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Be Honest with Your Children.

Interview with Colonel Ingersoll /
haven't any. Don't balieve in family
government. 1 don't correct my chill
dren at all. / warn them of the conse-
quences of evil habits, but 1 tell them
they could never do any thing bad
enough to make me hate or disown
them. keep pocket book in drawer,
and they go and help themselves to
money whenever they want it. They
eat when they want to and what they
want to. They sleep all day if they
choose, and sit up all light if they
desire. I don't attempt to coeIcs them
in any way. l never punish, and
never scold. They buy their own
clothes and they are masters of them
selves. / teach them that every thing
we have we own in common ; it is just
az much theirs as mine. Here's 8
sample of the way handle my children:
One of them got valuable illustrated
hook one day, and marked and tore it.
7 came in and asked the girl who did it.
She said, q did it." l took her up and
kissed and Rugged her and gave her lots
a. GOOD advice. She has never troubled
me since. If my children lie, 1 tell
them, Bless your souls, I've lied a
thousand times, but never made any
thing by it." / tell them lying don't
nay Don't claim before your children
to be better than you are. Be honest
with your children if you want them
to be Donest with you.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22
A Couple of Curious Cases.

The highest court CT Germany has just
decided queer case in a queerer man
ner. a butchers wife obtained divorce
on the ground of desertien. He APP
psa'ed, declaring that she had driven him
from home by Injurious and defamatory
expressions, and was therefore really the
guilty party. The court, however, nor
suited him, and held that, since both
parties belonged to the lower classes,
where such expressions we're common,
there was nothing defamatory in them.
A Berlin innkeeeper entertained some
guests after the legal hour for closing.
A policeman appeared among the con-
Uiues, when the publican exclaimed:
q Gentlemen, the policeman got in
through the window" The officer
brought him up for defaming him in the
discharge of his duty, but the publican
vas acquitted. "a The intention of rid
iculing the Officer was clear" said the
judge, but the expression itself was not
wisely chosen. For, since it would have
been the duty of the policeman to come
in through the window instead of through
the back door as he actually did, if he
had had no other means of ingress, the
charge OF the publican, though false, was
not defamatory."
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22
william Grace.

As a general inquiry OF ''WhRt is Grace's
Saive. and who is us originator ~ may seem
to be question worthy of being answered,
we have been induced TO give the following
brief yet truthful account of its history
This Salve Is q vegetable preparation, in
vented in the seventeenth century by Dr..
William Grace, who was surgeon in King
James's army, and who from that time al
ways used it in his professional practice,
whenever soreness or Inflammation pre-
scented itself. AS a medical agent for the
cure of wounds it was followed with great
success, and thousands of the veterans that
were wounded in the campaigns OF 1858 and
1859 owed to this salve the salvation of their
lives Col. Richard Grace, VINO was King
James's chamberlain, introduced this Salve
into the royal palace, where Il was used with
the greatest success, and highly esteemed
for its virtues in the cure Of sores. At the
siege of Athlone, Col Grace ordered it to be
administered TO his compatriOts who We're
wounded during the memorable day of the
battle; and il was used with such success
that the head surgeon of the army at AGgh-
rim ordered DIR. Grace to manufacture 100
gross, and distribute it among the hospitals
before the battle. On the sad defeat ST
Aughrm, after Ginkle's army took possess
sion of the battlefield, several ambuiances,
which had been abandoned by the retreat.
ing army, were found TO contain sealed eases
of the Salve. The English surgeons tested
it upon their wounded, and ascertaIned its
value, and thus were both of the contend
ing ar.lies befriended by it. Both Dr. Viii
liam Grace and Col Richard Grace died in
the camnaign OF 1691--the former of disease,
the latter killed 10 the intsenchments of
Athlone, with the flag of his country wrapped
around him, cheering his men on to victory
After the death OF DR.. Grace, the Saive was
not used mucn outside of his family until
the rebellion of 1898, when William Grace.
grandfather of the subscriber, applied It's
virtues, at the battle of Ross, TO his brave
comrades v no fell wounded while fighting
for the rights OF their country. This salve
was quite extensively used in certain local.
ties of ireland, being furnished gratuitously
by the subscribers parents until 1913, when
they left the land OF their nativity and came
to this country, bringing with them the Sc
cret of the Save they received from their
ancestors. They continued to make the
Salve, as before, for their neighbors, free of
charge, until the fall of 1851, when the fre-
9uent calls for it, and the serious cases cured
by il, inuuoeu Cne subscriber to bring it into
more general notice. and to charge a small
price for the article that has received the
recommendation of patriots upon the battle
fields of yore, as well as from persons of the
present day.-Toronto Advertiser, March
8, 1878.
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Concerning Blunders.

