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The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-05

''That the present trustees be reelected
for the coming year
Mr.. TUCKER proposed and Mr.. FISHER
seconded, "That Mr.. Won Glehn be re-
elected auditor" and Mr.. WALTON pro
posed, and Mr.. H. d. BOYLE seconded,
" that Mr.. Chas. Blackjack be associated
with Mr. Won Glehn as AUDITOR" both of
which motions were carried unanimously.
The Chairman said that the trustees
and auditors would do their best for the
interests of the Shareholders, and trusted,
though he was not in favour of showing
large profits, that the result of the current
half-years working would be more favour
able than that of the last
Mr. R1sEDEN gave notice of his wish to
retire as shareholder and withdraw the
amount of his share and accumulated
profit, as, when he became a shareholder
he was told by Mr.. W. H. Hughes that
he could do so at any time.
Mr.. W. H. HUGHES explained that at
the time Mr.. Riseden joined this was so,
but that afterwards the Shareholders at
their public meeting when they adopted
the present Bye-lays, having in view that
the bulk of their working capital was still
borrowed money, had rescinded this
liberty, leaving it free to any shareholder
to dispose of his share and accumulated
profits at whatever might be its. market
value.
The Chairman mentioned that in the
one or two cases, which had occurred since
the last meeting of shareholders, having
wished to dispose Of their shares they
had had no difficulty in doing so, and that
4 in one instance the accumulated profit
bod hnen equal to 700 .ner.. ena4-ron $5
invested.
1t was proposed by Mr.. TAYLOR, Sc
conded by Mr.. WINKLEY, and carried
unanimously, " that copy of the present
balance sheet and report Of this meeting
be furnished by the Secretary to the
Editor Of "The Rugbeian newspaper
A vote Of thanks was then passed to the
Chairman, the trustees, and officers Of the
Commissary, on the motion of Mr.. TAYLOR,
seconded by Mr.. H. D. BOYLE, which the
Chairman suitably acknowledged; and on
the motion of Mr.. II. D. BOYLE, seconded
by Mr.. G. H. BLAcKLocK, the meeting
adjourned sine die,
RUGBY COMMISSARY.
BALANCE, SEPTEMBER 30rH 1881.
Stock in hand .. =. >. 5,909.ll
Fixtures -. =. =. $4,000
Bills due .. =. =. l,O30.l9
Cash on hand :. :. .. 408. 23
S7,59753
LIABILITIES.
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TERMS

Our English friends can remit by registered letter
orpO.O. on Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-05

Examined by me and found correct.
(Sigacd) II. VoS GLEHN.
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The Presidency.

Who first gave America the idea Of
President? Should such a question be
asked, the reply would be Benjamin
Franklin. Twenty-Five years before the
Declaration of Independence, Franklin
was a member of the Colonial COnven-
ton, held at Albany, the object of which
was to consolidate the colonies under a
President General. British interests
were to be promoted, but the home gov
ernment objected to giving such power
to their colonies, and the scheme failed.
Hence, when the revolution took place,
president" was q natural idea. At
first he was merely President of Con-
gress, but when the present Constitution
was formed, he was President and Gen
eral Franklin just lived long enough
to behold the beginning of his scheme
In George Washington, his dearest
friend, who visited him in dying bed
when he passed through Philadelphia on
his way to New York City. Franklin
died soon afterward. but the news of the
Inauguration cheered his last hours.
Washington was fifty-seven at the time
of his inauguration. John Adams, the
next, was a native of Massachusetts, and
was sixty-two at the time of Inaugural
ton. jefferson, who succeeded HIM,
was Virginian of fifty-eight, and was
sixty-six when he retired from the Presl-
Dental Chair. Madison, likewise a Nir-
ginian, was fifty-seven when elected, and
retired after eight years service, ranging
from 1909 to 1917. Monroe, also a Nir-
ginian, was inaugurated at the age OF
fifty-nine, and was sixty-seven when he
retired from office, n period extending
from 1917 to 1925. John Quincy Adams,
q Massachusetts, man, was elected at the
age of fifty-seven, and retired at sixty
one. having served but one term, which
closed March 4, 1929. Jackson native
of North Carolina, was sixty-twO when
elected, and retired at seventy, having
served eight years, from 1929 to 1887.
Van Buren, was the first native of New
York State to enter the Presidential of
fee; he was fifty-four when elected, and
served but one term, which lasted from
1897 to 1S41. Harrison was q native of
Virginia, and was sixty-seven when
elected. He died after a months serv-
ice, and Tyler, also a Virginian, was
raised from the Vice Presidency to take
the Office thus vacated. This was the
first instance of such an exigency, and
therefore was an important experiment
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FULTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY FRIDAY APRIL s. 1885,

