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VOJIEN AND WINB.
BY 3IXBY KYLK DALLAS.
WP1 went the gar cork flying,
!Uled the say champaign -Se
n-bt of a day that was flying,
. fined nP their goblets again,
-r Li the list, best toast be woman,
" ntr your glas. my darling,
?S you drink to your box with me."
nntshe caught his strong brown fingers,
. nd held them tight jw In fear.
. Bd throueh the gathering twilight
Her fond voice fell on his ear.
Vor. qre you drinK, I Implore yon,
Brail that you hold divine.
wedga o o:nan in her tear-drops,
Rather by far than in wine:
'Dv the woes of tho drunlaird's mother,
fty hU children who beg for bread,
Br the fa'e bf her whose beloved one
Ioks on tho wine when 'tis red ;
Br toe kls?e changed to cursos.
By tears more bitter "than "brine.
By taany a fond heart broken, .
Hedge no woman In wine.
what has wine brought o woman ?
Vothlne but tears and pain,
n'bft torn from hr? henrt hr lover,
And proven htr prayers In vain ;
And hor household god. all scattered,
Lie tangled up In tho vine
Oh! I -prithee, pleJfcf ft woman
In the curte of ho many, Wine."
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From the National Baptist.
THE FAVNEE INDIANS.
nv rr.ES. t. j. mokgak.
The Indians of Nebraska are all un
Jer the control of the "Northern sup
ciDtendency," with Barclay White
itihe head. There are now the rem
unts of sis tribes ; tho Omahas and
Winnebaxoes are near together in the
northeaatern part of the State, on the
Missouri river ; the Santee btoux are
In the northern part, on the Niobrara
river; the Iowas are In the coutheast-
empartof the State; the Otces are
etoftheseon the southern border
of the State; the Pawnees ore in tho
central part of the State. I have just
returned from a two days' visit to this
tribe, end will give a brief account of
the visit. The land allotted to them
consists 'of e tract thirty miles in
Ungth by fifteen iu width. It is di
vided into two unequal parte by tho
"Loup" river running through it
from southeast to northeast. It lies
north of the Platte from six to twenty
miles, and south of the Elk Horn, a
little more than a hundred miles west
cftbe Missouri river. It Is, in the
main, a good body of land, mostly
prairie, well watered by the Loup,
j Beaver, Elm and other streams along
Thich are considerable bodies of tim
ber. The Indians occupy only the
extremo eastern part of the reserve,
near Leaver Creek, not far from Loup
Fork.
They were gathered on to this reser
vation in 1&. The tribe numbers
cow two thousand three hundred,
divided Into four bands: the Skeedee
Kitkahock, Chowee and Pettilahow
fcrat. Each band has four chiefs, and
kx fioMitT or nnlicemen. One old
man claims to be the head chief of the
tribe, hut his cUim is not recognized,
and the several bands live very much
'apart, the SUeedees living in a sepa
rate village, but, so fur a I could learn
e not very free iu their intercourse
with each other.
TIhi vlllagca are not laid out in
streets, have no regularity except a
uniformity in the structure of the lodg
ta and in their location all opening
toward the east.
Bliarne,even modesty, among them,
but It Is alight. There is some recog
nition of the family, but it so overlaid
with polygamy arid licentiousness as
to be very crude. The chiefs many
of them have four wives, whom they
pointed out to us, but the children do
not seem to bo numerous. The
women appeared very fond of their
babie3 and proud of them. Thev
showed great skill and some taste too,
in wrapping them in their blankets
and strapping them to their boards.
They have no regular time for
meals, but eat at ail times of the day
whenever they are hungry.
They are filthy, or at least very un
cleanly In their habits, seldom wash
ing their clothing or ertons. Every
lodge, however, seemed to be provid
ed with a bath consisting of poles
bent over Into a frame work on which
is spread blankets or robes ; under it
Is a heap of stones, which nre heated,
and water is then poured on them
producing steam, which Forms the
bath. Some of them take very great
pains with their hair which is long,
straight, black and glossy, parted in
the middle. Only two or three men
in the tribe wear whiskers : most of
them have their whiskers, eye brows
and lashes pulled out.
Their wealth consists chiefly in
ponies, weapons, blankets and trink
ets. They have but little skill in
making or ornamenting bows, arrows
or clothing. They are very fond of
dress, paint their faces, deck them
selves with beads, tings, feathers,
medals, etc. Their religious, ideas
are few and vague ; they believe in a
great spirit, In immortality, and a
happy hunting ground. I found In
each lodge a sort of altar or sacred
Dlaco. where were bows, arrows,
gourds, buffalo skulls, etc., but I
could gain no information as to their
significance; tbo interpreter eald it
was "something they believe ;" others
would make us no reply.
