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BUSINESS CAEDS.
J^OBB, J. WM
BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER,
At his new loaaorM parlors. Shower and hot
baths. 1 have two firstCI&BB bath room, Base­
ment Dankleman's block, Main street, Austin,
Minn.
ENTISTIiY,
DR. P. B. PECK
Office over Jacob*' store on east side of Main
street, where he is prepared to do all kinds of
work in dentistry, and solicits a share of public
patronage.
N. frUEAT, M. D.,
JI0MCE0PA TillC PHYSICIAN dk SURGEON
Special attention given to the diseases of jromen
and children. Oiiice and residence opposite
Congregational chnrch, corner St. Paal and Mill
streets, Anstin, Mower connty, Minn.
RJMOS- PHILLIPS,
M. D.,
HOMfEOPA TillC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
lias permanently located in Austin. Calls in city
or country promptly attended to at all hours.
Office arid rooms in Schlcuder's block, first door
north of Mower County Bank. f3T"Eiectric
oaths given at the office.
W. ALLEN, M. P.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ofllce at Mills & .Johnson's drug store, Austin,
Minn, Oflice hours from 9 to 11 a. m., and 3 to
5 r. *. ItcMrJence, Water street.
QRMANZO ALLEN',
"JUDGE OF PROBATE,
Attorney at Law and Real Extate Agent.. Col­
lections made and Taxes paid. Ofllce in Court­
house, Austin, Minnesota. 39-tf
JOHNSON & PIERCE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Austin, Minn. Practice in all the coarts of the
stnte. Prompt attention given to collecting.
Otlice over Dunkelmann's store. jun20
M. GREKNMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice In the courts of record and the U.
S. courts. Office In Schleudcr's block. Main
street, Austin, Minn. 40-1
YMAN D. BAIRD,
A TTORNEY A LA W,
Reol Kstntc, Tnsurnnco 'nd Collection Agent.
Ofllce, front room,second floor,over Hall & West's
store, Austin, Minnesota.
AFAYKTTE FRENCH,
A TTORNE A LA
W,
Austin, Minn. Collections and other business
attended to carefully and promptly. Agent of
tlic /Kina and other Fire Insurance Companies.
ORice over ('. W. Taylor's store. jun20
Jjl B. CRANK,
A TTORNE AT LA
W,
Jic-ul Estate and Coilertlon Agent. Taxes paid
for nun-residents. ££r"OfHee, second floor of
Dunkclmann's new bioclc, Main street. 19-tf
Mi CAMERON,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
And Itcnl Estate Agent. Collections mado and
taxes paid.
C.
II. JOHNSON, M. D., C. M.,
{Successor to Dr. A. Macdonald.)
Graduate of Mcfllll College, Montreal, late As
olH'.ant Surgeon In Montrcul General Hospital.
Ofllce over Clemmer & Pooler's drug store. Calls
attended day and night.
JJA1LWAY IIOUSB,
IIORIIOBIN 6 COX.,
Proprietors. Rates, $2.00 per day. Qoed Sample
Rooms up town. Quests carried to and from
the city free of charge. Up town connected by
telephone at Clemmer & Pooler's. Anstin, Minn.
JJEI) CEDAR MILLS.
J. GREGSON,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in the best
brunds of Grocers' and Bakers" Flour. Also all
kinds of Mill Feed for Bale at his store on Main
street, Austin, Minn., and at the mill, two miles
south of the city.
^VERY & JUDSON,
DENTISTS,
AUSTIN, MINN.
Ofllce over Dorr A
Wold's drug store.
SOCIETIES.
IDELITY LODGE, NO. 89, A. F. & A. M.
The regular communications of this
lodge are held in Masonic llall, Anstin,
/y^ Minnesota, on tho -Urst. and third Wed­
nesday evenings of each month.
JOSEPH ADAMS, W. M.
L. D. BAIRD, Secretary.
JJOYAL ARCH CHAPTER, NO. 11.
The Stated convocations of this Chapter
are hold in Masonic Hall. Austin, Minnesota,
on the second and fourth. Friday evenings
of each month.
EUGENE WOOD, M. E. H. P.
F. I. CRANK, Secretary.
gT. BERNARD COMMANDEItY, K. T. NO. 13
I I Moots first Monday evening of each
month at Masonic Hall.
EUGENE WOOD, E. C.
G. L. CJSE, Recorder.
O. O. P.
Tho regular meetings of Anstin
jp Lodge, No. SO, are held in their hall
every Tuesday evening. Odd Pel-
lows from other jurisdictions, whose business
may lead them to Austin, are cordially invited to
visit ns. 1.. DETTELBACI1, N. G.
O. L. OmnoNS, Secretary.
O. G. T.,
AUSTIN LODGE NO. 107, I. 0. 0. T.,
Meets every Monday evening in Odd Fellows'
Hall, cornor Main and Mill streets. Strangers
stopping in city belonging to this order are cor­
dially iuvited.
WILSON BEACH, W. C. T.
MRS. O. SLOCVM, Secretary.
PAINTINGc.
OLSON & MALMBERG,
AUSTIN, MINN-,
House, Carriage and Sign
IP^IZtSTTll^O
PAPER HANGING,
Kalsomining and Frescoing!
