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1t was a soft and balmy night in
spring, the burning sunset was hanging
its golden tapestries across the mellow
west, and the electric light was Just be-
ginning to fizz and spit along the main
streets when Elder Snoozer was sitting
In the elegant boudoir of Widow Smith,
whose rich brown eyes aud desirable
real estate penetrated the bachelors in
most thoughts.
Can you, Sarah, " he said, throwing
his enormous hand upon her shoulder,
on the further side, ''come to my home
in the Second ward, where I viii be
your slave
VIII that squint-eyed first wife of
yours be made to stand around when I
come ?"
"When your dulcet voice sounds
through the ancestral halls Hannah viii
get TO the coal-bin. She viii have about
five hours of sleep a day and work for
you the balance of the time"
inside of the week they passed through
the Endowment House where Elder
Wells made them one. Old Snoozer
took in a fiue piece of real estate with a
good-looking woman, and was happy.
Two years passed, and the once bcauti-
full Sarah, bending over the washtub
and lamming the endowment robe of the
third wife viciously against a tree until
the suds falling over the tender flowers
gave them new life in the hot July sun,
is the soft picture the passing bull
whacker contemplates.
"How do you like the new deal
asks the first wife, who is chopp1ng
wood hard by. And the language of
wife No. is not fit to print in family
newspaper. SAT- Lake Tribune.
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Clothes.

A German writer says that lone of
mans principal defensive weapons in
his struggle for existence Is his clothing
The place it takes In the history of civ
ilization and its connection with physiol-
ogy are not often thought of. Its spok-
en- of from q moral and esthetic point of
view; its main purspose is purely
hygenic one." There Is much truth in
this. The seeds of grave disorders and
chronic illness are frequently sown
through the neglect of well-known prin-
ciples in regard to clothing. AS Carlyle
says, "within the most starched crayat
there passes o windpipe, and under the
thickest embroidered waistcoat there
beats . heart" and all these organs, as
well az others which Carlyle does not
name, need to be protected by clothing.
Clothes do not make men, although
some persons dress as If they did. There
are those who are nothing more or less
than clothes screens Clothes are not,
as some suppose, for the purpose OF
keeping the cold from us, for, in truth,
we could not bear garments which did
not allow of continual ventilation OF
our surfaces. It is not the densest,
thickest or heaviest material that we
need in cold weather. 1t Is OF compar-
itively little use in these days to call out
for an utter emancipation from fashion
-perhaps such an emancipation might
not be altogether wise if it could be
effected: but where custom is tyrannlcal
there the man or woman who has care
for health and comfort should be above
the custom
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What Shall Girls Dot

An esteemed young reader of the
Times sends some reflections concerning
the education of girls which are in some
respects worthy of attention. Anything
concerning girls is always interesting
particularly to young men. Our esteem
ed young correspondent doesn't seem to
be satisfied with the way in which girls
are brought up. Being a manageable
young man he has looked over his
acquaintances to find one whom he
knows to be a practical housekeeper,
but thus far, he says, he has looked IN
vain. He knows great many who can
play the piano and assume to speak sew
eral languages, but not one who can
make loaf of bread or broil beefsteak
properly.
1t is probable that this young man
tells the exact truth. 1t requires much
more skill and intelligence to make n
loaf of bread and properly broil beef
steak than is generally undertood
Either is very difficult undertaking,
although many girls who do cooking
after fashion regard it as O matter of
no account, except that the work may
unpleasantly affect the complexion
Such girls do not know when steak is
properly cooked; it Is doubtful If they
would know when much of anything
is properly done. Perhaps they can
make themselves agreeable in the parlor,
and that is very nice thing, but wife
needs some other qualifications.
There are girls, however, and a great
many of them, who know how to make
bread and broil beefsteak and do in a
thoroughly skillful way the thousand
things required of the pefect housewife.
Our young reader should try and extend
his acquaintance TO include some of
these. There are not as many of them
as there should be, but that is not so
much the fault of the girls as it is of
those who have had the responsibility of
their education. The scarcity of those
accomplished In the science of house.
keeping makes them all the more valu-
able, but there Is abundant room for the
spread of that kind of education.
Every man isn't seeking skilled
housekeeper for q wife, however, and
many young women cultivate taste for
idleness and ease with view to living
up to a husbands wealth. There is
more disappointment than happiness in
this. Every woman who undertakes
the duties Of home should know how to
direct those who do her work, if she do
none of the work herself. We agree
with much that our young correspondent
says.-PhitadeLphia Times.
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Rnralo Bill's TraiI.

