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THE W0BTHIH6T0H ADVAH6E. ttoBfeBT MCCUNE, Editor and rublisher. WOHTHINGTON, Nobles Co.. MINN A CURBSTONE SCENE. In the shade of a tree, by the street of a city. Lay a tired little boy, with the turf for his bed, In rags, btat no beggar appealing to pity, A child of the lowly who toiled for his brevd. Beside him a handcart stood loaded with fuel, Bits of boaftl he had gleaned in the lanes where he crept, Till the wheels o'er thft pavement dragged heavy and cruel, And spent with the strain of his burden, he slept. Will any one cafe, as the n&any page nigh hiin? A threadbare wood-aawyer, bent, wrinkled and old, Catight sight of the sleeper, came near and stood by him. And read in the p'cturo the story it told. Hiingry face, scanty raimfent, with barely a button, Hatless head, naked feet, fretted sore on the stone Be fished out a morsel of dry bread and mutton. And leit him the dinner he'd brought for his own. Ml There were eyes bright and merry, eyes tearful and tender, On the watch ere the old man had tiptoed away. And some, in that meek loan of love and its lender. Saw the angel that stooped where the little boy lay. And the soul of the child, through the tatters that wound him, Brew the souls of the clad and tbe fed to his side Voung and old brought their blessings to seat* ter around him. And crumbs from the table of God to divide. A boy and a man dropped a dime and a dollar. Women opened their purses by ones and by twos, Willing hands from tne mansions, both greater and smaller. Brought a jacket, a hat. and a stout pair of shoes. All stealthy and silent, with gentle conniving. They laid dowi) their gifts with the wood sawyer's crust. And lingered to see, at tbe sleeper's reviving. His bashful thanksgiving smile up from the dust. Boon the little boy woke. Was it bounty or plunder Spread out at his feet? Then a laugh in his ears Turned his face where a glance gave the key to the wonder, And he clasped his new riches with blushes and tears. And his helpers bad joy that was tender and holy When they looked then and after, full many a day, Down the street where the toll-riddea child of the lowly With his cart and hia treasures had trotted away. O, hearts that are huhlan are human forever You may c'.ose them in caste, but they bi through the wall. 'if Wealth and want own a kinship no breeding can sever, 'it tdat And in sorrow the lowest are brothers of all. Bound love needs the magic of pity to free it Men only are selfish because they are blind When the poor help the poor, if the whole world could see it, The haughty would blush, and the cruel grow kind. —Theron Brown, in Youth's Companljn. A CRITICAL SITUATION. The Sandwich Man Relates tne Story of His Life* As I was walking through one of the prin cipal London streets tho other day, on my way to fulfil a business engagement, my at tention was attracted by one of those huge posters which plentifully besprinkle the walls of the city. In resounding tones of red, blue and bright vermillion, it called the attention of the public to the fact that the stirring sensational melodrama, of deep do mestic interest, entitled: "For Life or Death or, the Grave's Witness," was then being performed to overflowing audiences at the Royal Lome Theater. Just above the printed announcement was a picture repre senting one gentleman apparently in the act of boring a bole in tbe floor with another gentleman's head, and which I took to bear reference to the printed notification below. My momentary curiosity satisfied, I turned to proceed on my way, when my eyes en countered those of a man standing by my side—a man whom I had not noticed before, and who might have been the very ghost of a sandwich man instead of a sandwich man in the flesh, so suddenly and quickly had he come upon me. Yet, there he unmistakably was, his tattered old frockcoat, once the pink of fashion, frayed at the edges, worn to shreds at the seams, and bulging at the elbows the trousers darned aud patched in a dozen different places, but now gone far beyond the last stage of repair the patent leather boots broken and dov/n at heel, and almost soleless the battered white hat, with black band round it, and the brim all but gone the bulbous red nose, the tremb ling mouth and the bleary eyes that told their own tale. I stood for a moment star ing at this sudden appearance without any particular reason, and he, in his turn, star ing at mo. This pause, awkward enough in all conscience, was of that character in which one of the parties feels impelled to make an observation of some kind in order to get decently away. Before I could open my lips, however, my companion anticipa ted me. "Striking sort of picture that," he said, in a dry, husky voice, and with an apologetic kind of sniff. "If coloring has any thing to do with it, I should certainly say it was striking enough," I replied. "Ah!" he returned, "you seemed inter ested in it, but I' 11 warran tyouaronothalfso Interested in it as I am. There's not a soul in all thin city that understands that picture as I do. The worst of it is, when I once start looking I'm unable to leave it for thinking of what this play once did for me. Then the police have to move me on, and that gets me into trouble. Even if I would forget the past, I may not, for—look here!"