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Thirty Yeas Experience of an Old
Nurse.


Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription of one of the best Female Ply
sicians and Nurses in the United States,
and has been used for thirty years with
never failing safety and success by millions
of mothers and children, from the feeble in
FAINT Of one week old to the adult. 1t cor
reefs aeidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and gives rest,
health and comfort 10 mother and child.
We believe ii the best and surest remedy in
the world, in all cases of Dysentery and
Diarrhaea in children, whether arising from
teething or from any other cause. Full d.
rectionS for using will accompany each bot
Tie. None genuine unless the fac-simile of
Curtis & Perkins is on the outside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers. IS cents a
bottle.
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HABIr11AL cosrrvENEss

is the bane of nearly every American wo-
man. From it usually arises those dis
orders that so surely undermine their
health and strength. Every woman owes
it to herself and to her family to use that
celebrated medicine, Kidney-Wort. 1t is
the sure cure for constipation, and for all
diseases of the kidneys or liver. Try it
in liquid or dry fonn. Equally efficient in
either.-Boston Sunday Budget.
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e statistical
ulation OF
rs7o show,
auctions of
he French
ceased to
bg is in sue
bn more than
a the Mississip-
Ms tributaries. It
to add much to the
1iat kind of traffic and
ArY Ward Beecher's
Ance in Nashville,
week was so slim
Used to lecture in that
e following night as
Zment.
b annual conclave of
ind Commandery of
Templar of Pennsyl-
Yet last evening in
] The grand parade
Iplace tc--Srrow morn
$50 o'clock yester-
Ning a slight earth
felt at Murray Bay,
and heavy shocks
It Les Eboulements
!, in the same Prov
xican Chamber of
yesterday passed a
Tor the National Bank
Y mentioned. The
gives the President
authorization to es-
Rapolis Medical
hat the first rail-
st Of the Allegha-
twenty-five miles
nkfort and Lexing-
He counties in In
Ruched by rail-
Rprto Rico states
me Murcantil
Re information
I'd States and Den
agreed to the aliena-
anish islands for the
700, 900 francs.
that the Empress
4 bought an estate
from hiselhurst,
ntion of building a
jim which the re-
Emperor Napoleon
tince Imperial will
/ on some people Of
icy falsely ascribed
Shipton, that the
come to an end in
Illustrated appearance
nge cloud, accompa-
a roaring wind, threw
dlages into a panic.
Froad to San Francisco
Arizona runs for 60
ong a basin that is $50
low the level of the
This region has two to
It of salt and alkali
its aurface. The
IS perfectly white.
aymaster OF the Cincin-
,hern Railroad Compa-
I latically held back the
wages, and then lent
on his own account
5 interest. But the
did not pay, for it
IN to lose his place.
/ the passengers on the
Victoria stated that a
Of youths on the upper
* delight in keeping up
lg motion by moving
lie to side, while the
iouted gleefully:: "Let
!; we'll only have to
bore"
ilding is about to be
IN Chicago upon the
re the great FIRE of 1871
and the historical socie-
city is taking steps to
memorial tablet placed
and also to place a tab
at the north
mus of the fire.
uthority on dentistry
a recent lecture that
knowledge of dentist
was brought to this
by a person who accom-
he French troops here
he revolution. The first
vas established in New
1888. George Wash
false teeth were retain
month by spiral springs.
there were 500 dentists
ountry; in 1912, 1000;
5000.
RESPONDENT Of the
n writes that {.
test running
5 he has found
ton can be
re planted l.
art as W
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A CORRESPONDENT of the
Y. Cotton writes that
through test running
FIVE years he has found
much cotton can be I
on an acre planted iH
feet apart as W
three feet apart.i Is
the stalks a little thy the
four feet rows than ID three.
He contends that 6ne-fourth
the labor of the crop is saved
by the four feet system, and he
now practices no other"
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,

