The National Banner, Volume 10, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 October 1875 — Page 1

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PR - & X - o \ TINS BPAN: CITIZENS' BANK, e : 3 i ¥ . 4 0 eI .. LTGONIER,: :; = INDIANA. . First-Class Notes Wanted. . STRAUS BROTHERS. -.M. M. RITTERBAND, N&ary Pablic. . : ‘Ligonier, Ind.,May 6, 1875.-6-26 . . . . - JAMES M. DENNY, ' Attorney and Counsellor at; Law. » s Qifice n the Courg House,, . 0 ALBIGN, - - - -\ < g=#ND. 815 L e COVELL, . ~Astorney-at-Law & Notary Public . Edeadallville, Indiana.. ) Oficé in the Seeley Block, west side Main Street. T D, W. GREEN, o st ‘ a!1 “ e A 3 Justiceolthe Peace & Callection Ag 1, * Ofice—Second Story,; Laudon’s Brick Block; e DIGONIER, S ‘NZ)[AI‘TA; 6 T .Q. VANEAH[P; e ‘ ATTORNEY ‘AT LAW, . Kigomier, : : Indigna. Special attentiongiven to collectionsand conveyancing,.and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and congracts. Legal business promptly attended to.Office over Jicobs.& Goldsmith’s Cash Store. 9-50 o B G ZEMIIERIAN, Attorney at Law & Notary Public, o 0% ¢ Uver werber's Hardware, | ' _ . Cavin Street. : : Ligonier;lndiana. R January 7. 1875.-9-37 i C T LY. B. KNEISERY, - e ‘ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, - + - - INDIANA-_{ar-Office on second floor of Landon’s Block. 7-2 © 7 3WM. B 3 SNECUONNELL, Attorney at Law and Cir- -, cuit Prosecutor, = - _Office in the Court Houge, Albion; Ind. All professionalibusiness promptly and satisfactorily.attended to. . ‘ [T 9-39 . - L ALBERT BANTA,. ! Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer. i ,LIGONIER, INDIANA. - : Spetial attention givento conveyancing andcollections. Deeds, Bondsand Mortgages drawnup, and all lezal:business|attended 'to promptly and acgurately. Ofilce over Straus & Meagher’sstore, = D May 15187315:8-3 L WAKEMAN, : oo 10y v v 1 ' 1 - TnsuranceAg't &Justice of thePeace,

_ KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. + Office with L ‘A. Chapin, Mitchell '‘Block. Will* receive subscriptions to Tue NATIONAL BANNER. DL DEPPELLER, = . . / ' UROSCOPIC AND ECLECTIC . . PIF Y. STCI A IN, Cfiice over Cunningham’s Drug Store, eastiside ot i - Cavia Street, Ligonier, Indiana. - <. 110-2 , J STURGIS, e o« PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ! "AWAWAKA, IND. ) . . Both night and day calls pfomptly attended. to at’ alltimes. -1 . | ap 10-3ms6 e @ WL CARREy . Physician and Surgeon; . LIGUNiER, - - - - - = IND., o Sy prompily attend pll ealls intrustedto him. | ‘i):‘ﬁie wad residence on 4th Street, | : 1 Foßd et e T T 2 L. WogoRUM, ; P hhidrcairi gy o 3 3 ~ s - Physician and Surgeony )s LIGONIER; | i - INDIANA. _ofce, first, dopr north of Jucobs & Goldsmith/s Siore, on Cavin street, Wlgre Lmay. be found 1 . all hours,except wheu fbsentun professiopal bisoivess, by Mayi2th, 1874, oo e e e ee e p e DBl FELEEAR, - ) o D ENT LS T EEEETy Rooms ofef LB Prke's Grocegy, 2 PRt Corner of Main and Mirchell .\‘tx‘e(*s, XYY Y Popposise [the Posy Offive, Kendalle Tud - & All work warrghted =3 © Kendallville, May %,J@tﬁ?i. . s ; ) VAR, AV MORRER, ;‘ (Successbito W L. Andréws,) Sy : AT TYNEIRTIRTO SURG EO N-DENTIST, “EENDALLVILLE, INDEANA. v ‘LIQC'IU Nitrome Oxide Gas administered tor the' A painless extraction of teeth. All work warV" ‘ranted., Exaniinations [rée. £3-ofiice, Second .+ 13tory, Mitchell Block. | . . B-14-1y e g LGRANTS, RS < 3o b e e P . Nargical and Mechanieal Dentisty LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. SRy s, _ Is prep®red U SR | i ‘todoanything : / ,};;r};’..fi s intheirline. Q :,ﬁf . succesful prago A., = tice of over 10 SSe-o SSaaa e Fyyeans justites s e o 8 e lin in saying g that. he can N e give'lentiresat- - Rt gW e BTN g isfactiortto all SR R B BRI F~" - Whop :may be-

stow their patronage. '¥¥ Ofiicecnedoorhorth | of Kinde’s, Cavin Bt~ [ “ris : | e\~ - N 4 TEEGARDEN HOUSE, g Laporte! Indiana.” - Y. W.AXTELL,” : :_=:"| Proptietor. .Laporte, April 5, 1871.| i o | . STOP AT THE | BRICK KELLY HOUSE KENDALLVILEE, INDIANA. 2 ‘\"EW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK =% Hotel, only ten rods jrom'the L. 8. & M. 8. R. .R. Depot, and four squares from the G, R. R R.— Only five minutes walk t¢ any of the principal basinesshonses of the city. Trayeling menandstran- | -, gers willfind this a first-®lasg house. Fare $2 per. day. . J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kend”lville, Aug. 3,1870.-14 ; v PEHILEP A CARE, 4 "AUCTIONEER, . Offers his gervices to the publicin general. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoegtoreof - P, Sisterhen.. o | e * "' Ligenier, January 8, ’7353‘! ; ( E o OV INES, ‘ " DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, = .AND.BUILDING STONES | . LIGONIER,'IND. | s okprill2 1871.-50 ©|o ol R ‘ et SR e CONOORD & CATAWBA WINE, s 1% 7 % * E 5 ’ We keap.congtantly on hfmd and sell in large o’r‘i " small quantities, to suit castomers, 4 Wine of Our Own Manufacture, - Pure — Nothing but the Juice of : .. theGrape. .| < - i ‘ " 'SACK BROTHERS. ~ Ligonier, July 8,’71.-tf |, S Y “Wmébrenne:r& Hoxworth, = - " . HOUSE, SIGN ";Vl OBNAMENTAL . - PAINTERS, '*'ﬁrtfl,'eﬂ,(ihzieru anh, Paper-Hangers. i hop near corner of Fonr@& and Cavin Bts., oppo- = gite Kerr’s Cabinet Shop. i ! _ Ligonier, -- 3 - Indigna, , . B. R SHEFFER, i s . : ! . < - House Painter & Grainer, - Is prepifed to do all work in his line ini first-class . /gtyle and at reaspna'ble rafes, - : | GRAINING MADE A SPECIALTY, ~ amd executed in exact imitation of the natural wood. . Examine vur work,| Sbof. on Mitchell Bt., _reat of Baker's tin-shop, Kendallville, Ind. [6m6 j - THE PHENIX TILE‘M;};S}I!AILE;:’; e S s well ad to the wants of ; . el = by of the ie. 1t may be amﬁd-hgi e R ;ﬁ R R e R :", amd sides ?ﬁcmm K - from 500 1 T 10l of Gl ger doy. It is . e eDT :r‘: L L ap e g iRt SRR g

