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journal.
C. R. MORSE, Publisher.
RIVER FALLS I I Tr IS
O YOU FELLERS IN TH’ CITY.
O you fellers in th' city.
Think you e >t it awful Use,
An' you jjrow coneummit witty
Ez you say bus .on repine
Fur a trip into th" Seen try
Whur every thicu is (rreec.
Especially th" gentry—
Th" kentrr folk, you mean.
I ain't heA much experiment
With ways o' city folk:
Rut atween th’ hot brick pavement
An" th* rlou<l» o' dust an" smoke
An' the noise o' shawlin' huckster,
Ez shore "z th' day my birth
I think it's Jes a picter
. O' th’ devil's home on earth.
I like t' take a quiet walk.
Au' watch th" humble-bee
Go buzzin' In a hollyhock, .
* An" tumble ’roun" tel he
Gits yuller with th" goluea rtus\
An’ s' lazy he falls down.
But (fits his wnps a-flyin’ jes
Afore he strikes th" groim'.
I like t set down on th" grass.
My back if m tree.
An watch th* lazy water pass
lit seems tiiet way t" me.
Pass down an' through th' medder
In th erookedest o ways,
Tel it runs into to’ river
An' there I guess it stays.
When work is finished for th day.
An’ eattn' ’s finished, too.
I like l* smell th clover-hay
‘At’s moistened with th’ dew.
An' watch th" leaves a movin'
In a sort o’ sleepy way
That's most confounded soothir*
fin' then I seem t' say:
Tm sorry fur you city chaps.
I.ike birds kept in a cage
Thef tries t* fly. but only flaps
The r wings agin th' edge;
But so bein' you c ty gentry
Likes city things th" best.
Es I km le*v th" kentry.
Why. you kin hev th" rest.""
— Kk+arl It. I, *■*</, in Ow'wry.
“MOTHER’S IDEE.”
lake That of Most Mothers It Was
a Good One.
|Written for This Paper.]
, WAS making a
. ''\f * pastoral visit at the
“'*{ l; ( house of Deacon
» § Barstow. Dinner
k.S * over, we hail taken
v {'i * j our chairs, at mv
}f G*.* H . host’s suggestion, to
V I B the cool, vine-shaded
porch, to “give the
"j a • women folks a chance
* »to rid up the dishes.”
c 4 .’i "T 5 * f After talking awhile
K T." V/ jI -V trouble, just now an
tA J all-engrossing topic,
.' y. the Deacon said,
„ w with an air of deci
sion: “Well, there’s
a good deal in music, and there’s a
good ileal that ain’t in it, and, any
way. there ain’t enough in it to pay
for any church fuss. I’ve, given a good
deal of thought to this subject of music,
as was natural 1 should wireu mother’s
Idee was kept before my mind constant
ly-
“ What i lee did I have reference to*
“Well. seeing you’re # uew-oetier and
haiut heard -ouch gossip yet, I may as
well lie fore-iiandeit with the neighbors
and tell re the real story. .1 you’ll get It
first hand. Yon see it t’M mother’s
Idee, and then again it wa’t.*t. ’-hedidn’t
invent th*» Idee; it was .» e »rt of fouudlin’
and she a.(opi d it. Now, when mother
ad 'pts any thing she adopts it; it may
be a.stray dog, o - a runt pig; a starred
cat. or a bulldozed chiek-n; but If she
adopts it she does it for all she’s Worth.
Aud of all 111 - cranky things she
takes a notion to! Nolsjdy hut
mother woul.' have adopted that
cross -eyed, tiublin*. shiftless Mer
zey from the Poor Farm, but mother
done it; and a nether It’s ugliness in
them that makes ’em grateful for a little
notice, or whether it’s the influence of her
lovin’nature, l aiut the one to say; but
it’s a certain thing that if ’(would do any
good Merzy’d let mother tramp right over
her and never squeal a note. Au Jas for
the dumb critt-rs! Well, yoi* should see
the procession a-crossin’ th - * b»rn -yard;
the runt ruuntn’ ahead coughin’ and pick
in’up straws like any edm-a e 1 pig; the
rooster on oue side liptoe’n* and struttin’
and winkin’his sassy eyes; and the dog
on the other side, hi* t lil goin’ like the
sliakin’ ague had a holt of it. while the
cat corned sis-v'iin’ along ’way behind.
Yes, sir, it’s a sight! And if there’s a
cow that ever kicked a pail over that
mother cau’t handle, then it’s a breed I’m
hot acquainted with.
•'Mother lays it mostly to the Idee and
the oftenin* influence it’s had on her.
Bat you might as well lay the mock-bird’s
Toice to his soft feathers. For. between
you and me. Elder, it there ever was any
thing that put a tang into a voice that is
naturally sweet as the clover, why, the
Idee did it. For when mother finally set
tip the Idee it was like th * golden image
of Scripture: if you didn’t bow down,
why, there was the ti*ry furnace aliea*L
1 guess the apostle kuew what he was
doin’ when h« wrote: "The longue is a
fire.’ And of all the scorch!*’ things,
mother’s word-* was the scorchiu’est
t? you didn’t do the Idee justice.
Not that mother was given to scoldin’;
but she had a knack of sayin’ things that
was like the hook the prophet swallowed:
they tasted all right till you got ’em down
and then—you hail au at’aok of water
brash that’d last all day.’
"But the I lee It-elf, yi.it say.
•'1 was just gettin’ to that.
"Mother’s 1 lee was, tha* the greai aud
chief thiug needed to uplift the human
family was music. If you wanted to
make folks hones? »nd virtuous .nil
pious, give ’em music. If they’* had her
at the head of them city charities she’d
have fed the poor folks soup and music—
specially music. If she’d been I'resi
dent she’d have put all th* police at
playin’ some musical instrument; she’d
have had a calliope goin’ constantly in
the penitentiary, and music boxes goin'
in the stores with tunes to suit. In fact,
she carried the Idee that far at last that
she wanted tne to fix » musical attach -
meat to the windmill by the waterin’
trough, claimin’ it would have a bene
ficial * ffect on the young stock. But if
there was one tune more than nne.ther
which mother thought had particular pre
vailin’ power it was 'Home, Sweet
Home-’
"1 don’t want to be led off by my feel
ings to sj«*ak disrespectful of any thing
nu ther ever took auotion to. Don’t you
think. E:*ler, that there’s some that
sees and hears more in the sights and
sounds about ’em than others that’s
Just common mortal? Why. I’ve seen
mother when there was that in her face
which made me think she was hearin’ the
home music of the world, aud perhaps of
other world’s too. Music always did have
a strange eif-*ct on her. though she ain’t
n<> musician; uever had the teachin* nor
the time for it. If only she could hare
had the reelin' for music without the Idee!
You see. Elder. I can’t properly .to jus
tice to the Idee because I rever adopted
it; I’m only a sort of steps ither to it. so
to speak. And. jast between us. Elder—no
diste-peet to mother, bless her heart—
you’ve got to live with a thing to know it;
and when you’ve eat.and drank, and slept,
and r* s? to *H »me Sweet Home.* or the
•Last Rose of Summer.’ plain uad with
variations, you’d may be hold as 1 do:
tha you can have phi much of a good
thing, even i*" it’* music.
"And when it comes to variations! You
hniu't yet heard Bister Arp’s g rl play
■Horae Sweet II >me’ with vsrwtiona?
Well, yc t’ve got it to come. Nothin’. I*l
my uotiuu. »s more calculate 1 to aggra
vate the temper than those same varia
tions. You hear the first notes of the old
time time aud yottr heart kind of warms,
for it’s Ihe au hem of Hi nations under
Heaven; then the In-'mmnt begins to
sputter and stutter until every thing
seems in a whirl, aad when yo t’re tha'
.!■» -t that you’re giv ? up trym’ to chase
the tuue up and down, iu and out, why
here K comes opt of the tangle, sort of out
of breath, to make a final courtesy; and
the performer looks as happy as stutter
in' Dick Stuboi when he’s finally got out
the word that’s been hangin’ in his throat,
and dancin’ on bis tongue, and beaten’
agen his teeth, till it’s all out of shape.
