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h- When Brown opened the front door
one morning and found a strange baby in a
basket on the front steps, he picked up the
bundle and as he carried it to his wife he
was heard to remark: "Some men are
born babies, some achieve babies and some
have babies thrust upon them"
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ps- "Strange," remarked Mrs. Brown, 81
have rung at Mrs. Smiths door three times
this week and didn't succeed in raising any
one. 1 guess the family is out of town."
"Possibly," replied Mrs. Jones, "but Mrs.
Smith was telling me just 10Y that she
could tell your ring among a thousand"
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OUR NATIONAL CAPITOL.-It is among
the greatest structures of either ancient or
modern times. 1t covers more than three
and a half acres, and is surrounded by
grounds having an area of forty-six acres.
Standing on the brow of a hill, it can be
seen for many miles, and the view from its
dome is inetfably grand.
The main building is 352 feet and $ inches
long, and 1926 feet and 6 inches deep. A
portico on the eastern facade measures l2G
feet wide, and the projection on the western
side measures SO feet, forming a portico of
ten columns.
Congress sits in the wings, the Senate in
the north wing, and the House of Repre-
sentatives in the south wing. Each Of these
wings has a portico of twenty-five columns
on it's eastern facade, and one of ten COL
umns at its end and western facade.-fhtM-
delphia CuH.
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SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains
y from Lenoir, N. c., to Chester, S. c., taking
effect at II o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February
7th, 1886.
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pE A Methodist minister was once asked
how it was that he consented to the mar
riage of his daughter to a Presbyterian.
"Well," he replied, "as far as 1 have been
able to discover, Cupid never studied the
OlOpy.n
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RELIEF!
For Forty Years A Sufferer from Catarrh
WONDERFUL TO RELATE.

ssINOR forty years have been a victim to CA
TARRH- three-fourths Of the lime a sur
ferer from excruciating pains across my forehead
and my ~nostrils. The discharges were so often
sive that I hesitate to mention it, except for the
good it may do some other sufferer. have
spent a young fortune from my earnings during
my forty years of suffering to obtain relief from
the doctors. I have tried patent medlcines-ev-
cry one I could learn of-from the four corners
of the earth, with no relief. And AT LAST (57
years of age) have met with a remedy that has
cured me entirely-made me Il new man. |
weighed 12S pounds and now weigh l46. | used
thirteen bottles of the medicine, and the only re-
greet 1 have is that being in the humble walks of
life 1 may not have influence to prevail on all ca
tarrh sufferers to use what has cured me, Guinn's
Pioneer Blood Remover. HENRY CHEVES.
mo. 267 Second ST., Macon, Ga"
"Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer OF the above
formerly Of Crawfor county, now of Macon,
Georgia, merits the confidence ofall interested in
catarrh. w. A.. HUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon
Asuperb Flesh Producer and Tonic.
Guinn's Pioneer Blood Remover
Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, rheumatism,
Scrofula, Old Sores. Aperfect Spring Medicine.
If not in your market it will be forwarded on re-
ceipt of price. Small bottles 81 LOO; large bottles
Sl.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY,
Macon, Georgia.
For sale by LOWRY & STARR, Yorkville.
April IL ly
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-27