—he pointed to the two boards slung over his shoulders as he spoke, and showed me the inscription, "For Life or Death," in light ning zigzag letters. "Many people stop to look at the posters here and elsewhere, but there is not one of them to whom it means what it does to me. To you and them it is only a picture badly designed, clumsily cut and worse colored. To me it is the story of my life's ruin. Per haps you'll wonder what I'm driving at. If you care to listen for a few moments I will tell you He glanced at the open doorway of one of the old city churches near at hand. •'Come in here," he said ''It's quiet and shady, and when there's no one about they sometimes let me go in there for a rest. You may like to hear what I have to tell, and I shall be glad to get these infernal boards off my shoulders for a few moments." Thoroughly interested already in spite of myself—perhaps more by the man's man ner than anything else—I followed him. Entering the porch he took the boards off his shoulder and placed them against the wall, and taking Ms seat on the bench just Inside the doorway, drew a pocket handker chief from his pocket and mopped his fore head with it. "To begin with," heiwid, after a moment's silence, "let me tell you that my name is Edward Morton. Perhaps you will not be lfcve me if I say that I was once upon a time—what of all things in the world do you think—a dramatic critic! Yes, it's true. What is more, a dramatic criticism was the beginning and end of my downfall, and this is how it happened. It was about ten years ago, and soon after I started my journalistic career in the provinces, that I took a situa tion on one of our great daily papers—The Blunderer, to wit This I succeeded in ob taining through the influence of a friend at court, and, for a youngster just entering the profession, it was looked upon as an im mense piece of good fortune. However that may be, up to town I came, and not being quite a fool, turned by chances to •uch good account that I was spoken of on all sides as 'a promising young man.' I might have gone on this way, and ultimately attained to a bald head and a sub-editorship at fifty or so, but for doing two exceedingly foolish things. I made the acquaintance of Charlie Dash\vood, and I fell desperately in love vuMh a pretty actress, and one who was quite aa clever and good as she was pretty— Lizzie Rayburn—you remember her? This Charlie Dashwood was a journalist like my self—a wild, harum-soarum fellow of the speculative sort—you've mettbU prototype. dare say ftiwayi gobsg off at a tangent* to toll to my dlfadmtage, or tbat my or breaking Out In a freeh jptaoe when 1 expected full of extravagent ideal about the undiscovered possibilities of tho pre**} always vaporing about the reforms he in tended to originate, if ever he should edit®: paper of his own. I, at that time, iflmirhfe and looking up to Charlie^ not only.as tbe. beit of good fellows, which he really wa% but as the very prince of journalists and an original genius, which only too late, I have discovered he was not, firmly believed in and held to him in spite of the ridicule and chaff of older and wiser heads. "At last one day ChaVlle came to me at the office in a perfect frenzy of excitement with- the news that he had just taken the management of a new weekly paper called I'he Bullseye, which would make its appear ance the following week, and which had, as usual, been started to fill the not particularly noticed Void 'We're all fuU up with the exception of the dramatics, and, Teddy my boy, you're the very man! I know you have ideas of your own about the way that sort of thing should be done, and here's the op portunity. Between us, we Will make the paper the biggest go in London.' "What Dashwood said was true. I had long possessed secret yearnings that way, which had at times confided to Charlie. For a moment considerations of prudence, came to my aid, and I ventured the mild suggestion of a doubt as to whether I was quite fitted for that line of work. "'Nonsense, my boy!' said Charlie '1 know your proper capacity. You're sure to maUe a hit.' It was a curious fact that Charlie possessed the most remarkable in tuitive faculty for discovering everybody's proper capabilities except his own. 'Besides.' he added, 'think of Lizzie.' "That settled it. Without further ado I closed with the offer, and a fortnight later saw me installed as dramatic critic of The Bullseye, with the title of that publication inscribed on my cards underneath that of The Blunderer. The plan of operation I proceeded to act upon was this: I had long had a wholesome contempt for that class of dramatic critics forever banging round stage doors and hotel bars, and drinking with managers and actors, so I. resolved to set an example in the opposite direction by keeping religiously aloof from all associa tion with tbe profession—with one excep tion. This was Lizzie, who insisted on re ceiving her little paragraph of two or three lines regularly every week, and with whom I spent each Sunday afternoon and evening at her father's place in Twickenham, whither he had retired to spend the rest of his days, free from