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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

NUT-DOOk SPEAKERS SORE THROAT.
~ The subjects of these cases arc usually
such as have outdoor employment requiring
Oficers, Street Singers, Itinerant Venders,
Shop Keepers and the like. Deglutlt!on is al
in spasms At times there exists an ina
bility to swallow. All diseases of Eye, Ear
and Throat successfully treated by Drs. Ii. ID.
Walnut street, Lancaster. Consultation tree
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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

nEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
IL First National Bank of Strasburg, at
Strasburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the
close of business March 1lth, 1882
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

VXIANTED-A GIRL WANTS PLACE
w to do general houscwOrk. Apply at
Eastern Hotel, liz East King street.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

Ii STYLES OF MONUMENTS, TOMB
IL STONES and Cemetery Posts, Counter
Tops, ConfectiOncrs' Slabs, Slate Mantels, etc..
on tho most reasonable terms.
Doing all the setting OF the work myself
can guarantee substantial foundations.
NEW AND ORIGINAL DESIGNS.
CHAS. MAKlNSON,
S. T.. Cor. S. Prince and COnestogn Sts.
ml5-lXd
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
A WOman,s Heart.

"Lemme see, said the old man mus
ing with mis- chin on the top of his cane
and speaking in the shrill falsetto voice
of age, lit must be forty-seven years
since Anna Maria died, yet I can remem-
Der the very gown she wore and the
color of the long curls that hung down
over her shoulder and the red on her
cheeks that was like a winter apple
Dear mel she's never faded mite in all
them years, but Just sits. there lookin'
at me, rs she did when | brought her
home. You see there was a kind of
romance tew it, and I've often and often
thought that if / had the power and could
rite it out it would read beautifuller than
a novel; the fact was Anna Maria had
another beau, but that amt no wonder
for she was the smartest and prettiest
and best girl In the huh country side,
but what / mean, she had favored him
ever so little, afore come around and
began keepin' her company. Folks kind
of coupled their names together, and
some of 'em, to bother me, limited that
she cared heap for him. Why, you'd
orter tew hev seen himi He was slim
and tineas q lady, and wore gaiter shoes,
and had boiler eyes es if he'd never had
quite enuff to eat. Ann Maria care for
him?' why, the girl had sense and knew
the difference atween teller as straight
as a sapling with a color like new
mahogany, and such a melancholy look
ing specimen as that. Besides, / he'd a
NOR gage on the old homested, and Ann
Maria father owed me money, but I
did right by them. 1 told her eff she
married me I'd deed the whole thing
back to her, and I did. Well, we was
married, and we made as purity couple
AS you ever saw in your life. Ann Maria
had settin' out of china and linen, and
| provided the house, and folks said ]
had the best wife n man ever had in the
world and I'd got everything just as
wanted 1t. and s'posed it would always
be so but from the day we were married
nv wife failed in health and spirits, anC
in SIX months I buried her-folks said i
was consumption, but 1t didn't run II
the family. | was blind and full of pride
then-but I've thought since, here the
old man lowered his voice, "that mebb'
all the time she loved that white faced
chap as l despised woman's hear
I've found out, Is a queer thing, anC
Love goes where it is sent, but II sh'
! did and married me from a mistakene'
sense of duty why all I've go to say i
| I've been punished, too, for / loved her
| Perhaps 1 never felt it as much as di'
when / saw her lying white and peacefu
! in her chintZ gown, with the violet on IT
and something round her neck that
never see before-a little cheap locke
with some hair in that wasn't mine.
! "Then / mistrusted that her hear
/ had broke and [ said solemnly as
| kissed her good by: My dear, II
never have a wife but you If I live tn
four score year and tenn and neve
have. and / think mebbe she will Sc
that 1 loved her truly, and forgive me c
/ last. - Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
Negro Superstitions.

