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Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

ByAftH ~ I'M f-AfH y y tVB-
cory Of letaer carrying from the days Of
the tabled Mercury down 10 our own
tfrnee. But the letter carriers wanted .
simple statue on . pile Of granite, and
they have had their way. II II 70 De
unveiled JulyA
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13
YOUNG
MD
Middle

NERVOUS DEBILITY, NERVOUS
Seakness, resulting from early indis-
eretios nand exercises Of manhood, over.
work Of the brain. Improper treatment
Of some ether diseases. improper use OF
instruments IN examinations and treat
ment Of some other diseases, hereditary
weakness. etc, causing lost manhood,
smpotency, barrenness. inability 20 col
lect IDEAS or remember word during
eonversatsoni making the sufferer lose
confidence IN every one, even himself,
causing continual worry and anxiety
about troubles that never come; some
times causing Epilepsy, often causing
insanity. one form OF Deafness, Paral-
ysis, Nervousness and Heart Disease,
inability to conduct business. etc.
This disease, with ali its comphea-
tons. il always cured ~ DR.. :. Clay
Todd, 10 North Dsyision-st.. wenham
block, rooms i, and 4. Grand Rapids,
Mich. Call Immediately.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

NY love vss ike lily fair.
Low droopsng in The snltry air,
My heart VAS rent with grief and care.
loved her well.
But To- The wonder grows and grows.
nv loves nov like blooming rose.
How bright her face with beauty CLOVIS,
dare not tell.
The wandering bee vould stop 70 SIP,
The nectar Of her perfect lip.
Twas Or. Ferce's Favorite Prsscfip-
Ton wrought the spell.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

FIgss-How did you get 20 haid-sce
much brain fsg7
Dievs -So--hair restorsr. Mnnsey's
Weekly.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

III yea wish the BEST BREAD, bay
the bEsf YEAST. Fieischmsn Co..
under their Yellow Label, offer she
best
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

Hetghte1tSg Hss Color.
Photographer TO young ladyr-You
1onk rasber pale. ru~ss think for .
moment Of the ohject Of yorr affections
that will brighten yosr compaaxioa .
kttkA-I,w Ulk
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

CURED

had terrible steady backache for
four years without any let mp At all,
sometimes j could hardly Strengthen
up. Could not ride in wagon ON ac-
count of the greater jar of the wagon.
and have walked rather than ride.
have now been under the treatment of
DIR. :. CLAY TODD, Is North Divi-
slon-st.. Wenham block, rooms i. 3 and
4, Grand Rapids, Mich, ten days, and
yesterday / rode % miles and nine
miles today in wagon without pain
at all-the first time for four years.
would cheerfuIly recommend DR..
Todd TO those who have great pain in
their backs. AVERY p0WNER,
October Is, 1890. Alpine, Mich.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

Try the Hollenden Bouquet Cigars, 10
cents, at Harris, 80 CAnAi-st.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

Live Lobstsrs At DstsenthaIer's.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

View novelties IN spriag dFess good
inst received at I. j. Nichols
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

Hart has sold more Hellenden Boa
easts than any other 10 cent cigar.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

New hosiery, extra length. At T.
Nlohals'.
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13

Kidder a Co. never had . pressies
line Of dress goods taaa at present
Telegram-herald., 1891-04-13
ltsv waite

