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ROBERT GO0D Editor and Prop
Valentine
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Chinas prospecls of being civilized
off the face of the earth seem to be im
proving every day
It is annouuced that Mrs Naclc hac
been converted Thats all very good
hut it doesnt let her out
The end of high flying in various lines
of activity often tends to emphasize the
fact about riches having wings
That man Holland who has invented
41 submarine boat would be a valuable
addition to the crew of the Texas
An Austrian mechanic has invented a
means whereby he says she can see
around the world Possibly its all in
Lis eye
Great Britains declaration that she
want Hawaii gives some idea
of what a strange place Hawaii
must be
That Kentucky woman canvasser
who gives a kiss with every book she
ells has set a precedent and a danger
ous precedenr too
The pianist Hoffman was recently
injured by falling from his bicycle
And yet Hoffman ought to understand
the use of the pedals
Powderlys nomination was confirm
ed without any hitch Any name which
5s three fourths powder commands in
stant respect nowadays
An Ohio militia colonel hasordered all
his troops to be accinated The sur
geon finds difficulty in bringing the
boys up to the sticking point
It is discouraging to learn that the
Duke of Veragua thinks poorly of a
country which with all its faults pro
vided 10000 entertainments for a 10
luke
A student of philology asserts that
there are only forty six separate and
listiuct sounds in the English language
It is evident that that investigator nev
er has heard a typical college yell
In these troublous times the new
woman should make no ostentatious
display of her belligerency The most
beautiful young -woman in the world
Miss Yenus de Milo has a marble heart
and never goes armed
A paper in Belfast Maine says that
Robert Smith was struck by the
dsouth bound passenger train last night
iind instantly killed Mr Smith it will
be remembered met with a similar ac
cident about a jear ago near Scarboro
A woman in Pennsylvania has invent
ed and patented a device which she
calls a fly escape The principal fea
ture of it is a hole in a wire window
eereen through which a fly imprisoned
5n a room can crawl to freedom We
are afraid it will be utilized only by
flies which have taken a high school
course in logic and deduction
The spirit of a famous university is
eaid to be that it looks at a man for
-what he is and at things for what they
are Much may be forgiven a Presi
dent of the United States for his manly
reply to a question concerning his coat
of arms My fathers shirtsleeves
was the quick retort when he fought
m Bunker Hill
Tliis much seems to be pretty well es
tablished that the Alaskan gold fields
from the very nature of their location
tire destined to exact a terrible tribute
of suffering sickness and death from
the multitudes of expectant mortals
that are flocking so eagerly and unad
visedly to them and that men not en
dowed with great endurance nor bless
ed with the health and vigor of young
manhood are running a fearful risk in
staking their hopes and their future
prospects on striking it rich in the
Klondike
All Americans except those who im
port their linen from abroad and those
who wear only flannel shirts are now
io wear the manacles of a new trust
They must put their necks in its yolce
und their wrists through its darbies
for it is a collar and cuff trust It
jnanipulates also the biled shirt Its
lieadquarters are at Troy N Y long
the seat of the largest collar and cuff
industries in the world but it is to gob
ble up the minor concerns all over the
country Nothing has been said about
advancing prices but a glance at the
dudes oil the street will reveal the fact
that collars are higher than ever
Reservoirs upon the Nile for the stor
age and control of the waters of that
river upon which the prosperity of
Egypt largely depends are to be se
cured by the construction of great dams
at Assuan and Assiut The Khedive
lias made a contract with engineers
who agree to have the entire work done
within five years at a cost of about
24000000 The principal dam will be
0000 feet long and the reservoir which
it creates will hold more than 1400000
O00 cubic yards of water This system
of storage is expected to provide
against seasons of low Nile floods to
mitigate the violence of exceptional
floods and to extend greatly the area
of cultivable land
From a statement made by a Chi
cago paper and widely copied it ap
pears that during the last four years
the annual average of murders commit
ted In the United States has exceeded
Ten thousand In this statement all
eases of homicide are massed indis
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criminately a murders but murder
in the legal sense implies deliberate
