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BEARS AND BEAR HUNTERS. TheUreat Swamps near LackavraxeD, Pa., v hero the Black Bear Feeds on Wild liouey and Pigt-Hon' lie is Hunted and Trapped. In the extensive swamps of Wayne and Pike counties, Pa., and Sullivan and Delawaie, N. I., the black bear, even at this late day, roams and rears its young in a security almost as undisturbed as it did a centurv asro. and finds in the out lying areas of beech and oak forests as ample supply of food. The hunting and . trapping of these animals furnishes both pleasure and profit to many of the back-, woods inhabitants, hundreds being captured every year. Their skins and meat; command ready sale. The skins bring . from 315 to S25, and the meat sells for ; twenty cents a pound. The hunter i realizes from $60 to $80 on a full-grown bear. The principal bear hunters in the ! Pike county region are the Shaffers and Q.licks. They live in the depths of the woods, seventeen miles from this place. Pinchot Swamp, Balsam Swamp, Indian Swamp, Maple Swamp, and Hemlock Swamp are great bear haunts. Jonas j Shaffer, the youngest member of the i former family, was at Lackawaxen, Pa., ; a few days ago after some supplies, and a .New lork iSim correspondent gleaned j some interesting particulars from him in regard to bears and their habits. He said : "Nex' to a bee tree, a bear likes to run foul of ayaller-jacket or a hornet workin' I in the woods. He'll prance 'round till he finds the hole the yaller bee goes into, 'r the hornet's nest on a tree 'r stuck fas' to a rock. Then they's fun. In about three jerks a bear'11 turn a yal- j ler-jacket'8 nest wrong side out. Two 'r three digs with his paw unkivers't. The ! little yaller reptiles fight like fury, and sometimes kiver the beaj till he looks 's if he had mustard spread all over him. But the bear shets his eyes an' kind o' grins, an' licks the honey out's clean's i yer old woman'd wash a platter. An' ! all the time he smacks his chops an' don't pay any more 'tention to the bees j th'n if the? was so many straws a-ticklin': of him. I shot a big bear onct which was goin' through a yaller-jacket's nest1 over nigh Injin swamp, 'n' killed him dead. If I'd only wooded him, an' he'd a showed fight, I'd a tackled him, o' course. But there he laid dead, and if | them little scamps didn't scare me out; 1 an' I was 'fraid to go an' skin my dead j bear 'till they made up their minds to ! i quit an' dig out. " But it's more fun to see a bear git at a hornets' nest. One o' these '11 be's big '8 a half bushel sometimes, an' 'r gen'rly stuck into a rock 'r in a tree mos' i i always o' reach o' everything. But when j a bear claps his eye on a hornets' nest i you see a smart critter. If it's on the 1 rocks, he climbs up till he stands on the i edge o' the ledge above it. Then he kicks big stones 'n pieces o' wood down < at it till one hits it, an' off it goes, fol- ' lowed by a million or so o' the maddest ; hornets't ever got on their ear. Mebbe : i you don't know't, but a mad hornet ain't ; i a takin' a back seat for anything that i prowls the woods. When one o' their ] nests is kerflummixed like this, they '1 seemed to know who done it, an' tney j i wait for the bear to come on. He ain't 11 long a comin'. Then the hornets go for < him ; but he don't care. Sometimes ] hell get up on his hind legs and square : i off at the hornet's with his paws an' < strike out as if he were boxin'. All the ! < time they's a goin' on his face, and he j keeps his eyes shet. Often hell lay down an' roll on the nest, 's if he wanted to tease the hornets more ; an' I seen a , 1 big she bear onct take up a nest she had I stoned down, put it under one o' her < , arms, and prance off with it's if't was a ' good joke on the hornets. One mad hornet I guess could kill the biggest ox i 't ever stood, but a hull nest of 'em never < raised a lump's big's a buckshot oca < bear. When a hornets' nest's in a tree, an' the bear can't reach it with his paws ] . 'r a long stick, he'll git up on the limb ! i and dance on it till the nest comes down. " But bee trees is the faveryte prov- (( ender of a bear. The best bee hunter j j 't ever burnt honey can't line a bee tree ] any certainer than a bear, 'n when a bear > gits scent o' one he don't give't up till , he finds it. Then up the tree he goes, j givin' 't a whack ev'ry now an' then to | find out where the holler place is. When , he comes to it he cuts a lidle with his shah) claws' an' 'taint long 'fore he's a . luncliin' ?. n wild honey. According to Jonas Shaffer a bear will j 3 often lead the hunters a chase of twenty miles through the swamps, and they < have been known to keep on for fifty ] or sixty miles before being brought to * bay. j < Jonas explained the manner in which i J bears are trapped. Ed. Quick is the j ( most successful bear trapper in the State. 