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\ Perfect Toilet Soap.

First among the requisites Of the toilet is good
article of Soap, but to procure is not always an
easy matter. Many of the most expensive Soaps in
the market are made from coarse and deleterious
materials, and their delicate coorDg and fragrant
perfume too often conceal the most repulsye I'M
purities. The disclosures recently made pubic
regarding this subject positively startling, and
deserve serious consideration. Scented Soaps are
now known to be extremely Objectionable. especial
ly If applied to the head inuring the hair irrita
ting the scalp, and inducing severe headaches. The
character of the ingredients may be inferred from
the statement Of gentlemen who makes the scent
ing of Soaps his business he recently declared that
perPOns engaged in this employment were short
lived; from seven TO ten years being the longest
period during which the occupation could be fol-
lowed.
The difficulty of procuring perfectly pure arti-
Gle OF toilet soap is at last obyialed, however,
thanks to the enterprise and chemical skill of Mr.
Is. T. Babbitt of New York. the wOrld -renOwned
Soap Manufacturer, whose immense establishment
is by iar the greatest of the kind in the United
States. The renown Of Mr. Babbitt's various pro-
auctions has for many years been widely dissem-
mated, but this latest is the appropriate
crown to the numerous victories already achieved
After years of patient labor and scientific expert
ment, Mr.. Bahbitt has succeeded in perfectins the
composition OF the fir est toilet soap ever intro
ouced. The principal ingredients are the purest
vegetable oils; the manufacturing processes are
entirely new and original, and The result is simply
unparalleled in this department of industry.
- B. 7. Babbitt's Toilet Soap" s the trade mark
by which this elegant toilet luxury is designated,
aud for applications To the delicate skin of infants
children and aicp, 1t s altogether uneqaaed in it's
emollient properties = his Soap is not perfumed
the ingredients being Of snch sbsOlute purity
require aid from chemistry to disguise inferior
materials. The most refined taste considers the
absence of artificial perfume the perfection of
sweetness and This peculiar characteristic of B.
Babbttts Toilet Soap renders the most healthful
and agreeable article of the kind ever manufac.
tured.
Though specially desirable for the use of ladies
and children, this Soap equally appropriate for
gentlemen's toilet, and Is it makes heavy lather
Il is also one Of the finest soaps for BARRIERS use.
II is just being placed upon the market, but the
demand for it will soon become general.-N. Y,
Tribune
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-21
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such another theft as he had perpetrated

such another theft as he had perpetrated
twenty times already, for Barbara's excla-
nation had been simply: "Kissed her -
Never was lamp Lit so quickly in all
the world before; but between the finding
and the scratching of the match. Bill EN-
mons managed to say-for he was fellow
of excellent mind Perhaps, Barbara,
that may remove some of our difficulties y
And Barbara made no reply; but when
Dan and the widow came into the parlor,
it was not easy to say which of the two
women was blushing the most violently.
cts all right, Bill, y remarked Dan. II
don't know that any explanations are re-
quired. You have our entire CONSENT
The visions of the newly painted house
had faded from the mind of Barbara Haw-
kins, but it as Dan 8 remark that called
her attention to the manner in which she
was clinging to the arm Of Bill Emmons.
The latter was equal to the occasion, how
ever, for he replied:
s"WeI, so long as I've got Barbara s [
don't mind having yours" and then he
added, quickly: II say, Dan, you and l
are two fellows of remarkably good sense. -
So Barbara's difficulty about her step
mothers future as we'll as her own was re-
moved from her entirely, and, curiously
enough, Dan Grover spent the remainder
of his natural life in the unbroken assu-
rance that neither he nor his admirable
wife had ever known but one love.
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The Shortest Deed on Record.

