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"Foot-Squeezing" the Baby"

lCOr. CHlcSlSO Tribune.
A shoe dealer says that mothers ruin their
children's feet through vanity. "Ono will
bring the baby and ask me to try pair of
shoes that will LOOK real sweet I know
what that means, but I'm always sorry for
the baby, who is usually in its first dress, and
as skittish as any young colt about having her
feet meddled with l don't say that I am
going to put shoe on it size larger than
the foot seems to be, but I do; at least get
it on as well as any one could fit foot oper-
ated by a perpetual motion power. TEEN
trust TO the mothers sense for results. If it
is the first baby she viii be indignant, and
say that she doesn't want the treasure to
look sloppy in its Shoes They must fit ex-
actly or she won't take them. l insist that
the child's weight will push the foot out
at least a fourth Of an inch, and that
the shoe is just right. if she objects again,
give up, and find what she wants. The foot
IS squeezed into tight shoe, and the baby
lauuesIs py squal1ng. Sne says rrse serapn Ii
teethmg, or colicky, or hasn't had its usual
nap, and so she shakes it vigorously, while
declaring the shoes are Just lovely and
that its papa viii be delighted. The chances
are that when she wants another pair she
will leave the baby at home and bring down
its shoes literally bursted out at the toe. She
wants several pairs to take home for trial,
and l notice that the only ones consider
unsuitable are the pair she prefers. Children
would have better-looking feet if they had
wiser mothers, and the fault lies in the first
shoes worn One pair short will ruin the feet
no matter how loose subsequent ones may
be, after the little people have laid
foundation for corns and bunions. know
many children between and years
who have both these Affections because their
mothers wanted them to look cute as they
term this phrase Of foot-squeezing.
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Rot q Hasterniece.
IC,hicapo Tribune I


Charles OConor is said to have recently
endured half an hour or so of undiscrininat-
ing praise of John Howard Payne The
dreary dissertation led up to particularly
painful recitation Of Home, Sweet Home"
with INTERCEPTED comments and CALCULATIONS
of praise "Don'tyou think that is a master
pieceg' the elocutionist inquired quite raptur-
ously. 81 do mot" was the blunt reply; at
is doggerel, and you would know it if you
had any judgment at all about poetry"
There is nothing more nonsensicI in the
whole history Of literature, the venerable
lawyer is represented as saying, than the
fame given to Payne for those rhymes.
There isn't thought in them worth pre-
serving beyond the old and worldwide one
Of the sweetness of home There isn't any
excellence Of language or structure. The
piece as whole is on q par with the senti-
mental song of the negro Ministries. The
tune is all that has kept the word. from
oblivion, and that was an old Siciifan air,
stolen by Payne. Unrewarded geniusa Payne
hadn't any; and if he was able 10 make fair
living, as he did, out Of his commonplace
writings, be got all the reward that be de-
servedn
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family who might happen to occupy the bed
would think nothing of screening himself and
retiring for the night, while group of NOR
rymakers, not fifteen feet distant, were dis
cussing the relative merits of an Anderson
and a Mather, or dilating on some new
opera or publication. AL sensitiveness about
using the fancy screens of the day has
passed, and madame is not the least discon-
certed as she makes. her toilet for the COM
pany waiting for her on the other side.
Those days of limited accommodation have
returned, and although there may always be
suggestion of something" on the other
side, society is rapidly getting used to it. 1t
is piece of exceeding kindness and fore
thought that prompts hotel men to supply
their bridal chambers with large folding
screen for the convenience and comfort of
the newly-wedded bride.
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A SiaIgy Girl.
TChicago Times.1

Under the present order of things, should
the novelist go into the highways and resorts
of the world to study reality, he will find
many a daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
and the most divinely fair, who when her
lips are opened, viii dispel the charm of her
presence and bring to mind the old fairy tale
of the dansel from whose lips dropped toads
and snakes at every word; who acknowledged
no law of etiquette but her own whim; whose
standard Of regard to others is her own con-
venience; whose greatest virtue is indifference,
and whose best charm is absence. 1t is true
that at summer resorts there are charming
and lovely girls, but their refined presence
is completely overshadowed by the pushinr,
noisy vulgarity of the registering girl of the
period, the girl whose family is often excel
lent, whose advantage socially and educa-
tionally have been all that position and
wealth could command, yet who remains to
the end vulgar, selfish, and obtrllsiye,
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Adjourned Meeting.

