Nebraska Newspapers

    TAKING THE CENSUS.
YU on Jefltnon Avenne am! Remunerative
In tbe Seventh Ward.
"Bay, old fellow, tbe next time a
census of births and deaths is to be
taken, don’t you fail to get a Job In
•ne of tbe big-bug wards!*’ exclaimed
lolly Nick Tisler to a reporter a fow
days ago.
"Don’t believe I’d like It. Always
■takes me sick to go around mixing
beer."
"There's lota of fun in It."
"What In drinking fifteen or twenty
kinds of beer?"
"No In taking tho census. Ton'll
■ever know how cussed lazy some
people are until yon take a big book
nnuer your your arm and go around
asking questions. I’ve been around."
"Where did you find the laziest
®ne?"
"Upon Jefferson avenue. Oh, I
don't know as she is real lazy, but up
there they're so stuck up they wouldn't
come to the door if you rung the bell
all day, for fear you'd think they was
tbe servant. At one house 1 rang the
bell seven times—the girl was out to
the shed, I s'pose, and tho woman
was a-settin* in tho bay window about
tour feet from me, and looking at me
all the time.
"At another house I soon the women
■p stairs at the window as 1 went up
the front steps. A fat, gooddooking
jrirl came to the door and I commenced
firing questions at her.
" *Auy children been born here
during the last year?’ says L
II If n/>m mmmTm ulm f tvntn*?
been here but three weeks. I'll go
and ask missis,’ and away she toddled
op stairs. Pretty soon she came
toddling back and says:
“‘Missis wants to know what you
want to know fut ?’
I “ ‘Tell her I «m taking the city cen
tos, as required by law each year,'
•ays I, and away scooted the girl
again. When she got back she said:
“ Yes.’
/ “How many P’ says I.
, “ ‘ODly one,' says she.
“ ‘Boy or gtrlP’ says L
“ ‘Girl,’ says she.
" ‘What’s her name?’ says L
••‘Dimple,’ says she.
*• ‘That’s her baby name,' says L
•What’s her real, full numeP’
•• ‘I’ll ask missis,’ says she, and up
•be went.
•• ‘Beatrice Branscombe Brown,’
•ays sbe.
•“When was she born?’ says I.
“ ‘I’ll ask mis3is,’ says she, and I
Whistled ‘The Watch on the Ithino’
Clear through before she came back.
••‘Day before Christmas,’ says she.
•* ‘Wnat is her father's namoP’ says
•• ‘Mr. Brown, of course, says she.
“ ‘What’s his first name? says I.
•“I’ll ask missis.’ The girl was fat
•nd she’d begun to puff by that time,
•nd she waddled as she went up the
•tairs.
*• ‘Benjamin Bruce Brown,’ says she.
“ ‘What does he do for a living?’
•ays I.
“ ‘Keeps a store,’ says sho.
•• 'What’s her mother’s name?’ says
I. i
I’M as*, ner,- says sdin.
" ‘Betholinda Berthelet Brown,’
■ays she.
“Just then tbe woman came to the
bead of the stairs, and says:
'“Seems to me you’re asking a
great many impertinent questions.
“ ‘Law requires it,’ says L ‘Where
were you borin’
“Buffalo.’
1 •• *How old are youP’
r “ ‘None of tour busines! Matilda,
•but the door!r
“Oh, it’s fun! Say, we got ten cents
•piece for births and deaths and that
day I made just fifty cents, Up in
Dutchtown you can make $6 or $7 a
day.”—Detroit Free Press.
* The Mississippi Problem.
Capt Cowdon says in a late letter:
The city of New Orleans, geographi
cally, is the best located city on the
sphere. Sbe is near the gulf, and has
all the Mississippi basin at her back.
She has an area of land 2,000 miles
north of her by 1,500 miles wide, all
of which has untold facilities for agri
culture, manufacturing, grazing, aud
commerce. She, like New York, has
water lines in her rear that reach out
and drain the numerous tributaries to
her main ditch, the great Father of
Waters. Perhaps you have noticed
that Boston has deep water in front
and railways lu the rear; aud, practi
cally, it is the same with Baltimore;
while New York has the six by seventy
foot Erie canal and lakes behiud her
Hudson river, and In l he fuel of the
cheap water transportation of New
York, she owes her success as s rival
city to tloston uud llaitlmore; nud,
now, then, should New Orleans have
deeper ocean vusstds than either of
those three cites, and with water llow
1»K to her doors, why wouldn't she
Increase enormously In her commer
cial power?
