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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-09-24

NICt SWEEP CIDER at WaSem'S,
Cyrus Skinner has sold bis team of horses to
L.
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aud water, applied by means Of COM
mon nail-brush. You DO not ask for
this receipt, but, Judging from your
style, L hope that 1t may ba OF some
IRE to yDn
r. y. G.-The oysters Of the Pacific
Coast is the only thing the Pacific
Coast people do not brag over. Lois
bivalye is. a small drab insect, with a
strong desire To run largely to glzzard.
| He is transformations in his home life,
and In stature about the height OF a
pressed peanut. The oyster of the Pa
oifc Coast lives toa great age and never
nlprnlurs nor p1nes. During the holl-
days great numbers Of these oysters
| Lose their lives along the coast, They
are then used for food
! They are not good with oil; ! speak OF
!. thi8 because / tried it, and when l &C
! quire an important fact I love 10 give
others the benefit OF that fact. Oil is
GOOD thing to use on troubled waters,
| am told, but if you pour oil Oh g
troubled oyster YOU viii regret II
after you have eaten it. Those who
may have sought to eat a httle-neek
clam with cod-liver oil will readily I'M
derstand that such things do not as
simulate.
JAMES Yes, you may learn to pick
the banjo without aSmaster, II you adj
here to it. Take your banjo for two or
three hours every dag, gointo second
hand tomb, which you can get no
doubt at reduced rates, and there you
may commune with yourself and pick
your banjo with much pleasure. Care
should be taken, however, to avoid
picking the banjo before it Is rips.
Goodbye, James. Write TO me when
ever there is anything comes up IN your
young life which you do not under
stand II you want TO borrow money
at any time and you can't get 1t any
where else, and [ happen to have it and
can not force it upon creditors, come
right to me with your trouble and Will
give it nay attention. Boston Globe
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Yrr.E'ss,rIy).E. Z NOTES.

q F. s. {. Ea 4
when the Igest with icy hria8ses
sosgiy frinsres boughs ard rails,
shrsn lhe wind Of winter wEisSies,
Ana the year vfrsch sobs a15d walls,
low delightful 20 surrender
one te comfort md E'spose.
And l1pon the I,aclor feaaer
Toast our riged and slippered toes.
30 the aearth1tIg DRAW our chaitup,
Poke the FIRE, ard make il eta5e,
Zee the dancing lame tongues fare up,
Casting Quivertng rosy rays
Over carpet, wall and curtain,
Over every smiling face,
Making shadows, weird, unceryaln,
Round the room like phantoIns sate
Hair asleep, wa see bright dramas
Ljruned in every g!owing coal,
.a.ua in AL the panoranas
Tnlps and elves and PigEnies droH;
There our lazs-fingefeti fancies
Paint the futures We desire,
And xge weave such bright To1nances
Round our castles In tine tire,
AS We gossip. gippling laughter
Wakes the echoes OF the room.
Merrg-nearted ulirth rides after
Every 5okelet IKE 8 groom;
While, when falls the drowsy twilight,
Mothers Fit among their pets.
Telling in the mystic shy light
$Lyhmes nom piclure slpnabets
Hsppy--shI Just parse a minnrai
There ara firesides cold and black,
Home Without one comfort in il.
Hearts that love and laughter lack,
There aTa thousands in the city
Eoudiess, llreiess, homeless, too,
Let our Joy tuen waken pity,
Bidding lis our dQt3 Go.
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a Pretty Custom.

In some portions Of Tyrol q peculiar
and beautiful custom still prevails.
When a girl is about TO be married, be.
fore she leaves her home to go to the
church, her mother hands her a ker-
chief, which is called a tear-kerchief.
It is made of newly pun linen, and has
never been used. 1t is with this ker-
chief that she dries away her tears
when she leaves her fathers house, and
while she stands at the altar.
After the marriage is over. and the
bride has gone with her husband TO
their own home, she folds up the ker-
chief and places it unwasbed in her
linen-clo5et where itremains untouched.
The tear kerchlef has only performed
half Of it's mission.
Children are born, grown up, marry,
aud move away from the old home.
Each daughter receives from the
mother q new tear-kerchief, Her own
st5 remains where it was placed in
% linen-cioset on the day Of the mar
Alage. Generatlons come and go. Inc
young, rosy bride has become q
rvrinkled old woman. She has survived
her husband and all 'srss,sssa7assil dren. All
her friends may have died off, and sri
that last present which she received
from her mother has not fulfilled it's OBJ
ject. But it comes at last. At last the
weary eyelids close for the long, long
sleep, and the tired, wrinkled hands
are folded over the pulseless heart
Then the tear-kerchief is taken from
its place and spread over the placid
features of the dead, never to be moved
until we are summoned to come forth
Oh the resurrection morn, Texas Sift-
ings.
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a RARE DOG.
How lie Ran Upa Tres After the Boss Of
All the Qonns, ~.