There is no end to the ignorance with
which the stage is discussed in the press
The ether day a New York journal
referred 10 Mr.. Booths performance Of
q Louis XII" as having lately made the
part known, whereas, in fact, Mr.. Booth
has never appeared in this character. A
Philadelphia paper now arrives with the
announcement that Mr.. Booths present
engagement in that city is the first he
has played there in five years, and that
in acting " Hamlet" he now for the first
time follows the text of Shakespeare. 1t
must be great comfort for an earnest,
scholar-like, and competent actor to
read such comments upon his work as
are vouchsafed in most of the news
papers of the time. Not long since a
Brooklyn journal objected to Mr..
Booths restoration of " Richard Ill,
that it retains the apparitions intro
duced by Cibberl Cibber introduced
no apparitions, and Mr.. Booths version
of the tragedy does not contain line
aside from two or three phrases-that is
not in the original piece. The advent
of Elizabeth Won Stamwitz-a conven-
ventional, heavy actress, who is now
speaking broken English at the Broad
way Theater-has led to the sapient
statement that her" German accent is
not so marked as that of Modjeska, who
is native of Poland, and who has no
German accent at all in fact, Mod
jeska's popularity of speech is not ac-
cent but infection or cadence. Instances
of this ignorant and loose way of writing
about the stage might be multiplied.
The moral seems to be that more study
of these subjects and less of reckless
writing about them would be wholesome
to all concerned
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22
Success.

Success must be conquered. The man
who is tit for place is seldom neglected.
He who ceases to strive in order that he
may sit down and complain that he is
sighted, overlooked, forgotten, may rest
assured that his case will grow more and
more desperate the longer he complains.
Whining does not overcome neglect, but
courts it. Courage, diligence, cheerful
ness, faith--these are the traits which
mark the successful man.
WHAT a shame that I should be
starvingl" exclaimed poor corset.
maker out of work ~ that have stayed
the stomach of hundreds"
IN WHAT respect does Bishop re-
sembIe fish !? Both live in the see.
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THE best timber in sound tree is
always the part near the ground.
TIE tensile strength of lance wood is
double that of beech or chestnut.
To clean stair-rods use wooden cloth
wet with water and dipped in sifted coal
ashes sfterward rub with dry cloth.
To KEEP THE HOUSE CooL.--An East
Indian traveller writes te an exchange !:
aft people were to shut up and darken
their houses ia the coolest hours of the
mcsni0g, leaving only apertures enough
for ventilation, aad 10 those apply
loosely-woven mats of fragrant grass,
and keep Them vet, every breath OF air
coming into the house would take up the
moisture, and the temperature within
would be reduced many degrees"
CINDERs IN THE EYE.-IIaviDg noticed
two communications in your journal
lately under the above heading, permit
me to give You very simple remedy
have used for years with success: A
small czmers hair-brush dipped in water
and passed over the ball of the eye on
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22
That Postal Decision.
Detroit Free Press

want you to distinctly understand,
sir I" began Third street wife, as her
husband came home and tossed into her
lap an open letter addressed to her per
sonaily; / want you to distinctly un.
derstand that I read the papersl"
g Do, CHI" was his careless reply.
s. Yss, sir, dc; and / know that the
Postmaster-General has a rule that a
husband has no control over his wife's
correspondence. Here, sir, you have Tor
the 18th or sixth time, opened a letter
addressed to me personally"
@Yes, know it," he demurIy replied
and for the fifth or sixth time I have
written across the envelope, .Opened bv
mistake If that doesn't cover the
case you can appeall''
She didn't appeal, but she is going to
rent lock-box.
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NEW ORLEANS.
ST. LOUIS.


