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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1884)
afiBS5SWa2tSaw)GUJ! 233 jajtj.Tacux aur Tr-ra.L- ;v - nn r. l' & S ' SOME, FARM AWPtiABDES. Hones are fond of the fodder the sheep leave. A heifer well broken to the halter, and gentle, is worth ten dollars more. When weaning animals always warm the milk. This will tend to pre vent scours. Cincinnati Times. Never lot animals drink water upon which ice has formed. It is too cold to fee wholesome. Chicago Jotirnal. To polish windows or mirrors, sim ply breathe on them and then rub light ly wth soft newspaper. The Houseliold. ' Hot-beds for raising seedling plants for thegarden are to be started about six weeks before the time at which it will bo safo to set out tho plants. Sashes should bo got ready; paint if need be and replace broken lights. N. Y. Post. A folded newspaper, or part of a newspaper folded, is good for a holder and saves burning the fingers, spoil ng the temper or soiling a dish towel when in haste to remove a boiling pot, open an oven door or take up a hot poker or pan. Stale bread may be utilized in mak ing a good breakfast dish. Cut it in thin slices and, when toasted uniform ly brown, spread it with butler, and faeap on each slice some ham, minced and mixed with eggs, and fried nicely. Serve very hot. A.xclianye. Farmers' Pudding: One-half pint of molasses, half a pint of water, two tcaspoonfuls of saleratu-, one teacupful of any kind of berries, rolled and thickened with flour, and steam three Jjours. Raisins arc nice to use in place of berries. N. Y. Times. It will be a good plan to sift the coal-ashes in the hcu-housc. The fine, dust that flies about and settles on cvory exposed surface will do no harm, and that which falls on the floors and tinder tho roots will act as a disin fectant and deodorizer. Detroit Post. A Massachusetts farmer who raises asparagus extensively says that an ap- dication of salt is ot no use whatever, eing only a pract:ce that has been handed down through sevoral geneta tions. Perhaps tho necessity for salt is lessened when asparagus is raised near Hie sea. where the soil and atmosphere arc both impregnated with salt. Tho Canada Thistle. The Canada thistle which, by the way, is a misnomer, as it is a native of tho Old World may be known from all other thistles by the small size of the flower-hoads, which are always purple, and not generally more than half an inoh, or at most two-thirds of nn inch, in' diameter. Add to this the excessively prickly character of the leaves, and tho general bush ness of the stems, whi-h rarely exceed two or three fcot iu height, and we have characters which will enable any one readily to recognizo 'iho pest. The Canada thistle like most others is, str clly speaking, a biennial; that is, it gets a start in li'o one year and then tho next grows up, produce nn abundaucc of flowers and seeds, and then decently dies. That is. tho otLer species die decently. Here is just where the Canada thistle does not follow the custom of all well-behaved thistles. During the second year of its life, which should be its last, it quickly sends out underground a number of stems 'which secretly penetrate the s' ii and got a good foothold, so that when tho parent plant dies these hidden offshoots do not suuer. Thus, while the plant itself dies at the end of the second ear. 'its underground stems do not. Kadi ol the latter will act just cs the parent plant did, so that while ca-h pi int dies out on time, the patch of thistles is per ennial. Now as to the destruction of the pest, it is evident that every method resorted to must lake in:o account these under ground stems. It is not enough merely Kb prevent its sci d ng. That would icheck it only in one particular, and the least important one at that. More rad ical treatment must be resorted to. Let nio enumerate several methods which will prove successful if thoroughly car jried out: 1. No plant, even though it ;be a Canada thistle, t an live without having green leaves exposed to thesun 'Jight If no leacs arc allowed to ap jpcar, as by persistent hoeing, any Can ada thistle patch may ho starved out. The difficulty is that in such a contest fcetween a farmer and his thistles, the farmer gels tired out sooner than the thistles do. 2. Plow up the patch, nnd carefully pick out every under ground part of the thistles that can be found by repeated harrowing. After tho lapse of a few weeks repeat the process, and then again, anil again. This is teJious and expensive, but in some eases it will pay. 3. In the early part of the season cut off every plant at the surface of the ground, and drop on the top of tho root a small handful of salt. Some recommend the addition oj copperas. This can only be resorted to when the patch of thistles is limited in extent. 