PL ATTS M () (JTi 1 WEEKLY" HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1887.
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
REV. DR. T. DEWITT TALMAGE'S STIR
. RING ADDRESS
To the Militiamen from Thirty-oue State
nnd Territory In Camp at Vlilng
. ton Drilled Soldiery Superior to the
( Undrllled.
WAsnixoTOX, May 29. Boldiera of tho
national drill listened thin afternoon to a
ftornion by the Rev. T. DoWitt Talningo, D.
1). KoMiera from thirty-one statea ami terri
tories wore i)rai;iit, and nineteen governors
nnd their stairs. Washington Ut full of Btran
gers attendant uikui the national drill, having
for its object improvement in inilitiiry ucience,
which began May and will close to
morrow. Tho music lefore and after the
sermon this afternoon was conducted by mili
tary bands. Dr. Talmage'a texts were taken
from I Chronicles xii, 83, "Fifty thousand
which could keep rank;" and Judges xx, 16,
"Every one could sling atones at a hair
breadth and not miss." The preacher paid:
Companies of infantry, cavalry, artillery
and Zouaves, please notioo tho fiiut Scripture
passage applauds tho soldiers of Zebulun be
cause they were disciplined troo. They
may have been inefllcieiit at tho start and
laughed at by old soldiers becauso they
Bceined so clumsy in the lino, but it was drill,
drill, drill until they could keep step as ono
man. "Fifty thousand which could keep
rank." The second Scripture passage ap
plauds a regiment of slingers In the tribe of
Benjamin becauso they are dexterous marks
men. When they first enlisted they may
have been an awkward squad and all their
fingers were thumbs, but they practiced until
when they aimed at a mark they always hit
it. "Evorv one could slinz stones at a hair
breadth and not miss."
Ing to show us that If
Both texts combin
vve must fight wo
should do it welL
There is something absorbing in the military
science of the Bible. In oldon times all the
men between 120 and 50 years of ago were
enrolled in the army, and then a levy was
made for a special service. Thero were only
throo or four classes exempt; tlioso who had
built a house and had not occupied it; those
who had planted a garden and had not reaped
the fruit of it: those who were engaged to be
married and yet had not led tho bride to the
altar; those who were yet in the first year of
wedded life; those who were so nervous that
they could not look upon an enemy but
they fled, and could not look upon blood but
thoy fainted.
The army was in three divisions tho center
and right and left wing Tho weapons of
defense were helmet, shield, breastplate,
'ouekler. Tho weapons of offenso were sword,
epear, javelin, arrow, catapult which was
merely a bow swung by machinery, shooting
arrows at vast distances, great arrows, ono
arrow as large as several men could lift, and
ballista, which was a sling swung by machin
cry, hurling great rocks and large pieces ot
lead to vast distances. The shields were
made of woven willow work with three thick
nesses of hide and a loop inside through which
tho arm of the warrior might be thrust; and
whGn these soldiers were marching to attack
an enemy on the level, all these shields
touched each other, making a wall moving
but impenetrable; and then when they at
tacked a fortress and tried to capture a bat
tlement this shield was lifted over the head
so as to resist the f allintr missiles. Tho breast
plate was made of two pieces of leather,
brass covered, ono piece falling over the
breast, the other falling over the back. At
the side of the warrior the two pieces fast
ened with buttons or clasps.
The bows were so stout and stiff and strong
that warriors often challenged each other to
lend one. Tho strings of tho bow were made
from the sinews of oxen. A case like an in
verted pyramid was fastened to the bock,
that case containing tho arrows, so that
when the warrior wanted to use an arrow he
would put his arm over his shoulder and pull
forth the arrow for the fight. Tho ankle of
the foot had an iron boot. When a wall was
to bo assaulted a battering ram wa3 brought
up. A battering ram was a great beam
swung on chains in equilibrium. The batter
ing ram would bo brought close up to the
wall and then a great number of men would
take hold of this beam, push it back as far as
they could and then let go, and tho beam be
came a great swinging pendulum of destruc
tion.
