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.J THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. HOKTX t- NPRIER, Ed. aa4 lrpa. RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA X'lMrORTE. Hr a jrud who matter hi wordn. I nj. And f(l who ini-Mur lit wlnr. And a child who rrrlcoas th- loa ()f a jaj When another rty lll hlnr. The y r ku on Though tram flow on And mlnjrlr mlth the And though thy love Inconstant pro Why diotilfini thou troubrd he? If a Hut doth fll from Marry ky. Or a flower doth droop and fade. Or a wallow away to the routh doth fly. Or a moonbeam hide In shade. We onward pa, Nor cry alair' Though fickle and fain they he; And though till lore Inronktant prove. Another fhall come to thee. THE LOVE STORY OF THE POPE. The life of the late Pope would be in :omplete, and to many unattractive, were its outlines confined to matters of church and state, politics and religion. Like the rest of humanity, however, the Sovereign Pontiff experienced, when a young man, the tender emotion, and cherished an affection of which his most intimate friends were aware. In fact, and, although he lived to devote his time and, efiorl to the church, this epi ode was"nevcr forgotten. From the manuscript of a forthcoming volume. the work of a Catholic lady, this talc of Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti is told, as re lated by the Rarroness de Kinsky, the intimate friend of the late prelate. The young Count Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti met and loved, at Rome, Camilla Devo ti, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of a widow lady, and to whom he had been attracted by her marvelous singing. In common with young peo ple before and since, they read the po ols together, ami enjoyed all those little pleasant seasons of social converse which youths and maidens seem to have by right of ancient usage and in all well ordered society. It came to piss that the young nobleman, like the knights of uie omen nine, ucsireu to enter the ar my in order to win his spurs and his bride, to show that he was worthy of the beautiful girl to whom he had plighted his troth. He made applica tion to Prince I'arberini, then com mander of the Papal Rody Guard, but was rudely repelled, with the remark that his slender frame was better suited for the habiliments of a priest than the uniform of a dragoon. Application was, however, made to Pope Pius VII., who promised him a commission. I'ount Giovanni was eager to inform Camilla of the success of his mission, md to acquaint her with the prospect f the favor of the Holy Father. He lurried away to her home and spent a nippy evening by her side. The next lay did not find him with her, nor the tiext, and as the (lays grew into weeks there came no news of the slender, gal lant young count to the lonely Camilla. No trace of him could be discovered in the city; he seemed to have disappeared from among those with whom it had been his custom to assoeiate. The gentle girl fell sick of a fever at last, on that day the Count knelt before the Pope ami told his story. His only mal ady, epilepsy, had assailed him on the street, and he feared the worst; he dared not marry with disease hanging over him, and he knew not what to do. The l?till" said to him that he should view the ailliction as a sign of God's will, directing him to turn his thoughts heavenward, and to devote his life to the church. The young count was sent a pilgrim to the shrine of Loretto, to learn the divine pleasure, but no tidings came to Camilla. After a time, feel 'J'g lh:it an unknown, yet good and suf ficient reason existed for his absence and "PParent desertion, she yielded to the e.'irnest persuasion of her mother, and consented to listen to the Raron Camu eini, who sought her hand in mairiage. It happened on that same evening," when Camilla and her mother were sit ti ng together in their comfortable home, conversing about the past and the fu ture, that a young man clad hi black suddenty entered and stood before them. The mother of Camilla at once recog nized young Ferretti, and gave a cry of joy, but he stood silent anu motionless. Camilla's heart sank at once, for she recognized the garb as that of a priest. Her quick thought discerned that all was ended between them. The Signora Devoti, not perceiving in the dusk the priestly robes, asked quickly : " Where have you been and wiry have you deserted us ?" " I have been on a pilgrimage to Lo retto, and subsequently to the Convent of St. Agnes, where I was anointed a priest,'" lie replied very quietly. The signora almost fainted when she heard these words, but Camilla re mained perfectly calm, and, forcing a smile, said in her gentle voice : "It. is well that you have come to me; Heaven has sent you in my hour of need to give me counsel and support. My brother is absent, and I have none other; will you take his place, as his old friend and companion and advise me? The Raron Camucini seeks my hand in marriage; my mother earnest ly wishes it; what shall I do? Will you now counsel me how to aet?" "I would strongly advise that you accept him as your husband,1' saidthe young priest, "for I know him well as being the most amiable and honorable, having every qualitj to insure your future happiness. I will unite you in holy wedlock to the man you will love, and who will prove a true and tender husband to you; but let it be soon, for I cannot tarry long; I have my mission to accomplish, and have come to say farewell. In a few days I leave for the convent of Sinigaglia, the city of my early childhood, there to prepare my self before leaving Italy on a long jour ney. I intend to prepare and devote" myself to a monastic life." A few days later Camilla Devoti knelt before the altar by the side of the Rar on Camucini, and the hoi' rites were performed by the young priest, Mastai Ferretti. Count Mastai became Pope Pius IX., and years after, at one of the usual Tuesday receptions, when ladies of rank were presented to his Holiness, the Baroness de Kinsky, an old friend of Cardinal Antonelli's, presented a plain, venerable-looking matron, whose fea tures still bore traces of great beauty. She happened to be among the last pre ented, and, on her name being men Ioned, an emotion was visible iu the opressive face of the Pope. The lady ent her knee for the benediction, and, ooking quietly into his face, said, with 1 voice full of the sweetness and melo dy of other days, that she had a favor to ask, which was that her grandson be received into the Garde crElite; they had hesitated to take him, she said, be cause he looked delicate, but the youth was eager to devote his life to the Holy Father. When she had spoken, she manifested slight emotion, and, casting her eyes to the ground, awaited a re ply. "The Pope understood her feeling, and, laying his hand on her white head in benediction, answered that he knew too well the pain and mortification of such a refusal, as he himself had once experienced it: and, he added, that the wish was fulfilled. Then he quickly walked towards one of the exit", and intimated to one of the camarieri, who ......,.. I ,.. V. 11,...- Ulr. tlint jlttLtri'li jiu:iii:u ii . ....... .....i..... w..... to be. alone, lie met trie iiaroncw u Kinskv the next day. and revealed to ed by Michigan and Minnesota. After commenting on the abuses and (i;s. criminations, practiced by the railroad companies, which led to the enactment of 1874, and declaring that the deter mination of power in the State govern ment to control the railroads in all their relations with the people is a step in advance, a step which must sooner or later have become inevitable, the writer proceeds to show that the effect of such power is better in obeyance than if at tempted to be enforced by legislative enactment He cites iu support of this position the successful operation of the commissioner system in Michigan, Minnesota and Massachusetts. The writer then examines the effects of the present railroad law, its inability to accomplish its own special ends, and the injuries which its practical opera tion inflicts on the material interests of the State. In this branch of the dis cussion he makes the following points: The absurdity of a classification of railroads whieh permits one road earning .:UW9 per mile to charge l()o per cent of a fixed tariff, while a road earning just $4,000 per mile can charge but 90 per cent of the same tariff. The violation of natural justice in forcing roads traversing sparsely .set tled districts ami whieh do not pay op erating expenses, to rank with leading through lines merely because operated by a company owning a class "A" road. The fact that a fixed tariff of rates cannot maintain equity between the diflercnt roads, because the natural laws of commerce compel a weak road fettered by the provisions of the law, to carry its through freight at the same rates as a lending trunk road crossing the weaker roads at any point on its line. The fact that the law ultimately de feats the end sought, viz. cheap trans portation, because it retards the per fect development of railroads in the State on which cheap transportation de pends. The fact, that the law unites and con solidates the railroads in sympathy, suppressing all competitition between them, thus denying the people of the State the benefits of competition in railway enterprise. The writer says: "The manufactures of Iowa are in their fee hie infancy. Before the preheat law went, in to operation the railroad companies recognized their need of encouragement and support. As a rule they gave the Iowa manufacturer ex ceedinghy liberal rates, enahlinir him to put hit "products on the market with some show of equality with manufacturers abroad. The statute now" fixes the rates for the manu facturer. The law Is having a depressing ef fect on the manufacturing interests of the state. The effect of the law, as intimated almve, is to weaketi and depress, to lnvovle in loss and precipitate toward bankruptcy, the local lines within the state. It does this by restrain ing their free action; by compelling them to accept In order to retain their through busi ness less than a fair and equiUble pro-rata of earnings, which but for the law they could ob tain. Besides the violation of equify between the roads, the state has nohing to gain by the bankruptcy of these imjortant interests. In many ways there cannot but be resultant loss and damage to the community. The effect of the law is to quite destroy the confidence of capital in railroad enterprise in Iowa, to stop the construction of independ ent lines, and to suppress the branching out of lines which have already established them selves. The capital of the east exacts from the railroads of Iowa the pledge, as a condi tion of loans, that they will not seek to extend their lines, nor attemp't new construction while the present legislation is in force. This plain, palpable, conspicuous result of the law car ries with it the consequence of slow and ted ious development of large and productive dis tricts, thus opcr uing as a blight on the mate rial interests of the state. These secluded, thinly populated districts, which, if developed, would decrease the percentage of taxation per capita are now a burden on the older and wealthier communities. The law reflects discredit and dishonor unon the community of Iowa in the great centres of capital from Which has been drawn the monev to construct her railroads. It does so because it impairs the obligation of the implied con contract when those loans were made. It tends to make railroad securities worthless by making the roads, unrcmunerative as property, thus assailing the integrity of the investment, an denying it a fair and reasonable percent age of profit. It is not necessarv to indicate examples. There are plentv of them in the state to-day. The law is, therefore, consider ed an act of dishonesty. Can Iowa afford the discredit! Can she afford to repel capital?" The writer, then reviewing the histo ry of railway legislation in Europe and the United States, shows that legisla tive panaceas have always proved hurt ful and ineffective and have been aban doned, the state of Iowa alone of all the states in the Union standing in an ill considered attmpt to adjust all the intricate and comprehensive re lations of the great interest of transpor tation with the body politic by a fixed tariff of rates. The Massachusetts commissioner sys tem for Iowa is then advocated, as it has been adopted by Michigan and Minnesota. The force and effective ness of that sN'stem depends on two considerations." First: It enlifffctens the public mind with the results of 1 .1" . i.:t. t.. ...:.! 1 1 nni . : -. : I'Mpmuiviuiiiiui ;i e-i u i nil 111 hnnUrb , V , i ''t. precis ami geometrical manner. n.-rj..uaSMronnn scene- (;nrj:no to the -.-a, anu u ..-, ,ll?nJ the body. A i)5:tmoni,, iike sl cn.laN of lhe of human wurttr and ii..im.. out into juch hs brcn reveled is Mun-j ! 1 JT mS liUlt I'i,:C "f nillsd '? 'i"'1' ame formation, can 1.' idit in a cer- : 'omU You must imagine it i tm Mtvv U,e dtMmerie have I', i fr n7i W! hn niumid the i from VlKM : V " tain direction; thi, property, known a. -nmiiP-r. for the flower- must b.. throw- . Mtrhl u li:ht a Temple of Diana ami . 'I i"' hu ?o 1 '..ft fC,Vl Kios.nl fouml tn Conta,n thousa'Hh "f lhoMi "cleavage." allows the first 'rough shape out their wrvtnes. the tree wave- n 0,oua(Ie afut te feet long, and havr JnU 1 t.v ho ,,,I 'Tn nrtestlv w"rn,!- Th,: oungstown JJr 'V to be given to the totie. and alo to re- Z t'-r leave, in the pleasant brew I lIallv ,.tlW! an underground n- S' i, hebelh a dhect T-h l"at "r- ''T' " ""l 7 mllw UMlwa"1 "r -M"h l" ' '" tr"m'm P" l? -anJ i In"!.:, wmch m- to W L feet by nalif'rmi. ' ' rell her n ow '' si cn'tv , G,r;inl: w-f ,a wh"k' , as are defective. The Mone i- then fa- he gra- fre-h and -oft enough to , ,, ,.vl nn.. A jMrtion of the mn;nP he h w-ls a c-ill from the Holy Father (;e"I,a" fsil,ll,.v n:lIM,,tl ,.IJaI,ktf b;in tem-d with cement to the eUremiU of a ' -l.v caq.et for our feet an,! nlimt.n,Ms interesting obj-cts imm, ,i non t. p thi S ok en suffer from a strange d.se.e. b.miil- alk.k. amI :u, nolhin bll :l di;i!non,, e may wander where uv u.ll. and whi h w,ri. funa b,, l-et, already in1 ,. VnSm-.?. ernbrnatton of mv tl"-v lo lhwr PP.tei and ,.., cut another, it is rubbed against tl a-eplexs,. lalV:of thf. wonder-Mjl(H, in :l. Sauonal Museum at S- th nffi. the tfme I sufT red blit tht' ""V"1"" ,M -an to S? ,!" anothtfr li:" mounted in a sj.nilar ful intii.n of the gra.s that caiis.-s it v. J . , tht. Inhsll (;wvvrnm,nt ba ocl inVIIi otV merev oSJSiTAi it "ll SW""'t ,l WM 7f T'" 7 fa5hion- ia,nomI dlM Ini-wl wilh ,jl !V " ' TTK ? Ur V1 ge the n.piisite mstru.-tums in order w 1 for,, irom! , that Piiii IX . I'1"1"3, 'T' ." V'1 that , u p,ace4l between the two stones. A flat the mih m-imU d.iwn for it, one fVeiiliar ,.xtoIls,xe explorations shall at once well for our good and that litis IX., Mra ankl. died, although everything ffIf... ir ..,- , " u ,i.. f,.r .... -hade, of the breams ulu.se imth we' h 11 .! , L .. ,.r..,H.r manner ri.r 1 11. nf-rf 1. v 1111:11. lit A.111.. iickw !...i.a i .!.. 1 ,... 1.,.,. !...;.. . - i... : 1. - 1 .1 . .1 .i. .;..rw who no longer indulges in earthly 11111- , was ,1(jne for hw th.lt wr friems or at-, c:lt.h tliamond The eeinent is then f"11m. ' - laws that guided its tinv '?. . T' " ' -, of S imntuii. . not he c-omes among the Smx. memo?vnoi he" 1 5 ThC ! d and "t po" tio n o the . ! " '1- from all part, of the earth. . ' -"r of lou-anic -hes. j rather strange. ,s th. pap. wShrLnKLtvot? " ! family of Krnest Uauke of Young,- changed, and thi,1 operation is repeated through the air and beneath the soil. I ; l m. lha. .,,.,, it4 .NV.n,M. the Indians have for Ur .U-a.! I mthtmUlalJoti. town, a brother of the Girard Hanke. untilthe diamonds show the elements of till lhe flow together in their pri-ent . .'" u.p. bul to a Milking of the mourning i. long and Me.Mv. t ", " " '" attended the funeral, and while in Gi- the shape that i ultimately to be given ! """ward to the ea." We can talk j ' whi h u .t4Mi, lllt. street, prolx eMiice their summ u. mnnv h. The CommlMiIon Sjstem. rrd. took dinner there, and ate pork to tht.m. The ,rrin,lin.r and polishin- ! wlh freedom, and perhaps with eonti- , ; ; ., f MUVl.lV. earthquakes It ' their manner of rrs for th- A citizen of Iowa in a letter to the anfI '"?: Miu-ageat the brother y ; ta- to whieh lhe ?tu;. jKl 5lill to ,M. Mjh. ! deuce, of the works of nature around i ; j k ilU fur to it we owe it, parted would hok m. hV nv- i Chicago Times presents in asuccinctand , lhtw. a f:w vs after New jeeted are don.kn circular ateel hori- - There Ls no iinMery in lier pre-1 pr..ralion hi u present state The or uitehcra ft but to them it , ft, forcibTe manner some leading consider- r s- 1 1' Oiranl branch of the fam- zontaI tJtblte? ri,iving at great peed '"f v. 'r -cience has unu-tled her J U..,rt,,oii luus Wen s great that the me-aning. However, all lbnr M .... .. ".... li u.'ir fill I'limnl'iininrr i.f tri. tiiiik(-i.u i - i- . i I .. f.v ... .....I t..:.l J............. !..... ' f'v . . " ...( r-.f.. Imrt.il .ii.tito .. r. I ations winch ciemaml the repeal ol the J "'' --,...,.. .,..,-. .. , :um Coverei wiwi iiiamomi uut ami oil. "--. - "" """- "'-. , .UI,.j,,nl huildiu"? now ii. at an average ' - , . , ; ' " '" Railroad Tariff Law. and the substitu- lss f appetite, etc., and these symp- the Mones arc .f, U) hnts, handles Hut let your imagination do still .V..,,!. uf twent feet low the level of d ing awa. and s,.mlv ile? ar N .;...... i..w.,..nn.;UUw.,. ,,t... ...!.... toms have increased until Monday a lit- ...:.i, ....f, ..i.L.r mm,.. ,ir, : j,,,,., greater work. Stand where tw are .. . - .i .u.n...n ..f into the was of the white. thorough investigation throughout thelvrl,,. '...vie wm ui luijuuj similes wmen a legislative body cannot undertake. Second: "It concentrates the power of enlightened public opinion on the conduct of the railroad companies in all instances of injustice and wrong. Montgomery Blair is credited with having told this story: "Van Buren said to me in St. Louis, when I told him his son, Smith Van Buren, had been marri ed, 'I thought he had given that girl up. Well, he's ruined. She is very rich. Now he'll give up his profession of the law, where he had great ability, and become really a rich man the least use ful of human beings. Poor Smith!' " THE TRICHINA SPIRALIS. Fatal Can in Ohio from Eatin? Pork inhabited by the Inddlou Parasite. Several ease. of that most horrible dij.ea.M-. trichinoH. resulting from eating pork, have recently occurred in Girard and Yoimgstown. The trichina: are worms-, too small to be !secn by the naked eye. and which are sometime- found in a donnant state in - . the flc5jl of sw. When such llesh is eaten the worms become active in the t,(i :Vjr. seven or eight yeais of , age, die.l, her museles being lrawn int. kiiois, :us w:is me cas wnn ner iuoiner. It is over two weeks ago since Mrs. Ernest lianke began to complain of the symptoms that have led to the "two deaths at Girard. A little later the re mainder of the familv of tivv children , and the father commenced suffering in the same way. On Saturday Dr. Hawn was sent for, and, after giving the case his earnest consideration for two days, decided that the family w:is suffering with trichimc Drs. Lautermau and Matthews wen 1 to Girard last Monday, I when Hanke' s pork was examined, and, j upon consultation with the Girard doc tors, the presence of the trichina; was discovered in the bologna. The nork was ,aise .ir. naiiKc. 01 wu ;iiu. and some of it was made into bologna . 1 ,.. , 1. r- ' won m.i p.opeirv cooing 11. hen last heard from the Girard liankes, with the exception of one little boy, were getting better, and hopes arc entertained of their recovery. I !' d- ease is greatly puzzling the medical fraternity, as no cure has been discov ered. Warren (U.) Tribune. Woman's Education a Century Ago. In the last century the one prevailing idea of education for women scarcely ..- included learning at all. It meant .sim ply and emphatically the discipline which fits for society. Through more than half that period manners were the thing in question manners, and how to improve them: for clearly there was everywhere a very great falling oil" from what had been, whether iu France or England. We find Madame tie Mainte- 1 1 . t. 1 ....:. .t.i.. 1 ..j :.. ruiiTiMTi if ii!i:ii'ii. ;iuii unit nik nil, 11 in ,.. .... ... .1... f..-. ,r .. z .... .1 r. : . ' non (in 1707) confiding to her friend. ! There is an element iu a person's na- ' certain part of Asia which is formed 1 M'e,"'I u uu' ,u"Ml w, ,l t'iderty. not the Frinccsse des Ursins, in vcr plain ' ture that exerts a powerful swav over M,y the falling of water, drop by drop, n'.feh shak.ng it into rum but wrap language, her feelings on this point: "I J his life and happiness. Some individu- from Hie red-veined ide of a hill. Year I !M"f ,l '" ;'l". .:u"' ,uf;1 ml "" ,'",.,,'t" confess t vou that the females ol the . als at the least obstacle give up and sit after ear the water trickles down till 1 ' - :i" ,u l","'liW f,r"x centuries. present day are to mo insupportabh their ridiculous ami immodest dres' their snuff1, wine, gluttony, coarseness, and indolence arc all so opposite to my taste, that it is natural for me to dislike them." The Sprrtatnr. at a date two or three years later, remarks upon the same characteristics, anil dreads the conclusion of the war for the influence peace may have upon English ladies. "The whole discourse and behavior,"' he writes of the French, "is to make the sex morn fantastical, or, a.s they are pleased to term it, more 'awakened, than is convenient either with virtue or discretion. To speak loud iu public as semblies, to let every one hear you talk of things that should only be mentioned in private or in a whisper, are looked upon as parts of a refined education. At the same time, a blush is unfashion able, and silence more ill-bred than anything that can be spoken." Under this teaching he records the behavior of a tine lady, newly returned from France, at the performance of "Macbeth," who, before the raising of the curtail, breaks out in a loud soliloquy, "When will the dear witches enter?" and before the play was half through has formed a lit tle audience for herself. "This pretty childishness," he says, "is not to be at tained in perfection bv ladies who do not travel for their improvement," to add, as it were, point to their ignorance; in imitation of those ladies of "the court of France who thought it ill-breeding to pronounce a hard word right for which reason they took frequent occa sion to use hard words that they might murder them. This authority further adds: "That a lady of some quality at court having accidentally made use of a hard word iu a proper place, and pro nounced it right, the whole assembly was out of countenance for her." lilaclnrooirs Magazine. How Indians Trade. The Manitoba correspondent of the New York Evening Post writes: "Some times, however, the trade does not go on so smoothly. When the stock of pemmican and "robes is small the Indi ans object to seeing their pile go for a little parcel of tea and sugar. The weighing-balance and steelyard aru their especial object of dislike". Failing to comprehend the nature of those ma chines, or how a small quantity of one article may equal a large quantity of another, they propound conundrums like this: 'For why you put on one side tea or sugar, and on the other side a little bit of iron? We don't know what medicine that is; but, look here, put on one side of that thing that swings a bag of pemmican, and put on the oth er side blankets and tea and sugar, and then, when the two sides stop swinging. 3011 take the pemmican and we will take the blankets and tea: that will be fair, for one side will be as big as the other.1 This very luminous idea elicits uni versal satisfaction all round. Every Indian of them all grunts his unquali fied approval, until the trader quietly observes: 'Well, let it be as vou saw ill make the balance swing level between the pemmican and the blank- ' ets, but we will carry out the idea still further. You will put your beaver and I skins on one "side, I will put , marten skins on one side, I will put against them on the other my blankets, and my gun and ball and powder; then when both sides are level you will take the ball and powder and blankets, and I will take the marten and the rest of the fine fursr This unique proposition suddenly illumines the mind of the in genious Indian on the question of weighing-balances and steelyards, and after some deliberation it is firmly resolved to abide by the old plan of letting the white trader decide the weight himself in his own way; for it is clear that the ' steelyard is a very great medicine which no brave nian can understand. and whicn can only be. manipulated by a white meaieine-man (.OM'ERNI.W MA.MO.YJIS. . ' IIom TU-y are C'wl Tlit-ir Kelu- li vnluf- Imititfion toM-. , Tt... ,.,.,.,.. Us..dh, cutting diamonds :s ..x. i1!ri. :,..r,.,t,n tr ..... ti know. .1" , .1 ' hardest u7trin,.,. . .1.,. , Wliri(i :, th-.4 .t4iril.. ..... .,.. nr...Ilf..,i --,--. mv -.-.-,----., . -,- J., vx . ..1 - and expensive, besides requiring great skill on the part of the workman, who can greatly increase the value of the atone by skillful cuttimr. Diamonds Diamond, . when cut ailed either the shane of .1 oriiiiaui or mui 01 a "rose. 1 ne brilliant has a flat urface at the top. called the "table:" from this the facets .slope outward till the reach the "gir dle," or point of greatest width of the stone; from there they decrease, form ing an inverted pramid terminated In a .small facet. Hose diamonds are made out of thinner Moiies. and often chips from large diamonds, and are cut in a pyramidal suape, the ba.se of which is in the setting. Almost microscopic roses are used for ornament 111 gold ..t.:ii: ." .1... ..t .. , mm work, and when set quite eloe togeth- , ,.,. f(,nn H .....JH,,,,,;. Diamonds and f ,.,...:,.... , .....1.1 .,. .....;. ,1., . ,,;, ,,,.j ,,,,. (.;i...lt T,u. v:ihu. )f (n:imo.i, 5m.reases with the si.e more t ..-' 1 '..'(-- !.'' - 4i.i -i;im 111 1.1 irill. "... . . C . j th:in ;L ,,m.s w5lh tlu. Wl.iirhl ,at ., 1 lwo.c:ir:it tOMt. is worth four times as ,nU(.h a.s a one-carat stone. Diamonds I . V:tIu:Ll)U when unite mire white, but pink, black, and dark ellow diamonds are often of great value. Im itation stones iu glass have been made with more or less success, at different ! times, iu different countries,, but thev 1 J - ...... .(.. ... ....... ... ..... -.? .f ..r.i- r" . ..... ... . ....1....7 a . .. . . . ........... ... can in very tew ui.staiices nass tor rea ahaseo colored g ass: ,. Ml phiri. ,. one of the stone, , hat , ,..t s,,,,,,- fulh .nutated ... U... wau liners lUlZ"r- Courage. down in despondency -fold their hands , ., . ,- ... .1 mac-span; wnue oiners in tne sainecir- cumstaiices, seem to rejoice in overflow ing dilbciilties. nncLpass ahead with re- .,..' . , ' i ,1... .,. 1 flli 1; - ,. ., gems. I he most dangerous counter- :in the wonderful discoveries, in all the . ? . .1 n 1 1 ,1 1 rr-..,..i ;..,-....;. .. :. 11 .1 1 , feits are those ca ci doubes, w hem a g'aml him Mitions, in all the reach of ., . .. f . . . ' ,. , r.r...r.-. 1 f..:-.. 1 -j ' thin coating of rea stone is applied to progies. ii:is one fairy been seen.-' . r-. l l :..!,- . , . , , . . .1 II 11 11 were a pari 01 tin; nature: one ciimi win ne irigmcneii at a smidow, while another never sees anything to alarm it, and is as fearless in the dark as iu the sunshine. (. "011 rage saves one many sad days and gloomy hours. A courageous heart is never borrowing trouble looking for trials that may come. If they do come they are met bravely. "As long a a person keeps his courage up there is hope," said a phy.ician, speaking of one of his patients who was hovering between life and death. "I never give up a sick person who thinks he is going to get well: and there is not much use to try to save one who has no courage to live or try to get well." there was a great dual of wisdom in remark: but sometime. it requires re courage to live than it takes to of trials and afflictions, and keep the skeleton of sorrow hid from mortal ight, is far better than to clasp the grief to the brctist and lie down in de: pair. Always remember that "unto each life some rain must fall." Fruit frovin;j in .brnsku. A corrciM)ndent of the Omaha Htrnhl, in re- 1 porting the proceedings of the Fanner.-' Insti tute recently held at Lincoln, say: ine subject or truit crownig ha.stR.eii under ' Slll 1 Raymond, of Nebraska Citv. have been pre- sented on the subjeet, the readinc of each pa- I The subject of fruit crowing ha. been under Icr oemg 101 owed hv a spirited dIcnalon em- CpVato0,thS STheionowinz variety of fruit seem to have a preference amonc our Ne- I 1- - 1 - braska pdmologists LIST OF SEVEN VARIETIES OF APPLES. Summer Red June, Cooper's Early White, ran .Maiden's Bluli, ranieu.-e. Winter Rawles' Jannette, Winesap, j. ' Davis. J If additional variety is required, add m sum-f mer, Red Astrachan: to fall, Rambo: and to the winter varieties. White Pearmain, Domine ana laiman 6 sweeting. FOB HARDV PE1K-. the following list is given : Bartlett, Belle Lucrative, Howell. Iiwrenre, Doyenne d'Ete, Duchess d'Angouleme, Seek el, Flemish Beautv and Tyson. Cherries Earlvand Late Richmond. Plums Gaues," Wild Gov-e, Lombard. .Mi nor. Peaches Seedlings. Grajed Coucord. Delaware, Hartford Pro lific ' A Disconraffed Mother Many a discouraged mother folds her tired hands at night, and feel. as if she iiau. aiier ait. aone uoiuiug, :iuuougn she has not spent an idle moment since she arose 12 it nnf hinrrtiMit vmtr riiIri ' less little children have had some one to come to with all their childish griefs ' c- ik uuiuui" mm -. iitiir- avil iavcP Tc ! rdt liintr li - Knc I business, because your graceful hand I L.irrV" ?JZr?"X: ..if ii m w uu kU -iT iru mwr n r m u i- nirin . you hav( and refine: mother. when There than this is name. nuw-eu ueierminaiioii ami strength. i mm o iieanniui is 11 purity that hae been brought to the notice of the This difference is natural in a grout de- I the land about is bright with veVdure. Academy of Sciences, Paris, b M. Mrig grce. One sees courage or cowardice I Now. I have heard, whether sleeping , net A plate of thin sheet iron having developed in children at a very early 1 or waking I will not say. that in that , a black l"ad pencil pressing !ighth 011 age. Perhaps education has to do witji j mountain stands the prison of the fair- the centre is connected bv wire with it in some measure, but still it seems as ; ic.s, where iu darkness ami bondage 1 the two end of the bobbin wire of a bell die. Many persons have fought with I who .still believe that the stars are jew- ive than the machines with constant OI,r'm'rdiee on that held trials, crosses, and tribulations, and j el on God. hand almost low enough . current. A candle 0 12 im-trs long' The squaws only seem to hntet come off conquerors at lat. who would to reach who doe not know that the j will burn IV) minutes, giving a light i .',ro"' H" frenzied with grief a- t- mn have gladly sunk into their grave. in J moon goes on its way with the proph- equal to LW) normal candles, and cost j t',;',, their person by cutting thel. preference to facing the world and keep- ! 'ts silver veil about it. hiding desola- r, centimes. o that a li"ht of KM) can- ' w'1'' 'n '"'. '"iitting oir linger-., ear t ,1- . ... , .. ..T.?. I . .1 f -. . .It . Mr - -. it....u 1.... ....!:.. .1... . . !. niir on a ooui irom. 10 make tne besr uon aim ueam w no .sun watches uie ceus rams nn hour !.... 1.... ti. ..!" . ""i. hi iois nan- wiai 1 err wmi'tf u.Y"- o- .ut, r .... . - .-.-...-- .. ..-.- y. ..- , .n,.... w M- k,lWi wiafc prmiaoeni a ica-st o-sually ends the ceremonv a done your best to brighten 1 pers style the Queen of the Gypsies, her , gases, and perhaps vapors, which are when th.e -. .. .t. . : ' Oh, wean" and faithful I authority being recognized by all the the great agents in transmitting vo!en. ' the w,,.; t ;u .--.J. ., f.i. ..t you little know your power I tribes in the United Suites and Canada. '. ic energy, have plavcW ome nartin th ' h;m ,,.,! , u .r..L. , . 7r V you saw "I have done nothing." died in Vicksburg, Miss., a few days formation of meteorites: and although . nnr ,;-,. ni ...in u:. .i. i . . V" f is a book in which a fairer record i ago. Her remains have iKen taken to we mav never have the iosibilirr of ' fw.i;n ,;. i..l .: i . , . , . written over agahiit vour ! Dayton, 0., where her "family own- obtaining direct evidence of the vol," -in. I lr. ,. ;- . : .u. -.' ..,',. MXETIII5(' LOST. Wc have lost something V know that this nineteenth century ha inherit ed great themes It is heir to the knowl edge and experience of the past ; it fold.- about it.-H.df all the glorv of the present, and can even pierce Uw future ' with the glance of keenl uronhecv Yet. notwith-tamlinjr .nil tlii. it ha." ht . - omethinir "xjniethiiij; wry tteatittfiil while it tael. but h.t .niif-Jil .is eimpletely a- the e!or fnm .in cicainc Av t":tn vou gne what it ! ' Kre vour imagination for a littb while, ami iiiiong Mowers ami grass ami iniagtn- :ir moonlight, but with the influence ot the l:t-st two centuries uept aside, " ' fiianj ." ' onange is mere aroun.t us- irom . bosm of flower and heart of tree t diding down tin . Mauling m,H,nheai,,s and dancing on spires of grass, eomt multitudes ot fairv crratures no bigger ttiau oiir 1 lutnb. Some brighter than the breast of the Southern humming. bird; some in clothing spun of .shining V"t''W'. .uiur llll llll laC'O ....Kii..i.. . . ii. :-... r .. .. ... is ex quisite as the face of the one you loe when she looks close into your ees ami sees herself mirrored therein, oth ers with faces full of eltin mischief and little ugliness. The music of their mingled laughter is not louder than the brook". The float 011 wings more delicate than tho.se of the dragon fly. The rustle of the leaves is hut the echo of their chatter, and the hue of the glorious flowers the reflection of their j varied beautv Dear me! We know not at all whv the grass grows green, or why the breams flow on. in place of standing ! "till! Knowledge of .scientific laws lias flown from tongue and brain, and we watch iu superstitious fear and pleas ure the monuments of the wondrous little creatures ! ..... - - s . .,... I !...!- .... .. 1 "" wnai nas mis ceiuurv usf I ---- - . IMI .III 11IL1I11IIII' iru.ii.a ..---- j .. " ' " "" '",, w ,,.,, ,. 1 ,,, t in :i higher and , I o c es of r wonderful works ,. and wl id, was , ; "d w j. x. W of he da.N.and 1Ir f , Munfredo,a. Then ! j ! ' lrac ' " frward old Sipunium wa deserted and Vou have read of that spring in a the pond below becomes indeed a foun- .. . ,- , . . . MM . I;im " omi. 1 Me water is so clear 1 . . mat ai iiigm me siars seem sinning Up- ward from it in place of reaching down t i.t r 1 . ..... . i"'. uve ami weep. 1 heir tears creep om imo me ngin. causing beauty to pring up for an ungrateful world that hears not nor cares to hear the sighs of their captiviu. Oh! shame on t?ie Gi- ant who has conquered and banished them! He has used the lightning to , the circuit and the intensity of the p,.r write his signature: he almost knock. manent current. Thus attractions and out the staiv in heaven with his lofty head; his hor.ses of steam bear him round the earth and iu every land he has set his standard. .Justly is he call ed Reality, for he has entered into the holiest plans of'the ideal world to .seal tor their beauties to the wind. However, the day of freedom will further improved before it can come in come for the fairies: and what is more. 1 to general use. Mr Tebipaleff aav.s a child shall be their deliverer. Hut it that iu order to give the best result. that .must be a child who has not yet learn- ' ed that water is composed ofgases.and J that flesh is grass ami grass is flesh - morning and evening for ships to come frm Spain: and know that under the i end ol the rainbow lie buried a pot of ' iritli! : ..(.ilil lli-it c- - v "Shall lean her er In many a secret plaee. And teaut born of munnuriiiir-ouml Shall pa.s hi to her fnce."' A child to whose childhood novels are , unKnown. ami wiioe poet ami prophet , , . . is Hans Anderson. Mich a child shall hreak the spell and a-iin shall field . and ine.ilo.prinp and brook be mu- . steal and lively with the revels of the elves. How I should like to be that ehild: what will not the greatful fairie .1- r i She will not have to crv over difficult ' nroblems and drv lesson. Fairie. will - I ,r ntr h.r uv.m rnn. fni ..f,.. ...; ,'"" ' !;' SIIUIIIU W Utllnt lfirOU"Il ?- . ! ""." r " ..f .....v. ... i. j wmen. ieons well learned will np I easily from her tongue. No need to iiv k sigh in vain for prettv thing: for the ticptns ot ocean and earth, the .ecret wealth of nature hall be roblxd by mvriads of elves for her. Whatever is most beautiful and desirable he shall hfive. Vh-,t iiii,n..o ,r.f.r.,r ti,.. ti..w- " ciiii ers will there be! and the"trees and won,vn .anxious to emulate, were to killf-d in battle, no matter how mm U i grottoes so Ion" deserted will be full of ""' th:ir wa" ;tnd- ,,ke 'th. follow hi, bxiy muy mutilated, grn, tbr Iife and merriment. Oh! it will all be their mate , the midnight candle of Inot direct and straight trail, through i verv nice -but the child must tirt be Ie;irn"U,'- th 'most pleasant country, to that fe- fouiid.-.V. U. ricnyunc. TI,! 'J & , ZiT'u "?'"'. Kh- reulenee. J .T1,,a ls.a :SIli,J'"Hl whu-h ha, long been If an Imhan fail hi a swoon thev cab i d-r.11. ' nuneralogLsts. who are that dith. and those who hav'w r Dean Stanley .ay that when he and mun ""'"led on that question. Prof. ' mained that wav for some tirni on b (Madstone were at -chool together near I -"chennak. after prolonged stud-., ha ing restored udl of the wonderful 'no Liverpool, thev were loth noted for come to lhe conclu-iion that the .vtive through the happy huntin" round their dullness at figure. The Dean ;,J-Tnt ,n the F,rf' i- volcanic. He , telling of the tees vt-HS iVttYvraai adds that he never improved, but that , I"--- t that the bolide which fall to i triles. of abunilenns of -ame -in fact. r?i...i.-..n t.. i ...... ...... .. .i... l,.. . the earth an? .imnil.nr in ft.mt' tl. ik.. I .;:.. .. ...'. uiei.iic ii.l iminiK; hiic ui iuu utvsi . mathematicians in Kurope A people never fairlv begins to pros- J-., A . ...- t --.?. -.,r . jTr "" I1K51 isireaiungon iw nee. fhe growing want of roomis one of the -.1. t t uurn oi ui v ujjjiioij. i xpuiaiion is growing. mwle daily apprehtauire w ..:,.i-c...i.. u .t... v i -i :. t i w b is ! i i ' w X tf Alv v tf I Jrik.k UJULU ICdi CIWIC. DIM-OTERT F ANOTHER POMPEII. n. ,.nt HtT or SIPti FmI tho violent gase,us npb't.:.. Th lBHrVijx jUt-Vi. .olar surface, the -tHm of : Vcorrestndentot tXielnu-m I.- trial toh.u.. ... .ip. :.-... ..lor-mV interest h -niptive phenonien-x of which th writes -v '" , ,, .. . , " ,..,i -m..n- the trcn:vOJ'n:-- craters ten m! nisW,rv. irn.j ..f Soiithprn Ital b rrwrw " ; ." It.-vU b report- of alatere- ' ..,1 -W,..lisverv This w noliunj ..... -. marke . - . fi. !o than the lt'ntmini"ni . . vr rmieu The scene in the neigh-U.rh.-H of !aiifrr.I.maon the Adn--vltc inkvU alnnit 1H mile northwest of Ilnnshsu in the low-hmg gn-und ..Wl. .tr-t.-be- fnm the ll l '"""' ., ....... ,.Si,,.tt Minfredonia is , . .T rt.ni:im, f ancient Siputi- j (.victlv as Dr Sehliemann found exactly a Dr j , fiiu 'm,.r;,oost.,l oVt.r the et ex ksimI over the lstniL' remains ol aiiotner f another at llis-nrim. .lum W:1, orign.al!v a ;r,.rk ml... in of unknown date. Tradition, as in th.. .!! of iimiiv other ancient cities of : , ;,cf ,...t,., ., !,,,. , J.,, ' ' ,t wa, oM when the Itoman r ., th:l. rounlrv Hltl.r the see- . .--- ---s -. .-.. t ond Funic war. It was then, probabh its name took the form b which it is , historically known The original name 1 wasMpus'or Sipoiis, gieu to it most ' likely, from the cuttie-!ih ('i0 cast , up on the in ighlMrmg shore. From ' this the Komaiis formed Mpiintum. in the same wa nsTareiitum. Ilydruntum, and others. It wii- neer ery tlourish- , ing; tud 1. Apulia necr recorered the , awful deMtstatioii of the Funic war. Still it managed to preserve its existence, while other ancient cities were disap pearing so thorough that no tradition lingers even of their site. Hut by the middle of the thirteenth century, we are told, it was considered verv un healthy on account of its .sunken posi tion and the mar.hcs bv whieh it was I surrounded; the e fleet, doubtless, of the depression of the ground which had o 1 .1 1.. ...t.i: 1. ...1 ... j.. --. i... iicen already estaiiiisiieii o, in i.ii. .. ,, , ,, - ,,, ,. . ,. .. . Manfred, the son of the hmpcror r reiier- . ,. .. ' ... . .. , ,, ... 'k II . then King of Southern Italv. , , ' . ,. . ,. , . -. transferred the tioiiulat ion to a new So. in U'.M. handed over to the earthquakes, which -eeui to have dealt with it tenderly, not TIIK WOKI.II OF SCIKXCK. 1 'I'll-'IVI-lione. Some modification of the teleohone ' telephone. Instead of tin magnetic bar. one ol son iron is used Iu the circuit a battery of two Iaelanche ele ments is placed, ami the plate vibrated by the voice causes vibrations iu the black lead, and so in the resistance of non-attractions are produced in the electro-magnet of the receiving end. ! and the sound of the voice j. made aud ible. I 'I'lif I'lfM-lrlf 4'untllf. t Mr. .Jahloehkoff's electriccandle.nl I though verv ingenious, must ie still kind of candle requires magnetie-elee- trie machine with a changeable cur- rent, and they are much imre expert- L-i...i ..r 11.. . expense of working the machine. The cost of lighting the I'alaee d'lndmtrie ran by .JabbH-hkoff's candles would , be about G0 1.000 francs instead f ,V ! 0K). the cot of the ordinary regulator arrangement for the .same purpose. MulflMvisionol Knonlrdgr. The subdivision of knowledge into minute department i condemned bv Ir. Kichanlson as destructive to vital !'IiriTV .,l.f fniihln .-... . 1. I . t -v -.' -; ienKin. ,-ucn j '"-"-'j'' iom of intellectual growth a- was " "' a',,,P',an Kevnold-. ; , ; S.Jl. wiMl. . !M",",.,l,,t un'!.,,r .-jn-H..it yste, of eX- c'","?nt' peciali7.ation. Acorns, if corn- presed in narrow tulw. can never on- mit'e nam onir. ii -it -.- .... r.. l.... . I c? '. the early subj-tior, of ' J,"",', -"tuny. All children under 7 ' V St . .. .K..kaT.i .. 1. .1 . ,,,. . . ,, , . j , , - .. play and not through formal les,oris In more mature year overwork and unhealthy competition have resulted in loss of mernory. sleeplessness, ami no exhaustion which leads almost to delir ious wandering. He said: "The -Vs- tem was doing ullicient evil to men itf "ul w " wouiu napien to the world if have no concentnc structure, even in - " . .: ....... iiiirow. iiKifcinvir external crut h "U.h; "Te : lentK- f ' amI that they are eiidentJy fra!rmentar-- . ,s -it .- . f - -- ., t , t .- Kxam.nation of the crut hu shown that, dunng the later stages of th flight di- thls oLracter. Pruf. T:hermak h, , lTJ " ,r.:s - ."vr "-"nnkioaraSwietreebythnwk. iiiui - ri trw r k n m. n j- w w w a. . ic acuvity which is supposed to have I hurled the mysterious rni.ssof ,. and metal into spire, yet s.n h pr - rwr. - stipjvrt to anv the.rv a-"imn meteinte owe their lormin n . canto agency AHOKIGI.VCr oRsr:yf us. VrrMalr l..ss In lh- Iw-nth r it !! iiiitc - i. pnrtlmm RriU King f..r ti Joarirr lo tttr llitp lMntiti 4irmmd. Ni;v Ki'ii Cum : .rNn. k January .I"1 I hav.. ite. mi stationed anions the S.i In -. gien a great ileal of attention t. mode of Intng. habit.. mt.m and have found trnt many thf withstanding my hg ftprr-rji the plain. I wa.s t.nJr iuxot !- ami. a.s i nave n oxtoi ism i prove interesting to tb larjfrr j tf tur reader. I will jri sketches Amung :b mn v that flsrt strike the w kitr man I'he ancient ritedilferesl afnai according to the prominence of li . dividual, his character a a warr. wishes tif his relativs. the wm y opportunity. vW . et th N' Sloil and t'liceunes stt n.lh-r the ancient rites, as well as ihni.-t-Jsmii after death, either the m. next da. the friend ami rvluii... tleceased all gather at lu loUfr. i by their sad and dirge hke waiim terspersed with harp. sHsirt cri. sole the afllicted kinsfolk, ent'ti t more pain than the other thow g- grief. Then such relic ns ntw en, Im'.'uI work, ponn. et- . arr . awa by tb'cased's r.-lnttv. mt ! those who cry boniest tind bngMt all get something, the exhibit. conducted with a great dr.il of When ponies are killed, tht lected which had endeared them. to the deceased, ami 110 matter how f or how well trained the are. thv the spirit. In some eiie the pon saddled and briilled, saddle-lmt ' ed with meat, dried berrie. anl t! . ets and led i a lariat to th !-' jut a the owner is ivlnml U ! this life. The lariat i plaeel in '. hand of the dmg perH and . pony shot The head and Vnil. af' wanl being cut off. are taken to burial In most mntanec the p.: are killed at the grave. The remains aie carried .n a tf.n t the pin. lected. generalh ., body ,!, the xillo followiag. ex ! thos'e whose dul. .11 no, ,,,. to g. and when ,t , a Noiiig g.rl . young man. men oniv uie toting . or 011ng men of the h.tud attend ' funeral, other than the ti"r.-t fetal. nt the dccenrd The usual euUn. obi limes, and with h still cii to -Is is to plaee the remains on pib l!i' ' to the .stout limbs of u tree, or in " nhscuru of a tree, a scaffolding i nn of poles, and the ImmIv. wrapped kin and robes, laid on and (iriuIvS-' ed to this. A gun. and in its nbsri. .. bow ami quiver of arrows, pij lo co, and bag. war costume, etr . wrapped up with the body The p- ' is killed that thespiril may ride u Jiappy hunting ground, and the '! articles are plae.-d with the bolv 1 may the necessaries of Indian life . his journey to that beautiful pine. In some instances the bodx i div ' on a scaffolding and left in a b-per . ' this only on rare occasion and for s.fi great man or extraordinary frai ' bravery To tn recollection I u- heard of but one. and that wan nt I.it Hig Horn. There was no senirolditi but there were ne vera! warriors in . their war-costume, and three win, men, .showing that the avag. :ppr- at-d bravery even in their enemi. What a monument to those thr i known was that. Surely, if the nnf.i tored savage could give them the kuh est honor for braverv that the? wr- M"""r "r oraverv mat ti c;I)'l',,' ' showing, thecrouke I n,"v,r attempt to throw the un rs skui! poWittor I 0rrl,r,, where in former times that . ! "f. fr'',ll,,'nt "iirri-nee. Tli- icnr r. . nil?r' ,,1(,w lvir grief by cutting ihir hair short, using no paint. Ixit pnnV ling dirt on their heads, the men wrr ing nothing but the breech out f-.r some week", and in some intnn--giving away nearly every thing tUv y ,,"l"; even KornetirucH their lodge' When a chief dies or is killed, n. many case not oniv hi own villi,.. . into mourning but many other camp-. . - . . r- "nies are hot. and blankets. rh' .ml many other valuable nrtie.es hm a ay. l ' extraordinary bravery -Im.wii r orne lights bv the rien.!i ,,'t a vmrrt.Tr . . wnn tin iu'n .. , -... .i. . i-k fnm the enemy. U due v, a de.r gve proper burial and gain the boa".- IOIM1 B.:M.L. accrues to a warnor who rik hi life to reM'ue the .lead bodv of hi friend, or carry a wounded man from oiT the liebl. This chivalrous v,tulirt ha been attribut;d by -auw in prirT-at scalping, on the suiitKsition r l:m seai pet he could not enter thi happr hunting ground i i ins i a gro-n bih Thev Vdieve a mnn ik'. however. liio a ininuie llvntitinn i.f .vr- thing thev hae rn. 1 heV -em to thiol- rl...r ,i...... - lw,inK to ,h country-. The strIfrht. - t n.i . : :' ..:.. .i - . ...-.,- m ,j- V...T-" (i?--...-...'.. m a. H iVj n amors fLiii( in battle; the ,,-romi all other tne except suicide, who iriv-l t... ,.;. roclci nrickl, JS? . er PJ" '?" rn.nr . after. Chicago Tin ncs. P i i t I 1 9 i