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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
THE NEWS.
Intei extiug Happenings from all Points,
i:\wTKItN ANI> III 1)111,l: STATUS.
Miss Lillie Todd, aged 105 years, died a
few days since at Newcastle, Del.
A kirk in Philadelphia destroyed the St.
and ( loud hotel, the London Temperance hote
a number of business houses in Arob
treet; estimated loss, $534,000.
I’ ROM va. ions towns and villages along thu
Hudson cotne reports of an earthquake shock,
accompanied by “adull rumbling sound.”
James Sill, a former member of the Penn¬
sylvania Erie, has been senate arrested and a prominent tho charge citizen of aid¬ of
on
ing his brother, the cashier of the First Na¬
tional bank of Union City, and of which
James was president, in making false entries
for the purpose of deceiving the United
States bank examiner.
At a meeting of prominent Philadelphians,
Ma/or Smith in tho chair, $5,500 was raised
bi aid the eighty-five Irish members of the
British parliament in their efforts to obtain
home rule. In New York and other places
large sums are being raised for this purpose.
The glove-making industry is nearly par¬
alyzed owing to the strike for higher wages of
the glove makers at Gloversville and Johns¬
town, N. Y., the chief centres of supply in
Ibis country. More than 0,000 persons are
affected by the strike.
Widow Elias Miller, ninety years old.
l al her than go to the poorhouse committed
suicide at Durham, Conn., by setting fire to
her person.
The trial at New York of General Alexan¬
der 8 haler, of the N. Y. N. U., accused of
accepting a brilie to influence his vote in tho
selection of army sites, ended in a disagree¬
ment of the jury, who stood ten for convic¬
tion and two for acquittal. The case is to be
tried over again.
block, Franklin, Penn., has lost its Opera House
one of the most substantial structures
in the town. It was originally built at a
cost of $138,000, and was occupied by the
and opera house, city reading room and library
prominent business firms.
4 1 DT I V N I) WE ST.
Graves, Ual Simpson, taken the colored murderer of Mrs.
Ky., and was lynched by from crowd. jail at Henderson,
a
Policeman Corner, of Cleveland, Ohio,
recently torious criminal. shot and killed In George friends Foster, a no¬
revenge of Fos¬
ter the other night blew up Corner’s house
with dynamite.
There w as another stormy session in the
Ohio State senate on the 35th, each party
trying result. to obtain control, without any definite
Eight prisoners broke jail at Seguin,
Texas. Five were recaptured, but three of
the most important criminals effected their
escape.
Dr. Samuel Price and William Powell,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., became involved in
a quarrel in the house of tha latter, which re¬
sulted in lsith men receiving fatal injuries.
The boiler of a portable engine exploded at
Palmer, Shelburne, Mich., instantly killing Russel
fatally a prominent injuring farmer, and auothei
man, a third man, and in¬
flicting severe injuries on two others.
John E. Kimbrel, a farmer, his wife and
three children, left Dodge City, Kansas, to
locate a claim, and were all found soon after
frozen to death in their wagon.
More than 300 claimants of the Lawrenee-
Townley estate, England, met in Detroit and
formed an association to prosecute their
claims. They came from all parts of North
America, and the estate they are after issup
posed to U worth $800,000,000.
Two families of “rovers,” consisting of
nine persons, were found frozen to death in
the prairie, near Sans Bois. Indian Territory.
Their teams were also found dead in their
harness.
Three men—William Wright, an old man,
Andy Wright, killed his son, and William Wright,
colored—were by James, Samuel and
Ky. Elijah The Wright, parties brothers, in Letcher county,
were relatives, and tho
triple murder was the result of a family feud.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate in executive session has con¬
firmed the nomination of Charles J. Canda
to bo assistant treasurer of tho United States
at New York.
The total collections of internal revenue
during the firs* 30, six months $*58,549,611, of the fiscal year
ending of June #3,029,464 1885, were the collections an in¬
crease over dur¬
ing the same jieriod of the last fiscal year.
The President has nominated William H.
Parker, of the District of Columbia, to be
minister resident and consul-general of the
United States to Corea.
The House committee on labor has ap¬
pointed a sub-committee to draft a bill
amending the eight-hour shall law so as day’s to provide work
that eight employed hours by constitute a
for men contractors ou govern¬
ment work.
David P. Morgan, a native of the South,
who amassed a fortune iu New York, where
he was a leading few Wall street operator, aged fifty-five died iu
Washington a days is’ since,
years. His estate variously estimated at
between $5,000,(X)0 and $20,000,'000.
