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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1881)
. I fcasgia w-rrrM THE BED CLOUD CHIEF. M. L. THOMAS, Publisher. RED CLOUD, ITCBKASKA. A CHARACTER SKETCH. The mulo sccmtsl pensive, cron pad, As if by conscience pricked; lint, when they came to share his woes, Herabed objectiuas kicked. The cnt came up to sympathize, With mew mi) gentle purr: Alas J sbojrot within his reach. When tiddlcstrinsa and furl The dojr, in pity, ncarcd him to Alleviate his care; lie tried to pass around him onco, JJut Miuso&e-mcutaud bulrl And John, the honest farmer-boy, Who had the beast In chance, Tried recklessly to harness him His funeral was large. O trifllnsr were the causes which Hlslle.xilo legs unfurled: And many were the quadrupeds That sousht another world. Ho never did a decent thine; He wasn't worth a ducat; He kicked and kicked until ho died. And tncu he kicked tho bucket. AT. Y. Sun. A LAUGHING FAMILY. The Htranxe Maliulv Which Afflict a Fami ly Alous the Delaware Frulllea. Effort to Ntay I'erlodlc I.uughter Talcs Told by the Neighbors. Straight across tho Delaware from here, and back among the hills which run parallel -with tho river for many miles, lives a family concerning whom the strangest stories are tojd. The fa ther and sons are farmers, and all live in a large, substantial house, a few vards from the road to Doylestown. They arc all chronic laughers, having an affection of tho muscles of the mouth and throat which compels them to give vent to apparent merriment at stated intervals. The malady lirst appeared in the father about ten years ago. He was usually a very quiet man, enjoying fun, but manifesting his enjoyment "without much noise. lie was seated at the dinner table one day in the spring of the year, eating steadily and not en gaging in any of the conversation which the other members of the family were carrying on. Suddenly, without any cause, ho burst into a loud lit of laugh ter so extremely different from his ac customed laugh that all were attracted by it at once. When asked what was the reason for his sudden outburst he made no reply, but continued his merri ment. Some of the boys thought he had hysterics and pounded him on the Lack, but it did no good. After a few moments ho made motions for pencil and paper and wrote that he was unable lo control his risiblcs and asked them to send for a doctor. THE N.VTUKE OF THE MALADY. The rural physician came, but could give no remedy that stopped the laugh ter. I'eal after peal of what sounded like the heartiest kind of fun came from him, and nothing would avail to prevent it- Tho doctor linally came to the conclusion that he was tho vic tim of a nervous attack, and, leaving a nervine, departed. The father con tinued laughinir until about sundown, when ho suddenly stopped and fell on the lloor, completely prostrated. He soon grew better, however, ate a hearty supper and spent tho evening much as usual. No signs of a return of the odd trouble appearing, ho went to bed and was soon fast asleep. Along about two o'clock in the morning, however, his wife was awakened by his laughter, and the same symptoms manifested them holves as on tho afternoon previous. Ho kept it up until seven o'clock, laugh ing loud and strong. At seven o'clock the noise suddenly ceased and did not return again until dinner timo. Thus it continued, re curring each day .shortly after noon and in the night about two o'clock, and has over since. As tho weeks passed he grew so accustonicd to the disease that lie was caused very little inconven ience by it. He did not got tired out, as at lirst, and soon was able to go about his work sowing seed and plain ing corn, digging vegetables and wa tering cattle while laughing immoder ately. Ho could not talk while under one of the spells, but carried a slate and pencil around with him, after the fashion of a deaf and dumb person. THE LAUGHTER Sl'KEADS. The trouble was very regular in its coming and going and only occasional ly broke fortii at unlooked-for seasons. Unco the old man was taken in church, just when the minister was exhorting, this hearers in the most solemn strains and spoiled the effect of the discourse, besides disturbing the equilibrium of the clergyman. Another time he was found by one of his neighbors along the road, lying beneath a bag of flour, laughing at a terrific rate. He has beeu taken while driving homo from tho mill and the suddenness of the sounds frightened the horse, causing it to run away and dump the man and part of his load out in the road. For eighteen mouths the father wastheonlv one of tho household atllicted with the malady. Several of them had com plained from time to time of an incli nation to join the father in the laugh, but none of them did so until nearly two years after he was taken, when Susie, the youngest child, suddenly burst into a similar lit during one of her father's nuacKS. rom that timo on she has laughed at about tho samH limir imr ! .., -.. ... iuuieruocs. vine nv nnn tho nnvi nmrr w W. j members fell victims to tho strano-n complaint, until three years ago there was mil one lelt tree, and that was . Charles, the oldest son. His lono- ex- I emption led him to believe ho would i escape the contagion. .But he was mis. taken, and it is said ho had his first at-1 turn to '"s 1S tue place, eh? Well, tack while petitioning for the hand of a fo ader "P an( tMeu t:lke ie tram Harrisburg damseL So frightened was Kor hmc-" Detroit Free Press. the lady by the queer behavior of her . . ... " V TT, suitor that sho ran from the room, and A Most in5"lar Accident. lio3u?nSS?iiS;pn,pir-expU,?ll"l An accidnt occurred Testerdav SbTisono K& 5 dK re ouml ,S?thIhKhtmC Fort-vChPloa Liars' J- Solomon, a SroSib It rJ ?6 houserclolhier doing business- at No. 623 SSoTtJnt nonoS Iho ? ?er ' FrankIin avcn and who' b-v thewavf strange mat none ot the neighbors? a rather siid and sober bnsino min should have caught the infection but Jfr iiT crjiiaamis oocro usmess, man such is the case, although maS ' df 'them j lfn?Ie t S f ?bUt i0mt cIockJ Mingle con8tanfewlthTSSl7.ra stantly with the family. Everything possible has been don to 1 iuiuu to STOriT. alleviate or remove the malady, bnt iTf -"- 4i.. :rr v --; . without nercentiblo effee.iL ?V eminent ohvsicians frnm tl,o iZ Z physicians from the leadino- .u;n i.oi. ,.;.;..) . . :" j "'"" ities have visited the home and grown ,i" JVT- -.u T. xceedingly interested in JlSZSlJS, ti,o.. n"xi-, .u i: c z. , . familr tn m tn thn oifP a.uLl . i aanrJcdvfconslant Stoe'nT SuJ ! they steadily refuse to do. Their peculiar trouble, so noticeable and odd , has made them verv sensitive! and they will not travel where they will be suo'- jected to public scrutiny and remark Thov om U. nl,n.h nr H. -ITT I ,.;n- i v j :. j . . i ... uiusu u, auu auena social fro 1ij-lIi. . . 11 At -"TT T...nei??.