Lincoln County advocate., May 03, 1876, Image 1

About Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877

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the ttPMt
BtvUit: to
poem over
(wtor
fvj
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2*3«
Suau W*.
twrni lookloR from their hazy hil*,
O'er the duo waters widening in the valos,^
Xsaaas!iS5»sK»
AM. lights were mellowed and *11 sotuids nibdued
.,»"®SsSS»$SS£»w3
'Sin winter log with many a muffled blow.,
mmmJ
How stood
Withdrawn afar in tlme'i) remotest blue.
bn somtwr wingi'the \rnltnre tried hl» fllglit
The dove scarce heard hi* sighing maw's 00m
plaint
And
11*0
a star iilbw.^omting In the light,
Tho rtllage Ahtirt&Vni(S seemed to pile and faint.
The sentinel oock np ln the hillside crew—
QrMrthrlpt—anAallirMsUllerthM befor*
gllent, Ull'somerepl^iig warden Hew"" ,».•.'
,.' Bia aUen Ji«% aad tlMn^washsardiAOinor^J^
And when tho oriole swung her swaying neaty
By every light wind like oeiuer swung,
-SSIfcli
of th» eate«,
The buiy'swafiows circling ever near
Foreboding, as the rnatio mind believes,
An early harvest and a plenteous year.
1*10
.^here eveir bird that .mjird the vernal feast
Bhiok'tUW**^ Wfcrtber'fioEr' its wings at morn,
To warn the reaper of the rosy east—
And now was sun'' Cf, cir.pqr and forlorn,,
Alnn*. (rnB.«tit t1le1)iibbW,'^i]lpid^the quafl,'
vroaked tho, «6w Uixortgh all-th^ drearj
Alono
Mado'i
gIn th6 valo,
to the cottage loom.
no b«ff, Mb bloom njKm ,the bowcrf,
dert m^verf ttelt, tUa^etofttids night by
XhMre wasnobui
'N6 :mriderti
A uwbt)
The thisu* flown} hd 'oily ghost of flowers,
....•: SMled'sloMynol8§I«sly,outof sight.
Amid ali this, in this most dreary air, '.
&sd when iiie woodbine sheds upon Iho porcn
Its crimson leaves, as if the year stoqd there, ,-i
^Wrmto lfeMtt^-Ufctf -r ,.j
'/i -C*
Amid ali this, the center of the scene,
The white-haired matron with monotonous tread,
Plied the swift wheel, and With her joyous mien.
Sat like fate, and watched the flying thread.
6he
had known sorrow. He had walked with lifer,:'
Oft snipped sad broke with her the ashen crnst,
And in the dead leaves still heard-the stir:
Of hi* thick mantte'trailing in the dust.
^'^as^is^s«
Her countit su«Woned^»nd she^ftaveall
And twice was bowed to her his sable plume—
Begave the sword to rust upon the wall, -i
*Seg»v9.UiBAvi^U'bnt'"n(t the haiid^ltlit drew
And struck for liberty the dying blow,
Nor iiiiu who, to his sire the country trne,
Fell 'mid the ranks of the invading foe.
'St."} r-i -iv
Lone, but not loud, the droning wheel went on
Uko the low murmnr of a hive at noon
Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone''
Breathed throiigti her lips a, sad and tremulous
tones5''
At last the iki^Ad ^'iia snapiiedj her head was
bowed
Life dropped the distaff through her hands Serene
And loving neighbors smooth her careful shroud,
While death and winter closed fhc autumn scene.
—T. B. Head.
TI1E JRECOVEREl) TREASURE.
''J r.
Mustyou go out again, dearest J"
Helen Time's wistful blue eyes were
lifted to her htusti^nd's face as he cam
into the sitting-room with- his overi
on. He was a tall, stately-looting man,
with a high forehead and dear brown
eyes, ana the pleasantest of smiling
mouths -but, JSeW'fl faee had a some
thing in its blonde, oval beauty that re
minded you of the hunted fawn or the
wild bird stricken down bv the sports
irian's shijt: SJW jwas fai^,iui fc llly, with
hair of' Nrighti ffippled gold, and lari
As he spoke he .^landed towsrd a vel
vet-cushioned chair, where a beautiful
child of scarcely three summers lay nest
ling in the flushed,, lovely deep of in
fancy, with his'dark curls tlpown back
from the dimpled cheeks and one hand
underneath the head.
I'jvViiA' Yes he has been in' th# flttrden all
the afternoon^ and fell asleep ^tjaost the
.minute his nurse brought him in."
Dr. Tracy stood a movent looking
down upon the child.
How :pWt%*Iie growi Ah, Nelly,
.Ef
4
•Je&
h^er tpeW i^e
Heaven ever gave to his Children in this
^py."
,V0h,.Henry,Jf
.#a
the soli!
