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Daily Republican., 1885-08-01

Ga the day of the funeral there will
be a memorial service at Chautauoua,
attended by the Grand Army posts of
the region round'about.. A dirge upon
the great organ, requiem by the grand
chorus and an appropriate address will
make the day memorable.
Services will be held in the Opera
House at Ashland. Pa. on the day of
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HAHNvILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH I 1885,

greater when the inquirer is the super
ior in general information. When DR..
McCosh turned upon the champion of
Chicago, and began to ply him with
questions about the city of whose fair
fame he was justly jealous, the man
could see in moment that his ques-
toner with his Scotch accent and
handsome, scholarly countenance was
a man of mind, and being learned
wanted to learn more: at once he be-
comes teacher of the wise, and he is
proud to tell him all he knows. 1t is
an art to extract the knowledge such a
plain"man has. He may be unlettered,
but he knows his own business and of
course more about it than a philoso-
pher could ever get out of the books or
schools. And it is an attribute of
greatness to observe little things, to
master minute details. The world is
made up of small matters little grains
of sand: and he who dispises them
makes fatal mistake. The command
ing officer who lets one point be I'M
guarded may be sure the enemy will
find it. and tell him so to his cost. Mr..
Locke considered the conversational
capacity to be discipline and talent,
the means to a most important end:
and he pursued it, not with those only
who were wiser and better then he, for
he was one of the most thorough
ly and variously read men of
his day when great learning was
common; but he pursued the art among
the common people" the people who
heard the great Teacher gladly. Awise
man gathers this varied information
into well-ordered mind, arranges and
assimilates it, labels and puts it where
he can find it when he wants it, and
becomes practical and useful man,
whatever may be his calling. No one
needs this general information more
than the preacher. For lack of it he
fails to make himself ineligible or in
teresting. With it he reaches the I'M
derstandings of his people, and even
their affections are apt to be won when
he manifests interest in their affairs,
knowledge of what they know. How
the Master walked into the hearts of
His hearers by illustrations drawn from
their avocations and experiences! He
was not abstract nor abstru1e, didactic
nor dogmatic, but He was very inter
esting.
Parents make great mistake when
they discourage their children in ask
ing questions. True their questions
are often hard to be answered, and
many child has been snubbed or sent
away because its question was too
much for the parent. But the little in
quirer should be always treated as q
rational being, and if an answer is not
ready it should be sought and found il
possible. This is the way to learn.
Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye
shall find.-Iren9stS, IN NJ Y. Observer.
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

"A Georgia man has paid for farm
with the melons Off it, to say nothing
of the struggling young doctors he
has firmly established in business
LoUeU CSttzeR.
-Mamma-"What do you say to the
gentleman, Johnny, for that nice
candyP" Johnny-"Dunno; candy's
awful goodn Mamma-"What does
mamma say when papa gives me a lot
of money to go shoppingP" johnny
"Morer
-Smillkins is the meanest man in
town, and when a baby was left in o
basket on Johnling's steps the other
night he said: "That Johnling is an
awfully lucky fellow. Lucky" ejac-
ulated Mr.. Greatheart, whom he was
addressing; "what do you meanp"
"Why," said Smillkins, 'that basket
was worth forty cents. ~ Washington
Hdtehet..
"A gentleman who was going to
take his family to see dramatic per-
formance the other day was surprised
to see his wife packing large trunk
and filling two large baskets with eat
ables Just before starting. "What on
cdIJn dIo you uoihB budb lOl ia
quired the husband. "Why," returned
his wife," it says on the play bill that
six weeks elapse between the first and
second acts.
Miss Daisy Greene Ito Jones, who
has just been introduced): "What
funny looking people one meets out,
Mr.. Jones; only look Mt that frightful
girl in the doorway Jones-'I can't
help thinking she is not so bad looking
as the awkward stick who is talking TO
her." Miss G.-"The awkward stick
is my brother" Jones-'The fright
full girl is my sister," Tableau.-Co-
luDl6ia Spectator.
-Irate Prohibitionist-"See here, sir,
that stuff is fraud and / want my
money back" Stationer-"Do you
refer to that bottle of mucilage / sold
your" 81 certainly do. 1t regular
humbug-no use at all" "Why. my
dear sir, thought that was just what
you wanted. 1t is called Temperance
Mucilage.'" Temperance ucilageP'
Eyes; mucilage without any stick in it. y
-Philddelphid Call.
-"What did that lady say2" asked
Mr.. Buyem of his confidential clerk
I'D rather not repeat her words, sir, >
replied the clerk. "But 1 must know
Mr.. Plume-must know, sir" 30, il
you insist on it, sir, suppose mus
tell you. She said you were all bust
ness, but you lacked culture" "Sor
exclaimed Mr.. Buyem, in establishment
Lack culture, ehP Look here, Mr.
Plume, dye know you'd oughter told
me o that long ago. Let's have SOM
right away, before Scrimp & Blowhar(
can get ahead of us. "-BostoH Tran
script.
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HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP.

