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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1891)
I 3 w, ecur uaintai s. For upon t nd su. e been wis, w rkets, win. Utlon t d, for t gu mar J ot only c final: de. It : the prodn il of mid fr., !mnts have cod 'I turji p thus prevail estim ttf imporl !o KurJ WO w oil The g rJ rot in o Ml that that li I resulti! have iJ it that tl nil breJ ml price ity to ssed. T I'nili cret iry ami of i hundr propraf here tl Illation ) nation suapuid measurJ d forts y of i i-rease on. mningtd n adilJ egate ins. 11 clanJ the na1 irhlle ward the IDOf lire aboi nels not ived w Ineerin work on!y ir navi rs wei 9 in til Bel shijif ifamilif that til for gua r a f that hi isfacM KD. i declaf iger l in by 3 e popi eal dti lie end ve U4 o fix W part ike mi party. urn tkl i debw step minatu been Innuem id med ese vq only tl t of otenu ile ha nd eqd their I mart 1 to m ncreasl of a U thl id moj SratiilcJ flea hepopl ngth itous nd u4 De con bafaitl I of tl ofllctj tin. on. mi irPaK L it kaaarrf Syrup" I have been a preat sufferer from Asth ma and severe Colds Winter, and last Fall my -ds as well as myself thought nse of my feeble condition, and -t distress from constant cough- aud inability to raise any of the nmulated matter from my lungs, my time was close at hand. ta nearly worn out for want of .and rest, a friend recommend- jase to try thy valuable medicine, Boschee s German Syrup. I am con fident it saved my life. Almost the Crst dose gave me great relief and a gentle re- I l T 1 1 . .1 1 Ding Sleep, suiu ai uau mn nao seeks. My cough beeau iinnicdi- rfv to loosen and pass awav, and fcund myself rapidly gaining in alth and weight. I am pleaded r . 1 1 ' . . J .1..- T kmionn incc uuxiutum i lai i i in excellent health and do cer nlv attribute it to thy lioschee'a man Syrup. C. B. Stkkxey, ton, uniano. w ntle. reshlng sp. oi k farm wsnmi It hailing twn a ..-art.c:d theory , Gut the lariuer h. market his gr.iiu j in beef and pork and mutton gels mo;,; -r ii man ne would if be took I lie grain, as such, to market. The average farmer will say that this is a correct theory, and yet is hard wotk as the rural and Mock man finds to doJ is to induce some tanners to feed their corn, when com is verv hiirli i,- been COmilKT into the market fr a f.w weeks more rapidly than they should, and so have hogs. The price of corn has been so g.,od that the temptation to market it has been too strong to re sist in many instances. This journal has noted from time to time, the result cost of producing one hundred pounds !of tllisfort of thing. Of course, if the The Michigan I.j t,i viwi,i:lw,(i. mteting at l.aning, lnv. '.i, m. j. j. England, chairman f the executive committer, has j,t rr,unwi from ada with a small iVk from improved stock at a est of : e.tclu One lamb' weight is 21) pounds, with wool ten inche3 lung by measure. W. A. Henry, of the Wisconsin Ex periment Sta'ion, had conducted an ex-l'-riuuiit with a view to ascertaining whether sheep can utilize their food as well as cattle an I hogs, and the rehitivo TALMACE'S SERMON". TTAVE UaHtar nlM.KK't nrnaarnm. oiiv )b Agmr, liuur Minim h mii.I ruin act Ifroar fauil dor Bui .iuiill M's Pills Va cir Ub trmbl 1TUts 2S centi. f CUT l I7' ln '""r ''' or it Corwt I'1 l-l-rf-l.lllo. i.,ni unit Cuh l'rl. rn. ifcriunii, Bioly, K V. hit i- r M'nl li . It CUREO 10 ITT CURED. Wc turn Ihe luinotul ad drcMof tvrry uflf itr inth ,Y FEVER I ATUf ll US irxl Canada. Addrris IrMlliir rrmilv lor all th unaalural dim harKa and prtvariail ol mn. A rlaii. fif lor Ih rtblll tallnf vtakoeaa pculf to wr.mD. I J ri r.bltnd l"l ' urai in riTiimmeodlna; ll Ui a;i unnrrprn. t f.'ONfR.KO.CKiTiit.lu. ol'l by DraajsUU. I'BIO Ul.uv. i'ork, Neb iTnlUAYH.V llMlllH-'l'l I tk.M MM". Tki f ms Cam U. Jfa US At the newly discovered metalliferous lines in Texas, the miners utrtick a anketlead" of silver ore nlmoslat urface of the mountain into which v haill bemin tunnoliuir. There is a Vowd of laborers, promoters and spec- ators at hand. Sudden liantreH irthe Wenlli r ollen eausu I'lilmonary, llronehinl 1(1 Asthmatic troubles, lirviru't Hrun- nil Trorhei will allay the irritation Lich IndiKws Coiighing. (riving inline Wia rotket. AMDRRW I.ANO. ICH)ia Who MakMi It B Kule to N-'" 0Tnl. Andrew Ianj Is tall, thin, dark, and hair is turning pray. Vou some mes hear him sp.ikn of as "one of the writer writers." He is 47. When he talk- he drawls in tho Ox- rd fashion. When he