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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Interesting to Invalid Ladies.

HARLEMvILLE, Columbia Co, n. \. July 9, '73.
r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, n. Y:
Dear .Sir-YOur favor is Just received.
intended to have written to you several weeks
since concerning the improvement in my
health, which is now very apparent. have
used one bottle of Favorite Prescription with
the best results, although | will admit was
somewhat discouraged after its use Qor a
short time only. | took it under very diSad-
vantageOus misunderstanding the super
vision of the house and during the season of
''hOuse cleaning | was obliged through the
incOmpetency of help, to dc more than l
ought, and, of course, suffered dreadfulIy,
lifted when | ought not to have raised my
hand, and did all could to bring - order out
of chaos, but upon laying aside all cares
and continuing the remedy | find after using
less than one bottle to be so much benefited
that have discontinued the use, with no re-
turn of the symptoms of which l wrote you.
| have suffered terribly and what added to my
distress was the consciousness of not procur-
ing relief from ordinary sources, at times 1t
seemed about impossible to stand so great was
the distress. All of those severe neuralgia
pains have disappeared, they were so bad at
times i could hardly walk without some eX-
ternal pressure. They seem to have left me
like magic, suddenly, and have had 10 re-
turn; all other symptoms have been removed.
The severe weakness and faintness have dis
appeared, and | can go up stairs with com
parative ease now. | would have informed
you ere this of my improvement, for | appre-
ciated it, but / was fearful it was only tran
silent benefit was receiving, but l think sutii-
cient time has elapsed to consider the beneti-
cial results permanent. Accept of my best
wishes for your future success and your kind
ness in advising me. Very truly,
MRS NJ, NFTTIE SNYDER.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
His Hard Head Saved Him,

RockpOrt boasts among its population
two col0red men named respectively Jack
Lee and Willis Pool. Now, these sable
heroes of many sternly contested battle
do not seem given to pious meditatiOns,
and while the better proportion of the lit
tie circle in which these men move were
taking part in devotions BETTING the Sab
bath day, they were seated in the friendly
shadows of the bluff overlooking the river,
deep in the mysteries of poker with the
five cents ante accompaniment. How it
all came about our reporter was unable to
earn, but there was a sudden. violent dis
pute, quick struggle, and then a heavy
body struck the huge rocks thirty feet be
low with a dull thud, and Willis Pool
turned away with shudder. Discovering
that he had been observed, he turned and
fed. Those below, however, fastening
to the spot where the body lay, found that
life was not extinct, and a moment later,
that. as far as outside signs went, the
damage was not fatal. Indeed, Lee was
able to regain his feet, and but little diff
Guilty was experienced in getting him TO
his home. In the fall, the Journals in
formant insists that Jacks head came in
contact with fair-siZed block of sand
stone, literally crushing the latter to pow
der. The fact that his head reached the
earth first probably saved the fellow from
death but though this service is fully
valued by him, it was not quite sufficient
to shield his body from harm. Among
the injuries mentioned is a dislocated
shoulder. pretty badly bruised back, and
injuries of an internal nature which may
yet prove fatal, though the physicians
think otherwise.-Epansville Ind Jour
nal,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Don't Allow Talent to Rust.

As by constant friction steel is kept
highly polished, so, by constant exercise
is talent ever at its brightest. All our
powers grow by use. If we neglect TO
cultivate the habit OF observation, we
might as well walk through the world
blindfolded. We lose our faculty-what
the artists call our ''touch'-by neglect OF
practice on other things besides the piano.
The man who seldom reads, reads slowly
the woman whose writing is confined TO an
infrequent letter to some absent child
spends more time over that than does a
practiced writer over a dozen pages OF
manuscript. Exercise of possessed talent
is absolutely necessary. then, if we would
retain our gifts. For example: If our oc-
cupation is sedentary, we need plans for
walks, rides, and active games TO keep our
muscles 1.-THE and serviceable. But if our
employment gives us enough muscular
action, it is not one whit less important TO
our health of body that we should plan
for mental exercise-for employment
enough of our memory and our reasoning
powers to keep them from rusting. And.
in either case, that life must be a dwarfed
and unhealthy one that does not provide
exercise for our spiritual faculties-for
worship, and charity, and patience, and
magnanimity. Exercise of soul, mind, and
body can alone bring US to the stature OF
the perfect man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
How to Make a Good Bed.

