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' Administrator's or Executor's, Attachment aA Rend Notices, 3 00. :! PR0FESSI0XAL CAEDS. PHYSICIANS, DC. B. :.:.D 13 If W I E, . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,, BE AXLSV.1IXE, OH IO. Omb In the Armstrong property.' apr30,78 '. ' eT-H.TTCSa-EC, PHYSICIAN AND SURG EOX, LEfTISflLLG. OHIO. Vlll visit patients in all part of the eonnty. Calls promptly attended to. apr6,'85T. DR. JAMES A. McCOY, ' , CALDWELL, OHIO, Visits Woodsfield Itcgnlarly. I gnr ntee better work and nse better materials than any Dentist ia the county, aprlS,'84 x,. x. riEiiiL 3i. r., PUYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ; 'l-evrisvilleOliio. ' Sy close attention to business expects to merit pnbllo patronage. Calls from any' part of the eoaaty will receire prompt attention. 4y or night. 1 mch30;'8B .ATTORNEYS. ' . .Tames "Watson, " : ATTORNEY AT LAW, ' lVOODSFIELD. OHIO, ";'jaaiy8z.';, . ."; - O-eorgre O. Jennings, A T T 0 K NET A T L A W , ."fTTILL praetiee In Monroe and ado!nlng , , F eoxnties. Olllee south of Pablio Square np stairs la Ketterer's building. , pri4,'88 Jimmy at Law & Notary Public. .it (Oflee orer Pope's -Dnig 8 tore,) . Woodsfield, Ohio. Will praetiee In Monroi and other oonntfes. Miimj at Law d Notary Public, 5 ' , WOODSFIELD, OHIO. Will praetiee in Moaree and- adjoining eoun- ties. r' ' ' - . . . - OIBse Tip stairs Id Monroe Bank batlding j aeS,'8a. ' ' ' '' : r 1. B8I90S, fro. Attorney. ; W E. HALLO BT, Jfttarg Publio. ' TrigrgrMf& Mallory, "ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' WOODSFIELD, OHIO. , 1 Wrtl praetiee in Monro a'nd adjoining joun tlcs. Offlse la the room formerly occupied , Hunter A Mallory, ; june2.!8Sr .WIU4AM fCtT...... WtLUAW OX IT Jfotani Public WM.OKEY& SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' " WOODSFIELD, OHIO. ' Will practice In Monroe and adjoining eouo ' ties. OMce south of Publio Bquare, formerly . oeeupied by fiollister A Okey, mchM,'82. ; ' '. -NOTICE. ' i'-' TTtHS nnderefgned, John B. Dricgs, has been X dnly appointed and qualified as Assignee of the relate of Stephen H. llathorn, an in. olf ent, . , JOHN it. Dai&9i. I. O. O. F. DIRECTORY. Woodsfield Lodges No. 37T, I. O. F. MmU every Tuesday evening- 0. Ltjdk, N. O ; O. B. Clinoak, Reo. Secretary Woodsfield Encainpment.No. 108. Meets in Lodge Room the flirt nnd third Friday evening of each month. A8HKH OkeI, C P.; Fkitb RKEr, SoriU. , 4 MASOX1C DIRECTORY. Monroe Lodge, No.' 189, P. and A. M. Meets at Masonio Hall in Woodsfield, on Wednesday ereninfn, on or before esoh full moon. J. P. Sruioes, W. M.; J as. R. Morris, SeoretaryJ ' ' ': i Woodsfield Chapter, No. 85, R. A. M.Meeta in Maaonio Halt. Woodsfield. on MondT ereninff after full mnon;. J. P. SrRiaos M. . IL P.; Jab. R. Mobbis, fJeerBtary.; f CUCUt ll "b I RECTORY. Cbristlan Church.No resident Minis ter. 8ooial meeting and corawuuion every Lord's day morning at V) o'olock. Sunday school t 9 o clock A.K. St. SylTestcr'i Catliollo Chnrcli. Rer. Father Wbisimoer. Pastor. Services at 8 and 10 o'olock a.' m. Sunday school at 2 r. II. Vespers and Benediction at 8 r. K. . M. E. Church. Services at the V. E. Church. Woodsfield. every Sabbath. Preach inir at 10US0 A. V. and 7 T. H. Sunday school 11:30 -X. U. . Prayer meetinir every Thnrsday at 7 P. K. Pastor, Sev. 11. U. otauffbb. St. Panl's German ETanffellcal Chnrnh. Services everv two weeks at 10 o'clock .. K. Sunday school every Sendtty at 9 o dock k. M Services every alternate oun day at Lewisville at 10 o'olock k. X. Pastor, Rev. 'A. J.. WlNTKRICK. Presbyterian Cnnrch. Servioes at the Presbyterian Church, Woodsfield. every two weeks at 2 o'clock P. if . Sunday soheol every Sunday af. l tVilock P. M. frayer meeting every Wednexdav eveninir at o'olook. Pastor, Bev. W. T. QaRROW AT. CHDRCH COMMITTKS5, 8ohool Boards or private families desiring to purchase an O HQ All oan procure Iret olass instruments at lowest cash prices by oaUIng on or addrei .Ing SUiV.W.T. OABROWAY,; Woodsfield, Ohio. EiteV Orsanr a Specialty, THE -'HOWELL HOUSE, iron. 1308, mo. 1213 ft 1214 Water Street, mceUng, West Ta., Is thep'aoe to stop. All newly fitted np and in first-class shape- Monroe Comty people 'should make sure te stop there as they are always weloome. moU0,'88i. W. a HOWKtVProp. EAGLE HOUSE, PAULL STBEET, "VVoodsileld, Ohio. 0. P0ULT0N, Proprietor. HAVIN3 purchased the above named Ho. teL and furnished it comfortably for the atoommdatieo of travelers, I oordially ia rite thtm to visit s. ' Hates Reasonable. Also. Proprietor of Towi HaU and Skating Bink. Danoinj Parties aocom. modaled at all times. decS.'S&y. Ohio Farmers Fire Insfl ranee Com. IiEROY, OIIIO, Insures nothing bat.Farm properly. Bates lower than those of any other Company doing' business in this oquoty. ; Assets', : : $1,187,236 03 All Losses promptly paid. . , JOUNJEFFERi, . , - Beallsvllle, OWo, bot12,78. Agent for Monroe Connty. A.G.W.POTTS, General ' Insurance Agent. TTflTl ti iT-XTT OhlO, Aft lor the following Companies: 'Also for Tornadoes! Cyelones, flnrrioanes , and Wind Storms. AMAZON. - - Cincinnati. KOV4L Of Liverpool, England. TI1K NORTHERN. - - Eng-fand. LONDON find LANQASninE. " -. i England. QUEEN or Liverpool, England. OHIO, ot Dayton. - Dayton. Applications also taken for various other Companies, all of which are the most rolls, ble Companies ia the United States. All cla:sesof ' ' Town, and Conntry Bnlldlnca, merchandise. Lumber,. Stock Vraln and Farm Implement. insured at low rates in good Companies. Ap plications either by - mall or ia person promptly attended to. ma27,'84T L. P. NEUHART, Woodaflold, 0. I General Insurance Agent, -AIB B SALES Hardware, Tinware, ..... . , i .. Clipper; Mowing Machines, ASP ' "lTome, Sweet Home" Cook Stores. rililiriOrV' GRAIN DRIL'.ft, Plows, itt4-li:iiilcn' Tools, cutlery, Builders' Hardware, ftc. v In fact everything nrually kept in a Hard ware etore. van aca compare prices ceiore buyine;. ... 1 f. HEUHAHT. TUE TUKK1S11 BATU. BT A WOMAN. Has sny of your wandering paths Ever led you to the Turkish bathef 1 They're the finest of all things, never doubt it; Just sit down and HI tell you about it. First of all you are shown to a cell; There you proceed to take off well. , - You may retain your hairpins and rings, But von must remove all your other thinars. Thoa you wrap yourself in a sheet, And fold it around you 'from head to feet, ' ' (And you'd better take one of your own ' If yot chance to be large and pretty'Vell 7 grown rc. ' -. " For youll find and your modesty 'twill har- Tbat those provided are rather narrow.) Then you follow a girl in solemn procession. Like a white-robed nun going to confession; And she lsys you out on a marb'.e slsb, And you feel like a lobster, or may be a crab. To state that the room is extremely hot The bounds of truth oversteppeth not Pretty soon you begin to melt, ' And you wonder how Bbadraoh and lleshach felt. -. Then you're put in s room that's hotter still, Aiid here you really begin, to grill. And the perspiration begins to flow, And you think of poor Abednego. ' There you lie and think ot your sins And all you have heard it will do for skins Till yeur very eyeballs begin to burn. Then the pretty girl eomes, and says it's your turn. And then, stretched out as if you were dead. On a steamy, slippery marble bed, ' With a rubber pillow under your head. You're splashed, and sorsped, and fooured, and rubbed; " In fact, most comprehensively scrubbed; ' And last, somewhat to your donsternation, Are played on by hose, like a conflagration. Then, tuoked away in a clean white nest, -You can go to sleep, or cn lie and rest, And evety thing in the whole arena ' Is as clean as it is at home sr cleaner; And when, at last, you dross for the street. And feel so supple, and nice, and neat. .' And even your temper has grown so sweet. You feel no longer eold or hunger. And you look at least to be ten years younger; And be yon as fat a seal, or thin as lath, Forever youll bless the Turkish bath. LONDON SHARPS. Harry the Maid" and "Churcher Meet Their Match. Ia February last year I came to Lon don for the day on bosioesa which took me into the city. Having accomplished the purpose of my visit more quickly than I expected I was strolling leisurely along St. Paul's Churchyard with tbe view of working my way into the Strand Tbe time of day was something after 12 at noon, and, of all the busy stream of people that flowed cityward or ebbed past me it seemed that I was the only loiterer. A roan, howe?er,walk!cg near ly as slow as I, seeing me smoking as I passed, at isst stopped and asked for a light. I gave him a match He fell back a li He out or the stream 01 trslllo into the shelter of a shop window corner to light bis cigsr in peace. He was a short man about six. and thirty, with brown beard -and whiskers, face a trifle marked with smallpox, well-dreest-d, of gentle manly appearance and spoke with a strong (indeed much loo alrocg) Amer ican twang. - . As I continued mv stroll I anon be. came aware that I was followed by this een'leman. Tbe slower I walked tbe slower he walked. . It la not comfortable to be followed so. I pulled np to let him pass. Instead' ot doing so be no sooner came op with, me thau be pulled np too. He set bis bead last a thoogbt out of tbe perpend icu'a and looking me full In the face said : -'Guess this is a tall city ? Ritier tangled to get about in, though T Now, It ain't like Pbiladelpby, where our critters knew what they was going at bp. fore they .begun to build, and ruled all the streets straight ahead in right lines. No, sir." "No ?" I said curtly and was moving on. y . "No,. sir," he continued, walking by my aide, "and it's useless for a strange! in jure city to give bia mind to going anywhere, for be ain't likely to get there Now, if it ain't reude ot a slrsnger ask. ng it, because he it a stranger (and vt know bow to treat atrangers in our conn try, sit), where air yea going. to?, Hap. pen yen can put me in the way where I'm going to." ,.'.... . 