laughs he et( r teeth on eJ(re. He has not mud erence, but he is a nrm tiiover n trinity Andrew Ing, Mollero ano akesneare. All other persons and linjrs sre tolerated by him rather thai, owed, lie Dolioves mat, tinaicos re's plays are to be read not acted, his cinnc of criticism seems to bo. Whenever you B-'c an author hit him." uing Is ono or tne mon vvun no sonsc loyalty to the profession or aiunor- ii). and vet wa know what a delight- Id author he ean be without half try- ir. lie eniovs running amnok at the hole "profession" unleus exception be o for some occult reason in the per- of Mr. Hidcr Uaggai-d. Lang loves joer and flout at other authors, but nnA iiidruila him nf malice it ison- hhiawav Iln writes charming cdl- Jorials, or "leaders" as they call thorn We, on literary subjects in the daily taws, and in them he vents his serene oi niiuiuu JUKI r.ne hundred pounds of pork. The experiment wits made with Umbs and pi-,- ubout the same age, fed on practically the sa-ue kind of feed. It cost ir.l to produce mm hundred pounds of gain v illi the lamb, and ;t.. ditto accomplish the siane with ni In ii concliisioii, I'rol', Henry says it is generally supposed that the pig makes the. best use of his lood. but our fk'uri-s lead us to doubt (he accuracy of that conclusion. A, a common rule, the horses have gootl, warm b.irns; the cows, by reason of ihe fact that they have to be m iked in the cold, wintry stonu.i. are nlaced in closed barns air1, the hos are pro vided with good, warm hties. yet the sheep is regarded as a commoner, and is left to cu.idle itself in its comfort able woolen blanket for shelter. If from no other standpoint tiiau that the Hock would be more proli'ahle by bein shel tered, comfortable shelter should lie provided for it. Have a good place for the (lock, and when the storms come, you w ill be able to sleep with a clearer conscience, the pillow will be softer. the woolen blanket wanner, and w ilh.il, everything will appear brighter to your eyes. There is a too common tendency to look upon flock culture as mainly a buiiu'SH of wool growing. In fact the S'. ile urgain.atioii is called tlio Wool Growers' Associtaion, thus impliedly ignoring Ihe faci that sheep are good for other purp is3 than that of produc ing wool, l hf, effect of this tendency (combined with the reconciliations of the past experiences) hits been to divert attention from tae sheep as a factor in meat production. And this in the face of the fact that a pound of mutton can tie produced as cheaply as a pound of beet' or pork. It iilso appears that sheep are not any more subject to dis ease than rattli'.and not nearly so much as lilies. Itlilill II ! t ullnrul xusijfa Ion . l ess meat and more fruit and vege tables is in interest oi health ami ongevity. The farmer's family, like every other family, will lind great nenetit in con suming less meat ana moreiruu. Land intended for growing vegeta bles should always be well prepared. That is especially true of the sugar beet If there is a fruit growers' meeting to be held anywhere near you be sure to go, mid listen attentively to all that may lie said. A writer declares that a small fruit garden is one of the most proliiabe things on the farm. It is if it Is intelli gently managed. Fruit is both a delicacy and a lood. Yes, it is a medicine, too. The more fruit people eat, within bounds, the smaller the doctor bills will be. The farmer who has provided wind breaks will find hiinsell the more com fortable during the cold Winter and his stock will save him grain. market is glutted, prices for livestock must come down, and when any com mon tousre prompts eople to market animals in largo quantities, the tend ency is toward glutting the market. The law of supply and demand w ill I-rate, and the results will be in ac cordance with this. On the other hand sending the corn to market in large volumes has a tendency, of course, to depress the price of that Ordinarily the prices of farm products is pretty good sometime within the year, but in consequence of a poor sys tern of marketing in consequence of marketing the whole crop about at one time, when prices are goo I, the pro ducts are in the hands of speculators "Hold your wheat," was good advice to those who were in a position to act up on it, in that it enables those who must sell to get a better price, and this grain being got out of the way it will result in better prices for the grain that is left. We cannot resist the temptation