Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1881 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 188L

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THE HOME.

It U mot daobted tbat mum be a kerne la that tWcs tkm sac on bu established hit hearth and toe no of bis possessions ai.d fortoaes; wo b rill aot depart, if aot hin J- alia hlaa away; whence If he haa departed ba aaama to be a wandarar, and If ha retaroa ha cwm to wander. Daflnitlon from Civil Uw. The eta 7 at home, bj heart, aad raat. The bird la safest 1 Ita neat; O'er all that flatter their wing and fly hawk la hovering in the sky." Longfellow. OCR YOUXO FOLKS. Tb lAd Will the) Rubber Tongue. BY MRS. J. Y. R. KOOHS. 1 know a plen.wnt-look.iriK lad, Not over eight years old. And people, uj that he is bad I'm sorry thia is told. For reputation goes so far Toward fortune" fairy ßelda That he who's one without a scar Has all that Heaven y tells. I love this little boy so well I questioned why, one day. They call bira naughty if I tell Will you my trust betray? Onr-e to the woods he went to play. Then told hU ma at night Ila'd seen a thousand bears that day. And ran home In a fright His mamma sadly shook her head; "Not so, my little son." A hundre . the ." "No," mamma said. "I know I did see one." "No. no! not one." "I'm certain, ma t heard the bushes crack. And that with botn my eyes I saw I knew I haw a track!" "May be." his mamma mildly said, 'The track of dog or pig: Mr little boy must not b led to te 1 his tales to-" bit." But still the little fellow tells Kiaggerated talea. To him wee puddle-holes are wells. And tiuy fish are whales. 1IU plavruates all. both good and bad. Biff, little, old and younjr. When meaning him still say, "That lad ith the I udU-rubber tongue." Now don't you wish that little boy. And every other one. Would sneak the truth without alloy, And every evil shun? The First Watch. At first the watch was about the size of dessert plate. It had weights and was ul as a "pocket clock." The earliest known use of the modern name occurs ia the record of 1552, which mentions that KJward VI. had "one larum or watch of iro, the case being likwwiae o! iron gilt, with two plummet ot lead. The first wath may readily be supposed to have been of rude execution. The first great improvement the substitution of springs for we"gnt3 was in 15G0. The earliest spring? were not coiled, but only straight ptees of steel. Early watchea had only one Lund, and, being wound up twice a day, tey could not he expected to keep the tirre nearer than within fifteen or twenty mhute in twelve hours. The dials were of ilver and brass; the cases had no crystals, but opened at the back and front, and werf four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost more than 51,500, and after one was ordered it took a year to make it. An Oaag Marriage. In marrying anung the Osago Indian?, the first preliminsry is to fall in love as some civilized people do. And this must happen without the he'ip ol any modern appliances. The youth aad maidens are not allowed to avea speak to each -other. The young warror, therefore, with tender heart, can only look upon the winsome maiden from a distance, and though be may touch her hMid x in plays, there can be no sentimental walk among the moonbeams. They are out of the question. W hen a youth is smitten, the unwritten law require him first to confide the secret to hU mother. If ebo does not approve, the flame fa emothered unceremoniously ; but if ehe does approve, she lays the matter bofore her liege lord, and a family consultation follows. If the father also takes a favorable view of the matter, the youth goes off on a hunt, and returns m poon as possible with the most eatable fawn he can kill. The choict parts of this his mother dresses and cooks in the most elegant nd tempting manner known to Indian culinary art. This the youth puts in a basket, and going in the night, leaves it near the tout where hk beloved dwells. He then hides in brush, or climbs a distant tree where he can watch the result. In due ticie the innocent maid awakes to find the tempting "deer" awaiting her. At first, of coarse true to her girlish instincts ehe Trill not touch it; bat after a while curiosity triumph", and the takes a peep into the basket. 8 he wonders bow it would taste; smelL it finally, though no Satanic tempter is nigh, his Eve sooner or later takes the fatal taste. As soon as she has tasted the meat her betrothal ia sealed. So in after life she can rKt grumble when reminded "how mother ed to cook." After nightfall a hungry form, breakfastIe9fl, dinnerless, supper leee, stealthily approaches the basket. If it is untouched he has the consolation that he is unknown, and free to try again, and may enjoy his mothr9 cooking to himself. If he finds the basket empty be returns to Lis home with a liht heart and lies him down to ploasant dreams. The next morning the parents of both parties bold a consultation. If no one thinks of an objection, they smoke in rflence for half a day, eparate, and the wooing proeeda But if any objections are raked, they must be settled before any further steps can be taken. If, however, t'ae course runs smooth, the next question i the value of the fcirl. Before daylight next morning the youth bring a pony and hitches it near his expected's tent. On the morrow, if theld folks think the pony compensates them lor the loss of their daughter, h is led away and pat with their on herd. If, however, the pony is left standing during the following tight, the Wer takes it away and returns before daylight next morning wiih two ponies. If these are-enough they are taken nway during the day, but if not they are left standing, to be removed at nibt and returned next morning.-each time with an additional poay, until t&5 price is paid. If the affection or earthly posee6ions of the lover should fail before ttw required number of penies are given, then o the following morning the posies are misstng, and the girl's parents are left to regret their avarice, and she Vt pine away in sadness. In bee affliction, however, she feas the heartfeit sympathy of her sisters, for na girl is allowed to marry until all her older sisters are married. X'iwithtanding this, wealthy and infuautial families sometimes demand several hundred ponies for a daughter. One-half of the ponies go to the bride's parent, and one-half, or its equivalent, to her dower. On the morn in; after the ponies are accepted, our yfui'g warrior goo ofTfor a hunt. If the game Uit knew his thoughts, they would not be likely to regard him as very dangerous. The bride's occupation is very different. She is arrayed in a new blanket, new moccasin, with beads and feathers as showy as tha family can afford, placed on her father's war-horse, and led about town followed by a procession of relations, friends, envious girls, and the inevitable small boy. After having parsed in front of every tent in the village, aha ia led to a tent prepared by her parents for the new family. Here four strong men hold a blanket by the. corners ciose beside the horse, the priest

mutters a while to himself, then fires a gun at her head, aiming so as to come a near as possible, and not hit it.