Yes, although they may despair of relief,
it is attainable by rheumatic sufferers, for
there is a remedy which carries off, by means
Of increased activity of the kidneys in
por.ant channels for blood publication
the acrid element to which pathOlogists the
most eminent attribute the painful symp-
urinary analysis The name of this grand
depurent is Hostetter's Bitters, prepare
ton likewise celebrated as a remedy for
constipation, which causes contamination of
the blood with theibile-and a certain means
of relief in dyspepsia, fever and ague, and
nervous ailments. 1t is, perhaps, the finest
tonic extanf, and is highly recommended as
a medicinal stimulsnt by distinguished
physicians and analysts, who pronounce
it to be eminenuy pure and very beneficial
The press also indorses Il.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

raising the lid. The operation requires
no skill. takes but mement, and
instantly removes any cinder or particle
of dust or dirt without inaaming the
eye.-TCor. Scientific American.
SUBSTITUTES FOR IcE.--The following
are recommended by southern news
paper SIS freezing powders, which may
prove useful in hot weather, where ice is
not obtainsble; |. Four pounds sulphste
of soda, to one and half pounds each of
muriate of ammonia and initiate of pot
ash when about to use, and deible The
weight Of all the ingredient in water. 2.
Equal parts ef nitrate of potash and
muls ate of ammonia; when required for
use, add more than double the weight in
water. Nitrate al ammonia and
water IL equal portions. Carbonate of
soda aud nitrate Of ammonis, equal
parts. aud one equivalent OF water,
A SIMPLE mode of testing the infam-
inability of coal oil In small cup or
glass place small quantity of oil to be
tested immense in the oil the bulb of q
good thermometer; suspend the cup CON
tanning the oil in vessel of water
move about close to tho surface of the
oil lighted taper, and note the degree
on the thermometer at which the oil
bsgins to emit infammable vapor (the
flashing point), and again that at which
the oil infames. Oil to be used in
lamps should not take fire below one
hundred and fifteen degrees Fahrenheit
In applying the lighted taper, the flame
must be kept away from the glass q -
Thermometer.
MANY people are puzzled to understand
Whist the terms e fourpenny,n and six
penny" and "tenpenny" means as
applied to nails. e Fourpenry means
four pounds to the one thousand nails,
or sixpenny," six pounds to the one
thousand, and so on. II is an old
EngIish term, and meant at first " ten
pound nails (the one thousand being
understood); but the old English clipped
it to the tenpun," and from that it
until 'penny" was substi-
tuted for pounds" So when you ask
fer iourpenny nails nowadays, you want
those of which one thousand will weigh
four pounds When one thousand nails
weigh less than one pound they are called
tacks, brads, etc, and are reckoned by
ounces
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Wanted to be an Editor.
Franklin patrio,

