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H ..3M!KRHMUJi I U ,.-' . .,,. -A ' U zaaigsagagasg&M'Trr feaiag K 1 i.. -A' .: i fZ PERSONAL 1HD LITERARY. ' It agree with Mr. Arthur to be President of the United States. He ha rained twenty-six pounds in weight since he assumed that office. Chicago Herald. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, is the only member of the United States Senate who has never been married. He is called the Lone Star of that body. Boston Post. A volume of table talk, or wit and wisdom, of Frederick the Great, has been discovered in the Prussian State Archives, and will be published early in the ensuing summer. A Miss Sheriff, who was practical ly the first English prima donna to try her fortunes in America, recently died unnoticed in London. It is thirty years since she was in this country. R. J. Burdette is forty, Bret Harte is forty-live, Mark Twain is forty-eight, W. D. Howells is forty-six, x Thomas Bailey Aldrich is forty-five, Joaquin Miller is forty-two, James Russell Low ell is sixty-four and John G. Saxe is sixty-eight. K Y. Tribune. E. D. Winslow, the notorious Bos ton forger, who almost succeeded in causing a rupture in the diplomatic re lations between England and America a f ew years ago, is now a successful business man in Buenos Ayres, South America. He has taken the name of W. D. Lowe. Boston Herald. The Boston Traveller says that Presibcnt Bruce, of the Massachusetts Senate, and Speaker Marden, of the Massachusetts House of Representa tives, were born in the same year, in the same town in New Hampshire, and were graduated in the same class at Dartmouth College. The Fresno (Col.) Republican says: A remarkable matrimonial compact was made at the United States Hotel in this city Monday evening, in which Noah Hickok and Elizabeth Hickok were ' married for the third time. They have been twice divorced. The bride and groom have reached the mature age oi seventy-three and eighty-seven respect ively. M. Rouslan, the new French Minister at Washington, is about forty-eight years of age. He has held many Con sular posts, and in 1881 was appointed Ambassador to Tunis. He was a con spicuous actor in the recent events in that country, and the success of French diplomacy in the dealings with the Bey is due almost entirely to his firmness and sagacity. Washington Star. Trollope received 240 for his first traduction and $35,000 for one of his ast. Captain Marryatt received $100, 000 for one of his works, and Lord Lyt ton $15,000 for the copyright of the cheap edition of his works by Messrs. Routledgo & Sons, in addition to the large amount paid at the time of their publication, while it is well known that Messrs. Longman paid Lord Beacons field $50,000 for "JSndyniion." HUMOROUS. "Yes," said the Idaho man, "it'i dreadful unfortunate that my gal got hugged by that ar' b'ar. She's sort o1 held me in contempt since." Chicago Herald.' A party of young ladies attended a church sociable m Elizabethan costume, and when the local paper said that the fair was visited by ruffs nobody caught on to the joke. Boston Herald. We started to read a poem by Bart Icy Campbell the other day. Finally wc came to the point where ho rhymed "plenty" and "went she." Then we stopped. We are not tough. Lowell Citizen. "Yes," said Mr. Brickhandler, "my bull dog has wonderful artistic taste. He wouldn't attack a tramp the other day because the cloth of the man's trousers wouldn't harmonize well with the color of his jaws." Boston Post. It was his first attempt on rollei skates, and as they brought him to in the toilet-room he remarked: "I tell Jrou, boys, that was gorgeous. I must lave knocked in the whole dome of heaven, the way those stars Hew 'round. I wonder if there's an' left for the nc.1 man." Oil City Derrick. "Take my advice," said old Skin flint to his clerk, whom he had discov ered stamping an envelope from his own private receptacle; "take my advice. If I ever find you taking anything ol mine your connections won't save you. To jail you go.V "Very well, sir," said the clerk: "perhaps I had bet ter cot take your advice, then." The Judge. Not long ago the Atlantic cable man sent over the report that Mary Anderson, actress, was to marry the Duke of Portland, Englishman. Last night the following dispatch was re ceived by the Associated Press from Portland, Ore.: "The engagement ol Mary. Anderson to Lieutenant Dukes, of this place, is denied. No such person is known to exist." Chicaqo Tribune. "The top of the morning to ye, Mrs. O'Flaherty." "The same to ye. Mrs. O'Raherty. An' did ye seo the orphants marehin' yistferday ?" "I did; God' bless ivery mother's son of 'em. But I didn't see little Johnny O'Hern in the procession, 'And sure he's not an orphant any more. He's miit the.businefs and has gone to learnin' a thrade, he has." "Arrah, God bless him for his enterprise." Kentucky Slate Journal. Why he wasn't there now: Koscius ko Murphy,, who is a book-keeper in a grocery house, met a friend who clerks in a cigar store on Austin avenue and asked him for a cigar. "Ain't got any," said his friend. "Ain't got anyi' said Kosciusko. "Why, when 1 used to work in a cigar store I always had my pockets stuffed with