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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

fords occupation for the mind and hands.
AS to females who live ON farms, they
have no practical appreciation of rest.
Their employment is drudgery. They
have no amusements, and few social OPP
portunities. The food consumed in farm
houses is not generally conducive to
health. Its quality is poor, and it is
poorly cooked. 1t lacks in variety. 1t
is largely composed of salt and smoked
meats and dried fish. Most farmers
have nothing but an apology for vege-
table or fruit garden. An ice-house or a
fish-pond on farm is very rarely found.
The sanitary condition of farms should
receive more attention, especially when
the settlers have the means to make
suitable improvements. There should
be drainage for health as well as for
profit. The water supply should be i'm
proved by the introduction of means for
bringing it from springs and lakes, and
carry it where it is wanted in every
house. More pains should be taken for
disposing of manure, dead animals, and
decomposing vegetation. The matter of
ventilating dwellings and cellars should
receive more attention. When regard is
paid to all these things the death-rate In
the country will be lessened, and the
general health of the people improved.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
It's Just Awful.

A terrible epidemic is sweeping oFo.
Louisville, (which is In the stare =.
Kentucky" and unless it is soon go'
under control may be attended with tie
most deplorable results. One-haii tiie
girls of that city are stage struck-stalr,h n
staring stage struck Hundreds OF Tue
residences have been converted INTO aill-
ateur play houses, where would-be re-
male stars tear their hair, and rave, aliu
split the air with their arms and Stalk
maiestically across imaginary stages 10
the imaginary music of imaginary or
ehestra amid bursts of imaginary APP
plause and showers of imaginary bou-
quets. In the dry goods stores youne
ladies rush up to the counters with IN
SEPARATION dropping from the eyes IL
great chunks and in hollow tones COM
mand the affrighted clerk to:
'Haste thee, cringing vassal; pr-r-r-ro
duce an br-r-r-ing'into our pr-r-r-r-es-
ence thy 65 cents hose!"
In the ice cream, saloons maldens
shovel the cooling cream into lovely
mouths and sweetly murmur to their
escorts:
sNow, be me faith, Orlando, but isl
not nectar fit for the gods? Speak, me
beloved, is't not dainty dish that graces
our festal board?" and practical Orlando
replies:
81 bet you!''
On the street car the maiden stalks
forward toward the driver and howls:
''What, no! there, charioteer, give
me, pray thee, diminutive coin for this
one dollar bond, an will upon the in
slant requite thee FOR thy services upon
this journey"
When one of them catches a flea she
holds her victim at arms lengtin
roars: +s & u
s'Ha-a-a-al 1 have thee at last, w
craven! For many nights thy vista :
tons to me chamber have br-r-rr-ought
unrest Now at la.a-a-st thou art in me
clutches and l viii shower vengeance
upon thy thrice accursed head, Die.
vile ingr-r-rate, and may the seetbing
fires of perdition engulf thy quivering
soul forevermor-r-r-rel"
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.-Kit adams, Modern
Ar9O.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
Mustard as a Remedy.

A lady suffered long and excruciat-
ingly from an attack of bilious collie
before she would consent to have a ply
stefan called. When at last one came,
his simple prescription was mustard, by
which the pain was shortly subdued,
always remembering, was the parting
injunction of the doctor, who rather
commended his patients spirit in being
her own physician in every day ailment
-. that for pain anywhere mustard is a
safe and sure remedy, as snre as any,
besides being something that every fam
lily has on hand, so that no time need be
lost. - The following is recommended
as a mustard plaster that viii not bis
ter. Take the white of one egg, stir in
mustard until thick enough to spread
nicely; then take thin cloth as long
again as you wish the plaster, spread
the mustard half the length, not too near
the edges, double the dry end of the
cloth back over the mustard and apply
warm.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
A Dog Diving Of a Broken Heart.