This summer, when one of their
chiefs was slain by the Sioux, they
buried his body and was about to bent
to death with clubs his horse that
stood by gaily, caparisoned, that his
spirit might go with his master, but
tho agent forbade it. They have very
little regard for learning, and it is
with difficulty the children nre in
duced to attend school, and although
some efforts have made been to odu
ccte them for fifteen years, very little
progress has bsen made; few can
cnAftU "Rnirlish. and but few of these
are willing to do it. They seem to
have a sort of contempt for the white
man and nil bis ways. They dislike
work, and few can be induced to till
the soil. They hrivo a few "squaw
patches" where the women raise a lit
tle corn and a few beans.
They are very much afraid of their
old enemies, the Sioux. Last .sum
mer a party of them, hunting buffal
oes on the Republican, were surpris
ed by a party df Sioux, nndsljtty-nine
killed, several wounded, others car
ried oflT together with their ponies
and other property. I talked with a
squaw who carries in fie body a Sioux
arrow heed, and who said she was
"hnrin sick." Two weeks ago the
Sioux entered the Pawnee village at
night, an took away twenty ponies,
which have not yet been recaptured
by the party of thirty Skeedees who
are in pursuit of them.
It was pitiful, as we went through
the villages from lodge to lodge, to
with which
ux. Lit
tle children ran away irom us in
great terror, screaming Siou! Siou !
rVY.a nlr wnn full of TUmorS that tllC
Sioux had been seen, and were near
by. At night, I saw them lead their
ponies into their ltfdges. instead or tne
stables, to keep them from beiug stol
en.
OUB NEW YORK LETTEE.
Tile old Buildings PairnbrolterB Aa
Incident Big Bulldlnga Temper
ance Trinity To Ladies PArlor Ari
tillery.
There seemed to be but little sick
ness, weniiuess or ueituujii.y ui6
The lodct-R are circular In shape,
from twenty to forty fret in diameter, see the painful interest wit
and perhaps from' fJur feet at the ftdge they inquiied about the Sim
to fifteen, in height. The walls are
composed of dirt, tho roof consists of
polea, resting on posts planted in the
ground, interwoven with brush, and
covered with dirt. The door-way Is a
long, low, narrow passage-way open
at the outer end and closed within by
u blanket or buffalo robe. There are
no windows ; the fire Is made in an
excavatieu, hollowed out of the cen
tre of the lodge, and the smoke es
capes, that is, part of It, through an
opening made in the roof. The floor
is the ground, pounded hard but not
smooth, swept with brush brooms and
CnmnKn,.,. nortlv nflVHrpfl With mat
ting. " Their beds ate platforms con- nose, compressed rtioulh,
struoted of poles, brush or boards, When in repose, some
raised twenty inches from the ground
covered with matting and supplied
with blank ots and robes. Seats they
have none, except an occasional box
or pillow. Most of them eit or recline
on the ground, circled about the fire
when the weather is cold. They
have no tables, but eat with their
hands, from tho pans and pots. Their
cooking iB of the most primitive style
ofbollinc, baking, roasting, frying.
I saw four whole sides of beef ribB
suspended over a blazing fire in the
midst of the flames, smoke, and ashes.
Almost the entire labor is perform
ed by the women. We remonstrated
with one chief who stood idly by
while one squaw unloaded' wood from
a wagon, and two others cut.lt retfdy
for tho fire, telling him that white
women were not allowed to do such
work. "They do not know how,"
was his surly reply in his vernacular.
Thpir fnnil I limitud : thev raise a
little corn, and receive a little flour,
sugar, coffee, and beef from the gov
ernment, or at least some has been is
sued to them this wiulcr. The wild
game, Buffaloes, deer, etc., have be
come so limited aa not to be any long
er depended on. Their clothing is
&caut and poor, buffalo robes and
them, many of them being fine speci
mens of physical mannooa, ian,
straight, woll-formed, muscular, agile,
with the typical Indian features,
black hair, full forehoad, keen black
eve. high cheek bones, prominent
round cmn.
of their faces
are quite beautiful, some plaoid, oth
ers very mirthful, but when talking
of tho Sioux, they are completely
transformed, they are savages. I
went into one lodge where a hundred
were gathered to listen to tt group of
twenty men singing "boar songs." It
w.ik Htrantro. wierd scene. There,
in the dim light of that gloomy lodge,
surrounded by a hundred swarthy,
half clad men and women, twenty
braves, heroes of many fights, sing
ing their wild songs, accompanying
themselves with the montonous beat
of drums and rattles, and rid indes
cribable grotesque daucing. I felt a
sense of relief when away. The
songs continued till sunrise.
I have endeavored to give a plain
statement of facts as they presented
themselves to me during two days of
hard seeing. They have made the
Indian problem a real one to mo, and
made me better able to form a judg
ment on the "polioy" which should
be pursued by the government in Its
treatment of these people. I hope it
may aid your reader In the same way.
Pent Nebraska.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
Sew York, March 23, 1874.
