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MEM INN VILLE, OREGON, JANUARY 6, 1888.
STOVES!
S. A. MANNING
STOVES
^ie county, the new acorn .
These stoves, without doubt, are the best
stove manufactured. One of these stoves will
be given to the new cash subscriber to the
T elephone who guesses nearest its weight.
Stove <riven away.
COME ANO SUBSCRIbc $1,50 A YEAR.
TONSORIAL PARLOR,
Slnving, Hair Cutting and- - - -
- - - - Shampoing Parlors.
WM. HOLL,
Proprietor of the
C. H. FLEMING, Prop.
All kind» of fancy hair cutting done in
the latest and neatest style
All kind» of fancy hair dressing and hair
dying, a specialty Special attention given
Ladies’ and Children»’ Work
I also have for sale a very fine assort­
ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc
I have in connection with my parlor,
• the largest and finest stock of
Ot
CIG t AIIS
Ever in the city.
|®-T hibd S trkst M c M innvillb , O kkoon
The leading
JEWELRY
ESTABLISHMENT.
—OF—
YAMHILL COUNTY,
Third Street. McMinnvil'e Or.
w. V. PRICE,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
lip Stairs in Adams’ Building,
McMinnville. Oregon
New Blacksmith Shop!
AMITY, OREGON.
PULVERIZED
COAL.
A Method of Heating That Assures a Grcai
Economy in Fuel.
Improved methods for obtaining
artificial heat aro alwaj-s a subject of
interest, and experiments in this direc­
Blacksmithing and carriage ironing of
tion are being made all tho time to get
every description.
heat at as low a co.4t as possible. The
manufacture of water gas has boon
Horse Shoeing
very successful, and, as it can be pro­
And plow work a specialty.
duced at a low price, without the
nuisance of ashes and smoke, it is
o---
growing in favor and efforts are being
Also manufacture the
made to run it into houses to be used
^R^Celebrated Oregon Iron Harrow, for heating as well as for lighting pur­
poses.
GIVE ME A CALL.
50tf
Another method of heating, which is
rapidly making its way, if the promo­
ters of it aro to bo believed, is the pul­
M c M innville
verized coal process. The cl aims made
for the method are many, and if one-half
of them are well founded, there can be
no doubt of its success. One of the
promoters said: “In this country thero
Cor Third and D streets, McMinnville
are about 20.000,000 tons of coal an­
nually wasted, being too fine for use.
Of the total coal mined, it is estimated
that one-eighth per cent, of waste is
made by blasting and handling; and
Proprietors.
that six and one-quarter per cent, is
wasted in the breaker.
Many at­
tempts have been made to utilize this
immense amount of wastage, and un­
til now nothing has been successful.
‘ Until now only a very small quan­
tity of this fine dust has been used.
The requisites for success are, first,
simple and efficient machinery to re­
duce the coal to dust at a very small
cost; second, reduction to an impal­
Third Street, between E and F
pable powder; third, an automatio
supply of coal dust and air, each capa­
McMinnville, Oregon.
ble of being regulated at will; fourth,
the reduction of tho coal and the sim­
ultaneous feeding of it with airintothe
fire-box by the same machine; fifth,
the intimate mixture of the fine parti­
First-class accommodations for Ccmmer- cles of coal dust with air, so that eacli
particle shall be surrounded by air as
cial men and general travel.
Transient stock well cared for.
it enters the fire-box, thus insuring
complete combustion.
Everything new and in First-Class Order
••These conditions have been com­
ltf pletely fulfilled by a new process. The
Patronage respectfully solicited
method of using the dust is as follows:
The coal, no matter what size it is, is
fed into a pulverizer, by which it is
ground to an impalpable powder. This
You want any thing in the line of
is done by means of the friction of tho
particles, one against the other. After
the coal is ground it passes through
the pulverizer, and on coming out it is
met by a current of air from a blower,
■which sends it through a nozzle into
Call at the office of the WEST
the combustion chamber underneath
BIDE TELEPHONE. We
will guarantee you
the toiler. This combustion chamber
BEST WORK, LOWEST PRICES. has to be specially constructed, and
will last about as long as the ordinary
one where coal is used. Tlie arch will
We make a specialty oi Fine
last a year, and the side walls two
The supply of coal dust
years.
and air is automatically regu-
lated. and complete combustion is
the reenlt No smoke escapes from the
chimney, and there is no loss of heat
in that way. We feel confident that
at least thirty-five percent, of fuel will
be saved by using the machines.
In Philadelphia, experiments hare
THE LEADER IN----
been made with this process in tlie
Harrison Safety B filer Works, and tho
engineer made the statement that
where 1.000 pounds of coal per day
were used under a small boiler, at a
cost of S3 per ton, 900 pounds of dust
were used at a cost of about $1 per tort.
