Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 September 1884 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. THE PILGRIM AND THE PLOWED. 0 pimple Power* soriuginT where The lonely me.vlow* sleep Id green, Tou ope your tinted petals fa r, - Ai»«f breathe an incense o'er the scene. Yoti cheer my*eye.wlrti -mile so sweet 1 pause to rest my pfk • ra feet. A flittering star shone out in spring— i on rose to dream beneath its ray; A bird sang by ou purp.'e wing— Your bud uncurled to bear its lay. I came from bournes I kn>w not where— 1 only know my Lord is there. You are a Joy in this green spot. You drink the air like go'deu wine; You labor »K>t» you sorrow not, -* The stars like angels on you shine. 1 wander forth the child of fear* And leave in each new land a tear. When silver twilights like a<zone. Rests where the surv^et glories die. The firefly makes your bloom his throne. He Is yotir star, yon are his sky. No golden lamp wi h joy-born flame In beams of beauty bathes my name* On dewy moss you rest.your brow; The soft wind* like a mother s kiss, ^Touches your lips so smiting now— hear t ower, I know no joy like this! I know not where to lay my head Though alt the widfe world is my bed I 8ad thoughts heat through my mind like rain. My feet are weary with the dust. Yet Heaven no er heard my tongue complain, My d *ys are linked with earnest trust; And like yon poor bird on the thorn, My heart will sing e’en though ’tis torn. You bow your gentle bloom and tie. Kissed by the autumn's lips of frost. God made my life immortal. I, Through dying, count no hope as lost. You breathe your sweet soul to the air; Where 1 breathe mine-do! God is there. Smile on. thou star of this green place; Your peace that in my sou! finds birth Speaks m the snide that igbts my face; And when your bloom lost to earth Its mom«wv. lik€*,an angel blest. SSha I find a heaven within my breast! —Ernest If. ‘ShHft eff, in Ui cun* Current. SO TRESPASSING. It was painted in very black letters on a very white board. He who ran could read, and Ruth Bennett was only walking very fast when she came on it. But she knew it by heart already. For the last month she had read it every day, and every day meekly turned into the dusty road and made the long detour needed to-* get past Mr. Halo's grounds and into his next neighbor's. Five minute’s walk through that beautiful park would have brought her to Mrs. Alexander’s hedge, aud saved a modicum of strength and temper sorely needed for her trials as day governess to the three little Alexanders. But she had never ventured on the liberty, though she had wanted to every day, and the impulse had grown greater since she hat! asked Mrs. Alexander if was > u‘te impossible. “There’s never a sonl about, and it’s an eighth of a mile certainly to the house. I don't believe any one would ever see me, and if they did, I could tell them I was your governess.” For it seemed to the young girl a sullieient distinct on to be that to Mrs.-Rufus Alexander, leading lady of the pretty town where her summer borne was located.

i wuiuu iiui vcuiu c u i upreyou, Mrs. Alexander answered, kindly. She was always kind to her governesses, despite her wealth and her Mayflower blood, and she had a special liking for for this bright-faced, eager girl. “Mr. Hale is very particular. He is a newcomer here, and disposes! to make every one respect his rights.” It had been on the lady’s lips to call him parvenu but she would pot throw scorn at her neighbor liefoye her governess. “Why, Miss Bennett,” Harry Alexander had added, as she turned away, “do yon know that last summer his gardener ordered my mother off the grounds? ttf course Mr. Halo excused Jt afterwardVsaid the man had his orders to make no d seri mi nation,- but fancy—my mother!" and Harry’s accent was more than the words. Little Miss Bennett bowed her head before the rights of a good democrat who had made all his money in the last twenty years, and was therefore more aristocratic and exclusive than an-En-glish nobleman would have been with respect to his possessions. Half the village would have been grateful had Mr. Hale allowed' a foot-path to traverse his splendid park; but of course an American can not- make concessions to the lower classes, and he stood on his rights and dignities. But to-day Ruth paused. She was late for her lessons; she had lingered to put the last touches to the pretty new dress she wore, and there was a thunder-storm coming. Should she run the risk of offending Mrs Alexander and s]toiling her dress, or should she trespass? No one was in sight as she looked about, and a nearer roll of thunder helped her to a decision. She stepped through the little gate which all these days had mocked ner with its invitation ta forbidden ground, and hurried across the lawn. In the distance she could see the stalely house, the leaping fountains and bright flowers. She kept her eye on that, fearing some servant on the watch. She never looked the other way, and so, when a step suddenly came beside her, she started in consciencesmitten guilt. “Are you aware, madam,” a clear-cut voice said, “that you are on private grounds?’" She looked tip. A stout, bald man stood beside her, a man whom her proEhetic soul assured her was Mr. Hale. le had deigned to touch his hat, bnt not out of respect for her, she was sure. He saluted rather his own dignity and sense pf the proprieties, lie had a I>omnous air, as of one who feared his simple personality was not impressive ^enough, and the neat perfection of h:s costume made more prominent his commonplace features. “fes, sir.” she answered, meekly; “but I m doing my best to‘get out of them.”

JUU came in ny tno lower gate. You saw the sign, of course?’’ ho went on, in the same magisterial tones. “Yes; but 1 was in a hurry, and I—I was afraid it was going to rain. I’m Mrs. Alexander’s governess.” She ventured a glance at him as she said this, but it evidently made no impression. “I—1 beg your pardon; and I cat go back, I suppose. 1 thought that fof ohce—and I didn’t want to spoil my dress,” she finished, impetuously, as a great drop of rainPfell on her irnnd. She Todked up with eyes whose appeal might have softened him. It seemed to her a-Wwy ample excuse, but there was no relenting in his face. In his own mind, index!, he was making a concession. As !she was his neighbor’s governess, he would not carry the matter farther, and so he stiffly said, as he stood hack to let her retrace her steps. “I am sure I—or Mrs. Alexander— will be much obliged for your—your unexpected consideration,” Miss Kennett answered, as she took up herskirts *ud prepared to beat a dignified reheat. There was no gse in hurrying; she was sure to be caught in the storm now, mad so she turned and swept Mr. Hale n profound reverence, whose disdain he could not understand. But there was a jdimcess in her eyes ns she raised ttsoro to his. After all, she was only a child, and so far the world bad smiled into her

like to be proud to the bitter end, and anyway she could not go (tack till she was told. Mr. Hale had to take » half-dozen more steps before he was near enough to say: “As it is raining, mbs, if it will shorten your walk, I hare no objection for this once.” , “Oh. I shall not do it again,” Rath cried: “I’d sooner go through a wilderness.” “But that is not tho shortest way,” be went on; “it is much nearer by tho coach-house. Here—let me show you.” “Oh, 1 couldn’t think of troubling you. Thank you, but you’ill get wet yourself.” ‘•Since I have undertaken it,” answered Mr. Hale, as if apologising to himself for his concession; and with the words he spread his neat: umbrella, and walked with her. s It was only two ■minutes. The path he took was shorter, and Miss Bennett hurried ali she could. She spoke no wonl till she reached the Alexander hedge; then she: sa:d, as hastily: “I am very much obliged— and—I shall not trespass again.” “A pretty girl.” Mr. Hale sa:d to himself, as he watched her dying toward the shelter of the porch. “Mrs. Alexander’s governess! Hum!” But what the last word meaqt in his thought he could hardly have told Perhaps it only reminded him that his three motherless children would soon to needing tone. “Miss Bennett,” Mrs. Alexander said, a week later, “where did you meet Mr. Hale? He seems to know you; and last night at the gartlen party he deigned to say that if it would save yon time and fatigue, you might go through the park. He has noticed you, perhaps, coming tp from the village.” And when Ruth ad told her story, she lifted her eyebrows a little. “It’s a concession—a great eoncess:on from him,” she said. “But I don't want it,” cried Ruth. “ I’d rather go miles around mdw. Yon can’t think how his manner humiliated me. 1 felt as though I’d committed the unpardonable sin.” -Mrs. Alexander smiled at her vehemence, but she had her own reasons for not encouraging it. “It’s quite on another footing now, since lie permits it,” she said, “and really I wish yon would. Since the hot weather came I notice you are sometimes .very tired with the walk. Anything that will save your strength for your work, you know.” And to that Ruth yielded. She„need not have been so tierce about it, she said to herself, after a week. She had the park ail to herself, and it was certainly pleasanter than the dusty road. At first she hurried through as if a dragon haunted every bush; but .gradually she moderated her pace, and at last she made It a gentle saunter, and even stopped on the 'brink of the little stream which crossed one end of whe park to cool her hot head in Ms breath of freshness, and soothe her eyes in the soft green depths of the wood beyond. Once or twice she saw Mr. Hale's* children with their French nurse iin the distance: once Mr. Hale himself met her, touched his hat stithy, and stoo l aside to let her pass. She wondered afterwarti if he expected her to thank him for his great concession. But the burden of gratitude was not overwhelming to her proud lit tle heart. But a few days later she met him again, and this time she repented enough to give him a very frank smile and greeting. She felt like smiling on all tjie world that day, this poor little governess who had youth and hope as her portion, and was content therewith. Perhaps «r letter which she had thrust into her pocket at s:ght of him—a letter she had herself taken from the office and lingered under the trees to read — had something to do with her radiant faee ijist then.