DrpARryENr or SrATE. II. II. Bow.
NAN, Secretary of State for the State of Tex
as. do hrreby certify, that the foregoing are
true copies Of the proposed amendments to the
constitution Of this State. passed by the 11th
Legislature, and published BY direction ofthe
N the constitution and laws Of the State.
Witness my official signature and the
IT'S seal of State affixed, atthe city Of Aus.
tin, this eSth day Of May, A, u. ISL.
4. II. BOWMAN,
Secretary of STATE.
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Joint Resolution amending Section 81 OF Ar
tirle III of the Constitution OF the State OF


SEurrox /. Re Ii resolved by the ieglsla-
ture of the State ofTexas, That section twen-
ty-four CO of article of the constitution Of
the State of Texas be so amended Us TO hereaf-
ter read as follows tviz:
SECTION "a. The members Of the legisla-
tnre shall receive nom the public treasury
such compensation for their services a. may
from time to time be provided by law, not
exceeding five dollars per day. In addition
to the per diem, the members Of each house
shall be entitled 10 mileege In going to and
returning from the seat ofgoyernment, which
mileage shall not exceed five ts5 .00l dollars
for every twenty -iive miles, the distance to be
computed by the nearest and most direct
route oftrarel by land regardless of railways
or water routes; and the comptroller of the
state shall prepare and preserve 4 table of
distances to each county seat, now or hereaf-
ter to be established, and by such table tho
mileage of each member shall be paid; but no
member shall be entitled to mileage for any
extra session that may be called within ono
DAY after the adjournment Of regular or n
called session; provided, the regular session
of the Legislature shall not continue longer
than one hundred days.
And be itfnrther resolved, Thatthe govern
or be requested TO submit to the vote Of tho
electors of the state the foregoing proposed
amendment TO the constitution. at an election
to be ordered on the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der, \. d. ISL, in accordance with the proris-
ions of article Il of the state constitution.
Passed March -, by vote OF two-thirJls OF
all the members elected 10 each house.
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governor on the followinwing day 10 issue his
proclamation setting forth the TACT that said
votes cast at said election, and shall proclaim
that said amendment has become and Is .
part of the state constitution, and this emend-
ment shall take effect from anu amer said
PROCLAMATION.
Passed March II, ISL. by vote of two-thirls
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$50 o'clock yester-
king a slight earth
felt at Murray Bay,
4 and heavy shocks
1t Les Eboulements
!, in the same Prov
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xican Chamber of
yesterday passed a
for the National Bank
" mentioned. The
gives the President
Authorization to es-
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Of John Casely
ightstown, Ind,
! lightning on
nd burned to
loss is $751;
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Mutton.

Mutton is better adapted for food
for persons living in the country than
beef. Most farmers are situated so far
from market that they cannot obtain
fresh meat to eat during the summer,
when the hard labor in the fields de-
mands an excellent diet. They cannot
profitably dispose of the flesh of steer
slaughtered during hot weather, even if
they have an ice house. One quarter
is as large quantity as even large
family can consume before danger of
spelling occurs. 1t is difficult to cure
beef in the summer so as it will be GER
tain to keep. even il one has supply Of
ice The like is true in relation to OBJ
tanning supply of fresh meat from hogs
during the summer. 1t is more difficult
to cure pork than beef in summer; and
besides pork is not well suited for a
general article of diet during very warm
weather.
The home supply Of fresh meat in
summer, however, can readily be OBJ
tanned if a farmer keeps flock OF sheep.
Mutton can be kept much longer in a
fresh state than either heef or pork
Besides, even the larger varieties OF
sheep are so much smaller than steers
or hogs that their carcasses can be dis
posed of in a much shorter time. If q
family is too small TO consume all the
meat furnished by sheep, part of it
can be salted The meat is so thin, as
compared with beef or pork, that every
portion of it will absorb sufficient
amount of salt and sugar to preserve it,
even when the weather is very warm.
Many persons know nothing. Of the
merits of corned mutton 1t has never
occurred to some farmers that mutton
could be cured for future use. They
corn and dry beef, salt and smoke pork,
but if necessary to eat mutton, II indeed
they eat it at all, when tits fresh. Now
any part of sheep furnishes excellent
eating when it is salted and boiled. In
many respects it is superior to corned
beef. 1t is more highly favored and il
better relished when eaten with potatoes
and garden vegetsbles; stewed with
sweet herbs it is rare delicacy. The
hams and shoulders of mutton are ex.
cellept when salted and smoked. The
tongues Of sheep are superior to those
Of cattle and pigs. Mutton is more
easily digested than most kinds OF meats
and in delicscy ranks next to the fest
of chickens and small game fowls.
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Selfrt Stprv.


