The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, December 09, 1887, Image 3

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    THE DAILY HERALD, l'LATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1687.
CIGARETTE GIRLS.
WOMEN AS NIGHT WORKERS.
VCP.Y LITTLE ROMANCE AND MUCH
WORK THE RULE AMONG THEM.
Hit., lite Tolwi-o Ix Treated In It Projf
fc t from thA 1'luntatlon to the Cigar-
i: AVttlilii(f the Yonnir Women to
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tonacto of which the cigarette is
many clays to lie made comes to us
t exclusively from Korth Carolina
irghdn. Jt is in itself ;i mild to
and to make it n milder j'et only
tr or live lower braves are chosen.
rength of the plant, like that of
. , for instance, eleserting the lower
. and concentrating above. Tiiese
come m from the south mckel like
!"gs into imiiic ii.su hotheads, but as
the hands" Into which they are
. : untwisted, they are nut into a
hath and softened and cleaned.
tf-nin rustics through them, big
y armed black 1:1011 turn them and
, t in and then lay them in layers on
"i As each tankful is laid down,
the men takes a pail ii:ll of ruin,
.; and some fyw other iniirovin
necessary to give the right llavor-
A with a wlii.sk broom sprinkles
1 noroughly.
:i tun improving treatment the
s go into the trough of tlie cutting
w. They go in loosely enough, but
they an; dragging by n brass plate
:!irough the smallest possible aper-
meet tiie revolving knives the soft
are pressed into a block like wood.
rig-, in front of the knives and
.::ig the mist, which is all that one
in their CO') revolutions in a miii-
i'ie ever changing surface of this
: bh-k of h aves is a thing of mar
beauty. Tie! four Hanged knives
1 inniimerairio lino siiaviugs in i
.and the result u a surface tliat
live. The yellow stems and veins
their relative positions on the
leaves with every cut, and the re
.1 winking, blinking mass that com-
; fascinates the beholder. The
ar? stopped, mid in the Imi.v below
iredded tobacco, exactly as we see
1'ie linished cigarette", damp, it is
' 'it that is nercssary in the making,
.' over supply is kept covered ly
inkets until carried to the makers.
: comes the making. Vou go into
-. low, light room, down which go
aches which are pni-tiiioned oif in
. ot compartment. On each side,
: a phiee of her own, sit the girls.
them are a stout, bit of paper
1 by the back edge of the tabic,
and.i of tobacco and oiiie packs of
per. A marble slab is at the right
ad on it socio lumps of wet starch
log pointed slick. Vv'ith her left
: 'ie girl picks up a paper, lays it on
xerwiih the trout edge slightly pro
'. With her rigid hand she pick
tobacco, not too much, but just
. and puts it- on the rice paper,
:ig'it a little into shape as she does
en she takes up the two corners of
;pcrs that are nearset her and lays
s 1 er towards the back. t!,-:i brings
back, rolling up the tobacco with
Mnbs as tZw doc so. (letting it
. tely firm, she changes to the tips
: isgers and rolls it snugly, lifting it
idle from the v.uner paper. A
and it lies along her left forctlnger,
i nt v. Uh it loose edge. The starch
ades along this, another twist and
iled and delivered, that is to say,
i into the IkiX edge of the bench.
5 rocoss looks exceedingly simple,
- .'ten takes a week of patient teach-
i trial to learn the many motions
'., aivl even then it is astounding
how many motions it takes to
ven a thousand cigarettes in 21 day.
ker of a thousand perfect eigar-
ataining neither four ounces more
i than two iMiunds receives seven-
cents for her work. Uoes it seem
, then, that any one could make
1 the&e in a day? Hardly, and yet
: leaving the hands of the makers
ret les are passed over to the eut
.. sit between aisles and with big
i n! oft the hanging shreds of to-
' :om tae ends. 1 r.csc shreds are
;iy swept away by the link sweep
e duty it is to keep thu l!or al-
ierfect order. The Jiaislied ci-
;.; 11'xt t the examiners, who
iig't the boxes, and, with the eyes
rs. picic otU the badly made or im
oties. -In some is tatK cs fifteen
iiimdred is taken out at the end of
. 1: for cigarettes so badly made as
necessarily split open and made
I:.-
'riitlr Niimhrvit In New York City Con
-tatly I itcrcastiifp Oropliijf fr m Car.
