Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Page 4

TUB litJOKY houebboi ST JAMES T. FIELDS. A fanner traveling with his load Picked op a horseshoe in the road. And nailed it fast to his barn door, That lack might down upon him pour; That every bieasing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. Bat dire ill-fortune soon began To visit the astounded man. His hens declined to lay their eggs; His bacon tuinbed from the pegs, And rata devoured the fallen legs; His corn, that never failed before, Mildewed and rotted on the floor; His grass refused to end In bay; His cattle died, or went astray; In sboit, all moved the crooked way. Next spring n great drought baked the sod, And roasted every pea in pod: The beaDs declared they could not grow Bo long as nature acted so; Redundant insects reared their heads To starve for inck of juicy food; The staves from barrel sides went off As if they had the hooping-cough, And nothing of the useful kind To hold together felt inclined: In short, it was no use to try While sdl the land was In a fry. One morn, demoralised with grief, The farmer clamored for telief; And prayed right hard to understand What witchcraft now possessed his land; Why bouse and farm in misery grew Since be nailed up that “ lucky ” shoe. While thus dismayed o’er matters wrong An old man chanced to trudge along, To whom he told with wormwood tears, How his sffdis were in arrears, And what a desperate state of things A picked-up horseshoe sometimes brings. The stranger asked to see the shoe, The farmer brought it into view; But wnen the old man raised his head, He laughed outright, and quickly said—- “ No wonder skies upon you frown — You’ve nailed the horseshoe upside downl Jus: turn It round, and soon you’ll see How you and Fortune will agree." The farmer turned the horseshoe round, And showers began to swell the ground; The sunshine I luglied among Ills grain, And heaps on he ipa piled up the wain; Tlie loft his hay could barely hold, His cattle did as they were told; His frul trees needed sturdy props To hold the gathering apple crops; His turnip end potato helds Astonished all men by their yields; Folks never saw such ears of corn As 1 i his smil'nt hills were horn; His barn vas full of bursting bins—if s w fe presented him witii twins; His neighbors marveled more and more To see the increase in his store. And now the merry farmer sings *' There are two ways of doing things; And when for good luck you would pray, Nail up your horseshoo the right way.” Harper' t Magazine.

THE GOLD SOVEREIGN.

“Red wins!” It was the croupier's hoarse cry, again and, again reiterated, only diversified with that of “red loses!” which broke the stillness in the superbly appointed room at Homburg, with the gamingtable in its .center, around 'which were gathered its votaries, behind whom were tiro scarcely less interested group of lookers-on. “Como away, my dear,” said a very lovely woman among the spectators, in a whisper, to her husband. “I am sorry that we came. This is noplace for Pearl, ” indicating with a nod of the head, as she spoke, an exquisitely beautiful girl, scarcely more titan a child, of some twelve or thirteen summers, who stood beside them. “Come, Pearl,” the father said. But the girl stood entranced, her eyes fixed upon a man’s face, seated at the farthest end of the table. It was a strikingly handsome face, even when wearing, as it now did, an expression of calm, born of desperation. No tinge of oolor was in either cheek or lips. His eyes shone with a strange and hard glitter, and were fixed upon the balls as they swung round, as though on the color uppermost hung his hope of life or death.

And so it was. He had sat down possessed of a fortune; lie arose a beggar! Fate had steadily pursued him with mocking hopelessness, until lie had placed his stake, only to see it mercilessly swept from him. He half arose from the table. What more was to be done, save to go out somewhere into the still night air and send a bullet through liis heart or brain. It was at this moment the girl, with flushed cheeks and half-parted lips, darted up to his side. “Take this,” she pleaded, “for my sake,” and pressed a gold piece into his hand. He turned. To his excited imagination she seemed searely mortal in her pure child-like loveliness. His first impulse was to return her offering—he was not yet an alms-taker—but again rang out the croupier's cry of command to place the stakes. The child stood breathless in her eager expectancy, her eyes burning with feverish interest. A. sudden impulse overmastered liimWithout placed the gold upon the table. The next minute a small pile of gold was at his elbow. He staked it all agaiu. And he won. A bright spot of scat-let replaced the pallor in his cheek, which ■spread and deepened as Dame Fortune, who had so persistently frowned upon him, now reserved for him only her smiles. Morning was breaking when he rose from the tables, no longer a desperate man, but with his fortune three-fold returned to him.

After his first winning ho had turned to return to the child her offering, but she had vanished. Should ho ever find her, ever repay the debt ? He knew not; but, standing at last out under the clear, blue sky, with a great weight lifted from his heart and brain, Harold Clayton vowed that it should be his life-search, but that the lesson taught him should never be forgotten, and the gaming-tables should know him never more. Six years passed, and Harold Clayton was winning name and fame in his own land, in his profession as an artist. Standing one night in a crowded assembly, some one in passing touched him lightly on the arm with her fan, and glancing around, he met the smiling face of his hostess. “Come,” she said, “I want to present you to my belle. If you can prevail upon her to give you a sitting, and transfer her coloring to canvass, you will render yourself immortal.” “Is she, then, so beautiful?” he questioned. “Judge for yourself,” she lightly rejoined, leading him to a little group doing homage to the fair girl in its center.

