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r 4 VALLEY RECORD. VALLEY RECORD. VALLE Y ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. a. J. KAisaa. i n. A. JACOBS. JACOBS & KAISER. Publisher» and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One y» r ...................... M« month» . .. ......... Three monti» ----- . ..... Terme In ad vanee. *2 50 I 50 75 A. V. CALIIMF.I.L. ink Street. Between Main and Spring. MECHANICAL AND OPERATIVE DENTIST. OREGON. Mr*. W. C. OBBB. ProprietreM. •ward and lAdsIns. *S per week IMngic Meal«. Me. Hing,.. Hols. 2&c. First clans »ccwnm'J isione atf irded ths public. The best Etliug House la town. MY LOST CABY. Wha* can hove beentu - *»? my darling? Why. on‘y a brief while azo. She lay n 10« c adle bes;dc me: Bat now »h ■ . gone. Where, do you know! Aablaud. Oregon. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the painless extraction of te th. Office over the bank. K. ISePKATT. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT LAW. Central House Ashland. Orrco». E. K. BRIGTHMAN, Prop. Will practi'-e In all Courts of the State. Office adjoining Well's ¿Far.ro & Co.’s Express Office. OREGON. ASHLAND, J. T. BOWI)1T(H. t Renovated throughout and newly fur ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT nished. LAW. Aukland. Oregon. Agoil sample room for commer cial travelers has been fitted up in Wil! practice in all Courts of the Slat«. Collection*, promptly made. connection with the hotel. GRAVES & SONNICHSON, BOOT & SHOE MAKERS, All work guaranteed. done. L1ATHER MANUFACTORY. They have on hand a stork of better rail akin, grain calf akin, kip, dongola anil buck akin *han ever Imported to Ashland, which thev offer for sale to the trade of Southern Oregon at reasonable figures. Highest mar set price paid for hides and pelts. Shop on Maio Street, opposite plixa. OREGON. ASHLAND, lector, E c. Office—Opposite the court-house. Oregon Jarkaon ville. J. C. PLUMERTH, CONTRACTOR ANO BUILDER, ASHLAND, OREGON. Paints, Oils, Varnish, etc., etc. A. L. WILLEY, FULL STOCK OF CONTRACTS Taken for all kinds of painting and papering, etc. Store in the Backhalter A Hxsty cor- ner on Main and Granite streets. C. A. N UTLEY, Produce & Commission Merchant, CARPENTER, BUILDER AND CHITECT, AR Is now prepared to give estimates to com plete all kindsof buildings, and to fur nish all labor, material, plans, spec ifications and details for the same, upon reasonable terms and short notice. Residence, West Ashland Post-office box 113. ARCHITECT |T kept consunti y She laugh« and ah“ cries and she frolics As Gt I t r babies do, I opine; H»r cooing, however, is peculiar To tbiaprecious baby of mine. I fear I did not understand you; Please slow iy repent what you said. “Ms— biby—lo,t—to—me—foreverf’ What mean you? That—that she is dead? “'T i years «ince your chl'd was a baby; She now to a womau has grown” Tou say, and I know you speak truly. Ah, ue! how those same years have flown. Morn often ns baba than as woman I think of my child and, tn Heaven, I pray that, an Innocent baby, Sho back to tny arms may be g ven. —Fiore rice 7> zzra»', fa Prookljn Eagle. Almtracis of Titles, and Probate Col DEALER IN Artists’ Materials A deal of the time, her plump Hn;ers, Or, if not her fingera, her tons Are founi in her mouth —like a rosebud Just oped—'neatli tae aintiest nose. An Old Darky’s Amusing Conduct During an Emerg3ncy. I will give estimates to erect all kinds of buildings in and out of the city, fur- n shmg labor, material, plans and specifi cation«, upon reasonable terms. All work guaranteed. Residence on Spring street. H. S. EVANS. “In what way dia’inguiaa 07 baker’ Her hair ha j i al? iroUea hae; In each pink cheek there is a dimp’e: Her br.gbt eye« are, as sapphires, blue. THAT PRÎNCE ALBERT. W. H. PARKER, R -pairing neatly AND L ASHLAND. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1888 VOL. I. PIONEER HOTEL ASHLAND, Hillside. BUILDER Mr. Waldo Archer, the portrait painter, lived, about threo years ago, in one of those pretty studio* buildings on Thirty-sevc-nth street, in New York City. If you have ever been through the street you must remember the buildings—Philadelphia pressed brick, each story set back further than the one b.low, and with a sloping roof of ground gloss rising back to the next story. Mr. Archer was not as well known then as he is now. lie had not os yet painted that portrait of Leonard P. Jenkins, viec-pr.jrid snt of the Q., P. & W. railroad, which made such a stir at the spring exhibition at the academy in 1886. But he had already attained reasonable success, and had a pretty wife who was a painter, too—not of portraits, but of china—that dainty sort you have seen at the great china stores, wild roses with the morning dew on them and blackberry vines in their autumn colorj. You felt almost certain you could see them stir a little in some passing breeze, as you looked at them. Mrs. Archer had herself done the housework in