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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Then Doris, with rather grim smile,
sat before her kitchen fire with u bit of
memorandum book on her knee, and a
pencil in her left hand.
Slowly and clumsily she jotted down
some items, and gazed Mt them.
"One-fourth of a sack of flour
enough for three bakings, If can man
age to work the dough with my left
hand.
Two quarts of beans, half paper of
oatmeal and ten pint milk tickets.
six quarts of potatoes, a stump of
dried beef, sugar bowl nearly full, and
four or five drawings of tea.
"0ne barrel of coal-enough to last
ten days-and old shingles enough in
the back yard to keep me from freez-
ing when the GOALS gene.
mo rent to pay, and 62 cents coming
to me from Ann Finney.
"Not such a desperate showing, after
all. Maybe my arm will be we'll before
every scrap is eaten"
Then she laughed till the tears came
Everybody will say: How lucky
that Doris has money in the savings
bank! She can live on the interest
while her arm is useless!'"
In fact, that is what everybody did
say; and Doris smiled her little grim
smile, and measured her -four and po-
tatoes for each day, doled out her coal
so much for the morning, so much for
highland was ready, for very joy, to
clap her hands if one had not been help
less. Eben Doolittle, prosperous, had
almost passed out of her life. of late
years, except as a pensive memory
Eben Doolittle, sick, forlorn and in
debt, called out all the old affection, re-
enforced by a maternal pity and yearn-
ing.
And, day by day, the potatoes
dwindled and the flour grew less, while
the crippled hand became no better,
At last the final morsel of food had dis
appeared, and Doris scraped the coal
barrel with her left hand.
81 have the shingles to fall back on, 81
she said. "It's lucky dried good pile
of them in the oven while the coal fire
lasted"
The day after she had eaten her last
saucer of oatmeal, salted instead of
sweetened, she did not feel so brisk and
so independent of physical limitations
lf"out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh," it is no less true that
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
EDIBLE COFFINS.
Queer Forms of Pastry in the Middle
Ages.


At very early period the orientals
were familiar with kind of pastry, a
mixture of flour, oil and honey, and for
centuries pastry-making went no
further, even among the nations in the
south of Europe. But in the beginning
OF the middle ages a change began to
take place in the method of mixing the
ingredients, and some other substances
were brought into use. Butter, eggs
making, and the result was manifest
improvement. Paste next came to be
used as an inclosure for meat, seasoned
with spices, etc. Afterward it went a
step further, the next use being for the
inclosure of creams, fruit, preserves,
etc, and later still it began to take the
many fanciful shapes in which it has
since been commonly found. In the
early stages of English cookery the
pastry cases were called coffins or
"coffynes," and were made in various
sizes from ''gret coffynes with lowe
liddes" for the "tartes of fflesche," to
the "smalle coffynes" for "tartolettes'
of ''fische or fflesche," mixed with
"stuf of boylled tigges ground and
good powdure and spices"
Petruchio, in "The Tanning of the
Shrew," it may here be noted calls a
title cap "a custard coffin" These cof-
fins correspond with the "vol-au-vent'
of to-day. The art of making very light
pastry, such as puff paste, is probably
modern one, but pastry of several
kinds was anciently used. For meat
pastry butter was dissolved in boiling
water, and worked into a soft mass
with fine -four. AS it cooled it would
set in any form desired. Another paste
OF a fiaky kind was made very much as
at present, while still another kind
called pam puff, was made of fine foul
and the yolk of egg, no water at all be
ing used. This was for the finer kinds
of confectionery.-Gen Maga
zine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
WHY2

Why isn't man cool when he shivers
In the hour of danger?
Why do most women prefer to become
wives rather than angels?
Why does the rising generation kick
when the elevator isn't runningP
Why do the biggest potatoes invarl-
ably grow on top of the measure?
Why does man have to wait until he
dies before he gets the earth?
Why do we throw bouquets at chorus
girls and bootjaclz at tontcats?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
New york city a Century Ago.