Savage African beliefs, or supersti-
tons, as to the interference of super
natural power in the affairs of human
life. prevail everywhere among the
negroes of the South to an extent which
Northern people would scarcely imagine
without special study of the subject.
This is not to be wondered at when we
observe how largely prehistoric forms of
thought survive even In cultivated North
ern communities. l think there are no
negroes, perhaps, except the few edu-
Gated young men, who are free from the
influences of the general belief in signs,
charms, dreams, spells and magical in
carnations. Nearly every neighborhood
has an old man or women who possesses
unearthly powers, and who is constantly
consulted and appealed to for assistance
in connection with the love affairs and
the quarrels of the colored people, and
in cases of protracted or mysterious sick
ness. The belief in the power of the
evil eye is nearly universal, as in the
notion that persons, domestic animals,
wells. and particular places can be
"tricked that is, have a curse or
malign spell put upon them-by any
body who knows the CHARM" or
method of procedure which will produce
such a result. A nail driven into the
ground, with certain magical prelimin-
aries and accomplishments, is potent
means of dire injuries and revenges. In
hrnatters of love, courtship and marriage
the negroes are usually extremely jeal-
Ious and Suspicious, and magical arts are
commonly invoked to secure affection, to
ALLEVIATE those who are already attached
10 each other, and to protect aggressors
srom detection or punishment There
are various spells of formule for such
purposes. They usually include the
use Of a scrap of some article of clothing
which has been worn by the person who
is to be trieked, or shred of his hair, a
piece of a finger nail or toe-nail, or even
some dust from his shoes. A volume
might be written on the beliefs of the
colored people regarding the super
natural, and on this department of their
folk lore, and the subject would probably
as well repay attention as the ideas and
race characteristics of savage tribes IN
distant parts of the world. atlantic
/ Monthlu.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
Lemon Culture in Florida.

Florida lemons have not generally
found favor in Eastern markets, owing
TO their large, thick skins and inferior
flavor. A few individuals, however,
who believed the soil OF Florida adapted
for the culture of that fruit as well as
oranges, have been experimenting with
lemon seedlings imported from Sicily
and Messina, and planted them, it is
claimed, with perfect success. A writer
from Lake Poinsett says:
Z" The lemon produced had much
of the size of the old Florida fruit, but
was thin-skinned, of bright golden color,
and juicy beyond comparison. They at
once took rank in market as the best
lemons that were offered, and commanded
n premium. Sales are reported for GER
tain months OF last season at $12. % a
box of 100 lemons. A peculiar fact of
lemon culture Is that the imported lemon
can not be raised in Florida from the
seed. Any seed viii do for the stump,
but to produce the perfect fruit the
stump must be budded from the i'm
ported tree. The advantages of lemons
over oranges are that the trees bear
sooner; they bear larger crops, the
fruit ripening continually for eight
months, instead of a few months as is the
Ste-'C WIN ZIG o1ehN0f. NAAoAbCA
tage Is that the. season is longer than the
Orange, and the opportunity for market
ing at good figures better.
''Since the culture of the lemon has
become general the Floridians have
learned the method of preparing the
fruit for the market. The evenness of
size so notable in a box of foreign
lemons is secured by the use of a ring
or 'sizer' On the Mediterranean lemons
are never left on the tree until they get
their color. An attendant goes to each
tree, passes a ring over each lemon, and
when it fits the ring it is clipped and
put in packing house, where the bright
yellow color is given them by subjecting
them to fumes of sulphur. A packing
house of this sort has been established
by a Mr. Bean, at Jacksonville. He
buys the lemons when green at about
cent and half each, gives them the
artificial coloring, and sells them for
handsome advance.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
Minter Life in Holland.

In Holland the fun of winter life takes
many forms; and winter facilitates loco
motion, rs the highways OF summer avail
able for. trek-schults become the best
thoroughfares for those who skate. In
this way directly the ice bears, visits are
made and distances travelled which can
not be done In summer; and, instead of
going round and round as we do here,
ON small confined space, the Dutch
make mp party and pay visit to s.-se
neighbOrIng town or village. A bright
winters morning Is always eXhllaratlng,
especially to those whose red particles
are doing their work satisfactorily: how
much more so when cheerful company,
free exercise, variety Of character, and
constant change of scene all tend to
mari. the day as a red-letter one; and, to
crown all. comes the pleasant sensation
of feeling deservedly tired, with a nights
rest well earned. Should the frost be
sufficiently severe, a river Is most inter-
esting, being on a large scale and par
taking more OF the character of fair,
which Is the case, for instance. on the
Mas. at Rotterdam This Is very well
pictured in some of the old Dutch en-
cravings; one particularly gives an adj
mirable idea of the whole thing, show
ing sledges; ice-boats, stalls, booths.
Now. the freezing of the Mas is most
uncertain: while other waters are frozen
hard. the Rotterdamersstlllr remain land
bound. The Mas run very strongly,
and the difficulty Is for the first coating
of ice to form. When a severe frost
catches the still water during the night,
then 'Sonce begun, soon done" and the
crews, who turn their births at night,
wake up ii tine morning to find them
selves frozen In. The canals naturally
soon freeze over, and the trek-schult
traffic is supplanted by baggage-sledges,
large and small. Near dwelling houses
are seen the little box sledges for the
children. These are precisely the same
as the seventeenth century contllvances;
the child sits with just room for its feet,
and. with stick in each hand, pushes
astern and propels itself ahead. The
adult sledges are in some cases simply
gorgeous, as the opportunity affords
great latitude for form, great scope for
variety of gear, harness and trappings.
/ They are generally rather of the swan
outline, the ''sleighers" sitting in the
body, the driver perched at the back, as
on the tail, the sweeping irons following
the curve of the swans neck; over these
run the reins. One horse generally con-
stitutes the team, but in an old engrav-
ing three horses in single file aIs5 blown
drawing a sledge de tetre- -S,Good
Words.
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The Inronds of Civilization.

