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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28

..ADELINA PATTI, the great songstress,
says of Scion Palmer's Perfumes, Toilet
Soaps and other Toilet articles II unhes.
tatingly pronounce them superior to any
ever used. . Principal Depot, 374 and 376
ear St. New York
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28

ITcH Mango and Scratches of every
kind cured in 30 minutes by "Woolford'
Sanitary Lotion Use no other. Thi,
never fails Sold by r. H. Northcutt, Drug
gist, Marietta,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28

That beautiful shirt you saw your friend
v@eadslg was bought at McClatchy's for one
dollar
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28
go TO-
c. c. KiiSer's
STORE!

There was man in our town, and he
was wondrous wise, for when he marked
his prices down, he then did advertise,
And when he saw his trade increase with
all his might and main he marked still low.
er every price and advertised again. And
when he advertised again it made his rivals
roar, to see the people rush to him and pat.
ronize his store. And while they sat in
solitude and saw him custom win, that man
behind the counter stood and raked the
shekels in. And when he raked the shek.
els in and saw his fortune rising, he took a
goodly lot of tin and kept on advertising.
Each day generous sum he'd sink, and
demonstrate full plain, the more one paws
Tor printers ink, the greater is his gain.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28
Rough on Corns. "

Palpitation, Dropscal Swellings, Dizziness, Ind
gestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by "Wel
Health Remover"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06

The Irish population of New York
city is half million.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
Growing Old Gracefully.

After certain age, varying from fifty
to sixty, men are liable to declaim about
the vanity of things and to have settled
distaste for pursuits and amusements
which occupied earlier years. 1t is a
dangerous time. In order to find relief
such men often break up the business
vocations of lifetime and seek in new
experiments the glow and ardor which
have vanished with youth. 1t is a pro-
life source of financial failures; often of
domestic disruptions; sometimes lead
ing to suicide or madness. Youth and
its passions are not to be recalled by a
change OF locality or of business. What
these people fret about is simply the
departure of youth. They have not the
philosophy to adjust themselves to
approaching age and serenely await the
end, and they plunge into chimerical
business ventures and break up homes
and seek new homes with the hope of
reviving a fire which can never burn
brightly again. There is not one man in
a dozen with fixed and ample income
who can with patience submit himself to
the conservative dictates of age, and
with books and friends lead a life OF
innocent leisure. The struggle is always
to make sixty beat with the impulsive
numbers of thirty, and that can never
be. The wise man will bow to the yoke,
and by so doing will cease to feel it. 1t
is yoke which all must wear save those
which the Greeks declared were blessed
of the gods because they died young
PittSJmg IeLegraph.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
ISLAND POND, VERMONT NOVEMBER 6, 1885, NO

shadowy pictures on the hillsides and
valleys. 1t is a fairyland. Night is
turned into day. On dark night Pitts
burg can trace it5 gas fields by the lurid
glare in the skies that overhangs the
waving flames. The many industrial
towns of Western Pennsylvania have this
same ruddy sky suspended over them.
The oil towns that were nearly abandon
ed when the supply of petroleum failed
have assumed new life since the intro
duction Of natural gas into their Ian
gushing industries. Capitalists are fast
centering about these gas centers. There
are Butler, Titusyille, Bradford, New
Castle, Rochester, and score more of
gas towns which are rapidly developing
into manufacturing centers.
How long will the supply of natural
gas last? is the question that is discussed
in Western Pennsylvania at present with
much interest. On its answer depends
many millions of dollars. Experts as
sert that there is no reason to doubt that
it will supply enough manufacturing
fuel for use in the next half century.
They point to the fact that there are
wells scattered all through the oil re.
gions that have been burning for the
past twenty years without any apprecia
bic diminution in their flow.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
A Central American Hotel.

Everything was au naturel to the farth-
est possible limit in the way of disorder
dirt, and disregard of the proprieties of
''house of entertainment" The floor
of the ''dining room" was Uttered with
dead insects; great cockroaches travelled
up and down the wall, mysteriously
active; all manner of flies swarmed in
the air and over the filthy linen of the
table, with it's broken crockery that evi-
dently had not been washed for month;
at the table legs were tied with rawhde
strings two game cocks, which sought
necessarily to get at each other; in and
out of the room ran pigs and chickens,
while parrots stalked around, making
the air hideous with their croaks and
cries
But, despite all this, we really did
enjoy this our first meal in Guatemala.
The coffee, served in Central American
fashion, was the best l ever drank.
Then, for the first time, ! knew what
good coffee was. 1t was simply the es-
sence of the berry-a dark brown, thick
liquor, kept in close stoppered decanter.
Taking teaspoonful or two of this es-
sential liquor, you add hot water from u
native Indian earthen jug that looks very
much like an old Etruscau or Egyptian
product. That cup was, indeed, wv rthy
of the gods'-something never dreamed
of even in Paris, where good coffee is
the rule In explanation of this supe-
riority, it is stated by the coffee growers
that the berry loses much of its peculiar
evanescent flavor by sacking and SEQ
transport.-Harp'r's Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
LITTLE THINGS

