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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-04-15
SILK DEPARTMENT.

Black eros Grain Silk, from 80 cts to So per
yard.
Coored Gros Grain SILK, al 60, 10, 81 cts
5 90, and ST % per yard
Black and colored Brocade Silks, al 81 .25,
l.50, ! 10 NJ TO 3 90 per ward
Black satin de Lyon, nj 81 so, lis 200,
aud $50 per yard,
Black aud Colored Salips, Fancy Striped Sat
ms and Fancy Striped Silks VERY CHEAP.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-04-15
LHNE3N DEPARTMENT..

Special trives IN hat bi,ached German Table
l.iutus Duu liamasN ADD Wine Cloths
Aisu Napkins, Towc's and richardsou' :
iii,h i.iu,us
A ia aud complete stock OF Domestic Goods
Ia 81 he be-, ttands bought duesl oi the
Mauntc,ury,s aud will be sold at toe yer,
Invest pices.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
THEN AND NOW.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HoLMRg.

Dear ancient school boysI Nature taught to them
The simple lessons of the star and flower,
Showed them strange sights how single stem
Admire the marvels of Creative Power!-
Twin apples grew, one sweet, the other sour
How from the hilltop where eyes behold
In even ranks the plumed and hammered maize
Range It's long columns, in the days OF old
The live volcano shot its angry blaze
Dead since the shadows of NGah's wateTy days.
How, when tho lightning split the mighty rock
The spreading fury of the shaft was spent;
How the young scion joined the alien stock,
And when and where tho homeless sparrows went
10 pass the winter OF their discomfort
Scant were the geamings in those years of dearth;
NO Cuvier yet had clothed the fossil bones
That sumbered waiting for their second birth;
No Lyel read the legend of the stones;
Science still pointed to her empty thrones
Dreaming Of orbs TO eyes of earth unknown
Herschel locke heavenward in the starlgh: pale;
Lost i'll those awful depths he trod alone
Lnplace stood mute before the lifted veil;
While homc-brcd Humbolt trimmed his toy-ship's
sail,
No mortal fee: those loftier heights had gained
Whence the wide realms of ture we dcscry;
In vain their eyes our longing fathers strained
To scan with wondering gaze the SUBMITS high
1hat lar beneath their chlldren's footsteps lie.
Smile at their first small ventures as we NAV,
~ Ihe scho9Iboy's copy shapes the scholars hand,
Their gratefu memory lllS our hearts to-day;
Brave hopeful, wise, this bower of peace they
While wars dread plowshare Scared the suffering
land.
Child Of our clildrens children yet unborn.
When on this yellow page you turn your eyea,
where the brief record ol this May-day morn
In phase antique and faded letters lies
How vague, how pale our fitting ghosts will rise!
Yet in our veins the blood ran warm and red
For US the fields were green, the skies were blue.
Though from our dust the spirit long has fed,
We eIived, VIC loved, we toiIcd, we dreamed like
you,
Smiled at our sires and thought how much we
knew.
Oh might our spirits for one hour return
When the next century rounds its hundreth ring
All the strange secrets IL shall teach to learn,
10 near the large truths its years shall bring
Its wiser sagcs talk, its swcctcr miustrels sing!
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
Picture Frames.

Very serviceable and pretty picture
frames can be made out of pasteboard.
For cabinet photographs, cut four strips,
two six inches and two eight inches
long. Lap them across the corners, in
the same way as the rustic frames are
joined, and punch hole through the
two pieces SO that you can fasten them
with q button. You can find four of O.
kind handsome enough in the button
box on the shelf. Out steel are the best,
but any kind will do. Strips of paper
on the back will hold the picture in it's
place.
These frames are pretty, made of
black cardboard or covered with black
silk. Little gilt stars, or strips of gilt
paper down the center, have pleasant
effect on the black. You can cut little
pieces of paper to represent gilt buttons
ifyou do not happen to have any in the
house. If you can, embroider narrow
vine on strips, with q cluster of leaves or
flowers at the corners. Almost any COM
bination of materials and styles is effect
i've for these frames, and they are an
agree able change from the perforated
card so long used. Glove and handker-
chief boxes, and, in fact, boxes of any
kind, all lie in this line of manufacture.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
Paper Boxes Substituted for Tin.