INVENTOR OF THE LIGHTNING-ROD.-
One of our German contemporaries devoted
recently some space to the experiments of
one Procopius Diwisch, and details a num-
Der of interesting devices produced by him.
Among them the lightning-rod occupies a
prominent position, and Diwisch's biogra-
pher claims for him the priority of inven-
ton in this field, on the strength of the fact
that he erected such a contrivance in his
garden in 1854. So far as dates are concern
ed Diwisch can by no means be counted as
the original Jacob in the lightning-rod bust
ness, as the thing had been done some time
before by several others, and the idea of
drawing sparks from the clouds had been
suggested by Franklin in 1749. Indeed,
records show that before Diwisch's date two
houses in Philadelphia were struck by light
ming during a thunder storm, and the one
protected by li~ghtning-rods was not injured
while the other was everelydamaged. We
might enter more into the details of this
question, but priority claims on modern in
ventions must now be handled so frequent
ly that our readers will pardon us for refus-
ing to dig up dead issues. Justice must be
done though the heavens fall, but some
times the wish is heard family that the
heavens would fall on a few ofthe men who
had "done it before ."-Eyectrical World.
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LITTLE ARTICLES OF H U~NATTRACT-
IvE.-Books are written explaining the
little articles to which the unattractive may
resort if not to make themselves beautiful
at least presentable, to which the common
sense of many has added a long list of un-
published rules. Any man of taste who has
too short a face will try to make it longer
by c%ultivating a beard on his chin. If it is
too narrow he will cultivate it on his cheeks.
If his mouth and teeth are bad he finds
a mustache a most convenient disguise. A
woman who has too high forehead covers
a portion of it with bangs. Ifit is too low
she reverses the process.
If all her features are bad except one,
what art she shows is in giving this promi-
hence. If the sole beautiful feature is her
eyes, she takes care that none of their witch
ing sparkle shall be wanted. If it is her
teeth, she displays them with more persist
ency ever than Mr.. Carker. fshe has nat
urally a fine complexion, she cares for it, or
lovely hair, whether because of its profuse-
ness or some rich golden tinge, she con-
trives to work this fascinating lead to its
utmost capacity. There being no fountains
of youth age tries with paints, powders, re-
stored hair and teeth, and sometime with
ways of childish artlessness, to arrest the
progress of the destroyer, and unlovely
youth or middle age strives to render itself
lovable in appearance by applications to
the cheeks, the mouth, the nose, the eyes,
a mere catalogue of which would fill an
unabridged dictionary.
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n8- The flood obliged the captain of a
southern district station-house to release
prisoners arrested for drunkenness. Rum
got them in and water got them out. But
probably the captain thought they would
have to be bailed out if he did not set them
froa
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cription, there is nearly half as much wheat
raised as in the entire United States, where
the finest machinery known to man is en-
ployed in every operation, from the first
blowing till the grain is harvested.
"The India farmer uses a pillow made of a
piece of iron a foot in length, an inch wide,
and half an inch thick, which is sharpened
at the lower end and fixed in a triangular
piece Of wood attached to the yoke on the
necks of the bullocks by a rope of manila
grass. This pillow tears up the GROUND like
a harrow, and by hard work can be made to
go over nearly an acre of land in a day
The operation of blowing is repeated five or
six times before each sowing, or about ten
times a year, as twocrops are raised. After
the last blowing the sower follows after the
machine and carefully drops the seed into
the furrow.
"In September, if this is the summer crop
the harvesting begins and is carried on by
men who, with sickles, cut a handful Of
grain at a time and tie it up into sheaves as
they 90 along. 1t is then threshed, or rath-
er, stamped out by cattle on a hard earthen
floor, and the straw, as we'll as the grain, is
carefully saved to be used for fodder for the
cattle. After the wheat is threshed it is
winnowed by dropping it from an elevated
platform to the ground, the wind blowing
the chatf away. The Brahmin priests are
consulted about each process, and are liber-
ally paid, in fact, almost the entire profit OF
the crop is turned over t" ITEM.
GIrNl,o ,,o ~o~ o x,;o1J &c M. ~ fo, rfaan Inch.
els to the acre, but the poor farmer can sell
dom afford to eat a loaf of wheaton bread,
his diet consisting almost entirely of herbs
and fruits.
"In spite of the obstacles of ignorance
and poverty these farmers raise 24O, OOO, 900
bushels of grain a year, or nearly ten times
the quantity raised in the State of Dakota,
which has one-quarter as much territory de-