A simple rhyme, a childish grief,
A blossom on a lovers tomb,
A bud expanding into leaf,
A dewdrop in a clover bloom;
How sweet, how sad, how wondrous fair
How soon forgot, how quick TO fade!
The song, the bloom, the infant cSre.
Pass like the play of sun and shade.
But in their passage quicken thought
AS sunbeams melt on field and plain
And leave their slightest impress wrought
In blooming grass and ripening grain
And though each individual form
Grows indistinct, its glow remains,
A halo round us in the storm,
A genial warmth that fills our veins
The critic comes with awful frown
To crush the poet, like a gnat;
Frost nips the tender blossoms down, -..'i
And childish griefs, for this and that,
Are merged in Sorrows large estate, o..
That widens round our frosted heads;
And yet the varied web of fate
Is woven of such slender threads.
The little things of time are most
Secure of influence, promise, power;
The flying seed, the insect host,
Dissolving dew and transient shower;
They multiply, build up, tear down,
And write their excellence and grace
On arid waste and mountain brown,
Till nought is bare nor commonplace
So little murmurs, joined in song,
| Light bubbles that in music break
When youth is glad and days are long
| In low, soft ecstacies, may wake
The living chords of that sweet Tyre
Which tremb!es in the human heaE
And prompts the genius to aspire
The man to act a noble part.
Then, Scorner, spare the little things!
From atoms all the worlds are wrought,
Peasants may dwindle into kings,
Or wits give birth to humorous thought;
The great be small the small be great;
And yet through all life's varied throng
This truth holds fast as death or fate,
The humble ever are the strong.
BENZ S. Parker, in the Current
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
VOL. XIII.
GROWING OLD.

What is it to grow oldl
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
Theluster of the eyel
Is it for beauty to forego her WREATH
Yes, but not this alone.
Is it to feel our strength,
Not our bloom only, but our strength, decay
Is it to feel each limb
Grow stiffer every function less exact,
Each nerve more loosely strungl
Yes, this AMI more; but not,
Ali tits not what in youth we dreamed
'twould be.
Tis not to have our life
Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow
A golden days decline.
'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes
And heart profoundly stirred,
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are no more.
It is to spend long days
And not once feel that we were ever young
1t is to add, immured
In the hot prison of the present, month
To omonth with weary pain.
1t is to suffer this,
And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel
Deep in our hidden heart
Testers the dull remembrance of a change;
But no emotion, none.
It is, last stage of all,
When we are frozen up within, and quite
The phantom of ourselves,
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.
-MdtthetU Arnold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
HUMOR or TIE DAY.

High-toned-a fife.
Jokes on the sealskin sacque are said
TO be fur-fetched.
Loves warning cry: "Don't, Jack;
you hurt my vaccination.
"Camels sometimes live to the age Of
100 years" 1t makes 'em hump to do
it, though. -Nel0man Independent.
THE UNSUCCESSFUL MERCHANT
He failed, ana no one was surprised
Because h3 never advertised.
boston Courier
A minister, having some of his cd
sermons, was asked what he had in his
package. ''Dried tongue" was the
reply.
A magazine writer affirms that there
is no such thing Us absolute silence. If
the man is married he is right about it
- ChicaJo Ledger.
A celebrated manufacturer of mustard
said that he made his money, not out
of the mustard eaten, but out of the
mustard left on the plate.
No robins in the cedar pipe,
But every turkeys getting ripe,
And while the leaflets dance jig,
The opinions now held by physicians
that "raw cows milk is better for chill
dren than boiled" is very gratifying, as
a raw COW gives much more milk than
boiled one.
1t is said that if insanity is latent in
persons, it will almost always develop
itself at sea. Nearly everything in a
person usually develops itself at sea-
N0rriStOCn Herald.
you must take this vessel for a love
4Gair," said the captain to a spoony
couple who were monopolizing the only
chair on the quarter deck. This is no
court-ship. - Carl Pretzet.
A queen bee lays from 1000 to 5000
eggs in ninety-four hours. 1t is not
necessary to ask ''How doth the little
busy bee?" She doeth well, and should
be a shining example to the lazy hen that
can only be induced to lay one egg in
twenty four hours, and then only when
eggs are cheap. PjcGyune.
A Dakota farmer says that he has
Eised seventeen bushels of wheat in
three years from one grain of seed. This
Information will be very valuable to
those anticipating moving into Dakota.
Instead of investing $500 or $500 in seed
wheat, all man needs is to buy, say,
dozen grains and then wait three or four
years for them to multiply. This makes
farming comparatively easy work.-Nels
York Graphic.
They stood amid the falling leaves
In silence, hand in hand;
The setting sun its golden beams
Shed over the sea and land
Upon his brow had sorrow set
Its peace-corroding seal;
! His heart was with an anguish filled
| His lips would not reveal.
Reluctantly kiss he gave,
And then he yearned for death;
For OH there was a cruel taint
OF onions on her breath
Boston Gasette
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
HOwIndians Gamble.

