KINDRED SOULS ;
Supremely blest are these hearts thnt find
A kindred key whoso latent tone ,
Awakes the sweetest echoes in the mind
And breathes the music of their own.
'Tis like when Spring and Summer hath com
bined
And mingled each their frasrant air ,
" ? 9R OUF own exalted thoughts but find
Btlll nobler ones reiicctcd there.
Oh , rapturous Joy , what pure delight is this !
, , A feast of soul-communion sweet ! .
If mortals taste of Heavenly bliss
'Tla when these kindred spirits meet.
They need no tender accents to bestow-
No tender touch or lips or hands :
The kindred feeling needs no outward show.
But each the other understands.
'Tls God who irivcs them power to recognize
And each other's inmost thoughts to feel ;
Each the other knows though no glance im
plies
The thoughts that lips dare not reveal.
An Eden true this dreary world would bo
If only kindred souls united ;
And life n. ceaseless strain of harmony.
With no discordant tones to blight it.
Methlnks beyond this rugged path of ours
There , all alike are kindred souls
Who ever feel nnd know each other's powers
And mutual thought and love controls.
This precious hope oft soothes my bleeding
heart
When shadows Intervene the days ,
There is a place where kindred souls impart
A constant glow of love's bright rays.
[ Mrs. N. A. Alonfort.
LIFE DT HIGH LATITUDES.
Medical Aspect of Greclcy's Experience.
Medical Kecord.
A private interview with Lieutenaul
Greely ; at his former home , has enabled
us to obtain a somewhat clearer insight
into the physiological and pathological
effects of prolonged residence in the
Polar regions , as well as the straits to
which the Greely party were finally re
duced. He ascertained that such so
journ , by inhabitants of warmer cli-
inates who are in good physical trim ,
is for a brief term of years compatible
with a high state of all organic func
tions , in which there is entire freedom
from diseases manifestations of every
kind ; but there is a decided limit to the
endurance by the Europeans and Amer
icans of such extreme prolonged cold ;
the system is at first , and for a long
time , by an admirable series of internal
adjustments , braced up against the rig
ors of climate , but after the first year a
considerable deterioration in muscular
1 and nervous energy , and in the calorig-
enous processes of the economy is ex
perienced. The severity of the second
winter was found by the party some
what harder to bear , but the experience
of the previous winter had taught them
how best to fortify and protect them
selves , and husband their forces. The
third long Arctic night , in which the
thermometer was never less than three
below zero ; and much of the time was
down to forty or fifty below would un
der the most favorable circumstances
have been a painful session to the party ;
vital reaction was quite perceptibly les
sened , muscular tone was impaired ,
rendering exertion ' difficult , and rheu
matism oegan'to prevail. Could the
party , however , have had plenty of food ,
and full and good shelter , they would
undoubtedly have all been living to this
day.
k Lieutenant Greely , in a reply to an
interrogatory , affirmed his doubts as to
whether his men , if well provisioned ,
could have lived at Fort Conger more
than five years. The constitution of
the average American is not capable of
prolonged continuous adjustment to
more than zero cold , and such acclami-
tizations could only come about after a
series of generations where the law of
survival of the fittest should operate ,
} and in correspondence with a radical
1 change in organization , in which nutri
tive and muscular development should
predominate over cerebral development ;
in other words , nature has shown us in
the mentally dwarfed but physically
hardy Esquimaux , the type of organiza
tion best fitted for living in those sep
tentrional latitudes. It , however , is no
less a matter of fact that the inhabitants
of meridinal climes admirably adapt
themselves temporarily to the most ex
treme cold. In the retreat from Mos
cow , in 1812 , the Italian regiments stood
the cold better than the Germans , and
notably better than the Russians who
were accustomed to the climate. The
i Turks presented the same relative im
munity at the siege of Sevastopal.
Longer , from whom these facts are
taken , remarks that the aptitude to re
sist inclement temperature is acquired
and lost in turn ; that .people nutured in
temperate or cold climates , who go to
the torrid zones to live , are much less
sensitive to the cold for a time after
their return to their native country ,
though this lessened susceptibility dis
appears after a year or two.
