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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1884.
Isierei it its Fs&Sre, Cslsstai, Hct., at itesni
elus sitter.
MISUNDERSTOOD.
AFabl.
I bold it is a solemn truth which bears lesson
JfOOl,
Tie better not to speak at all than be miaun
lcrtocd. In silence there may bo a balm, in speech a
deadly bane.
Therefore, 'tis test to 6ilent be: and always
thus remain.
Anllcst you doubt the fact which I so earn
estly declare.
Please call to mind the story of the lambkin
and the Bear.
A Lambkin sported say and free, life was a
Joy to him.
When in his pathway tlicr appeared a Bear
morose and srnin.
" Good day," quoth Uruin, with a grin, "how
Ij vinir ilp.ir nm-mii?"
ThelJimtsftln trembled wiUi affright, and only
answered " Ua-a."
And do ou dare pay Huh to mor' the mon
ster llcrccly cried;
"I'll eat you up'" and eo he did. and thus the
Lambkin died.
Bo. I hold it is a solemn truth which bears a
ICFSOIl XTO(Hl
Tis better not to'tpeak at all than bo misun
derstood. Stanley If (U In the Century.
WHY HER HAIR TURNED GRAY.
"I coiiM an if I would," said John,
"toll you why that younjc woman's hair
turned from broun'to white in a single
uirht."
Our eyes followed the slender retreat
ing form of a young woman as he
spoke.
"Her lover was drowned?" asked
Louise.
"Brain fever," said Robert, as h
lighted hw cigar.
"She saw a ghost." whispered I.
"Wrong, all of you. Do you want to
Itear a slrango hit of truth?"
Of cour.-e we did, so .John began:
It was in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts that there onco lived a
man the man who married our he
roine. He was tall and litho and
strong and handsome, and she was
young ami dark and beautiful and gay
for Massachusetts. The tall man
wooed and won her, and married her,
all within six short months. Thev
nestled down in a farm-house and lived
in down-cast fashion -and baked beans
and brown bread on Saturdays or Sun
days which is it?"
"Raked beans on Saturday night and
brown bread on Sunday morning," aaid
Louise, with decision.
Yes, and a little talk of Faneuil Hall
and Wendell Phillip now and again,
an occasional quotation from Emerson,
a semi-oi-rnMonal allusion to Margaret
Fuller, daily thoughts of the cousins on
Beacon street, etc, etc. These slight
occupations, and their great love lor
each other which was indeed boundless,
filled much of their time. There were,
to lo Mire, other business moments
when Alic a had I said that her name
was Alicia made tho cakes, for they
lived very simply in the country, and
when Nathan was away on his work of
collecting, for he combined the duties of
County Collector with his legal work ia
the nearest village, some mile or two
away.
It" was a very pretty sight to see
those two at tea." Alicia wore a blue
gown that Nathan much admired, and
Eourcd the tea from an old pot brought
ack by a Salem ancestor from China.
Tho caddy was its mate, that came
with it; and Alicia lifted its cover
tenderly to reach the mysterious wee.
dried leaves that her fairy touch and
tho warm flame were to transform into
a potent charm. On those nights for
it was late in the winter there would
be a fire blading on the hearth, the kit
ten would purr in the pauses, and
Hetty, the girl, as maid servants are
called in New England villages, could
be heard through the wide chinks of
the kitchon door, taking the upper C
with the freedom and ease of a prima
donna, Alicia would smile quickly as
she heard her, and Nathan would .-mile
more slowly- So, with the sipping of
tea and the crackling of toast, tho
evening meal would progros. After
ward, Nathan's pipe and Alicia's knit
ting gray stockings always filled up
the evening. At nine o'clock a glass
of cider ami red apples; at D:30
lights out, aud only an old-fashioned
dark house loomed against the night.
A monotonous life, but a happy one,
and happier as time went one. Hut at
last time seemed to stop for Alicia.