malice It is shown that of the cases
reported ninety three Avere killed by
insane persons two hundred and twenty-five
iu defence of life or property
and forty six hundred and thirty eight
were the results of brawls or quarrels
while twenty six hundred and fifty
five are set down as of unknowr
causes With all deductions or explana
tions the record of bloodshed is a na
tional disgrace and may Avell be calied
alarming but the force of facts is
never strengthened by exaggeration
The Supreme Court of Indiana has re
cently rendered a decision which is of
great interest to employes on railways
and to all other mechanics who upon
entering a service sign an agreement
releasing employers from all damages
in case of injury from defective ma
chinery or negligence of a co employe
A state of law was passed iu 1897 un
der which railways became liable for
damages to an employe when the in
jury resulted from defective machinery
or the carelessness of a fellow employe
over whose appointment they had no
control In the case in question a rail
way company was sued by an employe
for the loss of a hand and the defense
set up was that this employe had sign
ed a contract in which he expressly
waived all claims against the company
in case of bodily injury Further than
this it was shown on the trial that the
man had joined a relief society com
posed of employes of the road and that
by reason of his injury he had already
received from the society the sum of
385 on account of his loss The court
held that the waiver of claim for dam
ages was void and the fact that the
State had by law provided for the re
covery of damages by an employe
estopped him from releasing his em
ployer from liability While this is a
long way in advance of any previous
ruling in such cases the court based its
decision upon the rule which is well
established that a railroad cannot re
lease itself from liability to passengers
by a contract printed upon the back of
a ticket even when it has been signed
by the purchaser The drift of legal
decisions is that corporations cannot
avoid liability for injuries received by
employes in their service in cases
where there is no negligence on the
part of the employe It would seem
to be a shortsighted policy to oppose
such a construction of the law for men
would be less likely to enter the em
ployment of a corporation which
should make such an engagement de
pend upon a waiver of all claims for
damages he might sustain arising out
of the culpable negligence of the cor
poration itself or some of its agents
A boy of 1G and a little girl were
walking down a street of a New York
town a few weeks ago when the girl
suddenly screamed and her coinpanior
saw that a wire hanging from a pole
had brushed against her face and sear
ed it Grasping the wire in his hand to
pull it away from the child he dropped
dead at her feet Investigation show
ed that a wire from the telephone cir
cuit in falling had crossed an electric
light wire and thus had become charg
ed -with the powerfuldii rent Ignor
ant of all this the boy had -with man
ly instinct sought to relieve the child
It doubles the sadness of the result to
know that if his instinct had been
trained to modern conditions he would
have caught the child away from the
wire instead of touching it himself
and that the sacrifice of his life was
needless The extraordinary preva
lence of the electric wire imposes the
knowledge of two facts upon cvory
person bordering upon civilization
facts which have to do with life and
death for oneself and those about one
The first concerns prevention Every
man woman and child should be
taught to avoid touching a wire hang
ing in the air or lying upon the ground
The probabilities are that it is harm
less The possibilities are that it is
deadly It may be alive in itself or
it may be so lightly charged as to be
harmless in itself but deadly through
having fallen upon a live wire Who
ever sees a hanging wire should trace
its source and if it seems dangerous
keep guard that no person or animal
touches it and veport it instantly to
the authorities Prevention is better
than cure but every one should know
also that a person struck down by elec
tricity is not invariably past resuscita
tion Several extraordinary cases are
on record where after even two hours
of seeming death latent life has been
revived A young electrician in Titts
field Massachusetts accidentally re
ceived in his body three times as many
volts as are used iu putting criminals
to death and lay apparently dead For
tunately there was one near by who
knew enough to insist on experiment
ing with the methods used in restoring
the drowned After a time which
seemed eternity the breath came with
a flutter and increased in strength till
the man was restored Both of these
incidents might be multiplied but they