Members of the House committee on labor
say that as a result of the conference between
the sub-committees of the committees on ag¬
riculture and lalior, a bill will be reported
making the commissioner of agriculture a
cabinet officer known and providing tho department that the depart¬
ment, shall l>c as of ag¬
riculture and labor.
President Cleveland, with the a charity party from
Washington, was present at hall
in Baltimore.
The Senate committee on public buildings
has decided to report publio favorably buildings bills making
appropriations tor as fol¬
lows: Huntsville, $13o,000; Ala., Pueblo, #100,(XW; Col., Fort
Smith, Jacksonville, Ark., Fla., $135,000; Augusta, $100,-
000; Sioux la., $100,000;
Ga., $150,000; $100,000; Annapolis, City, Md., $100,000: Mon¬
roe, I,a., Mass., $350,(XX); Vicksburg,Miss.,
Worcester, $100,000: Camden, N. J., $100,000; Wilming¬
ton, N. C., $150,(XX); Portland, Ore., $350,000, Va,
Greenville, S. C., Wis., #50,(XW; #100,000, Norfolk,
$250,000; Oshkosh, and Wash¬
ington, D. C., $040,000.
Senators Hale and Frye, of Maine, ap¬
peared liefore the Senate finance committee
and opposed the confirmation of E. F. Pills-
bury and Charles H. Chase, nominated for
internal revenue collectors at Boston and
Portland respectively.
The Dill which was reported affairs by the House
committee on military General for the
erection of a monument to Grant iu
New York appropriates $500,000 for that
purpose, the ground to be donated by the
city.
Senators Evarts and Chace have pre¬
sented in the Senate numerously signed
petitions of business men and merchants ask¬
ing for the suspension of the silver coinage.
In executive session on the 27th another
largo batch of President Cleveland’s nomina¬
tions, including three United States district
attorneys, four United States marshals, two
collectors of customs and numerous postmas¬
ters, was confirmed.
Mr. Maynard, second comptroller of the
currency, aa-erts that the adjustment and
settlement of the accounts of the disbursing
officers of the signal service shows that many
apparently irregular have and made. unauthorized General dis¬
bursements been Hazen,
the chief assertion. officer, flatly contradicts Mr. May¬
nard’s
FOIMGGN.
At a British cabinet ministers meeting should on the 27th it
was resolved that the at once
resign. Premier Salisbury sent of the a decision special
messenger to inform the queen
Of the cabinet.
KttSaiiS&SaS oi tm " .1 Ks, vt»i dragged mm our an i D impled
wAi' i
not until sevoral strikeis hud been killed an m I
others wounded
The formal announcement that the British
cabinet had resigned on account of the ad¬
verse vote was made in the house of com¬
mons on the 38th by Sir Michael Hieks-
Beach, the conservative leader.
During a debate in the Prussian landtag
on the expulsion of the Poles from Germany,
Priuco Bismarck made a remarkable two
hours’ speech, in which he said that the Poles
were constantly endeavoring to set. foreign
states against Prussia, that Germany would
never ecu ede (lie restoration of Poland and
that as for himself he was ready head to save and
h's country, although it cost him his
U inor. The prince’s speech has excited great
c omment in Km ■ope.
The Greek ministry has resigned.
PERSONAL MENTION
General Sherman says ho would not de¬
liver a lecture on his “march to the sea” for
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
Ex-Secretary of War Belknap lives in
bachelor quarters , ’* • hington. His wife
resides in Europe.
“Emperor William lias ordered that the
German navy be included in the church
prayers, as well as the army.
In a two weeks' campaign in Cleveland,
Francis Murphy and liis sou pinned the tem¬
perance ribbon on 25,000 converts.
Bishop Green, of Mississippi, the oldest
American bishop, at the advanced age of
eighty-seven is still actively at work.
Hannibal Hamlin says that “the grand
highway of politics is strewn with the bones
of tho men who have written political let¬
ters.”
Mr. Plimsoll, the ex-member of the Brit¬
ish parliament, best known as the “Sailors’
Friend,” will soon sail, with his family, for
New York.
Governor Hill, of New York, is a be¬
liever in gymnastics. His private apart¬
ments are well supplied with dumb bells and
Indian clubs.
Justice Miller, of the United States su¬
preme court, is said to be “a perfect picture
of au old monk as he sits on the bench,”
wearing a dark velvet skull cap.
