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Glass Eyes,.

Nearly all the artificial eyes used in.
this country are imported from Europe
Attempts have been made to manufac-
ture them here, but the industry has
never fourished, The finest eyes are
made in Paris, and good ohes come from
Germany and Switzerland. The eyes are
made of glass, and are in the shape Of q
hollow hemisphere. The pupil is formed
of colored glass, and its execution re-
auires the greatest skill on the part OF
the workman. The white of the eye is
initiated with wonderful accuracy It is
of cream white, yellowish white; blue
white, or any other shade so as to exactly
match the white of the. remaining real
eve. Before the final glazing is put on
small red veins are traced with pencil
on the surface. There is g. slight ridge
along the edges which enables the muscles
of the socket to take hold and move the
ball.
Dealers in artificial eyes, keep them in
separate boxes, which they call the blue
box, the black box, the brown box, and
so on These boxes contain eyes OF all
sizes, from as large as a. marble to one
as large as pigeons egg.
A dealer in artificial eyes said: 1--WE
fit the eyes to the sockets by heating and
softening the ball, and then cutting it
with hot scissors to the proper size: and
shape. The hollow part fits over the
stump of. the eye. When this is neatly
done the eye moves as readily as the
other eye, and 1t is difficult to tell which
one is glass. The great majority OF arti-
fetal eyes are used by workmen, espe-
cially those in iron foundries, where
many eyes are put out by sparks. 1t ls
seldom that woman has glass eye.
"Artifcial eyes are used not only to
improve the appearance, but also to pro,
tect the stump from injury, which would
be apt to affect the other eye. An arti-
fetal eye costs five dollars, and Lasts from
one to five years. It is acted upon by the
salt of perspiration and of tears which
dulls and roughens the surface: For
this reason it is customary to take the
eye out at night, which also gives rest
to the socket. If the lachrymal duct has
not been destroyed, man can cry as
we'll with an artificial eye as with good
one. ."-lNew York San.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Where the Major Could be Found.

Judge Morrill, related an anecdote of
the Aroostook war, in which Major Strick
land was the hero. The major made
speech in which he told the men that
they were to charge for their country,
that battle would be forced upon them,
that the eyes of the country were riveted
upon their actions, that they should
watch for him and follow his white plume
into the very jaws of battle, ''but," con.
tinued the major, 'if from any unforeseen
accident you should want me during the
engagement and cannot find ME at the
van, 1 think you will have no difficulty
in finding me behind Simon Barrett's barn
living in hope. ."-,L~viston (Me.) Journal
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
A Bulgarian Amazon.

The Widdin correspondent of the st.
Petersburg Norosti sends to that news
paper the following account of a young
bulgarian girl who took an active part in
the late war against Servia, distinguished
herself at Slivnitza and at Pirot, and
received two crosses for bravery. Pre-
vious to the outbreak of hostilities she
Joined company of milltia-such COM
panies were then forming in various parts
OF Bulgaria-and accompanied it to the
southern frontier with the hope of their
meeting with the enemy. During some
time she managed to conceal her sex, TOR
her comrades took her to be youth with
an effeminate face, of which there were
MANY such to be met with among the
militia. Only the commander of her
company knew her secret; she was
obliged to disclose it to him when the
com pany set out upon its march, and
he appears to have Loyalty kept it to him
self. In all exercises, parades and re-
views she took part jointly with her male
comrades. At last, when Servia declared
war against Bulgaria, the heroine took
part in the forced march to Servia, fought
at the battle of Slivnitza and joined in
the attack upon Pirot. During the fight
she did all she could to encourage her
comrades and they, in return, unanl-
mously voted to her the company's mccall
for bravery. When, in consequence OF
the war coming to All end, the militia
was dispersed, she went to Sophia and
was there presented to Prince Alexander,
who awarded to her second decoration
for bravery. She then returned to
Widdin, her place of domicile before the
war where she acts as servant to an old
lady. She says that should the Servians
begin another war she will again fight
against them, bat in her woman's attire,
for it is not worth while to change ones
dress for such an enemy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

Rev. DR.. A. J. Gordon, of Boston,
says: ''The queen of Madagascar, in tho
very year when Massachusetts took half
a million of dollars revenue for strong
drink, wrote in her proclamation: 4 can
not consent, as your queen, to take a
single cent of revenue from that which
destroys the souls and bodies of my SUBJ
iects.' Here is land, that little while
ago was heather, speaking back to Mass
achusetts, the home of the Puritans. It
ought to stir our blood"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Possessing the Land.