are sufficient if they impress our read
ers with the vital facts of prevention
and cure in electrical casualties
Peculiarities of Women
Women pin from left to right men
from right to left Women button from
right to left men from left to right
Women stir from left to right their
tea for instance men from right to
left Women seldom know the differ
ence between a right and left shoe and
if a housemaid brings up a mans boots
she will nine times out of ten place
them so that the points will diverge
Darkest Europe
A Leipsic professor delivered a lec
ture the other day on Darkest Europe
Upper Albania where the custom of
blood feud costs the country 3000 lives
a year and makes most people afraid to
leave their village
STATE OF NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON
DENSED FORM
The Parole System for Mildly In
sane in Vogue at the gtate Hos
pital Is Working Well Benefits
Both the State and Patient
Parole for Mildly Insane
The parole system at the Lincoln Hos
pital for the Insane whereby convalescent
or mild patients may be sent out of the in
stitution and placed in tlie care of friends
lias proven to be a wise provision in the
regulation of the hospital not only mak
ing room for new patients hut lessening
the expense on those who are afflicted with
only a mild form of insanity After a
medical report is made by the physicians
the state board inquires into the case and
allows the patient to be paroled with some
responsible party usually a relative for
the period of njnety days the state during
this time being relieved of all expenses
At the end of the ninety days the patient
may be returned to the hospital if the de
rangement is such as to make him un
manageable or unsafe to be left unre
strained If no application is made for a
return to the institution however a final
discharge is given When patients are
brought back at the end of the parole
term the expenses must be paid by the
outside partici up to the lime that the
patient is received back into the institu
tion The release of patients on parole
before final discharges are made often has
a good effect in bringing about a complete
cure
But there are instances where the parole
system is abused One has come to the
attention of the management of the asy
lum which required prompt action A
Swede girl was paroled to her brother-in-law
People in the neighborhood said she
was abused forced to work in the field
like a man Dr Abbott inquired into the
matter found out that the reports of ill
treatment were true ami telegraphed the
authorities of the county to immediately
take the girl away from the custody of the
brother-in-law and provide for her until
further arrangements could be made The
letters received by Dr Abbott iu response
to his inquiry showed that the brother-in-law
had secured the parole of the girl in
order that he might have her lake the
place of a hired hand on the farm
NEW SHEEP SHEARING PLANT
One of the Industries Brought Into
Prominence at Lincoln
The new plant for shearing and dipping
sheep which was added to Ihe Lincoln
stock yards last October is now handling
a large business and is becoming one of
important industries of that section of the
slate In the shearing department from
six to ten men are employed and eacli one
shears on an average of 103 sheep per day
These men are all experts and at the rate
of 9 cents for each sheep their pay runs
from 8 to 950 each per day The iieece
of the sheep being shorn at this time in
the season weighs about six pounds per
head and is sold on the market at It cents
per pound After the clip they are dip
ped then placed on feed in the yards for
a time and then sold to the feeders or are
shipped east Each animal yields almost
a dollars worth of wool and lie average
price obtained for them when sold to feed
ers is a53each
Sheep that have the scab are almost
worthless as wool producers as their con
tinual rubbing and scratching pulls off
nearly all the wool In order to cure the
scabby sheep that come into the yards as
well as to guard the healthy ones from in
fection a dipping plant has been put in
where all the sheep that are sent to the
range are first dipped and rendered secure
from the scab for the coming season
A great number of the sheep that arc
dipped are brought in from the range by
the owners who have them cured of the
rcab or made proof against it for the sea
son and are then taken back to the pas
tures The charge for the dip is 1 cent per
head making it an inexpensive operation
Where the sheep are left in the yard ten
days in order that they bedippel twice the
charge is 5 cents per head for Ihe dipping
and the feed
13 n counter with a Tramp
Perry Reynolds brakeman on passenger
train No 5 which leaves Ashland at 935
in the morning for Denver had a desper
ate tussel with a tramp the other day as
