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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

A good deal has beon written in vari-
Gus quarters with regard to the little
Elizabethan pipes in which the late
Charles Keeno took such great delight,
l cannot help thinking that the persist
ent smoking of these pipes must have
done no little injury to his health. The
pipes were so short, they became SO
charged with nicotine and he so persist
emily smoked them at every opportunity
that 1 cannot help thinking he must
have absorbed a large amount of poison
into his system.
No one, unless he had smoked one Of
Keene's pipes, could have the least idea
of its strength. remember trying one
at his studio one evening, and though a
pretty tough tobbaconalian shall never
forget how my head was affected and
all the pains endured in consequence.
l had all the symptoms of suffering
from the effects of a powerful narcotic
poison. London Graphic.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

There is class of men, particularly
in the western country, who get into the
habit of stretching the truth Of incidents
which occurred in their pioneer days un-
til they become to believe them as facts.
One of the most scientific of these is Jim
Hawthorne, whose home now is near
White Pine, Gunnison county. Here is
one of Jim's stories: "Me and my pard-
ner," he observed, "made more money
In them days than we knew what to do
with. For instance, when we had that
ibig government contract for wood we
was rollin in money. Money was COM
moner than chipmunks, and it wasn't
much good to us neither, cause we didn't
have no stores to spend it at. That con-
tract was for $4,000 cords of wood. We
got $175 a cord, and we made money
very easy" What was the government
doing with so much woodg" "Well, ]
don't know. Some of it was used by
the Indians. The government just had
it left around handy for clambakes." 4"
"Clambakes?" "Why, cert; clambakes
were very common in them days on the
Platte" "Did you deliver the full con-
tractT' mo. We kind of let up after
we had delivered 40, 900 cords. We didn't
want to bust the government. l just
tell this to show you how plenty money
was in them days. colorado Sun.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

"There is no such thing as waste
paper" said the junk dealer to a re-
porter. Hardly a scrap Of white paper
is wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown
away is carefully gathered up and finds
its way eventually 10 the mill again TO
be made over The notebook in your
hand may furnish material for tho pages
on which you will write letter six
months hence, and perhaps a year later
you will unknowingly find it incorpo-
rated In summer novel with yellow
covers. Thus the stock of paper that
supplies the world is used over and over
again indefinitely through the medium
Of the scavengers. the dealers in junk
and the factories, which are continually
engaged in Transforming the discarded
material into fresh and clean sheets
Brown paper, however, is different.
Because il IS composed Of nothing more
valuable than straw it is mostly thrown
away and never used again. / would
not pay you twenty-five cents for ton
Of it, A few years ago old newspapers
were worth four cents a pound, being
made Of rags. Now they are manu-
factured ont Of wood pulp and straw,
and their market value is only a quarter
Of a cent a pound. Office paper, such
as old bills and such scraps, are worth
the same price as newspapers, while
what we call "ofice sweepings," com
posed largely Of envelopes, are quoted
at fifteen cents a hundTedweight. -
Washington Star,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

Il suppose you're going to DIR, Mason's
funeral, grandpaT
"Oh," snarled the infrm old man,
"don't talk to me about other peoples
funerals. It's as much rs shall be able
% do 10 get To lny own. '-Exchange.
Needed tho Hardest.
A young dentist who opened an Office
on jefferson avenue finds good many
discouragements. His first patient was
a thin young man who wore no waist
coat, and triced up his person with a
pink and yellow belt.
There was a profitable hour or two in
the chair, during which the young den
tist told his funniest stories as he filed
and chiseled and buzzed At length, in
stead Of filling up the biggest cavities
with gold and charging ten dollars
apiece, the conscientious beginner said:
"shall put in a soft filling, sir;'
Il board, replied the exhausted oc-
cupant Of the chair briefly.
beg pardon, said the dentist doubt
fully. Il asked you about a soft dlling.
Thunder and lightning, shouted the
patient, sitting up in the chair and pull
ing his mouth into shapei Il tell you
live in boarding house, and If you've
got any ground glass, amalgam or rolled
steel caps use ein. soft filling, you
crazy coot; do | look like a suicideF -
Detroit Free Press.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08
LET THE GRASS GROW,

