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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
AN OPIUM sMoKER,s CONFESSION.
One of n Thousand Victims 20 the
Pipe at the Golden Gate.

San Francisco Chronicle.
al don't deny I'm an opium smoker
he said, ''fOr several reasons, the main one
being that my looks, the color of my skin
and my wasted form would tell any OBJ
server different. It's terrible thing, and
in the course of few years will kill ME,
but as haven't got anything particular to
live for, am alone in the world and like "a
enjoy myself, don't know but I'm doing
Just what most of the world is doing, Oh
trying to dO-enjoymg myself.
Its wonderful satisfaction to be able
TO lie alongside of a bamboo pipe, have
somebody cook your dope smoke your I'LL
of the drug. and know that you are free
from the desire to gain name for your
self i'm this world, and that you couldn't
get rich if you tried, so there's no Use in
trying But it's ruin to the man or woman
who once gets the habit
Don't know what the habit is? Well
I'll tell you: 1t is a craving To smoke
opium. It's worse a good deal than the
whisky habit. When the feeling comes
upon you, you've got 10 smoke; when that
feeling comes upon you for the first time,
YOU know you are 'tiend;' you might Just
as well give up al hopes Of ever amounting
to anything, for they will only make Your
haunt you now and then when you get the
blues and curse the day you put the pipe to
your mouth. What is the habit like?
Well, couldn't exactly tell you, for il
comes upon people in different ways. i
get 1t twice and sometimes three times a
day. When it comes upon me the perspira-
ton stands out on. my face and forehead in
great big drops. If do not obey the sum-
mons of my master my bones begin to ache,
until at last am forced to go. l drag my
self along up TO a joint l generally go TO,
and i'm twenty minutes L am at peace with
myself and the world again. y half-dOzen
pills havecured my habit and a half
dozen more have charged my system full
enough TO last me six hours. At the end of
that time ! am summoned again, the same
performance is gone through, the same ell
jOyment and satisfaction are experienced.
and here l am, an opium smoker, person
who lives for nothing else in Gods world
but to smoke opium. Would YOU believe
it? Wei. it's the case with just one thouS-
and other men in this town no older than
myself. and amt % yet"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
Trousers fer Women.

The ''dual skirt of the Rational Dress
society OF England, garment which has
been heard of at intervals in this country
during several years past, is very sensibly
criticized by some lady correspondents of
the Pail Mall Gazette, one of them suggest
ing that IF women are to be allowed to
wear trousers they should have them prop
erly made" while another suggests as a
very convenient garment a skirt and jacket,
the former moderately wide and reasonably
short, good for lighneSs, and with a narrow
fiOunce or trimming to keep it from cling
ing to the ankle; the latter tight-ftting, or
loose, with belt, like the old Scottish
short gown, than which there is no more
graceful dress for graceful figure. The
two being united by invisible buttons and
button holes at the back, all the weight
of the dress depends from the shoulders.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
AROOT OF VIOLETs.

Only a root of ViOlets
Piuck'd by friends dear hand,
Leaving their happy island home,
by pleasant breeZes fann'd.
Only root OF Violets
Quster'd among the grass,
Raising their -entle purple heads
To watch the golden bee pass.
Only a root of Niolets
Blooming here day by day,
Lifting their tender budding leaves
To faces far away.
Only root OF Violets
Parted from moss and tree,
Ev'n as the hands are sever'd now
That met and clasp'd DER theel
So, midst the fog and London smoke
ThydaiRty blossoms raise,
And bring me back thro' mem'ry's hours
The dreams of other days.
Cecil Lorain
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
BUSINESS AND GAMBLING.

You 60 upon the board of trade,
Where margin merchants meet,
And take some little options
On January wheat;
You watch the little ticker,
Till the hands swing round the ring,
Then you find your little Doodle
Has gone glimmering.
That's Business.
You go into q faro bank
And buy q stack of chips,
And watch the cards come from the box
Which the dealer deity flips.
When your head is duh and aching,
At the breaking of the day,
You see that tickle fortune
Has gone the other way
That's Gambling.
N. Y. Star
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
Why They CouIdn,t Lie.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
The grand chorus of ''He is a Judge,
and a good Judge too" from Trial by
Jury. +" was heard in the prisoners room
at the police court Friday morning at 9
O'Clock. and three men. soiled. red-faced.
and hngry-eyed, tripped before Judge
Hutehins.
You were all drunk?" asked his honor.
1--WE were"
''You were bowling drunk" said his
honor.
I'VE were. we were"
''YOu are very frank about it." said his
honor. Really this truthfulneSs is as
tonishing."
Not i'm the least, Judge. We are the
three only sons of George Washington, and
we cannot tell lie,
George WaShington's descendants are
now eating ice-cream in the wOrkhouSe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
VERY YOUNG WIDOWS.
HinGOO Advertisers for wives From
I3 TO Is Years Old.
India Social Reformer.

