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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-11
THREE LOVERS.

My love Is a winsome maiden,
 With eyes half brown. half blue, And eryellow braids show auburn shades, And truth is not more true Than the heart that beats in her bosom But 1t does not beat for you. She is as fair and graceful
 As ladies of high degree, While am a sun Drowned farmer, And one of her lovers three. And my heart keeps time to a flowing
 rhyme,
 When her soft eyes smile on me. poet comes to woo her,
 And be sings her many a lay, And in serenade and sonnet
 He sues her night and day; But he does not move the heart Of my
 love
 And she turns her face away. An artist comes to woo her;
 His canvas glows with dyes That are borrowed from sunset Splendor- But my lady turns her eyes Across and away to my field of hay, And she does not heed his signs. l am neither bard nor poet,
 And my pictures none can see; But the words speak will flush her cheek, And she does not turn from me For the humble sun Drowned farmer, Is the chosen of the three. Ella Wheeler Witcor, in St. Louis Mdqdzine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-11

It has been supposed supposed :hlatt that the name ''Columbia" was first used in America in 17S5; but Colonel Albert H. Hoyt has found it in a volume of poems com posed in 1761, mostly by Harvard grad uates, in honor of George III. and in of George IT, Chicago Inter- Oceaf1.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
Degrees OF Bcggary.

There is degrees of beggary. 1t was
in Union square, New York, one day,
several New York managers were stand
ing talking, when a limp-lame beggar
came up and begged for aims 1t had
been a good season, and the managers
had made some small change out of it.
One of them looked at this beggar and
had pity on him. Theatrical people
anyway have more or less of the GAM
bler's absolute dread of passing a beg
gar without giving him something.
They think it will spoil their luck If
they do. It's kind of mute acknowl-
edgment of higher power that may be
propitiated. The manager handed the
beggar lot of pennies, and perhaps a
dime among them. The beggar moved
off, and on corner he stopped. The
managers kept their eyes upon him, the
betting being he would 90 for drink.
Long he stood thinking. 1t seemed to
be hard to make up his mind. Before
he had thought it out figure meaner
than himself crept up to HIM and beg
ged for aims The first beggar looked
at him, thought moment, then put his
hand in his pocket, handed beggar No.
2 couple of pennies with an impress
sive glance of pity. and received his
gratitude just rs calmly rs the manager
had accepted his own a few moments
before. -San francisco Chronicle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
Somehow or Other We Get Alon g

The good wife hustled about the house,
Her face still bright with a pleasant smile,
AZ broken snatches of happy song
Strengthened her heart and hand the while.
The good man sat IN the chimney nook,
His little clay pipe within his lips,
And all he'd made and all he'd lost,
Ready and clear ON his finger tips.
Nothing has done very well this year;
Money Is bound To he hard To get
Everything's bound To be very dear; e.
How the cattle are going To be fed,
How we're to keep the boys ut school,
Is kind of u debit and credit sum
can't make balance by my rule"
She turned her round from the baking bread
And she faced him with a cheerful laugh:
why, husband, dear, one would think
That the good, rich wheat was only chaff,
And what IL the wheat was only chaff, =
As long as we both are we'll and strong?
I'm not II woman to worry q bit,
Somehow or other we get along.
Unto some lives some rain must fall, :
Over all lands the storm must beat,
but when tho rain and storm are Der,
The after sunshine is twice as sweet
Through every strait we have found n road,
In every grief Sc'yo ia ,nd - song;
We've had To bear and had to wait,
But somehow or other we get along.
"For thirty years VIC have loved each other,
Stood by each other whatever bcfel, .
Six boys have called us father ana mother,
And all of them living and doing well.
We owe no man penny, my dear,
Wecr both of us loving, well, and strong,
Good man, wish you would smoke again,
Ana think how well we've got along"
He filled his pipe with pleasant laugh;
He kissed his wife with tender pride; =
He said: 'Ill do as you tell me, love;
Ill Just count up on the other side"
She left HIM then with his better thought,
And lifted her work with low, swee,
song
A song that followed me many a year.
Somehow or other we get along.
philadelphia Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
NUMBER Is

