Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — Fate Was Against Her. [ARTICLE]

Fate Was Against Her.

At a party given at a house on Cass avenue a young lady elocutionist recited a poem, and her effort was overheard by a colored woman who was in the kitchen to see the “missus” about coming to wash the next day. After the recitation the lady went out to see her and found her in tears. “Why, Aunt Jane, what’s the matter with you?” “I heard dat young lady ’citing dat poem.” “Oh, you did? And it touched your heart.” “I specks it did, ma’am, but Ize ervin’ bekase I nebber had no chance to be an elokushunest. If I had I wouldn’t be round yere doin’ folkses’ washing for three bits a day.”— Detroit Free Press. Some of the most ' beautiful specimens of the popular novelty known as crackle glass are produced by covering one side of a piece of plate glass with a thick stratum of a flux or readily fusible glass; in this condition it is placed in a muffle, or an open furnace, where it is strongly heated, and as soon as the flux is melted and the glass itself has become red-hot, it is removed from the furnace and rapidly cooled. Under this operation, the flux or fusible glass cracks and splits, leaving innumerable fine lines of fracture over its surface, having much the appearance of scales of irregular crystals, which cross and intersect each other in every direction. The rapid cooling of the fusible coating is effected either by exposing the heated mass to the action of a current of cold air, or by cautious sprinkling with cold water. By protecting certain portions of the glass surface from the action of the flux, these portions retain their original smoothness and polish,“ and form, of course, a contrast to the crackled portions of the surface. A man’s word; is the main-spring of his character. Once break the mainspring, and; like a watch, the man runs down.

The Rapidity of Progress Toward Health, Even when a good remedy for disease is selected. depends in some measure upon the manner in which it is taken Irregular, interrupted doses can afford no fair test of the efficacy of any medicine, however salutary. Taken in proper dooes at prescribed intervals, a reliable curative wiU effect the object of its use. Among remedies which, systematically and persistently used, accomplish thorough and lasting cures, and prevent the recurrence of periodic disease, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters ranks specially high. In cases of dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, fever and ague, liver complaint, inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, constipation and other organic maladies, it is a tried remedy, to which the medical brotherhood have lent their professional sanction, and which, as a tonic, alterative and household specific for disorders or the stomach, liver and bowels, has an unbounded popularity. J “What will you give me if I restore your eye-sight?” asked the quack. “I will see,” replied the blind man.