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Young Loves Heroic Test.
From the Chicago Tribune
kiss ME again"

| kiss ME again."
Sibyl Sartoris spoke these words in a
grave calm manner that betokened the
serious import in which she held them,
and as Herbert Holdfast bent tenderly
forward and pressed his lips softly to
hers she looked up to him in q shy,
cat-on-the- back-fence fashion that had
SO bewitched him in his golden-hued
days of courtship-those days when oil
the world seemed filled with sunshine,
when every breeze spoke in whispers
of hislove for this beautiful girl, and,
the cloudless skies seemed only to re-
fleet the deeper azure of her eyes.
There was no deception in the pure
nature of this girl, and every act was
the result of reflection, often profound.
Brought up in Boston, she had all her
life been accustomed to put to its
best use the power of d~iscernment which
o thoughtful mind gave her. Sur
rounded rs she was by the mystic in
fiuence of Emerson, the Concord School
of Philosophy, and several large ware
houses where mackerel were sold, it is
small wonder that when, standing on
the threshold of womanhood, she be-
held suitors for her heart and hand APP
proach; she had analysed with critical
care the hopes and fears of each-had
subjected the character OF each wooer
to the rigid scrutiny of a mind that,
seated cross-legged on the starry sum
init of psychological research, looked
upon man as only yivitied protoplasm,
and the deepest emotions of the heart
as merely the manifestations of a too
active nerve center.
Herbert knew this. He knew that
this gir]-the rounded curves of whose
figure and the dewy sweetness of whose
lips would have made an anchorite leave
his job without a pang-had naught of
passion in her nature. And so when he
complied-oh, SO gladly-with her re-
quest, there stalked from out the ban
quet halls Of his imagination where they
had so long been unwelcomed guests the
sleeted ghosts of Doribt and Apprehen-
sion. He knew now that Sibyl loved
him with q love that, would never fall
tDr OF fall-a love that, securely built
upon a foundation of respect and admir-
alton, was now crowned with the large,
roomy, mansardr root of q deathless, lev
exchanging passion. Her words proved
it. Never before had she even SO much
as limited at a kiss, and when he had
sought to take n she had submitted to
his caresses more as a dutiful wife than
an ardent lover. But now all was
changed, and it was she who sought the
bliss that a large, well regulated, three
story and basement kiss alone can give.
The thought was ecstacy.
"You love me better to-day, Sibyl,"
he said, "then you did yesterday. Is it
not SO, darling"
NO." she answers, standing there
calm and pulseless as a clam at high
tide,
"Then why" he says, did you ask
me to kiss you?"
Because Sibyl replies, IT desired
to ascertain whether or not you had
been drinking Medford rum
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Witty Waits.

Glow do you pronounce ts-t-i-n-
g-y|"asked the teacher of the Ounce Of
the class. The boy replied, at de-
ponds a good deal whether the word re-
fers to q person or a bee."
"What is a lake?" asked the teacher.
A bright little Irish boy raised his hand.
"Well, Mickey, what is it?" "Sure it's
n hole in the kettle num-"
A co%untryman was sowing his ground
when two smart fellows came riding by,
one of whom called out, with an insolent
air.
"Well, my good man, It's your bust
ness to SOW; but we reap the fruits of
your labor"
The rustic replied, otis very like you
may, for just now I'm sowing hemp"
"Do you believe that a woman nova
days would die for the object of her
loye?" asked a bachelor friend. 81
don't know whether she'd die or not,
answered the benedict, "butIve known
her to go wild when the trimming didn't
suit her. Newport News.
Can a man marry a deceased wife's
sister in any part of America Mot un-
less the sister is willing, and as a gen.
eral thing she isn't. She knows him toe
we'll.
ST have no wealth. she said; ST can
giveyou only my hand andheart." And
then he thought that if her heart was
as big as her hand he IVES indeed
wealthy.
Little Aggie's sister had invited her
young man to tea. There was a lull il
the conversation, which was broken b,
the inquisitive Aggie: Papa is dost
fedders ober Mr.. Wobinson's mouf?"
Very s~trange.-Major Gale Faxor
bought a horse from the pastor of ar
Austin church, and shortly afterwards
the following conversation was heard
"Yon have swindled me with that horse
you sold me last week" "How SOP
asked the clergyman, very much sur
prised. well L only had him three
days when he died" "That's very
strange. I owned him % years, and
worked him hard every day, and never
knew him to do that while / owned
him."-Texas Siftings.
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Time on s~hipboard.

