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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-05-05
TO BECOME R,oH.
How Superstitious Danes Court tho Tickle
n ~ Goddess Of Wealth.

How Superstitious Danes Court the Tickle
n ~ Goddess Of Wealth.
ilai II you would be rich you must go out
on Twelfth Night to cross-road where
five ways meet, one Of which leads to a
church, and you must take with you in
your hands . gray calf-skin and an
axe. When you reach the cross-road
you must sit down ON the calf-skin, the
tail of which must be extended in the
direction of the road which leads to the
church-yard. Then you must look
fixedly at the axe, which must be made
as sharp as possible. Toward mid.
night the goblfns will come In multi
tudes and put gold in great heaps
round you. to try and make you look
up, and they win chatter, grimace and
grin at you. But whom at length they
have failed in causing you to look aside,
they will begin to take hold Of the tail
of the calf-skin and drag it away with
you upon 1t. Then you win be fortu.
!. nate il you can succeed in cutting of
the tail with the axe without looking
about you and without damaging the
axe. If you succeed the goblins will
vanish. and all the gold viii remain by
you. Otherwise, II you look about
you or damage the axe, it will be al
up with you.-Chambeys' Journal.
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What to Say.

"Alice, what will you say when they
offer you wine at dinnerP" asked Dick.
II shall say: No. thank you!"
''Suppose. for politeness' sake, we
take SIP" .. .i =.
20 Dick, you don't mean it! Think
how We promised mamma we wouldn't!
Think of the trouble intemperance
brings" ...r
"rm not talking intemperance." said
Dick, impatiently; ''just about sip"
''But one sip might lead to more,
don't take even sip, dear brother"
"Cousin Mary will look, and Louis will
think How curious!' and Albert will
put up his eye-glass. l hate to be
looked at as a curiosity"
$50 do l." said Alice. "Pelhaps II
won't be as bad as We think. mean
to say No. all the same. It will not
be rude" she added, eagerly. "Gen'
eral Washington said it was not. One
day near the end of our Rev alutionary
War, young officer came TO Philadel'
| phia to see Washington on business
He was invited to q dinner party. A
little before they were to leave tn
table, Washington, calling him b,
name. asked him to take . glass .
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sensitivsnsss Of the Neck.

At q recent meeting of the Societe de
Biologie, Prof. Brown-Sequard read a
paper on the pryphylaosio means to be
adopted against accidents resulting
from cold, which he founded on the
following theory: ''The neck Is one Of
the regions of the body the most sensi-
tive to cold; there is no doubt a great
number of accidents, such as coryza,
laryngitis, bronchitis, cystitis. enteritis,
etc., which are reflex phenomena, re-
suit from the impression of cold on the
nerves of the skin of the neck" To
avoid these accidents. Dr.. Brown
Sequard commends the blowing on the
neck with the bellows Of warm air,
which should be gradually cooled. by
which means the neck is rendered less
sensitive to the action of cold. Tht
professor found that ten sittings were
sufficient to produce efect.-Paris Psts
Journal.
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PERFECTLY HARMLESS.

How Lawyer wllberly Secured Admission
ll'A to the Knights Of Labor.vDa
Bin Wilberly, a lawyer, made appli.
cation to join the Knights of Labor.
"They won't let you in, Wilberly,"
some one remarked. ......-
"WhyP' .aae.ol by. aa.gt
~ ''Because you are a lawyer" ra'e
""That's against me, admit, but the
master workman Of the assembly
which want to join is great friend
Of mine and will do any thing to help
me along" .1fai iit- '.,rsF !. I. 1uii 'g66 tai
Wilberly was admitted. Shortly aft
erwards, meeting the master workman
together with a number of other &C.
quaintAnces, Wilberly said: .a"
"John, did you have much trouble in
getting me inp'' ha7at 'st n'-n
'.NOt much" ..a
n OBJECTIONS were raised, of course, :"
said Wilberly, glancing at his friends.
Eyes, several men got up and OBJ
iected to you because you are law
yer" l.-I '-.5.- I'd. 4,
"How did you quiet themp' ci 81
"Well, 1 says, says !, boys, he amt
lawyer enough to hurt nothing and
they Withdrew their objections.
! Wilberly has withdrawn from the
order.-ArEGnsdV ITuCeler.,b aaf
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wine. No. thank you, sir, said he, 4
have made It q rule never to touch
wine,' Every one looked surprised
that the young man should refuse such
an invitation from the General. He is
rude, they thought. What! say NO
to Washington! Washington saw in Q
moment how they felt. He said: 4
do not want any one at my table 70
partake Of any thing against his incli-
nation. I honor you, sir, for refusing
what you consider wrong"
"Good for the General!' exclaimed
Dick.
Good for the young man'' said
Alice. "He was not sure what the
General would think of him, and yet
he was not afraid to do what he
thought was right. ."--Intelligenccr.
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TEMPERANCE.
"rHREe WITH ONE STONE"

