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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

The German labor question is being
agitated all over the State.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

GaB" A large lot Of alI-Wool Blankets
for sale cheap ut the Winchester Wool
en- Mills. dcS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

JOll bT.scO'l, OF NHlcagO, CJhCluucu .
his forty-Gyc days fast at noon on the
I2th inst. At noon just before he |
broke his fast he weighed 1I7l pounds,
About two hundred people assembled to
see him eat his first meal. \ table was
spread containing aisios, peaches, or
angcs, cake, bread, crackers, cheese,
whorlcbcrries, biscuits, beefstcak,
strawbcrrics, mill; toast and ice water
Griscom quietly walked around super
intending the arrangements, talking
with the reporters, and even helping the
walters to handle articles Of food, show
ing no signs Of hunger or excitement.
He then made Il little speech, setting
forth bis views about fasting. He said
that he Lad procured everything his
fancy suggested, not because he expect
cd to cat it, but to satisfy liz imagina-
ton and have just what he might want.
He thought he could eat a fine meal
without injury, but lie didn't intend to
do 50. lie believed that there was Il
great yirtuc in fasting, and chat he wa.
willing to fast longer if necessary, 20
show that it wus q good remedial agent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

Guitcau's case will come up before
the grand jury at Washington this week.
The criminal statutes Of the District of
Columbia provide that "cycry person
convicted of mansIaughtcr, or of any as
sault with intent to KILL shall be SEN
fenced to suffer imprisonment and labor,
for the first ohcnsc, for Il period Of not
less than two nor more than eight
years" If Mr.. Garfield gets well, the
assassin will be tried for assault and
battery with intent to kill, procidA he
is adjudged sane. And if he is adjudg-
ed insane, he will doubtless be turned
loose to shoot somebody else.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

All kinds of the best of Jeans, Lin
seys, Shawls, Blankets, DC, of the best
material, constantly ON hand 1T the
Winchester Wooden Mills, and viii b.
sold cheap for cash, or exchanged for
wool.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20


The heat this year is almost unprccc
dented, the thermometer ranging above
1909 at severa! points in the country,
and innumerabIc deaths from sunstrokc
occurring. 1t is reported that ut one
point in Texas the temperature reached
1lO' III the shade, which is greater than
ever before known in the United States.
In tropical countries, ofcourse, the heat
often exceeds 1902. At Benarcs the
mercury has been known to rise in the
shade to ll2' in the plain Of Peshawur
1872, at Seridgapatam llj0, and all
Bagdad to 1902. In 1921 it rose at
Mascatc to 1900, and fell at midnight
to the comparative cool temperature off
1919. Once during the French eXpc-
dition to Egypt under Bonaparte the
temperature ut Suoz reached 1860. But
even this was surpassed by Murzuk, |
We.o the Thermometer said 1889 in
The ...de. il
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

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The German labor question Is pe'hg
a tarantuIa, OF the largest slzc' was
found IN a bunch OF banana" AT NASH
vile, few days SINCE
Gu;,oou stil insists that he was in
o,,;.od l., COD to Kin tho President and
,,po.,ots thot no didn't succocd
~
Governor Hawkins, le" days @ihcc'
commissioned MISS Geneva ll""N'hS
Notary Public Public Carroll county
The sanitary laws OIL NIcmPH" are PC
ing rigldIy enforced Inc e''} Is S"ia
to be free from sup!cl'ua s'rhheS: VI
any kind.
c,uo.aI do., 80 ot Son lI,tco
~. u,..4 rlnnol o...,l T.,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

The year 1881 will produce fifteen
million bales Of cotton in the South, at
$50 pounds to the bale. and at ~ cents
per pound it will bring 30l5, 100000
Verify tie South in q few years may
boast Of possessing money power.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

The Secretary Of the Treasury ha,
decided that National Bau, notes which
are rcdccmabIc by law solely in trcau.
ry notes may be redeemed in gold and
silver.
A decision has been rendered by II
Judge in New York that the revised
New Testament wiIlnot do iorwimrsscs
to swear upon in his court.
The State Normal School ut Knox
Vile is being well attended.
Tennessee bonds are quoted ut 20
cents.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

See here, you Franklin persons
who have Texas ON the brain: An cx-
change truthfuIly remarks, at is now
pretty well understood that for those
who so year after year to seek fortunes
in the far West, only one in Il thousand
succeeds, while if the same amount Of
oarncstncss and energy were displayed
at home, hundreds could find comfort
and competence with much less Of hard
ship and privation'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

The Postmaster General commands Il
much larger force than orr combined
army and navy. Including the post
masters, city carriers, clerks, route mes
scngcrs and local and special agents, the
po-toncc army now numbers G5,0OD
persons, and Is increasing at the rate Of
) 900 u year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-20

