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SECRET OF PERPETUAL YOUTH.

Perhaps the most remarkable woman
in the world lives in Santiago, Chill,
said Robert A. Bonham, an American
who has spent several years in South
America. She is apparently a WELL
preserved woman OF IS, rather good
looking, spry as girl, and is pro-
nounced coquette, yet 1t is known
positively that she is SO years of age
and may be much older. She has
granddaughter who looks old enough
to be her mother. This remarkable
woman IS of Spanish extraction, ma
tive of Peru, and her name is Boeck-
man, her second husband, now dead,
being German. Middle-aged people
aver that she was grown woman
when they were children, and that she
does not look day older now than
she did then. She is regarded with
superstltious awe by the more ignorant
OF he natives, over whom she could
undoub. edly exercise great influence
were her morals not so notoriously bad.
She is passionately iond of dancing,
has musical voice, swapping black
eyes, and a beautiful set of teeth.
She claims that she owes her won-
derful preservation to a charm which
an old half-breed Indian doctor exer-
cised over her when she was a child.
She says she will neither grow old nor
die until the charm is broken. Some
of the natives express the belief that
she is in league with the devil. She
got into an alteration with saaS ..--'--'
"olnan no. -l--J--1----,-sGt ner SELL
ously, but the latter was afraid to enter
complaint against her, lest she should
exercise some baleful influence over
hei. 1t is said that she has many ad-
.nirers, and is soon to be married to
young Chilian of considerable wealth.
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haunted the remains which blind sur
perstition believe to be deposited
there.
KEEPING GRAPES.

Grapes can be kept very readily un-
til after the holidays and often longer
If proper care is taken in picking and
packing them. Like apples, they will
be better relished later on than now,
and if marketed can nearly always be
sold at better prize.
Cut the buuches from the vines with
sharp knife or pair of scissors
handle carefully so as not to bruise
them, look them over carefully and
select out any that are in any way
damaged, as only perfectly sound fruit
should be stored away. When only a
small quantity is to be stored good
plan is to select good, large punches
with long stems, put them in paper
bags such as can readily be bought at
the grocery stores, tie them carefully
close around the stems and then hang
up where they will keep dry and cool
and yet not freeze.
Another plan is to take clean boxes
or Jars, put In a good layer of some
packing materlal-cotton batting is
probably the best, cork dust next,
clean, dry sawdust. wheat chaff, or
even forest leaves, if thoroughly dry
pack in layer of grapes and then
cover we'll with some one of these
materials, doing the work carefully, so
as to exclude the light and air as per-
fectly as possible. Better results can
generally be secured if they are put in
not more than two layers deep. Store
them in place where they will keep
cool and dry and be sure not to freeze.
Some recommend the melting of seal
ing-wax and sticking the ends OF the
stems into this before packing away.
Some prefer to pack in good sized jars,
putting good layer of cork dust be-
tween each layer and then burying
deep enough to prevent dlmage by
frost and making sure that they will be
dry.
Another good plan is to hang up in
punches in darkened room where
there is current of air and where they
will be safe from freezing. They will
partly dry by this plan, but will be
sweet and good, though not quite SO
nice in appearance to use on the table
as if stored by some one of the other
plans
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A CODE BY GAIL HAMILTON.

Wildness is thing which girls can
not afford, wrote Gail Hamilton recent
ly to the New York World.
Delicacy is thing which cannot be
lost or found.
No art can restore the grape its
bloom.
Familiarity without confidence, with
out regard, is destructive to all that
makes woman exalting and ennobling
1t is the first duty of woman to be
a lady.
Good breeding is good sense.
Bad manners in a woman are immor-
allty.
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Basbfulness is constitutional.
Ignorance of etiquette is the result
of circumstances.
All can be condoned, and not Danish
men and women from the amenities OF
their kind.
But self possessed, unshrinking and
aggressive coarseness OF demeanor may
be reckoned as a State prison offSnse,
and certainly merits that mild form
of restraint called imprisonment for
life.
1t is a shame for women to be lee
tured on their manners. 1t S a better
shame that they need it.
Do not be restrained. Carry your
self so lofty that men will look up
to you for reward, not at you in re-
buke.
The natural sentiment of man toward
woman is reverence. He loses large
means of grace when he is obliged to
account her being to be trained in
propriety.
A mans ideal is not wounded when
women fails in worldly wisdom but il
in grace, in facts, in sentiment, in
dehcacy, in kindness, she should be
found wanting, he receives an inward
hurt
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THE FARM HORSE.