A few years ago q process of paper-box
manufacturing was invented, which has
since placed paper, the rival of so many
materials, in the position of q strong
rival Of tin in packages for certain arti-
cles OF commerce. Previous to this in
vention the great objection to using
round paper boxes for small packages,
when tin was commonly used, was that
the covers, being in two pieces 60 disk
and nm), were not durable or safe
enough to fill the requirements Of fre-
quent handling. Under the new process
the heads OF covers of the box are
drawn from single piece of straw
board, SO that not only is there no sepa-
rating Of disk from the rim by use, but
there Is no seam throh yh which the con-
tents OF the box can find it's way. Tho
body OF the box is cut from papor tubes,
made of several thicknesses of light
weight of straw board or heavy straw
paper. Almost any desired diameter or
length of box can be made. The heads
are made Of heavy straw board, from
what is known as No. 80 to No. so, or
heavier if desired, and are "drawn :"
under q peculiar process, with great
rapldlty. One of these heads is fastened
to the bottom of the box, another of the
same kind is adjusted to the top, not
fastened, and the box is complete. For
these q straw board lined with fancy
colored paper can be used oftentimes q
| tln-foil paper is selected, in which case,
with the body of the box covered by a
label, the package resembles q hand
some. Gold tin box. The boxes have
Deen INTRODUCED 'uto great variety of
uses, where, on a'count of cheapness,
they havo already superseded tin.
Large quantities are used with and
without water, air and grease-proof
preparations, in packing such articles as
| chloride of limo, paris green, putty, tar,
seeds, etc. The same principle is ap-
piled to the manufacture of small Dill
boxes and toy paper-cap boxes, the lat
ter being known now by "Young Ameri-
ca" almost to an entirety, as his chief
Fourth of July delight. This class of
boxes is made with astonishing rapidity,
as can be imagined from the fact that
they are sold, by the thousand gross, as
low as = and cents gross.
MANY IF the Hindoos still think that
the leader Of the Sepoy rebellion, Mana
Sahib, is yet living, and that he is in
America, a region as vague to them aa
the dominions of Prester John we're tc
the medievalists. Although his deatl,
was announced twenty years ago, the
| truth or falsity of it was not then, MOI
! has it since been, ascertained. HI
might be alive, SO far as his age goes
for he would not now be more than 6(
years old.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03

me i'll de yard wild ole Simmons bull -
she said with charming independence.
''Then [ shall send Nanly Pal"
IF Nanky Pal goes outen dat house
Ill break every bone in her body"
Then Mabel began to beg: "Aunt Pat
sey, let her go, please. I'll give you a
whole bagful of quilt pieces, and nv
ruby rep polonaise that you begged me
for yesterday"
Aunt Patscy's head came out little
further. can what else ?"
'And a ruffled. pillow-sham, said Ma
bel, almost i'll tears, land some white
sugar, and I'll make you a het-and
that's all. NoWr"
81 reckon dat's about as much as the
chile is wuth," said the phlosophic
mother. sLet her CO."
ely! fyl" cried Mabel.
81 amt skeered," said Nanky. sc
amt dat sort. Nanny amt nuther.
She was ies' waitin' ter sec how much
you'd give"
Nanky's bare legs scudded quickly
across the yard. The bull took no notice
OF her. He was still stamping and below
and the doctor clung together, and only
IL hlCh low duu GLSu GeSllllSu 10 GnS llGUl6
mans agony.
Suppose Uncle Brimmer should let
go?" suggested in O hollow whisper.
ooh, hush," cried Mabel. ""The doc
tors blood would be on olr heads"
"Or tho bulls horns"
1t was not far to the tobacco field, and
in an incredibly short time brother j Johp
came riding in followed by half O. dozen
stout negroes. With some delightful
play that gave one quite On idea of
Spanish bull fight, his lordship was cap
tured, and our little doctor was assisted
to the house.
Gone was the glory of DR.. Trattles
jeX. His coat was torn, his knees grimy,
his hands scratched, and he looked--yes
as if he had been crying.
"Can you ever forgive us?" said Mabel,
piteously. She lowered about him like
little mother. She made him drink two
glasses of vino; she mended his coat; she
asked him if he would not like to kiss the
baby. And finally q wan smile shone in
the countenance of DR.. Jex. For me. 7
felt my face purpling, and leaving him
to Mabel, fled with brother John to the
smoke house, where we-roared
Uncle Brimmer got we'll and went in
to see the doctor. He returned with a
new cravat, a cane, and several smart or
ticlcs of attire, from which we inferred
that i'll those trying moments when he
supported the suspended doctor, that lit
tie gentleman had offered many induce
ments for him to hold fast. When qucs-
toned he responded chiefly with cav
eernous and mysterious smile. only say
ing:
"NIaster DR.. Jex is gentleman;
starch in or starch out, he's do gentle
man straight"
And brother John, who is somewhat
acquainted with slang, said, with great
laugh, "Wcll, old man, you had bully
chance to Judge, SO you must be right"
ITccEIy.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
What CorOner's Jury Is Composed Of.