Twentv or fortv men would stand m a
movable tower on tho back of an elephant,
the elephant made drunk with wine and then
headed toward the enemy, and what with the
heavy feet and the swinging proboscis and the
poisoned arrows shot from the movablo
tower, the destruction was appalling. War
chariots were in vogue, and they were on two
wheels, so thev could easily turn. A sword
was fastened to the pole between the horses,
so when they wont ahead the sword thrust,
and when they turned around it would mow
down. The armies carried flags beautifully
embroidered. Tribe of Judah carried a flag
embroidered with a lion; tribe of Reuben,
embroidered with a man; tribo of Dan, em
broidered with cherubim. Tho noise of the
hosts as they moved on was overwhelming.
What with the clatter of shields and tho
rumbling of wheels and the shouts of the
captains and the vociferation of the entire
Lost, the prophet says it was like tho roaring
of the sea. Because the arts of war have
been advancing all these years you are not to
conclude that these armies of olden times
were an uncontrollable mob. I could quote
you four or five passages of Scripture show
ing you that they were thoroughly drilled;
they marched step to step, shoulder to shoul
der, or. as my texts express it, they were
"Fifty thousand which could keep rank," and
"Every one could sling stones at a hair
breadth and not miss."
Nothing could be more important than
this great National encampment. Undrilied
troops can never stand before those which
are drilled. At a time when other nations
are giving such care to military tactics, it
behooves this nation to lack nothing in skilL
We shall never have another war between
north and south. The old decayed bone of
contention. African slaveryi has been cast
out. although here and there a depraved poli
tician takes it up to see if he can gnaw some
thing off of it. We are floating off further
and further from the possibility of sectional
strife, but about foreign Invasion I am not so
sure. There is absolutely no room on this
continent for any other nation. I have been
across the country again and again, and
know that we have not a half inch of ground
for the gouty foot of foreign despotism to
stand on. I do not know but that a half
dozen nations,- envious of our prosperity.
may want to give us a wrestle. During
our civil war there were two or
throe nations that could hardly keep then-
hands off of us. It is very easy to pick na
tional quarrels, and if our nation escapes it
much lonser it will be tne exception.
foreicm foe should . come we want men like
those of 1312. and like those who fought on
both sides in 1SG2. We want them all up and
Aavrn the coast. Pulaski and Fort bumter in
the same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette
and Fort Hamilton, men who will not only
know how to fight, but how to die. "When
such a time comes, if it ever does come, the
- generations on the stage of action will say:
"My country will care for my family, aj they
aid In the soldiers' asylum for the orphans
In the civil war, and my country will honor
my dust as it honors those who preceded mo
In patriotic sacrilico, and once a year at any
rnto, on Decoration Day, I shall bo res
urrected into the remembrance of thoso
for whom I died. Hero I go for God
and my country." If foreign foe should ever
come all sectional animosities would bo ob
literated. Here go our regiments into tho
battle, side by sido. Fifteenth New York
volunteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry, Four
teenth Pennsylvania riflemen, Tenth Massa
chusetts artillery. Seventh South Carolina
Bharihooters. I have no faith in tho cry:
"No north, no south, no cast, no west." Let
all four sections keep their jjeculiarities and
their preferences, each doing its own work
and not interfering with each other, each of
the four carrying its part in the great har
mony tho bass, the alto, the tenor, tho
soprano in tho grand march of the Union.
I congratulate you, the ollicers and sol
diers of this National encampment, that if a
foreign attack should at any time be niado
you would le ready, and there would bo mil
lions of tho drilled men of north and south,
like the men of my first text, which could
keep rank, and like tho men of my second
text, that would not miss a hair breadth.
At this National drill, when thirty-one
states of tho Union are represented, and le
tween tho decorations of the graves of the
southern dead, which took place a few days
ago, and the decorations of the northern dead,
which shall tako place to-morrow, I would
stir tho Christian patriotism and gratitude
not only of this soldiery hero present, but of
all the people, by putting before them the
difference between these times, when the sol
diers of all sections meet in peace, and the
times when they met in contest. Contrast
tho feeling of sectional bitterness in
1SC2 with tho feeling of sectional unity
in 18S7. At the first date the south
had banished the national air, "The
Star 8 tangled Banner," and tho north had
banished tho popular air of "Way Down
South in Dixie." The northern peoplo were
"mudsills" and the southern people woro
"whito trash." The more southern people
were killed in battle tho better the north
liked it. Tho more northern jieople were
killed in battle the better tho south liked it.