Opposite Ôrange Store McMinnville. Or./ The machine for that boiler only c st.s
about fl65. and he thinks there is a
saving of at least 50 per cent Tlie
S, A. YOUNG, M. 0.
cost of repairs to the machine will not
exceed $10 per annum. One result of
Physician & surgeon.
using the refuse coal will be that tlie
McMiaiivtLLi,
-
OaziMW. price of ordinary coal will have to
Office and residence on D street. All come down.”— N. K
SAM LIKENS, Proprietor.
CITY STABLES,
Henderson Bros. Props.
Job Printing
Book and Card Printing.
Mrs. H. P. Stnart,
MILLINERY,
Hair weaving and Stamping.
LIFE OF THE TENEMENT HOUSE
BADY DURING THE HOT SEASON.
Kules for tlie Young Housewife—Womou
C^R-Edi-HlS THE FINEST LIT n TE OF
AH
ipOlJaUU
iu Literature—The Voice of Children—•
Marriage—Crime’s Beginnings— A Drink
for Baby—Odds und Euch.
But how fares it with the baby of tho tene-
nent!
Tho tenement baby, like its aristocratic
lonipeer, awakes early in the morning, too.
it is awako at dawn and then dozes off into
fretful sie* p again. It awakened at short in­
tervals during nil the first part of tho night
and roused its tired, impatient mother with
its peevish wailing. Its lips aro parched and
its thin hands hot; its eyelids but half closed.
It rolls its head now and then in a feeble way.
It seems consumed with heat, but when its
mother puts a spoonful of water between its
lips tho weakened stomach ref uses to take the
liquid.
Tho father, worn with his day’s toil, is
angered at tho suffering innocent disturbing
his sleep. Harshly, perhaps, ho chides bis
wifo for not bushing tho child. She gives to
it an empty breast from which it lunw with
renewed wailing. Then she tries another ex­
pedient. She hastily prepares somo lmlk and
water an l feeds the baby a fow spoonful*
She knows it is good milk. Did sho not buy
it herself of Ja N>b. who keeps four cows in a
rear shed, and sells the lacteal fluid they
supply so much cheaper than sho can get it
of a milkman! To bo sure tho poor kine
stand day after day, from week’s end to
week’s end, from ouo month to another, in
tho same stulls almost knee high in offal.
But she is certain it is good milk, real cow’s
milk, for did sho not see Jacob milk tho
cows!
So she gives it to her baby, trotting ic up
and down on her knees tho whilo. It is
teet’ ing, and the summer heat makes it ill.
Sho is so worn that scarcely can sho keep her
weary eyes open till sho has finished feeding
her offspring. Then she takes it back into
tho bed occupied by herself and tho father,
lie turns over as she lies down, and testily
rtkopcs the young ’un will keep still, now it’s
got? its stomach full.”
Scarcely hasthomother fallen asleep before
another cry arouses her. The milk and water
put down tho littlo one’s throat has been re­
jected by its stomach. Again she rises and
turns up tho wick of tho smoking kerosene
lamp. Sho dandles tho child up and down,
for sho knows net what to do to quiet it.
Its wailing disturbs other inmates of the
tenement. Ont of a window a neighbor
woman puts her hea l and ca h to her:
“Reach out ycur band,” she says; “I’ve
got a bit of medicine that will quiet the
baby.”
She gives her a bottlo and bids her admin­
ister a halt tcaspoouful. It i i a brown liquid,
and has a strange smell. Sho gives it to her
infant unhesitatingly. Thon it falls into a
heavy si en that lasts t il dawn. When it
awakes it frets, but it does not always fret.
It3 eyes ere heavy and have a glazed look.
“Th’ children’s eyes always do look bad
when they’re toetirin’,” savs an old dame who
comes i i to borrow a half cup of sugar.
Tho tönerner.t baby’s hands and face are
not sponged when it awakes. Its mother is
vci*y busy getting breakfast. Instead of fresh
breo«C3tho odor of sizzling salt pork comes
to tlxo nostrils of tho sick ir.faut. Tho father,
or an older child, feod3 it crackers and water
“to keep it quiet” until tho morning meal is
on tho table. Tho mother sits down with it
in her lap. It gets now and then a “bite of
potato” or a “sip of coffoo,” for it is a hand
fed baby.
Tho flies buzz around it, covering its soiled
robo end lighting on its feverish mouth.
Somotimo during tho day its mother will
wash the hand fed, tenement baby end
change its clothing if she has tho garments.