Perhaps some hOusekeepers would like
to know how they can make an ineXpen-
sive, and at the same time good and dur
able bed, or mattress and bolster. | have
a bed that will with good USAGE last a
lifetime. 1t is merely tick, the same as
for straw, or husks, with openings in the
upper side to insert the hand for stirring,
and filled with cut paper. Now, reader,
do not throw aside the paper with disgust,
but, if for nothing but curiosity, finish the
article, it will do YOU no harm possibly
you may be induced to make one. The
work of cutting the paper is not such 4
long job as you would think. Take any
kind of clean paper Except straw paper
and fold it, or roll, so that it can be cut
with one clip of the shears, and then cut
it; you need not be particular as to the
width, although the narrower it is cut the
better. These clippings are like little
curls or rings of paper, and lie like feath-
ers, and after using the bed they will
not grow fine and dusty, but are clean,
and can be stirred as light as when first
used. have heard people who have
slept on them say - they were the best
beds they ever slept on" l prefer them
TO feathers or common mattresses; hair
mattresses are nicer, of course, but few OF
us farmers wives can afford to buy them ;
whereas, the paper bed we can have with
out cost, except the work, and that the
smallest child you have who can use a
pair of shears, will help you, and if not
kept busy too long at a time, will think it
but play. The same material makes nice
pillows for lounges, chair cushions, cradle
ticks, etc. have box to keep waste pa
per in, which is out of the way, and at the
same time handler than the rag-bag; and
when it is full, cut them up into another
box and put them into the tick. use the
same ticks that have used for straw :;
wash them and sew up the openings, so
they are just large enough for the hand to
pass through readily three openings are
sufficient.-COr. Cincinnati Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
COckroaches for Dinner.

An enterprising genius in Paris set out
one day to get a first-class dinner without
paying fer it, and he succeeded in this wise /:
Having procured a quantity of cockroach-
es, he killed them by immersing them IN
boiling water, and, with the lifeless re-
mains of his victims tied up in his hand
kerchief and concealed in his pocket, he
sailed forth in quest of dinner. Enter
ing the Cafe Brebant, he took seat at
table in the public room, and ordered some
soup. The soup was brought in Its neat
little plated tureen, and the hungry Gus
toner proceeded to ladle out plate full
of it which he consumed with much ap'
petite. Having nearly finished his soup,
he watched his opportunity, popped one
of his cockroaches into the tureen, and
then screamed for the waiter. The waiter
came, and with speechless Indignation the
rascal pointed TO the defunct insect.
sBring the proprietor :" at last he gasped
II will complain-I-" "For heavens
sake be silent, sir,' whispered the distress
ed waiter ''you will ruin the reputation
of the house. OF course we will charge
YOU nothing for the dish, and if you will
only say nothing '.Ah-well-in that
case-but | can eat nothing more here.
am too sick. Good morning." So of
went the gentleman, followed bya storm
of apologies and regrets from the repent
ant waiter. He proceeded to the Maisor
Doree and ordered a dish of fish, which he
obtained on the like cheap terms and il
the same ingenious manner. The Caft
Anglais supplied him with a roast, the
Cafe Richie with fowl and salad, and h
wound up his days campaign with some
ice and cakes at the Cafe Neapolitaine
having obtained a tirst-class dinner with
out spending a cent. When the walters o
the different cafes began to compare notes
of course the trick was discovered, but j
was then too late to punish the adroi
| sWindler.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
A Lady Seyenty-One Years Old Blows
Out Her Brains.