13 TO Is Years Old.
India Social Reformer.
A widow of Bengal, Brahmin caste,
Is years of age, lost her husband six months
after marriage. Her father wishes to give
her in marriage to a Bengal Brahmin of
high clan.
A Bangali lady, of Brahmin caste, who
became a widow when she was IL years of
age, and who possesses a fair complexion
and long, beautiful hair, and whose moral
character is most uneXceptiOnal, is prepared
TO marry a gentleman of her own caste &C
cordng to orthodox rites.
The guardians of a Khatri (caste) lad of
Kapur clan, aged II, who is the scion of
a highly respectable family, and is
receiving education in English and Persian,
who are willing to encourage the system of
widow marriage by marrying him with a
widow of the same caste.
Required, match for Bengal widow
of a Vaidya caste, aged IA, who had been
married at her 18th, and lost her husband
at her 18th. She is of wheat COM
pleXion, of good features, and can read
and write Bengal tolerably well, knows
the alphabet Of English and is very in
telligent; can knit comforters, stockings,
etc, pretty well. and is very willing To
work. The candidate must be a member
of the Vaidya caste and of respectable
family. He must be well educated and OF
good moral character,
Required, an educated widow, IS to Is
years of age. She should be of good shape,
feature, complexion, temper and health,
and not suffering from any hereditary dis
ease, daughter of a well-tO-dO gentleman.
and of respectable caste-for an enlightened
young Bengal ZimindarQ Landlord of respect
able caste and family. accomplished, we'll
built and free from every present and lido
pathic malady. He is prepared to meet
agreeable demands, and in order to en-
courage widow marriage among the mobiles
and CENTRES he is DESTROYS of presenting tho
bride at the wedding with jewels worth
10, 900 rupees.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
AT THE PORTAL.
re rreen I'M fhe nntrod wnlks,

Moses are green in the untrod walks,
In the broken fountain the water sleeps,
One white statue the silence Knocks
With gestured promise il never keeps.
Rank upon rank, and file upon file,
All silent the lily trumpets stand,
In the hushed suspense of the dusky aisle,
Waiting-Still waiting the word Of COM
mand.
Closed is the portal-the curtain drawn
Is it sleep or death that broods on the air?
Oh when shall the far off morning dawnl
The morning of morningS-heavenly fair
cry,
And the lily trumpets ring glad alarms,
While window and portal open fly
And yield my love again to my arms!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
Don,t Eat i'm a Hurry.

A health journal says that people ought
to take three-quarters of an hour for din
her. This is well if there is enough dinner
to hold out so long. The penalty for hur-
rying meals, as most people do, is grievous
attack of dyspepsia In such case YOU
will have to resort to Browns Iron Bitters
for cure, as did Mr.. ]. r. Pinkston, Shorter's
Depot, Ala, who writes: Il found relief
in Browns Iron Bitters after years of suf-
fering from DYSPEPSIA y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
FEMALE DRESS REFORM
The Unfortunate Plight of Recluses Who
Have Never Had an Opportunity
to Study Nature.
An Association Which viii at Once Edu-
cate Men and Physically Ben
eft Women.
Disadvantages of Prevailing styles of
Clothing the Locomotive Mem
bers of Femininity.
Adaptability of the New Costumes to
Every Variety of Outdoor
Recreation.
a NaW RpuiHlo.