This glorious land of ours is destined
to become Immanucls land, the efforts
of Satan to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Before ever human eye bchcld the
mountains of Colorado, Christ had put
his mark Ez. 9: 4 upon one of their
highest peaks. At an altitude of 49,
17S feet we behold white cross, its per-
pendicular arm 1900 feet, and the horizon
tai 700 feet, sunk into cleft so feet
wide and 100 feet deep, filled with per-
petual snow. Already we see how the
different denominations vie with each
other in their efforts to reach and elevate
the masses, and to spread light and truth
abroad. Our own church General As
sembly) supports 1910 home missionaries,
in addition to those laboring in foreign
fields, and contributed during the past
year to her eight boards the enormous
sum Of SO, 1872, ,053, and our church is
only one among many others equally
jealous and liberal. In view of these
facts, how absurd the assertion that
Christianity is dying out in the world!
Gould Voltaire, who predicted
that in the year 1900 the Christian
religion would have disappeared from the
earth, see the church in 1885, how aston
ished he would be! Then let no Chris
tian worker be dcspondent. Pointed
reefs may seem to defy the rolling waves,
but soon they disappear beneath the
waters of the incoming tide. So in6del-
ity may lift up its proud head for while
but the time is speedily coming when
'tthe earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea"
Qsa. 11:O. Let all Mission Boards and
all missionaries, at home and abroad, take
new courage, and prepare thoroughly for
the last decisive battle between light and
darkness, evidently near at hand. While
Satan is concentrating all his forces, it
does not behoovc the Christian to be in
active and consult his ease. Light can
not illume without consuming itself. Let
him who would aid the great cause of
Home Missions begin the work nearest
home-in his own heart-and then try to
bring another soul to Christ, as Andrew
brought his brother Simon, who after
ward became the prince of the apostles.
Thus any one, in high or humble station,
may become Home Missionary.-Reo.
p. 4. Schca,z, in Presbyterian Home
Missionary.
If you want to know the character of
q house, ask the servants-especially the
old servants. If you want to know
what sort of condition the public
services are in, sometimes you viii hear
various accounts of them. But it is diff
ferent with the service of our Lord. Ask
the old servants, and you will get the
best account of it. There may be ser
wants who have tried it for little while
and become froward and wilful. Those
who have been at it longest have the best
things to say about it. Ask such an one
as Paul the aged. Observe the cheerful
ness of the latest Epistles of Paul.
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Life's Mission.

Life's Mission.
Life is wasted if we spend it
Idly dreaming how to die;
Study how to use, not end it;
Work to finish, not to fly.
Cody iving-best preparing
For life with God above;
Work! and Danish anxious caring!
Death ne'er comes to active love.
Death is but an opening portal
Out of life to life on high:
Man is vital, more than mortal,
Meant to live, not doomed to die.
Praise for present mercies giving,
With good works your age endow;
Death defy by Christike living,
Heaven attain by service now.
-Newnaan Hail.
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tenn Delegate Bean, of Arizona, receives
81, 600 for mileage, while Representative
Barbour, of Virginia, can draw only
s.. 3.3O.-Balt5naore Neus.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Personal influence.

