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TIMIIIM JOURNAL
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Hope for tin* I)rnnbnr<l.
If inebriety is curable, as tho Boston
Traveler assorts that it is, by the follow
ing method, then is there hois* for Iho
victim of this base passion—drink. That
journal makes the following assertion:
“An intemperate person can easily simply
himself with the remedies used at all the
inebriate asylums, and be his own physi
cian, at his own home, without the neces
sary expense and publicity of \isiting
the Washingtonian Home or any other
public institution. His laboratory need
only contain a small quantity of cayenne
liepper, a pot of concentrated extract of
>eef, and a few grains of bromide of
isttossium. When the desire for aleo
lolio drink recurs, make a tea from the
cayenne popper as strong as can lie taken
with any degree of comfort; sweeten it
with milk and sugar and drink. This
tea will supply the place that a glass of
liquor would till and will leave no
injurious effect behind. Iterated
daily as often rs tho a petite returns, it
will bo but n few days before the sufferer
will have become disgusted with the
taste of the pepper, and with the up])ear
anco of this disgust disapixmrs tho love
of liquor.
‘ ‘The fact is proved every day. The
extract of beef is to be made into beef
tea, according to the direction on the pot,
in such quantities as may bo needed for
the time being, and furnishes a cheap,
easily digested, and healthy nutriment
—it being made to stay on tho stomach
when heavier articles of food would bo
rejected. The bromide of potassium is
to be used carefully, and only in ease of
extreme nervousness, the dose being
from fifteen to twenty grains, dissolved
in water. This is a public exhibit of the
method of treatment adopted at the in
ebriate asylums. In addition thereto the
drinking man should surround himself
with influences which tend to make him
forget the degrading associations of the
bar-room and lift him upward. lie
should endeavor, so far as his business
avocations will permit, to sleep, bathe,
and eat regularly, and obey the laws of
health. By the adoption of this course
energetically and sincerely, no man who
hns tho will to reform can fail to do so.
Hundreds and thousand can attest the
truth of these statements.
Speak a Cheerful Word.
Did you ever go out in tho morning
with a heart so depressed and saddened
that a pall seemed spread all over the
■world? But on meeting some friend
who spoke cheerfully for a minute or two,
if only upon indifferent matters, you
have felt yourself wonderfully lightened.
Every child dropping into your house on
an errand has brought in a ray of sun
shine which did not depart when he went
liis way again. It. is a blessed thing to
speak a cheerful word when you can.
“The heart, knoweth its own bitterness”
tho world over, and good words to such
hearts “are like apples of gold in pic
tures of silver.” Even the strangers wo
meet casually by the way, in tho trav
elers’ waiting-room, are unconsciously
influenced by the tone wo use. It is the
one with pleasant words on his lips to
whom strangers in strange lands apply
for advice and direction in their perplex
ities. Take it as a compliment if some
wayfarer comes to you to direct him
which street or what train to take; your
manner has struck him as belonging to
one he can trust. It is hard sometimes
to speak a pleasant word when the shad
ows rest on our hearts; but nothing will
tend more to lighten our spirits than
doing good to one another. When you
have no opportunity to speak a cheering
word, you can often send a full beam of
sunshine into tho heart of some sorrow
ing, absent friend, by sitting down and
writing a good, warm-hearted letter.
A Bonanza of Boars and Lions.
John llowlos li'fthis sheep ranch, near
Keefer’s Mill, for a day’s sport. Ho did
not got very fur before lie discovered
hour tracks, both large and small. This
discovery was followed up by his coming
upon a number the “varmints” taking
things easy under a spreading mauzanita
tree. John stood his ground manfully,
and blazed away with his deadly llem
iugton, and two of the full-grown bears
were killed out right. The third, although
badly wounded, went for his scalp, and
John had to retreat to the crotch of a
tree close by. With admirable forsight
he froze to nis gun, and as soon as the
boast came up to his roosting-plnco ho
laid him out by a splendid shot through
the eye. On coming down for his porch
John feasted his eyes with the sight of
his victims, and while enjoying tUis
pleasure ho heard some cubs crying for
their mother. In looking around the
brush ho found two lino cubs, which he
secured and took homo. While on liis
way hack ho fell in with two California
lions, which he bugged, thus making a
perfect bonanza of game for one day’s
sport. Johnny feels bigger uow than old
(bant, and will not soon forget his
stdeiulid luck.—(Vi ico (Cal.) Fnt, rprisc.
