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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1891)
r- r. it- i - r j , , v r & "J ' -i ' ,,. i "- . 'f IN PARADISE. Sot muy summers ago young mac sf small means and good parentage waa looking for a paradise a place where lovely scenes, tempered winds and the sweetness of prolonged summer would predominate. He had lamented lost paradises, invented ideal paradises and converted real paradises into veritable pandemoniums. Xe ver yet had the real being of a woman figured in his exist ence, though he dreamed of the gentle alopea of Eden, and, as he rested, lapped in softness and ease, yielding to the gen tleness of the skies and the modest woo ing of the winds, a pale, refined and beautiful woman playfully touched his tired eyelids with her hand and caressed the willing dreamer. A woman is not in everything, but she is coexistent with our dreams. Gilbert Stockwell was a dreamer. The magical charms of an ideal existence captivated him. Midway between Sauta Cruz and the 1 Big Trees, where the hills reach nearest I heaven, where the trees in tha gulch j grow tall as if ambitious to overtop the , mountains, where the flowers grow beautifully there, away up on the side of the mountain, two forms bend un gracefully over a little flower, bat touches hat, and if it were not for the Gainsborough style ear would touch ear. We will not describe the couple. Any intelligent reader knows the twain are botanizing and the scenery round about tbem is more beautiful than any hero or heroine of song or story. They pull the flower from the ground, and seating themselves on a Darkless log examine its roots, hirsute stem, calyx, petals, seeds, and step by step trace its marks from family to branch, from gen eral to particular, and in delight ex claim "Bight!" Another flower has been analyzed. He holds her hand iD his to protect the delicate skin from the winged insect of the mountain. UUDert Stotckwell was in paradise and Xellie Alison was with him. He had not gone to Santa Cruz in vain. ix weeks ago he had met Xellie Alison, and the introduction was the beginning of an infatuation that ended only when the wrinkles of time ele vaiea the infatuation to thoughtful reverence. Nellie Alison's face was to mankind what poetry is to literature. The over attention of a fashionable mother had made her a frail, delicate girl, but the milliner supplied what nature wanted to, and instead of being an unformed lady she looked at least a well developed woman. She had more intelligence than bjaiifcy", more sparkle in her wit -ttswrirfi her eyes. She had a heart, but it was modern, that is, rather perverse, and a mind, but it was filled with the mutation of fashions. We will not blame the daughter, but condemn the mother. Xellie Allison was two-and- iwenty, the age when a nature will stand the test of analysis and prove its real worth. But we have left Gilbert holding Nellie's hand all this time. Circumstances, you know, must adjust uiemselves to human feelings. They arose. The scene was a lovely cue. Away beneath them a creek mur mured a song. The tall trees of the gulch, the dangerous steepness of the slope, the stillness of the hills, the grandeur of the scenery, the stern hills separating, as if in anger, at the base, and proudly receding, until from top to top great spaces intervened; the deli eats flower, too weak to bear up the pearly drops of dew. Ah, the sublimity of the bills. Who can measure the di mensions of the beautiful as the eye wanders from stream to hilltop, from hilltop to stream, the eye ever meeting delicate touches of nature's . finest grandest and most beautiful objects? The ocean air seems to be caught in the branches of the trees, purified by mixing with the mountain breeze, and given as a delicacy to the strollers. "Don't press my hand so hard," cried Xellie. "Excuse me, 1 thought I was holding my cane,' replied Gilbert, while Nellie looked unutterable things. "Come let us return to the hotel;" and not waiting for his consent she Started off at a break-your-arm speed. "Wait," cried Gilbert I want to talk to you about the lady you said loved nts. Tell me the lady's name. vwatyour 1 an too modest," was her laughing He reached out his arm for her, but she was pot there. He turned, and like petulant, boy showed her the dimen- aieMofktoback. "Giaert, I wlil fasten a columbine in C ksir of the young lady who lores no,ao! tonight at the hop your euri- 7v3be svtisnea," said Nellie, as Ce fiteXmL bunch of columbines. 