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The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Gin Drinking.

u. X. Locke (Nasby), in letter from
London, says THE liquors consumed in
that city by the lower classes are proba
bly, the most execrable and vile that the
ingenuity of the haters of mankind have
ever invented The brandy they drink
is liquid lightning-chain lightning
which goes crashing through the system
breaking down and destroying every
pulsation toward anything good The
their gin is the very acme, the
absolute summit of vieness. There is n
quarrel in every gill Of it, wife beating
in every pint. ard murder in every
quart. A smell of it," says Mr.. Locke,
"ncarly drove me to criminal ieck klessness.
And yet they all drink it, especially the
women.
"The most disgusting sight the world
can produce is a London gin-drinklng
woman standing at bar, waiting fever
ishly for her drain with unkept hair, a
small but intensely dirty shawl, with
stockingless feet. and shoes down at the
heel, with eyes rheumy and watery, that
twinkle with gin-light out from the OBJ
on which the scorching fingers of de-
praved appetite have set red lines, as
ineffaceable as though they had been
placed there by red hot iron, every one
Of which is the unayailing protest of a
long outraged stomach.
"There she stands, blotch upon the
face Of nature, and satire upon woman
hood. II ls difficult TO realize that this
bloated mass was once fair young girl,
and had mother who loved her; and it
is equally difficult to comprehend how
any power even that of nature, could
ever make use of it. But the elements
are kindly 10 man. When they have
done their work sweet flowers may grow
out of this putridty.
an America this sort of being exists,
but it is herded somewhere out Of sight;
it does not stand at the bars in the best
streets to offend the eyes of decent peo-
pie. But it is everywhere here, 1t is
in the Strand, and on Piccadilly and
Regens streets"
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
PEGS.
How They Are Made--A visit To a Factory
In Vermont.



In Vermont.
New York Mail
II was the privilege of the writer to
visit the picturesque little town Of Ar
lington, Vt, which at that time boasied
population of $500, three churches,
five stores, two hotels. an extensive car
works, sash and blind and chair factor,,
also peg factory" which, by the cour-
tesy of the foreman, Mr.. L. +, White
who had been employed there twenty
nine years), he was shown through and
received valuable information. The
timber used is black and yellow birch,
which is cut into pieces four feet in
length, varying in diameter from eight
feet to fourteen inches. These logs are
placed in building in winter and the
frost extracted by steam. They are then
run in on tram railway TO the circular
saw department, and cut into slices or
blanks of the thickness desired for the
length of the pegs. These are sorted
and the nots cut out, and are then p ssed
on to a long bench which contains six
machines composed of liuted rollers.
The blanks are then run between these
rollers, which creases both sides They
are then run through again to cross
crease, or mark out the exact sizes Of
the pegs. Then they go to the splitting
machines, which are set with double
knives, and cut the blanks into pegs.
As they pass the last machine they
are sorted, and all knots and discolored
ones removed rs they are brushed of
into large baskets These machines are
under the care of young women who APP
peared much more happy and useful
than do many ofthose who, humping at
their piano. would consider such EN-
ployment menial. The next process is
bleaching. which is accomplished by the
fumes of birthstone. which is unhealthy
those who labor here shorten their
lives. They are then placed in large
cylinders, which hold eleven barrels
and have 600 steam pipes running
through them, and revolve one and one
half time to the minute, drying 2 charges
per day to each cylinder They are then
passed in large wooden casks, or cyln-
deis, which, revolving rapidly, polish
them by the friction, the refuse falling
through wire sleeves or screen openings
after which they are again passed into
sitter which separates all the single pegs
and drops them into tubs or boxes, leav-
ing those which have not been separated
in the machine. They are then put in bar
rels ready for market. The factory run
ming on full time turns out $50 bushels, or
fifty barrels per day. The sizes go from
eight up to sixteen TO an inch. The
lengths go by eights, two and one-half to
twelve. Twenty-six hands are employ
ed, half of them being women. The
products of this mill are mostly shipped
to Germany and France and enter large
ly into the manufacture of toys and fan
cy goods as well as into the shoe manu-.
factory. Thus the "genii of me chanism'
convert, as by magic, the trees from the
Vermont mountains into articles Of use,
when, floating off through the channels
of commerce TO far away countries, anon
return to sparkle the eyes of happy chill
dren in toys in which these pegs have
become important factors.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
About Love.
Boston Transcript.


