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i BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM ?IN? Western South Carolina. 0 RATES REASONABLE. ?0 SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM O JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY. ] ' " " r- , ... r. F y . \ i ?I THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C,. NOVEMBER 20, 1895. NO. 1. GO TO s k s PHILIP EPSTH. TRUSTEE, FOR . ' I ' I iTvrr it eras, / i HATS, GEIT'S FIRVISHIU; GOODS, TRUNKS AND VALISES, ISO AfATV STREET. j* r. Mivannjiii ? -j ? ?j * .n. . ' Jacksonville..) 10 no a |94Jp RLKKFIXi C'AK KKItYK K. Nos 37anrt :iR Washington & 3->nlh\v?>>teni I.im f;ed,Pull.nnn cars Tnuipt to New Y*??k. s>!i?1 I'nll ] man trails w itli 1 >iu ng cars rot ill "f' hHrU.tt". No. ST> ami S'> U. s. Fast Mail. I'hro ah 1'ul j man Bullet Si C| lug ear nil I first ?*ias? cOJcb | Jacksonville an l New Vo:k ; also l'ulim.i s en: Augusta 'Hid Charlotte. N. !>.?Nos. :j."> hh<1 :a; ?lo tiot enter I" ;i' n -^ta j tlon Colambi i. b it dischn-se ;?:> ! tnk - < :i p.i> ceuge.'S ati'i baggage at til inl ng >t. M~t <>'i. W.A.TURK. S. II. II \ !CI> > I? *K. G. P. A , Washington. A. G. P. a., .vm.a^ta P. I WEi.LKs, Sllj>t, CoS.1'MR!a. S. C. W. H GKEEN. J. '. < Us P. G. Suj.t.. Washington. T. M.. Wasjiivcton F. W. KUSEMANN, GUN AND LOCKSMITH, and dealer in GUNS, PISTOLS. PISTOL CARTRIDGES FISHING TACKLE, and ali kinds of Sportsmen's Articles, ; which he has now on exhibition and for ale at his store. Main Street, Near the Central Bank, Columbia, S. C. AGENT FOR HAZARD POWDER CO. I Repairing done at short notice. J. WALTER MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, batesbcrg, - - s. c., i -tttill practice in all the j VV State Conrts. offer his professional | services to the citizens of Lexington and Edgefield counties. Special attention given to claims and settjement itstat COLUMBIA, S. C. Nov. 7?lv. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CD, Central Tine shown between Jacksonville and : Colttint.it. Fastcn\Time at other points. j >or(tit>ono?l. | \0 36 V?? lo ' fSS Oct. 6tn, i^t>\ j Ifoilr Daily ; Daily l.v. Jacksonville ..! 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New York 12 IMh 1521 Mi! j \ 30 p 44 Philadelphia U.'O a) 3 " j) i>: <5 55 p 44 JiStimo'e ' 622 a fi 22 a j !?2? p JLt. \Yu.?hi>:g:on ill 15 11 15 a l'.' -?:i p 44 Richmond I2.v? p i2 5'?p; 2 0<>a ; , 44 Pinville 6?5 p 0 0'p 5 o a " Clin; but* j II 00 u! 11 00 p; 4.?3"> a ! - Heck iliil 1! 4 s P 11 4< P i 27 a j " Chester ; 12 25 n :12 25nt i 11 G3a ; 44 Winnsboro 1 1; :i i 1 14 aill-'t a Ar. Columbia 2 20 a, 2 20 a 1 0? p J.v. Columbia . . 4 :w ?: 1 2* p 44 Join st- n ! j 6 a 2 10 p 44 Tret-ton i j 6 4f{ 8 3 23 p 44 Grani eville ! 7 io a 3 45 p j Ar. A ujtustu j j S10 a j 4 15 p Lv. Columbia .... : 7 00 h I 4 < 0 p j Ar. Char e.slou ? j 11 30 n Ml > p j J-v. CoIumbU ?j j 130 a 12 M p FRENCH NERVOUSNESS. Increase of a Disease Known as Neurasthenic Anxiety. French doctors say that the increase of the neurasthenic condition threatens to become the great scourge of society, and they are bound to admit that some of the phenomena arising from it are such as science can throw but little light upon. Moreover, it is often impossible to say where mere nervous disorder ends and downright lunacy begins. The case cf Mile. Ainelot, who shot the Abbe de Broglie, is one in point. She has been pronounced insaue by a committee of medical men, but had she not committed a criminal act they could not possi- I bly have come to any such conclusion from her conversation and general conduct. A doctor has made the consoling statement that we brush shoulders with j such people almost every hour, but that j so long as they refrain from doing mischief their state of mind cannot be characterized as dementia. There is a later case, respecting which the Parisian mind is still much exercis- j ed. It is that of the youth of 20 who indulged a propensity for stabbing young women with a penknife as they passed him in the street. In doing so he used some prudence and reflection, for he stabbed them all in the saino place? one where such an injury was not likely to be dangerous. After his arrest he declared that he could not account for the impulse under which be had acted. Dr. Gilles de la Tourette, who is taking the position occupied by the late Dr. Charcot, places