One of the most lamentable suicides
that we have ever been called upon to
chronicle took place in Jones county, at a
late hour on Monday night. Mrs. Jona-
than Holmes, an old lady seventy-One
years of age, deliberately blew out her
own brains with a shotgun, producing
almost instantaneous death. About mid
night her family were alarmed by the re-
port of gun in her room, and upon go
ing thither found the old lady lying dead
upon the floor, with nearly the whole of
the upper portion of her head blown off.
She seems to have placed the muZzle of
the gun against her forehead and pulled the
trigger with her foot.
Mrs. Holmes, for the greater portion OF
her life, lived in comfortable circumstan-
cs. She raised a family of children and
had number of grandchildren. She had
a great deal of trouble during the latter
part of her life, and there is hardly any
doubt that the trouble preyed upon her
mind until her reason became impaired,
and that it was in this mental condition
that she committed the awful act. In adj
ditiOn to her other troubles, she has, for
some time, been in bad health.-Macon
fE0 ! Tsyeopop6
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms.

Cabinet or Parlor Organs are capital
things for peddlers TO work with, because
very poor ones can be made at half the cost
of good ones, and few people are cOmpe-
tent 70 tell the difference from first eX-
animation. Manufacturers print in their
catalogues prices which are three or four
times as high as the value of such cheap
work. Then the peddler starts out and
puts them on the people in various ways.
He sells at an enormous discount, ifhe can
get cash takes part trade, if necessary, or
leaves the organ awhile on trial, and
sells it on long time at manufacturer
price," exhibiting the catalogue to show
that it is such, or even at discount from
this, which he can well afford.
The Mason 81 Hamlin Organ Co.
have recently announced plan which
is likely to interfere with this business.
This Company, as is well known, makes
only the best work, which, by its uni
form excellence, has obtained the high
est reputation for their organs. they
proved the best. and obtained the high
est awards at the recent Vienna and
Paris Worlds Exposition, as they have
uniformly done in American Industrial
competitions. The fact that these organs
are the best in the world is indeed too well
established to need further endorsement.
The Company have now added large
new factory to their former extensive
works, and design to greatly increase
their business. This they propose to do
by offering organs for time payments, or
for rent with privilege of purchase, at
barely sufficient advance on cash prices to
afford a reasonable interest for the time.
An organ may be hired by the quarter
with privilege of purchase at any time in
one wear or longer If purchased within
the year. the whole cost, including rent
paid. is only five to ten per cent, more
than if the cash had been paid down at the
beginning.
Persons having any idea of purchasing,
will be wise to send a note to the Mason
& Hamlin Co., at either Boston, New
York or Chicago, and obtain their new
circulars, before purchasing.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01

and when brought into his presence
evinced the strongest emotion. He stated
that he was the father of the dying boy,
and that the latteris mother being at the
White Mountains for her health, which Is
very delicate, he, the father, had opened
the note sent from this city, and was very
glad he had done so, as the declaration
contained in it would surely have killed
her. The son had been considered dead
for more than two years.
Being wealthy, the parents had given
him good education and designed him
for professional life, but, when about six
teen years of age, his mind became affected
by the influence of sensational novels. and
he formed an Unsuitable desire to roam
through the Western wilds. He ran away,
with the two sons of the Mayor of the
town, but was traced TO the place they had
chosen for temporary stay, and brought
home. The two companions remained at
home, but he very soon afterward again
ran off, and his parents had since heard
nothing of him, except are port that he had
been killed. which they believed.
The sight of his boy stretched upon a
bed OF death within the forbidden walls of
prison, crushed the fathers heart; but
this only made his opportunities the more
eHectual, ana ne succeeded IN procuring
his sons pardon, with which he sped to
the prison, and, doubtless, anxious that,
even were it the last hour his son should
live, it should be spent in pure, free air, he
had him carried from the institution as
above related. 1t was his intention, should
the son live until he could be conveyed on
board steamship,to have him taken home
in that way, otherwise he would let him
die at hotel, and then have the body ia
ken on by rail to the home of his innocent
and happy boyhOod.
The weight of sorrow that awaited the
mother in either case can easily be con-
ceived. Whether the dying young man
revived sufficiently to endure the sea trip,
or whether he died at the hotel his father
brought him to, we did not learn. The
narrative is a brief but painful one, and is
not without powerful lesson to youth.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
A Pennsylvania Heiress ElOpeS With a
COlOred Servant.

