Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1898 — Page 6

THE DANGER to which the Expectant Mother is exposed and the foreboding and dread with which she looks forward to the hour of woman’s severest trial is appreciated by but few. All effort should be made to smooth these rugged places in life's pathway for her, ere she presses to her bosom her babe. MOTHER’S FRIENO allays Nervousness, and so assists Nature that the change goes forward in an easy manner, without such violent protest in the way of Nausea, Headache, Etc. Gloomy forebodings yield to cheerful and hopeful anticipations —she passes through the ordeal quickly and without pain—is left strong and vigorous and enabled to joyously perform the high and holy duties now devolved upon her. Safety to life of both is assured by the use of “ Mother’s Friend,” and the time of recovery shortened. “I know one lady, the mother of three children, who suffered greatly in the birth of each, who obtained a bottle of ‘Mother’s Friend’ of me before her fourth confinement, and was relieved quickly and easily. All agree that their labor was shorter and less painful." John G. Pole ill, Macon, Ga. SI.OO PER BOTTLE at all Drugstores, or sent by express on receipt of price. Containing invaluable information of rnr* interest to all women, will be sent to rntt any address upon application, by Tax BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA.

TWILIGHT. BtlH in the west a berry colored bar Os sunset glooms. Against it one lone flr Darkens deep boughs. Above it, courier Os dew and dreams, burns dusk's appointed star. Like fairy bombs exploding in a war ’Twixt elves and gnomes the fireflies flame, the chirr Os cricket wakes, and each green chorister Os marsh and creek lifts a vague l voice afar, And now, wjtjidrawn behind the woodland kdt ’, A whipj.cu*will, where, with attendant states Os purple and silver, slow the great moon melts Into the night, to show me where she waits. There at the lane's end, by the old beech tree, Who keeps her lips, sweet as a flower, for me. —Madison Cawein in Chap Book. TRAMP AND ARTIST. “Thank God for all things beautiful. ” cried the artist. “Thank God for my good dinner,” eaid the tramp. Then she wiped her mouth on the back cf her rough hand,, and tho artist felt for his pipe. He found it and fumbled for some matches, laying palette and brushes carefully on the ground. The matches found, ho struck one. Encountering in the process a glance from curious eyes, he scut the box spinning in their owner’s lap. “Join me?” he said, and, the tramp acquiescing with a uod, tossed a cigarette after it, as he had some time before tossed her his luncheon out of the wallet at his feet. She picked it up and fingered it, then placed it somewhat gingerly between her lips. It was a maiden effort. That was evident. He laughed when the thing rolled smoking to his feet. Presently the girl’s gaze wandered to the canvas. “Is that me?” she asked and paused and flushed resentfully. “A doubtful likeness, since you fail to recognize it. ” He laughed. “It looks,” she said and stopped. “Well?” he urged, expectant of a quaint criticism. “Like a play actress —in tights,” she finished, frowning heavily. Ho chuckled. The remark amused him. He knew so many ‘ ‘ play actresses in tights” who would shrink from contact with this dusty wayside wanderer, yet in turn this vagrant shrank from them. She resented even the resemblance of a curve. The thing was humorous. He turned and glanced at the canvas. Yes, he had outlined the figure somewhat daringly, but then it was that grand sweep from knee to shoulder which had first attracted him. He had passed her earlier in the day, sittiiyg by the roadside combing out her hair —had passed her, with his still buoyant step and knapsack strapped to shoulder, humming gayly. But—struck by something in the girl’s attitude—he had retraced his steps and asked her to sit to hisL She still regarded the picture, lines of dissatisfaction puckering her brows. “Well,” said the artist. “Them boots of mine,” she answered. A pause. “Couldn’t you rub ’em out?” persuasively. “I’ve got a better pair, spring side uns. in my bundle. ” The artist shook his head. They were bad boots, bo conceded, but good art. “Is it for the Royle academy?” she said. “What do you know about the Royal academy, pray?” “Oh. nothin, reely, but I’ve been there once afore. ” “I thought you told me this was your first sitting?” “So ’tis—to remember; I was a baby the larst time. Father took me. ’E was a artist too. 'E wos a reel un, though, not a paivement chalker.” He laughed. “That's understood, since he was a Royal academician. What was his name?” “I ain't a-goin to tell.” “What was the subject?” n I wos—in long clothes. Mother rememliers it. It wos the time 'e come to see ’er, an she saw the picture afterward in a winder in Pall Mail.”