Hut there are two great problems
which yearly, moutbly, weekly, dally,
end hourly confront the people of
Imulslnns, and they are these;
1. Can Louisiana get rid of her
overflows?
S. Can New Orleans harber ships el
fifty feet depth?
Not long since i crossed the river at
New Orleans a mill above Canal street,
to "Harvey's Canal.” the mile-wide,
muddv. turbid stream waa moving to
the gulf at about the rale of three tulles
ry hour, and, when full, it has to run
• a a slope of about seventeen feet
la going to the gulf, at the river's
■south, IfU miles distant. I landed nt
Matvey's canal dock, which U not
vet opened lu the Mississippi river oa
lie north end by mat lew rods I
walk* vl tuu'h fur less than loo feet,
when, down there in the ennsl, I saw
muf water lust Iwslve feet lower thaa
the river, only a few rods north of
where I stood. You ash why dua.t
they t«t the hsnk two wiles wide and
fifteen feet deep, straight to tbs gulf,
miy OHy hve miles south, and thereby
grain the flood water* o| the river,
Mid no Increase the outflow that the
hsdtom of the river will de*p»n up lu
14s fwafcy bottom or shuul*’ It >11, now,
ancient elltsen, tou hsve am, sure
Why don't they? ,
Hut, now, while Ihts ehuM be done,
Ifiite petkspe M • better p»v It u
!ust ten miles southeast of New Or*
ean*, on the east side of the river, at
the Lake Borgne canal outlet. There
the gulf is six miles east, while where
I stood it was fifty-live miles away,
and were a side mouth made thero at
the Lake Borgne outlet, two miles
wide and fifteen feet deep, at most,
the outflow of the surface water of the
river would be so great that there
could not bo any overflow, and. con
sequently, the problem of how to dry
Louisiana is easily solved. When
that Is done, then the Harvey or Bara
taria gulf-water ship canal could easily
be mado live hundred feet wide, fifty
feet deep, and straight as a pole, due
south to the gulf, fifty five miles, and
through which could pars the biggest
ship that could bo made, (lull water
should be used, and thus keep out the
settlings of the Mississippi river.
These settling* now drop, after meet
ing the gulf water, three miles out
from the river’s mouth, and are reach
ed up on the sea bottom just like the
thread in weaving cloth, and the shi ps
can't plow through It when drawing
more than, say, twenty-five feet, and
were It not for tho constant dredging
or passing of the screw propeller* of
depth, thu depth would be but about
twenty feet; so tho nvermen told me
in New Orleans quite recently.
Flowers on the Kansas Prairies.
Barbaric splendor of the scenes la
Aula and L'Africalne seemed repeated
as the glorious panorama of blossom
ing prairie unrolled day after day.
Can you picture to yourself ten acre*
of portulaca? or whole hillsides cur
tained with what seems a superb
variety of wistaria, except that it
?'rows on a slant instead oi Hanging
rotu a vine? Do you know liow it
feels not to lie able to step without
crushing a flower, so that the little
prairie-dogs, sitting contentedly with
their intimate friends the owls on the
little heaps of earth thrown up around
their holes, have every appearance of
having planted their own front yards
with the choicest floral varieties?
Think of driving into a groat field of
sunflowers, the horses trampling down
the tall stalks, that spring up again
behind the carriage, so that one out
side the field would never know that
a carriage-load of people were any
where in it; or riding through a
"grove” of them, the blossoms tower
ing out of reach ns you sit on horse
back, and a tall hedge of them grown
up as a barrier between you and your
companion! Not a daisy, ora butter
cup, or a clover, or a dandelion, will
you see all summer; but new flowers
too exquisite for belief; the great
white prickly poppies, and the sensi
tive rose, with its loaves delicato as a
maiden-hair fern, and its blossom a
countless mass of crimson stamens
tipped with gold, and faintly fragrant.
Even familiar flowers are unfamiliar
in size and profusion and color. What
at home would be a daisy, is here the
size of a small sunflower, with petals
of delicate rose-pink, raying from a
cone-shaped centre of rich maroon
shot with gold. A-had brought
with her numerous packages of seeds
and slips, nobly bent on having rlte
oon flower beds and mosaic parterres
about the house; but she sat on the
steps and threw them broadcast, never
knowing, in the profusion ot flowers
that would have been there anyway,
whether hers ever came up or not.