Let the grNss grow over your graves of sorrow
and sin and care;
Let the grass grow over your saddeucd shame
and your misery Of despair:
Let the grass grow over your long nursed WOO
and the fear Of that awful doubt;
Let the grass grow over the sin and the hate
that brought the trouble about.
Let the flowers grow over your grave Of folly
and crime and fears;
Let the flowers cover the ghastly past with its
beauty Of better years;
Lot the flowers cover the awful plan OF vengc
ance and thought Of wrong;
Lot the flowers grow, let vengeance stay where
vengeance doth rightly belong.
Let darkness cover your grave, let the soft
years murmur by;
Let repentance br K their loneliness with the
sad and bitter cry;
Let affection twine, and the virtues bloom
and cover the naked sod
Let the grass grow over tho grave, my child,
and leave II alone with God!
-Theater Magazine.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

Going back with him we found the
water clear here, flashing down over 8
curiously green and brown and white
floor Of bare bedrock, and here, right
through this, where his pick had struck.
CLEANED and shot and flashed a glitter.
ing seam of solid metal.
If you could have seen those swinging
sweeping arms! That windmill that
overthrew Don Quixote was nothing in
its velocity and persistence l was
made to comprehend that the vein ran
here and that it ran there; was hound.
less and was bottomless; that the noun.
tain was in fact one solid mass Of virgin
goldl Yet he said not word-only
those arms.
We got n piece of it out, more than a
pound, and almost pure. l battered Of
piece Of crag, rods up the hill, and
that, too, was heavy, almost solid.
We sat late by the FIRE that night aftel
supper, and il was later still VIXEN he
spoke for the first time. and then he
spoke almost spasmodically: ITO buy
California first. all California, includ
ing this mountain Of solid gold That's
it, you see, before they find out that
gold is so plenty; then buy Oregon, on
time; then come and get the gold; buy
Ireland, poor Ireland! BY gosh! Then
buy England; go right to Queen Victoria
and buy her crown and her throne on
contract; good lawyer, so she can't back
out; then come back and get the gold"
He was silent for n time and then
with his face lifted far above Inc as if
searching for the north star. he said half
savagely:
''Say, straight over the mountains to
Yreka tonight on the crust, Flanagan
not to know a word, nor Campbell;
straight to Yreka; got enough already
to bind contracts, buy California and
contract with the Oregonians before to-
morrow nightT' Another pause, then
suddenly again, Say, look here; Knight
kill you and keep the whole thing. 1t
is all my find anyhow"
And bless me if he didn't look as if he
might. Anyhow the campfire was smok-
ing on my side and got up and leaned
against post. Then he got up, too, and
said, "Come on, let's go,'
followed the desperate little rascal,
keeping behind him all the way to
Yreka where we arrived just as Great
house C Slicer opened their bank.
Breathless, and with face still lifted far
above me, the boy who was going to buy
Queen Victoria's throne and crown and
have her throw in Ireland, strobe up to
where Charley Sliccr, now in Oakland,
was buying dust and laid the nuggets
before his eyes. Pure stuff!'
Young Slicer turned it over and over,
took up glass, looked at it carelessly
and then, handing it back as he turned to
attend to some one else, said, sotto voce,
Eyes, pretty pure--copper."
got job as cook on Groenhorn
next day, and poor Hi, after getting
himself into pecks Of trouble and mix
ing himself up with me and my affairs,
died at Red Bluff, with his face still
lifted to the stars, am told.--Joaquin
Miller in Elmira Telegram,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08
srAR lime AND SUN rlME.
the Way Astronomers Find out from
the Stars when 1t l. Noon,

