InfthiB fair land , where.honost men *
Their country dearly'love
Who8epast ; proveSTj > lairily itjhasibeeu
Protected from above ; "
'
In'thlBialr dime ofVchu'rch and school ,
Of broad and fertile farms ,
'Tts strange that we-flhould find a fool
That wants a "coat of arms. "
Oh , riches ! thou with slenaer brains
Hast ever played the deuce
The fool , with quickly gathered gains ,
* In folly's ways turned loose , <
Bedecks his walls.wlth costly daubs ,
His library with" trash
"Becomes the very worst of snobs ,
And spends abroad his cash.
This is the chap that once - sold- cheese
And "lard and kerosene
iVTio used.to get down on his .knees
To hunt a truant bean. '
But now that he's no longer poor ,
Good sense ho sore alarms ,
-And decks his gaudy coach's door ,
"With a glaring "coat of arms. "
It maybe that I'm most too hard
. On fellows such as het.
But then , the man that once sold lard
At least should modest be.
And when a "coat of arms" he wears
Mob force should break Its tethers ,
And modify hissnobbish airs
With a roat of tar and feathers.
[ Parmenas Mix.
GRACE DARLING.
Some Points in the Biography of the
Modest English Heroine
Notes and Queries.
* One of the most interesting objects
in the lord mayor's show of 1888 was
the boat in which Grace Darling and
her father went out to the wreck of the
Forfarshire and rescued the nine sur
vivors , at daybreak on Friday , Septem
ber 7 , 1838. This boat is a stout fish
ing coble , built for half a dozen oars ,
and it looks as strong as ever. It was
on view all last summer at the Fisher
ies Exhibition at South Kensington ,
and on November 9 it was carried
through London streets , high on a
wheeled truck drawn by a team of no
ble cart horses and guarded , as was
light and proper , by British sailors.
Where is this boat now ? It is kept safe
and. in honor , as such a r.oble relic
should be. But for its history , it would
long ago have been sold , among other
old stores , by the Trinity house ; and
perhaps it was' sosold and bought by
-some private owner. One would like
to know this ; and still more should I
like to know how much of that heroic
story of forty-five years ago was in the
minds of the lookers-on. It is only
the simple story of an English peasant
girl of three and twenty , who had lived
ior twelve years with her parents on
the lonely Longstone island ) and who ,
after that night of tempest , persuaded
her father , the lighthouse man , to. row
out with her , across a mile of stormy
sea , to the dangerous- rock on which ,
through his telescope , a few perishing
-human beings could be seen. She did
it ; and she brought every one of them
safe back with her. That is all ; but
it is one of those stories that men do
not willingly let die.
She , Grace Horsley Darling , was
born at Bamborough on November 24 ,
1815 , the seventh child of William Dar
ling and Thomason Horsley , his wife.
These details I glean from a poor but
genuine little anonymous memoir of
her , published at Berwick-upon-Tweed
in 1843 , just after her death , which lit
tle memoir also tells me that during
those , five years of her fame , 1838 to
1843 , she steadily refused to. quit her
parents or her island , and went on liv
ing there -as. quietly and as simply as
before. She was a devout , courageous
irl comely and sincere and silent.
She had ( says good old William Hewitt -
itt ) "the most gentle , quiet , amiable
look and the sweetest smile that I ever
saw in a person of "her station and ap
pearance. You see she is a thoroughly
good creature. " When Lloyd's agent
his name was Sinclair , and he de
serves to be remembered for her sake
went out to the .Longstone he said to
her : "Well , Grace , we.'ll surely be
able to get you a silk gown for this , "
and she said : "Do you think so , sir ? "
witb perfect simplicity. Silk gowns
came in plenty ; silver teapots came ,
and votes of thanks and coin to the
amount of 700 , and visitors from afar
yes , even from St. Petersburg. But ,
as my little pamphlet truly says , she
"never for a " moment - forgot the
niodesjb dignity of conduct which
became her sex and .station. Large
sums of money were offered to
her by London managers if she would
but come and sit in a boat at their the
aters , and men far above her sent her
proposals of marriage. But she was
not a "professional beauty , " so she declined -
clined the stage she was not a suc
cessful murderess , therefore she re
fused to marry in that way. Neverthe
less , when consumption attacked her ,
and she was carried to her native Bam-
borough to die , I perceive among the
crowds at her funeral there was a cer
tain "young man from Durham , who
is said to have cherished an ardent af
fection for the lamented deceased. "
Him she might have married had she
lived.