“Ion tind lIns way much pleasanter than tlm road. Miss Bennett:’” Mr. Hale said, made affable by that smile. “Very much pleasanter, thank you.” ltnth answered, demurely. •■1 might perhaps allow others to go through.” he went on, “if 1 could be sure they would not abuse the liberty. But it is always dangerous to give people an inch; they take an ell instead. ’ “Oh, I’ve no doubt yon are quite in the right—front your side of the matter,” ltnth answered, and if thcro was the faintest touch of irony in her limitation, Mr. Halo did not see it. “Certainly 1 am in the right,” he declared, in his most magisterial manner, but having thus, so to speak, asserted his d gnity, he sought to unbend and be properly graeious to so discreet a person as she had proved herself. Ruth answered all his remarks with proper modesty, deepening the good impression sho had already made, and forgot all about him whpn she had crossed the hedge. But the next day, as she sauntered along the oath, a sudden sharp ciy startled her—a child’s cry for help. It came from the river-bank, and as she ran toward it she understood its meaning. The youngest of the children, the little heir of the house, had slipped and fallen into the stream. The nurso was running up and down wringing her bauds, auu the two children'*were screaming for help. The water was not deep, but a child can drown in very little, and when she reached the bank he had gone under for the second time, “Bun to the house for h«l v” Hun to the house for hela,” she cried to the children: but even as she spoke she had herself seized the readiest means of aid, and was climbin'* her down the bank. It would ruin dress—even then she thought of that— but she waded in braveiv. half snnnort

mg herself l>y clinging to a vine t hat curtained |he slope. It might give way—it certainly would if the boy struggled and she lost her balance; but it was the best she could do. Sho was not conscious of any special heroism. Other people would doubtless come to pull them both out later, but the moments were precious, and the' child— And here he came up again, just out of her reach. . Sho dropped the vine, took the step needed to catch him, and fell with him to the muddy bottom. Ruth Bennett was chiefly conscious of her . ruined dress and mud-bespat-’ tered face when, a minute later, she climbed up the bank with her burden. The gardener and coachman were there; Mr. Hale was there too; but he lot the other help her up, and his paternal raptures did not extend to taking his dripping son and heir in his arms. ••Carry him up to the house, Bates," he said, after a g'ance had assured him that the child was unhurt, “and put him in abatli-tub at once. And you. Miss Bennett;—” *T need to go into one, too,” she gasped, trying to wring the water from her skim. Uor ears were roaring with the water in them; she felt as if she hail been drowned and come to life again; but it was tie comedy of the situation which chiefly occupied her even then, and Mr. Halo’s divided mind lietween his wish to be properly grateful and his disgusted sense of her dripping condition. And then, woman-like, as she tried to pick up her dress with some light remark on its state, she cried instead. "I—I hopi you haven’t hurt yourself,” Mr. Hale said, evidently not knowing .vhat to say. **I— I am iiceply g-atefiil, Miss Bennett—more than I can express—and I should be very sorry— for any consequences to yourself.” "Oh, it’a nothing.” Ruth answered, as soon as she could speak, “irhe only consequences to myself are a ruined d ess, and that's a proper revenge of fate. It was to save this dress—-it was so new the n, and so pretty," she added, pathetically, “that I trespassed on your g ■oninds ei>; weeks ago. I hope yon ap-P-ornate the fact of the Nemesis.’’ And therewith she held up the lorn and streaming sails to his aSraStiUM eyes. "Vou v. oq’ j ( saggorato my fciroism,”

== ===== ___ 'if I tell wti thought more of this than anyt when I went into the river. , I there was no real danger if I kept a steady head. But I hope the tittle boy won’t take cold; and as that, is; my own danger just now—” And before Mr. Hale could recover himself to hod speech, she had swept him a mocking courtesy, and was flying toward the Alexander House much as he had seen her speed six weeks before. “Miss Bennett,” Mrs. Alexander said, a few days later, coming into the library after the children had gone, “1 have a commission to discharge. It’s rat her a peculiar one, but I hope you won’t mind such a thing coni ng through a third person. Ofcourse the situation is peculiar, and ratheirdelicate lor Mr. Hale. He thonght he would rather put it into, my hands; that is. yoer—your rat her let me find out first feeling about it.”' Miss Bennett looked tip bewildered. “I don’t understand, Mrs. Alexander. Is it about the little boy? 1 foes Mr. Hale want to reward me”—a deep flush suffused her fairuess — ‘ for what I did? 1 couldn’t take his money, of course.” “I don’t know that he would look at it quite in that light,” Mrs. Alexander answered. “It probably helped to bring matters to a climax with him. Indeed, he intimated as much. And perhaps it is a reward of virtue. Certainly it is <tnite a ter the story-book stylo; but yon are pretty enough and bright enough, as 1 told him, for almost any pos tion. He is a self-made man himself: it isn't such a wonder ui condescension when one remembers that. He couldn’t expect to marry into the Mai/Jlower, for all his wealth.” Miss Bennett felt as if her senses were playing her false. “You don’t mean—you can t mean,” she cried, “that he wants to marry me? ’ Mrs. Alexander put her arm about her soothingly. “I suppose it is rather overwhelming, my dear. It was to me at first. But. after all, why should he not? There are the three children, of course, and he’s twenty yeais older, and he hasn't much besides his money to reconimcn l him; but it would be a splendid home for you, dear. It seems he has watehed you ever since t hat time you trespassed. And ho has made* inquiries o me. He began making them some time ago, but 1 didn’t notice. I thought perhaps he wanted a governed. Ot course I gave you the highest recommendations. ” sho added, laughing. “thonght 1 didn’t know tile position he wanted you to till. He seems quite sure of his own feeling tind it is certainly a great triumph for you, my dear.”

