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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18

mail communication between the
ports of other countries and, our
own, and the adoption of large and
swift American merchant steam
ships to naval uses, in time of war,
are public purposes of the highest
concern. The enlarged participa.
ton OF our people in the carrying
trade, the new and increased mar
kets that will be opened for the
products of our farms and factories
and the fuller aud better employ
ment OF our mechanics, which will
result from a liberal promotion of
our foreign commerce, insure the
widest possible diffusion of benefit
to all the states and to all our pei :
pie. Everything is most propitious
for the present Inauguration of a
liberal and progressive policy upon
this subject, and we should enter
upon it with promptness and decis-
| ion.
The legislation which have sug.
gested, it is sincerely believed, will
promote the peace and honor of our
country and the prosperity and Sc.
curity OF the people. l invoke the
diligent and serious attention Of
Congress to the consideration OF
these and such other measures as
may be presented, having the same
great end in view.
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Executive Mansion, Washington
d. c., Dec. 3, 1889.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
Painful Roils.

About three years ago 1 was trou-
bleb with poison in my blood, very
irritating and painful bOils break.
ing out all over my body. For two
years l suffered with them, trying
all sorts of remedies, and doctors
prescriptions without avail. Becom-
ing disguised with doctors, and
medicines 1 had used up to this
time ! concluded to try s. S. S. and
the result was far beyond my expec.
tatiOns. A few bottles left me in
better health than had been since
childhood. l consider s. s. S. the
only medicine that will thorough
ly purify poisoned blood.
7. X. MAYFIELD, Horse Cove, Ky
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
Good Bye Mules.

The day for the horse and mule
powe. for street cars, has about
passed. Almost in every city the
sickening sight of mule and horse
whipping is nearly over, and in its
stead the steam cable, or electricity
have usurped the place of poor
jaded and worn out horses and
mules. The editor while absent
the p;. ssel n,vnth, tested the differ
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18

ent methods and taking all in all,
he prefers the cable car. He re-
CARDS it the best and safest. Mary
vile needs a street car line and IL
should by all means be cable car.
The power could come from David
Jones' engine or Joseph Hanna or
from some new built work at the
end of the line.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
Moon Beams.

She What do you suppose sup
ports the vast arch of the heavens :?
He-The mOonbeams, l guess
Lowell Citizen.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
A Valuable To,

/ have used Swift's 81,
81 with good results. ;
it is valuable; as a blood
is reliable. Rev. j. H.
VII
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
Keep it as a Family Medicine,

Mr.. ]. j. Bradley, writes from
Harrison, Ga, under date of Sep
TENDER %, 1889. Swift's Specific
Is. s. s. has been freely used by
my family with the best an hap.
piest results. A half doz ~ tiles
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18

RASoo NouAVos "A nan wv
entirely relieved my Sit
we're case of scrofula. !
frequently found her b.
and her health improve
1 also had a scrofulou
that has been entirely C,
ing a few bottles of Sws
Is. s. s.
Treatise on Blood am
eases mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., a
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18

Please pas w ior the
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18


The report of the Postmaster Gen.
eral not only exhibits the operations
of the department for the last fiscal
year, but contains many valuable
suggestions for the Improvement
and extension Of the service, which
are commended tn your attention.
No other branch Of the Government
has so close a contact with the dali
" life of the people. Almost every
one uses The service it offers, and
every hour gained in the transmits
sion of the great commercial mails
has an actual and possible value
that only those engaged in trade
can understand.
The saving Of one day in the
transmission Of the mails between
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
A Practical Joke.