I do not know whether there is any
monument to her in Bamboroug church-
vard , nor whether St. Cuthbert's chap
el , on Houselands , the largest of the
Fame islands , was ever rebuilt ( as
some had proposed ) in memory of her.
Perhaps a new chapel was not wanted ,
for the old one was destroyed long ago
by a Protestant monarch , and since his
time , says my pamphlet , "there has
been no public celebration of divine
the island. " '
'v * worship upon
Libraries.
Cleveland .Leader.
The National library may indeed be
called the great'brain bottle of the
American people. But the bottle is al
ready too full. The library was made
to accommodate 300,000 volumes , and
there are already 518,441 piled in it one
.above another , and over 170,000 pam
phlets are stored away inr'the crypt.-
After the work on the new building is
commenced , says Architect Smithmyer ,
and'in
increas jpur Natlojialilibrmry wiW. have
apprbximlteA'da inlUiOnf'pf volumes.
Aided asit is * byithe copyright
-will always be the largest and best li
brary in the United btes , ndiiit will
soon compete with th'ose'of Europe.
'There > * renew fiy6'bigger-libraries in
the world , vlz7 TKe National Library
of France , with 2,300,000 volumes ;
the Library of the British Museum at
London , 1,500,000 ; the Royal Public
Library at St. Petersburg , 1,000,000 ;
thelloyal Library at Munich , 900,000 ,
and the Royal Library at Berlin , 750-
000.
000.The
The first libraryin the United States
was the Harvard college library , start-
edin 1688 , while that of Yale college
, was started in 1700V Thirty-one years
later Ben Franklin , having walked
from New York to Philadelphia and
started a printing office there , origi
nated the first subscription library of
America , and in 1800 , when our capitol -
tel was removed to Washington , the li
brary of congress , or our national
library , was founded. When the Brit
ish oanie here in 1814 they burned it ,
and congress bought Jefferson's library
of 7,100 volumes as a second begin
ning. By 1851 the library had increased
to 55,000 volumes , when it was again
destroyed by fire , only 20,000 volumes
being saved. Since that time the library
has steadily grown , having nearly
doubled its size , within the past ten
years
In 1870 there were estimated to be
50,000,000 books in the libraries of the
United States and 20,000,000 of these
were hi public libraries. This gives an
average of over one book per person
as there were 38,000,000 people in the
United States by the same census.
The German nations have the most
books in their libranes , and there are
over a thousand public libraries in
Germany , Austria and Switzerland ,
twenty of which contain over 100,000
volumes. Great Britain has only nine
libraries containing over 100,000 vol
umes , but the British museum pays out
$80,000 annually to improve its collec
tion. France has six libraries "of 100-
000 volumes outside of the national li-
bi ary , which is the largest in the world ,
and Spain has , all told , thirty public
libraries containing in all 700,000 vol
umes , of which 220,000 are in the li
brary at Madrid. .
The Pleuro-Pneumonia.
Hastings Journal.
We have no apology to offer for the
amount of space we have devoted to the
above named disease. Then is noth
ing in the range of newspaper discus
sion so important to the people as this.