The Way Astronomers Find Out from
the Stars when It Is Noon,
The time for sending ont the noon
signal from Washington is the instant
the sun crosses the seventy.tifth meri-
dian. This, however. IS not the sun
which gives us light and heat, but an
invisible, imaginary one; because, foi
certain reasons, the true sun does not
cross the meridian at the same moment
every day, but during one part Of the
year he gets over it little more ahead
Of time each day, and during the other
BART he is correspondingly behind time;
and so this fictitious sun is used, be-
cause its apparent path around the earth
brings it exactly over the same line at
the same moment every day. Now at
just what instant this sun crosses the
meridian is determined by means of the
stars, for time at the observatory is not
reckoned by the sun but by the stars.
Every clear night an astronomer at the
observatory looks through q large tele-
scope for certain stars which he knows
must cross a certain line at certain times,
and by the use Of an electrical machine
he makes a record of the time each star
passes, as shown by a clock which keeps
sidereal or star time. He then consults
printed table, which shows him at just
what time each star must have passed,
and by as much as this time differs from
that recorded by the clock the latter is
wrong, and in that way the sidereal
clock is regulated. This star time is then
reduced to sun time, which requires some
calculation, as there is a difference be-
tween the two of about four minutes
each day.
These two cloclls--the one keeping star
time and the other sun time-are of very
fine quality, and are as near perfection
as possible. Although they cannot help
being affected by changes Of tempera.
ture and different conditions Of the at
mosphere, they very rarely are more
than fractional part of a second out of
the way. No attempt is ever made to
correct such errors, but they are care
fully noted and allowed for in making
calculations.
For the purpose of distributing time a
third clock, known as transmitter, is
used. This is set to keep time by the
seventy-fifth meridian and is regulated
by the standard clock before mentioned.
1t is in all respects similar to the other
clocks, except that it has attached to it
an ingenious device by which an electric
circuit may be alternately opened and
closed with each beat Of the pendulum.
Clifford Howard in Ladies' Home Jour
nal
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

The New York state board of ch ri
ties is prepering an industrial exhibit
fer the worlds fair of the products of
the charitable, corrective, reformatory
and eleemosynary institutions under
its supervision. The exhibit will con
tain photographs, models, illustrations
of the various methods of instruction,
statistics, and a comparison showing
the progress of work for the past twen-
ty-five years,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

The folding envelope was first used
in 1889
They belivc immensely who believe
in nothing.
As in Bible days. there is time for
everything.
If everybody had million dollars
everybody would be dissatisfied.
As rule the length of the face is
the same as the length of the hand.
If sea birds fly toward land and land
birds toward the sea, expect rain.
The father of Oliver Cromwell was
country gentleman of small means
A large, soft sponge. either dry or
slightly dampened, makes a good
dusteT.
The ancieuts referred to Athens and
Sparta as "tee two eyes Of Greece"
BREWER type is so called because
formerly chiefly used in printing the
breviary
Two-thirds Of a full average crop of
corn and % per cent. of a full average
of wheat is reported for Iowa.
The Texas hay crop from wild and
cultivated grasses is estimated at
sl,59O,3S7.
Many southern women plant aud
ship peanuts.
Three hundred women are florists in
the United States
There are 5000 women Ia England
enrolled in trades unions.
In Massachusetts, l33 women are
employed in making cartridges.
1t is said that the fountain of per-
pecual youth bas heen found in San
Diego county. Cal.
A proverh says, "Whe takes an eel
by the tail or woman at her word
holds nothing"
Dickens liked the rights Of London
walk, and was also fond Of tramp on
| the sea downs,
An artificial waterfall seventy. i've
feet in height is TO ornament the Col
den Gate park, San Francisco.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08


