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MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Merry voices, have your way ;
Tlirill us, lovely, laughing eyes ;
Turn December into May
Underneath these frosty skies.
Laugh, ye grown-up children, too!
What, though sober in your glee,
Sweet old memories glimmer through
Of t l>e days that used to be.
King the joy 1k-1Is all around,
Hail the sacred Christmas morn,
For the peace of life is found.
' And the ho|>c of heaven is born.
Peace for every weary heart:
Hope, for every struggling soul:
Joy, that never can depart:
Love, to consecrate the whole.
? William Winter.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
. A (11KISTMAS STOKY.
Miss Bridget was an old maid; that is,
she had been so long recognized an
known as "Miss Bridget" that licr
friends and neighbors would have scout
ed the idea of her ever beinir called by
any other name. There had been, to be
sure, vague rumors of an earlv fondness
on her part for some curly-headed youth;
but whether that fondness had been rcciprocatcd
or not was a question only set
at rest by the general opiuion that no
one could ever know Mis**Bridget without
loving her; so it was generously conceded
that the curiv-headed youth had
gone to sea, and been shipwrecked and
drowned, and that Miss Bridget had
"worn the willow" ever since, and would
always continue to do so, for his sweet
sake.
The only reason for this sad and catastrophical
supposition rested in the known
possession, by Miss Bridget, of a miniature
representing a young man having
large blue eyes and curling light hair,
and clad in a blue jacket; yet on this
slender hypothesis was crccted a complete
seafaring romance, which the
younger of .Miss Bridget's friends delighted
in rehearsing for her editication
whenever they felt in a peculiarly tau
talizing humor?delighted chiefly bestones
fV?o imr] \* oliarminfr lilnch
the story brought to Miss Bridget's
checks and the marvelously tender
smile with which it softened the rather
sad lines of her mouth.
Miss Bridget lived in a large old stone
house in a street which had once been in
the suburbs of the great city, and where
residences had been sparsely scattered
about and were of a more substantial
character than those usyally erected.
But the great city in its progress had
caught up with this street, lined it with
blocks of flaring red brick houses, and
rushed onward, far out into tlie country.
Miss Bridget could have disposed of
her property at a very high figure if she
had been so inclined; but she did not,
and no inducements could change her
opinions on ihis (juestion; so she continued
to live there, isolated, though in
the midst of a constantly changing crowd
of inhabitants, and her dwelling stood
out from among its modern neighoors?
among them, but not of them.
It was a stately, solid, square-built mansion,
with a home-like and comforting
1--1- ?. ~i 1 ? iuUA
jook, nui suareu v*iiu any m iuusu
others."
It stood in the center of several lots of
ground, was possessed of a lawn and tine
old shade trees in front, and a flower and
fruit garden behind, and was shut in
from the outside world, and all noise
and confusion, by a high stone-wall and
a strong oaken gate, studded with big
iron nailheads.
From the polished iron mastiffs that
guarded the portal, to the brass knobs
and the brass knocker of the front door,
all was shiny aud in order. The interior
of the house was a marvel of neatness
and eomfort. The massive furniture,
darkened by age and daily friction,
though unfashionable and out of date,
was stately and comfortable.
The bright cannel coal tire in the sitting-room,
that flashed in the large open
grate as soon as the brown leaves in the
garden began to fall, was a charm in itself.
The polished brass fire dogs and fenders?more
for ornament than use?reminded
one of the stability and security
of olden times. And when Miss Bridget
could be seen sitting in front of the tire
at dusk, with some of her young friends
about her, the scene of homo comfort
and quietude was complete.
I Miss Undent's household was orderly
o ? J
I through a system which had been fol}
lowed for forty years?in fact, ever since
9he was a baby, and a beautiful young
mother and a strong, manly father sat in
the room she now occupied.
The same highly respectable butler?
white-haired and time-worn waited at
table; the same fat and equally respectable
housekeeper managed her domestic
concerns who had managed them for her
- mother before her. The life in the
stone house was, in fact, one of the last
relics cf the life of a half century before,
when it was a hope and "\ joy to have
lived at all, instead of a disease and insanity
as it is nowadays.
Miss Bridget: ormed, in truth, a connecting
link between the old and the
new. Her recollections were of the past
and of the old?but rather by tradition
than by actual experience, for she was
only forty?while her associations seemed
ever with the young.
With old people she did not assimilate;
and almost daily she would be
found surrounded bv vountr. charming.
and gaudy creatures?butterflies of the
fashionable world?who sought in Miss
Bridget's society a nameless charm which
teemed to soothe the feverish excitement
under which they lived, and to remind
them of an existence more beautiful if
_ Jess brilliant, and tender and sweet in its
every element of orderly repose and refinement.
Miss Bridget was possessed
of a competence, and of competent servants,
honest withal, to dispense it;
therefore her domestic avocations were
few.
.Many of her friends wondered how
she occupied her time, since she was
never seen with crochet or Berlin-wool in
)jqj_ her hands. True, she read much, and
of the newest; and her music was someF
thing to be remembered, as of the utterance
ot an harmonious soul through sympathetic
lingers. Still, the greater portion
of her time was unaccounted for to
the curious.
Meanwhile there was wretchedness aud
sorrow and starvation in the by ways of
the great city that rc< ognized in her an
angel of mercy and a constant savior from
* the worst of evils.
There were poor, down trodden creaiires
who could have told how many of
Miss Bridget's hours were dispensed.
But she held conversation between her
right and her left hand on sueh topics to
be a vanity and unworthy, and therefore*
rhrspnnts of hers nasscd in the di
vine record unknown of men.
That she was ever amiable, kindly,
and generous, was a general reputation
which she had achieved by the mere
force of her personality; but those who
so believed her would have been at a loss
for details to attest its truth.
Meanwhile there were none who did
not esteem her happy above most, for
that she was tranquil and uncomplaining.
And these would have marveled
had they read her heart, and known that
hers had been a life of bitter disappointment,
as well as of entire self-abnegation;
yet such it was.
The intuition which ?n*asps at truth,
even unknowingly, had seized the secret
of her heart in its furtive decision on the
merits of the hidden miniature romance.
Twenty years before. Miss Bridget had
loved and been loved by the curlv-headed
young man whose portrait she preserved;
ana the separation of the threads of their
lives, which ought to have been woven
together perpetually, had been a sad. sore
episode which had chastened and saddeued
a spirit full of bright enjoyment
and capacity for the perfection of earthly
happiness. He had been poor, and
she had been rich; and their story, like
W most sad ones, was a short one.
K A few months of constant association
j and of growing love and then sickening
j disappointment of blighted hopes, and
| the young man had donDed the blue
ionbnt in \i-Viii-.Vi the nrfiot viiiintpfl him
L and had departed across seas, and they
had never met since.
Even correspondence was forbidden
them by her parents?who loved their
only child with (hat ignorant love that
does not foresee; and as she was dutiful
and he was proud, the thread had been
cut, and they had drifted widely asunder.
It had been in the autumn that he had
gone away from her; and ever since, and
now, when the season had returned, :md
> the brown leaves pattered on the stone
walks in the garden, she had felt thesadness
of her crushed out longings and
[hopes press heavily upon her.
Now, when the shrill blasts were wailing
mournfully outside, and the Christ- j
mas tide?which promised to be green |
that year?was only a day oil, the de- i
pression of her spirits seemed almost be- j
yond the conrrol of her dearly bought j
self command. j
LfifeiAl - -
It was toward dusk on Christmas eve,
and she sat aloae by the bright tire in
the sitting-room, and that she might for
once accept the painful pleasure of reminiscence
she let her memory carry her
back to those halcyon days twenty years
gone.
She had been surrounded by a group
of young and happy beauties all the afternoon;
but they had dropped away and
left her all alone; and so she sat, deep
in thought, when a loud rap of the
knocker startled her for a moment, and
she came out of her reverie, thinking it
might be the Teturn of one of her late
visitors, or a new one; and so her fac(,
which had for a few moments become
hard with lines of unrest, softened inio
its usual placidity.