As man can live amid intense sur
rounding eold only by keeping his in
ternal temperature at about i > 8 deg.
F. , all the calorigenous centres which ,
comprise every living element of cell in
every part of the body are stimulated
to greatly augmented activity ; the re-
spitory , digestive , and assimilative processes -
' cesses are performed with unwonted
energy ; the heart's action and the cir
culation are notably quickened. Lieu
tenant Greely remarked that breathing
air of such intense coldness had some
thing of the effect produced by breath
ing pure oxygen ; as for pulmonary
troubles he heard no complaint of them
while the party was at Fort Con
ger , in Lady Frankland Bay , at a lati
tude of about 82 deg. , where the first
two years were spent ; even simple ca
tarrhs were unknown , the only thing
from which men suffered being occa
sional rheumatism and stiffness of the
muscles and joints.
The party had ferocious appetites
during all of this long sojourn in the
North , each man eating with relish three
meals of animal food and two lunches
every day , and carving fats , though
not to the extent which some Arctic
travelers report. Not even when the
thermometer marked 60 deg. below zero
did these men indulge in crude blubber
or tallow candles , which tradition has
desi ° nated as the customary food of
Arctic voyagers ; nor was ever pemmican -
can regarded as a rare and dainty dish
by them. Canned meats , of which they
had an abundance during the first two
. rears , and a steak or ragout from the
walrus , seal or Polar bear were prized
as the essential condition of well-being.
As for spirituous liquors , they were
used with great moderation and doled
out to the members of the expedition as
occasion seemed to demand , and when
some unusual exertion or exposure
brought extraordinary fatigue or pros
tration ; as means to fortify the system
against cold or brace it up for forced
marches , whisky , rum , and other alco
holic stimulants were regarded as of
little benefit.
The party slept well during their long
stay at the North , except during the
last few months of physiological misery ,
when the pangs of hunger and the
weakened , disordered condition of their
anajmic brains precluded refreshing
sleep ; in the case of some of them the .
horrors of scurvy made their state more
deplorable still.
The Model Husband.
Philadelphia Times.
The model husband is at once more
diilicult and yet easier to discuss than
the model wife. Men are supposed to
be less sensitive , and there is not so
much danger of treading on thdir toes.
And whereas there was a scarcity of the
article on the feminine side , model hus
bands are so numerous and there are
such varieties of them as to make the
task exceedingly pleasant. Look where
you will there are lots of model hus
bands.
Of course people will not look for
model husbands among those do noth
ing men , who , either marry for the little
money their wives have or arc forever
begging at the public crib for means to
squander on their appetites , giving only
a small portion of their own lives or
their earnings for the support and culti
vation of their families. For the wife's
sake and the children's sake the first es
sential of a model husband is that he be
a man of truth and honor. No matter
what proportion of his begging or steal
ing he gives to home if his conduct stains
his own name he Js not very much of a
model husband. In truth , the whole
company of loafers , thieves , divorcers
and mere quasi deserters of duty must
be excluded. But there are lots of
model husbands for all that.
The first essential of a model husband
is that he in some honorable way other
than by tying , stealing or gambling or
begging provides a home and a living
for the wife and children. It is fair to
estimate that ninety per cent , of all the
married men you meet from year's end
to year's end do this. And until those
who have never done it try their hands
for a dozen years .they are not compe
tent critics or judges. It is , in fact , the
primal and honorable basis of all con
stituted society , and the men that do it
are to a great extent model husbands so
far.
far.The
The husbands , who in addition to
providing homes , food and clothing for
their wives and children , also do the
marketing , tend the furnace fire to save
the domestic's hands and the coal , are
kindly and affectionate , take their
wives to church , to the park or the
theatre as the wives' tastes may incline ,
sew the buttons on their own shirts
when the servants rub them off on
washday , dust their own looking-glasses
when the chambermaids neglect to dose
so , and don't carry deadlatches to
other people's doors and are generally
patient and enduring , as most husbands
are , why they are more than model
husbands. And if the cities and towns
were not full of them there would be no
peace worth speaking of in all the do
mestic circles of this planet. Now
then.
Seating a Circus Bully.
Denver Times.