the smoke of Aldgate and the carcs of the grocery business. There bad once been some talk of a Mr. Loydall, a huge, beetle-browed, hoarse-voiced tra gedian, who played heavy lead to Lizzie's juveniles at the Olympian, but he soon found out that he had no chance with me, and after one or two tusselS retired from the battle, leaving mo to walk over the course at my leisure. "As you will guess, matters were pretty well settled between Lizzie and me, and we obtained old Rayburn's consent to onr mar riage whenever the Blunderer's manage ment should recognize my merits sufficiently to advance my salary, and to enable me to take Lizzie away from the stage. The Bulls eye, contrary to everybody's expectations— everybody, that is, outside the office— showed signs of becoming a pronounced success. My dramatic criticisms were soon one of the leading features of tbe journal. 1 had always had a notion that the wither ing, sarcastic style of writing was best suited to me,and this was the line I took, with such effect that at times it became difficult to find out whether I had been praising or 'slating' a piece or an actor. Borne people were unkind enough to say that they would prefer the latter process to the former. Needless to say that, as the power and in fluence of the paper increased, I soon be came an object of hatred and dread to the whole profession. This only tickled my vanity tho more, and I would strut along Fleet street and the Strand of a morning meeting the scowl of passing 'pros.' with a stare of supercilious indifference. "One night, entering my club at the usual hour, just before starting for the Lorne Theater, where a new piece, entitled 'For Life or Death,' was to be produced that evening. I found a telegram lying for me in the rack. It was from Lizzie's mother, telling me that Lizzie had been seized with a dangerous illness that very mornincr, and begging that I would proceed to the house at once. For a moment I was in a serious dilemma. At all hazards I must see Lizzie that night, yet if was imperative that I should attend the first night's show at the Lorne, having for that special occasion un dertaken The Blunderer's special notice in place of tbe regular man, who was absent through indisposition. "Then an idea struck me as I caught sight of Scrubby, the dramatic critic of the Scorcher, at tbe other end of the room, already preparing to leave. Scrubby was a reliable man, I knew, and the best available for the purpose I had in my mind. Crossing over to where he was, I showed him the telegram, and explained my difficulty. "'Nothing easier, my boy,' he exclaimed, clapping me on the back. Trust to me. I'm going down to the show, and will leave you a programme here, marked with my notes, on my way to the office. If you're back here by half-past ten, you'll find it waiting. Then you can scribble your notices for the two papers from my notes and send them in the usual way.' "Warmly shaking him by the hand, 1 ac cepted his offer, and hastened aw.ty tcS Twickenham. When I reached tho houso I found my darling already delirious in the first stages of a high fever, and calling for me. I remained by her side, holding her hand in mine and soothing her as best I could until she had fallen off into a fitful doze. Then I stole quietly away, whisper ing to Mrs. Rayburn that I would return as soon as my business in town was concluded. "When I got back to the club I found as I expected, the programme lying in the rack, inside an envelope addressed to me. Scrubby's analysis of the production, play and acting, was distinctly unfavorable, his marginal notes having such a bitterly acrid flavor that I concluded it mustall have been very bad indeed and so I followed suit with good interest, cutting up everything and everybody concerned in the most unmerci ful manner. The notices written, I put them into separate envelopes, the one ad dressed to The Blunderer, the other to Tho Bullseye, and sent them to the offices by the club messenger. This done, I went back to Twickenham. "Returning to the town the following morning, almost the first person I met was Charlie Dashwood. I made to speak to him when, to my utter bewilderment he stopped me short with a motion of bis hand, looked me full in the face, and slowly drew a Copy of that morning's Bullseye from his pocket. Opening it, he pointed to my criticism of the production of 'For Life or Death,' at the Lorne Theater, and held it up close to my eyes, then, deliberately turning his back upon me, passed on without uttering a syl lable. I stared after him in a kind of daze as he rapidly disappeared. What on earth could he mean? What could he be driving at? In all my experience of him I had never known him to act so strangely. .Could he be going off his head, or was I going off. mine, or what? "If I wanted an explanation I had not long to wait for one. As I entered the office, the hall-k*jper handed me a letter, the super scription of which I recognized as that of the editor. I opened the letter with an unac countable trembling at the finger-tips. -What I found inside was a check for three months salary, with the notification to the effect that in consequence of my great success in having that morning made The Blunderer the laughing