"Vail the
i.i:t»fdler
t'*0
I oaJy ha^ my little
Berthaj'too I
Stijl brpo^jfl'g. pn/you? lost one,
Haleii My dearest,^! Ihad hoped that
lame woffhoding im thgt wpund ^n your
Heart, is it wise, iff il/discreet, thus ,to.|
fwget1 the. bounties Heaven has given
was indeed losty Henry," sobbed/the
r^»itfhadred»l wooiHai oL&rtild
her'
but lieaimot 8jie may be in
may be iM or sa)(Ferfr& find'I
jess to aid heir.'1, i',
.'f''There oan W no doubt tfat *he„S'
r^eajl, Jsoothed th/ liwband.
only, ease-tins ael
iterated Helen.
At this monient
"J sofa, loudly
tention .and ^r.
the pleasant
smiling Ipfl!
,t where wa8.a
the touch of
„.f»cbe of:
'The ft
sunset)
r-leis
0«
S A A
1
power?
Were it-pflierwwe, yon/brother-in
law would long, since We_ oommuni
c«tedwithTOA:,'7r '1
itr-if 1 could
myheart,"
me
lttle'le
sat up on. the
$ his mower's at
went away with
ion that Helea was
boy's Hmilee, Ah
Jivet. magnetism like
id's hjindtosoothe the
idubn Ibelt of the late,
iddenly above the leaf
the tall trees that
ely
ber/
skirted'the
betoedto
r^td'
on either side
fta&a:'J$» gaunt aentiiiels.
jmd feit the raw,
.. leyemog air tod
thinking of Helen's
widow when he married her,
Baxon, beauty—a. wido^fr w^iom
i«fherBMitoonie'*fbreign swin
hfsbaii^ lu^ set free from a
:this fi
the
Ms brother, E#d, darkJ ,deeign
'wa& Beiftha^ their i&^o|\diiki,
been conaignecl, by Francesco^ de
to MB BROTH^S E|^ DWAIIG
iridow's Bawseqa^ti ftflfbrts Uy^ngtSM
1
ini»
bBd!"
Fliolo Petroi
persrtent,
and btitofie imf, for
is one
yojfctajw*.'
:"Audt^aki»»
r. t*k.- s» mi
one to me, -Henry," the poor yi
when Henry Tracy, armed Ndth all the
force of the'J*w, went to Milan to de
mand- pooeewion of liis little step-darrgh
ter, |c» I "Paolo Pftfeoni htalutterly disap
peaieedt and Tmih&.'niih him.
Search, inquiry, inyertigfttion, proved
eitUdly vain and frdii that day $0 thin
period of fall six years-^neither Dr.
nor his wife have ever heard one
wonlof the little Italian infant whose
smile htfd been the first gleam of li^ht
«m.fc had fallen across the troubled tide
of poor Helen Tetroni'a foreign life.
It was O^Q of those steange, inexplica
ble roman$M of real life thaj^ we some
time^ enootinter amid thtf n^ri^toosaic
mid eommon-pla^ stxit»u*I^^-and
cnpplied Dr. Tracy with ample materials
for thought as he""drove throngh the wild
and desdate part of the country.
•'Ifot a particularly pleasant spot this
at twiUght," soliloquized the- doctor,
They've Eg!
and it's high
fnrther ,on.'.
candles, I see,
did,-too."
nw bloom
patient
Quiet,
,r-And
the
"As
!i
.T: I •!».•»*'. «n
beside it.
rge,
fancy ^w&fTRo#^"-to hive been, in
short.'
tea, "but ^^ia}i |0oii be home, Nell,
so don't won? yourself about me. Harry
asleep, I see." j'1'"
And the biggest harpy in the coun
try added Dr. Tracy I knew that
when I. had this poor.creature brought
here when I found her dying by the
roadside the night before last, out
couldn't very well help myself. Don't
be alarmed, Mrs. Hopper, you shall not
be a sufferer! But about this little girl
—I really don't know what to do."
He hesitated an instant, mechanically
smoothing the fleecy, yellow curls of the
I«^lyiti ff** ...
"I suppqae," he saW, noddingtoward
the bed she left no!money nor valua
bles ofanv kind?"
Hjjrtabit of'it, sir, for^—"
But the child stepped forward, A&agile
bitrota thing, bui-erect«nd rcsraute.
•Wiat.did'you do with that little bag
yo» to^! Qflf, nurse Niua's nedc! she
adked.
"Bagf" stamfliet$i the confounded
wtnian.
neck last
J?'* I t* &
«i, M#
jPU
their
hted
time they
He sprang from his phaeton and en
tered the Cottage without knocking.
'. I,t presented no VOT inviting scene.
A ruinous floor, treaoh«rous and uncer
tain to'the iuiwary footstep
masses of plaster had fallen a^ra
ing the rough laths exposed anc
place where a few femp ,logs sputtered
and smoked, tod./did feverything but
bhuse up cheerfuly. A hard featured
old drone, who wa dozing on a stool by
-the. hearth, starfd up, and began to
court&yas the did»r entered ,.
""'Well, Mrs. Stopper, and how is the
walls where
iy.
and a fire-
leav-
.iiu
as a lamb, bless its little
heart!"'
