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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Good Manners.

Perhaps good manners are not good
morals, though the time was when the
words morals and manners amounted TO
pretty much the same thing.
When the New Testament was trans
lated into English, in 1911, it taught its
readers, and still teaches us. that Hevil
communications corrupt good manners. I"
And the revisers of 1880 have left the
good manners to stand, changing only
communications into company. So I
have very high authority for saving that
what am driving at in this letter has
something to do with the basis of char
acter. A bad man may have the hand
soonest manners, the manners of a gem
tleman, and thereby the more thoroughly
fitted to work all manner of mischief
with greediness. He is a hypocrite in
the world, as one who merely pretends
to be q saint is a hypocrite in the
church.
But the beginning, middle, and end of
good manners may be condensed into the
dIylnely given principle of preferring
others to ourselves; denying self for
the happiness OF another ; rendering to
everyone his due, as superior, inferior.
or equal.
If mothers form the manners Of tho
children, they should feel the burden of
responsibility. They may permit the
Unborn waywardness of the child to go
unchecked, while he grows to be pert,
saucy, forward, disagreeable, dreadful
boy. terror to the neighborhood. and a
nuisance to everybody but his doting
mamma. She gives him stick of candy
when a stick of something not so sweet
would do him more good. She coddles
him into curse that by and nv viii
upon her own head. Just as the
twig, etc. Blood is great, and blessed
are they who are well born. But more
than blood, better than pedigree, is cul-
ture.
Train up achild in the way heshould
go. he will 60 in it then. Teach him
to respect those who are older than him
self; to rise up before the aged. lEneas
was pious, because he honored his
father. 1t is long way toward godI-
ness to obey ones parents. And happy
is the parent and happy the child when
love is returned with love.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Making Gold.

The odd thing is that the alchemists
were probably right IN principle, even in
their widest dream. Every fresh adj
vance of chemical science encourages
the belief that the metals, in their
various classes, are really identical as to
ultimate substance-indeed, possibly all
of them together, with. it may be.
the other elements, blend into such com.
mon matter as the scarcely imaginary
hydrogenium, of which hydrogen is the
vapor. DR.. Norman Lockyer's re-
searches with the spectroscope tend to
confirm this unity OF material !; and if il
exists Paracelsus was right, and gold is
merely an allotropic form of other sub
stances. In saying this, however, we
hasten to reassure the Stock Exchange.
by adding that theory would bring
chemists none the nearer to practice in
regard to manufacturing gold by the ton.
The student of science can make palla-
dunn or platinum combine almost mirac-
ulously with hydrogen, and melt gold
In selenic acid but he knows little of
that subtle and unapproachable chem
istry by which the earth's primeval heat
fused and formed, under pressures and
conditions inimitable by us, her gold
and iron, hor salts and crystals. Man
must dig for nuggets and dust still, or
work Tor the shining stuff with hand
or head. The worst that could happen
to shake the great idol on his metallic
throne would be-what is certainly
geologlcally possible the sudden dis
coyery OF mother-nugget1 of gold. a
monstrous centraldeposlt in the cavern
Gus base of some Australian ior Cali
fornian reef, furnishing, say, half a mil
hon tons of specie. That would shake
the market and send silver up, but spec
uIators need not fear science, nor the
modern alchemists.
Meanwhile, if we have not inherited
from the ancient Archimages the uni
versal solvent or the elixir of life. at
least they gave us chemistry. 1t was in
groopang along that dark fantastic road
of wild desires that Roger Bacon discov-
cred gunpowder, Gebir nitric and hydro
chloric acid, Valentine the precipitation
OF iron, and Paracelsus his grand doc
trlne of the unity of visible matter.
Thus does nature teach her children.
With the childish allurements of alchemy
she led them toward chemical truths;
with the superstitions of astrology she
seduced them into the .sublimities of
astronomy. Gold also-the embodiment
OF weaith-is mike manner her go-cart,
as 1t were, or nursery-playth for hui
man1ty. Whileamen traverse lands and
seas and, toll and strive andrsuffer, to
hoard up his yellow shining dross, the
work of effort aud evolution goes briskly
on the, race develops, and the. globes
surface Is exploited. The loving mother
who, by the proffered orange. tempts
her child to walk, does much as nature
does to the human race with this glitter
ing gold London Telegraph.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
A Good Ono