1t is doubtful whether in this age any
male person of ordinary intelligence could
be found as lamentably ignorant as the
young monk Of the diverting legend, who
knew not the difference between woman
and goose. 1t is Undeniably true, how
ever, as to portion of the masculine com
munity and for this state of affairs woman
Is alone responsible, that there exist tucked
away in seclusiye libraries, religious and
educational institutions, many gentlemen,
of various age. who, if put upon their
whether the means of locomoti6n provided
by a bountiful creator were identical
i'll both genders of the species
to which they belong. To be trifle
more exact, they do not know certainly
whether woman was devised originally u
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
BuckIen,s Arnics saive.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
eorns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price % cents per box. For
sale by Lambie & Bethune and j. P. Allen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

this affair, as ''Russ" Allen is one of the most
offensive and least courageous men in st.
Louis. He will insult with great readiness,
but when he is called on an occasion of that
sort, he never seems to have more than
! two deuceS. ASMODEUS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05


of such lankneSs of
limb and sourness
of viSage that the
whole world arose
in arms against the
display OF feet. BY
an unfortunate CO.
incidence, each one
of these fOrerun-
ners of an a d.
vanced idea toed
in. AS toeing in in
wolves and creates
structural deform-
ity in the active
framework of the
, body, it followed
very naturally that
DR.. Mary Walker
and her unfOrtu-
nate comrades were
not accepted read
lily in the costume
Indeed certain
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

could realize, without experience, the ad-
vantage of using foresight in these i'm
portant points.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

walk or to wriggle.
With the sole aim in
view of enlightening in
a decent manner these
suffering individuals
we offer the following:
There has been strug-
Cling into existence for
several years i'll this
country and in Eng
land an association of
philanthropic women,
who propose to inaugu-
rate a reform in the
style of female dress SO
long in vogue. Indi-
vidually. also, they
propose to wear, and
have devised a costume.
the wearing of which
will, they claim, be OF
physical benefit to the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

A careless compOsitOr resembles a sea-
cook inasmuch as they both make pi in the
galley.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

'NAff@ =
vantages OF a costume
which discarded every
thing OF the skirt ma
ture. Had they not
been women. and there
fore naturally some
what peculiar in their
ideas, these bold cham
pions of Il blooming in
nOyation would have
secured renown, young,
pretty and embodying
in themselves all of the
physically attractive at
tributes which are so
effective to make the
first breaI, in the di-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
DUAL DRESS

sex. Indeed. it is problematical with
them whether the latter considera-
ton should not be the leading motive
Of the organization. for there exist quite im-
portaEt reasons why women, considered as
human beings, should be improved physic-
ally.
A great many years ago, certain brave
but exceedingly plain ladies undertook to
demnnStrata lmhliclN the artistic adj
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

direction of limitless liberty. Such would,
no doubt, have been the method adopted by
a like society composed Of mem bers of the
other sex. But, alas. they saw fit to
send forth into coventry female persons
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

given are presented with the hope
that they will have some influence
in the direction of this really ar
tistic and sensihle stvle of dressing
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
Colonna.Ma ackay.
THE WEDDING CELEBRATED WITH poS-
TIFICAL HIGH MASS

Miss Eva Mackay was married in
Paris to Don Ferdinand Julien Colonna,
Pee Of Galatro. The ceremony was
private and was performed vith pontif-
ical high mass by Mgr. dc Reude, the
Papal Nunclo, III the Nuncio'6 Chapel IN
Paris. The nuptial benediction was ad-
ninistered by Mrg. De Eende, who also
delivered the II iage address The
civil ceremony Of marriage, which is re-
quired by the French Law, was per
formed the day before The witnesses
TO this were Prince Colonna Doria.
Prince Coionna, Cnise1 States Minister
Morton and Duke Decsze.
After the celebration Of the religions
rite Mrs. Mackav, the mother d the
bride, gave a grand bridal reception,
which in every respec: must rank with
the most magnificent festival Of French
history. The reception vas especially
distinguished by the quality Of the
guests, among whom were included
about every person Of distinction aud
worth IL French society. Conspicuous
among these were General the Comte
Menabrea, Italian Ambassador 10
France; Count Canondo and Nine.
Wye Bonaparte.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11