1t is not infrequent that horse is
found that has outlasted two or three
generations of horses and practically
worn out half dozen other horses
that seemingly were as tough as he
was. Nearly every farm has an old
standby that has taken his turn at all
the hard knocks OF farm work, has had
the same usage as any of the other
horses, and has stood full share OF
the ills and mishaps consequent upon
farm life and still hale and hearty
and able to wear out lots of the young
er horses. Why one horse will out
live, out work and be more serviceable
tina" -,-other is a questins- ! = !
sometimes hard ~->---------.--r-----rr1r-
several things which may have bear
ing upon the answer of this question.
FIRST, horse with perfect conforma-
ton is not liable to wear out soon.
Second, good, quiet disposition in a
horse prevents worry and fretfulness
and thus prolongs life and usefulness.
Third, good digestive organs 60 a long
way toward maintaining the bones and
sinews of an animal and thus add to
both utility and longevity. Fourth,
good breeding. There is nothing
which guarantees the qualities IN a
horse which are conducive to long life
and usefulness as good breeding. The
staying qualities of most horses consist
of the good blood they carry, although
they may inherit it from remote ances-
tors. These points may we'll be worth
remembering when the purchase of a
horse is contemplated, or when the
breeding of horse is being consider
ed. A horse that Is good for 20 years
of hard service, barring accidents, is
worth more than the hore whose posi-.
bilties are not seemingly SO great.
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TWO MOODS.

Between the budding and the falling leaf
Stretch happy skies;
With colors and sweet cries
Ofmating birds in uplands and in slades
The world is rife.
Then on n sudden all the music dies,
The color fades.
How fugitive and brief
Is mortal Ii fe
Between the budding and the falling leaf.
Oh, short breathed music dying on tine tongue
Ere half the mystic canticle be sung!
Oh, harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
Who, il 'twere his to choose, would know agail
The bitter sweetness OF the lost refrain,
Its rapture and its pain?
Though be shut in darkne SIS and become
Insentient dust blown idly here and there,
1 hold oblivious scant price to pay
For having once had held against my lip
Llte's brimming cup OF hydromel and rue
For having once known woman's holy love
And child's kiss, and for little space
Been boon companion to the Day and Night,
Fed on the odorS of the summer dawn,
And folded in the beauty OF the stars.
Dear Lord though be changed to senseleSs clay
And serve the potter as lie turns his wheel,
thank thee ior the gracious gilt of tears
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running hand, to "Alwyn Barton,
Esq. The Oaks" etc. In fact it
! had evidently been intended for the
old gentleman we called Bachelor
Barton, and to him | at once des-
patched il with a note of explana-
ton.
His answer was a request that |
and my husband would do him the
honor OF calling, as Mr.. Barton was
sick and there was much to explain.
And of course we went
Bachelor Barton, bolstered up
with pillows, lay on lounge, pale as
yellow wax, his eyes shining under
his gray brows.
Dear friends, you have told me
that the letter you sent me was in
the lining Of an old leather cap in
the crows nest, he said. | remem-
Der seeing the cap thrown away.
Miss Frees little negro servant Cato
wore it. A carpenter, who was
mending the barn, had snatched it
and flung it into the air. Appar-
entity it never came down again. 1t
was searched for, and l watched the
search from the window, but never
dreamed that it was in the nest. The
cap was old. Cato had a new one;
and that Was the end of it. But now
l remember that in that oiled silk
lining the boy put any letters with
which he was sent to the post office,
in order to keep them clean. think
it was made with sort of pocket on
purpose, and in this lining this letter
had started on his way to me
when rude Jest ended my hopes of
happiness for life. Cato forgot or
never told the fact of its being unde-
livered.
The letter, dear friends, was an
answer to my prayer for Miss Nancy
Frees pardon-a beautiful, forgiv-
ing, angel reply. Had l received it
| should have flown to her. She
should have been my bride. These
lonely years would have been glad
some. | might not have been the
last leaf on withered branch. 1t
was tated not to be. | trust she did
not suffer also. IL fear that is
possible. How discourteous she
must have deemed me. | never
dreamed she had written. /
He paused. Tears filled his eyes.
am sorry, l began.
Don't say you are sorry you
found it! Bachelor Barton cried.
If was foolish enough to faint when
the truth burst upon ME. l still
rejoice. Up there think she waits
for me-there, where the truth is
manifest without words; and thank
you-oh, so much!
We staid with him a little longer,
and he talked to us of Nancy and
old times. When l left him he
kissed my hand.
He died that night, and the letter
and Miss Nancy's miniature repose
upon his bosom.
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AYERS
Cherry PeCt0raI