“Miss Reyburn—Mr. Clayton,” were the formal words of the introduction, as Harold bowed in acknowledgement before the woman whom his artistic eye confessed the most beautiful that in all liis wanderings he had ever met. Before the evening was ended he migfit have added, the first woman he over loved, since she had awakened in him an interest as new as it was strange. Through the next week her face haunted him. Then they met again, and the oharm grew and deepened. He could not define it; he scarcely acknowledged it to himself; only away from Miss Reybum he was restless and uneasy, until he again found himself within The scope of her fascinations. Yet her nature remained an enigma to him. Although so young in years, so beautiful in form and feature, she seemed cold even to haughtiness, reticent almost to scorn. It was as though some exquisite marble statue had risen in his pathway, which might some day warm into life. * She welcomed him whenever they met with a manner which, while it gave him no cause for complaint, yet chilled the hope springing within his breast. One day, on going to her home, theservant met him at the door with the announcement that she was very ill. This knowledge brought other knowledge —the fact that he could no longer conceal from himself that he loved her, and that “P° n hope of winning her hung his life s happiness.

He went back to his studio, wretched and despairing, and seated himself at his easel. He had not meant to paint her face—his brain seemed unconscious of his fingers’s toil—yet, when the morning broke, it was her features smiling upon him from the canvas, and he remembered the words his hostess had uttered on the night he first had met her—that thus ho should render himself immortal. He grew pale and wan in the days of anxious suspense, when those who were watching over her couch knew not which would conquer, the angel of life or death. But there came an hour, never to be forgotten, when he was admitted into her presence. She was very white, very fragile, but more beautiful than in the coloring of perfect health. A new expression, too, was in the violet eyes raised to welcome him. “ I am very glad to see you again,” she said, gently. “I hear you have been anxious about me. You were very kind. ” Then the words he had not meant to speak burst from his lips. “ Anxious?” he said, “ can a man, Miss Reybura, perishing of hunger, hear of the famine without a shudder ? I am presumptuous, you will say. It is true. What is my life with its many settled pages in which your eyes could never look, that I should dare to offer it to you? And yet, purified by your love, I would try to make it more worthy. Tell me—answer me! If I serve as Jacob served for Rachel, is there hope that I may win you! My darling! My darling! I cannot live my life without you! Will you not share it?” Lower and lower dropped the lids, until the long dark lashes swept the marble cheek, while the sweet mouth trembled; but the momentary weakness passed as she spoke: “Forget all that you have said, Mr. Clayton. It can never l>e. ” ‘ ‘ You do not love me?” he questioned sadly. Again that swift expression of pain flitted across the lovely face. “ I shall never marry,” she answered; “but,” and in her voice crept an almost pleading tone, “I need my friends very much, Mr. Clayton. Do not desert me!” “I cannot,” he replied. To desert you would be to desert the hope of one day forcing you to unsay those cruel words—the hope which M ill go with me to my grave.” What M’as the barrier betM’een them ? This was the question ever ringing in Harold Clayton’s ear. As she looked when she pronounced his doom, so he had fancied she might have looked when the statue warmed into life. Since then, she had been colder, more distant than before; but he caught the momentary expression, and transferred it to the picture on which his every leisure moment was spent. He was thus engrossed one morning, ever striving to add new beauty to bis almost perfect Mork, when a low knock at the door aroused him.

“Come in!” lie called, then bent anew to his task, without so much as raising his head until a low, laughing voice sounded close beside him. “We Mere caught iu the shower, Mr. Clayton; and I persuaded Margaret to seek shelter with me here. I did not dream she would find herself forstalled. ” It Mas Mrs. Somers who spoke—the lady who had first presented him to Miss Reyburn—whose instruction lie had, unknown to her, carried out. “Margaret,” she asked, turning to her friend, “you have been sitting for your portrait, and did not let me know. Why have you kept it such a secret?” He had now sprung to his feet in time to see the rosy tide spread over Margaret Reyburn’s face. “It was liberty I took without Miss Reyburn’s knoM-ledge, Mrs. Somers,” he explained. “I assure you I have never been so fortunate as to secure a sitting. ” “Well, you shall have one now, and you must thank me for it,” she rejoined, while Margaret turned away to examine the sketches and studies lying about in profuse confusion. “Here are some sketches taken while I was studying abroad, Miss Reyburn,” said Harold. Will you amuse yourself by looking at them ? “I will return in a few moments,” interrupted Mrs. Somers. “Wait forme, my dear.” A M-ord of expostulation rose to Margaret’s lips, but too late. The door had closed behind the speaker. Silence fell betM-een the two thus left behind, M’hen alow cry arrested Harold’s attention. He sprang to Miss Reyburn’s side.

