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The Strawberry.

The following palate-thrilling encomium
of the strawberry is from essays by John
Burroughs: sLocusts and Wild Honey
-"On the threshold Of simmer, nature
proffers us this, her virgin fruit; more
rich and sumptuous are to follow, but the
wild delicacy and FLIP of the strawberry
are never repeated-that keen feathered
edge greets the tongue in nothing else.
Let me not be afraid of overpraising it
but probe and probe for words to hint Its
surprising virtues. We may we'll cele.
brate 1t with festivals and music. It has
that indescribable quality of all first things
the shy, uncoying, provoking barbed
sweetness. 1t is eager and sanguine as
youth. 1t was born of the copious dews,
the fragrant nights, the tender skies, the
plentiful rains of the early season. The
singing of birds is in it, and the health
and frolic of lusty Nature. 1t is the pro.
duct of liquid May, touched by the june
sun. 1t has the tartness, the ibriskness,
the unruliness Of Spring, and the aroma
and intensity of summer Oh, the straw.
berry days! how wildly they coue back
to one! The SIN IL of clover in the fields,
of blooming rye on the hills, of the wild
grapes beside the woods, and of the sweet
honeysuckle and spirea about the house
The first hot, moist days. The daisies and
buttercups, the songs of the birds, theil
first reckless jollIty and love. making over
the full, tender foliage of the tre s, the
bees swarming, and the air strung with
resonant musical chords. The time of the
sweetest and most succulent grass, when
the cows come home with aching udders
Indeed, the strawberry belongs to the
iuciesk time of the year." t=Reisa
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Al7-Year old A6urderess.

A caustic Frenchman once observed that
'the true test of a nations civiliza-
ton is the way in which il
commits. Its murders" judged by
which standard, Russia may claim a
high place ON the strength of numerous
tragedies of a much more artistic
character than that which startled New
York recently. The or three years ago a
Young girl in one of the. villages Of the
Province of Kharkoff, betrothed to a
peasant of the same place, was compelled
by her parents to break her engagement
and marry q rich farmer, whose wealth
they apparently considered an ample set
off against his age, ugliness and notorious
intemperance. Two months after the
wedding, he was found dead in his bed,
bearing unmistakable signs of apOplexy.
The slight suspicious aroused by the we'll
known disagreemcnts Of the pair soon
died away; but they were revived q few
months later by some words which the
widow muttered in her Sleep. and a
skillful detective at length succeeded in
entrapping her into q confession. She had
deliberately intoxicated her husband
until he was perfectly helpless, and then
laid him on the floor with his face in a
dishful of water, thus sitting him as
effectually as If he had been drowned,.an
producing the symptoms. which had
misled the examining physicians. At the
time of her final transportation to Siberia
she was barely II! ~. ~.ss
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
ROw the Indians Made Their Arrow
Heads.

A young man in the Smithsonian In
siitute, (writes the Washington CORES
pondent of the Cleveland Leader,) has
made public the discovery of the method
employed in making the stone and vol
canic glass arrow-heads, daggcrs, knives.
axes and razors of the prehistoric races.
Up to this time this has been a great
problem to all antiquarian students, but
no theory has ever heen advanced show
ing so practical results as Cushing's. He
started to solve the difficulty by putting
himself in the identical position of the
Aztecs or Mound Builders-without any
thing to work with except sticks, various
shaped stones such as he could find on
the banks of any stream, and his hands.
After making some rude implements by
chipping one flint with another, he dis
covered that the amount of chipping
would produce surfaces like the best of
those which he was trying to initiate.
He therefore came to the conclusion that
there was another way of doing it, and,
by chance, tried pressure with the point
of a stick, instead of chipping by blows Of
stone; when, presto he found he could
break stone, flint and obsidian in any
shape he chose. Soon he had made spear.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
Boston stinhess and western Hospi.
sfk tality.