In very mountainous Eastern State,
IN very picturesque region, line Of
railroad was IN operation. It was built
at one point upon the opposite side Of
two mountains, with of course valley
between. A locomotive was stationed
at the summit of each to pull up the
trains In one instance, when a long
passenger train had reached within a
snort distance of the top, the heavy wire
cable broke and away it went, more
rapidly than the imagination of the mar
rator, to the valley and up the other
mountain, a half-mile, like flash, and
the presence of mind of passenger, a
book agent by the way, arrested it from
rushing down the other side. as he
checked it by the brakes. ANYHOW
PACK the train went to the bottom and
again assembled the other side, thus see
saving for the greater part of the day,
before the power Of gravity overcome
the momentum. sEhe ladies shrieked.
but the speed was such that the train
left the sound behind, and the prayers
that We're uttered on the crest of one
mountain were met by the returning
train IN the valley.-Brenhoas hide
pendent
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Appearances of Arsenic Eaters.

Whenever you clap your eyes on a
woman as plump as partridge. with a
milky whlteness of complexion. puffv
eyellds and swollen skin, you've found a
victim of the habit" said physician TO
reporter, in abiding to the growing
use OF arsenic among ladies. s'1f there
Is delicate tinge of red on the cheeks.
don't be deceived. Paint, not Nature. is
responsible for the bloom, made hideous
and CHASTITY by contrast with the corpsey
Wilderness of the rest of the face. The
arsenic eater is seldom downcast or de-
spondent, come what may, for the drug
not only affects the skin, but produces
mental exhilaration. The plumpness
produced by arsenic is not natural
plumpness, but rather dropsical cuadi-
ton of the skin. Cessation of the habit
causes this water-distended skin to col
lapse, and wrinkles and sallowness are
the inevitable results. OF course. no
woman is willing to submit to this ordeal
when it may be prevented. at the mere
sacrifice of health and intellect. by a
continuation of the use of the drug. The
inevitable results of the arsenic habit
are hideous and incurable cutaneous
eruptions, loathsome diseases of the
scalp, falling out of the hair, dropsy,
md oftentimes insanity. But what care
The footlight favorites or the society
belle for those trifiing after-inconven-
ences so long as they can borrow illu-
i've charms and fictitious beauty by the
Use OF the deadly drug?"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
How Nutmegs Grow.

Nutmegs grow on little trees which
look like pear trees, and are generally
not over twenty feet high. The flowers
are very much like the hly-of-the- valley.
They are pale and very fragrant. The
nutmeg is the seed of the fruit, mace is
the thin covering over the seed The
fruit is about as large as a peach.
When ripe it breaks open and shows
little nut inside. The trees grow on the
islands of Asia and tropical America.
They bear fruit for seventy or eighty
years. having ripe fruit upon them all
the seasons. A fine tree in Jamaica has
over 1000 nutmegs on it every wear.
The Dutch used to have all this nutmeg
trade, as they owned the Banda Islands
and conquered all the other traders and
destroyed the trees. To keep the nrice
up they once burned three plies of mt
megs, each of which was as big az a
church. Nature did not symnatI;za
with such meanness. The nntn,eos
pigeon, found in all the Indian Islands
did for the world what the Dutch dater'
mined should not be done-carried tl, -.
nuts, which are their food, into All the
surrounding countries, and trees oraw
again, and the world had the benefit =
Leslie
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Affection in the ROYAL Household.

When the Princess Louisa returned To
Canada and her husband, after an alb
sence of a year or two, the meeting be-
tween her and her husband was affecting
She permitted Lorne to'kiss her hand
Well, if he Is that kind of fellow. who
can be separated from the one he loves
for so long time and then be stood off
with simply kissing her hand, that is all
we want to know.of him. He can't slide
on orr cellar door. The idea OF kissing
her hand What kind of an. ice cream
freezer can he be, and what sort of a
refrigerator is the Princess, for heavens
sake. Ii he was one of our Wisconsin
fellows, and she another, he would have
rushed up to her and put both arms
around her and squeezed her until there
would not have been a whole bone in
her corset, and he would have taken one
look at her blue eyes and seen them
twinkle a couple of twinks, and then he
would have found where she kept her
mouth, without the aid of a grand
or anybody, and he would
have kissed her right before the whole
of Canada, on that steamboat, until she
would have forgotten whether she was
IN Quebec or heaven, and hewould have
hung on until the Princess would swal-
lowed her chewing gum and made up her
mind she would never leave him again
the longest day she lived. -Peck's Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23

