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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-08
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consisting Of Ginghams. Linens and
Woolenr, and Gentlemen's Clothing,
all of the latest and most dssirahls
styles. Call and inspect them.
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17

to sell "Elwood's Grain
w Tablets" (sl.25) for every miller, grain
dealer, and Martins Average Tables" $1,000,
wynted by every business house. Large demaud
Liberal terms. Address
4. BARROW CO., Pubs, Rochester, n. Y.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17
A BIRD SONG.
Oh. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

r. oh. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Dear.
Come herei
From the topmost bough Of this sunlit tree
Where ! rock and sing,
And sing
To thee, love, to thee,
The earth looks fair as summer land,
And the gold crowned dandelions, famed
BY the breath Of the south,
Soft as the kiss OF a baby's mouth.
Culver with ecstasy where they stand.
Dear,
Come here,
To the swaying tip Of this chestnut tree,
Ihave something to say to thee,
Dear, dear
The world is wide and the world Is bright,
And the earth sings back to the morning light
AS /, love, to thee.
Mans ears are dull to the tiny sound
Under the ground
or flowers pricking toward the sun,
And fall Of dew when the day Is done.
We heard,
We hearl
And our hearts are bursting with jubilant glee
AS we sit and swing,
And sing
On the top of the chestnut tree.
Listen, deari
The world is wide, and somewhere 1t holds
Perhaps in this tree
Shady and safe, meath the leafy dome,
place Just fit for a brides home
Why not for thee and met
Bird wings are beating
The fragrant air,
Bird songs are greeting
The daisies fair,
And love and the sunlight are everywhere.
Dear
God made the world for thee and me,
And me, love. for thee.
Mary S. Woodman.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17
Dye Colors from Plants.

A variety of very useful colors and dyes
may be obtained from very common
plants, growing in abundance almost
everywhere. The well known buckle
berry or BURBERRY, when boiled down
with an addition of little alum and q
solution of copperas, will develop an ex-
cellent blue color; treated in the same
manner with solution of nut gals, they
produce clear dark brown tint, while
with alum, verdigris and sal ammoniac,
various shades Of purple and red can be
obtained. The fruit of the elder, so fire.
quently used for coloring spirits, will
also produce blue color when treated
with alum. The privet, boiled in solu-
ton Of salt, furnishes service6ble color,
and the over ripe berries yield service
able red.
The seeds of the common burning bush,
"euonymus," when treated with sal
ammoniac, produce beautiful purple
red. The bark of the currant bush
treated with solution of alum produces
brown. Yellow is obtained from
the bark of the apple tree, the box, the
ash, the buckthorne, poplar, elm, etc.,
when boiled in water and treated with
alum. A lively green is furnished by
the broom corn! Scientific American
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17

had been made, and she laid down the
revolver and stood ready to open the door.
AS the fugitive got within twenty rods,
being then thirty rods ahead of pursuit,
she began to unbur the door. She had
only touched it when some one leaped
against it--not one, but four or five.
Finding 1t fast, tho savages, for such they
were, sat up howl Of rage and retreated
out of range. Grandfather was standing
still, about fifteen rods from the door,
and the woman did not have to look twice
to see into the game. One Of the Indians
had donned the prisoners clothing,
jammed the familiar hat over his fore
head, and the pursuit was all a sham.
Before he had left the woods four OF five
Indians had made detour and softly ap-
preached the house, so as to be ready to
leap in when the bar came down from
the door. 1t was not grandmother wit,
but their own haste in leaping out, which
had prevented the capture Of the house
and her death.
The savages then tried another plan.
They brought the old man out Of the
woods, naked except his shirt, tied him
to wild plum tree just out of rifle range
of the house, and then set about mall
treating him, hoping to work on the
the woman's sympathies. GRANDMOTHER
could see every movement made, and she
was nearly crazed to see them assault the
old man with knives and clubs. They
pricked him until he was covered with
blood, though not seriously wounded in
any spot, and, cutting a number of
switches from the hazel bushes, they
whipped him until they were tired of the
sport. The old man groaned little, but
they could not make him cry out, as they
hoped to do; and in his heart he hoped
that grandmother would not be impru-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17
How Wordsworth Composed.

