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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-09

Population by color. sex and general
nativity IN Delaware, Maryland, District
OF Columbia, Virginia and Vest Viz
glnia IS given In census bulletin No.
lS7. The total population of the fve
states IN 1890 was 1850, ois, "a increase
during the decade of 469, $50. In the
five states as a whole there are ,925, All
males and 1884 ,63s females. Consld-
ering the total population az 100 per
cent the total white represents li.so
per cent. the largest percentage OF col
ored being found ia Virginia which has
Is. 40 per cent. In West Virginia but
little more than per cent Of the whole
population are coiored. Agricultural
bulletin No. LII. relating TO the
production of fax and hemp IN
the United states. states that the
total area of land devoted To the
cultivation of hemp in 1889 was 25,0o4
acres, and the production Of fiber Was
II. 5li tons, valued at 1902, COZ to the
producers. Kentucky produced 1917
DER cent of the total hemp crop. The
total area of land devoted 70 fax IN
1889 was ! ,Sls,6 sos acres, the production
of haxseed l0,250, 4l0 bushels, the pro-
duction of fiber 2ll ,3S9 pounds. the
amount OF fax straw sold or so utilized
as TO have determinable value 207 1857
tons, and the total value of all fax
products Sl0.463, 22S. While fiaxseed
is reported from thirty-one states, MIN
nssota, Iowa, South Dakota and Ne
braska produce 5000 per cent of the
total amount, or l.035,6l3 bushels in
excess of the entire production OF the
United States ct the census of 1880.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-09

WHEN q defeated faction tries to
create sympathy for itself and preiu-
dice against its successful rival by
charging that money is dishonesty
used 1t is apples to doughnuts that it
has begun to lose all hope. The silly
charge made At Minneapolis that the
opposition to the presiden. is buying
delegates is beneath the dignity and
manhood of true republicans, even
though they be in a hopeless minority.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

SuMMONS-IN THE DISTRICT COURT
~ OF tho First judicial district of tho state Of
Montana, in and for the county of Lewis and
Clark.
James German. plaintiff, vs., Sarah L. Cor
man, defendant,
The state of Montana sends greeting to the
above named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear in au action
brought against you by the above named plaintiff
in the district court of the First judicial district
OF tho state Of Montana, in and for the county of
Lewis and Clarke, and to answer the complaint
filed therein. within ton days exclusive OF the day
OF %serviGe) after tho service on you OF this sum
nous, il served within this county; or, 1t served
twenty days. otherwise within forty days, or
Judgment by default will b. taken against you
according to tho prayer Of said complaint.
The taid action is brought to obtain II decree OF
said court dissolying The bonds Of matrilnony
heretofore aud now existing between tho
plaintiff and defendent, tho plaintiff alleging III
y cause for divorce that tho defendant has will
fully absented herself from tho plaintiff with
out any reasonable cause since on or about tho
-- day Of september. A., d., 1889; and plaintiff
prays for general relief.
And you are hereby notified that II You fail to
appear and answer Tho said complaint. as above
court For the relief demanded in said complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal of the dis
triot court Of the, First judicial district Of tho
state Of Montana, in and for tho county of Lewis
md Clarke, this l4th day OF December. in the year
OF our Lord, ono thousand eight hundred and
ninaty-one.
tsEAL- JOHN BEAN, Clerk.
II. G. FREEMAN, Deputy Clerk.
MAssENA buLI.ARD. attorney for plaintiff.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

phia ball he would find many of the changes
Greek to him. 1t isn't so now. Chicago
has adopted. tho New York association
rules, SO has st. Louis and New Orleans, all
owing to tho fact that most of tho cities
have one Of the Representatives of the as
sooiations and have introduced the dances
executive baard OF the association.
1.-THE dances in vogue at the Charity bali
in New York will be oun ut the Mardi
Gras in New Orleans. The Patriarchs' ball
i'll New York gives the same dances and
changes that you will find at Menus and
Proteus during the weeks revelry in the
Crescent CITY.
Dancing is not only IN accomplishment,
but it Keeps the old feeling young. It makes
the young graceful, and it IS the open Sc
same now 30 all social gatherings. I do not
mean by that that n dancer with no other
accomplishment will find himself we'll re-
ceived, but | do say that a young man who
cannot dance often finds himself like the
gentleman who comes in on the lovers,
'detfop.'o
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