voted to wheat raising as India"
WHAT HE WANTED.--The following
story is told by the Buffalo Courier, of a
%well-known gentleman who recently mar
ried a belle from a ~neighboring Pennsylva-
MIA city, after his case had been given up as
hopeless by all the managing mammas of
Buffalo: 1t seems that the gentleman in
question regarded his abnegation of bachel-
orhood with a sort of rueful misgiving,
which increased as the days of his liberty
waned. His last revolt against the shackles
of matrimony occurred when he was sent to
procure the marriage license, a few days be-
fore the ceremony. Hesought the city Off
cial who presided over the license depart
ment, and asked gravely as this where
licenses are kept" Eyes, sir" answered
the clerk politely; "what kind of a license
do you want?" "Well, what kind have
you got ?" rejoined our friend, with super
human gravity. The clerk had begun to
look npon his visitor as a %lunatic, but he OBJ
ligingly ratified off the list. "Give you a Ii
cense to drive a hack, give you a license to
pull teeth or practice medicine, give you a
pawnbroker'so or huckster's license, give you
a license to keep gunpowder in the house."
"Stop," said our friend, quietly, "that's
what ! want"
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Hss- ut must be awful cold out in Dakota,
Mrs. Dusenbury. I notice that a woman
had her teeth frozen during the late cold
snap"
"And you believe such stuff as that ?"
"Yes, my dear. Yours would have froz-
en- too, had you left them in a glass of water
over night, as she did,"
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aB~ "They say Charlie has married. DO
you know his wife? Is she a woman OF
any intelligence? Is she well-informed? ~
"Well informed! Well, I should say so.
She has belonged tothe village sewing circle
for ten years and never missed a meeting.''
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bs~ elbow are you getting on at school,
my boy?"
illustrate, sir; l am at the head of my
class now"
"Yes; but your teacher said they were re-
pairing the school building, and that the
classes were all upside down."
eyes, sir; so they are. That's the reason
T am at the . YonkerS Statesman.
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ar Mrs. DeBangs-"Valentine's Day IS
nothing like it used to be. 1t is a rare thing
for a person to get more than one valentine
nowadays"
Mr.. DeBangs-'Oh I don't know. 1
know a person who gets two or three hun
dred every Valentines Day"
"Some celebrated actress, I dare say"
"Not at all. It's a letter carrier. He gets
them from the post Office"
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AN AFFECTIoNATE LAD.-"Gran'ma,'
said a boy of 9 years, chow old are you"
"About S." said the grandmother.
"YouTl die soon, won't, you gran'ma"
eyes, dear, 1 expect to-"
"And when I die, gran'ma, can | be
buried side of yCu?"
eyes, DEAR" said she, as her heart
warmed toward the little one, whom she
folded closer in her arms.
"Gran'ma," softly whispered the little
rogue, "gimme ten centsn-Qinto (MaSs.,
RDrIp
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every attempt 10 create new Issues anu new
political instrumentalities.
The most vital matter of organization
which suggests itself is the subject of pri-
mary elections. They have grown up out
side of the constitution of the Democratic
party: have been adopted as a system by
the action of the county conventions of the
various counties, and in no two counties are
the rules alike. 1t is clear that the whole
subject should be regulated by the supreme
authority of q State convention to adopt
one common harmonious set of rules to
govern them. 1t was suggested at the
Farmers Convention that the candidates
for all State offices, including the Governor,
be chosen by a direct primary vote, and
also members of Congress. This PROPOSE
ton involves a distinct revolt from the
system of State conventions. 1t seems i'm
practicable, nay, impossible to carry this
into effect, yet the idea has taken much
deeper root in the minds of the people
than many suppose.
The duty is imposed upon the democratic
party to consider this matter we'll and to
announce itself distinctly, and, if any ben
efcial change can be made in the method
of our highest officials, to adopt it. There
is an evident demand that the manner Of
selecting candidates should be popularized,
and 1 venture to propose a change in that
direction. For example,: 1t should be re-
quired of the candidates for Governor that
early in the season they address the people
at the various Courthouses in the State, and
that the county conventions to choose dele
gates to the nominating convention shall
not not be assembled until such anvass
is ended. This will bring the candidates
face to. face with the people and thereby
arouse public interest and save us from
dying of ~stagnation, which is our present
danger. An amicable contest among cam
didates for political offices has become a
necessity. The same course should be pur-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-26