Most squirrels keep two or more stores
of food. Wood, the British naturalist,
tells of friend who found one of these
reserve stores which squirrel had pro-
vided for an exigency, and the friend, in a
moment of thoughtlessness, determined to
play joke on the squirrel. He accord
ingly replaced the nuts by small round
stones, and carefully concealed all evil
dences of his visit. One cold day in win
ter. he passed the spot, and found that the
squirrel had called there short time pre-
viouslY. This he knew by the. fact that
ten inches Of snow had been scratched
from the top of the hole, outside of which
the stones had been cast by the disap
pointed animal. This struck the Joker
with remorse. He said : 81 never felt
the folly Of practical joking SO much in my
life. Fancy the poor little fellow, nipped
with cold and scanty food, but foreseeing
a long winter, resolved to economic his
little hoard as long as possible. Fancy
him at last determined to break this-per-
haps his last-magazine, and cheerily
brushing away the snow, fully confident
that good meal awaited him as the re-
ward of his cold job, and after all, finding
nothing but stones. | never felt more
mean and ashamed in my life, and really
would have given guinea to have known
that injured squirrels address. He should
have had as fnea lot of nuts as would
have put him beyond the reach Of poverty
had he lived to be as old as Methuselah,"
-Globe- Democrat. #fts
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
Interesting Statistics.

A German statistician says: There are
at present 1904 languages spoken by the
inhabitants of our globe, whose religious
convictions are divided between 1000 diff
ferent confessions of faith. The number
of males is nearly equal to that of the
females. The average duration of life is
SO years. One-fourth of the population of
the earth dies before attaining the 18th
year. Of 1000 persons only one reaches
the age of 100 years, and not more than six
that of So years. The entire population
of the globe is upward of 1900, 900, 900,
of whom 81, 214 900 die every year sc, 4SO
every day; 1920 every hour; 67 every
minute, and and fraction every second.
On the other hand, the births amount to
36, 1902, 900 every year; 100, 800 every day !;
1900 every hour; 10 every minute / and
fraction every second. Married people
live longer than the unmarried, the tenn
perate and industrious longer than the
gluttons and idle, and civilized nations
longer than the uncivilized. Tall persons
enjoy greater longevity than small ones.
Women have more favorable chance of
life before reaching their 50th year than
man, but a less favorable one after that
perion, The proportion of married per-
sons to single ones is as 10 to 1000. Per-
sons born in spring have q more robust
constitution than those born at other sea-
sons. Births and deaths occur more fire.
quently at night than in the daytime. 1t,
may finally be added that only one-fourtR
of the male inhabitants of the globe grow
up to carry arms or perform military ser
vice
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04

Feast, '"The Host, '"rhe Provisions" and
ssThe Behaviour of the Guests remark
ing in reference to the latter that he was
reminded of an anecdote of George Fox,
who once sat silent two hours with great
congregation all around him. If it had
been he (Mr. Spurgeon), like fool he
should most likely have popped up and had
something to say but it took wise man
to know when to hold his tongue, and
Fox's real reason was that he wanted to
create hunger for words on the part of
those who were waiting so patiently.
There were far too many words spoken,
said Mr.. Spurgeon and there were always
plenty of silly people going about who
were destitute of religion themselves, but
could ask foolish religious questions of
one kind or another-''Whom did Cain
marry Z" and the like.
The sermon lasted exactly fifty minutes
in delivery, and Mr.. Surgeons marvel
lousy flexible voice became clearer and
stronger as he proceeded, until he seemed
to fill every part of the building without
the least apparent effort. The Benedicton
being pronounced, the congregation rapidly
melted away and we left the Tabernacle
in commemorative mood, specializing
wherein lay the secret of Mr.. Sturgeon s
success There are profounder theologians
in the London pulpit, more brilliant orators
and much more capable critics; yet with a
certain class of hearers Mr.. Spurgeon
,"holds the field" as no one else can. His
success is curious problem altogether !;
but of it's reality there can be no doubt
St. James Budget. ~.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
She's Only Seven.
A REMARKABLE LITTLE GIRL WHO DOES A
MANS WORK IN DAKOTA.

