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Josh Billings on Marriage.

History holds its tung as to who the
pair wuz who first put on the silken har-
ness and promised to work kind in it
thru thick and thin, up hill and down,
on the level, swim, drown or float. But,
whoever tina wuz, tina must have made a
good thing of it, or SO many of their pos
terity would not harnesSed up since and
drove out. But there amt but phew
folks who put their money in matrimony
who could set down and give a good
written opinion viii on arth tina come to
do it. Sum marry for love, without 4
cent III their pockets, nor friend in the
world, nor 4 drop of pedigree. This
looks desperate, but it is the strength of
the same. If marrying for love amt
success, then matrimony is dead
beet. Sum marry bekawse they think
wimmin will be scarce next year, and
live to wonder how the crop holds out
Sum marry tew get rid of themselves,
ana discover that the game was one that
two could play at and neither win. Sum
marry to get even, and find it gambling
game-the more they put down, the less
they take up. Sum marry tew be happy
and missing it, wonder where all the hap
piness goes to when it dies. Sum marry
they can't tell why, and live they cant
tell how.
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Worth's Dress for an Empress.

A Paris letter says: | have recently
had some interesting conversations with
a French lady who had just returned
from Russia, and who gave me a graphic
account of some of the recent festivities
that marked the termination of the long
period of seclusion and mourning to
which the Imperial family had condemn
ed themselves after the death of the late
Gar. The young Empress, who is pas
sionately fond of dancing and delights in
balls, as BELTS royal beauty (she is
next to her sister, the Princess of Wales,
the loveliest royal lady in Europe), ap-
peared at the late court balls in magnif-
cent Partisan toilets. Worth is her dress
maker, and has exhausted all the re-
sources of his taste on the superb ward
robe that he has sent her for the laying
aside of her mourning. One ball dress
that especially struck my informant
when she saw the Empress wearing it at
the first ball at the palace, was composed
of pink, uncut velvet, pink Grape and
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The Marriage Stone.

In the masonry of the College of Sacra
Monte in Grenada, Spain, is stone
which tradition credits with the power
of insuring the marriage within year OF
anyone who touches it. On April 3, 1882
two young ladies paid a visit to the ole
Moorish Capital and We're shown over the
College with unusual Difference by one
of the resident clergy. When they came
to the marriage stone" Padre smil
ingly explained the peculiar powers
which popular superstition ascribed to it
''Touch it" said one of the ladies to hel
sister, who complied with special unc.
ton, touching the stone not once but
repeatedly. The young ladies were the
Spanish Infantas Dona Isabella and Dona
Paz, and it was the latter who put the
old tradition to test. She was married
to Prince Louis, of Bavaria, on April ?.
1883, and the people of Grenada are more
than ever convinced that the Marriage
stone is a priceless treasure.
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he has not been seen at the polls by 4
p. NJ. the generals own carriage will
! come after him. It will not come after
him again for another four years. But
it will come for him then.
The pages of history teach us, then,
dearly beloved, that the private soldier is
extremely necessary during the progress
of a war. He is Indispensable so long as
actual hostilities continue: he is even
useful at intervals in time of peace
but between the intervals nobody APP
spaces of period that elapse between the
times when there is somebody to be
elected to something
And it is pleasant to see him dragged
out into the light of day even once in two
or four years. 1t is pleasant to be thus
assured that he is not dead, but only
speechless; to know that he is still good
for something: that he counts one apiece
at the polls; that he swells the line of
the torchlight procession: that, as in the
days of yore and gore. he is useful in
digging trenches, as it were. 1t is a
great JOY to know that he is not all and
altogether gone. There used to be so
him, even when we catch him out alone
and count him.
And we rejoice, too, in the thought
that his time is come. One day the pri-
vate soldier will shine respendent
blazing planet against the nebulous back
ground of half forgotten field and line
officers. 1t has been ever the fate of the
private soldier. Napoleon is dead and
all his marshalS are dead. But tie pri-
vate soldier who fought under THE
Little Corporal" at Waterloo, is he not
found in every State? The Iron Duke"
is dead but does not the last surviving
soldier of The Guards die some place
nearly every month Washington is
dead, but his body servant. is not his
name Legion. of Legion county? And
so some day the last general who fought
i'll the war Of the rebellion will pass
away, the final colonel. much against his
will, must die. Majors and captains will
join the innumerable caravan: but the
last surviving private soldier of every
regiment that fought anywhere will
never leave us. but will live embalmed
in the perennial paragraph: . Till suns
shall rise and set no more
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HISTORY IN THE JONES FAMILY

