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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1886)
GALWAY. A Port Without Commerce Sit uated-in a "Wonderfully Pict uresque Country. An Ancient and Ivy-Olad Bain that is Now and Then Haunted by a Wick ed Druidess , Tho Scenery of Aclill. . A foreign enemy wishing to settle in Ireland could not select a better point than Galway bay , writes a correspond ent of 2he New York Times. At the center of the island on the northwest coast it is within three days' march of Dublin , so that in the period before railways the power which held these two cities cut Ireland asunder , especially if Athlone on the Shannon were secured. By such a line Ulster and Connaught were separated from Leinstcr and Mun- ster. The name Galway indicates that it was settled by foreigners , but it is uncertain whether-the name was appli ed from early Norse settlers or the Welsh-Norman adventurers of the twelfth century. And as it is so cen tral Galway is to-day the best place for effecting a peaceful landing , guide book in hand , from a transatlantic steam er. The line of steamers that once plied between New York and this old town was discontinued , owing to continual mishaps , occasioned , it is firmly believed in Ireland , by treacher ous pilots in the pay of owners of rival lines at Liverpool. In consideration of the great saving of time to passengers by landing them here rather than in Liverpool the harbor of Galway was arranged for an extensive American commerce and a hotel built. But when a steamer was run on the rocks in broad daylight the company gave up , and Galway relapsed into a port without commerce. Yet there is hardly another place in Ireland where the tourist can see at short notice so much beautiful scenery , so many old castles and abbeys , such a wealth of remains of the pagan and early Christian epochs. The Arran islands lie before the month of the bay , and as one enters the mar velous tones of the Clare mountains de velop themselves on the right. They recall the prowess of Clare's Horse on the losing side at the battles of Blen heim (1704) ( and Kamillies (1706) ( ) , and the spirited song by Thomas Davis : "When on Ramillies' bloody field The bafllcd French were forced to yield The victor Saxon backward reeled Before the charge of Clare's drasoons. The flags tve conquered iu that fray , Look loue in Ypres' choir they say ; We'll win them company to-day , Or bravely die like Clare's dragoons. While resting from the fatigues of the ocean at Galway there is a choice of short excursions north and south which can.be made with light luggage. If the weather be good the coast of Clare to the southward may be explored in a jaunting- car down to Kilkee , where the scenery is magnificent. Thence the lower Shannon may be traversed to Limerick , which has a cathedral remarkable for its ponderous columns and ancient tomb inscriptions , a castle called King John's , and in its neighborhood various ruins worth seeing. Such a one is the picturesque Carrigogunnel , about ten miles out of town , which has the merit of a ghost. A wicked Druidess lived there long ago , and used to light a can dle ( coinneall ) every night to the de struction of all who saw it , for this cau dle was a very basilisk for killing peo ple. St. Patrick , however , "put his come-hither over her , " as the phrase goes in Ireland , and , finding he coujd not convert her to Christianity , treated her like the serpents. The ghost , how ever , haunts the lovely ivy-clad rock and lights a spectral candle now and then , just to show people that pagan ism is not entirely dead and to put to utter confusion those scholars who maintain that Carricogunnel never meant "rock of the candle" at all , but "ConnelPs castle. " From Limerick you can take a freight steamer up the Shannon to Athlone ( "Luan's ford" ) , or the railway by Ennis to Athenry ( Ford of the kings" and so complete your little orbit b ack again to Galway. If you goup the Shannon there are points of interest all the way. Lough Dearg is a fine expansion of the river a Tap- pan Zee on a smaller scale which of fers at least one island of archasologi- cal importance , Enis Cealtra , and about ten miles before reaching Ath lone there is the ancient monastery and cemetery of Cronmacnoise ( Mead ow .of the Son of Nos ) . Here are two "specimens of the round tower in close proximity to religious buildings. 