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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1887)
JE TELEPHONE. THE TELEPHONE. DI^rOCRATlC PUHLIHHKD ERY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: ¡or North of cor er Third end E Sts, M c M innville , ok . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IN ADVANCE.! 92 00 Mir....... hi ths ■ ■■ in on ths 1 00 50 WEST SIDE TELEPHONE VOL. II. MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, DECEMBER 9, 1887 STOVES! S. A. MANNING CABBIES TTTZE FUSTIEST LUST IE OF "OVES county, the new acorn . ?se stoves, without doubt, are the best re manufactured. One of these stoves will given to the new cash subscriber to the LEPHONE who guesses nearest its w eight. E nA Stove eriven away. lUlUU COME AND SUBSCRIBE $1,50 A YEAR. NSORIAL PARLOR, WM. HOLL, Proprietor of the ng, Hair Cntting and----- ----- ShanijMiing Parlors. ( C. H. FLEMING, Prop. The leading kinds of fanry hair cutting done in lest and neatest style finds of fancy liair dressing and lialr a specialty Special attention given Ladies’ and Childrens’ Work B<> have for sale a very fine assort- tf hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc I have in connection with my parlor, |he largest and finest stock of [ cigars Ever in the city. [ rd S treet M c M inn ville , O regon JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, —OE- YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street. McMinnville Or. W. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. Ip Stairs in Adams’ Building, McMinnville, Oregon Blacksmith Shop! PERSONAL AMITY, OREGON. LIKENS, Proprietor. pithing and carriage every description. ironing of Horse Shoeing ¡And plow work a specialty. —o---- Also manufacture the lebrated Oregon Iron Harrow, GIVE ME A CALL. 50tf M c M innville M mí Sale Stahles, 'bird and D streets, McMinnville ' m Proprietors. Y STABLES, Ird Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. irson Bros. Props, lass accommodations for Ccmmer- and general travel. snt stock well cared for. ing new and in First-Class Order inge respectfully solicited ltf “WHEN” want any thing in the line of Printing JI at the office of the WEST SIDE TELEPHONE We will guarantee you WORK, LOWEST PRICES. 7c make a specialty ol Fine and Card Printing. 1. II. P. Stuart, THE LEADER IN---- ILLINERY, ir weaving and Stamping. Grange Store McMinnville. Or. AND IMPERSONAL. —The violinist. August Wilhelmj, has rented his much-admired villa on the Rhine for a number of years, and will take up hii permanent residence in Berlin. —Dr. Jessup, of the British Medical Association, says that the wearing of high-heeled shoes so alters the center of gravity as to cause a return to the habit of “tailless apes, who walk on their toes.” —Dr. Alfred, of Ocala, Fla., has a copy of the Baltimore Advertiser and Journal dated August 23, 1773. In it is a graphic land advertisement by George Washington, offering twenty thousand acres of the finest and rich- sst land in the world and situated in the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. —Recent measurements of their cof fins show that the average ancient Roman could not have been more than five feet five inches tall. The mummy of Cleopatra measures four feet six inches. Within the last five hundred years the height of the English aristoc racy has considerably increased. —Chauncey M. Depew recently re ceived a couple of handsome blue China vases from the French Government in recognition of his connection with the Bartholdi statue celebration, and as a graceful complimont for his services as orator on that occasion. They are ex quisite specimens of workmanship. —“One of the drollest of recent things,” writes a London correspond ent, “is a statement by G. F. Watts that many years ago he lent one of his paintings seven feet high with two life size figures of young Saxons doing sentry duty on a cliff, and not only had it not been returned, but he is un able to remember whom he lent it to.” —While Mrs. Shepherd, daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, was in San Francisco she dined at a fancy Chinese restaurant Birds’ nest soup, sharks’ fins and emperor's tea were some of the high-priced dainties which were especially relished. She bought all the tea of that brand the restauranteur had, the price being seven dollars a pound. —The famous English “bone-setter,” Mr. Hutton, who died recently, had no learning. Ho neither "walked the hospitals” nor ever learned the names of all the crevices in the human skele ton. If he had had all the bones of the human body thrown down before him he would have been at great pains to arrange them in order. Yet trained men sent patients with dislocations to him. —C. N. Fain, of Carrollton, Ga.. has in his possession the inaugural address delivered by ex-President Polk. Novem ber 14, 1839, after his election to the gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. The address is handsomely printed on a piece of white silk, eighteen by eight een inches, and was presented to Captain Fain’s grandfather, and will no doubt pass through the hands of many generations to conic, as it is a relic worth preserving. The address is considered as one of the ablest ever delivered by the distinguished ex-Presi- denL ••A LITTLE NONSENSE." —In the front parlor—Midnight—He (weight 300, sentimentally) — "What S, A. YOUNG, M. 0. will you call me. darling, when we are . . .... married?” She (absently looking bysician & surgeon, the clock)—“I don't know. Fatty, 1 RILLE, ... O b EGON. suppose."