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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
Reading Aloud.

1t Is strange that in country whose
language is stored full of the choicest
works of the human mind, and whose
population is, as whole, so well edu-
Gated, reading aloud as source of
amusement and means of enjoyment is
so little resorted to. There are many
familieS-even in book-loving New Eng
land there are scores of families, we dare
say, where book, or a chapter of a
book, is never read to the family circle
from one end of the year to another.
The individual members of the family
read; but all reading done in the FAM
lily is silent reading. Father has his
paper, mother her tract; Mary her
novel; Johnny his story of wild adven-
ture. Reading there is, enough of it;
but each one reads for himself. There
is no reading for the whole, and no
grouping of the family into an audience
for an evenings enjoyment, such as
comes to people who hear good bit of
writing well read.
Only those who have visited in fami
lies where the gift of reading was cult
waited as a source of family enjoyment,
and the custom of reading aloud to the
family practised, can imagine what a
help and blessing TO the family life such
a habit is. Music is well enough in its
way, but its range of expression is far
narrower than that of reading, and for
that matter far less practical in its
adaptation to the family wants. Then,
too, singing requires an instrumental
accompaniment and piano costs
money and requires too much practice
on the part of the performer to be avail
able for the many. The art of reading
well is easily acquired and cheaply
taught and the expressions of literature
are abundant and varied. If sorrow
has fallen on the family, the needed an
tidote can be found both in prose and
poetry. If fun is called for, then fun
can be had at the asking; for the Ian
guage is full of humOr so quaint and
subtle that the bare recital of the au-
thor's words brings the point out and
90 sets the table in roar" History,
tragedy, comedy, wit, pathos, sublmi-
ty; every spring at which the human
mind loves to drink can be opened and
the sweet waters be given freely to every
one.
How coy those home readings may
be made. Warmth, light, companion
ship, culture, happiness, are all includ-
ed in them. How much you are miss
ing, good people, if reading is not cult
waited as one of the means of happiness
and pleasure in your family circle; for
in such an exercise there is quickening
for the imagination, appeal to Judgment,
elevation of feeling, opportunity
for criticism, which shall teach
the children more of literature in three
hours, than they can learn in school in
three weeks. Next to the impulse of
love as a means of drawing families to-
gether is the influence of intellectual
companionship. Cultivate this, good
friends, and see how satisfactory will
be the result. - Golden Rule.
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The Educational Fund Bill.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 1.-THE
Committee on Education and Labor to day
instructed Mr.. tioode, the Chairman, to re-
port bill providing that the net proceeds
of sales of the public lands shall be forever
cOnsecrated and set apart for the education
of the people. The act is not to have any
effect to repeal, impair or suspend any law
authorizing pre- emption of public lands, or
the entry of public lands for hOmesteads,
nor as limiting in any manner the power of
Congress to alter or extend the right of
homestead upon such lands, nor shall il be
held 20 limit or abridge the power Of
Congress over the public domain, or to
interfere with granting bounty lands. The
Secretary of the Treasury is required on or
before the 3lst of July Of each year to APP
portion TO the several States and Territories
and to the District of Columbia, upon the
basis Of population of said States and Ter
ritories between the ages of 3 and q years,
the net proceeds of sales of public lands for
the previous year; provided that after five
years half of said net proceeds, and after 10
years the whole OF the same, shall be set
apart as an educational fund, which said
funds shall be invested in bonds of the
United States bearing rate of interest
of not less than per centum per annum,
both principal and interest payable in coin,
the interest on such educational fund only
to be appropriated as above provided,
and that for the first 10 years dis
uibution of net proceeds and interest ON the
fund to and among the several States, Terri
tories and District of Columbia, shall be
made according TO the number of their re.
speetiye population of ten years old and up
wards, who can not read and write, as shown
from time to time by the last preceding pub
lished census of the United States, the first
superintendent to be made on or before
July, 1878, when States and Territories
shall be entitled to receive their distributive
shares.
Mr.. Goode will offer an amendment, pro-
viding that onefourth of the money appro-
priated by this bill shall be given to Agricul-
tural Colleges and Institutions of learning
established in accordance with the act Of
Congress of July 2, 1862, unless in any
case the State Legislature shall otherwise
direct. = = LA.iLtJ NV lL.t.J Es
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A Novel Fire.Escape.