Eighty-seven years old, ex-Senator Simoa
Cameron is ha.e and hearty, never troubled
with dyspepsia or rheumatism, and almost as
observant of political affairs as ever.
Miss Marion Langdon, New York’s
prominent beauty and heiress, has just she goue
abroad, and people are wouderiug if is
not after a coronet or something better.
Judge David Davis got his great fortune
by being compelled to taxe eighty acres of
land near the village of Chicago, when a
young nun. for debt. The land is now in the
heart of the city.
General Nelson A. Miles is the young¬
est man of his rank in the United States
army, and the only one who has come from
civil life. When the Civil war began he was
a dry-goods clerk in Boston.
The Duke of Atbole has seventeen inferior
titles,*lie Dukes of Argylle and Hamilton,six¬
teen each, the Duke of Buccleuch and the
Marquis of Bute, fifteen each, and the duke
of Northuml>erland, thirteen.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, has
black hair, though he is now nearly seventy,
and his eye is as bright and his step as firm
as that of many of the younger members.
He was the Confederate postmaster-general.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A crematory is shortly to be built in San
Francisco.
A Chinaman who $100,000. died recentlyjat Coulter-
ville, Cal., left over
The Kuights of Labor, it is understood,
will make a bold stand for the eight-hour
system May 1.
It is estimated that the 10,000 saloons of
New York city take in $230,000 per day, or
$74,003,000 a year.
Each Congressman gets this year 6,500
packages of vegetable seeds, beside 500 pack¬
ages of flower seeds.
During last year 13,780 people were fed at
the New York diet kitchens, and a fifth
kitchen is contemplated.
Many Key West spongers are abandoning
that business for cigar-making, which they
think wifi prove more lucrative.
The United States supreme court has de¬
cided that taxes upon commercial ‘ ‘drummers’
by States and cities are unconstitutional.
The French have the highest nieteorologi-
cal station in Europe, and their two largest ob-
servatories are the best equipped in the world.
The German census, shows that the empire
contains forty-five towns of over 50,000 in
habitants, twenty-one of which have more
than 100,000.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, of Washington sometimes
startles the curious people by
wealing a live toy terrier in the front of his
buttoned-up coat.
Five-sixths of the Irish emigrants from
Great Britain last year proceeded to the
United States, as did nearly two-thirds of
those of Scotch nationality.
In Albuquerque, N. M., a company is being
organized to explore the ruins of a vast un-
cieut worth city, where it is thought $20,000,(XX)
of plunder may ba found.
cided The city fathers of Isural, in Yucatan, de¬
that the people were earnest about
having been given their streets paved serenade. after Work they had
begun the a tin-pan was
next morning.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
New York is to have a theatre devoted ex¬
clusively to amateurs.
Clara Morris fainted while playing “Ca¬
mille” m Washington, D. C.
Mr. Dion Boucicault succeeded Mr
Booth at the Boston museum.
Mme, Patti found the doors at Warsaw
closed against her because of her high rates
for seats.
The gross receipts of tho Boston museum
(Turing thirteen weeks of Edwin Booth's en¬
gagement exceeded $150,000.
Mrs. Chanfrau, the widow of the lateF.
S. Chanfrau, the actor, will, it is cabled, as¬
sume the lesseeship of a London theatre.
for California the ’American has furnished Opera company a suprano iu singer New
York. Miss Louise Elliott is the lady. The
Sau Francisco papers praise her highly.
All the theatrical managers in Cincinnati,
with one exception, have signed performances an agree¬
ment not to givo any theatrical
iu their respective places of aamsement on
Sundays.
Christine Nilsson declares that her
coming tour iu this country will be her very
last. Then she will settle down gracefully permanently with
in London and grow old
Jenny Lind.
There is a new American prima donna
abroad. Her name is Mme. Adda Adini, and
she was a Miss Adelaide Chapman,of her Boston. voice
She is now making Nice wild with
and her use of it.
The centenary of Weber’s birth is to be
celebrated at Eutin, Germany, by a musical
festival at which the principal operatic '
S^^SSSSSSJSSP mmt V
Rosalindo Cakuso, au actress of Verona,
a’SKSS’o*CbSa actor's benefit pertornumce. Sl.o
route at au
reads a.s well as ever without spectacles.
Anton Rubinstein has written the last l>ar
of his new oratorio, “Moses,” which will be
the great attraction of the Leipzig Gewaud-
bans concerts this season. The work will be
rehearsed and executed underThe direction of
the composer.