cleanser of the stomach. il saves them
from becoming crop bound, it aids di-
gestion very materially, and assists to
keep away lice, for the sulphur perme-
atcs the whole body and works out
wardly through the skin pores.
Never again will growers get the
prices formerly paid for fancy fruit.
Time was when pears readily sold for
S3 bushel in the orchard, and even
higher prices were often obtained by
shipping TO eastern cities. Pears are
now so common that 81 bushcl net to
the grower is considered a good price,
while large quantities not up to the
standard are sold ut 80 cents Il bushcl.
And yet probably never before was so
much money made in fruit rs now.
Lower prices have compelled fruit grow
ers to study the best methods of pro-
duction and to cconomizc as much as
possible
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01

teriously as floating shadow. and no
one knew what had become of poor
luckless little Lotto circuit
Maurice is so eccentric" said Mrs.
General FltzgibbOn, whO like Mrs. Or
cult, was only Il step-mother, 81 never
can pretend to know of his goings and
comings. But, of course, he will not
remain long away from the Manor
House"
But the years glided away. and still
Maurice Filzgibbon did not return. And
then rumOr came that he was married.
10 some Italian princess, suppose, :"
said Mrs. General FitzgibbOn. Il shall
be delighted to welcome new mistress
to the old Manor House"
Which was by no means the truth.
She's an artist, Pm told" said Mrs.
General Fiizgibbon; quite genius.
Models in clay. and d;lshcs off charcoal
sketches and all that sort of thing. L
do adore art!'
And when, one golden September
evening, Maurice Fitz2ibbon brought
his bride home, n tall regal creature in
black velvet, with ruchc of creamy
lace around her throat and a diamond
clasping it, Mrs. General Fitzgibbon
never recognised in her the saucy shop
girl who had given such mortal offence
by delineating her in colors that were
too true
Until Lottie recalled the fact to her
memory.
Mrs. General Fitzgibbon scratched
the end of her nose with her fan.
''My dear" said she, lone never sees
the point of II joke against ones self,
you know. And was very cross old
woman-and you, my dear, are pro-
Dizzy of art"
Lottie smiled Mrs. General Fitzgib-
Don was wiser, it seemed. in her genera
ton than the children of light. She
knew that it would not do to risk any
quarrel with the heirs wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. circuit were sitting by
the fire of logs, when the door opened,
and tall pcrfumed apparition of black
velvet, golden curls. and flashing dia-
monds iloatcd in.
ITS Mrs. Fitzgibbonw cried Mrs.
Orcutt, feeling to see if she had her best
cap on.
ats our Lotticr' exclaimed her hus-
band.
So fate had arranged matters at last
There was Araminta, who had succeed
ed in the drcss-making business, and
Rachel, who had distinguished herself
us school-teacher, and Eliza. who had
set types-and little Lottie, whom Mr.
Orcutt had been SO puzzled about. And
Lottie was the great lady of the family,
after ALT
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
Do We Degenerate?

No. All facts point in the direction
OF progress, both upward and onward.
1T the contrary were true, we should be
sorry race by this time, for there is
no such thing as standing still! His
tory-which, of necessity. is the source
OF all knowledge on the subject-tells
to what extent we have improved upon
our ancestors of remote ages.
In ancient Rome, any life insurance
company which should have attempted
to do business on the expectancy tables
of our day, would have failed after a
short and disastrous career. WhyP
Because, at the time to which reference
Is made, the average longevity among
the most favored classes was but so
years, whereas to-day the average Ion
gevity among the corresponding class
of people, is 80 years!
In the sixteenth century the average
longevity in Geneva was 2121 years.
Between 1914 and 1888 it was 4O.6
and as large II proportion now live to
40 as lived to 43 three hundred years
ago. There is no race degeneracy fore
Swallowed in this! Coming down to
more recent times, we find that the pro-
Aooo eo"oio iuSlCdSCV uCtllu anu
greater length of life has been uninter-
rupted. In England, from 1890 to
1910. Harberden calculated that the
general mortality diminished one
quarter. In France, i'm 1870, out of 100
newborn infants, SO died under two
years; from 1917 to 1927 only 3S of the
same age dicd-augmentation of infant
life equal to % per cent. In 1850 as
many as SO per cent died under the
age of 10 years; in the latter period, 43
-one-tifth less. In 1850 only 81 per-
sons per hundred attained the age of
so; in the latter period 80 persons, or
IL more reached that term. In 1880
but Is persons per hundred reached 60
years; in the latter period, "a per hum
dred reached the same age.
But, most instructive of all, we are
able to state that no backward step has
yet been taken, for it is but q few
months since the mails from England
informed us that, according to recent
compilation made by the Registrar Gen.
eral, in the last two decades tao gears
have been added to the average life of
the people! And the same authority
tells us that the gain on the part of the
women exceeds that which has been
made by the men. Surely there is no
race degeneracy indicated in this!-
Medical Era.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01