could design. So for many years the
blow o. the chisel and hammer, and the
tread Of the feet of thousands of work
men were heard. Beautiful gardens,
decorated with innumerable fountains,
stately avenues of trees, and innumer-
able statues, sprang into existence at
Versailles. Room after room was added
to the palace that King Louis XIII. had
built Ihe best artists came TO decorate
the ceilings or inlay the wall with marble
mosalcs. Gobehn tapestry was inserted,
embroidered with the lilies of France,
and you may be sure the portrait of
King Louis XIV was not omitted. He
watched and directed this enormous
work, and took millions from the French
Treasury to pay for it. Little cared nc
that the money spent IN his palace was
wrested from poor peasants, already inn
poverished hy the cost of many wars.
The thol.s~fs Of King Louis were cen
tered upon himself, and not on the real
benefit Of France What terSble blood
she'd followed hundred yeak after, in
1873, our wise Club all remember
Christian AdUocdte.
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How They Parted.

A year ago this spring n Detroiter and
q Missournn became acquainted with
each other in Leadville. Having de-
cided that ihey could better themselves
outside thecity. they iourneyed over the
hills and founded the present town OF
Twin Lakes. They built n shanty,
stored Their things in 1t, and Sunday
came around. Before the Missouuian
was awake the DetrOiter had shaved,
washed. and put on a clean shirt. In
deed he also changed his socks and
creased his boots. When the other
awolze ne booked at the Detroiter a long
time without speaking. Then ne got
MP and walked around him and finally
asked
Going to church anywhere to-day?
mo
ANY funeral around here anywhere?"
"No."
Expect Queen Victoria here to visit
you to-day?'
'No"
Tho Pike County man turned away
and prepared his breakfast without an
other word When he had finished it he
went ont and sat on "a rock and looked
straight mt the hills for an hour. Then
he went back 10 the shanty and said:
Jim. are vou gong TO do this regu-
larry every sunday
"Whv. / ike to clean mp a little at the
end of the week.
Il 'spose You wouldn't help get up a
mule race on Sunday
"Well, hardly.
'Nor a dog-tight:
"No."
And you wouldn't make it a day for
old sledge and poker2'
Not If / could do better"
Jim. You and me must part quietly
observed the Missourian, as he began
picking mp his things.
''Nol What's the matter?'
You amt no such man as I can tie
up to. We'd quarrel IN no time.
''About vYtut?'
''About billed shirts and clean clothes
and churches, and lots Of other things,
jim
Yes"
Gimme s25 for my share of Twin
Lakes, and I'll walk.
Il wouldn't"
but l must. wasn't brung up in
your way, and can't tumble to it. We
can part friends now, but if l was here
next Sunday, aud You refused to play n
game of seven-up with me, we should
part enemies.
He got his things ready, and the two
walked up the Lcadyille trail together
for mile. Then they halted and the
Detroiter said:
"Old pard, it makes me lonesome.
''And here, too.
''And you won't go back?"
Il can't. 1 can tie to most anything
but man who puts on Sunday clothes.
Pardner, goodbye"
Goodbye, old man, and luck go with
you"
And they turned their backs on each
other and walked away without another
word, one to build up his lone town and
the other to find exemption from white
shirts and clean shave.-Detroit Free
Press.
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Pins. Past and Present.