1 know a chem'st who de stroyed a 'small patch of thistles in his door-vard by pouring a spoonful of oiloi vitrof (sulphuric acid) on the top of the coot. Prof. C. E. licsscy, Iowa Agri cultural College, in N. Y. Tribune. Slow DIgestioa. This, the simple and moat common form of the malady, is sometimes called simple dvspepsia. It is more common in men than in women, and especially affects sedentary persons and those nervous individuals who eat rapidly, swallowing their food without proper mastication. It is also common in per sons whose teeth are defective. Its im mediate cause is deficient activity in the muscular walls of the stomach and in testines, and also deficient quantity or quality of gastric juico. The symptoms are much the same as those which fol low the taking an excess of food, but are felt onlv when a moderate amount has been taken. An hour or two after eating a sensation of weight and op pression is felt. The discomfort con tinues for somo hours, gradually wear ing off before the next meal. The ap petite is usually pretty good, but often the stomach will "not be pre pared for the reception of food at meal time, as the work of digesting the previous meal has not yet been accomplished. Sometimes there is considerable flatulence of tho stomach, the eructations being tasteless, however, never offensive: often pain between shoulders or beneath one shoulder-blade, and not infrequently in the region of the heart. Palpitation of tho heart of ten occurs in the night, caus ing great alarm on the part of the pa tient and his friends, who entertain fears of his sudden death. Sleep is disturbed and unref rcshing. The tongue is often foul in the morning, with a bad taste in the mouth. All the symptoms men tioned are greatly exaggerated by a late supper, or by an 'unusual excess in quan tity or quality of food. The bowels are usually constipated, but may be regu lar. When the dillieulty has"been long continued, there will hi observed a marked disposition tosleep aftermcals,or unnatural sleepiness at other times, and a decided loss of natural vivacity and en ergy. Acid dvspepsia is tiiat form of indigestiou in which the slowness of digestion is such that the food under goes fermentation, forming acids which irritate the stomach and give rise to the same symptoms much exaggerated. which have been mentioned as attend ing slowness of digestion with several others, the principal of which are heart burn, regurgitaton of intensely sour liquid from the stomach, acid eructa tions, a white tongue, frequently with transrerso fissures, often llab by and indented at the edges, acid saliva, causing decay of the teeth, bow els likely to be either constipated or un naturally loose, grinding of the teeth at night, and a reddish sediment in the urine. No one patient presents all tho symptoms, but more or less of them. Theie is quite likely also to be pain at the pit of the stomach, with soreness on pressure. Un account of the extreme slowness of digestion, farinaceous food always aggravate this form of dyspep sia. Starchy-food, sugar, fruits, and especially vegetables of all kinds, cause f;reat increase of acidity and heartburn, n some cases even bread and all sorts of preparations from grains will disa gree. Sugar, or any fod containing it. will give rise to great dis'ress. A nieal consisting of animal food almo-t entire ly may be digested without difficulty, though milk frequently sours. The di gestion being very slow, portions of fer menting food remain in the stomach Irora one meal to nnother, so that acid ity becomes habitual. Patients suffer ing with this form of dvspepsia are usually very tlrn and bloodless. Occa sionally, however, we meet with a case of the opposito kind, in which there is an abundance of tissue, though of a loose, flabby texture. Women suffer from acidity more than men. Herald of lieadlu JtanltA and Bunkee. "How do you get them?" "You seeevery publisher has a list of agents wnoni he has employed at ono time and another. Nearly every one will sell me a copy of his list for a con sideration. The combined copies make a formidable pile of manuscript. Then there are the novelty meu. who accu mulate large lists ot names of agents. Agents form one line of special names. Invalids form another." "Do you mean sick people?" "Not