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BLUE BACK Sr Fables From the Old erat^or St. Ijouift The men and women who 3& years ago attended the public schools of Missouri and other Western States ha?e not forgotten the old Webster elementary spelling book. In those days the old "blue back" did duty in a-majority of the schools, and it was authority of spelling. It was the crowning ambition of the average boy or girl to be able to correetly spell offhand any word within its covers. This feat, if accomplished at the monthly spelling school, when, upon a Friday night, the parents of the pupils were present, was joy enough for the average student. ^ In many of the Western States this once popular book has long since given place to other spellers. During the past six months the successful bidders in the contest to supply the schools of Kansas with a uniform series of books have been receiving old books in ex change for the new. Something like 100,000 new spelling books have been supplied to the people, and probably 30,000 old spellers have been received in exchange, bat in all this pile only three copies of the. old "blue back Webster" have been turned in. The copy in the hands of the writer evi dently belonged once' to a Missouri hoy, because on its cover is written the name of Roy Skidmore, Westville, Mo. Nothing will so completely carry one back to "childhood's earliest hours" as a perusal of the old "blue back" speller. Next to the "old oaken bucket," with its memories so dear, this thumbed and worn reminder of school days creates upon the youth ful mind impressions, aside from the knowledge it imparts, which age does not dim or remove. Probably the proudest moment of a boy or girl's life was when he or she was able to stand up in class and cor rectly spell the first word of two sylla bles in the "blue back" speller. This word, "ba-ker," though simple, was the test. The student who could master this lesson, No. 26, containing 90 words, felt that one-half the battle had been won. The victory was com plete when a student could spell and pronounce by syllables the longest ' word in the book?"in-com-pre-hen si-bil-i-ty." Following each spelling lesson in the old Webster is a collection of sen tences which leave on the child's mind impressions which last through life. Some of these gems will bear repetition here : "The gambler is uneasy when at home." "The drunkard's face will publish hia.vice and his disgrace." "Our farmers, mechanics and mer chants compose the strength of our nation. Let them be wise and virtu ous, and watchful of their liberties. Let them trust no man to legislate for them if he lives in the habitual viola tion of the laws of his country." "How happy men would be if they would always love what is right and hate what is wrong." The half dozen fables in the old *:blue back" are as familiar to the person who used this speller as is the golden rale. Fable 1, of "The Boy That Stole Apples," points a moral as true as the gospel itself. It is illus trated, showing the boy in the apple tree and the old man throwing stones at him. The pictures show the crude cuts of the time. This fable runs : "An old man found a rude boy upon one of his apple trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down, but the young sauce-box told him plainly that he would not. 'Won't you?' said the old man ; 'then I will fetch you down.' So he polled up some turf or grass and threw at him ; but this only made the youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only. " 'Well, well,' said the old man, 'if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones.' So the old man pelted him heartily with stones, which soon made the young ohap haste down from the tree aad bog the old man's pardon. "Moral?If good words and gen nie means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in a more severe manner." "The Country Maid and Her Milk Pail," and the moral it teaches, ap plies to men and women to-day with as much force as it did when the old "blue back:' was in general use in the schools of the country. The fable follows : "Whcu men suffer their imagination to amuse them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements of their condition, they frequently gas ta in real losses, by their inatten tion tu tho.