"Well, mother’s faith ia the Idee, and
'Home Sweet Home.’ in particular, was
something wonderful. She got that post
ed on the subject, that nobody could
stand up with her in argument; and when
she’d Slug in the poets, Tnasic hath
charms to • oolite the savage breast.’ and
«•) forth, it was generally a clincher.
Yon should have heard her argue ihe
ouedion with the Young Elder, as we
us-d to call Elder Dawson, who came to
pastor us, just fresh from the seminary
aad chock full of learnin’. He couldn’t
hold a candle to mother, though th » way
he got away with Darwin and .he rest of
the infidels was somethin’ edify iu’ to
listen to.
* He took ’em so off-hand and easy like;
seem?d to t;lory in givln’ ’em all advan
tages of wind aud sun; and then, lyin’ oue
hand behind him, he’d jnst sail in and
settle ’em iu one ronnd. and come out
fresh and smilin’.
"He was visitin’ us one day and he save
to mother: *Sister Barstow, don’t you
think you do set too much store by music?
Ain’t it a sort of beli;tleiu’ the doctrine
of keepin’ grace?’ s ays he.
“ ’No Elder,’ she says, ‘I ain’t set
tin’ it np iu place of grace, hat as s
means of grace, and you. us a preacher,
ought to know the difference.* ‘But,’
says he, ‘ain’t you a set tin’ it as a means
of grace, above the great means: the word
of God and prayer.’
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THE DEACON RELATE* HIS ST.RT.
“‘Elder,’ she says, ‘whai’s the Bible
hat poetry, and what’s poetry but the
music of words and idee*? As far as I
can learn the Isir.i uever had use for a
prophet that hadn’t music in him. And
as for prayer, I’ve \ notion that you can’t
get prayer out of a man when it ain’t
in him. Prayer is all very well when
you’ve got it ia you, but to my mind
music pitta that Into an empty soul that
leads np to prayer and worship.’ She
was on her high horse now, and was
bound to ride the Eiderdown. ‘Where’s
prayer and the Bible in Heaven,’ she
says. ’They ain’t there, tor they don't
need ’em. Music’s a’l they have in
Heaven; and siugiu’ and playiu’ is the
occupation of the angels aud the joy of
the saints.
“ *Wa’u’t it you teilin’us awhile back
about Orpheus, who played Ins lyre end
kept his sailors from wreck and ruin
among them cannibal Syrians, settiu’
among bones and skulls. There ain’t an
other word to say. Elder; I’ve got Script
ure for the Idee, aud I’ve got human nat
ure, and they’re a powerful team when
they pull together.’
“It’s remarkable how the Idee kept
a-growin’and spreadin’ itself in mother’s
mind, like the foreign tree I’ve
read of, which begins iu one pleas
ant iihade tree and ends in becom
ing a whole forest. Music was the cure
for all ills of human society. ‘What
would prevent the strikes? Music?’
‘What was needin’ to civilize the Indi
an*? Music!’ But this country couldn’’
hold her. Her mind went out to tha
heathen, and she naturally argued that
nothin’ could elevate a people that didn’t
have no more idee of music than clat
terin’ gongs and poundin’ tom-toms;
and she made a move, which didu’t find a
second, that the Woman’s Missionary So
ciety should start a branch for the music
al e location of the heathen.
“Then she kept track of all the new
fangled musical instruments which was
invented, and saw the prophecy of the
millcnium drawin’ to fulfilment ia the
multiplyiu’ of music machines.
“Of all th" happy women, sfe was the
happiest when she got hold of an orgui
nette, witn music like an embroidery pat
tern, that only hail to be tacked on the
machine and worked over the holes. She
hadn’t parked up so much since our lone
boy Jason up and ran away from home,
following a circus.
“ft’s a hard thiug. Elder, when your
child is torn away from yon by death, and
goes away from ye stre i.hin’ out his
arms to the one that nursed him, loth to
leave them he knows anfl loves, for
strangers. But how easy that seems to
limin’ a child when he crawls out of his
v arni bed that lovin’ hands had made for
him. au 1 away from all" the little (sou
forts that lovin' hearts had provided
and goes away into the night with
out a good-bye kiss or partin’ word;
without even thro.’in* a look of pity be
hind him for them that would a laid down
the.r lives for him; aud our boy went
that wav.
“After Jase went.motner languished for
a ti*ae and 1 thought the I lee was losin’
its grip; but it wa’n’t loug before it got to
bein’ whispered around among the neigh
bors that it wa’u’t nothin’ else but the
Idee that drove Jase away from home.
"When she heard that, mother braced
right up; the Idee took a new grip: and
however she may hav > felt iu her own
secret soul, so far as my seem' went, the
Idee seemed more to her than ever.
"Poor mother 1 Not to say a word against
the Idee or her that adopted it, it di 1
seem as if the toy traa a little crowded by
the flee at times. You see when ye got
down to music as a steady diet, and music
for medleiual purposes, you’re apt to get
to dislike it; same as a child gets to dis
like the Bible when you give him a dose
of Scripture, as if it was sulphur and
sorghum, to purge the meanness outsu’
him.
“That’s about the way it was with Jason.
'Twa’u’t so had when mother rigged up a
musical attachment to the sewiu’ ma
chine, but when she got one onto the
churn, it tva * a little wearyiu’—for a boy.
“It takes an old bird to offset the shrill
note of his mate with the patience that
built the nest anil wanned the eggs and
hopped a id fluttered from sun-up to sun
down to fill the mouths that was always
gapin’.
“You see it wa’n’t all plain sailiu’ be
tween the Idee and Jason. When he was
a growin’ child he was |>ow<:rful curious
and also of an investigatin’ turn of mind,
and when he got tired of his bazoo and
barmoun-a, h-’J go to meddlin’ with
mother’s pet music-box. till one day he
dropped some corn into it, winch played
havoc among the teeth, so that the ma
chine, ever after, played ‘Annie Laurie’
as if it was whistlin’ with its front teeth
out. So Jase made acquaintance with
mother’s slipper pretty often through the
Idee; and I think mother’d have been rea
sonably nappy if she’d only had a music
al slipper which whou d have playel
•Home Sweet Home’ whi‘e she was beat
in’ time on that boy’s jacket. Ain’t it
strange. Elder, that goo 1 people will get
possessed with an idee it util they
mate their children livin’ sacri
fices to it, like the heathen that made
their childreu pass through the fire to
Moloch. I’ve known people to make a
very Idol of their homes, aa 1 slave, an 1
slave, from tuora till night. a« if life de
pended on it, dus‘'u* and sweepin’ and
pohshiu’, till every thing was that shiny
and slippy that I bel eve an angel couldn’t
a sat on a chair, or walked the floor, with
; out balancin’ with his wings, like a bird
ton a teteria’ bough. Many’s the family
that’s been drove out into the streets
passing right nnder the motto: *God
bless our nome.’
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TAKES* MV EVEXIS’ PIPE.
"I’ve always held that if there’s one ex
on-e a poor outcast soul could offtr for
all fcis meaun***. ’twontd b» to say: ‘I
uever had a home;’ never saw the lamp
tw.r.klm’ a welcome across th * winter
anew; never sat around tit* fire when the
roastin’ a.-pies was hissi i’ and sputter iu’
aad twirlin’ on the s rings thot held ’em:
never was tuck-d Into bad aid warm* I
all through with a goo I -night Kiss. But
if there’s any tUm; w .-•** that n"t
snowin’ a home, it’s kooaiu’ cy the
name ot nome one of them whiled sepnl
chers, which must be about as comfort
able as a prairie dog’s burrow with an
owl aud e rattler for couipaty; always
livin’ in fear of the spyin’eyes of the one
and the pizen mouth of the other.