necessarily. Every community has a lot of people who are always buy- ! ing medicine. I hey are the most valu able lot an udvertfeer can reach. The circular give cough and a hectic Hush. The bfood purifier circular flushes them with eczema. So it goes through the list of chronic and acute ills that flesh is heir to. They will buy anything from beef aud bark "to a steam atomizer to doctor a sprained foot. All Wyoming may not occupy more nor three square yards on a goggerfv map time3 and ox the united Mates, remarked Wood tick Williams at a recent session of the Forty Liars' Club, after being called upon for a speech by the chair, "but she's got mighty good packin'. What I mean is that her internal improve ments contain some mighty smart men. With all due deference to the chair and the honorable company, I must say that for fast-color, pigeon toed, copper-riveted sense, the humble individual who now addresses you does not earner aiong nc me rear oi mo pro- consumption-remedy vcaaiuu. luiJj iiuk uuo kju. inc cc.it , tjiem a hacking wuu me unver, uui n J. uu say n i follow up pretty cioso to the bereaved relatives. I am willing to admit that my father was a smarter man, even, than I am leastwise he must have been, or the court records of Kenosha v-ounty, Wisconsin, pervert me mini , of thcse IJeople at one t;lne or imothiit to a marvellous degree. He was a b:ik , wrjf,. t m,. .i,.i;ci .i. , ....- ... .... uuiviiij:ii- UIJUUI Ml vender of the elixir of life. I buy the Temperance Reading. cashier. He went up to Canada for his health oflico work 13 so conlining, you kuow,t hat it soon breaks a man- down, especially bank cashiers. His great in tellect gave way, however, a short time before he died leastwise he was fool ish enough to make his will and so the family, of whom I am which, got noth ing. Some eousin by-his-wife's-aunt put in a claim, and the lawyers com promised the case by gobbling up the estate themselves. "But, as I said. I'm a shade or two above a natural-born idiot, and to prove it I'll relate my experience while in Chi cago last September. You know 1 took a lot of cattle in there to sell and after I'd disposed of them I took a spike-tail car and went up town. I bought me a bran new outfit at a clothing store, had the wrinkles pressed out, and dressing up in my new togs, I set out to take in tho sights. Pretty toon I was tackled by a very decent" looking party, who seemed tickled to death to see me. Ho calLd me Tompkin3, from Titusville, Ind., and asked after 'the boys.' I told him he was off his cabase, and just about that time, too, I began to smell something most awful rauk, so when he asked me my name, I said it was John Taylor, of Tecumseh, Neb; that I was a director of the First National Bank there, aud had just come to Chicago to see somt thing of city life. Then I told him about the pos master, Lou Davis, and the station agent whom I called Brooke, acd to on,' and made him thor oughly acquainted with everything and everybody in the place. I knew there was such. a town in Nebraska, but of course didn't know a soul in it; but thinks I to myself, if there isn't any body of that name there, why thore ought to be. and as for myself, why the name of Taylor was good enough for me. Well, we chatted a long while, until my new frit-nd said he had an ea- (Timnl .nf lint- l.n'il nll nf 4ln ,sx4a1 ? 5-SW"-" """ "- "" " ""'Ol HI Lights in tho Barn. It is estimated that nine-tenths of all fires are caused by carelessness. Now is tho season when the lantern is frequently-used in tho barn, and wo give a w ord of caution. Never light a lamp or lantern of any kind in a barn. Smokers may include their pipes and cigars in the abo.c. The lantern should be lighted in tho house or some out building where no combustibles are stored. A lantern which does not burn well, 6hould nevnr be put in ordor in iho haymow. There is great tempta tion to strike a match aud re-Iiht a extinguished lantern, wherever It may be. It is best to even feel one's way out to a safe place, than to run any risl'A. If the lifiit is not kept in the band, it should be hung up. Provide books in the various rooms where the tights are used. A wire rnnu.ng tho whole length of the horse stable, at the rear of the stalls, and furnished with a eliding hook, is very convenient for Might work with the horses. . Surue farmers are 60 careless as to kc-p the Jsmp oil in the barn, and fill the Ian era there while the wick is burning. .Inch risks are too great, even if the buildings are insured. Aincrican Agn nlturist, " ' . - f- v Getting at the Exact