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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JOE 19, 1891.
CHOOSING A SERVANT.'
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Va.,
OPINIONS OF SEVERAL INTELLI
GENCE OFFICE KEEPERS.
With Ortllii
TrouUlc J
I*n»!iillt‘(l Help tire C hl.f
:i—that'
ally
t justice t« Hard working (ilrlu.
A small tow headed buy, with a vacant
look on his face, ami a thumb worn old
blankbook in iii^ dirty hands, sit; ing on
a short stool liefort* a litters! desk, whis
tling in a lazy, half hearted tone: a small
, stove emitting a fierce heat in an indig
nant sort of way. as if disgusted with
Itself and its surroundings: nine rickety
chairs, set in rows along the walls; a
faded old carpet, asmoke stained ceiling
and a rickety table—these are the ole
jectsof furniture iu a small square room
one one of the east side avenues.
The interior of the r<>mn is screened
from the view of passers by a dingy blue
curtain drawn over the lower half of
the windows. A legend in faded yellow
■—once gilt—letters over th»* door and on
the windows announces that servants
may be hired there. This is a typical
“Employment Agency,’*
A reasonably careful observer will we
maeiy curious things in an hour in one
of these agencies. It is always e;isy to
get high priced help. There is plenty of j Bon
it. But the less skilled and lower priced
Bervicfc is hard to obtain. That is the
kind most of the agencies have to do
with. Nine out of ten of the agents will
tell you that the great trouble in secur- j
ing satisfactory help is with the employ, j remlil
sii’il investigation goes to show
that they are right.
VARIOUS OPINIONS,
agents say that the business has
changed greatly in the hist few years.
“Twenty years ago,” said one of them
recently, “when a young couple set up
housekeeping they expected to start a
permanent establishment. The women
in tho4>e days were familiar with house
work from their own house training.
They were not ashamed go into the
kitchen occasionally and give the green
help a little instruction. Then, too, we
got a great deal of gjeen help from the
constant immigration which stopped
here.
Now, all that is changed. The women
either don’t know enough, or are too
high toned to go into their kitchens and
give their cook a j>ointer when things
don’t go right. And the supply of green
help from immigrants is cut off. They
don’t stop here any more. They go on
out west, where the old way Jias not
changed #o much for the wfefce. It’s
almost impossible to get the ordinary
plain help now.”
“Very few people knowhow to engage
help,” said another agent. “They come
here and talk to the girls for an hour at
a time, and they don’t know enough to
pick out the one who will suit them.
Four-fifths of the time they go to telling
‘what I said to my hist cook,’ or ‘what
she said to me,* and the upshot of it is
they make the girl think the place is too
bard and she won’t go, whereas if they
went at it in a businesslike way they
could soon be suited.”
“Yes,” said a third agent, “the ever
lasting shifting is making a lot of trou
ble now. It’s a rare thing for a girl to
have a place more than a few months,
even when she gives the best satisfaction.
People go to Europe for the summer and
go to Florida for the winter, and keep
bouse in the intervals between their
pleasant trips. Then they growl because
they can’t get first clqps help. They’re
the people that do the kicking. They
want servants to show references for
years of service when they only expect
to hire them for a few weeks or months.”
TWO AGENCIES.
There are two inside rooms at the place
above described where girls looking for
work wait for possible employers. They
come early in the morning and wait un
til the office closes at 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. When an employer comes
the agent politely offers a chair and in
quires into the needs of his customer.
He then goes into one of the inner rooms
and looks over his supply. The accom
plishments and pedigree of each one iu
the inside rooms have been fully noted
down when they applied to the agent,
and he is pretty familiar with them all.
He selects what one he thinks will best
satisfy the visitor, and indicates with p
graceful wave of the hand the one to
whom the aspirant for work is to ad
dress herself. Sometimes a bargain is
stmek almost immediately.
There is an employment office in Sixth
avenue that is just a little different from
any of the rest of them. It is run by a
woman, a clear headed, gray eyed Eng
lish woman, who was for years the
housekeeper for a well known New
Yorker. Her clientage is almost wholly
among the wealthy people. And the
peculiar part of it is that they scarcely
ever visit her office. She has a whole
deskful of letters which say, “You know*
just what 1 want, and 1 trust you to get
it for me ”
Some day this woman will wake up to
the fact that she has a valuable lot of
autograph letters from many of the best
known women of this city, w ith not a
faw. from Philadelphia, Washington,
Baltimore and other towps. An auction
sale of these autographs would interest
a great many people and be very profit
able to her.—New York Sun.
