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n .- -- LESSONS OF VALUE. Dr. Talmag-o Discourses on the Beauties of Home Influences. Remembrances Called Up By Chair Left Vacant The Voices or the Children the asj-ffSwectcst Music Preparing For 9 the Future Uomc fin a late Bcrmonat Lakeside, O., Rev. T.jJjeWitt Talinage, of Brooklyn, N. Y took for liis subject "The Vacant Chair." His text was from I Samuel, xx. 18: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy beat shall be empty." He said: Set on the table the cutlery and the chased silverware of the palace, for King- Saul will give a state dinner to day. A distinguished place is kept at Jhc table for his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. The guests, jeweled and plumed, come in and take their places. When people are invited to a king's banquet they are very apt to go. Uut before the covers are lifted from the fc:vst Saul looks around and finds a vaca-itheat at the table. He sai'.s within himself, perhaps audi bly: "What docs this mean? Where is my son-in-law? Where is David, the great warrior? I invited him. I expected him. What! A vacant chair at the king's banquet!" The f:ict was that David, the warrior, had been seated for the last time at his father-in-law's table. The day before .Jonathan had coaxed Darid to go and occupy that place at the table, saying to David in the words of my text: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy scat will be emp ty." The prediction was fulfilled. David was missed. His scat was empty. That one vacant chair spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet- In almost every house the articles of furniture take a living per sonalty. That picture a stranger would not see anything remarkable either in its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Iouvru and the Luxembourg. You remember who bought it and who ad mired it. And that hymn book you remember who sang out of it. And that cradle you remember who rocked it And that Hible you remember who read out of it. And that bed you remem ber who slept in it. And that room you remember who died in it Hut there is nothing in all your house so eloquent and so mighty-voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine pitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voices that came up from the vacant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams' vacant chair in the house of representatives, and at Henry Wilson's vacant chair in the vice-presidency, and at Henry Clay's vacant chair in the American senate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Windsor castle, and at Thiers' v.:ant chair in the coun cils of the French nation; but all these chairs aro unimportant to you as com pared with the vacant chairs in 3our own household. Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn? Are wo any better men and women than when they first addressed us? First 1 point out to you the father's vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at Vtme, and sometimes when you are in MaVir place and they come into the room, you jump up suddenly and iaj: "Here, father, here's your chair." The nonliability is, it is an arm-chair, for he rTnot so strong as he once was, and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, his gums a little depressed, for in his early days thero was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cain chair and old-fashioned apparel, for though you may have suggested some improve ment, father does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table of one of my parish ioners in a former congregation; an aged man sat at the table, and the son was presiding, and the father somewhat abruptly addressed tho ston and said: ".My sou, don't now try to show oil' be cause the minister is here!" Your father never liked any new customs or manners; he preferred the old way of doing thingN md he never looked so happy as when, with his eyes closed, he sat in the arm-chair in the corner. From this wrinkled brow to the tip of his slippers, what placidity! The wave of the past 3'ears of his life broke at the fo jt oTthat chair. Perhaps, some times he was a little impatient, and sometimes told the sumo story twice, but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! I hope you did not crowd that old chair and that it did not get very much in the way. Sometimes the old man's chair gets very much in the T'i especially if he has been so unwise as to make over all his property to his -children, with the understandihg that .they aro to take care of him. I have. seenin such cases the children crowd tho old mica's chair to the door, and tlien crowd iCeftar into the street and then crowd into the v poorhotisc, and keep on crowding it until tho old man fell out of it.jnto his grave. . l'.ut your father ctrtirv-was a sacred place. The c'iikTr used to climb up on the rtingsyoXit for a fcood-night kiss and the longfcfhe stayed the better you liked it BfflT that' chair lias been va cant for.soine time. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty cents for it but it is a throne of influence in your domestic circle. I saw in the French palace, and in the throne room, the chair that Xapoleoa used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but tho most significant part of it" was the letter "N" embroidered into the back of the chair in purple and gold.' And your father's old chair sits in the throne room of your heart, and your affections have embroidered into the back of that chair in parole and gold the letter "F." Have nil tlu. pr?yTS of that old chair been answered? Have all the counsels of that old chair been practiced? Speak out old arm-chair. llistorv tells us of an old man whose three &ons were victors in the Olympic games and when they came back these three sons, with their garlands put them on the father's brow and the old man was so rejoiced at the victories of his three children that he fell dead in their arms. ..And are you, 0 man, goiug to bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulness, and put it on your father s brow, or on tlib vacant chair, r on the memory of the one departed? Kiwalc out old arm-chair. With refer ence to vour father the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shall 1 missed, because thy seat will be empty." I go a littllurther on in your house and 1 find the mother's chair. It is very apt to be a rocking-chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe thatlt must have rockers. I re member it- welL It was an old chair and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole famllr. It made a creaking"noise as it mortil; but there was music in the sound. It wss just high enough to allow "us children to put our heads into her lap. VThat was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. Ah! what a chair that was. It was different from the father's chair; it was entirely different Ycu ask me why? I cannot tell, but we a" felt it was different 'Perhaps there was about this chair more gentle ness, more tenderness, more grief when we hid done wrong. When we were wayward father scolded, but mother cried. It was a very wakeful chair. In the sick days of children other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies" and all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their sick children songs in which all pity and compassion and sympathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set up in the loft or the garret but it holds a queenly power yet When at mid night you went into that grog shop to get the intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voice that said: "My son, why go in there?" And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of sinful amusement, a voice saying: "What would your mother do if she knew you were here?" And when you went into the house of abandonment a voice say ing: "What wonld your mother do if she knew 3011 were here?" And you were provoked with yourself, and you charged yourself with superstition and fanaticism and your head got hot with your own thoughts, and you went home and you went to led, and no sooner had you touched the bed than a voice said: "What! a praycrless pillow? Man! what is the matter?" This: Yon are too near your mother's rocking chair. "0, pshaw!" you say. "There's noth ing in that; I'm r00 miles off from where I was born; I'm 3,000 mile's off from the church whose bell was the first music I ever heard." I caunot help that; you are too near your mother's rocking chair. "O," 3011 say, "there can't be anything in that; that chair has been vacant a great while." I cannot help that, it is all the mightier for that; it is omnipotent that vacant mother's chair. It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it carols, it mourns, it prays, it warns, it thunders. A young man went off and broke his mother's heart, and while he was away from home his mother died and tho tele graph brought the son nnd he came in to the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: "O, mother! mother! what your life could not do your death shall effect This moment I give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference to .your mother, the words of inj text were fulfilled: "Thou shalt bo missed, because thy scat will be empty." I go on a little further and I come to the invalid's chair. What! How long have you been sick? "O! I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty 3'ears." Is it possible? What a .story of endurance. There arc in man3' of the families of 1113' congregation these invalids' chairs. Tho occupants of them think the3' are doing no good in the world; but that invalid's chair U the mighty pulpit from which they have been preaching all these years, trust in God. The first time I preached here at Lakeside, O., amid the throngs present, there was nothing that so much impressed me as the spectacle of justono face the face of an invalid who was wheeled in on her chair. I said to her afterwards: "Madam, how long have 3011 been prostrated?" for she vas lying Hat in the chair. "0!" sho replied, "I have been this wa3 fifteen years." I said: "Do you suffer very much?" "0 yes," she said, "I suffer very much; I suffer all the time; part of the time I was blind. I always suffer." "Well," I said, can you keep 3'our courage up?" "0 yes," she said, "I am happy, very happy indeed." Her face showed it She looked the happiest of aii3r one on the ground. O! what a means of grncc to the world these invalid chairs. On that field of human suffering the grace of God gets its victory. Edward Viiy son the invalid, and Richard Baxter the invalid, and Robert Hall the in valid, nnd the ten thousand of whom the world has never heard, but of whom all Heaven is cogniuint. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's eye and for the eye of angels to rest on is not a throne of earthly power, but it is the invalid's chair. But when one of these invalids' chairs become vacant, how suggestive it is! No more bolstering up of the weary head. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more use of the bandage, and the cataplasm, and the prescription. That invalid's chair 111.13 be folded up, or taken apart or set away, but it will never lose its queenly power; it will always preach of trust in God and cheerful submission. .Suffering all ended now. With respect to that invalid the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." 