allow time is designated an shipboard
by means of bells" The t~wenty-four
hours are divided into watches of four
hours each, beginning at midnight,
when eight bells are struck Cor one bell
is struck eight times). At - 80, one
bell; at l, two bells; at l 80, three bells.
and SO on till 4 a. M, when there are
eight bells. This is repeated till the
afternoon watch, beginning at 4, which
is divided into two watches, each two
hours long. and called the first dog
watch and Second dog watch" At
the close Of the first dog watch, 6
o'clock, four bells arc rung, and at $50
one bell; and SO on adding one bell for
each half hour till eight o'clock. When
eight bells are struck. The object OF
breaking this watch in two is that the
men may have u chanceto Change off, "
cae not being on duty on the same watch
for two consecutive days. If, for ex-
ample, one hears six bells in the very
early morning, he konwsit is 8 o'clock.
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A Triumph Of Surgery.

S~kin-grafting has for some time been
successfully practiced by surgeons for
the purpose of cicatrizing unsightly
wounds, but the transportation Of flesh
is a new device in the healing art which
DR.. George F. Shrady of the Presby-
terrain hospital in New York has adopted
with signal skill. Bertha Kistler,
twenty years of age, was the subject,
and the operation involved the recon
struction Of nearly her entire face.
There wa a large hole in the cheek and
the nose and mouth were frightfully
distorted when the doctor took hold of
the case. and a years treatment and
twenty different operations were re-
CURED to make the girl q new face as it
were. The most important step in the
treatment Of the case was the filing up
Of the hole in the face. For this pur-
pose q large skin flap was wanted. 1t
was obtained by DR.. Shrady in the
following manner:
A rectangular section ofskin was par
TALLY separated from the girls left arm
apose 'ne eipow an lHclslon was MADE
IN the side OF thu {orefingerof the right
hand, extending from the first Joint
around to h thumb. The hand was
Their brought over to the left arm, and
the detached edge OF the skin flap was
seWed into the mclsion in the finger
with fine silver wire. The hand and
arm We're kept lmmoyable by plastic
bandages. In about q week the skin
tap became united to the hand, but the
nap was principally nourlshed by the
arm. 10 change the current OF nutri-
tlon the nap was gradually from the
arm, and When 1t had been nearly sew
ered rom the hnger, INC not the arm,
kept the SKIN nap ahve: Whent this be-
came apparent the entire skin Hap was
amputated from the arm. The hand,
with the 1ngrown Hap, was then brought
up TO the lace, the Scared skin on The
lett cheek was raised and the Hap was
inserted underneath. h hand was
Kept IN position by plastic bandages and
q plastic cap: In three weeks the flap
became attached to the face; the current
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charge from bankruptcy but two days
before his death.
What Men Hav. Said About wo-

What Hen Have Said About Wo-
The man who can govern . woman
can govern q nation. -Balzac.
tits easier to make all Europe agree
than two women.-Louis XIV.
God created the coquette as soon as
He had made the fool.-Victor Hugo.
A woman who has surrendered hel
lips has surrendered everYthing.-Viard
OF all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the
woman wehave ceased to love.-Lemon.
tey.
Woman is q charming creature, who
changes her heart as easily as her gloves
-Balzac.
Who takes an eel by the tail or a wo.
man at her word soon finds he holds
nothing.-Proverb.
How many would laugh at the fun
erals of their husbands if it were not the
custom to weep?
Women dece1vedb by men want to mar
ry them; it is a kind of revenge as good
IS any other.-Beaumanoir.
An asp would render its sting more
venomous by dipping it into the heart
of a coquette.-Poincelot
Rascal! That word on the lips of q
woman, addressed to a too darling man,
often means-angels.
We meet in society many attractive
women whom we would fear to make oul
wives.-D'Harleville.
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Macaulay's Opinion Of HIMSELF

