PERSONALS. 
A HUNDRED YEARS A HERO. 
In Philadelphia, Senator Joseph R. Hawley 
was married, Tuesday, to Miss Edith Horner, 
an English lady who has lately been one of 
the head nurses in a hospital in that city. 
Mrs. Whitney, the wife of the Secretary 
of the Navy, is discussing the advisability of 
establishing a school in New York for the 
training of domesti ■ servants. She thinks 
that £10d.HOO will be enough to establish the 
enterprise. 
Cha.kt.ky Bates, of Tremout, Mass., claims 
to be the champion cranberry picker of Cape 
Cod. His record was made this fall, when, 
in 9% hours, he picked 450 quarts, or five bar¬ 
rels. He has picked one barrel in 90 minutes, 
and three barrels in five hoars, and six quarts 
m three minutes. 
It is said that a f**w years ago the wife of 
General Crook, while tmveling in Arizona, 
threw away from the car window the remains 
of some watercress which she had brought 
from a distant part Of the country. The bits 
of herb fell into a brook and took root, and 
now watercress is growing luxuriantly all 
through that part of the Territory, where it 
was entirely unknown before. 
Trnc Princess Bismarck, speaking to a 
friend shortly after a man in Posen had left 
her husband about #500, said: “I'm so glad 
Bismarck got the money just at this time when 
he needs a good, steady horse to rule. He al¬ 
ways refused to buy oue on the ground that 
he couldn’t afford it. It comes in handy, 
doesu’t it?” The Prince, it will be remem¬ 
bered, has an income of §135,000 a year, 
Don M, Dickinson, who is likely to succeed 
Vilas as Postmaster-General, is about 45 years 
old, is in fine health and strong in mind and 
body. He is a lawyer, and at the head of a 
very prosperous firm in Detroit. There are 
three or four other partners in the firm, and 
they are uoted in the West for their ability as 
collectors of bad debts. Fifty thousand dol¬ 
lars are given as the net income of the firm, of 
which Mr. Dickinson takes $30,000. He is not 
only a hard worker, but he fiuds time for 
politics and society. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Talks About Law, by E. P. Dole, is au ex- 
celleut book. Every farmer should know 
enough about law to enable him to keep out 
of it. There arc few things that make life 
more miserable than a law suit, and yet most 
laiv suits could be avoided. We consider it the 
duty of every farmer to know something of 
the elements of farm law, at least. Such a 
knowledge x'ill make the farmer a better citi¬ 
zen. In u Talks About Law” we have a care¬ 
ful study of the questions about which men 
are most likely to differ, and the circumstances 
which enter most frequently into ordinary 
law. The advice given is sound and senstble.and 
would have great weight iu checking much of 
the senseless litigation which now disgraces 
our courts. The book is published by Hough¬ 
ton, Mi 111 in & Co., Boston, and is an able ad¬ 
dition to the practical literature which farm¬ 
ers ueed. 
The most beautiful holiday book that we 
have examined this year is “A Bunch of Vio¬ 
lets,” by Irene E. Jerome, published by Lee & 
Shepard. Boston. Our readers will remember 
that we have spoken of other beautiful books 
by Miss Jerome, “The Lessou of the Blue¬ 
bird” and “Nature’s Hallelujah.” “A Bunch 
of Violets” is finer than either of the others, 
and is truly a beautiful specimen of the en¬ 
gravers' aud printers’ art. The illustrations 
are beyond praise, and the poetic sentiments 
which accompany them are admirably suited 
to carry out the ideas expressed in the engrav¬ 
ings. 
In “Lyric Idylls and Romances’’ lovers of 
Robert Browning wifi find many of their 
favorite short poems. Most people will go to 
sleep over Browning’s poetry as fouud iu his 
complete works, but there will he no sleeping 
over this little volume. Published by 
Hougbtou Mitfiiu&Co., Boston. 