"The Anglo-American circus , now
showing in this city , has a big burly
usher who made himself particularly
obnoxious last night. He pushed ladies ,
small boys and invalids around in a
very rough manner , but piously avoided
saying even a cross word to any one
who was nearly as big as himself. Just
when the rush was at its height , Clew ,
the pugilist , came in wi.h a lady , and
began looking for seat. The big usher
pushed the lady through a crowd and
told her , in a rough manner , that she
could look for a seat in the top row.
Clew stepped up after her and started
down the steps when the usher con
fronted the woman and told her very
uncivily to stop. There were several
people near who knew Clew , a number
of them told him to give it to him.
This was unnecesary , for before the
words could be said the prize fighter hit
the fellow and knocked him to the bottom
tom of the incline of seats , a second
six-foot usher rushed up behind Clew
and hit him while he was off his guard.
Clew recovered himself before the fel
low could strike a second time , and the
next thing the usher knew he was tumb
ling down over the seats with Clew fol
lowing and kicking him like a foot ball ,
while everybody in the vicinity yelled ,
'Go in Clew and give it to "both of
'em. ' The affair caused quite a sensa
tion for a few minutes , but things fin
ally quieted down , and the ushers
thereafter were quite civil.
Killed by a Jest.
A special from Cadiz , O. , to the Chicago
cage Inter Ocean , says : The death yes
terday of Miss Alice McCiban , of New
Athens , discloses a romantic tragedy.
The girl , who was young , intelligent
and great favorite , but exceedingly
nervous , died after an illness of thirty-
six hours , during which time she was
unconscious , three men being required
to hold her at times. Miss McCiban
was engaged to a young gentleman
named Nash , a resident of the neigh
borhood , and highly esteemed. Satur
day evening he called on Miss McCiban
and remained some time. When taking
his departure in jest he said to her that
he had concluded to sever their rela
tions , and there could be nothing be
tween them but friendship. The girl
was so affected that she sank down into
a spasm that continued until her death.
Every effort was made to restore her to
consciousness unavailingly. Nash , who
was frantic with grief , was constantly
in attendance , but his presence had no
effect on the lady. It is feared that
Nash will become insane.
A parliamentary return of clergymen
of the Church or England whoj from
July 5 , 1873 , to February 7 , 1884 , have
executed deeds of relinquishment of
their office , includes sixty-two names.
Among them are John Richard Green ,
Leslie Stephen , Lord Francis Osborne
and Orby Shipley.
SIT LOVE AND J.
Mr llfo and I sat side by side ,
The yellow lamplight s reaming fell
Upon her form my soul she j > Hed
With all the pangs of bell.
Thy hopes I cried they promised good ,
Whore are the joys tdat should bo mine ,
Where is Ambition's mount that stood
Cloud-reaching and divine ?
Why did'st thou ever come at all
To fret me with thy silent care ;
To taunt me" with my prison's wall
And goad me with despair ?
My life vouchsafed me ne'er a word.
Her veil my longing looks denied ;
' Alone my beating heart I heard
Against my aching side.
Como share with me the sun-baked crust
Of poverty , and mount ray throne ,
Ambition's mole-hill made of dust ,
I would not rule alone.
Wilt thou not speak nor taste the cup
Which thy deceiving hand hath filled ,
Nor with the spirit deign to sup
Which thy sweet He hath killed ?
Mcthought her cheeks began to pale ,
Her lips to lose their wonton dyes ,
And yet I dared not lift the veil
That hid them from mine eyes.
Unmoved and silent as the grave ,
Nor word , nor sign , nor look gives she ,
No part of all my soul may crave ,
Will ever come to me.
Oh , she might be some sullen fate.
Some Sibyl in her mountain cell ;
Like one who weaves the web of hate ,
Beside the glare of boll.
Still on the tangled blood-red skin ,
Her nimble hand the needle plies ,
I watch the flying thread in vain
With tear beclouded eyes.
Swift as my thoughts her needle glides ,
Strange ligures on the fabric glow ;
She with her shadow darkly hides
All that I seek to know.
But well I know the crimson thread
On which she plies her cruel art
With ceaseless fingers , is made red
With color from my heart.
She came to me I know not whence.
