 have mislaid an article
from a Humboldt paper describing
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
Manners.

Manners are better distributed than
they have been, the last century having
particularly disseminated them. They
are now less observed in the East and
more observed in the West, for the civ
ilized globe steadily tends to homo.
geneity. Great cities are more polite
socially and less polite commercially
than small cities, the former holding
that they have no time in business for
superhuous phrases and hollow conven-
tionalism. This is a mistake no more
time-not so much, indeed-is required
to be civil rs to be rude, and five
seconds of civility is worth more than
five hours of rudeness. All who have
tried civility have found IL remunera-
tive, and they always will find IL 80.
Every one discovers the fact in his own
case. IL is almost as much a law that
people will deal where they are we'll or
politely treated as that water will gain
its level What man has memory 30
poor or sensibility so small as 20 forget
the place where politeness goes with his
purchaser Does he not invariably re-
turn thither? Will he not put himself
out to buy again Of the man who under
stands his interest we'll enough to be
uniformly courteous? More business
Is We venture TO say, based on polite
ness than on capital, for politeness is
sort OF capital, with the advantage that
y may be increased at will Chicago
Tribune.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
The New Function OF the Pres.

The wonderful growth Of the news
paper press, says tho Plumber, is one
Of the marked features Of the country.
The vast circulation Of every class Of
journals is phenomenal. No intelligent
person can help taking one paper, while
most persons read several. Steam and
electricity have abolished time and
space, so that the journalist now records
the worlds daily history on the date Of
its occurrence.
We sit down TO breakfast with a feast
of news from Bombay to the Golden
Gate. The readers breath is almost
taken away by so much matter. II is
bewildcring, and few without the aid of
the omniscient editor can take il all in.
As fact, the man who writes the head.
lines or the editorial summary and com
ment really guides public intelligence
and opinion.
To attempt TO grasp the whole Of the
contents at a sitting is vain task, Few
persons have the time TO do it, and each
reader picks out Just what specially
interests him and merely skins the
rest
There is hence a natural liking for
the papers that eschcw verbiage and
padding and boil down the news into a
presentable shape. But something
more is necessary. We need to have
the news sifted as we'll as condensed,
the chafF and error as we'll as the verbi.
age thrown out, and nothing printed
that is absuri, or willful, without empha-
sizing this fact
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
Religions >ru.nnd \otr..

The London religious tract society
has circulated nearly sO,oOo.OOO books
and tracts in 80 different languagcs.
The English Presbyterian church con-
sists Of III congregations, with IS, 100
members, an increase Of about 900.
There are ,57s ministers among the
Tunkcrs, or German Baptists. OF these
300 are in PENNSYLVANIA, 2is in Indiana
227 in Ohio, li2 in Illinois and 133 In
Iowa. The denomination is represented
in twenty States.
The American Sunday-school Union
reports for the year Just closed 1,415
new schools organized, in which there
are 52.i3S scholars. In the previous
year there were organized l.277 schools,
with IS. 72s scholars.
There arc now supposed 70 bc in Paris
5000 Protcstants, among whom are
-, 600 Reformed, 10000 Lutheran and
10000 of other denominations This is
an approximation. About seventy-fve
pastors attend to the spiritual wants Of
the Protestant population.
The governor of Kansas denies the
report that the new prohibitory Law of
that State interferes with the admins.
tAtion of wine in communion services.
He s-ys the law has been pronounced
constitutional by the supreme court.
Theassociatcd executive committee of
Friends on Indian affairs met recently in
Baltimore, delegates from eight yearly
meetings being present Reports
showing gratifying progress of the
Indians at the various agencies in civil
ization, education and religion we're
presented. II was stated that two of
the fighting Modocs of the Lava Beds
had died exemplary Christians.
The Rev. Newman Hall, in speaking Of
the need of "revivals" in London, saws
that, taking a rough estimate, It is con-
sidered that in round numbers London
has four millions of people. of whom
one half might at one time be at
churs but of these two millions
there is only church accommodation for
one-half, and of these one million of
seats, only half million are at any one
time occupied.
The Methodists of the United States
number 3,b2l, 600, and are divided into
fifteen organizations, though the great
bulk of the membership is included in
the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist
Episcopal South, and thc African Mctho.
dist Episcopal. The division between
the first two was made in 1sl5 on the
slavery question, and the last was sepa-
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12