cigars." " Yes; probably that's the reason you ain't in .'a cigar store now," was the crushing reply. Texas Sif tings. "Young Calvin" wants to know il we "believe that the angels have -wings, and why we think so?'' We think they have, Calvin. We never saw their wings, but we know that whenever a .young man becomes perfectly convinced that he has met an angel he spends about all his spare time holding her tight Tvith both arms, as though he feared she would fly away the minuta belethtfr go. And if they had no wingsjjpsre would be no cause for tkii wideMpeaa, almost universal fea. Burlmglon Hawkeye. Onlr the Engineer asd Firean Killed. A few days since a jovial party were coming West, sitting in the smoking room of an elegant Wagner sleeping coach. Among the number were twe or three railroad men and n couple ol Southern bankers. As the oxpress train came to a stand at Erie a telegraph-boy stepped aboard with a telegram, ad dressed to the general manager of s leading Western road. The manager tore off the envelope, scanned the mes sage, threw it down on the seat, and re marked: "We had an accident on oui road last night." In answer to the question "Was anybody injured?" he thoughtlessly remarked: "Only the engine and baggage-car left the track nobody was killeu but the engineer and fireman;" adding: "They have hard luck this year, several having been killed on our road. We have to run so to make up the time lost" by our Eastern connections; it's all day with the men on the foot-board if their engines leave the track." To the re mark that engineers and firemen should be the best paid men in railroad service, the general manager said: "They are paid well enough on our road. They average to run eight hours of the twenty-four, and get from $3.75 to $4 for their work, ami for such pay as that they can afford to take some risks. Most of our men are reckless devils, and set little value apparently upon their lives. The best runner," he said, "we have on our road has been running an engine some twenty-five years; he has been badly stove up in two collisions, yet he is never in a happier frame of mind than when he steps onto the foot board with an order in his pocket to make up an hour or two in running 200 miles on his schedule time, which is based on thirty-seven miles per hour, stops to come out." The manager then lighted his fifth cig:r smoked that day, and continued the conversation by stat ing that occasionally men become timid, and not daring to i un to make up lost time, would throw up their jobs. "One," he said, "came into my office the other day. 1 looked him ii the face pleasantly, and asked: Well, what is up, Jim?' He said: ' Well, manager , I have run the night express now going on twelve years, and I have decided to turn my run over to some other man. 1 have had a presentiment that one of these nights 104 will jump the track, and there will be, without a moment's warning, a widow and four children thrown upon the charities of the cold world, as railroad corporations soon forget the family of one of their men who chances to get killed. If you want me to run one of the day trains I will do it, but I have had enough of this running through the country at a speed of forty-five miles per hour when it is so darlc that you can not see two train lengths ahead.' I told him I would talk with the master mechanic and arrange for his running a local train for awhile. until he got over his foolish scare." Another subject was then introduced for a few moments, then the question of salaries of railroad officers was brought up, and in the course of the conversation the general manager re marked that it had been rathor a hard time for two or three years past with their road. They had been expending a good deal on road-bed, and he con tented himself with $6,000 a year, but he looked for better pay the coming year, as through new connections their business will largely increase. "I have been on to New York for a few days talking about our affairs, and I left our people feeling pretty good. We have just scooped in another sixty miles of road. Some of our folks bought the stock of two or three of the largest stockholders and have frozen out the little stockholders, and now have the road in their own hands." After hearing the conversation through, the writer of this article asked himself which of the railroad men spoken of above deserves the larger pay, the man ager, who rides over the country in elegant coaches, smoking fifteen-cent cigars and aiding the directors of the road to concoct schemes to freeze out little stockholders, or the man at the throttle, who daily safely runs train! through between'two or three principal Western cities, laden with business men and pleasure-seekers? lndianapttlii Journal. How a Skater Was Rescued. While the thousands of skaters were darting over the frozen surface of the Schuylkill yesterday afternoon one venturesome chap, clad in a big ulster, woolen gloves and a fur cap, elided gracefully upon a wide stretch of thin ice under the Girard Avenue bridge. In a moment he was floundering iD the water. In response to his cries foi help a member of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society tossed him