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ANOTHER NEW DISEASE.
The Candidate Hand" and Some of Its
Noted Victims

The candidate Hand" and Some of Its
Noted Victims
Lowell Arena
There is always something new under the
sun and natures law of compensation is con-
SANITY at work. If advancing civilization
and progressing science bring us new pleasures
and added comforts, they also entail new ills
upon humanity. The electric light brings
with it new opthalmic disease, the railroad
has developed new forms of nervous ailments,
and plaques and disasters keep pace with the
swing of the spheres
This Introduction is merely given to show
that some of the latest ailments are not only
astonishing but quite natural. Politicians.
like other cattle, have always been troubled
with the foot and MOUTH disease, the latter
organ suffering the most. But now another
member is beginning to attract the attention
of the faculty, the hand.
The new disease is strictly local being con-
fined to certain individuals and classes of
public activity. 1t is called the candidate
hand and disease peculiar to men either
running for or holding office. 1t is the result
of our republican institutions, for we do not
hear of the sickness developing to any extent
in Russia, Turkey, Germany, or any of the
eflete despotisms of the old world The Tsar
does not put in his spare time shaking hands
with the Nihilsts; Emperor William is not
chasing round after the Socialists to grasp
their horny fists, nor is the Sultan shaking
hands with anybody to any great extent
Here in America is where the disease obtains,
and it RACES quite extensively
President Harrison, when he was merely
practicing law, wore a Il glove, but now he
wears number on his right hand and a
number s on his left. This comes from the
constant Misunderstanding he has had to undergo
in his tours round the country and his recep-
tions at the White House. The constant
squeezing Of the muscles of the hand indurates
ana enlarges the hand and pushes the fingers
out of shape.
Mr. Grover Cleveland was sufferer from
the same complaint. When he went into of.
flee he wore an 81 glove and 12 hat and
when in 1888 he stepped down and out he
wore II glove and an 81 hat process of in
version readily explained.
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The Toothsome Mushroom.

New York World.
Edmund Collins has been investigating
mushroom raising and eating in the United
States, and first of all lays down this law for
distinguishing the edible from the poisonous
The table mushroom, called agaricuS cam
pestriS, is usually white on the outer surface,
and when newly born has gills or under
radianrs of beautiful salmon pink. After
a day or two's exposure these turn mahogany
brown. But the infallible test by which this
wholesome mushroom-which has, by the
way, IA sweet, nutty fragrance may be dis
tinguished from the dangerous agaricuS faSti-
bills is this: In the good mushroom the
under-radiants or gills are not joined to the
stem. In the bad mushroom this junction is
perfect. The United States consume at least
$500 900 worth of mushrooms a year, but do
not raise one tenth as many as they ought.
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BETTER THAN CURES.
Tremendous Saving of Life Effected by
Preventive Medicine.

tremendous Saving of Life Effected by
Preventive Medicine.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
In the inaugural address before the late
Congress of Hygiene in London, Sir Joseph
Fayrer showed the progress of preventive
medicine during the last decade. 1t is only
recently that general recognition has been
given to preventive medicine, but the general
results have been tremendous saving of life.
In comparing the health of the Victorian age
with the ElZabethan age he attributed the
former to the practice of preventive medicine
and measures. The English of the early
period bad bad and insufficient food, filthy
dwellings, and ll-built towns, with the country
covered with marshes and stagnated waters
The homes of the people were wooden or mud
houses, with scarcely any drainage or ventila-
tion, and with floors of earth covered with
straw or rushes, which remained saturated
with filth and emitted noxious misasmata.
The streets were narrow and dirty, with
filthy cutters and open cesspools running
along parallel with them. Frightful epidemics,
such as black death, plague, sweating sickness,
fevers, smallpox, leprosy, and malaria, de-
vastated the land occasionally. Preventive
sanitary measures and medicines have driven
the plague, leprosy, and black death from the
land and kept many of the other diseases
under control. One can scarcely realize the
Improvements in eating, living, and surround
ings which preventive measures have ac-
complished until the picture of the past is
compared with that of to-day.
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Eating for Strength.

