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Bitter-Sweet,
There comes a time when even grief growl
And eyes for want of tears must cease to
WberTlirifor want of light is scarcely dreary.
Because the shadows are so very deep.
We grow forgctf ul of the sun's existence.
And And protection in eternal night;
Hope does not mock us with it6 mad persist-
Norgage our g-loom with its deceptive ligat.
Eemorse has aeasous when it sinks to slum-
And sweet, dead days of bliss are lived
So real seems pleasure that we do not num
ber The intervening days of wo and pain.
The sin remembered seems well worth the
sinning ,,
For that one taste of rapture that it
brought;
And broken bubbles seem well worth the
winning
When triumph with such precious Joy was
fraught.
There is no hell without its glimpse of
moments when a common source sup
plies Deligbt as rare as that to angels given.
Ami pence as perfect as the saved ones
pri
ire.
-Flora McDonald.
NIXIE.
Nobody would take little Nixie Mark
ham for if heroine, nor would one sup
pose that little quiet figure possessed
nerve enough to save hundreds of lives
by her prompt action, but this was the
way of it: It was a hot summer after
noon, and the most absolute quiet reign
ed over the little railroad station of
Parkerstown, up in Northern New
England, on these sweltering July days.
Not even the customary loafers were
around, and only at train time was
there any show of life.
The down-train was due at 5:10, but
until then, as the sensational writers
eav. "all was quiet as the grave."
'Nixie was the station agent's daugh
ter and only child. She was 15, al
though so small she looked three years
younger, and was usually quiet as a
mouse "not much zip to her," as the
country folks said. In spite of the cur
rent opinion, however, she had, except
the small portion of tinio which the lit
tle country town set apart for the school
season, spent nearly all of her time in
the ticket-office with her father, pick
in" up. letter by letter and word by
word, the sounds of the Morse instru
ment; and. finally, one day she aston
ished her father by taking a telegram
by sound, giving him a neat "copy."
From that day Nixie was installed as
telegraph operator, and the indulgent
father often said 'Nick could run that
office jVst a9 well as he could himself'
which, considering that Mr. Mark
ham was considered by the boys "a
plug operator;" might be called a doubt
ful compliment to Nixie.
Well, this particular afternoon we are
talking about, the aforesaid "plug"
sauntered into the depot with trouble
enthroned on his majestic brow.
Nick. I'm summoned on a jury case
up to the Centre Village this afternoon.
It's loo late to get anybody here, oven
s'posine there was anybody to get.
What are we going to do about it?
S'pose you can 'tend the concern alone
until 1 iret back probably by C?"
J guess so. father." replied Nixie.
There won't be much of anything to
do. Likely there won't be many pas
sengers ior the down train this hot day,
amll hope I know enough to sell a
ticket or two if there are."
Well, see that those boxes go by ex
press. The waybills aro ready and in
the drawer guess you'll get alour all
riht" and oil" he'went, leaving Nixie
mistress of the situation which phase
meant more than you might imagine,
that very particular day.
At first she felt her newly-acquired
importance botwwbnt and stepped
briskly around, dusting the musty little
office "and watering ihe few plants in
the window, but there being absolutely
nothing to do and no one coming near,
she dropped into inactivity and listened
to the click of the telegraph instrument,
which to her was as companionable M
the talk of near friends would be. Ai
the afternoon passed drowsily along
the heat and stillness overcame her,
and dropping her flaxen head on the
desk before her. she was 60on as one
of the good ladies of Parkerstown was
wont to express it "in the arms of
Morphine."
Afterwards, the first thing she could
remember about it, a voice seeming to
come from her dreams said: " 'Taint
likely she is left here alone, and asleep,
too.'
"No," responded another evil voice,
"the old man's prob'ly 'round some
wherebut." in a lower tone, "come
on, let's go 'long. The down train '11
be along and we'll just lay 'em out"
Nixie was wide awake enough now,
but she had presence of mind in her
small body, and realized that safety lay
in keeping still.
"How fur is it up there?"
"'Sh! Keep mum. Do you want to
knock the hull thing in the head, and
yourself too?" And then the girl's
quickened hearing caught the sound of
heavy footsteps passing by the window
and on up the track.
Nixie waited until she couldn't hear
the footsteps and then cautiously turned
and looked out of the window. There
they were two miserable-looking
tramps hastening up the track. Sho
recognized them at once as two men
who had been discharged from a construction-train
that had been at work
down the road. What should she do?
O. if she could send for her father! But
there was no one anywhere near, and,
besides, by the time he could get home
it might be too late for it was evident
that the desperate wretches were bent
upon revenging themselves of their
fancied wrongs upon the innocent She
looked at the clock. Half-past 4! She
ran out and looked around the lonely
.station. No living being in sight She
called once, feebly, but what was the
use. If she sent for her father she had
no tangible explanation to give or real
reason to make him hurry home only
she was sure there was harm coming to
the down train that long crowdea ex
press filled with mountain tourists. But
she must do something.
The men had disappeared around a
slight bend in the track. Nixie ran in,
locked up the office, snatched a bat from
a nail in the corner, and then hurried
up the track until she arrived at a slight
curve. Then she "made haste Inore
slowly." for there were the men. Step
ping 'behind a clump of bushes she
watched them. They had stopped and
were doing something, 6he could not at
first see what to the track. Pretty soon
up came a rail, and in a minute more it
was thrown down a steep ledge within
lour feet of the track where the whole
train must be precipitated in less than
an hour if something could not be done
to warn them. Nixie saw it all now,
and for a moment stood, her eyes di
lated with horror, while she saw the
scoundrels shake their fists toward her
way and heard an imprecation. Then
they passed on and Nixie, growing cold
in the sudden extremity, turnetf and
aped toward the depot
The rail had been removed on a
curve which was shaded on the west
side by a high bank so that at half-past
5 it was quite dusk there, and as the
train always came in on a down grade
they came at full speed. So Nixie
thought to herself, "I'm so glad I came,
for now I'll hurry and telegraph to
Stratford before the train comes by,
and then we'll see, Mr. Tramps, bow
your little scheme comes out"
She reached the office and looked at
the clock. Five minutes to 5! and the
train kf t Stratford at 5,-03. Well, eight
minutes was more than plenty of time
if she could "raise" Stratford. She
grasped the key. "Sd-sd-sd," clicked
Ike instrument Never before was then
so impatient an operator on that line.