miss rsennett sank back into the chair from which she had half risen. Her mind plainly could- not- take in the new situation; but she came to herself when Mrs. Alexander went on: “Of course vou may want time to think it ever, but lie would like to see you this evening, and— he hopes for an answer tlieu^” “Oh! oh ” Miss Bennett cried, springing to her feet. “There’s no use. I couldn’t if my life depended on it, for— I’m engaged to some one else. And I never knew—indeed, 1 never knew, Mrs. Alexander, until a few days ago, that Philip was his nephew. You see,” she went on, breathlessly, “his sister was with me at sehool, and that was the way I learned to know him. And Mir. Hale was very angry at his engaging himself to a *dowu-East school-ma am,’ as he ca’led me. lie hail promised to help him before, but—but they ijuarreled over me, and Phil went West, and I came here. And it was only a fortnight ago that I wrote him—because il hadn’t much else to write—all about my trespassing, and what had come of it. And he answered—I had his letter laid week: ‘That's my old dragon of an un cle, and if you’ve won one concession from him perha; s yon could do more. If he learned to know yon he might think diderently about our engagement, and though I don't need any of his help now, still he’s my nearest relative, and I should like to be on good tennis with him.’ And I had been hoping—but now—now you see how impossible it is. And if Phil has his own way to make, and we may have to wait a long time, and perhaps always be poor, I love him too much to mind.” The soul of young love and trust was in her eyes as she looked up at Mrs. Alexander, and the woman’s heart in her was touched. It was the philosophy of the Babes in the Wood, indeed; she could have overturned it with a touch of worldly common-sense; but she only bent nearer her, and then sndly Ruth felt a kiss on her forehead, a kiss of a mother’s comprehending love. But when she had cooled a little from this unexpected touch of enthusiasm, Mrs. Alexander hail her plans. Sim met Mr. Hale herself that evening; sb* confounded him with the news that the school-ma-am despised for his nephew was his own elect; and she follo wed tip her advantage till he consented to express his gratitude to Miss Bennett by the gift of a home—of which he: should not be master. And since young Philip was doing well at the West, and needed no more of his uncle's help, the new home was hardly ready before ho could claim its mistress. Only one touch of romance Mr. Hale allowed himself—the wedding gown which replaced Ruth’s unlucky dress.—Emily i\ IFftcefer, in Harper'$ Bazar.

A Pinafore Punster Punished. A young man appeared before a committee of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon and applied for a promotion from a liigh-school junior to a senior class. He explained with refreshing coolness that ho was satisfied that he would hare passed tho examination last term but for a most unfortunate episode. Director Cleveland told the youth to proceeds and he said: * I was absent from the ftlass-room a minute during the examination in geometry and some one placed a ben*, pin in my chair in a position to do the raosls harm. There was only one pin, but I got it, and uttered an explanation at the same time. The teacher said he never saw such a thing done with a •pin-a-fore,’ at 'east not when he was a bey. I said ‘What, never?’ and he sent me to the Principal for impudence, and the Principal suspended me, and I missed the examination. I thought 1 had as much right to dig up the joke as the teacher had." When the high-school boy ceased the committee viewed him sternly until Mr. Moulder motioned him to retire. A vote was instantly taken and the boy’s request emphatically refused. San Francisco Gall. ; —On a hack street in Saratoga is a little raeetiing-honse for Free Methodists, who aim to be extremely primitive, and w ho have undertaken to reform the frivolities of fashion as displayed by the summer residents. Every afternoon a small company ®f woman, plainly clad, kneel solemnly in prayer for their sisters who delight in more elaborate clothes. There is thus far no perceptible effect.—Troy Times. —A fun-loving farmer’s daughter residing not twenty miles from Boston decorated a bush in the front yard vrith vhite egg shells adroitly fixed on the ends of branches. Result: Pleasure drivers from n neighboring hotel would first gaze, then halt and often alight for a closet inspection of the ‘‘curious plant," which thej^would describe to their fellow-sojourners, who would be sold in their turn on the nest drive.— Boston Bulletin. hull is raging throughout the ith a severity never equaled rthero Sfates. - fAt sis title