Truth. As a matter of fact, nob-dy ever makes larger allowances for other peo ple, in the estimate of their veracity, than the scientific inquirer. Knowing himself, by paintul experience, how ex tremely difficult a matter it is to make peifectly sure you have observed any thing on earth quite correctly, and have eliminated -ill possible chances of error, he'acquircs the fixed habit of doubting about one-half of what his fellow-creat ures tell him in ordinary conversation, without for a nngle moment veuturing to suspect them of deliberate untruth fulness. Children and servants, if the"? find anything they have been told i3 erroneous, immediately jump at the con clusion that the person who told them meant deliberately to deceive them; iu their own simple" and categorical fash ion thej' answer pluraply: "That's ii l:e." But tho man of science is only the eveniugand show me around. Well; its no usj to prolong your agony. It was the same old storv. The custom ary sou of an old friend appeared in the regular order of tilings and made him self extremely agreeable, and 'Mr. Tay lor' went with the young man to see him draw a prize in a lottery. "The rules of the game, "up to this point, had been strictly adhered'to ap parently but it gives me great pleasure to state that, in the subsequent proceed ings, I introduced certain innovations that, if generally adopted, must tend to detract seriously from the interests of the noble game of bunko, and eventual'- bring it into disfavor among sportive gentlemen. I entered, apparently, into the spirit of the game with great en thusiasm and gratifying recklessness, and bucked at it $15 worth, when I told them that as IJiadu't drawn auy money since I struck the town, and only started with a little for fear of pickpockets in the cars, that broke me. As I appeared to be cn'oying myself, however, the bunko men kindly "kept the game going, and accepted my checks to the amount of $:.SoO on the Tecumseh Banking-house. Finally I told them that I'd played enough for one day; that it was lots of fun but that, like all the other good things of life, it came high. If tiley'd just cash another check for SlOO, to give me a little ready cash to spend about town, I'd drop in the next day and give them another whirl. The generous bunko men cheerfully complied, aud I quit the game just SS." ahead. I don't know what they did with those checks. In fact I haven't allowed myself to worry over it at all since. I suppose it's a little rough on the bunko man to dis cover suddenly that he is the bunkee: but then vou know there's nothing cer tain in this world but death, and four names of the advertiser, classify them according to the number of tniics the .names have been used by meiPcal men and the last diseases that aiilicted the writers, and sell them over and over again. Sometimes I sell the original letters outright. The careful advertiser sometimes varies the character of the circulars sent according to the charae-' teristics of the letter-writ"r, even writ ing a personal letter in some cases." "What other classes have you?" "Two general classes. One for the sharpers aud one for the general adver tiser. The latter class is cosmopolitan. It includes all others, reallv, but it is made up mostly of farmers. For in stance, in Hew York, Rochester and Detroit are several firms of dealers iu garden and farm Seeds. They get hun dreds of thousands of letters every year. To those addresses circulars of all kinds of farm and household goods. uooks, jcweiry. auyining that a man or woman doesn't need but is sure to want, can be .sent with great profit. The names for the use of sharpers are the most profitable of all. and yield the largest returns of all concerned, except me ones addressed, unee we get a name on that list we know it will pan out till the man dies. The addresses of all tho people who buy tickets in lotteries, who write to dealers in fac-simile green backs, and who write to other adver tisers that offer to give something for nothing, are very carefully arranged by themselves. They are usually very smart in their own conceit, but they nibble at a bare hook." "What prices do these names brng?" "i nave got as high as twenty-ave dollars a thousand for names for sharp ers' use. Good lists of habitual invalids are worth all the way from ten dollars to twenty dollars a thousand. Agents are so easily obtained that ten dollars is a big price: from three dollars to five dollars is ordinary. General-use lists copied off the letters bring from throe dollars to five dollars where they have not