Mr.. Redundancy has noticed
That the bov who is most afraid of the
girls is the first to be corraled into
matrimony.
That the little boys prefer boys to
girls.
That they soon change never to 90
back to their early love.
That the little girls love the girls best.
That they don't get over their prefer
ence as soon rs the boys do-some of
them never.
That women love the men because
they love everything they have to take
care Of
That men love women because they
can't help it.
That the wife loves her husband so
well that she has no thought for other
men.
That the husband so loves his wife
that he loves all other women for her
sake.
That the married man is apt to think
himself all killing among the fair sex
simply because he has found one woman
fool enough TO marry him.
That homely husbands are the best
They never forget the compliment paid
them by their wives in accepting them.
That homeiy wives are the truest.
They know how to make the most of
what they have.
That the man who marries late in life
does well.
That the man who marries young does
better
That the woman who marries does
well.
That the woman who does not marry
does better nine times out Of ten.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
The Best Remedy for Chapped Hands

Is Heg eman's Camphor Ice. II .hould be
rubbed upon the part affected. If the hands
are badly chapped apply every night, and
protect tue hands by wearing an old pair Of
kid gloves. Hegeman's is the best and
most popular Of all the Csmphor Ices made
Hegeman's Camphor Ice is also cure tor
sore lips. chspped face and sunburn. II Ia
compounded with glycerine, which renders
it more emolient than any other Camphor
Ice, and it will he found a most soothing
application to the face after SHAY ing.
BE sure 10 ssk for Heeeman's formerly
made by Hegemsn & Co, New York, and
now made by the Metropolitan Medical
Company of New Haven, Conn, and do
not be put of with any other compound,
which may become rancid and d. you more
harm than good. Hegeman's Camphor
never fails.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
August Flower.

The most miserable people in the world
are thosesuffering from Dyspepsia and Liver
Complaint. More than seventy.fve per
cent of the people of the United States are
afflicted with these two diseases and their
effects; such as Sour Stomach, Sick Head.
ache, Habitual Costiveness. Palpitation Of
the Heart, Heart Burn, Water-brash, gnaw.
ing and burning pains at the pit OF the
Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue,
and disagreeable taste in the mouth, COM
ing up Of food after eating, low spirits, &c.
Go TO your druggist and get rs cent bottle
Of AUGUST FLowsR or Sample Bottle for
10 cents. Try it. Two doses will relieve
YOU
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Climbing "a = ,eo Ia see the Pun.
po. ton t.lat a.

John Blake. who ,scipcd from tl
ref rm SCHOOL n Welnt s,lnv. attempted
10 wreck an engine on he noilhrr,
division of the old lony Railroad, nesi
; ,rburn, 10 day, hy placing u stone
", ieling about 100 hounds on the track
Bake hac gru lge against a lir man
maj cd Fra X LEONARD. who he thrugb
was on the eIeine. Alter pla'ine To,
q str iction, he climbed n ,iee as he said
"lo see the iun." lie war ARRESTED
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

reading the paper he will throw it down
and probably never see ii again. In
such case all the valuable articles will
be .ost To prevent such loss, every
reader should clip from the papers such
articles as he desires to preserve and re-
member. and paste them in scrap
book. Such book at the end Of year
or two will be very interesting and vslu.
abla
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

LUTHER said "If man is not hand
some at twenty, strong at thirty, learned
at forty and rich at fifty, he will never be
handsome, strong, learned or rich in this
world" Statistics. observes Dr. Beard
supply tins prophecy with a most re-
markable fulfilment
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

MONSIEUR GAMBErTA seems inclined TO
give Bismarck some spicy French tobac-
co to put in his German pipe to smoke.
Whenever the French statesman gets
show of opportunity he reminds the
German Chancellor that Sedan" re.
mains among other unsettled interna-
tional accounts. This he did again in
one of his electioneering speeches the
other day, and was loudly cheered.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Inpor.aut.

