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The Uses OF an Enemy.


Kew. DR.. Deems.
Always keep an enemy on hand-a brisk,
hearty, active enemy.
Remark the uses of an enemy:
!. The having one Is proof that you are some
body. Wishy-washy, empty, worthless people
never have enemies. Men who never move never
run against anything; and when a man is thor
oughly dead and utterly buried, nothing ever
runs against him. To be run against is proof
of existence and position; to run against some
thing is proof of motion.
2. An enemy is, to say the least, not partial to
you He will not fatter. He will not eXaggerate
your virtues. 1t is very probable that he will
slightly magnify your faults. The benefit of
that is twofold; it is to permit you to know that
you have faults, and are, therefore,, not a mon
ster, and it makes them of such size as to be
visible and manageable. Of course, II YOU have
a fault, you desire to know it, when you become
aware that you have a fault, you desire to cor
rect 1t, Your enemy does for you this valuable
work which your friend cannot perform.
3, In addition, your enemy keeps you wide
awake. He does not let you sleep at your post.
There are two that always keep watch-namely.
the lover and the hater. Your lover watches
that you may sleep. He keeps off noises, ex-
cludes night, adjusts surroundings that nothing
may disturb you. Your Halter watches that you
may not sleep. He stirs you up when you are
mapping. He keeps your faculties on the alert.
Even when he does nothing he will have put you
in such a state of mind that you cannot tell what
he will do next, and his mental qui vive must be
worth something.
4. He is a detective among your friends.
You need to know who your friends are, and
who are not, and who are your enemies. The
last of these three will discriminate the other
two. When your enemy goes to one who is
neither friend nor enemy, and assails you, the
indifferent one will have nothing to say or chime
in, not because he is your enemy, but because it
is so much easier to assent than to oppose, and
especially than to fefute. But your friend will
take up cudgels for you on the instant. He
will deny everything and insist on proof,
and proving is very hard work. There is
not a truthful man in the world that could
afford to undertake to prove one-tenth of all his
assertions. Your friend will call your enemy to
the proof; and if the Indifferent person, through
carelessness, repeats the assertions of your
enemy, he is soon made to feel the Inconvenience
thereof by the zeal your friend manifests. Fol
low your enemy around and you will find your
friends, for he will develop them so that they
cannot be mistaken.
The next best thing to having a hundred real
friends is to have one open enemy.
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Critical Woman, in Detroit Times.
Is the question what class of women have the
smallest and p~rettiest feet really worth the at
tention it receives from the press2 The feet of
women are occupying a good deal of space in
newspapers of late. There seems to be a revival
of interest in the sizes, quality and styles of
their shoes, and a disposition to check the feet
off into nationalities as French, German,
English, American, giving the palm, of course,
TO the American, with the usual Yankee Doodle
accompaniment. If the newspapers in the edito-
rial charge of women were to make such a raid
on the feet of men, fancy the howl Of derision
which would arise all over the Union about the
inferior and frivolous character of feminine
journalism.
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Lord Lyndhurst,s PietY

Sir J. Martins Life of Lord Lyndhurst.
One morning went into his room with some
message Of request, and was witness to a little
scene that | shall never forget. He was in his
easy chair, with a grave, almost a solemn ex-
preston on his face, so intent on his employ
ment that my presence was unnoticed. Before
him, the church prayer-book held open by both
her small hands, stood his youngest daughter, OF
seven or eight years of age, hearing him repeat
the prayers, and now and then prompting and
correcting him.. The old mantle Judge and
statesman-and the little child so occupied, made
a picture that could not be seen without bring.
ing tears to the eyes. He liked no one TO hear
his lesson, he said, but his little girl.
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VERSAILLES, Ind, March 20.
The Temperance Issue in Politics.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
In the Journal of the 18th instant "a Repub-
lican Prohibitions" propounds some questions to
me, and L ask the privilege of a little space for
an answer. He calls himself a friend of my
youth" Whether he be, l cannot tell, seeing he
lacked courage to attach his name. II he be a
Prohibitionist I can scarce guess, He does not
write like one. If the sentiments he utters are
those of Republican Prohibitionists, then Pro-
coed at once to organize a third party, for it is
evident that there is nothing to hope for, at
present, from the Republican party.
This, however, | do not believe. Principle
and expediency will unite in leading to &C ton,
next summer, which will satisfy Prohibitionists,
1 predict. 1 did not, nor can l place both par
ties on equal footing" The Democratic party
acceded to the demands of the Liquor League,
and got the solid vote of all the league. The
Republican party made some concessions to Pro
hibitionists-bu many of the Republican speak
ers all over the State apologized for it
in undertones, three senators in a critical
place defed the platform, and scores of Re
publican leaders have ever since been abjectly
ON their knees before the Liquor League.
trying TO win them back and keep Prohibition
lists too. and crying, 'Good Lord. good devil
The majority of temperance men are in the Re
publican party and will stay there if they can.
But they will not stay there at the entreaties of
spineless party leaders, who use them as cats
paws" for party success, only to break their
promises when expedient.
Once upon a time the Wing party was too
eoWardly to meet the living issues Of the day
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faith in God will cure them if they are to be
cured. The result is neglected homes, and great
damage to the unhappy enthusiasts themselves,
both in health and character. 1t is said that a
distinguished Roman Catholic priest has re
Gently caused himself to be introduced to some
of these women, and that startling conversions to
Rome will soon follow. 1t is to be hoped that
the report is true. The Roman Catholic Church
has a place for such poor creatures. and their
emotions are directed in comparatively safe
channels. A Roman Catholic priest is a much
safer guide than a Protestant clergyman of
coarse nature, when he attains the personal as
tendency over women. which one comparatively
unknown clergyman of this city is said to have
obtained.
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Why BIeached Hair Is Going Out of Fashion.

Talk with q PHYSICIAN
''Some women rapidly lose memory-fail to re-
call faces OF names, or both. They lose appetite
and have to resort to beer or a stimulant; lose
sleep, which is worse than all. They fall victims
to insomnia in its most aggravated forms, and
the last and most dreadful warning is the loss of
eyesight; they become perfectly blind. They
will attribute all these frightful sufferings to a
hundred causes but the right one, and their hus-
bands are being told all the time that the only
blondine they use is a little soda, common alkali
barsoap or salts Of tartar. But finally, when
almost bald, with red, watery eyes andconstantly
aching heads, they awake to a realizing sense of
what they are doing to kill themselves by inches
to become a problematical beauty. All men do
not admire yellow-haired women by any means.
For my part, and | think the majority of men
think with me, woman is only worthy of admira-
ton when just as nature left her, without tam
pering with it at all, no matter what her com
plexion. Besides, it is questionable taste in
ladies of correct life and standing, since they fol
low the mad pranks of those who, lost to all de
eency, would do anything to attract attention
They started bangs, and straightway all women
cut off their front hair"
well, you make this out a serious matter, to
be sure. Have you enumerated all the dread re
sultsl"
mo; there is one l have been 10th to speak
of-lunacy! Yes, horrible as it may sound to
you. the asylums are filing up with incurable
maniacs brought to that pass by using hair
washes and bleaches. This begins by nervous
attacks periodically when in an unhealthy state.
Then they begin to have Mysteries more often;
husbands are puzzled to know how to deal with
a wife who bursts into tears at the slightest
provocation and fall right back on the floor or
bed. 1t is a swift road to downright, gibbering
insanity, for which science has not yet thought
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GERHARD AND LANGTRY.
They Have QuaTreled Seriously, and Will
Never Make 1t Up.