Nathan was called away ou business;
would be gone a week, he said. Alicia
liee.l not be afra:d with Hetty. There
was realh no danger, if she would be
careful in one pnr.icular, No stranger
was to be admitted into the house a
any pretext whatever. Here Nathan
whispered: "For my strong box is
under the bed in our room, you know,
full of count money. I am in the
midst of collect ng now. Leave the
bov. these. lti safe; but promise that
no one shall come in: and now, dearest,
I must say good-by." Hut we draw
the veil.
Imagine or remember a lovers'
parting. In the-etwo were loversonly
three mom hs wedded, kijes, a tear or
two. words- kisses again. Ah, well,
the description is like the tea-leaves,
stupid, dry, until the lire of love and
the fairy ton -h of a 'ectiou meUunor
phosc the story of a parting into real
fccparaliou.
Alter Nathan was gone Alicia sighed
ami read poetry, and ang a little to
herself, anil so I he first two days slipped
by. On the third day there came up a
bad storm, one of those early spring
storms, with thunder and hail and
other elemental disturbances attached.
In the midst then of this appropriate
tragedy music, there tottered to Alicia's
door an old man. ( no arm hunr
helpless. h: 1 m s trembled; hi seemed
verv harmless and weak. Hut Alicia
remciub. red her hu-.nud's words, t-he
gave him the shelter he begged for, in
the larn onl, although her gentle
heart smote aer. This was at four in
the afternoon. At eight in the evening,
the storm having settled down upon
the lonely land, the lonely farm-house,
and the two lonely women, the old man
appeared again at the kitchon door. Ho
was old aud chilleu and hungry. Ali
cia's heart smote her so hard "his time
that she opened the door. She bade the
old man enter. She gave him food.
She sent him up the ladder to the attic,
lor. in spite of the cous ns in Heacon
etrect, th s was the simple " lift " in
the country house, and thou she and
Hetty took away the ladder in pride
and security. Th. old man was safe,
thank Heaven, and so weio she and
Ilettv and the money-bov.
Hut the t nought ot the money-box
worried her. She looked under the bed
to seo if it were all rght. There is
something in the mere act of looking
under the bed that is disorganizing to
the feminine mind. After Alicia liad
looked, she began to feel a trifle tim
orous. She went out and listened at
the ladder-hole. The old man snored.
That sound should certa:nly have en
couraged her, but it didn't.
The combination of asnoria,r man in
the house, a stranger, oven though
maimed and halt, and a monev-box
tinder the bed, of all places, and a
storm raging, and alack and alas! a
broken promise to one's husband; this
combination was very disagreeable.
Moved by an irrc-istabie impuke,
Alicia took from a drawer a pistol be
longing to her husband She had found
it accidentally but a few days before in
an old trunk "of his filled with bachelor
belonging-. She was glad now that
she had moved it down from the attic,
where the old trunk stood in one corner
and the old man Enored in another. The
sight of the pistol did not perhaps re
store her courage, as she had hoped it
would, for she put it back with a
er, threw a hasty glance aroaM
the rooms, and with a shrug at her own
fears went to the window, pulled up
the shade, and looked out The moon
was struggling through the clouds; tho
long lino of roads leading past tho
houso up to a distant hill shone out
white from between the dark fences on
ither side. Up on the hill, a quarter
of a mile distant, there was a moving
spot somo belated neighbor on his
way home ta the village probably.
Alicia feltlcomforted. She wondered,
idlv, who it might be. 'Stjuire Roberts,
Serhaos, coming from Widow Hobart's.
here was little doubt that that, would
bo a match, though how' a widow could
over remarry! She shuddered, fhea
thought of Nathan, and smiled.
Alicia stood at the window to watch
the neighbor pass. She had taken
down her hair, and it fell in a long jet
braid down her back. She looked very
young and girlish, and as she stood she
hummed to herself partly by wav of
keeping up her rising courage, 1 dare
Bay the quaint words of ihe old Scotch-
English, and which iNatnan. uoing
Scotch himself, was fond of:
Ho gave his brldU-rein u s-lntke.