^e affairs in which they are immediately concerned. "A country maid was walking very deliberately with a pail of miik upon her head, when she fell into the fol lowing strain of reflection : 'The money for which I shall sell this milk ill enable me to increase my stock of ALLING BOOK. Text-Book of a Gen * Ago, Republic. eggs to 300. These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce ! at least 250 chickens. The chickens I will be fit to carry to market about Christmas, when poultry always bears a good price : so that by May Bay I : cannot fail of having money enough to purchase a new gown. Green !? let me consider?yes, green becomes my complexion best, and green it shall be. In this dress I will go to the fair, where all the young fellows will strive to have me for a partner, but I shall perhaps refuse every one of them, and, with an air of disdain, toss from them. Transported with this triumphant thought, she coula* not forbear acting with her head what thus passed in her imagination, when down came the pail of milk, and with it all her imaginary happiness.' " "It makes a difference whose ox is gored" is a saying as familiar as it is true. "The Partial Judge" thus points this moral : i "A farmer came to a neighboring lawyer, expressing great concern for an accident which he said had just happened. 'One of your oxen, con tinned he, 'has been gored by an un lucky bull of mine, and I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation.' 'Thou art a very honest fellow,' replied the lawyer, 'and wilt not think it unreasonable that I ex pect one of thy oxen in return.' 'It is no more than justice,' quoth the farmer, 'to be sure ; but what did I say??I mistake?it is^our bull that has killed "one of my oxen.' 'In deed !' says the lawyer, 'that alters the case; I must inquire into the affair; and if- 'And if !' said the farmer; 'the business I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do justice to others as to exact it from them.' " "The bear and the two friends" is another fable in the old . "blue back" which points a moral that will be again read with interest. It says : "Two friends, setting out together upon a journey which led through a dangerous forest, mutually promised to assist each other, if they should happen to be assaulted. They had not proceeded far before they per ceived a bear making toward them with great rage. "There were no hopes in fight ; but one of them, being very active, spraug up into a tree ; .upon which the other, throwing himself flat on the ground, held his breath and pretended to be dead ; remembering to have heard it asserted that this creature will not prey upon a dead carcass. The bear came up, and after smelling of him some time, left him aud went on. When he was fairly out of sight and hearing the hero from the tree called out : 'Well, my friend, what said the bear? He seemed to whisper you very closely?' 'He did ho,' reptied the other, 'and gave me this good advice, never to associate with a wretch, who, in the hour of danger, will desert his friend.'" , A Story Abont Lincoln. Lebanon, Ind., Feb. 19.?Presi dent Lincoln's birthday was celebrated here last night, and among the promi nent guests at the banquet was Gen eral Lew Wallace. I)uring his address he referred to the dark days of the war when Gea. MoClellan had been driven back to Harrison's Landing by Gen. Lee. At this time Gen. Wal lace said : "I was near Washington and went there with a party to see the President. I noticed that Mr. Lie coin's face was unusually sad. I thought he was sick and was solici tous. I kindly asked him if he was unwell, but he said he was well enough but that he was anxiously waiting for tho time to arrive when a boat would start for Harrison's Landing, that he wanted to go and persuade Gen. Mc Clellan not to surrender tie army to Gen. Lee." Gen. Wallace said he had never told this story before except privately to friends. -m m m -. Faithful Watchman. The truth of an old saying about children and fools is newly illustrated by a story in a London paper. A gentleman went into a fancy goods store. It was early in the morning, and in order to make change the shop keeper was obliged to go upstairs after the cash box. As he went out of the room, he said in a whisper to his little son : ''Watch the gentleman that ho does not .steal anything." The precaution was natural enough, but the form in which it was conveyed was unfortunate, for when the shop keeper returned, a few minutes later, tho boy cried out : "Pa, he didn't .steal anything! 1 j watched him." ? It is what we don't think that makes us innocent, and what we don't do that keeps us so. Sure Cure Found for Hog Cholera. Washington, Jan. 16.?The chief of the bureau of animal indus try, Dr. D. E. Salmon, has submitted to Secretary Wilson a report upon the experiments made in the treatment of hogs for hog cholera with anti-toxine serum. This serum is made upon the same principle as the anti-toxine of diphtheria. Good serum has been ob tained from both horses and cattle, a horse or cow being treated with the hog cholera virus in small quantities at first, with large doses after suitable intervals of time. The resistance o:F the animal is thus raised to the high est practicable point. The blood of such an animal when injected under the skin of swine has been found to possess both a preventative and a cure for