The Dnde graceiuuy tumui: blanket as if dead, and the corners of the blanket are tied together so that she can not escape. She is then carried into the tent, and when the groom returns he is admitted, and they are fastened up till next day. Miltie-A Story For Boys. bt k t. i. Miltie Djwney was a very sweet tempered little fellow, full of innocent mirtb, yet loving and obedient to his widowed mother, who toiled faithfully at the sewing machine to supplv means to support her little boy. One bright day K-idie W , a play-'el low, came to spend the day with Miltie. Tbey trundled their hoops, played marbles and ball, made their tops hum until both longed for some new sport Presently a farmer's wagon was driven slowly by. Toe wagon had no bed on it, just what is called the running gear, so the little boys heartilv decided tohavea ride upon the long "coupling pole." Eddie was soon eeci-ely perched upon the wagon but Meltie caught his loot in the wheel and was dashed to the ground. The good farmer unconious that a lile hung upon the turn of his wagon wheel, was amazed when his steady stepping bays were seized by their bridles and firmly held, while a strasge voice shouted "stop, in Heaven'?. Dime, you will kill that little bov!" Miltie &S extricate! from his perilous position, but in stead he "wasn't hurt one bit" Eddfe assisted him home, and together they elated the adventure to his mamma. Bravely the littlo fellow kept back his tears wbn hi-i bruised purple limb male mamma pie and anxious. "It will soon be well, rjarama." But it was never well; the bone 5ecame diseased,- and physicians shook their heads sadly, when hi.s mamma asked, 'will he walk ftjrain?" Weeks and months of extreme suffering came to the dear little fellow; his plump little body became thin and emaciated Tha volriruo Hml ton. find ball, all his playthings were laid aside. On crutches he sometimes walked along the street, loosing at the store windos, and smiling at the children trooping home from school. The natient mother toiled on. often her eyes grew dim with tears, as sho noted the chance in her boy. Mix weary years rolled dy, inen ma utue fellow died "G.wl urf lM another angel child To join Ilia heavenly band; He gentiy stooped, with loving smile, And tlped little Millie's baad." Hii mother knew bis life was waning, and looking daily to her comforter above breathed the prayer of reconciliation, "Thy will be dono." A picture of her beautiful boy, with laughing blue eyes and golden-brown curls, is carefully put away Reside the playthings her loving hands provided. In the bureau drawer lies the little cap and clothes ho wore the cheery step roounds no more upon the stair and in the hall, as it used 4,I taw her tben and now I see That, thoneh rt-eigoed, and thnerfol, sbs Han sorrowed mach. 8ieha. He gave it tenderly Muoa faith, and carefally laid by A little cratch." I wonder how many little boys, very idols to fond papas and mammas will read this and say "it's not real?" Yes, but it is real, and it seems such a comfort to the sweet faced lady who shows me "Miltie's big chair." and clothes and play things, to lay ''he was io beautiful and so good." I know a "country wagon" is a great temptation, as it rolls so slowly along the street?, the horses so lazy and gentle looking, but remember boys little Miltie suffered six lon years for one stolen ride. POPULAR SCIENCK. Professor Roberts, of Cornell University, thinks that the secret of English success in raising big crops is mainly due to thorough manipulation of the soil. The treatment of bronchial diseases by Professor Mantejazza, an eminent Italian physician, is explained in the Journal of Chemistry. Friefly, the Professor has found great advantage from the employment of pulverized or atomized sea water in cases of chronic non-specific laryngitis, bronchial catarrh from chronic bronchitis with or without bronchial dilatation, the firt and second st?ues of phthisis, caseous pneumonia and chronic pneumonia of different forms, accompanied by profuse bronchial expectoration, and various forms of scrofula. He does not advis i it in those forms of phthisis which pursue a rapid course and are accompanied by much febrile action and great bronchial irritation. I n all cases of a doubtful character trials may be made of a few inhalations, which, if- they do no good, do little or no harm. ' ';. Mr. 11. (i. Jenkins, F.R. A. has attempted to show a very remarkable effect of the planet Venus upon the earth. Many years ago the present Astronomer lloyal proved that the disturbing effect of this planet was so great that the earth was materially pulled out of its orbit. Mr. Jenkins shows that it is to this disturbing action we mut look for an explanation of the cold waves which occur on an average every eiht vears as in 18'JO, 1837, 1815, 18., 1871, 1879 and that for the next forty years the temperature will bo below the average, as it has during the past forty years boen above the average. In regard to high ti-mperatures,he fetatea that for the last fifty years a heat wave has been observed to pass ovr the earth every twelve years, nearly conterr porary with the arrival of the planet Jupiter at its perihelion, and that we are on the eVe of the next heat wave. The late Professor Faraday adopted the tboty that the natural age of man is 100 year. The duration of life he believed to be measured by the time of growth. In the camel the union takes place at eight, in the horse at five, in the lion at four, in the dog at two, in the rabbit at one. The natural termination is five removes trom tb6e several paints. Man being twenty years in growing lives five times twenty years thai is, 100; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives forty years; and so with other animal?. The man who does not die of sickness lives everywhere from, eighty to 100 years. T.be Professor divides life into equal halves growth and decline and these into infancy, youth, virility and age. Infancy extends to the twentieth year, youth to the fiftieth, because it is in this period the tirsues become firm, virility from fifty to seventy-fiv, during which the organism remains complete, and at seventy-five old nge commences to last a loneer or shorter time as the diminution of reserved forces are Listened cr retarded. trill Read Either Way. The London Truth submits the following as specimen of sentences which make sense whether read backward or forward: Solomon had vast treasures silver and gold things precious. Happy and rich and wise wa4 be. Faithfully served be' God. She siu lamenting sadly, often too much alone. Man ia noble and generous often, but sometimes Tain and cowardly. Carefully boiled eggi are good and palatable.