When you visit or leave New York city
save baggage and expressage and carriage
hire, and step at the Grand Union Hotel
nearly opposite the Grand Central Depot
450 elegant rooms, single aud in slits. fitted
up at an expense Of one million dollars
Rooms reduced To 81 and upwards per day,
on European plan Elevators, Restaurant
supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages
and elevated railroad 10 all depots.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
The Greatest Discovery of the Age.
Fer over thirty fur wears


DIR TOBIAS VENETIAN LINIMENT
has been warranted to cure Group, Cole, spasms,
Darrhea and Dysentry, taken internally, and
Sore Throat, Pains in the Limbs. Chronic Rneu'
matism. Old Sores Pimples, Blotches and Swell.
lngs externally, and not bottle has been re
turned. many families stating they would not be
without 1t even IL 1t was SIC bottle Sold BY
druggists at e5 and so cents Pimples and
Blofahes Immediately eradicated, AMI gray hail
turned to It's natural color by Its use Depot, ~
Murray street, New York.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Cleveland Lender.

Mr.. Orlando Weatherbee, says an ex-
change of ours, proprietor Of the Spencer
Pharmacy, Spencer, Mass reports; My
customers speak very highly of the Great
German Remedy, st. Jacobs Oil, it having
always given excellent saiisfaction. One
them, Mr.. Henry Belcher, has been greatly
benefited by its use in a case OF severe
rheumatism, and he refers 10 1t in terms Of
highest praise.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
How the Anclents Conducted their Eiec'
tions.


Herbert spencer in Popular Science Monthly.
As hitherto, so again we must go back
TO the beginning to take up the clew.
Ont of that earliest stage OF the savage
horde in which there is no supremacy
beyond that of the man whose strength,
or courage, or cunning, gives him pre-
dominance, the first stepis to the practice
of observation-disclosures choice of a leader
in war. About the conducting of cleo
tions in rude tribes travellers are silent;
probably the methods used are various.
But we have accounts Of elections as
they were made by European people
during early times. In ancient Scandi-
navia, the chief of a province, chosen by
the assembled people, was thereupon
elevated amid the clash Of arms and the
shouts of the multitude" and among the
ancient German, he was carried on a
shield. Recalling, as this ceremony
does, the chairing of the newly elected
member reminding us that originally
among ourselves election was by show
of hands, we are taught that the choice
OF a representative was once identical
with the choice of a chief. Our House OF
Commons had its roots in local gather
ings like those in which civilized tribes
select their head warriors.
Besides conscious selection, there
occurs among rude people selection by
lot The Samoans, tor instance, by spin
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

DR.. r. V. PIERCE Buffalo, N. Y: Dear
sir--I have advised many ladies to try your
"Favorlte Prescription" and never see It
fail to do more than you advertised.
Yours truly, MRS. A. M RANKIN,
l4l Bates Street, Indianapolis, Ind
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
why Wear Plasters =?

They relieve, but they can't cure that
lame back, for the kidneys are the trouble,
and you want remedy that will act di.
rectly on their secretions, TO purify and
restore their healthy condition. Kidney
Wort has that specific action. See large
advertisement.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

Iorse, middle aged, or old men, suffer.
ing from nervous debility and kindred
wea knesses, should send two stamps for
large treatise. giving successful treatment
WORLDS DrspKssARy MEDICAL Association,
BUFFALO, y Y.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Kidney Complaints

of all descriptions are relieved at once, and
speedily cured by Kidney Wort II seems
Intended by nature for the cure of all dis.
eases Of the kidneys caused by weakness
and debility. Druggists sell both dry and
liquid -t0ngregationdiist.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

THE late Lorenzo Delmonicos health
is said to have been injured by his ex-
cessve smoking. He had his cigars
made expressly for his own use in Cuba.
They were almost black and half as long
again as ordinary cigars. He consumed
on an average thirty a day.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

