Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 May 1893 — Page 5

Milo Oil will Curd Colic, Cholera Morbus,-' Diorrhooa, Plus, t Neuralgia, Etc. Sold by Bergen, Oliphant & Co., Druggists, Petersburg.

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Two Kinds of Pears. »j It Is remarkable that although new fruits come to the front every year there is not a pear j '^at has been able to take the place- of the Bartlett or the SeckeL The Bartlett is a European sort, originating in England and named there William's Bon Curetien. It was intro dnoed into this country, and its name getting lost it was named Bartlett, after the man in whose garden it wus when its excellent qualities were discovere<l. The Seckel is a native, a chance Feeding found growing near theSchnylk river, Philadelphia, and the original tree still stands and bears fruit. The Bartlett is in season throughout September, the Seckel from the close of? September and through October. These two kinds are no exception to the rule, that the quality of all pears increases in value as the trees get older. The fruit from a full grown Seckel pear tree, for instance, is far superior to that from a tree fruiting for the first time.—Practical Farmer. A Small Legal Pee. The smallest fee ever taken by an English counsel was sixpence, that fee having on one occasion been taken by the late Sir John Holker. Barristers' fees were in olden times much less than those now paid. An entry occurs in the church wardens’ accounts of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, for 1476, showing that a fee of three shillings and eightpenoe, with fourpence for his dinner, was paid to Robert Fylpott, counsel, learned in the law, for his advice. In Nare’s “Glossary,” a barrister’s fee wps stated to be an angel, or ten shillings. These are somewhat different figures to the 600 guineas paid to Sir Charles Russell three or four years ago at the Leeds assizes for less than three hours’s work, or at the rate of over three guineas a minute.—London Tit-Bits. , Remarkable Unanimity. The remarkable unanimity that is so pleasant to observe between man and wife is nicely illustrated by the following two letters of the same date: Country, Aug. 20, Dear John—I am going to stay another week. Am having a splendid time. A iteetionately, Julia. City, Aug. *0. Dear Julia—You can stay another week. Am having a splendid time. Affectionately. John.? For some reason or other she concludes to pack up and start for home immediately to see about his “splendid time.” —Exchange. Best Flowers for a Sickroom. The best flowers for a sickroom are growing flowers, but cut flowers are « more often obtainable. As to these latter they should first of all be fresh. They quickly decay, and then they communicate to the water in which they are placed vegetable jnices which undergo putrefactive fermentation and render the air impure. Bright colored flowers are desirable.—Boston Globe. In the early days of this century French cooks became rich. Very was a millionaire; Achard had immense wealth; Mme. Solly, of the Palais Royal, made $200,000 in three years. Many a man is hart more in a football fight than he cares to admit, and so he makes light of it and plays on for the aakeof the college or team and from pelf sacrifice.

BEHIND PRISON BARS. WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN ANY GREAT HOME OF CRIMINALS. A Visit to Bing: Sing, New York State's Prison Odor — The Apparent Lack of Strength Jin Visible Government, A prison interior has a strange, morbid fascination for the average freeman. There is such a general atmosphere of weird unreality about it all, accentuated by the sternest realities of an iron discipline. From the burly, hard faced guard, who leans upon his shining Winchester in the sentry box on the walls, to the pale consumptive murderer, whose hacking cough is the only sound that breaks the stillness of the prison hospital, everybody and thing is strangely different from the outer world. Hundreds of silent, striped suited convicts banding over their workbenches, walking about the yard with arms folded or marching in lockstep with eyes averted, surround the visitor on every side. There is a peculiar odor born both by the prison apartments and by the prison inmates which is as marked and distinctive as the odor of the hospital or of the steerage. It tells of a life of torpidity, barren of sunshine and of change. It tells of utensils and cells made stale and foul with constant usage in spite of endless scrubbing and rinsing. The prison is one great hive of yellow, close cropped, hangdog looking humanity, speaking to their keepers or to their companion laborers at rare intervals and in subdued tones, but possessed of some secret freemasonry and means of communication with one another and with the outside world that baffles the most rigid discipline and searching inquisition. The thing that strikes the visitor from the outer world most is the apparent weakness of the governing power. A hundred convicts armed with knives two feet long and sharp as razors are cutting out great piles of clothing in a room guarded by half a dozen apparently unarmed keepers. Another company of surly malefactors are plying the hammer and chisel in a stone yard, mingling with a handful of guards whose skulls could be split in live seconds after the giving of a preconcerted signal. Itiis the vast but unseen slumbering power of the state that holds them; the knowledge of-the keen sighted, iron nerved marksmen on the outer walls, whose repeating rifles carry seventeen lives apiece, and the hopelessness of flight to a world where every man’s hand would be against them, and even temporary success could only end in death or lengthened punishment.. Principal Keeper Connaughton, of Sing Sing prison, lias spent seventeen years of his life among convicts and never carried a pistol. Dozens of times he has been assaulted by desperate conviets, but his brawny arm and heavy stick have carried him through safely. “What was the narrowest escape you Receptacle for Convicts—The

