Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 8, Number 49, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 March 1887 — Page 4

THE NAPPANEE NEWSI NAPPANEE. : i t : INDIANA THE POOR AND THE RICH. She her five-year old; “He will never know poverty more,” she said, \ As she petted the curls ot his boyish head; ‘‘No feet'll be bare in the winter cold; “No crying for bread, no wearisome hours Ot labor ill-paid, from sun to sun; No murmuring oft when the work is done; Shut up from the sun, and the birds, and flowers. From the rich and the lofty, no look of pride; There’ll be time to study and time to grow In the beautiful gardens the angels know It is well, it is well, that my boy has died.’’ • •••*•• She covered him over, her five-year old; “He is safe, he is safe.” she sadly said. As she platted the folds of his narrow bed. And kissed the cheek that was white and oold. The room was as gorgeous as palace hall. And fragrant with flowers of therichest hue; Cameltas, and roses, and violets blue; And golden the hangings upon the wuli. “He will never be spoiled by a life of ease; No sin will entangle his sunny hair. Or crimson his cheek that is now so fair; No wife in her sorrow will drink the lees “Os a poisonous cup; he is safe, my child 1 My tenderest one! lam satisfied; Ah! better, far better, my boy had died Than living in pleasure by sin defiled.” • •••••• For rich, and for poor, there are ills to bear; The waters are bitter for both to drink: There are sorrows and burdens from which we shrink; . And the angels haw weighed us an eqnrl share. —'Klntk A". Bolton. in Youth'* Companion. at~th7rty. At thirty years, it is enough for me To know I am not what I hoped to be! It is enough, storm-beaten on the plain. To view the splendid heights I can not gain— Low down, to miss the music of the spheres— At thirty years! The halt of life has passed and half remains ; One effort more, O soul, to break the chains Os circumstance: to till this page of Time With characters of glory, and to climb ; The steep ascent, with songs in place of tears. At thirty years! The clouds will pass: the sun will dazzle thro’ On rose- flushed pinnacles that pierce the blue; O! deep disgrace, to loiter on the plain— Irresolute, to grieve at toil and pain— To bfe the slave of sloth and sordid fears, At thirty years 1 :y — J. K. KaittirooJ, in Tempi* Bar. HELEN LAKEMAN; -omThe Story of a Young Girl’s Strug* , Sfle With Adversity. \r , BY JOHN R. XUSXCX. v Author or “Th banker or Bedford," “Wai.ter Brownfield/' Etc. [Copyright, 18SS, by A. AT. Kellogg Xeurtpaper Cos.) ( CHAPTER XV.— Continued. Helen burst into tears, clasped her arms about the neck of the jailer's wife and fell sobbing on her bosom. It was so sweet after receiving such cold, cruel treatment, to find one warm, sympathetic heart on which she could rely. Mrs. Bridges consoled her, kissed away her tears, and told her to trust in the Lord and she woidd come triumphantly out of all her troubles in the end. Helen took her place as one of the jailer’s family, and Mrs. Bridges kept her constantly at her side. When the prisoner took down the family Bible and opening at Deuteronomy, fourth chapter, thirtieth and thirty-first verses, she felt that the hand of God had surely directed her to the blessed promise contained in those two verses. “When thou art in tribulation, and fill these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy Gotham! shall be obedient unto His voice (for the Lord thy God is a merciful God); He will not forsake thee, nor forget the eovenaut of thy fathers, which he swore unto them.” Helen dosed the Bible, and clasping her hands remained for a moment in silent prayer. How light and joyous her heart at that moment. A true Christian can not be downcast and sad, for if death sweeps away every earthly friend, they know they are only gone to a better land. If clouds of darkness, sorrow and suffex-ing surround them, they know that there is a Heaven where clouds, darkness, sorrow aud suffering never come. Helen was happy at that moment. Her tears were dried and a sweet smile