We have therefore collated and given
our readers all the news available on
the matter. We regard the stamping
out of this disease a question of the
greatest importance. It is true , that
as yet we have no pleuro-pneumonia
in Nebraska , but as it is Kansas and
Iowa , we are liable to be troubled with
it in some degree. This disease being
incurable , preventing its spread is all
there is left for the people to do. Even
cattle that have been exposed to the in
fection must be killed. Dr. " Bushman , ,
the famous veternary surgeon of the
U. S. army , says that it is first detected
in a cough , and that if more than one
is known to be coughing "that that is
evidence sufficient that they have the
pleuro-pneumonia. This is followed
by a loss of the milk. He advises people
ple then to kill their cattle to prevent
its spread. The value of the cattle in
dustry to this or any other country
is of 'incalculable advantage , and
anything which threatens to
destroy this industry deserves the
closest attention , not only of the indi
vidual owners , but of thu state and na
tion as well. It is therefore no won
der Kansas and other states have ap
pealed to their legislatures and to con
gress to do something in the way of
stamping out the . .disease.- seems to
us that congress is short-sighted in al
lowing the states' rights idea to pre
vent action of that body. It is a mat
ter in which every .man of every state
is interested beyond measure , and
therefore the general government
ought also to be interested in its extir
pation. Now , as the government is in
'
a'sense responsible for its introduction ,
and as the killing of every infected ani
mal is necessary to its extirpation , and
as this is decidedly expensive to the
individual and state , and as every one
is interested in its destruction , it there
fore becomes the duty of the general
government to oversee the matter and
'
share 'in the losses. Whatever means
are adopted to kill out this dread dis
ease or to prevent , its spread , they
should be ample , and should be used
in time. Delays are extremely danger
ous.
The Sioux Beservation.
Des Moines Register ,
Considerable interest is being felt as
to what the senate will do in regard to
opening the great Sioux reservation.
The DawesIndian commission has re
ported favorably for the proposed bill ,
and it-is thought hat the senate will
pass it. Then the real difficulty will
begin. For by the treaty of 1868 with
the Indians , it is required that a ratifi
cation of all ceded lands shall contain
the signatures of three-fourths of the
male adult Indians themselves. If the
senate should pass the proposed bill at
once , it would probably take . some
months to obtain the necessary en
dorsement from the Indians. The parts
ceded to the government by this ar
rangement will include about ten mil
lion acres. The greater part of it is
known as the Brmc reservation , and is
described as follows : Beginning
on the - Missouri river at
old Fort George , thence to
the western boundary of Presho ,
south to the forty-fourth degree of lati
tude , thence east to the river at Fort
Lookout. The treaty also provides for
the opening of that part of the Sioux
reserva'tion lying between the White
and Cheyenne rivers. The Indians
will still be provided with all the lands
necessary for their happiness and com
fort , and these lands will be held in
trust for them by the United States for
a-period of twenty-five years , at the ex
piration of which time they will receive
them in fee simple. The ceded lands
Tf Aft * V * * W ff * ? * * w _ „ , . _ _ j
* 4Tf nd the tfettlerrwill be'required torliv *
on his claim five years. The government -
ment fees willbe 50 cents peracrefpay-
ablef in four annual installments of $20
each. The opening of this reservation
will hasten the already4 rapid flow of
immigration to the northwest , and the
conditions upon which the land maybe
obtained will secure a tine class of set
tlers those who intend to make per
manent residences there.
How Shall We Meet the Spring ?
Harper's Mojjoilno for April.
How shall we meet the spring ? This
would be an easier question to answer
if we know how spring in this latitude
would meet us whether half way , or ,
indeed at all. For in this matter we
are not guided 6y experience. Hope
springs eternal in the northern breast.
