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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1878)
iHA i " WfM-j vl ; Two ilefa artngtitlngt rart-bow l Urtn1( Think be will trnl I ReartfiH and plunjrtnjt. be suddenly thdist Out of tl lot Ctrl follow afmr, hardly " lrl U, Klncr II I fast I RumMctj-tumUity ftfljaslMyJurobb-tt ' Yj lliftwojU Boy drop hl 'orr1 ) stride Along fif (living hot rtmttt Monty oiw, wliWklrig, And kicking. nd ftfk "g. lulna In the we. leaving lliflrqnirrrl ! follow firr, Klr-k'njt fcptig tin U pruc-t ilnn, weak At II ttirtlpp. F.mU tcjr strong On lliej all gat Plunging and tHOdnft, huiillng and llifigl Jiggling anil Jumping, rrfaklng and bumping I UiafcinftAiidwiiuklnp, kicking and friiklng' Dancing io1 klpplnc, ffirlnj and illppliijfl Narking and chatlng! All Hi form raring, WIUi allot their rnlKlit, nn, on, mil i.f llil' Folk, startng attrr, wmxlrr wllli liiRlitrr Whrroltwlllrnd. TlirnU(Mfiiljfflhrm return as tie') iltiti-0, Just rounding Id twwl I Vol, with lliUdluVrriiPf, tijr rinit mlfllnf, And rt mi to Im mad i tint ll of the othcra ars till Jml lifp) A over And (dad. Itwk they all come I riunjrlng and dashing, shouting nd 'slilngt Jlggtlng mid Jumping, irt-sklngandtitimplngt fttiaklngand irlilakli.fr, kicking and 'Miking' Dancing and 'kipping, rearing and dipping! linking and rliMlng I Alllli" otrn raring IHrslglii hack lo Hie lot, wlitrv lliry end up wllha trot I YoUlh't liinllrilon, TIIK"hKHKT CII'IIKIU A llrtrrllvrV Mtnry. "Otibt -tftH'U hm hujfiwtb mrhij y "J7 Vriv hijivvi). Mvw." Thorn It wa, In 'tallo, linlf wny Inwh tin "personal column of the It rnlil, conspicuous only for It slngu nr ntul moat aggravating combination of letter nml figures, tho solo rlun to tlio whereabout of the game I had been after for ovnr it week, scarcely resting, eating or sleeping In my anxi ety to aiMiuro tliu reward offered In ri heavy burglary oiuu. iwil something olso. That "wmcthlng else." Ahl my heart sank within tun at. ( llimg aside tlin (uitiftuntlcnl uu.li liofiiru me, ntul loaning linnk In my chair gave myself tin to the gloomy rnvorle of tlin past, Kdna Ui Ion -how I lovuil Imi I llow fair nml Iwnutlfnl rut n atimtnnr'n lilyl had linen tlin wmik in whliih I hnil mot Imr, had IovimI hor, and hnd houn told that my affotitlnn wiia rntttrnml I llow well I rt'iniimlMir tho lilting imrltng- n hopoloaa ono, it amttucd to inn whon I loarniHl my fnto from her fntlmr'a ll), andpanaod down tho liriiwn-atonnalcpN of thn Dayton manalon, wondurln If tho Inclination of tiinncywl inon toward hwhw nvldoiKo waa not onttaod hv I hit rx ti'noo of n almtlar hard tnnlurliil In that jmrtof thn human anatomy known m thjt hnart. I waa a poor man, ho wild, mid tho profuMinn of u ilotiuitlvo wax a prncnrl otiH ono. IIU dniightor lovod mo-hn could not ilcny that hut nho waa hi only child, nml hor wiialth uud poKlllon flomaudod a matuh with aoiuu xoulal oiptnl. Ho would nut hroak hot hnart hyaliaotutoly ii'fualui; to Hiitiollon our ctiKAiroiunnt I'11 '' within n your I atiould rccttro t furtuuo of twinlyllvo Ihouaand dollar uud n luorntlvo IhkI Uckn, and Ktlua w.ia atlll of tho mimo Hind woll, ho would cuiiahlor It I Twonty-llvo thoitaaud dollnral I Urowalck" at honrt nt tho Ihoiiuht of tho cotulltioua luipotod upon which I wua to purohaoo my futuro liupplii(ii. FrloudlusH, tho rcolplonl of a tuonro italary, and uttorly unktiown, whoro wax 1 to r.dso tliN'auiouut, and what buMtiom cnpaoltv had I, tho ndii of paroutM who hnd ulvon mo ovory lux ury, ami uogloctod n prnotiiul oilurn tlott, until u itiv-hIi oiiiiio t tint loft tin lumit'lcit-innd In pontiry P Day and night for over u mouth I brooded ovor my orrmi, uud llu'ii ouo lay I was nromi'd Into rnnownl llfo by ihii rocoptioti of n formal but coiirtooiiH loto from Mr. Dayton riMiui'itln my (mmcdlato attoiidnnoo nt tin) umiialon. y foot aoomod willed aa I hnatouod k tlio Ihiuio of mv bolovod Kdun. What did It moan P II id ho ivlonlod P Waa Kdua aluk, or did IniMnos nwatt tuo at tho plouauro of my harddioartod oonaorP I waa unhond Into tho library, whoro I found tho old Kontlomau In an intonao ntato of oxcltomont paolug tho flmir, tho window hrokon In, jmpom and bnxc noallorod about tho apart mont, and a afo In thooornor hmkon upon. I atarod at him In nmaiomout. 