Sho will tell her neighbors that sho cannot
keep it clean, for “its victuals will not stay
down.”
Thu3 tho tenement baby frets and frets
through tho summer day* If by chance a:,
unusual allowanco of constitution carries it
through, it is with diseased digestive organs
which may effect its life.
Tho tenement house, hand fod baby ma;
be a worthless drunkard or a criminal, bo
cause during tho first threo years it lived i
was halt starved fqr food and fresh air.
Tho tenement house, hand fed baby ma’
bo a corpse before half tho summer is run,
becauso it was quite starved for proper foot:
and tho blessing of licaven, which should be
free and easy to get—fresh air.—Chicago
New*
Missouri I-adle» as Notaries.
They mado a great deal of noiso in Nev
York about tho appointment of a lady com
missioner, as if such a tiring was a novelty
In this slate wo havo half a dozen notaries
There h nothing in tho statutes or nt com
mon law to prevent a woman from servin;
in such capacity, and I am glad Governo:
Marmaduko mado tho innovation. Governor
Crittenden would not appoint ladies os nota­
ries. I tried to get him to appoint a you?
lady, and whilo he admitted that her indorse
meat was strong enough, ho feared to mak*
an innovation. His successor, more gallant,
has had no hesitancy in giving them notarial
powers. There is no reason why a woman
should not be a notary, and there are some
cases of delicacy where a great deal of
trouble would bo avoided, and people would
feel more comfortable if a woman could take
an acknowledgment. Women keep secrets
just as well ns men when there is a matter of
importance involved.
A notary also has many responsibilities of
which his clients are not all aware, and hence
people of morality should bo appointed. For
instance, hero is a case that has just occurred
where I could havo mado $10 by taking ad­
vantage of a woman’s ignorance of tho law.
She sent for mo to write her will, and after
writing her various legacies I found out that
sho hod only a dower interest in an estate,
and was trying to bequeath that. I quickly
informed her of her error. A man with an
eye to $10 only might have allowed her to
coutinuo in blissful ignorance of her mistake,
arguing that the will would work no harm.—
Fraucis Valle in Globe-Democrat.
Tlie Voice of Children.
Much can be done by mothers and teachers
to cultivate the voice of children. Instead of
the nasal shrieks used by so many children
encourage them to use pure, round, smooth
tones. T<a< h them to open the mouth and
not to nra:. ! • nt»<l not to speak through the
of tho unpleasant habit of
nose. Li.
muirb’.ir.s mes fiom ill humor, as well os
lazness er < di use of the muscles of the mouth
an«l jaw Cheerfulness is a good lubricator,
ity of cultivating a spirit of cheer-
andtbedul.
»alls promptly answered day or night.
fnlness and the desire to plea>e should be im­
—Not soil »lone nor sun alone posed upon chi.drtn by percept and habit.
gives strength and majesty to the
The disagreeable nasal toon may be
aiurdy oak. but also its cx;>osure to avoided with due care. 8*-e that children
the changes of the seasons and its bat­ have a sufficient supply of handkerchief« and
upon their use. 1 here is physiological
tles with the storms and winds. So insist
Dealer in
reason for tbi* If the real passages are not
it ia through hardships and well borne fived it will eventually I ad to catarrh and
trials cheerily met that man attains disease of the throat, an*I so the na<al habit
Harness. Saddles. Etc. Etc. to
the power and dignity of hn full will be confirmel. Tench tlx children to
keep the mouth closed except when «peaking,
Repairing neatly done al reasonable nature and the stability of his true an*I
then to let the voice come clear and pure
manhood. — Farmer ami Manufacturer.
vu ef the mouth, and
through the uosa,
Third
Wright’s new building. Corner
Co
•nd F streets. McMinnviue. Or.
Lyle ‘Wright
instead of reversing the process—brea'-’ilng
through the mouth and talking through the
uose.
The rude boisterous singing (?) indulged in
at many of our public schools cannot fail to
bo injurious to youthful voice* A word to
mothers, teachers and nurse* Keep your
own voice down, avoid shrill, high tones.
Poor old Lear in his deep distress at the death
of Cordelia, could say nothing more ¡»athetic
than “Iler voice was ever soft, gentle and
low—ail excellent thing in woman.”—Mary
Edwards iu Atlanta Constitution.
WOMAN AND HOME.
We All Break Down There.
I
I
He was about to ilie for a cold blooded
murder. Standing beneath tlio gallows lie
made a short talk. Ho spoko of liis impend­
ing death with slight emotion. Then of “bis
people” with some signs of tears. Then of
bis wife with sobs and a trembling voice.
Then of “bis old mother”—and Ibero ho broke
down completely and gave way to uncontrol­
lable grief.
