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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
We Caution All Against Them.

The unprecedented success and merit
OF Ely's Cream Balm-a real cure for
Catarrh, hay fever and cold in the
head-hss induced many adventurers
to place catarrh medicines bearing
some resemblance in appearance, sly %
or name upon the market, in order to
trade upon the reputation Of Ely's
Cream Balm. Don't be deceived. Buy
only Ely's Cream u I'm. MANY in
your immediate locality will testify in
highest commentator of it. A par
tlcle is applied into each no trl; no
pain; agreeable to use. Price SOC.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Dry Goods Imports at New York.

NRw YoRK, September 24.-The i'm
ports OF dry goods for the week end
ing September 29d, were 1904 pack 'gep,
valued at 81 340,57S, sgainst 1887
packages, valued at $2,7ol 400 for the
preylous week, OF the total imports
$3.50 pa kages, valued at $l,SO5, 4s6,
were entered for consumption, and
l7lb packages, valued st 1887 ,092, were
warehoused. Withdrawals from ware
house du ing the week amounted to
1926 packages, valued at $500, 1877.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25

no crop. none OF the trees bearing
properly. The large plantations are
as badly injured as The smaller groves.
The worst OF the matter is that the
trees are so badly injured that it will
take nine years OF propitious weather
before the crop will be q full one
sgain. 1t will be but little improved
next year. only a partial production
the year following. II nothing hap
pens to prevent the third year should
see fair crop. A large proportion OF
the Loui.iana crop last year was
shipped North, but there is not
enough now for home consumption,
and New Orleans will be compelled 10
depend on California and Florida.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
.LOUIsuNA'S GRANGE CROP
a OOmp ieIe Failure Tho Trees Had.
~ Damaged.

NEW ORLEANS LA, September "a
Ire Louisiana orange crop is usually
marketed about this time Reports
from Gaze issn, st Bernard, st. Mary,
Cameron, l. Fourche and other par
ishes in which the oranges are plinci-
pally grown report inst the crop is a
com a)ete failure this year II usually
ave. ages 3O0G0,000 10 10000 900 a
year, but will not be l,0G0,0J0 this
yesr, in consequences OF The severe
Ire, "a LIST W ntsr. The news is uni
formly bad RON every portion OF the
State. In some places here 800 bar
rsl5 -tr ootained last year scarcely a
bpr ell vii be- ssCurei. The freeze of
the win'ef did ter ibe damage, killing
the limbs and requiringth cutting of
Of 80 mucn dead wood IS to most
destroy the trees. There is absolu ely
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Terrible Accident a, an Iron Mine,

WATERTowN, N. Y, s ptember "a
A terrible accident occurred at the
iron mines at Jaysvllle, st. Lawrence
county, at about 6 o'clock yesterday
morning. A charge Of dynamite had
been fired, and the foreman, VIM.
Apple, and two workmen, Felix Base
and Frank Blackburn, descended to
observe the results OF the blast. They
had scarcely entered the mine, how
ever. when macs OF rock fell, in
stantly iling Basse and Blackburn.
A depression 10 the rock saved the
life OF Apple, but he was badly in
jured.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Tho schooner Adams Case.

HALIFAX, N. s., September "a
Chief Justice Mcdonald today gave
his decision on the motion made by
Mr. Meagher, counsel for the United
States, 10 have tie evidence for the de-
Tense in the schooner Adams case
taken before a Commissioner in the
United StaJes. The Chief Justices
decision is thatthe CAPTAIN of the YES
sci must come 70 Halifax to be exam
intd, batthat the crew m,y give thsir
evidence befoe a Commissioner in
Boston.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Two Oil Trains DemoIi,hed.