Prof Calderwood, of Edinburgh, tells
of a Presbyterian minister's dog, which
one Sunday killed some fowls while the
family were at church. On the minis
ter's return the dog was shown the havoc
he had made, and then taken into the
study, where the minister addressed him
as follows, in tone of great soiemnity,
looking at him at the same time re-
proachfully Dog. you are minis
ter's dog, and ought, therefore, to have
been an example to other dogs. This Is
the Sabbath day, and, therefore, on this,
of all other days, your conduct should
have been most correct. But You have
killed the fowls and disgraced yourself +
The dog was then ignominiously turned
out of the room. The next morning he
was found dead. A veterinary surgeon
who was sent for declared that the dog
had died of broken heart.
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Very GnIlihIe.

Thirty years ago Mr.. VIM. Hall. of
New York, lent friend" named White
$50, 900 worth of bonds and checks as a
security in n speculation, with the nnder-
standing that they were on no account
to be converted into cash The friend
Immediately converted them into cash
and disappeared. Not long AGO bo vent
to Halls house, and In spite Of Halls
anger placated him by Representing that
with the $4,000 which he had enuro-
priated to his own use he had cone 10
California, had made large fort1ne
and had Travelled across the continent
for the express purpose of refund;no the
money. Mr.. Hall was charmed and
entertained White royalty at his bonse.
White pretended to be sineereI,, CORY
for the roguery of his younoer laws.
and entertained his host with e,-ayhic
descriptions of California. and a1,aring
yarns about the way in which L. had
made his princely fortune ON ~ Pa
cific slope. Hall believed ever, word
he said, and agreed to lend him ee 600.
on Whites turning over securities in "a
sealed envelope. He had already paid
him 81 200, when Mrs. Hall. ris;1o At 5
IN the morning, carried the envaII97,as to
the Chief of Police On openino- = the
papers were found almost wortblee.s and
White was arrested. How a mo-, cap
able of being gulled after this fasbion
was also capable of accumulatipa Gao
600, or $4,000 cents, is a mvstas. that
would puzzle even phrenologist
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

INDIGEsrIoN, dyspepsia, nervous prostraton
lnd all forms of general debility relieved by
aking AlENsMAN's pErToNIzED BEEF Toxic the
Dnlv preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. IT contains blood-mak-
ne, force-generating and hfe-sustaining prop
rites is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
shether the resalt of exhaustion, nervous pros
ration. oyerwork, or acute disease. particularly
resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
Fell, Hazard & Co, proprietors. New York.
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Their statement. Endorsed.

strong statement nnquallnedIy IN
dorsed must induce confidence. In this
connection we note the following from
DR. Louis Book & Son, Sheboygan, Wis
We have been handling ST. Jacobs Oil
and are pleased with the large demand.
Hardly a day goes by without hearing
from some one or another of our patrons
having used it with entire satisfaction,
saying it is the best thing they ever tried,
and we join them in so saying. Pitts
burg Catholic.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
Lamentations.

Life is strange mass of contradic-
tions. When You expect least enjoyment
vou obtain the most; where you think
You have given most satisfaction, you
have given least When you are sick,
Won would be we'll; when well you try 10
be sick. When you fancy yourself the
wisest of men, you are the dadoist Of
fools. The girl You are most in love with
is least in love with You. What you can
not get you would obtain; what you have
Won do not value
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

PAKsEEs around the "Towers of ST.
lencc WHITTIER the corpses of Parsees
# r mbay are taken Immediately after
4 ath TO be devoued by Vultures-will
o.t-n wait and watch until every atom
Ii sl.c q sin II those they love has been
.l-lsn.lnl ly the birds.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

THERE wnsYonly one,--passenger on
board the ship, and the Captain and
mate contrived to get the most and best
of what was on the table. One day
there was rollypoly pudding with the
sweet-meats in the middle ''Do you
like puddin' ends, sir?" asked the Cap
tain. ''No, I don't like pudding ends.
sir" said the passenger. well, me
and my mate does" said the Captain,
cutting the pudding in two and putting
one-half on the mates plate and the
other on his own. And the two soon
made an end of both.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
REACTED FRoM DEATm.

