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EMMITTSRURG RAILROAD-

Trains South will leave Emmittsburg at 40 a. m.
and 3.25 p m, arriving at Rocky Ridge at 9l0 a.
IN. and 400 p. m. Trains North will leave Rocky
Ridge at 1876 and 629 p m, arriving at En-
mittsburg 1l.05 a. m, and 700 p. m
BALTIMORE AND CUMBERLAND VALLEY r. R.
Trains leave East daily except Sunday. Shippens-
burg, 6.35 m, and 1.20 and 240 p, M, Chambers
burg 710 a. m, 1.55 and 315 p m, Waynesboro 1852
a m, 2.35 and $50 p m, arriving at Edgemont SIS
a M, and 2.55 and 4.15 p. Sundays, leave Ship
pensburg 500 a. m, and 24O p; m, Chambersburg
S.35 a. m. and 3.l5 p. m Waynesboro 9.17 a. IN. and
3.55 P m, arriving Edgemont $40 a. m. and 4.15 p.
m. Trains West daily except Sunday Edgemont
7.O5 and Il AZ a. m; and 7S2 p; m, Waynesboro 727
a m, and 1905 and 7.55 p. m. Chambersburg $40 a.
m. and 1245 and s 40 p. m, arriving at Shippens-
burg S45 a. m., and 120 and 915 p. m. Sundays,
leave EdgemOnt 1249 and 3S2 p. M Waynesboro
1.10 and 3.35 p. m Chambersburg 1.50 and 4.40 p.
m arriving Shippensburg 2.25 and 5.15 p m.
FREDERICK DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Trains for Frederick leave Junction at 1925 a. m
and 10 p m. Trains for Taueytown, Littlestown
and York leave Junction at 9.35 m. and els p.
Through car for Frederick leaves Baltimore at 400
n. III. and leaves Frederick for Baltimore at S.35
m Through cars for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points OH the H. ]. H. & G. R. r. leave Baltimore
at 1905 a. m. and 4 90 p.
Orders for Baggage calls can be left at Ticket
Office, I'D w Baltimore street. Baltimore time Civ
at all stations.
J. M. HOOD, Gen1. Manager.
nov IS B. Ii. GRIswoLD, Gen'l. Ticket Agent.
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ARDEN TOOLS, in great variety, at
NJ SrEPHAN's, Westminster. apr7
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GPRING GOODS.
CASH BARGAIN STORE.
H. l.. NORRIS
Has full stock of seasonable DRY GOODS,
Mems Wear of every grade, from finest i'm,
ported Cloths and Suitings to the lowest priced
Domestic Goods. Musins, Sheetings, Cali
Goes, &C., at lowest prices.
RE4DTMADE CLOTHING
in the most fashionable styles and best makes.
Shirts Made to Order and Fit
Guaranteed.
Also the celebrated "DiamOnd Shirt;' I'm
derwear of all kinds, Neckwear, &c. My
stock of SHOES for Men, Women and Chill
dren includes the best City Hand Made and
the lowest prices are guaranteed. Table
Linen, Towels, Towelling, Hats of all the
newest styles and at prices that cannot be
undersold. Come and see at
ap7 IL. l.. NORRls'
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u K. HERR & BRO,
Manufacturers of
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CHANGE OF TIME.
western Maryland Railroad
Ia Hs

ON and after Sunday, Nov. 18th, Io02,
- Trains will run over this road as follows:
---,,,rl,r,n r,n rp ANS RIINNING WEST.
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SUNDAY TRAINS

Going East will leave Union Bridge for Baltimore
Westminster at 6.55 a. m. and sos p. m. Going West
will leave Baltimore for Union Bridge and inter-
mediate Stations at $40 q. m, and 200 p. m. and
Westminster at 10 20 a, m. and 343 D. IN,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-11
Lack of Economy in America.

Americans, whether rich or poor,
know but little more about economy in
food than an equal number of savagcs.
Some families must breakfast either on
becfsteak or mutton chops; others will
serve just as much meat, and make it
just as palatable, ut a quarter Of the
expense of choice cuts, because they
know how to cook. Temperament has
much influence on the larder. EXcita-
BILE people will eat twice as much with
out satisfying their hunger. rs those of
better physical balance, yet they will
not do more work. Some wives will
save the price Of ton of coal by re-
making for one of the children IN old
dress or suit of clothes; some others,
seeming TO be destitute either of tact.
skill or inclination, must buy everything
new or go without. Economy is a
science which quite number of men
and women have mastered by close OBJ
servation and diligent- practice; Others
do not seem to know of its existence.
A few days ago n couple Of ladies, who
had Just been retitting their parlOrs,
compared notes. One had just spent
$3.50. and the other nearly 81 800. and
the cheaper parlor was the prettier. II
takes longer to learn economy than Ia
learn a trade, but when learned It is the
most consoling science in existence, no
matter how much or how little mon
ey its devotee may have.-NeW York
Herald.
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Peter Cooper.


