Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 January 1885 — Page 4

PIKE com DEMOCRAT. Published EvetV "Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. X. TWO OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS. Over the hill and valley. Drawn by the steam horse’s power, The railroad king is speeding Fifty milesaonourl He counts his w©ulth by millions. By thousands floruits his men; O’er ten thousand miles of gleaming nils He waves his scepter pen. The diamonds of the coal mines, where toil the miners grim. And the gold of the waving cornfields Pay tribute unto him. But pal© and worn is the monarch; Unheeding is the eve Before w hich the smiling country Goes flitting and whirling by. And he sees but does not notico The farmer rein old Gray At the crowing, to let the special pass. Speeding upon its way. Stalwart and strong is Farmer John, And bronzed with sun and weather. Ha, wife.” h© laughs, “you’d never think He and I were boys together! “He, that shadow, silent and sly, No bigger than my arm. He owns a hundred millions, and I Have only you and the farm! **. But, Lord, who ever would change with him? Poor fellow, he never sees Our upland meadow of clover red, Our blossoming apple trees. ** He only hears the clanging wheels And the engine s whistle shrill; Ours are the humming of the bees And the wild bird’s summer trill. * And while in the dusty town he toils At a toil that uc*br is done, I swing my scythe to a merry song lu the cheery wind and sun. ** *hall lie Jogging behind old Gray wheu in earth his bones shall lie. How long do these meadows keep the sound Of his swift train roaring by?" —Philadelphia Record. “JIM’S ONERY BROTHER.”

The Mysterious Bobberies at Flat Broke Camp. ^ Flat Broke was in a state of angry subsurface excitement. The hanging of a Chinaman a fortnight before had not stopped the robberies of dust, which now came to be of nightly occurrence. Every man ini the camp looked on his neighbor with a distrustful eye and the universal distrust created an irritating condition of public sentiment, the peculiarity of which was that each miner felt himself under the surveillance of his eomrades and unjustly beneath the blighting shadow of suspicion. When the camp turned out one bright morning and added a page to its rather turbulent history in the above-mentioned episode, leaving the horrid shape dangling to a cottonwood as a.monument of blind savagery, it showed, the utmost cheerfulness and good humor. The picturesque and rugged, landscape, the singing of the birds, the sweet, aromatic woody odors wljjeh hung over the early breeze, tire dazzling sunlight, the placid calm of the young day were all in accordance with 'the feelings of the boys, whoenioyed on their return to work the peace orapproving consciences and the satisfaction born of a good deed fitly performed; and yet the poor, inoffensive, half-blind life which had been so mercilessly snuffed out was sent into the mysterious beyond for the crimes of another, and the'Flat Brokers became dimly conscious of the fact, as after a few days the robberies were resumed. • “Ef a Chinee was a human, I'll be derned ef I wouldn't feel sneakin’about sendin’ him over the divide,” said Gold AEg&ur* but Gold Dollar was looked ■^rnttecessarily sentimental. had suffered much. One P^Orauls lire thieves had made through a .-'it cut in his tent, ^^nter he built a shack, and one night, ^wbile he was absent over the range, it was broken open and the small hoardings of himsaif and his brother were again taken. By virtue of his losses he t ,was made chief prosecutor before J udwe Lynch, but he seemed unnecessarily severe in his accusations against the )>oor, chattering wretch who only partially understood the nature of the diilt“Too blamed hard on the yaller devil, seeing as he’s got to hang anyway!” said “Caravan” Jpnes at the trial; which remark caused “Caravan” to facetiously installed eltief mourner in the subsequent ceremonies. Perhaps Fikes' losses had made him hard. None knew or eared. He was tall and angular, with sloping shoulders, aud he came from Missouri. His hair and whiskers were dark, but his eyes were those of a blonde — s not a reassuring combination. Then there was Jim’s brother. I had almost forgotten him. No one ever heard his given name,and he was too insignificant to tie accorded a nick-name. Jim invariably addressed him as “Say, you,” and he was referred to as “him,” or “Jim’s onery brother.” The man's appearance was far from inviting, and there was a • genera] lack of color in his entire makeup. He had straw tinted-hair, faded and sunburned, large, watery, protruding eyes of no particular hue, and complexion and clothes alike of a dull, dead fi elay color. Never making a positive assertion; holding opinions that were faint and half-hearted echoes of those of his brother, and having an expression which was a standing apology for his presence on earth, his whole being seemed to be a negative quality. As a consequence his life was a continued5 career of sacrifice aud self-abnegation before his brother. Both had loved the same woman. Jim married her, and uncomplainingly the brother carried the burden of his-disappointment as he