An Iowa deaf mute has invented a
novel fre-escape. 1t is cap. or turban
to be placed on the head and fastened
securely under the chin. 1t contains
enough material to form a small balloon,
and when inflated looks like bal
loon. 1t is so arranged that, when
placed on the head in its collapsed state,
the air can enter it from underneath,
and expand 1t. In case of danger, it is
adjusted firmly on the hesd, and the
wearer then jumps boldly from the win
dow of the burning building; the air
instantly rushes into the turban, swells
it into q balloon, and, buoyed by it, the
wearer comes down so gently as to
strike the ground with little force. The
inventor claims that with it one can
jump from a fourth-story window; but
to make certain of it, and to impart con-
fidence to the jumper, there is pair of
huge padded shoes to be fastened on the
feet so as to blunt the conclusion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

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", while her face, usually like wax
yellow wax-glowed lurid red.
Maybe you're afraid | should't make
you good husband, Lovisa, because
I'm getting along in years, and never
had any experience suggested he,
turning his averted face toward her with
a curyilinear jerk; "but I'd do my
best, and mother always gave me credit
for being willing. Actooally, now, Lo-
visa, it does pear to me 'twould con-
vene both on us if you was to make up
/ your mind TO have me.''
Again she shook her head, but more
feebly this time. David almost fancied
the motion might be only the dying vi
bration of her former negative, and
went away not altogether hopeless.
AT first, as we have seen, the thought
of matrimony had been to him rather
| distasteful than otherwise, but Lovisa S
persistent refusal aroused the latent
combativeness of his nature. The more
she would not marry him, the more de-
sirable she seemed to him, and he never
let slip an opportunity for pressing his
suit till be had wrung from her a prom
Use to reconsider his proposal.
With this weighty subject on her
mind, she came to visit us and help
about the currant ielly-and precious
little help she was! III I'd. ..'- ....
II feel so exercised, Mrs. Farms
worth!n she confessed to my mother,
privately. DO you think it would
make great deal of talk if should get
married." The second week she was
lamenting that Mr.. Yopp was not a
professor. Might she not be the chosen
instrument to lead him to the light? BY
the end of a third her sympathies had
gone out to a blind old father in need of
a woman's care, and she was querying
where duty lay. Ought she not to ask
the presiding elder?
Having sounded her by few adroit
questions, that reverend gentleman
smilingly advised the union, and this
virtually decided the matter for Lovisa.
Il will go to you, Mr.. Yopp-that is,
if it will be any accommodation, she
said, timidly, when, at the close of the
month, David came for his answer.
They were married the following
Thanksgiving, in the brides small par
Tor, while the stumpy little teapot in
the kitchen gurgled and choked
with glee. And the service
over and the wedding picnic
discussed, my father lent his horse to
David, and the happy pair drove away
on their wedding-tour, and were gone
at least three hours, during which the
nuptial guests transferred Lovisa's mod
est spinster belongings to her matron
home.
For 80 years these mature lovers lived
together like cushat-doves, and never to
the day of her death did Lovisa regret
the hour when she married David, ''just
to accommodate. .. .a.a'
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
The Queen of TrampS.