That eminent millionaire and philan-
thrOpist of New York, Peter Cooper.
was noted for his plain manners and I'M
assuming ways. Many y clerk put on
more ''style" than did this old merchant,
whose daily income exceeded the young
mans yearly salary. A correspondent
of the Rochester Democrat gives several
"reminiscences of the old gentleman.
which indicate that his quiet ways ex,
pressed his character:
Forty years ago. when the noted
philanthrOpist was merely business
man, used TO see the sign upon the
warehouse in Burling Slip "Peter Cooper
Glue AMI Iron Wire"
How little did then imagine the dis
thction this name would hold both in
enterprise and benevolence. The Office
was very small, and everything had u
quiet look, for il was in fact merely n
place of taking orders which were served
from the factories.
The quiet. methOdical man who sat mt
the chief desk might have been taken by
a stranger for retired mechanic who
had become Il clerk. He spoke in II calm
and subdued tone, and resembled one
Of the more favored members of the
working class.
Such indeed he was, and i'm that light
he always viewed himself, and hence his
memory now stands before the public
us one Of the most wonderful mechanics
i'm the worlds history.
Next door to Cooper, and under tho
same roof, was seen the plain and I'M
pretending sign, ''Cyrns W. Field, Rag"
Here II tall young man, with Yankee
accent. purchased paper stock for the
New England mills, and here the chif-
fOniers and rag pickers found a market
for their gathering.
Under such circumstances Field and
Cooper became acquainted, and event.
ually they united in the cable enterprise.
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They Are not Strangers, Mamma.

Not long ago l sat by the death-bed
of little girl. From her birth she hac
been afraid of death. Every fiber .ol
her body and soul recOiled from the
thought of it. Don't let me die" she
said; don't let me die. Hold me fast
Oh, l can't 60" Jennie" l said
'.yOu have two little brothers in the
other world, and there are thousands Of
tendcr-hearted people over there who
will love you and take care of you
But she cried out again despairingly,
Don't let me 90: they are strangers
over there" She was little country
girl, strong limbed, fleet of foot, tanned
in the face; she was raised on the from
tier; the fields were her home. In vail
we tried to reconcile her to the death
that was inevitable. Hold me fast,
she cried, don't let me 60" But even
rs she was pleading her little hands re.
Taxed their clinging hold from my waist
and lifted themselves eagerly alOft
lifted themselves with such strainine
effort that they lifted the wasted little
body from its reclining position among
the pillows. Her face was turned up.
ward; but it was her eyes that told the
story. They were filled with the light OF
divine recognition. They saw some
thing plainly that we could not see, and
they grew brighter and brighter, and
her little hand quivered in eagerness to
60 where strange portals had opened
upon her astOnished vision. But even
in that supreme moment she did not for.
get To leave word Of comfort for thOSt
who would gladly have died in hel
place. Mamma" she was saying,
.'mamma, they are not strangers. I'm
not afraid" And every instant the
light burned more gloriously in her blue
eyes, till at last it seemed as if her SOU
leaped forth upon its radiant waves.
and in that moment her trembling form
relapsed among its pillows and she was
gone.-Heicn Williams in Woman.
World.
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GIRLS UNFIT, FOR MOTHERHOOD.
What Is It That Makes Them So.---Ill
Health a Cause of Divorce.