TIIE OLD BUILDINGS.
There Is no city in the world that
has better or worse buildings than
New York. The buildings of recent
date are commodious, airy, and sup
plied with ventiintion and the other
reauisites for health and life. But
those dating back iliirty years In the
time past of the city ore fearful. These
houses are hives, swarming with peo
ple, and possessing absolutely no con
veniences. Imagine the condition of
a house twenty feet wide, sixty feet
deep, and six stories high, In the cen
tre of a block, with openings only In
tlie front and rear! in which are pack
ed ten large families In the upper five
atorieB, and imagine the condition of
tho people who live" in them I In one
such house twenty cases of typhoid
fever occurred in three months. Phi
lanthropists have In this a wide field
for effort. The crying necessity of
New York is for houses that can be
rented cheaply, and that furnish
light, air and water, and in which
cleanliness is a possibility.
And writing Df poverty and tene
ment houses, what springs so natur
ally to the point of one'6 lien as
PAWNBROKERS,
who are a queer set and drive a queer
business. Tho pawnbroker is a man
who lends money on short time on
collateral security. Are yod a wid
ow and is your boy sick? You take a
shawl to Moses, and he advances you
about one-fourth its value at a tre
mendous rate of interest, 25 per cent
per annum. This supply gono, your
best dress, your extra pair of shoes,
your wedding ring, your bible, and
finally your bed. He takes them all,
for they are aH saleable. You get a
ticket for eiicii article, and if you
come within a year and redeem them
all right ; if not, at the end of a year
they are sold. Iusl.de one of these
shops you will see a sntin dress hang
ing ticketed beside a calico skirt,
shoes, bibles, revolvers, musical In
struments, tools, clocks, kettles,
skates, every species of portahle prop
erty Under Heaven, aide by side. But
in the big SaTS In the baok room, you
would, if you could get a peep there
in, see other kinds of property, lou
would nee diamonds, costly jewelry
and silver plate. For the poor are
not Shylock's only customers. Mad
ame, on Fifth Avenue, has spent
more for dress than her pressed hus
band can afford, and she does not ask
him for money. The obsequious
dress maker shows her that her dia
monds enn be ensily removed from
their settings, and bogus stones, that
an expert could hardly tell from the
genuine, put in at a trilling cost. Then
Moses or Simon will be glad to ad
vance her what money she needs on
the genuine Stories. This she does,
paying a ruinous interest, and trying
to save money enough out of her al
lowance to redeem them. And then
ruined men find these Bhops a con
venient place to get temporary aid on
jewels with which they do not wish
to part. For this clasB of customer
there is a private side entrance.
Speaking of removing genuine dia
monds and supplying their place with
paste, reminds mo of a little incident
that excited Ihe risibles of the fash
ionables only two weeksago. A ludy
on Fifth Avenue had got into trouble.
She had purchased thousand dollar
dresses, and thousand dollar furs, and
thousand dollar things generally, till
imr hm fnntpd nn to a sum total that
was frightful. Her husband had lost
heavily in stocks. She dared not ask
him for money, aud what was she to
do? She had dianionds to the value
of $15,000. She took these rings and
bracelets and things, and hied her to
a jeweler's who reset them with imi
tation stones that looked just as well
as the genuine, nnd on the genuine
stones she raised the money to relieve
her wants.
In the meantime the husband had
lost money at gambling, and had
blankets beiug the chief articles. In
the summer the ohildreu go without
clothing, and now, mid winter, I saw
In tho lodges numerous children nak
ed, and Kpvnral mou who had only
the fig leaf apron modernized to
coyer tbctn. There is some eense of
Having seen gentlemen of three
hundred pounds in their seats, we are
ready to allow that a fat man is al
ways Qheerfull.
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"Have I not, my son, offered you ev
ery advantnge?" "Dh, yes, sir; bUtl
could not think of laking advantage
of rev own father."
"debts of honor whioh mustbe paid."
How was lie to get it? His wife'a dia
monds! Capital idea! Oue morning
ho slipped them in hi3 pocket and
went to a jeweler's.
"Can you take stones out. of jewels
aud replace them wlih imitation ?"
"Certainly."
"What would these be worth or
rather what would you advance on
them?" said he, pulling out the
sparklers.
The jeweler looked at them aud
looked up.
"About $150!"
"$150! 'V'hy they coat $15,O00V
"The originals doubtloss did. We
have the originals In our sa'fo. We
took them out two weeks ago, and put
In theso uasie ones."
Tlie gentleman gave a prolonged
whistle, and put them lit his pocket
aud walked oiit.
There was doubtless a scene at his
house. Doubtless he demanded why
Madam, his vifet had pawned her
iewels, and doubtietfs she wanted to
know-how he came to Know n. nu
it was settled never will be known.