PA" asked Willie Jones, as he was
studying his history lesson, "who was
Helen of Troy"
ASK your ma" said Mr.. Jones, who
was not up in classic lore.
. Helen of Troy" said Mrs. Jones, who
was sewing new heel on the baby's
shoe, was girl who used to live with
US; she came from Troy, New York, and
We found her in an intelligence office.
She was the best girl ever had before
your father struck Bridget"
did pa ever strike Bridget?' asked
Willie, pricking up his ears.
81 was speaking paragorically, said
Mrs. Jones.
There was silence for few moments,
then Willie came to another epoch in
history.
"Ma. who was Mare Antony?''
An old colored man who lived with
my pa. What does it say about him
there -
at says his wife's name was Cleo
patra."
THE very same. Old Cleo used to
work for us. It's strange how they come
to be in that book"
&C History repeats ITSELF" murmured
Mr.. Jones vaguely, while Willie looked at
his ma with wonder and admiration that
one small head could carry all she knew.
Presently he found another question to
ask.
Say, ma, who was julius Caesar"
"Oh, he was one of the pagans of his
tory" said Mrs. Jones. trying to thread
the point of her needle.
"But what made him famous" per-
sisted Willie
Everything" answered Mrs. Jones,
complacently; IS he was the one who said,
Eat, thou brute, when his horse would
not take its oats. lie dressed in a sheet
and pillow-case uniform, and when his
enemies surrounded him he shouted,
Gimme liberty or gimme death, and
ranfaway."
"Bully for him. remarked Willie,
shutting up the book of history. But
say, ma, how came you to know SO much !?
Won't lay over the other fellows to-
morrow though ?"
Il learned it at school," said Mrs.
Jones, with an oblique glance at Mr..
Jones, who was listening as grave as a
statue. 81 had superior advantages and
paid attention and remembered what |
heard -
"Well, | say, ma, who was Horace: >"
Your pa will tell you about him, am
tired said Mrs. Jones.
Then she listened with pride and APP
prevail while Mr.. Jones informed his son
that Horace was the author of the Tin
Trumpet and rare work on farming,
and the peoples choice for President,
and only composed Latin verses to pass
away the time and amuse himself.
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A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

The following very remarkable little
poem is a contribution to the San Fran
cisco Times from the pen of Mr.. II. \.
Deming. The reader will see that each
line is a quotation from some of the
standard authors of England and Ameri-
ca. This is the result of years of labori-
Gus search among the voluminous writ
ings Of thirty-eight leading poets of the
past and present. The number of each
line refers to its author below:
l. Why all this toll for triumphs of an
hour?
?. LIES a short summer, mans a flower.
). BY turns we catch the vital breath and
die
4. The cradle and the tomb, alas so nigh.
.. To be is better far than not to be-
u. Though all mems lives may seem a
tragedy;
:. But light cares speak when mighty
grietS are dumb,
y The bottom is shallow whence they
come.
,. our fate is the common fate of all:
~ nmlngled joys here no man can befal
II. Nature to each allots its proper sphere:
H. Fortune makes folly her particular care
-. Custom does often reason overrule
II. And throws n cruel sunshine on a fool
10. Live well; how long or short permit TO
heaven;
10. They who forgive most shall be most
forgiven
Il. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot
see Is face
Is. Vile intercourse where virtue has no
place.
-. Then keep each passion down, however
20. Thou pendulum bctwixt a smile and
tear.
2l. Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure
lay,
%. With craft and skill to ruin and betray.
-. Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to
rise
p. We masters grow of all that we despise
.. oh, then, renounce that impious self
esteem
&c. Riches have wings and grandeur is a
dream.
-. Think not ambition wise because It's
brave,
IS. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
%. What is ambition? IT'S a glorious
50. Only destructive to the brave and great.
II. W hats all the gaudy glitter of a CROWN
-. The way of bliss lies not on beds of
down.
So. How long we live not years but actions
tell
81. That man lives twice who lives the first
life well.
50. Make, then, while yet you may YOUR
God yOur friend.
Sc. Whom Christians worship, yetnot COM
prehend.
81. The trust that's given guard and to
yourself be Just,
81. FOR live we how we can, die we must.
l, 1oung;2, Dir. Johnson: 8, Pope; 4,
Prior: >, Sewell; 6, Spencer; 7, Daniel; s,
Sir Walter Scott; 9, Longfellow; 10
Southwell II, Congreve; -, Churchill;
Is, Rochester; II, Armstrong; 10, Milton:
1G, Bailey: Il, Trench: Is, Somerville; 10
Thomson; 20, Byron; 81, Snollett; %,
Crabbe; %, Massinger: "a, Cowley; %,
Beattie: 2G, Cowper: 81, Sir Walter De-
venant; %, Gray; 30, Willis; so, Addi-
son; 81, Dryden; 80, Francis Charles; SO
Watkins; 81, IIerrick; 81, William
Mason; sc, Pill; 81, Dana; IS, Shakes
peare.
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Eight Follies.