L feel the poetic inspiration all aboard.
out somehow my rhymes have to be
powerfully strained. This suppose is
the fault of our language, though pos
slply 1t may be mine, for there are a
power OF folks who swell up and gush.
but are not poets. Maybe that blank
verse Is my forte in the spring of the
year, for they say it is higher type Of
rhapsody and is more esthetic. Blank
verse don't jingle like a jewsharp. but il
elevates man to more ETHEREAL regions
Blank verse has no long meter. nor short
meter, or Is, rs or As, but lust meters
ali along the line, wether its long or
short, like the choir sings in the church
and can trot, pace or gallop through a
sentence and make the tune to 1T il
meter or no meter. Still don't thinR
old people ought to try to write poetry
for they can't get up sufficient eusb
Age knocks the poetry out of a man inst
nke marriage knocks the music and ro-
nance out of q woman. She ouits
Play1n the piano in about two wears and
takes to the sewing -machine. She onits
singing and goes cluckin' and scratch;n,
around. don't like that. It always
makes me sad to see an anxious. care
worn mother, and it would seem like
enough to scare of her own girls from
marry1n, but somehow il don't The
longer man keepsup his boyish FEELINGS
and niiar1fy and plays boss with his little
boys, and the longer q woman can laucb
and frolic and picnic and romp with her |
'hidren, the better for EN-.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
1t Didn't Squeak Again.

Fred MeCabe, the yentriloquist. was
great Joker. Some years ago he was
on the Mississippi, on board one of the
steamboats,, and making the acuuaint-
ance of the engineer, he was allowed
the freedom of the engine-room. He
sat down in a corner, and, drawing his
hat over his eyes, seemed lost In reverie.
In a few minutes certain part of the
machinery began to squeak. The en-
8ineer oiled 1t and went about his bust
ness. In another few minutes the squeak
ing was again heard, and the engineer
rushed over. oil-can in hand, to give the
offending spindle another lubricating.
Again he rushed to his post, and again
the spindle began squeaking louder than
ever. "Jupiter, ".he yelled, ''the darned
things bewitched. More oil was adj
ministered. but the engineer began to
smell rat. Pretty soon the spindle
squeaked again, and Shipping mp behind
McCabe, the engineer poured half a pint
OF oil down the joker's back II guess
that ere spindle won't squeak again. ;,
And it didn't.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
MilitarH Fnisade.

This story is found in the memoirs O
a Prussian officer of distinction He
was at the time On the staff of General
| Wintertield, one of the most skillful anc
competent captains of his day, and Win.
terfield was the general In command al
the time spoken of.
Two soldiers had been condemned to
death. In drunken condition at night
they had assaulted an officer of the line,
and one of them had drawn a knife upon
him, but he could not positively say
which of the twain held it. And the
men themselves did not know. Neither
of them remembered anything about it.
So both of them were condemned to be
shot.
They were both excellent soEliers, and
only one of them had been guilty of using
a weapon
The officers of the division, including
him who had been assaulted, asked that
the men might be pardoned At length
WIuterfield said he would pardon one of
them. Only one had held aSlife, and
only that one ought to die. He would
pardon one, and the men must them
selves decide which of them should be
shot.
How should the decision be made?
LET us shake the Dice" said one of
the condemned
And the other agreed to it. And anon
1T was agreed to by all interested The
two men took their places by the side of
big drum and were to throw the dice
upon its head. Two dice were given
them and proper box for shaking
The first nah threw two SKIES. He
groaned In agony. He felt that he had
consigned his comrade to death.
But when the second man came to-
throw he also threw two skies. ssWon-
derful = cried the lookers-on. They
were ordered to shake and throw again.
This time the second man threw first
two aces. Hot Good You VIII live,
Peter" But when Peter came to throw,
the dice presented those same two aces.
And now the beholders were wonder
stricken, indeed.
Another throw was ordered, and Peter |
threw a. five and o. deuee The other |
threw fye-deuce. After the excite |
ment had again subsidized the men shook |
once more. The first threw two tours. |
" Oh now throw fives and save your
self, Peter" Peter threw-two tours.
AT this point the colonel ordered. them
TO stop. He went and reported the mar
velous result to ,Winterfeld. He said
. Clearly, General, Providence will have /
those two men to be saved.
And saved they were. The general
jared MOTTO oppose the wonderful fate
IF the dice. 1T did seem prosidential,
md so he accepted it.
And the redeemed soldiers lived to
prove that the saving fate had given back
o Prussia two of the very best. and
'ravest of her sons.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