'You aootn at;itatod, Mr, Dayton," J ventured to nuggoat. "AslUtodl agltatod, sir! I am wild. liMo Vast night, or early thU turning, ourglarw ontorou tnia apartmout by nu-aiiH of vondor window mid broke open tho aaw. When I oamo down thU tunrnlng I found affalra jttat a they arc now. ami nearly ono humlrvd thouaand dollars lu money, ImuuIi, and Jowola gonet" 1 titared mutolv. Tliu Immensity of tho robbery pot ruled mo. "You havo Informed thu polleoP" I a.tkcl, whnn I could tlud my vulcu. "Nol" ho thundered, coming to n full atop. "I havo no onutldenco In a police forcti which falU to protect a liouo from Hiteh an audaelou.i burglary, and pooU onehalf the Inuity for its re turn. Hero i the room, And yonder U a list of tho stolon property. I hellovo that you art) honest, and I leave tho on tiro affair In your hand, (.'nil upon tne for whatever money you require In an attempt to recover tho property or to dtitect the thieve. If you Miooood within u month I will give you thirty thouaand dollars. If you full I will pay your oxpenacs for the wontb and place, tho cmo In otlmr hinds. Arw you aat ialledP" I gasped spaantodloally. Thirty thousand dollars! A fortuno -more ban the price of my hpnlnvl And heu tho pride of my profoMlou eamu 3 tuy aid and I told bliu that I should Bcceedl I examtued the apartment. The Into Ury had liwii lTytfld very alinplyatt nrrntly. Khtard, tho footman a tall, Aiik apitclmcn of hiitiirtiilly -had lizard n nolan In tho library during thn night, but had ptld no altintlon to It, a Mr Dayton waa In tho habit of writing very lot", and lin thought It waa hl mil plot or. Vlml piirxld inn tnot waa I ho mean of ontranco and egrnta adopted by thn burglar. I bo library waa rimy iiiktii fret f nun thn ground, had a bay win dow, and, mreiit thn bnikon glaia, lhtre wa lint tho allghtf at algn to almw how tho wlndnw hnd liemi gnlnd. A ladilcr would have done it j, but no mark of a Inddi'r, no lgn of fiMtit'pa exhlbltod thfumohT In the dump ground, wot from rwonl rnln. I waa aondy pu.lod I inmliu'd the aorvnnt ono by ono, hut eotild find no I'lnw to luitlfy Ihi) rciunteat auaplolou of eoliipllolty In thoair.ilr on their pmt Tho work had evhhiiitly boon ilono by aebutlll(burglnra, nml limy had workrd at their btlanro I liupilred Into tlirimitoeeilnnUiif I'd ward, tho footman, but Mr I 'nylon averred that ho would allow no ua plelon to real on ao faithful aaerviiul to tho family. I reaolved lo liupilro moro fully In regard to him, howovnr, but I could IIimI nothing ngaluat the man, mid I tnmpornrlly dropped him from my mind n having any eonunetlon with tho vnw. "You heard no uolae on tho tilglil of tho robberyP" I Inquired of Mr, Diij ton. "None. I alept tiniiaiinlly heavy Inat night." I wont away thoughtfully, for I hnd found In the library an empty bottle, which from thu aeoul I knew to have contained chloroform, and I had no ticed Iho mnrka of muddy boot load ing from the npnrtmnnt, white around the window noun were lo bo aeon, Tho f;liiM, too, had been broken by a quick low not out ouL Altogether It waa n moil myalerloua piece of bualiieaa. I wuchcd all drive frequented by Iho craekattion of tho city, and worked llkon beaver. I could nut obtain n clue lo tho potpetratora of thu daring bur glary, uud nftor three dnya of unremli ling toll, I waa ooualdurlug If it would not be na well to (mil In profnaNlonnl aaalatanco when the iidvertiaement In thu Itcntlil nt thu head of thla atoiy nttraeted my attunllon. liiNtluetlvoly I illvlu daoinocouiiecllon with "crook ed" buaineaa, mid whether It referred to mv otto or not, I reaolved to aacer Inln It meaning. I stent down to tho Ihrnltt olllce that morning, nml, Introducing inyaelf, at tempted lo obtain aomo ileaorlptlou of tlin iieraou who hail liauileil in thu ad vertlaomeut. The otork atntod that It hnd been received by mall, In n letter IneloHlug thu amount roqulaito for lu luaertlou lu tho jinpor, Could I aeo thn original copy? Ho would aeo; nml a meaiago waa nont to tho eouipolng room. Iiiieklly, thu copy had been pre aervod. It waa written In a dlagulaed hand on a little acraii of imiier. I nk od lei'.vu to rotalu II. ami, tho permla alnn being granted to mo, I returned to my room nt ouuo. I pored over tho ulphor for n long time, mid dlaoourngml at my Inability make out one word of It, waa Dually about to abandon It, when I chanced to look ut tho reverie aide of tho paper. There were figure uud words on It, ntul I rend "U. K. llomU tlO.OOO." mid other imuuomndii, Indicating that It had been n looao wrapper for vatiinble papers, Then I knew that Iho mlvortlNomoul born an Important relation to tho rub bery. And so until the day upon which the story open I wit tumble to make bond or lull of the secret enigma. So wearied was I that I fell itslcop with my head upon mv desk, mid I did not awake until noontime. It is won derful how it brief repose will clour the mind. I took up the paper with re newed energy, mid n bright Iden Unsh ed over me. Simple as It wn I hail nol (bought of It before. 