Her eyes were fixed upon a little sketch she held in her hand. It represented a gaming-table, at one end of which sat a man,, haggard, desperate, desparing, and -by him a child, holding out to him a single gold piece, with a smile in her eyes, and seemingly a prayer on her lips. “You would know the history of that Picture,” he said. “Let me tell you. ears ago I was in Hamburg. The gam-ing-tables attracted me, and every night found me beside them, losing or winning, according to the fortune of the hour. One evening the demon ill luck pursued me. I lost and lost till I found I was beggard. Maddened, desperate, I resolved to put an end to my miserable life, when some one touched my shoulder; a cnild angel stood before me and slipped into my hand a piece of gold. ‘For my sake!’ she whispered. The croupier's hoarse call warned me no time was to be lost.. I staked the gold and won, but turning to give back her own, she had fled. When I rose from the table I had recovered all and more, but I vowed to my unknown deliverer that I would never again hazard a dollar of the fortune I considered hers. I have never found her, Margaret. The child will never know her work, but 1 am not afraid to meet her, for I have kept my pledge. ” “Harold!”—it was almost a whisper, but something in the tone made his heart give a wild, joyous leap—“have I known you all this time, and you have just found me out? It was this, Harold, that separated us. I dared not give my life to a man whom I had first known as a gambler. I supposed you still played, and I thought that to see again the expression on your face I had seen that night would kill me. Tell me, is it true? Have you never touched a card since?” “Never!” he answered, solemnly. “And it is to you I owe it—it and life. Pearl—Little Pearl, can you not trust the man who has been so long faithful to the child to be still faithful to the woman? My own, you will not doom the life that you have saved?” But at this juncture, Mrs. Somers, opening the door beats a precipiate retreat. Harold’s statue has warmed into life, and, pressing the lovely lips to his, he thanks Gckl that it is breath which has awakened it.

Another New Plant.

A curious plant has been discovered In Wisconsin, which produces a kind of cotton and flax from the same stalk. An exchange says: It has already heen woven into fabrics, and, as any article that will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good paper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring and cut in the fall and winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, and it will yield three or four tons to the acre. From a single root that was transplanted last spring grew twenty large stocks, with three hundred and sixtv-five pods containing the cotton, at least sixty seeds in each. From this root were obtained seven ounces of pure cotton, and oyer a pound of flax. It is a very heavy jilant, and grows from six to seven feet

Cause and Effect.

The mam cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and keen the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of tho system, See other column.—France. 1

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

Her Rival. ‘ The beDeT” Tis hard to *»7, and There la a Caban here—“Handsome7 ” Well, yea. “Her atyle?” Brunette— The darling of her sphere. I’ve watched her, and ahe never moves - Bat some man walks dose by; And yet there’s no one whom ahe love# Or hates — “ The reason why 7 ” Jnpt wait a little, ma eherie ; “ Her manners 7 ” Neither grave Nor gay. “ The golden mesa,’’ you aay; And yet the women rave—“ln praise?” Ah, no! One seldom hears Her lauded by their lips: And yet the sweet silence that she wear* Their malice doth eclipse. “ Brilliant ?’’ At times. This nut-brown maid Shines brightest when she meets Her match. Thai conflict oft, ’tis said, Inspirits the doughtiest feats. ( “ Her style of beaux ? ” Both young and old Yield fealty to her sway ; Blonde beauty, with his beard of gold, And ugliness in gray. Last night we sat 'Death the summer moon, And hor bieatli was like the roee; And odors as sweet as buds in June Follow her where she goes. “ I love her 7 ” Truly, that I do. ’Tis not long since I spoke . My love. I don’t mind this to you— It ended all in smoke; What, crying 7 “Hate her 7 ” Then I fear I’ve carried the jest too far; No rival is she of yours, my dear— And her name is Just—Cigar! — Seribner'e.

"An Expensive Accident. At a fashionable dinner party a lady guest was eo unfortunate as to break a plate belonging to a set of Freuch china. The lady insisted on either mending or replacing it, but finding both impossible she was obliged to send abroad and duplicate the entire set of 200 pieces. A Fraud. An unmarried Englishman, visiting our fair city of Boston, saw a handsomely dressed young lady on the street and was told that she was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. He became acquainted, and the girl knowing the woman M’ho watched the interests of an elegant house whose owners were at the seashore, M-as permitted by her to receive him there. She also gave him dinners there, hiring waiters. She told him that her parents were in Europe. He proposed, was. accepted, and found that the wife he had won was a shop girl. Drew* Iteform. An English lady of wealth is agitating the question of dress reform lb England, and says for those who are not strong, the fatigue of battling every few steps with the narrow, clinging skirt is a very serious consideration. In walking women step from their hips like the rest of the human race, and in the present style of dress it so fastens the legs that she is obliged to take short, stumbling steps, and there is usually a piece of skirt which is alternately kicked out and caught by the heel belaud, which would strike every one as most absurd, if we M-ere not so thoroughly used to seeing it. There seems to be only one way out of it, and that is to have the present tight skirt divided, so ns to be something like the trousers worn by women in the East. They Mould be quite loose, perfectly comfortable and graceful in appearance. The bodice of the dress could then be cut after the fashion of an out-door jacket, coming to the knees. This reform in dress will probably never be followed by English ladies, though they seem strongly interested in it. Until then American ladies will not exercise their minds about it.