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BANKING HOUSE 1T O e f SO, MIEXERE, Conrad’s New Brick Biock, LIGONIER, IND’NA, Money loaned on long and shott time. Notes discounted atireasonable rates. T Monies rec¢ived on deporitand interest allowed on specified time, : ' ' Exchange bought and &old, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principal cities of Europe, 8-2 - RO THE FAI’.’NIERS 2 g Y’OU will please take notice that I am still eninge’d in buying wheat, for which I pay the highestmarket price. .= ' ) : . [fyou do mot find me on the street, call before selling, at my Banking Office, in:Conrad’s Brick Block., R .. SOL., MIER. . Ligonier, Indiana, May Tth, 1874. —lf .- MEDICAL RNOTICE. i I)R.‘. ROGERS, an old and experienced physi- | J cian, of :Rush Medival College, (a temperance nyan) takes this method of informing the citizens of this region of the couutry that he hag resumed the practice of medicine,at Cromwéllan all its varians phazes. The Doctor having made ‘a special stully of Chronic’ Piseases is prepared to treat this ciassin all its various and complicated varieties, more especially.diseased eyes.. The Dr. would also gay that he treats Oancers saccesgfully, if such esses are obtaimed for that purpose in the fnciprent or more early stages of that loatheome and very tedions difease.’ G: 8 ROGERS. M. D. Cromwell, Noble Co., Ind., July 22--13-m3. 377—*“‘;"':“"—'“*"_,"' ‘ _T'T x,‘_. Ny v HIGGINBOTHAY & SOX,

LT i O N ] e 2 ({)/’;(/» /,///’r,’.‘ . “\\‘ 5 RN/ O BTSN B A o) 7o (G \ g G iy ) e / @ Qe ) N . C. E Q»@'"{ A \ ' o Esi‘,;"a“g)fﬁ;;?g‘v«ﬁ Pt LY i N B e T Vo -, e i \ AN SR D 2 A AL SH S i 4 A ANES O NN (L RN s A i ; SRR 7 e - + gt . : e /7 2, 5 : ST S fUE ey ~T 4 NENV «© SR, : - Mmoo v wp G L S . _ G R _ . \;— Dl ) Ce. CSSEET WATCH-MAKERS, B U Fe=lyd /2 FREYHNS, Po- R B TJIEWEILIERS, - S - —.and'dealers in—- - > ~ ° K 7 - o ° - - ) ) Watchies, (locks, Jewelry, e : ;—'A'&p_.-" ’ . = . « e i - Fancy Goods, o REPAIRING : Neatly and promptly executed and warranted. " 8T Agents- for Lazarus & Morris’ celebrated Spectacles. v o 8 . B Sign of the Big Witch, opposite the Banner Block, Ligonier, Ind. | “Sep. 30, ’75-35 R R A R R DR. GEO. CLEIS iES | o ) B i ————— . . , ) :_’ 3*) | \ . - This Liniment possesses great curative powers for various ailments. For ‘asthmatic complaints, difiicuit breathing tightness of the breaust, and ailménts of the lungs, it is applied extérnally. on tfie breast; and beitwéen the shoglders. In case. ‘of sifarp pains-in-the back and limbs, head-ache, euar-ache, affections of the throat, or incases ofintérnal jnjuries, whether réxuiting from a severe stroke, fall or bruise, this Liniment isjespecially eflicacious. Itrelieves ulcers, open wounds, salt rheam, white- swelliug, milk -leg, ‘and works charmingly on corns, chilblaing, frosted hands, feet and-ears. Nursing mothers guffering from swollen breasts, rexulting from"a stagnation of. the Hicteal fluid; will fud this Inniment of incal-. culable bénetit by way of separating the.swelling, aflayimg the fever, and heuliug the-breast. . By geveral applications per day,: highly satistactory reruits may be obraited from the use of this Linimentiuthe treatment of tumrors fistula, cancer, piies, and like diseares ;alsp, for wounds resulting rrgm scalds, burng gud-cuts, and frem the bites of wasps; snakes and mad dogs, or'poisoning from noxibus-plavts The French Liniment will also be found a vy luable household rewmedy in cases’of rheumatism,croup, scariet fever, diphtheria, quin--C¥y bronelitis, serofula; erysipelas,—for external applications, Tholera, eholera morbug, colic, cramps, €pasamy; flux, distrhe@a and gripings in the bowels muay be effectuatly checked by the interval use of this celebrated Liniment, as follows: Oue-balf teaspoontul four to five times withiny . perrod of from: one-half hour to two or threeé hours, aecordingto the severity of the case.® For colie, take one or two doses- For flux or disrrhea, infants, ene year of age,require from 5 to 6 drops'; two'years old, from 10 to 12 drops. given insugar. Rub the abdomen with the Liniment. Forinflammation.of the bowely, nse the Liniment internally and eXternally, e ) L - .8 . . ] s Erice 8¢ Cemis per oitle. .v-N * B - 5 “Preparcd and mannfactyred exclurively by g - Y a 3 ; .. = Dr Geo: Cleis, 10-14tf Ll GOSTIEN, IN D, N T __iﬁ._____ e . | AR = - 1 L A A A T A 5 2.5 L, Ao A v ) . . g . VISITEDS LAPORTE