If Nine de Genlis' own account of her
bringing up before her marriage is true
she il q remarkable example of Il woman
who has learned from experience, and
has contrived even among the incessant
claims of society to repair her parents
neglect in the matter of education. At
six she set forth with her mother to
Paris, where she spent II few dismal
weeks. After she had two teeth taken
out (the history Of children is always
the same) they put pair of stiff
whalebone stays on me and imprisoned
my feet in tight shoes, which prevented
me from walking. They rolled my hair
in curl papers and | wore for the first
time Il panier. 70 cure my provincial
air am iron collar was fastened round
my neck, and as l squinted a little the
moment / woke pair of spectacles was
placed on my nose, and these | was not
allowed to move for four hours. Final
ly, to my great surprise, was given a
master to teach me how to walk (Which
thought knew before, and was for
bidden to run, or to jump, or to ask
questions
1nt IllNhAt bhltlAHlll VI AitL lAllhilCN
was supplemented by public cere-
mony, and then her woes were partly
forgotten in the delight Of fetes and the
glory of her first opera. This was Gro
land le Furieux,' and she was fortunate
enough to hear Chase, the singer who
| five years later was ennobled ION ac-
count of his voice and his beautiful
style" Unlike his comrades he had
some notion of modulation.-Mr An
drew Lang in National Review.
Adding Insult to Injury.
"Talk about adding insult to injury"
| said Luvrum, as with the aid of heavy
cane he hobbled to his favolite seat in
the Rounders' club the other afternoon,
'something happened to me last night
that capped the climax in that direction
so far as my experience goes. l dinod
some friends of mine from out of town
last evening. They were old college
chums, you know, and as we had not
met for years we fingered long over the
table, and the loving cup was passed
steadily around until my friends had to
leave for midnight train, It was Il
very hot night. / was very much be-
fuddled, and, as is my custom on such
rare occasions, l turned my feet Turkish
bathward. went down into tho hot
room. \ strong desire came upon me to
jump into the big cold plunge there
without waiting for the usual scrubbing
by the attendant.
SIT has been my habit to forego the
use Of the stairs leading down into the
plunge, and to simply get up on the
marble railing aud fall OF backward
into the cooling waters. So up ON the
marble railing l stepped and threw my
self off. There was not IA solitary droI
of water in that plunge. The attendants
had emptied it for the purpose Of clean
ing it. Down went full six feet, and
landed squarely on my back on the mar
BILE bottom. No, did not break my
back and fracture my skull, though it il
a wonder that / did not.
80 much for the injury. Now let ms
tell you about the insult. As lay ther,
on my back partially stunned an attend
ant came, and shaking me roughly by
, the shoulder said, Say, if you do tina
again you win be put out! If did j
again l would be put ont! Wonder i
. he thought did it for fun|-New Yorl
/ Times
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

1t has sometimes happened that per-
sons little deserving, and even rulers,
have reaped the harvests which misers
have painfully sown. The life of Van
ollie is proof of this. This man lived
upon bread and milk, with the addition
of a small glass of sour wine ON Satur-
days. At his death he left es00, 900 to
the king of France. Audley, the COM
monwealth miser, saved 100000, all of
which reverted to the government
Cassell's Journal.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

A certain broker had been teasing his
wife about some Of her housekeeping
arithmetic, and yesterday she got her
revenge.
What time is itf" he asked her after
lunch. She took out her purse and held
up a half crown without a word. He
stared, scratched his head and finally
gave It up.
Anybody who is up in figures, she
remarked sweetly, would at once have
understand that meant half pat 2. ~
London Tt-Blis.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

There is no use of any suffering with
the cholera when Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Dlarrhma Remedy can be
procured, 1t will give relief In a few min
utes and cure in short time. have tried
il and know.-W II. Clinton, Helmeita,
n. j. The epidemic at Helmetta was at
first believed to he cholera, but subsequent
investigation proved ii TO be violent form
Of d. sentery, almost as dangerous as chol.
era. This Remedy WAS used there with
great success. For sale by n B. Reber,
LehChtUn, and W. B. Biery, Weisspolt.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

The phrase "squaring the circle" is an
other way of saying attempting an i'm
possibility" The allusion is to the
mathematical question whether circle
can be made which contains exactly the
same area as a square, and the difficulty
is to find the precise ratio between the
diameter and the circumference of a
circle. Popularlyit is 3.1459, etc, but
the numbers would go on to ipfnity,
This problem has given rise to ana mt
of labor only equaled by that beste we'd
upon the equally impossible one Of dis
covering perpetual motion.-Brooklyn
EAGLE.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

A friend IN need is fIlend indeed, and
not less than one million people have found
just such friend in DR. Kings New Dis
coyery lor Consumption, Coughs, and
Colds, If you have never used this Great
Cough Medicine, one trial will convinca
you that it has wonderful curative powers
IN all diseases of Throat, Chest and Lnngs.
Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that IS
claimed or Oncy will be refunded. Trial
bottles free at Reber's Drugstore. Lehigh
ton, and Diery's Drugstore, Weisspofi
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

The Rev. DR.. Primrose-I'm glad to
hear your husband has given up melon
stealing. 1t is some comfort for me to
feel that perhaps my poor words have
had something TO do with his reform.
Mrs. Johnson--Dat wasn't de reasun,
sab. Yo' see OBJ late de po' man wuz
gitin kotched ebery time.-New York
Evening Sun.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

