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THE RED CLOUD CHEF.
A. C. HOSMER, Publisher.
BED CLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA.
THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL.
" A littli; !iilfl ghall lew! tln:in."
-A petty clon.1 between the two lm! fulton
fcSi.j loan.-ij buclc, prouilly, B.lent, In her
chair:
He, at tho window. ntarel out ut the lark-
llfS.
Anil dark hi own Iirowi were;
"When, kii.m,.,,! n luoty'n shrill cry noiunlcil
'MM the laee lricric of iU iluhity bed.
-Anil, awltt ut with one thought, ttiey turned
together.
Though not one wonl was sivldr
Hut hi their hustc. drawing nside the covers
Alxjitthe crib. It chanced that their hands
met;
One swift, .-hy kIiuhi- she ithvi: hitn, he to her.
Ami. In, her eyes were wet!
;she raised tin' ehlltl with tender mother euro.
To soothe Ji i.tiniHury I viiirue ulanriK.
.Ami liHimi them Uitli, heriulf :id h:ilo to
gether. CIu-mJ close In his htroinr arms!
J. JC J.wHutn, in Cmt.t ll'ii'J.fitwj.
-ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP.
'Tho Use Thoy Make of Thoir Bit?
Ilorns.
ti,'nrlln Tlivmnrl vr ITji Into IJnIM ami
'tolling Ovrr I.of tjr I'rrrljiltsr Tlilrlrrn
Out or Tliri-r Hundred Klllrtl by
I'ulllnj; l-'lltecn Ifruntlrml Ffrt.
Of nil the game animals in tin:
"Northwest, ami particularly Montana,
tin: Big Horn or Rockv iiiouutain sheep
furnisher the most sport to huntsmen.
"hasing tin: hiiilaln across tin; plains
fn horseback ami killing them with a
revolver, which was at one time tin: fa
vorite method of hunting tins big bison,
used to be the m: plus ultra of Nim
iodic amusements in Molilalia, but
-since the buffalo have disappeared
hunters have drifted back into the
anountaius. ivherc tin: "Ovis Montana"
-ire to be found during iaiis rear-, in the
greatest abundance. There must be
2ot. of fun -.callipering over the prairie
sitter a liftceii-hiindrcd-poiind bull, but
there i- the heat ami violent exercise.
3iot t -.peak of tin: danger of oiir
Jior-- plunging into a prairie-dog hole
.and sending you downward to grass at
stn anle of fifteen or twenty decrees.
The mountain sheep is always found
among the peak-, and dill's in cl alti
tudes ami pretty near the timber or
lcrietu:i 3iw line. The Big Horn
he.p of tl.- uoiintain-.i-.a most
I:tlifiilL anih Ir- Thevarc u-ual-i..
.....i ; V"' '"l Ulr, iiIH..s 0f
hheep-hunt r living on I'rvor's fork,
inv.r h-Mc. relates that he .saw not lonj;
o a llock of ciht-oiie .sheep in the
Hitter Knot ratine, and about live years
sio. while seoutin through the Ti ton
basin, in Northern Wyoming, near the
.Noutlu-rn boundary of the Yellow.stoiie
Nation.il I'ark. he ran upon a band
that must have, uuinbereu over three
hundred.
'fjge-e aniinaN ranjfe all the way
fro.w the Kio t.'rande to tf Mackenzie.
but at the limits named thev arc. c-
dini;ly x-ar-e and most dillicult to
kill. Their natural home is anions: tin
liioiiuta.iis ot the Upper Yellowstone
:uul .Mis-ouri river.s. Some few are
loiiml in Wiishinirton Territorv. Ore
gon and California, but the center
A r.'itul ulii..ii tl..... I.. . 'Ai - i
"nii "in iciiie rTlie I el-
.'iow-time National Park :md tho bor
lerin counties of Montana. Idaho and
W ..mini:. Particularly arc they plen
tiful in the mountain:, trom which they
take their name ir. the Iij Horn.
Wry little is known of the habits of
ttus nire puiie animal, even by those
who have written o:i the .suhjos-L
Thev ranrjc winter and summer alike
: the same latitudes and altiNules.
onh in Minimcr they wander farther
way than in the opposite sea-son. Dur
".ni: the cold months they stay on the
cnuthern slopes of fhu mountains so
-is to catch the stiu. In tho . summer
tiny are generally found on the higher
eacne-. where the bunch ross ami
mountain clover are abundant. Anionir
the peak- w here they h:.bituate one of
the lirs-. things to appear in the spring
i the wild onion or leek, which is cacr
l.y sou-ht out ami doviHircd by them.
