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The Portland daily press., 1884-02-27

Alabama In a Presidential year. The In
dustrisl Leaeue may accomplish something
In che future. but we fear not this year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Tact.

May we not describe tact fairly well as
the antithesis of clumsiness? Etymo-
logically, as we know, tact is touch, and
it may be called, therefore, the deft way
of handling people. 1t is born with
some men and women, like the supple,
delicate fingers of the artists hand, and
those who have it use their gift instinct
lively. 1t is not measured alike to those
who have it-nAen possess it in different
degrees; while others, again, are want
ing in it altogether. Tact ought not
to be COMPOUNDED with SdrOir-faire; it is
not merely the English equivalent for
that term; one may have large ac-
quaintance with the world and its con-
ventions and be perfected in the prac-
tice of social duties, great and small,
and yet be lacking in this fine sixth
sense, so invaluable to its possessors
and to all with whom they come in con-
tact. 1t is the outcome of intellectual
and of temperamental qualities, and i'm
plies the possession of clear perceptions,
quick imagination, and delicate sem
sibilities; it is these that give the tact
full person his subtle intuition of an
others mental processes and moods of
lcclihS, anu III tilS odIlc fnolHcul lnc
exactly right mode of dealing with
these. Tact, it is true, like any other
natural gift, may be consciously exer-
cised and brought by use to higher
perfection. Practiced on q large scale,
with experience and foresight aiding,
it makes the successful diplomatic. 1t
is impossible not to feel certain pleas
ure in the use of special faculties, of
whatever kind; and it is not to be won
dered al that person possessing the
gift of osxtrous touch should regard
with a mhngling of amusement and
compassion the unfortunate individual
who goes on his laundering way through
the world, forever stumbling against
peoples idiosy1crasies, bruising their
small foibles, overseeing their cher
ished prejudices, when a little adroit-
ness might save al the damage. There
are men and won en- who are always
doing this, just as t.lere are those whose
awkward motions and clumsy fingers
are continually brin ring disaster upon
themselves and whatever they handle
January Atlantic,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
"TiIlie."

eyes, she's an awful trial." said
Mrs. Wickett
I" dun know" thoughtfully ventured
Miss Sykes, the neighbor who had " run
in " to make a hasty morning call. 81
was thinkin' just now, as | see her
feedin' her chickens, she's kinder smart
about some things"
. Yes, she is" admitted Mrs. Wick
EFT.
"Seems to me she'd oughter 90 to
church with the rest of you, ;" proceeded
Miss Sykes, who was truly sorry for
poor, homely, half-witted Tillie Wick
EFT. "She's goin' on fifteen now, amt
she?n
Fifteen last month"; allowed Mrs.
Wicket. Z" AM we was sayin', Helen
and me, a day or two ago, we can't see
as she knows any more'n she did when
she was five or six"
"Well, she does tend chickens good
anyhow" persisted Miss Sykes.
d" Yes, she always took to chick
ems, somehow" sighed Mrs. Wicket
"She'd oughter take to somethin' =,
goodness knows, How we have labored
with that girl-Roweny, Helen and me
nobody will never know, Miss Sykes
but she can't learn to read; the teachers
said so, an then we tried to home; but
it amt no use. She can scrub the
floor, an wash dishes, am mind the
hens-that's about all. If she could
sew some, that'd be a help, but she
does make the worst stitches! Here
she comes. Seems to me her nose gets
peakeder an her mouth gets bigger
every day."
Title came in at this moment with
her Slated sunbOnnet on her head, and
bent tin dish and iron spoon covered
with crumbs of wet cornmeal. Her
face lighted as she saw Miss Sykes.
Good-morning, Tillie," said that
good woman, pleasantly. How do
you do to-day? ?"
Tillie had given the same response to
this question ever since she could talk.
Miss Sykes was familiar with it, and
therefore she did not smile when she
heard it, as a stranger might have
done.
Pretty WE'LL" said Title, drawl-
ingly, +" and l enjoy my mind very
much"
Then she seated herself, with the
bent tin dish and spoon still in her
hand, and stared beamingly and with
open mouth at the visitor, until her
mother, who was, as she expressed it,
" more an more mortified every day of
her life with that girl, told her sharply
to go and put the chicken dish in the
shed, where it belonged. Then she
placidly walked away with it.
g was thinkiu' about church," re-
marked Miss Sykes, half apologetically,
more'n usual, on account of the new
minister. 1t seems as if he might, per-
haps, stir up Tillie. He amt a young
man, but seems to me his hearts UNI
common tender"
"He's good man." said Mrs. Wick
EFT, little confusedly. Her color rose
and she laughed nervous little laugh.
Miss Sykes, who was rising to go, as
people often do when they are Just
beginning to get to the most interesting
part of the conversation, looked at her
inquiringly and almost suspiciously
She remembered then that Mrs. Wicket
had looked little "queer" when the
subject of Titles going to church had
been first preached, few moments
before.
"What-what is it?" she had STAN.
mered out, before she really thought
what she was doing. Miss Sykes did
not mean to be too curious about heI
neighbours business.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

