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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

ASPIRING beggary is wretchedness it
self.
VENERATE an honest obliquity of IN
Outstanding.
The beggar is the only free man1in
the universe.
DsPRoPoBr1oNED friendships ever ter
inmate in disgust.
LET us draw upon content for the de
ficiencies of fortune.
Coop counsel rejected returns to en-
rich the giver's bosom.
MARRIAGE, is by its best title, monop-
oily, and of the most invidious sort.
RICHES in general are in every coun-
try another name for freedom.
That virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
CHEERFULNEss was never yet pro-
duced by effort which is itself painful.
EPIsroLARY matter usually compriseth
three topics News, sentiment and puns.
The first fault is the child of simple
ity, but every other the offspring OF 1t.
MAN little knows what calamities are
beyond his patience to bear till he tries
them.
MAN is not n creation of pure reason,
Ire must have his senses delightfully."- APP
pealed to.
IL THIS life, it appears that we cannot
be entirely blest, but yet we may be
completely miserable.
THE human species is composed OF
two distinct races, the men who borrow
and the men who lend.
No MAN is so fond of liberty himself as
not TO be DESTROYS of subjecting the will
of some individuals IN society to his
own.
THAT single effort by which we stop
short in the down hill path to perdltlon
is itself greater exertion of virtue than
n hundred acts of justice.
THE honest man, who marries and
| brings up a large family, does more
service than he who continues single
and only talks of population.
AFTER men have travelled through a
few stages in vice, shame forsakes them.
and returns back to wait upon the few
virtues they have still remaining.
NOTHING is more distasteful than that
entire complacency and satisfaction
which beam in the cOuntenance of a
newly married couple-in that of the
lady particularly.
WHAT woman SuOulu demand OF
man in courtship, or after it, is first
respect for her, as she is a woman and
next to that-to be respected by him
above all other women.
The possessor of accumulated wealth,
when furnished with the necessaries and
pleasures of life, has no other method tc
employ the superiority of his fortune,
but in purchasing power.
CEREMONY IS an invention to take of
the uneasy feeling which we derive from
knowing ourselves to be less the object
Of love and esteem with n fellow creature
than some other person Is.
A CHmD's nature is too serious a thing
to admit of its being regarded as a mere
appendage to another being, and to be
hated or loved accordingly; they stand
with me upon their own stock as men Ol
women do.
The consultations of philosophy ar,
very amusing, but often fallacious. j
tells us that life IS filed with comfort,
if we willbut enjoy them; and on the
other hand, that though we unavoidable,
have miseries here, life Is short and the
will soon be over.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

A GENTLEMAN contributes to Nature
the following account of his experience
in India bearing upon the question
whether ants produce sounds or not I:
" Whilst lying awake early one morning
b. fore the servants were stirring, when
camped in the Deccan, at the present
small station of Chota or Chick-Soogo r,
on the e. l. p Railway, during the win
ter 1860, heard a sound repeated at
intervals of about a second. 1t sounded
as though the wall of the tent was being
struck by a light fringe along one SIDE;
but noticing that the air was perfectly
still. | listened for some minutes wonder
ing what 1t was and trying 10 fix the 10
calty ! got ont of bed cautiously and
looked out; the whole OF one side Of the
tent. for n height of two feet, was covered
with white ants so thickly. that at the first
glance ! thought the wall was covered
with a gray-reddish mud TO this height
The noise ceased suddenly as soon as the
ants seemed to become aware of the
writer's presence, and in a few minutes
they had all disappeared. The impress
sion produced was that they had all been
striking the tent wall at the same time
with their heads.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
The Development of Taste.

In the natural growth of the world,
taste has been rapidly developed. and
the people of all nations are now produce
ing each its own peculiar and wonderful
treasures. Who can remember or de-
scribe them? Who can tell the extent
of the riches or the beauty of the golden,
ieweled ornaments now admired and
worn by thousand million people !?
What pen can describe all that is seen
in cultivated gardens and parks adorned
with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers E?
Where can we learn, in books or else
where, the names of all that is beautiful
that blossoms from the whole earth all
that is beautiful that the brush produces
on canvas; all that the weaver's shuttle
and loom produce; all that the skilled
hands of the carver on wood, stone, and
marble produce all that the combined
colors of the rainbow have produced, as
shown in fabrics, of silk and satin, and
cotton and wool all that is beautiful in
architecture, and in the adornments of
the worlds most renowned cathedrals,
and beautiful in all its famous kingly
palaces? But life is too short to search
out and see all that is beautiful. We
can only get a glimpse, now and then,
at some of the world greatest treasures.
The most favored season for such sight
seeing is Christmas.-Ihe Independent
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
Useless Expenditure.

While every girl and woman should
Justly take pride in her own adorn-
ment and that Of the home, she should
use her own judgment and not buy Just
because thing is cheap. Get what you
need, and before buying think whether
you really need the article. 1t is prob
ably pretty trife in dress, in furniture /;
but what solid benefit will 1t be to you
Or 1t Is some luxury for the table, that
you can as well do without. Think,
therefore, before you spend your money.
Or you need new carpet, new sofa, new
chairs, new bedstead, or new dress you
are tempted to buy something little
handsomer than you had intended, and
while you hesitate the dealer says to
you, It's only a trife more, and see
how far prettier it is" But before you
purchase, stop to think. Will you be
the better year hence, much less In old
age, Tor having squandered your money?
Is IL not wiser 70 clay by something Tor
rainy day 2" All these luxuries crafty
you only for the moment you soon tire
OF them, and their only permanent effect
Is 70 consume your means.
1t is by such little extravagances, not
much separately, but ruinous IN the ag..
gregate, that the great majority OF
IA, are kept comparatively poor.
Inc nrst lesson to learn is todeny your
sell useless expenses and the first step
toward learning this lesson is to think
Deiore you snAld.- ChTjsttGn az WORK.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

IN THE reports on American and foreign
patents relating to chemistry, published
in the Proceedings of the American
Chemical Society, we find the following
inventions mentioned: A method OF
making articles from waste amber by
treating the pieces with solvents and sub
iecting them to pressure; a process of
obtaining the perfumes of natural flow
ers by absorption, the flowers being
stepped in vaseline which takes up the
essential oils and is thus transformed
into perfume; a new fuel consisting of
coal-dust ground with lime and formed
while moist into masses of convenient
size and shape; an Illuminating oil made
up of petroleum and small portion of
chloroform; and a plastic mass called
tripolith, which is substitute for plaster
OF Paris and is said to have advantages
over that substance, presumably for the
use Of sculptors.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
What a Woman Can DO.

AS a wife and mother, woman can
make the fortune and happiness of her
husband and children; and, if she did
nothing else, surely this would be suffi.
Client destiny. BY her thrift, prudence.
ana tact, she can secure to her partner
ana TO herself competence in old age.
no matter how small their beginning, OF
now adverse fate may be theirs. By
ner cheertulness she can restore her hus.
Dands spirit, shaken by, the anxiety of
business. BY her tender care she can
often restore him to health, if disease
mas overtasked his powers. By her
counsel and love she can win him from
bad company, if temptation in an evil
hour has led him astray. By her exam
pie, her precepts, and hel sex's insight
INTO character, she can mould her child
rem, however adverse their dispositions.
INTO noble men and women. And, by
leading In all thing true and beautiful
lie, she can refine, elevate, and spiritu.
allze all who come within reach so that,
with others of her sex emulating and as
slstlng her, she can do more to regener-
ate the world than all the statesmen OF
reformers that ever legislated.
She can do much, alas perhaps more.
TO degrade man If she chooses to do it.
Who can estimate the evils that woman
has the power to do? AS wife can she
ruin herself by extravaganza, folly, or
want of affection. She can make de-
mon or an outcast of man who might
otherwise become a good member Of So
ciety. She can bring pickering, strife.
and dlscord into what has been a happy
home. She can change the innocent
babes INTO vile men and even into vile
women. She can lower the moral tone
of society itself, and thus pollute legis-
lation al the spring head. She can, in
fine, become an instrument of evil in
stead of an angel of good.
Instead of making flowers of truth,
purity, beauty and spirituality spring up
in her footsteps, till the earth smiles
with a loneliness that is almost celestial
she can transform it to black and arid
desert, covered with the scorn of all evi
passion and swept by the bitter blast OF
everlasting death. This is what woman
can do for the wrong as well as for the
right. Is her mission little one? Has
she no worthy work, as has become the
cry of late? Man may have a harder
task to perform, a rougherroad 10 travel
but he has none loftier or more infuen
tial than woman's.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
Why Some Farmers DO Not Succeed.

