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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-26
PERSONAL.

MIR. Sam Black went to st. Louis yes
terday.
Prof. r. NJ. Scotch was in the city
yesterday.
Louis Roeder, OF Brownsville, passed
through Sedalia yesterday on his return
from Kansas City where he attended the
Z. of p. grand lodge.
DIR. Jones will go to Lawrence, Kan
sas, tomorrow to conduct the funeral SER
vices of Chas. Moore. The doctor oficia-
ted at the deceased's marriage.
Brig. Gen1 E. NJ. Sloan, Grand Secre-
tary of the Grand Lodge of 1. o. o. F., of
Missouri, will pay Neapolis Lodge, No.
153, an official visit Tuesday, October rs.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-26
WEATHER REPORT.

corrected daily for the BAzoo by C. G..
Taylor, Horologist and Optician, No. 10s
Ohio street, for the twenty-four hours end
Ing at o'clock p. M, Oct. %, 1886.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

Few persons on visiting a museum
consider that such objects as skeletons
require a certain fitting for exhibition.
Yet the preparation Of skeletons for the
market constitutes a distinct industry, to
which a large mandatory in the suburbs
of Paris is devoted. Corpsey are sup
piled from dissecting-rooms and hospi-
tails. On its delivery the raw material is
boiled for days in a c%auldron, and the
grease which rises to the surface is
skinned off and sold. The bones arc
carefully assorted and converted into ar
tifcial skeletons. The preparation Of
frogs, lizards and various reptiles occu-
pies a separate department.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
LEND A HAND.

Look up and not down; look out and not
in; look forward and not back: aud lend a
hand.
Look bravely up, doar soul, tn, cleaning
stars
Shine grandly out beyond the darkest night.
The solemn. sobhing anthems s lYer bars,
Sweep down to us from Heavens far,
nameiess height:
They sky is upward; -" the trees and
flowers
The bees AMI birds fly forth to greet the
hours:
All earth is gal, dear brother, look thou
up!
Look outward! Here the dreamy sunbeams
Within the rock-encircled, sheltered shore:
There on the wide, wild sea dark mpe
sweep,
And wre ks go down indarknesse vermo:e.
Set thou a light upon the treacherous sand;
Trim thou thy little lamp to pierce the
gloom,
And guide the sailor to his fatherland,
The weary wanderer to the gates Of Home.
Look upward! outward! forward in the race
Which God doth give thee, thou mayst
surely win;
Toll forthe nobler life and higher place,
Work thou for God and man! Look out,
not in!
Send thou a helping band to those who err
To all who need thy aid to stronger stand;
Who loveth man is Gods best w%orshiper.
Forget myself, my brotherhood a hand!
Il. Alice kirne IN Detroit Free Press {.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
Why Men Become Bald.

"D1d you eve notice what classes OF
men are most commonly bald" asked an
expert hair-dresser the other day. That
throws q good deal of lig hit on the causes
of badness. People give all kinds of
explanations for it-dissipation, cutting
the hair too short, letting it grow too
long, smoking. drinking strong coffee,
worry, wearing high hats, wearing low
hats, wearing your hat indoors, not
wearing it outdoors, late hours and u
hundred other things. Now you will
notice that there are no classes of men
more frequently bald than retail sales
men, bookkeepers and Office clerks in
certain lines Of business. Why should
badness affect them more than others?
Because they habitually stand or sit
rearIy every evening under gaslights.
Bookkeepers always haze a stro:g light
right over their heads or just in front of
them. So do clerks who haze to work
at night. Retail statesmen sell goods at
night directly under two powerful burn
crs, and most of the time their heads are
not more han two or three feet from the
flame. The artificial heat dries out the
hair, makes it brittle and unhealthy and
finally kills it at the root. If you will
pass your hand through your hair after
you nave Dech stauuIuS unueT u SaSlISnC
for a few moments you will see at once
how it is. Although you may not have
noticed the heat on your head. your hair,
if you've got any, will be hot to the
roots. You'll be surprised to observe.
too, ut what a distance from the light
the hair will absorb the heat. Now there
is nothing SC bad for the hair rs getting
it dry. That is why the use of water on
it is so in .urious-because it evaporates
so readily and takes with it the natural
oil of the hair. Your hair should be
moist all the time and with the oil, th.t
is secretcd by the little cells at the roots.
When the oil is continually and rapidly
dried out, as it is when the head is kept
heated by gaslight, the cell dr. cs up and
the hair fal 8 out People who sit under
the gaslight should wear some kind of a
cool, non-conducting headgear to pro-
tect themselves. l have an idea, too,
that after the electric light has been in
universal use for a generation or two,
badness will be as scarce as it wac before
gaslights and night. work got common
together Nev York Mail ant Erpreas.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
Pemmfcan, the Food Of Arctic TRAY
elprS