the little flat for some time—sho did not find it much of a burden. And now, their only servant was an old colored man who had brought them a letter from sojne dear friends of theire in the South. He had come to New York to look up a child the Sid mai., in In the Main Street found Mm a place. Has any one, not conversant with statistics, any idoa of the army of school children in America? The total enrollment, according to latest data, is over n.OO'XOO'J. Dakota shows the greatest progress of late, followed, very curiously, by Indiana as second of all States in educational progress. In New Hampshire, Vermont, South Carolina. Ohio and Nevada there has been a decrease of enrollment. The North Central States are far ahead of all the rest of the Union, and the Southern States, whi.e making great strides, still remain in the rear. In the South Central States seventy-sine out of 100 children are on the rolls of schools. The number of children daily in attendance on the public schools average about 7,500.000. The numbers enrolled should reach 15,000,000. anil tpo di'Hv I rihm 11 <¥K> —Q# “I will leave it,” he said. “I should lie sure to forget to bring it every time.” Alexander wrapped the coat up and put it away on a clo-et-sheli. After that Mr. Winthrop came nearly every Wednesday, for a good many weeks, and then the portrait was finished at last, and was sent away. It made a fine picture. Mr. Winthrop was a tall, well-built man, with a strong, vigor ous face a little flushed, and a bushy head of hair just beginning to turn gray, and Mr. Archer had caught his best expression perfectly. Every one who saw it was delighted. Mr. Winthrop and Mr. Archer had become very good friends, and Mrs Archer had fallen into the way of sit ting in lhe studio while the work was going on. with her painting or sewing. But Mr. Winthrop was a busy man, and after the picture was done, it was a long time—nearly a year—before he camo again. One day the carriage brought him onco more. The Archers were both at home. Mr. Archer was at work just then ou a portrait of a pretty child with blue eye3 and sunny hair, dressed in blec'i* velvet. They rad a very pleasant half-hour together, and then Mr. Winthrop rose to go. “Oh, by the way,” he said, as he stood by the door, “it just occurs to ino that I have a coat here. I forgot it when I want away. That was a fuvorite coat of mine. If you can lay your hand on it now, without trouble, I’ll tako it.” “Oh, surely,” said Mr. Archer. “I’ll let Alexander get it,” Baid Mrs. Archer. “Coat?” said Alexander, when he was summoned in. “Co*t?”—I wish I could give you his voice, as well as his words—the strong melancholy in its tones, and a faint, illusivo negro ao- xent—too faint and too illusive to be ’rif I did, now,” said Alex Mr. Archor would be painting away ander, bowing his head, a little on one OYSTER * ICE CREAM PARLOR at his easel on the blue coat perhaps side, at short intervals, and looking of a Generi 1, or the ball-dress of a steadily at his own boots. “Seems ’a Will make estimate* and bids on al Open every day except Sunday. lady of fashion, and his wife would be if I recalls that coat, an’ yet”— Bui’dingv, public or private, and furnish Next door to Powtofficc. “Oh yes, Alexander,” said Mr. sitting in her low, rattan chair re-id- all muterial, plans amk specifications for Archer, “of course you remember that iug aloud, to him from Robert Brown the construction of the same. ecat. Go and look for IL It must be ing or Dr. Holnes, or some other of Sash, D joth and Mouldings on hand their favorite writers, when there here, somewhere.” and for sale at Alexander shambled about the would come a knock at the door, und studio, looking not only in the closets, in would walk Rev. Alexander Max Lowest Rates! but in all sorts of impossible places, well St. Clair, bowing low and swing MOSLEY & PELTON, Prop’s ing back at arm’s length his high, under chairs and behind boxes and pictures. Then ho went shufflin ’ General shop work done In whitebeaver hat. Who'eaale and retail dealer in He was a tall, gaunt old man, solemn through the other rooms, noisily c*pe; in appearance until ho begun to speak, lug drawers, inspecting shelves, look SHORT ORDER. ing into trunks. when his face lighted up finely. Mr. Winthrop resulted his seat, Stair building a specialty. All work Mrs. Archer always laid licr book meanwhile, and the talk ran on again. guaranteed to be tira^-class and of latest down at once, and asked him to be ' design. seated, but ho would only bow and | But Mrs. Archor exchanged looks wit! Cured Meats constantly on hand. smile, and remain standing, and say, j her husband. Alexander returned after a short bowing his head »frequently while he II. JUDGE, time. Terms Cash. Paas book accounts pay spoke: “I can’t seem to fin’ no coat about,” “Well, sir, any news for me to-day, ! he said, bowing and bowing, and look able monthly. HARNESS AND SADDLE sir?” ing at the floor, and tho pictures, and He