to say this when corn is coining into the market, in large quantities; and corn is coming into tho market, in large quantities, and livestock is com ing in large quantities at the same time. Let this theory go on long enough and to a sulli cient extent and hogs and cattle will bo selling at an iiiiremunerative figure, the price of corn will be knocked down, and when it again comes up the visible supply of corn will 1 in the bonds of tlie mid dlemen. There is sound philosophy in what we have said, and it is not w ise to shut our eyes to it. Asa rule, if we cannot make money be feeding our corn to stock, we shall not be able to make money at all in the long run. iknleuura ftt will. I Lang is never terrible whon he st icks. Those who know him do not )rtc his assaults seriously, but And, in ttd, a peculiar diversion in them. Jtothlna brings out such a show of Wer in Andrew Ijing as a gathering m sutliors, whether for purposes festive m financial. , ... I He cannot agree that there should be y fraternity among authors. There good reason thai tscy should na Jacked and beaten, ho thinks, or at verv least, satirized in tho daily Xw 'Thomrnm h never loses an wportnnlty to amuso the public at the Wpense of the author's society or the Woposed author's club. "Why should inert! ba an Incorporated society ol suthors?" he asks, as if ho would re wind us of a fact (for which wa may be Jhsnkful) that there Is not an incorpo fMsd society of Andrew Iang. As for iheclnh hail, aiire, that It will be used Bhiedv hv nnvlcmi who wish to look up t the persons of distinguished authors shlcb, I take it, is another way ol lmikaiUi a ml mar Lanir obiects to -w a . . . ... - a flir elaaxl at f It Is ctvtsinly a way of showing how ml lie knows of those unfortunate !ilo ainira thn authors, for. if he huiara aMstMno ahniit. them, ho sllOuM bow thlf . uithnr thinks himself Srtlngulshad, and the more of a novice U tha less he will be Inclined to gsze woDderlag admiration upon the piaoant person oi sir. Anarow uB. -ever, If authors must have an cl, It Is well that they should have an aooomDllshed one as Mr Laog, ?a would ant wllllno'v do harm.-' -wb a Looaon Letter. c, It is believed that there is danger in breeding from blind inares. The laws of heredity are curious in their working. Don't unnecessarily expose the horse to storms and wind. It does a team no good to let it stand tied to a Iiltcliinfc post, with the thermometer leu uegrees below zero, and opinion wnicn eveiy body will endorse. There are ringbones, we would say to an inquirer, that cannot be cured, un less a skilled veterinarian examines the case, however, there is no wliy to tele that, except by trying the usual rem dies of blistering or Bring. Treat the dog well if you are deter mined to keep him. iced nun sucn food as will satisfy the whole system. We have little doubt that some dogs nre led to kill sheep because the system craves for nourishment that it does not get. A little bey writes us this on the "Treatment of Horses:" "1 never saw a meaner thing s iee I was born than I did tho other day. A man was driv ing his horse along until became to the road toward home, and just because the horse wanted to go home, he whipped th borne so that I could not look at him. Sow, Just let me tell you that is not urn to treat a horso. A horse feels harshness almost as much ns you do, andlthii.k if the men mat no mis thing would just think, it would be better for the horses and themselves too" Our young friend has hit Ihe nail on the head. The whole trouble i in such cases Is that men do not th nk. Some cithern do not know enough to think. The Ignorant "hoss doctor" shouiu oe mtvmn a wide berth. 'iueeuuc Tlio Proper Way to Walk. As soon as a man comes into my shop and takes off his shoe 1 can tell whether or not he is a good walker, and it is astonishing to lind how few men know the proper way to step out If the shoe is worn down at the heel not on the side, but straight back and the leather of the sole shows signs of wtukness at the ball ot the foot, a little greater on the inside just below thebasoof the great toe, I know that the wearer is a good w alker. If, how ever the heel is turned on one 3ule, or is worn evenly throughout, and the iole is worn most near the toe, 1 know that I have to deal with a poor pedestrian. The reason of the difference in posi tion of the worn spots lies in the fact that the poor walker walks from his knee and the good one fiom his hip. Watch the