The meat, cut in long flakes from the
warm carcass of the buffalo and dried in
the sun, is afterwards beaten into shreds
by fails Upon Il floor of buffalo hide on
the open prairie. The hide is then sewcd
into q bag, the meat damned in, the top
sewed up all but one corner, into which
more meat is crowded, and then the fat,
which has meanwhile been tried, is
poured in scaliing lot, filling every
c~revice. A species of cranberry is often
added with the meat. The whole forms
a bolster-shaped bag, as solid and as
heavy rs stone, and in this condition it
remains, perhaps for years, until eaten.
Each bag weighs from 100 to 1870 pounds.
One who has tried it will not wonder
that it was once used in the turmoi!s of
the contests between the Northwest and
Hudson Bay Companies to form q re
doubt, armed with two swivel guns.
There are two ways of preparing this,
one called 'rub-a- boo" when it is boiled
in a great deal of water, md makes a
soup; the other more favorite dish il
rousseau" when it is thrown into a
frying pan. fried in its own fat, with
the addition, perhaps, of n little salt
of flour or broken biscuit. But some
tALhSSS "hSh philoSSlJlCiS III III put W
it, and forced to take their meal in the
canoe, the pcmmican is eaten raw {;
chopped out of the bag with a hatchet,
and accompanied simply by the biscuit,
which has received the sobriquet of "kcd
River granite" These wonderful OBJ
jects, as large as sea- biscuit, are Mt least
threc-quarters of an inch in thickness,
and against them the natura,ist'S geo.
logical hammer is always brought into
rcquisition.
But the ''intidcl fish, as rousseau is
termed, is BY comparison with the others
palatable, though it is even then impus-
sible to 60 disguise it as to avoid the
suggestion of tallow candles; and this
and the leathery, or india rubber, struc-
turc Of the meat are it's chief disqualifi-
cations. But even rousseau may lose its
charms when taken us q steady diet three
times a day for weeks, especially when
it is served in n frying pan, and, break
fast or dinner over, one s,es the remnants
with the beef OF pork all hustled to-
gethcr in the boiling kettle; the biscuit,
broken bannocks and unwashcd cups
placed in the bread-bag; the p'ates,
knives and forks tossed into the meat
dish; and all, combined in the ample
folds of an old bit of gunny cloth, which
has served daily ut once as dishcloth and
tablecloth, thrown into the canoe to rest
until the next meal, when Mt last Billy
finds time to wash the dishes the table
cloth never.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
WORDS OF

Fortune fears the strong; but brushes
towards.
1t is better to exceed expectation han
disappoint.
1t is better to be nobly remembered
than nobly born.
EarnestncSs in a good cause annot
stop short of fame.
Victory is fore shadowcd by the effort
put forth to bring it about.
1t is n great shame to 4 man to have a
poor heart'and n rich purse.
Great merit is often concealed under
the most ~nnp:omising appearance.
Folly may be corrected, but cross
grained wit cannot be Strengthened.
1t is better to be cternally forgotten
thai to be remembered only for evil.
Five enemies are there to our peace:
Pride, anger, envy, ambition, and
avarice.
Man is n violin; it is not until his last
string is broken that he becomes a piece
of wood.
Dc the duty that lies near st to thee;
thy second duty will already have PC
come clearer.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
HindOO Heads.

