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qi + H ~siten enough to know what it can do.” ~ymainst bad ones. comfortable and satisfactory The Greatest of All FORRES SOG: es rceatest © aie — NI Songs That Have Moved Nations -Wih« semaaivg Wrote Them and What Inspired Qiere ws something about ly precious to evers eis noe couniry on } nousands of a nes wi fore she co Washington and her party h | narrowly escaped being captured by troop of Confederates. As they came | into Washington they sang ‘John Srown’s Body,’ and the tune kept ringing in Mrs. Howe « head all night. When she daylight =he 1outof mary Lf her towns and the deepening shadows or sit etully upon the bosom © ur vast prairies, the v happy omes that sound a ro welcome, si oi ial alot ea Hl verses of it, and in ce aud plenty, are the symbols of | ould forget them eee i¢ u r fiw vrote themoff, accord: to a wobling life and t precursor of ae she had formed to save her eyes, with Howe he grandest thoughts and Bus poses e paper. Mrs out looking t ranks is still living, and the leaders of th ment. Speaking of the tune -amp-me Lissouri 1s an asylum and onest men at all times. rulariy unani 3 an OL ublic pledges aud enforcement © law. Ithas demanded always! aq 4 lace club of Bost at simple manhood was supe jin 1561 first publishe dat ie i 4, | Charlestown, Mass Capt. James sere riches and aristocracy, so-call- SiGe Ai orenuist of can is no recognition in its t Inexhaustible im nature, all ie in good harvests, pure soc The author of ** land,” lives may see bi ngress ¢ sion. ivaled in scenery an ed in schools and and» forth t greatest of all} tot the “Father of Waters, rtothe government and a bea looking, lai : j He must West Plains Gazette. ie wrote ight to progress and civ Samuel was first of July of th Hymn of the King.” eve y ¢ to Hy aude! Feculiar Men. | be — Hlarvar Wendell Holmes. Je Howard I Home,” was writte he never got anything tombstone in Oak Hill « was first sungin the Covent ( Theatre, at London, and made a hit. One hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and by the end of the second year its publishers had | cleared $10,000 from it. Robert Treat Paine wrote “Ye Sons of Columbia,”’ early in 1500, under the title of “Adams and Lit and he was paid $750 for it. P. was the son of one of the signers of the Dec- tion of Independence. .He was stened Tom Paine, but on account dislike to Tom Paine’s intidel selected tendencies, he had the Massachusetts Legislature ch his name, and give him what he called a Christian one. Foster got $15,000 for writing “Old Folks at Home. Crouch, the writer of “Kathleen Mavourneen,”’ received $25 for the production, and afterwards ne a begging tramp while his pub- could have built a brown stone front out of George P. Morris wrote ‘Wo a Spare Tree,’ because the purchase? of 3 nd’® es- tates anted to cut down a tree which i wes, my husband is a Sena! a cbout some things,’’ rem ey gos to her caller, rebley. °*hfe will trust the tent of any one except in the matter This, he declares, nv Karly cold »t beeisteak. ane but himself can select. svery morning, no matter how ibe weather may be, he gets out ot wed before the fires are made and goes down to the butcher's. Many a time have | asked him why he did not bring the meat as he comes heme sa the evening, but he declares that neat should always be morning. Sometimes lie cannot oa neat to sait him, and then he comes “rome without any.” «Just for the world like my vand,’? remarked = Mrs. “The morning is never too cold toi him to go down to see about his Thad no idea that any hus- Pebley. Deeisteak. itieer man was like him.’ , when Ww ashington came into the thea- f “Hello, Mangos.’” ter, and one of the objects of its writ- **Good morning, *.* Was written by j Following morni Saloon ad Hop: Kinson, in the sumr of} miisutet and it ¥ first called the resi- | joing butcher shop: It was always sung | Pebley. Right sharp frost this morning.’ “Yes, heavy. ng to take?’ **Never mir terday mor =ng to take ing was the cultivation of a patriotic spirit among people of the new Re public. It was first put into music by a German music teacher at Philadel- phia, named Roth. “The Star Spangled Banner’’ wa: written by Francis Scott Key while watching the bombardment of For! What are you go- 1, you set'em up yes- What are you go- **Cocktail."’ McHenry, in 1814. He was in a smal’ “Same for me."’ — among the British ships, and he ‘Phe other day,”” said Ma <. | Saw bis countrymen win the victory. Mb GR Ok tirce: pedtte meee f} All through the fight he watched anx. : Pe SUHIE | jously to See if the flag was still stand- trinks and forgot my meat. Told the old lady that IE couldn't find any to suitme. Here’s to you.’