'They bear out the theory of Prof. W. 1L Sullivan as to their purpose in Chris tian lands. Wherever a round tower stands the sound of a bell on its sum mit will be heard over the greatest amount of land. The early saints bar gained with the kings of Ireland that they should have jurisdiction spiritual as far as the sound of their bell. Like the founder of Carthage , who cut the hide into strips , the early saints were cannvthey ; always selected the meeting- places of a series of plains and raised as high a tower as they could afford , in order to claim as much territory as possible. This _ _ explains why round towers are almost never on hilltops , like castles. Athlone has a curious old fortification and a bi < barracks , where several thousand soldiers are always quartered. An Irish regiment could not be kept here because the men hid them- celves in the town an'd made riots when the fTiard came to arrest them. The English soldiers were assaulted at first because they insulted women on the streets , but there is no trouble now. In fact , between the English and Irish lower orders there is no real hatred. The trouble has been that the ruling classes have incited them against each other for their own purposes. As de mocracy increases the people begin to see who are their true friends , and no longer play into the hands of the com mon enemy. A flight northward can be pleasantly managed from Galway as headquarters by taking a steamer up Lough Corrib to Cong , and driving over into Gonne- mara. The lough offers some very fine scenery in the course of thirty-five miles , with the ruins of a church on Inchagoil ( "Island of the foreigner" ) and a great profusion , of other pictures que islets. Cong has an old abbey and a famous domain that of. Lord Ardilaun , once thd Brewer Guinness. He look his title from a sterile island off the coast , whose Gajlic name means " of the . " "Height sea-gulls. Though Lord Ardilaun has opened roads and giv en much employment to workingmenat Cong he is unpopular there. I met his agent walking , followed by two well- appointed constables with their rifles. Ardilaun , it appears , has evicted ten ants , and pays low rates to his laborers. Near Cong , on Lough Mask , is the sterile region where the Joyce family was murdered , and at least one inno cent man hanged for it. Mask castle is a fine ruin ; it overlooks the spot where the monks in the old time had a pleasant little monastery , leaving door ways with very curious capitals , and also the place where two bailiffs were sunk in the water after being done to death by enraged tenants. The land looks incapable of supporting a popula tion without any rents to pay. Cong is a good palce tofish from , but its acom- modations will not lure the traveler to stop. stop.From From Cong the best way is to take an outside car round the head of Lough Corrib so as to meet the post , which runs twice a day the forty miles be tween Galway and Clifden. By so doing one sees the southern spur of the Partry mountains and a range in the heart of Connemara ( Hound of the Sea ) called the Mamturk , or Boar Pass hills. The driver will show you the spot at which poor old LordMount- morres was shot , and if the day be as dreary as when I passed , the uninhab ited manse of that victim of an assas sin's mistake will seem particularly tragic and a lit home for ghosts. The wind would burst downward on the isle-dotted the water- - lough , driving - here in a long line of white Tipright figures of spray , there whirl the foam spectres round and round like a horri ble dance of banshees foretelling death. ' B'ut , as if to console us for the horroi of the scene , a hillside , which sudden ly opened 'on the view , was one solid mass of yellow blossoms. The furze is always beautiful , but I never saw it so resplendent as just there , with the gray islands of Corrib half seen through thesleet and the mildewed trees of Mountmorres' park swaying about the abandoned hense. Let it rain or sleet or snow , the bright ilowers of this weed do not shrink , but teach a lesson of cheerfulness whatever may be tide. As we toiled up the zig zag road away from the lough the scenery became more and more Alpine nothingbntbrownmoors band ed with-peat bits , knobs of gray stone houses here and there , which were more like burrows than dwellings , hav ing neither chimney nor barn , nor po tato-patch human habitations upon which one might walk inadvertently , taking them for slightly steeper hillocks on the mountain side. Long before the Cross roads were reached the driving rain turned to sleet , then to snow. All the mountain tons were white and we had the pleasure'of undergoing a fright ful winter storm in mid-May. Buffeted first from one direction , then from an other , at times the slight vehicle and patient nag seemed about to be blown from the road. Lake Cullin ( Holly lake ) is the loneliest of waters , and bears the worst reputation among the boatmen who come up to it from Cor rib , as we could imagine well enough , seeing the riot of squalls and whirl winds that danced about its only build ing of note , a ruined keep on Inish Kirk. Most of these lands belong to Lord Ardilaun. At the Cross roads , a desolate house on a moor filled with wind-swept pools , one enters a great limiting property , where those who can pay for it and their invited friends shoot liare , grouse , and other small game. The post-road to Clifden takes one past several lakes of no little beauty , of which Glendalough ( Vallev of the Two Lakes ) and Ballyuahinch ( Valley of the Island ) are the most notable. The latter has a ruin on an island which never could have been a village , showing that Bally was sometimes used in a narrower sense. Innislacken ( Isle of Stones , perhaps of cromlechs ) is an island off bhe coast thereabout which used to af ford great quantities of sea-wood , but no longer does so. Among people so wretchedly poor the failure of this crop