In one of the tall cases in the National
museum are displayed various imple-
ments, some of very rude and primitive
workmanship, illustrating the games of
chance played among the North Ameri-
can Indians. Among the most curious
of the exhibits illustrating the games of
the savages are packs Of playing cards
collected among the Apache Indians.
These cards are made of dry skins or
parchments, and are about the size of
the ordinary playing cards in use in every
hist-playing family The devices upon
them have been rldely draWnzs fhd
numbers of the cards composing a pack
and the character of the devices indicate
that they are of Spanish origin. Pro-
fessor Otis r. Mason, the curator of the
section of ethnology, recently received
from Mr.. Romero, Mexican minister,
several packs of cards of the kind known
as Barcelona cards, such as have been in
use among the Spaniards and the Mexi-
cans for many generations. The Apache
cards are rude limitations of the BARGE
Iona cards. There are four suits, as in
our cards-spades, clubs, diamonds, and
hearts. The spade is sword or espa-
don; the club is veritable club or
bludgeon; the heart is heart enclosed
in an urn, and the diamond a gem or
| jewel represented as set in the centre of
disc or brooch of some kind. The
spot cards end with the sevens, the
eights, mines, and ten not being included
in the pack. In the Apache cards the
queen is represented by female figure,
rudely drawn, like the first effort of a
youthful caricaturist on slate. The
king is represented by figure of man,
and the jack or knight by man on
horseback.
"These cards were found among the
Indians, said Professor Mason to a Star
reporter, "when our exploring parties
first went among them. They undoubt.
edly got them first from the Spaniards.
They play number of games with them,
some like simple games that are played
with our cards-'old maid,' 'muggins,
and the like, and they had game also
like euchre. Now they use cards such
as we use, which they have obtained
from the settlers and Others"
"There is no game played by the In
dians in America continued the cura
tor, sin which the mind is brought tc
bear upon problem or has to study Out
the moves as in chess or checkers. There
is no game in which the player is ex-
pected to have mental skill. All the
games are strictly games of chance"
'This game is something like tn,
game of jackstraws," he continued
pointing to a collection of two dozen o.
more little round sticks, each having {
distinguishing figure carved or scratched
upon it. "These little sticks are shaker
up under mat or hat, and then dropped
to the ground, still concealed by the hal
or mat. Then the man who handles
them, the dealer, takes out one stick a
a time, handing them to the differen
players in turn. When they have al
been dealt out, the man who has the bes
hand wins. The man who has the chic
takes the best or most valuable article
the man who has the next highest take
his choice next, and so on. D WaShjngtO'
QfLy1,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
A Long Life.

How many years the ordinary lifetime
may and should comprise, ii men were
protected from the privations of the
poor and the temptations of the we'll to-
do, and were fenced about with all the
guards that medical science can furnish,
is strikingly illustrated by the vital sta
tistics Of the English Society of Friends,
more commonly styled Quakers. At the
present time the average life of one Of
this sect is about ffty-nine years, or
at least fifteen years greater than that of
the population as whole. The indus
try for which these people have long
been noted keep almost all of them
out of the ranks of the very poor, while
the simple and moral lives presented by
their creed shield them from other
dangers scarcely less threatening to
human health and life. - Cincinnati Com
mTciaJ Ga te,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
Rather Ancient.