“Not that I’m reflectln’on mother, miud
ye; for notwithstaudin’ the I lee Au* been
a little wearia’to ole who didn’t adopt
it, I’ve had a home worth the name.
Many’s the time that I’ve set and looked
into the dyiu’ fire and seen pleasant pict
ures that’ll kind at frame themselves
in the rings of smoke, when I sat takin*
m/ evenin’ pip*, with mother a knittin’
close by. And one picture, I think, we’d
both see: the picture of a merry black
eyed boy, whose voice had made the
sweetest music of our home. Bat what
ever we saw there was nothing said;
for 1 knew that mother had a
»ore heart in her bosom along of
Jasou, though I was some time in findiu’
it out. Mother’s apt to be close about
her tronbles. though when she does break
out a werd’i! contain a whole book of
revelation as to her feelin’s. I’d got to
feelin’ a little hard to’rd mother in them
days, for some way I took the notion that
she wat more vexed at the failure of the
Idee than at losin’ the boy. Yon know
how ’tis when you’ve got a sore throat;
you keep a swallowin’ every few minutes
just to sc* if your throat is sore, though
you know it is. Well, mother’s silence
affected me much like the sore throat: ’
kept wantin’ to touch the sore spo: i
knew was in her heart for that boy, and
kept sayin’ one thing and another till I
said too much. After I’d done the mis
chief I was mad with rnvself for what I’d
said, and then I got mad with her for not
bein’ more spunky and talkin’ back; so
things got sort of cool between us. If
we’d only talked it out’t would have been
over at once; but ’stead of that we’d sit
silent till you cou!d/ee/ the quiet se tlin’
down on ye like a damp, cold fog goin’
right to the bone aud marrow. It was
growin’ along to’rds Christmas, and I was
sittiu’ alone by me fire—for we’d got to
livin’ and doin’ independent like, not
waitin’ on each other—and I was feelin’
as if I’d like to smash every music tna
chiue in the house; for it seemed
as if the Id -e was cornin’ between
as, who’d been so much to each other
throuh many a year of shadow and sun.
Then I got to thiukiu’ of the angels’ song
of peace and good will.aud of all the help
aud. comfort I’d found iu the woman
that’d never failed a step at my side,
since she put her arm in mine the day we
walked out of church, man and wife, to
gether. ‘No,’ says I, * ooner than the
Idee shall come between us I’ll adopt it
myself.’ So, when next morning I
hitched up and drove to towu, I’d made
up my mind to find a real peace-»nd
good-will offerin' for mother’s Chris*-
mas. I was in the store pricin’ thi s
thiug and that, wheu 1 happened to open
what look ed like a picture album (as it
was), and no sooner had I opened it than
it begau to play ‘Horn* Sweet Home.’
My first thought was that it was a dein -
sion: IM got the Idee on tho brain. I
shut the book and the music stopped; I
opened it again aud it took up the tune,
that soft and sweet, it might have been
fairy music. Soon as I’d figured out
what it was, I knew that it and nothing
else was the thing for mother’s Christ
mas. So I tra led for the album, and put
m» picture opp >site mother’s in the
frent of the book, and Christinas morn
ir.g I laid it out for her. She undid the
pajier sort of indifferent like, and when
she saw the pre ty, plush cover she says
—speakiu’ sort of langtiishin’ as ye do
wheu you’re tired—‘l’m afraid you’ve
been kind of extravagant, Jason.’ She
opened the book, still careless like, me a
watchiu' her like a rooin eyeiu* a cherry,
and it began to play. You should have
seen her face, our pictures just opposite,
and tae sweetest little tinkle of ‘Home
Sweet Home,* as if the medder-brook
had been takin’ music lessons. I wish
you could a seen her. Elder, for it ain’t in
speech to describe how mother looked,
any more than it’s in paiutiu’ to picture
a soul. She just wheeled round to me,
that was standin* close anil waitiu*. and
laid her head on my shoulder, as she did
on ti e day I asked her, and I could feel
her tremblln* as she clung to me, who
couldn’t door say auy thiug, but hold her
close aDd stroke her soft, shining hair
ami say: ‘Mary, dear wife, what’s
troublin’ ve':' We both knew what it was;
for there we stood, heart to heart, as we
hadn’t stood in a long time, not sayin’
much, but one heart a telegrapliiu’ love
to the other, through our joined bands,
till we could fairly feel our fiugers tingle
with the message. There wa’ut no feel
ing of chill and fog that night, as we sat
by the fire, though whether it was the
hickory log that did seem to be doin’ its
best to put on style for the occasion, or
whether it was owin' to the fact that
mother and me was sittin’ pretty close,
like courtin’ over again, only more
peaceful, it ain’t mine to say.
Anyway,we was both feelin’ happy, in a
quiet, restful way; aad as we sat there to
gether, she nestled up close in my arms;
we whispered about Jason, and I spoke
comfortin' things and hopeful to her
about the boy. When bed-tiuie came
that night we kneeled down, our chairs
close together, and my arm around her.
the way it used to be when we begau
housekeepin’. 1 guess tho Lord knew my
feelin’s, and it didn’t matter that my
voice was kind of weak and words un
common scarce—and as far as feelings
went, it was as if all the Christmas angels
that ever came to bless our hearth, was
fillin’ the room and singin’: “Glory to
Godin the highest; peace on earth and
good will to men.’
“It was iu the spring followiu’ that we
moved out into the country. We had some
friends hero, and perhaps it was their
urgin’ us; perhaps it was a hankerin’ after
a change—sort of wantin’ new sur
roun’in’s with our new feelings; and per
haps it was I’rovidetice workiu’ in ail
these things—anyway West we cam*, aud
here we are.
“We brought the Idee along, too; indeed
I got to almost feelin’ as if we couldn't
keep houso ~ ithont it. S > when mother
propos 'd a new application of the Idee,
by f.xiu’ up a burglar alarm with musical
attachments, X ea'ered heartily into the
notion. Though, I had my own little
laugh on mother about welcomin’ a bur
glar with ‘Home Sweet Home;’ for we’d
got so we could joke about the Idee with
out danger.
"It worked like a charm, that alarm did
I have to laimii when i remember wakin’
up one nighrout of a dream of Ihe Day of
Judgment, all thunder nnd light and
music; there was a big storm aud the
lightnin’ had started the alarm aud melt
ed down the wire doin' if. After that we
got on without ihe alarm till June came.
A'oug in June a circus came to town. 1
mine well that one of them stick-at
no'.hing agents posted a flaming bill on
the tight board fence, which didu’t stay
long after sun-up, I assure you. it was
nlwavs a worryin’ time for mother when
a circus was in town, for she couldn’t
help but think of her boy, a man grown
by this time if he’d lived, aud whether or
no he was livin’ or dead. Naturally,
when we went to bed that night neither
of us felt like steepin’, though we both
played ’possum, layin* there as if we was
sleepin’ sound as Ihe seven. I think I
must a d z-d off several times, for I
remember figuring the moon had done
considerable travelin’ since l laid down,
when I found myself layin’ the.'e, soit
of half asleep and half awak", listenin’ to
the noises of tha night. 1 could hear the
horses tramp in the barn; now a
ro<>- ••■r’d cjow. and again a hog’d squeal.
I must bava laid that way some time
my mind zig-zagin’ between oue thiug
and another, like a grasshopper with a
chicken chasm’ it. Each naw sound
seemed to start me in a fresh track; a leg
squealin’ set me flguriug what the shoats’d
scale; a twig tappin’ the window made
me open my eyes enough to see the old
maples, their leaves all shinin’ silver in
the moonlight, and I left the hogs to go
pickin’ silver. You know how ’tis when
you’re just teterin’ ou the edge of sleep,
and you get to mixin’ every thing your
mind’s been on—when something rouses
you and yon come back snatchin’ at the
last thing in your thoughts. It minds me
of a baby going to sleep with her doll;
her lilUe hand drops as the head g.-ows
heavier and heavier, and the little fingers
begin to unloose; but when you pnt your
hand out to slip away the doll, the eves
come open a little and the fingers shut
tight again ou dolly. I was just leltiu*
go my grip ou the tilings of seta-e when,
sure as you live, 1 heard the music-album
tiaklia’ ‘Horn*. Sweet Home,’ and the
sound fetched me wide awake. That
album was layiu’ on the front-room
stand, and the stand was right up agen’
the head of the bed, the partition
only seperatin'. Mother made no
sigu of bearin’, so thinkiu’ *hv*.l
dropped off by this time. I slipped
ont of bed quietly and goes down Ihe hall
to the pa' ior floor, which was set ajar.