a life line. He seized it and a scoro of willing hands at the other end pulled hard. The rope parted and the unfortunate skater was at the mercy ol the icy waters. The saving appliance, after the mishap, was too short to reach him. No other rope was near. It looked squally for the man in the water, who cried out that his strength was fast leav ing him. A tall, muscular fellow threw himself fiat on the treacherous ice .and slowly drew himself to the sinking man who seized his arms. Another skater prostrated himself in like manner and caught hold of the ankles of the other man, forming a chain. Several per sons grasped the legs of the last man and succeeded in drawing the trio to a place of safety. The rescued man was almost exhausted. He was wrapped in a blanket, placed on a sled and hurried ly taken to the boat-house of the Skat ing Club, where, under the treatment he received, he soon recovered. Phila delphia Record. An English practitioner gave a lady a mixture of acetic acid to dis solve a pin she had swallowed, and said it would do the work in a week. But the medical authorities have sat down upon the case and find that such mixtures are non-operative. It was de cided, moreover, that metallic bodies becVmie quickly and considerably cor roded by the action of the juices in the alimentary canal. "I'm all wool and a yard wide!" shouted a cow-boy, as he gave his som brero an extra fide hitch, and looked around for a foe. "That may be,? re plied an undaunted 'female, "but you won't wash," Philadelphia Call. HOME, FARM A5D GARDEN. ' An Indiana gardener puts moles among his strawberry vines so that they may catch the grubs. Wash to remove scurf from tho head: Half a pint of rose water and one ounce of the spirits of wine mixed together. Part the hair as much as pos sible, and apply the mixture with apiece of flannel. Exchange. A very pretty and most easily mad lap robe for the small child's sleigh, is made of a square of honey-comb flan nel. Make a border around this "ith split or single zephyr, about one linger deep, crochet ahandsome scollop on the edge. The entire border to be crocheted of course. Troy Times. We have had hens which ate tho seeds of red-peppers and also pecked at the skins. But in order to have fowls get pepper it is best to put it in their cooked feed. We use both black and red, sometimes in thick milk; which they love, and for which they lay eggs. Put a little salt in chicken feed. X. Y. Herald. As a test for impure air take a pint bottle full of water into the room to be examined, and pour out the water. The bottle then is, of course, filled with the air of the room. Then put in a spoon ful or so of lime-water and shake it. If the lime-water remains clear the air is Gt to breathe, but if the lime-water be comes milk' there is too much carbonic acid in the air, and you had better hoist the window or ventilate the room in some other way. Exchange. Plum Pudding: Chop, if possible, in a mincing-machine half a pound of raisins, half a pound of sultanas, two ounces of candied peel and half a pound of apples; mix with half a pound of beef suet, one pound of bread crumbs, a quarter of a pound of sugar, a little spice and a pinch of salt; put in suffi cient new milk to make the mixture stiff, butter a basin, put in the pudding, and boil for six hours. This quantity will make a large pudding. Western Plowman. A nice breakfast for one who is not equal to hearty fare is made of toast and eggs prepared in this way: Put a lump of butter in a saucepan, and then drop three eggs into it, stir briskly and constantly, so that the eggs will be smooth and not lumpy. Have two thin 3liCes of buttered toast read', and when the eggs are done lay them on one piece of the toast and lay the other lightly over it; do not crowd it down and make the egg run over the edge of the toast. .V. Y. Pott. The Calves. It either pays to raise calves, or else our live stock business is not as "pro ductive of the aggregate profits as we are wont to claim. If a calf can not be raised at a profit which some claim then somebody is losing, for some body must raise the calves. That it is profitable is well enough attested by those who practice it. Men who are close figurers in their business find the raising of calves sufficiently profitable to make it satisfactory. Where an op posite opinion prevails there are two reasons for it; either the milk is es teemed so valuable a part of the too common short-sighted policy which looks wholly to imynediate gains that the owner of the cow can not even as much as permit the few days during which it is absolutely unfit for human food to pass without using it, or else there is an utter neglect to consider the value of the calf at all. The young animal in either case is considered rather a burden than otherwise, and one that is to be got rid of just as soon as the butcher avUI buy it It may be well questioned if it is an estab lished fact that the practice of taking the calf from the cow, even for the purpose of making but ter and cheese, is profitable at all. It is certain that there is a steady and re munerative demand for milch cows. Nothing sells more readily than a good milch cow. It would seem to be policy, therefore, to