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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21

An excellent lesson was gwen 10 ladY
vell-Enovn III society as professional
Ieautv and flirt Her favorite amuse-
uent was to fllrt with young married
zen In a manner just sufficient to make
heir wives uncomfortable without com
rromisInp herself in the eyes of the
world. At a party she had tried the
vbole power Of her Vaccinations upon a
Gentleman who had not been many
months married, and had mouopollzed
his society nearly the whole evening
As the night waned, and he seemed TO
be Welding to her fascinations, she be
ear1e more and more sentimental, and
even tender.
"Ahl Col. E." she said, "what a
passion love is How few men there
are vino can truly feel and realize the
whole force Of a woman's love and give
in return that ardent affection for which
hex heart Graves
Dear Mrs. b, can and do, an
swered the Colonel. " There Is one
whom I prize above all, and whom l
trulv believe to be the loyeliest woman
on earth.
"Ah !" said the beauty, with a soft
hand-pressure and most killing glance,
"and she IS
MY wife " replied the Colonel. g
thinz she is IN the tea-room, and 1t Is
time I looked for her. Goodnight, Mrs.
r. !"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21
A Plea for Tobacco.

Here is an eloquent plea for the use
of tobacco: cit composes the mind,
busies the thoughts, it attracts all out
ward objects to the minds view, it set
tles and retents the senses, it cheers the
understanding, strengthens the judg-
ment. spies out errors, it exasperates
folIies. it heats ambition, it comforts
sorrow. it abates passion, it excites to
noble actions, it digests conception, it
enlarges knowledge, it elevates imagine
tion. It creates fancy, it quickens wit,
and it makes reason pleader and truth
indge in all disputes and controversies
between right and wrong" So wrote
Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, some
200 Years ago, and probably many wife
has indorsed her statements since, for it
does work wonders with an irritable
-, ,re all know
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21
How Some women Rathe.

Did you ever see two women bathe?
They emerge from their bath-house
looking as though they had stolen some
thing and expected to see a burly po-
liceman bob around the corner, clap his
hands rudely upon them, and exultingly
cry, "Now I've got you"
Then they trip along half dozen
steps, not altogether like Dundreary
or sandpiper, butsomewhat resembling
both.
Then one says, "Oh, dear" and
reaches down to pick a pebble out of
her shoe, while the other takes the op-
portunitv to yell like pair of panthers,
and then runs back with all her might to
tIS bath-house. Her mate, of course,
doesn't get the pebble out of her shoe,
but gets several more in to keep it from
bong lonesome.
Then the screamer tiptoes down to
the yelling place and says ''What fool
I was
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21