Jocelyn place had been a grand old
mansion in its day and my aunts con-
sidered it their duty, as descendants OF
the great Jocelyn family, to uphold..its
dignity, by affecting profound uncon-
sciousness of the fact that it was now
one of the most ruinous, leaky, weather
stained old country houses that ever dis
graced the fair country of -. So Aunt
Seraphina picked her way through the
puddles, and accounted for her sWelled
face by referring to her visit to the Wild
ow Browns damp cottage. And Aunt
Clemen,ina wore her old brocade, in
which che had figured forty years before
at her brothers. wedding, declaring that
she would not disgrace the family name
by putting on thin, washy things they
called silk nowadays.
A few old, blear-eyed, gray-headed
family servants crept round in the shad-
ows, and brought US up our daily pots-
toes and occasional joint in the battered
old family silver, and made the huge old
family beds, and swept carefully the fa-
ded carpets, and tended the old family
horse, who was generally supposed to be
the oldest inhabitant of the village. And
amidst all this ruin and desolation and
decay, we grew up into womanhood-
my sister Gabrielle and i; she fair,
handsome, and holding her golden head
loftily among the descendants of shoe
makers, tailors and shop-keepers, who
had only fine estates and rich clothing
l, dark, pale and always sad, being, un-
fortunately, Of a practical nature, and
unable to prefer our watery patatoes to
Giles Broadax's roast beef merely be-
cause they were served up on the family
plate.
This and sundry plebeian house-keep-
ing tendencies of niue we're the cause OF
endless dissension; and, of late, so fierce
had waxed their denonciations that on
the rainy afternoon, as sat In the re:
cessed window, looking wearily out, my
whole being rose in rebellion against this
miserably purposeless life, degraded as
It was, by petty chickering's, and embitter-
ed by continual repinings. -
Like lightning ] formed the resolve
! that colored my whole after-life.
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gashin,l nntfs.


/ Bonnets are again made to match
suits. sis a
Handkerchief goods have been utilized
to make kilt suits for boys.
Tan-colered gloves are worn with
white satin dresses at the opera.
The Princess, or. modified Gabriella,
continues insfavor for young girls.
Ecru and creamzeoIored buttonless
gloves are stylish for evening wear.
Steel butterflies are fastened on the
left shoulder to holda knot of ribbon.
Spanish lace edges the new parasols,
and they are larger than last summer.
Very wide sasAes with very short
ends arctic be worn by little girls this
summer.
A Queen Anne screen 10 hide the fire.
place opening will be the thing this
summer.
Goods with dots, which have been
neglected since last summer, are again
to be seen.
Black velvet ribbon is worn like q
bracelet, above the elbow, with short.
sleeved dresses.
The laced shoe is trying hard to re.
gain favor, but buttons are not so easily
disposed OF.
Silverware in dark, rich co.ors is su
perseding that in which the metal re
tains its natural TINT
There has not been, indeed, for time
immemorial,. season when so great
use was made of lace.
The ways of making aud trimming
waists at present are as varied as the
manner Of making skirts
In the tops of some OF the new un.
dressed kid gloves an elastic is put, and
frills of lace are also seen upon them.
A pretty costume devised for dash
ing young lady consists of skirt oi
limp camel's hair cloth and jucket in
ivy green.
There is new nail cutter which shuts
up like patent glove bnttoner. cutting
the nail instead of filing it, and is fa-
vorlte with dandies.
Openings at fashionable millinery
houses show such variety of styles in
bonnets that it is difficult to say what
are the leading fashions.
American fringes are made on double
twist, and even when headed with fine
network are so strong that they will
outwear any foreign fringe.
This is an economical season for
wraps, since all sorts of odd materials
are used, and women look as if they
had cut up any bit OF cloth which bad
come in their way.
The most picturesque hats for dressy
wear at summer watering-places are OF
the open lace straws, with wide brim
rolled upsoh he hight side, or sAlss jus,
above the forehead.
The effective combinations along the
shade fabrics visible are "capucine" and
"coral red," which are good examples
of the latitude allowed in tints. The
former name covers almost any shade OF
brown, and the latter name may be ap-
piled to anything from blood red TO flesh
color.
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Reform in women.s Dress.
Vienna Oorrespondence.