The writer of this little story once
met {" Buffalo Bill " on the streets of San
Francisco, and the hospitable scout ex-
tended an invitation to the scribe to call
and see him next day at the Palace Hotel.
"Where are your rooms In that cara
vansary ?" inquired the newspaper man.
The hirsute William replied: "Well,
Won skip In on the lower level until you
come to the shaft (meaning the elevator)
thar Won get in the bucket and go up to
tbe third level trail out along the south
drift for about two hundred feet, and
then turn into the first little canyon on
vour right in thar at the fourth door,
against the breast, you'll find us"
The writer, on the next day, followed
the blazed road and found the great
scout in a sea of trouble about what to
do with nearly seventy-ive manuscript
alleged plays, which parties had sent
him to read, as being just the thing for
his style. He was glad of the relief
which the visitor brought, for he dumped
all the plays behind a trunk and rang
the bell for creature comforts. Denver
Hello.
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Extranag.nt Charges Of ph1sIcians.

Some time since widow lady of our
acquaintance in Philadelphia, without q
family. died in this city at the extreme
age of ninety-three years. Although
she lived in plain circumstances, she was
generally known to possess considerable
wealth. In the settlement of her estate
two physicians, who attended her last,
though not long, illness, presented to
the auditor q bill for their services of
$500, the one-fourth of which was
claimed for post naorten1 examination
made without the request or even the
knowledge of the relatives of the de-
ceased. When this item was announced
one of the heirs inquired whether the
examination was made to ascertain why
the old lady lived so long, or why she
died so soon. The point and propriety
of the question were at once seen by the
parties to whom it was addressed, and
led to their manifest embarrassment;
but, rather than a suit at law should fol-
low, the objection to the extraordinary
claim was not pressed and the unjust
charge was allowed.
There is a growing tendency in the
medical profession to demand extrava-
giant and unjustifable remuneration from
patients, especially if they are under
stood to be able to make the exacted
compensation. - Philadelphia Record.
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The Palm Tree.

There are districts of Tinnevelly, in
Southern India, where the soil is so dry
and sandy that it Is surprising anything
viii grow. Yet where this powdery red
sand prevails for miles we have walked
through plantations of the stately
Palmyra palm, the great stems rising 10
an immense height, and the trees in the
most vigorous health. Here, as else
where, the sap flows most freely at the
hottest time of the year, and when the
soil is without vegetation and almost
without substance, when the only shade
is that cast by these branchless trees from
their narrow crowns of leaves, when the
only clouds are clouds of dust, when
the streams are dry and the wells are ex-
hausted. and the largest rivers are
only beds of glowing sand, " there is the
singular spectacle of these stately trees
flowing continually with their fountains
of sweet water. How is it possible? we
often asked. Bishop Caldwell, whose
house lies close to such desert, tried to
answer that question for himself. He
dug into the ground to observe the
course of the roots, but as deep as he
dug the thread-like roots of the palm
burrowed deeper" until at last, "when
forty feet below the surface he came
upon water" and here the roots, drink
ing in the refreshing moisture, pene-
trated even further among gravel and
stones. and he could follow them no more.
The riddle was solved and any one may
feel what new beauty it gives to the
comparison here. The roots of the
Christian life sink down into the living
waters. They are fed from the peren-
NAL fountains of the Spirit far out of
that life. and all the influences that flow
from il. do not depend on what we see,
for the soil where such a life grows is
often spiritually barren, but they depend
upon the roots striking down among the
living waters. Good Words.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mrss1ssrrpI has las Indians.