Ah, yes! It is right there that we all break
down. At the thought of “tho old mother,”
with her graying hairs, her kindly face, across,
which time and sorrow are cutting their fur­
rows, and her faith and affection that never
raven or doubts. It is to “the old mother”
that man’s heart turns at last when trouble
or affliction or remorse overtakes him.
Other loves may bo stronger mid the passion
of other loves may obscure this for a time.
Tho wifo clinging in absorbed happiness to
tbo arm, or little one clambering, fond auc
ti*usiful, about the knee, may efface all
thought ot “the old mother.” But when a
great crisis comes and the strong man is
bending beneath a burden too grievous to be
Ixirne the vision conies to him of one, idealized
in his heart at least, who never doubted, who
never wearied, but who loved all the time
with a love that passetli understanding. The
wifo, wondering at this at first, accepts it at
last, quietly acquiescing, but happy in her
mother’s heart to know Jiat from her own
children in the days to corse this same mira­
cle shall be rendered unto her.—Atlanta Con­
stitution.
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procurable, sweet smelling spices on a table
or in the dining room awaken a sense of
pleasure more agreeable than the pleasure
»wakened by the odors of foods, and through
this sense one may learn subtle decorations of
the table which, making little appeal to the
eyo, y®t set a train of relining thought.—Muy
Wright Bewail in Dress.
Rule» for tlie Young liousewife.
General order of working for every day of
summer: Before leaving your room throw
open windows, top and bottom; lay pillows
ill the sun, bed clothes to air, and turn back
> mattress. As soon as you come down stairs
open blinds uial windows. Light kitchen lire;
take up ashes; sift them. Brush off the stove;
rinse and fill the kettle. Sweep the kitchen,
the stoop or piazzas, beating all mats
thoroughly. Remove stale flowers f roni parlor
and dining room, and dust. Prepare tor
breakfast, putting biscuits or lnufllns to bake
whilo you lay the table. Close blinds on
sunny side. After breakfast clear the table
as soon as possible, putting milk and butter
away lit once, instead of allowing them to re­
main in the hot kitchen. Do not leave the
white tablecloth on a moment longer than
necessary, as it attracts Hies. For the same
reason remove the crumbs from tho floor.
This applies to every meal. Wash and put
away breakfast dishes. Darken the dining
room, pantry anil uil unused rooms. Make
beds, empty slop«, wash soap dishes, All water
pitchers, fold dry towels, take away soiled
ones—but, if damp, dry them before putting
into tho soiled clothes hani]>er, as everything
quickly mildews in hot weather. Darken
rooms after having put them in perfect order.
—Good Housekeeping.
The Beginnings of Crime.
I have made a study of crime for many
years, and have watched its development in
children who have grown up in my immediate
neighborhood. I have noticed that children
who are not properly watched over at home
commence by first stealing the marbles and
playthings of their companions; then they
learn how to go into unoccupied buildings
and yards, carrying off old iron and loose
articles, which they sell to junk dealer*
After this they get bold enough to*enter the
cellars of occupied buildings and get empty
bottles and other things of small value, and
it is not very long before they try climbing
irjo dwellings over the cellars Mud carrying
off anything they can lay their hands on. I
know several criminals, who are now serving
terms in the penitentiary, who commenced
stealing in just this way. They learn grad
ually, and Liecome more expert every day,
and at the same time grow more hardened as
they get older.—Sergt. Lang in Globe-Dem­
ocrat.
Attend of the Squire.
Ill a suburban town not ten miles from the
gil.lod domo the great question had been for
months, Shall wo have a public library? The
sewing circle favored the proposition. The
Young Men’s Literary association, which fre­
quently took tea with tbo sowing circle after
the latter lia l made the monthly shirt for the
heathen, cordially concurred. Tho tops of
the flour Larrels m all the groceries caved in
under the weight ot the debating viilago
statesmen dis u<s.ng the value and constitu­
tionality of public libraries. At last tlio day
oaino when tho partisans of the library and
the strict constructionists mot in forensic
combat on the floor oi tho town nail. The
arguments were gone over again, aud Squire
Spike dosed tho case for tho conservatives.
He lashed lnmself into a fine frenzy over the
intei ruption of the swee t and holy harmony
of homo which the introduction of library
books would occasion. Women would read
novels while the house went unswept; hus­
bands and wives would dispute over meta­
physics and tlio little domestic world would
bo turned uiiside down.
“Tlio husband would return,” said Squire
Spike, “and would find his dinner unprepared
or burned up and bis wife reading. What
kind ot a book would lie find in her band?'