Special attention given to Graining In Imita­
tion of Woods, and to inside work generally.
WILLIAM OLSON,
M. MALMBERG.
The
largest
irk«!tale*RtaH
House in
West. We
do first'dass work
over the State
at the lowest prices
Corroeponctone« Solicited
Samples Sent on Request
•4V.
REST TONIC
This medicine, combining Iron with pare
vegetable tonics, quickly and completely
t'
wea Dnpepd% lndlgeition, WcaaacHi
PSrre Bleed* Malaria,
Chill* and Ferera*
and Nearalcla.
It is an nn failing remedy for Diseases of the
Kinaeya and Liver.
It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to
Women, and ajl who lead sedentary lives.
It does not injure the teetb, cause headache.or
produce constipation—other Iron medicines do.
It enriches and purifies the blood,
stimulates
the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, re­
lieves Heartburn and. Belching, and strength­
ens the muscles and nerves.
For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack of
Energy, Ac., it has no equal.
MW The genuine has above trade mark and
Crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other,
•tbatllkr BRO'TH CHXXICAL CO- ULTUOU.il,
CLOTHING.
CLOTHING!
AND GOODS FOR
Men's, Youths, Boys' and
Children's Wear.
In fine, medium and low-priced fabrics. I offer
the largest stock of the best
Ready-Made Clothing
EVER EXHIBITED IN THIS CITT,
Adapted to all purposes and at lowest Cash
Prices. My Gocds are
Better Made, Cut,
Trimmed and Finished
Than are to be ?and elsewhere. This I guar­
antee. Also a line line of
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS!
Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises.
An inspection of ujv stock is respectfully
solicited.
U1TS MAUK TO ORDKIt.
ft. DUNKELMANN,
THE CLOTHIER.
New store, corner Main and Bridge streets
opposite First National Bank, Austin, Minn.
40-ly
SADDLERY.
RAISER & GUINEY,
ATTSTIKT, MINN.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
HARNESS! SADDLES!
Horse Collars,
Trunks and Whips!
See.. Sic., *o.f Ac., Ac.
REPAIRING neatly and cheaply doae. All
work warranted.
NEW BRICK STORK, XAXN STREET.
DRUGS, &C.
DORR & WOLD,
PRESCRIPTION
DRUGGISTS!
AND DEALERS IN
STATIONERY, BOOKS!
AC** AO.
AUSTIN, MINN.
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JEWELRY.
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G. S
GHLEUDRR
IS AUSTIN'S
PIONEER
DEALER IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Silver-Plated Ware, etc.
(VCallon him and look over his elegant
stock on Main street.
MEAT AND FISH.
A. PRIHDRIGH,
City Meat Market
The largest and best fitted np Market in the
city, two doors east of First National Bank.
ani Meats of All Kinds!
Dressed ud Lire Poultry,
Fruli and Salted Fish,
Sausage, etc., etc.
Wild Game in Season.
LUMBER, &CT
DUMBER YARD.
& B. WOODSDM,
DEALER DC
LUMBER
Lath. Shingles, Doors, Sash!
Blinds, Buildings, Paper, &e.
Also sells Qeo. W Pitkin & Co.'s Beady Mixed
Paints.
TERRS CASH. TARS NEAR Dnof.
WIICHTSIIDIMVECETABLEFIUS
TOBTHB
LIVER
And all Bilious Complaints
VOL. XVII—NO. 41. AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1885.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
VIOLETS are the fashionable flowers
of the winter.
UNITED STATES SENATOR EVARTS is
credited with being the largest eater
among: the members of the Senate.
AT Arcoda, Louisiana, is a straw­
berry farm upon which was produced
in December an open air ripened crop
of fine strawberries.
JOHN SHERMAN is the only member of
the United States senate who entered
that body at the time President Lin­
coln was inaugurated.
FERDINAND WARD who was pro­
moted from stove polisher to book
keeper, at Sing Sing prison, was not a
success in the latter position.
GEN. LEW WALLACE who recently
paid a visit to Turkey at the instance
of certain manufacturers of arms, has
received $30,000 for that service.
JOHN JACOB ASTOK, the elder, arrived
in this country in 1783, with nearly $20
in money. His first employment was
beating furs for the wages of $2.00 a
week and his board.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Chicago had
a population of 112,000, says the Times,
of that city to-day her population is
not less than 750,000, and it is pretty
certain to approximate a million when
the next census is taken.
THE Connecticut legislature has ap­
propriated $5,000 and commissioned a
Hartford sculptor to work a life-size
statue of the Worthy Spy, Nathan
Hale, which is to be set up in the hall
of the State Capitol.
A MONTREAL alderman has sued a
paper in that town for printing a
speech he did not deliver. There area
good many aldermen in this country
who would like to sue the newspapers
for publishing such speeches as they do
deliver.
NOTING the fact that Benj. F. Butler
has been chosen a delegate by the
Lowell Post, G. A. R., to the Grand
Army convention to be held at Boston
iu January, a New York paper says he
will appear on that occasion in his
comic character of "General."
TIIE last words of distinguished men
one of ten quoted with unction and in­
vested with sentiment, but as the last
words of tho late Robert Toombs were,
"Lend me a hundred dollars, "it remains
to be seen what manner of applica­
tion can be made of them for guidance
of paternity.
