Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1881 — Page 1

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The Democrat. [Official Paper of Adams County. IS. Xlzxy Williams, rioprietor. Terms: One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year. THE BBMOCBAT'H AGEXTH. *»rn«t an satisfactory arianircmcnts can be made we w ill have an Aaeul lor I he l>emocrat al each postoHlce In the < vumj, till names of whom will be kept stan.ima in the owner. IVe do this lor the convenience ol one subscribers, and trust lhe> will appreciate 11. Subscribers can paj their subscription, or uni part thereof. orally sum ot money, to our HurntN, who will receipt lor the Name, , and who also will lake the names and cash ot'uew NiibMrriherNv The following are the uamCH ot r.«rnltt u'.ready appointed, and our i patrons nt the several oilier* will do us n •rent favor by remitting to them a. IttUe mono} on Muliscriptions” \V. IMP IU:U Monroe JOHN IL HALE ... Geneva EUGENE MOKKOW Lltiii Greve J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW ( j- J. P, DECATUB, INDIANA. Hill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29tf “ aTg. HOLLOWAY, M D.. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day.* Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th bouse east of Hurt's Mill. 25jy79tf R B. Allison, Pres’t. W. 11. Niblick,Cashier. D. Stupabaker, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 2ojy79tf | I PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on ieneonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. O. O. F. building. 23jy791f FRANCE A KlliG. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR,INDIANA. _ i TR I — -...5v? xx Perbt, Huston, county, Ga., January 28, 1880. Tn 1873, there were t wo negros confined in jail badly affiicted with Syphilis. In my official capacity I employed C. T. Swift l>; cure them, under a contract ll nocure, no pap, He administered his •‘Syphlitic Specific, and in a few weeks 1 felt bound lo pay him out of the county treasury, as he had effected a complete, and radical cure. A. S. Giles, Ord. Houston co,, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 14,1879. The S. S. S. is giving good satisfaction. One gentleman who had been confined to bis bed six weeks with Syphilitic Rheumatism has been cured entirely, and speaks in the highest praise of it. CtiiL’rs & Berry. THE.SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Proprietors, Atlanta. Ga. Sold by Darwin & Ilolthouse. Call for a copy of “Young Men’s Friend.’ no. 3.3 m.

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THE MINISTER'S STORY. ‘Look here, Sally 1’ Mrs. Deacon Farrell brushed the flour from her hands, casting meanwhile a complacent eye over the well-filled kitchen table, with the generous array of unbaked pies and cakes; the plump turkey stuffed and trussed for the morrow’s baking, and the big chicken pie to which her fingers had just put the finishing touches, as she repeated rather more decidedly; ‘Look here, Sally I There’s enough chicken left with the giblets—that I never put in my own pie, because the deacon don’t relish 'em—ter make a Thanksgiving pie for the minister’s folks. ‘Twon’t need to be very large. 1 she added, in reply to Sallie’s doubtful look. ‘Only the minister and his wife—and you can bake it in that smallest yaller dish. ‘Now I’m going up stairs to look over them rags, an' you make an’ bake it right off so’s I can send it over by the deacon. He’s got ter go out to the corner this afternoon, and can take it as well as not.