very graphic and pathetic descrip-
ton of the inroads soon to be made by
civilization is given by an old man in
Tennessee "But this hyur country's
all goin' TO change. It's goin' to be
most everlastinly improved, you see.
l shan't never be improved I'm too
old. But the old ways is coming to an
end. They's men buyin' up thousan's
of acres of this land. They'll be rail-
roads built directly, hither an yam,
more'n'u do anybody any good. They'll
cut off the woods for fuel an lumber,
an they'll be mines an quarries up
hyur, they say An they'll be mean,
dirty little towns laid out, all about.
Then, instid o. people drinkin' a little
healthy whisky, as we've always done,
they'll be forty times as much miser'-
BILE pison stuff sold an drunk, an who
ever drinks it'll begin to steal an lie.
/ reckon they'll be some mighty fine
houses built som eres along this river,
an they'll put big scientific locks on to
their doors, an thieves II come up from
Cincinnater and Chat'noog', an break
into 'em. They amt never been lock
on to. a door n these mountains. But
they's goin to be the all-fredest i'm
provements about hyur, an / s'pose our
people'u 'arn to steal too hat to to
keep up an live. An they'll be some
o them city women hyur, / reckon,
from them big places, with their fine
feathers, an their dresses a draggin' on
to the ground, an they'll be the devil
to pay among our young men. That's
what they call cfv'Eyzation, amt it,
stranger / tell We this country II soon
be improyin' like hell, but shan't live
to see much of 1t, 1 reckon"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
Ages of Men Before the Flood.

Charles S. Bryant, Of st. Paul, in
communication IN the Popular Science
Monthly, offers some considerations to
show that there was no disparity be-
tween the ages of the patraarchs and
those men of later time. Re saws that
a very slight error in the translation Of
the Hebrew numbers has he'd to all the
apparent disparity. and Insists on the
authority of Genesis vi, 3, that the age
of the antediluvian was not to exceed
100 wears. The passage reads "And
strive with man, for that he also is flesh,
yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years"
Mr.. Bryant ascribes the errors, the
ages given in the bible, to the improper
rendering of concrete numerals by the
translators. He says that Genesis V, 3,
is properly rendered, ''Adam lived a
hundred and thirty years and begat a
son." ETC.; but if this verse had been
translated as the fifth is, In the author
lied version, it would read thus adam
lived thirty hundred years and begat a
son % This shocked the consciousness
of the Christian translator, and he was
driven to the true rule the Hebrew
uses in cases of concrete numerals" In
the fifth verse the authorized version
reads: "And all the days that Adam
lived were nine hundred and thirty
years, and he died" The true reading
by the rule, Mr.. Bryant says, would be,
"And all the days which Adam lived,
were a hundred years, and thirty and
nine years, and he died, makingthe en-
tire age OF Adam 139 years, instead OF
$50 years. Mr.. Bryant further says that
at the date of the writing of Genesis the
Hebrew had no means of wrhing nine
hundred, or any number of hundreds
above one, without repetition or circum-
Iocution He gives the following as the
ages of the patrlarchs before the Noach'
ian deluge, remarking that they are sub
/ iect to few uncertainties in the number
/ below one hundred
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9 WAY Down SOUTH IN DH1E.n
A chat with the Author OF Dlxie-Somsr
thing About That Individual
iBiehmoad va pally Dispatch. !