Never MAKE HI up
Trenton IN. J.) Special.
A Trenton newspaper published a letter from
a gentleman in Philadelphia, who processes to
know the inside of the trouble between Gerhard
and Mrs. Langtry. The gentleman says: "Geb-
hard was not to blame. He probably put up
with more coquetry from her than any man ever
put up with from woman before without blow
ing out his brains. Gebhard was more init
mately acquainted with Mrs. Langtry than any
man save her husband, and notwithstanding
Gebhard did many foolish things in his
devotion for her, and subjected himself to uni
versal ridicuie, yet in the end he has proven him
self more of a man than she has shown herself
to be q woman. Gebhard was thrown over
mercilessly. There is no doubt about that, but
he has the satisfaction, if it can be called that,
of knowing that no one has taken his place by
the side of the Prince of Wales pet in the past.
When Mrs. Langtry first came to this country l
saw a great deal of her while she was travelling
from city to city. l saw Gerhard, too, and
know personally of many little acts of devotion
that he was guilty of which looked silly
because at the time it was coming from a
millionaire TO a pretty pauper. Mrs. Langtry
never loved Freddie Gebhard, but Freddie Geb-
hard did love Mrs. Langtry. She is not happy
now. She is quite unhappy. 1t is to be seen by
the me chanical life she leads now, compared
with the gay whirl of excitement she lived in
when Gerhard was ready to execute her slight
est and greatest wish. A friend of Gebhard in
this city has told me that there will never be
any reconciliation between Langtry and Geb-
hard because Gebhard is too proud and unbend-
ing TO ever yield, and because he has found that
Mrs. Langtry is an actress off the stage, even if
she is not one on the stage.
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LINCoLN's APPOINTMENTS.
The Resignation of Chase, and How FessendeI
Succeeded Him.

The Resignation of Chase, and How Fessenden
Succeeded Him.
l.. Il. Chit:enden, in Lewiston (Ne.) Journal.
l tried to induce Lincoln to let me mediate be-
tween himself and Chase to take back his reSig-
nation. l said to Lincoln: Now, there isn't
another man living who is equal to the task. >
Lincoln replied: This government doesn't de-
pend on the life of any one man, or any ten men.
If we should all die tomorrow there would be
ten men who could do it as we'll as We" l didn't
feel so. That night was about as sad a night as
/ ever passed in my lifel The next morning |
went over very early to the White House. well, !"
said Lincoln, you have got a Secretary" Said
i: 'FWho is he!" oh, you will like him; he's
just the man for the place. L shouldn't wonder
if he would be in here in a few minutes"
While he was talking Fessenden rushed in, as
white as a sheet. Said he: II can't won't
there's no use-theres no use of talking about
til am a sick man, and so on.
Mr.. Lincoln got up-threw his arm over FEES
senden's shoulders. 1t was so long you would
think it was going around him three or four
times. Said he: Pitt, every time ! have seen
my way clear to make an appointment, it has
been just as / predicted. My mistakes have
been when | have listened to other people. Last
night / saw my way clear to appoint you Secre-
tary of the Treasury. You are as certainly
called to this place by the Almighty as any man
ever is when He employs human means to bring
things about"
Lincoln spoke it not with any put-e on solemn
ty: there was an eaTnestnesS about it that FEES
sender or anybody else couldn't resist. He stood
there a few minutes with his head down. Mr..
Lincoln continued talking, and said: you are
in the regular line of promotion. Chase has
been before you constantly"
Finally Fessenden said: Il will think of it."
mo you won't! It's y o'clock now" said Lin
coin. Your commission will be here in a few
minutes. Get ready"
Lincoln in a minute changed the whole thing,
and Fessenden was signing warrants by Il
o'clock.
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Prize Winner.
A desirable prize is awarded Sadie Roberts
Foot Notes

Foot Notes.
G. NJ. gives a trio of good puzzles. We thank
him.
n. r. Ave are thankful for the puzzles.
Will use the remainder next week. Call often.
SADIE ROBERTS is a new friend. who sends a
perfect list of answers. We hope she will call
often.
GRIP" has started a puzzle department in
the Cleveland Messenger, for which contribu-
tons are solicited from all puzzlers. Address
Puzzle Editor Messenger, No. l45 st. Clair
street, Cleveland, o." Specimens of the paper
will be sent.
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u IVTN u
1t is whispered around n fashionable circles
that certain prominent society women will no
more be seen in places Of harmless public amuse-
ment, and that they will even retire from the
ordinary rela Us Of private life. They are not
devoting themselvesso much to good works, pure
and simple, as they are to emotional worship.
For instance, they believe in faith cures, and
they attend services in queer places, where
the excitement runs high. and where the sick
are healed by simple exercise of faith. Several
Of these enthusiasts, Of the best families,
declare that they viii never again cali
an physicians to attend them-that their
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out a cure-the cause is so new. ] see that for
a long time, in London and Paris, women have
bleaehed their babies heads, and that this per-
nicious trick is being done here. Such mothers
should be deprived Of their children as being I'M
fit custodians of them. The effect will be a lot
of imbeeile young women. We are a brown
haired nation, and handsomer than any faxen-
haired Morse men or women ON earth, and our
brains should not be Slapped up in trying to
initiate the peasantry Of Bavaria, Austria or
Sweden.
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hUtTTOdH WdNHIUI1V
There is an overproduction of lawyers, politi-
clans, spectators and non producers, and an un-
der production of skilled mechanics and practi
cal, progressive farmers. There Is an overpro-
duction of oficeholders. who travel on free rail
road passes and who grow wealthy while pro-
without other business or other visible in
Gomez
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No. 1929. -London.
No 1QgO
Original Puzzles.