To think that the more Il mans eats
the fatter and stronger he will become.
To believe that the more hours chill
dren study at school the faster they will
learn.
To conclude that if exercise is health
full, the more violent and exhaustive it is
the more good is done.
To imagine that every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gained.
To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy makes
you feel Immediately better is good for
the system, without regard to Interior
effects.
To commit an act which is felt in
itself to be prejudicial hoping that some
how or other it may be done in your case
with impunity.
To eat hearty supper for the pleasure
experienced during the brief time it is
passing down the throat, at the expense
of 4 whole night, of disturbed sleep and
weary waking the next morning.
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]
crossing the yard one day, he espied a
little skip of boy, seemingly not ovel
eleven years old, seated on a big fly.
wheel and chewing the end of bitter re.
| Election.
"Who are you?''
"Tm jack
"What are you doing here?''
"Resting"
What do you want?'
GA job"
Those were the questions and answers.
The boy was pale and ragged, but in his
steel blue eyes the foreman saw game.
And, too, the idea of waf like him set
ting on. to battle the world touched a
tender chord in the heart of the man who
had boys of his own, and he set Jack at
work in the yard.
No one thought the boy would stay a
week, and no one cared to ask where he
came from or who he was. But he stuck.
He was working hard and was faithful,
and, as the week went by he gained
friends. One day he walked up to the
foreman and said:
81 want to learn the trade
"Iou? Ha. ha. ha. Why, Jack, you
are not big enough to handle cold
chisel''
81 can whip any prentice boy in this
shop" was the earnest declaration.
"Just hear him. Why, any of the lot,
could turn you wrong side out. When
you get big enough to whip the smallest
one you can come to me for job
At noon that day Jack walked up to
the biggest apprentice boy in the shop
and said:
"Come out DOORS
"What do you want? ~
I'm going to lick you"
"What for?"
Because want a chance to learn the
trade
The two went out, and, in sight of
twenty witnesses, little Jack won vic
tory. At l o'clock he touched his cap to
the foreman, and said:
give licked your biggest prentice,
and want to go to work.
Ten minutes later he had become a
machinist's apprentice, and if you go in
there today you will find him with
greasy hands, oily face and head full of
business ideas. Jack carries the keys to
the drawers where steam guages, safety
valves and other trimmings are kept, and
he knows the use of every tool every
piece of machinery, and there is a COL
slant call for Jack here and Jack there
Before he is twenty he will be a finished
machinist, and before he is twenty-five
he will be foreman of some great shop.
He is quiet, earnest, respectful and OBJ
serving. what he does is well done.
What he is told he never forgets.
And here in Detroit are hundreds of
boys who complain that there S no chance
for them, even when backed by money
and influence. They wait and wait,
and whine and complain, and leave it for
waits like little Jack to call up the game
in their souls, and walk boldly into a
great manufacturing works and say:
I'm here-I want a job"'-Detroit
Free Press.
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The National Reform Association