A Practical Jofcr.
Tramp—You gave me a counterfeit $.j
hill a few moments ago.
Practical Joker—He! he! lie! ho!
hot Found it out, eh?
“Yes, sir; and on my information an
officer is now looking for yon. Gim’me
in good money and i’ll throw 'em off
the- track. Thanks. Ta, ta!"—Good
News.
Sli. Craved Appreelntl«>a.
A little three-year-old girl was taken
to chorcb for the first time, after prom
ising that she would 'sit still and not
talk. For some time she was ns quiet
jod as prim os possible, when suddenly
she turned to her mother and said aloud,
••Mactuia, isn’t I a good girl not to
tslkr—Boston Traveller. *
E. D. Ludwig,
.manhood in Rockbridge
f aml just hr fore the war wa
the Sunday school of whicl
Jackson was 8up*»rintcndeii
*ati«,n Mr. Ludwig said:
“Thomas Jonathan Jack;
‘StonewallV full name—wh. professor
of mathematics am! artillery practice in
the Washington college of Lexington,
and his father-in-taw, I)r. Creorge Junck-
lin, was president of the college. Presi
dent Junckl in was an uncompromising
Tnion man. and just l*-fore the war,
when the secession spirit ran very high,
a j»arty of students one night raised a
Confederate flag over the dome of the
r« .liege. When Dr. Junckliu came down
next morning and saw the ting he ordered
the janitor t<» take it down.
“The students told the janitor that if
he lowered the flag they would kill him.
and lie refused. Dr. Juwklin. although
upward of seventy y«a rtf old, mounted to
the dome, cut the halliards and brought
tin* flag down. Stepping into the bal
cony. h** lighted a match, sot fire to the
flag. and. as it burned, said in a clear
voice that was heard by all U-low, ‘So
may all attempts to destroy the Federal
Union end.’
“Ho was at once seized by » crowd
of the infuriated students, and citi
zens, and it required all the energy
his son-in-law, ‘Stonewall’ Jack-
and a number of others to pre
vent his being hanged on the spot.
A compromise was arranged by whicl
he was to leave the state. He hastily en
tered his family carriage, and, with what
ts he could lay his hand* u|s»r
at for ilarj* r's Ferry, es
CHILDREN AS TEACHERS.f
GREAT STUDENTS HAVE LEAR^EZ
VERY MUCH FROM THEM
The Srle.ee of Mo-lern M. lhmh of INIn.
ration Ha* Item ttevolntionized by tlx
meat
, and w
i cherts
Manner* and Society
social intercourse is
; the fine arts, and ii
tiptnre and architecture
ing. so is that higher si.
rs without which these
, misplaced fr
■k* that ma:
!ige fo
corted *by his friends. When he had
crossed the river lit; stopped the carriage
and directed the driver to wash every
particle of Virginia soil from its wheels
and* body.
“Now, there’s a true ytory,” concluded
Mr. Ludwig, “and one that I don't 1k?-
iieve ever appeared in print.”—Detroit
Free Press. /
I'lfctrio Poles Iu Ilerlln.
In Berlin the electric arc lamp poles
are things of beauty. They are more
properly bracket* than poles, though.
Thu taps frqni the mains in the streets
are carried under the sidewalk to tin
house wall and tlien up to the surface*.
At the sidewalk Regina a handsome
scroll work affair of iron, which i nns uj
the house and then out over the street,
supporting the arc lamp. Near the base
is a panel door provided with lock and
key. Back of the panel is a Compart
ment bolding the fuse strips and switch,
and a handle which fits on the square
head of a windlass shaft projecting from
one side of the compartment.
The lamp trimmer comes along iu the
morning, unlocks thq panel door, exam
ines the fuse strii>s, throws the switch,
takes out the. little handle, turns the
windlass, lowers, trims and raises the
lamp, restores the handle to the compart
ment, throws down the switch, locks the
door and goes on to the next lamp. All
tl^is work is done without climbing a
step. The whole device is painted a
dark green, picked out in gilt. Far from
being unsightly, they are real ornaments
to the street. The householders are anx
ious to have these brackets placed on
their houses, often paying half the cost,
and sometimes the whole cost, for the
privilege. These devices are well made
and expensive, costing about $ 1 GO each.