ri~storiAl deIicaciss At DestenthaI
efa
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it. You'll need the grace of God to
help you, but if you gossip less You will
have more time to pray. You may 60
now"
She went But although hating Mar
garet thereafter, as it would be quite
in keeping with human nature to sup
pose, she was both too proud and too
polite to allow her circle of friends to
know it, and, to keep up the delusion,
she made a large party, and send Miss
Dale an invitation. Margaret dressed
herself with the greatess care and
adornment
II only came for the sake of my very
dear friend, Mrs. Sampson, who knew
would feel SO badly if did not come, y
she said in reply to some comments
from the ladies of that Thursday after
noon sewing circle.
They appreciated the sarcasm, and
possibly profited by it. Margaret re-
manned at the party for an hour and
then left. Her acquaintance with
Mrs. Sampson thereafter consisted in
conventional bowling when they hap
pened to meet.
A year or two later DIR. McCroud died.
1t was custom with Margaret to carry
flowers on certain days to place on the
graves of friends in the cemetery, a
mile from the town. On one of these
occasions it occurred to her that the
she waj--might like to visit his grave;
SO stopping at her gate she invited
her to take seat in the carriage and
ride out with her, which the widow
did. When they had arrived at the
doctors grave the widow said, abb
ruptly:
''Miss Dale, l have an apology to
make to you"
"Oh, l think not" said Margaret.
"Won't you take some of these flowers;
and arrange them YOURSELF"
He never liked me-" she went on,
''but thought he did you. more than
he ought, with his grown up sons and
daughters every day as old as you"
"Oh. but you wronged him, my good
woman" Margaret exclaimed.
''Oh, / know it now, Miss Dale, !
know it, and that's why thought
ought to apologize. But he was awful
trying. And here's his grave. s'pose
ought to get over all those old hateful
feelings now. l remember one time that
going of sudden into his room. !
found him abusing before the glass.
He was vain as a peacock, and it made
me mad to see it, so / sung out: You
may prink and prink, but you've got to
die. And sure enough he has. All,
well, l sciU put some of those flowers
over him. Do you know Mrs. Samp-
son? Not much? Well, think twas
she who first limited that the old man
was overland to you. But it's been a
long, long time since I've heard her
speak against anyone. She seems to
have been converted from gossiping.
That's good kind of religion for folks
to get, don't you think sop
Excellent" said Margaret, with q
smile. Mary A. E. Wagner, in N.sY.
Weekly.
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upon her intimacy, she ran upstairs,
tapped at Margaret's door, and hearing
no response, opened the door and en-
tered.
No one was there, and sitting down
for . moment her attention was at
tracted to some packages of papers ly-
ing in work basket She took them
in her hand, and read on the margin of
one: Compliments of DR.. McCroud,"
and, dallying moment longer, she
went away.
Margaret Dale was q true scion of an
old Knickerbocker family, and had a
sense OF pride and justice in about
equal measure. At this time she was
only ,convalescent from a very severe
and dangerous illness, through which
she had been cared for by DIR. McCroud,
a sturdy old Scotchman, old enough to
be her father, with some extra years.
He took her on her first rides, and now
and then brought her English and
Scotch papers to read; and they were
these which Mrs. Sampson had seen in
Margaret's work-baslxet.
1t is quite unnecessary to analyze the
character of Mrs. Sampson. She has
her counterpart in nearly every neigh
borhood. She possessed lively imag-
ination, was fond of gossip, not from
any wrong motive, but INDUCED in
many careless, thoughtless remarks
Gossip is always a patchwork bust
ness, and nobody had greater faculty
for putting this and shat" together
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A Detroit merchant who deals large
ly with commercial travellers had just
recovered from q serious illness, dur
ing which he was sometimes delirious.
One day as his patient wife sat by
his bedside he opened his eyes and saw
her.
'sYou here again." he said; shave You
filed my order yet?"
What order?" asked his wife, willing
to humor him.
Didn't give You big order for ice
,water?" he asked; do you expect ne
to patronize your firm if you forget my
orders?'
He got Tie Ice ter.-petroit Free
Press
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MISS MALoNE.s MISFORTUNE.