The following from Appletons last
volume of " Home Books, is excellent,
and cannot be too strongly impressed on
the minds of some people. cit is an
unlucky thing for the amenities OF home
when the daughters are SO strongly dis
posed to leave the ordinary walks of
eyery-d day feminine duty. The happiest
women are those who can lead the ordi-
nary life, be amused by society, dress
and conventionalities, and who can be
early married 70 the man of their choice,
and become in their turn domestic
women, good wives and mothers. There
is no other work, no matter how distln-
euished, which equals this. But If tins
life does not come to woman, and GER
tainly il does not to a very large num-
ber. tn .e can be no doubt of the pro-
prietv o.. a woman's finding her own
sphere. her own work and her happiest
ana most energetic usefulness. Any
thing can be forgotten of a woman ex-
cept a career of vice or vanity, or the
wretched numbness of inaction. No
woman should insult her Maker by sup
posing He made a mistake in making her.
A morbid or n useless woman was not
contemplated in the great plan of the
universe. She has always a sphere. If
HoD4o - unhappy btJO1u utI POmOI VI
endurance, let her
Go teach the orphan boy to read,
The orphan girl TO sew.
Let her learn to cook and bake bread
let her adopt a profession-music, pos
slbly-and work at it let her go into
ladys school and teach let her keep
boarding house, paper walls, hang pict-
ures, embroider, dust, sweep, become
the manager of business-do anything
but sit down and NOPE, and wait for
something to turn up. Many pair of
unhappy old maids are now dragging
out a miserable existence in a second
class boarding house, turning their poor
little bits of fnery, who might, if they
had been brave in their youth, have won
a large repertoire of thought and com
Portable competency. But they pre-
ferred to keep alive one little corner of
pride, and that has been but poor fire
to sit by to warm their thin hands,
which should not have been ashamed to
work; hands which would have been
winter for honest effort"
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The other comes down, having Sc
cured new invoice of pebbles IN tran
sit, and screams z What Is it?
As it is nothing but q devils APRON
string, and not snake, the screamer
again says: . What fool ?
and the other replies. g know it. /"
Then they laugh.
But they keep their eyes about them.
and each mouth is al ready 10 emit a
scream
BY shis time theg reach The waters
edge
pnny roller is .a7sahciilr.
1t breaks little way ont, and as the
line cf foam Is sent MP th4 beach thew
potia turn aaaa scainper with all their
Thes ss says, :. What q fool = and
-. i ~ ! s.s...s ..ir,ci an0
tremble and scream just q little; but
they keep on till the water reaches TO
what would be their knees if they were
men.
Now they face each other, each hold
ing the two hands of the other.
Anybody who has seen the firemen
at work on hand engine will understand
the motion readily.
They keep this up for five or ten min
utes, talking like a brace of parrots all
the time, till one of them screams with
all her might, and runs half way to the
bath-house
She stops to remark that she viii die,
and looking down sees the cause Of her
scare-a blade of eel grass tightly wound
about her ankle
Collecting up courage again, they
seek the water once more. and again the
hand engine maneuver IS repeated.
Then one of them whispers "Ihere's
man " And the other says: Il
don't care a bit, " and runs with all her
might to the bGth-house.
Then the one who has seen the man
sauinters slowly after, picking up a she'll
or two on the way, pretending to think
there isn't a man in creation.
BY and by they emerge from the bath
house, and ostentatiously display the
tey towels and bathing dresses, cnaJUeI-
ng in the most voluble manner.
at was just lovely !" one remarks.
And the other says she feels $50 re-
reshed. YOU know.
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Letters Of Introduction.

The Hour indulges In some very
dertinent criticisms on the fashion of
asking and giving letters of introduction;
The practice Is abused beyond the limit
of patience. Persons who have no claim
upon ones time and hospitality fasten
themselves upon him by virtue of letter
from some well-meaning but thought
less acquaintance. 1t is simply form
of recommending Tom, Dick and Harry
to credit where probably they do not de-
serve credit at all. Business men should
exercise more discretion in this i'm
portant matter. It is scarcely fair for
them to recommend to others men they
would not trust themselves Chicago
SATURDAY. Herald.
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The Wyoming Method.
san Francisco Chronicle.

san Francisco Chronicle.
They have learned how to live IN Hill
lard, Wyoming territory, and are pleased
with their lesson. AS often as they
get out Of meat they replenish this way:
A band of wicked-looking citizens go
down to the Union Pacific track ways,
to where the trains run slowly and
await the passage of the through express
with its palace cars and tender passen-
gers. As it Is heard in the distance they
take Their places. A stuff man made of
straw is laid out beside two deal collins,
q bit of baggage keeping his face from
being seen, while the gang gather around
a living victim, whom they are about TO
hang to a telegraph pole. 1t Is slim
chance for the poor fellow, but the pas
sengers run wild at the sight. The train
is stopped. Volunteers run back to the
the scene. Explanation: Two noted
horse-thieves are the scourge of the dis
trict, survivor penitent now, but the
best time to hang him is when we have
him. He's done thousands of dollars of
damage. This suggests ransom. The
passengers take up a contribution and
buy the poor devils life for him. Then
they carried him on to Hilliard and
leave him. "Citizens IN carriages"
come riding home later with the ransom,
which tlras divide without quarrel, and
there and pleasantly in Hilliard.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21
Teeth as Producers of Near-Sighted.