cholera. This serum was first tested, upon small animals in the laboratory and being found efficacious, was last fall tested in Page County. Iowa, on sev eral herds of swine, containing alto gether 278 animals. Leaving out one herd, from which definite returns as to cause of death could not be ob tained, only 30 died out of 244 ani mals treated, of which 86 were sick. Consequently 82.8 per cent, of the animals in these herds were saved. Of untreated herds kept uuder obser vation during the period referred to about 85 per cent, of the animals died. Dr. Salmon believes that with experi; ence a better quality of scrum can be prepared and he has no doubt that this percentage can be maintained hereaf ter. Referring to this report Secretary Wilson remarked that undoubtedly the results reported by Dr. Salmon were most encouraging to hog raisers. The cost of the serum now, said the secre tary, is but 10 cents per head of ani mals treated, only one dozen being re quir?d, and doubtless in course of time this light cost may still be fur ther reduced. "It is my opinion," said the secre tary, "that it is of the utmost im portance that this serum for the next year at least be made by the bureau, under our own supervision, and dis tributed in large quantities in order to demonstrate its efficiency upon a more extended scale. It is absolutely es sential chat during the experimental stage sernm of undoubted quality be used. Unless the hog growers can ob tain it from this department they will be forced to depend upon what can be obtained from private sources, and owing to the novelty of this product, not only will diseouragiogly exorbi tant prices be charged for it, but in many cases inferior products may be offered. This would preclude the possibility of making a satisfactory test on a widely extended scale. 1 "I propose to ask Congress to pro vide an appropriation necessary to en able this department to furnish 2,000, 000 dozens of serum during the next year, and to make a considerable por tion of the appropriation immediately available. It seems from Dr. Salmon's report that it takes three or four months to put a horse or cow in con dition to supply the serum; conse quently the work upon an extended scale mnst be undertaken at once. "The losses from bog cholera are so enormous and have weighed so heavi ly for years upon our farmers that I cannot imagine that Congress will for a moment refuse to make the appro priations necessary to carry on this work thoroughly. Indeed, apart from the great stake the farmers have in this matter, to refuse to provide for a thorough test of this remedy now would be, indeed, pennywise and pound foolish; for the discovery of this serum has involved already many years of work and a very large sum of money. It would be a great mistake, now that so great a discovery seems to have been made, not to fiuish the work by giving it a thorough and ex tensive test. Another Centennial Exposition. The next important event in Ameri can history which calls for centennial commemoration is the purchase of Louisiana by President Jefferson 5n 1803. Already the wide-awake and enter prising spirits of that section of the country included within the original boundaries of the Louisiana purcha se are beginning to agitate the question of holding a great international expo sition in 1903, either at St. Louis or some other convenient point. There can be no doubt of the vast importance to this country of the Louisiana purchase. As the result of this uhrewd negotiation on the part of President Jefferson, the United States acquired, nearly one-half of its present domain. Out of this immense strip of territy some twelve or fifteen States have been carved, and there is no sec tion of the country more thrifty than the one iociuded within the original area of the Louisiana purchase. To commemorate the acquisition of this vast area would not be inappro priate, but whether or not Congress seos fit to encourage the project re mains to be seen. One of the Mis souri Congressmen has introduced a measure providing for the proposed exposition, and this measure is ex pected to come up soon.?Atlanta Constitution. Fasted 44 Days. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. lu. A sad case of forced fasting was dis olosed to night. Mrs. Annie I?urr, ;i respectable white woman afflicted with throat trouble, it as taken no food for forty-four days and drank nothing for twenty-two days. She is twenty-one years ?>f aye. Physicians <>f note ' have been unable to relieve her, and fiho is slowly starving to death. i P h ore are i!' ee little tiling which do mom work limn nny other three little thunr* created?tu?} are the ant, tii<i I b? ajid D tWut'rt l.ittl- Kirlv Risers, the last beinir Lh" famoiiH littln pill? lor Nto:iia*h and liver troubles. Evans Pbitrmacy. 