With ner eyes on the clock, which seem
ed then, if ever, to say "forever never
never forever." sho kept up the call
Somebody on the other side "broke her"
twice, but she gave all the danger sig
nals she could think of and kept on.
The moments kept on one. two, three,
four, five slowly pealed the old clock
each stroke an agony to the girl.
Meanwhile the agent at Stratford
could not operate at all, and the boy
who could and who served as general
chore-boy about the place, had gone for
the cows, and there was no one to an
swer the call on which so much depend
ed. A few minutes and it was too late,
and Nixie was in a new dilemma.
Nixie closed the key in despair. She
did not know the train signals, but
seized the red flag under the old desk
and ran for dear life literally the dear
lives of her fellow-creatures. Not until
she got to the wrecked place did she
remember that she must go beyond the
curve to 6top them or she would be of
no use. Already she beard the approach
ing train rumble in the distance. Fast
er, faster she sped round the curve
straight on up the track. Sho could see
them now coming in. On they rushed,
the great engine bent on destroying its
precious freight Nixie stopped in the
midst of the track and frantically swung
her red flag, but still the mouster rush
ed toward her, showing no abatement
of speed.
Meanwhile the engineer and fireman
had seen the slight form of the girl and
the fireman stood aghast to see the en
gineer so utterly regardless of her.
"Stop, man!" he shouted; "don't
you
see the girl?"
"Yes, said the half-drunk engineer.
"Why don't the little fool got out of my
way? I'll teach her," aud made no
movement to stop.
Nixie waited with a sinking heart
O. why did everything go against her?
Was it the will of God that this dread
ful thing must happen? The engine
was close upon her and she ran up on
a jutting rockjjv the railroad still wav
ing her scarlet flag but just as the en
gine came alongside of her she heard
the sharp click of the call-bell in the
engine and saw the fireman push the
engineer asido and reverse the engine.
The conductor, who had just seen her
and excitedly pulled the bell-rope,
jumped off and came toward her. But
the reaction was to much for poor Nixie
and she could only gasp out: "Round
the curve," and then she was a white
heap, with no sense of anything.
Passengers rushed out and, aft
er some had been to the curve and seen
what the little girl had saved them
from, no lady in the land could be so
loyally waited upon as she was when
she bad been lifted into the car and
told modestly her little story. It was
some little time before the track was
ready for the train to proceed, and,
when Nixie got out at her owu station,
many kind hands pressed hers in fare
well, and the conductor left something
in her hand, too. just as the train left
saying: "You are tho bravest little wo
man in the State."
Not until she had been in the office a
good half hour with her father, who
had got home from his lawsuit and
wondered what made the train late and
where Nixie had gone to. and told him
all the story, did Nixie think to look at
the packet Then she read a note:
"Will Miss Eunice Markhnm accept the
accompanying from the friends she so
bravely saved Aug. 23. 1880?"
The note was wrapped around $500
in bank notes.
"O, papa! now you can pay off the
mortgage on the house," cried Nixie,
and the father said:
"I declare, Nick, you got higher
wages as agent than I do!"
The Superintendent of the Q. & L.
Railroad Company came down to Park
erstown that week, aud soon after there
was a vacancy in one of the best offices
of the company in a neighboring city
and Mr. Markhara was tendered the
situation. He accepted, 'so Nixie can
have the schooling she wants so much,"
he said; aud to-day Miss Euuice Mark
ham is one of the most promising pupils
in the high school of that city. But
more than ever is she the pride of her
father's heart, who nover tires of tell
ing of Ihe nfternoou "his girl was sta
tion agent"
But after all. you would never take
her for a heroine." m
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ROYAL LADIES.
rear Qneena Described, Oae of Tneaa la
Very Uncomplimentary Terms.
Queens are not any better-looking,
after all, than other women, and some
of those now reigning may even be
classed among the very plain-women,
says a writer in the New York Mail and
Express. Nut even the most regal of
their state garments could make them
anything else. The idea that patrician
blood shows in the beauty and grace of
the royal ladies is a great mistake, for
it is quite the contrary, as far as I have
seen, and the bluer the blood the uglier
the queen. In Vienna, at their great
exposition, were gathered a number of
the then reigning ladies of Europe, and
I had several views of those who were
there. The first glimpse I had at all of
royalty was of ex-Queen Isabella of
Spain. I was in the Turkish section
when I noticed a coarse, fat, elderly
woman, plainly dressed and vulgar in
every movement, come waddling along.
She was shaking all over like a dowI of
jelly, and looking keenly about her with
beady eyes, while behind her walked a
youth hardly come to manhood's age.
He wore a stovepipe bat and a Prince
Albert coat and appeared to be a mod
est fellow with little taste for display.
The ex-queen wore a black lace over
dress over black silk. The silk was cut
low in the neck and with short sleeves,
after the fashion then prevailing in
Vienna, and the other dress was high
in the neck and with long sleeves. one
wore a black lace bonnet, with long
streamers of ribbon behind, and a mass
of red roses mingled with tho lace, and
she had some very beautiful diamonds
in her ears and at the throat She went
about cheapening everything and look
ing for some Turkish rugs to buy, but
she seemed to think that the price was
raised on account of her royalty, and in
a loud aside in French she spoke to her
young son, saying that evidently they
intended to make her pay too much,
and that be must come there the next
morning wearing a plain suit and a
cap, so that they should not know him,
and get the carpets at a lower price. I
saw this same queen at the opera soon
after in all the glory of full dress, and
she made, to my thinking, one of the
most revolting sights I ever witnessed.
