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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20
ssa. Bobby was spending tie after

b. Bobby was spending Tie after,
noon at his aunt's, aud FOX some mo-
ments had been gazing out of the win
dow in a painfully thoughtful sort of
way. What makes, you Sc serious,
Bobby p asked his aunt. Why, ma
told me that | must remem Der not to
ask for anything to eat, and | an t'y-
ing to remember it.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20

b. Fist estizsn-I'm proud ofsay
wife Sac ean speak FIVE different
langnagrs How many lshgu ages does
your wiis sp-sk ? Second citizer-
United STATES sud baby taxi hats
enough s9r n4
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20
II IA SL,n. T;-,,or IL,

Bay In Bad Shspe.-Visltor Ito
sick woman)-"How are you feeling
this morning, Mrs. O'Toolihan p
Mrs. O'Toolihan-"Och, Teddy, it
is that bad OF am wild complication
sv troubles-rheumatism, lumbago,
and all; and it was only this mornin'.
that the docther-hiviu rist his sowl !
said there were decided symptoms
av convalescence.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20

En- Scrofula, humors, erysipelas,
canker, and catarrh, can be cured by
taking Ayers Sarsspsrilla. Il have
used this medicine in my family, for
scrofula, and know, ii it is taken per-
sisteutly, it will eradicate this terri
bic disease. w. F. Fowler, N. D.,
Greenville, Tenn.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20
I, Oscar Morgan.

Extend q special invitation to his many
friends and customers to visit his STORE
and examine his large stock Questionable
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20
by Every body knows that tie cor

Gay Every body knows that the con.
ditions for health are no, favorable
when the stomach, liver. and bowels
are d.Sordered. In such cases. head,
ache, Indigestion, and constipation are
the result; for sll Of which ailments
the proper remedy is Aver Ca;hartic
Pills.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-12-20

E&S- lie lais Hamilton Stewart
Wien beaten "a az argumsni. always
closed tue DEBATE With, well, nv
father never stole al axe I"
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03

! consider it the best suffrage paper pub
lished.-[ Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
A Fellows Mother.

"a fellows MOTHER" said Fred the wise,
With his rosy cheeks aud his merry eyes,
"Knows what to do If a fellow gets hurt
BY thump, or bruise, or fall in the dirt
"a fellows mother has bags and strings,
Rags and buttons and lots of things;
No matter how busy she Is, she'll stop
To see how well you can spin your top.
"she does not care, not much, l mean,
II a fellows face is not always clean;
And II your trousers are torn at the knee
She can put in patch that you'd never see
"A fellows mother Is never mad,
But only sorry If you are bad.
And tell you this, If you're only true,
She'll always forgive you whate'er you Go.
aIm sure of this" said Fred the wise,
With manly look in his laughing eyes,
"Ill mind my mother, quick, every day,
A fellows baby that don't obey"
I'M. h. sangster, in Youths Companion.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
Curb the Little One.

l have been living in the house with
a spoiled child for one. week, and |
hope | will never have such an expe-
rience again. Think of allowing a
fiye-year-old to rule a whole house
hold, making them wish they were
deaf and dumb, because they have
not the stability to control him. My
heart goes out in pity for this mother
and son, who are so surely to reap the
results of this undisciplined child
hood. She consoles herself with:
"He'll know better when he's older
But the unrestrainad indulgence, the
utter absence of any teachings of
self-control is running him for youth
'-: ID manhood. You may think me
unfeeling, but, when he laid i'll, l
could not but think what a blessing it
would be for him to die. His parents
love him dearly, but they might bet
Cer drop TEARS OF sorrow upon little
coflin-lid, than drops of agony over
that of criminal. For it is these
passionate, self-willed children, who
have been allowed their own way, and
never taught to submit to authority
or restrain their impulses, who help
to fill our prisons, and whose only
extenuation was 81 was angry; / did
not know what | did," All, mothers
you are unconsciously spelling the
lives of your children. Reflect be-
fore you have done them an irrepar-
able injury. Never let them get be-
You'd your control B., in Woman.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
No FavOritiSm.#

Two men on cable car. One of
the men turned to the conductor and
said:
.'Stop at Webster avenue"
The other man then turned to the
conductor and said:
"Stop at Webster avenue"
The conductor, somewhat irritated,
rejoined:
"Didn't you hear this other man
ask me to stop at Webster?'
eyes"
"Then why did you ask me?'
"Because | want you to stop for
me, too"
"You, tool Can't you get off when
the car stops?'
"Of course, but. as | said, | want
it to stop for me. | paid my money
to ride on this thing, and l am deter
mined that there shall be no favorit-
ism. - Arkansas Traveller.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
A Plausible Theory.