And how beautiful where the grasses
—the most useful one the most beautl
fulofall; the delicate little "buffalo
grass,” for which the prairie is fa
mous, waving its tiny curled side of
feathery daintiness as if its beauty
were its only excuse for being, yet
bravely "curing” itself into dry hay
as it stands, when the autumn winds
begin to blow, that the happy flocks
may "nible, sharp-toothed, the rich,
thick-growing blades” all through
the winter, without their being gath
ered into barns.—Alice Wellington
Hollins, in Harper's Magazine for June.
Bismarck’s Dream.
Are Austria nnd Russia working to
gether for England’s humiliation?
The report that these great powers
"have come to an understanding about
the Orient,” must be classed among
the many statements of the day thut
are important if true. Austria has
never been friendly to Russia. She
has always stood opposed to Russia's
ambition in the direction of Coustauti
! nopie. During the past decade a dip
lomatic controversy between Vienna
-. — .I kit ..-..U..1_ ____»_
without interiuUnion. Yet it Is as
sorted that file most amicable relations
now exist between the two govern
ments.
Ministerial official* of Austria are
claiming for Frans Joseph alt the
credit of having effected a settlement
of the Anglo-Kussiau dispute. Eng
land was forced to back down, they
say, because Austria interposed at
Constantinople to prevent the conclu
sion of an Anglo- 1'urkUh convention
which would open the Dardanelles to
Etiglish war shi|>s. 't he British cab
inet became alarmed at this hostile
demonstration from au unexpected
quarter.
If Austria's attitude It not mlm-p
| resented, pci hap* we see the beginning
of • move incut for the realisation of
Bismarck's dream, which nliuuuate*
Turkev ft»m the |Miwers of Europe,
extend* Austrian rule to the Bosphor
us, anti annexe* part id Ike iicrman
province* ot Austria to the tserman
, empire. I'm Kussina consent to this
gi and schemes Au»lr t. with the Con
tent and support of Bismarck. could
adurd to favui Hussia's ulna td reach
ing salt water by way of Afghanistan.
<— t'lMsta-HOfl fiwss* .sf.*r.
'1 he Missouri Mule.
‘•ft’s rather strange.’* observed a
naasanger from l*tttshutg. ‘that Eng
; land should send clear over to MUmhiiI
I tu buy mute* for use la the Honda*.
I wonder what that's Iwf"
| "Ta-db's, tux dear sir, tnethrs." r*
plied a military basking uc*at "Eng
land's policy la Egypt I* tu get up eloae
tu the enemv and then turn tail and rw
retreat slowly and i* good order
Mere is where the mule is ssps-eied to
get I* his work " ittwugw ifcfwfd,
■Wwmwawaesmnsa»-«MJp »*■*' *1 "wnnws*
ftahn m ftaudafsal |J- »«* g red«at
i pruyaftUw in ths kan-i* • i nsiti tkaukl is
, -asfs a vksik aJhafeap Jn*«w>
Legal Tender.
The Niagara Falls hackman contends
that he belongs to the natural scenery
and shouldn't be removed*
Friction matches are now made at
the rate of 24,000 per minute, and the
children can have plenty to play with.
Dio Lcwla has lived so high while
recommending everybody else to
starve that he does'nt feel very well
himself.
The people who rent houses in New
York city nave made no demand for
rents to come down. All thpy ask Is
for the walls to stand up.
It takes two weeks to recover from
the effects of pepper thrown into the
eyes. Bo satisfied to take tbeso fig
ures Instead of the pepper.
Recent events prove that Riel had
moro blab than light In his composi
tion. He probably expected to be
bought off instead of attacked.
Nieolini not only played billiards
when he should have been singing tor
Mapleson, but bo played such a poor
game that everybody stuck him.
A wildcat, which escaped from the
Cincinnati ••Zoo’’ three months ago,
has been the means of keeping 10,000
boys home o’ nights ever since.
A New York State woman pointed
an old pistol at a tramp and it blazed
away and killed a ttfdculf. She ought
to have pointed it at the calf.
The Rev. Tom Beecher has mado •
request in his wilt that his body be
cremated and that his widow avoid
wearing black. Nothing captious
about him.
What on earth the army wants of a
|10,000 balloon Is a mystery, but the
Ordnance Board has ordered one
rrt ii i Ih. I’erhfiiis it is to irlve the otil
cers an airing.
The building Inspectors of Chicago
have held an inquest on a structure
widen tumbled down, and come to the
conclusion that "it probably was not
substantially erected. '
They took three ounces of brains
away from a Pennsylvania man with
out injuring his smartness in the least.