The first inaugural ball was an inn
posing affair held in New York city in
May, 1889, and attended by most dis
tinguished company of beaux and
bellies. The glimpse of society of q
century ago is indeed an imposing one
while the description of the picturesque
costumes of those days is most fasci
mating. 1t is recorded that Washington
danced three times during the even,
ing, and also that he was exceptions
ally fond of dancing, liking which
did not desert him until after he haG
retired from public life.-Mrs. Burton
Harrison, in Ladies' Home journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Six months after, when Eben Doolit-
tie came back second time from Chi
cago, this time to attend his own we'd
ding, he told Mrs. Gillespie, in a glow
of loyer-like confidence, what his bride
had once done for him, and the good
lady smiled and clapped her plump
hands in approval.
Now l know" she said to herself
''why Doris Hilburn's buttery shelves
were bare and her kitchen fire out that
cold March day."-Helen 7. Clarke, in
Housewife
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

slowly near the old brown house that
had attracted her the evening before.
II wonder if it's dark enough yet"
she said, as she fingered in the shadow
of an old elm close by the sidewalk.
The house seemed gloomy and silent as
on the preceding night.
1T won't get any darker if l wait till
midnight, for the moon will be up soon.
must do it now or never"
These mysterious words implied no
scheme of burglary or arson, though
the dressmaker's actions verged on
'breaking and entering" She glided
to the door and tried it softly. With
the usual depravity of inanimate OBJ
jects, it gave treacherous squeak as
Doris turned the knob, and she fed
swiftly, but not until she had dropped
far inside the hallway a small, fat,
white envelope, directed in a big,
sprawling style to
EBEN DooLITTLE,
From a Friend and Brother.
Luckily no one was stirring on that
quiet street, and when Doris was far
enough from the brown house she re-
sumed her ordinary gait. But there
was a turmoil under her little black
jacket. She had burned her ships be-
hind her-and for what?
To crafty a sentimental fancy and
to prepare for herself still longer
years of toll and self-denial. Yet how
she exulted in the thought: "He will
get on his feet again and prosper-and
he will owe it all to me, and never
know"
Two weeks later, Reedville was sci
agog by the news that Eben Doolittle
after rapid recovery, had settled up his
debts and gone west, to make invest
ments that promised to be very profit.
able.
"Must ha' he'd a legacy or semethin','
said one old crone to another.
"'Borried from Peter to pay Paul,
mos likely" was the answer,
The day after Eben left Reedville
Doris Hilburn's right arm became help
less from a sudden rheumatic attack
She did up her bit of housework, but
cutting and sewing were out Of the
question.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
''raere's some mystery here" she

confided to the poker, as she cleaned
out few wood ashes. There hasn't
been coal fire in this sto"S for two
days. Doris looks pinched with hun
ger, and that faintipg was a bad piece
OF business"
She took an old friends privilege of
softly opening the "buttery' door and
glancing along the shelves.
Not crumb of anything that baby
fly could make meal on. Doris is
either out of her mind, and growing
miserly, or else she has put her saw
ings into some humbug concern that
don't Day any dividends except to the
men that run it,"
She lighted the fire, then stepped to
the bedroom door.
Doris, as soon as you get warmed
up bit, you might put your night
gown into your little satchel bag and
come right back with me tonight.
Sarah Jane thinks some of pulling mo-
lasses candy after supper, and maybe
the Simpson girls will be over. You
used to be more sociable."
She smiled and gave Doris mother
ly pat on the shoulder.
"What a godsend!" thought Doris.
never dreaming that her old friend had
| discovered the true state of affairs.
1t was heavenly change when. after
letting the shingle fire down and fas-
tening the doors and windows, Doris
with her "satchel bag" on her left arm
accompanied her good friend to the
home overflowing with plenty.
ofA a
| it's height when there was knock at
| the side door.
Eben Doolittle!
Mrs. Gillespie and the girls crowded
| around him with hearty welcome, but
Doris sat white and trembling. Why
| had he come back so soon? Had his
last venture failed?
He gave her penetrating look as he
came up and took her hand, then said:
81 called at your house, Dor-Miss
| Hilburn. and suspected you were here.
1 wanted to see you-on business"
Her heart was whirling, and her pale
| cheeks were growing hot. To relieve
her confusion, Eben began to joke with
Sarah Jane and the Simpson girls about
the candy pulling.
After tatty, pop corn, games and rid
dies, she and Eben were alone for
minute or two, while Mrs. Gillespie and
| Sarah Jane received the long-drawn
leave-talling of the Simpson girls at the
side door.
Eben came close to Doris.
81 have only minute to speak, and
suppose 1 am ungallant to the Simpson
| girls, but-Doris, do you think didn't
know who put that blessed money in
my hall that night? 1 saw you, Doris,
from the shadow of the window where
was standing, lonely, and weak, and
dispirited. When L picked up that en-
velope and saw its contents, 1 under
stood the innocent little forgery, and
l knew that you must still care for me"
oh, how Doris was trembling now!-
81 took that money, vowing that
would make it increase and multiply
| for you. 1t is well invested in Chicago,
and 1 have the promise of good po-
sition there, but 1 could not settle
down to it till had made this flying
visit back TO you, and tried to put mat
ters on the old footing. 1t is not too
late, dear, is it? Shall we not cast the
old burden of estrangement away for
ever, and'-The side door closed at last,
and the steps of their hostess and her
daughter were heard coming along the
entry.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