NO. 1049-cHARADE.
My first is to argue or debate.
And is done by men early and late,
To discuss, investigate, and plead,
And by deep sophistries to try to lead
The minds of judges right or wrong.
Kings are surrounded by my second:
And by its size their powers are reckoned.
When kings and lords in state draw nigh,
My second eringe, and smile, and sigh,
And pay my second to them.
My whole is where a mass of men
Meet to try, by tongue or pen,
The issues of a fancied cause,
According to real or fancied laws,
Their object being practice.
HoBRIEvILLE, Ind. ERMINA.
Nc. 1050.-QUADRUPLE CROSSWORD.
In biscuits, not in dough-
In teach, not in know;
In crockery, not in tin;
In barrel, not in bin;
In strawy, not III shin;
1t makes my mouth water to think Of them,
They are so very good;
They seem to melt on the fellows tongue;
For the gods they are fit for food!
With sugar, and flooded with sweet rich cream,
They are so good that-well-
How light, delicious and sweet they are,
Boys, words fail to tell!
SILVER LAKE, Ind. AMOS QUITo.
NO. 1051.-NUMERIcAL ENIGMA.
My whole, of fourteen letters, was a celebrated
author.
My 1, 2, II, IA, I is a game.
My ), 9, 10, IL is part of a chain.
My 10, 3, 4, 6 is anxiety.
My u, 13, Sis the last. N. R. A.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.
NO. 1O52.-REcEIPT.
Mix well one-third Of an ant, one-half of a cart,
one-fourth of a hill, two-eighths of an umbrella,
and you will have a President of the United
States. c. M.
NO. 1053.-A
/. In construct.
2. To remain.
3. A diadem.
4. To wander from the right.
,. In man. c. N.
No. 1054-ENiGMATIcAL BIRDS.
!. An insect; a corrosive.
3. A fowl; an article; likewise.
3. A girls nickname; an article of food.
T. A metal; a bird.
5. Darkness; a proposition; a song (obs,)
JAMESTOWN, Ind. c. NJ.
NO. 1055.-CHARADE.
My first is a wave or a billow so large
That 1t washes and rolls over ship, brig or
barge.
My seconds the fond fathers Joy and pride,
The child of his bosom, the heir of his bride.
My whole is a period. a division of time,
That seems to bring with it a changing of
cline. ERMINA.
NO. 1O56.-soUARE.
l. A fambeau. ?. Dramatic entertainment.
3. To direct attention A. A plant. :. Rough.
JAMESTOWN, Ind. DELL.
NC. 1-05I.-CENTRAL H~oUR-GLAss
X
Xxx D X
XOX
X OK
X X o
X X o X X X
L. Commander of a regiment.
2. Circumference
3. To unite.
4. A letter.
5. A swamp.
6. A point in which rays of light meet.
Z. A workman.
river. DEL.
ANSWERS in three weeks.
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DETROIT IIInes.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
declared Oscar Wilde's photograph to be a work
Of art. Great Scott! The next thing we shall
hear is that judicial opinion has affirmed that
Lydia Pinkham's electrotype adjoining the col
and virtue. as Mrs. Darlington would remark.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.

