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The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
To Raise Church Dehts.

"Some Of these fine churches of your
city that are struggling under loads Of
Indebtedness, incurred in periods of ex-
traordinary fervor and hopefulness," !"
said a Philadelphia visiting New York,
"might be relieved more quickly, per-
haps, than they otherwise will if their
trustees would learn lesson from one
of our boards. 1t struggled on for a
great number Of years, paying interest
on big mortgage, but never succeeding
in making any appreciable reduction of
the principal. Meanwhile the neighbor-
hood, which had once been fashionable,
deteriorated steadily, and most of the
rich members of the congregation moved
away. 1t began to look as if the interest
even could not be met, when a wide
awake. woman suggested that the parish
go into business for itself and make
enough money to pay its own debts. A
lodging house-cheap, but clean, really
clean-was opened, and the innovation
was startling alike to church members
and dodgers. It was well patronized
from the start and proved paying in
vestment. Enlargement soon became
necessary, and the debt on the church
began to disappear, slowly it is true,
but steadily, and the prospect of its total
erasure seems certain. New York Trib-
uLe,
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In his response to the toast, "Our In
vited Guests" at the banquet given the
Georgia doctors, DR.. ]. S. Todd got off
this one ON DIR. J. McF. CASTOR, of At
lanta. Now that the banquet is over,
DR.. Todd declares his joke true one
The story as told runs this way:
"The first morning he was here DR..
Castor was walking along the wharves.
He admired the vessels and the different
flags very much, and was enthusiastic in
talking of them. In the afternoon DR..
CASTOR induced me to go down with him
and look at the bay. l gladly accepted
the invitation. We had not gone far,
though, before DIR. Gaston's looks and
manners changed completely. He look
ed uneasy and as if he would run for
life. Noticed that, and asked him what
in the world was tho matter. Matter
replied DR.. CASTOR, there's plenty the
matter. Why, my conscience, man, if
that water continues to rise like it has
for the last six hours every mothers son
of us will be drowned before morning.
turned away in laughter, while truck
hand who had overheard DR.. CASTOR
tried to explain that the tide had come
in since he was there in the morning.
Brunswick (Ga.) Times.
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Edmunds and His Big Income.

1 saw George F. Edmunds shaking the
few locks of his bald head and spouting
out an argument ut tho rate of $40 a
word in the supreme court. He is said
to make 5000 a year at the law, and
don't doubtit. William NJ. Eyarts makes
five time rs much as Chief Justice Fuller
out of his law practice, and Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, has scores of gilt
edged cases from the northwest before
tho supreme court. He charges for all
of them, and does not act like Alexander
H. Stephens, who used to try the cases
of his constituents for nothing. Both
Clay and Webster got good fees for all
they did, and a United States senator
once told me that Webster used to take
fees for making speeches on one side or
the other of the bills which came before
the senate. He made lots of money but
saved none, and was In debt all the time
he was in Washington.
The fees at that time were nothing in
comparison with this, and Ben Butler
and George F. Edmunds make tens Of
thousands where tho statesmen of the
past made one. Hamilton made s1O, 900
a year on IN average, it is said, and Will
lam Writ thought he was doing we'll
when his yearly fees amounted to Sc, 900.
Alexander Stephens got single fees of
SEQ, 900, and it is said that Aaron Burr
made 100000 out of " single case. Roscoe
Conkling received cash retainer Of
$4,000 for advocating the interests Of
the Apollinaris Water company before
Secretary Folger, and Benjamin H. Bris-
tow received $4,000 for short speech on
the bill organizing the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing some years ago.
Frank q. Carpenter in Philadelphia Press.
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The Phonograph in History