THE prince of Wales is still in high
feather with the lovely sex of the British
Isles. He was eating cherries not long
ago, and there was scramble among
well.dressed women 10 secure the pits
"ejected from his august lips."-Chicago
Times.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

A DENVER girl advertises for propos ais
of marriage. Her father published a
card to say that her advertisement was
merely foolish freak, and that nobody
should regard ii seriously. The girl
came out with a declaration that, being
OF legal age to choose husband for her
self, she had taken her own means of
getting suited, and did not mean to
abandon the plan.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

PURE Cod Liver oil, mad. from selected
livers, on the sea shore, by Caswell, Hazard
& Co, New York. II is absolutely pure
and sweet. Patients who have once taken
it prefer it TO all others. Physicians have
decided II superior TO any other oils in the
market
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
A Card.
n Y Times

Glenn Falls, ~ Y, Times.
GLRS FALLS. N. Y, Dec. II, 1880.
REV. Mr. L N. ST. ONCE.
DEAR SIR R-Will you please state below
what satifaction St. Jacobs Oil gives you,
which you got of us some time ago, and
oblige. LraoErT & Bush.
Very effective,
l.. n. ST. OYGK.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

The ladies who some time since were
unable TO 20 out, have taken LYDIA L.
PrSKuAMs VEGETABLE CoMroUSD are quite
recovered, and have gone on their way re-
joicing.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
10 any Iteasler

feels tired has a severe hea,.ache or lack Of
appetite, II means that something is the
matter with the kidneys which Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure alone can
helm
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

LYoS's PATENT HEEL STIrrESER is the
only invention that will make old boots n
straight as new.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

THERE has been rumor that my spine
has been fractured, but never allow
myself to be discouraged by detractien.
The Summer
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

THERE has not been much of rise in
real estate in Chill since 1922. In that
year an earthquake raised 100 miles of
the coast six feet
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

WYOMING papers complain of the outra-
geous and wantoD slaughter of game in
the territory.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

BuRDErT Courts and Mr.. Bartlett are
not coming to the United State, gossip
now saws
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

IL you are bilious, take DR.. Pierce's
Pheasant Purgative Pellets, the original
Little Liver Pills" OF all druggists.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

II YOU cant Bear" cough, Bull it
with DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

An Evansville boy, in lodging mis-
sie thrown by another Evansville boy,
fell and broke his neck.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

A BRASS band has been arrested in
fittsburg for disturbing feminine inva-
lid.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
LYDIA Z. PiNXHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is q Positive Cure

ls a Positive Cure
fss n these Paiufsi Complaiats and Weaknesses
seesmmoa to our beat female population.
II will cure entirely the worst form Of Female Com
piaints all ovarian troubles Inflammation and ricera
tion, Falling and Displaccmonts, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness and Is particularly adapted to tho
Change OF life.
II will dissolve nnd errel tumors from the uterus In
an early stage of development The tendency TO
humors there checked very speedily by Its ue
IL removes faintaess iiaulency dcstroysai craving
for stmulants and relieves weakness OF the stomach
II cures Floating, Headaches Nervous rrostration,
General Debility, secyiessncss Depression end ndi-
gesfion.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing palm. weight
and backace Is always permanently cured by tn use.
viii at al times and under all circumstances act In
harmony with the laws that govern tho female system.
For the cure Of Kidney Complaints of either this
Compound Is unsurpassed.
LYDIA 4. PINEu,Ms vEcETABLE COM
POUNDS prepared at 2ls and s3j Western Avenue,
Lynn Mass. Price 81 Six bottlcsfor g.. Sent by mail
n the form Of pills also In tho form Of lozeDges,
receipt Of price, 81 per box for either Mrs Pnkhsm
rccy all letters Of inquiry. Send for pamIh
ct. Address above Mention fsis Rper.
No family should bo without LYDIA v. PfSKHANS
ysh PILLS. They constipation biliousnsss
d torfadity Of the liver Is cents per box.
~ Sold nv all Druggists. "a
RICHARDSON a CO.. ~. Louis. No
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
What to do with Apples.

