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Iheitaa thet blaukabernernatiOlt nig we,
motive there •
Itgtinolte-tail like puut nag, 2kM0.viirr through
.2km. 11 ib twaye du)", an" IseVer
raise nty aim
.An." see that wee, blitehinvestier go a-snortin'
through my farm.
father'litrea, MY grandair's farin-I come
of li'llgrun stock-
greatagrealagreat-gmat grandsir'a farm,
way back to Plymonth Rook;
'Way back in the sixteen hundreds it wuz in.
our family mune,
Aba -no man dared te tresPasa till that tootin'
railroad caine.
You Call% go through tbis farm, you
liear it flat and plain !"
Alf then they blabbed about the right of "emb
nunt domain."
"Who's lihninunt Domain?" sem I, "I want you
folks to see
Mliet on this farm there ain't 110 man ito emi-
• nunt ez me."
ku'-teen their gangs begun to dig I went out
with a gun
-Ain' they ruAled mo off to prison till their
wretched work wuz done,
"If 1 ean't purteet my farm," soz w'y then
it's my idee
"You'd better shot off eallin' this' the country of
the free.'"
'here, there, ye hear it toot again an' break the
peaceful calm;
211,ell ye, you black minister, you've no business
on my farm!
men ride by in stove -pipe hats, an' women
loll in silk,
atletr lookhe in my, barn yard say, "See thet
codger milk. '
iGIL off illy farm, yOu stuck-up deeds. who set
in there an' grin,
Iown this farm, railroad an' all, an' I will fence
it in!
Ding -ding, toot -toot, you black or fiend, you'll
find w'en you come back
.An' oT rail fence without no bars, built straight
across the track.
.An' then you stuck-up doode inside, you, Pull -
num upper crust,
"Will know thia codger'll hold his farm an' let
the railroad bust.
find this railroad all fenced in-7twon't
do no good to talk-
af you want to get to Boston, w'y jest take yer
leigs an' walk.
-Sam Walter Foss in Yankee Blade.
My Winter Girl.
She likes to.gotogermans and to teas,
Confessing sluee a slave to social ties ;
She's given much '13 harmless pleasantries,
There's much of fascination in her eyes.
She reads the fashion column ey'ry day,
And knows the styles of Felix and of Worth;
She steps into,a carriage in a way
That makes -one think she really owns the
earth.
111Aatfiatia OP 111011SEWIVERT.
mfrs. temen$070.141;ficilfe,11rtir:inIrZnal.a maa•
Somebody writes in the kadies' Home
Journal that Mil& 0y1118 W. Field is a Very
Martha of hoiffiewifera, and maintains a
New I:angle:tad mietrese'keen oversight, not-
withstanding she has been married more
than 50 years.
Mrs. William C. Whiteley locate well to
the ways of her household. So too, does
Mrs. L. P. Morton, wife of the ,Vice-Taresia
dont, who is, in addition, moat accurately
systematic in all her expenses, even for
charity.
Mrs. C. M. Depew buys and pays cash for
all that is needed in her family. Spite of
society and literature combined, Mrs. Van
Rensselaer Gregor is a wise and careful
house mistress, whose menu is often of her
OWR melting out. The same and more may
be said of Mrs. Burton Harrison, who can
upon occasion cook you dainty delights.
That is the case also with most of the
Women of the Vanderbilt families. In addi-
tion they all know about sewing, and can
make their gowns if necessary. Mrs. Calvin
S. Brice writes poetry, keeps house and
cooks excellently well, in spite of being a
very active social force.
Mrs. George J Gould gives all her time
to husband, home and children, caring
nothing for socaety and keeping herexpenses
strictly within the limit she herself sets
upon them.
Mrs. Abram S, Hewitt does all her own
marketing, and supervises strictly all that
goes on in her kitchen.
Mrs. Charles A. Dana is likewise an old-
fashioned, thoroughgoing house and home
keeper.
Contrariwise, Mr. Astor leaves every-
thing to her chef and butler, who have
twenty servants uncler them, and never
herself makes a household purchase -a
fashion also' followed by Mme: Behnont,
widow of the late August Belmont, million-
aire banker, turfman and politician.
Ner fads she las: the vase collecting craze;
The Wagner school and something of Del-
sarte,
Jr" :amateur theatricals she plays:
In'"living tableaux" oft he takes a part,
She talks of Seidl end of Gilmore's band;
OS how she'licips the heathen much she tells;
And when not talking dips her dainty hand
Into a box of chocolate earaniels.