The door of the sitting-room opeued,
and the butler appeared,bearing a small,
rough looking box.
" It's a box, marm. just left here by a
sailor chap, who said he was sent by the
captain of a ship and told to leave it, and
no answer. Will I bring it in here,
marm?"
" Yes Joseph," said Miss Bridget.
"You may place it here at my feet, and
bring something to open it."
The butler placed it on the rug at her
feet and left the room. Miss Bridget
examined the direction curiously.
It read thus:
'"To Miss BmncKT Cn.vEit,
No. 2 Street.
New York.*'
It was bound with hoops of iron, and
bore the appearance of having traveled;
but the outside gave no clue to its
source.
The butler returned, and after some
trouble removed the lid, and retired.
The contents of the box were wrapped
in a covering of oil silk; tmd .Miss Bridget
removed this, and found beneath?a
worn-out and faded blue jacket, a
sailor's hat, and knife, and, wrapped in
a bit of the same silk, the companionpicture
of the miniature of the curlyheaded
young man?a portrait of a
beautiful girl, apparently about twenty
years of age.
Miss Bridget held these things for a
moment in her hands; then she folded
them slowly together, and rising from
her knees, walked quietly out of the
room and up-stairs, leaving the empty
box on the floor.
When the maid,knocked at her bedroom
door, hall an hour later, to call
her for tea, Miss Bridget answered that
she was ill. and desired not to be disturbed
until morning.
That Christmas eve the winds mounted
higher and higher, and whistled more
and more drearily about the old stone
house, and rattled tne window-panes, |
and hanged the blinds of the flaring
brick houses in the neigborhood,and was |
altogether wild and uncomfortable . and
pitiless.
At about midnight there came up a
terrific snow storm, and at once annihilated
all the possibilities of a "green
Christmas," which according to ancient
superstition, ''makes a fat churchyard.
And on the Christmas morrow the
snow lay heavily upon the trees, and
was banked up in drifts all about the
stone fence; but the sun shone merrily,
and flashed brilliantly on the bright
crystals; and early sleigh-bells awoke
Miss Bridget, where she had thrown
herself, in her clothes, on the couch in
her bedroom, with her head resting on
the old. torn, and weather-stained blue
jacket, and the two rainatures clasped in
iier hand.
And late she rose and made her toilet,
and went down to eat
her lonely Christmas breakfast;
and on the stairs she was met by the
maid, who said th?re was a gentleman
in the sitting room who insisted on seeing
her. And so Miss Bridget, who,
though in trouble herself, would inconvenience
no one else entered the sittiDgroom
and saw by the window a tall gentleman,
with thick curling brown hair,
who, turning and seeing her, made three
steps and took her in his arms, and held
her so close to his breast that if he had
not the curling brown hair, and the large
blue eyes, and the frank open face of the
minaturc we wot of, we should have
deemed it stiange, believing as Miss
Bridget hf.d, that he was buried in the
sea, and had sent his jacket home as a
tokeu?a most foolish supposition truly
for "dead men tell no tales.-'
And so 3Iiss Hridget did cnangn ner
name after all, and in spite of the confident
prognosticates of her friends. But
she never could cjuite forgive her sailorhusband
for the shock and the dreadful
grief she experienced when she discoverd
the contents of his Christmas-box.?
Harpers Monthly.
A Checkered Career.
The death of Thomas Stewart in Berrien
county removes a singular character
from the scenes of life, writes a correspondent
of the St. Louis (Hole-Democrat
from Milledgcville, Ga. lie first appeared
there in 184."5. lie was not remarkable
for anything except for scrawni- I
ne?s, being of small stature, lean and of
a clay bank cclor, the result perhaps of
private meals off of the chimney clay.
But as time sped by he became a liero in
that then wild country; at least he was a
hero in one sense.
The family with whom lie lived resided
not far from the Alapaha swamp.
One day he and another boy were sent to J
the swamp to feed a sow. When within |
a short distance of it a large American j
tiger or jaguar sprang out of the bushes '
and brought Stewart to the ground. He
fell on his lace, and the jaguar seemed
to be in 110 hurry to kill hiin. Indeed,
the brute was engaged just then in
watching the other boy fleeing in the
direction of the house. Being satisfied
as to the direction the other boy took,
the beast then took Stewart's head in its
mouth ann closed on it, but its teeth
slipped over instead of penetrating the
skull. It bit the boy's skull several
times, with the same result, and the boy,
with a presence of mind wonderful in
one so young, did not once flinch while
the animal was tearing huge furrows
through his scalp. The tiger, after holding
its nose near the boy's face an instant,
as if listening if he was breathing,
seemed satisfied that he was dead, and
hastily covering him up with pine straw
ran hurriedly after the other bov. As
soon as the creature was out of sight
Stewart sprang to his feet, and, taking a
wide circuit, ran with the speed he could
commaud, and finally reached the house
in safety. The other boy reached the
house some time before the tiger came in
sight of it, and the brute, seeing that he
was too late, hurried back to his first prey.
If Stewart had moved while the tijier
was biting his skull, or if he had
breathed while the b?ast was listening,
with its nose close to his face, he would
have been torn into fragments; but the
boy having heard of many of the peculiarities
of this ferocious beast, was prepared
to profit by the knowledge.
The neighbors rallied at once, and
was successful in killing the jaguar,
which they found a little farther on in
the swamp.
A few years after the above occurrence,
Stewart, while feeding a canemill,
had one of his hands caught and
drawn in between the rollers and so
badly mashed that the hand and a portion
of the arm withered.
Later 011 he was in the field at work,
when a thunder-storm came up and he
was struck by lightning and left for
dead. He came to, however, and was
all right in a few days.
Bv this time he was old enough to
take unto himself a wife, but the parents
0' his girl did not favor the alliance, so
they decided 011 elopement. In those
days, even, a hero could get married
without shoes, so he started for his fu
ture wife, succecded in getting her from
the house, and the happy pair were on
their way to the parson's, when Stewart
was bitten on the foot by a moccasin, a
dangerous reptile. Even that did not
stop him. They proceeded to the parson's
and were united in wedlock. Stewart
did not die from the snake bite. History
does not say whether the snake
died.
Next we hear of Stewart, he was being
tried for his life for the murder of a
man named Wheeler. The evidence
was all against Stewart, and everybody
thought he would hang. He was defended
by the now venerable Judge Hansel!,
of Thomasville, Ga., then a young
lawyer just ''starting out " So able
was the defense, so pathetically did the
young lawyer dwell upon the many hairbreadth
escapes of the prisoner, who
seemingly had beeu preserved through
them nil through providential intervention,
that the jury brought in such a verdict
as sent him to the ponetentiarv for
six years. While in the peneteutiary he
learned the painter's trade, and after
satifyine the sentence of the law, returned
home.
"Is salt necessary ."queries nn agricultural
writer. Well it is no use to ask
the hired girl this question. Sometimes
she thinks it is and sometimes she thinks
it isn't. Anyway, she always differs from
the views ot those who have to eat the
victuals.?lioclland Courier.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TIME.
TRADITIONAL OBSERVANCES OF
THE SEASON I IT ENGLAND.
Ileligions Sentiment* and Popular
Superstitions?Carol*, Gaines and
diatoms.
And nil the nngels in Heaven shall sing.
On Christmas Day. on Christmas Day;
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
Then let lis all rejoice amain.
On Christinas Day, on Chrismas Day;
Then let us all rejoice amain,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
So sang the waits throughout Merrie
England before the intluence of the reformation
changed the character of the
Christmas praise from its simpler ballad
form into the more solemn "Chrestenmas
Carowles, auctorisshed by my Lord of
London/'in the latter part of the sixteenth
century. The Puritians, carrying
their zeal a step further, denounced the
singing of carols altogether, and would
fain have suppressed the feast of Christmas
itself as pernicious and unscriptural.