V. ... 1 ' FACTS ASP FIGURES. —In 1830 t here were eighteen clerks in the General Land Office. Now then •re 367.—Washington Star. —The coming corn crop is estimated at 1,297,000.000 bushels, against 852.665.000 last year and 812,771,000 in 1882: —Most at the more than 4,000 women employed in the Government service at Washington are from the Middle and New England States. —If all the locomotives in the United States were placed in line they would make a train more than 200 miles long, worth $30,010,000.—Chicago Herald. —The supply of postal-cards this year will cost the Government $232,000, and it will require $7,390 to pay for their distribution and the expenso of the agency. —In Chicago there is one doctor to every 548 inhabitants; in St. Louis one to every 475; in Denver, one to every 200; in Idaho, one to every 51, and in Wyoming Territory, one to every j 30. —Tho sugar consumption . of the S United States averages forty-live pounds a year to each inhabitant. One-fourth of'all the sugar produced in the world! is consumed in the United States, where the sweet tooth seems to be in everybody’s mouth. — tf. ¥. Sun. —If the engines, passenger and freight cars of the United States were placed! in line they would reach 5,400 miles, or form one solid train from New York to San Francisco, with lateral trains reaching from Chicago to St. Paul, to New Orleans and Washington, D. C.— Chicago Herald. —The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics states that in 1880 the chance of a person being killed on or by steam cars was one in 5,026,281, while in 1882 it had diminished to one in 20,927,034. This is less than the chance of being struck by lightning, and much less than that of being injured by a kerosene lamp explosion.—Boston 'Post. —In 1871 there were 390,000 deaths from cholera in Russia: in 1873 there were 16,000 deaths in Poland; in 187273 there were 140,000 deaths in Hungary; in 1872-73 there were nearly 27 000 deaths in Prussia; in 1865-67 there were 143,000 deaths in Italy. In Paris the mortality from cholera has been as follows: In 1832, 18,654 deaths: in 1849, 19,184; in 1853-54, 8,096; in, 1865-66, 12,082; in 1873, 885. In Eng land in 1819 the deaths from cholera, were 70,000. In 1817 the army of the Marquis of Hastings lost in India 9,000 men in twelve days from Astatic cholera. 1 —Officers of the United States army on the active list: One Lieutenant-Gene: al. three Major-Generals, fifteen BrigadierGenerals, twenty-three Aids-de-Camp, one Military Secretary, sixty-six Colonels, eighty-five Lieu'enant-Colonels, 241 Majors, 311 Captains (mounted), 301 Captains (not mounted), thirty-fom Chaplains, fourteen Store-keepers’ forty Adjutants, forty Regimental Quartermasters, Adjutant and Quartermaster of Engineer Battalion, 218 First Lieutenants (mounted), 350 First Lieutenants. (not mounted), 145 Second Lieutenants (mounted), 300 Second Lieutenants (not mounted), 180 Acting Commissaries of Subsistence.— If. ¥. Herald.

WIT AX I) WISDOM. —It is a wise young man who early makes np his mind that gamblers know more about gambling than he does.— OiaT. —A little school girl’s definition of scandal: Nobody does nothing, and everybody goes on telling of it everywhere.”—Troy Times. —True wealth Consists in health, vigor and courage, domestic quiet, concord, public liberty, plenty of all that is necessary and eontempt of all that is superfluous.—Fenelon. —“Do cats reason?” asks a writer in natural histoTy. We don’t know whether they reason or not, but for pure, unadulterated argumentation they take the cake.—Burlington Free Press. —Justice is blind according to the old tradition, but it looks a little of late as though it was onlv blind in one eye and that the big rascals succeeded in getting on the blind side every time.—Philadelphia Times. —“Why will yon persist in drinking - tea and coffee?” asked the doctor. “A milk diet is the healthiest. It contains all the elements of the human blood. ” “Very true,” replied Fogg, swallowing his third cup of coffee, “but then, you know, I am not blood-thirsty.”—Boston Transcript. —He—-If I were to live my life over again, madam, 1 woidd do very differently. She—Indeed -and what would yon do? He—I should marry nobody, madam—noraody at all. She—You would make a great mistake if yon did that. He—I don't think so. She—Yes, you would, i married nobody'when I married you—N. Y. Graphic. —President Webb, of Mississippi College, was interviewed by a young man who wanted to go to school. *" Well,” said the President, “ What do you know?” “Nothing,” was the response. “Well, you are just four years ahead of some of the other students. It takes. them four years to learn what you know to start with. Your prospects are fine, sir.” —A writer in the Providence Journal says we “must wait until 1892 for Jupiter’s next perihelion.” Well, if we must we must, though it seems pretty rough. We don’t suppose the writer could induce Jupe to perihele next year? There may be two or three persons right here in this town who wouldn't murmur greatly if Jupiter were to defer the exhibition until 18,920. They would be willing to wait.—Norristown UeraUl.

