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PROTECTION FOR HAY.

A Good structure. Although There 10
Not Very Much to IL.
A good way, even II il lie somewhat
old, of cheaply protecting hay and fod-
der is TO make an open structure with
a roof that can be raised or lowered,
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Prso's Cure for Consumption has saved
me many a doctors biil.-S- r. HARDY
hopkins Place, Baltimore, Md, Dec. 2, "a
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WHFS YOU loaf, remember the rights OF
busy people -Atchison Globe.
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IN the race OF life 1t isn't the fast men
who come out ahead.-Texas Sitter.
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Sow good services; sweet reinem.
brnnccs " ill grow from them.--Mndame
de Stael
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Prudence and industry are the best safe
guards against hard luck.-Chicago stand
ard
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FRIEsDsnIp Is plant OF slow growth and
must undergo ard withstand the shocks OF
adversely before IL is entitled to the appella-
tion,-Washington.
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LIFE or DAVID

THE REVIEW
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
MULTUM IN PARVO.

Generosity is catching.-Greville. /
An extreme rigor is sure to arm every
thing against it.-Burke.
A page digested is better than vol
ume hurriedly read.-Macaulay.
Responsibility wales hand in hand
with capacity and power.-Holland.
| read the newspapers to see how God
governs the world.-John Newton.
Thought is troublesome to him who
lives without his own appreciation
johnson.
1t is to live twice when we enjoy the
recollections of our former life.-Mar-
tial.
Over the stony crag on the brow of
every hill hang the tablets of the ages.
Anon.
He on whom Heaven confers a soep-
tire knows not the weight till he bears
it.-Corneille.
A sentence well couched takes both
the sense and the understanding
Feltham.
A man must carry knowledge with
him If he would bring home knowledge.
johnson.
Objects imperfectly discerned take
form from the hope or fear of the be-
holder.-Johnson.
Mankind are always found prodigal,
both of blood and treasure, in the main
tenance of justice.-Hume.
The public has more interest In the
punishment Of an injury than the one
who receives it.-Colton.
How can such deep-imprinted images
sleep in us at times till a word, a sound,
awake them.-Lessing.
Surely, il all the world was made for
man, then man was made for more than
the world.-Duplessis.
No degree of knowledge attained by
man is able to set him above the want
of hourly assistance.-Johnson.
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
WOMANKIND.
RUFUS SANDERS.

In the cities of Massachusetts, 2b5,73o
men have registered and 26,o72 women.
There are perhaps few amateur or
ganist In England to equal Mrs. Glad
stone.
Queen Amelie, of Portugal, is study
ing medicine, and goes into its intri-
cacies with the zest and zeal of q pro-
fessional man.
The first woman doctor in Vienna,
Austria, Georgine Won Roth, has oeen
admitted to practice. She is the daugh-
ter of Countess Palffy.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends to all
carefully guards him against would-be
intruders. He is said to be the most
unapproachable literary man In the
world.
Miss Elsie Stanley Hall, al English
girl who was born in Australia, has
been awarded the German Mendels.
sohn scholsGship at the Leipsic con-
servatory. A large number of German
musical students were her competitors
The scholarship is worth $37b year.
Mrs. A. w. Fisher has been elected
"Beeah," or mother, of the Indians or
the Fort Hall reservation. She Is the
second woman in the United States ID
receive this honor, the other being Mrs
Harriet M. Converse, of New York, who
was elected some years ago by the SiI
Nations to be mother of all the tribes
The golf links for women at Brigh
ton, England, were lately the scene o.
a tournament which lasted two days
and in which no fewer than so young
women took part. The prize for thu
best scratch score was won by the dam
sci who had a total of 66. The handi
cap was also won by good score o.
II, less 8, SO. The next best scorel
were 10, less 8, 81 and 81, less 16, 65
The course was mile and half from
start to finish. with nine holes.
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TRAP AND GUN.