THE New York bookmakers who lost
$30,000 a few days ago by having the
news of a New Orleans horse race an­
ticipated on them, the name of the
winning horse having been gotten off
the wires in a surreptitious manner,
will hereafter have all their news sent
in cipher, and close their books half an
hour before the horses are started.
Miss WINSLOW, the American
beauty, who has been dividing with
Miss Chamberlain the admiration of
the gay world beyond the Atlantic, is a
blonde, tall and stately, with regular
features and the air that people call
aristocratic. Her father was a wealthy
Boston merchant, and her mother a
member of the Train family of Rox
bury, Mass., was the most beautiful
woman Boston has ever known.
MR. LABOUCHERE, himself an editor,
expresses the view that there is a
marked decadence of editorial powers,
and that the school master has been too
widely abroad for each citizen not
to be aware that he is just as well able
to form an intelligent opinion upon mat­
ters political as the gentleman who
happens to own a newspaper or to edit
one. As an English journalist's vision
of the scope of the press of his own
country, the opinion quoted is quite
forceful.
.IT is said that the wives of the mem­
bers of the Cabinet have united in an
agreement not to return calls in per­
son, but to do so by card. This pro­
cedure has been before attempted,
but proved so unpopular that it was
abandoned. It is said with much force
that the Cabinet officer whose wife
supports him socially is always a much
more effective official and is much
more successful in accomplishing what
he desires in Congress. To return all
calls in person growing out of weekly
receptions and in other ways, is, doubt­
less a great social tax, but where
thus calls Are punctiliously returned
tin
j-
limit i« groat popularity.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Left to their Doom.
After working two days and nights and
being but little nearer the entombed
miners at Nanticoke, Pa., owing to the
continuous drifting in of the quick sand,
work was suspended the 23d, and a shaft
is to be sunk. There is no longer a ques­
tion of the death of all the vic­
tims, but the long time that
must elapse before the bodies can be recov­
ered is causing great excitement and suffer­
ing among their relatives and friends.
Milwaukee to St. Louis.
The 21st, articles of incorporation were fil­
ed with the secretary of state of Wisconsin
consolidating the Milwaukee & Dubuque
and the Beloit & Northwestern railroads,
under the name of Milwaukee, Peoria & St.
Louis company. The object of the union is
to construct and operate a road between
Milwaukee and Bt. Louis. The capital
stock is $6,000,000, divided into 60,000
shares.
Christmas Tree Casualty.
During the Christmas observances in the
Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, the lai-ee
tree caught fire. There were some three
hundred persons gathered about the tree
and in the room, and in the rush to escape
from the room about one hundred persons
were injnred, a few quite severely though
none thought fatally.
Will Appeal to the Country.
A Hamilton, Ont., telegram *of the 26th
says that Sir John Macdonald, Canadian
premier, has decided to appeal to the
country on account of the French hostility
to the government growing out of the Riel
affair, and also to head off threatened ex­
posures of corruption and misgovernment.
Fire' Fatalities.
By a lire at Georgetown, Mass., the 20th,
which destroyed thirteen business places
and inflicted a loss of $80,000, two firemen
were killed and several injured by falling
walls. The killed were Joseph Illsley, aged
24, unmarried, and George A. Chase, aged
23, married, with one child.
Ambushed by Apaches.
A Silver City, N. M., dispatch of the 23d,
reports that a detachmeut of 35 men of
Troop C, Eighth cavalry, was ambushed
the 19th by a band of Apache Indians in a
mountain pass, two officers and two troop­
ers being killed outright and two officers
dangerously wonnded.
Death of an Old River Captain.
Capt. Robert Scribe Harris died at Du­
buque, la., Christmas day, aged 77 years.
Capt. Harris went to Dubuque in 1826, and
ran the first packet that ever plied the
upper Mississippi to St. Paul, the steamer
St. Paul in 1833.
Mall Robber Caught.
William West, an employe of the post
office at Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested
the 27th, for robbing the mails. Over $100
of stolen money was found on his person.
He confessed his guilt.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sent to the Senate.
Among the president's nominations
sent to the Senate the 21st, were the follow­
ing for the Northwest Collector Guernon,
St. Vincent: Collector Moore, Duluth
A. Bierman, collector internal revenue,
St. Paul G. N. Baxter, district attorney, St.
Paul G. K. Delaney, district attorney,
Wisconsin L. K. Church, associate justice,
Dakota.
Senator Sabln 111.
A Washington dispatch of the 21st says
that Senator Sabiii of Minnesota, had been
suffering from another attack of the illness
which threatened his life last summer, but
that he had safely passed the critical stage,
and was resting easily.
Gets a Land Office.
F. M. Ziebach, the squatter governor of
Dakota, and who has been a standing can­
didate to succeed Gov. Pierce, was on the
21st appointed receiver of the land office at
Yankton
XlilXth. CONGRESS.
Monday* Dec. £1.
SENATE—Among the bills favorably re­
ported from committees were Mr. Hoar's
bankruptcy bill, and Mr. Edmund's bill
relating to bigamy and polygamy in Utah.