Master Jonathan, aged five, passed
a delightfully."- noisy Fourth of July
this year. The 9TH of July brought
a severe thunder-shower to Jonathan S
native town, and the small youths
face frightened as an unusually heavy
clap of thunder came through the
window. "Mamma," said he, "what
a good time the little angels are hay
ing with their leftover cannon
crackers! "- Harper's Young Folks.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03

LIE DAILY TRIBUNE, cut and sewed, con.
tanning the only complete report of the inter.
national Council of Women, can be obtained
ior forty cents; or is sent as u premium for
two new subscribers. ioi
valuable premium of a residence lot in
Lincoln, Nebraska, is offered to the person Sc
curing the largest number of subscribers he
lore December |, 1888. Parties not successful
IN obtaining the lot will receive 25 per cent
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
The Woman's Tribune

Edited and published weekly at Beatrice
Nebraska, by
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
Comforting.

Deacon saw you at our evening
service last night, sir. Strangers are
always welcome.
Young Man-Thanks.
Deacon-Isuppose you find church
going a great comfort?
Young Man-Yes, sir, Did you
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
notice the little girl whose prayer
book | helped hold up?
DeacOn-Yes.
Young Marshes great comfort,
too.- Time.
Ingratitude.

"Why did you invite the landlord
and the doctor here, Edward?"
"To pacify them. You know we
owe them both."
"Well, they have accepted your in
vitation. Both are here and both
have brought their bills with them"
= Life.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
TO#THE LADIES.

MRS. r. o. SMITH, formerly of Little Rock,
desires to inform her friends and the public
generally, that she is prepared to purchase for
them the best materials at lowest prices. Her
many years experience and most excellent
taste is sufficient guarantee of satisfaction
to those who may desire her services.
Orders solicited. Address,
NINE. NJ. SMITH,
10 West 23d Street, New York.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
Definitions of Bible Terms.

A gerah was a cent.
A cab was three pints.
An omer was six plnts.
A frkin was seven plnts.
A shekel of gold was So.
A farthing was three cents.
A talent of gold was $l3,S00.
A talent of silver is $53S.Sj.
A bin was one gallon and two pints.
A shekel of silver was about so
cents,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
LITTLE ROCK
UNIVER SITY.
College, Academy, Normal School, Art
School, Music School, Law School,
English School.

The schools of Little Rock University com.
menced their fall terms on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 26, 1888, with full Boards of Instruction.
and will continue their sessions until June s,
1889.
This Institution has now pursued its work
in Arkansas so long as to cease to be an ex.
pertinent. With unrivalled beauty and health.
fulncss of location, with splendid facilities for
instruction, with successful career of half
dozen years, the future of the University is
full of hope.
Little Rock University only announces what
it is ready to do, and reports what it has actu-
ally accomplished. 1t offers to the young
people of the Southwest the very best instruc.
ton for the very lowest price, and challenges
fair comparison with any school in the land.
Special care OF lady students. Low rates of
tuition and board. Address
REV. ALFRED NOON, A. M,
President.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03