Foni> parent to his son: “Yes, San
Francisco is the place to got on in.
Lixik at James, he started without a
penny, and has lately failed for SIOO,OOO.
Of course that’s an extreme case. I
don’t expect x u to do as well as that.
Still, with honesty and industry, 1 see
no reason why you should not, in a few
years, fail for $50,000.”
Thk recovery of Mary McAfee who
had been abed for seven years with a
spinal disease, at Stanford, Kv., is at
tributed by her to prayer. A party of
Free Methodists prayed incessantly at
her bedside for seven hours, and at the
end of that time she was well.
How to Make a Toilet Table.
The exquisite toilet tables that can
seldom be purchased unless at a fair for
an exorbitant price, may be easily made
with but little cost. These stauds add
great freshness and a most tasteful effect
to tin* dressing room, however elegantly
furnished. Four pine boards must be
nailed together, forming a box about the
size of a small bureau; the back, front,
top and bottom are complete, but the
ends are open. The back rises four and
a half feet above the point where it joins
the to]) board, sloping till at tho top it is
not more than a loot across. On this is
nailed a half circle, projecting half a foot
in front. This skeleton box is covered
with delicate blue silesia or French
cambric, which is nailed all around tight
except the ends. There the cambric is
only fastened at the to]) and left loose at
the sides and bottom; thus the inside of
the box may be used for a little closet.
Tho blue cambric is covered with white
dotted Swiss muslin, with a broad hem
at the bottom and two deep tucks above,
both finished with narrow lace edging.
Over this a valance of flounce of the
same material is nailed at the top of tho
table, a little full—hemmed, tucked and
trimmed like the underskirt. This is
caught up in festoons at tho front.
Hound the top a pleating of narrow blue
ribbon is nailed on with line brass-headed
nails, and an edging above and below
the ribbon. Long loops and ends of nar
row blue ribbon are fastened in the cen
ter of tho top, where it is festooned up,
and at the end of the table. In the
center of the back board, half way to
the top, the board has a piece cut out a
foot and a half long and a foot wide.
Bound this is the narrow ribbon pleat
ing, and on each side a face edging. In
this open place put a tine mirror, fasten
ing on the hack with cheats. From the
lmlf circle at the top a long curtain of
dotted Swiss muslin is nailed a little full,
opening in the middle and fastened with
a bow of blue ribbon, with a brood hem
and tucks, edged with lace like the bot
tom part. Tins curtain falls apart from
the miiTor, leaving that and the table
open, and reaches nearly to the floor,
fastened at each corner of the table with
bows. -Any colors may be used instead
of blue that will make this pretty toilet
table correspond with the room where it
is to stand. —New York Commercial.
Solomon and the Blacksmith.
Tho story goes that, during the build
ing of Solomon’s Temple, that wise ruler
decided to treat the artisgus employed on
liis famous edifice to a banquet. While
the men were enjoying the good things
his bounty had provided, King Solomon
moved about from table to table, endeav
oring to become better acquainted with
his workmen. To one he said:
“ My friend, what is your trade?”
“ A carpenter.”
“And who makes your tools?”
“The blacksmith,” replied the carpen
ter.
To another Solomon said:
“What is your trade?” and the reply
was:
“ A mason.”
“And who makes your tools?”
“ The blacksmith,’’ replied tho mason.
A third stated that lie was a stone
cutter, and that the blacksmith also
made his tools. The fourth man that
King Solomon addressed was the black
smith himself. Ho was a powerful man
witli bared arms, on which the muscles
stood out in bold relief, seemingly almost
as hard as the metal lie worked.
“And what is your trade, my good
man ?” said the King.
“Blacksmith," laconically replied tho
man of the anvil and sledge.
* ‘ And who makes your tools ?”
“Make’em myself,” said tho black
smith.
Whereupon King Solomon immediately
proclaimed him King of Mechanics, be
cause he could not only make his own
tools, but nil other artisans were forced
to go to him to have their tools made.
A Liberal Editor.
