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The Russellville Democrat., 1885-06-25
A Fortune for j. w. Chaplin OF
Maynard, Mass.


A Fortune for j. w. Chaplin OF
Maynard, Mass.
Mr.. j. w. Chaplin, dealer in teas,
etc., in Maynard, Mass, came into the
city to collect 81 200, providentially his
property. Some weeks ago he pur-
chased from NJ. A. Dauphin, New Or
leans, La, a one-fifth of ticket No. 49,
SO7, in the drawing for May 18th, in
The Louisiana State Lottery. He re-
ceived from Adams Express Co., 81 200.
Boston (Mass.) Star, June 3.
Randolph county voted the five
mills school tax in every district.
"He Shook Until the China
Ratified"
Shook until his teeth chartered,
until he was shadow, but at last a
friend suggested the Satanic Chill
Cure. He came to Little Rock the
next week, and while here purchased
supply. The following shows his
opinion of the
FAMOUS CURE.
The testimony Is that of Col. j. L.
Chichester. Read it:
CAMDEN, ARK, Jan. "a, 1885.
satanta Medicine Co., Little Rock, Ark.
GENTs-I have used up the "Sa-
tanta" and "Able's Honey of Tar
and Lemon" that was got in Little
Rock. l gave but one dose of 'Sa
tanta" in no case of chills but what
it made a permanent and effectual
cure, No one we gave it to has ever
had chill since. Your "Able's
Honey of Tar and Lemon" gave
prompt relief In every case it was
given and it was given in many.
Yours truly,
JOHN T. CHiDEsTER,
Camden, Ark.
Manufactured by the Satanic Med
icine CO., Little Rock, Ark.
For sale by J. w. Wells, Russellville,
Ark.
A girl of twelve years was party
to novel marriage at Texarkana
last week.
The Man I'm the Moon.
How does the sailor know there Is q
man in the moonY Because he has
been to see (sea) and states that when
ever. he has a cough o: cold he takes
Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen In time.
u;.; .,;o Mor+oa
mining opeia''on9 "a
cry county are active ana the out
look is very promising.
An Enterprlsing, ltellaDie house.
J. w. Wells can always be relied up
on, not only to carry in stock the best
of everything, but to secure the Agency
me- '. aud are nonnlar with The neople
thereby sustaining the reputation of
reiiable Having scared 3be Agency
for the celebrated DR.. Kings New Dis.
eovery tor Consumption, will sell it on
positive guars ntee. 1t will surely cure
any and every affection of Throat,
Lungs and Chest, and to show our con-
tldence, we invite you to call and get a
Trial Bottle Free.
-, L.. .,,
nihe no''ns o'o Pts ~ 'o'
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-06-25
The Man I'm the Moon.

How does the sailor know there Is 3
man in the moon? Because he has
been to see (sea) and states that when
ever. he has cough o: cold he takes
Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen in time.
Mining operations IN Moutgom-
cry county are active and the out
look is very promising.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-06-25

INERT COMING TO THE 'FRONT.'
There is NO longer any doubt but that
the people are beginning to appreciate
true merit and to see that 1t is best to
purchase first-class remedies instead OF
inert watery compounds. Among those
that are reliable there are none that
compares with "Mansfields Magic Ar
Mica Liniment" and the 'LaCreoie
Hair Restorer.' These remedies have
been before the Southern public for a
quarter OF century and are known to
be first-class In every respect. Every
one should purchase these standard
preparations and every druggist should
keep them in stock. They are the best
remedies In the world OF their class.
Send TO the Mansfield Medicine Co.. of
Memphis, Tenn, and get their book
full OF information for everybody. 1t
will only cost two cent stamp. Ev-
cry one should have IL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
MOTHER WAS GOOD TO HIM.