There is a great deal of waste material
about tiie human body.
A horse at Charleston tipped over a
couple of bee-hives to see if they con
tained oats or bees. It pained him
considerably to discover that oats
weren’t left lying around in that shape.
One reason why England shouldn't
allow Russia to seize Herat is because
sho intends to give it a new name in
case of possession. It will lie called
Popoffkoskoviteh or some such thing.
The son of Rarrios, who Is in school
at West Point, wants to go to Guate
mala and avenge the death of bis
father, but his landlady has forbidden
him to leave the house until his board
bill is receipted.
The newspapers in Liberia have
formed a ring, and run the price of
advertising a lost cow or a cook want
ed up to twenty-five cents. The ex
citement is intense, and indignant
crowds are holding public meetings.
A New Yorker wants a divorce on
the grounds that his wife, who was a
widow when he married her, said
nothing about her children, but had
five whom she suddenly rushed in on
him before the honeymoon had waned.
The Lowell Citizen has learned that
a melon growing upon a shrub is the
latest fruit novelty in California.
When this new style becomes general
ly adopted melon stealing will not be
near so bard on a fellow’s back as it is
now.
James Fenton took a walk in Chica
go. A female at a window smiled on
him. Hu rang the bell, was knocked
down by a man, and finally recovered
sense enough to understand thnt the
smile was intended fur a poodle dog
on the street.
If you have a country-scat fashion
demands that you must name it after
the maples or beeches. If you don’t
happen to have one. and can hardly
pay your rent in town, fashion will
permit you to call the old shanty
"Idlewild,” "Elm Hall.” or something
of that Bort.—JAtroit Free l‘> cm.
A War Editorial.
The editor sat sadly at his desk.
Ills mouth was puckered witli the ex
pression a man assumes when he tries
to cut a tough piece of meat with a
silver pie-knife. His cheeks were
distended on one side by a chew of
tobacco, ou the other by a mouthful of
Asiatic words.
tt A # ii # ts.n.n oun_nn (r.uli.n_
bang lt!g*h*a*n! AfghuuUtaii, Jituiu*!”
“Yc»*ir.”
“Hun up to the hou«« and tell my
wife to hcml Tommy down with bin
geography tho intuuto bo got* bouio
from icbool."
“All right, «ir.”
“last mo hoc. How bad 1 bout til VIM
tiladutonoP 1 wonder wbotbor Mur*
gba in a man or a place. Hut it's get
ting late, HO bore goe*:”
To the thoughtful *tudeut of Interna*
tional politic* tho recent action ol
tilaiUtone cannot hut appear weak In
tho extreme. If he hud ordered the
ttoop* to attack Mawll-I'laode Indeed
of walling for (ien. Kn*hk on the
hank* of iue Komarort' a great advan
cage to England would certainly have
followed, amt Karakh*. a* far aa
Kuhn -litiaiu waa concerned, would——
“William!”
“Yeaalr.”
“Uring me a fre»h dictionary and
an leewaier lot ml age for my bead.”—
ihtrutl fit, Hoj
Ku«klu ott haled and lulctlccl.
It i* a no l*»* fatal error to dc*pi*a
labor, when regulated by Intellect,
than to value It for it* own *ake. W m
are alaayvtn lb**« day* try tng loop,
urate the t»wt we want «4h» wan to
he a!way* working, and weeall ane a !
gentleman and the other an operative; j
w to r«a* the Workman ought olten »o j
he thinking and Ike thinker often to ba 1
working, ami both *hottld be fenlho ;
l«. n In the br*t on*,' ti It l». we |
■n ,ke loth ungentle, the «*ue envying,
the other demoting hi* brother, and
the mac* o| iwlciji t* made up ut m»n i
t.id thinker* and wUeratde worker* >
Sow, it la only by labor that thought I
caa he mad* k*ppy, and the prof**.
•t <«al thouM lui htwral, amt there ,
•k.iui.l ha lea* pr*d* fell In jmeuliartt *
of employ went and w«fe In axanUM** j
I of avbtnteimut.
1 I
Fk.UTI.VJ TIIK HKPOYH.
A Wurrlvor of the Indian Mutiny Tell* How He
Fought HI* Way Through India and Waa
Shot Up In Beleaguered Lucknow.