always said “Sir,” but he evi- j every where but at Mr. Archer. “Some- MANUFACTURER, New dently asked the question of both: fill’ mus’ have happened to that coat” There nevor was any nows. Mr. OREGON The uudeiwighed has opened a new “I will look for it myself, Alexan ASHLAND, Archer “loaned” him a little money der,” said Mrs. Archer, in a tono ot butcher shop lu now and then, “till he could find a displeasure, anil so she departed and ASHLAND, All work ordered will be made to irire place,” and finally they took him them Looked through the drawers and trunks selves—in self-defense. Mi’s. Archer and closets, but all with no better re On Main street, under the McCall Hall, ENTIRE SATISFACTION. said—and he soon became an estab sults. flrst door north of Masonic building, t lished member of the family. prop.»« ta supply the public with the best ‘•Well, Mr. Winthrop,” she said, as Repairing neatly and promptly done, of frssh Ho could cook, and wash and iron, sho came back, “there certainly is and at low rates. and sweep, and scrub—not only could, something mysterious about the disap but did. He "tended” the door with pearance of that coat. I can not find ASHLAND much state and solemnity, made all it. But wo will have a thorough searcl the purchases at tho grocer’s and for it, and will send it to you.” Tn Beason. A liberal share of the pat ronage of the people of Ashland and FEED AND LIVERY STABLE. butcher’s, and. in fact, rendered life So Mr. Winthrop went rolling aw. vicinity respectfully solicited. quite another thing for Mrs. Archer. in his carriage. Sho said that formerly, when she “Alexander,” said Mrs. Archer, All Orders Promptly Filled. read to her husbnnd from Whittier or when he was gone, “don’t you remem Lowell, she was always seeing visions ber that coat Mr. Winthrop left here?” of boiling potatoes and baking bread “Coat?” said Alexander, bending his DAVID floating between the lines. Now she head on one side and beginning to bow, Oregon Aattlaad. turned all such visions over to Alex “why, yes, I do rememb’ that coat ander. perfly.” One day a handsome carriage, ith “And did you really look for it just a faint red monogram on the panel, now as bard as you knew how?” stopped before Mr. Archer's building, LINES. “Well,” said Alexander, as if weigh Proprietor. and in a few moments a gentleman was ing his words very carefully, “well, THE ushered in by Alexander—Mr. Win i now, not just as hard as I has some Having purchased the* old stable on throp. things, well, no.” Shasta Route! Main street near the bridge, and &»sum d Mr. Archer knew the name. He had “And did you really expect to find it K Daily the management of the same. I am pre pare 1 to "-ffer the public better accommo seen it in the papers often. And he where you looked?” Between■ dation* than ever before afforded in knew where Mr. Winthrop lived, in a “Well, now,” said the old man, “jus’ Southern Oregon in the livery business. great, double, brown-stone house with where I look, why, no I can't say I did Portland and San Francisco glittering plale-glass windows, on Fifth sxpec’ to see it jus’ there.” LRAVE . ARRIVE avenue—a corner house with a square “Alexander,” said Mrs. Archer, in a 'I 8:30am P.trUaml 4:60 p m I „*/ Ashland oriel window projecting diagonally severe tone, “I believe you never told Horses Boarded San Franc ’ coî' -IOa m Ashland VXD a nt [ L— -- —- from the corner on the second floor. ’ I MO pm SiuFranciacofWIOpiii I Anhlanu me a falsehood. Do you know where At reasonable rates. Athiand 6:40 p tn | L Portland ‘_. t— 10:40 a m Mr. Winthrop had seen some of Mr. that coat is?” New and handsome turnouts, reliable Archer's portraits at the Academy Ex “Well, now,” he said, “I suppose I safe buggy teams, an< good saddle BUFFET SLEEPERS. and hibition. and recently had been especi do know where that coat is, well, yes.” horses always to be had at these stables. ally pleased with one ha saw at : “Why, I am shocked, Alexander,” WILL BUY ABD SELL HORSES. friend's bouso on Fifty-seventh street. said Mrs. Archer. “Whore is it? Who He wanted to have Mr. Archer to paint : has it. Have you sold it?” his portrait, and had come, to arrange “No.” for the sitting. “Given it away?” Thev agreed on Wednesday of the “No.” The O. & 0. R. R. Ferry makes connec- following week for the time, and at l on with all the regular trains on the “O Alexander have you been weir East Side Div. from fool of F street. two o'clock on that dr. Mr. Winthrop’s ing that beautiful coat?” carr age brought- him again. He had West Side DivlaBsa Bftwfei ••Well, now. Mis’ Archer,” said Al Alexander go down to the carriage and exander, looking her in the face now, Portland and Corvallis. bring up a package containing a Prines and holding up his two black hands Albert coat he was to wear during the i with their white palms toward her, “il Mail Train. sittings. So he put it on. and after much you will pause a moment. I wish to say LEAVE ARRIVE discussion and many