The aged ana amiable empress of Prus
sia made a short visit to Vienna during
the exhibition, but she appeared no
where in public except as she rode from
the station to the palace with her ven
erable husband. She sat leaning far
back in the open carriage, and as the
horses dashed by she left but a confused
remembrance of a frail but sweet face,
mild eyes, and womanly grace. She
was wrapped in shawls, although tha
weather was very warm, and she ap
peared to be very thin.
The empress of Austria and Queen
Olga of Greece are the two beautiful
women of all that I saw, and whatever
their station in life they would still be
called so. The empress of Austria seems
to be too active a woman for the close
confinement and rigid dignity that oth
er queens think necessary, and she goes
and comes as she likes, rides and walks
abroad without let or hindrance, and
very simply. On state occasions, when
there is a public parade, or anything
like that the streets are cleared by sol
diers, who take positions on each side.
I These streets have been previously swept
ana sprinkteu, ana no vemcie or "-
son can travel there until after the
pageant has passed. Then after hours
of patient wailing in the hot sun, with
eyes half blinded by the white reflection
of the bouses and streets, there will bo
a dash and flash of glittering uniforms,
a clash of sabers and spurs and trample
of prancing steeds, and a magnificent
open barouche comes into view with a
tableau of a soldiery-looking man in his
uniform with jewels and decorations
blazing all over his breast and by bis
side a vision of beauty dressed iu the
national colors.
As this radiant picture comes into
view there is a bust of cheers and wel
come from all people. The poorest and
tho richest alike shout with a spontane
ity that is born of a true affection for
the beautiful empress, at least Behind
their carriage is another, a smaller one,
with a young man and a young girl,
the children of the royal couple, and
they receive as many plaudits and good
wishes as their parents, and then, be
fore one hardly has seen them, the
whole is gone and the crowds are let
loose to nil the streets or go to work
again.
One day in the exposition the empress
walked about without ceremony or fuss,
with a few of her ladies. She was dress
ed in a lilac muslin trimmed with lace,
and certainly looked not an hour over
25. Her tall form was as lithe and
graceful as a girl's and her matchless
eyes, hair, and lips would make the
beauty of any woman. The expression
of her face was simpljr enchanting. Aft
er walkiug about until she was tired,
she took her seat in one of those rolling
chairs, and the driver rolled directly
over my foot I could not repress a
slight expression of pain, which the em
press heard, and she made as many
apologies as I should have thought
necessary had I squeezed her royal toes.
Then she chatted several minutes in a
perfectly unreserved manner with me,
and said some day she might visit
America, as she always longed for a
ride on the prairies. I saw her at the
opera afterward in full dress, with dia
monds and pearls, and her exquisite
neck and arms bare, and she was posi
tively dazzling.
Queen Olga is of another type, but
equally handsome. She is stouter and
shorter, but her figure is graceful and
well formed, and her bands and feet are
true Russian, being almost as small as
n 10-year-old child's. Her eyes are
large and dark, with long, heavy lashes.
Her hair is superb, and her features
mobile and beautiful, and her laugh
very charming. She is a brunette, with
a lovely, rich color, which comes aud
goes with her emotions. While in Vien
na Queen Olga was greatly admired
wherever she went and she went every
where, being perfectly simple and un
affected. She is a fine horsewoman as
well as the empress of Austria, but she
did not ride in Vienna. Nearly every
day she visited the exposition, " and al
ways dressed in her national colors,
blue and white. I saw her afterward
in her own home, in Athens, and was
still more charmed with her, from her
sweet and simple manners that are still
full of grave dignity. She is a model
mother and a truo helpmeet to her hus
band, who would be nothing and no
body without her. She is always at
work while at home on some bit of lace
work, which she afterward takes pleas
ure in giving away as little souvenirs.
The people of Athens adore her for her
large sympathies and gentle charities,
and they love her for her goodness and
womanliness no less than for her rich
beauty and tho fact that she is their
queen.
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SURGICAL NURSING.
The house mother should always be
prepared for emergencies. A few band
ages and a bottle of carbolized oil do
not take up much room in a corner of
the closet shelf and they are invaluable
in case of an accident requiring their
use. Bandages can easily be made
from an old sheet Cut it into strips
about two inches wide and sew two
lengths together, lay the raw edges over
one another so that one will be on each
side of the bandage and run them to-
f ether, forming a flat joining with no
ard ridge at the seam. The strips can
be any width that is desired, but two
inches is the most useful size. To roll
them begin at one end and roll as
tightly as possible, keeping the edges
even. Hospital nurses learn to make
with the fingers a roll as compact as
can be done with a bandage roller.
When finished turn in the end to form
a point, fasten it with a pin. null off the
ravellings from the edges and the band
age is completed. Carbolized oilcan
be procured from the druggist, or made
at home by adding one teaspoonful of
carbolic acid crystals dissolved .in glyc
erine, to fourteen teaspoonfuls of sweet
oil. It is an excellent remedy for
slight cuts as well as more serious in
juries. It is spread on a piece of linen
and bound on the wound. Carbolic
acid being an antiseptic prevents de
composition and so permits the wound
to heal. Nature, or whatever name we
may choose to give to the mysterious re
cuperative power which onables the
human body to recover from disease
and injuries, is the great heater.
Science can only surround the injured
part with the conditions most favorable
to its recovery. No power on earth can
make the tiny cells collect to form the
new tissue and change into flesh, or
cause skin to form over the surface un
less nature wills that it shall be so.