AVoman’M Work. Women frequently complain that men do not know how hard they-are obliged to M-ork. The many little things they are required to do are quite as taxing upon them, they rightly say, as the larger labors of the masculine sex. The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher says something on this subject which ail women will appreciate. “ All men,” remarks this distinguished gentleman, “ought to go to the M r oods and do their own washing and general M r ork, such as sweeping, housekeeping and dish-wasliiug. The work of women is not spoken of sensibly by men till they have done it themselves. Gentlemen readers, it is easy to talk, but just try it on a very medest scale once, and you will honor working women more than ever. Do as I have donedo a wash of six pieces, and then remember that a woman turns off 200 pieces a day. Look at your watch and see how long it takes you. Look at your soap and see how* much you have used. Look at your white clothes, handkerchiefs and tou-els and see what you have done, and never again speak harshly of or to a u nman on washingday, noi- of laundry work as if it were unskillful labor. Try it. A sympathetic gentleman, having washed' two pieces, uill never change his shirt again without a glow of reverence and g-ati-tude. AV*e did this. A similar and sal utary consciousness will come over him who darns his own socks, patches biown trousers, splices his suspenders and washes his dishes. Look not every man upon his oun things, but every man also upon the work of a woman. Such an experience in the woods u-ill go far toward settling the woman question, by teaching us that we are all members of one another, and there must be no schism. ”

Stark Vlad on a JPiaque. There is a pretty mad woman on the west side. We do not mean on the west side of the woman, but on the west side of the raging Milwaukee river. The woman is mad on both sides—not on both sides of the river, but on both sides of her. Now you understand. This woman had a plaque. If you don’t know wliJrt that is you are not smart. A plaque is a platter made of wood or china, or something on which is painted a picture in oil, and the plaque is put upon a mantel or an easel to be admired. This lady had one of them, real bad. That is, the plaque was not bad, but the lady had it considerable. It was the most beautiful thing she ever saw, and would stand and gaze upon it for hours at a time, and when she went to bed and left it she did so with regret. She would have slept with that plaque if she had not been otherwise engaged. The world seemed to revolve around that plaque, and the only thing the lady worried about was that she could not take it with her when she went to heaven. The other morning the servant girl said the cook had broke the meat platter, and wanted to know what she should take up the meat for breakfast on. The lady, thinking of a fancy platter in the closet which she kept for state occasions, told the girl to take that platter with the picture on, and then went on pinning her hair with hairpins, and finally went down to breakfast. As she was pouring out the coffee she thought she detected an odor of sanctity and fried chromo, and she looked at the meat plate and turned pale. There was her wooden plaque, full of boiling grease and floating sausage, and through the grease she could see her beautiful oil painting struggling up under difficulties. There was a commingling of Alpine scenery and links of sausage that the artist never intended, and the lady took the plaque in her hand and went to the kitchen, where she brained the cook. There was nothing else to do. Ladies who have plaques, and any lady is liable to have them, as they are said to be catching, should watch the cook.— Peck’ B Sun.

How a Woman Reada a Newspaper. According to Mrs. Gertrude Garrison this is how she does it: “ She takes it up hurriedly and begins to scan it over rapidly, as though she was hunting some particular thing, but she is not. She is merely taking in the obscure paragraphs, which, she believes, were put in the out-of-the-way places for the sake of keeping her from seeing them. As she finishes each one her countenaaoe bright-

ens with the comfortable reflection that she has outwitted the editor and the whole race of men, for she cherishes A vague belief that newspapers are the enemies of her sex, and editors her chief oppressors. She never reads the headlines, and the huge telegraph heads she never sees. She is greedy for local news, and devours it with the keenest relish. Marriages and deaths are*always interesting reading to her, and advertisements are exciting and stimulating. She cares but little for printed jokes unless they reflect ridicule upon the men, and then she delights in them and never forgets them. She pays particular attention to anything inclosed in quotation matfks, and considers it lather better authority than anything first-handed. The columns in which the editor airs his opinions, in leaded bifalutin, she rarely reads. Views are of no importance in her estimation, but facts are everything. She generally reads the poetry. She doesn’t always care for it, but makes a practice of reading it, because she thinks she ought to. She reads stories, and sketches, and paragraphs indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. Finally, after she has read all she intends to t she lays the paper down with an air of disappointment, and a half-contemptuous gesture, which says very plainly that she thinks all neM’spapers miserable failures, but is certain that if she had a chance she could make the only perfect newspaper the world had ever seen.

The American Uirl Abroad. Here is a pen-and-ink sketch of an American girl, which is interesting as showing how a Yankee girl appears to French eyes: “Stylish to the backbone. Independent as independent can be, but very pure. Is devoted to pleasure, dress, spending money ; shows ht-i moral nature nude, just as it is, so as to deceive nobody. Flirts all winter witii this or that one and dismisses him in the spring, when she instantly catches another. Goes out alone. Travels alone. When the fancy strikes her she travels with a gentleman friend, or walks anywhere with him; puts boundless confidence in him; conjugal intimacy seems to exist betM-een them. She lets him tell M-liat he feels—talk of love from morning till night—but she never gives him permission to kiss so much as her hand. He may say anything—he shall do nothing. She is restless ; slip, gives her heart and soul to amusement before she marries. After marriage she is a mother annually ; is alone all day: hears all night nothing. except discussions about patent machinery, unexplosive petroleum and chemical manures. She then will let her daughters enjoy the liberty she used without grave abuse. As nothing serious happened to her, why should Fanny, Mary, Jenny be less strong and less adroit than their mother? She originates French fashions. Parisian women detest her. Provincial women despise her. Men of all countries adore her, but will not marry her unless she has an immense fortune. Her hair is vermilion, paler than golden hair; her black eyes are bold and frank; she has a patent shape which ’tis forbidden to counterfeit; spreads herself in a carriage as if she were in a hammock—the natural and thoughtless posture of her passion for luxurious ease. When she walks she moves briskly, and throws every glance right and left Gives many of her thoughts to herself, and few of them to anybody else. She is a wild plant put iu a hot-house.”