For four years tho head of Abraham Lincoln
or Jefferson Davis would have been worth
$1,000,000, if delivered on either side the lino.
No need now, standing in our pulpits and
platforms, of saying that tho north and south
did not hate each other. To estimate how
very dearly they loved each other, count up
the boml)slielIs that were hurled and tho car
bines that were loadod and tho cavalry
horses that wcro mounted, north and south
facing each other, all armed, in the attempt
to kill. Tho two sections not only marshaled
all their earthly hostilities, but tried to reach
up and get hold of the sword of heaven,
and the prayer of the northern and south
ern pulpits gave more information to the
heavens about the best mode of settling this
troublo than was ever used. For four years
both sides tried to get hold of tho Lord's
thunderbolts, but could not quite reach them.
At tho breaking out of the war wo had not
for months heard of my dear uncle, Samuel
J. Talmage, president of the Oglethorpe uni
versity, in Georgia. He was about the
grandest man I ever knew, and as good as
good could be. Tho first we heard of him
was his opening prayer in the Confederate
congress in Richmond, which was reported in
tho New York papers, which prayer, if
answered, would, to sa3' the least, have left
all his northern relatives in very uncomfort
able circumstances. The ministry at the
north prayed one way and the ministry at
the south prayed the other way. No use In
hiding the fact that the north and the south
cursed each other with a withering and all
consuming curse.
Beside that antipathy of war time I place
the complete accord of this time. Not long
ago a meeting in New York was held to raise
monay to build a home at Richmond for
crippled Confederate soldiers, and was pre
sided over by a man who lost an arm and a
leg in fighting on tho northern side, and the
leg which was not lost so hurt that it does not
amount to much. The Cotton exhibition held
not long ago at Atlanta was attended by tens
of thousands of northern people and by Gen.
Sherman, who was greeted with kindness, as
though they had never seen him before. At
the New Orleans exhibition, held two years
ago, every northern state was represented. A
thousand fold kindlier feeling after the war
than before the war. No more use for gun
powder in this country, except for rifle prac
tice or Fourth of July pyrotechnics or a shot
at a roebuck in tho Adirondacks. Brigadier
generals in the Southern Confederacy
making their fortunes as lawyers in the
northern cities. Rivers of Georgia, Ala
baraa and North Carolina turning
mills of New England capitalists. The old
lions of war, Fort Sumter and Moultrie and
Lafayette and Pickens and Hamilton, sound
asleep on their iron paws, and instead of rais
ing money to keep enemies out of our rew
York harbor, raising money for the Bartholdl
statute on Bedloe's island, figure of liberty
with uplifted torch to light the way to aP
who want to come in. Instead of war antip
athies, when you could not cross the line be
tween the contestants without fighting your
way with keen steel or getting through by
passes carefully scrutinized at every step by
bayonets, you need only a railroad ticket
from New York to Charleston or New Orleans
to go clear through, and there is no use for
any weapon sharper or stronger than a steel
pen. Since the years of time began their
roll, has there ever been in about two decades
such an overmastering antithesis a3 between
the war time of complete bitterness, and this
time of complete sympathy?
Contrast also the domestic life of those
times with the domestic life of these times.
Many of you were either leaving home or far
away from it, communicating by uncertain
letter. What a morning that was when yo
left home! Father and mother crying, sisters
crying, you smiling outside but crying inside.