While Mr.. M. B. Leavett's Gigantean
Minstrels were here lately playing at the
OIvmpian Theatre, he was called on by
representative of this paper, and quite
conversation ensued as to minstrelsy,
past, present and to come. While Mr..
Leavett was RECALLING the Ieportorial ear
with a history of minstrelsy Mr.. Dan
Emmett came upon the scene.
Old Dan, as everybody calls him, is
the individual who bears the honored
distinction of being the first man who
used burnt cork on his face--the first
negro performer-and Dan has grown old
IN the business, years increasing his
popularity. Mr.. Emmett has lost none
of his fire or vigor of former years, but,
on the contrary, may be counted better
to-day than quarter of a century ago.
One of the most prominent features of
Mr.. Leavett's Gigantean Minstrel
Troupe Is a scene entitled "Old-time
Minstrelsy." This act represents the
very first scene In minstrelsy ever pro-
duced, and just as placed upon the stage
In 1910 by Dan Emmett, and shows at
once the contrast between minstrelsy In
its infancy and minstrelsy as produced
to day under the management of such
man as Mr.. b. Leavett. Old Dan, the
~forty-year favorIte, never fails to win ap-
plause in the great scene, especially
when he sings, as he alone can sing,
'Away Down South In Dixie" Dams
rendition of that veteran song is sure to
carry the audience every time. The
writer has, of course, heard it sung hum
dreds of times, and even heard Mr.. EN-
NETT. the author, sing it years ago, but
| thinks that years add to its beauty, and
enhances the interest thrown into it by
Dan.
The writer, speaking to Mr.. Emmett,
said: "Dan, how is it that you are so
| lively. and still so perfect IN your bust
| ness, after your term of nearly half a
century upon the stage?" "Weh, replied
the author of Dixie" - have always
been blessed with the best of health, and
have always lived strictly temperate
life. I was never troubled with pain OF
ache until five years ago, and then my
trouble began with the rheumatism, and
/ got that in right royal state, and il
managed to cripple me up pretty badly
A man who never has had the rheumatism
knows nothing about the dreadful suffer.
ing endured by those who are afflicted
with that malady. How did suffer with
my case-pain day and night, constant
vexation and trouble from morning until
night and night till morning is what
endured.
''But began using St. Jacobs Oh fol
my trouble, and it began to disappear
rheumatism must leave the stage of &C
ton when st. Jacobs Oil comes on. til
evacuation day with Mr.. rheumatism
every time, and so it has proved in M
case. You tell the people that Old DaI
Emmett says he considers st Jacobs Oh
the very best medicine fo1 rheumatism
III the world to-day, and would as sooI
think OF travelling without his violin o
wardrobe as without ST. Jacobs OIL. Tel
them that he is thankful of St Jacob
Oil for the good that it has done, ant
that he freely endorses that great medi
cine and recornmendsit on al OCCASIONS.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
Amos,s Book.Keeper.

We asked Amos how his boy was get
ting on at school.
'sPleg take dat boy; L dun tuck him
way from dat school y
g Why, what for %
''Uh. oh he wuz gittin' mos too
smart down dar wild dat book larnin'.
'Twon't do fer some niggers to be too
edgikatid."
"Why not, Amos %
"Well, sab, Jess take dat boy, FIRM
stance put dat boy to keep books for
me bout de sellin' CD de garden truck.
Well, sab, he jess writ down charges dar
in de book fer all de truck dat tuck out
de gardin, an charges fer all dat we eat
in de house, an den credit hisself wild de
little mounts dat L let him nab long at
odd 'casions, an den he go an add dem
all up, and struck er balance, he say !"
"And how did YOU come out%'
"Come out? Fore de good Master,
didn't come out at oil Dat boy stuck
me fer bout thutty-five dollars, sides
his wages as de book keeper-now OATS
what de fggers sed. p" -
Well, what did you do?"
jess burn up dat book right tiar,
an den 'scharged de book-keepah, and
hire him ober again ter saw wood for his
board and close %
You did ?"
Eyes sab, 1 did dat ! Why boss, if
dat boy had kept dat book on till now
he'd done own dat hous' an gyardin
patch an bin chargin' me and his ole
nanny for bed an bred ! / tell yer dis
hyar book-larnin' is ruinin' dis young
breed OBJ niggers-'tis, shore l-4tlanta
Constitution.
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Starting a Paper on Check.

