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Ancient and Modern Snakes,
San Francisco Argonaut.
"He mowed all round, at length did feel
-A. plzing serpent bite bis heel."
Old YanlxeHallad.
It is time for the Argonajit to awak
en to the scientific needs of the hour.
yiv. Iluxley of England, as well as oth
er profound philosophers and natural
ists, in different spheres of the scien
tific world, are after snakes. I, too,
know something about them. I know
nearly as much about snakes as 1 do
about ants; and I hope your readers
have not forgotten all of what I told
them about the latter subject some
months ago.
I have been acquainted with a great
many snakes in the grass :tnd other
wise but I never yet knew one to
love him. "Which is pious prejudice.
The prejudice is pious because wo get
it from Moses. Closes was a snakist.
"What he did not know about the snake
of his times was hardly worth putting
info the Five Books.
According to the great law-giver, the
Divinity, with whom he was on inti
mate speaking terms, was also an ex
pert among serpents. Why there was
need fortius to be so, the man of much
meekness does not explain. It is plain,
however, that he wishes us to think
that a display of snake lore was potent
in overawing the unregenerate Egypt
ian and recalcitrant Israelite. His sto
ries, however, arenot consistent, which
lack of consistency leads me to infer
that he is the father of that style of
literature, now somewhat popular in
the American newspaper, known as
"snake stories;" for in these "snake
stories" there is a painful absence of
the element of truth, which has, so to
speak, a strong Mosaic odor.
In the first snake story, the son-in-law
of Jethro tells us: "Now the ser
pent was more subtile than any beast
of the field which the Lord God had
made." At this epoch in the Mosaic
reptilian em, it appears that the serpent
could stand up, and express himself in
choice Hebrew; that he could talk ele
gant small-talk to voting woman who
had no clothing whatever upon her
beauteous person. This latter is good
evidence that, even if he cojild stand
up and converse well, he was no man.
I shall offer no testimony in proof of
1113 statement that he was not a man
but 1 appeal, after the manner of a
pull-back orator at a woman's rights
convention, to everv member ofamv
sex. Am I not right, gentlemen V
course I am.
The next scene in the history of
Mosaic snake is where he started
Of
the
the
Ilorticulturid Society, and delivered
the-first the original inaugural ad
dress, entitled "Fruits and Fruit-trees
of Eden." nis addrass was a success,
and had a powerful effect upon his au
dience. In fact, without the least pro
fa nity, I may say lie .raised hell. After
his pomologieal performance he was
stricken to the earth with these memo
rable, words, to-wit: "Because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above
all cattle, and above every beast of the
field: upon thy belly shall thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy
life" which proves beyond a doubt (in
the mind of Moses) that if the serpent
was not a snake previous to this curse,
he became so at once and forever. It
also helps to prove the doctrine of "ev-
oliu ion, because of the serpent being
a snake ate dust for a constant diet
in the time of Moses, he has evidently
evoluted since. The snake of to-day
will nut,does not, and cannoleatdust.
He will5 not cat it because he lias no
taste for its J10 d('-s not eat it because
he don't: he can not eat it because he
depends npona slippery salivary swal
lowing in deglutiirg his dinner in
which dust is about 'as needful as'sanll
in the ej'e. '
Also. 1 would like to say, though I
don't know much about her, that "love
ly woman," too, has evoluted since the
day of the memorable scenes above re
ferred to, because in the supposed cli
mate of Eden, which we may say was
north of thirty degrees north latitude,
and -therefore not tropical, no woman
of this era, or of any em since Herodo
tus bought vegetables in the market
gardens of Babylon upward of twenty
three hundred years ago, could be in
duced or ridiculed into going about,
shivering, naked in the cold Eden or
no Eden while her liusbandwas boss
of such a ranch as Adam had. Moses
may have understood serpents, but
he did not sabe women. Or else the
doctrine of evolution is true, and wo
man and snakes, who according to Mo
ses used to be on intimate. terms, are
living proofs that it is trua
The next appearance of the Mosaic
reptile is in an interview which Moses
says he had with the principal Divinity
of the Mosaic mythology. The Divini
ty desired Mr. Moses to enter the land
of Pharaoh and institute the second
hand jewelry and ready-made clothing
business by inducing the women of Is
rael to borrow all the good clothes in
Egypt, as well as all the precious orna
ments of the inhabitants. But Moses
said:
"What's the use? They don't believe
a word I sav about divinities."