raise them, and the safest way to do so, is upon the mother's milk. They may be raised by hand, and come out all right, but there are defined dan gers to threaten success. Now one good cow will "suckle two calves, if she has good pasture, aud weaning the calves' at three or four months old, she will not only likely make the raising oi the two calves perfectly successful, but she will then have a long time before, her during which her milk can be used for other purposes. There is no ether food than can perfectly take the place of milk as food for the calf. It contains just what the system needs. Still we do not suppose that anything we might say would induce those who are in the habit of substituting other foods for the milk to change their practice; and we do not wish to say anything to produce such result. We have only called at tention to the doubt that may reason- I ably exist as to the profit of taking the calf away from the cow. Of course we recognize the fact that milk is the most expensive food, and we are free to ad mit that our opinion is that it is more profitable to raise the calf on arti ficial food. Our practice is to let the calf run with the cow for about ten days, and then put it upon skimmed milk, which in a short time may be fed alternately with other suitable foods. Crushed or ground oats are the best food next to milk, and if, when feeding the skimmed milk, it be scalded: and some oatmeal added, it will be excel lent. And if the calf is taken from the 20W at once give it a handful of salt which acts as a purgative to cleanse the stomach, an office which the first milk of the cow performs repeating j the administration or tne salt tor several days, and prepare its food by boiling a pint of flax-seed in five quarts of water, weakening it with hay-tea until it is pretty nearly as thin as milk. Feed at the temperature of milk when first drawn from the udder, Indian meal, barley, rye and oatmeal cqn -be added as the calves become older. In all arti Gcial feeding the effect upon the bowels must be carefully watched, and any bad efiects immediately counteracted. It should be allowed access to rood. sweet. short; n.isrnro .15 snnis jis it will e.-ir. it. It is important that in hand-feeding it should have something besides skim milk. Such milk is not perfect, and consequently it is not a complete fdodj and the calf should not be fed exclusive 1' upon milk even directly from the cow, or milk alone docs not properly distend the stomach. Western Rural. - Education for the Farm. When we consider the immense num ber that belong to the agricultural class (n this country and the fact that- three fourths of all our exports are agricult ural products, and that our prosperity as a nation is so intimately connected with its agriculture, it is surprising that no better system has been devised for the education of this great class the very foundation of our national wealth. The farmer's occupation leads to regular habits and steady industry; but anlike those engaged in mechanical and mercantile pursuits, who are mostly located in towns, and are brought into ?lose business and social relations, the farmers are scattered over the country, anil have little daily intercourse with each other. They do not have the ad vantage of the friction of society, in which new ideas are suggested and de veloped by association. This is, no doubt, the reason why the farming clas3 is so conservative, so prone to follow traditional routine and to resist all in novations. The iricrtness of the agricultural class is plainly shown in this, that they sel dom or never make any improvement in their processes or modes of culture. Of all the great labor-saving machinery introduced into agriculture during the last forty years, not two per cent, of it has been invented by those raised and engaged upon the farm, but has been invented and adapted to its work by amateur farmers, or by outsiders who have observed the need of such helps in farm operations. The farmer, therefore, sorely needs some stimulant to cause him to use his brain as well as his hands. He should understand the principles that underlie his practice. Ho ought to be an ac curate observer, and this would make him a discoverer. ,He should experi ment, and carefully note and compare experiment. But, "instead of this, very few farmers think there are any fixed principles in agriculture. They regard the wholcbusiness as quite independent of rules, and iu no way to be brought into subjection to order and reasonable certainty. This is why there is so little definitely settled in agricultural prac tice. Yet we know that agriculture is as capable of being reduced to system and order, and as capable of being taught as other applications of the natural sciences. All will admit that farmers' sons should be taught, at least, the rudi ments of the sciences that underlie agriculture; but where shall this scien tific education begin? There is really but one place where this instruction can be given, and that is in the com mon schools. National Live Stock Journal. Snow as a Protection. However disagreeable it may be te have the ground covered with two feet in depth with snow, it is one of the best protectors