PIrTsBURe, Pa September 2i.-The
first section OF an Gil train on the
Allegheny Valley railroad ran into the
second section near Logansport, Ps.,
at 6 o'clock this morning, and both
tIaius were demolished. After the &C.
cident the cars took fire and were en-
tirely consumed. The loss will reach
$4,000 No one YVES injured. The
accident was caused by the failure to
send back hagman.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
knight TcmpIar Killed by the Cars

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, September ga.
@. Strong, Of Nsperville, ILL.,, a Knight
Iemplar in attendance upon the con.
clsve in this city, was killed this
morning by being run over by pas.
Benger train at Cheltenham, near this
city. He had been visiting friends at
tue latter place, and intended 10 re.
turn home this evening. He attempted
TO board the train as 1t was moving
out Of the depot, but missed his foot.
in, fell under The wheels and was in
stantly killed. The Triennial Com
mittee took charge OF the remains and
will furnish an escort to convey them
to the deceased's home.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
liverpool Cotton Statement.

LIVERPOOL, September 24-The o.
fici n r, turns for the week ended yes
lelday gives the imTo Of cotton. + s
1906 bales and the expnrts az 1857
bal.s. TIE total imports since the let
OF January have been 1859, 800 bales,
and the total exports for the same
period 81 hSS bales.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
They Are Not sorry.

There is one thing nobody ever re-
grets--that is, the day they first adopt
cd Psrker's Tonic as their regular fam
lily medicine. Its range is 80 wide
and its good effects so sure, that moth
ing else, except good nursing, arr
needed in great majority OF cases
Buy il, try it, and afterward it will not
require any praise rom ma.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Notorious shopIifter Taken In.

CLEVELAND, o, september "a The
detectives TO-DAY arrested Lizzie Hoy,
alias Ellis, said to be one OF the most
notorious shoplifters in ths country.
The police cl i'm that she has operated
IN nearly every city in the United
States. She was arrested here for
stea!ing shawl valued at $3.50 in a
prominent dry goods store.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Train wreck err Nabbed.

NEw HUDSON, MICH, September "a.
Archie Ohettield was arrested today
charged with wrecking special
freight tran on the Grand Tru K rail-
road, Septe mber 10th, causing the
death OF one man and serious injury
OF two others.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
LEFT Unconscious by III. Partners.

CINCINNATI, o., September "a =
George W. Still, Of M ddleport, o.,
is lying unconscious at the Cincinnati
Hospital ON numerous cuts about
the head and body. He had been
found in this condition alone in a
shauty boat on the Ohio river. APP
pearances indicite that bis assailant
was his partner, who cannot be found.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
Lea by an lrresisIibIe ImpuIse.

BALTIMORE, MD, September "a
Mrs. O II, Rudolph, aged 23, married
81 few weeks ago, shot herself today at
her home near this city. She fred
four sh Is into her left breast in the
region Of the he art, and died today.
Before death she stated that she was
led by an irresistible impulse to shoot
herself.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25

LONDON, Sep'ember est Is re-
ported that Gorilla, acting in the adj
vice Of The French government, has
LETT Paris.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
To THE PUBLIC.

WE, tho undersigned, having bousht tho
wv entire business Of manufaoturing
Furniture, Mattresses, Awnings, Tents, etc.
from Henry Buttenberg, would respectfully
ask share OF your patronage. knowing fu 4
we'll that, from long experience, we can aud
will give entire satisfaction to all work en-
trusted 10 us. W. will DO ready at all times
10 furnish Awnings, Tents, Paulins and all
kinds Of canvas work; make all binds of first
class Mattressesi repair, varnish ard make
all kinds of Furni ure; rSupholster Parlor
Suits, and deliver goods free Of charge. Car
pets renovated In the true Persian style. All
work done promptly and at living prices.
". Nuremberg a "a, N1I Nec0uel
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
BREvITIEs.
Hannah Coddingtoa