'I am making 'or tbe Strand," I said ; "if yonr way, lies in that direction I can bow it to you ; If not, I can tell yon bow to Ond it." "Just where I'm castln about to get to," be returned ; "my moonns Is at a hotel opposite Somerst House, and as soon as I get into the Strand I can Gx myself right up. So I'll Just couple on to vou. - ' I allowed b!m to do so. I hinted that bad no wish to show discourtesy to t citizen of that great nation to which he belonged. ' My companion bad plenty to say. tie rattled on about the states he- ing this and the States being that, so that it was needless for me to do any more talking than an occasional interjection ol surprise or B&tisfac'ion, esnh of which was acknowledged with a "Yes, air, or a "No, sir," completely final. He told me be bad only been in England (or a fortnight just takeu a run over to see tbe old country and should be back in Noo York again in a couple of months. When we bad passed through Temple Bar I told him be could be in no further dout as to bia way, since he was now in tbe strand. "I'm considerable obliged," be said "I'll do a much for yon when yon come to No j York But you sln't goin to uart company like that?" I hd freed my arm and held out mv hand'tft-wish him good morning. . ' "You'll just do a spell?'' be continued "A what ?' said I. . "Do I not make myself clear to tbe British Intellect? flackon you'll liquor?' No, I reckoned I bad rather be ex cused. - "Wall," be said, chewing bis cigsr so that It assumed a ro'ary motion and its point described a circle over bis face. "Wall, air, it's a custom we bev in our oonntry, and we think it rather acaly manners to refuse. Reckon yon British era do not think it scaly to slight a friend's hospitality in the street. We du.". ' As he persisted in regarding my refu sal almost in the light of a personal in sult, and would not listen to any expla nation that we no not regard the declin ing of "drinks" in a similar light in pur own country, I yielded the point We retraced our steps a short distance and entered A wine store on the city side of Temple Bar, a very respectahle place where wfnes are drawn from the wood. Small round marble tablea and light chairs are disperaed about the shop tor the convenience ot customers. Here my compsnion compounded a drink of soda water and gin and lemon and gin. ger, of which he wished me to partake. I, declined the jcixture and took a glass of sherry We might have eat Ave min utes when a tall a.nd important looking personage foonged into tbe wine-shop. As be entered he cast a supercilious look opon all the occupsnts of the tablea; then raising his head be removed bia ci gar and emitted a long column of smoke from bis lips as a contemptuous verdict of lofty disapproval on tbe aociety he bad Joined. He was well drrsted irre proacbably, so far as the quality and cut of bis clothes were concerned ; but they seemed to assert that conscious indepen dence of their wearer that new clothes will assert over a person who has been up all night. Hia black hair and amall mustache were scrupulously well arrang ed, but his eyea blinked in the daylight seemingly for want of a night's rest. He sauntered np to our table and emit ted another superior column of amoke over our beads. "Know this swell?" my Yankee friend whispered. I a hook my head.. "Thought he might be a member of yttre Congress, or a tailor s advertise ment or some other nob." . . There wss a spare chair at onr table and tbe person thus irreverently alln led to, after some time spent in mentally es timating tbe relative merita of tbe other vacant chairs, appeared to prevail on himself to take it and sit down. . "Spree last night," be condescended to say presently. "Champagne supper and things till all was bine." ''Very pretty tipple," said my Ameri can friend. "Ya as Then coming home with some fellahs we saw a Hansom waiting outside a doctor's door.and we chained the man's cab to an iron door." "Man cusa much?" By Jove, ysae Doctor damning tbe cabman and swearing be should he Isle, cabby cutting into bis bone lik forty thousand and couldn't tell what was op." "Will yon liquor?' inquired my Amer ican friend. . ' "No ; 'pon m' word, yon know you'll a'low me. Waiter, a bottle of cham pagne" "Wall, reckon I'm not particular, so ss we da liquor. (Original Champagne Charley,") the American whispered to me. Tbe swell pnt his band in bis breast pocket and carelessly ditvr not a roll ot notes, one of which he changed to pay for the champagne. My American friend nudged me and raised bia eyebrows. - , "You'll excuse be, at ranger," he said 4 but if I was in ynre place I would take care of those notes and not keep 'em in a breast Docket nor yet flash 'em about." "un," said tbe swell, "l always carry tbem so." "Tneii may be yoa don't live in Lon don?" Oh, bay Jove, no. Tbe fact ia my uncle died latelv and left me a fine prop erty down in Essex, and till the lawyers have settled np I came to have a flutter in town." "Then you'll excuse me once again, hut if I was in ynre place I wouldn't flutter my notes," and the American a p. pea'ed to me for justification. 