BITS OF INFORMATION.

Following is a list of the Generals of the army : General of the Army, Wm. T. Sherman; Lieutenant General, P. H. Sheridan. Major Generals—W. S. Hancock, J. M. Schofield, Irvin McDowell. Brigadier Generals—John Pope, O. O. HoM-ard, A. H. Terry, E. O. G. Ord, C. 0. Augur, Geo. Crook. By act of Congress, May 19,1828, the National Mint was permanently established at Philadelphia. Branch mints have been established at New Orleans, La.; Charlotte, N. C.; Dahlonega, Ga.; San Francisco, CaL; Denver, Col.; Carson City, Nev.; Dallas City, Ore., and an assay office for smelting, refining and assaying at New York city and at Boise City, Idaho. The date of the earliest eclipse of the sun recorded in the annals of the Chinese, when “on the first day of the last month of autumn the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang,” or in that part of the heavens defined by two stars in the constellation of the Scorpion, has been determined by Prof. Von Oppolzer, of Vienna, to have been the morning of Oct. 22, 2137 B. C. The iron crown of Italy is said to have been forged from the nails of Christ’s cross. Charlemagne was crowned with this crown, and after him all the Emperors who were Kings of Lombardy. Napoleon L, at Milan, on May 26, 1805, put it on his head, saying, “God has given it to me; woe to him who shall touch it.” He founded tlie order of the Iron Crown, which still continues. The croM-n was removed from Monza to Mantua by the Austrians in 1859.

The Boston Transcript retells the origin of the rhyming old saw: ' There's many a slip ’Tween the cup and the lip.” A King of Thrace had planted a vinef’ard, when one of his slaves whom he tad much oppressed in that very work, prophesied that he should never taste of the wine produced in it. The monarch disregarded the prediction, and when at an entertainment he held a glassful of his own wine made from the grapes of that vineyard, he sent for the slave and asked him what he thought of his prophecy now. To which the other replied: “Many tilings fall out between the cup and the lip, ” and had scarcely delivered this singular response before the news was brought that a monstrous boar was laying waste the favorite vineyard. Turning in a rage, he put dowu the cup which he held in his hands, and hurried out with his people to attack the boar, but, being too eager, the boar rushed upon him and killed him, without his liavine tasted of the wine.

Premature Wrinkles.

The “youth-giving climate” of California has been so long puffed high as the Sierras that it is queer to find a San Francisco paper lamenting the number of wrinkled sirens in that city. “ Come to California,” said the late banker Ralston to a visitor from the East, “ and you will live twenty years longer. ” The climate may suit men, but it seems women fade under its golden skies rather prematurely. The San Francisco writer ascribes the early wrinkles of its women to the lack of muscular exercise and the consumption of pastry. There is a world of truth in that, for while sedentary habits enervate the general system, pastry causes dyspepsia and loss of adipose tissue. Fat is an enemy of wrinkles. The furrows on the forehead are late coming so long as there is enough fatty tissue to supply waste. Women to be healthy must exercise and eat life-sus-taining food. As for wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, vulgarly called “crow’s feet,” it is enough to say that in many cases they are produced by sleeping on one side or the other. The pressure of the head -on the softest pillow will, in time, leave indelible marks about the eyes. The choice of a beauty then is between occasional nightmare while sleeping on her back, or wrinkles from sleeping on her right and left side.

Tracking Snobs.

I have—and for this gift I congratulate myself with deep and abiding thankfuliiess—an eye for a snob. If the truthful is the beautiful, it is beautiful to study even the snobbish—to track snobs tl rough history as certain little dogs in Hampshire hunt out truffles; to sink

shafts in society and come upon rich veins of snob-ore. Snobbishness is like death, in a quotation from Horace, ■which I hope yon have never heard: “ Beating with equal foot at poor men’s doors, and kicking at the gates of Emperors.” It is a great mistake to judge of snobs lightly, and think they exist among the lower classes merely. An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is t-o be found in every rank of mortal life. You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs; to do so shows you are a snob. I myself have been taken for one.— Thackeray.

A Lady’s Wish.

“ Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clear and ■oft as yours,” said a lady to her friend. “ Yon can easily make it so,” answered the friend. “How?” inquired the first lady. “By using Hop Bitters, that makes pure, rich blood and blooming health. It did it for me, as you observe.” Bead of it— Cairo Bulletin.

The Best Wood to Use.

The fuel question is one of a good deal of moment not only to our city and village folks, but also to the farmer. We have taken considerable time in findiug out which is the most economical variety of wood to bum for our Minnesota patrons. At this time the hard maple is the favorite in Minneapolis. The people will give a dollar or more a cord for this wood in preference to any other variety offered in the market, but it is far from being the most economical. The reason the maple is so universally used is that it bums so readily. A cord of good seasoned white oak will make more heat tliau a cord aud a third of maple. In any event, it is a great convenience to know the comparative value of the different kinds of wood for fuel. Taking sliellbark hickory as the highest standard of forest trees, and calling that 100, other trees will compare with it for real value as follows.

