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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10
Here, side by side, sit
Blue and gray,
Because tits Greatest Party's
Decoration Day.

speak the words of truth and-soberness. No
other party dared to be so great as to ordain
scene like this.
What circle we have here! Sweep the COM
passes of thought Thoughts circumference. Pro-
hibition first of ALL the fixed point whence we
calculate all Others the blue and gray, the work.
ing men, the women; at the centreof this circle is
the home, that goes without the saying; and be-
yond Its shining curve is the saloon out-matched.
out-witted and out-voted, which, in republic. is
best of all. For the fiat of the greatest party has
gone forth, and we are here simply to set our seals
to it; no saloon in politics or law no sectonalsm
in law politics no in citizenship; but liberty.
equality, fraternity in politics and law, now and
forevermore.
This is our platform in nutshell, and if is
platform of four ideas at least.
When, in all history, were such matcbless issues
espoused by such magnanimous men?
There are two other parties; big but not great
multltudlnous, not masterful. Their tissue is adj
lpose, not muscular; the issues of the one are
made literally ''out of whole CLOTH" of a-wool
tarl1f and warranted to wash in one more cam
pagn, ana the ensanguined shirt warranted never
TO be washed at all. Those of the other are snoils
and Bourbonism. They will soon rallv their re-
specVVe clans to their stereotyped, old-fasbioned
conventions in Chicago and st. Louis, prepared TO
hght, bleed and die for their country and ifs off.
GERS once more. Not woman will be in the dele.
cations On, nc! They might displace some man.
MoC WORD about the home any more than if like
lopsey' "they 'spected they wasn't made at all.
but growed."
PROBABLY women would not attend these con-
VenCions' even were their presence sought They
certainly could not hold their own at tbe bar
wnle IN the greatest party they are only REQUIRED
70 noio Their own party at the bar of public
opinion. p''"'
Meanwhile, as if to set before these brethren .
loftlel example, the greatest party welcomes here
'ne nome folks to equal opportunities and honors,
ana rallies here remedy of the noble veterans
VINO nave learned that it is ''good to forgive best
70 forget atteSting by his splendid and fraternal
opJecG lesSon that our party spells "natlon" with
!ne LATEST KIND of capital ''N'-one that indeed
lncluaes 1.-THE people of these United States"-
anu tnat the blue and the gray are to us emblems
y mourning less than the blue sky that bends its
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10

IT is now more than fifty years since woman
began to enter the various avenues of employment
that had been accorded only to man, and we find
that in very many of these departments she has
filled difficult positions quite as well, and in not
few instances better than her brother To Miss
Alice B. Sanger, however, belongs the honor of
being the first woman ever employed as clerk in the
White House. The young lady is of pleasing APP
pearance and is said to be one of the most expert
iypewriters and stenographers in the country.
She is a relative of Gen. N. p Banks and Elias
Howe, the original inventor of the sewing machine.
The Trained Nurse, an excellent journal deal
ing in the object suggested by its title, speaks of
new employment entered into by woman, who
originated the idea and realized handsomely there
from, She announced herself in readiness to pre-
pare all sorts of nutritious dishes and decaces
for the SICK and issued cards to all physicians and
hotels and boarding houses to that effect. Physi-
clans know well how to appreciate nourishing
dishes for their patients, broth free from grease and
tempting in appearance, and the sick in hotels and
lodgings find it the greatest luxury. Oftentmes
lady of wealth leaves an order or sends by mail,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10

that certain nutritious dishes may be sent daily to
a suffering man, woman or child This is home
ly avenue Of employment, but much needed one,
and one sure to make its presence felt.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10
The Greatest Party.

The following is the Decoration Day Speech of
Francis 3. Willard, at the National Convention of
the Prohibition Party on May 80, 1883:
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

could not avoid noticing on my
introduction to her these strange
contrasts, and became SO interested
in indeavoring to solve in my own
mind the problem other age that I
fear I-stared more than should have
done. At any, rate, Miss Byngs I'M
doubtedly then and there contracted
nm aversion for me which not all my
subsequent deferential attentions
were sufficient to overcome.
Celestine, however, returned my af-
lection. This she confessed to me
about two weeks subsequent to our
first meeting, with tears in her eyes
and bushes on her cheek.
She was partaking of caramels at
the time, and her remark that she
s'loved them above all things in the
world" opened to me an o%pportuni-
,ty of introducing the subject nearest
my heart.
Perhaps I was to precipitate; for
the suddenness of it and her agita-
ton were such that she very nearly
choked with the last caramel, but on
recovering confessed with faltering
breath that she loved me far above
caramels; and, finally that her affec-
ton for me had been, like mine for
her, a case OF love at first sight.
Thenceforth we might have been
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
A DEAR Little SCHEMER.