'Ye aee yen never know what company yeou may e in." I thought I knew what company I was in, nut I clidn t say so. "Aw! for that matter," aaid the swell, "I know I am alwajs safe in tbe coinpa ny of gentlemen." "That's correct; bnt bow do you tell a gentleman from a coon f ' "Well, I think a man a a gentleman aw if be'a got money in bia pocket." "Happen you'ie right. But heow much money must a man have in his pocket to prove himself a gentleman?" ' - ' "Nothing less than five pond," said the awell. "Wall, I dunno. But for my part I shouldn't like yeu to think yen were taU kin' with any one but a gentleman as far aa .I'Dvconcerned," and my American friend produced bis puree. "Aw," said tbe awell before be opened ft; "bay Jove, I'll bet you a hew hat yon haven t got five pund in your purse." "Done with yen,", said mv esteemed friend ; and on exhibiting bis purse he showed nearly thirty sovereigns as well as 1 could Judge. 'Aw, then I've lost and I owe .yoa a hat. Aw, here i" my card." He banded it to na both. Frederick Church, E?q. 1 was im pressed with the notion that tbe facps of both these men were some what familiar to me. Tbe American nudged me again and bestowed upon me an encouraging wink. "Keclon now yen won t net my friend here he hasn't g Ave sovereigns about him?" He nndzed me afeain. - 4 Ya-as. I will," said Mr. Church lan guidly. "I often do it for a Jark. I am generally about right twice oul ol three times." I said that I didn't bet. "Aw, well, some people don't. " I wouldn't persuade anybody 'm sure. Sure to lose in the long run. Bay Jove, I know I do. But just for the sport of the thrnz. got five pand about yon? Your friend shall be a witness. It's all right you know, among gentlemen." I produced- my purse It contained about seven pounds in gold and sMver. I also had about me a gold watch and chain, a ring or two, and a shirt pin, I observed just tbe faiaiest sign of an in terchange of intelligence between my companions. "Ah, lost again," Mr. Church remark ed; "well, can't be helped! Another bottle of champagne." ' This bottle my American friend insis ted, upon paying for. I drank Very little.- ' "Really, you know," Mr. Church re marked over the new bottle, "most singular-thing aw three fellahs, perfect strangers, should meet like this and all of as strange to London.' Bay Jove.' You're from the North (I had told them 40,-which waa true). I'm from the E ist. ana onr friend and American brother, aw, if I may call him so, is from tbe West.- Tell you what. As soon as ever the. lawyers have done up my business, yon shall both come down to my place iOjiCseex and "peg -tne. , ;J oily good wel come and deuced goocl e"EootingTnr6"u abot ? . 'course ?" turning-to my Amer ican friend. "Sheqte ? Wal, a amall piece. I was Lieutenant in General Sherman's army for three yeeres, and very pretty iheutln' we had. Concleude yeu mean rifle sbeutin ?' . Oh, no ? shooting game," Mr. Church explained.. , "Yen don't da lifle sbeutin', then ?" ' . Bay Jove, no. I only shoot pheas ants and partridges and all that aort of thing." Reckon yn're a good shot, perhaps ?'' "Na, nothing uncommon." "Wal, how many times d'yu conclende you'd bit the ' bull s eye out of twenty with a rifle?" "Ob, aw. I suppose sixteen," said Mr. Cburcb. "Bet yea ten dollars yea don't hit it fourteen." , "Done." Very good, sir. My friend here shall be umpire." . This was I. "Ob, no ; hang it 1 He's a friend of vonrs that's not fair. ' Have the land lord." This Mr. Church. The American explained that the land lord could not leave bis business, and that I was only an acquaintance of half aa hour, and could not oe prejudiced either way. So, with some apparent re luctance, Mr. Cbnrcb consented. Tbe next thing was, where should we go "to sbente off tbe affair," -as my American friend pal it. "I know there's a place, Westminster way," be said. "I know there ia, 'cause the volunteers shente there." I told him no; the volunteers did not shoot at Westminster, but only paraded "I mean a gallery," be said. "I know I had a sheute there wiih one or tew vol unteers last week; bull couldn't find the place again." . . Call a , cib," snjrg sted Church. "Cabhy'll be sure to know." "Whereto, sir?" the cabman asked Church. Westminster Palace Hotel " he re plied. I was in a cab with two men whose object waa to rob me, and I was being dilven whither they diiected. However, I was not going ti be cowed at riding alone with two thieves through . the crowded ' London streets in broad day, and I waa bent on disappointing them. As we rode on, they pretended ignorance of tbe vffrious. buildings we passed. I pointed out Somerset House, the Char ing Cross Hotel, National Gallery, Witcball, et?. Arrived at Westminster, Mr. Church dismissed tbe csb. , We could walk the rest of fie way, be said, and tbe cabman bad tild him where tbe shooting gallery wss. The two walked one - on either side ot me. We came to a dirty Jiack street immediately behind the Westminster Palace Hotel, down that, and to the right a dirtier street till. I aaid this was a strange situation for a shooting gallery. "It was all right when yon got there," Mr. Caurch said; "it waa kept very snug." At the lower end of