Wordsworth mainly composed his
poems during his rural rambles. 1t was
not an unusual circumstance for him to
write with a slate pencil ON smooth
piece Of stone his newly made lines
Home Journal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17
"Hoodium" and GUNNER"

"Hoodlum" comes from the German
huddler, meaning a loafer or idler; Cd
"bummer' from tho German bumm1ef,
word of similar import.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17

The profession of dinner tasting has
been revived in Paris with some success,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-17
RS

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tablishcd 1865. Manufacturer of High and Low
Pressure and Steam Heating Boilers OF all kinds;
exchange for new. Rivets, boiler plates and boiler
tubes fo- sale. Cor. Foundry st. and Mich. Gent.
X. X. tra.ks, DETROIT. MICH.
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ITO ADVERTISERS Lowest rates for aever
- Using In 1000 good newspapers sent free.
Address Geo. y. 7sowell Il Co. l0Spruce st. N y
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fall dimly on their pathway, is the
wish of all who were present on this
enjoyable occasion.
Sheriff j. Garland Hurst, MIR. w. O.
Rau and a gentleman from Charles
town, left here last night for Mounds
vile, having in charge five prisoners,
one being George Johnson, colored,
sentenced to the penitentiary for IS
years for felonious assault on an aged
cOlored woman in Bolivar.
A MIRAGE.-On the morning of
Nov. 9TH, there was to be seen from
Camp Hill a mirage, that in clearness
and extent exceeded anything have
ever seen elsewhere. AS everyone
knows, the mountains, as well as the
valley, beyond the north end of Boil
var Heights, (Strider Hill, are hid
den from Camp Hill. About eight
O'Clock as was coming up Fillmore
ST., was surprised to see the distant
mountains raised high above Bolivar,
while the valley intervening was just
in sight, covered by dense bank of
fog.
We could hardly believe our eyes at
first, but there it was.-the broad,
rolling plain, and the mountain rising
high above the dense fog that filled
the valley, except here and there
break, caused by some moderate eva
sion.
1t lasted near an hour; but as the
sun began to rise above the Blue
Ridge. it gradually faded from view.
No doubt the readers of the Sentinel
know that mirage is caused by de-
Election in the rays of light, as they
pass from dense body to a rare one.
1t is the same cause that makes the
bottom Of clear body of water seem
dangerously near to boy on bright
day. or pole in the water appear as
as if bent or broken. n. G. b.
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The value of Vaccination.

Zurich, according to The Lancet, is be-
ginning to suffer from the effects or
neglect of vaccination. Until 1888
compulsory vaccination law was in force,
but in that year it was repealed; the sue
cess of the ADMINISTRATIONS depending,
it is said, upon the fact that not a single
case of smallpox occurred IN 1882. But
in 1888. in every 1000 deaths, two were
caused by smallpox; in 1884 there were
three in every 1000; in 1885, seventeen,
and in the first quarter of 1885 there
were eighty five deaths.
While Europe is exhibiting folly by
showing in some localities opposition to
vaccination, Japan is deriving benefits
from the recognition of its value. Naga-
saki possesses a governor, named Kusaka,
who is bent upon Kidding the town Of the
diseases which formerly infested it. By
means of system of compulsory vaccin-
alton, vigorously enforced by the gov
ernor, smallpox, long a familiar scourge
in the old town, has been practically
stamped out. Germany, too, is showing
the effects of revaccination, and hitherto
the freedom of German towns from small
pox has contrasted in a marked degree
with a larger prevalence Of this disease
in other European towns where revaccin-
alton is not enforced Probably the out
come of the experience of the present
generation will be the enforcement OF
revacclnation in the majority of civilized
countries.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Nestled in small cotton lined box
in the home of Alexander Henning,
on Thompson avenue, Long Island
City, yesterday, lay very small ba
by. When born it weighed but fifteen
ounces, and this weight was increas-
ed in a month to pound and half.
Mrs. Henning is a tall, muscular
woman, and the mother of fourteen
children. When the baby in question
was born its mouth was so small that
1t was almost unable to partake of
nourishment, and a small tube,
not any larger than straw, WAS
used to furnish it. Even this was on
ly with difficulty inserted between
its lips. The child was in every
way fully developed. Itslimbs were
no larger than the little finger of a
lady's hand, while the nails of the
fingers were hardly perceptible.-
Ne7D York Times,
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( From the Harper's Ferry Sentinel