this young man in the Jack the Ripper category of modern j maniacs?those whose ruling propensity is to do mischief to women. He declares that such desequilibres are by no means rare, but that in a general way it is impossible to treat them as maniacs. They know quite well that they are evil doers, for when arrested they invariubly deny with much energy the charge ; brought against them until the evidence of their guilt becomes too strong. Dr. Gilles de la Tonxette maintains that they should be dealt with as criminals, for there is nothing like the dread of punishment to rescue them from the "fascination of their vice." There is some conflict cf ideas here, for if such people are truly maniacs they ought not to be punished to cure them of the "vice," but in their case it is so difficult to distinguish madness from badness that to spend compassion on them would be probably to waste it. The fact to be faced is that, whether from causes of the physical or tho moral order, or of both, the bizarreries of the human mind are becoming more perplexing every day in France and they are beginning to interfere very seriously with the noxmal course of life. We hear cf dragoons who are seized with an unaccountable terror when they mount a horse, so that they fall from sheer panic; of consulting doctors?yes, even doctors?who are ready to tear the hair from their heads when the patient has gone for fear that they have made some terrible blunder in the prescription ; of railway employees who are troubled in a similar manner by an appalling dread of having done something wrong; of preachers who dare not put their foot on the first step leading to the pulpit; of persons who are terror stricken while crossing a bridge, although they may have perfect command over their will in all other respects, and of nervous conditions still more distressing. Such a state is described as one of ''neurasthenic anxiety," and excessive concentration* cf the mind on certain points is generally supposed to be the cause of it. But, whatever may be the explanation, the nerves of modern society appear to be getting seriously out of repair.?Paris Cor. St. James Gazette. The Value of Lord Nelson's Regalia. The government of England paid no less than ?2,500 to Lord Bridport for the medals, and orders worn by Lord Nelson on the fatal morning of Trafalgar. The medals and orders that have thus become the property of tlio nation are: * The service gold medal of the victory of St. Vincent. The service gold medal of the victory of the Nile. The jewel of the Order of the Bath. The jewel of the Sardinian Order of San Joachim. The grand cross of the Order of San Joachim. The jewel of the Neapolitan Order of i o? "in?J; jj ~ ouii x1 muiuauuu. The grand cross of the Order of Sail Ferdinando. The gold star of the Turkish Order of the Crescent. Two badges of the Turkish Order of j the Crescent. And lastly the gold medal struck to j commemorate the victory of Trafalgar, j which was presented to Nelson's family , after that hero's death.?Notes and | Queries. Women In the Old World. In France the women teachers elect women members on all boards of education. In Sweden women vote for all elective officers except representatives; also indirectly for members of the upper house. In Ireland the women vote for the harbor boards and poor law guardians, and in Belfast for municipal officers. In Russia women householders vote for all elective officers and 011 all j iocal matters. In Finland they vote for all elective officers, exercising the same privilege by proxy. In Austria-Hungary, j Croatia and Dalmatia they vote in local ] elections in pei.sou. In Italy women vote 1 for members o? parliament. Women | have municipal suffrage both in Cape j Colony and in New Zealand. Iceland, the isle of Man and Pitcairn island have full woman suffrage. HoYhc Versus liieyele. "Goodby, Ola Slow!" shouted the bicycle. Voir are not in my class." "Anyway." retorted the carthorse, "I am not as awkward as you are. I don't fall down standing still."