—‘•Say, Pat,” said a gentleman to his hired man, who had many dqpiestic quarrels, “with whom wonld you sooner light, the English or your wife, Biddy ?” “Och, bedad,” was the reply, ‘‘whin the English declare war a mon foinds it out in advance, an’ he gits a chance ter run, but whin Biddy declares war, niver a bit do I foind it out until I have recoovered. D’yez understhand?” The gentleman comprehended the peculiar position of his domestic.—Scissors. —“What in the world brought you down here_ to-day, Charlie?” exclaimed the surprised Miss Fussanfeatber to young Crimsoabeak, who had quite unexpectedly presented himself at the resort where she was stopping. “I was drawn toward you, dear,” replied the blood, in dulcet tones. “How, Charlie? What drew you toward me?” “The cars, dear.” “Oh. no, you provoking fellow; I mean what was the motive ' that brought you here?” “Oh; the loco-motive, dear!” and they went out to perform the hammock act alone and unobserved—Yonkers Statesman. The Execration and the Eulogy. An Execration, lying in the shade reading a newspaper, was approached by a Eulogy. “Anything new, Execration?” “Yes, I’ve lost a job,” “How’s that? Panic kooqk you out?” "No; but you know Mr. Prominent Man?” “What, that generous gentleman, so kind yet so firm, so protai yet so humble, so profound yet so simple?" “Yes, that old skinflint so full of taffy yet so pig-headed, so vain yet so obsequious, so bombastic yet so puerile; that’s the fellow.”

5! —Wash homo-collars with carbolic* Map. and then oil the inside. —Money at seven per cent, will double in ten years if the interest is kept invested. If a fanner carries a mortgage for that length of time he ought to consider this fact.—Augusta (die.) New Age. —After many experiments with broken grain tilled with chess and other weed seeds, it is the general experience of poultry bi-eeders that good, clean wheat tit for market is the cheapest food for hens.—Heston Globe. » —A horse is never vicious or intractable without a direct cause. If a horse is restive or timorous you may be sure that these faults arise from defects in his education; he has been treated either awkwardly or brutally. —Chicago Journal. —Soft Gingerbread: Take one cup of molasses, one teaspoon fnl of soda, one tablesooonful of ginger, half a teaspoonful of salt, one-third to' one-half cup of butter or drippings (softened), one cup of milk and three cups of pas^ try flour. Bake in shallow pans in a moderate oven about thirty minutes.-— Detroit Post. —To make a sweet pickle of beets boil them until tender; when they are cool remove the skin, cut them lengthwise in pieces of convenient size. Let equal parts of vinegar and sugar, with a little ground cloves and cinnt.mon, come to a boil. Put the beets in a stono jar and pour the hot vinegar over them. They will be ready for the table in three days—N. f. Times. —To be successful in farming we must have confidence that the business, if properly managed, will return a profit that will be satisfactory. We must also have confidence in our ability to so manage as to have a balance on the right side at the end of the season. Then we shall go about our work, not as if experimenting, but knowing that certain causes produce certain effects—Boston Globe. —J. G. Goodhue ofVershire, Yfc, in regard to the common white weed or daisy, says: “Manure your land as highly as possible. The richer the soil the less harm will the daisy do. Onr best graces being wcil fed will choke out the daisy, and while yon can not exterminate it in this way it will put in a weak and subdued appearance.” He advises all who are free from it to keep so by vigilance and perseverance.— Troy Ttntes. —Unthinking farmers will sometimes place a colt or young horse by the side of a horse of more nature, years, and expect it to do an equal amount of work without injury. Such a thing is not only cruel but unwise. Many promising hoses hare been ruined by such treatment. No young horse should be expected to stand the work that horses which have been accustomed' to hard usage are able to undergo.—Albany Journal.

Prairie-Tree Planting. Twenty-three years ago others with myself planted many black locusts in this and the County east of us, which grew rapidly and made line shade in bvo years; then the borers began to work, and, in spite of cutting out, probing, etc., they died. 1 have not heard of any being planted of late years, and don’t remember a living black locust in the county. * Many are putting out soft maple, which makes a beautiful shade in five years; but the wood is good for little else but shade and fuel, and 1 have seen them here covered with a filthy worm which made things rather disgusting near dwellings. Fourteen years ago, seventy-five miles south of this, I told the boys in my neighborhood I would pay one dollar per bushel for black walnuts in the fall; got all I wanted, which 1 laid on the ground near enough to the house to have an eye on the rats, mice and two-legged nut-crackers; covered them first with two inches of leaves and prairie-h ay, then three inches of soil on top of that; ihey must be kept moist and must freeze, and the above covering prevents drying out and is not enough to prevent freezing several times through the winter. I planted 1,100 nuts three inches deep, four feet apart each way, in wellprepared corn-ground. In the same way I put in some one-year-old osage orange plants, some cottonwood and Lombardy poplars (which grow readily from cuttings); put cut-' tings in ground seven inches, make them fourteen or sixteen inches long. 1 cultivated the whole three times tue first year, just as I did my corn; nearly all grew and wer# doing well last time. I saw them. Lombardy poplars loon stately, but can’t be called a use'ul tree! for Kansas, while cottonwood becomes a nuisance from the scattering and sprouting of the seed on plowed ground. I have settled down on black walnut and osage orange as the dollar-and-cent trees for the east half of Kansas (know nothing from actual personal experience of the west half), Northwest Missouri (have lived there) and probably the east half of Nebraska- I prefer them, first, because thrifty and nothing hurts either oif them; second, seed is cheap and readily got, and, lastly, because remarkably good wood for all mece&nical purposes, and fupl, too. Leaving the addition to beauty of alfarm out of the question; leaving the wind-break or protection to both man and beast ont of the count also; in my opinion, nothing will paiy a wide-awake man or woman on the Kansas, Nebraska or Missouri prairies (above.mentioned) as well as forty acres of (walnuts and osage orange, put in welliprepared ground and well cared for. And as an investment, in proportion to the number put in so will tlie profit be. If I could not pot in forty acres would begin with 60(1 nuts and 500 osage plants, repeating the dose every spring, or trebling it if JL could afford it, ;:and nght here, stick two pins. Don’t stick either black walnuts or osage (plants into a 15x15 inch hole in the (prairie and then abuse the .State of Kansas and me in particular because the :prairie grass got away with them; it will do it every time: they won’t grow and be thrifty, although they may lead a sort of kidoey complaint life. I qan not find language strong enough to impress on the forest tree grower on the prairie the importance of well-prepared ground and thorough culture; if these two things arc well done I am certain that many thousands of trees that bake to death when the terrible dry, hot, windy days set in would live to gladden the heart and please the eye of the planter or owner and encourage others to plant, in place of tliie poor shriveled (trees, warning all who see them to avoid forest tree plan ting on the prairie.— 'Kansas Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