But the many time-honored customs
which clung to the observance of the
day were dear to the hearts of all, and
frnm tlin vn.i.arnlili<limr>nt nf the StUart
dynasty down to the present time we
hear of carols being sung both on Christmas
eve and on the morning of Christmas
Day.
Some of these, as Ilerrick's exquisite
Star Song, arc poems of the highest merit
and others attractive only from their
quaint simplicity and evident spirit of
devotion:
Good Christians rise, this is the morn,
When Christ the Savior He was bom
All in a stable so lowlee.
At Bethlehem in Galilee.
Rejoice! our Savior He was horn
On Christmas day in the morning.
Others again arc merely doggerel,
sung by children as they go from hwuse
to house, collecting the accustomed
Christmas bounty from all. Tie following
belongs to Yorkshire, and the little
ones were wont to carry with them a
Christmas tree as a badge of their mission
:
Well-a-day! well-a-day!
Christinas too scon goes away;
For the good times will not stay.
We are not beggars from door to door,
Hut neighbors' children known before.
So gooding pray,
We cannot stay,
But must away,
For the Christmas will not stay.
, 1?
ifnt n ine singing 01 t. uustums
dates back to the very earliest ages of
Christianity, when the bishops were accustomed
to chant them to their assembled
flocks, other ancient practices belonging
to the day, as, for instance, the
hanging of the mistletoe and the burniug
of the Yule log, have their origin in
Pagan times and are borrowed directly
from the Druids and the Scandinavian
rites in honor of the Norse god, Thor.
The hauling in and burning of the Yule
log was one of the most joyous Christ
mas ceremonies of feudal days, a time
when old wrongs were forgotten, strife
was laid aside and peace and plenty
reigned throughout.
A portion of the half-consumed block
was carefully laid aside until the following
Christmas, when it was used to light
the new log, and in the meantime it was
supposed to be an infallible protection
against tire. The Yule candle, an enor- j
mous light, shed unwonted -brilliancy
over the scene.
Analagous to the cercmony of the Yule
log was the burning of the ashton, or
ashen fagot. While the huge bundle
was blazing on the hearth jollity reigned
supreme in hall and kitchen, master and
servant iillKU JUUUU^m lug ^auiuo. ti uivu |
were apt to be of an arduous and trying !
character, jumping in sacks and diving
lor apples being among the most popular.
Every time one of the bands snapped
asunder the host was required by a timehonored
custom to furnish his guests
with a fresh bowl of liquor; nor was (lie
demand unheeded. Indeed on so large
a scale was the hospitality of "ashen
faggot night," enjoyed in the capacious
farm-house kitchens, that all thrifty
Devonshire housewives took especial
care that their chimneys were well swept
in preparation, lest the huge blaze of the
Christmas logs should result in a disastrous
tire.
In Cheshire it is the almost universal
habit of farm servants to hire themselves
from New Year's Eve to Christmas Day,
thus securing a week of absolute freedom.
On the morning after Christmas
they throng the streets of Chester and
the ad jacent towns, dressed in their gay- j
est clothes, spending their wages liberally,
enjoyins their holiday to the utmost
and leaving their masters and mistresses
at home to take care of themselves
and their work as well as they are able.
The various games and diversions
proper to Christmas Eve are many of
them of great antiquity, ana nave ueen
handed down from generation to generation
with little apparent change. Snapdragon,
one of the most popular sports
in England, is of ancient and respected
pedigree. The raisius are put in a
broad, shallow bowl, or dish, and
covered with brandy, which is then
ignited, and the guests endeavor to
secure llieir portion by plunging their
hands into the burning fluid.
Flapdragon, a popular game in the
western counties of England, required
still greater heroism, the guest being
expected to try and drink the contents
of a can of ale or cider in which a burning
candle had been put with a view to
singeing his iace and beard.
As for the "mummers," their popu- j
lurity has held good from the time the |
loyal citizens of London entertained !
Prince Richard, son of the Black Prince, j
with a splendid "muinmerie" in the j
year 1IJ77. Henry IV., we are told,
carac near being murdered by a party i
of conspirators who were to be j
disguised as Twelfth Night mummers,
and llenry VIII. waged open war j
against all masqueraaers, pumsning mem
with imprisonment and tines. Hut the
amusement of so many years was not to
be lightly expelled from the afl'ections of
the people, and down to the present day, j
in quiet country places, the mummers j
have gone their rounds, fantastically |
attired to represent Father Christmas, I
St. George, the dragon, the doctor, the
grand Turk and Oliver Cromwell. Their j
rhymes are rude doggerel, interspersed J
with absurd jokes which never fail to
please the ears of their uncritical audience.
As a sample we quote the speech i
of the Protector as he appeals in a Welsh 1
mumming drama acted throughout the j
town of Yeuly for some three weeks at
Christmas time:
Here come I, Oliver Cromwell,
As you may suppose ;
Many nations I have conquered
With my copper nose.
I made the French to tremble.
And the Spaniards for to quako ;
I fought tlio jolly Dutchmen,
And made their hearts to ache.
St George and the Turk have several
combats, the saint coming off victorious,
and the doctor employing himself in
healing all the wounds, while tne play
winds nn with the followincr irentle hint
as to the purpose of their visit:
Five or six shillings will do us no harm,
Silver or copper or gold if you can.
But not by sports alone did our ancestors
keep the Christmas of olden time.
Strifes were forgotten during this holy
season and hospitality reigned every- I
where, while Christmas charities were
liberally extended to all the poor and
suffering. Even the beasts were not
forgotten, it being customary to carry
an extra allowance of food to every an- j
imal on the larin, so that even the
dumb creatures might share in the uni- J
versal good cheer.
The custom of decking house and
church with Christmas evergreens can j
be traced back to the fourteenth century, |
and probably much earlier, and in times |
past even the streets of London were thus
adorned. Ivvandmistleoe being rejected
for the decoration of churches on account
of their Pagan associations, and j
cypress being manifestly unfitted from j
- *! ? ~.M. 1,^11,.
lis COIinUUllUU W1 ill luc luuu;, uwin w <
came the favorite plant for this purpose I
and has always retained its popularity, i
An old song indeed warns us against re- '
jecting this favored green, under the
following dismal penalties:
"Whoever against holly do cry,
In a rope shall he hung full high:
"Whosoever against holly do sing,
He may weep and his hands wring.
Finally, a venerable superstition sets '
forth the necessity of removing all
Christmas decorations before the approach
of Candlemas da}-, as to retain
them after the 2d of February was considered
to bring evil luck upon a household.
Ilerrick, who has lent his vivac- j
ious pen to so many Christmas themes, j
gives also a final word of advice as to
the proper closing of this happy season: I
Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the baies and inisletoe;
Down with tho holly, ivy, all
Wherewith ye drest thH Christmas hall.
That so th.j supsrst.'tious find
No one least branch there left behind:
For look, how many leaves there Ihj
Neglected there, maids trust to me,
t$o many goblins you shall see.
?Philadelphia Titties.
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Superstitions About the Blind.
The superstitions about blind people
are so many and so queer as to seem to
belong to the sixteenth rather than to the
nineteenth century, says the principal of
the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind.
Many well educated persons suppose that
the blind can sec in the dark, and that
they can hear to n supernatural extent,
and some who are not particularly learned
profess to believe that they exert an evil'
influence over children. It is a theory
that the pleasure of smoking depends on
the satisfaction derived from seeing the
smoke and the fire. As a matter of fact,
we have inmates who en joy nothing so
much as tobacco. In some cases we
have had trouble in curing patients addicted
to the use of the weed, and, altogether,
I think there is sufficient evidence
to disprove the fire and smoke idea.
People acquire the art of smoking after
the eyesight has been destroyed.