ssScribner' for May contains a paper Of
"reminiscences OF Washington, " from un
publish ed family records Among the an
ecdotes of Washington there rela ted is the
following
In August, 1895, after few deligh tful
| days spent with their distinguished rela-
tives. Captain Lewis relates that the fol-
lowing conversation took place at the
breakfast table the morning fixed for their
departure.
Washington was, as all the world knows.
| a man of few words, and while he quietly
partook of his frugal meal the converse
ton fos. ed cheerfully on between the 9TH
er members of the family present. Sud
denly his nephew turned laughing to him
and said
! Uncle, what do you think 1 dreamed
last night %
The General replied lie could not guess,
and asked to be told. Captain Lewis, con-
tinuing to laugh merrily, replied:
''Why, dreamed you gave me your farm
on Deep Rum
''Humph p. calculated his uncle. "You
had better have dreamed [ gave you Mount
Vernon"
No more was said on the subject, and
Captain Lewis had quite forgotten his I'M
meaning dream as he placed his wife in the
carriage, and babe his uncle and aunt good
bye. Washington followed him to the
carriage, and handed him folded paper.
saying as he did so: ~ gu can look at that
when you reach home" Captain Lewis
received the paper in astonishment, but
could make no reply, as the carriage now
now rolled swiftly away. He might have
felt in duty bound to suffer the pangs of
curiosity until he reached home, but his
wife had 40 such conscientious scruples :;
she had not been forbidden to open it, and
so she soon succeeded in gaming possess
sion of the mysterious paper, and before
Mount Vernon was lost in the distance
she discovered the fact that they had left
that modest dwelling much richer that they
were when they entered it. Whether
Deep Run farm in his will upon this
nephew, and only FASTENED the time of the
gift, or whether, with the uiet humor liz
which he rarely INDUCED, he thus proved
the dream, of which he had been told,
practical reality, was never known. The
deed is said to be the shortest on record,
and is as follows:
II do by these presents give, and (if
Deed of Conveyance should not have been
made before) hereby oblige my heirs, Ex-
ecutors, and Administrators to fulfill, all
the Lands which hold on Deep Bun, or
its branches in the County of Fauquier,
unto my Nephew Robert Lewis and to his
heirs or assigns forever.
Given under my hand and seal this
18th day of August, 1896.
Go. WASHINGTON" [sEAL.l
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How the Apo stiles Died.

1. Peter was crucifed in Rome, and, at
his own request, with head downward.
2 Andrew was crucifed by being bound
to cross by cords, on which he hung two
days. exhorting the people till he xpired.
8. st. James the Great was beheaded by
order OF Herod. at Jerusalem.
4. st. James the Less was thrown from
high pinnacle, then stoned, and finally
killed with fuller's club.
S. Phillip was bound ard hanged against
pillar.
6. St. Bartholomew was fiayed to death
by command of barbarous king.
Z. st. Matthew was killed with a hal.
bert.
s. st. Thomas, while at prayer, was shot
with a shower of lances, and afterward
ran through the body with lance.
8. st. Simon was crucified.
10. Thaddeus, or Judas, was cruelty put
to death.
II. st. Matthias. The manner of his
death is somewhat doubtful; one says
stoned, then beheaded; another says he
was crucifed.
II. Judas Iscariot fell and his bowels
gushed out.
IS. st. John died natural death.
IA. st. Paul was beheaded by order of
Nero.
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WHAT KING THOUGHT ABOUT
WHIPPING.--4A letter has been lately
found In Paris which was written by Hen
ry Nv. to Nine. de Montglas, the COVER
ness OF his young son, afterward Louis
XIII. 1t is dated at Fontainebleau, Nov.
II, leoT. ana reads: Madame: I regret
that you did not inform me of your hav-
ing whipped my son, as 1 should have re-
quested you to whip him every time he be-
came headstrong or did anything wrong
l know from my own experience that moth
ing in the world is so salutary, as, at his
age, 1 Was very frequently whipped myself.
For this reason, wish you to make him
behave. Adieu. Henri
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A TOUCHING INCIDENT.-George Ed
ward Murray and Miss Henshaw, boarders
in the Berkeley House. Oakland, Cal, be-
came engaged to be married. Then they
quarrelled, and he released her. She &C
cepted another lover, out of pique. and
wedding day was hastily chosen. On the
appointed morning, as she was dressing for
the ceremony, Murray was carried dying
into the hotel, having been injured by a
railroad accident. The San Francisco
Chronicle finishes the narrative as follows:
"She rushed to the bedside of the dying
man, and, with eyes streaming with tears
and voice tremulois with emotion, brushed
aside physicians and attendants, and clasp
ing her arms about the neck of her former
sweetheart, pressed his pale lips to her own
and kissed him repeatedly, all the while
calling him by name in terms the most
tender and pathetic. A faint smile of
recognition beamed over the pale face of
the wounded man, and the lovers parted
forever, she to finish her dressing for the
altar, and he to suffer for few hours be.
fore passing over the river of death,'s
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Hereditary Badness.