Wo were grieved to read the other day
of the death of one of Michigan’s jolliest
pioneer editors—almost the last man of a
band who published weeklies in the State
when a coon-skin whould pay for a col
umn “ad,” and three bushels of corn
dumped on the office floor stood for a
year’s subscription. Never a publisher
was more liberal with his space. It was
hard work for him to charge for anything
except the tax list and mortgage sales,
and ho measured short even on them.
One day in the years gone by his paper
copied an attack on a county official, and
old Mark was dozing at his desk when
the injured party stalked in and began:
“ You are a coward, sir—a—coward!”
“ Mebbe 1 am,” was the editor's com
placent reply.
“ And I can lick you, sir—lick yon out
of your wrinkled old boots !”
“ I guess you could,” answered Mark
as lie busted the wrapper oil'his only
exchange.
“ I’m going to write an article calling
you a fool, liar, coward, cur, slanderer
and body-snatcher, and go over to lonia
and pav live cents a line to have it pub
lished !”
“ Hey?” queried the old man as he
wheeled around.
“ Yes, I’ll pay live cents a line to have
it published!”
“bay, let me tell you something,” re
plied Mark. “I’ve got 200 more circu
lation than the Manner, and I’ll publish
your attack on me for two cents a line
and take it out in mill fe ;d or corn stalks!
Don’t trot over to lonia when you can
help build up your own town!"
Mark would have published it word
for wmd, just as he said, and thrown in
a out of a horse or a stump-puller free
gratis, but the official cooled off.— Detroit
Free Frets.
Two pickling factories at Pleasant
ville, on the Hudson river, have used
this season 11,000,000 cucumbers.
The Feet of Chinese Women.
An American missionary, Miss Nor
wood, of Hwatow, has lately described
how the size of tho foot is reduced iu
Chinese women. The binding of the
feet is not begun till the child has learned
to walk and do vax-ious things. The
bandages are specially manufactured,
and are about two inches wide and two
yards long for the first year, five
yards long for subsequent years. The
end of the strip is laid on the inside of
the foot at the instep, then carried over
tho toes, under the foot and round tho
heel, the toes being thus drawn toward
and over the sole, while a bulge is pro
duced on the instep and a deep indenta
tion in the sole. The indentation, it is
considered, should measure about an
inch and a half from tho part of the foot
that rests on the ground up to the instep.
Successive layers of bandages are used
till the strip is all used, and tho end is
then sewn tightly down. The foot is so
squeezed upward that, in walking, only
tho ball of the great toe touches tho
ground. Large quantities of powdered
alum are used to prevent ulceration and
lessen the offensive odor. After a month
the foot is put in hot water to soak some
time; then the bandage is carefully un
wound, much dead euticlo coming off
with it. Ulcers and other sores are often
foundjm the foot; frequently, too, a
large piece of flesh sloughs off the sole,
and one or two toes may even drop off,
in which case the woman feels afterward
repaid by having smaller and more deli
cate feet. Each time the bandage is
taken off the foot is kneaded, to make
the joints more flexible, and is then
bound up again as quickly as possible
with a fresh bandage, which is drawn
more tightly. During the first year the
pain is so intense that the sufferer can do
nothing, and for about two years the foot
aches continually, and is the seat of a
pain which is like the pricking ' f sharp
needles. With continued rigorous bind
ing the foot in two years becomes dead
and ceases to ache, and the whole leg,
from the knee downward, becomes
shrunk, so as to be little more than skin
and bone. When once formed, the
“golden lily,” as the Chinese lady calls
her delicate little foot, cun never recover
its orginial shape. —London Times.
Rhyming Made Easy.
The Tribune has fitted up a room for
tho exclusive use of its poets, and has
introduced its new system of rhyming
charts, which are designed to aid those
of our songsters who never have any
difficulty in whooping up the sentiment,
but are occasionally a little sliy oil the
jingle part of tlieir otherwise highly
creditable productions. The charts con
tain words that rhyme pretty well, and
are adapted to any kind of poetry, from
the Papa’s-stepped-on-mother’s-bunion
order to the wierd, mowing-machine
verses of Swinburne. When a poet
wants something that goes along smooth
and easy, like Maud S. or the price of
wheat, iio lias only to glance at the one
syllab’ ait, which contains words
like -
J ■ n {*, . Time,
C ■ ime, Dime.