We can look back to our childhood days,
and recall times when we thought mother
was not good to us-times when her mild
restraints seemed irksome and even cruel,
and we would have to put them aside in our
willfulness and anger. In later days we un-
derstood better how good mother was to us,
and in all true hearts there comes feeling
of sorrow in remembrance of the times
when we were not always good to mother.
The following beautiful incident will touch
the hearts of many mothers and sons:
"But, after all, she used to be good to us.
! 1t was son who said this Ofa mother whom
some nervous malady had overtaken, and
who was certainly a very serious trial to
her family.
The young mans life, too, was weary
one. He was hard worked through the day
and it was depressing to 60 home at night
to fault-finding and fretfulness.
| Harder still was it to sleep, as this son
did, week after week, and month after
month, with all his senses half-awake, that
he might hear his mothers footsteps, ifthey
passed his door, and hurry after her and
keep her from wandering out in the night
air alone, as her melancholy half-madness
often led her to try to do.
! Strangely enough, she had turned against
her own husband and her daughters. Only
this one son had any power to persuade her
for good. His work by day and his vigil
by night wore on him sorely, but he never
complained.
One day his sister asked him how he could
bear it and be always patient, when She
mother though she was-Was in the house
only as presence of gloom and foreboding
and unrest. And the answer came:
"But, after all, she used to be good to US. -
tbo, bo tbourbtc of ol tho urOup
went back to the years before this nervous
prostration came upon her, when she had
nursed them in illness, and petted them in
childhood-when she had been 'good to
them," one and all.
81 know" the boy said, thoughtfully,
"that l was nervous, uncomfortable child
myself, the first three years Of my life.
Father said he thought they'd never raise
me, but mother said: Yes she would and
she tended me day and night for three years,
till began to grow strong like the rest OF
you. l owe her those three years, anyhow,
and she shall have Them"
And so he girded himself afresh for the
struggle. 1t will not last forever. There
are signs which the doctors can recognize
that the cloud is lifting somewhat, and, no
doubt, before long she will be her old self
again. And then will come her sons re-
ward. He will feel that he has paid little
of the debt he owed to the love that W" tched
over his weak bahyhood.
TO many mothers, worn by long care,
such years of melancholy and nervous pros
tration must come. And the sons and
| daughters who find their homes saddened
by such sorrow, should lovingly remem'
ber the days in which they were helpless
and mother was good to them.-Sdn Fran
! cisco cal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
Y. DECEMBER 10, 1885.

to insist that his bill of fare is good for his
neighbor. 1t is just so with tobacco. Un-
doubtedly it does harm to some people.
They are right in not using it.. But its
moderate use is great soother to many
nervous people. Its properties as an anti
dote to disease are very valuable. When
cholera struck Valencia, in Spain, of the
1000 persons employed in a tobacco factory
not one suffered from the plague. In Am
sterdam, during the last cholera epidemic,
the tobacco workers were the only ones to
escape scott free. When we come to the
liquor question, there is fortunately no di-
vision of opinions. The drinkers all adj
NIT that excess is bad, and it is also admit
ted that the ultimate tendency Of moderate
drinking is to excess. The argument adj
vanced in support of certain kinds Of diet
and for tobacco do not apply to liquor.
Reason, science and human experience, are
all arrayed against strong drink.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

1901, p. 2OD report the resolutions read in
the House, and end the sentence with
"countrymen." The "Annals," however,
were not a contemporaneOus publication,
having been made up more than twenty
years later by Gales and Seaton, from such
materials as they could find. Its wording of
the resolutions is so unlike that given by
Marshall and other contemporaries that they
must have been reported from memory.
"Washingtonia," published at Baltimore in
1900, is a compilation, made up soon after
tions, testimonials of respect and orations
The resolutions read in the House appear in
precisely the words quoted by Marshall, ex-
cept that the sentence under consideration
ends neither with "felloW-citizens," nor
''countrymen," but with country" Up. 11W
Two pages later the same resolutions are
given as adopted in the Senate, and the
sentence again ends with "country." Gen
eral Robert +. Lee of the Confederate army
was the son of Colonel Henry Lee, and in
the life of his father, 1869 (prefiXed to the
reprint of Colonel Henry Lees Memoirs of
the Revolutionary War in the Southern
Department0 quotes on p. 81 the sentence
and ends it as Marshall gave it, with "fel-
low-citizens." This statement might be re-
garded as authoritative as to the reading,
if Gen. Lee on the next page had not spoiled
the inference by saying: "But there is a
line-a single line-in the works of Lee
which would hand him over to immortality,
though he had never written another
First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen' will last while
language lasts" The question is still un-
answered-"In what form will it ast?"
We venture to express the opinion that
Colonel Lee used on different occasions,
both forms; and hence either form is cor
rect. He was an ardent Federalist and
a devoted military and personal friend of
Washington during and subsequent to the
war. His grief at the death of his dearest
friend first took form in his own personal
loss and then as Virginian, in the loss his
State had sustained. While in this frame
of mind he wrote the resolution read in
Congress, ending with "his fellow citi-
zens'-which to him meant "Eirginians."
Having afterwards been appointed by Con-
gress to deliver an Grafton on Washington,
as an expression of the grief of the nation,
he again used the sentence and gave it
broader meaning by changing "his fellow
citizens" to "his countrymen."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
A FAMOUS EXPRESSION.