The usually said, quiet and aristocratic
portion of Bucks county, Pa, known as
Warminster township, is just now greatly
excited over a somewhat strange elOpe-
mcnt. 1t seems that abOCta year since
fancy colored man, named Joe Palmer, came
to Warminster and engaged to Mr.. John
Thompson as a man-of all-work. While
thus employed it was noticed that he was
quite intimate with Miss Annie Thompson,
the beautiful, refined and accomplished
daughter of his employer. Shortly after
ward Palmer was taken ill, and Miss
Thompson attended to him until the fam
lily prevented it by having him removed
elsewhere. But it seems that Miss Thomp-
sons visits were clandestinely continued TO
him. After his cOnvalescence it is reported
that Palmer said he would be even with
the Thompsons for sending him away from
their residence during his illness. Miss
ThOmpson's father and mother did all they
could to prevent any further intimacy be-
tween their daughter and Palmer, and she
seemingly consented completely to their
wishes. But neither they nor the COM
munity were prepared for the denOue-
ment which has taken place. A day or
two since Joe Palmer stated to various per-
sons that he was going West, and was no.
ticed making extensive preparations.
About the same time Miss Thompson per-
suaded her mother to allow visit to a
neighboring township to make some pur-
chases. She went instead to the railroad
depot, and, boarding the Philadelphia
train, met Palmer at the next station. AS
the young lady did not return at the time
she informed her mother she would, a
search was instituted and the truth learn
ed. The terribly distracted parents at once
went TO Philadelphia, but, although 4
most persistent search was made, nothing
of the couple could belearned further than
that Palmer was seen in the neighbOrhOOd
of the hay-market, at Seventh and Column
bia avenue. the day subsequent to the elope-
ment. Miss Thompson is a great heiress,
and has ALWAYS been held in the highest
esteem by the people of Warminster. Her
parents are hcart-brOken at her rash act
Further endeavors will be made for her re
cOvprV Y Herald
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Mid.Ocean TeIegraphIc Station.

The question is being discussed as to
whether measures can be devised to enable
steamships, far out to sea, TO have tele-
graphic communication with the shore.
This, at first glance, looks visionary; but
these are progressive days, and we cannot
afford to dismiss any project lightly, at
least not until we view it in every shape,
and are satisfied that it is wild and fanclful.
Two plans are suggested-one topay out
small and comparatively inexpensive cable
by the departing steamer, thus keeping up
communication with the sailing port; the
other plan has more of system and bust
ness principle as its basis, namely, the es-
adjustment of cable stations upon the high
seas, built upon buoys, at which steamer
may stop and communicate if in distress,
give her time, and enable their passengers
to communicate with their friends on
either shore. This latter plan has, We
think, no unfeasible features-certainly il
does not look more unpromising to-day
than the project of laying the first Atlantic
cable did in its day; and the advantages tC
life and property to be derived from a sue
cessful issue of the mid-Ocean telegraph
are so obvious, that we expect to see grea
| interest evinced in it by the scientists o
| the world. \ never-ending fame await
| the man who accomplishes this task.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
A Leaf From the History Of a Peniten.
tiary.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says: A few
nights ago pair of horses were driven
up Paramount avenue at a desperate gait,
and from the carriage, which was stopped
ut the gate of the Eastern Penitentiary,
there jumped a gentleman who made all
haste TO gain an entrance into the gloomy
institution. He presently reappeared,
bearing in his arms a wasted form, which
he deposited with tender care in the car
riase, which was then driven away.
The occupants of the carriage were a
heart-broken father and his dying son.
The latter was committed to the Eastern
Penitentiary some two years ago for lar
ceny. His intelligence and amiability
soon made him a general favorite. He
was, at the time of his commitment, about
eighteen years old, a tall, well-formed,
handsome young man, without single
trace of the usual characteristics of the
criminal. The prison authorities took a
special interest in his case, but he was eX-
ceedingly reticent as to his history, eX-
cepting that he had fallen into bad compa-
ny. About year ago he began TO show
the signs of the insidious complaint, con-
sumption, which numbers many victims
in prison.
he slowly wasted away until two or
three weeks ago the physician in charge,
as he went through the hospital of the in
stitution, stopped a moment before the cot
of the patient and said to him, gravely,
that if he had anything to say to any per-
son on earth he had better do so without
delay, as he had but a short time TO live.
The remark seemed to impress the poor
fellow deeply, for he shortly afterwards
asked for paper and pencil, and obtaining
them, Wrote-'The son whom you have
mourned as dead is in the Eastern Peni-
tertiary, Philadelphia" He signed the
brief note and sank back exhausted on his
couch.
Being asked relative to the destination
of the note he had written, he directed it
to be addressed to a lady in a town in
Massachusetts. which was complied with.
A few days afterward a gentleman ap-
piled to one of the prison author
lilies for permission TO see the youth,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Facing Death at His Post.