M. Cullora for a pos-
by Mi
troduced:
Bill troduced: By M. uuilora tor a pos­
tal telegraph by Mr. Logan to increase
Logi
jy of the
the efficiency of the U. S. army, also to
equalize the bounties of soldiers of the late
war, also to pension prisoners in Confed­
erate prisons. Adjourned to Jan 5.
HOUSE—Being the first day for call of
states for bills, the entire session was taken
up in this order, the call being suspended
when Maine was reached. Among the bills
introduced to forfeit lands granted in aid of
railroads to amend the civil service act
to protect homestead settlers within rail­
road limits relating to the salaries and
duties of U. S. marshals and attorneys a
constitutional amendment relating to the
election of president, vice president and
members of congress appropriating $10,
000 for the erection of a monument to the
late Vice President Hendricks at Indianap­
olis, Ind. to increase the pensions of sol­
diers'widows to $12 per month granting
lands to soldiers of the late war for the
erection of a monument to the
late Gen. James Shields consti
tutional amendment allowing the
president to veto items of appropriation
bills to organize a portion of the Indian
Territory into the Territory of Oklahoma
for a department of labor, to establish ag­
ricultural stations to repeal the tenure of
office act appropriating $4,000,000 for the
improvement of the Mississippi river. Ad­
journment to Jan. 5.
MINNESOTA.*
The Penitentiary.
The trial of Joseph Blanchard at Benson,
Minn., charged with killing George John­
son in 1884, was ended abruptly the 23d,
by Blanchard withdrawing his plea of not
guilty to manslaughter in the second de
plea r*
half ye
tentiary at Stillwater. When the murder
gree Upon this plea Blanchard was sen
id
tenced to four ana a half years in the peni­
tentiary at Stillwater. When the murder
was committed Blanchard and Johnson
were trapping together, Johnsan receiving
his death blow from an axe splitting his
head open. Blanchard was 18 years of age
at the time.
Died la Jail.
1 John Hamering "of Cloquet, Minn., a
United States prisoner, was found dead in
a cell in the Ramsey county iail, the morn­
ing of the 26th. On the 22d, John and Nels
Hamering, brothers, were confined in the
jail by U. S. officials. John was then suf­
fering from the excessive use of liquor. At
first the brothers were confined together,
but on the 25th John began to be violent
and Nels was removed to another cell
Mid
and John locked up by himself. The next
morning when the turnkey opened the cell
door he was found dead on the floor.
Death off a Minnesota Editor.
A. J. Underwood, editor of the Fergus
Falls, (Minn.,) Journal, and one of the old­
est journalists in the state, died at Ids home
the 21st, of paralysis. Mr. Under­
wood had been in poor health for
months, andJiad but just returned from a
sojourn in the southwest in the hope of
benefit.
Death of an-Aged Mason.
At Jackson, Minn., the 26th, there died
Samuel B. Strong, aged64 yean. Hebe
came a Mason in Cincinnati Lodge No. 4,
in Hanover, Morris county, N. J., in 1881
the lodge having been organized during the
Revolutionary war.
ToHaa*
A* CrookstaD, Minn.* the Xd, Jedge
•tearns sentenced John Hatchlneon, ooa-
-i-
•iutgdof murdering Lockey McLain, to be
conHaed in jail for forty days, and at some
tlme tkereafter to bis fixed by the governor,
Jg&eJ&aken out and hanged.
Saloon Murder.
In a saloon row at Two Rivers, Minn., the
night of the 24th, a man named Anderson,
Hither of the owner of the saloon, was
struck on the temple with a chair and in­
stantly killed. Several occupants of the
saloon*at the time, have been arrested to
await the action of the coroner's jury.
Acquitted.
At Shakopee, Minn., Saturday night the
26th, the jury in the case of Rademacher,
charged with the murder of Roderic
O'Dowd in August last, returned a verdict
of not'guilty, the killing being clearly in
self defense.
Fire at Clltheral.
The 23d, at Clitheral, Otter Tail county,
fire destroyed the store of George W. Ham­
mer and Hells' hotel.4 Hammer's loss $5,000,
on which he had $4,300 insurance. Kells'
loss $8,500, with $1,500, insurance.
Woolen Mill Burned.
Blood & [Slonaker's woolen mill at Wa
ttrviille. Minn., was burned the 27th. The
«08®!"
about $7,000 with no insurance.
Supped to lie incendiary.
DAKOTA.
Suicide in Dakota.
Eiward Jones, a farmer living near
Brookinj
trouble
own
Dakota Postmasters.
The 22nd the postmaster general appoint­
ed Washington Whitney' postmaster at
Henry,
iak.f
bury, Dak.
and James Fogarty at Water-
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Entombed in a Mine.
Cablegrams of the 23d, report an explo­
sion in the Ponty-Pridd coal mines,
Wales, in which there were 750 men at the
time. The latest reports state that 320
men had been rescued, and that at least 50
were killed and many more terribly in­
jured.
One War Settled.
A Paris cablegram of the 22d, says that
per.ee has been concluded between France
and Madagascar. France is to have a
protoctorate, and French troops will con­
tinue to occupy the country until a war
indemnity of $10,000 00e is paid.
Rioting in Ireland.
A Dublin cablegram of the 27th, reports a
riot between political factions in Limerick,
in which large numbers of men and women
took part, and resulting in the serious in­
jury of some twenty persous before order
was restored.
