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The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
Beauty.

There is something in beauty, whether it
dwes in the human face, in the penciled
leaves of flowers, the sparkling surface Of "A
fountain, or that aspect that breathes over
its statute that makes us mourn its ruin.
We should not envy that man his feelings
who could see a leaf witiief or flower fall
without some sentiment Of regret. This
tender interest in the beauty and frailty of
things around us is only slight tribute of
becoming grief and affection, for nature in
our adversities never desert u.s. She even
comes more near to us in our sorrows, and
leading us away from the paths Of disap-
pointment and pain into her soothing
rece 5ses, allays the anguish Of our bleeding
hearts, binds UP the wouals that have been
inflicted, whispers the meek pledge Of a
better hope, and in harmony with spirit
of still holier birth, points to that home
where decay and dedth can never come,
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
Died ofa Broken Heart.

Death from a broken heart has taken
place in Irwin. county. Miss Lille Wal
was dangerously i'll for several days, and
the doctors quietly informed her father,
Mr.. Jasper WALL that his daughter could
not possibly live. Going to her bedside,
and viewing her sadly, the father said
My darling child, you are obliged to die,
but l only hope that may die first"
Shortly after he went into commissions, and
and was soon dead, followed three hours
la.er by the death of his daughter.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
"JACK -

A year or more ago, as the fore
man of one of the iron works of thi.
city was crossing the yard one da,
he espied little skip ola boy, seem
lngly not over eleven years old. sea.
ted on a big fly wheel and chewing
the end of bitter. reflection. :
Who are you7'
"Im Jack.
"What are you doing here 2"
Resting"
"What do you want :"
"a job
Those were the inquiries and an
swers. The bo was pale faced and
ragged, but i'll MS steel blue ewes
the foreman saw game. And, too,
the idea of a waif like him setting.
out to battle with the world touch,
ed tender cord in the heart of the
man who had boys of his own, and
he set Jack to 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 hard work
ing and faithful, and as the weeks
went by he gained friends. One day
he walked up to the foreman and
said
81 want to learn the trade"
You ha ha ha Why, jack.
you are not big enough to handle a
cold chisel."
a can whip any prentice boy in
this shop!' was the earnest declar
alton.
Just hear him? Why any ofthe
lot could turn you wrong side out |!
When you get big enough to whip
the smallest one you come to me for
job"
At noon that day Jack walked up
to the biggist boy in the shop and
said:
"Come out doors"
"What DO you want !"
Il an going to lick your
"What for 7"
Because want to learn the
trade
The two went out and in sight of
twenty witnesses little Jack won a
victory. At one o'clock he touched
his cap to the foreman and said:
''l've licked your biggest prentice
ond want to go to work
Ten minutes later he hal become
a machinist's apprentice, and if you
go in there to-day you will find him
with greasy hands, oily face, and
head full of business ideas. Jack
carries the keys to the drawers
where the steam-gauges and safety
valves and other trimmings are kept
and he knows the use of every tool.
the workings Of every piece of ma
chinery, and there is a constant call
tor Jack here and Jack there. Be
fore he is twenty he will be a finish
ed mechanist, and before he is twen-
ty-fVe he will be foreman of some
great shop. He is quiet, earnest, re
spectfnl and observing. What he
does is done we'll. What he is told
he never forgets
And here in Detroit Are hundreds
of boys who complain that there is
no chance for them, even when back
ed by money and influence. They
wait and wait and whine and COM
plain, and leave it to waits like little
Jack to call up the game to their
souls and walk boldly into great
manufacturing works and say
81 am here-I want a job. De
lroit Free Press.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

''Why are you moving your stock OF
goods to such an uncommercial part of the
city ?" was asked of a merchant.
Don't like this house; think it q
failure"
This is a good house, large and well
situated, in fact, one of the best stands in
the city"
"The stand may be all right, but the
house, as [ say, don't suit me-"
"Fire proof amt it,"
eyes and that's the trouble. got q
big insurance and tried a dozen times to
burn down the building, but failed. No,
sir, she's too noncumbustive for my trade. y
FAMILY JARS jim Sniverly whose
not been mafried very loag, came
home late to dinner a few days ago.
"HaSt thou saved me some dinner
thou dearest angel p
II have not, my turtle dove
Nothing at all, darling? Dilst
thou put any grub in the stove for
your own ducky? ?"
"Not a bite. What did you loaf
about the saloons until two O'Clock
for ?"
''It's none of YOUR blamed business
you empty psted fool" he replied
with some bitterness.
"You are a bow legged Brute
And thus did one word bring or
another'-fexas Siftings.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
Transporting Flowers In POta-
toes.