The reviewer of Mr.. McNIaster's second
volume, in the last Diai, noticed his error
in attributing to Judge Marshall, instead of
Colonel Henry Lee, the authorship of the
well-kn0wn sentence concerning Washing
ton: "First in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts Of his countrymen." The cor
rect reading of this familiar quotation is in
doubt Marshal, in his Life Of Washing
ton" (Vol. ", p. 7GO prints the proceed.
the resolutions read on the death of Wash
ington, in which the sentence first appear
ed. The last clause there reads, "and first
i'm the hearts of his felow-citizens." Colo
mel Lee, week later, used the sentence in
an oraton before Congress, and makes it
end with ''countrymen" instead of "fellow-
citizens" The"AnnalS Of Congress" 0799-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

In February, 1876, the last Carlist strong
ces disbanded and fled across the frontier,
so that on the Goth of March the young
King could return in triumph to Madrid
at the head of the army, with the prestige
of having conquered Il peace. The King
even felt himself strong enough to decree
the abolition of the tueros of the Basque
provinces. Alfonso, although SO young a
man, was twice married. His first wife
was the Princess Marie-dollas Mercedes,
youngest daughter OF the Ducide Montpen-
ser. November, 1879, he was married, in
second nuptial, to the Archduchess Marie
Christiana, of Austria. The offspring of the
union is a daughter, named after the first
and second wife.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

nss5" Diet has always been favorite hobby
with cranks. The war between the meat
eaters and the vegetarians has lasted long
time. The fact is men should eat just what
they like, when they find that it agrees
with them. The vegetarian has no right
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD.-lt is said
that the nations of the earth speak about
ninety different dialects. But these dia-
lects can be traced to much smaller num-
ber of languages. All these languages are
divided into three classes-namely, the In
do-Germanic, which embraces the ancient
classical languages and those of modern Eu-
rope; the Sanscrit, which embraces all the
various languages Of India and Semitic,
which embraces the Hebrew, Chaldalc,
Syriac, Arabic, etc.
In regard to the modern languages, it is
said that the Chinese is the most difficult,
the Italian the most soft, the Spanish the
most pompous, the French the most petite
and passionate, and the English the most
copous and energetic.
In the English language the. scientific
terms are mostly derived from the Greek
the terms of art from the French, Latin
and Italian. In English the names OF rlv-
ers and places are mostly taken from the
Saxon language. In the English language
the prOnouns and adjectives are not varied
on account of the gender, number and case
of noun they represent and qualify, ana
hence if they are not we'll collocated, 0D-
scurity of meaning may be the result.
From this and other causes in our Ian
guage the position of word in sentence
admits of but little variety. Language is
one of the strongest ligaments of nation
ality and the indigenous tone and accent
can be rarely acquired by foreigners.-New
York Herald
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

\ BEAUTIFUL THoUGIIT.-The purest
gold is not always the brightest. Tinsel
not unfrequently outshines solid metal-so
the best people are not always the most os-
tentatious. Gush is not always goodness.
True virtue needs no advertising. Like
pure gold, it's quality is sure to be discover
ed at last, whether it shines or not. Itmay
be dim with age and use, but it is virtue
still.-lfpthOdia Adrdncp.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

Ba5n There never appear more than five or
six men of genius in an age, but if they
were united the world could stand before
them
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