why DOuC IdIIueIs 10 NOT succeed
They are not active and industrious.
They are slothful in everything.
They do not keep up with improve
ments.
They are welded to old methods.
They give no attention to details.
They think small things not important.
They take no pleasure in their work.
They regard labor as a misfortune.
They weigh and measure stingily.
They are wasteful and improvident.
They are fretful and inpatient.
They ruin stock by low fencing.
They let their gates sag and fall down.
They will not make compost.
They let their fowls roost in the trees.
They have no shelter for stock.
They do not curry their horses.
They leave their plows in the field.
They hang their harness in the dust.
They put off greasing the wagon.
They starve the calf and milk the COW.
They go to town without business.
They are penny wise and pound foolish.
They don't know the best is the
cheapest.
They have no method or system.
They go out too often to ''see q man. "
They see no good in new thing.
They never use paint on the farm.
They plant very late in the spring.
They stack fodder in the field.
They prop the barn door with rail.
They let the clothes dry on the fence.
They let the hoops fall from the tub.
They neglect to trim up the trees.
They have no shelter for wood.
They milk the cows late in the dav.
They have no time to do things we'll.
They have no garden in the fall.
They see no use in variety.
They see no difference in seeds
Southern Farmers MonthLu.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William J COughIn, o. 60mfrVIIIH Mass.i haYst IN
,, fl Of 1876 taken with HIEEDISG LUSGs,
followed by cough. lost my appetite and
essh and was confined my bed. In 1877 was adj
nfed to the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
my ling as big as n half dollar. At time report
vent around that I dead. gave up hope, bnt a
friend told me Of DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BAISAM
FOR THE LUNGS. ! got bottle when, 10 my surprise,
commenced feel better, and to-day feel better than
for three years past. write this hoping every AZ
acted with Diseased Lungs will take DR.. WILLIAM
HALLS BALSAN, and be convinced that CONsUMP
TIoNCAN BE CURED. can positively say it has dons
more good than all the other medicines 7 have taker
ne nav sickness
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

Mrs. VIM D. RYcKMAN, st. GATHERINGS, Ont,
says: ar. V. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y: / have
used your 'Favorite Prescription Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pnrgatlve
Pellets for the last three months and find
mvself-(Ehat shall I say made heto again
are the only words that express it. l was re-
duced to skeleton could not walk across the
floor without fainting could keep nothing IN
the shape of food on my stomach Myself and
friends bad given mp all hope, my immediate
death seemed certain. l now live TO the sur
prise of everybody and am able to do my own
work
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

THE witty DR.. South, when preaching
before Charles IL, saw that the King
and his attendants were disposing them
selves to sleep, when, pausing in his
sermon, he said Lord Lauderdale,
let me entreat you to rouse yourself /;
you snore SO loud that you will awake
the King"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

FoR dyspepsia, Indigestion, depression o.
spirits and general debility in their various
FORMS also as a preventive against fever aud
ague and other intermittent fevers. the FERItc
PgosPHoRArED EIIXIK OF CALIsAYA BARK, made
bv CssueIl. Hazard & Co., New York, and sold
BIZ all druggists, is the best tonic and FOR pa
tents recovering from fever or other sickness
II has no equal.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

DAD manners disgraced the King of
Sweden. "At supper" says Miss
Knight, "his Majesty was seen to scratch
his head with his fork, and also with his
knife and afterwards go on eating with
them" But there is this to say: A real
blue-blooded King would never rake his
head with his forefnger, and a nine-carat
diamond
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
nrArTN,. pIANOFORTEs -Magnlfc.

