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THE DEACON'S DONATION.
And why 1t Was Not Accepted by tbs
Town Committee,

And why 1t Was Not Accepted by the
Town Committee.
1t had been decided at public meet
ing Of the citizens they that would have
combination library, reading room and
social club in Wampton. The commit
tee, made up Of substantial members Of
the community authorized to act upon
their own Judgment, was in session at
Deacon Closes he having site that he
wanted to sell for the proposed building.
81 regard this movement as deserving
of popular approval and aid, F" said the
minister. sit aims to secure wider
intelligence and a better tone of morali-
ty among our people. Every one should
give according to his means. "
After the editor, the doctor and the
banker had talked in the same vein, the
lawyer proposed that they get down to
business. deacon Close" he contin-
ued, "has desirable lot for which he
asks 50, 900. 1t strikes me as a pretty
stiff price. but have no doubt that he
will make us donation of $500 and
make deed of the site for 81, 800"
There was applause, in which the
deacon did not participate, but rising
reluctantly he delivered himself as fol-
lows: "I must say that ] agree with
what has been said in praise OF this en-
terprise. Our town needs 1t and there
is no place for it more desirable than
the lot I have offered. OF course I want
to bear my full share Of the expense.
"Since l offered you this lot" the
deacon went on, there has been great
improvement i'll times. Money Is easier,
prices are better and realty gets an en-
hanced value because Of the general
prosperity. will let you have the 1os
for $4,000 and throw off $500 as a do
| nation"
The minister muttered something he
was glad the rest did not hear. The
doctor laughed, the banker scowled and
the lawyer moved to adjourn in voice
that told the deacon he would have to
seek some other market for the lot that
had taken such long and sudden jump
in value. Detroit Free Press.
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WHY 1T WAS HOT.
The Hash Epicure's Initial Exper4snc.
With Chatting Dish.

The Hash Epicure's Initial Experience
With Chatting Dish.
81 had heard of chatting dishes for
years." said Smiley Williams, "but the
one saw for the first time hoored me
completely.
81 never thought much about the
blamed things, but somehow I supposed
chafng dish was some sort Of concern
that they grated things in-something
that rubbed together and mashed things
1.-THE other night. though, Bolton
and went into a Madison street res
taurant for dinner. You know always
have sneaking liking for hash of any
kind, and so does Bolton. Bolton order
ed turkey hash for two, and the waiter
brought it on in a swell sort of silver
dish nearly as tall as cake basket. 1t
had a tight cover. and when we opened
it 1t steamed like 40 horsepower boil
er blowing off.
II loaded up Bottoms plate, and in
the first pass at it he took the skin off
his tongue, it was 30 hot.
" Just like these internal places
Bolton growled. Anything you've got
to eat is blistering hot, while coffee is
always stone cold
after awhile Bolton took some more
hash and burned his tongue again.
=" Holy Moses, he said, what's got
into that hash?'
81 told him nobody was expected to
know anything about restaurant hash,
especially the fellow who was eating it,
but he wasn't satisfied.
"Well. we kept on eating hash until
we had enough. And do you know that
hash left in the dish was hotter than it
was at the start?
WE'LL said Bolton, i wouldn't
have believed my eyes, but with most
of the skin off my tongue I've got to
give it up Then he called the waitet
Say, he said, in a low tone, tFIl
give you quarter if you'll tell me
what in blazes is the matter with that
hash.
Beg pahdon, sah?'
What keeps that hash 50 all fred
hot?'
Why, sab, that's a chafng dish,
sahp
'That's how found out that chat
ing dish is silver fruit stand with a
fire built under it. ''-Chicago Record.
The Monitor-register., 1897-01-29
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NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.
IL Was Provided by st. Louis Man Fo
His Wife's Feminine Friends,

It Was Provided by st. Louis Man For
His wifes Feminine Friends.
A wealthy st. Louisan living in the
vicinity Of Lafayette park provided a
novel form of entertainment for his
wife's guests one evening, says the st.
Louis Republic.
The hostess was extremely anxious to
provide something original for the edi.
fication Of score of guests whom she
intended to call together for an informal
evening. Her husband promised to pro-
vide such novelty and took boon COM
panion into his confidence to that end.
They had not exchanged ideas 80 con-
secutive seconds before they hit upon
the device of converting she elegant
parlors into gambling house pro tenn.
A faro bank, a roulette wheel and po-
ker and keno lay outs were easily pro-
durable, as the conferees well knew,
and that part of the programme was
soon settled. The friend suggested as
pretty epilogue the introduction of a
pair of bulldogs, guaranteed to reduce
each other to mince meat in three
rounds. This rather staggered the ambi-
tlous host, but his friend is ward poll
tieian, and with the eloquence he always
keeps on draft soon convinced the other
that the evening would be a failure
without those bulldogs.
The evening arrived, and with it came
the guests The ladies were prettily
shocked at sight of the gambling para
phernalla, but became accustomed to it
in an astonishingly short time and shar-
ed in the games with becoming vim. 1t
was when the yellow bulldogs made
their unexpected entrance that the hor-
ror of the fair guests proved genuine.
The beasts yelped and growled and
showed other peculiarly canine symp-
toms OF spelling for fight There
upon the ladies sought refuge on the pi-
ano and card tables and chairs, con-
Quoting their retreat as from a mouse.
Notwithstanding excited feminine
protestations, the friend who had been
consulted as to novelty in entertain
ment unleashed the dogs. 1t was an ex-
citing climax to an original" evening.
The dogs feasted for five minutes on
choice bits of each others anatomy.
The ladies screamed and the friend who
was consulted exulted in the success of
his novelty. When he was quite con-
vinced-and it took considerable time
to convince him-that the ladies' desire
for gore had been fully gratified, he
doused the dogs into a convenient tub
of water and separated them.
The Monitor-register., 1897-01-29
ChivaIrous Mr.. Fields.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her book
Chapters From Life, pays the fol
lowing tribute to James T. Fields:
''Mr. Fields was a man of marked
ohivalry of nature, and, at time when
it was not fashionable to help the move
ments for the elevation of women, his
sympathy was distinct, fearless and
faithful. In few instances, we knew,
and he knew, that this fact deprived
him of the possession of certain public
honors which would otherwise have
been offered to him.
"He advocated the political advance
ment of our sex, coeducatiou and kim
dred movements without any Of that
apologetic murmur SO common among
the half hearted or the timid. His fas-
tidious and cultivated literary taste was
sensitive to the position of women in
letters. He was incapable of that liter
ary snobbishness which undervalues a
woman's work because it is a woman's.
A certain publishing enterprise which
threatened to treat of eminent men
came to his notice. He quickly said :
THE time has gone by for thatl Men
and women! Men and women'
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to sufferers from catarrh will not be amiss
ifa cure can be offered. Ely's Cream
Balm has become favorite in all sections
of the United States. Your cold in the
head will be quickly relieved by it, and
the severest attack of oatarrh will yield
to, and be perfectly cured by a thorough
treatment. Catarrh is not a blood disease,
but an Inflammation of the passages OF
the nose and throat, due to climate
changes.
The Monitor-register., 1897-01-29

You will find true friend in Hoods
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be disagreeably reminded of the fact by
griping and agonising pains. They con
tain none of the drastic drugs formerly 81
extensively employed. Every ingredient
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They will break up cold, prevent the
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regulate the liver. They cure sick head.
ache and indigestion.
The Monitor-register., 1897-01-29
Animal Kindercartens.


1t will be noticed that all creatures
which have large families, whether
beasts or birds, have less trouble in rear
| ing them than those which have only
one or two young. Little pigs are weeks
ahead Of calves i'll intelligence, and the
young partridge, with its dozen brothers
and sisters, is far more teachable than
the young eagle, There seems 10 doubt
that the latter is taught to fly by it's
parents. A correspondent informs the
writer that he has watched the old
birds SO engaged and the young eagles
reluctantly following them to height.
Specialized education in animals be-
gins late. The beaver kittens training
does not begin until the autumn of the
year in which it was born. The old
beavers. which have moved up tributary
streams into the woods, or roamed to
the larger lakes during summer, then
return to inspect their dam and repair
it for the winter. They then cut down
few trees, and, dividing them into
logs, roll them or tow them to the dam.
The kittens meantime are put on to
what in workshop would be called a
soft job. " They cut all the small
branches and twigs into lengths and do
their share of light transport service.
In the mud patting and repairing of the
dam the beaver kittens take their share,
but there is little doubt that they do SO
because their elders are so engaged 1t
is kindergarten of the best kind, be-
cause mud patting and stick cutting are
a great joy and solace to old beavers MS
we'll as young ones, and so instruction,
pleasure and business are all combined.
Young otters, and probably also young
water rats, have to be taught to go into
the water. According to the observa-
tions Of Mr.. Hart. the late head keeper
at the ZOO, the young offers born there
did not enter the water for weeks, and
even then their mother had to mind
them and fetch them out when she
thought they had had enough of it.
They swim naturally when once in the
water, and this seems true of all ami
mails. London Spectator
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Itis common error of which wise
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The Monitor-register., 1897-01-29

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OF SALEM COUNTY.
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lie
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Nerves

Are the Messengers Of Sesase,-the Telegraph
System of the human body.
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DURING 1897--ITS SEvENTYrFIFTH YEAR.
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Merrill Edward Gates, LID, President Am
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]. H. W stuckenberg, D D.
Daniel Dorchester, d d.
Charles living, ID, President Western Re-
serve University.
Professor J.. Q Murray, DID,, gice-President
Princeton Seminary.
Rev. J. Munro Gibson, %. D,
Bishop John F. Hurst. D D.
President Valentine. D. D., Theological Seminary
Theodore L. Cuyler, DID.
Rev. George M Stone, D. D.
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Rambler Letters, containing the weekly observa-
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-05-11
Us This
Y QUIZ
j Dis g ga S@ :

Frequent headache. nostrils stuffy or dry
ana scabby, always hawking and splitting.
frequent colds. buzzirg in the ears. dull
aching pains In back and limbs. attacks OF
dizziness or faintness. tongue coated.
white or yellow, sting or bitter taste IN
mouth. especially In the morning on aris-
ing, frequent attacks Of the blues" no en-
ergy to do anything and always tired
sleep restless and dreamy. or else very
deep. but get up tired, much bciching In
some cases. and palpitation of the heart
and bowels rumbinG and swollen with
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after eating, appetite for breakfast poor,
some have good appetite but food disa-
grees or gives no strength, many suffer
from nausea or loose their appetite when
they go 10 the table. Such arc the prom
incnt symptoms OF DRY CNTARRII COM
picated with CATARRH OF STOMACH
AND BOWELS.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-05-11

,ond and made a wild throw to first on
which Smith scored. Leahy kept UP his
Uniting streak and made two bases 20 4
poke 20 right field, which landed Nc
EFarlan on third. where Shaffer left them
by striking out
keister hit a little one to Wentz and
Shaffer did the rest: HeIdrick hit 10
Shaffcr and in II cloud OF dust he. New
ton and Wcnt4 managed to- put the ball
on the bag and nut Heidricls out Just as
he arrived: Snlink hit TO Wenta and
Shaffcr finished him.
.Eishth--Weddige agitated the ntmos-
phcre three successive times and retir-
ed to the bench: Weihl hit 20 left field
for bag; WentE hit to I[eister, who
threw to second, but Smith dropped the
ball and two Brooms were on The bags.
Smith couldn't set one past Kestcr and
a double play-keister to Smith to Hal
ler--was the result.
Wagner flew out to Smith; Robinson
went out easily, Wentz to Shaffer, and
Stafford struck out.
Ninth-Snyder foulcd out to Wagner;
Newton again worked his rival for q
base on balls; McFarlan sent him to sec
ond with clean single: Leahy flew out
to centrefeld Shaffer hit and the bases
were full, with Weddige up. and all he
did was TO send up a high one to Haller.
Smith went out. Weddige to Shaffer;
Westlake came up in place Of Halter
and drew q base on balls; Hardesty, an
other new face in the game. was also
allowed 10 walk: KeiSter hit to Weddige,
who put his foot on third and threw
keister out at first, ending what was q
decidedly heart disease period in tht
game.
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