In Harrison township, Wisconsin, few
miles from Plattesville, reside family
who have been singularly afflicted. Some
twenty years ago William Steinhoff, with
young wife, came from Germany and
settled near Plattevllle.
A year or two afterward son was born
to them, but much to their sorrow the
Child was perfectly bald. Months passed
away, but the boys head remained with
out vestige Of hair. The parents feared
that their child would continue bald, and
were much grieved at the thought.
Finally they wrote to friends in Germa-
ny narrating the singular circumstance.
An answer was returned stating that sew
eral of the ancestors of one of the parents
had been afflicted in similar manner, but
that the hair had grown out before they
reached maturity.
This gave the parents some hope that
their child's badness would not be perma-
ment. Since then eleven children have
been born to them, ten of whom are living.
They now have eleven children, five of
whom, three girls and two boys, are per-
fectly bald. The oldest is now a grown
man and his singular affection is great
annoyance to him.
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co
1}oetry.,
APART.

Some time I think you will be glad to know
That have kept you ever in my heart
And that my love has Only deeper grown
In all the time that we have loved apart
Some day, when you have slipped away from care,
And idly fall to dreaming of the past,
And sadly think of all your life has missed
You will remember my true love at last.
Or it may come to pass, some dreary night,
After day that has been hard to bear,
When you are weary, heart-sick, and forlorn,
. And there is none to comfort or to care,
That you will close your tired eyes to dream
OF tender kisses falling soft and light
Of restful touches smoothing back your hair,
And sweet words spoken for your hearts delight
Oh! then you will remember and be glad
That have kept you ever in my heart,
And that your hearts true home will still be there
Although we wander silent and apart.
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SOXE ADVANTAGES OF CANDOR.-Do
not let the idea that you know it all, get
away with you. Don't try to make your
wife believe that you are great man, be-
cause she will know better. Do not try to
make your children believe you are a saint.
They will find you out. Acknowledge that
you are human, and establish bond of
sympathy with them. Tell them not to
lie, because you know lying to be bad.
Children are thinkers, and in their quaint,
quiet little way, sharp logicians. Do not
impose on them. Do not pick their des-
TIMES for then. A child trained contrary
to It's inclinations is not worth three moth
ings. Do not try to direct their minds in
to channels that are uncongenial to them.
When children ask questions you cannot
answer. honestly acknowledge your ingno-
rance. They will think more of you for it
and it is far preferable to have them think
you are ignorant than to catch you in lie.
Let us raise leaders instead of followers
Church Union.
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The Words We Use.