THE JACKDAW.

Vincent Bourne, who wrote the following lines in Latin more than a hand red years ago. was an unher in the Westminster School. Cowper. the poet, wan a pupil under him, and subsequently gave an English version to the poems of his former master. Toward the close of bis life Daniel Webster repeated ihee lines, expressing hU belief that poeirv and wisdom had rarely been more happily blended. I There Is a bird who, by his coat. And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the Church. Where, bUhop-like. he finds a perch. And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and tures. to indicate Krom what poin blows the weather. Look up your brains begin to swim. 'Tis in the clouds that pleases him. lie chooses it the rather. Fond of the speculative height. Thither he wings hin airy flight. And thence securely sees The bustle and the raree-show That occupy mankind below, fcecure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and rouses On future broken bones and bruLtes, If he hhould chance to fall. No! not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate. Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout. The world, with all its motely rout, Church, army, physic, law. Its costumes and Its businesses, Is no concern at all of bis. And says What says he? Caw! Thrice happy blnl! I. too, have seen Much of the vanities of men : And, sick of having seeu 'em. Would cheerfully these limbs resign For such a pair of wings as thine. And such a head between 'em. CONCKRNINQ WOMKN. WOMAN'S WORK 18 KRVKB D02TK. Blonday'e work la to wuh, apace; Tiuxidiy'a work li to iron, with grace; WedtiiUy's work is to baksand sew; Tharnday'a work la to clean for ahow; Fridav'a work U to awep. dnt and hrnah; Satnrday's work U to cook with a ruah; The next that cones is the Sabbath day. And then ahe'a too tired to reit, or to pray. Twenty-fife of the forty-eight students in the Nevada State University are girls. The Female Suffrage amendment was killed in the "Wisconsin Senate by a tie vote. Miss Abby W. May was recjntly reelected a mem Der or tne jAassacnuseiw Mate Board of Kducation, for a term of tight years. Give us more mothers prepared to instruct the world in the true philosophy of life, and we will have more sons to be numbered with philosophers. Miss Harrison, who is now Lady Arthur Hill, receives a royalty of $4.000 a year on her ballad, In the Gloaming." She was formerly a governess. The Chicago Eclectic Medical Society is struggling to determine .whether a female physician should be called Dr. Mrs., or Mrs. Dr., or Mrs. M. D., or doctress. A Troy lawyer asked a woman on the witness stand her age, and she promptly replied: "I sold milk for you to drink when a baby, and I haven't got my pay yet." Hon. John A. Coulter, of the House of Representatives in Colorado, offered a bill to pay a bounty f jr scalps of Ute Indians, and he voted, as such a man would, against woman suffrage. Mrs. Mary N. Bliss, of Columbus, Ohio, has given $10,000 to Kenyon College for the erection of a new hall in the College Park, to be called Hubbard Hall, in memory of her dead brother, George Hubbard. Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, whose proposition to teach patience, cleanliness, and the whole list of virtues and graces in the public schools haa been given national prominence by the advocacy of Senator Burnside, is on a tour of the State Capitals to address State Legislatures on the subject. The decision of the Senate of Cambridge University to admit women students of Girton and Newnham to be formally examined and classified among the candidates for honors is a great event in the history of the struggle for equal educational privileges for women. The recommendation of the Syndicate was affirmed by the immense m-tjority of r93 against 32. Woman's ( Eng.) Surfrage Journal. An Egyptian mother, under the influence of a widely-prevalent superstition, does not wash her child's eyes until eight . days after birth. By that time the organ is frequently ruined. The teachers of the American and British mission schools of Cairo say that Egj-ptian mothers become invariably angry when urged to wash the eyes of their newlyborn infants, and can rarely be persuaded to comply with a request of the kind. Mrs. Parnell, her daughters and Anna Ford, have added much strength to the Irish Land League. But Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin, in a Lünten pastoral, denounced women who so far forgot the modesty of their sex as to appear in public. To-this Mr. A. M. Sullivan replies. He rejects the im putation that the ladies have put aside their modesty, and accuses the Archbishop of insulting some ot the mo.-t exemplary devotees of the Church. Mrs. Sullivan maintains that the objects of the Ladies' Land League are purely charitable. Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, has written to Mr. A. M. Sullivan, congratulating him on his reply to the Lenten pastoral of Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin. Archbishop Croke says he undeservedly adopts Mr. Sullivan's sentiments against Archbishop McCabe's monstrous imputations. The Archbishop will find the open door for women can not bee hut. HAT WOMEN WOO Intelligent Discussion of an Important Problem. I Liberal Berit. -4 It is generally supposed to be a dreadful thing for a woman to "set her cap at' in other words, to attempt to woo and win a man. Those who air the cheap philosophy of the time, and consider that there is no law so supreme as etiquete, while they hold the supposed decrees of the omnipotent Mrs. Grundy in deep reverence, seem to imagine that it is the duty of a girl to hide from herself the fact that she has a heart until some unexceptionable suitor discovers it to her, and ardently protests that it is the one great thine in the world necessary to his happiness. If she ventured to hint that she was so anxious for the affection of some male that she would do anything, within reason, to secure him for her lord, she would be accounted unmaidenly. bold, and what uot; and it would, in all probability, be urged that she might be expected to come to a bad end, and serve as an awful warning to all members of her sex who aro inclined to be undisciplined. But there is, neverthele-s, oaly too much reason to believe that female human nature is so weak and wayward and impervitous to the concentrated wisdom of the ages, that the emotions which lead to matrimony do not always have their origin in the bosoms of impassioned beaux, liovr and then, it is solemnly recorded, in Bhocked tones and under the veil ol secrecy, sof that Jthe terrible act obtains almost as much publicity aa if it were proclaimed by the town crier, and has a peculiar delicious flavor imparted to it. that Mrs. Brown actually committed the eaormity of making love to Mr Brown, If she did not in plain terms invite him to be. come her husband. It is comparatively

unimportant that she and her mate appear to be as happy and to get on as well together as they would, in all probability, have done if be had been the tint to feel the stab of Master Cupid's dart, and had warmly taken the initiative in the courtship. It seems to be held that the only plea which may appropriately be urged in extenuation of her conduct is that she rejoiced in the possession of an abundance of pelf and a certain position, while his social status was as low as his purse was light; and even this plea has to be handled with adroitness if it ia to become effective. Indeed, at a critical moment, when they have all the touching details of the exceptional matter before them, they will not hes

itate to speak in terms of withering scorn of the Trail female who is so much the slave of her heart that she is acting as if she desired to bring to her feet a man who, from bashfulness or some other cause, would not seemingly get there but for her stimulating influence. If she fails they rejoice over her downfall, and feelingly declare that Ehe will merely meet with her deserts if she degenerates into a neglected and petulant old maid, while if she succeeds they vigorously discount her triumph on the ground that it is one of which any well-regulated female would be thoroughly ashamed. The members of her own sex, who, when they cultivate the power of introspection and are becoming mature, should know how to make excuses for her are invariably her most virulent citizens. Even men, however, are disposed to show her no mercy, and there is, probably, no more lofty and virtuously indignant creature than the being who feels that he has been "angled" for, but flatters himself because he has not been caught by the bait which has been so temptingly placed before him. He would almost appear to fancy that he should, on account of the way he has escaped the snares which have been spread for him, be placed on the roll of the world's heroes. Novelists are the moat ventureome of beings, and they have a fondness for floating conventionality, but there are bounds beyond which they dare not go, and they perceive bow hazardous it would be for them to outrage popular prejudice by depicting heroines who took the initiative in love affairs. A Queen of hn gland is at liberty to make an "offer ' to a Prince indeed it is not etiquette for a Prince to make an ''offer" to her but she occupies quite an exceptional position, and the fact is one which need not be further considered in reference to the subject, especially as her marriage may generally be deemed to be largely influenced by State considerations. Thus, everything is against the woman wooer, and it is not surprising that she remains something of a rara avis, and, when her heart proves too strong for her sense of proprieties, often works in cunning and crooked ways, as if she was bent on deceiving herself and not htting hei left hand know of the doings of her right. Tet there is, after all, a good deal of reason and common sense on her side; so much that it is surprising the advocates of the 'women's rights' movement have yet to energetically take up the cudgels on her behalf. It is absurd to suppose that affection must inevitably begin with the man. It is equally absurd that he alone must be at liberty to win the being whom he believes to be necessary to hU life's happiness. The individual who allowed a rich prize to elude him because, through some mistaken notion of what people, in whom he was in no way interested and for whom he did not care a jet would think, he would not stretch forth his hand and grasp it when it was well within his reach, would, very properly, be accounted a fit subject for Colney II at eh or Rain hill. Why, then should a woman be debarred from doing her best to stir the sluggish nature of the being whom she has, with the natural perversity of her sex, fallen in love with, and who would, she has every reason to believe, be worthy of her? She may see that if she will hold out her hand he will take it, but that if she gives no signs he will pass on, and their lives, which she so fondly thinks would be exquisite if blended in the future lie far apart. Will it not be mere elementary wisdom for her to come down form the uncomfortable pedestal, where all her energies and emotions are cruelly cramped, on which