II nave Written, lie wrote With great
candor, to Mocvey Napier, several
things on historical, political and moral
questions, of which, on the fullest re-
consideration, I am not ashamed, but
by which l should be willing to be esti-
mated. But / have never written q
page of criticism, on poetry or the fine
arts which / would not burn if 1 had
the power I leave it to yourself to
make the comparison. / am sure that
on reflection you will agree with me.
Hazlitt used to say to himself: i an
nothing if not critical The case with
me is directly the reverse. I have q
strong and acute enjoyment Of great
works of Imagination; but Ihave never
habituated myself to dissect them. /"
Not less sound was his estimate of his
great history. A fortnight before
its publication he wrote in
his diary: "NThe state of my own
mind is this: When I compare my W
work with what I imagine history ought
to be / feel detected and ashamed; but
when I compare it with some histories
which have a high repnte I feel reas-
sured." At a subsequent stage Of the
publication he writes: II dawdled
over my b ok most Of the day, some
times in good, sometimes in bad spirits
about it. On the whole, Think that it
must do. The only competition, so
far as / perceive, it has to dread is that
of the two former volumes. Certainly
no other history Of Williams reign IS
either 50 trustworthy or SO agreeable
The following entry is interesting: II
looked through-s two volumes. He
is, / see, an imitator OF me. But / am
o very unsafe model. My manner is, ]
think, and the world thinks, on the
whole a good one; but it is very near to
a bad manner indeed, and those charac-
teristics Of my style which are most
easily copied are the most questionable
Chambers journal,
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summer Dresses.

There is nothing particularly new in
regard to the making of the thin dresses,
the only novelty being the occaional in
PRODUCTION OF the exceedingly fashion
able waistcoat. Rut1ed skirts, with
round apron fronts and sash drapery in
the back, are still best liked, and the
half-fitting basque with vest front is the
only variation from the belted waist
with yoke of embroidery, and usually
sleeves Of embroidery also. Offering a
pretty contrast to these dainty and
deliberately embroidered dresses is one
of sheer linen lawn both simply
and oddly fashioned. A deep hem
borders the skirt, finished with
a narrow drawn-work heading. Above
the hem five tucks are placed, each
an inch deep and half an inch distant
from each other, with half of the space
or a quarter of IN inch occupied by a
band of drawn work similar 10 that
heading the hem. Severalinches above
this cluster of five tucks a similar clus-
ter of three is placed, also with drawn
work headings. The belted waist is
| luCheu DOUl Duck uuu lfOlI, WIFI Gue
hem in front made for button-holes,
finished at either side by narrow bor-
ders of drawn work. The sleeves are
also finished by tucks and drawn work,
and the wide sash encircling the waist
is made with tucked ends, similarly
decorated. The effect of the whole
dress is very odd, and the design one of
the prettiest displayed this season.
Some of the pretty sateen dresses are
made as follows: The skirt of the plain
sateen is side-pleated all the way round,
and above is a graceful Langtry polon-
aise, lcorcdhigh on each side, and trim
med from throat to hem down the front
with ajabot of Oriental lace. The pol
onaise is always of the figured sateen,
with ground matched to the skirt fabric.
The costumes in light materials adj
NIT of much more elaboration than the
heavier cloth suits or even those of
cashmere and merino, and skirts of deli
cate veilings and other such wooden
good are either entirely pleated in box,
side or accordion pleats or they are ar
ranged in q serious of puffings and gaug-
ings. Some skirts show deep pufings,
divided one from the other by three or
four rows of gauging, with a draped
puff at the back, while other new cos
tunes have no drapery whatever in
front only a sort of full short putting
round the edge of the bodice.
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House Plants.