Dr, Tracy took
sti-ode acro^iJie:
the candle and
a low bedstead
er, where a hu
tUned beneath
irpane. Close
th a shower of fleecy, flaxen
ringlets Wngled with the black, dishev
eled locksof the prostrate woman, nestled
a child w^o looked np into the doctor's
eyes as \e approached, with innocent,
wo*deri*«lofk% W
erv%e dir%s agifc'clock,"
il^romflb, ^-ana she hain't
MMFO DO fuss since. I wouldn't disturb
her, 'cause there's nothin' so refi
she dead!
Dead!" shrieked the old woman,
BcrofH tlffliloor—" dead 1 Come
^ray, tAild^jpaW'-
The little creature slid to the ground
with a eomposore strangely at variance
with her age, and stood alternately eye
ing her two companion*
««I hope, doctor, you'll see I don't
lose notmn by the e^enise I've been
to," whined Mrs. Hopper. I'm alone
widder woman, and——"
ft
tuning red and white.
"Butldo not think she is," said the
doctor, quietly but fimly.'* Give her
the bag, Mrs. Hopper.
I never see no bag, as sure ius I live
and breathe 1" asserted the woman but
Dr- Tracy's quick eye followed the direc
tion of herwtm^^^gla^ce^ He^^ed
"That is my bag," said the child,
holding out her small hand.
"Yes but had I not better keep it
for youf Aad,-fitAe one, perhaps I
shall take you hojne-uith me to-night.
It is not well that you should stay in the
house with death.*
"Iamniot afradd of death," said the
dbild, gravely., I saw nay uncle Ffcolo
Who?" demanded Dr. Tracy, turn-
»K T^'« .hetet^|^
..
Come here, my .ehOd,'i he. Baid, in
tremuloai vcaoe. ''Ww: .was this
thathes deadliew?^
My nuise, Ninik"
And how did jibe oome here!"1 i-4
A puzzled expression come over tl)^
grave little face,
bom# with
UM
...
d(K^propbleiI
ip^WuaitofhremyHtr
^*00 will
?sl
ii
'Mtm
IIRJP*
ilow, sir she can
r~I don't kxlow W:
years old.,
the little leffiier
d^un ofgigtld and
likefioitowtM)
iBt*
said,
As he led the fauhai|gd child foj
Srd, E^en j4 her for if'
ftuM mto a wild,
glad cry.
Bertha I my own little Bertha!
The mother's instinct had trium
over all these long, long years of
ration' and in the tender embrace that
enfolded her tiny form, poor little Ber
tha Petroni first'learned "how it would
seem to have a mother.
"Well," said Dr. Tracy, smiling
through a dimness in his sight, if I
were an infldel I might say fate bad
done this. As I am not, I'll venture to
assert that the hand of Providence has
led us most miraculously through this
long labyrinth of years.
Ueniiniscences for the Centennial.
The following facts respecting tUe
personality of the illustrious men Iwho
imperilled their properly, their liberty,
and their lives by attaching their sig*
natures to that instrument which estab
lished our national independence will' be
MfeSivfiaintemBt fU tbd fiiial an
niversary of the* day which witnessed1
the act draws near:
The thirteen States then comprising
the American colonies fgrs represented
in the assemblage that jfassed the meas
ure by fifty-one members. Thirty-seven
enjoyed the. benefita of-collegiate train
ing, twenty were lawyers, foHr were
physicians, five were clergymen, three
were fanners, and the remainder if ere
engaged in various mercantile pursuits,
except Roger Sherman, the shoemaker,
$nd Benjamin Franklin, who boasted of
being a printer, yet was a statesman and
a philosopher. Benjamin Franklin was
tn^oldest among the^rqjepibscs .and Ed
36uEd ^Builedgv the yotu^est. 'Robert
Morris was the most opulent, and was
the financier of the administration,Ne
gotiating extensive loass for the use Of
the Government upon his personal credit
He died in prison, having been incar
cerated for debt a beautiful common-,
taryon thoee laws thatpt^e no disorint
inaaon between the hoseot but un|oi
tunate debtor and the convicted feLtm.
Daniel Adams was the most needy, his
impoverished condition being well
known. The management of his pe
cuniary affairs made it necessary for
him to seek a burial at the public ex
pense. Josiah Bartlett was the first to
vote for the measure, and first after
President Hancock to sign the docu
ment. Twp of! the number, John Ad
ams and Thomas Jefferson, were subse
quently Presidents. It is a remarkable
fact that these two men, having been
Presidents, associated on the committee
that framed the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and the first recognized lead
ers of two great political factions of
our country, died on the same day, the
4th of July, 1826—the fiftieth anni
versary of. the day upou which they had
contributed so. cjupn to the welfare of
their countrymen.. Charles Carroll was
the only member that added his, place
of residence, and the reason of its being
done in- this instance is somewhat pe
culiar. The, pdtriotB. thkt tona^d that
convention knew full well that by their
action on that day they hazarded their
lives. When Carroll was signing soilie
one near him remarked, "He will, get
off there are so many Carrolls they
will not know which to take." "Not
so," replied he, and immediately addea
"of tiarrollton." He lived to see.jaJl
the memorable men with whom he acted
on that eventful day pass away, and on
joyed the prosperity of his country
until 1832, when he died in Ids ninety
fifth year.—Boston Journal.