The air is full of minute germs, in
visible to the naked eye. It is the office
of these germs when life ceases in any
organization to turn it again into its
original elements. Fermentation, as in
yeast and souring is the beginning of
their work. When the skin is broken
the vitality of the surrounding parts be
ing destroyed by the injury, a hot bed
is prepared in which bacteria flourish
with fatal rapidity. The poison thus
generated is absorbed into the system
and in bad cases the patient dies of
pyaemia, or blood poisoning. The name
of Pasteur will go down to posterity in
connection with his discoveries in the
method of treating hydrophobia and it
was his researches which first directed
attention to antiseptic dressings for
wounds. Mr. Lister, one of the sur
geons at St Bartholomew's Hospital,
London, conceived the idea that if the
surroundiug air could be disinfected
and the wound dressed with some sub
Btance that would kill the bacteria
which might find an entrance, decom
position would be prevented and the
wound placed in the most favorable
condition for healing. He fixed upon
carbolic acid as the agent most certain
to be effective, and since the introduc
tion of his method, and modified forms
of it which experience has suggested,
recovery is the almost invariable rule
and the once dreaded diseases of wounds
the rare exception.
When a serious accident happens and
the victim is brought home, if a limb
has been broken a bed should be pre
pared for the sufferer while the surgeon
is coming. This bed will have to be
occupied probably for several weeks,
nor, in many cases, will the occupant
be able to be moved from it A woven
wire mattress with a bair mattress over
it is the most desirable foundation; on
this should be spread a sheet smoothly
tucked in at the sides and ends. A
piece of India rubber sheeting should
always be amongst the household
stores, a yard' of the soft twilled kind
can be purchased for $1.50, and if cut
into two will be a useful size. One-half
should be folded in part of an old cot
ton sheet and placed under the wound
ed part to prevent the damp dressings
from wetting the mattress. A sheet
folded in two lengthwise should be
placed across the middle of the bed and
the ends firmly tucked under tha mat
trwa. It can t changed mow easily
man the whole sheet and kept smootn
and free from crumbs. The upper bed
clothes must be folded back over the
foot of the bedstea'd until tho sufferer is
lifted in. Elizabeth Robinson Scovd in
Good Housekeeping.
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A Purzletl Traveler.
I find myself this morning in a novel
predicament, amusing if one is philo
sophical enough to look at the amusing
side of it but at the same time very
annoying, writes a correspondent from
Placquemine, La., to the New York
Commercial Advertiser. We are brought
to a halt here by a railroad wreck, aud
are likely to be detained here for at
least a uuy. 1 have my family with
me. and naturally there are expenses to
pay. I have in my pocket a number of
coins made of gold and bearing the
stamp of the United States government
in certification of their weight and fine
ness. These coins are Aiui-rican $5,
$10. and $20 gold pieces, and if I were
in England, or Germany, or Russia, or
India, or anywhere else iu the world
except right here in Placquemine, La.,
1 should find my money current at its
nominal and actual value, because the
two are everywhere known to be iden
tical. But here in Placquemine, La., a little
town whose people are direct descend
ants of Longfellow's Aeadians, my
American gold is uncurrcnt money!
1 first encountered this state of things
last night when 1 offered gold to the
porter of. the Pullman car inpayment
for my berths. That worthy politely
refused it on the ground that "that kind
o' money an't good out here, sah." I
remonstrated with him, and told him
that American gold was worth its face
everywhere, because the gold in it,
merely as gold, is worth very nearly the
amount of the face value of the piece.
He was deaf to arguments of that kind,
and so I expounded the law to him, and
quoted the provision making tho gold
coin of the United States legal tender in
payment of all debts. It was equally
useless. The porter knew nothing about
legal-tender laws or standards of value,
or anything of the kind; he only know,
or thought he knew, that gold coius
were bad and uncurrent money in this
quarter of the country, and he would
have none of them. I managed to
scrape together euough silver, eked out
with nickels, to pay for the berths and
decide in my own mind that the porter
must have got hold of a counterfeit gold
coin, and finding it bad, must have
concluded that all gold was bad money.
This morning 1 have learned belter.
Finding ourselves stopped here, I order
ed breakfast from the' buffet, and after
eating, set out to get some of my gold
changed iuto bills or silver at the shops
of the town. Alas! the shopkeepers of
the place, even including tho saloon
men, were like-minded with the porter.
One and all were persuaded that gold
was not not good money, and with one
mind they refused to take it I offered
to treat all round" at a saloon if the
barkeeper would take a $5 gold piece
in payment and give me change) but
be declined. 1 asked if the genuineness
of my gold was doubted, thinking that
might be the trouble, but I was assured
that all gold was refused in the town,
and one man, h merchant told mu he
believed there had been "some govern
ment action on the subject which made
gold no longer of any account." Final
ly one man came to my rescue and gave
me silver in return for a $5 gold piece,
saying that the gold might perhans "go
for something in New Orleans." He did
it very much as he might have given $5
to a human being iu distress, and I
could see that he had very little hope of
ever getting anythiug out of the bright
new gold piece which I had drawu a
few days before from the London aud
San Francisco bank, in full faith that
the gold coins of my country were the
best and surest possible representative
of value anywhere to be found.
I am still without any explanation of
the phenomenon, but it is a fact worth
recording that American gold coin is not
current money iu Plncquemiue, La.
Under Orange Blossoms.
English and continental customs that
have so perceptibly modi lied the man
ners of American society of late years
have nowhere shown so marked an
effect as in fashions for weddings. The
latest innovation is the carrying of a
prayer-book by the bride instead of the
conventional bouquet a fashion inau
gurated at a New York wedding the
other day. The book harmonizes with
the bridal costume in color, and is
covered with white ivory, mother-of-pearl,
or velvet, mounted in silver or
gold. Like the bridal veil, it is laid
away after the ceremony as a memento
of the great event
The introduction of tho maid of honor
into the wedding procession is another
new fashion, or, rather, the revival of a
very old one. It is her office to assist
the bride at the altar during the wed
ding ceremony in removing her glove
when tho ring is put on. relieve her of
her fan, bouquet or prayer-book, and
perform ail those little services that are
necessary on the occasion. While white
is en rigeur the costume of the bride
and bridemaids, the maid of honor is
distinguished from the rest by wearing
a dress of some light tint usually pale
pink or blue. Soft canton crepe, gauze,
tulle, or cree lisse are the materials of
which it is made. The bridemaids
wear white tulle over satiu or moire,
while for the bride a trained robe is pre
pared of rich satin or faillo rrancnis,
trimmed with deep llounciugs of real
luce, side-panels of cut and uncut vel
vet and sprays of orange blossoms.
