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The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-08
An Ola Veteran,

David Van ArsdaIe died in New York
on the l4th Of November. He belong
ed to All old Dutch family, aud raised
the flag on the Battery on Evacuation
Day.
The Van Arsdale family traces its
genealogy back t. Jan Van Arsdale, a
Knight of Holland, who fourished in
1911, The family was a notable Que,
and there is a quaint old fortress In the
Netherlands to which It has given d
name. Symon Jansen Van Arsdalen, a
descendant of the kbi!ht, emigrated to
the New Netherlands in 1858, and set
tied at Flatlands, becoming the progen-
itor of a numerous race, which inter
married with all the leading families OF
Long Island. His great-great' grandson,
John Van Arsdale, Vas the famous
holster of the flag. He was born in
1856, and with his father and four
brothers he took the field under Wash
ington and fought with bravery through
the war for Independence. He was
wounded at Fort Montgomery, and was
held a prisoner of war fer nine months
in New York, obtaining his release
through an exchange of prisoners III
177S. Alter this he WAS employed
against the Indians in the northern part
OF the State, and it is relateo that he
was once again made prisoner by the
savages, and with two companions Is
capped from torture and death only
through the drunkenness Of his cap
tors.
John Van Arsdale remained in the
service until 1882, when he left witt, the
rank of sergeant. On June 10, 1888,
he married Mary Crawford, the daugh-
ter OF a Scotch Presbyterian settler u
Long Island. On November %. follow
ing he raised the flag while tue British
hosts retreated to their ships. The de.
feated soldiery, before leaving the city,
had gratIfied their spleen by a last iu-
suit TO the Americans. They had cut
the flag halllards attached to the tall
staff ON tie Battery, they had detached
all the cleats from the pole, Il lest
any agile fellow might succeed IN Climb
lug It, they had covtred the surface
with sludRs TO render it slippery. Van
Arsdafe, who had been a sailor boy be-
fore he entered The Revolutionary army,
went with hundreds OF other citizens to
the Battery to see the flag raised after
the evacuation. When the ditfi ;ulues
OF the situation were realized he at
tempted to climb the poe, but after
two or three attempts was forced to give
up the endeavor. According to the
common story, wood and a saw were
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' able wiped his streaming eyes, the Dies
sings of pure hearts were poured out
upon him. mr wFFHf#
By the time the meal was ready all
had gained their composure; and while
they eat the host told his simple story
tod it without referring to the old life
further than to speak of the n and
only time In the past when they had
met previously.
At that time he had been but five
and-twenty years Of age; he had V
known his parents. His mother had
died when he was an infant, and his
father-a soldier-was killed not long
afterwards in battle. He had been
taken by the authorities of the town
where his mother had died. ''and under
their fostering care" he said, II had
been reared, one might almost say,
until you met me; for the influence OF
the teachings 1 received i'll childhood
made me what 1 a
"Howeyer, after l felt the angel of
that old chapel, 1 made my way to this
forest. and here let myself out to the
farmer who owned this place; and with
him / lived while he livad. When he
had died-that was eighteen years ago,
and little more-I had packed up to
leave, when his daughter, Jean, to whom
the whole property had been left, took
my hand, and with tears in her eyes,
begged me to stay.
"And then, Able, I had to tell my
story; for 1 had come to love that dear
girl, and i would not deceive her. So
when I could muster the strength and
nerve / told the whole from beginning
to end; and the end was my love for her,
which was bidding me in honor to co.
She heard me through, asked me a few
questions, and then threw her arms
around my neck and kissed me. 'Jeanl'
she cried, sif you will he my husband,
and be as true to me as you have been
to my father, 1 will be your wife, and
share with you all my worldly goods
Sand SO, Able, you have the story.
You can look around you forthe sequel.
These are my children. Augustine st.
Almond is the Oldest. He will be sew
enteen on New Years day. Hal Does
the name strike you familiar9 If it
does, you ought to know why 1 gave it
to hiinl Joan, the next; was fifteen last
month; and these others are growing
up, I sometimes think almost too fast.