DR.. Sexton, leading biologist of New
York, thinks he has discovered a connec-
ton between near-sightedness, impaired
hearing and defective teeth the teeth
furnish the starting point for the dis
order affecting the other two organs.
The " fifth pair F" of nerves supplies at
once the teeth, the tissues of the nose.
those of the eye and ear, the integu-
ments of the frontal and temporal re-
gion, ETC. A defective tooth produces
irritation of the whole region thus sup
piled, and in fact often occasions severe
cases of neuralgia. Even when there is
no pain felt in tooth it may yet be the
cause of grave disorder in the eve. ear
or temple. Dementia, it is claimed. is
sometimes due to tooth having ell the
appearance of soundness TO the unpro-
fessionA eye.-BattiDlor Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21

THE late DIR. Chaplin had an unhappy
turn for puns. Dr. Emerson on one oc-
casion preached for DIR. Chapin, and. on
entering the pulpit, laid his silk hal on
the seat, and then laid a paper on it.
DIR. Chaplin afterward came in, and. sit.
ting down carelessly, mashed the hat
completely. Arising and picking up
the mutilated tile, he contemplated It
with the remark: "I presume YOU
thought it was a silk hat. but now it is
satin"
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iEORGE wARREcS. Ea,tar
LOST AT SEA.
- ROSE HARrwIcK THORPE.

l stood whore the starlit heavens
Spread away over sea and glen,
Like the hands Of loving angels
Reaching down to the hearts Of men.
And the sea, with a smile, reflected
The infinite lights above;
The quiyering, respondent heavera
All smiling with peaceful love.
And the waves DER the white sand creeping
Brought ripples Of joyous glee,
AZ the lines of the purple heaven
Bent over 70 kiss The sea.
"Oh treacherous sea ~ murmured.
:" Restore to my arms, pray,
The treasure gave to your keeping
one golden autumn day.
ship with its precious burden
Sailed out from my longing gaze.
Away from the peaceful harbor
In the bright October haze.
And sweet face, looking backward.
With a tear and = smile for
The dearest OK al my treazurn.
- gave to the treacherous sea-
Lake Michigan, darkly hidden
In thy secret bosom lies
The face that fondly cherished,
The beautiful love-ht eyes.
For the ship that left the harbor
In the calm October haze
Bore it's precious freight forever
Away from my longing gaze.
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Horse.Shed Christianity.

A Methodist society in Mendon, VT,
has put up about a dozen good horse
sheds at the church. That is practical
religion, and worth dozen exhortations
on "falling from grace" or sanctlfica-
ton. A man who will hitch his horse
TO a fence on a cold winter day, and do
it for years while he goes inside the
meeting house to talk about faith"
and love" sanctifcation" and
election - lacks some essential feature
of the gospel of Christ. The world
wants more of the Christianity which
builds horse-sheds, pays 100 cents on
the dollar, treats the horses kindly,
cares for the stock, and is not domineer-
ng in the family Vermont Tribune.
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Who Does the Thinking :

Nature, we are told, wastes nothing.
That has been said so often that we al
most believe it but it's not true any
more for that. Nature lavishes brain
power that is utterly wasted. just con-
slider that every one of the million in
habitants of this globe has a thinking
apparatus ready provided-comes into
the world with it ready to hand-and
then ask how many of them use it?
Who thinks? Perhaps a dozen men do
the thinking for an entire community,
and that is putting the figure high.
Think? We are not allowed to think
If we knew how the critics would not
let us. They give out the tune and we
sing it, and unfortunately the tune Is not
a new one. If they only would quarrel,
if only they would differ, if only they
would wrangle over any one thing, there
might be chance-but they do not.
The time even for critics to think inde
pendently has gone by. They can't do
1t. Every month sees the publication Of
book notices read one, and you nave
read all and have as just an apprecia-
ton as if you had read none. But you
know what to think, that's the comfort
of it; you need never use the machinery
with which you are supplied. When the
art exhibitions open who among the
crowd of gazers is going to think what
is good? and why it is or what is vul-
gar, pretentious, unadulterated, copy
and why it is? Say two in fifty, and
that is probably two too many to credit
with any original thought. No, the art
notices will settle all that, and save the
individual the trouble, and one critic in
a hundred may know what he is talking
about. There might be a chance for the
world at large, if his opinion happened
to be the first published, but it probably
will not, and so it will be useless for
him to expect it at all, for no one will
believe it, the world will have accepted
the verdict in the popular papers, and
the eyes of thousands will see what the
eve of one has imagined to be there. Ii
we must have our thinking done for us,
let US at least try to have it done by
competent persons.-Net0 York Mail.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21