Everybody nervous and excited. Boys of the
blue and gray! whether you started from the
.banks of the Hudson, or the Savannah, or the
Androscoggin, don't you remember the scenes
at the front door, at the rail car window, on
the steamboat landing? The huzza could not
drown out the suppressed sadness. Don't you
remember those charges to write home often,
and take good care of yourself, be good boys,
and the goodby kiss which they thought and
you thought might be forever? Then the
homesickness as you paced the river Dante on
a starlight night on picket duty, and the sly
tears which you wiped off when you heard a
croup at the camp fire singing the plantation
song about the old folks at home. The dinner of
hard tack on Thanksgiving Day, and the
Christmas without any presents, and the long
nights In the hospital, so different from the
sicknpss when you were at home with mother
and sister at the bedside, and the clock in the
hall, giving the exact moment for the medi
cine; and that forced march when your legs
ached, and your head ached, and your
wounds eched, and more than all, your heart
ached. Homesickness, which had in it a sut
f ocation and a pang worse than death. You
never got hardened as did the guardsman in
the Crimean war, who heartlessly wrote
home to his mother:
"I do not want to see any more crying let
ters come to the Crimea from you. Those 1
have received I put into mjf rille after load
ing it, and have fired them it the Russians,
because you appear to or" strong dislike
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I have you would not have as many weak ,
Ideas as you now have."
You never felt like that. When a soldiers
knapsack was found after his death iu the
American war there was generally a careful
package containing a Bible, a few photo
graphs and letters from home. On the other
hand tens of thousands of homes waited for
nows. Parents saying: "Twenty thousand
killed! I wonder if our boy was among
them." Fainting dead away in post offices
and telegraph stations. Both tho ears of
God fllkxl with the sobs and agonies of kindred
waiting for news, or dropping under the an
nouncement of bad news. Speak, swamps of
the Cliickahorainy, and midnight lagoons.
and fire rafts of tho Mississippi, and gunboats
before Vieksburg, and woods of Antic-tarn,
and tell to all tho mountains and valleys and
rivers and lakes of north and south, jeremiads
of war times that have never been syllabled !
Beside that domestic perturbation and.
homesickness of those days put the sweet do
mesticity of to-day. Tho only camp lire you
now ever hit at is the one kindled in stove
or furnaco or hearth. Instead of a half ration
of salt pork, n repast luxuriant because par
taken of by loving family circle and in secret
confidences. Oh, now I see who thoso letters
wcro for, tho letters you, tho young soldier,
took so long in your tent to write, nnd that
you were so particular to put in the muil
without any one seeing you lest you bo teased
by your comrades. God spared you to get
back, and though tho old people have gono
you have a homo of your own construction,
and you often contrast thoso awful absences
and filial and brotherly and loverly heart
breaks with your present residence, which is
the dearest place you will find this side of
heaven. Tho place where your children were
bom is the place where you want to die. To
write tho figures of 1802 1 set up four crystals,
crj'stals of tears. To write the figures of 18S7
I stand up four members of your household,
figures of rosy cheeks and flaxen hair, if I can
get them to stand still long enouuh.
Contrast also the religious opportunities of
twenty years ago with now. Often on the
march from Sunday morn till night, or com
manded by officers who considered the name
of God and Christ of no uso except to swear
by. Sometimes the drumhead, the pulpit and
you standing in heat or cold, all the surround
ings of military life having a tendency to
make you reckless. No privacy for prayer
o" Bible reading. No sound of church bells.
Sabbaths spent far away from the place where
you were brought up. Now, the choicest
sanctuaries, easy pew, all Christian surround
ings, the air full of God and Christ, and
heaven and doxology. Three mountains
lifting themselves into the holy light Mount
Sinai thundering its law, Mount Calvary
pleading the sacrifice. Mount Pisgah display
ing tho promised land.
Contrast of national condition: 1SC2, spend
ing money by the millions in devastation of
property and lifo; 1S87, the finances so recon
structed that all the stock gamblers of Wall
street combined cannot make a national
panic; 1SG2, surgeons of the land setting
broken bones and amputating gangrened
limbs and studying gunshot fractures and in
venting easy ambulances for the wounded
and dying; 1S87, surgeons giving their atten
tions to those in casualty of agriculture, of
commerce or mechanical lifo, the rushing of
tho ambulance through our streets, not sug
gesting battle, but quick relief of some one
fallen in peaceful industries; 1862, 85,000,000
inhabitants in this land; 1887, 55,000,000;
18G2, wheat, about 80,000,000 bushels; 18S7,
the wheat will be about 500,000,000 bushels;
1862, Pacific coast five weeks from the Atlan
tic; 1887, for three reasons, ration Pacific,
Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific, only
seven days across. Look at the long line of
churches, universities, asylums and houses
with which, during the last few years, this
land has been decorated.