The Bangor (Me.) Commercial says:
Mrs. Mary MerriRan is respectable
appearing woman of 80, is not bad look
ing, and has every appearance of being
upright and of good character. She IS,
however, without doubt, the queen of
female tramps, and can discount the
great majority of male tramps. She is
not a genuine tramp-nOt of the regular
kind who are terror to the country
and work " cities and towns in a sys-
tematic manner, having their gates and
door-posts, signs, ETC., for of these she
knows nothing, and with this class of
people she does not associate, for they
are no society to her, but she likes the
business. She was born in st. Adams,
in this State, and her folks were farm
ers She has since lived in HermOn
with her brother, Joseph Merriman,
who does a good deal of trading in this
city. Three years ago this fall she took
it into her head to see the country, and
started out with neither scrip nor staff,
but a good pair of thick shoes. She
walked across the country, Drawing all
kinds of weather, and finally brought
up III CIlIUOH, IONds NHCu clC bOON
the back track and returned to this
city. Two years ago she decided to
start out again, and this time selected
a longer tour. She walked through
portions of Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylva
MIA, and on to Washington, where she
remained few days and ''did the CAPT
tall" and then made bolt for Savan-
nah, Ga, where she remained short
time. Then on she went, again.. doing
the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa,
Indiana, and finally got round to Kan
sas City. Here she stopped awhile and
earned a new tramping outfit. She
started again, this time with the inten
ton of crossing the plains to California,
but finally stopped when told by many
persons that it would be very unsafe for
her to think of attempting it alone. She
then started on a return trip, walking
from Kansas City to Chicago, thence to
Detroit, doing Niagara Falls, and cross
inc to Canada, thence to New York and
through Massachusetts, arriving at her
home in Hermon little more than a
week ago. She says she averages 26
miles day. She says when she gets
tired and out of clothes she finds no
trouble in getting a few days work, and
in this manner enjoys her life.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
Texas Camels.

As is pretty GENERALLY known, says
the Sherman DAILY Courier, there is a
camel ranch in Bastrop County, which
has been in existence some 20 years, and
furnished many menageries with these
ungainly beasts for exhibition. The
Hampstead Messenger of Thursday re-
ports another shipment of carload of
10 camels from Elgin, railroad station
this side of Austin, under charge OF MIR.
E. Lanfear, who is taking them to
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, where they are
to be added to the attractions of trav-
cling menagerie. The Messenger briefly
repeats the history of camel breeding in
Texas:
These camels are the progeny of those
brought into Texas about 20 years ago,
with the expectation that they would be
used for transportation on the staked
plains and other desert regions about
the time of the Mormon rebellion.
They were landed Galveston, but the
chances of employing them proftably
for army purposes failed, and they were
sold. They moved somewhat like the
elephant won in the rattle to the first
purchasers, but finally fell into the
hands of NJ. d. Mather, of Elgin, who
now owns the whole herd, about 90 in
number. Every year sales are made of
the increase, which is usually about 10,
to the various showmen of the country.
The price they bring is from $3.50 to
$500 each, at from two to five years OF
age. Mr. Lanfear says:
. They are no more trouble to raise
than horses or cattle. The colts for the
first three or four days are rather ten
der and require close. attention, but
after that take their chanches with the
herd. They feed on cactus and brush,
eschewing all grasses that horses and
cattle eat, if the favorite cactus can be
had. The females, with proper care,
give a colt every year, and the price at
which they are sold, the ease with which
they are raised, their extreme dOcility,
and the adaptibility of our climete to
their nature, would seem to indicate that
camel-raising is profitable business in
Texas" Mr.. Lanfear says there is one
camel in the herd that has travelled 150
miles between sun and sun, and that
most any well broke camel is good for
more than 100 miles in day.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
HINTs.FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