Opportunity.
Master of human destiny am I,
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
wait,
Cities and fields / walk. / penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late
| knock unbidden once at eve y gate.
If sleeping, wake; if feasting rise before
l turn away. 1t is the hour of state
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hest
tate
Condemned to f%ailute, penury and woe
Seek me ii vain and uselessly implore;
I answer not, and 1 return no more.
JSo. j.. INGALLS,.
But fail ye not in this respect,
Seize every opportunity to travel
Over the Chicago, Milwaukee d. st. Pau
railway. @
This is the advice of "A. ".
Gro. II. HEAFFoRD.
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20
SELECT YOUR PARTNERS
The New Styles Of Dancing That
Are Being Taught This
Season.
Allemande Left and Dos-a-dos
Are no Longer in tho
Style.
Squares Displaced by Diagonals-The Ok
ford Minuet, the Spanish York
and the Waltz Minuet.

Great rivalry now exists among the sew
Gral New York and Boston teachers Of
dancing in the way of producing something
new that they may submit to their repre-
sentative associations that will prove both
popular and taking in all pats Of the coun-
try. The Oxford minuet this season seems
TO take precedence over other dances, M it
is taught as many different ways as there
arc different cities.
Said a teacher Of dancing to a representa-
tive OF tho Buffalo News a day or two ago:
II do not believe the Oxford minuet is
properly taught in any Echool outside of
mine in this CITY; the orchestras play it
without any reference to the instructions
accompanying the music. 1T is q beautiful
dance when properly don and 4 most mis-
cradle failure when it isn't
How are you going to better things?"
LET the teachers give their attention to
ths music. The music contains the instruo-
tion."
what are the changes of tho Oxford
minuetY" =
1.-The first is slow and stately like the
court minuet, SO far as movement goes,
though played in schottischs time. II is
not as quick rs the Alsatian nor yet a. slow
as the vesuviana. 1t is one of the prettiest
of dances. something like tho old Meditsr-
rnncan."
"What other new dances are there this
soasop2"
"The Spanish York, which has the same
time as the redowa. There are dozens of
others, but they are hardly worth talking
about. The waltz minuet is one of the
prettiest dances ever introduced, if properly
taught. OF course, round dances are
crowding the square dances out. Novelties
in qaarcs must be introduced in order to
retain them at all in The cities. For in
stance, dances that used to be square are
now danced diagonally or on corners. 10
make it plain. the old change, First four
right and left with opposite oouple,'' they
now cross to the cotner-the side couple
taking tho place the head couple used to
occupy and repeating to the right. OF
course in country towns the square dances
uio square still; the Stratoca %lancers,
minuet lancers and college lancers remain
the same.
.1he New York %lancers, now in its second
season, remains in favor. Tho changes are
very simple. They run: Head couples
lead to the right. join nands, circle four,
back to place; right and left to the oppo-
site eide. balance, turn corner and back to
Iiaces Ino ioufbh iRuro Ia At9"a SoupAes
forward, address. take opposite lady and go
to the side address; head couples to place,
then right and left to the right.
Dancing is certainly on the increase.
Nearly all the invitations to receptions now
include dancing and there are 80 manv
social clubs forming for dancing that il is
almost indispensable to one'H accomplish
ments.
Since the formation of the association
there is a uniformity in dances. At enc
time il u New Yorker went to u Philadel-
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

The three great groups of s~ub;scts of the
coming year will be inpartially and instruc-
lively discus sed by the ablest writer's:
!. Political subjects growing out of tho
Presidential Campaign.
III. Financial Disturbances here and
abroad.
III. Theological Unrest-with all the
social questions suggested by these groups of
great topics.
There is no other way whereby one may get the
ripest Information about the great prob
lens of the time within SO narrow q compass or
for so small a sum-short studies of great sub
iects by more than u hundred of the foremost
only one American. periodical fOc which all the
great lenders OF opinion and OF thought write;
and that is THE Forum,
The December umbe for example, con-
tains: Degradation by Pensions-lhe fro-
test of Loyal Volunteers, by Lieut.. Allen X.
teers; Tho Meaning of the Democratic VIC
tory in Massachusetts, by Gov. VIM. r..
Russell; French Feeling Towards Ger
mother Conflict about AlsAce-
Lorraine Inevitable, by Camille Pelletan,
Member of the French Chamber of Deputies;
pealed? by Jacob III. $chif, one of the most
successful and influential bankers in New York;
Is Modern Education II Failure? by Erreu-
eric Harrison, the great English ~essayest; I'm
regulated Com petiti0n Se.f-destrnct,ve, by
Aldnce II. Walker, Chairman of tho Western
Traffic Association; Non,en's Cfubs-The
Volume aud the Nalue of Their Work, by
Alice ii. Khine: a Day with Lord Tenny-
son, by Sir Edwin Arnold. And five other
articles.
There are now in progress discussions of Our
psnsion sSsttemm; prison Managsment; Tie
Training of Preachers. The Iouisiann E,otterv.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20
BULLETIN
POSITIVE CLOSING OUT SALE