1t has been Gale ulated that our language
including the nomenclature of the arts and
sciences, contain 100000 words; yet of this
immense number it is surprising how few
are in common use. To the great majority
even of educated men, three-fourths of the
words are almost as unfamiliar as Greek
or Choctaw. Strike from the lexicon all
the words nearly obsolete-all the words of
special arts OF professions-all the words
confined in their usages to particular To-
calities-all the words which even the edu-
Gated speaker uses only in homeopathic
doses-and it is astonishing into what a
Lillipu5ian volume your Brobdignagian
Webster Or Worcester has shrunk. It has
been calculated that child uses only
about one hundred words; and, unless he
belongs to the educated classes, he will
never employ more than three or four hun
dred. A distlng uished American scholar
estimates that few speakers or writer's use
as many as ten thousand words; ordinary
persons, of fair intelligence, not over three
Oh four thousand. Even the great orator
who is able to bring into the field, in the
war of words, half the vast array of light
and heavy troops which the vocabulary af-
fords, yet contents himself with a far less
imposing display of verbal forces. Even
the all-knowing Milton, whose wealth of
words seems amazing, and whom DR.. john
son charges WITH using "a Babylonian dia-
lect," uses only eight thousand; and
Shakespeare himself, ''the myself" the
"myriad-minded,'' only fifteen thousand.
These facts show that the difficulty of mas
tering the vocabulary of new tongue is
greatly overrated; and they show, too.
how absurd is the boast of every new die
tionary maker, that his vocabulary con-
tains so many thousand words more than
hia preCecnSSOrS
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V7OR RENT-A NO. STORE ROOM IN
r. the town of Greenvlle, Va. The stand
as a trading place is unequalled. For terms and
particulars address
SAM'L A. D. MCKEE,
mar2-tf Greenville, Va.
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FINE SWEET RUsKs.-Soften two table
spoonfuls of butter in a bowl, whisk two
table spoonfuls of sugar, three eggs, and
flavoring to your taste Qemon generally,
together with a pint of milk, add to your
butter in the bowl, two quarts of flour
with four teaspoonfuls of baking powder
sifted in it, then the milk, eggs, &c., and
mix, adding little more milk if required
to make it the desired consistency. Bake
in balls the size of large walnuts placed
close together on buttered pans with sides
to them, moderate oven.
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FEEDING CALVES have never fed
cotton-seed meal to calves, nor corn meal,
but sometimes have fed shorts, but never
feared scours from feeding shorts and
milk, or milk and shorts, the shorts being
given dry. Hay and corn-stalks have been
their feed. Skinned milk, with no grain,
is better, we think, than new milk to make
large, healthy calves OF few months old.
Cor. Neau England Farmer.
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AS long as love prevails in house, space
of the breadth of sword is satisfactory; as
soon as it disappears sixty hand-breadths
are not sufficient alnaauI.
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A MINISTER'S FAMILY.-The Rev. Jno.
Newton relates that many proofs have
passed under his Immediate notice Of the
faithfulness of God, in answering the
prayers of parents, who had left behind
them young and helpless children. He es-
pecially mentions a friend Of his, labo-
rious Christian minister, in the west of
England. in whose family the divine prom
Use was fulfilled. This good man, when
dying, was advised to make his will, but
he replied. II have nothing to leave but
my wife and children, and leave them to
the care of my gracious God )" and, soon
after, died happily. No prospect appeared
for the support Of his family, but the Lord
disposed man, who had always despised
his preaching to feel for his destitute FAM
lily; and, by this means, 81 900 were raised
for them; and the clergy of Exeter, who
never countenanced his ministry, gave his
widow house and garden for life, so that
she lived in greater ease and plenty than
in the lifetime of her husband.
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Place no confidence in the reviler of re-
ligion. He who is faithless to his Creator
will not scruple to deceive man,
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LETTUCE SALAD WITH CREAM.-Pick,
cleanse, wash well, and drain thoroughly
some lettuce, cut every heart in four
pieces; and range over the leaves; pre-
pare dressing as follows: Put in a bowl
salt, pepper, chopped chives, and chervil,
a tablespoonful Of white wine-vinegar, and
half pint of double-thick sweet cream
pour over the salad at the last moment.
mingle we'll, and serve.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friends
superiority has ceased to love hlm,
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PAPERING WHITEWAsHED WALLIS
Take common barrel starch, usually ten
cents per pound, and make nice, thick
boiled starch. If you choose make all you
will use in day. Have some white glue
dissolved; pour as much as you think best
into your starch while it is hot, stirring it
together. Let this stand until cold, when
it will be ready for use.
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glbe Stam,rtom Dinofeatan
FARM AND FIRHsIDE.
DVERTISIN

REMEDIES AGAINST WORMS AND IN
sEcTs.-The insect question is very i'm
tant one; they will destroy us if we don't
destroy them. The following modes I use
as demanded, and never fail:
Melon and cucumber bugs like radish
leaves better than any other kind. I sow
a few radish seeds in each hill, and never
lose q plant. Earth-worms, cut-worms,
white grubs, and in fact, all soft bodied
worms, are easily driven out by salt sown
broadcast. You can do no harm with ten
bushels to the acre, but shalt bushel is
ample. Dry Stacked lime is also effectual.
Potato-bugs find their ''anti' in Paris
green-one table spoonful, flour ten spoon
fuls, water, one bucket; mix and keep
mixed, as the Paris green settles; apply
with a watering pot
For cabbage worms, apply salt, if the
plants are wet, OF strong brine if they are
dry.
Turnip flies are destroyed by fine Stacked
lime, busted over the field.
But the whole tribe of depredators are
wonderfully kept down by making friends
with the birds. They are the natural en-
emies of all insects, worms, grubs, SC.
In fighting vermin, we must not try to
oppose Nature, but to rather follow her
plans, and assist her if she Canada
Farmer.
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ID u Z: G .IzfX. e Cd So