rated on the color line In 1916. The
Methodist Protestant IL the out
come of struggle in the Methodist
Episcopal on the question OF lay repre-.
sentation and abolition Of the presiding
elderbhip, and does not differ on other
points with the parent body. The
Evangelical association is German
Methodist body, with It's chief member
ship III Pennsylvania. The American
Wesleyan connection was formed in 1si3
by Methodist abolitionis,s, who wished
10 take religious stand against slay.
cry. The Free Methodist Ia a church
formed in 1860 by those who believed
that Methodism was getting too world.
ly, and the Primitive Methodist is the
result Of similar though earlier depart
nre. The negro Methodists also have
seyeral separate sects. The general
Methodist feeling is that a union Of most
of these churches might now be effected.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
New. aud Notes fer Women.

The Baroness Burdctt Coutts il not
coming to this country, as was reported.
She has recovered from her recent III
ness.
Carlyle thought women were especial;
ly fitted to be doctors.
The Massachusetts society for the
higher edTcation Of women has . bal
ance of cighty-two cents in it's treasury.
"Thcro isn't spirit enough in score
OF Mormon women TO make one bright,
wide awake New England wife, writes
one who has recently settled in hailing
distance OF Salt Lake.
According to the Washington cor
respondent. Mrs. Garfield looks more
like other ladies than any other woman
in the United States. She constantly
reminds them all Of somebody else.
Women Of the world never use harsh
expressions when condcmring their
rivals. Like the savage they hurl Gle
CANT arrows ornamented with features of
purple and azure. hut with poisoned
points.
A lunch given bya New York lady to
four OF her friends cost sl10, or s22 n
plate.
Lady Walter Campbell and Miss Bal
dock, though not professional beauties.
are gaining celebrity as among the pref
test women in London, ond the society
papers seem likely TO make them pro-
fessionals in time.
Sac City, Iowa, has an orchestra con -
sisting of ten members, all young ladiee,
OF that city.
The widow of Judge Crocker Cali
fornia's Crususl has built large green.
house for the benefit Of the poor, who
are allowed to help themselves to the
flowers.
An aged woman named Mrs. Rose
Macy, living in Syracuse, has kept cof.
fin in the house for twelve years. She
sent il to the undertaker's the other
day, to have it rotrimmed in modern
style. Mrs. Macy is quite poor, and she
bought the coffin and lot in a cemetery
so as to insure herself against being
buried in the potter's field.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
4 MortI Of AdNlcr.

Why are girls 80 iniudicious in their
toleration of dissipated young men? 1t
is very often the case that a thoroughly
good girl will deliberately marry man
who makes no secret of his bad habits.
What can she expect but misery TO
ensue. A life partnership should not
be entered into without ut least as much
caution as men display in making bust
ness combination for limited periods,
No man selects his bushes partner from
among men who drink much liquor or
have other bad habits. As for mere
manners and the ability to make ones
self agreeable, they have not themselves
influence enough among..m to secure
dollars worth of credit or to Justify
any one in believing'their possessor on
oath. A girl who is not old enough to
have learned what are the standards by
which men are tested would be far
surer of a happy life if she were to let
her parents select husband in the
prosiest manner imaginable, than if she
were to make her own selections in the
manner peculiar to girls. A life partner.
ship is not easily dissolved.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12