Tho phonogaph people have property
which grows more valuable with the
lapse of every year. Many cylinders are
slowed away with marvelously interest
ing records upon their waxen surfaces.
The Gladstone cylinder is exhibited only
on rare occasions and to distinguished
guests. 1t is already an extremely valu-
able record, and at Gladstone's death it
will probably be worth g, 900. A cylin-
der containing few sentences by old
Gen. Won Moltke, now 90 years of age,
can also be heard. The squalling of a
baby can be taken by the cylinder, and
when its producer has reached mans es-
tate he can listen to his own infantile
voice if he has any curiosity that way.
Funny stories by Eli Perkins, songs by
we'll known singers and short passages
from well known plays, spoken by emf
nent actors, are all on storage in phono-
graph cylinders. These lose nothing in
clearness and volume from the lapse Of
years, but, of course, may be worn out
from use. 1t is believed that record
taken today and carefully preserved can
be reproduced $50 years hence.-New
York Sun.
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A Word About Globe rrott,ur

For my partI protest against all this
struggling and globe trotting. If there
was any limit or end or any legitimate
purpose to it, it might be tolerated. But
there is not. It is simply return to
vagrancy and nomadism. The same
people who are doing all this struggling
this year will be at it again next year, or
the year after at the outside. Once the
habit isformed they never stay at home,
except for SO long as suffices for neces-
sary measures of financial retrievement.
Ofcourse there is some use in travel.
tits instructive to have seen the world
and know what is in it. It gives the
means of making comparisons, imparts
culture and opens the eyes generally.
But these contemporary tramps of ours
have long since passed tho stage of learn
ing anything. Their notion Of travel is
rest and repairs, and to have fun-good
things in their way, but by this genera
ton inordinately pursued. say they are
a frivolous lot-our tramps; that they try
to dodge life; that by keeping perpetu-
ally on the go they succeed in evading
the habits of work and tho natural ties
that stay-at-home people have to form,
and the responsibilities that they have to
share.-Scribner's.
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Noted Verse Writers.

"Did you ever know that there are
men who have become noted as the writ
ers of songs who never wrote a verse
in their lives?" remarked Carol, after
we had discussed "Annio Rooney"
"McGinty" and "McManus." "Ben Col
Inns, who died in New York recently,
wrote lots of good stuff, but did you ever
see his name on the back of a sheet of
music? He used to sell songs to people
who were better known than poor Ben
Collins. j. P. Skelly wrote many beau
tiful songs, but "Pretty Red Rose" was
the only one that made hit. Some
come dians have habit of buying
songs from unknown but brainy Bohe-
mians and taking the credit of having
written them. In this way certain
actor who never wrote song in his life,
has established world wide reputation
as the writer of comic songs. ."-Cincin-
natl Times-Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
1mportance of Water Marks.

Equal Importance exists in the water
mark of the paper on which postage
stamp is printed. One edition of Qua
temalan stamps on paper with no water
mark; another edition of the same stamp
is on paper with a star for water mark,
while still another is on paper with a
crown and the letters &c. c." All three
of these are necessary to a proper collec-
tion Of Guatemalan stamps. Occasion
ally it happens that the same stamp is
printed at different times from a itho.
graphic stone, wooden block and a
steel plate; a specimen of each is neces-
sary to the collectors happiness. And
SO much difference do these distinctions
make that a stamp with one sort of per-
foration or water mark will be worth,
may be, hundreds of dollars, when pre-
cisely the same stamp perforated or wa
ter marked in another way has selling
value of only few cents. An other
wise worthless blue Cape of Good Hope
stamp, printed by accident in red,
brought $122 at auction in New York,
while a common one-penny red of the
same country, printed by accident in
blue, fetched $90.-Washington Star In
teryieW,
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
How Boys Get Acquainted.