| aEE G8Ahtys
1 Boston'5 merchants are entertaining
their brethren from Chicago right royalty
this week, and the guests will return home
convinced that the hospitality is not a los,
| art on the seaboard. So it will do no harm
| to tell the story, which Causeur heard re
Gently, but not in the west-a story which
Boston may well ponder over, for though
she has a warm heart, and opens it wide
| always "a many years ago. two young
men, John and James, Boston boys both,
were fellow-clerks on Kilby street. John
went to Chicago in Its muddy days, pros
pered, married, raised a family, and, ere
his hair was gray, became a well-to do,
substantial citizen, open-handed and open
hearted. James renamed at home. He,
too, prospered, married, raised family and
became one of the solid men of Boston. -
Now, it fell out that when Johns eldest
son-they called him Jack-was twenty.
one, he visited Boston, bearing a letter to
his fathers old friend, whom he found in
a dingy Pearlstreet counting room, deep
in The Advertiser. Jack presented the
letter and stood, hat in hand, while the
old gentleman read it twice. $50, you're
Johns son ?" he said. "You don't look a
bit like your father" Then there was q
pause, Jack still standing. "What brought
you to Boston," he was asked. "Well,
chs Sdiu OdSh, iothCi OctCcI
see his old home and get a tast of salt
air." Going 10 be here over Sunday ~
Yes. sir" MY pew is No. - at Trim
ity. Hope to see you there. Glad to
have met you" And there the interview
ended. Now it chanced that, not long
after, James son, rowing through the
west, reached Chicago. He remembered
his fathers friend by name and hunted
him up in his Office. "Well, my son."
said pleasant voice, before he had closed
the door. my name is James -,
sir, and 1 thought" "What?" "You
don't mt an to say that. OF course you
are. 1 might have known it. Where's
your baggageg" "At the hotel, sir" "At
the hotels Well go and get it and take
it right up to the house." answered the
genial old gentleman, closing his desk
with a vigorous slam. We'll go right up
now. There's plenty of time for drive
this afternoon. This evening you can 60
to the theatre with my girls, and to NOR
row you and will take q run on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and
have look at the country. Then 1 want
to take you out to the stock yards, and
have a trip on the lake, and" But, sir"
broke in the overwhelmed young man, II
must go home tomorrow" "Tut. tut, my
boy. don't talk that way. You can't begin
to see this city under a week, and you're
gong to stay that long. anyhow" And
he did. In fact he's there now.-[ Boston
Transcript.
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heads and daggers that would cut like a
razor, as good as any he had before him
which had been picked up from all over
the world. By little more observation,
he found that the ''faking," which he
calls his process, on the old arrowhead
left grooves that all turned one way. He
produced like result by turning his
stick the easiest way from right to left.
He therefore concludes that the pre-his-
tories were righthandcd people like our
selves. This conclusion is reinforced by
the fact that occasionally an arrowhead
is found that has flakes running from lett
to right, showing lefthanded person.
The importance of the discovery is, it
shows that the early races were able to
do this work without the use OF iron or
bronze-a thing long doubted.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
THE UNSEEN sPIRITs .

The shadows lay along Brsadway,
Twas near the twilight tide.
And slowiy there lady fair
Wss walking in her pride; s-s
Alone walked she, but viewicssiy -
walked spirits At her side.
Peace charmed the street beneath hsr feet.
And Henor charmed the air.
And al astir looked kind on her.
And called her good a. fair;
For all God ever gave TO her
She kept with chary care.
She kept with care her beauties rare
From lovers warm and true.
For her heart was cold to all but gold.
And the rich came not 10 ZOO;
But honorsd we'll are charms to seli
II priest the selling do
Nov walking there was one more fair
siight girl, lily pale,
And she had unseen company
To make the spirit quail;
Twin Want and Soorn she walked foriorn.
And nothing could avail
No mercy now can clear her brow.
For this worlds pescs 10 prsy:
For. - loves Wild prayer dissolved In air.
Her woman . heart gave vayi
But the sin fsrgivsa by Christ In Heaven
By man n cured away.
In. P. winh.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
Mount Hood .s an Amateur Volcano.