IT Is said that goats are not affected
by nicotine.
A SOLUTION OF chloride of calcium will
not boil under $500.
THE Uranium ofman is to the Uranium
IN woman as 100 to S6.7.
HE temperature of the sun is esti-
mated to be $685. Centigrade.
SAPLISGs of the Australian eucalypt
grows to the height of fifty feet In ten
years.
On STARCH, grape sugar and cane
sugar gastric juice has no perceptible
ORsrrHoIoeIsrs differ entirely on the
question as to whether parrots require
The eldef Pliny states that the num-
per OF stars visible to the naked eve in
MS time was 1000.
1T is said that Paterson, n. j., silk
"eavers have invented a process of
making imitation of sealskin.
OF 200 ounces of healthy human
blood, 7Sl.5 ounces consist of water and
1888 ounces of solid matter.
REsINoUs trees, like the pine. trans
pire twice as much as other trees. and
when they are exposed to moist air,
absorb more water.
SEEDS of the Victoria Reoia had to
be transmitted from America to England
III water, before the first plant was raised
that came to perfection.
PARANFINE dissolved ia naptha Is used
to treat silk and other fabrics. and IL is
said the most delicate hues of
material thus prepared will not be in
lured by ice cream or any foreign sub
stance.
A BOTANICAL work on the flora Scan
dinavia, Greenland and Iceland. is being
published at the expense of the King Of
denmark. The seventeenth volume. to
oe issued IN year, win complete the
series.
HE amount of heat radiated from the
sun is so great that if the earth were a
mass OF coal and could be supplied bv
contract to the solar furnace men. the
s,uppl,yswould last them Just thirty-six
THERE was.at one time exhibited by
Mr. holt, an English merchant. 4 thread
~, 000feet long. spun by twenty two 4
SIX spiders 40 less than two hours. and i
which was five times as fine as the
thread OF the silk worm.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
MAN AND HIS BUTTovs
His Method of Sewing T,
Difficulties Eneonn1on, and fhe

/
New York Graphic
| Did you ever see man In tbo.,.1.,5a
and privacy of his study atteTo-s -,
on button by himself? 1t is n =. III its
| "DETAILS, one OF the most Interest,". ,,er-
tormances IN the world. First he limits
tor button Generally, to secn~s = he
robs Peter to pay Paul, ard cnts rom
another garment. This button nav be
much larger or much smaller tha,, the
size he is wearing. Next he hints a
needle. Probably he goes out and buys
q, paper OF needles. He always chooses
the largestneedles, having an imnrassion
that large needles will sew stronla.a .' tban
small needles. AS to thread. he sets the
coarsest he can find, and this he doubles.
tie would thread his needle. He takes
his big needle In one hand and he coarse
black thread IN the other. He hites off
the thread to desired length. Tben he
tries to twist it to fine point Gener-
ally IN this he succeeds in maxine two.
and sometimes three, fine points ant of
one end. Of course he can't oct all
these fine points through the needless
eye at once. He tries hard to make that
needle and thread get on friendly terms
with each other, but they won't. They
don't want to get acquainted. They do
not wish to have anything to do with
each other. Sometimes it is the needle
that Kicks sometimes the thread Some
tunes he imagines he. has really threaded
his needle. 1t is an ocular delusion.
The thread has missed the needles eye
by half an inch. 1t is harder work than
saving wood. At last the needle is
threaded. Now he tries to sew the but
ton on without taking his trousers off.
This proves a failure He twists HIM
self into an uncomfortable posissoE, and
so would sew. But he can't sew SO.
He runs the needle into himself, aud the
contrary thread always insisting IL foul
ing or in doubling around tine next but
ton. Then one part OF the doubled
thread won't work tremendously with the
other part. One part draws through the
buttons eve first and leaves the other
part behind. Then it gets hitched up,
and the embassador swears. Or the
needle breaks. Aud then he swears.
He may not swear audibly. But the re-
cording angel knows what is going on
inside of him, and debts him with every
item. He sews hard He has forgotten
all about the necessity for thimble
he jams his thumb down on the needles
head and it punctIlres his thumb or runs
under the nail BY and by he sews the
buttons eye full of thread. His big
needle won't pass through any. more.
He must stop. He ends by winding the /
thread as many times as it viii go under
the button And perhaps he leaves off
with two or three inches of thread stick
ing outside. A woman can, through
many. outward indications, tell when
man has been trying to sew on but
ton. He doesn't know the shibboleth of
needle and thread, and it catches some
where every time. At last the button
is sewed ON and he is proud of his work.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
The Fan.

