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I PINCIO LOVE MATCHES. How Some Roman Youths Select and Woo Their Brides. Among the myriad charms of Rome are the patches of fertility which spring up here and there amid the sea of brick and mortar. The most conspicuous of these is the Pincio and its surroundings, a veri table rus in urbe. Here nature has ably seconded human skill. The al titude of the gardens and the mag nificent view they afford make them unequaled by any other public park. True their area is small, but what of that? It brings its visitors all the more in touch with one another, and this is the secret of its charm for the [Romans, whatever may be its attraction for strangers, for, let the truth be told, the Pincio is the great flirting ground of Rome. Nor should this horrify the reader. It is intended en tout bien tout hon neur. It is probable that the Pincio sees the inception of half the marriages in Rome. It is a curious sociological fact, but the explanation of it is simple. It has been commented up on by numberless writers that Ital ians are exclusive, though not in the usually accepted sense of the word. They are proverbially open and friendly, especially to strangers, the commercial value of whose visits to their land they appreciate, but this -cordiality, even to their own coun trymen, has its limit. In rfo coun try more than in Italy is a man's home his castle, and, except in the highest circles and where there is no poverty to be concealed, he is chary of his hospitality. This is es pecially true of Rome and Naples. Therefore, if neither she ,nor her parents receive many visitors, how is the Roman girl of the bourgeoise class who is not "in society" to meet the inevitable lover for whose advent and her consequent emanci pation from parental tyranny she longs more ardently than young women usually do? The anewer is, "The Pincio." I On Thursdays and Sundays, when the band plays—uncommonly well, by the way—and the park is in consequence crowded to overflow ing, the signorina who is the fortu nate possessor of a becoming cos tume dons it and demurely accom panies her mother to the municipal pleasure ground, where eaoh ex pends 10 centimes for the temporary right to a oomfortable chair ingen iously constructed as to be springy, •though fashioned entirely of iron If she be a wise maiden, she will so maneuver that the chairs will be placed on the main pathway where every one must pass. This being achieved, she may await develop ments, and, if she have pretensions to beauty, she will not* long be left in anticipation. The young men who pass will gaze at her approv ingly, and finally one, to whom she may especially appeal, will detach himself from the crowd and take up his stand before her. Thus is ini tiated the first chapter of "the ro mance. From that moment, with out a word or sign, and even with scarcely a look from her, he be comep her swain and faithful -knight. Week after week he sees her at the Pincio. He even follows her about the streets. Having' as certained her abode and her name, he generally soon manages to find a mutual friend who performs the in troduction. The rest is obvious. Or, if they do not happen to have acquaintances in common, when the silent lovemaking has progressed far enough, a demand for the dam sel's hand is made directly to her parent. Then, as a sedate married couple, they revisit together the scene of their wooing. This pro cedure, as I have said, is extremely oommon and is considered proper among respectable members of the middle class. I have been told that marriages thus made turn out, as a rule, as well as could be desired.— New York Commercial. English Incivility. Alphonse Daudet used to tell this anecdote to illustrate the incivility of some Englishmen: "I was on my wedding journey, and an Englishman was with my wife and myself in the compartment in the train. The air in the car was close, and I wanted the window low ered. But he insisted it should be kept closed. I told him that I want ed some fresh air, that my wife needed it,' but he persisted in keep ing the window shut. At his inci vility I thrust my elbow through the pane, at the same time exclaiming, 'Keep the air away from us' now if you oan,' and the fellow glowered like a bull." The Retort Courteouii. The proprietor of anew Washing ton hotel celebrated its opening by inviting a large number of dis tingues to a supper. At the table a distinguished judge of diminutive stature took offense at a jocular re mark of the landlord and, handing him $1, said, "Sir, I wish to pay for my supper." The landlord handed him back 60 cents, saying quietly, "Children half price."