artificiality has set her? We do not believe in the popular impression that the well di rected maiden only discovers that she has a heart when the irght man asks for it. On the contrary, we are of opinion that many giris long, with all the intensity of fresh and ardent souls, for certain men as consorts, when no word of love has been whispered in their ears, and when no token of affection has been tendered them, and not a few become broken spirited because the chance of their bright dreams being realized vanishes. At present a woman frequently forfeits her possibility of bliss, from the cir cumstance that she, owing to her surroundings and sense of what is expected from her, feigns a coldness which she is far from feeling when the man whom sho loves, while fearing to take the final plunge, evinces some desire to win her favor. Many would be husbands hesitate to say "wiil you marry me?'' Only because they dread that the query wi'l be answered in the negative, and they shrink from incurring whtt they would regard as as a keen humiliation. Of course, it may be urged that such cravens are unworthy ot women's love; but the women have to be considered as well as they, and the facv remains that notwithstanding their obliquity of vision and cowardice, and the clumsy manner in which they mismanage their amours, they would , frequently make true, tender and excellent husbands. It is a pity then, for all parties that their short sighted ness and stumbling should be permitted to lead to such disastrous consequences, and their sweet-hearts might very well be allowed to help themselves. Men have the whole world to choose their wives from, but women may, under the mögt advantageous condition of things, only select their mates from the comparatively limited number of men who seek their society and deign to look on them with favor. Of course it may be urged that the rough and ready system of natural selection leads to fewer evils than might be anticipated some enthusiasts may still maintain that marriages are made in Heaven, notwithstanding the fashion in which female humanity is hampered, and the ridiculously one-sided state of things prevailing on earth but that it leads to gigantic mistakes is certain, and it is time the weaker sex were given to understand that, under certain conditions, they may help themselves to gratify their legitimate and natural longing,?, Mrs. Jamea A. Garfield. The wife of the twentieth Fresident of the United Staies is a daughter of a Maryland farmer, Zebulon Rudolph, whose uncfe, tradition says, fought in the Revolution, and, going to France, espoused the cause of Nepoleon and became Marshal of France, the gallant and unfortunate Ney. She was a fellow student with young Garfield at Hiram College, became engaged to him, and when he went to Williams College to extend bis studies, taught in the public schools of Cleveland. She was married to him in 1SÖ8, when he became the head of Hiram College, end began life with him in a cottage which he purchased, fronting the college grounds. She is a woman of unusual learning, and has herself nearly fitted her two song for College, carrying them through their Latin and other studies in which women are rarely converssnt. 8he is fond of reading, and in Substantial literature and a knowledge of

the affairs of the day she is better versed than the wife of any President we have had since Mrs. Polk. She is a lady somewhat under the medium size, well made and well proportioned, belonging on the whole to the order of little women. She has a face well composed expreseive and harmonious features, with a fair and bright complexion, black hair and eyes. Her manner is a little shy, yet piquant, and she has a m.rked and cheerful laugh, a sense of the humorous and of her own dignity, and a cheerful, happy nature, She is fond of housekeeping, affectionate, yet decided in her rules of household government, and withal a well balanced, sensible and interesting women. She enters the White House with the good wishes of the whole country, and there is no reason to doubt that she will make the Executive Masion a home as well as a palace, and inculcate in it the private as well as the public virtues which should adorn it. Boston Journal. Hint to Women on Taking Care of Their Hands, Thia weather is apt to be hard on hands that are in and out of water, hot or cold, or soapy, as are the hands of most busy housekeepers. The girls, too, look with regret on their own shapely fingers, growing red and perhaps dingy with the day's work and exposure. Such good servants as these same two hands are worth taking care of, and their efficiency is largely increased by such a system. Don't put them into very hot water, even though they stand it. It spoils them and is entirely unnecessary. Don't carelessly use an excess of soap about your v ork where less will answer just as well. It eats away the outer skin and makes it rough and cracked like an old plaster cast. Use a fork and a dish-cloth in washing your dishes, if the water must be very hot and soapy; or better still, provide a h.tle 'mop" for the purpose, one for the dishes and one for the stoneware. Some of the best housekeepers I know do this always. They wash their own dishes and yet can sit down at the piano and play with the grace and ease of one who does nothing else. They can work in wools and silks without having the fibers stick to their fingers in such a fuzzy way that it grates on the nerves like filing a saw. You know how it is if you have tried fancy work after a big washing. Cover your hands when you go out into the cold. Make cloth mittens out of anything soft and light you happen to have. Stitcn them off on the machine, and it will not take you tn minutes. Use them in sweeping snow paths and in all exposing work. If you build fires be sure to keep a pair of