?Cincinnati Tribune. If the Baby is CuttingTeeth* Be sure and use that old and welltried remedy, Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays alipain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bo.t'e. It is the best of all. A fresh arrival of fine French candies, just received at the Bazaar. Completely Paralised. Physicians arc astounded By a Peculiar Case. A Young Man Stricken with Landry's Paralysis and yet Recovers. (From the Times, Philadelphia, Pa.) Stricken wiib Landry's Paralysis and yet cured. That means but little to the average layman but it means a miracle to a physician. Such is the expeiieuce of Madison, X. J., and a rare experience it is. \ "IT . * - I _ A. 1. _ * T T .1 ? _ JLes, us true inai x uaa -uauury .s Paralysis,said Mr. Dallimore to a | reporter, "or else the most celebrated I physicians of London were mistaken. "It was on the 15th of March, this year," he continued, "when I was in New York city, that I first felt the | symptoms trouble. I experienced ; difficulty in going up stairs, my legs | failing to support me. I consulted : a physician who informed me that I I had every symptom of Locomotor | Ataxia, but as the case developed he j pronounced it a case of Landry's Pa j ralysis and knowing the nature of i the disease advised me to start for ! my home and friends. I gave up my work and on April 1st started for London, Ont. A well known physician was consulted but I grew rap idly worse and on Saturday, April 7, several eminent physicians held a consulation on my cuse and informed rue that I was at death's door, having but three to six days to live, still I lingered on, by this time completely paralized, my hands and feet beiDg dead. I could hardly whisper my wants aud could only swallow liquids. Ob, the misery of those moments are beyond all description and death would really have been a welcome visitor. { "Now, comes the part that has astounded the physicians. Rev. Mr. Gone!}-, a clergyman who visited me in my last hours, as he supposed, told me of the marvellous cures of , paralysis that had been performed by Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I started to take the pills \ about April 28 and a week after that j felt an improvement, in my condition There was a warm, tingling sensaI tion in the limbs that had been en1 tirely dead and I soon began to move my feet and hands, the improvement continued until May 28 when I was taken out of bed for a drive the horse myself. By the beginning of July I was able to walk upstairs alone and paid a visit to Niagara. Slowly but surely I gained my old health and strength leaving Ontario for New York on October 11 and beginning my work again on October 26, 1S94. Cured of Landry's Paralysis in eight months/' To confirm his story beyond all doubt. Mr. Dallimore made the following affidavit. Sworn and subscribed before me ' December 3,189-1. Amos C. Rathbux, [seal.] Notary Public. Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may j be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50c. per box, or G boxes for ?2 50. The Farmers' Alliance, To the Editor of the Dispatch: Every farmer, mechanic, laboring i man, and, indeed, all who are eligible to membership, should belong to the Alliance. The bankers, the rail; road men, the telegraph and telephone men, the merchants, the lawyers, the doctors, and, even the preacners, are cioseiy organized. And for what? For "mutual protection and benefit." They have learned that "in union there is strength." and they are right, and are to be commended for sticking together and thus, by united wisdom and action, J are they the more able to take care ! of their order and every member I thereof. The initiation fee of many of these organizations is more than it costs to be a life member of the Alliance, and there is no brotherhood upon earth j better than the Alliance. The same I reasons that unite others should also j bind the farmer, mechanic and la; boring man together as one man. It costs so little to be an Allianceman until no oue need stay out ou that account, and its aims and purposes are so good, so noble, so grand and so very great until, if properly understood, the Order would be so full 1 and strong that its power for the j betterment of the world, and them! selves individually, would be uivinciI ble. The Alliance is no money ma| chine to grind all opposed to it in j the mills of poverty, as is now being HHBHHHi j done by the great money centers of J ! the North in America, together with i ; the money powers of the old world, j ! South Carolina Alliancemeu rejoice j j that they already haveB. It. Tillman, ! Talbot, Stokes and others to fight ! i i i their battles in Congress, and if the I Alliance is properly organized