was upon her face. If she were sent to the penitentiary she woidd go cheerfully and pray God to have mercy on the false witnesses who had worked her ruin. She could forgive even the Arnolds. She could pray God to forgive them, and bless them with happiness. Do you doubt this, reader? If you do, you know nothing of a truly converted Christian heart. There was no bitterness in Helen's soul. She was Christ-like. It was on Monday when Mr. Styles, the prosecuting attorney, came to see her. Mr. Styles was a man who always went into a case to win, regardless of the right or wrong he might do. Here was a young girl, to be sure, one who had many temptations; no doubt, but who had violated the law. He d®> termined to prosecute her. Os course, youth and beauty woidd bo in her favor. Then he would not insist on a long sentence. Two,years for a bracelet wAuld do, hut in order to obtain clemency from Mr. Styles she must plead guilty. Helen sat in silence and listened to the shrewd lawyer. He began then a series of questions, which would have entangled any one less innocent than herself. She answered him in a straightforward manner, giving him a history of her life. “Now, Helen,” said the lawyer, befouling exasperated, “you are very shrewd, the shrewdest, in fact, I ever met; hut it will avail you nothing. We have the proof solid against you. Come, now, is it not better to confess up and get only two years, than go to trial and get ten?” “Mr. Styles,” said H*4en, “I will not confess to a falsehood, though you sentence me to penal servitude for life.” Mr. Styles went away scratching his head and declaring she was the shrewdest and most hardened criminal he had ever seen. Wise, indeed, he must have been to be unable to distinguish between unintimidated innocence and the brazen defiance of crime? He was scarcely gone ere a light vehicle rattled up to the door of the jail, and to her surprise, Helen saw Clarence and Rosa Sturat jump out. Rosa, (ears streaming down her cheeks, hurst into the room where Helen was, and clasped her in her arms. “Oh, Helen, Helen, my dear sister—for you should bo my sister—how you have suffered.” “Darling Rosa, the Lord has been very good to me. He has always given me strength beyond my trials.” “An angel still,” cried the rough Clarence, entering and taking Helen's hand. “It seems to me that a great, rough fellow like me ought not to touch a bein’ too good for this earth. Now, here hev I been, ever since I heard

about yon, a enssin’ and swearin* and ready to go over to old Arnold's and liek Him, and here you are forgivin’ every body, and jest lookin' happy.” “We may suffer and stltl he happy, Clarenye,” said Helen, with a smile upon /her face. “There is no need ol any one’s being without happiness. Oh, there is so much here,” and she laid her hand reverently on the Bible. Rosa kissed her again and again, declaring she never would desert her, while Clarence was dnmfounded; his

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“ou, Helen! iielen! how toc have SUFFERED. earnest zeal wanted to “punch somebody’s head,” but Helen forbade that. He must do something, though it was difficult to tell what that was. “I'll go on her bond,’’ he said, taking up his hat and hastening round to the magistrate. Here his hopes were dashed to the ground upon being informed that a minor could not be accepted as hail for the prisoner. But the girl was innocent; she was an angel, he knew her to bo an angel. The magistrate smiled and said he had seen a good many, and all were angels at first. Some never acknowledged to it, and she might he one of the kind; but there could really l>e no mistake about it. She was an unfortunate girl, had his sympathy, too, but he guessed she was guilty. Clarence left in despair and went to consult a lawyer. Mr. John Layman hail the reputation of 1 icing a fair lawyer, and he would employ him. “Good morring, Clarence,” said Mr. Layman, stroking his long, black whiskers, on the entrance of the young farmer. “I came, Mre Layman, to get yon to attend to a case,” said Clarence, sitting in a chair near