1 pass ou and I find one more vacant chair. It is a high chair. I is the child's chair. If that chair could be oc cupied, I think it is the most potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it It means more than David's chair at Saul's banquet At any rate, it makes more racket That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it How that child breaks up the hard worldliness of the place, and keeps you young to GO, 70 nnd SO years of age! If 3'ou have no child of your own, adopt one; it will open heaven to your soul. It will pay its way. Its crowing in the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. You do not like children? Then 3011 had better stay out of Heaven, for there are so many there the3 would fairly make you crazy! A pioneer in California says that for the first year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county, there was not a single child in all the reach of one hundred miles. But the Fourth of July came, and the miners were gathered together, and they were celebrating the Fourth with oration, and poem, and a boistrous brass band; and while the band was pla3iug, an infant's voice was heard crying, and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to think of their homes on the eastern coast and of their wives and chil dren far away, and their hearts were thrilled with home-sickness as the3 heard the babe cry. But the music went on and the child cried loud er and louder, and the brass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy -miner, the tears roll ing down his face, got up and shook his fist and said: "Stop that noisy band and give the baby a chance." Oh, there was pathos in it as well as good cheer in it There is nothing to arouse and melt and anbdue the soul like a child's voice. But when it goes away from yon the high cbair'beeomes a higher chair and there is desolation all about you. In three-fourths of the homes of this congregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask strange questions about God and Heaven. Oh, what is the use of that high chair? It is to call yon higher. What a drawing upward it is to have children in Heaven? And then it is such a preventive against sin. If a father is go ing away into sin he leaves his living children with their mother, bat if a father is going away into sin what is he going to do with his dead children floating about him and hovering over his every wayward step. O. speak out, vacant high chair, and say: "Father, come back froau aia; Bother come back from wordliaes. I am watching you. I am waitlagfor you." iY-th respect to your child, the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty. My hearers, I have gathered up th voice of your departed friend and tried to induce them into one invitation up ward. I set in array all the vacant chairs of your homes and of your social circle, and I bid them cry oat thk morning: "Time is short Eternity k near. Take my Saviour. Be at peac with my God. Come up where I am. We lived together on earth, come let a live together in Heaven. We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, as Saul kept a seat for David, but that scat shall not be empty. And oh! when we arc all through with this world and we hare shaken hands all around for the last time, and all our chairs in the home circle and in the out side world shall be vacant may we be worshipping God in that place from which we shall go out no more forever. I thank God there will be no vacant chairs in Heaven. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heart breaks. How much have you been through since vou saw them last! On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. The loneliness. The sleepless nights. The weeping until you had no more power to weep, because the heart was withered and dried up. Talking it over, and then, hand iu hand, walking up and down In tho light No sorrow, no tears, no death. In the east they take a cage of birds and bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then they open the door of the cage and the birds, flying out sing. And I would to-da3 bring a cage of Christian consolations to the grave of your loved ones, and I would open up the door and let them fill all the air with the music of their voices. Oh, how they bound in these spirits before the throne! Some shout with gladness. Sorne break into uncon trolablu weeping for joy. Some stand speechless in their shock of delight They sing. They quiver with exces sive gladness. They gaze on the tem ples, on the palaces, on the waters, on each other. They weave-their joy into garlands, they spring it into triumphal arches, thc3 strike in on timbrels, and thon all the loved ones gather in a great circle around tho throne of God fathers, - mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and friends, hand to hand. around about the throne of God the circle ever widening hand to hand, joy to joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victor, "until the day break and the shadows lice uway. Turn thou, m3 be loved, and lc like a roe or a 3'oung hart upon the mountains of Bethcr." HOW TO CARE FOR A RAZOR. A Harbor Kxplalns Why It Is So Difficult to (Shave One's Self. "Been shaving 3'ourself, sir?" asked the barber in a tone offensively patron izing. "Yes; how could 3011 toll?" "Oh, that's cas3 enough. I can fol low your tracks. Your neck shows it" "Well," said I, apologetically, feeling as if I had committed a crime, "tho trouble is I cau't keep my razor in or der." 4 ' The barber smiled in that superior manner barlers have, and said nothing for a few 'strokes. "Bow do yon keep a razor in order?" I asked with humility, whereupon see ing himself approached with becoming respect, the barber delivered the fol lowing extempore address on the sub ject of caring for razors: "It would take you a long time to un derstand the razor," said he, as if de ciphering hieroglyphics were child's pla3 in comparison. "In the first place, you must learn to hone 3011 r razor. See," and he drew forth tenderly a white, smooth stone, and applying to it the fiat blade moved it diagonally back and forth with scientific motion. Then he laid the keen edge against his thumb nail and made an observation. "Now it's right" he said, triumphantly, "just