Too Much SALT.-When John Martin
was Governor of Georgia, in the year of
our Lord 1882, resolution was passed by
the Assembly directing the Governor to
purchase for use of the Executive, counsel,
and House of Assembly twenty-three
pounds of coffee, three hundred and seventy
pounds of brown sugar, sixteen bushels of
salt, and forty-two gallons of rum.
A committee was also appointed to desig-
nate mode for the proper distribution of
the articles purchased by the Governor.
We can imagine the Hon. -, from the
county of Chatham, at the reading of this
resolution, slowly and impressivly after
clearing the cobwebs from his throat with
rum and brown sugar, eloquently set forth
the justice of the appropriation and the
necessity for the unanimous support OF the
resolution. The Hon. Gideon Bugg, the
watchdog Of the Treasury Qor they had a
watchdog then as we'll as now,) responded.
He fumed, he ranted over the unheard-of
proposition to make an appropriation which
would bankrupt the dear people, with his
hand upon his heart and tears in his eyes
he vowed that he would never give counte-
nance or support to such a nefarious meas
ure. Another gentleman arises-the paci-
! fcator; he holds a paper.
He addresses the Speaker; slowly turn
loads him down with fulsome compliments,
he thanks heaven that the infant colony is
blessed with having SO true and watchful
a Representative and concluded by offering
an amendment. The Clerk reads: "The
following amendment is offered to the reso-
| luton now pending: "The word sixteen,
preceding the words bushels of salt, be
changed to the word ten; the word forty,
preceding the words two gallons of rum, be
changed TO the word eighty" The resolu-
tion, as amended, unanimously adopted.
CRITICAL PERIODS OF LIFE.-From the
age of forty to that of sixty man who
properly regulates himself may be consid-
cred in the prime of life. His ,matured
strength of constitution renders him i'm
pervious to the attacks of disease, and all
the functions are in the highest order.
Having gone year or two past sixty, how
ever, he arrives at critical period of eXis-
tence; the river of death flows before him,
and he remains at standstill. ButathWart
this river, is a viaduct called "rhe Turn of
Life" which if crossed in safety, leads to
the valley "Old Age" round which the
river winds, and then flows beyond without
boat or causeway to affect its passage.
The bridge is, however, constituted OF fra
gile materials, and it depends upon how it
is trodden whether it bends or breaks
Gout, apoplexy and other bad characters, are
also in the vicinity to waylay the traveller
and thrust him from the pass; but let him
grid up his loins, provide himself with per-
feet composure. TO quote metaphor, the
"turn of life" has turn either into pro-
longed walk or into the grave. The system
and power having reached their utmost
expansion, now begin either to close like
flowers at sunset or break down at once.
Injudicious stimuant, a single fatal excite
ment, may force it beyond its strength !;
drawal of all tends to force a plant, will
sustain it in beauty and vigor until night
has nearly set in.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

aar Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure, which is useful to them,
to praise which deceives them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

nayA The Chinese regard an attack of cpl
lepsy as the occupancy of mans body by
the Spirit of an animal, usually pig or a
sheep. They try to keep such spirit by
stuffing the patients mouth with grass, for
if it leaves before the return of the mans
own spirit-which must be absent during
the tit-the man will die.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

fastening THE EMIT OF THE DYING
In all the centuries and in many differ
ent countries, civilized as we'll as bar
barous, it has been common for kind friends
to hasten the final hour of one who was
near his end. In case of great suffering,
like that of patients dying of hpdrophlobla,
it was considered very humane to place a
pillow over the mouth and hold it down un-
til the breath ceased. In plain terms, the
sufferer was suffocated, hours before death
would have come in the natural way. In
Queen Anne's time strong narcotics were
given to moribund persons Fastening their
end and giving them quiet departure.
DR.. johnson was offered such an oPiate, but
declined it, saying that he desired to enter
the presence of his Maker with a clear
brain. Turning patient suddenly. on the
side, or drawing out the pillow, letting the
head fall back, will usually shorten the life
of a dying patient, and has been very
common with the nurses in English hospit-
ais. \ careful writer saw case Sd, OF TINS MS
kind about forty years ago, and when ne
rebuked the nurse, she replied: "Poor dear,
l pitied him so; he was so hard dying''
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10