There was a little daughter once, whose feet
were-oh, SO small!
That when the Christmas Eve came round.
they wouldn't do at all,
At least she said they wouldn't do, and 40
she tried a~nother's,
And folding her wee stocking up, she slyly
took her mothers.
TIL pin this big one here" she said-then
sat before the fire,
watching the SUI pie, dancing flames and
shadows darting by her,
I'LL silently she drifted of to that queer land,
you know,
Ut Nowhere in particular" where sleepy
children 60.
She never knew the tumult rare that came
up on the roof
She never heard the patter of q single rein
deer hoof;
She never knew how Some One came and
looked his shrewd surprise
At the wee foot and the stocking-so differ
emit in size!
She only knew, when morning dawned, that
she was safei in bed.
Its Chrlstmasl Ho!" and merrily she raised
her pretty head:
Then, wild with glee, she saw what dear old
Santa Claus had done,
She ran to tell the joyful hews to each and
every one:
Mamma! Papa! Please come and look!
A lovely doll and ALP
And "See how full the stocking is!
Mine would have been to small,
l borrowed this for Santa Claus.
1t ISM fair, you know,
To make him wait forever for a little girl to
grow"
Mary Mapes Dodge.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
When beaten was the greedy one,\
He said, with humble air,
II think you re right; when all 10 done,
The slice Of cake we IL share"

co, where 1 secured a situation as
assistant stoker on an Australian
bound steamer.
1t was just n year after my de-
parture from home that I landed in
New York, and thence in a few hours
made my way to my former place of
residence.
AS I walked slowly up the familiar
streets, thinking of Celestine, and
wondering, with a pang, if she were
yet married, some one darted out of
a shop and addressed me excitedly.
1t was. a youth whose countenance
was to me unfamiliar.
excuse me SIR" said he, "but are
you not-ahem!-the gentleman who
bought 1880 fan from uslast Christ
mas eve?"
I GLANCED up and saw that / was
opposite the establishment of Lilly,
White & Co.
II do remember making such q
purchase. I am Mr.. Claude DAWN
ant, to whom the fan was sent from
your store"
"Thank you sir. There was some
mistake about it and we have been
unable to find you since. Please be
good enough to step in and see Mr..
Lilly, sir. This is Mr.. Lilly"
And in a few excited words he wild
~ explained to the senior partner.
eyes, sir" said Mr.. Lilly, blandly;
II do recall your face, though we were
sc unfortunate as to forget your
name and address after the delivery
of the parcel. You see, your card by
some mistake got into the wrong
parcel, which was sent to your ad-
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
The Snow Flower.

Count Anthoskof's curious discov
cry of the snow flower is likely to in
terest foriculturists for some timeto
come, as, from the accounts given of
it, it appears to be not only a re-
markable but a singularly beautiful
plant. 1t was discovered on the per-
petually frozen ground of Siberia,
but Count Anthoskotf has succeeded
in raising plants from seed placed in
a pot ofsnow at St. Petersburg. The
bloom lasts only for a single day, and
comes once in two years. A French
contemporary thus describesit The
leaves are three in number, and each
about three inches in diameter. They
are developed only on that side
ot the stem toward the north, and
each seems covered with microscopic
crystals of snow. The flower wheni it
opens is star shaped, it's petals are o
the same length as the leaves, and
about halt aninchin width.-London
Globe.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

part in it, and so resolved to at once
and forever crush our Vaccinations
and our hopes. More than probably
she had induced her niece to promise
to have nothing more to do with me.
In this suspicion I was confirmed
by receiving no answers to two notes
which I addressed to Celestine. Then
l took to haunting the neighborhood
and watched the house, in hope of
seeing my false love come out alone;
but this was put to a stop by a po-
liceman, who arrested me as q sus-
picious character and probable bur-
glar, as | always suspected at the in
stigation of Miss Byngs herself, who
must have observed him lowering
about the park shrubbery.
At length, utterly dispirited and
disheartened, and feeling that I had
indeed lost Celestine forever, I joined
a party of friends who were starting
West to make their fortunes.
After knocking around for some
months, and finding myself reduced
to either cutting timber or starva-
ton, I made my wav to San Francis
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Cold Weather Canes.