—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Tt-re.ln?
The shipworm or teredo, with its long,
spiral shell, would hardly be taken for a
two valved shell, yet it is. It is the l>ete
noir of f lie dock builder on the Pacific
and South Atlantic coasts, boring into
the wood and depositing a lining, until
finally the wood is completely honey
combed and falls to pieces. On the
Florida reef I found that a new dock,
when the piles were protected by cas
ings covered with tar, were rendered
unsafe in a little over a year. An old
wreck, comprised of the hull of a gotnl
sized ship, was visited by me in 18(12;
thrfo or four years later it bad almost
disappeared.
It was out of the reach of the surf, and
simply fell apart by the action of these
destroyers that iiud completely honey
combed it, so that wudhig up to it at
low tide I could puncture the hull any
where with my finger. ' The only wood
which seemed to resist the inroads of
the animal was the palmetto. I often
found logs or trunks floating, and while
the terero had attacked it they were evi
dently disheartened. Our common terero
is but a few inches iu length, hut in Su
matra a giant of six feet is found boring
iu the mud.—San Francisco Chronicle.
The OU«l L’se of Wonk
It is amusing to note how many words
and expressions we hear every day that
mean something far different from what
they seem to mean.* We are so accus
tomed to this that we pay little atten
tion to it, except when we a re in thought
ful mood; and no matter how careful we
are we gradually drop into the habit of
following onr neighbor’s example, and
in turn setting the example for others to
follow. #
'Dius we find no fault with the friend
who tells us soberly that the clock has
struck out*, when we know that the clock
has never been guilty of striking anylnxly.
We do not protest against hearing an
other declare that he did something
wrong because he could not help it. as
though the wrong, had it been assisted,
would have committed itself and saved
the actual sinner from all blame.—liar
per’s Young People.
From olden times it has b-en thought
that adults idiotiid be the teachers and
children simply learners, but in the
Nineteenth century of civilization the
greatest find that they can learn from
the little ones. The best educators are
those who have learned most from lift If*
children, and the most snce»*s*fnl prima
ry teachers are those who can see and
feel things as children feel and see them.
Authors of literature and textbooks for
children must now know child nature or
fail.
Scientific philologists are beginning to
recognize rh*- fact that children just
learning t<> talk cun iu a few months
teach them n.»re about how languages
are formed than can be learned by years
of study of dead and living languages.
Even the philosopher and psychologist
are turning to the child for the solution
of some of the problems that have so
long baffled them, and the practical mor
alist turns from theories to learn of chil
dren how moral ideas are formed and
moral action called forth.
GREAT STUDENTS.
Die development of the race is epit
omized in the development of the child,
and tin* observer may read it in the un
folding physical activity of the innocent
child, with more pleasure and profit
than in the learned histories of civiliza
tion.
Dedennan, Darwin, Taine, AlcotL
Romanes and ‘other learned men have
studied their own children scientifically
and taken notes on their development,
while Perez, Kussmaul and others have
made observations on a number of chil
dren. Humphreys, Ilolden and Noble
have collected and examined the vocab
ularies of several-children two years old.
in order to discover the general laws of
speech.
Emily Talbot has collected observa
tions of mothers on young babes. The
most thorough and accurate study has,
however, been made by Preyer, who
carefully observed and experimented
upon bis boy during the first three years
of his life, noting down each day every
thing calculated to throw light upon the
capacity of children and the order of t he
development of their powers.
Much light has been thrown on man
subjects by these investigations, but a
sufficient number of carefully verified
facts lias been collected to enable ns
with certainty to distinguish character
istics common to all from individual f**-
cnliarities. It has been made evident
that not only must, there l>e persevering
exactness inoliserving and recording the
facts, but many of them can Ik? accu
rately observed and correctly interpreted
only by one versed in physiology and
psychology.
PLANS FOR A IlOOIC.