-' smnnnTTin: fJHY. ' JZE aradfusof afSw miles are so ac h w T08" I that they never j tomed to the thine mind it or mention it. us. " "?"" . tam- VjUUSCUUCULIV .' diate vicinity, and the physicians who have attended them, are cognizant of the circumstances. People passing the house, especially in the summer time, have been filled with curiosity by what they saw and heard, and have carried accounts to distant places. These re ports are very vague, for the passers by have no definite idea of the matter. T onl-v kuew tbat lt lookei1 remark ably strange to see a father and his sons ut in a field plowing and sowing maav rous apart, yet each one laughing as though he had heard the best iofe in me world. Curious stories are told of tho travelers who went that way. Sevi eral years ago two young ir.cn came from Doylestown to attend a party at Erwinna, a summer resort on the Penn sylvania side, a few miles below here. It was a warm night and they did not start back until late. They drove past the house of the laughing family soon after the regular attack had begun. Tho windows were all open, and every sound could bo clearly heard. As tho young men approached they hoard tho most unearthly noise their ears had ever received. It seemed like a perfect pandemonium, and they felt sure they must have struck the entrance to the lower regions. Tho horse took fright and nearly run away with them. Com ing to the conclusion that, at the least, the place was haunted, they hurried home, and the next morning spread tho news. Parties were formed to investi gate the matter, but none of them solved the subject until informed by a man in the village near at hand as to the nature of the case. They were urged to remain reticent about the mat ter, and have done so. THEIR PRESENT CONDITION. Tho years of incessant laughter have told somewhat on the face3 of the fam ily, but not so as to be very noticeable. There are scores of lines under the eyes and above the cheeks, caused by the drawing up of the skin. Then their mouths have become wider, and they keep them closed with difficulty. The most marked result of the disease, how ever, is in tho voice. Tho entire fam ily talk in the same tone, resembling as near as anything the voice of an alto singer. Mnles and females have the same inflection and intonation. Most of them have more or less trouble with their eyes, several having become very near-sighted. The pupils have con tracted and tho entire eyeball is dimin ished in size. This is accounted for by the contraction of tho eyes while laughing and the effort required in working or reading while undergoing an attack. Very little physical annoy ance is caused the laughers. They read and write, sleep and work without any trouble. Tho only thing they seem un able to do, while attacked, is to cat. and that can be readily understood. Several grandchildren have been born, and in all but one instance they were taken, soon after birth, with stated at tacks at the same hours as their par ents. 01 course they do not laugh as the older ones do, but they crow and express all the signs of baby glee twico a day and never cry while in that state. Frenchtown (.V. J.) Cor. Philadelphia Times. A Reprcsentathc Constituent. He cave all the hackmen at tho Union Depot a stand-off, brushed the boot-blacks right and left, and shoul dered hs sixty pounds of baggage and started up Jefferson avenue in search of a tavern. Ho was a right up and down man, and ho wantodto strike a tavern where they had an old-fashioned boiled dinner. "Just como in from Lansing," ho observed, as he fell in with a pedes trian. "Did eh?" Been out to the Legis lature?" "You bet I have. I'm not a mem ber, but I made things hum out there all tho same." "Have a bill?" "Not exactly. I come down from County to'take tho kinks out of our member. He was sailing in with a high head, and if I'd waitotf ten days longer he'd have been bossing the whole State. What d'ye think?" " I dunno." "He would'nt speak tome when I first got there! Think of that! Up homo there we rated him about No. 4, and sent him down to Lansing moro because none of the rest of us could leave, and colder' n a he wanted to wedge! What cut do mo vou L1UI1IV. " Bather mean." " You bet! But I lowered his noso a bit. We'd heard how he was prancing around and putting on airs and making out that he run our county, and a -few of us got together and wrote him a let ter. It didn't seem to do auy good, and so we got together again and they sent mo down to put on the curry comb." "And you did?" Didn't I? He'd put in about a dozen bills inTecting our county, and I mashed all but two. He had laid him self out for six or seven speeches, and I mashed all but one. The first day I got there he was supporting motions and moving to amend and strike out, but I mighty soon let him understand that no such chaff passed for oratory with us. He tried to bulldoze mo at first, but when ho found that his con stituency had got after him he calmed down. He'd been foaling with tho game law and had got mixed up with a dog-tax bill, and a saw-log law, and a bill about inland fishing, and I don't know what else. I took him out be hind the State-House and says I: 'Now, boy; you squat! Your constituents de mand that you calm right down. Wo i,:.,i-9" don t want no Cicero in ours, and wo won't have it Wo sent you down here to do a little quiet work, and not to prance around and imagine you've got Patrick Henry's hat on. We are a humble people, taking kindly to log houses and johnny-cake, and wo don't a i K A Wll,t "ll worus ishes.' That's what I and long Hour told him, and ho calmed." "Did, eh?" " You bet ho did! and if we hear anyth'ng more about his rising to ox- Plam nid vottJ on tho uog-tax, or mov tho muskrat bill our :nS to recommit county won't be no place for him to re uitmuuiu vu n j)U53iljic riM! in ciuin 1"! J! l n5?H .u,n?" .r n"ural uiuuuiency caused him to fall asleen. Whcther di in his positi of his head balanced hi nn. ..!.- . . ; , -I 9"!nor ..reamin? inauceiia cnangc t i; ... .."... ., .. . - T . 1U, Psiuon, or wnei ner me weignt or nis neaa in nodding forward over- anv one ise Knows, out no was cerrainiv verv tnat ne nd fallen forwartl in his chair StaT "" ? T tunately tho hre was almost ?"!; f -d Solomon h.nS ashamed to be 1 m Sh a P0s.ltl0nr endeavored m cxtPtQ h,1"self ? cM S??LM?l8ta,lC0 - , U,e s00n fd 0 the StOVO WOS hot enough to bum his hands, and the heat becoming un- hMr.l,ln n l.io f.B 1, d,n,,.n.l fnD. v- Kraeger, his clerk. The latter was not a.lle astonished at the sight that met nfeaPProach.stov,e' but reinins Ms presence of mind he tried to drag his emplover but of his nu;... X -.