this street, I was not at all ill-pleased to see a policeman talking to a woman. I tried my atmou to catch bii eye aa we passed, but wifi out success. We tamed .down a tlirt street of slimy bouses witb here and there a filthy red curtain of a low public house. Sharp round the corner into- a blind alley. A dark greasy, brick wall blocked the other end of the place) so I knew we had reached our destination Scarcely more than one of the dilapidated wooden booses in the alley showed out ward signa of being tenant d; decayed shutters were nailed np to tbe windows; tbe whole - frontage .was smothered in filth aBd grime. Tbe most villainous looking public house I ever set my eVes on waa the last houae but one, nearest the wsll. - "That's tbe gallery," said Church. "Beckon it ia." said . my American friend. "Tost 'a tbe Identical cub where I made some fine sbeutin' last week - Come along " . v I followed them to the door. "Go and fttch and ," two names I could net c&tch. I overheard Church whisper. Tbe men went in first, I fol lowing. Tbe beer-shop wss a filthy room, about six feet square, on the riglt aa we entered, with only a window to serve be r through, Tbe pssssge was long. About three Tarda down it was a partition witi a half door, very strong. I saw, too, that it bad a tt ong hasp or catch to it, without a handle, so that, once past tlat.a victim was abut in like a mouse in a trap I stopped there.. ".Come along, and look (harp, sai l my Ameiican friend, with leas twang tin be fore ; "here's tbe gallery," and be opened a door on the It ft. I looked in at that open door. I saw a strong room or cell, seven feet square, aa near as I could judge nobbing but bsre brick walls, no window (it wss lighted for the moment from the pas sage) and deep sawdust on the floor brt i the men were besiie" tbe door ttinding half in light half in shadow. "Harry the Maid, and Churcher," I said, "I kuow yoa both. It won't An, and yon have lost some valuable time t I slammed the half door to gsin a mo ment's time from pursuit, and t ok t my beets.- I had been in the court at Worcester when those two men werp tried for card-sharping. , I never slack ened speed nntil I came upon the police man, who waa still Hiking to tbe wo man. J V Policeman." I asid, "I t.ink I can put you on two people vou . want, per haps Harry tbe Maid and ' Churcher." Harry the Maid," he replied, "is tbo greatest card-sbarpcr in England, and Churcher is tbe tip top of skittle sharps ; uui iuhi s uui lueir uoiy iraue. I told him of mv adver.ture, and how I bad t led to attest Lis at.ehtidn Is I passed. . ; "lX)ok yoa nere, sir," be said, "as you've got away allvel and with your clothes on. from thoe two, Just you be very tlankrui tor navtug done well, and don't ask for any thing more. If ytJu bad cauglt my eye as yon' passed, I would 't Dsve gone into that crib a 'tor vou no, nor yet if tiere had been two more alonz with me. If we want a man -out of that place v.e go ten and a doien strong, and even then Irs s risk." "But supposing 1 had really been 4 simple countryman; and passed that half door and gone into the trap 7" I asked; "If yon bad come out any more it would have been in ypor sMrt,"-repHedJ the policeman. ZeiS SWgiTTT LANGUAGE OP TUB CANE. Detroit Free Press. . The tap on the pavement at every step meana : "Object Is no moner to me--l,m trying to wear out'tbe ferule." vK To poke a person in the ribs with it who is stsnding np on a chair three rows ahead of the pokist at a slugging match, insinuates t "Down in front." To hurriedly slip it down the panta loons leg and walk along with it conceal ed therein, evidencea tbat it has previ ously been feloniously "magnetized" from some ball-rack and the rightful owner is approaching. . - ' To p'int with it at a rare old painting in a picture gallery indicates, that the check-hoy wn aMeep when (be visitor came throngh tbe entry door. To carry the upper end In the overcoat pocket, with the bottom part sticking straight np in front, signifies that the nickel folate has worn off from its bogus leaden head.and the same would biacken the dudelet's tan-colored glove if he held tt in bis hand. To carelessly but gracefully drop it denote the exhilaration of too much high-pticed wine aboard ; while to awk wardly get entangled np among the legs and plump the bearer forward on bis nasal-abutment, sadly goes-to prove a wholesale consumption of common five cent red, red liquor! To pedestrianiz on a crowded side walk with it run through the akimboed elbows and across the back with ends projecting beyond each arm intimates that there is plenty of room out in the street for other people who don't care to be swiped off into the gutter in passing To hold it In the center, with the ban died portions downward, is intended by tbe effeminine "mower" to demonstrate this: "Aw, this stick is wealiv ad pawal tlvely top.aavy.sw, that I nevah.'aving been used to manual labab, aw, find it a widiculously weighty borden, aw." To present it, n'cely engraved, to a trusted clerk on New Year'a day as a re cognition of "long and faithful service," conveys the sorrowful fact to tbe t c. that ye employer's act is an economical stave-on"' against bis hireling's hoped for raise in salary. . . Fresh Air and Ventilation. The ques'ion naturally occurs, What rule can we have so as to know that w get enough fresh air and not too much ? Tbe general pilnciple is simpler than its application. It is this: . The average amount of air breathed by every person ia abont 24 cubic inches at each breath, with about 20 respirations a minute. Thin would be a cubic foot in 8 minules.or 400 cubic feet in 24 hours, or the .contents of a room 7 feet square and 8 feet high. But this only a fit tic th part of what every healthy person needs, for breathing vitiates the air rapidly, be cause the air exhaled has 100 times as much carbonic acid gs as tbe atmos phere, or 8 parte in 10,000, ia as large a proportion as can be breathed withoat injury to tbe health. Crowded rooms in winter, schoola.etc, are sometimes found to contain three or four timea aa moc and beadachea and other ailments are the consequences of breathing .the same air over and over again. . . ',: There, should, therefore, ba "enough fresh air for every person daily to amount to 50.CO0 cubio feet, or enough to fill 18 rooms 10 feet square and 10 feet high This would be amply supplied by an opening, lubev or orifice three .inches tqnare, with a moderate current In tbe daytime there is usually enough air in troduced into rooms through opening doors, cracks in window casings and in other ways. The chief danger ia in sleeping-rooms, where paina should be taken to have a circulation. When the room is warm, the air outdoors ia q-iite cold, constant, and often sufficient cur rents are caused. A hundred persons should have a ventilating orifice equal to two and a half feet square. The Proprietors of Elv'a Cream Balm do not claim it to be a cure-all, but a sure remedy f ir Catarrh, C lds in fie Head and Hay Fever. It Is not a liquid or a sncflf, but is eaily applied with tV finger. It gives relieve at once. Price 5'J5. I have bad nasal catarrh for ten Tears so bad that there were great sores in mv nose, anl one placs was estn tiro&gh I gf t E v's Creem Balm. Two bottlra did the work. My nose and head is well, I feel like soother aan C. S. McMillen, Jackson Co , Mo. f&'The fifteen great American inven Hons of word wide adoption are: 1 The cotton-gin. " 2 Tbe planing ma chine. 3. Tue grass mower and reaper. i. The rotary printing press. 5. Navi gation by f team. 6 Tbe hot air engine 7. The sewing machine. 8. The India rubber industry? 9 The msci'ine man ufacture of horse shoes. 10. Tue sand blast for carving. 11. The gauge lathe II. Tbe grain elevator.. 13 Artificial ice making on a large scale. 14 The electric msgnet and its practical appli cation 15 The telephone. ' "I waa all ran down, and H io ls Sar saharilla provsd just the medicine 1 needed," write hundreds of people. Take it now! . lOO Dose- One Djllar. In the temnle of 'ame. It ia aaid, there is an niche far every honest man ; hut the truth cmpells ua t add tbat in that same tempi there are a great many niches tj let. , , EDUCATIONAL COLUMN. ' . ' ' ' jfcbatiom ; ; ;:' , Elucfctfclrj. primary importance to every boy sr 1 girl in this country. Tbey sbonld pre; :re themselves to fulfill all stations of Xcture life faithfully and hono-ably. Education is One of the greatest .harriers against crime and law morality this or aoy other country, can produce. I cultivates the mind and eh ablea roan to decide with clearness and precision 0& any subject whlsh msy offer itself tb os during pur career as citizens of this free, and enlightened country: We should enooursge and foster educa tion in whatever form it msy appear to us...ir there three things Jlum veiy yaung wafcouian fittouidiips:. sess as the nucleus around whioa-to build a character it shouloTbThoneRty. a strict regard for religion, and a thorough and practical education.. Any one possessing these three qualities need not despair of success, it is trne mat it may iakc a great amount of patience and study, and tbe road we travel rosy not fit all. times be lined with flowers, onr life may be full of trouble, temptation and draw backs; hut no person after having en deavored to educate himself should be turned aside by tbe cries of the ignorant ... ... m . r or tbe machinations 01 enemies, lit should add energy to perseverance and be need not fear but that ultimate success will crown bi3 labors. ' Education will be found useful to m n in all stages of their career whether in publio or private life there is not an avocation or em ployment in which education rosy not be more or teas an advantage. Every man should strive to obtain knowledge. I' elevates the social condition of .mankind and creates a moral and religious influ ence in communities where it is fostered and upheld. " D E Yost. Influence of Public School Teachers ' 1 St Nicholas. . . Most people do not appreciate the moral work done by the teacbeta in . tie school term, quits apart from any work in books snd lessons. Tie "course .ol study" is changed from year, to