Dr. Franz Liszt, the famous musician, is
going to visit England for the first time in
about forty years. Extensive preparations and
are now being made for his reception,
Several musical fetes will be given in London
■KSMii'SSsaj'i KU0W n composer, lms created a sensation at
Bt. Petersburg. The libretto is founded ou
Wn bardous i o ■ a d ama m La .. Ha u .k... ne, but m ... its Rus- i>....
sian lorm the work is culled Cordelia, alter
the name of the heroine.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1886.
Where Heme Was.
"Twas yesterday i ’twas long ago:
And for this flaunting, grimy street,
Ami fur this crowding to and fro,
And thud and roar of wheels and feet,
■
Whore elm trees and the linnets trill,
Tho little gurgles of tho rill, ■V
And breath of moudow flowers that blow
hire roses make tho snmmor sweet.
'Twas long ago; ’twas yesterday,
Our poach would just be new with leaves, v
Tho swallow pair that used to lay
Thoir glimmering eggs beneath our eaves
Would flutter busy with their bl'OOtL
Anil, haply, in our hazel wood
Small village urchins hide nt play,
And girls sit binding bluebell sheaves.
Was tho house hero, or tliore, or there ?
No landmark tells. All changed, all lost;
As when tho waves fret and teitr
The fore-shores of somo level coast
Roll smoothly where the sea-pinks grow.
All changed, and all grown old anew;
And I pass over, unaware,
The memories I am seeking most.
But where these huddled house-rows spread,
And where this thickened air hangs muik
And the dim sun peers round and red
On stir and haste and cares and work,
For me were baby’s daisy-chains,
For mo the mo; tings in tho lanes.
The shy gooi-mo rows s lily said,
That (aid my morning's lying lurk.
) lingering days of 1 ng ngo,
Not until now you pas-ed away.
Tear, wire between and we unknown;
Our youth is always yesterday.
But, like a traveler home who craves
Tor friends and finds lorgotten graves,
I seek you where you dwelled; and, lo 1
Even farewell’s not left to say !
BLUE BUNDLES.
Mrs. Brown stepped on board the
train with a tiny blue bundle in her
arms,holding it with a careful tender-
less which showed what an exceed-
ngiy precious little bundle it was.
It. was so muffled up in its long blue
cloak that not a particle of it was vis¬
ible, but all who saw it knew that it
was a baby, the baby of all the world
to the fond, maternal heart to which
it was held so closely.
The car was rather crowded, but
near the further end sat a lady, who,
together with her baby and various
boxes and parcels, occupied two seats,
said seats being turned so that they
faced each other.
On perceiving Mrs. Brown looking
around with an air of perplexity, and
taking especial note of the animated
bundle, that was the exact counterpart
of her owm, this lady, whose name was
also Brown, moved the parcels on the
opposite seat, so as to make room for
her, a courtesy that Mrs. Brown num-
her one smilingly acknowledged as
she seated herself.
The two babies were evidently
about the same age, and attired in
long cloaks of the same color and
textura
For the purpose of challenging the
admiration of the other, and taking
mental notes, the two mothers care¬
fully uncovered the heads of their re¬
spective treasures.
The little creatures laughed and
cooed at each other in their baby fash¬
ion, while each mother looked smil¬
ingly on her own, and then at each
other.
With this bond of sympathy be¬
tween them the two began to converse,
naturally entering upon the apparent¬
ly inexhaustive field of their maternal
cares and duties.
Mrs. Brown number one volunteered
the information that she was going on
a visit to her folks who had never
seen “baby,” enlarging enthusiastical-
ly on the pleasure that “grandpa,”
"grandma,” its “aunties” and “Uncle
Bob” would experience on beholding
the sweet little cherub.
In return Mrs. Brown number two
remarked the fact that she was just
returning from a visit to “her folks, ’
and that she expected h“r husband to
meet her a few stations beyond.
She dilated rapturously on his' I
again seeing “baby,” from whom he
had separated nearly three weeks,
growing eloquent on the subject of
the marvelous changes and improve-
ments which had taken place during
that time in that most remarkable
ch ' jj ( j
In the meantime the baby fell asleep,
and by the two ladies sitting together
a couch for both wa* improvished on
opposite seat.
Both time and cars sped swiftly,
and Mrs. Brown number one was in
the midst ., . of . interesting . , .. recital .. , of
an
the time that baby nearly died with tho
croup, when the eon,Incur shouted,
‘’Sterling Centre f ”
With on ejiteulation ot ettrprb. .he
epranjr to her feet, unit taking up 1 one
of * the lilue bundles, hurried out.