A gentleman from Utica in Louis
vile, who wished to send some beau'
iful flower buds to his wife, was at
a loss to know how to do so A
florist friend said he would fix them.
He cut potato into two pieces aud
bored holes in them into which he
inserted the stems Of the buds, ard
placed them in box with cotton to
support them, A letter from the
recipient acknowledged the remem-
brance, and said that the buds do
veloped into full blown flowers
There is sufficient moisture in a
good sized potato TO support q flow
er for two weeks in a moderately
cool temperature. Flowers from
boquets or baskets maybe preserv
ed in the same way. The Potatoes
my be hidden by leaves or moss.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

A Spiritualistic Tr;ck-Some time
ago, at spiritualistic seance--the
genuine article-a fiery hand was seen
wavering overhead in the darkness,
rushing from end to end Of the room
with incredible swiftne .s--now high,
now low, and occasionally shifting
people on the cheek with the cold,
clalnmy contact of o corpse. In spite
Of the medium stringent iniunctions
that no one should move gentleman
clntohed this awful apparitinn as ii
swept past him, and, regardless of
protestations aud threats, refused to
let it go until the lights were turned
up. Then the messenger from the
other world proved to be nothing
more supernatural than a lilty white
kid glove, rubbed with phosphorus
and stuffed with wet tow; this, at
the end Of thin line, was suspended
from fishing rod convenient for the
pocket. Thus the medium could
cause all manner OF appalling "mani-
festations' without rising from his
hair.-Chambers' Journal
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4 Reverie Oyer . Buudie of pa
dctt Flowers.
BY II ZEN VINO

sit o'er faded letters, and ponder,
And still I ponder o'er the tender lines
Until my heat Within me gins to wonde
That ,e'er it knew those former happy
Times.
l read and read those loving letters, old,
And gloat per them as misers DER their gold,
Because the tenderness that from them
teeming.
Is almost like reality in its. seeming
Until some line, not loving, nor yet tender,
From out the folded folios between,
Has all the power to blight destroy and
* render,
Vain all the rest. and says, ''it might
A.. have been"
The ripe promegranate's crimson core,
Is pale beside the sanguine store,
Of light, like unto rubies, warm
Encircling the ''rare, RADIANT form
OF one loved long, long ago,
Before my heart had tasted woe
These dim lines form a carcanet
OF shining gems, each perfect, tris,
A living flame is in them yet,
And spreads it's glow my being through.
And gazing on them, long and tender.
My fancy conjures up,tHe sender
With all the grace and Iovelness,
l once looked on with happiness.
But yet | vainly strive to trace
One welcome smile upon that face,
To tell my heart, forglvingly,
weep not, loved one, it still may be.''
And thus read these letters old,
And find that peace they still withhold
Though momentary, transient gladness
May come to mingle with my sadness,
When e'er reach to clasp my goal,
Which lies all smilingly before me.
A cruel coldness chills my soul,
And shrieks, that naught can e'er restore
me.
Those happy days, those joyous hours,
When--roaming mid Springs fairest flow
brs-
She pledged the salf-same words to me,
AS in these faded lines see
And sealed them with a kiss, which thrill
"A ,i''e.
AS ne'er had been thrilled before,
And gave happiness which filled me
With joy III meier be filed with more.
And 50 these letters, old, think DER
Although they bring me naught but pain;
And drinking, fill again, and drink DER
The self-same misery once again
These etters-Ahl this faded pile
win not one answer to beguile
The pain that memory hath brought
Of all that's past Oil foolish thought
For it take one up to cheep me
To-day, as erstwhile, now, as then
Twould be the same, sadly fear me:
One leads me through them ..again.
\ et still while memory abides--
Till death comes to me-naught besides
May have one thought which still is thine,
Thou aacred, ''faded-letter" shrine.
All no--Ahi no the lutte may lie
Untouched-its music cannot die.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

