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New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
THE READING CAR TRUST LOAN.

PHILADELPHIA. March 10.-The treasurer of
the Union Trust Company states that about half the
amount OF the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Car
Trust loan refused by the Philadelphia Saw ngs
Fund, has been taken.
New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
Il PRIZE FIGHT IN NEW-JERSET.

TRENTON, March 10.-John West and James
Martin employees Roebng's Wire Mil, fought prize
fight last night In Lover'slane, secluded byway IN
Chambersburg. large number OF iron-workers were
presen At the close Of the twelfth round Martin who
was badly punished went down, and the 1ght was gwen
IN West.
New-York tribune., 1883-03-11

Won would put Alice down. Why, don't you Ike u
have me hold her !" Yes" was the reply "ea pA
afraid you'll drop her,"
New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
A DENIAL BY S. W. DORSEY.

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-The Denver dis
patch stating that II had been discovered that 8. W.
Dorsey's al. H b. check for ~ 600 had been given TO-
New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
A ,von,on in Akron. Ohio. bothered the cen.

woman IN AkrOn, UnIO, puIHuIou VIZ OOn ,
trsI elepbone office for an and half trying 10 get
her husbands ear TO toll MN important piece OF news
When she was put In communication with hlm ali sac
had to say was Baby's got tootn tluou2n'
New-York tribune., 1883-03-11
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
pITRLIC LANDS IN ALABAMA.

THE EVIL EFFECTS OF AN ACT INcoNsIDERATELf
PASSED BY CONGRESS-
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Lytton and Dickens.

Lord Lytton's study, richly furnished in
the Elizabethan style, was isolated from the
rest of the house, so that the least noise,
which would have irritated him in the ex-
treme, might be intercepted. While writ
ing, the floor around him would be strewn
with books and papers, and so jealous was
he of the privacy of this sanctum that few
were ever admitted within its walls. In
his latter days he never devoted more than
three hours to composition. After par
taking in distracted silence of light
breakfast, he would enter his study at 10,
and regularly as the clock struck he would
emerge, and his labors were finished for
the day. Dickens was very methodlcal
worker. His usual hours of writing were
between breakfast and luncheon. But his
marvelously active brain was ceaselessly
employed in collecting materials, Moth
ing escaped his keen eye-not an odd name
over a shop door, nor peculiar face, or o
peculiar expression heard in passing through
the streets, nor the commonest incidents
whether appertaining to man or beast; al
were absorbed into the vast storehouse Of
his mind to be blended with other reminis
cences or with original ideas, to be trans
ferred, sublimated, and reproduced in othel
forms thereafter.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10

We feel deep sympathy for man who
is SO certain of himself and the success of
his cause as to be beguiled into making
rash speeches. Right on the heel Of the
dilemma which overlook Mr.. Hoar after
vowing to emigrate from Massachusetts, if
Ben, Butler were elected Governor, comes
the sad story of a prominent gentleman in
one of our Western Maryland cities. There
was company of gentlemen engaged in a
little game of seven up in the aforesaid
prominent gentleman's parlor one night
lately. 1t grew late and fears were ex-
pressed by the party that they were tres
passing upon the kindness of the mistress
of the house, who, by the way, was moi
present. "Not at all, gentlemen-not al
all! Play as long as you please. an
Gar here!" said the master of the. man
sion.
eyes, gentlemen, play as long as yo'
please" said a silvery voice, and all ros'
as the mistress of the house stood hefoF
them. "Play as long as you please, gen
tlemenl But, as it is twelve o'clock, tn
! Czar is going to bed p And he went,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10

From the ranches in the Northwest we
learn that great cattle corporations, like the
railroad monopolies East, are busily engagg-
ed in filling up all unsettled country, and
are rapidly swallowing all the smaller fish
in the business A Scotch concern in Ed
inburgh is negotiating transfer of 81 900
head of cattle, the consideration being $2,-
100000 The cattle were bought at a
value of $35 per head, including calves,
heifers, yearlings and upward, Another
English company, with capital of 81 ,5OO,-
900, has just filed its articles of association.
Large numbers of young Englishmen are
going to Wyoming, Utah and Colorado tc
engage in the cattle and sheep business; a
colony has lately settled Southern Utah
where the ranges for sheep are large and
sparsely occupied. Many of the cattle
men have sold out their interests and are
investing in sheep, the last season having
been unusually profitable, many of the
sheep men having cleared 100 per cent
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10
Using Wet Fuel.