"What is "that in thine hand?"
"ATod."
"Cast it on the ground."
So Moses did cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent: and
"Moses fled from "before it." Which
does not argue well for the courage of
Moses at that period of his life. But
the Divinity said:
"Put forth thine hand and take him
by the tail."
Xow, as the man Moses had left his
shoes at the foot of the hill, we are
compelled to infer thathe'-was'ljare-"
footed, as there is nothing said about
socks; and for a barefooted man to sail
111 and wrestle with a snake on the top
of a hill, it is risky business; though I
have done it myself with a rattler, in
the dark, when he came into our min
ing cabin. But Moses pranced round
till he got the serpent by the tail, and
lo! "It became a rod in his hand." Xow.
with all due deference to Moses, the
noiy oook ot jsxouus, and all the Chil
ciren 01 Israel, 1 venture to say that I
can find a snake out in the sage-brush
country upon which no Israelite cnn
play that game, even though backed bv
all tlie divinities in a7l the books. I
arise on behalf of the snake. Justice
is my plea. Let ns have the facts. "A
decent respect for the opinions of man
kind" requires us to give the snake a
chance, if we are going to call him into
history.
From the top of Mount Horeb, the
I snake figures all the way, more or less,
. through the sacred, writings of the Is
1 raelites and .Tudeans. From Genesis
I to Bevelations he wriggles and winds,
in and out, through the whole plan of
salvation, then turns to an old dragon
and sinks into the bottomless pit. It is
a picturesque history, but it does not
agree with the facts From reading it
in our youth, and hearing it at all
times, we derive much of our fear and
horror of many innocent reptiles. So,
also, from it we get false, useless in
formation regarding the creeping
things in nature.
A snake is not the most subtile nor
the most cunning of beasts. A coyote
can give him many points and then dis
count him.
Once near Cortez, Neveda, in the
sage-brush, I watched, with a strongly
magnifying field-glass, a coyote and a
rattlesnake. If a rattlesnake, on the
approach of danger, can have time to
crawl into a bush, or in between
stones, he will do so; and there, coil
ing himself into a pile from which he
erects Ids head and tail, he will usual
ly, but not always, work his rattler
vigorously; but lie will always in such
cases be ready to strike, rattle or no
rattle. I say "to strike," for snakes do
not bite, in any proper sense; they
strike like a whip-lash only big end
foremost, and the stinger, instead of be
in; the lash-point, is two sharp, slight
ly hooked fangs in the roof of the
snake's mouth, well forward, under the
point of his nose.
Now the snake, when coiled up, is
somewhat like a steel watch-spring
when he chooses to be and, also, he
has a twist-and-untwist motion in his
power, whereby he can throw himself
out straight. This ability to straight
en himself instantly, in any direction,
is about all the springing or jumping
power I have ever been able to get out
of him; on level ground or down grade
of course he might do a little better;
up-grade, vice 'cersa. The instant after
a snake strikes he is helpless until he
can coil, or partly coil, again.
Knowing these facts, I was watching
the coyote. He was busily tracking a
jack-rabbit, as a pointer tracks quail,
and he was eager and excited in the
chase, when suddenly, from no cause
that 1 could see or hear at the distance
I was from him, he jumped about three
feet up into the air, and when he came
down he had given up the rabbit, and
wjts stepping about very warily around
some object in a clear, naked, gravelly
space among the sage-bushes. Chang
ing my position a little, I could see a
large rattlesnake coiled, with his head
erect, near the middle of the clear
space. The coyote walked around and'
around him, stripping his white teetli
at him, jumped high overhim, pretend
ed several times to leae him and go
awa, but ;'caiefulei.-h time to halt
behind a bush and watch the snake.