A Hindoo writes to the chronological
Magazine as to the relative size of the
heads of his countrymen as compared
with those of Europeans. He says: IAN
the Hindoo heads l have had the. oppor-
tunity of measuring by tape measure
come ntar to or about twenty-five inches,
and in some cases more, in circlmfer-
cnce." The writer goes on to give HE
view of the difference between thu Eng
lish and the Hindoo, and the reason Of
the ~latter's sub ection. The native, he
considers, has less of those qualities that
give energy, force, resistance, enterprise,
hopefulnes' and caution, while he has
more of those that lead to passive obedi-
cnce, reverence, respect for authofity,
submission to what appears to be tho will
OF heaven. and in general to rcligiotain-
flucnces, than his conqueror.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

Charles L. Webster, senior member of
the firm that is publishing Gen. Grants
beck, said recently that he had just
handed to Mrs. Grant the firms check
for $3.50, 600, the second installmcnt due
her under the Generals contract. Her
SEVENTH per cent. of the profits on the
sale of the book will continue during the
twenty-eight years of copyright protec-
ton secured to the work, SO that she will
doubtless receive anywhere from $780,
900 to 500, 900. Mr.. Webster also said
that his firm contemplated publishing an
edition de luxe of the book, each copy
containing portions of Gen. Grants orr
ginal manuscript The edition will
probably be limited to 500 or 1000
copies, and will be sod for 800 each.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
ham girl tainted away as white and linn,

ham girl tainted away as white and limy
as any ordinary womanl There was .
good deal in the expression of Tracy's
face as he caught her in his arms, and
Cara and l felt that our chances were
small-a man never looks like that unless
he is holding the woman he wants for his
wife!
Well. to return to the prose part: we
somehow got back to civil alton again.
Poor Will was placed in the doctors
care. and the poetical but cratic Fran.
cisco vas handed ovcr to the tender mcr-
cics of the constable. AS for ourselve.
dear ne! what with stones, mud,
bri rs and underbrush, worms, snakes
and mosquitoes, to say nothing of tipsy
guides and plucky governesses-we,
Cara and l. as I sid before, never want
to camp out again!-hrunk Leslie's.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

BY q curious coincidence, two persons
with bullet wounds in the head were re-
ccived at the London hospital on the
same day recently. More remarkable is
the fact that, though in each case the
bullet was driven into the brain too
deeply for extraction, both patients have
been discharged coavalescent. These
marvellous rccoverlcs from what, a few
years ago, would have meant certain
death, illustrate the effects Of superior
surgical skill and the modern antiseptic
method Of treating wounds.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

An association of Alabama, Georgia,
Virginia, New York and Philadelphia
capitalists, called the North Birmingham
Land Company, has been formed at Biz.
mingham, Ala, with a capital of $780,
600. The Coalburg coal mining proper
ty, with a daily output Of 500 tons, is
included in the purchase made by the
company from the Richmond & Danville
extension. Its mining capacity will be
increased and q large iron furnac, with
numerous coke ovens will be erected at
once. The site of the plant is on Village
Creek, not quite two miles north of Biz
mingham. The company owns 10, 500
acres of coal and farm lands, and pro-
poses building a suburban town and en-
gaging in extensive manufacturing.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
The final estimates for the giganti

The final estimates for the gigantic
iron tower which is to be a feature of
the French exhibition of 1889 are now
ready. The state will contribute 500.
900 francs, and the remaining sum OF
6 1000, 900 francs will be furnished by the
contractors, who will acquire possession
of the tower for twenty years. There is
still some dispute about its height. The
difficulty will shortly be solved in this
way: A captive balloon will be let up
to tho proper height, and four cables,
reaching down to the ground, will rep
resent to the eye the four edges of the
tower. At intervals flags will be hung
to mark out the positions of the several
stories.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
A Tale of Matrimonial Advertising.