About nine O'Clock yesterday morning
any person observing Mount Hood could
have noticed with naked eye changing
cloud of smoke that hung upon the south
side of the mountain, far above the snow
line, and climbing almost to the summit.
Observing this carefully with a glass, it
was plain to be seen that the smoke changes
its form and movement constantly,
apparently pouring out of the south side
of the mountain, from half to one-qua!ter
of mile telow the summit. Those who
have ascended the mountain locate the
site of an old crater OF the southwest
side, some distance below the summit.
They have to- cross this locality to make
the ascent, and always find sulphurous
fumes issuing from the crevices and the
rocks heated by internal fires. There is
no doubt that Mount Hood at times sends
forth eruptions of smoke. though such
manifestations are not of frequent OccurI
renee, or at least are not often reported.
We have lived within view of the noun
tain for nearly thirty years, and have only
once before, about fifteen years ago, seen
unmistakable emissions of smoke, which
lasted about an hour, and came from the
same part of the mountain that we OBJ
served it yesterday, and each time the fac
of its being smoke was not to be doubted
l-[Portland (Oregon) Bee, May Goth.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03

Marion G.. Collins, of Tennessee, claims
to have discovered cure for rattlesnake
bites. Drs Eve and Shacklett of Nash
Vile, according to the American, made a
test of the medicine. Collins let a rattle
snake bite him ON the wrist, and at once
applied to the wound and took inwardly a
decoction of MOSES from oak and hickory
trees. He suffered from nausea, and his
pulse and temperature were excited, but
within an hour he had completely recov-
cred: The bite Of the same reptile speedi.
@y killed a dog.
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London street Accide.nlt,.. ,


The news of military engagement in
which four thousand of our troops had
been wounded would produce feeling Of
the deepest melancholy, but the intelli-
gence that, during the last year, no less
than 1851 persons have been injured by
accidents in the London streets will be
quietly accepted as a piece of curious
statistical information. To be run over by
u cab or to be knocked down by BUTCH
er's cart affords no title to the sympathy of
your fellow-men. Such casualties have
become so completely part of our daily
life that they havelostany picturesque ele-
ment they might at one time have possess
ed. When bicycles weie first introduced
the novelty of the danger did indeed serve
for while to give certain interest to
street accidents. The world was wearied
of being injured by ordinary vehicles, but
to be wounded by bicycle was new ex-
periehce, which numbers of persons hasten
ed to take advantage. Considering the spir-
it witk which these ingenious machines
were at first employed, 1t is almost disap-
POINTING 10 find how small a bag the
bicycle-riders have made duriHg the past
twelve months, They have only injured
nine persons, all told. Quite beggarly
account compared to what can be shown
by the drivers of light carts. The enter
prising butcher-boy, according to the Par
liamentary paper, still defies all rivalry in
this particular accomplishment. The cab
man comes next in order of merit; but it
is the driver of the light cart that has done
the real execution. and his mostsuccessful
hunting-grounds have been the outlying
suburbs of London. The number of fatal
accidents mounts up to the respectable
number of 166. OF these the city, claims
only nine, while Stepney heads the list
with twenty one, and Camberwell, Hamp-
stead, Paddington and Highgate follow in
honorable competition. There is no
doubt that in the city the driver of the
light cart labors under considerable disad-
vantages. The thoroughfares, are SO
crowded that he has not the means Of get
ting up the speed necessary for successful
adventure; and, apart from this considera-
ton, he suffers much from the harassing
interference of policemen stationed at
various points to regulate the traffic. But
in the suburbs he is more his own master.
The roads are tolerably clear Of other We
hicles, and hence the unwary foot tpassen-
ger becomes inspired with just sufficient
confidence to make him an easy victim to
q really spirited dray-[S Saturday Review.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
ENCOURAGING HealthyAReadine for