Evidently tho canine wanted the rep
tile to straighten out and start off on
his travels. But the snake seemed to
feel his danger, and kept carefully in
coil. At length the coyote seemed to
conclude that the rabbit he was hunt
ing when the snake interrupted him
was now far away, and lie must Heeds
have snake-steak for supper; so he sat
down on his hunches opposite the
snake, just beyond reach of what he
carefully calculated was the snake's
full length; and there he remained for
some time, teasing and taunting the
reptile by various feints of attack and
other maneuvers. lie would strike in
side the limits, first with one paw, then
with the other; then he would stretch
out his head, ship his brilliant white
teeth, turn un bis nose, and sniff con
temptuously "at the snake, which, with
arched neck and carefully poised head,
followed with its cold round eyes every
movement of the enemy. At last, be
coming impatient, and desperate per
hr.ps, the ccnote drew as near to the
serpent as it was possible for him to do
with any hope of escaping the stroke
of the faiurs. Here he stood, on all four
of his feet, with nerves strung to a
high pitch. The snake still arched its
neck, quivered its rattles, and eyed the
coyote. The coyote would make a sud
den feint, which the snake would parry
in his different style. This long-range
combat of cye-ttAeye they kept up for
some time. Atlast the coyote leaped
not upon the snake, as he pretended he
was about to leap but high in the air.
The snake struck with full force for the
place where the coyate had stood, but
the beast was not thereat that instant;
and in the next instant, before the rep
tile could re-coil, the coyote had him
by the neck and the life was shaken out
of him. In about three minutes more
the snake was in the digestive appara
tus of the coyote. At least I saw him
torn to pieces, and when I arrived on
the spot there was every evidence that
he had been eaten.
The much-vaunted subtlety of the
serpent in the Judean mythology points
steadily to some squirming reptilian
country as being the birthplace or
"second-birth" place of what we call
our religion. This former country of
vermicular horrors was, possibly, in
habited by a race akin to the Jim-jams,
and may have been upon, some rank
or verdurous island or continent, prior
to the Ula'ial Period; but, most likely,
the ante-Mosaic remnant of it was lo
cated in the snaky portion of what is
now known as the British Empire to
wit, India. Tropical Africa is also said
to be a snaky-riferous region, but there
is not so much animal venom to the
square foot anvwhere as there is in In
dia. Thousands of people die yearly
in that country from "snake-bites,' and
the happiness of nnn there has ever
been very much marred by the soci
ety of crawling things; hence the
ancient faith of India is full of snakes
and the subtlety of serpents. Egypt
also comes into history with a heavy
delegation, of traditionary crawlers.
And, as we probably get our fearful
faith from India and from Egvpt. the
serpentine mythology of Moses is ac
counted for; but that does not account
for tho sacred subtlety of the snake.
"Egyptian literature is full of snakes.
Everybodv can certainly have read of
or seen the engravings of the serpents
in the ancient coronets of the Nile.
Everybody has read or heard of Mrs.
Ptolemy and the. asp; which is a very
ancient story, a very salacious yarn,
and therefore pawed all over by the po
ets. I care little about old Mrs. Ptole-
iuj, urn. j. am interested in tne asp,
hence I give the true story, as follows:
She put him to her bosom.
Then she pinched his little tall;
Tbesrpcntgavea wlgtrle
And the sorcerca a wall.
And then sheeried "O Antonv!"
And turned exceeding pale--Buttheserpentdted
Inslanter,
While the harlot went to Jail.
The story shows conclusivelv that
Mrs. Ptolemy me Cleopatra), although
a student of reptilian sorcery, as Mo
ses was, did not)' sabe, real snakes; be
cause, when a small serpent is sufiie
iently calm and amiable to permit itself
to be placed on a bad old woman's bo
som, or upon a bare, warm arm, it is
not going to strike that bosom or that
arm. Small snakes only strike large
game to save themselves from being
trampled on, or otherwise crushed. The
error arises from the false supposition
that a snake can bite like a dog, or oth
er incising or masticating animals. A
snake swallows everything whole he
bites nothing. Some snakes have small
sharp teeth, inclining backward, like
fish teetli, for the purpose of prevent
ing the saliva-slimed morsals from
slipping out of the grasp and suction
of the swallowing power; but these
little teeth are not pisonous, even in
the most venomous mouth. It is the
striking fangs only which contain poi
son; and these, when not in use, are
neatly folded back flat in the roof of
the mouth.
But ail this does not account for the
vaunted and sacred subtletv of the ser
pent. Does it? No! Why? Because
the serpent is the stupidest and least
subtle of all beasts. He has very little
more brain in proportion to his weight
than has an angle-worm. The great
talent of the snake is fear; hence his
love of solitude and silence.