aliko from end to end, but it's hard to get it so. You would spoil that edgu with half a dozen strokes. "The next thing is to know how to strop 3our razor when you've got the edge right . AVd the hard part of that .is to kcepyour strop in order. Look at this one. (1 wo broad straps or leather and canvas used alternately.) "Notice how soft they are. That is because I 'xeep them oiled just enough. I pay a dollar for a brand new strop, and six months later 1 would not sell it for two dollars, because I've had the trouble of breaking it in. It's the same way with razors: they're worth twice as much after they've been used. "Another thing you amateurs don't understand is that a man needs a dull razor in shaving just as much as a sharp oue. Didn't 3011 notice that I changed razors in going over your faco the sec ond time? Well, the second one I used was dulL I could not havo used it at all the first time over no more than I could have used the sharp one the sec ond time. You must have a keen edge to get off the bulk of the leard, but for shaving close the edge must be rounded. Why is that? Oh, I am not giving ex planations; I'm simply stating facts. "Well, good day, sir. Next!" N. Y. Y. Herald. HONORABLE THIEVES. Curious Storirs of the Men Who Held Up the Oriental Kxprrs. The narratives of the Germans captured on the Oriental express by a band of highwaymen some time ago and recently returned to their homes contain some curious chapters on rob ber etiquette in Europe- la the first part of the robbery Herr Kotsch was deprived of his watch and chain. Sub sequently, while tramping tap the mountain side to the robber den, he asked the chief for the chaia, as it was, he said, a memeato of a dead friead. The chief at once called the man who had got the first placating of Herr Kotsch and ordered him to return not only the chain but also the watch. This so affected Herr Kotsch that he re pented his cheatmg the highwayman by tucking some fifty dollars worth of bills into his shoes, and he sat right down by the wayside to sake good his supposed violation of highway eti quette. He drew off his shoes and handed the money to the chief, who took it with the remark that Herr Kotaeh was aa honorable man. When the ransom mosey arrived the chief expressed deep regret that he must part company with his new Ger man acquaintances. lie gave each one twenty-five dollars for traveling ex penses, embraced and kissed hiaa. and after leading, a cheer for them all marched his bandits off through the thicket. Herr Graeger was greatly impressed during his captivity by the amount ot time devoted by the brigands ia devel oping their possibilities as lady-killers. "After sleeping." he says, "they made toilets with the greatest care. They seemed never to tire of admiring them selves in hand-minors. Each carried such a mirror and a hair brush with him. So as to "get every possible view of himself, each would tarn and twist in every- imaginable position. Fre quently he would throw himself flat his back so as to see hU face in stronger light" Chicago Triton. AGRICULTURAL HINTS. STABLES FOR COWS. Daw to Construct Moors Which Can Kasllj Kept Cteaa. Not one barn in tea throughoat the country ha a properly constructed stable floor. The cattle are obliged to be in their own filth. The sides, legs and adders of the cows are in a dirty condition in the morning and it takes the greatest care in washing and brush ing to remove the filth and get the milk out of the stable without its becoming tainted. In milking, the movement of the udder will cause the fine particles of dirt to drop off into the paiL A gut ter behind the cows U objectionable be cause their Uiil.t will lie in it and a large portion of their body is besmeared with dirt when they rise. Then, too, it is injurious to cows heavy with calf to step down suddenly in moving around in the stable. The gutter should be enlarged and covered with a grating fof slats ou which the cattle can stand and 3et wide enough apart so that the I 11 ft 7? frJL-fr H M .7 c c ;.' it a f ) 1 H . i 1.1 manure will fall through. Iron grat ing, are made expressly for this pur-Kise, but are too expensive and a wooden grating may be made at much less the expense and 'wiU serve the same end. The slats should lc of hard wood 1 inches wide and the same space letween them. The grating ma3 be fastened on hinges and raised to tike out the manure. An other bad thing in many stables is the ordinaiy stationar3 stanchion 13 which the cows are fastened b3 their necks. It is very hard on the cattle iu lying down, as it alwa3s holds their heads and necks in one position. They should le discarded for the tie or a swing stanchion fastened by a chain at the lnittom anil top. too, if possible. The floor should alwa3s Ihj level and well bedded and the stables kept dry, clean and .sweet Among the lxst arranged stables' for comfort of the cows, cleanliness and convenience that we know of are those of Georg '-'. Powell, of Columbia count3, N. Y., director of the New York farmers' institutes. They are in the basement of his concrete barn und run lengthwise of it The stanchions used Mi i r wt j: tytst t.u ! W "mr-ani 1 'MMtfittfi'm X to hold the cattle are a patent swing stanchion and are held by chains at the top and lxttom V) the beams, A and B. The side of the stanchion, C, opens to let the cattle out and is held shut by a simple iron loop at I). The floor on which the cows stand is shown in the two lower cuts. The cuts showing the ground view is planned for two cows. The lioard, IC, is 8 inches wide and the dirt space, N, between that and the board. I, is filled with clay and gravel pounded solid for the cows to stand on. The grating, II, under their hind feet is made of hard wood slats 13-j inches wide and is placed over a large tight trough, G, into which the manure drops. This trough is large enough to hold all the manure made