Cause of Milt Sickness. -Prof. John
Collet, ex-State Geologist, of Indiana,
names the Eupatorium dgerdtoidcs--
known under such local names as "white
top" Virginia snake root" "bloom Of
autumn" etc.-as the cause of milk sick
ness so prevalent among COWS in various
parts of the West. The plant much re-
sembles boneset. It is from two to four
feet high, and is especially poisonous to
cattle when eaten after the frost has
touched If. Safety lies only in destroying
the plant by cutting and burning.
Burn the Rubbish. Here is hint for
people who are cleaning up their prem
ises, as all should at this season. Remem-
Der, rubbish affords harboring places for
etroying them is to burn all the rubbishy
trash which may be unfit for the compost
heap. Dried weeds should never be add
ed to the manure, for if they are, seeds
will be scattered over the farm, and
clean raking should be given ell the cor
ners and other announcement places, in
order to collect the rubbish before wet
weather begins.
Scratches Hon. Rufus Prince, Presi-
dent Of the Maine State Agricultural So
ciety, writes the Maine Farmer: 81 am
no horse doctor, but I will give you q
very simple but effective cure for scratch
es, given me by one who has had the
care of horses for long time, and which
has never failed with him. 1t is this:
Wind wooden rag around the horses
ankle and fasten it on; and let it be I'M
til it wears off. No matter if you drive
your horse in the mud, do not take off
the rag, and before you think of it, the
scratches will be cured"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
WHAT DO GIRLS READ?

They read and like stories with plenty
of action, just as boys do. Every healthy
girl enjoys Ivanhoe," for instance, and
books of adventure and peril, of course
requiring that there shall be love making
enough. The modern psychological novel
is probably too strong meat for these
young people, and the goody goody
books in which the heroine goes through
all kinds of suffering and ill-treatment
only to die Of something lingering, to
slow music, just when all the difficulties
have been cleared away, are never appre-
ciated save by an elder generation which,
though it never would have read such
stuff itself, somehow thinks the heirs of
all ages ought to be glad to do So There
is also another kind of book which the
girl of the period rejects utterly, and it is
the cookery book. Progressists say that it
is well that it should be so, but husbands
are apt to reach different conclusions,
when dyspepsia causes them
to adopt a monotonous diet of phosphates
and pepstones. What girls read indeed
is great mystery, concerning which only
the broadcast conjectures may be permit
ted. That they carefully avoid didRctic
might be inferred perhaps by
cynical observers. That they keep abreast
of contemporary fiction is self-evident.
But their reading no doubt is as hetero-
geneous as that of men, and different
have special tastes. Statistics
must fail in a case of this kind, as Mr..
Salmon's experiment has demonstrated
What girls read is as difficult question
to answer as what girls are, and that has
the philosophers of all ages,
as was observed by the sage whom Moses.
son and heir of the Rev. DIR. Primrose,
encountered at the fair.-NetV York Trib-
une.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
THE FIRST BRIDGES.

The first bridges we're OF wood, and the
earliest Of which we have any account
was built in Rome 500 B. c. The next
was erected by Julius Caesar for the pas
sage OF his army across the Rhine. Ira
jams great bridge over the Danube, 4,770
feet long was made of timber, with stone
piers. The Romans also built the first
stone bridge, which crossed the Tiber.
Suspension bridges are of remote origin.
A Chinese one mentioned by Kirchen was
made of chains supporting roadway
$50 feet in length. 1t was built A. d. 65,
and is still to be seen. The first large
iron bridge was erected over the Severn
in 1777. the age of railways has brought
a remarkable development in this branch
of engineering, especially in the con-
struction Of bridges OF iron and steel.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04

The great plateau between the Sierras
and Rocky Mountains, including Utah
and Nevada, is already largely appropri-
ated to the uses of stockmen, and bids
fair to soon become the most extensive
grazing ground for hocks and herds in
the whole country. Tracts of land, some
comprising 100000 acres, have been pur-
chased to which owners of cattle in Tex
as and other Southwestern States are
driving their cattle. The pressure of ag-
riculturists in the older sections has thus
had a tendency to "freeze out" the cattle
kings who are now looking up larger
fields Of pastursge in the remoter West
The stockman is the natural precursor OF
the husbandman, and good pastoral
lands along water courses where timber
is more or less abundant, fu tnishes the
material out of which the finest farms are
carved. The opportunities for successful
farming and fruit raising are equally as
great in Idaho and Wyoming as for
breeding and fattening beef for market.
The unappropriated lands there are even
better In many instances than believed,
and before many years thousands of
acres will be discovered to be admirably
fit for agriculture, which were not before
known to exist.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
THE NEVA.