gloves for that purpose. It will serve vou more than it will cost. A drop or two of vinegar rubbed over the hands takes away the disagreeable feeling they have after washing. It is a good way when the day s work is done to wash them in warm water, rubbing well with a teaspoonful of Indian meal, then wipe them thoroughly. It will leave them as white and sott as can be under the circumstances. Indian meal is a great cosmetic, and was once sold in England at a guinea an ounce for that particular purpose alone. No one thinss of using it though it is so cheap and so common. Just try it once before going out to a party or to church, and you will be sure to use it again. - If, after all, the hands become chapped, as a delicate skin is apt to do, just keep always handy a box of lard and beeswax, melted together, andVub over them at night. It is an excellent simple remedy, and always access ible. It you will add to it the green inside bark of elder, scraped off and boiled up in the lard, you wil' have a specific for more small, domestic ills than any application of the kind 1 know, and the expense is almost nothing. Like patent medicine, "it cures everything." Take good care of your ban is, girls, and you may perform mountains of hard work with them and and yet keep them compara tively soft and tuple. It is neglect and bad usage which makes the hands of so many working-women hard and knotty and rough, like a file a misery to themselves when they go about any lighter work, and not half so helpful and useful as they might have been. Women at School Elections. IProvidrnca Pres. Public opinion in New England and the Middle States is rapidly drifting into the belief that tho active participation of women in some of our public affairs will not only be gratifying to them, but beneficial to the community. The time has passed when intelligent citizens are frightened at the idea of woman's meddling with public questions. Their advice and assistence is sought in the home circle and in the promotion of relig ious, charitable and educational work, and society is the better for their efforts and in. fluence. We shall have better schools for theassistance of women in their active management, and our politics cleaner, and our politicians more respectable and self-respecting, when women take an active part in all public affairs, as we have no doubt they will do in a few years. rieasantriea Concerning Women. Ladies new dressing mirrors, framed in plush, painted by hand, have the following appropriate quotation: 'Be to her virtue very kind. Be to her fault a littlo blind." "How shall I have my bonnet trimmed," asked Maria, "so that it shall agree with my complexion?" "If you want it to match vour face, have it plain," replied hateful liattie. Two ladies were conversing on tho qualities and demerits of their own fair sex. Said one, a twinkle in her beautiful eyes, "I have never known but two women who were really perfect." "Who wa the other?'' asked her companion, with a smile on ber fine, thin lip. "How beautiful it is, Mary, to think of you clinging about me as the ivy clings about the oaa." Wouldn't maple be more appropriate than oak, Theodore?" queried Mary, with a sly twinkle in her eyes. "You know what they get from the maple?" Boston Transcript. A lady who aims at being the best dressed woman in Philadelphia appeared lately in a dress of white embroidered velvet, covered with crystal trimmings and pearl fringe. It was so heavy she could scarcely waddle in it, but it was the dress of the evening she wa9 perfectly willing to bear the burden. She was talking on the cars, and 6he said: "The meanest people are those who peep out of windows to see what their, neighbors are doing. Now, this morning I was looking through the blinds of my window, and what do you suppose I saw that mean Mrs. Jones doing? Why, she was peeping through her blinds to see it I saw her the. mean woman!". "My Rack Aches So, and I feel .so miserable," said a hard-working man. The Doctor questioned bira and found that he had been habitually costive for years, and now his kidneys were disordered and his whole system deranged. Kidney-Wort was recommended and faithfully taken and in a short time every trouble was "emoved. The cleansing and tOlllC POWer of thia modlrin on thf Hnarolu and Sidneys is wonderful. Congregationaiiow I Vmlfesty . NATfoaAa fai.VMVMWU Aeaat I. iU a. Nmoe

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It will at all times and under an circamctances art in harmony with the laws that gwmrn the female system. for the core or Kidney Oompkuota ot either sex this Compound i un.urpaFscd. LYDIA E. I'lXtn.VM'S VEGETABLE COM. POUXOia pnwra at)2J3 and SOS Westorn ATenuo. Lynn.Hiisa. Prion fx SixJxHtleetor BA Sent by mail in the foraa of mlk, also la the orra or loaenjrea, on receipt tf price, 1 per box for either. Urj. Plntaam freely answers all lectors of inquiry. 6end for pamphlet. Address as abore. Mmtton raia Itiprr. Ko family should be without LYDIA E. FüfKHASfS 'JVXR FILLS. They cure constijation, biliousness4d torpidity of the ttver. 25 cent per box. SOLD BV POND'S EXTRACT SubJytt InßammatiCK, Control; a.! llctnorrhagel Acitttand Chronic. I'tnous and Mucoks. INVALUABLK FOR Bums and Irüamnaticns. vvvv risctar:-;, icctEülaücas ci lie ssy" ' LEE.;, Eyes aid ' OiUUsiss. ItHKriTIATsSJX ASD MECRALGIA. Fcrvnsitive ar.d vere c.es cf CATARRH a.e cur CATARUIZ CTBtK, t7c.) In ?J1 tis--. use our NAN.IL VII B !V; U, (25c.) Any A t ur pn.