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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28

"What Tommy Did,

John Habberton author of Helen s
Babies says: "'What Tommy DID
would be worthy of the serious consid-
Grafton of parents if it were possible
for any one to be other than auildly
mairthfaE over the saintliness and dread
fulness Of the little hero. Tommy is
an ideal boy-one of the kind which
are by turns uncomfortable and angelic,
which changes parents from young to
old, and from old to young again many
times day. We pity parents who
fail to read this book there is no time
in the day, nor any day in the week,
in which its pages will not dispel care y
The Chicago Tribune pronounces it a
book that will delight every boy and
girl, and every mother too, who will
find in it book that can be read over
and over again to suit the Unsuitable
appetites Of youthful listeners, and yet
never sicken the readers with any
weakness or nonsense in its compost
ton" 1T has just been published in
dainty delightful shape, fine cloth, rich
ly orpamented binding by Alden, the
Revolution publisher, at half its
former price, 80 cents. Alden's 146
page illustrated catalogue price 4
cents-condeneed catalogue free), of
his immence list of standard books, is
a wonder as well as joy to book-lover.
John B. Alden, Publisher, New York.
4
"The Master OF L'Entrange,''
By Eugene Hall, is a startling and
powerful book, possessing sustained
and absorbing interest, originality that
cannot be questioned, and an irresisti-
BILE charm. It deals with love fraught
with peril of both the lover and the
woman he adores. The theme and
scene are American, while the charac-
tiers are such as might be met with
at any time in real life. The plot is
involved and complicated, constantly
presenting new phases that enchain as
well as thrill the reader. The mystic
rious and supernatural are largely
drawn upon and used with much eff
feet. The love scenes are intense and
strong. Guy L'Etrange and Gene
We've La Rue are the hero and heroine
and their adventures and experiences
are in the highest degree romantic
Little Jules is an exceptionally bright
and interesting child. There are sew
erai exceedingly sprightly young la
dies; whose words and deeds brighten
the pages of the novel, wherever they
appear, "1he Master Of II Eisange
should be read by all who relish real
" excellent novel. 1t will be publish
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
liO GUY Ns<Ao
CREAM B A L HI

tarrhal virus. causing healthy secretions It
aIIays Inflammation, protects the membranal
Innings of the head from additional colds, COM
pletely heals the sores and restores the senses
of taste and smell. Beneficial results are real
lied by a few applications Il thorough treat
4nent aciU care. Unequalled for COLD in the
HEAD, Headache, Deafness. &c. Send for cir
caIars. Sold by al druggists. Price SOC. Soc. by
mail. stamps received. ELY BROS, Druggists,
Owego, N. Y dec. Atf
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION

is sought by the of cosmetics and all sorts
ofexternal applications, some of them being
poisonous.
All females love to look pretty (Which gentle
men do not object toy and smooth, soft, clear
complexion adds greatly to female charms.
The use of B. B. B. will purify your blood,
will remove blotches, splotches and bumps
that appear upon the face and neck, and will
tinge the pale cheek with the roseate hues of
nature. One or two bottles will convince any
one of its value. No family should fail to keep
B. B. B. in the house as there is family
medicine its equal.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
LAND SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE
ID Superior Court of Forsyth County, rendered
at October Term, 1885. shall sell for Cash, at
the Court House door in Winston, on
Tharsday, the 4tla day of February, 1886,
at o'clock p. M, the J. F. Suders tract of
Land, lying in FORSYTH county, on the waters
of Oldfeld Creek, adjoining the lands of Joe
Davis and others, containing 1e2 acres more or
less R. B. KERNER, Commissioners.
WArsoN & Buxton, Attorneys.
jan End, ISS6.-4w.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
tn SKIN,
IT'S DISEASES AND CURE

This class of troublesome complaints en-
braces large list, some of which afflict nearly
every family in the land. Heretofore the
treatment of nearly all these diseases has been
very unsatisfactory and unsuccessful, and the
people have been very much deceived by pre-
tended remedies. A majority caused by
an impure, vitiated condition of the blood, and
as most of the blood, remedies of the day
require so to leo bottles before you discover
that they will not effect cure, we offer b. B.
B., which makes positive cures by the use of
only few bottles.
The most common of the skin diseases which
are cured by the use of B. B. B., the only
quick Blood Purifier, are as follows;
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
Goal Cheaper than " Wood.
IF YoU BUY CIR ATE COAL FROM
ID II KIN @,

at 81. 50 per ton and 1926 per x ton, Crates
be bought at the HITLER q Cook Foundry for
sd. 100 to place in your fire. place ready for burn
ing the above coal. respectfully,
D.. H. KING,
Coal and Ice Deaier, srd and Depot SITS.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
JAcKSoN'S COMPLIANT.
Man Who Was Worthy Of the Genera
GoaR<a~.u. ana Ec.louI.l.i..