She bustled out of the door, but the next moment, seized with a sudden pang of compunction, she put her head in again to say warningly; •Be sure you put in a good parcel of gravey: that’ll keep it from being dry. if tis half giblets.' ‘Yes’m,’ answered Sally, briskly: and catching up a rolling-pin she brougt it down with an emphasis upon a lump of dough, on the moulding board. As the stairway door closed behind l her mistress, Sally dropped the rollingpin and a look of perplexy crept over her dull face, making it ten times more | stolid than usual, while she repeated ' it in ludicrous bewilderment: ‘Giblets ! What, in all creation docs she mean by them ?’ Involuntarily she took a step forward, but checked herself as quickly, while a cunning smile replaced the look of perplexity, and she muttered j triumphantly : I guess I ain't agoing to confess my ignorance to the deacon's wife and let her have her say, as she always does. ‘Two terms to the ‘cademy. Sally, and not know that!’ No ma'am! not while ■ there’s a dictionary in the house. So, softly creeping into the adjoin- ■ ing sitting-room, Sally hastily opened a big dictionary on the deacon's writing desk and began her search for the mysterious word. ‘G-i-b —here ’tis!’and she read aloud to herself, with an air of triumph, the following definition. ‘Those parts of a fowl that are removed before cooking—the heart, giz- ' zard, liver &c. ‘That’s it’—heart, gizzard, liver, and I so forth.' she repeated joyfully, as she I retraced her steps to the kitchen, and , began with alacrity, to fill, according : to directions, the minister’s pie ; keeping up, meanwhile, a running fire of comment for her own benefit. •Six gizzards! Well, that is rather ‘steep,’ as Dan M atson would say. But I guess the deacon's wife knows: if she don't tain’t none of my business. Six hearts ! Them’s small, and tuck into the corners handy. Six livers ! Seem s to me they don’t fill up much, and she glanced, with a perplexed air, at a pile of denuded chicken bones that formed her only resource. ‘Now I wonder, with a sudden inspiration, what that ‘and so forth’ means? Here’s hearts,gizzards and liver, plenty of ’em, but no 'and so forth,’ and the pie ain’t no more than two-thirds full yet. It must be and she cast a bewildered look at the half-filled pie, ‘the chicken legs! I never knew any one to put them into a pic, but that must be what it means, an’ they will just fill up.’ No sooner thought than done. In went three pairs of stout yellow legs upon which their unfortunate owners had strutted about so proudly the day before; on went the well-rolled dough, covering them from sight, and into the oven went the minister's pie, just as the mistress of the house re-entered the kitchen, and with an improving look at the snow pastry, remarked encouragingly ; That pie looks real neat, Sally. I should not wonder if. in time, you came to be quite a cook.’ It was Thanksgiving morning, and Miss Patience Pringle stood at the minister’s back door. To be sure, it was rather early for callers, but Miss Pringle was as she often boasted, ‘one of the kind that never stood on ceremony.’ Indeed, she didn’t even consider it necessary to knock before she opened the door, although she was thoughtful enough to open it softly. The minister’s wife was just taking from the oveu a newly warmed chicken pie, which she nearly dropped from her hands, so startled was she by the sharp, shrill voice that spoke so close to her.

‘Good morniii,’ Miss Graham. Good inornin.' Ilain’t been to breakfast yet

I see. We had ours half an hour ag 0 ' I know my mother used to say that if anybody lost an hour in the niornin, they might chase it all day and not ketch up with it then. ‘That's a good looking pie—pretty rich pastry though, for a chicken pie ! I don't never put much shortnin’ in anything of that kind it's rich enough inside ter make up. But you’re young, an have got a good many things to learn yet. I run in ter see if you could spare me a cup of yeast: mine soured and the last batch of bread I made ) I had ter throw to the hogs.' ‘Certainly,’ and a roguish smile flitted over the the fair face of the minister’s wife, at this specimen of her meddlesome neighbor’s own economy. But she had learned a rare lesson of i judicious silence, and taking the cup that Miss Patience produced from beneath her shawl, she bade her visitor be seated while she left the room to get the desired article. As her steps died away, Miss Patience noiselessly arose from her seat and approaching the dresser upon which the pie stood, peered curiously 1 into the apcratures in the crust, her sharp face expressing eager curiosity. ‘l'll bet a nincpcnce she didn’t know enough ter put crackers in. I wish’t I could get one look, just to satisfy my own mind,’ she added. And, determined to accomplish her object at all hazards, she ran a knif deftly around a small portion of the edge, and inserting four inquisitive fingers, lifted the brown crust, and took a glimpse of the contents. A look of unmitigated disgust passed over her face. Dropping into a convenient chair, she actually groaned aloud. ‘Well, I never ! an’ we payin’ that man five hundred dollars a year, besides a donation party at Christmas. Ough !' Unsuspicious Mrs Graham, as she returned, with the yeast, was somewhat puzzled by the sndden frostiness of her guest, who hurried out of the house as if some dreadful contagion had haunted it; but when the minister in carving the pic that the deacon's wife had sent made two curious discoveries almost simultaneously, the reason, for Patience’s altered demeanor was made plain, and the young pair had a hearty laugh that made the old parsonage ring like a peal of Thanksgiving bells. The Tuesday following was the regular day for the weekly sewing circle, and seldom had that interesting gathering proved so lovely and animated as on this occasion.