Upon the higher Alps, the snow is
sometimes piled so high, and so evenly
balanced that the crack of a whip, or the
shout of a voice, may give sufficient vi
bration to the air to bring down the
whole mass upon the travellers below.
So in our moral world, there are souls
Just lowering over the abyss of ruin; a
word, or even look from us; may cause
them to plunge down into the depths
from which there is no return; or help
ing hand stretched out to them in the
moment of peril may lead them back to
the safe, sure paths of virtue.
Knowing that we have such power,
shall we not humbly pray, 'tLead US not
into temptation, but deliver US from all
evil!"
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Are There Few! Will You Se Ones
tlkuo +loro fo,p fbot bo covaS 21 Not

"a
''Are there few that be saved9" Not
so very few, when the final reckoning
comes to be made; for in the Fathers
house are many mansions, and that house
is to be s;flled." Not so very few; for
the Saviour is to see of the travail of his
soul and be satisfied, and He who died
for all, would not be satisfied with few
souls as his recompense. But the saved
will he far. fewer than they might have
been; and the failure will be wholly
their own fault-simply because they did
not ''strive," and strive in time, to enter
into that gate of whose straitness they
were forcwarned. They thought it bet
ter to 'labor and tug and strive" for the
worlds wealth, honor, pleasure, of which
the most utterly failed. With the same
effort they might have won the riches
and glory of heaven. Reader, will the
number of the saved be one less than it
might have been, for lack of your name
written among them?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

Honesty, like gold. is treque ntly used
to plate base metals.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

around at the other side of the capitol is
the sergeant-at-arms' office, or the bank
of the House of Representatives.
Mr.. j. P. Leedom is the sergeant
at arms and the banker Of the
House. It is in his Office that tie
members are paid, and here many of them
do all their banking business. 1t is
long hall-like room, with high vaulted
ceiling, and walls kalsomined in light
pink. AS you enter you stem into car
peted space like that in front of narrow
bank office, and all your surroundings are
those of an ordinary bank. On the left
are desk shelves, with acks above them,
containing checks and deposit blanks,
and on the other side, back of the railing
and walled off by net work or wire as
high as your head, the teller and cashier
look out of two little holes, through
which they pay out or receive money.
Standing beside them is big safe in
which the money is kept, and which con-
talns every year about So, 900, 900.
Congressman can check upon the bank
of the capitol to the extent of their de-
post or their salary. Some of them do
not draw any money till the end of the
wear and take their whole S., 600 at once.
Others check out their pay every month,
and others come in regularly and draw
their SIS every day. Some of the
wcalthier members keep thousands of
dollars on deposit with the Sergeant-at-
arms, and there was member not long
ago who had as much as $50, 900 in the
bank here. A close account is kept with
every Congressman, and a regular set of
banking books are balanced every day.
In addition to their salaries members are
here paid their mileage, and as an exam
pie of the inequality of the present sys-
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS
August Term.

-
Court met in regular session. Pres
ent Hon. K. A. Barnett, presiding JUS
tice; Hons. r. Hale and H. H. Filing,
associate justices; Jos. Bowman, sheriff;
w. B. Steele, clerk.
Compromise made with P. W,
Adams on payment of one years tax
1888, on lots 9 and 10, block NJ, Aull-
vile.
Abatement granted A. E. Neer on
$265 of personal property which he did
not own in 1884.
Ordered by the court that the state
auditor be authorized to draw his war;
rant in favor of NJ. V. l.. McClelland,
county treasurer, for the mount OF road
and canal fund.
Similar order as to state school
moneys.
Bond of J. II. Gilkey as coal mine
inspector approved.
County clerk ordered to purchase air
tester for mine inspector.
Joseph johnson adjudged of unsOund
mind and ordered to St. Joseph asylum;
S65 appropriated therefor.
New road, j. r. Smezer, referred
to commissioner.
New road. VIM. Geiselman, referred
to commissioner.
New road, j. A. Lockhart, referred
to commissioner.
New road, D. Y. Prigmore, contin-
ued by agreement till third day of Sep
TENDER term.
School apportionment ordered made.
Bond of r. TRubman, l.. j. st. j. r.
R., compromised; $27l,9S; tor which
was issued $l53 OF.
New road, Jno. H. A%llsphugh; J. c.
! Kelly, Geo. Osborn and Ferd Bates
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
READY TO ACT.