in 1890 the farmers, mechanics and la boring men of the United States can send to Congress a delegation that : will wipe from the nation's statute ! books the accursed laws by which a j few soulless organizations are enabled | to control the bulk of the money in J the United States, and to thes en ! slave all who are not in collision ! with them- Then let us work with ! thein. Then let us work with our i I ond main for flip enlargement j of this good brotherhood. It is so I pleasant to take the warm hand of an Allianceman. The Allianceman has j enemies, but a good, true Allianceman i holds enmity against no one. How, | then, can ony one elligible to raerai berShip sta\* out or join hands with ; the Enemies of the Alliance in abuse i j of the Order? Lord forgive them j for they know not what they are doing: There is a mystic baud. Called Alliancemen: As one they firmly stand, And will unto the end. | Their hearts to God are true. Praying for his help, To guide in all thev do. For the world and self. I | Chorus? j Together they will stand, j Together they will go, They re marching to the laud. Where peace and plenty grow. J. K. Koox. Brookland, November 11, 1895. Free Pill. Send your address to H. E. Buck| len k Co., Chicago, and get a free | i sample box of Dr. King's New Life : Pills. A trial will convince you of I i i . mi *n. tueir merits. inese puis are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vege table. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25c. per box Sold at the Bazaar. A Slotar. "While the electricians are anticipating the day that steam power will be largely, if not wholly, supplanted by their system, a genius is said to have discovered a novel force, or rather the successful application of an old one. The Philadelphia Record says: A wonderful new engine that will convert the carbon of coal directly into euergv without the nusiance, ! =j danger and waste of the preseLt ! steam engine is said to have been ini vented under the mysterious title of | ;'the thermic carbonaceous motor." ! The news will undoubtedly strike the : industrial world like an Arabian Nights' romance: it means, if true, such a tremendous revolution. As for mere plausilility, there is no reason for withholding credulity in the I rumor. The great waste of coal eni ergy in modern steam engines Las long been a problem which engineers and physicists have endeavored to solve and yet it has never occurred probably to any other investigators ! i to do away with the boiler principle. Not onlv would the extraction of j ! nearly 88 per cent, of the energy of j i coal work an utter revolution in the ! industrial world, but the banishment j j of the unwieldly and perilous boiler | : would, perhaps, lead to a new style I locomotive for both street railway : and trunk line service. A tired stomach is very much like ' i a sprained ankle. If you suffer from | any of the symptoms of dyspepsia, j your stomach is tired. It needs a crutch. We must relieve it of all ; work for a time, or until it is restored ; ! . . 1 .1 rr T xi.; I j 10 us natural sireDgm. ao uo mis | : successfully, we must use a food i i which is already digested outside of j j the body, and which will aid the | digestion of other foods that may be j taken with it. Such a product is ! i the Shaker Digestive Cordial. The Shakers have utilized the di- ! I gestive principles present in plants j j for the manufacture of this article, j | and its success has been truly pbeno- ; ! menul. You can try it for the nomi- j 1 nal sum of 1" cents, as sample bot- j ties are sold by druggists at this j | price. LAXOL is the best medicine ; : for children. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. \y Come, friend, and pay us that lit 1 I | tie amount you owe us. Politsaess. To the Editor of the Dispatch: ] How are we to become polite? j , First, we are always to act in that j direction and it, as it were, will come j , to us as a gift. The greatest num ber of persons in our broad land j , who are polite, learn this from their j j dear old mother, who, my many j readers can or will dispute this? | , George Washington, one of the | j greatest men our country has ever i produced, was a very polite man, ! , knowing his duties, he was alway po- , lite in them. He, from his cradle up, 1 was noted to be a truthful man. j How grand it is for us all to truth- j ful