She found Bob oil the platform
. ,, .
waiting lor Her.
hd helped her into the cutter ho
ofTere(1 _ . to t;,k,; , “ , bab , V ,, , but tl,e a!r " il8
- ’
keen and frosty, and Mrs. Brown pre-
*
, ferred to , keep it ,, under , :er warm
cloak.
But when she reached the house she
—........
Lapp/ , and . laughing . . . group that . giith-
j e red , eagerly , around , her. .
.
I ra
Chilled by her long ride, Mrs. Brown
was glad to draw near the blazing fire,
upon which Bob had heaped fresh fuel.
Then there was the nice hot supper,
for which her long fast had given her
a keen appetite, and which was pro¬
longed by the numberless questions
that had to lie asked and answered.
In the meantime, “baby” had been
carried to “grandma’s room”—baby’s
great-gradma—to be duly admired and
commented on.
It now made its appearace in the
arms of the old lady, surrounded by
a bevy of admiring aunts.
“La, child! I thought you wrote
,twas a boy ? ”
“And so it is. grandma,” said Mrs.
Brown, from whom “baby” was hufc-
den by the faces that surrounded.
“Phebe Jane! what air you talkin’
about?” exclaimed the indignant old
la.ly. “I)o you think that I have
raised fourteen of ’em an’ never lost
one, and don’t know a boy from a gal
baby?”
Hero the astonished mother caught
a glimpse of the little creature who,
clad in her night dress, was staring
wonderingly around.
With a sudden screech, she sprang
to her feet.
“Mercy on us! I took the wrong
baby!”
It was some time before Mrs Brown’s
excitement and agitation would allow
her to give a coherent and intelligible
explanation of these mysterious words.
When she did, Bob was dispatched
at once to the depot
The train had gone, of course; neith¬
er was any expected from either way
until morning. So all he could do was
to telegraph to the different stations
beyond, and to “baby’s” father.
As might be expected, the poor
mother was nearly frantic, and W’ould
have been quite so had it not been for
the consoling idea, earnestly dwelt
upon by her sympathizing friends
“that the lady must have found out
the mistake ere this, and was probably
as anxious to get her baby back as she
was to get hers.”
The early morning train brought
Mr. Brown, if less agitated, quite as
much distressed at heart, as his wife.
After a hasty consultation, the two
determined to take the baby and start
out in the same direction taken by the
strange lady, hoping to find some clew
to her name and whereabouts.
When they reached the station the
train wanted some minutes of being
dm*-
Mrs. Brown went into the “Ladies'
Room,” but her husband lemained out¬
side walking restlessly up and down
the platform.
At the further end a man was
standing talking to a lady in a car¬
riage, whose dress only was visible.
As lie regarded him more attentive¬
ly he sprang forward.
“Why, Cousin John, is this really
you?”
The sober face of the man addressed
brightened into a smile as he turned
round.
“How do von do, Cousin Will?” he
responded, with a hearty shake of the
hand. “I didn’t know you lived in
Sterling?”
“I don’t. My wife’s people live
here; and she is here on a visit. I
though you lived in Boston ?”
“So I do,” replied Mr. John Brown,
bis countenance sobering, as he recol¬
lected the errand that brought him
there - “IBit the oddest, most unfort-
miate thing that has happened. We
lmve lost our '> tby! My wife lost it
on the train yesterday-”
Here the lady in the carriage, who
h:ul blue bundle in her arms, thrust
her head forward.
Just then Mrs. Brown made her ap¬
pearance on the platform, she also
having a blue bundle.
16 " as a simultaneous recogni-
*’ on- ^ be * ,VVt> mothers rushed to-
' V;,r ^ ,,acb other, and in the twinkling
un e * e tbe blue bundles changed
1 h ’ 3 Was b v of
-
. ,,aUon9 "*
J0V ’ ‘‘ Jue ' aI n ‘ s
from both parties, and which was fl-
nal(y brolu ' n "l ,on bv tho two
who> ^ lm "” in il la "« h ,,f re -
llef md m, ‘ rrime,u the turn affairs
bH<1 now stepped forward to in-
troduce their res P ective wlv «
1 be W!ls tbiit Mr. and Mrs.