\f ho hi in search of something with a
little more e :-up to it, he can refer to
the next one, which contains words like:
Item, Benison,
Flv-time, Venison,
Redress, Despot,
MaudS., Guess Not.
If the Swinburne metre is what he
wants, Chart No. 3 may be studied to
advantage. It reads:
Azure Sky, Daffodil’s Glow,
Refrigerator, Sorrel Horse.
And so forth. All poets are cordially in
cited to come in and try the scheme.
Take the elevator. It may fall some
day.— Chicago Tribune.
Trees and Rain.
The countries of Sardinia and Sicily,
once the granaries of Italy, have suffered
the penalty of their thoughtlessness in
exterminating their forests. Two thou
sand years ago these lands were cele
brated* for their wonderful productive
ness, and were said to be the most
beautiful in the world. In 1800 Hum
bolt visited Venezuela, and was informed
by the natives living in Araguay that
they hail noticed, with great astonish
ment, that a lake which lay in the mid
dle of the valley had decreased in volume
evenr year: the cause clearly traced to
the ‘falling of a great number of trees
which grew on the surrounding mount
ains. lu Hungary periodical droughts
are universally attributed to the annihi
lation of the forests. In Cairo, Lower
Egypt, a great many years ago, rain fell
but. seldom—only once in three or four
years—but since "the time of Mohammed
Aii thirty or more million of trees have
been set’or planted, and the result is now
that the country has from thirty to forty
rainy days i:i every year. When New
England and the heavily timbered States
of the Union wore first settled the rain
fall was greatly in excess of what it is
since so much of the land has been
cleared ui>.
A Spider’s Cradle.
A certain spider—found in the south
ern part of Europe—makes a curious
cradle to preserve her babies through the
cold xvinter, so that the spider family
shall not be exterminated. She makes a
silk case somewhat the shape of a balloon
upside down, not quite half an inch
long, and fitted with a door, or cover,
which may be opened, though she leaves
it carefuliy closed. In this are placed
the eggs, from which little spiders will
come in the spring. To protect them
from enemies and from cold the anxious
mamma makes an outer case of exactly
the same shape, only about an inch long,
and of course larger all around, also
fitted with a closed door. Between the
two cases the space is stuffed with a
golden-brown colored silk, which she
spins herself, and makes it warm and
comfortable inside. The whole thing is
lmug to a bush, and left throughout the
winter.
Use the Bridle.
A bridle is very necessary in guiding
an unruly horse: and it is very needful
in controlling that unruly member, the
tongue. ‘ ‘Don’t go without the bridle,
boys,” was my grandfather’s favorite bit
of advice. If he heard auv one cursing
or given to much vain and foolish talk,
he would say: “That man has lost his
bridle.” Without a bridle, the tongue,
though a little member, “boasteth great
things.” It is an unruly member, “full
of deadly poison.” Put a bridle on it,
and it is one of the best servants body and
soul can have. “I will keep my mouth
with a bridle,” said King David. Bo
sure too, to keep a bridle on your appe
tite. Don’t let it be your master. And
don’t neglect to have one for your pas
sions, or they will get unmanageable,
driving you down a headlong course to
min. I mean the bridle of self-govern
ment. Good parents try to train and re
strain their children, and you can gen
erally tell by the children's behavior
whether they have wise and faithful pa
rents. But parents cannot do everything.
Boys and girls must have their own bri
dles; they must learn to cheek and gov
ern themselves. Self-government is the
most difficult and the most important gov
ernment to teach us; but it becomes
easier every day if you practice it with
a steady, resolute will, and a firm trust
in him who alone can teach us wisely to
rule our own spirits.
In Paris, children’s parties are preten
tious affairs. The decorations and toilets
are made as prominent features and as
elaborate as among older society followers.
At one of the children’s balls was a child
of eleven decked in thousands of dollars
worth of diamonds, and a toilet of lace
worth six hundred dollars, with a gossa
mer fan mounted in turquoise and pearls.
Where all should be joy, life and light
in this youthful crowd, there are the
same rivalries, heart-burnings and en
vious feelings that embitter and spoil the
pleasure of older hearts.