-. J?J J Finding that Solomoa was getting pret ty badly burned and crvine" to him tn fiasssojS - JSist render him speedy help, he at last hroke the stove and got him out His hands, face and neck were considera bly injured, but it is thought Kb will recover. A carriage was. immediately" called, in which he was taken to his res donee. No. lOOi Morgan, wherea phvs icion dressed his burns and left him "as comfortablo as eould be expected. His experience has ccrtainlv been novel. at. Louis Globi-Democrat. The State of Massachusetts forbids j pigeon-shooting within its borders. Bears ui Heraeta. Tho Blooming Grove (Pa.) corre spondent of the Philadelphia. Times writes: Bears have been far more plen tiful this year than for many seasons past. There are.many extensive for ests of beech and, oak in the counties of Wavne, Pike and" Monroe, with vast outlying swamp lands of laurel, hem loccand tamarack. Despite the fact that these forests are penetrated by the Erie Railroad, the black bear makes in them his breeding and feeding haunta almost as ireeiy as scores oi years ago, before civilization had made any ad vance in this section. Along the bor ders of these great swamps is a wido strip of soft mud. These swamps are almost inaccessible to man, and the bears make them their places of refuge. When the bears are plenty this Doruer of mud is full of the animals' tracks. In many places the mud is found hol lowed out in wide spots eight or ten feet long, three or four feet wide, and two feet deep. Should large patches of scrub oaks be found beaten down to the ground it is a sure sign that the bears have been "working" there and feeding on the acorns. They rise on their haunches among the scrub oaks and beat tho bushes violently with their fore paws. Bears are very fond of bugs and in sects of all kinds. They Know just where to find them every time, and know that their favorite insects make their homes under the stones during the winter months. The brutes conse quently select spots where the ground is covered with stones, and with their paws turn them up to get at the bugs. Yellowjackets and hornets are favorite morsels with the black bear. If bruin sees a yellowjacket or hornet in the woods he is wild until he finds tho in sect's home. Ho tears madly through the woods until his unerring scent leads him to the spot. Then he settles down to business. When a bear finds a yel lowjacket's nest it takes but a few swoops of his fore-paws to turn it wrong side out. A yollowjnckctB1 nest is generally built in the ground, just under the surface. As soon as their nest is touched, tho bees swarm about in clouds and cover the bear until he is ' a small hole, it .stooped down and de as yellow as a sunflower. Ho pays no ' posited the acorn; then covering it, attention to their assaults, though an I darted up the tree again. In a moment attack of yellowjackets on anyothcr it was down with another, which it animal would result in death. The buried in tho same manner. This the bear merely shuts his eyes and grins as squirrel continued to do, as long as the he devours nest and all. He attacks ! traveler thought proper to watch iL honey-bees the same way, and scoops tho honey out with his paws and licks them off until tho nest is despoiled completely. Old Jerry Greening, the hunter, says that on one occasion ho shot .a bear and was going to drag the carcass home, when ho discovered the bear had just been robbing a yellowjackets' nest and was still covered with the fiery insects. "'Fthat b'ar hed only been wounded I'd a waltzed right in an' fixed Mm," said Jerry, "but a I couple o' them cussed little hot-tailed cnttcrs canio alter me an I skipped, an' I didn't dare go after thet b'ar for two days." Hornets build their nests high up in the branches of trees, or fasten them to tho rocks. But as cute as these insects arc the bear is more than their match, A bear discovers a hornets' nest far out on a limb beyond his reach. Ho climbs the treo, breiiics the longest branch ho can get, and, holding it in his foro paws, hits tho nest until it drops to the irround. Sometimes ho dances or Ol.HUjO Oil r.l.....n nn !.. 1tnl. .Ill 4l.n . 4. mo limn tin inc nest is snaKen ou. Miouiu me nest oc on a rock tho bear goes up to the top of the ledge above it, where he gathers stones and sticks and rolls them down the side of the rock till one hits the nest and sends it tumbling to the ground below. The hornets appear to know what has caused their rum, and all remain in the fallen nest till the bear appears, when they attack him. " A hornet sting," says Jerry Green ing, "is 'bout 's strong's a whack from a sledge-hammer, an ono hornet '11 knock a bull down; but their bite won't raiso a lump bigger n a buckshot on a b'ar, an' tho shaggy critter thinks its fun. He'll stan' on his bin' legs and square off with his foro paws, jest as ef he were a boxin' with somebody, only he's durn keerful t' keep his eyes shet. Then he'll lay down an' roll over 'em jest ez if he didn't keer a cent fer 'em. Onee't I seed a she b'ar knock a hor nets' nest bigger'n a half-bushel basket otfn a rock, an' pick it up an' tuck it under her arm an' walk off with it, nool ez if 't wore one o' her cubs." ez How to Dress Well. Those who have the wish to dress ar tistically, and, therefore, prettily and becomingly, should bear the following remarks in mind. In the lirst place, let their dress bo of good color, harmon izing with their complexion, and not of an unnatural, impossible tint; in tho second place, let it be simple, and not hang or fall in direct contradistinction to the shape of their forms; and, in the third place, let it be appropriate to the weather, the timo of day, and tho wearer's position and duties in life. Now, first as to color the main consid eration, for many a prettily-made dress is transformed into an. ugly one by being unbecoming let these few points be borno in mind. Kemembcr that crimson and red nro the chief warm colors, and should, therefore, only be worn in winter. It has been the fashion to wear a great deal of both these colors and cardinal as dresses and as sunshades in the hist two summers; but any ono with a sensitive eye to color will have remarked the hot feeling to which they give rise on a sunny day. A cool look is altogether foreign to their nature, and, therefore, although they are admirably adapted for tho winter both as walking-dresses, skating-costumes, and bright evening dinncr- Iresses, they are decidedly out of place. j rum Hit nnisuc puint oi view, in me .warm weather. Blue, on the contrary. 'is a cold color, especially as seen in nn entire pale-blue dress, and, therefore', that le rightly a favorite summer color., All its varieties dark-blue, purplo, manvc.etc. are also cohLcoloreJan,-digo-blue is very cold and dull: tur-quoise-blrie less'cold; but allyellows, browns and preens are, warm colors. Bat, apart from the coldness or wirni ness of a color, the wearer has tocon sider what suits her particular com plexion aad hair color. best; aavd this is the rock -upon which so many wreck their , charms. A fresh-colored, .fair skinned, brown-haired girl looks well in almost all colors; so, in fact, will any ono with a good complexion. But, un fortunately, not every one is blessed with one; their task is then more diffi cult. A dull-haired, sallow-faced girl should be very careful in her choice of colors. She should never wear any color which brings out the yellow or greenish hues of her complexion, and, ii she happen to be fair and sallow, should not imitate the colorswhtch she sees worn becora-. ingly by a dark, sallow person. A fair, sallow girl will look well