Lazy people have sought to convince
themselves and others that there is econo'
my in using green wood that is full of sap.
Science and observation alike condemn the
notion. All the moisture in wood must be
evaporated before it will burn. By split
ting it and exposing it to the heat of the
sun in current of air the moisture will be
expelled without the expenditure of heat
created by burning fuel, If. however, the
green wood is placed In stove or fireplace
considerable amount of fuel: previously
dried by artificial heat, must be consumed
in evaporating the moisture it contains.
Heated steam is not consumed, as some
people appear to suppose. 1t passes up
the chimney and gives off but very little
heat. The amount of heat required to dry
wood so it will burn is very considerable.
Green wood is very inconvenient as well as
expensive. 1t makes an unreliable fire
that cannot be depended upon for either
heating or cooking purposes. 1t is pro-
ductive of much smoke and Of little salts
faction or comfort. Green wood is very
heavy to handle, and some varieties will
weigh fully twice as much when full of sap
as when thoroughly dried in the sun.
Unless wood is to be drawn on runners
over the snow there is great saving in
having it dried before it is taken from the
forest to the house. When it is once dry
it should be put under cover so that it will
not absorb rain or become covered with
snow. The loss in burning damp coal is
not as heavy as in burning wet wood, but
after all it is very considerable. Accord
ing to experiments made in Germany,
seven tons of damp coal will only produce
as much heat as six tons that are dry. The
price of one ton of coal will buy lumber
enough to build protection for six tons,
and it will last many years Chicago
| Times
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The Dangers of Celluloid.

The ProUidence, r. l., JOurndt, says
The explosion of a celluloid comb, by
which baby was severely burned in Alb
ington, Mass, is only an example OF the
dangerous nature of this substance, which,
after the usual fashion, we are learning by
experience. 1t is composed of such mater
ial as to readily ignite and explode by
contact with fire, and a series of accidents has
commenced from ignorance ofthis fact rather
than from carelessness that may equal those
of the toy pistol in number, if not In tatali-
tv. before the fashion of ornament is worn
out. It's chespness gives it special vogue
for ornament for children, and they are the
ones most likely to bring it into danger
from careless contact with fire. There
should be warning of the dangerous prop
critics of the substance without requiring
that the knowledge should be obtained by
the accidents of the blowing off of brace
lets, beads, and such like personal Orna-
ments at the touch of a match, or gas jet.
Celluloid should be marked as dangerous
until some method is found to relieve it OF
its imprisoned and explosive gases.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10
Good Words and True.

To those who pick up daily paper,
read column or two of criminal news and
then jump at the conclusion that all man
kind is fastening to the demnition bow
vows, we commend the following from an
exchange:
The earth never had so many good men
and women as to-day, Never did civili-
zation so assert its power in works Of be-
nevolence and in alleviating human suffer
ing as now. And yet, from the news in
the daily papers, one would get the idea
that the devil has been turned loose, and
was holding high carnival, and that the
spirit of all good had departed from the
world. A thousand good deeds and a null
titude of blessings go unheralded, while
villainous crime flies on the wings of the
wind, and by the agency of lightning to
the utmost parts of the earth. There is
morbid public sentiment which seems to
rollick amid miseries and crimes, and is un-
satisfied without something inhuman, SEN
sational, and brutal 1t wants the horrifying
particulars of a murder in the newspaper
at the breakfast table, and the more min
ute the better. The way for the daily pa
per to escape chronicling the horrid events
is not clear, and yet that such reports
ought to be curtailed is most evident. In
neighboring city, short time since,
trial took place in the courts of justice; the
facts, as told by the witnesses, were Of the
most vulgar, debasing character. A news
paper published verbatim reports Teach
ers in public schools and the superintendent
of instruction reported that they found
large numbers of the papers publishing
these reports slowed away in the desks Of
both boys and girls, and that they had diff
ficulty, even in school hours, in keeping
them from being read. There is no mis-
taking the fact there is large field for re-
form in the reading offered to the young.
Good books never so abounded. Never be-
fore were so many men and women busy
with brain and pen anxious to contribute
to the intelligence and education OF the
race. What these thinkers want and
should have is the cooperation of parents
and teachers, that the generation coming
into place and power may be clothed with
the pure habiliments of manhood and
womanhood, and fitted for the grand work
of closing up the nineteenth century.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-10
Cultivating His Memory.