And turned him on I lie sho e
With. Adieu for vc mere, in.- lore.
Adieu for overnioie.
By the way, the 8ot on the hillside
was growing nearer and clearer. It
was not 'Squire Hoberis, after all, but
men on horse-back three of them.
The woman's country curiosity was
piqued. Equestrians "on a Massachu
setts highway at nine p. m. were an un
usual a sight as hobgoblins. As the
riders camo noarer she saw they were
muffled in long black cloak-. A'strag
gling moonbeam struck across their
face" Great heavens! They weio
masked.
For a second there was a wila con
fusion in Alicia's mind. The money
box, the lonely house! These men had
come to rob tho couuty in her hus
band's absence. Could sho resist them?
Ah!
Adieu for overmore, my love.
Adieu for evermore.
But then her thoughts jv.ew calmer,
she watched the men turn in at tho
gate. They did not speak or look to
right or left. They rode in; they dis
mounted. Alicia flew, first for Hetty, and then
both of them women to the last for
the one man within reach. It was all
the work of a moment. Down came
the old forlorn bit of male humanity.
To him appeals the young, live woman.
His brain seemed alive at least He
grasps the situation. Daring thieves
knowing of the husband's absence have
come for the strong box full of county
money. 'Ihere are three of them.
Says tho old man: "iiavo you a
pistol?"
"Yes," replies Alicil
"Givo it to me. Is that tho box un
der your bed?"
"les," replies Alicia again.
"All this time the men have beat on
the door, but no word has been spoken
by thorn.
"You must trust me," says tho old
man.
"Yes," replies Alicia bravely. It is
all she can do, even though ho should
play her false.
''Light a candle and bring me the
cartridges. I will keep them and re
load your pistol if necessary. Stand
here at the top of the stairs, so. I am
just behind you. Hlow out you candle.
Soon they will speak and ask to bo let
in. You must not reply. They will
beat in tho door. They will break it
opon. There will be one man who will
dart ahead up tho stairs the ring
leader, you know. Wait until this man
is within three steps of you. Wait until
I say 'Fire;' then pull the trigger. That
man will fall. The others will run off
that is, they may. It is our only
chance. Do j'ou understand itr"
"Yes." replies Alicia again, in a clear,
firm tone. All fear has vanished. She
is calm and quiet now.
The robbers were beating at the door.
The old man was crouchetl behind her.
Hetty in the background moaning out
her "Holy Joseph's" and "Blessed
Mary's." Alicia, erect at the head of
the stairs with her husband's pistol in
her hand. Ah, her husband! Iior heart
beat at that thought Should she ever
see him again?
Adieu for overmore. my love.
Adieu for overniorc.
The strain was over at last All went
as the old man had prophesied. Tho
door burst open, lip the stairs came a
strong man's tread, dose up to within
three steps of her. Must she shoot!
Must she kill! Yes, for her husband's
sake.
Fin1," said the old man, in a whis
per. Alicia fired. 1 he strongman fell
with a groan to the floor below. There
was a rush for the door. The others
had fled. Through the silencu Alicia
heard the sound of horses' hoofs on tho
highway. They were gone. She was
saved; so was the. money-bov. Hut be
low in the hall lay that Mlcnt, heavy
form, no sound after the first moan.
"Blessed Mary!" Hetty's voice broke
the ghastly stillness again.
" l'u have killed him," said the old
man. " Light 3'our caudle and go
down aud see wlio he is."
Alicia lighted the candle, and hold
ing it over her head walked firmly
down the stairs; her black hair, loosened
now, fell about her liite a mourning
veil. As she walked she kept her eyes
fixed on the comur of the hall at the
foot of the staircase, whore the silent
figure lay on its ba -k, it-, hands out
stretched under a picture on the wall,
a picture of the ( 'hrist on the cross. It
flashed through the woman's mind
then that at least this villain died at
His feet
"Blessed Maiy!" began Hetty
again.