The new canes which are occasion
ally seedin the hands of men up town
combine agood many valuable points
under the usual and neatlooking ex-
terror. The cane generally has a
silver handle OF the ordinary right
angle shape, with a small watch set
in one corner; the lower end of the
handle is arrangeds so that it will hold
a dollar in tive-cent pieces, a spring
pushing the coins up so that one
may be drawn out at the top by a
gloved thumb or finger. The other
end of the handle has a spring top
and is fitted to carry matches. Thus
equipped, a good many u~nnecessaries
of life are avoided, particularly in she
winter, when unbuttoning two OF
three coats to get at a watch, a
match box, orapocket bookinvolves
everything, including chills and pro.
fanity.-New York Sun.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
To argue then they did commence,
While downward few q crow,
And settled near them on a fence,
To watch how things would go.

which aunt could be propitiated by
any person to whom she had taken
a dislike" said Celestine, mournfully.
"And that, dear, you are not able to
afford"
"But tell me what it is, my lover"
And then she told me, with a little
touch of high-minded scorn for her
aunt's weakness, that that lady was
very fond of receiving handsome
presents, and always treated the
donor of such with great favor, even
if she had previously disliked him.
In fact, she had wanted her-Celestine
to marry old Maj. Shanks for no
other reason than that he was al
ways making herself handsome pre-
sents.
Upon this suggestion I decided to
act. Christmas was near at hand,
an occasion most suitable for carry
ing my plans into effect. I said
nothing to Celestine, but commenced
by saving up all the money I could
spare for the purpose even to doing
without a new hat and going temper
arily into debt to my washerwoman;
and with the cash thus accumulated I
repaired on Christmas eve to the fash
ionable establishment of Lilly, White
& Co. Here I invested in an elegant
fan, inclosed in an ivory box and per-
fumed with altar of roses, for which
I paid $40.
placed my card inside, ordered
the parcel to be sent to my lodgings,
and on it's arrival had it conveyed
Just as it was to Miss J. C. Byngs,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
"A Book Agents Great Scheme

"A Book agents Great Scheme.
Said q book agent recently: II was
q book fend ten years Dr. more before
the idea dawned ON me, and now I
make more in q week than I ever did
before in a month. / take out reli-
gious books only, and never onethat
costs less than $5 or IS. On striking
q town ] get from the directory list
of the p~astors-not; for the purpose
Of working them, for I never go nigh
them. Then I write down the ad-
dresses of the trustees, in case the
directory happens to give them; but
If it does not / make o round of the
janitors to get from them the names
81 therichest men in the congregation.
spend time enough in this prelimin-
airy labor to get q route comprehen-
sively laid out. Next, I tell to n
and another the same story-that
his minister is dying for the book,
but can't afford to buy it. The wives
and the daughters Of the church pill
liars are easier to capture than the
brethren. It's the biggest thing in
book canvassing, and the beauty of
1t is that the trick seldom gets ex-
posed. When the pastor gets the
books he's tickled, and I'm tickled,
and the donor is tickled, and it's ali.
right
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Progress Of kentucky Civilf1a-
ton,

The Northern newspaper should
make q note of the developement of
civilizationin Kentucky. At the city
hall yesterday afternoon Mr.. Bickel OF
the First Ward said to Mr.. Chickering
Of the Fourth Ward: you're add
liar!" Did Mr.. Chickering pull out a
bnrbaric revolver and proceed to
puncture the bosom of Mr.. Bickel with
lead or did he, under the impulse ola
false sense of honor and yielding to
the coercion of an intangible but mex
orable public opinion, extract from
his bootleg his trusty bowie and i'm
merse it in the ample vitals of Mr..
Bickel? No; he did a far Drawer, nobler
thing than that. He merely said:
Twill bet 800 or 5 that you cannot
show an instance where I violated
my OATH" Mr.. Bickel did not like
the odds and there was no wager,
but not a drop of blood was she'd
Louisville Commercial.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Her Face was Her Fortune,