The iMinibcr i-; well nigh legion, in A big
city like New York, of women and girls
v. hose dally tasks ket.p them from homo
after dark, and who make their way
t broil h the streets alone with impunity.
The bt 1 tt'.rl traveler meets them, singly
ai: 1 ia :ni:;s, at tho bridge and ferries nt
li-oni early dark till long past
and, if he is out himself, toward
Siine of them not very many
111 news pa tier ofhees. thouah
i !x)-:i fl not to. uml there is a
rc -:. ' t.b!e minor,! y in n great variety of
t !'!-, and oci i!p::tions, but the vast body
' 1" ilicm are ierks and c;i.shiers in the big
store, w in:sc? i.iIkh-s iliiruig the busy tea
son keep thou away from home late at
iii';L'. Mvcn in stores where there is an
'. ,!:!;. closing" rule, the purchasers are
I lM of till ( o'clock, when there is
of clearing up the day's de-
. and there is no pretense of
lurday evenings or during
.Midnight very frequently
toiler at the counter with
:i!--k' , and there are occa
:1 y the whole night 11111: t
',:. preparation fur soroe special
i.t ti-ade.
W'iiiiiin doctor is out nt nil hours,
:r. e. and 1 h.v.e met. a medical ftu
of barely 'J) tn;i!'-r:ng along at 2
FORMS OF SWEARING.
VARIOUS FACTS ABOUT OATHS,
CIENT AND MODERN.
AN-
Form UimmI Aiuuiic: the Hebrew The
Oiityaks In Sibfrlu How tlio Creek
and ItomanH SworeProfanity of Amerl
runic French Kiiin.
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1, cioc: in t : u i.u;r::;ng, wtiile the falling
raj'n almost bbucicd her, l:er hand on the
Hioaluer of n ragged lad of 10, "who was
cc ndticliiig her to a tick bed in the eust
side tc nemeiit l'ei'iuu.
1L is a good deal to the credit of the
int. iropo'.is that as a rule these girls are
nearly as safe from rudeness as in the
d.-iylichl. Toey are modest and unob
tiii.ive i:i appearance, tht-y mind their
own business and have wavs to make the
wouM be maslicr inind his. From nie-ht
s of the oti c r sex men and boys
1 re out o' night o;i errands of neccs-
;!; have little to fear. The work
in or b: y n ay be rude when he is
:, and sometimes when he is not, but
sciilojii 1 ';-. i.-,t cut a:;d not often in
i:a!!y troublesome,
s g-ov. ing fiKiuency of night em
ient for ivi''!o:i means a tremendous
.- i !: I he 1 .'lice accepted notions and
.!!-. 1 : !:;;iki::d. The judge who de
. from the licnch that a woman has
i: r.-s to be alioad after dark is vet
ia a while, but the nna-
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i-.lv.cys ;,lls forth a burst of
i:idi.;iia!: .:i. I was talking with
orkcr i.sa.'culine the other day
i wry topic, lie said that he
1 lo: t his horse car and had to
v mother in the wee
e of his reluctance to
feminine grope alone
taidy streets. Despite
ich is enough to make
sv.ect temrered man
:;oku most enthusiasti
iikely to be produced
laliy young women, by
.its, and said he looked
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he most
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i.am gain in worth and dignity
ifticn? knotvledge bv contact with
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a'a.c.u necor-siiies. The working girl
id !:ovtr bo v.hc ily 1 ractical, however,
I .;:;; : s!ic j r rmiis a man to lose his
u ;.v w hi.'e iiir-ing hers unless she has
r.s m Misieet that the service is u
fl 0 in hil.i.
e i.ioi-i; nearly even the terms upon
i wot:. en and men conduct their daily
.'.-she1 letter it is for the business
i;i probai !y. New York Cor. Wash
:i I'ojr.
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S::I'cr'rf Ilelslum.
v:t;;y ia Antwerp I
troops
lgian
fea w a
These
!.xing and stamp!
