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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-11-11
THE LATEST FIGURES

GovERNoR-R. L. PATTIsoN, d.. SO 333
1t. ov.-CHAUNcY f. BLACK, D. .35, 900
Sup. JUDGE -SLAs NJ. CLARK, D, 40, 900
8. 1. Arr. SIMPSON AFRICA, D.. 81, 900
CoNGREss-MoRT +. ELLIOTT, D.. .35, 600
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-11-11
vorE FOR GOVERNOR BY COUNTIES.

The following are the reported pluralities
for Pnttison and Beaver, according to our
latest dispatches. Stewart, Independent
R publican, received about 10000 votes
nd Armstrong about 10000:
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-11-11
Why Welcome.

What makes Fioreston Cologne welcome
on every lSiV's toilet table is its lasting
.BaHrsnes aud rich, 6oweEy od0r.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-11-11

Total ......... 2l,s5OI Total...........5s,ls 1873
Apparent plurality for Pattison,, 1888
CoSo 1RssMA ELECTED.
Following list includes the names OF
members of present Congress from this State
and those elected Tuesday, politically elias.
sGed:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
"Pll No Trust Ye.0

Two centuries ago, in the Highlands
of Scotland, to ask for a receipt or prom
Using note was thought an insult. If par
ties had business matters to transact they
stepped into the air, fixed their eyes upon
the heavens, and each repeated his obi
CATION without mortal witness. A mark
was then carved on some rock or tree
near by as a remembrance of the COM
pact. Such thing as breach of contract
was rarely met with. so highly did the
people regard their honor.
When the march of improvement
brought the new mode of doing business
they were often panied by these innova-
lions. An anecdote is handed down of
farmer who had been to the Lowlands
and learned worldly wisdom. On return
ing to his native parish he had need of
sum of money, and made bold to ask
a loan from gentleman of means named
Stuart. This was kindly granted, and
MIR. Stuart counted out the gold. This
doue, the farmer wrote a receipt and
handed it to Mr.. Stuart.
"Whatis this, man?n cried Mr. Stuart.
cycling the slip of paper
cit is receipt, sir, binding me to give
ye back the gold at the right time, =" re-
piled Sandy.
Binding We? Weel, my man, if We
Gamma trust yerself, I'm sure Tlln trust
We. Ye Gamma have my gold" And
gathering it up, he putt back in his desk
and turned the key on it.
But, sir, might die" replied the
canny ScOtchman, bringing up an argu-
ment in favor of his new wisdom, land
perhaps my sons might refuse it to ye;
but the bit of paper would compel
them"
Compel them to sustain their dead
father S honorI' cried the Celt. "They'll
need compelling to do right, if this is the
road ye're leading them. I'll neither trust
ye nor them. Ye can gang elsewhere
for money; but you'll find name in the
parish that'll put more faith in a bit
paper than in aneighbor's word o honor
and his fear O God. Erchanqe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
A Black Squatter's Dignity.

Fifteen miles out of Chattanooga on
the Bridgeport road came upon negro
squatter The cabin was a structure of
poles which man could have pushed
over, and the roof was simply a lot of
straw and weeds and bushes thrown upon
the rafters and held down by large limbs
The one room was not over twelve feet
square, and in this, with no floor but the
earth, lived family of nine. There were
two straw beds, one chair, one old table,
three plates, one knife, one fork, two
spoons and bowl. 1t had been rain
ing, and part of the earthly floor was a
mud-puddle. The family had about five
pounds of meal and three or four of ba-
con, and of all the patches one ever saw
the greatest show was right there. The
old man had thirteen patches on one leg
of his trousers, eleven on the other, seven
on his vest, and his cotton shirt was
patched in a dozen places with red, yell
low and white and blue wooden. The
old woman's dress looked like crazy
quilt, and two of the boys had only one
trousers-leg apiece.
"Great Scots! but how do you live?"
| asked while one of the boys was wat.
ering the horse.
Lib, sah-how does we lib?" repeat
ed the old man. Well, sab, we is
gainin' on it right smart, 1 reckon its
gwine to be good y ar fur poo folks"
what do you raise?'
Chile en- an dogs, sah!" he soberly
replied.
" Do you work any?'
Only when feels like it."
And this is all your furniture?"
"Well, p'raps dar' may be char out
behind de cabin"
And these are all the clothes you
have?n
Yes, sab, 'cept one of my ole hats on
de roof
And you call this living, do you?'
:" See heah, sir, he began as he rose
up from his seat on log near the door
step, "'pears to me like you was inqar-
in leetle too much! We doan' adver-
tise to keep no fust-class hotel heah, an
if you doan' like de way we fling our
selves aroun' you'd better be sailin'
along down de road! Some white folks
is so mighty nice an peart an pertickler
dat muffin on arth am quite up to der
style. Boy! bring up dat boss an let dis
perticklar white man git dun gone afore
dem two naked chilli en- cum home wild
de sassafrass an skurry his feelin' sr'-
N. quad, IN Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
Playing Poker.