Man Who Was Worthy Of the Generals
Confidence and Friendship.
Even SO self-reliant man as Gen.
eral Jackson" said member of Con-
gress to a reporter. chad his confidant,
whom he freely consulted about every
thing. public as well as private affairs.
This friend was Judge Overton, of Ten
nessee, the General law partner. When
Judge Overton was on his death-bed he
directed his wife to bring him all the
letters he had ever received from Jack
son. They had all been preserved.
even the most unimportant of them.
There were enough to more than fill 4
bushel measure, and there. in his pres
ence, while awaiting death, Judge
Overton had them burned. Upon be-
ing demonstrated against destroying
letters that no doubt contained much
of great value to the political history
Of the country, he replied that they
also contained great deal about indi-
viduals and private matters. General
Jackson was then dead, and his old
partisan was unwilling to run the risk
of having the confidence of his illus
trious friend violated. Judge Overton
remarked, by way of excuse for the de-
struction Of the letters. that their con-
tents related to the private and public
conduct of many people covering the
period of General Jackson's entire pub
tic service He said some of the letters
contained charges which the writer
had lived to learn were unfounded and
unjust. and for the valuable public in
formati IN contained in the correspond
encc it would not do to risk an expo
sure of the personal matters involved.
So the letters were all burned WASH
iu1tou Star
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Eighteen thousand female students
are in attendance upon the colleges Of
this country. Chicago Herald.
The Christian Dakota Indian
young men have formed eleven "Kosha
Okodakiciye," which is the way they
call their Y. NJ c. A.
1t has been proposed by mis-
sionaries in China that the new version
of the New Testament. prepared by
Rev. Griffith John, of HankOw, be
adopted as the basis of a union version
for all China.
Conversions have been reported
from all fields of labor of the American
Sunday-school Union from Ohio. Kan
sas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wis
consin Four new schools have been
organized recently in the Indian Terri
tory.
AT a regular meeting of the trus-
tees of Dartmouth College. the request
of students of the college that the read
ing-rOom be opened on Sunday was not
granted. that subject having been re-
ferred to the trustees by vote of the
faculty. ~ H.l Monitor.
"A vestryman in one of the fashion
able churches of New York declares
after years of experience in passing the
platter, that the richest heiresses rarely
put in more than dime, no matter
what the occasion for benevolence.
They take the lesson of the widows
mite metaphorically.
The maximum of daily school work
in Prussia is seven hours for children
eleven years of age up to nine hours
for those sixteen years and upward.
The standard is still higher in Denmark.
No wonder that a large percentage Of
the children under such systems are re-
ported as sickly and weak-eyed.-Chi-
cdgo Sun.
The following statistics Of the Welsh
churches are taken from the most trust
worthy sources: In the year 1881. the
population of Wales was 1871, 267
The Nonconformist denominations CON-
prise S64. $50 of this number, and pos
sess 4. Al churches; Calvinistic Meth
odists Presbyterians). pa. go; Con-
gregationalists. 276. pol; Baptists. 1885,
6Sl; Wesleyan Methodis.s, Sc. 4S8;
Primitive Methodists. 1882; Uni
tarians, 5.OOO; and Methodist Free
Church. Society of Friends, and Scotch
Presbyterians number I. COS. CAristtdu
Union
The Official Year Book Of the
Church of England has published
statistics of the amount contributed by
churchmen during the last twenty-five
years to distinctly church objects. The
figures have been carefully checked
with the view of excluding contribu-
tons devoted to purely parochial pur-
poses, such rs the maintenance of adj
ditional clergy. or the relief of the sick
in particular parishes. TO middle class
schools. TO unsectarian Institutions, and.
with few exceptions. to sisterhoods-
Even when thus limited. the total sum
contributed in the quarter of a century
is said to reach the enormous amount
of four hundred million dollars.-N. y.
Examiner.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
ATLANTIC CITY.