DR.. l. M. Hobrook in "Eating for
Strength" recommends wheat cooked like
rice and served with sugar and cream. Cook
the whole grains slowly until tender enough
to mash between the fingers. During the
boiling process add a little salt to remove in
sipidity. The learned doctor says this simple,
cheap, nutritious, and easily digested dish re-
qures the thirty-tWo Gladstonian bites for
each mouthful-the danger being in eating it
unmasticated.
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SEXES IN DIAMONDS.
A JeweIer Points Out "A Male and IA Fe-
male in Group of Gems.

jewelers. Review.
"Here," said ieweler the other day, sis
quite curiosity" He picked up three
karat white stone with the tweezers. at is a
specimen that will prove to you that there is
a difference of sex in the gems. This is what
is called the female, multiplying diamond"
He held the gem under strong magnifying
glass and pointed to four or five smaller dia-
monds clustered about one of the facets at the
edge OF the table of the stone. "The male
gen." the ieweler said, sis sharp pointed and
never gathers these embryo gems. There is a
fine specimen alongside that pink stone. 1t
surprises most people who see these speci-
mems to be told that they are of different sex
as well as color but such is the fact"
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said Mat, family; 81 guess the cooks got an
other squeak. Dye hear that? Hooray
Knowed the Doctor would do it," said he,
with renewed energy; "take that" And
heard the dull sound of another blow, and a
low moan of pain as the station hands rushed
in. The Doctor soon recovered. SO did Mat,
who is now one of the richest men in the
colonies. well, have large scar across
my breast.
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shorten Shy and Herbert Spencer.

shorten Shy plays round my knee
While | read Herbert Spencer.
But still the more I read and read
My ignorance grows denser;
For Shorten Shy decries my taste
And tells me every minute
' Say, papa, don't like that book,
There amt no lions in it,
Now Herbert Spencer is great,
world-compelling thinker;
No heavy plummet line of truth
Goes deeper than his sinker.
But one man reads his work way through
For thousands that begin it,
They leave one-half the leaves uncut
There amt no lions in it,"
The age-old errors in their den
Does Herbert Spencer throttle,
And ranks with Newton, Bacon, Kant,
And ancient Aristotle.
Th mighty homage of the few
Z lese towering giants win it,
Th millions shun their hunting ground.
-" l lere amt no lions in it,
| le We this metaphysic swamp,
Thick grown with sturdy scions,
And roam the Meadows of Romance,
With Shorten and his lions.
He brings his gaudy Noah's Ark book
And begs me to begin it;
" Better than Hubbet Pencer book
That amt no lions in it,"
" Now wead about the efalunt
So big he scares the people;
An wead about the kangerwoo
Who jumps up on the 'teepe."
So take up the Noah's Ark book,
And sturdly begin it,
And read about the "efalunts''
And hons that are in it.
Shorten will grow IN soberness
HIS life become intenser,
Some day he'll drop his "efaunts"
And take up Herbert Spencer.
But life can have no happier years
Than glad years that begin it,
And life sometimes grows dull and tame
That has no lions in it.
S. ". FOSS in Yankee Blade.
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More Effective Than Beauty.

ST. Paul GIObe.
There's girl on the hill who always gets
seat in the car if 1t is just jammed. She isn't
pretty nor anything like that, but she is
brainy and her feet are large She wears
common-sense shoes, with heavy heels She
goes into car and hangs to strap in front
of some man. Then every time the car jerks
she lunges around with those heels After
few lunges the man gives her his seat and
limps out and stands on the platform and
sWears.
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Natures Highest Waterfall.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Labrador's new-found waterfall may be
twice as high as Niagara, but every time it
rains we can see water fall from more than
twice as high as that, and need not go away
from home to see it, either
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Initial Embroidered GLOW es.

PlttsDurg Dispatch.
Some fashionable women affect suede
gloves on which their initials or crests are
embroidered. Brown, tan, and even black
gloves show the embroidery done in gold
thread.
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COPY SUMMONS.
FOR RELIEF.
Complaint not Serued.)
To the Defendants, above named.