"ELSH CALNANlSTIC METHODIST
w church. Located on State II. Services
every Sunday Ia "a m, . %. ~, p. m cord
ial invitation extended Ia al.
Rev. J. q. JolES, Pastor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
A Captain's Fortunate Discovery

Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, ply
ing between Atlantic City and N. Y,
had been troubled with a cough so that
he WIS unable to sleep, and was Undue
eel to try DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. 1t not only gave him
soreness in his breast His children
were similarly affected and single dose
had the same happy effect. DIR. Kings
New Discovery is now the standard
remedy i'm the Coleman household and
on board the schooner. Free Trial Bot
tells of this Standard Remedy at j. r.
Jones Drug Store.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01
A GEORGIA MOUND.

An Object of Interest on the Chatta-
hoOche River.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01

TO make guest feel comfortable and
at home, leave him pretty much to his
own DEVICES To be always striving to
amuse him is a poor compliment to his
own resources.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-01

There is pear tree in Windsor, N.
s.. which produces annually two crops
of pears.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03
s =sHEpHERDsToWN W. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1886.

lecture or speech and has good deal of
respect for the man who can talk coni-
nonsense backed by conviction. As a
general thing the hard. working class of
men like frankness. They don't appre-
ciatc duplicity or the political diplomacy
that keeps the word Of promise to the
ear and breaks it to the hope. In the pic
mic season the miner, If he has the time,
enjoys himself most. He believes in
simple pleasures and will take glass
of beer occasionally unless he is strict
temperance man. There is not a great
deal of drinking among the miners
these times and Il good many OF them
are members of various temperance or
ganizations. They keep close watch
OIL the progress of public questions and
lhe movements OF public men aud arc
careful readers OF the newspapers.
Many of the miners along the Lacka-
wanna Valley own the little homes they
live in and if work was more abundant
they would he happy, as they are 4
thrifty, industrious class, and, while
generous almost TO 4 fault, are not by
any means eXtravagant.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03
Quicksilver.

Quicksilver forms part Of soft, red
rock called cinnabar, composed of mercu-
~ and sulphur. The einnabar is crush
ed and exposed to the heat, when the
metal, in form of vapor, passes into II
vessel suitable for the purpose, where
it is cooled. Then, being reduced to its
liquid state, it is pure and fit for use.
When men working ia the mines heat
the rocks, the quicksilver will some
times roll out in drops as large as pig
cons egg, and fall on the ground in a
million sparkling globules. 1t is said to
be very beautiful against the dark, red
rock, glittering everywhere with this
'living silver" while every crack and
crevice is also filled with 1t.
Just as wood floats on water because
il is lighter, so large stones thrown into
kettle of mercury would float on top,
il is so much more heavy substance
than the stone.
There are only four important locali.
ties where il Is obtained-California
Peru, Austria, and Almaden, in Spain.
The nearest mines TO us are those In CAL
ifornia. The mines in Peru were dis
covered In a curious manner. CHINA.
bar, wheE ground very fine, makes a
very beautiful paint. The Indians used
this to ornament their bodies OF great
occasions. This caused the country
where they lived to he examined, and
the cinnabar was found. The Romans
used this paint hundreds of years ago
in decorating their images. IL Is Of
great value now In our times, and we
call lt yermillion.
This wonderful quicksilver is very
useful in separating metals from the
rocks to which they cling. Thc rocks
are crushed fine, slfted, and washed un-
til as much of the gold and silver Is re.
moved as possible. Then il is placed In
a bottle with the quicksilver, which
seems to absorb It ut once, separating 1t
entirely from every particle of sand or
rock. II the metal to be cleansed Is
gold, you will SEQ yellowish mass of 4
sort of paste or amalgam. This is heat
ed, and the mercury or quicksilver ilies
away, leaving behind it pure gold.
Although mercury is so useful In ma
ny ways, it is also deadly poison, and
its vapor so dangerous that in the search
for It many persons have lost their
lives. Not many years ago the mines
of Austria took FIRE, and 800 work
men were poisoned, many OF them dy-
ing in consequence; and the water used
to quench the flames, pumped into n
river near by, caused all the fish in the
river to die.
Have you ever seen mercury carried
about? It's put ir shecpskin bags and
cast iron bottles. u isso heavy that In
stead Of an ordinary cork, an iron stop.
per is used--screwed in!
Sometimes these bags do sad havoc,
as in the ease of a storage Of several In
the hold of ship bringing 1t TO this
country. Some of the bags leaked.
Everybody on board. WIS poisoned. Ev-
cry BIT Of m retail was covered with sill
yer coating Of quicksilver.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03