But / am happy, Able; and not the least
of my happiness henceforth shall be the
blessed privilege of this hour.
Sand now, good father, let us unite
with you in o prayer of thanksgiving to
the Giyer of all Good"
The able prayed with a fervor such
as he had never even approached be-
fore, and the ANENs that followed in
response were from the depths of thank
full hearts.
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Night Air.

An extraordinary fallscy is the dread
of night air. What air can we breathe
at night but night aiir The choice is be-
tween pure night air without, and foul
air from within. Most people prefer
the latter. An unaccountable choice.
What will they say if it is proved to be
true that fully one-half of all the d.
seases we suffer from are occasioned by
people sleeping with their windows
shut? An open window, most nights
In the year, can never hurt any one. In
gre It cities night air is often the best
aud purest to be had in twenty-fours.
| could understand shutting the WIN
dows IN town during the day than dur
ing the night, for the a X OF the sick.
The absense of smoke, the quiet, ali
tend to make the night the best time
for airing the patient. One of our
highest medical authorities on consump
ton and climate, has told me that the
air iu London is never so good as att
ten o'clock at night. Always air your
room from the outside air, If possible.
Windows are made to open, doors are
made to shut-a truth which seems ex.
tremely difficult Of apprehension. Every
room must be aired from without-every
passage from within. But the fewer
passages there are in q hospital the
better.
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Signs of the Coming Winter.

On the 14th of November the pre-
monitory signs of winter occurred In
front of the cold wave advancing from
the West. Though no heavy snowfalls
were reported, and nc extremely low
temperatures, the rapidity of the Their
NAL change is noticeable. Neverthe-
less, the conditions over the country
are not indicative of exceptional cold.
In 1881 and 1882 the first November
SHOWS fell in the Middle States as early
as the 4th of the month, and in the for
mer year eight inches of snow was re-
ported ON that day from Friendship, III
Wisconsin. In the three successive years
from 1876 to 1873 the first November
SHOWS reached the Middle SGates be-
tween the 9th and the 18th of the
month. On November 10, 1879, fell
in North Carolina the earliest snow in
the month reported in thirty-five years.
But, though this suggested the proba-
bility Of an ensuing cold winter, the
reverse was the case, and even the
mean temperature for that month in
the South Atlantic States was above
the normal. Up to the present date
there have been no abnormal variations
of temperature or barometic pressure
over the country foreshadowing a win
ter of great severity.
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procured, cleats were made, and the
young soldier-sallor made his ascent,
mailing on The steps one by u and then
climbing on hem until he reached the
top. His granddaughter says the ira
dltion In the family Is that her grand.
father saw, a ladder near by, fetched II
to the loot OF the pole and ascended to
the top OF it, carrying the dag halliards
fastened to his waist. Whateve- dispute
there may be as to the minor oircum-
stances, there Is no I'M of doubt as
to the broad fact that John Vsn Arsdale
reeved the new gear, aud ran up the
flag on the morning of the first EVacua-
ton Day. He lived for many years
| after, making his livelihood by sailing
packet boats in the waters about New
York. He died in 1886, and ON many
anniversaries he repeated his actions oi
November %, 1888, in the presence OF
a%pplauding crowds.
David Van Arsda,e, who died on the
14th. was the third son of the old Reyo-
lutionary hero. He was born Septem-
Der i, 1876, in a country house on a
grassy knoll situated where Scanned
street now runs. Early in life he fol
lowed his father into seafaring tie, and
Tor many years he found an occupation
Il the cOast1ng and inland trade. lu the
War OF 1912 be proved that he was Lot
unworthy of his father.
In 1924 he married Mary McGarv,
and it may be mentioned as character
istic that IRON that time to the day OF
MS death he lived in only two houses.
1t appears that Miss McGary's father
mo built himself a country house on
the site which III later Gays became No.
262 Rlvmgton street, near Co umhla
street. 1t had q brick trout and side
and real walls of frame construction,
after tue style OF the day, AID 1t was
| surrounded with be utiiul shade trees.