Mut, ohthe•glow of health is on her cheek;
The light of love is seen within her eyes;
ffhough fond of pleasure, cloth she ever seek
With those who're sad and poor to sympa-
thize.
IIer heart is right, the captivating elf,
.And he wf o does not love her is a churl;
So now I hasten to devote myself
Unto my bright and smiling winter girl!
• -Psicke
The antiniereating Movement.
Detroit Hews "Will you have a cigar?'
says one gentleman to another. "No,
thank you; I do not smoke," is the reply.
"Well, have a glass of wine." "1 do not
drink wine," the other insists. " Oh, take
something!" persists the first speaker, and
lie undoubtedly thinks he is very hospitable
in insisting on his friend doing what he does
mot want to do. But good manners never
allow ns to insist on making our friends do
what they do not want to do. Too many
-people do not know the difference between
hospitality and impertimence. A very large
mumber of those who in their exuberance of
ems' taken good fellowship urge their com-
panions to drink or smoke when they would
rather not, and tam so, are simply boorish
and are neither kind nor have the true
instincts of good fellowship. Good
fellowship consists in making our com-
panions comfortable, at home, easy and
free. But is a person comfortable when
importuned to do something against his
-will? Would be make himself uncomfort-
able were he "at home "? Is he easy and
free when one expresses displeasure at his
-refusal to accede to impertinence? The
habit of treating at best is vulgar, and
those societies that are discouraging the
practice are, unconscaously perhaps, teach-
ing the soundest of moral precepts and a
most refined etiquette. Why not ask a
companion if he will have a pound of ham,
is loaf of bread, or a pair of socks rather
-than a cigar or a drink of whiskey? Think
of a man saying to another, "Have a loaf
4A bread, John ?" and the other answering,
"No, thank you, I don't care for any."
And then see the vulgarity of the other
fellow insisting, "Oh, take it, anyway.
31a.ven't sworn off, have you? Put it in
your pocket if you don't want to eat it
mow." The anti -treating society uncon-
sciously exists, so far as food and clothing
are concerned. What a great thing for
temperance were this true of intoxicating
arinks. The possibilities of the anti -treat-
ing society are far-reaching, indeed.
THE TRANS-SIBL`RIAN RAILROAD.
The trams-Siberiau Railway it is proposed
to open for traffic ia 1895. But the same
doubts exit as to the feasibility of accom-
plishing the work in such a short time, as
existed respecting theCanadian Pacific Rail-
way. The building of the railroad' has
become not merely a commercial but
a political necessity to Russia. The
Chinese, it is claimed, have designs
upon the fertile valley of the Ussuin
which lis between Manchuria and the
Russian territory, and contemplate push-
ing railroad extension in that direction.
About 2,500 miles of the trans -Siberian
road have been surveyed. On the plains
of Siberia, as in our own prairies, few en-
gineering difficulties will be encountered.
This part of the route for 1,200 miles has
been fully surveyed ; also 700 miles east o
Baikal Lake ; and about 200 miles on
the Pacific coast. The end nearest the
European frontier through the Ural moun-
tains is still unsurveyed. The Pacific
terminus will be Vladivostock, which is to
be made a first-class fortified harbor and the
Russian naval station. The cost of the rail
road and its entire equipment in running
order is placed at $175,000,000. The road
will develop a large commerce and possibly
the Russian authorities in undertaking thi
large expenditure principally for politica
purposes are building better for humanit
than they imagine.
GRITtait4 'ME HMV TO SNOW*
An ExPellotead ursc TOM 110W Neat To
Dolt.
senanticaec," said an experienced nurse,
" thc Jrumorical syetena of singing is (leen
dedly useful. Adany a mother in einging a
restless child to sleep has sung the same
song over and over ;mein, repeating the
verses indefinitely. Usually this form of
rythinie repetition is effective ; there are
few children that can hold out for more
than an hour or two against it if the voice
is gentle and the singing is continued with-
out a break, and with it gradually decreas-
ing volume of tone. But occasionally it
happens that just as the child is about to
go to sleep there is a brief period when its
senses, though veiled by drowsinese, are
really remarkably acute, and when the
work of hours may easily be upset in an
instant. A momentary halt in the singing
may awaken the child ; the almost imper-
ceptible rustle attending the bending for-
ward to see if the child is asleep may have
the same effect, and there comes a time
when even the words of the song strike the
sensitive nerves with wakeful rather than
with restful impulses. Here is where the
numerical system may be used to advantage,
eubstituting for the regular words of the
song with their dissimilar and therefore
somewhat disturbing sound waves other
words more nearly uniform in character.