“A cook book 1” yelled tbo village wag from
tho back seats.
Thenceforward it was vain for Squire Spike
to attempt to push back tbo tide of progress.
Tho library w as established, and Squire Spike
has been even known to take out u book now
aud then.—Boston Transcript “Listener."
Give the Baby a Drink.
Now that warm weather prevuils it should
bo remembered that infants require water to
drink as well as milk. It does not follow that
because milk is a liquid it is capable of satisfy­
ing thirst. On tho contrary, being warm as
it is drawn from the breast, it causes thirst
after it has remained in the stomach for some
time, the same as other food. It is this sense
of thirst which causes healthy, breast nour­
ished infants to often cry for long periods of
time after freely nursing. It is claimed that
there are many cases of indigestion due to in­
sufficiency of the child's gastric juice, which
would lie greatly benefited, or even cured, by
allowing the child occasionally a drink of de
cidedly cool water. And it is certain that
an enormous amount of suffering among in­
fants is caused by neglect or ignorance of this
simple rule. By “a drink” is not meant, of
course, a largo quantity—a teaspoonful or
two is sufficient.—Chicago News.
Women In Literature.
Things That Lighten Labor.
I remember bow great was tlie longing
among intelligent women, thirty or forty
years ago, to do a greater sliaro of the lit­
erary work of tho nation. A few ventured
forth timidly from the kitchen to do it, per­
haps bringing with them iu their hands a
now cookery book, like Mi's. Child and Mias
Leslie, to propitiate tho other sex and prove
that they had in a maimer worked their
passage into freedom. Now they still bring
the cookery book, like Marion Harland, who
bus indeed brought 150,000 copies of here;
but it is no longer needed as an apology.
Mrs. Woods points out that thoro aro about
2,590 women engaged iu literary work in or
near Boston, including, no doubt, all grades
of journalism; that out of 125 authors on the
publishing list ot Roberts Brotbera 77 are
women; that there are tho names of 55
women on Ticknor’s list, 80 on noughtoil’s
and E0 on that of the Motliodist Book Con­
cern. The demand for liteiary expression
being thus iu part satiated, it is the most
natural thing in tlie world that there should
bo a demand for action as well as literature,
and that the pi-essui e for executive and pub­
lic duties on tho part of women should only
be increased by tbo fact that they havo al­
ready froe course iu the field of mere literary
expression. Granted a pursuit, there is still
needed somo other pursuit—“T. W. H.” in
Harper’s Bazar.
There are other things which make the
work of German housekeeping much lighter
than with us. T-.ere is no regular washing
day, very little washing being done in the
house, tlio wash being sent into the country
every flvo or six weeks. Thia long intervul
necessitates a full supply of household linen,
and hero is another pretty feuture—nil the
articles sorted intoilistinct piles, held together
with ribbon or stitched bands of pretty color
and pattern. Our big ironing days are
avoided, and our baking days likewise ex st
not. Thus the weekly dreaded days are
obliteratoti from tho German domestic calen­
dar. It remains for America to find some
co-operative system that will settle the ques
tion tor us, and while removing tlio incon­
venience and weight ot labor, will still allow
us to retain our greater comfort and beauty.
—“Life Among the Germans.”
A Series of Walts.
I
To Ilrmove Blood Stain«.
Blood «tains can l*e removed from an
article that you do not care to v\ash by apply­
ing a thick paste, made of starch and cold
water. Place in the sun, and rub off in a
couple of hours. If the «tain is not entirely
removed, repeat the prooese and soon it dis­
appears.—Good Housekeeping.
The effects of poison ivy may be removed
by applying a solution of a tablespoonful of
copperas in a small cup of hot water.
Decorations of the Table.
But many aro the tables at which tbo
formal “grace” is the only suggestion of
things spiritual; nt su< h tables the “grace,”
far from elevating tbo ceremony of eating,
seems rather itself to suffer desecration.
Tho mistress of the table is not ready for
her place as director of the feast, if she is
less certain of the tone of temper, of the
flavor of tlio mood, of tbo aroma of tbo con­
versation which will be served at her board
than she u of the quality of tbo meat and the
character of tho bread which will be served
there. The ; ppetlte for food, as food, is
grow; if that appetite alone is sated at a
table, the table is but a manger. The eye,
the olfactory nerve, the ear. not the palate,
are susceptible to |xretic suggestions. 8u' b
is Ibe subtle connection between smell end
taste that appetite for food is aroused by
savory odors; but doligLtful odor divon-
nseted from fosd to a more refilling infla-
, cnoe, sweet smelling flowen, er, U they ere
IN THE ASTOR LIBRARY.
OF
GENERAL
INTEREST.
