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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
A MAiDEN'S LIPS.
One day when Mother Nature

One day when Mother Nature
Was in n pleasant mood
She called about her Youth and Health
And Others Of her brood.
MY children, we ave fashioned,
With all the arts we know,
The rose and all the fairest flowers
That in our garden grow.
"Rut I'm not satisfied, dears.
have within my heart
The image of a fairer flower,
THAI calls for all our art.
Your skill and aid I need. dears.
Yours, Joy and Melody.
And Beauty. Youth and Sunshine too.
Come now, and toll with me-"
Long time they toiled, Dame Nature
And all her offspring too.
Their hearts and souls were in their
task,
And fast the fowret grew.
Now Natures fingers nodded.
Now Laughter smoothed and curved
And frightened up some little spot
Her keen eyes had observed.
And Health and Youth and Sunshine
Their tribute deity paid
Till Mistress Beauty took her turn,
And then the flower was made!
There's not so sweet" cried Mature.
"A flower the wild bee sips.
Well name it," And the fiowret
Was called-a maiden's lips.
Boston Traveller.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
cool HEADS AND STOUT HEARTS.
Thrilling Rescue Of Mother aud Babe From
- Blazing House.

Thrilling Rescue Of Mother aud Babe From
n Blazing House.
SsranS trs helped in the rescue from
death of a woma during a fire in the
tenement house as Sheriff street the 9th
or afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Goldstein.
who became a mother three days before,
was lowered out Of a sixth story win
dow, lifted across All airshaft and taken
down over an iron picket fence on the
roof of the adjoining building.
1t was about 4:30 o'clock when the fire
broke out on the fifth floor. Instantly
there was d panic. The occupants rushed
down stairs pellmell shouting Fire."
Mrs. Goldstein was in bed with her
baby. To add to her terror smoke pulled
into her room, and clouds of it rolled NJ
In front of her window. Fortunately
her husband was home with her. She
herself was perfectly helpless.
There was no escape by the stairs.
The only way out was by the window
which overlooked the airshaft. While
Goldstein wa gazing out of it two men
who were strangers climbed out of the
window in the hall. swung themselves
across the airshsft to the iron picket
fence and clambered slowly along the
fence until they got e the window
where Goldstein was.
The men, who were clinging to the
picket fence, braced themselves and
shouted to Goldstein to hand his wife
out. Goldstein lifted the helpless and
almost unconscious woman over the
window sill and lowered her down until
the two men caught her and handed her
across the shaft. One false move and all
hands would have fallen into the shaft
and met instant death. The rescuers
were cool, however, and they lifted the
woman oven the top of the fence and
finally to the roof. The baby was carried
out a moment later.-New York Tribune.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
Marriage Proposal Reform.

A suggestion Is made for a legal re-
form which, while retaining breach Of
promise actions, would deprive them of
all their ornamental trimmings in the
shape of love letters and the other usual
incidents Of courtship. 1t is proposed
that no promise of marriage should be
held valid unless it is made in writing
upon properly stamped paper. Young
ladies might afix "a sixpenny stamp to
the letter in which the swain declares
his affections and ask him to be so good
as to cancel it with his autograph
London Tit Bits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
ITALT'S ENORMOUS TAXES.
Tn" Financial Load the People Garry Il
Fearful to Contemplate.

The Financial Load the People Garry Is
Fearful to Contemplate.
George Rutledge Gibson. writing from
Naples, gives some interesting informa-
ton regarding the financial condition of
Italy. The fate of Italy hangs il the
balance" he says. "People here realize
that the situation is desperate, and they
pin their hopes, if not their faith, to
Crispi. the new premier. But too much
is expected Of him. and a wal or a revo-
luton may result from the discomfort
which exists. but which is for the mo-
ment subordinated to the vain hope that
Crispi can perform some financial leger-
demain that will change the balance
sheet.
1.-The taxes are something fearful to
contemplate. In writing you Is months
ago from Venice I related some amazing
examples Of taxation there. may add
now that the farmers pay to the state an
annual tax equal to As per cent of their
estimated incomes. The standing army
here represents 3 per cent of the entire
population, while in Germany it is only
l per cent. Germany has 80, 900, 900 Of
population and Italy 80. 600, 900. The war
footing, the number of men who may be
called out in Italy, is 400, 900 more than
in Germany. 1t looks to me as if this
army would either have to fight or dis
band pretty soon."-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

The longest continuous cataleptic
sleep known to- medical science was re-
ported from Germany III the spring of
1892: the patien;-a Silesian miner
having remained absolutely unconscious
for Il period of 49, months. The doc
tors III attendance could not report any
thing i'll the way Of symptoms which
would suggest that there was something
out of the ordinary in the mans slum-
bers, excepting Il complete rigidity Of
the limbs. One popularity which was
much commented upon was that the
hair grew naturally during the whole of
the extended nap, but his beard remain
ed perfectly stationary and liteless.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