~ r s-f Iil
A meeting was held last week at Ber.
lin with the view of forming league for
the abolition of the present female dress.
There were present 25 women. sw 4
The lady who presided explained thai
the movement was to abolish all uuheal-
thy and inconvenient articles of women's
dress, and to replace them BY "a dualis-
tic form OF attire for the lower as we'll
as the upper limbs"
The supporters Of the movement de-
sire that no more should be heard of long
skirts and fashionable frippery. They
wanted to wear trousers, because in them
they had a form OF dress worthy Of =
human race.
Only one person spoke in defense OF
the old costume, on the ground that
flowing robes are more graceful than
tight-fitting garments; but her voice Was
drowned in q storm Of opposition, and
the anti-petticoat resolution was carried
almost unanimously.
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Ey Outside the Star route scandal,
the aftermath of the Hayes administra-
ton is not pleasant sight. Says the
New York Herald: II the Investigations
which now interest the country are
pressed home it would not surprise Us
to learn instead of being one Of the
most virtuous of administrations thore
were things done under the Hayes cloak
of virtue and temperance which bave no
parallel in the history Of mendaeious
Governments. The memories of scan
dals float about nearly all the depart.
ments. In the War O6ice Mr.. Lineoln's
fret duty on accepting Office was to
break up the ring that subsisted upon
traffic in minor Offices. We have not
yet heard the end of the Indian scan.
dals in tue Interior Bureau; State De-
partment appointments we're made which
reflected no credit on the country. and
made, too, with the knowledge by the
President of the character Of the men
appointed. Mr.. Conkling has already
intimated in the Senate his belief thal
the Treasury was used to enrich New
York banking firms.
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rhe Pastors Authority Maintained.
Leadville News.

sWhacs the ante?" whispered a
Red Gulch miner with single $40 gold
piece to the deacon with the collection
plate in the Baptist Church at Black Run,
Colorado. He was told to contribute
whatever he chose, whereupon be said
he'd chip in a dollar, and proceeded to
take S19 in change. The deacon softly
replied that no change was given. A
struggle ensued, the plate was upset, and
the congregation was in the act OF
dumping the deacon's claim" when the
minister, an old Californian, leaned over
the pulpit with large navy revolver,
and observed: "The brethren will please
take notice that I've got the drop on
them, and any brother who declines to
90 to his seat or who touches any of that
money will have funeral at his house
tomorrow at p. m Our mining friend
from Red Gulch will kindly release the
deacon's throat. or he is dead man. !"
The twenty-dollar gold piece vent to
save the heather.
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Worth Remembering.

Now that good times are again upon
US, before indulging in extravagant
show, it is worth remembering that no
one can enjoy the pleasantest surround
ings If in had health. There are hum
dreds of miserable people going about
to-day with disordered stomach. liver
or kidneys, or a dry, hacking cough. .and
one foot in the grave, when 80 ct. bot
tie of Parker's Ginger Tonic would dc
them more good than all the expensive
doctors and quack medicines they have
ever tried. 1t always makes the blood
pure and rich, and will build you ur
and give you good health at little cos
Read of in another column.
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..I don,t want that Stuff"

Is what a lady of Boston said to her
husband when he brought home some
medicine to cure her of sick headache
and neuralgia which had made her mis-
erable for fourteen years. At the first
attack thereafter, it was administered
to her with such good results, that she
continued its use until cured. and made
80 enthusiastic in its praise, that she in
duced twenty-five Of the best families
in her circle to adopt it as their regular
family medicine. That "stuff" is Hol
Bitters.-Staadard. t.
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Farming and Timber Lands
for Sale.