iead to his detection, Baer traded il oil
20 Perry for a cast-of coat he was wear
ng. Perry had told Baer that he was
going to cross the ice at the eddy above
on his way to Crotty's Mills. He had
undoubtedly broken through or stepped
into an air-hole and was drowned. and
his body, with the remnants OF Baer's
plaid coat on, was the one the boys
found the next spring.
''Baer went to Pittsburgh, where he
enlisted in the army, under an assumed
name. After the|war he went to California
and other Western States, never having
heard q word from the mills or settle.
ment since he fed until the latter part OF
last December. Then he met, in Den
yer, man named Philip Craig, who was
working for me at the time of the sup
posed murder. They recognized one an.
other, and Craig told Baer the story of
the affair, greatly to his astonishment
and relief. Baer worked his way gradu-
ally East, to revisit the old scene and
set things right. The Hathaway girl,
over @hom the two men quarreled, was
married in 1867, and died last year. Her
son, a strapping chopper, seventeen
years old, works for me at the mills now.
Baer worked day in the old place, but
concluded he preferred to go back
West, and he's going on this ticket
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
Mr.. Eyar.S and the ElOcHtioniSt.

Evarts is Jolly old fellow, very
sportiyc at times when it will do to re-
lax his dignity. and much given TO
Joking when safe from public observa-
ton. II was Evarts's habit OF main
tanning a sedate visage that made his
treatment of an audacious and self-com-
placcnt young woman effectively crush
ing.
Il have made bold to call on you,
NJ. E9arts," she said, because | felt
sure you could appreciate the services
which [ could render to your children
AS, he has eleven cf them, he felt
bound to listen to any proposition that
pnrported to be beneficial to them.
Il would like an engagement 10 in
Struct and entertain the younger mem
beca C Jour family the caller con
tinued. II an very clever, indeed, and
am accustomed to recite for hours every
day"
ct may be said to have become
chronic" the lawyer interposed
"Oh, l suppose so,''' and the eIocU-
zionist was radiant.
"WeIl, now" aud here he became ap-
paTently interpretive, as he does when
formulating his long sentences, 'the
theories aud practices of my household,
in SO far as they seem to be pertinent to
the employment Of an entertaining in
structor, or we may say assume with
out any misconception Of your PROPOSE
ton or oftense to your self -estecm-a
governess for the children, are based on
the utmost feasible degree of tolerance
and charity. 1t Is in my memory that
we once had a lame nursemaid whose
limp, though it may have been as rhyth-
mic as a cradle TO the infant in her
arms, was certainly not pleasing to the
| observer less intimately related TO it.
| And | recall a coachnan Of ours who
| occupied years of service in dying Of a
| deformity distressing to the view. Put
! in both cases the misfortune overlook
these individuals while in our employ, az
| they had come TO US IN norma, and
healthy conditions, and we felt bound to
endure them to the end; but | hardly
think that we shonld be called Upon to
hire a governess already III an advanced
state of elocution, who is doubtless IL
curable, and with whom the most ideal
charity would not demand that We
should Jointly suffer. = CHsicngn In'er-
| Ocean,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
VER .SIFICI TION.

~ bright as the golden juno weather
Game Rose with her prayer-book and Fan
Through the church door, and homewarl to.
geher
We walked. and my woo.ag began.
She chatted of anthem and scrInon-
Thou lit af hcr Ilps and blue s2es-
OF her light dainty scp in the German
Til yaSuer became my replies.
As / vainly endeavorad to fashion
Some rasa II, s!2uld l.iy e1.,r. 50,
or hint Of, that burden Of passion
Which she, alas seemed not to guess.
But We paused on the bridge, whose sray
arches
Look down on the bridge IN the brook,
And there in the shade Of the larches
Her little gloved fingers took.
And aaid: "Kose, you've been kissed in
sonnet
III which my emotions rehearsc,"
When Il voice meath the pretty pink bonnet
Murmured Darling, am not a-7erse.".
~-T Ia fC
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11