There ia an entry in tho books of the
insane department at lilockley which
read*: "Fob. 26,1884, admitted; trans
ferred to inline department Sept. A, ,
1884; James E. Dockrey, aged 45
year*; nativity, New York; occupa
tion, teacher; social state, widower;
diagnosis,-,” and here there is a
blank, which was yesterday tilled up ,
by Dr. Richardson verbally by the sin
gle word "dementia.” This ia a spe
cies of partial or temporary insanity,
which, in the cane of James Dockrey,
takes the form of almost total oblivion
regarding comparative recent events,
while bis memory of elreurastaneos
which occurred prior to his preseut 1
affliction seems to be nearly if not i
thoroughly unimpaired. i
James K. Dockrey has a history <
which, without any hesitation and
with but one misstatement, he related 1
yesterday afternoon as he sat In Dr.
Richardson's olllee, on tho third Hour
of tho men's wing of the insane do- i
part merit. A short, broad-shouldered
mun of powerful build, somewhat fal- <
leu away from protracted confinement, 1
a very intelligent face, covered with a i
stubby Iron-gray beard, straight hair
of the same color, brushed away from I
the face and cut straight around, as If i
in the old-fashioned nautical manner I
by means of a basin, and a pair of '
gray eyes which, but for a weakness of '
the lids, rendering them somewhat 1
bloodshot, would have been very mild
and Intelligent. 1
"In 1856, when the terrible mutiny '
of the Sepoys broke out In India,” said 1
he, '*1 whs in Australia, near mu town
of Melbourne. The news came to us
of the horrible deeds of the brutal
blacks, and my blood boiled to go and
fight against them. Although I was
born in America, my father was a
Scotchman from the city of Aberdeen
itml my mother an irishwoman, se 1
not only had lighting blood in mo, but
could almost think they were my own
fellow-country people the Sepoys were
mascereing. 1 had been in India sev
eral times, and could speak one or two
of the dialect* <juite fluently. 1 there
fore shipped on a trader for Bombay
on the condition that I should leave
the ship when 1 arrived. As soon as I
got ashore I joined the Volunteer
naval brigade, under tbe command of
an officer named Stewart. Wo
marched through the peninsula toward
Calcutta. But Indore we got there
many a time we thought we never
should arrive. The volunteer naval
brigade was part of the army underSir
Henry Havelock, and it would be no
news to tell you how that army was
cut to pieces and decimated long be
fore it reached the coast.
“Wo literally fought our way
through the country, leaving thousands
of our men, women and children on
tbe road, killed by the most cruel and
cunning enemy in the world. The
sights 1 saw during that terrible march
will never be eradicated from my
memory. Delicate women staked
alive and their limbs torn from their
bodies while still living, children tied
by the feet to two animals and then
torn in halves—the horrible atrocities
are still fresh in the minds of many
who were but children then, and it is
not so long ago but that roost adults
remember the story. We came band
to nand several times with the black
devils, at Kootapoor and at Shanghai
and Rodar, and then at Cawnpore,
until, on the 17th of October, 1857, we
reached Lucknow. There we were
nearly overpowered, for there were
only a few of us loft. Wo had to tight
our way through the streets of Luck
now, keeping together and holding
our own as well as wo could. You
must remember that, although these
Sepoys were more than half savages,
they bad had the advantage of mil
itary training under European officers.
So wo had to keep oar eyes very wide
open when fighting against well-arm
ed, well-traiued forces far outnumber
ing us and combining the European
with eastern war tactics. Besides,
they were natives, and could
stand the terrible climate better
than we.
“Well, we managed to tight our way
through them till wo reached the res
idency, where we found a weary and
horrible resting-place for nearly a
month. Men and women were there |
already. The place was ill-adapted i
for a barricade, but they had made it
comparatively secure fur so long ns j
the ammunition held out. Day after !
i...1 .. . I ..... A ... 1 S I
VMIJ H " uj I I»U»« n
■entries, carefully saving their powder
aud bullet*, would ouly lute them to
pick off some too /.onion* Sepoy who 1
seemed to lm Inclined to creep toti
uear to our barricade*. At iilglit we
would count «»ur dead—for the priva-1
lion mid horrible atmosphere killed
sotue nearly every day aud buruetl
them m the yard as far from the build
ing a* possible. Amt each night spe
cial precaution was taken to guard
against the expected incendiary of the
black* or a possible assault on our an
fielded garrison.