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bansr roind corners rosewood cases three unisons.
Batty natchless iron frames STOOL book cover boxes
S;lIS Is 1927 so; catalogue prices $500 TO $1,000
wears use; UprighI PianOforte- Sl25 to $3.50 cain-
Ie ues $500 10 $500 standard pianofores OF the uni-
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

AFrER all the arguments about cheapness
and quality it appears that DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup is the best remedy for the cure OF Coughs
and Colds ever offered to the public. The price
is only IS cents bottle and every druggist in
the land sells and recommends it.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send their Electro-Yolt ic Belts and other
Electric Appliances on trial for thirty DAYS to
any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality. and kindred troubles, guarantee
ing complete restoration Of vigor and manhood.
Address as above without delay.
Ps.-No risk is incurred, thirty days
trial is allowed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

"WHY were you not at church last
Sunday, Clara p asked Amelia clara
81 couldn't; didn't have anything to
wear. 1 shall go next Sunday If my
sack is done" Amelia" Oh, Won sack
religious thing p
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

We md no record Of caI5IuH VHPoII
ments to test the relative value OF TWO
woods extensively used in some parts OF
our country, viz, cottonwood and rose,
wood or linden. The hickory named
above is what Is known IS the sheii-oark
hickory (Cerya alba. The pig-nut
hickory (CarYa porcina) Is OF nearly J,
equal value. The western hickory
(Carya SUicata) weighs about =? per
cent less than the shell-bark, ana ITS re-
iatlye value per cord is estimated Mt
81. %, or the same as white oak
American Agric,It,rist
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
Voice NJ the PeonIe.

II. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, n. Y.
/ had serious disease of the lungs, and WAS
for q time confined to my bed and under the
care of physician. His prescriptions did not
help me- l grew worse, coughing very Sc
vereIy. 1 commenced taking your " Golden
Medical Discovery" and it cured me. Yours
respectfully.
JUDITH BURNETT. Hillsdale. Mich
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

THE French believe that if branch of
mistletoe is hung in tree with the wing
of a swallow the birds will fly to it from
distance of two leagues.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
unaue.t,onnhI. Gratitude.

WARREN, ONO, July 80, 1881.
II. n. WARNER & Co.: Sirs-Your Safe Kic-
oey and Liver Cure has relieved me of severe
kidney difficulty which caused me much trouble
and suffering, P. W. SUTIIFP.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

PIERcE's "Pleasant Purgatfve Pellets " are
perfect preventives OF constipation. Enclosed
In glass bottles, always fresh. By all druggists.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

TAKE Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound four times per day and you will have nc
doctors bills to pay.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

THE texture of the bone of the lions
r l-g is so compact that that the SUBJ
Il e styikes fire with steel.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27

Relative value of cord OF various sea
soned woods, taking into account weight,
heating power. etc, and calling hickory
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-19
safalgE's SALE or NEAL ESTATE.