Considerable interest lias been aroused
and many plans proposed designing to
increase scientific knowledge on the sule
ject, to bring parents into new and
pleasanter relations with each other, and
to pr»*serve records of interest and value
to the family. Probhbly no more accept
able or more valuable present could be
given to a child who had jnst attained
his majority than a little book contain
ing a record of his life from babyhood.
The data contained in suc h a record
would make it possible for him to obey
the maxim, “Know thyself,” and to
guide his life by that knowledge, while
the little incidents of childish life that
give so much pleasure when remembered
and related by the parents would be pre
served and enjoyed by himself and his
descendants. Parents who have engaged
in such observations have not only
learned to understand their children bet
ter and been drawn into closer relations
with them, but have also found the task
most interesting and delightful.
It will probably Is? years before the
observations of man}' scientists on chil
dren can lie collected, but in the mean
time a father,' mother or older sister of
ordinary intelligence can, by exercising
patience and cure, observe and record
certain facts of child development that 1
will he as important and reliable as
those furnished by the most learned sci
entist. These observations also are those
made at the most interesting age of the
child’s life—the jK*riod of the develop
ment of speech.—E. A. Kirkpatrick in
Lend a Hand.
f)uk«* Humphi
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the g
her tat
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NOW TO COMPLETION
iVILL THE HANDSOME"
CHURCH BE PUSHED
lYork to Commence at Once amf Hnr-
rler\ With all Possible Speed Until the
f!ui!diii£ Is Completed and Heady for
Occupancy and Dedication.
in to
vhy men an* tempted i
L no English
“a man
>*r ,lh:»
IS yet It IS SOI
great truth re
daily
promii
them.
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111 vagi]
tnd Mrs
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B.‘s on:, r
Mrs. ,’
perliaj
she also is annexed t
letter of the* alphabet, she al:
an attractive home.—T. \V
iu.Harper's Bazar
A physician who has noted the dreari
ness of the typical waiting room for pa
tients and its evil effects on-people al
ready in nil unhappy frame of mind from
bodily‘ills has devoted some rime t.»
making his reception rooms as cheerful
find lively as good taste will permit. In
place of bare, white walls, with an odd
print or two upon them, a bookcase con
taining dry medical works and a stand
filled with stiff looking bric-a-brac, he
ii.'ts an abundance of well executed
paintings <>r prints, the subjects of
which are of an interesting and cheerful
nature. The center table is <
with copies of the latest novel,
trated magazines and files of tl
ous weekly papers. The furniture in
eludes several large easy chairs, so rest
ful that when once settled in one o
.them a i**rson is reluctant to get iq
>• is | NVork on the new Baptist cl,
r of b e gj n ;igajn.
* re j | And once it is under w«%y there will
be no let up. Everything will be push-
ihle ^ earnestness possible, and
tu * r ■ just as soon as it can be finished the
one j elegant building will be ready for occu-
Jili. ; pancy.
tlie i Then Ameiicus will have a church
r;u> : equal to any in the country and the
** Baptists will have the house of worship
which they have so long needed.
This will indeed be a handsome build
ing. It is of brick and stone. Its pro
portions are splendid, and everything
about it shows a master hand, the gener
al style of architecture being at once at
tractive and original. An assembly
room,a Sunday school room,class rooms,
a study and pastor’s room, and every
other convenience to be found in a
modern church will bo provided in this
structure. It will be quite a change
from the tent now used.
The ‘fact that the work is to be re-
• sumed will be good news to the people
of Americas, especially to the Baptists.
j It will be remembered that a month
• or so back some trouble arose between
j the contractor and those who were bav-
| ing the church built. It was pending a
j 8etilement of that trouble that the work
j on the church was suspended. Mon-
j day the matter was arranged satisfac-
I torily to both sides .and the result is that
! work is to be started and that it is to be
J pushed as rapidly as possible.
It is hoped to have the church ready
' for use by fall.
I The contractor thinks there will be no
: trouble about getting his part of the
: work ready. There are several things,
} | however, to be provided 'that are not in
i i his contract. One of these is windows.
■ ; Steps will be taken to get the necessary
humor- | windows at once. They will ho elegant
stained glass ones and will be in keeping
with the general style of the building.