When the remark of I.ogan's at a
campfire that "the two great battles Of
Marathon and Salamis were the turn
ing points in the Christian civilization
of mankind was app!auded, the Sena-
tor and bis audience we're only short
of 500 years ont of the way Mrs
Logan is probably the responsible per,
son, AMI so charming a woman ought
to be ashamed of her ignorance Of the
whereabouts of the Christiin era.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

", IT. EARREfT, Augus'a, Na.,
Dear Sir--I very cheerfully commend
the GLIDER PILLS as possessing all the
virtues ascribed to thela in the circulars
which envelope the boxes that contain
them. Their action is gentle and lasting.
say this from personal experience and
from What have heard others say who
have used them. No better and more eff
fectual medicine could be desired by those
who softer from u torpid condition of the
liver, and trust you will have still great
er success in distributing so great bless
ine to those who suffer from derange.
ment Of that organ whose regular action
is 70 essential to health.
Very respectfully
! sS%Es NJ, SMYTHE.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

The worEmen in the great salt mine on
Averys Island, louisiana, have recent
ly uncovered heap of bones, which ap
.parently belong TO remote period aud
are possibly relics ola long defunct
mastadon They are about to be, for
warled to the Smithsonian Institute,
where their character and value will
be determined
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

The Rev. DR. Talmage having said
thrt the new bridgemill marry Brook
lyn to, New York, and that the bridn
(Brooklyn) will smile from Fulton Fer
ry to South Brunswick, the Sur re-
marks Here the reverend individual.
attributes to the whole city smiling
capacity to which only he himself
would be equal.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
Popular Cler gyman Under a
Mule.

1t was in the Yosemite, on steep
and rugged mountain road. The par7
ty numbered about1 a dozen, and the
iolliest Of them all was we'll known
dominic. Somehow or another ahis
mule stumbled and trolled sovSetl aud
over, the dominic cliuging fast to him
When they came to stop mule
was on top. Both the dominie aud tho
mule was badly bruised. One Of tho
party happened TO have bon's u
PERRY DAvfs's Prs KTLtEa - 4
few hours they were rea Y o " I'd
on their journey.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

A paper watch has been exhibited
BY a Drasden matchmaker. The pas
per is prepared in such a manner that
the watch is said to be as seryiceable
as those in ordinary use.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

SHE attended q / ,-'.a1ccd 10 O ia.o
hour-beeame overheated-went homo
thinly clad, IN q cold, damp night air AZ l
caught cod. Next day headache lo3s
of appetite-slight lever--dry skin
pains and aehes--chilly sensatioas---in-
disposition TO get up. Remedy-Gne bottle
Dromgoole's English Female Bitters.
Tough on cliil.s,'
Cures 3 cases for G5 cts. 10 cash or stamps.
Mailed by joan Parham, Atlanta, Ga.
BAILEY's SALINE APERtESr is now
recognized as the best aid cheapest, and
mos pleasant cathartic in uec, for tho
special cure bf headache, constipation,
heartburn, acid stomach, dyspepsia, etc.
tcools and quiets, whils a. a sps -nny
summer beverage, its delightful.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

Mother Remember That No Medi-
cino cures, it simply assists nature in
relieving itself OF an unnatural condi;
tion of the system. Worms disarrange
-Shriper's Indian Vermifugc,kills and
drives them from the system, ,3.thus re-
moving the cause of disease.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

The flower most in fashion in Paris
are in the gardenia, the lily of the val
lev, the queen rose and purple rose,
the Spanish cornation and the violet,
The camelia once highly priced, is now
quite out of fashion.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

We usually leave 1t to doctors 70
recommend medicines,i but Parker',s
Ginger Tonic has been so useful II our
family in relieving sickness and, suffer:
ing that we cannot say too much in lts
praise.-Salem Argus.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

With a baby at breast nothing is so
useful for quieting MY own and ;baby's
nerves as Parker's Ginger Tonic. II
prevents bowel complaints, and is bet
ter than any stimulant to give strength
and appetite.-A Newark Mother
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

As might have been expected the
scene where Salons dances before Her.
cd drew out the most applause in the
Passion Play"
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

God might as we'll have slaves as
sons, if the essence of worship consis-
ted in mere outward obedience.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

1t is reported that John Brown Vic
toria's man, left an estate Of more than
a million.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
She Wouldn't ReiInquiSh One of
the Few Privileges of
Her Sex.