She still keeps closely by my side ,
I know not when she will go hence ,
Nor where she will abide.
I have no power to bid her stay ;
I dare not love her if I would ;
I may not bid her go away ,
Nor lose her if I could.
[ Robert Burns Wilson.
SIRS. LOCKWOOD'S LETTER.
The Female Candidate for President De
sires Everybody's Vote.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood , the well-
known woman lawyer in Washington ,
who has been nominated for president
of the United States by the "woman's
national equal rights party , " in Cali
fornia , has sent the following letter of
acceptance :
Marietta L. Stow , president ; Eliza C.
Webb , secretary , and member of the
party : Having been duly notified of
your action , in convention assembled
August 23 , 1884 , in nominating me as
the candidate for the high position of
chief magistrate of the United States , as
the choice of the equal rights party ,
although feeling unworthy and incom
petent to fill so high a place , I am con
strained to accept the nomination so
generously and enthusiastically ten
dered by the only political party who
really and truly represent the interests
of our whole people , north , south , east
and west , becaiise I believe that with
your unanimous and cordial support
and the fairness and justice of our
cause we shall not only be able to carry
the election but to guide the ship of
state safely into port.
In the furtherance of this purpose I
have to say that , should our party with
its grand platform of principles be suc
cessful in the contemplated election , it
will be my earnest effort to promote and
maintain equal political privileges to
every class of our citizens , irrespective
of sect , color or nationality , and to
make of this great and glorious country
in truth what it has so long been in
name , "the land of the free and the
home of the brave. " I shall seek to in
sure a fair distribution of the public
offices to women as well as men , with a
scrupulous regard to civil service reform
after the women are duly installed in
office.
I am also in accord with the platform
of the party in the desire to protect and
foster American industries , and in sym
pathy with the working men and women
of the country who are organized
against free trade for the purpose of
rendering the laboring classes of our
country comfortable and independent.
I sympathize with the soldier and the
soldier's widow , believe in the reenactment
ment of the arrears act and the increase
of pensions to widows , believing that
the surplus revenues of the country
cannot be better used than in clothing
the widows and educating the orphans
of our nation's defenders. I would also
suggest the abolishment of the pension
ofhce with its complicated and techni
cal machinery , which so bountifully
illustrates how not to do it , and recom
mend in its stead three commissioners ,
whose only duty should consist in re
quiring from an applicant for invalid
pension his certificate of honorable dis
charge , from a widow proof of mar
riage and from a mother proof of birth.
I am opposed to monopoly in the
sense of the men of the country monop
olizing all of the votes and all of the
offices , and at the same time insisting
upon having the distribution of all the
money , both public and private. It is
this sort of monopoly that has made
possible large breaches of trust with
government officials caused bank sus
pensions and an epidemic of defalca
tions over the country. It has engen
dered and fostered strikes.
I am opposed to tlie wholesale mo
nopoly of the judiciary of the country
be the male voters. If elected I shall
feel it incumbent on me to appoint a
reasonable number of women as dis
trict attorneys , marshals and judges of
United States , and would appoint some
competent woman to any vacancy that
might occur on the United States bench.
I am in full sympathy with the temper
ance advocates of the country , espe
cially the N. C. T. U. , but believe that
woman suffrage will have a greater
tendency to abolish the liquor traffic
than prohibition will to bring about
woman suffrage. If the former is
adopted she latter will be its probable
sequence.
If elected I shall recommend in my
inaugural speech a uniform system of
laws , as far as practicable , for all of the
states , and especially for marriage ,
divorce and the limitation of contracts ,
and such a regulation of the laws of
descent and distribution of estates as
will make the wife equal with the hus
band in authority and right , and an
equal partner in the common business.
I favor an extension of our commer
cial relations with foreign countries , and
especially with the Central and South
American States , and the establishment
of a high court of arbitration , to which
shall be referred all differences that
may arise between the several states or
between them and the United States.
My Indian policy would be , first , to
have the government pay them what it
owes them , to break up their tribal re
lations , distribute to them their lands
in severally and make them citizens ,
amenable to the laws of the land , as
other white and colored persons are.