;i-k very 2as-ily i:
ia.r interest being
a
they
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down
pa:id.
furth
er I:-:'::.. The third brings
teat lar or forewoman
cirls (.:"! these lofty creature
bends
figaiv
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t:-.-:p- which belong to the forts
e.i. :;o::. c around tins fortified town. The
men are small and very careless in their
dre.-j. They march in a, verv rloncliiner
.... .
;:y. 1 iuy c'o not appear as well as cur
co o:,ry r.nli'.ia. They do not look like
soldier-;. I do u i believe that 10,000 of
them would f tand up against the charge
of 'one .',! i-! liiined (Jerman regiment,
The 1M ..i.t.s .pride themselves very
c :; i:: ;-'i u.o foi tii-eations aloufc Ant-
city is entirely inclosed by
. i.ioa; ions. Thcv are ttronr if
i-vt.1!? r
D.'l.dan s.
:h t!
not
113 and the pack
lagined. the only
in the rapidity
ir.'
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do
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the .
l;t--i
out
m.ir' !i
France
the
rian sm!
iW.uid
1 ,
ic.t kind of men; but
uers behind tliem I
t!a'i T; t'tat it would l;e diTaenlt for
a-'i . a aivay of the great powers to
An! wi-r,). Fttt the importance of
. rp i- a 2 f'fiary outpost to j.rotect
f-irailty of the Lclgian eooniry has
'.y overr ated. I have heen told
alary men that Antwerp is so much
? the way tl.rt the Germans could
around it tarough Ikdg'.um into
v.itho-tt Unditig the fortifications
t .degree 111 their way, The I3el
dicrs outside of their fortifications
be helpless, I am sure. T. C.
Crawford i:i New York World.
which
it U
t-ed. the whole faseina-
loav:
iiri.i
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fciixt:
tllst!
hone
froti
ever:
.:iiat;c jirecision with
And. ind
. i;e trade lies in the lightning like
.ei" which is necessary to bring
sath-i'actory result. The work is
id is said to be healthv, the girls
:.es claiiiiing that thej- have rarely
able except with hcivlache, which
pssibly caused by the fumes of
. but very probably is nothing for
further reason is necessary than
-k of exercise and such close ap
: 10 work can give.
rales ot attending to the bnsines nt
. ary considerably, according to the
In one h-ading factory i-.bsoliiiv
is imposed upon the workers, rc
- of the fact that if they was.3
s their own loss, ami the penal
ised are exceedingly severe. If a
live cent girl, is caught vyhispcT-
1 ilkiag with another girl she is put
seventy or sixty-five cents a thou
A second offense brings either a
reduction or a solemn warning
dismissal. A
ns th?
to uti-
ttTiciently to speak even loan own
otherwise ttan with the voice cf
ay is at once put down to making
:es aga..:;..
.0 the Tines and ruthory end with
: the building to go heme. The
a ploys a detective and any nii'itbor
ool pigeons" to watch their em-
:;t niht. A girl who is seen cn
V.er;te after Dor 9:G0 at nigh? is
;eu the next lay. The life of an
girl, w ho is being shadowed to and
l..r home, her house watched ami
she attempts carefully
-wj
Ti a
meant
mur ,a
in j arii
co;i if:!
treat n
,::ii tl
the t;a
There
fur
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for
pn
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fa.c
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aia
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c" of I:-.-,inro ?tik.
u of still fed milk is of little
corii;i;ircd to milk from so
f.uantity of other and more
o:-s iced, now in general use, and as
11C 1 to the sanitary conditions and
.lent of t! cov.s. stables and milk,
ie water trie cows consume one of
iittportt'.nt c letuents in dairying,
is not ,e v.vll in a liundred thut
lies pure water.
. e' s" j.r.d glstcose griins are slripped
:e country by the millions of bushels
uns are stood feed
the day they are
a
i : t v. ers gr
cows if led
tor.co.-e grains, with the sul
a.ii. acid tivif .merit necessarj in the
1 try, civ injurious to both cow ancl
1 . Thc.-e grains are sent into the
i'iiry wet and hot, fermenting, sour
: .- ::.l s;i.;i- ri they go. So the farm
" cow-, w J in every rln'pment, have feed
a. state of fermentation, often rotten
I f.t only iVr the dunghill. Distillers'
: as fed. have undergone fermenta
:i. v. 1.1; j the grains are fed while fer
: ia ' a. si rong l oint in favor of skins.