He was embellishing his signature with a flourish of the brush when a thought seemed to strike him and hold him by the wrist. ‘‘What was it like? Did your mother ever tell you?” “ 'Course she did, lots of times. She was proud to think ’e’d noticed me. I wos lyin a'most naked on some workus lookin steps, an my eyes wos wide open, lookiu up’ards at the stars. ” “ ‘The Love Child!’ ” “That’s it! You’ve seed the picture too?” “Often,” quietly, “ft’s copied quite a deal. ” His hand was growing careless; it swerved, und the brush slipped. The girl cried out; there was a daub across the canvas.

“There now,” regretfully, “you’ve made a smudge acrost your name. ’' The artist did not answer. His silence and abstraction were taken as dismissals. She hitched up her bundle, wishing him good day. “No, wait u bit. ” He got up for the first time und came and stood before her. “Won’t you shake hands before you go, my—my dear?" Bewildered, but gratified, she gave him hers at once. It was rough and sunburned and perhaps not overclean, yet there was a curious resemblance between the tramp’s hand and his own. Ho dropped it hurriedly. “How old are you, my child?" "Eighteen come Chris'nias. ” His eyes were on her face. They studied it intently. "Ah-h!" he said and dropped a few steps back. “Wall, goodby. Goodluck. God bless you. ’ ’ Her eyes filled with tears. "What are you crying for?” The tears brimmed over. “At you. You spoke so kind. You made me think of mother. ” “A hint for your future guidance.” His votes was bard again. “Never trust a man because he appears ‘kind. ’ They are mostly dangerous, and often the worst sort. ” The change in his tone depressed her. She sighed forlornly. “Pore mother told me that. ” His glance fell to earth. A pink tipped daisy was peeping above the grass. He ground it into the sod with the toe of his heavy boot. “Goodby again.” She took his proffered hand. "Stop that. I can’t bear to sec C wemau cry. : ’ Step it she couldn't, but she crooked her arm and held it before her face. “Life’s so ’ard, ” she moaned. “People is such ’ogs, an, oh. I’m so lonely since my pore mother died. ” He stood beside her, listening to her sobs. “My dear,’’ he said at last, “we are all lonely—you on the high road, I in the cities, ‘pore mother’ in her grave.” He paused, laying a band on the girl’s heaving shoulder. “Loneliness is the common lot; we carry it hidden in our souls through life. Even in crowds it cries out ceaselessly above the din. We can make a noise to drown it, we can bury it deep down, we can call our friends together and smoke and drink upon its tomb—it will creep out in the nighttime, when the others are all gone, and, climbing on to our pillows, sit and jabber to us in the dark. But life has to be lived through,” throwing back his head, “its prizes fought for, squabbled over, and errors, I suppose, must be committed by the way. There’s truth so brutal it might almost keep one good. The man who ‘sees life’ isn’t asked to pay the piper; the ‘wages’ are exacted, but it’s the innocent who pay.” The tramp’s tears were dried; she was lost in admiring wonder. “Take my advice, my dear,” said the man, with a curiously gentle smile, “the advice of a man who might almost be your—father: Go on being respectable; stay innocent—keep good.” He patted her shoulder, then gave it a gentle push. And so they parted. He watched her tramping down the long white road. "Confound her eyes!” he muttered. “That’s why they haunted me!” She trudged on with her bundle. His eyes followed almost yearningly. She rounded abend. The tramp looked back. “Liz!” he murmured half unconscious. “Poor, pretty, foolish Liz!” His own voice roused him. He smiled into vacancy. “That was the name! I thought I had forgotten.” The road turned. She disappeared from view. He whistled, frowned and finally shrugged his shoulders. “If she’d only been a lady,” presently. He was staring at the canvas. “Bah! What nonsense! A tramp! Her mother’s child!” He fell on one knee and began packing up his traps. “Life’s so ’ard, an people is such ’ogs.” His laugh rang out, but it wasn’t a merry one. Picking up the picture, he held it in both hands. "Goodby, young mournful eyes,” he said. “Good luck go with yon. You’ve given me a heartache, but I wish you well. ” His face twitched. He laid the canvas gently down. “I’ll burn the thing,” he said, “directly I get home.”—Sketch. An Army of Dragon Flies. A professor of zoology at Lille. M. Charles Barrios, was making a tour through Morbihan, in France. As he was walking along the road he noticed that a multitude of dragon flies were alighting on the telegraph wires. The singular thing about it was that they all rested at an equal distance from each other, and all occupied the same position, with head turned toward the west. From all sides the dragon flies arrived and always placed themselves in the same position and at the same distance from each other. They remained as if glued to the wire, motionless and paralyzed. Each new arrival flew over the fixed bodies of the others and took its place in the line. This chain stretched itself out toward