Embroidered cream white batiste ig
used to trim India musli.l.
Stripes of steel on nets are used TO
trim black grenadine dresses.
A mixture of pink and blue is most
popular in Scotch ginghams.
Embroidered muslins are revived as n
material for summer dresses.
Spanish lace has quite superseded
fringe as parasol trimming.
Basques of shaded satin are worn
with black surah satin skirts.
Tweed is made up into shirred dol
mans, and very badly il looks.
Satin surah is embroidered with mice
and lobster and made into neckties.
Sun umbrellas twenty-five inches long
are to be carried this summer. Sun.
shades have radius of eighteen inches.
Satin foulards with odd printed fig
ures will be worn this summer. They
are made up with great quantities of
lace.
Some Of the new cuffs look like fold
ed satin scarfs fastened around the sleeve
with a bow with tassclcd ends on the
top.
Some OF the summer bonnets are TO
be eNquisitely simple, having no trim
ming but spray Of roses and a muslin
scarf.
Ribbons shading from rcd to yellow
and looking as if cut from the upper
half Of rainbow are used on black
bonnets.
India linen with hair stripes Of bright
color is used 10 make summer suits.
The tinted stripes are in hair lines and
are silky.
The outside of the pamsol is chosen
to match the suit and to please the
world in general, the inside 10 become
the wcarcr.
The stuff which is called nuns veil.
ing, but is not, although i; is very
pretty, is now produced in plaid pattern.
for street suits.
4 coarse wooden towcling. striped
with hair lines of bright color on q dull
ground, is combined with plain stuffs
for summer gowns.
The new collarcttcs have a pointed
opening at the throat and many are
without any ruching about the neck
being finished with simple shirrings.
The conl-pink roses and other flowers
beautiful as they are, are so very unbe
coming that they can only be employed
on the outside Of bonnets.
Black cashmere mantlcs lined Will
satin are made mp with four rows o
gathering on the shoulders n satin.
lined frill in the neck, fastened ~ a bow
with long ends
1.-THE Cricket" is the name given ts
the little stringlcss bonncts Of porcupin,
straw, trimmed with loops and folds oD
shaded ribbon and a bunch Of bcll-likc
flowers.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12

The latest horror from England, says
an exchange, is diseased horse flesh
treated with red ochre to give il .
healthy appearance, and then manu-
factured into beef sausage. A meal
composed OF this, with bread made from
chalk, potato -four, alum, etc, duly
fabricated by oleomArgarine, rounded
of with Chicago cheese, that is, trans
mogrifed lard, and washed down with
a decoction of burnt beans, softened by
preparation Of calves brains and
chalk, by way Of milk, and sweetened
by an extract Of old rags and sawdust.
bleached by acctic acid, might not a..
tonish the stomach Of an ostrich, but
certainly wouid fail 10 restore the ex-
hausted physical strength of a laboring
man. Yetit can hardly be doubted now
that many toiler makes Just such
meal, and pays the price of wholesome
food for Il.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
A Wonderful Trr-

A tree that gives and cures The head
ache. Its name alone. ''0rcadaphne
California;" is almost enough TO give
one the headache; but il yon rub its
leaves on your hands and face a short
time yon will get headache. and ii
your head aches rub II on your hands
and face and Il will drive il away. This
obligine tree Is an evergreen. with
strong, spicy smell, and am told that
IL is found in California. =. Floral
lfontlgg.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
THE Estimate Of uarriage.


a true marriage is always religious
act IN itself, because religion means the
binding Of one to another in pure and
true union. SO the Scriptures never
command this relation 30 far as I can
remember they only recognize and
guard and bless it. The man and
woman in n true wedding become hus.
band and wife because their Creator
made them for each other, Just as he
made Adam for Eve and Eve for Adam
in the garden. / say the true match is
the rule, and in the vast majority of in
stances those who come to the husband
and wife were made to be husband and
wife. Yes, and very often in the face
of our sins and follies, and not at all by
our discerning, the great sacred gift is
given which makes a heaven for us when
we would make perdition for ourselves.
10 believe, as some do, that disappont-
ment and misery come Of most mar
Images Is very much like believing that
IN this world the devil has dominion
over most souls. Thomas and Mary SIT
IN their home and wonder how John
and Susan manage to get along ON so
small stock Of esteem, and Thomas
and Mary shake their heads over John
and Susan. But Won find that somehow
there is better with the worse. as
there is worse with the better
Very tender and true they are apt to be
when sickness takes the children very
sore. They weep together over the lit
tie graves. We see only the surface.
We note only the dissonaucc. 1t is like
the chimes Of Trinity which fall go
swectly about the life below. that those
TO whom they are but the accompani-
mcuts of life do not heed them and are
but dimly aware thcy are pnlsing
through the busy marts. Bu; let them
strike harsh discord and a thousand
faces will be turned to Trinity spire in
wonder. They hear that, and tina; is
the truth about our life Still 20 on
10 say tha: what you are saving TO gour-
selves just now is quite true; there is a
great deal Of trouble in this land of
ours, rising directly out of this relation
Of husband and wife, and trouble that
cannot be brought within the lines that
have tried 10 draw, but breaks ont and
flames up in quito an Internal way be.
/ fore the world, so that We have to ask
sometimes what We are coming to and
whether there is not a threat in the air
Of a disruption Of this sacred social
order-hbcrtN running 20 license, love
driven from her throne by lust aud this
new world of Ours threatened with ruin
T through the vilcness which DESTROYED
+ the old. Il is natural also to try and
+ find where tho reason lies for these AZ.
palling evils, which do not merely
threaten us, but are on Us, and whether
they may not be mc;.-Rcr. RpLer
( CDllvcr.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
German Girls.