And we allow ourselves to be deceived
by many artificial conditions we have
created. We get seventy and eighty
'degrees Fahrenheit by telegraph , and
fancy we arewarmed. ' . We eat green
pease and 'strawberries and the shad
out of season and fancy that we have
changed the course of nature. Lulled
into negligence by these appearances ,
man leaves off his overcoat , and next
day sends for the doctor. The doctor ,
who has all seasons iorhis own , re
gards spring as his harvest time. He
saves more lives then than in any other
season. And lives are worth saving
then , for the man who lives through
spring is likely to be a good patient all
the year. There never was a notion so
without foundation as this , that doctors
don't want patients all the year. This
faith in spring is a beautiful trait in
human nature. We always expect that
this spring will be early and will be
mild , andiifty years of disappointment
do not sour us. If the winter is hard
and heavy , we say that is a sign.of an
early spring ; if it is open and tolera
ble , we know that we shall have an
open spring. More than this , our
memory is colored like our hope , and
as we go on in years we say that in onr
youth spring was early , mild and
jocund. No trout rise so readily and
are so gamy as the trout of our youth
except the trout we expect to throw a
fly to this spring. This is the nature
of man. No wonder that the Psalmist
exclaimed , "What is man that Thou
art mindful of him ? "
How shall we meet the spring ? We
have stood a long siege , from Novem
ber to April. A part of the garrison
have been "braced up" by it , as they
call it ; others are weary and worn out ,
and would have surrendered long ago
if a flag of truce had appeared. Their
energies are exhausted , and just when
they need a tonic there comes upon
them at a leap the debilitating heat of
summer. This is , however , only one
way of looking at it. More subtle in
fluences are at work. The plants , the
trees , have had as hard a time as we
have ; some of them are dead. But
those that survive , as soon as they feel
the coaxing sun and the increasing
warmth in the soil , begin to get up
their circulation , to quicken the pulse
of their sap , and to bourgeon into the
most exquisite life. We are much like
them. .Grumble as we will , we , too ,
feel to the core of our being the thrill
of life newly beginning , and we are
born again. This is a delicious feeling ,
this tender sympathy in the renaissance
Of all things , this sentiment we feel
about the voice of the frog , and the
first flush of pink and green on the
trees , and the south wind. For some
days everybody , however old , is a possi
ble lover , and for some days everybody
is a poet. He experiences a sensation
that the poets never have fully ex
pressed , and that he cannot put into
words , or even into music.
The song of a bird swinging on a spray
of apple blossoms conies nearest to
expressing his emotion. Ir may not
last long , but while it does last it is like
a taste of paradise. This is one of the
compensations of our climate. The
people in the tropics know nothing of
this sensation. They are not born
again annually ; know nothing of the
joy in contrast and change. Consequently
quently they produce no poetry , no lit
erature ; they invent nothing ; they make
no "progress. " And they are not un
happy.
We should go forth in the spring as
the poet says , with a light heart. We
have had a long rest from the innumer
able insects , from the busy fly and the
expectant worm. We shall go forth to
sow , and to fight all these enemies with
new courage. Science is on our side
to name all these destroyers of our la
bors and our peace , and to describe
their habits. We feel a consciousness
of superiority in this knowledge. There
is an excitement in taking up again the
life arrested for so many months. There
is a perennial charm in the colored
Easter eggs , although we know by ex
perience that they will not all hatch.
It does not matter. Hope is a thou
sand times better than fruition. In the
spring everybody requests his mother
to wake and call him early.
Plenty of Hope for the Greely Party ,
Washington Star.
"I would "like to bet , " said a by
stander "that the relief
, Greely expe
dition returns next fall in safety.-
"Why , of course , " said Capt. Schley.
"And I am just as certain that we will
find the Greely party , and find them
safe , too.- There is not the slightest
doubt of it in my mind. "
'Where do you -expect to find them ? "
asked a Star reporter , who was an in
terested listener.
"We will find them , I thinkjbetween
Cape York and Littleton Island. There
are fourteen hundred rations between
Lady Franklin bay and Smith sound
sufficient to last the Greely party for
fifty-four days on full rations. Th'e Po
laris people made the journey in safety ,
with no such prospects as the Greely
men have. The chances are good ,
even if the trip was made last fall. In
the vicinity of Littleton.Island enough
reindeer could be killed to last all
winter , or the Esquimaux could be
reached without much difficulty. If
the trip was made this spring we are
sure to find them all right. In any
event , therefore , I feel satiifiedthey will
be returned in safety. "
Learn what people glory in , and you
may learn much of both the theory
.and practice of their -morals. [ Mar-
tineau. ,
/ No one can lay himself under obliga
tion tq do a wrong thing. Pericles ,
when one of his friends asked his ser
vices in an unjijst cause , excused him
self saying "I am a friend only as far
as the altar. " [ Fuller.