the west and turned toward the setting sun. Professor Barrios followed the route for a long distance and found the same strange phenomenon. He estimated the number at 00,000, at least. At an abrupt turn of the road to the south the telegraph line turned also. There not a dragon fly was in eight! 1 he wire was absolutely free from them! With the change of direction it seemed to have lost attraction for them. Was this chance? Did the electric currents running from the east to the west exercise any influence upon these insects? Was it the solar reflection? Explain it, who can. In any case it would be interesting to know whether this phenomenon be an isolated one or not. Women Criminals In Austria* In Austria, even for murder, a woman is never put into an ordinary prison, much less brought to the gallows. Whatever the crimes of which they are convicted, women are sent to the convents set apart for this purpose and are kept there as long as the judge determines. The ladies superior have practically a free hand over their charges and receive from the government sevenpence a day for each criminal under their care. At Neudorf convent, which receives all the female offenders from Vienna, there is nothing in the appearance of the place to suggest a prison. The courtyard stands open all day long, with only a nun as a doorkeeper. Once inside, all' the convicts are on the same footing. They are employed in the domestic work of the convent, and in making matches, buttons, needlework, embroidery, lace, woodwork, etc., superintended only by the sisters. For work beyond their allotted task they are paid by scale—half the money being given them at the end of the week and half being placed to their credit until their term expires, when it is paid to them on leaving. WOMAN AND FASHION. Tea Gowns and Other Neslisee Garment!. The Care of the Hands—Some Haphazard Jottings. The critical test of beauty is not when the evening lamps are throwing a couleur de rose over all things, but when the uncompromising light of merning & < I «/ I J w w wk DRESSING GOWN. TEA GOWN, seeks out and accentnates all the weak spots in complexion and coloring. It is not only a woman’s privilege to look her best at all times, even in the privacy of her own room and in her family circle, but it is her duty. A beconr ■? and well r>ade negligee, therefore, is one of the first necessities of a well appointed warurobe. Dressing gowns, tea gowns and tea jackets require more care in their selection than is usually bestowed. With a view to assisting in the matter of negligee garments attention is here called to a particularly useful one—namely, a uressing gown. It is very graceful in shape and makes a cozy and at the same time becoming garment when carried ont in a rich deep shade of red Frenc i flannel. The upper portion has the appearaD'-e of a full blonse overhanging the waist band in the popular fashion. The skirt is ent very full, with the back slightly trained, and the whole lined with some thin material, the bodice itself being interlined with flannel for warmth’s sake. The shaped band at the waist and the shoulder pieces are of velvet in a slightly darker shade of red, embroidered in gold silk and tinsel. An original no‘i is struck by the manipulation of the ribbons, which are practically run through the sleeves, appearing in dainty knots on the forearm. A bow and ends of the same form a pretty finish at the waist. Tea gowns are more elaborate affairs. A model which admits of modifications is in pale st 'non pink surah. The front is full, and the sleeves are composed <'* frills of narrow white satin ribbon and s K DAINTY TEA JACKET. lace insertion. There is a handsome lace collar falling on each side cf the front to the waist. Negligee sacks are made of striped French flannel and light cashmeres lined with silk. Tea jackets, like the tea gowns, ar« decidedly dressy and complicated, being a confusion of silk lace and ribbons.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of the governor of Kentucky, whose selection by her father to christen the new battleship Kentucky recently stirred up a social row of vast proportions in the Blue Grass State, is a charming young woman of 18 who is just at present finishing her education in Washington col- )/ \\ ! I A MISS CHRISTINE BRADLEY, lege, Washington. Miss Bradley is a striking brunette. She has a talent for music and has taken a course of instruction at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Her rival for the honor of standing sponsor for the now battleship is Miss Hariet B. Richardson of Lexington, whose selection about a year ago by the now ex-Secrotary Herbert made her famous throughout the country. Cause of an International Row. Emil Lueders, who by thrashing a cabman caused an international controversy between Haiti and Germany, is a half blood negro, and this is his first bid for fame. He is the son of a German merchant who settled in Port an Prince years ago and married a native Haitian woman. Because of his alleged assault on the cabman Lueders was arrested and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and to pay a fine of SSOO. He appealed to the German consul at Port au Prince, and that official promptly demanded of President Simon Sara not only Lueders’ release, but the payment of an indemnity of? 1,000 for each day he had been imprisoned and an additional indemnity of $5,000 for each day the release was delayed. Lueders might have been in prison yet had not the United States minister, with a view to averting serious trouble, secured • !! ; EMIL LUEDERS his release. Because Haiti refused to pay the indemnity Germany threatened to send a warship to Haiti. Then came the action of this government in sending the Marblehead to Port tin Prince and the subsequent developments. If Mr. Lueders thirsted for notoriety, he has cause to congratulate himself. Smallest City In the World. The smallest city in the world is said to be Fenton, a beantifnl little hamlet on the picturesque Meramec river, 15 miles to the south and west of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Republic, there are less than 100 people in Fenton, yet it has been an incorporated city for more than 20 years, and during that time it has grown considerably. When it was first incorporated, there were less than 45 inhabitants in the place. It is the only city of its size in all probability in the world that is incorporated and has a mayor and a full quota of city officials. None of the city officials of this unique little place are paid salaries. Instead they receive certain fees for the performance of their specific duties. An Industrious Robber. Two enemies hath the oyster—man, who is not ashamed to eat it by the dozen to the accompaniment of lemon and brown bread and butter, and a fellow shellfish. This chap is a dog whelk, which has a rough, rasping "tongue, ” with which it bores holes as clean as any jeweler’s diamond into the thickest oyster. When the hole has been drilled through the shell, the whelk has a very good time, even although he has to do without the bread and butter and vinegar which man so much desires with the meal. The whelk is hated by the oyster fanner, because it robs him of thousands of dollars’ worth of oysters. Bicycle Autograph Cushion. The bicycle autograph cushion is new It is cut round, and the material is of white sailcloth. On the top is an embroidered wheel, done in outline stitch. Scattered around the hub of this wheel are outlined card shapes, upon which is to be written the autograph or a proverb. The cards are outlined as appearing to lie on top of the spokes and little embroidered bowknots of bright silk appear to tie them to their places. This is a suggestion to those who wish a souvenir of a pleasant outing with a friend. It comes from the New York Tribune. The first piece oi cotton clcti. - in America was j resented to the wife of General Nathanael Greene, who had a dress made of it It is estimated that the amount of water precipitated on this globe annually in the form of rain, snow, eto., ia 29,000 cubic miles.