No man is better known along the line of the
Harlem X. X. than Conductor Trowbridge He
writes as follows;
CoNDUCroRs' Room, HARLEM DEPoT,l
NEW YORK, February, 1884.
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that 1t always affords prompt and complete relief.
FAVORITE REMEDY Is pleasant to the taste,
thorough in its effects never producing the slightest
disagreeable or sickening sensation.
Yours truly, Il. Q. TROWBRIDGE.
But Mr.. Trowbridge is not alone in his praise Of
DIR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVoRITE REMEDY.
FAvoRITE REMEDY is positive cure for Ma
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4. A. Campbell Foreman of the sorting room in the
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MONTGOMERY, ORANGE Co.. n. Y, March L. 1884
Dr.. Kennedy, Rondout, ~ Y.
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Ia positive cure for Malaria, Kidney and Liver Dis
eases and for all those ills peculiar to women.
MATAwAH, y. j., March ., 1884.
Dr.. Kennedy, ND, Rondouf, ". T.:
DEAR SIR: l have used your valuable medicine,
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
AYERS PILLS.

A large proportion of the diseases which
cause human suffering result from derange-
ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver.
AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS act directly upon
these organs, and are especially designed TO
cure the diseases caused by their derange-
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and a host of other ailments, for all of
which they are a SAFE sure, prompt, and
pleasant remedy. The extensive use of these
PILLS by eminent physicians in regular prac-
tice, shows Enthusiastically the estimation in
which they are held by the medical profess
sion.
These PILLS are compounded Of vegetable
substances only, and are absolutely free from
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A Sufferer from Headache writes:
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have ever found. IL is pleasure to me to
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when occasion offers.
W. l.. PAGE, of W. L. Page g. Bro"
Franklin St., Richmond, Va, June 8, 1882.
81 have used AYERS PILLS in number
have never known them to fail to accomplish
the desired result We constantly keep them
on hand ut our home, and prize them as a
pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine.
FOR DYSPEPSIA they are invaluable.
j. L. HAYES"
Mexia, Texas, June II, 1882.
The REV. FRANCIS b. HARLowE writing
from atlanta, Ga, says: For some years
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began taking AYERS PILLS. They have
entirely corrected the costive habit, and
have vastly improved my general health"
AYERS CATnARTIc PILLS correct irregu-
larities of the bowels stimulate the appe-
tite and digestion, and by their prompt and
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whole physical economy.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
THE HARLEM RAILROAD.
Valuable Suggestion Of Interest to Men
Employed on all RaiIroads-Read il,
If You Would be Benefited.

No is better known along the line of the
Harlem X. X. than Conductor Trowbridge He
writes as follows;
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
All About the Mosquito.

