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The Van Buren press., 1895-11-23
GIVE THANKS.

Thank God for the glorious gift Of life,
And this beautiful world of ours,
With its shimmering seas, and waving
trees,
Its frost, and dew and flowers
For radiant moons and tranquil Junes,
For sunshine and for rain
For pearly dawns and crystal morns,
For mountain, mead and plain.
Thank God for treasures that He gives
From earth and tree and vine;
For golden yields from fertile fields,
For fax and wool and wine;
For healthful roots; for ruddy fruits;
For Plentys laden horn;
For fiocks and herds, for bees and birds,
Give thanks this festive morn.
Give thanks for reunited bands,
For hearth and home and health
For faith and love, so sure to prove
Sweeter than fame or wealth;
For hopes that bless, for lips caress,
For counsel and for cheer
Give thanks upon this morn that brings
The feast of all the year.
Good Housekeeping.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-23

"Durn my hind buttons and gosh-all-
fish-hooksl Hammer, whar be ye!
Struck my hide If hain't broke every
bone in my body and busted myself
all to flinders! Hannerl Hannerl"
Whats happened?' shouted Han
nah from the foot of the kitchen stairs.
This blamed old chist has went and
gone and knocked me head over heels
down them attic stairs and killed me
as dead as a door nail. Hurry up and
git the burned thing off'n mel"a
"Why, Uncle Benl" exclaimed Han
nah, as she reached the chamber floor
and found the old farmer doubled up at
the foot of the attic ladder and the old
blue chest holding him fast.
cit it off II mel" he shouted. That's
jest like a Bebeel The time your fa-
theirs COW fell in the we'll he took two
hours to think of it and let her die!
Hang it, do ye want to break my back! "
you'll soon be a pirate If you keep
on cussin'," said Hannah, as she pulled
the chest away and helped him up.
I'm pirate now, and dog-gone me
If | don't cuss all the rest of the dayl"
shouted Uncle Ben. Thar, durn ye,
take that-and that Why, I'll bust
We all to smash and throw the pieces
into the fire!"
1t Is needless TO explain that he
kicked the chest instead of Hannah,
and that the busting and smashing
also referred to the ancient-looking re-
ceptacle. The bottom was turned to-
ward him, and the third kick from his
heavy cow-hide portion of it gave way
and Hannah uttered shrek of sur
prise.
''Lemme at It'll Lemme bust 1t all
to kindlin's," shouted Uncle Ben, as he
danced around.
Look, Uncle Ben--see therel"
"Money-gold and silver-dog-gone
my steers!" .--.--
Yes, 1t was money-gold and silver
coins of Holland and Germany. There
was false bottom to the chest, and
they had been hidden under it for a
dozen years or more. 1t was the chest
of Holland immigrant, but how it
had gone astray and finally been sold
as unclaimed no one could have found
out, had they wanted to. There was
just seven hundred and fifty dollars in
the find" and Uncle Ben carried 1t
downstairs in his old fur cap and
poured It out on the bed before the eyes
of the wondering and astonished Grip
pie, and said:
''Nancy Black, it's all yours-every
dollar of it, and thar's 'nuff to pay the
mortgage and the doctor and leave ye
sumthin' to boot"
"And you found it in the old chest %
That's whar' it was, but II the
blamed thing hadn't fell on me nobody
would hev knowed about ii. Nancy,
I'm doggoned gladl"
''Oh, Uncle Ben, the Lord has not de-
serted me, after ALI" she sobbed.
"No, guess not. but if hadn't got
mad and cussed and kicked you'd never
hev got it. The Lord sorter helped.
/ s'pose, but cussin' did the most of it,
and from this time on Martha may
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What II Is For.

whats Thanksgiving for2" asked
teacher of a primary grade of her
class the other morning as the subject
was mentioned. But the cries of
"Football" and turkey" were so
mingled that the teacher hadn't the
heart to disabuse the little ones. So
she let it go at that.-Indianapolis
Sentinel
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-23

above the center of the barrel. Make a
bail of "a iron Tor have the blacksmith
do SOY, as shown in cut Put holes in
ends of bail for key, and the elevator is
ready. Use two pulleys and rope and
horse. Have man at the bin to dump
the barrel. l put up 800 bushels this
way this year in six hours, as we
threshed it, Malcolm Crockett, in
Ohio Farmer
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Give Thanks for IL.