House Plants thrive better in the
kitchen than in any other room of the
house, because of the moister atmos-
pherd that prevails here, as a result of
the steam escaping from the stove or
range utensils. In greenhouses similar
but improved conditions exist also,
which accounts for the comparative ease
found in growing plants in these
structures. These facts point to the
Importance of supplying some moisture
to the atmosphere wherever there are
plants, if W. would have fine specimens.
Watering as freely as is admissible for
their health, spoonging the leaves all
over occasionally, and setting some YES
sells of water among them, are some of
the easy ways of accomplishing this. A
sufiiciency Of moisture to suit the plants
will be not in the least injurious to the
health of persons.
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A Word to Mothers.

What the mothers of to-day need is
independence and common sense. In
these days of fashion many a woman
wears out because she is DESTROYS her
children shall have as many tucks,
iounces, plaits and frills as her neigh
boris children. Or she heats her blood
until she is tired and cross over q cook
ing range that she may prepare food
to equal or excel her near neighbors.
She, maybe, belongs to that unfortunate
class whose better half judges her from
the amount of labor which she performs.
my wife is the smartest woman in
town. She will do more work than o
man any day."
Have you not heard such remarks?
Beware, husband; nature will have
her revenge, and if you want that
"smart" woman to care for you in your
old age say the strength, stop the over
working of those strained nerves, unless
| you desire to have another fill her place.
Mothers, dress your children accord
ing to your means and ability. If your
friends 2-year-old Susie is $50 sweet
and pretty in her embroidered white
DIR esses," don't try to excel, but let your
to-year-old Flossie wear her warm, dark
WOODEN dresses, and her health will be
cared for, and she will become a more
sensible woman than Susie, whose moth
er's aim is for her baby to be admired.
We do not discard fashion when prop
erly used. Copy that happy medium
which calls for no remarks.
II you cannot dress as your neighbor
without working far into the small hours
of morning, wearing out brain and body,
for your husbands sake, make your
dress with less bands and shirrings, and
save your strength. Gas you commence,
so you must go on" is an old saying.
Make yourself a slave to fashion for a
child, and assuredly, by the time she is
Ii, your bones will ache and your spir-
it quake over the endless work of her
wardrobe. Cincinnati Saturday Night.
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they continually talk about how peopas
spent nall On hour trying to light che
nre on . cold winter morning, and often
did not succeed: In that good old time
the express train carne into town md
announcedits arrival by blowing q horn.
n it came on horseback. Then men
were blistered and BLEED and cupped, al.
whenthey had fever they could not even
have = drink Of water, unless they got 4
by fitting up the bucket when the nurse
was asleep. Now they can even have
ice. oh, what . glorious luxury to have
o mouthful Of ice while in q fever. The
fever is not a luxury, but the ice.
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An English Girls Greatest Ambi.
London Letter in New York Sun.


But there is one aim which the Eng
fish girl Keeps necessarily in view-a
good marriage. To reach it, she
changes her venue with unscrupulous
apostacy, and she hunts down her quar-
ry with relentless persistence. To pro-
pitiate the owner of a ~coronet, or mil
lions, she adiures what she has defed,
condemns to pursuits she abhors,
changes her political opinions, if she
had any, or adopts fresh convictions
with charming spontaneity wears moth
ing but primroses, or SCOTS at them,
adores the country or worships the town
extols the army or exalts the law, dotes
on beardless boys or tolerates none but
middle-aged men. Disappointments
do not rebuke her; failures spur her on
to fresh efforts, and when at last the
goal is reached, she instantaneously de-
generates into the British matron.
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when the plants are about making their

when the plants are about making their
appearance. By q regular annual dose
OF salt, nearly covering the ground, we
have known the beds to continue to af-
ford an undiminished supply for thirty
years. The fact hat the quantity Of
salt applied at nj dressing kills every
green thing growing in the bed, while
the asparagus thrives with it, shows
how kindly and naturally it takes to
the salt, asparagus being a marine
plant. Besides if the salt was of no
more service than to destroy all weeds
and other foreign plants appearing in
the bed, it would be worth all it costs,
as it is difficult matter to remove weeds
from among the asparagus shoots with
out damaging the young plants and
some of the shallower crowns, unless by
the hands, a most laborious task.-Ger-
mantown Telegraph.
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Living with ! Bullet in His Brain.