been mailed to more than twice. When mailed to oftener, and where a year or two old, they get down to ono dollar a thousand. WILLY BAYNOR'S PLEDGE. There was aTemperance Guild in con nection with the mission school in the town of 1$ , in Maine. The first Sunday WiJJy Ravnor joined the Sun day-school -it was temperance day, and j nc was inmiceu to sigu the plelge. The following Sunday he came to hislteacher. before the openiug of the school, and said: " I want my name taken off that pledge." That would be impossible," replied MNsM.Jler. "We never take names from pledges. Sit down " During the singing Willy took a ten cent piece from his 'puecr, and, hand ing it t his teacher, whispered: "x n give you tat n cu it taKe my I name off." j Miss M'ller motioned the hand away. But. during the lesson, this persistent teu-3'ear-old boy drew twenty-tive cents from hi pocket", and said: "I will give you tlfs, Miss Miller." "Put your money in your pocket, and let us hear no m ire about it." But after the school was dismissed, and the rest of the boys had gone, this determined little I id held out a handful of change, and begged: "Miss Miller, iHl give yon half a dol lar, all the money I've got, if you'll take my name off that pledge."' 1 hen the teacher s rescn'ment van ished, and she diew the child toward her, and said: illy, I can not do it, if I were ever so willing, ion have promised Lord, and yourself, and me. that you will never touch ardent spirits. "1 on voice so as to speak. "If I had one 1 believe I'd sign it. myself." "So would I," echoed the others. "Opapa5 would you? Would vouj Teally? I'll run up to Miss Miller's'and gctsome; it is only a step." And before they could stop him the happy boy was off. Ho returned pres ently, with four pledges; and those four men sigu d them. . Improbable, do you say? Not at allJ This is a true story, and happened, as I have told you, in Ma.ne. A. C. Jior roiv, m S. S. 2'imes. The Drunkard's Death. At last, one Litter n'ght. he sunk down on the doorstep, faint and ill. The premature decay of vice and profligacy had worn him to the bone. His cheeks were hollow and 1 vid: lus eyes were sunken, and their sight was dim. His legs trembled beneath his weight, and alcold shiver ran through every limb. And now the long forgotten scenes of a mis-spent life crowded thick aud fast upon him. lie thought of the tinio when he ha 1 a home a happy, che-r-ful home and of those who peopled it, and (locked about him then, until the forms of his el lor eh Idren seemed to rise from the grave, ami stand about him so plain, so clear ar.d so distinct they were that he could ouch and feui them. Looks that he had long lorgot tcn were fixed upon h.m once more; voices long since hushed in ih-ath soi nded m his ear 1 ke the uiumi of vil lage bells. But it was only for an in , I stant. The rain beat iic:tilv upon him: "'I-i ,,,. i i - .. iuuiiuiu ami nuii"fr -ie g:i:iv iisj at his heart again, lie rose, and dragged his feeble limbs a few paces farther. mMr nnr t-i- Kur fit ntck .ii,- ,! : ------ ;,!, ., t..i- 1.....I- ,..,.. - n - - I he street was silent " ." v .iv- i...jv Will JIV111SU. yours p" many in this business of Not continually. They drop in. make a good thing, and straightway begin mailing circulars on their own accou jt. The number of actual addresses han dled by me in one year has never ex ceeded one million, "but it has crowded that figure closely. iY. Y. Sun. The Future of Our E.irth. aces backed Boomerang. too well acquainted in his own person with the excce.ling difficulty of, ever getting at tho exact truth. He hits spent hours of toil, himself, in watch ing and observing the behavior of some plant, or animal, or gas. or metal; and after repeated experiments, carefnll? designed to excludo all possibility of mistake, so far as ho can foresee it, he at last believes he has really settled some moot point, and triumphantly publishes hs final conclusions in a sci entific journal. Ten to ono, the very next number of that same journal con tains a dozen supercilious letters from a dozen learned and high-salaried pro fessors, each pointing out a dozen dis tinct and separate precautions which the painstaking observer neglected to take, and any ono of which would bo qu tc sufficient to vitiate the whole body of his observations. There might have been germs in the tube in which he boiled the water (germs are very fashionable just at present), or some of tho germs might have survived and rather enjoyed tho boiling; or they' might have iulaered to the under sur face of the cork; or the mixture might have been tampered with during the experimenter's temporary absence by booj-g. uis sou, agcu icu years scienuuc oo servers havo no right, apparently, to have sons of ten years old, except per haps for purposes of psychological n search); and so forth, ad infinitum. And the worst of it all is, that the un happy experimenter is bound himself to admit that every one of 'the 'onjections is perfectly valid, and that no very like ly never really saw what with perfect ui.uence ueiuuugnt anu saiu n iuu fcbout ais took seen.