supposed iu secret: but Jim saw it plainly enough though no wont was spoken. Jealous? Not a bit of It He knew too well the dog-like fidelity of his dull relative and turned the sentiment to account in more ways than one. The night was hot and lowery. Flat Broke, never trawj&il, was a picture of wholesale ill-temper. One or two fights had come oft' early in the evening down at Lucretia Borgpa’s, which could be directly traced to slighting allusions or suspicious looks over the late robberies. Lucretia Borgia, who had been named with the usual disregard to the fitness of things, as far as sex was concerned, In compliment to the quality of liquor he set out upon bis bar, kept the most popular place in Flat Broke. It was ' the heart of the camp, and there its leading citizens were ever to be found outside of business hours. “This yer thing has got to be clared up,” said Gold Dollar, decisively; “or the likeliest camp on the range will go to .pieoes. We don’t want any more promisc'us bangin’, fer thet don’t seem to fetch it,” and fie called his partner aside and fell to discussingdhe mystery. An hour later the surly revelers at "Lucreesh’s” were startled by the appearance of Gold Dollar and liis partner with Jim Fikes between them, cool, defiant and cheerful. “’Fore God, gents, I kin prove you’ve struck the wrong lead.” ‘‘You’ll hev the chance, pardner,” humorously remarked the captor, and the crowd laughed. The news brought the entire camp to the spot in a few moments. “Lucreesh” was obliged to call up one of his day-shift bartenders to accommodate the excited ■ « gentlemen. The sensation took possession of every one; even the farobank dealer in the next room suspended operations a few moments to listen, a proceeding whieh no mere killing ■cold bring about. Some were for * V

moonlight neclc-tie piuniy at once; but Gold Dollar demurred. “ We made a ruiscue when we worked off the Chinee, an’ while th«t don’t count, seem* as he war a Chinee, yet we’d a done the same e:t he war a human, an’ thet would a bin unpleasant” The county had just been organized and an appeal issued, calling on the inhabitants to submit to the Taws of civilization, whjeh was met with derision; but now when Gold Dollar argued for a regular trial by the newly-appointed officials, the proposition was hailed with delight as an amusing novelty. “We’ll have some fun out of the ten-der-foot nonsense, and if she don’t work right, she goes!” was the popular verdict While the deliberations were being conducted, Jim’s brother hovered about, the outskirts of the camp like a frightened hare, straining his ears to formulate some meaning fi-om the shouts which echoed up the gulch from “Lucreesh’s.” When an opening door threw a path of light out into the night he shrank affrighted into the deeper gloom of the chaparral. Trembling, feverish, heartsick, he skulked in the shadows with one idea—that of escape for his brother—fluttering within the walls of his dull mind, like a helpless bird dashing itself against the bars of its cage. ‘ ‘ £ In the saloon, with hands bound* in front, elbows on his knees, head dowu, sat the prisoner, his mind busy all the night lo^g turning over plans of escape with the cunning of a devil. One of his guards slept. The vigilance of the other, seated on the floor with his back against the wall and a cocked derringer handy, precluded any thought of escape by force or flight. The watcher was secretly desirous that an attempt might be made so that he could display his superior marksmanship, and ' the wretched man knew it. After midnight the crowd thinned out and conversation became subdued. The imperturbable faro dealer continued his work as silently as fate. Occasionally a player arose with a deep-drawn breath, which told he had been cleaned out, and shoving his hands into his empty pocket, watched the game as another quietly slipped into his seat. The bartender came out and tried to engage the prisoner in convCreation, I but without success. The man sleeping under a billiard table snored softly, and two or three in chairs noelded the hours away. The light in the little tin boat over the pool table grew dim in the stale and poisonous air, and the silence was broken only by the rattle of chips and the low-spoken monosyllable over a game of poker. Some noisy drinker might disturb the calm for a moment, and when 'the bustle died away in the night as he wandered to some other saloon, the endless clicking of chips, which went Vn day and nightthe year through, became audible again. And so tho long night wore away. Just as the morning sun painted the hill-tops in molten gold against the filmy haze of the western sky, and the lights in the saloons, pale and sickly in the coming dawn, finally lliekered out, Jim raised his head and asked for a drink. His problem was solved. At that moment a miner leisurely walking up the? gulch to his shack, after a night s hard luck ai; high ball poker, stopped and listeneel to a half-suppressed wail which arose from the shadowy rocks below. can’t get him out! I must get him; 1 must—I must! Poor Maria—if we eould only get back to Missoury! How—oh God, tell me how! Tell rue what to do!” “Poor devil, it’s Jim's brother,” ami the miner continued bis slow climbing. Among the most grotesque episodes of frontier life are its legal proceedings. The religious regard for hollow form implanted in the ignorant breast, conflicting with an equally sincere intolerance of restraint, creates endless incongruities; hence Jim's trial promised a fund of entertainment for all. Early in the morning the prisoner called for his brother. When that worthy arrived the amateur jailer left them alone, stopping only long enough to hear Jim's salutation: “Waal, old man, I reckon it looks to you as if I bed run agin four aces, don’t it?” An hour later when the guard stuck his head in and called “time!” he heard Jim's parting injunction: “Think of