Here is boys composition on fall
This Is fall, because it falls on this sea-
son of the year. Leaves fall, too, as
we'll as Thermometers and the price of
straw hats. Old topers, who sign the
pledge in summer, are liable to fall when
fall cider-making opens, for straws snow
which way the cider goes. Husking
corn is one of the pleasures of fall, but
pleasure isn't good for. boys, J. don't
think. Old men want little fun; let
them husk. A husky old man can 90
through a good deal of corn, sometimes.
Digging taters is another of our fall
amusements. The way like to dig ta-
tiers Is to wait until they are baked
nicely, and then dig them out of their
skins. Most winter schools open in the
fall. The best winter school / went to
didn't open until spring. and the first
day 1T opened the teacher took sick, and
the school house was locked up fer the
season. Once In while we have "a very
severe fall, but nothing like the fall OF
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Summer Is misnamed. 1t should be
called pride, for doesn't pride go before
q fall
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
A Romantic Fnisoda

4 romantic episode In everyday life
has Just come to light IN Dedham. John
Finn resides With his wife and a portion
OF his family II nest cottage. of which
/ he is the owner, located on or. near the
/ boundary line Of Dedham and Boston
/ Here he had lived for Mt least twenty
five years. He had three sons. one of
whom, John, enlisted In the army. dur
ing the ''late unpIeasantness, and was
killed. The other two sons were named
Cornelius and William. Cornelius was
lad of seventeen years of the outbreak
OF the war. He suddenly left town. and
his parents hearing nothing OF his where
abouts concluded that he, too. had en-
listed, especially as during the war they
read of one Cornelius Finn, attached to
New York regiment, being killed. The
family mourned for him as sincerely as
they did for John.
Recently, William went to Colorado to
settle, hoping to better himself. While
seated IN room In the Western portion
OF the State, one afternoon, soon after
MS arrival there, minor entered and
announced to the e,spany present that
Cornelius Finn had opened new mine
William, taken aback somewhat low the
name, said he had had a brother once
vas CO4AAC-luo RIM. lO
which the minor responded by looking
at the stranger and. declaring that he
resembled Cornelius Finn. the miner
and might be his brother subsequently, /
the miner met Cornelius and informed I
him of his encounter with William.
Cornelius became greatly agitated upon /
learning the name of the stranger. and |
that he came from Dadham. and i'm
mediately started for the town.
The meeting was decidedly affecting.
Cornelius at once recognized William as
bis brother. although William. being
Younger, had not so strong a recollec.
hon of Cornelius. Mutual ex planations
followed, and Cornelius related his
wanderings since leaving home. He had |.
gone South in 1861 and entered the
army. At the conclusion of the war he
irifted to Colorado, where he had inter
'sted himself in mining and had he
'ome wealthy. Regarding his neglect
o send letter home, he explained that.
he had read in the papers of the death
# his parents, and had also the report
by John Finn, a former
esident of Dedham, whom he had met
He had abandoned all hope of ever see
ng or hearing from his folks. He at
nee took William with him to his min
ng camp and gave him an important
'osition. His father has received a
heck for 81 ,000.-BOstOn Globe.