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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-03
THE GARFIELD MONUMENT.
A Letter 10 General LOBgsfreet
From the COmmittee-COntrl-
buttons Expected From the
Sonth.

CLEVELAND, September 30.-The
Garfield Monument Committee, to-
day, sent a letter as follows:
General j. B. Longstreet, Atlanta,
Georgia:-No kinder expression Of
sympathy for the movement COM
menced to secure funds for the cree
ton Of a monument over the grave Of
James A.. Garfield have come than the
many responses from the South. We
believe the Southern people only want
an opportunity to contribute in order
to add largely to our fund. In view Of
this, what can be done at the Cotton
Exposition to make it general, and
will you please confer with managers
of newspapers and national banks and
send an answer by telegraph? All
funds collected are TO be sent to the
Second National Bank, of this city,
the authorized treasurer. If deemed
advisable, we will send an accredited
agent to confer and arrange with you
for receiving and forwarding eollec-
tions. j. H. WADE,
II. B. PANE,
Jos. PERKINS,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-03

DurnO's eatarrh snuff cures all af-
fections of the mucous membrane of
the head and throat.
DR.. Motifs liver pills are the best
cathartie. W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-03
II. B. PANE,
Jos. PERKINS.

OOmHlllCees
The Garfield monument subscrip.
tons to noon, to-day, amounts to
1899.
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RatS-sd . postornoe al Ne ~
econd-olssH matter
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LEDGER job printing Office, ID Mad
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Names Of Countries.


me ioiioWihg couh,rles' II II n,, SUM-
were oI'Bili"i'l lI''i'ie'' pS 'l'o '','n'- y,
cans .ne greatest '"ln'lci''u ~ PepI''e pI,; ~
til' %orlu' ~ NAME ntIiie1' 1T i: ,llt ih" 'I,a'
ciail n'i6.'aSe' SiS'''''e'' H''il'o.,i''S ,i''i
teriS'ic oi 'iie Pl''2S WHICH '''eS o'S'S
hatc' -.
Europe N9hi'leS country oi "i''o
compIeNloh' so named p'c'''Se 'ic ''l-
hapi'ahtS were OF ilSitef connl''eN'o''
thah those OF ASA ana Africa .,
ASIA SigniiicS between, OF III me nut nut
dle' rom the lact ihat the Ge"Si"P''ciS
placed II between Europe "no AFRICA
Africa Si8hllicS the iaha oi corl'' VI
ears. IL was celeor',ted 'or i,' "p''iio''''ce
OF corn, and all SORTS oi gram
siberia sl8hiiicS tlirStS I" oiS very
characteristic. 49,,
Spain, country OF rabbits or comes
IL was once so infested WIN theSe ahi-
mais that II sued Augustus iof an at'ny
TO destroy them.
lt9iy, country OF p'cii' from IS
yieiding great qlahtlties OF oiack pi'cn'
Calabrla, also, Iof the same reason
Ga'll, modern france, siShiheS yel,oW-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
The Price of Newspapers.

Canadian newspaper publishers are
Oecomlng alive to what is due to them
: ewes in return for their heavy outlay.
~ dlsregarding commercial considera-
ucns, the Toronto Mail lost the whole
u us original capital lover 100000
Id the Toronto Globe, although much
Dnger established and better patronized
= an advertising medium, was making
~ suitable returns for the capital in
wsted The result has been an advance
va dollar year in the price of both pa
S. The Hamilton and London dailies
ae aaVe followed suit. Even now they are
.aeaper than papers of a similar class
punished in the United States, where
aey charge S12 year. Our Canadian
ny papers should go further and raise
" %e price of their weeklies to something
.9ove the bare cost Of the paper on
sach they are printed. No large week
worth reading can be published for
n. H. nan two dollars year, and even at
SA price it would not pay the proprie-
unless there be a large cash adver-
ing patronage. These so-called
aeap papers are dear in the long run.
taey must economize in some way,
s. sm mat can only be done by curtailing
TSa.eis which wonld otherwise he more
SS''aiiy treated.-.StraJord Beaco".
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03