I
A Young Man fell desperately in love
with Beautiful Girl, and having Screwed
up his courage to the Sticking Point he
asked her to Marry him, and as he was
Nice Fellow, with a sweet little mustache
and big Balance in the Bank, she said she
would Now, Dearest he said before
we proceed any Further with this Venture,
want to ask you whether you will Promise
me one thing? Anything you choose
she replied, closing her Rosebud Lips upon
the Tip of his Ear. well, dovev,' the
young man said, you must promise me
that, when we twain become one flesh, YOU
will refrain from sitting down on the floor
when you take off Tight Boot, for as
much as | adore you, / feel that nv love
would ere long be transmitted to gall Bit
terness, aye, even Hatred, did | ever be-
hold you Sprawling about on the floor in
the ungainly manner that / have seen my
sisters cut up when in similar predica-
ment. VIII 'you promise me this? 1t is
essential to my happiness that you should
abandon this Objectionable Practice. The
beautiful Girl would have bushed if she
had been able, and as she stood, Pondering
the matter in her Mind, she was silent for
several minutes. At length she spoke and
asked, Isit Absolutely indispensable that
1 sbotld promise sthis ere We can be
united? Absolutely replied the young
man. Then, said the maiden, rather
than relinqulsh one of the few privileges of
my sex which have not been futhlessly de-
s'royed, i will go forth and become Nun
And she departed and married Butcher.
And the young man was sorrowful.
MORAL.
Girls should ne more Careful Of what
they do in their brothers Presence. for
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

The Qqeen of Madagascar is the on
ly Presbyterian potentate IN the
world.
The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26

Girls should be more Careful Of what
they do in their brothers Presence, for
young Men are not all of that class who,
having Ears, hear not, and Eyes, yet see
not.-Toronto Grip.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

An indisposed lady requested her
family physician to examine her
tongue, and then she asked him
what he thought would be good for
it. REST" replied the prudential
but ungallant adviser.
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Not Measured BY Money.

Mr.. Robert X. Tomlinson,
Brownsburg, Penn, discusses most
Interestingly in The Philadelphia
Press the trite question, "Does
farming pay?" (abOut which there
is no question:, calling up from
real life illustrative examples such
as, happily, are within the knowl-
edge of all observers. We make
room for some of his thoughtful and
suggestive points, which are well
stated. The definition Of success
is a better one than superficial per-
sons are able to give, and we es-
pecially approve the passing trib-
ute to the wives and mothers of
the farm:
II have in my minds eye num-
Der of men I use the term in con-
nubial sense, for If ever there was a
pursuit in which the wife is truly
the better half it is in farming
who started in agricultural pursuits
with only few hundred or a thou
sand or two of dollars saved, it may
be from their wages or the fruit oil
a small inheritance. In many
cases this was barely enough tc
stock farm and pay the annua
one-third purchase money. Bui
under the double spur of love o
ownership and necessity OF meeting
their engagement they bent every
energy to free themselves from the
debt, and made their homestead en-
tirely their own"
Brought up in the habit of stric
economy, their children shared il
the hardships Of adversity, as they
afterwards shared in the brighten
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
A Way to Cure Sleeplessness.

