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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-17
A QUEER YOUNG DUCK.

Grandma house was the pleasantest place in
the world to Willie and Nina, and everything about
the old-fashioned house and garden appeared won
derful "lts tp-top place to VISIT y said Willie;
but he was particularly delighted with the ducks.
Nina was half afraid of them when they came close
to her. and she timidy scattered the crumbs grand
ma gave her; but Willie was ready to let them eat
from his hand.
"What do they have such queer feet for?" he
asked.
$50 that they may swim, answered grandma.
Watch them when they go to the pond.
Willie did watch them very closely Nina grew
tired after little while, and ran away; but Willie
stayed by the pond for long time. By and by he
looked in at the kitchen door and asked, sGrand-
ma, if chickens had been made just like ducks they
could swim too, couldn't they?'
eyes, answered Grandma, who was busy about
her work
After that they saw no more of Willie for nearly
an hour. Grandma heard him moving about the
attic and thought he had found something to
amuse him among the old furniture up there and
Nina, happy over book, did not look for him.
Suddenly everybody was startled by a loud cry
from the duck-pond; and grandma and Bridget
running out of the house saw Wilie's curly head
bobbing about in the water. Fortunately the pond
was not very deep, and he scrambled to the shore
in minute. But such an odd-looling boy as he
was! His hair and clothes were dripping and he
had great turkey-wing tied under each arm and
an old paln-leaf fan fastened to each foot
81 was trying to be duck, gasped Willie, as
soon as he could speak. p. aa. e.
can it's ducked ye was, thin, I'm sure" said
Bridget, in genuine establishment .a
II thought if | had big feet and wings and
everything, l could swim; but l didn't. Just
went down kersplash" exclaimed Willie, looking
at grandma. N
20 Willie! Willie what will you try next?'
said grandma; and then she sat down on the steps
and laughed
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-17
"A CAT ON A CHURCH STEEPLE.

One beautiful summer evening the avenues OF
large$city were thronged with people on their way
to the different churches. At certain corner
however, several persons were standing, gazing up
into the air. Others soon joined them until so
large a crowd was gathered that the way was COM
pletely blocked Soon the windows along the
street were thronged with people, and number of
persons were seen on the tops of the houses in the
neighborhood And what do you think they saw?
Clingng for dear life to jutting ornament near
the top of tall church steeple that pointed straight
up into the soft evening air, was black cat
&C How did it get there?" was the first question
everyone asked and chow will it get down." was
The next The poor creature was looking down,
andat frequent intervals it uttered ptiful cry as
III calling to the crowd below for help Once it
slipped and fell a short distance down the sloping
side of the steeple, and an exclamation of pity
came from the crowd now intensely interested in
ats fate Luckily the cat paws caught on another
projection, and for the moment it was safe. Some
ookeron suggested that it be shot in order to save
it from the more dreadful death that seemed TO
await it, but no one was willing to fire the Shot
Ere long little window some distance above tbe
place where the cat was cnging was seen to omen
Two boys had determined to save it. They had
mounted the stairs to where the bell hung and
then by ladder had reached the window Thew
had taken board up with them and they now
pushed one end of it out of the window and low
cred it tillit was within reach of the cat Then by
encouraging words and signs they tried to persuade
the creature to step on the plank. Puss seemed
TO understand, and put out one paw but drew it
back Immediately, and at that instant one of the
bows accidentally let 90 his hold tha hoard +nrpod
over, and the cat would certainly have been dashed
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-17

to the ground had it trusted to that means of es-
cape. The boys withdrew the board, and soon re-
appearing at the window were seen to be lowering
basket down the side of the steeple. Pussy,
having now ceased to cry, watched it ntenty as it
slowly came nearer and nearer. When it was
within reach the cat carefully put out one paw and
took hold of the side of the basket, then as care
fully repeated the action with the other paw, then
drew herself up and with violent effort flung her
self over the side and into the bottom of the bas-
ket The next moment it was safely drawn up to
the window, amid loud cheers from the spectators
below St Nicholas.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-17
Children's Column.
LITTLE SPEECHES.

