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, 1889-08-23
For Bachelors Only.
Select the girl.

Select the girl.
Agree with the girls father in poll
tics and the mother in religion.
If you have a rival keep an eye on
him; if he is a widower keep two eyes
on him.
Don't put much sweet stuff on pa
per. If you do you will hear it read
in after years, when your wife has
some especial purpose in ~inflicting
upon you the severest punishment
known to a married man.
Go home n reasonable hour in the
evening. Don't wait till the girl has
to throw her whole soul into a yawn
that she can't cover with both hands.
A little thing like that might cause a
GOODNESS at the very beginning of the
game.
If, on the occasion of your first call,
the girl upon whom you have placed
your young affections looks like an
iceberg and acts like II cold wave, take
your leave early and stay away. Wo-
man in her hour of freeze is uncertain,
coy, and hard to please.
In cold weather finish saying good
night in the house. Don't stretch It all
the wa" to the front gate, and thus lay
the foundation for future asthma,
bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic ca
tarrh TO help you TO worry the girl to
death after she has married.
Don't lie about your financial con
dition. 1t is very annoying to a bride
who has pictured a life of ease in her
ancestral halls TO learn too late that
you expect her to ask a bald headed
parent who has been uniformly kind
to her TO take you in out of the cold.
If you sit down on some molasses
candy that little Willie has left on the
chair, while wearing your new sum
mer trousers for the first time, smile
sweetly and remark that you don't
mind sitting down on molasses candy
at all, and that 'boys will be boys"
Reserve your true feelings for future
reference. Exchange.
, 1889-08-23

1t is a great mistake to attribute
want of mental culture to the Ameri-
can farmer. He must know more or
less of most of the practical sciences
in order to take care of his animals,
his crops. his machines, to forecast the
weather for his seeding and his har-
vesting and the prospect of demand for
his marketing. He not only reads
the papers, but he has undisturbed
time to ponder on what seems import
cred conclusions. Only his tongue is
not SO fluent or fippant, his thoughts
not so nimble, his principles not SO
adaptable, his hands and dress not SO
free from dust and rents, and his en-
during fiber not so supple as among
the sedentary, room imprisoned, over
sheltered denizens of the town.-W.
q. w. in Rural New Yorker.
, 1889-08-23
A Queer Mine of Valuable Wood.

Forty miles above New Orleans is
the old bed of the Bonnet Care Gre
vase. Fifteen years ago the Father
of Waters burst his bonds and swept
through there to Lake Pontchartrain.
Five years ago the state of Louisiana,
with the assistance of the Mississippi
Valley railroad, rebuilt the Bonnet
Care levee, but it could not restore
altogether the conditions prevailing
antecedent to the The river
in the ten years it passed through the
swamp piled up its sands against the
big cypress forests there. 1t has left
behind a buried forest. The piled up
sand has deadened nearly all the trees,
and a single mill is now at work
there manufacturing them into shin
giles with all the rapidity with which
that machine works. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
, 1889-08-23

The habit in country parts of stretch
ing ones self out on the ground for the
purpose of taking n nap is common
enough in the summer time; but from
a case that is reported from a village
in the Dordogne, in France, a nap on
the grass is not unattended with dan
ger. A farmer residing near the vii
lage, tired with the heat of the day and
with his work, recently laid himself
down TO rest beneath the shade of an
oak tree in a meadow. He was sud
denly aroused from his repose by a
sharp twinge of pain in m of his ears,
the pain increasing to such an extent
that before the poor fellow reached
his home lie was half beside himself.
For several days he suffered the
greatest agony, which neither doctors
nor the remedies they prescribed could
allay, and the patient was brought to
such a pass that he made up his mind
that he must die. 1t CHANGED, how
ever, that a neighbor had the felici-
tous idea, as the sequel proved, of
pouring a little %turpentine into his ear,
the immediate effect of which was 10
make the patient fall back insensible
on his pillow. On recovering con-
seriousness he remarked that he expert
enced a strange feeling of relief, the
cause of which was soon explained by
the exit from his ear of an enormous
worm which had taken up its quarters
there during the farmers sleep.-Lon-
don Standard.
, 1889-08-23