in a pretty brown, or a sage-green, or a deep plum color,, but should never attempt a pea cock blue orarimson. Adark.sallowrirl, iowever, may wear deep crimson, deep yellow, or brown with orange, purple, and scarlet, or in. fact, amy good, strong colors, becomingly; -bmt she should rizoronsly 'avoid, all insipid or somber colors. It is a matter, nevertheless, upon which it is impossible to lay down any definite rules, the variation of ex pression, the dullness or brilliancy of the eyes, and the vivacity of a person have so much to do with their capability of carrying off a i;olor well. - The "only safe rule to go upon is to avoid a color when it is found to be in any wav "trying." As to the second point, simplicity 2nd suitability to figure. We ought all, for the sake of our appearance la other people's eyes, to try to set off our figures to the best advantage, remedy their defects or enhance their beauties: and we must remember that as there are very few beautiful figures, and that they even require study to bring out all their perfections, those who have less well-molded figures should bo more careful as to dress. The greatest posj sible mistakes are often made by people through imitation, especially by those with short, fat figures, who, when they see a tall, elegant person in a becom'ng dress, immediately order one liko it, whereas the reverse style is the correct one for them. Then, thirdly, let the style of dress be chosen according to the purpose for which it is required and the material of which it is made. A walking or lawn tennis dress requires to be loosely made, so as to enable the figure to move freely, whilst an evening or visit ing dress does not require this; so also heavy, thick materials look best plainly made with little trimming; and fine, soft materials will bear any quantity of trimming. But on no account let there be any mixing of plain bodices and and much-trimmed skirts, or plain skirts and bodices with large puffed sleeves. The great idea to keep before one is "harmony" harmonv of color and design to ensure beauty of effect. Ladies Floral CtUnneL How Some Oaks Are Planted. It is a curious circumstance, and not generally known, that many of those oaks which are railed spontaneous are planted by the squirrel. This little animal has performed the most essen tial service to the English Navy. Walking, one day, in tho woods be longing to the Duke of Beafort, near Troyhouse, Monmouth, a traveler's at tention was diverted by a squirrel sit ting very composedly upou the ground. Tho passer-by stopped to observe its motions. In a few minutes it darted liko lightning to tho top of a tree, be neath which it had been sitting. In an instant it was down with an acorn in its mouth, and began to burrow the earth with its hands. After digging .mo inuusiry ot tins little animal is directed to tho purpose of security against want in tho winter; and it is probable, that as its memory is not suf ficiently retcutive to enablo it to re member the spots in which it deposits every acorn, the industrious little fel low loses a few every 'car. Theso few spring up, and arc destined to supply the place of tho oarent tree. Thus is Britain, in some measure, indebted to the industry and bad memory of a squirrel, " That leaps from treo to tree. And shells his nuts at liberty." Girl Dressmakers. Why do not tho girls of to-day be come their own dressmakers? They would find an extraordinary stimulus j and pleasure in the occupation, and ' there is nothing that would do more to take the nonsense out of them and put sense in its place. Paper patterns, and ' the shortening of the skirts, have made , the task easy, and once undertaken, it i would not be given up, for it would bo i,. Ititnc.lilirw fli.. more interesting than "lancv work. Probably tho inducement, to many, would be much greater if the custom of giving girls an allowance for "dress" money was as common here as it is in England. But unfortunately it is not. and the majority of the daughters of well-to-do lathers feel that tho effort would not be appreciated, and would bring them no compensation. Young women, whoe parents occupy high po sitions in England, do all their own sewing in order to mako their allow ance which ranges from 50 to $250 per annum -do its work. They may have one dress in a season made by a dressmaker, not moro, and this will probably be superintended by a dress maker in the house, who occupies her time in cutting and fitting, while tho young lady hersslf, with perhaps the help of a family seamstress, does the sowing. There is a great advantage in thus becoming acquainted with meth ods aud personally conversant with ways and means, with tho exigencies. aud necessities ot work, the limitations as well as its possibilities. A good serv ant would infinitely rather work for a mistress who was thoroughly acquaint ed with the duties to be performed, and therefore willing to mako allowances; aud on tho same principles, it is easier in making a dress to satisfy ono whose ignorance makes her at onco "exacting and non-appreciative. It is strange to what an extent Amer ican women allow themselves to exist at tho mercy of dependents, through want of actual knowledge and practical experience of work. Some times they rebel against an innovation, or long continued abuse, but the throwing up of the work, and the dread of being left to their own resources, brings them back quickly to the proper state of sub jugation to tho dreaded cook or the in llatcd modiste. The coat sleeve, such as women are at present wearing, only exists by the sublime unconsciousness of tho laws of philosophy and anatomical formation on tho part of the wearers. There is no elbow to it or in it. The outside seam is rounded, 'tis true, but the inside seam is straight, and every bend of the arm paralyzes it. Thirty years ago coat sleeves were cut so as to allow for a gathering upon the under side, which gave perfect case to the arm, and al lowed it to move and act without strain or pain. Now this is, and for a long time has been, impossible. Women who arc not engaged in work that re quires the steady use of the arm and hand may not find it so serious a diffi culty, but those engaged in writing, working at telegiaphy, painting, or operating a sewing machine, suffer tor tures. Ladies who do their dressmaking soon learn to pay attention to these details of comfort, wh'ch havo nothing at all to do with fashion, but it is im possible to impress them upon the average dressmaker. For one thing, she is too busy to attend to individual details. Sho follows copy, and only branches out where you would rather not have her in trimming, and in massing up " draperies." This sleeve business has become one of the minor miseries. With the reduction in the width and general outline of the dress, the sleeve has grown closer and shorter until it holds the arm liko a vise and covers it like another skin. The white inside cuff has disappeared, as there is no room for it. The sleeve is three inches shorter than the arm, but the long glove is supposed