Any one brought up in a country news
paper office knows there's about rs much
fun and incident there to the square inch
as it is possible to crowd into it. Scores
of queer things TRANSFERRED ut the Office,
in question which would be entertaining
to relate. / have just time hurriedly to-
refer to one. A young nan in tn: place
answered an &C vert;scment for a wife.
Published in Il New York daily. a re-
ply quickly came, and the advertiser
proved to be a wealthy druggist, q
Cuban by birth. and earnest in his in
tentions. Letters were rapidly ex-
changed, and the correspondence in
creased in tenderness. Photographs
were c changed, the young man sending
that of the prcttiest girl in the town.
Next came from New York by express q
handsome set of jewelry. worth at least
$40. The pretended lady exhibited the
letters and the jewelry. and the matter
became the talk of the town; but with
the talk came a day of retribution.
One morning tn, young man walked
into the editors office looking very woe
begonc. "Do you know that I am in m.
awful tight place." he said, with %justii-
able symptoms of alarm. ''That Cuban
is coming to town on Wednesday,. Why,
I'll be pointed out to him the minute he
steps off the rain. 1 don't want to run
away and I don't want to be killed.
You know how fiery these Cubans are"
The young editor smiled, debated n min
ute, and then said: ''For So l will get
you out of the scrapc." give dollarsl
III give you S25." The editor wrote as.
follows: 1T is with great sorrow that
we record the sudden death, yesterday
morning, of our talented young contrib
utor, Miss Jennie Jardinc, of Willow
Crook Farm, etc., ETC." The names
looked real, and were the ones the young
man had used. ''Well, what then" he
asked. "Tll tell you," said the editor.
1.-THE regular edition Of the paper has
been printed; the forms are still on the
press; I'll have this set up, remove a To-
cal item of the same size, put this in
place of it and print one copy. Get your
sister to mark it and mail it at once to-
the honest fellow you have been dcceiv-
ing" 1t was so managed and accom-
plished its purpose. The broken hearted
lover never visited the place; he wrote IL
touching letter of coincidence to the pre-
tended sister, and the incident was for
gotten Lade,phiu Call.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

a strang, story has been developed in
the County Register office at Reading,
Penn. Jud tn Paulcy, a lady seventy
years old, sets forth by petition that after
forty years had elapsed she discovered at
last that her husband, whom she had
mourned ~ dead during all that time.
was not dead, but that he had boen llv-
ing within fifty miles of her all the time
entirely unknown to her. Samuel W.
Paulcy and his wife, the above named
Judith, resided ut Allentown forty years
ago. They had several children. When
the Mexican war broke out Pauley en-
listed and was q brave soldier. Some
one must have maliciously written to
him Will, he was absent that his wife
and babes had died, and when the Mexi-
can campaign was over Pauley, dread
ing to go back to his old home to find
only the graves of his dear ones, located
at Womelsdorf, q small town fifty miles
away, where he lived until he died.
His wife continued living at Allen
CO"uS ouo IL uCI SuilAlCu COuCluuCu
that husband and father had persisted in
Mexico. Hence it was that for forty
years they lived within fifty miles of
each other, each thinking the other
dead. Paulcy, believing himself n
widowcr, married again and raised Il
family of children. Recently he died,
aged seventy years, and his estate was
worth YER So, 900. Letters of admins
tration were granted to Joseph Hell
singer, who married a daughter by the
second marriage. In the newspapers the
original Mrs. Pauley, who had never
married again, read of the old Mexican
soldiers death, and her curiosity was
aroused. She sent a man to Womels-
dorf to inquire into the matter, and to
her great surprise learned that it was her
own husband who had just died. She
now claims to be the lcgll widow, and
wants what is hers Of her long absent
husbands estate.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
Clocks Of the Black Forest.

Consul Ballow, of Kehl, Germany. has
been looking up the curious subject of
the clock industry of the Black Forest.
The ''cuckooclocks' of that region, he
finds. are widely sod through al the,
civilized world. This country imports
them to the extent of $50, 900 a year.
In the Black Forest thcro arc ninety two
communities engaged in this industry,
with 1,420 independent ciockmakers,
giving employment to 1926 operatives.
In 1896 these workshops turn d out
IS, 900 cocks; in 1903, 30, 900; and in,
1880 the total production was 1900, O0J
clocks. In the city of F~urtwangen were.
manufactured over 400, 900 Of these. It
would appear that this crop of timepieces
is more remarkable for quantity than.
quality, for Consul Ball w writes: sOne
cannot be too particular when purchase
ing one of these clocks, for when the
cuckoo vii not COO any more, and the
trumpeter will not blow another blast,
then is their value as curiosities gone,
and when, after a few months, they be-
come valueless as time keepers, then ara
they very poor stock indeed"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
Noted Book PeddlerS,