Every boy who came to town from
somewhere else, or who moved into a
new neighborhood, had to fight the old
residents. There was no reason for this,
except that he was q stranger, and there
appeared to be no other means of making
his acquaintance. If he was generally
whipped he became subject to the local
tribe, as the Delawares were to the
Iroquois in the last century; if he whipped
the other boys, then they adopted him
into their tribe, and he became q leader
among them. When you moved away
from neighborhood you did not lose all
your rights in it; you did not have to
fight when you went back to see the
boys, or anything; but if one of them
met you in your new precincts you
might have to try conclusions with him;
and perhaps, if he was boy who had
been in the habit of whipping you, you
were quite ready to do SOW. D.
Howells in Harper's Young People.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Requisites for a Good Memory

Memory is found in all healthy states
Of the brain, and consists Of a revival in
the mind Of a past condition or act. 1t
is not enough that the original impress
sion be renewed on the brain and COM
pretended; it must be registered, so as
to produce a permanent modification Of
brain structure or action, otherwise it
passes from the mind and can only be
vaguely recalled. A good memory de-
pends on various considerations; one is
healthy brain structure, another is nutri-
ton, and third is training and culture.
The young remember more easily than
the old. Their brains are active, and
there is an enormous amount of new
healthy blood coursing through them at
a rapid rate, and nutrition is active.
Fatigue is fatal to good memory-it is
then that nutrition languishes; but rest
restores a healthful condition, and then
the power of memory comes back again.
AS old age comes on, nutrition is less
perfect, and the cells of the brain in
which memory takes place become filled
up with debris of decay, become yellow,
and actually lose their organized struct-
ure, and are no longer capable of action.
New York Ledger.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
srccoss Of obeaism in Trinidad.

One circumstance to which must al
lnae happened during my stay at Trini-
dad, and with it will close the subject
of Obeaism. Just before Christmas, in
1888, a negro child was kidnapped. The
authorities instituted an investigation,
which led to the discovery of the child's
skeleton, and one or two negroes who
were supposed to be connected with the
deed were arrested. Kidnapping children
often takes place at Christmas in spite
of the vigilance of the government, and
it is done either by Obea men or in ac-
cordance with their commands. The
child that has been confscated (and in
the particular case to which refer it
was captured in broad daylight, ut 8
o'clock in the afternoon) is taken to a se-
cluded place and murdered. Some of the
entrails are removed, the heart, spleen,
etc., and magic mixture is made with
mystical herbs.
By distilling or drying a powder re-
suits, which is given to one of the racing
horses, and this is supposed to give the
horse the power to win the coming race.
have no doubt that this does influence
the result of the race, for the jockeys on
the other horses, who are negroes, are SO
convinced that they will not win, fol-
they cannot hope to beat an enchanted
horse, that they will notexert themselves
as they otherwise would have done. This
great power of tho imagination is, in my
opinion, the great factor in the success Of
Obeaism, for if man knows that Obea
has been worked upon him his imagina.
ton will do all the rest that is necessary,
Professor Sharpe in Philadelphia Led.
ger
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Some One Swallowed tho Tooth,

Iheard a rather amusing story of q
number of young people who assembled
a few days ago at the homo of charm
ing young lady somewhere in the eastern
part of the city for quiet little game at
cards. During the progress Of the even
ing one of the girls produced her bon
bonniere, which passed in succession
around the merry circle until its tiny lid
closed only on an aching void and the
delicate flavor of Italian mint. Whe1i
the pretty box was returned empty to its
owner, the delicate suffusion of her
flushed brow faded to CHASTITY pallor as
she cried, "Where's my sharks tooth?
had it in this bonbonniere." Then the
pallor went around as visions of the gas
tronomic impossibilities of the situation
dawned on those who had partaken of tho
contents of tho somebody had
swallowed tho wisdom molar of a man.
eating carcharias vulgaris, but who?
Nobody knows to this day, but there was
n sense of uncasiness about the little
gathering thereafter that fell like pail
over the general jollity.-Louisville Post.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Several Kinds of Mothers.