S Y i ) FIFTEEN YEARS. I]'AVE met” with unparlld suceshj‘ ‘the . treatment of all e S Chronie Diseases S —— 7A 5 ARS R GFTHE ; THROAT, ' -.~.3- . ; @ . CLUNGS, Lo - HEART, S - - STOMACE, . " HBAD, Nerves, Kidneys, B]akdﬁder, Womb, and Blood Affections of the Urinary-Organs, Grayel. Scrofula, Rheumiatism, Catarrh, ‘Asthma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, &c. ) ity B . Ourreputstionhasbeenacqaired by candid,honeft dealing ald’years of siccessfil practice, - Our practice; notone of experiment, but founded ontHelaws of Nature, with years of experience and evidence to sustain it, doesnottear down, make sick to make well; no harsh treatmenr. no trifling, no flattering. We know thecause and the femedy needed; no guess work, but knowledge gained by years of experience in the treatment o 1 Chronicdiseases exelusively; no encouragenfent without a prospect. Candid in out opinions, reasonable ifour charges, claim not to know everything, or cure everybody, but do lay claim to reagon aad commor’sense.. We invite the sick, no matter what their ailment, to call and investigate before they dabandon hope, make interrogations and decide for themselves ; it will cost nothing as consultationisfree. =~ = e g Drs: Price & Brewer can be eonsulted as follows: Goshen, Violett House, Monday, 22d November. . i ‘Ligonier, Ligonier House, Tuesday, November 23th, = - ere _ Kendall ville; Kelley House, Wednesday, 24th November.” =~ * . ‘ _LaGrange, Brown’s Hotel, Thursday, November 26th. . - oo * Visige will be made regularly for years. o Residenceand Laboratory: WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS. : s e 29-tf DR. DUFF,; .~ Yos39 Xentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind,, ™ _ Oures all forms of Private and Chronifc Disesses A reg. . ularly educuted &nd legaliy qualified &hy«l.iﬂn.’hu been . boger. ussbme‘d;sndrmn successful, as his extensiye practice Wiil. prove, “Age, with _t'xdpetiememm be relied o, To roaponsible persona no fee demanded till cuped, . . Spermatorrhma, Sexual g’bult& , and Impotency,as the result of sxiv-asyse in - youth, sexual excesses in maturer z::n; or other gauses, . broduciog some of the foliowing effects: NERVOUSNESY siue | Elow ob Toßis, Lows 0w avROAL rowin BRdy FEIeFILE v SkEent *" e ' ’"‘ : e e T . MARRIAGE GUIDE, & sl SRR ;“ i | BEMOIOE WO IREY SAELT, a 0 Nly Rat, WAy (he imped. ’

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY. In speaking of a person’s fanits, . . f : Pray don’t forget your ownj .. Remember, those wi'h-homes of glass o Should seldom throw a stone, - : If we have nothing elze to do 7 i "Than talk of those who sin, g Tis better to commence at home - And from that point begin. . ] We have no rightto judge aman | & S Until hes fairly tried; i Should we not like his company, . & © We know the world is wide. : . Some may have faults, and who has not? : The Old «s well as the young; : 5 . Perhaps we may, fot aught we know, . Have fifty to their one. . ‘ - T'l tell you a better plan; i . ; .~ Andfind it works full well; i ' To try'my own'‘defects to cure : ’ Ere other’s fanits I tell; - : 5 And though sometimes I hope to he - No woree than some Iknow, . : My own short comings bid me let - : The faults of others go. - Sy : Tren Jet ug all. when we begin : To slander friend or foe, S | Think of the harm one word may do | To those we little know, e Remember=curses, kometimes, like : | Our chickens—*‘‘roost at home " g Don’t speak of others’ fanlts antil - We have none of our own. s < ; - Testing the 01d Man’s Love., | At i} e “5, " Mrs. Clytk bad been reading the Beecher-Tfilton scandal until her faith in men had dwindled down to_a very fine point; she had a poor opinion of them. ‘ . j She Lhad noeticed that her hitherto loving spouse had, for the past two weeks, been low. spirited and downhearted. | She thought perhaps he too had been led from the paths of virtue by the deluding voice of some bewitching siren, and that his veoice was.growing cold. But how to find out such was the ®ase.. Josephus did not show any signs of producing the statement;:or confessing his guilt to a mutual friespd.} Iler brow corrugated, and her hands clenched as she brooded over her imaginary wrongs and she-determined to put:iﬁéﬁﬁtlelity of her husband. to the teste=z: | ' —Buthow to do it, that was the ques“Ah! T have it,” said she triumphantly. “I'll drown myself; that is, figuratively.” = 1 . Clark was a farmer in good circumstances, and being ' several years vounger:-than his wife and good looking, it kept her in a state of jealousy, and Mrs. Clark proceeded to put her plan into execution. o ‘ Just’ behind the house was a very deep well, that haa not been used for some time, and it was covered over with boards to prevent the cattle from falling #nto it. J S She removed the covering from the well, and placing her‘ bonnet and shawl upon the brink, she.crawled in under a large gooseberry bush to await developments.: : ; - The weather was cold, and she was nearly frozen before she saw her-hus-bang and hired man coming from the barn where they had been at works .. Clark passed the well without no-: ticing the clothing, but the hired man sawthem and gave & cry of horror. “Mercy on us, Mr. Clark!. Your: wife has thrown herself in.the well!” IHe shouted frantically. [ ~ Mrs. Clark ' expected that her husband would tear his hair, and rash to the edge of the well, and. after calling her all the endearing names he could think of, descend into its watery depths in cager search of her damp corpse. ’ . » ) L But Clark didn’t do anything of the kind. He quietly took a fresh '‘chew of tobaeco, and then approaching the well looked quietly into it. ' - : “I guess the old gir] has: suicided,” said he, without any emotion worth speaking of. “Jalde, you sling them boards back again; I wouldn’t have that brindle heifer get in there for fifty dollars; and after dinner we’ll hoist the old woman out.” =~ ; “iladn’t I better get some of the neighbors here first ?” asked the frightened man. A ~ “After dinner will do, Jake. Business before pleasure is my motto, and I'm awful hungry.” - - . . Jake covered up the wéll, and the men went into the house, leaving the old'lady howlintg with rage. o “I'll old girl him! Tl’ll suicide him. Take more pains over that pesky heifer than he does over me. I’ll, I'll--7 . ‘Words failed her, they were inadequate to express her feelings. " After dinner Clark sent the hired man after some of the neighbors, and while he was awaiting his return. he seated himself on a log, in plain sight of his loving wife, and® whistled Old Hundred through without missing a stave. - i :

The neighbors: arrived and were full of sympathy for the bereaved husband, am} Josephus bere his honors meekly. . : : : Various plans were canvassed for raising the- body, but owing to the great depth of the well they could not decjde upon the right one., "+ ~“I’'ll tell you the best way, my friends,” said Clark, pathetically, “She is gonef and will never come bac%( to this world of woe and troublej so I think we had better let the body remain where it is and fill up the well. It will save a .power of trouble and: bother.”- . : " )

This proposition was agreed to by the neighbors as being feasible, and the work of- filling it up commeneced. Josephus threw in all'the large stones and blocks of wood that- he could lay his hands .on. :

“There,” said he, “I guess that will do,” after.they had thrown a couple of cart loads of rubbish into tlie well, *Jake can fill up the rest at odd spells and rainy days. (We’ll have a funeral sermon preached as soon.as I getdone hauling wood.” .. Near by the side of Josephus stood a woman of about thirty summers or winters, and she had been regarding the solemn scene with a mixture of pleasure’ and sorrow intermingled, and when the rest of the neighbors took their departure she lingemed behind to comfort the aching heart of the bereaved widower. : “It is a great pity to be so suddenly cut down in the prime of life, like the flower at noontide,” she said mournfully. ! - : “Yes,” said he, shifting his quid® of tobacco from one side of his mouth to the other, “but Betsy was getting along in years, and we must be resigned.” . : ; . ¢« Just so, Mr. Clark, resignation is a cooling balm, as it were, to fill the void, in a troubled breast,. and ‘T always thought your wife was too old for such a smart active man as you.” ~ “Did you really?” answered Clark, with sudden interest. ; i . “To be sure I did; I always took a great interest in your welfare.” . ‘ Clark was lost in. meditations for some time. - . .. ‘ T “Miss Perkins,” said he, “can you make good butter?” .. on . “Now, Mr. Clark,” she answered, blushing, “you are touching me on a tender spot, for if Ido say it myself, I won’t tarn my back to any woman in the country making good butter.” doodeooky” = o MHimbaater. Ll

IIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1875.

another large stone, and throwing it into the well, “suppose you and I get married ?” - . L . “Now, really, Mr. Clark, you are so sudden, and take me by surprise, but my hearts bleeds for you in your bereavement, and—and I consent. Take me—l am yours.” b + The fond couple embraced, taking a kiss to ratify the bargain. ;| . Mrs. Clark, under the gooseerryb ‘bush, was boiling with rage, but she restrained berself for a few moments. “I say,” said Clark, after they had regained their composure, “won’t Betsy's clothes fit you?” . “Of course they will, and it will be ‘a great saving.” | Sl “And I will take that new cloak of hers, and make *me an overcoat—a long one like the city folks wear,” said Clark. = , : : - “Oh, you dear creature!” replied she. ‘ “Sweet angel of my soul!” said he. Just then something lit upon Clark’s back: and he'did not know whether it was a wild cat, or‘a streak ot lightning, or- the devil, but he found out directly. .. S : . His charmer cast one glance at the apparition and scooted. L Clark is just about again. He says it was the worst case of inflammatory sickness he ever had. = But he is the meekest husband to be found, and the well is filled up. LT et ERm— e 4 : . A Sagacious Doxg. Mr. Snapp, a blacksmith, owns two dogs, one a terrier, four or five years old, the other half shepherd and half cur, about twelve or fifteen years old, and consequently very feeble. In the winter, between the hours for breakfast and dinner, and supper, these two dogs may always be seen perched up just far enough from Mr. Snapp’s forge to escape the sparks, but still near enough to keep warm, As soon as the hour for dinner comes—which they know even better than the apprentices in- the shop—they are hoth off at a full run, each aiming to secure a place -behind the warm kitchen stove, which is only large enoygh for one dog at a time. Now, the terrier being the most active, almost always gains the coveted place, leaving the poor old dog out in the cold. Now comes the curious part of my story. The old dog being thus left out in the cold one bitter day, set his wits to work to devise some means by Whichi he-could get the terrier out of the coveted place. All at once an idea seemed to strike him. Aaking advantage of the good “watch dog” qualities of the terrier, he made a feint toward the garden, barking furiously, as if some one was intruding at that*point, when, true to his nature, out popped the terrier not to make a feint, but to make a pellmell rush to ‘the extreme end of ‘the garllen, passing .the old schemer just outside the kitchen door, who no sooner saw the terrier enter the garden -than he popped too, not into the garden, but behind the warm kitchen stove, curled himself up and waited, with a cunning twinkle in his eye, for his young /friend, who no sooner made his ‘appearance, and seeing the situation, than he tried exactly the same stratagem with the old dog, with as dittle success asif he had tried: to fly. Finding that to fail so signally, he in turn put his wits to work. After disappearing. in the garden for a few mements, e made "his appearanee ‘right in. front.of the kitchen door with a large bone in his mouth and set to.work on it as if he was enjoying it hugely. X

Now what dog could resist such a tempting sight? At least the old fellow behind the stove could not, it is plamn, for, sneaking cautiously out of his snug retreat, he made a sudden dash for the coveted bone, which he secured very easily —to the surprise of all, fgr a few minutes only, as the. mystery was soon eleared up; for no sooner had he possessed himself’ of what he soon found to be nothing but an old dry bone they had both knawed a hundred times, than the young rascal had secured the good warm retreat behind the stove —which he certainly deserved after displaying so much cunning—lleaving the poor old fellow out again in the cold, there to contemplate the old proverb, “It takes a thief to catch a thief” - ; P T T G- Bt i 3 The Toothache. A gentleman says, after suffering excrutiating pain from- his ache, and having tried in vain to obtain relief, Betty told me a gentleman had been waiting to see me, who said he could cureme in one minute. He came—a friend I had not seen for years. He sympathiZed with me while I briefly told him how sadly I was afflicted. “My dear friend,” exclaimed he, “I can cure you in ten minutes.” “How, how ?” inquired I. “Doit,in pity.” o “Instantly,” said he. “Betty, have, you-any alum ?” | L ' “Yes.” S o “Bring it, and some% 'commo§l» salt. . They were produced, my friend pulverized them, mixed in equal quantities, then wet a small piece of cotton. causing ‘the mixed powders to adhere, and placed it in my hollow tooth. - Lo

i. “There, if that does not cure you I will forfeit my head. You may tell this in Gath and publish 'it in Askelon, the remeny is infallible.” It was so. I experienced a sensation of coldness on applying it, which gradually subsided, and with it the torment of the toothache. ° . - 'An Important Fact, The voluntary %estimony of thousands establishes beyond all doubt a fact of vital importance to the sick. and debilitated, viz: that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is an absolute specific for remittent and intermitten't fever, dyspepsia, sleeplessneSs, chronic diarrheea, and all diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels. The unmeditated stimulants usually prescribed in these cases only aggravate the gymptoms, instead of removing them, The Bitters,. on the contrary, act as: a corrective and invigorant, without producing the unpleasant and (langerous consequences’ of the old scl 10l practice. The action is mild and soothing to the irritated stomach and’ bowels, promoting - digestion and pr eventing flatulence, nausea, headache a; ad all intestinal irregularities. Aw. ineglassful before meals greatly assis ts digestion. ‘The convalescent may u se them with great benefit, as a mean 8 of restoring strength and cheerfuln ¢ss. S I L 24-wa.