—Kentucky has a banana fiend who
recently ate thirty-four bananas in ona
QUEER PEOPLE WHO PASS THEIR hour. Unless he is careful where ha
throws the skins he will have much to
DAYS AMONG THE BOOKS.
answer for.
—Alice M. Longfellow, daughter of
Habitues as Peculiar as the Quaint
the poet, has been ehosen a member of
Volumes Upon the Shelve»—A Couple
the school committee of Cambridge.
of Crank*—Gobbling the Magazines.
She is also one of the trustees of the
Various Frequenters.
Harvard Annex.
The habitues of the Astor library are, some
—Prince, a line Jersey bull belonging
of them, as peculiar a^ the quaint volumes to a joint stock company, created a
upon the shelves. I do not mean the men
who rush in an*I look into a book for an hour sensation one day last week at Talla­
and then rush out again to the bustle of ci y hassee by deliberately killing a cow. It
life. But they, too, have their counterparts is said that he lifted her on his horns,
in books, in fact, all of us have. It is plea­ threw her into the air, and killed her
sant enough to sit at one of the tables with a almost instantly.
not too interesting book before you, now
—Even to people who have made
looking at its printed pages and now at the
varied crowd around. Do you not see re- their fortunes, or have attained so
semblances! For instance, the rusty old gen­ much property that they are quite easy
tleman over there with the pallid face, the as to the future, the dead town lias no
convex spectacles and the shiny black suit of attractions. The evidence of deca­
old fashioned cut might be compared to one
of the dusty, musty tomes in the top shelves dence can never be attractive.- ””
—A natural curiosity exists in Fay­
that are more carefully preserved than he.
Then again that flashy red covered novel ette County, Ind., known as Shaky
which went through live editions in as many Ilill. It comprises about twolve acres,
weeks might be thought of in connection and is occasionally subject to tremu­
with the loud talking, dawdy looking woman lous movements affecting several acres
who sits at the next table, w hile the dainty,
low voiced girl who sits near her reminds one of land. This phenomena is said to
instinctively of one of Thomas Bailey Ald­ have been noticed for fifty-seven years.
rich’s idyls. Thus you might go on until you
—A man has been selling patent
found a shadow of every one of this curiously churns to the Maine farmers, taking in
assorted yet withal congenial company.
payment notes payable on demand
A COUPLE OP CRANKS.
and made “not transferable,” and
Opposite me at the table where I usually pledging himself not to demand pay­
read, and where I now’ write, sits a quaint
and cranky couple. At least one of them is ment within a certain long period.
quaint and the other cranky. The first is a Then he changed the not to note,
shabby genteel man, who reads dingy, dog and sold the notes, and the farmers
eared books that are themselves shabby were called upon to pay up.
genteel. When 1 enter the library at 10o’clock
—George 1). Ash, living near Hagers­
every morning he is there, and when I leave
late in the afternoon he still sits in his chair, town, Md., is engaged in quarrying
hardly having moved his position all «lay. stone on his farm, using dynamite for
Sometimes I stay until the library is closed the purpose. A steer belonging to Mr.
for vhe night, and then he leaves the big room Ash strayed into the quarry, and, find­
like a man who knows not where to go for a ing the dynamite cartridge, ate it
resting place. There he sits all dav ns close The dynamite proved unwholesome
to the table as possible, in order, no doubt, to
conceal the lack of buttons on his coat. Un­ diet, oxplodlng and bursting the ani­
der the table his old silk hat is carefully de­ mal.
posited with a penny morning paper and a
—The Savannah New» perpetrates
parcel peeping over the tattered rim. If I the following: A lady at Indian spring
happen to be there about 2 o’clock I will see
him munching something which I have re­ has a hen that Is quite a curiosity. It
cently discovered is bread. Ho does not take has a coat of hair in place of feathers.
it out of his pocket, where be has stealthily Although it is only a chicken, still it is
conveyed it from the hat, like a man who a wonderful freak of nature. It came
knew’ ho was eating a midday luncheon, but from a flock of ordinary chickens, and
breaks off little bits in his pocket and carries tlie cause of its singular coat is a mys­
them to his mouth as if fearing discovery.
He knows only too well, perbujis, that ho is tery. It lays, sits and hatches like
other chickens, and some of its off­
dining.