4 Il fe
1t is very rare that a raccoon falls a
victim to the hunter after cold weather
has set in. for is a alternating animal,
and slows itself away On the approach
of winter. The average weight Of q
coon is twenty pounds, and the hunter
who captures one in the height OF the
most favorable coonfeeding season
which weighs more is looked upoa as
having accomplished a notable feat,
James Sandys, of Hunters Range, dur
ing the fall killed thirty-nine coons,
and on Saturday surprised the COM
munity by fetching ia the boss OF all
coons, a mammoth fellow that weighed
thirty five pounds, the largest by eight
pounds ever captured IN this yiclnlty.
sandys hunts with an unusually active
and intelligent dog. On Saturday ne
was out after pheasants, when this coon
sprang out Of a stone wall and gave the
dog as lively a chase, with the Their
mometer at zero, as any coon ever did
III September. After a run OF a mile
the coon ran up large tree. tine trunk
OF which leaned at an angie of about
forty five degrees. When Sandys
the spot he found that the dog had not
only freed the coon, but had also freed
himself, for he had run up the leaning
trunk Of the tree and reached the very
top, where the coon had crept out on
the extremity of branch beyond the
reach of the dog sandys brought the
coon to the ground with a charge from
his gun. but had great difficulty i'll re-
covering his dog The animal couldn't
descend tue tree trunk, and the hunter
had to shin up and bring him down.
The dog was sixty feet in the air, and
the lowest branch of the tree was TWEEN
ty feet from the ground. When Sandys
got to that branch, with the dogs neck
grasped in one hand. he found he
couldn't descend any further without
using both hands But the dog settled
the matter by squirming loose and drop
ing to the ground on his feet.-Ph ila-
delphia Call.
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TIE Inventor Of snaotaclss.

Fewer inventions have confer
red greater blessing on the human
race than that which assists impaired
vision. 1t is impossible to say how
many there are at the present day
whose lives would be almost valueless
were it not for the use of the speeta-
cles. Indeed, DR.. johnson rightly ex-
pressed his surprise that such bene-
factor as the discoyerer Of the specta-
cles should have been regarded vita
indifference aud found nc worthy biog-
rapher to celebrate his ingenuity.
Unfortunately, however, his name is
matter Of much uncertainty and, hence
a grateful posterity has been prevented
bestowng upon his memory that honor
which it mas SO richly merited. But it
may be noted that popular opinion has
long ago pronounced III favor OF Splna,
q Florentine monk, as the rightful
claimant, although some are In favor
of Roger Bacon. Monsieur Spoon. in
his Researches CuTieuses afAntique.
fixes the date Of the invention OF spec
taeles between the years l2s0 and ISL,
and says that Alexandria de Spina,
having seen a pair, made b5 some other
person who WAS unwilling TO commune
cate the secret OF their construction,
ordered /. pair for himself. and found
them so useful that he cheerfuliF and
promptly made the invention publ C..
According TO an Italian antiquarian.
the person 10 whom spina was indebted
for his information WAS Sasvino. VINO
died in the year 1918, and hs quotes
from manuscript IN his possession
al epitapb which records the circarn-
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No More Roots,