''iii. T I. Y'." :u Science.
or x
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a. ti
1 leasunng
caa certainly noc ue overpieasam,
.:y as ;t stems to ue a common ee-
JtOteo,
especi a
lief cr..ang them that it depends entirely
r.pon a girl's graciousness to Jier spy as to
what i reported of her doings. This un
psttr.I c iscipline is of recent origin. Fuu
pie JiS. r Jerrill in New Y01 k World.
Ttte n-oriiiiiji Drink.
The 1:: ;b!i of taking a morning drink,
my ot cr kind of drink for that mat
" said a rentlentan last nig!:t, "is one
in tvd in the. breach than the ob-
tv. but if a man must take it why
h. it openly and iiot sneak areun4
it? I saw a man the other morning
tit g that made me ashamed of him.
ali la ia. a didn't know him. lie was a
nice 1.-. a.if.g person, cne who might be
fxpfted b co to such a place as the Oon
ti.;tiital ft- i.i- 1 ex Id y, but he stepped in
frar.t of .-. shird rate saloon on Sixth
st -Ait. he: v.- I'inc', and having looked up
m: I down the street to see if anybody was
Mt v. !io knew him ha darted in. I
!;i'L tins: that fellow." PhiLndelr 1
itiaes.
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The oath was originally an appeal to
divine authority to ratify an assertion.
The old Greek gods uwore by the Styx,
and Jehovah is represented in the early
hooks of the Uible as swearing by himself,
there being none higher. The forms of
oath among the Hebrews were: "Jly the
(Jod of Abraham," ''God do so unto me,"
and more also, "God knoweth," with
other appeals of similar character.
Oaths were originally tuken for the
performance of certain acts, to pledge
allegiance to a sovereign, to pledge a
sovereign to the performance of his duty
to his people, or to accomplish judicial
purposes. The witness lifted his hands
to heaven cr laid one hand on the head of
the accuse-d. Persons making promises
to one another laid their hands on one
another's thighs. Oaths were taken be
fore the altar, as the place most sacred.
In Assam, in farther India, two persons
desiring to affirm with great solemnity
take a fowl or n dog, one by the head, the
other by the tail. The Ostyaks in Siberia
when brought into court swear by the
head of a bear, making a motion with tho
jaws, and expressing the hope that they
may be devoured if they speak falsely. '
OATHS OF ANCIENT TIMES.
Iii ancient times it was considered es
sential to the validity of an oath that tho
witness should hold something in his
hand, or place his liand on some object
m nuiiiMiiiiiiw. vt 1: i! me Jews It was
the book of the law, which led to the use
of tho Uible in Christian courts. The
I'edouin Arabs have from ancient, times
used various forms of adjuration. One
of these was "Iiy the Temple." One still
in use is as follows: 'lne person taking
.he oath takes hold of the midino nole of
the tent and swears by the life of the
tent and its owners. Mohamme l swore
by the "Setting of the stars." the? most
poetical oath on record, though hardlv co
magnificent as the oft emoted adjuration
of William the Conqueror; "By the splen
elor of God." Roman oaths worn nul,i
with great solemnity and elaboration. In
Roman mythology Juno, making a prom
ise to sleep, is represented as taking
heaven in one hand and the earth in tlm
other. Greek3 and Romans sworn h
their gods, by the Styx, by Olympus, by
hell, by their sacred bnrincs or rivers, bv
the sun and moon. Their oaths wero
valuable in the early days of the republic,
but worthless after they became corrupt.
Oaths lost their (sanctity and became col
loquial or profane among the Jews at cn
early date. Greek ladies sweire daintily
by Venus, Diana and Juno, and now and
then by eome of the male gods whose
names were taken in vain by their liege
lords. The Romans swore by Jupiter,
Hercules and their other numerous deities.
Their women imitated those of Greece.