The late Thurlow Weed, in the course
of an interview, was told: "You seem to
remember as we'll as ever" "Better than
[ did once, [ hope," he answered. elf L
had not cultivated my memory l should
have been a dismal failure [ had to
adopt a regular method, and l hit on one
that was very effective. Some of my
friends had thought was 'cut out for a
politician that is, probably impressed
my views strongly on those about me.
But saw at once fatal weakness. My
memory was sieve. I could remember
nothing. Dates, names, appointments,
faces everything escaped me. | said to
nv wife: Catherine, shall never make
successful politician, for cannot remem-
ber, and that is a prime necessity Of
politicians. A politician who sees man
once should remember him forever" My
wife told me that | must train my memory
So, when | came home that night L sat
down alone and spent fifteen minutes try
ing silently to recall the events of the day.
could remember little at first now re-
member that | could not then remember
what had for breakfast. Finally found
T could recall more Events came back to
me more infinitely and more accurately.
After fortnight or so of this Catherine
said ''Why don't you tell it to me? 1t
would be interesting, and my interest in 1t
would stimulate you Then [ began a
habit of oral confession, as it were, which
[ followed for almost fifty years. Every
night, the last thing before retiring, l told
my wife everything that could recall that
had happened to me or about me during
the day. I generally recalled the very
dishes [ had for breakfast, dinner and tea;
the people had seen and what they said !;
the editorials [ had written, and an abstract
of them; the letters had sent and receiv-
ed, and the very language used as near as
possible; when | had walked or ridden
everything, in short, that had come within
nv knowledge I found could say my
lessons better and better every year, and
instead of growing irksome it got to be a
pleasure to run the events of the day in
review, | am indebted to this discipline
for memory of somewhat unusual tenaci-
ty, and I commend the practice to all who
expect to have much to do with infuenc-
ING men.
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"Hush, my child! Ishall not be ruined,
Charles and will find some way out from
the strait. But, surely, this should be a
lesson to yeu.
''It will it will Never, never, never,
will 1 do that wrong again.
Laura's misery, for the time, cast other
trouble into the shade, and both her father
and her husband tried to be cheerful. But
she could find no joy. A great agony was
upon her, and she was to suffer more bit
ter hours than she had ever suffered before
in her life.
On the second evening from that, Mr..
Fuller entered the cozy drawing room
radiant
"Hi !-Charles-Laura-Ive got splen-
did news. Read that And he threw
upon the table bit of paper
Charles took it up and found it to be a
telegram. Laura looked over his shoulder
Wnlle ne read
ST. LOUIS, Sept. II, 1879.
To JOHN FULLER, Wauncook, N. Y:
Colorado and California all right. We mail
to you this day draft on New York for twenty
thousand dollars. Send next consignment
soon as possible. Put on your whole force
for manufacturing.
CLAYTON & SIMoNDs.
In one week from that time the directors
of the Wauncook Bank took off their hats
to John Fuller and asked his pardon.
And Laura was happy, not more for the
good fortune which had come to her father,
and in which she was sure to share, than
for the change in her own life. She was
resolved thenceforth to study the right,
and to do ito set a guard upon her
tongue-to be silent when necessary, and
to be circumspect always.
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Five Hundred an Hour.