She was as pretty as a picture and &C
animated and lively that it did one good to
look OF her. She was oil this but she is not
now. Poo soul, the rosesI linger no more in
her cheeks, the former luster OF her eyes are
gone. She is a woebegone looking piece OF
humanity now. She has one of those troub-
les so common to women and needs DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1t recuper.
ates the wasted strength, puts the whole sys-
tenn right, restores the rores and the luster
and makes the woman what she once was,
bright. we'll and happy. "Favorite Prescrip-
ton" is the only medicine for women, sold by
druggists, under q positive guarantee, from
the manufacturers, that it will give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money will be refunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the bot
tle-wrapper, and faithfully carried out for
many years.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
blissfully happy but for Miss Rvno,s

blissfully happy but for Miss Byngs.
"She doesn't like you, Claude"
Celestine confided as she hid her tear
full eyes upon my shoulder. Pm
sure that there's nothing she can
bring against you, except that you
are poor. But somehow she doesn't
like you, and she says if l ever marry
you she will leave every cent of her
fortune to the Home for Destitute
Orphans, and then, dear, what could
we do?"
In vain / assured her that I was
willing to work my fingers to the
bone. 1 spoke of a cottage and
roses and bird cages, but she very
sensibly remarked that we couldn't
live on roses, and chat birds like
ourselves would require to be fed.
IL wish I could do something to
propititate Miss Byngs," I said sad
ly. "For instance, if her horses were
to run away, and 1 were to stop
them and save her life; or if her pug,
dog should fall into the basin at the
park and I were to plunge in and
save it at a risk of my own life-do
you think she would like me any bet
ter, darling?"
II don'&now of but one thing bv
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

to lobster salad and several ices
l knew that my fate was sealed, and
that henceforth life would be to me
not worth living unless 1 could
claim her for my own.
But alas! fate was against me in
the person of an aunt, with whom
my charmer lived, and whose heiress
she expected to become. This was
Miss Byngs senior, a wealthy lady of
an age SO uncertain that no two per-
sons could agree concerning it.
She had wrinkles, and yet the whit
est of complications, with a blush OF
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

Alright, a blonde false front, q rubber
brush for cleansing and polishing
false teeth, some complexion enamel,
French rouge, and"
"Great Jerusalem!" I involuntari-
ly exclaimed, sinking on a co I'm ter
stool; "and that parcel went with
my card toto Miss Byngsl"
II see it all now!"
Mr.. Lilly offered profuse apologies,
and suggested that I should take
either the fan, which had been kept
intact for me, or the 500 which I
had paid for it. I told him that l
would see him later, and at once
rushed off to the Office of my friend,
Harry Dillon, whom I found very
glad to see me, and to whom / related
the whole story.
Fancy me sending such a present
to Miss Byngs!" I exclaimed wiping
the cold moisture from my brow.
"The wonder is that she did not have
Inc a~ssassinated outright. And as
for Celestine, why, she must have set
me down as a fool, l say, Harry, the
only hope now is an explanation to
Miss Byngs herself. Shall I write to
her at once and explain the matter?"
my dear fellow, a letter would
scarcely reach her. She has been dead
these six months"
Dead! And Celestine?"
els her h~eiress, and is still living in
the same house on Sharon Terrace,
with an oldlady companion who was
her governess.'
That evening when l sent up my
card to Celestine l breathlessly
awaited her appearance.
How would she receive me? My
heart beat almost to s%uffocation dis !
heard her light step on the stair.
The door opened. We each looked
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Soon words were followed by a blow;
They quite forgot the cake;
While from the fence the .watchful crow
Did observations take.