J 1850. A good building lot lOx1o rod
north and east front, on horse-nar liue. VII
sell SX'O rods for $zoo Cali and see il auG
get bargain. IL
800. Choice building lot, 4x1O rods, good
fence, south fronC and facing Deserst Uni
Yersity Square, half block ON car line
Nineteenth Ward "a
$50. fine building lot. 4x2O rods, CITY
water, good neighbOrhoOd, half block from
car line, Eleventh Ward; a bargain. "a
$50. Building lot OF 81 x9 rods, with rich
OF alley way; east front; half block from
car IlEe, Eighth Ward. --seg-f = SO
$50. Building lot, 5x10 rods; good nigh
I6ood; nall block from car line; Seventh
500. A choice building lot, 47l%xI65
feet, south front, on car line, lWeIfih
1000 Building lo:, 10x1O rods, or win
sell any part Of the lot st 500 per rod: situ-
ated in the sixteenth WqId, near .. C.. l.. T.
K. q. and q. q n. depots. A
500. Building lot. 5xIO rods, good ior
chard. plenty OF shade; situated II the First
Ward, on Car line. -
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FARMING LANDS,

5000. Farm OF 50 acres of first class
land; smsll adobe house, barn, corrals etc.
young ochard; situated on county road
eight N les north Of this city. 81
5000 Forty acves OF choice land; If
teen acres Of a sandy, loan soil, slipping to
the 50 Ia and wesJ-very desirable Lard for
the Gu tivation OF hops; fifteen acres o. tim
DER ua!ance meadow; nice farmhouse o5 I've
rooms cellar, butsery, ETC.; young bearing
orchard, situated on Big Co t0nwood Greek,
just north and joining Walker Bros. farm,
eight miles south OF this city. -
$50 A farm OF ~ acres house % two
rooms, situated 5 niles northwest of Dss eret
Bank corner 1hiS is surely bar
SO@E FIYE-ACRE LOTS CLOSE TO CITY
- ull parEiculsrs rs to price and loea ion
csn be had upon application st my office Al
SPtClAL ATTENTION Is CALLED TO
- land in Glendale Park within two
and hall miles Of this city The succesSfu'
sinking OF flowing wells in that vicinity w.
surely enhance the value OF this land This
LAM Land is sold on the instalment plan
forty-eignt equal monthly instruments. W.
low rate Of interest.
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Iarly In the low hills on the west, there
Is an abundance of game. In the fall,
Is soon as snow flies, deer, antelope and
mountain sheep are numerous, and are
nunted and shot by the people with lit
Tie olInculty, until venison and wild
mutton become too plentiful. Lying
west CT Samariaa, some ten miles, is a
smau valley, called Pooatello, about
eignt by four. miles in extent, as level as
table, but without spring or stream
OF water. Here, in the winter months,
ueer. antelope, rabbits, prairie chickens,
ssagehens, etc., are said to abound In
thousands. In company with young
Albert Davies, of Samaria, who is
accounted a good hunter and a sure
Shot, visited this prospective hunters
paradise, and was rewarded by having a
slgnt and drawing a bead on a couple of
me deer and three beautiful antelope,
besides wagon load OF rabbits and
sagehens. / believe that during the
cold snaps between now and christmas
Inc festive hunters in that neIghborhood
VIII nave fine sport and slay plenty of
game.
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hUILnTNG Lors FOE SALE.

s o5O. a building To-. 8alI feet by IG rods
SeE, G y water. situated enc DlOcz
"a business. Thirteenth ward, \ bsrFail
70, 10
fraH.UI. A good build NJ lot. AZ feet south
az - iSet wide. SlluR'ed TN twentieth Weird.
61s ~ ne1ghbors o0i aad only six blocks from
''lSsA &c
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WASHAKIE,.

the Indian farm, couple Of miles orso
south from Portage. superin-ended by a
Mr.. Hill, but actively managed by Mr..
Ward, is an example Il what the red
red man can be taught. Here the Indi-
ans were busy threshinc working away
like good fe lows, esch one performing
his assigned duty as Satisfactorily as the
average white laborer. The school is
well patrOnized and the progress made
by the Young abOrigiues in learning TO
speak English and reac in, writin and
'rithmetlc is surprising. specimen Of
the handwriting Of ore of the youug
pupils would put in the shade that of
the majority of the store clerks of salt
Lake. The farm yields grain and pr
duce for the maintenance OF quite a
number, and as the years roll round.
the improvements that viii be made are
sure to make it very desirable home
for many poor Lo. The success of
this and the branch farm on Bear River
should give the Interior Department a
wrinkle in the management OF the Indi
ans. ]. Il. Z
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. % IS.
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HOUSES TO RENT.