What Is good and fair,
Shall ever be our care
Thus the musc's burden rang;
That shall never be our care
Which is neither good nor fair,
Such were the words that lips immortal sang
-[From the Greek of Theognls
They soon grow old who grope for gold
In marts where all is bought and sold
Who live for self, and on some shelf
In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf.
Cankered and crusted DER with mold
For them their youth itself is old.
They meier grow old who gather gold
Where spring awakes and flowers unfold,
Where suns arise In joyous skies
And fill the soul within their eyes.
For them the immortal bards have sung,
For them old age itself is young.
10. p Cranch, in Golden Argosy,
We haven't much time to repine or whine
Or wound or jostle each other,
And the hour for us all is to day, say,
If we mean to befrend brother
There Is no pleasure that earth gives birth
But the worry 1t brings is double,
And all that repays for the strife of life
Is helping some soul in trouble.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
Contested Wills.

So much work over contested wills
is done in the Eastern States that it
may be interesting to notice the pro-
visions of an excellent law which has
worked admirably in Michigan,
where it was enacted some years
since. A person having made a will
notifies the judge Of probate that he
has done so, that the will has been
signed, sealed and delivered, and
will, in case of death without revoca-
ton, be the testator's last will and
testament. Thereupon the official so
notified issues a notice calling upon
any and all persons interested, if they
have any reason to offer why the tes-
tator should not make a will, or any
objections Of any sort to offer, to APP
pear at a certain time and state their
objections. Failing to do this, they
are forever debarred from contesting
the will, no matter what the circum-
stances of the case may be.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
Mistakes in Language.

A professor of English literature
has prepared the following list of
words and phrases to be avoided in
conversation and writing:
Guess, for suppose or think.
Fix, for arrange or prepare.
Ride and drive INTERCHANGEABLE.
Real, as an adverb,-instead of
really as, real good.
Some, for somewhat; | have stud
died some.
Some ten days, for about ten days.
Storms, for rains.
Try an experiment, for make an
experiment.
Singular subject with contracted
plural verb; she don't skate we'll.
Plural pronoun with singular ante
cedent; every man or woman should
do their duty.
Expect, for suspect.
First-rate as an adverb.
Party, for person.
Promise, for assure.
Posted, for informed.
Depot, for station.
Stopping, for staying.
Try and do, for try to do.
Cunning, for small.
Cute, for acute.
Funny, for odd.
Above, for foregoing.
Looks good enough, for well
enough.
Somebody else's, for somebody's
else.
Like, for as.
Not as good, for not so good.
Feel good, for feel well.
Between seven, for among seven.
Seldom or ever, for seldom if ever
or seldom or never.
More than you think for, for more
than you think.
These kind, for this kind.
Nicely, in reply to inquiry fol
health.
Healthy for wholesome.
Kind of, to indicate moderate de
gree.
The matter of, instead of the mat
ter with.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
Arabic System ofNotation.
Heather in Boston Transcript.


There is reasonable good evidence
that the manufacture of gunpowder,
the use of the mariners compass, and
the invention of printing, were all
known to the "Heathen Chinee"
before any Christian land or people
had heard of them. These were all
powerful aids in the civilization of
the world after they got into the
hands of the Caucasian race. But a
still greater scientific discovery"
and a still more valuable tabor.
saving invention" was the Arabic
system of arithmetical notation by
the use of nine figures and a zero.
This was purely heather invention,
and can be traced back to about the
sixth century in Hindustan. Its
introduction to Europe was by the
hands of the Moors, who brought it
into Spain about the latter end fthe
tenth century, and so slow was its
adoption by Christian nations that no
trace of its use in England can be
found until nearly four hundred years
thereafter, all papers and official
records now extant in England that
date back of the middle of the four
teenth century being dated in words
or in the Roman numerals. And
yet, this system of notation is the one
thing that has made modern science
possible. All our discoveries and
speculations in mathematical knowl-
edge rest upon it. Our mechanical
inventions even would have been
impossible without its ready aid to
calculation. Trade, commerce, eX-
change, could scarcely exist without
it. There is no branch of knowledge,
no department of scientific research,
almost no one of the most common
and trivial affairs of civilized life,
that could have reached its presen
state of perfection without this
heather scientific discovery" and
"labor-saving invention"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
essential in the Catholic Church, as a
destructive agency for feminine
pride, remains to be seen.
A Word for the Tom-Boy.