The sight I see to take away the
power of motion! There was a man—
what he looked like I couldn’t see. for his
bark wta toward me—and there was the
album, open, with mother and me oppo
site in the fiont of the book, and the
tuvsic a tiuklin’ ‘Home, Bweet Home,'
loader aud faster thau ( ever knew it do
before. Aud right before my eyes that
burglar dropped on bis knees,shakin* and
tremblin' as if with palsy. So intentwas
I lookin’ that I didn’t hear motner right
by me, till she Just pushed that door open,
and, goiu’ across the room, white and
quiet as an angel, dropped down on her
knees and flung her arms ’round the
man’s neck. Than it came to me* it was
Jase come back! aud 1 was on my knees,
too, and we was all sobbiu’ and cryiu* to
gether. Yon may understand, Elder, that
* *—■?
TIIE EtonT I SEE SEEM'D TO TAKE AWAY THE
POWKU OK MOTIO*.
we never told any one among the neigh
bors how the boy came back at night, or
that he’d took to desperate ways. It
might have been worse; he might have
had blood on his hands, and our blood at
that; so we just say, with gratitude:
‘This, our son, was dead and is alive
again; was lost and is found.’
“But I'm wearyiu’ye Elder. You see it’s
about even with the Idee and Jase now;
for if—aud 1 sayi f, mind ye —if it did help
to drive the boy away.it certainly was the
means of giv.ug him back to us, andmak
in’ home sweet agin’. And a* for mother
and the Idee! she’s got a new music ma
chine that leaves the others **<7l/ behind;
hear it a-gotn* now? nnd not very nmsieal
says you. Yes, it’s Jason’s babe tunin’
np a little; and I tell you that about that
Idee mother and me’s unanimous that a
sweeter little music machine nover made
music, even though he does occasionally
go into variations as he’s doing now.
Let’s go in, Elder, aud take a look at
Grandmother’s Idee. M
E. G. CHEVKRTOfI.
STRUGGLES FOR DRESS.
K' try Society Woman Wants a New Gown
for Kao 1 1 Separate Occasion.
"1 may safely say that th*To in great
strife among society ladies in the mat
ter of dresses. You seethe peoplejn
our best society, whose patronage we
have, are exclusive They live among
themselves. They are seen and ob
served by one another wherever they
go, whether to tho opera, driving,
diuuig out. or to balls. The idea pre
vails among them that it would never
do for a lady to be seen twice in the
same dress. For this reason it be
comes necessary for every lady in this
circle to have a now dress for each
separate occasion. Then, you see,
she rails* have her opera-dress, her
carriage-d: ■-■*. her dining-dress, her
full dees.:, etc., all for each occasion.”
“What is the average number of
dresses tor a season with these ladies?”
“Welt, let me see. In the winter,
what with operas, balls, dinners nnd
all, I suppose a new dress nearly every
day is the rule. At least five new
dresses a week is the average. In tho
winter season 1 suppose that every
married lady has sit least fifty new
dresses.”
“Tr.en they would average two hun
dred h year?”
“No; not so high as that. You seo
the winter season is more exacting,
and there is a greater variety of lift*,
i should think that the number woulo
average one hundred dressos a year.”
“Jliul how do the prices of these
range?”
“Well, from upward for mar
ried 'adies. For young ladies the price
runs from $l5O . upward. For married
ladies more trimming, more elaborate
styies are required.”
‘Has this craze for so many dresses
been long in fashion?”
“Well, it extends back sumo five
years. ”
“Is there any special reason for this
extreme tendency now?”
“There is the general increase in the
lavish expenditure of money which
more and more characterizes our soci
ety people! Then there is the special
cause to be found in increased variety
in color in dresses. It used to l*e that
a few dresses sufficed because there
were only a few colors and the dresses
were more simple. A blue, pink and
black dress would make an outfit em
bracing the colors in vogue. Now the
number of shades and combinations is
almost unlimited, so that there is op
portunity for a great and varied di -
play. This naturally leads to rivalry
in the choice of colors, combinations
and arrangements of dress. The re
sult is that every woman wants a new
dress for each separate occasion, and
she racks her bruin in consultations
over styles and combinations.”— N. T,
Press.
REPAIRING BARNS.
A Few SuffC«*tlon« Whirlt M:*y Prove Val
uable to M:»njr Farmer*.
A barn improperly repaired is often
better left alone. Too little attention is
generally given to light and ventila
tion. All know the consequences of
improper ventilation, but the necessity
of light is not so generally understood,
or if known is not appreciated. Grass,
for an apparent illustration, does not
do well in shady places: it has it sickly
look and is unhealthy. A close ob
server can notice the same genera' >p
pearance in animals, especially <n
calves and colts deprived of light.
I’lenty of light is necessary
the most perfect development of
almost all animals. 'To say that
too little light in a barn is the
cause of considerable lameness among
horses is putting it rather mildly. Take
an animal from a dark stall, lead him
•to the door upon a bright sunshiny
day when the ground is covered with
snow. Immediately hitch him up.
Take a drive of several miles, and dur
ing all this time observe the actions of
the animal closely. If he does not
make some misstep, stumble over or
hit his foot against something, es
pecially if he is reined up tight, it will
be a miracle. If you would know the
full effects or the exact feelings, try it
on yourself. Stay in a dark room for
several hours, then go out into the
bright sunlight when the ground is
covered with snow, but do not shade
your ejes. A person once having
tried the experiment will thereafter
see that bis driving horse, at auy rate,
will have * sufficient amount of light.
The stables can be very easily ar
ranged so that each animal will get at
least a part of the light of one window.
But lietter still, the light should be
such as to make the whole stable equal
ly bright. The alterations will, o!
course, depend upon the building. An
other esx-ntial j>oint is the subject of
drainage, which too often is the cause
of impure air and many diseases of the
feet, as well ns of the system generally.
It must be further remembered that a
healthy colt is naturally full of mis
chief. and if he gets half a chance is
very liable to get tangled up in the
mongers or divisions between stalls if
these are not properly adjusted. Even
the old reliable animals, wheu not at
work, will get into trouble sometimes
if the stables are not properly repaired
A little foresight in the planning and
repairing of barns may do much if
preventing serious accidents.— Orangi
Judd t'aniur.
FEEDING AS A SCIENCE,
Haiitzrmi nt of l.avin; Hen* and the
Treatment of Over-Fad Ileus.
It cost* something to learn, and yet
the expense of learning might bo
saved if poultryrnen would only stop
to think. The first point is to deter
mine what the hens need, for their
needs are exactly in accordance with
what you intend the hens to accom
pli .h. Some persons feed their hens
as though there was only one sys
tematic method to be followed, when
In fact there are several modes, all de
pending upon what you wish the hens
to do. If a hen is fed to enable her to
accomplish a certain purpose, it is ex
travagance to feed her in a manner to
prevent her fulfilling the object
sought Yet this is doue every day,
and on nearly all farms in this coun
try. The hen is like ttte milch cow—
when not producing something the
food is diverted to tlesh. When tho
cow is dried off she more readily be
comes fat than when in full flow ol
milk, and when the hen is not laying
she, too, readily becomes fat A
fat cow, fat sow, or fat mare is an
indifferent breeder, nnd so is the fat
hen. Every farmer knows that if ho
fed his cows exclusively on corn-meal,
without bay, they would become worth
less. First they will fatten, and next
they will suffer indigestion from a diet
that is too concentrated. The milk
flow would gradually cease, and loss
would be the result. The hen is no
more fitted for au exclusive grain diet
than the cow. A distinction must be
made between hens that are intended
for layers and those being prepared
for the market. The two classes do
not belong in the same yard. They
simply interfere with each other.