to come down to raeet'it. The tight sleeve would be less objectionable if it were occasional, but it is the sleeve of the every-day working and walking dresses: the oc casional sleeve that is. the dressy sleeve is varied and modified in many different wavs, and often is no sleeve a't all. When a street jacket is made by a dressmaker en suite with, say, a woolen dress, the misery is doubled- The arm is twice encased" in sleeves which are so short there is no " full" upon them, and so straight that they stop all the vital currents and send the blood rush ing to the head, where it creates in a very short time a lovely red npse. There are patterns of sleeves in which fullness is allowed for the elbow, but dressmakers do not seem to get hold of them. Let ladies who are "about hav ing spring suits and jackets made, look out for the straight, paralysing coat sleeve. Jennie June Hare Cows Freat Teeth la Their Up per Javrs! A couple of Third Ward citizens met each other on tho sidewalk last Monday morning as they were starting for their places of business, and one of them, who resides on Van Burcn street, asked the other, a Jackson street man. if cows had any front teeth on their upper jaw. The Jackson street man was a little astonished at the quegtion. as there had been nothing said about cows, but re plied promptly: "Why, of course they have front teeth on their upper jaw; how could they bite ofl grass if they hadn't?" The Van Bureu street man said it was not a question of logic, but a question of fact; and if the Jackson street man did not know whether cows ha! front teeth on the upper jaw or not, he ought to say so. " 1 did not ask you for your opinion," ho said; " I asked if you knew." Tho Jackson street mm was a little nettled at this. aid replied with some warmth. He said if he had a child three years old who would ask such a question as that ho should bo afraid the child was an idiot. "You would?" " I certainly should." "Then," said tho Van Buren street man, "as it is such a simple question, of course you can tell me whether cows have got front teeth on their upperjaws or whether they have not" " Whv, of course they have." "They have, eh?" " Yes." "I'll bet you ten dollars they haven't," said the Van Buren street citi.en, pulling out a roll of bills, and pcelingoffa couple of lives and shaking thorn at his neighbor. " Put unorshut up." " There is some infernal catch about this thing," said the other, suspicious ly; " I might have known it, too, tho minute you asked mo such an infernal idiotic question." " No catch at all about it." replied the other, " if cows have got front teeth on their upper jaws tho ten dollars i yours, it tiiey haven t tne money is mine. Nothing could bo fairer than that, could there?" Hut still the Jackson street man hesi tated. It was barely possible that cows did not have any front teeth on their upper jaws. Ho remembered, then, that cows in biting off grass always threw their noses outward, while horses nipped it off by jerking their nose in ward. Ho was astonished at how near he had como to being victimi.ed, but ho did not liko to como down. Tho two were then near the meat market, near tho corner of .Jackson and Michi- gan streets, and tho Jackson street man was sure tnat a butcher would know for certain whether front teeth on their or not cows had upper jaws: so ho pushed open the door and said to the proprietor: "Linehan, have cows on their upper jaws?" got front teeth Linehan was running a skewer through a roa.tof beef, but ho stopped, looking up in astouishment, and said: "What?" "Havo cows got front teeth on their upperjaws?" "Cows? ' "Yes.". "Got front teeth on thoir upper jaws 311 ' " Upon my word I don't know." "You don't know?" "No. You see I buy my beef by the quarter at the slaughter-house, and don't have anything to do with tho heads. But I can find out for you when I go over." "I wish you would." So tho Jackson street man closed tho dojr, and rejoined his neighbor, and tho two walked along without saying a word. A milk wagon was seen coming up the street, and it was resolved to hail the driver and ask him the ques tion, as it is popularly supposed that milkmen are moro or less familiar with cows. Tho Van Buren street citizen cleared his throat and yelled. "Hello!" The milkman reined up, and said: "Go ahead with your tests. If you find any water or chalk in that milk I'll give you the whole of it." The citizen told him to be calm, as they had no intention of testing his milk, but only wanted to know if cows had front teeth on their uppet I jaws. n J.11U uuirwiu.iu iwurnju .it. tuuiii nuuui. ;i minute andthon whipped up his horses and drove off, mentioning some kind of a fool that they were. Lp on Wiscon sin street they saw another milkman, delivering niilk, and overtaking him they explained the dispute. Ho smiled pityingly upon their ignorance, and said: "Of course cows havo front teeth on their upper jaws a driveling idiot ought to know that much. A cow would be a handsome-looking object without any front teeth in her upper jaw, wouldn't she?" I've concluded to take that bet of imitM vui - said the Jackson street man to the other. "Come, now, down with your dust. Put up or shut up." "Why didn't you do it, then, when you had a chance? I never claimed to know whether a cow had any upper teeth on her front jaw or not: I only thought I had read so somewhere, and asked to know if you knew about it for certain. But now that the thing is settled, there is nothing to bet on xs I can see." "O, of course not," said the Jackson street man sarcastically; "of course not." Just then Mr. Clark, of tho Newhall House, happened along, and as the milkman picked up his lines and drovo off, the an Buren-strcet man asked Mr. Clark if he know anything about cows. Mr. Clark said he did, having formerly been a farmer and a cattle buyer. " " Well," said the Van Buren streeter, "do you know I got the queerest idea into ray head this morning about cows that a man ever had. Somehow or other I got the idea that cows had no front teeth on their upper jaw; and I actually offered to bet ten dollars with this man that such was the case. I don't see what possessed me." "Well, if you had bet, you would have won the'monoy.'' said Mr. Clark. "What!" exclaimed both the citizens together. I say If you had bet von would have won the money, for cows have no front teeth on their upper jaws." " Sweet spirit hear my prayer,' said the Van Buren-strcet "citizen, as he brought out his roll aud peeled off the two fives again and shook them at the Jacksnn-street man. who turned away with a sickly smile and said he could not always be pulling out his money! Ignorance seems to be stalking through the land like a Kansas grasshopper on stilts. Pick's Sun. Tho Mentone papers report two suicides at Monte Carlo. Recently a man rushed out of the gaming room exclaiming, "I am done for; I have lost 200.000 francs." Oa the staircase he drew s revolver from his pocket, and blew his brains out. The other man. wandering on the shore, was seen to sit down on a rock and rest his head oi his hands. A minute after a detona tion was heard. He, too, had blown his brains out. At the time of the recent big hotel fire in Buffalo, a business man, in whose apartments in the burning building were many articles that he prized, rushed to his rooms, seized an empty bird-cage and a clock key. and barely escaped with his life through the smoky halls. Twelve persons in the city of New York answer to tho name of George Washington. PERS05AL A5D LITERARY. Miss Braddon. the novelist, is re ceiving a larger income from her books thaa any other English writer of fiction. Tho " CEdipui,' Tyrannus" of Sophocles Is to be acted bv Harvard students In the third week in May. Three performances are to be given. Lady Florence Dixie, distinguished as a fearless and accomplished horse woman, is going to tho Transvaal as war correspondent for tho London Morning Pott. Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the emi nent astronomer and lecturer, it i re ported from St. Joseph, .Mo . is about to wed a lady of that citv. a wi low. and will henceforth reside Tn this couli try. Will 5v ITnYA hit tt-r?r .iriil isim. nosed about thren htimln-l nml -driv songs, and there are ten of them that had a sale of two hundred Uiouaa4 each. Mr. Hays U on the editorial staff of the LouUriUe (Ky.) Courier-Journ-'il. Hufus Choate believed in hard work f ana jtruggle. n hen some one said to him that a certain fine achievement win tho result nf rinviliMif In. w!im.-i! I "Notwnsc! You might a. well drop the Greek alphabet on the rround-and I expect to nick up the Iliad." Mr. MarfJahan. the well-known j ncw.paer corresjnmdent, who wrote m vmmv oi i ne itireo-uti'iiiau wa, left a wife ami child. He was married about a year before liis death to nn a couiplished Uusi:m lady of r.mk m her country. The widow and child visited the mother and brothers-in law at To ledo, O.. last year. Shu is described as a handsome brunette, highly edtu-.Uod and accomplished, though finding tho ways of this country very new and strange. Jean Louis Krnet Mcis-wiier can make a picture that will sell fur more than the work of any other living art isL A recent numbe'r of tho Minjarine of Art gives a biographical sketch ot this picturesque artist Hois uuw six ty -eight years old. Meionierpaints a horse about as perfect I Va it is pos-ible to do. He .efins lo spare no pains ir mftinr ivitn littil nf liw tiitKiimr l.t instance, he once had a small milway built. and ho was whirled in a car tha kept alongside a galloping horse so that ho could sketch oery movement of the charger. HUMOROUS. It was a wealthy Philndelphian who, being asked ou his return from Kurope. how ho liked tho Bo.sphorus. replied that lit didn't eat any, and preferred tho ordinary home-made siusages. American tjmen. - -A short time ago a clover article appeared in the Xinetecnth Century from tho pen of Mr. Mallock. entitled. "Is Life Worth Living?" The au-wcr to tho couumlrtim is "It depends on tho liver." St. Louts Vat-DisiiU-Ji. In the year 18iU America issued seventy patents to women. And not ouo of these was an indicator to be at tached to a bed post to show if there is a man under the bed. And yet. think how much getting down on hands ami knees such a thiug would s.ivo women. Boston I)sl. There Iras been a good deal of bit ter controversy in Now York over Surah Bcrnhardt's exact wo.ght, ami one of those who believes her to be tho cham pion dramatic light-weight of the ago asserts that not long ago at rehearsal Sarah introduced tho feature of Ining a pUtol at the villain of tho piece. Instead of the usual result, tho wad re mained perfectly stationary while tho Bernhardt and the pistol were blown backwards through tho sido scenes. San Francisco Post. An iugoniotis mother who had lonr boon bothered by tho fastidiousness o7 her children at "table has at la-t dis covered a way of circumventing them. She places what sho wants each child to eat before its nc'ghbor at table, and of course each cries for what the other has. and the ends of justice are promoted. Chicago Tribune. Wo have just learned that on tho afternoon befoio tho last holiday Col onel Solon noticed a sign on the door of an Oil City bank, .saying- "Hank will be closed to-morrow; aW paper failing title then must be paid to-day." Tho Colonel rushed wildly into the bank, saving: "Do you mean to sav that I I must pay my note to-day, which falls due to-morrow?" "Cortnink. .sir." "But I haven't a cent of money to-day and and andwell now, I "think of it, I haven't any note to pay either." And the good Colonel walked away with a sigh of relief, l)r.rrirk. The Boers, and What ihv Want. A correspondent a-ks what tho Trans vaal is, what its inhabitant, the Boer, havo done, and what the English have done, and why they want to light about . II". I ... ... ' ..!- . ii. v iiii'Jiii ciucnngav mis lime into minor details of difference or the later incidents that havo pushed exaspera tion to hostility we will name thcluoad er features of tho controvert. The Transvaal is a region that includes a'l ' the country to the north of tho Vaal River and hence rhe name -as far as the Limpopo (or Crocodile) River, and embraces both sides of tho (Jiuthlatnbu Mountains. It lies between latitude twenty-two donees fifteen minutes and twenty-eight degrees forty minutes south, arid longitude twenty-six degrees to thirty-two 'decrees fifteen miuntc? cast. Its area is about onehuhllred and fifteen thousand squiro miles; and its population is estimated at three hun dred thousand, of whom about one-tenth are whites. Now, certain Dutch Boerr who lived in Cape Colony and Natal became dis satisfied with British rule. 7 hoy did not Lake kindly to a change which to the old Hollanders of Manhattan undo so little difference. Like the people of the Orange Free State- they thought they would like a government of their own. The Scotch wore consoled for the merging of their nationality by the ! consideration that a Scottish dynasty was seated on the Br.t'sli throne; and it was long ago pointed out to Dutch colonists whose country wa? "ceded to England that lh ..ircnm'.t.nnes of a Dutch Prince having as -ended the En glish throne .should rccon die them selves in a like , manner. r But the Boers failed to seethe matter in this light: such comfort thev thought might have been very welf for con temporaneous enjoyment but was of lit tle worth mcrelv 03 a reminiscence. Thus it was that in 110 these dissat isfied Boers marched, like no many modern Hebrews, out of the land of. their masters and set up a Republic for themselves on the further side of Ihe VaaL They deemed this to V free territory, and thought that at least they would only have to contest their footing with savages- For a long time thev cherished hope3 that Great Britain would allow them to eajoy tHeiriri'ie- penueace in peace. jm xor taoa special reasons, apart from her custom ary" lost for territory. Great Britain began to feel otherwise disposed. One plausible reasoa given out 'for interfer ence was the fear of a geaeral war be tween the natives of Africa aad the European colonists and, at last, lo 1817, the Transvaal was formally an nexed to the CapeCokmy. Such, in brief, is an "outline of the events that have led to the present wax. England wants the Transva.J. like its neighbors. Natal and Cape Colonv, to be added to the list of Imperial po5es sions, and asserts a claim to tht- sol prior to the Boer occupation: and the Boers want their independence We have said enough to radicate alike the validity of their claim to this indepen dence and slo. nafonunitelr. their slender chance of forciblv maintains-? it A. 1". livening PoU. ' fo Our Young Readers. A Qi'RR ST09Y. os. tt f wear I r?f?t J The one iet tetrtjr le w W toM Atwut Mhy Jut oeo jrarold. fa. fe f ti rM.thfA trrrtbift frit tit To rkc up inMcnlr In the Me at: And wni ran It but err "?? Wbra It had uca Urradfulir naught tirvtai Hut tat tltth? baJr of wtmml trll Itrocbc orrr the crib and tX- -Which Jw lnr ' "! V " r.V!? TU the mother cooe to nr H"C osn. You mir Nuw ththe ri'V'?". Wbm .ftp br the tx-ll sr tnn-H whttf. i ,. ...