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Proper wasl,lne E.or tI,e scum.

A de1matologist of high standing
says that the proper way to sham.
poo the head is to use some pure
soap, such as CASTLE of the best quail
ity or glycerin soap, made into a
good lather- on the headn with
plenty of warm water and rubbed
into the scalp with the fingers or
with rather a stiff brush that has
long bristles. When the scalp is
very sensitive, borax and water or
the yolks of three eggs beaten in a
pint of limewater are recommended
instead of soap and water. After
rubbing the head thoroughly in
every direction and washing out the
hair with plenty of warm water or
with douches of warm water alter
mating with cold, drying the hair
with a bath towl, small quantity of
vaseline or sweet almond oil should
be rubbed into the scalp. The oil
thus applied is used in the place of
the oil that has been removed by
washing and to prevent the hair
from becoming brittle.
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The cigar Was a Good One.

A man whose face was intelligent.
but whose clothes were shabby and
whose bearing was Enthusiastically that
of a man who had shed every respon-
sibility and was taking life as easily
as he could-a city tramp walked
comfortably along in Union square
AS he walked he saw upon the ground
the discarded end of cigar. There
was more of it than asmoker usually
throws away. While he made no
particular demonstration over it, the
tramp was evidently pleased to find
it He placed it in his mouth and
walked on with just a trace of Ella
ton added to his manner of habitual
unconcern.
After walking a few steps he
thought he would smoke it. he
paused in front of a man who was
sitting ON one of the benches reading
a newspaper and asked him for a
match He lighted the cigar carefully.
And when he had it fairly alight and
going he took it from his mouth and
held it up and looked at it calmly but
critically with the air of connois-
seur, and then he lifted his face slight
ly and blew the smoke into the air.
It was cl@ar that he enjoyed his end
of the cigar and approved the taste of
the purchaser. New York Sun.
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MRS. MoNRoE's GRACIOUS ACT.
Row the wife ofaP1e.Ident Saved the Llf
ofa Condemned wowan.

uOw the Wife OLA aPresIdent Saved the Life
ofa Condemned wOwan.
Ia 1874 James Monroe became min
lister to France Those were trou-
blous times. The echoes of the French
revolution were yet in the air, and
tho various European nations were
watching one another as well as the
United States to note the attitude
taken by them in regard to the
French government.
Monroe was received enthusiastic
ally, and his after life, while ia
France, was full of stirring and dra-
matte incidents. One event in par
ticular was not only interesting in 1t
self, but had n grave bearing on pub
lie als.
The Marquis de Lafayette had been
captured on the frontier and was
now lying in the dungeon of Olmutz.
His wife with her two little children
were confined in the prison of La
Force in daily dread of being or
dered to the guillotine
Her condition appealed strongly to
the American minister, and at length
he resolved ON a course which might
not only fail to do her any good, but
would probably involve linn person
ally in trouble, for the government
of the day was only too ready to
take offense in its present state of ir-
ritability from troubles past.
Without his wife he could do moth
ing, and she promptly seconded his
determination with the pledge of her
own aid. One afternoon the carriage
of the American minister drew up
before the prison of La Force, and
Mrs. Monroe descended from it and
asked permission to call upon the
marchioness. She had assumed all
the pomp and elegance to which her
husbands position entitled her, and
the prison authorities were evidently
impressed by her courage and deci.
sion of her bearing.
They took her to reception room
instead of the cell where the mar
chioness was confined and conducted
thither the young and unhappy WON.
an, who seemed, as well she might,
full of grief.
1t was not safe to talk confidential.
ly, and probably neither woman
could trust herself to speak. The
marchioness, who had been expect
ing a summons TO her execution.
could only sob, and when Mrs. Mon.
roe left she promised, In the hearing
of the guards, to return ON the fol.
lowing day
But the call was never repeated,
for on the very next day the mar.
chioness was at liberty and on the way
to join her husband. Her execution
had really been fixed for the after
noon of Mrs. Monroe's visit, but the
French authorities, having thus
learned the attitude of the American
minister, had decided on Ieniency.2
Youths Companion.
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The Importance of n Decision.