Chickens in the Garden. Young broods of chickens are beneficial to the garden, while old fowls are very destructive and can not be allowed within its precincts. A number of young broods, with the hens confined in coops, will do much in destroying the insects. The insects in the garden are legion, particularly in a dry time, which favors their increase, and forty or fifty little active follows of chickens will destroy a great quantity of them in a day. They rfiso eat more or less of the young and tender weeds when they first come up, aud as they should be the only kind of weeds permitted t o grow in the garden, they will aid in its cultivation. As soon as these broods become large enough to hurt the vegetables they should he removed to the chickenyard. Chickens are very destructive to tomatoes, and we have diswith

Vmt Libraries. Germany has more books in its libraries than any other nation. Them are over I.OtKl libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, twenty of which contain over 100.00J volumes. France has six libraries of over 10 ),0W booKs, besides the Natonal library, whi-h is th4 largest in the 'world. Gie t Britain has only nine libraries ot over 100.000 volumes, and the British Museum pays out $10,000 annually adding to its collections. Spain has thirty public libraries, containing <tX),U0Oi volumes. The library, in Washington contains 518.000 v. lu nes and 170,0.X) pamphlets, and there are but live larger in the world— the ‘French National, with 2,500,000; the British Museum, 1,500,000; St, Petersburg, l,0JO,000; Muuicli, 900,000, and Berlin, with 750,000. Qp the Improve. “Hello!” sa’d Deacon Jones to Hay-i market Wilkins, the corner groceryman,. who was bpsily enga ;ed in repairing his scales. “Jones, how’s business?” [ “Good,” replied Jones. , “W hy don’t you ever get o t to church now’ I a nt seen you up there for some time,” a-ked Junes. “U, it’s too bok and then 1 don’t, thine I m so very bad.” “No, p’rhaps not; but everybody! ought to go to church once in a while.’! accordin' to my way of thinkin’.” “Yes; I think Pm nickin’ up, thoughj on the goodv-guodv score, 1 eaeon.” “How so:*” “Well, you see. Pm mending mv weighs.”—St. I’aril Herald. The Demand for Horses. > A prominent auctioneer states that; Ihe sales this year have been fnllvi twenty percent, larger than last year,! despite the l'act that general business' has 1 een so quiet. 'i he demand for’ horses is ini reasng every year, and, as. the supply does not appear to increase in the same proportion, prices are running higher, and this year range from fifteen to twenty-five per cent, higher than last year. The main demand is for goo 1 reading horses, those having good size, style and action. A reasonable degree o. speed is looked for, horses being expected to road ten miles an hour easily. Great speed is not a customary desideratum, but is rarely objected to.—Hutton Commercial Bui, din.