The old routine of corn and wheat
for the bens is gradually being aban
doned, and with the advent of pure
breeds a more advanced system of feed
ing is being practiced. Chemistry has
already demonstrated that the egg is
composed of certain materials, and
that foods are of variable com
position. Such being the case,
the p ul try man is now enabled to se
lect foods that contain the substances
mostly required, and by varied feeding
he can secure better results than by
the old haphazard manner. With the
use of certain breeds, and feeds adapt
ed o the purpose, the hens can bo
made to lay from the time they tire
matured until the season arrives when
they must moult. The incubating
fever can bo entirely avoided by
judicious feeding, as has been done by
experiment, or hens can be so fed that
they will lay but few, if any eggs.
The old plan is extravagant, as it per
mits of feeding such material ns is not
only wasted by reason of not being re
quired, but because there is also a loss
of eggs when any other food than that
demanded is allowed. There is no
mystery about it. for all the art to be
gained is that of simply feeding food
of a variety, making grass or bulky
food the main reliance, with a small
proportion of grain to balance it, in
stead of feeding grain exclusively.
When hens are overfed, some that
have a tendency to fatten quickly will
become fat sooner than others, and vet,
if they are in the yard with the laying
hens, they will eat just as much, and
l>eeome fatter. The hens thut are lay
ing will then have to produce till the
profit, and often the whole flock i* con
demned as unprofitable because one
half of them are non-producers, though
the others may be among the very best
layers to be found. The fat hens do
the layers an injustice and injury, and
should be taken out to l>e allotted a
location where they can be put into
“training service,” which means that
they should be so sparingly led that
they will be only too glad to work and
scratch for the few grains they receive,
and in so doing reduce themselves in
flesh and get into laying condition
again. Feed less grain and more bulk.
It matters not what it is. provided the
hens are kept busily at. work aud are
in good health. A good hen should
ne.’er be idle. When she runs to you
for food it i» just the time she should
not receive it .—har'd New Yorker.
A PECULIArT DISEASE.
Front ration of Those Employed About
Electrle-I.lgllt Flints.
Not a little uneasiness is said to have
been caused in certain manufacturing
regions by the outbreak of a peculiar
disease in persona whose duties neces
sitate constant working under electric
light. The disease, which is known as
“electric prostration.” lays siege to tho
subject’s throat, face and temples.
Some very severe eases of it are re
ported from Crensot, a town in Franco,
a large number of men being kept at
work in that town in a factory where
metals are heated by an electric fur
nace. The strength of this furnace is
over one hundred thousand candle
power. and while the heat is not in
itself sufficient to hurt the men. the
intense brilliancy of the light brings
on the “electric prostration.” The first
symptom is said to be a painful sensa
tion in the throat, followed by irrita
tion and inflammation of the ey* s.
The victim’s skin meanwhile takes on
a copper-red color, while the pain in
the eyes is followed by copious dis
charges of tears for forty-eight hours.
After four or five days the victim's
skin peelsoff in phices. and he is other
wise made to feel the unpleasant nature
of his situation.
The general outbreak of such a dis
ease as this would involve serious con
sequences. The number of men whose
employment brings them into contact
with the electric light is enormous,
and is calculated to increase at the
same rate as the comparatively new
agent supplants the old means of il
lumination and becomes used as a mo
tive power. Some claim that the elec
tric light is destined ultimately to su
persede gtis as a lighting pdwer en
tirely, and should this be the case, a
malady springing directly from con
tact with the new power would be a
grave matter. The only remedy so far
applied in cases of “electric prostra
tion” has been the wearing of a shado
over the eyes by tho person affected by
it. This, however, while it relieves
the direct strain on the eyes, does not
mitigrate the gravity of the other
symptoms.
The great minds that gave the elec
tric light its being are naturally tho
ones best calculated to provide a means
of remedying any unpleasant conse
quences that may be entailed by its
use. To a mind like Mr. Edison's tho
discovery of a cure for “electric pros
tration” should be a simple matter.
The malady bears an evident resem
blance in some respects to tho disease
known as “color blindness,” the vic
tims of which are workmen whose du
ties entail a constant scanning of parti
colored lamps at night. The entire
subject is one that demands the atten
tion of scientists. The electric light
is far too valuable ar agent to be i“-
tanted in its advancement by a draw
back which a little careful study by
those most familia’ - with it should
remedy. —Chicago Journal.
—A Kansas school teacher, in apply
ing for a position, was rejected because
she couldn't answer in five minutes the
question: “What is the interest at six
percent on $17,011,200,000 for ninety
seven days?” The disappointed teach
er said she never expected to have that
much money out at six per cent inter
est so she didn't think it was wort!
while worrying her head about iu—
Norristown Herald.
HOME AND FARM.
—Roast turkey with cranberry sauce
or an aeiU jelly should be served with
potato croquettes, peas, tomatoes and
scalloped oysters.
—The latest addition to Withla
roochee ) fame is a htn which
hatched and raised to the size of
partridges sixteen chicks from fifteen
eggs.
—For membranous croup tr an at
tack of asthma take a little tor and
turpentine, place it in a cup on top of
the stove or some live coals. A dense
smoke will be emitted which will bring
relief to the sufferer.
—Orange Pancake: One pint of
warm milk, add one tablospoonful of
melted butter, one pint of flour, two
eggs beaten stiff, two tablespoon fuls of
sugar and juice of one orange. Rake
on griddle. Rutter and sweeten. —
Good Housekeeping.
—The pigs will gain the fastest in a
pasture of fresh grass. It is unnatural
and unprofitable to confine pigs in a
pen or a naked yard. The yard is not
so bad as the pen, but the field is the
hog’s realm.
—A writer who has given attention
to the matter of feeding sheep states
that the best ration he ever knew was
composed of equal parts, by weight,
of corn, oats, peas and millet, to every
fifteen bushels of which one bushel of
flaxseed should be added, and the
whole ground together. It fattens
sheep very rapidly.
—Quince Snow: Quarter five fair
looking quinces and boil them till they
are tender in water, then peel them
and push them through a coarse sieve.
Sweeten to the taste and add the
whites of throe or four eggs. Then
with an egg whisk beat all to a stiff
froth and pile with a spoon upon a
glass dish and set away in the ice-box,
unless it is to be served immediately.
—ls the old crooked rail fence is di
lapidated and a nuisance.no time should
he lost in setting the needed posts and
using the rails in a straight fence, each
length going half as far again us where
the rails are placed in zig-zag order.
If only a few rails are used, a barbed
wire at the top makes an effective bar
rier, not liable to blow over or form
deep snow hanks behind it.
—Soft soap and good sand, together
with lye made from wood ashes, and
vigorous applications with the scrub
bing brush are the best implements
with which to scour the floor and
tables and the woodwork of the room
if it is unpainted. All paint requires
a little more careful handling, andean
he wiped down with woolen cloth,
wrung out of water in which a little
soap or lye has been dissolved.
—The oven should be as hot as for
roasting meats, several degrees hotter
than for bread. The quick cooking oi
oysters is essential, as otherwise the
oysters will lose their juice and become
tough, l’ut them on the bottom of the
oven, so the bottom will heat through
first. Leave them there fifteen min
utes without looking at them. Then
look into the oven, and if the top is
not brown set them up on the grate to
brown.
—Anchovy Cakes: Take a dozen
anehovies, scrape them clean, remove
the bones and put the flesh into a
mortar with half the weight of the fish
in fresh butter, a tablespoon ful of
scalded, finely-minced parsley and a
teaspoonful of lemon juice. Pound
these ingredients to a perfectly-smooth
paste and ‘spread this between small
rounds of stale broad. Press the rounds
firmly together, then brush the cakes
entirely over with beaten egg and fry
in hot fill.