As soon as they arc received they will
be put in. Then the carpets will be put
11 this.” 1 down and next the pews placed in posi-
'oi.d in- ■ tlon. When this has been done
\i<-t*rit*ss*j services can he held in the church nl-
• n, I j though it will not be quite completed.
It is a matter of gratulation that the
trouble with the contractor has been set
tled and that work is to proceed without
delay. All will now look forward to the
day when the edifice is to be
and great will be
Letter List.
j The following unclaimed letters will
be >»ent t«> the dead letter office if Ro ,
BAPTIST | called for in ten days. Say “advertised
letters’’ when calling for them at office-
T B Baker, II D Battle, 0 H Brower
\V C Copies, Miss Rhoda Cleveland*
Mary Jane Cooper, I N Elkins, X p £]’
kins, John Frlcklieu, Eddie Houser
Miss Mary llavgood, Julie Hollis, Amos
Johnson, Eliza Kendrick, Elijah Lamb
C P Lyford, James McCaffers, Fannie
McCrary, Andrew II McXeal, Cornet*
Mason, Phil (TBrient, John A Pavthers
Lucius Pitts, Clarence Ross, Ned Reller-
ford, Wm Scott. John II Shaw & Co
Catherine Shockley, Frank Terry, Annie
Lyle Tint-ley, Tom Thomas, Wallace
Whitehead, Mary Walker, Mrs Charles
White.
J. C. Roney, P. m. .
Young Nicely—Yes I ‘know that I’m a
great flirt. I suppose Miss Smilax, that
you think Em a very hard hearted
wretch? Miss Smilax—Yes, but your
head brings the average out all right.—
Boston Courier.
“It costs something to do u
said he, “but it is certainly a *
vestment. Waiting in a dull. <
room is very trying to the ner
most visitors to a doctor’s office are nerv
ous and irritable. Like all reforms,
however, it is earned to excess by some
physicians. 1 know several who have
the walls of their reception rooms com
pletely covered with oil paintings, so
that the room looks like a badly crowded j dedicated,
picture gallery. But the idea i* a good ! the congregation that will gather
oue and is rapidly gaining ground. j there that day to help in their feeble way
New Y ork Telegram. j gj vc t j ie j 10U8e over to the Great Archi
tect of our lives.
Governor SU*|*Ih*ii»' U*t Act.
Governor Alexander Stephens—dying
a few years ago—{persisted in having all
business matters brought to his bedside.
There was on the table a petition for tin*
pardon of u distinguished criminal; the
petition was signed by distinguished
men. There was also on that table a
letter from a poor woman in the peni
tentiary, written and signed by fi *r>« if
alone. “Dying,” said the great governor.
“Y’oti think that because i have U*eu ill
so many times and got well that I shall
get well now, but you are mistaken; I
will not recover. Where is that letter
by that woman in the penituithiry
think she has suffered enough
The people of Amei icus, of every creed
and congregation, will hope the Baptists
God speed in the work of completing
this beautiful bnilding.
A Little Girl'* Experience In a L.if(htRoute
Mrs. and Mrs. Loren Trescotfc are
keepers of the government lighthouse at
8and Beach, Mich., and are blessed with
a daughter four years old. Last April
she was taken down with measles, fol
lowed with a dreadful cough and turn
ing into a fever. Doctors at home and
j in Detroit treated her, but in vain. She
j grew worse rapidly, until she was a
! mere “handful hones.’’ The she
As near j tried Dr. King's New Discovery and
If y-
health;
Strength ami Health.
; are not feeling strong and
try EJectric Bitters. If “j a
grippe’’ has left Non weak and weary
use Electric Bitters. Teis remedy .lets
directly on liver, stomach end kidneys,
gently aiding those organs to perform
their functions. If you are afflicted
with sick headache, you will And speedy
and permanent relief by taking Electric 1
Bitters. One trial will convince you
that tUU is the remedy y*m need. Large
bottles only .',0. at E. J. Eidridge’s drug
•tore. fl
Youthful Prodigies: “Have yon
heard the ei - hr year old violin vir
tuoso?’’ “Oh, yes. Twelve years ago
in Vienna.’’—Blatter and Rluthen.
The republican convention of Ohio is
in session at Columbus for the purpose
of nominating McKinley for governor
The democrats in that state will nomi
nate Governor Campbell, and the race
will be one of great interest.