In •* Flic Book of Folk Stories” published by 
the above publishing house, Horace E. Seud- 
der has collected 15 of the old stories that so 
delighted us as children. Jack and the Beau 
Stalk, llaus In Luck, Puss Iu Boots and all 
the rest are to lx* found here, and we can give 
grateful testimony to the fact that they are 
just as interesting as they were 30 years ago. 
Tne children will he delighted with the 
stories oud the older people will gladly read 
them again. 
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Semi for Circ ular. IU KILBY ST., BOSTON, 
How Seth W 
arner Won a Wife and Became 
Famous. 
Colonel Seth Warner, of Vermont, the 
famous hero of the Revolutionary war, was 
a leadiug fighter for the Hampshire grants. 
These titles were disputed by the State of 
New York, and its authorities obtained an 
edict of the King of Eugland in their favor. 
The settlers were stung by the supposed in¬ 
justice. This state of things brought Colonel 
Seth Warner to the front. With Ethan Al¬ 
len and others he actively opposed every effort, 
of the New York State authorities to enforce 
possession, and finally he, with Allen and 
others, were outlawed and a price put on 
their heads! 
To circumvent New York, it was necessary 
that some one should go into that State and 
gain required information. Colonel Warner, 
assuming for safety the name of “Dr. How¬ 
ard,” undertook this perilous and romantic 
journey. » 
\\ bile on bis way home he stopped at a 
country inn, where an old gentleman and 
daughter were storm-hound. The father fell 
ill and the daughter called upon Colonel War 
uer, who, with his wide knowledge of simple 
remedies, successfully treated tbe “old man,” 
and he finally won this devoted woman for a 
wife. 
Such incidents were not uncommon in 
those years. When the doctor was not easily 
reached, mouths of sickness, and even life 
were often save i by some unprofessional 
friend versed in tbe use of simple herbs and 
roots. The health of early settlers and their 
powers of endurance convince us that such 
mediciues did only good and left no poison in 
the blood to work as much injury to the sys¬ 
tem as would the disease itself. 
In time of peace the colonel was in con¬ 
stant demand for his knowledge of simple 
remedies and their power over disease. But it 
was left to unutber of his name of the present 
age to give to the public what Avas then used 
with such positive success. 
Warner for over a hundred years has shared 
with Ethan Allen the admiration of the 
American people. 
Colonel Seth Warner belongs to a family 
of wide distinction; no less than eight mem¬ 
bers thereof wou fame iu the regular practice 
of medicine. 
Lookiug to the adoption by the people of 
this generation of the old time simple reme¬ 
dies. his direct descendant, H H. Warner, the 
well known pj-oprietor of Warner’s safe cure, 
for many years has been experimenting with 
old time roots aud herbs formulae, and, his 
search having been finally rewarded with 
success, he gives the world the result. These 
recipes aud formulas in other days accom¬ 
plished great things because they wers purely 
vegetable and combined simply so as to cui e 
the disease indicated, without injury to the 
system. In harmony wi h their old time 
character, we learn that he proposes to call 
thorn Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies, using as 
a trade-mark an old-fashioned American log 
cabin. We understand that he intends to 
put forth a "Sarsaparilla” for the blood, the 
sarsaparilla itself beiug but one of a number 
Of simple and effective elements: “Log Cabin 
Hops ami Buchu,” a general stomach tonic 
and iuvigorator; "Log Cabin Cough and Con 
sumption Remedy;” “Warner’s Log Cabin 
Scalpine” for the hair; a preparation for the 
universal disease catarrh, called “Log Cabin 
Rose bream;” "Warner’s Log Cabin Plas¬ 
ters;” aud "Warner's Log Cabin Liver Pills,” 
which are to be used iii connection with the 
other remedies, or independently, as required. 
V\ arner’s safe remedies are already stand¬ 
ards of the most pronounced scientific value 
in all ports of the world, aud we have no 
doubt the Log Cabin Remedies, for the diseases 
they are iutended to cure, will be of equal 
merit, for Mr. Warner has the reputatiou of 
connecting his name with no preparation 
that is not meritoiit.us. 
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