Tho nawnbrokers are all shrewd
men. They not only know the exact
value of every kind of parsonal prop
erty, but they know exactly what it
will bring- &$ suction.
fne thieves
use tho pawnbrokers; If the thief
hafc stolen a watch or tebhy linen, or
handkerchief, he does not keep It. So
the pawnbroker gets them at one
fourth their value, knowing that they
Will never b? claimed The marks
Rre taken out of articles of cloth the
cases of watches are nfeil'eii, if the
material is good enough, arid others
are substituted in short no matter
what the article is, it is disguised so
thnt its owner wouldn't tehovV it; It
is a curious profession and full 6t cu
rious incidents.
THE BIG BUILDINGS..
The capitalists of New York, and
some who were not capitalists, got,
some years ago. a mania for big build
ingsand an Immense number were
erected. But none of them paid.
The Herald building in Nussau street,
one of the busiest localities in the
city was built at a cost of millions.
But It don't rent. The cost of the
building is so enormous that no one
can afford o pd a rent that will be
remunerative. .For instance, small
offices on the third floor are held at
$2,500 per year, which rent requires
an excollent'busiuess to pay. Men go
to less expensive buildings where
they can get lighter rents, and the
big splendid buildings are empty.
The Domestic Sewing Machine Co.'a
building, corner Broadway and Four
teenth, has never paid one per cent
on its cost. I could mention twenty
such buildings, the history of one an
swering for the rest. The Domestic
Company pays a ground rent of $30,
000 per year and tti6 cost of the build
ing was simply enormous. These
buildings are.splendid advertisements
but the proprietors would have done
better had they used the newspapers.
TEMPERANCE.
The temperance movement in the
West has had its effect on New York,
though the plan adopted can never be
successful here. The liquor interest
is too SmmenBe, and the lawlessness
of the element affected by it is too
dangerous to be tackled In that way.
But the good people are at work nev
ertheless, in the way I indicated in
previous letters, aud they nre-gUfning
strength by meetings of personal so
licitation, and every other way. One
good ehect of the agitation has beeu
the awakening of the churches to the
vil. Trinity Church is the richest
religious corporatiou in the country,
and Her wealth in almost entirely in
real estate. The singular fact ha
been developed that this church rents
one hundred and twenty buildings to
wholesale and retail liquor dealers.
The press has called the attention of
the Managing Board to this fact and
has driven tlieni into steps to remedy
it. The temperance people say there
is but little uve of their raiding upon
the liquor iuterest so long ns the great
est ohurch in America is really a part
ner iu it, and they are about right.
But whether anything will be accom
plished or not, is doubtful. Trinity is
too rich to do much good. It whs not
the rich Pharisee.-, but the humble
fishermen who did tho great work
eighteen hundred years ago. A
church that b'whsone thousand build
iug lots worth ail average of $25,000
each or $25,000,000, cannot do much
in the way of reform. You see it
takes ail itJ time to take care of its
property !
A NEW TOWDER.
I hasten to lay beforo your lady
readers an Important fact. For years
the fashion in powder has been With
a reddish tint. This Is all changed.
The correct thing now is the un
bleached face powder, a clear olive
tint, which is considered muoh more
stylish than the old time pearl white
and flesh tints. This converts tho la
dy using it liito a brunette. Of course
there must be red on the cheeks, but
the foundation the first coat, ir i
may use the expression must be ol
ive. Remember this, fairladies ! Y'ou
must become Indians, or an approxi
mation thereto. And another thing.
Take the long, high heels off your
Bhoes, and have good square heelB put
on, eet back where the heel ought to
be. Fashion has, for ontfe, done a
good thing. But how long win it
last?
"PARLOR ARTILLERY."
About these days look out for ped
dlers, with a new toy for children,
called "Parlor Artillery." Ttiio
cheerful article is a cannon loaded
with nitro-glycerine, which discharg
es an indla rubber ball, and warrant
ed to be "harmless." But, neverthe
less, a box of the cartridges did ex
plo Jo in a houae on Fourth avenue,
aud did blow the front of it out as
completely as though ti. powder mag
azine had exploded therein. Imag
iue Charles Augustus, aged five, load
ing and firing his little cannon, war
ranted harmless. He drops oue back
into the box aud an explosion ensiles.
Charles Augustus is not to be fodnd.
nor is Mary Anne, his little sister,
who was regarding the proceedings
with" interest. The cherub3 are gone,
butvou will find pieces o'f tifcrn in
the hack yard. Small fragments of
C. A.'s boots, and possibly one of
Mary Anne's gaiters will be e'h'bugh to
h-nfd f funeral over. This is what
you rxfay expect if you purchase for
your little dears anything possessing
so great disturbing power as nitro
glycerine cartridges. Give the par
lor artillery a wide berth. I never
liked cannon in any shape. So deep
seated was my aversion to cannon
that at the breaking out o'f the la'st
war I refused' to enlist in an artillery
company or a'riy other company.