Miss Patience was in the field bright and early, and it was evident at a glance to those who knew her best that she was well-nigh bursting with some important secret that she was only waiting a fitting opportunity to divulge. That opportunity was not long in coming, for Mrs. Dea. Parrel, who was a constitutional croaker, took occasion to say, in reference to the hard times— The Deacon has been tryin' ter collect the church tax and he says he never found money so tight in all the years he's lived here. It’s as hard now to get five dollars as it used to be to get ten.’ ‘An’ no wonder,’ spoke up Miss Patience, with the stony severity of a sphinx. ‘You can’t expect folks ter feel like payin’out their money when they fairly see it thrown away and wasted.’ Everybody looked curious, and some of the younger girls began to bridle defiantly. The minister’s sweet young wife was a favorite with them at least. ‘What do you mean by that ?’ asked Mrs. Farrel pointedly. ‘Miss Graham is young and inexperienced to be sure ; but, as the deacon was sayin’ only yesterday, she does very well indeed, considers.’ Patience tossed her head knowingly. ‘I don’t want to say nothin' to hurt her, but livin' next door as I do, I can't always help scein’ and bearin’ things that other folks can't be expected to know about, and when I see and know things like—’ There was an ominous pause, and the deacon's wife asked excitedly,— ‘Likewhat?’ • ‘Chicken pies, with legs and feet of the chicken baked in !’ Had athunderbolt then fallen among them, it could not have caused greater surprise to those tidy, thrifty New England housekeepers than this dreadful revelation of the incapacity of the pastor's young wife. ‘Are you sure of it ?’ gasped one matron, breaking the ominous silence. ■I know it for a fact,’ was the solemn returned. ‘Chicken legs in a pie!’ ‘She’s a born fool,’ ejaculated the deacon’s wife, indignantly, and I'm thankful for her poor husband’s sake that I sent her over one of my pies yesterday. They had to throw her’s away, of course, and it ’s luckey that he didn’t have to go without his Thanksgiving breakfast on account of her ignorance, and shiftlesness.'

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JUNE 23, 1881

‘How did you know about the pie ?’ asked one of the girls. Miss Patience bristled defiantly. ‘That's nobody’s business but my own,' she retorted tartly. ‘I don’t go round ter find out things that don’t concern me, I’d have you know! but when they’re thrown right into my face, as you might say, I don’t shut my eyes any more’n other folks. Just here the door opened, and in walked the subject of their conversation, with her pretty face glowing with the haste she had made, and a mischievous twinkle to her brown eyes that nobody noticed, so occupied were they in hiding the confusion that her sudden entrance had made.

Walking up to the table where most of the ladies were sitting, she saluted them cordially ; and then holding out upon the tip of one slender finger a well-worn thimble, she said archly—‘Where do you think I found your thimble, Miss Patience?' So pleased was Miss Patience to regain her lost treasure that she forgot for a moment all her assumed dignity, and exclaimed joyfully ; — ‘Well, I declare, I am glad to see that thimble once more ! I told Mary Jane that I had it on my finger when I run into your house Thanksgivin’ mornin’ arter that yeast. But when I got home it want nowhere to be found. Now where did you find it?’ Her shrill, high voice had attracted the attention of all in the room and everybody, of course, looked up curiously as the minister’s wife replied, with an innocent smile—‘ln the chicken-pie that our good friend here’—and she nodded brightly to Mrs. Farrel—sent me. I left the pie on the dresser when I went down cellar after your yeast, and as soon as I came back, I put it on the table, and when my husband cut it, there was your thimble in it. How could it have got there ? It is certainly very mysterious, anyway.’ Silence, dead profound, yet, oh, how terribly significant to the deacon’s wife and her spinster neighbor, fell upon the group. This was apparently unnoticed by Mrs. Graham, whe, with a playful admonition to Miss Patience to take better care of her thimble in future, began an animated conversation with the ladies nearest her that soon restored the company to their wonted case and good humor. But poor Miss Patience! She never heard the last of that, lost thimble. While the deacon's wife to the day of her death, never trusted any hands but her own to make a Thanksgiving pie for the minister. Why Eve Did Not Keep a Hired Girl. A lady writer furnishes some of the reasons why Eve did not keep a hired girl. She says: “There has been a great deal said about the faults of women, and why they need so much waiting on. Some one, (a man of course) has the presumption to ask, ‘why, when Eve was manufactured of a spare-rib. a servant was not made to wait upon her? She didn't need any. A bright writer has said, “Adam never came home whinning to Eve with a r gged stocking to be darned, buttons to be sewed on, gloves to Lc mended right away—quick—now!” Because he never read the newspapers till the sun went down behind the palm tree, and he. stretching himself, yawned out, ‘lsn't supper ready, my dear?" Not he. lie made j the fire and hung the kettle over it himself, we'll venture, and pulled the radishes, peeled the potatoes, and did everything he ought to do. He milked the cows, fed the chickens, looked after the pigs himself, and never brought half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegranates. He never stayed out till 11 o’clock at night, and then scolded because poor Eve was sitting up and crying, inside the gates. He never loafed around the comer groceries while Eve was at home rocking Cain’s cradle. He did not call Eve up from the cellar to get his slippers and put them in the corner where lie had left them. Not he. When he took them off he put them under the fig tree, beside his Sunday boots. In short, he did not think she was especially created to wait on him, and wasn't under the impression that it degraded a man to lighten a wife’s cares a little. That’s the reason Eve did not need a hired girl, and with it was the reason her decendajjts did.” Making a Great Fuss. Two dutch farmers of Kinderhook, whose farms were adjacent, were out in their respective fields when one overheard an unsual hallooing in the direction of a gap iu a high stone wall, and ran with all speed to the spot, and the following brief conversation ensued: “£hon, vat ish te matter?" ell, den, says John,“l vash trying to climb on top of dish high stone wall, and I fell off and all de stone wall tumble down onto me, and it hash broke one of mine legs off, and both of mine legs off. and both of mine arms off. and smashed mine ribs in, and deese pig stones’are lying onto te top of mine body,” “Ish datali?” says the other, “vy you holler so big loud I tot you got te toofache.”