Tennessee bonds are quoted at 70
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the Oldest city in theworld.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the
shore; Baalbec is ruin; Palmyra is
buried in desert; Ninevah and Babylon
have disappeared from the Tgris and
Euphrates. Damascus remains what it
was before the days Of Abraham CEN
ter of trade and travel-an island of YER
dure in the desert; ga presidential cap
ital," with material and sacred associa-
tions extending through thirty centuries.
It was near Damascus that Saul Of Tar.
sus cav the light above the brightness
of the sun; the street which is called
Strait, in which it was said she prayed"
still runs through the city. The cara
van comes and goes as it did thousand
years ago; there is still the sheik, the
ass and the water-whee!; the merchants
of the Euphrates and Mediterranean still
occupy these with the multitude of
their wares" The city which Moham-
med surveyed from neighboring
height, and was afraid to enter ''because
it was given to man to have but one
paradise, and for his part he was resolved
not to have it in this world" is to-day
what Julian called "the eye of the
East" as it was, in the time of Isaiah,
''the head of Syria"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Get Health.
TEnaerson.1


No labor, pains, temperance, poverty,
nor exercise, that can gain it, must be
grudged. For sickness is cannibal
which eats up allthe life and youth it can
lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and
daughters. I figure it as pale, wall
ing, distracted phantom, absolutely sell
fish, needless Of what is good and great,
attentive to its sensations, losing its
soul, and affecting other souls with
meanness and moping, and with minis
tration to it's voracity of trifes. DIR.
johnson said severely, "Every man is q
rascal as soon as he is SICK" Drop the
cant and treat it sanely. In dealing
with the drunken, we do not affect to be
drunk. We must treat the sick with the
same frmness, giving them, Of course,
every aid, but Withholding ourselves.
And the best part Of health is fine dis
position. It is more essential than tai
emit, even in the works of talent. No
thing will supply the want of sunshine
to peaches, and to make knowledge
valuable, you must have the cheerful
ness of wisdom. Whenever you are sim
cerely pleased you are nourished. The
Joy Of the spirit indicates its strength.
All healthy things are sweet-tempered.
It is observed that depression Of spirits
develops the germs Of plague in In
dividuals and nations.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Rings.

In case of gentleman wishing to
marry literally in the market with his
heart wears plain OF chased gold
ring upon his fore finger of the left Cor
hearty hand. When success attends his
suit and he is actually engaged, the ring
passes to the third finger. If, however,
the gentleman desires to tell the fair ones
that he not only is not sin the market, !"
but does not design to marry at all, he
wears the signet upon his little finger,
and all ladies may understand that he
is out of their reach. With the fair sex
the claws of the ring are: A plain or
chased ring on little finger of the right
hand implies mot engaged or in plain
words, ''ready for proposals sealed, or
otherwise. When engaged the ring
passes to the first finger of the left
hand. When married the third finger
receives it. If the fair one who pro-
poses to defy all siege to her heart, she
places rings on her first and fourth fin
gers-one on each, like two charms, to
keep away the tempter. 1t is some
what singular that this disposition OF
rings is rare.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Grunbling.

What luxury it must be, to some
people, to grumble. Rob them of that
luxury, and life seems barely endurable.
You might as well obliterate from sight
the green and velvety coat of Nature.
They must grumble. Grumbling is q
constitutional necessity with them. 1t
is a part, and an important part, of
their organization. They grumble as
naturally and as inevitably as they eat
and drink. Indeed, they might, per-
force, dispence for time with those
interesting table performances; but to-
tai abstinence from grumbling, to a
regular grumbler, is just as possible as
total abstinence from water to fish.
And. goodness knows! life furnishes
sufficient material for fault-finding.
The least querulous find it difficult at
all times to be amiable amid the per-
verseness of events, and the counter
currents of all little things that should
move on in unity and tremendously.
Amid such state of things the NOR
bidly dissatisfied may easily revel in
the expression of their discontentment;
and to do them justice, they seldom
lose an opportunity. In domestic life,
the conduct of servants is a theme,
alone, of endless complaint. The
greatest plague in life, =" as servants are
called, occasion, too, the grandest varie-
ty of these little outburst of the grumb-
ling propensity. But, after all, it is our
impression that good employers make
good servants, and vlce versG. May
not all grumbling, therefore, arise as
much from the grumbler's evil habits as
from the evil characters of the person
or thing grumbled at! 1t would be
quit as well for us to contemplate, now
and then, this view Of the question, and
reason accordingly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Education.