Great distress prevails in Liverpool,
says a London newspaper, and the So
~cialists are doing their best to utilize it
to their ends. Meetings Of unemployed
workmen are held daily, and in these
meetings thelocal municipal authorities
are denounced in language calculated to
cause trouble. The mayor is particular
ly obnoxious to these men because he
has persistently declined to receive dep
utation and because he continues mu-
nicipal hospitality on Il lavish scale. The
other night he %Hvr IA juvenile ball. and
the next day 1he socialists denounced
him for gorging the bull pups of aris
tocracy" with dainties. while the chill
dren of the Door are dying Of starvation.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

Mamma-Now, dear, the doctors
gone, what can do to nus you?
Emerson (aged ), wearily)-If you
please, mother, | think l should like to
go to sleep and reduce my temperature.
Fact. Vogue.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
She Was Invited.

Dill any one say anything to me:"
asked Mamie as she saw the family at
luncheon.
No, my child. but will you have
some salad?'
II don't know" replied the child.
,mlna said | must not eat less I
vited. Newport Daily News.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

'tI'H N"H h1F" not mI~>" ! tn" mnH-
'' ''' "ln"''a1 ~ EACH payment
''.lI% ~" small. Had yoW Hot saved;
uad expended these small amnun,>
in this way. the rhanc,, nv. tl.+
this ~amu money would have Epru
rXprndrd in some trivial way and
ynn v.,rlI b.,, ,,th;ru
r -
wi It, ',!'I! '''I' j. III"
AANlNG> bANk
epuaI to Il piece of real estate. and
especially if that real .stat. is
n.,;u Lo u
'"' '''"'
look over our list, to see how
LITTLE READY MONEY
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

want one or incorrectly lots near the
college. Better secure them while
they can be had G. 'hr
FAVORABLE TERMS
now offered. and YOU will then have
them when YOU need them
and have Il better selection
also than You will have later on, AS
well as the advantage of the present
LOW PRICES.
II you have been renting a
house in the city. stop II moment
and think how much you have
paid out in rent, and if you have
been renting long You will soon
figure ont that you have paid out
enough for rent to build as good
or a better house than YOU are rent
ing, and still YOU have no home of
your own. Why not put this
money intoa
HOUSE or YOUR OWN
in which you will feel a natural
pride, and have Il permanent and
pleasant home for yourself and
family in your declining years. \
little energy on your part Will do
it. Start at once bv
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12

want one or incorrectly lots near the
college. Better secure them while
they a be had G. he
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-12
BUYING A LOT.

IT You are renting IA farm figure
a moment what you are paving out
annually for rent and how soon
this rental would buy a farm here.
What you pay out i'll rent in two
or three years in Iowa or Illinois
would buy equally as good IA farm
III South Dakota. Stop renting
and come out and buy IA farm Of
your own and feel the independ-
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
A Youthful "Case."

A young son of one of the Harvard
professors was using the hose awhile
ago out in Cambridge when another
professor came along and asked:
what are you doing, my boy?"
And the boy replied: I'm squirt
In, and 'let drive" straight into
the astonished professors face.
1t was the same lad who objected
last winter to his mothers giving a
reception. She did not think it
necessary, however, to submit to
the youngsters demands and issued
her invitations. The afternoon
came and went-but nobody called.
That evening some of the neighbors
called and gently inquired who was
dead at the house.
"Why, no one, was the astonished
reply; 49,. o,., - ~ 4ho
door for?"
And then the mother of that young
hopeful discovered that heavy bow
of black Grape had adorned her front
door all the afternoon and that
everybody who had come in response
to her invitation had quietly turned
away again. Truly ho was rightly
Judged q "case. Boston Beacon.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
Home-Seekers' Excursions.

The Baltimore and Ohio South
western Railway is now selling ex-
cursion tickets for home-seekers to
points in Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Miss
issippi and Louisiana at one fare for
the round trip. The dates of these
excursions are October I'd, November
9th and December 4th. Tickets will
be good for twenty days.
Home seekers tickets are also
being sold to points West and South
west, dates of sale being September
25th and October 9th: good retuln'
ing within twenty days. Liberal
stop over privileges will be granted Oh
all tickets. For rates and further IN
formation, apply to agents B. & o. 5
w. Ry., or address G. B. Warfel
Asst. Genl Pass'r. Agt. Cincinnati
Ohio.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
A CRAWLING BOOK.
Chapter from the Bible Tattooed on
a Snako