If life Is worth livin'
Jest go ahead an strive:
Each day big Thanksgivin'
That feller is alivel
Alive to feel the sunshine
Alive to breathe the air:
AS man an boy, to feel the Joy
OF simply bein' herel
The day In darkness closes,
But the stars begin to glow;
The world is full of roses,
In spite o. all the snow!
Washington Star.
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showed back from the breakfast table
on Thanksgiving morning and wiped
his mouth on the nearest piece of table
cloth he could get hold of, ''this is reg
lar old-fashioned Thanksgivin' wealth
en-" |ttfHtt
YES" replied Aunt Martha, as she
scraped the butter off her plate back on
the butter dish.
six inches of snow and cold 'nuff to
freeze dog"
YES"
II hain't got much to do this mornin',
and / guess I'll run down to Widder
Blacks and see what l can do for 'em.
It's tarnal shame, the luck that wom
an has had"
'Some of us git along and some of us
don't" drawled Aunt Martha, as she
put the meat scraps on plate for the
dog. Sst tt.tf
"Durned If we don't!"
"Benjamin, don't cuss. A cussin
man'll never come to any good"
who's a-cussin'? / said 1t was Q
tarnal shame, and so 1t is. Jim Black
was a-gittin' along as well as any of lis
when that well caved In on him and
made his wife widder. Itwasn't huff
that she was hard-workin' an econo-
nizin', but she must go N fall down
and break her leg, and her baby hain't
over year old Who's takin' keer of
her?" a#
Hammer Bebee. i meant to hev gone
down Yesterday, but them pigs feet had
to be taken keer of. guess I'll make
up basket of stuff to send along. Han
ncr Bebee is purity good gal on pork
and beans and sich, but she amt no
hand to git up dainties. You give her
NY luv and tell her she's got to be right
up and down with Hammer to git full
davis work out o. her"
When Uncle Ben set out he carried
basket which contained jelly cake, tea,
a pumpkin pie and other articles, and as
he pursued his way along the frozen
road he drew his old fur cap down over
mis- ears and soliloquized:
"Yaas, darn my buttons, but I'm sor-
ry fur Nancy Black. On top of all the
other hard luck comes that four-hun-
dred-dollar mortgage on the farm, and
It's my solemn opinion she'll never be
able TO raise it. If was able I'd buy
and hold it, but l hain't. I've got TO
see Squar' Potter, the old sldnhipt. and
tell him he must give the widder and
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Athletic Exercise.

Perley-Hullo, Jinxl going to take
Thanksgiving day off2
Jinz-Yes. Going to devote it to ath-
letics.
Perley-Good. What kind2 Golf or
football?
Jinx-Neither. I'm going TO carve a
turkey raised myself, for ten people
There's exercise for you'll = Harper's
Bazaar.
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A GRAIN FL LEvArOR.

Simple Gontrlvanoe Which Saves Lots of
Time and Labor.
| will give you a description OF n
cheap way of hoisting or elevating
grain. Very often there is room over
the barn floor where bins could be
made, and this is the way get the grain
up: Get an oil barrel. Nail the hoops
well. Bore two holes with ss-bit di-
rectly opposite each other and trifc
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His Inst.

Brlggs-This is probably the last
Thanksgiving Bickerly viii celebrate.
Griggs-How' that2
Briggs-It's the day he's going 70 be
married on-Buolilyn Life.
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GREENHOUSE WORK.
Sulphur Is an Invaluable Agent for t
Destruction of Mildew.