TIvR or six farms and two or three timber
n lots near Stewart, on the Marietta and
Cincinnati B. 3. in Athens County, Ohio
The timber is No. timber and good land
Ths farms are in good repairs and have good
crops of wheat growing. The land is all
fresh, and is No. l tobacco land. Good wa
ter. schools and churches handy. For sale
low on reason able terms. For further par
ticulsrs enquire OF
]. A. PLUMRR, Agent.
mch23 go Marietta, Ohio,
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Aoehg.
A BEAUTIFUL POEM.

The following exquisite gem from the
pen OF Father RYAN cannot tail to touch
tender chord in the heart of every ad-
mirer Of the muse. 1t is imbued with a
fervor, sincerity and pathos worthy of
the poetical magician. whose gifted pen
has made him aconspicuous ornament
to the annals of "song and story"
a THOUGHT.
There never was valley without faded
flower;
There never was Heaven without some.lit-
tie cloud; .a
The face Of day may fash with light in any
morning hour,
But evening soon shall come with her shad.
ow-woven shroud.
There never was a river without its mists of
gray;
There never was forest without its falling
leaf;
And joy may walk beside US down the wind
ings of our way,
When lol there sounds footstep, and we
meet the face of Grief.
There never was seashore without its drift.
ing wreck; e5-
There never was an ocean without its moan
Surp
And the golden CLEANS of glory, the summer
sky that Heck, y
Shine where dead stars are sleeping in their
azure mantled grave.
There never was streamlet, however crystal
clear,
Without a shadow resting on the rippIes of
its tide;
Hopes brightest robes are broidersd with the
sable fringe of fear
And she lures US. but abysses girt her path
on either side.
The shadow Of the mountain falls athwart the
lowly plain, .+
And the shadow of the cloudlet hangs above
the mountains head
And the highest hearts and lowest wear the
shadow of some pain,
And the smile is scarcely fitted ere the an
guished tear is she'd.
For no eyes have there been ever without
weary tear,
And those lips cannot be human which have
never heaved sigh,
For without the dreary winter there has never
been year, go:
And the tempests hide their terror in the
calmest summer sky.
The cradle means tina coffin, and the coffin
means the grave;
The mcther's song scarce hides the De Pro.
funds OF the priest
You may Gull the fairest roses any May-day
ever gave,
But they wither while you wear them ere
the ending of your feast.
80 this dreary life is passing-,nd we move
amid its maze, --S
And we grope along together. half in dark.
ness, half in light;
And our hearts are often burdened by the mys-
tories of our ways, 4
Which are never all in shadow and are never
wholly bright.
And our dim eyes ask q beacon, and our weary
feet guide,
And our hearts of all life's mysteries seek
the meaning and the key;
And cross CLEANS Ger our pathway, on it
hangs the Crucifed.
And he answers all our yearnings by the
whisper, Follow me-"
Life is burden-bear it;
Life is duty-dare it;
Life is thorn-clown-wear it,
Though i. break your heart in twain;
Though the burden brushes you down.
Close your lips-and hide yeur pain,
First the cross-and then-the Grown.
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L. p. FARQUHAR. M. d.
I. - fRnrxnn nnrlv NJ Zanosvilio Ohio n

Physician and Surgeon,
Office and residence in the Walton property,
WOODS SFI Ell D, OH 10.
Having located At the above place, offers his
Professional services, where he hopes by
close attention to business to merit public
confidence and patronage.
Chronic Diseases will receive special
attention. may4,'.6Y
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~; !. !; NOTICE.
3.&ssss ksE-x5 $780,
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE
SARDIS, MONROE CO., @.

TWILL OPFRR at private sale the follow
j. iEg named property: Lot No. 4; lot No. 23
ana west half of lot No. "a, with large
2.story dwelling containing eight rooms, in
good repair, wash house, stable and other
out buildings; good oistern on the premises,
Alse, one store house and granary situate on
lot No. 10. JOS. RICHARDSON.
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Who is the strsightest man mentioned
in the Bible ? Joseph, because Pharaoh
made ruler OF him. And that's why
he remained stationary In Egypt.
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For thirty -four years Oliver Wendell
Holmes has been professor at Harvard.