In 1875 sixty tons of human hair were
exported from China to Europe.
AN OSTRICH egg is considered equiva-
lent to twenty-four eggs of the domestic
hen.
In JAVA an inferior must walk with
his hands on his heels until his superior
is out of sight.
CHAPMAN says that the Bushmen oi
South Africa thought his big wagon was
the mother of his small one.
| The consumption of rails, for renewals
alone, amounts to half million of tons
annually In the United States railroads.
MOUNDS have been found in the Pyre-
nees as dIstinct in their resemblance to
animal forms as any American mounds.
THE national library of Mexico is re-
ported to be In a deplorable state, thOus-
ands of books lying about in confusion.
A COMPLETE set of:.papier-mache furn-
iture inlaid with mother-of- pearl was
made few years ago for the Queen Of
Spain.
WHALES have been recently seen on
the Georgia coast, and have become so
bold that they even enter inland
streams.
THE pine needles of the Silesian for
ests have been converted into forest
wool, which, besides being etficacious IN
cases of rheumatism, can be cured,
felted and woven.
A FRENCH insane woman had a deep
affection for pins and made them part
of her daily diet After her death 400
or 1900 hundred were removed from
different parts of her body.
A MAN weighs about forty times
as much as the newborn infant. The
caterpillar of the silk-worm, when fully
developed, is seventy thousand times
heavier than when 1t came from an
egg.
In soME parts of Germany a curious
custom exists. The peasantry who pos
sess bit of land, however small, never
enter church without having nosegay
in their hand. They thus show that
they claim the consideration due those
who possess some property IN the
parish.
The megapod of the East Indies
builds an artificialImound in which its
eggs are deposited to be hatched The
mounds are sometimes fourteen feet
high, with a circumference of $50 feet,
and the decay of the vegetable matter
of which they are composed produces
an artificial warmth sufficient TO hatch
the eggs.
In GERMANY, during the slippery sea
son, temporary cal<s are used for horse
shoes. Two sharp pointed studs an
inch long are screwed into holes left IN
the shoe. And when the horse enters |
the stabI> they are taken out and a but |
ton sosewed into their place, thereby |
presenting all damage to the horse and |
t<epinR the screw holes from filling.
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The Ronse Of Romanofr.

The Romanoffs rather pride themselves
on the antiquity of their family-tree,
claiming that it is known to have been
planted by Lithuanian prince In the
fourth century 1t is certain, however,
that the family did not make their ap-
pearance in Russia until the fourteenth
century. In the year 1341, Andrew
Kobyla emigrated from Prussia to Mos
COW, and entered the service OF the
Grand Duke Simeon the Fierce. The
descendants of Kobyla held high posi-
tions, and the fifth in direct descent
from him was Roman Jurievitch, who
died In 1913, leaving son, Nlklta
Romanovitch Jurief, who by his mar
riage with the Princess of Susdal Ca
direct descendant from . brother OF st.
Alexander Neyskoi), who was allied to
the royal race of Rurik; and daughter
who became Czarina by her marriage
with Ivan the Terrible. Nikita was one
of the regency during the minority OF
Feodor L and his eldest son, Feodor,
under the name of Philarete, was
elevated to the rank of Archimandrlte
and Metropolitan during the reign of
the false Dimitri. The Romanoffs sup
ported the party that rendered the Rus
sian crown to the Polish prince, and
Philarete had gone with that view to
Poland, when the opposition became so
violent as to change entirely the state OF
affairs, and the Poles imprisoned
Philarete. The national party then pro-
ceeded to the election of o native sover-
eign, who should be as closely allied as
possible by blood to the race of Rurik,
and after much hesitation and many re-
jections, they selected Michael Feodoro-
witch Romanoff the son of Philarete
and the representative, through his
grandmother, of the royal house of
Rurik. The following is a list of the
Czars and Emperors of Russia from that
time to the present. Czar Peter /. was
the first ruler who adopted, In the year
1921, the title of Emperor:
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Dox P1Arr is not satisfied with this

DoN PIArr is not satisfied with this
life we all live. He says: "Happyi A
more miserable, soulless, non-intellectual
people never existed. We live in ball
rooms and board on the streets. ALI the
sweets of domestic life, all that sweet
content the sage in meditation found,
all the real graces of love aud beauty, Of
a quiet life, are denied u.s." Life is
somewhat feverish, going on under the
pressure of steam and with the speed Of
electricity-but it is not the dismal thing
Piatt paints it to be. The difference be-
tween now and then Is this: Then they
stood by and looked at the flowers, and
simpered over them; now we pluck the
roses OF content as we run, and enjoy
them as keenly as those who, In times
past, leisurely fingered over them.
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A strawberry Patch in a Barrel.