-Com.tiZ Magazine. , i that eUor of up with a king." The Buying and Selling Names. A pleasant, gray-bearded gentleman sat in a Sixth avenue elevated train, talking to a younger man. A reference to the occupation of the older man made him say: "Mine is an unusual business. See here." Ho pulled out a card. It his name Ind been Henry Jackson, the card would Lave read: HENRY JACKSON, : : Dealer In Names. : explain?" said the "Won't you younger man. "I buy, and sell tho addresses of people in all parts of tho United States and Canada. There are hundreds of 1 business men who reach their customers by circulars, as well as by advertising in the newspapers. Thus a book pub lisher gets out a new book which he wants to ell through agents. He is anxious to learn the names and ad dresses of ail the men and women in the United States who sell subscription ue also wants the names of those who sell other goods in the same way, because, they are very likely to drop the other article for the sake of the new book. Then he wants the ad dresses of the people who have never acted as agents, but who want to try to Bee wnat they can do. He advertises for agents in a variety of papers, at a pretty heavy expense. It costs him severcl cents for every letter of inquiry that he receives. Xo inquiry he sends his I elaborate circulars. I come to the If the force at the back of all growth, all complexity and all change on earth is that which the sun has steadily sup plied to it through countless ages, and still supplies, it is plaiu that wiien this force fails, as fail it one day must, there will be a steadily declining develop ment and a rapidly incrcas ng degener ation of tilings, an undoing by regres sive decompositions of what lias leen done by progressive combinations through the succession of the ages. The disintegrating process may be ex pected to tae effect first upon the high est products of evolution, and to reach in deepening succession the low, lower and lowest organiza ions and organic compounds. The nations that have rism high in complexity of development will deteriorate and be broken up, to have their places taken by less complex associations of inferior individuals: these in turn will weld place to simpler and feebler unions of still more degrad ed beings; species after species of ani mals and plants will first degenerate and then become exf net as the worsen ing conditions of life render it impossi ble for them to continue the struggle for existence: a few scattered families of degraded human beings, living, per haps, in snow huts near the equator very much as Esquimaux live now near thepole will represent the last wave of the receding tide of human existence before it3 final extinction; until at la-,t a fro.en earth, incapable of cultivation, is loft without energy to produce a living particle of any sort, and so death itself is dead." Body and Will. A Pension ltomauce. The other day Representative Cassidy, of Nevada, received a request tromJ!.ii j the y Ul whYch he had promised Johnsou. one of his constituents, that j , 1 .t, , ,, n , ,,,,i, 1 -lilt 1UV1W VU IUI11.U 1IUL IV lasiu. lib taiiJD he wouId help through a pension he had ;backf somo time afterf wUuout the uskcu lor a memuur ui;i Viuuuiuiu tai- The bov hung hi hea I "Fourth of July four of u.s is goin' up to Valley Wood on a picnic. We al ways take beer. We're goin' to." "Willy, I can not take your name from that pie Ige, but vou may come to my house on three o'clock Thursjay afternoon, and bring those three boys with you, and I wi 1 promise you a way out of your difficulty. " There was but a vague i Tea in Miss Millers mind of tho "way out of ti.e difficulty," but long before Thursday afternoon the problem was solved. Promptly on time the-:e boys were present at Miss Mi.Ier's elegant home, on one of the fashionable avenuos. The other members of the class ha 1 been invited. After the blind-man's-buff. many other romping names wh ch de light the hearts of bbva. they were sum moned to tea, which was served on the lawn. Such tempting biscuits, ten !er tongue, frosted cake, la-ge rip- straw berries, and cool, delicious lemonade, these bo s had never before tasted. When it was time for them to leave, Mi-s Miller quietly requests I the p cnie party of four to remain behind a few moments. Boys," Miss M'ller asked, "did on enjoy your supper?" "Tip top," saidoue. "P.u'ly," echoed another. "You bet," shouted a third. Willy, the only one who went to Sunday-school, who was naturally a refined lad, and observed that M.ss M.