—What to Eat. ?sfsr* PICTURES AND PRINT. Advantages of the Author Artist Over the Mere Write*. The artist author has something that he wishes* to tell, and to do this he has at his command two modes of expression, each of which supple ments and supplies the shortcom ings of the other. Where the lim itation blocks the way of words.he can imagine out his idea with his pencil. When it fails, words can supply its need, and so he can pre sent his idea before the world at a tremendous advantage. It seems as if he must be better fitted than any one else for that presentation of what he means. He has lived and moved with his char acters. lie has eaten and drunk, slept and wakened with them, and to him as to no one else they are visible personalities. But let him describe them, however minutely and accurately, and they will not he impressed on the mind of the casual reader as they would be if he saw them in a pioture, or, if the reader is imaginative enough to clothe those characters with a body, it is probably not at all what they were really meant to be. How intensely interesting it would have been if Poe, like Blake, had been able to imagine out some of those strange visions that filled his brain not only in words, but in actual lines as well, or if Cervantes had left us some idea of how Don Quixote and bis Spanish squire real ly looked, however roughly drawn they might have been! It is under the Byzantine em perors that the earliest manuscripts of modern Europe were produced, and they exist in great numbers and are of surprising splendor. A timid suggestion may indeed be ventured that the Byzantine scribes were less careful of their calligraphy than of their paintings. That may be true, and it may yet remain true that the Byzantines had a splendid cal ligraphy of their own and a splendid notion of how to adorn their pages. The Irish monks of the sixth and seventh oenturies, the English monks of the ninth century and the French of a somewhat later time were the fellows for beautiful let tering. The splendid manuscript which is called by the name of King Knut and which lies in the British museum contains lettering which is so beautiful in its strange modifi cation of thetclassical Roman letter that even the splendid renaissance work of five centuries later scarcely equals it. Every one knows the "Gothic" character of the twelfth and thirteenth century manuscripts, a character which the modern Ger man typographer has preserved for our sins and to punish the eyes of those who would fain study German thoroughly, but few persons know the pre-Gothic character, thej beau tiful lettering founded on the an tique forms, which was preserved in the north aiid in the south, alike in Lombardy, in France, and in England, down to a time at least as late as the yerir 950. Take any in itial page of a tenth century manu script, northern or southern, aiid see how much more beautiful is the writing than are the figures of men and animals which are supposed to adorn it. The ignorance shown in drawing these visible objeots is great, and the absence of any power over their forms is really ugly and offensive, but the power of abstract form, of making a letter into a beautiful thing, is, h'owever, so great as to be quite inconceivable to a race of people like ourselves, who have lost the trick of decorative design. Independent. A Narrow Escape. One day a mother who had been to a country house near Marseilles was returning at twilight to the city with her son, a child of 8 years, who had been put in a peaoh basket borne by a donkey, and the mother, fearing the child niight catch cold (it was in November), had covered him with a thick brown shawl. Tired with running around the coun try all day, cozy and warm under the thick shawl, the child was soon asleep and hidden by the sides of the basket. There is a local custom house at th° gates of Marseilles, and when the inspector surmises that any paokage contains contraband articles he thrusts a sharp steel pick through it. He was preparing to do this with the basket when the mother, some distance behind, saw his intention and shrieked out that her son was in the basket. It was Adolphe Thiers.—Exchange. Ancient Posters. It is probably the general impres sion that posters and handbills are modern inventions, but it has been discovered that the ancient Romans practiced tljis method of advertising. In digging at Herculaneum there was brought to light a pillar cover ed with bills, one on top of another. The paste used to stick them was made of gum arabic. The bills, when separated and examined, were found to be programmes and an' nouncementeof public meetings and even election proclamations.