A wild bull broke loose from an in
closure at the corner of Mission and
Thirty-first streets. The Infatuated ami
NAL rushed toward Mission street, and
near wenty-eighth encountered Ricar-
do Perrin, whom he tossed from his
horns as if the unfortunate man were
q feather. Perrin in his fall had two
ribs broken.
The bull proceeded a little further,
and attacked Pusette Antonio, whom
he hurled into the air, Pusetti fell
heavily on his face and had his nose
badly bruised. He spit blood for some
time, but was able TO walk home. The
wild beast then attacked n woman,
whose name The Examiner reporter
could not learn, and lodged his horns
viciously in her hustle, lifting the
frightened young lady from the
ground. Owing to the weight of her
body the hustle gave way, and its own.
err fell, more scared than hurt.
The animal, with the feminine flag
floating from his horns, continued in
his mad career, but was finally las.
soed.-San Francisco Examiner.
, 1889-08-23

About ten days ago l again visited
the Indian graves near Romney, w.
Va. 1t seems that ashes played an i'm
p~ortant part in the burial ceremony,
as l found from half a peck to five
bushels of ashes in each grave. The
method of burial, so far as l can Judge
from careful examination, was as fol-
lows: They dug or scooped out a hole
from 1 to 8 feet deep by 2 feet wide and
3 feet long in the hard, stiff clay, which
underlies a covering of 2 feet of soft
sandy loan. These holes were filed
with ashes and cinders, among
which were parts of the skulls and
horns of deer and bones of other ami
mails, though they showed no signs of
being burned or charred. On top of
these ashes the body was placed and
then covered with the sandy loan.
At the bottom of n of these
graves we found a pot made of clay,
about % inches in diameter by 10
inches deep, the sides of which were
of elaborate ornamentation, the prin-
cipal being a carved face about every
six inches around the top. In the pot
was the upper shell of a turtle, the
jaw bone OF a squirrel, and several
clam shells-evidences of food placed
in the grave for use in the journey to
the happy hunting grounds"
The pottery consisted of three kinds
yellow, brown and black. The first
had but little ornamentation; the Sec
ond was ornamented to some extent,
but the last was the Royal Worcester
of Indian art production, and was,
without doubt, placed in the graves
of those only who were greatly dis
tinguished.
Among the articles found was a
knife made of copper roughly beaten
out. The blade was 8 inches long by
II inches broad, and its dull, sandstone
sharpened edge must have required
strong muscular exertion on the part
of the operator to remove the scalp of
his dead enemy.
The graves are scattered owe a
space of about ten acres, and are on
what is called the Island Farm, which
consists of about ninety acres. The
owner thinks the entire island was a
burying ground Star.
, 1889-08-23
TENDERNESS OF MR.. coRuss.
The Great Engineer Delayed a Building
to Allow the Birds n Chance

The Great Engineer Delayed a Building
to Allow the Birds n Chance.
Mr.. Corliss, the great engineer, not
very long before his death had occa-
sion to build an addition to his manu-
factory-a big IL" for additional ma
chinery. To prepare the foundation
for this L, it was necessary TO remove
q ledge of rock by blasting. The men
to do the work on the addition had
been employed and put on the pay
roll; the materials had been pur-
chased and brought to the building,
and the work Of blasting had begin.
The next morning Mr.. Corliss passed
by the place where work was proceed
ing, when the foreman in charge,
knowing his interest in pretty things,
called him.
See here, Mr.. Corliss," said he,
there is birds nest that we've found,
and that's got to 60"
He showed the manufacturer a
robin sitting upon a nest that had
been built fast and snug in the Gre
vice of the rock, among some bushes
that grew there. The bird flew off her
nest as the men came near, and show
ed five blue eggs that looked as if they
had just been laid.
Can we move that nest somewhere
elsel" asked the tender hearted Mr..
Corliss.
I'm afraid not, sir. We'd tear it
TO pieces getting it out, and it isn't at
all likely that you could get the bird
To go sitting again anywhere else.
We've got to go on, SO we may as
well rip it out and throw the eggs
away"
no" said Mr.. Corliss. I'VE won't
disturb her. Let her bring her brood
out right there"
But well have TO stop work on the
buildingi"
Let us stop il, then"
And SO orders were given that oper-
atoms on the addition should be sus-
pended. They were suspended, and
the hands stood still, drawing their
pay for doing nothing, or next to
nothing, while the robin sat on her
nest with an air of great consequence
and jealous attention TO business, and
her food brought by her mate, and at
last Matched her brood. And her
there were three weeks more to go by,
at the least, before the young ones
could fly. Corliss visited the nest
frequently, not with any uneasiness
or Impotence to have the robin and
the young ones out of the way, but
with a genuine interest in their
growth. The old birds had all the
time they wanted; and when at last
they had sternly helped the clumsy,
reluctant youngsters over the edge of
the nest, orders were given to resume
the building operations. Boston
Transcript.
, 1889-08-23