William J. coughlin, of somsrville, Mass, says; In
be- fall Of 1870 with hleedings Of the lungs
Slowed by cough lost my appetite and
esh, and confined 10 nay bed. Ia lsT7 I was adj
lifted the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
" lung as big as half dollar. At time report
tent around that I dead gave up hope, but a
send told me OF DR. WILLIAM Halls BALsAM FoR TIE
rxgs. 90, a bottle, when, to my surprise, COM
enced 10 feel better and to-day feel better than Tor
tree years past. this hoping every afflicted
in diseased lungs will take DR. WILLIAM Halls BAL
~ and be Convinced that coSsuNrrIoS CAN BE CURED
fsn positively say has good than all IN
her medicines have taken since nv sickness"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

A LADY who, in consequence of great
reverse of fortune, has been working for
a fashionable milliner, says she is abso-
lu'ely amazed to find to what an extent
in the days of her wealth she was swim
died in her bonRets and dresses.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

A POOR old rheumatic lady said 70 her
physician ooh doctor, doctor + suf-
f-r so much with my hands and faet p
. BE patient, dear madam. +" he Goth
ngly responded, you'd suffer Great
deal more without them"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
Truth and Sosern.ss.

What is the best family medicine in the world
10 regulate the bowels, purify the blood remove
costiyeness and biliousnesS, aid digestion and
stimulate the whole system? Truth and sober
ness compels us to answer, Hop Bitters being
pure perfect and harmless. See Truths in
mother column.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

All the fairs give the first premiums and spec
ial awards of great merit to Hop Bitters as the
purest and best family medicine, and we most
heartily approve of the awards for we know
they deserve it. They are now on exhibition at
the State Fairs, and we advise all TO test them.
See another column.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

Mr.. NJ. F. MORSE, Westboro', Mass.,
mentions to us the gratifying infsrma..
ton, that st. Jacobs Oil relieved him Of
very severe attack of Sciatic Rheuma-
tism and is an excellent thing. Boston
Mass CiIltiuatOT.
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Il q Poeitive Cure


for all those Painful con,p.aints and WeakDesses
sOeOmmon to chr besy female population.
II VII cure entirely the worst form Of Female Conn
PLANTS all Ovarian troubles Inflammation and Ulcera
ton Falling and Displacements. and the consequent
Spinal Weakness, and IS particularly adapted to the
Change Of Life.
1t VIII dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus in
TN carly stage Of DEVELOPMENT Tho tendency 20 can
ceros humor there 10 checked very speedily by its use
Il removes feintness fatlency destroys all craving
for stiulants aud relieves weakness OF the stomach
It cures Floating. Headaches Nervous PTostrntion,
General Debility sIcepessness, Depression and Indi-
gestian.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing pain, weighs
and baetachc always permanently cured byits use
It will ut all times and under Gil circumstances act in
harmony with the laws that govern the female system
For the cure Kidney Complaints Of either sex this
Compound Is unsurpassed.
LYDIA 7. PISEIIaAI's VEGETABLE COM
POUNDS prepared At 2S3 nni rs Western Avenue,
lynn Mass Price 81 Six bottlssfor s. Sent By mail
in the Of pills, also the form of ioEenges on
receipt OF price 81 per box for either Mrs Pinkham
freely ANSWERS all letters Of inquiry Send for pamph-
let. Address above Ee1tfon this fGper-
No family should be without LYDIA f. PINKHAMS
LIVER Pills. They constipation, biliousnssr,
and to-pscity Of the liver. Is cents PER box
= a IL
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22
.Rongh ON Rats"

Ask Druggists for it. 1t clears ont rats, mice,
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, vermin, insects. l5c-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