There has always been the tlanger of
making the path too comuipn, ancl thus
destroying its sanctity. Though this has
made perjury easy, it scarcely explains
how judicial or other forms of swearing
graduaMy lost their dignity and became a
part 01 the everyday speech of men and
women. In the eariy days of Christianity
oawis were regarueu with a superstitious
reverence that made them bindius. Thcv
Jose men- iuh'b in iae -uiuuie Ages so
completely that it was thought necessary
to supply their place with the trial by
comuat, contact wuu red not iron, anil
simuar oaroarous judicial expedients to
compel a criminal to prove his innocence,
7- : . 1. a . .
uuujiij cue uarK ages proiane swearing
figured among the lost arts. In due time
it had its renaissance and arrived at its
present perfection, with a vocabulary if
not a literature of its own. The English
have been greatly given to profanity since
an eariy period in their history, llenrv
the Eighth swore often and vulgarly, and
uis uuuguicr swore jiko a trooper, ihe
profane American usually calls on Gexl
to anathematize some person or some
oKjt'ct which has offended, or simply ana
inematizes 111s eyes or some other part of
ms person. 1 he profanity that is some
what refined in social centers hprrmr
coarse antl occasionally picturesque on
the frontier. The oaths of the rural Xev
I'jiglauder, or of his rural descendants in
other states, "by gosh" and "by golly,"
are without doubt corruptions of the more
emphatic mediaeval appeals to the Supreme
Heing.
OATHS QT FRENCH QKApCIia,
Loui3 IX, of France, so snperstitiously
devout in his old age, swor by Goel's
Resurrection. Charles Till swore by the
Light of God, which was more poetic and
suited to his character as a chivalrous
knight. Louis XII, who merited the title
Father of his People, treated the deity
with less familiarity. He simply said.
when he tlesired to emphasize the asser
tion, "May the devil carry mo off!"
Francis I, who had been knighteel by the
Chevalier Bayard, asseverated ''On the
word of a gentleman." As for Bayard
himself, the most finished and irreproach
able knight of his age, his favorite adjura
tion was by the "Head of God." t'harles
IX satisfied his morbid elesire for some
form of profanity with a terse "Goel's
Heath." Henry IV had two oaths with
v hich he freely punctuated his conversa
tion: "By the belly of St. Gris" and
"Jarnidieu," St. Gris was the god pf
elrunkarets, and ho swore by him as an pltl
woman might have sworn by Bacchus.
"Jarnidieu" meant Je renie Dieu, that is,
'I deny God," or let me deny God if this
is so or is not so, meaning to appeal to
something impossible, This form cf pro
fanity did not please Ids confessor, Coton,
who begged him to tleny ' any one rather
than Goel himself, for instance. So the
king changed his form of adjuration to
"Jarnicotou," "I deny Coton."
The French swear "Par Xotre Dame"
as the English "By Our Lady." This form
of oath has naturally disappeareel from
the profane vocabulary of Protestant na
tions, but is still used by Frenchmen, am
Ecmctimcs by French Jadies in the con
tracted form cf dame. It is curious to
observe that while profanity in France,
and to a certain extent in" all C;ithr.b
THE WAY TO SING.
Tbm bird must know. Who wlnrly slnffi
Will aintfoa tbey;
The common nlr has gftiurou wlnga,
Bonn's make their way.
No tnexartifxr to run before,
lJevising plan; ,
Ko mention of tho place or hour p
To any man ;
No wailing till some sound betrays
A listening ear;
No different voice, no new delays,
If steps draw near.
"Wluit bird is tbatT Its none h Rood."
And eager pvm
Go peering through the clunky wood
In g'ad surprise.
Then Into at nii;ht, when by bis fire
Tte traveler sits,
AVatchiiiff the flames grow brighter, higher.
The sweet son;; flits
By snatches through his weary brain
To help him rest.
When cest be rocs thut road again.
An empty nest
On leaders boui;h will make him sigh:
"Ah, me! Lost spring
Just hero I heard, in passing by.
That rare bird sing!"
But while he sings, remcmberinj
How sweet the song.
The littl.i bird, cn tireless wing;
Is lxirne nlons
In other air, and other men,
Vv'ith weary feet,
tX. other roads, the Kimple strain
Are finding sweet.