The Pont-y-Prldd Disaster
Advices of the 24th from Pont-y-Pridd,
Wales, stated that 75 bodies had been re­
ceived from thercoalpit in which the ex­
plosion occurred the 23d, and that it was
feared still other bodies were buried in the
debri?.
Violate the Armistice*
The 27th, Servian troops made an attack
upon a Bulgarian frontier village, but were
repulsed. The Bulgarian government will
{rotest
to the powers against Servia's vio
ation of the armistice.
Amnesty.
The queen regent of Spain gave Cuba a
Christmas present by granting amnesty to
all political and press offenders in the
colon}'.
TOE MABKKT8.
ST. PAUL.
WHEAT—No. 1 hard, 89c bid December,
89c bid May 98c bid, No. 1 Northern,
84c bid No. 2 Northern, 73c bid.
Flour—Patent, $5.00@5.25 straights
$4.50@4.75 asked bakers', $4.25@4.50 asked
rye, $3.25@3.50.
Corn No. 2,32c bid. May, 36c bid.
Oats No. 2 mixed, 28c. bid, 28%c asked.
No. 2 white 29c. bid.
Barley No. 2 58c. bid.
Rye No. 2,47c. bid.
Flax Seed $1.00.
Baled hay, $7.50asked timothy $10.00.
Dressed beef, choice steers 7%c.
veal, 7 8c.
Butter, extra 30c. bid.
Cheese, 7@10c,
1%
Eggs, extra 21c asked.
Potatoes, 60c per bushel bid.
Live Stock—Sales of steers ranged $3.00
@3.50 per 100 lbs. Sheep sold at
$3.00 per 100. Hogs $3.50.
MINNEAPOLIS.
WHEAT—No. 1 bard, cash, S9}£c. January,
30c May, 97c. No. 1 Northern, cash, 84
No. 2 Northern, cash, 80c,
FLOUR—Patent in sacks held at
sylvania, points bakers' $4.00@4.30.
CHICAGO.
Wheat, Dec. 83^ Jan. S3%c.
Corn, Dec. 37% May. 40%c.
Oats, cash 27^ Dec. 27%.
Flax seed No 1, $1.12.
Pork, cash, $9.00@9.75 Jan. $10.77%.
Live Stock, Cattle $3.30(g5.0i) Hogs
$3.40§3.60 Sheep, $2.50@3.50.
MILWAUKEE
WHEAT—Cash 83%c J*n.84c.
DULUTH.
WHEAT—Cash, 91c Jan. 91c No. 1
Northern, cash, 87%c.
Winter Evening Reading.
It is a delightful way to pass the long
winter evenings, when the children are
old enough for it, for the family to
take up the plays of Shakespeare, as­
signing the various parts to members
of the family. If your own circle be
not sufficiently large, call in your
neighbors. Let the young people be
made to read correctly, intelligently
and woll thus you are able to accom­
plish several things. An ease of man­
ner is acquired, a correct ear, a knowl­
edge of the best use of words, and nat­
urally follows a love of the highest lit
errature. Then when it becomes possi­
ble for the children to see some one of
these familiar plays on the stage, take
them yourselves. Thus they will easily
see that the theater is to yon a place
where something good may be seen
and heard possibly you may be able to
form so correct a taste in early life as
to preclude all desire for inferior actors
ana plays Set your intellectual stand­
ard high and try to keep yourself in
sympathy with the children in every
way, and they will have no desire to
conceal anvthing: the book, the amuse­
ment, the mend, will be all the more
enjoyable beeauje of the presence of
the father and mother into their inner
life.—Good Housekeeping.
A Pittsburg writer makes the asser­
tion that in fifty years, or perhaps in
half that time, coal will not be carried
from the mines to its place of destina­
tion in bulk, but only its actual heat en­
ergy will be transported, and that by
wire, a process which, he says, can he
accomplished by converting the coal in­
to heat, the heat into motion and the
motion into electricity a storage bat­
tery in Cincinnati would take it np as
fast a* generated at the mines, and
from this battery it could be taken and
converted back into motion and heat,
and changed into light.
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POEM'S YEAR.
JAXUABY, 1ST.
Come sit in my lap and let me hear,
Polly my dear, Polly my dear.
What do yon mean to do this year
I mean to be good the whole year long,
And never do anything careless or wrong.
I mean to learn all my lessons right,
And do all my sums if I sit up all night.
I mean to keep all my frocks so clean,
Nurse will never say I'm
44not
seen,"
fit to be
1 don't mean to break even one of my toys,'
And I never, oh! never, will make any
noise.
In short, Uncle Ned, as you'll very soon
The best little girl in tne world I shall be!
DECEMBER 31ST.
Come sit in my lap and let me hear,
Polly my dear, Polly my dear,
What you have done in the course of the
year?
Oh dear! Uncle Ned, oh dear and oh dear!
I fear it has not been a very good year.
For somehow my sums would come out
•wrong
And somehow my frocks wouldn't stay
clean long
And somehow I've often been dreadfully
cross
And somehow I broke my new rocking
horse
And somehow Nurse says I have made such
a noise
I might just as well -ha*** been onetof the
boys.
In short, Uncle Ned, I very much fear
You must wait for my goodness another
year!