Young Van Arsda!e before his marriage
lived where Ludlow and Broome streets
inters ect, and it is told that his sweet
heart war very much exercised as TO his
safety whenever lie came to see her, SO
wild and so frequented by roughs were
tie rocEs and woods that lay between
their dwellings. The old man often
told his daughter that he had carried
home a cord OF wood, he was sure,
III sticks e ven him as weapons of de-
Tense by his betrothed az he left after
IN evenings visit. One night she hao
nothing but an old spade handle, winch
she insisted on his taking for want of .
better weapon. He resisted, but the
lady carried her point. 1t wa fortu-
nate she did, for that night, indeed, the
young man was beset neal his home by
two or three highwaymen, WHOM he
with difficulty routed.
After nus wedding David Van Arsdale
went to live at the Rlvington street
house. He stayed there Tor forty years,
and then moved to No. 442 East 12lsi
street, where his body now lies. Fol-
The past fOrry-seven years MIR. Van Ars-
dale had been an employe OF the Barge
Office, having been appointed under
Martin Van Buren, HIS wife died
twenty. three years ago, but he Is sur.
vlved by two sisters, respectively eighty
six and eighty-two Years cid. His
daughter and his grandchildren have
Away lived with him. He was q very
religious man, being a member OF til,
TRINITY Methodist Episcopal Caurch,
ormerly the Second Avenue Church.
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This Gap in Colorado has an interest
ing history. Its name is odd and there
is nothing in the physical formation of
the place to suggest so odd a name.
Only a circumstance, an incident, gave
this funny name. 1t was in 1851, dur
ing the Baker expedition to the San
Juan. He had created great excite
ment by the report of the discovery OF
rich placer mines in the Juan county,
then the home Of the Ute Indians. II
was a terrible experience for the hun
dreds of poor fellows who followed Mr..
Baker over the mountains of Colorado
to make their fortunes. Those who did
| not starve to death, or die of exposure,
returned to their homes, in the East,
swearing vengeance on Baker, who kept
)ut Of the way. The rich gold mines
now owned by Senator Bowen, in the
summit district, is the region discov-
cred by Baker, and to which he tried to
lead these men. 1t was here he lost his
way, his provisions gave out, and his
MN, many of them, took sick and died
from exposure, and so this expedition,
| which had started out with such bright
hopes, had a sad ending. In picking
their way up the narrow passage between
the shores of the Rio Grande river and
the bluffs of granite rising to a height
of 1900 feet, on reaching the end of the
canon they found a number of broken
wagon-wheels, broken axles, and other
parts Of wrecked wagons. They knew
posed the Indians had murdered some
emigrants or pioneers and destroyed
their conveyance. But this incident
was sufficient to name the spot Wagon
wheel Gap" There was much specula-
ton as to where this v agon debris came
from. 1t was afterwards learned that
these wheels, etc., were the remnants of
| the Fremont expedition of 1S4S. FIRE.
mont was on his way to the Pacific
through the canon of the Rio Grande,
and took an outlet by this narrow Gap
The hardships and suffering which he
and his men endured in huntf 6 for this
route were beyond conception. Winter
set in, and the snow lay on the ground
very deep. Realizing the folly of NOV
ing or Fremont decided 10 go into
winter quarters ; he selected q wooded
spot a few miles from the gap, but the
cold and snow during this terrible
winter was more than even these hardy
men could endure !; many of them died
from exposure /; the cattle also died.
At last the pathfinder found 1t necessary
to march with all speed to a point south
of Santa Fe, recruit his band and secure
horses and cattle. 1t is no wonder that
his wagons tumbled from the rough
trail and were broker ON the rocks be-
low. 1t has been said, ''there is nothing
in a name" There seems to have been
something in this one.
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The most gigantic irrigation enter
prises ever inaugurated in the State Of
California has been commenced in
be the largest in the State, and fed by
Kings river. The water is intended to
irrigate 80, 900 900 acres of rich land,
at present barren through lack OF water.