A SUght Histake.
A slim gentlemen of rattier seedy ap
peartmpe, witi). a bag in his hand, called
at a Danbury bank on Saturday, and
asked to see the cashier. The boy took
a good look at the party, whom he aaw
tone a traveling agent of some kind, and
then went into the back room with in
formation. He returned apd said the
cashier was very, busy just now. The
stranger set his bag down, and, leaning
against the wall, prepared to jprit.
Hell have a good time af he waits
till Mr. comes out here," whis
pered the boy to the teller.
"You bet," replied the teller with a
jocular wink.
But the man waited. Years of expe
rience, perhaps, had taught
wonderful sublimity of waiting. Once1
the cashier appeared in the door, but
seeing the boire still there he precipitate
ly retreated. Shortly after he fled over
to the other bank to tell the cashier of
the way he had outwitted, the book
fiend* He had been there but a minute
or two when the slim man appeared and
asked for the cashier. The official of
^i»t b«§k ym oblige^ ito^adpijt 1* pres
vlVViM33»..
4
"i! 1 ',t!'-'r Ml« I
»tiw m,« i/b 'fJ A
10 iiftSW fit S&'i 5'-
|f* IrifciM
V-. M*«r-£ rj yfaaft 'M "-4.' ir -o
to or­
phan!"
"Tee," said little Bertha, simp)
Do you remember nothing
mamma!"
Mamma," repeated the
vaguely. My mamma—no I
had a mamma!"
•ever
Wouldn't you like to have one
I—don't—know," hesitated Bertha.
I don't-
knxwrfypv
it would seem to
have on^
It was intensely dark when they drove
np to the doctor's house, but the lists'
shone like cheerful beacons, aud_ HMetr
was in the hall to greet him.
My love," he snid, standing on the1
threshold, I have bteught yon a little
daughter teflove and chftrish^-Ugome iiMift
to ml the lost Berfhis^^ace."
deposjtof 86,m @0
to "Ureery
got'"
MB*
sua the fiiim manl "I waH going
take it to the other bank, but I got tii.•ed
1
waiting for the cashier to come in."
The oashier for whom he bad waited
shot '.jack to his own institution, And
when he got hold of that bey he gaVe
him«dearer idea of singing sounds
than he ever had before or will, perhaps,
DB. S. Vnu WmuAMS, of Peking,
has just published the concluding por
tions of nis syllabic dictionary of the
Chinese language, an immense work, to
has been for forty
which he
years.
ABBXiiaXOQS
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in Teofei-
GUM-
Qirng ?i ''t
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a i'a 'A"yu t'S
IBM i*3WJ fa «k
"Hew to the Lirief het the Chips Fall Where They May.f9
VOLUME I. CANTON, DAKOTA f«»«fTPKr, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3,1876.
iH I5t«BKSTimj
^h«.^rncKf/l Over X#w»rd Kver«tt's Nom
yij^rliwi fV Mfpls^fT to Great JrtUln.
Th»eotitest hi ^Se Senate of Qie Hfiri
ted Statea iy*ti thea6pnflrmrftioi^. rf 'Mr
Dana as, Minister, to Qreat Britain re
c&Qs ttie 'f&ry bitter struggle in 1811,
whett Edwarfl Everett had Jteep nomi
nated for the same Jlace, Harnson had
been ^«yfed ^reli^it, repelling' 234
eleetbl^r vo% ^•®8n«t, Ton
ftrakdwi. tejjif imtugtHsitadt on the
4ih orluurdi. Bu| he died 'on the 4th
fit April.followingfc tad Tyler be*
caijie ^President, j^tinifig Daniel We^r
/StKte, and nominal
TfirEveretfos""l^kter^ E^gltod7a«
had been agreed upOh before the death
of Gen. Hancisob'^ Mr. Everett had al
ways been very conservative," but he
had, when a candidate for the guberna
torial chair of Massachusetts, expressed
Hie opinion, in answer to a. letter, that
Congress had the power to abolish
slavery in this district.: This wias made
the pretext by the Dempcrats to defeat
the nQmination, and thus retain Andrew
Stevenson (father of the'present Senator
from Kentucky) at the Court of St.
The Whig p^urty-had majority,
the Democrats thought that, if they
could brand Mr. Everett as an abolition
ist,: no. Southern Whig would dare to
vote^hiiu.