"Suppose, for instance, the mother is
singing 'Grandfather's Clock,' and that she
has been singing it for an hour and half and
has repeated the verses maybe seventy or
eighty times. At the critical moment be-
tween wakefulness and sleep she glides
gently into Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-
three. thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six,
thirtyseven, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-
three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six,
thirty-seven.
" The similar sounds which these words
produce make but the faintest ripple on the
sensitive ear, and zenerally ten or fifteen
verses of the song so sung are enough for
the purpose. -New York San.
• Fifteen Rules for Girls.
1. Shut the door, and shut it softly.
2. Keep your own room in tasteful order.
3. Have an hour for rising, and rise.
4. Learn to make bread as well as melte.
5. Never let • a button stay off twenty-
four hours.
6. Always know where your things are.
7. Never let a day pass without doing
something te make somebody comfortable.
8. Never come to breakfast -without a
,9. Never go about with your shoes unbut-
toned.
3.o. Speak clearly enough for everybody
• to understand.
11. Never fidget, or hum, to disturb
•
somebody.
12. Never help yourself at the table be-
• fore you pass the plate.
13. Be patient with the little ones az you
wish your mother to be with you.
14. Never keep anybody waiting.
15. Never fuss, or fret, or fidget.
He Had the !Drop on Her.
• Chicago Triaztne : Young Mr. Lariat (of
Arizona)- I ain't agoing to stand no non-
IsenscieLil, You've got to Choose between
ns. Is et Jeke Rotindtop or is it me?
• Miss Kacktus (eurrenclering gracefully) -
It's you Gabe. I see you've got the drop on
Advice to Christmas Buyers.
Chicago Press : It is quite time to begin
getting into the Christmas spirit. It is not
easy for some of us to get into the mood,
and unless we can swing along with the
crowd and be jolly there might as well be
no Christmas: First of all, don't begin to
worry about the things you would like to
do for people but cannot. That will spoil
everything. Go ahead and do wbat you can.
Write a list of friends to be remembered
and pin it in the corner of your looking -
glass, and when inspirations as to presents
come write the idea opposite the name, but
in the name of Santa Claus and all the elves
of jollity don't give useful things ; gratify
people's pet vanities, if you can ; give a
fancy hairpin when yourconscience tells you
to bestow a hat, and a fichu, a ring,. Or an
etching instead of a frock ; make people
forget for a day the seamy side of life.,
Don't let your present remind them than
you know they have troubles. '
Thirty-four pounele of raw sugar make
twenty one pounds of refined.
The largest tary dock on the great lakes: is
•said to haVe just been completed at Detroit'
the Detroit Dry Dock Company, at a
cost of about $200,000. On the inside the
dock is 3'/8 feet long, 91 feet wide on top,
78 feet opening at entrance, 54 feet openitig
on miter sill, 55 feet Wide cm floor, 16 feet 6
inches of water over keel blocks, 16 feet 6
inches of water over sill, 4 feet 6 inches
from top of keel blocks to floor of dock and
TA feet 0 inches from water lino" to fioor of
dock. It hi Said th be capable of receiving
any vessel now floating on the lakes.
The Duke of Devonshire, who is reported
to be dying, has the bestowal of forty-two
Church "livings," as they are called in
Ibriglantl, of which twenty-three aro vic-
arages.
A. Clever Trick.
A Nebraska agent of a Si. Louis firm
bought 100,000 bushels of wheat for his
principals and drew on them for $75,000
for it. The agent then shipped the grain to
himself at Omaha took the bills of lading to
the banks and 1:sorrowed all the money he
could on them. He passed the grain through
an elevator, reshipped it east on new bills
of lading, which lie also took to the bank
and borrowed more money. Now the St.
Louis people are looking for their $75,000,
for the agent and for the grain, none of
which can be found.
A BALLOON BURSTS1
And a Paraohute PerforMer Meets With a
Horrible Heath.
Johnny's composition.
TIM CAT.