the lawyer. Mr. Layman laid aside a newspaper he was reading, and, thrusting his hands in his pockets, was all attention. “Yon have heard of Helen Lakemau's arrest. I want yon to defend her.” The lawyer was soon employed, Clarence agreeing to pay his fee. The two set out at once for the jail, where Mr. Layman was introduced to his fair client. Helen then proceeded to tell all she knew of the unfortunate affair. The gold bracelet was found in her carpet bag, hut how it got there she did not know. The lawyer listened to her story and then put her through a most rigid eross-examination. “ How did the bracelet get in your possession?” he finally asked. “I kin tell ye,” said Clarence, quickly. “Ye see brother Warren and Helen here were to he married. Well, they told lies about Helen and mother discharged her, and then the Arnold’s set up this job on her so that Warren would marry that red-headed, freckledface Hal Arnold.” Helen tried to stop the impulsive vouth, hut there was no stopping him. He was determined to tell all. The lawyer smiled, and said he hardly thought they were that bad. He made some notes in his books and left, promising to call the next day. “ Have you written to Warren about, this?” Rose asked. “No,” said Helen, “I could not.” “We must write to him now. We will write together, and tell him all.” Helen was at last persuaded to join the sister in sending the letter. It was written full of tender truthfulness and sealed. “This will bring him here,” said Rose. “Now, Clarence, what is the number of the street?” Clarence felt in his pockets and with a look of dismay, said; “ I'm blest if I ain’t lost it.” CHAPTER XVI. ROSE STU ijtT AND HER MOTHER. Rose seemed far more vexed than Helen at the loss of Warren's address. Clarence still fumbled in his pockets, and growled savagely as only a great awkward hoy can. “ Brother Warren gave it to me before he left,” said Clarence, thrusting his thumb first in his vest-pocket theft the other, while his face was contorted as only a puzzled face can he. “ I had on these very clothes when he gave it to me. I was to give it to you, Helen, and you were to write to him; but I forgot it. He’s written to you, I know j—said he would.” All the time Clarence was speaking in these short jerky phrases, he was rumaging his pockets, “ hut somebody's been getting your letters, I knowe’d you’d never get one o’ them, and told him so.” Clarence had to give it lip; the address could not he found, hut he would take the letter home with him and try to ascertain the address from his father. “I’ll hack the letter and forward it, don’t ye fear,” he said to Helen. “There is one thing I am very anxious about,” said Helen. “What is it?” Clarence asked. “My brother, you know he is so fuail anil so young. I want to know that he is comfortable, and then, be my trials ever so great; I can endure them cheerfully.” “Where is Amos?” Rose asked. “I left him at Mr. Arnold’s. They would not let him come with me, and said they would take the best of care of him.” “That ain’t no fit place for him,” said Clarence. “I’m goin’ to find another place for him. When is your trial?” “Next Monday.” “All right. I’ll be back then if not before.” “Don’t forget poor little Amos. I can get along vex-y well if he is only comfortable. I fear he was taking fever when I left, having been in the, rain the night before. He had a severe cold.” “He’ll be all right; don’t give yourself any trouble.” Yain was Clarence's boast. Helen's arrest, her innocence and the coming preliminary examination so engrossed his mind that little Amos was forgotten almost before they left Newton. “ I’ll find out his address and bring it to ye, Helen,” said Clarence when he became convinced that he could not find the slip of paper upon which it was written. “I’ll address the letter myself and send it off.” The vehicle containing the brother and sister ntttled away from the village just as the sun was setting. The road to Sandy Fork neighborhood lay through a wooded portion of the country, and the mystic shadows of gigantic trees hastened approaching night.