Confederate Burker arose to o. oues-
ton of privilege in the club. He was
working in the eastern part of the citv
with man who was fatally injured. He
saw the whole transaction and knew all
the particulars, and yet when the Coro-
ner's jury was made up he was ignored
because of his color. He felt sighted
and indignant, and he hoped the club
would not overlook the insult.
Brudder Burker, you didn't lose
nothin'," replied the President cit
was q compliment to yer intelligence to
ignore you. De average Coroners jury
am composed of two loafers, three old
buns and fule, and dey would have
insisted dat you war de fule. You
haven't got any case, sab, an de meet
in will now be declared split up. "-NesO
YORK. Mercury. 49,.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
Cleanliness and Health.

The alarming spread of dipbtheria
and kindred diseases is O warning to the
people of the United States, of which
they cannot long neglect to take heed.
In many cities and towns diphtheria
now exists almost to the extent of be-
coming epidemic, while there are few
sections of the country entirely exempt
from it's ravages.
1t is believed that the first cause Of
the disease is the preparation of the sys-
tenn by the presence of impure air for
the germs of the disease to take effect,
while these germs are believed to be
multiplied by this impure air. The
best houses of the cities, where there is
a tide flow, are liable to the disease, be-
cause the sewer connections are in the
house, and cannot easily be 80 secure
bat that the gas is forced by the bellows
Of the tide back into them. This is also
the case with dwellings, in cities where
high water fills the sewers, or into
which from other causes the sewer GAS
escapes.
Upon the farm and in villages the dis
ease is propagated by the impure air
from cesSpools and other sources. The
germs Of the disease are not DESTROYED
by the frost as with those of yellow
fever, and the only safety is in a COM
plcte removal of all impurities from the
vicinity OF the dwellings, and not only
this but the filth must be entirely de-
odorized and rendered innocuous.
In the cities the sewer may be made
complete cnrriage way to place Of safe
ty. In the villages and upon tho farm
the remedy cam'be made the means OK
adding largely to the fertilizing clement
of the country as well as securing health.
Tho farmer and the village improve
ment societies should take this work In
their especial charge.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03

down sheep gives the fattest and best
Favored mutton. 1t is also said that all
Virginia, except the aIluvial region, is
pre-eminently sheep-raising country.
The oldest living student of the Uni
versity of North Carolina is the Hon.
Mark Alexander, of Mecklenburg
county, Va, who matriculated in 1908,
and is now in his eighty-ninth year of
life. He is the only survivor, except
one, of the Congress of 1919, and the
only survivor but one of the celebrated
Virginia convention of 1829-90, of which
President Madison, President Monroe and
Chief Justice Marshal were members.
The colporter of the Maury county
Tenn, Bible Society distributed to fam.
lilies in that county destitute of the
Word Of God six hundred Bibles and
Testaments (during the past year, is
probably the time). The Maury county
Bible Society is the oldest in the State
having been organized in 1918.
The second annual report of the At
lanta Board of Health states that the
total number of deaths was go, an ar
nual death rate Of seventeen and eight
tcnths for each thousand inhabitants. OF
the whole number, 288 were white and
391 colorcd. The death rate for the
whites is thirteen to each thousand, and
for the colored people twenty three and
eight-tenths.
The following excellent suggestion is
made of Gov. Jarvis, Of North Carolina,
"No court requiringa jury or witnesses: /:
either civil, criminal, inferior or sup rior,
should be held in the month Of June.
Our people are eminently an agricultural
people, and to take a large number of
laborcrs out of the fields for a week, as
is now done in many of the counties in
the busy month of June, is serious in
jury to the farmers of that county,"
Rev. j. II. Campbell, Of Columbus
Ga, one of the most active philanthrcp
lists IN the State, writes to the Columbus
Times that in all his fifty years expe-
rience among the poor, he never / as had
an application for charity from an Is
raelite. They sometimes give him money
for the poor, but never ask charity for
themselves. During the recent cold
term, when white and colorcd people of
all denominations were cilamoring for
wood, he specially notes the standing of
the Jews, to whom he says the facts arc
highly creditable.
The New Orleans Picayune reprints
the following advertisements from the
Louisiana Gazette, printed in New Or
leans, and dated February II, 1928:
"Passengers for Madisonville-An clc
CANT sleigh and four will leave Basin
Carondelet this day at o'clock for
Madisonvllle, by way Of the Canal and
Lake Pontchartrain. 1t will be provided
with buffalo robes and other accommoda
tions for eight passengers. Apply to the
driver, on board, or at Libriskins stable.
Passage five dollars" "Skates-A few
pairs of Holland made skates for sale
at Ill Custom house street, ready
strapped"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03