Pieteo.
IXFANTlfcK CONUICDRUaiS.
jeahkest's twilight talk.
"Mamma, how did baby
Find the right way
From the angel's homo
That summer day ?"
Said little Earnie
At eventide,
As he uest'ed closo
Down by my side.
"Did God. send her soul
On a Hllverclotiii
Did he call to yon
So very loud
Hero's a baby dear
For you to love,
Coming down from heaven
Like a gentle dovb?"
"I think an angel
- Come Just before.
To show tlie baby
. Oar papa's door,
Ob, say, mamma dear.
Did you hear her sing.
And then let onr
Dear Utile baby in ?"
"And did she have wings
" When Site came that day
That you've t:iken off
And put away?
Did tlie angel tell yon
To lay them by ( ,.
'Till God should call her
Again on high ?"
bound to come together, show their
capaoity, express their wants and
show a willingness to harmonise and
benefit each other, and that party
alone will grow strong which will Ig
nore policy and do the most to pro
tect the people.
War. Bagley.
Glen Ttock, Neb.
CHIEir JU5-
;i,
"If I hear him call her
I'll quickly say.
Dear heavenly Father,
Oh! please let her stay I
You've babies enough
In your heaven above,
And we'vo only one
Little sister to love!"
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The round pointed waist of twenty
ye&Ts ago arn to be worn this season
GRANGERS and politics.
Editor Nebraska Advertisor.
Such has been the rapid growth of
the order of Patrons of Husbandry
that politicians, both of this country
and Europe, as it were, stand aghast.
Mauv are askimr what It medna. In
this banding together of honest men
of both parties, those who have been
political leaders, trimmers and plun
derers, see very much to become
alarmed at. It Is said by Republi
cans that the success of the farmers'
movement will bo the death of the
Republican party. And it is said, al
so, by Demoorats, that the success of
the Grangers means the dissolution
of Democracy. Well, what then?
may well be asked, and the answer
would naturally be this: the Repub
lican party can afford to die after it
has accomplished so much good af
ter it has so well kept faith with the
favored classes ! the Democratic par
ty had better dissolve if it cannot de
fend Democracy, and all who live by
labor, so that they may earn an hon
est living, If the Republicau party
had kept faith with '.he plow-holders
and the people generally th'ere would
be no necessity for any political or
ganization or party. If the Demo
cratic party, as nn organization, can
not, will not or dare not cut assunder
from those corruptionits, monopo
lists, usurpers, tyranizers, levyers of
unjust taxes, and all other plunderers,
so in favor with the powers that com
pose the administration, and coma
more in sympathy with the people all
over the land, we pray God that it
may never succeed.
Our Democracy Is only of that kind
which protects the people, the poor
and the rich alike ; and not of the
kind which builds up the walls and
lines which protect classes and mo
nopolies at tho expense of honor, pat
riotism, fair dealing, and deserving
industry. When parties become cor
rupt the people are robbed. But when
parties are pure, then the people are
protected. Our faith is in the people
more than in parties,' ana oniy in me
party which protects the people the
best. Herein is the foundation of that
which is Democracy. When the
voice of the majority is uplifted to
remedy evils, protect the industrious
and encourage everything that leads
to general prosperity it should be
heard. But this is not always the
case, but is the voice of interest anu
oi,.ii r. h'c heard. For vears the
farmers of this country have been
robbed in a shameful maimer. Men
who have supported themselves by
labor have given their ballots to po
litical beggars and trimmers, till the
law-making power as found In legls
inM., fcoiia hnq hecotrfe but a foul
nest from which are hatched all man
ner of viperous, ulcerous enactments.
The Patrons of Husbandry are work
ing to benefit themselves. They have
aritrht to demand a law to benefit
themselves, just as much as has the
bond-holder or the capitalist of any
irir.,1 Rut neither have a right to
buy legislation, but have the right o
punish the man who sells his vote or
voice to the injury of any one. ine
laws of this country, in many instan
ces, are unjust ; law-makers are cor
rupt; society is terribly demoralized ;
drunkenness, rottenness and extrava
gance are on the Increase. The rich
are enriched, and the poor made poor
er by the present system of American
legislation. Men who have money
hnv Wislattnn for th'ei? benefit. The
Patron of Husbandry joins hands
with his neighbor to demand that
laws shall not be sold to the highest
bidder. We say they have a right.
and it i3 their duty to do this, and to
compel their law-rnnk'ew to be hon
est. The plow-holder has a right to
punish his enemies and to regard his
friends, and the people will hail with
ioy the evidence of a better time com
ing when politicians will be afraid of
the people and come to understand
that whenever they do not work for
the interests of the people their pun
ishment will bD swift and eure.
Parties are in duty bound to pro
tect the people In their effort to build
Up a country, and so' are the people
itow THEY MAKE l A
TICK.