"I think I will never forget the joy
with which we poor, starving,besieged
folk heard the distant sounds of the
Highland bagpipe*, nor the shout
which burst upon the im>sUleoee-thick
ened air w heu the llritish red-coat*
rushtd along through the street* of
I.at know yelling with the rage of
avenger*, and released us from nur t
prison, I seem to have gotten lutvud
.;. somewhere lhe».\ and J gu.»s near
ly alt of u* did, Mr we were half mad
with starvation and constant watch
Ing, Auvbow, I was taken to t abul
ta to recuperate mi health, and as the
mutiny suppressed shortly aftet
that, ami I *« only a volunteer I
thought I'd hast enough of wldietiu
for a time, and gave up lh»> army. 1
went to ItuMkst when mv health was
better and remain**! In business for
some time, but t bad a roans twg •pirn
and had to take to mv o*d calling the
tea again at the end wf a s»«t a year. ”
Mr I* M'htey, tn answer to a >|U»s.
turn if he sonttdvred the sew hla pro
leaving* vatdi
* S.i, sly. | am hv profession a «d*r
gitum I have beet, so much on the
•ea, ihough, that tt. it.vp* I know m.*r*>
of tt than *n» thing else '*
"lb you tentember how you name
lottf"
••No. sir. All I know is that It must
have been near the Fourth of July, for
[ remember to have heard tho boom*
ingof guns, and on inquiring what
they were firing for was told tho date.
After that I remember nothing till I
found myself here. I have a wifo
iving somewhere In Canada, but 1
:an not remember where.”
Dr. Richardson said that Mr. Dock*
•ey’s caso was most satisfactory. He
s very considerably Improved since
ils admission. He is a Freemason and
in Odd*Fellow, and his last question
o tho reporter before saying good-by
vas:
"Have you evor traveled eastP”—
Philadelphia Time a.
Wolseley'* Administrative Rowers.
It has never been ray good fortune
o accompany a force on campaign
mder the command of Lord Wolseley,
mil I writo, therefore, under some
lisailvantage. Hut tho expedition
vhich be conducted from Malta to
Cyprus when he went to organize tho
intUlt administration of that island
vas at least of a semi-military charao
or, and the opportunity offered of
viitching his methods as well as a
lommnnder as a civil organizer and
ulmloisirator. His leading character*
stic struck me ns equanimity. Thorn
vere many temptations to irritation,
n the detective commissariat arrange*
sent, In the characteristic obtrusive*
toss of the Turkish authority whom
ve were dispossessing, in tho hazy in
leflteness ot tho situation generally,
iut Wolseley, decisive, nay. incisive
vhen occasion demanded, never be
rayed a sign ot temper. That he was
inergetic one could discern, not loss
Iiuii that liis powers of hard work—
mil of fruitful hard work—were ex
septlonai; but there was no gustiness
n tho energy, and he slid through his
tard work with apt, bright dexterity.
Ie never fussed: and ho never entang
ed himself in the labyrinth of triiles.
I'iie absence of all friction in his
idmlnistralive methods, stood ac
sounted lor partly oy ms own njiosyn
:rasy, partly—a phrase, Indeed, of
lie other reason—because of the per
fect organization amt thorough inter
working of his staff. I traveled out
from home with Wolseley and his
itaff. The latter had to be gathered to
gether hurriedly, but its members met,
deeded, and set to work in the saloon
larrlage between Dover and (.'alias,
is if they had stepped into it out of a
lepartment in which they had been
io-operating for years. While thev
Kittled minor points of detail, their
thief meanwhile slept serenely, easy
n the perfect assurance based on ex
perience that his subordinates would
leal with these as lie would desire
;hey should be dealt with. It was
dear to me thus early, and the im
uression but grew in distinctness, that
Wolseley was the man who decided,
who decreed, the centurion who said,
“Do this;” and that he had recruited
For the fullillment of his behests a set
id men on whom lie could rely as in
telligent and devoted executants, and
to whom, therefore, he could and did
confide ttie functions assigned to each,
reserving himself as the chief, unham
pered by a multiplicity of details, for
the big work of resolving and direct
ing. In all this he was making no ex
periment. He was sure of his “ma
chine;” it was of his construction; he
had selected every cog and pinion ol
It; and had tested its efficiency, both
in parts and as a whole.—Archibald
Forbes, in The English Illustrated Mag
azine for May.
Must He Enforced.
Abraham Stockton, who, during
many years, lived in the soutnern part
of Ajkansaw, was, in honor to hit
great learning and also to the fact that
he had once killed a mad dog, dectcd
justice of the peace. The people were
very anxious to see a case taken be
fore the old man, for every man knew
that Stockton’s opinion would be one
which the supreme court could not re
verse. The opportunity came. A man
named Eckford sued Mr. Chelaey.