The tom-boy is sometimes an eager,
earnest, impulsive, glad-hearted,
whole-souled specimen of genus
feminine. Ither laugh is too frequent
and her tone trifle too emphatic, we
are willing to overlook these for the
sake of the true life and exulting
vitality of which-they are the express
sion and, indeed, we rather like the
high-pressure nature which must
close off its superfluous jollity in such
ebulitions. The glancing eye, the
glowing cheek, the fresh, balmy
breath, the 1.-THE, graceful play of the
limbs tell a tale of healthy and
vigorous physical development,
which is natures best beauty.
The soul and the mind will be
developed also in due time, and we
shall have before us a woman in the
highest sense of the term. When the
tom-boy has sprung up to healthful
and vigorous womanhood, she will
be ready to take hold of the duties
of life, to become a worker in the
great system of humanity. She will
not sit down to sigh over the work
given her to do, to shipper nonsense
or to fall sick at heart, but she will
ever be ready to take up her burden
of duty.
In her track there will be sound
philosophy, in her thoughts boldness
and originality, in her heart
heavens purity, and the world will
be better that she lived in it. To her
allotted task she will bring health,
vigor, energy and spirits, these will
give both the power and the endur
ance without which her life must be,
in some respects, at least, a dreary
failure.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
FACTS For FARMERS.

The pigs like the charcoal made
from cobs. and it will keep them clear
of worms.
Hogs require some kind of coarse,
bulky food. Too much grain and
nothing else is detrimental.
The pear is the longest lived
among fruit trees, statistics showing
that trees of some varieties live to be
a hundred and seventy-iive years old.
Onions are earlier to grow in the
ground than any other crop, and as
soon as the frost shall be out of the
ground the plot should be made ready.
Cut fodder sometimes makes the
mouths of cattle that are fed regularly
quite sore, but as it usually lasts only
few days. is not serious A change
to long fodder or hay short time will
allow the gums to recover. when cut
fodder can be fed again.
Gather decayed leaves, dig a pit in
the ground, put the leaves into it, and
trample them down until it will hold
no more. Leave the pit open during
the winter, and in the following spring
the leaves should be sufficiently decom-
posed to make leaf mould.
If any thing has been clearly
demonstrated in connection with the
industry of farming it is that success
in it does not depend upon the owner
ship of large amount of land. In
deed. the best and best-paying farm
ing is done upon small or, at most,
moderate-sized farms.
-Cotton-seed meal should be used
only in sufficient quantity to balance
coarse grass and rough forage. If
fed in this manner it will assist in
rendering the food more digestible,
and also supply those elements that
may be lackingi in the rough food 1t
may be alternated with linseed meal
ii preferred. rs.
1t is desirable to have clean soil
with growing crops, but if no crop be
growing it would be better to have the
weeds grow to be ploughed in than to
have nothing; weeds of themselves do
not do the harm, but with growing
crops, or when allowed to seed. II
ploughed in green they will return to
the soil all that has been distracted
from it, and. in addition, all that has
been drawn from the atmosphere.
If wheat, corn or cotton be sown
or planted for successive years the
land will become exhausted and often
deserted, and the region depopulated,
as was the case in Virginia and many
of the States. Experience has shown
that land annually demands change
of crops to yield to the farmer full re-
ward for his industry, and it is the ro-
tation of crops or the discovery of new
crops that must restore again the
wasted lands of the older States.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
A Girls Scrap Book.
Albany Journal.

