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CHEKK. BY PHlLLirS THOMPSON. I'r known men rise through talent, though inch sre exceptions rare; And tome by perseverance, and industry, and care; There are men who build up fortune by saving a dollar a week; Bat the. beat tbicyt to make yonr way in the world la to travel npon your cheek. Nowhere am I, in middle age, just able to keep alive By working away the livelong day as bard at I can drive; . .. Tom Wentworth takes things easy, and lolls in bia carriage by; And cheek is the one aole reason why he in richer than I. Why, Tom and I were schoolmates about thirty years ago; I waa reckoued one of the smartest, while at learning h was slow; Ha didut care for study played hooky half the week But somehow always dodged the cane by the aid of contaminate cheek. Little boys," they used to tetl me, "should alv. ays be aeen, not heard;" When company came, I hang my bead, and never could say a word; Bot Tom was a say, forward cans, well able to take bis pp.rt: So I got the name of being a fool, while every oue thought ban smart. I grew up nervous and timid I never could blow or bo it So people took it for granted that T jui most know th most. Of what avail is learning arithmetic, Latin or Greek , , If you haven't the talent to show it off, for lack of the requisite cheek? Tom and I, as it happened, in love with the eame girl eil. 1 never could master the courage my heart s desire to tell. . , I think she liked me a little the best; but, before I dared to speak. Tom pressed hn snit, and won her hand by steady, persistent cheek. And then Tom struck for the city. He met with ups and downs; , But always seemed to get ahead, in spite of fortune s fron; Like a ct. he'd I ways fall on his feet; was confident, bluff, and bold; And talked ith the air of a millionaire in possession f wea th untold. So Tom succeeded in business, and everything he'd touch For people always help the man who passes as owning much While I didn t have the advantage of either my brains or cash, For want of self-assurance and courage to make a dash. ir 'modesty is a quality," as the ancient saying ran, "Which higbly adorns a wuman," it oftentimes ruins a man; And those w Loa re shy aud backward, and those who are bumble and weak, Will be elboaed aoide, in the race of life, by the nieu a ho travel on cheek. So Tom, to diiy, is the millionaire, the flourishing ui'TCuaut prince; While, as tt my hopes of sue t i life, I've given them up Ion since; Bat tte richest blesaiuge of Heaven are promised to the poor and ui ek, Aid men cant crowd through the pearly gniea by traveling on their cheek. THE FIFTY-DOLLAR BILL. Mr3. Peau sat alone in her little kitchen. She never used her parlor. There was the extravagance of an extra tire to be consid eredthe fact that the best rac-cartiet, woven bv her own skillful hand., must not be worn "out too recklessly, the dread possi bility of sunshine fading out these chair covers. Mr. Öean was an economist. She believed in making everything last as long as it possibly could. And so she made the kitchen her headquarters, and sat there knitting, with her feet comfortably balanced on the stone hearth, the saucepan of apples bubbling softly away at the back, and the . . I ä . i I, -. li,chuiilii oy ri nt'i ni' from llif back shed as he cut and split the kindling-wood piled up there in well-.-seasoned logs. ßhe was a little, wrinkled-faced woman of .flftv, with stiff ribbon bows to her cap, hair that seemed dried up instead of silvered. ;and keen blue eyes that twinkled as if they liad discovered the secret of perpetual mo tion. To save money was her chief end and aim in life. The very mittens she was knit ting were to be sold at the village store in exchange for tea. sugar, spices and all such neceary groceries. "A penny paved is as good as a penny earned." was the golden rule bv which she shaped her life. "I am glad I took that money out of the savings bank yesterday,'' said Mrs. Dean to herself, as the brieht needles clicked mer rily away. "People say it isn't quite safe. And one can t be too careiui. kau in n, again, there's the danger of burglars though, to be sure, no burglar." she added, with a complacent, inward chuckle, "would ever think of looking in the folds of the old Clinkerville Clarion newspaper in the wall pocket on the wall. It's the bureau drawers and the trunks and the lock-up chests that they aim for. A $00 bill! a clean, crisp, new $50 bill! And all savings, too, out of the house money." Just then there sounded a knock at the door, and in came old Dr. Bridgnian, rubi cund wi'h the touch of the March wind, and mullied up in the furs of the wild ani mals which, from time to time, he himself had shot. "Good-day, Mrs. Dean, good-day!" said he. "No thank you; I can't sit down. I'm a deal too busy for that. Dut I heard yes day that vou took $50 out of the Savings DaHk?" "Yes," said Mrs. Dean, her face involun tairly hardening, "I did!" "We are taking up a subscription to get little lame Dick Bodley a cart and donkey, so that he can go around toddling tinware," said the Doctor. "It's pretty hard for any one afflicted as he is to get along, and if you can helD us a little " "But I can't," interposed Mrs. Dean, breathlessly. "The money was an invest ment. I dVn't propose to cut it up into lit tle bits." "It's a deed of charity, Mrs. Dean," said the good old man, "to help lame Dick Bodley." T dare say," said Mrs. Dean, a little irri tably. "But I never pretended to be a charitable character." The old Doctor went away, and the next visitor was Helen Hurst, a rosy girl of eigh teen. "Excuse me for interrupting you, Mrs. Dean," said she, "but ." arry Johnson was at the bank yesterday, am lie tells me that you drew out your money!" ' "Was all creation there?" thought Mrs. Dean. But she said nothing, only knit away un til her needles seemed to glance and glitter like points of fire. "I am trying to get a boarding place at Mrs. Swipes'," added Helen, coloring, 'so as to be near the District School, where I am to teach this spring. But Mrs. Swies requires payment in advance by the month, and un- 4 . a a ia.i.t- fortunately we nave usea up an our sienuer means in providing ray outfit. A teacher, you know, must be dressed decentlv to com mand the respect of her pupils. lut II you would kindly lend me $10" "I never lend," Said Mrs. Dean, curtly. "I will be sure to pay it up when I receive mv first quarter's salary." pleaded Helen. And I don't know of any one else to go to." "It's altogether against my principles," said Mrs. Dean, with her face as hard as if it had been carved out of hickory. Helen Hurst crept out, feeling humiliated and disappointed beyond all expression. Mrs. Dean chuckled at her own shiewd-nesH- but she hardlv had time to stir ud the apples in the saucepan before Mrs. Graham entered with a little leather-covered mem orandum book and pencil. "I am looking for charitable people, Mrs. Dean," said the 'Squire's wife, with a laigh. "Then you've come to the wrong place," said MrsDean, frigidly. "Poor Patrick O'Hare was killed yester day in the machinery of the rolling mill." said Mrs. Graham, ignoring her neighbor's response. "He had left a wife and eight children, totally destitute." "And whose fault is that?" said Mrs. Dean. "Will you not contribute something to ward relieving their destitute condition?" urged Mrs. Graham, opening the book and holding the pencil ready for use. "Certainly not," said Mrs. Dean. "I've no money to spare." "But I was told " "O. yes. about the money that was drawn out of the savings bank," said Mrs. Dean. ! "Öut I intend to keep that money for my self, Mrs. Graham." 'He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," softly sioke Mrs. Graham. "Yes, ves, I know," said Mrs. Dean; "but nobody fnterprets the Bible literally, now & Ays" Mrs. Graham took her departure, ac knowleding within herself that her errand was a failure and Mrs. Dean, left to herself at last, indulged in a nap, with the knitting work in her lap a nap wherein the dreamed that the $50 bill had taken to itself legs and was running away from the crowd of pur suers, herself among the number. When she waked up, roused by the noise of coal being p ured Uon the stove, a candle was burning and Mr. Dean was laughing at her. "Why, Betsey," said he, "I thought you never were going to wake again! Hare you sat, with the fire dead out, and I've had to kindle it up again." "Bless me!" said Mrs. Dean, T must have been asleep quite a while. But" as she started up she saw that the old wall-pocket opposite was empty "where is that old number of the Clinkerville Clarion?" ''It was last week's paper,'' said Mr. Dean, calmly. "We had both of us read it, so I just took it to kindle the fire?" "You burned it up?" "Yes," said Mr. Dean, "I burned it up; why shouldn't I?" For half an hour Mrs. Dean sat silent and never spoke a word. And her first utter ance was: "It's the Lord's judgment upon me!" Mrs. Dean was a resolute woman, full of character. She went to her table drawer, took out a sheet of paper and wrote to Dr. Bridgman, inclosing a dollar toward lame Dick I3odley'8 cart and horse. She sent an other dollar to Mrs. Graham for the poor little O'Harras, and promised to donate a barrel of russets, a bushel of potatoes and some of her husband's cast-off clothes to cut over for the children. And she sent for Helen Hurst to come and see her. "I can't lend you $10, my dear," said she, "because I havn't got iL But I'll tell you what I will do. I'll let you make your home here as long as you please. There's a nice spare room, and it's an eighth of a mile nearer than Mrs. Swijes' to the district school." "Oh, how very, very good you are!" said Helen, her eyes swimming with grateful tears. "Good!" cried Mrs. Dean. "I'm just be ginning to see what a selfish, greedy creature I've been all my life. But you're welcome, my dear, and your board shall not cost you a cent." She opened her parlor, shook out the cur tains and built a fire in the air tight wood stove. "Dean likes the parlor," said she, "be cause it has such nice south windows, and I don't see why we shouldn't enjoy it." She baked a fresh batch of gingerbread, and sent a loaf to old Mrs. Mudge; she took out a basket of hickory nuts for poor little Harry Jones, who was trying to crack dried up pignuts on the stone by the roadside; she renewed her subscription to the Church charities. "I can't be very liberal," she said; "but I am determined to do vhat I can." "That's right, my dear; that's right," said her husband. "We shall be prosperous, never fear. I'm awfully sorry about burn ing up your fifty dollar bill; but, if it's going to open your heart like this, it's the iet thing that could have .happened to us." Mrs. Dean was sweeping out the kitchen. She looked around with a smile as she moved the wide-leaved table which always stood under the walI-jocket, and took down the pocket itself, a rude structure of splints, lined with red cambric and tied with cords and tassels or red worsted, to dust it out. "Yes," she said, "I am afraid I was getting to be a little miserly, and Why, what's this?" Mr. Dean stooped and picked up a slip of crumpled dark-green paper, which had fal len out from the wall-pocket as his wife turned it upside down and tapped her finger against it to remove all possible dust. "It's the $50 bill!" said he, with mouth and eyes opening in unison. "It must have slipped down from the folds of the news paper and lodged here." 'The Lord has sent it hack to us," said Mrs. Dean, reverently. " and He nas sent a lesson, wise and merciful, with it." Well," said Mr. Dean, after a moment or two of silence, "there's a lesson in almost everything He does, if we did but know it." And all the theologians in the world could not have improved upon the faith of this simple, unlettered old farmer. Where Khali Baby's Dimple He? Over the cradle tli mother bang, Softly cooing ilum'.er song, And these were the simple word the sung All the evening long: "ChH-k or chin, knuckle or knee, Where httll the Imby a dimple be? Wbrr ht.ll tliettOK!'! linger rest, Wtea he comes down to ti e baby nest? Wbere shall the angel's touch remain, When he tvakrui my baby agalu?" Still as she bent and sang so low, A mnrmur into hr muic broke. And she paused to hear, for she con Id but knot The baby's angel spoke: 'Cheek or chin, knnckle or knee. Where shall the baby's dimple be? Wbere shall my finger fall and rest When I come down to the baby's nest? Where shall my finger's tonch remain, Wheo I wake yonr babe again?" Siient the mother sat and dwelt Long on the sweet dela of choice. And then by ber baby's side she knelt And sang with a pleasant roice: "Not on the limb, O angel dear! For the charms with its youth will disappear; Not on the cheek shall the din.pl be. For the harboring smile will fad- and flee; But touch thou the chin with impress deep. And my baby the angel a seal shall keep " J. G. ilOLLAND. Variety In Your Food. There is no one standard for food applica ble to all persons, whether as to kind offood or quantity. Our tastes are more or less a matter of education. A taste educated in one direction revolts at a taste educated in another. Tomatoes, now almost univen-ally used in this country, were rejected with loathing a generation ago. The F.ei.cb, who led off in eating frog flesh, are now eating horse -flesh their taste tor the latter having been developed during the exigencies of tbe siege of Paris The Englioh have, heretofore, turned with dis gust f rom corn (maize), which is a very staff of lifo in this country, and, in some of Us forms of cooking, a delicious favorite. It might be well for men generally to have their tastes broadened. Some persons are altogether too nice aud narrow in their preference for food. It should be remem bered that unused functions teid toward complete cessation. For instance, one of the best preservatives airainet consumption is in the ability of the stomach to d gest fat; but the power to digest it may be lost by long disuse, the glanaa ceasmg to secrete the ne cessary fluid. So, too, the quantity of food eaten bv dif ferent per-ons varies. One man, in good health, too, and in the same surroundings, would be killed by what is essential to the Lealth of another. A hard-worker in the open air would starve if restricted to what amply sumees for the man whose employ ment is in-doors and sedentary. Life could not be sustaned in the arctic zone without immense quantities of heat producing food. An Esquimau will eat daily from twelve to fifteen pounds of meat, one third of it fat. He generates so much in ternal heat that he always throws oft his coat in his hut, where the temperature ranges from freezing down to zero, with an Gut-ide temperature from 30 to 70 below the latter point. Rheumatism is so rare in the earlier years of life as to be hardly even mentioned bv ih uritora Wost. and Vncel. T)f. Oar- sr. VM ....vv.B 0 1 .1 . . - - - " den, in the London Practitioner, gives the case of an infantof nine months who caught cold from bathing in cold water. Rheuma tism followed, affecting the knee and ankle joints. These were wrapped in cotton, and three grains of salicin thrice daily wete pre scribed. The patient recovered in a tort night, without showing any signs of heart complication. TOM OCHILTREE'S TONGUE. Although Not an Unruly Member It Tells Some Very Remarkable Tarns. The Story of a Hunt for Elephants' Tusks for Empress Eugenie's Boudoir. Tbe History or Adventures that Would Make Munchausen Blush for Knvy. V.vatrk.-u - t .. 3 a V. T-i tito nartoFii V . . fore it is fair to presume that everybody has heard ot Major Tom Ochiltree, of Texas, after w'iom John Chamberlain, the well known sportsman, named his famous race horse. Major Tom was Marshal of Texas under Grant, and is known as one of the distinguished traveler's warmest adherents. The Major ha3 the gift of speech developed to the remotest limits of exaggeration, which has cause 1 him to bo called by his many friends the "Arabian Knight." But although his vivid imagination will not permit him to reply to a simple question about the weather without decorating it with what he calls a rainbow here and there it must not be inferred that in serious mat ters the red headed ranger of the Rio Granau is at all wanting in veracity. Ilia word is quite as good as his bund in husi nees matters. Perhaps I can. not better il lustrate the fascinating characteristics of one who is now a national charact r than by relating a scene which took place tbe other night at the Union League Club, which whs recently removed to new and magnißcent quarters on the southern slope ot Murray Hill. It is, of course, impossible to put in dull type the Majors graceful ges tures his KALEIDOS0PIC ClIANQES OF THOUGHT and the magnetism of his trdent manner, ut a good idea of the peculiari ie3 which ziave made him famous may be obtained from what I was enabled to catch from : .of on which I sat an amused li.tener. It was rather a slow evening at the Union League, and the few members sittingaround the tire aoked Major Oohiltreo to enliven them with one of his adventures. Tom threw a searching gUnce around the circle to "take in" as it were, his audience, and re lated as follows: ""Well, gentlemen, I've nothing more in teresting in the caves of my memory than a wide rango of travel and some very emi nent people I've met will be, but I will try to enterte in you until my lath-key runs down. In the spring of 1855 I found my 6elf in Pari?. I had bean sect by the State of Texa- l negotiate a loan to build a rail road b. tween Galveston and the City of Mexico. Jv'tiie of you may doubtless re lnemlvr .ht General Santiago Barbosa, then Dictator of Mexico, was in favor of the scheme. Of course my presence on the Bourse attracted considerable attention, and I was approached one fine morning on tbe Boulevard de Cnpucines by a mgniflcently 20-tumed chasseur, ALL GOLD LACK AND REI PANTS looked noble, I tell you who said in a sort of Algerian French, '-His Mnjeety com mands your pref nee at the Tuileries to night at 10 o'cl ck." 1 told him to say to rnv fellow sov-reign that I would be on de -k sharp at the hour named, and not to forget it. 'You said that in French ?' .aid a con- sumjptive-looking luember, in a modest, in quinng tone. "i es, sir; l apoke just as gora frencn then as I do now. I met Iiis Mnjestv at tbe appointed hour, and by Jove! the Empress was with him. and I hadn't conic dressed to see ladies. Not to dwell foo long on a phase i of European society which is now familiar to so many traveled Americans, His Majesty wanted ino to üo to Central Atnca ard bay about 25,000 pounds of elephants teeth ivory, you know lor him. .Lucerne wanted to deck her boudoir in the palace at Fon- tainebleau in ivory, and the European mar. ktts were exhausted. At first I pleadtd the importance of the interests intrusted to my care, but the Emperor interrupted me with a gesture of impatience, and exclaimed: 'Consider that loan placed I'll make Italy and Belgium take it all this week.' The ü press, then the most beautiful woman in Europe and THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN I EVER BAW, except one a St. Louis gambler's wife added her entreatus, paying a compliment to my native State, and saying ehe heard tLat 1 bad faculty for finding my way sately around Greasers, Navsjos, newspaper re porters and hackmen. I hat settled it I 1 started the next day with a letter of credit on the French Consul-General at Cairo for 2.000.000 francs, about $400,000. The Egyptian Government Said Pash was in power rendered me every assistance, and in four months I was up the "White Nile, 3,0u0 miles from tLe Delta and 1,000 miles inland toward the Nyanzas, the guest of Mtesa, the King of Unganda. "Did you bear anything of L.vingstono?'' asked a fat member. "1 haven't come to that yet,'' replied the Texan Major, fixing a bad eye on him. "I became great friends with Mtesa. lie was a fine-looking, splendidly-formed nigger, fcix feet seven inches tall, lie was rather too fond of merissa, a strong Dative beer, and when under its influence would do things to make your hair stand on end; very much such a man as Jim Bennett. One night af ter we had been on a hunt and knocked over a few lions, some blesbok, a dozen giraffes and a brace of hippopotami " 'Is it etrictlv p- tami or 'potamusesl" meekly inquired the thoughtful listener. AS FULL AS A OOAT. The Major darted a fiery glance at him. but without reply went on: "Que night, 1 eay, before I was interrupted by this lineal defendant of JNoah Webster, Mtesa was as full a a goat and for some tri fling infraction of court etiquette he ordered up his corps of executioners and struck off the head, of 1,300 of the first nohles about the royal town and court. I wa forced to witness the inhuman butchery or run the risk of losing my own head if I exhibited the slightest sign ot di. gust. So I nerved myself up to it by a pint of old Cognac Victor Hugo had pressed upon me tne morning I left Fans, and smoked an ex quisite..? carved meerschaum pipe presented to me by Marshal Canrobert, who had received it as a wedding gift from Victor Emmanuel, the king of Italy, you know. Sir," said Major Tom, eeverely,as one of the circle began to couajh violently and hold his head down, ''what did I understand you to say?" The circle looked a trifle embarressed, but no one replying the ornate Texan went on. ''Yes, sir, by the living Jingol he cut off 1,500 human heads." "Thirteen hundred, I think, was the ex act number," laid the convalescent mem ber. QUITE PICTURESHJUK. (0b, damn figures I I've (tot no head for 'em. lie cut off all these heads before day break, and when the eun rose over the snow capped Mountains of the Moon and shone o'er the smooth waters of the Victoria Nyanza, gilding them like gold, there were dissevered heads and bodies, black and bloody, scattered over tbe kraal like an un usually gory battle-field." "That is a bit of descriptive work far be yond Stanley, Speke, or Livingstone," said the literary member. "I should smile," said the Major, and he did '"Well, I won't detain you, gentlemen. I traded for all the ivory there was in the Kingdom of Uganda, and accompanied by my own hunters, would knock over irom ten to a dozen elephants a day, taking the tusks myself and leaving the meat for the common people and the dogs; thousands of each followed us. Are elephants good to eat?" inquired tho fat member, with an eager look in his eyes. KATING ELEPHANTS. "Good to eat,to eat?" said the fleryTbxan. '"Why, man, where were you brought up? Boiled elephant's good; so is fried elephant, hashed elephant, elephant on toast, and en brochette, but an elephant s toot baked in hot ashes from the castor-oil tree, is the most delicious morsel on earth except buf falo hu.ip baked in persimmon ashes. Good! I should say so. If they weren't so expensive I'd give the Club an elephant barbecue next summerat Coney Island, and teach you pretended epicures something But the night wanes, gentlemen. Suffice it to say that I got back to ram with the ivory for the Empress and enough on my own account to supply all Texas with bil liard balls for ten years. I have not given this to the public in book form because I aw nothing in it beyond an occasional reminiscenco of travel to amuse my friends. Good night" ''What became of the money from Italy and Belgium to build the railroad?' inquired Kufus Hatch, but the meteoric Texan was gone. Georg I. Prentice. Ir. a sketch entitled "Our Great Editor," Colonel Forney in his Progress, referring to George D. Prentice, says: "We had said many savere things of each other; but a common love of a common country soon made us, to the end of his life friends. His son, Courtland Pr-ntice had fought for the Rebellion, and was killed in the battle of Augusta, on the 18 h of Sep tember, 1862; and the obituary of his father was a curious piece of parental grief ard patriotic ecstacy. These sentences closed the heartfelt tribute: "Oh, if he had fallen iz his country's service, fallen with his burning eyes fixed in love and devotion upon the flag, that, for mora than three-founhs o: a centu'y, has been a star of wmslr'p to hi ancestors, his early death, though still ter rible, might have been borne by his father's heart. But, alas! the reflection that befell inarmed rebellion, against that glorious old banner, now the emblem of the g rente t and noblest cause tbe world ever knew, is full of desolation and almost of despair. But our love for hire, undimmed by tears of grief, in and will lemain an amaranthine flower apon the i;ruve of our buried years." George D. Prentice was the soul rf chivalry. Love of country was plante! in his heart, and the seed burt into flower, in the midtt of the blood and fire of the Uh belhon at his own door. Thewa lovi r his dead body was alo tbe hymn of his death less patriotism. When llarney, his bitter Democratic opponent, of the Louisvill Democrat, ditd. he spoke of him with mauly sympathy; and when Horace Greeley came to Louisville to lecture, Prentice" wr.te these memorable lines in his honor: I send the, Greeley, wordi of cheer, Tbou brsTrit, truest, best of men; For 1 have mrkd thy strong career, Ai traced by thy dwd ituriy peu. I've leen thy troicgleg with the foes Thai dar d tiire to tbe desperate fight, And loved to watch tby good I v blows Dealt fur th cause thou deem at the right. Thou'at dared to ataud against tbe wrong, Wheu many taltertd by tby fide; In tbj owo strength hast dared be strong. Nor on another ir ai rttluX. Tby own bol'l tboogt.U tboa'rt dared to think, Thy own great purple avowed, And une have ever aeen thee ahriuk From tbe fierce eures of the crowd. Tbou, all nnaided aid alone, hidst take thy way iu life's young years. With no kind band clasped in thine own. Mo gentle Voice tc sooth tby tears. But tby high heart ao power could tame. And thou hast never ceaaed to feel Wibtm thy veins a lacrrd flame That turned thy iiou nerve to ateel. I know that thou ait not xen.pt Krotu all tbi fairnesses of eartl; For passion comes t rouse and tempt Tbe truest souls of mortal birth. Bat tlioa bast -ll fulfilled thy trust. In spite ot love ajd hope and fear; And e'en the tecupat's thunder-gust But clears thy spirit's atmosphere. Thon still art in tbv manhood's prime, Still torrmoit 'rcji thy fellow men, Though in each yer of all thy time Tbou baat comirsd threescore and ten. Oh, may each blees-V sympathy. Breathed on thee rith a tear and sigh, A sweet flower in tby pathway be, A bright star in tby clear bine aky. The Louisville Journal, conducted by Mr. Prentice, was a thorcigh party paper; but the taste for the poefcy of Mr. Prentice, his gifts as a linguist, and his high literary as pirations, attracted many of the best writers to his columis, and broadened his own influence. The-e was no other editor like him, or equal to im, in the South. Ilia New England culture sustained him like an armor, and although he never evaded a responsibility, r qu tied before a menace, or flattered power, htj w&s as graceful as a woman to those he Ijved, and as courtly in his relations to the itfntler sex as a knight of the olden time, liad he lived in France, where the great jou'-natist is often a leader in the Senate and ti e Assembly, a Cabinet minister and an Academican. George D Prentice would have been the counsellor of Kings, the associate of philosophers, and more than the equal of the richest commoner in the .Nation. 1 Womjn'i Hand. llnon.1 The female thun I Is taid to be an impor tant index ot the felnale character. Women with large thumbs are held by phrenologiits, pbysiogr omist-t, etc , to be more than ordin arily intelligent what are called sensible women wLile worn en with email thumbs are regarded romaltic. Accorditig to cer tain author, who plofesa to have been ob servers, a woman's tani is more indicative of a woman's character than her face, as the latter is to a certain extent under control oi temporary emotions, or of the will, whereas the former is a fact which exists for any one who under, tands it to profit by. Conse- que-.tly, a few hii.ts about the proper read ii g of a woman's hand may be very useful to certain of our readers, especially married men, or men contemplating matrimony. Women with pquare hDd and ibumb are said to make good and gentle housewives. This sort of womfn will make any one happy who is fortunate enough to win them They are not at all romantic, but they are what is better thoroughly domestic. Women with very large thumbs have a temper" of their own, and generally a long tongue. There is a hint to tbe lover. Let him, the first time he siezes hold of his mistress' hand, examine, under some pretext or another, her thumb; and if it be large, let him make up his mind that as soon as he becomes a married man he will have to be a crood bov. or else thera will be the verv c rf. " y deuce to pay. Again, if a young man finds that his lady-love has a large palm with cone-shaped fingers and a small thumb, let him thank his Btars, for in that case she is susceptible to tenderness, readily flattered, easily talked into, or talked out ot, any The judicious use of oil of turpentine will effectually exterminate red ants. It may be injected into cracks and crevices in clos ets and elsewhere from an ordinary sewing machine oil can. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. United Brothers of Friendship Sumner Lodge No. 11, regular communi cation every first and third Monday of each month. Hall north-east corner of Meridian aud Washington streets All members re quested to be presert, also members of other lodges of the same faith are invited. II. W. Jackson, Worthy Master. W. S. Lock financial Secretary. m OcJ -iV" FLf. . ti"ll 2 SURE Tis lead ! Dir frcie-nttatn ol to-d y agree that most diseases are cansed bv disordered Kidneys or Liver. It therefore, tbe Kidi.evs and Liver are kept In perteet order, perfect health will be the result. This truth baa only been known a short time, and for years peo ple suffered grpat agonv w tbont being able to find relief. The discovery of Warner's Safe Kidney and LJver Care marks a new era in the treatment of these trouble. Made from a simple tropical leaf of rarevalae.it oontajne Jaat tbe el-tneht neretwary to Doa'lsh and In vigorate both of these (cent organs, and Rftfely restort- and keep them in order. It is a ! IT VE Remedy for all the diseases that cause palos In tbe lower pan of t e body for Torpid l-lver-Headncbea Jaundice Diz rlneas Gravel Fever. Agne Mala Ul fever, nd all difficulties of the Kidneys, Over ana Urinary Organs. It w an excellent and safe remedy for fe males durli g Piegnancy It will control M-n-8iruaion, and is Invaluable for Leucorrtiwa or falling o' the Womb As a Blood Par.fler it is anequaled.for It car the organs thai make th blood. his remedy, which ha- done uch wonder, 1 put up In the URUST WZKD BO TLE of any medicine upon the market, an1 lg doM by Oragg sts, and all dealers at $1 25 Pr bottle. For D'ahot s Ir qnlre for W a RNER's HAFK DUBETESCUHE. It is a POSIlIVK Remedy. H. H. Warner & Oo., Sochester. N. Y. URS. LYDIA L PINKHAU, OF LYNN, KASS., LYDIA E. PINKHAr.VO VEGETABLE COMPOUND. n a PorUIv Onre for all lit Me Palartil CbUIbm sad WeakaesMS common to our best female population. It will cor entirely the worst form of Female Com-pl-dnta, U OT&rl&n trouble, InfljtinmjLUon and TJlcer. tlon, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent Spin&l Waalcneas, and In particuL-rlr adapted to the Change of life. It will dissolve and expel tumor- from the uterus in an early stage of development The tendency to caa- eeroua humors there la checked veij speedily by Its tue. It removes faintnesa, flatulency, destroys mil craving for stimulants, and relieves wealrneu of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Headache, Nervous Pront ration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi gestion. That feeling of bearing down, caasing pain, weight and backache, la always permanently cured by its us. It will at all times and under all circumstances act In harmony with the laws that govern the female system. For th eure of Kidney Complaint of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PIM-IIAM VEGETABLE COM POCNDii prepared at 133 and t3S Western Avenue. Lynn, Mas. Price L Six bottles for $5, Sent by maU In the form of pills, also in the form of lotenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Ptnkham freely answers 11 letters of Inquiry. Bend for pamph let Address as above. Mention thi$ Paper. No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAITS LITER FELLS. They cure constipation, biliousness, and torpidity of the liver. S3 cents per box. 4Er S14 by slII Drncgiat. JOHN D. PRINZ, Dealer in all kinds of AMD Country Produce. Fine Wines and Liquors and Choice Cigar. NO. 196 INDIANA AVENUE, , Indianapolis, Ind. W.W.HOOVER, Dealer In Staple and Fancy COUNTRY PRODUCE A Specialty, bOS India-aa Ave. CHAS. SPOTTS, Board ly He D y, Weet or ModIL KVERYTH I N FIKST-CL.A83. Prait, lee Cream and other Ilelieaeies in 63 GEORGE STREET, CINCINNATI, O. HEif M DYE USE, No. 35 West Market Street, Boss Block, one half Square Et of Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dyeing, Cleaning and Repairing Done in the Best Manner. GENERAL BILL FOSTER Controlling the moat prominent bill boards In the city, Including TUE LAHOEr BOARD t' 'HE NTA fE, Inclosing the (.täte Hoase Grounds. FIt Hundred Three-Sheet Boards In the City and Sutnrts. Office, at Daily Untinel Office, INDIANAPOLIS. DO WOT CO WEST Until you have applied to A.J HALFORD GENERAL EASTERN AtET IKDIAUAPDLIStiio ST. LDU1SR.R 1318 ILLINOIS STREET, Indianapolis. -TTor Time Tablet and th Terj lowest Freist and Paasenger Bates. EOCEEIES. FßD 'BAiLZ, Dealer in all kinds of PÄESH and salt meats, North West and Ind. Ave. Meat Market 300 IVortl- West Wt., INDIANAPOLIS. INP. w r uvrr. n koosrar W. F. RUPP & CO. MERCHANT TAILORS 23 Ettst Washington Strtet, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. O'BRIEN & LEWI-, BLACKSMITHS AND WAGUNM KERS. GENERAL JOBBING SHOP -BEFAIBINO PROMPTLY DONE. Corner North and Fayette Streets, Indianapolis. BRYANT & STRATT0N Telegraph Institute. ESTABLISHED 1858. Practical, Profitable and Useful Education, No useless studies. Instruction Indiridual and by Lectures. Students adranced as rapidly as their abilities permit. Orlcinal and leading in evry department, tyakea n0 Idle Claims, but relies on the produced results w shown by a proud record of over 2 s years. No other school or college has started so many young and middle-aged men on the roid to suc cess. The school Is open to all, and cordially, earnestly in rites all before entering upon a course of study to Tlait It and Inspect Its erery detail. Call for catalogue and full particulars at the College office, Bates Block, opposite the Tost-Office or address . t C. C. KOERNER, Pmsx Indianapolis, Ind. THE bwi .v..wui. aüD7 t-ver dlscove , aa it is certain li. lis effrcis n1 dorn not bnnUr. AI oexcHlent for numaij fl-sb. HEAD PttOOF BELOVY. From COL. !. T. FOSTER, Yt.uugatown, OLio, Maj lUih, lis). Dr. B. J. Kennall &Co.,UeQU:-I bad a v ry vuluabie Hambletoulan colt wblcb I prized very b ghly, b- bad a large buLe cpavln on me jolut und a mall one on the otber wi.lcü mad- him very lame. I had him nnder the cbartce ot two vett-rinarj Boreoi. wblcti ali d to core blm. Iw a one dy r-adlig tbe advertisement ol Kendall's wpayin Cure in the Chicago Express, I det r mined atone, to try It, at d tot our Druggist here to a nd tor It, i hy ordered tbie- boitlt s; I took them all and thought I would give It a thorough tnal, l uued It according to a traction and tne fourth day tbe co t c-vtKl to be liue, and tbe lamps have disappeared. I used but one bottle aud the coli's iimb are as free Irom lumps and as smooth as any bo.se lu the stale He Is en tirely care- . Tbe care was m remarkable hat I let two of my neignbors have tbe remaining twob itt.es, who are now nsiDg It Very Respectfully, m T. FOSTER. KEXDAIX'S SPAVIX CURE. Ro heBter. Ind., Nov. 30th, 188". B.J. Kendall & '., UenlsPIease send ui a but ply of advertising matter for Kendall's Hpaviu Cure. It bas a good sale bem and It gives the best of satisfaction. Of all we have so'd we have yet to learn the first unfavorable report. Very Respectfully, J. Dawson Son, Druggists. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE Wilton. Minn., Jan. lltb. 188i. B. J. Kendall. & Co., Oents: Usving got a horse book of you by mall a year ago. he con tents of whlcb persnaded me to try Kendall's Spavin Cure on the hind If g of oue of my horses which waa badly wollen and could bot be reduced by any ther rmy. I got two bottles of Kt-n'lalrH Spavm Cure of Preston A Lut-dutb, Druggists of Waseca, whlcb com pletely cured my horse, About five years 8 go 1 hnd a tbreeyear old eolt sweenied very bad. I used yonr remedy as given in your nook without rowetllng and I mn-t say to yonr credit that ihecoit Is entirely cured, which Is aturprlse notonl) to myself, butflno to my i evhbors. You sent me the book for the trflii g sum of 25 cents and it I could not get another like it I won d not take twenty five dollars for it, lours Truly, (ieo. Mathews. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE OS HUM A. ft FLESH. Patten's Mills. Washington Co.. X. Y. Februa-y 21st, 1878. Dr B. J. Kendall, Dear Sir: The particu lar CBe on which I used your Kendalrs Hpav iu Cure was a mangnant ankle sprain of sixteen months sianaing. l una tried many things, but In vain. Your Hpavln ( ure put tbe loot to tne ground sgain. ana -or tne nrst time since hurt. In anatuiai position. For a tsmlly liniment it xcelan thing we ever u-ed. Yours trniv. REV. M. P. FELL, PastorofM E. Church. Pa-tet's Mill-, N. f. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Is sure In It üicts. ml d In Us action a It d8 not biter, yet It is penetrating and powerful to teach every riet-pseated pain or to ivmovt) anv bony growin or einer rmn. tmnts fuch asspviiis a lint, curbs, callous. PDtaln". swe ll gs. a d auy Ixmenes ai d aP enlargements of the Join s or tlmbs. o- for rt.am -tlncu in na-na for any put pw tor which a ilulmeiit is n-ed tor man or es It Is now kn- wn obe'hebes' 11 amntf r man vpr used, acting cul.d md j et certain In It eff-cts. tie- d addiees for IUus'rted Circular, which we think alve uoslilv- rroof ol lis virtu-s No remedv has ev-rmet wltb sueb unqualified success to our know edg, lor b at as well as man Pr ce tl.M ppr bottK or six bottles for 15 00. A'l Druitgl-t bave 1 or on get it for you, or 1 wilt e sent any aoV n rceipt of rrlc-byih prop I tor. R. B J KE.DLL & CO , Euoeuurg Falls. Veimoni. SOLO BY ALL DRUCCISVS. 7 Aehdal5W HEAJDQXJ-ARTE-R-S for oot AT CAPITA L 17 West Washington We offer this teason a stock of Boots and Shoes unsurpassed in the West, it is the most complete in the State, at prices that cannot be approached by small dealers. We have three stores in this State, buy goods in large quantities and for cash, which brings bottom prices. Call at the 17 West Washington Street, Cmcmna;i,Hamilton, Baytca VIA.' RÜSHVJLLE, O0NNER3VILLE, LIBERTY and HAMILTON. 2 Trains D1'y, ' Between Hunday Ec. Indianapolis A Cincinnati -WConneclious made for all po'nts. East and Weft of Cincinnati and Indianapolis. 8am x naviNsoN. Gen. Ticket Agt. L. William, Gen. Manager Indjil's Peru & Chicago Ry THE GREAT THBOUGH EG GTE TO North and Nortb-WeatT Fort Wayne, DantingtuB, Ls- fTIT "T7I f" f ganiport, Wabash. 1 JLlILi V U DETROIT t:LT' " Mlcbi"-tk ASD THE Direct coniiect-on made in Chic fro Hb tb trank line for all northweatrn ancamer resorts and prin cipal point in the nortbweet sod far weal WcodrufT Sleeping and Parlor Coaches ran between Indianapolis and Cbieago, via JLokomo and Indiana polt and Michigan City. Train leaTing Indianapolis at 8:50 a. m. arrive at Chicago ai 6:50 r. ., ; Ft. Wayne, 1:60 p. m.; Lo gs hi port, 1:0pm.; South Bend, 6:21 PH.; Toledo, 5:20 p. si.; Detroi , 8.15 p. . Train leaving Indianapolis at 12:28 P. arrives at frankfort, 4:30 p. .; Wabah,6:M p. .; Ft. Wayne T.'li p. m. ; Toledo, K:I8 r .; Clevelsud, 1:45 a. u. Baflalo,?.3t a. M. ; New Turk City, 10 p. at. Train leaving Indianapolis at :;') p. , arrives at Loganaiort at ll.-tri p. a.; Valarai-o 4:20 a. . ; South Bnd, t 25 a.m.; Mishawaka. 2:35 a. M ; klk hart Sam; Ka'atnaiuo 7:30a u.; Grand KapidalO A .; Chicagos :05 a. h. Train leaving tndianapo'is at 11:00 p. (daily) ar rives al Chicago vU Kokotno, at 75 a. a.; Fort Way tie, 7:00 a m ; Toi o, l:0a a. m. ; Cleveland, 20 P. ii. : Detrt.it. 1: p. ttAsk for ticket vis I., P.4C Railway. Reliable Information given by V.T. MALOTT, L. G CAN0N. Geu'l Manager. Gen' 1 Psas and T'k't Act, 101 Eaat Washington 8trset. FOR iNEW YOkK, BOSTO AND ALL EASTERN POINTS, T KK THE vi. C. C, C. & I. B. W. This Train Leaves Indianapolis s Kollow t, 41 - t f TRAIN arrives Mnncie, :22 a. m. !lf) . .11. Union. 7:5 a. m ; Sirfuey, 8:15 a in.; Bellfoitntaine, !t:J8 a. ni.; CreMliu, 11:47 a. la. Arrive at Cleveland at 2 '2 p. im.; Biiflalu 7: SO p. m. Niagara Kalla. . O p. iu ; Hiuy hatnpton, 4:35 a. m. Rochester, a. in.; Albany :I0 a. tu., arriving at New York City at 1':.V a. m. and Boston at 2:25 p. as. SEVEN HOUHS In Advance of Othr Routes MTTbia train bas Palace Drawing Koom and Sleeping Caach .mm Indianapolis to New York with out change. Fare alwajs the same aa by hor and alower routes. Bapt-ee checked througn ta destina tion. JA I) Train arrives at Crestlina 4:10 a OVU 1 1 "; Pittaburs, 12:15a ca.; Cleve laud, 7:10a. m.; Buffalo, 11:10 p. m.; Niagara rails, 3..M)p. m ; BinKtiamton, l!:"0p. m.; Kocbeiter. 4:X5 d. m.: Albiiv. 12:4" a m : arrive al New York "itj i:!5 a- m. end Boeton 9:M a. m. Hoars quicker iban all other lines. This train hai elegant Palace Sleeping Coaches fro Indianapolis to CleveLaad. and fron CleveU-ad te New York City and Boston without change. At Sid ney close connections are roads for Toledo aud De troit and points In Canada. Columbus Route, VI A DAYTON AND SPRINGFIELD. UfiTA 1 Train arrives at Muocle 2:23 :0U A- ill m.; Lnion3:l5 p. m.; Dayton 5:6o p. to-; Springfield 7:15 p. at ; Col urn boa 9:16 p as. Tbe only line running through Pat lor Coaches from Indianapolis to Columbus, her direct cos nect tone are made with tbe Baltimore A Obto Bail road. This train connec s at Muncie witb tbe Fort Wayne, Mnncls & Cincinnati Railway for Ft. Ways and Detroit. V See that your ticket reads by tbs ee Lias. A.J. SMITH, J.W.CAMPBELL, C. GALE, G. T. A. Pass. Ast. rr. Cleveland. O. Indianapolis aapolls IOWA, CALIFORNIA 4 NORTH WES I KANSAS, TEXASANU SOUTHWEST, TAKE THE Trains Leas InAitmayoU at 1oUct: Ti r I if Train connects direct for all points l40 A Ale in Io. Nebraska, California and the Black Hills, via Sidney and Chey enne, arriving one train In advaneof any other line, and saving one night's ride. This train also connects for Decatnr, Springfield, Jackson ville, Illinois, Louisiana and Mexico, Mo.; and via Quincyer Bloomington for Kansas City. Atchison. St. Joeeph, Denver, and all points ia Kansas, Color ado snd the Houth west, via Hannibal with M.K.A T. By., for Moberly, Fort Scott, Parsons, tbs Neos Be Yslley snd points in Teiss, snd vis Bloomington tor El Paso, Mendota, Dubuque, and all points ia North am Illinois and Iowa. 11 CT D If (Xooh) Fast Line, rune directly ) I . li. thronph vis Danville Junction to Decatur, SprinsnVl'i, Jacksonville, Hannibal, Mober ly, St. Joseph. Atchi.on and Kansas city, arriving st Kan-ss City tbe next morning In time to connect witbtraibs for all points in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico 11 f.n I) 1 Train has reclining chair sleep. le''U I e i'la Ing car vith state rooms .oPso ria, and through coach to Burlington. reacMna Oaleeburg, Butlington, Ottumws, Bo?k island and Davenport in sdvancs of other lines. Tbl train als connects via Burlington or R-k Island for all points In Iowa, Nebraska and California, and via Blooming, ton for El Paso, Mendota Dubuque, Sioux City, Yankton, and all poinis In Northern Illinois, loan and the Black Hills via Yai.kton and Fort Pierre. This train alao ki direct connection via I Se ville to Decatnr, sprlofield, Jackaonvllle (Jolnry Kansas City. Atchison, St. Joseph. Leavenworth and all tu termed täte points. And via HatiDibal tor Sedalia, Ft. (oott. Parmae, IxdUkii, Houston Galves ton, and all points in Texa. special Solid to IjauA Hunt an4 Em1mnU. If yon want a land esplwrtng ticket or reliable la formation about Lands in tbe V eel. or if you bave boupbt s borne there snd waut to move with yr family, honsehold goods sndst"rk. address the ea rml 1'u.i.at m ur Agvait uaiiKl belww. et war rate and maps VF. Ü PR 'UTT, Acting Gen'l Tass and Ticket gt umi.is. Ina THE fin rm Street, Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. BE f)7(h CU rr flLo