The- Senate Ccmmittee «n Foreign
Relations—a majority of which were
Whigs —reported in favor of Mr. Ever
ett's confirmation,' bu£ Senator William
B. King, who was a member of the com
mittee, made a minority report^ ln which
he took- the ground that it would be
dangerouB to the peculiar institution
to have the eonntiy represt-nted by an
abolitionist,-when there was already a
strong anti-slavery feeling. The nom
ination was plaeed on the calendar witii
the adverse minority rejjOfti: Tpat, night
'Senator Morehead, of Kenttocfor, crafi
med
dentially Informed' Thtirlow Weed, of
the Albany Jourbal, then here asa dor
respondent for h|fli paper, wliat was go
ing on in exectitiVe esssioa, and said that
even Mr. Clay, while he advocated the
confirmation, would only give a silent
vote for it. Mr. Weed declared that this
would never do, and at once sat about
checkmating the oppoeitiion to Mr. Ever
ett by communications in the Baltimore
Patriot, whidi «ame badc here in seo
son, and by personal appeals to Mr.
day. Bufus Choate, then a Senator
from Massachusetts, was also very active
among the Whig Senators, and before
the nomination was reached for action,
the Southern Whigs saw that it would
be suicidal for them to b6 made tools of
by the Democrats. Archer of Y.
and Prefctori of South Carolina
persisted in thek opposition. -i
Whan Ute nonapafcga came, up-4s fte
Senate. Jameis Bu'ahai£n took the lead
in opposing Mr. Everett, and was fol
lowed by Mr, King, who repeated the
arguments used in, his minority report,
and concluded his bitter remarks by
saying that, if a gentleman holding
views so opposite to the interests of the
South, and so destructive to its institu
tions was confirmed, for this important
position, the Union must and would be
dissolved 1 Heftry Clay, who had walked
up and down the Space behind! the
choir of the presiding officer, listened
attentively to Mr. Kind's phillippio,
sprang to- his desk at its conclusion,
and added, pointing his index-finger at
Mr. King: And I fell you, Mr. Presi
dent, that if a gentleman, so pre-emi
nently qualified for the post of Minister,
rejected by this Sen«te, and
for .ilio Inniui givrti ujr tho Sou&uS
fromi Alabama, that this Union it dis
solved already 1" A somewhat heated
debate ensqed, which was closed by Mr.
Clay, who, after having Previewed the
arguments agaisit Mr. Everett, said, in
his imperial wav: "These arguments,
Mr. President, all verge to one center,
whiah is that Mr. Evaett is opposed to
the system of negro slavery on windple.
So axe all the best ifien of New England.
8or ore many of the best men at the
South. So am 1,' Mr. President, air
though I am to owner of slaves I"
When a vete was reached, the nomina
tion pf Mr. Everett was confirmed by a
vote of twenfrf-thm yeas against nine
teen-nays. Messra. Clayton of Dela
imA w«i^ at Hf«—.l»nd Riyea
of Vlrgii^ ^QgSm and Graham of
Southern Whigs, voted aye with the
Northern Whigs Archer of Tirginia,
and Preston of South Carolina, South
ern 'Whigs, voted nay, while Bayard of
Delaware, Kerr of Maryland, Barrow of
Louisiana, and Henderson-of Missis
sippi, also Santhem Whigs, dodged iU
deference to Southern opinion. Not a
Democrat** vote was otft for Mr. Ev
erett, and there were six Democratic ab
sentees, one of them Fra#klin Pieroa jpf
New Hampshire, and toother Judge
Nicholson of Tennessee who died last
week. There cannot be over three or
four who were thai in the Senate still
alive. One of these is ex-Gov. William
and another bert J.
The Sapreme Cwurt,
The United States Supreme court has
dedded to adjourn on toe second Mon
day in May, and no
hoard after Friday, A|
is still running lorgi
unable to dispose of tn
will be
Thecourt
being
usineas already
bill to relieve die iourt by in­
creasing the money limit involved, and
by establishing a court of appeals, which
passed the House several months ago,
is still in the Judiciary Committee of'
the Senate, whure it seems likely to re^
main.
ITi.. irl—lu. U_M—1- ife-
The ftmsts of £nrope axe estunated
as being 500,000,000 acres in extent,
In North America 1,460,000,000
are covered with trc«9, of which
900,000,000 are in British North
ioa. In South America fecests occupy
700,000,000 acres. The proportion o4|
forest ?and to the whole area of Europe.
jmmV .^Wt JKiy*
fore, twenty per cent, tobetheproi
tion
fore, twenty per
tion in Ana, Africa and Austn£a,'th«
a?
tr
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I'.awrt raws wo jeoi^.«
36 1'
-it ".•••ihfvt: U. f5 n»int wi v«W
grand total of the foreebhof the world
cover a spaoe of 7,734,000 geographical
milee.
Th* Dector.
A .Hi,'.-.* CATABBB.
We have known -MB* -fWrere cases of
hasiU catarrh cured by the dpfy use of a
pinch of snuff, made by scraping to a
flue powder castile scaip. and d&awing it
up tnie flosawftibi grmtjfcrw,
SO ABLET I
An eminent physician of CSncago says
he cureajjiuety-nine out of every 100
cases of scarlet feve* by gjving the pa
tient warm lemqnade .with gum arabie.
Sssolved in It '& Cloth'' wrnng ittt Sat
a^d 'ffiTsbma^
should be removed as rapidly as it be
comes.eooL.
PUMPKIN
.AS
A POOMIQE.