All the talk we hear and the gush we
read about the charming power the
fascinating force of the serpent, is
error. We read of how the bird flut
ters around .and hovers over the uplift
ed head of the coiled serpent, drawing
nearer and nearer and nearer to the
fascinating eye of the deadly charmer,
until struck at last "by the poisonous
fangs it falls a victim to its shining
foe. Oh, it is a horribly beautiful sto
ry, but it is all bosh.
The brave little bird is fighting for
her family, or else is trying to get her
eggs or her young and tender darlings
out of the cowardly maw of the reptile
which has swallowed them while she
was away from home attending to
business. That's what's the matter.
The little bird knows full well where
her dear ones have gone to, but she
does not know they can never be re
stored to her; hence she fights the
snake until he is compelled to strike
his fangs into her to protect his own
eyes. Sometimes he must strike often
before his desperate little foe is defeat
ed, because, aside from the protecting
male of feathers, nearly all birds have
a trick of darting a wing across the
breast for a shield.
I sold a subtle old sow to the butch
er because, although a valuable breed
er, she was a hen-charmer. She would
gobble up a hen's little chickens, and
then, when the hen fluttered about her
nose, she would calmly keep her hog
eyes on that hen, until the hen, be
coming more and more reckless in her
matronly grief, came near enough to be
caught and torn to pieces and eaten.
From this point of view, snake fasci
nation is a very thin humbug.
If any snake wants to prove to me
that he is a clmrmer let him try it on a
hog, or a coyote, or a "road-runner, or
a bluo -rane, or or or a skunk.
Of course I do not delight in destroy
ing these sacred and thrilling fictions,
but we all owe some duty to the truth,
and nothing gives me more pleasure
than to do my duty, when I feel like it.
I do not wish to do the reptile anj
injustice, for, certes, lie has been
enough slandered already. He has
some virtues. He swallows rats and
mice. I am afraid the rats and mice
will differ with me in parading this
among his virtues, but no one writer
can please all classes. He does not
drink: therefore is he oblivious to the
wine interest of California. When you
sav to your friend: "I don't drink," it
is not good form for him to respond:
"Neither does the snake." Perhaps a
water-snake may take a nip once in a
while, but all other serpents are total
abstainers, so far as I can find out. A
rattlesnake will make himself and in
teresting family perfectly comfortable
in the geographical middle of the dry
est desert in America; but so will liz
ards and horned-toads.
I have roughly dissected the heads of
many sorts of snakes, and am led to be
lieve that, while there are not many
which are what we call poisonous, still
they have striking fangs. 1 have heard
that some of the constrictors have no
striking fangs, but I do not believe it.
1 have seen the blacksnake of the Ohio
Valley which is a constrictor strike
just as other snakes do. In fact, I never
yet saw a healthy, hungry snake of any
kind, in the United States, that failed to
strike when aroused; therefore be has
soinethiny to strike with.
In one sense, all the snakes that ever
I saw are poisonous: that is. they all
have some medicine which helps them
to capture their prey. In some, per
haps it is merely a narcotic power, like
that of hypodermic injections of mor
phis, .and affects only certain animals.
Comparatively few United States
snakes are poisonous to man, or to
man's intellectual friend, the hog. In
a great number of species known to me
I can remember only the following:
the rattlers, the copperheads, the moc
casins, the cotton-mouths, the (so-called)
adders, and a nameless little dark
brown snake in thesage-brush country.
I wish to note here that the tone of
color in all reptilian life depends upon
and is affected by the colors of its envi
ronment. Lizards, snakes, etc.. inhab
iting the black lava-beds incline to
blackness: those in the sage-brush val
leys to drab or ashen color, though
they may be the samekind of reptile in
both situations. And this change of
tone has led the hasty, superficial ol
server to find more kinds of reptiles
than really exist.
There are three varieties of rattle
snakes in the United States, and per
haps no more in both Americas. First,
and most widely disseminated, the
banded (belled) dusky-yellowish rattler,
found almost anywhere on dry upland
south of about fortj--six degrees north
latitude, glowing in rare instances to ex
ceed four feet, but usually from two
to three feet He is the "deadliest of
the lot. Next, the diamond-black rat
tler, which does not differ from the
banded one, save that his back is a lit
tle darker, and has nlineof rhomhoidal
figures running the length of it. Both
of these are slow, sluggish, and clumsy.