experiments as a few words to save my character from Portland 7:30 a m 1 Corvallis 1 :3s pm to his position, he was finally seated sacrilege. I have not wore that coat” Corvallis 1 JO p in t Portland 6:l5 p ni and Mr. Archer was at work. “Who did?” At Albany and Corvallis connect with Now the coat was a handsome one. “Well, Mis’ Archer, Mr. Archer have trains of Oregon Pacific. Alexander had seen handsome clothes that very coat on hi’self, this very express Trala. a ran »«»ply *f in his day, at the South, and he no minute!” Caskets. Bebes of all ARRIVE ticed this one as soon as it appeared on LEAVE Alexander's feelings hire overcame Nisee. «■ levee. Crapes, Portland I 4JO pm M’MinnvilletfOpm the scene. The material was a rich him, and he turned and fled to the etc.. ete M etc. McMinnville > 6:43 o a in Portland 9:00 a ni diagonal, and it was lined and faced fitchen. Mr. Archer tore off his coat, For information regarding rate», map*. Office and wareroom at railroad cross with expensive silk, and fitted like a and looked at the tailor’s name. ing, Helman Street. glove. When Mr. Winthrop went ■k Manager "I never had him make me a coat,” A»St G I A PoM Agt. OREGON away that day he left the coat. ASHLAND he said. "Why. this does look like that Ashland Market BEEF. PORK and MUTTON Butcher Shop. BEEF. PORK OR MUTTON PAYNE Southern Pacific Published at Ashland, in the flourishing Rogue River Valley The leading town of Southern Oregon, population 2,500, junc tion of O. & C. and S. P. R. R. Leading industries—fruit raising, mining, manufacturing, stock- raising and farming. Co.'s GEORGE STEPHENSON, Mount and Fed PULLMAN Funeral Director coat, to be sure. But it looks like my coat, too, only a great deal better. ” “O Waldo!” was all Mrs. Archer could say, as she sank into her low wicker chair. “Don’t you remember,” he said, half laughing and half in consternation, “that I’ve said several times that I must be growing stout, my coat was getting ss tight?” Mrs. Archer nodded and laughed again. From the kitchen came a faint snicker. It was the first time they had ever known Alexander to give way to levity. ’ “I shall sit right down and write to Mr. Winthrop,” said Mr. Archer, final ly. **T can’t send him the coat now, but I’ll’paint him a picture to console him for Tris loss.” >ud he did. — Fe>;tA’s Companion. NATURE OF CORN-SMUT. A Ill-,:a*e of the Con Plant Curable Onl, « * by Prevention. Every farmer knows what corn smiit is. ¡.nd how it bursts from all parts cl the plant, the stem, the leaves, the eat and the tassel. The spores are the brownish dust which forms masses upon va’-iouSjparts of the plant, and which are theimatured form of the fleshy ex- crescnces that are first seen upon the plant. In this respect the parasite liears some resemblance to an ordinary puff ball, at first a spongy, fleshy substance, changing in time to a mass of fine dust or jwwder. In the corn smut this mass is oily and adherent. The spores fall upon the ground, where they remain until a corn plant appears, when they become attached to the stem and ger minating, send threadlike branches into the pores of the plant, where these again branch, forming a com; licated, tangled mass of the threadlike myce lium that in time causes the tissues of the plant to swell and form a prominent bunch or tumor. These threads soon bear the spores at their ends, the spores increasing from the outside inward un til the swelling becomes a mass of blackish-brown powder of a slimy con sistence. These pores are rounded bodies so small that 25,000 of them placed in line will measure an inch and 625,000,000 of them occupy a surface ol one inch square; an ordinary smut ball upon a corn plant will thus be made up of countless mil lions, and sufficient in number to spread over many acres of ground and still leave the spore so near together that a corn plant could scarcely escape them. The ease with which a parasite spreads through a corn field is therefore explained, as well as the difficulty of preventing its attack once the soil u stocked with the spores. It is believed that the parasite attacks the corn plant at the first joint above the root.- Thu proceeding rem a germinating spore enters th« roots, for we have found the balls oi immature smut upon the plant at the roots and upon the aerial or brace roots. 'Illis, however, is immaterial. It is juite within possibility, no doubt, that in a dry time the spores may be raised by the wind and, floating in the air, lodged upon any part of the plant, and germinating there, find easy entrance through the stomata or air tubes which exist in the leaves and stem as well. These spores seem to germinate equally well in dry or wet seasons, and some dry seasons have been marked by severe outbreaks of it The repetition of corn crops consecutively upon the same ground favors the increase of the para site. In our own investigations this lias been found to be the case so much so that the seventh successive crop of corn was almost completely destroyed by th« smut, only a very few plants escaping. This fact, and another given by Mr. Scribner, the pathologist of the depart ment, viz., that the parasite is able to enter only the young plants, may be turned to useful account in attempts to avoid its attacks. Remedies are unavailing. Prevention is the only cure for this disease 8f the corn plant These are not given as fully as might be in the report referred to. 