What Industry and Perseverance Accom-
pIIshed For an Honest Young Man.
On one of the avenues that run par
allel with the East River in this city
stands a great mandatory which
gives employment to host of men,
and is the largest establishment of its
kind in the United States. 1t is mon
ument to the success of one man; and
his story can be told in sentence:
Willing to shovel. About fifty years
ago young man walked out of tene-
ment house in the lower part of New
York in desperate straits; in bare
room upstairs his young wife was lying
i'll on mattress laid on the floor for
lack of a bedstead, and there were two
boxes and little charcoal furnace for
furniture. The young man had secured
New York for work, and gotten moth
ing; that morning he spent almost
his last penny to pay the ferriage to
Williamsburg, He had not gone far
before he noticed that in large sugar
refinery there were many broken win
dows; he resolved there and then, al
though he had no knowledge of glaz-
ing, to find a job in those windows.
He counted the broken panes, looked
up GLACIERS shop in the neighbour
hood, secured an estimate on the glass
and putty needed for the work, re-
turned to the refinery, made his way ts
the proprietor, and offered, in the fewest
possible words, to put in the
broken glass. The owner OF
the refinery, man of civic as
well as commercial prominence, looked
at him suspiciously, but seeing the
resolution in his face and hearing the
decision in his voice, said: go ahead
and do it. /" ''But you must advance
me the five dollars to buy glass and
putty with; have no money!" said the
young man. The old man hesitated a
moment, and then took out a bill from
his pocket. ''If you are rascal" he
said, ''you will never come back; 1 be-
lieve you are honest" The money
went into putty and glass, and in due
time the work was done, and well
done. The sugar re1iner had become in
terested. When the young man came
for his pay he put bonus of ten dollars
in his hands, for capital, and intro
duced him to another refiner whose
windows needed repairing. One piece
of work brought another, because each
was so we'll done that it advertised it.
self. The young man steadily expand
ed his work, until to-day he is a mill.
ionaire, and the owner of a great bus
mess; better still, his honesty and
truthfulness are proyerbial, his hear
has grown with his prosperity, and hi.
hand is both clean and open, and hi
kstill holds down for others the ladder
Fup which he climb to fortune.-yCHrIs
tiGn Union.
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PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Private Patrick Kneeland, Com
pany II, Twelfth United States lnfan-
try, has been in active military service
thirty-five years, continuously
AS sample of good guessing,
Congressman-elect Gibson, of Mary
land, said he would get two thousand
one hundred majority. He got two
thousand one hundred and two.
Asa b. Hutchinson, the once noted
composer and singer, and the founder
of the old original Hutchinson family
concert troupe, died at the residence
of his son in Hutchinson, Mimi, re-
Gently.
Walter Young, q Sootchman, to-
tally blind, works daily digging coal in
a mine near Pittsburgh. He fought in
the battle of Balaklava, and witnessed
the charge of tho Six Hundred. pitts.
burgh Post.
The Georgia Legislature has ac1
cepted Mrs. J. M. Gregory's painting
of the late Alexander II. Stevens, rep
resenting that statesman in his famous
roller chair, looking as he looked dur
ing the closing years of his life.
"A quiet. reserved gentleman OF
seventy-three years is Admiral Porter.
His eyes are still bright, his voice is
soft and entirely destitute of the husky,
foggy character popularity supposed to
attach to jolly old sea dogs. His face
is bronzed, and his hands large and
knotty, but soft in texture.
The tithes of some of the richest
English Bishops are: London, $50, 900;
Durham, $35, 900; Winchester, $S5, 800;
Ely, 1927 800, and Bath, Lincoln, Ok
ford, Salisbury, Liverpool and Worces-
ter, 1925, 900 each. The Bishop of Sodor
and Man, who has neither cathedral
nor dean, gets $4,000 year for doing
nothing.
The cane which President Lincoln
carried on the night of his assassina-
ton is now the property of Colonel w.
II. Harris, of Cleveland, who was with
the President on that fateful night.
The cane has bent top, dogs head
of ivory, and narrow gold band on
which is engraved: abraham Lincoln,
1865. 10 Cleveland Leader.
james Lawrenson, of Maryland, is
the Oldest employee in the service. lie
began work in the Post-ollice at Balti'
more more than sixty years ago. Ter
or fifteen years later he entered the
Post-oftice Department in Washington
That was when William L. Barry, o.
Kentucky, was Postmaster General, ant
when but seventy clerks were employed
to do the work of the Department.
Chicago Herald.
told Rex" of Canada, is dead
Rex was the favorite nickname oI
Thomas d. King, an official of tn,
Dominion who had wide population
as a scientific man. He was literar,
student also, and among his published
works was a small volume entitled
"Bacon versus Shakespeare. So wei
known was he that letters addressed
"Old Rex, Canada often reached hin
from England.
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MILLIONS OF PENS.
The Process by Which the Little Steel
Writing Implements are Made.