Maria, ol1 man. She Would like for yon to do it” “Seeyer,” broke in. the jailer; “don't ’yer go to ringin’ ho female in on this deal. It won't go.” At the examination that morning a man who had acted as a constable in the States, and as such was supposed to have sounded the deptlis of all legal lore, presided. The proceedings were erratic and uncertain, but vigorous. Gold Dollar related with much circumlocution how. on droppiug into Jim's shack, he had discovered him kneeling over a cavity in the earth under his bed which contained the stolen property; that he acted in a very suspicious manner and failed to account satisfactorily for his compromising situation. He supplemented his testimony with several opinions, which were unobjected to and carried all the weight of fact, one of which was that Jim had robbed himself on both occasions to divert suspicion. The prosecution rested after a large part of the piroperty had been identified, and there was a strong inclination among the boys to go out and hang him at once. . “.Chip in, Jim, ef you want to take a hand,” remarked the “Judge.” , Up to this moment he had shown little uneasiness, but s, shade of worry now crossed his face as, neering among those assembled, he Vi-as'unable to discover his brother. Finally catching a glimpse of the blank, owlish face on the outskirts his nervousness left him, and, settling back on the keg which formed his seat, a premonitory gleam of triumph lit his cold, milky eyes, bo when the “Judge” asked lor his defense lie indifferently remarked, motioning toward his brother: “Call him.” The preliminaries over, the “Judge,” who usurped the oftiee of prosecutor, asked the witness wheat he knew of the stealing. “Jim didn't doit,” he hesitatingly ventured. This called forth a roar of derision, which embarrassed the speaker. Yon have seen a boy with a half-learned lesson, who, on being called upon to recite, half covertly turns and appeals to a classmate for help. Just so the witness looked at the prisoner. The latter leaned over with a slight look of anxiety, He whispeired:- “ Maria." The witness heard and stiffened tip. The prisoner breathed easier again. “Ef Jim didn't do it, who did?” said the court, with the air of one- putting a poser. The man hesitated and cast a sudden glance at his brother. The glitter in the steely eyes was remorseless. In the same listless, impersonal manner which characterized all his answers he dropped two words: “I did.”

>uu uerncuuuery cuss: remarKea the Judge as a yell went up from the boys. Several derringers were drawn. Here and there a bowie gleamed like the fang of a wolf. “Pious Moses” drew' from the bosom of his shirt a hair lariat, which ho had brought for emergencies, and was promptly fined for contempt for thereby Insinuating that the court was unable to do its own hanging. When the excitement subsided the remainder of the legal proceedings were put through with slush, Jim was ex- /*

onerated by his brot tier’s testimony fr>m all complicity in or knowledge of tie crimes. i •'As 1 intimated, gents, at the opening oi the game, I had the call on the facts tc prove you was workin’ a pocket,” remarked tnat person, who, released and smiling, stepped down and mixed with the auditors; but not a word to the bi other who took his place. The newlymade prisoner looked after him with’a hopeless, yearning, hungry stare as he edged his way out and then relapsed into a state of apparent indifference. Tie two men never again saw each ot her. The boys adjourned to “Luereesh's” to drink on the money “Pious Moses” hod turned in to the court to purge himself of contempt, and there they magnanimously resolved, in consideration ol the handsome way in which Jim’s brother had come to the scratch and acknowledged his guilt, to let “tenderfoot law” take its course. Before the few days bad passed which intervened between the trial and the ti ne when the prisoner was sent to an Eastern penitentiary, Jim left Flat Broke for ever and without saying good-bye to his brother. * -* * » * * Swiftly to the happy but with lagging steps to the miserable and oppressed do tie years go by; and when Jim’s brother became weary and sick in counting tie days before hj? might regain liberty and Jim and Mafia, he fell into a state 0 : insensibility as to the passage of time. The seasons came and went without his aopearing to notice, and he took an inti rest in life only when a desultory n.ail brought an ill-spelled, sisterly letter from Maria. One day in early spring the warden received a telegram yrhich he perused w ith more than usual interest. “Tell 198,” he said to a turnkey, “that his brother was shot at Miles City a few weeks ago, and that before he went off he confessed to.the offense 198 is doing time for. (live him the liberty of the grounds till his pardon comes. 1 ; ought to be here to-morrow.” The turnkey departed regretfully. In a few moments he returned with an expression which indicated that an eagerness to tell a bit of news was struggling with offidial dignity and assumed indifference for right of way. The warden was writing and did not look up. “Well?” “Well, 198”— “What of him?” “Stone dead!”