Another accident-on the rail, which should admonish all to “look (out for the enginé” when in the ‘viciniity of railroad crossings. Frederick Hudgon, the journalistic historian, and Judge Keyes were out driving, near Concord, Mass., and temptel fate by driving across the Middleses: Central railway while trains were in motion. They were run over, with fatad results in the case. of Hudson. Dyceased | was a man whom the world could illy, el $a b htow R A BhEE Gl iet PRI R i e

R ASoA L e e e e THEABC aF‘FINANC;E.' 'fl‘vivelvé Questions élalnly Aunswered by Carl -éehuﬂz. s At the close of a political meeting at Canton, Ohio, during the recent campaign, Carl Schurz answered an elaborate series of questions sent to him in writing by a prominent lawyer of that city, Col. Seraphim Meyer, personally known to a' number of our subscribers in this county. Mr. Schurz responded to the questions, thus presehted as follows: - [ : :

Col. Meyer, in a friendly spirit, T admit, and, at the same time, I suppose, not without a desire to embarrass" me [laughter], has- propounded these questions. lam very much obliged to him for the opportunity which he affords me. [Cheers.] He asks, “Is it feasible to bring about the resumption of spécie-payment by force of a legal enactment rasvely? If nof,. then in what other way can it be effected ?? My answer is, whether resumption can be enforced by legal enactment depends, as Col. Meyer . very well ‘knows, upon what thé legal enactment is. As to another way—yes, there is another way, and that is the way we are advised to take by inflationists themselves. . It is to run up the inflation of the currency until the bubble bursts and general prostration and ruin follow, and then. when the exploded currency is swept.out of the way by the.convulsion, to gather up what little gold and silver we can find, and with that little to begin anew, cursing the inflationists for their schemes and-cursing ourselves for listening to their advice. {Loud and great applause.] | o s i Third Question—“ While you ‘were in the:Senate of thé United States, did you sustain by your vote the act of Congress passed to enforce the resumption of specie-payment as early as the year 1879 ?” ' L

Answer—l do not know- that my vote in Congress is in issue in this - campaign. . I did vote for the Specie Resumption act, I am glad to say. [Clreers. ] i o Fourth—“Do you approve of that measure now.” - e Answer—l voted for it for one rea-| son, viz: That it committed one of the. great political parties to a resumption of . specie-payments. [Cheers.|] The bill did not quite satistfy me. First— Because it put resumption off too long. I would have had it earlier. Second—l thought it did not contain the necessary machinery to carry. it out. ol : i s

Fifth—«“lf carried out, wili not the effect of that measure be to protract for a long time the financial crisis under whieh the country is unfortunately suffering, and to involve the country in still greater financial difficulprésey . o 1 S /

My answer is, tlat that effect will be produced by continuing the present state of uncertainty. The crisis of 1873 was thus brought about by over-production, over-trading,: and over-speculation,—bulding railroads from nowheére to nowhere,—and:.other enterprises in which eapital was sunk without return, and extravagance and wastefulness were encouraged among all classes. ~[Cheers of “That’s so.”] Similiar results were brought about by gimilar causes in Austria, in Germany, and in England.: What was our |experience in this country after, the crisis ef 1857? '‘l'he issues of the' rotten banks were swept away, and the business only returned when they had a sound dollar again. Nothing but.a specie-policy by the Government will bring the present trouble; and uncertainty fo an end. At present the banks of the country are full of money, lying idle for want of confidence; and confidence will not return as long as not a man knows what crazy antics the currency may play with our fortuneg, if the wild sehemers who are preaching inflation now should get possession of the Government. There can be no confidence until that which is-a dollar to-day will be a good dollar to-morrow. |Cheers.] - Siaxth Question—+“Where is the specie to come from to take the place of the present paper carrency 2! - -+ |

Answer—d ust as wheat comes when people are hungry and want bread. Gold and silver,like merchandise, will not go where it is not wanted. . To illustrate: If all the people of the country should resolve to-day that they would wear moecasins and not wear shoes any longer, the shoes wo'd be carried off to some country where they would be worn; and if 6 months hence. the people should resolve to wear shoes again, they would, under the laws of trade, be brought into our markets {o supply the demand. - Gold will come here, as other merchandise, when it is wanted, just as wheat would if there were a scarcity here. and abundange abroad, . - Seventh” Question—“ls it not a fact that, whilst the increase of the population,” business, and property of the country requires a corresponding increase of the volume of money in circulation, there is at the present time a less quantity of gold and silver in the country to supply the circulation than there has been at any time since the close of the late war %’

Answer—l hope the writer of this letter will not consider it a want of courtesy if I say he is at loggerheads with the A B C of finance. [Cheers.] It is a well-known fact that the corresponding increase of currency is required, with the increase of population, business, and property. Money &s a measure of value and a tool of exchange, and you might as well say that, because to measure 10 yards of cloth requires a yard-stick, to measure 20 yards of cloth requires two- yardsticks. [Laughterand cheers.] Nine-ty-three per cent. of the exchanges of the country are carried on by the mere transfer of bank accounts, and only 7 per cent. by the mere transter of currency from hand to hand. . Formerly, when a building was put up, it was necessary to have 8o many hands to carry up brick and mortar. Put up a steam-engine there to do the same work, and the writer of this letter might perhaps say that we still want more hands {great cheering]; and still it is the standing theory of' the inflationists that the increase of currencymust correspond with the increase of population and property. As to the question whether there is not a less quantity of gold' and silver g: the country. to supply the circulation than ‘heretofore,—of course there is, and will be less and less the longer that financial policy continues which deprives gold and silver of employment; and, if the inflationists get control of the Government, they li}ght succeed in driving the last gold dollar out of the counfry. [Cheers.] | . Ninth Question—*Must the present volume 0f currency be reduced, asaniing 45 o o sbaul ST50000010; Snd, 1 30, how much, to render the resumption of specie-payments prac-

cannot be resumed and maintained as long as the volume of the currency exceeds that which would circulate as gold, and paper convertible into gold. [Applause.] Itis a significant fact, which I suppose the questioner does not like, that the volume of the currehcy is now being contracted, not by the, government, nor by any sort of foree, but by the business of the country itself, which tries to get rid of a thing it has no use for. [Cheers.] When the discussion in Congress on the curfency question was going on, there was a great outery about the South and West being hungry for more paper circulation. Then the monopoly feature of the National Bank act was repealed, and any man:or set of men having the requisite capital was authorized to start a bank of issue and create currency. What has been the consequences? Only a small amount of new currency was issued, while about $29,000,000 are now in process of withdrawal, mainly in the West and South. Not only did they not take more, but they tried to get rid of a large portion of that which they had. Why o not those clamorous patriots, who-cry se lustily for more money put their shoulders to the wheel and create more? Simply because the business of the country has no use for it. - [Cheers.] There the business of the country is helping us to bring the volume of the currency back to its real requirements. Until that is accomplished, specie-payments cannot be resumed. I am also eonvinced that, if we had less currency than is needed for the transaction of the business of the country, the necessities of business would force the gold and silver still here out of its hidingplaces to gilt the gay. [Cheers.] - Tenth Question—+*Does the reduction not necessarily effect a reduction of the price-value of property and labor in a ratio nearly equal to that of the reduction of the value of the :curreney ?”’ | : . Amnswer—ln consequence of the business crisis general prices have gone down so low already that- we are almost at hard-pan now. I comsider this, therefore, a very propitious time for inaugurating and carrying outa resumption policy. - ~ Eleventh Question—“ What effect will this reduction of currency have upon the debtors of the country; will not the amount of their indebtedness increase ?”’ o

- Answer—l take leave to say that there is mo greater humbugin this discussion than dividing the people into debtor and creditor classes. Busi-ness-men are almost uniformly debtors and creditors at the same time. If we wait until nobody is in debt, we shall never.return to specie-payments; but there'is now less private indebtedness than there has been for many years, and, as most of the debts run on:short ‘time, they can be liquidated over and aver ugain before the time for resumption arrives. The premium.on geld will ‘have to overcome in three and a quarter years, making the pro-rata appreciation of short-time debts very insignificant; but the inflationists ought not to “talk about losses incurred by fluctuations in the value of the \eurrency, for, by bthe continuance of the present irredeemable system, they continue also the fluctuations, which, in several single years since the close of the War, have. been as large and larger than the fluctuations from the present premiums to parin three years and a quarter would ‘be. : - Twelfth Question—*Are youin favor “of an exclusively metallic currencey; if not, what kind of paper currency do you favor; banks of issue, State or -National ?” ; .