A Chicago letter contains an interest
ing account of the methods of operation in
the big packing houses of the Western
metropolis. Says the writer: We began
where the hogs were driven from the
stock yard pens and followed them until
they were cut into pork, made into sausage
or the hams put into the smoke-house.
The killing was not pleasant sight, but it
was a wonderful one. The hogs were
driven into a narrow pen some fifty at a
time. There half-grown boys fasten a
clamp, resembling handcuff, about hind
leg, hooked it to chain and man at the
bench above them touched lever. Thus
the animal was raised by machinery until
the snout was about waist-high, when
another lever threw it upon an incline and
it slid toward the sticker, who stood, knife
in hand, ready to sever the jugular vein.
As the hog passed him he, by quick
turn, applied the knife and the animal
passed on to the scalding vat, and the man
killed the next before the first had hardly
passed him. Thus constant string of
hogs was passing continually. Five hun
dred hogs an hour is the average work for
ten hours each day of each of the two men
who officiate as executioners in this house.
1t is expert work, and the men receive So
a day for their work. From the moment
the hog is hoisted to the slide it never stops
until hung up thoroughly cleaned. 1t is
dead when it reaches the scalding vat, and
when the procession begins to move in the
morning the machine is constantly throw
ing hogs in and out with the certainty OF
clock-work As they are thrown out of the
vat men scratch the bristles off and lay
them carefully by. Machinery then takes
them up and scrapes the hair off. At the
end of the cleaning table Il man stands
knife in hand, who must sever the head
with the exception of enough flesh to hold
it. with one blow. He strikes the joint
every time, and gets S3.75 per day for his
work.
\ man opposite hoists the hog off the
table to another slide and down it goes in
the long procession that never halts until
the hogs are finally dressed, for the heads
are fully severed while moving by men
who stand, knife in hand, to do the work.
The entrails are taken out much in the
same way. 1t is many hundred feet from
where the animals go to the slaughter to
the cooling-out room, but they never stop
from the time they start until they reach
it. Not a word is spoken by the hundreds
of men who take part in the killing and
dressing. Every man knows what to do
and does it without orders. 1t is feature
of the whole establishment that there is no
talking in any of the departments. The
work is SO systematized that orders are not
necessary, and the business is so driving
that there is no time for frolic.
The cattle are killed and dressed in
much the same way as the pork, except
that they are first shot and then hung up
by machinery and dressed. 1t takes from
three to five minutes from the time an OK
is shot until it is hung up, cut in half.
From 900 to 800 cattle are slaughter
ed every day.
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It appears from statistics which have
recently been compiled that the United
States possesses in round numbers 38,OOO,-
600 cattle, India 3O,OOO,OOO and Russia
100000. Russia has 2O,OOO,OOO
horses, the United States 100000 and
Austria 100000. Australia possesses 3d.
100000 sheep, the Argentine Republic
5000, 900 and Russia 63,000,0OO. The
United States comes fourth in this list with
5000, 900, but in the matter of swine she
heads the world, having As, 100000, The
goat is an important animal in many coun-
tries India is credited with no less than
2O.OOO,OOO, Africa with 100000 and
Mexico with 100000. From the above
figures it will be seen that the United
States comes first in the list of nations with
the two important articles of flesh food
cattle and hogs-while she is second in
horses and fourth in sheep. In regard to
the latter two animals, however, she is
making rapid strides to higher position
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Cur 0lio.
FILIAL AFFECTION.
BY REQUEST.