From the New-York Medical Record.
DIR. w. r. Hartford, of Beetown, Wis,
sends us the history Of q somewhat rare
case. A young man, aged 30, was shot
in the face, receiving the full charge Of
a shotgun at a distance of Is yards.
His head was struck with seyenNo. 4 shot
and two bullets. DIR. Hartford writes:
aOne bullet ~penetrated the frontal bone
t~hree-fourths of an inch above the right
supraorbital ridge, and Think it passed
nearly if not quite through the brain
it cut o clean hole through the bone.
We probed the wound about an inch and
q half it went straight into the brain and
there was some Of the brain substances
on the ground where he fell when shot,
There was another bullet wound inst!
under the right eye that penetrated for
about an inch.s,iThe course of The bull
let's wa from right TO left. The pa
tent was unconscious, and somewhat
delirious for . few days. He finally re-
covered entirely, except for feeling Of
numbness in the right hand and leg"
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Harrowing Spring crops.

It was just twenty-three years ago
when L wanted q harrow in a field to
which access could only be had by the
road q mile around, or across q corner
of a field of fall wheat. 1 told my man
to drag the harrow across the wheat.
ut will not d~estroyit," said he. "Nev-
er mind, I don't think it will; and if it
does it is better than going around by
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AtBowling Green, Ohio, George Anderson, a
farmer aged twenty-five years was beaten to
death Sunday morning with a hickory cane by
his wife, aged sixty-tiye years, His head was
beaten 10 u jelly. Mrs, Anderson is a large,
powerful woman, has been in an insane asylum
twice, and was evidently insane when the decd
was done. She has q brother now in an insane
asylum who killed Charles Sunday several
years ago while insane. Mrs. Anderson is
lodged in Jail
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Farming Notes.

-. IL l.. n sHf..-#s Ln LSl r. {. II
Apractical farmer advises the grow
ing OF two crops of buckwheat III sue
cession as aineans of exterminating vine
worms. He argues that they will not
eat the buckwheat and are starved to
death. H 4a
1t is said that Kansas will plant over
a hundred thousand acres of sorghum
this year. Last years yield is set down
ut 1000, 900 gallons of syrup and 6,000,-
900 pounds of sugar.
The best way to apply salt to paths,
to destroy weeds, is as follows: Boil
the salt in water, one pound to II gal
Ion, and apply the mixture boiling hot
w:thsa watering-pot thEt has a spread
ing rose: this will keep weeds and
worms sway for two or three years.
Put one pound to the square yard the
first year ,e~afterward q weaker solution
may be applied when required.
Nowis the time to syringe the rose,
currant and gooseberry bushes with o
decoction of hellobore in water to repel
and destroy injurious insects. About a
tablespoonful of powder to a twelve
quart pail of water is the quantity to
use, Swinging every part of the bushes
thoroughly. This repels the white fly
from the rose when done in season, and
v the foliage from being skeletoned
later.
A. G. Harmon, Of sufficld, Conn,
has a Brahma hen that has taken two
young pigs under litter, and the hen
omanenced brooaing them at once:
The mother suckles them and the old
hen settles over them, keeping them
warm by the spread Of her wings, and
all efforts of the mother to drive he1
away are neutrality-suspicious. Cour-
ant.
Forethought and patiencea re nowhere
SO i~ngrained into q youths nature as OF
the farm, but the youth should be there
from his earliest years. 1t is too late &c
begin the apprenticeship at fifteen, witt
hope OF securing its best results.
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SAT- ou Auparagus Beds.

We have no doubt OF the value OF salt
appliedt to asparagus beds, IN the spring,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1884-03-07

Since the ct sbli.hment or The navy
department IN 17s9 the navy has cost
shi. country 81 0oO 100000. There are
81 The navy now. 1.76e officers on the
active Iist. There ere also $40 Officers
including IS admIraIs and IS commo.
dores, on the retired Tat. which makes
~ aggregate Or 2los officers ~ 81
grades, without reckoning the 2U cadets
D the naval academy. We have NINETY
vessels OF al sorts and aize "a aud = rum
lot thev are. The cost up % date 1
$780, 900.