A correspondent of the New York
Farmers' Club gives an instance iq which
a womto's arm was swelled to ah enor
mous size and painfully inflamed. -A
poultice was made of stewed pumpkin,
which was renewed every .fifteen miqt
utes, and in a' short time prodnced a
pertect cure. The fever drawn out
the poultices "xhade them extremely o:
fensire as they were taken off.
ravAmrbB TamcB-suaaire.
The British Medical Journal pub
lishes an artide by Dr. Horace Dobells,
in^ which th«kfc distinguished physician
states that he has observed that a pecu
liar tod rathar common deformity of the
chest is caused by the habit of sucking
the thumb ln infancy and earXy child
'hbod.' He aays Qkat the weight "of the
arm on the wttax of the child, during
sleep, produces depression of the ribs in
the line occupied by the arm when the
thumb is placed in the mouth.- The doc
tor thinks this is a very important effect
of the habit of thumb-sucking—one
which bus never been- pqipted out—and
he regards it of sufficient consequence to
be put on record for the benefit of other
observers.
j. oDNenfAiios.
Many feeble, people and invalids who
troubled by constipation of the
wels mdy be permanentlybenefited by
of the common tinct-
are
bowels mfiy
using a very
ure of mux vomica.' A druggist will
give, you half an ounce lor five cents
then put two drops into about a half an
When vou are sitting up nights with a
patient, m&& to nave something tip
eat, if you wish tosaveyoursdf unneees
"eahaustion.
ember tbat sick persons are not
Jwayawise
If}
idiotic or imbecile, and thai
to try to pereuade
them that their sufferings are,imaginary.
Themay even at times know best what
they may need.'
you have a sick friend
:to
whom you
wish to be of use, do not content your
self with sending her flowers and jelly,,
but lend her one of your pictures to hang
in place of hers, or a bronze to replace
the one of vrhich die is so tired.
DonH have needless conversation with
the -doctor'outside of the' siek room,
Nothing^will.oxcite and irritate a nerv
ous patient sooner.. If you do have such
conversations, don't tell the patient that
the 'doctor said "nothing." He won't
bdieve you, and he wm imagine the
wont possible.
In lifting the siek, do not take them
by the shoulders and drag them up oik
to the pillows, but get some one to nelp
you,
JLiet one stand on one side .of th*
the other opposite, then join
under the shoulder* and hips, tod
lift- steadily and promptly together.
This method is easy fpr those who lift
and doee not distmb the one who i*
lifted.
Do not imagine that your duty is over
when you have nursed your patient
through his illness, and.be is about the
house, or, perhaps, going out again.
Strength does not come back in a mo
ment, and the days when little things
worry and little efforts exhaust, when
fhe eares of bnsiuea begin to press, but
the feeble brain and hand refuse to
think and execute,.are the most trying
to the sick one, and then comes the need
for your tenderest care, your most unob
trusive watchfnlnees.—«fn'6ner.
O a & &
Areejent writer bsoly soys: I believe
no two good soldiers,
wul widely disagree
as to their sensations during a battle I
take it to be a* piece of bravado in' any
man to assert that he had no fear during
the progress of a long and severe en
gagement. A battle is a veritable ball
upon earth not to be in serious appre
hension while it lasts is to be either
drunk, crazy, or insensible. The highest
type at bravery is that of the man who
the full
realizes but
»peril,-1
Luty. It ma my
all those about
extent of the
tohisdul
experience, and that of
me, repeated a down, times, that
firing is not ordinarily nearly
Mo-
BO
ttitOmoirjWi'old'Aiii, Hid torffnr
were fUMid' felled! ttuHhot
wennds,^the iibljbmr day lal*e
sTHK
,ypa¥t
BPfP
«prBras oov«qdl,b#
«rtl» car
were supposed to be Hi
'T—
«i 4* 7 ,*
^jjuuU ote w*rfc-r-rr :Uft
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jy-
I1'
Mj \.*U"t )rnx-)ticjtf -l
ijl .jr if,M:V
It tr vft,
«./. JAPAiUHB.
one
drop into a part of a tumbler of cold
water and drink it all, several times dur
ing the day. Do not take any more
tha^thisin one day but it may be con
tinued each day until permanently cured.
Graham bread'and a vegetable diet area
great hdp for this trouble but they are
not agreeable to some people's lutes,
and are not easily obtained bymany wltt)
knpw tfwA they anight Jspe-beoefliedby
theme .y, .»•
wont Horn
Don't whisper in the siek robm.
When the doctor comes to see yini,re
membeB how many pairs of stairs he has
tp climb every day, and go downio him
if you are reU eaough.
N|
Their Work as tbe CimtfaaW at
iNkltodelplila.
carpenters woA
To keep aUirt .a
lus'beenseSai'OQnati
ing An old boas Aiilid^lita
ter.whom Ife.'StiDseti sfcwleaningovBT
the fence Thnrsd^y afternoon,"'laid In
,«i8wer to a qjoMton whetherany me
could go inside^. Oh,
to:^mt uprthis conoemfc,,,.^
tftyi& gat feetf ia
OBbw
V«wi u: .*
'.NUMBER 2.