—New York Tribune. Etta Spencer is vapidly recovering from her sick spell. Orin Root will occupy the resi dence vacated by Frank White. The next regular meeting of the Blue Grass Creamery will be held on Wednesday, February 23d. Joe Woodland started for Marion county, Iowa, Monday night where he goes to find employment. John McNutt and Wm. Worley passed last Sunday with their rela tives and friends, at Atlantic. George Gill's best horse got so bad ly kicked the other night that he tears it will go lame all the rest of its life. Will McGuire tells us that he will again commence buying hogs, at the Station, about the middle of March. Mrs. Will McGuire enjoyed a visit this week from her sister, Miss Nan Murphy, and Miss Ella Conway, of Audubon.' There was a taffy pull at Henry Wells' home, Friday night, and some of the boys say they had," alickiug good" time. 'Twas too bad a night for the Au dubon orchestra to appear, at Old llamliu, last Friday night, and they will be there some later date. F. M. Ziou is building an addition to his house and making other im provements about his farm home, a little way north of the Station. Mr. Fabric8ius was moving his buildings about his farm, the first of the week, and otherwise making prep arations for an early spring campaign. Wonder if that Melville fellow got home from Brushy College in time for breakfast Monday morning. Won der which will get ahead, he or the Adair fellow? Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith and Miss Katie Workman will eutertain at progressive high five,* next Friday evening, in honor of Miss Workman's sister, Miss Maggie. Miss Kate Workman was with her relatives, the Sam Graham family, in Melville township, Saturday, and her sister, Miss Maggie came home with her to pass a few days. Church services at the Station next Sabbath will be as usual -Sunday School at ten o'clock in the morning preaching at eleven Prayer Meeting at seveu, in the evening. Doak & Lane, the Audubou stock buyers, were down this way the first of the week and purchased good bunches of cattle from Wm. Maxon, George Spencer and Ed. Dryden. They have strung a path of cinders from Will McGuire's store over to the Stuart grain oflice and now you cau get across there when its muddy and you do'ut have to swim, either. New officers of the Brushy College Literary Society: John Hunter, President. Andrew Wells, Vice-President. Katie Workman, Secretary. Djike Hunter, Treasurer. Maggie Stanley, Editor. Lou Briggs, Marshal. Wednesday night this society had a high old time discussing this ques tion: Resolved, That the co-operative creamery is the most profitable thing that a farmer can engage in. I The Old Hamlin Leterary have the best meetings this winter that they ever had in their history, the house being filled at every meeting and they have the best of programs. They recently elected these new officers: Lou Miller, President. Mamie Rice, Vice-President. Ern Bryan* Secretary. Ralph Thomas, Marshal.n Lon Bradley, Janitor. Joe Beli, Patty Bryan, Program Coin. Annie Warner, The following taken from'the dis patches tells of the burning of an ele vator belonging to our Harry Percy's mother: Anita, Feb. 9.—The large/elevator at this place belonging to Mrs. M. F. Percy, of Dexter, was discovered to be on lire this evening about 9 o'clock and, although the lire department re sponded and soon had two streams playing on the flames, the fire had gained such headway that it was use less to try to save the burning build ing, and it burned to the ground, to gether with its contents. The eleva tor was built a few years ago at a cost of $5,000.00 and had a capacity of 40, 000 bushels. J. K. Young, manager, places the loss at $8,000.00, with in surance on grain and elevator amount ing to $3,500.00. The fire originated in the engine room. J-lamlin Departm^pt. Miss Agnes Tyler is at Audubon receiving a course of instructions in music. George LaFoy. bushels ot corn to the Station. is delivering 800 Harry Percy, at Joel Crefes and his merry band of followers were shelling corn for Harry Percy, at the station, this week. The Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs. Will Clark this, Thursday,'afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Crees' baby has been quite ill the past f6w day, but we are glad to state that the little one is much better at this time. Rev. J. W. Foot, an evangelist, will begin a series of revival meetings at the Presbyterian church, in Old Hamlin, this, Thursday, evening. O. P. Tyler is home from his Texas trip and it is whispered about that if Mr. Tyler could sell out here that he would go down and buy three or four counties in that Lone Star State. Rev. O. T. Nichols, pastor of the Exira Methodist church, began a protracted meeting at the school house, in Old Hamlin, last Monday evening. Already the Methodists have a stroug following and are a power for good in our community. Mrs. Joel Crees is rapidly recover ing