"Lift the mask," called the old man's
voice.
Alicia lilted the mask from tho face
of the dead man ami saw her hus
band! "My God!" said Robert, aud threw
away his cigar. "The husband! That
is a story worth hearing."
John continued: "She did not even
faint, poor girl. ho sat there .by his
side on tho floor all night without a
tear, with her eyes on his face and tho
sorrowful hrist on the cross above
them. Hut when the neighbors camo
in with tho morning light her hair fell
about her ashen face in a white veil, as
you sec it to-day,"
"But how?" asked Louise.
"He had come to rob the county of
its money," said John, calmly, light
ing his cigar with Robert's slub; that's
all."
"And the old man wasn't a rascal in
loague with tho husband, thtn?"
"No. no; a worthy tramp. Of course,
you thougth he was to be a villain," said
1 explaining.
"And John, afterward?"
"No anti-climax," said John. "Look
at her hair and her eyes, and her heart
breaking smile, aud remember her
song:
Ad!eu for evermore, xny love.
Adieu for evcrmorel
"Yes, for evermore. Even Heaven
can not reunite these two," said Louise,
who is literal." -H'amn Murdoch, in
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
At Sing Sing, Professor Gorton, a
school Principal, severely whipped a
boy because he would not sing. The
boy then sang, but not the right tune.
The angry father of the boy is now try
ing to make the professor sing in court.
A musical authority says there are boys
whose nerves can not stand hearing
their own voice in singing, and who
can not be made to sing, it is seldom
the case with girls, but with bovs is of
freqaent occurrence. N. Y. Time.
An Alabama letter-carrier has tost
delivered a letter written in 1850. It is
mot known what reason there is for tali
rtrameaaete. N. Y. QrmfJuc.
The Care of Foed,
Next to purchasing the raw mater
ials, the most important consideration
to the housekeeper is the proper care
of cooked and uncooked food.
In families where there are children
it will be found economical to keep tho
food uncooked as long as possible, for
the little ones will not be likely to mo
lest the crude materials, except in rare
instances.
Where there is a boy in the family,
with a scientific turn of mind, it may
be necessary to confine the potatoes
under lock and key to prevent their
being used for ammunition for his pop
gun; and like disposition of the sugar
aud cinnamon may tend to discourage
anv precocious leanings toward com
mercial transactions on the part of the
youngster, aud turn his abstract'ons
into other and less expensive directions.
It may also be found expedient to con
ceal the li.olasscs jug when the young
man is left at home to keep house
while the rest of the family are en oy
ing themselves at some place of amuse
ment By taking this precaution the
house is not liable to become permeated
by the scent of candy in process of
manufacture, and the necessity of call
ing in the family physiciaa is likewise
obviated.
'Ihere is little danger of the girls
messing,'' a practice at one time in
high favor among youthful femininity.
I ut which has urown into desuetude,
and been considered vulgar since tho
co king ha' it was relinquished by
mothers. Girls, liko men, arc imitative
animals, and there was a time when
they could not be safely left alono with
uncooked food, such was their propen
sity for playing at housekeeper. It was
for this re.:son, probably, that mothers
gave over cooking entirely. Now that
the practice is confined exclus.vely to
ladies imported from abroad, who aro
wholly deficient in that superior aes
thetic feeling for which the American
mother is so justly celebrated, our
girls would sooner do auy thing or
nothing, than encounter the profana
tion of tho touch of uncooked provis
ions, or have aught to do with the com
pilation of sustcnauco for the vulgar
physical system.
Therefore, as wo said above, it is best,
gcneially speaking, to keep the food in
a raw state as long as possible. The
real difficulty in the care of food begins
after it is cooked. Then it is never
safe.
