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rd Ward
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D. MARSH.
TAILOR.
15KOWKVILLE, - - NEBRASKA.
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B. STROBLE,
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WOODEKWARE, BRUSHES, CANDIES
CANNED FRUITS AND NUTS,
TOBACCO, CIGARS, JIEEKSCIIArH PIPES, AXD
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AT CITY BAKERY.
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BUOWiVVIL.r.E, NEBRASKA.
Good, Sweet, Fresli Meat
Alwsys on IirihI. and satisfaction guar
antied to all customers.
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stvle. Larse rooms for COMMERCIAL
TRAVELERS, Billiard parlor and reading
room connected with the hotel. The people
of Southern Nebraska are solicited to try
Metropolitan, when visiting Lincoln.
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Wat. P. E3HTH.
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QNSOEIAL ARTISTS,
1st door west Frst National Bank,
SSroivnviUc, - Nebraska.
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J&roivnviUc, Nebraska.
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spedflealions. as yon will save money by so
Joint;. All work promptly attended to. Shop
work a specialty. Having tools and all the
necessaries, and several years experience, we
win contract for tne removal oi ouitam
and guarantee satisfaction.
B.P.SOTJDEB,
ilaiiuftwttnrer and Dealer in
HARNESS, SADDLES, .WHIPS,
COl.T.ARS, BRTDUES,
ZI5K PADS, BMJSI1ES, BLA5KETS,
Robes, &c.
BROWiTHLLEt NEBRASKA.
Fall stock ready mode goods constantly on hand.
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dttTSest r!TT UPAPih
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ADOXIRASf PODGE.
Adonlram Podge was as lank and lean
As a withered np stalk of corn ;
And his face was as solemn as ever was seen
Since the days when Adam was born.
He lived on a farm In the edge of town.
And managed to keep on hl3 legs
By the getting of money and salting it down
When he sold his butter and eggs.
His nose was as long as a piece of chalk.
And his eyes were little and gray.
And he hacked when he opened his month
I to talk,
' And twitched In an awkward way.
Ills voice was sharp as a steel-spring trap.
And his bead was minus of hair.
Bat he covered It np with an old .fur cap
That his grandfather used to wear.
Adonlram Podge got aIiberal price
For the truck that he took to town ;
The top of bis measure was always nice.
But shabbier deeper down ;.
And his wood was straight on the top of the
load,
And crooked and knarled below;
Ant the heavier part, on a rutty road.
Will always shake down you know.
Adoniram's Bible was worn and old
From the usage It had got;
But a piece of knowledge that never was
told.
Was, whether he used It or not;
If so, his memory served him wrong.
For he was not much of a doer
To the needy and friendless, whocamealong
With the story that they were poor.
A capital man in the Church, was Podge,
To groan when the minister prayed;
And he knew to a T the collection dodge,
And how much money he paid:
And he had. In a frame. In his dark spare
room.
Kept clean and neat by his wife,
A paper which stated a certain sum
Had made him a member for life.
Adonlram Podge kept a hired man,
And he led him on potatoes and beans.
That were kept cooked up In a big tin pan,
Along with some pig-weed greens ;
And he made him work from the dawn of
day
Till the sun took its final lurch.
And he docked him, then, a part of his pay.
To use for the good of the Church.
Adonlram finally died one night,
And left the farm to his son.
Who does, as n-ar as a good son might.
The things his father had done;
And he daily drive, to the market town
With the mare and her spavined legs.
And he gathers money and baits It dowjF
The produce of butter and eggs.
And he keeps the Bible so worn and olti,
And he reads It without a doubt ;
But the leaf containing the Rulo of God
Is somehow oranother torn out;
And blotted are all the verses which speak
Sharp things of the tricky doer.
While through lis pages 'twere vain to seek
For a word of cheer to the poor.
0 u rGr eaiG ra Rdm oth e rs -Sto rv .
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"So thee wants to hear thy grand
mother's tale once more? Aje, aye,
war talk brings up old memories that
have slumbered for many a year. Yes,
that is a piece of the very gown I
wore the day Abiel Wheeler went to
fight so gayly, and came back "
"Well, but grandmother, begin at
the very beginning, won't you?"
"Aye patience, patience, children.
An old woman must e'en tell a story
her own way. This was how it all
came about :
'John Wheeler Ahiel's father, thee
knows was a hard man and a grasp
ing. His lands joined ours, and he
was forever finding some matter to
make a lawsuit about, forever throw
ing hard words at my father and doing
all he could to trouble and annoy b im.