mo, I didn't loose thai leg III the
war" replied stranger yesterday, as
he leaned up against the cold wall of
the Post, office. II used to claim that
my leg was shot off at the battle of An
tietam, but one day something happened
to cure me OF lying. / was stumping
along the highway in Ohio, and stopped
at a farm house to beg for dinner.
~ Where did you loose your leg?"
asked the woman.
At Gettysburg
sit down till I call my husband.
He came IN from the barn, and |
was asked where my regiment was sta
toned iii the battle.
In the cemetery, replied.
'''0h Well, my son Bill was in the
cemetery, too. I'll call him in.
"Bill soon came in, and be wanted to
know what particular grave stone ]
took shelter behind. ] said it was a
Scotch granite monument
"AOh, grunted Bill. My brother
Bob was behind just such stone, aud
I'll call him in.
Bob came in, and he swore mighty
oath that he was there alone. He sort
O pre-empted that monument, and re-
membered the inscription to a word
However, to give me the benefit of the
doubt, | was asked to name my COM
pany and regiment.
80 Company B, Fifth Ohio, prompt
II answered.
Oh! Brother jim was in that COM
pany; III call him In.
jim came in, took q square look at
me and remarked:
Stranger, our regiment wasn't
within two hundred miles of Gettys-
barg during the war.
said the Twenty fifth. OF course
the Fifth WASH t there,
OH I'll call in my brother Aaron;
he was in the Twenty fifth.
Aaron came In. and called me a
woo6en-legged liar. and was pitched
over the fence into the road. They've
got this war business down so fine that
yoa ean'f SO around playing roots on
the country no more. and the best way
is to own right ap that you got drunk
and got in the way Of q locomotive.
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warned l1I0 blae a BaUbte was lIluiIneHU.
He looked into the eyes of his comrade,
and there was the same fire he had seen
OBJ a dozen hattie-fields. He felt the old
excitement in his soui--the wild entha-
siasm that comes from waving flags,
tramping columns and crash of arms.
He made sign which was understood.
The nurse took down from the shelf the
same old drum, scared by half dozen
bullets, and from the hooks the uniform
which had not been worn for twenty
long years.
s'Ah, con1rade, whispered the drum
ner, as strength came back to his limbs
Eve may have been driven, but we
never surrendered. We will not now
Let us form the lines as Of old. 2
'.Ayel We will battle againln ried
the nurse, and he placed faded blue
cap on his head, brought out the old
musket from the corner, and con-
timed:
Attention. Right dressl Steady now.
menl There's the battery before you'll
We viii take it or leave our bodies in
the meadow Forward doabls-quick-
hnrrah!H
Rrr-r-rat! sati tail wenbtiae drum, and
the cid gray headed drummer straight
ensd himself mp and made the sticks
fly.
Forward, men, foTwaTil'' shouted
the nurse as hs waved his cap on high.
Tat tat R-r-r-r--tat' tat tail
sounded the drum, and the veteran who
handled the sticks breathed as if tie old
enthusiasm Of battle was upon him
again.
Here NE are-at them, .men-tae
guns are ours shouted the nurse.
'Hurrahl hip, hip-r-r-r-tat! tat
The drum fell 10 The floor. and the
fingers loossneG their clutch on the
sticE5. Then the old mans hand crept
up 10 remove his cap, a cheer died aWay
ii his throat, and he sank to the floor a
corpse.
We hare been defeated. whispered
the nurse as lie looked down upon the
lead. but 1t was by the army or
Death I'm Quad In Detroit Free
Press.
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All Ilbree Of Them,

Where are you going?" asked
kniekerbocker Jones Of Bob Van
slycl5, as they met near the Grand Gem
Jrai Depot last Thursday.
II am going off for a day or so, re-
Piled Bob, who was carrying yaiise.
What's up?n
$ Nothing, except tomorrow IS my
birthday. and the young LADY to whom
I am engaged is going to call at the
house to congratulate me aud make me
some little present. ! don't care 10 be
there when she calls. y
~ don't understand you, Van Slyck.
If was engaged to young lady, and
she was going to call and see me on my
birthday, Ishouid be the happiest man
in New York
Yes, but the other two are going to
call also all three OF them are going
to call or me, if am there, don't you
understand" and he hurried into the
depot to catch the three o'clock train.
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Seven editors are members of the
present House OF Representatives.
They are Boutelle,of Maine; Barksials,
of Mississippi; Haynes. Of New Hamp-
shire, Pulitzer and Merriam. OF New
York, and Serason and sHope. Of
Pennsylvania
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stance. ssHere lies Salyino ArnotoE
ei'lArmati, Of Florence, the inventor Of
spectacles. May God pardon his sins.
frhe wear 131S''
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The nam Estate.