The secret of getting through work
ismethod. Order, it has been said.
is Gods first law; let it be yours. Do
not let your work accumulate upon
your hands. 1t is not work that kills.
but arrears of work. Work put off is
work put on with heavy interest.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof 1t becomes intolerable if it
be laid upon tomorrow.
If / may recommend you three
rules for saving time and economic
ing strength, they shall be these:
Answer letters. keep appointments,
make up yonr minds In the affairs
of this life a prompt decision is often
more impo1 tant than a right decision.
One man mikes up his mind and acts,
it may be. wrongly, but if so he finds
out his mistake, corrects and retrieves
it before another man has acted at
all. 1t is possible to waste a great
amount of time by thinking, and
still more by talking over actions.
First thoughts are sometimes wiser
than second and generally wiser than
third. Contemporary Review.
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A Young writer's mistake.

She was a young newspaper wom-
an, and one day early in her career
in certain newspaper office in this
city she brought in some copy for the
Sunday issue. 1t was late for use in
the department where her work APP
peared, and it was remarked to her
that it would have to wait over. She
was anxious it should go in for some
reason and urged it little. There
isn't anybody up stairs now to set it
up, " she was told, "and, besides, that
page is all made up"
This was rather vague to her, ex-
cept that a typesetter was needed.
She hesitated; then a bright thought
struck her
She turned away, and the man to
whom she had been talking thought
no more of the matter.
In about an hour she came back
with q couple of proofs of her copy.
She had taken it down to little job
printing Office she recalled having
seen in her travelling about the
neighborhood, had it set up and a
couple of copies run off, and these
she brought proudly back to the ed
itor, thinking that she had success
fully overcome all obstacles to its
immediate use.
1t is not recorded what the editor
said.-New York Times.
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Packages are divided by Mrs. Grun-
dy into three classes -genteel, vulgar
and nonGescript. Genteel packages
are such as can be carried through
the streets by well dressed persons
without causing the slightest desire
to dodge around corner or slip into
the nearest store when well dressed
friends are seen approaching. A
book neatly done up in brown paper
and surrounded by string of some
aesthetic hue or magazine wrapped
in an united cylinder are eminently
genteel packages.
One is naturally rather proud of
them than otherwise. They argue
literary tastes and the possession of
a certain amount of available cash
over and above ones monthly sti-
pend to butcher, baker and raiment
maker. For a lady a bonbon box is
a very desirable package, or any
small, tissue covered purchase from
the jewelers., or cardcase from
the stationer's. Kate Fields Wash
in0ton
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CoIlcrn I.nrs nrnlh

Talk about your college boys
waiting ON tables in the summer
to pay their way through colleger'
said an old sailor. why, you ought
to have seen the young fellows who
used to ship ON the New Bedford
whalers for n cruise. Afyi but the
chests they had ON them and the
arms and the healthy colorl 1t was
the making of many u good man in
those days, lean tell you. You'll run
across one of them now and then,
and if you get chance to look at
his arm you'll see an anchor, or a
capstan. or full rigged ship in india
ink, or something else there as a
sign of the old time. And you'll
always find him pretty good sort
of fellow. New York Tribune.
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The influence of a Father.

1t was to the teaching of her ia
tlIer, NJ Necker, that Mime. de Stael
owed that intellectual bias and train
ing which made her one of the most
eminent women of her times. OF
this predominating trait in her char
acter Mrs. Hale has said: Her af-
lection for her father was enthusi-
astic, and her respect for him bor-
dered upon veneration. The closest
and most unreserved friendship
marked their intercourse through
life."
She was profoundly interested in
his political advancement and never
wholly recovered from the disap-
pointment occasioned by his retire
ment from public life. She was far
more ambitious for his recognition
and reward than she had ever been
for her own, and his reverses gave
her keener sorrow than she ever ex-
perienced in her own seasons of trial.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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SHE asserted HER RIGHTS.