'The cutting out and burning of the diseased plants securing the destruction of the spores is a self-evident means ol prevention, and this is recommended in t he report Other remedies which have boon tried and found effective by the writer are to avoid planting corn after corn in all cases ; to pull up on sight when the corn is worked every young plant that is affected, and before the smut is mature and the seed spores are ripe; to select the seed from healthy plants and to steep it in the same kind of solution that is used for preparing wheat for the same purpose, viz., four ounces of sulphate of copper in a gal lon of water, and to use k in such a quantity that the liquid is wholly ab sorbed, which is a gallon for five bush els of corn. As a small quantity of seed s used it is easy to prepare it so that he grains are made to absorb the -.uau- lity required, and if the seed is sown by machine it is dried for twenty-four hours after the treatment We have used a similar solution made with com mon saltpetre at the rate of one pound to the gallon of water, and this has acted as a useful stimulant to the germ ination of the seed as well as a safe guard against the damage so often done ny birds. The use of artificial fertil izers only for the corn crop is a means of safety from the parasite, for the rea son that the chemicals used are fatal to fungoid growths, and manure is one of lhe most effective means of spreading and encouraging them.— Henry Stewart in N. F. Times. GENERAL HARD TIMES. Leader Whose Spectral Army Was Mor« Cruel Than Grant’s or Sherman’s. Every article of food increased in jrice in a similar ratio; and the market reports of produce and supplies in oon- »mporaneous Confederate journals pre lent a strange contrast from month to nonth and year to year. Perhaps the nost striking instance of the advance n prices of food supplies occurs in the :ase of flour, which in March, 1863, sold for $25 per barrel: in January, 1864, for $95 per barrel, and in January, 1865, for $1,000 per barrel. The spectral irmy in the Confederate rear, led by ■General Hard Times, was closing up its ranks, touching elbows, and moving at t double-quick in those days of Janu ary, 1865. There was death at the rannon’s mouth in front of the hungry, !ool-sore, shivering rebel, and starva tion in the roar. Even so early as February, 1863, the money value of a day’s rations for 100 soldier.-, which had in the first year of the war been about $9, was at market prices $123. In the corresponding month of the following year a day's ra tions had no estimated market value. From the soldier who possessed them, money could not buy them, and he who was without them was unable to pt-o- jure them at any price. Side by side with the reports of bat lies and the records of peace commis sions. congresses and legislatures, the blurred columns of the Confederate press were wont to teem with domestic recipes for cheap dishes, directions for raising and utilizing various vegetable products, instructions for making much of little in matters pertaining to every phase of household life. Hard by a list of dead and wounded would stand a recipo for tanuing dog-skins for gloves; while the paragraphs just suc ceeding the closing column of the de scription of a naval engagement, off Hampton Roads were directions for the use of boueset as a substitute for quin ine. The journals of that day were printed usually upon the poorest paper, made of straw and cotton rags, and so brittle that the slightest touch mutilated it. The ink, like the paper, was of the cheapest and commonest, and left its impression, not only on the face of the sheet, but on the hands no less than on the mind of the reader. Few fonts of new type found their way into the Con federacy during the war, and at the end of four years ths facilities for print ing had come to a low ebb. It was no uncommon thing for publishers to issue half sheets in lieu of a complete paper, with scarcely an apology to subscribers for the curtailment of their literary and news rations. It was generally understood that this happened only through stern necessity, and not from in all the column page was to-day cut down to a four-column half sheet; or publication was suspended vrtth fhe announcement that the stock of materials had been exhausted, and that as soon as the of fice could ba replenished publication would be resumed. Eagerly as the rough sheets were looked for and closely as they were read, a diminution of matter in them, or a failure to ap pear, caused