— Town Topics. —Supplying Nature's Defects.— • and residence on D street. All tmptly answered day or night. y le AVri^ht A slender Lieutenant from Skye, Was m thin a. a capital I, He »aid. ‘If. too bad. But then. I can pad." Which »how. that figures do lie. -Life- Dealer in —Englishman—“Great many Ameri cans in London this yeah.” Yankee— less. Saddles. Etc. Etc. “Yes. indeed." Englishman—“Vewy few left at home, I suppose?” Yankee ing neatly done at reasonable —“Only two families left in New York.” Englishman — “Fauncy.” — I’s new building. Corner Third Jd/e. eets, McMinnville. Or. | WOMAN AND HOME. MORE MONEY IN CANDY MAKING THAN IN MANUSCRIPT. Hint« for the Hounehold—Aii Undesirable Habit—Care of Lamp«****Woman's Friend ship—Her Specialty— Good Breeding. Bostonian Dessert»*—Stray Items. “The one or two literary friends I had ad vised me to write a novel, and give up all other duties to do it. I had not sufficient faith in myself for that, but wus persuaded by an experienced friend to write a serial story of a melodramatic character, merely as a pot boiler, for to make money bad become a stern necessity. As the story had to l>e full of moral purpose, and would do good rather than harm, I swallowed my instincts and be gan it without the smallest belief in my own powers for writing sensational work. Never theless, I was determined to finish it; if not good of its kind, at least 1 had not neglected to make the effort. “Just as it was finished there was a great stagnation in the periodical trade, and I re ceived the manuscript back, saying that it bad not been read because, in consequence of ‘.he dull times, no manuscripts were being purchased. I then gave up the idea of sensa tional literature and returned to Plainfield, N. J., where I had formerly resided. The friend w’ith whom I stayed, like myself, was short of ready money. In considering the means of making it, she suggested if I could make certain articles she bad eaten at my bouse during tho days I was studying Gouffe, ¿he could find a ready sale among her friends, □f whom she had a very large circle. “We devoted $1 worth of material to the experiment.. Our though s turned only to candy and candied fruits. Gouffe gave one form of candy, which I bad tried in former days, because I could not realize that sugar and water, boiled, could ever be rolled out like dough. I satisfied myself that it was so and went no further into the matter and thought no more of it until reminded of it by my friend. I experimented and succeeded in making little squares, or tablets of cream candy, which seemed quite wonderful nt the limo. After many experiments and failures I succeeded in candying some fruit. “These were sent out as samples by my friend, and during the interval I went on ex perimenting and succeeded in making candies that made me ashamed of the sample. It was luggested, also, that English plum puddings, for tho making of which I had some reputa- non, on account of their keeping qualities, would lie very likely to sell. My hostess at tended to the sale, took the improved samples jf candies to New York, and found her friends ielighted with them. The Woman’s ex change also took them. She returned homo with ordere for Thanksgiving, to be all filled within a week, which, considering that I was >nly in tho experimental stage, that we had not a convenience and were on the top of a hill three miles from town, knew nothing of waxed paper or almond paste, or anything of the kind, was simply appalling, for the orders were for many pounns of candies and many )thers for Christmas puddings and cakes. Wo knew not one must lie refused. We had io servant and could get none, but did got a woman at odd times during the week to wash up. Myself and friend worked far into the (light from very early morning. For hours I itood boiling sugar, pot after pot, while as it cooled sho worked it, then during any interval we washed currants, stoned a few raisins or Blanched almonds, in short, working inces santly, not stopping even for meals. “Every order was filled, and before we had time to look around, orders began coming in again, and then they came not only for arti cles we professed to make, but for many Bthers. One lady wanted macaroons, if