—Detroit Tribune. ON THE WING. Hob Burdette Describes His Attempt to Write While on a Railroad Train. You may, or you may not, know, as in is, perhaps, the ease either way, that writing on the carp is attended with certain difficulties and interrupted by uncertain incidents. The more uncertain the incident the more liable is it to happen, and the more nervously you anticipate it, the more certainly does it r over happen. You grasp this, I trust? And that, kind reader, is the only thing 1 will trust you with. No matter how smoothly the train is running when you are doing nothing, it begins to jump and roU when you liegin to write. There—this ear has just jumped over 4 stump; now it is running, I think, in the bed of a creek —an old, abandoned led at that, which was so rough that no creek could run in it If the creek ted is any more abandoned than the language of the passenger who just now; caught holdof the stove to steady himself as the train corkscrewed itself around a reversed curve, it must be something terrible. I will mot even look at it. At Allentown, Pal, a party of Pennsylvania Dutch ladies, attended by a numerous retinue Of children, mostly boy's and girls, get on the car and proceeded to occupy the territory already pre-empted under the laws of" the road by existing passengers. I have two bhildren billeted upon me, the elder being several years the senior of her little brother. I do not mind it, because I am fond of the company of young people. But the commercial traveler, who happened to be temporarily absent and has returned to find his claim jumped by five children, is mad about it There are four ladies in the invading party and thirty-two childjren. The youngest child can just walk, and the eldest is so young that the conductor can’t get a single half fare out of the whole crowd. So many children, all rugged and healthy as kids, apportioned between four mothers, isn’t so bad. If the gentleman with the “perfumed” breath sitting in the next seat leans over much further iu his effort to see what 1 am writing, be will fall into the coal box. What did I tell you? There he goes? But 1 was wrong in my diagnosis. We struck the other curve and he fell out of the window. The ladies hereinbefore mentioned are conversing in Pennsylvania Dutch. It is a most distracting language to listen to. About one-fifth of the words are plain English, and the rest are half-breeds and thoroughbred Dutch. So you can understand just enough of what they say to make you wild to know the rest of it. I find that I was mistaken in attributing those thirty-two children to four mothers. One of the ladies, I learn, is the mother of the other three. That makes it. about right. I thought the families were rather small for this country.—Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.

EATING. Hoyt Americans Spoil Their Stomachs ami Violate Good Manners. Hurried eating is a breach of good manners. Americans are proverbially fast eaters. Not the boorish and lowlived, but the “best” people, so-called, are often guilty of this indecency. Dr. Willard Parker, in a recent lecture in this city, gave the following bill of fare seen to be eaten in Albany by a “legislator” in three and a half minutes: Two boiled eggs, two large potatoes, a beefsteak, two goblets of milk, a plate of ham and eggs, a plate of buckwheat cakes and a large cup of coffee. The poor man, however, complained to a friend that he “didn’t feel well, and was troubled with dyspepsia!” What sort of legislation can be expected from such bilious creatures? Animals do better. The carrier-pigeon arrives from its long flight exhausted, refuses food, taking, perhaps, a little water, and settles down to rest. Then it will revive and eat. Instinct teaches it that when the nerve power is gone it can’t be turned on at the stomach for digestion; the steam is too low'. The proprietor of the Astor-House restaurant says that it is strange “to see the way these Americans go at their food. 'A man tfill start at Wall street, run all the way to the Astor as fast as his legs will carry him, and shovel in his lunch as -though his life dejxmded on his getting through in five minutes. Then he will stand around here and talk for an hour or longer without thinking of going back to his office. I have seen them go over and converse for a solid hour with the cashier, after running through their feed like chain lightning. ’ ’—Jlome Science. —A Newburyport (Mass.) painter was surprised, a day or two since, to receive from a boy an order for “three cents’ worth of paint the color of a frog’. —Every seeming ill is a benefit in disguise. Witness that kick of a mule which cored a Kentucky man of stammering.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —Vermont, which had almost 100,000 children in her common schools in 1840, has now less than 73,000 children in them. —It is the easiest thing in the world to train np a child in the way he should go; all you have to do is to go that way yourself.—Dr. Lyman Abbott. —The thoughtful people of the country are waking up to the fact that it is as necessary to educate a boy’s hands as it is to discipline his mind.—Atlanta Constitution. —For school purposes in the Southern States there is losing spent twice as much as there was five years ago, it is estimated, and four times as much as fifteen years ago.—Chicago Herald. —A New York School Commissioner, Mr. Devoe, thinks children should not be admitted to school until they are six years old. Deficient accommodation is his reason, but many enlightened people believe that for health reasons children should not be forced into school until of that age. —Since the American Bible Society entered upon the general supply of the United States and Territories with the Scriptures two years ago, 457 counties have been canvassed by colporteurs of the society, 464 counties have been partially canViassed, and 564 counties still remain to be supplied by colporteurs where the auxiliary Bible'societies can not undertake the work.