Certain persons in Newburg have
come prominently before the public in a
lawsuit regarding an extraordinary game
OF poker. 1t seems that there were
three persons in the game, and the pot.
as it is called, netted the winner 49,
900. One of the persons who lost had
four aces, but it seems that what is called
straight flush, that is cards in Sc
quence with a king on the top, is the
better hand. The bets went up So, 900
at time, and finally the hands were
shown and the holder of the straight
flush took the money. Poker is a pc
culiarly American game, and is the
most popular and most demoralizing of
any kind of gambling which takes place
in clubs or in any social gathering of
men. There is no skin in the game, for
there is no playing as in whist, but a
good brazen cheat and liar has an adj
vantage over his competitors. An abil
ity to deceive, by which the holder of a
poor hand can "bluff'' one who holds a
better, is help in the game. American
women ought to set face of flint
against all gambling games and poker
in particular. The man who plays it
ought to be looked upon as on the road
to being rascal. Bowling and billiards
are healthful il no money is bet; chess is
game of pure skill and whist requires
memory and judgment; but poker, BAG
carat, faro, Boston are all pure gambling
games which should not be tolerated by
heads OF families or any one who wishes
well OF their kind. Indeed, why games
OF chance at all, when there are so many
good books to read and fine pictures to
be seen? Why not cultivate converse
ton and Il taste for the beautiful in art
and nature? Let the ladies start anti
card associations, and make their rela-
tiyes and friends join -DemoresrS
Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
Table Ethics.


Casters have gone out of fashion every
where except on hotel tables. The salt
is in small individual dishes of quaint
shape, hand-painted or of majolica, a
self-cOlored ware, or in silver and cold.
Pepper is passed from hand to hand in
elegant china bottles with silver tops,
and the vinegar is in a small rose-colored
green or amber craqueile-glass pitcher.
Sugar is served in china buckets or
baskets with lovely lining of she'll
pink, 1t will not be long before we will
drink out of cut glass vases and eat from
ornaments, instead of dishes. Three
cornered plates and saucers that are
leaf-shaped are much more fashionable
than the ordinary style. What appears
like setting hen on the breakfast table
is really a dish for eggs, and the green
oak-leaf is a pickle dish. These novel
ties will have their day, but there is no
table service more beautiful than white
china, and crystal clear cut glass.
Colored finger bowls and etched doilies
to deaden the sound of the glass are
admirable and create harmony.
Delicate courses are taking the lead
now in dinners; light soup and baked
fish; followed by course of broiled
birds, or frogs legs, another of salads,
sweet-breads and olives, one of game
with jellies, then fruit course and ices
Appropos of the last is this story: A ply
stefan of this city had bill sent in from
caterer S for Sunday ice-creams Among
the items were 1.-TWO harlequins." The
poctor puzzled over it and decided that
some customer had been mixed up in the
bill, but learned thatit was harlequin ice
cream, a delicious striped mixture that
had adopted the name.
A pleasant way to drink after-dinner
coffee is to add several spoonfuls of ice
cream to the coffee and let it slowly melt
into it, slipping the coffee through it,
The beverage should be served hot. Iced
tea with lemon sliced into it is not only
grateful, pleasant draught to the palate
but particularly healthful and beneficial
during the hot months.
There has arisen a custom in many
households of estimating at table the
cost of each individual thing. 1t is a
sordid habit, and people fall into it with
out knowing it. 1t is better to do with
out sugar or tea or any luxury if its use
must be accompanied by such comments
1t is hard law for children to be served
with food and arithmetic at the same
time.
Be careful of the butter, children, it
costs twenty-five cents pound"
There's dollar worth of steak.
tell you it costs money to live these
times"
1t takes all the sweetness out of the
food to hear such comments as these
and it gives boys an idea that if they can
ever get anything for nothing they are
doing a good thing and brings them up
to the free-lunch counter. To sit back
from a meal and make mental memoran-
da of its cost must act like an incubus
on the digestion.-Detrott Post and
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
Wesley's Tact.