The birds must know. Who wisely sings
Will sing as they;
The common air lias generous wings.
Songs make their way.
Helen Hunt.
mom
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The efuuc tiunlitY oi gooil.s 10 prrcent. clicajier than any house went ot
tho Mi.sbiseij i. Will never be undersold. Cull and beconvinccd.
PETER MERGES.
FUBNI
TUBE
EMPORIUM
PARLOR
SET!
BEDROCK
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VOU ALL CLASSES OF-
SOME STRANGE SUPERSTITIONS.
art - a . .
me neuci in witchcraft in Southern
Indiana Sixty Years Ago.
About sixty -years aero manv of th.
people residing in the neighborhood of
f.ast enterprise were i;iw.fy..l ,,r .
lusion that witches were a reality, and
that a number of their neighbors were
full fledged witches, possessed of remark
able powers, even to the saddling and
bridling a man and with sharp spurs
riding him all over the worst roads a dis
torted mind could imagine. The next
morning tho poor man would be so tired
and sore that he could hardly move. At
other times the housewife would chum
half a day and would not get a pcrticle. of
butter. The only remedy was to tahe an
old horseshoe that had been worn on the
left foot of a bald face horse and heat it
hot and drop it into the churn, which was
pretty certain to expel the terrible witch.
One who tried the experiment said:
4'A hen I dropped the red hot shoe into
the churn I heard something run oft the
roof of the house, and I smelled hair just
as sure as you are born, nnl in live min
utes I had a churn nearly full of butter.
The next day I saw the woman that I be
lieved had bewitched the butter, and her
mur was crispeet on one side in the very
shape of a horseshoe." If the above
remedy failed, tho next thing to do was
to draw a life size picture of the supposed
witch and nail it upon a tree and then
run a silver bullet out of a silver dollar
and shoot the image. The last act was
considered a complete cure. One of the
ardent believers in witches, a man ia the
prime of life, possessed of fair sense in
.other matters, told in our hearing what a
iijiiigoitieai ne nael passed through a few
evenings before. lie had been to visit the
sick and was returning about 10 o'clock
inrougn uie nelels, often climbing higli
leiwjcs. r many, as no cot. nn r.n i,;.,i.
ten rail fence, with one leg thrown
over me top rail, he eaw staudina on
the other side one whom he knew to be a
"witch." ,Sbe said nothing, but put a
spell ca him that riveted him to tho spot,
and he said he was as speechless as Lot's
wife when she was turned into salt.
V hen daylight came the witch vanished
and he got over the fence and went home
He says the top rail was a very sharp one
nnd he didn't cet over the soreness for a
month.
uen me nens failed to hatch their
eggs 11 was laid on tho witches. The
Wit'll.l nlur.lnn -rli.- .1 t A
(.(iriijomu lueir worst work OU
Friday. If the rail'fences fell down when
they were covered with sleet and ice the
win-lies werj niameet with it. If a calf
got cnoketi on apples or potatoes the
witches were responsible. It was a fact
net to be wondered at that every one of
tiiese oeuevers in witches believed the
"world to be fiat. " Many of them would
have hung the supposed witches, as their
ignorant fore-fathers did in an e irly day, if
..jr :':e:j posest-fcti or the power.
f'l-l , f tl.A ... . . . 1 .
mu iiiKu twuppeci wives ior a
month or no, and it was all laid at the
uoors or those terrible witches. Vevav
iiuu..j iteveuie.
3F3 "O" s& aaa s: t? tcj k& ies
FOU-
Parlors, IScd rooms, BiffmM -rooms.
Kitchens, Hallways ami Ofliceg,
-(JO TO-
Where a
in agn ill cent
slock of
abound.
Goods and Vuiv Prices
UNDERTAKING AND E!BALRHNG A SPECIALTY
CORNER MAIN AND SIXTH
P L ATTS.M O l"i II. N Y. U I J ASK A
F.
FRlCKE&CO.,
(SCCCEHSOlt T(i J. M. !: II I : S ;
Will keep conntant!y on hand a full and oomaVe m.d .u.