The Process by Which the Little Steel
Writing Implements are Made.
About a million gross of steel pens
are worn out every year in the United
States. What becomes of themP
Thirty years ago most of the steel pens
used in this country were imported.
Now comparatively few are imported,
and there are several factories in the
country in which they are made in large
quantities. One factory is in Connec-
ticut, another is in Pennsylvania, and
large one is in Camden. At present
the importation of foreign pens is
mainly confined to high-priced articles.
1t was at first doubted that steel pens
could be made in this country, but it
was soon learned that the requisite
skilled labor could be obtained for
wages, and the success of the
pioneers led one manufacturer after
another into the business, until now
the field is pretty well supplied. Most
of the work on these little instruments
is done with the aid of very nice ma
chinery worked by women and girls.
The steel used is imported because il
is believed that the quality is more uni
form than American steel. This uni
formity of quality is necessary be-
cause of the very delicate tempering
required in the manufacture of pens.
That mysterious quality of steel which
gives different grades of elasticity and
brittleness to different colors of steel is
a quality that requires expert manipu-
lation on the part of the workman who
does the tempering. He must know
the nature of the material with which
he works, and with that knowledge
must exercise CELEBRITY and skill tha
seizes upon the proper instant to faster
the steel at heat which insures thu
requisite quality.
First the steel is rolled into big sheets
This is cut into strips about three
inches wide. These strips are annealed
that is. they are heated to red hea
and permitted to cool very gradually
so that the brittleness is all removed
and the steel is soft-enough to be easil!
worked. Then the strips are agail
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HE FOUND HIS EMILY.