1 He builds a pen where he finds signs of j 1 bear, closed on three sides, and in it I places his traps. These traps are like a steel rat trap, only many times larger, j the jaws being armed with long, eliarp teeth. When the trapper sets it he j i covers it up with moss, except on the I 1 broad pan. Meat or honey is placed in ' i the pen, in such position that to get at 1 I it the bear must step with one of his feet I i on the pan of the trap. Instantly it is i sprung, and the ponderous jaws come < together, the teeth sinking deep into the < bones and flesh of the poor animal. To ] the trap a strong chain is attached. A < good-sized tree is felled ; the branches ' < are cut off to within a foot or so of the < trunk, leaving that much of them pro- j ( jecting. To this tree the other end of i the chain is fastened. When the bea" < finds himself in the trap, he starts off ; -1 with it, dragging the fallen tree with 1 him. The stubs of the several branches I < plow into the ground, and so harass j i the progress of the bear that he soon , ( exhausts himself and becomes an easjy 1 prey to the trapper when he makes his j rounds. Frequently the bear will work < at his paw or leg until he severs it, leaving his foot in the trap and escaping on < three legs. Now and then it happens j that these crippled bears are caught i again in some trap. Only last winter < EJ. Quick caught one with but three 1 feet. It was a ponderous one, and re- ] ^ quired the skill of three men to con- i quer it. i 41 Ouct Ed went to one o' his traps," i said Shaffer, "over nigh Balsam swamp. It was gone. Ed tracked it 'bout a mile, when it went up a tree. Fifty feet up v. as a big crotch. From one side o' this , hung the big saplin' the trap'd been chained to.. On t'other side dangled the | trap, with the paw of a bear in it. You , kin 'magine th' animal must 'a been an 1, old settler t' climb fifty feet up that tree an' drag a trap an' a log weighin' mebbe , two hundred pounds along with him. j That bear know'd what he was doin' , they ain't no doubt. He d'liber'tly clim , that tree, got the chain all right in the , crotch, an' then thro wed hisself down, kuowin' his weight'd break hisself loose from the trap. They'm cnnnin' cusses, these l>ears is. Mos' gener'ly it takes ; the tuck out 'n 'em, though, to git! ketched in a trap. They seem to ?feel shamed o' tlieirselfs, and shets their i eyes v heu you look at 'em, and turn I 'way their heads's if they felt ter'ble Hnaakin'." Hbaflfer says that the prevalent idea < that a bear is not possessed of speed is a mistaken one. "No one wants to come foolin' 'round these woods after bear, thinkin' 't they can't run," he says. "A bear that wan ts to kin kiver more ground in a short space o' time th'n you've any idee of. 'Taint likely't one '11 ever chase you, but if one should, don't try to outrun him. He kin put musio in them four thick legs o' his'n 'n you don't want to forgit't!" Perils of Horse-Taming. A San Francisco paper narrates the ' following exciting incident which took i place recently in that city during an ex- | hibition of horse-tamiug given by a Pro- j fessor Tapp : The horse stood near the ! centre of the inclosed circle and the j professor about midway between him | and the inclosing high barricade, the horse perfectly subdued under the eye of the commander. Some person on a seat in the rear of Tapp asked him a question, and for one instant Tapp re/v*,/* liolf fnrrwvl Ill's head ' JJWICU AXIO CJ C OUU null ? to answer. In that instant the crafty brute sprang upon him like a tiger. j There was a yell of horror from the ' spectators as the horse caught the man up by the clothes at the small of his i back, shook him as a terrier does a rat, and flung him through the air against the inclosing planking. Before Tapp ! could regain his feet the ferocious monster was again upon him, seizing him with his teeth by the left shoulder and endeavoring to kneel down upon him. This the cross-hobble prevented him from doing, and the cool professor, with liis shoulder still in the -grip of the monster'8 jaws, struggled to his feet and with his right hand 60 held the bit as to j prevent as far as possible the successful; working of the horse's jaws. The crowd was intensely excited. Mr. Wooden seized a long pole and poked it between tiie halter and the horse s tower juw, uuu ; still further retarded the biting. The i friends of Tapp called for a gun, but there , was no gun, and what is remarkable in a > collection of 200 Californians, no one I had a revolver, or the murderous brute : would have been shot dead instantly. The horse and Tapp continued fighting half way around the ring, Wooden on the seats outside still hampering the former's efforts with the pole. The spectators on the front seats also did all they could to distract the man-eater's attention, one lady seizing the crutch of a man sitting next her and beating the horse over the head with it. By the aid ; of these distractions Tapp was enabled by degrees to draw his arm through the ] horse's jaws, the horse chewing it as it