One of the best known of New York
physicians says: '.The tendency of edit
cation in our large cities. and particu-
larry in New York. is To destroy the
girls for motherhood. They are very
handsome TO the eye rs they are grow
ing up, have blooming skins, fine eyes
and hair, delicate and generally small
features; but so little care is taken
about exercise and regular habits with
them, that the moment they marry they
devclOpe functional diseases. which
make them miserable ~ wives and COM
paniOns. and their children are scrawny.
wretched little things, not fit TO live. II
is due to many things, climate included
to vicious dressing, TO wearing shoes
that do not permit exercise, to late
hours and parties. and II general neglect
of the laws Of health. There, can put
my hand on Il representative case. l
know II citizen here who lives in good
house, makes $1,000 a year. and has
brought up pretty daughter. She was
taken into society very young. and by
the time she got TO be eighteen she fell
in love with young bank clerk, and
the result was = marriage. He was
earning perhaps $1,000 To $1,000 year
and could not keep house in New York;
so he went up to Harlem. Consequent
~. he spends part of every day and eve
ming on these elevated railroads. riding
up and down, and has grown haggard
and discouraged. His wife meanwhile,
dissatisfied that she cannot keep house
in New York rs when she lived at her
fathers. is complaining and unhappy.
She has been sick ever since the birth of
her only child, which is little, sickly,
miserable object, not iii to be brought in
to the world. Large. strong numerous
children, such Us we used to see, are no
longer raised in these cities. Two
thirds of the women here are tortured
with female weaknesses and Diseases
If they had been content to live in the
quiet towns, where most of them were
born. they would have probably had
comfortable married life. health and
peace and length of years. No wonder
the preachers are talking about the fa-
Guilty and frequency of divorce. when
there is so little congenial domestic life
in these great cities"
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Immensity of Red Tape.

Probably in no government in the
world, says the Salt Lake Tribune, did
ever officials draw matters so fine rs
does the PostOilice Department of this
country at present. 1t takes but little
TO carry newspaper any place in the
United States or Canada, the postage
being only cent on Il pretty large
paper. Some friend dropped a paper
in the pOstoilice at Dayton, Ohio. the
other day for an attache Of the Tribune,
and he has since received postal card,
sent all the way from Dayton, notifying
him that paper was there to his adj
dress, held because there was due on il
l cent, and if he would paste a cent
stamp on the card, inclOse the card in a
sealed envelope addressed to the post
master, and with n cent stamp placed
on the envelope to pay the postage al
letter rates. the paper would be for.
warded. This seems like u great deal
of trouble to go through for the sake OF
one paper. while il adds expense ut the
rate of 800 per cent. over what il should
cost to send tho paper.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-11
Didn't Seem Possible,

A citizen of Detroit who had been to
Lansing on business was returning the
other day when an old farmer, going
East with his wife, took the next seat
back and opened y conversation which
lasted almost into the city. Then he
happened to mention something about
Europe which the farmer doubted, and
the citizen protested;
'But have been there and know. "
what! You bin to Yurup?"
Eyes"
Bin in England and France?'
81 have"
'Bin to Rome and seen tho ruins?"
81 have
"Yes."
.'Bin right in Paris?'
81 was there two months.
'By cracky, Maria!' said the old
man, as he turned to his wife, ''here's
Teller who's bin all over Yurup and
rides with us u hull half day before he
lets on n word! Why, the BiXbys didn't
90 no further than Boston, and the .fust
night they got home they kept the hull
town up till 2 o'clock in the morning to
tell about pavemcnts and pictur' hall
apd opera houses and street cars and
door bells which would ring by pressing
on II button! Wall, wall! Bin to Yurup
and not Dragging over it"-Detroit
Erec Press
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A Woman Talks,

'PeOple may eat strychnine, true
women don't. All the stuff with refer
ence to tight lacing and kindred ap.
pliances, that ladies are alleged to
use, to beautify their form, are falsely
described and maliciOusly ridiculed.
This is the spirit of the age. want to
be saved from such IN age
'.They say, dO these wOmanly tradu-
GERS of women. that eyebrows are cOlorcd
and pinched and painted. | say it is
false. If they choose to select demi-
mondanes for average women, and de-
scribe their habits, garments and falsi-
ties rs those of IN everyday woman, the
world is rs foolish rs the pen painters
are knavish. and | am satisfied. But
the world don't believe them, believe
me. Not much. Beauty is power, wo-
men know it. and seek TO l,e rs beauti-
full rs possible. Some false means are
taken to improve the real. Art has
reached such II perfection that il inn
proves on nature. But such hidcous
art rs these newspaper women describe
would show its hideousness.
Beauty enhanced by fair means is
fair beauty. After all. whose benefit is
this very beauty for? Men! We have
only them TO please. They take care
to fight each step by which we seek to
become independent actors in the world.
They don't succeed at all times, but
they make IN honest effort. I'm IN av-
eragc woman. Am tightly laced?'
The reporter said he didn't know i'm such
an innocent way rs to cause the quick
glance of suspicion that was east III him
to become calm.
The fair speaker answered the ques-
ton. .'No. I'm not, women are not rs
rule" the lattcrqualifyingly. .'Some
women may be, but not even small
part of the SEX Women cannot battle
but they are written up. | believe that
is what you call it? Our perfumes are
ridiculed. Let them be. Flesh-brush-
es, nail-cleancrs and glyccrine are all
held up rs the articles with which II wo-
man is to deceive poor mankind and
ruin him. It's all bosh. A woman
may have slight mustachc. She pulls
it out or destroys it. Good for her.
Men use the razor to get one. Each
sex thus follows its own natural road.
What decOrates one distorts the other.
Appliances. made by human ingenuity,
makes things even. Good for human in
genuity say !. And now let me tell YOU
something. am going to battle. Use
perfumes and glycerinc, destroy hairs
that grow on my lip, if they grow. and
use every lawful means to make myself
presentable TO humanity. especially mas
culinc humanity.--Ci ercland Ledlier.
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WHAT CURIOSITIES ARE.
The Wages Of the Giant, Midget, Bearded
Lady, Fire-Eater aud Such.