the train was pulling out of the Burliug
lon and Missouri yards The tramp was
determined to ride but Reynolds succeeded
in keeping him ufruutil the train was well
under motion As the brakeman jumped
on the tramp threw a rock at him hitting
him with sufficient force to knock him
from the train and he narrowly escaped
falling under the wheels The tramp
escaped
Boy Has a Narrow Escape
Willie Pollard aged 8 years and his
sister older were in the pit of the Omaha
elevator at Silver Creek pushing down
corn when Willie was drawn down too
near the buckets His sister being unabie
to hold him back called to their father
who tends the elevator for help lie came
none too soon shut of the grain just in the
nick of time found the boy buried about
three feet in the grain and finally got him
out unconscious
Badly Hurt
Bart Miner 19 years old employed in
he railroad office at Table Hock went to
Pawnee Cily and while attempting to
board a sand train for Table Rock lost
his footing and fell beneath the train and
was struck on the head fracturing his
skull across the crown Two small pieces
of bono were removed His right arm
from elbow to wrist was badly lacerated
Will a deep cut
Kicked by a Horse
Chare- E Dinsmore one of the pro
prietors of the Hastings Milling Company
was kicked in the head by a horse Phy
sicians pronounce hisinjuiies fatal
Xo Chautauqua This Year
Secretary D L Whitney announces
that there will be no Chautauqua held at
Beatrice this year
Warlike Spirit at IMattsmouth
Excilemedt over Hie Cuban situation is
high at Ilaltsnioutli II G Livingston
son of lb late Captain Livingston has
opened a recruiting station and is fast en
rolling a company for service in the antici
pated war
Went with the Soldiers
Two of the patriotic students of Bellevue
College V E Ilannon and Chester Clark
look French leave the other day and went-
smith with the twenty second infantry
Friends will endeavor to locate Clark who
is a minor and have him return home
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FIRE AT HOSPITAL FOR INSANE
Chapel and Kitchen of Norfolk In
stitution Destroyed
Fire broke out at the state hospital for
the insane at Norfolk and it was only by
the heroic efforts of the attendants assisted
by the fire department that serious conse
quences were avoided The fire started in
a woodhouse adjoining the building used
for a chap il and kitchen but this was
soon subdued by the attendants and the
attendants retired lo bed Soon however
fire broke out in the chapel and kitchen
and burned as it was fanned by a
strong wind The water supply at the
hospital is quite limited and the burning
building could not be saved though the
fire was kept from spreading to the main
building in which the patients were con
fined and also kept from the other build
ings Everything was done in an orderly
manner to remove the patients in case it
should become necessary the only trouble
being among the parole patients The
more violent ones were easily controlled
The loss is estimated at about 5000 with
no insurance
McKey Brothers Discharged
The preliminary hearing at Falls City of
Thomas and James McKey for the alleged
murder of Ollivcr S Jones near Argo on
the 9lh inst was held last week The
only evidence brought against the McKey
brothers was that on the day of the mur
der the had passed the house of
Jones in going from their home to
their fathers and stoppe I at one
of Jones nearest neighbors about the time
the act was committed Over a year ago
the McKey boys and Jones had a few
words over the loading of a gun It was
loaded heavy and Jones accused the
younger brother of loading it to blow hs
Jones head off The boys had been
living with Jones and left him about that
time The judge thought the evidence
was not strong enough lo bind them over
and discharged them
Western Nebraska Teachers
The sixth annual convention of the
Western Nebraska Educational Associa
tion was held last week at Sidney There
was a good attendance and much interest
manifested Among prominent educators
present were W F McDowell D D
chancellor University of Denver W R
Jackson state superintendent J W
Crab tree state inspector of high schools
The associations officers are President
W P Killen Lodgepole secretary Min
nic Chase Sidney treasurer BKBushee
Kimball Executive committee J C
Orr North Platte Mrs Rosa Dodds
Chappell
No Extra Session
Gov Ilolcomb has been interviewed on
tin probability of an extra session of the
legislature He said that the emergency
had not yet arrived Nebraska was able
to at once equip and place its entire
national guard at the disposal of the gov
ernment and until some further call is
made it would be unwise to make any
move toward an extra session The
emergency might come soon and the stale
would respond in the proper manner
Edward Lnrcnz Acquitted