To fbe Young lady whose intricate
overskirt is held in innumer;lble folds i,v
many Dins. il may seem hardship that
her yearly allowance of pins Is only
about one hundred and forty. fgSuch
however is the case with each individual
in the United States on an equitable
division of the pins .rearly sold in this
country But the Indians in the West
are not supposed touse their full allow
ance and collar buttons have so far done
away with the use Of pms BY gentlemen
generally that the young lady may per-
hans provide herself with so.ne one elses
allowance. The pins made in the United
States are made by fourteen factories,
somewhat scattered as to locality, but
chiefly in New Englaad Their annual
production for severiJ years past has
been about 7,00e,No0,000 pins This
number has not W - much for some
years.. the. -denassati ~ y IIning about the
same. A few of these 1900, 000,000 are
swallowed by children, n number are
beni up in schools and placed in vacant
and inviting chairs, and some millions
get into cracks of floors, and the rest for
the most part are scattered along the
byways and highways where they have
dropped from dresses and been left to
work their way into the earth.
Two years ago the competition among
the nine principal companies then exist
ing for the manufacture of toilet pins led
10 such cutting Of prices that the bust
ness became Improbable and the mar
ket was flooded with goods. Dealers
who were shrewdlaid in stock, and fani-
lies even bought IN wholesale quantities
for future needs. \ year ago combina-
ton was formed of three wire companies,
and now all of the pins made 10y them
are shipped 10 New York, and handled
by the head agency In TINS city. From
their common warehouse they are sent
to every part of the country IN quantities
varying according to the female popu-
latIon.
The importations of English pins are
small, and the expectation of pins from
the United States is confined to Cuba,
South America and parts Of Canada,
where, however, but few pins are sent.
England supplies almost the whole world
outside of the United States, although it
Is claimed that the American pins are
not inferior in quality. Quality, how
ever is a matter which but slightly con-
Germs the retail buyer. To him a paper
Of pins is paper of pins SO long as they
don't have heads on both ends.
The raw materid-the brass and iron
wire from which all American pins are
made-is from the wire mills of this
country, and much of the machinery for
their manufacture is of American inYen-
tion and patent.
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How Mark Twain Secured a Sectim
in n Sleeper.

Ny dignity was in a state now which
cannot be described. l was so ruitlet
that-well, 1 said to my companion, II
these people knew who L am they" bUt
my companion cut me short there and
said, "Don't talk such folly. If theT
did know who you are, do you suppose
it would help your high mightiness TO n
vacancy in a train which has-no vaca1-
cies in. it?" This did not improve my
condition any to speak of, but just then
I observed that the colored porter of a
sleeping-car had his eye on me. L saw
his dark cOuntenance light up. He
whispered to the uniformed conductor,
punctuating with mods and jerks toward
me, and straightway this conductor came
forward, oozing pOhteness from every
pore, and said "Can l be of any serv-
ice? VIII you have a place in the
sleeper?" "Yes," 1 said, "and much
obliged, too. Give me anything, any
thing will answer" He said: 1--WE
have nothing left but the big family
of armchairs in it, but IL Is entirely at
your disposal Here, Tom, take these
satchels aboard"
He touched his hat and we and the
colored Tom moved along. L was burst
ing TO drop Just one little remark to my
companion, but ] held in and waited.
Tom made US comfortable in that sump-
tuous great apartment and then SAID,
with many bows and perfect atfiuence
of smiles, "Now Is dey anything you
want, sah? don't make no difference
what it is. F" 1 said, "Can have some
hot water and tumbler at tonight,
blazing hot? You know about the right
temperature for a hot Scotch punch.
Eyes, sab, dat you kin; you kin pen on
it. I'll get il myself. Good now
that lamp is hung too high. Can 1 have
a big coach candle fixed up just at the
head of my bed, so that can read conf
fortably % " Yes, sab, you kin, III fix
her up myself, an I'll fix her so she'll
burn all night. Yes, sab; an you can
jes call for anything you wants, and dish
yer whole railroad'n be turned wrong
eend up an inside out for to git it for
YOU. Dat's So" And he disappeared.
Wei, 1 tilted my head back, hooded my
thumbs in my arm-holes, smiled smile
on my companion, and said gently,
"Wel1, what do you say now?' My
companion was not in q humor TO re-
spond. and didn't The next moment
that smiling black face was thrust in at
the crack of the door and this speech
followed: (" Laws bless you, sab, l
knowed you in a minute. told de con-
ductah so. Laws l knowed you de
minute / sot eyes on you" "Is that so,
my boy? (Handing him a quadrupe
fee.) Who am 2" "Jennul McClel-
lam and he disappeared again. My
companion said vinegarishly, "Well,
| well I what do you say now?" Right
there comes in the marvellous coincidence
/ mentioned awhile ago, viz, 1 was
speechless, and that is my condition now.
Perceive it?
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Stick TO the Farm.