A REMARKABLE LITTLE GIRL WHO DOES A
MANS WORK IN DAKOTA.
Nearly every paper have read lately
has an article about the brave little girl of
Lake county, OAK, who plowed forty
acres of ground 1t was grand thing for
a girl only 10 years of age to do, but I
think the following will discount it: c..
M. Hutchinson had charge of my farm in
Deuel. county, OAK, in 1887. and his
daughter Maud, only 7 years old at the
time, drove team and did her share of
the work in stacking over 500 acres of hay
and grain. We ran from three to five
teams every day, and she would drive a
load to the stack, change teams, drive
back to the field and change teams, driving
different team every time. Some Of the
teams were not very gentle, but she man.
aged them as well as am. .of the men. at
one time, while hauling hay, the load
slipped off, throwing her under it. She
crawled out, overlook the team, caught
the lines that were dragging on the ground,
turned the team around, drove back to the
hay on the ground, unhitched the team,
took one of the horses and rode back to the
field, got telp to come and load the hay,
and drove to the barn as though nothing
had happened. If you can fnd girl of
seven years old that has displayed more
sand and good horse sense than she did on
this occasion | will throw up the sponge
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
Successful Farmers.
TO BE ONE OF THEM REQUIRES INTBLLI-
GENCE, HONESTY AND ENTERPRISE.

TO BE ONE OF THEM REQUIRES INTBLLI-
GENCE, HONESTY AND ENTERPRISE.
The farmer, to be successful in life,
must cultivate his mind as we'll as his
land. He must remember that he is de-
pendent upon others as others are upon
him. He must bring contentment, patience
and home love into his work. The far
mer must remember that he is citizen
and the citizen should be public spirited.
A man is sometimes said to have reached
the top round of the ladder of life, but if
he has reached the top round by pulling
others down, who, like himself, were
climbing round by round, then his efforts
may not be called success. So If the
farmer has grown rich in lands and money
by making others poorer, we do not class
him with the successful farmer.
Success in life means intelligence, broth
er1y love, public spirit, honesty, generos-
ity, and desire to do right, not for mere
policy, but from the heart. -
A farmer may have wealth, fine cattle
and barns, and yet there is no sunshine in
the home. An outsider will look on such
man and say, he is prosperous farmer,
he is making money look at his stock and
his farm. Yes, but while his fields are
fertile his home is a desert; his whole
mind is intent on increasing his wealth,
and no thought is ever given to the COM
fort of his family, any further than to make
them the means of enlarging his bank &C
count. He may desire to extend the
boundary of his farm, then his whole en-
ergy is turned to that, and then every
family comfort must be given up until
that is accomplished. I would ask how
many farmers ever think that their wives
and children are on an equal with them,
that the wife should be more than mere
household drudge, and that her comforts
are matter of secondary consideration in
the matter of getting rich and making him
what the world would call successful
farmer. Go into the home of one of these
men and you will find the most cherries
places that was ever dignifed by the name
of home. -.,s ..
Success in getting rich should not be all
that we should attain to in life. knew q,
farmer that was prosperous in this worlds
goods, and yet it is said of him that his
word was as good as his note, and still his
whole life was not bent on money getting,
70. his home was model of elegance and
reinemeut.-D. Fl. Morris, in Western
Pioaona0n.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
HOW to Feed Calves.
TEACH THEM TO EAT EARLY AND SUPPLY A
VARIETY OE GOOn room