A QUIET HOME.
Dear me!" sighed Mr. Turmoyle,
as a burst of shrill, childish laughter
sounded from the nursery down the
hall stairs and into the sitting-room
where he was making out sofiie ac­
counts. "I wish those children would
be quiet! Ain't it almost bed time,
Tillie?"
"They are probably undressing,"
Mrs. Turmoyle replied quietly. "I'll
ge and see if they are ready fSr bed."
"Do keep them qttiet until they
are!"
There was an interval of profound
silence, and in about half an hour the
mother returned.
"They are all asleep now." she
said. "Tom had dressed the kitten in
Bessie's doll clothes/1
The accounts finished, Mr. Tur­
moyle leaned back in his chair.
"I wish you had some management
with those children, Tillie," he said.
"I went over to Stone's on business,
last evening, and you would not know
there was a child in the house, and
Stone has live while we -have only
three."
"Perhaps tfiey were abed."
"They were all in the next room," was
the triumphantreply. ''Stone is proud
of them, and well he may be. There is
Willie, just the age of our Tom, study­
ing Latin, instead of dressing a kitten
in dolls' clothes and Amy, who will
not be four years old for three months,
reads well and knows the multiplica­
tion table through. Look at our sava­
ges!"
"They arc getting along well at
school, dear. I think Mark is too
young yet to study the others did not
go to school till they were five."
"And Tom just manages to write a
letter at twelve, while Willie is at Lat­
in grammar. And as for manners, why
Tom will make more noise alone than
all five of Stone's children together."
Mrs. Turmoyle, being a woman of
sense, did not continue the argument,
but mentally resolved to see Mrs.
Stone the next day, and talk with her
about the wonderful secret of having
five children and a quiet house.
"I am sure I cannot do it," the gen­
tle, loving mother thought, with a
sigh.
Seated, the next morning in close
conversation, the ladies presented a
contrast as marked as the atmosphere
of their two homes. The tiny, blue
eyed woman, who had no heart to sup-
{augh,
tress Tom's merry whistle or Bessie
had left a home where constant
care only secured cleanliness, and
where childish disorder was manifest
everywhere except in the best parlor.
She looked at the tall, dark-haired
woman opposite her, noted the exqui­
site morning dress, faced with light
silk, spotless and unrumpled, and
thought regretfully of the marks of ten
chubby fingers upon her own, printed
there when her baby boy, her darling
Mark, had just succeeded in forcing a
piece of his "sweetest candy" into
mamma's mouth. She noted the dain­
ty order of the sitting room, where
every chair stood primly in its ap­
pointed place and not even a thread
rested upon the carpet, and remem­
bered Mark's stable for his "spress
cart" and horse under the lounge, and
Bessie keeping house on the lower
shelf of the book-case.
Visions haunted her, also,
clippings of paper, bits of string, and
odds and ends of dolls' finery upon the
table.
Drifting from one scrap of matronly
talk to another, the ladies came
naturally to the care and manage­
ment of children, and Mrs. Turmoyle
complimented her neighbor on the
appearance of her house and the
proficiency of her little ones.
"I cannot understand how you ac­
complish it," she said frankly.
"By system," was the reply. "The
education of my children begins, I
may say, in their cradles. As soon as
they can walk they have their own
proper place in their own room, and
are trained to perfect silence when
older persons are present"
Mrs. Turmoyle thought of the noisy
chorus of shouts, the eager recital of
the day's pleasures or accidents, that
greeted papa, aunties or uncles, in her
own nursery, and wondered if Tom,
Bessie and Mark could be trained to
sit quietly in one place for hours at a
time.
"At two years of age I teach my
children their letters, and after that
they are sent to school. All of them
were entered in a private school at
three years of age, and at public
school at five. In the intervals of
school hours my boys have geographic­
al puzzles, spelling games and prob­
lems, and the girls are taught to
"But when do tfcey play?"
"Their games and puzzles are suffi­
cient amusement for the boys, and I
allow the girls to cut and fit clothing
for a large wax doll.
"Bat ao they not have any hours lor
running, balk, kites, and other out­
door play?".
"I disapprove entirely of out-door
play St ruins clothing, and mafcee
children rude. They have out-door
exercise in a long walk to and from
school."
As she spoke, the hall door opened
quietly, and a fall of footsteps crossed
the hall to the sitting-room. Five
children, three girls and two boys,
came in with languid footsteps, and
pale faces from which all childishness
seemed stricken. Spotlessly clean,
with shiny hair and polished boots,
they followed in orderly fashion the
lead of the eldest, who stood before his.
mother, awaiting her permission to
speak.
"Well, my son,?" she said quietly.
"There is no school this afternoon.
the senior class is to be examined,"
he said, wearily.
".No school! Very well, I will set you
some sums after dinner, and find you
some words to study in the dictionary."
Silently the five sat down and wait­
ed till the visitor departed, uncomfort­
ably conscious of ten weary eyes, and
five pallid, pinched faces.
Grossing her own doorway, Mrs.
Turmoyle was greeted by a meiry duet:
"No school! no school!"
Then the tenor:
"Won't you make some bobs for my
kite, mamma? There's a splendid
wkid."
Followed by a sweet soprano:
"And oh, mamma, you promised the
first holiday you would tnm my doll's
bonnet."