stock of all London, the pro prietors considered it due recognition of my talents that I should not enter the office again. For explanation I was referved to the enclosed cuttings from that day's daily newspapers. I lifted one of the slips from out of the envelope, and what then met my eyes caused me to stagger baok speechless and breathless against the wall, for there in that brief announcement of the postpone ment at tbe last moment of 'For Life or Death,' I saw the evidence of the horrible treachery of which I had been a victim. Tho evidence of my own ruin, utter and irre mediable, stared me in the face. I had actu ally written a detailed report and criticism of an audience which had never assembled, of actors who had never appeared, of a piece which had never been produced. "What need is there for me to tell you more, when you can guess tbe rest for your self? Yon don't want to hear that I and the papers with which I had been connected came the by-word and scoff of England and that the Bullseye in particular never Sur vived the shock.: Nor do vou need to be„to)d that the few hundred enemies whom I had contrived to raise around me by exceeding smartness turned the story in all ways so as tic career* wliloh meant my livelihood. Was practically at ah end, If you can under stand the charitable eyes with which an od* itor would beapt to look upon that kind of mistake. Whatever I tried, wherever I went, to London or the provinces, it was always the same—the black shadow pursued tee and closed every-door in my face. Liz zie, of all the world, was tbe only one who clung to me in my trouble, and insisted on carrying out her promise and marrying me in the teeth of her .'parepts, who threw her off when they found ljer bent on allying herself to a pauper.' She struggled on my side for two years, comforting and sustain ing me in onr bitterest adversity with her love and faith, tin til otic day shadiid in my arms, and the ligtit of my life went out. Then, having nothing else in the world to cling to, I clung to tbe drink the while it dragged, me down, down, down to what I am. "One tbing more I have to mention," said the sandwich man, as he rose from his seat and proceeded to hang the boards over his shoulders again "it was one day some months after the events described that I met Scrubby. 4I can't for the life of me un- derstatid how you came to fall into that ter rible blunder,' he said, 'especially after the note I left for you, telling how we had •all gone down to the theater on a wild-goose chase. only to find that the piece was post poned until the following week.' "Note! Ltfft forme by yoq?" I ejaculated. 'tXes!-i-No! now I come to think of it, I didn't leave the note. I wanted to go down to the Parthenon to see the new burlesque, but gave it to a man who said he would be passing'this club and would hand it in. Let me see. Ah! I have it now-rydu know, him Loydall, the Olympian heavy load."—S. Smith, in Outing. OUTWARD MOURNING. The Custom of Wearing Craps for Long Periods Falling Into Disuse. We go through a great deal of false sentiment and false politeness in the matter of our funeral 'ceremonies and our mourning attire. In the youthful days of our present sexagenarians the mark of mourning—a piece of black crape around the sleeve of a colored coat—was reserved for the army only. Army and navy' officers alone might make this modest manifestation stand in lieu of the glossy sables and deep hat-bauds of civilians. There was a howl, as well as a sneer, when these civilians adopted the military custom, and on the sleeve of a .colored coat stitched a black band to denote the death of a dear friend or near relation. Howls and sneers notwithstanding, the custom gained ground, and is now rec ognized, adopted and approved of. There are many who set their faces against the excessive mourning of by gone attire. No longer do all widows even think it necessary to clothe them selves in crape, and the life-long obli gation of the widow's cap, like the life long obligation of the widow's black, is at an end. Those who like to cling to the ancient methods have their will and do their pleasure, but those who do not—those who carry death in their hearts and do not care to show it to the world—or those who really are not deeply afflicted—may dispense with mourning altogether, if they have the mind. Simple black answers all the purpose, and the term for this is great ly curtailed. We no longer feel that we owe it to the memory of the dear dead to make ourselves uncomfortable, and to spend money on mere show—on mere signs and symbols—to gratify the watching world. Deep in our hearts we bear the sacred image—we keep alive the holy flame. We have loved that noble man, that pure-souled woman —the father, the husband, the glorious brother, the mother who bore us, and the sister who was our cradle playmate. We have loved for all our life we shall love to tho hour of doath. But need we then clothe ourselves in crape aud woolen, and mark ourselves "Bereaved" as by a placard pinned, to our breast? Far better and more suitable—aye, and sometimes far more sincere, too—the undemonstrative acceptance of the in evitable—the quiet cherishing of secret sorrow—the close concealment of the sacred love. The sorrow lies there, and we do not wish to show it to the world as a beggar unfolds his sore. We do not wish to be questioned nor condoled with. Who can comfort us? No one! What good does it do us or the world to flaunt our grief in crape and weepers in the faco of the curious, the unsympathetic, the critical? Too much" or "too little"—"too soon left off or "too long kept on"—"the fashion too smart for mourning'' or "the depth ridiculous for the occasion." Jo we want to run the gauntlet of all our dead friends' criticisms? Far better the slightest indication that is possi ble—so slight as to escape general notice—than this which attracts general attention?