She once had skin OF satin and features white
as snow,
When every swain the country round was
proud to be her beau;
And young and old for miles away were al
ways glad TO see
The dimpie on her pretty chin. her neck Of
ivory:
And there were not In Illinois-no, nor In other
Such alabaster treasures as her little polished
hands;
She reiened a queen in Joliet on beauty's
Did Miss Jemima Margaret Evangeline
Malone.
But 10! one dark unlucky day this paragon OF
grace
Began 70 use some washes TO ornament her
face;
Throughout six months she squandered twelve
pots OF waseline,
The oil OF many o cocoanut. and rice, and
glycerine;
She made Of powder fiummery clean and
bowling waste,
And plastered both her cheeks with cream, and
soap, and almond paste;
Rose water, too, and lemon juice, flowed in q
torrent free,
With oriental spices from the land Of Araby.
She Iaved her face in boiling springs, she tried
ice-waters. too,
And with the toughest kind OF cloth she made
II black and blue;
And then she'd rub 1t just as IL 1t were porce-
lain, ~.
With softest, finest flannel to r-=.-e i white
again;
But OH the darling cuticles fell crumbling
from each pore,
And, oh, her skin of satin was satin skin no
morei
For rough and rugged was the face which onoe
was beauty's own
That OF Jemima Margaret Evangeline Malone
Oh, now her lot is cheerless, for she's no more
the pet
OF swain or beau, of Jim or Joe. in scornful
Joliet;
The eossips giggle as she walks through av
enue and street
With downcast head. and fearful mien and
timid trembling feet
And, oh, they mark upon her chin the d'mple's
shapeless trace,
The parchment color of her throat the jaun-
dice on her faca;
The sickiy hue upon her brow. the brown tint
Whose alabaster glories once illumined all the
land!
And now, ye maids. take warning-all ye who
have a swain
Ye matronh who your spouses' love would
lovingly retain,
Ye young seductive widows who mediate te
wed
Some sterling mates quite At to take the
places Of your dead, rs.
Avoid these cocoanuts and paste, and rice, and
vaseline,
And boiling springs, and liquid ice, and rose
and glyccrine,
For il you don't, you're sure to lose all claims
to- ow'r and throne,
Like Miss Jemima Margaret Evangelint
Malone!
Eugene Davis. in Chicago Mail
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The Pennsylvania Law.