Which viii ye have" II does seem As II some
folks prefer lu iH'e the last CONDITION of the
uver rather Than the first They perpetually
dose Themselves with purgaiiyes totally without
virtue AS alternative Uf liver trouble. Hostetier'g
stomach niirrs Is the successful candidate for
The peoples thuire, and yet popular and well
known as u Us there are uniurtunaies who keen
on trying the drastic remedies of former DAYS.
u Is 10 Tie Intelligent portion Of the public that
Tue well known aud long tried properties OF the
BtlteiS appeal. Reason should be guided by eN.
pericuce IN the matter ni medication 1.-THE
best guide to our feet Is the lamp Of experience, q
said q great patriot Of the early Revolutionary
pcriOd, and the exclamation is pregnant with
truth For over ihnl Of "a century the Bilters
dally has met with the endorsement 0i people
siihcring from liver complaint, malaria, cOnsfl-
patton, rheumal ISM, debility and troubles ac.
cDlnmnied by dyspepsia. iatiterly II has de.
rlHred Itself and been thoroughly approved AS a
remedy Tor ella grippe"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

l wa, troubled with catarrh for seven
years previous to commencing the use Of
Ely's Cream Balm. II has done for me
what other so-called cures have failed TO
do-cured me. The effect of the Balm
seemed magical. Clarence l.. HUFF, Bidde-
ford, Me
After trying many remedies for catarrh
during the past twelve years, tried Ely's
Cream Balm with complete success II is
over one year since stopped using 1t and
have had no return of catarrh. l recon-
mend ii to all my friends. Milton T.
Palm, Reading, Ia.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

according to the statement issued
10y Commissioner Whitman, the earn
ings of Michigan railroad companies
from january ] to May l, 1892, were
SO, lu3,03l.5S, or 81, ,3S7, ,2O3.47 more than
for the same period in 1891, an increase
of l5.S per cent
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

A.-Sir, when we were introduced to
each other just now, why did you so per
sistently deny that we were acquainted
We have often met before, only can
not Just remember where. I suppose
you are in business?
B.-Yes-as a pawnbroker.
bleau!-EXChange
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

A careful examination of the cata-
iogues of English dealers in games
shows that the popular games in Eng
land are in every way identical with
those in the United States, and not q
single game could be found in any Of
them that is not well known and cur
rent in this country.-Philadelphia Led
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

There is a man in Montezuma, Ga,
who has had his arm dislocated at the
shoulder thirty-eight times and his leg
dislocated at the hip eight times.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08
THEY'RE ALL TALKING OF IT.
A Reporter investigates several public
recommendations, and finds
EVERY WORD TRUE.
More Words of Praise spoken than Pub
lished,


The strong letters of recommendation
and experiences which have so frequently
appeared in the various daily papers,
excited the curiosity of the Editor of the
Albany Argus Determined to know as to
the genuineness of the published docu-
ments, placed the matter in the hands of
one of their reporters, Mr.. Robert A.
Male, the veteran foreman of VanSlyke s.
Horizons Tobacco Factory, on Broadway,
Albany, N. Y, was first called upon, and
shown the following:
About ten years ago had a great deal of
trouble with stone in the bladder, and had to
submit to an operation, But the old trouble re-
appeared and feared that another operation
would be necessary. A friend suggested that
| try Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Ron
dout, n. Y, after using the medicine a short
while, l found 1t was doing me good. ] contn-
ued its use and am happy to say It entirely
cured me. | take It whenever feel a little out
of sorts, and it always does me good. But for
kidney or urinary trouble Of any kind am a
proof Of its curative powers.
Mr.. Male said every word was true and
and he would not be without that valu-
able preparation.
Mr.. +. G, Brink, of Poughkeepsie, NY,
whose famous experience published,
as A Scrap of Paper" Pickin Q
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

Frenchman-Vaty you gif Eat watairei
Americana gave the waiter half a
dollar.
Frenchman-Mond dieul Eat ees not
Won teep; zat ees Won bribe.-New York
Weekly,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-08

Rubies have been obtained up to the
present time from the old beds Of
streams, having been washed out Of the
rocks originally by the water.