Persons who live in cities, and only
have small yard where the sun shines,
can have nice berries enough for family
use without being troubled by weeds.
Take hogshead, or cask, and commence
six inches from the bottom, and with
two-inch augur bore it full of holes six
inches apart. Then fill up by degrees
with rich dirt, and as you fill up set a
strawberry root in the dirt, with the
crown or leaves out of the augur hole,
and when it is filed to the top you can
oct row around the top; but leave
hollow in the center, so that when you
wish you can pour in soapsuds or liquid
manure, so that you can force them to
grow very large, and they viii be nice
and clean. 1t would be more durable to
have two or three iron hoops on the
hogshead. Parsley can be raised the
same way. The above is more useful
than q rustic stump in the yard. .-Fdrna-
ing World.
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\ Isomnnco i'm Two Chaptcrs.

Chapter 1.-The first time George and
Mary met was al Mrs. Dixon's garden
party at Putney. An old gentleman
was f1sfl1ng. All she said was: q he
doesn't seem to be catching any fish. y
George only answered ''True happi-
ness lies in anticipation She thought
he must have an original mind and Sc
cretly loved him. Chapter II.-Their
next meeting was at the same place, un-
der the same circumstances, The same
old gentleman was fishing. "He doesn't
seem to be catching any fish," said
George. "True happiness lies in an
ticipation," said Mary. "What an
original mind r' thought George, and he
fell in love with her. They are now
married. Punch.
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Fisk,s Sunerb Bar.Room.

Thesplans with enough money on hand
to pay for drink sometimes drop into
the magnificent bar-room fitted up by
Ed. Stokes, of Jim Fisk antecedents. 1t
is by long odds the most elaborate place
of its kind in New York, and it may be
doubted If there is another equal to it in
the world. The room is about fifty feet
square, with the bar in the middle.
This arrangements give the bar two sides
instead Of one. The floor is covered with
carpeting fit for the best drawing-room
on Fifth avenue, rich but not bright In
color and SO thick that no football can be
heard. All the woodwork-bar chairs,
tables. etc.-is solid mahogany, richly
carved and giving a certain tone that no
other kind of wood imparts. When
lighted up by magnificent crystal
chandeliers the effect is superb. Heavy
draperles and enormous tropical plants
add to the richness of the whole.
The walls contain several paintings,
of no particular merit, and some pieces
of statuary of very decided merit, stand
near the bar. One is a splendid marble
figure, LIE size, resembling the figure
known as California in the Metro
politan Museum collection. Another is
in bronze and has for its subject an erect
female figure, nude, like the one in
marble, with the head of a satyr grin
ming over her shoulder. There are other
striking pieces, but these two are notably
so. Many of the regular frequenters of
the place are sporting men and stock
brokers. A Wall street firm has an Office
at one end of the room, and the sound
Of the ticker Is heard all day.-Neto York
Letter an the Hartford Times.
rrs said fbot r;44;D booo,o,
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

When
Sun comes, moon comes,
Time slips away.
Sun sets, moon sets,
Love, fix day.
year hence, year hence
We shall both be gray,
month hence, month hence
Far, far away.
A week hence, a week hence,
All, the long delay,
Wait little, wait little,
You shall fix day.
Tomorrow, love, tomorrow,
Aud that's an age away,
B.aze upon her window, sun,
And honor all the day.
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A SECOND THANAToPsEs.
Br nrcHAnD HxSHr sroDDAnD.