she could have them. I had made macaroons years before, and as it becamo our business to refuse no order whatever, the macaroons were experimented with, until such as would compare with the liest wore produced. Many of these were sold at the Woman’s exchange, is was our candy also. But before Christ mas, private orders camo so thick that noth ing could be sent to the exchange. For Christmas and New Years, over sixty pounds of French candy, one hundred and odd plum puddings, besides sponge cake, macaroons, pound cake and jumbles, were ordered, and ivery order filled; we worked for weeks, be fore and after Christmas, eighteen hours a lay, for the demand continued all through the holiday season. And we candied our own orange and lemon ¡»eel, and had none of the lids to labor we might have procured had we Anticipated such success. “During Lent, when there was a lull, I went !or a few weeks to New York, and rend and <nade notes on everything I could find on confectionery in the Astor library. There were few modern books of much service, and ibón, for the first time, I found my acquire ment of Italian and French stand me in good itead, for I was able to glean some valuable Ideas from old Italian and French confection ers. During this interval I was asked, by the owner of one of Sardou’s plays, to trans late it tor her, as she wax not satisfied with ;he translation she had. I agreed to do it in the summer, and went back to my friend to experiment on the contents of my note book. “A few weeks later I took a cottage much aearer the depot, with the intention of carry ing on the business of making plum pudding, cakes, etc., the next winter. But, mean while, I translated the play and turned some lotes that I had ready for a lecture, which I íound I Ivtfl not the courage to deliver, into •ome articles, afterward printed in Scribner’s Monthly. I then wrote ‘Cultpre and Cook ing,’ and sent my sensational story again on its travels, as times had become more pros perous. This time it did not come l>ack, but with the acceptance and a liberal check came in offer of steady work on a weekly journal, provided I agreed to write only for that one periodical. This agreement was made, with rhe privilege of writing for Cassell’s Maga zine, in London, to which I had been some time a contributor, and the engagement jus tified me in giving up for the time being the business of candy and pudding making en tirely to my former hostess and friend, who, by her energy and business ability, had helped io largely to make it a success."—Catherine Owen in Good Housekeeping. An Undesirable Habit. A habit very common with a nu ml »er of our thoughtless young ladi* s, who do a great many things quietly whP h they would not like to have known of at home—a habit de serving of the strongest condemnation—is that of promiscuous correspondence with gen tlemen, whether the gentlemen be married or single. The young todies who find pleasure in this habit use their pens on any pretext that turns up, and sometimes on no pretext at all. We are not really «ure that this <!<*• not come less under the bead of an undesira ble habit than a sin, for there is an Indelicacy about it quite amounting to immodesty, of which no girl who respects herself or who de tires the re«|*ct of other« will t«e guilty. Three young letter writers, however, gen erally g*t a fit reward for their thoughtless ness or their culpability in the end. For if their correspondent to a man of systematic habits, their letters are> and tick of a laugh eted, and his clarite Qvsr U mmu as they b» W **• systematic nifm, then those letters are at the mercy of any and every one who chooses to waste time in reading them. And if their corresi»oudeiit is a married man, then his possession of their letters, even of the most trivia) kind, places the writers at a disad vantage. Sooner or later, too, in that case, tho letters fall into the bands of his wifo; his wife, who, long after the briof correspond ence has been done with, usually remains mistress of the situation, reads the folly or the wickedness with clear eyes, and holds the writer not only in contempt, but in her power. No young girl cun be sure that her correspondent is not merely amusing himself with her; and it is often the case that her let ters are unwelcome and a nuisance, and he does not check them and does reply to them, not from interest in her, but mere manly chivalry. And when the writer lias recovered from her folly, or forgotten about her idleness, there is the letter, in all probability still ex tant, in the possession of somebody, she knows not whom, ready to rise like an awful l»e- traying ghost after she herself has possibly undergone a change that will make her face burn, branded with shame, should the letter ever chance to confront her, or perhaps even the memory of it Her motive may hav< been all innocence at the time, but it is left forever under doubt; and, in fact, exdept in the baldest business affair, there can be no excuse, and therefore no innocence, in the matter of a young girl’s writing letters to any man not her personal relative or guardian, for about most of these letters there is an un- maidenliness almost amounting to indecency, and in the end her correspondent himsen never thinks other than lightly of her on ao count of them.