Twas a bird from the woodland so bonny
That lad rested to sing in the clear morning
And never did robin sing out In the June
wilder or sweeter or merrier tune.
For love was the theme that thrilled through
that 90 joyously wclled from the gay
warblers throat.
And she sang of secret you'd never have
guessed,
TWAS the sweetest, the tiniest. contest nest,
Leafy.hld on q long, dropping branch that
To and fro BY the wind IN the sunshine and
shade.
And she sang Of her nestlines, the wee cum
OF theiF he'll soft, s silky feathers and down.covered
OF their bright little eyes and their breasts
fair to see,
While her heart was as proud as a mothers
could be.
She sang loud and clear her sweet anthem
For, all the bright blessings that sladdencd
When, 10, on its merciless mission there sped
A swift fieeting arrow-and robin was dead.
Her song of glad praise and thanksgiving was
Her carol would echo in woodland no more.
The hours sped onward the sun sought the
And the two little baby birds, hid in the nest,
Grew weary with watching and waiting In
vain
And calling the mother who came not again.
TIL at last, faint with famine and by nigh,
shadows chilled,
Two bright heads lay dropping. two voices
The, arrow that entered the mother birds
breast
Had slain just as surely the birds in the nest
Oh you; from whose hands speeds the death
dealing dart,
heart.
Know you not that for each manly form yor
have slain,
There are those who have watched for hi,
coming in vain?
Know you not that your pitiless arrows Of
doom,
Through the heart of your victims, have en-
tered the home!
Know you not of the many your hand has
laid low
Through the misery of want and of hunger
and woe?
Know you not that your sin-laden soul il
| thrice dyed
With the t,t blood you have shed not alone with
OF crimson that flowed from brave manhood
fair breast,
But with life blood of babes that have died ii
the nest?
Mrs. ". b. Austin, IN linton Signal
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OLD NEEDLE.WORK.
A Marvellous Piece Of Patchwork Un-
earthed by Mariette Bey.