Not what We would, but what we must,
Makes up the sum OF living;
Heaven is both more and less than Just
In taking and In giving.
Swords cleave TO hands thai sought the plow,
And iaurels miss The soldiers brow.
Me, whom the city holds, whose feet
Have worn its stony highwaya
Familiar with its loneliesf street-
Its ways are never my ways
Ny cradle wzs beside the sea,
And there, hope, my grave VIII be.
Old homesteadi In that old, gray town,
Thesvane as seaward blowing,
Thy slip Of garden stretches down
To where the tide In flowing;
Below they lie, their sails are furled,
The ships that go about the world
Dearer that little country house,
Inland, with pines beside 1t;
Some peach trees, with unfruitfui 6oughs
well, with weeds TO hide II:
No flowers, or only such A. rise
self-sown, poor things, which AL despise- ~
Dear country homei Gan forget
The least Of thy sweet trines7
The window vines that Chamber yet,
Whose blooms the bee still rines7
The roadside blackberries, growing ripe,
And in the woods the Indian Piper
Happy the man wao tns his field,
Content with rustic labor;
Earth does to him her fullness yield,
Hap what may TO his neighbor.
We'll days, sound rights, Oh, can there be
life more rational and free?
Dear country life Of child or mani
For both the best, the strongest,
That with the earliest race began,
And has outliyed the longest.
Their cities p rished long ago
Who the FIRST farmers were we know.
Perhaps our Babels, too, will fall,
II 20, nc lamentations,
Fer mother earth will shelter all,
And feed the unborn nations
1ee, aud the swords that menace now
VIII then be beaten to the plow.
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IT Is said that Sitting Bull has become
thoroughbred loafer, being too lazy to
do any hard work except eating. It
breaks the back OF the noble red man to
keep him IN out of the weather.
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HOUSE AND LOT

situated on the southeast corner of King
street and Church Alley, 5l3 feet front
and running back 200 feet being part OF
Lot No 1913, "a designated in the plat of
said town. Possession will be given on
the first day of April, 1888.
TERMS OF SALE One third cash on
day Of sale. and balance in six and twelve
months, with interest from day OF sale,
the d ferred pay ments TO be secured by
either deed of trust upon the property,
or a lien retained in peed as the Trustee
may deem best
dec JOHN N. ABFLL, Trustee.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENT
CtOMMIsslONhR,s NOTICE.

To q. w. Hampton, plaintiff, and
George A Chrisma administrators
of George Carl, George s Hanna,
Tru-tees, and John q. Manor. de.
fendaats.
You are hereby notified that have
fixed upon The 28th day Of Decem Der,
1882 at my Office in NJ stinsburg,
Berkeley county, to settle the accounts
OF the administrator Of George Carl,
decd and to ascertain and report the
debts that are lawfully chargeable upon
the estate OF George Carl, deed, with
their amounts and priorities; and II
there Is any personal property TO pay
the same-the amount due John G.
Manor on the deed Of trust IL the bill
an ! proceedings mentioned, and the
relative date Of recording drbt d e com
plainant BY the decedent, and OF tie
Instrument setting apart aid decedent' S
realty as homestead. and ascertain
the fet simple and rental value Of same
required to be takcn b q decree Of the
Circuit Court Of Berkeley County at
~hieb time and place you are required
to attend.
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GTATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, County
- Of Berkeley-To the heirs OF Newton
II Bray and the heirs of Michael McKewn
You are hereby summoned to appear on or
before the Sd DAY OF JANUARY, 1888,
before John 4 Picking Commissioner, at
his Office in the said county 10 show
cause il any you can, Why certain tract
of land containing 500 atres, partly lying
Oh the west Size and partly on the east
side of North Mountain, in Gerardstown
District. shall not be sold for the benefit
of the school fund
Witness, S. II. Martin, Clerk Of the
Circuit Court for said county, the eth day
of December, 1882.
S. H. MARTIN,
dec9-4t Clerk.
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Office OF ELECTRIC STORAGE, LIGHT, Power
AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
BALTMoRE, November 20, 1882
Notice is hereby given that a genera
meeting of the stockholders OF this com
pany viii held in the Office Of the Company
Room No 81, Chamber Of Commerce
BUILDING in the city OF Baltimore on the
23d day Of December, A. D. 1882, at 2
NJ, to eject a Board of Directors, make
BYLAWS and for other business.
A. G. DAVIS,
ALLAN p. SMITH,
dec9-2t A. B. PR0AL,