Mary Cleramer Ames In the Independent.
Sitting In the Supreme Court-room
seems to bo more conducive to obesity
and sleep than to longevity. It is tho
only sleepy spot in the Capitol. Its
doors are muffled, its carpet velvet
and padded ; A atmosphere Is" 3ilence.
Even tho lawyers who plead before
the Supreme Bench never lift their
voices above a conversational tone,
while I never heard a Justice speak
loud enough to be understood at all
outside bf the bar. While in, deep
down tones, which seem to atriteo the
earth, he reads from a manuscript or
a heavy tome, all bis Associate Justi
ces sit with bent heads or closed eyes.
It is a meditative scene, and a som-
r ' -
norific one, notwithstanding the
glowing light which Altera down
through tho crimson curtains upon
the snowy, walls and on the busts of
one of the dead Justices, mounted up
on brackets, and upon tho cushioned
seats of old mahogany and those
who sit on them to look and to frown.
From that low gallery above the seats
of the Justices the belles of genera
tions gone Dolly Madison, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, MrB. John Quin
cy Adams, Cora Livingston, and. how
many others once looked down.
Here Clay aud Webster, Calhoun and
Hayue poured out their arguments
and their eloquence. Here only laBt
May, the laBt Chief Justice, orowned
and covered with flowers, lay in the
state of death cold, silent and alone.
"The king is dead! L'orij; live the
king!" We' come to-day not to
crown, but to behold his successor.
Well, he has a much stronger face
than that borne by the last two Chief
Justices. The most remarkable fact
in it is the immense capacity of all
the avebii'es to the brain, to say noth
ing of the one which leads straight to
th Rtnmaeh. The ears, nose and
mouth are of remarkable extent. The
head Is massive, at once high and
broad. The nose has ft bridge that
fate would flnd.it.a very hard task to
break down, while it carries a probos
cis long aud tending downward, snoli
as is always seen on rooting animals.
A man with such an end to his nose
will dltr to the bottom, if he digs at
all. It is at once the nose o'f wisdom,
power and success. W.Iat a contrast
to t lie nasal member of the last Chief
Jti-tice. Chase had majesty of form
and mein, a really imperial pres
ence, a grand head, great at Its
base and lofty in its frontal dome ; he
had a countenance, aa we see it in his
earlier portraits, of distinguished
beauty clear, expressive eyes, a clas
sical mouth and chin ; but in the cen
ter of all was set an inconsequent
nose the nose of a man who could
project but couldn't consummate. His
plan of life was large, his ambition
boundless. He commanded other
men to execute what he designed.
As all must. w(ho leave to others that
which they alone should carry to suc
cess, he failed of what to him was the
final triumph.
At 12 o'clock rjorin tho orlef of the
Supreme Court, advancing before
them, shouted, "O, yez! O, yez!
Make way for the Honorable the As
sociate Justices of the Supreme
rmir! Then all the members of
the bar within the circle arose, and
the justices, in out-flowing black, silk
robe3, preceded by the Marshal of the
court, marched Into the Supreme
Court-room, the new Chief Justice
last. The Justices took their usual
seats on the "Supreme Bench," while
Mr. Waite Bat down near the desk of
the Clerk, who immediately opened
the court with the famous "O, yes! O
yes!" when heproceedod to read tho
commission of th'e new Chief Justice.
Then Mr. Waite arose and read in a
clear voice the following oath :
"I, Morrison R. Waite, do solemn
ly swear that I will administer jus
tice without respect to persons, and do
equal right to thu poor and to the
rich, and that I will faithfully and
impartially discharge and perform all
the duties incumbent on me aa Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, according to the best of
my abilities anu uuuciowuui6l
agreeably to the Constitution or tne
United States. So help me God."
The clerk repeated the words, "So
help me God." Then Mr. Waite
signed his name to the paper, and
then passed up to the seat of the Chief
Justice, and sat down iri it without
any oeremouy whatever that seat
which has caused bo many heart-burnings
and headaches ; so much emula
tion, strife, and uncharita&leneaa.
Who could realize it all aa he sat
iinwn in it In a uerfeotly matter-of-
course way ? Well, perhaps it never
coat him a struggle. Maybe he is one
of the rare men who work for the oc
casion, without thought of it or of
fame; and at last tho occasion cVme
because he tfas prepared foritand had
not sought it. Scarcely of medium
m - nuin Tttc-ttsn ciourrton
size, tne new vuici vuw.o 0fcwv..
iv,r. toftink out of slarht in his new
black robe. With apparent effort lie
arose to the surface.
"Only think, thirty yard's of silk to
make just that robe t" exclaimed Me
dora. If takes thirty yards to make you
aattHyMcdora;to be worn out iu a
year. The Chief Justice's robe may
last his life-time."
Plainly not an example of man's
extravagance ; that lies chiefly in tho
direction of his mouth.