KIDNET-WoRT is the enemy of indigestion
and biliousness. II is sure to conquer them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

sNSs sQuatted ON inc tence VIII tIle ititI
part of himself pointed square at Dunn
BILE. who. being powerful near-sighted,
cot down on his hands and knees and
crawled up until he got glimpse of the
bulk on the fence. Just then Lew
hooted 'Hoo-ahl hoo-ahl hoo-ahl' and as
he did so old Dumble raised the gun and
fired. The next moment Lew Wallace
gave keen yelp and bounced up in the
air with both hands beating around his
pants buckle like pair of wings. Well,
SIR. when he landed on the ground he
struck out for the open prairie, and /
don't think he ever went TO see Lie
Dumble after that, because the whole
neighborhood for month talked about
how Lew Wallaceg shot for varmint. E"
.-.Nc1g Orleans Times.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

ONLY the genuine axle grease has the name
* Frazer on every package, and wears longer
han any other.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

II COSTS more to avenge wrongs than
to bear them.
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How Lew Wallace Got Shot for a
Varmint.

1T was when Lew Wallace was put
un on dandy airs old Bill Dumble's
youngest darter Lie that the thing
happened, said Buckshaw. "Old Bill
Dumble, you know, is mighty straight
up and down religiotis man, and he
iheerd 1t told as how Lew got on o regular
Drazoo every week or So and raised
thunder. Well, the old man told Lew
That he was a tare In the wheat field, and
II he did not keep away from his darter
Iize, somebody would get famed out
with sapin Lew had sense enough
to know that the old man was in earnest.
and he kept outen his sight. but at night
ne would climb up on the board fence In
front OF the house, and boot like
horned owl. Lie Dumble as soon as
she heard the signal would creep out
where he was, and both of 'em would sit
down behind prickly pear bush and
talk about how they were gwine to do
after they We're married The old folks
didn't suspect anything until one night
when 1t was so dark a black cat looked
like snow bank Lew got on the fence
and began to hoot. Lie was sick and
couldnt come out. Lew he jest kept on
hooting, and a hooting until old Bill
Dumble heard the noise, and 1t sounded
SO material that he hunched his wife and
said; '5airey, thar's an owl hooting,
and I'll bet he's ther same onery cuss
what has been eating Their young turkeys
patched last week His wife told him
to get up aud take his gun and kill the
owl, or they wouldn't have nary chicken
or turkey about the rancho. Old man
Dumble loaded his gun with small shot
and climbed over the back fence so as to
~ y, o,.,,,,,,J a,1 e,at an tba off side of
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-22

Look Ont for Sudden Changes
of weather, and guard against them by using
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The river press., 1881-11-16

Glad to get drink OF water that isn't SO
saturated with healing minerals that It
tastes like rusty lamp post On frosty
morning. Glad you haVnt got to swear that
such stuff ssdoes you good.
Glad to abandon the nonsensical conVeu-
tionalities of resort life, and lift your feet
to the mantlepiece in the American fashion,
and feel social and free.
Glad to get square meal into your system
garnished with simply the provision dealers
profits; a meal that you feel sure you can af-
ford to eat.
Glad to see your wife and family around
your own table and hearthstone. They look
better and feel more closely related to you
than they do promenading the verandas OF q
hotel with strangers.
Glad to ''slosh' around in your own bath
tub, where there is no deathly fear Of an
'tundertoW."
Glad somebody can speak to you and an
sWer q civil question without charging fifty
cents all around
Glad it isn't necessary to lie to strangers
about your extensive business and your mag
niicent establishment. You can't fool peo-
plet that have known you from q boy up, 80
you don't have to try.
Glad you lad money enough TO get home
after your hotel bills were paid. This Is
cause for proclamation Of day Of thanks-
giving and prayer.
Glad that you now have chance to groWl
and find fault in true home-like fashion,
without being deferred by the presence Of .
scornful world.
Glad that you can roam into every room OF
the house at your own sweet will, although
the over weaving curiosity you had while on
your vacation deserts you.
Glad TO meet your friends on the street
once more, and surprised that they didn't
know you had been away.
Glad to see the dog, glad to see the cat,
glad TO see the servant girl
Home again. And yen inWardly VOW that
YOU will let the tendrils Of your affections
so cling around your own vine and figtree
that you never will desert its comforts again
never. never But in less than three
months guide-books and s.resorts" literature
will begin to flood your postof1ce box, and
you'll find yourself planning just such
another lay out for next summer. The no.
madic instincts Of human nature will not
down" after they have been once gratifled.
The river press., 1881-11-16
TIE HAND THAT ROCKS THE WORLD.