From these dark depths one might almost expect to see some Robin Hood, or forest outlaw appear. Clarence had no fears, but Rose shuddered. The dark forests she had always feared, and wheu the horse shied to one side of the road she felt a flutter at her heart and with terror clung to the arm of her strong brother. “Oh Clarence, Clarence, wliat is that?” she cried. “ Where, what?” “There on the right, don’t yon see a horrid thing standing at the roadside?” Clarence looked, and through the gathering twilight he beheld a tall, gaunt form, clothed in rags, with long, disheveled hair, and eyes which seemed to lie burning coals. “Oh. Heavens! help me!” groaned the girl, burying her face in her hands, as the tall, haggard form stepped out in the road and, raising one horny hand, pointed her finger at the occupants of the vehicle, and said: “Hush —don’t tell any one. I got away from the Injins. They wanted to scalp me, but I got away. If you tell them, they’ll be on my track again.” “Be quiet, Rose,” said Clarence, who understood now what it was,, “it’s only crazy Jane —she's got away from the poor-house keeper.” “But oh, brother, she looks so awful; I'm afraid of her.” The wandering mind of the lunatic seemed only to catch at a part of what Rose said: “Yes. yes. I’m afraid, too. Don’t tell them I'm here, and I can escape ’em. They kill and scalp people. They cut off half my head, and put, on half a sheep’s head. I'm a woman half the time and a sheep half the time.” “Poor woman!” sighed Rose, her pity overcoming her fear. “ The} - feed me on grass when I'm a sheep,” said crazy Jane, “and I don't get enough when I'm a woman. They beat me, too. But I know them. Their chief is Bill Jones and his chief is Jim Arnold.” The brother and sister started, very naturally, at heariugthe name of a man mentioned whose bad qualities they had been discussing. Crazy Jane now seemed to beeome more excited, and continued: “ There’s times when I'm human and I hear ’em. They bring little children there and make ’em lambs, that they lamb stew. I heard ’em and

“HOW DO YOU KNOW IT?” I wasn't a sheep then. I saw the tears trickle down its cheeks, then they said they would have the land, fixed sure. But I’m a sheep now, and must hunt the green pasture.” Then bleating in imitation of a sheep the insane creature rail away. Rose breathed more freely when, she had disappeared in the dark; woods. At the top of the next hill,' they met Bill Jones and his brutal hired man limiting for the escaped lunatic. Clarence directed them as best he could where crazy Jane had gone,' and then drove home. He was not on good terms with the keeper of the poorhouse, so exchanged as few words as possible. When they reached home Rose found her mother anxiously awaiting their return. She judged from the look of anxiety upon her mother's, face that there had been a stormy afternoon at home. The father was not to be seen, and she thought best to ask nothing about him at present. “Come in, Rose,” said Mi's. Stuart, leading the way to her sitting-room. No words were spoken until the wraps, of the girl had been removed, and then the mother anxiously said: “Did you sec her?” “Yes.” “Where?” “At the jail.” “Oh. Rose, have they really got her in jail?” “Yes, mother, though she is permitted to stay with the family of the jailer.” ' , Mi's. Stuart was silent. Her large eyes were fixed on the carpet. She wanted to ask something more, hut almost feared to. At last she said, in a tone of desperation: “Rose, how does she bear it?” “ With Christian resignation and fortitude, mother. Oh, mother, I never saw a more angelic picture of Christian faith than that girl's face. From the Bible she gathers hope and happiness, even in the darkest hour. She admits that the bracelet was found in her possession, hut says she can not account for it. She expects imprisonment, and yet she says there is such ft world of consolation in the that she is willing to forgive those who were first in her persecutions.” Mrs. Stuart sat long gazing upon the carpet. The lighted lamp shone bright in the room, and an expression of pain eoulil be seen upon the good woman’s face. She was humiliated.There was a great struggle going on in her breast, and she was yet undecided. “ Poor girl,” she sighed. “Do yon think she is innocent?” “ Yes, mother, I know it.” ’ • “ How do you know it?” asked tho father, gruffly, as he entered the apartment, “ how do you know any thing about it, I would like to know?” “ No one with such perfect resignation, such supreme confidence in God’s goodness, could be a thief. Thievesand criminals don’t read the Bible.” “ Yes, they do, yes, they do,” said Mr. Stuart, with a frown upon his, face. “ They always do that to make: ninnies think they are too pious to do a-bad act. I have very obedient children to be hanging around jail-birds against my wishes; very obedient, indeed.” Rose, knowing it was useless to try to get on friendly terms with her father, arose, retired to her room, and, after offering a prayer for the poor girl, went to bed. [to be continued.] —Dr. Beaulieu, in the Economist j Francois, gives the following as the; amount of tobacco consumed by each; 1,000 people in Europe, each year: In : Spain 110 pounds; Italy, 128; GreatBritan, 138; Prussia, 182; Hungary, 207;’ France, 210; Denmark, 284; Norway, l ! 229; Austria, 273; Germany, 336; Holland, 448; Belgium, 560. - - •