MANY SUFFERERS; What a Large Number of People are Endirt. A Distressing Condition in Which ’ American People are Involved—The" Only Way to Alleviate it.

From the Mountaineer, The remorse of a guilty stomach is what I a verv large majority ot lhe people of this I nation are suffering with to-day. It is a i well known fact that dyspepsia is n eliarac- | teristie American disease and il l< frequently stated that " we are a nation of dyspeptic*. . It is a distressing ailment and because ot its many forms is difficult to treat, borne- > times it is the result of improper auxin ; of eating, impro|>er food or mental worry, and exhaustion; then again it may be sort of I a depressed condition ot the body and treat- 1 ment should be directed to the restoration of the health, without special attention to the l stomach. In other instances, the disease 1* I evidently the result of intiaiumatioii of the < stomach. , , Anyone of these conditions produce a lark i of vitality in the system, by causing the i blood to lose its life-sustaining elements. The < blood is the vital element ill our lives and I should be carefully nurtured. Restore the blood to its proper condition, dyspepsia will l vanish and perfect health follow. For example, in the county of Pembina, North FDakota, a few miles from Walhalla, resides Mr. Ernest Snider; a man of •terling i integrity, whose veracity cannot be doubted. He was formerly a resident of lAnwiowne, i Ont., but removed to the west and is now a prosperous farmer. For three years he has nnan’e to do i his work because be was ill with dyspepsia. ** I became seriously ill about three years i ago,” he says, and consulted a doctor who gave me some medicine for indigestion. I continued to grow worse and several physi- i cians were at intervals who gave me temporary relief, hnt the disease returned i with all its accustomed severity. i 1

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