The mother represented the family
sovereignty; the father was seldom seen,
and he counted for little or nothing
among the outside boys. 1t was the
mother who could say whether a boy
might go fishing or in swimming, and
she was held a good mother or not ac-
cording as she habitually said yes or no.
There was no other standard of goodness
for mothers in the boys world, and
could be none; and bad mother might
be outwitted by any device that the
other boys could suggest to her boy.
Such boy was always willing to listen
to any suggestion, and no boy took it
hard if the other fellows made fun when
their plan got him into trouble at home.
If boy came out after some such ex-
perience with his face wet, and his eyes
rcd, and his lips swollen, Of course you
had to laugh; he expected it, and you
expected him to stone you for laughing.
When a boys mother had company,
he went and hid till the guests were
gone, or only came out Of concealmcnt
to get some sort of shy lunch. If the
other fellows mothers were there, he
might DO a little bolder, and bring out
cake from the second table. But he had
to be pretty careful how he conforlned
to any of the usages of grown upsociety.
A fellow who brushed his hair, and put
on shoes, and camo into the parlor when
there was company, was not we'll seen
among tho fellows; he was regarded in
some degree as q girl boy; a boy who
wished to stand well with other boys
kept in the wood shed, and only went in
as far as tho kitchen to get things for his
guests in the back yard. Yet there were
mothers who would make a boy put on
u collar when they had company, and
disgrace him before the world by MAX
ing him stand round and help; they
acted as though they had no sense and
no pity; but such mothers wero rare.-
w. d. Howells i'll Harper's Young Peo-
Y1a
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Carrier Swallows.

The popular name of "swifts" is likely
to be more than ever appropriate if the
following announcement is verified:
"The training of swallows for military
purposes is being proceeded with active
ly at Roubaix, under the observation of
Capt Degouy, who has been detached
for this duty by the minister of war.
The birds will be swifter than the car
rier pigeon; at the same time it will be
more difficult for the enemy's bullets to
hit them. All the swallows which are
at present in training are young, and so
far they have given fair proofs of their
capability for carrier service One, after
having been taken to Paris, was set at
liberty, and reached its nest at Roubaix
in an hour and thirty minutes, the dis
tance being about $50 ilometers, or 1856
miles. Leisure Hour.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
The Kind She Wanted. /.

Katie lives in the suburbs of Boston,
and her small head is not infrequently
badly mixed upon things that relate to
the difference between the ways of the
town where she lives and the ways of
Boston. She has always great scorn,
however, for having things different
from city fashions, and this shows itself
in the most unexpected ways.
Not long ago travelling photographer
came along and established himself not
far from her fathers house, and her
mother decided to improve tho oppor-
tunity to have some pictures of the chill
dren taken.
"Come, Katie" she said one morning,
after it had all been talked over before
the child, who had made no comment
whatever, Ego to nurse and get on your
things and come with baby and me to
have your tintypes taken"
But Katie drew back.
"No, mamma, DEAR" she said, gravely;
"if you will excuse me, won't have any
tintypes taken. I'll wait, if you please,
till you can take me to town and get a
real telegraph of me."-Youths Com
panion.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
WHAT to DO with the Arm..

The arms of the woman who is not
naturally graceful always look stiff and
harsh as they lie in her lap motionless
If she is not bitten with any of the ar
tistic fads she makes an awkward hoop
of them with fingers interlaced. If she
has been doing little anateurish study
ing of classical collections she extends
them, or lets them hang down at full
length unfexed in hard, straight lines.
The first piece Of advice which a we'll
wisher would give such a woman, would
be that she allow both arms to fall in
free, easy positions, slightly relaxed at
the elbows or with the hand dropping a
little at the wrist, but that she should
not allow her left arm to know what her
right arm is doing. One ought usually
to take somewhat different position
from the other, else you overdo the BIZ
lateral symmetry and look like q jointed
doll.-Cor. Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Badness AND ITS CAUSES.
Some Claim That Too Frequent Cutting
Is Detrimental to tho Hair