“My father, at about the age of fifty,
lost all the hair from the top of his head.
After one month’s trial of Ayer’s Hair
Vigor, the hair began coming, and, in
three months, he had a line growth of
hair of the natural color.—P, J 4 . Cullen,
Saratoga bprings; X. Y.
•* An English exchange brings along
the storj* of a noble mastiff that plunged
into a stream and rescued a small ter
rier that was being carried toward death
by the rushing waters.
A blind clergyman was installed as
pastor of a Jersey City church Sunday.
He graduated recently, having studied
through the assistance of his wife, who
read the lessons to him. *
James W. Lancaster, 57awkinsville,
Ga., writes: “My wife was in bad health
for eight years. Five doctors and as
many more different patent medicines
had done her no good. Six bottles of
B. B. B. has cured her.”
0-16-lm-eod
Indian Mnsravlng.
Luok at the most insignificant record
of a grant of rice to some poor liruhmin
iu any temple during the days, of the
Cbolu or Chalnkya, ten or fifteen centu
ries ago; each letter, each stroke or dot
stauds in clear, distinct form, ;cs legible
aa it was years ago when its wording
meant so much to the poor recipient.
But want of art energy is allowing this
to die. Ileady as the Indian nation is
to present addressee of welcome to rajahs
and to English officials of position, they
never take the trouble to engrave lasting
ones on copper.—Nineteenth Century.
Kl»i* Stopped Smiling.
A young lady, wearing a stylish cc
tunic in a jaunty manner, utepjted off
:ar at Madison avenue and Forty-third
street Wednesday. She suddenly had
•xuu&tMi L» get down ou all fours in the
mud, and, settling over ou her side, wmk
broadside into the aristocratic Murray
Ilifl slush. A woman standing at the
edge of the curb near saw her prostrate
sister and smiled. While she was smil
ing a gust of wind blew off her little cap
au<i placed it in the center of a large,
deep puddle. Words fail to give an idea
of the misery of the jaunty maid. The
moral is obvious.—New York Continent.
Suicide* of |*e«i-K.
It may Ik* interesting to mention that
there are no fewer than twelve cases on
record during the present century of sui
cide among members of the pierage.
These are Lord French, Lord London
derry, Lord Greaves, Lord James Be res*
ford, Lord Munster, - Lord Congh tou,
Lord Forth, Lord Cloncurry. Lord Wal-
siiigham. Lord Delawarr, Lord Lvttle-
ton and Lord Shaftesbury. Besides these
Dr. Samuel Butcher, bishop of Meath,
took his own life in 1876, and the Dow
ager Lady Howe met a similar tragic
end iu the following year.—Londou Tit-
Bit*.
Only t*oo Thins I*®ft to !>«•
“How did you stand the ordeal of lis
tening to Dr. Prosy’s lecture?”
“Stand it? Why, man, I couldn’t even
fit it. I skipped it in alxiOt five nun
utes."—Hunsey’s Weekly.
as I can tell she has no friends Bring ! after the uke of t
me that paper that I* may sign her par j was completely cm
don.” v ‘ j King's New Disci
A gentleman standing bv, thinking ! weight ju gold, yet
this too great a responsibility’ for the flce at
sick nian. said. “Governor, you are very
sick now. perhaps you had better wait
till tomorrow; you may feel stronger
and you may feel better." Then the.eye
of the old governor flashed, and he said.
‘I know what 1 am about.” Putting his
signature to that pardon he wrote the
last word he ever wrote, for then the
pen fell from his pale and rheumatic
and dying hand forever. How beauti
ful that the closing hours of life should
be spent in helping one who had no
helper!—Dr. Talruage in Ladies’ Home
Journal
and a half bottles,
•d. They say Dr.
very is worth its
you may get a trial
G. Eidridge’s drug
A New Y’ork mother has a little boy
with an angelic face, and she keeps him
before the camera half the time posing
as a Cupid, as a Fauntlproy, or as a choir
boy. The sale of his photographs net
her $b00 a year.
How to Get a HnmDoine Ilutlmnd.
“Whene’r *om<* lucky Indian maiden
Found a redear In the hnskL.p.
*Mu«ka!* cried they altogether:
* Muska!’ you hhttil have u sweetheart—
Pou shall have a lintuisome husband.”