Sulphur Is Invaluable Agent for the
Destruction of Mildew.
The following paragraph is taken
from late bulletin of the Cornell ex-
pertinent stations:
Sulphur is of the greatest service in
greenhouse work. 1t is an Invaluable
agent for the destruction of mildews,
and is also of great assistance in over
coming red spider. Ascommenly used.
1T is mixed with an equal bulk of air.
slaked lime or some similar material,
and then water, oil, milk OF some other
liquid is added until thick, creamy
paste is obtained. This is then painted
upon the heating surfaces in the house,
and the sulphur fumes are given off.
The same result can be obtained much
more rapidly and energetically by heat
ing the flowers of sulphur until it melts;
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-23

blow all she's a mind to, but I'm goin'
to say ali the gosh-all fish-hoolls
wanter. r."-Detroit Free P.ess.
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busted it off with bunch of herbs and

busted it off with bunch of herbs and
muttered:
"Whewl but how the dust does git
into house! Ya-as, that's the same
old chist, and laffed at Jim all the way
home for buyin' it. Come outer here
and downstairs and be sum good fur
sumthin'l Guess you'll hold all that
corn and bushel or so more. If Han
ner Bebee had bin the right sort of gal
she'd hev-"
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showed back from the breakfast table
on Thanksgiving morning and wiped
his mouth on the nearest piece of table
cloth he could get hold of, "this is reg
lar fashioned Thanksgivin wealth
The herald., 1895-04-01

TACT becoming. known 10 the news
papers that devoted columns to her esca-
pades only few months ago.
Attention has not yet been drawn to
the fact that Mrs. Langtry has done a
very clever thing in connection with her
in New ork. She caused to be published
the statement that in the scene repre-
senting Trouville in Gossip she appears in
gowns of the fashion to be worn in that
resort this summer. This news may not
seem to be very important to men, but
its effect on the readers of the woman s
page has been deep and far reaching. The
average woman will go out in the heart OF
binding snow storm to see gowns that
are about to be fashionable, whereas the
announcement that real fire engine or
real steam drill or a real COW is to be
put upon the stage will not magnetize
her in the least
The production of A. M. Palmer OF
Paul M. Potter's adaptation of Trilby at
the Park Theater in Boston has given
the good people of New Enlgand great
deal to think about of late, and the
thoughts they have expressed regarding
the piece have trickled out into other
sections of the country, so that Just now
one of the most interesting features OF the
stage is this play. 1t has been said that
it is an immense success and is even
more alluring than Du Maurer's novel,
and there have been few persons that
have seen it that have said it is rather
tiresome. The writer of this paragraph
was in Boston one evening last week and
sat out the performance. He was inn
pressed with the fact that the most spon-
taneous and prolonged applause took
place whenever the characters in the piece
struck tableaux exac tly the same as those
which Du Maurier has made familiar by
his own sketches in his book. The
decentralization of Trilby is as good, prob
ably as could be made. Mr.. Potter has
drawn together some of the most dramatic
episodes in the book and has made CO.
hesion between them where the novelist
left them disjointed. But one is rather in
clined to think that If the play had been
staged without the novel preceding it, it
would be found that the whiskers of
Taffy, the dialect of The Laird and the
simplicity of Little Billee would not be
pregnant with significance, and the
thought even suggests itself that Little
Billee as he is placed on the stage with
out most of his thoughts and sentiments
placed there with him, is good deal of a
stick and very colorless young man.
The herald., 1895-04-01
IN SOCIAL LIFE

Ex-Governor Merrill and Mrs. Mary S.
Greenwood, both of Los Angeles, were
married by Rev. DR.. Hutchins at the resi-
dence of the bride Sunday afternoon,
March 31st. They will be at home to
their friends Tuesdays after June 1st, at
200 North Mott street, Boyle Heights.
The herald., 1895-04-01

DanuruH lorms when the glands of the skin
are weakened and if neglected. badness is
SUR to follow. Halls Hair Remover is the
best preventive.
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 The Athletic Girl.

It is a cheering feature of the new woman movement that the athletic girl is coming to the front in a prompt and sprightly manner For long time sho has been the attractive heroine of fiction. Now she is the equally attractive her. Sine of fact. Hitherto it has been the English girl who has been held up as the model for the American girl to fol low in all departments of physical cul- ture. Now the American girl is fast demonstrating her physical superiority over her red checked English cousin.
 All admirers of gracious, attractive, robust womanhood will rejoice that the hothouse camellias at last arc in process of being replaced by vigorous outdoor roses. The day has gono by, let us hope forever, when school or academy or university education of the American girl meant smattering of the classics and modern languages, maltreatment of the piano, some Delsarte foolishness of deportmont and the cultivation of frills to fit them for drawing rooms, the outcome being an artificial languid, flaccid, pale faced creature entirely out of place anywhere outside of the society hothouse Another creature has taken her place. She has as good an education les the girl of the old times, and she has this tho boon of health and strength adding to her sweet whole someness. Chicago Tribune.
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women's Rights In Germanv.