The litigation grew out of a dispute
concerning the ownership of a lot of
sheep. A jury was empaneled, the
evidence was taken and the lawyers
made their speeches. The verdict of
the jury declared thut the sheep should
be equally divided. Before discharg
ing the jury, the magistrate said :
“Gentlemen, you’ve did your duty,
but you ain’t made no provisions fur
the cost in this thing. The constitu
tion of the United States Ays that
when jurymen make sich a oversight,
the judge shall take the matter into
his own bauds. Gentlemen, I'll charge
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l n w UVIIIMI " • • I'H/VV.
u boap o' puople talk about the judge'*
chnrgu to the jury, »n’ 1 reckon vouie
o' you will talk about tbi* one, but if
yon ray any thing outen the way, I’ll
whule the whole kit and biliu' o'yer.”
■ Your honor," raid a law\> r, ' you
can't iunk« the jury pay—*’
••t'an't 1? Wall, now it’* funny if
we don’t. They don't git a bite to eat
till the thing * rattled. Hoy*, git
your |MJ‘» an* keep your eye* on the
jury. The law* of Hit* state have got
to toe enforced.”— drhliMra 'Tiuec ir.
«WM*e«mm»t *4^ erne—WWW
ArUtocrary tu the Old South.
If wealth 1* tueaauied toy net in
e«ute, there never w.w much wealth
in the South. The very nature ut the
property forbade it consuming it*
own production Hut It the uuiut-er
of slate* t* taken a* the standard of
wealth, then where there wa* one man
owning .«»»there were j»v**' who did
not own 1»«*. and tn that rath*, vicar
on through the negro population, atii)
Waving thousand* owning none.
He that a* it may, wealth wa* nut
the standard of the heat society. If
there wa* any uadwiattag rule it wan
family lineage, even wbiie the Iml old
lam.l v* ptmeesed the large proportion
ut the aggregate wealth though to no
large vvleat individual!v. Ta other
wofd*. family lineegt. when supple*
a- nil'll by dignity and go at conduct,
was always a pa*«p**tt talo the teat
tnetcly, whether with w without pro
perty, while lh- m with*ut tht* Ha*
rage were never evetu t*d who i*«
•erawd ether >ju*b‘o alioe» I here
were but lew toimailt e* of any sort,
amt v*e>tal intercourse wav at ait
time* natural an I ee*v, Iku la a
simple ami true Matmwut wf tacts, yet
they have been leaded down wuh
every puiltW verWelute. —Afr*. lei
weave Mt It* t voivi.
DOMESTIC HINTS.
GOLDEN PUDDING. “ ~"
Bread erumba, tuarmahide, brown
augar and suet; of each, one quarter
of a pound. Heat two eggs and mix
tho ingredients well together. Steam
in a basin for two hours and a half.
PUDDING WITHOUT MILK.
Two cups of cake, cracker or bread,
crumbs twocups warm water, twoeggs,
half cup of sugar, half cup of raisins,
fresh or canned fruit, a puch of salt
and a little nutmeg. Serve with sauce.
PUFF PUDDINGS.
Beat six eggs; add six tahlespoonfula
of milk, six of flour, one cud of sugar
and two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der; pour Into cups; bake quickly
turn them out pad serve with a sauco
made of butter, sugar, water and nut
meg.
BANANA CREAM.
After peeling the bananas mash
them wltn nn Iron or wooden spoon;
allow equal quantities of banuims and
sweet cream; to one quart of the mix
ture allow one quarter of a pound of
sugar. Beat them all together until
the cream is light.
DltlNK FOR AN INVALID.
Beat well tho yolk of 0141 egg, place
In a glass, add white sugar and lemon
or vanilla to taste, (ill up the glass
with milk. Take tho white of the egg
and beat to a stilt’ froth, and add sugar
and flavoring. Dace on the top of the
glass. Tins is excellent for invalids.
HOT POTATO SALAD.
Sllco thin eight boiled potatoes: cut
up a whito onion amt mix with tlu»
potatoes; cut up some bacon into small
bits, sufllclont to till a teacup, and fry
it brown; remove the meat and into
tho grease stir throe tablespoonfuls of
vinegar. I’uur over the potatoes and
serve hot.