A Marvellous Piece Of Patch-work Un-
earthed by Marietto Bcy.
At the Boulac Museum, where the
late Mariette Bey managed to get to-
gether a fair number of antiquities,
one Of the most interesting things is
Queen Isi-em-Keb's funeral tent. This
is patchwork of thousands Of squares
of gazelle-skin, colored red and green,
and stitched with a cord of twisted
pink leather sown on with pink thread.
The Hat top is worked with vultures,
gazelles, lotuses and rosettes, forming
hieroglyphic epitaph. But the "tex-
tiles in Egypt are much older. than
Solomon's time. The earliest known
pyramids, those at Saccarah, have
yielded their quota; and these, wonder
ful to say, arc strangely like the num-
my-wrappings in Peru. You can see
samples Of both in the British Museum,
and you can read about the latter
in Reis's metropolis of Ancon."
Whence this startling likeness, seen
also in certain Egyptian idols of the
U1ScE SOICs tuo CouhIOt PohSo Va WhASh
may be picked up amid Mexican ruins,
or ameng the non-Aryans of Central
India? Shall we, with Mr.. Hyde
Clark, dream of time when there
was a "King of the West" whose
dominion included all Western Europe
and Northern Africa, and also Central
America and the islands of the Carib-
bean Sea, and who belonged to that
Iberian or Basque race of which even
in our isles we have some remnants:
Who can tell? 1t may be that man,
whether red, black, white or yellow,
behaves in much the same way under
the same circumstances. The old
Greeks, whose sepulchres DR.. Schlie'
mann delights to open, covered the
faces of their mighty dead with masks
of beaten gold and the Ashantees dc
the same, yet no one supposes any sort
of kinship between Agamemnon anC
King Coffee. Whatever may be the
explanation the fact is certain old PERT
had her embroidered mummy wrappingl
like old Egypt. and if we begin to tall
of transmission why should not botf
have come from China? 1t seem:
pretty certain that embroidery, ant
perhaps other arts, went from Babylon
to Egypt; the earliest Egyptians prizet
those ''Babylonish garments" thu
possession Of one of which cost th'
Jewish Achan so dear. And embroid
cry is of all arts the most transmissible
1t can be folded in the tent-hanging
and taken thousand miles on came
back without getting any hurt. Hence
along with jewels, it made up the chic
wealth of nomads. From Mongo
travelling wains to Arab tents the ar
was spread, and Arabs then, as now
went down into Egypt; while, in tn
other direction. it is more than proba
BILE that prehistoric China has sent ou
voyagers across the 4Pacific.-W tn
Year Round. en5 u.H.' E
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PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Society is just like pie. There is
an upper crust and lower crust, but
the real strength and substance lies
between them.-Ne,0 Haren NesOs.
"A tailor is the only man who dares
to give his best customers fits, and by
his cutting ways show that he has
measured them up.
old lady (somewhat privilcged) -
care you marrying man, Mr.. Hard
castleP" Mr.. Hardcastle (earnestlvI-
20, no indeed, ma am; I m widower.
Chicago Tribune. B. E.u. 9 =. @.
81 do love Dress" exclaimed q
young society belle. "Then l should
think you would wear more of it, re-
ltorted cynical bachelor friend of
middle age.-N Y. Mail. .,,.. ~ '.aa .l,.,
Matthew Arnold is coming back to
this country. He thinks he remembers
one place where he let u dollar or two
get away from him the last time. -
Chicago Netos. ,a.a. .aiasr.l " : Iui
II you want to know whether
your grandmother was cross-eyed or
where your great-uncle stood in his
arithmetic class, just run for office
and you'll know it all.-Teras Settings.
F--John w. Mackey, the bonanza
millionaire, declares that money is an
accident. Perhaps it Is. Still, 1t is
an accident which man can generally
insure himself against by, entering
journalisn,.-N Y. ID0lepende'ss. gorf Z +
-Mamma-'sWell, Johnny, I shall
forgive you this time, and it's very
pretty Of you to write a. letter to say
you're sorry" Johnny."Yes, ma;
don't tear it up. please" Mamma
''Why notp" Johnny-"Becauss it
will do for. the next time.' my.
Ledger.
Spring Flowers: II think We shall
have to start our flower bed before
long" said Mrs. Shuttle. ION, both.
er the flowers that rJob Shuttle!'
And seeing broom appraised he slid
out Of the back door, Hartford Post.
THE weather is over me- a little
this morning." recently remarked a
Frenchman who is zealously Studying
the idioms of the English language in
this city. He had meant to say that he
was little under the weather. .--Har-
per's Weekly. " i,n .aIp, ,s"E. a. RI. re
A member of the House of Lords
who always pronounces Derby, Darby,
Berkshire. Barkshire, etc., was inter-
rupted in his speech on a recent occa-
sion by the barking Of dog that had
somehow got into the gallery, where
upon "the noble lord' exclaimed: ITO
what new species Of opposition am I
now to be subjected" 'It is only .
member from Barkshire" responded q
witty duke. gta'la s'lbasoa h
CUSTOMER Qn coffee and cake sa-
loon): waiter, bring me beef and
beet cut thin and with the grain; the
beans brown on one side, and not too
hot; and cup of coffee, and don't let
the coffee spill into the saucer" Wait
or: ''All right, sorr. Anything elsee"
Customer: IA glass Of water Waiter;
'Do yez want the wather washed,
sorrP"-Httsbnrgh Chronicless,t ~
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SCHOOL AND cHUAch.

Admission examinations to Har.
ward College will hereafter be held al
Paris, France, in June Of each year.
In Holland the church doors are
locked during the sermon, 90 that no
body can interrupt by going in.or out.
The girls in the public schools Of
Brooklyn are compelled to commit to
memory .he Constitution of the United
States.---N Y. Sun.
In addition to mission halls there
are now five hundred places in London
where the Gospel is preached In the
open air on Sunday. H
Cornell University now has sixty
instructors and officers and 63S stu.
dents, 230 of whom are freshmen,
while the senior class contains only
sighty-four.-Bufalo Erpress.
Chan Hon Fan, q Chinaman OF
Portland, Orc, is regularly ordained
preacher of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church. and belongs to the Puget
Sound Conference.
Rev. DR.. w. E. Schenck, for thir-
ty-two years secretary Of the Presby-
terian Board of Publication, has re.
signed. He is in Calfornis seeking
restoration of impaired health.
Ten per cent. of the present fresh.
men class at Cornell are girls, and
Professor Jones, of that institution, is
quoted as saying that the average
scholarship Of the young women il
superior to that of the young men.
The American Tract Society held
its annual meeting in Washington re-
Gently. The receipts for the year
reached 1857, ,3O5, while the expendi.
lures aggregated 1852, 141. The mum.
Der of families visited during the yeal
was 145,415.
The Bishop Of Peterborough mad,
the interesting statement in convoca
ton the other day that of 5000 living.
in private patronage in England nc
fewer than 1000 were frequently in
the market. DR.. Magee had obtained
this information from a clerical
agent, 'who was retiring from his pro
fession."
Converted horse-car conductor
make excellent deacons. They are 81
accustomed to taking up a collection
that they can make their appeal yer,
individual without any show Of em
barrassment. And the look OF, expect
ancy with which they pass around tn
plate shows the value of good bust
ness training for this department o
church work. Perhaps it might b.
we'll for some city churches to engag
a couple of horse-car conductors. jus
to crush out dead-headism. - Christian
Regulator. - ...
"A Baptist minister at Boston add
to his theological qualifications a tho r
ough knowledge Of music. Instead o
hiring a quartette or choir he propose
to assume the entire work of develop
ing from the congregation volunteel
gathering of singers, and thus to hav
eventually congregational singing of
hitherto unknown quality. Member
of the congregation will be taught reg
ularly how to sing, and in the cours
of few months "thc musical pastor
expects to have singing equal to, if no
better than any ordinary choir.-Bost
| 1InhD
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PAINTED FANS.
A Once Flourishing business which II
Nov ON the Decline.