The diamond-back Is said to grow larg
er than the banded, but. in observa
tions made at intervals from the Alle-
ghanies to the Sierra Nevada, I have
found them about equal in size. The
third rattler is the massassauga, or lit
tle black rattler of the prairies, in Iowa
and elsewhere.
The sound of the rattle differs with
age and size. -It is a sort of metallic j some occupation by which you can sup-whiz-z-izz-iziz-z-7-7
Tf -fhft snnkR islnort vourself. do it. and become, sin in-
i-J small, the key,-noteis lugheELandthin -
4ner; if large, it is heavier and harsher;
but in all cases he has a poor ear for
music who can not know it ever after
he once hears it. Like the thrill of an
earthquake, it is always a surprise.
They are all poisonous, but the mas
sassauga is not necessarily deadly, par
ticularly where the patient can get a
bottle of whisky and apply himself, or
herself, judiciously to that part of the
bottle where the cork has been. Neith
er is the stroke of the larger varieties
always fatal; it somewhat depends
upon the time of year, state of the
weather, condition of the patient, and
very largely upon the courage and cool
ness of the person struck. A bad scire
helps the poison to act, hence perhaps
the Dutch-courage quality of alcohol
becomes remedial. Some tribes of In
dians, and all tribes of swine, bury
themselves as far as possible in swamp
muck when "snake-bit." The Texan
and the plainsman put a little pile of
gunpowder on the wound and fire the
powder, then .get roaring drunk if there
is any intoxication to be found.
I knew a gentleman who, near Hiko,
Lincoln County, Nevada, found a large
rattlesnake in a desert place where
were neither sticks nor stones to bmise
its head with ; so that gentleman fol
lowed the Mosaic style, and bruised
the head of the rattler into the earth
with his heel. He thought he had
killed the snake, and, putting his foot
upon its body, he essayed to pull the
rattlers off its tail. I hereby warn the
reading world that the rattlers of a
snake are not easily pulled off. Instead
of pulling off the rattlers, this gentle
man drew the snake's head from under
his foot, whereupon the reptile made a
half coil and struck him on the hand.
He clapped his hand to his mouth and
sucked the wound; but he had a sore
on his lip, and next day he joined the
Silent Majority. The moral of this
story is: Be sure that the business end
of a rattlesnake is very dead before you
fool with the other end.
I saw an Indian woman who had
some time previously been struck on
the hand by a banded rattler.- She had
rallied from the first shock of the pois
on, but her whole forearm was one
mass of ulcerous sores. She said- she
would get well "bi-um-bi," but I never
saw her again. The copperhead I have
not seen since I left "the States," but
as I remember liim he is a short snake,
two feet to three feet long, of a dull,
dusky, reddish-spotted color, with a
flat, triangular skull of cupreous hue
He is a sluggish, hissing serpent; so
little inclined to moe thatl once came
near picking one up from among the
leaves and grass, in Ohio, when I was
reaching about for a stick to throw at
an o 1. Had I picked that serpent up,
these remarks probably never would
have been written, for the cop
perhead is generally a dead-shot. The
small dark-brown snake in Nevada, of
which I have spoken above, resembles
a copperhead, and may be of that spe
cies modified by environment, though it
is much smaller: yet the Shoshone In
dians say it is more deadly than the
rattler. In fact, I incline to the belief
that all the snakes which we call ad
ders, vipers, upland moccasins, and
copperheads, including the little brown
snake in Nevada, belong to one family,
modified by environment. The cotton
mouth and water-moccasin belong to
the Southern States, and are found in
swamps and low grounds.
It is a vaunt of the societies to pre
vent cruelty to animals that the rattle
snake always gives warning before he
strikes. Another error. lie generally
does give warning, but often he does
not. T have come upon rattlesnakes in
the desert, and have annoyed them
with tufts of bunch-grass, coach-whips,
or long-handled shovels until they
would strike blindlv at the empty air
all about them, but never a rattle could
I get out of them. Others again would
rattle when they heard hoofs coming
within twenty yards of them. A friend
and prospecting "pard" of mine was the
owner of a lively young sorrel pack
mule This friend and myself, and
two horses :md the mule, were steering
one summer night by the stars, through
the sagebrush in the desert. The mule
was a length ahead, when a rattlesnake
in front of him sprung its whiz-z-zer.