Has no equal for the prompt relief
and speedy cure of Colds, Coughs,
Group, Hoarseness, Loss of Voice,
Preachers Sore Throat, Asthma,
Bronchitis, La Grippe, and other
arrangements of the throat and
lungs. The best-known cough-cure
III the world, it is recommended by
eminent physicians, and is the favor
lte preparation with singers, actors,
preachers, and teachers. 1t soothes
the lntlamed membrane, loosens the
phlegm, stops coughing, and induces
reDOSe.
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WHOLE No. 2.672

carefully preserved, and at the end of
every month were strained and the
residue afterward smelted and refined.
About 81, ,ooo a month was saved in
this manner. Every Summer parts of
the flooring were taken up and smelted,
and sometimes as much as $1,000 was
realized IN this way.
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THE BROOK AND THE WILLOW.

In early spring with hurrying feet
The brook went merrily by,
And the willow bent low his love to greet,
Murmuring to her. kiss me, sw eet.
Make the JOY OF the spring complete
Ere it fiy!''
With insouciant song
She trpped along,
And saucily said: mot l, not 1.
So, bare branched willow. goodby.
Goodby!'
But later, in summers withering heat,
When streams run parched and dry,
The brook went by with languid feet.
Then, lifting her lips the willows to meet,
She pleadingly murmured. kiss me, sweet,
For die"
His high plumed head
He tossed, and said:
You scorned lie once-not l, not l.
So, tickle brook, goodby,
Goodbye
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Antie cried my little nephew,
there's something in the crows nest.
was sitting in the garden and
the voice sounded above my head.
| looked up with start. In the
road outside arose a tall pole, and
from time immemorial great crows
nest had crowned it. How little
Billy had managed to reach its
apex l cannot say, but there was,
and speechless with borrow I could
only implore him, in dumb shows,
to descend.
He answered me with laugh,
flung something to the ground and
came sliding down after it.
You naughty boy! | cried, as |
caught him in my arms.
It's not a bit like a nest ante, he
said. It's all ugly and muddy.
There we're some feathers in it, black
and there was dead bird, and there
was that cap-a queer cap. l never
saw such funny thing
He picked from the grass the
object he had cast down. 1t looked
like a crushed leather box, and had
been melted by the sun and soaked
by the rain until it was shapeless
but it certainly proved to be queer
old fashion cap with a peak and
lined with oiled silk, and as Billy
tossed it about and turned it inside
out. a square white package dropped
from secret spot beneath this lining
which had kept it from destruction
adown the years.
Long years they must have been
for the letter had been written before
the days when envelopes were used
was cunousiy folded and sealed with
large seal on which was the lettel
"F," it was addressed in a delicate
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Mary (to Alice)-Your doll looks
very poorly. What ails her7 Alice
She frets great deal. Alfred knocked
out one of her eyes last week, and she
ost great deal of sawdust. She
hasn't been the same doll siaoe. Texas
.SittiMe-S.
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E1KTON, MD.

Having leased this well beg eEtted te "10r and uz
travelling public that has been thoroughly fei''e "
nished with all Modern Conveniences. NJ c,,,,,p, p
Fo,fn Ha1ng also secured services OF traven pubc
olte ~ g.. ~ ia'oraoy known ~ 49, ts<ga9ss; we'll
hre;,ee. 70 ogI eieIK, il Will pe power.
L. 80 ~ - ouf guests all atle"S SOLICITED.
share OF the public patronage ret
,.nu W. Al EoI-e'
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Do you
understand
the Sheep Question ?