A BEE SUPERsTITIoN.-Says an English
exchange: The instance given of the carry
ing out at Geeston, in Rutland, of the su-
perstition that bees will not remain after a
death in the house Of their owner, especl-
ally of the owner himself, unless an inti-
nation be given to them OF the fact, might
be multiplied indefinitely, for it prevails
over considerable portion of England:
In the case mentioned, the widow knocked
at the beehivcs one after the other, repeat
ing each time the formula, "He,s gone, he's
gone" and as the bees hummed in reply it
was understood that they accepted the news
and would stay. In Herefordshire it is
considered sufficient to tie piece OF Grape
to a stick set in front of the hives, and in
other counties those or similar precautions
are always observed by persons who would
not lose their bees. 1t is difficult to account
for this widespread belief or to give any
possible conjecture as to its origin.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
WONDERS OF THE WEST.

A writer from the far West, says: Some
years ago, while rusticating in the Wllds, l
encountered lone cowboy, who guided me
| to natural bridge and cave he had found
while hunting for stray cattle in the canons.
Should you be a doubling Thomas, and
wish to verify my story and description,
YOU can 90 by rail to Hutchinson, Kansas,
the thriftiest little city in the West, and
from there by wagon road one hundred and
twenty miles to a little Old-time trading
post called Sun City, near the west line OF
Barbour county, Kansas, and on the Medl-
cine Lodge river. A mile east of said place
Bear creek empties into the river from the
south. BY following the creek bed you can
drive up into the hills some four miles,
where you must leave your vehicle, and 60
on foot or horse back, if your neck is in
sured. Some five miles from the mouth of
the creek you will find an almost unknown
wonder. The canon through which Bear
creek courses its way from the Indian Ter
ritory, appears to have been crossed here by
backbone or ridge, some sixty feet in
height, and the water has worked tunnel
under the ridge, leaving bridge of spark
| ling gypsum stone, spanning the creek,
about sixty feet in length and twenty feet
wide, over which an old and Well-knoWn
buffalo trail passes. The arch through
which the creek passes is from hfteen 1eet
high at the ends to twenty feet in the CEN
tre. The ceiling is we'll daubed with sWal-
lows nests, and there are no evidences OF
recent wearing away of the ceiling or walls.
About twenty feet from the bridge, and
some six feet above the creek bed, is an
opening in the west bank or wall, just large
enough to let person pass in in STOPPING
posture. BY the light Of a fagot of cedar, l
explored the cavern, passing through rooms
ten to twelve feet in dimensions, but of ir-
regular shapes, and again crawling through
uncomfortaby small places, and coming out
through an opening not more than eighteen
inches wide and three feet high, one hun
dred feet or more below the bridge. AL
though the distance on the outside between
the two openings is but one hundred and
fifty feet, one must pass about four times
that distance in going through the cavern.
The rooms are full of bats, and there are
a number of very comfortable looking bears
beds under shelving places in the wall.
The prOpretors were out when called.
| There are neither stalactite nor Stalagmlte ;
nothing but darkness, cold atmosphere, bats
and gypsum walls. The country for miles
about this place is thrown up in mounds
and ridges forming innumerable short can
ons, in which good grass and stunted cedars
grow, and altogether forming the best win
ter range for cattle on the continent. Ii
some German American does not soon pre-
empt that cave and bridge tor summer-gar-
den purposes, expect to hear of Yankee
having the whole business fenced in and
charging four shillings admission.
The Dillon tribune., 1885-04-11
THE TWO METALS.

The discussion Of tic relative value Of
the two precious metals is one Of interest
At the present time. The relative value Of
gold and silver has varied greatly At va
rious times. A writer on metallic Ques-
,ions. who appears to have Investigated the
subjec, closely, says tina, in the day Of the
patriarch Abraham it was one to eight; 3.
G. 100 it was one 10 twelve; B. c. 500 1t
was one to thirteen; at the commencement
Of the Christian era il was one to nine; A.
D. 500 i, was one to eighteen; in 400 1t
was one to eight; in 1900 it was one to
eleven; in ,s4s, it vas one to six; in 1881
j, wss one to two: in 1900 it was one to
ten; in 1927, it was one to thirteen; in
100, it was one to fifteen and one.half: it
held the latter ratio, with bu. slight varia.
ton. Until 1872, when it began to rise, ard
in 1876 it rose to one 20 twenty: it soon
gradually declined, and now stands one 10
nineteen and one.half