7'Aornirr ihmsiiii'M'im erif fni ri An !yxtcm of i .iiiolin7ii o' Icttert, nurd on Ihr' revrrfiil of' theuU lhtitxt. Thus lustuiid of writing u, the first letter of tho alphabet, , tho lnl ono, was BUbtltutcdt lnMo'id of 0, y was used -tho itlphnbol reversed was the key to the solution of the iiuxaIo. I gavotilternuuoto a siiouioi toy, lor, following out the theory It read: "l.nrrti Meet tuo Saturday night 127 r-Wlrooi, Nr.t." at Anil "Ned" or Kdwurd was thu mime of Mr. Pavton's footman. I began to see a vtry largo mice. Hut Fire street llieto wa no siieu tiiorougiiiare in the eltv and I was "Moored" again. Gradually, howeve, tho thought oc curred to me, on the basis of reversal and opposite adopted by the sender of the message, why should not "lire" moan "water," It direct reverseP 1 dashed down the stairs, uud, hail ing a cab (for I did not forget thtt it was Saturdav, ami that that evening was tho appointed time for tho meeting of tho two tiurglurn, If such they were). t soon nan readied tt titer street. Vaoantl Number 27 was an empty lull 1 paused, disappointed, and dismiss ed tho vehicle, again having recoursu to the puxxltug cuigmtt So near the so lution, and yet doomed to Ira baulked at the lust, and A sudden Inspiration of renewed en oruy, ami 1 had forged the last link In tho chain of ovidoucol There had been a reversal In thu order of numbers.from 1 to 10, as In the letters of the alphabet and V21 meant I (KM. 1 looked at my tvntnh; three o'clock. 1 went to the nearest local telegraph olllce, mid sent tho following dispatch to the chief of indlco: "Send to thU utllco threo ofUelont men In eltlteuO clothe. I signed mv n tine, lit a olgar, and awaited the nriitnl of evening uud my companion otlleors. It wa dark when w o reached tho place for the meeting appointed by the two nuju. It was a vllu groggory Vent by a woman, and a rwortfor the. very lowest class of ruflUns. I had imt on a felt hat and a pule of faUo whiskers, and I entered thoUattH)m, having tlrt placed my men lu,,advan!iKVl,K pofcltlon an the outiddo. ' Within half an hour there, entend tiu old wotuati, tailed, bearing some bulky object under her cloak. She made a lgu to the woman behlud the bar, ami went Into thn next room I caught night of her feel a ahn px:d through IH1 (MUM ll'l nriii rnumittii ii'it hoo, but In man' UioU. I went qui etly to the bar, and made a algu to tho woman. "I I.nrry In therup" I Inquired in a loud tolco, pointing to tho other apart ment. .She looked at ine alinrply, and then replied In the nlurutatltu. "Keep mi)lody that e:otnM out," I said, significantly "We arn g'ing to divide iha swag. And I opened the door. There waa no nun In tho lirt room, but, In thn second, by a table, on which lay a large tin hot, Was mygnrui - hur ry, the burglar, and a tall, apaio form In femnlu nttlro, with tall thrown back, and terrified face, thn footman, Kd ward. "You can drop on my little dodge, gentlemen," I said, qul(,tly whipping out a brace of revolvors "Tho noiio la surrounded. And any restttnncn will only rnako It worse for you. I.nrry, open that door " la unbolted tho rear diKr tiuilor the silent pers.iinlve eloqueuro of mv re volver, mid the three olllcer. then en tered, Need I tell the roilf Hdward, the footman, had admitted Ids accomplice Into thu hoime, nml had chloroformed Ida employer. Ho had kept tho booty hidden In hi room, not during I go out tocommiiulcnto with his pal, except a hna been seen, for fear that he wa watehed, The property hud not been disturb ed; but Justice was elicited, for both thu men eeaped before conviction. and were never heard of Hgnlu As forme, I quietly linuded live thousand dollars to thu ilepartuieiit, reilgnml, engaged In htialuoM, nml marrh leu r. ilnn. The New Pension Law. it I not generally known that it law wit paed at tho last session of Con gresa, which, If not repealed, may prove very Injurious to the interests of muny thousand of soldiers mid their heirs. This country respects and honors Its soldiers. No nation on the globe