We stood in the doorway as he eau
tio'!sly went up the ladder; and after an
exciting moment he pushed himself
through the window, and turning, smiled
triumphantly. o
This settled the matter. A cot bed
was procured for Uncle Brimmer, and
he soon became the mainstay of the
family. Cheerfully avoiding all the
work possible; indiffcrently as an ostrich
eating all he could find in cupboards or
highways; 9rimly playing hobgoblin for
baby. gayly twanging his banjo on
moonlight nights-memory recalls tEo ,
with smile, Uncle Brimmer! I can
close my eyes now and recall him, big,
shGpless, indistinct in the semi darkness
as he sat under the mulberry tree, sing
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12

The sudden storm Of Wednesday
night and succeeding days placed the
coal consumers Of this city in a very
embarrassing position; finding them. as
1t did, utterly unprepared with any adj
dequate supply OF fuel for a long con-
tinued spell of cold weather. This
condition was aggravated by the fact
that the coal offices in town were utter
ly without stock from which to supply
their customers; while the railroad
compay had, Thursday, but barely
enough coal to outfit two engines. al
though they had bills for two cars,
which, however, could not be found in
the yard, and Of course we're of no use
to our citizens. The railroad engines
were all coaled at Hillsdale and Pine
Bluffs, where was an ample supply for
their use for a few days only.
As the matter stands now, our peo-
pie will have to be very economical in
their use of coal, as a new supply will
be delayed according to the success OF
the railroad officials in opening and
keeping the road In shape for business.
THIS will probably be done within
twenty-four hours unless the storm
continues, as 1t has done during the
past two days. There is plenty of coal
mined and on the road, but it has been
Skinned enst to supplv Nebraaka points
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12

Wednesday nights storm proved far
more serious than was at first supposed.
1t set in from the southeast, a direction
from which such storms are seldom
expected, and as the snow fences were
all or nearly all set for the north, but
little was in the way Of unlimited drift
ing. The snow fell in large quantities
and the wind piled 1t into cuts and
drifts, offering an effectual bar to rail-
road traffic,
The first train stuck in the snow was
No. IL, coming east Thursday morning,
and it stalled about two miles east Of
Granite Gallon at 4 o'clock. Then the
first and second sections Of Nos. Q and
10 became fast between Tie Siding and
Sherman. A train was sent out from
Denver Junction to help out No. IL,
coming east. which had become fast in
the snow between Otto and the juno
tion, and that became fast. The. snow
plow was sent out, and that jumped the
track aud stalled within Eve yards Of
the party sent to assist No. 10.
This will give some idea of the diai-
culties under which the railroad officials
labored. Meantime Thursdays train
from the east arrived here and the pas
senger train from the west got as far
this way as Tie Siding. Yesterday, all
day, was employed in ~shoveling out the
snow bound trains. No. 4 was got as
Tar as Sherman, and, the snow piow
getting through, was started for Chey-
enne and was expected at the time of
writing. early this morning.
Yesterdays train from the east came
in about al hour late, and awaited here
the opening of the blockade, making
affairs look quite lively about the
depot.
The passengers all seemed determined
to make the best OF the situation, occu-
plying their time as the stormy weather
would best permit. and from appear
ances one would judge that they would
just as o 10 larry at Cheyenne as al.
most any other place.
To-day will probably see the block
ade broken up, although there Is q
heavy body Of snow on the hill to drift
with the wind, there being three feet on
a level at Sherman; but 1t Is thought
the matter Is under control now.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12
Liberal Reward.