Living soldiers of the north and south, take
new and special ordination at this season of
the year, to garland the sepulchers of your
fallen comrades. Nothing is too good for
their memories. Turn all the private tombs
and the national cemeteries into gardens. Ye
dead of Malvern Hill and Cold Harbor and
Murfreesboro and Manasses Junction and
Cumberland Gap and field hospital, receive
these floral offerings of the living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the dead
troops. We sometimes talk about earthly
military reviews, such as took place in Paris
in the time of Marshal Ney, in London in the
time of Wellington and in our own land, but
what tame things compared with the final re
view, when all the armies of the ages shall
pass for divine and angelic inspection. St.
John says the armies of heaven ride on white
horses, and I don't know but many of the old
cavalry horses of earthly battle, that
were wounded and worn out in ser
vice, may have resurrection. It would
bo only fair that, raised up and ennobled,
they would be resurrected for the grand
review of the judgment day. It would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and I should
be very glad to see them among the white
horses of apocalyptic vision. Hark to the
trumpet blast, the reveille of the last judg
ment! They come up. All the armies of all
lands and all centuries, on which ever side
they fought, whether for freedom or despot
ism, for the right or the wrong. They come!
They come! Darius and Cyrus, and Sennach
erib, and Joshua, and David, leading forth
the armies of scriptural times; Hannibal and
Hamilcar leading forth the armies of the
Carthaginians; Victor Emmanuel and Gari
baldi leading on the armies of the Italians;
Tamerlane and Ghengis Khan followed by the
armies of Asia; Gustavus Adolphus, and
Ptolemy Philopater, and Xerxes, and Alex
ander, and Semiramis, and Washington, lead
ing battalion after battalion. The dead
American armies of 1776 and 1S12, and
1,000,000 of northern and southern dead
in our civil war. They come up. They
pass on in review. The 6,000,000 fallen
in Napoleonic battles, the 12,000,000 Ger
mans fallen in the Thirty Years War,
the 15,000,000 fallen in the war under Sesos
tris; the 20,000,000 fallen in the war3 of Jus
tinian; the 25.000,000 fallen in Jewish wars;
the 80,000,000 fallen in "the crusades, the 1S0,
000,000 fallen in the wars with Saracens and
Turks; the 35,000,000,000 men estimated to
have fallen in battle, enough, according to
one statistician, if they stood four abreast, to
reach clear around the earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see them pass in
review before the throne of judgment the
cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the spearmen,
the infantry, the sharpshooters, the gunners,
the sappers, the miners, the archers, the
skirmishers, men of all colors, of all epaulets,
of all standards, of all weaponry, of all coun
tries. Let the earth be especially balanced to
hear their tread. Forward! Forward! Let
the orchestra of the heavenly galleries play.the
grand march, joined by all the fifers, drum
mers and military bands that ever sounded vic
tory or defeat at Eylau or Borodina, at Mara
thon or Thermopylae, Bunker Hill or York
town, Solferino or Balaclava, Sedan or Gettys
burg, from the time when Joshua halted astron
omy above Gibeon and Ajalon till the last man
surrendered to Garnet Wolseley at Tel-el-Kebir.
Nations, companies, battalions, ages,
centuries and the universe! Forward in the
grand review of the judgment! Forward!
Gracious and eternal God! On that day may
it be found that we are all marching in the
right regiment and that we carried the right
standard, land that we fought under the right
commander, all heaven, some on amethystine
battlement and others standing in the shin
ing gates, some on pearly shore and other on
turreted heights, giving us tho resounding,
million voiced cheer: "Lo him that ovor
comethl" Blessed lo the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting, and let the
whole eart h be filled with his glory. Amen
and amen!