Before Marriage and After. Before marriage the young girl will generally know or have some idea when the young gentlemen will come to see her; she takes great care to lo9k neat and pleasing, waiting to receive him in a tastefully arranged room. And what of the youth? No matter how much “out-sorts,” (as he is apt to term it) he may feel, ho will dress in his best, look his very best, and start for the home of his love. They meet with a clasp of hands and a pleasant smile, have an agreeable evening’s visit, then part with a kind good night. Ido not say this wrong if there is true love in it; but how different it is from the home in after years! We too often miss the sweet face and pleasing appearance of the young girl in the wife. And the youth whose only aim was to please his lady love, now seems to have for gotten all the litten courtesies and gentle attentions that are needed just as much in the husband as in the lover, to make home happy. He finds many other things to look after, and utters harsh and thoughtless words. You may see the wife of only a few months, in a slovenly dress, hair uncombed, the house in disorder, and nearly time for her husband to come home. It is no wonder that he is unhappy and may try to give a little advice sometimes. I make no excuse for her. She may have plenty to do, and more than she can accomplish: still she can, if she will, always look neat, and meet her husband with a smile. Then, on the other hand, the wife may try hard to keep the sweet, girlish ways of other days about her, but the husband will think to himself: “Now we are married, and Mary must not expect to be the same as before. I have no time for loving ways, now there is so much resting upon me, as the head of the house.” He takes no notice of the neatly-kept rooms; and the nice dinner just to his taste, and the loving wife who always meets him at the door with a smile of welcome home. Newspapers. Somebody,—-if we knew who, we would give due credit,—-writes thus tersely and truthfully of newspapers and their worth to the world: “The value of newspapers is not fully appreciated, but the rapidity with which people are waking up to their necessity and usefulness, is one of the significant signs of the times. Few families are now content with a single newspaper. The thirst for knowledge is not easily sat’sfied. and books, though useful-— yes, even absolutely necessay in their, place, fail to meet the demand of youth or age. The village newspaper is eagerly sought for, and its contents as eagerly devoured. Then comes the demand for the county news, state news, national and foreign news. Next to political come the literary and then the scientific journals. Lastly, and above all, come the moral and religious journals. This variety is demanded to satisfy the cravings of the active mind. “Newspapers are also valuable to material prosperity'. They advertise the village, county or locality. They spread before the reader a map on which may be traced character, design and progress. If a stranger calls at a hotel, he first inquires for the village newspaper; if a friend comes from a distance the very next thing after a family greeting, he inquires for your village or county newspaper, and you feel discomfited if you are unable to find a late copy, and confounded if you arc compelled to say you do not take it.