slipped away from him until finally it was entirely withdrawn. The crowd shouted to Tapp to jump for his life, but the plucky trainer called for his whip, and with his mangled left arm dangling by his side, so tickled the fetlocks of Oogniac that that enterprising animal was again what Tapp fondly calls subjection. Last evening the tiainer was in the stable office with a friend pouring an odorous liniment over his bandaged arm, and the man-eater, with all his evil passions inflamed with the taste of blood, was romping around his prison and eagerly reaching up for a mouthful of any timid spectator that ventured near enough to look down at him. The people will continue to look forward with interest tn the solution of the Droblem [>f whether Tapp will tame the mansater or the man-eater tame Tapp. Words of Wisdom. Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe unless it is mixed with a little adversity. To be really and truly independent, is X) support ourselves by our own exertions. Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the deeds of men. He who boasts that his heart has remained whole, confesses that he has only i prosaic, out-of-the-way-corner heart. Thousands of good people never half snjoy even enjoyable homes, because they are always looking ahead, and never learn the beauty and the value of to-day. They go through life expecting enjoyment by and by, but without the art to take it as it comes. They learn too late that they passed happiness on the road sritliout recognizing lier. The same earth produces health-bear- i tng and deadly plants?and ofttimes the j rose grows nearest to the nettle. The safety and progress of humanity lepends upon each man's filling his appointed place?no matter how humble it jeems?well. We are all workers?each jlasa is dependent upon the other. The rude fisherman of the Northern sea, as a j jpreat Euglish writer has finely said, col-( lects the oil which fills the scholar's lamp in the luxurious capital three1 thousand miles away. Run Down on the Mississippi. James Crowley, his wife and baby, ind a son fifteen years old, Ephraim Weaver, and a widowed sister, named Susan Smith, and her baby, left Hamil THE REALM OF TRUMPERY. ___ ! Where Toy*, Mock Jewelry, nuil Novell!?* j i Come From? Atnericnu Ingenuity. I A New York Times reporter recently | visited fin importing firm in that city, j ' where the trrent floors were packed full with an infinite variety of toys, mock i jewelry, Ac.?quite $1,500,000 worth in j I all. " Where do all our goods come , ! from ?" said one of the firm, iu answer I to an inquiry from the inquisitive scribe; "why from all over the world. The higher class of toys, fancy work-boxes, writing-desks, and inlaid goods come from Nuremberg. Cheap toys, penny whistles, monkeys on sticks, jnmpingjacks, cheap sets of furniture, dolls and marbles, &e., are made in the mountainous districts of Saxony. Formerly these too came from Nuremberg, but now their manufacture has been forced out to the country where the cost of living is at the lowest point, and consequently the . price of labor is smallest. The cheapest. sorts of china and glass ornaments and toys also come from there, but the best, iuclading handsome vases, figure pieces, glass jewelry, cameos, and things of that sort, we get from Bohemia, mostly about Gablonz. They send from there great, quantities of imitation sapphires, garnets, i topazes, and other bogus gems, that I would almost deceive the very elect, so 1 long as the elect are not lapidaries, j which are sold here for about $12 per j gross, and a big business is now done i here in setting these false stones. That I work is done here better and more taste-, fully than in any other country, except,; perhaps, Franco, and the extent to which Yankee ingenuity has supplanted hand labor by machinery enables us to compete in price in much of the mock jewelry trade with even the poorest paid : of the artisans of France. You would : be horrified, no doubt, by the by, to ; know how little people do earn over j there, especially in Saxony and Bohemia, i Many of them, adults and skillful ' workers, do not earn more than five or j ten cents per diem ; but they all work, i even the little children. No one who j has eyes to see and fingers to toil, can ! be spared. Thev do not eat meat, and live almost entirely on coarse bread and beer. A merchant or employer will supply to a family a model, say for such ! a pair of dice sleeve-buttons as you j showed me and the requisite material. ? J.i 1. ? I l'ney CUVltie up me wurp. iuuwi^ Micm- | selves, so that every one of them has I something to do in it?whatever he or I she can do best. So they manage to turn out a great deal, but they get very little for it. " But to return to our Rources of supply. Those real tortoise-shell goods come from Furth and Nuremberg, the pearl?or, to speak more correctly, the mother-of-pearl?goods from Vienna. They are the most expensive of this class of stuff, excepting