Chawed by a Bear.
Ttecently near Riverdale, in the Town
ship of Greenock twelve miles from
Walkerton, Ont., two women and tlieir
children, who had gone to the woods to
pick acorns, were attacked by a bear.
The women took lip the younger children
in the arms, and got away, but a boy
about five years of age, son of a farmer
named Charles Symons, was seized by
the ferocious brute. Assistance arrived
in about half an hour, the cries of the
child calling for liis father guiding the
neighbors to the spot. The brute made
oil on their approach, and the child was
found still alive but dreadfully mangled.
His entrails were torn out, the ribs were
broken from the back, and the flesh
eaten off in large quantities. The poor
little fellow died shortly after.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press.]
What we Hate.
We hate growling, no matter the
source or cause, and. recommend here
with the remedy. Use St. Jacobs Oil
and laugh at pain. It/will do the work
every time.
An Egyptian Insane Asylum.
Ancient Egypt had a high civilization,
and it exhibited itself in the wisdom with
which the insane were treated. At each
extremity of Egypt was built a temple
to Saturn, where lunatics of various de
grees were brought by their friends.
The temples were surrounded by beauti
ful shady grounds, and patients were
provided with every form of amusement
and recreation that could occupy the
mind and invigorate the body. Here,
also, the finest works of art were brought.
Music, wine, employment, fixing the at
tention and exercising the memory, were
the principle remedies used, and none
but the most violent maniacs were put
under any personal restraint.
[Cleveland (Ohio) Herald.]
A Hummock’s Wild Way.
An Illinois exchange feels called to
thus deliver itself: “His hammock
swung loose at the sport of the wind,”
and tumbled the Hon. J. S. Irwin on his
head, and but for the application of St.
Jacobs Oil, he might have gone “where
the woodbine twmeth.” Even so dear
Beacon as many others have gone, who
failing to use the Great German Remedy
in time, for their rheumatism and other
dangerous diseases, “have paid the debt
of Nature.” Hub is iur motto.
Thk Boston Transcript says that
civilian is only another form of barbar
ism, or words to that effect. We think
so every time we see a selfish brute tak
ing up *a whole seat in a railway carriage
while some pale-faced woman or tired
man is compelled to travel through the
entire length of the train in order to find
a gentleman or a lady.
The remedy that will cure the many
peculiar to women is Warner's Safe .Kidney and
Liver Cure.— Mother's Magazine.
The blackberry, blueberry, and other
berry crop of New Hampshire is esti
mated at near SIOO,OOO on the yearly
average, and it is a very satisfactory
thing to know that it is mainly clear ; i .
Two hundred years ago the entire State
could be bought for less money.
Feeble Ladies.
Those languid, tiro-.•me sensations,
causing you to feel scarcely aide t< > In*, on
your feet; that constant drain that is
taking from your system all it-elasticity;
driving the blood irum your cheeks; that
continual strain upon your vital forces,
rendering you irritable and fretful, can
•easily lie removed by the use of that
marvelous remedy. Hop Bitters. Irregu
larities and obstructions of jour-system
are relieved at once, while the special
cause of periodical pain is removed.
Will von heed this Cincinnati Satur
day night.
HUMORS OF THE lAT.
■ i
When you “whale” a boy he blubbers.
T Why not call a hanging a necksecu
tion ?”
When trains nre telescoped tho poor
passengers see stars.
Why is a door liko a colored woman?
Because it is an egress.
“Come and seam me; I needle little of
your aid,” remarked the piece of cloth to
the maiden fair. *
Considering that kind words cost
nothing, what a poor!stock of them is in
the domestic markets.
The young woman who witnessed her
young man carried away by a balloon saw
her beau of promise in the sky.
A Kansas paper ends a marriage
notice: “The couple left for the East on
the night train where they will reside.
“Love,” says a writer, “lightens the
heart.” And it has been known to have
precisely the same effect on the pocket
book.
It ia said that what makes a lien look
like a penny when she is sitting on a
fence is because she has a head on one
side and a tail on the other.