-. an.t 1 1 ii mr tmrii int-f - f tt fiown tht ri 11 tse tmur' Now. I onuMn'l hUnvc tfef toryf t couMtft. ia It up. nd I koo you wtxiMn t. If I.lm "u IC frc. for ( told wepr"" . r c w ' -iwa. HMjrjurttoi. TuaTTi?s MOWtoKsSrV "Tho baby's dreadful sick, aad raotit . u-.nN vmt trrf-tlme (lOiefc. v. ., ....- , r .-- ----- , -- - Aunt Itacliel put uotrn ncr cj;, in.t fo.it.od find at little Tom Jackon. it I... fcfnrtil fn thn rinnrwar. all OUt lir.'tth and much frii?hteneiL aad then nut of the window to her nephew. Trol ly, who was busdy engaged building a " . ... T .111111 111.111 I li.l k fcll "Wont tou comer' ww um, nnxiou-.lv " " 1 iiipmw 1 raust-and tntst to Providence", replied Aunt Knehel. rin- ntmnd nntt!n awav her work. Hilt, inflm,,.n.mih.qfiiiLfaziIetrauher1 J" rt" " - - a fruv. not in herself, as ho put on her bonnet, look- aW - ' v.--. . . in Trottvward. Aunt llachel considered nil lioys as unnece-ary evils, and this particular specimen of the species she regarded a one of her greatest me.in of gmeo. Not that Trotty was a particular bad boy. but he tm. a thorough boy, going from onu piece of iui?ohirf to another with untiring energy .lust :it mi-iutit ho was stotipimr with Atiut K'tehel. The twin had the mea.- les, the baby was teetliing. and poor mamma, between them all. was about used up So Aunt Rachel had benevo- louth taken Trottv homo ruth her for a v. sit. It certainly did .eem verv Inconsid erate in baby Jars. -mi to take-this time to fall sick; but. since ho had. Aunt Rachel could not in cojicoiieo refuo her aid. So. with xnariy a r.nuUou to Trotty. who appeared to havo not a thought In tho world beyond hi- snow man. and mtiuv a foreboding. .she sot forth. She had not been gone live minute before he conceived the brilliant Idea of arraying his image m her Sunday bm iiol and cloak. This octiuug to Jtiui ati imuMially huppy tlivU.'hU ho' at once set about putting it in.o effect, without for a mo ment stopping to consider whether or not Aunt Rachel would object. "It'll be tho funniest thing that over was," he chueklcd to himndf as ho rushed in to the house. Tho cloak, he know, was hanging in tho hall closet, the bonue.t was iti its box ou the" lower .shelf ot tho china closet. Alts for Trotty I another onluoky thought occurred to him as ho opened that door, and .spied on the top itsolf numerous jars of preserves. Trotty hnd one weakness, ami that was plum prisorves. particularly Aunt Rachel', and never in all his "life had ho any thing like enough,5 gnidir stood n-largo jar of it right in front, jdid ever any thing look moro teniuiing! Trott. deliltrmtcd a minute or two, looked out of tho window, down the street. No sign of Aunt Rachel. Then ho looked up again, and a minute after he had the big family Bible in tho chair, and was climbing up. Ho had his hand on tho jar. and was .slowly working it along lo tho edge of the shelf, wheii something happened, ho never qultu knew what, only down came the preserves, chair, Bible and himself, all in a heap on tho Hoor. Such : looking child its hu was pre serve in hi curls, eyes, on his jacKet and pants-, every whore but In his mouth, and for the first time in hi life ho had no desire lohave it there. Ho was very sure, in fact, that he would never want to tnsto it again, no matter how long he lived. But what should he do was tho ques tion ho Akud as ho picked himself lowly and sorrowfully tipand surveyed the scene. "Iwaitt-to fcc mv mother," ho jeiid, willi- rf queer little" quiver in hi voice. Then.-after another brief mirvpy. he jMuiuu uian-ap' uowii over ins Micky curls. put hisAbatid, likewise, sticky, into his pockets, and vcnt atraight out of the house, down the street, Iookin neither to tho right nor loft. Mamma had given tho twins their supper inr the nnrivrr, had undrcwod u.u) auri ax rooting him to Blecrf wheii the door opencdT and a queer ui J ouiairetchiMi arms. i x juugm i u come nome, sobbed. T . . .. r i i.. . , t he in thj Mamma put thc baby"down crauic her iru-t m "Providence" was , iingitu. imun thu ?nn .. imga very secure. boll It llnglo. nen in mr r "There, is uo knowing what he'll take i tho lwlw Jmgio. juigio, pngiv; m mu .!, l...ml ..f.hw ui do " tdiasald U Ihtbo MI. thb liuglut U mt lMfci a radio and took the little wanderer up. lmn,,, ml gu "How did you irct here, mv u,."l....i .....!! Ahe asked, heli-in, Jiim off with i.i. : !...... .i I...1.I..." i.. 'V ,"'u''1- " "oniiii-r ins aimosL lroin little hands and feet in hers. " I corned myself. I got lost two or free limes, and I was awful tired, Kifjlfc Kepi n coming, cause I wanted you."" Mamma waited in apcechlcs. anxiety What hid this litUe ao dt br bceuTilo- ing? Had he scifiro to' Arinf K&hcl house, or what? " Well. Icar. tU mamma all about it." Hlwdt!Icn;tth. "I made a now m-in. an' Aunt Rachel went awav. an' I fonr,l,t p.t i guess, and It broker! and' roiiled jl and I emit home nonJ . That was Trotty story, told with many tears. Mamma drew a breath tA relief; ilw aoti bad a, it. iKla have bn. Btu, wcrlCiefesctXlitr ninst not be allowed tn vfw tK ,-,... in thnssCTTTSr-?TSyBfflnw! mamjpa was puzzied to kaow what to uu nun mm ,sr " I think.!' aheailiL after whatnvJ a Ionsr time to Trottr. who ,. ,-..s.. ti , anxiously to know hi ni!h , ..7 .... j . - . --'-- think my Iittl boy must go ri"ht baek ' to AuntiUciitL will lake you? yre conies pupa ha t- mamma w firm. - Tmh. j.. uress iiop-pj MS? ISHJtaawl -I .ri)wpnt'twrW2i.-nd-I-i didn't think loay '(Jet thee behind m atan.'liki; vou told rnnto --mil r .linnet' unj cnea J roy, in dismay. " 1 1 s?ICSaM cmsits of don t want to V punish lii- iar. I about ha,f raJe on eu. mamma, harder n everrtriinoTT . covered bridge. To Kit9 disobeyed Aunt fttobci; and to her he t SCTm tnc track t courj above th mast go. confer and suJimit to wbt-.re?cIrofanJ' head on top of a car. Front ever punwbinjmt h.e decreed. te horizontal piece cord are wiin". aaa herself at ubrtir fft .,... i ,U JT . " "reBBJ.j ea 1 bhe Iook-J anxiously all the way up the ,n? tne bdge, the cord will '--. " iiuar au inh. 