3trrJwfll see the columbine in i, - siTatandsee." ...rat&oas had been made to make f C''rf the season. The 4 firtasi at seaside resorts are aKalrt, unless the KUUe woBsen ooquettes. tim OBQthuencT is 24 &&ntt proposition l egrt,tos aoes art f tiwuseeutifBry , f " petty wosBea i :i5st(Ciwa A dozen handsome ladles entered. Im agine his surprise when each one of them wore the identical columbine that Xellie bad plucked. Gilbert, after the fashion of men of this generation, withdrew to the smos inn room and tried to soothe nis agi tatd soul with a ciearette. Gilbert was in love. He was a briefless bar rister, fully aware of advantages of poverty, for "Blessed be nothin. it has no taxes to pay." He had seen the ful mimn heneath the surface of the water and found a true moon in the sky. He had dreaded of a paradise and found a true one, but a fair maid was there and made Sauta Cruz a pan demonium. Yet it was still a paradise to him. The arlorvof its attractions lapped to verdurous hills by ocean spray, and through the paradise wan dered a veritable daughter of tve. Xellie Alison, the belle of Santa Cruz; a heiip iwause a wealthy mother pre- j sented her to society the same as an animal or politician is entered for the race. Gilbert had hoped that Xellie would wear the flower for his sake. A smoke did not decide the matter. A man may relieve himself of a few cigars by smoking, but time alone can dispel disagreeable thoughts and customs. He returned to the ball room. Nellie was a star, surrounded by a cluster of young men, lesser lights. Gilbert rude ly pushed his way to her presence, and taking her by the arm led her to a de serted corner of the room. "I see you are fond of a joke," "With whom have I been joking?" "With me." "How?" "Did you not promise to place the columbine in the hair of the one who 1 loved me ? You led me to believe that you would wear it yourself." "I do." "So do a dozen others." "They must all love you." "Xo, I am not wealthy, not an elegant dancer, not an Apollo in face or form, and modern young ladies require some thing more than a commonplace, brief less barrister to win their love." "Oh, how I pity your most pitiful con dition! I would help you if I could." ''Then marry me.'1 "Impossible!" 'Why. Her men." laugh arrested the atten tion of the dancers as she quoted Across my luj sir, I'd hare the grace, sir. Or mother wit, to pall (ray er mask. An I wait to find, air. What w uiiud. air, Bef re I'd grorel at her feet to ask. When she finished he was standing alone, and her laugh came back to him from another part of the room. He was provoked. The spirit of the place depressed him. Leaving the party at an early hour he said, "I will have a good night's sleep." Xothing is easier to do than to prom lse one s self pleasant dreams. It is like ordering a good dinner, and on the first course have your appetite de stroyed by a dead fly. Those unfortu natesthe bulk of mankind who cannot look forward to a public exe cution in the morning have nothing to do but place their heads on the pillows with serious doubts. He went to bed, tried to sleep, trying first one side and then another, anon again. At last he attempted Franklin's experiment. Ben jamin, you know, recommends the sleepless to get up, make the bed, dress in their Sunday clothes, comb their hair, etc., and then retire. Gilbert tried the experiment The town of Santa Cruz was wide awake, the sun was high above the eastern horizon, the bathers had already departed for the beach and the children were playing upon the streets before Gilbert awoke. Nellie Alison danced until after mid night She was angry at herself and at Gilbert It was her determination to cee him in the morning and apologize for her perverseness. Her thoughts were of pleasant dreams as she unfsst ened her hair, unbuttoned her dress, un buckled her shoes turned of the gas Aightwas gone. Morning has come and to save the trouble of buckling the shoes, buttoning the dress and fastening the hair we will meet Xellie in the surf, where she enjoyed the lux uryofabath. Gilbert was also in the surf, and the ladies who wore the columbines, and the gentlemen, and merry, laughing cnuuren, wno played at the water's edge and ran a race with incoming and out going waves. Gilbert approached near where Xellie was, but the moment he saw her his head was beneath the wares, and his presence made a maiden fee, brave a hundred feet away. An hour afterward he met Nellie on the beach, not in a bathing suit No; no, such a sight has broken many thousands of engagements and severed the strongest ties of lore, she was in a plain but be coming morning dress, and wore a very sweet smue. "Are you eross this morning-" "No, I hare never been cross. I dont get that way," and he smiled blandly, "will you do me & favor. I hare lost my ring, and Oh, Mr. Stockwell. if you tod it F will never provoke job pun. ,i wuioo anything for you, , "IwlUlmtittotswMtterena.'' 1 But It ke no end." "Our eequsintaiosship win have if yet f ea another such a point wT"i CJL ye lose yew rteg r v- -t-;. oy w mmm seujs.