John Brown went home with their
newiy-discovered cousins, where they
»l>™t the .!»>■, a visit which wus none
in© less happy because of the fright
«*> «»»«• “ *> ™rio„ a ly
»!«<■'•*-__
A Misconception,
one,” said the lover, as he
stood upon the stoop with liis girl,
“just one!”
“Just one,” said the mother, putting
her fiead out of the bedroom window
above; “well, I guess it ain’t so iate as
that, but it’s pretty near twelve, and
you’d better be going, or her father
will be down.”
And the lover took his leave with
pain in liis heart.— Boston Courier.
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Swiss Treatment of Coneiimiitlon.
An interesting report is given of
the experiments made by Dr. Albrecht,
on consumptive patients in a hospital
at Berne, Switzerland. These experi¬
ments were made with a view toaseer-
turning the effect of oxygen Inhalation
upon the development of phthisis, and
whether, by increasing the rale of or¬
ganic combustion by this means, the
bacterium of phthisis had been dis-
charged with certainty on several oc-
casions. The patients were first sub¬
mitted to an appropriate highly nutri¬
tions diet, consisting of uiilk and pep¬
tone, and twice a week the/ were
weighed with great care. It was ob¬
served that, as soon as the oxygen in¬
halations began, the daily loss of
weight was checked, and in some cases
the weight increased, dyspnoea dimin¬
ished, and the microscope showed
fewer bacteria.
Tact in Feeding Infant A.
In no detail of nursery routine is a
“knack” more serviceable than in feed¬
ing. This is especially true during
the first days of weaning time, when
the mother’s anxiety over a refusal
even to taste the novel food in the
novel way is apt to be at the most dis¬
tressing point. What often passes for
distaste, or even lack of appetite, may
be only a momentary whim easily
overcome by a little judicious persua¬
sion, perhaps under cover of some little
ruse or a tomporary diversion of the
attention, during which the feeding
may be accomplished in a mechanical
way. An attempt to force a child to
eat against his will, even when obvi¬
ously in need of nourishment, may do
more than fail of its purpose; it may
provoke a rebellious spirit and create
an aversion not only to the particular
food administered, but to any other
that may be next offered, which would
under other circumstances be entirely
acceptable to the fastidious little one.
This repeated refusal adds anxiety to
anxiety, . the fact being overlooked
that it is abnormal and might easily
have'been averted. Moreover, we can
not tell to what extent our own feel¬
ings at such a time react, in spite of
ourselves, on the baby; but react they
often do, and only add complication to
our troubles.— Babyhood.
Nick Headache.
This complaint is the result of eat¬
ing too much and exercising too little.
Nine times in ten the cause is in.the
fact that the stomach was not able to
digest the food last introduced into it,
either from its having been unsuitable
or excessive in quantity. A diet of
bread and butter, witn ripe fruit or
berries, with moderate and continuous
exercise in the open air sufficient to
keep up a gentle perspiration, would
cure almost every case in ashoft time.
Two teaspoonfuls of powdered char¬
coal in a half glass of water, and
drank often, gives instant relief. Sick
headache with some persons comes on
at regular intervals, and is tho signal
of distress which tho stomach puts
out to inform us that there is an over-
alkaline condition of its fluids; that it
needs a natural acid to restore the bat¬
tery to its norma] working condition.
When the first symptoms of headache
appear, take a tablespoon fill of lemon
juice, clear, fifteen minutes before
each meal, and the same dose at bed¬
time. Follow tliis up until ad symp¬
toms are passed, taking no other rem¬
edies, and you will icon be able to go
free from this unwelcome nuisance.
Many will object to tnis because
the remedy is too simple; but many j
cures have been effected in this way.
—Philadelphia
In’ciitioiial Errors.
They have been mostly connected
with Biblical matters, and intended to
further party interests. It Is said that
Field, a printer of the time of Charles
I., was paid £1,500 by tho Independ¬
ents to alter a single letter in the
third verse of Acts 6. so to make the
word “we” rea I “ye.” and so give the
right of appointing pastors lo the peo-
pl’*, and not to the apostles. The well-
known "Vinegar Bible” was pub ished
in 1717, and obtains its name from
the Parablu of the Vineyard being
printed as the Parable of tho Vinegar.
One of the most wilful altera,.ions of
the text and one whi h cost its perpe¬
trator her life was committed by the
widow of a German printer, One
night, while an edition of the Bible
was being printed in her house, she
took the opportunity of altering the
word Herr into Nurr, making the
verse read: “he shall be thy fool,” in¬
stead of “he shall be thy lord.” The
celebrated Bibles of Sixtus V. are
eagerly sought for by all collectors.