the inlaid enamel sets and pieces of jewelry made in France, some of which range one third higher. The system of manufac-j ture in France is different from that al- j ready described. Instead of giving the j work out to families, the French do it in ; factories?small ones outside of Paris, j big ones in Paris. From the French i come the most novel, original, and j charming of all the designs in this cheap i jewelry. They put just as much skill j and taste upon this enameled bit of brass, an imitation of a piece of Pompeiian jewelry, as they would if it were real gold and diamonds. In this respect the United States alone approaches them. There are, indeed, certain specialties, such as ladies' chains, sets, and certain other metal workings for personal adornment, and perhaps a little use, in which we really excell France. The socailed ' Scotch wood' works comes from England; the harmonicas from Austria maiDly, some also from Saxony ; aocordeons from Saxony ; jewsharps from Austra ; fine china dolls from France ; wax dolis, worsted dolls, and rag dolls 1 from Saxony ; india rubber dolls from | the United States. By the way, we ; make in Connecticut now almost all the j mechanical toys, those which move by clock-work. And we make tops of in- ' finite variety in this country so cheap ! and good as to defy foreign competi- I tion. The lot of vegetable ivory stuff' comes from England ; those crystal j beads from France and Italy. There i is a range of stuff comprising an infinity j of things all from Japan and China. | Some of the inlaid cabinets are exquisite j pieces of work, and when you talk about i prices of labor, what do you suppose the j "> nnf fnnrptlipr flip thoTlSSnds I lilCU WiiV/ puv ? T of minute bits that go tofmake up a cabinet like that which is sold here for $15 ? I've never been there, but I've no doubt one of them would feel himself on the high road to a princely fortune if he got five cents a day." Snoring, Dr. John Wyeth is entitled to the gratitude of all who are afflicted with the habit of snoring for the simple device he has contrived to counteract the tendency. The apparatus is described by him in the Popular Science Monthly, and an explanation is at the sanm time given of the cause of snoring. In the act of breathing, the air inav travel to and from the lungs through the channels of the mouth or nose. Both channels unite in a common cavity just below the soft palate, which is attached by one end to the hard palate or bone forming the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nose. The other end of the soft palate hangs loose, and is moved by the currents of air passing in and out of the lungs as a window-curtain is flapped by the breeze. If the air passes through the nose alone, the end of the palate is pressed gently j down upon the tongue so as to lessen the j movement or vibration, and no sound is heard. But if the month as well as the nose be open, so that two currents of air pass in and out together dnring the act of breathing, the soft palate is thrown , into rapid and sonorous vibration, and j what we call snoring is the result. It j follows that the remedy for snoring is to i keep the mouth shut,"and admit the air ! to the lungs only through the channel of the nose. This can be affected by means of a simple cap fitting the head snugly, and united by an elastic band, near the ear on each side to a cap of soft material fitting the chin. Walking to Some Purpose. Michael Hines of Lackawaxen, Pa., lias been in the employ of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company since its organization. For the past twenty-five year* he has been patrolman, his busi-1 nees being to walk up and down the tow ! path, to see that no break or slide occurs. Duiing eight months of each year, for the twenty-five years, he has walked his rounds, twenty miles a day, never missing a single day, not even Sundays. This is an aggregate of 120,000 miles' travel in the twenty-five years. Mr. Hines has just closed his labors with the company, owing to his advanced years, and will return to Ireland, the home of his youth, He will take $16,000, his savings, ;on, 111., for the purpose of immigrat-1 lig Southward. They embarked in two j [ride skiffs and a small flatbcat, which i jontained their small store of worldly ! jffects. They had proceeded down the ' Mississippi until they reached a poiut opposite Quarantine Station, floating lown midstream, when they discovered ?omiug toward them the steamboat Crand Duke with barges in tow. The ! men had lights displayed on their frail i ;raft and hallooed at the top of their J roices, but the steamboat paid no attention to the warning apd bore down upon , the boats, capsizing all three and hurl- i Ing the occupants into the river. James i Crowley passed under the steamboat aud ' sras struck by the wheel. and badly injured, but was luckily thrown against a 1 ?aps zed skiff, upon which he clambered. Weaver also managed to reach one of