which the farmer has, con sidering how little it costs. When the land is covered in the autumn, and it lays all winter, it serves as a great prot tection to the grass roots and all creep ing vines. Strawberry plants thaf nave been covered all winter with 3now, come out in the spring fresh and green, even though they have not been mulched. The snow not only protects the veg etation which it covers up, by shelter ing it from the cold winds and sudden t changes of weather, but it prevents the frequent freezing and thawing of the ground, which is so destructive tc small roots that are near the surface, and which are often lifted entirely out of the ground by the action of the frost. When the land lays open and exposed all winter, it not" only injures the grass and small plants, but it injures the land itself, by blowing away the finer particles of "decayed vegetation from the surface, and when thus ex posed, there is a chance for the frost tc enter the ground to a depth of several feet, thus cooling the earth to a great depth, requiring many warn days in the spring to thaw it out, and warm it up sufficient to start vegetation; bul when a deep snow covers the land until spring opens, as soon as the snow melts, the ground being free from frost, will soon be in a condition to cultivate, and for plants to grow. As a rule, the season comes forward earlier when the ground has been cov ered with snow the entire wimer than il does when there has been but little snow. In our climate, no doub it is best to have plenty of snow, and have it lay on the ground during the period of cold weather. This year we have started with a good covering of snow: should it be replenished as f:ist as need- ! ed to keep the land covered we may look for good crops of grass next season and a spring that will be favorable for planting farm-crops; keeping this ic view we can dig our paths with more cheerfulness, and resort to rubber boots to keep the snow out, with a feeling that there is a bright side to a snow-storm, without resorting to merry sleigh-parties, or mingling with the jolly coasters. Massach u&ctls Ploughman. Stumbling Horses. The Pittsburgh Stockman, in a recent issue, says: "Some good horses are addicted to stumbling while walking or moving in a slow trot. A well-versed veterinarian states that there are twe causes that would tend to produce this faulty action; one, a general weakness in the muscular system, snch as would be noticed iu a tired horse; the other, a weakness of the exterior muscles of the leg. brought about by carrying too much weight on the toe. To effect a cure, he "adds, lighten the weight ol each front shoe about four ounces; have the toe of the shoe made of steel instead of iron, it will wear longer; have it rounded ofi' about the same as it would be when onc:third worn out, in or der to prevent tripping; allow one week's rest; have the legs showered for a few minutes at a time with cold watr through a hose, in order to create a 3pray; then nib dry, briskly, from the chest down to the foot. Give walking exercise dailv during this week for about an hour twice a day. commence driving again 0 When vou omit the slow jog, either wain or send him along at a sharp trot for a mile or two. then walk away, but do not speed for at least sev orarweeks. By this means the habit ol stumbling from either of the above causes will be pretty well overcome." -. . . . A. Merchant Used as a Lay Figure On one of the leading thoroughfares of this city is a gentlemen's fashiona ble furnishing-goods store which does a large business, and the proprietors of which are not only well-known but verv popular. One of them had an ex perience a few days before Christmas which has temporarily so changed his ETenial nature that he now looks upon ivery smiling greeting of his friends with the fiercest suspicion, while any direct allusion to the subject itself is certain to result in the uncorking of the vials of his wrath. A passing friend, seeing him standing in the door of his store on the afternoon re ferred to, accosted him with: "Well, , how goes it?" " Oh, don't ask me. I'm mad; mad der than 1 have been before since I came to tne btate. I'm all oroke up and Ira dryer n a goat, too, and was hist going to get a drink. Come with me and Pll tell you all about it. You know," he said, "we've got a lot of dressing gowns in the store, elegant ones that we imported from the East just to catch this holiday trade. Well, this afternoon two ladies sailed in, dressed fit to kill. The store was full of customers and'the boys were all busy, so I stepped up to thepi and asked what I could do for 'em. They said they wanted to look at Some dressing sacks something fine and you may be sure I didn't lose an' time in getting out the best we had. Well, they liked tho first one I showed 'em, only one ol 'em said she would like first-rate to see how it would look on, and asked me if there wasn't some way she could see it on a man and then she could tell better how it would look. I wa'n't going to miss a trick, and so I took off" my coat and put it on. They turned me round and round and go off a little way and look at me from top to toe as though 1 was a piece of statuary. Then they wanted