My other opposite is not unlike the shabby spring is like the parent, but she has
genteel person in general characteristics, not yet succeeded in bringing them to
though he seems better fed. His apparel, maturity.
however, does not show the scrupulous care
of the other. He generally conies in after I I —From France comes the announce­
have arrived, and so 1 have ample opportu­ ment of a newly-invented rotary print­
nity to watch his preparations for Che day’s ing machine, which is said to print,
reading. First, he supplies himself with a superpose and fold publications from
dozen volumes of sermons. These he will two rolls of paper, if so desired. Suit­
carefully arrange about him, and seating
liitnseli he will clasp his hands across his able devices are provided—there are
breast ami engage in a half audible prayer. four cutting and folding cylinders, two
Then he will select, his subject, settle down in of which cut and fold the sheets from
a comfortable position, close his eyes and be­ one roll, while the other two operate
gin the day’s reading. There he sits nil day upon the remaining one. Each of the
long with closed eyes, his far© bent intently two pairs of cylinders are, however,
over the book with every evidence of intense
interest on his countenance. Whether or not capable independently of cutting and
he is reading I will not undertake to say, but folding tho sheets — Public Opinion.
this I know, he turns over Iris pages at regu­
—The Roman Catholic authorities of
lar intervals and now and then will o|*en bis Boston are planning to establish one
er-** and take notes with the 'dullest of great common semetery for all the
pencils.
cities in adjacent parts of the State, to
GOBBLING THE MAGAZINES.
Besides the antique already described, there which the railroads are expected to run
Is in direct contrast the man of tho period. special funeral trains daily, the cars
FI does not. care for books of a past, date, but going directly into the grounds and all
oust have current literature or none at all expense of carriages being done away
Hi.: great ambition is to read all the new with, the undertaker carrying the body
magazines. Ho will get. them all at once, and
taking them under his arm seek some retired to the station, the city and the railroad
alcove, where he will proceed to read them landing it at the grave. The Boston
one after another until he is through with & Lowell railroad is said to be ready to
thorn all. And as ho is generally a slow run funeral trains at reduced rates if
reader lie usually has them in his possession such a cemetery is established. In Mex­
all day. In tho meantime other rea*lei's may
come in and want a look at one of the mag a ico they have special funeral cars over
zines ho lins, but nothing short of a peremp­ the horse-car routes to the cemeteries.
tory demand from an official will induce him
—The history of the toothpick in this
to surrender them, and even then he does it country has a few curious and interest­
with very bad grace.
ing features. Not many years ago a
Then there is a man who wants to read
something, but is not quite sure of what he man in South America, whose wife was
wants. He looks over tho shelves, goes on mi the United States, whittled out a few
f rbidden ground, is driven out, and then wooden toothpicl« and sent them to her.
gathers a lot of books together, which he In some way not now known the pro­
brings into the reading room and places be- prietor of a hotel obtained some of
for* him Ho now proceeds to look through
the whole lot, and very likely nothing will them and, learning who made them, he
<uit him. Doubtless ho will end in picking applied for a supply. This led to a large
up th»- book his neighbor has just finished, sale of tho whittled picks and finally to
and in a moment is deeply immersed in its the establishment of an agency for their
i »ages.
sale in this country. The toothpick
Another frequenter is the man who always manemigrated North and invented ma­
»rants the l>ook you are reading. lie passes
behind and sees tin* title, and then a wild de chinery by which he turned out the first
»ire to have that volume arises in him. lie year sixteen million two hundred and
taxes a seat onposlte you, if possible, picks fifty thousand picks, which has since in-
up an index. hl !ly turns the pages, and never , creased to above SiuU number per
takes his eyes off you until, in self defense, month.
“How thoughtless men are sometimes,” ex­
claimed a lady in one of tho fashionable west
side boarding houses as, seated in tho parlor
directly in front of tho window, she awaited
her husband's return. “Keep one of them
waiting for five minutes and you never hear
tho last of it, and yet they keep us waiting
half our lives and think nothing about it. A
woman's life,” mused the speaker, “is a series
of waits. First she waits to gut on long
dresses and to enter society. Then she waits
for some man to ask her to marry him. After
marriage—what! Why, then she begins to
wait for her liege lord and master to come
home to his meals, and maybe she has to
wait for him to coino homo at night. Wait­
ing gradually becomes second nature to
woman. And can you wonder!”—Chicago you drop the b*s>k or carry it to the libra-
Journal.
| dan’s table.
Then there is the young man who gers hold
Don’t Slice Pineapple«.
■ of a funny l»ook, and grows purple in his ef­
Few people know that pineapples in their forts to keep from guffawing out loud over
native country are never sliced, but after the jokes. Beside him rite the cross grained
peeling they are carefully broken from t ho person, who never smiles over anything, and
core in smail pieces with a silver fork, If reads a book in the same manner that most
this way is once tried no one will again in- people take a disagreeable medicine. Nothing
jure tho fine flavor by cutting across the uit-i Iriin, and not even Wilkins Micawber or
grain. They should always lie so prepared, Huckleberry Finn can make his grim Jaws
b th for table and canning.—Chicago I relax into a smile. —New York Commercial
Journal.