—Harper’s Bazar. Hints for the Household. Salt and water cleaiuwillow furniture. For scraping kettles u large clam shell is excellent. To save table scrubbing have your dish table covered with zinc. Clean stoves when cold with any stove pol ish mixed with alum water. The foot of a coarse cotton stocking is su perior to a sponge for bathing purposes. Fry some apples occasionally. Fried upples will remove the edge from many a bard meal. New tins should be set over the fire with boiling water in them for several hours be fore food is put into them. Lemon juice and sugar, mixed vary thloY, is useful to relieve coughs and sore throatt. It must be very acid as well as sweet. Spots may be taken from gilding by im mersing the article in a solution of alum in pure soft water. Dry with sawdust. A little borax added to the water in which scarlet napkins and red bordered towels are washed will prevent them from fading. Plaster busts may be cleaned by dipping them into thick liquid cold starch—clear starch mixed with cold water—and brushing them when dry. The latest wrinkle for luncheons in New York is to serve the soup in cups instead of plates, and the china stores are selling two handled cuj>s for the purpose. Piaster of paris mixed with water about like paste is good for closing cracks in stove ovens, firebricks, old coal scuttles, water pots and a great many other things. When the nose threatens to bleed exce sive- ly, it can sometimes be arrested by putting the feet into hot water, or by applying a mustard plaster between the shoulders. For making hair oil that is not injurious to the hair: Castor oil, X pint; 95 per cent, al cohol, % pint; tincture cantharides, ¿¿ounce; oil of bergamot, 2 drachms. Color the mix ture a pale pink with alkanet root. The bottom of an old keg or butter firkin makes a good mat to set your kettle on. Have one or two hanging near the dish table. Make a hole and put a siring through to hang It by. Finger marks may be removed from var nished furniture by the use of a little sweet oil u|x)ii a soft rag. Patient rubbing with chloroform will remove paint from black silk or any other material. Steel knives which are not in general use may be kept from rusting if they are dip{>ed in a strong solution of soda, one part water to four of soda; then wipe dry, roll in fViuuel and keep in a dry place. Tea stains are very difficult to get out if neglected. They should be soaked in either milk or warm water as soon os oossible, an* then soaped and rubbed out. The next wash ing will efface them wholly. One of the most common causes of stomach ami bowel troubles in children is the common custom of feeding very young children pota toes, rice and bread before their digestive ap paratus is capable of digesting these starchy ingreilients. To take creases out of drawing paper <x engravings lay the paper or engraving face downward on a sheet of smooth, unsized white paper, cover it with another sheet of the same very «lightly damp and iron with a moderately warm flatiron. wood; biA the son of a long line of car}*-li ters, whose male ancestors on his mother’s side were also carpenters, would be sure to This ease never occurs. Muse«lino specialties are numerous. Their specialties are not one, but many. Now, if it happens that one of those ancestors had a specialty particularly adapted to transmission, which had become a part of his nature before his children were born, bis posterity may have inherited his special aptitude regardless of the occupations of their immediate male parents. But, of course, it would all the time be diluted by its mixture with aptitudes inherited through other strains. In the case of woman, every circumstance conspires to make the special aptitude in tensely hereditary. It is acquired before the birth of children, hence it is always trans mitted. It has been transmitted, undiluted, from the female side through countless gen erations. In a certain sense woman inherits masculine aptitudes from her male ancestors, but ulmost her only use of them is to trans mit them to her sons.