Young people rarely REALM, when
critlcising their elders, that the traits
or habits that seem 10 thsm obnoxious
were formed In early life. IL their
manners are rude, II they lack tact. if
they are not well Informed, Il is because
they have not made use Of their oppor-
tunities. Manners are the truest indi-
cations of character. A discourtsous
person Is both careless and selfish, for
tue best manners are but expressions OF
the Golden Rule; they are the card OF
introduciipn pn to strangers. A friend
can introduce you to good society, bus
he cannot keep you there; that de.
pends OIL yourself. ats
A boy Of kindly nature 10 rarely rude.
A boy of selfish nature 10 polite only
when his own desires are not lnterfered
with.
Every man Is the result OF Ills own
boyhood and youth. II he has read
good books. kept himself informed Of
passing events, he becomes what the
world terms q wsll.inforned, intsllI-
gent man. II he has wasted his sIme In
trining conversation, read oaiy sensa-
tional books and papers, neglected TO
develop the talent which he surely poo
sesses, he becomes superficial, tire
some, II not wicked man.
fas s boy he has not cultivated tho
graccs aud amenities Of lIfs. he cannot
expect to become that most lsIIghtfsl
OF men, polished gentleman. II ~ .
boy he has not studied to avoid collI-
sions with those about him, has not rec.
ognized the rights Of others, has not
cultivated desire to lead men 70 ohighev
motives, to give 10 others the bsnsat of
his own opportunities, he becomes shae
most unfortunate person, q tactless MIN,
q nuisance wherever people are bvesghs
together. One Of the Iessons every hoy
can learI Is 10 watch those men who
arouse adverse criticism and carefully
avoid their habits both Of mind and
body. Remember the old sdage, by
others faults correct your own"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03

Ii is better TO be innocent than to be
pcnitent.
When hunger pinches poverty braves
the storm.
No liie is failure which Is lived for
God.
There is ne sweeter repose than that
which is purchased by labor.
While learning adorns man, let us
remember that truth ennobles him.
Hypocrisy Is hard game to play at,
for 1t is one deceiver sgalns, many OBJ
servers.
The head, however strong II may be,
can accomplish nothing against the
heart.
Never find fault unless Il Is perfectly
certain that fault has been committed.
There Is no moment OF Lille La which
we cannot find comfort la the thought
that God loves us.
Other mems sins are before our eyes,
our own behind our back.
Always taking out aud never putting
in soon reaches the bottom.
The art Of life Is to know how to en-
Joy little and To endure much.
The wise man looks for the happiness
beyond the narrow ken OF personal
interest.
Men often Judge the person, but noG
the cause, which Is not justice, but
malice.
We rise to fortune by many shcces-
sive steps; we descend by only one.
The pleasure of doing good Is the
only pleasure that never wears out.
Prayer isa shield TO tie soul, a sac
riilce TO God, and scourge to satan.
The severest punishment Of any in-
jury is the consciousness Of having done
IL; and no one but the guilty knows the
withering pains Of repentance.
The heart that Is soonest awake to the
howers is always the first 10 be touched
by the thorns.
without belief In personal imnsor-
tallty. religion surely is like sn arch
resting on one pillar, like bridge eI',l.
Ing In an abyss.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03
BarnacIcs,