This is no advertising dodge, but I mean business, as prices
quoted below will prove. All whisSes are quoted at Eastern
prices and are subject to change monthly. Nowis the chance for
dealers to buy strictly pure whiskies lat Distllers' prices in large
quantiles) and save freight. Will sell in quantities to suit, from
one barrel to limit of stock. The following goods in stock:
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20
The FQRUM
The foremost OF our periodicals.

A sample copy with illustrated prospectus will
be sent for rs cents.
The Forum is the most instructive,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

the most timely, the largest and
the handsomest of the reviews.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-20

SuMMONs-IN THE DISTRICT COURT,
~ OF the First judicial district of tho state Of
in and for tho county of Lewis and
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
ADVERTISING RATES.
Eugene Fleld,a prnnm.

No one realizes better than Eugene
Field himself what Mrs. Field has
bad to endure by reason of his pecu.
liarities, and he illustrates this by
narrating "A dream he claims to have
had, writes John Ballantyne i'm "A de-
lightful gossipy sketch Of Mrs. Eu
gene Field in the April Home Jour
nal. Il thought" he SAYS, chat
had died and gone TO heaven. / had
some difficulty in getting past St
Peter, who examined my record close
ly and regarded me with doubt and
suspicion. but finally permitted me
to enter the pearly gates. As / walk
ed up the street of the heavenly cityI
saw a venerable old man, with long
gray hair and flowing beard. His
benignant face encouraged me TO ad-
dress him. Il have just arrived and |
am entirely unacquainted,' ! said.
May | ask your nnme?" q
"Oh yes, he replied I'm Job.
Indeed, / exclaimed. ARE YOU the
job whom we were taught TO revere
as the most patient man in the
world?"
les ne SAID, with show ofhesita-
ton. ies' did have quite a reputa
ton for patience once, but I hear
that there is woman now on earth
who has suffered more than ever
did and has endured il with greater
resigna ton.
Why said !, that is curious. am
Just from earth and do not remem-
Der to have heard of her case. What
is her name?
Mrs. Eugene Field, was the reply.
Just then / awoke."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
A confederate wal.

To an ex-Confederate like Patter-
sou, of Tennessee, it is plain enough
that the South is suffering from
something else than a lack of the free
coinage of silver. He is free silver
man and all that, but he declared i'm
a recent speech in the House that
the real cause of the scarcity Of mon
ey at the South is the payment of
pensions to Union soldiers. He says
that in the North the money taken
for this purpose is Immediately put
into circulation in the same section,
and hence occasions no contraction
of the currency, but that the South
IN paying its share of the pension tax
parts with money which does not
come back again, but goes TO the
Union veterans and remains in the
North. If this theory is correct, it
would seem that a way has at last
been found to make the eX-Rebels
pay some small portion of the dam
age done by them over n quarter of
a century ago. They ought to be
the last persons, however, TO COM
plain that they have to pay n part
of the pensions. Strict justice would
require that they contribute to the
Treasury every dollar needed for
pensioning the loyal soldiers who
we're injured and manned in cons,,-
quence of the reasonable acts OF the
ex-Confederates. Instead, however,
of cheerfully paying oheir part OF the
pension tax and being thankful that
they escape with light assessment,
their mutterings show plainly enough
that if they only had the power
they would soon put a stop to pen
sions to Union soldiers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
Insomnia and Nervousness.