A Tale of Love and Sacrifice. • But papa—” “Not another word. I’m a wild cat when my back’s up, and don’t you forget it.” The speaker was a hard-visaged man dressed with an elegance that ill-ac-corded with his evident want of culture. She who had addressed him as “papa” was a fair-haired girl of eighteen summers. Reared on the knee of luxury, she had never known what it was to have her slightest wish thwarted. Iler father, a plumber, was from the nature of his business, a man of iron will, but he was not devoid of pity or generosity, as many a debtor whose house and lot he had taken in part payment for fixing the water pipes letting the balance of the account run along for two months, could testify. He had surrounded Cecil, his only child, with all that wealth could purchase, looking forth to the time when she would marry the eldest son of a Niagara Falls hackman, or some person of fortune, commensurate with her own. But she had allowed her heart to be ensnared by the wiles of cupid, and that morning had asked her sire’s consent to her marriage to a poor but not proud young man whose agricultural operations on the board of trade had not been attended with success. It was this request that produced the answer given above. Again Cecil pleaded with her parent not to crush the love that blossomed in her heart. The old man’s mind went back to the happy days when he had told her mother of his love and how they commenced life with nothing but strong arms and willing hearts. Placing his tan-like hands on Cecil's shoulder the old man looked at her tenderly and said; “Look ye my lass. You say you love this man and cannot live without him. Mebbe not. I have promised you a seal skin sack this winter. Let us test your love. If you become this man’s bride I shall not buy the sack. In my hand is a cheek for 1200. In the wheat pit over on the board of trade is your lover. Now which do you choose ?” Without raising her head she reached out convulsively for the check.

A Revolutionary Giant. Peter Francisco, a giant ot the Devolution, who dealt destruction with a sword five feet long, is thus described by a correspondent of a Virginia journal: , My father, recently deceased at the advanced age of 90, well remembered him, having frequently seen him in his native county palace of Buckingham, and related many anecdotes of his stirring and perilous adventures and hairbredth escapes as he heard the recital fall from the lips of the giant himself. ' He described him as five feet one inch in height, his weight 290 pounds, his complexion dark and swarthy, features bald and manly, and bis bauds and feet uncommonly large, his thumb being as large as an ordinary man’s wrist. Such was his personal strength, that he could easily shoulder a cannon weighing 1,100 pounds, and he had seen him take a man in his right hand, pass over the floor and dance his head against the ceiling with as much case as if he had been a doll-baby. Ihe man s weight was 194 pounds. Partaking of the patriotic enthusiasm of the times, he entered the American Revolutionary army at the age of IG. lie was present at the storming of Stony Point, and was the first soldier, after Major Gibbin, who entered the fortress, on which occasion he received a bayonet wound in the thigh. He was at Brandywine, Monmouth and other battles at the North, and was transferred to the South under Gen. Green, where he was engaged in the actions of the Cowpens, Camden, Guilford Court House, etc. He was so brave aud possessed such confidence in his prowess, that he was positively fearless. He used a sword with a blade five feet long, which he could wield like a feather, and every swordsman who camo within reach of him paid the forfeit of his life. Advice for the Fair Sex. Why are girls so injudicious in their toleration of dissipated young men! It is very often the case that a thoroughly good girl will deliberately marry a man who makes no secret of his bad habits. What can she expect but misery to ensue? A life partnership should not be entered into without at least as much caution as men display in making business combinations for limited periods. "No man selects bis business partner from among men who drink much liquor or have other bad habits. As for mere manne’s and the ability to make one's self agreeable, they have not themselves influence enough among men to secure a dollar s worth of credit or to justify any one in believing their possessor on oath. A girl who is not old enough to have learned what are the standards by which men are tested, would be far surer of a happy life if she were to let her parents select a husband in the prosiest manner imaginable, than if she were to make her own selections m a manner peculiar to girls. A life partnership is not easily dissolved. German Emigration to America. The growth of the stream of emigration from Germany to the United States has attracted even more attenin Germany than here, and the government there is at its wit's end to stop it without striking at the root of the matter —the heavy burdens imposed on the large standing armies. M. Wrandl, who is described as an American citizen of Hungarian birth, tried to get permission to lecture on emigration in Berlin, but his application was sternly refused, the authorities evidently fearing that any’ agitation of the subject would increase the exodus still further. In Schleswig, Prussia proper, and Posen, whole villages arc described as being abandoned, the inhabitants going chiefly to lllinoise and Nebraska. According to the Berlin correspondent of the London Times, a new experiment is the founding of a German Socialist colony in Texas, where the great problem of how to keep everybody as poor as everybody else is to be worked out once more.