Perhaps the most exciting trial in the
history of lied Willow County ended at
McCook last week when Edward Lorenz
was acquitted of the charge of murdering
Michael Travers This is the second trial
the case having been remanded back for a
rehearing by the supreme court On the
first trial Lorenz was found guilty and
given a life sentence The jury was out
only two and one half hours
Want New County Buildings
A petition containing 1003 names was
presented to the board of county commis
sioners at Auburn asking them to call a
special election to vote bonds to the
amount of 60000 to build a court house
and jail at Nemaha County The com
missioners ea led the special election for
the 28th day of May The call was mado
for 5J000 for court house and 10000 for
jail
Burglars at Aurora
Some parlies as yet unknown supposed
to be tramps entered the residence of tx
State Senator Mighell of Aurora while the
family was out and after helping them
selves to the contents of the cupboard
ransacked the house for valuable taking
some jewelry and what little money Mrs
Mighell had iu the house and then left for
parts unknown
Attempted Suicide
Timothy Cliff of Auburn tired a bullet
into his brain with suicidal intent He
came to this country from France in 187S
Despondency from excessive drinking is
supposed lo be the cause of his act
Nebraska Short Notes
Falls City has a daily paper
The Ponca creamery has opened for bus
iness
Burglars last week made a 200 haul at
Fremont
Arapaho2 is enjoying a building boom
this spring
A Zeplin of West Point died iu conse
quence of injuries received by the kick of
a horse
Great numbers of pelicans passed up the
river at Loup City Saturday evening and
Sunday morning
The minstrel show given by the Wynwre
women was a grand success and was by
far the most important social event of the
season
The Arcadia Champion is authority for
the statement that a four foot vein of coal
has been struck near Ansley at a depth of
200 feet
hi one hour after the opening of the re
cruiting office at Gordon last week twenty
persons had attached their names to the
roll of honor
George Ritterbush who was sentenced a
year ago to ihe penitentiary pardoned
and returned home last week committed
suicide at Crookston by shooting himself
A gang of tramps at Dubois built a fire
iu a box car in older to keep warm They
got up a litilu more beat than they ex
pected hut skipped out before they could
be apprehended
Tccumsebs city council at its last lcgu
lar meeting passed an ordinance giving
the salaries of city officials a sweeping re
duction It is said that some of the in
coming officers will not qualify
A fight is on between the papers of Ne
braska City over the publication of the
notices for liquor licenses
Captain II O Evaus of Company E at
North Platte has issued a call for twenty
volunteers The intention is to enlist
enough men to bring the number in the
company up to 05 the full number allowed
by the governor
A reward of 1890 is offered for the ar
rest and conviction of James Dallon Ed
Boyal and Tom Taylor who broke jail at
Marysville Kan just over the Nebraska
line atler Dealing tne deputy siieriir
Charles B Batlerson
that he died
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Next time Gen Lee calls on Captaic
General Blanco he will use a loudej
knocker Philadelphia Ledger
Grape shot monopolizes the popular at
tention which the peach crop usually
claims at this time of year Washington
Star
The blowing up of the Maine can nc
more be downed or put in the background
than could Banquos ghost Salt Lakt
Herald
Gen Lee is safe ont of Havana And
when he returns at the head of an Amer
ican army he will be safe in Havana
Cincinnati Tribune
In the matter of privateering if Spain
proposes to indulge in it we shall have
something to say to Spains private ear
New York AVorld
Perhaps this is a good time to remember
that seventy of the Maine victims are still
lying at the bottom of Havana harbor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The fact that nobody was hurt in that
scrimmage in Congress is likely to give
the Spaniards another supply of overcon
iidence Milwaukee Sentinel
It might not be a bad idea lo send a few
Comanche Indians to Cuba just to teach
Spain a few of the amenities of civilized
warfare St Paul Dispatch
Neither this country nor Cuba may be
any better off from the Senate oratory
but the Senators themselves feel a great
deal better Kansas City Journal
The cruiser New Orleans has no steam
heating apparatus but it will be able to
make it hot enough for the Spanish if
The time has arrived when Spain can
materially add to the enduring powers of
her naval forces by the purchase of a few
first class lifeboats Milwaukee Sentinel
A great deal may be tolerated in legis
lators but its certainly not parliamentary