A perfectly white squirrel, with pinl
eyes, was caught by a hunter neal
South Windham, Conn.
A lynx weighing 40 pounds was sho
In a main street, near the center Of tn,
city of San Diego, Cal, a few days ago
1t Is said that deer are 30 plentiful IL
some of the wild parts of Oregon thai
the systematic slaughter of them fol
their hides is profitable business.
While hunting for partridge, and, oi
course, with both barrels loaded with
bird shot, an Ellsworth, Me-, hunter
stumbled upon three deer. He didn't
swear, he says, he "laid right down
and bawled."
A good-sized bear was killed In the
city limits of Montesano, Wash. The
animal strayed in from the nearby for
est and got within four blocks of the
courthouse before anyone appeared
with a gun. Then q 14-year-old boy
killed it.
A party of hunters returned to Ash
land, Ore, from six weeks hunt In
the mountains of Curry county, bring
ing with them the spoils of three bull
elk, four bears and 65 bucks. There IL
a wonderful abundance of game in that
region.
Grouse, partridge, deer and many
other kinds of game are unusually
plentiful in northern New Hampshire
this fall. Black bears are numerous
near Thornton, and an unusually large
lynx was shot near Ellsworth q few
daVs apO
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FASHION AND FANCY.

A handsome afternoon dress for a
young matron has skirt of black satin,
a waist of plain velvet with satin reyers
and satin sleeves with velvet cuffs. The
high, rolled-back collar is of velvet and
the vest of plated satin.
A suit for small boy is made of vel
vet in navy blue. There are knee
trousers, made quite full, a belted
blouse and an embroidered collar that
covers the shoulders and extends in a
point to the belt. The wide cuffs are of
embroidery, to match the collar.
A stylish costume for young lady
has a skirt Of old-rose and blue change
able peau-de-soie. The waist is of rose
and-white striped silk, gathered full
into a velvet collar and belt. There are
very wide epaulets Of velvet and deep
cuffs, the sleevetops being enormous
puffs that fall low over the elbows.
A calling costume is of crossbarred
silk with plain skirt, elose-ftting waist,
leg-o'-mutton sleeves and velvet collar
and revers and belt. A velvet cape with
feather trimming, and a velvet hat
trimmed With large loops of the piece
velvet and dropping ostrich plumes
complete this dainty costume.
A dress for an elderly lady is of dark
brown satin. The skirt is plain and
edged with a row of fancy galloon. The
waist is gathered at the back, and the
shoulders are covsrad by double cape
of velvet. The high collar is finished in
points. Large sleeves of satin have vel
vet cuffs, and the velvet belt las bow
st the back of the waist line.
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POSTAGE STAMPS AND CARDS.

The different countries of the world
now use 10 400 different kinds Of pos
tage stamps.
A postage stamp Of Mauritius issue,
two-penny blue, unused, sold in London
for $700.
An average of 100000 of postage
stamps are used by the people of the
United States every day in the year.
Austria has seized all the Italian pos
tai cards printed to commemorate the
taking of Rome at the frontier, and re-
fuses to allow them to circulate within
her territory. Italy he's protested, as
the cards comply with all the regula-
tions of the postal union.
In 1913 postage rates in the United
States were: "Single letters, by land
40 miles, eight cents; ninety miles, ten
cents; 15o miles, 12h cents; 300 miles
IL cents, 500 miles, 90 cents; over 500
miles, rs cents; double letters, twice the
single rates; ounce at the rate of -four
single letters"
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I would or wouldn't In regard to the

l would or wouldn't IN regards to the
papers Of compellment and whilst he
looked like he was fxin to cry, didn't
feel sorry for him blame blessed bit.
Instid of whinin and pinin he ought to Of
been singin songs of praise and thanks
givin. Maybe if they will keep doublin
on him till the figures run up to twelve
or fifteen he will do about a little and
be full grown man.
So then went on home, feelin like
the good Lord has blessed me as free and
liberal as any livin man, both in my
bread basket and store. | had a right
tolerable good appetite to eat that day
at dinner, and from then henceforwards
continually all the time ! have been
healthy and hongry and happy.
The next time you git under the
weather and on the lifts remember what
l tell you that Mother told me: ''Stir
ronnd some" You mought take out
your little note book and set it down.
But at any rates, "stir round some" 1t
is dead shot for the mullygrubs and
the most pleasantest medicine in the
world to take: Stir round some"
RUFUS SANDERS.
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hatnraadfnI BARRIER.

