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but no one knew what it was, and he was uni

but no one knew what it was, and ne was uni
versally known as ''Simeon."
"I've made mistake, - said this gentleman
taking off the felt hat to scratch his head. VI
left Young Squire Tulips trunk here this NOR
ming, and sent the young lady's to Tulip Hall
And here it is in the wagon, if yell just lend
a hand, mister, to get it out"
"My trunk at Tulip Hall ~ cried Elsie.
esquire Tulips trunk here ~ shrieked Aunt
Phedra. "Then, that accounts for the cigar.
cites, and the smoking jacket, and the And
oh, goodness, Ralph! % clutching neryously at
her nephew's sleeve, Twelve been and broken
into strange mans trunk! Do you suppose
they'll arrest me for burglary or petit larceny?'
But Mr.. Sunfold only laughed-his heart was
so light he could have laughed at anything
now-and as he helped old Simeon bring the
pretty little uncovered trunk in, he glanced
merrily at his aunt.
81 don't believe we shall find any contraband
goods here, Aunt Phedra," said he.
s'What are you talking about 20 said Elsie.
And while Aunt Pledra was getting tea,
Ralph told the little schoolma'am all.
"Tea's ready !" said the old lady, presently.
putting her lavender-ribbon cap into the room.
s'Stop minute, Aunt Phedra p said the
young man. 'Before we go to tea, want you
to give your consent formally, mind-to our
marriage"
Eyes, yes - said the old lady, "I CONSENT
"With all your heart ?" mischievously de-
manded pretty Elsie.
eyes, with all my heart, said Aunt Phedra.
And she looked as if she really meant it.
sBecause," =" said Aunt Phedra to herself, 81
have done her injustice in my heart"
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fro BE CONTINUED.

ANGLo-SAXON NUMERALs.-Our Saxon
forefathers formed words for the numerals up
to nine, but there, their power of invention
seems to have abandoned them, for ten is not
an original word 1t comes from the Saxon
verb lyman, to close, to shut in or up, express
sive of the simple fact that, when the calcula-
tion had gone on to the extent of ten fingers,
one after another having been turned in, both
hands were found ''closed' or "shut in."
Eleven is simply the an lif, cone left" of our
Saxon fathers, as was the case after both hands
were closed, and twelve is the contracted form
two lif, 1.-TWO left" After twelve the numer-
ais are simply compounds of ten and the low
er numbers, until we arrive at twenty, which
consists of dual twain, and the word, tig,
meaning ten.
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LIGHT.

LIGHT.
From the uuickened womb of the primal gloom
The sun rolled black and bare,
Till wove him vest for his Ethiop breast,
or the threads Of my golden hair;
And when the broad tent of the armament
Arose on its airy spars,
I penciled the hue of its matchess blue,
And spangled it round with stars.
painted the flowers of the Eden bowers,
And their leaves Of living green,
And mine were the dyes in the slnless eyes
OfEden's virgin queen;
And when the fend's art in the trustful heart
Had fastened its mortal spell,
In the silvery sphere of the first-born tear
To the trembling earth l fell.
When the waves that burst DER world accursed
Their work Of wrath had sped,
And the Arks lone few, tried and true,
Came forth among the dead,
With the wondrous CLEANS of my bridal beams,
I bade their terrors cease, :,
AsIwrote on the roll ofthe storms dark scroll,
Gods covenant of peace
Like pail at rest on senseless breast
Nights funeral shadow slept
Where shepherd swains on the bethienem pla'ns
Their lonely vigils kept;
When flashed on their sight the heralds bright
OF heavens redeeming plsn,
As they chanted the morn or saviour Dorh-
Joy, joy, to the outcast man.
EQUAL favor Ishow to the lofty and low,
On the Just and unjust descend;
Fen the blind, whose vain spheres roll IN dark
ness and tears
Feel INV smile, the best smile of friend.
Nay, the flower Of the waste by my love IS en-
braced,
AS the rose in the garden Of kings;
At the chrysalis bier Of the worm appear,
And 10! the gay butterfly wings.
The desolate morn, like mourner forlorn,
Conceals all the pride OF her charms,
Till bid the bright hours chase the night from
her flowers,
And lead the young day to her arms
And when the gay rover seeks eve lor DIS ioVer
And sinks to her balmy rePose,
wrap the soft rest by the zephyr famed west,
In curtains of amber and rose.
From my sentinel steep by the night brooded
deep
I gaze with unslumbering eye,
When the cynosure star Of the mariner
Is blotted from out the sky;
And guided by me through the merciless sea,
Though sped by the hurricanes wings,
His compassionless, dark, lone, weltering bark,
To the haven home safely ME brings.
I waken the flowers in their dew spangled bowers,
The birds in their chambers Of green,
And mountain and plain glow with beauty again,
AS they bask in their matinal sheen.
O. if such the glad worth Of my presence TO earth,
Though ftful and ieeting the while,
What glories must rest on the home OF the plest,
Ever bright with the Deity's smile.
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READY MADE GLUE.-A good glue ready
for use is made without the application of
heat by dissolvng the glue in common whisky
instead of water. Both are put together in
a bottle, which is then corked tight and allow
ed to stand for three or four days. If pre-
pared in this way, it will keep for years and
always be ready for use, except in extremely
cold weather, when it will be necessary to set
it in warm water before using. A strong So
luton of isinglass made in the same maner is
an excellent cement for leather.
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THE HOUSE ON THE HILL,

Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
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the decision of the supervisors Of registration
any applicant who Is rejected shall have the
right to review thereof by the Circuit Courts,
provided he give notice in writing to the su-
pervisor of such review and the ground there
Of within five days after the day Of rejection,
and institute his proceedings within ten days
after the filing Of such notice.
SEC. q. Any person coming of age, and be-
coming qualified as an electOr, may appear be-
fore the supervisor Of registration on any day
on which the books are opened as aforesaid,
and take oath as to his age and qualifications
as hereinbefore provided, and if the supervisor
find him qualified, he shall enter his name
upon the registration book of the precinct
wherein he resides. Such person shall have
the right to appeal as aforesaid, in case the
supervisor shall not find him qualified Pro-
vided, that in case person shall not be of age
to qualify him as an elector on the day OF the
closing of the books of registration before any
general election, but shall be Of such age as
will qualify him as such elector before the
said general election, and shall appear before
the supervisor of election and take oath there
to, and the supervisor shall find him qualified,
he shall enter his name on the registration
book as aforesaid.
SEC. 10. Each elector registered as afore-
said shall thereupon be furnished by the su-
pervisOr with certificate, which snail con-
tain statement of his age, occupation and
place of residence, as entered in the said reg
istration book, and which certificate shall be
signed by the said supervisor and no person
shall be allowed to vote at any other precinct
than the one for which he is registered, nor un-
less he produces and exhibits to the managers
of election such certificate: Provided, In case
there shall be no election precinct within any
township or parish. the supervisor shall deSlg-
nate in the certificate at which of the neighbor-
ing precints the elector shall vote and In case
there be more than one precinct in any town.
ship or parish, the supervisor shall likewise
designate in the certificate at which OF the
said precincts the elector shall vote. The GER
tificate of registration shall be of the follow
ing form:
Registration Certificate Number -,-Conn:
ty, = Township, Election Precinct -. The
bearer, -, Ia qualified voter in the above pre-
einct,, and resides at -,in - Township or or
vote at said precinct.
Registered on the - day Of --, A. D.,
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with such promises as the orchards
have rarely seen. Corn and cotton
were cut down to a three quarter
crop later in the season; but other
great staples-hay, wheat and the
rest of the grains-had been hope
lessly injured by the same causes
which had checked the growth of
the fruit trees. Later, long dry
spell injured corn, and this, with
other special causes, curtailed the
cotton crop.
This risk has yet to be passed and
in the case of cotton there is the
further danger OF late floods in June
over the lower Mississippi Valley;
but the greatest food crop in the
world-the American wheat crop
is safe, and the other most valuable
product of our soil, hay, is now rea-
sonably secure. The two mean
cheap food for man and beast during
the coming twelve months, cheap
bread and cheap dairy products.
With this condition of affairs here,
added to most favorable crops
abroad, low prices for food are now
certain. The only spot where food
is grown the world over where crops
are not looking well, is in parts of
Australia, land Australia contributes
a mere fragment of the worlds food
supply. 1t is early yet to predict
what the drop in prices will be, but
barring accidents, like a European
war,or drought in July or August,
eighty or elghty-6ve cents will buy
probably as much food during any
day of the last six months in the
year as 81 buys in the six months
now running.
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ADVICE TO CoNsuMTTY Es. On
the appearance of the first symptoms
--aS general debility, loss of appe-
tlte, pallor, chilly sensations, follow
ed by nlght-Sweats and cough
prompt measures for relief should be
taken. Consumption is scrofulous
disease OF the lungs:-therefore use
the great anti-scrofula, or blood pu-
Tliler and strength reStorer, DR..
flerce,s Golden Medical Dissolve
~. Superior to Cod liver oil as a
nutrltive, and unsurpassed as a pee
toral. For weak lungs, splitting,
and kindred affections, it has no
equal. Sold by druggists the world
over. For DIR. Pierce's pamphlet on
Consumption, send two stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, Buffalo, N. Y.
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From the Detroit Free Press.