WOMAN'S {
EzekiePs reed was nearly eleven
feet.
A cubit was nearly twenty-five
inches.
A mite was less than quarter of
a cent.
A piece of silver, or penny, was
thirteen cents.
A Sabbath days journey was about
an English mile.
An ephah, or bath, contains seven
gallons and five pints.
A days journey was about twenty
three and one-Gfth miles.
A hands breadth is equal to three
and fye-eighths inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one
inch Pittsburg Dispatch.
The rich are always advising the
poor; but the poor seldom venture
to return the compliment Helps.
There is an old lady in Georgia who
will never send one of her daughters
to.Vassar College. ''What with their
coats, an vests, an jockey hats"
she says, "women is nigh enough like
men now, 'thout making bachelors of
'em.- Savannah News.
Ferdinand Ward, the fnancier, who
is sojournlng at the Sing Sing, N. Y,
state prison and has charge of the
printing there, has produced a fancy
calendar that is described as being
"poem'' of loneliness in design and
execution. Its principal embellish-
ment is the face of little child.
My little nephew, aged three, writes
lady, was fond of playing cars by
running along, putting and whistling
in imitation of the engine. One day
| CHANGED to step in his way as he
was going at full speed. He stopped,
and instead of requesting me to give
him the right of way, remarked SOL
EMMY: 'The engine will wait till that
COW gets off the track. - Baby
hood.
We would especially like to say
word to mothers in regard to their
sons.
We are ourselves very fond and
proud of the boys, whom we look
upon as our younger brothers, and
we notice with grief fault into which
many of them fall.
If there is a sacrifice to be made,
it is the girl of the family who must
make it, not the boy.
We can hear some mother say:
"Oh, no, it isn't so in my family"
Now, be fair, dear mother, if you
want to send upstairs, do you ask
your boy or your girl? If one must
be pinched in regard to pocket money,
is it the boy or the girl? If only one
can have advantages in an educational
way, is it the boy or the girl?
Now few more questions. Which
one thinks more often of the mothers
pleasure and comfort? Which one
Go yon worry most about? Whose
love are you the most certain of?
We are sure that different mothers
will answer these questions differently,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
children S Corner.

DaffadoWndilly.
Daffadowndilly
Just come to town
In bright yellow petticoat
And green gown.
= The Cottage Hearth.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
CLARA BEWICK COLBY.

Price S1'00 per Year. Trial Subscription, Five
JVeekS for Ten Cents
Persons In sympathy with the work of the
National Woman Suffrage Association-Eliza.
beth Cady Stanton, president, Susan B. An.
thony, vice president-will find it, as also all
official announcements, duly recorded in The
Woman,s Tribune. Every person interested
in the effort to obtain political, legal and in
dustriall equality for women, should become
subscribers Valuable premiums or good
commissions are offered to canvassers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
YOUNG LADIES SMALL TALK.
Conversation Overheard on Hotel Piazza

Conversation Overheard on Hotel Piazza.
Judge.
"What on earth did you do with my
needle Lou?"
"It wasn't me. had Lilies. Don t
pull the floss like that!'
''Cap help it? Do move your chair a
little SO l can get my feet up"
SEEMS shoes are just like yours!"
"Jen's shoes never saw the day they'd
look like mine; nor Jen's feet, neither"
"Just see how my hands are tanned.
The sun was blazing on the water"
s'You had gloves o."
81 hadn't
'You had, too. I saw them"
'What! Yesterday"
yesterday"
mo such thing-not yesterday"
"Well, I've got eyes, hope. When We
stood on the pier there, before you got
into the boat you had on those long brown
channels"
"That was Thursday"
II guess you're thinking of me. Iwore
old dark Ones"
Pm positive Lii had gloves on when
we stood on the pier anyway"
''No, that's mistake. l didn't really.
My brown gloves were in my gray coat
pocket. Honor bright"
"0h, 1 suppose I've got to believe you.
I must have been hallucinated then, for 1
certainly saw those gloves"
mo; you saw mine; your brains all
right so far, Nell. You mistook the
hands, that was all.'
"There goes the Maggie. Who took
her out this morning."
T'That ISM the Mao gle"
"Wili Manning took her out"
"Of course it's the Maggie. l should
think ] ought to know the Maggie"
''You ought to, but you don't. That's
the Mystery"
"Oh, listen-the Mystery! It's the
Maggie"
Its the Mystery"
cts the Maggie and Will Manning.
He's got those Reilly girls on board.
hope he'll steer them back to their native
isle.''
He'd be mighty clever seaman if he
could, Miss Lii"
az know I'd be awfully scared to go out
with him."
$50 would l."
81, too"
81 wouldn't dare 10 go out with VIII
Manning. Would you, Lauras"
"Well, that's too bad. He wants us all
to GO. He told me TO ask my party, and
he'd run US down to Cliff House Tor
lunch"
ooh, my! he didn't. Did he really?''
eyes, he did, and it's the jolliest place
for lunch-lots of Yale boys. But, of
course, if you are all afraid"
"Afraid?"
"Who's afraid?"
"There isn't any dangar in the Mag
gle"
"I'll GO"
I'm going"
"The idea of being afraid! never
| said | was"
"Well, he's putting in now"
"Goody! sure's you live"
"Let's go dowa to the pier"
"Oh, let's"
Rustic, scamper, general stampede and
| grateful silence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
TROUBLE IN MANITOBA.