THE COLD FACTS. Bow Twenty Tear* of Protection Created a Great Home Market for the Farmers •f the Country. The acreage of improved land in farms, in the Western States, has increased wonderfully, because these twenty years of protection have brought to these shores millions of farmers from Europe. But the same influence has also brought a great number of other workers, and planted them close by the farms where they would be of the greatest benefit as consumers. The tables show that in 1860 the number of hands employed in manufactures was 361 for every 100,000 acres of improved land. But in 1880 it had risen to 488 for every 100,000 acres. If we suppose that each hand employed supports himself and two others,’then we have 1,083 persons to the acre in 1860 to eat the products of the farms, against 1.464 in 1880. Moreover, the wages of manufacturing employes at the West have increased even more than the number of hands. In the ten Western States it will be seen that the average wages paid to all persons employed in manufactures, men women and children, whether working for the whole year os only part of the year, amounted t<i $305 for each person, but in 1880 the average was #350. Consequently theeaters had each more money with whichJto buy the products of the farm. In 1860 their wages averaged #1 10 for every acre of improved land in farms; in 1880 they averaged $1 71. In effect this increase of 61 cents to each acre was an enlargement of 55 per cent, in the home market upon which the farmer must depend for his highest prosperity. Notwithstanding the marvelous growth of agriculture, the home market virtually grew more rapidlv; for every 100 acres added to improved land in farms there were in effect added a home market for 155 meres. Now the home market not only buys food, but it also buys materals for manufacture. The increase in the large part of the home market which is formed by the purchase of materials for manufacture has been even greater than that which is formed by the purchase of food. This increase, the tables show, has been nearly five-fold. In consequence the value of materials consumed in manufacture in the Western States, for each acre of improved land in farms, averaged #4 02 in 1860, but in 1880 had risen to $7 58, a gain of nearly 90 per cent. Os course the materials of manufacture are not entirely drawn from the farms by any means; but a large part of them are, and the increase in that part has been quite as great as in the remainder. In the light of these facts the American farmer can determine for himself what would have been his fate if, with an addition of 83,000.000 acres of improved land in twenty years in ten Western States, and 121,000,000 acres in the whole country, there had been only a moderate growth of the industries in which consumers of farm products are employed. Amazing as was the increase in farms in those ten Western States the increase in number of hands employed in manufacture was SO per cent, greater; the increase in the wages which they had to spend for farm products was 55 per cent, greater; and the increase in the value of materials purchased for manufactures in these same States was 90 per cent, greater. Since 1880 Free Traders have dictated legislation to the Lower House of Congress. To that element the farmers owe a considerable reduction of duties in 1883, especially in the duties ou wool, and a prolonged and disturbing agitation for free trade in 1884, in 1885 and in 1886. The growth of manufactures has been checker! by this constant agitation, so that the uninterrupted development of the farms has caused remarkably low, pi-ices for farm products. It is for the farmers themselves to say whether this pleases them, or whether they- would rather return to the policy under which steady protection for twenty years brought a more rapid development of manufacturing than farming, and thus a more healthy adjustment of industries.