A notice has been served on Mr.. f. j. Allen
of the Astor House in New York of suit to
be brought in the Supreme Court by the eX-
ecutors of the estate of the late Andrew j..
Dam to compel him to render an accounting
of the affairs of the firm of Allen & Dam, OF
which he is the surviving partner. Andrew
j. Dam, Jr., since the death of his father
has made repeated attempts to take his place
but to this Mr.. Allen has objected. lie con-
sented, however, to purchase Mr.. Dams IN
terest, but made such a low offer, sald 10 Dc
$4,000, that the executors refused u, ana
decided to bring suit to compel hlN 10 con-
vert the assets of the business into cash, and
divide it between the heirs and himself. Mr..
Allen insists that he has the right to continue
the business under the firm name OF Allen d
Dam. without being compelled to take in
Young Dam as a partner, but admits that it
is his dnty TO render an account to the heirs
from time to time Of the interest left by Mr..
Dam at his death. To this the heirs object,
as they claim that should any accident or
disaster occur between now and the expira-
ton of the present lease, May, 1888, they
would be liable as partners, which they
refuse to be, not having full interest in the
business. Therefore, the present suit has
been brought to compel Mr.. Allen to sell the
furniture, which is valued at $4,000 and
good will of the place, which is said by we'll
known hotel men to be worth 100000.
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". G. a. q p. C..

Last evening Mr.. Jerome Rumery gave a
complimentary supper to the Venerable Cum
ner Association at Mr.. Dana Robinson's on
Congress street. To say that the supper was
delicious, and that Mr.. Robinson showed him
self model caterer" is easily understood
when the organization is remembered for
whom he prepared the banquet. The menu
was tested most thoroughly from oysters to
coffee.
After cigars were lighted there was let
ter read from 'sPic'' Of Cambridge, charac-
teristic of that ready and facile wielder Of
the goose-quill, and poem by Cloyes, writ
ten in his inimtable style which was so full
of the ''real junction. that it elected shouts
ofapplause. Telling speeches were made by
Lewis B. Smith, (who was one of the origi-
nal ''six" ,(Thurston and Miller being the two
other survivors, the last of this class to die
being Francis E. Pray,) Rumery, Millett
Fernald, Shaw, Chenery and Tolman.
Of course on such an occasion the Glee
Club enlivened the entertainment with their
choicest selections. Old time "reminiscences
were INDUCED in till late hour. But amid
all these festivities the memory of the loved
and the lost was tenderly referred to. The
many hours spent in their company were re-
called, and sincere tears of regret were
dropped as all thought that on this side of
the Shining shore" their faces would never
more add pleasure to such gatherings. No
man there could but recall the truthful dec
laration of the poet that has fallen on the
ears of us all frequently of late:
''That one by one we cross the river.'
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Funeral of Joseph n. Sawyer.

The funeral of the late Joseph H. Sawyer
occurred from his former residence on Free
street yesterday afternoon, and was attended
by very large number of prominent citi-
zens and business men. The services were
conducted in an impressive manner by the
Rev. j. NJ. Lowden, and quartet composed
of Messrs. Shaw, Colby, Thurston ard
Houghton sang 81 can not always trace the
way and Gathering Home The burial
service of the Odd Fellows was conducted by
a delegation from BEACON Lodge, of which
the deceased was member. The pail bear
ers were Mayor Deering, Messrs. B. F. Whit
ney, Frank Pride of Boston, Joseph Leavitt,
j. f. Sisk, Jas. Keegan of Augusta, Ma
thaniel Wilson and Robert ingalls,. The
body was inferred in Evergreen Cemetery.
There were many beautiful floral emblems,
among them being a pillow with the word
Father, "Gates Affair."" bearing the word
Grandfather at the base; horseshoe
from the stable boys, and an elegant pillow
with horseshoe in the centre from his
friends
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-10
THE burlington Carnival,

Next week occurs the great ice carnival at
Burlington, Vt The occasion will be made
enjoyable by all the winter sports which
have contributed to the success of the carni-
walls in Montreal and other places. There
will be- coasting, tobogganing trotting on
the ice, a grand parade. fireworks, and. in
short, something to amuse every visitor
The Portland and Ogdensburg railroad to
accommodate people from this section who
may wish to visit the carnival, have arranged
reduced rates and every facility for reaching
Burlington. Doubtless many Portland peo-
pie will be glad to avail themselves OF this
opportunity to visit Burlington and renew
their acquaintance with the Ethan Aliens
whose visit to this city is remembered with
pleasure.
General Ticket Agent Charles H. Foye of
the Portland and Ogdensburg and General
Ticket Agent William F. Edgar of the Grand
Trunk Railroad have been elected members
of the Burlington coasting club