Sliellbark hickory. 100 Pignut hickory... 95 White oak 84 Dogwood 77 Scrub oak 74 Red oak 69 Birch 62 Yellow oalt. 00

How Happiness Is Secured.

Happiness is the absence of pain or annoyance, aud wherever there is pain there is disease. A pain in the lower portion of the body indicates a disorder of some kind. If there is any odor or color or deposit in the urine it means disease and requires attention at once. We have heard many of our friends speak of the remarkable power of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and are convinced there is nothing so certain and valuable for all disorders of the urinary system, both male and female.

Pay of Ministers and Actors.

Remarks are often made implying that the ministers are overpaid, or, at least, that such men as Mr. Beecher and Dr. Storrs are extravagantly paid. The following figures, given by the New York Tribune, are worthy of being borne in mind: Beecher gets $20,0(10; Edwin Booth, SIOO,OOO a year; Dr. Hall, of Fifth Avenue, and Dr. Dix, of Trinity, get $15,000, while E. A. Sotliem earns over $150,000 as “Lord Dundreary,” and John E. Owens plays thirty weeks annually for $90,000. Talmage preaches for $12,000, and Joe Jefferson plays forty weeks at “Rip Van Winkle”and earns $120,000. The solidary and gifted Dr. Storrs has SIO,OOO, and Maggie Mitchell earns $30,000 to $50,000. Dr. Cuyler works hard and faithfully . for SB,OOO a year, while Dion Boucicault finished a season as the “Shaeugraun,” etc., at $3,000 a week, and his managers scolded him in the public prints because he would not play longer at the same price. Dr. Potter, of Grace Church, has SIO,OOO and a parsonage; the eloquent Dr. Tiffany has $10,000; the once vigorous, now venerable, Dr. Chapin gets $10,000; while Fanny Davenport earns SI,OOO every week she plays.

An Engineer’s Ignorance.

“Every effort is made,” said a railroad officer in a recent conversation, “to procure trustworthy, faithful employes, but all kinds of deceptions are gotten up to throw us off’. I have one case in mind. There is a rule on the road for which I labor which compels not only the conductor but the engineer to sign the receipts of all train orders. When my superintendent took charge he insisted upon having that rule adhered to, and in that way he ascertained that there was one engineer in the employ of the company who could neither read nor write, and he had been running an engine for fifteen years. Had an accident occurred to his train, in which accident persons were injured, and in consequence of such injuries an investigation had been ordered, and the fact of the engineer’s ignorance been established, we could not have saved ourselves in a suit for heavy damages, and, beside that, would have been fined heavily for allowing such a state of things. His cunning came into play. He was a married man and his wife was once a school teacher, and through her efforts he was able to commit to memory the rules as printed on the time-cards, and he had them so thoroughly fixed in liis mind that he could point them out on the card, but he was just as liable to do so with the cord bottom side up as in any shape. He was a good engineer, but we had to let him go. He went home very much chagrined, but lie went to work to learn to both read and write. He spent one whole winter at it, but he was too far along in years to lie successful and finally was obliged to give it up, and to-day he is firing on the road. ”

A Happy Hatter.

[From tho Cleveland Leader.] Happy is Knox, the famous New York Hatter. Mrs. Knox, who had been a frequent and painful sufferer with rheumatism, was speedily cured by the use of the Great German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil. Consequently the great broad way Hatter is happy.

A Posthumous Joke.

In the London probate registry is a will dated 1791, by which the testator left SSO a year to be spent on whisky to be given to a number of Irish people, not exceeding twenty, who may visit the cemetery on the anniversary of his death. Each is to go with a penknife and a stout stick, and the whisky is to be distributed in half-pint doses. The object is thus explained by the testator: “Knowing what I know of the Irish character, my conviction is that with * these materials given they will not fail to destroy each other, and when, in course of time, the race comes to be exterminated, this neighborhood, at least, may perhaps be colonized by civil and respectable men.” The thoughtlessness of people is so great in regard to watchfulness against Colds, etc., that were it not for the wonderful curative power of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup we should shudder at the fate of such.

Smart Reckoning.

“ Pa, will you get me a pair of skates if I prove that a dog has ten tails?” “ Yes, my son.” “ Well, one dog has one more tail than no dog, hasn’t he?” ■“ Yes.” “ Well, no dog has nine tails; ancl if one dog lias one more tail than no dog, then one dog must have ten tails. Hand over the skates, please.”

D.'BULLS COUGH SYRUP

How We Were “ Buttonholed.”

[From the Toledo Blade.] “ Look here! I don’t want to buttonhole you with any political intentions; but, if you have a minute’s time, let me tell you something that may benefit some of your readers.” “Well, what is it?” we remarked to our old friend and subscriber as he stopped us in front of the Boody House yesterday morning. “ I was only going to remark that those Hamburg Drops, of which you publish a notice in your paper, is really the best Blood Medicine in the country; I tried it, and so have some of my friends, lor serious ailments, and I’ll be hanged if it ain’t entitled to the medal.” We cheerfully make space for the above candid opinion of one of our readers.

The Tables Turned.