EDITOR INTELLIaENCER:-A state
ment appeared in your paper that the
chairman of the County Democratic
Committee would call a meeting of said
committee when requested by any one
member to do 80. We disire to state
that we helped to elect HIM chairman,
thereby investing him with all the
power as such chairman. As members
of the committee, we are ready to act
in the interest of the party, fearlessly
when a necessity for action arises. We
do not propose to interfere with the
power we delegated to our worthy
chairman, nor do we wish our constitu-
ents to understand that we fear to per-
form any duty that may devolve upon
us as their representatives.
Now, if in the wisdom of the chair
man he sees proper in the interest OF
the party to call a meeting of the COM
mittee, we, as members. are ready to
respond and chew to the line let the
chips fall where they may"
Two MEMBERS FTHE COMMITTEE.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07

What we said and asked of the
Herald, last week, was politely written.
Though, judging from the way it has
been b~elly-aching around about the
primary election, it is much of
sick monkey than is the Intelligencer,
we are not even now disposed to quar-
rel with it. So far, rather than sup
porting the ticket it has been fighting
the party action in this county, there
by weakening the ticket, but as it now
says, eve are for the whole ticket all
the time," we are satisfied. We have
no desire to badger our contemporary
nor to dictate to it; no one even dreams
that it is not as free as the air to sup
port or oppose whatever men or mea-
sures it pleases; WI are not in the least
out Of humor or excited; WI simply
asked a polite question for information.
We have no patronage at our dispose.
with which to repay the Herald fol
space used for party OF other purposes
and in saying that it bolted the actor
Of the party as to the vote upon sena
tor, we simply meant, that when the
committee arranged for a vote on sena
cor, instead OF advocating the claims o
its choice at the primary it advised
disregard o the committees action.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
The Fight Renewed,

The Wellington dram shop question came
up again, Thursday, on III application of MIR.
Michael MalOney, Jr., for a renewal of license
his present one expiring September 1. His
attorneys, Messrs. Young n Hail. held that
the August term being the regular term was
the proper one for him to apply to, especially
as the license would expire be fore the court
could renew il in September. Mr.. w. ii.
Chiles, the attorney for the temperance peo-
pie at Wellington, objeSted that the court by
Its record was to sit in adjourned term in
September: that a public sentiment in Well
ington has grown up against dram shops
since the petition presented by Mr.. Moloney
was signed, and that numbers of persons de-
sired now TO take their names off of the petit
ton, some of them being present in the court
house. The opponents to the license claim
that there are names upon the petition of
people who do not live in Wellington, and at
least one name of a person who forbade his
name to be put upon it. In order that the
broadest day light may be shed upon the Gu
tire question. the Intelligencer prints below
the names upon Mr.. Maloney's petition. If
they are IN some cases misspelled they are
given as they appear upon the original.
Following are the names upon Mr.. Malo-
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07

Grant, Hendricks, Hancock and Nc
Clelland are quickly followed to the
grave by Samuel j. Tilden, the sage
of Greystone and the trusted counsellor
of the democratic party. The nation
will mourn him as a patriotic citizen
who in one of the most trying ordeals
OF its history showed by his modesty
and self. abnegation that he was such a
patriot as in olden times was embalm-
ed in poetry and song.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
A GARD OF THANKS.

To the People Of Lexington and La.
.tayette County,:
Twenty years ago the first of last
January, 1 became your fellow citizen.
l am now to leave you for a new home
more than a thousand miles away. l
wish for myself and family to thank
you tor the numberless acts of kindness
which We have received at your hands.
[ wish to ask forgiveness for anything
1 may have said or done which has
wounded the heart of any one of you.
l wish to bid you all a loving farewell
young and old, black and white, rich
and poor, Protestant and Catholic.
There is not one of you for whom | dc
not ask Gods blessing. "May grace
mercy and peace from Father. Son aud
Holy Spirit rest upon you ALL"
j. A. QUARLEs.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
Cure for Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, lOins and lower part of
the abdomen. causing the patient to
suppose he has some affection of the
kidneys or neighboring organs. At
times, symptoms of indigestion are present,
flstulency. unesslness of the stomach, etc, A
moisture, like perspiration, producing a very
disagreeable itching, after getting warm, is q
common attendant. Blind, bleeding and
itching piles yield at once to the application
of DR.. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which acts
directly upon the parts affected, absorbing
the tumors, allaylng the intense itching, and
effecting q permanent cure. Price so cents.
Address, The DR.. Rosanko Medicine Com
pany, Piqus, Ohio. Sold by Charles W.
Loomis. n0vsTl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07