"I'm wild plant impart.s to the tlesh a
ticliirh-.ful n:lvr um, In:lk,.s thl. nu.al
of the p,ijr nlini t. ,,, .Pk-johs ;
J'ie niountauis. Their rentest encniv
. the mountain lion. In fact the priii
fipal diet of the mountain lion us the
tender oilspriii!: of the "Ovis Mon
tana. ' Whfii latnhs aru not to be had
the liercc North American panther
JJoes not object to feasting on the par
. The.se rare sheep are :ilo sub
iivt to a or: of .scab diseae. which,
"hen it become epidemic, sweeps off
at -hort notice scores of them, voun-r
-d old alike.
The -Ovis Montana" is adorned
ynii the most remarkable headirear
mia.U'inable in the shape of monstrous
Jiorns. The.se are used by them for
various purposes, but principally as a
means of defense. Astonishinir as it
may .seem, they also use their immense
horns to -i;t ti,.., ;., .i.....,.i;..
Irom one lofty eminence to a lower.
1 in skipping from crag to crag and
from ridge to ridge it should become
m-eessary to make a jump downward.
Ho matter what the height, they roll
themselves up into a kind of ball,
"vault out into the air, and, turning
a succession of somersaults. Keep the
"all rolling, so to speak, until they
s?trike on their owerful herns below.
The shock would kill an ordinary ani
mal, but these hardy denizens of the
mountains don't seem to mind it much,
ior they spring to their feet and go
bounding over impossible chasms and
jagged rocks until it becomes neces-
counlablc reason the Hock U-ciiiw
.stampeded and rushed away like the
whirlwind. On they rami: pell-mell
to the edge of the ciill. which wan cut
rtharp into a perpendicular decline of
fully fifteen hundred feet- The, lead- '
ers paucd. but there was no help for
it. The rear guard crowded them
over, ami the entire Hock went neck ;
over heels down into space. It was no j
doubt a curious sight to .sec three hun
dred mountain .sheep doubled up into
balls and falling over such a lofty j
precipice. Down they ciuuc. one after :
another, until the whole b'ind had
made the awful jump. As this was
such a frightful leap for any breathing ,
en ature to make and live, it is not
.surprising to know that thirteen out of
the three hundred were, killed by the
concussion. The cowboys of the ranch
-cured the meat, which they declared
far superior to their choice Montana
stM:r.s.
Some of the mountain-sheep horns
attain a remarkable .si.e. One pair
brought into this fort last February bv
a Cheyenne Indian measured seven-tei-n
inches in circumference, although
only forty inches in length. The ran
from which they were taken was a
.splendid specimen, weighing over two
hundred pounds, and .stood, when crrct.
nearly up to a man's .shoulders. Iteing
such a wary animal, the following
story of th capture of a llig Horn
by Mr. F. F. Baker, a Pennsylvania
gentleman, who has a ranch near
Houhler, in the western part (A the
Territory, will seem most strange and
.surprising. Th .story come well au
thenticated, and there can be no ijuc.
tion about its veracity. Mr. Hakcr ac
tually accomplished tin: singular feat
of catching and holding by his unaided
.strength a wild Kocky mountain .sheep
a ewe. He came upon her at the foot
of a sloping bank which led x to a
.steep but n t vcr high elilVof rimrock.
His dog. of the .shepherd breed, trained
for hunting, was following, and when
it saw the .sheep pursued it up tin: bank
to the dill, where it stood at bay. mak
.ing demonstrations at the dog. which
was prompt in returning them.
Mr. Ilaker sent a man who accompa
nied them back to the house, a ijiiarterof
a mile away, for a gun. While he was
away Ilaker made a .sneak'' on the
.sheep a:id cam" around on top of the
din" above the animal, win: attention
was still eel iipied with the "log- From
this aiitage point he dropped astride
of its back, and grasping it around the
neck with his arm held it lirmlv; but
the wild deiii.en of the mountains was
not to he conquered so easily, anil a
.vurlijl.letfaa iu which Mr. Ilaker
a rated. .lu.st as they reached th
trround where it was level the man
with the gun arrived on horseback,
trailing hch-iud a long sinew lariat.