—Duchess of Rutland, in London Queen. MAKING GOLD THREAD. An Interesting and Exceedingly Profitable English Industry. The silver is brought from the Bank of England in cakes weighing about one thousand ounces. To secure the necessary degree of tenacity a certain proportion of copper is added, and the alloyed metal, in the form of cylindrical bars, is next thoroughly heated. The hammering process follows, and the bars, originally about two feet in length and two inches in diameter, but now half as long again and proportion ately thinner, are in the: next place' filed and rubbed until their surfaces are perfectly even. What we may call the second part of the process begins with the laying on of leaf after leaf ol gold in the proportion of two per cent. Afterward each bar is wrapped in paper and well heated in a charcoal fire. A sort of vice stands ready, and in it, bar after bar as it comes from the fire, is fixed and thoroughly burnished. All trace of its silver original has now dis appeared, and the bar is ready for con version into wire. This is accomplished by drawing it from one hundred to one hundred and -"fifty times through ever diminishing holes in steel plates and finally, when the capabilities of this metal have been exhausted, through apertures in diamonds, rubies, or sap phires. The delicate wire thus obtained must now be passed tbrougft the stee? rollers of one of Herr Krupp's little "flatting mills." This brings us to th« final process—the spinning of the flat tened wire round silk, to form the golden thread of commerce. These spinning machines are worked by water, although two steam engines are to be found iu tho factory for water power is considered to be more regulat and even in its action. There -is 8 small home demand for the round wire for the adornment of epaulets, etc. but the bulk of the manufactured article finds its way in the shape of silky gold thread to India and the far East gen erally, where it is converted by skilled native labor into those gorgeous cloths and tissues in which tffe heart of the Oriental delights.. What a wonderful property does gold possess in its mal leability!^ It is asserted' that every ouQce'-of ^the bars whose fortunes We have followed with no little interest, each Oontaioing onljMtwo per cent, ol gold, will run to the engtli,of fromjHX yards to 2?5QP yards, ^and.the afnazing figure of 5,0CK yards is on recortT. This latter thread would be finer -than hu man hair, but the extreme limit is no* even yet -^Chambers' Journal HE CURED CYRU&, Old lba H«7«Md Intm ths King to Maintain Paternal Authority? f'f "This 'ere athletics and gymnasiums is all wrong," said the olg man,aj? he laid down hia paper and b^ari tosliuck a hree-ply peanut. *1' ve had a sample of it in my own family, and I know how it works." "Don't. yoi believe in such exercise for a young mau?" "Wall, the exercise may be all right, hut the- fellers git false ideas in their heads. Take my sbn Cyrus, fr instance. Cy was aleetle inc.ined to consumption, and I rayther encouraged, gymnastics. It wasn't three weeks afore he begun to git sassy. I gave him a lick in1 one day, and I could see that he didn't take it kindly. He began to put on airs over his mothor, and when I cum to inquire around a leetle I found that Cy was on the box. He was a-holdin' up his dukes and knockin' tLo boys right and left. 1 -overheard him talkin' to our Bill about 'position,' 'guard,' break away,' 'knock out' and sich, and every day he got sassier and sassier. He was eighteen years'ol^, but I alius lick my boys till they are past twenty. I saw that Cy was goin' to buck. Thar was Bill and Tom and Jerry to be affected by his ex ample, and I felt that sunthin' orter be done. One day we was horn corn, and Cy was off. I didn't mind it fur awhile, but bine-by I got riled and said: 'Seems to me you ar' achin' iur a lick in.' 'Mebbe I am. father,' he replies, as cool as ice, *but I shan't git it. I've bin licked fur the "last time.' ''Cause why?' I asked. "''Cause I won't allow it' "Then I knew that the time had come when he'd got to have sunthin' stronger than hoss medicine. He'd got. the big head on him tremenjus, and it was then or never. 