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The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
THE WINTER LAKES.

Out In tho world Of death. ser to tho north,
Under the sun and the moon. under tho dush
and the day,
Under the glimEicr OF stars and tho purple Ot
sunscte dying.
Wan and waste and white, stretch tho great
lakes away;
C,rags that are black and wet, out Of tho gray
lakes looming
Under tho sunsets flush and tho pallid, faint
glimmer of dawn;
Shadowy, ghostlike shores, where midnight
surfs are booming
Thunders OF wintry woo over the spaces wan;
Lands that loom like specters, whited regions
of winter;
Wastes Of dcsolate woods, deserts Of water
A world of winter and death, within these re-
gions who enter,
Lost to summer and life, go to return no
more:
Moons that glimmcr above. waters that lie
Miles and miles of lako far out under the
night;
Foaming crests of waves; surfs that shoreward
thunder;
shadowy shapes that fee, haunting tho
spaces white;
Lonely hidden bays, moon lit, ice trimmed,
winding,
Fringed by forests and crags, haunted by
shadowy shores;
flushed from the outward strife, where tho
mighty surf Is grinding
Death and hate on the rocks, as sandward
and landward 1t roars.
New York Tribune.
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
BuCklen'k ArEica Snixa

Tho best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheun,. Fever
Sores, letter. Chhpped Hands. Chilblains.
Corns and all Skin Eruptiops, and rosi
lively cu'es Piles or no pay Iequi ed. 1t is
guaranteed to aivs perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by the Pnrchen. D. 'Acheul u. up Co.
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
Tho Worlds Fair

Can not remain such without the bloom
ing look and radiant complexion whicn
health alone impnrts. Parks' Tea, by
clearing the blood Of impurities makes tho
complexion regain the hue of youth, For
sale by Parchen- D'Acheul Drug Co.
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

Than take in any other form ia what
many people think and Parks Tea is ma Q
for just those folks. 1t cures constitution
and. though not q cathartic, moves thu
bowels every dny. For sale by Parchen-
DAcheul Drug Co,
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

HANS Vegetable Sioilian Hair Rensae-
mas restored gray hair to its original color
and prevented badness in thousapds of
cases. 1t vii! do so to you.
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
GGtlI1 Re FirnI

us this building fireproof?" asked the
man with blue glasses and large gripsack.
Not if you're a book agent" replied the
janitor coDclusively.- Star,
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

Chicago has expended over 500, ,0OO, 900 in
the construction Of buildings since 1876.
The annual expenditure for that purpose is
between S45 ,0D0, 600 and So, ,OOO,O0
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
His Time Valuable,

- (atarrh often DESTROYS the sense of smell.
Hood's sarsaparilla cures catarrh by purifying
the blood ~
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

The study chair of Richard Baxter when
he wrote The Saints Everlasting Rest'' is
IN the possession Of Rev. Reuben Thomas
of Brookline, Mass
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

Mr.. Irving tells story of the "boots" at
q country hotel where he was staying, to
whom he gave an order for the play.
Come and see the piece, Tom," said Irv-
inp
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02

Come and see the piece, Tom" said Irv-
ing.
AT the theater?"
Yes" said Irving. "Here is an order
for you"
The next day Irving said, "Well. Tom,
did you like the play?'
"Oh, yes.' said the boots" in a dubious
kind OF way, but who is to pay me for my
time:"-Wagonet.
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
tho following carefully treoted

How to Curve.
How to Select Meats.
Hints to House. Keepcra
Diseased AMI Adultorated Food.
Warming snd Ventilation.
Drainage and Sewerage.
foisoninR. DrowntnR and Accident
Oisinfsctanth
The Helena independent., 1893-12-02
SOMETHING
III
!, En- TIRE LY ! new /
The Independents Latest and Best 0HeIl
THE HOME. QuEEN"
WORLDS FAIR
SOUVENIR COOK BOOK

Leather
and 6os by subscription,
the retail price being $3.50 COPY 4G
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11