A mere neck of earth separates the
Russian capital from the great inland
sea of Ladoga, and through more than
forty intervening versts of forest land,
green and wsvy with the trembling as
pen, the birch, the alder, and the silver
pine; the Neya moves majestically down
its deep channel, by villages and clear
ings, past scattered communes and strag
Cling huts, between sounding wood yards
and busy factories, till at last, gliding
along the famed granite quays of the i'm
perial city, it pours by five broad mouths
and narrow outlets innumerable into the
Gulf of Finland.
No Russian river has the beauty, the
purity, the picturesqueness, which are
the attributes of this northern water
course; yet to fully appreciate the NOBLE
ness of its aspect in the warm season,
one must be familiar with it's wintry ap-
pearance, and above all witness its YER
nal emancipation from the letters of
frost by ukase of the 'father OF warmth"
the Slav Apollo, Dazh- Bog himself. For
nearly six months ringing highway for
man and beast, the Neva grows unsafe
for travel late in the month of April, and
has usually resumed it's freedom by the
beginning of May; yet the opening of
the attack on the crystalline mass pre-
cedes the moment of its melting by
weeks. A month sometimes elapses be-
fore the solar rays have begun to sensi-
bly, thin the ice crust, and for month of
seeming defiance of the forces of renais.
sance droskies pursue their chosen paths
over the CONCEALED river, pedestrians
continue to traverse it in chair slides or
on foot, the heavy wagons of merchant
and trader go rumbling over in the same
endless procession, and the Samoyeds,
those gipsies of the north, cling with
their reindeers to the camping ground of
their winter exile ON the frozen stream
which is soon to bear them back to
their homes in the Arctic circle.
The metamorphosis then follows with
a swiftness that is truly Russian. The
last screws and clasps Of molecular cohe-
sion are drawn in single night; the
thickest iee-plate then opens TO its solar
enemy thousand lines of march. In the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
BLUNT PEOPLE.

Kate Thorne says there are people who
take great credit to themselves because,
as they say, they are blunt. Blunt with
them means honest. They say just what
they mean, no matter whom it hits or
whose feelings are wounded. They abhor
shams, they tell us; they don't want any
hypocrisy; they don't pretend to any
thing; they are blunt.
And our prayer is the Lord deliver us
from blunt people! They are nuisance
in society. They are the rock on which
all friendships split. A dozen Of them in
q community would break up all the
good feeling that would naturally be
bred in century; and q full grown cy-
clone as bosom companion would be
infinitely preferable to such person;
for anybody could dig hole in the
ground and get away from the cyclone,
but from the person who speaks his
mind on every occasion there is no es-
cape.
Your blunt man will speak to you
across the room and when the room is
full of compapy-and ask you if it is true
about your losing ten thousand dollars
dabbling in stocks. And he will supple
ment the question by the remark that he
thought man OF your age would have
known better. As for him he never goes
into anything unless he knows it is sure.
He will tell an unmarried woman who
hatters herself that with her hair crimp,
ed and false teeth in, she looks young;
that he remembers seeing her Mother
lead her to church forty-f five years ago, a
little thing seven or eight years old. And
if you should demonstrate with him for
speaking thus, he would stare at you,
and wonder if there is any disgrace in
being led to church by ones mother.
The blunt man will ask you what you
paid for your teeth just as readily as he
would inquire as to the cost of your hat
and he likes to tell you that you are gray
er than MIR. Simpson, who is about your
age; and he suggests to you that proba-
bly, you will have the rheumatism, as
your father had! Rheumatism Is hered-
itery.
A blunt woman is worse than blunt
man, because woman can always find
such nice opportunities for saying pro-
voking things.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
The Ao,ne 0ire1e.
IN CHURCH.

"what worship YER the preacher said
The rest did not hear,
But round the room l looked instead.
At this and that so reverent head,
All saint-like and austere.
What do you worship now ?" [ thought;
And Fancy straight the question caught.
And strange sights did appear.
All wells were dropped, and clear to view
All hearts were open thrown:
A shame it were to whisper you
What then saw. If all were true,
'Tgere better ali unknown;
Such hearts none ever saw before.
But all at once looked no MORE
Alas saw my own.
bradford TORY, in Stsnd1y School Times.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
WHERE DO THE PINS GO?
See pin and pick it up;
All the day you'll have good luck.