Their sole fame is the multitude of
errata which crowd their pages not¬
withstanding that his Holiness Sixtus
V. carefully superintended every sheet
as it passed through the press, and
finally prefixed to the first edition a
bull forbidding any alteration in the
text.— Chamber’d Journal ,
CHILDREN'S COLUMN. t
Santa Clans.
A jolly old fellow whose hair is snow while,
And whose bright little eyes are blue,
Will bo making his visits on Christmas night—
Perhaps he will call upon you.
A funny old name has this lunny old man,
You can toll what it is, no doubt;
JIo creeps down the chiiunoy as fast as he can,
And then just as swiftly oreepB out.
Ilis plump cheeks are rosy as rod cherries
ripe;
Ilis nose, too, is rod as can be;
^°" m *y 8ni ell now and then tho amok* of
his pipe,
But his face you never may see.
He carries a bag full of swoetmeats and toys
And leaves them wherever he goes,
For tho good little girls and good little boys,
So hang up your little white hose.
—Aum Clara.
Eflte’e Christmas Dinner.
“I guess I’ll have a ’Tismas dinner
of my very own,” said little Effie
Angell.
She had been watching with great
interest the preparations for the grand
dinner at home; the chickens and tur¬
keys, tho puddings and pies, and the
beautiful red cranberry sauce, all at¬
tracted her attention and filled her
with a wish to have a dinner for her
own family.
Her family was made up of dolls, a
poodle and kitten, and a very nice
family it was. The dolls were all well
behaved and quiet; the kitten was
good tempered, and the poodle was
very bright and loving and was al¬
ways neatly dressed in white wool.
“I want my ’Tismas before you
have yours,” Effie said to her mother,
“ ’cause then you’ll he so busy that you
can’t help me.”
“Very well,” said Mrs. Angell, “you
can have it to-dav; and I will give you
some cold chicken and currant jelly
and frosted cake. But who are you
going to have for guests?”
“Why, Snowflake and Wkitenose.
and all the dollies, of course.”
“And no little girl or boy?”
“Why, mamma, would you? ]
didn’t think of that.”
“1 think It would be a nice plan to
set your dinner on the little wooden
table that stands in my room, and in¬
vite somebody to eat it with you.”
“What, have a real dinner, and not
play eat! Why, mamma, I think that
wou’d be splendid; but who shall I in¬
vite?”
“Whom would you like to invite?”
“There is Clara Weston.”
“She has enough to eat at home.”
‘‘Why, of course she has, mamma.”
“Can’t you think of some little giri
who is often hungry, because her
mamma is poor?”
“Let me see—yes, there is Mamie
Hart and Johnny. They don’t bring
anything to school for lunch but a lit¬
tle thin slice of bread, and sometimes
a herring, and they look so pale and
poor, mamma.”
“Then suppose you invite Mamie
and Johnny. I will see that you have
enough for them to eat.”
Effie was delighted with the idea, and,
putting on her little jacket and her
new hat with the scarlet wing, she
hurried to Mrs. Hart’s.
The children’s eyes sparkled with
joy when Effie told her errand, and
Mrs. Hart promised them that they
should attend the dinner in good sea
son.
Then Effie ran home and began her
preparations.
Her mamma gave her her little tea-
plate and the smallest knives and forks
that she possessed. She had pretty
white mugs for drinking cups and
milk in a tiny white pitcher with gold
bands.
Mrs. Angell cut up the smallest
chicken she had and put it all on the
table. She sliced a plateful of fresh
bread, aud biought out of her store of
preserves two glasses of currant jelly.
I cannot tell you how pretty the'table
looked when it was all set, and a bou¬
quet of roses and geranium leaves put
in the centre.
Mamie and Johnny came at the
exact time. Snowflake, the poodle,
and Whitenose, the kitty, had napkins
pinned around their necks, and were
put into chairs by the side of a chair¬
ful of dolls.
I must say that the dollies behaved
best, though the poodle and the kitten
did very well, considering that this
was their first Christmas dinner.
Mamie and Johnny ate all the chick¬
en they wanted, for the first time in
their lives, and you can easily belii v*
that there wasn’t a bit of jelly left.
They had great fun after dinner,
playing school, and meeting, and
housekeeping, and when night came,
Effie said to her mother—
“I’ve had a beautiful time, and I’m
so glad that I invited poor children u
’Tismas dinner.” — Mr». M. F. Betts.