Tho young lady who, in its natural
stite, could not tell a bean from a
robin's egg, and would hesitate before
decidinir whether it irrew upon a tree
grew upon
or was caujrht with
a hook and
line
MMucwhcro on the Grand Banks, has
been known to devour two quarts of
the cooked lentils on coming homo
from a ball at two o'clock in the morn
ing, as a dessert to the oysters, ice
cream, lobster salad, hot coffee and
like trifles with which she has been,
from time to time during the night, en
deavoring to keep soul and body to
gether. Indeed, with the oxception of pickles,
there is no article of food which stands
in such imminent and perpotual danger
of destruction as cold Laked beans
when brought iuto juxtaposition with
the delicate young American female.
When pickles and baked beans are to-
ether presented to her vision, they
isappear from it.
But the destructive 'powers of the girl
are limited; those of the boy are limit
less. He is omnivorous. It is esti
mated by scientific writers that a
healthy boy will consume three times
his own weight in twenty-four hours
while a boy who is not healthy will
double the best record of his well
brother.
The followiug achievmentof a lad in
anything but robust health is adduced
in illustration of the alimentary powers
of the small boy. This is what he ate
in one day.
Eight ounces of oatmeal.
Seven ounces and a halt of butter.
Ten quarts of water (estimated).
Seventeen hot biscuits.
Thirty-eight griddle cakes.
Ten potatoes (large).
Three pounds of beef.
Two and a half pounds, net, of mtit-'
ton chop (weight of bone having been
deducted).
Twelve slices of cake, eighteen
cookies, twe've doughnuts and threo
ounces ginger cake.
Two-thirds do.cn of bananas.
Three pints of peanuts.
One ami a half pounds candy (as
sorted). Hvo wedges of pie (motherly slices).
Eight quarts of water (additional).
Kaisins, ligs, walnuts, checkerberry
leaves, itagroot, birch bark, etc., ono
half peck about1.
Squash, cabbage, onions and other
vegetables, four pounds (estimated).
We have possibU omitted some of the
items; but although the list may be de
fective, it is strTicicnl evidence of the
possibilities of the small boy as a food
destroyer.
It is unnecessary for us to say more.
If we haven't proved that cooked food
requires more care than food uncooked,
it Is useless to attempt it Hu.itun
Transcript.
Rones on the Farm.
A solution of potash will reduce bono
to a line condition and make it availa
ble for plant food. Most i armors will
use wood for fuel, and the ashes from
the fifteen or twenty cords used in a
year, if saved, would reduce all the
bona oidinarily within reach of the
farmer. Tho ofd-fashioned leach that
used to stand at almost every farmer's
back door for soap-making, was a
goo I contrivance for reducing tho
bones. But any tight, strong cask or
oo-c will answer quite as well for this
purpose. Water poured upon the ashes
makes a lye, or solution of potash,
strong enough to decompose the bones.
The casks should sUtnd under cover, so
that the quantity of water applied to
the bone and ashes 111:13- be under con
trol. The time it will take to reduce
the bone to a powder will depend upon
the amount of potash in the ashes and
attention bestowed upon the process. It
is essential that the ashes and bono
should be closely packed in the mass,
and that they be kept in a moist state,
adding water as it evaporates from tho
surface. The finer the bono before it
is packed in the ashoi the sooner
will it be reduced. The process can be
hastened by putting into the mass a few
pounds of common potash. But this is
only necessary to save t'me. Ashes
from hickory, or any of the hard woods,
contain sufficient i-otash to decompose
the bone. When the mass is soft enough
to break down with a spade or shovel,
it can be mixed with land plaster, dried
peat, or loam, to make it convenient
for handling. It is a concentrated fer
tiliser, to be used with discretion in the
hill, or applied as a top-dressing to
growing crops in the garden or held.