year, and we hope it ia Improving, because, gradually, more attention is given to the kind of instruction needed by the chil dren. Bvt, after alt. it is their daily in rcourae witbrefined and conscientious teachers which rea'ly educates tbe chil dren, and it is of far more consequ nee than any technical system pursued. Strangers who visit our public schools are puzzled to know wb'ere we keep the children if the very poorest families " They do not recognize them in tbe rows ol neat-looking boys and girls ; before them, and are unwilling to believe thai the children sitting -there, with white aprons, and. nice shoes and stockings, and clean laces, and. Lands, nave .come from t e most'sqnalid parts of Boston, from "homes" tbat do not deserve the name. But their teachers, knowing all about these homes, have been daily teaching tbem the aelf-respeot tbat comes from cleanline-s and neatneas. The) are even ready to supply the shoes and stockings and clean aprons which tbe li tie waifs need tbat they may come to school. Tbe truant -officer, whose name is a fear and a dread totbe idle boy who strikes his school, is ia reality a kind friend to the poorer boy, who form the greater number of tbe daily truants He has his closet full of bocls snd shoes, contributed by friends, snd thus be is ready to supply tbem to those who would really stay away for want of them. Supervision. Whatever may be said of the rapid whirl of progress in this great State, in all commercial and. industrial pursuits it is a deplorable fact tbat tbe intereste of country schools have been eadly neg lected. In our school exhibit, sent to the Centennial Exposition, we attempt ed to rank second in tbe Union. But that only applied to schools in towns snd cities. And while we received natter ing encomiums on our graded school work, as exhibited, cot a manuscript nor an item was sent there from an nngra. ded school in Ohio. Why? It is pre snmed we had nothing fit to be ebown It . must be admitted, though it may touch our pride to confess it, that .the coun'ry schools have but little permanent, health ful advancement. They turn the same furrow, from year to year, with a 'wood en mould-board, and make a return of results a quarter of a century behind the timrs I am aware of the criticisms such statements are likely to cause But these are disreputable facts which wi:l stand tbe test of investigation. At the same time, I am free to exhon- orate, in a general sense, the country teacher. The fault is not with him. It is fair to aasume tbat he does hia work as well ai tbe dis,(frgan:Z3d state of bis school and tbe endless'errbarrsssmeola against which be labor will admit. -Country schools are withoat a uni form course of study and systematic plans to protect it; they are wanting in organization nud proper- cla eification; they needed eupervisio. This is the old cry. I am aware tbat connty auper vision baa been nrged and defea'ed ao often tbat Its best friends have well nigh forsaken the enterprise. First nnderta. ken in thia State in 1837, It Is said to have been before 25 legislatures since tbat time. No matter. It is still tbe questiin to agitate O lio is about tbe only progressive State without supervis ion. I challenge any one to find a ano- cesaful business where untrained work men are employed, without ia plana be ing directed by a'aOHel foreman. But there are is.uuj teacoera in the ungra ded achools of the State withoat any head to protect this great interest of tbe people. . .. Country sstioots need trained teacn- n . S . a . ers. remaps me nest tning to 00 just now is to teach teachers. Many teachers in country districts are beginneia :and untrained, and comparatively few who begin expect to make it a permanent no cupation Outside tbe large cities but little effort ia made to give teachera pro fessional training. Tbe embarrassments in frequent changes and In want of skill are more serious'y fell in the country than in towfis and cities. In a graded school, a new candidate will make 'ewer mistakes because be is familiarly asso ciated with o'her teachers and ia coun cil with a superintendent. B it at his best he can only do liie ao:k of aa ap - prentice the first and second years, and the achoola must of necessity lose by it. The double-beaded township system ougnt to he abandoned. Certainly" a Change In township organization ought tb be accomplished this jear.