Albany Journal.
The scrap-book kept by the average
young lady is unique and peculiar,
owning no fellowship with any other
known product of nature or art. The
tourist was allowed to astonish him
self with one the other day.
In the centre of the first broad page
was glued a pressed violet, VIII ich
doubtless had a sentimental history,
for the fair owner quickly turned the
leaf, coming upon fearful love story,
at the end of which was painted, like
colored tail-piece in medieval
book, picture of sleeping cupid,
cut from a chrome advertising some
patented thing or other.
Following after, in tumble as
distracting to the senses as a pied
newspaper form strolling rapidly
down stairs, were pictures of fashion
plates, bits of silks from the wedding
gowns of her girl friends, who had
married, bits of ribbons, pretty
advertising cards, several of Ella
Wheeler's Poems of Passion" more
sprays of pressed flowers daintily
pasted to the pages, romances from
the story papers, in which the villain
always comes to grief, and stories of
real life from the daily papers, in
which the villain always triumphs.
Here was a formula for a lotion with
which Ninon d'Enclos used to
preserve her beautiful complexion,
doubtless laid up for future reference
when the wrinkled harbingers of
age appear, and these ideal pictures
of Psyche and Venus painted by the
girl herself. On the last page was a
tiny envelope, in which she said "a
friend of mine" had written some
thing which she was not to read until
her twentieth birthday came, on
which occasion the envelope would be
unsealed.
An eminent physician is on record
as asserting that an inspection Of a
girls scrap-book will either cause OF
cure insanity of the suicidal type.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
FARMERS WIYEs.

We have sung the joys of farmers boys,
And the beauty of the farmers girls;
OF the farmer, too, in his overalls blue,
Dark eyes and chestnut curls.
It's the strangest thing that none will sing
OF the wasted martyred lives,
Of the pallid face OF the worn out race
OF the weary farmers wives.
When we recollect that the sad neglect, +,
And the ceaselesS wear and strain.
Give big per cent. to the mad.house rent,
With worn out spine and BRAIN
It's time to think of woman's ills,
AS constantly she drives:
It's time to sing with doleful ring
OF the pale faced farmers wives.
She is first to wake, when daylight breaks,
And the last to sleep at night;
No MONDAY hours, no rest through show.
ers.
The weather is always right.
Like blind horse bound to ceaselesS
round,
No matter how hard she strives,
She is never through, there is lots to do
For the busy farmers wives.
The brawny boys, through toll and noise,
Grow up to mans estate,
And one by one, toward the setting sun,
Pass through the old farm gate
And the rosy girls, with smiles and curls,
Pass out to brighter lives,
And leave behind, with tear.drops blind,
The hopeless farmers wives.
While the farmers health and the farmers
wealth
Have grown, he cannot tell
For his very life what ails his wife;
She is never of late quite WE'LL
To his great surprise she suddenly dies
He into his Golfers dives;
In a rosewood box her form he locks,
And she sleeps with the farmers wives.
Now wouldn't it be financially
Forgive me if ask i'll
wore wise 10 give Wnlle your Wlle OOIn
live,
A rest-than rosewood casket?
Let her go out doors when the sunshine
pours,
In happy walks and drives;
You will find it worse to hire hearse
For your worn out farmers wives.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
PRUNING FRUIT TREES.
How to Protect Wounds from the Damag.
ing Effects of tho Weather.