Harper's Young People.
The cat is a very interesting animal. He
is a small fur dog that meows, and has
whiskers and several other things. He has
four paws -two fore paws and two behind
ones -and a tail. He has been known for
many years, two of him having been said to
be on the Ark, where he must have been
tied up, or what would have become of the
rats ? Cats don't get to be cats until they
are a year old, when they stop being kittens,
which they are born as. It takes a kitten
several weeks to get his eyes open, if he
doesn't get drowned before that time, and
he scratches when he is mad. My father
says camels used to be cats, but int their
backs up one day and couldn't get them
down again, and so became camels. I
never heard a camel meow, but I suppose
they can, because tbey can do most any-
thing, having seven stomachs and going
many days without water.
The dictionary says is cat is a carnivorous
quadruped, but that does not sound like a
cat. The old Egyptians used to be very
fond of the cat, treating him like a member
of their own family, and making mummies
out of him when he died. Some of these
mummies still live. They used to hang
people for killing cats in Egypt, because the
cat was supposed to be a sacred animal,
being a. sign of the moon, probably because
they are generally out all night. We have
a cat named Tom, and he has six kittens,
which he washes their face every day just
like me. •
Cats never fall out of anything without
landing on their feet, , which is why their
feet are so soft, and they have to be killed
nine times before they die, and sometimes
they don't even then. They eat milk when
tame, and when wild they cry like a baby
until somebody comes to see what is the
matter, and then they eat him which is
fatal, and teaches people to mind their own
business, and not go seeing what other
people's children are crying for.
A cat's eye is a very queer thing, looking
like a slot machine all day and an agate at
night, seeing better in the dark than in the
light, like witches. Therefore they
are said to be friends of witches, and some
temple don't like them on that account, but
I do.
The two best cats that ever lived
belonged to Dick Whittington, Mayor of
'London, who went out West and, killed a
lot of rats at a dollar a head, and took the
money home to his master to get to be
mayor with, and Puss in Boots, who stole
his master's clothes and ate a giant, thereby
making his master owner of the farm and
husband of a rich girl, whose father diedand
left it all to her.
My cat can't do anything like this, but he
gets there just the same and is very gentle
to my little brother, whe pulls his tail and
doesn't have to wish he hadn't.
Altogether I don't know what we should
do without cats, especially those that like to
have them lying around just as we do. Yours
truly, JOHNNY.
Tee Trick lie Played.
New York Herald : Weary Wrinkles -
Say, mister, gimme a quarter an' rn put ye
onto a thing that's got a foot on top of its
legs.
Museum Manager -You're guffin'.
Weary Wrinkles -No I ain't.
Museum Manager -Well, here's your'
quarter. What's the frealt ? •
Weary Wrinkles (edging away )-A bed.
FELL FOUR HUNDRED FEET.
A cable from Bombay gives the following
particulate of the terrible death of Lieut.
Mensfield, the parachutist : An accident
eccurred here on Thursday by, which
daring parachutist met a horrible death us
the sight of many persons. The victim was
Lieut. Mansfield, who had gained (mite a
replitation by his thrilling jumps from a
balloon at a great altitude. Recently, in
the presence of a large crowd, he made a
balloon ascension, and performed one of hie
Wonderful feats. When he had reached
the height of 11,000 feet Mansfield grasped
his parachute and jumped from the car,
The ir achine worked perfectly, and the dar-
ing aeronaut reached the ground in safety,
amid the cheers of the relieved spectators.
He subsequently announced that he would
make another jump from a still greater
height, and fixed upon Thursday as the date
for his risky experiment. The wonderful
performance of Mansfield had caused it
• considerable stir among the residents of
Bombay and adjacent districts, and, as a
consequence, the Victoria gardens of this
city, from which the balloon was to be
liberated, eves thronged with a vast crowd
at the hour .set for the ascension. Among
those present were his Excellency Lord
Harris, Governor of the Bombay Presi-
dency, and most of the civil and military
authorities. The preparations for the
ascent were soon completed, and at a
signal. from the aeronaut the guy ropes
were cut and the balloon was liber-
ated amid a storm of cheers.