-pur.it ui be sent iu lots ul $1 worin, jn recent A price. Fkcd. C. Ewing. Denver, Col. ' .stohlsh;d at Is wonderful effect." Akthi k W CKO-SiXY,War.hir.tcn, J.C " Frenicentlv the bt.t." Saml.1v. James fchen:ctatly,N. V. ' A family .nvcs: iiy ny (ain'Ay. ' K. H. Tkesteü. New York. "Have derive! prat benefit from its use. v !. M. ConntJ, A. i . Graf Ait." Simply LavaluaWe." Dr. C. N. Thavcr, Fülrnouth, Mass. '.One of the bc:t remedies iu my daily practice.'' Hon. Jko. C. Stekcck, lute Secret jrv of War and Secretary of the Trc'ury, wrote as far Lack as iB8. " It i a remedy perfectly invaluable." CAL'TION.-POND'S EXTRACT is sold ct:.y in bottles with tit name blown in the glass. It is unsafe to use other articles with our di-r-ctions. Insist on having POND'S EXTRACT. Refuse all imitation and ' jbstitutcs. ti Ou i New Pamphlet, w;tk History oy CfR Preparations, sent FREE. LADIES Read pape 11. 18, si and 2. IMrND'Ji UXTKACl' COMPANY, 14 Weit 14th Street, Hew YorlX, Sold by ail Druggists. HOP BITTERS?! (A iUedicioe, not a Prink.) CONTAINS ROPS, BUCHU, MANDRAKE, DANDELION, Ajtd th Ptbwt a3i BwTMr.T?CALQrALJTiJts vr au. OTHia Jjirrfcita. TJIEY CXJItE ATI Plscasrs of the Stomach, Bowels, Wood, U i.rr, ivtum-ys, anu urinary rpann, iscrVouboefcu. SUi-i-ii tM!-Rr! especially siooo in COLD. M Will he paid for a eai they will rot rnre r-f help, or for anything impure or Injurious f I lUUUU 1U llK Ui. Alt your dropplft for lion Patters n1 try lbc-in before you sleep. Take 110 other. D I. C. is an nhoute and tnvslsMble rnre for Drunkeuiicfcfa, use ol opium, tobacco and narcotics. JLTM IM Sckd FOB CiBC-rruB. BbHDBIOCAll sbo MM by dnr1U. r.. Hps Bitten 1 fc. t., Rodwrtrr. N. V ., A Toronto, Ort. fo "Vi 1 "Ii1, .".'i'"" ' V'.:fel533li?.S: Popular Monthly Drawing of the COMMONWEALTH DISTRIBUTION CO. At Macanley'a Theater, In Uie city of Louisville, on Saturday, April at), 1SN1. These Drawing xvtir Monthly (Sundavs excepted), under provisions of an net of the teaertl Assembly of Kentucky, incorporating the Newport Printing and Newpper (.Vmpany, approved April 9, 173. sMSTtiis in a Special Aet, and has never been repealed. The United SUt .rrnit ivnrt, on March ol rendered the following decisions: First. That the Commonwealth Dist-ibo-tlon Company is legal. Second. Its drawings are fair. The Company ha i.ow on hand a large rt serve fund. Read the lift of prizorfoT the APRIL DBA. WING. 1 Pal Cts,t, a a as a t $0f 00C 1 Pri2e. tlO.000,1 ITize 6,0 10 Prizes 11,000 ea 10.000S20 Prizes töOO ea 10.GGC 100 Prise J 00 ea lO.OHOjaiO "rizea W) ea lO.OOf COO PrUe W ea- LZOUOUOOO iTuea 10 ea.... 10,0 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 9 Prizea of f300 each...... . . 2,7 9 Prizes of 200 each 1,S00 9Prueeof 100 ech.... W0 1,900 Prizes $112,400 Whole Ticket. 12. UiCl Tickets, fl. 27 Ticket, fött. 6ft Tickets, J100. Remit Money or BauA Draft In Letter, or nend bv Kx preas. DON'T SEND BY REGISTERED LETTER OR POHTOFFIC'E ORÜKR. Orders of J5 and upward, by Exp rets, can be sent at our expense. K. M. BOA RDM AN. Courier-Journal Rnilding, Louisville. Ky.. or T. J. COMMliKr'OKD. J12 Brmdway, New York. Or J. T. WOODWARD, 9 North Illinois street, Iudiauapolia. igäSiüFPED FF.ES ln9p r-fnnj Pes4orf JW.Tji DR. KLINE'S GREAT - 1 1 1 ' - 1 w o 1 s 1 1 i r Zcuref'ir 'is, fyipcii and Merr. Jfciimt. al5rAI.Lllit.t if tlhen a J'.rtf.efl. Xn tV.s ifUT ärirxiuaysusr, 1 realise :.i j.j inai Dottieirtia Kit paliTitii,thv tav:,iß prrparc rd riair. P. O. and xpns afKirrss ti 1-a. KMKK,ttl ArcUSuPhiiaileluli a,! s. S"t WIUSTACHT AW WHTSHTRS. IV W afcwM fcnatr 4M Um tmi Ut a .1 m fMsa 2 a4 wäs mm4 samt lswta.lb.00t ? IW 4..1 s"tl ssC' wsZsXThT V toll ll in, hail iAa III til 11 j ANY GENT; 1 Orladythatsend8ns their address will receive some, thins: Frte bv Matt, tbat may prove tb steppinMtone to a lite ot success. It is ffpecially adapted to those who bare reached the foot of tbe hill. Address M. I0CÜÜ. Ureenwich Street. .New York. &( A MOUTH-Ageati Wtntd-75 best tellu) JiJU inn articles in tbe world: 1 sample iree. Address jay BrozuKm, Detroitp Mich,

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U 1J UiN . by unprincipled d eilen, who trv to palm off upon vou Rock and Rye In place of TOLC ROCK AND "RYE. which L the only medicated article made, the genuine having a government Mmp on eacn borne. LAWRENCE k MARTIN. Pn -prietors, in Madiaoa Street, Chicago. Ak your Druggist for It. Ak your Grocer for it. Afk your Wine Merchant for it Children, ar-k your Mamma for iL Sold by Druggists, Grocers and Wire Merchant everywhere. tVholenaUe) Agents in IndianapolU. Stewart & Harry, Browning & Ploan. A. Klef and A. Ftout V Son. wholesale grocers, wl turnLih the trode at manufacturer's prices. MEDICAL. PRESUSiiPTIQN FREE I .Vir tue oercl v Cure ef Nfrvu reaLnr AJ VlLalltv. I'rnmitirT lability. i-r uIepotery, t'onfaioa of Idtna, IH-f-vlr Mem. ry aad dUwrdera fcronaSt mn by rr.f'k and tlflMfi. Any d racg-l"l haa the Inaredieialik heas la pUi. fua .ai-laM. AJUru IUI. U . . J AM L t-S, 18 Vt fcixtit fttrcek HariaaaU. Ohl. i! Gonri Place, LOUISVILLE, KT., k f-fjalrtf aMiK.-U'vl nrf .tf-Ur rm,lif.! j b vii a ml th sivv-t u-'jecwf-i, fc bis f-racii.- W.ii ptu CHRONIC ftüd SUXUAls AbES. S permatori 1-oa and Imofec7, af the rt-u't c?elf-tmii ia ycuih. ,cvl ?!- in .:- ptt Trnn. rr rder tw, ut ..ou-jt-CK 1kic itxt: NtrvoiwcHf.. tvn.iri! Kc-i'-i'-i.. 014.I1' it:tr drTArcs). KiQnwi of riphl, iVcuvi v...., pt, i-ill-cy, fiir.:MOD Kar. Jtta.rwa t. hwi-t. cl h.nili Cuafu-.Kc cf Ii, I .on of triual lmer. t.e. rr i nc( !r7i- T'Wa from w "'; Gouorrl-ca, OLi.2vi., Stricure, trbr..t, Htra-u, v'.t Js.