passerby on the street, and you will at once see the differen e. Xine men out of ten will bend the knee very considerably in walking, stepping straight out with both hips on the same line, and the toe will be the first to strike the ground. The tenth man will bend his knee very little just enough to clear the ground, and will swing the the leg from tlio nip very much as the arm is swung from the elbow, liy so doing he calls upon the muscles which are strongest to bear the strain and increases the length of his Btride four or six inches. The heel touches the ground first and not the toe. A slight spring is given from the ball of the foot on making another stride. Men who walk in this fashion cover the ground 30 per cent faster with the same ex ertion than those who walk from the knee, in pugilism the old rule is to S'.rike from the shoulder and not from the elbow. In pedestrianisui it Is to walk from the hip and not from the knee. Interview in i. mb Globe Democrat. thinly suitable . That XtM, 'Iter worst trait li her habit of mub f"m Uffl AggHPMBt I HIT VU wvawvT - all i tw t la J. with I ..i.aiiiH knnVI little enough about ms Prices of Haiinlus. Tim fliennest hairnins are iniiiere(l wires bent into """ , . .... ...III!.,., shape. They are maue uy ma iiimi for little or nothing. Niiaii mm numy hairpins are modern improvement on the straight old fashioned variety but even they are made for a trifle per gross The costlier hairpins nre not so va riously serviceable as the cheap ones. They are made of gold, silver and tortoise shell sometimes ornamented with precious stones Riid with rich workmanship. Tortoise shell in the rough is worth from 85 to 18 a pound. The finest is from the belly of the tortoise. That yields the amber ...i a .i,nii from which the costliest CUIUICW oi.. pins and combs are made. fi.ll nins. all of tortoise shell cost i rji in 4. Larger ones cost HUlll Tl."" - ' " - . from II to m fine amber shell pms .m. tons cost from 88 to WO, After these comes the jeweled pins. iwmavbo of almost any puw. cost from 160 to .uhorate one, with pearls and diamonds, may cost from 1100 to 1500.-, " heated into !iiu:' morning I went out with a fowler to catch wild pigeons. We hastened through the mountain gorge and into the forest. We spread out the net and covered up the edges of it as well as we could. We arrautred the call-bird, its feet fast, and its wings Happing in in vitation to all fowls of heaven to settle down there. We retired into a booth of branches and leaves and waited. After a while, looking out of the door of the booth we saw a flock of birds in the sky. They came nearer and nearer and after a while were about to swoop into the net. when suddenly they darted away. Again we waited. After a while we saw another flock of birds. They came nearer and nearer until just at the moment when they were about to swoop they darted away. The fowler was very much disapointed as myself. We said to each other, 'What is the matter?" and "Why were not these birds caught V" AVe went out and examined the net and by a flutter of a branch ot a tree part of the net had been conspicuously exposed and the birds coining very near had seen their peril and darted away. When 1 said to the old fowler "That reminds me of a passage of scripture: "Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Xovv the net in my text stands for temptation. There are two classes of temptations the superficial and the subterraneous those above ground those under ground. If a man could see sin as it is, he would no more embrace it than he would a leper. .Sin is a daughter of hell yei she is garlanded and robed and trinkleiL 1 Ier voice is a warble. Her cheek is the setting sun. Her fore head is an aurora. She says to men: "Come walk this path with me: it is thynied and priinrosed, ar.d the air is hew itched with the, odors of the hanging gardens of heaven; the rivers are rivers of wine, and all you have to do is to drink them up in chalices that sparkle with diamond and amethyst andchrysoprasus. See! It is all bloom and roseate cloud and heaven.'' Oh! my friends if for one moment the churiug of all these concertsd voices of sin could be hushed we should see the orchestra of the pit with hot breath blowing through fiery llute, and the skelton arms on drums of thunder and darkness beating the chorus: "The end thereof is death." The first class of temptations that assaults a young man is led cm by Ihe skeptic. lie will not admit that he