During the past year several individ-
uals publishing obscure and well nigh
worthless sheets, and others designing
TO start such, have written to persons of
note in the editorial fraternity, soliciting
free contributions. In response to such
an application the following reply was
sent by " Bill Nye :"
Your favor of the 9TH inst, is re-
ceived. 1t was a glad surprise TO me,
because had been asked to contribute a
facetious article to a paper only $50 times
since the holiday annual business began
to boom. / have estimated that III case
had complied with all these sugges-
tons I would have written 50, 600 worth
of gurgling mirth within four weeks.
1 could not have worried through it
without having ground out at least ten
columns per day. When you come to
add my other duties you viii readily see
that the exercise would at times be irk-
some. l am the managing editor of a
daily paper that requires at least eight
hours a day. am also Police Justice,
with an average of five plain, undeco-
rated DRINKS and two assault and bat
teries per day. 1 am also United States
Commissioner, and member OF the yes
try of st. Matthews Church.
by the Time get up ana COOK my
breakfast and do the housework and
bring in some coal and do some market
ing and feed the hens and deal out
s1I 90 worth of justice and write q leader
or two and read few proofs and do the
chores around the Office and lick few
total strangers and get my dinner and
attend vestry meeting and write ten or
twelve columns of side-sphtting mirth
ON the half-sheet and go home and hold
the baby couple of hours, breakfast is
ready, and don't have to go to bed at
all. This saves the wear and tear of a
night shirt and keeps a'man out of mis-
chief.
"If you think this letter will throw
dny light ON the subject you are at
liberty to use it. 1t may do great deal
Of good. BILL NYE.
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well rndor.ed by our own CITIZEN.

No matter how useful anything may
be in itself, good Endorsements seem to
increase its usefulness greatly by insur-
ing wider field for the display of its
special merits. We were thus impressed
in view of the following statements re-
ceived by one of our representatives from
the leading individuals connected with
some of the largest enterprises III our
midst Among others whose testimony
was freely given was w. ii. Stearns,
ESQ, Master Mechanic of the Conn.
River Railroad, residing at No % Boyl-
ston street, who observed st. Jacobs
Oil has had remarkable effect among the
men employed here. One of them jammed
his arm very badly, and by the use of
St Jacobs Oil was greatly benefited, and
the arm was healed. Another used 1t for
severe rheumatic pains In the knee, and
pronounced the Oil q complete success as
hewas cured by its use. Mr.. a. b. Taylor,
of the Ray & Taylor Manufacturing Co
was pleased to say: my aunt, Mrs.
Pillsbury, of Mount Clair, n. j., while
visiting at our house tried st. Jacobs
Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia, and
found imme late relief every time. She
pronounced it the best thing she had
ever tried for the trouble. Mr.. j. B.
Weston, 40 Greenwood street. Supt. Car
Works. Boston & Albany Railroad, thus
addressed our reporter: Il am one more
of the fortunates who have had the good
luck to hear of that wonderful remedy,
St Jacobs OIL l had rheumatism in
the shoulder severely and could find no
relief until / used the Oil ! applied it
and must confess I was surprised at the
results. am almost well and expect to
be entirely so in few days. Spring.
field (1fass.) Union.
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aCnnYaIescentp,

A country physician Of limited sense
and q" limiteder education, was called
to see Mr.. Rs little boy, who was quite
i'll. He gave some medicine and left,
promising to call again ON the following
morning. When he arrived Mr.. r. met
him at the gate and informed him that
the child was convalescent
Convalescent p said the doctor,
convalescent? Then if he is that bad
off You'll have to call In some other
physician never treated case of it in
my life p And with that he mounted
his horse and departed. Detroit Free
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Ages as
Average

No doubt the question of the true ages
of the patriarchs will receive earnest at
tention at the hands of the revisors of
the Old Testament. If the TRANSACTIONS
Of the ages have been made by an incor-
&C rule, the revisors may be depended
upoa to correct them in accordance with
the light which the ripest scholarship
affords. Mr.. Bryant, In his communica-
ton. calls attention to the fact that the
late Dean Stanley, for years before his
death, insisted that the numbers in the
Old Testament were, in many instances,
entirely too high, and that he believed
that the correction OF these apparent
errors would relieve the bible of many
objections now urged against the chron-
illogical record