-;-M.ir, Pil. i-J uU..T prime disnucr jurk', c-irrd. o a orrtaia com ot dicaje, acr. trrui.ux ibutcuiJt airnaaÜT, acquitvi rrt i'.Tjjriin kt.tr.i U.. ta.t ottrs reonmim-nJ perwua to tut ea. U"tiD It ir lo-wii-n --fit 17 fn.l tb cilr imuat n, mM:na ca be e.l j m.udf - ad -alelr tr null or expr aorv bere, Cnrei Guaxanteed in oil Cawja undertaken. 4.'ouü-.aii.üs -ntfnaJlT or b letter free aa-1 leri-J. Charge reasonable and oarrt-apnodrnce MricO ffti i n'.it'jafc PRIVATE COUNSELOR Pf ,00 ptgr, arnt to sc, add rev, 'cur: It mld, lor thirtsreoit. Mvul4 be read ti alL Ä4lir a chart. 13 fcuvra ;na A.M.tt.h P. M. Sastara. J to 4 V . it. AfiD SPERMATORRKCA. t A mlnfcblo Discovery and New Departara l.n sfd cal be-ience. an ea.iruiy New and positintly e"'-rtiv I.'.mv1y for tiie s;iHi and purauxot Cars ni fcvira cal Kmisslon und Ira potency by the. only trust V.2T' viz: ect AppiicaUoa totba principal Seat ct th Liseasn, actios; by Absorption, and eierttnr, ItJfpeciäc Influence on the Beminal Vesicles, E;iouiatory Ducts, Prostata Gland, and Urethra. Tho ce cf tha Remedy la atteaJed arlib no pala or incoo-vtn-.eeco, aud Ucx-s not Interfere with the ordinary p-jr-ults of life; it Is qnlcklr dissolved and 6 a abSorUd, producicaa lümediate aoothinc and rtoeative ettcct upon tiie seiaal and nerroua orranlza tioos rrecked from ael'-abniteand eirw, slopping the drain rona the system, reotorina; the mind to hiill.ii and round memory, remoring the Drineaj ot feifht, Kervotia Debility, Confusion of Ides&, Aversion to Society, etc-, etc-, and the appKinnre i'i premature old es-e osaaiir accompanying this trouhia,and restoring perfoct Sexual Vigor, bers U haa beea dorniaot for years. This mode ! treatneat has stood tne teat La very severe rases, and a dow a prcnouncod soccers, Iirvira trttoum-ji b pretcri'xia IntaeM troablea, and, as many can bear vrtt. ceHtr, rii"i butll.tieil any permanent rood. Thaa lit no NauMDse about this 1'reparatioa. I'nwth tl o. wrvatioaennbles as to positively g-unmnteo tuit it vrili (clvoBatial action. Durins; tbe eiarb years that it has been in general use, we b ave tbousand of teUmar.lalsas to it value, and it is now conceded by the it(Jiral 1'rofessioa to be tbe most rational m.-ics yet (iiscorerel of reochiiut and carinp thia very provrJent trouble, tbat la weil known to be tbe cause of untold -sl.-.-ry to so miry, and upon whom quack 3 prey vrita tbeir usejoss nostrums acd bigr fees. Tbe llomexiy 1 1 utupia rent boxe, of three sires. Ka l.tfacuni to last a montii, S3 ; Na St, (sufiicient to eüect a per. mar.nnt cire, unless in eovere cases,) (S; No. 3, (iaJtiu over three months, will B'-"p emuuilons and rct.-re vior in the worst cav,) 97. lcrt bv mr.il, pealed, io plain wrappers. Kuli for liaina v-ill accomrjar.v HACK BOX. I Ictm git'ina Anatomiml Mtl'ittratiuH ti thf tot nkrptiml that firtprii te m rrHforerffofirrerffnanluMM.fruil ll:'. el f&rtiie dtttic of life, name ui If HARRIS RCMEDY CO. KFG. GHEMiSTS, Market and B'.h Sts. St. LOUI3. Mo. to t5 . .V5 aw S3 A trw urd complete CUPE TO wmrcKK. ceatainK Chapter A Cmpcal Womu. hod. Selection mt mtU, LMlice mt V irc.oitr, TviDMrtuntet, ISirrUitT, A4rtot tn hndfW. tla-MtW. ft . rSM itMSk. m fWmmx Ciirw MMrtsMsf MW, r -j. t-: ta. r m I sjJ n-lrtip 'sin I II" 'I ' I nc. Mas &sHM, rSaU lfe rr4Msi. L a Herafe sas.1 rajt, aUaJ aSfrrl asm, I ' U tSsMt Aswi r. t. v is a M Private BCedio! Adviser m Siaar v-a-alt.n froa impuic wiHaJ ftasoctatioaia, and on ftelf-abuatvth area haM Mlh a4 aWt arW Ma, tmrnmrnj V Mv ttfm, Lsa af Vir. . asi bm4 taMSirspir a hi(,i , fi'ff Msjalsa s! smsv aiiisUej )aaaa, A aea is pn'sja aaai i liirui rsasieaj tkat mm 4 autl W aajst. mm af usai ssj aa saa phjaet, eansa fm ftssJ wf smn . N rSMaSawaa . tfeM mmImw sslk, kma. aaat alulla Wmtk ssvsjf W ftm t Saaf tsaäfB asal WeaaAcajSav Rm mmmimd IW (1 . (Dr. aWta. .arstaM aJI pr mmtKrimm mm trTTTB f w fasfa k ihmV smsb afcirasav, mmi m i m ihaaa UM U 41 team aaanaKisjg 1 i airsi.atai ja I :.YnfTC)tir$T) Ko. It if. aia wu at. tK w, Bay the Cena'ne Dr. Ricord's Ee&tor&tiTO Fi.l li.is ceietTrtV-d Freurh reroed y is a 8teoLac for exhausted vitality, spermatorrba'a, htm ff memory er-oiig äeMntr. Approved by the Acalcniyof Medicine of l'nris, a'ia such pfcysiciall as hir H. Thompson, Dr. illanchari. "Dr. -Chevalier. Ir. Perigord and others. The great chemist, Liehig, says: "The compounds of the Restorative arc oganic, not labor atnrv roxnpouuds." ltoxe of f 1 1.50; Boxes of 100. f2.75; of CO", f.5 ; of 4K, f h. Sent per mail on reot ipt of pr-ce. Laci box of the genuine has tbe sicnaiure oi R. L De USSER, 23 Beekman Street, New York. (3ile A cent for the United States and l'r.ada. CAUTION. A (spurious article advertised under the name of Ricord's Viral Ret-torative (fills), by S. B. Sigesmond, are made here, not I'liu Dr. Kicoid's formula or by his auiaoritT. The notices by celebrated physicians lie uses ia his circulars and advertisements are copied from tbe notices of tbe crenuine article. The following letter from Dr. Ricordli published by his rei liest: "De a a Sir 1 never knevr tbe Dr. 8. B. Pijrismoud, and. therefore, I could not give him permission to sell any pills in my name, of coure the pills he sells are not at all composed by me, and. as you have thought, you may ascertain thai the man is an Impostor. Believe me jours truly, "RICORD. "6 Rue de Tonraon, Paris, le 3 Janvier." Circular, with above letter in fac simile, seal per mail free. a week in yocr own town. Terras and outfit fre. Address H. HALLKTT A m. rtlaad. Mala,

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