Beat the yolks of four eggs with two
cup* of coffee sugar; «<I<1 three-quarter*
of a cup of butter, two cups of Hour,
three talilespoonfuisof baking powder,
one dessert spoonful of cinnamon, one
of cloves and a half nutmeg, grated.
Make a frosting with the whites of
the eggs.
CHICKEN PIE.
Cut tho chicken up, put it in a pan
and cover it with water; let it stew as
usual, and when doue maj<c a thicken
ing of cream and llouft adding a piece
of butter, anti pepper and salt. Have
made and bake A pair of short-cakes,
made as for pie crust, but roll thin
and cut in small squares. This is
much better that chicken pie and more
simple to make. The crusts should be
laid on a dish and tho gravy poured
over while both are hot.
CKEAM CAKE.
Beat up the yolks of three egg# with
one cup of white sugar; add three tab
lespoonful# of water and a cup and a
half of tlour in which you have mixed
two tablespoonfuls of baking powder.
Then stir in the whites of ten eggs
beaten to a stiff froth. Four into four
shallow tins and bake in a hot oven.
Cream: Beat one egg with three cups
o! white sugar. Stir in half a pint of
milk with a tablcspoonful of corn
starch and one-half cup of butter.
Heat till boiling and spread between
the cool layers of the cake.
BOILED SWEETBKEADS.
Sweetbreads boiled and served with
canned peas, and with a white sauce,
or a cup of cream poured over, make
an excellent dish. Sweetbreads and
mushrooms are also nice: the Bweet
breads should be parboiled; about
eight to one can of mushrooms is the
proper proportion; after parboiling,
cut them into small pieces und stew
them in a little water, add the mush
rooms after slicing them, and let them
simmer gently for an hour; add a cof
feecupful of cream, a lump of butter
the size of a butternut, and pepper
and salt to your taste.
Caleb Cushing.
When Caleb Cushing was nominated
a minister to Spuin, and afterward as
chief justice of the United States, he
hailed from Virginia, bv virtue of his
proprietorship of tho Glebe, a small
farm about seven miles from Washing
ton, where ho used bo pass Suudays.
Mr. Cushing's temperament was
like that of all men who work dogged
ly—intense and preoccupied, and
prone to go to all lengths. He had it
in his power in Fierce s cabinet to re
vise his character or thu historical
estimate of it, and serve that adminis
tration as well as hi# own fame. He
did nothing of the kind. The southern
influences in the cabinet used him. us
a northern man, to do all the disagree
able work, such as suppressing news
papers in the mulls, anticipating cou
trovertible decisions by opinions, etc.
He worked for that part of tho union
tvliinli liu slisl lllkl lifts III till.I ir.kt itVltll
more opprobrium than before in that
part where be uniat atay. Aa a conve
nience hia application for a oouimia
aion in the northern army waa r*pul***d,
aud aa early aa lntid be ahook the dual
of Maana-huaetU from hia feet aud
ehoa« a home at the age of three»eore
and three in the mold of the forth
tlcatlona on the Virginia -boro He
now attended wholly to the law and
inert-.need hia very very reapectable
widower'* fortune.
Hut a tough conatitullen and ti-na
cioua faciiilitM dtHtmcd our obi attor
ney to ■ third wrwatle with public life,
in which, a* u*ual. he wa* heateu
again. Hta act|uatniauce with Kidney
Webaler, *on in Inw of Keerelar* ! i*ti,
' and al*o »*■**-retary to I rank i'ierce,
threw hint Into Intimate relation* with
the elate department, the head where
of, Mr. tub, wa* a *eu,tiur when
l'u*hii>g waa attorn** general Here
he net titrated n great de*| of hard
work, tt--we of it very *u|wrotr in -to*(
| tty, hot dogged nnd |vt»*ai.le, and he
had reached a very good ptaatinot with
: the pre** to.I (odd tv a to-n the pred
dent did hint the deapite to name hint
l fur chief (native
the eon»e-(uentre w tt alm-wt atari
ting Hi* record wa* nnttdhwi. |*g
(peaking turned to hU.tr npnr«Mtng.
now the man *hu had (pent *» many
IMI* of hi* life •ttip* ttde-l between
: two (tattle* wa*proh*bl* gUd to tMcnpo
It-ou both to hta old retirement an I
private uetopaliu* lh*rw waa no
teaaun in thia life not it* *yt*wh«. It
waa, nerhapa, a •tmag tllnatintton nt
the adag* ** fk» mote hade the iv>a
vpeed,"—#ea<v * #•**%»!,