''Thcrc are probably dozen first
class giants in the business said j. f.
Sackett, in answer to Il question, land
they get I'LL the way from $50 to 500 q
week. Colonel Goshen gels %7j: Brus
tad. the Norwegian, gets $40; Chang.
the Chinaman, now in London. is paid
E70 week and his travelling expenses
Murphy, who is also over there. and
who is the iallcst man in the world, gcts
about the same salary. Cooper. who
was with Forcpaugh last season, gets
$500. Midgcts are more numerous than
giants. There are over 100 of them now
on exhibition. Tom Thumb. is Of
course, q high salaried.curiOsity. Che.
Nah gets 1925 u week. Jennie Quiglcy
receives $50 Il week, and Little Jewel is
paid $50; General Mite and Lucia Ear
alta. who travel together. get 500 a
week and 10 per cent of the profits OF
the management: General TOtman is
paid $50; Major Atom, SG5, and Major
Dot, $50. An armlcSs wonder. like
Charles f Tfipp, who writes and other.
wise uses his feet as other people use
their hands. is worth $40 Il week. The
only legless man in existence. outside
of Walter Stuart, is Eli Bowen, who
has only feet and ankles ssgrOwing out
from his body. He commands $50 .
week and is Independent. owning two
large and valuable farms in Michigan.
Fat women are numerous, and, with one
or two exceptions. do not get more than
Sl5 or $50. Mile. Myers. the bearded
lady, receives $40 week. They aver
age about that figure.
'.Ventriloquists receive weekly sal.
airy of from $50 to $50. CassenOvia,
the chap who cuts men to pieces on the
stage. got $l25. Other jugglers range
rs low rs 80. Fire-eaters receive from
$35 to $50. Patti, the trained mo nkey.
man. got $l5; Giovanna, the bird train.
er, 500; Anelli and his trained birds.
$50. ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
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The COMING Craze.

Speaking Of art reminds me of q talk
the other day of Il representative Of \
foreign house that makes Il specially Of
household art novelties.
"What is the latest craze?' | in
quired.
'.Oh, brass and old iron. In n year
this country will be wild over old iron
and brass decorations for the home The
factories of Germany, France and Swift
erland are now making up these things
which will begin to pour in abou, next
FALL"
What are they?'
Everything You can think of. Hat
racks made of muskets; center tables
with the legs made Of swords; old guns
cat down for table legs; card receivers,
cabinets. brackets and mantel ornaments
to look as If they were made of old inn
plements of war. Old iron and brass is
to be the next rage in this line. CHI
Climate Times Star.
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Russian Poetry.

