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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-03
THE C0UNTRYMAN
IL THE
Weather Signal Office

MIL Mr.. jeremiah Toadvine. OF the rural
4lJ district, brought letter Of introduce
- ton to the United states signal on.
" Ger, and 10y the latter gentleman was
~ shown the beautiful scientific instru-
~ mentS for measuring and determining
N the various changes and conditions
II ofthc weather. Pointing TO the stand
II III ard thermometer he explained tn Mr..
H II I. the uses OF the heat gauge. where
H. upon Mr.. I, anNiOusly inquired IL he
II II hadn't nuthCr un to sparc-SiCh n
II II nice merChiue to sOt the weather in
III II hayin and harvest time" His inspcc-
III II ton of the agrumetcrorw wind measurer
IL II evoked the expression: Wouldn't
III. III she be the racket to run the wind
IL II mill with" The barometer was
III one too many for Toadvinc. and. look
Ii ing queerly at the official, as If he
were utterly nonpluSScd and bank
II rupt of words, said: " Friend, did you
III lIlever have the rcumatiSg' The
III abruptness of the question surprised
III II the officer, who replied, "No-ncvCr"
III Ill" What'-- Evidently reCOllcCting
lIlhimself Mr.. T. stopped on the ragged
III edge of the threadbare remark, and
Ill said: 81 only wanted to know, forif
iii II this trap pointing TO the barUmetcr)
lllshowS the good an bad weather afore
/ II its time, it would he bully trap for
\ n!pcOple with reumatis they could
III II flank it every time. Up my country
\ when folks has it they use ST. JACOBS
III iii OIL, an lisa powerful argument sgin
II rcumatis-it's the upper dorg in the
III fight every time" With thanks for
XII the unexpected information, the Off
If Cial politely turned Mr.. Toadvine
over to the usher to show him to the
i + street car, while he, looking over his
ilpaper read: "MrS Il. A. GiSt, No.
III 1904 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa,
writes: l had infammatOry rheuma-
Iii II tism very badly. lnone fOOtGnd ankle
IL il seemed to have taken hold with the
iii III determination TO stay, and the morn
IL ing | obtained the ST. JACOBS OIL l
I'll could not put my foot down to the
IL hi floor. even for an instant. ! used it
I'll lIlthat evening for the first time. and the
III IllueXt morning for the second time,
Ill Hand that afternoon put my foot down
ASul for several minutes. On the Sunday
1r1Il following | could stand up and walk
Il'IlI9lO few steps. On Tuesday could walk
Illil about my room and went down stairs
I'lIlUl by holding on to the banisterS. Now
II.NtA 1 can walk quite well and there is
IIIlIi5I very little pain left. Just think! one
'IIllI bottle and n half and am almost free
~ from painl Its wonderful medicine.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
The Right Way to Go Arising.

A Republican reporter was standing
on Fourth street yesterday morning,
engaged in a casual conversation with
q gentleman who frequently goes fish,
ing, and generally brings home a fine
string of fish. just then, two we'll
known citizens passed along with bas-
kets on their arms, fishing-poles over
their shoulders and broad-brimmedh hats
on their heads.
ssJust look therer said the reporters
interlocutor. s'there goes two fellows
starting off a-fishing, without knowing
the least thing about it, at least in this
latitude"
.'But they always bring home good
strings of fish"
"Of course they do; but we all know
how that is done. They are just like
all the rest that don't understand their
business. They go and sit on the bor-
ders of the lake in the broiling sun all
day, don't catch fish, and then on
their way home buy the best string
they can in market or at a fish stand"
p '' You go fishing yourself, sometimes,
don't youp'
:. Yes, but don't do it that way"
You know some better plan, sup
posee'
"You bet dol When go fishing j
send nv baskets and rods out to some
farm house where there is boy who
knows how to catch fish, and then ]
go out at my leisure and sit in the
barn with the old man and play poker
all day while the boy catches the fish,
and then l have string of fresh fish to
carry home that there is no suspicion
about. But SOME men can never learn
to do anything the right way."--St
Louis Republican.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30