franklin Patriot
nave you had any experience in the
business r we asked of verdant look
ing youth who applied for an editorial
position the other dav
Haven't though ?D he replied, as he
showed one foot under his chair to hide
the unskillful patching of a baekwoods
cobbler. II should say I'd had some
xPerience-haven'tf corresponded with
the P"nPkinviile Screamer for six weeks +?
liant experience enough ?''
That will do very well" we replied,
but when we take young men on our
editorial staff, we generally put them
through an examination. How much
are twelve times one ?"
Twelve why any little boy ought to
am
'Hold on, please-don't be too fast
who discovered America ?"
"Klumbusi Pshaw, them questions
arejust as easy as"-
"Who was the first man %
"Adam why Mister, I knew all .
"What was his other name ?'
ellis other name? why he didn't have
none"
eyes, he did. You see that's where
we've got you. His other name was
Observation-Disclosures Adam, Esq, late
of Paradise. Nobody knows this but
editors, and see to it that you don't tell
any body"
He said he wouldn't.
"Ho W many bones are there in the
human body Pr
"well, forget now, but did know
wunst"
"Whatl don't you know that? Why
there's 7,4ss921, A bones in an or
binary man. a man that snores has one
bone more than other people"
"What bone is that ?"
"The trombone. 1t is situated some
where in the nose. You won't forget
that, will You ~
He said ne wouldn't.
GLOW long would it take mud-turtle
to cross the desert of Sahara with small
orphan boy to touch him up behind with
a red.hot poker ?"
"Well, look here, Mister, if l had a
slate and pencil 1 could figger that out,
but dog my skin if I'm much on mental
'rithmetic."
estate and pencil Did you ever see
a slate and pencil about sanctum ?
Well, we'll let that question slip. Have
you got good constitution p
"Putty tolerable."
"How long do you suppose you could
live on raw corn and faith, snd do the
work of a domesticated ELEPHANT"
"Lord don't believe I could live
morn week
"Well, that's about as long as you'd
want to live If you got an editorial posi-
ton ON this paper. You appear to be
pretty well posted; we shall ask one
more question, and if you prove equal to
it you can take off your coat and sail In"
"Let's have Ter squire. didn't cor
respond for the PuDlpkmVias Screon1er six
weeks for nothin'. Let FER come-Pm
on deck, am"
"Well, sir, if two diametrical circles
with octagonal peripheries should collide
with a centrifugal idiosyncrasy, or, to
put it palmer, wen say a dis-enfran-
chised nonentity, what effect would the
catastrophe exert on a crystalized cod
fish suspended by the tail from the
homogeneous raiters of the empyrean ?''
AS the full force of this ponderous
problem broke upon his bewildered brain,
he slowly dragged his inartistically cob
bled shoe from under his chair, and
started from the roam. We heard him
descend the stairs, 60 out, and close the
door. We then plscidIy resumed our
duties, regretting that so promising a
youth should have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting.
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No Conundrums.

Here is "peser" towhich a cores
pendent asks an immediate and explicit
answer: "What do Episcopalians mean
by the Communion of Saint?' " This re-
minds Causer of a story which an old
time minister used to tell. A revival
was in progress in his church, and during
the service one evening, sailor, seeing
no other place vacant, 'came to an
anchor" in the anxious seat" not know
ing the special purpose for which they
were set apart. At the close OF the
service the good pastor, .supposing him
anxious for spiritual comfort, took a seat
by the sailors side and asked him how
how he felt. pretty well, thankee, " said
Jack, evidently pleased with the atten-
ton. 'sBut how is your soul?'' persisted
the kindly old man. None of thai"
said Jack, hitching himself away; none
of your conzndrunss here.n
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DURING trial the Judge called wit
ness No one answered, an elderly man
arose and solemnly, said " He is gone"
aWhere has he gomez" asked the Judge,
IN 70 tender tone. II don't know; but
he Is dead" was the guarded answer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

To BE of permanent benefit a medicine
must reach the source of the disease. The
reason why Seovill's Blood and Liver Syrup
is so successful in overcoming scrofulous,
syphilitic and eruptive complaints is that it
entirely roots out those impurities which
give rise to them. The cause of the evil
being thus removed and the normal purity
of the circulation restored. the skin resumes
its original clesrness, and sores and pimples
disappear. Sold by all druggists.
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Sincere Affection.
Brooklyn Argus.

A San Francisco correspondent writes
that the ladies of that city are great
spectators. So are Brooklyn ladies.
Ardent young suffer: 'sDo you love
me, Pauline ?" Clinton avenue belle:
'.You know 7 do, Arnold" Young
suffer: "Will you promise to be mine?"
Brooklyn belle: al can't say now; give
me q week to answer" He gives her
week TO answer, and she Immediately
hires detective to find out what his
prospects are.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

HIP DISEASE, fever sores, ulcers oioIcne5,
pimples. and many loathsome diseases orr
ginate IN impure blood. Parsons pnrga.lVe :
Pills make new, rich blood, and VIII cn isce
the blood in the entire system IN three
months, taken one night.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

ALL persons about TO visit foreign lahos,
sailors, fishermen. Iumbermen and miners
should take with them supply of Johnson
Anodyne Liniment. 1t is both for lnterna !.
and external use, and is worth its weight
in gold
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

FAMILIARITY with the writings OF the great poe1 n
IL necessity to any one who wishes to appear -
in company For 10 cents we win send book OF ~
selections from the beautiful melodiesoI Aiooe ~
grand poems OF Byron and the unequsled song ~
Burns and 80 popular songs. DESMOND Oo-' az
Race street, PHILADELPHIA.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