Happy thought! Ky the aid of the
rope the mountain ewe wis hound and
taken to the house. Hut it refused to
cat and from straining on the rope n
ipiired constant watching to prevent it
from choking t$? death. Mr. Ilaker
was in hope-of getting a lamb that he
could domesticate; but .hiding that the
ewe was barren and thin in flesh, be
sides pining fur her mountain home, a
few days afterward he turned lier
loose. when she Hod toward the
mountains from whence .sh was capt
ured, bounding like a rubber ball from
eminence to eminence until lost to
view. IViifvIrlfihia Timet.
TEMPERANCE EEADIflfc r-:
83"
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SANDY.
Hind ?anlv." -nt! the i"i vna
" i h Mjn h iranr to rest.
Th'Iainini- saf in the isiiUl,
'l'Xus birdtc In the act.
line ye forgot our linn.'-, mon,
Ttte cot oti l!r'M iniir
Th be-ker o the camllc liyht,
'1 he face ut the tioor?
Hit" if forjtot tti-win rann,
And weanlf bide nlnne.
IV! pttrriic'ti ii ami nl'httV, rann.
Aboou the IurI? !-.'
Eh. mon. ye ken th trar ilrfn t a'
I'imiu the irowtiru croon:
lint recl c lo- lh ull-hioe. mon.
And titnkurd o' the toon.
The liiiiirt they come, the hour they
Tlie voek It Vm to craw;
And r:io. lnyont fu--t liradda's brae,
The day Jt VIn to daw.
O maim ms break )onr A lib neart,
Tho imirn were iiimte t la.
Tli we'-l r ken her woiimn t heart
Will Joe ye through It a i
J'liir ?amlv." unld the wi ma voice,
Malr than the Iim1 alxxm
Ay. malr than the wife mm wean, ye loc
The tunkuid-, o" the toon. '
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RUM IN POLITICS.
It f Ilr.-.iniliic tlir All-liiiportaiit Ally
Mltb tbf MatrBiinur iif tlir llsT TJm
Saloon a Mhoul for the Wuubl-llo
J'ubllc .Mun.
What have the s-ven thousand .sa
loons ui New York City done for her?
They have fastened cpon her citizens
the mtift .shamefully corrupt govern
ment ever endured by a community in
dul'rii" in the illusion that it was free;
they have almost made it impossible
for an hone.st, educated nmn to touch
local politic, much less take oflice:
thev have degraded the conduct of nub- t.r
. - ......: 1-.... i i. .1.,. I n
lie anairs io ineu u m.mi. i... i r
have brutalized evcrv institution they , .. ...,
have had to do with; they have per- J mir jux
erted and poi!rd tin: democratic jon '
system, liiaKlllg a Hissing ami a ic
jroach of American citizenship and
the suffrage, establishing political
snatiiiiie.s, pamieriug i me ihhh
cry thing decent awl pure with their ! J."11.1:""
..:iJ..i.i ..?n: I ..J..,.,..;,,., ,. in- i discipline
:......, n. e .. . i...: .7:... .. Ilients on t
tervais, as piooi m men ijuam., .-..-deiicics
and power, such abom
inable scandals as that of the 'iVeed
use or
I1KKS
soc.eti
1'h 1 si
lei
we
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contra
opiui
ocntyJ
grounl
sum til
sou.
tues.
Nov.
lifl.ul
fanaticJ
liatiei.sl
me
mi:
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fanaticisl
Drinkiii
the rank
conic on
King, or the more recent .-ale of
vote" in the Hoard of Aldermen. Hut
cil as are the results of the combina
tion between the saloon and the politi
cian-, it is not ju.st to hold the latter
strongly st.'
at the head
than at the
that number
field Srtt.
It must Ml
that one bold.l
! himself on tin
nspon.sible for all the mi,chi -f thev " "'
ca.L: In truth, thev are the icsult of -l; & l"''
condition, which could not produce "',h. ,,l,--l,
au.v thing better, and it is unreason
able to blame the product while re
fusing to interfere with the generating
agencies. The .saloon i.s uu arrange
ment for the maintenance and propa
gation of the wor.-t viie with which
huuiaii.ty is atllicted; a vice which div
stroys every elevating influence, kills
shame, manhood, ambition, family af
fection, honor, all that makes liic
woctJi living: a vice which fosters
.-ions ami inclinations. Now." the' jiur-
o-c and intent of the saloon being
wliHt it is, the devclopmeaLs noted
are simply what ought to have
1 eeii expected when o lare a
share in the government of the coun
try w:.s pcru:irtd to b: M'ized 1)3'
this sinister agency. The American
system of government is theoretically
sound. The means )f education are
accessible to all. Hui wlui.t our chil
dren have passed through the public
burning zeal ail
the emotional il
race, and built il
tarv pledges be
irrcat curse of tl
Xuitii I hi cis. f Fu
I have the satil
that, although the cl
what from scurvv.