In my mind, one Of the most alarm
ing evils of the times Is the tendency
the people everywhere to leave the rural
districts and flock 10 the cities-leave
the quiet and happy homes the country
and the villages afford, or should afford,
and congregate IN dense naSses-plunge
into the life of strife and turmoil which
such situation imposes.
This tendency Is draining the farms of
their young men; it is drawing them
from the country to the towns and vii
lagos, from the workshops and firesides
in these to the great centers of popula-
tion-where thousands by thousands
ride the waves for time, and by thou
sands go under the seethinG current.
The great majority of young men. it
would seem, are seeking to become pro
fessional men-lawyers, doctors, preach
ers; or If not some Of these, middle-men
of some sort-clerks, tradesmen. agents,
etc, of that far too numerous class that
can not IN any sense be ranked with the
producers. As n consequence the coun-
try is teeming with humbug institutions
to qualify them for these positions,
where unsOphisticated young men are
taken In and done for" and who, in
forty to sixty days, come ont completely
ground Over-that Is, fitted for swapping
lack-knives, computing the interest, and
making a living out of the profits, or
qualified for standing behind counters
and dealing out ribbons and small talk to
nice young ladies.
And so, all the large cities, from Dan
to Beersheba, are becoming filed to
Overfiowing with an ever-swelling tide of
nOn-producers, hustling, crowding elbow
ing each other, and going under some
of them to come up again in the country
whence they started; others, and the
largest portion, in the alms-houses,
benevolent asylums, and penitentiaries
broken fortune and broken in const-
tuition. And the cry is, still they come!
An advertisement for a clerk, book
keeper, or agent, in any one of our large
towns, viii usually bring from 100 to
1000 applicants for the place; while a
farmer or a blacksmith may call for a
hand to make his living by the sweat OF
his brow, and find no repose.- Clara
Francis IN Prairie Farmer.
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Water asaDrink.