From the Ha1per's Ferry Sentinel
On the oath instant, A. Spencer e.
Co., real estate agents at this place,
sold 76 acres of the McSherry farm to
Messrs. Becker Bros, of Baltimore, at
S13 per acre. The purchasers purpose
planting $4,000 more peach, ounce
and apricot trees next spring, making
total of about $1,000. Add to this
number 10000 trees on the Roach
farm and Capt. Greer's place, and it
appears very respectable start in the
direction of future large cannery.
At Thomaston, Conn, Nov. 14th,
1888, of typhoid fever, Mr.. William
n. French, son of William and Mary
French, formerly of Harper's Ferry,
aged % years. The deceased was a
young man of excellent character and
the sympathy of many is extended to
the grief stricken parents mourning
the loss of their first born.
At his residence, near Harper's Fer
ry, on the 23d inst, Mr.. John Alstadt,
aged so years.
The funeral services were conduct
ed at his late residence, on Sunday
last by the Rev. Egleston, of the NJ.
f. Church, South, and the remains
were inferred in the family burying
ground. A large number of neigh
bors and friends followed the remains
to its last resting place, and his pastor
truly said: GA good man in Israel
has fallen" FIe leaves a widow and
two daughters, Mrs. Moler and Mrs.
Henkle, and one son, Mr.. Thomas
Alstadt; also numerous grand-chil-
dren.
At her late residence in Loudoun
county, Virginia, Nov. 26, 1888, Mrs.
Elizabeth Everhart, aged Sd years.
HILL-TRUssELL.- Married on We'd
nesday evening, Thanksgiving eve,
Nov. Is, 1888, in the Presby terian
Church, Harper's Ferry, w. Va, by
Rev. II, G. V. Campbell, Mr.. George
G.. Hill, of Shepherdstown, to Miss
Fannie ID. Trussell, of Harper's Fer
ry. The bride is a general favorite in
the community in which she has liv-
ed. She is not only distinguished for
beauty of form and face, but is united
with her husband in those rare quail
ties of mind and heart, which make
them one in Christ's kingdom. A large
audience assembled to witness the
ceremony. The bride and groom
entered the church preceded by the
ushers, Messrs. w. o. Rau, w. l..
Erwin, George w. Trail and Eugene
Shugart, and passed up the aisle to
the enhancing strains of a beautiful
wedding march, which was admirably
executed by the talented young must
clan, Miss Grace Cochrane. The bride
looked lovely in her dress of amber
green plush, with hat to match; and
as gallant as heart could wish, appear.
ed the groom in neatly fitting conven.
tional black. After the ceremony the
invited guests repaired to the home OF
the BRIDES parents, where an elegant
reception was held. After partakine
of a most delicious supper, the fare Of
which will not be forgotten soon BY
those who enjoyed it, the bridal party
departed by private conveyance fol
their future home in Shepherdstown
amidst heartily expressed good wish
es, and q shower of old shoes from
the boys and girls they left behind
them. May the shadows of life ever
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MAYTlME IN MlDWINTER.