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ’ —Denmark spends $55,000 annually for agricultural teaching. There are dairy schools and schools in agriculture. Improved methods are taken up by every Dane, from the King down to the humblest farmer. The consequence is that this little, cold, barren country is able to export larsre numbers of excellent cattle, quantities of farm and dairy produce, while the producers are thriving and comfortable. —Gosse, the distinguished English scholar, now come to America to lecture before some of our greatest educational institutions, never went to school, it is said. Having never had the advantage of a college course, the poor man mistook his way, and, devoting himself to the study of English literature (a study which the colleges in English-speaking nations have regarded as inconsequential as compared with that of tho classics) became^—eminent. —Current. —The Harvard Crimson says: “The honor of establishing the first college paper does not belong, as we think it ought, to the oldest university, but to one of her younger sisters, Dartmouth. There appeared m 1800 at that institution a paper called the Gazette, which is Aielly famous for the reason that among its contributors was Dartmouth’s most distinguished son, Daniel Webster. A few years later Yale followed with the Literary Cabinet, which, however, did not live to celebrate its birthday. It was not until 1810 that Harvard made her first venture in journalism, and Edward Everett, with seven associates, issued the Harvard Lyceum." WIT AND WISDQM. —Every bad act is a knot on tic thread of life.—Whitehall Times. —Ordered to clear the court, an Irish crier at Ballinasloe did so by this announcement: “Now, thin, all ye blackguards that isn’t lawyers must lave the court.” ii-You can’t conciliate a strange dog by looking in his eyes, any more than you can stop a buzz-saw in motion by plaeing your finger before it,—Oil City Herrick. * —The daring counsel for the defense in his speech intimated that the Judge’s charge showed a lack of knowledge of grammar. “Sir,” thundered the Court, “you will find, sir, that I can at least Ka sentence on the defendant.”— mrgh Chronicle. —It is only a small fault, you, say? Telemaehus, my dear boy, a small tooth, five-eighths of an inch long, can make enough ache to go around a man weighing 295 pounds, and keep him awake and howling every night for a week. A small fault? Look to it, my boy; have it ground out and filled with plate gold before it begins to ache.— Burdette. —“Think canned beef hurts me,” muttered a drunken man to his wife. “Never could stan’ canned goods.” “Oh, I don’t think it was canned goods,” replied his wife. “Glass goods, I think.” “Think so?” “Yes, Ido,” she replied. “Wall, that’s all ride. Let glass ’lone negs time. Smartes’ woman ever saw. W’y don’t yer travel wTith a show?”—Arkansaw Traveler. —Here is a joke translated from Her Ullc, a comic paper published in Germany: Two school-boys, one of whom was eating apples, met in the street. Said, the one with the apples: “I have got apples and you haven’t.” “And I've got a new jacket and you haven’t.” “My father has got a new pgar of spectacles and yours hasn’t.” “And my grandmother is dead and yours isn’t” —A Song for Girls: How dear to my heart is a sacque made o‘ sealskin: A garment adapted to keep out the cold! Tls not like the jersey, which tits like an eelskin, 'Tis loose, graceful, easy and fair to behold. How smooth and how glossy I It’s beauty enchants me: What garment so lovely when worn by a Both waking and sleeping its poetry haunts me; The sacque made of sealskin that fits me so well. The sacque made of sealskin—of smooth, glossy sealskin— The beautiful sealskin that fits me so well. —Lowell Courier. —The Editor’s Ruse: “Met with an accident?” said a subscriber who was two or three years in arrears, as he entered the sanctum of a rural editor. “I see your face is bruised and you have got a black eye.” “Well,” said the editor, with a sigh, as he arose and began to roll up his sleeves, “delinquent subscribers must be made to pay* up somehow, but I sometimes come out secondj best, as you see.” “Ha!” laughed the visitor, as he took out his wallet? “I just dropped in to pay my bill.” And the editor chuckled softly to himself after the visitor’s departure: “Life is full of compensations. Falling over that wood-box was a blessing to me."—Boston Courier.

A Doctor’s Diary. A pocket diary picked up in the streets of s neighboring city would seem to indicate, from the following choice extracts, that the owner was a medical man: “Kase 230. Mary An Perkins. B:snes, washwoman. Sikness in her hed. Fisik some blue pils a soaperiiik; age 52. Ped me one dollar, 1 quarter bogus. Mind get good kuarter and mak her tak me fisik. “Kase 231. Tummes Krink; Bisnes, Nirishman. Lives with Pady Molony what keeps a dray—Sikness digg in ribbs and tow blak eys. Fisik to drink my mixter twict a day of sasiperily beer and jellop, and fish tie, With asifedity to make it taste fisiky. Rubed his face with kart grese liniment, aged 89 years of age. Drinked the mixter and wuddent pay me bekase it tasted nasty, but the mixter'U work his innards, I reckon. “Kase 282. Old Misses Boggs. Aint got no bisnis, but has plenty of money. Sikness all a humbug. Gav her sum of my celebrated -“Uipsefloriken,” which she sed she drank like cold tee—which it was, too. Must put sumthing in it to make her feel sik and bad. The Old Woman has got the rok3.”—Sanitarian.