Brownsville Herald judicial
convention at Sweet Springs on We'd
nesday nominated Richard Field, of
Lexington, on the first ballot, as the
democratic candidate for circuit judge.
The vote stood Field-Saline 16, Lafay-
ette IL Z; Lacy-Pettis IA. Mr.. Field
was introduced by a committee ap-
pointed for the purpose and made an
earnest and graceful speech to the con-
yention. This fttingly completes an
unusually sound team of judicial can.
didates-Ryland and Field. Lafayette
county and the entire circuit have rea-
son to be proud of them"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07
TILDEN Is DEAD.
THE GREAT STATESMAN, THE
SAGE AND PHILOSOPHER
HAS PASSED AWAY.
The Most Influential Man in Private
Life he'Ltved a Quiet and
transformations L life;
Fame will Grow In the Heart
of His C0untrymeu.

NEW YORK, August 4.-Samuel j..
this morning at $40 o'clock. There
were present with HIM DR.. Chas. E.
Simmonds and Samuel Swift and his
niece, Miss Gould. His death was ell
tirely unexpected and was caused by
failure of the heart following an acute
attack of diarrh9a and nausea.
He had been enjoying his usual good
health up to last Saturday evening.
While sitting on the stoop of his resi-
dence after shutdown on that evening
he was taken with a slight chill which
settled on his stomach and bowels, pro-
ducing Inflammation from which he
suffered all night. On Sunday he was
slightly better and was able TO ride out.
On Sunday evening he felt much worse
and continued to grow weaker. But uu-
til last night there was no fear of serious
consequence. This morning it became
| apparent that the end was near. DR..
Simmonds and Miss Gould. a relative,
were at the bedside, a few moments be-
fore Mr.. Tilden died. He tried to
speak, but only moved his lips, failing
to make any sound. He passed aw av
/ 4uiOtAy ouu PCuSCiuii- Ills uCatu oC-
Cured in the south chamber of the
mansion, overlooking the Hudson. Nc
arrangements have yet been made fol-
the funeral. Mr.. Geo. W. Smith, Mr.
Tilden's private secretary, says he has
not received any instructions from the
! relatives.
Mr.. Tilden was born on February G
1914, in New Lebanon, Columbia coun
ty, and was therefore ~ years old. LII
leaves one sister, the mother of the lai,
Col. Pelton, and several nephews, child
rem of his brothers, Moses and Henri,
Tilden.
His Career
THE LIFE AND WORK OF II DEAL
STATESMAN.
Samuel j. Tilden, who, next t,
Horatio Seymour, has exerted tn
greatest influence on the destiny of tn,
democratic party in the past quarter O
a century, aud who Was the leadin!
figure in making successful in 1884 thl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07

AS a recognition of the courtesy and
impartial and uniform consideration
shown by Speaker Carlisle toward the
minority of the house, q number of
prominent republican representatives
united in purchasing at a cost of about
5000 an elegant table service, which
was then presented to the speaker.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-07

Holden Enterprise:-Mr. James G..
McGrew, of Lexington, whose an
nouncement for railroad commissioner
of Missouri can be found elsewhere,
will make q strong ace There is one
thing about him aud his candidacy, the
railroads will fight him bitterly. He
has been at war with them for some
time and now they will return the civ
ility with interest. But that will not
defeat Mr.. McGrew if the people want
him, and we do not believe they can
get a better man."