And yet, my Lords, how can [ support
the claim of filial love by argument-much
less the affection of u son to mother
where love loses its awe, and veneratior is
mixed with tenderness? What can l say
upon such subject? What can | do but
repeat the ready truths which, with the
quick impulse of the mind, must spring to
the lips of every man on such theme
Filial love! the morality Of instinct, the
sacrament of nature and duty, or rather let
me say, it is miscalled duty, for it flows
from the heart without effort, and is its
delight, its indulgence, its enjoyment. 1t
is guided not by the slow dictates OF
reason; it awaits not encouragement from
reflection or from thought it asks no aid
of memory; it is an innate, but active,
consciousness of having been the object of
thousand tender solicitudes, thousand
waking, watchful cares, of meek anxiety
and patient sacrifices, unremarked and un-
requited by the object. 1t is a gratitude
founded upon a conviction of obligations
not remembered, because conferred before
the tender reason could acknowledge, or
the infant memory record them; graft
tude and affection which no circumstances
should subdue, and which few can
strengthen; a gratitude in which even
injury from the object, though it may blunt
regret, should never breed resentment; an
affection which can be increased only by
the decay of those to whom we owe it, and
which is then most fervent, when the
tremulous voice of age, resistless In its
feebleness, inquiries for the natural protec-
tor of its cold decline.
IF these are the general sentiments of
man, what must be their depravity, what
must be their degeneracy, who can blot
out and erase from the bosom the virtue
that is deepest rooted in the human heart,
and twined within the cords Of life itself
aliens from nature, apostates from humanl-
ty! And yet, if there is crime more fell,
more foul-if there is anything worse than
wilful prosecutor of his mother-it is to
see deliberate, reasoning instigator and
abettor to the deed this it is that shocks,
disgusts, and appals the mind more than
the other-to view, not wilful parricide,
but parricide by compulsion; a miserable
wretch, not actuated by the stubborn evils
of his own worthless heart, not driven by
the fury of his own distracted brain, but
lending his sacriligious hand, without any
malice of his own, to answer the abandon
ed purposes of the human iends that have
subdued his will To condemn crimes like
these, we need not talk of laws or of human
rules their foulness, their deformity, does
not depend upon local constitutions, upon
human Institutes, or religious creeds they
are crimes and the persons who perpetrate
them are monsters, who violate the prlmi-
tive condition upon which the earth was
given to man they are guilty by the
general verdict of human kind.
SHERIDAN.
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An honest private man often grows cruel
and abandoned when converted into an
absolute prince. Give man power of do
ing what he pleases with impunity, you
extinguish his fear, and consequently over
turn him as one of the great pillars OF
morality. This too we find confirmed by
matter of fact. How many heirs-apparent
to grand empires, when in the possession OF
them have become such monsters OF lust
and cruelty as are reproach to human
nature.
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A Sensible Suggestion.

The train had stopped for few minutes
at station, and the silence that usually
broods on such occasions was rudely broken
by sudden ejaculation from a small man
who occupied the front seat, near thestov
81 can't 'texpress myself" was his remark.
Stiffness reigned for minute, when he
again asserted:
"No, l can't express myself"
By this time everybody in the car was
staring at him, and for the third time he
made the same statement, in still louder
tone. Then big fellow in the back of
the car, yelled out: "I say, stranger, if
you can't express yourself, why the deuce
don't you go by freight ?"-Drake's Tfav-
eler's Magazine,
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A little eight-year-old 'sassed'' his moth
er soon after he got out of bed, and was
promptly folded across the maternal lap
and spanked with slipper. Shortly af-
terward, and before the little fellows tears
had ceased to flow, he entered the adjoin-
ing room where his father was. ''Been
having fracas with mammal queried
pater familias, half teasingly @Yes, sir :
replied young America, with mischievous
squint Of an eye, but it didn't hurt me,
though" aWhat made you squaII 50 then,
my bOy2' @Oh, I just did thai to make
her think she was done
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Select poetrg.
u17RN BACK THE PAGES.

ii, tho pages with weary years fraught
1ur a1i,dhood has traced its first happy thought
Mheit Wild thrill of the days that are gone,
rec EeeL Itch the glamour of chidhoods first dawn;
MN -,, h,ue heaven where clouds never trowned;
see u.t ,roint echoes through forest resound;
he"l firds song with that childish delight;
heui 49,, streams in their murmuring flight.
,.,. .xncricnce knowledge bestows,
ToIo all know of the world ana ltS "oes'
d"'1,, da"T rcturn all its wisdom and lore
u'1fo 1,a, f,r glimpse of my childhood once more
JUS Ines that vanish and leave but despair,
r,;,t,rino baubles that burst on the air.
,,.ao cold and trumpery take from my sight,
b'S' g. os doar rs nv childhood tonight.
~, for the faith of my childhood yearn
LILY rGe's knowledge would return'
,l"a.r;rns first taught at kind mothers knee
.r than all the worlds learning would De-
n',.o holy faith in a heaven above,
,,-,,,,, haIiaf that all mankind is love,
'r'Ia tbo mans wisdom by error dehled'
Give me the innocent faith of a chlid.
Turn bsck the pages of troublesome life'
,rsaoo hack the wayward years blotted by striie'
G-sher again the bright hours of yore;
Nh for a glimpse of its pleasures once more
Ira,,,,, biIdhood's innocence, long has decayeu'
Cornn once again and this cold heart perVaue'
o,.arI Iifns nages YOUR happy thoughts trace,
smooth the deep wrinkles once more from 'ny lace'