Saloon &c Re@ta1xant
ON
oEEA PEzAN
FOR CENT? n MI EN-.
The we'll known "Tom Burke has re6tted
his Saloon and House on Corner of New and
New Court House Streets, Diagona ~ opposite
! the Virginia Hotel and is prepared to furnish
Lod ging for gentlemen, at low rates, and Meals
at oil ii mes in proportion to what may be
called for. Parties stopping over night would
do well to call.
Ills BAR
is re-ftted and RETURNS ned with the finest
Brands of Whistles: Brandies, Wines, cigars,
&c, &C., and he will also furnish parties by the
PINT, QUART AND GALLON.
| Mg> Give me q trial.
maya ly TOM bofhE.
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,vN1 S, KINDS d SONS,
wv MERCHANT TAILORS,

Way I'll ERCHANI IAlLURS
81 West Fayette, End Door West OF Charles:
BALTIMO MD.
First-class Goods made up in frst-class style,
and a perfect fit guaranteed. Refer to VIM. L..
Bumgardner, J Fred. Efinger and others. Par
ties can have their measures taken at Mr.. Me-
Namara's in Stanton, and sent on to US, and
the clothes will be made to fit.
maya ly
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AN IMPROVED HEN-COoP.-A lady
who has ''handy man. il. IL. employ
asked him to make her hen-coop for
some temporary use. In about five min
utes he came round and said he had made
one, and so he had. He had taken the
hoops all off the end of empty flour bar
rel, which had already lost the head from
the same end. Then putting the strongest
of these hoops inside the slaves and strain
ing them apart until the hoop merely
Tapped little he put tack through the
lap and the stave and with two or three
tacks through the hoop in other places he
had a good airy coop ready for use.
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NKR. A NJ. SIMPSON will be glad to serve
WI his friends at G. L. WELIER'S Boot
and Shoe Store. Goods made to order.
apps
AIDES BOX TOE AND SIDE LACE
l SHOES
apo at HOLIDAY & VESTS.
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To HELP A GALA LILY TO BLOOM.
Be sure 1t has good rich soil; water with
very warm water, with little ammonia or
bonedust added once in week OF two
Every morning pour boiling water IN the.
saucer OF the pot the lily is in, and give it
plenty of heat and sunshine. I have two
pots OF lilies, and have two flowers on one
and one flower and two buds on the other.
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A FERTILIZER FOR STRAWBERRIES
An experiment made last year by myself
may not come amiss at this time with
those who grow strawberries. ]. procured
a half hogshead, filled it with rain water,
and put into it one quarter of pound Of
ammonia, and one quarter of a pound Of
common nitre. When the strawberry
plants were poisoning out, I gave them a
sprinkling of the solution at evening,
twice week, until the fruit was nearly
full size. The result was double the a.
mount of fruit on those where the liquid
was applied, to what was obtained from
those right alongside of those where none
of the liquid was applied. Let all give it
trial.-Cor. Fruit Recorder.
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VIENNA COFFEE. "A correspondent fur
nishes the recipe for making the celebrated
Vienna coffee: Make it double strength.
Mix it with an equal quantity of boiled
milk. Then add a tablespoonful of beaten
and white of an egg. To prepare the lat
ter, take white of one egg to a pint of
cream, and beat thoroughly.
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The BEST THING for cleansing tinware
is common soda. Dampen a cloth and dip
it in soda, and rub the ware briskly, after.
which wipe dry. Any blackened or dirty
ware can be made to look as well as new.
GREAsE-SPOTs.-The best material for
cleaning coat-collars and grease-spcts of
all kinds is pure benzine. The article is
sold at the principal drug-stores in the
cities.
RICH SOFT GINGERBREAD cup
full sour cream, one cupful molasses, one
egg, one teaspoonful ginger, one teaspoon
full soda; stir rather thin.
FRIED CAKEs.-one cupful sugar, one
cupful sour cream, one cupful buttermilk,
one teaspocnful soda, spice to taste; mix
thick enough to roll easily.