the overturned boats and to rescue his sis- : ter, but her baby, together with Mrs. Crowley aud her baby and a fifteen-yearold son, were drowned. They charge the officers of the steamboat with heart-1 less condnct in paying no attention to their warning cries, and in refusing to j aid in rescuing them from the water. Making Jewelry from Sour Milk. A new industry has been started in Mansfield, Mass. It is no less than the manufacture of jewelry out of sour milk. This seems a strange anomaly, but it is a fact. The milk oomes in the . shape of curd from butter aud cheese- i making counties in New York, and looks upon its arrival a great deal like popped corn ; but before it leaves their j shop it undergoes a wonderful change, and receives the name of American! coral. The secret in making it up is ( carefully guarded, but it is certaiii that! it has ta l>e heated very hot, during which ooloring matter is introduced, followed by a very heavy pressure, j Smieof it is colored black and called1 jet, while some appears as celluloid. It makes very han isome jewelry, and is made into all kinds aud styles known iu ' the trader. Florida's everglades are full of wild . bears and raccoons. * Farragnt at Ten Years of Age. ! Admiral Farragnt and his family were spending the summer at the Branch, and while sitting on the portico of the hotel he said: " Would you like to know how I was enabled to servo my country ? It was ail owing to a resolution I had formed when I was ten years of age. r '-1'? ?? Von.- Orlpnns with aUY miner >vuo ociit iv j.iv ?? v-, the little navy we had, to look after the treason of Burr. I accompanied him as j cabin boy. I had some qualities that I ! thought made a man of me. I could j swear like an old salt; could drink a stiff ' glass of grog as if I had doubled Cape Horn, anil could smoke like a locomotive. , I was great at cards, and was fond of gambling in every shape. At the close of dinner one day, my father turned everybody out of the cabin, locked the ! door, and said to me, ' David, what do yon mean to be?' 'I mean to follow the sea.' ' Follow the sea I Yes, be a ' poor, miserable, drunken sailor before ! the mast, kicked and cuffed about the I world, and die in some fever hospital in ; a foreign clime.' 'No,' I said, 'I'll tread the quarter-deck and command as you do.' No, David; no boy ever trod the quarter deck with such principles as you have and such habits as you exhibit. ! You'll have to change your whole course of life if you ever become a man.' My j father left me and went on deck. I was | stunned by the rebuke and overwhelmed with mortification. ' A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed about the world and to die in j some fever hospital! Tnat's my fate, is it I I'll change my life and change it at, once. I will never utter another oath, ! never drink another drop of intoxicating ; liquors, never gamble.' And as God is i my witness I have kept these three vows to this hour. Shortly after I became a Christian. That act settled my temporal as it settled my moral destiny."? , Scholar's Companion. Little Bobbie wen to a show for the first time in his life. When he came home his mother asked him what he had seen. "An elephant, mamma, that gob-1 bled Lay with his front tail." Tlie Oaclllatiajr Pimp Ciapaay. Fairbanks A Co. are the sole and exclusive { agents of the Sluthour Pump, owned and man- : aged by the Oscillating Pump Company. They ! aro the simplest and yet the moat efficient hand pumps ever invented, their excellence being fully attested by the fact that at the Centennial and wherever exhibited, either in this country or in Europe, the first premiums have been awarded to the company for hand pumps, ship : pumps, force pumps and fire pumps. Hie smallest of these pumps we observed worked by a little child, and, raising the water from a depth of twelve feet, forced it through a hose 150 feet long, and threw it with.great force 100 feat. Water can be raised from wells at a depth of forty feet with perfect ease. They have been adopted by the Government in many public works, and are coming in general use, i supplanting all other hand pumps.? Si. Louu \ Daily Journal, Oct. 6, 1877. These pumps are sold at all warehouses of I the Messrs. Fairbanks, the celebrated scale j manufacturers. How to Grow Cheerful. Disease is in a great many?perhaps the ' majority?of instances tne underlying cause ui < mental depression. It will almost invariably I be found, for instanoe, that hypochondriacs j are dyspeptic, bilious subjects, and all persons who have had any experience of such eases are aware that sufferers from diseases of the kidneys and bladder are especially subject to fits of "despondency. The sure way to overoome depression is to try a oourse of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a cheering cordial which is pecu iarly antagonistic to the "blues," As well as to the causes which produce them. 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