from the effects if that violent bleeding at the nose, which attacked her last week, though still very weak. Uncle Crees tells us that the blood gushed out of both sides of his good wife's nostrils, and out of her mouth part of the time, for three or four hours, so great was the flow. School Treasurer Henry Young tells us that on the first Monday in March, in the north half of the town ship, they will hold a general election for the election of directors. The Second Monday these directors will meet to trausact business. There will be no vote on the school book ques tion, in Hamlin township, this year. Thursday, February 10th being Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Dryden's little girl's birthday they decided to make it a jolly one for her. Accordingly they prepared a feast of good things anil then invited the inmates of the Ham lin Center bchool, where Miss Flor ence Rathbun, of Exira teaches, to come and help them eat 'em up. They all came, and Uncle S. D.Coonrod, ot Hamlin Station, was thete and he made them a neat speech and they had the merriest kind of a time till evening shadows warned them that it was time to depart when they all sep arated and went to their homes, each one wishing the little lady many re turns ot the day. Painful Eruptions Continued to Spread «nd Discharge Until Blood Was Purified by Hood's Sarsaparilla. My sister was afflicted with eruptions around her ears which kept getting worse and spreading until they became very painful. The sores would discharge and were exceedingly disagreeable. We made up our mindB we must do something for her and we procured a bottle of Hood:s Sarsaparilla. She continued taking it until she was entirely cured." NADIA DUNNING, Concord, Wisconsin. "After having tumors removed I was very weak. 'I had a headache all the time and a dreadful tired feeling. My daughter urged me to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and I did so,' and after taking three bottles 1 was relieved of these troubles." E. V. ABTLB, Merrimack, Wisconsin. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Puri fier. Sold by all druggists. $1 six for $5. j, nll are prompt, efficient and flood S HllIS easy In effect. 25 cents. D.R.JONES, AllfTTflMFFP CAS EV, IOWA. Will Cry Sales iu Audubou or any of tho adjoin* iug countioB. and guarantees to givo perfect satisfaction. Long years of successful practice makes liim an excellent judge of tho values of Btock or merchandise. Charges reasonable. Leave orders at JOURNAL OFFICE, EXIBA. W. R. COPELAND, A.TTOR,3STE3Y-A.T,-XjA,W. EXIRA, IOWA. ANT PERSON Wishing to know the truth in regard to their health should not fail to send for a valuable and new 04-page Booklet which will be sent FBEE for a short time to those who mention this paper. This book is published by the eel ebrated physician and specialist—Dr. Hatha way & Co., Corner Fourth and Nebraska Streets, Hioux City, Iowa. Best Grades of Coal (Big Spring Stock of SHOtES. Big Spring Stock of DRY GOODS. Big Spring Stock of GROCERIES. Big Spring Stock of HARDWARE. Big Spring Stock of DISHES. Big Spring Stock of QUEENSWARE. ifiP HAMLIN AND NORTH BRANCH, Ji "^?r^ 4 f' 1 A QUEEN THE SEAS. The Record Breaking Trips of the Famous Old Red Jacket. In Maine they dwell with pride upon the performance of the Red Jacket, built in Rockland in 1858 by Deacon George Thomas. The Red Jaoket made, the run from New York to Liverpool in 13 days 1 hour and 25 minutes in the month of January, 1854. This was the beat trip up to that tiitae, and it probably never has been beaten, although a faster trip, by a few hours, was claimed for the Boston ship Light ning. When the Red Jaoket started on her trip, the record was held by the ship Sovereign of the Seas, built in East Boston by Donald McKay— 18 days 19 hours. The Red Jacket was 234 feet keel, 44 feet 7 inches beam, 16 feet lower hold, 8 feet between decks, 225 feet over all and measured 2,500 tons, making her the largest ship afloat at that time. There was great ex citement, both in New York and in Liverpool, over the first trip of the Red Jaoket, for it was known all over the maritime world that she had been built expressly to beat the record of the Sovereign of the Seas. She was also to set a mark for the Live Yankee, a ship built at Rock land at about the same time, and for several others. Large amounts of money were wagered on the result of her passage. The Live Yankee had a hard pas sage and came nowhere near the Red Jacket's time. As illustrating tlie shrewdness of Deacon Thomas, it is related that, hearing that several other builders were about to construct ships on the same lines as the Red Jacket, he al tered his molds slightly, putting in five extra frames amidships. This probably helped the speed of the