The commissioner of the general land Of
fce has submitted his report to the Secre-
tary of the Interior. Compared with last
year, it shows a decrease of 3,29S homestead
entries, aggregating 37s,625 acres. Quite
proportionate to this is the falling off in gen.
eral health when no effort is made to reform
irregularity of the bowels. This can easily
be accomplished with the aid of Hostetter'a
Stomach Bitters, also remedy for malaria,
dyspepsia, rheumatism and liver trouble.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Are best and cheapest in the New South
Land So to IS an acre. Easy terms. Good
schools and churches. No billiards. No
cold waves. New illustrated paper, Land
and Living" months, for 10 cents, in
stamps. w. c. RINEARSON, G.. p. A,
Queen & Crescent Route, Cincinnati.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
WESTERN CANADA.


DR.. ,Smiley-Ah, professor, is your little
one boy or girl?
Prof. y-Why-er-yes. We call il
John. It must be a boy. | think.-Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Lots of men mistake coarse, harsh voice
for a good bass voice.-Washirgton Demo.
crat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

It's difficult for a man to check his cred
itors unless he has a bank account.-Chicago
Daily News
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Years OF rheumatism have ended with
Cure by St. Jacobs Oil. Cures promptly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
A PHRFECT HOME SECURED AT LEzN-
TILE COST.

Joan and
I h e o doro
S t r iovski,
+ o r m lY
residents Of
M / c higan,
but now liv-
ing in Ala
media, West
ern Cnnadh.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
BE MY Valentine.

I love you, my charming maiden mine;
pray you be my valentine.
I've loved you long, love you wen;
I love you more than can tell.
Others may say they love you, too;
Their love is not as mine, so true.
They love you for your face so sweet.
Your lustrous eyes, your dainty feet.
/ love you for yourself alone;
I'll love you when your bearty's flown.
When 1ace ie wr1nKled. hair grown gray,
When hatterlng friends have dropped away
Then, pray. be kind, fair maiden mine.
BE kind, and be my valentine.
William Anwyl Jones, in Chicago Inter
Ocean
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

RS. GILLESPIE'S
new skirt would
not come right in
the hanging g, and
Doris Hilburn was,
as she expressed it,
$50 worked up"
that she could not
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

"Well," SAID the artist. sharply, to tlse
tramp who had entered, what do you
want here? Hurry with what you have
to say"
Sir" replied the tramp, with inborn
dignity, 81 did not come here to be in
suited. merely thought to step in and
inquire if you had any model for your
valentine cupids. If not, desire to ap-
ply for the position."-N Y. Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

The eight great water companies
of London now supply nearly 100000
people with about 1s6, 100000 gallons o.
water a dav.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24

In Germany the man must at least
be Is years of age.
In Portugal boy nj II il consid
cred manageable and woman of II.
In Greece the man must have seen
at least II summers and the woman
II.
In France the man must be IS and
the woman II; in Belgium the same
aSes.
In Spain the intended husband
must have passed his 18th year and
the woman her 18th
In Switzerland, men from the age
of II and the women from the age of
II are allowed to marry.
In Austria II "man" and woman
are supposed to be capable of con
Quoting home OF their own from the
ages OF Ii.
In Turkey, any youth and maiden
who can walk properly and can under
stand the necessary religious service,
are allowed to be united for life.
In Hungary, for Roman Catholics,
the man must be II years old and the
woman -; for Professionals, the man
must be Is and the woman Is.
In Russia and Saxony they are a
little more sensible, and Il youth must
refrain from entering into matrimony
till lie can count IL years, and the
woman till she can count IL.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
A Dreaded Token.