His sons, too, were always provoking
my brothers, Luke and Mutthew, till
it was all the dear, patient lads could
do to forbear smiting them. So thee
may believe when we grew up, and
Abiel at once took to joining me on
Uhe way home from meetinc, and
leaning over the fence to talk while I
milked my cows. I was stirred to an
ger against him, and turned him off
pretty shortly, I promise thee.
"I was 16 when the war broke out,
and it was not- many months before
there was fighting all around us.
Jonathan Shubrick, the Squire a3 the
world's people called him, of our
township, raised a troop that carried
off half the yonng men of the neigh
borhood, and, scarcely a month after
ward, one bright August morning,
Abiel Wheeler galloped up to our gate
waving his bandanna, his handsome
face all In a glow. Luke and I were
standing in the yard talking for a few
moments before he started for the rye
field where my father and Matthew
wore already at work.
" 'Great news, Luke !' Abiel shout
ed. 'The redcoats are within sis miles
of us at . Major Shubrick expects
them to attack every hour. We got
the news by "a sure hand, and I and
half a dozen others are going to have
a crack at them, too. Come, will you
join? I've a fowling piece I'll lend
ye. Spur up your courage man, now
is your time to show yourself a brave
fellow, Quaker or no Quaker.'
'"Fdr shame, Abiel Wheeler!' I
cried. 'I wonder thee dare3 taunt my
brother like that. He is doing his
country as much good, maybe, stay
ing quietly at home to garner up the
food for the fighting men, as with
sword and gun in hand, taking the
lives God gave, and doing the work of
Belial in the name of liberty!' And
here I stopped to draw breath, and T
know .my ej'es flashed with anger, for
he laughed outright that merry, pro
voking laugh of his.
"'Well done, pretty Huth he exclaimed-.
You have spirit enough
hidden away under that plain little
kerchief and.cap of yours! But I like
ye none the worse for it, and so fare
ye well. Shall I bring ye home the
gayest flag the redcoats are sporting
now for a First Day handkerchief?
Here, I'll give you a token that I'll
keep my word,' and so saying the
(saucy fellow leaned from his horse (I
BEOWNVTLLE, NEBRASKA,
was standing close by the gate) and
tessed me ! I could have killed him !
And Lake darted forward with a fur
ious look, but he had galloped off,
waving his three-corned hat a3 he
glanced gayly back at us. 'Twas like
Abiel. I had known him since we
were babies, to be sure but to dare!
"Well, all the long, hot, bright day,
mother and I were alone, for father
and the boys took their dinner with
them to the fields. Toward evening,
a neighbor came and carried mother
off. There was a sick child needing
to be doctored and all the country
rouud knew of mother's herbs and
Eimples. She was a born doctor, and
has cured many a one in her day. So
I was left all by myself in the house,
and sat lonesome enough at my spin
ning, while far off o.ver the hills I
could hear the dull, ominous, boom
ing sound of cannon, that told the
fight wa3 raging six miles away. God
help the mothers and wive3 now,
whose sons and husbands were in the
midst of the fray !
"it was growing late, the short
August twilight coming on, and the
broad harvest moon rising behind the
quiet hills, and still I was alone. The
distant sound of battle still rose and
fell, making my heart throb with the
thoughts of what was going on, when
suddenly a strange figure, as I tho't,
came up the garden path, with hasty
and 3'et faltering steps. I started up,
a scream just breaking from my lips,
when I saw it was Abiel Wheeler!
But how changed from the morning!
Covered with dust, his clothes torn,
his brown curls all taugled and mat
ted with the blood that had soaked
through a handkerchief bound round
his head, and one arm -in a sling. I
wouldn't have known him ! And
when he spoke his voice sounded
hoarse and brokeu.
" 'Ruth,' he said, 'I insulted you
this morning, and Insulte"d your
brother. My father has wronged
yours in a thousand ways, I know. I
never thought one of our family
would have entered your doors again,
: yet now I come to you to help" me In
: jay sore need. Our forces are beaten
and flying; the enemy are in hot
chr.se; I have dragged myself awaj'
with my life only; I can go no furth
er; in God's name shelter me till the
pursuit is over! for my mother's
sake, Buth !'