When freed from the restraining ropes
the huge airship shot upwards with
lightning -like velocity, and the cheering
was at once hushed as the crowd instantly
perceived that something was wrong. The
balloon had only reached a height of about
450 feet when it burst with a loud and
startling explosion, and immediately began
to fall to the earta. Mansfiehl made the
most desperate efforts to disengage the para-
chute from the collapsed balloon, but it had
become entangled in the ropes, and the un-
fortunate man was soon forced to release his
hold. The spectators uttered cries of dis-
may as they saw the body come whirling
towards them, and some of the ladies fainted
at the sight. Mansfield struek the ground
with terrific force, and was instantly killed,
his body being crushed and mangled, An
investigation into the cause of the accident
revealed the fact that in a previous descent
the balloon had fallen into the seit and been
somewhat damaged, and that the breaks
then sustained had been improperly re-
paired.
An Improvised Night -tight.
In households where there are young
children it softened night -light is indispen-
sable. Very pretty ones are made, but an
inexpensive substitute can be contrived by
anyone. A piece of candle, weighted so as
to float upright in a tumbler pertly filled
with water, will last Several hours, and
will burn until the wick is far below the
surface of the water.- nesse/rola/.
Willing to Ohl .
Yonkers Statesnian : When there work
to be done the buzz -saw is always willing to
take a hand.
Very Nervous. ,
Puck: "Maud is a timid girl," said
George. •••
" Yes," said Estelle. " She'd even jump
at a proposal."
• laving Them OM
Judge: Jagway-How do youga feel over
Christmas, old man? 'as
Travers -Very poorly. I find 1 am
obliged as a matter of necessity, to VO
my creditors a Christmas dinner.
A Ilyperdelicate Description.
Ilairper Bazar: Miss Emilia -My sister
fell and broke her lifnb. Old Mr. Jewel -
Which limb? Mite! Emilia (bltisliingly)
-Well, if I must tell you, it was her nett
walker.
. Chauncey Depew said in the coarsenhi
) s
address to the Fellowship Club, in Chicago,
that after a Man hail passed 40 years of age
he makes no new friends. -
The deg is to be envied He doom
• Pantile Davenport is in need ot A long
rest, being a autferer from a constant mid
tieVare pain In the head.
have to s tetch his pants,
The Sale of a Wife.
New York World : A shocking story is
told by the wife of an east -side worker on
cloaks,- who is suing her husband for a
divorce. She declares that the man sold
her into infamy, getting her on a else pre-
tence to go into the place where he had
consummeted the bargain. The man got a
mere pittance for the sale. He is now in
jail for refusing to pay a weekly sum to the
woman pending the trial of her case. A
way should be found to make him deeply
repent his barter of his wife. Tuch a trans-
action is the most degrading of which
human mind can conceive.
What a SCCOLOT Glance Did.
Chicago Tribune: "You are charged,
sir," said the police magistrate, " with at-
tempting to kiss this woman on the street.
Do you plead guilty or not guilty."
" Your honor,' replied the blear -eyed
prisoner, taking a good look at the preseeut-
ing witness, " I plead insanity."
Capt. Cordon's Great Nide.
Capt. Evans Gordon recently rode 2' 0
miles in thirty-three hours in India, chang-
ing horses twenty-three times. Starting
from Leh, on the borders of Tibet, to
Srinagar, the capital of Cashmere, :it 3 a. m.
on Oct. 10, he crossed the Inlet,. pass
(13,300 feet) and the Mamika peas (13,000
feet) and reached Dras at 9.15 in the even-
ing, having, when an allowance is made for
a half hour's halt, covered 151 miles inunder
eighteen hours. After resting for seven
hours Capt. Gordon started again in %blind-
ing snowstorm for Mattain, only a dozen
mites distant, which was not reached till
Iwo hours later. Here the weather had
temporarily improved, but snow was again
falling before Boatel was reached. ' By this
time it was noon. Pushing on, the traveller
found that Sonamarg was deep in snow and
that two days' heavy rain .had made the
• track to Srinagar very nearly impassable,
but by dint of perseverance the residency
was reached at 8 o'clock in the evening.
A Christmas Wedding.
A notable wedding of the near future will
be that of the well-known Miss Amy Corine
Busby and Aubrey Boueicault, son of the
noted playwright and actor. Aubrey
Boucicault is himself an actor of note. The
wedding will take place in New York about
the time of the holidays.