Everything relating to this department must
be addressed to W. H. GRAHAM, West Scarbor-
ough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original con
tributions and answers to each weeks puzzles
are solicited from all
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A GREAT benefit has been secured to the poor
by the introduction of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,
for it now takes only twenty-five cents to cure u
cough, when formerly doctor bills alone amount
ed to dollars.
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READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Mother and Child.

Children are what their mothers are;
No fondest fathers fondest care
Can fashion 50 the infant heart
AS those creative beams that dart.
With all their hopes and fears, upon
The cradle of a sleeping son.
Walter Savage Lander.
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A Cough. Gold or Sore Throat

Should not be neglected. Browns Bronchial
Treches are a simple remedy, and give prompt,
relief; Is cents a box, y
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By Sadie Roberts, indianapolis, Nos. 1925 to
1920 inclusive.
By C. NJ, jamestown, Nos. 1925, 1925, 1927,
1929, 1890.
By Dell, Nos. 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929.
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Our Prizes


l. First complete list, a book.
2. Next best list, fifty cards with any name
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Answers to Puzzles.

No. 1O25,-Let our frail thoughts daily witt
false surmise.
No. 1026.-Bob olink.
No. l02I.-Popocatepetl, Iztaecihault.
No. 1028.-
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CA NJ E r A D E S
A L L I E S
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ACES
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l. Commander of a regiment.
2. Circumference
3. To unite.
4. A letter.
5. A swamp.
6. A point in which rays of light meet.
T.. A workman.
CENTRAL-A river. d
ANSWERS in three weeks.]
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05

The all absorbing theme to Amer
leans, this week, and Of no small
erest to the world genelally-is'
efe result OF the republican Nal-
ional Convention meeting in Chi
cage. The great city ever at a boil
ing point, now literally boils over
with expectation and anxious ex-
element, and the fifty millions of
spectators outside keenly watch for
the rising of the curtain. The ex-
citement is not to be wondered at;
the real wonder is there is not more
of it, when we consider the intense
danger to European society that
always arises when there is only the
faintest flaw showing i'll the line of
succession of any old world Empire
or monarchy. So great as are the
individual interest involved by
change in the Executive in this
country the complete order &C
companying such change is more
than commendable =! Republican
institutions. ~
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

There will be some big cities in
East Tennessee at the end of a
generation. We know it down South
from watching the great yearly
growth of settlers and manufactures
in our several cities. Up North,
too, the shrewd capitalist, and the
keen observer of things, not only
has both eyes but both hands upon
us. Still the great bulk, the very
great bulk, of the immigrants 90
West, and for the reason that
Southern efforts to obtain the
money and muscle of the hard
working and smaller capitalists of
the old world, are feeble and few
indeed compared with the almost
fierce activity Of western and north
western agents.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05

The Dominion of Canada is hay
ing considerable trouble with the
rising and active Province of Man
itoba. The claims of Province, in
volving the control of public lands,
and school lands, the right to char
ter railways within her limits, and
the extension of the boundary of the
Province to Hudson's Bay, are all
fatty refused. The concessions
granted are the gift of uninhabitable
swamp lands, 10000 acres to the
Manitoba University, and a read
justment of the capital account by
an increase to the subsidy of $780,
600. These gifts, too, are to finally
settle all demands against the
Dominion. Much indignation and
"tall talk are the result so far.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05

There has been a pitiable display
of defaulting bank presidents, sec
retares, and cashiers, since the
financial panic in Wall Street, From
all parts Of the country, from large
concerns and from small, INTEL
igence comes of broken trusts and
abscondmg business men, as little
creditable to the Nation at home
and abroad as it is to the concerned
individuals.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05

The coming Exposition at New
Orleans is daily assuming larger
proportions. and competent judges
say it will be the largest, finest and
most complete of amy that the world
has seen. Here is a grand oppor-
tunity for State advertising, but one
that has only been partially accepted
by our own magnificent State OF
Tennessee.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-05

The Tennessee River is a thousand
miles in length. 1t is navigable for
eight hundred miles, and, with its
tributaries, traverses eight States.
The region traversed has eleven
thousand square miles of coal, iron
ore in almost every locality, gold,
nickle, zinc, copper, lead, marble,
fire=clay, limestone, sandstone
building-stone, and yellow pine
forests, practically untouched.