Somebody, writing about the mos
quito, gives sort of sketch of its hab-
its, as follows Just about this time
of the year the mosquito reaches ma
turity, and is entitled TO all the rights
of American citizenship. Those who
have made study of the bird tell us
that it is born in April. 1t spends its
infancy preparing for the battle of life.
During the first month of its existence
it lies in complete idleness, giving
chance for its claws and singer to
grow and for copper lining to form
over its stomach, During the second
month it INDUCES in athletic exercises
and in cultivating its voice, and at the
end of the month is able to fly in thir-
teen different directions at the same
time and to sing like lark. Itspends
its third month testing its stinger on
the railroad track, and when it is able
to plunge the instrument of torture in
to the iron, spread it and pull out
piece of iron with it, the animal is ready
for active business. Its mode of at
tack is treacherous one. 1t hovers
about the back of your neck until it
gets everything in shape, then it darts
around the corner, and with wild
shrek sinks its stinger into your face,
and although you claw at it immedi
ately it is gone; together with gill of
blood and big piece of your skin.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
Talmage's Stirring Advice.

AT the Commencement exercises OF
the Pierce College of Business of Phil
adelphia, last week, Rev. Il. Dewitt
Talmage of Brooklyn, gave the follow
ing good advice 10 his own peculiar
way: He was glad to find the gradu.
ating class composed of young women
as well as men and wished there were
more women in business. II would be
better Tor the merchants of the coun-
try if they would introduce more
women into commercial life. No man
had ever yet committed dishonorable
act, had abscondcd or forged notes
who had first consulted with his wife.
He advised the graduates to concen-
trate their lives in one direction-to
choose an occupation and stick to it.
As general rule the best mason sticks
to his trowel, the carpenter to his plane,
the lawyer to his brief, the minister to
his pulpit, the fireman to one locomo.
tive, the navigator to one ship at
time, the professor to one department.
The mighty men of all ages have been
men OF one cupation-Tborwaldsen
as a sculptor, Irving as a writer, Roth
child as banker, Forrest as an actor,
Brunei as an engineer, Ross as a navi.
gator and Punch as Joker. Some
times a man is prepared by Providence
for some great mission. Hugh Miller
climbed through the quarries of Gro
marty to his high work, but generally
by thirty years of age man or woman's
occupation is decided and there will be
success in that direction if thoroughly
followed.
at does not NATTER said Mr.. Tai
mage. what you do, so far as success
is concerned, if you do it to the best of
your ability. Brandreth made a for
tune out of pills, Adams by express
age, VanNess by harness, Cooper out
of glue and Jennen out of hats. Con-
tractors make fortunes by manufactur-
ing shoddy, merchants by putting sand
in sugar, beet-juioe in vinegar, chicory
in coffee and lard in butter. Are you
a merchant, you will find sweep for
the energies which absorbed Brunei
and Lennox. If a lawyer, there is a
scope for the height and depth of in
telleot of a Marshall, McLain, a
Story and Kent Are you a physi-
clan, then you canNwaste but little time
outside of profession which was the
pride of Rush, Harvey, Cooper
and SydeEham."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
Chicago Cheek.

"May hare this seat? ?" she asked
of the genteel-looking drummer whose
baggage was occupying it.
81 don't know ma'am," he answered
politely. ''It belongs to the railroad,
you know, but I'll see the conductor,
and maybe he can give it to YOU"
She grew purple and said:
"You don't understand me. / mean
can I take it? p
"Well, / don't know that, either.
You see it is fastened very firmly to
the car floor, and would be troublesome
to get up; however. I'll have car
penter to come on board at the next
station and ask his advice"
81 don't want to take the old thing
she howled. SIS this your strap on
it ?"
"No'm,' blandly answered the
drummer, "they belong to the firm l
travel for
"Well, can l sit down here,' she
finally screamed, after shifting from
one foot to the other.
81 don't know, madam; you are the
best judge of your muscular powers.
"Where do you travel from ?" she
screamed.
Chicago" he replied,
"That settles il" she said meekly
"will you please move your valise and
permit me to occupy small portion OF
this seat?'
Certainly he replied, why didn't
you say that at first ?"
The train sped on, while he sa,
counting up his expenses, and she won
dering if Chicago cheek had any equa
under the sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
The Two Interesting Operations Performed
on Hospital Patient.