only passing comment or dissatisfaction. Men’s minds were so filled with the thousand things that each day brought forth about them, there were so many rumors in the air, and news flew so rapidly even without newspaper aid, as to cause them not too greatly to miss that which to-day lias come to be one of the veriest neces sities of American life—a daily journal full of all the doingsof all the world,— Century. THE TABLE NAPKIN. How It« CareleM l>»e Marred the Career of a Great French Critic. The law of the napkin is but vaguely understood. Ono of our esteemed metropolitan contemporaries informs an eager inquirer that it is bad form to fold the napkin after dinner; that the proper thing is to throw it with negli gent disregard on the table beside the plate, as to fold it would be a reflection on the host, and imply a familiarity that would not befit au invited guest. But the thoughtful reader will agree with us that this studied disorder is likely to be a good deal more trying to a fastidious hostess than an unstudied replacing of the napkin in good order beside the visitor's plate. The proper thing is to fold the fabric with un ostentatious care, and lay it on the left of the plate, far from the liquids, tea and eoffee, and thus testify to the hostess that her carein preparing the tabic has been appreciated. The napkin has played famous parts in the fortunes of men and women. It was one of the points admired in Marie Stuart that, thanks to her exquisite breeding in the court □f Marie de Medici, her table was more imposing than the full court of her great rival and executioner, Elizabeth. At the table of the latter the rudest forms were maintained, the dishes were served on the table, and the great Queen helped herself to the platter without fork or spoon, a page standing behind her with a silver ewer to bathe her fingers when the flesh had been torn from the roasts. At the court of the empire, Eugenie was excessively fastidious. The use of a napkin anil the manner of eating an egg made or ruined the career of a guest. The great critic. Saint Beuve, was disgraced and left off the visiting list because at a breakfast with the Emperor and Em press at the Tuilleries he carelessly opened his napkin and spread it over his knees and cut his egg in two in the middle. The court etiquette prescribed 1 that the half-folded napkin should lie I on the left knee to bo used in the least 1 obtrusive manner in touching the lips, ■.nd tne egg was to be merely broken ' in the larger end with the edge of the i ;poon and drained withits tip.— House- —Impatient Husband — “Where in , wld Words. the world have you been? I want my dinner!” Wife—“Excuse me, John, but I ran doitti to the sewing society at -Thirteen years ago a young mar five, and to my surprise it didn't wind up until eight” Husband—“You mean named Toole went West, and just before it was wound up at five and didn’t run the Ashtabula disaster wrote to hit family in New Haven that he was about down until eight.”— N. K Sun. —Editor—“You fey you wish this to start for California. Nothing more poem to appear in my paper anony was heard of him and he was mourned mously?” Would-be contributor — as one of the dead of that tremendous “Yes; I don’t want any name to it’’ accident The other day he walked “Then I can’t publish it” “Why not?’’ into his old home well and prosperous. “Because I am conscientious about thia Ho said he had written several letters matter. I don't want an unjust sus home and had received no answer; he picion to fall upon some some innocent was not in the Ashtabula disaster, but had been making money in California. person.”-— Texas Siftings. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —Jay Gould allows his daughter $25 week for pocket money, most of which she spends in charity. —Baron Reuter, the telegraph king of Europe, keeps a secretary whose 6ole business it is to investigate and relieve cases of distress. —Since his interview with Mr. Par nell, Mr. Gladstone has expressed him self with much admiration for the Irish leader's personal qualities and polit ical sagacity. —A gentleman residing in Bath, Me., recently gave an account of a t rip he took thirty-five years ago from Bath, Me., to Peoria, Ill., which cost him fill.50. The same trip can be taken now for $35. —President Cleveland, Mr. Blaine, Speaker Carlisle, Senator Ingalls, Warner Miller and Congressman S. S. Cox arc a few of the men prominent in public life who began their careers as school teachers. Mayor Hewitt paid for his first trip to Europe out of the proceeds of a year’s school teaching. —Mrs. Leland Stanford’s jewels are valued at a round million dollars. Her diamond necklace is the finest in the United States, and possibly in the world. It cost seventy-four thousand dollars, and consists of large, “blue tint” solitaires. Besides this she has several pairs of magnificent solitaire earrings and enough other precious stones to fill a quart measure. —It