No. 13 Sharon Terrace. From the
retirement of the park shrubbery op-
posite the house I satisfied myself
that it was honestly delivered, and
then went home, picturing to myself
the surprise and delight Of Celestine
when she saw the parcel opened and
my card lying within.
For two days l waited, hoping that
Miss Byngs would either send a note
or in some other way acknowledge
my present. But nothing of the kind
occurred, and on the third day, I'M
able to bear a longer separation from
my darling, I proceeded to make a
call at the house.
To my surprised was stifly inform
ed by the servant that both ladies
desire to be excused. Then waited
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
A Woman Who Was Badly
b. TREATED

A position which women occasion
ally assume in the van OF the process
sion of life is rather .aggravating at
times. In a small shop on Upper
Broadway the only two clerks in the
place were busily engaged waiting
upon customers, n of whom was
making a large number of purchases
and required a good deal of .atten-
ton. There were two men waiting
their turn to be served, when a wom-
an swept into the shop and after
waiting 10 fraction of a minute, asked
IN al icy tone: .
Am l to get any service here?"
"Yes, madam" said one of the
clerks, quickly. "Just as soon as I
get through with this customer Twill
wait upon YOU"
The woman waited a moment tap
ped her finger on the showcase, and
said something about the annoyance
OF having to wait. The two men who
had been waiting for some time,
looked at her alphabetically and
yet with a trace ofenvy. It was evil
dent that she was to be served ahead
of them. Presently she raped on
the counter again and said shortly:
Il wish somebody would attend to
me here"
"What do you want?" asked one
of the clerks, rapidly tying up a bum
die, making some entries in a cash
book, and pulling a lot of parcels to-
gether upon the counter.
II want q two-cent stamp" replied
the woman, land I certainly shall
not wait any longer for it"
She kept her word, and, as the
clerks were still busy attending to
the customers, she gave a few shifts
of disgust, made a few remarks
about the discourtesy of the service,
and walked haughtily out of the
store-NeW York Sun. tx
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

A new book OF attractive reading, brimful
of good things worth knowing and illustrat-
ed, is just issued. 1t contains a large col
lection of valuable autographs, excellent re-
ceipts for plain dishes, humor in rhyme and
prose, monthly calendars, n can be had OF
two-.enJ stamp to the publishers. An i'm
portant feature OF the work is it's offer oil
Free Music, which offer is set forth therein
and by procuring the book, at once, any one
can be supplied with a choice selection. The
little volume is the st. Jacobs Oil Calendar
for 18S9-9O, published by The Charles A.
the equal Of any Of its predecessors in the in.
terest of the Great Remedy for Pain, st.
Jacobs Oil, whose virtues never abate, and
whose popularity never wanes. The demand
for both book and medicine is very great.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Two Opinions About Ancient
Bones,

. Clark Brown exhumed at Fish's
point. on the Upper cystic road, the
other day, what are believed by some
persons to be relics of the first Ameri-
can man, antedating, possibly, the
age of mound building. There were
parts of a human skeleton that
crumbled at the touch, two rough
copper vessels, mostly corroded, q
smoothly rounded pestle and two
peculiarly shaped glass bottles with
crooked necks, Skeptics, however,
profess to think that the things be-
long too prehistoric apothecary that
was swallowed up in an earthquake.
Mr.. Brown may submit them to the
inspection of an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ington Telegram.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

Next time I met her, she would not
see me at oil; but Celestine-who was
with her, and on whom Argus-like,
she kept her gaze-fushed deeply and
looked down, pretending to fasten,
her glove.
What vas I to think of it all?
Only that Miss Byngs had devided
my intention in sending the fan, and
probably also discovered Celestine's
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28

dress, while that containing the fan
went to a lady customer of ours She
returned it next day, and then wait
ed to hear from you, having, as I re-
marked, forgotten your address,"
81 never discovered that there was
anything wrong about the parcel I
received" returned I. II sent it inn
mediately unopened to the lady for
whom it was purchased ais a Christ
mas present"
"And your card inside! Dear me,
how very untortunatel" :.
"What did the parcel contain7"
/ demanded.
well, sir, there were, if remember
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
Suggested to divide.

youthful bloom.on her cheeks. Her
lips were drawn, but the teeth which
peeped through them yer pearly
white, and nothing could be more
golden and luxurient than the tresses
which crowned her head and descend
ed in little curls so low on her FORE
head that only her finely penciled
eyebrows were visible. Her bust and
figure were those ola we'll proportion
ed woman in the prime of life, while
her hands and neck which could not
be entirely concealed, lacked a cor
responding plumpness.