"I held my breath at his words. In
one flashing moment the memory of
all we had suffered at his father's
hands, his insolent cs:idnc-jn--hf4stairj3ithr stalwart fel
morning, rose up before me. I could
have found it in my heart to turn Dim
away almost with curses ! and yet
something made me pause.
" 'Stand here in the porch,' I said
at last, half choked with the bitter
ness of the inward strife. "Thee has
put a hard thing before me, Abiel
Wbeeler. I must have time a mo
ment to think what I will do,' and
turning away from him I darted into
the bouse.
"'What ought I to do?' I cried
aioud in my perplexity. 'I am alone
here. He is a bold fellow. O dare I,
ought I to take him in? It may not
be true that they are pursuing him."
But even as I spoke the wind bore
the sound of galloping hoofs on the
clear air, and Abiel'H despairing voice
cried to me from the porch, 'Make
haste, O dear Ruth! in pity make
haste. I am so faint with loss of
blood I can scarcely stand or see."
"Scarce knowing what I did, the
sudden thought came to me, I will
take the Bible, and whatsoever verse
my eye3 fall on ehall be my guide;
and, hastily opening the great book
that lay on my father's table, I bent
over it in the gathering darkness.
'Children, I read these words:
'But I say unto you, love your ene
mies, bless them that curse you, aud
do good unto them that despitefully
use 3'ou and persecute you.'
"It was enough. I went out to the
porch. 'Come, Abiel Wheeler,' I
said; 'thee shall have the shelter of
my father's roof, and I will save thee
if I can.'
"He looked up gratefully in my
face, and without another word I let
him rest his arm about my shoulders,
and so helped him, half fainting as he
was, up stairs into the garret. A kind
of closet had been partitioned off
from the sloping gable end, the only
entrance to which was the space of
one plank that could be slipped out
of place and then put back, leavingno
opening visible. My father had made
it a hiding-place for valuables in
those troubled times. In this narrow,,
stifling corner I concealed the son of
my father's enemy, replaced the
plank, flew down stairsand bolted the
front door just iu time, as a party of
troopers in British uniform dashed up
to the porch.
" 'In theJKing'a name ! shouted
the officer who led them; and, dis
mounting, he hammered on the lintel
with the but of his pistol.
"Trembling like a leaf, I unbolted
the upper half of the door.
" 'What does thee warJt, friend?' I
aid, and the very desperation of the
moment made my voice calm.
"'Entrance, in the King's name!
he shouted. 'We have sure informa
tion that one of the most active of
of these cursed rebels has fled in thi3
direction, and may have sought shel
ter in this house. I claim the right
to search it and make him prisoner if
he is to be found.'
"'Friend, thee sees I am alone
here,' I said, 'a defenseless girl, and
thee knows the Quakers are men of
peace. But enter if thee will. I am
not afraid to show ever room in my
father's house.'
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1877.
11 'Don't fear, we won't harm you,
my pretty mistress, he answered,
smiling, 'Only get a candle, and make
haste, for we are something of the
busiest while these fellows are at
large.'
"Children, thee can imagine whatl
felt as I undid the door, with the sac
red trust I had accepted on my soul
Abiel's life in my hands; everything
depending on my keeping calm, and
showing no hesitation in my compli
ance with the soldier's demand. But
God strengthened mein the hour of
trial. Tranquilly I lit a candle and
led those rough men through the
house, shouting their ribald jests,
singing, insolently peering Into every
closet and nook, with coarse com
ments on what they saw.
" 'There seems-to be nothing suspi
cious here,1 said the officer at last.
'We may as well draw off, men ; this
young girl looks pale and weary ; and
he turned to me with more courtesy
than I would have thought be could
show.
" 'If you please, Captain,' said one
of the men, touching his cap, 'we
haven't searched the garret yet.'
"My heart gave a leap, and I al
most dropped the candle; but I said,
quite calmly, 'There's nothirfg in the
garret except a lot.of old olothes, and
my mother's herbs drying. Thee can
go up if thee thinks It necessary.'
" 'It is, my duty to search every
where,' the Captain answered, rather
shortly, as though he suspected me ;
and tramp, tramp, up the stairs they
went. 0, would they suspect the
hiding-plaoe? Would Abiel move or
groau ?
'But all was silent as the grave.
The men gave hardly a look around,
and the Captain said, 'I suppose it
was a mistake ; there is clearly no
one here. I am obliged to you, young
lady ; we will trouble you no further.