Separated From His wife After the War,
Boston Bootblack Finds Her Again
The Thoughtful (and Kind Intervcn-
ton of a Newspaper Man.
"Oh! sab, wouldn't it make dis ole
heart joyful to hear of dem agin. l
reckon 1 shud mos die frum JOY"
The speaker was an aged colored
man, bootblack, well known in the
vicinity of the newspaper offices, and
he addressed member of the news
paper fraternity.
"What is that, unclep" asked the
latter.
"Didn yer hear what I was sayiu'
to that gemman 1 Skinned fore you,
bossP 1t was bout my family. Dey
lef' Mis- sip fore de war an went to
Texas. Dere was my wife, Emily, an
free chil'en, de younges' bout five
year ole. 1 amt never heard from
'em since, ceptin one oh de boys sot out
ter fin me on a mule, an was took
sick an he'd ter glib it up. I recon dat
was pooty nigh twenty-five years ago,
boss. Use tried an tried ter fin some
thin bout 'em heap er times, an
sev'ral has tried fur me, but couldn't
nebber get track of 'em."
"Do you have any idea where they
wentp"
"Sabine County, boss, OATS all I
know. Der massa was named Strother,
Tom Strother, bin man."
The newspaper man was interested.
81 will do what can for you, )" he said
cit is barely possible / may find some
clew to them" He took down all the
particulars the old man could give in
regard to his family-the names and
ages of the children, etc.--and, with
his boots shining like the old mans
eyeballs, took his departure. He con-
suited newspaper directory, and
found there was a newspaper published
in Sabine County, Texas, the Hemphill
| Reporter. He wrote to the editor of it,
embedying all the information he had
obtained from the old man, and anx-
| iously awaited the result.
81 kinder feel, boss, s if somethin'
was comm of it; somethin' tells me
Their u.s." said the old man, when in.
formed what had been done; and his
aged face lighted up into smile Of
gratitude and expectation.
"Somethin' told him right! With
in month of the time the letter was
sent, a reply was received from the
editor of the Reporter, Mr.. j. M
Strickland. That gentleman had kind
ly taken the trouble to make inquire!
in his county; and wrote that he be
lieved the old mans wife, Emily
Strother, was living at little place
called Milan, at the house of son O
her former master. The delight of thu
old man upon learning of this can bet
ter be imagined than described.
"Boss," he said, ''if I'd hundred
thousand dollars, shud feel like givin
of 'em to yer"
A letter was sent to emily" con
tanning numerous particulars in regarC
to the old mans history and family
and a reply was soon received an
nouncing that she was the long-los
wife, and that certainly two of tn
children were living, the whereabout
of the third being unknown. A lette
from one of the children was also re
ceived at the same time.
The above story is related, not iron
a desire on the part of the newspape
men to receive credit for what the,
have done, but in the hope that it ma,
suggest the means of re-uniting tn
other similarly broken families in differ
emf parts of the country - BOSTON Globe
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A WoMAN'S HAIR.
why a Woman 'Flnds Fixing Her Hair" q
Refreshing Process.

why u woman I1ef HAIR .
Refreshing Process.
Mrs. Bladen, writing in Taggarrs
Sunday Times, says that when woman
is overheated and tired, "fixing her
hair" which means letting it fall loose,
combing and re-arranging it, is more
refreshing process than even bathing
the face. When the hair is let down,
some sort of interior weight seems to
pass off from the head. What is
strange, however, is that when made
smooth and twisted and again fastened
tightly, there is still greater sensation
of clearness and freedom inside the
brain. 1t is an illustration of blowing
hot and cold with the same breath
that is to say, two opposite processes
produce a similar result. Here is an
experiment the fair reader may try for
herself. If she takes down her hair
and lets it fall about her shoulders, the
first sensation is that of GOODNESS, but
if allowed to hang loose the heat of the
head increases very rapidly, and the
tighter the hair is twisted or plated,
the sooner this heat is relieved. If a
woman's hair is free from oils or
pomades, and she combs it on a winter
night with a rubber comb, electric
sparks will fly out, and cracking
sound be emitted. If, with the hair
hanging in this condition, she stands
on chair, the four legs of which are
placed in ordinary glass tumblers, and
points her finger at a gas burner, she
can light the gas with her touch. There
will be slight report and sharp,
tingling sensation in the end of the
finger from which the electric spark
passes. Now, if her hair is dressed
that is to say, smoothed with oils or
pomades and tightly twisted-she can
not light the gas by pointing the tip Of
her finger at it unless the electricity Of
her system is excited by friction. II
she wears a silk dress, and has il
rubbed with a fur muff, she can &C.
complish the feat, which would be q
great saving of matches, but at the ex.
pense of great deal of trouble.
This is enough to take away my
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rolled TO the required bnlckneSS, Or
rather, thinness, for the average steel
pen is not thicker than q sheet of thin
letter paper. Next the blank pen is
cut out of the fiat strip On this the
name of the maker or of the brand is
stamped. The last is very important
factor. There are numbers that have
come to be valuable property to
manufacturers. Many clerks say they
can not work to advantage unless they
have particular styles of pens. The
result is that by passing the word from
one writer to another market is soon
created for afavorite style. Each steel
pen has therefore to be stamped with
sufficient reading matter to identify it
thoroughly. The stamping is done
with very nicely cut sharp dies that cut
deep and clean so that the reading mat
ter will not be obliterated by the finish
ing process. Next the pen is moulded
in form which combines gracefulness
with strength. The rounding enables
the pen to hold the requisite ink, and
to distribute it more gradually than
could be done with fiat blade.
The little hole which is cut at the
end of the slit serves to regulate the
elasticity, and also facilitates the run
ming of the ink. Then comes the pro-
cess of hardening and tempering. The
steel is heated to cherry red, and then
plunged suddenly into some cool sub
stance. This at once changes the
quality of the metal from that of soft
lead-like substance to brittle, springy
one. Then the temper of the steel
must be drawn, for without this pro-
cess it would be too brittle. The draw
ing consists of heating the pen until it
reaches a certain color. The quality
of the temper varies according to
the color to which the steel is per-
mitted to run. 1t is the quick eye for
color and the quick hand to fasten it
that constitutes the skill of the tenn
perer of steel. When the steel is heated
for tempering it is bright. The first
color that appears is straw color.
This changes rapidly to blue. The
elasticity Of the metal varies with the
color, and isfastened at any point by
instant plunging in cold water.
The processes of Sitting, polishing,
pointing and finishing the pens are
operations requiring dexterity, but by
long practice the workmen and work
women become very expert. There
have been few changes of late years
and the process of manufacture il
much the same that it was twenty
years ago, and the prices are rather
uniform, ranging from seventy-tiv'
cents to four dollars a gross, accord
ing to the quality of the finish. Thu
boxes sold almost universally contain
u gross.
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CRACKEDI