to sec another one. So I otl with the one I had on and put on the other. That didn't suit 'em and 1 tried on another and that didn't suit 'em. I .began to get weary of it, especially as there was lots of customers in the store, and I thought I saw a smile here and there, and I finally did catch one ol my own boys in a broad grin, though he ducked his head under the counter when he saw me lookin' at him. I was getting pretty hot about the way they were using me for a lay figure, and I finally brought out the best I had a sack worth $75 put it on and buttoned it up. They looked me all over again, liked it first-rate, and I thought I had a sale sure, but may I be hanged if they did't say: 'Well, we'll look around and J we don't find anything that suits us any better we'll come back," and the same minute I heard 'haw, haw, haw,' all over the store. Mad? I was just fighting mad, and you ean guess I was none the sweeter tempered when 1 found that those creatures had been looking for a smoking-jacket for one ol my own clerks." San Francisco Chron icle. Ida Lewis Home. Within a short juile of the quay at Newport. Lyme Rock rises out of the waters of Narragansett Bay. On this rock stands the old light-house which was tended for many years by the fath er of Ida Lewis, and of which she now, under the seal of the Government Commission, is keeper. Securing the services of the Captain of a diminutive boat I sailed on the waters blue to hei abode for the purpose of paying her my respects. As we approached the rock an immense mastiff, with head and paws like a lion and a roar like far-off thunder, came to its extreme verge and disputed our landing. He was entirely successful until the heroine appeared, called him off in the lowest of tones. ajid locked him up in an outhouse. She then invited me into the little house on the top of which rests the beacon-Hghf which has for so many years warned the navigator of hidden dangers, and at once entered into easy and unrestrict ed conversation. She said that she had for twenty-five jears lived on that rock: that she used to be fond of going intc the city once in awhile, but that she cared very little for it now; that she always had a great many visitors in the Liquor sellers are organizing to protect summer, a few years ago the number themselves in their constant violation reaching thousands in one season. She of the law. All citizeus who believe in showed me her medals, received from the enforcement of righteous law. pos Congress, the State of Massachusetts, j sessing any Temperance principle, are and the city of Newport, and a solid simply doing theirduty in organizing in silver teapot" from the officers at Fort order to enforce law. Adams, all bearing suitable inscriptions Along this same line of the execution in testimonial of her heroism in res-: of the laws for good order, an interest- cuing so manj human beings from wa- ten- graves. Miss Lewis is rather above medium height, of somewhat slender figure, cecd requires that "m licen-e shall be good features and great, earnest eyes, . granted unless the applicant is of good between brown and gray. While she moral character and has sufficient abil can not be called handsome, her face t ity to keep an inn." As to what con is one to interest and attract. Hei 1 stitutes a "good moral chanic style of conversation is pieplant and vi-! ter" there are various and varying vacious, and although not educated she t standards; yet it is possible to prove is very intelligent. Everything about even to the. nitwt ethically obtuse that her apartments bore the evidence oi certain men have not such a character, neatuess, care and good taste. Her t With this fact in view the "Citizens' mother, a- venerable old lady, with thick I Keform Association or i'uttalo is pro silver hair, was very talkative and dis- i paring several large volumes which 2onrsml on matters and tinners. Der-1 give the private history of the liquor sonal and otherwise, at length. She in formed me she had the rheumatism in her feet, and Ida insisted that it was because she had dyed her hair iorsc many years. She communicated the intelligence that her daughter was forty years old, at which Miss Ida evinced 3 slight tinge of annoyance and remarked: "Mother thinks she must tell every one mv aee. 2." But she quickly added: on't caroflt don't make any "Well, I don difference. I don't ob.ect to getting old." Xewporl Letter. Devil's Lake, in Northern Dakota, docs not in any sense deserve its name, for it is a fine sheet of water in. the midst of beautiful scenery, and there are no evil traditions concerning- it. The fact is that the Indians called it Spirit Lake, and the white man regard ed a spirit as necessarily a devil. Resi dents talk of changing the name back to the original Minnewakau. Chicago Herald. m A De Kalb County (Tennessee) man cat a tree until it was ready to fall, and then threw himslf under it to com mit suicide. X. O. Picayune. A Boston paper calls Matthew Arnold "the apostle of molasses ami uoonlfcht." Temperance Beadiiu io- 3 -TTc Political Power or the Liquor Interests. In an article on the "Hum Power in City Politics," in a recent number of The Continent, Charley LThwing savs: Iu general, then, the intlucnco of the liquor interest in several of the largest and most important cities exceeds the influence of any other single interest, and frequently exceeds the "influence of all other interests united. "You can't draw a picture of tho curse of liquor domination which exceeds in darkness what wo have in Chicago," savs a well known citizen. -There's onlv one fact worth mentioning in connection with the influence of tho liquor interest in the municipal polities of Milwaukee, and that is that the saloons practically own the city," affirms a distinguished I clergyman. The bentinel. of Miiwau- Kee. ot .November 1. 