in two" days, when it is cleaned cut and .spread immediately on the land. The' cows are kept well bedded with sawdust, which is used as an ab- sorlnrnt Chaff, straw and leaves are also used when available. In front of the feeding manger, O. is a water trough, P, so that the cows are watered in the stables. They are never let out in winter except once or twice a month to get some sunshine. The3 are fed fs'om the alle3 in front and arc given corn silage twice a day with hay at noon. Their grain ration is composed of wheat bran, corn meal and cotton seed meal which is fed with the silage. These stables with very little expense have leen remodeled from an old-fashioned one, with a gutter liehind the cows and a stationary, neck-breaking stanchion to hold them into a modern and model stable. Farm and Home. AGRICULTURAL HINTS. Oxk protection against Irorers around trees is air-slaked lime, lilerally ap plied, first removing the earth around the tree. Aftkii each rain the cultivator should be used if the young weeds are to be removed and the soil prevented from baking and becoming hard. Heavy horses arc. chiefly needed in crowded cities where horses cannot move rapidly and where heavy loads are necessary. For the country a dif ferent sort of horse is wanted. I.v some sections of our happy coun try goats and sheep are used for "sprouting" new land. Starvation or the principle of "not hog or die" is the motive power. But it never makes the animals fat Jirooixo from the varying opinions expressed about dehorning cattle, it would appear that the first thing to be done is to settle whether or not the practice is really to the advantage of the cattle, and whether the operation is cruel. HANDY WAGON JACK. Its Coastractloa Is Fallr fUpUUsied hy the Illustration. Mr. L. L. "Pierce sends to Farm and Fireside a 'description of a handy wagon jack In the illustration. A WAGOS JACK. is a piece of oak 3x4, S3 inches long; B is a 2x4. 14 inches long; C is 12 inches long, and the lever. D, is S feet long, the shorter end being 1 foot in length. Its constnrctkrta is i ally ex- J plained by the cat v a " 1 1 1 a 1 inna 1 1 ' Ae JbW-5"5- ViVl Sb' i-Zs"v. K-f t FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. It saves time and leather to bare a broom, brush and dastpan for every floor in the home. To arrest aloconga close both ear with the fingers with pressure, while a few swallows of liquid are taken. Thin glass is too good a conductor of heat to be advisable for kerpituj toilet creams, which preserve their qual ity best in thick queensware or pottrry. Banana Custard: One quart n ilk, two eggs, one heaping tablespoon corn starch, four tablespoons sugar, three bananas cut in thin slices. When cuv tard is cool pour over the fruit House keeper. Instead of potting food Into the oven to keep hot for late comers try covering It closely with a tin and setting it over a basin of hot water. This plan will krep the food hot and at the same time prevent It from drying. Never wash cups, platrs it knives used in the sick room with Ihnse of the family. Scarlet fever and other infec tious diseases have been spread In this way. Do not eat in the sick person's room or partake of anything that has been left there. When decanters and carafes become so discolored inside that shot or tine coals will not cleanse them fill the bot tle with finely-chopped potato skin, cork tightly, and let the lxttlt tand for three days, when the skins will fer ment Turn out and rinse; the bottle will lie as bright and clean as when new. What to do with cold liecfsteak: Chop the best and most tender portions, add hot water enough to moisten slight ly, heat quickly and serve at once aa soon as hot Add butter, salt and pep per. The tough parts of steak or of roast lteef are much more palatable if boiled first in water to cover until ten der. Then use them in any of the ways given for cold meat, as croquettes, hash, mince on toast, stew, ragout meat and potatoe pie, braised meat etc. Boston Budget To remove grease siots from bwka scrape some French chalk or take ikjw dered whiting and lay as much on tho grease sjKt both .sides, as will corer it Then press a moderately hotflatiron on the spot covering the powder with a small piece of blottingorcommon brown paper. The heat will dis lvc the grease, which will mix itself with the chalk. If it does not all come out the first time repeat the process until it is all removed. Old Homrstead. Hoast Apples: Take nice firm ap ples, core and peel them, and place in an cathern dish. Fill the centers with sugar, and fill the dish one-third full ol cold water, sprinkling two tablespoon fuls of sugar in it Bake iu a quick oven until they can be easilj stuck through with a fork. The result will be beautiful amber balls with a jellied syrup to pour over them. A thin slice of lemon could be baked on each apple, or a drop of vanilla, or a clove stuck in the middle of each apple makes a pleas ing variet3'. Good Housekeeping. Lemon Cakes: Take one pound of powdered sugar, three-fourths of a pound of flour, fourteen eggs, two table spoonfuls of rou water, the grated rind and juice of four lemons. When the yolks are well beaten up nnd separated add the powdered sugar lemon and rose water. Beat them well in a pan or bowl with n round lottom till it be comes quite light say for half an hour. Put in the frothed whites and leut lightly. When mixed, place the batter in well greased pans (small oval tins) and place an icing over the tops if de sired. -Detroit Free Press. THE AMERICAN WAITER. An Imprtiou) Creature Who Kulrs with llniiKhty Mriti. The hotel clerk's imjicrious ways hava long Im'cii a subject of aihuiration not unmixd with awe to the unassuming traveler, but it is doubtful whether even the hotel clerk, as a persona ingrata, rivals the American waiter in an Englsh man's 3es. Knglishmnn often express their wonder at the iui(erturbability