has contributed not a little to the recent distress. While want remains chronic here much has been done in Ireland and elsewhere to supply'the Achil men and others on the coast with seed potatoes and stores. The population is too large for the barren land , and seems unable to wrest from the sea a means of the livelihood. The rain was still falling when Ballynahinch was left behind ; but on the moor to the left two witchlike fig ures were seen , their heads half wrapped in plaid shawls , their limbs showing through wetshort skirtsand their small red feet and legs Hying from tuft to tuft of the moss. They were native girls driving the small coal-black cattle of these wild uplands , and the sight of the driver , an ancient friend , put them in the wildest spirits. They swooped " down on the car "and were soon seated , laughing and singing , brushing the wet from their tangled hair and their hair from their red cheeks , but not forget ting to smooth the skirts of rough homespun modestly about their bare ex tremities. Thev were redolent of peat smoke , like the'poteen they brew here in spite of all the constables ; of good health , good humor , and all that inde scribable fragrance which comes from living almost completely out of doors. Presently we drew up before their own home. They seized various parcels com ing to them from Galway , and in a twinkling they plunged into a comfort able-looking cabin of large size like a brace of coltswith a flourish from their red heels. The men and boys otthe fami ly wore shoes ; doubtless on Sunday these same head-long lasses turn out as well shod as any in Connemar. A few years hence thes'e girls will be in the United , States puzzling an American mistress j by their ignorance on some points and unnatural cuteness on others. If she could see the interiors of some of these cabins she would only wonder how they ever learn to use the resources of "mod- , . " Much is ern improvements. being done in Ireland to give all children a good schooling in the elements of book- wisdom , but there is no provision for the training of servant girls , wherefore - > -i - * ; * , > - . * SV * " ' i * < IT. / " > r. there is much wailing in' American households.greal niisunderstaiidingaml many chances profitable places lost to this class of emigrants. For this reason it is to be feared that our young friends when better clothed , fed , and housed than they are now , will be no longer so jolly and devil-may-care. From Clifden as a starting point there are various trips to make among the islands , such as the Aran group , which contains many ancient fortifica tions dear to the antiquarian soul. : is well as many remains of Christian oc cupation. The inhabitants still use tho corracie , or skin boat , with framework of osier , but tarred canvas is now cheaper than leather. Here are the fa mous "bee hive" stone huts of early monks , by which architects set great store as elementary in the study of building , and a Teampull Benan , or church of St. Benan , supposed to be of the sixth century , the whole structure about as large as a drawing-room in an ordinary New York house. The Arran group alone will occupy a week if the tourist be an archaeologist , for its anti quities are as numerous as they are original. The scenery of Achil is very' boldand it has its own antiquities. Clew Bay , the islands Turk ( boar ) , Bofin , and Clare , the town of West- port , and thence by rail Killala , where the French landed in 1798 , are but a part of the places' which call for ex amination. Ireland is indeed so won derfully rich in spots worth seeing that one needs a separate guide-book for a comparatively poor region like Con- naught alone. A Prayer lor Vengeance Answered. A strange occurrence has lately come to light in this country that presents some rather interesting features , writes a Carthage , Tenn. , correspondent of The Nashville American. It has had the effect to cause many who have heard the facts to believe in special acts of Providence , and is as strange as some remarkable faith-cures. On Defeated creek , near Monlrose , about eight miles from this place , there lived until lately aiTold man named William Hewitt , who for several years has lived a wandering lifs from place to place , having no set tled home. A few years ago the old man made a purchase of a tract of land , and together with two small boys paid a portion of the purchase money. From some shrewd manipulation , however , of one of his eldest sons , Jack Hewitt , the balanceof ( the purchase money was so paid as to place him in possession of the property with the deed to himself , while the old man lost his home. The old gentleman considered himself most - mistreated and he dis wofulljmistreated , was so turbed over the affair that he quit the premises entirely and led the erratic life spoken of , having nothing to do with his people. This went on for sev eral years , when recently the old man was taken sick , and after very consider able persuasion Irom friends he con sented to go back to his sons. For sev eral weeks he lingered in his sickness , but saw that he must die. Even in his weakenad condition there was one pray er which was