he turned and carried it on the boat Just
what I'd call a purity tolerable stout
man." E..-
THAT reminds me of man used to
know in Buford County, Alabamy,"
said stranger named Upper, who had
been in the neighborhood but short
time. All eyes were turned toward the
speaker, and they began to size him
up. 81 guess old Pete Jennings, con-
tinued the stranger, twas about the
heftiest man in these United States, if 1
amt mistaken"
You see, one day he was hauling
some fence posts in an OK wagon, when
the wheels began to creak like il they
needed greasin'. He looked under the
wagon for his tar bucket and found it
warn't thar, and what do you 'spose he
didPn al -- -
ST don't know" growled Bill Barker
and Lem Williams in chorus.
Well, I'll just tell you what he did.
he propped up the axle-tree, tux the
wheel of, and steppin' out in the woods
he picked up pine Knot, held it over
the axle and squeezed the tar outen it.
Old Pete Jennings had grip what beat
wise, you bel"
stranger" said Lem Williams, as
he rose up, II don't like to dispute q
mans word, but that's a blazing lie,
and amt gwine to believe it," and he
and Bill Barker, Quilted and disgusted,
mounted their horses and left Upper
with serene smile on his face as he
whitfield the edge of cracker box
~ o. Times
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
Black Silk Dresses.

Black and white striped silk is very
popular this season for the skirts of
dresses, or rather for their fiounces.
Even stripes, each from half an inch to
an inch broad, are chosen in satin
striped gros grain, usually with the
white stripe of satin, and the black of
gros grain; this is laid in plaits that
have the black on top, and the white
beneath is only accidentally disclosed.
Five deep plaitings of this kind appear
to surround the entire skirt, but are
only placed on the sides, where they
are not covered by the over-skirt, two
of the fiounces alone passing around the
foot. Such hounces are not fastened
down as closely as they formerly were.
being only held once, and that not
stiffiy, by thread below the top, where
they are first sewed on. The over-skirt
is looped high on one side-almost to
the waist, indeed-has very ample dra-
peries in front and back, forming a
point low on one side of the front, and
similar point behind. This over-skirt
is of plain black satin Surah, and is
merely hemmed by blind stitches, snd
not otherwise trimmed, unless jet orna-
ments or great pins, shaped like hair
pins. are used to hold up the drapery.
4AC UdSquo Is pltlu anu EOuuu-but1 10,
it is perfectly even on the hips, instead
of being shorter there than in the front
and back-and is cut away from the
waist line in front. The Byron collar
and small cuffs have thick jet embroid-
cry upon them, and there are small Jet
buttons for fastening the front. This
simple and stylish dress is we'll worn
with black rough straw poke trimmed
with shaded red plumes, and is accom-
panied by large red silk umbrella
Watered silk is also stylishly used for
trimming black silk or satin Surah
dresses. For instance, with a round
black silk waist, the neck draping,
cuffs and sash are of watered silk in
stripes alternating with satin stripes.
Around the neck, reaching to the waist
on each side of the front, are three
straight folds, so laid that the satin
stripes are concealed, and the watered
stripes are on top. The sleeves have
similar folds at the wrist. The sash
bow at the back is of the striped mate
rial. cut in half, made with two wide
loops each half yard long. and two
long ends; these are closely strapped
and sewed to a wide belt of three soft
folds, making the stripes pass around
the waist.-Hd,Per' Bdzar.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
Unhelpful Criticism.

Our best friends are those who tell
US of our faults" So we are taught
from childhood up, and there is truth
in the teaching, no matter how unwel.
come the actual experience and appli-
cation of it. But it is important, to re-
member the other part of the sentence
-" and show us how to cure them"
Fault-finding is easy enough. and plenty
there are who are ready to practice it up
on others; but the proportion of helpful
critics, truly entitled to be counted ''our
best friends" is lamentably small. 1t
is in the power of human beings to as
sist each other not only by hearty COM
mendation, but by good healthy criti-
cism.
But criticism may be either kind or
cruel, hurtful or helpful, according to
the spirit which inspiresit. To tell one
of his faults without hint of cure
for them is unhelpful. The criticism
of a true friend will always be directed
to the correction of faults, in the wise
showing of the steps toward perfection.
and how to climb them.
But there are among all classes OF
society those who are ever ready to
criticise unhelpfully, who seem 10 take
petty and thoughtless, If not malicious,
delight in spying out and bringing into
notice defects in the character or in the
work of others, and who, with con-
scious self-sufficiency, bear down upon
errors and failures without taking any
pains to point out the more perfect way.
Under this kind of criticism many are
irritated and soured, others are crushed
and wounded, and neither class ever
quite recover their original hopefulness.
One of the most admirable, and most
lovable traits of George Eliot's char
acter was her tolerant spirit; she had
no patience with that sort of criticism,
which ruthlessly bruises and willis the
spirit of its victim. Her own sensitive
nature had felt the smart. her writings
having been subjected to much sharp
criticism, and perhaps to this cause
more than any other may be attributed
that tinge of sadness which colored
all her literary work, and which
made her sound out this warning:
1t is with men as with trees; if You
lop off their finest branches, into which
they are pouring their young life-juice,
the wounds will be healed over with
some rough boss. some odd excres-
cence; and what might have been a
grand tree, expanding into liberal shade,
IS but whimsical, mis-shapen trunk. -
How few realize the responsibility of
heedlessly wounding, by unmerciful
criticism, those who would have been
glad to have had the advantage of their
superior discernment, and would have
been grateful for suggestions tending
to Improvement. So the unhelpful
critic comes to be considered as an en-
emy by the criticised, rather than as a
'sbest friend" 1t is not agreeable to
be told of our faults. but much depends
on the manner in which it is done, and
by whom, whether it results in benefit
or not. and many are led to cry out
with the writer we have already quoted.
"I really do not want to learn from
my enemies" and so miss the discipline
of what with little more kindliness
would have been helpful criticism. -
Baptist Weekly.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
Colored Jurors.