10. House otnine rooms, oath room. etc.
city water, good neighDorhood
House of three rooms, Main Street
;. House OF four rooms, Second Ward
half block from car line.
>. House Of two rooms, large lot, Twenty
first Ward. one block from car line
10. House Of four rooms, Eleventh Ward
10. House of Ave rooms and cellar, good
barn
s, House OF four rooms, city wster. Thir-
teenth Ward
Fifteenth Ward
10 House Of six rooms, city wa1.,r
Thirteenth WSrd.
30 House o. nIne rooms on bsEo. Il Z
b ok from ca line.
- 4 U.s. 81 two rooms aad pantry. Nine
teenth Ward.
25. Horse OF eight rooms, bath roo -, L.,
and cold water; csr ltue; Seventh Maid.
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Beauty and the Sun.

lnspite OF parasols and sundowns the
hot arrows Of the sun make cad havoc
with feminine loneliness. Brown lakes
the place of the or entail pearl. and there
may be heard in rbe saloons q, IA. hon
q loud wal over spelled COIn pteziuns.
Yet how easy the remedy. "GLENA s
BEAUTIF .INs AND COOLING SULPHUR
SOAP removes AL blemisbes and leaves
in their place 5riiliancy and Bloom
Beware OF counteTfeits. See thar g
y CRITTEN7oN, Proprietor is printed
on eacn packet, without which none is
genuine Sold by druggists at % eents:
three cakes, 60 cents. EquslIy p1y,uiar
and successful is "HILL's INSTANT soCs
HAIR DYE" which, whatever NAV ne
tie natural tint Of the hair, or io~rg.r
gray il may have beeome. " l. mart
70 il any shade Of brown or Dlzl a. a.
IS the cheapest Dye in use. am w@t-
ranted unob,ectiona5le. !
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MALAD VALLEY.
A Glimpse at It's Principal
Settlements.
A PRETTY, PROSPEROUS PLACE
What Patience, Pluck and Persever
ance Have Done in Redeeming
the Wild Wastes.
To the Editor Of The HERALD

To the Editor OF The HERALD.
In order to keep my word and tell
you Of my recent trip among the Cam
brisns of Malad Valley, now indite
you a brief communication.
After leaving Box Elder, on the day
1 last wrote you, and riding on the Utah
& Northern to Collinston, mounted
the stage for Malad City, starting at 2.3O
p. m. The ride down to Standings at
Bear River bridge, and from there to
Squaretown, eight miles in a northerIy
direction, is one at this season of the
year in which the traveller grows grey
not from slow motion, because the
teams that particular mail route
are exceptionally good, but by reason OF
the clouds of dust which are encoun
tered en- route.
SquaretOwn is located ON and spreads
its fences and dwelling houses all over
the immense fat to the right from Bear
River to the point around which the
drst glimpse of Malad Valley is had.
Here the inhabitants resort TO dry
farming, as there Is no water, save for
culinary purposes, and that is obtained
from wells. The success of their dry
grain raising is wonderful, and from the
appearance of the substantial buildings
erected, SquaretoWn is a permanency,
regardless of the absence of moisture.
The wheat crops raised here yield all
the way from seven TO fifteen bushels to
he acre; the average being about nine
bushels.
From SquaretoWn the ride and view
improve and become very pleasant. as
farm after farm, in all degrees OF excel
lence il passed. East Portage, with its
postoffice and store. whereat hangs out
the shingie of DR.. Anderson, and long
line of well-tilled and finely fenced
fields and vast extent of pasture lands,
is left in the dust; The dividing line
between Utah and Idaho, and the half
way station, where the team is changed
Tor fresh one, are all given the go-by
IN due time, when Brad3ury's extensive
farm is reached. This point is about
twenty four miles from Collinston, and
q mile or So farther on, at a point given
oy Mr.. Bradbury, as "about forty rods
beyond Ben Williams" left the stage,
and took shortcut road for the west
Sue of the land of the DayiSes. the
Iones-s. the Williamses, ct al, and the
chief town is
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YOUNGSTOWN.

Adjacent to Portage is vast tract of
land in the best state of cultivation. and
embracing several quarter sections, all
owned by family named Johns. The
father and his four sons, with their sons
ana families, are located in cOmforta bic
homes. with every convenience and
modern Improvement to till and render
the earth productive. There is a story
told of Father Johns, as he is familiarly
known, Of how he first came to Utah. IN
abject poverty; how he perseverrd; how
his sons united to work for q home, anG
how they have succeeded, which would
read like romance but which is the
story " many Of the hardy pioneers Of
Utah. His possessions. bis flOcks and
his nerds have been multiplied as a
result Of patience, pluck and perseyer-
ence,
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A.. a eund this valley. but parucu.