'UTuc.AsaBer-ooaereanteTe todir'tn I the fact that tie mow hln WjuS " TwomblyreceadyeeJe whereihe left it; Trottv bavW i. herlOld. birJvlxj j &m dently abandoned Itiamedutely. Then ieac?! fc" s-Ia4w. 3fr. Jaa eweatJaioiheJwejaUirMIaid1!. lmineat citfce of -CSelaaiford, iUss. Her greaHrreai- " Trotty f she called. gjeatraadios, aced five y eirs. , fZ9 owwer. What had happeaed to f - SbesUIl ha poion him. But the instant she Iighte.1 a Ia3o!of.her ead faculties and is coa- 3ac woverea what hod tik-n r,?- . "lid I ever in all mr i:rr .l. craned. IsdignanUy, a, fae rorveyed ' the rnms. "Of all thin fn th Z27 deliver me from a bov!" PnaeaUyshe began to wonder whi VTi ."S8 P,ece ot ni"'11 the child was. and she IefcE2 chanum whKh combiner the work they were to search fo-hlnl SS n ? a ffman,i l hnuad Amo -" vj uo irntn.1 im.v. .. r --- --wv-.. , "Jicarae, - -J"c V.OI n th s.im .-i worried now. "What If he has start ed home am fft lwU I doctor I Here I'd "forgive him a doen tinnMyr to know ho wtw ajfc." Jut thm the door opesrd. and tWtrn utood somebody of about TrT ,, For a minute oc two ho Mol hnui ing. with downrwt eye; thn. rr cautioner, ho hazarded a tctan ,, into Aunt llachel fau. nd th whv. ho burst Into tear! I'm r rii'f'n anything' ha sou!!, pi,, forjnve roc". He looked so pitiful, m fr:jhtn. ".lornor than anything.' tttw fn Utrhl tiMik him Ul in h"r vnn & i j kUod away tho to-tr. kiadly a., i(. lum ho wa forgiirn. I don't mm what mafcew me titt ,, manv naughty thing." aW lriti , hi tuothwr,' S tucXtMj bun lot- fed that nighu I e(n t Ui rvJ cl, and then .something coiihm mk r roind, and 1 does it before I Aatv i sometime. -anil sometiHM t ut ha only I iln t hard unougu. I jr.-- I should 'poe I'd learn. rnic 1 a ... much trouble and trttolnUwe .- - uailifhtV. l ir wave :enroi utn , ttMiav, laougn. a wmnr. w j. r. - . Off H. .4 lllilt. ox SM$,'.i-elI ,re Ma.le. How many bov anil girl knr the jingling lei-li-tMiU nr Mad. V. - 1 If .1.. ...... ..' l, .. lit!.. .... .- I i ,'". ,""" "? .-. V. j P'u -s," lna '"' lt w k ,'" , put In through th5 hoW m ifc U.. and yet it U l.w.w Iw M t rt I tbe.ro? This Uttlo inm ball is mHu.1 "th- little ballot mini. iii in -nail fc - , -i lnido of tho bell l'tieu a moid k tn! ju-t toll. the jdiitpti of the OttUtdv ot lfe ThU mud ball with the Inside is pfciood in the mom of the . ie and tho melted liicUl pxnqd ,. which fills up tho spare tnjtwvw ta mud ball aim mold. When tho mold i taken olf. tu ?lci'h bell, but it would not riot, a it Is full of dirt, the hot mwttl dtim the . . . -.. . 4 . ' dirt that the ball Is inado if, .o it xi ( be all .sunken out. After tho Urt l ., i shaken out oi holes in tho boll, U Kt- tlu iron jmglct will .si til lit! in th Ihrtl, aud it mil ring all right. ll took a good mnnv ywr in out how to mako a lefgfi-boll Br.iCsIti and Uolnp. 1 lave you not heard how sow hv i brag nhqulwhaj Ihey-nru talvotUnf; to do? TliBy-nre Slw.iv gb-g .oilo tu dors. Vou just wait." ay thev. "ami h f will 8howyou, some day. what w nwt do." Now Is your chance, wo would sny tn you. Vou aru old enough now. hih! )o will never have a boiler tune ItwMwr begin now. we aro auxums U jiir tirt effort. I.rt us nt one animated by the practical piiqM : loiug. not fiy thiftlream. nil lhn wo will compute voiir future for ymi. MaLo an v lort Kvou If oii xknll fall the first time, a Ituudntltfiii''. .ltl continue to try. Tho result is ittot tre ble. It I only Uukc who falter tWt como to grief. Welt Spring. Di-nlh of a .Miser A urler. Singular t'lMr- A recent dispatch from Omaha any Information ha been nu-eUed hin of tho death at (inunl Ist.tud. lul utH-k. of a real in .ser. ouo of the kind who huf-gi'd not hi gold after thof thio ( the. miser of roumnte. but one who know a good invastnwmt. and hestUtod not to put his money whom llm rvloru would be sum. .speedy and Inrx. and yet who lived and died in ragi. quulfr and physical uiietoantino., uithoot proper medical attondanee. beetuuo ! loved his money too well to jkU with even ho Aiiiall n .sum as would ho ne- sary to give him comfort nnd mio ht life. It was "Old Maekey." cUnnte ter well known to those frimilinr with tho historv ot tho Union Pncilie Rnil way. Ho came West with Mr. Sidiioy Dillon, In tho early day when the cow struction of the road "was beirun. rwtd .worked with tho niHHonalro so long as he wat in charge of tho railroad budd ing. Ho was. retained in the cmnlov of j tho company and possensod tho fruuid- Kinpoi Mr. Dillon from that timo to thu day of life death. "Old Maekey" regarded the President of the company with nil the affection of whieh o sordid a onl was capable, nnd hi carlv employer never failed to tw and conllnlly greet him when ho pael over tho lino, lt is iMinjHjiud Mr. Dil lon mode Mao key !n aliments for him. -"Old Ma-key'" tMime- with tho Union Pooillc Company antedates that of most of iho pnwont employes, and they all know him well. Hi dressed in rags and looked more liko a trump ora utrucl bej-gar ilian liko a man of wealth. IB dirty aad jm kenpt nppoaranCfl ocovdonoif aiuch re mark, hat when rcnionitrnU'd.witli and i torT hii Ho hW i nir..ni i u.. t ' : t utjat and cm not afford it" lift Mlent in li.iT-rrn-i nn (In. irround. anvwher,,. for tin nurhnw r aving expense, and his washing, what JKtfe was floRD. ha .U.I vuu U, -------- .. - -.., .- -. If M udftVfl. Ho u&m uo IhiMor . " ' tobacco, and. hit living x- lt haro !mpii le overt than "-'"wiiinu those of a 'Frisco ChJuaniatu The oW man was honest, too, for hi cxrcnsi I account when doing vln mttico out on ine roaj, cnt the company inr pay- hiviu, nty-T exceeded lolly tloWnr pr month. His exosure and' mode of il'o brought on nn attack of pneumonia. His penuriousnoM displayed iUolf lwru again, for h doebnod to bear tho ex pense of a phjirlcW AiiMtIuBf,aail died from want of It. Whca the end came, ami tW poor old mierfelW earned to his grave. In hi kvel antf on JilpemeftecrejQHfiaJw iloUaw in gold ami ret-aback, BTQjfrf in (Vv eminent bonds and UXJ lmrol union Pacific Jr. tnPtli.r wlh . I will dwpoiing of hLs wealth. He had f no wife, ao child, so aearrelattre. and hat ord;edhi4 propertr dUtritrnted among EaTteVn friends arid distant rela- tiYe. A .Safesruard for UrafcpffH-ff. k,The Kichmood & DanvUIe Railroad ft . . . " ""r' W1UF'J mroirKJinonthairfrelht trains a afegnirdJor their, brakemen " " we ewa that many fatal, ace-. ocni which occur tn hrltmM. m . m m . tho' ,n wJfr ho brakemen sumWu: A . . "c,ul " are xaoexea vj wzivu. ur.nsw. ' a no a post crectI cither Ide of a thf nrt t ftorl. vzoatal nieo ttr.t,..t .,.,i.t.n teativelr !inilmr nr...t. .i.tt M1KJ rf- atriki him JMJ. ItlllBH IIIU In rlu.L. I.:. I I ". IW IK3U. icuous xor aer dmt ;i -i ernpioT- menu. W r Tk'ii. i " , n t.TV ' C UMr of Titwvnie, Pa.. s .n TPl for the Ixst fifteen Ji"" XJFW- Mk,l r.kii. .- ... L.. - a. . i k WiiiUi " AAClUfcV iW " ' 1 l i t l r i 7- 1 E' . J jk s i i 4. sac exeixmi exclalcied, n1? I Piac a aa pqocpiaao. atfAMwgJl 4- - :i . -J s- &Cjsv 1 J.3-. "' " "-WHPrgaii! tSCntf