always on the old man's lips day after day , and that was that as soon as he would die every house on the place should be burned up. Tho strange prayer was ver > " little heeded by his rel atives and friends and was looked upon only as au evidence of childishness and ' old'age. On last Friday the old gentle man died , and was laid out in the house , a corpse , waiting to be buried. A num ber of the neighbors and relatives went in to remain with this body and render any assistance necessary. It was a few hours after the old man died when someone discovered the kitchen , which sat off from the main building , to be on lire. Immediately the company ran to the scene , carrying a quantity of water. " Considerable effort was made"to quench the flames , but as related by eye-wit- nesses. whenever th < j water was poured on the burning house the flames would Hash up as though the water had been oil. Nothing could bo done with the angry flames , and soon they spread to the main building. The corpse was taken out and set down in the yard and every effort made to stop the fiames , but to no avail. The two houses were burn ed to the ground , and as these were the only houses on the place the old man's prayer had strangely been answered. These facts are vouched for by eye-wit nesses and responsible parties who know all the particulars. An Enterprising1 Journalist. "I was snowed in once at Bristol , a little station on the Northern Pacific , " said a man from Cincinnati to a writer in The St. Paul Globe. "It was in the winter of 1885. Wo were there for about five days. We had plenty to eat , such as it was , but were all anxious to get something to read. The large ma jority of passengers on the train were men , and we all wanted a late daily paper , but we could not get it for love nor money. " There"was a little weekly paper published in Bristol , and it tried to fill the want The first day of the snow blockade the weekly paper was issued , and nearly everyone ou the train took one. I suppose the paper had a larger circulation at that time than it has had since or ever had before. The editor , proprietor , and reporter , all in one , was a wide-awake fellow. He saw that there was a demand for a daily paper , so he got one out every day during our stay. He came down and got our names and residences , and published them. This , of course , made the paper sell. The next day he got something of our histories and"wrote them up. The next day he wrote up how we passed the. time. By this time he had exhausted all his white paper. "He didn't give up. Not much. You don't find a newspaper man in the northwest that will give up for such little trifles as that. He went out and got some brown paper , used in tyinj , up bundles at the grocery store , and print ed his edition on that. He got all the brown paper and wrapping paper in town , and then he went for the wall paper and printed his last edition on that. We bought them every day , more as little souvenirs of the snow blockade than for anything else , although I think I read everything that was printed , from a recipe on cookies to the legal no tices about pre-emption of certain tracts of land. When we got out of town he resumed his weekly issue. " HOUSEHOLD HINTS. . All woods with ornamental grain are in great demand for cabinet work. Egg shells will settle coffee as surely as eggs , but they do not impart the richness and flavor. In warm weather , refrigerator clos ets should be washed With soda and cold water once or twice a week. Coffee beans placed upon a hot plate or over hot coals throw off an aroma which is healthful and agreeable. Pails and all vessels used in cham bers should be rinsed thoroughly in cold water , never in hot or lukewarm. To remove candle grease from furni ture without injuring the varnish , rub it off with a little warm water and a rag. rag.When When window curtains or portieres are hung inside the casings the poles are usually sunk in socTcets , instead of showing fancy knobs. Furniture coverings are changing this year. Plush , which has held the public for years , is giving way to silk tapestries and brocades. Buffalo horns , besides adorning walls and surmounting doors and cabinets , compose back and sides of settees , hall seats and single large chairs. Stale lard can bo made sweet by bringing to a boil , with slices of cold raw potatoes thrown in. The impuri ties will rise at the top and can ba skimmed off. Feather bed and pillows would be very much lightened if left out iu a drenching rain ; they should then bo ex posed to the sun and air on every side until perfectly dry. Pulverized borax , sprinkled on shelves and in corners of store-closets , is a safeguard from ants. If pulverized borax is mixed with Persian powder , the powder will be more effective. Cold water and plenty of it , proper ly applied with a fair amount of soap or pcarline is the best thing to cl aii a kitchen floor. The regulation "boiler suds" is apt to make a kitchen lloor greasy. Spirit of salt , with powdered salts of lemon , in the proportion of \ oz. of latter to 1 oz. of former will take out ink stains which have drieii. When the spots are removed , wash off in cold