The general make-up of the blind and
those that can see is the same. A great
number of blind people have lost the
use of their eyes before they were three
years old. When they grow up they develop
characteristics that one might suppose
would only come from thcaoility tc
see and compare. The little blind girls,
who have not much recollection of what
things in the world look like, get some
where or other a love of dress, and they
display all the vanity of the every-aay
child, who can see and admire itself in
the looking-glass. They learn to know
what colors suit them, and insist on
being at their best. You will, perhaps,
tlnnk it strange that they who cannot
see appreciate the existence in others ol
sight which, to them, must be inexplicable
and inconceivable, but it is so. and
I cannot pretend to account tor it. You
would think that on their appearance in
a public place thev would imperfecta
realize that other people could know
what they were doing without touching
them. Yet when our pupils give exhi
bitions of calisthenics and gymnastic:
they display before going before th<
spectators every system of stage fright.
It is a mistake to suppose that nature
compensates for blindness by making the
other senses more acute. There is a superstition
that a blind man can attain a
'nicer sense of hearing and of touch thai:
a man who is blessed with the use of his
eyes. There have been many prettj
things said about the bencficence of ?
system that diyided the energy that be
longed to a lost sense among the senses
that remained. It is true that a blind
person learns to tell a good deal that i;
going on by his sense of hearing. He
can tell people by their footsteps, but
any one can learn to do this if he will
take the trouble that a blind man if
willing to take in acquiring it. I have
tried it myself and have succeeded. At
-? ? ? 7 n <1 /I niFrtf nrl Crtmo of.
UUU IIIUU, ill LCI X 1KIU uuwivu OV/U1V. wv
tention to the matter, I could tell a large
number of the pupils by their knock al
my door, and even now I recognize the
taps of many of them.?Philadelphia
Prcxs.
A Veteran's Story.
"I was in Washington in 1812; and
while visiting over in Alexandria ir
that year I saw the first troops called
out to fight the British a3 they entered
Washington to be armed. I remembei
it as'well as if it had been yesterday,
for I stood on the street as the boys
marched by with beating drums and
flying "banners. Washington was j
strangling little village then, and Alexandria
was one of the great cities ol
the country."
The speaker was Colonel S. D. Betton.
now of Cuthbert, Georgia, but recently
of Butler county, Alabama. He
stood and talked to a reporter for ar
hour at the Union depot Sunday night,
and his conversation was most interesting.
Betton is seventy-nine years
old, and is still hale and hearty, as spr\
as a boy of twenty.
"I went with Lafayette to France in
1825," continued the old gentleman.
"How well I remember it. Wn sailed
in the frigate Brandy wine from the
month of tho Potomac river SeDtembei
11, 182'). There were forty-two officers
on board, and I can tell vou their
names and their fate?what became oi
cach of them. Oh, we had a big time
then.
"In riding on horseback from Milledgeville,
Georgia, to llartford, Connecticut,
once I traveled sixty-five miles
in one day and stopped at a big wedding,
where we danced all night. 1
went to school in Miliedgeville in 1817
with 108 boys and girls, and of that
number only three arc living to-day. 1
can give you the names of all the people
living in .Miliedgeville at that time, distinguishing
between males and females."
Colonel IJctton was a stockholder in
the first railroad enterprise ever inaugurated
in this country?the Baltimore and
Ohio, in 1827. lie was then in Washington,
and subscribed for stock at the
very outlet of the enterprise. Now there
are 125,000 miles of railroad in the United
States.
Colonel Betton was an officer in the
United States Navy some fifty odd years
ago. He is a wonderfully well preserved
old gentleman. He says: "I never had
any pains at all. I am perfectly well,and
have worked like a slave all the year."
...Stl. 1,? V.;? l.nnrlo fn
il&IU Willi I I I III liU 11U1U up Alio aa<?u?.?o vv
show that they had become homy from
work. He is just as jolly and full of fun
as any boy, and bids fair to live to be a
hundred years old. ? Montgomery {Ala.)
Adrrrti.-er.
Mistletoe nt Clirlstmas-Tide.
The hanging of the mistletoe is a causc
of much frolic and laughter in the house.
It is the rule that whoever is passing
under the mistletoe bough must submit
to being kissed then and there by whoever
choses to take that liberty. As a
bough usually hangs from the center ol
the ceiling, spreading over a large space,
it follows that there is much dodging 01
much kissing; I am inclined to think
that there are both.
The origin of this use of the mistletoe
is not known; but we do know that more
than eighteen hundred years ago, when
the glad stars sang together over the
manger in Bethlehem, and wise men
1 1.4. 1A on/1
UlUU^lIL ^1119 ^uju, 11 anaiuv.tuov uuu
myrrh to a vouug Child iu the peasant
mother's arms, England was a chill,
mist-covered island inhabited only b>;
savages, who wore garments of skins and
| lived iu huts of mud and stone. Among
these savage Britons there were pagan
I priests called Druids. These priests
were a mysterious folk, who lived in
I woods, far away from other men
and who, in the gloomy
solitudes of the forest, performed
strange secret ceremonies. The
"sacred groves," as they are called, were
of oak, for the oak was a divine tree according
to the Druidical religion.
Within these sacred groves, "he priests,
it is recorded in history, oifered then
sacrifices, and in some manner, not now
known, they employed the mistletoe.
But all mistletoe was not sacred to the
Druids. They would have none but that
which clung to the sap of the divine
oak. To them the apple-tres mistletoe,
| which modern England uses so freely in
her holiday festivities, would be a worthless
and common thing.
When, in the latter centuries, England
was taught the Christian religion, the
people retained many of their heathen
rites and customs, changed from their
original meaning and purpose. At any
rate from the Druids had come the
modern usage of the mistletoe-bough,
strangely preserved in festivities which
commemorate the birth of llim whose
pure worship destroys all heathen super1
stitions. ? Christian at Work.
"
The Bologna Sausagrc.
* * j. _ e ii.. c* ?
a correspondent 01 uiu oau r muciwu
Chronicle, who has been investigating
the sausage, writes as follows from
Bologna: 1 had noticed that there were
few pastures on the plains of Lombardv,
and reason taught ine that with few pastures
there could be but little beef. As
for sheep and pigs, I had seen even fewei
than of cattle. The questions to be determined
was: "Where did the sausages
come from? I had seen figs pressed into
, boxes and grapes crushed in wine-vats
by the dirty feet of the peasants; I had
seen wine packed into pig-skins and rats
skinned for gloves, and I was prepared
j for anything, but I must ask my readers
to permit nie to leave Bologna without
saying another word about its sausages.
The details, as the story-book says, are
too horrible for mention. I can only advise
them to eschew the tempting dish,
and if they must have sausages, to make
them at home. The Percy anecdotes relate
the story of a barber who used to
cut his customers throats and drop theii
bodies into a pit. whence they were conveyed
next door to the baker, who had
become so famous for his "mutton pies."
This is a delicate story compared to some
that I heard in Bologna. Let the vail ol
an impenetrable mystery hanp- over the
ever-dubious Bologna sausage. Mine
shall not be the rash hand to raise it.
The New York Graphic says that in
the play of a "Wooden Spoon," a young
man makes love to four beautiful young
lady actresses. We should call that a
"brass'' spoon.?Norrixtown Herald.
9
THE BREADED SCOURGE.
WILL ASIATX0 CHOLEXtA APPEAR
XH AMEBICA HJ 1885 ?
Prospects of Iti Appearance?How
the EpidemlcN of 183*2, ISIS and
IStfGSpread to this Country.
A reporter of the New York Evening
Post, who called upon several wellknown
medical authorities in order to
obtain their views as to the likelihood
of cholera making its appearance in this
country next year, ana also as to the
scientific opinion concerning the various
theories of cholera recently put forward
by Koch, Pasteur, and others, found,
that whereas there was but little doubt
that cholera might be expected here next
spring, there is great diversity of opinion
concerning the values of the theories and
observations recorded by recent investigators.