Education. in its broadcast sense, is
undoubtedly the main business of youth.
Theirs is the preparation for future
life of action. But we are too apt to
regard school and study as the whole of
education, whereas it is but part, and
is valuable only as it is made to contrib
ute to the general fund. Often the very
best way to prepare to do anything is
gained chiefly by continued exersice in
it. AS life consists largely of work, it
would seem to be the path of wisdom to
accustom the boy and the girl to take
some regular share in it suitable to
their years, that they may not, upon
entering its real business, stand aghast
and overwhelmed by the multitude of
claims efficiency in action and noble
ness of character; and the acquisition
of knowledge, though important as one
means, can never, by itself, produce
either of these. 1t must be vitalised by
individual thought and utilized by per-
sonal action before it can put real value
into ones lie OF produce anything like
an abundant harvest. These processes
should 90 on simultaneously.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Don'ts for the Girls.

Don't flirt.
Don't talk slang.
Don't put on airs.
Don't learn to be cranky.
Don't try to arrest attention.
Don't think it's pretty to be pert.
Don't make drudge of your mother.
Don't say emo" when you mean Eyes. .
Don't NEEDLE with other peoples
beaux.
Don't devote too much time to novel
reading.
Don't pick up chance acquaintance
on the street.
Don't make fright Of yourself to be
in fashion.
Don't look on every young man as a
good natured ice cream freezer.
Don't run down your girl friends in
their absence, it is mighty mean trait.
Don't make up your mind to be sweet
to everybody's brother but your own.
Don't marry a man who has no evil
dent way of supporting you. Love on
starvation principles was played out
long ago.
Don't lose your heart on Darwinian
specimen who Parts his hair in the
middle. Plenty of men want wives; wait
and you'll get one.
Don't boast of your ignorance Of
household affairs. In the present state
of society there is no surer stamp of
vulgarity.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
WRIT I'm FLOWEH KS.

IN all the blessed seasons when the flowers
In INV small garden every day ! find
Some lovely blooms that bring dear friends 10 mind,
Not only friends who year by year have grown
Into INV heart but many friends unknown,
Save in the spirit who have sent to me
Gifts that. awhile imprisoned when let free,
Burst into words in "angel alphabet
In which the giver's memory was SET
In snow-drops, white as in the snow; in blue
And graceful scilla bells whose heavenly hue
Seems to have dropped upon them from the skies;
In roses which each morn give glad surprise
or wondrous cciors; in the tulips gay;
In mink thrift blossoms; in the bright array
OF velvet pansies smiling to themselves,
fFlowers loved best by merry flower elves;
In lilies. these robed like youthful bride,
And those pranked out in garments richly dyed
In gold and crimson; in forget-me-nots
Peeping with baby eyes from shady spots;
In honeysuckles with their brilliant show
OF fairy trumpets, which unceasing blow
Most fragrant invitations TO that gem
OF birds the humming- bird TO visit them;
In dainty mignonette and violets shy;
In daisies ever gazing at the sky;
In spicy pinks and larkspurs blue-I read
That which gives strength and makes me glad in
deed
For sure no sweeter message could be
Than those my friends have writ in flowers for me-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Animals as Surgeons.
IYonths, Comnanion.l


Foxes and wolves, and probably a few
other animals, have been known to re-
lease themselves from the jaws Of trap
by cutting off with their teeth the leg
which was caught; but it has been
asserted very often that the raccoon
does not perform any such heroic sur
gerry. Now, as to this exception in the
case of the raccoon, there is mistake.
On the banks of the Mississippi river
some men were engaged in cutting saw
logs. They had felled large sycamore
about three feet and half in diameter.
and, while cutting it through at point
about thirty feet from the ground,
the saw came upon something which
operated on the teeth exactly like iron,
and the workmen could go no further.
They removed the saw and cut the
tree in two several inches farther along,
when they found it was hollow, and the
entrance to the whole was still higher
up the trunk. At the foot of the hollow
they found the obstruction which had
stopped the saw-a foot or two Of small
chain, attached to rusty old steel trap
which was clenched tight upon the full
set of bones belonging to the right hind
foot of some animal about the size of q
raccoon. No other bones were found in
the tree, and therefore the little animal
could not have died there. When the
trap was shown to me the bones were
still held in its jaws, and I said the
animal must have been a raccoon; but
was met at once with, the answer that
the raccoon never cuts its leg off.
A few days afterward party of young
men were speaking Of the circumstance
as have related it, when one Of them
stated that, nearly two years ago, he
had been out with hunting party one
night, and that about a mile from where
this tree was felled they killed a raccoon
which had only three feet, the right
hind one being gone. Now, this was,
doubtless, the raccoon whose foot was
found in the trap.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Undesirable Husbands.