is said that the Princess Maud of Wales carefully collects in the yards of the Sandringham House and in those of Windsor. Balmoral and Os borne all the peacocks’ feathers, and begs them also from her young friends of the English nobility. With this plumage without cost, she makes pret ty hand-screens and sells them at the bazaars for the profit of poor little children. —It has been discovered that nearly every Colorado statesman has red hair. fcx-Governor Grant has a Titian top. “Jim” Belford was a shining light in Congress owing to hie brilliant hair. Representative Symes, his successor, has a head which is said to look “like an angry sunset across a field of car rots.” Ex-Senator Tabor's hair has a reddish tinge. Minor Colorado politi cians show the same remarkable char acteristic. —Charles Crocker, who left an estate of $25,000,000, was never so happy, it is said, as when enjoying the fun his wealth enabled him to got out of his fellow millionaires. It is told of him that he enjoyed with the keenness of a boy the sport of running up the price of a picture or bit of bric-a-brac that another millionaire was bidding oa, and that he was equally well pleased if the other hail a BEAUTIFUL HANDS. What Tliey Are nml lion Every One C h « Acquire Them. Really beautiful hands are rarely seen; hands white, smooth and shape ly, whose finger-tips curve upward like the pink petals of an opening rose, and whoso dainty nails are polished like the heart of a blushing sea shell. Such hands had the lovely Queen of Prussia and they may sometimes be seen among us, but are more rare than almost any other physical charm. A small hand is not necessarily at tractive, proportion being one of the chief elements of beauty; but the per fect member must be a trifle long, with gently tapering fingers. Such are the hands that we ascribe to poetic and sensitive people, idealists in art or character. Heavy hands with thick, square-topped fingers* could never be long to such dreamers, but are as sure ly the sign of a prosaic nature. The hands should be slightly rounded, the thumb reaching half way up the first finger, tho middle one extending a nail's length beyond tho first, tho third about half a nail’s length shorter than the middle finger, while the fourth should reach the second joint of its neighbor. The skin should be soft and fine, the lines almost impercepti ble, and the whole hand should be ex- quisitel/ supple. It is probably uso rather than na ture that makes most hands so very unlike this ideal, for though few are perfect in shajie and some are hope lessly coarse in texture, for the most a great improvement is possible. Smoothness and dainty cleanliness can be preserved and cultivated; stainless tips and polished nails cost little but some minutes of time. With them no hand can fail to be pleasing, even though it may never serve as an art ist's model; so none need display the almost universal blemishes except they be engaged in the roughest labor. Nearly all housework can be done in gloves, which, though they s<y>m a lit tle troublesome at first, can soon be worn without inconvenience. Espe cially in sweeping and dusting are they useful to protect the skin from dirt and hardening, and in these exer cises they are not in the way. But during sleep they can always be worn, care being taken not to have them too tight, as that would disturb circu lation. Nothing is more certain to improve the hand than the slight sweating thus B6- cured. It whitens, softens and renders it more supple. In addition there are creams and pastes to be ap plied, many of which are excellent. The following recipe has been taken from the French: Yelk of fresh eggs, 2 scruplos; sweet almond oil, 2 table- spoonfuls; rose water, 1 ounce: tinc- lisbed in raised letters for the use < I the blind. It is said to evoke a great deal of feeling. — Terre Haute Express. —A good housewife never opens the condensed milk can with her husband's razor, nor will a loving husband curry the horse with the nutmeg grater.— A’. K Evening Sun. —A man that marries a widow is bound to give up smoking and chew ing. If she gives up her weeds for him, he should give up the weed for* her.— St. Louis Humorist. water with a little borax a mild soap, and never omit to dry them thoroughly after washing. The care of the nails is of prime im portance. A brush Should, always be used, and if not sufficient to remove • the stains that eo easily gather there are acids that will complete the work. Some people use lemon juice for this purpose. If they are then brightly polished they will be eo much im proved that the effort will seem well spent. Preparations for this use are —•‘Oh, when does the honeymoon end, tell me, now quite common, but another is pray. And the gall show Itself on the honey?” suggested. This consists ot equal “The honeymoon ends. I believe, on the dny parts of cinnabar and pulverized em When the wife says she must have some ery, rubbed on with a small sponge. money.” Then a little oil of bitter almonds may —Boston Courier. —Citizen—“What are you doing be passed over them to still further with that man?” Policeman—“I’ve enhance their luster. This care will just arrested him.” Citizen—“But be sufficient to give any woman a pair he’s as deaf as a past.” Policeman— of attractive hands.