There is a form of wakefulness
which is a somewhat frequent expe-
rienee with persons engaged in ac-
tive work, especially of the brain.
A man who has been busily engaged
during the day in his usual avOca-
tion retires, let us say, at about ten
or eleven o'clock, feeling quite
sleepy. After a period of slumber,
perhaps two or three hours, he finds
himself wide awake at about two
o'clock in the morning. There is
nothing particularly burdensome on
his mind; no mental anXieties per-
plex, no physical pains disturb him.
His only annoyance is the con-
sciousness that hard days work
is before him and that his busy
brain ought to be at rest. After
tossing about for an hour or two in
vain attempts to court sleep, he
drops off toward morning into dis
turbed and broken slumber, and ri
ses at the usual hour with a sense of
having been defrauded by nature of
one OF his rights. So long as this
is a rare or occasional experience it
need not attract attention. When,
however, it becomes habitual, when
sleep is regularly broken by peri
ods of wakefulness more or less pro-
longed, and especially when these
periods come to be accompanied by
anxieties and worrying, the symp-
to,,, iS r,oro ,rrava IF noav hatO
ken serious impairment of the ner-
vous system if allowed to continue.
What may be done by the person
himself, on awakening during the
night, in order again to induce
sleep? The expedients at our dis
posal, it must be admitted, are ex-
ceedingly variable in their efficacy,
but most of them are worth trying.
A sense of drowsiness is sometimes
easily induced by getting up and
standing by the bedside until one
feels almost chilly and the bed is
cold. Another expedient is to
wash the head, neck and upper part
of the body in cold water--a lower
temperature of the skin, inducing
probably more active circulation
of the blood to the surface and
away fom the nervous centers. l
have found a bit of dry bread thor
oughly masticated and eaten at this
time to act almost like a charm in
some cases by drawing from brain
to stomach and thus securing sleep.
Anything which serves to detract
attention from ones self and sur
roundings may occasionally avail
such as saying the alphabet, count
ing ones respirations, repeating the |
multiplication table and a multitude
of similar cxpedients. An ancient
monkish recipe for wakefulness was
to count your beads" 1t is good
advice yet. There are no better
aids to repose than a good con-
science and a mind at peace.
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ADVICE to Intending Ministers.

My dear young brother, if you
prefer it, if you honestly feel that
you have something to say in the
pulpit that people must hear, then
preach.
But:
If you can't do anything else; if
you can't plow or reap; if you know
not how either to fish or cut bait; if
at anything else you would starve,
then, in Heavens name, keep out of
the pulpit. God never yet cstab-
lshed a church as pension agency
for anybody. If you have made up
your mind that you'll have to
preach or starve, you will confer a
favor upon the community by StarV-
ing.
Or, you can edit newspaper,
which is a respectable way ofdoing
the same thing. Anybody can
edit a paper. Except the editor.
He doesn't know the first principle
of his business. Any man whom he
has had an occasion to bring into
the dissecting room for demonstra-
ton will tell you that.-Bob Bur
dette.
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An Trishman,s Letter.

The following Characteristic let
ter was written by a Hibernian af-
ter six years experience of Ameri-
can institutions:
New York, July the one, 1881.
My dear Mary, the darlint of my
heart and sowl, 1 am well, but had
the favor and ague; and l hope you
are in the same condition, thanks
be to God. l wish many happy
New Years, and the childer, and
hope you will have threescore and
ten of them. We had a Christmas
here, but the haythens don't keep
it like we used to at home. Divil
resave the one ivir said to me
many happy Christmas, or bad luck
to you, or any other politeness. L
did not get a Christmas box until
has going home that night, and a
night-w alking blackguard gave me
one on the eye, and axed me for my
money. 1 gave him all could.
about a score of pounds, which
knocked the sinse of him. Dear
Mary, They tell me that the Nagur
is going to be the white man in fu-
ture; and the white nagurs in Con
gress, public house in Washing
ton, are going to try the president
for divil much matter anyways,
for they don't kape a dacint drap
of drink in the country; no raal
ould Irish Poteen; nothing but stuff
that would kill a pig, if he had to
live on it, much less a Christian
Baste. Remember me to Darby.
Tell him he's well, and ak him how
l am. am sorry to hear of the
death of the bull, and hope you are
likewise; her milk is a loss. Tell
Teddy McFinn if he comes out here
he will see more of America in one
day than if he staid home all his
life. l am glad his wife got over
the twins, and hope she'll do better
the next time, there is room for i'm
provement. 1 like this country;
but there is no place like ould Ire
land, where you'd get as much
whiskey for a shilling as would
make tay for six people. If you
get this, write soon; if you don't,
write and let me know. l may be
dead, for life is uncertain under the
radicals. But dead or alive I'll
answer your letter. Address your
dear Brother Jimmy, New York
America. JIMMY MCBR IDE.
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Tomorrow is not elastic enough
in which to press the neglected du-
ties OF to-day.
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ing prospects of prosperity. In this
stern but hopeful struggle with the
force of circumstances the parents
developed in mind and character,
and filed their place among the
most useful and honored members
of society; while the children,
thanks to their early training, to
free schools and an educating
press, became fitted for that higher
struggle which increasing civiliza-
ton demands. Vino shall say that
these men and women, although
they may have amassed only few
thousand dollars, have not, in the
highest sense of the term, made
farming pay and life a success?