- - I' r fc-T waStefl tmmrnri th4 .K-h hA rafullv been placed in its position. Gilbert picked it up quickly; and. Lauding it to Xelhe. claimed as a reward her hand. He re ceived it-to place the ring on her tT1xas not until shey had wandered off by themselves that she apologize 1 for being rude to him the night before, and then she auoted: If jim read, air. The nn with heed, ifr, loo r s it rua a ekarlr aa it my, Iks' rr man. air, Bhue! J aevar taka hit uawar TolaM it be ! ua or Ukj. . "Then I implore you to tell me is yea or nay f asked Gilbert. n "eilnex, sue repiieu. ivis jc The summer was ended. The romance was over, iteju lire uegan. i uey were imrrinl Paradise was removed. After all, the happiness that comes by a good breakfast, lunch and dinner and a beautiful companion is more desirable than ethereal dreams of a paradise far removed. True, the perverseness which made Xellie compel the other ladies to wear columbines and the deceitfulness of the pretended loss of the ring made his life at times miserable, but he is sat isfied with a fashionable wife and does not regret his summer amid the beauties of 5uta Cruz. True Flag. Husband and Wife. Many letters we have read with sad ness lately, prove that the majority of unhappy homes have resulted from too slight acquaintance previous to mar riage. A handsome face, a pretty fig ure, the step that suits in a waltz, the chatter that amuses for an hour, are in too many cases all it is deemed nec essary for a lifelong companionship. Others have failed because each have started with the idea that marriage means getting, not giving; the man in tent only on the comfort he can obtain from an unpaid housekeeper, the woman on the attention and adulation of an ever present lover. Xo altera tions in marriage laws or civil con tracts can make such unions happy or successful. Let men learn to be patient and sympathetic, to pause sometimes in their fuller, more varied lives to brighten with a little thought and love the duller, more monotonous ones of their women-folk; and let women real ize that the lives of true men and citi zens cannot always be cramped in their narrower home circle, and strive to take au unselfish pleasure in and to show a ready sympathy with those wider outside interests and ambitions. Just imagine the kind of thing which a Frenchman who in thw-f held the legality "f ruarnage to be unimportant lo morals, would have written, and contrast it with a letter, and its note of intense though conventional domes tic piety. There are scores of letters breathing that spirit, though usually expressed with much more clumsiness, and, to use the word which best ex presses the fact, "hundruminess." It is that quality which is to us the satis factory feature of the letters. The hundrums are in England the immense majority, and to judge from these letters, they have no more inten tion of attacking the marriage laws, as far as their main principle is concerned, than they have of agitating against the principle of caveat emptor, or the rule that a jury should consist of twelve. They have, in fact, never considered marriage as an institution like any other, but as a human condi tion, the very healthiest state of mind a community could enjoy. It is only when a community feels that marriage needs to be sustained by argument, that it begins to be In danger. Even the few who would abolish marriage nave never really considered their pro posal, for they neither suggest a sub stitute, nor apparently, have thought ror an instant what the social conse quences would be, to what utter slav ery it would reduce women to whom, after forty.' a threat of divorce would be like a sentence of slow death or what the ruin it would word on the next generation. They propose the change to get rid of discomfort just as they propose federation to be rid of the Irish difficulty, or socialism to be rid of occasional cases of miffw. ing irom want, xneir lightness of thought is bad; but, like the density of meir opponents, tnought, it proves that there is no real question in the public mina. It is, perhaps, only another Instant oi the general absence ofanyserioua consideration given by the writers to the subject, but we have been a little surprised at the general consensus that divorce ought to be granted for adul. tery on either side. That isperfectlT sound from the moralist's noint view, tnough many Christians will pause to reflect that divorce is only permitted by Christ and that Derm fa. - r vi sion to divorce the husband waa tint included in his dellvmnnt nn n.. terj bnt no statesman in the existing tate of opinion would propose any such law. It would be sfmnVW i-i mission to all DroMe-nfe m.r. themselves at Wiu. Opinio aTprnt entenws the adulters., tr 7 intolerable humiatioiTaie7en .ui ienne: dui it does nnt .l. adulterer and till it has been improved "oros for man't aaulterr woatMtetdaplw to give a priS the bad. Anv cormnt m nS i his wife , would fbrc ..L.t.. i,' Z. un. Ki'rsr.vf wf .T.r wooid ten seam a think- k-Tu! . law would act as lorkno. 