Wild birds and small animals of the
forest are easily tanned by kindn So if
one will take the trouble to win their
confidence. The robin is very kindly
bird, aud if he Is given little enoour-
agemeut he will readily learn to come
at your call, and often take food from
your hands. The tiny hummiuy bird
VII light on flower held in the hand
OF one to whose presence he is acrus-
tomel. Even creature with so little
intelligence rs our common frog may
he trained to know the difference be-
tween individuals, and will sit for
hour, while you scratch his back and
feed flies to Lim The timid OH l,munk
has been 80 tanned in one of the sum.
mer encampments that it has seuted
itself on the knee of its human FREUD
and has taken nuts from her hand. He
was careful to I'LL his cheek pouches 80
full of nuts that he presented ludi-
crous appearance as he trottel oil
eagerly to his winter storehouse to put
away his provisions. The little crea.
ture came buck time aud again with
perfect confidence. till the store of
nuts was gone. The gray squirrel is
very frequently tame when lie gets
among the haants of men. He readily
learns to wander about the house, to
distinguish friends and enemies. and
will play the most amusing prAnks
when his confidence is once given. He
is 30 pretty in his manners and SO
dainty in his appearance that he is
certain to win your heart. The gray
squirrel in some of our summer resorts
learns to distinguish cottages where he
is welcome from those where he is not.
Year after year they return to cottages
where they have been regularly fed the
season before, sometimes in little
groups at the moment Of the return of
the family us if to offer welcome.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11

According to the Ruilway Rerie,c, an
official of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railroad recently returned from Europe,
referring to railway practice in Ger.
many, says: The roadbeds arc about
perfect, while the stations are magniti.
cent, even in the most insignificant
places being very fine. The roadbeds
are quite rigid, but this is mainly due
to the iron and steel cross ties that are
used. The locomotives are fine pieces
of mechanism, but their capacity is
scarcely equal TO those on this side OF
the Atlantic. Their entire passenger
equipment is always behind that IN
use here. Their trains, however, run
like clockwork, and the connections
are perfect
The method of starting trains is alto
gether unique and peculiar, and will
cause 1oa agents and trainmen t.
smile. The agent is an imposing.
dignitied and solem looking official.
attired in elaborate uniform, literally
gilt-edged, and he acts as master of
ceremonies on the imposing occasion
When thu train arrives ut station he
is standing bolt upright in an almost
military position, and he is on dress
parade.
One minute before the train starts he
reaches up and taps a gong three
times. Then a strange scene take
place. and it would seem that he hat
pressed button, for at the last tap the
conductor, who has been at the reu
car. comes galloping along the entire
length of the platform, shouting in
German the name of every station the
train will stop at. When the engine il
reached he wheels about, and op his
return closes and locks the car doors,
darts back to the van to his perch OIL
the rear Car, whistles thrice on tin or
metal whistle. which is instantly re
peated by the brakeman at the front
end, and the train starts.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11

When Macaulay went to barber
and, after an easy shave asked what he
had to pay, the shaver replied, just
what you generally give the man who
shaves you, sir" Il generally give
him. said the historian, "a couple of
cuts on each cheek" Some men are
not so niggardly to themselves, and
these are probably the cynics who look
upon the beard as the penalty incurred
by the eating of the forbidden fruit.
And this is theory that is at least
plausible, for the daily labor of roofing
out the martial growth that fringes the
cheek of the genus homo Is labor iu
which the sweat of the GROW is not al
together unfamiliar, while even the
tears have been known to flow as from
heart bowed down beneath load of
sin" 1t is certainly disquieting to
think that Eve may be at the bottom Of
that twenty y-seven feet of hirsute stub.
Bile which the German scientist calcu.
lates that man has moved down by
the time he is eighty.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
OF Course He Could Drive.