-lIcrauver used any such slang phrases, txid qaietlv: "We liked it very much. Miss Miller." "And you enjoyed the lemouadj?" she questioned. "Prime," said one. "Couldn't be beat," said another. When each ono had given an atlir na tive answer in his own phraseology, Mi:s Miller said: "Boys, I've a proposition to lnnke to you. To-morrow 3-011 are going on a picnic. Willy Ba.nor has signed the pledge; he ean not drink beer, nor any kind of strong drink. It would not be manly, nor honest, nor right. Now, I want to help him keep his pledge, and I want vou all to help him. t-'o if vou will promise me that no beer shall go on that picnic to-morrow. I w 11 agree to furnish lemon and sugar, and a reci: e for lemonade, just as delicious as that vnn liud tn-d:iv. T)n vnn :irrp'" "Ye-:, ma'am yes." ma'am," was the eager chorus. And one youth shouted: "Three cheers for Miss Miller." They were lustily given, and the boys departed, dust as they were leaving. Miss Miller said: "Willy, bring your friends to Sunday school next Sunday. We'll make room for them in our clas." The boys came, and, more than that, they all "signed the pledge: but that was not the only good resulting from v illy Kaynor s pledge, nor why I tell this story. Late in September Willy's father, who was Captain of a small sloop, came home to remain a few days. The second evening after his arrival three of his intimate friends were invited to spend the evening and play cards with him. Soon after they were seated the boy's father said to him: "Willy, take the pitcher and run over to Jones', and bring us a couple of quarts of beer." Little Willy, trembling and anxious, went slowly to the closet, and took from the shelf tho pitcher which he had so often brought from Jones' tilled with never came pai id t md mr tv: the few passeugTS who passed by, at that late hour, hurried quickly on. and his tremulous voice was lost in the lolenee of the storm. Again that heavy chill struck through hi frame, and his blood seemed to stagnate beneath it. Ho coiled 1 iniself up in a projecting door way and tried to sleep. But sleep had lied from hU dull and glrzed eyes. His mind waudered strangely, but he was awake aud con scious. The wcll-knonn sound of drunken mirth sounded in his cars, tho g'ass was at his lips, the board was covered with cho.ee rich food the were before him he could see them all", he had but to reach out his hand and take them, and. though the illusion lads had enjoved W:IS rfi:iniy useix. lie knew he was with numbers, and I alone .in tho l'-serted street, watching me ia:u-urops a iiwy pattered on the stones; that death uas com ng upon him by inches and that there was n ne to care for or help him. Sudden ly he started up iu the iwtrnuity of terror. He had heard his own vTico shouting in the night a.r, ho knew not what. oV why. Hark a groan" anoth er! His senses were leaving him; half formed and incoherent words burst from his lips; and his hand-; sotig.'it tc tear and lacera e his lleh. lie w:w go ing mad. and he shrie.-ed for help, but his voice failed him. He raised his In-ad and looked up tho long, d-smal street. He re olle -ted that outcasts l.ke It mself, condemned to wander day and night in tho -e dismal streets, had sometimes gone distracted w th thfir dismal lonel ness. He re membered to have heard many years before that a homeless wretch had'once been found i.i a solitary corner, sharp ening a rusty knife to plunge into his own heart, preferring death to that endless, weary wandering to and ro. In an instant his resolve was taken; hi limbs received new life: he ran quickly from the spot, and pau-ed not for . reath uut 1 he reached ti.e river s.de. He crept softly di wn the steep stuno stairs tr at lead from the com mencement of Wa erloo Bridge, down Ke crouc ed into as the lib-; re- J Why is there so much Lynch law lief of the publisher by selling him a in this country?" It is beoause there is very large number of agents' addresses so little of the" other kind in the courts at a su. ill part of the cost of getting : N. Y. CommerciaJAUverliser. ' them by advertising." airy regiment in tho late war. Cassidy forwarded the letter to the Pension Of fice with a favorable indorsement. He was surprised to receive iu a day or two a reply from the Commissioner of Pen sions, stating that a pension had been -J , . . . .!