A recent number of the Chicago Legal
Net0s gives the full text of the opinion
Of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case of William Neal Us.
The State of Delaware involving the
right of colored men to sit as jurors.
Neal, who is q colored man, was in
dicted in the State of Delaware by
Grand Jury from which colored men
had been Intentionally excluded. He
was convicted by petit jury composed
in the same way, and sentenced 10 be
hung. To the trial court he presented
a petition for the removal of his cause
to the Circuit Court of the United States
for the District of Delaware, basing his
petition on the fact that colored men
had been excluded from both the grand
and petit juries. This petition was de-
MED by the Court. His counsel before
trial moved that the Indictment be
quashed, because colored men had been
excluded from the Grand Jury that
found the Indictment against him; and
this motion was rejected.
These proceedings being sustained
and confirmed by the highest judicial
tribunal of the State, the case was re-
moved by writ of error to the Supreme
Court of the United States. This Court,
at its last term, disposed of the case by
setting aside the verdict and judgment
of the Delaware court, and also the
order denying the motion to quash the
Indictment and panels of jurors, and by
remanding the case for further hearing
in consistency with the principles set
forth in the opinion given by the Court.
The trial and conviction of Neal were
thus declared to be a nullity in law, be-
cause inconsistent with the Constitution
and laws of the United States.
The fact held by the Supreme Court
to be fatal to the validity of these pro-
ceedings is the exclusion of colored
msn as Jurors. The doctrine of this
Court, in the Interpretation of the Con-
stitution and the law, is that, in the
selection of jurors to find indictments
or of jurors to pass upon the life, liber-
ty, or property of a colored man.
there shall be no exclusion of or dis
elimination against his race on the
ground of race or color. The
Constitution guarantees to him
this right, as being necessarily
implied in an equal protection of the
laws. If, therefore, the officers who
are charged with the duty of selecting
jurors violate this right in the manner
of making the selection, the jury is not
legally constituted; and if Grand jury
cannot find legal Indictment, or if a
petit jury cannot find legal verdict, it
is the duty of State court, upon having
its attention called to the fact and as
certaining its existence, atonce to quash
the whole proceeding.
This isnowthe settled law of the land.
as expounded by the Supreme Court
of the United States. 1t places colored
men, in respect to their civil rights,
upon precisely the footing of white
men, and permits no discrimination
against them of any kind on account of
race or color. This, while simply and
always Just, rectifes the enormous
wrongs of other days.-N. y Inde-
pe1sient. ---.-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30