An Armless Hoy.
Tho writer of this had an interview a short
time since with little Freddie Martin, of
Guthrie, this county, aged 7 years. He 1m the
armless boy of whom a great deal was said in
the papers at the time of his birth. Ho was
led into tho room where I was sitting by an
other boy of about the same age, that I might
see him and witness some of hi exploits iu
using his left foot as a hand. He was dressed
iu trousers and a calico waist, nice and clean,
from which, at the shoulders on each side,
there were little cuffs for the stulis, whore the
arms should be, to protrude through. The
left sido has scarcely any stub at all, while
the right has ono perhaix two or throe inches
long. Immediately under this stub thero in a
little pocket in the waist, into which ho can
insert this stub, which was very cunningly
done by him at our request. He used his left
foot as a hand, holding with his big and
second toes. He can pick up a pin or piece of
money and place it i:i tho little pocket under
the right stub. Ho goes to school, and.
sitting on a table, he writes on the blackboard
with crayon held between his toes. He
throws a ball with his foot the same as any
boy with hi hand. A piece of cake was
given him, which he took betweon his toes,
and, sitting on the floor, he brought it to his
mouth and ute it. Ha held it with the same
ease, and changed its position to suit hi
mouth as any lioy does with his hand. He
prefers to uso his left foot to his right, as he
can put things into the pocket under the right
stub, which ho cannot do with his right foot.
He is a briKht boy, of excellent disposition, a
general favorito with everybody. Lawrence
Mail.
"Tosslnsr the I'ancake."
Westminster school retains its usage of
"tossing tho pancake," a ceremony performed
before tho whole school of masters and boys
by the cook, who essays to toss the pancake
across the bar which divides the upper from
the lower school; if he succeed, the dean of
Westminster is bound by charter to present
him with a guinea, which honorarium is also
duo to the boy who catches the pancako, and
succeeds in carrying it off, unbroken, to the
deanery. And though this may appear im
possible to the uninitiated, having regard to
the flimsy character of the ordinary pan
cake, it must be rememlered that the West
minster pancake is about half an Inch thick
and about six inches in diameter, and, more
over, is made of flour and water only, and
left to harden for a week; thus it offers some
resistance to the struggling hands of the
boys. On the other hand, the cook, if he
fail to toss the pancake over the bar, is pun
ished for his awkwardness by being "booked,"
that is, pelted with books. It is said that a
master of Westminster, himself an old scholar,
still preservas, under a glass case, the valu
able relic gained by himself somo years ago.
Home J ournaL
A Mistake In Marrying.
Tho Hungarians employed in the iron works
at Bethlehem, Pa., by their queer language
frequently cause trouble, and many serious
mistakes are made by them, as well as by
those with whom they transact business.
Their latest error was rather amusing. A
couple of that nationality desiring to be mar
ried called on a justice of the peace and took
along a Hungarian couple to act as witnesses.
The strange names confused the well mean
ing justice, and instead of marrying the first
mentioned couple he united the witnesses "for
better or for worse." Some time afterward,
news of his mistake having reached him, he
sent word to both the couples to come before
him again. When they appeared he divorced
the couple he had already married and then
joined tho right couple. He then wound up
the complication of the ceremonies by sending
in a bill for two marriages and one divorce.
Chicago Times.
A Murder Settled for 8100.
The murder of the old medicine man, Tom,
at an Indian funeral in Washington territory
a short time ago, babeen settled to the com
plete satisfaction of the tribe, Tom's son,
Timmox, who has lately been pardoned out
of the penitentiary, where he was sent for
helping to murder a trapper named Mulher
rin some threo years ago, took $100 from
Bob, the murderer, as full satisfaction for the
loss of his father. This he considered the full
value of tho old man. Timmox said if his
father had lingered he should have charged
more: but as his death was sudden and put
him in immediate possession of the old man's
band of horses, $100 was enough. The only
thing that Timmox is sorry for is that he has
not more ancestors whom he could dispose of
at the same rate. So far nothing has been
heard of the territorial officers taking any
action in the matter. San Francisco Chron
icle, Selling Paupers as Chattels.