Ameriiaa4 caii^enteini cant
hold a caudle to^ tod titty fbond out
that some folk*
around here wasaH abeve
stealing. But the tods ain't half as in
genious as their 'ways of hwdlin' 'em.
I've watched that "fellow up there now
few half a day, and never seen him use
arule or a ssasariug rod. Blessed if
be don't measure everything with his
eye. See him now—see him saw off
that connection between them two posts
see how qtuck he saws it in two with
ihat Utile fine tool of ius. Now look at
himpatitup. There—it fits to a hair's
breadth, and yet he did it with Ma eye
Now notice the other little euss yonder.
He's fixin' .one dove-tail to flj^mto an
other he han't tnMhed anyflaag iathe.
shape of a rule since bebegan, and you'll
see.tbat hell make tbeta two joints set
as if .they, were mdted into each other.
Hi! didn't I tell you so! You can't get
your finger-nail in the crack. The wood
they^use is niostly a kind of red cedar,
stnnghter, whiter and coarser-grained
than ours not so red, and without the
odor of American oedar. Another kind
of wood is as fine as box-wood, but
harder, and has a
mental grain. The.
of a day mixture of: their' own. Each
-tile weighs about as much as one of our
brides. These tiles are rf peculiar ocm
struction—CQnvolnted on one side, the
other side slightly convoluted, lapping
under and into the convolution of ite
neighbor, so that the tiles axe jointed
side wise by the device of their own con
struction. The correspondent did not
see that they were knitted .together up
and down the roof by any joint or catch,
but they -overlapped one another, as
Anmrinwi shingles do, and werefkstened
to the roof by a deep underlaying of wa
ter-proof cement. He remarked to the
old carpenter that inch a roof must be
very heavy. Heavy 1 Yes, indeed.
That there roof must weigh nigh onto
two taw. But just see howbeautifnlly
thqy eoatrive to support it withdot let
tiogitaeem to be J«savy, and without
to m»ke. any fues. Sea how
timbsr-gearis jet how ^ell
tbe ifprights «e distributed, and hew
i^tkoi3lMldender braoee are. If I
didn't teH von, you'd never think that
roof was ao heavy* When they get the
building finished -and punted you'll
think of thie roof as the lightest part of
it. tod tbs whole ihingfll seem as if you
eOuld take it up your back and carry
it away."
1,
Death of an Uafortauate Severeigs.
Leo XHt^ex-King of Armenia, has just
died in a state of wretched poverty in
hospital at Ifilan. This
of his earthly possessions and
from his kingdom by the Czar of Buasia,
who was, at first, charitable enough to
payhimasniallpeDBkm. For some time
paet, however, the pension was cut off,
the Czar having reached the conduaion
that it was beet to let Ids Majesty shift
for mmwwif in tiie struggle of existence.
Of course,'the only shifting the poor,
unacclimated outcast could dp was to
pawn all the little trinkets of past royalty
remaining to him, and this lie did in be
half of bread. Finally, he had nothing
more to pawn, and died, leaving a widow
tod several very interesting young Ar
menian ex-anbwets. A ooDaetion has
been taken up far them by the hospital
authorities Yet this poor sovereign was
of very high and noble lineage, having
numbered-among his ancestors no less
•than tweaty-five kings who Wore erowns
five were emperors of the East, three
kings of Jeruntai^ and seventeen kings
ofiCyprufc .1 «••'.. r--
On Contract
A long, slim colcffed man rested on his
snow-shovd in front of a honae on Mi
ami avenue and mused:
"James, you is a fool! What fpr?
"Why, for oontraetin' to keep dia walk
d'ar of snow for de
for 15.00.
wanned
He threlw up a few mot*
hisflngen,and wenton:
.. You thought you hod a soft thing o&
de contract business when all de mow
what fdl in 'Cember, January and Feb
rumj didn't take three houra' work to
d'arofE Oh V0u is mi^tty peart, yon
-iel-fHere's half a day's workand snow
ooiun' down Iqr de cart-load."
He dug about three feet further, and
suddenly uttered a -yell and called
James, yon is all right—your head
amdeleveleet kindoTlev«l! It was five
dolUtrs for de winter season, while fatoah
de im has crossed de Bne a Whofe* week
Sdl! You isn't no
shoulder dst snow
home!Detroit Ifae fret*.
anddissnorhaint-
it
demoral­
ising as that of ronsketfy. It is not.
pften.-tbat shell are thrown so that their
fragments scatter deathand wounds, and
thjBir lend humming overhead does not
carase tt^t nervoua tmglingwwc^alway*
A^RAvs the sharp zip fhe iifle bullet.