Answer—l would inform the gentleman, if he does not know it already, that ecivilized nations now-a-days do not use'any exclusively metallic currency, but also bank notes; but they sée to it that every bank note is convertible into gold. I do not know that it! is in';issue in this campaign what kind of paper currency I'favor, but I will inform the writer of this letter, for his own gratification, that T think the Government ought to have as little- to do with the issuing ot paper money as possible. It is not the business of the Government to resolve every year how much money the country shall have. ' [Applause.] Of all the bank-notes I like that kind of wild-cat bank-notes least which obliges us to look at, a bank-note detector to see if it is' worth anything, and to pay exchange on New York at every remittance. If the questioner can inform me of a method to create a State currency as safe and universally acceptable, and as equal in value throughout the country, as the National currency, [ shall be greatly obliged to him. [Cheers.] ;

[From thé Phifadclphia Presbyterian.]

- From the World’s Dispensary Print--ing Office and Bindery, Buffalo, N. Y., we have received “The People’s Com‘mon Sense Medical Adviser, in plain English ; or, Medicine Simplified,” by R. V. Pierce, M. D., Counselor-in-chief of the Board of Physieians and Surgeons at the World’'s Dispensary. Whoever helps humanity in its struggle with its inherent weaknesses and diseases; to bear or cure, is its benefactor. Ignorance is not only of itself a cause of disease and mortality, but it is the enemy of every effort to cure or mitigate. Nothing will se speedily remove this cause as knowledgs (an elementary one at least) of the diseases to which we are heir, as well as those superinduced by our own imprudence. Dr. Pierce has rendered, in our judgment, a benefactor’s service,'both to the afflicted and to the profession, in his diagnosis of the diseases treated of. and in the presentation of the philosophie principles involved in their cause and removal. ‘He is sparing of remedies, and usually prescribes such as are safe in unskilled hands. Asa book merely of abstract > knowledge, it is exceedingly: readable and interesting, especially the following subjects. Cerebral Physiotogy, Human Temperaments, Pseudo-Hygiene, the Nursing -of the Sick, Sleep, Food; Ventilation, etc. In: one chapter on another subject;so delicate in its nature that it is shut up béyond the domain of warning to all ‘but physicians, so accursed in its re‘sults in modern society, he is most explicit, and alike true to God, to virtue, to life, and to society,shows the truth as presented in the teachings of Scrip‘ture,—that life begins with conception,—with great force, to which is added faithfal warnings. = Price of the Medical Advyiser $1.50, sent post-paid. Address the author at Buffalo, N. Y. Ly

TFroopsiN ENaLAND.—Late reports received in London state that extensive floods -occurred throughout Lancashire, Warwickshire, and elsewhere in England. The Midland Railway between Sheffield and Doncaster is submerged.in some places to a depth of five feet. 'Traflic, consequently, is seriously interrupted .and for many miles ‘amlnmgsﬁogm ;zzguan% lowlying houses in Birmingham have been

: Delalb County Itéms. G {From the Waterloo Press, October 21.] First-class apples sell readily at $1 per bushel on the streets. . . * The new school law requires all the ‘public schools in the county to close during Institute week. = i C. M. Wing and Thomas Maloney are the gentlemen who are to start the new paper at Garrett. ge A farmer in Richland, named Ober, is the last victim oft the patent right swindler. He contributed $250. . Notwithstanding the frequent freezing of the peach trees, the farmers are planting them liberally this fall.” / ; { B . Material is already being coliected on the ground, north of the creek, for the new. Reformed (German) Chureh. ~ Hard money Democrats have wonderfully increased in the past ten days, and the softs correspondingly, decreased. i S b

The North Eastern Indiana Medical Association will hold its next meeting at Auburn, on the last Tuesday in Deceember: @ '« S

. The Wesleyan Annual Conference has sent Elder Bassett to Wabash county, to whiclflocality he will shortly remove. : ! L

From that gentleman himself we have it that the Auburn Courier drew entirely upon its imagination, when it represented that Hon. J, H.-Baker was in sympathy with the inflationists. e : :

. Inthenumber of its fine farm houses Smithfield township claims to excel ‘all' others in the county. In addition to those built previous seasons, and . which have been mentioned in these scolumns, Samuel Kennedy, Freeman Kelley, G. H. Duncan, Henry Rempis, and perhaps others, have erected very fine and expehsive dwellings in that township this summer. e

' JFIRE AT AUBURN.—At about ten o’clock on Saturday night last, a fire entirely consumed the wooden high school building at Auburn.. Citizens' of the town seem generally to believe that it was the work of incendiaries, but what purpose they could have had in view is not clear. = The building wasvold, being, after the Newville building, the first schiool house of any, prétentions erected in the county. The value of it, therefore, could not have been large, but it is unfortunate just at this time, when the schools for this year have just fairly opened. The building contained considerable valuable furniture, most of which was destroyed or badly damaged: in its hasty removal. The total loss may be fairly estimated at $lO,OOO, upon which there was insurance to the amount of $3,500. e d o . Lagrange County Items. - - [From the Lagrange Standard, October 21.] John Davenport, Jr., of Elkhart, has come to Lagrange to remain and engage in the grain business with) his fathery C L Even the apple crop is sufficiently abundant to enable the people to lay in store good winteér apples at 75 cents a bushel. e ~ Hia Hon. J. B. Howe’s new residence in Lima already presents the most imposing appearance of any in Northeastern ludiana. el L

We notice among the petit jurors drawn for the United States Court for, the November - term, the following from Northern Indiana: Francis P. Griffith, Esq., Lagrange; George W. McConnell, Angola; E. W. H. Ellis, Goshen. : o v

The expenditure of nearly $50,000a year in this county for the support of schools should arouse in pupils an ambition to acquire as much learning as possible in return, and should also interest every good citizen in seeing to it that all the echildien possible are availing themselves of the benefits of the expenditure. : . / - Mr. Hollis, a few weeks. ago, sold hig tame crow to some person in Angola, who took him to that place. Mr. Crow stayed ‘'with'his new master until his wings grew out, when he departed and returned to his old honie, and now_pays his daily visits about town as was his custom all summer, Is it instinet that enables a bird after being carried twenty-five miles by a circuitous route of sixty miles by railroad, to.find its way back home after an interval of ten days? L