Blessings on the hand Of women!
Angels guard it's strength and grace
In the palace, cottage, hovel-
Oh, no matter where the place!
Would that never storms assaied it
Rainbows ever gently eurled
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Infancy's the tender fountain;
Bowers may with beauty flow;
Mothers fret to guide the atreamlet,
From their souls unresting grow;
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine htreamed or darkness hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Woman how divine your mission,
Here upen our natal sod
Keep, oh keep, the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
AL true trophies Of the ages
Are from mother love impearled
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Blessing on the hand Of Woman
Fathers, sons and daug hters cry;
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky;
Mingles where no temptests darken.
Rainbows evermore hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Ia the hand that rocks the world.
y I i \ S4 VI
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I'd 0na o Again.

And mighty glad to get there.
Glad to get to spot where your Ddd-room
il big enough 10 turn double handspring u
without landing tWo-thirds out of the win
dow.
Glad to Ind bad where the footboard Is 9
few inches below your knees, making i nee
essary to sleep ii an uncomfortable, halt
open jack knife attitude.
The river press., 1881-11-16

killed in two years. Homicide has been as
destructive Of human life in the South as
yellow fever. Although there have been
forty thousand deaths from yellow fever
since the war, the deaths from homicide for
the same period have been even greater.
The river press., 1881-11-16
Bullion Philosophy.

- -
A debt of honor is debt to honor.
A man easily convinced is never con-
vinced.
A fool may Say . wise thing, but the wise
never say foolish things.
Education prevents al crimes that arise
out Of ignorance, and Ignorance is the basis
OF al crime.
There would be no less contempt for law,
Il law was less contemplate.
Elections are as likely to be the suppress
sion as the expression Of the will Of the peo-
pie.
True economy is properly restricted gen
erosity
Liberty is self restraint; slavery outside re-
straint
q Who waits for opportunity often waits to
be thief.
Silence is not always wisdom. If only
fools talk there would be very few wise men.
The good name is often chosen rather
| than the good conscience.
Actions may speak founder than words,
but even they fail to tell the truth some
times.
The reformers seem to have reformed and
| the people had better look out.
Politica is not only q profession but it is
full Of professions.
The river press., 1881-11-16
RaOre Cuasedness tham Insanity.

III # ii HI 6#
Mr.. J. II. Noyes, the head Of the Oneida
Community, has written the following letter
TO Guiteau's attorney:
'sI see in the papers that you have named
me as q witness by whom you intend to prove
Guiteau's insanity. Perhaps il will save you
trouble and expense5if inform you il ad-
vance that 40 not believe in his insanity,
and that I reconect no act nor symptom of
insanity in his life while under my observe
ton. Probably I have more reason than any
but that IS not insanity in any legal sense.
think that he was born with especial genius
for mischief, and has had real inspiration fer
it all his days; but that is not saying he's
insane, unless we slzo call natural genius
and inspiration for good thlngg--such IS in
vension, music; etc. insanity. 4 understand
insanify to be unsoundn disease OF the
brain; and do not think Guiteau has tnas
any more than bears and lions have it.
agree with the old hymn, that such beasts
groWl and fight because it Is their nature 90.
With these views, and the memory Of my
sore experience with your client, am afraid
should have to testify strongly against your
main plea, and, perhaps. should be the means
Of sending him 10 the galloWs, which I
should sincerely regret on many accounts,
and especially because bis father Was 9 dear
friend To me and mine. But 4 must notify
you that my regret would be mostly for ny
personal agency ii the tragedy u
In kentucky more men are killed u SIX
days than in eight years IN Vermont- II one
graveyard in Owen county, e Kentucky, the
majority are murdered men, and ia another
single county forfJ-tUo persons have been