All the day you'll have good luck.
This commonest of all toilet arti-
Giles, the pin, is child of olden times.
Possibly the earliest known pin was the
thorn with which doubtless Mother Eve
pinned her dress of fig leaves together.
The little verse at the head of this arti-
Gle is known to nearly every little girl or
boy in the land, and perhaps the author
of the little couplet was some thrifty
housewife who realized that pins disap-
pear very rapidly and who thought she
had chance to appeal to superstition for
thriftiness.
Where the pins all go is wonder. Mill
ions Of them disappear daily and mill
ions are made to take their place. The
books tell us that pins are coevsl with
the human race, and we're first intro
duced into England in 1460. The pin
became of such Importance that in 1888
it's importation was prohibited by statute
in England. In 1910 Queen Catherine
received pins from France, and in 1913
an act was passed providing that "no
person shall put to sale any pinnes but
only such as shall be double-headed and
have the heads soldered fast to the shank
of the pinnes, we'll smoothed; the shank
well shapen, the points well and round
filed, canted, and sharpened."
AS now. pins were then made of brass,
but they were very different from the
"pinnes'' of to-day. Instead of the pins
being made entirely of one piece, as now,
it was then made of shank of one piece
and the head was a piece of fine wire
wound round the shank.
In IT'S the attention of the colonists
was called to the manufacture of pins
and needles. as prizes were offered for
the first Of native make, but the success
ful manufacture of pins in this country
wasn't known until 1886, although in
1924 Lemuel w. Wright, an American,
secured in England patent for pin
making machine.
The growth has been steady, and to-day
pins are made by the ton in England and
America. After the invention of Mr..
Wright's machine the price fell enor-
mously and the demand increased, for
right after the war of 1872, the price had
gone away up. There is still an impor-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
THE MOTHER'S PLACE.

1t is very common to hear expressions
of indignation against idle girls who
allow their mothers to do all the work,
but mothers themselves are largely re-
sponsible, and will do we'll to heed the
following hints from writer in Church
and Home:
Teach the children to respect you.
Perhaps you smile at this. Love seems
so far above and beyond respectl The
children love you with all their hearts.
Granted. But for all this, neglect not to
cultivate respect in them. A devoted
mother is willing to forego comfort for
the sake of her loved ones. Sleepless
nights and aching limbs must sometimes
be; but there is another kind of self-de-
NAL for mothers. When Marion has de-
voured her own portion Of the choice
fruit or CONNECTION, and her baby fingers
stretch toward mammals plate, deny
yourself the pleasure Of giving her the
whole, or a portion of what belongs to
you.
When Isabel longs for new hat whica
she does not really need, and the family
purse reminds you that you can not pur-
chase that without wearing your old
cloak another winter, buy the new cloak
and let the hat wait. it may be there is
an instructive course of lectures in prog
res5. For some reason all the family can
not attend. Take your turn with the
others. You will be surprised to see how
willingly the girls or husband will re-
main at home when they find "mother :"
cares about going. Do not say, "Any-
thing will do for me-" Have proper
care for your person and apparel.
Encourage the children to work. Some
thing more than encouragement may
sometimes be necessary. In most cases,
however, a judicious mother can so in
terest the boys and girls that work will
not be heavy burden. Marion wants to
wash dishes, but is too small. Let her
dust, while Isabel does the dishes, and
by and by instruct them both in the mys-
teries of bed making and bread making.
Be sure that the boys chop the wood and
bring the water. No doubt it would
be easier to do all this work yourself,
there's so much "bother" about teach
ing children; but for their sakes, il not
for your own, give the extra time and
labor.
All this may require selfdenial on the
part of the loving mother, who would
gladly give herself and her possessions
for the dear ones; still, in kindness to
them, as we'll as to herself, these simple
rules should be followed. When each
child has his or her allotted portion of
work, and mother is treated with the re-
spect that is her due, there may be fewer
sickly attempts at art, and fewer wishy-
washy stories and poems written. There
certainly would be fewer poor, tired
women longing for rest; but mother, in
stead of being the slave and drudge, to
be thrust into the background when par
lor company comes, will become what
God designed her to be, the queen OF the
home.