We are quite sure that any one who
uses this preparation of bone and wood
ashes, and sees the vigorous push it
gives to garden and other crops, will be
likely to continue it But many farmers
near'sea- ports and tail road stations, use
coal mainly for lucl. and will have to
resort to a hand or horse-mill to us.e up
the waste bones. Small mills are ex
tensively used by poultry-men for crush
ing oyster shells as well as bone, and
the machinery can be adjusted to break
the bone coarsely for ben feed. The
ail and gelatine of the bones have aa
alimentary value, and, turned into eggs,
!ay much better than when used as a
ertilizer for the soil. Wm. Gift, in
American Agriculturist.
' A docter, writing to a New York
paper, deprecates the publishing by the
press of cases of hydrophobia, as, he
said, in nine cases out of ten the fear of
tbe disc&eti brought it on.
Wild Fertillzatlen,
A flower, of course, consists essen
tially of a pistil or seed producino-organ,
and a certain number of stamens or
fertilizers. No seed can come to ma
turity unless fertilized by pollen from a
stamen. But experience, and more es-
f)ccially the experiments of Mr. Darwin,
lavo shown that plants produced from
tho pollen of ono flower applied to the
pistil of another are stronger and more
vigorous than plants produced from the
stamens and ovules of a single blossom.
It was to obtain tho benefit of this cross
fertilization in a simple form that
flowers first began to exist, their subse
quent development depends upon the
further extension of tho same principle.
The pines and other couifors, the
grasses and sedges and the forest trees
for the most part depend upon the wind
to waif the pollen of one blossom to tho
pistil of the next Hence their flower
generally protrude in great hanging
masses so that the bree.o may easily
carry off tho polleu and that tlio pistils
may stand a fair chanco of catching any
passing grain. Flowers of some such
types as these were doubtless the earli
est of all to bo evolved and their celors
are always either green or plain brown.
But wind fertilization is very wasteful.
Pollen is an expensive product to the
plant, requiring much useful material
for its manufacture, and yet it has to be
turned loose in immense quantities on
tho chance that a stray grain hero aud
there may light upon a pistil ready for
its reception. It is almost as though
the American farmers were to throw
their corn into the Atlantic in hopes that
a bushel or two might happen to bo
washed ashore in England b tho waves
and the Gulf Stream. Under such cir
cumstances, a ship becomes of immense
importance aud naturo has provided
just such ships, ready made for the very
work that was crying out to them.
These ships were the yet undifferentiated
insects, whose descendents were to
grow into bees, rosebectles and butter
flics. N. Y. Herald.
Distilling Attar of Roses.
"Genuine attar of roses," remarked a
New York chemist, "which is mado in
India and Australia, costs one hundred
dollars an ounce at the places of distil
lation. It takes fifty thousand rose
blooms to yield an ounce of attar. They
are the common roses, and grow in
treat profusion in California, where tho
distillation of attar roses could be made
a very profitable industry. I have seen
hedge rows near Samona, in that State,
so tlense from these roses that the odor
from them on a warm, sultry day caused
a feeling of peculiar faintucss and op
pression in the passer by. This is the
effect of the attar that is distilled by the
heat and moist air, and is held sus
pended, as it were, in the atmosphere.
"There is money in that cause of
faintness and indolence, but in this
country not only the sweetness, but the
great value of tho flowers, is wasted on
the desert air. In Northern India the
roses are regularly cultivated. They are
planted in rows in fields, and require no
particular care. When they begin to
bloom they are picked before mid-day.
The work'is done by women and chil
dren, who seem to regard it more
as a pleasure than a pursuit of labor.
The rose leaves are distilled in twice
their weight of water, which is drawn
off iuto open vessels. These are al
lowed to stand overnight, being covered
up with cloths to keep out dirt and in
sects. In the morning the water is
coated with a thin oily film. This is
the raro attar of rose. It is skimmed
off with a fine feather and dropped into
vials. The process continues daily un
til the bushes cease to bloom. So it may
well bo imagined that essence or oil
that requires the distilling of fifty thou
sand roses to fill an ounce vial has a
right to havo a good prico set upon it"
.V. Y. Sun.