Only in so far as the legal position of the married woman must exercise a moral influence on the life of the un- married is it necessary to say word of the legal foundation of marriage in Germany. It rests entirely on the view of the superiority of man, of the subor- dination of woman. Even the notion that she is bought by her husband sur vives in however slight form, Ill the ceremony of betrothal. Her husband is her master, her guardian, her natural supporter. Above all he is her educator. She shares his rank his name, his dig s-nities, his fortune but without him she cannot administer her own. Tn the domain of all she remains subject, !" Sohm argues, land if she reigns at all it must be by the free will of man. '
 In the country like Germany, where, ill all matters connected with moral and intellectual life, the links of tradi- tion have never been severed, the pres ent is explained by the past Disdainful silence Is the mildest form of criticism opponents will offer whenever on the platform or from the professional chair the attempt is made to plead in favor of womens political rights. On this point all the female advocates of the emancipation of their sex are unani- nous in their lamentations. Boston Post
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proving the lot of her feminine subjects, for we are told that work of every kind is done by the women alone, who are practically the slaves of their husbands.
 It would seem, after all, that the Ko- rean queens leaning toward general feminine emancipation" is nothing more than what theologians call ''pi- ous opinion, for Mir. Savage Landor says "there are tongues in Seoul that say that the queen actually rules the king and therefore through him the country, and that he is more afraid of her gracious majesty, his wife, than of the very devil himself y
 If this be so, the queen seems rather selfishly inclined to confine tho practi cal realization of her new woman theories to her own palace. e.-Lady s Pictorial.
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The New Woman In France.

The Pall Mall Gazette has been gath ering the opinions of some of the French novelists concerning tho new woman
 '.In woman I see only the mother, ' says Daudet--and this is exactly what the advanced woman has been com plaining of. She wants him to see the citizen as we'll Dumas cries, "A man is being of more value, but woman is being of better value. " Mondes, being asked if woman was superior or inferior, replied: "She is neither. She is only different, and that is an equal ity. :" Mirabeau exclaims, How can the men estimate her political worth so long as we are blinded by her charms?' "When she condescends to become equal with man, says Loti, "the race will die of shame " She is braiding silken whips, says zola By and by she will put them ill the hands of the man she loves, and he will whip her back to subjeetion with laughter. ;
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The Reign of Ribbons.

The use of ribbons is increasing until as many as three pieces may be put upon one dress. Puffed sleeves have five bands of ribbon from shoulders to el- bows over the puffs. The waist has three or five bands from shoulders to waist line, with any number of loops and ends attached to tho belt; then rib bons are set in at the belt and fall two thirds of the way down the skirt, where there are enormous loops, rosettes and ends, and ill some instances very large bows midway of the length of the rib bon from waist line to hem of skirt, = New York Ledger.
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A Noble Woman.

Then I bade goodby to an honest, earnest woman who has given her life to great cause. Abuse has not curdled the milk of human kindness flowing Ill her veins. Poverty has not imbittered her generous soul. Susan B. Anthony, with her honorable 75 years, is more alive today than almost any woman of my aoQuaintanca Why2 Because she is in love with noble idea. Love be- gets enthusiasm. Enthusiasm keeps soul and body young. Blessed be that which makes the world go roundl-Kate Fields Washington.
 MOT WHAT WE SAY, hu " what Hoods Sarsaparilla Does, tha tells the story of it's merit and success Remember HOODS CURES.
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woman's Progress In Korea.