The deaf man has just discovered
that riding in n rumbling a robs his
af1iction OF its terrors, and is getting
even with his back biting acquaint-
ances who have expressed their opin-
ions Of him heretofore without re-
serve. An eccentric millionaire, who
had no hearing under ordinary cir
cumstances, found this out the other
day at the expense of his lawyer, and
the latter now our the loss of his
most profitable client, while the deaf
man thinks he has learned n thing or
two.
The lawyer was sitting in a caItalk-
ing TO a friend when his wealthy
client entered and dropped into the IA
cant seat beside his legal adviser.
This old curmudgeon will talk me
deaf, dumb and blind, said the Black
stonian TO his companion, and they
both scowled at M~oneybags, who vas
looking out of the car window. He
has spent lots Of money with me, but
it's worth n mint TO yell in his ear.
I'm tired Of it. He is as deaf as a
post"
Then the deaf man turned around.
you can send me your bill in the
morning." said he, and I'm done
with you"
Lawyer and companion looked at
each other amazed. The lawyer set
about to find how his client recovered
his hearing so quickly.
1T is duo TO the counteraction of the
noisy motion Of the drum of the ear"
said the aurist TO whom he applied for
information. The rumble of the
heavy wheel on the track causes the
drum TO vibrate, and the afflicted one
can hear quite plainly. Some people
think that they voluntarily raise their
voices in a car. That is not so. AL
ways speak in n low voice TO a deaf
person in a moving a or vehicle. ~
Philndelnhin Record.
, 1889-08-23

Every one knows that the stork is
almost superstitiously beloved by the
peasants of northern Germany and
the low countries, and that iron sup
ports upon which he may build his
nest are set on cottage gables in the
belief that whore a stork has his brood
fire will never come. Nevertheless,
travellers ire often surprised when
they see how tame the great birds be-
come, following the agriculturist
through field and furrow, and often
sleeping on the tall red leg close to
where he is at work and within sound
of the rumble of the passing railroad
train. So fond is the Dutchman of
having storks about him, indeed, that
he makes provision for its nests even
in the center of his bulb fields. Here
one may often see slender poles some
twenty or thirty feet in length, sup
ported by braces, and bearing at the
top a small round platform similarly
strengthened. On these the storks
build their nests, and here they perch,
like sentinels, protecting the beauti-
full crops.-Chicago Times.
, 1889-08-23
FORTY YEARS.

Married. how long sgoi Count the years by ths
slim. old wedding ring.
Once thick and heavy. How fast they fy. the
winters that melt In spring,
And youth goes with them; 50 love, sweetheart
Is the only lasting thingi
We two. ali, what did we know of love, when
roses Of June were rely
When you wept sweet tears at a song, or sobbed
for some thoughtless word / said,
And blushed II l only pressed your hand or a Eiss
on your fair brown bead
Our hearts were light rs bright bubbles blown
Like children In fairy land
We wandered down where the daisies grew. to
that wonderful golden strand,
Where all the dreams OF the heart come true, and
lovers walk hand In hand
Since then, since then, oh, the long, long road We
have wandered through calm and storm.
when leaves blew by us and snowfAkes whirled-
and we watched the swallows form
In winged clouds sweeping down the sky to
lands where the sun was warm
There was always brightness for you and me.
and over the tears we wept
For life's sore losses and hurting palm, a rainbow
OF hope still crept,
And deep in your sweet tear clouded eyes my
sunshine forever slePtl
Look Mt me, dear, with your true, kind eyes beam
ing under your soft, white hair;
They nre far more beautiful now, sweetheart
than when morning and youth were fair;
And far more lovely your pale, worn cheeks than
when bushes were burning there,
! talk like a loyerf or course do What else
should l talk like, prayt
For a man Is never a lover true to the girl OF his
heart, / say,
TIN he's lived as her husband forty years and
seen her grow old and gray. Judge
, 1889-08-23
eNocH. CYRUS, JERRY AND BEN.

Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
We're babies together. four fat little men,
-Four bald headed babies, who bumped themselves
blue,
And sprawled. grabbed and tumbIed. as all babies
do;
Fun OF laughter and tears fun OF sorrow and gIee,
And big, bouncing b~unglers, as all babies be.
All in the Same valley lived these little men.
EnochAnd Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Were fast little chums-till they grew 10 be men
Eight bare little feet on the same errands Dew
Through meadows besprinkled with daisies and
dew;
They were aimless as butterflies, thoughtIess and
free
As the summer mad bobollnk, drunken with giee
A wonderful time were those careless days then
For Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Grew from babies to boys, and from toys into
Too restless TO stay In the clrcumscribed bound
OF the green hills that circled their valley around.
To the north and the south and the east and the
west
Each departed alone on a separate quest;
All they'll ne'er be the same to each other again.
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben.
Though companions in youth. were strangers as
men;
Enoch grew rich and naughty and proud,
While Cyrus worked on with the toll driven
crowd;
In the councils of state Jerry held a proud place,
But poor Ben, he sounded the depths OF disgrace.
Ahl diverse were the lives Of these boys from the
glen,
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben
Enoch and Cyrus and Jerry and Ben,
Who can read the strong fates that encompassed
these menu
The fate that raised one to the summit Of fame,
The fate that dragged one to tho darkness Of
shnmei
Ahi silence Is best; neither glory nor blame
VIII / grant to the honored or dishonored mama.
We are all like these boys who grew to be men.
Like Enoch, or Cyrus. or Jerry. or Ben.
s. W Foas
, 1889-08-23
The Fiddler. Of Cumberland Island.

A Cumberland correspondent thus
describes the iddlers of that island:
After fishing my attention was at
tracted by an army of liddlers in the
sand. oh, such funny little folks arc
the fiddlersl They are a ~peaceable set,
too, and in all the droves and droves
that | saw marching about on the sand
by the inlet | saw only two who were
disorderly. They fought n little, but
not for long, and the defeated fellow
crawled into his hole, and the army
moved on. A fiddler looks like n very
small crab. Some are blue, others red
and brown, and there are black and
gray. Some have no claws and others
have a great white claw like a crab,
which they seem to keep time with.
They are the drum majors. A fiddler
never turns to run. They run back
ward, to the front and sideways with
out moving their bodies. They have
little holes all over the sand that reach
to-well, l don't know, for | got n
stick and dug and dug until / was
tired, and l never did find the bottom.
They have n curious little way of
making a noise like smacking the lips,
and it sounds sometimes as though a
lot of folks were kissing.-Savanah
News.
, 1889-08-23

The nature of electricity still re-
mains a puzzle to men of science
as well as to the unlearned. We
know it is one form of molecular mo-
ton and that it passes along a rod or
wire in much the same manner that
heats conveyed along the same con-
ductor. In other words, electricity is
one form of energy and makes itself
visible at work whenever or wherever
is exists. Whenever electricity passes
over a good conductor some form of
work is performed, no matter how or
in what shape it may be disguised.
If simply passed through o wire the
work becomes visible as hcat.-New
York Telegram.
, 1889-08-23

A western poet has cause to com
plain that his line, THE rhetoric de-
funct of fairy lore" appeared in print
as THE rhetoric defunct of prairie
love" The atmosphere of Illinois af-
fected the c~ompositors, who were more
familiar with prairies than fairies.
One of the oldest typographical err
ors ever made in Boston was in a book
published by the firm of Crocker s.
Brewster, which has been brought TO
public attention by the death Of Mr..
Brewster. 1t was in one of the SER
mons of DR.. Nathaniel Emmons, the
great orthodox divine. Tho doctor
quoted the scripture text, "Cut him
down. Why cumbereth he the
ground7" Tho intelligent compositor
put it in type, "Cut him down, like a
cucumber, to the ground Boston
Herald.
, 1889-08-23

According to an ancient supersti-
ton, the beech is never struck by
lightning; and so general has been
this belief, that a gentleman recently
thought it worth while to write to an
English journal that he had been told
of a lightning shattered beech in Ire
Beliefs of this sort aIe rarely
without some degree of justification
in fact, and it would be interesting to
know whether in this country the
beech has been observed TO possess
any greater immunity from electrical
dangers than trees of other Sorts
Garden and Forest.
, 1889-08-23

A boiler may be inspected today and
pressure of 100, and be weakened to-
night by low water so as to be danger
Gus tomorrow with fifty pounds
pressure. Yet it may explode a
month hence with sixty pounds pres
sure and plenty of water, but the
it had exploded when the water was
low. There is but one SURF remedy,
and it is a simple one. Put on Il real
safeguard, something simple, which
has been tried, and proven to be
trustworthy. Age of Steel.
, 1889-08-23
Queries and Assertions.