The Manchester Eng) Guardian gives
the following account of an interesting ex
pertinent which has been carried on fol
about fourteen months attwo of the branch
free libraries in Manchester, Of which the
result has been SO satisfactory as to war.
rant an extension of the system at an early
date: So
AT the Ancoats Library it was decided
to encourage the. attendance of Juvenile
readers by the provision of separate
room, containing judicious selection of
books of that class in which all boys take
delight. They are isolated from the gem
eIal readers in order to prevent any posi-
bility of annoyance to the adults from
Juvenile exuberance. Special provision
was made for their wants, and friendly
advice afforded as to the choice of books.
The selection made by the committee in
cluded many books of popular science,
travels, biography. and history. while fic-
tion of the healthy type, supplied by the
works OF Ballantyne and Kingston, was al.
so provided. At the Ancoats Library the
average attendance during the past Winter
has been about $50 each evening. At the,
Charlton Library the attendance has been
still higher, averaging about $50 on each
evening, and rising to about 26O on Sun
day evenings. 1t is a curious fact that the
amount of fiction read by these juveniles
Is considerably below the average of libra
ries of all classes, not amounting to much
more than "a per cent. Another pecu-
liarity is, that while natural history and
physics are found more attractive than
even history and biography, our boys de-
cline to touch the dismal science at all.
This, perhaps, arises from the difficulty
of providing popular literature ofpolitical
economy, through it might be supposed
that Miss Martineau's capital stories
might have been used to diffuse a knowl-
ledge of the laws of social economy still
greatly needed. Illustrated works take
precedence in point of demand, and then
follow the narratives of the fairy, worlds,
including the varied Adventures of Alice
Care has, of course, been
taken to exclude all books of asdoubtful |
tendency. and to provide those that are
bright and healthy in tone. The writings
Of the lady known in literature as sHesba |
Stretton' are exceedingly popular, and
perhaps the most popular ofthem is The |
Wonderful Life, a biography of the Foun-
ier of Christianity.n ~ 49,.
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MKAT MARKET.
Z. @. FULLER,

nRALER IN Frssh and Salt Meats, Bo-
III Ioepe snd Pork Sausage. Highes
nafkes rsi,s In cssh paid for Bseves. Sheep
Hen, Hidss. kc. Nafkst. south s,de Lib
@ty tHsst, oss dsse west q 0ts~becker,
Hssnso sRop. 11-e-1y
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03

An official decree is published IN Paris
pardoning 400 Communist convicts.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
COAL YARD.
II. MCKINNEY,

nEALER IN BLOSsBURG COAL. tn.
IL ansst article known Ter Blacksmith.
inG Hsgse ahosina. rspairisg. &C., prompt.
gdssa asd atisfaction guaranteed.- Soutl
4bsAnu1s slsset. II ll-1s-lj
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
|. INsURANcE AGENT.
R. n. GOODWIN,

DHH INsURANCH AGENT. viii b
foaud 6 his olRcs in Hustsd Broa'
- snA Shoe Store, whsre he viii Be
pasassa b 80 his old c1etouss needing
sovfSine q NJ line Standard CompsnieS
1sssuI1sd and Iatss reasonable. Losses
resnolty sAjustsd and pGid at his assrcy
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". b. ASHFORD,

AEANURACTURBR and Dealer in Boots
MI and Shoss snl Ill kinds Of frat class
c1sfeu WA. An work and materials frlly
vsrrantsd. Shop. south side Libesty Street,
- deor est Of Ottsrbacker's Harness Shop.
WCIlinGton, Ohio. I1-9.1y
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LIVERY STABLE.
WI CUSHION q SON,

VI CUSdION q CON3
NERY AND aALE STABLE. Choic
IL tnzDouts fnrnhhed, aud charges rsa-
soasb1e. south side Mechanic street, ont
der 80 of American House. l1-l5-ly
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Come when you're called,
DO - you're bid.
Shut the door afts- yon,
nd xouul naxsr hO child

Her husband was looking over Dora's
shoulder, and they both laughed. Gracc's
arrow was pointless for such love and hap
piness.
Awe only changed my mind" said
Dora, "and that is every woman's privi-
legc."
"And / have only abdicated, and that
any king may do" retorted her husband.
"Haye your" said his wife, incredu-
lously.
The truth was that neither knew how TO
differ from the other in comfort.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03