The maid of honor aud bridemaids
wear their dresses short, with tho slip
pers of bronze kid and silk jsose to
match, for such is tho latest decree of
fashion. The slippers of the bride are
made of a piece of her dress, and aro
worn with white silk hose that are em
broidered or have lace iuserted in the
iustep. If the weddiug takes place at
home the br.dal veil of tulle, fastened
iu the hair by a cluster of orange blos
soms, falls over the shoulders and the
train, leaving the face uncovered, but if
it is soloiuuizcd iu church it covers the
face also, falling down to the hem of
the skirt and enveloping the figure as in
a mist.
It is the fashion for the bride to enter
the church ou the arm of her father or
guardian, the maid of honor walking
behind alone. After the maid of honor
come the bridemaids; arranged in
couples. The groom, accompanied by
his best man, enters the church by an
other door aud meets his bride at tho
altar, win; re he receives her from tho
hands of her guardian.
White uephi los-buds, bride roses, a
uew variety'of white rose with delicate-ly-curied
edges tinted a bluish pink, and
lilies of the valley, all form charming
bouquets. Frequently the roses and
lilies are combined. Real orange blos
soms, the traditional bridal flower, are
not ofteu used, as they fail so soon, and
where they are used for dress decora
tions they are in all cases artificial.
Florists say they make up rose bou
quets for weddings in sets, white, of
course, for the bride, pale pink or yel
low for the maid of honor, as best suit
her dress, either Catharine mermets la
France, or Marechal Niels, and for the
bridemaids, to whom it is allowable to
have a little more color, bunches of
vivid crimson Jack roses, or, their sub
stitute, the Bennett the immense deep
pink American beauty, or perle des
jardius, which are yellow. All of these
bouquets are made very large, the stems
cut long and gracefully tied together
with a bow of satin ribbon matching
the roses in color. For the sake of
Variety fancy baskets filled with roses
and decorated with ribbons are some
times carried instead of bouquets.
Brooklyn Citizen.
Girls in Service In Holland.
It has been said that the young wo
men of this country who follow the culi
nary and scrubbing profession are born
as such, arriving fully equipped with
bucket of water and scrub-brush, and
as a Dutch servant girl only awakens
from phlegmatic slumbering existence
when inspired with the prospect of
something to scrub, there seems. to be a
foundation for the legend. The dienst
meisjes of this city aud the other cities
of the Netherlands are dressed in light
calico gowns, white aprons, white neck
erchiefs, white hose, and wooden shoes.
Winter or summer, rain or shine, the
dress is the same. The use of gloves,
even in the coldest weather, is not al
lowable, and a present of a pair of nice,
warm mittens ou Santa Claus day was
only excused because the giver was an
American lady aud not posted on servant-girl
etiquet
A Holland lady must be a housekeep
er, it being customary to give out the
provisions necessary for the family use
daily to the cook and keep the store
room under lock and key. The serv
ants receive for tbeir own use a certain
amount of coffee, tea, butter, etc., per
week, all stipulated in the service con
tract and at diuner draw their rations
from the family table like soldiers. To
introduce the American method would
create rebellion in the kitchen in one
day. The period of service is never
less than six months, and a notification
of two months on the part of mistress
or servant is neccessary for its termina
tion. Every servant girl is in the possession
of a sort of conduct-book, in which her
behavior is noted by the mistress semi
annually, and is countersigned by the
B)lice when she changes her employ,
o servant girl can find a place with
out this book, and to hear of servants
who have been in a family for twenty
years or over is a common occurrence.
The wages paid to cooks are from $24
to $36 and to second girls from $16 to
$28 per year. In addition they are
granted a douceur at stated holidays.
The requisits of fooitjes received from
visitors, etc., are taken care of by the
lady of the house aud disbursed every
three months.
In the cities where the yearly kermis
has not as yet been abolished participa
tion in these festivities by the servant
girls makes an escort necessary, aud
those who have not been able to attract
an admirer by personal charms provide
themselves with the article iu a rather
business-like manner. Weeks before
the kermis takes place lists of names of
young men willing to play the part of
tho lover for this occasion only are
handed around to lonely maidcnsT In
addition to paying all expenses incident
al to tho festivities, remuneration in
cash, graded iu accordance with the
profession of the selected one, is paid
by tho servant girl. Barbers and tailors,
as a rule, are high-priced cavaliers, and
in great demand, but to see 200 pounds
of plain Holland cook of uncertain
age parading around with ninety
pounds of diesscd-iip tailor makes it
questionable if the position of the lesser
being is altogether a sinecure. Amster
dam Letter.
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Jngfflcrs of Words.
Literary men. 1 dare say, have their
merits. 1 should be very sorry to deny
all merit to any das of my fcliow
creatures; but literary men have also
their faults, whereof (since life is short
however tedious art may be) I will only
mention one viz.. their intolerable aul
aggressive self-conceit. Here is some
wretched little knock-kneed, weak
chested fellow, whose back is bowed
and whose eyes arc (practically) blind,
who can do nothing in this world but
write, aud can't do that if a child cries
in the next street or an organ grinds in
the next parish; yet he gives himself
the airs of a commander-in-chief at the
very least if you ask him to dinuer
you and all your guests must sit mum
while he relates some interminable anec
dote, or tires off (if they will go off, but
they often miss) the terrible "impromp
tus" which he has spent the whole
afternoon, constructing over his study
table. He has done nothing in his life
at all worth doing; he knows nothing
in this world really worth knowing; he
has no science, or skill, or art under
heaven, except the art of stringing
words together, and he can't even do
that at all decently unless he is given
plenty of time. Yet on the strength of
having written half a dozen morbid
and unnatural stories, or some poems
that nobody can read without going to
sleep, or having put together a bundle
of ill-natured criticisms, or edited some
wrong-headed newspaper or magazine,
he spreads his wretched little jackdaw
tail with all the arrogance of a genuine
peacock:. To hear him talk you would
imagine that if he did not actually
make the world, yet he is quite equal to
taking it to pieces and putting it to
gether again. I remember a picture in
an old number of I'unch in which the
belle of the evening is represented as
surrounded by a crowd of these creat
ures "rising young geniuses," as they
are denominated. In the corner are
two human beings, and one of them
says to the other: "Rather a scrubby.