ST. PAUL, September is, 1883.
Board met st 2 p. m. pursuant to ad-
iournment Of the 18th inst.
Present: Messrs. Hoyt, Koch, Terry and
Mr.. President.
Absent: Messrs. Barrett and Peters.
Bids were opened and read for ssprink-
ling Summit avenue, between its intersec-
ton with Day ton avenue on the north and
Ramsey street on the south, until Novem-
Der 1, 1888, as follows, to-wit:
Warren Carpenter .............. $4,000
Warren Carpenter being the''only bidder,
and his bid being deemed. too nigh upon
motion the same was rejected.
In the matter of the vote on the 10 inst.
by which the order of Council to Board
for formal report on grading Conway
street from Commercial street to Mendoza
was ordered to be returned to said Council
with adverse repors. The same was upon
motion reconsideIed and upon further
motion said matter was laid over until the
oath inst.
Order of Council TO Board for formal
report Oh grading Cedar street from
Twelfth street to Bluff street was referred
10 the Engineer for plan and estimate OF
cost, and he having anticipated and sub
mitted the same the Board ordered said
matter sent to the Council with the follow
ing report, to:wit:
To the Common Council Of the City of st.
Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had
under consideration the resolution or
order of the Common Council approved
January 18th, 1883, relative to the grading
of Cedar street, from Twelfth street to
Bluff street, and having investigated the
proposed improvement, respectfully re-
port that said improvement is necessary
and proper, that the estimated expense
thereof is 81, 600 one-half of which need not
be paid into the City Treasury before the
contract is let; that real estate to be as
sessed therefor can be found benefited to
the extent of the costs and expenses Eeces-
sary to be incurred thereby, that said i'm
prevement is not asked for by petition
of majority of the owners of property to
be assessed therefor, but We herewith send
a plan or profile of said improvement.
and an order for your adoption, if you de-
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Men WHO Throw light on the Labor
Question.
WAL Street News.1

Some day tie senate committee on labor
will have Russell Sage before it in the witness
box, and the examination viii lead off with:
Lets see-ah-Mr. Sage, you were the
poor sou of poor farmer up i'll New Hamp-
shire!"
Il was"
"Had to study your books by the light Of
corncob ire!'
81 did"
event barefoot in winter and ragged in
summer, and up to your eighteenth year you
never had fifty cents to your nane:n
Correct, SIR"
CAT the age of 10 you began to speculatei
You traded a 8 watch for $50 colt, and in
course Of time worked up the colt into fifty
sheep pelts and q bridled steerI'
Exactly, SIR"
"And you are now worth millionsm
Yes, few"
"All made by selling tinware from ped
dler's wagon, and removing corns and warts
at 10 cents a removed"
every dollar"
''That viii do Mr.. Sage. You and DIR.
Could and the other boys have thrown a heap
Of light on this labor question, and our graft
tude is unbounded."
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was not woman's IDEA. Even when the
sewing machine had been perfected, mans
solicitude for women did not end, for the
working of the treadle involved fatigue and
annoyance from which he thought she ought
to be relieved. For many years inventors
have been at work upon innumerable con-
trivances for operating the sewing machine,
experiments having been made with steam,
compressed air, gas, electricity, and mechan-
ical devices without end
The problem has been a most difficult one,
but it is now thought that solution has been
obtained. An Englishman named Watkins
has recently completed an invention which
can be applied to any sewing machine SO as
to keep the wheel in motion without pressure
of foot or hand. And what is the main ele-
ment of this new device? 1t is box of tape
the one thing above all others of which a
woman rather than a man ought to have
thought. 1t is steel tape to be sure, and is
wound up so as to serve as cooled spring for
use, and is prevented by ratchet and click
from releasing itself. There is a good deal of
clock-work connected with it and an in
genious method of compromising the action
of the ribbon, but it begins and ends in tape.
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Ela.1nfa paOnIe