Indianapolis scissors grinder claims
To have been with the Duke of Yelling
ton in forty battles, and that he received
132 sword cuts and eleven gunshot
wounds. We don't believe the Duke of
Wellington had any use for a scissors
grinder. The Duke was not editing a
paper. as we understand it. Still, if the
Duke did have q scissors grinder, who
went around with his grinding machine,
ringing a bell and shouting the way
thew do nowadays, we don't blame the
Dukes neighbors for stabbing him 1872
times and shooting him eleven times
with a gun. He deserved it.-Peck's
.SsG,a-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21

THE sunbeam is composed of three
distinct rays, one of heat, one of light
and one called the chemical ray. The
blue or chemical ray is greater in spring,
The light ray in summer. The chemical
ray is less in autumn,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-21
T,,rr1r PE11. a bright 5-year-old, is

LITTLE PHIL, a bright 5-year-old, is
afraid of thunder. During a hot spell
his mother would remark: "Oh, pray
for rain" One day when she said it
Phil thus addressed her: "Oh, mamma,
/ will tell you why it don't rain. When
say my prayers des say, Please don't
pay any 'tention to what mamma says,
COS I'm afraid of thunder. '"-Wit and
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CO.'S N FOR THE LADIES.


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aNnd 1 safd ! hated You"
@abf yos wound me-you are cruel!
:, Desr forgive Nv doubts are o'er-
ANY You love Inc2 You mine now? ~
s.Oear heart, yce Foreyermore.h
--FoglfF iliscGfi.
, 1881-02-11
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.

Ma. Berry, an engineer of the
Northern Pacific surveying corps,
gives the "lndependent" some in
formation relating to the country on
the upper Cowlitz which is not gen
orally known. He says that the can
yon of the Cowlitz widens out at a
distance Of thirty miles from the
railroad, into beautiful valley of
many miles in extent, the bottoms of
excellent land, covered with vine
maple and alder brush. There is
not a settler in it, but there is room
for over a hundred families. He
discovered in the valley a cranberry
marsh, bearing great quantities OF
the larger kind of berry, which will
be valuable as soon as a road is
opened into the valley.
, 1881-02-11

GEORGE G. GoRHAM, who has JUS,
returned from visit to Mentor, in a
significant editorial on the much
talked of antagonism of President
Hays to Senator Conkling, asserts
that there is no antagonism besween n
these gentlemen, and that the re-.
ports OF appointments in New York
to influence the election of United
States Senator are the work of those
who desire to stir up discord anon Q
the Republicans.
, 1881-02-11

The House committee on Terrific
ries have agreed to report favorably
Delegate Campbell's bill, which pro
vides that all Territorial officers in
the several Territories of the United
States, whose Offices are created 5y
Act of the Territorial Legislature,
and the salary or fees of which are
not payable by the United States
shall be appointed or elected in such
a manner as has been or may be pro.
vided by the Legislature or Assem-.
blysof each Territory respectively.
, 1881-02-11

AT meeting of the stockholders
in San Francisco recently, Charles
Goodall, Peter Donahue, Geo. @,
Perkins, John Rosenfeld, W. F. Bah.
cock, F. S. Wensinger and Edwin
Goodall' we're elected directors OF
the Pacific Coast Steamship Com.
pany. AT a sabsequen: meeting OF
the directors Chas. Goodall was
elected President Of the company,
John Rosenfeld Secretary, and Ed.
win Goodall Treasurer.
, 1881-02-11