There is a deal Of petty smallness
bundled up in some packages of human
ity, and an illustration in point is that
of a passenger eastward bound, in one
Of the Pullman cars yesterday. He had
on his person about $500 in gold until
he suddenly missed it. Immediately
he set up a great complaint of being
robbed, accusing train officials, pas
sengers and everyone else of perpetrat-
ing tho theft, until one of the porters
brought the $500 to him, having found
it in the water closet, where the man
himself had left it a few moments be-
fore. The porter was magniHcently
rewarded with-a dollar.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12

The wholesale indictments Of the
grand jury yesterday, seventeen in num-
Der, caused a big sensation last even
ing when the facts became known about
town. The indictments are brought
under section ia Of the crimes act,
which prohibits the practice, etc., Of
letting houses for immoral purposes,
under penalty OF not more than $3.50
ine or six months imprisonment in the
county jail.
No bench warrents were issued. but
the defendants ARE summoned las the
ofIense is misdemeanor) to appear In
court this morning at ten O'Clock.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12

The Frewens drove $50 head Of cat
tie from Simmons ranch yesterday, a
distance of about 90 miles, accomplish
ing one Of the severst drives on record
on account Of the storm. Owing to the
depth of the snow, it was found neces-
sary to send 20 horses in advance of the
herd to break the way. The cattle are
in the yards awaiting shipment east.
About so head were lost In this drive.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-12
: nEsrIos

Silver, sLl2t.
Central Pacific stock, S5i.
Union Pacific stock. sL2l.
New York Central stock, sl-39s.
The grand jurydid a big days work
yesterday.
A coal famine is a more serious thing
than is contemplated by the average
denizen.
Highest temperature yesterday 500;
lowest lso; highest velocity of wind
81 miles an hour; melted snow, IT Of
an inch.
Coal is coal. these days. It's great
demand inspires some folks to ''bor-
rows of their neighbors during the alb
sence Of the latter.
Col. Luke Murrin has returned from
a trip TO Fort Laramie. He had the
doubtful pleasure of a severe experience
Of a stage ride through the snow storm.
The talk is that the foresight Of the
president in insisting that MacVeagh
shall not retire from the cabinet until
there was a nnality OF these prosecu-
tions has been abundantly indicated.
The committee on double mails did
not hold a meeting last evening owing
to the extreme inclemency of the
weather. A meeting will be held this
evening in judges chambers. court
house.
The storm for ~thesast few day S has
settled for the time all building progress
In an effectual manner. Work both on
Frewen's new packing establishment at
Sherman, and the opera house here
was effectually blocked for the time.
There is a wedding on the tapis. One
Of the parties is Don-no, not Don
Cameron, but another Don, who will
soon be the happy a He'd lather
nothing woald DO said about IL, and
would razor row II any names were
mentioned, 1t is presumed.
The grand jury, acting in behalf Of
the United States, ignored the bill
against Gustav Letter, who had been
bound oyer to the present term of
court TO answer TO the charge Of lar
ceny from the government reservation
Of Fort ID. A. Russell. Mr.. Lefler's
friends will be pleased with the result,
which they had anticipated.
One item Of consolation after regret
ting the presence Of the snow blockade,
is the fact that among the trains de-
layed over the hill, is one Of IS cars Of
coal for Cheyenne which will probably
be in sometime during the day. The
railroad officials say that they shall do
all in their power during the winter to
keep the city supplied with fuel.
The violent changes in the weather
oftentimes finds unprepared in this
country, and Alice Oates. the actress,
had to depend upon the liberality of
one Of the gentlemen passengers yester-
day for a pair of overshoes to wear
during o sleigh ride. They were not
exactly the largest to be found. but
they were too heavy to be lifted, and
the actress was somewhat Kindred in
her progress to the sleigh by the neces-
sity OF pushing the miniature canal
boats one at a time through the snow.