Mr.. H. c. Lea, . prominent merchant
of Philadelphia, has written letter to
the Pennsylvania legislature vigorously
protesting against the passage OF bill
to list and tax personal property Mr..
Lea is large owner of real estate and
a very small owner of personal proper
ty, which makes his letter all the
stronger. He says:
As heavy taxpayer have naturally
given the subject of taxation some
thought for many years past, aud my
conviction is settled that real property
is the surest and fairest basis on which
to levy the public revenue. 1t can not
elude the assessor, as the great bulk of
personal property can; its value can be
estimated with reasonable accuracy,
and is not subject to violent or sudden
fluctuations The difference between
land at $25 an acre and S25 square
foot is simply that the latter is sur
rounded by capital and business, while
the former is remote from these sources
of value. OF all classes in the COM
munity, the landowner is the one most
interested in having capital and busi-
ness untrammeled to earn the largest
profits. He gets, sooner or later. his
share in those profits, and it is suicidal
for him to drive away that which alone
gives his land its especial value over
government lands in the territories.
The bill provides for complete In
ventory of the personal effects of every
person, firm and corporation, including
household furniture and tools, and then
provides that the inventories shall be
printed and distributed to all the tax
payers, SO that each one may. play the
spy on his neighbor and see whether he
has made = true return or not AS there
are 225, 900 taxable persons in Philadel-
phia, the lists would ill several vol
umes, so that each person would have =
small library presented to him every
year at the public expense, consisting
of detailed statement of everybody's
assets and liabilities.
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s'Oh, hope you haven't told my hus-
baudr' the creature implored.
mo. One was my pastor and the
other Judge Howe"
''Oh, Miss Dale!'' and the gossipy
dame was on her knees now; sis there
no way to hush up this unfortunate
business? / can never look anybody in
the face again if you prosecute me for
SANDER. A public trial is just horrid!
Is there no other way?"
To see the miserable creature on her
knees imploring for mercy, and SO
thoroughly penitent for her sins, might
have won pardon from anybody but
Margaret Motioning her visitor to q
chair, she einptied upon her her last
vial of wrath"
Don't think for one moment Mrs.
Sampson, that supposed that anything
you might say would destroy my repu-
tation. 1t was your high handed au
dacity in daring to set s,:ch an insinua'
ton afloat that SO much objected to.
1t is great and shameful humiliation
for woman to be forced to 'cat her
own words in a public court; and be-
cause of this and your evident regret, l
do suggest another mode of reparation.
1t is this: Never again, so long as you
live, are you to speak slanderously OF
an absent person, or allow such license
of speech in your house to pass unpro.
hibited and unrebuked. Do you prom
ise?"
az r,,.on5iSe " she said
Moreover" added Margaret, ''if ]
hear of your having broken this con-
tract, it shall not be too late to make
you suffer the other punishment.
Your tongue has been dipped in the
poison of slandcrl and gossip, and il
will he hard work for you to clean
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49,. s<~....- a In rest 0nally uPoo
.sx ufon a hors.
sne user - ".,,ts . niece OF land SUBJ
~ . Sena - Iii, have to pay those
joc. ~ 49, - A.. v.luat;on of even tho
eaAes, anu .s before his lease ex.
oelo '". IA, .,s,.llv have to bear tho
Piioss nc w. .-.s IN taxes But by
consequens ino., 20 tarcs. the ten
taxing easo 60 being the virtual
ant Is 10. sre su -. a.. other hand .
owner ~ 'l' . ,..v bouse can not very
'aA upon r.s4I I'd other exceptions
es'ty - right be adduced.
70 oosn P'opos 1870 n there is an
nue senc1"9 -, ho,ses. capital
increase :. :,s:l- r,ust do one of
c"Pioy.u ~ :.,'- ;eself shoulder the
."o s"'ns 49,. q ever tn occupants,
increase VI ouos L.,s.s If capital
l. e. colsuo ,..,n.t,ve IL must
accepts .ne ,orvl Ill returns. But
eonsen' lsss.. ~, nr.s,mablv no moro
- was 1890 ~sturn before, and
'nan inc aveia 80 - viii look for
ra'ner 'nan 'c'o'S cher direction.
lnves.msne IN t.-.t;on Is to he
bu1 II the IN I, s,,,a.r NJ houses.
cnargeo Owe, J" wy s.;or ~ houses
pI .,s s..' reonle will try to
WIN decrease ., III; t: 9s.s expensive
con'en' 'nelsels.s ~-'''
OF narrower qua' A.. ;rcreased S.,xa-
Inc nrs' erc'' - Va. a r;s, in
.,on MieHs oe' oo 800 houses aud
inc rem -, va,ue :. -.as rs,,,s ~ super-
q oecnne IN 'ne en" 49, '-hoIe there
,or houses oa' upon co. houses and.
10 oecreaseu uca .~.o,,r,oe-
consequently caPi'a, l. - .,-o,l,c-
men' 20 Msss, ~ .,.s ;rcrssse Of pou.
',ou. ni0c, ""e' 20 e. str;y,r,ad the
uia.ion WIN nave 90 "a. =. -,st;,,p ho,,ses
Proauc'ion VI houses - chat bopsa
wiz nsve 80 ial W." ~ ,, . Of bousea
ren,s WI rise anu n ,ne ~ az ;ncrease of
WIN oee'n " 1870. :. .,,s shane Of
taxation rom 'ena C.n;taI win
increaseo nousc n s.s -. freely
.nen oeeln ~ oo . ra~sos heeausc 4
IN tne proouc.lon VI noa: a. aver.
can NJ" oou ~, ..t.s,.t;o,. will
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-09-05
MRS. SIMPSONS TONGUE.
How She Was Cured Of the Habit
OF Gossiping.