The following anecdote of the founder
Of Methodism has, we believe, never
been published. 1t reaches us from
trustworthy source, and it illustrates in
remarkable manner the mingled tact
and piety of that eminent man:
Although Wesley, like the Apostles,
found that his preaching did not greatly
affect the mighty or the noble, still he
numbered some families of good position
among his followers. 1t was at the house
of one of these that the incident here
recorded took place. Wesley had been
preaching, and daughter of neigh
boring gentleman, girl remarkable for
her beauty, had been profoundly i'm
pressed by his exhortations. After the
sermon Wesley was invited to this gen
tleman's house to luncheon, and with
himself one of his preachers was enter
tanned. The preacher, like many of the
class at that time, was man of plain
manners, and not conscious of the re-
straint of good society. The fair young
Methodist sat beside him at the table,
and he noticed that she wore number
of rings. During pause in the meal
the preacher took hold of the young
lady's hand, and raising it in the air,
called Wesleys attention to the spark
ling jewels. "What do you think of
this, SIR" he said, ''for Methodist's
hand?"
The girl turned crimson. For Wesley,
with his known and expressed aversion
to tinery, the question was a peculiarly
awkward one. But the aged evangelist
showed tact which Chesterfield might
have envied. He looked up with a quiet,
benevolent smile, and simply said: ':The
hand is very beautiful"
The blushing beauty had expected
something far different from a reproof
wrapped up with such felicity in COM
pliment. She had the good sense to say
nothing; but when, few hours later,
she again appeared in Wesley's presence
the beautiful hand was stripped of every
ornament except those which nature had
given. London Society.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
A Modest Lunch.

Patrick Diver. a New York saloon
keeper, was awaiting the departure of
the train for Tottenyille, when he was
accosted by a rough-looking man in tat
tiers, who asked him for dime. Diver
had some knowledge of the man, hay
ing seen him about his saloon occasion
ally. The man told him he was starry
ing. Diver said he would give him no
money, but taking out his pencil and
notebook he wrote the following note
to Ed. Koppers, hotel-keeper at the
landing: Give this poor fellow din
ner-whatever he wants. Will settle
the score when leone back. p. Diver"
Armed with this note the tramp went
to the hotel and ordered first a mutton
stew, plate of roast veal, and corned
beef and cabbage. Having eaten most
ravenously he ordered plate of lamb
and its accompaniment, large dish of
tomatoes, four dishes of peas, and two
plates of salmon, and the man took a
rest for a few minutes and then drank
three bottles of Scotch ale in succession
after which he ate four hard boiled eggs
and an apple pie. The bill was SO. 90
~ y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
The Power OF a Prophet.

Many attempts have been made to ex-
plain this profound reverence for Mo-
manned by his countless followers.
Other cases may have aided, but the
main cause, doubtless, is to be found, not
in his normal maxims, nor in the sensual
paradise which he offered to his follow
ers, nor yet in the vague belief that he
spake as the oracle of God, but in the
fact that is regarded as the revealer and
defender of the doctrine of the Divine
unity. In this character he became, in
the eyes of his followers, reformer as
opposed O to idolatry, (2) to corrupt
Christianity which accepted the worship
of images, pictures and saints, and (3)
to pure Christianity which holds to a
trinity in a unity. But whatever may
be the cause of this supreme devo-
ton there can be no question in regard
to the fact. Nothing can excel the ieal-
GUS care with which Moslems guard the
reputation of their prophet even an in
situation that he was not all that was
claimed for him is resented to
personal insult The name of Mo-
manned kindles burning enthusiasm
in the breasts of his followers, an
enthusiasm which sometimes breaks forth
in terrible massacres, but is generally
quiet and powerful, like the flow of a
deep and mighty river. Lethargic as
most Turks are, the name of the Prophet
at once arOuses to action. The form of
the Turk becomes more erect his dull
eye flashes, his blood flows quicker, and
his step becomes elastic whenever de-
tested Christian, more bold than his fol-
lowers, dares to insinuate doubt of the
divine mission of Mohammed. There
is sublimity in the enthusiasm of the
Moslems for their Prophet of Arabia.
1t was this enthusiasm that conquered
Constantinople, and that terrified Europe
beneath the walls of Vienna. 1t is the
same rapt and dominant passion that
stands like wall of adamant in the path
of the modern missionary who attempts
to teach the Moslem pure Christianity;
and it is the knowledge of this that
makes the Christians of the East to-day
tremble in the presence of their Moslem
conquerors. The Christians know that
they are surrounded by those whose
fanatical hatred of Christianity is like
the pent up fires of a volcano; they can
never be sure that those fires will not, at
some unexpected moment, break forth
with destructive fury. British Quar-
tcrty ReUieW.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
THE BOY THAT I KNEW.