The other day the overseers of the poor in
Red Bank township sold off their paupers.
This is a public sale for the keeping of a
pauper, and the lowest bidder gets the pauper.
The unfortunate people are placed on exhi
bition after the manner of the old slave
market, and the greody bidder looks them
over, examines the muscles, health, strength,
and figures on the probable appetite and
possible ability to work. Think of it, sold at
public outcry, the keeping of a human being
for $1.25 a week and his labor thrown in; it's
revolting. How well or how badly they are
kept report sayeth not, but the manner of
providing for their keeping shows lack of
Christian charity. Kittanning Cor. Pitts
burg Commercial.
Advice to American Bachelors.
The handsomest man connected with the
American press is a woman. Mrs. Frank Les
lie. She is soon going to Europe, and ought
to come back with a male attachment in the
shape of a husband. If she doos, every able
bodied American bachelor ought to bide his
head in shame. This elegant little woman
has turned the cold shoulder to a number of
titled foreigners and has given her own coun
trymen plenty of chance to show whether
they could win her on their own merits, but
none seem to have had the winning qualities.
The Times would awfully hate to see some
"blarsted furriner" carry off so desirable a
matrimonial prise. Buffalo Times.
Dueling In Hungary.
Fifteen officers of the garrison of Gran in
Hungary were recently obliged to fight duels
with as many civilians of the town in the
course of one week. Two of them were killed,
and most of the other, fellows were badly
wounded. This very large and high toned
row was all about one lady. Women's rights"
are evidently flourishing in Hungary.
The Plebeian Barley Sack.
Two young ladies living near Auburn, CaL,
being of an ingenious turn of mind, have con
structed tasteful and stylish looking dresses
of the plebeian barley sack. It took ten sacks
for each dress. The fabric is really a good
imitation of the new loose mesh goods known
as i-aaves cloth. Chicago Herald.
SIIAIi:il I'.OY is a Dark Bay pacer, 15J humid liipli, weighing 1,200
pounds. His close, compact form ami noted reputation for endurance makes him
one of the lust horses of tho day. lie has a record of 2:2, and paced the fifth
heat of a race at Columbus, Ohio, in '2:25. lie was bred in Kentucky, sired by
Gen'l Riuggold, and his dam was Teruuiseh. Ho has already jot one rolt in tho
2:30 list a marvelous showing for a horso with his chances and stamps him as
ono of the foremost horses in tho laud.
The old pacing Pilot blood is what made Maud 8., Jay Kye See, nnd others of
lesser note trot. The pacer Blue Bull sired more trotters in the 2.-J50 list thnn any
other horse in the world, and their net value far exceeds all horses in Cass county.
Speed and bottom in horses, if not wanted for sporting purposes, arc still of im
mense benefit in saving time and lubor in every occupation in which the horse is
employed. It is an old saying that "he who causes two blades of grass to grow
where only one grew before is a public benefactor;" why less a benefactor ho who
produces a horse, which, with fame care anil expense, will with ease travel doublo
the distance, or do twice the work of an ordinary horse. It costs no more to feed
and care to raise a good horso than a poor one. The good are always in demand,
and if sold bring double or treble the price of the common horse.
SHAKER BOY will stand the coming season in Cass county, at the following
places and times: W. M. Loughridge's stable at Murray. Monday and Tuesday of
each week. Owner's 6table, one mile east of Eiht Mile (J rove, Wednesday and
Thursday. Louis Korrell's, at the foot of Muin stre et, l'bittsinonth. who has a
splendid and convenient stable fitted up for the occasion, Friday und Saturday.
To insure mare with foal, $10.00, if paid for before foaling, and if not, $12.00.
Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible, if uny occur.
Any one selling marn wilL be held responsible for fees of service.
JOHIM CL
aroware, Moves or
"WITnOCT FIKBT SEEING GOODS AND OBTAINING 1'KICF.S AT
JOHET
You cannot fail to find what yon want at our store. So please rail before going
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Sign of the Padlock, 0tt 29 18S5 JOHN S. LUKE
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