And tramp, tramp they went, leaving
me turned to stone on. the Fpot with
the sudden revulsion of feeling. They
mounted their horses, and in five
minutes were out of sight and hear
ing. "Then I flew to the hiding-place
and tore the plank away. 'Abiel,
Abiel!' I cried, 'they are gone; you
are safe! Dear Abiel, thank God I've
saved you !'
"There was no answer. I thrust
my candle in at the aperture. He lay
on the floor in a dead faint. To this
day I can't tellyou.howlgotbim out
of that stifling hole and down the
low, and I'only a young girl. I only
know that when father and the boys
and mother came back, all at the same
time, they found him lying on the
couch in mother's room, with his
hand tightly clasped iu mine, and his
beautiful blue eyes looking love un
speakable into my face as I knelt be
side biro. And when my father ex
claimed in astonishment, as well he
might '
' "Our great-grandfather told him
you had saved him, and promised to
be his wife; that was it, wasn't it
grandma?"
"All, thee knows the old story by
heart already-, doesn't the, child?
There, give me my handkerchief;
these spectacles of miue are wonder
fully dim !"
So ended our great-grandmother's
story, told to ns for the last time elev
en, years and more ago. Dear old
lady ; she was 96 when death took
her; and now, when the merry Inde
pendence bells are ringing in our ears,
they bring back the echoes of the by
gone days, when stout Abiel Wheeler
and beautiful Ruth Fletcher plighted
their faith amid the cannon roar of
'76 Christian at Work.
Last week three stacks of barley
belonging to Church Howe were
struck by lightning aud destroyed.
It is not for us-to find fault with the
means used by a mysterious Provi
dence to bring .a man to repentance.
Legislative investigating committees
and state courts he has so far dared
with Impunity, but we beseech him
not to defy the power that has sent
the lightning after him. There may
be yet time for repentance. Let him
hasten to avail himself of it before it
is everlastingly too late. When he is
In danger we find that, with all his
sins, we love him still. With the
nice yellow butter he bringa in, he
makes the editor of the Nemaha
Granger think of his mother, but
without any of these transitory aids
he takes ns back even farther and
makes us think of our grandmother.
In many respects he resembles the
old lady. They part their hair pre
cisely alike, and as the sands of life
are running down to a fine point with
her, there Is the same hlank Iook up
on her countenance so characteristic
of our friend Howe. Is it any wonder
that his welfare is dear to us 1 Kear
ney Press.
Some twenty yeara ago a bare-foot
boy was passing a house in a village
in Pennsylvania, where he lived, and
heard, for the first time in his life a
pianos Having the gems of music in
his soul he was entranced; he stop
ped, and when the piece was finished,
stepped modestly in, and mustered
courage to say, "Please ma'am play
more.7 What woman that had mus
lo in her soul, but would have felt the
appeal and graciously responded to it?
Instead of which, the player replied,
"get out of here with your big feet!"
We can Imagine the effect this had
upon the sensitive, friendless young
ster. But he has since had bis re
venge, in the bliss he has had in play
ing and singing and composing'tunes
for thousands who love music as he
then loved it ; for this bare-foot boy
was none less than P. P. Bliss the
incomparable singer and composer
who spent his whole life in making
others happy under the Influence of
his exquisite music.
One day recently ten thousand
persons met together in that same
town in Northern Pennsylvania to
erect a monument. Dr. Pierson, of
Detroit, Mr. Moody, Ticent, Sankey,
Maj. White and other leading spirits
were present. Three thousand Sun
day schools in America, England, Ire
land and Canada had lovingly contrib
uted -$12,000 to put up a simple monu
ment to the memory of the sweet sin
ger of Israel, the rest to be kept in trust
for his two orphan children.
We are not told whether "the iady"
was present or not. Exchange.
Russian AtrocitieSt
New York, August 24. The Tur
kish minister of foreign affairs in
forms his diplomatic agents abroad
that Russians, on entering Eski Sagh
ra, "disarmed Mussulmans, employed
Mokhtars to fetch Mussulmans out of
.their bouses, and they were massa
cred. Eleven hundred were thus put
to death. The Russians entered La
vatz, and fifteen women and children
fleeing from the invaders were killed.