! Drugs and Mediciens, Paints, Oils
. Avail Paper ami a Full Line of
IQU ORS.
PUR E L
E. O. Dovey & Son.
E. G. Dovey & Son.
Morality of Clrpu Employes.
The morality of a genuine circus troune
tuuiimrm ia oraDiy witii that of any equal
number of nny other profession or trade.
Many of them are educated and intelli
gent; most are loyal to strong family af
fections ancl to such domesticity as is at
tainable while traveling. For the rest,
they are obligeel to behave well. The cir
cus proprietor has a more complete juris
diction over his employes than anv nastnr
over his congregation. Would any clerev-
man dare to punish crofanitv b V fine nun
drunkenness by expulsion? which is ex
actly what the best type of circus nronri-
etor can do and does. He has tho whip
hand, and retains during the season a
oportion of the employes' salarv. which
he receives at the end of the season if his
record i3 good, not otherwise. Business
interests compel strict disc'.nlire. and who
shall say that the employe who is com
pelled to behave well is not, at the end of
the season, somewhat the better for eight
months of compulsory sobrietv. civilitv
and orderly living P. T. Barnum in New
York World..
Sound Ideas on Forestry.
Frederick the Great had sound ideas on
the forestry question, judging from this
proclamation, saiel to have been issued in
Ufc5: "We determined that in all tho
lands subject unto us all . young married
persons, at the time of their marriage.
should plant at least twelve trees at some
convenient spot, six being fruit trees and
six being oak trees. As we Had. to nnr
great displeasure, that this order has not
been obediently observed, we now further
ordain and decree that this shall be done
before the marriage, and that until it i3
cone the parish, clergy of our lands shall
not join any person in wedlock and to the
end that we have a satisfactory assurance
quire ail pastors to send in a full soecifl.
cation of all marriages celebrated iu their
parishes," New York Sun,
;l
The Chinese have utilised for centuries
In t.:c evaporation of brine a gas which
issues from coal seams cear PeVju.
I a the Unitetl States there is published
tie fcp?r to every 4,43$ inhabitants.
J:i li; Club Library.
Firf t Sw.-11 Who was Chateaubriand?
vord Sweil tossed if I know. Oh,
bold 0:1: W asn 1 be
vented some hind of
Tonics.
the fellow who iu-
11 beefsteak? Town
countries, Las become meaningless
linriinml and America it retains in most ' i , " 0 w buusiaciory assurance
mouths much of its original blasnbemous ' that tLl3' our"CdlCt, is carried out, we re-
caaiacier, peruapa pecause there have
lx-eu such slight changes in its spelling
There are English ppeaking persona who
swear with astonishing volubility without
themselves attaching the slightest mean
ing tq the profane words or being moved,
so far as can be perceivetl, by any ill feel-'
ing. Still, it is not expected that an Eng
lish or American gentleman will swear in
the presence of ladies, nor does a genUc
mnn raise himself in the estimation ci
cihere of his sex by using profane oath.
C3 a safety voire to" Lis overburtlened
emotions.- -San Francisco Chronicle.
Care for C hills ana Fever.
A O. A. R. man says that in war times,
When tho usual remedies for chills and
fever were lacking, it was a common prac
tice" to give, the patient a pill made of tho
web of the black spider, or occasionally a
live spider even, the doso b?ipa worked
down with a draugtof whisky. Tho
remedy is, saiiT, tu have always been efllca-Siqi5.-yew
York lireulng WarkL
We
we
lo Ft lies qqcl lfqild
soi:qes liqo of
Fall and Winter Goods
Ever brought to this 3Iarkct
ami shall be pleased
to show you a
Superb
Line
OF
Wool Dress Goods,
and Trimmings,
Hqisery and Underwear,
Blankets and Comforters.
A splendid assortment ot Ladies' Aliseses' and Childrcns
CLOAKS, WRAPS AND JERSEYS.
"We have also added to onr line of carnets some now ifm. .
x i
Ploon Oil Glots, Afatts qd'Hugs.
In men's heavy and fine boots and phoes, also in Ladies', Mupes j-.Ld
Childrens Footgear, we have a complete line to which we INVITE
your inspection. All departments 1- nil and Complete.