A rather dilupidated but exceedingly
cheerful tramp coming down the road
asked Mr.. Jennings for u job. Mr..
Jennings had just set his reaper. pre-
paratory to long days slow march up
and down the big wheat field But he
was urgently needed in another part of
the farm, and the farm hands having
gone to town, he welcomed help, how.
ever dubious.
"les, I've got job. Two dollars a
day and board, and it's yours as long rs
you hold it down. Can you driver"
Can l drive? Amt I druv four
har es to wanst fur q Dutchman in
Cheecago, an Jim screechn' wild n
horn on the back stip of the waggin?'
That's all right. A reaper amt q,
tally ho; but l guess you'll do. You'll
have to- just keep agoin'. I'll be
back inside of an hour. But say,
wish you'd save little patch by the
fence in the corner there; l want to
trr m Experiment read about iu the
Journal"
n..u now do work. the machine?"
You let the machine alone 1t will
work itself just you drive straight up
to that conner, then turn and go across
bv he fence. The machine will do the
cutting"
Ine new hand drove q few yards
very carefully, then halted, looked at
the mysterious thing behind him, and
shouted to Mr.. Jennings, who had al
ready started to the rescue of his fruit
trees:
And do she kape a-cuttin' like this,
all the time l kape agoin'?"
"Ies, yes; go ahead"
"Well, thin, how can I save the bit
in the tince corner? Whin 1 drive up
there, she'll jist cut it down anyway,
and won't have nothing to say about
it."
why, you idiotl When you get"
cav coorse, av ooorse! l was jist
iokin'. Whin get there, I'll jist stand
still till 1 git past. "-Harper's Mag
azine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
both Sides of tho Matter.

One of the most curious foibles OF
humanity is disposition to censure in
others the precise errors or faults OF
which we ourselves are guilty. A new
building was in process of erection op.
posite the city hall. One of the mu.
nicipal clerks who had been looking
out of the window for some time said to
another clerk who was reading q news.
paper, Il have been Watching that
workman over there for an hour and lie
has not done stroke of work in oil that
time. wonder what he gets paid for ?
Just about the same time the workman
remarked to fellow below Just look
at that clerk over there. He hasn't
done anything except look out of the
window for the last hour and half.
No wonder the country is gong to the
dogs"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
Animals In the Rain,

Horses and cattle never look so mis-.
erable rs when Standing exposed to the
cold and driving rain. Every field in
which cattle are turned loose should
have some rude shelter provided, how
ever rough and hardy the stock. If
left to themselves in state of nature
they would travel miles to some we'll
known bank or thicket, which would
at least give cover against the wind.
Shut up between four hedges, they are
denied alike the aid of human fore
thought and of their own instinct.
Bewick's vignettes of old horses, or
unhappy donkeys, huddled together in
driving showers on some bleak COM
mon, express a vast amount of animal
misery in an inch of woodcut. II seems
strange that no animal, unless it be the
squirrel, seems to build itself shelter
with the express object of keeping OFT
the rain, which they all so much dis
like
Monkeys are miserable in wet, and
could easily build shelters if they had
the sense to do so. LAS the creatures
hop disconsolately along in the rain.
writes Mr.. Kippling, in his Beast and
Man in India, ''or crouch on branches,
with dripping backs set against the
tree trunk as shelter from driving
storm. they have the air of being very
sorry for themselves" But even the
orang outang which builds a small
platform in the trees on which to sleep
at night, never seems to think of roof,
though the Dyaks say that when it is
very wet it covers itself with the leaves
of the pandauus, large fern.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
Fishes that Build Nests.

The gouramis are chiefly remarkable
for the fact that they build nests like
birds. At the breeding season they
pair of. each couple selecting spot
among water plants and forming q
nearly spherical nest, composed Of
peculiar kind of floating weed, which
grows in tufts on the surface of the
ponds. and plasterel with mud. The
nest is usually about six inches in di-
ameter. its construction occupying tbs
fish for five or six days. Where they
are propagated their task is made
easier by placing in the water branches
of bamboo, to which punches of the
grass referred to are attached. The
gouramis take this grass and with it
make their nest in the submerged
branches of bamboo. When it is fin.
ished the female deposits her eg IS in it
to the number Of from eight hundred
to thousand.
While the eggs are undergoing the
process of incubation the parents guard
their nest carefully, rushing hercely at
any intruder, and this care for the
safety of their young is continued nj.
ter the latter are hatched. During in
fancy the young ones find refuge in the
nest from thousand dangers which
would otherwise threaten them, and
the grass composing the nest furnishes
them with their earliest food. When
they are few days old the small fry
begin to make short excursions from
the nest, always in charge of their par
ents and swimming close together in n
shoal. This is continued until they
are able to look out for themselves.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
HIGHLY RESPECTABLE GHOSTS.
European sovereigns Who Were Troubled
by Gruesome Apparitions.