Danbury tells of a man who refused to
buy a cyclopaedia. “I know,” lie said,
“I could never learn to ride on one of
the pesky things. ”
“Never borrow trouble,” said a hus
band to his wife. “Oh, let her borrow it
if she con,” exclaimed the next-door
neighbor; “she never returns anything,
you know. ”
Georgie (four years old) at the tea
table—“Mamma, mav I have some sar
dines?” Mamma—“Wait till I’m ready,
Georgia.” Georgia (surprised)—“Why,
ma, its me ’at wants ’em!”
Yes, Philip. If the young lady be
good tempered while suffering from whs
her father calls the epizootic, it is safe to
say that she will endure all the small ills
of life in a graceful way. —Boston Courier.
Liquors are not among the things al
lowed to be entered at agricultural fairs.
The anxiety of all the directors to be
judges of that department, and a fight
to settle it were found to be disasterous
when tried.
A Nebraska Indian contrived to swal
low a lot of dynamite, and now he can
stand around the corners and call a white
man anything he chooses, without being
kicked for liis insolence. They’re shy of
jarring him even..
Mamma—“Why, my dear Willie, what
in the world is the matter with little Os
car's head?” Willie—“ Well, we’re play
in’ ‘William Tell,’ and somehow my ar
row won’t hit the apple, but keeps plug
gin’ his eyes and nose.”
The word love in one of the Indian
dialects is ckemleadamonghkanagogager.
This accounts for the fact that Indians
never have but one sweetheart at a time.
You couldn’t expect a man to attend to
two chemlendamoughkanagogager affairs
at once.— Boston Bust.
An Irish porter, closing a shop one
rainy evening, took off his coat while
putting up the shutters. When asked ,
why he went out in his shirt-sleeves in j
the rain, “sure,” said he, “don’t I want a
dry coat to go home in ?”
“I understand,” said the Galveston
Recorder, “that you are a confirmed
drunkard.” “Dat’s winy you is too soon,
Jedge. I ain’t been confirmed in no
church yit, but de Blue Light Baptises
is gibbing Satan a heap ob worry about
me,” |
A lady wants to know why the rail
road companies do not provide special i
cars for tobacco chewers as xvell as for .
smokers. Bless your innocent heart! •
Tobacco chewers are not so particular as
that. An ordinary passenger car is good j
enough for them.
Cue Experience from Many.
“I had been sick and miserable so long
and had caused my husband so much J
trouble and expense, no one seemed to ;
know what ailed me, and I was com- >
pletely disheartened and discouraged. In
this frame of mind I got a bottle of Hop
Bitters and used them unknown to my
family. I soon began to improve and
gained so fast that my husband and fam
ily thought it strange and unnatural, but'
when I told them what had helped me,
they said ‘Hurrah for Hop Bitters! long
may may they prosper, for they have
made mother well and us happy.’ ” —The
Mother.—Home Journal.
The Wrong Leg.
The Portland Advertiser tells the fol
lowing story : There was an eminent
sergeant-at-laxv some years ago who had
a cork leg that was a triumph of artistic
deception. None but his intimates kne
for certain which was the real and wL
was the sham limb. A wild young wag
of the “ uttar bar,” who knew the ser
geant pretty well, once thought to util
ize this knowledge of the sergeant's
secret to take in a newly-fledged young
barrister. The sergeant was addressing
a special jury at Westminister inhis usual
earnest and vehement style, and the wug
whispered to his neighbor, “You sed
how hot old bnzfuz is over his . case i
now, I’ll bet you a sovereign I’ll rur
this pin into his leg up to the head, anc
he’ll never notice it, he’s so absorbed ir‘
liis case. He’s a most extraordinary
man in that way.” This was more thar
the greenhorn could swallow, so he tool
the bet. The wag took a large pin fron
his waistcoat, and leaning forward drove
it up to the head into the sergeant’s leg
A veil that froze the blood of all wlu
herfrd it, that made the hair of the jur
stand on end and caused the Judge’s wi
almost to fall off, ran through the ccurl
“ By Jove, it’s the wrong leg, and I’v
lost my money,” exclaimed the dismaye
and conscience-stricken wag, quite ri
gardless of the pain he had. inflieto
upon the learned sergeant, - J
If an untruth is only a day old, it
called a lie; if it is a year old it is calle
a falsehood; but if it is a century old
is called a leg ml.