, As to the probability of the cholera
j coming here next year, says the Evening
Post, the weight of evidence is in favor
of the plague's arrival, and it seems to
, be well established that the more rapid
and frequent is the communication between
countries, the more certain the
spread of ihe plague. Dr. Max von Pet.
tenkofer, of Munich, one of the leading
authorities upon cholera, in a recent
series of papers translated for the Lon
don Isincct, says:
l The question why cholera remained a
thousand years in India before it first
; begau to migrate is one of great interest,
but one which cannot be satisfac.
torily answered. The principal consid[
eration appears to me to be the event
, happened at the time when inter-commu-|
l nication in all directions, both by water
, and land, had become more rapid. The
r first steamship appeared in the Indian
P waters at the beginning of the second
! decade of the present century. By land
, also intercourse was greatly accelerated.
, The Russians possibly took cholera from
India, Arabia, Afghanistan, or Persia,
j through couriers and stage coaches. It
soon became clear that cholera, the spe.
chific cholera germ, was in some way or
t other propagated along the paths of
t human intercourse, and it also became
5 evident that unless the germs found a
r suitable soil within a certain time they
i did not flourish. Observers soon discovered
that cholera was more prone to
, appear in certain regions and to affect
[ certain localities, while it shunned other
j districts; and again, that other regions
, were only visited at intervals of many
; years. It is also a fact that Asiatic
I cholera never yet appeared at a place
, which hud not previously been in com
munication with a region where cholera
t prevailed, and, further, that the disease
from an infested locality never yet passed
, on to another place if the journey lasted
I a certain time without interruption. The
> larce intercourse between India and Eu
\ rope, more particularly England, by
raean9 of ships which sailed round the
Cape of Good Hope, had never succeeded
in carrying cholera from India to
I England; it was only by the over(
land route that cholera reached
^ England. Neither had the Cape or
L Australia ever been visited by .cholera
. It is possible that in the future the communication
may be so much accelerated
i that cholera may get to these countries.
^ In much the same way South America
i escaped during the epidemic (18U0-1840J
in Europe and North America. It was
: supposed that in South America yellow
fever was enough to prevent cholera,
until suddenly, in 1854, after a service
[ of fast-sailing vessels between Philadelpliia
and Rio de Janeiro had been estab[
lished, the chief town in the Brazils experienced
a terrible epidemic of cholera.
When cholera passes overland it dies out
( unless it find a suitable soil within a cerr
tain time. Rainless deserts are unfavorable
to cholera. Caravans which pass
from infected localities through deserts
have never spread the disease, provided
the journey in the desert lasted at least
j twenty days."
As the frequency and rapidity of inter.
national communication is constantly increasing,
so appears to be the danger of
f cholera. When the disease has appeared
! in the old world in cpidemic form, it
has never failed to spread to the new
world. The first appearance of the
plague in Europe was in 1830. It came
i from India by way of Persia and Russia.
From Moscow it was distributed all over
; northern and western Russia, especially
to Riga on the Baltic, from which port
; sixty or seventy English coal vessels sailed
; in haste, carrying the disease to Sunderj
land and Newcastle. All this time the
Polish revolution of 1830-1831 was going
> on, and Russian troops carried the disease
to Warsaw, whence it spread to
Posen, Berlin, Hamburg, and
over to London, In the
spring of 1832 some Irish emigrant
t ships carried it to Quebec, and from
i there up the St. Lawrence and across
the lakes to Detroit, where it met the
United States troops going to the Black
i Ilawk war. In a short time the whole
i force of troops sent by way of the lakes
was rendered incapable of taking the
field; one company which had been mustered
and inspected fourteen days before
without a man on the sick list, had
, dropped forty-seven men out of seventyeight
in that short time; and one regi
l ment lost over 200 men in a week. It
, was generally believed that the infection
was contracted on steamboats which had
previously transported emigrants from
Montreal to Quebec. The disease was
rapidly distributed to all the posts and
! forts in the West, especially to Fort
Dearborn at Chicago. It was carried
down the Mississippi to New Orleans in
the autumn of 1832, and G,000 persons
out of a population of 53,000 died,
i The next outbreak of the cholera
' plague reached southern Russia in July,
1847, and was earned by merchant.ves
sels from the Black Sea ports to Germany
and England. Toward the close of 1848
a number of German emigrants went
from Havre to New Orleans on the ship
: Swanton. There were thirteen deaths
from cholera on the way over, and the
disease spread at once, Almost every
vessel and steamboat leaving New Orleans
had twenty or thirty cases on board,
and the disease was thus spread in every
direction. From St. Louis' it was carried
over the emigrant route to San Francisco;
more than 1,000 emigrants died on
the road and many Indians were victims.
During the early part of 1849 cholera
i raged in different parts of Europe and
America.
The third cholera epidemic began in
t_j;_ 1? lonrr
IllUIil UUriy 111 lOUtJ, ttuu nauc tv/uiuiviuication
having become more perfect
! spread rapidly. In liny it was in iMecca,
in July in Alexandria, in August in England.
The following year emigrants carried
it to this country. Scarcely a large
town escaped.
In New York city the deaths from
cholera in 1832 numbered 3,513; in 1834
there were 1)71 deaths; in 1849 there
were 5,071 deaths; in 1852 there were
; 372 deaths; in 186(> there were 1,137
i deaths. In 1807 there were twenty-seven
deaths, but since then the number of
deaths from this cause had been very
small.
Last autumn Dr. Robert Koch, of Berlin,
was sent by the Get man government
: to Calcutta to investigate the cholera
plague. Professor Pasteur, the eminent
French savant, undertook a similar work,
and sent a number of assistants to Egypt.
! The results of these investigations have
been given in detail from time to time
in the medical and scientific press. In
a report made by I)r. Koch last January
he announced that he had
discovered peculiar bacilli, rudimentry
organisms on the border-line of the invsible
even with high microscropic powers,
iu the mucous coating of the stomachs
| of cholera victims. The peculiar bacilli
he failed to find in the tissues of patients
who had died of other diseases. Some
months afterward it was announced that J
Drs. Koch, Fischer, and GalTky had discovered
the same bacilli in tank water !
used by cholera victims. Professor Pas- j
tear, on the other hand, announced the I
discovery of peculiar organisms in the j
blood of men and animals who had died j
1 of cholera in Kgypt. Mr. V. Richards, |
1 an independent investigator, contends
that the poison is a chemical poison of an
elljuminoid character and not organic.
The alleged discoveries of Koch and Pasteur
have been widely questioned and
the value of their theories disputed.
The Lancet has recently printed letters
giving the credit of discovering cholera !
bacilli, if such things exist, to Professor
Pacini, who studied the epidemic in
Florence in 1855, and described Koch's
bacilli under the name of "vibrios."
' Dr. A. II. Hassall, of London, has also
recently laid claim to the discovery of j
cholera vibrios, or bacilli, in 1854 and
I the following years.
In Paris is being established a fund to j
provide pensions for physicians when '
i they reach the age of 61. By paying "a i
small yearly subscription" physicians en- '
title themselves to an annual allowance |
of $240. on reaching that age.
Go north, young man: go and freeze!
up with the country, is the latest advice I
to the incoming laborer. !
THE TfiAR IS OLD?SO OLD!
The year is old?so old!
The nights are long and dark and dreary;
The fretting winds are never weary;
They fret against the window pane,
The burden of their sad refrain,
The year is old?so ol 1!
The year is old?so old!
The mountains tell it to the river,
Their sides deep rent by seam and shiver;
The rivers, sobbing as they flow,
Repeat it in the vales below.
The wild sea waves take up the strain,
And ocean bears it back again,
The year is old?so eld!
The year is old?so olil!
Oh, voices of the dreary night!
Oh, sleepless watchers for the light!
Oh, hills that lift your hoary heads
Above the ice-bound river-beds!
Oh, winds that wail round nameless graves
Oh, sobbing, sighing, wild sea waves!
The year is old?so old!
The year is old?so old!
Oh, hearts that breatho and eyes that weep
O'er buried hopes that treasures keop!
Prepare the shroud and winding sheet,
And softly walk jvith reverent feet!