—Henry J. Philpott in Popular Science Monthly. Light« of the Home. If you burn your lamps all night cleanse them daily; otherwise every other day will be sufficient. Sweeping days remove the lamps from the room, and do not return until tho dust set tles. Be sure to handle the chimney by the bot tom; it is always cool there and the finger marks will not disfigure. In fly timo make some neat paper caps for tho chimneys. Keep your burners bright. If boiling thorn once in six months in sal soda will notj|o it cast them aside and buy new ones. *lwow away defective ones as quickly as a piece of dynamite. Remember that wicks often become can died, work badly and emit an offensive odor. To remedy this wash th *in once in six or eight months in suds, rinse and dry. Sow to tho wick a strip of red or blue flan nel just its width and length; it looks pretty and enables you to use all of the wick when quite short. In purchasing lamps be sure they are well put together if of different materials. Those with transparent reservoirs are more agreea ble and easier to fill. Learn how to blow out a light and teach your children, thus avoiding danger, a disa greeable odor and a smoky chimney. Turn the light down quite low, when a slight breath from the top of the chimney puts it out. then turn up the wick a tritìo, leaving it ready to light.—Estelle Mendell in Good Housekeeping. Essence of Good Breeding. W hen you enter a room and are presented to the hostess, her reception of you proves k>r good breeding or her bad. Tho way in ehich her children meet you—the way in which at any age beyond the merest baby hood they speak and hold themselves—is as eloquent of their gentle training or ungentle as is a correct accent or a provincial. No idiosyncrasy mars tho real essence of good breeding, and all excuses made for lapses and lesions are futile. A well bred person may be as shy as a hawk, and her limbs may be as awkwardly bung together as so many crooked sticks badly pinned. All the name her good breeding will be evident, and nei ther her shyness nor her awkwardness will tell against it Though it costs her the well known agonies to sustain a connected conver sation, and though by the very fact of her shyness her brain will run dry, she will sus tain it with the most consummate politeness if not always with the most flawless fluency. She will put a restraint on herself and talk her l>est, bad as that best may be, because she is versed in the art and mystery of good breeding and thinks of othere rather than herself. < • But an ill bred person, if shy, is simply boorish, and takes no trouble to conquer the dumb demon within him. but gives way to it and lota it conquer him at pleasure. You feel that the excuse made for him or her by those who want to smooth over asperities with varnish—that excuse of being so “dread fully shy” is no excuse at all. For you know by experience how sweet and anxious to be supple and at ease—for all the |>ain it costs her—can be that well bred bundle of nerves and fears, who is as timid as a hare and as sensitive as a mimosa, but also who Is thoughtful for others as the boor is disre garding.—Home Journal. Favorite Bostonian Desserts. The Bostonians are fond of odd novelties of the table. A favorite dessert of theirs is to hollow out a block of ice and place within cubes of muskmelon. It is cut up in the morning, placed in the ice, covered with a block of ice and served at 6 o’clock dinner. Over this frozen melon is sprinkled sherry and powdered sugar. Brown bread ice cream Is a favorite Boston dish. The brown bread is permitted to become stale; it is then grated into the usual ingredients for ice cream and is delicious. Huckleberry ice cream is also appetizing and looks pretty. It makes an ice cream almost as black, and is a novelty. Huckleberry griddle cakes for breakfast and fried sliced bananas are favorite dishes with the wealthy Bostonians, as ure also stewed Woman’« friendship for Woman. In spite of wliat satirists and sciolists may red currants. Almost all fresh fruits are have to say on the matter, so f ir as our vv-n cooked as breakfast dishes, and stewed cu view has extended we have always seen on? cumbers never prove injurious, while they woman ready to be the friend of another are an attractive dish. There is also at hand when she has once been plainly given to un to sip all day an ice pitcher filled with cream derstand that her friendship is required and of tartar water sweetened. This not only will be of service, and we should advise no cools the blood, but is a wonderful nervine, young girl, no young wife, nor woman of as the French know, who invariably sip maturer years, to seek «»id and friendship, on sweetened water.