- I WlViil g"S,r?S TL ", r,.T:h. w other qno:hnny oaiuc -UU W VllllSlJll, auu blltau OHO utva surrendered the pension upon marrying, some time since, a man named Gill. An investigation was at once had. It has just been ascertaianed that Mrs. John son, having been informed by herfriends that her husband was killed, in one of the bloody battles of the war, mourned him as dead, obtained a pension as his widow, and subi"quent'y married Gill, an Ohio mac On his part, Eli Johnson had been sorely wounded, hadr spent several months in a hospital, had been .nformed. upon emerging from it, that uis wife was dead, had gone to their old home to find tnat she had left with out leaving a trace of her whereabouts behind, and had sincerely mourned her . , rri. I . IIILU" rJrffrS there were tears in other eyes beside his each other still. Unfortunately Gill pitcher. "Willy," the father said, sternly, "where is the beer? You were never gone so long before." "I did not bring any.' "What is the matter? Where is the pitcher? Have you broken it? Get an- up." But Willy stood, the very picure of dismay. Something in the boy's face touched the father, and he said: Out with it, my sou." " I left the pitcher on Jones' coun ter." "And will he send it over soon?" " I did not tefl him you wanted any." "Wrhat do you mean? You n verdis obeyed me in this way before, my son." "O papa! papa!'' the child said, bursting into tears, " I couldn't help it; I couldn't buy nor bring it, you know; I have signed the pledge." Then, with tears still streaming from his eyes, and sobs almost choking his utterance, he told the story ot the pledge-signing. Before he had finished, still lives. Washington phia licconL Cor. Philadel own. "Not a bad thing to do," said Cap tain Kaynor, when he could control his to the water's level a corner, and he'd his breath, patrol pa sed. Never did the or's hi-:irL tlii,:h with t. linni erty and life half so eagerly a, did that of the wretch-d man at the prospect of death. The watch passed clo-e to him, but he remained 11:10b ervid and, after waiting till the footsieps had died away in the distance, he cautio. sly descended and stood beneath the gloomy arch that forms the lauding place from the river. The tide was in and the water flowed at his feet. The rain had ceased and t .e wind was lulled, and all was for tho moment still and quiet so s lent that the si ghtest sound on the oppos te bank, even the rippl ng of te water aga'nst th.i 1 arges that were moored there, was dis'inet'y audible to his car. I he stream stole languidly and slug gishly on. Strange and fanta-tie loniTs rose to the surface and beckone I him to approach; dark, gleamir.g e;es peered from the water, nn.l see red" to mock Lis hes tation, while hollow mur murs from behin 1 unjed him onward. He retreated a cw paces, took a short run, a desperate leap, and plunged into the water. Not five seconds had passed when he rose to the water's sur.ace; but what a change had taken place in that short time, in all his thoughts and feelings! Life life in any form; poverty, mis ery and starvation, anything but'death. He fought and struggled with the water that closed over his h,ad. and screamed in agonies of terror. The curse ot his own son rang in his ears. The shore but one foot of dry- ground he could almost touch the step. One hand's breadth nearer and he was saved; but the tide bore h.m onward, under tho dark arches of the brid e. and he sank to the bottom. Again lie arose and struggled for life. 1 rone instant for one brief instant- the buildings on the river's banks, the lights n the bridge through which the current had borno him. the black water and the fast-lying clouds, were distinctly visible once more he sank, and once aain he rose. Bright plumes of fire shot up fronj earth to heaven and reeled be ore his eyes, while the water thundered in hi ears and stunned him with its furious roar. A week afterwards the body was washed ashore some m le3 down tha river, a swollen and disfigured mass. Unrecognized and unpitied. it was borne to the grave, and there it has long sinca moldercd away. Charles Licktns. "I nevek should have struck him y I had been sober," said a condemned murderer, in his remorse over his enma through the contentions of a drunken, spree. r mnvMH(H 1 'H.j'.j mfmf&32&isr32qt