The elem ents of discomfort, which fire.
queptlg crop out in the domain ruled by
Sir John Macdonald, are seothing in the
central province of Manitoba. The lat
ter day Beaconsfeld, who is the actual
ruler of the Dominion, has puthed his
so-called national policy" until the bond
holding the provinces together il put to a
severe test. The Manitobans object TO
the monopoly of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad, which was forced on them by
the Ottawa government. The charter
given to the railway grants exclusive
privileges in the province of Manitoba
The Canadian Pacific corporation uses it's
legal rights in an arbitrary manner and
the building of com peting lines even to
the point of armed resistance. The
city of Winnipeg and the outlaying set
Elements are in fermsnt, and the citi
zens ars organizing for attack. The At
torney General of the province appears
to bs ths leader of the people against the
railway, the Premier Greenway prom
ises the support of the government. The
cry goes up, "Lst Us save our relations
with the Dominion government and be-
como q Crown Province, sabordInated
only TO the government of Great Britain"
The Manit obans have just grievance in
the refusal of the Can adam Pacific mono
POLY TO permits competing lines. The
American railways, extending to the
Manitoba border, will transport wheat
and produce at lower rates than those
charged by ths Canadian Pacific, and the
farmers, who compose the bulk cf the
populA alton, demand tina. they be given
suitable connections With the Stares. Sir
John Macdonald, with his customary
tide over the present emergency OF the
Red River Valley Railway crossing, but
another and yet another will ARISE. One
of these days-dafs not 20 far rsnots as
man be imagined-the Manitobans will
clamor not for a Crown Colony, but for
membership in the sisterhood of States
of the American Union. Uncle Sam will
be able to accommodate the Maaitobans
whom the time errivs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
BLOWING OUT THE GAS.
Not Such an Easy Thing for Countryman to
Do.
Chicago Herald.

Do.
Chicago Herald.
"Did you ever see man blow out gas?"
asked one Clark street business man of
another. "You can't do it either" he add
ed after short pause.
The friend was not 60 sure about that,
SO the twain experimental upon flame
of gas IN the Office of the first speaker un-
til both were weary. Their efforts were
Intellectual.
Every few days we hear that some
jury has returned verdict that this man
or that woman blew out the gas, jumped
into bed and gas found dead, suffocated
you know. There's that case at the st
Charles Hotel recently; the same story
went out about him."
"But he was sspbyxiated by ses," said
the friend.
40 be sure; but he did not blow il out,
simply and purely because he couldn't.
I've been on three coroner's iurles in
my life where the subject came to his
death by gas poisoning. In every case
found that the man turned off the gas and
accidently turned it on again. Usually
the Jet is above ones head. He intends
to turn it short off and does so, but in re-
leasing his hold upon the key his fingers
ulcODscIOaoig give IL d buIn W odO oiuos
"Why are not accidents of this kind
more frequent, thenf"
"That is due largely to the fact that
one is not likely to turn the key back ex-
cept where it is very lose; one that turns
hard would not be likely to move for the
light tap given it by the fourth and little
fingers. And then many people have the
transoms and windows open, while others
discover their blunder, as L did, before
falling asleep"
sCosldn't very we'll find it out after
ward" said the friend, with an attempt at
smile.
Scarcely. In any event, will not be-
lieve that any man who has sense enough
to travel is such fool as not to know that
gas must be turned off. But if he did
not know this he couldn't blow it out If
he had the lungs of Goliah of Gath"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
United We stand.
St Nichnlas