The source of supply of this canal will
be higher than any other debouching
from the same stream. Its dimensions
are: One hundred feet IN width at the
bottom; levees an average of fifteen
feet IN height and eight feet wide at the
top broad enough for a wagon road.
The depth of the water is expected to
be five feet with a fall of eighteen inches
to the mile. The dam in the mountain
canon, whence the water is taken, will
be a wonderful and permanent one.
Ii Is twenty-five feet high, eight hun
dred feet long, one hundred and forty
feet wide at the base and twenty five
feet wide on top. 1t is rip-rapped on
the inside with heavy rock, and every
precsutlon taken to make 1t sufficiently
strong TO securely hold the great weight
OF water that must be supp Jrted. The
water is led into the canal from a large
headgate, constructed of heavy timber.
emo hundred feet in width aud eighteen
feet high. 1t ia planked over so as to
make a bridge for heavy wagons, and
has wings to protect it from the floods.
The canal is expected to carry thirteen
hundred cubic feet of water per
second.
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a writer from London says; dropped
in at the Duke Of Wellington's riding
school last evening to see the st. Bern
ard Dog Show. The Dukes carriages
had been pushed aside in a corner and
covered with brown Holland cloths and
some temporary barriers had been
erected, at which pay-takers mounted
guard. | never spent a shilling more
to my satisfaction than in the contem-
plation of the three hundred noble ami
mails which are here shown. | am
thoroughly of a mind with Madame de
oevigne, who said that the more she
saw OF men the more she liked dogs.
What grand, self-respecting creatures
these st. Demands arel Surely there
must be something more behind those
wonderful eyes and good, wise fore
heads than a meIe brute's brain. One
OF the immense fellows here exhibited
has saved forty lives on the Alpine
heights, Most of the dogs are English
born and a rare adjunct to a well-regu-
lated country home is a friend of this
sort, d detective who quietly stands by,
with every faculty for defense orattack
IN the alert until the true character of
every guest is amply disclosed. A dog
as big as a lion, who will not harm a
baby and yet will fight a dozen burg
lars, with u%nquenchable ~ferocity, is in-
deed, a friend in need. Would that a
new intelligence for detecting evil III
tentions might be developed in Saint
Bernard's, that dynamite murderers
might be frustrated before they could
wreak their cruelty on innocent Leads
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A writer from arIs said | saw the
Princess Dolgorouki. the morgaDa.iC
widow of the late Car Alexander, driv.
ing IN the Bots de Boulogue. The car,
rage Just ahead OF hers wss that of my
tailor, and as a l-ong-expected check hs:
not vet arrived aud as there is still a small
balance due 10 the individual whom
honor with my pan,aloon patronage, | oil
course raised my hat to Mrs. Goose and
the little goslings. | was a little slow III
doing so, and had, therefore, just got 10y
elbow to the right crook and my hat ID
the proper distance IN front Of the tip oil
my nose when my carriage passed that Of
the Emperor's widow. The good lady
thought 1 was somebody salutlng her, and
not to be outdone in politeness bowed
most graciously in the direction of my
left ear. Since then | have taken won
derful interest in the Princess, and [ learn
that she has settled permanently in Paris;
hence l may have another opportunity.
Now that Alexander has beer gathered tC
his fathers, the handsome lady who used
to take the place of the Czarlna 10 his I'm
perla9 arms is of far less Importance II
this world of trouble than she was when
her magnificent protector reigned over all
| the Russlas. When Alexander Nicholaso-
witch was assassinated, the Princess Dol
gorouki, whom he married after the death
OF his Empress. came to Paris; this name
is the one which the Emperor conferred
on her; her real title Is that of Princess
Youriewskaya. The word Youriewskays
means the female descendent OF YOUR,
and this particular YOUR from whom this
Princess descends Though her mother was
the founder of the sacred city of Moscow.
The widow is tall, slender, aud straight,
with q thick bead of fair hair, and
which, when l saw her yesterday, was
half concealed by a hat almost covered by
a mass of black lace. should Judge her
TO have all the seductive graces of the
Slavnnic race, Her large eyes are Of 6
pearly gray and have that far-away ex-
preston peculiar to persons who prefer
the of the past or the dreams OF
the future to the things of the present.