Health, the poor man's riches, and the rich man's bliss is maintained by the judicious use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla which strengthens and invigorates the system by purifying the blook. It is so highly concentrated that it is the most econimical medicine for this purpose that can be used. Evils to be Avoided.—Over-eat-ing is in one sense as productive of evil as intemperance in driking. Avoid both, and keep the blood purified with Burdock Blood Bitters, and you will be rewarded with robust health and an invigorated system. Price SI.OO, trial size 10 cents. Floater Identified. Cleveland, June 18.—The floating body recently found on the lake here has been identified as that of Thomas Omelia, of Chicago, who shipped from that port last fall as mate of the schooner John Miner, and was supposed to have been murdered by the captain of the craft, a Creole, named Armi strong, who disappeared after his return to Chicago. He has been accused of the crime and can not be found. Frank Bardal, North Bennet Street, Buffalo, says: “I have tried your Spring Blossom as a family medicine • and have never come across anything j to do so much good in so short a time ■ in oases of indigestion, dyspepsia and derangement of the stomach, I strongly recommend it.” Price s*l cents, trial bottles 10 cents,

Assassinated. Little Rock, June 18.—A Gazette Morriltown dispatch says : It has just been learned that a murder was committed at Chismville on Friday last, the particulars of which, as near as we could learn, are as follows : Last Friday night, after Mr. Noble and son had retired, some unknown person fired fiout the window of the bedroom which they were occupying, the ball taking effect in the brain of young Noble, killing him almost instantly. It is thought the assassin intended to have shot the old man. Variety Actor Shot. Leadville, June 18.—Ex-Aider-man John McComb shot and probably fatally wounded James McDonald, a well known variety actor. McComb's buggy was hitched in front of a house where McDonald resided, and he says he had permission to take some chidren out riding. He put the children in the buggy and drove around the block. On his return McComb was in a rage, and regardless of the children, fired twice, one ball striking McDonald in the head. McComb has been prominent in politics, having been a prominent candi date for lieutenant governor, and last spring he was before the people as the nominee for city treasurer. Shot by a" Desperado. Kenomo, Col., June 18.—This afternoon Al Higgins, a well known desperado. and Phil Foote, ex marshal of Kenomo, being intoxicated, began firing revolvers at random. Shortly thereafter, on meeting Mayor Doncaster, of Recene, Higgins fired at him, just grazing his head. Policeman Brown ordered them to be quiet, and was shot and dangerously wounded by Higgins. The desperadoes fled to Recene, a small village on the suburbs of Kenomo, and prepared for resistance. The marshal and a posse pursued, and after wounding Higgius in the face, captured him and Foote. They were taken to Leadville to avoid lynching. Much excitement prevails. Deaf as a Post.—Mrs. W. J. Lang. Bethany, Ont., states that for fifteen months she was troubled with a disease in the ear, causing entire deafness. In ten minutes after using Thomas' Eclectric Oil she found relief, and in a short time she was entirely cured and her hearing restored. Nearly a Miracle —E. Asenith Hall, Binghampton, N. Y., writes: “I suffered for several months with a dull pa ithrough left lung and shoulders. I lost my spirits, appetite and color, and could with difficulty keep up all day. My mother procured some Burdock Blood Bitters; I took them as directed, and have felt no rain since the first week after using them, and am now quite well.” Price SI.OO, trial size 10 cents.

Dr. L. Volker says; Rinehart’s t Worm Lozenges are the only sure specific for worms I have found. io o ‘ n0,12w2 WISE AND OTHERWISE. f No star ever rose and set without I influence somewhere. The root of wholesome thought is ’ knowledge of thyself. B J ( Base natures joy to see sorrows come to those who seem happy. Genuine politeness is the first-born j offspring of generosity and modesty. The material for good soldiers must , be planted in drills. A match safe—One put up where ’ the small boy can’t get at it. The first Black Friday occurred in ' Robinson Crusoe’s time. Drunkeness turns a man out of himself and leaves a beast in his room. It requires a man of considerable push * to earn his living with a wheelbarrow. ‘ The wings of a house do not necessarily have anything to do with the . flight of stairs. 1 1 If a short man marries at all, how ’ then can he marry a short girl without committing bigamy ? A noble part of every true life is to learn to undo what has been wrongly done. Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature fur its foundation. Too much sensibility creates uuhapiness; too much insensibility creates crime. Pride is a vics which inclines men to find it in others, and overlook it in themselves. The man who was stage-struck, had the driver arrested. When a man is coming the ladder of fame be likes rounds of applause. A place for everything and everything in its place—the baby's mouth. In the Salt Lake City flats appears this sign ‘’Ring the top bell for the oldest wife." Sometimes it is well enough not to speak your mind, but to mind your speak. He who puts a bad construction on a good act reveals his own wickedness of heart. A mind that is coneious of its integrity, scorns to say more than it means to perform. “There is plenty of room at the top," as a bald-headed man said to his full beard. A fellow who had been to the circus