and polite! Politeness makes I j many a man a great one. Columbus j ] from his boyhood was noted a fine ( man and this came from his being i polite. Look how polite he was when Queen Elizabeth fitted out for him 1 three small vessels. He was de- < lighted at this and strove to cross i the broad ocean. He is, and should i forever be, honored for this. Colum- I bus was always polite at home and i at other places. Can our people i learn this and forever obey. Our 1 greatest statesmen are and have al 1 ways been btriving to be polite. To ' be polite is the best education any j man would need for traveling. Auy < one impolite will never reach a far ] distance, even if he has money. Am ! 5 I right? Always be polite are our j last words. J. S. C. < Brook, S. C., Nov. 9, 1895. 1 -? . Make Yourself Strong. i If you would resist pneumonia, ^ bronchitis, typhoid fever, and persis- i tent coughs and colds. These ills , attack the weak and run down system. They can find no foothold where the blood is kept pure, rich and full of vitality, the appetite good and digestion vigorous, with Hood's Sarsaparilla, the one true blood puri- , tier. I Hood's Pills cure liver ills, con- : stipation, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache. Only a Little Correction. "Here is a poem which 'you may < publish in you paper," said a man, J with eyes in fine frenzy rolling, as he . entered the editorial door. "I dashed i it off rapidly, in an idle moment, and you will find it in its rough state as it were. You can make such corrections as you think necessary.'' . "Ah, much obliged,"' said the edi tor." I will give you a check for it at once.'1 "You are very kind/' said the edi- ( tor handing him the check. "Many thanks!" exclaimed the ! young man, I will bring you some j < other poems." "When he got near the door he sud- t denly paused; then he came back. < "Flense mp." he said, but vou for- i got to fill up the check. You have ! < not written the date nor the amount, | 1 nor have you signed your name." j ( "0," said the editor, "that is all j 1 right. You see I have given you a | check in its rough state, as it were, i ( You can make such corrections as you j 1 think necessary. ! I There is nothing that causes wo- i men greater discomfort and misery i j than the constantly recurring head- i < ache. Men suffer less with headache. ! \ "My wife's health was very indiffer- ' ( ent, having headache continually, and j j just two packages of Simmons Liver Regulator released her from all head- ] ache and gave tone and vigor to her ; ] ...1.^.1^. T rivfil' rorrvaf. t I \> liUic ? emu. JL i-?a ? t no ti x x ^ i ted it's use."?M. B. DeBord, Mt. J Vernon, Ivy. ; , The Eeason Some Girls Become!, Old Maids. , To the Editor oi' the Dispatch: j The most of our girls of now-a- ! days are high toned, fashionable | young dames, always flirting and ! flitting around, gossiping about this j young vassal or that young feud, j : fondly cherishing the ecstacy of the ; 1 day when, as they hope, there will be { a union which cannot be surpassed ; bv all the pulchritudes and dulces of i life. These play-the-fool hopes they j generally retain until they are alarmed j by the appearance of wrinkles in | their faces. Then they begin to inur- i mar at themselves because they have j let some of their former chances slip. | On a little later they will begin toexclaim to themselves, "0, horrors! I can't beer the name of old maid."' All the time in their younger days, they have been sitting quietly at | home cheerfully expecting some royal or noble to come along with a laige i corps of servants and pick them up and place them in a tine chariot, and bear them away to some distant clime, where they will be set up in a palace of pure gold, and loved io the fullest extent by their lordly princes. But, when they look around and sec that all their supposed chances are Ejone, they begin to stir! You will 3fe them at every gathering, walkiug From place to place, looking and looking, seeking chances to meet some roung man, and doing everything they can to win some man's love \fter they have done all they can, md all have the appearance of failure, they will give up and become thenceforward and forever inwrapped in vapid suliliques. These things cause their hearts (o iche; but, alas! it's too late'now. The aame "Old Maid" is stamped so leeply that it is impossible to hide