AbAh tuS DttTolt Tree EFeSS.
Some said he was killed and others
asserted that he was dangerously
hurt, but when the reporter pushed
through the crowd he discovered
that the victim had simply lest a
thumb by the fall of the plank he
was assisting to raise.
1t was his left thumb, and he was
a straw berry peddler and had meas
ured that thumb over 10000 times.
"Poor man ! | see how it is ~
sighed the reporter. "This is a big
loss to you just at the opening of
the berry season."
"Hush Mum is the word ~ the
poor fellow whispered, as he started
for the surgeons. "It was only a
small thumb, anyhow, and for $3.50
| can get an artificial one which
takes up a half pint of room in a
quart measure. It's great gain to
me, sir-a great gain. With the
sympathy of the public and wood
en- thumb with rag around it,
shall make the best season in TWEEN
ty years. Straw-bu-ries--heap the
measure for twen-ty-f-i-v-e cents. y
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Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by
a sense of weight in the back loins
and lower part of the abdomen,
causing the patient to suppose he
has some affection of the kidneys
or neighboring organs. AT times
symptoms of indigestion are pres
ent as fiatulency, uneasiness of the
stomach, etc. a moisture like
perspiration, producing a very
disagreeable itching, particularly
at night after getting warm in bed +,
is very common attendant. In
ternal, External and Itching Piles
yield at once on the application of
DIR. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which
acts directly upon the parts effect
ed, absorbing the tumors, allaying
the intense itching, and effecting
permanent cure where all other
remedies have failed. Do not delay
until the drain on the system pro-
duces permanent disability. but
try il and be cured Price, so cts.
Ask your druggist for it, and when
you cannot obtain it of him, we
will send it, prepaid, on receipt of
price. Address The DIR. Bosanko
Medicine Co., Piqua, Ohio Sold
by G. w. BOWMAN, Druggist,
Martinsburg, w. Va. jun25-ly
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The Filling Market Basket.

The pinch in the price of food for
the last nine months is nearly over.
The advance in all ordinary articles
of consumption has steadily gone on
for six months. 1t has about reach
ed it's highest point, and, for a brief
space, two or three weeks, it is like
ly to remain there. Not until June
will the food supply of the coming
year begin to be felt. Meanwhile,
decreasing supplies and increasing
prices will continue, and the sharp
turn of the screw on the daily eX-
penditures of the household, which
has made it take so much to put so
little in the market basket, will last
awhile longer. Actual suffering
from lack of sustenance has not &C
companied high prices, thanks to a
transportation system which enables
one days work of a laborer to furn-
ish the sum which bring a years
supply of -four from the wheat field;
but the advance has cut sharply into
the margin of free expenditure in
the large middle class which begins
with skilled mechanic and ends with
the tradesman and professional man.
Wages, which left room for some
little expenditure for the comforts
of life in 1881, have had little to
spare after providing it's necessities
during the last year.
Fortunately, cheap food is certain
for year to come after the pinch of
the next four weeks is over. A year
ago the Western herds which give
us our meat supply were third less
in number and a third less in weight
than in customary years. This
spring the herds are a fifth above
the average both in tale and weight.
The great truck farms which stretch
in an almost unbroken line across
the shelving Atlantic seaboard be-
tween the mouths of the Connecticut
and the James, and fill the fat fields
of Southern Ohio and Illinois were
sorry sight year ago. This sea-
son they more than match the prom
Use of prosperous years. A cold
winter, bare ground under heavy
frosts, and a late spring, had cut
down the fruit crop in May, 1881, to
a point which made scant supply
certain. The four fruit months of
the temperate zone, from June to
September, are approaching now
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From Christian at Work.

From Christian at Work.
A large proportion of our girls
who read this will some day love and
marry. 1t is we'll; it is right; but do
not be in hurry to be grown up and
away from home. Life will never
give you anything sweeter, better,
happier. than you have now. No
love purer than your mothers; no
care more kindly than your fathers;
no companionship like that of your
brothers and sisters. Even to the
man who loves you, you win not be
the little Lily who was baby once;
who learned to walk and prattle, and
was prettier than any other baby
ever was; nor the little girl who was
so wonderful genius when she
played her first tune on the piano or
worked her first book-mark. He
who falls in love with you may have
known twenty other pretty girls, and
have been, perhaps, at some time, in
love with half of them. In some
things you will fall short of some
one he has known. Your eyes will
not be so fine as those of Miss Lavi-
ma, and you will never make cake as
his mother does. Here at the old
home you have been perfection; even
if prudence kept your parents from
saying so, they cannot believe any
one quite so nice as "our Lily"
Then linger a litter here, where
some one else shoulders the burdens
and shields you from life's worry;
where the innocent days of child
hood have been passed-and your
frst and best home.
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Birth of the Moon.