She glanced about the room hope
lessly.
mo, it can never be-" she murmur-
ed; sit can never be. A barrier rises
between us-an unsurmountable bar
rier."
He laughed in that easy, show-me-
any-kind-of-a- -tough-old barrier till
Observation-Disclosures sort of man
ner.
"Pshaw."
That one utterance conveyed the i'm
preston that he made speciality of
breaking down barriers every morning
before breakfast
"It can not be much" he pleaded.
'"rell me its nature, that | may crush
it cut of existence"
Again she gazsd hopelessly around
the room.
at is"
The words came painfully slow.
"a husband in New Jersey"
People in the houses for blocks and
blocks heard through the night sound
as of shutting feet, but they little
VOTED that it was man kicking him
self ever onward. N. Y. World.
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Professor Booker Washington, who was

Professor Booker Washington, who was
n lineal descendant of George Washing
ton, the first American President, made
the opening address, and that one of the
novelties was a grove of cottonwood trees
full of cotton. and that the exposition
realized the dream of Thomas Il. Grady,
the father of the Solid South.
How is that for blunders? 1t looks
like a joke, but it was not. l knew an
Englishman who told me he had been
taught that cotton grew on large trees
and was gathered by using ladders.
The South has always been better ac-
quainted with the North than the North
has been with us. Our merchants used
to go North twice a year to buy their
goods and our rich people visited their
cities and watering places every summer,
but there was nothing for them to come
down here for. Albion Tourgee came
down on a fools errand after the war
and went back and wrote that our people
were all born politicians. Gov. Altgeld
said the other day in his beautiful adj
dress that we were all born orators. Mr..
Loomis says we are native-borli" Ameri-
can patriots and several speakers said
that hospitality was an inborn southern
trait. 1t is really refreshing to read their
praises and compliments.
The other day a caravan of wagons
and people came through our town moving
to lower Georgia. One of the head men
was sick and DIR. Calhoun visited him
and prescribed and the prescription was
filled at the drug store near by. The
man asked the doctor for his charge and
he said: mo charge for that, my friend;
you are too far from home to charge"
The druggist told him the same, and the
man said: "Well gentlemen, | don't un-
derstand you people down here. | am
able to pay my way and don't want to
beg it. There are several hundred COM
ing from my section and more will keep
| coming when we write back how we are
| treated" The truth Is. | believe the
| backbone of our alienation is broken and
| hereafter the North and South will fully
| harmonic. We don't ask them to turn
| Democrats, for they will soon do that
after they have lived with us awhile We
are right smartly in the minority now,
so far as national politics is concerned,
but that don't trouble anybody but the
postmasters and the revenue men, and we
KEEP On HdHu enouSh eieSei isePuphN"ns
to fill those offices when the time comes.
SO let the procession proceed, for
whether the tariff is high or low; whether
it's gold only or gold and silver, we can
stand it if they can. | read Mr.. Crisp's
speech and | am proud of him. He Is
one foreign-born man whom our people
delight to honor. Almost from his in
fancy he has been an adopted son of
Georgia. With no influential kindred, no
family prestige, he has, unaided, climbed
his way to honor and fame, and there
is no stain upon his name. The small
dogs may bark at him, but he knows no
fear and will not turn to the right or
the left from his own convictions Of
right and duty.-BILL ARP, In the At
lanta Constitution.
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prayers and kicked the bucket and
turned her cloven hoofs up to the hog
weed and the daisies. No, don't know
what was the matter with her. Nothin
ct all SO far as we conld see and find out.
Aceordin to your doxology, | reckon her
time had jest naturally come and she
had to go. At any rates, she is gone
where the honeysuckles bloom and the
tree frog sings forever. But dadblame
it, that want nothin to speak of. Mandy
she took ON about 1t powerful and shed
few tears on the sly, and it was all
over.
'tThen last night this young lady,
which you know she is the best mule in
the settlement, she had to turn up
mssin. | didn't know blame thing
about If till feedin time come and she
want on hand. When the stars begin
to twinkle and the chickens fly up to
roost-when the gold Of evenin meets
the dusk of night, as it were-if Kizzfe
amt in the lot crackin corn and chawin
fodder l can gamble on it that somethin
mighty wrong has come to pass. So
had to pole off after supper and find out
what was goin on. When | found her
she was rippin and snortin around
down here with scandlous bad case of
the cholio. By gatlins,. Rufe, you
ought to of been here to see her roll and
tumble and pillow up the earth and paw
the open air. 1t was a plum sight to
look at ] didn't know it in time to
help it, but | found out too late that
Miss Kizzie had been foragin around
over there in the pea field all day, and
late in the evenin she come on back
acrost the spring branch and stopped to
squeneh her thirst So consequentially
tremendous big lot of swellin had
been goin on and somethin had to be
done right away Immediately to keep
down serious trouble. l had brought
the fxments along with me, and | then
drenehed her with sweet milk and
molasses, and sody and salt, and the
Lord knows what all. But 1t was pure
vanity and vexation, The rollin and
tumb1in went on reglar and steady and
fast and furious till past midnight In
the main time l had quart of good
whisky at the house, and it stood to
reason with me that Kizzie needed it in
this hour of her pains and tribulations.
! had travelled the same road myself,
you understand. But it had cost me six
bits in spot cash, and | was sayin it
back for some future day when 1t
mought fit case of pushencY between
me and you and Andy Lucas. And yet
a man would be blind stavin crazy to
lose a hundred dollar mule in order
ment to save six bits worth of sperits-
of-eats-a-fghtin. So presently l went
back to the house after the bottle. 1t
was like payin taxes or sheddin eye
teeth, Rufe, but by gatlins l fetched it,
and Kizzie took it. You bet she took
it, and she took it like she knowed
what it was and the wonders it would
do. And by the twelve epistles, she
got up on her feet inside of twenty
minits and shook herself right and
natural. She amt to say plum straight
as yet, but she is clean past the danger
line and on the mend. So much for
sperits-of-cats-a a-fghtin."
When left the Scroggins place Blew
had led Kizzie back to the lot and she
was lickin salt and nosin around the
fodder rack.
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
NAVY NOTES.