Select not Over-tart variety; pare halve, and
carefully remove the core. Then, having cover
ed the bottom of an earthen pudding dish, or n
tolerably new and bright pie tin, with white or
best brown sugar, lay the halves core side down
therein and turn over them little water-about
two-thirds of teacupful to every pan-and set
them to bake. Now it is that very little in
efficiency carelessness will .spoi the broth;'
for while the should possess pretty strong
heat in the beginning, and gradually cool toward
the last, il must at no time be made 50 hot rs tn
endanger burning, nor allowed to become 50 cool
that the process of baking shall not 20 steadily
on till complete. When perfectly tender, remove
from the oven, but leave in the tins till all the
remaining juice has been absorbed by the pieces
of apple; then take up on plate or platter and
set aside TO cool. This, served ut dinner with
plenty of cool sweet cream, slight sprinkling
more of sugar if desirable and eaten with good
light bread aud freshly-mad butter, makes rs
delicious and delicate dessert one can desire
'Oh, but,r cries one and another housekeeper,
1--WE can't use so much cream for this, that and
the other; the cream must be saved for the but
ter. You know
Yes, but why not make freer use of the one,
and manufacture somewhat less of the other
In some instances this habit of saving the cream
for butter amounts to almost monomania; aud
a teacupful applied to any other purpose is look
ed upon as wasteful extravaganza, little short
of crime.
And this is the way We some of our best
varieties of summer sweet apples. II any of the
readers of the Country Gentleman should glance
in ut Gleu-HOme at the hour Of noon, or a little
after, they might perclance discover the inmates
thereof in the act of seating themselves to an ex
ceedingly plain and frugal repast. consisting of
cool rich milk just from the cellar, bread, white
and brown, along with platter of the above
mentioned apples, baked whole and slowly, but
thoroughly, till as sweet rs honey, and as tender
and luscious a strawbery.-GrGce Glenn, i"
IougfrU Gentleman.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-10
How to Bake Beans

We have interviewed, specially for this occa-
sion, housekeeper whose baked beans are wor-
thy of the rcnOwn of that ancestor of hers, who
helped through the war of the Revolution by
seeing to il that the soldiers home on furlough,
or in adjacent camps, always had good rye-and-
injun bread, and baked beans, fit for a patriot.
And she says that the only secret about il is 'to
have them just right" Iou want to soak them
over night, or parboil them in two or three wa
tiers, until they at the cracking point. If
your appetite is not robust enough TO eat pork,
and you have art enough to cook them without
it, all that is required is to the dish to the
fine point of half pinch of salt a single shake
of the pepper box, and n lump of butter neither
too large nor too small, and have piece of fresh
spare-rib, roasted separately, to serve with them
The beans must also be of ',just the right con-
sistency, when put into the dish for baking
So far, We believe, it is clear. If you have
stamina enough for pork, praise your ancestry
and kind heaven; and put the sweet cris-crossed
piece of seasoning meat, with its possibility Of
crisp rinds, in the centre of the dish with slices
oTnamenting the sides. All you need of the oven
is to have it "neither too hot nor too slow" The
beans must then simmer until they '.just
DONE To secure the exact shade of brown over
the top, and the precise degree of heat and
moisture inside needed TO bring each individual
bean to the very point of cracking and cOales-
cling with its neighbor-withOut entirely doing
it,-that is all the direction needs as TO bak-
ing. If il isn't clear, you must learn as the boys
learn TO swim. And then to serving. 1t is
the sign of an effete and over-ripe social despot-
ism to ''dish out" a pan of baked beans Assert
your independence, and preserve the integrity
of your result, by placing them upon the table
i'll the dish in which they were cooked. Let the
servant pass around the empty china, if You
wish to assure the family or guest that you have
il. And have enough left to know the luxury
of cold beans, that have a heart in them! Thus
shall one of our glorious New England institu-
lions be restored, to add lustre to the centennial