To Clean Copper. 5 cents
worth of oxalic acid in quart of water,
put little on rag and rub quickly; viii
make copper look nicely.
Chess cup of butter, cup of sug-
ar, the yelks of 3 eggs, a teaspoonful
of flour; bake in shells. The shells are
made of rich pie crust.
Cooked Icing.-1 cup white sugar I;
cover with water, let it boil hard. Beat
the white of egg to a stiff froth; put it
in the sugar while boiling; beat the
white constantly until almost cold. 1t
is spendid with fiavorirfg.
Bros0r Breads cups of sour milk,
1 teaspoonful of soda, tablespoonful
of molasses, cup of corn meal, Al cups
of Graham flour, and pinch of salt !;
steam j hours, and bake hour.
Indian PttddiBg.-Let quart of milk
come to boil, stir in meal, slowly, not
enough to make it too thick. When it
is smooth take it off the stove, put in
salt and molasses to taste; add two beat
en- eggs. Then pour pint of cold milk
over. Bake until quite brown, that will
be nearly an hour. 1t is quite as good
without Ihe eggs.
Sponge CGke.-Take eggs to tea
cup of sugar, tablespoonful of
sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking
/ powder, teacup of flour, teaspoon
/ full of lemon extract. Bake in a quick
oven. This cake is very delicate and
/ palatable, and as some of our good sis
| tiers are averse to the use of grease in
/ their food they will find this recipe of
service perhaps.
Hop YeGSt-Take potatoes, small
handful of hops, boil together until the
potatoes are done, then take out the
! hops and mash the potatoes; then add
two cups of flour, cup of sugar, and !
cup of salt. Stir them as you would
for paste; then pour the mixture boiling
hot and stir well; add cup of yeast to
make it rise; the above will make gal
Ion of good hop yeast.
Corn Starch Pudding.-To be nodded
in cups and eaten cold with cream and
sugar: One and one half tablespoonfuls
of corn-starch, / quart milk, egg,
little salt, tablespoonfuls sugar. Heat
the milk to near boiling; add the corn
starch, previously dissolved in some of
the cold milk, then the egg; let it boil
up once or twice, stirring briskly; flavor
to taste, and wet the cups i'll cold water
before pouring the custard in.
Farmers CGke.-1 egg and the yelk
of another, cup of sugar, lump of
butter as large as hens egg, nutmeg,
l cup of thin sour cream, teaspoonful
of saleratus, cup heaping full of AOuri
beat the eggs, sugar, and butter togeth-
er, then add cream and saleratus, nut
meg and flour last. If you wish it extra
nice, put in the whites of two eggs and
use white pulverized sugar and tea
spoonful of essence of lemon; leave out
the nutmeg.
HuLLed C0rn.-Take white corn if you
can get it; none but plump corn; shell
and boil it in weak I've until the hull is
broken; then clean off the I've, fill the
kettle, or turn the corn into dish-pan;
take your hands and rub the corn well;
wash in several waters (the old way is
nine times, but six will do), then clean
your kettle and return to the stove; put
in plenty of water and boil until very
tender, which usually takes almost the
entire day. As the water boils away
add more. 1t is better to add hot wa
ter than cold.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

The honest heart may well be proud
An honest tear to shed:
With loving hand l sew her sl1r0ud;
The good old soul is dead.
She died as she had lived-alOne;
We found hCr-nOt one q ace
OF the last fearful passion shown
BY her dear, withered face.
Reproach, regret were all in vain,
Twas like her so to die,
As if to save our hearts the pain
of bidding her good by. fE
How poor and plain she used to be!
How generous and how kind -..
She left blessed memory
And three black gowns behind.
The little place she used to rent a.a-z
viii be a lonely spot;
A certain grace her presence lent
To the house and garden plot.
The children swung upon her gate,
And watched her apples fan,
And still, like some benignant fate,
She smiled upon them all. --. -
The roses on her window tree
Were plucked before they bloomed;a
And lavender and sanctity
Her quiet rooms perfumed.
She rests at last from pain and woe;
She sees Gods perfect viii;
And yet, though free from care, | know,
She must be busy still.
Perchance, while through the golden air
The heavenly music swells,
She SHOWS some httle angel where .
To lind the asphodcls.
or. sent with mercies from the skies, .,
To comfort sOnls unblest, n. - . -..a
She flies, Gods bird of Paradise,
On wings that can not rest.
Glad be her flight She rises DER
The cloud that round us lowers;
The tears shall fill her eyes no more
That gather fast in ours.
Marion Douglas, IN Saturday afternoon.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
SOMEBODY'S MOTHER.