] have outlived each fond desire.
Seen each hope rudely shattered;
Aud na,ipht rrinains To me but woe,
The sole heritage IL an empty heart.
Torn 10y the storms of II cruel fate,
My poets crown has withcr,d away;
! 1--we abandoned, forsakcn. aud alone,
And can only mirinur--wili the end soon cOmei
Like the last forgotten leaf,
which Qilivers on the naked branch
That has been struck 10y nipping frost
When the FIRST shrek OF winter storm il heard
Admire the view before MS: thui sorry row al
huts,
Behind them II hong level descent of black earth
And above them one thick layer al gray ish
clouds.
Where ARE the gay iiel'isS where are the shady
Where the river? In the cour, here. by the
tcnce,
Shoot mp two brgparly trees Ia glad the eye,
Just two, no more; ana on" OF them
Has long been ShOrn by autumn rains Of every
beauty,
r,i anh yellow,
Awaiting the first breeze Ia fall and foul the
sluggish pond below.
M other sign at life: not even u stray dog tn be-
seen;
Hut stay, there's Ivan. and behind him two old
women.
With head uncovered he is carrying the coffin Of
his child,
And from affair shouts Ia the drowsy sexton,
And bids him summon the priest aud open the
church door.
Quick! have no time To lose; the brat should
have been buried an hour AFRO!
-Pouskin. translated by {. T.. Turner.
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The New York San remarks, with
truth. that there is great deal Of hum
bug in the common talk about men being
overworked. 1--WE KNOW" it says. ga
good deal about work-hOnest, square,
steady, effective work; but about over
work we have great deal of doubt
Generally speaking, when man is said
to be OverwOrked, the TRUTHS that he has
been guilty of some excess which breaks
down his strength. There may be cases
in which there Is an excess of work, but
of these cases there are very few indeed.
The excess is in eating, in drinking, in
neglect of exercise, or of sleep, it should
have added. The Boston Herald adds:
ut is trite saving, but a true one. that
worry kills Oftener than work; but both
combined do not break down SO many
men as do irregular and irrational
habits
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NUMBER 46
Creole Charact .ristics.

Outwartliy the Crcoles OF the Delta
had become II graceful, well-knt race.
in full fceping with tho freedom of their
surroundings. Their complexion lack
ed color, but it was free from the sal
lOwness of the Indies. There was Il
much largerprOportiOnO Of blondes among
them than is commonly supposed. Gen
orally their hair was of II chestnut, or
but little deeper tint, except that in the
city Il Spanish tincturc now and then
asserted itself in black hair and eyes.
The women were fair. symmetrical,
with pleasing features. lively, express
sive eyes, wcll-rounded thrOats, and
superb hair: vivaciOus. dccOrOus, eX-
ceedingly tasteful in dress, adjoining
themselves with superior effect in drap
cries OF muslin enriched with embrOid-
cries and much garni,urc of lace, but
with a more moderate display Of jewels.
which indicated Il community of limited
wealth. They were much superior to
the men in qliickness of wit. and excel
led them in amiability and in many
other good qualities. The more pro-
nOunced faults of the men were general
ly those moral prOvincialisms which
travellers recount with undue impa-
thence. They are said To have been
coarse, bOastful, vain; and they were,
also deficient in energy and application.
without well-directed ambition, unskill-
full i'm Observation-Disclosures through
negligence Only-and totally wanting
in that community feeling which begcts
the study of reciprocal rights and OBJ
legations, and reveals The individuals
advantage in the promotion OF the COM
mon interest. Hence, the CreOles were
fonder of pleasant fictiOns regarding the
salubrity. beauty, good order, and adj
vantagcs Of their town, than Of meas
ures to justify their assumptions. With
African slavery they were, of course,
licentiOus, and they were always ready
for the dueling-ground; yet it need not
seem surprising that a people SO beset
by evil influences from every direction
were generally unconscious of q repre-.
hensible state Of affairs, and preserved
their self-respect and proud belief in
their moral excellence. Easily inflam.
ed, they were rs easily discouraged,
thrown into confusion. and overpOwer
ed, and they expended the best of THEN
energies in trivial pleasures. especially
the masque and the dance: yet they
were kind parents, affectiOnate wives,
tractable children, and enthusiastic pa.
triots. George w. cubic. in Century.
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A Tragedy,


l had seen him frequently on Wash.
ington avenue, n fair-haired, laughing,
handsome boy. Within five years he
grew to manhood, and often thought
of him as the idol of his parents
brave and true. The other day saw
his fathers lettering form walking
slowly up State street hill. He looked
haggard and worn, as though some
great trouble had come upon him.
saw his sisters blanched face and down.
cast eyes, and knew that great ca
lamity had befallen the family. asked
a mutual friend the reason.
1.-The son." he said, mOurnfully, anO
gulpcd down sob.
..HOw sad.'' said unto myself. Hi
so young and full of promise. to be car
ried away. No wonder his people AIT
crushed with grief, and then. in SYM
pathetic tone, Ienquired:
"When did he die?"
'.Diep' quoth my friend. in q tone o.
inquiry and sad surprise. die" he
repeated. Giles not dead; worse than
that; he's become dude