HINTS ON BREAD-MAKING.
Kxtmct* from a Kecrnt Lecture of Mrs.
11. I*. Kviinit, of Host on*
To make good bread requires but a
trifling amount of kneading, and the
process of making and baking, as a
whole, is not laborious, but rather a
pleasant occupation if properly con
ducted. Rut four ingredients are re
quired-flour. yeast, salt and water.
In her description the lecturer used
the term “wetting” :*< defining either
water, milk and water, clear milk or
buttermilk. With any one of these
good bread can be made, jin impera
tive condition is that the yeast shall
be pure and sweet. The compressed
yeast was recommended as being the
least variable, and, on the whole, she
preferred it to any other. Every
housekeeper or corfk should have n
method of making good yeast for use
when compressed yeast K- not to bi
had.
In general, it may be said that the
proportion is one measure of wetting
to two and a half to three measures oi
flour. For quantity the Hour will vary
according to its quality. A sufficient
recipe is one quart of wetting, one tea
spoonful <’f salt and one ounce of com
pressed yeast. Into this mixture stir
the Hour as it is gradually put in until
the dough becomes firm enough to lx
catwble of being held up by the spoon.
The dough is then to he spread upon
a board and kneaded by raiding dry
flour till it does n«*t stick to the boarc.
or to the hand, it should be put into
an earthen bowl and covered tightly
with a cloth and remain in a tempera
ture 75 deg. Fahrenheit for three hours.
It should he removed to the baking
pans without much handling or com
pression and left one hour to rise in
the pan. The process of rising in
volves fermentation. Fermentation
can Vie produced at a temperature of 30
deg., hut the time will lie long.
At 50 deg. it will advance faster, at
70 deg. quite rapidly and at !>o deg.
very rapidly, hut it is advisable to
have a temperature of 75 deg. From
forty-five to sixty minutes is required
for the baking, and the entire procew
from the dry flour to the perfected
loaf need not occupy more than foui
hours. Pans four inches wide, three
deep and ten or twenty long are pre
ferable.
More dough is spoiled in baking than
in any other way. The temperature
of the oven should he from three hun
dred and fifty to four hundred degrees
Fahrenheit. As thermometers are not
usually available a sufficient test will
be that the oven shall throw out a sud
den current of hot air when the dooi
is opened; or that if a few drops oi
water bo sprinkled on the bottom ol
the ov.'# they will hop and hiss, or that
a pinch of dry flour put on the bottom
of the oven will become brown, with
out burning, in two minutes.
A loaf of bread rightly made and
baked will be rounded or puffed up in
the center of the upper crust: if the
top of the loaf be flat, the success is not
perfect. When taken from the pan the
loaf should he laid where it can cool in
the air where there are no odors to lte
absorbed. The loaf should not be
wrapped in % cloth and put away, but
placed in a b*ead-l>ox which has aper
tures to admit air. A perfect loaf will
remain good a week or ten days.—Bou
ton Transerijd.
—The Borsen Zeitung vouches for
this statement:: “In 1873 the Crown
Prince Frederick William caused
twelve copies to be taken by a copper
plate process - of the diary which he
kept during the Franeo-tierman war.
Of these copies he presented one each
to persons who particularly enjoyed
his confidence, the plate being after
ward destroyed. The recipients were
requested to take special care that the
diary w:is on no aeeount published un
til tiff*- ycuM after the death of it*
author.”
INCIDENIS OF INTEREST.
A watch has been presented to Mrs.
Cleveland on behalf of 550 girls employed in
k Philadelphia watch rase factory os a specs
men of their handicraft.
A Chicaao woman whose husband's death
was hastened by tbe ore of alcoholic drinks,
sued a firm which sold him the liquor and
kbtained judgment for 95.000.
A CHKiosiTT of patchwork recently re
ceived in Riel mood, Va.. from Norfolk, is a
mantel lambrequin made of sixty-six badges
collected at the Gettysburg reunion lost
July.
A man In Newark. N. J . is playing a game
of chess with his cousin in Australia by
mall. They have been at it for five years.
The Newark man now sees defeat staring
him in the face.
Thk following telegram was sent to J. F.
Dunn, of Ocala, Fla , who is now in New
York, on the report that he had been killed
by a runaway horse: “ Reports here say
that you are dead, is it true* ”
Twektt-oxk little girls, aged nine to thir
teen. were recently brought to New York
ov Mormon elders from Europe en route to
Balt Lake City. They were ordered by the
justoms collector to be seut back to Europe.
News comes to Greenwich, Conn., that
Rev. F L. H Pott, a young man of that
place who went out to China about a year
ago as a missionary, has married Miss H. N.
Wong. whose father was his first Chinese
convert to Christianity.
A mili an who operates a mill near the
lam of the New Market lake. New Jersey,
emptied the lake ostensibly to make repairs
to the uam. The lake is a stocked stream,
fostered by the Government, and tons of
bass and other fish escaped down the
stream.
A resident of Cuthbert. Oa., found a real
horned snake the other day. The horn was
about two inches long, was on the end of
the tail, and was hard enough to penetrate
soft substances. The snake seemed harm
less and made no effort to use its peculiar
attachment.
The correspondent of the Colliery Guar
dian reports a case which, if true, must be
interesting to geologists. In the Coleford
district of the Forest of Deati a small col
liery has recently been opened, and while a
collier was engaged in breaking up a fall
of block coal, tie found a toad in the center,
it seemed firmly embedded in the coal, and
It was alive. Its form was imprinted upon
the face of the mineral, and the animal is
still living. The incident has occasioned
much interest in the neighborhood.
There was a circus at Chestertown. Md.,
one day la?<sy and with it were seven ele
phants. Their car was run alongside a
locomotive. One of the elephants put his
trunk out through a crevice in the car,
reached over to the tender of the locomotive,
lifted the lid of the water tank and helped
himself. The other six elephants dtd the
same and in a short tune the tank was dry.
The train hands did not see the performance,
and only when the eugiueer tried to start
his engine did he find that the water was
gone.
Ne.-.r I.arctlo, Mex . there was lately dis
covered the remains of a concrete daze.
across the Rio Grande, evidently built in
that, time wherein the record runneth not,
and the other day, less than one hundred
yards from it, there was picked up a clusp
kni.'e, with blade about the length of the
modern bowie knife and handle thickly over
laid with the purest gold, deeply chased in a
sort of cipher pattern intermixed with ani
mals whose like has not existed since the
flood. How or whence it came no man can
say, but it is thought to be a relic of a
pre-historic age, and hence is held at much
beyond its weight in gold by its present
proud possessor.
CUSTOMS AMONG RACES.
In Portugal they cure a quick tempered
person by inviting everybody to give him a
kick.
The Japanese are polite. Their honesty
is attested by the fact that the shop is often
left by the proprietor with nobody in while
he goes to a distant part of the city. There
are no bolts or bars on public or private
houses.
In Tashkend, says a traveler, the Chinese
have imposed a tax on all women who mar
ry. All mershants who visit Kashbar are
obliged to take a wife. As soon as they
leave the woman obtains another husband,
and thus the tax affords a considerable rev
enue to the Government.
In various parts of China there is a be
lief that the souls of very atrocious crimi
nals who have either been executed or died
in prison are sent back from hades by Yen
1, >, the judge there, to undergo a further
term of imprisonment, one death not being
enough to expiate their crimes.
A modern French custom at baptisms is
that of presenting all the guests with sugar
almonds in a bonbonniei-e. which has the
appearance of a roll of parchment. On this
roll are inscribed the names of the child, of
the parents, god parents, the date of the
birtn and christening and the name of the
church where the ceremony was performed.
Os the Greek Island of Himia no girl may
marry until she can dive and bring up the
sponge that is known to grow only in the
deepest water, as it is not thought before
that time she is prepared to support a fami
ly. Upon Niarus the rule is reversed—the
girl says or does nothing, and her father be
stows her out of hand upon the diver who
stays longest and brings most sponges.
In Cuba a woman never loses her maiden
name. After marriage she adds her hus
band's name to her own. In being spoken
of. she is always called by her Christian and
maiden names. To a stranger it is often
quite a task to find out whose wife a woman
is. Never hearing the wife called by the
husband's name, one naturally does not as
sociate them together. The children take
the name of both parents, but place the
mother's name after the father’s.
The seclusion of women in Corea is re
markable. Those of the lower classes wear
a green mantle over their faces, and at the
sight of a stranger dart into the nearest
house. In INST, when the Duke of Genoa
was off the coast with an Italian mau-of
war, after vain attempts to open communi
cations with the authorities on shore, an of
ficial came off to remonstrate ugainst tile
indecency of the Europeans in bathiug and
fishing, which had for some days prevented
the villagers from leaving their homes.
Oct of thirty-five sovereigns who have
assended the English throne since William
the Conqueror, every month in the year has
been honored with a coronation from one to
four or five times except May; that mouth
not one. _ _
Sign* One Can’t. Mistake.
Among these are yellowness of the skin
and eyeballs, a furred tongue, nausea, pains
in tho right side, sick headache and consti
pation. They unmistakably indicate liver
disorder, for which Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is a superlatively fine remedy. Use
it promptly and at given intervals. Malarial
complaints, dyspepsia, rheumatism, debility
and trouble with the kidneys, are also rem
edied by it *
Great Britain is worrying about the rap
idly increasing number of its lunatics. It
appears that those supported by the Gov
ernment alone have grown to 75,<aA It is
attributed to the harry of modern life.
Dec. lßih. ISSR. Jan. 15th, Ifith and 29th
and Feb. 13th and 2Kth. ISBS*. the Evansville
Route (C. cV K. 1. K. R.) will soil excursion
tickets to certain points in the States of
Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi and Flori
da at unusually low rates. For further in
formation address William Hid. General
Passenger and Ticket Agent C Hz E 1 R.
it. 5M First National Bank Building. Chica
go Chicago City Ticket Office, tW Clark 8t-
Doi ri.e headed freaks are barred out of
single skull races. Texas S,ftiny*
A Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat should
not be neglected. Brown s Bronchial
Troches are a simple remedy, and give
prompt relief. 25 cts. a box.
A social proverb-man proposes, but
woman musn’t.— Judge.
Keep National Yeast in tbe honse. 5 a 10c
A mist-eriocs proceeding—going ahead
In a fog.
A drunken man is sa d to walk with
reel difficulty.
fIJACOBSOJI
TRADE L ISiARK^i
RE Me DYTOpAI hi
IT CONQUERS PAIN.
XT CURES MILLIONS
Rheuirsittn. Neuralgia. Of Hatties Said
Backache, Headache. And In Every Ona
Toothache. Sprain a. A Cl KB
Bnaoea. *O. The Che• » VogeierC*.
At *=.4 C*«i*r» Baltimore, MA.
Diamond Vera-Cura
FOR DYSPEPSIA.
A vosxtxti cr»* ro» xitdxwmtiow awl all
t MXAib Tro'abl— Artelcg Tkere&am.
You* DruggiA or General Dealer will Qf* Verf*
Cva for yyu if net tArtmiy mmock, m mtrtUbe
tent by mad on receipt of £> cts. to box*- #1 00) •*
Sample «nr on receipt of trcert ttamp
on CBuu.es • voociea co»«m«or*. «*■
|M rioßMn «M Nu wtwvr
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Emma Abbott has real estate In Denver
that nets her an annual income ot $75,000.
Insomnia torments tbe troubled and the
nervous. General Wolselev is one of its
victims.
Mbs. Julia Ward Howe has learned to
speak French, Italian and modern Greek
since her marriage.
Mrs. Cleveland is worth $500,000 in her
own name, and the President has accumu
lated about $210,000 more.
Joseph Jif person is said to have more
than 2,000 head of cattle, mos ly thorough :
breds, on bis big Louisiana plantation.
Mme. Patti, being unable to find a pur
chaser for her Welsh castle, has decided to I
turn it into a school for the musi.al training
of poor girls with good voices.
Mrs. Langtry told an Omaha reporter
that she loved nothing better than to attend
to her household duties, and that she de
lights in doing her own clothes-mending
Mrs. Blair, w fc of Senator Blair, ha*
been elected a trustee of the New Hamp-1
shire Normal School, the first instance of a ;
woman being chosen to such a position in
that State.
Senator Hearst. of California, is said to
have at least one mine to every mining
State and Territory in the country. He be
gan his mining adventures as a day laborer
in the mountains.
Genpral Sherman was a passenger in a
prowded horse-car in New York the other
day, aud carried a buxom young colored
girl, who couldn't get a seat, on his knees
S for five blocks.
We gratefuliv acknowledge the receipt,
from Dr. J. it Aver ft Co., Lowell, Mass.,
! of a bound set of their Almanacs for l"s;i,
making a handsome and valuable presenta
| tion volume. Besides various editions in
English, there are editions in French, Span
ish, German. Portuguese. Swedish, Nor
wegian-Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, and
Welsh; also, specimen pages of pamphlets
issued Ly the firm in eleven other lan
| guagf Nothing could better illustrate the
extent of the business done bv the com
! pan.v than such a collection of its advertis
ing issues. For ourselves, we confess we
I should often be lost without Ayer's Alma
nac, accustomed. as we have long boon, to
rely upon the accuracy of its calculations;
ami we have no doubt that Ayer's Sarsa
| uurilia is equally trustworthv as a medicine.
The familiar yellow-covered pamphlet can
I now be had at all drug stores - Tut En
j demur.
A curio! s museum has been opened at
j Dresden. In it are collected boots, shoes
! and slippers which Emperors, Kings,
Queens. Princes and other famous persons
have worn. Among them are a pair of
boots worn by Napoleon I. at the battle of
Dresden >n April 27. ISIM. and a pair of
white satin shoes, embroidered in gold,
which th ■ suin'* great Emperor wore on the
day of hi, coronation: another pair of
strong leather t>oots. wbi«h belonged to the
famous French Marsha!. Murat, afterward
King of tho two Sicilies; a pair of high
j heeUti b<x>ts of Maria Theresa; boots of th®
philosopher Kant.
THOUGHTFUL SANTA CLAUS.
“I've traveled through the sleet and snow.
Across the country high and low.
To fill the stockings small and great
That here in line my coming wait.
In creeping baby's tiny hose
The india rubber rattle goes;
i> handsome doll, with staring eye*,
"Will much the little miss surprise;
And what will more delight the boy*
Than musket, drum or bug'e toys ?
And now, before 1 climb the flue.
I’ll bear in mind the mother true.
Who works so hard by day and night
To keep the clothing clean and white.
And in her stocking, long and wide.
Some cakes of Ivory Soap I'll hide.”
A WORD OF WARNING.
There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the ‘lvory*:"
they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities o*
the genuine. Ask for “ Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it.
Copyright. 18S6, by Procter A Gambia
CURED OF SICK HEADACHEt
W. D. Id'vanl*. Palmyra. 0.. write*:
“I tiava been a area, nnfferer from
('o«litFnr«se.ml Kick lleatlaelie, uud
tia.r tried many medicine*, but
Tutt’s Pills
1« (he only one that (ive me relief. I
find that one pill art* better than
Firee of any other kind, and it,re* not
-aeaken or *rl,»e.“ Elegantly mugar
coated. IK»*e small. Price, 25 rents.
SOLI) EVERYWHERE.
Office, 44 Murray Street, New York.
M. W, DUNHAM’S
OAKLAWN FARM.
*j3,000 percheroik
French coach horses,
B IMPOKTED.
FWf* IglfcA STOCK "oN HAND:
OTj **S :><><) STAM.IONN
« af.le afcre; 150 COLT* *»th
i £ 200 I ’IS-OK rr, ‘
■J VtltOOl) Yf \ Win UN*
BV toy Brilliant, the must famous living Mre».
p/ Rest Price* R« a»ona1»le.
Hr Terms Kany. Don't Rujr without Inspect
W lug this Orer.tewt sn<l J!n*t DMeceosfal
ltreedlng K«Yntoll«huaent of America,
'ending p«r#h%*.rr'. tMrpb*. for *•«*»•*■*.
M. W. DUNHAM, WAYNE, ILLINOIS.
15 Blip* uwtChiM|*««C.ai W. 5 . to* Tbimt immr * Li«l»
B*hßt Its Mhd. lO dW*>
DO'haallafw’l becun* y*>w» o«b
r frr*‘ th« beat ic-nt* hmt > r. r . tr><i
find* lm« of wort* of h:rl» art » toe-h* r in An-***
Tlll'EAlO., JBox 146, Auguitu, A* ame
TIES i a HA tmwrm,
KING OF COSDIM W TS. c LUXURY
BEST FOR MEDICAL USES.
Bold only In Tins. Take Ho Other.
*a*Never buy loose mustard, as
it is iteneralty worthless.
MADE WITH BOILING WATER.
EPPS’S
GRATEFUL—COMFORTING.
COCOA
MADE WITH BOILING MILK.
B 5-TON
WAGON SCALES,
lm Uter. Stel B*artaf*. Br**«
Tan S* >- mm 4 R«i,
S6O
M. AT*' AS fc* W- <** tobVl-Sr
lr~. L*-< i««la IW. f*lf
The g'fl who seeks to marry for the
sake of a ’'auk account !* quite likely to
be check'mated. —Merchant Traveler.
pjl£
Ponefte* many Important Advantages oiv* li*
other prepared Foods.
BABIES CRY FOR IT.
INVALIDS RELISH IT
Makes Flump, Laughing, Healthy BaF. es.
Regulates the Stomach and Bowels.
Sold by Prunrists.
WILLS. RICHARDSON l CO.. IWllMW.rf.
Baby Portraits.
A Portfolio of beautiful baby portraits, print*,!
on fine plaie paper by patent photo process. s*U
free to Mother of any Baby torn within a y
Every Mother want* these pictures; send at om-c.
Give Babv's name and ,ur*
WILLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Props., Bartingt.t, Vt
It’s Easy to Dye
M ITU
Diamond Dyes
|L - Superior
Strength,
' Fastness,
Beauty,
j-MiiL and
yj Simplicity.
Warranted to color more good* that- any other
dyes ever made, and to give more tori £iant and
durable colors. Ask for the lHamo **<*> and take
no other. 36 colors; xo cents each.
YELLS. RiCHARPSDN & CO.. Bur/ir-ton. ¥1
lor Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles, USE
DIAMOND PAINTS.
Sold. Silver, Bronic, Copper. Only a Cent.
GRIND «- •
r - ■ Vi** Oyaterrfbella!
b&p * • In b:« -JI Flour & 4 «»rn. la
*n k**pine Panltry. Also Pllll lli MI I lSud
F%K>lTeem miJS.OimknSdMlLwwSS
sect on appucauotL WII.NON II HON. Ew.a Pa.
ra-vAM, TH-, r»rrn
*Pi*o's Remedy for Catarrh Is th* Kj
Best, Easiest to Use, aud i lieapeat.
35Z3335P
Al*o cotril for Cold in the f!ea«l.
Headache. Ilajr J'ever. A<*. . r Ocents.
MARVEI
DISCOVERY.
day hook learned In one rendln*
Mliml waaderlnj ritrrd.
Hllhmit note*. '
Wholly unlike urtlflclal •ysleltn.
Hn-ftt lli«l.vel*eHt. (* * -,rr- «p..n€— ■ r
I ... .... • M|.ini"M»r l*r Hu, A. llawnnanH
the «. I famed Sp.. i.ln-t in Mi-el l»»«le'
«.re< nlr.i Thempeon. Hie (item iMyfcaloy-- J M
Ku.klr,. I*. I>.. M.i lor . * 111. * vbU. Ad- -e-nle
Klfhupd I'rn.l.r, Ihe S' nil-I. II -m*, Wl»
Jn.li.l. I*. lCrn|»>». ar il <m< r- puda hf
Pr.f. .1. I.OIMET TK. *:I7 I'lKkin , k. T.
crem ■ lAKI • - •
UllilPO FOR OIOSCNESS
Ins KnlP® Va communion:
Wf IsIKbO OR FAMILY!
Pure California Wine* dim l from tl.e Viner.ri
matle Irum t lioiwl nr»|.e«. Mini l's »«pre»»onre
ct, .it of price:
Port. 8 • e* Wf galion
V. nt« extra t.r dmlloii for b--* ami in.
tW“ AII kind* of I-i*i»s• -: * f-r niediciinn purpoAea
i leml 1 r price l.i-i. A M -.WITH. *■»» llenneplr
Acer tie, 1 'nil Tern in Wine 1 ICC if \I mnen|**li*, Minsk
ay faux mu rarea aniai...-ma
j fjy Medicated Electricity!
{ Cure* Ca'arrh, Nenralcia. DetfntM
I Headache. Cokla. Kie. lustunt Rf
i Hnß|p32 lief. Kwtru* Battery in every
EBtaras **r~ 500 bottles given away
to it. Send XT»«*ta. In atauip*
tf«|ai| t*» pur P''»tw s*r:*l packtnjf t« r a f »*'ttJ«
that wlls ir< nlara riiEr
• «!!■ in «*rprji tamliv. *r* msk
ImUXI inifovFrfH»Mi month n»U antm
BKr««TH*(O.| MOLLY. Hit 1J
> TMI-1 I APAIC ererj umm yw mrm.
m+y WE CURE CATARRH
'h OZONIZED AIR.I*
; Offanf. priMiudntrMine dffft **»«fav
A* l —-X orabiech-inireof riimite EDCC Itoii
f u»bp kfat< ntc iiai
V t ji> '•,i',tV£*sWxii'wuo»irii« r .
common sense catarrh cure
mtXeIJRW ***• H«tf htwl. ihlrßfo. Ill*
M BsetCoo*h Ta*teagood. V§e g|
PATENTSII
! ant refer- e- P. kof PATENT l.*W f KEK
1 Ad<lre-« IV T, riTZOCKA l-D, AnnKMi
| AT Law, I*ll ! Street. VmbMM. O. <
BRIGHT IRQ FAST
I* fight T«i rkf»T He«l YHIow. Cardinal. Blue. fr-urtet.
. Lm '
wanted. H ! XMlil* d « 0.. f
«r "O ta— yw* wt
A6ENTSWANTED t.lfeufOen.Bherldnm”
•r 'AHA litu rAfAE •••» ««■* F«* ,rtu
eni niCDC*LLGET PENSIONS.
D U L U II H
A W. Se-IKAKA A AO>», • tarlaaaU, 0., A n a.,D.1.
MT 'OI* THI» >APC««wttnhM»ief|i
CICCI -"MRTIIVI, .New ' >end *c *«aior. name
riiretis ,1 addre*« to IDEAL EMIR* >JKH V
*IA< HiNL Co., 48 H. Clin*- n Street, OhKJco, 111
2
VflllUC MCII Telegraphy here and we
ilUnu VTiLVVt w :i help t*.h t - u *xl poattione.
I«re« AItSH t> M HOOL <»! TtUWIIPHT. I^w*.
x U<Tf'» ee.Ptwi’-*
liny C STI'DY. Book keeping. Arltk
nUIiC metle. Shorthand, et/*.. thormijrhly
ey nuoi. Circular*free. BIYiJrstOLLKI. *•**•»* “
mU*. •! V-etr and in.k* mas menaTM'-rkinee-r***™
a, „ r \hwevlK. -~eM Titkar e. n-a«lr»ty
I MIL rentu rttL A-Mr***, IM* A
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A.N.K_-a 1217
W KEN WRITING TO AOVtiRTIASKI
pI»M lUOfiiu Me the .-I.erU*.UA.U.
la ttale paper.