The Peculiarities Of . Somewhat Noted
Summer Resort.
At the junction, q small collection of
wooded shanties, where the trave.ers
waited an hour. they heard much OF
the glories of Atlantic City from the
postmistress, who was waiting for an
excursion some time to 60 there (the
passion for excursions seems to be q
growing one), and they made the ac-
quaintance of COW tied in the room
next the ticket Office, probably also
waiting for q passage to the city by the
sea.
And city it is. II many houses.
endless avenues, sand. paint make a
city, the artist confessed that this was
one. Everything was on large scale.
1t covers a large territory, the streets
run at right angles, the avenues to the
ocean take the names of the States. If
the town had been made to order and
sawed out by one man it could not
be more beautifully regular and more
satisfactorily monotonOus. There is
nothing about it to give the most COM
monplace mind in the world a throb OF
disturbance. The hotels. the cheap
shops. the cottages, are all OF wood,
and. with three or four exceptions in
the thousands, they are all practically
alike, all ornamented with scroll-work,
rs il cut out by the jig-saw, all wildly
painted, all appealing to primi-
tive taste just awakening to the
appreciation of the gaudy chrome and
the Illuminated and consoling house
hold motto. Most OF the hotels are in
tho town at considerable distance from
the ocean. and the majestic old sea,
which can be monOtonous but never
vulgar, is barricaded from the town by
tive or six miles of stark-naked plank
walk. rows on rows OF bath closets.
leagues OF fimsy carpentry-work, in
the way OF oheap-John shops, tin-type
booths. peep-shows, go-rounds, shoot
ing galleries. pop-beer and cigar shops.
restaurants. barber shops, photograph
galleries, summer theaters. Sometimes
the plank walk runs for a mile or two,
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
A WILLOW FARM.
An Interestive and Profitable Plantation
Near Macon, Georgia.

An Interestive and Profitable Plantation
Near Macon, Georgia.
About a mile below the city of Macon
is the osier willow farm of Mr.. 1. C..
Plant. The willow switches. at the end
of two years, are from four TO seven
feet long. and are cut and gathered
into punches like sheaves of wheat.
In the stripping building they are
stepped in water, and the bark at the
larger end loosened for couple of
inches by machinery. The leaves and
bark are then removed by little ma
chine devised by Mr.. Plant One by
one the switches are placed in the
mechanical stripper, and with pair of
pliers are pulled through with sudden
jerk. They are then wiped of with a
wooden cloth. bundled, and laid away
to dry.
All the leaves and bark are dried and
baled. They are used for medicinal
purposes. and comuand price of
twenty-five cents pound. There are
at present four hundred thousand will
lows growing on the farm, and eighty
thousand additional slips have recently
been set out The entire lcvce is to be
eventually covered with them, when
sixty acres will be devoted to this
single crop. The average yield is ton
TO the acre. When dried. the willows
command two hundred dollars per
ton, and find . ready markct-Anser-
icdD Druggist.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
POSTAGE STAMPS.
How These Indispensable Little Articles
Arc Made,

How These Indispensable little Articles
Are Made.
The design of the stamp is engraved
on steel, and. in the printing. plates
are used on which 200 stamps have
been engraved. Two men ara kept
busy at work covering these with col
ored inks and passing them to 4 man
and a girl who are equally busy printing
them with large rolling hand presses.
Three of these little squads are en-
ployed all the time. After the small
sheets of paper containing 200 printed
stamps have dried enough they are
sent into another room and gummed.
The gum used for this purpose is a
peculiar composition, made of tine
powder of dried potatoes and other
vegetables, mixed with water. After
having been again dried. this time on
little racks famed by steam power for
about an hour, they are put between
sheets of pastcboard and pressed in
hydraulic presses capable Of applying
weight of 1900 tons. The next thing
is TO cut the sheets in tow; each sheet,
OF course. Wnen cut, containing lVV
stamps. This is done by girl. with a
large pair of shears. cutting by hand
being preferred TO that done by ma
chinery, which would destroy too many
stamps. They are then passed to an
other squad of workers. who perforate
the paper between the stamps. Next,
they are pressed once more. and then
packed and labeled and slowed
away TO be sent out to the various
offices when ordered. II . single stamp
is torn or in any way mutilated. the
whole sheet of 100 stamps is burned.
Not less than 100000 are said to be
burned every week from this cause
The greatest care is taken in counting
the sheets of stamps to guard against
pilfering by the employees. and it is said
that during the past twenty years not 4
single sheet has been lost in this way.
During the process of manufacturing
the sheets are counted eleven times
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02