A. correspondent of The Philadelphia Press,
noting the sudden rise and rapid growth Of
towns along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad, says: Ten years ago there was
hardly nut on the long line through Dakota.
The great majority of settlers came on the
railroad, not as the first pioneers. The
pioneers of to-day cross the Alleghanies and
the valley Of the Mississippi with all their
eastern civilization as thoroughly developed
as at home The ladies dress in the fashion
of the day. Their chinaware and glassware
are fine, and they eat with silver forks.
Some piano-fortes have already arrived, and
-thers are coming"
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POLITICAL POINTERS.

KICKING THE G. o. P. DOWN HILL.
New York Times: The corruption that
fastened upon the navy department during
the Robson period seems to be very hard
to eradicate.
NOT IN FASHION THIS YEAR.
Kirwin Independent: Congressman Has
kell, Morrill,, Perkins, and Peters, and Sen
stor Plumb were invited to attend the
Temperance Union at Topeka on the 18th
ult. This not being the prohibition year,
all of these gentlemen wrote that they ''re-
GREETED that previous engagements would
prevent their attendance. ''How fashions
do change.
WRESTLING IN THE CEMETERY.
Ionia Standards: The Republican party
at the present time is like a man who went
through cemetery whistling, when he
was suddenly stopped and told by one of
the departed spirits: You may whistle;
out you have got to come here"
WHAT CALLED HAYES TO NEW YORK.
Chicago Ne,cs: The report that Mr..
Tildeu has been elected member Of the
New York yacht club accounts for the
presence in Nsw York of r. B. Hayes, who
is supposed to be anxious to get hold of
tbs certificate of election.
HONEST JOINS SOLE LAMENT.
Utica O6Sorrer: Only one incident OF
the Ohio campaign is regretted by John
Sherman-his contribution of 800 to the
Republican fund.
HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG.
Roscoe Conklipg predicts 100000 ma-
jority for the Democratic ticket in New
York this fall.
NOT FOR SAM.
Representative Matson, of Indisna, says
Randall will not get one vote from that
state. The delegation is divided between
Cox and Carlisle.
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SOLITUDE.
lElla wheeler in The Minnel

ELLA Wheeler in The Minnehahap.1
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its .n:rth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost On the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men win seek you;
Grieve, and they turn 10 go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are merry;
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline your rectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your balls are crowded;
Feast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For large and lovely train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the harrow aisles of pain.
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From Across the sea.
IChicaco Tilnes.1

From across the sea come rumors Of the de
cline of colored hosiery and the supremacy of
white balbriggans again. 1t is also told that
brides abroad are dropping the old custom
of furnishing their trousseaux with sets upon
sets Of elaborate under-clothlng. The rule
at present prevailing limits the supply to sets
Of two dozen. The trimming is also less
elaborate than heretofore but quite as costly,
for all the lace employed must be real 20
meet the requirements of the present style.
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Loss and Gain.
CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER I.
ST was taken sick year ago
With bilious fever.'
"NIy docvor pronounced me cared, but got
sick sgain, with terrible pains in my back and
sides, and got SO bad
Could not 1nove!
shrunk!
From 22S lbs. to 100! had been doctoring
for my liver, but it did me good. 1 did not
expect to live more than three months. be-
gan to use Hop Ritters. Directly my appetite
returned, my pains left me, my entire system
seemed renewed as if by magic, and after using
several bottles 1 am not only ssound as sover-
eign but weigh more than l did before. To Hop
Bitters owe my life.''
e. FITZPATRICK.
Dublin, June 8, 1881.
How TO GET SIO1.-E1pose ourself day and
night; eat too much without exercise; work too
hard without rest; doctor all the time; take ali
the vile nostrums advertised, and then you will
want to know ho,v to get 1ceu, which is answered
in three words-Take Hop Bitters
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The Use of Canned Goods.
Mrs. ". Ferrin in Housekeeper.1