RS. SAMPSON
was to have a
sewing-partya at
her house on
Thursday after
noon, and on
the pre- vi o u $
day she resolved
to run in at the
Dale mans ion
and invite Mar
garet to attend.
Pre- Il m / ug
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SALADS FOR APPETIzERs.
How to Concoct Russian or Swedish
Salad.

How to Concoct . Russian or Swedish
Salad.
Nothing is better for an appetizer
than nice, fresh, cold salad, unless it
be two nice, fresh, cold salads. But to
make up a delicious entity, everything
must be perfection. The salad plants
must be clean and dry, the oil direct
from Lucco, and the vinegar the purest
that can be brought forth from c-,,-san
apples and a new cider press.
If one is bit dainty, rather critical,
almost exacting, and feels the need of
stomach ticker, a Russian salad is
the thing par excellence to accomplish
this end Mix for this tonic dish, equal
quantities of chopped beet-root, boiled,
and celery; add a dash of scraped horse
radish. and then pour over-not may
onnaise this time-but q mixture of oil.
vinegar, pepper and salt.
A Swedish salad is more com plicated,
and is good thing to eat when you
have already got good appetite and
want big dish of something. This is
the way to get it ups Chop up nearly
the same quantities of cold potatoes
and boiled beets; put on couple OF
teaspoons of the water in which the
beets were boiled; add two picked her.
rings, minced, a raw apple, q picked
cucumber and an onion. Cover the
whole business with sweet cream, and
when you feel just like eating, pitch in
and hope for the best-Boston Herald
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-09-05

Jack-I know Ethel loved ne.
Tom-But you had no show with her
father. eh?
Jack-O. didn't II ] had = regular
circus with him. Thst's who're The
trouble came lu.-Puels
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-09-05

@Has Martha White been crossed in
love?r
mo. Why?"
sShe looks So"
"You're no physiognomist That 'ook
Is due TO number ( shoe on . uure her
z foot. Jury.
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If you suspect the butter, rub piece
of it upon glass and look through it to
the light. If there be but a smooth
looking blur, your butter is pure. II
oleomargerine, all through the blur
there will be seen bright specks and
spots; these are the crystals of the
stearine or beef fat With lard make
the same test; if pure, it will rub OF q
soft, smooth blue. But if the same
crystals appear, you may draw your
own conclusions. Troy Times
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-09-05

Congressman r. G. Horr recently
,ited the case Of q colts developing q
2:1S gait as an example of unearned in
crement But horsemen know that
colts of uncertain pedigree do not often
develop that rate of speed, and that the
training of trotter is task which few
men are equal to.
But it is not my purpose to attempt
to meet all the instauces Of alleged un-
earned increment to which my atten-
ton Las been called. merely wish to
remark, as in the beginning, that while
it may be plain enough to us single tax
men that there is no unearned incre-
ment except in land, nevertheless, it is
not so plain to other people, and it be-
hooves us to deal with every alleged in
stance of such increment in other things
in q careful and thorough manner,
above all, avoiding even such faint sus-
picions Of sarcasm as the writer may
have already laid himself open to In the
course of this article.
As to shifting the tar on land values,
IL ought to be understood that the prop
osition that such. tax can not be shifted
is general oue. . i likewise the prop
ositio1 that = tax imposed upon an arti-
Gle IN tho. oourse 81 produetion 60 -
shifted. Nobody, 20 far - I an aware
asserts that under no circumstanoes
Whatever can = tax upon land values BE-
shifted, or under all. circumstances Z
tax upon, say, houses can BE- shifted.
The tendency Of taxes upon land vsIues
= 70 rpmain with the person upon whom
they mt sill aad ~ tepdeag q !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-12-31
Escape from Kennebec Jail.