1 7 , t " wvttHi speedily ba torcedby the opinion of hViwxtS dsma Wright aad the number of uroreea. which am tumZZZ-t"1 tmxmmtsmt. thm Il.Kiat lioi u. I Morel AT IKbrr liiu. Tne first mention of whipping as a rrmihment occurs in Ue mm cimpi. cf Exodus, whore we find that l'haraoh whipid the oflicers of the Israelites hen they did not furuisn tae requires number o bricks which tuey were com pelled to make every day. In ancient times the Kouians carried whipping as a punishment farther than any other nation, and their judges were surrounded w ith au avray of divers kinds of whips well calculated to af fright the offender who might be brought before them. The mildest form of whip was a flat leather strap called the ferula, and one of the most severe was the ltagellum, which was made of plaited ox hide and almost as Lard as iron. Xot only was flagellation in various ferms used as a judicial punishment but it w as also a common practice to punish slaves by the same means. The Roman ladies were greater offenders and even more given to the practice of whipping their slaves than the men, for in the reign of the Emperor Annan a Roman lady was banished for live years for undue cruelty to her slaves. The practice of whipping was in fact so vevaleut taat it furnished riautus, in vera! cases, with incidents for his plots. Thus, in '"S "Epicidus," a siave, who is the principal character iu the olay, concludes that his master has tiscovered all his schemes since lie saw him in the morning purchasing a new scourge at the shop where they were sold. From ancient times the use of whip ping can be traced through the Middle Ages down to, comparatively speaking, more modern times, when it is easier to find records of the use of the rod. In Queen Elizabeth's time the whip ping-post was an established institution in almost every village in England, the municipal records of the time inform ir.g us that the usual fee to the execu tioner for administering the punish mentwas "four pence a head." in addition to whipping being thought an eyxellent corrective for crime, the authorities of a certain town in Hunt ingdonsliire must have considered the use of the lash as a sort of universal specific as well, for the corporation records of this town mention that they paid 8 pence "to Thomas Hawkins for whipping two people who had the small ox." In France and Holland whipping does not seem to have been so general ly practiced. The last woman who was publicly whipped in France by judicial decree was Jeanne St. Temi de Valois, Comtesse de la Motte, for her share in the abstraction of that diamond necklace which ha given point to so many stories. In connection with the history of flagellation in France may be mention' edtuc custom w hich prevailed there (and also in Italy) in olden times of ladies visiting their acquaintances while still in bed the morning of the "Festival of the Innocents" and whip ping them for any injuries, either real or fancied, which the victims may have done to the fair flagellants during the last year. One of the explanations given for the rise of this practice is as follows: On that day it was the custom to whip up children iu the morning, "that the memory of Ik-rod's murder of the Innocen!3 might stick the closer, aad in a moderate proporOn to act the crueltie again in kinde." There is a storp based upoa this pnetice in the talcs of the Q'jeen of Xavsrre. Among the Eastern r.t;oii3 the rod in various forms pisye l a prominent part, and from what we read China might be said to be almost governed by it Japan is singularly free from the practice of whipping, but makes up for it by having a remarkable sanguinary criminal code. i Russia is, however, p-.r Mcellence a home for the whip and ta lod, the Russians having tecn: ccnied from time imniemoripj by tha use of the lash. Many of the Ru.r)nn o.u-ol.s were adepts in the use f u whij,, a,i were also particularly lamina in making things unpleasant for those around them. Catherine IL was so particular ly fond of this tar.ety of punishment (wldch he ofun admlniswrej in per son) that it amounted sJaoH to a pas sion with bar. It U flstd that she carried this craz. so st 'Jist ono time the ladies of tl ouurt had U come to tho Winter Vtiam with their dresses soadju3ted tUi lbs Empress could whip them at ono If she should feel so iucllusd. While the lastrusMaU of torture used in R.issia were tf great variety, the most formidable prmishtr" was the knout' au Instrument of Tartar origin and of which descriptions differ U IU ordinary fw.i. it appears to be a heavy leather the. g. shout eight feet wMBgu, aiuuiwi to handle two ew mig iae lash being concave, thus asang two sharp edges along its en UrelengUMUid when it fell on the wtaanal's back it would cut him like a fcxible domeiedged sword. "Run. alng gantlet" was also employed, but Principally bathe army. In this the wtrnaato pass through a long of soldiers, each of whom gave the ewwwUAnlbuit awitcb. ........ r.r-x nmitil the number ... to be civen to 12.WJ0, but unl-ss ; i.,.,iwt kill the victim they seldom gave more than 2,OuO at a time, When the offender was sentenced to a greater number of strokes than this .!j.mnt was extended over several days for the reason abovestated. Whipping, after dropping out of .;Vht for a time in England, was rein- rrrwtiipwl in r nii-land in 1SC7. In order to put a check on crimes of violence. The law was so framed that the judges miffl.t ajld flocririni at the direction to f C" ry t the imprisonment to which the offend ers were also sentenced. The first in stance of this punishment being used was at Leeds, where two men received twenty-five lashes each before entering their five and ten year's penal servitude for ffarrotinir. The whin used in. this instance was the cat-o' uine tails. The whipping post is also still, used in aome narts of this country, notably at Xew Castle, Del, where the "cat" is still administerd for minor offenses. .Tndirinir from a whiDDinsr that the w 9 - - writer once witnessed it appeared to be a very mild form of punishment American Xotes and Queries. Xo Evidence to the Contrary. A young Catholic priest, shortly after beginning his labors in his first parish, received a visit from one of the i.llir fat hern. Anxious to sllOW tllO progress he had made, he called up a class in catechism for questioning. Biddy Maloney," ' stand up " A slip of a girl, with blue eyes and brown freckles, arose in her place. "What, liidJy," said the young father, "is meant by the howly state of matri mony '" "hure," began Biddy, glibly, "'tis a sayson of tormint upon which the soul inters to fit it for the blissed state to come. 'Ocli," cried the questioner, angry and mortified; "to the foot of tho class wid ye, Biddy Maloney. It's the m'an ing of purgatory ye,re aftlier giviu'." But here tiie old priest interposed, with quizzical smile. "Xot too fast, nie young brother," he said, restrain lngly "not too fiist l'er aught you and I know to the contlirary.tliegurrul may be perfectly right." ilaqer's Magazine. TiMitli Powders and the Teeth. Tooth powders as a rule should be soluble and slightly antiacid. There is a class of insoluble powders which are of the most dangerous nature, of which pondered charcoal is a notable exam ple. These consist ot line, sharp parti cles, wtiich being pressed by the brush between the teeth and gums, or lodg ing between the teetlr, may cause .the most serious results, even to the de struction of the gums or the cement The use of the brush in connection with powders, washes or other treat ment of the teeth should be gentle. Bleeding of the gums is always a danger signal It shows that the skin has been broken, inviting tho absorp tion in the system of any poisonous or foreign matters which may be pres ent in the mouth. If the gums are very tender a soft brush should be; used, and used very gently till they have hardened sufficiently to withstand more vigorous treatment Even then the liability will be of ten on the side of harshness. Good IIoiisekeepin;r. Tunned Human Skin. The outrage at Canyon City reminds me of a man's skin which I once saw tacked to the wall of a log house at Fort Halleck," said Colonel Hoyt at the Albany hotel yesterday. "The work has been artistically done and reminded me more of a siffantic animal skin stretched out to dry. The man had been caught in a dastardy attack upon a young lady at the fort and a bullet from the commandent put a very sudden end to his career. The skin was left for many months on the wall of the hut, but was finally ear- ried off, piece by piece, by relic hunters, The body was chucked into a barrel, which was placed on the prairie about 100 feet from the trail leading to the west As time passed a deep path was worn by travellers leaving the public roaa to lane a glance at the strange conwnts oiineoarreL" Denver News Food for Inflection. What do they do with all the waiters when they get near sighted or far sighted or hind sighted ? v ho ever saw a near sighted waiter? i nere are lot of bald headed waiters arxA l.nn. 1... I . ' uvn "skbu waiters, ana pigeon toed waiters, but a waiter wearing sjk-c- wtcioi womu seem to he a very curious signv-j may say spectacle-indeed. Is there anything about the profes sion of waiting which keeps a man's sight good ? 1 ask this of our men of science, ana i pause for a reply. Hop, the practice of constantly and keenly looking for tips sharpen the gift, of .