Hollands navy has grown Anticipated.
II will take $40, ,oO0,O to put into work
ing order, but the ministry does not
dare to ask for the money. >
France has launched new IL .O00-ton
frst-class battleship. the Charlemagne,
and will fit her with $4,000 horse power
engines, assuring a speed of IS knots.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
theUnited States navy, is one Of the few
officers of high rank who are not grad
yates of Annapolis. He began his career
as an apprentice in the Charleston navy
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
Headed for the Poor House.

Oncst more l turned my horse loose
and rode down the ridge and across the
creek on my return back home. I had
already went far enough to find out
that there was some trouble goin on in
the world besides what come to me and
mine. Down there in the swamp, jest
beyond the bridge ] met up with Dunk
Strickland, and Dunk be was lookin like
man that was sent for and couldn't
possibly GO His mouth was standin
wide open like beaver trap, and his
face was as long as rainy Sunday. l
lowed maybe somebody was dead at his
house, and after passin compliments
with him in regards to the weather
was raley skeered to ask him about his
folks. But Dunk is a man that most in
generally always tells everything he
knows, without waitin for questions.
with nine mouths to feed and dry
goods to buy for the whole shootin
match, and six of 'em gals at that, my
name is mud, Rufe, ana the poor house
is my home. Me and my wife had been
married six years and had Ave children,
and all gals but one. And now they are
doublin on me and comm two in burr.
The doctor was at my house last night,
and when he went away this mornin he
let two twin babies there, which be-
long to the Strickland generation.
They are both gals of course, and the
next news you hear they will be eallin
for calico and red ribbin. can't stand
it, Rufe, blamed if can stand il You
are on to all the tricks, and | want you
to go and take out papers OF compell-
ment and send the Strickland family to
the Poor House"
As to me, didn't tell Dunk whether
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Full Preparation.

~ thought, said the solemn parson,
that you intended for your little son
to enter the ministry"
81 do, said the father.
"And yet you allow him to have such
warlike toys as gun and sword"
"Yes: think he ought to get famil-
lar with the use of them. He might be
sent as missionary, you know. In
dianapolis Journal
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04

she would. She was ripe and ready with
one of them fresde lectures, and it
was necessary compelled to come forth.
And naturally of course it was mighty
good time of year for me to lay low and
say nothin and suffer and be strong.
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"Havin n Hog KILN Time"

From there | rode on over to the
Stribblin place to see how everything
was comm over there. Handy he was
sawin away on his fiddle when | first
driv up, and when lit and dismounted
and got down and went in he met me
with smile as broad as crib-door.
"You are jest in time to be too late,
Rufe," says Handy. "We have been
havin a regular hog KILN time around
here. Two weeks ago the colery got in
amongst my hogs and from that the flu
neral procession proceeded. By gum, l
had twenty-seven head of hogs and
they was fat and thrifty as you ever
saw. Everybody said l was elected on
the meat question by a good, safe ma
iority. But confound the luck, the
colery killed twenty-six of 'em in ten
days. 1t didn't leave but one for seed,
and this mornin took my axe and went
forth and knocked that lonely one in
the head. thought l mought as we'll
to give it to the colery or the buzzards,
and make clean sweep and smooth
job of it. 1t is all in a life time any
how, Rufe, and everything that goes up
must come down."
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wind u p t h Q
clock and retire
to bed. But in
the main time it
would seem like
Mother she had
gotsorter wound
up h er ow
sweet self. She
! was wound up
for one of her
plain family
talks, and talk
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
Practical.

"Would you oblige," +" said the report
er who gets novel interviews, "by tell
ing me what book helped you most in
life?"
After a thoughtful pause the great
man answered: MY bank book. "-Bos-
ton Gazette.
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04

-Obstinaey and contention are COM
mon qualities. most appearing in, and
best becoming, a mean and illiterate
soul L-Montaigue
The Van Buren press., 1896-01-04
"Stir Round Some"

you have now been on the lifts for
two or three weeks, Rufus, and | want
you to git up and git oat and stir round
some," says Mother, as she picked up
her darnin gourd and got out basket of
old socks. White people, whensomever
see the darnin gourd and that basket
Of old socks come out and report for
duty | am ready to hear somethiu drap.
1t means some new socks made out of
old ones, but it likewise also means a
whole passle more than that 1t means
that the day and hour have come when
somethin must be said.
II would love the best in the world
to see you come around on your feet
oncst more, Rufus, but all the doctors
in creation couldn't tell for certain
what you have got. she went on to say.
~ reckon maybe the good Lord knows
what ails you, but He won't tell it. But
II it amt one thing the matter it is
somethin else. From all the general
appearments of the case 1t looks to me
like you mought be sufferin with gem
eral mixtry of the dumps and the studs
and the mullygrubs. At any rates you
have got somethin or other and a mighty
bad case Of it, and it has now come to
that pass where it makes me sore in
spirit and weary in the flesh.
"Stir round some. That is the main
est thing for you, Rufus Stir round
some. Go out amongst the highways
and the byways and mix and mingle
with the folks. 1t will beat Dluemass
and snake root tea and salts and the like
of that clean out of sight, Tt are is
many man in this country that feels
and looks tremendous big sight worse
than you and has whole lot more bad
luck and hard times than you do. You
have stayed here at home mopin and
moanin around in the low grounds so
monstrous long till you have come to
think that all the trials and trou bles
and tribulations, and SORROWS and wor-
riment in the created world are right
here on our place. But that amt so. No
doubts 1T seems that way to you, but
that is jest simply because your wife's
husband is lookin darkly through set
of green goggles, as it were. Stir
round some. That is the mainest
thing for you, Rufus. Stir round some.
"You will mighty soon find out that
other people turn up sick sometimes as
we'll as you. Some people fall out and
fight and split the blanket and quit,
whilst some die and are buried, and
others land in the Poor House. But
bless gracious we aint come to that yet.
Other people git their potatoes frost
bit and ruint, providin they dig em in
rainy weather, like you did, and then
leave 'em out in the patch Of cold
frosty night Other people have their
hogs to take sick and die with the
colery, or maybe their COWS go dry all
at oncst, or the dogs pitch in and kill
their sheep, and so forth and so on. In
the long run the good Lord is more than
probable to even things up all along the
line, Rufus, and we raley couldn't ex-
pect to have everything our own way
all the time. If all the machinery runs
smooth and even and l can have my
own way about things in general one
half of the time am more than thank
ful for that much. Stir round some.
That is the text | am preachin from to-
night, Rufus. Stir round some"
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STIR ROUND SOME"
The Sage of Rocky Reports a
Fireside Lecture. .-.-.--.--..--..
"Great Gobs" of Sense in a Plain Family
Talk-"The Darnin Gourd and That
Basket of Old Socks Mea MS a Whole
Passle''-How to BE Healthy and
Hongry and Happy.
Copyright, 1857

Copyright, 1852
Hit was waxin late along into the
hight, and | was thinkin to myself that
| mought as well to go and bring in
some kindlin and set the rat traps and