their home OF long ago reared again;
they were playing once more where the
apple blossoms sank through the soft
air to join the violets on the green turf
OF the old New England States; they
saw the glories of the Wisconsin naples
| and the haze of the Indian summer
blending their hues together; they saw
the heather of the Scottish hills, the
| white cliffs OF Briton, and heard the sui
len roar of the sea as it beat upon their
memories vaguely.
Then came all the old Christmas carols
that they had sung in church thirty
years before; the subtle music that
brings up the glimmer of wax -tapers,
the solemn shrines, the evergreens, hol-
ly, mistletoe, and the surpliced choirs.
Then the remorseless performer planted
his final stab in every heart with "FIome,
Sweet Home"
When the player ceased the crowd
skunk away from him. There was no
more revelry and merriment left in his
audience. Each man wanted to sneak
off to his cabin and write the old folks a
letter. The day was breaking as the last
man left the place, and the player, lay
ing his head down ON the piano, fell
asleep.
II say pard," said Goskin, "Don't
you want little rest?'
"I feel tired, the old man said. "Per.
haps you'll let me rest here for the mat
ter of day or ST.. "
He walked behind the bar where
some old blankets were laying, and
stretched himaet upon them.
" I feel pretty sick. | guess | won't
last long. I've got brother down in
the ravine his names Driscoll. He
don't know I'm here. Can you get him
before morning? I'd like to see his face
once more before | die.
Goskin started mp at the mention Of
the name. He knew Driscoll we'll.
"lIe your brother? I'll have him here
in half an hour
As he dashed ont into the storm the
musician pressed his hand to his side
and groaned. Goskin heard the word
Hurry and sped down the ravine TO
Driscoll's s cabin
1t was quite light IN the room when
the two men returned. Driscoll was pale
as death.
"My God, I hope he's alive, |
wronged him when he lived i'll England,
twenty years ago
They saw the old man had drawn the
blanket over his face The two stood a
moment awed by the thought that he
might be dead. Goskin lifted the blan-
ket and pulled it down astonished
There was no one therc
"Gone~ cried Driscoll, wildly.
"Goner' echoed Goskin, pulling out
his cash.drawer. "Ten Thousand dol
lars in the sack, and the Lord knows
how much loose change in the drawer
The next day the boys got out, fol-
lowed the horses tracks through the
snow and lost them in the trail leading
toward Pioche.
There was n man missing from the
camp. 1t was the three card monte man
who used to deny point blank that he
could play the scale. Ono day they
found wig Of white hair, and called to
mind when the stranger had pushed
those locks back when he looked toward
the ceiling for inspiration the night of
December 1, 1861. .--.Soa FraHcjSco Ar
| OI,VUf
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
It's Just Awful.

A terrible epidemic is sweeping over
Louisville, (Which is in the State of
Kentucky" and unless it is soon got
under control may be attended with the
most deplorable results. One.half the
girls OF that city are stage struck-stark,
staring stage struck, Hundreds OF the
residences have been converted into am
ateur play houses, where wond-be fe-
male stars tear their hair, and rave, and
split the air with their arms and stalk
majestically across imaginary stages to
the imaginary music OF imaginary or
chestra amid bursts of imaginary APP
plause and showers OF imaginary bout
quets. In the dry goods stores young
ladies' rush up to the counters with in-
spiration dropping from the eyes i'll
great chunks and i'll hollow tones COM
mand the affrighted clerk to-
Haste thee, cringing yasSal; pr-r-r-ro
duce an br-r-r-ing.into our pr-r-r-r-es-
ence thy 60 cents hose!'
In the ice-cream, saloons msidens
shovel the cooling cream into lovely
mouths and sweetly mwmur to THEN
escorts
"Now, be me faith, Orlando, but is Z
not nectar fit for the gods? Speak, me
beloved ist not n dainty dish that graces
our festal board?' and practical Orlando
replies;
Il bet YOU"
On the street car the maiden stalks
forward toward the driver and hoWs.
"What. no. there, chariotecr. give
me, pray thee, diminutive coin for this
one dollar bond, an | will upon the III
stant requte thee for thy services upon
this journey.
When one OF them catches flea she
holds her victim at arms LENGTH and
roars:
"Ha-a-a-a, have thee at last, vile
crnyen For many nights thy vista
tions to me chamber have M-r-r.r-uught
unrest Now at In a-nSt thou art in me
clutches and | will shower vengeance
upon thy thr-riee accursed head. Die,
vile ingr-r-rntc, and may the seething
fires OF pcrdtion cnGuli thy QuiycrinY
soul iOrcycrmOl-r-r-re'
Then she opens her fingers little to
get good squeeze at him and the flea
hops out and goes home to tell its folks
about it.
They have got it bad, and none OF the
old established methods Of treatment
seem to avail. Nit AdoDs, Nods,u
Ajyo.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
Chest DEVELOPMENT, -,