The world, what is it to you, dear,
And me, If its face be gray,
And the new born year be q shrewd year
For flowers that the fierce winds fray?
You smile, and the sky seems blue, dear,
You laugh, and the month turns May.
Your hands through the booksheives fiutter;
Scott. Shakespeare, Dickens are caught;
Blake's visions, that tighten and mutter;
Moiere--and his smile has naught
Left on it of sorrow, to utter
The secret things of his thought.
No grim thing, written or craven,
But grows, if you gaze on it, bright;
A lark's note rings from the raven,
And tragedy's robe turns white,
And shipwrecks drift into haven,
And darkness laughs, and is light.
Grief seems but vision Of madness;
LIES keynote peais from above
With naught In it more Of sadness
Than broods on the heart of dove;
NJ sight OF you, thought grows gladness,
And life, through love of you, love.
-Swiuburne.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Five Years before the Mast, Hazen.
French History, Memorable Scene
in, Schumacher.
French History, Stories from Scott.
Frontier Life, Tales of the South.
western Border, Francis Hartman.
Z G9the's Poems.
Goldsmith's Poems.
Gorilla Hunters, r. NJ. Ballintsne.
Gulliver's Travels and Baron Nun.
chausen, Swift Il Raspe.
Guy Mannering, Scott.
HalfHours with Great Authors.
Half Hours with Great Humorists.
Half-Hours with Great Novelists.
HalEHours with Great Story Tellers.
Half Hours with the Poets.
Handbook of information.
Harry Pinkerton, the Detective.
Heman's Poems, Mrs.
Holy War, The, John Bunyan.
Hours with the Bible, Geikie.
Household Poems.
Hypatia, Kingsley.
Hyperion, Longfellow.
Iliad, Homer.
Imitation of Christ, Attempts.
Ingelows's Poems.
Iyanhoe, Scott.
Jane Eyre, Bronte.
John Halifax, Gentleman, Mulock.
joyful Tidings, Jones and Small.
Ladies' Etiquette.
Lady of the Lake, Scott.
Last days of Pompeii, Bulwer.
Life of Henry Ward Beecher.
Life of Daniel Boone.
Life of Kit Carson.
Life Of Henry Clay, Epes Sargent
and Horace Greedy.
Life of Franklin.
Life of Garfield.
Life of Chinese Gordon.
Life of VIM. III. Harrison, Montgom-
cry.
Life of Patrick Henry, VIM. Writ.
Life Of Andrew Jackson, John S.
Jenkins.
Life of Napoleon, n. A. Arnualt.
Life of Webster, BARNARD.
Mooreis Poems.
Sketch Book, Irving.
Tennyson's Poems.
ThomSon'S Poems.
Tour of the World in Eighty Days,
Verne.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea, Verne.
Whittier'S Poems.
Willy Kelley, Carlton.
Young Folks Book of Birds.
Young Folks Natural History.
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Not "A Child at All.

She was wee bit of girl, with a
sweet. earnest pair Of eyes, and-a very
black kitten. Questioned as to the name
of her pet, she answered simply: ''Wose-
bud' Asked further if she was not "a
dear little child" she drew herself up
with display of small hauteur that was
quite enchanting, and said, severely:
Use not child at all. Use person, o
dirl person. n-Pittsburg Bulletin.
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THE HOLLOW.

The hollow In the old oak tree,
Where happy children play,
Where woodbines climb and cling amid
The roses clustering spray
The hollow in the old oak tree.
Where happy lovers meet.
To iinger long and whisper low
Upon its NOISY seat.
This hollow In the old oak tree,
Where old men feebly come
To tell their tales and crack their Jokes
Or ere they totter homo.
The hollow In the old oak tree
One haunts It when the moon
Cleans on the dewy wood walks, close
Beside the streamlet,s tune,
Upon the roughened bark to spend
Hot kisseA passionate tears;
To murmur TO the old oak tree
Lfe's griefs for loves Lost years.
All the Year Round
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