TnE United States sends somr
$4,000 worth Of clocks to China
every year. We also send to thai
country 81 100000 worth of cottons
American cottons are universally
recognized as better than English
and in the Chinese market as rule
they are higher. With ccmmer
cial treaty with China our export
would largely increase.
, 1881-02-11

The reports of the tests of the
sugar beet, sent to California beet
sugar manufactures from Puyallup,
are very satisfactory. In some the
percentages OF sugar was as high as
l7awhile California and eastern beets
rarely go over IL. The result has
been that numerous inquiries have
been sent up, looking toward either
contracting for large quantities OF
OF the beets to be sent to California
or the establishment of factory in
the Pnyallup valley.
, 1881-02-11

THERE are about seventy.6ve
steamers plying between New York
city aud Europe. The number of
sailing vessels is nearly ten times as
great.
, 1881-02-11

The latest reports from Eas. OF
the mountains is that cattle were dy.
ing by thousands, being unable to
get anything to eat. This winters
experience is peculiarly dishearten.
ing to stockmen, many of whom have
invested most all their money in the
business and will be irretrievably
ruined.
, 1881-02-11
THOMAS JAoKMAN, Defendant.

10 THOMAS JACKarAN. said Defendant,
In the name OF the United States of
America you are hereby required to an
pear In an action brought against YOU by
the above named plaintiffs In said Court,
and answer the complaint on file therein
In the Office OF the Clerk OF said Court In
Port Townsend. Jefferson county, Wash.
Ter, within sixty days after the date OF
this summons, or Judgment by default will
be taken against you according to the
prayer Of the complaint. The cause and
general nature OF the said action Is as fol.
lows, to wit:
Said action Is brought to recover a bal
ance due from you to plaintiffs upon an
account stated on or about the 10Th of
February 1880. between you, amounting
to S273.05, which sum You then promised
to pay plaintiffs, but have not paid, nor
any part thereof and which sum Is now
due from You TO plaintiffs with interest
thereon at 10 per cent. per annum, to-
gether with the costs OF this action.
Witness the Hon. ROGER 5. GREENE.
Judge Of said Court. with the
seal thereo stfxed hereto, at
LIS. Port TOTnsenG, W. T., this
S--~s' 2Sth dav OF December 1850.
JAMES SEAYEY, Clerk.
D. W. SMITH, Plaintiffs Attorney.
, 1881-02-11

BRITIsH Columbia has a voting
population Of AIRS, or 267 more
than a year ago. OF the whole mum.
Der, 1,l34 are registered in Victoria,
25O in Victoria District and ia in
Esquimalt, or about one.third the
whole number in or near the capital
of the Province. New Westminster
city and district are credited with
$40, and Nauajmo $50. Of the
years gain, 80 votes are in and near
Victoria, giving evidence of growth
notwithstanding the dull times
CoNichan gained 43, Yale 20, Carl
boo is. New Westminster, Lilloei
and Comox sustained slight loss
during the year.
, 1881-02-11

nnru Great ch ee to make money
GMu Ia We need a person In every
Hu nH town to take subscriptions for
HHHEl the largest, cheapest and best
"HIAu illustrated family publication
UVAW in the world. Anyone can be-
come u successful agent. Six
elegant works OF art given free to subscribers.
The price ia so low that almost everybody
subscribes. One agent reports taking l2O sub.
scribers In day. A lady agent reports max.
ing over 5000 clear profit In ten days. All who
engage make money fast. You can devote all
your time TO the business, or only your spare
time. You need not be away from home over
night. You cnn do II as well ~ others. Full
directions and terms free. Elegant and eN
penslye Outfit free. II you want profitable
work send as your address at once. 1t costs
nothing to try tho business. No one who en-
cages fails to make great pay. Address
GEORGE srINsoN Co., Portland, Name.
, 1881-02-11

A petition has be n pre- ,ented TO
the Dominion Parliament to preven,
vessels from Puget Sound of less
than thirty tons capacity entering
Victoria and other towns along the
coast. This seems to mean protec
tion Of farmers and farming interest
there,