It's furnshnglheap of political thunder Just
,ou II furnishes a able question the year round.
now en- of meat Otsde of it is the allwool side
- Country clothsused to be a reproach There
,,,s the Blue leans id and the home made spinning
;oass MIs and the home ode making joke.
For over thifone years we've been killing
o4 the Jokes bv clotg the country about us in the
Wan.maker e. Broumanutacture of Clohnp
We turn allpl cloth into the most perfect
Clotbino that can beanufactured. We buy cloth by
the caTioad: ma1ksAlts and Overcoats by the
thousand the five ddred or the hundred-as VIC
think the goods ann ~ Dc popular; and sell
them as near cost an 'aie TO- ana insure ourselves
a solvent business.
Great and gbnr sales have attended us every
wear in this eenereplan OF clothing you and our
Ready-Made Clotb ldS become the American
standard. SIS
Thirty Dollar 81 Thirty Dollar Overcoats
Twenty Dollar Is Twenty Dollar Overcoats
Ten Dollar Su;t Ten Dollar Overcoats
Dress Clotg and Everyday Clothing, of
qualities we know bk reliable sold at lower prices
bv * to 20 per CIT than prices usual in Clothing
stores, because weana profit by manufacturing and
selling the ClothngaSelVes
Wanamaker & Brown,
Sixth and Maha Philadelphia.
We pay Railroad Excursion Fare
from Elkton if you purchase $40 worth.
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Frank T. Kerr g Co.
S. }il2tfft 2l1f ge9s:5f UTUMN Fabrics
NIL tE;T l..
I ffE5..s{@: are here in great
If IIfFflfttts, g1ts3 ; i variety. Ot
EE!tGtsSsAt4l4ttt{t4t5t4 tGSA4l {t4t55tt4 course there is
4 cnch q nraat

illlSNR Es=Ll IL
tssA4 E5ssss4t$f3 4tt$f3 course there is
not such great
variety of colors, as the pre-
vailing ones run to Browns,
Blacks and Blues; but what
there is you will find on our
counters.
An inspection of our stock
is cordially requested and will
be worth the trouble. Prices
have been cut almost in halt
and our choicest goods placed
within the reach of the most
moderate purse. In chevlots,
Diagonals and Scotch goods
we can suit your fancy in
goods, workmanship and price.
Let us cite one instance OF
price cutting.
A fine cheyiot suit made OF
good material, honest work.
manship and, as a necessary
result, good wearing qualities
for the remarkably low
price of $12. This is not
ready-made suit but one made
to your order.
In a few weeks we will have
a talk with you about over
coats.
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AYERS
Cherry PeCtora|

taken for consumption, in its early
stages, checks further progress of
the disease. and even in the later
stages. Il eases the distressing
cough and promotes refreshing
sleep. 1t is agreeable to the taste.
needs hut small doses, and does not
interfere with digestion or any of
the regular organic functions. Asan
emergency medicine, every house.
hold should be provided with Ayers
Cherry Pcctoral.
Having used Ayers Cherry Pee
toral i'll my family for many years, I
can confidently recommend it for all
the complaints it is claimed to cure.
Its sale is increasing yearly with me,
and my customers think this prepa-
ration has no equal as a cough-cure.
IS. w. Parent OueenShurv y r y
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EPPS'SCOCOA
BREAKFAST.

''By a thorough knowledge OF the natural laws
which govern the operations OF digestion ana
nutrition, and by careful application OF the
fine properties OF well selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps
has provided our breakfast tables with deilc-
ately favored Leverage which may save us many
such articles OF diet that IA constitution may be
gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency of disease. Hundreds Ol suDtle
maIadies floating around us ready TO attack
wherever there is a weak point. We may escape
many fatal shalt by keeping ourselves wen
fortified with pure blood and properly nOurlsheu
e'-Ci nil SeTuICe Gazette. Made Simply
with boiling water milk. Sold only in hali-
pound tins. by Gi ocers, labelled thus:
JAMES EPPS g. CO., Homeopathic Chemists,
London, England
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-04
The Value of Medicine.

A noted Paris physician tells the fol-
lowing story against himself: eat times"
he said, "there comes to most people a
doubling of all that has heretofore
seemed the truest. Doctors, as well as
priests, are subject to these periods of
depression in which they question the
efficacy of their own Judgment. In such
a mood, while I was superintendent of
PHospital de -, divided the treat
ment of the wards. In one I exercised
the best medical skill that the aid of
drugs could afford; in the other only
gave as medicine little acrid water.
This experiment continued for month
with equally good nursing in both
wards"
''Well, with what resultsr' said his
listener.
'sThe cases in both wards averaged
just the same,' answered the doctor.
''And what would you infer from
that2" said his companion.
II hardly know" continued the physi-
clan. Il was only thankful that the ex-
pertinent did not actually score against
the profession more than it did; but on
the principle of doing ones best, I have
gone back to my medicines-if not with
absolute confidence, at least with the
consciousness that we can at least allie
viate suffering, and, all things being
favorable, may effect cure.-New York
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-04