The members of the Chinese legation
at Washington take great pride in the
antiquity of their country and its insti-
tutions. When they received news of
the death of the empress, Mr., Blaine,
then secretary of state, went to pay them
an official visit Of coincidence. He was
received in the large room built by Boss
Shepherd for a picture gallery, which
was hung in white. At one end there
was an altar, on which "joss sticks" of
incense were being burned. The lega-
zion wore white robes, and each one
bowed solemnly as the secretary of state
came opposite to him. After the cere-
mony was over, Mr.. Blaine told the in
terpreter to say to the minister that the
scene reminded him of some of the cersss
monies OF the church of Rome, whichfhel
used to witness IN the days of hise child
nood, and from which these.Wer proba-
oily derived. When thiSsvhs interDreted
to the mandarin, he suSed and quietly
remarked: "Say to his9fsaelIepqg that
we have had these cerenisSlt In sChjna.
for about 5000 years. "2aEsSh@S 'e,asY.
Poore.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
Fashion and Prices.

Two hundred and twenty-five dollars
was the price which the polite salesman
of fashionable uptown tailoring es-
tablishment said the other day a suit
made of such and such cloth in such and
such a way would cost a lady visitor.
"Bother!" said the lady. 81 won't
pay any such price. | want something
like this l have on, and l paid only $50
for it."
ooh, of course, you KNOW" replied
the salesman in a deprecatory way, and
with profusion of bows, ''But these
Anerican-made goods"
"Why," interrupted the lady, 81
bought this suit at your branch house in
Paris only a month ago. Is all the extra
price here dutyl"
The salesman was fairly extinguished,
and could only gasp out: "Oh, you
know, we'll, of course, as an old GUS
toner, we can do tia little cheaper foy
you; say $175"
"No."
"Well, say $15Ow
"No.n
'I think we could do it for $125" was
the last offer; but the lady bowed her
way oGs, and left the store.
This incident is only illustrative of
what some people will pay to be fashion
able, and how ether people will always
stand ready to let them do il. t.-NeD YORK.
Commercial.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06
German Potatoes.

1t may seem incredible to some of our
readers to learn that potatoes are i'm
ported from Germany into this country,
than which no other portion of the globe
has more agricultural advantages, but
such is the case. Whether the potato
grown in German soil possesses any par
ticular virtue not inherent in the Ameli-
can grown tuber is question we are not
able to answer, but we do know that
certain classes of people the world over
deem imported foods of every sort far
superior to home products. In England
and France, for instance, the label of an
American house claims the first consid-
Grafton of the epicure in search of some
thing extra nice, and from our foreign
correspondents and personal observation
we learn that G erywhere in Europe
American goods are found on sale in i'm
mense quantities. On the other hand
it seems perfectly natural, when we con.
slider this vagary of human nature, to
find German potatoes and thousand
other articles we might name in the New
York markets, with plenty of purchasers
in the bargain.
The particular German potato we have
in mind has ily lately gained piomi-
nent place on our list of imports. A few
years ago the receipts were from twenty
five to fifty bags yearly. Last year over
| 1000 bags of German potatoes were sold
in New York city alone, and this season
the sales have already reached that
figure, showing a remarkably rapid in
crease in their consumption Noticing
this increase, and desiring to find out the
cause of their popularity, we called upon
an uptown grocer, who serves very par
ticular class of trade, and asked to see
his German potatoes. He displayed his
samples upon a plate, which held dozen
or more tubers the size of large walnut
We were surprised to learn that this was
the average size, and that in spite of
the eseeming disadvantage in this respect,
the German potato was a favorite
on the tables of several of his
weather. customers He sells them by
weight at five cents pound, and
buys them at three cents by the single
bag, or three and one half cents pound
in ten bag lots. The bags will average
about one hundred pounds. Regarding
the demand, he informed us that at pres
ent his sales are one bag week, but
during the winter season from three to
five bags Curious to know whether
they were bought for any special object,
we were informed that they are consid-
cred the finest potatoes for salad, and
are principally used for that purpose.
Peeled and broiled in lard or butter,
whole, without slicing, they make a
specially attractive dish. Boiled and
served in their peel and eaten with a
little butter and salt, they are delightful.
Cooked in this way the potato should
be broken apart with the hand, and not
cut with knife. Net1jpOljtHn Grocer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06

self. But Brenton was quite satisfied
with the days experiment. 1.-THE ex-
change of positive and negative forces
in our lives" he playfully observed to
Lily, twas a great success" And old
Miss Sarah, having received the news
from both of them, smiled tenderly
upon her confidential diamonds, and put
Arthur Brenton into her will.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-06

California is Dragging of raising Bart
fett pears which weigh one and one half
pounds each, at an altitude of 1890 feet
above the sea level, but these monstrous
pears have no more flavor thon turnip.