tinned, to a man.
hiotltli. which I attril
f'lVii' WK KVlTlir.W.sel
and good conduct of tlj
out. William Kciinfdl
th' I. miii Franklin priv
All this (toil, pcstilcj
heat) could I have bij
j jov, but to see the streti
, the gates evcrv hour, i
loaiumg in the mouth,
fxec. not with the
whh the horrible del
more dreadful or del
schools ami enter into active life, if .sian or the iila.n..:
i : . ... ...i. ... . .. . . . . .-'-
". i.su in i;iKc parj in purine atlairs
CASEY AND CORA.
Ail Illrsjt! Transxrllou Ulil.h IIrotiBht
1Vci-.l Sniirll , tm S.111 KrMiirU.o.
A Mist crowd wit.ne.s.sx'd the solemn
sight, for the block between Sacrair.eu
to and Commercial streets w.s ili.-n
mostly iinocriipied by buildings, and
every available foot of space was filled
with the multitude. Some of these
.sympathized with the criminals thus
.nt to face their eternal Judge: but 1
think they were very few. I think
that, with the great majority, the feel
ing was one of relief, because it was
one of assured safety. For my own
part. I wa.s like the Apostle Paul at
the forum of Appiiis: I "thanked Cod
and took courage." I have no doubt
that some may .say that I ought to have
been impressed with the awful solem
nity of the scene, and to have been
shocked at its illegality. Perhajvs I
ought, but I was not. 1 was sellish
enough, and irreverent enough, to
send my thoughts, oven with that dis
mal sjM'CUiele in the air above me,
from the past to the future, I remem
bered the reign of terror under which
we bad so long been living, and 1 knew
that it was ended. Kight in the midst
of that stirring time Cerald Massey's
lines came into my miiui:
Though hoar I brood o er thr past, our ees
Wiib smtbm; i mures irli.stcn:
For. h. our tiny burst up t.k.es
Lean out jour souls ami INtea.
The world tuovi.sou its,rkrious way
And bi-ichtcns'mt our forrovr;
Keep heart who bear the en?s to-iliiy.
shall ear the crown i-niorro-.
The two murderers had thus paid the
penalty for thoir crimes. It may be
worth mentioning here, that any vis
itor to San Francisco may lind their
tombs in the old church-yard of the
Mission Dolores. That of Casey, the
more pretentious of the two. was erect
ed by the Sre company to which he
belonged, and which esoused his
cause with entire unanimity. It is
very near the gate of entr.it.ee, at the
southeast corner of the old adobe
church. It shows a broken shaft, with
the inscription: Cod forgive my per
secutors, lhat of Cora is a few yards
further west. It was erected by his
former associate, Arabella Bryan, uni
versally known as Belle Com, to whom
he was married in the committee
room?, after the passage of the death
sentence, and who of course inherited
they must descend to the saloon for in
Mruction in politics, and in the same
institution the foreign immigrant must
graduate before thoy can exercise the j
Banish this deadliest
your ranks. -Florence
from the Crimen.
Haung the public hi
Sunday is a temptation
right of citieilsl.'m. These are our ! tile to drink tun mm
political schools, in fact, and thev give ' iicm would diminish i
tin.-tone to our polities, city, Male and j were placed out nit
National. The candidate for office l Sunday is a timoji
limts it indispensable to "make himself J money in their
solid with" the rum miwer. Ita must
buy the favor of the saloon-keepers.