Her two little daughters, Olga and Cathe-
rIne. aged four and six years respectively,
are in the carriage with madame the prin.
cess. She has another child, a son of ten
year of age, named Your, who is already
quite an artist. | have seen him making
sketches from nature in the Tullleries
Garden, and be often goes to the Louvre
and L~uxembourge to study the paintings.
The widow is q great reader, and her book
seller has orders to keep her supplied with
all the latest works as fast as they appear.
Formerly music and water-co.or painting
were her chief enjoyments, but since the
death OF the imperial gentleman who en-
crossed all her affections she has moi
played a note nor touched a brush.
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TIE victory was won. but General
Wolfe lay dying on the Heights of Alb
raham. Hearing the shouts of the
soldiers. "They fy | they fly !" the
General stood on his elbow and anx-
lously asked, "Who fly ?" "Hoss-hy !"
replied a sergeant near by, and Wolfe.
recognizing the forerunner OF the Amer
lean paragrapher. was glad to lie down
and die before the batch of 1888 came
along.
-Brooklyn's champion mean man
has come to the surface. He is in GUS
tody for robbing school children of their
books and playthings.
Anger wishes that mankind only had
one neck; love, that it had only one
heart; grief, two tear. glands; pride,
two bent knees.
OF great riches there Is no real use
except 1t be in the distribution
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Statisticians have pronounced the
United states to be not only potentially,
but actually, richer than the United
Kingdom. Counting the houses, furni-
ture, manufactures, railways, shipping,
bullion, lands, cattle, crops, invest
ments and roads, it is estimated that
there is a grand total in the United
states of $40, 77O,OO0,00O. Great Bri-
tain IS credited with something It IS than
$40, 000, 000, 900, or nearly $4,000, OOO,'
less than the United States. The
wealth per inhabItant In Great Britain
is estimated at 81, lou, and in the United
States $685.. With regard to the re-
maneratlon of labor, assuming the
produce OF labor to be 100, in Great
Britain So PARTS go to the laborer, Il to
capital and % to Government. France,
Al parts go to labor, 81 to capital and
% to Government. In the United States
u parts go to labor, 20 to capital, and
to Government.
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FANCY,

Sweet Summer went forth TO the fields
With roses entwined in her hair;
Her footsteps as light
AS her glances were bright,
And all that she looked upon fair.
Grave Autumn, beholding the maid,
Grew CHEEKY in chanting her charms;
They met, but alasl
All her strength seemed to pass,
And she languished to deathin his arms
Now sombre grew Autumn and scar,
AS he chung to the maid in his woes
Then Winter passed by,
And, with tear-stricken eye,
Hid them both meath n mantle OF snow.
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Tartar may be readily removed
from the bands by rubbing with the
outside of fresh orange or lemon peel
and wiping dAy Immediately. The so-
LATHE oil in the SKINS dissolve the tar so
that 1t can be wiped of.
At the present M the fashion,
able cure for dyspepsia il hot wa'er,
which, after all. is only an old fashion
revived. The l. ndon Netos, comment
ing upon this, says that the hot water
treatment is taken externally in London
as a cosmetic, and internally IN Ameri-
ca for the stomach, and that a scalding
propaganda Is in progress.
Jacksonville, Fla, being short of
funds has retrenehed by reducing her
police force.
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BEFORE using new earthenware, place
in a boiler Of cold water, and heat grad
ually till it boils then let it remain
Gntil the water is cold. II will not be
lik ely to crack If treated thus.
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"YEs," said Miss Penn, II rejected
MIR. Hcgg. Nice fellow, but l couldn't
have the announcement Of my marriage
appear in the papers under the head
line Hogg-Psn."
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Cewardioe asks : Is 1t safe Expedi
ency asks : Is 1t polite? Vanity asks
Is it popular 7 Bat conscience asks Ii
1t rightS
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