is an infidel or an atheist, Oh, no! he is a 'fiee tninker;' he is one of your 'libel al' men; he is free and easy in religion. Oh, how liberal he is! He is so ' liberal' that he will give away his bible; ha is so "liberal" that he will give away the ihrone of eternal justice; he is so 'liberal' that he would be willing to give (iod out of the univrse: he is so 'liberal' that he would give up his own soul and the souls of all his friends. Now, what more could you aisk in the way ot j liberality? Tho victim of this skept c has probably just come from the country. Through the invention of friends lie has been placed in a shop. Un atuAlay the skeptic says to him: "Well, what are you going lo do to morrow?" He says: M am going to church." "is it possible" says the skeptic "Well, 1 used to do those things; I was brought up, 1 suppose as you were in a religions family, and I believed all the things but I got over it, the fact is, since i came to town 1 have read and 1 have louna tnat mere are a great many things in the bible that are ridiculous. Now, for instance all that about the serpent being cursed to crawl in the garden of i-den because it had tempted our first parents; why, you see how absurd it is. You can tell troni the very organization of the ser pent that it had to crawl. It crawled before it was cursed just as well as it crawled afterwards. Ton can tell from its organization that it crawled. Then all that story about the miracu lous conception why, it is perfectly disgraceful. Oh! sir, I believe in the light of nature. This is the nineteenth century. Progress sir, progress. 1 don't blame you but after you have been in town as long ns I have you will think as I do." Young man, hold to your bible. It i ti.n ioi hook vou ever owned. It will tell vou how to dress how to bar train how to live how to die. Glorious hihle' Light to our feet and lamp to nnr n: ith. Hold on to it! Tl, second CUSS Ol insiuioiis that comes upon our young men is led hv the dishonest employer. Lvery commercial establishment is a school in nine cases out Of ten tne principles of the employer become the principles of the employe. 1 ask tne oiuer mei chants to bear me out in these state ments. If, when you were jusi sinning in lite in commercial lite, you were .hat. honesty vfas not marketable that though you might sell all the oods In the shop, you must not sell r conscience, that while you were .. . i. .wl 4n..l vnn , nrorc se a 11 lllUUSiry ami i"-" v - , , ....tincul pnnsc ence-Slll nuuic were no", i , ,-nmbustibIo and at mo mome... I, nmii hi be blown oil vy breath of God uatil all the splendid ,n,ild vanish into white ashes in the whirlwind -then that instruction has been to you a precaution . . -i- Thr are bun- class of young men who will 1 (hei honor of the land, and thwe are other ; Larly in the establishments which :ire f duc-utiii" ! young men to I iicihing but sharper.-'. ! What chance is there for a young man who was taught in an establishment that it is right to lie, if it is smart, and that a French Label is ail that is necessary to make a thing Frencli, and that you ought alwavs to be honest when it pays and that it is wrong to steal unless you do it well ? One morning the employer comas to the establishment. He goes into his counting room and throws up his hands and shouts: "Why, the safe has been roi.bed!" What is the matter? Noth ing, nothing; only the clerk who has been practicing a good while on cus tomers is practicing a little on the em ployer. No new principle introduced into that establishment It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. You must never steal unless you can do it well. He did it well. lam not talk ing an abstraction; 1 am talking a ter rible and crushing fact. Now here is a young man. Look at him today. Look at him five years from now, after he has been under trial in such an establishment Here he stands in the shop today, his cheeks ruddy with the breath of the hills. He unrolls the goods on the counter in gentlemanly style, ile commends tliem to the pur chaser. He points out all the good nointsin the fabrics. He effects the sale. The irooils are wrapped up, and he dismisses the customer with a cheer ful "Good morning," iuul the country merchant departs so impressed with the straight-forwardness of that young man that he will come again and again, every spring and every autumn unless inier- l'ered with. The voting man has been now in that establishment live yenrs He unrolls