Adopt twenty members of the Geor
gia Press association left Atlanta yester
day on the excursion to the lakes. Some
of the boys did not like it because they
could not take their wives, or sweet
hearts, or sisters, and did not care to
make the trip without them.
It is conjectured that'a specific may
yet be found for eVcry ill that flesh is
heir to. However this may be, certainly
the best specific yet found for diseases
of the Mood is Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and
most diseases originate from impure
blood.
The n
that whi
Roman
.. . .. i The handsome man a 1 wavs admires
i»u iVoriiu .ii on. i the beautiful women. Then simply
•r famous opal in history was j make yourself beautiful. Remove all
i was worn in a ring l»y the j blotches, pimples, “forked signs of tur-
nator Nonius, in the day of j key tracks” from your features by the
tne tnmnviraio. Its size equaled that use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription,
of a medium sized hazel uut. Yet its a tonic to the nervous, circulatory and
beauty and brilliancy rendered it a mar- procreative systems. Its use brings
v.-l amou? the dilettanti of Koine, es- ’ r " s<,s « hccks , an<1 s I* ark > e '<> the
peciallv when it was known that the «?«*• 1 « ke 1 - »•»«« >?« , wln - k ? thc
1 ,, ”... . .. . ,. . . ! dian maiden, find a “red ear ’ in good
goldsmiths and "money changers had healtb( iln 0 ' mBD of luture happiness,
set its value at - .,000.000. j Guaranteed to give satisfaction in every
Mark Antony made overtures to i case, or money paid for it refunded.
Nonius for its purchase, intending, it is
thought, to present it to Cleopatra, lint i Sharpson—“What makes your nose so
the senator refused to part with it. and ; red?” Phaltz—“It glows with pride be-
for fear that it would be taken from him i cause it never pokes itself into other
by sheer force sought safety in flight. 1
Here history loses all trace of this fa
mous gem, there being no record of its
tratisfereuce from Nonius to any of his
family.—St. Louis Republic.
people's business.”—Exohang
A OuetT Provision In a Will.
The following will, though not espe
cially curious in itself, throws a curious
light ou the streets of London in tile
Seventeenth century. Johu Cooke,
among other bequests, left oue pound
sterling “for the maintenance of a Ian
tern and candle—to be eight iu the
pound at the least—to be kept and
hanged out at the corner of St. Michael’s
lane, next Thames street, from Michael
mas Day to Lady Day, between the hours
of 9 and 10 o’clock at night nntil the
honrs of 4 or 5 in the morning, tor af
fording fight to passengers going torougb
Thames street or St. Michael’s lane.”—
All the Year Round.
Good Sense!
Disease is largely the result of impure
blood. Purify tbe blood is to cure the
disease. As a blood purifier and vital-
izer, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery stands haad and shoulders above
any other known specific. Its power in
this direction is nothing short of won
derful. Guaranteed to benefit or cure
in every case, or money refunded..
Abbott’* Ea*t Italian Corn Paint
Is a quick cure /or corns, bunions and
warts.
Skin and scalp diseases, the heat, at
times a running sore, the body entirely
covered with sores as large as a quarter
of a dollar, and no medicine had the de
sired effect until P. P. P. was taken.
The disease yielded at once,4nd P. P.
P. provec itsels the best blood purifier
of the age.
The most paradoxical thing in poli
tics is the movement in the people’s
party to make Leiand Stanford its nom
inee for the presidency. The California
seuator is worth $:;0,000,000 and is large
ly interested in railroads and other cor
porations
Erysipelas, swolen limbs, bad sores,
scales and “cabs on the leg have been
entirely ciued by P. P. P., the most
wonderful blood medicine of the day.
junel0-dl2tw.it.
Sam Small has been in trouble ever
since he quit newspaper work and be
came a travelling preacher. Sam made
a mistake in. that he didn’t recognize
that a real good newspaper man is the
true evangelist.
Cleanse the scalp from scurf and dan
druff; keep the hair soft and of a natural
color by the use of Hall's Vegetable
Sicilian Hair Uenewer.
The funny editor of the Southern Al
liance Farmer says: “We see but little
chance of Georgia going democratic in
18ff2.” Now let Puck and Jildg® look
out for their laurels.
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