How to Protect Wounds from the Damag-
ing Effects of tho Weather.
Our orchards. as n whole. perhaps,
do not suffer as much from q lack Of
pruning as they do from too much
pruning. People have come TO think
that an apple tree or other fruit tree
must be butchered about so much,
whether there is any need of it or not.
We are convinced that if one of two
rules must be laid down, viz: do not
prune at all, or prune whenever your
knife is sharp. that the former would
be much the best rule. Whenever it
is the right time for pruning fruit
Trees, or whether the right time is not
whenever your knife is sharp, one
thing is certain, and that is, if from
previous neglect or other cause a limb
has been allowed to grow until it
becomes so large as to inter-
fere with the proper shape or well-be-
ing of the tree, and demands removal,
it is very important that the wound
occasioned thereby be protected from
the damaging effects of the weather
by the application of some material
which will effectually answer the pur-
pose until new wood has time to form
over ii. Gum-shellac dissolved in al
cohol is highly recommended and
mostly used for the purpose. But q
much more durable material has been
discovered by French chemist and
that is to melt pound of common
resin over slow fire, adding to it in
the meantime an ounce OF beef tallow
and stirring the same we'll together;
take from the fire, and after allowing
the mixture to- cool little-not too
much-mix Herewith tablespoonful
Of spirits Of turpentine and in
q few minutes thereafter add about
seven ounces of strong (ninety-five
per cent. } alcohol, in doing which the
greatest care should be taken to pre-.
vent the alcohol from taking fire. To
avoid this, remove the vessel and its
contents from near the fire, and KEEP
stirring until the whole becomes q
homogeneous mass like honey. 1t i;
then best kept for future use in large.
mouthed bottle. With this precaution,
every wound that is more than an incl
or so in diameter should be coated. In
amputating large limb, especially, il
should be done with clean, smooth
cut, or, if done with saw, the surface
Of the wound made perfectly smooth
with sharp knife before the above
preparation is applied. The wet viii
then be completely kept out, and decay
as we'll as a loss of sap thus prevented
Western Rural.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
Methodist Nuns.

Methodist nuns are to be novelty
in feminine experience writes Clara
Belle in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
They were created by the Methodist
General Conference, after a careful
consideration of the subject by the
committee on missions. The idea
came from the Rev. DIR. j. M. Tho
burn, to whom it was suggested by
an ex-Catholic priest who had become
a Methodist, and who strongly advo-
Gated it. The committee reported
favorably, and the conference insert
ed in the discipline of the church
a section regulating them. They are
to be called Deaconesses, and they
will be very similar to the nuns of
the Roman Catholic Church, except
that they are not to take VOWS of life
service or of celibacy. Every annual
conference in which these deaconesses
are established will have a board of
nine members to control this kind of
work. Nothing more definite than
that was done by the conference, but
DR.. Thoburn tells your correspondent
that the Methodist nuns will be very
likely to wear distinctive costumes,
and live in houses by themselves.
They will minister to the poor and
the sick, care for orphans and do 9TH
er work of charity. They will be re-
quired to serve probation of contin-
ual service for two years before being
made deaconesses, and they will have
to be at least 25 years of age. 1t has
long been a hobby of the Rev. DIR.
Dix, of the Trinity Episcopalian
Church, to have such duties per-
formed by regular orders of women,
and he succeeded several years ago in
forming an organization of Episcopa-
liam nuns, but they have not been
formally Endorsed by the denomina-
ton, and so the Methodists are the
first Protestant Church in America
to attempt the recruiting and uni
forming of religious sisters. Dr.
Thoburn says that the first of these
deaconesses will be very likely to be
seen in Chicago, where there is
already an informal organization of
somewhat similar character; but he
believes that in all the large cities
within year, there will be
established probationary classes. As
two years service will be required
before any woman may become {
deaconess, there must ensue tha'
amount of delay, but the work an(
costuming of the devotees may begin
at once.
"And what costumes will the dea
cOnesses wear >" was asked of nearly
every member of the committee re
sponsible for their creation.
No definite answer could be oh
tanned. Indeed, the reverend gentle
men did not seem to have considered
that question particularly, although
it will be quick to come to the from
when the order becomes really exist
ent. Naturally, sober garb will be
chosen, but how nearly it vii
approach the Disagreement deemed
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria,
When she was Child che cried Cor Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to CastOria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Quite Impossible.

To admit that our shoes hurt be-
cause they are too small. To listen
cheerfully to twice-told tale. TIC
love bore because he is good. TIC
remember debts as wildly as we
remember debtors. To be grateful
in proportion to the intention of the
benefactor rather than in proportion
to what we receive. To be as M UGH
mortified over a sin as over a mistake
in etiquette. To feel as deep re.
morse before as we feel after being
found out.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23

Positively the best remedy ever
discovered for all diseases of man and
beast that can be reached by externa
medical application, is Rangum Roo
Liniment. One trial will convin ce
Manufactured only by Rangum r 90
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