When 1t Come to Fighting Over Them. the
Husband Had to Take u Hand.
when it comes right down to the
question of absolute equal rights be-
tween men and women, (" said one of
a little group of world movers din
ing at an up town hotel the other
evening, there arise some curious
complications. Equal rights of course
imply equal responsibilities, equal
risks, equal hardships
II witnessed one of the oldest and
perhaps most extreme cases of this
kind last summer at a seaside resort
At the table nearest mine in the din
ing room of our hotel there sat a
man and his wife, who We're spend
ing the season there, and with them
the evening in question were two or
three acquaintance
When my attention was attract
ed to their conversation, it was evi-
IDENTIFY at its climax, for words were
flying hot and loud, the chief CON
testants being the gentleman's wife
and one of the acqllaintances. do
not know what was or had been the
ground of their dispute, but that it
was a furious and deep seated one
was too evident. The lady especial
ly was excited and aggressive. She
was known as 'woman's rights
woman, q reformer, philanthropist
and Independent generally.
Her eyes were blazing, her cheeks
flaming, and she called down her
gentlemanly antagonist with vim
objectionable and-if it had been be-
tween two men-not to be wiped out
by anything else than blood. The
husband had demonstrated several
times, but had been waved aside as a
mere locker on. At last, her words
and accusations becoming unendur-
able, the gentleman sprang from his
seat, and losing his temper threw
down his napkin in front of the
lady, saying, Madam, you are a
woman, and can neither fight nor
insult you, but by the eternal rights
of mankind if you have a husband,
father, brother or any other cham
pion or henchman call him to ac-
count for thisp
by this time of course the whole
room was interested in the affair,
and the proprietor of the hotel indig-
nantly inquired the cause of and ex-
cuse for such an exhibition. Then
the husband rose to the occasion
Calmly taking the gentleman's chal-
lenging napkin from in front of his
wife's plate, he tossed it in her antag-
onists face and said:
Sir, am the lady's husband, her
father, brother, Champion and hench-
mani / Ianswer your charge and will
settle this thing when, where and
how you please though, understand
me. fully agree with you in the
issue taken between you and utterly
condemn my wife as wrong in her
premises and conclusions.
The narrator pushed his chair back.
drained his glass, and looking from
one to another of his listeners asked,
Now, gentlemen, what are we GO
ing to do when that order of things
is inaugurated2"
And they groaned in chorus. New
York World.
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a New Raln compelInr.

Scientists say that the effect of a
low temperature on a cloud of vapor
viii be shown in the precipitation Of
rain. Acting ON this knowledge. a.
European living in the tropical re-
gions of India has invented novel
rain producer His apparatus con-
sists of rocket, capable of rising TO
height of a mile, containing res
ervoir of ether. In it's descent a par
achutelike attachment opens ont.
causing the apparatus to descend
slowly. At the same time the ether
is thrown out In a white spray. The
absorption of heat by the ether is
said to lower the temperature of the
surrounding air sufficiently to con-
dense the vapor, and hence cause
rain This being true, large number
of rockets would probably be required
to cause a prolonged shower.-Phila
delphia Record.
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Puzzlsd Over ..Etta r.rr.,

WHO'S Eta Farr, mamma71 asked
one little girl who lives IN the Quaker
City, right In our midst, " as the
popular bit of bad grammar goes.
Eta Farr1" thoughtfuIly replied
mamma. mentally coming over her
calling list II don't know any slich
person.
"oh, yes, you do, /" persisted the
little one. we sing about her, you
know. The Sweet By and BY
was indeed Sunday evening favor
ite In that home, but no one had ever
noticed that ''GirIiey had always
faithfully rendered one line.
BY faith we can see Eta Farr1
And that curiosity concerning It
ta's identity wasrife within her small
bosom. Washington News
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A Goddess. of Liberty.

Ambitious Girl am not satisfied
TO be dependent on my father for
every cent 1 need. 1 wish to be in
dependent.
Mother-Should you go to earning
your own living. you would have to
be the obedient servant of any en-
ployer you might have, always at his
beck and call, always ready to do the
bidding of your superiors and having
not an hour to call your own.
THAT would be horrid. want to
be independent of pa, but III call no
man master, and / shall want my own
way in everything"
That's easy. Get married. New
York Weekly.
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Lore can watt
hrr so patient, II is strong.
this world irwait in vain
Il rely shall not suffer long:
For In some other state.
SOM life OF larger scope.
Ultimately shall attain
TIE IN fruition OF its hope.
II's Is loves faith defying fate,
Ills change. neglect and laughter.
Il ran wait
For he hereafter.
Slss tiiai ibis lie isaIl we know,
And death has nothing TO bcstoW
beyond the graves duress
lsut silence and forgetfnlness;
Then II count the cost.
Seeing lOve's self is sacrifice,
surely have not lost
II with this life love dies
but loves desire.
Being so patient and 50 sure.
Though II may pass through tears and
fli1s-
Aye. through the portals of the tomb
viii yet endure
Till its own time shall come.
Therefore. though never while we live,
IL may be mine to ask or yours to give:
Though you may pass beyond my ken.
And DO lost
Among the crowd OF name!ess men,
Though both be tempest tossed
To earth's EXTREMIST ends afar.
know that we shall meet again.
Meet and be one in perfect love;
Brt when and where
Whether in this earth here. or heaven above
Or in some uninagfned world or star
neither know nor care
Early or late.
- Love can wait.
Charles Lotin Hildreth.
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Animals Fight 81 rhey CANE Run,