- It la fan ' fortunate that the General Assembly ha not made these changes, and relieved n troth the acbbbl laws which have ao long retarded instruction in rural Jirli"r..i L But let us follow Mr; Lincoln's rulSi" "neep.pegging away. ; ... tv Benhctt C. W. f5 . . J3ill Nye on Hotels. Chicago News. " - In a western ci.y there stands a resi taurant tbat baa outside as a sign, unde a glass case, a rib roast, a slice ot betnr n4 m . dack" that-'l-etatswiher-die-"-ttactly bating aeenr there In IPS; and .. before the' war.' I aBked an epicure tfcS' other day ir be thought it right to keep those things there year after year when' so many were starving throughout tha length and breadth of tbe land He! then straightway did take rae top close so that I could see that the food Was made Of plaeter and painted, as hereto' fore eet forth snd by me translated.' as Walt Whitman would say. ; 'J There are two kinds of guests who live at the average hotel. , One la that party who geta np and walks ovef tbe" whole corpa de bole, from . the bate? . beaded . proprietor to the boot bls'ck. while the other Is the ' meek and mild eyed man, doomed to sit at tbe table and bewail the flight of time and the borrotl of starvation while wailing for the re lief party to come wi'b bia food. I belong to tbe Utter class. , Born, aa I was, in a private family .and early. ae quiring tbe babijt ot eating" food that was -intended to aBsusge hunger mostly, It takes me a good. while to accustom my self to tbe style of dyspeptic microbe used simply to ornament" a bill of fare. Of course it is maintained by some hotel men that food solely for easing purposes, is becoming obsolete and outre, and that the Bluff that they put on their bills of fare is just as good to pour down the back of a gueat as a diet tbat ta cooked for the common, low, perverted taatee of people who have no higher aspirations than to eat their food. . , . 1 Of course the genial, urban and Ist, ented reader will see at once the style of hotel I am referring to. It la the hotel that apB the good hotel and prints a bill of fare solely aa a literary effort That is the hotel where yon find the moth eaten towel . and tbe bed-ridden coffee. .There is where yoa get butter that runs the elevator daytimes and sleeps on tbe fl tnnel cakea at night; I also refer to the hotel where tbe bell, boy Is simply an animated polisher of -baniateis, and otherwise extremely. ase lees It Ib likewiscthe house where the syrup tastes like the tincture of rhubarb, and the pancakes taste like a bektograpbV -Tbe traveling man will call to mind the hotel to which I refer, and he will in stantly name it and tell yoa that be has never spent the Sabbath there. : ' Some people can live on cracked wheat, bran and skimmed milk, no mat. tcr where. they go, and they always seen to be perfectl happy ; but while aim Dlicity is my watchword, and while I ant Old Sirrplicity himself, as it were, I baveb't been constructed with stomach's enough to successfully wrestle with these things. I like a few pla'n dishes with victuals on tbem, cooked by a person who has hud some experience in that line before. I am not so especially tied to high prices and finger-bowls, for I have risen frcm the common people, snd . during the first eighteen yeara of my life I had to dress myself. . J was D9i alwsys the pampered child of enervating luxury that I now am by any. means. So I can subsist for weeks on good plain food and never murmur or repine (bat where the mistake at some hotels seems to have been made is in trying to issue a bill of fare every day that will attract the attention of literary minds aodix cite the curiosity of linguists Instead of people who desire to assuage an inter nal craving for grub. I, use the term grub in its broadest and most compre hensive sense. . Too much ot our hotel food tastes like the second day of Jan uaryor the Otth day of July. That's the whole thing in a few words, and un less tbe good hotels are. nearer together we shall have to multiply onr cemetery facilities. . '''''' V . ' v WIYES! MOTIIERSl DAUGHTERS! BE YOUR OWN PHYSICIAN! A lady who wa for years a great aufferer from Female Complaint) ahd weaknesses, ao common to her bfx, and deeps; red of being cured, finally found remedies which completely cured ber, sftsr all else bad failed. Any laiy cai uae tbe remedies , and cars herself, without being subject ed to a medical exaainaMon. Frosn . grstitndeshe will send rase, Becipes, Illustrated Treatise and"fiiirdTrect one. tealed. Address (with stamp), Mas. W. C. Holm ei,' 658 Broadway, N". Yi (Name paper). v - farvBr'otber Ike,", aaid a gentleman of color to another darkey yesterday, "yer orter been to de pra'r meetln' las night. We praye l fur yer." " ' 1 J - "Amdatafao?" ; - "Hit am " . . 'Den I'ee got faith in pra'r. Dat pra'r was answered." "Sure 'noff!'' ., . ' ,4Fo' God hit wna.". , , "Tell me 'bout bit, Brudder Ike." "Wall, 'Z'kiel, Pee got de fatteaVtar key at my. bouse yer eber seed. . As he wuz roostia' low laa night berry low." , APlUlufsifcut. , W2 What sadder eight can be .imagined than tbat of a noble man, wboos tbe world can ill-afford ta spare, stricken down in the prime of a useful lire by consumption. Thousanda ' are yearly filling consampi es' graves who inigbt be saved by the timely oss of Dr. Pierce's ' G lden Medioal Discovery," which is a positive cure for consumption in its , early etages, , It is the best alterative and pectoial in the world. AU druggists. . The '"fresh" young man finds consider, able (iilUculty in earning hia sail because be needs so much of it. , Stated by U. B. Cocbran, drrfgalat, Lancaster, Pj : "Hate euarsnteed over 300 tKl les of Bur Jock B.ood B. ters tor rtjjapei'Bia, sour t xoach, luiliods attacks. a. ai.a .... i l,yvr and klduoy tioubks." 'r