At present, no doubt the effect of
the tides in changing the length of
the day is very small, writes Prof
Ball in Nature. A day now is not
apparently longer than day a
hundred years ago. Even in a thou
sand years the change in the length
oil the day is only a fraction of a sec
ond. But the Importance of the
change, slow though it is, lies al
ways in one direction. The day is
continually increasing. In millions
of years the accumulated effect be-
comes not only appreciate but even
of startling magnitude. The change
in the length of the day must involve
corresponding change in the
motion of the moon. This is by no
means obvious. 1t depends upon an
elaborate mathematical theorem. |
cannot attempt to prove this for
you, but think can state the result
so that it can be understood without
the proof. If the moon acts on the
earth and retards the rotation of the
earth, so, conversely, does the earth
react upon the moon The earth is
tormepted by the moon, SO it strives
to drive away its prosecutor. At
present the moon revolves around
the earth at distance of about 240,-
600 miles. The reaction Of the earth
tends to increase that distance and
to force the moon to revolve in an
orbit which is continually getting
larger and larger. Here, then, we
have two remarkable consequences
of the tides which are inseparably
connected. Remember, also, that
we are not enunciating any mere
speculative doctrine.
These results are the inevitable
consequences of the tide. If the.
earth had no seas or oceans, no lakes
or rivers, if it were an absolute rigid
solid throughout it's entire mass
then, these changes would not take
place. The length of the day would
never alter, and the distance of the
moon would only fluctuate between
narrow limits. AS thousands of
years roll on, the length of the day
increases, mile by mile. These
changes are never reversed. 1t is
the old story of the perpetual drop
ping. AS the perpetual dropping
wears away the stone so the perpet
ual action of the tides continues.
To-day is longer than yesterday; yes
terday was longer than the day be-
fore. A million years ago the day
probably contained some minutes
less than our present day of twenty
four hours. Our prospect does not
end here. We at once project our
view back to an incredibly remote
epoch, which was crisis in the his
tory of our system. Let me say at
once that there is great uncertainty
about the date of that crisis. 1t
must have been about 100000
years ago. 1t may have been very
much earlier. This crisis was the
interesting occasion when the moon
was born. | wish | could chronicle
the event with perfect accuracy, but
l cannot be sure of anything except
that it was more than 100000.
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ERIE's EXPERIENCE. -

ERIE's EXPERIENCE - ANOTH-
Err CURE UTTERLY WITHOUT A
PRECEDENT Erie, Pa, Sept. 10th,
1881 DIR. HARTMAN: / cannot
but express my thanks to you for the
great benefit received from the use
of Peruno and MdnGlin. One bot
tie of each placed me squarely on
my feet, after long sickness, which
had laid me in bed and then left me
lame and crippled. Three days. use
of these remedies dispensed with the
cane, and in week was perfectly
well. N. j. WRIGHT,
Business Agt., Erie Euening Herald.
Ask your Druggist for DIR. Hart
mans Book on the ellis of Life"
He will give it gratis. If not, adj
dress DR.. H. at Osborn, o.
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IngersOIi on Immortality

From His Lecture on 'Talmagian Theol.
ogy
There is nothing beyond this life
worse than this life. If | am i'm
mortal, it is a fact in nature. l am
indebted to no priest for it; no priest
can take it away from me, and the
hope of Immortality is founded not
upon any religion, but upon human
affection. The idea of immortality
that, like tide, has ebbed and flow
ed in the human heart, with it's
countless waves of hope and tears
beating against the sands and rocks
of time and fate, was not born of
any book, nor of any creed, nor of
any religion. 1t was born of human
affection, and it will continue to ebb
and flow beneath the clouds of mists
and doubt and darkness as long as
love kisses the lips of death. 1t is
the rainbow of hope shining upon
tears of grief. Around this sturdy
oak of human hope and human vir-
tue have climbed and blossomed the
poisonous vines of priestcraft and
superstition.
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Baby Elephant.

Barnum is oyerjoyed with his ac-
questionable baby elephant-and
declares 100000 could not buy it.
He offers 1000 for an insurance of
the life of the infant for SO weeks.
Surely, if he knew the full value of
Pero3aa and MdndIin, he would do
no such foolish thing, as they are the
most successful protective medicines
that have ever been introduced to
the human family. No one can
take any disease while taking Peruno
before each meal, and keeping the
bowels regular with Manolin. Ask
yor Druggist for the book on the
ellis of Life"
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Hope ON Hope EVER, NO mat
ter what the ailment may be, rheu-
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ma, bronchitis-if other treatment
have failed-hope onl go at once for
Thomas Electric Oil. 1t will Sc
cure you immediate relief. For sale
by E. G. Williams 4 Bro, druggists
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''Oh, | suppose he loves Sarah,
and would be glad to marry her." he
was saying to the woman in the post
Office corridor yesterday; "but | do
not know" "Isn't he a very nice
young man ?'' asked the other.
"Well, he's nice enough, but very
reckless with his money. Christmas
he made us a present of a French
clock for the parlor, and there's not
one of us in the house can speak a
word of French.
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