IF YOU WANT frst-ciass Shave, Hair
i Cut, or shampoo. call at Robinson's q.
K.shaving Saloon, Liberty Street. A full
assortment Of Hair Oils, Pomades and Hair
Restontivss- We also keep the bsst brand
Of Rasses, and warrant them. Raxors houed
or ground to order. Z. T. ROBINSON.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03

"MLINoroN PLANNING MILL.
w Nannfactusers and dealer in Sash,
Dssss, Bisd8 Bracks1s, Bsttings, Luuber,
Shinglss, Lafh, Cheese and Butter Boxes.
Scroll Saving. Matching and Planning done
near railroad depot. -,..s
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-03

ANOTHER veteran officer of the United
States army has been called to join the
great army of the dead-General Jeffer-
son c. Davis, who served calamity
through the war against the rebellion,
and has remained in the service ever
since. Fe was native of Indiana and
over so years of age. He died last Sun
day afternoon at the Palmer House.
Chicago, where he was stopping tempo
rarily, of a complication of diseases, un
der which he had been suffering more Oh
less for several years. His bereaved wife
who was at his bedside when he died, has
the sincere sympathy of all.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-03
PUMse, Ponder nd Pcvtxse.

The invention of that Superior and
Complete Sewing Machine (The Family
Sewing Machine), marks ono of the most
important eras in the lhistny of machin-
cry, and when we consider it's great use
iulness and extremelyslow price $3.50, it
Is very difficult to conceive of any inven-
ton for domestic use of more or even
equal lmportanceito families. It has great
capacity ter work; beautiful, smooth, and
quiet movement, rapid execution, certain
ty and delightful ease of operation, that
at once commends it above all others.
The working parts are all steel, strong
and durable, and will last a life time;
the bobbins hold 100 yards of thread; the
stitch is the firmest of all the stitches
made neat and regular, and can be regu-
lated to sew stitches from an inch in
length on coarse material down to the fin
est, SO inhnitesimal as to be hardly dis
cernible with the naked eye, and with
rapldlty rendering it impossible to count
them as fast as made; it has more attach
ments than any other, and it does to per-
lection all kinds of heavy, course, plain,
fine, or fancy needle-work with ease, and
tar less labor than required on other ma
CHIMES. 1t needs no commentator, the
rapid Sales increasing demand, and vol
untary encomiums from the press and the
thousands of families who use them, am
ply testify to their undoubted worth as a
standard and reliable household necessity
extending its popularity each day. Ma
chimes sent anywhere to be examined be-
fore any money is paid. Agents wanted
by the Company. Address them for in
formation: Family Sewing Machine Co.,
755 Broadway, New York. 52y1
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-03

DIR. /. [, Hayes, in lecture at New
port, R. L, Thursday night SAID II be-
lieve the Bennett expedition will reach
the pole through a substantially open sea,
and there it will be matter of choice or
circumstance whether they return by the
way they came or cross over the Arctic
ocean and emerge by the way of the
Spitzbergen Sea Or through Smith S
Sound"
Queen Marguerite, ofItaly, is suffering
from malarial fever at Monza. but CONT
nues to dabble in politics and state mat
tiers, in her capacity as head of the
"Queen's party which is a very power
full one at court.
FRAGRANT AND DELICATE OroRs.-
Each flower contains fragrant substance
and the separation of this substance in a
manner so as 70 retain all ofits sweetness,
requires t.ie greatest experience and care.
DIR. Price Unique Perfumes are prepared
y process Tat s. retains their natural
fragrance
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-03

SOME of the congressman in Washing
ton predict a long and exciting session.
They say the republicans are flushed with
victory, and will be perpetually saying
rasping things about the democrats, which
will stir up the hot-heads and start a
food of political squabbling which may
last for six months or year. If these
predictions are fulfilled it will once MOI
hecome evident that Providence is on the
aHle of the republican party.