Which. If completed, would mi ABOUT

which, II completed, would MI ABOUT
twenty-four large quartO volumes.
Only half of these have been issued or
ever will be, but even as it is the Cen
tennial Census is probably the most
voluminous public document, not count
ing as one serial the various annual
reports. No donbt the finest and cost
liest group of publications relate to the
Government surveys. Many of these
reports are superbly gotten up. CO.
piously illustrated, and accompanied by
maps of the highest scientific and me-
chanical excellence. One special series
of twenty separate titles relate to the
canals, routes and Isthmus of Panama.
Then there are reports of expeditions to
the Arctic and to the Amazon. reports
on the cholera, on birds. and bugs, and
grasses, on various branches ofpolitical
economy, on the Indian from every
standpoint; many elaborate reports on
patents; the learned volumes put forth
under the auspices of the Smithsonian
Institutions; such bulky documents as
the stenographic reports of the Star
Route trials and the Guiteau
trial; codifcation Of the land
laws, and the many publications
relating to the civil war. These are
all executive documents, put out, that
is, by the departments Then, in ad-
ditiOn, there are the Congressional
documents which include the Record,
which alone has now swollen to seven
or ten thick quartos for each Congress;
the great volumes full of tedious and
interminable testimony in committee
investigation, and the thousands of
smaller committee reports.
The pace of the Government press
has kept up with the rapid progress OF
the country in all directions. Accord
ing to the index the documents for the
first quarter of a century were about
1900; for the next quarter, $500; for
the third quarter, 20, 900; for the fourth,
22,50O; and the annual output now
runs up to about 1000 titles annually.
Then it must be remembered that the
editions are much larger than in the
early days. Rarely are less than 500
copies of a document printed, and fire.
quently the edition is many times that
size OF the annual report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture 300, 900
copies are issued and distributed.
The United States Government is, in
short, the greatest publishing house in
the world. BY the side of its resources
such an establishment as the Harpers'
becomes quite small. There are on the
pay roll 400 compositors, besides a
large force of superintendent, fore
men, etc. Fifty proof-readers are
employed, and a. pressmen, 1l5 press
feeders and "a ruling machine feeders.
The estimates call for 100000 reams OF
printing paper. or $4,000 900 sheets,
each sheet making eight or sixteen
pages Washington Cor. N. Y. Sun.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02

Teacher: why, how stupid Won
are. to be sure! Can't multiply eighty
eight times TWENTY-FIVE? I'll wager
that Charles can do it in less than no
time" Pupil: II shouldn't be sur
prised. They say fools multiply very
rapidly. '-Hairie Farmer.
The Chinese answer
You shootee me and hangee me.
You boOtee me and oangee me.
Ne dose workee. gcttec Doodle,
Liyee on ratee, poodle;
q me livee oh. 90 cheapec,
And me workee while you eleepee.
IF there's anything like it's roast
goose" remarked Henderson. rs he
passed his plate for second helping.
..Itdoes you credit, said Fogg; '.theres
nothing so beautiful as Affection
amongst members OF . family.
Boston Transcript.
-Bothering a rich man BY Boosting
of . set Of msiachite studs he had just
bought, fop asked il he did not admire
them. 20. yes" replied the man OF
wealth, 'very much indeed; I've eoe 2
mantlepiece like them at home. '-HcFs
SaxnL
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
NATIONAL PRINTING.