—Boston Cor. Washington any occasion when she finds real need of those Post. commodities, from the other sex if there is a Lady Graduate«. good and gentle woman within her reach. Tho ladies have done well nt Cambridge The mother that is in every woman, that is with her from the day l>efore her first doll and Dublin. At the English university eleven same, and will be with her after her last of the sujieiior sex have succeeded in taking grandbaby has done with dolls, rises at ap mathematical honors, while in Ireland the peal, brings her emotions into play’, and all degree of bachelor of arts has been conferred her resources with them, enlists all her ener on nine women, of whom four took honors. gies, and makes htr ready to use every effort One lady was rap|*ed master of arts, and an for the other woman, whether in sore distress other lady, who obtained the first place in the honors list in modern literature, was or just in teasing trouble. If she feels that vice must not be smiled awarded a valuable scholarship. He verity on, that malice must be checked, that paths eight women presented themselves for the which lead to death must be made hard to matriculation examination, and of these tread, shall she be kinder than or superior t< seventy one passed, twenty seven obtaining that nature which, in visiting the sins of tbs honors.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. fathers upon the children as a law of heredity, The Baby's Album. does the same thing? Yet where this mother of pity is not to l>e found in a woman or An acrompltslied amateur photographer righteous call, and she neither feels nor re has a set of rough Manila albums, each one spends to the cry of trouble in another, the* devoted to one of his children. Tho first page that fierson may tie a woman fair enough ia shows the baby a day old, and not a month outward seeming, but in her heart she to no 'tasses without a picture of that child or some woman at all.—Harper’s B-izar. of its surroundings—the nursery, the house, its Itooks and playthings. On »me I »ago« are family groups in which the child figures. Woman's Specialty. We often speak of the various differences, Beneath each picture is written the date, and the album will constitute a curious record for mental and otherwise, between man and • woman. Among them all there is none more tiie future.—Harper’« Basar. striking than this, that man's work has l»een Neglect of Women's Interests. highly specialised, while woman's has not. True, several specialties have been evolved The neglect of women’s interests by work out of her original specialty—as weaving, men and their organizations is clearly a nito- «pinning, baking, etc. But these new special take, even if looked at from the most uncom ties have mostly Ijeen given to men, not promisingly selfish point of view, and the women. To all intents and purposes woro*e selfish instinct of the labor organizations has now, as always, one specialty—house should prompt them to aid an effort for the keeping. protection of women from underpay, al Hen«*e the intense heredity of It It is bred though those who make that effort are moved in tl»e bone. The carpenter’s son may fail to by iiiucli higher and more generous consider« «avak* • vacuj I* WU«B i* aUuns. —New Yoik Commercial Adverttoer. NO. 33, One square or less, one insertion............... «1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... aO Noticesof uppoinlnientaiiU final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements, 75 cents for first insertion and W cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business columns, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 5 cents |»er line. Professional cards, |12 per yoar. Special rates for largo display “ads." THE LIMEKILN CLUB. VICTORIA'S NEW COINAGE. Brer Gardner's Able Address ou Women's Extravagance. Why It Will Be the Most Permament Record of Her Jubilee, It was two minutes after the triangle souuded before the smoko in Paradise h 11 would permit tho members to see each other. When it hod at last thinned out Brother Gardner said: “Nicodemus Pembroke Scott, a local mem ber of dis lodge, has crossed into Canady an* will not reappear among us. Fur de las’ three months I have bin expectin’ some sich climax, an’ dis mawnin’, when a messenger informed mo dat he bad disappearod arter failin’ in an attempt to shoot hisself wid an ole boss pistol, I war not a bit surprised. He leaves a wife an’ two ehill’en an’ about fifty creditors. “What sent him off? De same reasousdat am daily workin’ to bring about anodder panic—do same reasons dat explain de hun dreds ob bizness failures—do same reasons dat am cripplin’ de efforts of thousands of hard workin’ men to secure homes of deir own— family extravagance. No, you can’t call It extravagance; foolery am a better name for it. Up to a y’ar ago Brudder Scott was job bin* aroun’ and makin’ $1 a day. Den he got a situ&’hun by which he aimed $14 per week. He was poo’ off in de house an’ had debts hangin* ober him, but heah was a chance to get eben. How was it improved? In loa dan one month his wife was rigged out wid a $20 dress, twelve shillin’ kids, a $5 bat and an opera fan. Ho had no peace ob min’ on- less ho obeyed her. In six weeks sho became too high toned to wash an’ iron fur oder folkses. In two months she wanted a better bouse, wid a red parlor carpet an’ cano seat cha’rs all aroun’ de room. In three months she had to have a black silk dress, gold brace lets, a tony