LMTS. ". FerTIn N FiOusekeeper.I
As to canned goods in tins the weight Of
the evidence is that there can be no danger
to health in the use of such food, put up by
large firms, even though there be inside
solder, unless a can is opened and its con-
tents, or any part of them, allowed to stand
in it to be used again. As long as the can is
sealed the fruit is safe and cannot be injured
or deco1npose. When a can is opened the
contents should be emptied into glass or
earthen dish. The acid Of fruit in opened
cans viii, it is said, produce poison, SO after
opening the fruit should not remain in the
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Distance and Time

L1NcW OTk SuuJ
Gan Old Subscriber asks: "What is the
distance between Sandy Hook and Queens
town, Irelanda' and "What is the quickes
time the distance has been covered by any
Steamship
The exact distance by the shortest route is
2. 7S3 miles, but steamers, as q rule, so far
enough south of this line to make the dis
lance covered about 100 miles greater, or
2,943 miles. The quickest trip was that made
by the Alaska in May last, eastward bound.
Time & DAYS is honrs 81 Minutes
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How the Kitchen 1Eay Be Improved.

rs. NJ" in American Agricultural
The question is, what shall be done to the
kitchen to make it bright and attractive, and
the suggestions given are intended particu-
larly for country kitchens, which seem to be
very often the thoroughfare, if not the rest
ing-place for the family. Vines, of course,
would be in the way in the summer, and at
that time they are not needed SO much, as the
kitchen doors are frequently draped with
honey-suckles Or morning glories on the out
side, as well as the kitchen windows. But in
the winter, when it IS cold and cherries out.
side, and the graceful vines have turned into
brown, dead-lookng stalks, try to have some
thing green and fresh in the kitchen. Train
vine, if only sweetpotato vine, on one of
the windows, and besides, having saved all
the empty cans from canned fruit or veget-
ables, paint a couple of them red; have two
holes bored in each near the top. through
which to rung the strings, by which they are
to be suspended over the window. In one
plant Wandering jew" or Tradescantia,
so easy to grow from slips, and which will
soon run On the SIDES, making it athing of
beauty; and In the other, which must be
nearly full of water, lay an old sponge or
piece OF white cotton, over which sprinkle
flax seeds thickly, keeping the cotton moist
where they are sown. In two or three weeks
these will sprout, and the cotton viii be COW
cred with beautiful green messy looking
growth.
Save the old kitchen chairs; cut off the
broken backs close to the seats, also the lower
part of the legs, to make them a convenient
or comfortable height. Then make bag the
size Of the seat, of some old ticking and other
material, and stuff it with fine shavings or
slivered h1lsks, and after mailing it securely
on the seats, cover with bright cretonre OF
chintz. The former can be bought for 70 or
25 cents yard, and would be forwarded
from city store on sending the order and
giving an idea of the ground color wanted.
Two or three palm leaf fans painted bright
red would decorate the wall very prettily If
the edges are worn, they can be bound with
some material Of the same color. The lower
part of the dresser would look well, if, in
stead of being covered with the usual pieces
of scalloped newspapers, it were covered with
a strip of crash towelling, the ends fringed
out, and hanging down about a quarter of a
yard or SO, and the centre ornamented with
@ large letter in red cotton or worsted en-
robbery
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John, DrtSht's Appetlte.
lC1icago Tribune. I

A Brahma missionary to England gives
this description of John Bright: John
Bright eats his breakfast Ike lion, and di-
gests it too; but he doesn't drink. He is
broad, middle-sized mar, with great soft
hands and an enormous appetite. have seen
him finish of, the plentiful morning meal
with half a jug of milk and y good lump of
sugar, which he puts into his mouth some
what surreptitiously."
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Senseiess Invitations.
Nov Vol nro-I,o1


"Come and see me-" or 'fCome and see u.s.
"any time" Now, ."any time" is generally
very poor time. "Any time" may mean
when the party is otherwise engaged, or for
some cause the very last time the party wants
to see you. fyour company is entertaining
or valuable, it is worth setting time for.
"Any time, !" meaning no set time, involves
calling when other parties are present, who
will take ell the pleasure out of your visit.
Seeing friend who amounts to anything So
cialy means seeing him, and not the other
half-dozen with him. At least, with such as
have passed out of the era of gregarious
social existence, which can digest mixed
gathering of wheat and chaff, or good, bad
and Indifferent altogether The pleasure of
social intercourse between two individuals is
also dependent on rule and regulation. and
requires not only that the two see each other
alone and undisturted by other presence, but
that the two see each other in their best curfdi-
ton, and not tagged out or exhausted
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WHEAT IN SIGHr."