He miiM hvijueut these jlace.s and Hat
ter the vanity of those who gather
there. Through them he must obtain
the votes of the idle, the vtcioiis. the
criminal classes. He must become
familiar with all the ward "strikers"
and loafers. He must be repre
sented at the cam-Uses which are , to and t
mi ways odd whore drink abounds. He t wrests
must dffer to the views of men of thw invites.
what the lower c
siitli'.'ient contr
own passions.
is ".pent whj
their
of a tui
A is hiH
1 1 thl
ness, ca
veJopc,
dangeroi
good gol
mon ilerH
lowest intelligence. He must subscribe
to plattoruis drawn up by demagogues
aad time-servers. Is it any wonder
thatsclf-re.speetiug mrn so often shrink
from these ordeals, and prefer the oh- devclopnj
scurity of private life to a political oa- wicked !
reer demanding such sacrifice and such crimes o
.I..I. ......,.-... D Tl... : , , . I .;
,. u.iiuu.ii. ne ooeiirucr who lamts .son. iveni
ii .ins wuiiiij ouiaius me urst ideas i public crl
of its governmental .system from the I indccuncil
.-aJoon. I here he is introduced to the itns.
lowest intrigms of factional contlicts. It is toe
There he is taught that the chief end .shin nf th
and aim of politics is to make as much j is thrvatei
as possiwe ior me "workers. There i munitv
l... :- ...::.... :... .. .. -
... .- . uii.-i'.u nun one or me omer i and mor:i
ot tue great organizations which the deet
nae reiiuceti party politics to which stal
periodical bttles for plunder, to j KaM; that
contests for the opportunity to . of our v
misgovern. There he learns that honor nosed hni
and principle are simply "mola.ss to ' more degl
catch flies." as a notorious politician ! that it i-Tnl
once expressed it. There he is made to ' it is not onll
understand that he is not expected to j unsueakabltl
think for himself, but that he must b!icr"i,r:n,r n..
1. .. ! . .. . , "" "J
,,uc) impuciuy toe party mandates. ' future. i
reference me saloon-keepers of his All mir.
wrtrd. submit hinwtf humbly to his igators a
boss. and on election day be thank- f ifnm!..,1iJiM
fnl that he can sell his vote for a couplo ' sist? f !
f .111.... .. ., .1 .1 l 1. . . . .' ' f ' U 1
. . . . - ' ""'" on nan wiiiskv. severest-111
i nis is no lancitul picture. There is I conip.vc
not a considerable eitv in the United , holic "i
oiai-s in wuicn purcnaseu votes an not licial. "
cast by the thousand at every import- ' upcrajj
:n election, ami ;nese vti's are al- of a
most invariably ought and paid for in n---j
and thniugh the saloon. (iconic Fred- Wli
crtc I arson, t Atlatiitr. Monthly.
POSITIVE STATEMENTS.
Ci
his roirt.-- Thrt !. iiwri-irki.si ;
arr to make another descent, when ..Charlei. con. Died Mav 22, 185fi.--l
tue same taetw-s :ir. nniMtil. I . . . ......
. wJntl.i II.ui L J. a
VUMIIKl .MWHJiy.
the same tactics are repeated
W. B. Dow, of the Green Mountain j
Cattle Company, relates that he
aw near his ranch on Powder river,
Jiot long ago, a band of three hundred
mountain sheep. They were browsing
-en a lofty cliff, wlieu for sonio unac-
I IaLi. t. .,!.: .. t .
iumi i.ust.iu says: -- nen l ?ci a
girl dancing I thank Heaven.' So rjo
we. John, a girl can't talk while sh ia
dancing that is, not to any extent.
Sew Mavtn Sew -- "
iKiiinonv Acalnt Alrobol CiTfti br
rhiliMophor. Statesmen, Iiirician
Miul Warrior.
He Who klli-WS wlist i trnr.it n.l
chooses ir w.i knows what U Ki.l -t..I a"
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MVfil's if. i r wiiii nnii rnntvwkv-itn 11!
Socrates.
I never use it: I am more afraii f ::
than of Yankee bullets. "gioiattti?'
Jackton. on btituj oj'crrd a glass if
hran&y-and-icalcr.
I do thpnk that water-drink -
will .upset the world, and turn it arour j
with u muth better Lco to lis wiita V-, 1
they have Oone with it. Richard Co6- . 'M
dm. At. Ml 'n Ji
Woe to tie crown of pride, to th Tn
drunkanlsjif Ephriam. who-e glortoifs hica
beauty is ijaded flower, which are of
the head dfahe fat valleys of them that (Jea'5i
are overcowe with wine. BiHc. hosnit
As for intuous liquors, they Weftl roca
doled oat y iie members of ihc e,
litinn ..rl when (Amu .,.. .. . AI'C- j Top
v..---- -"usuat e.xer.
0D
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tion or exuWme krough: oiae ctt LWtil
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