Dy Gruesome Apparluons.
Apparitions and prophecies are IN
important part of historical lore. be-
lieved in or not, as suits the tempera-
ment of the readers. Classic history
placidlv relates how certain noble Ro
mans stalked about after death indulg-
ing in ponderous oratory, like the ghost
of Hamlets father. The English SOW
ereigus have always been more or less
troubled by these gruesome meddlers.
Two of the wives of the much wedde,,
Henry WILL. Jane Seymour and Cath.
crime Howard. are said to revisit Hamp.
ton Court. The first is visible on the
anniversary of her death, gliding
through the rooms and carrying small
lighted lamp. The ghost of Catherine
Howard manifests itself in more
startlin fashion. After her arrest, she
escaped her captors and tried to reach
her husband to beg for mercy. From
time to time her ghost re- enacts this
scene, wailing piteously. Queen Eliza
beth was torewarned of her own death
by seeing her double, very lean and
haggard. in blaze of light" The
appsritions OF the living are not always
ominous, however. Catherine H., the
mighty Empress of Russia, was lying
ill, so says history, when her attend
ants came in great excitement to the
sick room to announce that her living
image. in full imperial robes, was seated
on her throne in the Presence Chamber.
Catherine Immediately suspected u
trick, and went in to see for herself.
There sat her double and looked steru-
ly ut her. The empress returned the
gaze unflinchinyly. and not being
pLtient woman, ordered her guards to
fire upon the weird apparition. When
the smoke cleared away the figure had
disappeared, leaving no trace behind.
have frequently appeared after his ex-
ecution to the treacherous Charles l.,
and to have warned him on one of these
occasions of the disaster that was des-
tined to befall his forces at the battle
OF Naseby if the plan of that conflict as
then decided upon we're not changed.
But Charles failed to follow the advice
of his supernatural visitor, and SO
rusLel hea long to his own destruc-
queen, was firm believer in omens.
On one occasion four candles that
burn. d on her dressing table went out
unaccoun ably one by one. When the
third light was expiring, the queen
said, breathlessly "lf the fourth dies
out too, shall know it is all over with
US T. Very gradually the fourth light
pAled, fickered and vanished, and the
queen fell in a swoon. The White
Laly of Brandenburg, who is said to
appear Whenever a member of the
House of Prussia is about to die, is
we'll known figure in ghostly lore. She
has rival in the White Lady of the
Hapsburgs, veiled female enveloped
in white robe resembling shroud,
who is said to patrol the battlements
of the puluce at Vienna whenever one
OF the imperial family is going to depart
this life. If she should ever unveil her
face, the imperial dynasty will fall.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11