staring at ner. Then ne iia:. his plow in
il the furrow, his horses standing
where they were, and went home. His
mother saw him coming. He tramped
over the beds OF vegetables, and trod
down the young corn. He sought no
path. AS the bee flies he sought the
doorway at which his mother stood
staring at him, and walked into the
kitchen past her without a look.
Jim, my boy" said the old woman,
what is it o.
He made her no answer; but went to
his room and straight to bed. For
hours be never spoke to her. Then he
began to babble He uttered Nelly's
name; he reproached her with incon-
stancy; he called her tender names in
one breath and cursed her in the next.
Then he gave one wild cry and sprang
up in his bed and dropped back again,
with his eyes staring toward heaven.
He was dead; the mother knew that be-
fore they told her SO.
The next day coffin stood in the
tow-ceiled parlor, and in it lay pale
statue with closed eyes-all l(fRat was
left OF Jim Wadsworth One by one
the friends aud neighbors came softly in
to look at him, and went away more
softly, often in tears At last came one
woman-a fair woman, in a widows
cap and veil who stood longer than the
rest looking at the still, white face, and
at her own request was left alone with
it, while curious people in the other
room wondered whether it was true that
Nelly and Jim were once engaged, and
had quarreled. For this was Nelly, in
her widows weeds, who had come to
look at Jim for the last time.
AS she stood there, with thoughts for
which there was nc words trooping
through her mind, an inner door opened
and an old woman crept in. It was
Mrs. Wadswortb, broken down at last,
and with the strange, restless light OF
an unsettled intellect in her light blue
eyes.
She held an old letter in her hand,
and it rustled as she slowly crossed the
room and stood beside the coffin.
"Jim, said she, "here's your letter
I've been thinking it over, and since
you take it SO hard, you'd better have
it. / only KEEP it for your own good
Jim. She amt the girl for You; but yor
take it SO hard. Wake up, Jim; here's
your letter.
But the white, frozen hands lay still
upon the breast, and other small, living
woman's hands grasped 1t instead
Nelly knew all the story now.
"Here is your letter, Jim, " she whis
pered. ooh, Jim, Jim, and she lait
it softly under the white flowers upon
the bosom, and, STOPPING, kissed th
waxen hands and brow. ooh, Jim
jim r she said again, and let her blacl
veil down over her face, and went he
way; and the gossips who stared afte
her as she passed down the villag
street, wondered again if she had eve
been engaged to Jim Wadsworth, bu
none Of them ever knew The gray
keeps its secret, so also does a woman
heart
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
The Physical Year.
heart.

There continues to be great deal of
uneasiness among the department peo-
pie about changes, says a Washington
letter writer. Perhaps there is no class
of employees in the departments who
are more disturbed than the colored
people. The colored employees of the
Government are the aristocrats of THEN
society. Some of them have accumu.
lated fine properties. | know Of on
colored messenger who has four or tiv
sons in the departments. The family
all live together in one house. Their
aggregate salaries must reach owe
$4,000 year. The ancient cook
Gen. Sheridan we'll illustrates this pan.
icky feeling among the members OF her
race. f'Aunt Mary has been Sheri.
dams cook for long period. When he
left Chicago he set her up in small
shop there. Her daughter married one
OF the messengers il the War Depart.
ment. She recently came on 10 visit bet
married daughter. She has been in
Washington now about two weeks. The
other day she expressed her opinion on
the situation to a lady friend of Gen.
Sheridan's. Aunt Mary sad "Gen.
Sheridan, he is all right and l was pow.
erful glad of it. Desc yer Democrats
can't get him out no how. but sill al
odder niggers will have to so by de end
Of de physical year.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
A PRESENT FOR JIMMIE

PRESENT FOB JIMMIE
"Oh, Jimm- -mee.ee-ee T.
"Wotcher want? p
eyer comes yer daddy |"
"Wot's he dom p
"Lookin for you -
"Wot's he want ?"
Hes got somethin' nice fur yer
"Wot Is it q
Dunno ! Looks ike somethin' te
ride on. Kind o long and slim and
ck-like, like as ef he'd peeled the bark
off n it"
Jimmie dives ihto the creek with hh
clothes on and strikes ont for yoade,
point accoutered as he was He was
playing hockey and he had rode"
on one of them things before. 1t would
be raw and gusty day when Jimmie
got left. t.-BURDErrE.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
STRAY BITS OF HUMOR
FOCND IN THE nrN0RoUS COLUMNS
OF OUR EXCHANGES.

A Prescnt for Jlmmir-A Ni-eount->er.
tected Work IL " az Ttme t.et Away
Handy Husband. Etc. ktc.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
A MIsCOTST.

Mamma, cries little Filth, dive
me anudder date, p'ease
WELL says mamma, ''you go and
ask Bridget for one-onlv one, remem-
ber-and you may get two for Mamie
(ap older sister,.
Presently Elith comes back.
Mamma, she says, Il think Bridget
made mistake and inve ME two dates
for myself and oily one for Mamie. -
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