The fighting propensities of some
species of our dumb fellow creatures
has been developed by their unwieldi-
ness and the consequent difficulty of
escaping the pursuit of their enemies.
and the naturalist Linnaus called at
tention to the suggestive circu1n-
stance that short legged monkeys
are drawer than the long legged ones.
That Falstafian motive of valor
makes the East Indian rhesus ape
fight like a bulldog and partly ex-
plains the courage OF sluggish bruin
and some of his smaller relatives
San francisco Chronicle.
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Knee Deep In June.


Tell yuu what like best
Long about knee deep In June,
Bout the time straw berries melts
On the Stnes-some afternoon
Like 10 jes' git out and rest
And not work At nothing elsa
orchRri's where I'd ruther be-
Needn't fence Il in Tor mel
1es the whole sky overhead
And The y hole oirth underneath-
Sort q SOS n man can breathe
Like he ort and kind o. has
Elbow room 70 keerlessly
Sprawl out lengthways on the grass
Where the shndder's thick and soft
As the kivverS on the bed
Mother fixes in the loft
Allus when they's company.
March amt nothin newi
April's altngether too
Brash for me, and MRy-T 3esa
Dominate It's promises
Little hints o. sunshine and
Green around the timberland-
A Few blossoms and q few
Drap asleep, and Il turns in
Fore daylight and SHOWS ag'inl
But when June comeSl Clear my throat
With wild honeyl Rench my hair
In the dew and hold my coatl
Whoop out loud and throw my hatl
June wants me. and I'm TO sparel
Spread them shAdders anywhere.
I'D git down and waller there
And obleeged TO you at that
James Whitcomb Riley.
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commissioners Sale.

DY virtue of decree of the Circuit Court
d of Mason County, West Virginia, entered
On the 2nd day OF May, 1893, in the chancery
cnuse of Timothy Elias ct ais against Rn-
s.hel Elias ct ais, the undersigned who was
appointed Special Commissioner for the
purpose, will sell at the front door of the
Court House, of Mason County, Mt public
auction,
On the 10th day OF August 1893.
the following real estate in the town of Ma
son. two lots and one house situate same,
on Center street, between Second and Third
streets, and known on the plat OF said town
as lots Nos. - and 2. and the same lots con-
Heyed to John Elias by r. G.. NJ. Lowell and
wife and r. s. Brown and wife.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-third cash in hand
-Onihe day of sale, and the residue i'm equal
payments of one and two years, taking from
the purchaser notes with good security, with
interest from day of sale, and retaining the
title as IA further security.
W. il. ToMLINSON
Special Commissioner.
Bond in the penalty of $4,000, as required
in the decree OF sale, In the above entitled
cause, has been given before me, this nth
r. f. MITCHELL, Clerk.
Juiyl9-4t
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The Forests HerItaee.

lYlo1 1lnos he plant who plants Il tree7
plants a friend OF sun and sky:
d. anfs tile dag OF bfeezes free,
II ilaft OF beauty. towering hi,h.
a plants u home 10 heaven arizh
song and mother Groom OF bird
Ansiled and happy twilight heard-
treble Of ieayen's harmony
things lac plants who plants tree.
= I0 does he plant who plants n trees
a plants cool shade. and tender rain.
an ed and bud d.nf days to be.
An years that fade and flush again:
IA plants the glory of the plain:
plants the forests S heritages
harvest of a coming age:
II Joy that unborn eyes shall see
~ things he plants who plants a frcc.
-faart,.,,.
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Cass Ito Bass, who has perpetrated
a witticism) m)-Rather an old joke
that.
Bass-Did you ever know really
good joke that wasn't an old onea--
Boston Transcript.
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NO. TO-
HI.FrnIts shnI roIlo,.-