Very often the bluntest man makes
the sharpest points.
Can the maker of flags be classed as
a standard author7
Bananas, like wedding guests. are
always ready to throw the slipper af-
ter the pairing comes off.
One would naturally suppose that
an engine has to be hot before it can
raise steam, but the fact is it has TO be
coaled-
Love may want all oil nothing, but
its attachment is not SO exacting as a
sheriif's; besides the latter will take
what it can get. Baltimore Ameri-
can
, 1889-08-23

Young Wife Ito tramp at kitchen
door)-Now, my poor man, here's a
nice little turnover for you which
I've just taken out of the oven.
Tramp (suspiciously)-Been married
long1
Y. w. (blushing)-Two weeks, but
"Cookin' school, amt it7" he falter-
ed, down at the gate.
Yes"
Exit tramp down the road, whis-
tljttg Tho Girl | Left Behind Ne. "
nniiull Nrnc Press
, 1889-08-23
Vagaar&cs.
sFwCIALIsT1.

We offer noapology for deyoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class OF
diseases, believing that no condition OF human
lily is too wretched To merit the sympathy and
best services OF the profession to which we be-
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
to relieving the affiicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less q
philanthrophist and a beneiactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician by close APP
plication excels IN any Other b anch Of his pro
fession. And, fortunately fol humanity the day
is dawning when the false philanthrophy that
condemned the victims OF folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law. to die uncared
for, has passed away
YOUNG IcN
Who may besuffering from theeffects of youth
ful follies or indiscretions, will do well to avail
at the alter of suffering humanity. DR. MAG
NER will guaranteed forfeit five hundred, Sol
vate disease of any kind or character which he
Undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AG ED MEN.
There are many men OF the age of 30 TO 90 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smartlng or burning sensation and a weaken
ing of the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de
postts a ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will an
pear, or the color win be of akin or miikjsh
hue, again changing TO n dark and turbid ap-
pearance. There are many men who die of
TINS d1fhculty ignorant OF the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
Wagner Will guarantee n cure in all such
cases and n healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Generalization free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Trlbune-RepuhlL
can.
All communication should be nddressed
DIR. WAGNER & GO
l4ii Larimere street. Address, Box 27S2 Den.
yer. Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1889-08-23

1T is not necessary to go to Jamai-
ca or Hayti to find believers in VOC
doc" said a physician to a Pittsburg
Dispatch reporter. when / was a
younger man l had considerable prac-
tice among colored people in Philadel-
phia, and l constantly had trouble
with my patients. They would declare
they were bewitched and refused 10
take the medicine prescribed for them,
but go off to some conjurer who, for a
consideration, would pretend to take
the spell away. And this would hap
pen among respectable people who
sen their children TO school and were
themselves more than ordinarily in
telligent."
The estn+o Of liz Late Simon Gnm.
, 1889-08-23

The art of etching was introduced
about the middle of the Fifteenth CEN
fury by Thomas Finiguerra, a Floren-
tine. Its value met with prompt recog-
milton in France, Italy and Germany, but
it was reserved for later times to carry
it to a state of perfection.
, 1889-08-23
Have you heard what Mr.. G. l.; Weast,

Have you heard what Mr.. G. L. Weasr.
of Cambridge City. Ind, says OF Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy2 If not, here it is: During last
summer [ was troubled very much with
severe pains in the stomach and bowels,
and was induced by a friend to try this
remedy. | took one dose, as per direc-
tions. and it gave me almost instant re-
lief" 25 and so cent bottles for sale by
B. B. David, Druggist.
Job Printing at the Leaaer office.
, 1889-08-23
nack.cnA ArnIra saIye.

The best salvc in TIE world ter cuts
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cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
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money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by DR.. w. n. Hunt.