On an occasional door or store front
in the town of Adjuntas, in Porto
Rico, appears single black print OF
n human hand. If the native be ques-
toned, writes John Hamilton Thatcher,
in Harper's Weekly, he responds with
sidelong glance and finger on his
lip. Gel mano negro" he Whispers
One learns that the dreaded token ON
the door, the black hand, is a precur-
sor of a masked band coming by night
to leave record of its visit written
with torch or machete. He hears of
woman and child hacked to pieces
with knives and left for dead on the
Lares road; of plantation owner,
aged and intirm, beaten and tortured,
his ears cut off and finally, in pres
ence of his son, hung from rafter in
his house. He sees traces of pillage
aud arson. Some of these crimes are
part of the outlawry that must needs
attend the close of war. In most
cases, however, what he sees is mere
ly rude balancing of accounts. The
items on one side have been accumu.
lating for some four centuries, and it
is not surprising that the lower class
of Portoriqueno should wish to make
few additional entries before the
United States closes the ledger per-
manently.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
VIVA. Doctors Think OF Wearing Rub.

hers.
Here's the first law Of health Eccp
Nom Hrt d,W. We all know it. We
all know that pneumonia aud con-
sumption always start with cold,
and that the shortest cut 10 cold Is q
pair OF wet feet. But it's SO impor-
tant II matter that We can't be remind.
ed too often, esq ecialiy when the re-.
mitnier carries the weight OF authority.
DR.. Wendell G. Phillips, one of the
1ost distinguished physicians in New
York, was recently giving "a lecture ON
Colds, and How to Prevent Them"
1t was n rainy night, and he began:
How many persons here wore rub
bers tonight? Hands up.
met half of you. Now, that is
what thought. Every one of you
should lave rubbers on n night like
this. To go without them is to invite
colds, bronchial trouble, catarrh and
pneumonia. 1t is astonishing how
people neglect their feet. Rubbers
are fifty cents. You can save lot of
money ON the perhaps
tendays' doctor bill, to say nothing of
medicine
The doctor might have made it still
stronger and said that tiftycent pair
of rubbers would not only save doctor
bills and medicine bills, but often life
itself. Don't try to save on rubbers;
it's the most expensive economy in
the world, especially just now when
everybody is getting the grip.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
The Alps in Roman Times,

The Romans had no appreciation of
the beauty and grandeur of these
mountains, so much admired by mod
ern taste, but expressed only dread of
them and adherence of their savage
aspect. To them they were merely a
wall, shutting them ont from the peo-
pie living beyond them. So great was
their dread of.these unknown heights
that they quietly endured the audacity
of the rapacions tribes inhabiting them
until fifteen years p. G. Yet Han
nibal had crossed them in September,
21S years b. c. This was consid-
cred deed of such magnitude that
its success was ascribed to the assist.
ance of the heavenly powers. The
darkness which enveloped tie Alps
was first illuminated by the historian,
Polybius, who visited them and de-
scribed them fully. Aiterward some
fourteen roads were built over them,
the laying ont of which showed they
were made after careful study of the
situation by the engineers. The open
ing of the mountains to travel was
followed by a throng of adventures
in search of the riches to be found.
At one time gold was found in such
quantities that the price of the metal
was deprecated "a per cent through
all Italy Boston Traveller
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
Mrs. smiths Velvet Coat.