THERE is entirely too much talk about
Mr.. Christopher Buckley in the press of
San Francisco. They are wasting their
ammunition on dead duck. 1t would
be good deal better if they were to di-
rect their attention to the Messrs. Grim
minis and Kelly, the Republican bosses,
who, under cover of all this Buckley
rattlebang, are quietly maturing and
carrying out a scheme of corrupt anu ir-
responsible government of the Golden
Gate which they learned from the de-
posed boss, but which they are extend
ing. Byron says somewhere that the
beautiful is but an extension OF the use
full, and if boodling is useful there bids
fair to be SURPRISING loveliness in the
municipal administration of San Fran
cisco if these men are allowed to hold
sway. We suggest to our brethren of
the metropolis that it would be well to
get down to real work and to fight the
substance and not the shadow. With
Crimmins and Kelly on their hands they
can well afford to let Buckley rest until
he again pokes up his interesting mug
in their midst.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-04
Why Fakirs Thrive.

The man who buys shoestrings and
other small articles from street fakirs
doesn't always do SO because he gets
them, or thinks he gets them, cheaper
1t is chiefly because men engaged in
business are usually so absentminded
that trifes of everyday use are never
thought of unless they are pushed right
under the business nose. AS rule the
stuff bought of street venders costs two
to five times as much as it would in a
legitimate store. But it is on this single
weakness of mankind that the street
fakir lives and thrives. A man will fool
with broken shoestring dozen morn
ings before he will remember to get a
new pair. Then suddenly during busy
day he runs against shoestring peddler
and buys pair on the spot, paying
double price for what his dealer would
give him for nothing.
!, The fakirs thrive best in the closest
and most busy centers. Down in Wall
and Broad and New and Nassau streets,
among the bankers and brokers and law
yers, who are too busy to think of sus-
penders and shoestrings and lead pencils,
ETC., the street fakirs fare well, for amid
the roar of clashing millions the absent
minded man clutches hastily on what
comes uppernost, knowing that other
wise he'll forget all about it.-New
York Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-04
SENATOR STEWART TO SENATOR HILL.

The note addressed by Senator Will
lam M. Stewart to Senator David Ben
nett Hill was doubtless extprted by the
New York statesman's alIusion to the
state of Nevada in connection with the
silver question. 1t is couched jim Mr..
Stewards forcible phrase and strong
presentment OF argument, but we do not
think that the status of the white metal,
as outlined in the HERALD some days
ago, has been altered in the least. This
journal has from the inception of the
discussion been an enthusiastic advo-
cate of bimetalllsm. Its sense of the
outrage OF the demonetization of silver
in 1873, has never known diminution.
The significance to the world of it's re-
Mobilization we regard as OF paramount
has taken place in the attitude of public
men towards it must be admitted.
Thus, the other day, the new senator
from Kansas, Mr.. Perkins, in discussing
the silver issue, said that, to his knowl-
edge, his predecessor, the late
Senator Plumb, had changed
his views as to the practica-
bility of immediate free coinage. Facts
are rugged things and beat theories. In
his letter to Senator Hill the Nevada
senator seems to question the New
Yorker's devotion to bimetallism. This
is hardly fair argument. Mr.. Hill holds
that the parity of the two metals can
only be brought about by concensus of
the United States and the principal
European nations. A great many Dem
ocrats and great many Republicans
hold precisely that view. He could not
change this fact If he would, and would
not If he could, for the reason that he,
with many others, believes that the only
way of securing the restoration of silver
to its old, rightful and constitutional
status is by initiating negotiations look
ing to the accord Of the European nations
with the United States in this pro-
gramme. There are multitudes OF peo-
pie in both the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties, it must be borne in mind,
who do not really desire to see silver re-
monetized. Mr.. Hill is not one of these.
On the other hand, sentiment ia
rapidly spreading in England, and is
growing in Germany, that the demone-
tization Of silver was mistake, and
that it ought to be placed as to eligi-
bility as circulating medium on
parity with gold. Governor Hill and a
great many other statesmen in both
parties. take this view of the matter,
and their large numbers will certainly
prevent the adoption Of free coinage
during the present session Of the fifty-