Bees and ants may be called civilized
animals. They live in cities and under
stand the value of cooperation. Indeed,
they could give men some valuable les
sons upon one of the oldest, the best
known, and the truest of human proverbs:
''Iu union there ia strength"
Ants show wonderful intelligence, and
.he ''driver ants" not only build boats, but
launch them, too; only, these boats are
formed of their own bodies. They are
called drivers because of their ferocity.
Nothing can stand before the attacks of
these little creatures. Large pythors
have been killed by them in single night,
while chickens, lizards and other small
animals in Western Africa fee from them
in terror.
To protect them from the heat they
erect arches, under which numerous ar
mics of them pass in safety. Sometimes
the arch is made of grass and earth and
gummed together by some secretion, and,
again, it is formed by the bodies of the
larger ants, who hold themselves togeta-
er by their strong nippers while the work
ers pass under them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

sole expense consists in the hiring of
plates and dishes from the nearest stores
in the town where the farmer sells his
grain and buys his wife's groceries and
ribbons.
For months before the wedding the
bride, with her mother and sisters, have
been hard at work at the loom, spinning
and weaving all the linen for the person
as well as for the house; which store, to-
gether with couple Of young horses,
couple OF COWS and pair of sheep, in
variably form part of her marriage por-
ton. Bridal ornaments are not heir
looms as in Norway. The Danish peas
ant girl wears simple crown of mytle
with her national costume-varying with
the district, but always charming-and
pots of myrtle are carefully cherished by
girlish hands through the long winters In
anticipation of the great event.
Her sole heirloom is the great oaken
dover chest, heavily clamped and often
finely carved, that holds her goodIy store
of linen, At IL O'Clock on the wedding
morning all the guests meet at the house
of the bride, driving up in carts, and
when she is ready the long procession
starts for the church, headed by two out
riders, who are the best men. Next fol
lows cart containing the band, three or
four brass instruments, and that standing
dish, the village fiddler. After them
comes the cart containing the bride alone,
both parents remaining at home to put
the finishing touches to the festive board
already spread.
Behind the bride comes the bridegroom,
also alone, driven by karle. He sits in
the middle OF his vehicle in all the con-
scious glory of new tall hat and vast
cloak with many capes, worn even in the
summer time, much as the lord mayor
wears his robe, as lending dignity suit
able to the solemnity and as a mark dis
tinction. Near the church children strew
flowers, as near the brides old home,
where there is also an archway draped
with flags. Returning from church the
bride and bridegroom sit together, the
band preceding them, heralding their
approach.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
THE CELLAR.
To Cool and Dry and Purify a Cellar.

To Cool and Dry and Purify Cellar.
Opening windows or screens for venti-
lation serves TO raise the temperature of
cellars or other apartments in summer.
II the object is to keep the cellar cool
and dry, it is mistake that often makes
the cellar or rooms warmer and damper.
A cool place should never be ventilated,
unless the air admitted is cooler than the
air within, Or is ct least as cool as that, or
a very little warmer. The warmer the air
the more mois ture it holds in sus oension.
Necessarily, the cooler the air the more
the moisture is condensed and precipi-
tated. When cool cellar is aired Cd a
warm day, the entering air, being in mo
ton, appears cool, but as it fills the cellar
the cooler air with which If becomes
mixed chills it, the moisture is condensed
and dew is deposited on the cold walls,
and may often be seen running down
them in streams. Then the cellar is
damp and soon becomes mouldy.
To avoid this the windows and ventila-
tors should only be opened at night, and
late-the last thing before retiring.
There is no need to fear thai the night
air is unhealthful; it is as pure as the air
of mid-day, and is really drier. TIE COO
air enters the apartment during the night
and circulates through it.
A pipe running up outside the building
from the top of room, with an inlet to
the building at as low point as possible,
will replace the warm air with colder, as
the cold air comes in at night to take the
place of the warmer air rising; but air
does not rise in ventilatizg tube unless
there is a warmer temperature in it.
The windows and ventiiators should be
clos before sunrise in the morning and
kept closed and shaded through the day.
If the air of the cellar is damp, it may be
thoroughly dried by placing in it pick
OF fresh lime IN an open box. A peck of
lime will absorb about seven pounds or
more than three quarts of water; and in