When old maids gtt into this deirious state, they become prude, and jan be seen, as it were, walking ibout like giraffes among ether aniaials. High do they hold the. heads: out not with the same spirit of for- | mer days but with the hope of see- j ng. Keenly do they peer at you, i out not_with an eye of scorn but j tvitb the hope of catching your eye so that they may give you a heaving | mgelicsmile, overflowing with that iulciloquey which characterizes al most all that come under the aver-1 dve and timorous name. Girls say that they can't see why 1 man should become an old bachc- i lor. Well, there is no great reason for it; but the reason a girl becomes Find old maid is because of her foolish flirtations and filial expectations. Its awful when a man waut3 to go to see a girl and she won't let him, bat it is still worse when an old maid j wants a fellow to woo her and he won't do anything but stand around and jest How despondent they feel wheD they see that all hopes have vanished. They think, "If only I were an old bachelor," for then I would have at least the chance to vote and hold office and do a tkousmd other things that I cannot do in my presei t state. Iim Vetteic. November 9, 1895. ^ . All Free. Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name :md address to Ii. E. Bucklen k Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life, Pills Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor, Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you ^ood and co.-t you nothing. For sale at the Bazaar. ^ Strange Coincidences. Come Instances of the Efficacy of Obeying Queer Orders. I The London Spectator lately had i clever article entitled ''The Tyranny of Coincidence." The example shown s of a lady who was driving outside )f Athens. When the horses were calted one of the team refused* his cats. The Greek coach man insisted :hat the horse was under a spell. The young English lady had an "e\il eye." The man told Miss Symonds to spit?that was the only cure. The voung woman was forced to go through the unlady like performance, md at once the horse took to his feed. "The coincidence rivited the chains of superstition upon the driver tighter than ever." Many coindenccs ct a similar character must occur to the reader. Here is a case: A child was told to put a four-leaf clover in bis left shoe, and was assured "that be would be sure to find something." The little boy did so, and had hardly moved out of his tracks in a large [jrass-grown pasture before he found m old half-dollar of an ancier.i, date, ; evidently lost years before. The child was not superstitions, and fortunately the parents were not. The matter of coincidence was explained to him, and among other things he was plentifully supplied with fourleaf clovers, but he never found anything. The origin of superstition associated with amulets or any material objects must owe its being to just such coincidences. Among those who are not educated it may be that the tyranny of coincidence does exist, but it should not hold with those having sound minds. We all have, however, a dark chamber in our brains, and it is there that the owls and bats of superstition llap their wings. - ? * Good advice: Never leave home on a journey without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by Julian E. Kaufmaun. 2. * Fresh cakes, crackers and candies, at the Bazaar. Indian Summer. It Does Not Come Until the Bright Days of Mid-November. ProviJcn?N* J.>ur: al. Many persons, if" they were asked about it, would say without hesitation that the last days of October are the real Indian summer. The i term is vaguely employed, and at one time or another has been stretched to include almost the attractive weather with which we are blessed between the close of August and the 1st of December. Thanks to the almanac, we have gotten the idea very tuorouguiy into our neacis that summer ends on the 31st of August, and when we find the skies still warm and grateful after that date, and the woods and fields still calling to us with persuasive voices, we arc a little perplexed as to what we ought to think about it, and whether it is really autum or summer come again. Thus we fall back upou the familiar term "Indian summer," which seems a sufficiently appropriate compromise, although there is no special justification for our selection of thisuncertiluphraseology. It would be