As Chief Justice Waito turned his
head, there wus on his countenance
an expression strangely like Lin
coln's. You see It in the long upper
Up, and in his half-3ad, half-smiling
lines of the wide moutp.
?
DOMESTIC.
Gestation of Coavs. I known
that if farmers would keep notes of
what they do, It would less frequently
be asked why their cows do riot pre
sent them with calves after going nine
months. They know that the timo ia
nine and one-half months or two hun
dred and eighty-four days.
For Making Black Ink. Take
a clean kett'e and put in It fire quarts
of rain water; put it on the fire and
let it come to a boll; then add three
ounces of the extract of logwood ; stir
It until it dissolves; then add one
eighth of an ounce of the bichromate
of potash ; when it Ib dissolved It 13
fit for use.
Tbeb Planting. This it is well
not to delay any longer than to have
the ground In a suitable condition to
work easily. All the theories to the
contrary, whioh are frequently thrust
forward In the newspapers, do not
make early planting of all kinds of
tree, everg reen an well as deciduous,
any the less important. A hundred
large evergreen trees around my houee
were planted so early in the spring
that some frozen ground was found
when digging the holes ;t but not one
died, although there were plenty of
wiseacres who Bald, "Evergreens do
better when planted late in sping."
BuralNew Yorker.
There is nothing so helpful to a
man and especialy to a farmer, as a
thrifty housewife. His wife may bo
beautiful and loving accomplished,
graceful cheerful, faithful still he will!
find there are many flaws In the do
mestic economy unless, with her oth
er qualifications, she combines the
happy faculty of imparting the glow
of youth to the aged fowl and of so
proportioning a pound of butter to a
barrel of salt as will enable her to real
ize for the salt In the market twenty
five cent's per pound.
Phiadelphia receives by rail 5.000
quarts of country milk per day
To get a porsou out of a hyaterlo fit
put the feet and legs In warm water.
Catarrh Is sometimes cured by
smoking dried mullen leavea. Ueea
clean clay pipe and let theamoko pass
through the nostrils.
Sleep may frequently be procured,
when hurtful opiates have failed, by
taking a quarter of a teaspoonful of
bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a
third of a tumbler of water.
Metals may be madeto adhere ro
glass by a cement composed of pow
dered litharge, two parts, dry white
i..i nn nnrr. hulled lihseed oil. three
f "i " "-- -
part-, mixed with dn& part of copal
varnish to a thick paste.
Sweet Sauce. Sweeten oKe pint
of richest cream with three ouuees of
sugar, and flavor with one gill of
brandy and a little nutmeg or nowdor-
ed cinnamon. Tins sauce la espec
ially suited to accompany apple dump
ilnga. SPots on Varnish .Take a soft
cloth and wet In alcohol ; rub' the spot
briskly, and It will disappear o'ntirly
theu rub oa a little boiled,lfnseed oil
anb it will be restored to its origlda'I
color and polish.
Salt fs used to benefit clover, to
stiffeu the straw in wheat and oats,
aud as a fertilizer for asparagus. It
may bo used on clover and wheat or
oatB at the rate of three to six bushels
per acre, aud for asparagus a peck to
the square rod may be used with ben
flt For a cough, hop sirup is aaid to be
very efficacious. To one ounce of hops
and one piut of water add one table-
spoonful of flaxseed. Put all In a
Baucepan, and boll it till reduced one
half. Strain it off, add half a pint of
molasses or a quarter of a poundof.
brown augHf; and toil until itbecomef
a thick sirup. When cold take a' tea
spoonful at time.
Frosted Feet. Twenty-five years
ago I was torribly afificted with ohll
blaina, and had for fifteen years, bo
Ing laid up Bome winters for weeks,
and oftertrying many remedies stum
bled on the fellowing: Soak the feet
in hot water for at least half an hour
occasionally adding hot water to keep
up the heat all that can be endured.
After wiping the feet hold ihem by if
hotstove just as hot as can be endured
for another half hour, occaslo'd'a Ily
bathing them with some healfng Hn
imenV. Repeat this for ifi'ree or four
nights. I have never suffered ail
hour aince this trial was made. P, 2?.
S., in Country Gentleman.
Rome-Made Candles. Many of
our readers in the country will find
that oandles can be madeecouomlcaJly
by mixing a little melted beeswax
with the tallow to give a durability to
the candle and to prevent its "run
ning." The light from the tallow
candle can be Improved in clearness
and brilliancy by using small wicks
which have been dipped iu spirits of
turpentine and thoroughly dried.
NEWS BREVITIES
Thero are about i8O0gn&a In.MIs
souri. In Nodaway county. Mo., many
hogs are dying of lung: disease.
'J he rewards offered for the Gacfa'
Hill train robbers amount to $17,-500.
Everything Is yery favorable for a",
large fruit crop In in Missouri this"
year.