Among the many interesting facts to be gathered from MT Savage Lan- dor's book on Korea, lately published, by no means the least striking IS the authors statement that the native queen is much ill favor of the emancipation of the Korean women.
 But unfortunately the sympathy of her Korean majesty does not seem at present to have done much toward i'm
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 Pepper boxes %, Paper pails 25c. Galvanized pails, twelve quart BOG.
 Wash Bowls, seven quart G. eight quart 7c. Tin Cups, pint 2c.
 Tin Water Buckets, ten quart l7c. fourteen quart 20c, seventeen quart, 24c.
 Muffin Pans, six hole 90, eight hole 1 1c, twelve hole 16c.
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100 dozen Mems, Boys and Childrens Straw Hats, from 1Oc up.
 Palm and Japanese decorated Fans, one cent each.
 Coffee Pots, one quart, Sc, two quart, He, three quart, 13c each.
 Dish Pans, ten quart He, twelve quart 18c, fourteen quart, 20c each.
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 Twenty pieces Fancy Mating, l9Ac <per yard, worth 25c.
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 One hundred pairs Window Shades all colors, 39c each, worth 65c.
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have rolled by since the brave words
uttered by that noble were
spoken, but they are as true and appli-
cable now as they were a thousand
years ago. Judge for yourself. II as
you pretend to be, you know that you
are in the right, p%ersevere in it, for
your friends have died for the sake
of it." Sublime sentiments, clothed in
noble words, intoxicating a lesson to
the women of the South for all genera
tions to comet Let them teach their
children that their fathers fought for
what they honestly believed to be their
right; that they were actuated by as
strong faith in our cause as ever fired
the heart or nerved the arms of patri-
OTIS, and that though their cause has
gone down in disaster, in blood, in
ruin. not n stain of dishonor rests
upon it. If the sentiments / have ex-
pressed meet a response in your hearts;
if you believe that the men buried here
and the tens of thousands of their COM
rades who gave their lives for the
South, are worthy OF honor or rever-
ence, then this stately monument is a
fit tribute to the memory of those
whose faithful services it is intended to
commemorate. In all ages, in nearly
every country, civilized or savage, pa
gan and christian alike have striven to
perpetuate the memory of their dead,
and to manifest their affection by hon.
oring the graves that hold the dust of
those whom they loved, or who died in
defense OF their country. The severe
muse of history has not thought it be-
low her dignity to record the fact that
the word itself, descriptive of a a mag
nificent monument, owes it's origin to
that noble pile which the affection of a
pagan widow dedicated to her husband
Maurolus, and whilst most of the proud
temples and mighty public works of
naughty Rome have crumbled into
dust, that round stone tower of other
days, OF the Appian way, that tells of
the love her husband bore his dead
| Metilla, yet stands to command the re-
spect and admiration of the world.
Nay yonder monument stand as long
| as that.to Metilla has done, and may all
the true apd brave of North Carolina
hold it in perpetual v~eneration! 1t
marks fttingly the spot where gallant
and brave men died; men worthy of the
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who are sleeping OF the
fields their valor won, were neither
rebels nor traitors; that they were
freemen, who believed, as firmly as
they did in the existence of their God.
that their cause was right; that they
were the sons of the men who gave
their blood to establish the liberty Of
America; that they had contributed
their full share to the glory, the genius,
the fame and the prosperity of the
great Republic founded by their IA
theirs; that they were the equals of the
proudest in that Republic, and that.
whatever may be the verdict of His
tory. the men who wore the gray have
nothing to be asian ed of.
It makes small difference here, and
it will make lone at the last great day,
when the actions of all men are
weighed in the scales held by the i'm
partial hands of the Almighty Ruler of
the universe, whether our cause was
successful or unsuccessful. God does
not judge as man judges, and we are
nowhere told in the revelations of His
Holy Word. that the just are to be re-
warded in this world and the unjust
punished; that truth is to prevail here
over falsehood; or that right is to over
come might. On the contrary, we are
expressly taught by the whole plan OF
Christian redemption, that this world
is only one CT probation to fit us for an
other and a better one, and history is
full of melancholy examples to show
that many of the noblest causes that
ever inspired a peoples hopes, or nerv-
ed their arms, have been allowed to
sink, apparently forever. under the
iron rule welded by despotic power.
Do not allow yourselves, my friends,
to be misled by that false doctrine
false to your faith, to your country
as your cause has failed, the principles
for which you commended are forever
obliterated. Any human undertaking,
however just it may be, may fail; but
the everything principles of right and
of Justice a never be buried. A great
truth like the God-head whence il
emanates is eternal, and it will live