of the others, leaned against her IA
theirs shoulder and laid her white hand
softly upon his head, smoothing back
the dark hair, just showing little frost,
from his broad, manly temples.
A pleasant group was this for the eyes
of Mrs Lewis as she came from her
chamber to the sitting room, where she
had gone to lay off her bonnet and
shawl and change her dress.
"Words fitly spoken are like apples
of gold in pictures of silver" said Mr..
Lewis, speaking to her as she came in.
"What do you mean by that?" asked
Mary, looking curiously into her IA
ther's face.
Mother understands" replied Mr..
Lewis. smiling tenderly upon his wife.
Something pleasant must have hap
pened," said Mary.
Something PLEASANT Why do you
say that?" asked Mr.. Lewis.
You and mother look so happy"
replied the child.
"And we have cause to be happy"
answered-the father, as he drew his
arm tightly around her, " in having
three such good children
Mary laid her cheek to his and whis-
pered: IF you are happy. father, it
4hdhcS US I'LL udppy, tOO.
Mr.. Lewis kissed her, but did not re-
ply. He felt rebuke in her words.
But the rebuke did not throw chill
over his feeling; it only gave a new
strength to his purpose.
Don't distribute all your smiles.
Keep few of the warmsst and bright
est for home," said Mrs. Lewis. as she
parted with her husband on the next
morning. He kissed her. but did not
promise. The smiles were kept, how
ever. and evening saw them, though
not for the outside world. Other and
many evenings saw the same cheerful
smiles and the same happy home. And
was not Mr.. Lewis better and hap
pier man? OF course he was. And SO
would all men be if they would take
home with them the smiling aspect
they so often exhibit as they meet their
fellow-men in business intercourse OF
exchange words in passing compli-
ments. Take your smiles and cheerful
words home with you. husbands. fathers
and brothers. Your hearts are dark
and cold without them.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
Champion Liars.

Hanks grocery is situated on the
edge of a prairie in Southern Texas, and
quite a crowd used to meet there and
swap news and lies and have horse races
and get boiling drunk and indulge in
other amusement. Old Lem Williams
used to be on hand every day. and was
considered the boss liar in the State.
One day Lem was seated in front of
Hanks store, splitting tobacco juice at
grasshopper, when Bill Barker re-
marked:
How's crops up your way, Lem?"
"Wen." he replied, "corn's sorter
gin to tasseling, but the stand is pow
erful poor"
THAT seems to be the general COM
plaint," remarked Bill"
"Yes; this here country amt good
for raisin' corn," said Lem, as he took
a fresh chew; /" but if you want to see
corn what is corn, you just orter go to
Fort Bend. When / was farming on
the Brazos, in that country, my corn
grew so tall and thick that 1 had to
hang lamps on the mules ears to see
how to plow furrow. 1t was corn and
no mistake, and in the fall the stalks
were so high that had to knock the
ears down with sassafras pole. Darn
my skin, the ears were so big that it TUX
\ strong man TO carry more N three of
'em at a time"
"Speakin' about strong men," re-
marked Bill Barker, '.sorter causes me
to remember an old steamboat Captain
who used to run on the Yazoo River in
'5S. One day he stopped at landing
for some wood, and the n'ggers were
kinder slow about bringin It aboard.
Old Judkins, the Captain, reused up
and cussed everythin' in reach Says
he, walkin' up to the Soodpile whar
the niggers were at work: Pile on
your timber, yer onery skunks, and let
me show yer how to carry wood an
he stretched out his arms. Well, sir.
the niggers piled on the wood and kept
pilin' until Judkins had n cord and a
half of firewood on his shoulders, and
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
THE DEcEP17HE rENDEB-FooE

II was tender-footed chap,
Had late arrived In town;
his garments wore a glossy nap,
His chin q fuzzy down.
He had an air of innocence
And features like child.
His blue eyes gave you quite the sense
OF flowers that are Wild
1t was hardy miner, VINO
Had worked for many a day
In digging out a sort OF tiue,
Through rock that didn't pay,
Espied this tendersfooted chap
And cried, In honest glee,
Helloi you pint of baby's pap,
Come and take drink with me"
1t was the tenderfoot raised mp -
His blue and chiIdlike eyes,
And looking past the flowing cup,
Took in the miners sizo.
Then rising like a butterfly
From OF the dewy rose,
He murmured, "You are young to die,
But ready, 1 suppose"
1t was the man behind the bar,
And all the others then,
Set up q shout that Travelled far
And echoed hack again:
For they were men of humor rare,
And thought IL jey to see
A little three-foot-six chap dare
Sass up" stx-foot-three-
II was the giant miner, who,
With purple in his face.
Raised up a ham-shaped hand to do
Manslaughter in the place:
And twas the little tender-foOt
Who dodged around his nose,
And in Just thirty seconds put
Thereon one hundred blows.
1t was the giant miner now
Who curled upon the floor,
And twas the little tender-foot
Who sauntered toward the door:
And twas a New York drummer who,
While standing at the bar,
Remarked, THAT'S Billy Edwards;
Can't the little rascal sparg'
-Gunnis0n (COlO.) Neics.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
NUMBER Al.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