bunnet, kid shoes an’ gold fillin’ in her teef. “Dat foolery has reaped its harvest. De busband found dat he was runuln* behind, his home was bein’ neglected, his wife was beln gossiped about, an’ in despair be has p eked up his feet an’ slid out. It was de natural result I tell you, my frens, de tomfoolery of de women of dis kentry am strainin’ on do chalk line till t’e cord can’t stan* much mo’, an’ it am high time dat somebody sots his foot down. De man who airns $25 per week has somehow got de ideah into his bead dat de world expects him to dress his wife as if he aimed a banker’s profits. Wives of men who can’t keep up wid deir house rent am canterin’ up an’ down wid sealskin sacques an’ $6 shoes. Wives of men who have to dodge de butcher an’ grocer an’ tailor am now selectin’ fall carpets an’ orderin’ $30 lambrequins. Wives of men who couldn’t raise $50 at de bank to save der necks am rushin’ to bails an’ parties an’ havin’ deir expensive dresses described fur de benefit of de public. “De so called society of de aige am com posed of false hair, false pretenses, debt dodg ing an’ base decepshun. Our rich people am distinguished by deir plain dress an’ quiet manners. De snides an’ dudes an’ dodos do all de swaggerin’, rush on all de colors an’ monopolize de biggest sheer of de street. You wait I De man who lives fur anoder ten y’ar« will h’ar sunthin’ drap, an’ arter de drap takes place do thousands of idiots who now feel ashamed to admit dat dey doan keep but two servant gals in de house will go »ack to deir cook stoves an’ wash tubs an’ rake deir proper places in de purceshun.”— Detroit Free Press. Australian “Helps." The effigy of Quoen Victoria found on all the coins struck during her Majesty’s reign represents her as she appeared when fifty years younger than at present Advantage has been taken of the present jubilee year to is sue an entirely new coinage, with an effigy of the Queen as the people uow know her. The Queen appears wear ing the star and riband of tho orders of the Garter and the Victoria and Al bert. The words “ Victoria Dei Gra tia Britanniaruni Regina, Fidoi Defen sor,” appear on all the new coins, ar ranged so as to suit the size aad re quirements of each ono. In the now effigy her Majesty appears crowned, with a vail depending from the back of the head. The new figure is a life-like portait, and the whole coin age must be regarded as very satisfac tory from a numismatic standpoint. Tho reverses of tho new coins vary greatly. Some, as the sovereign and crown pieoe, continue to bear the very noblo figure of St. George and the Dragon, as originally designed by Pis- truccL This design it is interesting to trace from the date of Henry VIII., when it appeared in a very Gothio form, to its present classic rendering, due to Pistrucci. The reverso of th« modern English shillings and smaller coins usually bears words or figures lignifying the value of the coin. These arc surrounded by a wreath and surmounted by a crown. In the new coinago this design is replaced by the royal arms. The new half-crown bears the original reverse, which has been retained as being one of considerable merit. It consists of the royal arms, with the elegant arched crown surrounded by the gar ter, which is again inclosed in the deli cate network of the collar of the or der. Tho florin and the double florin, new coins, bear on the reverse an ex ceedingly effective design, composed of four crowned shields bearing the arms of the United Kingdom arranged in a manner somewhat similar to those on tho present florin. The shields are separated from each other by four scepters radiating from ths ■tar of tho Order of the Garter, which occupies the center of the coins. Th« device has been traced back to th« time of the Saxon Kings, and its beauty attracted the notice of Thomas Simon, who modified it for the coin- age of Charles 11. The issue of an entirely new gold and silver coinage by a monarch after a reign of fifty years is believed to be unexampled. Medals have been struck under similar conditions, but new No coinage has not been issued more permanent record of her Majesty’s jubilee than this now coin age can be conceived. As we hav« vivid representations of Alexander the Great and of the long line of the Roman Emperors on their coins, which are common at tho present time, long after the majority of their edifices and other works have passed away, so future generations may trace the prog ress of the reign of Queen Victoria in the two distinct issues of the imperial coinage. — Chieago Tribun».. (Alleged ads in Victoria paper.; Wanted—An amiablo and high toned family consisting of a delicate and shrinking elderly widow who is a small eater any w.