And yet all the sermons, if so we may
call the chapters of the Prophet Isaiah,
are short The whole of his book can
be read in couple of hours, and might
be printed on newspaper page. Here,
in this small compass, you have tho
preaching Of lifetime, sermons of iu-
spired eloquence, full of sublime i'm
agery, commanding appeals, and solemn
warnings. There is no mannerism here,
nothing spun ont, no drawing Well,
then, pulpiteersl why don't you preach
sermons of that kind and style, so as to
give church goers relief from the long
windelness and dullness of which they
are forever complaining?
Now, again, look at the sermons of
Paul, the mightiest of Christian preach
ers. We have specimens of them in the
Acts of the Apostles. Take that ser.
mon on Mars Hill to the men of Athens;
if we may Judge by the report of it, it
was delivered in few minutes and tho
Athenians said. 1--WE will hear thee
again. His sermon before the elders
of the church in Ephesus, as recorded
in Acts Xxx, was about ten minutes long,
yet it had such powerful effect that
his hearers wept sore and fell on his
neck and kissed him. His sermon in
the Hebrew tongue (Aots xxi was very
short; SO was his defence before Agrippa,
and 80 we're all his other sermons of
which We have reports. His epistles
were all short. He was never tedious;
his hearers never yawned. Few of
these powerful discourses by which lie
moved the world. and yet moves it,
could have taken more than ten miu-
utes of time in delivery. We have
reasons to believe from the Scriptures
that the sermons of the Apostle Peter
We're short, and the sermons also of the
other apostles. Look. finally, at that
divinest of all sermons delivered on
this earth, the sermon of the Master Of
the Apostles. the Sermon on the Mount,
We are not arguing that all our
preachers ought to make their sermons
as short as those of the first Christian
preachers. We do not set the limit of
time for sermon at ten minutes, or
even at half hour. Let every pull
piteer be persuaded in his own mind.
But we do say that the greatest, the
most etficacious, and the most inhuen-
tial sermons ever preached in this world
by the saints of old were very short.
And We say further, that the preacher
of our time who follows their example
in this respect can quote from divine
authority for putting bride upon his
tongue.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
A Rare Plant.

Dick, said young English barris.
ter on a visit to his college chum, Just
inducted into his first living, your
sermon was admirable. but I think you
occasionally used words above the com.
prehension of your congregation.
We'll. that's the last thing expected
to be accused of, said the clergyman.
Give me IN instance of one"
Would not happiness, SAID his
friend, have been much more intelG,
gible than felicity?'"
Ridiculous r. exclaimed the other.
Everybody knows the meaning OF
felicity Here, john" to his gardner,
who happened to be passing the win.
dow, don't you know what felicity
is?"
"Ay. sure, sir"
We'll, what is it?" asked the lawyer,
too much accustomed to sitting evi.
dence to be put off with geueralities.
John looked puzzled.
Il do suppose, sir, that it must be an
aquatic, said he. looking at his master,
"ior You told us it was a plant which
did not grow in earth."
The clergyman collapsed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-11
Lincoln's Remarkable Intellect,

Any one hearing him express his
ideas, or think aloud, either upon ono
of the great topics which absorbed him,
or on an Incidental question, was not
long in finding out the marvellous rec.
titude of his mind, nor the accuracy of
his judgment.
| have heard him give his opinion ON
statesmen, argue political problems
always with astounding precision and
business. l have heard him speak of IL
woman who was con sidered beautiful
discuss the particular character of her
appearance, distinguish what was
praiseworthy from what was open to
criticism, all that with the sagacity of
an artist. Lately two letters, in which
he speaks OF Shakespeare. and in par
ticular of Macbeth, have been published;
his Judgment evinces that sort of deli
cacy and soundness of taste that would
honor great literary critic. He had
formed himself by the difficult and pow
erful process of lonely meditation
During his rough and tumble life he
had constantly with him two books
which the western settler always keeps
on one of the shelves of his hut-tho
Bible and Shakespeare. From the
Bible he had absorbed that religious
color in which he was pleased to clothe
his thoughts with Shakespeare he had
learned to reflect on man and passions.
In certain respects one can question
whether that sort of intellectual cul.
ture be not more penetrating than any
other, and if it be not more particu-
larly suited in the development of
gifted mind to preserve its native orig
inality.
These reflections may serve to explain
Mr. Lincoln's talent as an orator His
incisive speech found its way to the
very depths of the soul his short and
clear sentences would captivate tho
audiences on which they fell. 70 him
was given to see nearly all his defini-
tions pass into daily proverb. 1t is he
who, better than any one, stamped the
character of the war in these we'll
known words, spoken some years be-
fore it broke out "A house divided
against itself can not stand this Gov.
ernment can not continue to exist half
free and half slave. From Personal
Recollections of Mr.. Lincoln" by the
Marquis de Chambrun, in Scribner's.