While I sympathize with unhappy Ire
land and deprecate oppression on the
one side and lawlessness on the other ,
our neutral policy as a nation does not
allow any public expression from our
people.
Due consideration will be given the
interests of the honest , industrious ,
home-loving Germans.
Again thanking you , ladies , for your
expressions of esteem , I think that I
may safely say I fully endorse your
whole platform. Cordially yours ,
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD.
Mrs. Lockwood says her antimonopoly
nopoly and civil service policy is
"funny , " and that her Indian policy is
"good sound sense. " "Imade a bid , "
she says , ' 'for all voters Irish , Ger
man , temperance , monoplists , anti-
monopolists , capitalists and laborers.
I didn't know how to get around the
Germans because I'm temperance , and
so I said 'due consideration will be
given to the honest , industrious , home-
Ioviu2 Germans. ' "
Excitsabley.'rldc.
The Graphic.
"Speaking-of proud.men , " said a
red-nosed man in a Harlem grocery on
*
Saturday , "the proudest man I know
is old Jacob Solomon. He never allows
any man to say a word agaist anything
he has. He carries it almost too far.
A few week ago Solomon and I were
sitting in Jake's place drinking beer ,
when two young Hebrews came in and
sat down at the next table. We could
hear everything they said. 'Veil Isaac , '
said .one , 'how did you enchoy the sum
mer ? ' 'First rate , ' replied the other ;
'I was up to the Catskills. ' 'Ish dtit
so ? I was dare myself the summer po-
fore. By de way , Isaac , did you see
that pretty leedle woman dot goes by
the name of Rachael ? ' 'I should smile
if I didn't. ' ' ' '
'Did you kiss her ? 'Veil ,
of I didn't you can use my head as a
pase pall. ' 'So did I. So did I. Vat
do you think of her ? ' 'I tink she is de
vorst kissing I ever saw. ' 'So do I. '
Then old Solomon , who had been
wrapped up in the conversation , inter
rupted : 'You say , shentlemen , dot you
kissed dot voman , and she vasn't good
kissing ? " 'It's none of your pizness
vat ve say ; but I tell you old man , she
vasn't vorth a dime. ' 'Don't say dat ,
shentlemen. You musn't say that. I
know petter. She is good kissing. '
'Vhat do you know apout Rachael ? '
they exclaimed together. 'Everydings.
She is my wife. ' "
Sow Women Hittlon Their Clothes.
New-York Bun.
A controversy has been started by
London papers as to why women but
ton their clothes from the right to the
left and men from the left to the right.
It has led to an elaborate display of
learning and wit. One writer declares
that men have buttoned from left to
right since the earliest Assyrian dynas
ties. Anoiher asserts that the button
ing distinguishes the Mussulman and
the Hindoo in India , while a third says
that the writer need not go so far as
India for an illustration , as the women
of America are recognizable by the
male system of buttoning from left to
right. The ladies of New Orleans , who
held to the other fashion till a recent
period , did so because of the French
colonization of Louisiana. Then the
controversy branched off into a ques
tion of the comparative quality of male
and female brains. A lady insists that
her sex button from right to left be
cause the dressmakers so fix their
dresses and denies that man has any
right to draw invidious inferences , while
a sardonic and sarcastic enemy of
female rights , declaring that the plac
ing of the right thumb over the left is a
positive proof of a ruling mind , holds
that the female method of buttoning
indicates accordingly the advent of her
true position as man's ruler.
A Sad Disappointment.
Territorial Enterprise.
At Sacramento the other day a man
was on his last legs with pneumonia.
His life was insured for several thousand
dollars , and it appeared him a little
tough that he was to get no fun out of
all his rnone- . Determined to do the
best he could under the circumstances ,
he made a will that he thought would
cover a portion of the ground. His will
provided that at his funeral every hack
in town should he employed and all his
friends and acquaintances invited to at
tend and take a ride afterward. All
who attended were also invited to parti
cipate in a grand banquet in the even
ing at the hotel , at which a brass band
which should lead the funeral procession
was to enliven the occasion with music.
After making his will he was so tickled
with the idea of the whole affair , as he
could see it in his mind's eye , and with
the thought of what a large slice of the
insurance he was thus having the fun
of spending , that he at once began to
mend and in spite of himself got well.