-.... vuese autocrats of the table? ,rat "c "iniwrs call lie for r-n.,.i.i. ation, for the waiters are very rouah j our midX and we cannot pass them by in cold neglect without sufferin hi eonsHjuenees of our folly. I hare stan near sighted street ear drivers and great many eitremelv hort sighted policem,, Apec er. I think the mystery of the weita kould be cleared wr? AaU-. " "MBej Ufl SBM . The Ways of JusUe While :.t U potofBifl an Ohio ra. jlage I heard the report that amurkitr j had been captured, and I followed ts, . crowd to taetocKup w warn more at it. There is found a prisoner wbo very appearance proved n prorl j al tramp. He was about fatty years f ! age, very cool, and he greeted the charp of murder with a laugh. In a ihorj time he was taken beiure a justice f tlie peace for examination, and I fuiua a Beat in the crowd. One look attta justice satisfied nie that he realissi the awfui gravity of the situatiou v4 felf the fouudatioo ttuie of the Unite! States resting on his broad back. "Prisoner," hi lejan, "don't trifc with the court, for it won't be allowed.' "Who's going to trifle f" waa the an swer. "Don't do it, sir dou't you do it! Xot then, do you want to confess T "To what?" "Cold blooded murder!" "Where?" "In Cleveland," "When ?" "Last night at 8 o'clock." "Humph! How far is it to Cleveland- Squire " "Xinty miles." "And I slept all night in a barn -bad here three miles. "That's so, judge," said a fanner it the crowd. "He came along at 8 o'clock last night and I let him in there." "You are sure?" "Positive." "And you won't confess V he asks i the prisoner. 3 "Very well; such obstaincy desena punishment, and I sentence you to tit county jail for ninety days." "What for?" "To prove to you that the justi never sleeps, sir never. You mii think she does, but she don't she donl sir. 1 on nave noen overtaken at las sir at last, sir: and the coustable will take charge of the prisoner and coon is adjourned." 31.imifm-tiire oi'ltutton. Vegetable ivory is a nut about tlieiizd of a very largi buckeye or horse-chest nut, and grows in a similar mamii'r ou! trees. It is very solid and white through out, and when polished has all the tiearance of Ivory. The nuts are cui into thin slab of the thickness of tW button wished. These slabs are tbetJ put into a lathe, where they arc cut bjj a die, patterned one half for the fact and oii3 for the back, revolving at f speed of 2,000 revolutions a minnJ Those halves are so arranged Hiatal one half is brought against the slab II ' other retreats. The face of the butti is ulwaj s cut first, then the back die. brought up and, its edge meeting th circular groove made by the face at. the button drops out The buttons m then thoroughly dried, and, beconiicf porous, readily absorb the aniline wits w hich they are dyed. The dying process is doncscientia cally but is very simple. I f a plain biM ton is desired it is simply plunged hit au aniline bath, but where 'i variety of colors are to be applied the prW varies. Hay it is desired to malts black button w ith a red design. Is design is first stamped upon the rw button with sheliac. The button! then plunged into an aniline bath all parts exposed are colored. dry it is washed in turpentine toe! off tiie shellac, ,-xposiiig Uie desip white. A red dye is then made of tic, as this has no effect upon aiifa Au aniline can be made of any aM but as it w ill d -etroy any other if must be used only when all parts oftsf U.... I. I ..I. 1A I ..A ' - . I . 1 . ,.J uuuuii nuicu iv is not wisncu to wa. are protected by the shellac. Was multiplicity of colors is desired are applied with sponires, much is maimer that a chromo lithogrsfii made. The grouud color is made fustic and the others of aniline. sponge is cut into the design wished! a certain color and another spongts another, etc., deftness being reqi to apply the colors accurately. After being dyed the button! dried, rolled and polished on apii As practially no strength is reqi and as girls are more skilful with fingers than men, more of the bul are made by girls. A good hand make as many as fifty gross s When it comes to drilling the eys to ISO gross a day can be handled girL The boles are always drilled the face back. The drill used foe consists of four shafts revolving rapidly and independently of ooe other. They are rerr Has and through a guard just before the button. I The delicate designs so popular! summer ate stamped with a atssj with the desired design engraved a; it. The Ivory is soaked before stamped. The wholesale price vegetable is about t cents s poaatj '.hat the buttons do not coat maI the producer. j Most of the buttons used bell from Vienna, and some are wort much as f 10 per gross. Wheats goes out of stele It Is s dead artfct. can not be forasd on the insrtst i attempt m o this spring lJ theWg bolbttt It would J wey are oasj iyoM rssurrw-, thstweeenL Notion dealers sf bag for a brfck IvaalMss In next fall, 1 tress the best it may be sd ttr button urtng was mr kmo pnpr now.s-esir "f DastaloussM MU Tlrsn l3, -: -7