There can be no doubt that many
persons suffer from insomnia which
has its origin, or at least its princi-
pal strength, in their own nervous
apprehension that they are or about
to be afflicted with it. ANY one of
dozen causes may induce wakeful-
ness, and yet the person lying in bed
with faculties alert at the moment
when they would naturally be ex-
pected to be wrapped in slumber.
has nine times out of ten. or ninety
nine times in a hundred, nothing se-
rious to apprehend. The stomach
may not be in quite it's normal con-
dition-and there is no more potent
cause of wakefulness. Now an hour
ten minutes, even-seems n long
time in the middle of the night, when
a person wishes to be sleeping and
cannot. If a sensation of dread, OF
! apprehension, is allowed TO enter the
/ mind, such a period simply become,
nuefIninaOle. Inc nervous appre
| hensiOn increases the difficulty. anC
! feeding upon itself, the derangement
may quite possibly incease till il be-
comes dangerous malady.
In such a case the very best treat
ment, if the patient has any degree
of will power, is simply TO pay no at
tention to the fact of wakefulness.
Make no effort to court slumber,
either by counting, repeating the al
phabet, or imagining any monoto-
nous thing. Keep the mind away
from any business or domestic per-
pleXity, but let it roam in full wake
fulness where it will, among pleasant
things, old associations, the friend
ships of thepast or the present-any-
thing that is not of a disagreeable
nature. AS the physical or nervous
system RECEIVERS its balance, or as the
stomach becomes master of its COM
plications, slumber will come along,
searching for the individual, and the
morning will find the nights rest
quite satisfying after all. Drugs and
dosing are out of place; they merely
aggravate and fasten the necessity
for their own use. A simple bath, if
no more than of the face hands and
feet, is helpful, especially if followed
by a generous rubbing with a dry
towel, which will equalize and in
vigorate the circulation. If there is
chronic trouble with the stomach,
that may properly receive medical
attention; when the disordered con
dition is remedied, the wakefulness,
which was simply a symptom, and
not a part of the disease, will take
care ofitself-Good Housekeeping.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
/" PICK-EGGO."
BY NJ. CARRIE HYDE.

1t was the Friday before Easter,
and e Pick-Pggs" or rather peek
eggs was the cry that rang up and
down the Main street of Gluckville, a
tiny Pennsylvania Dutch town, hem
med in by rolling hills, shallow riv-
er and a railroad, whose train seldom
found it worth their while, to stop
there
In spite of this, however, Gluckville
held itself on a level with a town six
miles away, the next size larger, for
like it, Gluckville had a church, q
school, post-otfice, two stores and
an occasional peddler and organ
grinder.
This season. too, it was particular
ly favored, for a New Hampshire
school teacher, had taken it into her
wise little head to 90 to Gluckville
and teach their school, eat their black
berry, elderberry and teaberry pies
three times a day and rest at night,
between two feather-beds-one above
and one below the sleeper, as was the
custom of these people.
Books, she found, were rare and
peculiar, the DAILY papers" came
but once n week, and the dialect spok-
en-, was Il singular cross between Ger
man and English, or as Others eX-
planned it, a mOngrel remnant of
Revolutionary Hessian, mixed with ii
very poor quality OF English.
Where am l? l am where? Am
l where?" she vaguely asked her
] self
= ..+,1YT,y Tt,,arr-,, ,,,iIae tror, u +,,y,,,
which has electric-lights, an electric
railway and a Shakespere club. Only
| one hundred miles from the third
largest city in the Union," she told
! herself, and cOmfOrted, began her
! teaching with such bright face, that
she soon had the sincere confidence
and admiration of the kiDd-hearted
people, she was to spend eight months
among.
"Peek-eggs! peek -eggs!" repeat
ed itself in her ears, this Friday morn
ing, as she entered her school-room,
and it to& an extra tap of her bell
to call her pupils order for " Peek
eggs" and their attention to school
work.
! "What is peek-eggs, children"
she asked, at recess.
"Wait till l tell you," said Her
mann Gaumgartner, a little boy with
the characteristic dark eyes and curl
ing lashes, of many of the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch people, look onst, " and
taking in his plump fist, an egg, dyed
o bright crimson, he held it pointed
end up, while another boy, after test
ing the strength of the pointed end of
his onion-dyed yellow egg, hitting it
against his front teeth, tapped it two,
three, four times upon the apex of the
egg Hermann held, when "a brittle
crack, told the children watching
near, that Rudolph's yellow-egg had
won in the contest, and Hermann's
crimson egg, now became Rudolph's
property. -.
81 don't quite understand this "
said the teacher, observing how readi-
ly Hermann gave up his egg.
"Och, dat ist not so hart" said
Hermann, "see, his aig vas stronger
as mine and so it break mine, den
mine ist his, dat ist vat "peek-eggs "
ist."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
The Use of a Roller.