'Suppose we walk over to the barn, Cy?' I keerlesslv remarked as I finished a vow. "He said he was my huckleberry, and we dropped our hoes and went. When we got inside we both begun to peel by mutual consent, and Cy carried a grin all over his face. He'd been put on to a new upper-cut two or three days be fore and he was calkelatin* on spilin' my chawin' machine at the fust blow. He looked the jim-dandy as he squared off, and I raythiu' anticipated the wust. I never fit in my life, but when we squared off 1 was bound to down Cyrus. Says I: 'Cy, will ye quit yer sass and knuckle if I don't lick ye?' "And he said: 'Father, raise yer dukes a leetle higher, and look out fur me!' "With that he tapped me on the store-room with one hand and cuffed my ear with the other, and I sailed in. He gave me one on the tooth-box as 1 closed in, but arter that the gate money was mine. I throwed him into the manger, over the fannin' mill, and be hind the granary, and I was goin' to run him through the cornsheller, when he hollered 'Enough!' and begged me to let up on him. It worked a mighty sudden cure on him. Swellin' all went out his head that night, and when 1 licked him with a cornstalk next day ho was as humble as a calf. Gymnas tics is all right up to a certain pint, but when you git beyond it 't's. dangerous. S'posen I hadn't come out on top of Cy! Why, sir, he'd have bin bluffin' me outer the house by this time, and prob ably had a match on with Sullivan!"— N. Y. Sun. Newspaper Criticism It is a privilege every newspaper reserves to-itself to criticise, adversely if needs be, for the public's benefit, any thing in which the public is deeply interested. It is the custom of H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of the renowned Kidney and Liver Cure,better known as "Warner's Safe Cure," to flood the country, and especially the post-offices, with medical pamphlets. The writer has taken the liberty to examine one of these marvellous little books, and! finds food for criticism, but before indulg ing in it, will give our readers some quota tions therefrom, from the highest medical authorities, which we believe worthy of con sideration. Under the head of "No Dis tinctive Symptons Apparent.,'1 we find: First—More adults are carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other one malady except consumption. —Thompson. Second—Death from such diseases are in creasing at the rate of 250 per cent, a decade,—Edwards. Third—Bright's Disease has no symptoms of its own, and may long exist without the knowledge of tho patient or practitioner, as uo pain will be felt in Ibe kidney* ftr ^beir iJiaity.—Roberts. Fourth—In the fatal cases—and most cases have hitherto been fatal—the symp toms of diseased kidneys will first appear in extremely different organs of the body as stated above.—Thompson. Fifth—Only when the disease has reached its final and fatal stages may the usual symptoms of albumen and tube casts ap pear in the water, and will great pain rack the diseased organs.—Thompson. Sixth—Bright's Disease, which usually has three stages of development, is a universal disease in England and America.—Roberts and Edwards. Thompson is authority for saying that more adults are carried off in this country by kidney disease than any other malady except consumption. Under Warner's "Safe Cure" article on Consumption we find a paragraph claiming to be a quotation from a publication issued by Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, En gland, which states that 52 per cent, of the patients of that institution have unsuspect ed kidney disorder. Dr. Herman Brehmer, an eminent German authority, also says that Consumption is always due to deficient nutrition of the lungs, because of bad blood. Medical science can no longer dispute the fact that the kidneys are the principal blood purifying organs of tho human system, and if they are diseased and thus fail to expel the urio acid poison or the waste matter of the blood, as the blood passes through these two great organs, the Safe Cure claim is correct, and the reasoning of its proprietor holds good. There is no doubt but that in too many in stances the medical fraternity doctor for symptoms, instead of striking at the root of the disease, and that under this form of treatment many patients die. We can not, however, see the necessity of continually flooding the country with these advertising medical books, when their story once well told is enough for the limn being People as a rule, now-a-days, go to their newspaper for information, and we believe such truths as we have instanced could be proclaimed therein more advantageously to the public and much more beneficially to the proprietors.—Ex. —A florist in England claims that a rose bush, which has been bearing white roses for more than thirty years, has suddenly changed, arid now puts out only red roses. The only cause as signed for this is tho enrichment of the surrounding earth. Reforms Need More Than a Day To bring them about, and are always more complete and lasting when they proceed with steady regularity to a consummation. Few of the observant among us can have failed to notice that permanently healthful changes in the human system are not wrought by abrupt and violent means, and that those are the most salutary 'medi cines which are progressive. Hostetter's S'cmach Bitters is the chief Of tfcase. Dyspepsia* 9 disease of obstinate charac* teg, is oblilSBlted by it. Tin )ast month of the old an4 the first two months of the pew yoar maka up the limited period wbenlnumfentfolk sup. 0 let-lobsters alooo. 