*<y and has her meals sent in from a restaurant, can secure a comfortable home with a supe rior cook. No notice taken of families who give dinners or who fail to take nicked china in a trüb’ Christian spirit. Address “Earnest Worker,” forwarding credentials authenticar ted by a clergyman. Wanted—An industrious and hard working family who do their own cooking, washing, ironing, ashes sifting, dressmaking, mending, dusting, sweeping, nursing, whitewashing, housecleaning, carpet beating, fancy work, ■«»WJ chamberwork, preserving, knitting, painting — Miss Catherine'L. Wolfe left fl,» in oils, scrubbing, wax fruit and care of the cow, and who have an agile hired man to make 000,000 towards a 16,000,000 cathedral fires, fill lamps, snuff candles, exercise the in New York, to be called the Cath»* pugs, clean the silver, run for the doctor, di al of St. John the Divine. wind the clocks, tend door and shoo noctur —Fifty-one young men are anid to nal cats off the back fence, can hear of a good opening with a lady whose socialty is gen have applied for admission to Prince- ton Seminary next falL There are eral housework. Address “Overtasked." Wanted—A winning and modest appearing 1,359 boys in Girard College, th« male baby, 3 months old, of unexceptionable largest number ever reported.— Con- inoral character, would like to avail himself greqahonalist. of the advantages of a nurse. Baby’s name —Mrs. Hopkins has endowed a chair to mostly “Tooteey-Wooteey-Mamma’s Pet,” but it can be changed to “Bub,” if that seems of mental and moral philosophy at to come handier. Can refer to seventeen Mills College, California, in honor of nurses now in the lunatic asylum with whom Mark Hopkins, the venerable ex-Presi- he has lived during the past four weeks. Ad dent of Williams College. The endow dress “Little Angel.” | Wanted—A graceful and accomplished ment fund is «50,000. —It is stated that the money given family that moves in the best circles and has no poor relations that come to the bouse will by the women of the Presbyterian be ¡»ermitted to allay itself with a se'.ect Church in the United States during ths waitress; must furnish satisfactory pedigree. past sixteen years foots up to «2,150,- Apply in applicant’s own hand writ! <g. No notice taken of letters not stamped with a 000—representing the entire support “crest.” Families that did not come over of more than two hundred women with William the Conqueror will bo repulsed missionaries, two hundred native Bi with scorn. Address “Deportment” ble readers, and more than one hun- Wanted—A chambermaid who to about to dro<^^n<^ift^jc|iool^^i>>^^^*^' form matrimonial relations would like to procure a situation for a really deserving and well behaved family, which has lived with her for the last twelve years. This is a rare chance for a chambermaid in search of a family that keep« its p'aco and never gives impudence. Salient sketch of family and im- fierial group picture furnished on application. Vidress “Orange Blossoms.” — Cor. New York Tribune. Not So Easy—Sometimes. IT»» was rather sentimental, and so was she as they strolled along. Hhe knew she had him, but he did not know bow far be bad progressed with her. “Do you like sentiment?" he said. “Not too much of It,” said she. “How happy a fellow mast feel when he has the girl he loves in his arms, and holds her close to his breast, and presses his lips to hers, and"---- “And—an 1—it’s so easily done,” said she.— San Francisco Chronicle. Your Liver? asked the teacher of the class in history. “Playin’ the fl-Idle,” was the prompt re- iponse; and the teacher tot it go at that— Washington Critic. 1» the Oriental salutation, knowing that good health cannot exist without a healthy Liver. When the Liver is torpid the Bow els are sluggish and con stipated, tne food lies in the stomach undi gested, poisoning the blood; frequent headache ensues; a feeling of lassi tude, despondency and nervousness indicate how the whole system is de ranged. Simmons Liver Regulator has been the means of restoring more people to health and Happiness by giving them a healthy Liver than any agency known on earth. It a«ts with extraor dinary power anti efficacy. One of the lll«ing Ones. “My son,” inquire» I tl»e min inter, “can yoa repeat the Ten Command mente F “No, air, bot I ran light a cigarette In the wind the first triai."— Detroit Free Presa A« a general family remedy for Dyspepsia Torpid 14ver, OoMtlpatlon, etc.. I hardly ever u«e anything elwe, and have never been diaappointefl In the effect produced: It meema to he almoat a perfect cure for all diaraeee of the Htomarh and Rowela. . W. J. M c E lmqy , Mao^u, Ga« Regardlc«« of Co«t. “Young man, ’ be asked, “what Is your am bition in lifeF “To get rich, sir." replied the young man, lighting a fresh cigar. “Not a very high aim But while you are trying to get rich aren’t you spending a good deal of money F “Oh, I don’t mind the expense, sir. I’m willing to get rich regard lees of coat."—New York Hun. That 1«, If Ha Was Jost Learning. “What was Nero’s greatest act of crueltyF NtVKR «ICN DI«APeOINTtO. ■