Mr.. Smith got his wife's dressmak-
ing bill the other day. Mrs. Smith,
being astonished at the item amid the
trimmings of "Clergyman's labbies,
$25, Immediately sought an explaua-
tion from her husband.
"Maybe they are something like the
sneezes you used to wear" he sug-
gested.
II never wore sneezes."
"Well, tichus then; if that is not a
sneeze I don't know what it is; but
where the 'clergymans rabies can be
in that coat have no notion Of; there
are $50 them anyhow that you must
pay for"
The young woman who brought the
coat was called up and Intercepted,
when it came to light that an inch
wide band of minute buttons garnish.
ing the coat all around was composed
of what are known in commerce as
Clergyman rabbies," such as are
used on black silk vestments. They
are little molds of wood covered with
silk and command a high price be-
cause they cannot be reproduced IN
inferior quality and must be set on by
hand; hence they are highly esteemed
for the garnishing of costly garments.
The rather remarkable name of this
new garniture is derived from the
manufacturer who devised them first
for sncerdotal robes. Finding that
they were adopted by fashion he set
aside the income derived from their
sale for little son, called Rab
(Robert), labelling the small buttons
"Rabbies. TO his eldest daughter
he gave the proceeds of the NEST ex
pensive button made in his establish
ment for her wedding dover But in
three years of sale the "clergyman's
rabies" Melted more money than the
dollar-apiece buttons did in ten years.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
Tho Safety NJ Railroad Travel.

In 1897, "a persons, including six
railway servants, when travelling were
killed from accidents beyond their
own control. This was above the nv
orage. 1t has been said that first
class compartment on one OF our great
railways is the safest place in the
world. II is safer than bed, for in
=! & 1900 persons were sutiocated in
bed. II is safer than Il dining room,
for in the same year rs people were
choked by food Nine hundred and
twenty-five were killed by falling down
stairs. Bicycles are lar more destruc-
tive to life. Accidents in the streets
Of London are so frequent and, there
fore, SO uneventful that they are not
even recorded in the press. Accidents
on railways are SO rart and eventtnl
that columns of large type are devoted
to descripri II of their minutest lie
tails. From an address by the presi
dent Of the London Institution of Civil
Engineer
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24

The digging of ginseng root for the
Chinese market is an American indus
try not generally known, aud an in
dustry, moreover, that will never be
overdone.
Ginseng root is becoming scarcer
every year. 1t is of slow growth,
requiring two years to form leaf and
eight or ten to make root of any
value. The age of the root is deter
mined by little ring added each year
to the plant. 1t is highly valued by
apothecaries here, but even more so
in China, where it can be gathered
only by permission of the emperor.
1t is popularity supposed there to COM
bat fatigue and to indefinitely post
pone old age. 1t takes three pounds
of the green roots to make one pound
OF the dry product, which brings from
"a to S. per pound. The diggers
leave piece of the root in the ground
to grow. and plant the seed, which,
when ripe, is inclosed in pinkish
pod. The Canadian Jesuits were the
first to begin the shipment Of the root
to China. New York Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24

An eminent English writer says of
doing: cit is n half state; it is one
of the by-paths to hebetude, and
should be stunned" "Resist the in.
clination to doze, dream, or to fall
into state OF revery." OF Doctor
Pepper, who recently died, it is re-.
ported that he was accustomed to re-
fresh himself during the day by tax
ing short maps of only few minutes,
and he recommended the practice to
others. The great drawback 10 nap
ping and doing is that, if the habit
is once acquired, like most habits, it
becomes imperative, and one finds it
great Inconvenience. The eyes will
close over the lids Mt inopportune mo-
ments, and the person falls asleep
when it would look better or be more
to his advantage to be awake. Who
has not had to contend with the sopo.
rifle effects of lecture or sermon.
Pitiful, very pitiful indeed at such
times, are the struggles of the habit
ual napper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-12-24
Enough for u Feast.

Once upon time there lived a
Young housewife. She was brought
up before the days of cooking classes
and housekeeping schools and didn't
know saucepan from a nutmeg
CRATER. But she went to market every
day and began to be quite proud of
herself One morning she decided to
have fish for dinner. She consulted
with her tishman and as she confessed
that her husband dearly loved shad
and as it was shad season, the tishman
said he would send fine specimen Of
that sort of fish home. twas cooked
and proved delicious. The shadlov-
ing husband did his duty and the wife
and the cook did theirs, but still there
was more than half of the fish left.
The young housewife was shocked at
such waste. Accordingly, the next
time she went to the tishstore and the
tishman, in answer to her query, said,
1--WE got some fine fresh smelts to-
day, ma'am," She said: "You may
senG me one. New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.