Chapter from the Bible Tattooed on
Snake.
Very few readers ever dream that
there is any single piece OF reading
matter in the world which lives,
breathes and circulatcs on its own
individual account.
But anyone who will take the
trouble to walk into certain shop
in Piccadilly, not far from the
Egyptian hall. will be rewarded by
seeing q species of snake, known as
the lemon boa, with the whole of the
third chapter of Genesis tattooed
on its body. The reptile is only lent
for exhibition, but the gentleman
who purchashed it states that on
board the South American sailing
vessel, the scene of this remarkable
tattooing, it is common diversion
among the sailors to capture live
snakes. extract their fangs and
cover the body with any number OF
inscriptions, legends and devices,
and then dispose of the reptiles at
the first port.
Few of the purchasers, however,
care to have charge of live snakes
be they ever so harmlesS-so it is
customary to either stuff these lat
ter with fine straw and putty, or
else immerse them in alcohol. al
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
Idea Peddlers In Chicago.

There are three men in Chicago
who make q fairly good living by
marketing ideas. That's their busi-
ness. Suppose q man opens new
restaurant. The idea" man goes
into the place and says: "Why not
put up sign that you'll give a dish
of cream free to every red-headed
man? 1t would cause talk.
If the restaurant man adopts the
suggestion the Idea" man expects
to be paid for it.
He writes poetry for soaps and
patent medicines, and submits it to-
the proprietors. If they like it he
names his price. At the big retail
stores he drops in and confides new
and startling schemes for advertis-
ing. He goes to the theatrical man
ager and says: "Here, wouldn't this
be a good catch Iine?"
Day by day he.pokes into other
peoples business, and is we'll paid
for it, because, after ell, there is
nothing more valuable than ideas o1
the right kind.-Chicago Record.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
ENCYCLOPEDIA STUDY.
II Is Necessary to Broad ano
Liberal Education.

II Is Necessary to Broad and
Liberal Education. ;
zone needs nothing more than an
occasional hour or so during the
week with o good encyclopedia to Sc
cure broad and liberal education, y!
said a weil-known newspaper man. I;
''This fact struck me forcibly Sum-
day afternoon. We have at home a:
very excellent edition of O we'll
known encyclopedia, and l went to-
it to get some information. Turning;
over the AS, came across Algebra,
and found the history of the science!
from beginning to end; its introduc-i
tion into Italy, and its improvement,
from time to time, together with;
problems illustrative Of its advance;
and powers. I came across Eugene
Aram, too, and learned, for the first
time, such man lived and read all
about him. The Alhambra caught
my eve, and fortified myself on its
history, at the same time getting
the concise andwell-digested history
of the Moors in Spain, as well as if l
/ had read all of the volumes of the
Conquest of Grenada. In this man
ner / drifted here and there through
O perfect store-house of interesting
things, being led from one to anoth-
er as one would be In q museum
where the eye no sooner leaves one
attractive object than it is invited
by another equally as pleasing.
Consequently, what was intended to
be a moments search for refer
ence, became extended into a
healthy and refreshing mental re-
past of two or three hours, and l can
not tell how much better / felt for it.
I tell you, there is nothing SO specific
for the relief of the intellectual mo-
notony we call brain fag, as q journey
through an encyclopedia without
having an itinerary laid down at the
beginning. ."-Washington Star.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
Specimen Cases.

S. B. Clifford, New Case, Wis.
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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
Frances Wedding Gift.

The wedding gift to be presented
to the czarowitz in the name OF the
French nation promises to be some
thing very unique and beautiful.
An especial committee has been
formed in Paris to take charge of it.
The chief feature of the gift will be
o dinner service of the finest Sevres
porcelain made for one hundred peo-
pie, and including, besides the
larger pieces, some six hundred
plates. On each plate will be paint
ed six escutcheons, bearing the arms
of different towns in France, and,
as there are twelve hundred towns
entitled to heraldic distinction, the
same pattern will only be repro
duced three times. A blue pattern,
inclosed in q richly gilt rim, runs
around the border and between the
escutcheons double-headed Russian
eagles will be painted in black. A
complete set of glass, table linen,
etc., will also be provided, and like
wise thirty-two bouquet holders,
decorated with designs showing the
achievements of the old provinces.
A magnifcently bound golden book
will accompany the gift, and will
have the names of the donors in
scribed on parchment in alphabetical
order. An interesting feature OF
this book will be the designs for
each capital letter, which will rep,
resent the surname of the artist de-
signing it-thus, D for Detaille, NJ
for Merson, etc.-and copies OF the
book will be reproduced for such Of
the subscribers as wish to purchase
them. e-Democrat.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
FATHER JOHN, OF cRoNsTADT
The Most Generally Popular Of All
the Priests in Russia.