NOW on the DecInes
"Fan-painting," said dealer in
these articles to a reporter recently,
$50 far us it is considered as fine art,
is about playedput. A few years ago
there were number of artists in this
city who made business of painting
fans. The average price paid was
thirty dollars dozen, and, as the work
was quickly done, the artists could
realize a large sum of money by their
brushes. The demand for painted fans
steadily increased until it was impossi-
ble to supply it. At this point inferior
work began to be introduced and
the prices ran down until at the
present time fans are painted at cost
Of two dollars dozen, a price that no
artist can make living at
''Do you sell many painted fans
nowp" inquired the reporter.
I'm comparison with the sales few
years ago we do not sell many. The
truth is, the fans are now painted by
their fair owners"
"Is much artistic merit displayed in
these efforts" .... ...
ain some great deal. but good
many are mere daubs and tempt one to
ask with Artemus Wards inquirer:
.Whichis Daniel and which is the lionp
The fair Julia takes a fan and paints on
it a landscape in which the shrubbery
seems to over-top the trees and the
animals seem to be of a nondescript
species. She shows this painting to
her male friends who break out in ad.
nation, Charming Magnificent and
other equally absurd expressions. Thus
encouraged the young lady goes on
painting other fans, each painting worse
than the former one, because a more
aH5Itious effort"
Have you ever any tricks practised
in fan-painting?'
80, yes. Some years ago I discov.
cred very neat fraud. A well-exe.
cuted painting, if original, was quite
expensive, and taking advantage Of
this some keen fellows adopted a new
plan. They took the silk before it was
placed on the body of the fan and hat
photograph in some way taken on it.
Then they skilfully painted the photo
graph and many of the best posted
dealers were taken in. One day lady
living in this city. who is quite col
lector, purchased one of the photo
graphed fans and discovered by acci
dent the method adopted. She returned
; the fan to the dealer and thus put hin
and others on their guard. In spite o
this, however, quite number of bogu
paintings were palmed off. Indeed, 81
successfully is the work executed tina
!; it requires an expert to determine"
"Why are not painted fans of thi
description as valuable as if painte,
from an originalp"
"Well, they bear the same relation tt
an original as chrome does to an OF
painting. The former may have al
: the beauties of the latter. but it
merely reproduction and will neve
command the price of an Originally
Y. Mail and Express.
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LABOR AND LIQUOR.
The Temperance Movement Among tn
Knights Of Labor.