to make a motion to lay one of the oppo
sition on the table or the floor Philadel
phia Times
Lillian Russell wants to be an army
nurse With Lillian acting in that capac
ity there would be a great incentive for
the men to keep out of the hospitals
Washington Post
By placing his flag on our consulate
John Bull is performing about the same
office as the man who holds the coat of a
friend while the latter whips his enemy
Washington Post
Probably there is more or less truth in
Senator Hoars statement that submarine
mines like that which blew tip the Maine
are not kept for playthings in private fain
Pies in Havana Boston Herald
Bobert Emmets epitaph has not been
written but the time is near at hand when
a monument will stand over the graves of
the Maines bailors and the monument
will rest upon free soil Omaha World
Herald
This will be the history of the war
Uncle Sam Git
Sagasta Nit
And then they fit
And Spain juir
Boston Globe
WHEAT ALL RIGHT
Good Growth and Development Over
About the Whole Area
The past week was marked by tempera
aires but slightly differing from the nor
nal at the beginning of the period rather
jelow and later rather above Rainfall
ivas received quite generally throughout
he Ohio valley but not enoigh to incon
venience farming operations No radical
change marks the wheat situation except
iii California where every day without
unple rainfall in the San Joaquin valley
appreciably diminishes the cro possibili
ties of the State
East of the Rocky Mountains the actual
vhanges in the situation have been small
Wherever there are any reports of pres
ent accruing damage they represent but
very small areas and are of little conse
quence when the tield is viewed at lare
A few low bottoms Hooded in the valleys
Df the Ohio tributaries and an occasional
jomphtint of lack of moisture in south
ern Kansas and in Texas make up the
sum of complaint Against this there has
been continued growth and development
over almost the whole area so that the
wonderful improvement which was noted
during the month of March has been con
tinued in a less marked degree during
April up to date Two weeks ago there
was a little talk of plowing up some fields
in Ohio not because of any winter kill
ing but because the crop was unprofita
bly thin on the ground from failure to
germinate Recent moist growing weath
er has practically put a stop to this talk
and with the exception of small areas
where there was no germination at all it
may be said that there will be almost no
plowing up of wheat iields
Seeding of spring wheat is progressing
rapidly under circumstances almost uni
formly favorable In this respect the
season is remarkably early and seeding is
now being prosecuted in the more north
ern portion of the belt at least a month in
advance of last year Over the whole dis
trict the ground is working well soft and
friable and with no rains to interfere
with the work As far north as southern
Minnesota and South Dakota the bulk
of the acreage is now iu and the area
seeded is limited only by the desires of
growers There are districts in southern
Minnesota and in Iowa which a dozen
years ago were great wheat centers and
in which since that time the crop has
dwindled down to nothing where the
acreage seeded this spring will make
wheat the dominant crop this year The
same thing is largely true in Nebraska
and these three districts generally over
looked in wheat calculations in recent
years are likely to prove large factors in
this years wheat aggregate Oats seed
ing has continued under generally favor
able conditions interrupted a little in
some parts of the Ohio valley by local ex
cesses of moisture but elsewhere with no
special drawbacks
Spring work in general and corn plant
ing in particular are decidedly in advance
of a normal season and very greatly
ahead of last year With the exception
of low bottom lands in parts of the Ohio
valley there has been no break in plow
ing during the past week and unless
weather conditions now become radically
unfavorable the corn crop will be planted
much earlier than usual Early crop is
in such a manner AiP n Texas and planting is under way
in Oklahoma and southern Kansas
A MODERN DEMIGOD
An English Cnptain Deified by War
lovintr Tribca in India
The crushing defeat of -the Sikhs at
Gujrat Feb 21 1849 gave the Punjab
to England Capt John Nicholson was
appointed deputy commissioner of the
district where his name was soon in
every mouth The popular fancy cap
tivated by his fiery courage and ubiqui
tous energy magnified him into the
foremost hero of the war and ascribed
to him everything great or gallant
achieved by English arms
Then began the transformation of the
popular hero into a god a process as
natural to a Hindu with his plurality
of gods and ordered hierarchy of heav
enly beings as It was to the old Greeks