The t.o r. ado ID burglars and robbers.
Mich, vel Nolan and James II. White. that
Detective True arrested in Lewiston some
time ago and who had pleaded guilty and
were awaiting sentence. made their escape
from ihe Ksnns bsc jail Wednesday morn.
Il z bet ~ en- six and seven O'Clock. During
the usual morning hour for exercise,
Nolan and White went into the water
closet, closed the door behind them,
took some tools thst hsd been carelessly
left b. plumbers, who were fixing the
sewer pipe, Knocked grip # from one OF
the ~indows the bars Of which we're sawed
OF fout years ago. ard escaped through tue
same hole that . pievioua convict had escsp
ed from. The sheriff at once telegraphed
aud offered reward Of 800 for their cap,
ture s0d return. They had rot beeo gone
80 m nutes when their escape was dis
covered.
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n. Csssnes lGssshsi1 u Misnsspehs.
. - Mis- A.siss Hsvssd o. this eifs vese
unissd ia marriage Tsssdsy sssni6g q ihs
haUs ~ tbs brides N yshsF - Silver ssfses.
fhs esr.nany being psffoensa " Rev. J.
l. Seward. IN psssercs " hDe1iase
selassvvs, u o'eiuck- Hiss Aiaes
BaxssiIs rs raid If h1res, M-s@s-
Hfssk 6sevsrs sad 4sTtn Wsle1
were tAs ushsss, Ard VIM 0snss1 o.
boene. eoes keeper. ~ Q 30 he recspsaoa
bsssp. SD to this shout Us invssnahsn1
had s&ea sstusd. Nosvis bsssndang ths DE
aersssoIs stsfm, Tiers vsfs more snAa ioe
ruesss rrs,eIs Tbs rssfsshnsnts vess
sbsndaasiy and sfrssicsfiy sssvsd sndsi
the personal diYecsien Of that pstnes Of
es.<r.s,, Mr. J. fssids injury. and the
wedding psss<rts we're very nunsfous sne
costly. Tbs bride 10 . native Of Wsssr
vile. as d hAs iose occupied . pfomla~ri
position IN mus.ed circles here. sastn1
sesn scprsao in the U ifafian ehoif fei
more than ten yeafs she 10 ked In high
esteem by al Who hsys thu pis ssure Of BEL
aeaasintsnce s.d there 10 ssesfai fexre
that her bone hsneefofsh 10 70 be in 81.
other part Of tie esanry. TIE groom Il
veil hsoyn In correction wits
c. a.ieai enterprises 10 c.a fens parts oi
Nsirs, SID 10 bes ~ the heed Of Con
ssrv..sry Ct Mssie IN Minneapolis, Nina
for witch place. tie nssly vtddsd rail
starred en- ths afternoon tain Of sestsfday
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JUNE
g. Storms of rain, hail and wind did great
damage in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
Severe thunder and lightning in Vienna;
SO houses struck; many people injured.
0. A drill squad Of grenadiers on the court
parade at Berlin, while exercising in the
emperor's presence, were struck by light
ming and killed.
JULY.
6. Southern Louisiana and Mississippi visited
byatornado; Baton Rouge penitentiary de-
molished; 10 convicts killed, % injured.
7. 9families buried by a landslide on skena
river, British Columbia
AUGUST.
g. Tornado at Washburne, Wis, killed 30 peo-
pie and injured 50, who were at IA circus ex-
hibition.
Is. Island OF Martinique devastated by hur-
rio. ne: several hundred killed and injured
q Disastrous Hood caused by cloud burst nj
Pottsville, Pa
SEPTEMBER
l. Violent storms in Great Britain and Ire
land.
o. The Central American state of San Saliva
dor convulsed by earthquake: 10 killed
oCTosEH
IL. The Atlantic coast visited by severe storm
IA. Great Britain visited by severe storms.
g. Destructive earthquake in Japan; thou
sands killed and great damage done FuJh
yama, the sacred mountain. rent in twain.
NOVEMBER
0. 1877 lives lost in the Bay OF Bengal In 9
cyclone.
II. Extreme cold In the northwest; thermon
eter below zero.
z, Washington and Baltimore visited by O
tornado; many buildings damaged.
DECEMBER
l. Storm damaged New York electric wire
$4,000.