Good-breeding is the art of showing
men , by external signs , the internal re
gard we have for them. It arises from
good sense , improved by conversing
with good company. [ Cato.
Poor and content , is rich and rich enough ;
But riches , flneless , is as poor winter ,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
[ Shakspeare.
Hope is the last thing that dies in
man , and though it be exceedingly de
ceitful , yet it is of this good use to us ,
that while we are traveling through
life it conducts us in an easier and more
pleasant way to our journey's end.
[ Rochefoucauld.
Every child should be taught to pay
all uis debts'and to fulfill all his con
tracts , exactly in manner , completely
in value , punctually at the time. Every
thing he has borrowed he should be
obliged to return uninjured at the time
specified , and everything belonging to
others which he has lost be should be
required to replace. [ Dwight.
Prosperity has this'property , it puffs
up narrow souls , makes them imagine
themselves high and mjghty and look
down upon the world with contempt ;
but a truly noble and resolved spirit
appears .greatest in distress , and then
becomes more bright and'conspicuous.
[ Plutarch's Lives.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want , and
a great deal more saucy. When you
have bought one-fine thing you must
buy ten more , that your appearances
may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to
suppress the first desire than to satisfy
all that follow it. [ Franklin.
A Type of .Arkansas Character.
Texas Sittings.
There is a certain type of Arkansas
man that hurrying civilization is not
likely co jostle. He is not exactly the
old squatter , nor is he the small farmer ,
but he is the wild and wayward child
of circumstances over which he does
not care to exercise control. He went
to the state in 1846 and settled on the
left prong of Dry Fork creek. He
married , as he expressed it , "a right
smart chunk o' gal , " and began house
keeping on a floor made uneven by the
burrowing of moles. Unlike the squat
ter , he does not withhold information.
Bless you , no. He'll stop work and
talk to you all day. He'll tell you
more lies in half an hour than you
would thinkit possible for an unskilled ,
uneducated man to throw off in a
year's time. He won't tell the-truth ,
and it is said that he never made an
effort in that direction.
Why It Didn't. '
Wall Street News.
He was looking over a Pennsylvania
town with a view of entering into busi
ness. A citizen accompanied him to
post him on points , and as they left the
hotel the asked ' ' the
stranger : 'By way ,
who owns this hotel ? " "Why , the
Standard Oil company , " was the reply.
The same question was asked about the
opera house , a toll bridge , a weekly
newspaper and a market house , and the
same replies were received. "Is there
anything in this town on which the
Standard Oil company hasn't got its
clutch ? " finally asked the stranger.
"Why , yes ; there's the Baptist
church. " "And how does it happen
; hat the company missed it ? " "Well ,
it's mortgaged for § 4,000 , and it was'
cheaper tor the Standard to give free
Sunday excursions on the railroad , and
draw the congregation out of town. "
What's in a Name 2
Philadelphia Record.
The celebrated firm of I. Ketchum &
U. Cheatem is said to exist or to have
existed in London , New York , Phila
delphia and probably various other
places ; but it is scarcely more singular
ihan the Philadelpoia building firm who
are Ernest & Akin for a job , or the
London undertaker whose name was
Earthrowl. In this city Doll sells toys ,
Drown deals in umbrellas and Harts-
borne is a doctor. In London Virtue
is a publisher , Death a watchmaker
and Cutbush a gardener ; Latimer &
Ridley are bootmakers , and Shakes
peare keeps , or at least kept , a fruit
stall.
Standard. Time.
Traveler's Magazine.
"What's this 'ere 'standard' time 1
hear folks talkin' about ? " asked a seedy
old countryman of a brakeman. "You've
seen a prize fight , have'nt you ? " said
the station yeller. "O , laws , yes ; lots
of 'em. " "You've heard them call
time' when the fighters stand hard
against each other ? " "Yes. " "Well ,
tfiat's it , " said the brakeman , as he
went on out on the platform to com
mune with himself. The old man siin-
ply muttered : "Oh ! " and wondered
how railroads could run on time like
that without being knocked out.