Disraeli and Sir StjJTord ; Northoota
have been elected to ParmJiiierit with'i
out opposition.
Geo. R. Downing, agent of Adams
Express Co., Providence. R. I., suici
ded on the 17th Inst.
A special dispatch to' the jloridon
Daily Kews, from Central Asia, rej
resents that anarchy reigns in Khiva,
The Mayor of Carthage, Mo., has
donated fiTe acres of land within th
city limits, for the looalloaor a.iaroj
ers' agricultural Implement factory.'
Near Monticollo, Mo., recently, Jas.
Myres killed his father G. W. Myers?
with a hatchet. . The patricide was
said to be in self defense
It cost the Bank of England $46,000
to puraue and prosecute the parties
who committed the frauds on tua
bank Bome time ago.
Recently at Hamilton, Mo., H. S.
Sproul suicided by hanging. His wife
and two children at tho time were on'
a visit In Iowa. t
H. A. Holmes, of Louisville, KyV
committed euioide on the 17th lust;
by shooting his brains out with a pis
tol. Family troubles.
It has been learned that the Catho
lic See of Milwaukee Is to be raised to
an Archbishopric and that Bishop"
Heni will be promoted to tho Arch-bishopaoy.
At Grand Island, Neb., on the 17thj
Inst., two prisoners in the county jai
surprised and knocked the jailer
down, handcuffed and locked blm up
in a cell, and leisurely made their es
cape. The President hansent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: Jas.
W. Steele, of KanBas, ConBtit to Ma-
tanzas, Cuba, and'S. D. Atkins, post-v
master at Freeport, 111.
A committee frotrtNew4drleani' on
the 17th, presented President Grant a
picture of himself of heroic bIzo on
horseback. Senator West made tho
presentation Bpcech in tbo presence
of the cabinet and the resident's
household, and subsequently thoy all
partook of a lunch with the Presl-'
dent.
On last Sunday evening while a
lot of Germans were eeated around a
table, in N. Y. city, playing cardy
and partaking or refreshment Au
gustus Kelhna'n entered, drunk, car'
rying a loaded rifle. He leveled the
piece at the table, shooting dead An
drew Miller.
The colored race ia not so easily ex
tinguished, after nil. ThI- Is particu
larly the case in Louisiana, where
they have increased their numbers Inf
the last'three yeas by an addition of'
10,000.
The St. Louis Democ-at says:
"There were t number of carriages
on the street yeHt'-rday driven by ser
vants with gilt buttons on theircoat;
but no arreats were made."
A conflagration at NashvIIIo, on tbo
18th, destroyed about $100,0K) worth4
of property, principally factories.
F. A. Bally, a book keeper of Bodln,
Lock wood & Co.. N. Y., recently de
faulted to the amount of $100,000 and'
Absconded.
The Senate bias confirmed' E. C.
Lewis, of 111., Agent for tlie Pueblo'
Indians in New Mextco, and jamea
Durman Receiver of Public Moneys
at Springfield, Mo.
The wife of Francis Bid well, on the
ISth, at Brooklyn, was found dead
with her throat out. Whether suidda"
or murder, 13 not known.
Tne Rev. Dr. David Elliott, Emer
itus professor In tho Presbyterian
Theological Seminary of Allegheny
City, died on the 18th inst., In tho
87th year of his age.
Prince Kalakana has-been elected
ted King of Hawaii to succeed Lunal-"
lllo who died recently.
A bill has passed the Missouri Seri
ate prohibiting saloon keepers from
selling liquor to habitual druukardV.-
A young man named Morgan',' of
Livingston county, Mo., recently
hanged himself in his father's bugg
house. Cause unknown.
John Nivert, a wealthy Germarf
blackemith of Glasgow, Mo., who bad1
become c'ddicted to druukeunee3,
committed an outrage upon the per
son of a neighbor's wife, and upon bo
lug arrested, hs killed himself with a
pistol.
The temperance ladles of Afcbland,
Neb., have succeeded iu shutting up
all tho saloons of that town, and get
ting tbe license raised to $1500.
Near Council Bluffs, on the I7tli
the body of a man, from papers fauna
on his person, supposed to be CE.
Curtis, ofEvaiisvllle, led , was found,
half buried in tho sand on the bottom?
of a ravine. He had $45 in money,
and a gold watch j no marks of vio-
lonce. It is supposed he perished or4
the terrible night of the 4th of Marchy
from exposure.
No wonder Kentucky is so incorri
The Toledo Blade Inquirea i "What
gibly Bourbonish. In a single reve- fs tlie use of fttfnig missionaries off
district cf that State there are; lotoreigir coming. v v - --
oue
sixty distilleries in operation, caafcTng
about 250,000 gallon of wnisay a
month-.
whole Township down in Auglaiz&
County in which not a Repub;icun i$
to be found?"