There are many different opinions as
to the cause Of badness. Some of tho
eminent medical authorities state that it
is caused by form of dandruff. This,
it Is claimed, has been verified by taking
the hair which has fallen off in such
cases, rubbing it up with vascline and
after applying the ointment so made to
the fur of rabbits badness has rapidly
made its appearance on the parts SO
treated. When vaseline alone was used
this result did not follow. The same
authority says that the disease is spread
by hair dressers, who employ combs and
brushes on their customers, one after
another, without regard to the cleanli-
ness of those articles. Women are less
liable to be affected by this form of bald
ness, for the reason that their hair is
usually dressed at home.
On the other hand some claim that too
frequent cutting of the hair is detrimen-
tai. The hair in some respects resemble
a tree. Suppose the gardener were to
clip all the limbs from tree, regardless
of the season Of the year, as soon as they
were two or three feet in length. How
long could the tree be expected to survive?
There is fluid substance in each hair
from which the hair gets its nourishment
the same as the tree gets its life, and
growth from the sap which is conducted
from its roots. Break the bark of IL tree
and you will soon see the sap running
down tho trunk. The same thing is be-
heved to take place when hair is cut.
only it is not visible to the naked eye.
A number Of the better class of BARRIERS
is endeavoring to overcome this evil by
singeing the ends of the hair after cut
ting. This Theoretically seals the ends
and prevents the escape of any fluid.
This operation is performed with the aid
Of small wax taper. Tho hair is raised
from the head with q comb and tho
lighted taper passed rapidly across the
ends. Tho operation is neither tedious
nor unpleasant. Those that practice this
style of treating the hair state that much
good has resulted from the process
Washington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
People Wonder:

MHEN they find how rapidly health
w is restored by taking Ayers Sar-
saparilla. The reason is that this
preparation contains omly the rureSt
and most powerful alternatives and
tonics. To thousands yearly it proves
veritable elixir of life.
Mrs. Jos. Lake, Brockway Ccntre.
Mich, writes: oliver complaint and
indigestion made my life a b,,rden
and came near ending my existence.
For more than four years suffered un-
told agony. I was reduced almost to
q skeleton. AM! hardly had strength to
drag myself about. All kinds of foml
distressed me, and only the most deli
cate could be tligested at all. Within
the time mentioned several physicians
treated me without giving relief. Notl!-
ing that I took seemed to do any per-
manent good until l began tho use Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla, Which has pro-
duced wonderful results. Soon after
commencing to take the Sarsaparilla I
could see an
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
Celluloid Silk.

In discussing the latest development
in tho limo of silk imitation, an English
contemporary says: "Celluloid silk is a
cleverly fabricated tissue, which ought
to be repressed by common consent, or,
if necessary, by parliamentary prohibi-
ton. Nothing SO useful to dishonest
dealers and SO dangerously infammable
has hitherto been invented in the way of
clothing. 1t is certainly cheap and hand
some, and is therefore more tempting to
the thoughtless, or the defrauded, who
may be induced to buy as silk Il mate
rial which spark would infame, and
which would burn with the fierceness of
rag stepped in petroleum. 1t may be
in the future possible to lessen this in
flalnmability, but the small sample re-
ferred to went off like flash, and we
may assume it was as fire proof as can at
the present time be made"
The Dickinson press., 1890-08-16
How the French Serve Roast Beef.


"Allow me to remark" said promi-
nent citizen the other day, as lie was
showing his appreciation of choice piece
of roast beef, "that once put in six
weeks IN the city OF Paris. Nothing re.
markable about that, is there? But
haven't come to the point. In all that
time never succeeded in getting plain
beef. There was beef cooked in every
possible way, beef dressed with every
kind of sauce, but no plain beef for
a change. Do you know l had the
same feeling they say traveller in the
tropics has-the tropical fruits may be
luscious, but one longs for the taste of
an apple now and then-I wished for a
taste of the roast beef 'hof hold Heng-
land How do you explain its absence!"
st. Paul Pioneer Press.