who translated their heroes into demi
gods A Hindu devotee or gosain dis
covered in Nicholson a new avatar or
incarnation of the Brahmanic godhead
and at once began to preach the- wor
ship of the new god Nikalsnin Five
or six of his brother gosains accepted
the new creed and the sect of Nikal
sains became a historical fact
Nicholson writes his biographer
Captain Trotter treated this kind of
apotheosis with unexpected vigor of
speech and arm He drove the believ
ers in it from his presence by tiireats
and Hoggings They came back to fall
at his feet and worship him as the
great god Nikalsain and took their
punishment as martyrs When he ban
ished them from the city they retired
to their monastery among the hilLs and
at once renewed their worship of the
relentless hero
One day three years after the last
banishment and flogging of his devo
tees while Nicholson was holding court
at Peshawar several fakirs entered the-court-room
and prostrated themselves
at his feet Nicholson resenting their
adoration ordered the sheriff to whip
the leader and sent them all away
with a warning never to molesit him
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When these Nikalsain worshipers
heard of their heros death at Delhi
they gathered to lament their loss One
of them stood forth There is no gain
from living in a world which no longer
holds Nikalsain said he and deliber
ately cutting his throat died there
Tlunt is not the way to serve our
great guru master said another ad
dressing his fellow devotees If we
hope to see him again iu a future state
and wish to please him while we live
in this world we must learn to worsliip
Nikalsains God
The rest applauded and several of
the devotees started immediately for
Peshawar and finding the missionary
stationed there told him of their dVsi re
Seeing that they were seeking the Un
known God he Instructed them in the
first principles of Christianity Within
a year they asked to be baptized that
they might publicly profess their faith
in Nicholsons God The missionary i
satisfied that several of them under
stood what they asked for and were
sincere baptized them
The most ignorant depraved antl
bloodthirsty people in the Punjab were
the Banuchis a Mohammedan tribe
John Nicholson was appointed to rule
over them after Edwards and lite
troops had knocked down the walls of
their forts He reduced the people to
good order and to a wholesome respect
for the laws so that in the last year
of his rule there was not a case of mur
der burglary or highway robbery
Such a revolution so impressed the
Banuchis that they spoke of Nicholson
as every inch a hakim master and
concluded that the good Mohammedans
of historic ages must have been like
Nikalsain
The old Sikhs when showing a visit
or over the battlefield of Gujrat where
their army was defeated used to be
gin their narrative by saying Nichol
son stood just there
But the most emphatic testimony tr
Nicholsons power over the war lik
classes of India is the fact that within
ten years after his death an En glial
captain heard several wandericr mir
Btrels chanting a ballad in Punjab tc
the praise of the hero in the stro is of
the city he had died to take These men
sang for their livelihood and the bal
lad must therefore have been a popu
lar song in the city of Delhi The sen
timent of the Nikalsain worshipers re
appears n the last four lines of the bal
lad
We ceaseless pray the warriors
with all a soldiers love
God
That He would make brave Nicholas a
prince in heaven above
Oh godlike chieftain Nicholson our chil
dren lisp thy name
ThonIt not forget the Khalsas fighters
prayers their babies prate try name
Mercenary Marriajrrs
In this materialistic age much is said
in favor of so called mercenary mar
riages In justification of them r is
urged that as the rich may inspire an
honest affection quite as readily as the
poor it is the part of wisdom to select
a matrimonial partner from the more
fortunate class So the romantic beings
who live to love and to whom love is
life this seems hard reasoning but
there is no doubt that money mitigates
many unhappy marital conditions and
even if one repents of his choice it is
better as Thackeray wittily said to
repent in a coach and four
People Had to Talk About It
Mr Willieboy You say Miss Fad
dington paid me a high compliment last
night What was it
Miss Turlison She said you talked
for nearly a minute and a half at a
stretch without referring to a single
clever thing that you had done or said
Theres lots of cross tongued people
in this world they talk one way anu
think another
Bacon says that reading maketh a
full man So does eating bacon
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It is a long head that knows no turn
ing when a pretty girl passes
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