1SS;$, under the heading, "Ihey want to run the city." declares that -a call is to be served personally in a few days upon every saloon-keeper in the city for a mass meeting to be held within the next two weeks to organize a political power which shall in the future control politi cal legislation." The question is a Temperance ques tion; but it is also, and inure, a question of good citizenship. It is a question whether a class of men. who are in a large part foreigners, who are ignorant, who pav a small tax, who necessitate the poor-house and the prison, who cor rupt character, who destroy rather than increase the productive power of the State, who cause In their traffic four fifths of all the crimes committed the question is whether men of tins kind shall rule the large cities. It is a ques tion whether the worst elements shall dictate, or whether the higher charac ter and sentiment shall rule. In Brook lyn is one saloon for every two hundred and fifty persons; in New York one foi every one hundred and twenty-Jive: in Milwaukee one lor every one "hundred and fifteen: in Buii-ilo one for every ninety-six persons. In nearly even city the drink-shops evceed the food shops by a large proportion. New York City, with ten thousand saloons, has be tween seven and eight thousand stores for bread, meat, provisions aud gro ceries. The quest on is, therefore, pressing for each city to decide u both er its saloons shall control all its mu nicipal affairs. Various signs are manifest, indicating that the saloons are not to continue tc govern the cities. What are known as "citizens movements' aoound. I he lines of political parties in municipal politics are not drawn with the former distinctness. Attempts are made to govern cities on business principles. "We can do nothing," says Dr. How ard Crosby, " for a good government of the city until sectional parties are ob literated in city affaire, and good men unite to put down ruin." This, howev er, is being done in not a few cities. Buffalo has -Citizens' Reform Associa tions," composed of leading citizens of all parties and representing all relig ions, who are determined to enforce the laws. A National Law and Order League was formed in Boston in Febru ary, 1883, whose purpose is simply to secure a better enforcement of the Liquor laws. The Chicago League ha; in five years prosecuted no less than sixteen hundred dealers for violating the law, of whom over twelve hundred have been cither fined or held to the Criminal Court. The first annual re port of the Boston Law and Order League shows that it had entered two hundred and twenty-two prosecutions, and had gained one hundred and fifty- one convictions in the lower courts. Brooklyn has also a similar league. Milwaukee organized one in October, IS80. These movements are not simply Temperance movements; they are also movements along the-line of a govern ment of each city of and by and for its people. They include representations of all sides of the Temperance qucstum. "Legal prohibitionists" and "eoiisti- tutional prohibitionists,'" supporters of "local option" laws and ..f "moral ' 3iiasion" methods, and even "moder ate drinkers" combine to thwart the 1 great power of the liquor interest. ing experiment is tried in the city ol Buffalo. The act uud -r which the Ex- cise Commissioners of New York pro- sellers of that city. Already these vol umes contain the biographies of live hundred men. The record is so bad that, on its publication, their license should be cither revoked or renewal re fused. This is a potent as well as an original weapon. Its use in every c;ty would reveal the corrupt and the dari srerous character of that small body ol men who endeavor to manage every Jepartment of the municipal govern ment. I Temperance Items. A drcxkakd who was locked up in the Tombs at Toronto on 2evr Year's aight stated that it was the custom of drinking on that day which had first itarted Him on the downward path. No one has the influence over the op- Bosite sex that our young ladies have. I every one would use it for Temper ance, we should have no fear but that in less than five years intemperance would be a thing of the past. ' Francisco Rescue. New Mexico has now a State organi sation of the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union. It wa ftelast of the forty-eight Stat-s and Territories to fall into line: but tins new iinvpmptit; there makes the Woman s rTr,Trn ri'ifinnnl in lined, as w"e" as tame. : J y-m j WVA i (if ' & 1 A. Il i 4 ' "3fi ""fee m lt . ru ,'. ?& - .r- .- "fciySty-'?&t , fc t-.T v i -fr ..-y - --. .. - --: