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PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA
On Vine St., One Block NortH of Min,
Corner of Fifth Street.
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PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1878.
J NUMBER 41.
Exlrae. phM of the TIkrai.d for sale by .T. ?
l onicr, rosioflice ucvii depot. nml O. V. John
.son.coriicr of '.
Main and Fifth Street.
WEI
National Bank
OK PLATTSMOCTH, NEBRASKA,
successor to
TOOTLE IIAXXA Jk. CliAEK
John Fit5W5F.kai.0-.
K. o. Iovkv
A. W. M Laiohi-IX.
JJNIl O'lIOL KiE
President.
Vice President.
Cashier.
....Assistant Cashier.
This Hank is now open for business at their
new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and
is prepared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bands, Geld, Government and Losal
Securities
BOCGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits I2fccced and Interest Alloic
ed on Time Certificates.
Available in anv part of ttie United States and
In all the Pi incipal Towns and Lilies
of Europe.
ACI1XTS roil THE
CELEB BATED
Inman Line and Allan Line
OK KTKAMRRS.
Person wishing to bring out their friends from
Europe can
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Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
S II A V I X A X ! S H A M P O 1 X C.
Kspceial attcnti n given to
CUTTIXd riIIT.DJ!KN AXD LA
HI AH II A Hi.
And 'i t a l'oo-.ie in :v
m: i kiftoi: or
J' A LACE L'l ILIA IID HALL
(Main St.. east of First Nat. Rank.)
n.ATTSMOt'TM, - NE15.
MV OAK IS SUITI.IF.O WITH THF.
BEST WIVES, LKJfOUS, CKiAP.S,
4oy, 11. Ml. ETC., ETC.
jroTJJsriDTZ'Yr
AND
MACHINE SHOTS !
I-l.ATTSMOUTH. "F.K.,
npuirer of Steam Engines, Boilers,
Saw and Wrist Milli
ii AH AXI STI'.AII FITTliM.
With; 'lit Tron Pipe. Force and Lift Pipes.stpani
(i 7u-es. s-ifetv-Valve (iovernors. and all
kin.!- -f Pr:i.s Engine Fittings,
n i'iiiied (iu short notice.
FARM MACHINEKH
Kepaired on Short Xotice. i'yl
"YOUNG!"
T HE BUTCHER,
Can ahcays he found at
Halt's Old Stand,
Heady to sell the best Heats.
YOITXG bt;vs frc-h fat cattle, sheep, hoirs
direct from the fanners every day, and his
meats are air. ay good.
O WE, FISH. AXD FO XV L, IX SEASOX
Syl.
SAGE BROTHERS,
Dealers in
ETC., ETC., KTC.
One Door East of the Post-Omce, Ilattsmouth,
Xebiaska.
Practical AVorkers in
SHEET -IRON, ZINC, TIN, B HA
ZIER Y, cf-e., ttc.
Large assortment of Haiti ana,Soft
COAL STOYES,
Wood and Coal Stoves for
HEATING OR COOKING,
Always on Hand.
Every variety of Tin. Sheet Iron, and Zinc
Work, kept in Stock.
MAKING AND REPAIRING,
Done on Short Xotice.
, -EvvnrTiuxa waiuiaxted!
VK1CF.S LOW IOWX.
SAGE BROS.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
ClIAPJIAX & SI'KAWli;
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
And Solicitors in Chancery. OfTice in Fitz;er
uld Block,
19 l rLATTSMOUTII, XEB.
I. M. WIIK.KIKIt & '.
LAW OFFICE, Tteal Estate. Fire and Life In
surance Agents, riatisinoiith, Xcbraska. Col
lectors, ta x-payer. Have a complete abstract
of titles, liny and sell real e!-tate, negotiate
loans, &c. I.lyt
II. 1. IY.VCIf,
ATTOIiXEY AXD COCXSELLOR AT LAW.
Olliee in Fitzgerald Clock, riattsmouth, Xeb.
3-jly
4AMKS K. 1 OK It ISO X.
ATTOIIXEY AT LAW. Will practice Id Cass
and adjoining Counties ; pives sjM'Cial attention
to collections and abstracts of title. Office with
Oeo. S. Smith, FiUyerald Block, Platt-'inont Ii,
Xebraska. " lTyl
tiVA. H. KIITII.
A1TOTIXEY AT LAW and Ileal Estate Bro
ker. Sjx-cial attention jriven to Collections
and all matters alTectinn the title to real estate.
Oillce oil 2d lliKr, over Post Ollicc. Plattsnioiilh,
Xebraska. 40 I.
JOHN' AV IIAIXES
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ami collector of
debts. collections made from one dollar to one
thousand do'lars. Mortaajtes. Jieeiis. and otli-
r instruments drawn, and all county business
usually transacted before a .Inst ice of the Peace.
B'st of reference niven if required.
Olliee 011 Main street, West of Court Ilonse.
40-yl JOHN W. HAINES.
U. II. IVIIERISR,
K. D. STONE.
WHEELER & bTONE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
I'lattMmoatu XclirasUa.
K II MVISTOX,
rilTSICIAX & SCBGEOX, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens of Cass county.
Besidenee southeast corner Sixth and Oak sts. ;
nir.ee on Main street, two duow west of Sixth,
Piat tsinoittli. Xebraska.
lilt. ii. II. IItA Ii
attends to calls in the country as well as city.
Olliee at J. H. Buttery's druHtore. Chronic dis
eases made a specialty. l;i.emiialiiu cured.
2i!uiG
lilt. J. JI. WATER3IAX,
Physio Medic.il Practitioner.
Ljttisrille, Ca Co., Xcb.
ISAIways at the oniee on Saturdays. 4oyl
O. K. SALOON.
: I keep constantly on hand
BEST MILWAUKEE BEER.
which can be had at no other
l'l AC 12 IX THE CITY.
Also the best of
n'ixr.s, uvea:.-:, axd cigars.
Zr.uif, Kd. ICoseiibaum.
LENIIOFF tt- BONN St,
7! online Dew S.)oon !
0;:e door e;'st of the S.-mndei-K IIof.se. We
keep 1 lie best of
Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars.
.T'mO Constantly on Hand.
AGENTS ! GP-150
i,oiv-rRin:F tm kmt-hi:li,ix;
ItOOZitt
a;:k yn.sTcsvruvi'Ki.v ksimikskntko in ot;n
JItX! rHKISATBX I'SttfW-
I J-'.CTJ'!- I'.v saiilp!e pajrs. biudin.-rs. illustration-,
etc. They are popular w irks of . every
kind, and sur.: surer for I 'an Vii'wrn. All act
ual' v wisiiiiu.- rmirlninnrat, and iv milter, ad-lrcc-s
-.'liiiiJ SUA MM ELL & CO., Sr. Lrifis, Mo.
E. PArUriELE,
SALE, FEED d- LIVERY STABLE.
On Main street nearly opposite t lie Court
llouf;, l'!atbiaoutli, Xeb.
HorsES foR Sale.
Tlie buyiii'r and seMiivj of good horses made
the specialty of tiie ba-n:i'.ss.
New Horses & Carriaaes,
ami gentle horses, for Ladies to drive ar kept
at this Stable.
Al.-o a carry all. which runs to the depot, and
will carry pa-tscuj-frs from anv place iu town 0:1
call.
FARMERS CALL AND EXAMINE
MY STOCK FOR SALE.
Syl E. FAIIMELE.
CM Z L M T
DICK STREIGHT'S
LI V FRY, FEED AND SALE STA
BLES. Corner 6th and realists.
iiohsks boakpeo r.y thk
WAY, Wtnit, Oil 3XOAT1I.
HORSES BOUGHT.
SOLD TBA3DSD.
For a Fair Commission.
TK.43IS AT ALL IIOI liS.
Famcular attention paid to
Driving and Training
TROTTIXG STOCK.
A use A hearse furnished when called for.
INTIONS k
T. C. WOIiyAIi,
Attorney ana CsnEscllor at Law,
1W.J Fth St. X. W.. (I . O. Lock Box 171),
W .-ishiiiicton. . (.'.
I-ite Fxaininer-in-Chief Cnited States Patent
OUice ; Member of the Bar Supreme
Court of the United Stales.
Patent Lair Practice in the Patent Of
fice and the Courts a Specialty.
Patents Oistakkh ix the Vnitfi States.
Caaia. Kxcr.AXD, FKANi'K. Gkkmany,
Kvssia, Bkl;iim. Italy, a-c.
Bkff.iif.xcks : Hon. W. B. Allison. C. S. Sen
ator : Gov. S. J. Kirkwood, V. S. Senator;
Judfre Win. I,ou2hridjie, Ex-M. C: Justice
Sam'l Miller. IT. S. Supreme Court ; Hon. .Ta.
Harlan, Ex-Secretary Interior: Justice J. F.
Dillon, V. S. Circuit Court; Judire 11. U B.
Clarke, Chairman Apjteal Board, Patent Olliee ;
Col. T. M. Vail. Sup. Bai'.wav Mail Service ;
C.en. J. M. Hedrick, Ex-Sun'r. Inter. Bev. ;
Jildue E. S. Sauiison. C. C. ; Hon. Oeo. W. Me
Crary, Secretary ol War; CoU L. D. Inwrsoll,
Chicago l'ost. inGoc
EVERY BEE-KEEPER SHOULD READ THE
AMERICAN
L
EE JOURNA
An eleuant ; l Mntlilv devoted to
The niot succesful and experienced Bee-Mas-ters
in America are 11s reirular correiHjndents.
It is the ii.iir.s r. L ltd fst and
b3T BEt PA?"K IN THE WORLD !
TWO lxI LABS A YEA It. Speciineu Copy bvts.
! Aduie. I Hd. (1. KWMAX C .VlX,
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PATENTS
An Excellent Medicine.
Sprisuheld, O., Feb. 28. 1S77.
This If to certify that I have used Yf.oftink,
manufactured bvj H. K. Stevens, Boston. Mus.,
for Blieumatisiii and General Prostration of tlie
Nervous System, with frood suec ss, I recom
mend VKiiHTiNK as an excellent medicine for
such coiiq laints.
Yours very trill v.
C. W. VAXDEGBIFT.
Mr. Vandegrift, of the firm of Yanderift &
Huffinan, is a well-known business man in this
idaee, having one of the largest stores iu Spring
ieid, O.
Our Minister s Wife.
Locisvillk, Ky., Feb. 16, 13T7.
Mil. II. R. STFfKXS.
Ijrnr Sir. Three years ago I was suffering ter
ribly with I i.y a minatory Blieuiiiatism. Our
ministers wifeTidvied me to take Vkuktixk.
After takint; one bottle, I was entirely relieved.
Tliis year, feelimi a return of the disease, I again
commenced taking it, and am being benefitted
greatly. It also greatly improves my digestion.
Respectfully. Jilts. A. BALLARD.
1011 West Jefferson Street,
Kafe and Sure,
Jilt. If. R. Stkvexs.
In lt-72 your Yk.;ktixe was recommended to
me ; and. yielding to tiie persuasions of a friend
1 consented to try it. At tlie time I was suffer
ing from general debility and nervous prostra
tion, superinduced by overwork aud irregular
iiabits. Its wonderful strengthening and cura
tive properties seemed to afreet inv debilitated
system from the first dose ; and under its per
sistent use 1 rapidly recovered, gaining more
than usual health and good feeling. Since then
1 have not hesitated to give Ykcktikr my
most unqualiUed indorsement as being a safe,
sure and powerful agent inpro:iiotiug health
and restoring the wasted system to new life and
energy. Vkof.tixk is the only medicine I use.
aud as long as I live I never expect to find a
better. Yours trulv.
W. II. CLARK.
120 Monterey street, Alleghany, Penn.
VEGETINE.
The following letter from Bev. O. W. Mans
fiield. formerly pastor of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, Hyde Park, and at present bellied
in Lowell, must convince every one who reads
his letter of the wonderful curative qualities of
Vkuktixk as a thorough cleanser and purifier
of the blood.
Hy de Park, Mass., Feb. 15, 1876.
Mit. II. V. Stkvkxs.
iflr .'(. About ten years ago my health
failed through the depleting effects of dyspep
sia ; nearly a year later I was attacked by ty
phoid fever in its worst form. It settled in my
hack, and took the form of a large deep-seated
abscess, which was fifteen months in gathering.
I had two surgical operations by th best skill
in the state, but received no pcrmanckt cure. I
suffered great pain at times, and was constantly
weakeiieil by a profuse discharge. I also lo.-t
small pieces of bone at different timet".
Matters ran on thus about seven years, till
May. l.s',4. when a friend recommended mo logo
to your olliee. and talk Willi you of the virtue of
VciiKTixif. 1 did so, and by your kindness
passed through your manufactory, noticing the
Ingredients, &c, by which your remedy is pro
duced. By what I saw and heard I gamed some con
fidence in Vfuktink. .
1 commenced takiaj it coon after, but felt
worse from its effects ; still 1 persevered, and
soon felt it was benefitting in other respects.
Yet I did not see the results I desired till 1 had
taken it faithfully for a little more than a year,
when the diiticuiiy i.i the back was cured ; and
for nine months I have enjoyed the best of
health.
1 have in that time gained twenty-five pounds
of fiesh, being heavier than ever belorc in my
1 f ', and 1 was never more able to perform labor
tli:in now.
D :ring the past few weeks I had a scrofulous
swelling as large a.-; my list gather 011 another
part of my body.
1 took Vkuktixk faithfully, and it removed
it level with the sin face in a month. I think I
1 shoi.ld have iiecn cureii of my main trouble
so :ie: ii" 1 had taken larger doses, alter having
tieeii.ie accustomed to its effects.
Let your j. aliens troubled wi:h serofi.la or
k;:lii y disea-e undersrai.d that it takes time to
cure caninic disease ; i!i(i, ii they will patient
ly take Vrci.Tlxi:,!. will, la my judgment, cure
Ilielil iiii ijivat obligations I' am
Yours verv trulv.
;. W. MANSFIELD,
1'astor of the Methodist Epi-cop;d Church.
VEGTINj
Prepared by
Vcgctins is Sail ty all Druggists.
PL ATTS MOUTH MILLS.
rLAITSMOL'TH, XEB.
C- C2K:Si:i, - I'lopricSor.
Flour, Com Meal & Feed
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash
prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat and
Corn. Particular attention given custom work.
SAU3DEUS HOUSE.
J. S. a RE GORY, - - - Proprietor.
Location Central, (iood Sample Room..
Every attentwu paid to guests. 41113
ri.ATTSMOfTII. ----- NK.n.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
LINCOLN, XEIi.,
J.J. IMIIOFF, r - - Proprietor.
The best known and most popular Landlord
in the State. Always stop ai toe Commercial.
'"GRAND CENTRAL'5
HOTEL.
LARGEST AXD FIX EST HOTEL BETWEEN
CHICAGO AXD SAX FRANCISCO.
GEO. THRALL, - - Prop.
OMAHA. XEIi.
A t.rcat Itcduction in l'ricc of
GUNS, REVOLVERS, &c.
Prices reduced from 20 to per cent. Write
for Illustrated Catalogue, with reduced prices
for 1877. Address.
GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS,
VI Smithfield St.. Pittsburgh. Ta. lsyl
H. A. WATERMAN & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
riXE LUMBER.
LATH.
SHINGLES.
SASH,
DOORS,
BLINDS,
.ETC.,
ETC.,
ETC.
Main street. Corner of Fifth, .
PLATTSMOUTII, - - - - NEB.
Still Better Rates for Lumber.
STliElGKT & MILIEU,
Harness Manufacturers,
3ADDLES
BRIDLES,
COLLARS.
and all kinds of harness stock, constantly on
hand.
FRUIT, C0NFECTI0NEY,
GROCEltT STOKE,
NUTS,
CANDIES,
TEAS
COFFEES,
SUGARS,
TOBACCOES,
FLOUR,
AC.
Remember the place opposite E. G. Doyey's
on Lower Main Street.
21-1 , STREIGHT (L- MILLER.
Battle Iljmii of the Finch Red Ribbon
Clubs.
Tusk : Marching Through Georgia.
They tell us that the plains are full.
They're coming right along ;
Wake the chorus up to-night.
We'll have another song.
Sing it we mean it
Sixty thousand strons.
While we go marching for temperance.
Chorus :
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! we'll bring the jubilee ;
Hurrah ! hurrah ! from rum we will he free ;
So we'll sing the chorus from the center to
the sea
While we go marching for temperance.
We have buckled on the armor.
We are inarching for the right :
There's uo such word as fail for us.
For God is in the fight.
We'll win the day, for now we see
The dawning of the light.
While we go marching for temperance.
Chokus :
These mad reformers soon will fail.
That's what the rummies said ;
Tis nothing but excitement,
Of such things we have read.
But while they're causing tears to fall,
Ahd children cry for bread.
We'll go marching for temperance.
Chokus :
Thus we'll form a thoroughfare
For temperance aud her train ;
No limits to its latitude.
On ocean or on main ;
Rum shall fall before us.
For resistance is in vain,
While we go marching for temperance.
Chorus :
There's many saddened hearts to-night,
That's bled for many years ;
Eyes that long have looked to God,
Through many scalding tears ;
Soon our joyful song shall fall
Upon their listening ears.
While we go marching for temperance.
Chorus :
Come sign the pledge as we have done.
And soon we'll win jhe day ;
The army now is rallying,
The foe will soon give way ;
Aud fallen homes will lise again.
'Neath temperance's peaceful sway.
While we go marching for temperance.
Chorus :
THE TEOi'LE W110 DRINK.
New York Sun.
Physicians say that nearly two thirds
of nia!e patients suffer in one way or
another from alcholic poison.
No close observer will be disposed
to doubt tliis.
From the low shops on South and
West streets, ulong the- line of fashion
ab'.e saloons on and near Broadway, in
the vicinity of tlie postoffiew, in the
guilded retreats that p;ird tlie Asior
House, iu tlie several places of note 011
Printing Howe square, at d in the inav
nificent marble palaces that fringe
Madison square, not omitting the
frescoed club room and thediny sdop
shops of extreme east side from the
lirst to the last, and iu them all, the
same story of intemperance may be
learned.
And who are the di hikers?
Boys, young men, middle-aged men,
and old men.
They a'l drink.
Two young men uieet in the lobby
of a theatre. "What'U you take?" is
the first and commonest salutation.
They adjourn to a bar-ropm and drink.
As the one pays, the other looks at his
watch and says, ''Ju3t In time for an
other! Repeat," and both drink again.
At each fall of the curtain at least
one-half of all the young men rise,
push out, and hurry for a drink.
This is no exaggeration. We all
know it, and many of us do it.
I went into the basement of one of
Gotham's greatest architectural piles
this morning, and stood at the end of
the counter, half an hour, to see what
was done.
Thtre were four bartenders, all busi
iy engaged.
In that brief -time they sold to all
sorts and conditions of men two hun
dred beers, thirty two whiskies, ten
lemonades, two plain seltzers, and three
gin coctails.
It was an exceptionally busy half
hour to be sure; but as I took my seat
at a little table near the counter, I
noticed in the ..next half hour, and
made a memorandum to guard against
mistake a sale of one hundred and thir
ty beers, fifty whiskies, and six gin
cocktails.
The men who drank were not "bums."
Very many of them are known to
the world of politics, several are noted
writers, the City hall furnishes its
quota, some do business in the swamp,
and not one seemed in the least degree
affected by what he drank.
Leaving this place, I went to anoth
er saloon, equally well known, whose
proprietors pay annual rent of $60,000
for premises which are kept open from
eight o'clock in the morning until sev
en in the evening.
Standing by a little cigar case which
is placed at one side of the room I de
voted half an hour to a close count of
the drinks and drinkers.
There were three barkeepers, and
they had all they could do to attend
promptly to the customers.
One company of six young men drank
six times in less than fifteen minutes,
and each took his whisky straight.
In half an hour's time that bar sold
ninety eight whiskies, four ginger ales,
three ciders, and fourteen gin cock
tails. The men who drank were respect
able men of business, a few literary
people, and two or three persons who
might have been truckmen or mechan
ics. None of them showed the effects of
their drink.
As I went out I said to one of the
six young cae.u who drank, six. times,
What are you drinking so much for
to-day?"
"Oh, nothing," he replied; 'I didn't
intend to. Charley and I went in for
an oyster stew, and were ordering
when those four fellows from Albany
came along. Charley asked 'em to
drink, and one followed the other."
"That's the history of many a spree.
The spree doesn't intend to go off, but
meeting a friend the one tempts the
other.
Returning to the saloon I visited
I first ordered a lunch, and was soon
jointed I always am by an acquaint
ance, who, of course, said, "What'll you
take?"
Being in a taking mood, I said
would try a glass of rye. He took the
same. Having said. "How," and em
ptied our glasses, I said, "Rafe, what
did you drink that whisky for? Do you
like it?"
"No. I don't like it. I'm drink
ing too much, too. Guess'll pull up."
"Well, tell me, what did you order
it for?"
"YV hy, for sociability s sase I sup
pose. What did you drink it for?"
"Because I wanted to ask just this
queston. I've been looking at the fel
lows drink there, and, I believe eight
out of ten drink just because they don't
like to say "no!"
"Does it make your head ache to
drink whisky?"
"Yes."
'So it does mine. I swore off whis
ky and took beer, but beer makes me
bilious."
"Why drink anything?"
" Hanged if I know, but we all do
drink."
"We were joined by an actor. Being
an actor.and in the company of a news
paper man, theie was, he thought, but
one thing to do.
Said he, "What'll you take?" "
"We took Whisky.
So did he.
"We each said, "How." and then said
I, "Dan. do you like whisky?"
"I hate It."
"Why do you drink it?"
"I don't often. I generally take gin ;
but they both upset me; give me a
fearful head ache. But what are you
going to do! Mast drink something."
In that way I have spoken to not
less than twenty men this very day. Of
the twenty fifteen said that drink al
ways gave them the headache, one
owned that lie "loved the taste;" one
said he d tank because he was "blue.''
and one confessed that he was "on a
tear," and he didn't "care who knew
it.:
Not far from the Trinity church
there is a superl marble building, a
restaurant, and of great popularity
with merchants and brokers down
town.
Between twelve and half-past one
its Crst floor is a gastronomic pande
monium. It is worth a trip from Harlem to
look at it.
Pie and whisky, oysters patey and
gin, cake and cocktails, and .seltzer, but
cheifly everything and whisky, with
now and then a pony of the "very best
brandy," or a "mere taste of absinthe"
disappear with great rapidity.
Brokers' boys rush in, seize a sand
wich, cram it down, pay, for it, light a
cigarette and fly like lightning.
The huge doors flap and flap like the
wings of an cm 1 mous roc.
Waiters flit about the room bearing
trays with bottle and glass.
There's no rest for the barmen.
Bott!e3 here, decanters there, tum
blers everywhere.
The bull's drink because they have
won, the bears because they have lost.
Stock are sold between drinks, bargains
are made across bars, money is bor
rowed and certificates loaned over
the bottle and the whole of it done in
a hurry.
At times from two to three hundred
men and boys struggle for service at a
time.
No one is willing to wait.
Each wants his bottle first; but
though they all drink, I have yettose
the first drunken man or tipsy boy in
that magnificent barroom.
It is just so further up town in the
hotels, the clubs, and the elegant sa
loons patronized by the young bloods
of New York.
Each place has its patrons, and its
hours of rush and drive.
In the great barrooms up town I
rarely Gnd more than half a dozen
drinkers between twelve and five o'
clock. From that hour on till mid
night the places are filled.
The barrooms near Wallack's. the
Union Square, Booth's ad the Fifth
Avenue theatres do but little business
in the day time; but in the evening
they are spasmodically extremely busy.
The patrons of these theaters are our
"best people."
From the invariable rush of the
whisky brigade between the acts, the
unavoidable inference is that our "best
people drink."
Even without the valuable testimo
ny of the medicine men, we know that
to be the fact.
Some go modestly into the adjacent
drug store, and call for the refreshing
Vichy ; others seek a neighboring chop
house and indulge in a glass of ale; but
the vast majority do nothing of the
kind. They join their friends in the
lobby, walk direct to the nearest bar
room, say, "What'll you take?" call for
whisky drink it solemnly with one long
swallow, pay for it, and walkfeack to
the theater redolent of clove, lemon, or
parched corn.
The habit is not confined to old men
nor to men in trouble.
Boys hardly out of their teens drink
brandy and seltzer. Young men with
their friends take whisky, or perchance
open a small bottle. Middle-aged men,
who should be strong and lusty take
what they are pleased to call a "bracer,"
and, so far as I can see, the exception
al person is the male who does not
drink at all time3 and under all cir
cumstances. The doctors say it induces paralysis
indigestion, headache, rheumatism,and
weakness of many kinds.
Not being a doctor, I don't attempt
to indorse their opinion; but this I
will say, that, among all the hundreds
of drir.kers regular topers, not drunk
ards to be found in the first-class sa
loons of New York to day, it would be
impossible to Gnd a dozen men who
are fond of liquor. They drink because
it seems to be the thing to do.
Published by request.
John B. Finch on Alcholtol.
In his lecture on Alchohol Mr Finch
says:
Suppose it were possible for every
one in this audience to say with all
truthfulness, while recasting the ex
periences of life: "I know of one par
ticular agent or thing which has direct
ly killed one person whom I knew."
Tlie human being thus slain had the
slaying agent under his own absolute
control. He need not have touched it
unles-he had willed to do so, and he
would never have felt any want for it
if he had not been trained to feel the
want.
Suppose this audience as an American
audience merely, were enlarged until
it included all who might fairly form
an aud'ence capable, by experience and
years and mind, to make a correct
statement on what they had clearly
and definitely seen Suppose every one
of them should say : "I, too, know that
the same agent has killed one person
who lived in my circle of acquaintance
so that taking us all in the combination
of our lives, which may fairly be inclu
ded in thirty years, the fattil effects of
the said agent have been witnessed by
ten millions of observers.
Suppose we could listen to a foreign
voice speaking to us from across the
Atlantic and stating upon the author
ity of an official investigation that, the
amount of money invested in this de
stroyer represents in the British Is
lands alone, the sum 117,000,000 pounds
sterling. That the duties paid in one
year amounts to 30,000,000 pounds ster
ling; that each tax payer who lias an
income of 500 pounds sterling a year,
is assessed 31 pounds sterling towards
this imposition, whether he avail him
self or not of the means to injure him
self by the cause of the imposition.
Suppose we heard an official census
of the United States declare:
"For the last ten years this one agent
has imposed upon the nation a direct
expense of 8500,000,000; an indirect ex
pense of $000,000,000; has destroyed
300,000 lives; has sent 100,000 children
to the poor houses; has committed it
least 150,000 people into prisons; has
determined at least 2,000 suicides; has
caused the loss by fire or violence of
S10.000.000 worth of property;- has
made 200,000 widows and $1,000,000 or
phans."
Suppose we entered the cells of our
prisons, and amongst those we met
wearing out their lives in solitude and
shame and misery, so that the noblest
of all that is human work, casts the
victims into a sense of deeper degrada
tion ; and suppose as we stood, that w e
heard the voices of the most scientific
scholars who ever graced the judicial
bench of England and America, saying
that the most potent influence for se
curing these incarcerations, and for
placing the miserable before us in
such a terrible position was this same
agent.
Suppose we could at the present mo
ment see before us, passing in sad pan
oramic display, some of the brokeu-
heartedness of this still unhappy coun
try. Tortured women, still undergo
ing torture or listening with palpitat
ing hearts and with their-children scar
ed and hidden away, waiting for the
dreaded footsteps of him whose faint
est sound ought to be the joy of their
expectant lives. Could we see all the
weeping mothers and fathers hoping
against hope for the reformation of
their children ; mourning a loss that
the grave even will relieve loss to
truth, honor, self-respect, affection, du
ty, honesty, every virtue on which par
ents find new hope in their offspring.
Suppose seeing these things in their
unutterable vastness, we could say
they are the work of one and the same
destroyer!
' Suppose we could day by day, keep
underour observation for one year the
thousand depots in which this agent is
stood up, and from which it is dispens
ed in million portions a day, to smite
and to slay young and middle-aged and
old, rich and poor, deluder and delud
ed, polluted and polluting. Could we
watch the inroads of death into eac!i
of these centers of distributing death,
and discover that out of them the ma
rauder tore 133 to 100 of his victims
elsewhere, and seeing this fact could
recognize that death, more than just,
acted on the sellers through the things
sold.
Suppose, in passing through our hos
pitals for the cure of the sick, the phy-
Bician in attendance were to name all
the forms of disease there, and were to
say, as he migiit most honestly, these
names very different in kind and seem
ing to denote very different maladies
gout, paralysis, albuminuria, apoplexy,
delirium tremens, enfeebled heart, ec
zema, epilepsy, consumption (in one
phaze of that disease at least), liver di
sease or cirrhosis, dropsy to say noth
ing of other maladies under dipute as
to their origin: these names do truly
but indicate various forms of disease
originating in one agency to which
these afflicted have been directlv or in
directly suojected.
Suppose, it were possible, after this
general survey, to be able to cast up
the sum of misery represented in such
varying disguises, and prove that they
are all the work of one common ene
my of mankind, should we not hesi
tate, almost in fear, fear which famil
iarity itself coull not conquer as we
r.sk ourselves: Is it really true? Is
there such an enemy, such a power,
such a bona fide devil in our midst?
The facts must stand for themselves
in all their terrible reality. There is
such a devil, though he is not in polite
language called so. He assumes vari
ous names. The learned owing to his
infinite subtlety, a subtlety as refined
as the impalpable powder with which
ancient ladies of the east dressed their
hair call him alcohol. The unlearn
ed call him beer. The savages call him
fire-water. The rollicking scholars call
him wine. The slangsters call him B.
and S or cocktail, or gin sling. Gent
ler lip.s that ought to know less of him
and more of botany, sometimes call
him cherries. Wo will call him to
iught, because of his subtlety, and be
canse, after all, the term defines him
best for our purpose, alcohol.
In this audience it is unnecessary to
go over again, with proofs in hand, the
details of the charges I have made
against this subtle agent He has been
arraigned for them over and over again ;
he has been proved guilty of them all
over and over again. Yet hath he al
ways escaped scot-free, and continued
his marauding, kept together his retin
ue and defied his enemies. He has paid
his servants in their own coin and his
own, making them obey, killing them
as they obeyed, and stretching out hi3
empire over their graves, has imprint
ed his brand on the offspring they have
raised, whether the offspring approved
or loathed the badge of his seryice.
The Bank Note.
From Leslie's Budget of Fun.
The following amusing scene, which
occurred recently in an American fam
ily, will be found not uninteresting to
our readers. Tne chief role is played
by money, the prime mover in such af
fairs. An eye-witness recited to us
the occurrence in the following words:
One evening I took tea with an inti
mate friend of mine, and while we
were seated at the table, Mr. Baker, my
friends husband, who absently feeling
in his vest-pocket, found a five dollar
note which he had no recollection of
putting there.
"Halloa!" he exclaimed; "that is no
place for you. I should have put you
in my pocket-book. Here wife, don't
you want some ready money?" and he
threw the note across the table to her.
"Many thanks," she replied "money
is always acceptable, although I have
no present need of it.
She folded the note and put it under
the tea tray, and then proceeded to
pour out the tea and attend to the
wants of her guests.
At her right sat Mrs. Easton or Aunt
Susan, whom all knew as an old ac
quaintance, who, from time to time,
spent a week with Mrs. Baker. Her
visit was just at an end, and she was
about to return home that evening.
As Mrs. Baker was pouring out her
tea it occurred to her that she wa3 in
her aunt's debt for several small mat
ters, and when' she had an opportunity
she pushed the note under her plate,say-
"Here, Aunty, take this five dollars
in part payment of my debt."
"Very well," she replied; but the
money does not belong to me. I owe
you fifteen dollars, my dear Grace,
which you lent me last Saturday; I
had to pay he taxes on my little house,
and had not the ready money, and
Grace lent it to me," exclaimed Aunt
Susan.
Grace, an orphan was a cousin to
Mrs. Baker. She and her brother Frank
boarded with her, and made a very
pleasant addition to the family circle.
She was studying music and her broth
er was a clerk in a n.ercantile estab
lishment. As soon as Annt Susan received the
note she handed it to Grace, saying: .
"I will give you this now on account,
and the rest as soon as I get it."
All right," answered Grace laugh
ing, and since we all seem in the hu
mor to pay our debts, I will follow suit.
Frank, I owe you something for mu
sic 3'ou bought me, here is a part of it ;
and she threw the bank note across the
table to her brother who sat opposite.
We were all highly amused to see
how the note wandered around the ta
ble. -
"This is a wonderful note," said Mr.
Baker. "I only wish somebody owed
mo something, ami I owed somebody
something so that I could come into
the ring."
"You can," said Frank, "I owe Mrs
Baker, or you, it's all the same, for my
board; I herewith pay you part of it."
Amid general laughter Mr. Baker
took the note, and playfully threw iU
again to his wife saying:
"It's yours again Lucy, because what
belongs to me belongs to you. It ha
complete 1 the round, and wo have all
had the benefit cf it."
"And now it must go around again,''
replied she gayly. "I like to boo mon
ey circulate; it should never lie idle
Aunt Susan, you take it, and now I
have paid you ten dollars."
"Dear Grace, here is another five dol
lars on my account." said Aunt Susan,
handing it to Grace.
"And you Frank, have received tent
dollars for the music you bought me.''
said Grace handing it to her brother.
"And I pay you ten dollars for my
board," continued Frank, and the iioto"
once more changed hands.
The exchanges were as quick a9
thought and wo were all convulsed
with laughter.
"Was there ever so wonderful ai
exchange?" exclaimed Giaee.
"It's all nonsense," cried Mr. Baker.
"Not in the least answered his wife
"It's all quite right. It is a fair kind
of an exchange though very unconw
moii."
"It shows the use of money." saiit
Aunt Susan. "It makes the circuit of
the world, and brings it's value to ev
ery one who touches it."
"And yet this note has not finished
its work yet, as I will show my dear"
husband, if you will give it to me again,"
said Mrs. Baker.
"I present you with this five dollar
note," said Mr. Baker.
"And I give it to you, Aunt Susan '
I owed you fifteen dollars, and I have
paid my debt." . "
"You have, my friend, without doubt,
and now, my dear Grace, I pay you my
indebtedness, many thanks for your as
sistance."
"I take it with thanks, Aunt Susan,
and now the time has come when this
wonder-working, this inexhaustibly
rich bank note must be divided, be
cause I don't owe Frank five dollars
more. How much have I to pay yet?"
"Two dollars and sixty-two cents,"
replied. Frank.
"Canyon change?".
"Let me see, two thirty-eight; yeg,
there is the change, the spell is broken,
Grace, you and I divide the spoils."
"This bank note beats all I ever saw.
How much has it paid, let us count it
up," said Grace.
"Mrs. Baker gave Aunt Susan fifteen
dollars, which Aunt Susan gave me '
I gave Frank twelve dollars and sixty"
two cents Frank gave Mr. Baker ten
dollars altogether fifty-two dollars and
sixty-two cents."
"It's all nonsense, I tell you," cried
Mr. Baker .again, "you owe each other"
what you owed before.
"You are deceived my dear, by the
rapid, unbroken race this little sura
has made; to ma it is .as clear as da'
light," replied Mrs. Baker.
"Is it all nonsense, how could the
note which you gave Mrs. Baker, if
nothing to me or to you, be divided be
tween us two?" asked Grace.
Mr. Baker didn't seem to see it very
clearly, but the others did, and they
often relate this little. hMory for the
amusement of their friiends.
Our Afton Letter.
" Aetox, Neb., Dec. 22, 1877.
Editor Herald: Who ever heard
of such weather in 'gloomy December?'
from the 8th of this month up to tho
present time we have had spring:
weather, and until the evo of the 13tji
clear weather, 15th and 17th foggy,
since then a steady gentle rain, frost
all out apparently. Have had but
half an inch of snow.
No sickness that I know of, but
colds. Our school goes on satisfactori
aly, not altogether so with another not
a hundred miles from here, where ac
cording to report, some of the scholars
who have the "noble red man's" blood
in their veins, seem to "run things"
pretty much their own way, they tear
out the chinking of the- school house,
lav in ambush for the school ma'am,
lasso her, drag her around, and have
lots of fun, for them, but fbf.her(?)
Game is quite plenty, one., man has
lately killed four elk, and one deer,
buffalo reported not far, west,
E. S. Child.
Take Your Country Paper.
Do the city papers say anything
in regard to your own county? Noth
ing; .'Do they contain notices of your
schools, meetings, churches, improve-
Tnents. and hundreds of other local
matters of interest which your homo
paper publishes without pay ? Not an
item. Do they ever say a word calcu
lated to draw attention to your coun
try and aid in its progress and enter
prise? Not a line. And there are
men who take such contracted views
of this matter that unless they are get
ting as many square inches of reading
matter in their own as they do in a city
paper they think they are not getting:
the worth of their money. It reminds
us of the man who took the largest
pair of boots in the box. because the
price was the same as the pair, much
Em:U'.er, that fitted him.
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