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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH.
VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C,. NOVEMBER 20, 1895. NO. 1.
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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,
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VV State Conrts. offer his professional |
services to the citizens of Lexington and
Edgefield counties.
Special attention given to claims and settjement
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
Nov. 7?lv.
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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.
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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- ;
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1 nal sum of 1" cents, as sample bot- j
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| 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
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i
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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
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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.
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Strange Coincidences.
Come Instances of the Efficacy of
Obeying Queer Orders.
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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.
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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.
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How Thsy Differ.
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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.
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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
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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
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