1 AH Sorte of Paragraphs. ? In the United States and Canada there are 960,094 Odd Fellows and 837,395 Freemasons. j ? If you would be capable, culti i rate your mind ; if you would be ! loved, you must cultivate your heart. I ? It is easier to tie a knot in a cord of wood than to do an evil deed and get rid of the consequences. ? It is said that candles will not burn in the Klondike because the heat of the wick fails to melt the-taJ low. ? "This," said the Kansas editor, looking over the top of his spectacles, "is the most inviting manuscript I have received in a long time." "What is it ? ' asked the foreman. "A poem beginning, 'Come, drink with me.'" ? In New York city there are 5,000 clothing shops and 6(1,500 workers, 75 per cent, of whom are Jews. Some are paid seven cents for making a pair of trousers. ? Cute little shoes, intended for dogs, are made and sold in London. They are of chamois, with light leath er soles. They are only worn indoors, and are to protect polished floors from scratches. A thrill of terror is experienced when a brassy cough of croup sounds through the house at night. But tho terror soon cbanges to relief after One Mmute ^ongb Cure has been administered. S-fe and harmless for children. ?vans Pbarmacy. ? It is said thataScoEchman plant ed the first thistle in Australia out of love for his native land, and now mil lions of the plant afflict the land. ? An electrical apparatus to catch fish has been invented by an Indiana mac, but as yet nothing has been de vised that will catch the fish story liar in the midst of his yarns. ? Describing the cold weather down east, a man said that it was so cold sometimes that all the fishes froze, and he often used an eel as a walking stick. We are anxious to do a little good in this world and can think of no pleasantor or better way to do it than by recom mendintr Ono Minute Cough Cure as a preventive of pueumonia, consumption and other serious lung troubles that fol low neglected colds. Evan* Pbarmacy. ? Statisticians claim that the earth will not support more than about 5, 994,000,000 people. The present pop ulation is estimated at 1,467,000,000, the increase being 8 per cent each de cade. At that rate the utmost limit will be reached in the year 2072. ? Suburbs?I guess we'd better give up keeping chickens. Wc don't seem to have any luck. Mrs. Suburbs? How can you expect to have any luck, my dear ? When you set a hen you invariably put thirteen eggs under her. ? The following epitaph is inscrib ed on the tombstone of a North Caro lina moonshiner : "Killed by the gov ernment for making whiskey out of corn grown from seed furnished by a congressman." Don't annoy others by your cough ing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all thront and lung troubles. Evans Phar macy. ? The blushing bride-elect was re hearsing the ceremony about to take place. "Of course you will give me away, papa ?" she said. 'I amqfraid I have done it already. Caroline," re plied the old gentleman, nervously. "I told your Herbert this morning you had a disposition just like your mother's." ? "My dear," said Mr. Hawkins to his uetter half the other morning, "do you know that you have one of the best voices in the world ?" "Inr deed !" replied the delighted Mrs. H., with a flush of pride at the compli ment. "Do you really think so ?" "I certainly do." continued the heart less husband, "otherwise it would have been worn out long ago.-' Whooping cough is the most distress ing malady ; but its duration can he cut short by the use of One Minute Cough Core, which is also the best known reme dy for croup and all lung and bronchial troubles. Evans Pharmacy. ? "I hope,'' said the girl's father, "that you expect to surround my daughter with all the luxuries to which she has been accustomed." "Oh, yes." was the prompt and cheerful response. "Wc have talked it over, and wc agreed that we would just as lief come right here to live as not." ? Dr. A. Robinson, a dentist of (.irand Rapids, Mich., has a bull dog which recently broke his two front teeth in a tight. Robinson fixed the dog up in his chair and fitted the teeth with gold fillings, and the dog is again on the warpath. ? Maude?Do you know, I really believe that Tom is going to propose. Bertha?I noticed that he was looking terribly sad about something or other, but then, you know, dear, it may not be that. Perhaps his mother is sick, or possibly he isn't feeling well him self. What pleasure is there in life with a headache, constipation and biliousness? Thousands experience th-m who cou d become perfectly healthy by using De Witt's Litthi Early Risers, the famous iltlo pills. Evans Pharmacy. \ Paris j nu lal relates that a celebrated sp< cuiatorwho had readied the ;!lv of 85, and still preserved n lively interest in the marker, was told one da\ : "ICvidcntly you are going to live to be IUU years old.'' '"No ?no," h" said, "1 m going to die very soon ? I know it !" "What makes you think so ?" "What makes me think so ? Do you suppose Death is such a fool as to take nie ;it 100 when he could get me at 85 ?" What Moro Can bo Asked? Only this ; ask yon r grocer for It, and inalst on trying it. Largest package?greatest economy. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 0. D. ANDERSON & BKO. WANTED CASH. Got to have it. Holl *em out?Short Profits. Seed Oats, Corn, Timothy Hay, Bran, Molasses, in Car Lots. Can fill any size order?compare prices. CA ft HALF PAL FLOUR. Bought 50c. under market. Sell same way. Lower grades $3 90 per barrel. We Want Your Business, Large or Small. Wanted at once, 1,0<)0 bushes M-dasses Cane Seed, and all your Peas, Raw Hides, green and dry, Tallow, Beeswax, Eggs, &c Pay you spot cash. Get prices and look at our fluff. WiU save you money on Corn, Hay and your barrel Molasses. All kinds Seed Irish Potatoes. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Brass Collars on Drunkards' Necks. A colonial gentleman, who now sits on the Wandsworth and Clapham Board of Guardians, amused bis col leagues at their weekly meeting by stating, during a discussion upon the best manner of dealing with local ine briates, that they had an excellent way of checking excessive drinking in Manitoba. When a man had been twice or thrice convicted of drunken ness in the police courts he was sen tenced to weair a brass collar, which marked him out among his fellows as a person to whom no publican could with impunity serve liquor. The drastic measure often proved a cure. On the authorities being satisfied that the branded individual had served a sufficiently long term of probation he was uncollared and endowed with the liberty of drinks.?London Telegraph. Home, Sweet Home. The following composition was read at a recent Friday afternoon's exer cises of the Punkinville high school by one of the brightest boys of the town : ''The poit haz sed home sweet home, but thepoitwuzmistuck. Sum homes iz good things to hav and sum aint. I don't see no use of haven homes, cos then you cud go a visitin to Yore kin folks. I like my kin folks. They have chicken fer dinner an Don't I skold you fer eaten too much like ma dus. The homos you live at iz nearly all no count. The good houius is where you jest visit. Ma and pa whops me at home but onny whir else they don't do nothen to mc. At home ma and pa calls each other John and Mollic, an' gits mad an' quarls. When they goes off they iz alwis in a good yumer. I don't think these poits as writes about home sweet home is got much sense, anyhow." Birds Made to Order. The Japanese are ruthless in their tampering with nature. If they de cide that they want a bird or an ani mal of a certain shape or color they set about manufacturing the article, so to speak, by the exercise of ex ceedingly clever ingenuity and untir ing patience. Here, for example, is how the white sparrowB are produced. They select a pair of grayish birds and keep them in a white cage in a white room, where they are attended by a person dressed in white. The mental effect on a series of genera tions of birds results in completely white birds.?Rural World. ? One of the highest officers in the German array is very particular that his soldierB are properly fed, and he is in the habit of making unexpected visits to the barracks and inspecting the food in person. On the occasion of one of these visits he perceived two soldiers carrying a steaming boiler from the kitchen. "Put it down? fetch a spoon," he commanded. The astonished soldiers looked at each other. One of them rushed off. but reappeared in a few moments with a spoon. ;'I want to see what sort of soup you get,"' said the General as ho dived into the boiler with the spoon, but as soon as he tasted it he spat it cut. exclaiming, 'What sort of broth is that ? I? tast<:s like dishwater What is it. anyhow ?" "That's just wh.it.it is. >.>iir excellency," replied i the soldiers : "'it s the water the dish es were washed in." ? The of an oi l London uv r chant, which has just hern published, shows hini co have be< n something i i' a wag, for he had made a list of all bis "bad debts" aud left them as legacies distributed among his friends, one particularly favored person getting ever $5,000 worth. NOTICE. THE undersigned ha? jnat received a C*r Loud of fine Kuotucky Horses and Males, which he will pel! on the basis of 5 cent coiton Come and set* tbe'n. No trouble to ai.ow them W. B MAGRUDER. ?ov 24, 18?7 22 /"GOOD TISSES K?Vt GOME Von can afford to induise yourself or your family in the luxury ot a good weekly news paper and a quarterly magazine of ficticn. You can get both of these publication.", v:::h almost a library of {rood aovjl? for ?s per year. 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