That mule snorted and jumped to one
side, where bestirred up another whiz-z-zer.
Then he went to "bucking" not
because the "bucking" would help the
case anv, but because that was his style
of meeting all difficulties. Then there
was music under the silent stars in that
lonely desert. Such a kicking, and
bucking, and snorting, and whiz-z-zer-ing,
and scattering of picks and shovels,
pans, blankets, and grub, I have never
witnessed before or since. It was the
only time I ever fully realized what
the" Western hunter means when he
shouts, "Wake snakes and come to
judgment!"
So endeth the lesson.
J. W. Gally
Drink Lemonade.
Lemonade is one of the best and safest
drinks for any person.'Whetlier in health
or not. It is suitable to all stomach
diseases, is excellent in sickness in
cases of jaundice, gravel, liver com
plaints, inflammation of thebowels and
fevers. It is a specific against worms
and skin complaints. The pipins,
crushed, may also be mixed with water
and sugar and be used as a drink.
Lemon mice is the best anti-scorbutic
remedy known. It not only cures this
disease, but prevents it. Sailors m ike
a daiiy use of it for this purpose. The
hand and nails are also kept clem,
white, soft and supple by the daily use
of lemon instead of soap. It also pre
vents chilblains. Lemon is used in in
termittent fever, mixed with strong,
hot, black coffee, without sugar. Neu
ralgia may be cured byrubbingthepart
affected with a cut lemon. It is valu
able also to cure warts and to destroy
dandruff on the head by nibbing the
roots of the hair with it. In fact, its
uses are manifold, and the more we em
ploy it externally the better we shall
find ourselves. Bub your hands, head
and gums with lemon, and drink lem
onade in prefeienee to all other liquids.
This is an old doctor's advice Follow
it.
Mr. SeWard, in a letter to a yoilng
man, just published for the first time,
said: "I am glad to know that 3011 have
gut into the country-. It is the best place
for 3oung men. Allow me to give ou
a word of ad ice. Just as soon as vou
can get out of public employment into
dependentaiian. Salaries exhaust the
j-energies of .ill men, and very often cor-
nipt thorn.
Inconsistency,
At a meeting of the Palmer Campaign
Club, of Springfield. His., held in the old
Eepresentative Hall, on the evening of
the 17th of March, after acknowledging
himself a candidate for the nomination
of the Democratic party for President,
the ex-Governor said: "If you will then
trust me to lead vou we will be found
in the front rank of those who struggle
to secure the isceudenc' of Democratic
principles and the preservation of free
constitutional government by the peo
ple, and for the people, without distinct
ion of race, color, or descent; and we
will labor with the most earnest to
make the union of the States perpetual,
the constitution and the law supreme,
and the rights and liberties of even hu
man being within the limits of the Un
ion secure under their benign rule."
The Chicago Sun truly says, that if a
clown had said this it would have been
received as a laughable parody; but for
an ex-Governor of the State of Illinois,
and an ex-General in the Union army,
a candidate for the Presidency of the
United States to claim that the Demo
cratic party had entertained any such
doctrines for twenty years last past is
preposterous, and stamps its author as
blindly ignorant or insincere. The
critic is right. Every man woman and
child knows that theliepublican partv
was born in a struggle to prevent De
mocracy from extendingliuman slavery
b forcing it into the free territories of
the United States ; and when the Re
publican party elected its President up
on that issue, that human slavery should
not be extended into the free States of
the Union, the Democratic part3 im
mediately plotted the destruction of
both the Constitution and the Union.