Thd peculiar euttiBg of 'the "a& made by
baU kdoaen «l these st ouofe is apt to
give the soldier tfeaidee that the whole
air is£lled ^th.^them, and thai-hf is
iVyour
fool, Ja
Jamea—3
-yptt
low and walk right
Life fep 8psnte
«uriOns fact about mongea
it
kept dry, its Jifeij
when iiie.wet. The
with wannwaier and
room,
tsraltttie wMlet sppssrio be
readi out like
longer fliayaietts
Nestly half ofiA'ttMi
to oome to
drytheinotidn
in a
pliia,w^adt^n o^fisstoo#tha
'SESSMShnm^
the time of,
m-vmm
SMiLllgM Itft'
waMyMo..
jtinemm MM
rait for aa*. Man. JA1,^4
And mSnt mi
IalMninMa«kMfT««aw*»iVMA
tb»«ww.iS —tb»stfy,-g
llMktoMks«Bd,lla]r, look loth* sad
TaahanbaMS always ana tn*r aye
Sftlwirft-jna. t—fcard te haar'
MrleAr««wf»i
OTT
the Cenfen^il groturds at Philaddphia
draw crowds of rtirieeitf-huaters. -Mr.
Stillson, of the Wbrld, hm been to Me'
them and *hat he
"StaaasssasRy^r'
if ra
*AaA*.
UtlmkmSmM, 11
It IlMa lisf wtwM to.
Sr*a irtraext maO 1
But Ma atstarwta asti Ha a»l *ii
To tell ma that kq& ehtngtif 1
'ton
Too old
W4 4JWB fteietttr
Far hadnt I givsa Mm
hU inimf
to ten tfae truth'—
"Well, there waaaothinx to door to aar
John had aright to ckangc Ida mind
I Joal vast on la'tfea aam old wqr,
!,"v
Only—IlsftmyliopeabehiBd.
Thrre were aome that tried to emibiiitm* tt«B,
Baat tortd «aelda heart,'
And 'iohn was
BO
hatter t)w other BSB.
aaemeatoeai
Bat that aarar
Bo dia.endad her aimpta tale,
the mart"
ifisii:.'
Twaa an old, old atory, told rft hafore,
For one hear* wflltraataadoswwill
ITntfl t»—- ~mtren.fm
... •.
RttaaiFMit.
To do so no more is the truest., inde
pendence.
SoBCs aees generally ecour tbe track
for the sWeevisfaikes.
ItfnTjyg, TIL, ,la plftactvl,. te CgH itself
THX
man who had a project dir foot
went to a ooni-dootor.
IF
menwould aetgood examples they
might hsteh Better habits.
Yoo should not stone youf iiel^hber,
but you may rock hia baby.
DBZED
apples aro bocafoing a fsdiion
able dessert fg swell parties.
TH*
mauwbo doesniot sethim»ilf np
too high wffl am get hurt when he falls.
T^« pagflista Allen and Cobum are
daring each other to fight again. Head
quarters St St. lipis,
HfiSW Ydax haft StMigftls and
tramps i^ the institntiiains doing
nothing.
CAB
a man dining i* a aew soft of
do4ws be raid to hitfea fsg-ont lor din
ner^' JS4&.
.^tes
a
A iqpi of aaal&ec iniilaiaing that hex
husband was.deadto
mente^he rep&>^ ^'tNMtos.my'flear,
Sos is itfis s-^^fiiury, Ta
ashsmedxif youl IWwa-I wis year sge
I could read?-as'*WBll as I ean now."
iobiiny-^'kwS 'you'd a different
tssdiirtoiriiiA we'wiot^'
A
XAH
wlio oontractedaifel^t't#ti,i48
isedto send theother fttss soon as the
a A.
Waa
^X^wwKIB*
Wmza KATOIT, vou Mercer, Pa.,
committed sufdde by taking cq^rosive
soblunate. sunerings were wo great
to tlmial. milting'
"AH,
my good fellow, where hiwtfyeat
beenforawjeek back!" "For a wealt
b^ek 1 I have not been trouUedwith a
weak back, I^ttunk yoo." "No, no V'"
whw hfmjmbHBknrlBdcr ^fsag
back! DantyonoaQmekmghid(,yon
uiquisitive'fellow."
Huoo AnoCi wbik ooe dur Mnttut
Ml til ••IllSSf «1|»tMf jlaJSinrtlwiSS
wm wDBfttt ilinop (yitwwi uytDo
liaise of a brawling feDow who .waa salt
his window. "The
saidHugo,Mhehes
oonp.
Eve for ecru in
•lady's disss at ate
it read IB
five ailk," had
$
-f
Trato Witli€n»a.
the United
the realrehtkM
lf#w
b*SiSto4lke revenue by whkh|hj
tion is isrtiil» tod to Mie leNK
imi'
onrfls
JivisiMljCQ
wO
i$yt
s^TJSm^td
szsmz
ft.
1 -Vi
HtSoSlSm
naman waahinar aold di
andmadeatargM of 1
hefc riflssi One fired and
•Yonalways »ghi to aim
at a low inn in Pasis far anighifsi 1
ing, mien asked
he wrote, The Kinn Si
were at-J
asked Um "Do you
to be Sing «f Spain?" "Not
"Wiyj fttn, do jtm so in^stis
your name t" Benssat I wkk tstiwiel
mowrniio."
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