Writing on "Our Common Roads" F"
in the April Century, Isaac b. Potter
says: Every day it is becoming
more firmly established that a good
road-roller is the most valuable piece
of machinery employed in the road
makers art: and indeed, without it,
neither can the foundation or sub
soil of the roadway be made uniform
ly hard and reliable, nor the surface
layer be given that uniform compact
ness and solidity which give excel
lence to the road and insure per-
petual economy in the cost of main
tenance and repairs. To one who
has seen a heavy road-roller used in
compacting the soil of a new road
way these facts will be very evident.
If a length of one thousand yards in
an ordinary earth road be cut to an
exact and uniform grade one foot be-
low the original surface of the road,
it will be found in most cases that the
new surface thus exposed will present
an appearance which. to the ordina-
ry observer, is of uniform material
and even hardness from end to end /;
but the passage of a roller weighing
from ten to fifteen tons over this new
surface will soon disclose defects and
soft spots located at irregular inter
walls throughout the length of the
work; and as the process OF the roll
ing continues, the uniformity of the
grade will disappear, and what at
first appeared to be n tolerably sat
isfactory surface will develop into a
succession of humps, holes and un-
dulations. In the using of the roller
in actual work these depressions and
soft spots are carefully filed and
brought to the line of the required
grade, while the successive passing OF
the heavy roller over the filing gives
to the entire road that form and con-
sistency which are so essential to
every good highway"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
TERMS S1.5O.

thrust into her hand, and then heard
some quick stumbling steps, as the
messenger, who brought the packet,
fed in awkward retreat.
Fritz" she called, for she knew il
was he, though in the dark hall. she
could not see, Fritz" but there was
no reply and the slamming of the
outside-door, told her he had gone.
What has the little rogue brought t
meY' she exclaimed, returning to
the lamp in her room, and unwrap-
ping layer upon layer of rumpled
newspaper, she came to an egg, DYED
a deep crimson, on whose shell, had
been most delicately etched or
scratched, with a pen-knife, a very
accurate picture of the Gluckvillp
school-house, the pine tree near the
door, and two or three Of the chill
dren. playing under it, in the school
yard.
els it possible. Fritz is so much, of
an artist as this, or has some one
done it for him?" she said In sur
prise, and she opened little brown
paper note. which had come with the
egg, tor an explanation.
Dear teacher" it said. "Pap has
heerd how pad | vas i'm de schule to-
day, ant he says, / must 60 to stop
at home, all de dimes. ant make de
garten onst. Anyways, was goep
to glib you dis egg, but / haf it not
done, from venstay, till chust now"
No name was signed, but the teach
er understood it all, so well. that the
next afternoon. she went to see
tritzs father. and soon persuaded
him to let Fritz, return to school.
When Fritz came the following
Tuesday, he found a new drawing
book, case of drawing-pencils and
an eraser awaiting him, and in a few
weeks the little town of Gluckville
was talking about the ''goot" pict-
nres Fritz Schimpf could make" unit
how he will an artist be, alreaty
onst."
"The best of it is" said Miss Mira
to herself, 'that he is growing so
honest and industrious. When he is
a little older, my uncle will take him,
l am sure, to study engraving and
in the school of "Applied
Art"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21
The Blight KIND OF a Girl.

Let a girl be ever so graceful in the
dance, let her be ever so elegant Of
walk across the drawing-room, ever
so bright in conversation, she must
possess some other qualities to con
vince the great average run of young
men that she can be the manager of
his home, the pilot that steers his
ship of state, writes EdwaId w. Box
in the April Ladies Home Journal.
Frugality, womanly instincts Of love
for home, an eye TO the best interests
of her husband and the careful train
ing of her children-these are the
traits which make thegood wife Of to-
day, and which young men look for
in girls they meet. Men may some
times give the impression that they
do not care for common sense in
their sweethearts, but there is moth
ing they so unfailingly demand of
their wives.