Among the people I've CHANGED to know,
In the course of my varied career,
Was certain youngster who, years ago,
held exceedingly dear;
A rOlCking, bluc-eyed, mschieyous lad
Not painfully good nor shOckingly bad
though trihe prccocious, fear
He was wise in the larger wisdom that come
While the fingers still number ones years;
He was staggered by none of Ife's hard sums
Dismayed by none of its fears
The future that stretched away ut his feet
Was full of promise and tempting and sweet
And free from the gall of tears.
And wonderful things he intended to do
This boy whom used to know:
For fame he would win, and fortune, too,
When to mans estate he should grow
lie would help the poor lift up the oppressed
And cause his name by the world to be blessed,
As he told me, with cheeks aglow.
And then, in good time he would WOO and wed
A maiden bewitchng fair,
With eyes like the night and lips ruby red
And coils of raven black hair;
AN, AND she would be always and ever his queen,
The prettiest girl that the world has seem
His joys and his triumphs to share.
All, well for that youngster of other days,
And well for his golden plans;
If he failed to tread in the dreamed of ways,
Call the fault not the boys, but the mans;
If the world as he found it, was not the same
AS that which he dreamed would bring honor
Twas the world which youth ever scans
They tell me ne still is alive-the boy
Whom knew in the years long fled
And would not their simple faith destroy,
Though, in truth, know he is dead!
He died when the freshness of faith went out
In disappointment and sorrow and doubt,
And the man was born instead.
Yes, he died forever, the laughing lad,
When the bitter lesson he learned
That the world grows bleak and the soul grows
sad
Whatever the hopes that have burned
lie died, and the truStful, happy youth.
Who jumped at the stars and guessed Mt the
truth,
To the doubling cynic was turned!
| know that the world declares to-day
That am that yOungSter of old
That the man is the boy grown bearded and
gray
But the world has been wrongfully told!
For Time has killed the gentle youth
With the sharp, keen blade of naked Truth
And left him stark and cold
-Edndyke BrOWn, in n. Y. Clipper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
About Remembering Names.

Good morning"
. Good morning. Now tell me who
that man is. He always speaks to me,
yet | cannot for the life of me tell you his
name
Don't know that man? Why, that's
Mr.. -, Pshaw! what's his name! L
know him as well as l do you, but just
because you have asked me l cannot
think of his name"
. Is it Mr. -, what's his name'
You know the old chap who went to
Europe two or three years ago.
"Old who?"
"Why, the old man whose son mar
ried last summer--married Miss --
I've forgotten her name-that pretty
young lady who
mo, that isn't the man; he has not
got any son"
The above conversation took place re-
Gently on Griswold Street in the pres
ence of one of the male teachers in the
public schools of Detroit, and he Joined
the conversation with " It's embarrass-
ing, isn't it?"
It's the most embarrassing thing OF
my life, y was the answer to the teacher,
and the speaker continued: "Now know
your name, have been introduced to you
two or three times, yet confess | cannot
now recall it.
"Now, let, me tell you something"
said the teacher. The average Ameri-
can underestimate the dignity and inn
portance of an introduction. He is gen
orally in too much of hurry to listen
the name of the stranger, and hastily,
answering: How are you? Glad to
know you, rushes off with his mind on
business which has never left his mind
during the introduction"
eyes, that is true, but how are you
going to remedy the evil?n asked one of
the first speakers.
I'm tell you how 1 did it. / never
forget name or face said the
teacher, and he continued: 'When |
was a boy clerked for two years in
hotel, and to be a good hotel clerk | was
told that [ must be able at any moment
to tell the name of any guest. | tried
various ways to learn to remember
names, and at last succeeded by always
carefully spelling the name of each guest
after it had been written on the hotel
register. The habit became rule which
| still follow, and now | unconsciouslv,
upon an Introduction to stranger,
formulate method of spelling the name
given me-"
"GOod idea," was the only comment
as the three men separated. Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
An expedition under the comman