Others, to escape outrage or death.,
had to abandon everything, even their
children. Every Mussulman house
in Lavatz was pillaged. After recap
ture of the town the Russians carried
devastation and carnage Into neigh
boring districts, and drove out all
Mussulman inhabitants of the village
of Herste, and burned all the men
and some of the women. Only one
woman escaped. Seventy Mussul
mans of Yuklim were shut up in a
barn, which was fired. Forty-four
other Mussulmans were ma'ssacred,
and all Mussulman women outraged.
Eight voung girls who resisted were
killed, and two burned with the men.
The greater part of the other women,
with their children, were taken out
side of the village, where one after
another were slaughtered. Twenty
women and children who escaped
massacre were rescued by Ottoman
troops. The English military attache
himself witnessed all these horrors
The Russians disarmed Mussulmans
of Eski Saghra, Kazanlik, and neigh
boring villages, and distributed arms
among the Bulgarians, who drove
fdown four
bur" hundred Mussulmans tojipjuriea which caused her death someiThe
r Tunja and massacredlhem.Tfaree weeks after. " Nowffiere isasu9-7ntr
the river
At Eski Saghra and its neighborhood
Bulgarians continue massacre of the
Mussulman population. Atrocities
committed by Cossacks and Bulgari
ans continue. Women and children
who had sought refuge iu Khidirkeni
were massacred. Other families shut
up iu a granary were delivered by
our troops. Among them were sever
al women and children wounded.
Bulgarians put to fire and sword the
Mussulman village of Sofedi aud sev
eral others, after haviug carried off
the women and girls whom they out
raged, killed and mutilated horribly.
One woman and her two sons were
the only persons saved.
If the inhabitants of the Stale Pris
on of Nebraska get all that the State
has to pay for in the way of provis
ions for them, the3 ought to be a happy
lot. Iu three bills for prison supplies
appear flour, meal, dried apples,
beans, hominy, coffee, sugar, currants,
pepper, sage, syrup, vinegar, celery,
peaches, eggs, butter, chickens, ham,
mackerel, tripe, pickles, cheese, cat
sup, horse-radish, tomatoes, ouions,
tea, oysters, lamb tongue, pigs' feet,
crackers, and tobacco. That humming-birds
are not in the list is prob
ably an oversight. If the gentlemen
temporarily deprived of their Iiberty
cannot be satisfied with this fare,
they had better move to another ho
tel. Probably the middle man who
stands betweeu Nebraska society and
the convict gets more of the chickens
and oysters tlsan the person in stripes.
St. Joe. ITerald.
The Richmond Enquirer has its
opinions on a very Important matter,
and thus expresses them : "TheLiber
ty of the South Is due alone to the un
flinching devotion of the Democracy
to principle, and this truckling to the
administration is an act of the basest
ingratitude.The organs, fuglemen and
parasites of the administration sup
port the liberal policy towards the
South because it is believed to be the
winning card for the corruptfonists.
The solid South is no less a bugbear
to that party now than is was before
the Presidental election, and we have
simply to contend with a different
trick to split it."
The expiration ot certain patentson
portions of sewing machines is caus
ing a vast deal of litigation between
purchasers and agents, many poor
women who have purchased on the
installment plan being compelled to
pay $50 or $60 on a machine which
now can be purchased for from $20 to
$30. They claim that a reduction on
their deferred payments, in proportion
to the different scale of prices, is only
just.
Captain James B. Eads, engineer of
the iron bridge it St. Louis, has made
elaborate plans for a grand iron bridge
lover the Bosphoras, connecting Pera
European Constantinople with the
Asiatic shore. The bridge, if built,
will be about 6,000 feet long over a
mile will have fifteen, spans, will be
100 feet wide, and, eave the masonry
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and flooring, will be built of iron.
The height of the roadwny above the
surface of the water will be 120 feet.
The central arch will be 750 feet span.
The two central piers will be fifty
feet thick of solid granite blocks,
locked together with iron braces. The
main piers will be 270 feet high from
the foundation to the summit. It is
estimated that thecostof construction
will not exceed $25,000,000, and the
time six years. Capt. Ends is now 5S
years old. This bridge will probably
be the crowning work of a great en
gineering experience. inter Ocean.
A Hannted Railroad.