much more satisfactory if we should disabuse ourselves at once of the notion that summer proper ends with the month of August. There is nothing iu the atmosphere or in the appearance of the natural world to indicate any radical change in the season at or about that date, and the increasing custom of lengthening the vacation outiug at the seashore or in the mountains is proof sufficient that we are gradually coming to appreciate the fact that summer really extends through September, to say the least. Let us say, for example, that summer ends only when the frosts of October have put a change upon the face of things, and this will not only be nearer the truth than the established conception of the season, but will enable us also to get* a fairer conception of when Indian summer makes its appearance. The lexicographer "Worcester quotes Dr. Freeman as saying that the term Indian summer is used in North America to define a season of pleasant weather in the late autumn, and this notion of its date is brought out iu various ways by most of the poets and versifiers who have discoursed upon this subject. And a very prolific source of verse it has been. Here is one rhymer, for instance, who tells that Indian summer comes in "the autumn's dotage, in mid-November, when skies seductive woo the earth," and another who places it within the period when the ''wood land foliage is gathered by the wild November blast," when "even the thick leaves upon the oaken bough are fallen to the last.'' Samuel Long fellow says: "Summer is gone: but summer days return; the winds and frosts have stripped the woodland's bare," and a fourth poet tells us that the season comes "after October's biting frosts." From all of these quotations and many more like them, it is apparent that the pleasant Oc_ tober days are not the Indian summer, after all. We shall have to wait until November before the real red man's summer warms the atmosphere and the soul of the reminiscent sentimentalist. Weighty Bricks. The frequency of successful train robbing has changed the system of casting brick* long in vogue at mining assay offices throughout the west, and the government will soon follow the example set. Speaking of the matter, Colonel John Orolett, formerly mayor at Silver Bow, but now of Butte, Mom, said: "Assay offices at Helena are now receiving large amounts of gold from the northern mines, and it nearly all comes in lig bricks a foot long, G inches wide and d inches deep. I recently saw a bar that weighed nearly loO pounds, being worth, at #00 per ounce, over $m0,000. The bullion is now cast that -way to prevent loss in train robberies. It would be almost impossible for road agents to hide or suddenly carry away such a giant bar as that.''?San Francisco Chronicle. Sad Lot of a Mortu- / Toot In Prussia. A private in the Pomeranian chasi seurs, imperial German army, recently lost his captain, Franz Abieht, by death, lie always had had the deepest reverence for the captain, and he voiced his feelings two weeks ago in a poem which he sent to the Ulmcr Zeitung. The poem was published. As soon as a copy came to the notice of the commander of the battalion lie called the private to him and told him that the poem, by its excessive praise of Abieht, implied disrespect of the otlur superior ofticers, who outranked the late captain, and therefore was subversive of discipline. The Tiriwitn \c:w cmt to fhe rrnardhcuse for his. sins, and all copies of tho Timor Zeitung which had been bought by members of the battalion were seized and destroyed. ^ ^ Paper and envelopes of all kinds writing and pencil table's, pens, : pencils, memorandum and pass books, purses,' baujo^ violin and : guitar strings, and notions generally, ; at the Bazaar. ' ** - *"M a I * >. i ? ->"3 ADVEETISINGRmS. Advertisements will be Inserted at the rate of 75 cents per sqcare of one inch space for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. Libtral contracts mado with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 10 cents per line each inser ion Marriage no'ices inserted free. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one I cent a word. Address - fl G. M. HARMAN, Editor. vj How Thsy Differ. A Minnie J. Conrad, in LipDineott's. A man is a creature of cast iron ImViitc* wnnrion ndaittc Vioi-colf tn cuinstances; this is the foundation of the moral difference between them. ^ A man does not attempt to drive a nail unless he has a hammer; a woman does not hesitate to utilize anything, from the heel of a boot to the back of a brush. A man considers a corkscrew absolutely necessary to open a bottle; a woman attempts to extract the cork with the scissors; if she does not succeed readily, she pushes the cork in the bottle, as the essential thing is to get at the fluid. t Shaving is the only use to which a man puts a razor; a woman employs it for a chiropodist's purposes. When a man writes, everything must be in apple pie order; pen, paper and ink must be just, a profound silence must reign while be accomplishes this important function; a woman gets any sheet of paper, tears it perhaps from a book or portfolia, sharpens a pencil wirh scissors, puts the paper on an old atlas, crosses her feet, balances herself on the chair and confides her thoughts to paper, changing from pencil to pen and vice versa from time to time, nor does she care if the children romp or the cook comes to speak to ner. A man storms if the blotting paper is not conveniently near: the woman dries the ink by blowing on it, waving the paper in the air, or holding it near a lamp or fire. A man drops a-letter in the box unhesitatingly; a woman reads the address, assures herself that the envelop is sealed, the stamp secure and then throws it violently into the box. A man can cut a box only with a paper cutter; a woman deftly inserts a hair pin, and the book is cut. For a man "good by" signifies the end of a conversation and the moment of his departure; for the woman it is the beginning of a new chapter, for it is just when they are taking leave of each other that the ! women think of the most important topics of conversation. A woman ransacks her brain trying to mend a broken object; a man puts it aside and forgets that for which there is no remedy. Which is the superior? Why the Buffalo had to Go. I ? General Nelson A. Miles, in' writj ing about the wholesale killing of buffalo, says: "After the hides werei^H removed the carcass would be pois- g oDed in many cases, some yearling | buffalo being generally selected, and J next morning there might be found 40 or 50 dead wolves lying scattered || around, victims of the strychnine. Ij In this way the large game was rap- li | idly destroyed, together with count- I | less numbers of wolves that had thrived only by preying upon them. Jg This might seem like cruelty and wasteful extravagance, but the j buffalo, like the Indian, stood in the j way of civilzation and the path of I j progress, and the decree had gone I I forth that they must give way. It | was impossible to herd domestic ra ! stock in a country where they were ; they were constantly liable to be raj i stamped by the movng herds of 9 1 wild animals. The same territory fl j which a quarter of a century ago fl was supporting those vast herds of M wild game is now sustaining millions fl j of domestic animals which afford the fl j food supply to hundreds of millions ; of people in civilized countries." 39 An Unsavory Question. I A question that has long divided households making common scolds of the meekest wives and driving |S lmsbnnds t*o stronc drink, is now , ?. " ? o agitating the town of Pecatonica. 9 It seems that some of the children 9 j of thin hamlet have a passion for the 9 i aromatic onion, while the school || i ma'am and a few of the mere of the 9 ! etfete youngsters hold the scented 9 ! vegetable in high disdain. The 9 ; teacher requested that no scholar 9 ; should breakfast on onions before 9 ; attending school. "With a perverse- 9 ness charactei istic of the onion eater,. 9 : every chifd with the slightest pen- 9 i chant for the forbidden weed par- 9 took freely of it. The teacher retali- IS ated by using the rod, and now 9 the parents are up in arms and de?' ^ ; clar that it is rankest tyranny to at- 9 tempt to wrest the prerogative of g| j onion eating from their offspring. 9 It is to be hoped that this argu- 9 i ment will get into the courts and "9 that we may have a decision of the |g supreme court on the question. The -fl onion has already shortened too many honeymoons and been the cause of too many straDgements. Jm Let us know once for all whether the I ; eatiug of onions is a natural and in- JH | alienable right or a breach of the ^ i peace. Then matrimony will be less . 1 of a lottery. 31 W oA,. A