Now he is as far as ever from the in
surance money and mourns the loss of
the grand banquet , the brass band and
the other big things that were to make
his funeral a notable event.
ai i *
A Madrid correspondent writes that
on a recent occasion the mayor of Mad-
drid had to resort to an unheard of pro
ceeding in the annals of bull fights , in
order to keep the king and royal fam
ily from hearing disagreeable remarks.
He ordered the music to play during
the whole fight , or rather the six fights ,
as generally six bulls are killed during
an afternoon , one being dispatched be
fore another enters the arena.
QEnvoys from King John , of Abyssinia ,
presented Queen Victoria with a young
elephant last month.
The Flower barrel is expected to be
a factor in the New York campaign.
THE BOOK OF MOBBTONS.
A Tnte History of , Toe Smith's Remarkable
Piece of Ttiytjtery.
St. Louis Soectator.
How many people know anything
about the origin of the Mormon religion ,
or rather , of the Book of Mormon ,
which is its authority ? I knew precious
little about it until this week , when I
accidentally fell in with Mr. Clark
Braden , who has recently given the
subject a most searching investigation.
His story shows of what stuff a religion
may be made. The Mormons number
probably 800,000. They are divided
into many sects , but the principal are
the polygamous Brighamites in Utah
and the non-polygamous Josephites
scattered in various places. The story
may be given in a few words. The
Book of Mormon was written by an old
broken down Presbyterian clergyman
named Solomon Spaulding. Spauld-
ing was born in Connecticut in 1761.
He graduated at Dartmouth college ,
and settled as minister for a Congrega
tional church , He made a bad failure
at preaching , and went into business
with his brother in New York state , did
not succeed , and started an iron foun
dry in a town in northern Ohio. He
soon failed in that venture and became
very much discouraged. His wife sup
ported the family by taking boarders ,
and he spent'his time in writing , though
what did not then appear. The family
moved to Pittsburg , when he rewrote
his book , adding a second part. He
afterwards rewrote the entire book , ad
ding n third part. This is the origin of
the manuscript.
Now , what became of it ? Spaulding
made arrangements to have it printed
in Pittsburg. After a part of it had
been set up the whole manuscript was
stolen bya tanner named Sidney Rig-
don , who was in the habit of loafing
around the printing office. Rigdon
kept it concealed for some years , until
he fell in with Joseph Smith , who
evolved the plan of producing it. Smith
belonged to a not over reputable family
living near Palmyra , N. Y. They lived
in a house and supported themselves by
hunting and fishing and other means
suspected to be more questionable.
Joseph , one day , found a remarkably
clear crystal , shaped much like a child's
foot and he declared it "
, was a "peep-
stone , " in which he could read the
future and discover stolen goods , strayed
cattle , etc. , and on several occasions
was so successful in predicting the lo
cality of goods and cattle that he soon
came by considerable reputation. He
then extended his field of operations by
divining . where treasure was buried , and
under his directions a great many dig
gings were made , tmsuccessful , how
ever. These diggings extended over a
large area , some fifty miles or more ,
around Palmyra , and some of them may
be seen now. He fell in with Sidney
Rigdon , who told him of the manu
script. Smith soon devised a scheme
for Ji J producing it under proper surround
ings. i The alleged book of copper
plates ] was found under divine guidance ,
on ( which characters of reformed Egyp
tian 1 were graven. The book was ac
companied ' by a pair of spectacles of
wondrous power , which enabled Smith
to translate the remarkable characters.
This he did from behind a screen , while
an amenuensis took down his words.
The Book of Mormon was printed in
1830 , at Palmyra , N. Y. , a fanner ,
Martin Harris , putting up the cash to
pay the printer. Thus Solomon Spatild-
ing's manuscript found its way into
print with such additions and altera
tions as Smith chose to make for his
own benefit.
A book will soon be published by the
Christian publishing company giving
all the investigations of Mr. Braden and
the complete chain of evidence estab
lishing the authenticity of his story. A
manuscript of the Book of Mormon is
still in existence in the possession of
Mr. Withmer , of Richmond , Mo. , and
the compositor who set up most of the
book at Palmyra , fifty vears ago , is
still living , Mr. J. H. Gilbert. Mr.