the good on tho counter. He says to the customer: "Now those are the best goods we have in cur establish ment;" they have better on the next shelf. He says: "We are selling these goods less than cost ;'' they are making 20 pei cent. He says: "There is nothing like them in all the city;" t lie re are fif ty shops that w ant to sell the sa ue thing, lie says: "Now, that is it dur able article, it will wash;" yes, it will wash out. The sale is made, the goods are wrapped up, the country merchant goes eft feeling that he has had an equivalent for his money, and the sharp clerk go?s into the private . room of the counting house, i nd he says: "Well, I got rid of those goods at last ; 1 really, thought we never would sell them; 1 told him wi; were selling them less than cost; and iie thought he was getting a good bargain; got rid of them at last." And the head of the linn says: " I hat's well done, splendidly done." Mean while, God had recorded eight lies four lies against the young man, four lies against his employer, for I under take to sny that the employer is respon sible for all the iniquities of his clerks, and all the iniquities of all those who are clerks of these clerks, down to the tenth generation, if those employers in culcated iniquitous and damning prin ciples. 1 stand before young men this morn ing who are under this pressure. I say, come out of it. "Oh," you say, "I can't; 1 have my widowed mother to support and if a man loses a situation now he can't get another one." I say come out of it. Go home to your mother and say to her, "Mother, I can't stay in that shop and be upright; what shall I do?" and if she is worthy of you she will say. "Come out of it, my son we will just throw ourselves on him who hath promised to bo tho God of the widow and the fatherless; ho will take care of us." And 1 (ell you no young man evur nermaueiiUv suffered by such a course of conduct. 1 oung man, it is ale to do right. There are young men in this house today, who, uuuer mis storm of temptation, arestrikiug deep er their roots and spreading out broad er their branches. 1 preach to encour age them. Lay hold of God and be faithful. But I may be addressing some who have gone astray, and so 1 assault that other proposition that the dissolute can- uot be reclaimed. Perhaps you nave only gone a little astray. N line l speak vou troubled? is mere a voice J ..... i , lit .a . within vou saying, "Miai uiuyouuo that for? wny uiu you go meie.- What did you mean by 'hat? Js there a memory in your soul uiai uiiiKes jou tremble? God only knows all our hearts. Yea if you have gone so iar us w sum mit iniquities, and have gone through the whole catalogue, i inviie you u.icb. this hour, ilu) i,orci wmu m "Uejoice' O, young man, in thy youth and let thev heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth: uui Know mou wii, ii these things God will bring (bee into judgment" O, I wish that all the bat- J :R .i . 1 ,.l,l trtHnu ho nil. tenes or me guspui w"'.'-' limbered against an iiiose iiim'--" which are taking down so many t f our young men. 1 would like to blow a trumpet of warning, and recruit until tho whole audience would march out on a crusade against the evils ot socie ty Hut let none ot us oe msnem icnc. (V Chlstiaii workers, my heart is high . l.an T ift tV.VTK IH)I,lfll 13 uiwii-- ins into the morning of which prophets ...i.i-i. nm.fq have dreamed, and of which painters have sketched. The ....ui. i.-.Hiii hour advances. Ihe . ' ...i. .. ill kissthf morning radiant 1I1UU1I millO " " ' na J wi eiTnlirent. and all the waves of the sea will becomo tho crystal keys ot a A TeJctrraphlcBlnnder. "J was a ictim yebterdav," said a Wall street uaii, "of inellicient tele graph ojer.itors. Because of their blunders my wife was angry at me for the lirst time, and 1 couldn't blame her. 1 sent her a telegram in the afternoon telling her I wa) going to dine with a friend. It was o'clock when 1 got home. My wife met meat the door. I sa'.v at once that something was up. She handed me a telegram and asked in a chilly sort of way. 'What is the mean ing of this?" "I said, 'Why, my dear, w hat's wrong? That is probably the message I sent you." " 'It is?' she enswered. 'Please ex plain it.' 'T read it To my asloiiudimentitsaid, 'Shall dine with Kilty Smith, an old gai of mine, who has just returned from Euro-ie. Will be late. Don't wait for me.' " T wouldn't wait for the best man that ever lived,' said my wife, and she began to cry. "1 realized at once what had hap pened, and I laughed, I couldn't help, it "Why." 1 said, 'this message has been botched. I wrote no such stuff as that.' 