The members of the Democratic Cabi
net, while under their solemn oaths to
support the Constitution and laws
while they were drawing pay as Cabi
net oflieers, with the full knowledge
and consent of the Democratic Presi
dent, traveled through the Southern
States laboring to induce the various
legislatures then in session to withdraw
from the Union and establish a govern
ment, the foundation stone of which
should be human slavery ; and to carry
out this plan the Democrats established
the government of the Confederate
States, in direct opposition to the free
constitutional government Mr. Palmer
speaks of, For this purpose the Dem
ocratic partv robbed the National
Treasury, they sacked and pillaged the
National armories, they made war upon
the "free constitutional government,"
and strewed every hillside and valley
in the Southern Confederacy with the
bleaching bones of your sons and broth
ers. They made" eveiy hearthstone
desolate, and left crutches standing by
everj door-wa , and maimed and hag
gard soldiers sitting helpless by every
fireside. They armed, equipped, and
commissioned" privateers to plunder the
commerce of the seas, and made the
sk red and the sea hot w lth the liame
of burning merchantmen they tor
tured and starved thousands on thous
ands of patriotic men for no offense on
ly they loved their country, its laws
and Constitution, and died to defend
them. Fin.tlh, when they were over
powered and compelled to submit, to
the authority of law, the Republican
party, with a magnanimity that has no
parallel in the history of a conquering
people, restored them, blood-stained as
thej were, to their forfeited rights of
citizenship and conferred upon them
again the elective franchise in the vain
hope that they had seen the folly of
their rebellious ways and would there
after support the free constitutional
government Governor Palmer prof esses
to admire. Iut from eeiy State where
the Democratic party had secured the
control, thousands of people were at
the very moment Governor Palmer was
making his speech fleeing naked and
barefoot from Democratic rule, to the
climate of this State, and other North
ern States, simply on account of their
color, race and descent.
If there was ever a political party,
stain'd with blood, blackened and
crisped with treison, wedded inseiH
erably to cruelt, oppression and
wrong, it is the Democratic party,
whose candidate Governor Palmer pro
poses to be. His honied words won't
wash away its stains. We have no ob
jections to the Governor falling in love
with modern Democracy, but we do
object to his trying to hide the shock
ing deformities of the false-hearted
prostitute by clothing her in Republi
can vestments. Kansas Pilot.
Jo3h Billing's Prayer.
From tu many friends, and from
things at luce ends, good Lord deliver
us!
From a wife who don't luv us, and
from children who don't look like us,
good Lord deliver us!
From wealth without charit from
pride without senses, from pedigrees
worn out and from ail rich relashuns,
good Lord deliver us!
From snaix in the grass, from nails
in our boots, from torch-light proces
sions, and from all mi rum, g.od Lord
deliver us?
From pack peddlers, from oung
folks in luv, from old aunts without mon
ey and from kolera morbis, good Lord
deliver us!
From nusepaper sells, and from pilk-.
that ain't fisic, and from females who
faint, and men who flatter, good Lord
deliver us!
From virtue without f ragrance, from
butter that smells, from nigger kamp
meeting1, and from aits thatare cuuvtin,
good Lord deliver its!
From other folks' secrets, and from
our own and women committees, good
Lord deliver us!
From pollytishuns who prav, and
from saints who tipple, from ri coffee,
from red h-rrins, and grass widders,
good Lord deliver us!
From folks who won't laugh, and
from them who giggle, from tite butes.
easy virtu, and ram mutton good Lord
deliver us.
The Sioux City Journal, in reply to
the application of a joung graduate for
a position, remarks that journalists are
not turned out of nnh entitled ready
made. Journalism i3 a profession
which can only be mastered after long
years of actual service. Journalism is
dmdgery plodding, unostentatious
dnidgery. The individual work which
makes up a complete newspaper at
tracts no attention iroin the public
generally.
While We are reasoning concerning
life, life is gone. Jlitine.
Indian Pipe Stone.
Young Folks Weekly.
In the great Northwest are'many nnt
ural curiosities. There are' also many
places of historic interest,and the citre
ful and observing traveler finds, here;
and there, places that havef curious and"
entertaining legends connected with"
their early history, of which the com-
mon populace have but little or no1
knowledge. One of them is the pipo'
stone quarry of southwest Minncsota.-
This is said to Ire the only place hi
the world where this particular kind of
stone is fouud. It covers but a small
urea, and has never been extensively
worked, except by the Indians, who in
sist that from time imraemorial they
have here obtained the material for the
"pipe of peace."
The stone as it is found in tho' q'uaxf v
ry is of a reddish or flesh color; is easy
cut or carved, and is quite' durable
Quite a beautiful little stream of lim
pid water runs over nnd among the
rocks, and at one place fails over a ledge
in such a maimer as forms a truly mag
nificent picture.