knights Of Labor.
The movements among Knights of
Labor to prohibit the use of intoxicants
by the members is in the right direc-
ton.
No one ought to doubt that strong
drink is the greatest foe of the laboring
classes. Granting that we have real
grievances against capital, their wrongs
from this source are yet small in COM
parison with the injury inflicted upon
themselves by intemperance. Those
who have not given special attention
to the subject have but faint con-
ception of the extent of the
evil. One witness before the Senate
committee testified that drinking work.
men keep down wages to the rate they
themselves can command. "They are
obliged to sell their half-drunken labor
at the lowest figure; and when pres.
sure comes they have no reserves, and
so must go into the market for what
they can obtain. Those who buy labor
will, of course, buy as cheaply as they
can" When paid on Saturday, drink.
ers carouse on Sunday, Monday, and
often Tuesday, thus losing from one
to two days work each week
Wages sufficient to keep their fam
lilies in comparative comfort are thus
squandered, and want, if not misery
results. One witness declared tha
fully one-tenth of all wages is paid fol
drink; and this estimate is confirmed
by liquor-revenue and labor statistics
A low estimate fixes the drink bill Of
the Nation at 5000. 100000 From cal
culations by Edward Atkinson, based
upon the last census, we learn that 20,'
100000 of population of the United
States are engaged in productive op
erations. This estimate includes, be
sides wage-workers, employers, pro
fessional men, teachers and all who de
rive income from labor of whatever
kind. Mr.. Atkinson shows that thu
average earnings of these 10000, ,OO(
are $3.50 per annum; so that it require.
all the earnings of 1900, 900 of people
to pay the National drink bin, or O
one man out of every ten. An aver
age Of $45 each is paid yearly for drinl
by those engaged in gainful opera.
tions, or one-tenth of their averag,
earnings. This is enough to absorb {
large part of the workman's daily
wages, and "enough to insure poverty
and misery to hundreds of thousand
of humble homes that otherwise Nigh
be thrifty and happy" as working
men witnesses testify.
The Temperance movement of th'
Knights of Labor is surely most timely
Their rules pxclude rumsallers from
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Hannibal Hanlin'. Salute.

A new story Of youthful prank Of
Hannibal Hamlin is told by aioorres-
pondent. When the ex-Vice President
was boy in Paris seven persons were
baptized in q stream north of Paris
Hill. Hamlin was one Of party Of
boys who, hearing OF the approaching
ceremony, smuggled an old cannon
and seven cartridges into the. woods
near the stream. As the dripping con.
verts one by one were led ont Of the
stream, one by one the cartridges
doomed in the old cannon. The un-
holy salute caused great CONSERVATION
and anger, but the misohievous young
sters were not caught. Norway (As)
advertiser.
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TOOK POISON.
The Bitter Experience which made Tenn
perance Man of Drunken sailor.

The Bitter Experience which made Tenn.
perance Man of q Drunken sailor.
Honor and integrity are forgotten
when man acquires craving appetite
for alcoholic drink. and he will often
resort to any subterfuge to satisfy the
intense desire that overmasters him.
Here is an instance A man with an
inordinate appetite for spirituous liquors
was at one time serving as a common
sailor on a steamship. He had been
mate once, but drunkenness had
caused him the loss of that position.
The rules were strict in regard to
drinking liquors on board ship, and
this mans craving went unsatisfied
most of the time.
One morning he CHANGED to pass the
purser's door, which stood ajar. Rest
ing on shelf within the room, he saw
what he believed to be flask of whisky,
and he Immediately resolved to get o
drink from it.
Several times during the afternoon
he found opportunity to be near tho
door watching for chance to get q
drink from the bottle, but the purser
was inside or the door was locked.
"What do you want round here?"
the purser once asked him. IN no gen.
tie tone.
"Mothn' answered the sailor.
swell, then, be off. If HIsee you about
here again to-day, I'll report you to the
"aPtaln.
Despite TINS tnreat' ne continued Dis
watch at intervals during the after.
noon, put ne was careiui 10 keep out OF
tne Pursers sight. Az last MS oppor-
tonity came. he saw the Purser leave
ms ms room win some papers IN hana.
ID, ne smut the door put did not lock 1t.
Inc man at once dar1ed from MS posi-
tlon, opened ihe ooor, ehtereo tne
roo.' seiZco :he c9ye'eu pot.le anu
Put II 10 MS hRs. ne drank TWO OF
.nree IeeP sMaiiows . ~l.nout stopPihs
70 snleil OF TASTE Oh the ccn1ehts OF 'he
pottie, 80 eager was ne 10. ol,nk Oh
ms. ms .ayorite w. nqeaa nus ne suaugnly m
.ock s tne oot'ie . from rom MS MS, lnou'h' sinelieo
oI IT, ana theh nurrleoly put MS hahus
over ms tnroa' anu s.ohiacAi' Win
look oi anguish on MS lace.
..,A AZ tnaI ihstan. 'ne Purser entereo'
as wv nat are you dolng mere; you scoun-
oreie ne oemanoea' sterhly.
Wanteu urhk g,oaheo tne sale
OF. ,yS' On' my tnroat:
"ny, man; noIiuP'eu e.,. .he HuisGl;
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,,s The most powerful king on earth
is working; the LATEST, shir-king; q
very doubtful king, smo- king; the mo st
eommonplace king. joking; the leanest
one, thinking; the thirstiest one.
drinking; the slyest one, win-king;
and the most gurrulous one, talking.