An expedition under the command
of RogOzinski, an officer of the French
navy, is about to explore the tract of
country between the Gulf of Guinea, the
Chary and the Congo. No European
has ever visited this region, in the center
Of which, according to the natives, there
is large lake Ohe Liba), from which
the Chary and other rivers which flow
into the Bay of Biafra derive their source.
Rogozinski takes seven or eight Euro
peans with him, and he intends to estab-
lish on Mount Cameron, at the extrem-
ity of the Bay of Biafra, geographical
and meteorological observatory,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

Albany, N. Y, has = citizen eighty
four years old who can jump and crack
his heels together twice before alighting.
Somewhere else in the East there is a
man ninety-five years old, who served
in the Mexican war, and who annually,
on the fourth day of each July, repeats
the Declaration of Independence from be-
ginning to end. He has observed the
custom for seventy-fye years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

William Ritter murdered a girl at
Henderson, Ky, and buried the body.
Nobody suspected him, and, indeed, it
was not thought that she had been
killed, her disappearance not causing
much stir. Actuated by some singular
motive, he produced her hat, saying
that he had found it in a field near his
house. Then search revealed the deed
and circumstantial evidence fixed it upon
him. Y Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

"A New York jenkins rises to re-
mark: 1.-The Princess Brancaccio, the
daughter of Mr.. Hickson j. Field, of
New York, and niece of Mrs. John Jay,
is living in fairy palace at Rome, with
gardens so large that fountains, lakes
and even the ruins of the baths of Titus
and the golden house Of Nero all have
place within them. Her mother, Mrs.
Field, lives with her."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

"A Polish woman, fresh importa-
ton, told a Milwaukee directory can
vasser her name was sullivan" He
asked her to spell it. She couldn't;
but brought him an envelope directed to
her. 1t was Mrs. Czalawzcvancz."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

"A female lawyer of Milwaukee would
not cease repeating questions which the
Judge had ruled out, and was threatened
with imprisonment for contempt. Then
she went out of the room in tears, and
refused to reappear in the trial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

So many of Port Jervis IN. "
school boys carry revolvers and toy pis.
tolls that the Board of Education has or
dered the immediate expulsion of any OF
their number found in possession of the
deadly weapon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

AS too long retirement weakens the
mind. so too much company dissipates
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-22
BRITISH TOPICS.
Egyptian Decorations BestOwed-The
Procedure Rules.

WINDSOR, November 21.-The total num-
Der Of decorations presented to the troops
to-day, including those c ivsn to the Indian
contingent, was $40. The Prince of Wales
and nearly all the members of the royal
family were present at the ceremony.
LONDON. November 21.-In the House of
Commons Lass night the discussion of the
eighth procedure rule was resumed.
Mr.. Gladstone accepted an amendment
providing that the rule should not apply in
nominating select committees. The rule as
amended was carried.
The Ddiey NeaOS understands that the gov
ernment does not intend to attempt to deal
with the arrears act at ths session. The
Psrnellites will have an opportunity OF dis
cussing the administration of the land act
before the proroguing of Parliament
The procedure rules were taken up in the
House tonight. In the discussion on the
ninth rule relative to the suspension of
members from the service of the House,
Mr.. Nolan, member for Galway, referred to
the suspension of the Irish members. He
stated that on that occasion he received a
commune alton from the Clerk OF the House
asking MIN If he wished to be suspended.
Lord Randolph Churchill said that, II
after the statement made by Mr.. Nolan, Mr..
Playfair did not explain the matter to the
House, he (Playfair) would have proved
himself utterly incapscitsted for his posi-
tion as Chairman OF the committee.
After some discussion the subject was
dropped.
Mr.. Gladstone offered a motion, which
was agreed to, that the terms Of suspension
for second offense be reduced from a month
to fortnight, and that for third offense
month instead OF the remainder of the
session. The debate was then adjourned.