We all know what barnacles is.
Every one has seen their pure white
shell covering the aocks between tides
on the sea shore or upon the piles Of
wharves. Yet how few of us are aware
that this shell-like creature is near
cousin to the crabs and shrimp that we
eat at the table. The change from a free
moving animal to being doomed to
live forever in one place seems hard to
believe.
Parasitism has the effect of degener-
atlng all animal; just as soon as certain
organs are no longer needed they are
dropped. The tape WORM, placed
where its food is already prepared for
it, no longer needs mouth and stom-
ach; so both are lost and the food is alb
sorbed by the outside of the body. The
fishes in the Mammoth Cave have no
further use for their eyes, So they be-
come blind. Just so with the rock bar
nacle. When ii is young IL swims about
and looks almost exactly like shrimp,
but soon some unfailing instinct tells it
to settle down upon the rocks, and it
runs its head first against the pebble or
piece of wood, secretes sort of hydrau-
lie cement, and is henceforth settled in
life. The shell grows around 1t, leav-
ing an opening at the top through which
food is brought by a current Of water
caused by constant scooping motion.
The feet have become modified so Us TO
perform this scoOping, and Professor
Huxley very truthfully says of them:
"They stand Oh their head and kick the
food into their mouth with their feet"
Thus by simply becoming fixed Gnd
losing the use Of parts Of the body the
little shrimp-like creature has become a
degenerate being covered by u shell.
All vessels from tropic climes arc very
much bothered by the "goose barna.
cles," which attaches itself 10 the ves-
sel'S bottom and grows so rapidly as TO
impede its progress. These goose bar.
nacles" are the subject OF very quaint
Norwegian popular superstition, or be-
lief, had better say. They believe
that the "barnacle goose" is hatched
out of these "goose barnacles," and
many sailors will tell you they have
seen young goose emerge from the
shell. The origin of this belief is very
easily explained. The feeC that scoop
in the food are fringed by little feather
like bristles, and as they are projected
and withdrawn in obtaining food they
really do resemble the wing of II young
b ird. Even such an imperfect resem-
blance as this is sufficient to establish
such q belief among the Ignorant sailors.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03
Mrs. Cleveland ON Temperance.


Mrs. A. NJ. Grow, of Littleton, W :.
Va, recently wrote to Mrs. Cleveland, 4,
asking her advice rs to joining the Good
Templars and signing the temperance
pledge. She received the following
response:
"E1ecmire Mansion, WashingtOn.-
Mrs. Crow The subject to. which you
refer aud ask my advice is one in which
your own conscience must dictate the
wisest course for yourself TO pursue.
You have better opportunities for know
ing how you can do most good, and it
seems to me that should be the standard
by which we women should settle all
our great questions in life. Ii rarely
occurs that woman needs for herself
the restraining influence Of temper
ance pledge. But if by placing ourselves
under the obligations Of such an organ
ization we can better help our fathers,
brothers, lovers and friends, think
there should be no hesitation In the
matter. know something Of the Good
Templars, and that they do much good
work. 1t is quite certain you can do no
harm by casting your lot on the side Of
temperance, and you may DO much good.
do not consider 1t a small matter. by
any means, and am glad you asked me
the question. IL is encouraging to know
of every sister who wants to add her
strength to the cause which, happily,
some day will rid our land Of ruined
men and broken families. Very truly
yours, FRANCES CLEVELAND
"AuOust IL. 1885,"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN-oR MAY BE
YOU DON'T TKNOW-OUR FANCY DEPART
MENT-SAY,- Y,--PLUSHES.- ES.-sATINS--FELTS
ES-CHENILLES- ES-ORNAMENTS-
CoRDS-r NSEItS--BANNERR RODS HOOPS
ROLLING PANGLES-BELLS-
CRESCENTS -COINS-ARRASENE=
ENE-VEINING-FILA
ERY SILR-WASHING SILK-FLOURISH-
ING THREAD-KNIIIfING SILK-TWIST
FLOWERS FOR TRANSFER wORK-ANY-
THING EVERY THING FOR FANCYWoRK.
UPDEGRAFFS.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03
The Master's Touch.

In the still air the music lies unheard;
In the rough marble beauty hides unseen;
To make the music and the beauty needs
The Masters touch, the chisel keen.
Great Master, touch us with thy skillful hand
Let not the music that is in us die!
Great Sculptor, hew and polish us, nor let,
Hidden and lost. thy form within us lie;
Spare not the stroke do with us as thou wilt
Let there be naught unfinished. broken,
merred; -
Complete thy purpose, that We may become
Thy perfect image, Thou our God and Lord