The woman was old and ragged and gray.
Aad bent with the chill OF the winters day;
The street was wet with a recent snow.
And the woman's feet were aged and slow.
She stood at the crossing. and waited long.
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng
of human beings who passed her by,
Nor needed the glance OF Ler anxious eye
Down tlIe street., with Ian gli and shout, u
Glad in the freedom Of school let OUT
Came the boys, like a flock of sheep,
Hailing the snow piled white and deep.
Past the woman so old and gray
fastened the children on their way,
Nor offered a helping hand TO her,
SO meek, so timid, afraid to stir
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
should crowd her down in the slippery street.
At last came out of the merry troop
The gayest laddie of all the group;
He paused beside her, and whispered low,
IN help you across, if you want to CO.
Her aged hand on his strong young arm
she placed, and so, without hurt or harm,
lie guided the trembling feet along, .
Proud that his own were firm and strong.
Then back again to his friends lac went,
His young heart happy and well content.
" She's somebody's mother, boys, yeu know,
For all she's aged and poor and slow;
And hope some fellow viii lend a hand
To help my mother, you understand,
II ever she's poor and Old and gray,
When her own dear boy IS far away"
And u sornebody'l rnotbprf' bowed low bor
head
In her home that night, and the prayer she
said
Was, God, be kind to the noble boy,
Who Is somebody's son and pride and JOY"
-Harper'S Weekly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

CIiford's Febrifuge is not a panaeea
for all the ills to which flesh is heir. We dc
not profess to have DISCOVERED cure-Gll
but we confidently recommend it 70 you as 3
sure, safe and speedy cure for all diseases
arising from Malaria. In this class of dis
eases it is a specific; it enters the circulation
and utterly destroys the germs Of the poison
it will purify and build up the debilitated
system in a shorter time and with more last
ing benefit, than any other known remedy,
J. c. RICHARDSON, PrOp'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

No TINE TO BE LosT.-In the incipient
stages Of Consumption, the first symptoms are
generally a hacking cough, pains in the chest,
difficulty of breathing or oppression OF the
lungs. Something should be done at once to
check the cough, allay and heal the irritated
parts. Aliens Lung Basam will break up the
cough in an incredibly short time, also prevent
the formation of tubercles. Where turbercles
are once formed, the disease is hard to cure.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
Household Econ01nt.

The housekeeper or cook who studies econ
ony in the kitchen, can do so in one direction
by always using DboLEY's YEAST POWDER. It
will be found truly economical and valuable
assistant in baking biscuits, rolls, bread, cake
of all kinds, waliies, mullins, and most all ar
ticles prepared from -four; and why. Because,
in using the DOoley Powder, you save in eggs,
III shortening, in patience, i'll everything; and
when the baking is done, it is turned out light
palatable and wholesome, so that every mOrsel
is eaten up and no waste.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

SroDDAKp's POULTRY WORLD" Hartford,
Conn. should be had by all fcwl-h-eeders. Costs
but 81 % yearly or only g. 90, INCLUDING II SUI
perior CHRoMOs TO subscribers. 1t is practical,
original, and always fresh. f0c. single number.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

"A freckled-faced girl in Maine didn't
get High School diploma, but she has
gathered 1,400 pounds of spruce gum
this year and made enough money to
buy her a 19years' supply OF striped
stockings. Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

ATtns season Of the year the system Is liable
b become dsordered from the insufficient Efforts Of me
LIVER to discharge the Of bile. II nature Is nos
assisted In her efforts severe bilious attacks or
Frustrating fevers necessarily follow causing great SUI
fering and death. little timely precaution how
ever viii prevent all this and may be found in that IA
vurife household remedy SIMMONS LIVER kEGU-
4
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Rbeumattsm ouickIy Cured.

''Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great In
ternGi Medicine, will positively cure any case of
rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price 81 q
bottle Sold by all Druggists Send for circular
to Helphenstine & Bentley Washington. ID. @.
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5Ibtbers. Mothers. Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRs. WINsLOw's SOoTH-
ING SYRUP for all Diseases of teething IN chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels and, by giving relief
and health to the child. gives rest to the mother.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

When an estate is sold in Ireland
the Irish Board of Works is empowered
to advance a certain sum to help a per-
son who has been tenant on the estate
to purchase his farm, the money being
a first charge on the land sold. Lately,
when an estate was sold in Tyrone,
five-sixths of it were bought by former
tenants f.f. b