The employes of the Chicage, Rock
Island and Pacific road, on the south
western division, are having- a little
sensation of their own which is creat
ing no little excitement along the
line. It is claimed that the road is
haunted by a "woman in white" who
about the hour of midnight appears
and presents a more ghostly spectacle
than Wilkie Collins' most thrilling
cenception. According to the Fair
field Ledger, the shape, whateve it
may be, was seen on Wednesday
night of last week, by engineer Moore
on train No. S, between Perlee and
Pleasant Plaiu. It wa3 walking up
the track toward" the engine, and the
careful engineer, thinking it a thing
of flesh and blood, actually whistled
for brakes aud almost brought his train
to a staud still. Just as the form was
within a few feet of him it disappear
ed. He saw a face plainly, and sup
posed it either that of a lunatic or a
somnambulist. Ou Thursday and
Friday nights it was seen at different
places between the two towns by engi- j
f
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neers Shaffer and Crow, who agree
with Moore as to the description, man-
nor of appearance, etc. Since its first L
visit the train men have been on the :
watch, determined to see what it is;
and how it gets there. They are too !
brave to be frightened by the appari
tion, even if it is an inhabitant of the
spirit world, but still their curiosity
gets away with them, and in their de
termination to ferret out the mystery,
they do stand a little in awe of the
fragileform thatgives them these mys
terious visits.
The matter is a common topic of
conversation among railroad men on
the division. Three years ago a mar
ried woman was outraged in a terri-I
ble manner near the pluce where the
white specter has been seen, receiving
picion that one or two parties who
know more about the affair than they
have ever told, take occasional busi
ness trips on the line, and that it Is to
trouble their conscience that the form
appears. Council Bluffs IvonpareU.
General Lew Wallace, the "Fair
God." appears to have a very clear
idea of what he is talking about. A
regiment of anti-Indian Bashi-ba-zouks
would doubtless prove exceed
ingly serviceable. The lightest possi
ble marching order, is demanded iu
connection with Indian fighting, and
the best marksman at long range, the
man who most thoroughly under
stands Indian tactics, who can live
most like the Indian, is the best clas
of soldier to be employed in such a
dangerous and unsatisfactory style of
warfare. Another idea Is to kill them
offby contract. There Is a magic spell
connected with a contract which no
other form of national inducements or
reward can bring. Let some enter
prising Yankee take the contract to
kill, capture, or civilize a certain num
ber of braves within a given space off
time, and the thing is as good as done
Inter Ocean.
A writer on "Turkish Ways aad
Turkish Women," in a recent Cbra
Ititt, remarks: "The crescent is not a
chance representation or symbol of
the Mohammedan faith ; the new
moon is inseparably connected in the
Mussulman mind with special acts of
devotion. Its appearance is watched
for with eager expectancy, and the
moment the eye lights on the slight
thread of silver in the western twl -
light, it remains fixed there while
prayers oi tnanssgtvmg anu praise
of thanksgiving and
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are offered, the hands being held up
by themselves; the palms upward and
open, 3nd afterwards passed three
times over the visage, the gaze still
remaining immovable. The eyes are ,
snatched off, if possible, to be turned
straight on some lucky face or precious
object."
The New Orleans Democrat, whose
editor recently visited the President,
says that "there is something extra
ordinary in the audacity with which
the President has adopted the Demo
cratic principles, andat the same time
held the bulk of his party together iu
support of his-poiicy. He is bringing
his whole party over to the Democra
cy, and is quietly taking possession of
the entire stock of popular Democrat-
ie nolitical canital. while he retains
the offices for the strictly Republican
administration fold. This is not ex
actly T3'lerizing or Jobusonizing. It
is something much shrewder than
either."
A mechanical horse has been show
ing his paces at Berlin. The rider is
mounted on a hobby between two
high wheels and moves his legs in
rising and falling in
the saddle, and
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the machine goes along as fast as a wisnea or preferences of the PresJ
fast trotting horse. It Is-all the same dent. The mustard was theapasssed
whether the machine goes gently over! the waiter stating that she aet, oa
stones or moves swiftly on the hard
road and the facility with which the
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strange steed turns round corners ex
cites the admiration of all beholders.
The inventor believes that his horse
will be of great use to porters in carry"
ing light loads, and he has confidant
hepes that it will be highly apprecia-
ted by the numerous classes who are
fond of saddle exercise but who are
too poor to buy and maintain horses or
flesh and blood. It is even suggested
that the mechanical horSe wil! rhakd
an excellent charger on the battlefield
as it I? an animal that can neitber'eSi
tuor die.