Advertiser.
Marriage an an End.
The question of marriage is a serious one,
and becauso it is usually iu the future, bow
ever remote, of most young women they do
not as a rule take as serious a hold ot a pro­
fession as do young men. When a young
man begins business bo knows ho will prob­
ably stick to it to the end of his days. The
very fact that bo may get married makes it
more necessary that bo should devoto him­
self to moneymaking. But with a young
woman it is entirely different. I have known
young women to liecome very proficient en­
gravers, for example, mid just as their em­
ployers were beginning to depend upon their
wrn k they got married and laid the graver
aside forever.
How often you find parents spending hun­
dreds, even thousands, ot dollars on the
musical education of their daughters, and
when the daughters get married they shut up
the piano, and their musical education is us
good os thrown out of the window. I have
beard hundreds of young married women
say when asked to play something: “I am
entirely out of practice. I haven’t opened
the piano since I was mai l ied.” Vbatever a
man does be does for life; but as a usual
thing when a woman undertakes a thing, in­
stead of being for life, it b till she shall be
married —New York Cor. • Philadelphia
Record.
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insertion and 40 cents per square for each sub­
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Special business notices in business column*
10 cents per line. Regular business notice* i
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Professional cards. $1S per year.
Special rates for large display “ads.
The kitten souled women have an easier
time of it than the eagle winged and the
strong.
*
A teaspoonful of heated camphor is »aid
.0 lea iurative application tor astyeon the
eyelid.
Boiling in strong soapsuds will clean up an
old lampburner and n.ako it as good u new.
Oilcloths can be brightened, after wadring,
by rubbing hard with a flannel moistened
with kerosene.
To extinguish the flames from kerosene use
flour profusely upon them.
A brush broom is just the thing to clean
horseradish graters and silver.
Bakmg powrfur 4>oui(l always h aiUed
viUi Ue Ouur 4rj
Danc«ron> Drinks.
A bartender plaintively bewailed the ne
entity of having to rub congealed drops of
sticky beer off t he bar. “But if I let them re­
main.” Bald be, in the tone of one seeking
compnss nn, “they rot the wood.”
“They rot the wood, do tlieyT fiercely re­
peated a lieer bibber. “Then what in the
name of common sense does beer do to my
stomach 1”
Replied the manipulator of drinks: “It is
beyond nw to
Of one thing I am con­
fident, and that. is man's stomach Is made of
cast iron. Elsewise how could he withstand
the flu ids be |w>um into it I Let me show yon
something.” He placed a piece of raw meat
on the counter, and »h opped upon it a small
measure of an imported g'nger ale. In five
minute« the meat had pgi ted into little piece«
as thong i hacked by a dull knife.—Philadel­
phia News._________________
Hold Or« In Alaska.
There h a remarkable body <>f ro M ore In
Alaska. Il is in a cliff fronting the ocean
and is 250 to 300 fret wide, practically inex
haastibte in body. It is a rich quart* Ron
ator Jon»**, of Nevada, has a fifth interest in
the nrino. TredweU, the man who discovered
it, owns another fifth.—Chicago New*
The people of Rwitzerland, by a vtde of
952.791 to 127,474, bave approva*! a law wbich
gives thè Government thè sole righi to manu-
tacuire aud «eri wirnuou» liquor*
‘T have lined Slmmone Liver
Regulator fbr many years, hav­
ing made It my only Family
Medicine. My mother before
me wan very partial to it. It Is
a safe, good and reliable medi­
cine for any disorder of the
system, and If used In time is
a
piwtHtif* of Meh»*««.
I often recommend it to my
friends, and shall continue to
do so.
“Rev. .Tames M. Rollins,
“Pastor M. E. Church, So. Fairfield, Va.”
TIMt AND DOCTORI’ IltLl IAVID
■ficnva fceep<n0 MimmatM Urer
Hrgulatar in tibe Aewae.
“I have found Simmons Liver
Regulator the best family med­
icine I ever used for anything
that may happen, have used It
in
Cotte* IHnvrtue*.
ftlttouaoeM, and found it to re-
llevrf immediately. After eat­
ing a hearty supper, if, on going
to bed, I take about a teaspoon­
fill, I never feel the efteota of
the supper eaten.
“OVID O. SPARKS,
“Ex-Mayor Maoon, Ga.-
«V-ONLV GCNUINrW
Baa our Z Bump oo front of Wrapper.
Z N. Ztilin A Cs., So/a
Frtaa, Sl.fia.