Beautiful are the views one gets of
the surrounding landscape, the rocks
in the quarry, the sentinel-like towers
and the cascade. But to me the most
beautiful thing connected with this Io
cality is the Indian legend of the origin
and uses of the pipe stone;
"Man-, many moons ago," say thoy,
"the Great Spirit stood on this sacred
spot, and called all the Indian tribes to
gether. "He then broke front the roefcapfece
of stone and molded it by hand into a
huge pipe bowl.
"This he filled, and smoked it toward
each of the four points of the compass,
and thus indicating that its irrild influ
ence should extend all over its red chil- -dren.
"He told them the ground1 on which
they stood was-saered.-
"That no implement of war should
ever be raised there,- or made of the
stone around them.
"That only tbe pipe, or other articles
emblematic of peace, should be formed
out of this sacred material.
"That the red stone w:ts their flesh,
and lielonged equally to them all.
"Here none was superior to his fel
lows, but that always thereduien from
ever hunting ground should meet
and mingle as members of one great
farnilv.
"Then, at the last whiff of the pipe, '
the Great Spirit disappeared in the
clouds, and the whole ground was
melted.
"When it cooled, it still retained the
red color, but was found to be in layers
and comparatively soft for their espe-
cial convenience in working or putting
into form.''
Such, in brief, is the "Legend of the
Pipe Stone." It doubtless had some
thing of a restraining influence upon
them, as it was repeated from father to
son with careful admonitions to olwerve
its teachings.
The remaining Indians of the North
west still believe and repeat the story.
They are always very jealous of its use
by whites, insisting that itisthoirtteah,
ahd that if a piece is taken by a pale
face, a hole Or wound is made that will
never stop bleeding.
A Great Paper.
Little Hock Gazette,
How many of the I-tentucky editors
that copy the excellent matter from the
Little Rock Gaztttf knows that the au
thor is the same determined individual
who a few years ago edited the Seott
ville Aryus a paer that looked as if
it were set up irtshingle nails and print
ed on a cheese press. Franklin, Ky.)
Loral.
Tne Pcottville Aryu.sl The name
brings up a sigh suggestive of a pit bel
lows. I low that paper was reverenced :
how the boys on the street persisted in
calling it Hotville Kmrytts. It was a
powerful sheet, and it required a pair
of powerful eyes to read it. It was
unnecessary to read proof, for no one
could ever discover a typographical er
ror. One day the individual referred to
in the above clipping went into the of
fice and found Warner, the proprietor,
in great distress. "What's the matter V"
"We can't get out a paper this week."
"Why?"
"I lost a tvpe just now."
"Whieh one?"
"An m, I believe."
Then he took the office outof the oys
ter ean, ran over the alphabet, and re
marked :
"Yes, we've lost our m."
"What shall we do?"
"Don't know unless I go totheblack
smith shop and get a horse-shoe nail."
This was an excellent idea, and he
secured the nail. Next da four other
types were missing, and Warner got
nore naiK The day following some
body stole the office and threw the ran
into" the street. Warner got enough
nails to set the aper up, and after it
was issued the leading man in the place
(he worked at a livery stable) came
around and complimented us upon the
improved appearance of our puier.
""tfnat a Nebraska PanaerDid.
Hastings Ncbraskan.
Captain V est, ijas soiu -ii'GO worth of
wh tt the past season, $l.S00 worth of
cattle, and jsM." worth of broom corn.
There are, lieaide.- this, various other
items of income, that have more than
supported the familv. When the Cap
tain came here, in LsTl, he had eleven
head of hoi-s0-, twentv-seven head of
cattie, old and young, and just money
enough loft to build a shanty with -J2.30
left. He now has some seventy-five
head of cattle an.l thirtv-fhe head of
horses, besides tho- sold; one hundred
head of hogs, good fnn buildings, and.
with his sons, some eight hundred
acres of land and we venture to ssy
that few jtersons have any demaitdtt
against him. Who will sav that Adams
count farming cannot bemadetip.i y
A Frenchman has discovered that
the skulls of men are. on the average.
one hundred and seventv-two grammes.
heavier than those of women. ThisrJ
will explain why the average man will
permit a woman to stand in a streel
car, ami why. also, so many ot then
marry and compel their wives to sup
port them. Their skulls are not onh
heavier, but thicker; but no more sol
than that of a mule.
Henrv Ward Repi'hfir nrnnmineis Jrlir
teachers' profession "the foundation ofl
all the professions.