'What did you write then?' she asked. Then I told her that what I had really written w as: 'Shall dine with Uilly Smith, an old pal of mine, who has just returned from Europe. Will be late. Don't wait for me." Those in fernal operators had butchered it My wif'3 was satisfied: but after this I shall endeavor to write plainer, and I shall certainly avoid the, use of slang words. New York Herald. "Mabiy Dion keys. I only once saw a specimen of the siamaug in captivity, at the house of a Malay chief at Sirdar g. It was'about three feet high, but the stretch of its arms was over live feet. A sad looking, depressed creature it seemed as it moved awkwardly about tho floor, trip ping itself up with its own arms; but once among the rafters of the roof it moved with the agility of a spider. Of its gigantic relative, the orang-utan, I am able to give but few particulars. Hut 1 may at least observe that it is rather ludicrous to any one who has a smattering of the Malay tongue to see him so frequently styled orang-utang, which signifies literally "a man in debt, utang being in Malay "debt," while "utan"is "forest" or jungle. But 1 al ways found this name incomprehensible to the Deli Malays, whose name for the animal is ' mowas.-' The' Sumatran species appears to be totally different in its habits from that of Borneo, which approaches human dwellings, and even plunders gardens. In Deli, at all events it inhabits only the densest rattan swamps, of such a nature that any at tempt at abservation of itshabits would be impossible, and it makes off instant ly at the approach of man. Chambers . Journal. Uccclier at Seventeen. My first meeting with Henry Ward Beecher w as m the early part of May, 1MI10. He was a classmate of a brother of mine, in Amerherst college, and very close friends. The two were just out of their freshman year when, together with another college classmate they walked from Amherst to my father's house at west Sutton for their spring vacation, writes Mrs. Henry W.-,rd Beecher in the first paper on "Mr. Beecher as 1 Knew Him," in the October Ladies Home Journal. At that time young Beecher was not quite 17 years old, uut so young and boyish was his appearance that no one would have thought hiw more than 15 an a,?e when boys are usually awkward aiid painfully bashful. For that reason my family feared we might not be able to entertain or make the young man comfortable. But awkward he never was, and his roguish mouth his laughing, merry eyes, his quaint'humor and his quick repartee soon dispelled all such anxiety. Before the first evening he spent at our house had passed, none of the family felt him to be a stranger. My father was absent with some of his patients when the young men arrived but returned in the evening when all were laughing heartily at some story Henry had j ist told. Father stood in C o r r : :y tall, dignified and SU...0...1..1 siern, at sucu a iiimuii. When aware of his presence my brother at once introduced his classmate. Little by little the same subtle influ ences which had pervaded the whole evening's enjoyment stole over father's face and long before it was time to retire they were telling mirth-provoking stories as cheerfully as if they were bovs together. ' When nt emrtli the "goou nignis exchanged I left father and mother by the lire 1 maue some prepaiauoua iui breakfast. As I returned to the room father was saying: , " , . "We.l, lie IS smnrii jibii uinito 1110 mark in the world if he lives." "Who, father?" I asked. "Why, that young Needier." Such was Henry Ward Beecher when I first saw him; and, truth to tell he was not remarkable f jr his beauty. i - . .1 a .var al ncfl great organ, on which uie "b" ; ever lasting joy shall play the grand f ,? mrhl redeemed. Instead of the thorn there shall come up tho n.:" A..,i in.tond of the briar there shall come up the myrtle , tree and t the and thn hills shall DreaK Uiouuioiu ----- :--,, . ...nf nuii mi ii viw v. Abner Wilson, a Kansas farmer while seining for minnows in a creek which runs through Ids place found an old coffee pot in the bed of the creek which contained SOTO in gold. It li a,.nnr.ed the gold was hid in the creek fl,,M " urlngthe war. v jJiw aww was me ueip wi wiaii oir greai v"'"-"H tnotar-Xew York Journal dumb pa'lents. Kew York Recorder. in i 1 k mini i iPia V