Red Jacket. At any rate, in that respect she differed from her rivals. A Rockland man, who was in Liv erpool when the Red Jacket arrived there, gives an interesting account of her triumphal entry into the great English seaport. The excite ment was intense—scarcely less than in New York. A day before the Yankee clipper was expected to arrive the American steamer came in and reported the ship as just outside, and in a few hours the Red Jacket appeared at the harbor's mouth. Hundreds of cheering sail ors had boarded her, and two tugs had lines to the ship, although her speed was so great that they could not keep the hawsers taut. She came flying up the harbor with ev ery stitch drawing in a brisk north wester, and, greatly to the 'astonish ment of the natives, instead of com ing to an anchor and being laid up to the pier head by tugs, she came about, threw her yards hard abaok and actually laid herself up 1 About a year afterward the clip per ship Lightning was built by Donald McKay at East Boston for an Engljsh firm for. the express pur pose of beating the Red Jacket's time between New York and Liver pool, and it was claimed that she accomplished the feat by a few hours, but the claim has always been disputed, and it is likely that the Red Jaoket still holds the record. The Red Jacket never returned to this country under the American flag, having been sold almost as soon as she arrived on the other side for $150,000 to an Australian paoket line. Extensive alterations were made in her to suit the needs of the passenger and freight business be tween Liverpool and Melbourne, and she made many fast passages in that service. She was again sold when her rate ran out to Henry Milvain of Newcastle, England, and ended her days as a lumber lugger between Quebec and the United Kingdom.— Lewiston Jpurnul. Simple Language. Simple language is on all accounts preferable to high sounding words vwhen ordinary matters are discuss ed. We wish that young people could be taught that it does not add a foot to the stature of a house to call it a "residenoethat a church or even a meeting house is as vener able as "the sacred edifice that it is no more genteel to say "retire" than go to bedthat the garment so covered with side plaitings and so quickly frayed out along the pave ment is really a gown and not a "promenade costume," that it need not bring a blush to the fair oheek of even Mr. Popsnap's young perspn to say leg instead of "limb," when leg is meant that the supper at an evening party is not "the entertain ment," and that there are well founded objections to the use of "nicely" as an adjeotive describing one's health.—New Orleans Times Democrat. Without Regard For Their Comfort* Addlepate—There is one thing I cawn't understand, doncherno! Noddlekins—What's that? Addlepate—Why, when we stop to consideh—aw—how uncomfortable it is in a crowd—why, aw—I cawn't see why it is that there are always more people in a crowd than there are where there is no crowd!—Hart ford Courant. Total Abstinence at 8es« Whatever the deep water saildr's inclinations and habits may be ashore, he gets no liquor to drink at sea unless it comes from aft and is dealt out to him. When the men that make up the crew go aboard, which they do just before the ship sails, their traps are searched, and if whisky is found it goes usually over the side. Sometimes the cap tain takes charge of it and deals it out to the men in bad weather. It might be possible for a sailor to smuggle aboard a little whisky, enough to last for a day, but after that he would be most likely a total abstainer until the ship reached port.—New York Sun. ,?v Not Poor* A little girl was one day running down a street when she accidentally fell, cutting her hand on a stone. A benevolent old lady went up to her and assisted her to rise, at the same, time exclaiming: "My popr wee lassie! My poor'"/i wee lassie! Are you much hurt?" $ The little piece of humanity wiped away her tears and exclaimed indig nantly: Ivvr "I'm no' a puir lassie. My father has money in the bank!"—London Tit-Bits v*?-* *.1 Victoria's Photographs. At Both Ends. "Isn't Mr. Dumply light on hist Eeet for a big man?" she asked of' her escort who regards Mr. Dumply 13 a rival. "Not a particle lighter than he ia' ai his head."—Tintroi* Free Prp.es. J. A. Perkius, of Antiquity, Ohio, was for thirty years needlessly tortured by eczema. He was quickly cured by using D[o Witt's Witch Hazel Halve, the famous healing salve for pileB and skin diseases. W Houston THEIR— SUCCESS Dr. Hathaway ft OO.'B Their reputation rests not on the cheap, trans- N parent platform of purchased testimony, but on long list of cared patient^ visible local wit- nesses of their skill. 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