To the Defendants, above named.
I OU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND
required 10 answer the complaint In this
action, which has been flied In the Office OF the
Judge OF Probate for Abbeville County
and To serve a copy Of your answer 10 the
said complaint on the subscribers at bis
office at Abbevilie Court Honse, South Caro-
lima, within twenty days after the service
hereof, exclusive of the day OF such service:
and you fail to answer the complaint with.
In the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs In
this notion will apply to the Court for the re.
lief demanded in the complaint to wit
The sale of the real estate Of Edward "
Knox deceased for the payment OF his debts
Dated 2ith day OF December, A. d. 1890.
]. FULLER LYON,
Judge Probate Court.
w. A. LEE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
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A Sad Scene in Court.

What pathetic incidents occur al
most daily in our police courts One
a short time ago woman
was arraigned before q justice on the
charge of having been found drunk in
the street the previous night. When
asked if she had anything to say for
herself she flushed and trembled but
looked the judge steadily in the face
as she replied:
II can say nothing. I forgot my
self, and must bear the consequences" I"
She was fined five dollars, and was
not able to pay; and was about to be
conducted to prison when a man, hav-
ing the appearance of hard-working
mechanic and accompanied by pref
ty little girl, rose in the audience and
offered to pay it for her. 1t was her
husband. Hearing his voice she hid
her face in her hands and said hastily /:
"You must not pay it,"
"But We want you at home," replied
the man, smiling at her pleasantly.
mo, you must not pay it," insisted
his wife. "Don't waste the money on
me. Buy new pair of shoes for ba-
by with It,"
"Please come home, mamma" said
the little girl and the father silently
drew money from his pocket and
handed it to the clerk of the court.
But the woman still protested, de-
claring that she would not 60 home,
and she would 90 to prison; and 1t
was not until the little girl began to
cry and the judge begged her to think
of her children, that she consented to
return. Her husband at length took
her by one hand, the child by the 9th.
er, and between them she was led
slowly from the court.
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WHAT A LETTER CAN DOB
makes d road broad, turns the ear TO
bear, and Tom into tomb.
C makes limb climb, hanged, chang
ed, lever clever, and transports low
er to clover.
D turns a bear to beard, crow to u
crowd, and makes anger danger.
F turns lower regions to flower re-
gions.
H changes eight to height.
X makes now know.
L transforms q pear into pearl.
n turns line into linen, crow to
a crown, and makes one none.
P metamorphoses lumber into
plumber.
@ of itself has no significance.
S turns even to seven, makes hove
shove, q word sword, a pear spear,
makes slaughter of laughter, and curl
ously.changes having hoe to shaving
a shoe.
T makes a bough bought, turns here
to there, alters one to tone, and trans
forms the phrase "allow his own" to
"tallow this town."
w does well, e. g., hose are whose,
are becomes ware, on won, omen wo-
men, so SOW, vie view a; it makes arm
warm, and turns hat into-what?
Y turns fur into fury, man into
many, to to q toy, a bub to a buby,
ours to yours, and lad to lady,
New York World.
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A Love Story.

This story was originally told by
Spurgeon:
A young clergyman and his bride
were invited guests at large party
given by wealthy parishioner. In
all the freshness and elegance of the
bridal wardrobe, the young wife shone
among the throng, distinguished by
her comeliness and vivacity and rich
attire and when, during the evening,
her young husband drew her aside
and whispered to her that she was the
most beautiful woman in all the COM
pany, and that his heart was bursting
with pride and love for her, she
thought herself the happiest wife in
the world.
Ten years later the same husband
and wife were guests at the same
house, where there was gathered a
similar gay company. The wife OF
ten wears ago wore the same dress she
had worn on the previous occasion,
and, of course, it had been altered and
re-made, and was old-fashioned and al
most shabby. Toll and care and
motherhood, and pinched circum-
stances, had taken the roses out Of her
cheeks and the little spring out of her
form. She sat apart from the crowd,
careworn and pre-occupied. Her
small hands, roughened with coarse
toll, were ungloved, for the minister's
salary was painfully small. A little
apart the ten-year husband stood and
looked at his wife, and as he observed
her faded dress and weary attitude, a
great sense of all her loving faithful
ne>s came over his heart. Looking up
she caught his earnest gaze, and no.
ticed that his eyes were filled with
tears. She rose and went to him ; her
questioning eyes mutely asked for an
explanation Of his emotion and when
he tenderly took her hand, and, plac-
ing it on his arm, led her away from
the crowd, and told her how he had
been thinking of her as she looked ten
years before, when she was 8 bride,
and how much more precious she was
10 him now, and how much more
beautiful, for all her shabby dress and
roughened hands, and how he appre-
ciated all her sacrifice and patient toll
for him and their children, a great
wave of happiness filled her heart, and
light shone in her face 80 that it gave
more than youthful beauty, and in all
the company there was not 80 happy
a couple as this husband and wife, the
hearts and faces aglow from the fam
ing up of pure sentiment that trans
figured and ennobled, and glorified all
the tolls and privations they have en-
tlured.-Christian Repository.
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er eyes Caroline Cole may be right
may the Lord help me! You know
what Mary is, the sweetest creature he
ever made; just having her in my
house has made me happy man for
fifteen years, and now if I've got to
lose her, why, I want you to ask the
Lord please to take me and the chill
dren, too. Tell him [ can't stand 1t,
and no more I can't. Your affection
ate brother, JOHN SILVER"
don't think John ever began to un-
derstand what it was in this letter
that made such change in his wife,
but he did make out that what she
needed to keep her bright and happy
was a little old-time "loverin'," and
after this working together" of Prov
idence and Sister Sue, there come a
great change over john. He might be
awkward and clumsy, his grammar
might be at fault; but, in one form or
another, he always managed to give
Mary her share of daily sunshine.
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Dec. "a, 1890.
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Oyer.NeighbOrly.