— A'. Y. Tribune. Want the Scenery Shifted. Along with this spread of the protection idea in the South it is encouraging an earnest effort being made to maintain the ascendency of the same principle in "the North. One illustration of this is a large meeting of prominent manufacturers and supportei-s oi this policy in Boston. The object was to promote the formation of protective tariff clubs, which could counteract the efforts made by the free-trade chibs to spread their ideas among the voters. It lias been the hope of the free-traders that they wfmlii he able to make up in the Northern States for the strength they were evidently losing in the Southern States. They have confidently believed that there would be another shifting oi the tariff scenery, and that, while the South veered round to the early protection principles of John C. Calhoun, the North would change back to the early free-trade principles of Daniel Webster. This exchange the free- traders would gladly make, and to guard against it should now be the chief aim of the Protectionists. If the voters are kept informed on this question there is no fear of a wrong decision, and hence all efforts to this end . are worthy of commendation and support. —Philadelphia Press. A Word to the Farmer. Ignorant and timid votes have robbed the tariff of much of its usefulness, and in the blundering notion that it was good to reduce taxation Congressmen have prostrated great industries, like those of the wool-grower and the flax producer. It is good to see that there are many farmers who comprehend the mischief done by such pretended reformers, and yet there are millions who do not know that the Congressmen of their own party, by an almost unanimous vote, cut down the duty on wool. Missionary work is needed, and the farmers who know the truth must set out as missionaries. To find the benighted who need them they have not to go far from home. In every club, association or grange, where tillers of the soil assemble for the discussion of their interests, the tariff question should be discussed at once and in earnest, until every member has" been taught that a good home market is more necessary than a good crop.— AT. Y. Tribune. —“Yes,” said Timberlake to a friend, “I don’t mind telling yon that I have at last fully decided to finish my residence inside with chestnut lumber, and Mrs. S. says she is determined to have the building hung with chestnut bells. You see we both think old things are always best.” - ,

THE GARFIELD FAMILY. A Glimpse at the Handsome Home at Mentor and Its Occupants. In five years there have been many notable changes in the Garfield family. There have been no deaths, but the children of whom the father was so fond have grown up. The two older boys have begun a course in th* Columbia College Law School, and Harry,’ the elder, has been teaching in some Eastern school. Both are graduates of Williams College. James R. Garfield has been studying law with Judge Boynton in Cleveland, and is looked upon by friends of his father is the son most like him in every way. He has his father’s size, complexion, eyes and manner. Both sons are now men, and have, it is said, great ambition. Miss Mollie, the only is now a young woman taller than her mother, and lias about finished her studies. The two younger sons, Abram and Irwin—the latter named for General Irwin McDowell —are old enough to enter a school on the Hudson, and left home for their duties there recently. They had never been away from home alone jg'fore. Since the preliminary education of Abram and Irwin in the Cleveland public schools the mother has had no further desire to live in a city. She has ordered her mansion in Cleveland sold and has decided to make her future home in Mentor. She lias here added to the modest frame house of her husband a “Queen Anne” structure which cost #30,000. It is the most imposing home in the country, although the new part is behind and wholly subservient to the old house in which the President lived. This =*ill remains the head and front of the Garfield home, although remodeled to conform dhth the addition. A #30,000 addition to a #5,000 house is a curiosity in modern architecture, but sentiment for the past and its illustrious dead inspired it. There arc probably sixty rooms in both new and old houses. They are all furnished in modern style and with considerable elegance, and there is anair of aristocracy about the interior which Garfield did not know in his own home. Although the liouso is far in the country it has all the conveniences of a city home—in plumbing, gas-tit-ting and steam-heating. A natural gas well has been bored on the farm, and the yard is kept lighted day and night. The main entrance is through the old house. In the hall facing the door is “Grandma” Garfield’s old wall-sweep clock, which her husband brought home just sixty years ago. It is still the “standard time” of that house, and keeps on ticking just as it did when the President was born. To the left is the smoking room, which is a lounging room for the family, James being their only one who smokes. To the right is the old parlor, now a reception room, and rich in relics of the dead. It was once liis study. Bibles and other books are upon the tables, and the furniture is much the the same as when the family left for Washington.