The year is old?so old!
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A leading question?Disputes as to
who goes first.
Large ears ure said to denote generosity.
The mule is very generous with
his heels.?Call.
One of the latest recipes: If you step
on a dude'a boot you are likely to make
calf's foot jelly.?Sun Francisco Post.
"My poor fellow," asked a man of
the living skeleton at the Dime Museum,
"where have you been boarding:1'?Picayune.
There is said to be no certainty about
the fishing in Labrador. This does not
differ materially from anywhere else.?
Lowell Courier.
Ethel?"Oh, mamma, I've got such a
pain!" Mother?"Where, dear?" Ethel
(a refined child)?"In my sash, mamma.''
?London Judy.
Goat is a favorite dish in San Francisco,
says a correspondent, but we see
nothing unusual in that, as nearly everybody
eats butter.?Merchant-Traveler.
Mother, is my chignon perrectf
Shape my panniers, fix my sash;
Johnny's coming in the gloaming;
And I want to make a mash.
?Chicago Sun
Mother, tn three-year-old out for a
walk after tea: "See the full moon,
Mabel!" Mabel, suffering from satiation;
"Has the moon had supper, too?"?Chicago
Current.
"Have you corns?" blandly asked the
com plaster pedler at the busy man's
elbow. "Yes; I am supplied,"answered
the busy man without looking up.?Boston
Transcript.
There's nothing half so sweet in life as
for the ambitious lover to serenade his
fair one and learn-on the following day
that she has been away visiting for three
days.?Boston Times.
An exchange has an elaborate account
of the newest wrinkle in stockings. It
omits, however, to mention the original
wrinkle, which still continues to carry
on business at the old stand under the
heel.?Burlington Free Press.
SHARP SHOOTIXii.
'Tis now the hunter with his gun
Over the woodland rambles,
And beards the rabbit in his den
Among the brakes and brambles.
i lie crisp invigoruujig uu
Fills him with va^ue delight.
And sharpens each and every sense,
Particularly his sight.
Aha ! at last the game is roused?
Bouncing big rabbit, very fat!
Ban^, bang!'Tis his! Is it? Why no?
Tia the neighboring farmer's cat!
?Judge.
The National Festival of Wales.
The Eisteddfod is the great national
festival of Wales, which had the commencement
of its history ir. the remote
past. It was established in the infancy
of civilization and knowledge in the
British Isles. The Eisteddfod has been
the nursery of the bards and bardism in
Wales, and in the absence of any other
educational facilities it was the instructor
of the people from time immemorial.
According to an old Welsh trial "(here
arc three artifices of poetry and record
among the nation of the Kymrv: (Welsh)
Gwyddon Ganhebon, who first in the
world invented vocal song; Hu the
Might)*, who first invented the means of
recording and preserving vocal song; and
Tjdan, the Father of the Muse, who first
-'l"" T'Annl onn rr o n/1 o ot'ofom nf
1 UICS IU YUUU .-v/L4^ uuv* M ujukviu v*
recording. From what these three men
effected, bards and bardism originated,
the dignities and customs pertaining to
which were arranged systematically
by the three original bards, 'Plenydd,
Alon,' and 'Gwron.' "Three ranks of
orders constituted what was called Bar
j das or Bardisra: That of bard or poet,
that of Ovydd or philosopher, and that
of Druid or instructor. The motto of
this institution was and is to this day:
' Y Gwir yn erbyn y byd"?(The Truth
Against the World), from which it would
appear that the Eisteddfod or Bardism
was instituted for the purpose of propagating
truth.
Thy Eisteddfod was the fount of instruction,
moral and religious, at the
time of the ancient Druids. The vehicle
by which instruction, or, as it was probably
termed, "Truth," was propagated
was poetry. The Bard wrought the philosophy
of the Ovydd into son^, and the
Druid or instructor, who was also minister
of such religion as the Celtic C'ymry
possessed, communicated to His pupils
the result of the Bard and Ovydd. The
Druidical verses then probably constitute
the most ancient poetry of Britain.?
Denver Tribune.
Christmas Carols.
In Shakespeare's time carols were sung
in the streets during Christmas by waits
or watches, who expected to receive
gifts for their singing. Many a writer
of olden times and customs refers to the
wakeful "ketches of Christmas eve." It
was al ter the Reformation that they ceased
to sing Latin hymns in the churches and
substituted the sweet Christmas carols.
' For there were two kinds of carols in
vogue?those of a devotional nature,
which were sung not only in the churches,
but also through the streets, from house
I to house upon Christines eve, and even
after that morning and evening, until
! the twelfth day.
In those times men were able to spare
more thnn one brief day for the celebration
of Christmas, and kept up the festival
for at least twelve days. Other carols
were 01 il livelier uaiuiE, ?UU nuiv
especially adapted to the revel and the
least where the lord of misrule had potent
sway. The carols were also called wassail
songs, aud probably originated
among the Anglo-Normans, who were of
I a convivial nature. No Christmas entertainment
was complete without t[ic
I joyous singing of carols, and thence came
the motto, "No song, no supper,'" for
every guest at the table was expected to
join in the carol. One of the rules laid
down by the ancient customs was that
"the ancient master of the revel is,
I after dinner and supper, to sing a carol,
a song, anfl to command other gentlemen
present to sing with him and the
companies.''
Tho District of Columbia.
I
The District of Columbia, in which the
| national capital is situated,is a species of
topographical mystery to most people.
It is not u State, it is not a Territory; it
is directly under the control of Congress,
i Congrpes has exclusive power over all
I districts, not exceeding ten miles square,
I as may be ceded and accepted for
governmental or national purposes. The
j State of Maryland ceded to Congress the
I District OI ^omnium 1UI iuu cgiuunaument
of the scat of government. Consequently
Congress has exclusive jurisdiction
over it. The District had a munciipal
organization, but it became cori
rupt, and so, in the interest of purity,it
was abolished, and. by way of providing
i for perfect honesty, the District is nowgoverned
directly by a committee of
Congress.? Chicago Times.
Infantile Thumb-Sacking.
The British Medical Journal publishes
an article by Dr. Horace Dobells, in
which that distinguished physician states
that he has observed that a peculiar and
rather uncommon deformity of the chest
;s caused by the habit of sucking the
thumb in infancy and early childhood.
He says that the weight of the arm on
the thorax of the child, during sleep,
produces depression of the ribs in the
line occupied by the arm when the-thumb
is |placed in the mouth. The doctor
thinks this is a very important effect of
the thumb-sucking?one which has never
been pointed out?and he regards it of
sufficient consequence to be put on record
for the benefit of other observers.
Twenty million dollars air to be spent
in carrying out projects for the sanitation
of Naples.
.. ; . . c.
' V:- *
A Mexican Entertainment.
When a troop of frienda invades some
lonesome hacienda in Mexico for a visitation,
great is the rejoicing thereat!
Not only is the " fatted calf" figuratively
slaughtered, but the finest bull the
estate affords is also sacrificed upon the
altar of hospitality, in the form of a bullfight,
for the amusement of any who may
care to witness. The great court-yard
in the center of the square of fort-like
buildings is transformed into atempoiary
plaza de torros, professional inatadores
and picadores are sent for, the word
goes to all outlying ranchcs that a "free
show v is about to transpire. As a result,
a crowd is sure to appear at the appointed
hour?even in the most isolated
sections, where one had supposed no
human beings had dwelt outside of
the haciendas?and with the graceful
hospitality which is tlie heritage of
this easy going race from their Moorish
progenitors, all are welcomed to come in
and make merry with the lords of the
land. A bull fight costs no more than a
ball, although the best torro on the place
is sacrificed, and the pay of the professional
fighters is about the same that
skilled musicians would receive for
making dance music. Generally a horse
or two is also killed in the encounter,
but these are the aged and worthless
ones, selected for the purpose, because
their days of usefulness are over. After
the matadores, in their Spanish doublets
and curious spangles, have distinguished
themselves by first tormenting and then
killing the rampant beast for the amusement
of the motley multitude, the dead
bull is then turned over to the mob. who
dig a hole in the ground, build a fire in
it and roast him whole, enjoying a grand
barbecue under the open skv, while their
betters are feasting on more jdainty
viands in the great hall of the casa.?