The Most Generally Popular Of All
the Priests in Russia.
Father John Sergieff, of Cron-
stadt, is probably (writes our Odessa
correspondent the most universally
popular priest in the Russian Ortho-
dox church. His prayers and bene-
dictions are besought by the griev-
ously sick and unfortunate in
nearly every government Of Euro
pean Russia, by letter and by tele-
graph, so implicit is the public con-
tidence reposed in his piety and wis
dom. Father John himself is map
of simple life, making no preten-
sions whatever to extraordinary
sanctity, of modest habits and lavish
to the last rouple of his considera-
BILE income in relieving the necessi-
tous, making no distinction of creed
or race. Not little Indignation
has therefore been raised by the dis
covery, in the government of Orel,
that the good fathers reputation
has for some time past been wicked.
ly traded upon by number OF de-
signing mammas who have unmar-
ried and dowerless daughters to dis
pose Of.
These solicitous matrons, some
times acting in concert, but in diff
ferent localities, have fabricated
letters of advice, purporting to be
written by the worthy priest OF
Cronstadt, recommending particular
matrimonial alliances between their
daughters and certain pious young
bachelor neighbors as being divinely
ordained. These spurious letters
proved successful bats in very many
instances, but eventually the ma
ternal conspiracy was detected, and
it is now probable that the more
guilty of the intriguing mothers
and matchmaking spinsters OF Orel
will have to do penance for their in
discretions in convrhtual retreat
before Father Johns absolution is
granted and the civil authorities are
satisfied. London News.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
There Are Yet Several More.

Are you going South. if SO the
Buckeve Route will sell you excur-
sion tickets to Alabama, Flor ola,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisanh, Miss
issippi, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima. Tennessee and Virginia, on
November 9th. and De
cember 4th, 1894, at rate of one
lowest first class fare for the round
trip. Tickets will be good twenty
COO days for return passage and Will
permit of stop over at points south OF
the Ohio River. If yon intend to
visit friends in the South this winter
you can take advantage OF this liberal
offer and save moasy. Write agents
C. II. V. & T. Ry. for full particulars,
or address w. h. Fisher G. P. & I.
A. Columbus, Ohio.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
OLD WHALING DAYS.
Most of New sedford's Great Wealth

Most OF New 6edford Ireat Weaitn
Comes from Bones and elubber.
Down at New Bedford the other
dav ! was much interested in lot
of old whalers like that we had at
the exposition, which are there tied
up to the docks to decay. The
whaling industry was the source Of
great riches to that city until about
1865 or 1866, when the discovery of
petroleum destroyed demand for
fish oil, and the long rows OF fine old
colonial mansions down the shaded
streets still furnish evidence of
many profitable voyages. The
whale money that was laid away
still furnishes large incomes to the
heirs of hardy old sea dogs and the
descendants of those who provided
their outfits and shared the results
of their perilous cruises in the Arctic
seas.
New Bedford is said to be the
wealthiest city of its size in the Unit
ed States, and most OF its capital,
which is estimated at SlCo, 900, 900,
came from blubber and the bones OF
whales. The business began as car
ay as 1855, and reached its height in
1860, when there were nearly six
hundred vessels going out from that
port, with more than 10000 sailors
and representing an investment OF
more than $4,000, 900. The catch
that year was worth nearly S., ,OO0,-
900, for then oil sold for s2.75 q gall
lon and whaleoone for $500 a
pound. But now the whales in the
northern Atlantic are almost exter-
minated, and the only places where
1t is worth while to hunt them are
down around the antarctic circle and
among the seal islands of the North
Pacific.
Many old whalers have been turned
into sealers and now sail from San
Francisco and Portland instead OF
New Bedford. Now there are only
thirty-five ships from this port en-
gagged in the trade, and less than
nine hundred men. With the com
petition of petroleum, oil is worth
only Ga cents gallon, and whale
bone has been largely replaced, as
most of you know, by metallic ap-
pliances that make the form divine
diviner still.
The most valuable catch ever made
by whaleship was that OF the On
ward, Capt. Allen, which arrived in
New Bedford after forty-one
months cruise with cargo worth
over 1915, 900, of which the captains S
share was $4,000 The total value
of the whole product of the whale
brought into New Bedford during
the fifty-two years for which rec
ord has been kept is more than
$145, ,OOO,OO
The average ship, carrying a crew
of thirty hands, used to cost about
$4,000. The ships were owned by
companies, which supplied pro.
visions and clothing and all the
necessities of the voyage aud ad'
vanced certain sums of money fol
the captain and his crew to leave
for the support of their families
while they were away. No wage:
were paid to either the officers ol
the sailors, but each had his share
in the proceeds of the voyage, ant
the balance was divided among thu
stockholders wfren they returned
The captains and mates were hard,
New Englanders, but the crews wer'
mostly Portuguese from the Canary
Madeira and Azore islands.-Chi
cago Record.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-11-01
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