USEFUL ANt> SUGGESTIVE. —It makes one feel comfortable on a cold, windy night, to know that the cattle are warm.—.V. E. Homestead. —Potatoes should always be boiled with their skins on, and should be scraped—never peeled.—Detroit Post. —We have noticed that the mortality was not half so great in well ventilated, cleanly kept, as In filthy, badly ventilated stables.—Western Sural. —Keep the boys at home, says the Freeman's Journal. Not by bolting the doors, but “by making'home so cheerful for them and their friends that they will not want to leave it” —Pumpkin Loaf: For two loaves, take two cups of buttermilk, three cups each of wheat flour and com meal, one cup stewed pumpkin, one cup molasses, half oup butter, two eggs, one tablespoonful soda. Steam one and a half hours, then bake half an hour.—Boston Budget. —Money invested, in lumber to make comfortable stables for stock in winter is less expensive than allowing the animals to seek shelter around strawstacks, as in the latter case they require a much greater amount of feed than if if they were properly housed.—Chicago Tribune. —The way to reform the agricultural fairs, happily suggests Mr. D. D. T. Moore, in the Indiana Farmer, is for right-thinking farmers to attend the meetings of tne societies at the time for choosing new officers, enter protest against past courses, and see that proper men are selected as directors. —All can not be the “best farmers,” but all can perseveringly cultivate the opportunities, in a measure at least, that cross their path. There may be some money made in favorable seasons even by practicing slip-shod and half-way methods of farming, but the compensation at any time is meager, and the time will surely come to every farmer when these methods will bring the Sheriff.—Prairie Farmer. —Apples as Diet:' Children usually demand sugar in large quantities, and in some form it should be given them. There are few more agreeable or healthful forms in which to secure it than in fruit, and especially than in good sweet apples. An abundance of sweet apples, ripe and luscious, should be in every household where there are children. Prepared in various ways* they are important to the dietary of the family. They supply Sugar in a pure form. Baked with cream they are delicious. Few breakfast dishes are superior to sliced sweet apples fried in butter,— Western Rural. How to Treat Fowls to Keep Them Free There may be few who know of or suspect the presence of worms in fowls, or believe that such an ailment affects the poultry-yard. Yet, it is a well-es-tablished fact that such an ailment does exist—that there has been found by actual examination no less than sixteen different kinds of worms in fowls, and that the fftesence of these parasites which infest the intestines of the fowl is a prime and prolific source of disease. The manner of their introduction into, or the cause of their ereation in,fowls is not well known or determined, but there is every reason to believe, however, that .their presence’is due either to the fowls eating food that is more or less in a state of decomposition, or food that is “mitey”—that is, infested with maggots, weevils, etc.,—or to their being kept in Close, crowded and unclean inclosures, or from both being fed unwholesome food and confined in filthy quarters. Their existence in the organs of fowls, l^esides being a source of luture disease that finally results in death, so deranges and destroys the parts which they infest that the action of the alimentary organs become weakened, the vitality lowered and the stamina destroyed, and the fowl rendered an easy and "helpless prey to whatever epidemics there may arise, and to any of the ills and disorders that commonly affect the poulThe presence of worms in fowls is not readily exhibited or easily discoverable. The principal and perhaps the only symptom manifested and noticeable is that they mope and hang about with a drooping of the head and slow, sluggish movements. A good and generally sure way, however, to ascertain their existence in the fowl is to examine the droppings, for if present in the intestines they will nearly always be exhibited in the residuum. The best known remedy for this affection, and one which has hitherto never failed, is to give the fowl turpentine in capsule form, one Or two oi these followed in twelve hours by a dose of castor oil. This will completely expel these troublesome and dangerous parasites from the system and effects the removal of an ill that would, if let alone, surely end in the loss of the fowl. The result of administering this dose is magical. The fowl immediately begius to revive and soon regains its normal health, vigor and activity. It is a dose that may occasionally be given to fowls with results most beneficial, satisfactory and profitable, whether the presence of worms is manifested or not. Fowls so treated will always be free from the parasitic disease, and a recurrence of it in those fowls that have been freed from it, or its attacks upon those fowls that have never had it, may be prevented by thoroughly cooking soft foods, such as animal and watery vegetables, by thoroughly cooking grain or meal that may be weevily, by feeding only clean grain, by keeping their houses and inclosures thoroughly clean and by occasionally sprinkling their run freely with lime.—San Francisco Chronicle. WORMS IN FOWLS. from Parasitic Disease.