President Diaz, of Mexico, had a narrow escape not long ago. It is his habit to go out shooting on Sunday near the city, attended only by liis little son, his nephew, one servant and three or four friends, and a plan had been formed to surround and capture the party aud hold the President to ransom. Fortunately, he was detained one Sunday, just as lie was about to leave the National Palace by some important telegrams, which required liis immediate attention, and in this way escaped, the band of robbers being themselves surprised as they were lying in wait for him.

The Epizootic

Has again made its appearance in various parts of the country. As prevention is better than cure, the attention or owners of stock is called to UNCLE SAM’S CONDITION POWDEBS. These celebrated powders stand unrivaled for their excellency as a preventive from disease. By mixing with the feed they will keep the animal in the best general health, toning up the system and keeping the digestive organs and blood in a healthy condition. Tho Powders are warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111. Put up in 25 and 50-cent pacnages, and sold by all druggists.

I'he Voltaic Belt Co., ITlanilia.il, Jllch., Will Bend their Electro-Voltaio Belts to the Billeted upon thirty days’ trial. See their advertisement in this paper, headed, “On Thirty Days’ Trial.’’ She had sued for breach of promise, and the verdict of the jury was against her. “Want to poll the jury?” said the judge, formally. “Yes, I do.* Jes’gimme the poll for two minutes;” and she had thrown off her sun-bonnet and expectorated on the palms of her hands before the legal phrase could be explained by her counsel. Db. C. E. Shoemaker, of Reading, Fa., is the only sural aurj. eon in the United S'ateswho devotes all his time to the treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear and catarrh; esI eaially running ear. Nearly twenty yf ars’ experience. Tln.usands testify to lus skill. Consult him by mail or otherwise. Pamphlet ./Vee. Malabial fevers can bo prevented, also other miasmatic diseases, l.y occasionally using Dr. San ford's Liver I nvigoralor, the oldest general Family Medicine, which is recommended as a cure for all diseases caused by a disordered liver. Eighty-page book sent free. Address Dr. Sanford, 162 Broadway, New York. We confidently refer our readers to the card of Dr. C. It. Sykes, in another column. He is an old resident of Chicago, a regular graduate, honest, honorable and responsible, and, as a physician, takes first rank in his chosen specialty of catarrh and its complications. Spuing is Coming.— ls yon are going to want any Field, Garden or Flower seeds read the advertisement of A. B. Barnes, Chicago, in another column, and send for his catalogue of new seeds. His references, wo think, are sufficient guarantee as to his reliability. Fob a pamphlet on Electric Treatment of chronic diseases with Electricity, which will be sent free, address the Mclntosh Electric Belt and Battery Co., 192 & 194 Jackson St., Chicago, 111. Yegetine is a great panacea for our aged fathers and mothers ; for it gives thorn strength, quiets their nerves, and gives them Nature’s sweet sleep. Young men from all parts of the country are going to H. B. Bryant’s Chicago Business College. It is the highest authority in the land. The habit of running over boots and shoes corrected with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners.

Jlanghteri, Wives and Mothers. DU. MARCHISI’S UTERINE CATHOLICOIf will positively cure Female Weakness »uch as Falling of the Womb, Whites, Chronic Inflammation or Ulceration of the Womb,lncidental Hemorrhage or Flooding, Painful. Suppressed and Irregular Menstruation, Ac. An old and reliable remedy. Send i>ostal card lor a pamphlet, with treatment, cores and certificates from physician* and patients, to HO WART H A BALL ARD, UriOA. H. Y. Sold by all Druggists—<sl 50 per bottle. Vegetine WILL CURE RHEUMATISM MR. ALBERT CROOKER, the well-known druggist and apothecary of Springvale, Me., always advises every one troubled with rheumatism to try VEGETINE. Read His Statement: Spbingvale, Me., Oct. 12, 1876. Mr. H. It. Stevens: J)ear Sir— Fifteen years ago last (all I was taken sick with rheumatism, was unable to move until the next April. From that- time until three years ago this fall I Buffered everything with rheumatism. Sometimes there would be weeks at a t me that I could not step one step; these attacks were quite often. I suffered everything that a man could. Over three years ago last spring I commenced taking Vegetine, and followed it up until I had taken seven bottles; have had no rheumatism since that time. I always advise every one that is troubled with rheumatism to try Vegetine, and not suffer for years ns I have dono. This statement is gratuitous as far as Mr. Stevens is concerned. Yours, etc., ALBERT CROOKER, Film of A. Crooker A Co., Druggists and Apothecaries. Vegetine. For Kidney Complaint and Nervous Debility. Isleroro, Me., Dec. 28, 1877. Mr. Stevens: Dear Sir —l had had a cough for eighteen years, when I commenced taking the Vegetine. I was very low; mv system was debilitated by disease. I had tho Kidney Complaint, and was very nervous—cough bad, lungs sore. When I had taken one laittle I found it was helping me; it has helped my cough, and it strengthens ine. I am now able to do my work. Never have found anything like the Vegetine. I know it is everything it is recommended to be. . Mrs. A. J. PENDLETON. “ Vegetine,” says a Boston physician, “ has no equal as a blood puriher. Hearing of its many wonderful cures, after all other remedies have failed, I visited the laboratory and convinced myself of its genuine merit. It is prepared from harks, roots and herbs, each of which is highly effective, and they are compounded in snch a manner as to produce astonishing results.”