Health commissioner De Wolf, of
Chicago, states that nine-tenths of the
“butter” sold in that city as such is in
reality butterine or some other bogus
compound.
VOL. 1. NO. 19.
Gentians.
Shiv’ring like children with their garments
tom,
AH tho comely leaves of thoir roundnesa
shorn,
Crouched in the bleached and shudd’ring grow
1 find them to-day as I idly pass,
Blue gentians.
Children ol frost—of winds snow-kissed,
Nurtured in travail—in sleet and mist,
Budding and blowing in the chilling rain,
With little of gladness and much of pain,
Boor gentians !
In pity I bend and gather each one,
And hold them up to the pitying eim,
To give them a glimpse of a fairer day,
Before they shall droop in their quick way,
Sad gentians.
And I hold them close to my eager fuee,
And the tender lines of their being trace,
And I count their goodness to come so lata,
When no flower is left to be their mate,
I,orn gentians.
Though tho year of my life wane drear and
cold,
May this kindness bo left, its hands to hold,
That some flowor of love as a tender sign
May bloom as a token of summer time,
Sweet gentians.
— S. B. McManus in the Current.
HUMOROUS.
All the rage—A mad dog.
As a general thing, what a man
sews he rips.
The thermometer gains notoriety by
degrees, so to speak.
The man who is opposed to vaccina¬
tion is probably to he pitted.
Even the most inveterate toper ob¬
jects to taking a horn with a bull.
A young lady asks . “How cun I
remove superfluous hair?” Comb tiie
butter. N
The man who said, “Thera is a gar¬
den in her face,” was evidently using
flowery language.
The telephone is an arrangement by
which two men can li • to each other
without becoming confused.
The king of Sweden and Norway is
a poet. The dictum that the king can
do no wrong appears to be exploded.
“Round again ?” be asked, as the
dun put his head in at the door.
“Yes, and I’ll stay ’round until I get
square.”
“Using tobacco in one form,” says
a hater of the weed, “usually leads to
the use of It in another.” This is
doubtless true, for when a man first
takes snuff he must et-chew!
“Why Johnny,” exclaimed mamma,
"aren’t you ashamed of yonrseif, going
about with such a dirty face ?” "No,
I ain’t,” replied Johnny, with a con¬
scious pride in the integrity of his in¬
tentions; “you’d like to have me taken
for a dude, wouldn’t you ?"
Shying Horses Wear-Sighted.
“Why it is that shying in horses
should be set down to an ugly dispo¬
sition I don’t know,” said a prominent
veterinary surgeon to a New York
Hun reporter: “It must be because
horsemen don’t know what else to lay
It to. The fact is that it seldom is
met with unless the horse is near¬
sighted. I have tested scores of shy¬
ing horses for near-sightedness, and in
nearly all cases found what I expected.
And now, when I am asked to give
points on buying horses, I givo this as
one of tho requisites: Never buy a
horse which is near-sighted. Thera
are, however, two exceptions to this
rule. If the horse is to have a mate,
then it doesn’t make any difference
about the sight. One horse can go
blind if the other is cloar-sigh ted. If
tho horse is to bo used for riding to
saddle be careful that he is not near¬
sighted, for ho will throw you sooner
or later.
“Tho reason why a noar-3ighted
horse shies is very simplo,” tho sur¬
geon continued. “Of all animals the
Jiorse is the most gentle and even tim¬
id. He sees a strango object and his
susceptible mind magnifies it into a
monster that is going to destroy him.
A piece of white paper at the roadside
in the night is a ghost and an old
wagon in the ditch is a dragon. Eve¬
ry horsoman knows that if you drive
the animal close to the dreadful object
the horse cools down at once. It is
supposed that it is because the horse
makes a closor acquaintance with the
object. That is true,' but not in the
sense in which it is generally under¬
stood. The animal has not been able
to see it from a distance. He is near¬
sighted.”
Tho Biter Bit.
“Oh, ho!” exclaimed a suburban
passenger to his milkman; “got a box
of chalk under your arm, haven’t you?
Bought it in the city and taring it out
to tho dairy, eh ? Now. will you be
kind enough to tell me what you are
going to do with it ?”
“Certainly, sir, certainly,” replied
the milkman; “your wife tolls my
driver to chalk it down so often that
be has run out of crayons, and I’m
laying in a now supply. If you’ll
mme out to the farm I’ll show you
four statement of account on the side
of the new barn__ Chicago Herald.