1t is stated that during the last TWEEN.
ty-iye years not single singer has died
of consumption in ST. Petersburg, al
though this disease has outstripped all
others, and now hold the first place
among the causes Of death in the Russian
capital From this and other facts DR..
Nasilietf draws an inference in favor OF
the exercise of singing as preventive
measure against consumption. There
would seem to be room for question as
to the relation Of cause and effect. II
may either happen that singers are not
conslmptiye because they can use their
chest and throat freely, or that consump-
tive persons are not singers because the
weakness which precedes disease inca
pacitates the chest and throat for exer-
ton. Both OF these hypotheses are true
up to certain point but neither holds
good in all cases. A very little Observa-
tion will suffice to show that good sing
ing voice may co-exist with weak or
diseased chest, whereas the perfectly
healthy may be unable to sing. II was,
some forty years ago, a common prac-
tice to give cOnsumptive patients speci-
ally arranged tube to breathe through,
with the view Of exercising the chest.
We venture to hope tine experiment will
not be repeated. Chest development
can only he accomplished in q manner
consistent with health during the grow
ing stage Of childhood, and then the
most natural and convenient methods Of
exercise are the best. Later on in life
great mischief may be done by unduly
straining the muscles of the thorax and
those of the throat, beside the peril Of
injuring the smaller tubes and air vesi.
cles of the lungs by violent exertion, for
which the organs OF respiration and
voice are not adapted because they have
not been early trained.
The relief fund in charge Of the San
Francisco Ch~7s'sle for the widow Of
old John Brown already amounts to
sufficient to raise the mortgage on her
farm and leave her nice little bank bal
ance besides. Among the contributions
was $40 from Max Twain. The oontri-
buttons still anclnt to about Sl00 day.
ga this summer, the hotel keepers of
other watering places will 90 crazy with
chagrin and envy. Perhaps Her High
ness can he persuaded to make tour Of
the summer resorts II handsome fund
for the benefit Of her purse 10 pledged in
| advance.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
One OF the Fine Arts.

Cookery is one of the fine arts. Print
ing is said to he, "the art prrseyative
of all arts, but cooking really deserves
this prominence. For what would be
come of the printer if he had nothing to
eat? Although the wisest of men he can
not, as some suppose, suhsist upon the
east wind. The roast beef of Old Eng
land has won for the doughty little is
land thousand victories upon sea and
land. The Scotchman's has made him
as hardy AS the rocks of his Highlands.
Every married lady knows that the key
to her lords favor Cand pocket t-book) is
not sentiment, not fattcry, not the much
bepraised twining and clin2ing like the
graceful vine about the noble oak, etc.
but n good dinner. When all else fails
this is infalible.
The cookery OF different nations is as
various as the conntenances, manners
and customs of the people. 1t ranges
from the birds nest soup of the Chinese
to the s,lcculcnt 'possum' of Our South
ern States.
The French have positive genius Tor
cookery. They prepare tho most delicate
and delightful dishes from material which
IL wasteful American housewife would
throw away. But with all their culinary
genius they never attained to that tran
sceudant triumph OF gastronomic art, a
Yankee pumpkin pie.
Would it not be an admirable plan for
different nations to become better ac-
quainted with each others cookery? We
have Worlds Fairs, Monetary Con
crosses, and all sorts of alliances, why
not have Worlds Cooking Conyen-
tion.
Pan Presbyterian and Pan Anglican
Councils are, no doubt, good things in
their way, but a pan of baked beans ~
worth dozen of them to hungry man
-Danbry NCmS.
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toned he vowed that he didn't know n
note OF music. 1t was noted, however,
as a suspicious circumstance, that he Of
ten hung about the instrument, and
looked upon it longingly, like hungry
man gloating over beefsteak in n res
taurant window. There was no doubt
that this man had music in his soul,
perhaps in his fingers ends, but did not
dare to make trial of his strength after
the rules of harmony had suffered so
many years of neglect. So the fiddler
kept on with his iigs, and the greasy
Mexican paved his discordant guitar, but
no man had the nerve to touch that
piano.
There were doubtless scores of men
in the camp who would have given ten
ounces of gold dust to have been half an
hour alone with it. but every man S nerve
shrank from the jeers which the crowd
would shower upon him should his first
attempt prove failure. 1t got to be
generally understood that the hand
which first essayed to draw music from
the keys must not slouch its work.
1t was Christmas eve, and Goskin, ac-
cording to his custom, had decorated
his gambling house with sprigs of noun
tain cedar and shrub whose crimson
berries did not seem bad imitation of
English holly. The piano was covered
with evergreens, and all that was want
ing to completely fill the cup of Cos
kin's contentment was man to play that
piano.
christmas night and no piano pound
er, he said "This is a nice country
for Christian to live in
Getting piece OF paper he scrawled
the words:
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03