Mother has often told me of q funny
time she had when she was quite q
young housekeeper, afflicted with
borrowing ,nei2hbor. This lady sell
dom had anything of her own at hand
when it was wanted, SO she depended
upon the obliging disposition of her
friends. One day my mother put on
her large housekeeping apron, and
stepped across the yard to her outdoor
kitchen. The kitchens in Kentucky
were never a part of the house, but al
ways at little distance from it, in o
separate building.
"Aunt Phyllis" said mother to the
cook, who was browning coffee grains
in a skillet over the fire, II thought
told you that I was coming here to
make pound cake and cream pies this
morning. Why is nothing ready?"
LA, me, Miss Emmeline ~ replied
Aunt Phyllis, "Miss "Tilda Jenkins
done carried off every pie pan and
rooling-pin and pastry-board, and bor-
rowed all de eggs and cream fo' her
self. Her bakin isn't mon begun"
This was high-handed proceeding,
but nothing could be done in the case.
1t was Mrs. Jenkins habit, and moth
er had always been 30 araiable about it
that the servants, who were easy-go-
ing, never troubled themselves to ask
the mistress, but lent the inconven-
lent borrower whatever she desired.
Sometimes, just as we were going to
church, was too little ut the time to
remember, mother said that small
black boy with very white teeth and a
very woolly head, would pop up at
her chamber door eXclaiming:
"Howdy, Miss Emmeline. Miss
'Tilda done sent me to borrow yo'
prayer-book. She goin' to church to-
day herself"
"Or, Of a summer evening, her maid
would appear with modest request
for Miss Emelins's lace shawl and red
satin fan; Miss 'Tilda wanted to
make call, and had nothing to wear.
All this, I think, made mother per.
fectly set against our ever borrowing
so much as a slate pencil or a pin.
We were always to use our own things
or 60 without. l never had a sister,
but cousins often spent months at the
house, and were in and out of room in
the freest way, forever bringing me
their gloves to mend or their ties to
clean, as cousins will. Never Dor.
row." said my mother. buy, or give
away, or do without, but be beholden
to nobody for a loan" ."-Harper's
Young People.
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A Coon ANEcDoTE.-Dr. Parr (the
celebrated scholar) was once preaching
in the country parish of another cler-
gyman, and, as was his habit, used
very learned language. Therector af.
terward said to him, "They could not
understand YOU"
Nonsense" said DIR. Parr; II am
sure there was nothing in my sermon
which they could not compre-
hend."
"Well," said the rector, II will call
one of them in, and see if he under
stands the meaning of the word 'felic-
ity."
So be called in one of The laboring
men and said,-
John, can you tell ME what is the
meaning of felicity q"
"Well, 1 don't know, sir" said
John, "but / believe it some part OF
the inside Of a pig"
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From Two Points Of View.