Vegetine PREPARED BV H. E. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. HO s lF% fcrfinEßS There 1* no civilized nation in the Western Hemisphere in which the utility of Hoatetter’s Stomach Bitten, as a tonic, corrective and anti-bilious medicine, is not known and appreciated. While it is e medicine for all seasons and all climates. It la especially suited to the complaints generated by the weather, being the purest and bast vegetable stimulant In the world. tr For sale by Drnggista and Dealen, to whom apply for Hoe tetter’s Almanac for 1881.

OT?T?T'lC—'Choice selections from the most rekj JCj-Ej lit? liable growers and Importers. No old seeds in store. Every variety tested before offered for sale. Special attention given to orders by mail. Seeds shipped l>y mall or express to any part of the United States. Reference: Home National Bank, Chicago: Furst A Bradley MPg Co., Chicago: Kirby, Carpenter * Co., Chicago, Bend for Catalogue of Seeds and Farm Machinery. \ A. a. BARNES. 46 A 48 W. Lake St., Chicago, UL

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. _ „ Boras I® 78 «l*oo Hoos 4 50 @ « 19)4 Cotton 13 @ JJk Floob—Superfine 3 40 @ 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1 W @ 1 5 Corns—Ungraded 56 @ 69 Oats—Mixed Western 40 @ 44 Rrx—Western I 03 @ 1 04 Pome—Mess 13 00 @l3 35 Ljjud CHICAGO. Bxxyes—Choice Graded Steers. 5 50 @ 8 60 Cows and Heifers 2 50 @ 3 75 Medium to Fair 4 30 @ 4 70 Hoos. :. 3 50 @ 6 00 Flouk—Fancy White Winter Ex.... 575@ 625 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 500 @5 50 Wheat—No. 3 Bpring 101 @1 03 No. 8 Spring 87 @ 89 Corn—No. 2. 39 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 30 <3 32 Bte—No. 2. 86 @ 87 Barley—No. 2 1 13 @ 1 14 Butter—Choice Creamery 32 @ 33 Eoos—Fresh 26 @ 27 Pork —Mess. 11 75 @l3 10 Lard B>s@ BJf MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 1 05 @ 1 13 No. 2 tOO @ 1 01 Corn—No 2. 39 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 31 @ 32 Rye—Nc. 1 m 85 @ 86 Barley—No. 2. r. 86 @ 87 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1 01 @ 1 02 Corn—Mixed 39 @ 40 Oats—No. 2. 32 @ 33 Rye 85 @ 86 Pork—Mess 13 00 @l3 25 Lard Btf@ BJ4 CINCINNATI. Wheat 1 01 @1 03 Corn 45 @ 46 Oats 36 @ 37 Rye 07 @ 98 Pobk—Mess 12 75 @l3 00 Lard @ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 1 01 @ 1 02 No. 2 Red 1 01 @1 02 Corn—No. 2 41 @ 42 Oats—No. 2 34 @ 37 DETROIT. Flour—Choice 4 90 @ 6 75 Wheat—No. 1 White 1 02 @ 1 03 Corn—No. 1 49 @ 49 Oats—Mixed 36 @ 37 Barley (per cental) 1 70 @ 2 25 Pork—Mess 13 75 @l4 00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1 00 @ 1 01 Corn : 41 @ 42 Oats 33 @ 35 Pork—Clear 4 15 75 @l6 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 5 00 @ 5 40 Fair 4 25 @ 4 80 Common 3 65 @ 4 00 Hogs 4 40 @ 4 85 Sheep 3 00 @ 5 50

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C.GILBERfS STARCH

DANIEL F. BEATTY'S ORGANS! 1* STOPS, SUB-BASS dc OCT. COUPLER. ■iS® ONLY $65 Sent on Trial, Warranted. Catalogue Free. Address DANIEL F. BEATTY. Washington, New Jersey e flair Dye is the SAFEST and BEST; it acts instantaneously,producing the moil natural shades of Black oi Brown: doe* NOT STAIN the SKIN, and Is easily sp every well-appointed toilet for Lady orGentlem&n. Sold 5 SESfcSLEf« 03 William St.. New York O. N. OBITTENTON, Agt SAPONIFIEfi ip r Original" Oonoentrated Lye and Beliabl* r ° nr * Penn’a Salt Mumfactfiiff Co.. Phila RED RIVER VALLEY 2,000,000 Acres Wheat Lands hsA lathe World, for sale by the R. Panl, Imeaiiolls i Haiitoba 8.8.C0. Three doUam per a*re allowed the settler tor breekksg aad sultlvauoa. For parttonlar. apply to D. A. RfIeKINLAY, g—< tl—U<igiM|.t>l.W

S&Jacobs Oil

No Preparatio* on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil. m a BURK, simtls and cheaf External Remedy. A trial entail# but the comparatively trifling outlay of 50 Cents, end •***/ one suffering with pain can have choap and positive >«oof its claims. piaiITIONS IN ELEVEN LANGUAGES. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINL A. VOGELER & CO. Baltimore, Md., V. 3. A. dIOCn A MONTH ; Agent. Wanted ! .ft _"l Dll 75 Best-Selling Articles in the world: a samVUUU ple/ree. JAY BRONSON, Detroit, Mich.

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