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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

been the sacrifices in its defense on land
and sea; and as the lad looked and
listened, he felt as if he were standing
on holy ground.
There" she said, gravely, when the
mittens were done, when you wear
these you will show your oolors. You
must always show them"
So the little boy wore the patriotic
mittens; for the first time to church,
and after that to school and to play.
He was proud of them, and he never for
got their pictured lesson. Enthusiasm
for freedom and country, fidelity to
truth and duty, love of honor and right
had all been knit into his young life
by his good mothers teachings, as her
needles had knit the flag into his nit
tens.
Years after the war was overland
the little worn-out pair of mittens had
been laid away-the faithful mother
died; but the boy had become man.
The time came, as it happens to every
man of affairs, with the temptations of
the world around him, when it seemed
more profitable to be shrewd and un-
scrupulous than to be strictly upright.
In his Office hung a strange little pic
ture. There, mounted in neat frame,
behind protecting glass, were the iden-
teal mittens his mother had knit for
him so long ago; the very pair, with the
Stars and Stripes on their backs, that
he had worn in the old days when she
told him he must show his colors.
In the mans heart the boys reverence
for all that was true and noble came up
permost, when he looked on his early
lesson. He was ashamed to do ques-
tionable thing. The little frayed nit
tens wrought by the fingers of dead
mother were n monitor to him.
A little while ago he sent the writer
photograph of them. They are wor-
thy of place in the paper, for they tell
the story of childhood influence that
became the inspiration of an honorable
and manly life.
In spite of our worst selves, most o1
us find our best selves bound to God by
some one strong cord of holy prayers
1t may be dying sisters last word
Such memories are more precious than
life. The heart holds them, and they
knit honor into our very being
Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
A pnnier Mnche Noae.

Noemi Saumon, a middle-aged woman
arrested for shoplifting in Paris, went
off in a fit when she arrived at the
station, and an inspector tried to re-
vive her by applying smelling salts to
her nose. The woman remained in a
state of coma, and showed no signs
of returning to consciousness. Then
tae inspector tweaked her by the nose,
and, to his horror, that organ came off
in his hand, being made OF papier
mache.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
PATRIOTIC MlrrsNs.
How They Became the Inspiration of
nm Honorable Life.

m hOnOEauIe DtNes
During the civil war the martial feel
ing of The time excited American chill
dren as well as American men. But in
country home in the state of Maine
lived little boy who neither owed his
interest in the great conflict to the eX-
ample of a soldier father nor showed it
in military play. The boy was not yet
ten years of age; old enough to thrill
at the beat of drums and the marshal
ing of departing troops, but not old
enough fully to understand the mean
ing of all the commotion.
His father was ineligible for service.
His mother was not strong, but she had
the heart of n patriot, and she was de-
voted to the cause of freedom. Love of
country was to her next to the love Of
God. Her loyalty to it's flag was as true
as her faith in her Bible.
Through all those troubled years, this
woman was constant and unwearied in
her efforts to help the union cause. She
picked lint, and her boy helped her,
wondering. She made jellies, and her
boy stirred the kettle while she an
swered childish questions about the
terrible times. She talked to him daily
about the honor of the old flag, and
told him that every one in those days
must show his colors or be branded as
traitor.
"What is showing colors,' mother?'
he asked, much awed by her manner.
81 will show you, my son." she said
Thereupon she began to knit pair
of white mittens, and upon the back
of each one she fashioned the stars and
stripes, knitting them in, as she went
along, so that they were part of the
woof of the mittens.
Standing by her side the boy watched
her shining needles. She gave him the
history of the flag as she threaded the
rcd. white and blue into her work. She
told him how many and how great hat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
1 had ring, something like the ac-
RING FOR BRLACHY CATTLE.

companying cut, made of one-fourth
inch iron, 31a inches wide. l attached
a short piece of trace chain to each side
of the ring where holes are shown,
crossed the chains over the animals
nose, and fastened them to opposite
horns close to the head, making the
chain as tight as the animal can stand
it without pain. When the animal put
his nose against the fence the chain
rolls or presses to one side, giving the
animal instant pain in the nose. One
or two attempts to throw the fence
after this ring is on will satisfy him,
and he will stay where he is putt. w.
Mccoy, in Farm and Fireside.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