The books -ay wen. my brOthers Each mans
The outcome. or his former living Is.
rhs bygolse wrongs bring forth sorrows and
The fsvOne righ, bring. bliss
II he who iiveth. learning whence woe springs.
Enliunrih Patiently, striving 10 pay
HIS utmost debt for ancient evils done
Ia love and truth alway-
u he shall day By day dwell naercifui.
Holy and just and kind and true and rend
ilssirs from where it elines with bleeding roots
Till love of life have end
BE. dying. leaveth as the sum OF him
hfe count closed whose MS are dead and
who.,s good is quick and mighty. farand near.
''-'s,'' - --I.i.ht or Asia.-
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c. v. ERNSTLNG,
Public Square,
GALLIPoLIs, OHIO.
april II
Trustees Sale
OIL Valuable Real Estate in Point Pleas
ant. West Virginia.

DT virtue of the authority vested in me,
D the undersigned Trustee, by deed of trust
dated July p, 1889, executed by J. NJ. Adkins
and 81. a. Adkins, his wife, recorded in Trust
Deed Book No. II, pages 55l and 562. in the
county, West Virginia, to secure the pay
ment of certain notes therein described, TO j. /.
ID. McCulloch, (pnrty to said trust,) shall
of said county
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On die lgth daY of Anpnst. lSa3.

On the lJth day OF August, 1888,
at 10 oclOck a. M, the following tracts of lar d
in said trust deed described, a portion of that
piece or parcel of land lying between the Ohio
river bank and the fence running from Fifth
street north to the lot owned by p. e. East
hmm, and is fractional part of lot No. ii ,
bought by Spencer Adkins and conveyed to
said John NJ Adkins by said Spencer Adkins
and wife by deed dated March 49, 1886, record
ed in said clerks office in Deed Book No. 10.
page ~, &c, and also, certain lot, No. H. in
the first tier of town lots In said town, begin
ming at the corner of Main and Fifth streets
thence running westerly with Fifth street
one hundred and thirty-two feet to lot now
owned by said John NJ. Adkins. northerIv
with his line thirty-feet, thence easterly on a
line parallel with Fifth street one huf4tlred
and thirty two feet to Main street, and thence
southerly with Main street thirty feet to
place OF beginning. and being the same par
eel of land conveyed TO said John NJ. Adkins
by j. w. Bryan and wife by deed dated AprfI
II, lSSI, recorded In said clerks Office in Deed
Book No. -, page 2S, &c, subject to right of
way privileges contained in said deed. De-
fault having been made IN the payment of
said $IIUO.uO note In said trust described. being
required by said McCuiloch to make sale
thereof said McCulloch holds a prior trust
lien on said property, and the Minturn Lodge
No. 10, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
also hold trust lien on said last described
parcel OF land payable in the way, of rental of
said property, subject to all which this sale
Will be made Title good, but selling as trus-
tee VIII convey title only as such
JAMES p. MENAGER,
Juiylv-h Trustee.
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Commissioners Sale of Real Estate


DY VIRTUE OF decree of the Circuit
D Court, of Mason County, West Virginia,
entered ON the 2nd day OF May. lSrl, i'm the
chaneery cause of Sarah f. Lfetwfller, &c
vs. Jacob Lietwilier, ct ais, the undersigned
who was appointed II Special Commissioner
for the purpose, will sell mt the front door of
the court house, of Mason couity, at public
auction
On the 10th day of August, 1893,
the following real estate situate in the town
of New Haven, Mason county, and known ON
the plat OF said town as the James II. Cape
hart addition to said town as lots Nos j, GtS
in Block T., as well ns twelve feet bounded on
the east end of said lot; also dwelling
house thereon.
TERMS OF SALE-One-thIrd cash In hand
on the day OF sale, and the residue in two
equal payments OF one and two years. taking
from the purchaser notes with good security,
with Interest from day OF sale, and retaining
the title n further security.
VIII. TOAiLINSON,
Special Commissioner.
Bond in the penaIty-of $4,000, as required in
the decree of sale in the above entitled cause,
has been given before me, this nth day OF
July. 1888. x. E. MITCHELL, Clerk.
Julyl9-lt