SAYS a recent writer: What has been
the ultimate fate of the Egyptian num-
mics stored with care in the rocky vaults
and pyramids on the banks of the Nile?
They have in these later times been
dragged from their recesses and ground
into powder as an article of commerce to
be exported to Europe. The cereal
crops of England are partly produced
from the mumitied remains OF human
beings who walked about the streets of
Thebes three thousand years ago. The
bodies OF venerable Thebans-swells in
their time--laid to rest in fond antici-
patton OF securing n mortal immortality,
sold at so much ton to fertilize the ex-
hausted soil of an island in the German
Oceanl That is what the ancient Egyp.
tians have got by all their skill in pro-
tracing the dissolution Of mortal re
mains. Their marvellous preparations
have ended III II iavorubly quoted,
manure,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
stop SrOwling.


Don't sco"l; 1t spolls faces. Before
yoi know 1t your forehead Will resemble
small railroad map Ihere Is a grand
trunk line now from your cowllck to the
edge OF your nose, interserted by parai-
lei lines running east and west, with
curves archinlg yonr eyebrows; and OH,
how much Older You look Tor 1t. Srowi-
ing Is habit that steals upon us I'M
awareS. We frown when the light Is too
strong, and when 1t IS too weak. We
tie our brows into knot when we are
thinking, and knit them even more
tightly when we can not think. There IL
no denyingthat there are plenty of things
to scowl about. The baby IN the cradle
trowns when something fails to suit.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
4 LITTLE CRUTCH.

widow-she had only one,
Apuny and decrepit son;
But day and night,
Though fretful oft, and weak and small,
Allowing child, he was her all
The Widows mite.
The Widows mite-ay, so sustained
she battled onward, nor complained,
Though friends were fewer;
And, while she toiled for daily fare,
A little crutoh upon tho stair
Was music 10 her.
] saw her then--and now I see
That, though resigned and cheerful, she
Has sorroved much.
She has He gave 1t tenderly-
Much faith; and carefully laid by
A little crutch.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03

A LADY living near Baltimore, who is
very deaf, stopped milkman as he was
passing the house the other day and
asked him how much he charged for
quart of milk, and then put up her ear
trumpet TO catch the reply. The man
drew quart Of milk and emptied it into
the trumpet, and the result has been that
lie has to go three miles out of his way
to keep ont Of sight Of the lady's son who
sits on the front porch waiting for him to
pass.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03

They say you can tell by the taste Of
beer what the weather is going to be.
How nice. When your wife is uncer-
tain about going out with her new bon.
net On. aud says Dear, do you think
1t will rain 2" you can say: "rll see,
my love, and 80 ont and take drink of
beer. and she can't find word OF fault.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
Sign Lore.