There was performed at the Phila.
delphia Hospital last week the second
of two curious surgical operations.
Early in January Anthony Weaver, a
forty-year-old Swiss carpenter, was ad
mitted 10 the hospital, suffering from a
tumor in the throat. While the tu-
NOR did not prevent the reception of
liquid food breathing was almost i'm
possible. To relieve the structure
tracheotomy was performed, au Incl
sion being made in the trachea and a
tube inserted. Through this tube the
patient has breathed for nearly six
months. Recently new complica-
lion appeared. An unlooked-for i'm
pediment in the throat prevented the
passage of even liquid food into the
stomach. In this emergency consul
tation was held by the staff and Drs
Janney, Pancoast, White, Porter and
Roberts performed what is known as
gastrotomy. An incision was made in
the abdomen and the abdominal walls
and the stomach were sewed together
Into the incision a silver tube was in
serted. Food will be passed into the
mans stomach through the tube, The
case has attracted considerable atten
tion and the result of the latter opera
tion is awaited with considerable in
terest by physicians. There is now a
the Jefferson Hospital woman upol
whom the same operation was success
fully performed several weeks ago.
she dies, it will be from the tumor an,
not from the effects of the operation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
Horseshoes for Luck.

"The principal gateway at Allaha-
bad is thickly studded with horsoshoes
of every size and make. There are
hundreds of them nailed all over the
great gates, doubtless the offerings of
many wayfarer who has long since
finished his earthly pilgrimage. We
could not find out what was the exact
idea connected with this custom
probably much the same notion of luck
as we attach to finding horseshoe,
especially one with the old nails still
in their place. We afterward noticed
that the sacred gates of Som
nath, preserved in the Fort at Agra,
are similarly adorned. 1t reminded us
of that curious old manorial rite still
kept up at Oakham, in Rutlandshire,
where every peer of the realm is bound
the first time he enters the town to
present a horseshoe to be nailed on the
old portal, which is well nigh covered
with these lordly tributes 1t is said
that in case any contumacious peer
should refuse to pay this tax the au-
thorities have right to stop his car
riage and levy their black-mail by un-
shoeing one of the horses. TO avert
so serious an annoyance the tribute
shoe is generally ready, some being of
enormous size and inscribed with the
name of the donor. Whether these
Eastern horshoes were taxes or offer
ings | cannot tell, but ii certainly is
very curious to observe how widespread
is the superstitious reverence attached
to this particular form 1t has been
suggested, and apparently with some
reason, that in ancient pagan times it
may have been recognised symbol in
serpent-worship, and hence may have
arisen its common use as a charm
against all manner of evil The resem-
blance is obvious, more especially to
that species of harmless snake which is
rounded at both ends, SO that the head
and tail are apparently just alike, The
creature moves backward or forward
at pleasure hence the old belief that it
actually had two heads and was inde.
structible, as even when cut into two
parts it was supposed that the divided
heads would seek one another and re-
unite. 1t stands to reason that in a
snake-worshiping community such a
creature would be held in" high rever-
ence Even in Scotland, various an
cient snake.like bracelets and orna-
ments have been found which seems to
favor this theory, and at a very early per-
iod both snakes and horseshoes seem to
have been engraven as symbols on sa.
cred stones. We hear of the latter
having been sculptured not only on the
threshold Of old London houses, but
even on that of ancient churches in va.
rious parts of Britain. And in the
present day we all know the idea of
luck connected with finding one, and
how constantly they are nailed up on
houses, stables, and ships as a charm
against witchcraft. In Scotland, all
parts of England, and Wales, and es.
pecially in Cornwall, (where not only
on vans and omnibusos, but sometimes
even on the grim old gates of the old
jail,) we may find this curious trace of
ancient superstition. Whatever may
have been its origin, it certainly is re-
markable that it should survive both in
Britain and Hindustan.-We Gentle
mans Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
The Weapons of the Soudanese.