grubby lot the rising young geniuses,
eh?" Well, I must confess that a good
many of the eminent literary men of
my acquaintance seem to me to answer
to these adjectives "scrubby" and
"grubby." I should not like to be
brought into terms of very familiar in
tercourse with them. I should not care
to go a long voyage with them or spend
a wet day with them in a country
house. London Trutlu
The Distribution of Wealth.
In Rome, under the empire, wealth
at one pole was a symptom of misery at
the other, because Komo was not an in
dustrial state. Its income came from
plunder. The wealth had a source in
dependent of the production of the so
ciety of Rome, lhat part of the booty
which some got others could not have.
No such thing is true of an industrial
society. The wealth of the commercial
cities of Italy and southern Germany,
in the middle ages, was largely in the
hands of merchant-princes. If one were
told that some of these merchants were
very rich, he would have no ground of
inference that others in those cities
must have been poor. The rich were
those who developed the opportunities
of commerce which were, in the first in
stance, open to all. What they gained
came out of nothing which anybody
else ever had or would have had. The
fact that there are wealthy men in En
gland, France, and the United States to
day, is no evidence that there must be
poor men here. The riches of the rich
are perfectly consistent with a high
condition of wealth of all, down to the
last In fact, the aggregations of
wealth, both while being made and aft
er realization, develope and sustain the
prosperity of all. The forward move
ment of a strong population, with
abundance of land and nighty develop
ed command by machinery over the
forces of nature, must produce a state
of society in which average and nikni
mum comfort are high, while special
aggregations may be enormous, niisfor
tuno and vice being left out of account
Whatever nexus there is between
wealth at one pole and poverty at the
other can be fonnd only by turning the
proposition into its converse misery at
one polo makes wealth at the other. If
the mass at one pole should, through
any form of industrial vice, fall into
misery, they would offer to the few wie
an opportunity to become rich by tak
ing advantage of them. They would
offer a large supply of labor at low
wages, a high demand for capital at
high rates of interest, and a fierce de
mand for land at high rent Prof. W.
Q. Sumner, in Popular ScienceMonthly.
The Elephant.
The elephant is a foor-footed quadru-
Ecd, large for his dimensions. In fact,
e is the greatest beast kuown. To be
more accurate, he averages about tho
size of an ordinary three-story house, as
any circus poster will show. His skin
is wrinkled to allow for contraction by
the cold, and is so thick that a 10-inch
gun makes no impression on it In his
native country it is sawn up into planks
and used to construct bridges. The
most wonderful thing about theele-
Ehaut. however, is bis trunk. To this
e has so close an attachment that be is
never seen without it, and it is the only
kiud that utterly defies the baggage
smasher. With it be can pick up a pin
or delay a railroad train. He is the
most sagacious of all animals, and can
be taught to do the chores, build rail
fences driving all the nails, put chil
dren to bed, milk the cows, aud carry
trunks other than his own to the sta
tion. In India, in the rainy season, he
is employed to wash windows and
sprinkle the roads by takiug up the
water in his trunk. Male elephants are
also used to carry and bring letters to
and from the post-office. In captivity
his food consists chiefly of peanuts and
cookies. Journal of Education.
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How Much Timber a Tree Will Make.
How is the amount of timber in a
standing tree calculated? The usual
rule for measuring timber is to meas
ure the trunk round the middle, take
one-fourth part of the girth and square
it, aud multiply this quaro by the
length or bight of the tree. In calcu
lating a standing tree it is usual to
measure the liight of the tree .to the
first fork, aud if there is still a good
portion of trunk above that is measured
separately and added to the previous
calculation, if a tree is very irregular,
divide it into several lengths and' find
the solidity of each part separately; or
add all the girths together and divide
the sum by the number of them. When
the square of the quarter girth is multi
plied by the length, the product gives a
result nearly oue-foui th less than the
quantity in the tree. This rule is, how
ever, invariably practiced by limber
merchants, and is not likely to bo
abolished. Some allowance ought to
be matte to the purclia-er on account of
the waste in squaring the wood so as to
be lit for use. Dr. Hultoii recommends
the following rule, which will give the
contents extremely near the truth: "Mul
tiply the square of ouc-tifth of the girth
by twice the length, and the product
will be tho contents."
On the 4th in Chicago over six thous
and carpenters went out ou a strike.
They have resolved that nothing shall lie
done in their line until the bosses, or at
least a great majority or them, have ac
ceded to the.'r demand?, eight hours a
day and ' cents ah hour.
The strike in Cincinnati last week
took out about 1,100 carpenters for nine
hours and S2.80 a day, and eight hours
for Saturday. The demand is one that
the employers refuse to concede.
Tho steamer City of Peking arrived
the other day at San Francisco, from
Hong Kong, bringing 1,100 Chinese,
among whom small-pox had broken out.
The vessel was found to contain cases of
stnall-pox and was ordered by officer
McAllister to bo placed in strictest
quarantine.
Purify Your ltliiotl.
If your tongne is coated.
If your skin is yellow and dry.
If you have loils.
If you have fever.
If you are thin or nervous.
If you are bilious.
If you aro constipated.
If your bones ache.
If your head aches.
If you have no appetite.
If you have no ambition, one
bottle of Beggs' Blood Purifier and
Blood Maker will relieve any and all of
the aIove complaints. Sold and war
ranted bv Dr. A. Heintz.