VARIETY OF GOOD FOOD.
| have often had calf that it was &C
tually impossible to make drink until it
had gone some twenty-four hours or more
without food If calf will not suck your
fingers or attempt to swallow, you can do
nothing but wait. The last ten calves |
have raised | have left with the COWS for
three days, and have not had a particle
of trouble to teach them to drink. Usually
they put their noses in the pail and drink
the first time the milk is offered them, and
| have concluded that all my former trou-
BILE was occasioned by taking the calves
from the mother before they had been
ply sicked sufficiently by the ''coldstrum, -
and developed healthy appetite. | think
there is more loss, if not more cruelty
from the treatment calves get after they
are taught to drink than from starving
them to teach them to drink.
large per cent of the calves raised by
hand are long haired pot bellied and un-
thrifty, from irregular feeding, giving the
food in varying quantities, now too much
and then too little; sometimes warm and
again cold; sometimes rich and again mere
Cruel, and neglecting to furnish coarse
food early enough. A winter calf will
begin to eat hay regularly at four weeks
old, and will grow ana thrive much better
for having it. 1t should have bran or
ground oats regularly after it is month
old, beginning with a tablespoonful and
increasing gradually until il eats quart
at feed, which it can safely do at three
months old, if all changes in diet are made
gradually.
1t is sudden changes in diet and over
feeding that produces scours, and unless
checked at once, scours will very soon ruin
the calf. You can detect this trouble by
the smell as soon as you enter the stable.
The stall should at once be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected, and the calf put
on half rations of new milk for day or
two. l have never known this to fail of
cure. If you teach the calf to eat early,
and furnish it a variety of wholesome food,
its milk may be reduced to one gallon
day at three months old, and the calf kept
thrifty and growing Cor. Michigan Home
Journal
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
Temper.

Keep absolute calm of temper under all
chances, receiving everything that is pro.
voking or disagreeable to you as coming
directly from Christ's hand and the more
it is like to provoke you, thank him for it
the more, as young soldier would his
general for trusting him with hard place
to hold on the rampant. And remember it
does not in the least matter what happens
to you-whether a clumsy SCHOOL, fellow
tears your dress or shrewd one laughs at
you, or the governess doesn't understand
you. The one thing needful is that 4 line
of these things should vex you. 4
Say to yourself each morning, Just after
your prayers, "Whoso forsaketh not all
that he hath cannot be my disciple" This
is exactly and completely true, meaning
that you are to give all you have to Christ
to take care of for you. Then, if he doesn't
take care of it, of course, you know it
wasn't worth anything. And if he takes
anything from you. you know you are bet
ter without it. You will not, indeed, at
youI1age, have to give up houses or lands
or boats or nets, but you may, perhaps,
break your favorite teacup or lose your
favorite thimble, and might be vexed
about it but for this second St. Georges
precept.- RuskSn IN Letter to Young
Girls.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
BITS OF HUMOR.

Why are soldiers never crazy? Because
they are ration al beings.
We suppose bad plumbing was the cansa
OF the sink of iniquity Rochester Post!
Egpress.
The autocrat of the breakfast table
The ~ ear-old child.-Ptttsburg Chronicle,
Telegraph. " '''''
Both the barber and the farmer make
less money when the crops are short
Burlington Free Press.
Over in Italy they poke vesuvius up a
little whenever the tourist crop is trihe
short.-Neao York Herald.
Crumbs of comfort are not the ones
which mean joker scatters in his room
mates bed.-OA City Blizzard.
If Ignorance is bliss, the modern servant
girl Is responsible for lots of domestic bliss.
Rochester Post Erpress.
There is one religious pew in this city
always courteous to strangers, and that's
Depew.-Neao York World.
Be kind to the little ones. You can't
develop children as you do corns--with a
boot.-Blnghampt0n Republican.
A man fit for the chief place in the De-
partment of Agriculture is politician
gone to seed.-N. 0. Picayune
There have been no entirely successful
machines invented yet for setting type or
setting hens.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The man who is believed in everything
he says is far luckier than the man who
always tells the truth.-Merchont Iraueler.
The curve pitcher is not always a So
ciety man, but he can generally give
fancy ball. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
A mule in Mt Vernon recently immor-
talized itself by kicking the cheek off a
sewing machine drummer-NeU York
Herald.
The tailor uses measure of safety
when he makes the young man of the
period pay his bill in sdvance.-Boston
Gazette.
Genial Customer lin cheap restaurant
els the mutton broth good to- day % High
toned WATERFRONT know, sab. don't
eat heah, sah."
The detective avho tried to arrest pho
nograph for uttering counterfeit notes !.
rather exceeded his authority. - Ierre
Haute Eapress.
The self-closing door. spring is an awful
aggravation to the man who is going out
of your Office mad and wants to slam the
Journal
Woman of the house Ito tramp)-"Well,
now you said you would do some saving
after you got through eating" Tramp
"Yes'm, will. Fetch on your violin, -
Burlington Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
The Clergyman and the 1n6del.