Harry Menges, who should be an au-
thority, sends the Cologne Gazette
dissertation from Alden on the various
weapons employed in the Soudan.
Both kinds of spears are thrusting-
weapons, not javelins, and rarely used
as such. That of the maratime tribes,
who composed Osman Dgna's forces,
is about six feet long. In the districts
round Kordofan it gives way to long
lance, nearly three times the length.
But, of course, the two-handed sword,
which is often the heirloom of genera
tions, is the most universal arm. Herr
Menges, it is pleasant to find, believes
in the comfortable tradition that sever
al of these have been handed down
from the Crusading times, which un-
doubtedly supplied the model, But
the majority of the blades unquestion-
ably are exported from Solingen, fa-
nous for foils. The shields are of
hide, and are always considered proof
against spear thrusts, and, therefore,
certainly against the quick snatch-and-
recovery now in vogue with the bayo-
nets, instead of the lunge home.--PaU
Mall Budget.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
A Return of Confidence After the Election,
and Consequently Better Times,


William II. Vanderbilt, who was
interviewed a day or two ago on the
business outlook said : "After the
Presidential election is over we shall
have return of confidence and conse-
quently better times. know lots of
people who are foolishly converting
their assests into money and placing it
in their boxes in the safe deposit vaults
where it can earn nothing, instead of
investing it in securities of known val
ue at the prevailing abnormal and pan
icky prices. 1t is all matter of con-
fidence. Why, I know one instance of
n man who has stored a lot of specie
in his house and had burglar alarm
attached to all windows and sleeps with
a revolver under his pillow. His sec
ond nights experience proved ludic-
rous one. One of the family came in
late, and not knowing how the burglar
alarm worked, set it off. Out comes
the pistol of my friend and he bangs
away, hitting a valuable mirror and
creating a panic in the household" Mr..
Vanderbilt, however, keeps his own
vault carefully guarded, and it is be-
lieved that his slumbers are not as
sound as they might be.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-04
Books Made of CLAY.

Far away beyond the plains of Mes
opotamia, on the banks of the river
Tigris, lie the ruins of the ancient city
of Ninevah. Not long since huge
mounds of earth and stone marked the
place where the palaces and walls of the
proud capital of the great Assyrian
Empire stood. The spade, first of the
Freuchman, then of the englishman,
has cleared all the earth away and laid
bare all that remains of the old streets
and palaces where the princes of AS
syria walked and lived. The gods
they worshipped and the books they
read have all been revealed to the
wondering world The most curious
of all the curious things preserved in
this wonderful manner are the clay
books of Nineveh. The chief library
of Nineveh was contained in the pal
ace of Konyunjik. The clay books
which it contains are composed of sets
of tablets covered with very small
writing. The tablets are oblong in
shape, and when several of them are
used for one book, the first line of the
tablet following was written at the
end of the one preceding it. The
writing on the tablets was, of course,
done when the clay was soft, and then
it was baked to harden it. Then each
tablet or book was numbered and as
signed to place in the library with a
corresponding number, so that the IL
brarian could easily find it, just as our
own librarians of to-day number the
books we read. Among these books
are to be found collections of hymns
Ito the gods), descriptions of animals
and birds, stones and vegetables, as
well as history, travels, etc. The AS.
syrians and Babylonians were great
students of astronomy. The method
of telling time by the sun and of mark
ing it by the instrument called a sun
dial was invented by the latter nation.
None of our modern clocks and watch
es can be compared to the sun dial for
accuracy. Indeed, we have to regu-
late our modern inventions by the an.
cient Babylonian system.-Printers'
Circular.