When the Chicago express train, which
left the Grand Central depot at eight
o'clock on the morning of the 18th OF
September, was approaching Cruger's-a
station some four miles south of Peeks-
KILT encountered an accident which a
Providential hand alone must have pre-
vented from resulting in dire catastrophe.
The train, composed of baggage car and
some eight or ten crowded passenger
coaches, was rushing north at speed OF
not less than forty miles per hour, when
the ponderOus locomotive, after barely
clearing the drawbridge located a short
distance below Cruger's station, Jumped
the track, dragging with it the tender,
while the remainder ofthe train, fortunate
", did not leave the rails. Madly plunging
from track to track, tearing up the road
bed, grinding the ties to powder, bending
the steel rails as though they were only
pieces of ductile wire, and slicing off the
fianges as evenly as cheese might be cut
with a grocer's knife, the locomotive
plOwed its way for distance of about POO
yards and through a tunnel, formed of
solid rock, from which it was just emerg-
ing when the tender, turning completely
over, checked its further progress. Mean
time none of the cars had left the track,
and most of those on board knew nothing
of their perilOus position. The shock Oc-
casiOned by the locomotive first bounding
from its proper course threw the fireman
of. but he escaped with only few slight
bruises. Thomas COnnOrs, the engineer,
and one of the oldest on the road, never
left his post, promptly shutting off steam
when the engine left the rails and bravely
remaining, with his hand on the throttle
valve, until the locomotive was brought
to a standstill in the manner already de-
scribed. No cause can be assigned for the
accident, as the rails are said to have been
i'm perfect order. There is a tOlerably
sharp curve at the drawbridge indicated,
and deep water on both sides of the track
between that place and the tunnel. In
short, it was about one of the worst spots
on the road where an accident of the kind
could have occurred, and it is regarded as
almost miraculous that not solitary life
was sacrificed. After a delay of about
three hours the road was cleared for pass
ing trains.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01

heat and fatigue with long intervals of alb
stinence from food, and the same thing is
very apt TO follow in those persons who
have deranged their digestion and over
loaded their systems by course of din
ners." Alcoholic drinks are considered
bad. and the Lancet truly says that a great
desideratum is a really palatable and cool
beverage, free from alcohol, and slyly
adds that latter dry and hot seasons, when
choleraic and febric complaints are likely
to occur, many people begin TO manifest
hvdrophobia without any antecedent bite
of rabid dog, for they are not at all con-
fident as to the quality of any drinking
water. evenifit were prOcurable in fresh,
pleasant state, at refreshment rooms
GaIdTy for October,
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