HOW TO CLEAN MARBLE. A Very I'seful and Valuble Hecipe for Housekeepers. 1. Take finely powdered pumice stone and vinegar, wash tho surface with the mixture and leave it for several hours; then brush it hard and wash it clean. When dry rub it with whiting and wash leather 2. Equal parts of caustic potash, quicklime and soft soap; make into a thick paste with watfr, and apply with a brush; leave for about a week, and apply again and again until the stain has disappeared. i > 3. Two parts of soda (carbonate), one of pumico stone and one of finely powdered chalk; mix into a fine paste with water, rub this over the marble and the stains will be removed; then wash With soap and water. 4. Wash the marble thorough^ with soda and warm water to ren pve any grease, and apply oxalic aeid by laying a piece of white cotton cloth saturated upon the spots for a short time. If it destroys the polish, repolish with oxide of tin and water applied with a cloth. If the stains are not deep rub the surface only with the oxalic acid and water upon a small piece of cloth quickly, and wash to free the marble of acid. Then, to give it a gloss, rub with chalk wet with water. 5. Marble figures may be washed clean by putting them out in a heavy shower (“Haldane’s Workshop Recipes”). Marble may also be cleaned by mixing up a quantity of the strongest soap lees with quicklime to the consistence of milk, and laying it on the .marble for twenty-four hours. Clean it afterward with soap and water, —/ft Y. fftnxU.

ENGLISH SOCIETY. Julian Hawthorne Describes It as Thoroughly Rotten. “English society,” said Julian Hawthorne in a lecture before a Brooklyn audience, “is the ripened product ‘of centuries. 1 doubt if a system of intercourse for mutual pleasure and ease could be established upon a basis more expedient. It is the result of all the wars and jars of these centuries. Each rank has now its fixed level. No Englishman is so low but he may look down upon some one who is lower than he, and no Englishman is so high but he can find some one higher to bow to. It is impossible for an Englishman to be a gentleman, for a true gentleman never condescends and never cringes. The monarchical system marks everything it touches, as the mineral springs receive their flavor from the bowels of the earth. This, flavor. of Englishman, unlike their Bass’ ale, I sits awry upon the Republican stomach. It is ineradicable. The better I Jike an Englishman the more I dread surprising this quality in him. In comfort English society is vastly superior to ours. It is smooth honey upon oiled wheels. The Royal family sets the fashions. It was a good day for England when the Queen took the little Pr.nees and Princesses out for a ride in the park. Instantly the doors of England's nurseries opened and thousands of fashionable babies breathed freely fresh, health-giving air in the parks. One uay the Prince of Wales was observed .on Picadilly without gloves. The next day gloves were uufashionable. This system secures uniformity in dress, and for this the royal family is worth its weight in gold. In English society persons an; judged and absolutely eontrolcd by an unwritten law called ‘good form.’ It can not be learned, and is the outcome of natural tact and good breed ng. But a false tone of voice, a .too elaborate ceremony is an unpardonable sin against ‘good form.’ There is a certain local reasonableness about it, for it is a perfect defense against unwarrantable intrusion. It is a secret language—a free masonry. Iy the English drawing-room there must be no stubborn opinions, no incontrovertibleassertions. The voice must he pitched low. The general tone is that life is mildly entertaining rather than interesting. There must be no laughter to disturb the smoothness of intercourse, and to weep is unpardonable. ‘Let oui actors and clergymen portray our emotion.’ says good English society. You may ride to Khiya, kill tigers in the wilderness, roam roughly in the jungle; but don’t, please don’t, put coal on the fire or help yourself to potatoes. This comfortable*, untiring inanity might be acceptable if there were no reverse picture, as alas! there-is. You learn of the things which are known but not spoken. Men and women with natural passions and impulses are forced to obey a stern, iron, heartless ritual. There is no escape from it, save through hypocrisyi Even this is intensified bv its* direction, for why should a society gather its hypocrisy under the cloak of' piety? It may be proper for me to go to a gambling heii of any other sort of a hell I please tonight. But why should I go to church to-morrow?”—Brooklyn Eagle.