— Ladies' World. American Harvesting Machinery In Australia. Australian papers just received announce the award of the National Gold Medal to Aurtman, Mii.ler & Cos., of Akron, 0., for their Light Draft Buckeye Folding Binder, as the result of the National field trial held in December last. The following, cut from the Melbourne Arif us of December 16, 1886, giving particulars of the contest, will be of interest. The Argus says: The field trial of reapers and binders in connection with the National Show at Shepparton was held on Tuesday, the 14th inst., on Mi-. Guthrie's farm, about two miles from Shepparton. Owing to the pressure of harvest work, crops in all directions being ripe, the attendance of farmers did not exceed 150, but great interest was taken in the proceedings. As at the late show, the judges placed the Hornsby machine first, M’Cormick second and the Woods third; the “Buckeye” representative disliked being left out in the cold, and demanded a field trial as provided by the rules, the M’Cormick also sharing in the protest; so the prizes were held over pending the field trial. The crop was ripe wheat, and the land was so rough that none of the machines could show very low cutting, and the jolting over the hard clods was tolerably severe on horses, machines and drivers. Two o’clock was the hour fixed for the trial, but as the “Buekeye” was the only machine then ready, a delay was caused by the Hornsby and M’Cormick experts giving their machines a preliminary run in the adjoining block of crop, and a start was not made until a quarter past three. The five judges gave great attention to their duties, and were ably seconded by the sub committee, appointed by the society and the secretary, Mr. Harold B. Turnley. About two acres were allotted to each machine, and they finished in the following order: “Buckeye,” 1 hour 10 minutes; Hornsby, 1 hour 19 minutes; M’Cormick, 1 hour 26 minutes. The two latter machines were drawn by three horses each, while two lighten* 5 horses worked the “Buckeye” binder with equal ease. The decision of the judges was based on the following scale of points: 5 . a. 5 a 5 ~3 '-Q i l : * . 5, „ Kj * “ts'S 5 ■ I ~ 3-. oa l 2§“ 33 a. O -O Maximum points. 15 15 10 5 5 50 “Buckeye”... 15 15 10 5 5 50 Hornsby .'.... 15 15 5 3 5 43 M'Cormick 10 15 5 The Judges (Messrs. A. Kinkaid, H. Wilkinson, J. Grieve, J. M’lntyro and J. M’Guinness) thus awarded the “Buckeye” the first prizo, with the maximum number of points; Hornsby second, with 43, and M’Cormick third, with 37, adding that the work performed was the best they had ever seen, and their decision .vas cheered by the farmers present. ■ • Shaved with Pumice Stone. “Ever hear of a man shaving himself with a pumice stone!” asked an Ogden avenue barber of a Chicago Herald reporter. “There is a carpenter over hero on Jane street who has not touched his skin with a razor for six months, yet his face is always as smooth as a woman’s. Throe times a week he sits down upon the bench in his shop, and with a piece of pumice stone Held tightly between his index finger aud thumb, he will slowly rasp the stubble off his chin and chops. He says he can shave himself in this manner in half the time it would require him with a razor. Talk about there being any money in a barbershop! It’s all bosh. It won’t be long before men will bo shaving themselves with sponges, and catting their hair with an egg-Beater.” A Rather Delicate Question. A French witness was asked the question whether he ever went to church. He said to the examining counsel, Mr. P : “Sair, I object to answer de kesteon—it is not a proper kesteon. The counsel insisted, and the witness said: “I appeal to your honneur—if it is a propair kesteon.” The judge ruled that the question was a proper one and must he answered, and thereupon the witness, with utter unconsciousness of his blunder, said (convulsing the crowded court with laughter): “I deaffair from your honneur —if it is not a proper kesteon; for if I say no dee eyes of de whole court is upon me; if 1 say yes, I tell a lie!” The Washington Woman’s Exchange. This is an excellent institution where women who need money and yet are not objects of charity can dispose of their handiwork, embroidery, worsted work, cake, preserves, candies, pickles, etc. The fancy-work exhibited and sold during the last year was the work of over sixty women, and amounted to f402.08, whila seventeen consigners or cake sent different varieties sold at $2,180.23. Deserving ladies who have become reduced in circumstances are thus enabled to earn money, while housekeepers obtain at fair prices, nice cake, preserves, pickles and other table delicacies.