The Shah of Persia is deacribed by the
opponents in his country aa nearly played
out, He drinks it bottle of brandy a. day,
and uses much hashish and opium. The
ehild that he brought to Europe with him,
the son of his cook, is now his sole and irre-
sponsible grand vizier. There is no enter-
ptise possible in Persia. The rich bury
their wealth and are Weed and tortured for
it. • Revolt is beginning to show in various
provinces. The masses of the people are The Priece of Wales has been grand
affronted by the Shah's Surroundings, and master of the English Grand Lodge of Free
are beginning to look outside for redress. Masons for 17 succetadve years, and will be
nominated for the office again this month.
The Rev. John Rankine of Cupar, rife -
shire Scotland, ex-Moderat,,er of the
thtiitOd Presbyterian Church, died on, the
2Ist ult. in the 83rd year of his age.
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beeeptive ApPeatralleCR.
There is in the English navy a famous
and valiant Admiral, -who, when he is on
shore, likes to take his ease in his handsome
house in Belgravia, at the West End of
London.
Not long ago, on a pleasant afternoon,
the Admiral sat in front of his residence, in
a somewhat neglected costume, smoking a
Pipe,
A. policeman came past end looked at
him hard. The Admiral paid no attention.
"Look here 1" said the policeman, pres-
ently ; "do you belong to the 'ouse, you
know?"
"No," said the Admiral, "the 'ouse be.
longs to me, you know!"
Great Young nen.
Charles James Fox was in Parliament at
nineteen.
The great Cromwell left the University
at Cambridge at 18.
John Bright was never at any school a
day after he was 15 years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament at 22, and
at 24 wae Lord of the Treasury.
Henry Clay was in the Senate of the
United States, contrary to the Constitution,
at 29.
Washington was a colonel in the army at
22, commander of the forces at 42, Presi-
dent at 57.
Judge Storey was at Harvard at 15, in
Congrets at 29 and Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States at 32.
Martin Luther had become largely dis-
tinguishea at 24, and at 56 had reached the
topmost round of his world-wide fame.
Webster was in college at 15, gave evi-
dence of his great future before he was 25
and at 30 he was the peer of the ablest man
in Congress. -Young Men's Era.
Protectionist slush.
Chicago Press: If Mr. Graves has read
the Press he will know that we don't advo-
cate acrobatic changes from protection to
free trade, but that we want gradually to
reach free trade, even though we have
to adopt reciprocity as it stepping-stoen.
The slush about protectionists being such
in the interest of higher wages for labor,
is too stale and too ridiculous to be enter-
tained.
No Further Incentive.
New York Life: Opulent father -in -law -
What ails you, George? Since you haye
been married you seem to have lost all your
ambition.
George -Well, you see, sir, I reached the
height of my ambition when I became your
spotted awnren.
Spoiled children are not the product of
effete civilization: They have always ex-
isted, literally since the beginning of our
race, for the first child was Cain, and in the
'light of his subsequent career, we cannot
doubt that Eve allowed the wonderful little
• creature his own way in everything. Origi-
nal sin was then so new, so fresh, that the
baby had it in its undiluted potency, and the
young mother, most hapless of women, never
had a mother of her own ' to guide and in-
struct her. Other instances of spoiled chil-
dren could be easily cited from the Scripture
reciards-Jacob, his mother's darling, and
Absalom the pride of David's heart, coming
at once to mind -but it is not necessary to
turn to the past, we have the species always
with us; perhaps in our own homes may be
• found choice, well-developed specimens. -
• Hroper's Bazar.
Not Rad for it Child.
Her Sister's Intended -Minnie, if you'll
come and sit on my knee I'll give you a nice
present.
Minnie (aged five)e-Ith that what made
you give thither a diamond ring?
New to the Post.
New York Comic: Employer -Your first
duty will be to post this ledger.
New Clerk (rather too readily) -Yes, sir;
where shall I send it?
Charles C. P. Hunt, a Chicago book
keeper, and one of the best in the city from
all accounts, atolls daily at debit and credit
at the age of 90.
Sir Edwin Arnold glories in the fact that
he has written at least 8,000 editorial
leaders, each of which has been over half a
column in length.
Lord Randolph Churchill, who is in excel-
lent health, will, according to present
arrangements, leave Mashonaland on his
homeward journey within the next fewdays.
His Lordship is expected to reach London in
the third week in December.
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Vulgarity in longiclothes is more shock-
ing than immodesty n short skirts.
The New York World is authority for the
statement that Mrs: Scott-Siddons, "who
never played anything but the classical
drama, is to return to the boards in it play
of to -clay. It is a question whether the
English-speaking stage, however, ever
could be or ought to be emancipated from
the influence of classical models."
A woman in Hancock county, Me., who
was afraid to drive her horse across a rail-
road track was bitterly disappointed in at-
tempting to go around it
Each year about $60,000 is expended in
sprinkling the streets of London with ss,ncl
to prevent the horses slipping.
Major MeClaughry, Superintendent of
the Chicago Police,wits carefully edueated at,
an Illinois Presbyterian colkge with the ex-
pectation that he would enter the Church.
There have been 27 cases df insanity in
the Bavarian royal fainily during the last
100 years.
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wed Feeli
Is a dangerous condition directly due
to depleted or impure blood. It should
not be allowed to continue, as in its
debility the system is especially liable
to serious attacks of illness. It is re-
markable how beneficial Hood's Sarsa-
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system needs and readily seizes, this
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sleep, and all the dreaded diseases of
life seemed to have a Mortgage on my
system. I was obliged to abandon my
work, and after seeking medical treat-
ment and spending ewer $so for different
preparations, I found niyself no better.
Then my wife persuaded me to try a
bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Before
the first bottle was gone I began to
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and have gained 22 pounds. Can eat
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and recommend it." MRS. J. M. TAY-
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I was very much un down in health,
had no strength and no inclination to
do anything. I have been taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla and that tired feel-
ing has left me, my appetite has re-
turned, I am like a nevi man." CHAUN-
CEY, LATHAM., North Columbus, Ohio.
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PROBABLY TWO MURDERS.
A Supposed Murder and Suicitt ii
Illuelt Worse.
A Springfield, Masa., despatch says: It
has been all along supposed that George E.
Barr aud Mrs. Barr, who were found dead
in the Hotol Warwick on December 2nd, met
their fate by murder and suicide, the hus-
band shooting his wife and then killing
himself. It was given out that four bullet
holes were found in the woman's face and
one in the man's head. A five chamber re-
volver on the floor with all the cartridges
einpty seemed to establish the theory that
Mr. Barr saved the fifth bullet to end his
own life. The undertaker, however, as-
serted that there were two bullets in Mr.
Barr's brain, and was so positive in bis
assertion than an examination was made.
The second bullet hole was found. From
the course of the Millets it is 'believed that
either would have been fatal, and no suicide
could have shot the second one. The body
of Mrs. Barr will be dug up. This points to
a double murder, and the District Attorney
has been notified.
A Rule for Living Happily with Others.
A rule for living happily with others is:
to avoid having stock subjects of disputa-
tion. It mostly happens, when people live
much 'forgather, that they come to have)
certain set topics, around which, from
frequent dispute, tkere is such a growth of
angry words, mortified vanity and the like,
that the original subject of difference be-
comes a standing subject for quarrel, and
there is a tendency in all minor disputes to
drift down to it. Again If people wish to
live well together, they must not hold too
much to logic, and suppose that everything
is to be settled by' sufficient reason. Dr.
Johnson saw this clearly with regard to
married people when he said: "Wretched
• would be the pair above all names of wretch-
edness who should be doomed to adjust by
• reason, every morning, all the minute
details of a domestic day." But the appli-
cation should be much more general than he
made it. There is no time for such reason-,
ings, and nothing that is worth them. And
when we recollect how two lawyers or two
politicians can go on contending, and that
there ie no end to one-sided reasoning oil
any subject, we shall not be sure that melt
contention is the best mode for arriving Mb
truth. But certainly it is not the way to
arrive at good temper. -Nem York Ledger.
A Sad Awakening,
Chicago Tribune: Conductor (ahs,kiag
him vigorously)-" Ticket, sir 1" Subuark-
anite• (partially, rousing himself) -"For
Heaven's sake, Nancy, get, up ancl build ib
yourself. This is Sunday 1"
Chinese annals e.s remote as 2,000 B. C.
speak of the cultivation of tea, and classify
it almost as perfectly RS is done today. Its
viroms were discovered by accident
Tlie Scottish Deere have been summoned
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Me Watt' Meseum Hell ill Greenock,
Scotland, has reeently utalergono reeoera-
tion. seeee have beja cusbioneao
gtheneersziyisimreirted.
avinted, and the hall itself •
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