The Enormous Number Of Volumes
Printed By the Federal Government
There are 81. O63 titles in Major Ben:
Perley Poorc's recently published De
scriptive Catalogue Of Government Pub
hcations.' And it is estimated that
there are at least 10000 titles not in
cluded in this compilation. 1t is pref
ty safe to say. therefore. that the Gov
eminent has published since its organ
izstion 10000 distinct works, so that
the Pub. Docs. rs they are irrever-
entity called. would alone make libra
~ that would rank among the largest
h the country.
The most complete collection of these
documents Is that in the Boston Public
Library; the next In fullness is found
in the Congressional Library, and the
third large collection is probably owned
BY the antiquarian book firm Of Anglim
& Co., of this CITY. These dealers are
now completing q full set of public
documents from the Twenty-third Con-
gress. Only few volumes are miss
ing. and these they expect to find. and
when the collection Is finished they es-
innate ii will contain $1,000 titles The
price of this library is set at $1,000.
and. as all the volumes which compose
it were printed at the public expense
and distributed gratuitously. this sum
should represent a good profit to mid
dlemen.
The documents are of all sizes and
relate to every imaginable topic. Some
are great thick qusrtos. like the census
volumes or the Medical History of the
War" And at the other extreme are
thousands Of pamphlet reports on small
matters. But it should be noted that
the bills introduced in the Congresses
are not ineluded in the titles. Il 0ey
were, the total would be high in the
hundreds of thousands. The largest
single publication ever undertaken by
the Government is the Tenth Census"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
In HIS MIND.
Two Darlics Who Arc Approaching an
Uncertain Fate.

Two Darkics Who Arc Approaching an
Uncertain Fate.
We were at the depot in Griffin. Ga,
waiting for the Atlanta train, when 4
colored man came along with wheel
barrow and purposely collided with a
brother of color who was coming down
the street. There was a war of words
for a few minutes and then the one who
had been hit limped to the platform
and said:
..Ize gwinc to hurt dat man afore he
gifts frew wild me-"
"Why don't you challenge him?'
asked one.
"Dat's no good. sab. lie dun chal-
lcnged him 10 teen times, an he's dun
challenged me jist as often"
'.And you can't bring about a duel?''
mo, sab Ebcry time l challenge
him he wants to fight wild pitchforks.
an of co'se doan' accept. Ebery
time he challenges me | wants to fight
wild shovels. an of co sc he doan' ac-
cept."
You II never get together"
20, yes. we will Yves edgin' along
to it ebery day. Wen keep dis thing
up till bimeby Wen agree on cotton
choppers. an den you'll har dat Will
lam Henry Washington was cut down
in his bloom ut de fust blow. We's
edgin', sab. an in my minds eye I'm
de head mourner ut dat man funeral
detroit Free Press.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A wealthy girl never has freckles-
Those specks on her face are merely
brown-eyed daisies slumbcringin field
of roses-Burdetfe.
-Er man whut likes er song ies
case it is hard ter sing. doan know ex
much erbout music ez he do erbout
sci'nce. Trdreie,.
A Texas editor says: I'VE never
could understand why so much shot
should be wasted in killing birds while
so many Young men part their hair in
the middle Texas Ssfaisss.
Aged Suisor-..I shall love you IS
long as live" Young Lsdy-"That
viii not suffice Iwant some one who
viii love me as long Is l live-"-Faie-
oe,sae Blafter
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02

Young men of Baltimore need not
fear to partake of delicacics at the hands
of the young women of Baltimore. One
of the latter bought a love powder the
other day, warranted to bring any OBJ
dura:c ycung man 10 her feet. She had
it analysed and il proved to be pulver-
lied white sugar and nothing else
Baltimore Sun.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02

This Addttoo Junction of ~ Scott cd ". O. RaairosAs
half mile of Bridge AyknnnnD
dabls lots esst VII b ID opsseSoe ooesseng thss
AAdtaoa With The ssst 80 OF the nvss h 1888.
Price Last THE Addisos b b. esitaG
p q. a1YTH = eoNs. wichita Kos AA111D. wIslasA-
u y. NuDk04A0D1R. p.v. 8RA1Y.
ANGLO. A1G1n1CANLoas o0es. MAn1Uoon.
ssG1sDs ~ Al1fsjss
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-26
1t Works Well.

The new rule Of the federal House of
Representatives apportioning the appro-
priatiou bills has worked we'll. All but
one Of the bills which were taken from
the appropriations committee have been
reported and passed. That one, the
Naval bill, viii Re reported this week.
OF the six bills left to the appropriations
committee only two have been sub
mitted to the House The most impor-
tant bills-the Sundry Civil, the Legis-
lative Executive and Judicial, the For
tiications and the Defciency-are still
unprepared 1t is evident that adjourn
ment would not be reached until next
fall if the appropriations committee had
been left with its Old time jurisdiction.
~ T. STIR.
And yet the superseryiceable friends
of Mr.. Randall tried to make it appear
that the apportioument Of the appropri-
alton bills among several committees
would work disastrousIy. 1t begins to
look as il the public business could be
expedited by still further relieving Mr..
Randall's committee Of part of its
labors.