MARVELOUS CHANGES. What the Future Will Be to Those Who Refuse to Believe. Is this country unconsciously undergoing a wonderful change, is the change to takp place before we are aware of the fact, and when it has taken place will we wonder why we did not see it before it was too late) Those that see the changes early avail themselves early, and thereby receive benefit The shrewd iron man sees the iron interest transferred from Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania to Birmingham, Alabama, and in his far-sightedness sees the furnaces in Pennsylvania torn down and deserted for this new and prolific field. It is claimed by the iron men of Alabama that the low price at which iron can be produced there will revolutionize the iron interests of the world. We have seen the grain-growing centers of this country shifted to the West. We have seen the pork-packing industry flit from Cincinnati to Chicago, and from thence to"K§nsas City and Omaha. Southern cottouwnills undersell New England and American markets, and challenge the world. We have seen and are seeing all this take place before our eyes, and know that other changes are taking place equally as prominent, and we wonder as we behold them. Ten years ago the insurance companies only required an analysis of the fluids when they were taking insurance for very large amounts. To-day no first-class company will insure any amount unless they have a rigid analysis of the fluids passed, and if any traces of certain disorders are apparent, the application is rejected. In their reports they show that the death of sixty of every one hundred people in this country is due either directly or indirectly to such disorders. The Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, England, reports that sixty of every one hundred victims of consumption also have serious disorders of the kidneys. Among scientists for the treatment of this dread malady the question is being discussed : “Is not this disorder the real cause of consumption!” Ten years ago the microscope was something seldom found in a physician’s office; now every physician of standing has one and seldom visits his patients without calling for a sample of fluids for examination. Why is all this! Is it possible that we of the present generation are to die of diseases caused bv kidney disorders! or shall we master the cause by Warner’s safe cure, the only recognized specific, and thus remove the effects! It is established beyond a doubt that a very large percentage of deaths in this country are traceable to diseased kidneys. For years the proprietors of Warner’s safe cure have been insisting that there is no sound health when the kidneys are diseased, and they enthusiastically press their specific for this terrible disorder upon public attention. We are continually hearing its praises sounded. This means wonders! Can not the proprietors of this great remedy, who have been warning us of the danger, tell us how to avoid a disease that at first is so unimportant, and is 30 fatal in its termination! Are we to hope against hope, and wait without our reward? The most significant of all changes, however, that we of to-day can note is this radical change of view to which the publio has been educated: It was formerly thought that the kidneys were of very small importance; to-day, we believe, it is generally admitted that there can be no, such thing as sound health in any organ if they are in the least degree deranged. First Lessons in Fainting. A celebrated miniature painter who was' usually hard up, sometimes consented to take a pupil to help inflate the cash account, though much against his inclination. A wealthy gentleman called at the studio one day and begged the artist to take his son, a young man of sixteen, as a pupil, promising to pay handsomely for the instruction. The boy was admitted for the sake of the money it would bring, but, much to the painter’s disgust, it was discovered that he knew absolutely nothing of the first principles of drawing. The young man sat around for half an hour on the first morning, watching the master at work, much to the latter’s annoyance, and finally ventured to ask that he be given something to do. “All right! all right!” the artist replied, going to a clo~et and returning with a pair of muddy boots and a blacking brush. “Here, black these boots, young man; it will give you breadth.” Why is a bad governess like a good one! One misguides, the other guides misses. —A”. Y. Herald. *< The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man,” says the illustrious Pope. If he had included woman in the list, he would have been nearer the truth, if not so poetical. Dr. R. V. Pierce has made them both a life study, especially woman, and the peculiar derangements to which her delicate system is liable. Many women in the land who are acquainted with Dr. Pierce only through his “ Favorite Prescription,” bless him with all their hearts, for he has brought them the panacea for all those chronic ailments peculiar to their sex; such as leucorrhcea, prolapsus and other displacements, ulceration, “ internal fever,” bloating, tendency to internal cancer, and other ailments. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. Max wants but little here below—zero. — Boston Courier. Blowing Up Hell Gate has been a laborious and costly work, but the end justifies the effort. Obstruction in any important channel means disaster. Obstructions in the organs of the human body bring inevitable disease. They must be cleared away, or physical wreck will follow. Keep the liver in order, and the pure blood courses through the body, conveying health, strength ana life; let it become disordered and the channels are clogged with impurities, wnieh result in disease and death. 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