water. Hanging lamps in imitation of the old fashioned lanters set in iron work are now used in vestibules ; the } * are suspended from a bracket also in iron work a little distance from the wall. wall.Oilcloths Oilcloths should never be washed in hot soap suds ; they . < hould first be washed clean with coKl water , then rubbed dry with a clotli wet in milk. The same treatment applies to a stone or slate hearth. For Gooseberry Jam A gill of water to each pound of ripe fruit ; boil for an hour. Then add the sugar , three- quarters of a pound for every pound weight of the fruit. Cook slowly for another hour. To prevent wet from penetrating boots , take half a pound of tallow or mutton suet , four ounces of lard and two ounces of new bec"s wax and olive oil , dissolve over the file , mixing well , aud apply it to the leather. It is a great mistake to use lemon , vinegar or any acid for cleaning brass trays-or other brass articles or mount ings ; they look bright for a day or two ami then get dull. Nothing is so good as sweet oil and putty powder , follow ed by soap and water. As the frieze has generally as much to do with the appearance of the room as the paper , great care should be used in selecting. Recollect that the frieze is not exposed to so bright a light as wallpaper , and consequently should ba brigater in its color. Strawberry Salad. This is simply a mixture of strawberries and red and white currants , and equal portions of each , or raspberris-s and cherries , stoned , may be added to it. It is to be eaten with sugar and cream , but these should only be put on at the List mo ment. To make brass appear antique , dis solve one ounce sal ammoniac , three ounces cream of tartor and six ounces common salt in ono pint hot water ; then add two ounces nitrate copper , dissolve in a half pint water ; mix well , and apply it repeatedly to the article by means of a brush. Baked Cucumbers Pare the cucum bers , chop them fine with a small onion ; put them on with very little water and stew for ten minutes. Prepare a rich dressing as for poultry of bread crums with herbs and yolk 01 egg ; pour off all the water from'the cucumbers ; add the dressing and one tablo-ipoonful of but ter , and bake in a deeji dish. The best plaster for a quick restora tive is to take a six inch square of com mon adhesive plaster aud sprinkle it over with cayenne pepp-r. It does not adhere to the underclothing , as the plasters that are made up with pitch are sure to do , and it "sticks" fast enough for as lonsr as is required. The yellow adhesive plaster can be purchas ed in long strips very cheaply. Compote of Strawberr.es Put half a pint of strawberry juice , or the same quantity of water and one pound of sugar into an earthern or stoneware pipkin ; place this over the fire and stir till the sugar is entirely dissolved and the syrup reaches the boiling point. Then add a quart of strawberries. Let these remain until the whole is about to boil. When the first bubble appears , pour into a china dish. When cold it is ready for use. A Nice Little Fellow. The little fellow had been in the habit of going out with his nurse , and she had a beau , who was a car-driver. Naturally , she was very careful to take that car , and the child knew her beau and all about him. When they would pass that car he always bowed and smiled , and the maid would throw a kiss to him. One day the boy was out with his mother in the carriage and suddenly he began kissmg his hand to somebody and smiling all over his face. "Who is it , child ? " asked his mother. "Mamma don't you see him ? It's Wilson. Why don't you kiss your hand to him , ma ? Maggie always does. " San Francisco Chronicle. f/j2v ROBBING THE INDIANS. Alleged Unlawful Occupation of tho Crovr Reservation bylTnvored Cattlemen , FiHoiids or tho Agent. The current number of Forest and Stream ( New York ) contains tho fol lowing : The Crow Indian reservation includes about 4,500,000 acres of land in west ern Montana south of tho Yellowstone river. Except along the river bottoms it contains little arable land and no where can farming be carried on with out irrigation. But the broad prairies , rolling foothills , and mountain parks are luxuriant with nutritious grass , and the reservation's advantages as a stock country are unsurpassed. This reser vation is all that is left to the Crows of the broad lands that once were theirs. Here they live subsisting on what tho government issues to them , for few of them have made any progress in indus trial pursuits , and there is no game left. A few of the Crows have cows which were issued to them by tho gov ernment , and they have a good many Eonies , but they have as yet done hard- / anything toward learning how to till the g'round. Over the length and breadth of the reservation the cattlemen's herds feed and fatten ou the acres which belong to the Indians. The few cows belong ing to the latter range with the thous ands owned by the whites , and are ab sorbed by them. It is the old story of the poor man's one ewe lamb which his rich neighbor coveted. The tresspassing of these cattle on the reservation is expressly forbidden by the regulations of the Indian depart ment , but under sanction of permits issued by Agent Williamson to a num ber of firms , the practice still continues. Having acquired this foothold , the cat tlemen propose to make still more sure of this great pasture land. They wish to secure it beyond a pcradventure and for all time. They desire to fasten their grip upon these lands so firmly that it can never be loosened. This is their plan : They have arranged with Uie present agent to give them permits to throw their cattle on the reserve. Having secured these permits from the agent , they have turned in the stock in large numbers and are now taking possession of the best locations. The permits which they have obtained cover the best agricultural and grazing lands on the reserve , and on these lauds the cattlemen are building permanent im provements , which will enable them to hold the land should the reservation ever be thrown open to the public and to Lluff off actual settlers. Among the firms and individuals who are alleged to have succeeded inget ting permits to throw cattle on the. re serve are the following : Briggs & Ell's , renewal of permit to graze cattle on the reservation , at 50 cents per head ; Hoskins &r McGirl. permit to graze bulls on the reservation when not needed with the cows that graze north of the Yellowstone ; Ash , permit to graze a small band of cattle on the reservation. It is believed that there is no law for this permit system which is being car ried out by Agent Williamson , and that any cattleman has as much right to turn lils cattle on the reservation as those who have these permits. It is stated by those who are perfect ly familiar with the reservation that Nelson Storey , of Bozeman , is building a permanent ranch on the reservation near Pryor mountains , and that he has a permit to graze his cattle on the re serve. Whether he has such permit or not his cattle are there by thousands. So also are those belonging to I. K. Dillworth , making with those of Storey perhaps twenty thousand in all. Last winter and spring they dotted the whole country between Pryor river and the western boundary of the reserve. Storey iiad then a hay ranch and cor rals on Clark's fork. Several of the cattlemen have boasted that they have the reservation securely in their power. It is not only the cattlemen who are encroaching on the reservation , for Thomas Barry , a sheepman of Hock Creek , stated last spring that he had a permit to graze his band of 6,000 on the reservation up to June. On the south , a cattleman of Wyo ming , H. C. Lowell , whose stock ranges on Sage creek and Stinking Water , takes advantage of his prox imity to the reservation to graze his cattle there , too. As the case stands at present , the cattfemen seem in a fair way to gain absolute control of the res ervation. This control will not benelit the Indians , who are at present una ware of this state of things aud would strenuously object were they not de ceived in the matter , and when the time comes for throwing open the reserva tion the desirable locations will be found to be all occupied by the cattlemen , who will find some means of holding on to them. The people and press of the Yellowstone valley are very silent on this matter , for the great cattle firms interested have too much influence to be openly resisted. The greater portion of the reserva tion is now under the control of the cattlemen. The Crows receive little or nothing in return , certainly not enough to pay them for the risk to their own small bands of cows and horses which are certain to be ab sorbed by the herds of the white men. The reservation should not be thus tak en away from the Indians without their consent and handed over to the con trol of the rich cattle firms , who , if they once fairly become established iu it , will with difficulty be removed. A searching investigation of this whole matter ought to be instituted by the interior department. If the agent has any authority for issuing these per mits it ought to be at once removed , and the ajrent too. He Soared Above It "Hello Jim , " said a gentleman to a friend whom he met on the top of a mountain ; "what on earth arc you do ing away up here ? " "Well , you see , for many years I have been 'under a cloud' in Chicago , and I thought 1 would get out from under it , if but for an hour , to sec how it seems , so I came up here , and am last above the clouds. " National Weekly , Knowledge With Intolliercnce. A man may liavo intelligence , and can scarcely be without knowledge. A man may have a good deal ol knowl edge and hardly have much intelligence. We see multitudes coming out of our colleges every year with a good deal of knowledge and very little common sense. We see men that have plunder ed right and left through the whole of history and in all directions ; but they are not intelligent men after all. They do not know what to do with' it , and they are no more rich ih knowledge than the ass that carries gold from tho mine to the mint is a rich ass. But where one has both intelligence and knowledge and where he is growing in them both , that is a transcendently noble thing. It is said , in the eager ness of some men for religion , that in telligence , or education , without re ligion , is prejudicial : and it has even been said that intellience without re ligion is educated vice. Truth is sacri ficed here to a phrase. It is the di rect tendency of intelligence and knowledge to produce morality. _ I aver , without fear of contradiction , that if you take the statistics of vice and of terrible crime you will find that by far the largest number of those that have stumbled" the threshold of lifo and are ruined for life were men with out knowledge and without any reason able degree of education. They are poor , ignorant creatures , that have fol " lowed "their passions. I declare that ii education , or the development of tho knowing parts of a man , gives to him so large a view.of the field of life that he is more likely to see that morality is safety , than if he were ignorant ; and that the general fact stands proved that intelligence and knowledge tend on the whole by immense measure toward I goodness , respectability , virtue and morality. So that if we shall grow in knowledge and grow in aptitude for in telligence and knowledge , we shall make a long stride away from animal- ' ism and from the dangers that beset the passions and the appetites of human life. life.There There is , therefore , in our great land , a good deal of reason why we should bring to bear on all classes of men the sweat } * laborer of the farm , the dusty men at the smithy or in the mine , everywhere , up and down , through society we should exhort men to abate their passions and to learn pleasure out of the development of in tellect and knowledge. There is no reason in this land why men should be ignorant except original limitations of capacity. We arc a reading people , and if we were a thinking people in the same ratio with which we read we should be a very wise people. The food for knowledge was never so abundant. Henry Ward Beccher. How to Tell Counterfeits. ' The United States Treasury Depart- ment has , of late years , adopted for bonds and currency , a peculiar paper described below , and which is deemed a stronger protection against counter feiters than that used by the Bank of England , which has recontly been dan gerously counterfeited iu 50 , 100 and 500 notes. As the first issue of greenbacks , which were not printed on liber paper , weie most dangerously counterfeited , but have almost wholly disappeared from circulation , therefore , receive them with great caution , or refuse them if in doubt about their gonu iicuess. All other genuine greenbacks , gold and silver certificates ami later issues of national bank notes are printed on the government fiber paper ; the first kind with the liber distributed in short pieces localized with a blue tint , de tected by picking it with a pen ; the other with the fiber iu two parallel threads , red and blue' silk , running' lengthwise through the note , seeu by holding the note up to the liuht. ; The public are cautioned not to draw these threads out of the paper. If in doubt about the genuineness of an } * bank note in the report refuse it unless printed on government liber paper. All national bank notes not in. this report are gcnnne , whether printed on government paper or not. * The counterfeit § 10 and § 20 silver certificates are not on government pa per. per.Some of the counterfeit $5. $10 and $20 greenbacks ( series of 1875) and $50 and $500 ( series of 1SG9) ) are an imita tion distributed fiber paper. Very dan gerous. These are all the counterfeits on the new greenbacks worth noticing. Better refuse all twenties , fifties and one hundreds , on the banks in this re port , unless printed on the government paper. All genuine bank notes , having brown back and seal , have both kinds of the fiber paper combined ; while the counterfeit $10. on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati , O. , and the photo- grapic counterfeit $5 , on the First Na tional Bank of Milwaukee , Wis. , have no fiber. These t\vo are the. only coun terfeits on the Brownbaeks. Better refuse all pieced notes. All United States currency having a brown seal has the parallel threads or cables. All United States currency printed since 1SG9 is on government fiber pa per. per.There are in circulation a great man } * very dangerous counterfeit $10 greenbacks , dated 1875. All the gen uine of that date are on distributed fiber paper. Strength and Diet. The Roman soldiers , who built-such wonderful roads and carried such a weight of armor and luggage that would crush the average farm hand , lived on coarse brown bread and sour wine. They were temperate in diet , regular and "constant in exercise. The Spanish peasant works every day and dances half the night , yet eats only his black bread , onion and watermelon. The Smyrna porter eats only a little fruit and sonic olives. He eats no beef , pork or mutton , yet he walks off with his load ' of 800 po'imds. The coolie , fed on rice , is more active and can endure more than the negro fed on fat meat. The heavy work of the world is not done bv men who eat the greateit quantity. The fastest or longest-winded horse is not the biggest eater. Moderation in diet seems to be the prereqiusite for en durance.