and in very few years are producing
excellent crops.
Purchased by the hundred dwarf
pear trees are ineXpensive-from six
to eleven dollars being charged at
the nurseries for two-year-old trees
from three to four feet in height. Care
should be taken in setting the trees to
put the point where the pear and ounce
stock joins two inches at least below
the surface of the ground. Dwarf pear
trees, being small can be set out in
places where larger trees could not
well grow. A very excellent arrange
ment is to set them in hedge-row
along the sides of ones orchard or gar
den. They can be set as closely as
Az feet apart, provided they have
plenty of space on either side to let in
sunshine and air. A row of these lit
tie trees in full bloom is sight to be
remembered.
Not all varieties of pears are suited
to the dwarf habit of growth. Those
that do well as standards will not al
ways give satisfaction as dwarfs, but
it is fortunate that some of the very
finest of the standard varieties, as
dwarfs, do as well as the standards, if
not better. Thus among the summer
varieties that give excellent results is
the dwarf form one may mention the
Bartlett and Clapp's Favorite; among
autumn varieties the Seckel and Ouch
esse, and among winter varieties that
"noblest Roman of them all, - the Anjou,
and the Lawrence.
There are other good pears that do
well as dwarfs, but this gives a good
selection for home use. Every spring
before the leaves start let third of
last seasons growth be cut away, as
severe pruning is essential for heavy
| fruiting.
In localities where the winters are
severe, little mulching, at least for the
first season, should be put about the
trees in winter, and remember that
pear trees, as well as all fruit trees, for
that matter, are greatly benefited By a
liberal application of wood ashes to the
soil. Give them other fertilizers, too
but don't neglect to supply plenty OF
potash.
Set out few dwarf pear trees, and
the chances are that you will like then
so well that you will set out as many
more year from this spring.-N. Y
| Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Summer Tours via Big Four Route,

summer Tours via Big Four Route,
To the Mountains, Lakes and Seashore.
Special Low Rates will be in effect to Put.
n-Bay, Islands of Lake Erie, Lake Chautau.
qua, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, St.
Lawrence River, Adirondaeks, Lake George
New England Resorts, New York and Bos
ton. TO the Great Lakes, Cleveland, San
ausky, Toledo Detroit, Benton Harbor, Mt
Clemens, Mackinac and Michigan Resorts
To the Northwest and West via st. Louis
md Chicago. For rates, routes, time of
trains and full particulars apply to any
agent "Bg Four" or address E. o. McCor-
mick, Passenger Traffic Manager big
Four" Cincinnati, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Dirt Makes Poor Rutter.

Your butter will naturally have good
flavor if your COW stable is kept scrupu-
lously clean and well aired, if you lake
pains to get no dirt in your milk, either
during or after the milking, if you feed
only strictly sound, sweet grain and
Godder, and if your milkrcom and all
milk receiving and butter making ves-
sells and utensils are always kept en-
tirely clean and well sired. Dirt in some
form or other, is the plain word for
much of the trouble so often encoun-
tered in making sweet, pleasant butter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
VEGETABLE HOSPITAL.
Established by the United States De-
partmcnt of Agriculture.

Dartment of Agriculture.
A hospital under the care of Prof B.
I. Galloway, chief of the division of
vegetable pathology, has been estab-
lished by the department of agricul
ture of the United States government
for the treatement of sick plants. Dis
eases affecting plants and vegetables,
as well as remedies, are investigated.
The work will not only benefit farmers,
but all lovers of flowers. A violet plant
was placed under a glass jar, where it
was provided with only poor ventila-
ton. Germs of n disease known to be
injurious to the plant were mixed with
water and sprayed upon il. Soon large
yellow spots appeared upon the leaves.
After the jar was removed the patient
rapidly recovered, showing that the
germs would have had no effect had the
air in which the plant grew been fresh.
The plants in a row of young corn are
given water In different quantities,
mixed with certain proportions of
salts, as found in natural soil. When
certain strengths of salt are added the
little mouths of :he hairlike tubes of
the roots through which the plants
drink become so badly puckered that
the plants starve. Plants growing in
salt marshes and by the seaside are sup
piled with larger mouths, BY testing
the amount of salt in his soil the farm
er can ascertain how healthy his corn
is likely to be, Pref. Galloway is await
ing results from some very interesting
experiments with the germs of wheat
"rust. t."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

1t was getting late, and still the ven
erable ex-United States senator lin
gered in the parlor with the young peo-
pie. Evidently something had to be
done.
II hope, papa" said his daughter,
gently but resolutely, that you will
not Zoe offended il now move close
call of the house, during which all per-
sons not entitled to the floor will please
retire, while Charlie and / discuss a
question of personal priyilegel"-N. Y.
Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
DWARF PEAR TREES.
They Produce Excellent Crops With
In Very Few Years.

They Produce Excellent Crops With
In n Very Few Years.
Farmers and others do not sufficient
ly appreciate the value of the dwarf
pears. With these the setting out OF
fruit trees is certainly not planting for
posterity," whatever may be the case
with standard trees.
Dwarf pear trees are formed by graft
ing pear cions upon ounce roots. The
result is the making of a bush out oi
the pear stock. Another result is the
very early bearing of the dwarf. A
few planted about ones garden and
grounds make ornamental shrubbery
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Ere the Farewell Is Spoken

On the deck of the steamer, or on board the
train that is to bear you away from those
dear to you, you will, if you are wise, have
safely slowed away in your luggage sutfi-
Gent supply of that safeguard against i'll
ness-Hostetter' Stomach Bitters. Com
mercial travellers, tourists and pioneer emf
grants concur in testifying to the fortifying
and saving properties of the great tonic:
Use for constipation, biliousness, malarial
and kidney complaints and nervousness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Between Seed Time and Harvest

Between Seed Time and Harvest
Is good opportunity to enquire about
farming lands in South Dakota, only one
days ride from Chicago. Bountiful crops of
Wheat, Corn, Barley and Flax reward the
tiller Of the soil. AS stock and dairy coun.
try South Dakota leads all the world. First
class farm lands with nearby markets can
now be bought for from $40, So, SIS, and
upwards, per acre, and this is the time to
invest. For further particulars write TO
Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent,
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
Old Colony Building, Chicago, III.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
sunshine ana Sndnens.

The redbird sings, and the sunshine filings
its gold through my window.pane And
,weet perfume steals into my room, from
the roses in the lane. The skies are
clear; in the school-yard near, the children
romp in gee; the earth is bright in the 9 lad
For, across the way, there is din to-day,
that tortures my weary brain; the maiden
fair, with auburn hair, is at the piano again.
-Up-to-Date.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Try Grain-ol Try Grnin-oI

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
that takes the place Of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN.O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or java
but it is made from pure grains, and the
most delicate stomachs receive it without
distress. Ia the price of coffee. l5c and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
THE LATEST ANIMAL.
1t Takes the Al IA Month or More to
Go n Single Mile.

In the deep forests along the Amazon
river in South America there dwells
ono of the oldest and LATEST creatures
in the world. 1t walks upside down;
it rarely, if ever, drinks, and it is said
to feel no pain. The animal is known
as the al, from its peculiar piping cry,
or the three-toed sloth. The last name
is very appropriate, for a lazier animal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
Rineninr of Emit.

Experiments made in England to re-
tard the ripening of fruit by keeping
1t at steady low temperature have
succeeded well with apples, but not
with plums or with vegetables.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
EoR RREACHY BULLS.

A Preventive That Has Never Failed
to Effect n Cure.
For the benefit of those who may
have breachy bulls or other kind of
cattle that throw the fence, will state
what I have found to be good pre-
ventive, and l have had one of the
worst animals ever saw to experiment
on.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

"That affair on the end of my tail" said
the rattlesnake, "may not seem handsome,
but" He skillfully threw coil. IT'S a
rattling good thing. Yes"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

People who say they cannot write a
plain hand because they are so nervous, talk
as if they expected to be believed.-Wash-
ington Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

Time, which vindicates a man, first buries
him.-Atchison Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
"Stnr TObacco.v

AS you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26
YOU will have


to undergo the operation of ovariotomy,
the cutting out of the ovary.
Yes, you will recover, at least / hope
you will; but you will never be quite
the same woman again. Congestion of
the ovaries is fatal to health. If you
h;Me any such symptoms be advised
in time take q medicine of specific
powers! You can find none better
than Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, prepared especially to meet
the needs of woman's sexual system.
You can get it at any good druggists.
Following we publish a letter from
woman in Milwaukee, which relates
how she was cured of ovarian trouble:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-I suffered with
congestion of the ovaries and inflamma-
ton of the womb. 1had been troubled
with suppressed and painful menstrual
ton from girl. The doctors told me
the ovaries would have to be removed.
l took treatment two years to escape
an operation, but still remained in mis-
cradle health in both body and mind, ex-
pecting to part with my reason each
coming month. After using one bottle
of Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and a package of Sanative Wash
1 was very much relieved. 1 continued
to use your remedies until cured. The
last nine months have been passed in
| perfect good health. This, know, l owe
entirely to the Vegetable Compound.
My gratitude is great, indeed, to the
one to whom SO many women owe their
health and happiness."-MRs. f. M.
KNAPP, 500 Wentworth Ave-, Mlwau-
| kee, Wis.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

Anything frst-class is hard to equal
Washington Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-26

Some girls wouldn't look nearly so inter
esting if they didn't wear glasses. Wash
ington Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-22
Curious offerings by venders.

A street vender said that anything
that might be offered could be sold in
the street. Some things sell better than
Others, and for some the demand is
more continuous than for others, but
buyers can be found for anything if the
article is brought to their attention. A
knowledge of this fact prompts the
offering sometimes of curious things or
things that at first thought seem curl
GUS, that one would not expect to see
offered in this way. But the fact will
be recalled, if one dwells for a moment
upon this subject, that there are always
people to be seen standing around look
ing at these novel offerings Their nov
city attracts some attention, and then
there are more or less people who want
the things
Here was a man, for instance, selling
files, nothing whatever but files, of
which he had push cart full. There
were files of various sizes and Of all
kinds-fat files, half round, square,
three cornered and rattail-all at the
uniform price Of 5 cents each or six for a
quarter. And there was fair trade do
ing in these files. The many people who
pass in the course of the day along a
busy street have manifold wants. Some
among them want files
Files cannot be sold steadily by
street vendors, as many other things
are-there is a limit to the quantity
that this market will absorb-but there
is some sale for files in the street, as
there is for pretty much everything that
is offered. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-22

A vivid account of the daily life of
the shah of Persia is contributed to The
Illustrated Magazine by Mr. ]. F. Fra
ser, who visited Teheran in the course
of his worlds tour on a bicycle.
How does the shah spend an ordi-
nary day? Well, he is busy man. He
rises early, performs his devotions, has
piece of thin, pasty Persian bread and
a glass of sweetened tea. Then at about
s O'Clock he receives his ministers. He
is slovenly in habit and walks up and
down the room with his slippers flip
Tapping. Indeed, the story goes that
the reason he parted with his first wife
was because she constantly complained
that he did not wash himself.
"He dictates dozens of letters, hears
dispatches read, consults authorities, at
tends infinitely to every detail of bust
ness. This continues for six hours at a
stretch. Then he has his breakfast. All
the food is carefully prepared, and
prince of the royal blood is responsible
that no tricks are played. The shah, 40
ccrding to etiquette, eats alone. Be-
tween 80 and so dishes are served, but
his majesty only touches two or three.
Knives and forks are things unknown
at court, and the shah eats everything
with his ingers-greased rice, mutton
and fruit
During breakfast extracts from Eu-
ropean papers, chiefly French, are read
to the shah. Following breakfast the
shah probably has an hours sleep, and
then, after some glasses of tea, he will
amuse himself with working a little
telegraph instrument, playing backgam-
mon with his ministers-who are care
full not to win-setting and resetting
plants in the gardens or taking photo
graphs He has even been photographed
in bed and has pictures of himself dress
ed in uncomfortable Prussian military
attire and even in the garb of an Eng
fish oI1rafa ;,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-22

! crippled fore paw turned JACK, the Otn-
er outstretched, and the great head
resting on it, eying the men with sol
emn yellow eyes, no longer fierce, the
pupil shrunk to a pin point.
With each conclusive shudder of the
lions body the blood round him widens
slightly. By heaven, if I've got to die,
I'll die like a man, and he shall go first.
Who can tell? He might recover and
hurt the boy. See here, Juma" Ito Jn-
ma, who is supporting his back, "be
very gentle, take cartridge out of my
belt, put it in the rife-so. Now-uh,
ahl Mind my arm. Now give me the
rifle in my right hand and come between
my legs-so. Stoop very low down, like
that
Now, I'm going to rest the rifle on
your shoulder and take aim. Keep very
still, won't hurt you. Keep still. I'll
aim just between the brutes eyes. !" CA
minutes pause. Bang Doctor falls
back fainting. Lion stretches out his
head three times with spasmodic up
ward movement, the tail and limbs-all
but the crippled one-stiffen, the claws
stand out from their sheaths and the
beast dies.
"Juma, is that you? Water; how de-
hciousl More-and on my forehead-so.
What brick you arei Upon my word,
I'd like to leave you something, Juma.
You must tell them that 1 said so, you
know, for sticking by me- God bless
you'll Is the lion dead?" (The sobbing
boy mods Yes, y well, then, must
die, too. Pm enough of doctor to know
that. Don't cry. Tell them / bore it like
a man. But it's beastly hard. Who'd
have thought my days shooting would
have ended like this?'' (Whimpers.
"Beastly hard. I'm so young, and I've
done so well up to now-and there's
mother. Who will break it to her?
She'll never get over it-and Lly-and,
damn it all, can't even send 'em mes
sages How can one tell such things to
a black boy? S'pose I'm dying primarily
from the shock-know I'm dying some
how-can't raise my head to look
mother, motheri
What rot to go on like that, as if it
coulu 40 any gooul see mere, Juma,
more water-so. Now listen. Inc ndirini
ANAL, ndi mlongo. I've Oh, God, how
can I tell him? It's all slipping away
from me. For the blood is the life
Where have heard that? The blood is
the life-slipping away-slipping away.
| must be in boat, it is so soothing
up and down, up and down-so rest
full. +" (Sighs gently. Dies. Sir H. H.
Johnston in Saturday Review.