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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11
MINOR MENTION.

Sensational Stories Concerning the Great Ex-
position at New Orleans.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Comes from New Or
leans, through private sources, a somewhat SEN
sational statement regarding the Worlds Cotton
Exposition 1t will be remembered that Con-
gress made large appropriation last winter
for the exposition. 1t was in the shape of a
loan. Among other evidences of good faith on
the part of the Louisianians. produced before
Congress in asking for the loan, was supscrip.
ton paper, showing that wealthy citizens
and corporations of the city of New
Orleans and State generally had contributed very
largely to the support Of the show. They repre-
sented that they would do more in money matters
than Congress From statements now made it
appears that many of those subscriptions were
shams; that the amounts were placed opposite
names fictitious, or good, without authority, and
that but comparatively small sum can be col
lected 1t is stated that the band employed to
furnish music at the exposition had to strike to
get its pay; also, that the electric light was
turned off on account of the company not being
assured of its pay. Congressman and senators
especially the "watch-dogs of the Treasury
will look wild when they hear these things.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11
Economy for the Whisky Dealers.

washington Special.
All the departments have been directed to be
as economical as possible during the next two
months, and to cut down expenses to the lowest
point possible. The action of Secretary McCul-
loch in granting to the whisky men the relief
they desired will deprive the Treasury of sew
eral millions of dollars in the way of revenue
from the tax falling due, and it will require
sharp management to prevent the public debt
from being increased during he'last two months
of President Arthur's administration.
Secretary Teller, before he left for the West
left directions that no moro acquisitions should
be made upon the Treasury this month for pen
sions, there being to the credit of the pension
agents throughout the country at sub-treasuries
and government repositories about $15 600 OOO
which is more than will be required for pensions
this and next month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11

Local Observations.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11

OprlngHelu hepuDuCan.
1.-THE Morning Light" is the name of Sun
day-school paper, printed in large type for in
FAINT classes, and published by the American
Tract Society. A recent number contains an il
lustration of night scene by the sea; stars are
shining and two figures stand before the reader
One man in a stove-pipe hat, with black
stripe down his trouser leg, and his hands behind
him; the other melancholy woman, with her
chin resting in her hand: This cut is accom-
panied by legend beginning as follows:
SERIOUS QUESTION.
What was it? The Young minister, Mr.. Lockwood
asking pretty Edith Melcher if she would become
his wife and go with him the ocean to PARKWAY
China, to help him teach the heather there about
Jesus.
This is introducing the youth to the modern
novel at an early age and with no roundabout
plot elaboration of preliminaries. The denoue-
ment is reached In almost the first sentence.
Nevertheless there is still room for the usual
vicissitudes of affaires de ceur. Jesus is still a
leading character in the story and appears with
astonishing and what would be to most people,
painful familiarity, The final upshot is still
more grossly presented, thus:
It was indeed a serious question. Edith could not
answer it at She said she would pray about it.
And now she viii be guided to a right
answer for the Lord has promised to lead in the
way should go if ask him, and are honestly
willing to do what will please him.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09
Gypsy Peculiarities.


Few more fantastic scenes can be
conceived than gypsy wedding. The
place usually chosen is a sand pit. In
two long rows, fronting each other, the
attendants take their stand, leaving q
path in the middle, half way down
which broom stick Is held up about
eighteen inches above the ground.
The bridegroom Is called, walks down
the path, steps over the troomstick, and
awaits the maiden's arrival. She, TOO,
is called, walks down between the two
rows OF gypsies, lightly trips over the
stick, and is then received into the
arms OF her husband. A few days OF
feasting follow, and then the wild wan
dering life Is resumed. Children grow
up in the tent of vad, and as the wants
become greater, the gypsy matron adds
another to her resources for making a
livelihood. The fortune she predicts
to the farmers blooming daughter
bring many meal TO her hungry fami-
ly, and the elegant lady who allows her
stealthily to enter her rich home re-
wards her with money or cast-of
clothes when from the lines or her
hands she has been fortold d future full
of splendor. Old age comes slowly TO
the gypsy race weakness, pain and suf,
feriugs are strangers among them, and
the physicians craft 10 despised as are
all the other Institutions Of the Gorjos.
But when death at length enters the
gypsy's tent he is borne uncofined TO
his last resting place, deep in the forest
or on the lonely heath, and as often as
their wanderings bring the gypsies to
the place where one OF ''our peoples in
laid to rest they stop and pay n short
tribute to the memory OF him who
sleeps beneath the moss or heather.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09