Twas set of Resolutions,
AS fine as fine could be.
And signed in painstaking fashion,
BY Nettie and Joe and Bee.
And last in the list was written,
In letters broad and dark
CTo look as grand as the others),
'"Miss Baby Grace (x) her mark"
wen try always to help our mother;
We won't be selfish to each other;
Well say kind words to every one;
We won't tie Pussy's feet for fun;
We won't be cross and snarly, too;
And all the good we can, we'll do"
'tIt's just as easy to keep them,"
The children gayly cried;
But mamma. with smile, made answer,
wait, darlings, till you are tried
And truly, the glad, bright New Year
Wasn't his birthday old
When three little sorrowful faces
A sorrowful story told.
"And how are your resolutions?"
We asked of the baby, Grace,
Who stood with smile of wonder
On her dear little dimpled face;
Quick came the merry answer
She never an instant lacked:
II don't fink much of ems broken,
But dess ems bout all crackedW
Youths Companion.
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1910

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know
its are
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1t is recorded against Lieutenant
Greedy among the testers that he spent
years in the arctic regions without
bringing Mrs. Greedy home sealskin
sacQue.
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President Thomas Lamb, of the
New England National Bank of Ros-
ton, has resigned, after having held
the Office for fifty years.
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This is enough to take away my
BREATH" murmured the youth as he
seized a handful of cloves before re-
entering the theater.-M Y. Journal
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
EDITn'S PUNISHMENT.
BY HELEN e. STAMFORD.

Rodbrook Farm, extending over many
hundred acres of rich prairie land and en-
bracing within its limits forest of valuable
timber, was indeed a property of which its
possessor might be proud.
So thought Edith Norton, as she paused
for moment in her walk through the grove
of magnificent oak trees, on whose edge
the farmhouse was located. No wonder
that smile of triumph overspread her face,
and her eyes sparkled, as she thought how
excellent were her prospects for becoming
mistress of this vast estate. She was fairly
amazed ut her own success, for in two short
months she had succeeded in fascinating
young Albert Rodbrook, a shy country lad,
who had nevertheless grown bold enough to
declare his love for this bewitching, grace
full girl, with her city manners and dainty
clothes.
She was a visitor at the house of her
aunt, whose sign in front of n very modest
dwelling in the adjoining village read: