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I I mouiui Djing, dying is the year, And the earth is sad Sighing, sighing are the trees. And the winds are mad Creeping, ere the world be sleepinft Shadows drear Cross the year. D^?l' d*la«,B the year- Old earth, do you care, 1 °f «hill, now tired and sad, Once ho glad and fair? u/"g, while the winds arc sighing Drifts of snow Hide graves below. *ylng, dying ia the year— Fare-thee-wcll to-night. Yon have brought us stuiles and tears, Shadows ancMhe light Fading, while the dusk is shading Stars of light From our sight. Dying, dying is the year Dreams we must forget, iJuried are the hopes it brought, Buried each regret Bleeping, wakint smiling, weeping All the saiT, All the glad. Dying, dying is the year Comes the new to-night, Child of lixht, with wings of gold, Shadowless and bright Flinging clouds of joy swift winging O'er the past Fading fast. Dying, dying is the year Let the sorrow die Bells ring out the sad, I fancy, Winds forget to sigh Sorrow, reign you not to-morrow, When tho year New-born is here. A Talk With Santa Clans. One Christmas eve Joel Baker was in a most unhappy mood. He was 'onesome and miserable the chimes making merry Christmas music out Bide disturbed rather than soothed him the jingle of the sleigh-bells fret ted him, and the shrill whistling of the wind around the corners of the house and up and down the chimney seemed to grate harshly on his ears. "Humph, "said Joel,wearily,"Christ mas is nothin' to me there was a time when ifc meant a great deal, but that was long ago—fifty years is a long stretch to look back over. There is nothin'm Christmas, now, nothin' for me at least it is so long since San' ta Claus remembered me that I ven ture to say1* he has forgotten that there ever was such a person as Joel Baker in all the world. It used to be different Santa Claus used to think a great deal of me when I was a boy. Ah! Christmas nowadays ain't what it was in the good old time—no, not what it used to be." As Joel was absorbed in hisdistress ing thoughts he became aware very suddenly that somebody was entering or trying to enter the room. First came a draft of cold air, then a scra ping, grating sound, then a strange Shuttling, and then—yes, then, all at once, Joel saw a pair of fat legs and a still fatter body dangle down the chimney, followed presently by a long, white beard, above which appeared a jolly red nose and two bright twink ling eyes, while over the head and forehead was drawn a fur cap, white With snowflakes. "Ha, ha," chuckled the fat, jolly stranger, emerging from the chimney' and standing well to one side of the hearthstone ha, ha, they don't have the big, wide chimneys they used to build,but they can't keep Santa Claus out—no, they can't keep Santa Claus out! Ha, ha, ha. Though the chim ney were 110 bigger than a gas pipe Santa Claus would slide down it!" It didn't require a second glance to assure. Joel that the newcomer was indeed Santa Claus. Joel knew the good old saint—oh, yes—and he had Been him once before, and although that was when Joel was a little boy, he had never forgotten how Santa Claus looked. Nor had Santa Claus forgotten Joel, although Joel thought he had for now Santa Claus looked kindly at Joel and smiled and said: "Merry Christ mas to you, Joel!" I'Thank you, old Santa Claus," re plied Jo«l "but I don't believe it's oin' to be a very merry Christmas. been so long since I've had a mer ry Christmas that I don't believe I'd know how to act if I had one." "Let's see," said Santa Claus "it must be going on fifty years since I saw you last—yes, you were 8 years old the last time I slipped down the chimney of the old homestead and filled your stocking. Do you remem ber it?" "I remember it well," answered Joel •'I had made up my mind to lie awake and see Santa Claus I'd heard tell of you, but I'd never seen you, and brother Otis and 1 concluded we.d lie awake and watch tor you to come." !fc's Santa Claus shook his head re proachfully. "That was vary wrong," said he, "for I'm so scarey that if I!d known you boys were awake I,d never have come down the chimney at all, and then you'd have had no presents." •'But Otis couldn't keflji^iwake-," ex plained Joel. "We talkedabout every -4hin' we could think of, till father call ed Out to us that if we didn't stop talking he'd have to send one of us up into the attic to sleep with the hired man. So .in less than five minutes Otis was sound asleep and no pinch ing could wake him up. But I was bound to see Santa'Claus and I don't believe anything would've put me to sleep. I heard the big clock in the sit ting-rbom strike 11, and I had begun wonderin' if you never were going to come, when all of a sudden I heard the tinkle of the bells around your rein deers' necks. Then I heard the rein deers prancin' on the roof and the sound of your sleigh-runners cut tin' through the crust and slippin' over the shingles. I was kind o' scared and I covered my head up with the sheet and quilts—only I left a little hole so I could peek out and see what was goin' on. As soon as I saw you I got over bein' scared—lor you were jolly and smilin' like, and you chuckled as you went aronnd to each stockin' and filled it up." "Yes, I can remember the night," said Santa. Claus "I brought you a sled, didn't I?" "Yes, and you brought Otis one, too," replied Joel "mine was red and had 'Yankee Doodle' painted in black letters on the side Otis'was black, and had 'Snow Queen' in gilt letters." "I remember those sleds distinctly,' •aid Santa Claus, "for I made them especially for you boys." "You set the sleds up against the wall," continued Joel, "ana then you filled the stockin's." "There were six of 'em, as I recol lect," said Santa Claus. "Let me see," said Joel. "There was mine, and Otis', and Elvira's and Than leful's, and Susan Prickett's—Su san was our help, you know. No, there were only five, and, as I remem ber, they were the biggest we could beg or boner oi Aunt Dorcas, who weighed nigh onto 200 pounds. Otis ana I didn't like Susan Prickett, and we were hopin' you'd put a cold po tato in her stockin'." "But Susan was a good girl," re toonstrated 8ant* Oaus. "You i. £y know I put cold potatoes in the stock in's of boys and girls only #ho are bad and don't believe in SantaClaus." "At any rate*" said Joel, "you filled all the stockin's with candy and pop corn and nuts and raisins, and I can remember you said you were afraid you'd run out of pop-corn balls be fore you got around. Then you left each of us a book. Elvira got the best one, which "The Garland of Frien'ship,' and had poems in it about the bleeding of hearts, and so v' wasn't expecting any thing, but you left him a new pair of mittens and mother got a new fur boa to wear to meetin'." "Of course," said Santa Claus "I never forgot father and mother." "Well, it was as much as I could do to lay still," continued Joel, "for I'd been longin' for a sled an' the sight of that red sled with "Yatikee Doodle' painted on it jest made me wild. But, somehow or other, I began to get poweriul sleepy all at once and I couldn't keep my eyes open. The next thing I knew Otis was nudgin' me in the ribs. 'Git up, Joel,' says he 'its Chris'mas an Santa Claus has been here.' 'Merry Chris'mas! Merry Chris' mas!' we cried as we tumbled out Of o' bed. Then Elvira an' Thankful came in, not more'n half-dressed, and Susan came in, too, an' we just made Rome howl with 'Merry Chris' mas!' to each other. 'Ef you children don't make less noise in there,' cried father, 'I'll hev to send you all back to bed!' The idea of askin' boys an' girls to keep quite on Chris'mas mornin' when they've got new sleds an' "Garlands of Prion'ship'!" Santa Claus chuckled his rosy cheeks fairly beamed with joy. "Otis an' I didn't want any break fast," said Joel. "We made up our minds that a stockin'ful of candy and pop-corn an' raisins would stay us for awhile. I do believe there wasn't buckwheat cakes enough in the township to keep us indoors that mornin' buckwheat cakes don't size up much 'longside of a red sled with 'Yankee Doodle' painted onto it and a black sled named 'Snow Queen.' We didn't care how cold it was—so much the better for slidin' down hill! All the boys had new sleds—Lafe Dawson, Bill Holbrook, Gum Adams, Rube Playford, Leander Merrick, Ezra Purple—all on 'em had new sleds excep' Martin Peavey, and he said he calculated Santa Claus had skipped him this year 'cause his fa ther had broke his leg liaulin' logs from the Pelham woods and been kep' indoors six weeks. But Martin had his ol' sled, and he didn't hev to ask any odds of any of us, neither." "I brought Martin a sled the next Christmas," said Santa Claus! "Lake's not but did you ever slide down hill, Santa Claus? I don't mean such hills as they hev out here in this new country, but one of them Old fashioned New England hills that was made 'specially for boys to slide down •^-f ull of bumpers an' tnank-ye-marms, and about ten times longer comin' up than it is goin' down! The wind blew in our faces and almos' took our breath away. 'Merry Chris'mas to ye, little boys!' it seemed to say, and it untied^ our mufflers an' whirled the snow in our faces, just as if it was a boy, too, an' wanted to play with us. An ol' crow came ftap pin' ovor us from the cornfield beyond the meadow. He said: 'Caw, caw,' when he saw my new sled I s'pose he'd never seen a red one before. Otis had a hard time with his sled—the black one—an' he wondered why it wouldn't go as fast as mine would. 'Hev you scraped the paint oif'n the the runners?' asked Wralsey Good no w. "Course I hev,' said Otis 'broke my own knife an' Lute IngTa ham's a-doin' it, but it don't seem to make no dif'rence—the darned ol' thing won't go!' Then, what did Si mon Buzzell say but that, like's not, it was because Otis' sled's name was 'Snow Queen.' 'Never did see a girl sled that was worth a cent, anyway,' sez Simon. Well, now, that jest about broke Otis up in business. 'It ain't a girl sled,' sez he, 'and its name ain't* Snow Queen! I'm a'goin' to call it Dan'l Webster, or Ol'ver Optic, or Sheriff Bobbins, or after some other big manl' An' the boys plagued him so much about that pesky. girl sled that he scratched off the name, an,' as I remember, it did go better alter that! "About the only thing," continued Joel, "that marred the harmony of the occasion, as the editor of the Hampshire County Phoenix used to say, was the ashes that Deacon Morris Frisbie sprinkled out in front of his house. He said he wasn't going to have folks breakin' their necks just, on account of a lot of frivolous boys that was goin' to the gallows as fas' as they could! Oh, how we hated him! and we'd've snowballed him, too, if we hadn't been afraid of the Constable that lived next door. But the ashes didn't bother us much, and every time we slid side saddle we'd give the ashed a kick, and that sort o' scattered 'em." That bare thought of this made San ta Claus laugh. "Goin' on 'bout 9 o'clock," said Joel, "the girls come along—Sister Elvira an' Thankful, Prudence Tucker, Belle Yocum, Soplirone Holbrook, Sis Hub bard an' Marthy Sawyer. Marthy's brother Increase wanted her to ride on his sled, but Marthy allowed that a red sled was her choice every time. 'I don't see how I'm goin' to hold on,' said Marthy 'Seems as if I would hev my hands full keepin' my things from blowin' away.' Don't worry about yourself, Marthy,' sez I, 'for if you'll look after your things I kind cal' c'late I'll manage not to lose you on the way.' Dear Marthy—seems as if I could see you now, with your tangled hair a-blowin' in the wind, your eyes all bright an' sparkling,' an' your cheeks as red as apples. Seems, too, as if I could hear you laughin' an' callen,' jist as you did as I toiled up the old New England hill that Chris' mas mornin'—a-callin' 'Joel, Joel, Jo el—ain't ye ever comin', Joel?' But the hill is long an' steep, Marthy, an' Joel ain't the boy he used to be he's old an' gray, an' feeble, but there's love an' faith in his heart, an' they kind o' keep hm totterin' towards the voice he hears a-callin' Joel, Joel, Jo el!' How He fjctet His Pastorate. Dr. Magoon's death recalls a char acteristic story of the man, says the Philadelphia Ledger, explaining how he came to leave his first ministerial charge, which was a Richmond (Va.) church. It was before the war, about 1845, when abolition sentiment was growing. Mr. Magoon, who was born in New Hampshire, shared the north ern sentiment respecting slavery. One Easter Sunday morning, as he ascend ed his pulpit, he was struck by the contrast presented by the slaves crowded in the gallery and their mas ters and mistresses gathered in the body of the church. The ladies were out in their new spring toilets,radiant with flowers and bright-colored rib bons. The preacher surveyed the scene for a moment, and then, addressing the congregation, said: "Ladies, you look very beautiful in your flowers and feathers but if you would spend half the money wasted on finery to educate those poor colored people up yonder, it would be better for your souls." At that time it was $n offense against the law in Virginia to teach a colored person to read, and it can easily be imagined £ha^such a speech put an end to Mr, Magoon's ministry there. "I know—t see it all/* murmured 86nta Claus, very softly. "Oh, that was long ago/' sighed Joel "so very long ago! And I've had lid Chris mas Since—only once, when our little one—-Marthy's an' mine—you remember him, Santa Claus?" "Yes," said Santa Claus, "a tod dling little boy with blue eyes "Like his mother," interrupted loel "an' he was like to her, too—so gentle an' lovin', only we called him Joel, for that was my father's n&pie, and it kind o' run in the fam'ly. He wa'n't more'n 3 years old wnen you came with your Chris'mas presents for him, Santa Claus, We had told him about you, and he used to go to the chimney every night and m&ke a little prayer about What he wanted you to bring him. And you brought em' too—a stick-horse, an' a picture-bOok, an', some blocks, an' a drum—they're on the shelf in the iclbset there, and his little Chris'mas stockin' with 'em—I've saved 'em all, an' I've taken 'em down an' held'em in my hands, oh, so many times!" "But when I came again/'Said Santa Claus—— "His little bed was empty, an' I was alone. It killed his mother—Marthy was so tender-hearted she kind o' drooped an' pined after that. So now they've been asleep side by side in the buryin'-ground these thirty years. "That 8 why I'm so sad like when ever Chris'mas comes," said Joel, after a pause. "The thinkin' of long ago makes me bitter almost. It's so dif terent now from what it used to be." "No, Joel, oh, no," said Santa Claus. '"Tis the same world, and human nature is the same and always will be. But Christmas is for the little folks, and you, who are old and griz zled now, must know it and love it only through the gladness it brings the little ones." "True/' groaned Joel "but how may I know and feel this gladness when I have no little stocking hang ing in my chimney corner—no child to please me with his prattle? See. I am alone." ".nto, you're not alone, Joel," said Santa Claus. "There are children in this great city who would love and bless you for your goodness if you but} touch their hearts. Make them hap* py, Joel send by me this night some gift to the little boy in the old house yonder—he is poor and sick a simple toy will fill his Christmas With glad ness." "His little sister, too, take her some present," said Joel "make them happy me, Santa Claus—you are right—riiake them happy for me." How sweetly Joel slept! When he awoke the sunlight streamed in through the window and seemed to' bid him a merry Christmas. How contented and happy Joel felt! It must have been the talk with Santa Claus that did it all he had never known a sweecer sense of peace. A little girl came out of the house over the way. She had a new doll in her arms, and she sang a merry little song and she laughed with joy as she skipped along the street. Ay, and at tne window sat the little sick boy, and the toy Santa Claus left him seemed to have brought him strength and health, for his eyes sparkled and his cheeks glowed, and it was plain to see that his heart was full The Diet of Consumptives. The diet of consumptive patients should be ample, and should contain a larger portion of the respiratory constituents of food than is required in health. The appetite of consump tive patients is very capricious, and daily grows more so if it be not sharpened by exercise. When the food taken is not applied to the pur poses of nutrition, it is better left un tasted for otherwise it lies undigested in the alimentary canal, and sets up a serious train of dyspeptic symtoms, nausea and diarrhea. Kind friends otten, with the most provoking good nature, thrust upon the consumptive relays of the most improper food, be cause the necessity for nourishment is so obvious. But the fact is that when the lungs are acting, indifferently di gestion can not go on actively, since, as Arbuthnot well observed, respira tion is "the sreond digestion." Hence the quantity of food taken by con sumptive persons should be small at each meal but the meals may, if th* sensations of the patient require it, be more frequent than in health. Of animal food, mutton is the best. Fat ty and oily foods, which constitute the respiratory class, should predom inate, and fresh butter with bread may be taken almost aalibitum, so long as it agrees with the stomach. Cream, too, is excellent, and the luxu ry of curds and cream are very suita ble. Milk, whenever it suits, -is advis able as a constant drink food, and good cows' milk, new, answers every purpose. There are, as far as I can gather from numerous cases in which have seen them tried, no such speci fic virtues in asses' milk and goats' milk as some have supposed. Tea may be taken in moderation with per fect safety. Fresh vegetable diets should not be omitted and fruits, especially roasted apples, are always admissible, except in instances where they excite irregular action of the -bowels. The Iceland moss has had a great reputation, as have jellies of different kinds, but these otten are slow in digestion, and they have no specific value. W. S. Chamberlain, father of Miss Jennie Chamberlain,the famous Ameri can beauty, has transferred $200,000 worth of Cleveland property to Col onel John Hay, and it is probable that he will make Europe his home in the future. lime. Veralewek, a daughter of the late Sergeant Major Munday, died re cently at Waterloo. She went to Bel gium about forty years ago to take charge of the hotel and museum of relics which her uncle, the late Ser- Sussars, ant Major Cotton, of the Seventh a Waterloo veteran, had es tablished in 1834 „-*S A "5TH 01 at the foot of the Lion Mound on the field of Waterloo, and which she afterwards inherited from him. Sergeant Major Cotton be came a sort of European celebrity as guide over the battlefield, and was the author of the "Voice from Waterloo." A.- GES, LEE*8 DAUGHTEtt. I Drssutle Episode Istertwlse* witli the Him Life (f EUser ig»s Lee. Washington Letter: The inhabit ants ih ahd about Letihgton art of Scotch Presbyterian stock: The farm ing population are of a type truly primitive. Lexington is redolent ot the two names, Lee and Jackson. It goes without saying that those names are revered among the simple folk o( town and country. Here Lee is bilrieci in the rear of the pulpit ih the cbllege chapel. Here, too, is to be seen Valen tine's greatest, latest and most ambi tious effort—the recumbent Statue of Lee beside the dead General are interred the remains of his wife, and his daugh ter, Eleanor Agnes Lee. Intertwined with the name and life of Eleanor Agnes Lee is A dramatic episode that has never found its way iiito.the newspapers of the country. At the Outbreak df the civil war. there was serving on Gen. Scott's staff Lieut: William Orton Williams, son of that Capt. Williams G. Williams who was killed at the battle of Monterey. Young Williams' mother was a grand child of Mrs. Washington, and a sister of George Washington Parke Curtis. The latter was the father of Mrs. Rob ert E. Lee. Young Williams was in love with Miss Lee and both before and after Gen. Lee resigned as chief of Scott's staff was in the habit of visit ing Arlington. Some time in months of April and May, 1801, Gen. Scott ordered Williams to cease his visits. He, howeVei*, still clandestinely c0ii4 tinued to call on Miss Lee^ and it Coming to the attention of Gen. Scott and the Federal authorities Williams was arrested and sent to the Gov ernor's Island, New York. He wa9 released sometime in the follow ing June, and resigning his com mission in a happi ness. And, oh! how the chimes did ring out, and how joyfully they sang their Christmas carol that morning! They1 sang of Bethlehem and the manger and the Babe, they sang of love and char-, ity, till ail the Christmas air seemed full of voices: Carol of the Christmas morn Carol of the Christ-child born Carol to the list'ning sky Till it echoeB back again "Glory be to God oh high, Peace on earth, good willtow'rd men." So all this music—the carol of the chimes, the sound of children's voices, the smile of the poor little boy over the way—all this sweet music crept into Joel's heart that Christmas morn ing yes, and with these sweet, holy influences came others so subtle and divine that in the silent communion with them Joel's heart cried out amen and amen to the glory of the Christ* mas time.—Eugene Field. the Federal army in company with a cousin, Walter G. Peters.also a descendent of Mrs. Wash ington, joined the Confederate army. Williams subsequently joined the staff of Gen. Bragg, but having become in volved itl A difficulty with a private soldier in which the latter was killed, he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Wheeler, present member of congress from Alabama. In 1863, a few days after the battle of Stone River, two mounted men in Federal uniform rode into Fort Granger, commanded by Col. J. P. Baird, of the Eighty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. They pi'esented the usu al letters, passes and orders. One of the orders was to the effect that they were to inspect the department of the Ohio: Alter remaining at the fort some hours they mounted their horses and started in the direction of Nashville. As they were passing out of the forti fication Col. Louis D. Watkins, of the Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, and an of ficer of the old army, entered, followed by an orderly. As he passed he caught a glimpse of the profile of one of tho horsemen. He was convinced that hehad seen the person somewhere before. Inquiry of Col. Baird re vealed the supposed nature of their visit. Watkins replied that he thought there must be something wrong that one of the horsemen resembled an of ficer of the old army, now in confed erate ranks. Watkins started at ohCe in pursuit, followed by his orderly, and soon overhauled them, as they rode at a leisurely pace and did not show the least alarm. Both of the pursued offi cers returned without betraying ner? vousness, and dismounting, entered Watkins' tent, which was near by. Without their knowledge a guard was thrown around the tent. Soon they became impatient at their delay. On looking out of the tent they saw they were entrapped. They denounced their detention an outrage and threatened to report Baird and Wat kins to the sec retary of war. Baird asked to see their papers, letters aud orders once more. Turning to one of the officers Baird asked to see his sword. It was hand 1 ed over after many protests and threats. On being drawn from the scabbard the sword displayed the words, "Lieut. W. G. Peters, G. 8. A. Peters' cap was next examined and his initials found on the lining The com panion of Peter was next examined and the identity Of William Orton Williams revealed. This led to a con fession. Gen. Rosecrans Was com municated with. He denounced them as spies, ordered them tried by drum' head courtmartial and hanged before morning without fail. The prisoners pleaded for their lives. Rosecrans was obdurate. Williams then made a special and touching appeal for his cousin, Peter, whom, he said, was led into it by himself personally. It was useless. Rosecrans' order was that they must both die. The condemned men were given the consolations of religion, placed in a cart and driven under a cherry tree. Peters was over come with grief and terror. Willians exclaimed: "Diy those tears and me like a man!" They embraced. The cart was moved from under them. In seventeen minutes they both were dead and Elanor Agnes Lee died of a broken heart. The Dear 01d*Fashioned Barn. The Attleboro (Mass.) Chronicle talks about the old-fashioned barn just as all of us old farmer boys re member it: There is nothing on earth that just fills the niche in the human affections like the old-fashioned, wide-doored, deep-mowed barn of New England tra* ditions.' Old or new, such a barn has possibilities of enjoyment which are the despair of the "effete monarchies of the old world." The barn of our childhood! How its ample propor tions rise gracefully in thebackground whenever the melody of -'Home, Sweet Home" salutes the ear! What infinite resources our childhood discovered in it. It was theatre, gymnasium, play ground, a shelter from summer's heat and winter's cold, always ready to give us a breezy welcome, I imitless in its hos pitality. A barn is the only thing with four walls that imposes no apparent limitations. Theie is room to run, room to jump, room to play horse, room to play house, room to mount a scaffold and it, as in a steamboat, make a circuit of the world. No limit to physical freedom nor the flights of fancy. The child never lived who did not cry to go to the barn as soon, as he learned there was such an El Dora do close at hand. When playthings disgust, when mother's singing is wearsomeness ol the flesh and every thing seems to baby's eyes "stale,flat, and unprofitable," a visit to the barn will bring back the smiles and dry the tears. And in years somewhat later the barn, fragrant with hay and piled with unhusked corn, comes to mind with the recollection of red ears that brought blushes to white ones. In youth and age the barn is a spot fra grant with pleasant recollections. FaHors are not the thriftless, care less fellows they are often represented to be. During last year British sailors remitted to their relatives and friends no less than $2,385,000 by means of' post office orders. Of this sum $215,000 came from abroad. This is a handsome showing for "track." SSftYefcKr-f.*? H4i *& es-^S tY ft* JM g2T^ x% .C/ t^^ssgafe. v~x -_ jr*\-r* W-.S f^Kf 'S i. i2 Lincoln and Army Deserters* Horatio King writes thus td the magazine of American hi&tor^ 6f Lin coln and army deserters: While writing of President Lincoln I will relate another singular incident not generally known I think, and hich comes to me on undoubted au thority. At the beginning of the war, oftener probably than later in the fearful struggle, sometimes on going into battle a soldier who had "never smelt gunpowder" would falter, shrink away ana maybe throw down his arms, tittterly unablb from cowardice to proceed, thus rendering himsfelf liable to the penalty ot death. When these cases came before Presi dent Lincoln, and the necessity of making an example of such culprits was appointed out to him, he invaria bly plead off. By the Way bf convinc ing him not only of the imperative necessity of strictly- enforcing the law as a restraining influence against cow ardly instincts, but also of its reason ableness and justice, it was urged that the soldier, Seeing before him two dan gers—on the one liand sure death if he acted the coward, and on the btlier a reasonable chancb of escape if he press ed forward in battle—he would natiir ally choose the lesser of the two, and thus save his honor at least, if not "his life. But it was all to no purpose—Mr. Lincoln solemnly declaring that he never could consent to sign the death warrant of a soldier for failing to go where his legs refused to carry him and he never did. He consigned to pigeon-holes, without his signature, scores if not hundreds of these cases, where they now lie buried at the war department. Iieviathan Locomotives. From the Albany Argus. The Schenectady locomotive works has sent out two of the largest loco motive engines that have been buiit at Schenectady. The engines are for the Colorado Midland Railroad, and are numbered 1 and 2, and will run be tween Colorado Springs and Leadville, where the grade is 210 feet to the mile, and where powerful engines are a necessity. The boilers are made of of Otis steel, nine-sixteenths of an inch thick, and their diameter is sixty inches, with an extended front end. There are 234 tubes in the boiler, each thirteen feat long and two and one-quarter inches in diameter. The width of Che fire box is forty-two and seven-eighths inch es, the depth in front is fifty-seven and one-quarter and back fifty-four and one-quarter inches. The cylinders ai'e 20x24 inches. There are iour driving wheels on each side fifty-one inches in diameter, and a four-wheel spring bolster trlick ih .front: The tank capacity of these immense en gines is 3,500 gallohs, which is about 625 gallons more than an ordinary New York Central passenger engine holds. They are equipped with the St. Louis steam brake on the tender. The weight of the engine is sixty-two tons without the tender, fifty-six tons of which set upon the eight driving wheels. Certain Unlucky Days. "They" say it is unlucky to do cer tain things on certain days, and some of these things and days are herewith given: It is unlucky to be struck by light ning on Monday. To sit On a buzz-saw in motion oh Friday. To break the mirror your wife's mother gave her. To fall down stairs with the parlor stove on Tuesday, To speculate with other people's money and get caught. To get wet when you fall overboard while boating on Thursday. To dream of snakes after drinking cider in a prohibition town.. To see a bill collector over your right shoulder on Saturday. To see a bull-dog over your left shoulder in your neighbor's orchard. To see your overcoat over either shoulder as you pass out of the shop of your uncle To bet all your money oil a horse whose driver has bet his money oil another. To marry on Wednesday a girl who practices with ten-pounddumb-bells. To be One of thirteen at table where there is only food for six. The executive Committee of the National Protective Association of Liquor Dealers met at Louisville and decided that a moderage license system would be most beneficial on the trade and public, and that it would be to the interest of the wholesale and retail to eliminate fraud in evading the payment of lawful license, also to prevent the sale of liquor.) to minors to close saloons on Sunday, and, if possible, to induce municipalities to cease granting licenses to disorderly houses. Mr. Jacob Froehlich, a well-known tailor of Cincinnati, 0., after suffering for yours with rheumatism, was cured in a short time by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. An order will shortly be issued by the president adding Southern California to the department ol Arizona, under com mand of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, and remov ing his headquarters from Frescott, Ariz., to Los Angeles. Mrs. C. Kellogg, Edgwood, Cal., says: Bed Star Cough Cure is the best medicine she has ever used for colds for the children. •ABKKT8. Chicago.—Wheat, 77% to 78c. Corn, 37 to 37%c. Oats, No. 2, 26%c. Rye, No. 2, 53J£c. Barley, No. 2, 52%c. Flax seed, No. 1, 94 to 94%c. Clover eeed, $4.00. MIN NEAPOLIS—Wheat, No. 1 hard, 76c No. 1 Northern, 74c No. 2 Northern, 72c. Bran, $9.50. Shorts, $11. Corn, 40 to 41c. Oats, No. 2 white, 28 to 28%c. Hay, $8.00 to $8.50. Rye, 52c for No. 2. Barley No. 2, 46 to 48c No. 3, 45c. Flax seed, No. 1, 85 to 86c. Dpl.uth—Wheat, No. 1 hard, 77%c No. 1 Northern, 75%c. MILWAUKEE.—Wheat, 77^c. Corn, No. 2, 36%c. Oat#, No. 2, 2G^c. Rye. No. 1, 56c. Barley, No. 2, 52%c. Pork, $11.50. Lard, $6.20. Butter, 18@22. Eggs, 21c. Cheese, ll@12c. St. Paul.—Wheat, No. 1 hard, 7Gc No, 1 Northern, 74 No. 2, Northern, 72c. Corn, No. 2, 39%c. Oats, No. 2 mixed, 26}£c. No. 2, white, 28%c. Barley, No. 2, 47c. Rye, No. 2, 45c. Ground feed, Xo. 1, $15.50 No. 2, $15.00. Corn meal, $15.50. Bran, $9.50. Baled hay, No. 1, $8 timo thy, $10.25. Dressed hogs, $4.20. Flax seed, 83c. Timothy seed, $1.60. Clover seed, $4.00. Eggs, 22c. Turkeys, 6 to 7c. Chickens, 4 to 5c. A Tillable MedlcsWreatlite. The edition for 1887 of the sterling Medical Annual, known as Hostetter's Almanac, is now ready and may be obtained, free of cost, of drug gists and general country dealers in all parts of the United States, Mexico, and indeed in every civilized portion of the Western Hemisphere. This Almanac has been issued regularly at the commencement of every year for over one-fifth of a century. It combines, with the soundest practical advice for the preservation aud res toration of health, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and the calender, as tronomical calculations, chronological items, Ac., are prepared with great care, and will be found entirely accurate. The issue of Hostet ter's Almanac for 1887 will probably be the largest edition of a medical work ever published in any country. The proprietors, Messrs. Hos tetter & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., on receipt ofatwo cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procure one in his neighbor hood. The new governor of Montana, ox-Gov. Leslie of Kentucky, during his gubernator ial career in that state, distinguished him self by the startling number of his pardons. Cleanses tlie scalp, and leaves the hair soft and beautiful. Hall's Hair Renewer. If yon have any form of throat or lung disease, take Ayer:s Cherry Pectoral. At Napieraville, Quebec, the Roman Cath •.V church was destroyed by fire. A Preferred Creditor. The adtantages of being a preferred creditor ,are thiii* ittatfo plain by the Macon, Ga., Telegraph: "Mine fa-en'," said & Gedcgia ffiet chant to a drummer who usedto frolic with him, after the former had com promised all around at forty cents on the dollar and gained a year to wind up the business: 'I'm goin' ter make of ^btt er—vot ou call him—er—brevered greditor. "ow vos dot?" '/Thanks, old fellow, thanks! I knew you wouldn't go back on me. How are you going to arrange it?" The mer chant led him asiclfe. "Veil," said he, closin'g 6rie tiy$, ','1 vant to tell you rite now dot nobody vas gointer got er d—n cent outer dis pizness." "And you call this making me a pre ferred creditor?" The drummer's eyes could have foeeti krib'fcked Hon Marshall P. Wilder, one ot the most prominent poraOlOgisra and horti culturists in the £oiiutry died at his home at Rdxbury Mass., aged eighty tiigbt. was president of the Am&tf can Porrtoiogie al society The typographical union is opposing thS confirmation of Benedict Si public printed. How Women Differ from Men. At least three men on the average jury are bound to disagree with the rest just to show that they've got minds of their own but there is no disagreement among the women as to the merits ol Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." They are all unanimous in pronouncing it the best rem edy in tha-world for all those chronic dis eases, weaknesses and complaints peculiar to their sex. It transforms the pale, hag gard, dispirited woman into one of spark ling health, and the ringing laugh ngain "reigns supremo"Jti the httppj household. Wetherell & Kent, ggriefsl dealers at Kimball, Dak., have failed f&r $3,-000 Unman Cslvea. An exchange says:—"Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages result from human calves being allowed to run at large in so ciety pastures." Nine-tenths of the chron ic or lingering diseases of to-day originate In impure blood, liver complaint or bilious ness resulting in. scrofula, consumption (which is but scrofulil tif the lungs), sore* ulcers, skin diseases and kindred affections Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" cures all these. Of druggists. Gen. Von Flies, who became prominent in the war of 1866,- has died at Weisbaden. Sick and bilious headache, and all de rangements of stoinach^and bowels, cured by Dr. Pierce's Pellets"—or anti-bilious granules. 25 cents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues. By druggists. Minnesota barbers will hold a State con vention at Minneapolis Dec. 21. "Oh my back!" is a comtnoil excltimit-. tion and expresses a world of misery find suffering. It is singular this pain arises from such various causes. Kidney disease, liver complaint-, wasting affections, colds, rheumatism, dyspepsia, overwork and nervous debility are chief causes. When thus ailing seek prompt relief. It can be found best in Brown's Iron Bitters, It builds up from the foundation by making the blood rich and pure. Leading physi cians and ministers use and recommend it. It has cured many, and if you are a suf ferer try it. Losses by fires in St. Paul this yedf $406.674. Expresses his gratitude.—Albert A. Lar son, of Kirkman, la., in expressing his gratitude to the proprietors of Allen's Lung Balsam, writes:. I firmly believe.my wife woiild have died of consumption, if hot fof the timely tisc of your. balsam Buy the $1.00 bottle for Lung Diseases A Swede named NelsOti was killed by the cars at Hamline, Minn. recently. In 1850 "Brown's Bronchial Troches were introduced, and their success as a cure for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, and Bron chitis has been unpaialleled. Senator Fair of Nevada will not arrive in Washington until next month. For dyspepsia take Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters. All genuine bear the signature of J. P. Allen, Druggist, St. Paul, Minn. No opium in Pisos Cure for Consump tion. Cures where other remedies fail. 25ctS Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup the great cough and consumption cure. All Druggists Fob Dtstkpsi*, TndigMtfcm, Depression of Spirit* And General Debility, in tnelf VarloUs forms, sltso preventive against Fever and Ague, and other Inter mittent Fevers, the "Fbkbo Phosphobated Elixib or Cilisaya" made by Caxwell Hazard Si Co., New York, and sold by all Drnggiata, to the l**t tonic, and for patients recovering from Fever or utlier licknau. it has no equal. Lyon's Patent Heel Stlffener is the only inven tion that makes old boots straicht as new. Pains and Aches In various parts of tho body, more particularly in the back, shoulders and joints, are the unwelcome indica tions that ihetimatism has gained a foothold, and yon are "in for it" for a longer or shorter period. Rheuma tism is caused by lactic acid in the blood, and is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which eradicates every impur ity from the blood, and fills it with richnci» and health. "I had been troubled for gome time with poor appe tite. particularly in the morning, and also had frequent attacks of rheumatism. I commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and now my appetite is the best and the rheumatism has entirely left me." C. ARENR, 3704 Em erald Avenue, Chicago, III "My wife has been troubled with rheumatism for a ong time, and her blood has been very poor. Last spring the liad scrofula sores. I got her some of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and on taking it she began to improve right away. She is not in the least troubled by rheu matism now, and the sores are all healed." 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DruKgista sell it or by mail 25c cf W. R. Penick, St. Joseph, Mo. PATENTS OBTAINED by LOUIS BAGGER St -f.OO., attorneys, Washington, D. C. Established 1864. Advice free. Scandinavian language understood. A8ENT! WMT|D£^?^T7d •TO RUO /Sh,. JL, pATTBltftS, for making W' PATiKltSg, tor making Rngs, Tidier Hoqfoitf Mitten", etc. Sent by mjtil tot SI. CIRCC LARSKUEE. nobs CO..TOI1EBO, OHIO. or woman heading profitable employment to represent us tn are!} rery one buys. 8TANDARD SILVERWARE CO., BOSTON, mask. FACE, HANDS, FEET, and all their imperfections, including Fa cial Btwlopment. Hair and 8caJp, Super fluous ftaifj Birth Marks. Hole*. Warts Moth, Freckles.- Red Knae, Acn», Black Heads, Scam, ritttnj' Snd their tn-atirifflt. Send 10c. for book Of 50 pages, 4th edition. Dr.J.H.Woodfc«!7,8? N.PearlSt., Albany ,N.Y.,Est'b'd 187ft TO THE UNEMPLOYED-FOtTNDATION OF FORTUNE—THOSE who write to W. L. 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Choiceat Families. LAHGE NU9IBER8, All Agea, both Sexea, IN STOCK. 300 to 400 IMPORTED ANNUALLY from France, all recorded with extended pedicrves in the Ptrcheron Stud Books. Tho Forcheron is the only draft breed of France possessing a stud book that has tho support and endorsement of the French Government. Bend for 120-pace Catalogue, Illustrations by Ifsia W N A Wayne, DuPage Co., Illinois* SHIP YOUR loin of manhood, pre- -i v" 1- W'.& Don't Do it. Roifl (ftt "Medical B«v*W"TTj toma of Iiivir Complaint the blue pi'., calomel and other mineral poison laKlve hope of ebUtbftoc relief, vhetw Mv tho diaeaeeatkd the constitution. Dr. Tntt Baa had the nsco thii killing practice ot the eM school. dies, drawn from the vegetable kingSopl, are almcwt miraculous in renovating (he broken dMi body. Tho VMM. They con be fonnd in every town and .hsgnlot hi the' YTnfcetf State*." Tutts liver Act Mildly Bat Thoroughly. Suffering Womanhood, Too mucti dfort cannot be made to bring to the attention of suffering womanhood the great value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound as a remedy for the di« easto of women. Such an one ia the wife of General Barringer of Winston,N. C.,and we quote from the generaVe letter as folio was "Dear Mrs. Pinkham Please allow me to add my testimony to the most excellent medicinal qualities of your Vegetable Com pound. Mrs. Bar ringer was treated for sev eral years for what the physician called Leucorrhce and Prolapsus Uteri combined' I sent her to Richmond, Va., where she re mained for six months under the treatment of an eminent physician without any per manent benefit. She was induced to try your medicine and after a reasonable time commenced to improve and is now able to attend to her business and considers herself fully relieved." [General Barringer is the proprietor of the American Hotel, Winston, N. C., and is widely known.] SB GRIKDIEHJSft MMABAM Finnr si|Cors 'in the A3 UAinDKZXili (F. 'Wilson's Patent). lOO per cent, more made in Keeping ponl- try. Also POWKK ASI1.I.S and FAKM FEED HILLS. Circulars and Testimonials sens on application. WIUOX BBOS., Katton, Va. UNEXPECTED. A Mother Saved Froitt an Un timely Death. Tears iff Sorrow Tarned to Smiles of Rejoicing. ROCHESTER, An?. 31,1886. PARDEE MEDICINE t».—GEXTLEMEK: I am now seventy-three years old, »nd until I was seventy 1 was always strong and healthy, but the amount of suffering I have endured since that time, I feel to be sufficient for a life'tiny I iiaO asevereat tack of sdatic rheumatism, jvhieh completely was imf028iblf to move was unable to strfilgMen my limbs or to step on" my feet for more than li yt'at and my life was dis- paired of. Children aud fr'ttid? wereealled in to see me die. I was treated by tbri^v good physi cians. and they and iny friends did affl they conkl to relieve my suffering—but with no a^ail. My hips wero Wintered, and my limbs rubbed, *»the5 and bandaged, but nothing they could do me even temporary selief. Tongue cannot «Se scribe my suffering. 1 urged them to let ine try Dr. Pardee's Remedy,- as I had read so much about it, and of thos* who had been cured by its use, that it gave me confidence in it, aitlxnjjgi I confess I had little or no faith in so-called patent medicines. The Remedy was procured, and commenced using it as directed, and after taking it a short time could see that it was helfing me, I -began to perspire freely, and as the persitirsu tion fWre^s^d the pain decreased, but my cloth ing and bc'difiig was a sight to behold, beii:« nearly as "yellow ai saffron." I had taken the Remedy but a short time, when I could sleep like a child, and relish mV fo60 lke one. Thank God it has cured me,and I am tcrday as health? Mid strong as before, and can walk and have an fieti of mylimbsasever. 1 havereconnwendeti your Remedy to very many who were atliictert and I do not kuow of a case that it has not cured. S am confident tiiat it will cure young people, if it will cure at my age. You are atliberty to use my name, if it will be the means of inducing any poor sufferer to use your excellent Remedy. I am very gratefully yours. MRS. JANE A. FLACK, 300 Jefferson Avenue, Rochester, N. Y, The sale of Dr. Pardee's Remedy for the pas£ three months in Western New York has exceeded that of any remedy known. By cures wholly unprecedented in the history of medicines it has proven its right to the title of "The Greatest Blood Purifier ever offered to the afflicted. We challenge any medichie to show a» appreciation at home, or wherever used,like that which has been poured upon Dr.Pardee'a Remedy. The permanent cures it has effected have made for it a reputationthatnootherremedyhasbetn able to- attain. Send for pamphlet. PARDEK MEDICINE CO.. Rochester, N. Y. JOjUES PAVStfetttEICHT 5 Ten Wr»»s Scales.' Tare Beam and Beam Box For free pries lift [OU WANT TO Bsnoot it Hjlqgant things yon never tNuuua body udj|rnlhw] oiraai .. '&L hcaUb^Stal, diisaif tnaucea, OBota iM/SRtejpttMce arid indUSftHonu tifno to app/yall forms of diiSttu Hoto to curt Pbtmotbf, etc.* f" (i ffrrrrinriN^rrnrpi'i-rfiififrr RED, SImTTHILIL WHITE, ftr* fuOfl BL.UK Murray Mill Pub. Co.. Box788. Hi*w Vorlu JOSEPH GILLOTTS STEEL PENS GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION-37B THE MOST PERFECT OF PEN3T The oldest medici&« in the world is prooablv Dr. Isaac thMfum't ELEBRATED EYE WATE This article is a carefully prepared Ph?rieians pro scription, and bas been in constant tiee neatly a cen tury, and notwithstanding the many other prepara tions that have been intrewnood into the market, tho sale of this article is constantly increasing. If the di rections are follov^d it will never fall. 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