"I ain't aJdte, too?" stuck in Mark.
"Oh, do let me get my breath,"
cried the little woman. "Where's your
hat, Tom?"
"Oh, I forgot," said Tom, sweeping
it off with a profound bow. "Here,
take this chair, and let me take your
bonnet and sacque up stairs. Yon are
very tired."
"I'll help make, them," said Bessie
"and I'll go and watch Tom mamma,
if you don't feel like trimming the
bonnet."
"We'll see after dinner," said Mrs.
Turmoyle, lo^Kid^ from one round,
rosy face to the other, marking the
sturdy limbs and dancing eyes. To be
sure tne hair of all three must be re­
duced from a state of rebellion before
they were presentable at the table, and
soap and water were pleasant sugges­
tions in the maternal eyes. There was
perfect health and happiness, if the
voices were shrill and boots noisy.
"I've been to see Mrs. Stone, she
said, when washed and combed, the
children gathered around her to wait
'or papa and dinner, "and I wondered
if I could ever make my children as
quiet and orderly as hers are."
"Willie Stone is a milk-sop!" said
Tom, contemptuously. "Always crying
because his head aches!, 9° can't pla}r
anything, and daren move for fear of
spoiling his clothes. Wouldn't play
fool-ball for fear of getting dust on his
shoes! There's a nice' boy for you—
ho might as well be a girl!'*
"And mother, the teacher had to
write a note to Mrs., Stone the day John
Grey spilt the ink on Maud's apron.
She was so afraid to go homo it was
awful! She said her mother would
whip her, and keep her on bread and
water for a whole day. Miss Lee told
her to say it was not her fault, but she
said her mother would not believe
her."
"Dinner—and here comes papa!"
cried Tom.
Mr. Tprmovie came in with a very
grave face. He made no comment on
the boisterous announcement of the hol­
iday, but stopped to kiss the rosy faces
with unwanton tenderness. After din­
ner he sent the children to the nursery,
and he said to his wife, who had been
anxiously watching his clouded face:
"Tillie, I met Dr. Holmes on my way
home, and he tells me that there have
been three cases of scarlet fever from
school. It is raging fearfully, he says."
"Mrs. Turmoyle turned pale.
"In the school?" she murmured.
"Well, among tho scholars."
There was a little more to say, but
the heart of each parent sent up a
petition to a kind Heavenly Father to
keep the plague from their door.
Yet it came. A week later Mark
sickened, and in three days more all
three were
dowD.
Tender, loving care,
and unexpected docility of patients,
carried the little Turmoyles safely out
upon the road to health again. The
most nauseous medicines were swal­
lowed if mamma coaxed, and the most
stringent stillness was observed when
papa was discovered to have tears in
his eyes beside Bessie's crib.
The day the children asscmbed in
the sitttng-room for the first time was a
gala day, but papa was observed to have
a sad face.
"While we are thankful, dear chil­
dren," he said, "for our blessings, let
us not forget to sympathize with the
sorrows of others. Willie and Maud
Stone were buried to-day, and Amy will
be deaf for life. The others are still
very ill.
At bed-time, when the children slept
the sleep of convalescence, Mr. Tur­
moyle came to the nursery, where the
blue-eved wife was laying out the morn­
ing clothing.
"Tillie," he said, drawing the little
woman close in his strong arms," I
have had along talk with Dr. Holmes,
and I cannot rest until I thank you for
our unbroken nursery. Next to God
you have saved our children."
"I am sure you never spared your­
self in nursing," said Mrs. Turmoyle.
"The nursing was the smallest part
of it. Dr. Holmes says it was not the
scarlet fever that killed Stone's chil­
dren. but the mother's system. Ihe
fever found overtaxed brains, bodies
weakened by want of exercise, tempers
made sullen by a deprivation of all
childish pleasures. They were nursed
by system, no allowance being made
for weakness or suffering, and the two
that are gone but precede the two that
are dangerously ill. If they recover
from the fever they will never reach
maturity unless their mother sees her
error. 'You may thank your wife's
management for your children,' the
doctor said to me 'there was something
to build upon in the sturdy frames of
those young savages.'"
Mrs. Stone could see no fault in her
system, though two little graves attest­
ed its weakness. Her children, re­
covering from the fever, there was no
relaxation of home rule, and listless,
pale and dull-eyed, they went back to
the routine.
Four years passed away, and Tom
left home for boarding-school, a gen­
tlemanly boy of sixteen, well up in his
studies, and in perfect health. Driv­
ing home from tne station, after start­
ing upon his journey, Mr. and Mrs.
Turmoyle passed Mr. Stone's hand­
some house, prim and spotless, the
garden a miracle of order, and no sign
of busy little feet on the walk or bor­
der.
"Poor Stone!" said Mr. Turmoyle.
"He frets sadly for Amy."
"It was hard to lose her—the last of
the five," said Mrs. Turmoyle and she
was such a patient ehild alter die loet
ber hearing.*'
Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance.
"Too patient. There will be no need
now of any system in training. Five
children, all under the sod! Oh.
Tillie, thank God we have .not such a
home as the one we just passed!
Thank God for the merry voices, clear
laughter and even the. crying of Baby
May! May he. guard and bless our
little ones, and give them good health,
right principles and happiness, rather
than give us' tho doubtful blessing of &
quiethome."
The "C^Juns."
Commissioner Harris of Louisanna,
showed me several pieces of homespun
cotton goods which he says were made
by the "Cajuns." "Who are they?"
I asked. The word, he replied, is a
corruption of Arcadians, and is applied
to the descendants of that people whose
settlement in Louisana was immortal­
ized in Longfellow's "Evangeline."
Then turning to the map, he showed me
where the "Cajuns" live, and gave an
account of their homes and their sim­
plicity of life. In plain words he veri­
fied the words of Basil, tho blacksmith,
as to the beautyof the countiy, the fer­
tility of the soil and thWease in which
they lived. They are almost like the
"lilies of the field"in their freedom from
toil. In a little path around their house
they cultivate what cotton thfey need
for their wearing apparel andsuoh veg­
etables as they use.
When the spring rains cease they go
out upon the prarie and examine the
depressions,from one to five Acres in ex­
tent, which are then ponds of water,
and if found to be not more than eigh­
teen inches deep they prepare to sow
their rice. First they soak their seed
thoroughly, then scatter it broadcast
over the pond f&m the backs of horses.
The weight of the soaked rice causes
it to sink, and they have no further
care for their crop until the harvest time
comes.
Then puting up alight fence around
his rice plantation he goes home satis­
fied. In July his crop is ready for har­
vesting. For this he uses a sickle,
tossing the sheaves as they fall, into his
cart. This is a cumbrous affair of wood,
even to the wheels and axles. No iron
is used in its construction. The oxen
are not yoked, but the tongue is made
fast to loops fastened to their horns.
The sheaves are spread out upon the
prairie and the grain is trampled out
by oxen, as it used to be when the
edict went forth, "thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out tho
corn."
The commissioner showed on the
map a place where for six utiles the
chief crop of tho "Cajuns" is gathered
from the orange trees. In selling this
crop a singular custom prevails.
When the trees are bloomiug a buyer,
the "diego," (why so called no one
seems to Know), appears among them.
After a week of conference, during
which he and they lhave had repeated
whittling m»tches. a bargain is struck
for tho season's crop, one-half is paid
down in cash, and security given for
the balance, and then the "Cajnns"
enjoy their dolce far niente with from
$1,500 to $2,000 in hand for every head
of the family and as much secured for
the future. Basil, the'blacksmith, did
fiOt err when he told Evfangcline of-the
wealth of these teeming lowlands.
How Alueh Do 1 COM TOO?
A little daughter, ten years old, lay
on her death bed. It was hard to part
with the pet of the family the golden
hair, tho loving blue eyes, the bird-like
voice, tho thruthful, affectionate child,
ilow could she be given up! Between
this child and ber father there had al­
ways existed, not a relationship mere­
ly, but the love of congenial natures.
He fell on his knees before his darling's
bedside and wept bitter tears. He
strove to say, but could not, "Thy will
be done." It was a conflict between
grace and nature, such as he had never
before experienced, His sobs disturbed
the child, who had been lying apparent­
ly unconscious. She opened her eyes
aud looked distressed.
"Papa, dear papa," she said at
length.
••What,
my darling?" asked her
father, striving for composure.
"Papa," she asked, in faint, broken
tones, "how much do I cost you every
year?"
"Hush, dear, be quiet!" he replied
in great agitation, for he feared deliri­
um coming.
"But, please, papa, how much do I
cost you?"
Too soothe her, he replied, though
with shaking voice, "Well, dearest,
perhaps two huudred dollars. What
then, darling?"
"Because, papa, I thought maybe
you would lay'it out in Bibles for poor
children to remember me by."
A beam of heavenly joy glanced in
the father's heart the joy of one noble
spirit mingled with its like. Self was
forgotten—the sorrow of parting, the
lonely future. Naugl .t remained but
the mission of love, and a thrill of
gratitude that he and his beloved were
co-workers.
Holding: the Breath.
Deep breathing and holding the
breath is an item of imporfence.
Persons of weak vitality find an unin­
terrupted succession of deep and rapid
respirations so distressing that they
are discouraged from presevering in
the exercise. Let such persons take
into the lungs as much air as they can
at a breath, and hold it as long as they
can, they will find a grateful sense of
relief in the whole abdominal region.
Practice will increase the ability to hole*
the breath, and the capacity of the
lungs. Altera time the art may be
learned of packing the lungs. This is
dQne by taking and holding the long
breath and then forcing more air down
the trachea by swallows of air. The
operation may be described by that of
a fish's mouth in the water. To those
who have never learned it, it will be
surprising to what an extent the lungs
may be packed. Caution at first is
needful, but later practice will warrant
large use of the treatment. The whole
thorax and abdominal cavities will re­
ceive »jmmediate benefit, and con*
tinuance, with temperance in eating
and good air and right exercise, will
bring welcome improvement.
"George," said the young wife, "1
know what Santa Ciaus is going to
bring me Christmas." "Do you love?
What is it?" "An elegant sealskin
sacque, George." "You don't say so.
Weil, I'm glad to hear it, for it will
•are me a good deal of money." And
then she went out into the kitchen and
•tepped on the cat and gave the enfik
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