This is society organized to maintain
existing Christian features in the Amer
lean government, and to secure a suita-
BILE religious amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States. During the
present year this Society has greatly en-
larged its operations. Four District
Secretaries are devoting their whole time
to the work, holding Conventions, adj
dressing churches and public meetings,
circulating petitions, and extending the
membership of the organization. Within
six months fourteen Conventions, and
more than two hundred meetings have
been held in behalf of this cause. The
members of the Association enrolled dur
ing the current year and contributing to
its funds, are more than two thousand,
and its list of officers includes many
prominent and influential men. The Hon.
Felix r. Brunot, of Pittsburg, is Presi-
dent. The Christian Statesman, of Phila-
delphia, weekly journal, is the organ
of the movement, and has recently been
enlarged to sixteen pages.
Among the features of the government
which this Association aims to conserve
are our Sabbath Laws, the use of the
Bible in Public Schools, Prayer in the
National and State Legislatures, and the
Christian Law of Marriage in opposition
to the lax divorce legislation now SO COM
mon. Some suitable change in the Con-
stitution is deemed by this Society to be
indispensably necessary, since that in
strument, in its present form, is extern
sively regarded as an expression of the
secular theory of government, and is
constantly employed as an argument
against all that is Christian in the usage
and administration of our government
For the publications of the Society, and
any information bearing on this move
ment, address, T. P. Stevenson, Cores
ponding Secretary, 1920 Chestnut street,
Phildelphia, Pa,
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to :, 900; its publication department will
cost from 81, 900 to $4,000; its stereotyp,
ing will be perhaps $500, and its miscel,
laneous expenses from $1,000, to s., 900,
making total of from 50, 1000 to So, 9OC
week. OF course these figures will be
little less in dull times when there is
little telegraphing and no occasion for
special expenditures than wheE there is a
great public excitement. such as presi-
Dental canvass or great public catas-
trophe, when it is necessary to send many
men out and spend . great deal of money
in securing news; but the general aver
age will be about what have stated" y
n 1 Ilaun
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doctor" said fond mother, leaning
over the bedside of her son, who seemed
to be suffering greatly, - what is the
matter with him ," The physician ex-
amined the sufferer and replied: " He's
sick" There" exclaimed the woman,
81 knew you could tell what was the
matter with him. How fortunate it is
that you were in the ncighborhood" And
she looked at the medical gentleman
with an expression that spoke of restful
confidence, IrdtcleF.
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There lisa good deal of quiet humor in
piano men. \ week or so ago Stein
way agent advertised a secondhand
Chickcring, which he described as "a fine
piece of cabinet work, and just the thing
for an ironing board" Shortly after
ward the Chickering agent got hold of a
secondhand Steinway, and advertised it
as " admirably adapted for use as an ice
chest and warranted to scare away rats
whenever PLAYED on
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y new self-tending strawberry bed is
the invention of a Californian. Fill with
earth any sort of barrel that has been
bored we'll all around with inch holes,
Plant Strawberries in every hole and in
the open top, root downwards and top
outwards. 1t is great success. 1t is
quite ornate, and it will keep for several
months in bearing. Every child can
have kcg or several can cultivate half
barrel in common. This will inspire
industry and economy, to say nothing
of fun and health
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Did it ever occur to you, when you
were cropping around your room in the
dark, and struck your nose so violently
against half-opcn door that it Jared the
whole house-did it ever occur to you at
such moment that the heat of the sun
is sufficient to reduce the Pacific ocean
to steam in twenty minutes? The proba-
biliteS are that it didn't.
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Grit is the grain of character. 1t may
generally be described as heroism mater
ialized-spirit and will thrust into heart
and brain and backbone, so as to form
part of the physical substance of the
MN.
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EASY LESSON IN NATURAL HIsToRY.-
" Papa, what is this ~
My son, it is the corner loafer.'
"What does he do?"
'' He stands around and supports the
buildings and lets his folks support him.
His great task is to spit tobacco juice on
the sidewalks for ladies to wade through.
lie ought to be put in cage, but the
officers of the law hate to touch him.
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1t was Darling George" when a
bridal couple left Omaha: l. was "Dear
George, at Chicago; at Detroit it was
George and when they reached
Niagara Falls it was Say, YOU
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g Is it a SIM asks fashionable lady
of her spiritual director, for me to feel
pleasure when a gentleman says l am
handsome ~ 1T is, my daughter" he
replies. gravely; "we should never de-
light in falsehoodsr'
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Poor fellow, he died in poverty"
said man of person lately deceased.
THAT isn't anything" exclaimed a
sesdy bystander. Dying in poverty is
no hardship. It's living in poverty that
puts thumbscrew on fellow
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\ Russian proverb says: "Before 60
ing to war pray once, before going to
sea pray twice, before getting married
pray three times"
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SHARP BARGAINS!
CARHART eco.
ZION, MD.
ZION, MD.