If man would, according to law,
give to another an orange, instead OF
saying 'I give you that orange
which one would think would be what
is called in legal phraseology IAN abso-
lutte conveyance of all right and title
therein"-the phrase would run thus !:
Il give you all and singular my estate
and interest, right, title, and claim, and
advantage of and in that orange, with
all its rind, skin. juice, pulp, and pips,
and all right and advantage thereins
with full power to bite, cut, suck, and
otherwise eat the same. or give the
same away, as fully and effectually as
/, said A. B., am now entitled to bite,
cut, suck. or otherwise eat the same or
ange, or give the same away with Or
without its rind, juice. pulp, and pips .
anything heretofore or hereafter, or in
any other deed or deeds. instrument or
instruments of what nature or kind So
ever to the contrary in anywise not
withstanding.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09
The Fat in the Fire.

Mrs. Miller is a very stont woman.
At a distance she looks like water
tank at railroad station. She is the
biggest woman in Waco. She is very
sensitive about her cOrpulence. AT a
social gathering she mentioned acciden-
tally that she had been suffering from
rheumatism, but thanks to the skill OF
DIR. Blister she was entirely cured OF it..
'Dr. Blister is very popular doctor,
remarked Frank Cooper.
Il don't think he has large practice,
said Mrs. Miller.
If you are his patient he is bound to
have tremendous practice said
Frank.
When Mrs. Miller gave her next So
cial gathering, it is safe to bet that
Frenk will shine by his. absence. He
will be the most absent man in the
whole town. Mrs. Miller is so mad a.
bout it, that she is falling off at the
rate of twenty pounds a day.-1eIds
STttnqs.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09
Her Souls Yearnings.

Aunt Polly said a poetic young la
dy, who was visiting in the co untry.
'What is it. child p
'Do you never feel as though you
wanted to leave the milk and butter-?'
If did, child, it would be sure to
spile.'
But your mind; how can you keep it
chained to those common things p
Poor child Why, bless yeu. nv
butter amt common. Il allus brings
an extra price in market, and is spoke
for way ahead
But does your soul never yearn for
the beautiful, Aunt Polly p
No, child !; never yearn for nothin'
but baked pertaters. But do banker
fer them dreadful sometimes. when
they're skeerce an high Chicago
Ledger.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

A flea. one-sixteenth of an inch in
length, can jumpa a distance of twenty
inches. This is 500 times its length.
The common grey rabbit jumps about
nine feet clear on the level ground. In
proportioL to length horse, to jump
as far as a rabbit, would have to- clear
64 feet at a jump. There is no quadru-
ped that has such powerful muscles i'm
his quarters as the rabbit, and Done ex-
Gel him in the muscles of his loin and
back. -
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09
MIILHEIM PA. THURSDAY. APRIL 8, 1885.