Mark Twain and Bretc Harte had their
first association with literature as humble,
canvassers.
Jane G. Blaine began life as a book
agent in Washington. Penn. selling o
Life of Henry Clay"
The poet Longfellow was a book agent
before his verses began to attract the at
tention of the public.
Jay Gould made his first money ped
ding books in the rural districts Of
Central New York when a mere boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes footed it all over
Southern Ohio when q mere lad getting
subscriptions for Baxtcr's Saints Rest"
Daniel Webster paid his second years
tuition at Dartmouth by acting as local
agentin Merrimac county, N. H., for De
Tocquevillc's "Amer;ca."
When Napoleon Bonap lrtc was =
Lieutenant in the army, and unemployed
ut Paris, he canvasscd IL suburban
Partisan reimbursement for Il work en-.
titled ''L'IIistoir de Ia Revolution"
General Grant, after his resignation
from the army and before his ventures on
the Dent farm. took part Of the territory
of a general agent of Putnam's to dispose
of Irving's "Columbus.'
George Washington, while surveying
Fairfax county in his youth, canvassed
for Bydell's ''American Sayoys: How he
May be Tanned by the Weapons of Civ
lii alton" and sold over 200 copies in
Alexandria. Va.
Bismarck, when at Heidelburg during
the winter vacation, having his allowance
cut short by his father, the Baron, can
vassed for Blumenbach's ''Aufgcschichte
die Wes:elgung in der Spiegeleisen.'-
NeW York Graphic.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

The Montreal Church Guardian saws
that 'thc Pennsylvania Railroad has
been quietly making some experiments
to ascertain whether it would pay for a
big railroad company to remember the
Lords Day. A good many excursion
trains and some regular passenger trains
have been discontinued. All the freight
trains except those carrying live stock
and pe!ishable goods have been ordered
off from 8 o'clock on Saturday night until
midnight on Sunday, and all repairing
on Sunday has been stopped. The re.
suits have proved SO satisfactory that the
directors arc now arranging to make
these experimental changes permanent
and to extend them. That a large cor.
poration should have been willing to try
the experiment of Sunday observance
after years of violation of that day, is a
most hopeful sign of the development
in moral tone. That after trying the cx.
pertinent it has found the result so salts
factory that the change is to be extended
and made permanent, was not unlocked
for by those who had examined this sub.
ject in its physical and social as we'll as
its mo al bearings. Such a fact rs this ia
one Of those practical arguments that are
wholly unanswerablc."
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

After nearly three years of study and
deliberation, the mannc of lighting the
Bartholdi statue of elderly Enlighten-
ing the World" has been definitely de-
cided upon. The plan adopted is one
which is in conformity with the general
design of the statue itself, and which
adds to its beauty in a marked degree.
The torch of the statue contains eight
lamps of 5000 candle power, the light
from which is thrown directly up into
tho clouds. This powerful beam, to-
gether with the cloud illumination, con-
stitutes a beacon visible probably q hun
dred miles out to sea, and is thus, afar
off, symbolic of the light and liberty to
be enjoyed by the visitor to our shores.
At the foot of the statue four or eight
lights of 6, 900 candle power each are dis
tributed. Their light is r. flccted upon
the statue and Eliminates it brightly.
All these arc lamps are invisible them
selves, so that the objections raised by
abe river pilots against the binding eff
fects of the light arc entirely removed.
Besides the arc lights all around the
statue, the diadem upon the head of the
figure of Liberty contains ~incandescent
lamps, to give the effect of jewels. The
whole plan is undoubtedly an excellent
one, and cannot fail to make the statue
even more posing at night than in the
dav-time
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

A matchmaker says that the multitude
IF telegraph, telephone, and electric
light wires in large cities has much to do
with the variations and stopping of
watches that hitherto have been good
timckcepcrs, and that manufacturers are
trying to invent means to provide against
the mnynetizing Of watches.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07

The Rev. DR.. A. II. Lewis writes in the
Popular Science Monthly on the origin and
results of Sunday legislation. His con
tcntion is that the day was first instituted
by pagan sun-worshipers. and that it has
only been possible to maintain its status
in Christian nations by the constant ex-
ercise Of the authority of the State.