of Americans at the "imjK'rtineuei's" of waiters. One of these disgusted English men, writing to a New York paper, com plains that Americans have copied the bad English habit of tipping waiters, a custom that is specially distasteful to an Englishman in America from the ."net that, whereas the London waiter earns his douceur In'Jbis politeness and attention twthe gTiesTs wants; the Am ericm "waiter is frequently inattentive, 'impertinent, and takes the tip without a word of acknowledgment There is much to I e said in favor of the Englishman's view of the case. Tip ping iscertninly an un-American custom, is not compatible with the spirit of democracy, and inevitably tends to ser vility on the part of the receiver and .1 patronizing manner on the part of tho giver. Possibly it is the absence of this spirit of srvilit3 in American waiters or the resenting of the lordby way of the Englishman on the part of the waiter that is responsible for many of the impertinences and much of the fric tion which is the Englishman's portion when traveling in America. The aver age Briton gives his orders to a waiter in a tone and manner rarely ued by an American, nnd it is but natural that the waiter should resent it The American idea is service without servility, and Americans, as a rule, recognize that tho waiter need not be constantly reminded of his inferior position by the tone and manner of the guest Any one who adopts this manner toward waiters when traveling in America is likely to make every lody uncomfortable and his course through the country will be merely a succession of rows with the various "meni als" who minister to .lis wants- The American waiter is by no means per fectand a little more attentivrncv. and deference towards those he serves would undoubtedly improve him. and it is also barely possible that a little more con sideratioa for the waiter would improve the average guest, whether American or Briton. Chicago Herald. Isrttrr Than etl-inf. It isn't drujrs or medicine that is needed at all; it is plenty of the purest air that can be had. Open the window .s and the doors, clear out the cellar, and ritilt. it tTfinrnturhlv- removt the dampness, the ratine the ancient odor, the smell 01 decay, wni-cn jrreet-. the nostrils when one enters from the health-fjivinjr atmosphere oat of door. Never mind if the outer air bears the taint of the gahooe. the manufactory, or some other unpleasant thin: it is also mingled with the health and strenth---ivine; forces of nature, and is certainly better for the human system than the same air which has bee n sh ut up and con taminated for an indefinite period, with no chance for purification. Don't mind. even if a little dost is brought in; a few aainates with the daster wi I put tbe whole bouse in perfect order a;rain. and even at the worst dust is not half so bad as disease. Aad as for the fear of draBirhta. with colds aad a thousand re sultant evils following in their train. 1 BiaeTeen-twentieths of that is imap- aary. and the other twentieth easily avoidable. ltoston Budget Mow Wps Est. Mra Gefreqaeat Yoa needn't grnaa le ahewt the prkeofthis boa act Al fred. It waa the uses oa the street yesterday. Meek HuaTMsd How do you ksow, say dear? Xrs. Gofrequeat Hew do I know? I met Mrs. Gadafcoat. while I.hadkosi aad she didn't f amir ie s-,---Ht-ca-o Trihaae NtHVOUS OISORDERS. Qrt-r rae Wfclefc Aaaall RatraMtr rrotM tr!. A doctor who has given much atten tion to nervous dkea.s, without Ix-inf a specialist in that line, spoke tho other day aboat pecaliar nervous disorder he had met with in his practice or had heard of from his brother physician. "It U strange." he saM, "that scarcely any one sympathize with a par-soa suf fering from a nervous disease, unless indeed, one gains condolence from some one who has bcea there- Bat a strong man or woman, with no more ncrvea than the law allow, thinks that ncrroo disorders are a farce, ami that the suf fering Is assumtMl for some alterior pur pose. Ami yet men will go through tfec greatest agony from these cause. I remember one caso of a student who wuhed to make a harried journey. He set about tacking his grip, but on be gan to hesitate about the deposition he should make of each particular article. Then he changed their place.s a great number of tlmcs and fell Into great per plexity with regard to each one of his modifications. Finally he arrived at a condition of mental anguUh. and was forced to confide the operation of pack ing up to another pemon. J "One of the same class of doubter- J prepared to reply to the letters of some j friends interfiled in hi health, but ' experienced so much doubts -all of , them trivial concerning what he should say, that he was at last rurd with a , profound feeling of anguish and dqalr, J and was restrained with difficulty froni hanging himself forthwith." 1 "One amusing form of ucrrous trouble j is what is called 'word mania.' om i of the people so afflicted arr constantly j seeking for some word which thry twrcr j succeed in finding, and whose purport they can not even dMribe. Others find their happiness in life utterly destroyed on nceouut of the Imperious nece.s-sity j they feel of pronouncing, at short inter- j vals. some particular word which ihey detest Some of them are In constant j fear of pronouncing certain words which j they wish to avoid utterly. A lady In i the latter category was certain that if she pronounced particular words some J people of her acquaintance would die. j The desire to say them grew irresistible, nnd she repeated them. As however, the jvorons did not die. she wan cured, for a time at least of her malady. "A man belonging to the first men tioned group devoted himself for a long time to trying to recall the name of a man he had met but once, and in whom he had not the slightest interest Still another one affected with tho word mania was pursued by the word 'orglc. which he felt himself obliged, under pain of a horrible jerpb.it3. to pro- J nounce, )Mrfortuing certain acts or ex editing some particular movements. i "The fear of dirt Isoalled mywmhnbia. 1 lie inuiviuuat ureaus 10 loucu uuyuiin. An example Is that of a l.wly having this affliction, who washed her hands more than two hundred times a day. Another patient would not touch a door knob without putting on gloves, while an other, who sjMMitfour hour every night in preparing for IhmI, always used up twent3' fresh towels in drying his hands. A curious case- of this sort is that of a young lady who conceived m great an abhorrence of a mau who hud !ccii pa3ing his addresses to her, that rhe heaped together all of thrarticle.sln her parlor which had Wen touched by him, and set fire to them."-Alban3 Argus. Clutter Wre Ilitssrrs llrrr. A young woman, who carried a mil linery Wx, boarded an Eighth avenue open car the other morning and can ftilly dejvosited the Ihjx Wsldo her Soon the car stopped for another 3011 tig woman, who was carrying a pet pn. dog in harness. She seated herself 011 the bench occupied 13 thcyoung wom:ai with tho millinery Imix and. Ignoring propriety, placed the dog on the paste board lwx with the remark. "There, sit there." The ownerof the lo,x looked m sharpy at the newcomer and was about to say something when the lid of her box Wgan to break under the weight of the dog. With a sweep of her hand she knocked the dog from the box. The passengers laughed as the other woman snatched up her pet and brushed him off. She bit her lip with vexation, but said nothing. The wo man with the nw bonnet signalled the conductor at this jvohit, and as she alighted from the car she gave a with ering glapcc of jimtempt -at the woman with thuudg. who pretended not to no tice her. N. Y. Herald. Tim I'resrlriiri of fr'amr. The prescience of fame is very infre quent The village gazes iu wonder at the return of the famous man who was born on the farm under the hill, and whoso latent greatness no I tody sus pected; while the youth who printed verses in the corner of the county paper, and drew the fascinated glances of palpitating maidens in the meeting house, and seemed to the fanners to have nvsociated himself at once with Shakespeare and Tuppcr and the great lilcrarj-or "littery folks." nevcremerges from the poet's department In the paper in which unconsciously and for ever he has Wen cornered. It would be a grim Puritin jest if that depart ment had been named from the corner of the famous dead in Westminster AbWy George William Curtis, in Har per's Magazine. t.o- Amio( tli rrvsk. "What's the matter with the boneless wonder? asked the fat woman. "He seems down on his luck." "It's a Iotc affair. answered the living skeleton. "He proposed to th two-heaiicd girl yesterday, and on of Vra aecrpt-d him and the other refused him. No wonder he's all broke un." Indianapolis Jour nal THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITT. July iZ. CTT1.E Shlppint; M IIS JO st Batch-tV 4rer NstlTr rows Him;s tioil to rboire heavy W1IKAT ". r red Na.3b-.nJ ........ COZSSf.7 OAT No.2 RT1- No.J .. riCK Iatent. jrr ssek ... tncy ...... ...... HAT Ri"d ?" n 13, a m is Tit ti 1 il it SH &- 111 219' J V it 11 St ? Ut m sg7Z?!7:: EGGS-Cholee . . BACUX Marai. !sooldrr. ........... ftWr.... ......... IU.bKA' ........... ......... rOTATOEa, - ST.LOUtSL CATTLE Shtpptax :.... Batchers" -terrs HOOS rackir-r &R EET Tlt to choice. FLOUR Choice. WHEAT No i rw! COKX o.X. OATS Xa. 2 KTE Sa.1 - BCTTEli-Crcmrry . 10I CHICAGO. CATTLX b-)p)BS trr KOC-racl. "S iftUt-; SHEEP TaIx to csKMC. rLOCV Wlatrr wheat-. WHEAT-Xo-lred. .-, COSOe-Sa.2... OATS So.T .. KTE Xo-X. .. RCTTEXCreaasery. . .. . IOKE. .. . - . CATTLE Ca-ssasets to -mase. HOGS Co te eao'oe.. ) u a ar Xi -at M st SfH -V u 117 1is 4t m tea S st a tt m 14 5rj 1 J" "I I FLOCK-Go lactoScc. WHEAT Xa.L rrJ- . -t A ?". ss tt - a v -r-- wvwznvm Hatja-aAsaaa 93 t RGTTEE-CrbtavErrr. 1 t ioisi...t.. .-. .. ii aa c um a at JS1 WmU Ik Cttr mt4 Ctmmirf, People who live in the ouwatry Havt little idea of the wate that g- m In cities. What gue Kit of th city kitchen Into thi garl-aj- wagon, it it had leen n-vnomlcally manux!. would have fed ten time the nBiWr H was bought and paid for TW"traTa,-" In the dwelling of th rl in ell U ; startling-; but while the iarror wife can giv bcr city sisters leotts In management, the farmer btmbrlf car take lesions from city busltwv woo and manufacturers In busine mincr nacnt -Northwestern Agriculturist A ntrrto ti.llM It Is to fed tlsat Ju an m-orertax vtUJJty asd firsa, ImproTiBC la sppeUU; aftd Um abditj to sleep TUcm) aro Umi lavrubic result of using lli4?it-'aMusa.,h Unt-ws departure of udrto. the diapperare of xaalarlo. iotons and th wair& mark U prrvcaooof MUoas, rbcuaiaUc aad juuuey con sua a 1. Jiaor sajs he doc Uie to sprlnf (wntrt 'ni-i. n rlf k irotiIe txsu thr srt 0 willtoj: to rive up aavt&Io lumln , Uairtle. - - "Tan turrcr was a rrtnrdy tnsdo wlla more care taaa Dr. John Bell's NwutunlU Kara oao of tho scvrrtU fc-r- sad rsu Usl is rkxb examined, and U lwi-i. subslaarr. ncludcil, hrfons their trw virtues are citracted. Th reswdr l twt largely advrrtit-isj. but r-o.r who ue it will UiW about tl il prat" It d It drr tiM-sttseU It will cum jcu of h!xxl di ca. Try It w hen ttseso targrly aUvcrtisol watery compounds falL "TKi.tiiH I (Mtk balro-. Uo.rft. I s1 faillir wtth mxny ton cue," ld U sicUu Huffaki Knqatrer Mlt not W ixmfu tided with cvaimou oath nrtc or turia.miiH. CaHer' UtUtj Lv rr ItlN arm onUrel v unlike tbeai la wry sjiect. Ouc trial will -rove their superiority A JCssTrircr iSau called hU hors "Hot lUoJtt' ts.aus 11 wss the fittest brtsl t knew of WtuhiBCtuti tSlr It i nosiurclv hurtful to u-ontment for skiu dnstACs I'm (lirtin's Sulphur Sv Hill's Hair and Whisker live, 5V, An Mquattcchutbnst this -.mii of ttv rar u bound to tx tn