Moravian Funeral Ceremonies.
By accident, as we left the Sisters'
house, a funeral was just being con
ducted at the church, a building per
haps sixty years old, with small win
dows and an open tower, but in interior
modern aud commonplace, like any
New England parish meeting house.
While the friends and a promiscuous as
benibly had entered tho church, the cof
fin had been carried to a small building
adjoining, called the dead-houso, to re
main during the services. In olden
times, almost as soon as the breath
ceased, the dead were borne to this
house, there to rest till the burial, but
at present it is only used during the
funeral ceremonies. When the service
closed those who wished to look upon
the face of the dead repaired to this
house, while the friends remained in the
church till, at a. signal from the trombone
.players, who, six in number, led the
procession, tho cofiiu was brought out,
'carried some distance and rested on the
ground at one angle of the square
formed by the church, the dead-house,
the rear wall of the Sisters' house, and
a parochial school-house. The trom
bone players, with the officiating minis
ter, look their places on the side, the
nearest friends on the other; others fol
lowed so as to fill up the two sides of
the square, the trombones sounded
again, and the minister repeated these
lines, which were sung slowly und
plaintively:
Grant me with faith unshaken
To rest un Thy jrrace.
Until my soul is taken
To flee Thee face to lace.
And then, without a word, the proces
sion moved away. licthlehcm (Pa.)
.Cor. N. Y. Pott.
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How He Came Out.
"I understand," saitl Charlie to Fred,
"that you went up last night to seo
your girl's father and ask him to adopt
you as a son-in-law. How is if?"
"Yes, I meandered up that way about
the time that twilight and daylight get
mixed up so 3011 can't tell a. m. from
p. in."
"Did you sec the old gentleman?"
"Of course, I did. That's what I
went for."
"And did you make the proposition
previously cited?"
"I did, for a fact"
"Well, how did you come out?"
'Darned if I know. The old man
caught me with his foot, and as the
windows and doors were both open, I
don't really know just how I did come
out, but as I saw the carpenters putting
in a section of new sash this morning,
I am led to believe that I came out at
the window. You see. I was in some
what of a hurry and didn't stop to make
1 careful investigation as to the exact
locality of my egress. Good morning.
I'll see you later. Thero comes the old
fellow this way now." Merchant
Traveler.
Washington at one time conceived
the idea of letting his Mount Vernon
estate out in farms to English or Scotch
farmers, and communicated his plan to
his friend and correspondent. Sir John
Sinclair, at whose instance an English
man named Parkinson was indexed to
come over. The voyage took twelve
weeks, and almost all the fine stock,
worth thousands of dollars, which be
brought with him died on the way.
Poor Parkinson viewed tho crudity of
everything here with utter disgust, and
was much incensed by Mrs. W. saying
to him: "I am afraid, Mr. P., you've
brought your fine pigs to a bad market:
)f course he wrote a book anent his
American experience, and his growls
e amusing. Chicago Tribune.
Let us have no favoritism between
the man who steals a few pounds of
lugar or a quart of beans and the young
man with a genius who steals $14,000'
WQ.X. r. Truth.
KRAUSE,
AGAIN TO
The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation
the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect oDer.ilirm of nnch inn-
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chine and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each purchaser, being over, we are
again ready, and offer to the farmers of Platte and adjoining counties goods which are now in season
and which we propose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
Mowers,
Hay Rakes,
Hay Sweeps,
Farm Wagons,
SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
At the Lowest
We sell the
Threshing Machines,
WARRIOR,
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EVERYTHING WE SELL
We cordially invite everybody to call on us.
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Thirteenth Street,
WE ARE PREPARED
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IjST columbtjr,
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celebrated AULTMAN
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CLIMAX,
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Pumps and Pipe.
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