I'm the Smithsonian grounds, Wash
ington, $4,000 bedded plants were set
out last year.
The sum of 81, ,26O was offered for
ram exhibited at the recent sheep
show in Australia.
An average of 1000 postal cards
are daily mailed in this country without
address on the face.
--Laborers' wages in Mexico under
the railway boom, have advanced from
eighteen to fortv-three cents per day.
If a man of $50 pounds weight were
as strong in proportion to his weight as
as beetle he would be able to move
one hundred tens.
Two hundred and fifty-nine deaths
were caused last year in the United
States by boiler explosions, and 800
persons were wounded.
An alligator known to be twenty
two years old was caught recently in
steel trap near Talbotton, Ga. He was
five feet four inches long, and in 1861
escaped from pond belonging to Levi
B. Smith.
The Union Passenger Depot at
Cleveland is now illuminated by four
teen electric lamps, using the Brush
III Lu6 CttI SuOQS SCNOA OL b1OoO
lamps displace 7S0 gas burners, and
give far more brilliant illumination.
The Chicago & Northwestern Com
pany is laying track upon les various
branches and extensions in course OF
construction at the rate of d mile and
half every twenty-four hours. The COM
pany will probably build $50 miles oi
new road in 1881.
The largest pasture in the world is
on the border between New Mexico
and Texas. The Indian Territory
bounds it on one side and Colorado on
the other. On one side there are forty
miles of perpendicular rock fence, and
yet it will require 200 miles of fencing
to inclose it. The owner, Taylor
Mandolin, has sown 1000 tons of oats.
He will feed on it 100, 900 head of cat
tie.
"A lecture recently delivered by
Parsee milling expert. Mr.. M. +. Patett,
B. A, gives a good deal of information
about spinning and weaving mills in the
Bombay Presidency, India. The first
mill was started in 1854, and since that
time 80 in all have put in operation TO-
600 looms with 1000, 600 spindles, Civ
ing employment to 80, 600 persons. The
total capital invested is about $50, ,000,-
600. Besides the Bombay mills there
are in all India Is others, with some
1,8O0 looms and $4,000 spindles, in.
volving a capital of about 30, 900, 900.
The industry employs in all India an
average of 1000 hands to each mill.
The highest number of spindles in one
mill is 100, 900, the lowest 1900. The
average number of looms in a mill is
| $40.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who is anxious for some
thing to turn up can be accommodated
by putting glass of water under to-
per's nose.-BoStoH Post.
When a hen sits on an empty China
egg, you call it blind instinct. What
do you call it when a girl sets her af-
fections on an empty-headed noodle?-
Boston Transcript.
A Kentucky gentleman stole four
hives of bees, carried them several
miles, and did not get stung once; but
if an honest man had gone within ten
feet of the bees he would have been
stung fifty times.-Neao HaUefl Register.
Some philanthropist has said that
man who truly loves a horse cannot be
wicked. He must be in the wrong, for
Texas jails are full of men who loved
other peoples horses not wisely, but
too well.-M. o. FicGyurae.
Nom.
There was an old maiden of Rome
Who very much wanted a home;
So she asked her friend Harry;
If he would not marry;
He bIushed, and said solemnly, sNo'mP"
-AndrelCs' Queen.
Pamphlets describing the attrac-
tions at summer resorts should distinct
ly state whether or not brass bands are
kept on the premises. Persons who go
to the country for quiet, peace and hap
piness, should not be misled into neigh
borhoods where brass bands are allowed
to run at large and make night hideous
with noise.-M. o. RcayEne.
They were approaching an ice
cream saloon. and she said, '.Oh, Char
ley, I'm going to have my new dress cut
bias-Oh-oo. S-p-p p!--there's an ice
cream saloon, Goodyr' '' Yes; and it is
like your new dress, for it will be cut
by u.s." and the horrid old wretch led
the painting damsel across the street.
RhitehaH Times.
The War Department thinks Sc
riously of abolishing the bayonet, and
we feel kind of sorry. These formida-
BILE weapons look SO bright and shiny on
street parades, and make the troops
seem so formidable in the eyes of the
fair sex. Besides, they used to toast
crackers so nicely in the army and were
so handy to poke fires within 7.
Commercial Advertiser.
The following poemIet is excellent
of its kind:
.From OF the running rivulet the icy chain is
And the fiutter of the wingiet of the dovelet is
The quacEiet of the ducklet in the brookietwe
And the rootiet of the piglet win presently
~ -Tsras Sytinos.