We along hunting up
and gathering the Bargains showing
in
1t would be absurd
NOW FOR THE SHARP BARGAINS:
in Goodsc of Col
Num- gs ace and Plain Bunng India Linens Lawns Saeen Zephyr
and
Il SPECIAL DRIVE IN HOSIERY,
90 Ladies Pin
Children
SLIPPERS AND SHOES
giving special handling nothing
STRAW HATS
We have full w,
a full Trimmed Braid Hat only 2Scl
CARPETS AND MATTINGS.
We have opened this week five Rolls Ingram
are the best for the have offered.
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
We have stock We
odd which sell Il 70
M4CKEREL. MACKEREL.
packages guaranteed
TERMS CASH.
j. NJ C. CARlARI A. G. CARIART.
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JACK.

A year or more ago, as the foreman of
one of the iron works of this city was
crossing the yard one day, he espied a
little skip of boy, seemingly not over
eleven years old, seated on a big fly
wheel and chewing the end Of bitter re-
Election.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-20
A Comedian on Acting.

Nat Goodwin. the comedian, has had
his SAY on the subject Of success on
the stage. His views are scarcely in
accord with those of the actors and &C
tressrs who lately wrote on the subject
in The North american Repie~. he
tells The Spirit Of the Times that a be-
ginner on the stage may do one OF two
things. First, he may join = good Old
stock company, "if he can find one IN
the woods anywhere" and remain in ii
for half 3 century, when he will be given
a complimentary benefit. Second, II
the beginner does not fancy that way,
he can join variety show, purchase
lovely comic song, get y dramatlst to
write play around it, and at once be-
come popular and rich. but if the be-
ginner takes the second way" Mr.
Goodwin adds, ''he must never own
that success was easy. | find that the
really great actors, who have been
boosted to the top OF the tree by chance
notoriety, or money, are fond of refer
ring to their days and nights OF toll anC
struggle. and limiting how very hare
they work now. have had tolls ane
struggles and hard work myself, but i
was generally after the performance
was over. and might better have beer
at home in bed. The midnight oil the
ory is beautiful, but never saw it pu
into practice"
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An Elastic Costume.

A ball supper is agony to many NO.
men. because tight lacing makes it I'M
advisable to eat heartily, but there was
one matron, on recent occasion in
New York, who overcame all such diff.
iiculty. She ate bulky and still re.
manned comfortable. | do not know,
says n corrcs rondent Of The Cincinnati
EHQuiirr. whether sh. hold d patent
on the device, bat am going 10 dcs-
cribe j, anyhow, and whoever copies il
must take her own chance Of Il Suit OF
Infringement. II WAS what may b" call
ed duplex. front-action, adjustable
basque. 1t had the material cut away
from the front Of the lining in vest
shape. and trimmed un each side and
around the neck with n r"vers collar OF
the trimming. The linin" WAS provided
with cyelet holes and a lacing string. SO
that il Nigh: be drawn as Loosely or n
closely u the wearrr chose. To conceal
this lining q shjr"ed vest Of Xix ur -'.,in
WAS SIT Oh Just insiir the revers collar,
ana each stirring was merely II tape
facing on the wrong side in which was
inserted IN elastic ribbon which per
mitted it 10 expand or contract. There
were five of these crossway shirrirgs,
the upper one being at the top Of the
front darts, and above this the vest was
arranged in four easy plaits that were
sewed on The neck double at the top to
form n standing frill. A hook and loor
on each shirrrd place fastened the vest
below, and there were similar ones
above. saw the wearcr let out few
lines Of Iacing of her cOrsets in the dress.
ing-room before supper and adjusted
the basque TO the enlargement, but she
ate more than she intended to evidently,
for afterward she retired to ease hen
corsage once more.