1t is alleged that Secretary Bayard
is filling all the vacant consuiates
with Democrats, anticipating that
the incoming administration will not
remove them to make room for Re-
publicans, lest there should be a
charge of violating the civil service
law. The device will not avail much,
however, for the new appointees
will be invited to return home short
~ after the 4th of March next
E1NitN.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Mrs. Julia Bayless, Of Charleston. Ind,
possesses wooden wine tray that was
once owned by Hartman Blennerhassett,
who was connected with the Aaron Burr
conspiracy at the beginning OF the CEN
fury. The light colored wood is stained
with wine that was spilled, as Mrs. Bay
less imagines, during the secret conclaves
of the conspirators. York Evening
World
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Adam Bede, George Eliot.
Adventures of an Attorney.
Adventures of an old Maid, Greene.
Adventures of a Policeman.
Fsop's Fables. Over 100 Illustra-
tions.
Airy Fairy Lillian. "The Dutches."
Album Verses for Autograph AL.
buns.
All in Garden Fair, Besant-Riee.
American History, Stories from.
Arabian Nights Entertainments.
At the North Pole, Jules Verne.
Battle for Bread, The, Talmage.
Battles for the Republic, Harrison.
Bleak House, Chas. Dickens.
Book of Martyrs, Fox.
Boys Own Book of Indoor Sports.
Boys Own Book of Outdoor Sports.
Browning's Poems, Mrs. E. B.
Bryant's Poems.
Buffalo Bill, Ned Buntline.
Burns Poems.
called Back and Dark Days, Con-
way.
Celebrated Female Sovereigns, Mrs.
Jameson.
Champion Books of REGULATIONS and
Readings, Hawthorne.
Children's Bible Stories, Mrs. Giles
pie Smyth.
Christmas Book, Dickens.
Christmas Stories, Dickens-Collins.
Christmas Tales.
Complete Letter Writer, landlord.
Cooks Voyage around the World.
Dangerous Marriage, A, Fothergill.
Dante's Poems.
David Copperfield, Dickens.
DeersIayer, Cooper.
Don QuiXOte, Cervantes,
Elliot's, George, PONIES.
Ethics of the Dust, Ruskin.
Evenings at Home.
Famous Boys, and how they be-
came Great Men.
Famous Men, Page.
Famous Poems.
Favorite Poems
Fern Leaves, Fanny Fern.
Fifteen Decisive Battles, Greasy.
Natural History, Button.
One Thousand Popular Quotations.
'Ostler Joe and other REGULATIONS.
Peoples Cook Book, The, Taylor.
Peoples Etiquette Book, The.
Pilgrims Progress, Bunyan.
Poe's Poems.
Pope's Poems.
Robinson Crusoe, De Foe.
Scott's Poems.
Shakespeare's Works.
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came he cIutched my hand with firmer
grip, looked into my eyes with a last
effort and family whispered:
s.It is war, horrible war! Let us be
friends, God bless Mary and the chill
drenr' = ssEx-Rebel" in Detroit Free
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WHAT TO GIVE FOR 4
CHRISTMAS GIFT

This question many will ask themselves
his her and position life,
thing and within more suitable for
pupils than popular auhoa
educating refining influencing acceptable friend or yor
AM children than
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Royal marriages are evidently infec-
tious. When the royal marriage took
place recently at Turin over 100 couples
wished 70 be united at the same hour,
and thu, force Of officials at the munici-
patty Lad to be increased. -.7Sew YER
Press.
millionaire Rlood's Cold.
fiooa' estate Is valued by good judges
at $l5.000.000. At tile height Of the
bonanza excitement, when shares on the
leading mines brought 5000 and paid $50
a month dividend. Floods wealth was
rated at $40, 900, 900. but then came the
great shrinkage in Comstock values.
which cut down the fortune Of all the
mining millionaires fully one-half, and
Flood losses by the Nevada bank wheat
deal were fully $1,000. 900. The prop
erty wfll probably be equally divided be-
tween the wife, son and daughter. The
latter was always Hoods fayorite, and
at one time she possessed in her own
right $4,000, 900 in real estate and gov
eminent bonds. She gave much Of this
TO help her father out Of his embarrass.
Inent a year ago, but still owns about
$2,000,000. Young Flood - slsrswd.
but has no stability, and the old MAJ,
never trusted him in any large deals
San Francisco Alta.
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100
visitor had departed.
~ took great dislike to Mr.. Mitchell;
in manner and appearance he was most
repugnant to me. But thought very
little about him one way or another
why should l interest myself in man
older than my fatherR-until, q week
later, Uncle Thomas informed me that
Mr.. Mitchell wished to marry ma"
''Preposterous, exclaimed Owen.
~ don't often laugh in the presence of
Uncle Thomas, but when he told me this
I laughed heartily. This made my uncle
very angry Why should / make game
of the offer Of a man of whom / might
be proud? /, who would be in the work
house If it were not for the charity OF my
relations!''
1.-THE brutei''
''If was so silly as not to know on
which side my bread was buttered-it
was often difficult to tell-he would turn
me out of doors, and that would perhaps
bring me to my senses But why need
tell you the particulars of this and many
another most painful scene2 l was silent
and undecided for while, and at last
found courage to tell Mr.. Mitchell that I
could not marry him.
..He listened with disagreeable
smile, and replied: Ny young lady will.
not find refusal SO easy as she thinks.
lowing to rusty conduct on the part
of your amiable uncle interpolated
Owen.
al believed this was his meaning, un-
til the next day. Then my aunt in
formed me calmly that / was already
married to Mr.. Mitchell"
SIS that good lady subject to such fits
of mental aberrationa''
s1stared at her in amazement, when she
proceeded to explain to me that, according
to Scotch law, II man In the presence Of