The Critic and Good Literature ( New
York ) has consented to act as a ballot
box in an election for a possible Amer
ican academy , consisting , like the
French academyof "Forty Immortals. "
Any who wish to do so may send to the
editors of that review a list of the forty
men-of-letters whom
living American - -
they consider most worthy of member
ship in such an institution. The result
of the vote will be made known in The
Critic of April 5.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt , Brit
ish home secretary , who married a
daughter of the historian Motley , has
secured a very favorable lease of crown
lands in the New Forest , near Lynd-
hurst , and will build thereon a fine
country house with surrounding exten
sive grounds and gardens.
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase in the number of insane per
sons in the United States at : From
1850 to 1860,8,432 ; 1860 to 1870 , 13-
390 ; 1870 to 1880 , 54,565. The whole
number of insane is given at 91,997 ;
idiots , 76,86 . More than one-half are
not under hospital treatment.
The .Moliere plastron in various
forms is much worn.
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Sold Low for cash , or on easy payments or
i er ed ur.til the rent paysti r the organ.
M. A. PAL DING , Agent ,
McCOOK , - NEBRASKA.
STOCK. DIEECTOKY
DENNIS M'KILLIP.
Ranch on Bed Willow , Thornburg , Hayes
branded "J. 31.on
County , Neb. Cattle on
leftside. Young cattle branded same as
above , also "J. " on left jaw. Under-slope
right ear. Horses branded "E" on left
shoulder.
FOR SALE. My range of 1,000 acres of
deeded land In one body , including the
Black and Byfield hay lands ; timber and
water with two good farm houses and other
improvements. Convenient to No. 1 school
privileges. Situated in the Republican val
ley west of Red Willow creek. Call on or
address J. F. BLACK ,
Red Willow , Neb.
WILSON.
Stock brand circle on.left shoulder ; also
dewlap and a crop and under half crop on
left ear , and a crop and under bit in the
right. Ranch on the Republican. Post-
office , Max , Dundy county , Nebraska.
HENRY T. CHURCH.
Osborn , Neb. Range : Red Willow creek ,
in southwest corner of Frontier county , cat
tle branded " 0 L O" on right side. Also ,
an over crop on right ear and under crop on
left. Horses branded * ' 8' ' on right shoulder.
SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO. '
Indlanola , Neb. Range : Republican Val
ley , east of Dry Creek , and near head of
Spring Creek , in Chase county ,
J. D. WKLBORX ,
Vice President and Superintendent.
JOHN HATFIELD & SON.
McCook , Neb. , Ranch 4 miles southeast ,
on Republican river. Stock branded with
a , bar and lazy W on left hip |
J. B. MESERVE.
Ranch , Spring Canyon on the Frenchman
River , in Chase county , Neb. Stock branded *
as above ; also " 717" on left side ; "O.L. ' '
on left hip ; " 7" on right hipand "L. " on
right shoulder ; ' 'L. " on left shoulder and
"X."on left jaw. Half under-crop left
ear , and square-crop right ear.
C. D. PHELPS.
Range : Republican Valley , four miles
west of Culbertson , south side of Republi
can. Stock branded " 161" and " 7-L. "
P. O. Address , Culbertson , Neb.
THE TURNIP BRAND.
Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock
branded on left hip , and a few double croes-
es oa left side. C. D. ERCANBRACK.
STOKES & TROTH.
P. O. Addredd , Carrico , Hayes county ,
Nebraska. Range. Red Willow , above Car
rico. Stock branded as above. Also run the
lazy si brand.
GEORGE j. FREDERICK.
Ranch 4 miles southwest of McCook , on the
Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the
left hip. P. O. address , McCook , Neb.
PROCTOR.
McCook , Neb. , range ; Red Willow creek ,
in southwest c rner of Frontier county. Al o
E. P. brand on right hip and side and swal
low-fork inright ear. Horses branded E. P.
on right hip. A few branded ' ' A" on right
hip.
ALL. LIVE DRUGGISTS SELL
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