How a Thief Was Detected;
Recently, says the Cincinnati Cbt
rnereial. Police Commissioner Carsoft
was standing on the north side of
Ptfth Street, near Race when beanA
a friend were startled by a report; ai
if of the explosion of a pistol. Look
ing across the street be saw a ycjf
man with bis head bowed and hit
hands up to his face, as If suflVrlgi
"Somebody must have shot him,
said one.
"Perhaps he has trl-sufcWe said
the other, as there was nsbody Bear
to do the shooting.
They crossed over to he young
man ; who by that time farad1 been1 acA
coated by Oflioer SmaUweou"', -whtf
was walking him toward-HWs dus4
store. Mr. Carson remarked fehafa-per-haps
it was a case of oigar theft, and
consequent pHnwbtnent, -
The officer was aocosted by Alexan
der Corbin. who keeps a saaalt cigar
stand. The 'officer told the story,
whsreuporr Oorbln-.-ia great triumph,
said that the clear that had caused
the trouble bad doubtless been.stoI.ea
from his case. He had for a hg-timo
been troubled by eiear thieves, who
had robbed him of $300 worth. To
detect and punish them if peeelble.ha
had lately charged 25 of them with
powder in small tin aylindtsv Some
of them had been stolen. He thought
that if the ofHeer would-seaveh young
McCarthy he would, prkf "And
more of the some kind sa hid person.
The search was imade, and, sura
enough, another of the loaded, weeds
was found.
A reporter procured ene of these
small infernal machines asd examta-
led It. The cigar is of common etook,
dark wrapper, full sise. .Exactly ona
third of its length the middle third
is occupied by a tin cylinder, about
an inch and a fifth in. length and
about a fifth of an ineh in diameter.
The end toward the mouth is of tin
weir eecu'riMt ; hoc that toward
the other end of the eigar is covered
only with paper, aad very thin paper
at that. The inevitable result of the
smoking of one of these eigara is an
explosion when the eigar is about oas
third burned.
A lady who had two charming ItttfH
daughters was ooe night aumrad
from the nursery jst as she was pre
paring them for their sdh.
"Say your prayers and.getiat bed,
she said, and I'H-oome baekr and took
you iu.'"
When she returned, however, she
found them sii'I ou their knees, and
in a perfect tumult of laughter.
"What are you doing 2" she asked,
"Don't you know it is wrong tnhfcugh
over your prayers V1
"Well, mama," said the eider, "I
gueas you'd laugh too, if you 'heard
what sister said.'
"What did she soy, tbea V
"Why, be sold O mnina, H was so
funny ! she sold, "Ob, Lord, ibr
. Cartel's sake, give me a new green
parasol :
The-mother waVdeJfgfetetl wVth the
HtUe eae's faith, aad the "Jew green
parasol'' was forthcoming.
A curious love'eoee at Dtfjboque, fa.
A sebooi teacher at school -fe. ox la
that elty, thirty years of age aad de
cidedly unattractive, fell ptoiap ie
love with one of her pupils, a hoy fif
teen years of age. Her Infeluetioa
was so great that she would get the
boy behind doors at reeees to kiss aad
hug him, continually solicit lag him
to walk home with her, arid wrote to
' i,m gushing and enfiearfag notes,
Finally she became w bad that gee
took rooms near the boy's home to or-
oer to see him oftener.
Tbe boy re-
i ciprooated the
pesson. Finally hid
mother discovered the affair, aad the
teacher had to resign. Abota mooth
ago the boy ran away and the teoeoer
soon after followed him, and it is be
lieved they root and arranged for a
future marriage, when the boy fe old
enough. At preseat shefe afrlEfwoe-apoMs-aad
he ie In Vermont.
A pretty Utile girJ ia Snreeaport,
La., told oer papa thai these was a
pretty little bird in her fwetiy little
rooms staging a pretty little .oog.
The affectionate parent told hejr to go
back to bed, as it was. prooalri-y ottly a
Kyu ; ""' "
himBeift his wife told him to Itetea to
I lhe strange music of a meeklag-Mrd,
whioh ned the rwtm
The devoted
husband struck a amtoh, aad dfceev
ered the musician oa the lower shelf
of the wash-stand. I', was a staging
mouse.
In requesting a waiter atflfeeid
to pass him the mustard, Mr.Sfeereta
ry Sherman explained that, he sfoke
for himself alone, aad did .not. wish to
' be understood as representing bo
his "p'art, bed a poWtfsHMeanfle.
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