The gTumbling husband renders his
wife's existence as obnoxious as possible.
He will begin the day by abusing his
breakfast; and the man who scowls over
his coffee, eggs and the daily paper, may
be pronounced as notlikely to improve
in temper as the hours advance. The
influence of grumbling woman is par
ticularly depressing; but that of man,
chronic grumbler, is worse. He will
take morose pleasure in nursing his
grievances. If you are enthusiastic over
music, painting, poetry, literature, OF
any Of the arts that remove the cold
prosaism of matter-of-fact reality, he
will endeavor to destroy your fervor and
happiness because it is beyond his COM
prehension. All grumblers love their
creature comforts, and woe betide the
woman the grumbling husband has
made his miserable spouse, if the peas
are hard for his Sunday dinner, or the
potatoes waxy when he prefers floury
vegetable! What antidote can be offered
to resist the effects of these intolerable
croakers? None. It is in the very
blood and bones of the animal, irradic-
able as light. The ''gay husband" is,
however, worse specimen OF the race,
if possible. His wife, if sensitive, in
variably dies Of systematic neglect; but
Griseldas are not uncommon in this min
teenth century of cynicism and license,
and takes good deal to kill really
tough Griselda; SO she will meet him in
tears on the staircase about three o'clock
and help him to get to bed, if necessary.
He spends all his money on himself and
his doubtful pleasures. His wife grows
prematurely old; she is an old WON an at
forty. Friends and relatives tell her
that she should demonstrate with the
sinner. "You should see my husband"
one of these hard-voiced relations is fond
of saying. "I'm none of your quiet,
submissive women, I know my value. I
speak my mind. I stand no nonsense. !"
Griselda, weeping, explains that when
man puts his fingers to his ears and then
bangs the door-sThen bang it louder,
my DEAR" the woman Of spirit suggests;
''and if he takes up chair, you charge
with the table," But is anyone ASST
able who is heartless, vain and cruel?
Such people are safe from any evil under
the sun. Strange destinies which cou-
pie them with gentle natures.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
Directions for Cake Making.

Cake making is one of the most diff
cult branches of cooking. Recogniz-
ing this fact, Mrs. Beecher, in her arti-
Gle in the Bazaar, gives some useful
hints from which the following main
points are taken: For cake, let the flour
dry near the fire while the other ingre-
dents are being collected. Then sift it,
and, if cream of tartar or baking pow
der is desired, sift that with the flour.
Roll the sugar to avoid Jumps. Eggs
used for cake should be put into cold
water in summer while the preliminary
work is going on. First beat butter and
sugar together until white and creamy;
then the eggs, whites and yolks beaten
separately always, for the whites require
much longer time to be beaten perfect
". Strain the yolks after beating, and
add to them the well-beaten sugar.
Next add the spices. Stir the flour
gradually before using the sweet
or sour milk needed. If soda and
cream of tartar are to be used, the lat
ter should be sifted with the flour (also,
as above stated, when only baking
powder is called for). Dissolve soda in
cool water or milk, never in anything
hot, as heat destroys the best part of it.
Put in the soda after the milk has been
added and well beaten with all the 9TH
er ingredients. If prepared -four is
used, neither soda nor cream of tartar
can be employed. The currants. cit
ron or raisins must be well Toured, but
use for this flour measured out for the
cake, else the cake will be too stiff
Beat up the batter very light before add
ing the fruit, as it should be beaten
gently, and not long, after that is add
ed. The whites, being very stiff, are to
be put in the last thing. After that very
little beating is llowed-only what is
necessary to incorporate the fruit and
whites of eggs thoroughly with all the
other ingredients. When beating the
whites, do not stop. after once having
begun until they are very stiff, else they
viii ssgo back and can never be
brought up as light again. In making
raised cake, all fruit must be well roll
ed in flour for that purpose, and not
added to the cake till just ready to put
into the oven. 1t must not then be beat
en- in, but spread over the top lightly
and pressed in little way else the
fruit will all sink to the bottom and be
worthless. Practice and watchfulness
soon teach one to Judge correctly when
cake, bread, or pies are done. If ever
so properly prepared, they will be
heavy if taken from the oven before
thoroughly baked. If obliged to turn
pans round in the oven, move with
great gentleness and, if possible, never
take cake, bread, or biscuit out of the
oven to turn it. The air striking it will
injure it greatly. If sourmilk or but
termilk is used in making cake, it must
be placed in the oven as soon as put to-
gether, unless, like hard gingerbread
or cookies, it needs to be rolled out or
nodded. In that case it is not injured
If it stands some hours,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
An Appalling Fact.

Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell talks
plainly to the ladies. She says "tbe
waste of time, the waste of strength and
the waste of health which women &C
cept on account of fashion is appalling.
The shoes of women have pegs for heels
half way under the foot, on which they
walk with atottering, hobbling gait, like
Chinese women. Frills, fringes, cords,
straps, buttons, pullbacks and forInces,
supposed to be ornamental, but which
have no other use, burden and deform
even our young girls. If the rising gen.
Grafton is to be healthy, there must be
retnrn to the simpler as we'll as the more
becoming styles. We need artists who
can devise simple and beautiful dresses,
which shall secure to the wearer the
free and untrammeled use Of the whole
BODY"