The American Traveler. The silent, sprucely attired, melancholy eyed American is the pet of .waiters and the cynosure of Imdlords. He submits his * ee e to the shearer more passively than Europeans do, and perhaps cares less for the result of the operation, since heAias come to the Old \V orld to spend so many dollars, and - will not be sorry to be at home again iu Chicago or Baltimore or Brooklv n when the big pile set aside for the grand tour in the Old World has melted like snow in sunshine. He takes counsel with the kftights of the napkin as to the repast he shall order and the brand of champagne he shall order to be uncorked for him; needs an interpreter everywhere; pays huge bills and distributes lavish largess ucmurnnirln ly, and seems rather "glad than not wheu he steams forth into the Atlantic homeward bound.—All the* Year Around. —The news was not thought worth sending by telegraph, but- a most remarkable American woman died in the town of Bloomington, Conn., recently, at the advanced ago of seventy-seven. This woman was Julia Braee, whose name appears in every cyclop cilia, and whose history has been told a thousand times. At the age of four and a half years she lost both her sight and hearing, soon losing, too, her power of speech, and so for all her ong life she was a blind, deaf mute, deprived o' her most important senses, yet learning to distinguish articles, persons, and even eolors by her nice sense of touch. Her tenacity of memory was wonderful. For more than thirty years an inmate of the American Asylum for the leaf and Dumb at Hartford, and was a subject of sympathy and curiosity to thousands of visitors.—Bart, ord Couran'. —Setting apart differences of muscular caj aeity and adaptation, a mail, says .Vr. biehard A. iToclor, in order tolly would n-eit wings bearing the same proportion to his be dy as we observe in the wings of the sparrow ortlif pigeon. In fait, the wings commonly assigned to angels by seulpto s and painters would not be so d spropo - fioned to the requirements of (light as has been commonly supDosed if th'i mu cular power of the human frame were well adapted to act upon wings so placed and shaped and there were no actual inferiority in the power of human muscles (eross section for cross section) as comuared with those of birds. If you want a fine looking Face, And a Skin rosy and clear, Use “Beeson’s” Sulphur Soap; all Trace Of disease will disappear. r,t~Sold by druggists, etc., everywhere. A FOTTR-IX-HAND—Tile piano duet.—Bos ton Courier. Pise’S Cure for Consumption does not dry up a coughidt removes the cause. Favorable weather for hay-making— Wheu it rains pitchforks. “Rough on Coughs," 15c., at Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat. A door is sometimes a jar and an earthquake always is.—Lowell Courier. - Skinny Men. “Wells’Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia^l. You have no right to pick a photograr Piter's pocket even if he has pict-ures. “ Rough on Corns,” 15c. Ask for it. Completo curejiard or soft corns,-wartsjmnions.

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RAFFLES; t In* of She Hoot- Unaccountable and Dan* (ffiooo of Decent Deceits !>»*■ «n«nd aad Exposed. There is some mysterious trouble that is ittramf sesrljr everyone in the land with nore or less violence. It seems to steal Into the body like a thief in the night Doctors cos not diagnose it- Scientists tre pusried by its symptoms. It is, in ieed, a modern mystery. Like those se re re and vague maladies that attack horses and prostrate nearly all the animals in the land, this subtle trouble seems to menace mankind. Many of its victims have pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes In the back. They feel doll and sleepy; the month has a bad taste, especially in the inorni ig. A strange sticky slime collects about the teeth. The appetite is poor. Thera is a feeling like a heavy load upon the stomaek; sometimes a faint all-gone sensation is felt at the pit of the stomach, which food does not sStisfy. The eyes grow sunken, the hands and feet feel clammy at one time and born intensely at others. After a while a cough sets in, at first dry, but after a few months it is attainted with a greyish colored expectoration. The afflicted one feels tired-all the while, and steep does not seem to afford any rest. lie becomes nervous, irritable, and gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is a giddiness, a peculiar whirling sensation in the head when rising up sud-1 itenly The bowels become costive, and then, again, out flux intensely; the skin is dry and h**t at times; the blood grows thick and stagnant; the whites of the eyes become tinged with yellow; the urine is scanty and high-colored, depositing a sediment after standing. There is frequently a spitting up or the food, sometimes with a sour taste, and sometimes with a sweetish taste; this is often attended with palpitation of the heart. The vision becomes unpaired with spits before the eyes; there is a feeling o* prostration and great weakness. Most of these symptoms are in tern present. It is thought that nearly onethird of our population have this disorder in some of its varied forms, while medical men have almost wholly mistaken its nature. Borne have treated it for one com

Eiauiti, syuw tur anumer, uut -ueany au ave failed to reach the seat of the disorder. Indeed, many physicians are afflicted with it themselves. The experience of Dr. A. G. Richards, residing at- No. 46STremont street,Boston, is thus described by himself; “I had all those peculiar and painful symptoms which 1 have found afflicting so many of my patients, and which had so often baffled me. 1 knew all the commonly established remedies would be unavailing for 1 had tried them often in the past. I therefore determined to strike out in a new path. To my intense satisfaction I found that 1 was improving. The dull, stupid feeling departed and I began to enjoy life once more. My appetite returned. My sleep was refreshing. The color of my face which had been a sickly yellow gradually assumed the pink tinge of health. In the course of three weeks I felt liko a new man and know that it was Wholly owing to the wonderful efficiency of Warner's Tippecanoe The Best, which was all the medicine I took.” Doctors and scientists often exhaust their skill and tho patient dies. They try everything that has been used by, or is known to, the profession, and then fail. Even if they save the life it is often after great and prolonged agony. Where all this can be avoided by precaution and care, how insane a thing it is to endure such suffering l With a pure and palatable preparation within reach, to neglect its use is simply inexcusable. A BALD headed man hasn’t much to be proud of, tm1 he always wants to put on hairs.—Merchant Traveler.

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