A LADY who gazed approvingly at the
ncaI,y nulshed dome of the new court
house remarked to friend Wont 1t
be splendid when they get new justice
of the peace up there?"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

A NEGLECTED cough, cold or sore throat
which might be checked by a simple remedy,
like eBrown's Bronchial Troches," if allowed
to progress may terminate seriously. % cts.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

BEST organs as a whole, and best workman
ship in detail, is the conclusion reached at
the Paris Exposition as TO the Mason & Ham
lin Cabinet Organs Organs from thirty best
makers in the world were tested and COM
pared bv four juries-viz., the Class jury
Group Jury, Jury of Presidents, and Su.-
preme Jury; who awarded to Mason & Ham
lin two highest awards
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

For upwards of thirty years Mrs WILSON, We
Soothing Syrup has been used Tor cnl n;1;tv
with never-failing success. 1t corrects acioty
of the stomach, relieves wind CONE Ieguttas aa
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrnosa'
whether arising from teething or other causes
An old and wellstried remedy. Zoe. Dos'le'
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SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.

GOVERNMENT COMMISSION ON THE
HeG DIsEAsE.-Dr. Alfred Dunlap. one
OF the government commissioners to
investigate the diseases of swine, has
made tour through Adair, Dallas,
Guthrie and Madison Counties, in Iowa,
and reached some instructive conclu-
aions, which have found expression in
print by the industry OF reporters and
interviewers. He says that large part
OF the reported hog cholera is not that
disease at all in fact, there Is very little
chUaera among hogs. The malady that
Is killing SO many Is simply fever of
typhoid type, resulting from filth, bao
treatment, care and keep. The Dsctor
says it is no wonder that hogs die.
Wherever he found hogs in pens, the
pens were nasty, never cleaned and If
they were not pens. the hogs were kept
in nasty fields, and in all cases fed sour
grass and clover, sour slops, and allowed
to roll in stagnant, dead, filthy pools, and
many of them are fed IN these filthy
cesspools. The inevitable result of such
care and feeding is disease. The hog,
though naturally wallower in the
mire, may be killed By filth. The dis
ease is rot contagious nor fatal until it
assumes the form of diphtheria. and
prior to this stage may be easily con.
trolled and cured. It is easily prevented
by the proper care and treatmens of
animals
We feel like thanking the government
fer supplying the farmers with a new
class OF educators in the weighty matter
OF preventing disease in man and beast.
Dr.. Dunlap viii next visit Illinois and
give public lectures on the management
of breeding and fatting swine, and the
best ways and meansof preserving sound
health and securing a profit on raising
hogs. The Doctor knows that unhealthv
pigs, fun of worms, with difficult breath
ing, are not unlike unhealthy chill
dren IN the same condition. Both
invite the germs of diphtheria, having a
nest, or indus, in which these GERMS
may incubate and multiply indefinitely.
Microscopic trichiEe grow SIS Justify.
and more destructively, in the anna and
legs of man than in the parent flesh of
swine. TIE child and the pig are alike
Ia consuming daily as food both vegeta-
bic and animal matter. They are so
closely related that the young tapes
worm found only in the child never
could reach the adult state without
spending half its life in the tissues OF the
pig.
1t is fastidious taste in worm that
demands pigs blood the first half of its
curious existence, and human bloed the
other half. Many insects do the same
as we may show in another article at
another time.
IT filth and manure out Of place kin
hogs every year worth millions of dollars.
they do much worse by that biped that
laughs and cries. talks and reads news
papers. To prevent disease, cleanliness
must be elevated to a science. This has
become in human progress the next step
In our civilization and improvement.
If cities, towns, hamlets and farm dwell
iings are to be constructed near malarial
ponds and swamps, these must be drained
and cleared, and seeded TO nutritious
grass Tor health and profit. There is
much for man to do, and glory in doing
well the work before him.
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To cleanse and whiten the teeth,to sweefeh
the breath, use Browns Camphorated Sip9na'
eous Dentifree- Twenty-Five cents bottle
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22

THE following legend is inscribed on
the front of butcher shop in an inland
town Of Pennsylvania "Kssh pade for
ttel halves nut mourn two daze DID,"