A gentleman advertised in one of our
daily papers for an ice chest to hold so
many pounds of ice and new harness
The wonder was why he wanted to keep
his new harness in an ice chest, until it
was noticed to be an error in punctua-
tion.
A BARRIERS sign once read.
"What do you think
I'll shave you for nothing and give you a
drink"
When his customers asked him for the
drink and refused to pay, he took them
outside and read to them:
''What do YOU think
I'll shave you for nothing and give you
drink"
Detached sentences often present a
quaint expression:
"Job printing" said an old lady, read,
ing the familiar sign, ''poor man, he
must be awful tired of it, for he's been at
it ever since can remembers"
In druggists window at Chicago
there was for many years sign; "Ar-
titicial eyes, and Immediately under it.
"Open all night.
A merchant once told sign painter he
wanted neat sign with couplet III
rhyme, painted in gold letters; when the
man brought the sign the inscription
read:
''Sugar and tea Sold
The merchant asked angrily where
the rhyme was, when the painter read it
to him:
sugar and tea
solid
A sign Oh a tobacco factory reads:
Twenty boys wanted to strip
"Shirts re-entorced" is the legend in a
Detroit dry goods store. 1t means that
they are provided with double yokes
"NIr. Jones Shirt Store" read an old
lady, cautiously. "Wcll, why doesn't
he get it mended?'
"Pocket-books reduced to fifteen
cents, was the notice in store window,
and wag passing remarked that he was
reduced to nothing.
In Pennsylvania there was an old
house called the tarrowgate In front
of it and dlrcctl Y on the sidewalk hang
an old gate with this inscription
"rlis gate hangs well aud hnders none
Refresh, and pay and travel on;
Good ale for nothing tomorrow,
Another sign reads:
Il, Patrick McDermutt, lives heie;
sell good porter, ale and beer,
I've made my sibu little wider
10 let yon know keep good cider
DehOH free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-11-11
Prayer for the Bereaved Family
and Stricken People.

At the services in the cottage at Long
Branch. as they were about to remove
the dead body of the President to Wash
ington, the following prayer was offered
by the minister present:
80, Thou who walked through the
grave Of Bethany; that opened the
grave of the brother in Bethany; O.,
Thou who hadst compassion on the
widow of Main, as she bore her beloved
desd-O, Thou who art the same, yes
terdsy, to-day and forever, in whom
there is no variableness nor shadow of
turning, have mercy upon Us in this
hour. When our souls have nowhere
else to fly, we fly to Thee. Thou
knowest these SORROWS that We bow
under. o. Thou God of the widow.
help this stricken heart before Thee !;
help these children and those that are
not here; be Thou their father; help her
in the distant State. who watched oveI
him in childhood; help this nation that
is to-day bleeding and bowed in sorrow
before Thee; o. sanctify this heavy
chsstisement to its good. Help those
associated with him in the Government.
o, Lord grant that from the darkness
of this night of sorrow there may arise
. better day for the glory Of God and
the good of man. We thank Thee for
the record of life that is closed; for its
heroic devotion to principle. We thank
Thee, o Lord, that he was Thy servant /;
that he preached Thee by a noble life
and example. and that We can say of
him now. Blessed are the dead who
die in the lord: their works do follow
them Now, Lord. 60 with this sor-
rowing company in this last sad jour-
ney; bear them up and strengthen them.
o God, bring us all at last to the
morning that has no shrouds; the house
that has no tears; the land that has no
death. For Christ's sake. Amen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-11-11
Poisoned by Lead.

The following. in the main, is q typ
zeal case. Fer sixteen years q family
has been supplied with water through
lead pipe, from a we'll short distance
from the house.
For the last two years tue mother has
shown distinct marks Of lead poisoning
pains in arms, feet and abdomen
constipation; loss Of power in hands
and feet, until completely disabled; fin
gers and toes tightly bent inward; blue
line on the gums.
The father has had nausea, vomiting
and abdominal pains for some years
and his gums now have q we'll marked
blue line. Boarders in the family have
been chronic invalids. with underlined
symptoms. Three children, aged four
six and ten, are in good health.
Here we have undoubted instances
of lead-poisoning, and yet the cause
was in operation over a dozen years
before the effects showed themselves
or, at least, attracted special attention.
The children born within that time ap.
pear perfectly healthy, though in their
earliest years they may have been pro.
tected by their diet, inasmuch as milk
neutralizes the effects of lead.
Lead is one of the cumulative poisons.
The minute quantities daily accumu-
late in the system until it is charged
with the poison. As in the above case.
some persons may drink such water for
months and even years with apparent
impunity, and then find that damage
has been done that is past all cure.
It should be remembered that the
purer the water, the greater its power to
dissolve lead; and the longer the water
remains in pipe, the greater the quan.
tity of lead dissolved. For this rea.on
there is special danger in water brought
in lead pipes to q village or house
from distant spring.
In our cities, no water should be
drank that has stood all night in the
connecting pipes. The danger is slight
where the water is being frequently
drawn through the day. No water
should be drank from lead lined tanks
in the upper part of the house.