GleaC was TIE RTleI ana lluIRHatlou
Of De Harte when he learned what cru.
el imposition had been practiced upon
him and his loved ones. AS he looked
at his daughter, now a grave and quiet
woman. he wondered IL she was the
lighthearted girl whom he saw sail a.
way to the United States. And how
strangely he looked to her, with his
white hair and STOPPING form sorrow
had made him prematurely old.
But what a change in his life when
this child was restored everything on
the old plantation seemed frightened,
for he received her as from the dead.
believing her to have been dead for
years.
Father" said she, when they had
talked the subject over, 1--WE will never
be separated again while we both live. "
And they never were.
Years passed away and her friend in
Jewett City heard nothing Of her. But
one day in the summer of 1927, as the
stage-coach stopped in the village, a
dark.eyed woman stepped out and in
quired if old Mr.. B B-still lived there.
Being answered in the affirmative, she
took her way up the long village street
and knocked at my grandfather's door.
1t was Frances he Harte.
What a joyful surprise it was, and
how eagerly they listened TO what had
befallen her since she went away. She
was widow now, having married af
ter her return to Demerara. He faith
er died soon after her husband, leaving
large property to her and the chill
dren. The two little ones which her
husband left were at home In the care
of the servants. Her son John NJ
c.. was with her, now a grown up
young man.
She visited all the familiar places, es-
pecislly the little factory where she la
bored so long walked up the hillside
and sat under the shade of the oak tree
where she had SO often rested when
sad and weary. And John was with
her, no longer a little child, but whose
strong arm could now assist her up the
hill.
But her visit in this country was not
long those little ones at Demerara
were in her thoughts, and quickened
her steps homeward.
Among the gifts left her friends was
a cocoanut shell carved by one of her
servants. This was given to my grand
mother, who kept it carefully during
her life it then became my mothers
who was choice of it for grandmother RS
sake it is now mine, doubly priced
for its interesting history. and its asso-
citation With the loved ones gone.
Fifty-seven years have brought great
changed. There is probably 20 one
now living here who knew Frances De
Harte. If this story We're fiction, we
could tell the career Of Captain B
and how he prespered with his ill-got-
ten gain we could tell the subsequent
history of that worthless husband !;
but il we believe the Lord reigns, we
know that justice has been given them,
but when and how it is not for us to
know.
The oak tree mentioned above Is still
growing on the hillside beautiful
and noble tree these ifty-seven years
have greatly added to Its beauty and
grandeur. Houses have been built on
the hillside, and in summer time groups
of children can be seen playing under
the tree. But of all who have sought
its shade, which one has a mere roman
tic history than the subject off this sto'
ryp
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

Persons addicted to the habit of
sticking their tongues out while work
ing should take warning from the ex-
perience of an Allegheny man, who,
while chopping wood few days ago,
was struck on the chin with such force
by fragment as TO almost completely
sever his organ Of speech.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

A French physician has written
long letter on the advantages OF groan-
ing and crying. He tells of man who
reduced his pulse from 1875 to 60 in the
course of few hours by giving vent to
his emotions.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

Some teachers of penmanship now
teach their pupils to write with both
hands. The method of instructions is
to make the pupil write his name in
pencil and then go over it with a pen
held in his left hand. Constant prac-
tice gives proficiency.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

If subscribers order the discontinuation uf
newspapers. the publishers may continue co
send them until NIL arrearageS are paid.
al subscribers refuse ON neglect 10 take their
newspapers from the Office To which theyare sent
they are held responsible until they have settled
the bills and ordered them discontinued.
Al subscribers move 20 00fherp places With0utin
FORMING The publisher, and the newspapers are
sentto theforiner place, theyare responsible.
ADVERTISING RATES.
wk, mo. Srmos. 6 mos l yea
Hc6a%n column 100 500 SO sS@ leCS sgS sigSO IS Sc g
i lOOOl i5oOl 25oO 500 800 7SSO
One inch makes a square. Administrators
ana executors Notices $3.50. Transient adrer-
tisements and locals 10 cents per line FOR ret
al.nsertion
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

This institution is located in one OF the most
beautiful and healthfuI spots OF the entire Alie-
gheny region. 1t is open To students OF both
sexes, and offers the following courses OF study
|. A Full Scientific Course of Four Years.
2. A Latin Scientific Course.
3. The following SPECIAL COURSES, OF two
years each following the first two years OF
the Scientific Course (a) )AGRlCULTURE
(b) NATURAL HISTORY; (cl CHEMlS-
TRY AND PHYSICS; (d) CIVIL ENGlN-
EERlNG.
4. A short SPECIAL COURSE in Agriculture.
s. A short SPECIAL COURSE in Chemistry.
g. A reorganized Course in Mechanlcie Arts,
combining shop-work with study.
Z. A new Special Course (tw O years. in Lltera-
ture and Science, for Young Ladies.
g. ACarefuy graded Preparatory course.
O. SPECIAL COUSES are arranged to meet the
wants of individual students.
Military drill is required. Expenses Tor BOARD
and incidentais very low Tuition free. y"ung
ladies under charge of a competent lady rinci-
pal. .,,,
GEO. w. ATH cRTON. LII. D., PRESIDENT
lyr STATE COLLEGE, CENTRE Co., Pa.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

When you are troubled with dizzi-
ness, your appetite all gone, and you
feel bad generally, take a few doses OF
DR.. Henry Baxter's Mandrake Bitters,
and you will be surprised at the inn
provement in your feelings. Every
bottle warranted to give satisfaction.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

A hagstaff at Mount Vernon, WASH
iugton Territory. l46 feet high, is
claimed to be one of the longest unspli-
ced spars in the United States.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE COLLEGE.

FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 10, 1884
Examinations for admission, September 9.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-04-09

A certain young lady objects to Smok-
ing, because it leaye5a very unpleasant
taste about the mUnstache.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-01-13
preiie Ger 2ln,eieen.

Sober 3oGl Der SpaIte per Sabr. =. $15.Oe
6 Wonate. s. 8.7S
% Wonate. s 5.9e
SrObere Gnseisen billiser. @
SoeaI Nott3ett.
Siir iebe Belle greper, ober bereu Raum, bes
erfenal 10 Gents, bic nG9iten Wale gelIts.
6eiratbsz nnb Sobesan;eisen nit GYrw&
$3.50, obne Sprlt6 $1.0O.
guswdrtise an;sisen miEen porausbssabIt usrhsx.
@nseisen fir Yicnics, 9otterien, @IadsipiAs
.c, bic 6em Settle Der tatb. Rir9e 5urpibsr, fiEs
ben feline 4ufnabme.
an3eisen n ienbe man ipdteifens Mpns
tag Mtprseu ein.
Job 2lrbeiten aller 2lrt prompt uns
billis aussefdbrt.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-01-13
Eefe8rap9if&e 9epe(6en.
Oeutf Lamb.

Berlin, 6. San. Bismard bat bic
Mbf@t, bas iabli@e europa gu bsiudsn aufs
seseben.
Berlin, 8. San. Msbrere pon ben
Wd&ten brinseu Isbba't baraaf, bab BIZ
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-01-13

Die greiie iinb, wenn aud nur um Elm
@srinses seitiesen, unb bic Gusfdten
iinb Der slrt, baB bic Jarmer, menn iie
nidt seswunsen iinb, lire grOSutie NIT
einem WeaIe auf ben Wsartt gu uerfen,
,ablenbe Yrsiis realiiirsn wsrben.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
miscellaneous.
To Raise Onions,

The best success usually attends grow
ing onions from sets. The soil should be
deep mellow and rich. The crop will re.
spond well to we'll rotted barn yard ma.
nure applied even to clav land. but a
sandy loan is preferable Wood ashes
applied to the surface OF bed, acts a
double purpose, it assists as a fertilizer.
and prevents in a measure, the growth of
weeds.
1t is not yet too late TO grow onions. but
an early planting is much to be preferred.
As To planting and cultivation, a writer in
the American Garden gives some good
hints which we append.
MARK the rows at least twelve inches
apart and take pains to have them as
straight az possible. Onions need to be
cultivated when very young. and as the
plants at first are very small, having them
in straight rows aids materially in Guilt
vsiing. on this account | prefer seed
drill. II requires less seed and sows m IRE
evenly and in -trsighier line than can
be done bv hand. Cover very lightly not
more than TO cover the seed and press the
soil lightly upon the seed.
a fine sharp-ioolhed rake is a good
implement FIR early cultivation. Keen
the snriare as mellow as possible and al
low not a single weed to grow. After the
plants have made good start thin out To
two or three inches apart. The first three
weeks of growth is when they need most
attention. III they are well cultivated and
kept clean during this period so that they
can make RAPID growth from the start.
but little cultivation will be needed after
ward. "-Iribune and Farmer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12

principle, know not. but there appears
to be s'm .thing in this plant thoroughly
disgusting to their ratships"
A. t" the efficacy of MULLEN in driving
out ia and mice | cannot say, but do
know that such rats as have always had
to contend with care nothing at all for
elder sprigs. Near nv barn clump of
elder bushes is allowed to grow for pro-
dncing berries, and this is a favorite re-
sort. as 4 pav ground. for vermin of that
kind during the summer, The boughs
hang sn low and thick that the little mis-
cr+ant> have t, pass among the leaves.
AID they appear To enjoy it. Rats have no
objection t. partaking of food in this
place either. for have often shot them
while there regailng themselves upon
stolen chickens.
! have tried almost every means invent
ed TO rid nv premises ct this pest, and if
accomplish the work by trapping. poison
ing or in any other wav. it lasts only for
season; rs soon rs grain Is garnered they
come again in tull force. continue to
fight but half in submission to fate.-Cor.
Tribune and Farmer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12