Il Prominent lHit,0aui;ee Operator On
'Chamgs Fakes Exception TO the syssen IN
Vogue Of COmputim0the TtsiJge AappIy.
Evening Wisconsin.
There's a great deal of able-bodisd
lying being done in regard to the
amount of wheat in sight this year." re-
marked j. B. Oliver to q Wisconsin re-
porter this morning; 'a great many false
estimates are current. Take the weekly
report Of the visible supply in this country
for instance; it is based upon a probably
false system OF calculation. The wheat
that comes into Kansas City now,
takes two days to reach st. Louis. 1t is
shipped thence to Toledo, which it reaches
in two days more. Then it goes forward
to its ultimate destination, which it reaches
in q few days more. In the estimates Of
the visible supply this wheat is counted
four times. The practice Is to count it as
being twenty days on rail out of Kansas
City, twenty days more out of st. Louis,
and twenty days more out of Toledo, and
1t figures besides this in the stock in store
at its ultimate point Of destination. 1t is
counted four times, while it ought to be
counted only once. Last year this state of
things did not prevail, as Kansas and Mis-
souri, wheat went through by southern
routes to New York and Philadelphia.
This year the Wabash system is making u
cut in rates, which causes it to get the
traffic.
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"A Sewing Machine Motor.
New York Tribune. ]

IIScW ItIUuHC.1
Gentle woman has often been reproached
FOR her lack of inventive skill. The various
.aborsaving appliances of the kitchen are
invariably the work Of man, and even the
sewing machine, which has released fair
fingers from unendin2 toll and drudgery.
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DONTDIE IN THEHOUSE

"Rough ON Rats" Clear out rats, mice,
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants moles, chipmonks,
gophers. 15c.
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Many silly people despise the precious,
not understanding it." But no one despises
Kidney-Wort after having given it a trial.
Those who have used it agree that it is by far
the best medicine known. Its action is prompt,
thorough and lasting. Don't take pills, and
other mercurials that poison the system, but by
using Kidney-Wort restore the natural action OF
all the organs.
'Ths Aert President"
AN OHIO DEMOCRAT SAYS HE Is AT THE EBBITs
HOUSE.
Washington Star.
s'Tha next President of the United States
is stopping st the Ebbit," said promin-
ent Ohio Democrat this morning.
"Who is hep" asked the Star reporter.
sAllan G. Thurman" was the response.
''I regard his nomination IS almost as
sured," continued the Ohioan, and he
would be elected. Where else can the
Democrats GO? The Catholics cry
out against Mcdonald, Bsyard
halls from too small q
state, Cleveland isn't heavy enough, and
Thurman Just fills the bill. He san carry
Ohio next year, and I look upon him as
the next President"
sMay he not be elected senator?, quer-
led the reporter.
ssNo; he will not enter the field. He
does not want tie place, and he has too
much sense to mix himself up in the fac
tional fight over it. Pendleton will be re-
elected"
"Is Thurman's health good? the reporter
inquired.
eyes, it is" was the emphatic reply.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-05-03
Notes from IorrX.

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;n w,;,.h !, In. an, ~ 81, n wa" ~,
m,.,,ars Of connr.,nIa,;on r, at aJ al
the ,h;rd ra;n in Ali ,ri u.aa ,b.
hos, n9 aiI W. b,re :, ra,nor,' ,ha,
IT,. ali n., -, E,;'I. -, T, va.
,,... an.I E,;Jars o''
~,
Inc cat.ie herds are again consigned
10 the prairies ior the growing months;
me cattle ranges IN TINS locality used
10 De without metes ana bounds; but
10" there Is race LOT tneiii, anu IKE