We have several times mentioned the fact, that parties filing claims: against estates should look after them. If not allowed by the sécond: term after filing, the claims go on the.court docket for trial in court. If the claimant does not then appear to prosecute his claim, the claim is liable to dismissal at his costs. There is no. law authorizing the Clerk to notify the claimant of the pendency of his claim in edurt. The law presumes that all claimants will attend to their claims without, notice, the same as plaintiffs in other casesi At almost every term some claims are dismissed at costs of claimant,and no one appears to have any remarkable love for paying their own costs. .« = ¢ 7

THE Supreme Court of this State, in arecent decision, lays down this rather hard rule: “Officers and others are liable for acts aone under an unconstitutional act of the Legislature. All persons are presumed to know the law, and if they act under an unconstitutional enactment, they do so at their own peril, and: must bear the consequences.” This is placing officials in pretty close quarters. If they take tl e Supreme Court’s prerogative in their own hands, and decide a law unconstitutional, and refuse -to act underit, they are liable to prosecution; and if they act under it, and,the Supreme Court rules it uﬁconati@ut‘wn‘al, they aresubject to punishment. There would seem to be a necessity for wise men in the Legislature in the: first place.—Lagrange Standard. -

The Mishawaka Enterprise details a local event under the head of “A Big Local Scandal Cansed by Feminine Indiscretion, Masculine Cupidity and Tattling” The scene is located at the Woolen mills at that place.. The accused masculine turned over $30,000 worth of property to his wife to keep things quiet, but it broke out again, and in another place. The informer appears to have the brunt of the battle so far. - The friends of the accused woman are pursuing him sharply for slander.—Lagrange Standard. - L 5 -The Canada Southern railroad company have moved the iron laid on the track a% Hamilton, Steuben ' county, out of the State. The citizens there made an effort to prevent the removal until the cjumgmy‘ha'd liquidated certain loeal indebfedness, but in this they were unsuccessful. = ‘A Woodhull, Bsq, ot Angola, was PATLLMLY ÜBSLAUFRE Dy Bir s s

.o ¢ Our Neighbor.. - - _One-of our church societies has long been wrestling with the question, “Who is thy neighbor ?”" Somie of the members incline to the helief. that, in the Seriptural injunction, “Love thy neighbor,” all mankind is meant; others contended that they only are our neighbors who are friendly to us; while vet others, of liberal and contracted views, maintain that one is to have no neighbor outside the pale of ongsownehtreh. .- o | - Let them settle it as they may, the neighbor will be a neighbor still. .We have one of the right royal sort in our mindweyel: .0 e .- He keeps his chickens up when wemake garden; he lends us good books, and borrows ours; returns what he borrows—and never-asks for those he loans; comes over often and chats, without telling us his grievances and troubles or- seeking .lo learn ours; gives no advice, and asks for none; cares' not whether we' have family prayers.or domesticbroils; if he thinks our baby doesn’t look like us, he takes no pains to mark the points of difference; on general matters he expresses his own' views boldly, and does not think us a blasted fool if we do not conclude “with: theém; he calls on us when we ‘are sick, and. doesn’t talk to us of dark,dismal holes inthe ground, or tell us of a number of persons he has kihown who - exhibited -the same symptoms as; ours-and finally died aftera terrible and protracted illness; when we die, he will -attend to the funeral arrangements; see that no second-hand coffin is palmed off on us, and tenderly support our apparently srief-stricken widow when the falling clods send ‘back to:her ears the rattling notes-of freedom ; finally, he will assist her.to get another and a better hnsband, 1w 0

~ Heaven bless our neighbor!" There ‘are few like him. More’s the pity. . . What to Teach our Sons. _ Teath them self reliance. .. “Teach them'to make fires. = . " Teach them to weed the garden. - © Teach them to foot up store bills. . - Teach them not to wear tight boots. .~ Teach them not'to dye their whis- . Teach them how to saw and ‘split . Teach them how to- black their boots, and take proper -care of their clothine. "o 0 e e _ Teach them:to eat what is set before them and be thankful. -~ ° " Teach them how to darn -stockirgs and'sew on-buttons. = 7 i - Teach them every day, dry, hard, practical common sense, . . ¢ Teach them to-say no, and mean it; yes, afid sticktoits o e o ~ -Teach them to wear their working clothes likg kingsi- - o 0 oo ~ Teach them to regard the morals -and not the money of the belles. =~ Teach tliem that steady habits are ‘better than riotous living. ~ - Teach them all the uses-and pro‘prieties of Kkitchen, dining room and . Teach them not to have: anything to do with intemperate and dissolute young men or with idle and frivolous FORIE WOMEN. 5 e o 00 " Teach them that the farther one goes beyond his inconie- the nearer he ‘gets to the:poor house, .~ . - . Teach them that a’good, steady mechanic is better than -a dozen loafers in:broadeloth, - -: & . - Teach them the accomplishments—musié¢, painting and. drawing—ifi you have time and can afford it. . - Teach them that God made them in ‘His own image, and by no-amount of tight laeing; tight boots, waxed mus‘taches, or by making smoke-stacks of themselves can they improve the model.—Anna B. Dickingon. = -0 ~ Death of Gen. Sol. Meredith. ‘

- 'General Sol. Meredith died at his old homestead, Oakland - Place, suburban to Cambridge City, Wayne couuty, at 12:40 o’clock " last’ Thursday morning. General Meredith was a man of many virtues, and of ‘more than ordinary prominence, having® gained considerable -notoriety in the State prior to the war as a civil officer, national honor during the war-as asoldier, and since the -war quite a ‘reputation as a breeder of short-horn cattle. - He was born in: Guilford county, N. C., May 29, 1810, and came to Wayne county in 1829, first working.as a farm laborer near Richmond. 1n.1834 he was elected sheriff -of the county, and reelected in 1836. In 1846-7-8 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1849 was appointed Marshal of Indiana by President Taylor, which of‘fice he lield until removed )by Pierce in 1853, having in the meantime been a delegate to the Whig National Conventions in 1840 ~and 1848. In 1854 he was again- elected to the Legislature, and in 1856 was a delegate to the Republican convention. In 1850. he was elected Clerk of the county, and in 1861 entered the service as Colonel ‘of the Nineteenth Indiana, being promoted to- Brigadier-General in 1862, and Major-General in 1864, lln 1866 he was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, and- in 1867 Surveyor-Gen-eral of Montana Territory, which high office he held until July, 1869, since which time: he has been devoted to breeding short-horn cattle, in which ‘occupationi ‘he was- passionately zealous. In Cambridge he was always considered their representative man, honored with yarious municipal offices and others.of trust.. .. - -

A High Sense of Honor:

- The Duke of Wellington had a high gense of honor in all money dealings, and would suffer'none of his agents to. do-a mean -thing -in his name. His ‘steward once bought some land adjoining 'his eountry estate, and was boasting of having made-a fine bargain, from the straightened circumstances of the seller. °=~ = . . - “What did you buy it for?” asked theduke, - oo Uy - “Eight hundred pounds,” was the ANSWeE, . e ol T - “How much was it worth?” . . “Eleven hundred pounds,”. said the steward, rubbing his hands in glee at ‘the thought of the good bargain. v, _ “Then take three: hundred pounds and carry them to the seller, with my compliments, and don’t ever venture ‘to talk to me of cheap land again.” ~ The steward was confounded, and could scarcely credit his own ears. ‘The idea that any one could refuse to ‘profit by a sharp bargain, and throw ‘money away in paying more than was, agreed on, was hard for him to com- .. Is Yonr Lifé¢ Worth 10 Cents? ~ Sickness. pm% everywhere, and éverybody complains of ‘some disease during their life. When sick, the object is-to get well; now msﬁplainiy ‘that no person in’ this world that is suffering with Dyspegsx@ Liver ComPl and ifs ofects such 48 diges

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i Old-Time Punishments.: . ' Queer punishments were in the olden times inflioted in the various parts of Europe—in some cases up to a very recent period—with the object of humiliating the culprit and exposing * him to public ridicule. A common punishment was that of going in pro.cession through the streets og atown or village in a dress covered with '~ images of swords, whips, rods, and ; other instruments of .corporeal pun-° - .ishment: In Germany, women who had beaten their husbands, were made to ride backward on a donkey, holding his tail, on which occasion the animal | was led through the streets by the. husband. If the woman struck her ' husband in such a nianner that he could not ward off : the blow, the don‘key was led by the man who had icharge of him; if not,then by the husband himself. Anothet very old cus‘tom was that of punishing a hen-peck-ed husband by removing the roof of ‘his house; on the "ground that “a man who allows his wife to rule at home does not deserve any protection against ‘wind and weather.” In France,if two women fought in' public, they | _were each put'in a sort of closed sen-try-box, which left ‘only their heads exposed, and then posted opposite each other in the market-place, where they remained for an hour, faceito face,but - ‘unable to use their hands or feet. A ) common punishment for scolding women was the “shameful stone,” which, was hung iaround their- necks. This stone was usually in the shape of a 'bottle. In Spain, libelers and slan-, ~derers were compelled to standona - ‘block and strike themselves three . times on the mouth as'a sign of re’pe_ntanc_e. / S ;

= The Credit System. ! The practice of buying on credit the = necessary articles of the household is ; fatal to good economy.- The house- . keeper has always to pay dearer when | she does not pay ¢ash. The trades- . . man must have interest for his money, ' for a man will never ina busy community be willing, and is seldom able, . | if he were.willing, to forget it. To . the ordifnary cash.price of the article he therefors adds the interest which ‘may accrue-during the time that credit is allowed. This, moreover, isinot all; there must be a premium exacted by the dealer for the risk he runs.in trusting. his' ‘goods to that class 1(;93 - .more or less dangerous customers who never pay ready money. Even the ! most honestly disposed of these are ' often unsafe debtors, for they are generally, such as are imprudent enough to anticipate their incomes, and to overrun ‘them in expenditure. The © credit system, moreover, is a temptation to unnecessary purchases. There is'a sort of check in the sight and . touch of the hard won money to the disposition to dispese of it lightly. - On the other hand, there is something in the facility of credit, removing as = it does: the disagreeable necessity of = . _payment to a vague future, very seductive to the buyer, who can gratify. his love of possession with a momentary sense, at any rate, that its gratification costs him' nothing. There is | no such cheap and cautious purchaser aseash, o 0 i ; L e ee R o ’ + Workingmen and Inflation. L An intelligent workingman who belongs to the trade union in this ¢ity = - said to us on Saturday: “I wish that _ in some article on the currency ques- ' ‘tion you would-call attention to the- - inflicted . on workingmen by a fluctuating currency in the matter of = strikes. The effect of an increase of currency 1s to advance - prices, and 8o compel an increase.of wages. Asa .general rule this can only be.accom- -, plished by a strike, which produces confusion and ill feeling all around. About the time the new rate is established, perhaps the currency, from ‘some cause or. other, begins to appre--ciate in value, andp this is followed' * pretty soon by a reduction of wages- . and another strike. So, it goes. I have been through several and don’t ‘care to go, through .any more. The .only guarantee of unvarying wages 8 an unfluctuating currency.”. The ar- | gument proves itself. The fact that - labor strikes occur in countries which have a convertible currency does not ° affect the argument, for, yhile strikes™ may be produced by ether causes,théy - must be produced by ‘a fluctuating currency. Inflation is always fdllowed by an advance in 'prices, which is again followed, though generally ata ' - long interval, by an advance in wages. Workingmen are, if pessible, more in-- ! terested than ‘any other class in hav- . ing a sound, unfluctuating currency.—' Indianapolis Journal. e [ e - ——— 4 .Capital and Experience. e The “Drawer” was chatting a few - weeks ago on the piazza of the United ‘States Hotel, at Saratoga, with a bright German gentleman, retired from busi- . ness, who related -the following little anecdote: e L i “Going down ‘to New York the other night, on the. boat,” said he, “I got to chatting with a German ac- . quaintance, and asked him what he wagdoing.. . Conihs e “Vell,” he replied, shoost now Fam doing nodings; but I have made arrangements to go into pizness.” ~ “Glad to hear it. ;What are you goLinginto ?? : B iR S . “Vell, I goes iuto partnership mita 'man.” e ° "~ “Do-you put in much capital ?”? --~ “No, I doesn’t put in no gapital.” . “Don’t want lo risk it, eh?” - ~ “No, but I puts in de experience.” o - “And he puts in the capital ?” L ~ “Yes, dot ig it. 'We goes into pizness for dree years; he puts in thgi,' o _gapital, I puts in de experience. At the end of d& dree years I will have . ‘de gapital and he will have de exper- ° ience ™-- Harper’'s Magazine. e + : 0A — | ML b Gantt Tell. - )i Yesterday morning & young man who was on his way up the river,haying a satchel filled with a remeédy for corns, & lation to remove freckles, and. ‘many boxes of tooth-paste, smceged% in selling a negro resident of Clay jstreet a fifty cent bottle of the freckle = | ,e{emedz.‘ The purchaser was aXhibit;-,g;?;;f:;;g ‘ing it to some of his friends, when oms% of them exclaimed: - | = . o 8 jRE “Shoo! you has binswindled! What does niggers want of dat stuff? Nig: gers nebber hab freckles!” - .. . . “It's fur my wife,” axplgip‘e@i&aj?% P R e wife hain't got freckles —she's |, blaskdsan o AEE el _ “Well, ye can’s tell what'll happen.t . was the response. "Eu!& %de ¢ ‘Sﬁg. biznm, n de civil = - rights _bill, and who «-« mﬁtﬂmwm ‘wid heaps of freclles all over their WM i?fgﬁ G MWM’E’%“@%% 3 tor int e Beainie husbandt oome 6 del AUI