over did so well by lis defenders as ours has done. It Is to bo regretted, then, all the more, that any stepsshoutd betaken touillu lug to deprive this clnssoi our cltl of auv of their rights utiil.tr tho yens laws, 'I rue thu law In question Is aimed nt claim agents and Is professedly lu the Interest of clalmeuts for pension hut if Its cllcd Is to discourage houet claim agents from pursuing their legiti mate calling, so far it must unfavorably elTect thoo who have claims to be prosecuted. Ileforo the close of the war and whilst olllcers and other witnesses were acces sible a fee of ten dollars was sulllelent compensation to nn attorney for the preparation of tho papers to' enable a cllamaul for pension to receive his dues. After the armies hud been discharged and witnesses dispersed to their re spective homes, it seems reasonable that more fee should be paid, for tho very apparent reason that additional work was necessary. Congress, wo un derstand, did rocogui,0 the justuo and fairness of the ilemuml for a larger compensation to attorneys, ami did, by a taw ouiteieii .liny, a. u. IHp, author l.o the pavmeul of a fee of tweutv-llvn dollars, There worn some cheek to the practical operation of this law favor able to pension claimant, Tim fro must be mrreed noon In wrltlm? nml be payable only In tlio event of iiiccess. I'lils agreement was rendered Inopera tive If tlio CoiumUsloiierof l'eulonsob Jectedto Ulu auv given ease, a very wise provision, uud ono which enabled thu olllcers ot thutioveriiiueut to adjust the attorney's eompeuatlu upon a fair ami reasonable scale, thus preventing extortion lu very ninny eases ten dol lars' was a sulllolenl fee, In other case llfteen dollars, or twenty dollars, or tweuty-Mvo dollar was thought to be proper nml was allowed. I'mlor this law ulaiuis have been prosecuted with satisfaction to nil parties. Although by the lapM) of time the illlllcuttlcs lu piocurliigthetottliiinuy have Increased, yet there has been little or no complaint that attorney woto demanding a larger fee. Certainly no complaint with refer ence to the 'oonimirutlvolv few claim llrms Into whose hands Oio principal business h.nl centered and who were able to perform the Increased labor without a corresponding Increase of compensation by reason of the well known fact thata large business van bo done moro cheaply lean a small busi ness. Hut now comes tho act of Juno III, IH7H, not only reducing tho fee of attorneys In all classes of cases to ton dollars,' but repealing the provision of the former law w lilch gave thu fee only in the event of succc. and provided that tl be deducted at the pay olllce that have been doing the liusluess so satlsfaetotllv. are hesitating about tiling claim at all. Many of them are de manding the fee in advance, as t :ny clearly liavo a legal right to do. This works a hardship to claimants, a many of them art? poor and unable to raise the money. On tho other hand tho re duction of tho fee below a fair and just allowance In certain classes of cases practically protenta the prosecution ot such claims. No attorney can be com pelled lo do a pleco of work for less than it Is fairly worth. Ho I privileged to and will decline nil vasot in which the labor Involved Is worth more than the legal allowance, inis works a posltlvojiardshtp to all whose claims arc. thus refused. So far as such per sons art) concerned the pension laws might as well bo repealed. It Is very poor satisfaction to tho dependent father or mother to Ihi told that they are en titled to a pension, on account of the service and death of their boy. whilst a law Is In forco preventing them from se curing thu skilled labor neeossurt toiiio ... ..t .1...1.. i. .. ' , a l.5 !.... 1... !- c-tnnot believe this object Ion able law will long remain uinm tho statute book. lilVH'lliriuuill w mini nisi uuvj, ii v i tllll'3. It It must bo stricken off and rvplaovil by, a law thtt will do exact liistico to all. What wo havo said U m tho Interest of no oartv It U not a party miction. It is a question of public faith the jut ami fair admiustrntion of the pension l-itv.- CVciWunm' IWe iiNi iWf. YuMt (ibf. - One cup of sugar, half a cup of milk, ono cup and a halt of tlour, one tablespoonful of butter, halt a teaspoonful ot soda, one tea apoouful crvatn tartttv. Haver. A HTORY !' TIIK IIF.VOLl'TIO.1. Hew Two Urate f!lrl Drnif Awy a HrllMi n.or-rrr. Th're Is an Inturrstlug story connect ed with Celar 1'ofut, KcStuate II irlwr, M.ts. The her ilii" I Ml llslss-ci H.tt.i, now a bright, genial old lady of eighty-four, who memory contimi" remarkably cloar. Tho atorv frnn her lips, can bo depended on n thoroughly reliable. Her fattier wa C.ipl Hirm-on lUtna, wm light keeper at thn time, and was th lint who lit the light, lu April, 1M In thfKprlug of thn following tear Knglili cruUers vver nurnoroiis In Masnchults bay, ami on one occa sion the launch'- of tin Knglish frigate wvr sent hi to S.-ttuite ll,irlir. Tht st lire to tho Vf el at thu wharves, and towed out t-vo, nt the same time threateultig to detroy the town if auv reslslaneu wa olWod". After this utent a homo guard was formed, and detneh ments were stntioued on Crow and Ce dar points, and In front of tho ullage, with a brn piece Wluwi no wall was in lghl the guard were nltowcd to go home to their f.inus. Nothing to occasion alarm occurred again until tho following September ItelM'cea, nt that time eighteen tears of age, mid her sister Abigail, fourteen years old Mill living), were sitting to w aril evening sewing with their mother. Captain Hates and the rest of his large family and the guaid were all awny. Mr, liatei told Ituiietvtt It was time to Hit on the kettle. As Kebccca went out uto the kitchen, she for thu tint time perceived an KuglUli sli'p of war oIimo at. hand, and lowering her boats. "I knew the ship at a glance," she snld "It was the I, a Hogue," "Oh, bird ays I, to my sister, the old I. a Hogue Is off hero again! What shall we do? More ant their barges coming ngaiu. and they'll burn up our vessels Just us they did afore. You see there were two vessel ul thu wharf, loaded with Hour, and wo couldn't af ford to lose that lu those times, when the embargo uiado It so hard to live we had to ono pumpkins all day to get sweotonln for sugar. Thorn wore tho muskets of the guards, I had a good mind to take those out beyond the light home, mid lire them at thu barges: I might have killed ouo or two, tut. It would have done no good, for limy would havo turned around mid llred the village. "I'll toll ton what we'll do, said I to my sister; look hero, suvs I, you taku tho drum, I'll take the life j was fond of military music, and could play four tunes on the life, Yankee Doodle wa 1 1 iv masterpiece. I learned on the fifo which the soldiers had lefl at the light house. They had a drum, too; so I said to her, You take tho drum and I'll take tho fife." "What good'll that do?" says she. "Scum them, says I. All you've got to do is to call tho'roll; I'll scream tho life, and wo must keep out of sight; If they see us tho'll laugh us to acorn." 1 showed her how to bundle thu sticks and we ran down behlud the cedar wood. So wo put in. as tho bovs say. and pretty soon 1 looked, and 1 could see tho men In thu barges resting on their oars mid listening. When I look ed again I saw a lla; dying from the must. head of the ship. My sister be gan to make a speech, audi snld: "Don't make a noise; you make me mo laugh nml I can't pucker up my mouth." When I looked again I saw that they luid seen the Mug, and turned about so quick thai a man fell overboard, ami thev picked him up by the back of his neck and hauled him In. When they went oil", I played Yankee Doodle." not this 'heroine who saved two shins laden with Moiii-. nml perhaps oth er valuables, fiom destruction, entitled to a pension? Shu ha live brothers and sisters still living, the eldest eighty livo.aud thu youngest seventv-oue. Her grandfather was one hundred years mid ouo month old nt the lime of hi denth. IMIsen as a Hoy. At twelve ho begun the world as tralu-bovoii tho (iriiud Trunk Itnilrond of Canada and Central Michigan. To ouo who has noted the precocious nolf possession, the tllppant conversational powers and the sharp linanclul dealing of the young persons who for the most putt abound In it, It does not seem a profcitslou for tho cultivation of -t spirit of quiet research, or tho most thorough acquirement of the sciences tiud arts. Hut it l fair to presume that Master Kdlou at this time had no very com prehensive scheme of development pre pared. It otVered the most available means of a livelihood. He went Into it with such a will that in course of time he became nn employer of labor. naviin; tour assistants under mm tor tho disposal of his wares. Ho Is not averse to recur to the humors of this part of his life. Wore you one, of tho kind of train boys," ho has been akod. "who sell tig's lu boxes with bottoms half an Inch thick?" "If I recollect right," he replied, with merry twinkle, "tho bottoms of my boxes were a good Inch." There exists a daguerreotype of the tralu-lxiy of this epoch. It shows tho futuro celebrity as a chubby-faced fel low in a glar.oil cap and mulller, with papers under his arm. Tho face has an expanivu smile not to put too lino a point upon it, a grin. et there is something honest and a little deprecia ting In it. instead of impudence. Ho was, as will bo showu, an eccentricity among train-hot s, and was no doubt sensible of It. He looks like a fellow whose glucd cap a brakeman would tovule over his eyes in palug, while thinking a good deal of hint all the st mo, HI peculiarity consisted in having ivdubllMicil in turn, in the disused muok j lug section ot a springles old baggage I car which served him a hoadipiarters for Ids paper, fruits and vegetable ivorv two Industrie tittle known to i traln-bots In general. Ho surrounded himself wltii a ipiinttty of bottle and some retort stands made In the rail road shops In exchange for papers -procured a cny of Frveniu s QntH tatlve Analvls," and, white tho car bumped rudely along, conducted the experiment of a chemist. By hanging about the office of the "Detroit Vrve lre," In some spare hour, he had nctpilml an Idea of printing. At a fa vorable opportunity ho purchased trota til utile' three hundred pounds of old ty imi, ami to the laboratory a printing olllce wa added. It -m to have bs'en by a pMcnll.tr, good-nattmd hang Ing-arotiiul proofs of hi own. with hi eyca extremely wiilo open and ure of what they wanted to cn, that hi prac Heal Information n so many ueful subject was obtained. Hl-armil outo thing of mechanic and tin prnetiral mattery of a locomotive hi the rsdrotd shop, and acquired an Idet of the pow ers of electricity from telegraph oi-ra-tors With his priiitlug-oillcu he pub lished a ptir the"Crand Trunk Her aid ' It wit a weekly, twelve by lx t'ea Inches, ftbd wa noticed by the '-London Time," to whIHi a ropy had ln-en shown by Mimo tr.sveler, a the only jour nil in the woioi printed nn a rallwiiy train. The ImprcMluiis were liken 'by the motf primitive of nil means, that of pressing the sheets up in tho type with the hand, ami were on hut one sldo of the paper Haggagn men and brnkemen contributed the lit erary contents. In 116.'. during the bittfeof Pittsburg handing, tho enter prising m.ungers e velvet! the Idea of telegraphing on thu head lines of his exciting news and having them pasted on bulletin. bo.ird nt thu small country station. The result was a prollt.-tble t future, ami the full awakening of in terest on his able In thu art of tele graphing, lu whleli he was destined to play such a remarkable part. During this time he continued his reading with unabated industry. HI train e-trrled him Into Detroit where there were advantages he had never en joyed before. An Indication of his thirst for knowledge, of a 'I'lirr ignoring of enormous dllllcullles and of thu com pleteness with which the shaping of hi career was in his own hands, is found lu n project formed by him to rend through the whole public library. Thcr-j was no one lo tell him that all of hu man knowledge may m found in a cer tain moderate number of volume, nor to point out to him approximatt.lv what tliey are. Kaeh book waa lu hfs view a distinct part of the great domain, and ho meant to lou none of it. He began with thu solid treatises of a dusty w er shelf am! actually read, in thu ac complishment of hi heroic purpose, fifteen feet lu line. Ho ommittetl no book and skipped nothing in the book. The list contained among others New ton's "i'rlnelpla." Uro's sclentlllo tile tiouarles, and Burton' "Anatomy of Melancholy." -Hcribnfr or .S'ovemhrr. A Strange Sect. The fnllo-vlng sketch of the Hunkers we copy from tho Hnrtford iil: It will surprise many to learn that there are MO.(HS) Hunkers In this coun try. Of this number the most are in the west, although Pennsylvania has unite a number within her borders. Two colleges tiro now In course of erec tion by the Hunkers, ono In Hunting don and the other lu Ashland, Ohio. I.Ike tho (junkers, the Hunker, are oppoied to war. During the Into "tin pleasantness" between the ninth ami south, some young Hunkers enlisted and joined the Union army. Some were kilted; others came buck ami hail to miAver for It to tho church. Tin Hunkers tiro opposed to slavery, and with a strong sentiment thnt way In thu church, the case of tho recreant young Hunkers hud a feeling of Justiti cation In its favor, nml was finally set tled satisfactorily none being dismem bered. Hunker! ti nmuu corrupted from Tuiiker, thu (iormun for to dip. Tho Hunkers do mil own cither mimo. They call Ihotmulve "tlin Church of Brethren," or (icrmuu Bnotist. Out siders only cull them Duukcrs. Alex ander Mack was the founder of the sict in this country. Mack came oter from (Sorinnny and established the find church lu (Jermautuw-n, Pennsylvania, whoro it exists ami flourishes to this tluv. Hunkers smile at the notion pre vailing among outsiders that a long beard 1 a requisite to inouibondiln among thu men. It W only optional, they say. Few are to be found now who wear long beard, lu their early history lu thi country It was dim-rent. Heard are worn hurl a yard long. The Hunker mode of baptism is hv immer sion, kneeling and dipping three limes forward. An Ideal London L'dllur. He I t general fatorite, for he has a great deal lu his power, and Is not uu lavlsh in its disposal. The newspaper of which he Is editor and tuirt proprie tor, Is always open to pull his friend who write hooks, paint pictures or mold busts; ho Is always ready to spare a paragraph for the achievements ot the "Sprlng-captalns"and tho "sportsmen" who art among the number of his ac quaintance -for their Alpine ascent, their rowing-matches against time, their hunting of the big game In South America, or their racing, drivlng.y aelit lug, running ileitis. V nun his journal ltlo position and his acquaintance with malingers and actors, ho seldom lacks order for the theatre ami tho opera, and when these are In his possession, he generously gives them to thoo in tho club who ho thinks will most ap preciate the present barristers whoso briefs have not yet come, young gov ernment clerks whoo seniors decline to make way tor them, soldiers on half pay, and the like. Tho well-to-do un pliant ho dismisses with a caustic gibe at their meanness, to the libraries and Intx offices. Whenevir there Is any thing to be dune and whenever any thing Is to bo scon them to bo suru'is Jimmy. If an iron-clad I going to Ihi launched, a new bridge to U-opened, or a banquet to he given to a distinguished personage, Jimmy Is certain to bo pre sented with a card. Ant! as for the tickets for race meetliig.,,tirt nights," private, views at exHithn, concert, and all the other forms of the external dissipation of Iondon iciety that crowd his lookliig-gla and mantle piece, their number Is legion. Ho has but one vtienit and that it thu uilor, whom he will never jvermli to dress him lu thu fashion; Jimmy running to Mesh porters his habits loose, and de clines to bo buttoned up and puckered aud Incased in the manner sartorial art delight. In. London iVnVfy Motives arv like harlequin tbetv I alwavs, a uvoud drwi beneath the ttrt." .1EHK.IHKJ. lSDTAM. Aniloa t IWome Citifrn and 0m I'ropertj in Tkrlr ana. fame. The Indian commissioners arrirrd in tin city Thursday evening, returning from a"vllt to the Omaha and Wlann lago reservation They went over the Omxha ami North wvsb-rn railroad in a viKH-Ulcar, furnhhed bv Mr. Ila.-btoh Lx tmlnatious wrru made ot the head turn and chief ot the tribe, trader. Indian ageuts. and tanners generally 'The jteople were found to be In the main contented, ludurlou and sobci Several nf the toucher In the sclnxils ot the Omaha tribe were fount! to be t iMtng women of the tribe, rdueatcd at I'.'JrulM'th. New Jersey. The Winnebago agency was nlo Malted, tin Commission driving four teen miles through a cold wlml to get there Mr While, the agent, had a setiibled the chief of the tribe, nml a council was held. The principal wished' expressed were for farm in their own name, so that the 1-ihd could descend to their children; and a wish to sell all their spare land. They expresH'd a tie aire to Iwcome cltlr.cns of the United States, am! in all respecU llko white people. I ho t ommlsslon also learned from uuthreshetl itacks of hay In the llehh that they were very much in need of a few steam thresliiug machine They were found with good school, mid more Intelligent than the Omaha. On the matter of the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the military they were Indifferent; tho Omaha were op posed to the transfer. Kaeh tribe complained that its pott cm were stolen by the other, and wanted tho Indian