Some years ago well-known American
clergyman delivered series of discourses
against atheism in town, some OF the in
habitants of which were known to be in
fdels. A few days afterwards he took
passage in a steamer ascending the Missis-
sippi, and found on board several of the
people of the town, among whom was q
noted infdel So soon as this man dis
covered the clergyman, he commenced his
blasphemies, and when he perceived him
reading at one of the tables, he proposed
to his companions to go with him to the
other side of the table, and listen to some
stories he had to tell about religion and
religious men, which he said would annoy
the old preacher.
gathered around him to hear his vulgar
stories and anecdotes, all of which pointed
against the Bible and it's ministers. The
preacher did not raise his eyes from the
book which he was reading, nor appear to
be in the least troubled by the presence of
the rabble. At length the infdel walked
up to him, and, rudely slapping him on
the shoulder, said:
''Old fellow, what do you think of these
things?"
The clergyman calmly pointed to the
land, and said:
"Do you see that beautiful landscape
spread out before your ?"
eyes,"
"Well, if you were to send out dove,
it would pass over that scene, and see in it
all that was beautiful and lovely but if
yQpnwere to send out buzzard over pre-
if;fse1y the same seine, it would see in it
nothing to fix it's attention, unless it could
find some rotten carcass that would be
loathsome to all other animals. 1t would
alight and gloat upon that with exquisite
pleasure"
The infdel walked off in confusion, and
went by the name of 'the buzzard, during
the remainder of the passage.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-05-04
A Bow Who Became Famous.

1t was bright, warm day in the early
| summer of 17S1, and London was full to
| overlooking, when boy about eleven
years old, with long, dark hair hanging
| down his neck, and a strange, dreamy,
| far-off kind of look in his large gray eyes,
came slowly along one of the busiest and
| most crowded streets of the great city,
so wrapped up in his own thoughts that
he hardly felt the jolts and bumps which
he encountered in pressing his way
| through the hurrying throng around him.
He must have been thinking of battle
| or a hard struggle of some kind, for
every now and then he darted out both of
his arms in front of him, to the no small
danger of the eyes and ribs of the passers
by Suddenly he was brought to stand
still, and no wonder for in fiourishing his
hands about he had thrust one of them
right into the coat pocket of tall man
who wasjust going past him.
''What SO young and so wicked 80
cried the man, turning around and Selling
him. s'You little rascal do you want to
pick my pocket in broad day light?'
Ono, don't want to pick your pocket, }"
said the boy, staring about him IS if
awakened from dream. 81 thought L
was swimming"
Swimming !'' echoed the man, with
broad laugh. "Well. I've heard crowd
called sea of people, but I've never heard
of any body swimming in it before. You're
either telling me lie, or else you must be
crazy.
"I'm not, indeed protested the boy.
81 was thinking of that man WHO swan
across the espont-Leander you know
and it seemed to me as if | was swim
ming across it, too"
''Oho!" cried the stranger CHATS it,
is it, You seem fond of reading, my
friend? %
cpd read all day long if I could,' an
swered the boy, earnestly ; "but I've only
got few books, and I've read 'em all
again and again"
"Well, I'll tell you what belong to
library, and if you like, I'll give you
ticket of admission to it for six months,
and then ous can read as much as you
please. Here's my address, and you can
come for the ticket as soon as you like"
And the stranger, chuckling over this
queer adventure, went brisk1y on, little
thinking that he would live to see that
boy honored by all England as one of her
greatest poets, and would tell with pride
to all his friends how.he had once done a,
kindness to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-l
Rdrper'S Young People.