Many persons drink ordinarily as little
water as possible, and none at all at meal
times, because they suppose that water
dilutes the gastric Juice. Experiments,
however, show that dilution does not di-
minish the power of the gastric Juice,
and further, that water alone, as well as
solid. food, awakens it's secretion. A pa
per read by DIR. Webster, of Boston, at
a meeting of a learned medical society,
took the ground that water, used moder-
ately at meals, is beneficial, and that
large class of persons drink too little.
The result is, if too little water is drank
especially if the person eats heartily
the perspiration and the kidney secretion
are diminished. Not only they, but the
waste of the system, which can be re-
moved only in state of solution, Is not
eliminated with sufficient regularity and
fulness, and the system becomes gradu
ally clogged by it. The accumulation is
slight from day to day, but in time un-
pleasant symptoms are developed. These
symptoms are of an indefinite character
discomfort, even pain, sometimes In
one place and sometimes in another, con-
stipation, and unhealthy hue of the skin.
Patients" said DIR. Webster, ''who
drank no more than a pint of water a
day have told me that they were not
thirsty. They were surprised when told
TO drink more. Those who have fol-
lowed this suggestion in the course of a
week have developed thirst, and drank
Ms many as three pints of water a day. "
We may add that water taken into the
stomach is at once rapidly absorbed by
the blood vessels. A bowl of well-sea-
soned broth, as first course, is specially
helpful to the above class of patients. A
large quantity of ice water is harmful to
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| The dog Is a digitigrade carnivorous
mammal This VIII be news to most
persons, who had always supposed that
a dog was simply dog.
1t has been bruited about that the dog
is the best friend to man among the brute
He pants after the thief. When once
he gets hold Of the thief pants he makes
breaches.
A barking dog never bites; that is to
I ay, when he begins to bite he stops
herking. Conversely, q biting dog never
| bsrks, and for similar reasons.
The hair of a dog viii cure his bite.
/ This is cure-iOus superstition among
| htir-brained young men who are fast go
irg to the dogs.
Dogs are dentists by profession. They
insert teeth without charge.
The sen dog loves his bark. Did You
-s-sy- see a dog that didn't?
The bark of a tree is unlike the bark
of dog. Even dogwood know this.
Dogs are not always kind, though there
are many kinds of dogs.
Every dog has his day, although dog
days last but a few weeks in the year.
There must be n Sirius error here
The dogs star is the dogs planet.
They planet so that their days come
While the star is in the sky.
They do not fear it. 1t is not Skye
terrier.
When a dog enters pitched battle he
uses the dogs tar.
Brutus said. Il had rather be n dog
and bay at the moon than such Ro-
man.
He had seen the dogs roamin' around
on the bay.
They never get over the bay.
\ living dog is said to be better than a
dead hon. There's no lynn about this,
but dead dog Is dog gone bad.
Tray was good dog. hut trays worse
than the duce when held against you.
Dogs We're the original Argonatuts
1hey have never given over their search
for the heas.
The bull dog Is a stubborn fellow. He
is not easily cowed.
4 great many stories about the dog
have obtained currency. The man who
has left part Of his clothing with the
dog has cur rent. See?
Puppies are born blind. They are not
see dogs then.
There are many types of dog, includ-
ing the doguerotype.
here.
Howl this do for the dog?-Boston
Transcript
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The Lion and the JackaI.

One day hyena, who was out OF a job
and had a buzz-saw feeling towards all
the world, met iackal on the plain and
began:
Searching for old bones and leavings,
: 1 presume?"
Yes. " was the humble reply. GAS 1
am not able to kill for myself l must eat
after others have been satisfied. l am,
however, fat, healthy and in good
spirits.
''See here" continued the hyena as he
sat down in the shade; you have Just as
much right to be a lion as the hon has
l see no reason why he should live off
the lat of the land and you off the
bones"
Il never thought of that before,
unused the jacl1al.
well, YOU are very foolish to be hunt
ing bones when you might as well be
hon. 1 wouldn't stand it if l were you.
The lackal thought the matter over,
and went to lion who dwelt on the hill
side and said:
81 have Just as good right to be lion
rs you have"
Il second the motion, was the grave
reply.
And I'm going to be, too"
Bully for you p growled the king of
beasts.
'And win you tell me how to begin ?"
Certainly. Take this path over the
hill, and whenever you meet any animal
you must paw and roar and act as near
like me as You can"
he Jackal moved away in high spirits,
and had not gone far before he met a
troop OF his kind. He began to paw and
roar and smell up, and when he had tired
himself out the leader of the troop came
forward and said:
ANY TOOL can see that you are nothing
but jackal, but since you aspire to be a
lion we can have no feelings with you.
Go your way and keep clear of us. -
The Jackal found himself knocked
about by the lions as a base impostor.
and summed by his kind as unworthy of
friendship, and between the two fires he
could neither kill for himself nor eat of
what others had slain. He was brought
low with starvation and dispair, and as
the vultures gathered around him he
said:
Even had succeeded in making my
self believe L was hon, these birds
would have known by the meat 1 was a
iackal."
Moral: You must be what you are to
have the confidence of friends or respect
of foes. Store clothes only deceive the
eye.