the st-lsn. X U Itcajuim lr you think your child has wrns, don't icirtivtttHliUl it has muis. Atmniti ltlr Hull s Worm lcsUv)crs. TleyUst Kood. Tut HOrii of a church ;holr hss tr-i known to make s hit thul entitled her to th xvontt Im tor Mr,- HttJs'UtnjUiii lxuiir ToKrottTKlhtOinru,h liver and bonds and prouUdl(tUon, tkeoutf Crtr Little Uvcr Pills every night Try Ihcm Yuc'i c trot U ruUn the w Ind If i ou ii to W a heavy snHl si th cahr. WU InKtun Str. yQftn In Pl'sC4i,'fr"-nittuiitton Cures where othtr remedies tail Si. Tnr. bifceftt things In India 4thant Mall Mint Kxpres COPVR0, Every one sujTrr$ from Catarrh in the Head. TIiom who don't have it Hufler from thoo who do. It' a diHac you can't keep to yourfielf. Here aro homo of tho symptom: Headache, obstruction of iioe, dis charges falling into throat, uome times profue, watery, and acrid, at other-, thick, tenacious, mticoui, purulent, bloody, putrid, and olTeu hive; eyes weak, ringing in ran-, deafness ; offensive breath ; itmcll and tanti- impaired, and general de bility. Iiut only a few of these likely to be present at once. The cure for it - for Catarrh it r-clf, and all the troubles that come from it a perfect and vrmariciit cure, is Dr. .Sugu's Catarrh itemed y. The worbt caes yield to its mild, Foothing, cleansing and healing properties. A record of 25 years lias proved that to its proprietors and they're willing to prove it to von. They do it in thii way : If they can't cure your Catarrh, no matter how bad your cav. or of how long standing, they'll pay you &00 in cash. Can you have heller proof of the healing jKnver of a medirmu? 'German Syrup 99 For children a medi- A Cough cine should be ab-o- and CrouD 'ulc'' reliable A mother must be able to Medicine, pin her faith to it as to her Hiblc It must contain nothing violent, uncertain, or dangerous. It must be standard in material and manufacture. Il must be plain and simple to admin ister; easy and pleasant to take The child must like iL It must be prompt in action, K-ving immedi ate relief, as children troubles come quick, grow fast, and end fatally or otherwise in a very 5hort time. It must not only relieve quick but bring them around quick, as children chafe and fret and spoil their constitutions under long con finement. It must do ils work in m derate doses. A large quantity of medicine in a child is not desira ble. It mnst not interfere with tbe child's spirits, appetite or general health. These things suit okl as well as young folks, and make Bo schee's German Syrup the favorite family medtdnc. & Constipation Cured TflriTNttr-r iarB (. rsor. r iter rim.-. 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Srrup uf Fig is tl only rvmixly of its kind ever pro duced, pleating to tin tmto ami ac ccptahle to tho stomach, fuiuniit In !u action ami truly Ix-nedda! iu iu rirccli, prvparwl only from tho tuot licalthy ami ajrreahle nullaticc. I la ruanv excellent qualities commend it to a")l and havo made it tho inoai popular retnedv known. Syrup of Figs i for wile In 0O0 and $ 1 bt ilea hv all leading dmg gvls. Any rrliahlc tlniggUl who may not have it on hand Mil pn ; euro il promptly for any one ! wLhm to try L " Do not accept any fulrtitutc. CAUF0RNIM FiO SYRUP CO, Ji tAkCUC0,CU lewirtttf tt ot n r. iAW ssjr mtVL9 Imr W. I.. IJist . t mm fmt solo l ; ! W or rolrr la ri4 far I.!'. " IS) aBtttrt, I iti ISrtM lr If l.inr. ,10 i niiiii i s WHY W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE ctsfPfou IK BIST SHOE is THI 310 tW t MMM? II la s arsm! . "MS ? - lSvl U fert IK furl, m.l t( tfc M aa 4f 4tt ttal ut s-! Scr y li fr4s I,..-, .y tJKtr M,.W-rf rr II . W L4 Mn lh THl ag 1 m II 11 U I i SPC MM.-il- tl.-'-f-l. (! tr 99 d f fflrtnl ( riu rrti 4 O0 lUml.orn'J Wolf !-, P- ftf, S MjlU, r-w.f tI.U .! JliA tWIi &.- i-rT--.l at Ihla (-tv 4 as fSS S m! .-.- mtig fr-1 s t r, KQ rollr. "aan rifTMIt. P9 I !-t-f C ftwral - IS .ml4A.ai.nr4 tuai-tr - SV .! m!r MI SJ-MSV iw b riti tt 144 mm -j-j. aTPaSa tbt. pttr ttm tHatt Ma) awaits' W" "Niai.l mUrr t"f sstaMjtTatl S-fVW. MUi Msal M.aja) Wnsl rmia'i r rrf 'lSf lrt-.M Ttfc- W ia (I tro II.MH s trlmiwm vr twi ) QaV( 9M.B0 a4 7.1 -vj - EaVUTas rs f llrfl l.f r.Sr lmffi a tkaT tla. It lrt-T-J lalM '- I faHIsaati l"l. ll.!--J . kaulCI lkpi, frttvMurra Ur"r-1 "r-'-ifM l.Kk .! I.dra -i,a. SVi.Wft m4 S.7.. - f. MVaraarltklt Sl't4. MfHlt.Kl'ltlll f mtllsfi. Sa tJt H t l-4l s sa4 W. L tXuLAS. I-U. H-.SV If You Have JTaastflf. tftlaait.t. ft alt !. Mirk Hlasi. -all rata 4-sial. laS M f Itfsla. ;ou still f Itsal Tutt's Pills fha vsiaMty rtm mA. Tt I -. tfsa sraiabi alsaisrh a1 kollil Mj !( flagcltiaT n'r(l-i. mttlrrn rn Snlsl r snarsl ot-rtumh still risHI rallaf frvraa Itivan. ,t lrl a ai(srrsl-4. hold i:vKievviii:iei so citAKOK or clxkatx nxxvxa . ASTHMA: WK WILL HXVO YOU TEKTlXOlfY rjiox jKorLic wmo ' , LIVK XAJt YOU CURED tm CURED. P. HAROLI HAYES, M. 9 , ' BtrrrALO, m y. HAY-FEVER jr-warraTO v roat-aoora.1 , EDUCATIONAL. , ) rirM.vju i arr cos jjitiiiiffliinYUtuj. t wv alall--ar -. . a s S'I. ' aaraaatfSM a i " a. UWREKE i ATCNISH V.r, 1 a- t f a aafssaj '.'t(irtM nliriai r taafai Was H t- . -- V r .-. . a.l Tm . mMATlAalll r m A llVaSallv . taiiai'ift aaMa I ?1V - Sart t- aaSamajSllina t taof m t -f-Tt&t w'i H. faaa, fSfS. a - c-aa fj i " an TlMMff ir'-ws'"'wrtf -ttm( WS"STal SWVal At. 4 ,.., .. wKwa)aiiy CaC t aStoMS -MW. fia. rssas tas rt s aa aw . A- N. K. O. 1354 & ts-HrTiTs aajrTiras rxejx ataaW IkaaV aaa aar ta ilnoanl tm Xt :afFl hCl 'ism 'l.ssi sssssPlat. W t ia tmi THE stAMSatS CITY MEDICALS SURGICAL SANITARIUM - S a aaaaa - ar tn laa am- a i -i fsm-9 -. t . a MPS 9 rrirp. ' taaaa a isaai. famtoi batai SaiaM. ffiaa. I mm . faaiaSal aa taat Wa.aa.aa f I iiw a - ajiilasaaa - - aa rafw.,.a.itfW "' " t C. ML COC. freMttnt. A nratsijar. UNI AS CITY, MO. t lsak a mcs4 parxMfe U afat K 11 aalMps4S f MtM rj tm 3L MaasV fcT.tta-taiTa.a3. ttm. I A ui