spoke of his girl’s cheelc as a splendid side show. The grocer sets a good egg sample in the window. Those in the basket are often not so good. A temptation for milkmen to emigrate to Kansas is the fact that extensive chalk beds exist there. Some people ars so stupid that they might sit as long as a hen and noteven produce a cackle.—Cruwpnef. When a chinaman was saved from drowning by being pulled out by hjs pigtail, be feebly murmcred “I thank queue.” There arc some men so talktive that nothing but the toothache can make one of them hold his jaws. Why is the money you are in the habit of giving to the poor like a new-ly-born babe. Because it’s precious little. One hair in the hash is worth more hard fellings than seven mottoes on the walls can overcome. — Alta California. The hog may not be thoroughly posted in arithmetic, but when you come to square root he is there—the hog is. The bass-drum player makes more noise than anybody else, but he dosn t lead the band. There is a moral to this. The woman who married does well, but the woman who does not marry does better nine times out of ten. Two Bridgeport children playing with a cat, pulled it so violently by the legs as to kill it. It must have been a very cheap cat. In looking over the household markets we find note that domestics have an upward tendency (No allusion to kerosene, you will observe.) Two negatives are equivalent to an affirmative, and when a man says to you, “Come, come the two comes, are equivalent to “leave.'' Mines have been discovered in St. Petersburg. As they are genuine ones it is not likely that these will ever be quoted on the market. A boy is never as happy as when the family is moving and he can walk through the streets to the new house wearing a chair on his head. That s the only way most boys can sit on a chair. A Philadelphia paper cruelly asks a young autograph hunter if she docs not think that she would be more useful in her day and generation if she would drop her present occupation and take to raising chickens. Reporters in St. Louis have t all been to writing school, and one of them • is in trouble because in his item a railroad magnate was represented by the type setter as too boozy—instead of busy—for conversation. WIT AND WISDOM.

Growth is the nature of habit, not of one or another, but of all even oi the unnatural habits. There is small chance of truth at the goal where there is not childlike humility at the starting post. If there is any person to whom you feel dislike that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty, it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. One act of beneflcience, or an act of real usefulness is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.— Zeb Crummet. ■Why is Hymen always represented as bearing a torch ? asks the Boston Post. Oh; that’s easy enough. Its a hint as to who shall build the fires. In concluding an article on the last corn crop and Alabama editor remarked: “We have on exhibition at our sanctum a magnificent pair of ears.” A family of young ladies who reside in this city so often entertain their company on the front stoop that they have gained the title of step-sisters. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. and is to chastity, temperance, and humility as the fringes are to a garment. There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away faster than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of the great and unexpected riches.— Bruyere. A certain chinaman gave a dinner party. The vivands were not to hit taste. He rose from the table, asked to be excused for a few moments and left the room with the remark : “Much lickee wife.” This was not in China. The number of one-armed young men seen driving out with young ladies these summer evenings is truly appaling. An old soldier at our elbow says that one arm is invariably lost 'during an engagement. When a man fails to laugh at one of the King of Burniah s jokes, he is knocked down and traveled over and strewed about. And its a great blessing that the King’s jokes are always so funny that nobody ever seems able to help laughing at them. A small boy of Bath, Me., had just gone to bed, when he began to dteam about cows. Some slight noise woke him up and he said, “Mamma, I saw ! some cows. “Where? she'asked. “Up there,” said he pointing to the ceiling. His mother remarked that that was a , queer place to see cows, and the little fellow got slightly angry and said, “Well, 1 guess they could be an’.’cl s cows, couldn’t they ?”

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