"Run out and see if your papa is
Anywhere in sight," said Mrs. Graves
to her little son. The child obeyed,
and presently returned saying: "Pa-
pa has just come around the corner 1
am going to meet him." And away
he ran, while Mrs. Graves went to put
the oysters to stew.
The cat and dog, who had been rear
ed together and were great chums, lay
Oh the wolf robe before the fireplace.
"How I do pity those poor Great
uresm sighed the dog, as he stretched
himself and yawned.
"Who?' said the cat, as she licked
her left paw and rubbed her cheek
with it.
Human beings, to be sure" an.
swered the dog.
"Why ?' said the cat. She was in
a very laconic mood just then.
"Why, indeed ~ echoed the dog /;
reason enough to be sure. Just think
how terrible it is to depend upon your
eyes almost entirely for every thing
you know. Fully minute Tor at least
tifty-tive seconds) before our mistress
asked about our master, I had scented
his approach. I knew he was nearing
home. Yet she and our little playfel-
low, Willie, were obliged to see him
on the street before they knew he was
coming. 1 don't believe they have
any sense of smell at ALL"
noses," said the cat, rubbing her paw
over her little pink pug.
"Then, toO," continued the dog,
"even when have bad cold and my
keen scent is impaired, / can always
hear his approach long before she does.
Why, the house would have been rob-
bed the other night if I had been o
poor human being instead Of a fortu-
nate BRUTE"
"And how was that?" asked the cat.
"Oit was the time master was ex-
pected home on the midnight train.
T was lying at the foot of the bed
when heard sound below. L bark
ed. Keep quiet! 1t is only your
MASTER said my mistress quite sharp
ly !; but 1 barked again, and ran out
into the hall. / knew very well it
was not my master below; my ear
and my nose both told me a stranger
was in the house. And sure enough
as / went down stairs man ran out OF
the front door, which had been open
eG by removing the lock. Why, if
were human being l should never
dare sleep wink ! They are the
most defenseless creatures in the
world. I pity them"
Later in the evening friend drop
ped in to call upon Mr.. Graves.
"What intelligent eyes that animal
has ~ the gentleman remarked as the
dog sat looking in his face.
eyes he seems almost human some
tines" Mr.. Graves replied. ut is a
great misfortune such animals are de-
MED the privilege of speech. pity
them often"
"Humph :" said the dog as he walk
ed away in disgust to where the cat
was sitting. almost human, in
deed 1 wonder who needs the most
pity W
lit all depends on the point of
view," said the cat. Actually dog
told me one day he pitied me for being
a cat the idea. ELLA Wheeler viii
cox, in Wide Awake.
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A Swarm OF Bees.

B patient, b prayerful, B humble, B mild,
b wise as Solomon, B meek as child:
studious, B thoughtful, B loving, B kind;
b sure you make matter subservient In mind,
b cautious. b prudent. B trustful, B true;
B courteous TO oil men, friendly with few.
B temperate In argument, pleasure and wine,
B cheerful, grateful, B hopeful, b firm,
peaceful, benevolent, willing to learn;
B courageous, b humble, B liberal, just.
b aspiring. B humble, because thou art dust,
penitent, circumspect, sound in the fnith,
B active, devoted; B faithful till death,
B honest, B holy. transparent and pure
dependent, B Christ-likc and you'll Sc
cure.
iSonlclri[e Sentinel.
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Earth and Heaven.

All the schemes we love 10 cherish,
All the friends that bi ess onr way,
Must, like summers faded glory,
Yield TO time and feel decay.
From the fading face Of nature
Turn we TO world Of light,
Where trees shall never wither..
Where the flowers are always bright.
Father, from that world Of glory
Nav we hear Thy soothing voice.
Though all nature lies In ruins.
May we In Thy love rejoice.
Where the forms we love to cherish
MAY not feel blasting breath,
Where the young and Joy ful faces
Never yield to age or death.
Mrs. Orricy Hemmen,ody.
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UARY 2S 1891. VOLUME AAAV. NJ 90.
AUG, ". Smith { CO.,
.~< DEALERS IN
Mules and Horses.

uAVE finished their new Stables
II on Washington Street opposite Seal
McIlwaine & Co.'s Shops, and will have by
Thursday or this week two car loads OF tho
Come early and secure nice mare or mule.
II you want the best mule on the market for
The best money, call to see them.
Dec. 8, 1880. II ~ 2