commission to interfere in tho matter and oblige thuthleve top.xy roundly for thu stolen properly 'The Omahas held a council and re jKirted they needed agricultural Imple ments mid an annuity. They thought i they ought to receito nn annuity equal? to that of the WInnebagios. They wore suthllctl to remain under the control of thu Indian bin can. -Omaha ll.ratil, Oct The Htuzlug Inserts Seme InteresUnir liimtlgatloiia Into Its Causes... Tw Blstiurt Son nds. The oltl naturalist. thought, general ly, that the bu..Ing of Insects was pro ifuccd bv the vibrations nf the wing, hut they huil scarcely uttvmpted to analyse tills phenomenon, ami their opinion was abandoned, when iteaumiir showed that when tho wings are cut a blow fly continues to hur.r.. Other explanations of the phenomenon have been advanced by various haturulists. hut noun of them are sntlsfuctoiy. M. Joiinset, do Bel leme, has been making sumo invest! lions on the subject, ami, after proving that previous theories are uusatlsfac tory, lie describes the result of his own researches. To avoid confusion, it should bo distinctly understood what ia meant by btu.lng." In the scientific ac ceptation it means to imitate tho sound of the bumble bee, which 1 tho type of biuilug insect. But the bumb'lo-hco give out two very different nound? w hich are nu octave of each other a grave sound when It Mies and a sharp sound when it ulighls. We say, then, that buzzing is the fac ulty of Insects to produce two sounds at nu 'octave. This definition limits the phenomenon to tho hymcnople.ru ami the diptera. The colcoptcra often pro duce in Hying n grate and dull sounl, hut they nru powerless to emit the shaip sound, aud consequently do not bum:. 'There nru two or three ascertained facts which will serve as guide in tlio Inter pretation of tlio phenomenon. Fir-l il I Imllsputnhlo that the grave noiiiuI al ways accompanies the groat vibritloti of the wing which serve for tho trans lation of tho lncct. It Is easily seen that this sound commences as soon as the wings begin to move, nml that if tlio wings be cut otT it disappears en tirely. The. sharp sound is, never, on the contrary, produced during Might; it is only observed apart from tlio great vibrations of tho wing when the inieel alights, or when It I held so as to hin der it movement, ami In thai case the wing is seen to be animated by a rapid trembling. It i also produced when the wing are entirely taken away. From these two remarks we may-, draw the conclusion that the grave? sound belongs properly to the wings, thnt It Is caused by their movement of great amplitude,. There Is here no dif ficulty. A to the sharp sound, it is certainly not produced by the wings, slnco ic "survive tho absence of these. Yet the wing participate lu it and un dergo a particular trembling during ftlio production of this wound. I o discover the cause It Is necessary to go back to the mechanism of the movement of the wing. It is known that among nearly all insects tho muscles that serve for Might are not Inserted In the wing Itse'f, but In the parts of the thorax which tiipport it, ami that it La the movement of thcM which acts on the wing and makes it vibrate. The form of tho thor ax changes with each movement of iho wing under the InHiienee of xhe con traction of tho thoracic muscles. TJjy muscular masses intended for fllgVt lnuiig very powerful, thi tibratory movement of the thorax i very intense, a may be proved by holding ono of these iuccts betweer. the fingers. Bat as the vibrations ate produced two or threo hundred time r second, they glto rise to n musical sound, which is the sharp note. totuLm Ttm. " JeftVrsW Krpabllran Simplicity. A granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer son in a communication to the Wash ington li, replying lo an artv),e in that paper of Iho otinjcct of "Thomas JutlerMin' ritliug on horcbiek to hi Inauguration, as the mud was too deep for him to go in ht coach and four hore." says: "He wai'so slriet In his ideas of the necessity of extreme simplicity in flt' publican form of Government that ho would not us J four horses, exceptiug in his long journeys urer the mountain of Virginia, where the ruad were ofteiw nearly Impassable, ami his carriage welj loaded with baggagsj. All Virginia gen tlemen o( that period owned blooded horse, aud usually ued them, imtcad of carriage. Tobacco h UHslis noli form, and never carried a snuff-txix I his life." i i 4ft i K t