Their life is far different from that of
American girls, and we could hardly
fancy anything more prosy than the
home life Of the high and well-born
German girl. They are educated pre-
cisely alike, the range Of study being
limited. The common branches, French
and sometimes English, and a few small
ornamental accomplishments complete
the list. The statement that American
girls study the sciences and sometimes
Greek and Latin causes from them man
ifcstations Of surprise The traditions
and preiudices OF their class are care
fully inculcatcd. Any woman who does
think or act in opposition to the CON
yentional standard is looked upon with
distrust. But their domestic education
is carefully attended to whatever their
rank, they master all branches and steps
Of housekeeping. Their wedding trous.
seau and outfit in bed and table linen is
generous in quantity and beautiful in
texture, and usually made by their own
willing hands. An engagement with
them is AS solemn and binding as a
marriage contract, and unfai,hfulness
in either sex is an exception that meets
hearty condemnation. Their simple
ness and quictness of life is a reproach
to the lives of the idle, easc-loying. friy.
olous girls OF many other countries.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
Russia and Its Rulers.

The area OF the Russian empire is
S,Ol2,955 square miles. The population,
including Poles, Firms, Caucasians and
Asiatics, is 81, ,6S5,945. The area of Rus
sia proper is 2,O12,s01 miles, and the
population 65,70l, $50. No other coun.
try in Europe has as large territory or
as many inhabitants. The late car
ascended tho throne March 2, 1856. after
the battles of Balaklava aud Inkermann.
aud in the midst of the siege of sebas-
topol. His reign was exactly twenty.
six years and eleven days in duration
His father, Nicholas reigned thirty
years (1s2j- 1861, and his great uncle,
Alexander l., twcnty.four years 1901
1925. There have been but three czars
of Russia in tho present century. Alex
ander I'LL, now on the throne, was thur.
ty-six years Of ago March II, and will,
unless he meets an untimely end, live
to complete the century in four genera
tions. The last czar of Russia who met
his death at the hands OF on assassin
previous to the late emperor was Paul,
the son of the famous Catharine tI796
1901. Spite OF the repeated attempts
upon the lives Of the rulers of Russia,
the average length of reigns in that
kingdom has been greater than in most
other countries Of Europe.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12
FashIan Nnfr~.

Plaid stuifs are used for sunshade lin
ings.
Panama straws are much used this
season.
Ribbon velvet is used to trim chill
dren's dresses.
Shark.sEin handles are seen on some
new sunshades
The shaded ribbons are used to trim
Japanese foulard.
overskirts of lace shawls will be much
worn this summer.
Spun silk is substituted for surah In
fine undefclothing.
Daisy clusters are the most fashionable
flowers for children's hats.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-12

There are in New York city ssI 10
miles Of paved streets.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-24

In the building of railroads new labor
saving devices are from time to time
coming into use. The latest heard of
is pillow now in use by several COM
panies extending their roads in the
Western States and Territories. It is
designed to dig ditch and at the same
time throw dirt on the track for the
purpose of raising the grade on imper-
fectly prepared roadbeds, upon which a
track may be temporarily laid. This
pillow weighs $500 pounds and will be
attached to flat car, which is loaded
down with several tons Of iron, SO that
it cannot be thrown from the track.
The pillow, moved by locomotive power,
cuts furrow eighteen inches deep and
three and half feet wide, and throws
the dirt on the track. One pillow does
the work of 1000 men with shovels, on
prairie land, while with piow on each
side of the track, if desired, double the
work is done. It frequently is the case
Oh prairies and through valleys that
long stretches of track may be laid with.
out any grading at all, and with a ma.
chime OF this kind to perfect the track
afterward, wonderful amount of work
can be done in short time with o few
men.