ever hour a wondering visitor asked linn once. “When a fellow jumped on me with a knife as I was sitting in my office,” said the keeper. “What did you do?" “Sent him to the hospital when I finished,” was the laconic but expressive answer. “They have no heart,” continued this steely eyed convict driver with the square, massive jaw. “In the days when we worked them in the quarries I have seen three hundred of them break away in a body and go running down through the yard to the railway track. Only two guards with ,,Winchesters stood between this rushing mob and freedom. The first three shots dropped the first three convicts, and the rest turned and ran for their lives back to quarters.” Among the curiosities of every prison are the famous convicts, notorious murderers, fallen bank presidents, clever swindlers and romantic desperadoes of every type. The oldest prisoner is also trotted out for inspection by the specially favored; some old, white haired, pale faced man, who for twoscore years perhaps lias not looked beyond the prison walls, stands blinking before the visitors. When he left the world the civil war was unfought, France was an empire, Germany a mass, of disorganized states. Outside the shining river still draws its water from the purple hill, and busy life flows on, but all is dead to him. As the visitor stands in the little green courtyard at sundown and sees company after company of sickly looking prisoners issue from shops and storerooms and wind around the walks like so many huge centipeds, with the undulations of the lockstep, each man with a slop pail on his arm and a loaf of bread in his hand; as he views them disappearing into the cryptlike dining room, whose floor is wet with the slops from a thousand tin coffee cups, or watches them tiling into the tier after tier of galleries that lead to their narrow, stuffy little cells where the night is passed under lock and key; as he comes through the low arched entrance on his way to freedom and catches a glimpse of the waiting room, where a prisoner stands with a look of agony in his dull face beside the sob shaken form of a visiting sister or mother; as he hears the great iron gate shut with a harsh, jangling sound behind him and slowly shakes off the horror and disgrace that steep the very atmosphere of the place, he realizes as he never did before that the way of the transgressor is hard.—New York Tribune. The Area of the Moon. Recent astronomical calculations have caused the "star gazers” to announce that the surface of the moon is abont as great as that of Africa and Australia combined, or about equal to the area of North y.nd South America without the islands.—Exchange. An apple grown near Portersville, Cal., is reported to weigh almost two • pounds and measure fifteen inches in I circum feyepce.