4| tU fltMf ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHY. n*e Wheatstone System and It* Ingenious f. and Praetleal Inventor. Prof. Wheatstone, of king's College, London, was one, of the several persons who in 1837 claimed the honor of hav ing invented the electric telegraph. He irat applied for a patent for making •ho electro-magnet act at long die* iancos. In July, 1887, wires were laid lown from Euston Square to Camden I'own Statiofa, in London, and Prof. Wheatstone sent the first message to Mr. Cooke, his .coadjutor in the work, oetween the two statipns. The inven tion was immediately patented, both in England and America, and it is stated is a curious fact that the American patent granted to Wheatstone & Cooke is eiarlicr in date by just ten days than the first patent obtained by Morsel Prof. Wheatstone has made many in ventions and improvements in electri jal machines. In 1830 he constructed the first electrical machine for sending several messages at once. The tele graph apparatus now used throughout Gireat Britain was invented- by Prof. Wheatstone. We can not give the full details of its construction, but may briefly outline it thus: It includes a punching machine for producing the perforated strips of paper, a transmitting apparatus through which these strips are rapidly passed, and a receiving device which marks on an other strip dots, and dashes in ink. The punching machine will make the holes in three or even four strips at a time, and in the hands of an experi enced operator will punch at the rate uf forty words a minute. When the pa per is prepared, it is run through the transmitter, which operates to-establish a current whenever certain moving rods can pass through the holes and estab lish a contact, the currents being alter nately positive and negative. If a suc cession of currents in reverse directions are caused to pass upon the line, the receiver at the opposite end will record a series of dots. To make a dash, one reversal of the current is missed and, in brief, the function of the paper is to regulate the motion of the transmitter so as to produce reversal or missing of reversal, of the current at the proper moments, and thus cause the current to form, in its movement, dots and dashes. The speed is determined by the rate at which the receiver can receive, because the apparatus contains a controlling electro-magnet, which takes time to be magnetized and demagnetized, and hence, if the current reverses too quick ly, the marks will run together instead of being saparate and distinct. The maximum useful speed is about 130 words a minute on a short line. One strip of punched ribbon will do for any number of circuits, so that from a cen tral station a single strip disseminates news to many places.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Through Sleeping Car from Chicago To Crawfordsvllle and Indianapolis, lnd. Troy and Springfield, O. A combined sleeping and chair car leaves Chicago via Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad at 11:20 &.,m.via daily, running through to Springfield, Indianapolis. Passengers reach Crawfordsville at 5:50 a. m., Indianapolis 7:40 a.m., Troy 12:04 noon, Springfield 1:00 p. m., Cincinnati 12:10 noon, Louisville 12:15 noon. Berth rate, Chicago to Indianapolis, 11.50. Chicago Ticket Office, No. 64 Clark street, Sherman House. THE dark oranges grown in Florida are known there as the "African russet." They are growing in popular favor. WILL be found an excellent remedv for sick headache. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Thousands ol letters from people who have used them prove this fact. Try them. THOROUH preparation before sowing the seed induces abetter germination, stronger plants, and lessens tho cost of cultivation. SUFFERERS from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc., should try Brown's Bronchial Troches," a simple but sure remedy. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cents. NEW ZEALAND offers a bounty of five cents each for the destruction of English sparrows. FOBTIFT Feeble Lungs Against Winter with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. A FRENCHMAN is anxious to arrange for a fight between a devil-fish and a shark in a i«nk where 20,000 people can see the combat. PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from a disordered liver and is promptly relieved by Carter's Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this. Six different patents were secured on chewing-gum last year. This is the Season When a Rood mectivea li necessity. The impure «mte of the deranged digestion, and the -weak condition of the body, all call for the purify ing, regulating, and strengthening, influences so happily and effectively combined In Hood Sarsa parilla. It overcomes that tired feeling, cures headache and dyspepsia, and expels every taint of scrofula from tbe blood. "My daughter had been ailing some time with general debility, and Hoed's Sarsaparilla was ree. ommended to us. After she had taken three bottles she was completely cured and built up. it is with great pleasure that I recommend Hood's Sarsapa rilla." BEN M. MIHRIELKES, Supt. Cincinnati A Louisville Mall Line Co., Cincinnati. To Purity ITour Blood. "Two months ago I commenced taking Hood'a Sarsaparllla as an experiment, as I had no appetite orstrength, and felt tired all the time. I attributed my condition to scrofulous humor. I had tried sev eral different kinds of medicine, without receiving any benefit. But as soon as 1 had taken half a bot tle of Hood's Sarsaparllla, my appetite was re stored, and my stomach felt better. I have now taken nearly three bottles, and I never was so well In my life." MRS. J. F. DOLBEARE, Pascoag, R. I. Hood's Sarsaparilla 8olUy druggists, il six for 15. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mai*. IOO Doses One Dollar Regulate The Bowels. CsstiTOUH deranges the whole mjm* tern and beget* diseases, aaeb aa Siok Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Diseases, Bilious Colic, Kalaria, etc. Tatt's Pills produce nfnlar habit of body and good digestion, without which, aeons eaa e^Joy good health. SoldEverywliere. Mao's Remedy tor Catarrh la the Best, gaslmt to Use, and Cheapest. ATAR Ala© good forpoldIn thoHead, Haadacne. Hay Vsver, Ac. Mnnts, ^JACOBS OIL FOR NEURALGIA Nwmlgla and Para!ysi»-Nov., 1880~Cww4. SpriaffltiA,1 mStrcd IS BWIII wltk irnnliU aai I bad to aer« kar im bXudeJSS to*a»rrtl»f. Bythi tla» g» ef ft TETTL* «F it. JMOK* eu ik* CMMwUk. joi.r.xuusr. Frois Sam* I Years Later—PsnMnant Cart. Ifthtfdllin., Oat.1T. MM. *jr LRIFT WM PWAHM* M* C/3 GO SBIASZABLS CASS. For two years I hod rheumatism so bad that It disabled me for work and conflncd me to my bed for a whole year, during which time I could not even raise my hands to my head, ana for 3 months could not move myself in bed,was rcdacca in flesh from 102 to 86 lbs. Was treat ed by best physicians, only to crow woM6e Finally I took Swift's Specific, and soon begat, to Improve. After awhile was at my work, and For the past live months have been as well as I ever was—nail from the effects of Swift's Specific. Jan. 8,1880. pt'wayi^&L Books on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. 8WITT Spzcmc Co., Atlanta, (la. Tutt's Pills JOSEPH H. HUNTER, eraU Ml PENSION W»!K Map. BttualurtftMttlaBt. jMotaOUalMwaa •bent Ua hou*. Kh* Uiww«mtir*lywiU 1ms aQ th*ko*M week and milUaf too. J0S.F.MUXMY. Sold by Drugffitlt and Dealcrt Evcryvokert, The Charles A. Yogeler Co., lialto* MA. Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DY8PEPSIA. A POSITIVE CTJRE FOR XHDIQESTX0V Alto AH Stomach Troublea Arising Therefrom. Tour Druggist or General Dealer will gel Vera-Cura for youjf not already in ttock. or ft mill le tent bv mail 011 receipt of JS rt». (5 boxes $1.00) iu ttampi. SampU sent on receipt oj 2 cent stamp. THE! CHARLES A. VQGELER CO., Baltteon, Md. Paine's Celery Compound Purifies the Blood, Strengthens the Nerves, Stimulates the Liver, Regulates the Kidneys and Bowels, Gives Life and Vigor to every organ. There's nothing like it. "Last spring, being very much run down and debilitated, I_pr ... gen spring medicine, I do not know its equaL" W. L. GREENLKAF, Brigadier General y. N. G., Burlington, V& Use It Now! "Having used your Paine's Celery Compound this spring, I can safely recommend it as the most powerful and at tho same time most gentle regulator. It is a splendid nerve tonic, and since taking it I have felt like a new man." B. E. KNORB, Watertown, Dakota. $1.00. Six for $5.00. At Druggists. WEIXS, RICHAHDSON & Co. Props. Burlington. Vt. DIAMOND DYES jhudm, UlflmUnU wlCO Eatyl Elegant! Economical} LACTATED FOOD £$£ tZ,L'J&£tU IRADFIELD'S REGULATOR Cures all Diseases Peculiar to Women! BOOK TO "WOMAN" MAILED FBII. BKADFIEI.D REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, CA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ttun rasa PAi/m.mj ii—mi nil* An Honest Statement. In endeavoring to give to their preparation a greater publicity and a wider field of use* fulness, tbe proprietors of Magee'i Emnl •Ion are presenting no new medicine for popular favor, nor are they attempting to at* tract public attention to any mysterious com pound or doubtful decoction of dangerous drugs and chemicals. It has been on tbe market long enough to prove its raro merits to the satisfaction of the thousands who have been benefited by its use, and whose restored health and happy lives bear living testimony to the power and virtue of this excellent preparation. It has stood the most severe tests of tbe medical profession, and the fact that no other preparation on the market has been so freely prescribed by doctors.in their regular practice, is conclusive evidence that this has been tbe most efficacious in all wasting diseases, such as Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, General Debility, and any low state of the system brought on by ex posure, overwork, impurities in the blood, hereditary taints, etc. Ask your Druggist, and be sure you get MAGEE'S EMULSION, Manufactured by J. A. MAGEE & CO., Lawrence, Mass. J. I. CASE T. M. GO. XCA.CINEI, MANUFACTURERS OR pisH CO Portable. Stationary and Traction Enrtnei. HEP* ARAYOBS, Home Powers, Tread Power*, and SAW MILL Machinery. I3F SEND rou LA AHilrrua W ROB HANDSOME CATALOGUE, HAILED FBKE. •V-NAMJt THIS PAPER mtj tim. joa wriU. MADE WITH BOILING WATER. E S S GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. 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