* ing, looking for it at night by the flask of the bombshells, and anxiously wait- ing the dawnin ihe song was print- edin the Baltimore Americaz eight days after the battle, under the title of “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” Many people will be surprised tcf learn that ‘‘Yankee Doodle” is not o! American origin. Even the words date back beyond the days of Queen Anne, and the tune is still older. In the wars of the Roundheads, says Commodore Preble, in his book on the flag of the United States, “Yankee Doodle,”’ or “‘Nankee Doodle,’' was applied in de Tision to Oliver Cromwell, and Pro AXt all seasons ot the year people are | «ble te contract chills and fever, and ot! =" sorts of malarial diseases. Mishler’s Merb Bitters is without a ri in the ‘reatment of ali complaints ot this char- acter, as it is tor cholera morbus, dysen tam, indigestion, etc. Charles J. Rhodes * prominent ettiaen of Safe Harbor, Co., "a, writes; Your bitters cured me of sever and ague. I beleive it will cure any case of fever agee. Ihave seen it tried ‘Finding it impossible to play suc-} fessor Rimbault, a prominent musician play t P sstuly against loaded dice—in oth- paises wrote a song direc at worils, to contest caucuses with mwell under this title. The jingle | | of bones roscnss is about the same, | an ie Wi “so desirs.to intrude where they are! Dr. Schuchburg first aredeerd ths | vot wanted, the independents will, | Song into this country in 1755, and this | sot the present, keep away from the | Was also in contempt of the ragged} rotesstanal politicians—and having fimary meetings, and induce good colonial soldiers. At Concord and Lex- | soounations by ie the British, when advancing to voting steadily This is a very and y nie were defeated - posit- ankees, as they watched their re- an. hy should the mugwumps | r= struck up “Yankee Doodle.""— | tgo"" anywhere ?—Boston Herald. | “Carp” in the Cleveland Leader. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. i medical wonder ly cure B t, bravely pla: “God Save the The New York Catering Company, which was organized about a year ago )eapital for the purpose *s at their own homes kfasts and dinners at so much per week, has failed. The fail- zed to be due to lack of man- ne and the words were | z ain whic flows at thou: howith suck good o many s models of the ooked and pinch- + thing t hea nd trunk? That She is shrinking away t about to carry her infernal regions to be his know that it took sit- t models to make from Pie away to th wife fieure once. She © . You know the de Medici is supposed to be the perfection o rm. We this girl's fig- almost identic al with hers. Had [ wished to make a full sized statue I would ve eed her L . She was avery wealthy girl indolent. ‘Sitting in negiige costu ery r you hnow that gir She compressed: her waist. ould think, sevea inches smuller than naturally was But then she wore about three he i out sD girl, t 1 attractive shes ove "i a a ‘bal 1 the elbow, You see om st te Then i ber hand nae her feet 3 were good and large artist always looks for large & The feet of this girl were inches ‘What an immense hoof” fe ¥ . Well, not so ve Ter. thick it was a No. 4s a Now, here is a eutof 2 foot no so large, you will say. Well, it mez The fingers of the | Must be long aud taper with a curve backward at the tips. Women have come to meso proud of their hands, such tiny hands, and yet perfect de- formities, with every finger warped and crooked. “T should have said, of course, that no figure can be good unless well rounded and free from angles. I must confess, though, that e fine statuesque figure would not look well draped in the present fashion. Yes, I will give my idea of a fine figure in the present inches ‘aroun } tapered. 454 fashion. Bust measure, 32 menos waist, 24; 9 inches from armpit waist; long arms and long neck. By ‘neck’ I mean from the collar-bone to the chin; and, recollect this, 1 would far rather see the waist 25 inches than 98. This figure shall be 5 feet 4j inches in height. I once saw a figure I ad- mired a good deal, that was 34 about the bust and 2 about the waist.” ——— Christmas Fapectatious. “Can I hang up my =* mas eve, Mama? “Yes. dear; if you ar } a well- ee Get FOR SALE A.A. MELLIER, FOB and ac SAR EAE ACORN Ca AE ul t 5 experi \ { watches 4 ' an comp have been hte to me uitgood FRANZ BES (SAAN TIRE RIE FOS OE IO TT IS MC @ARLANY - ATE 43T KEEP AR 'PHE Bice it | Sa ‘HARNESS & SADDLERY. 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