A Sound-Sleeping Senator, No matter how much noise prevails nor how much fussiness he has to think about, or what annoyance needs correction, Senator Brown always manages to slumber soundly for at least eight or nine hours. Qnce, when almost at death’s door, in Florida, during the Tdden canvass, he was informed by the landlord of the hotel that there was to be a dancing, party that night in the room beneath him. The Senator assured the anxious Boniface that he dkl not mind the racket. He simply desired to know at what hour the jig would begin. Of this he was distinctly informed. About half an hour in advance he warned his attendant not to disturb him unnecessarily. Composing himself on his bed, be was soon in the land of Nod. Next morning, when the landlord came tremblingly to inquire if his eminent guest were dead or in danger of dissolut'on, he found the Senator uncommonly "cheerful for an invalid suffering with pleuro-pnenmonia in its most malignant form. In response to a quest on as to how he passed the night, the Senator said: “I never slept better in my life. When I awoke this morning, I had a faint recollection of some fiddling and foot shuffling, but that was all.” This faculty of commanding sleep is undoubtedly a secret of Sena tor Brown’s extraordinary capacity for work when requred from day to klay.—Cor. Awjnsla Chronicle. —“You say,” said a . bystander; “that you saw tli s transaction ?” “Yes, I saw it myself.” “You would hardly believe it if you hadn't seen it. would you?” “No, 1 should not,” “Humph! I didn’t see it!” The individual seemed to think there was a double meaning -‘in the remark of the gentleman who spoke last.” Mm. Petek Mallen, 212 W. Twentyfourth street, New York, 3ays tb t he suffered sir years with rheumatism and found uo relief until St. Jacobs Oil, the sovereign remedy, was applied, Which cured him completely. Many a boarding-house patron gets into hot water when he ladles out the soup.—■ Waterloo Observer. The Health Commissioner, Baltimore, Md., Dr. James A. Steuurt, says of Red Star Cough Cure: It combines in an unique and effective manner approved curative agencies which are relied upon by the faculties of the different schools of medicine, with other valuable ingredients. Contains no poisons or opiates. THE MARKETS.

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A Valuable Dbeev.ry, A graduate of Tale College, Dr. Samael K. Cox, D. D., Practical and Analytical Chemist, Washington, D. C., makes the following official statement: “ To the thousands whose systems' instinctively shrink from the use of Morphia and Opium, and especially to mothers, who justly dread the evil, and at times, fatal effects of these dangerous drugs, the Red. Star Cough Cura must prove a boon. It is not only entirely free from all opiates, poisons, and emetics (a thing which not one cough preparation h ten can boast), but it is altogether an original and most happy combination of the best remedial agents, and is as harmless as it is effective. I base this assertion on careful analyses and numerous practical tests—the tatter in every case resulting in a speedy cure. The Charles A Vogeler Company, Baltimore, Maryland, are the Sole Owners and Manufacturers of this valuable remedy. The Head of the Baltimore Health Department, Dr. James A. Steuart, one of the most eminent physicians in America, says: “ It supplants the objectionable and harmful features of other cough mixtures.” Is a great wiWcase on trial in'Ne w York last summer 100 exceptions were taken. But this was ah exceptional case.—JV. Y. Graphic. : ' Strsngep than Fiction are the records of some of the cures of consumption effected by that most wonderful remedy—Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” Thousands of grateful men and women, who hare been snatched almost from the very jaws of death, can testify that consumption, in its early stages, is ho longer incurable. The Discovery has no equal as a pectoral and alterative, and the most obstinate affections of the throat and lungs yield to its power. All druggists. A physician recently advised his patient to “ live in the sun.” The. invalid wonders how he is to get there. Coughs asd Hoarseness.—The irritation which induces coughing immediately relieved by use of “jBroten’s Bronchial jfWtcftes.” Sold only in boxe3. 25 cts. The sewing-machine is the most important member in women’s sew-siety.— Whitehall Times. “ What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”—Alfred Merrier. The following is a case in point. “I paid out hundreds of dollars without receiving any benefit,” says Mrs. Emily Rhoads, of McBrides, Dr. it. v. Pierce's * t nvorite Prescript did me more good than any medicine 1 ever took. I advise every sick lady to take it.” And so do we. It" never disappoints its patrons. Druggists sell it. A patient said of his doctor: “He gave me so much medicine that I was sick a long time after I got well.” Young Men, Read This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated Electro-Vol-taic Belt and other Electric Appliances j on trial for 30 days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and all kindred troubles.” Also forrheumatisrn,neuralgia,paralysis,and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor,and manhood guaranteed. No risk incurred, as od days’ trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free. A pretty young lady’s face is like a town dock because you generallv glance at it while passing.—{Ml City Derrick. Pile Tumors, however large, speedily and painlessly cured without knife, caustic or salve. Send six cents in stamps for pamphlet, refer- j ind reply. World’s Dist>ensarv | Ass’tion, U>3Main.St.,Buffalo,H-Y. ! ences ^and Medical Odi» as it seems, when a dealer weighs a fish he always counts In the scales. Do You Want to Buy a Dog? Dog Buyer’s Guide; 100 pages, engraving^ of all breeds, colored plates, price of dogs and where to buy them, mailed for 15c. Associated Fanciers, 237 $.8th St.,Phila., Pa. When a passenger hoards a steauibot what is the bill of fare:—JY. 1'. Leihjer. Ir afflicted with Sore Byes, xise Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. • Druggists sell it. 25c. Don’t cry over spilt mills,” or you’ll be fined for adulterating the article. PiKF.’sTooTn ache Drofs cure in 1 minute,25c. ! Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. ■ G ERMAJi CORJJ,Kemov£R kills Corns a Bunions, j

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