The balloon for the Paris exhibition of
1889 will carry up 100 jiersons.
Florida, '"The Lautl r Flower."
is a paradise for the invalid, and the
"Fountain of Youth" was once thought
to le hid iu one of its forest glades.
It is now the heaven of many consump
tives, who find iMHieiit in her genial
warmth and fragrant (lowers. The
consumptive invalid need not neces
sarily go so far from home and friends
to get relief. For if not in the last stages
of the disease. Dr. It. V. Pierce's ''Gold
en Medical Discovery" will restore to
perfect health. For all chronic throat,
bronchial and lung diseases it is a most
reliable specific. By dniggists.
An average election campaign iu New
York city costs the candidates or their
supporters about $200,000.
The HesHelie.il .nasi 1st Colana-
lMt
As well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to call on Dr. A. Ileiutz and
got free a trial bottle of Keaip's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that
is selling entirely upon it merits and is
guaranteed to cure and relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Atbma,
Bronchitis and Consumption. Price 50
cents and $1. Dfcc'22-80
In the New York sub-treasury 220,000
silver dollars passed through the hands
of the clerks in one day for the purpose
of redemption.
Dob's KasterlaaeBt.
Yon cannot afford to waste time
experimenting when your longs are
in dauger. Consumption always
seems, at first, only a cold. Do not
let any dealer impose upon you with
some cheap imitation of Dr. King's
New Discovery for Conaumptioa,
Coughs and Colds, but be sure yon
get the genuine. Because he can
make more profit he may tell yon
be has something just a good, or
just the same. Don't be deceived,
but insist on getting Dr. King's New
Discovery, which is guaranteed to
give relief iu all Throat, Lang and
Chest affections. Trial bottle free at
Dowty & Heitkemper's drug store.
The United States grand jury at San
Francisco last week, which had been en
gaged nearly two weeks investigating
alleged fraudulent land surveys by
which an amount of money had been ob
tained from the government, returned
forty indictments for conspiracy and
perjury as the result of their labors.
I have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, in fact, will now use no other
kind, it properly relieves coughs and is
unequaled for the throat and lungs.
Robert A. Neff, Comedian, with Peck's
Bad Boy Co., Denver, Col., March 1,1887.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is sold by
Dowty & Becher.
Keeping tho bowels open and regular
is one of tho greatest secrets of human
health. Peoplo are seldom sick when
their bowels are regular. They are sel
dom weil when they are irregular.
When a phytic is necessary, St. Pat
rick's Pills will bo found to 1 all that
can bo desired. They regulato tho
bowels and liver and cleanse the entiro
system. Sold by Dowty & Becher.
On the 4th inst, 4,000 omignmls siait
ed west from Castle Garden lwing an
accumulation or arrivals since Friday.
Kuvrd Ilia late.
Mr. I). I. Wilcoxsou, of Horse
Cave, Ky., eays he wat, for ninny
years, badly afflicted with Phthisic,
also Diabetes; the pains were almost
unendurable and would sometimes
almost throw him into convulsions.
He tried Electric Bitters and got re
lief from first bottle and after tak
ing hx bottler, wtt-i entirely cured,
aud be gained in Mesh eighteen
pounds. Says be po-itivcly believes
be would have died, bad it not been
for the relict' n Horded by Electric
Bitters. Sold at fitly ceuta a bottle
by Dowty & Hcitkemper.
Tho couuty poor house at Hlooining
ton, Ind., was burned last week.
Nome lVnoli-l lsoIe
Allow a couh to run until it gets beyond
the i each t uudR-iuc. They ofteu say.
Oh, it nitl wc.-ir away, but in most eases
it wear tlirm away. Could they be in
duced to try the sucecsslul mediciuc
called Kline's llnlsatu, which we sell ou
a positive u.iruutve to cure, they would
inuiiedii-.tuW ee the excellent effect after
taking the lirst dose. Price fjUc and $1.00.
Trial size free. Dr. A. Ileiutz.
fn India there art four female mis
sionaries to every 1,000,00.) of women.
Itch, Prairie Maue. and civ.trnos
of every kiud cured iu 30 iniisiit-'t by
Woolford's Sanitary L.tti.-n. Us.' no
other. This never tail.-. S.M by
O. B. S'ilimaii, druggist CoitiUil-u:.
There arc- 'IM.VOO more women in Maf
aehusetis than men and the surplus iu
Boston is 1K,021.
Ilo ou Know
that Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup will
relieve that cough almost instantly and
make expiration easy? Acts simulta
neously on tho bowels, kidney i.ntl liver,
thereby relieving the lungs of the sore
ness and pain and also stopping that
tickling sensation in tho throat by
removing the caiit'e. One trial of it
will convince any one that it has no
equal on earth for coughs anil colds.
Dr. A. Heintz has sviired the sale of it
and will guarantee every lottle to give
satisfaction. ofeh23
Mrs. Nellie ('rant Sartoris has taken a
house in London until the East or holi
days are over.
Mother's Smile are the Sunlight or Hume.
There would lie fewer clouds and
brighter sunlight in many households
if every dispirited suffering woman real
izes what a boon Dr. Pierre's "Favorite
Prescription" is for all weaknesses and
maladies to which her sex is liable. No
lady who gives the wonderful remedy a
trial will bo disappointed by its result.
It not only acts promptly upon all
functional derangements, but by its rare
nervine and tonic properties strengthens
and repairs the whole feminine system.
Price reduced to one dollar. By drug
gists. An unknown schooner ran lietween
Nantucket and Hyalines during a storm
a week ago and sunk, only her mast
heads lieing visible from the shore.
A boat was sent to her rescue, but none
of the vessels crew could be found and
are supposed to be lost.
Salt ltlirum or IVzemu.
Old sores and ulcers,
Scaldhead and ringworm,
Pain in the back and spine,
Swelling of tho knee joints.
Sprains and bruises.