Portltiml {Me.) Transcript.
Debts and Standing Armies.
The following table of the debts and
armies of the six leading governments ol
Europe is, to say the least, interesting
and suggestive:
Standing Army
National Debt, Peace footing
France $5,305,000,000 498,483
Germany 1,075.000,000 445,274
Austro-Hungary 2,095,000,001) 208,204
Italy 2,025,000,000 733,712
Spain 2,750,000,000 138,742
Russia 3,410,000,000 884,319
*10,020,000,000 ?2,223,022
The enormous French debt is due to
the German war indemnity, which was
$1,000,000,000, while the war itaelf cost
$747,500,000. The Austrian debt is
equal to twenty-eight per cent, of the
wealth of the empire, and taxation absorbs
fifteen per cent, of its entire income.
Italy's taxation is the most serious
of any in the world. It amounts to
thirty-five percent, of the entire income
of the kingdom, which is double the
European average, and three times that
of Great Britain. This is because a nation
of 29,000,000 of poor people has to
support a standing army of three-quarters
of a million of soldiers. No wonder
European nations, and especially Italy,
have so large a population of very poor
people. The condition of Italy is
shown by the numbers of wretched
Italians who when they reach our shores
are willing to work 'for the merest
pittance.?Demorcat.
-Throwing Down the Gauntlet.
From time immemorial throwing down
the gauntlet has been a symbol of defiance,
a challenge to battle both in real
contests and in the mimic warfare of
tournaments. Virgil, in the fifth book
of the .dSneid, as "we have seen, represents
Entellus as casting a gauntlet on
the ground before entering the lists
with Dares. In the Middle Ages, when
the lenders of opposing armies challenged
each other to single~combat, a herald,
bearing a glove, was sent with the message.
Shakespeare makes Henry the
Fifth, when he engages under an incognito
in a wordy dispute with one of
his soldiers on the eve of the battle of
Agincourt, exchanges gloves with him
as a proof that if they both survive the
battle the quarrel shall be settled with
blows. Among the Highlanders the
custom of employing the glove as a
sign of challenge given or vengeance
to be taken lingered long. "Did one of
them break faith? The surest remedywas
for the injured person to appear at
the next meeting place, bearing a glove
upon the point of a lance, and proclaim
the perfidy. The symbol aroused so keen
a sense of right, so fervently appealed
to their rough justice, the olfeuder was
often slain by his own clan to wipe out
the disgrace brought upon them." To
bite the glove was the sure prelude of a
quarrel:
Stern Rutherford right little said,
But bit his glovo and shook his he id,
writes Scott in the "Lay of the Last
Minstrel."?American Queen.
Pleasure is seldom fapuid where it is
sought; our brightest blazes of gladness
are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks. The flowers which scatter their
odors from time to time in the path of
life grow up without culture, from seeds
scattered by chance.
An improvement in Upright Pianos ha
been introduced by the Mnson & Hamlin Company,
long famous as organ makers, which is
regarded as very important, adding; to the
beauty of tone of this instrument ana rendering
it much more durable.? Boston Journal
Paris has nearly eighty new* popular librarief,
which have over 100,000 volumes each.
Young or middle-aged men suffering from
nervous debility, lost of memory, premature
old age, as the result of bad habits, should
send three letter stamps for illustrated book
offering sure means ot cure. Address World's
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
Tennessee has over 600 Baptist preachers.
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures when
every other so-called remedy fails.
Boston has 2,400 music teachers.
SatlnfuctorT Evidence.
J. W. Graham, wholoialo druggist, of
Auutin, Tex., write;: I have b?on handling
Dr. Wra. Hall's Bal-am for tho Lungs for the
past year, and have found it one of the most
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always giving entire satisfaction.
Please send uie another gross.
Young 31en!~lten<l Till*.
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Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headachy, Sleeplessness cured by
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Wiaely Adopted by Dniryiurn.
The adoj>tion by most of the prominent
dairymen and farmors of the United States,
of the Improved Butter color made by Wells,
Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt., is a proof
of their wisdom in a business point of view.
Nearly all winter butter is colored in order to
make it marketable, an 1 this color is the best,
in regard to purity, strength,permanence and
perfection of tint
"Kousfh on Knt*.
fioorc nut. rntj tiiii-n rnncliHs. (lios.ants.bed*
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. l">c. Drgts,
Hair-dressings should bo free from rancidity,
should neither gum nor dry the hair,
and should be of such a nature that the hair
bulbs would receive strength. Carboline is
the only one that seems to till the bill.
Economy is wealth. No woman really prac"
ticos economy unless she uses the Diamond
Dyes. Many pounds can be saved ?very year.
Ask your druggist. Only 10c. Simple to use.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt,
N V N U-49
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Ask for "Wells' "lti >ugh on Corns. ''15c. Complete
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Tlio Half wr* Never Tolil
of the wonderiul powers and virtues of that
best of all medicines. Kidney-Wort. It has
been tried and proved. 1 ts cures are number.
1 *!._ i,
IU.S5 UUU IUU IOvVIUVI v
cases that have yielded to its inllut'iia', Ls astounding.
It' you have trouble with your
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Constipation and Piles. it' you are a victim of
Rheumatism or Malaria, take Kidney-Wort.
You will find it the remedy you need.
"Riietiit I'ullm."
Suick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder
Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
j Stone,Gravel,Catarrhofbladder.II. Druggists.
I)o You Wnnt to ISnv u Do;;*
I Send for Dog Buyers' Guide, lt?? [ ages, enI
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Pert est and best cod-live ROtL, from selected
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i who have once taken it prefer it to all others.
Physicians declare it superior to all other oils.
Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough
ekin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
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The darkest hour is just before von tind a
i match- "
Important.
When yon ?isit or leave N- w Y.iik i-itv.
I exprewgo anil $:ionrriift^ lir?>, un I >:o,i;it th<> lirantl
UnlimHuiel, opposite Oraud (Vmr.il d'p >l.
KOUoloft in roninii, lit* I iip at a on?t "f mn until >u
i dollar*,jjsi ami u;>w ir I !>?ril iv. Ivimiimi i ula i. M?rator.
Rmtanraiit ?np;>li<tl with iii ill'st. II "Hi eirs.
mages anil clernt**.! r iilr?< l i nil d:|)i!"t. K?mih<<*
pan li?? bettor (or I?m inmv *t t.n Unnd union
' Hotel than at any other ISrit-cUvt hot.?l In ths oity.
. '
"the Slough ?f 0Mpond?acy n
in which you are wallowing, on account or
some of those diseases peculiar to too,
madame, and which have robbed you of the
rosy hue of health, and made life ? burden to
you, you can easily get out of. Dr. Pierce's
" Favorite Prescription " will free yoa from
all such troubles, and soon recall the rosetint
of health to your cheek and the elasticity
to your step. It is a most perfect specific for
all the weaknesses aad irregularities peculiar
to your sex. It cures ulceration, displacements,
"internal fever,"bearing-down sensations,
removes fhe tendency to cancerous affections,
and corrects all unnatural discharges.
By druggists.
The late duke of Brunswick left a private
fortune of $70,600,000.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
is a sure cure for kidney complaints.
Artificial oysters and mushrooms are
now sold in Paris.
Care for gait Rheum.
A trial box free by mail for 10 cents. A. B.
Dodge, Manchester, N. H.
A Texas man has a flock of 1,000 goats.
Danger from Catarrh
If you suffer from catarrh, howarer slightly, you ar*
in danger, because the diaease, If sot attended to, will
oon become chronic, affecting your general health, and
may also develop into bronchitis or consumption. As
catarrh is the result of Impure blood it Is raadlly cured
by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which parities the blood, and
sires the whole system health and strength. Thoa
sands of people hare been curei of oatarTh 1)/ Hoodlf
SarsaparlUa. Give it a trial.