!3T VIRTUE OF A DECREE AID AN EXECU-
ID ton Issued oi the Circuit Court OF the State oi
Oregon for Een:on county, III favor Of George Robin
son, ilati, aid against j. L. Grsail ard X. l.. Bird
sal. DEFENDANTS, dated April l2th 1852, and to
directed, to,lIua:dDg to sell the premises de-
stE bed in shd execution, to-Hit:
Beginning at stake the left bank pf the v il
la!ette river, thence South fit five rods to the y f.
corner OF Claim No, 45. ID, 4 ) West thence
ost is % chains thence North 10 81 claims; thence
East ~ Dig 10 10 CT chains to the left bank OF
tie willamette river; thence with the naeanderings
OF sa.d river &c the place CT beginning containing
IL 80 200 acres i1ore or less, lying and being situated
III Benton county, State OF Oregon, according to
Jaw, te sitisIy the ulis of money mentioned in
said execution, towt: S29s 5i0J with interest at ten
Fer cent per alnum from March 2ath, 1852, and
SIS 4e!09 costa, and accraing costs and EXPENSES OF
5aie, will, cn TIE
20th DAY OF NAY 1882.
At the Court House door, in the town c: Corvallis,
ioctoa cou:ly, 'r-.eorl, between the hours OF nike
4. NJ and :olr 2. Nj, viz az o'clock OF said day,
Ill proceed to sell the abUTe described property
plbic auction 10 the highest bidder, ior cash IN hand,
ID satisfy said oi money and a2cTuing costs
and expenses OF saie SOL. KING, Sher,f
Dated tl:is 18th day Of April 1882. iS-l7w5
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-19
Sheriff Attached. aSs

The East Oregouiaas, of Pendleton,
in giving an account of recent at
tempt OF prisoners to break Jail there
says: Near supper time, Robert Sar-
gent, the Deputy Sheriff of Umatilla,
county, unlocked the rude doors Of
the Jail building and entered. He was
hardly inside before he was jumped
npon by an imprisoned soldier bear
ing the name of Gracy. Bob very
rapidly shook the fellow off and with
the butt Of his pistol gave the villain
blow over the head that cut him Sc
verciy, and fred one shot at his re-
treating figure which missed. Gracy
had arranged mate with the others
that they would push Sargent within
lock the door on him, and all escape.
But the rapid movements of Bob
Sargent aud his licks well put in, sav-
ed Uma,illa County a great expense
attached TO recapture. Emmersou
confined in the Jail, deserves some
credit for his prompt action in giving
the alarm. This man Grac y ls. per-
haps, the most desperate man ever
confined in our Jail. He and his CON-
rade, Lawson, were brought IN from
Cmaiiila some weeks ago. and gave,
indications Of their "cussedness."
Glacy cut his chains off once at Una.
tilla, and attempted to cut them off
again at Prospect on the way hone;
but was discovered, and the attempt
was frustrated. Lawson also made
an Intellectual attempt to cut his off.
Their guards anticipated trouble With
them on the road and believe that It
was prevenied only by binding Gra-
cey's arms behind his back Their
career in Jail has been notorious ono
They cut the door hinges off once,
and have cut the shackles Of them
selves as fast as the Sheriff could puTt'
item on, Now they have capped the
climax by this attack OH Bob Sar--
geat.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-19
The Wheat CroDs,

The difference in the condition Of
Winter sown wheat and tkat sown'
in the Fall and Summer-falfowed land
ia surprising. The .atter is strong,'
thrifty and well advanced, while the
former ls generally more backward
than usual. Probably the advantages
of early sowing were never more ap-
parent than at the present time. Some
of the latest sown grain appears to be
as far advanced and even in better
condition than that sown in the mid
die of Winter. On the early seeded
fields the young plants had become
well rooted before the coldest wealth.
Or set in, and, being stocky and
strong and having had the benefit Of
the entire rainfall, were ready for q
vigorous start early in tho spring.
The harvest this year promises to be
more prolonged than usual. The crops
in Summer allowed fields will, as =
general thing, be ready for the reap
ers several weeks before those sown'
later en- lands plowed during the
winter months. The fact that tho
Summer-tallow'ne process is by far
the best method Of wheat culture in
the San Jo"qnin valley, is conclusive
ly demonstrated by the condition of
the crops at the present time.-Stock-
ten Herald