Neuralgia and toothache,
Tender feet caused by bunions, corns
and chilblains, we warrant Beggs' Trop
iaal Oil to relieve any and all of the
above. Dr. A. Heintz.
Mrs. Cleveland ban been enjoying a
visit from her former schoolmate and
confidential friend, Hiss Jelt, of New
York.
fliM-tili-trM .ai-iileu Stalvc
The Bt-st Silve in t!..' world for
Cuts, Brained, Soies, Ulcer-, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Handt-, Chilblain, Corns, aud all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to (rive perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Dowty & Becher.
liuiajbti-ly
THE LAMEST ill FI1EST STOCK
west of Omaha, at--
GREISEN BROS.
The best manufactories of the country
represented. Not to lie undersold
by anybody. Come anil see
prices at
GREISEN BROS.
This Is tha most PBAOTIO AI. BKLH-OUT
BHQB ever Invested. , .
ltl3verGEOTBI.anaDBESaaiirfa
the same protection as boot or orer-ftaUer. jtw
convenient to put oa asd the top caa be ad justed
ft any ankle by atogljr moving tha pnttQBB
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Mexican
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Liniment
Sciatica,
Lumbago,
Rheumatism.
Sural,
Scalds,
Stings,
Bites,
Bruises,
Bunions,
Cornj,
ScratchM.
Spraias.
Strains,
Stitches,
Stiff Joints,
Backache,
Galls,
Sores,
Spavin
Cracks.
Cbatraetel
Muado, .
Eruptions',
Hoof Ail,
Scrsw
Worms,
Swianey,
Saddlo Galls
Piles. . .
THIS GOOD OLD STAND-BY
accomplishes for everybody exactly what UctolmcJ
forlc. Oneof tha raoiis for tho groat popularity of
the Mustang Llnliuttil ta fiAimllults uulorut
applicability. Everybody neevU uch a medlclna.
Tho Laioberinan need It lacaseofuccUeuu
Tho Housewife ueetW It for general family uetf.
Tho Caaaler neeJa It forhU toamtand hUmeu.
Tho Mechanic need It always oifh-j v.ort
bench.
The Miiier need It Incase or emergency.
The t'ianoernecdslt can't get along without it.
The Farmer needs It in hU house,. hi ataMu,
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat Minn or the lieatinau needs
It In liberal supply alloat and aihoro.
The Hore-faucicr needs It It Is LU best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-srowcr needs It It will save him
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble.
The Railruad man needs it and will need It so
long as his life is a round of accidents and dangers.
Tho Uuckwoodnmuu needs it. There is noth
ing llko It as an antidote for tho dangers to life,
limb and comfort which surround the ploueer. .
Tho Merchant needs it about hU store onions
his employees. Accidents will happen, and when
these come the Mustang liniment is wanted ntouce.
Keep unultle in the Ilouae. TIs Uie best of
economy.
KeepaRsttleln thoFactery. Its Immediate
use in case of accident saves pain and loss of wages.
Keep a Battle Always in the Stablo for
'e wheu wanted.
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BUSINESS G0LLE6E.
"F'xe-ccLon.t 3STe"b.
'Dili, institution ireiare young people
thoroughly for IV-ticning, for Ilusiuet- Ufr, for
Atlmifwion to Collef, for 1jw or Metliml
School, for fiiblic Speaking, in liiftrumeutnl
and Vocal Miimc, in I'rawintc ntul Painting, itud
in Elocution, Short-haud niul Tyi'-'-writiiitf.
In thi Normal I)esirtiu-nt, thorough in
t met ion in kivl-r in all branches required for
any certificate from Thin! ('nute to State I'ro-
feMjionul.
The UiwineHH Court.- includett lVnumn'ii,
Commercial Correspondence, Commercial Kiw
and Hook-keepintr, with the bevt method" of
keeping Farm, Factory, Hankin;: and Mercantile
account. (Five premium were awarded to
this department nt tht recent Start- Fair.)
Kxpemtee) are very low. Tuition, Itoom ICent
and Table Board are placed nt i-ot, a-i nearly t
os-dbk-.
First Winter Term begin Nov. it l-vnt; JSeeoud
Winter Term, Feb. 1, l.-7.
For particular nddn-HM the I'resident or
iiov3-:'tf NulCUAL.CoI.LMiK.
Fremont, Neb.
LOUIS SCHRELBER,
r,
All kinds of Repititiug done on
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
ous, etc., made to order,
aud all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders -the
best made.
KSTShop opposite the ''Tattcr-jiII," on
Olive St.. COI.DM BU3. JB m
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SELECTED
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RE THKOatQINAL ana
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IIAIIPV'" ,Je Ulmle- C"t this out and
Ml IU L W return to uh, and we will ex-nd
Ml lira I Jon free. KomethinK of great
IIIVIlls I alueand importance to ou,
that will Htart you in businefn which will briotr
jou in more momey riht away than anything in
theworld. Anyone can do the work and live at
home. Kither sex; all age. Something ntw,
that jubt coins money for all workers. We will
btart ytu: capital not needed. Thi in one of thu
Kenuine, important chances of a lifetime. Those
who are ambitious and enterprising will-not de
lay. Grand outfit free. Address, Taur & Co.,
Angnsta, .Maine.
dec'T-'etiy
WOM CUSSES
ATTENTION
UIK
We nre now pre-
FItEMONT NORMAL SCHOOL
BlacKsmith ana Wason Hake
all classes with employment at home, the whole
of the time, or for their spare moments. Kusi
lies new, light and profitable. lVrous of either
sex easily earn from Zh cents to $..CU per evening
and n proportional sum by devoting all their
time to the business. Boys and girls earn nearly
as much as men. That all who see this may bend
their address, and test the business, we make
this offer. To such as are not well satisfied we
wiU send one dollar to pay for the trouble of
writing. Fnll particulars and outfit free. Ad- .
dress, Usoaac Stinso.n A Co., Portland. Maine.
dec--'edy
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