??? ?? ? ' .I. _-l.fct,
navjag UOCU B lUUDldf liVUI ?wi m~m w?
years, and hiring tried nearly all the wonderfal nn
curra, Inhalers, etc., and spending mearly a hundred
dollars without benefit, I accidentally tried Hood's 8arsaparilln.
The discharge from my nose was greatly increased
the first bottle; then it gradually became leas,
and in taking less than three bottle* I And myself
greatly improred. Hood's SirsapiriUa will car* catarrh."?m.
A. Abdet, Worcester, Mass.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. II; six for 15. Made only by
0.I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Man,
[00 Doses One Dollar
CATAttHH ELYS
JPtLi u JJ CREAMBALM
Ca,I8e9 no r?InRelIef
a*
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once. Not aLlqBp
/ aid orSnalK Ap<
ply into nostrilg
Glye ita TriaI?
PW?% 50 cents at Druggists.
fl^J -Jt?VtR CO cents by mail registered.
Sample by null 10 cents. Send for circular.
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THE , This Plaster
3 & Acts directly upon th*
SIRS' 3 muscles and th* nerres of
? C the back, the seat of all
? Jjff .3 o. pain. VNOMdldMU
iirr I ' wow jour system out of
'J " 7\ For all Long Titrable*.
? W ^ \ \ whether local or deeply
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1 ^ \ 4arPor Kidney Tronble,
T HK V ' BI I Rbeuroatlim. Neural tla,
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t> R t'.3 iivlj'j ? Ache, they are a certain
rim lillUtflBiB i?nd ipccdy cnr?.
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tF ' ?AC/f ay jailed on raeetpt '
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Absolutely corrivf u ? .a ?iv *ccordln?to?elen.
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8 ili] b>-1 he leading houai m lyj-ipj and America,
Kroty patt.'rn en: iri A till gr .in of th.i web from the
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Which insures elejpnco of -itvle'and economy of wear to
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the material nloni would be liy the old way. They are
tho very htf-t improvement In fashionable, convenient
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Axle your merchant for them, (ienulneonly when bearing
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Beware ol Wort hi ewe Imitation*.
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I fiRQsRUCf This is bmir.es* from the word "<
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er express etSce. You run no n*k, Mcapt of good
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Address ail letters to FAR!
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Woman's Suffering1 and Rellet
ron to feaTicarcaly able to^beoo^jScu^to^
fhat constant drain that to taking from your
iy?tem all Its former elasticity; driving the
bloom from yonr cheeks; that continual
itrain upon yonr vital forces, rendering you
Irritable and fretful, can easily be removed
t>y the use of that marvelous remedy,Hop Bitters.
Irregularities and obstructions of your
lystem.^are relieved at once, while the special
moved. *None rec^ve^so much benefit^and
pone are so profoundly grateful and showsucb
an interest in recommending Hop Bitten as
women.
A Postal Card Story.
I was affected with kidney and urinary
trouble?
"For twelve years I"
After trying all the doctors and patent
medicines I could hear of, I used two bottles
of Hop
"Bitters;"
And I am perfectly cured. I keep it
"All the time!" respectfully, B. F. Booth,
Baulsbury, Tenn.?May 4,1883.
Bradford, Pa.. May 8, 1875.
It has cured me of several diseases, such as
nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly
troubles, etc. I have not seen a sick day In a
year, since I took Hop Bitters. All my neighbors
use them.' Mrs. Fajtnie Gbies.
$8,000 Lost.
"A tour to Europe that cost me $3,000,
done me less good than one bottle of Hop
Bitters: thev Also cured mv wife of fifteen
years' nervous weakr*cs, sleeplessness and
dyspepsia."
R M., Auburn, If. Y.
So Bloomingvilije. 0., May 1, *79.
Sirs?I have been suffering ten years, and I
tried your Hop Bitters, and it done me more
good than all the doctors. Mas. S. S. Boone.
Baby Saved.
We are so thankful to say that our nursing
baby wen permanently cured of a dangerous
and protracted constipation and irregularity
of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitten by its
mother, which at the same time restored her
to perfect health and strength.
?The Parents, Rochester,-N. T.
None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white labeL Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in their
nama
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Which will Remove all Yonr Doabtt-Ttltt*
Everything claiming the power to do good
should be from a reputable source, otherwise
it is open to suspicion. Dr. David Kennedy,
of Rondout, N. 7., affirms that his medicine,
"Kennedy's Favorite Remedy," is the best
article of its kind ever produced. Hence it ia
only just to the public that he refer to hl?
record as a physician and surgeon. Among
the capital operations performed by him, are:
Amputation of the thigh-bone in the case of
Abraham Elsworth, Port Ewen, Ulster Co.,
N. Y.; amputation'of the arm, case of Mrs.
Edward Meyers, of Bondout, N. Y., and the
operation of'lithotomy, (removal of stone
from the bladder), in the case of Simon Ti*tpell,
of Kingston, and the removal of the eys
for Oscar Craigg, of Rosendale, Ulster Co.,
N. Y. These are a few of many. All theee
persons are now in the bloom of health. Dr.
Kennedy does not hesitato to say that the
happy result of theee and other cases of a similar
character, was due to the toe of the
"Favorite Remedy." It was thisthatpurified
the Blood, regulated the Liver and Kidneys,
and thus gave tone and strength to the system,
and in this way preventing a return of
the disease which had necessitated a resort to
the surgeon's knife. "Dr. Kennedy's Favorte
Remedy" fob sale by all druggists.
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te Pastor, Parent, Teacher, Child,
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PATENT REFERENCE INDEX. ]
The latest edition baa 3000 more Words inita
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when he sends his sin!, to prepay coat, eiureta and H
packing, or poetage, if sent by mail. We hare con- H
or 100,000, we paying .cost of American plate. Nj
BLANKS! !S5?I
Premium, 0001 1 Cap'til Premium, $100 P
Premium, 2.000 | 25 Prem's ot $50 each, l,So0 M
Premium. 1.0U0I 25 Prem s of 83>cacb, 625
Premium, oOO 10,000 " of #10 each. If0.000
I Premium, 2n0 . " of $2 each, 179.
n.-V IWmiima o/rirnnnroliniT $9Qfl R15 fl
ju lasii rrciiiiiiiud, a^tc^auu-^ ^uuu,utu. h
above list all are CASH Premium*, of which there are 9
$2 each, and ranging from that amount to 00-a U
miumj'or JSVFKf tubtcnt4r, none I?M than and*'
Costs NoWyMytli to Soliscrite, I
lbscription price will be deducted when the Cash Pre- H
paid and subscription begina?'htrt ure no blanks. M
I Bend us your name an 1 find out, Immediately on fl
receipt of your letter we will e"n<1 with (he Premium H
x the amount of the Cash Prem urn thai will be duo R
ed be Sent, and No Chargo for Tickets. ||
>pt aa a condition that ho will iliiiliy the Premium fa
place in his bouse or orticp. .i l l in ike known to these Hrj
ill must be done. Every Kn rivins ' "tout secuio* H
at of which to pay the C.i<h Praininmi d<-i>end on the H
raving hive nothing to do wi:1i ih>- s ibicnption price, m
j in ougraving, and no nama w II b? en'ered or Caab
graving are encloaed. Thooo tvlio ivceive Premium |?
aaete.egrajh atoureipeiis-. acknowledging amount. H
ixcept from places whore postal notes are not iasued. IB
3o!" If vou aond us your addres* and *6c, for cbargrs fl
to a Singlo (Jnh Premium Order tor uot le-s ilitn
secure the necessary ion,(01 in 31 d:y<, and to be S3
. Toe Oaah Premiums paid through any bank, post j*J
fortune-ttnn don't wait, but take advantage oi this Ha
HERS' LEDGER, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1
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