Didn’t like the Weapons* «1 came very near having a duel once,” said the congressman to a group of auditors. “Tell us about it,” said they as one man. “When I was about thirty,” he continued, “I hung out my shingle fn a email town in a southern state, and being from the north I did not receive at first the agreeable recognition I expected. In fact there was one blatherskite | of a fellow who made himself so obnoxious that one day I slapped his jaws. This brought all the respectable people of the community over to my side, and 1 Was feeling pretty good for three or four days, when the bottom was knocked out of it all by my receiving a challenge from Mr. Blatherskite. If there was anything more than another that I didn’t want to do it was to fight a duel, and I tried to get out of it some way, but couldn't, and finally accepted his challenge and chose doubled barreled shotguns at ten paces. 1 didn't hear anything from my man for twenty-four hours, and then I had a. personal call from him. “ ‘I have come in,’ he said after a few preliminary remarks, ‘to make a statement about this duel. What I’ve got to say is that shotguns are too doggoned mortuary for me, and if you have no objections I’ll apologize and call it square.’ “Then I-became very brave and blustered some, but I accepted the situation very gracefully at last, and ever after Mr. Blatherskite was most respectful, and stood about as well iq the town as he ever did.”—Detroit Free Press. Why Milk Differs In Quality. Milk is more susceptible, to changes from the normal condition than any other food product. The first class of changes has been brought about by the action of breeders. By many years of attention to breeding for fat production, it is now possible to get milk which may be twice as rich as the normal. On the other hand, other breeders have paid especial attention to production of large quantity, even at the expense of quality, until pure milk is sometimes produced having as low as 10 per cent, of solids, when the normal is 13 per cent. A second set of causes which influence' the quality of milk grows out of the ignorance or Carelessness of the producer or seller. W’here the persons held the exploded idea of the valne of one cow’s milk for children anything in the treatment of the cow which affects its nervous temperament may unfit it for food for very young children. Dncleanliness or neglect is often a grave source of trouble in the handling of milk, not only on account of the possibilities of the addition of visible filth, but because milk is .peculiarly susceptible to odor, various kinds of bacteria and disease germs. Epidemics of scarlet fever and typhoid fever have been traceable to the milk supply, unclean cans and other utensils, and particularly to propagating bacteria. —Boston Transcript,

The Vanishing; Couple. A fashion safe to stamp a young girl in general society as but ill equipped with knowledge of good form is that of “vanishing” in company with her attendant after a dance and remaining in unfrequented corners until remark is thereby created. Such is the young woman whose chaperon is in continual speculation as to her whereabouts or elsq in active exercise to find her. She is no doubt often innocent of intention to offend, but. at large and mixed entertainments the better part of wisdom in a woman is to keep in view of her fellows. A witty Frenchwoman, Mme. de Gira din, once wrote: “Amuse yourselves, O young beauties, but flutter your wings in the broad light of day. Avoid shadows in which suspicion hides.” The “vanishing woman” act should be limited in performance to a platform in full view of the audience. The prompt return of a young woman to the side or vicinity of her chaperon after dancing is not only a graceful and well bred action, but affords an opportunity to the man, who too often is embarrassed in this respect, to withdraw and fulfill some other engagement.—Ladies’ Home Journal. Monday and Friday. Those of us who like Friday for various reasons, but chiefly because it leads I up1;o Saturday, upon which day schools are closed, will be pleased to hear that it is not half so unlucky a day as Monday, the day school opens again. A German statistician, feeling that Friday had been a much maligned day, determined to make-a scientific investigation of the matter, and foued that it is not Friday but Monday that is the most unfortunate of the week days. According to hi& investigations 16.74 per cent, of all accidents occur on Monday ,'515.51 per cent, on Tuesday, 16.31 per cent, on Wednesday, 15.47 per cent, on Thursday, 16.38 per cent, on Friday, 16.38 per cent, on Saturday and ouly2.69 per cent, on Sunday. Sb you see Friday isn’t so bad a day after all.—Harper’s Young People. Raphael's Theological Virtue. It is vain to accuse Raphael, as did certain of his contemporaries, of not having sufficient theological Virtue, inasmuch as he painted virgins that were too humanly adorable. Raphael conformed his painting to his ideas and bis sentiments. He expressed his soul, just ss Lippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and, Perugino expressed their souls, each one differently, and in a manner characteristic of his more or less complex personality; and, as regards each one of them, the degree of our admiration and sympathy depends upon the temperament and culture of our own souls.—Theodore Child in Harper's. A Father’s Suggestion. Jack—I hope you’ll consent to a marriage between myself and your daughter Alice. Quiverful!—Can’t do it, ybung man— weddings are too confoundedly expensive. No, sir, 1 refuse my consent, but of course—er—if you and Alien should take it into your heads to elope-. i —Kate Field’s Washington,

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