James X. Metcalf Of Silver City, New Mex
leo. has written letter to Secretary Lamar
suggesting a solution of the difficulties now
existing at the San Carlos Indian reservation.
tie perfaces his suggestions with the state
ment that he has been miner and farmer
since lS49, and had been careful observer
of the Indians peculiarities, having been in
charge of the Shasta, Rogue river and Coast
Iadians in Oregon for a number of years,
and he refers to Generals Auvur and Hazen
for information as to how those Indians were
mana0et. His plan is as follows:
Send all the soldiers to the reservation:
let them take charge of every women and
child on the reservation; then cay to the
bucks: You must bring those hostile In
dams. dead or alive, or your wives and chill
nren VIII b. taken to a far of land where
YOU will never see them again. Take NV
word for it in less than two months the
trouble will end Require them to bring in
the live Indian or his his head Send few
Mexicans along to see that they do not bring
IN Mexian heads; thew are no fools in cum
ning. First, be snre t. prepare stout
stockade. large enough to holda the women
ana children; give them plenty of food and
tr-at them we'll. but he firm with them
when the hostile bucks are brought in. try
ana execute every one who was on the war
path, and do it in the presence of all the In
dians. Our eastern Indian lovers will howl
over such measure, call it murder, and
every paper will pipe over it. Let them Yell.
'hese hostile bucks deserve death
a. much ne anv Other murderers. They
were IN charge of the military: let any one
justify them in starting out to murd ind,s-
crim,nate'y tell you that false sympathy
for The poor Indian should not be consid. cred
at headquarters. They are no better than
whites, and should be punished Just the
same. The scouting arrangement is curse
Ihey go along With the troops and keep the
In hans posted OF every movement Twenty
nve thousand soldiers cannot catch one In
aian IN our mountains unless he wants to
be caught. The soldiers are NOT IN blame
for not catching the Indians"
In conclusion, Mr.. MetcaIt saws that the
army officers in his vicinity fully agree with
him and CT mmend his plan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
Health

is impaired good cathartic medicine may
aid YOU. Miss NJ. Boyle, Wilkesbarre, Pa,
writes: ~ use no other medicine than
Ayers Pills. They are all that any one
needs, DR.. w. j. Talbot, Sacramento.
CAL, writes: "The curative virtues of
Ayers Pills commend them TO all judi
cious practitioners" DIR. Charles Alberts,
Horizon, Wis, writes: LAST year pro-
cured from you the formula of Ayers
Pills, and have since prescribed them with
decided benefit" No poisonous drugs are
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
Protecting Grain from Rats.

A writer in one of the agricultural
papers says by depositing few sprigs
of gum or undried elder. fresh from the
bush. in and about your grain boxes. you
will find it an effectual protection against
both mice and rats. These animals are
frequently very destructive in their raw
ages. and il a remedy so simple and eff
cacious be comaiable, no excuse will re-
main for those whose granaries may be
attacked by them. The stalks and leaves
of the common mullen will drive rats
from their haunts, why, or upon what
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
Better

way to insure the proper action of all
the apparatus necessary to health, than
to aid the stomach and liver by the
occasional use of Ayers Pills. Z. A.
Robinson. Isl School st., Lowell. Mass,
SAYS: "For a number of years was
stationed in the tropics; and, while there,
suffered much from torpidity of the liver
and indigestion. Headaches and nausea
disabled me for days at time. and it
was only by the use of Ayers Pills that !
obtained relief. know them to be the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
Good

health depends largely on the condition Of
the liver. This organ Is easily affected
because Of It's sluggish circulation. when
IL becomes dtordered, stagnant blood
accumulates in its venous system, causing
il to discharge inert or bad bile. Many
forms of disease result from its imperfect
action, which deranges all the digestive
and assilnilative organs, aud, through
these, impairs almost every function Of
mind and body. There Is no