— Chicago News. - “He’ll get his hearing before the mag Good Whether It Cures or Not. istrate.”— Harper's Bazar. —Lady of the house (shivering)— Self-massage is recommended as a “Has the furnace gone out, Bridget?” cure for dyspepsia. The method is: Bridget—“I think not, mum; I’ve been First thing in the morning and last at the gate all the evening with a gen thing at night rub the abdomen down tleman friend of mine, an’ it didn't go the left side and the right in a round by me. I’m sure.”—Merchant Traveler. circle, also rub down the breast; now —A magazine writer tells us that pase across the room once or twice, there are only 6,000 stars visible to ihe and then snap the lower limbs, like a naked eye, but any uneducated man whip lash, for exercise. Now twist who ever ran his nose against the the lower limbs, first on one side, then eel'ar door in the dark knows that on the other, and rock upon the toes. there are at least four times as many Now for the lungs and abdomen; first as that.— Somerville Journal. take in half breath, then exhale all —Exasperated mother—“You good the air possible, then fill the lungs to- for nothing little brats! You made so their full capacity, walk 'across the much noise I couldn't hear myself room and back, at the same time -peak when Mrs. Smith was here. throwing the arms back. Now in a Which one of you shall I spank first?” half breath send out every particle of Tommy—“Take Emma. Ladies are air till you see the abdomen working always served first.”— Texas Siftings. like a bellows, and you will soon be —Doctor (who has been taking a come a deep breather. For more ex dispensary patient’s temperature)— tended practice in deep breathing the “Now, my good woman, how do you morning before rising is a good time, feel?” Patient (eyeing the thermome providing there is full ventilation and ter with considerable awe)—“Much the air inside is as pure and fresh as better, thank ye. Sure an’ that's u that on the outside. In the winter wonderful thing that’ll help a body so time before a good fire wash the hands and wet the back of the neck, arms quick!”— Judge. —Churchly—“I gave Deacon Snap and lower limbs slightly, and rub down per $10 this morning for the Kangaroo with a coarse towel. This Is sufficient Mission Church in Homicide alley.” for a beginner, but the chronic dys ?>Irs. Churchly—“O, Arthur! how good peptic needs more extensive exercise. you are; I wish I could do something —United Dresbyterian. for the mission.” Churchly—“Wait —Five tablespoonfuls of milk and till they start the foundation, my dear, tind then you can contribute some of one cup of granulated sugar will make that angel cake of yours for the cor an excellent frosting if flavored with lemon or vanilla, boiled five minutes ner stones.”— Lowell Citizen. -“Do you 6ee how proudly the and then beaten hard until it is both woman walks’” “Ido. Is she a mil- stiff and cool enough to spread on the ionaire?” “Oh, no. It would bother cake. The great advantage of this ler husband to raise $500 in cash.” frosting is that it is economical and But sh*i can’t be proud of her beau- that it can be cut as soon as thor y? ’ “No.” “Then what is it?” “She oughly cold. It is very nice with ns made thirty tumblers of jelly this chocolate or cocoanut stirred in it, and ■ 11. and not one of her neighbors has at this season, when eggs are apt to ■de over fifteen. She has a right to be stale, is preferable to the old- •1 up her nose.”— Detroit Free Dress. 'ashioned kind.— Detroit Tribune. - * These are days of real suffering and genu ine agony for the silly women who are "laced to death.” The latest arrangement in Paris for a wedding at home is a floral umbrella, under which the happy pair stand. The latest wrinkle in manners Is this: To show great politeness advance one step and bow; to show the reverse sentiment draw back a step and bow. “No gifts,” reads a foot note on the invita tion cards to a wedding in New York. The bride explained by saying that she did not want her marriage mane a donation party. Never urge another to do anything against bis desire unless you see danger before him. Do not ask another to do what you would not be glad to do under similar circum stances. Never omit to perform a kind act when it can be done with any r asoaable amount of exertion. Do not make witticisms at the expense of others which you would not wish to have made upon yourselves. Remember that good manners are thoughts filled with kindness and refinement and then translated into behavior. Be not ostentatious in dress or deportment; nothing can be more vulgar. See that cos tumes tit the time and occasion. % » 1