Braden is now trying to arrange that
Mr. Gilbert shall see this manuscript to
say whether it is the copy from which
the book was originally set up.
How the Last Robber Left.
Drake's Traveler's Magazine.
As a train pulled out of Kansas City
recently , bound west , a fine looking
old gentleman who occupied a seat in
the smoking car , was accosted by a
rank looking specimen of western hu
manity.
"Goin' far west , stranger ? " he
asked.
"Yes , sir , " replied the old gentleman
politely , "I am going to Denver. "
"Business or pleasure ? "
"Chiefly for my health. "
"Ah , yes , I see ! From the east , ain't
yer ? "
"Yes ; I am president of the Twenty-
fifth National bank of New York. "
"You don't say so ! " exclaimed the
westerner. Then he added in a whis
per :
"Gin us your hand , old pard ; I'm
right glad to meet yer. I'm a Missouri
robber. "
Sir John St. Aubyn , who owns St.
Michael's Mount , at the Land's End ,
England , has erected a great mansion
there , being very proud of the posses
sion , although the area is so scant. He-
keeps his horses on the mainland , which
at a very low tide can be reached by a
causeway , but at high tide quite a ,
heavy sea sometimes surrounds the (
mount. 1
The New Jersey courts have just de
cided that land under water pre-empted
for oyster planting may be taken and
used by any third party whenever the
pre-emptor fails to plant the young
shellfish. This decision overrules a
practice of thirty years standing.
At Toulon a brass band has been en
gaged to play in the public squares , so
that the people may not be low-spirited.
Some who have heard the band prefer
to have the cholera.
It is stated that Gen. Sherman re
cently umpired a base ball game for
two hours. The cares and excitement
of a presidentiel campaign would bear
lightly on the old veteran now.
Hand-made envelopes cost originally
five cents each. The envelope-making
machine now turns them out so that a
thousand are sold for thirtv cents.
i'
STOCK DIKEOTOEY
DENN.IS M'KILLIP.
Ranch on Red Willow , Thornburg , Hayes
County , Neb. Cattle branded "J. 31. " on
left Hide. Young cattle branded same as
above , also 'J. " on left Jaw. Undor-slope
right ear. Horses branded "E" on left
boulder.
W. J. 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 th'e
rieht. Ranch on the Republican. Post ;
office , Max , Dundy countr , Nebraska.
HENRY T. CHURCH.
Osborn , Neb. Range : Red Willow creek ,
in 1 Bouthwcst corner of Frontier county , cat
tle branded "O L O" on right side. Also ,
an over crop on right ear and under crop on
left. Horsebranded " 8" on right shoulder.
SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO.
Indianola , Neb. Range : RepublicanVal-
iey , east of Dry Creek , and near head of
Spring Creek , in Chase county ,
J. D. WBLBOMf ,
Vice President and Superintendent.
THE TURNIP BRAND.
Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock
branded on left hip , and a. few double cross
es on left aid * . C. D ERCANBRACK.
STOKES & TROTH.
P. O. Address , Carrico , Hayes county ,
Nebraska. Range. Red Willow , above Car
rico. Stock branded as above. Also run the
lazyci brand.
GEORGE J. FREDERICK.
Ranch 4 miles southwest of McCook , on the
briftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the
left hip. P. O. address. McCook , Neb.
J. B. MESERVE.
jfancb , Spring Canyon on the Frenchman
River , in Chase county , Neb. Stock branded
as above ; also " 717'f on le.'t side ; " 7" on
rieht hip and "L. " on right shoulder ;
"L. " on left shoulder and 'X. " on left
Jaw. Half under-crop loft ear , and square-
crop right ear. _ _
DO YOU KNOW
THAT
LORILLARD'S CLIMAX
PLUG TOBACCO
with Red Tin Tag : Rose Leal Fine Cut
Chewing ; Navy Clippings , and Black ,
Brown and Yehow SNUFFS are the best
and cheapest , quality considered ? !
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Ranch on Red Willow Creak , half mile
above Oiborn postoffloo. Cattle branded on
right side ana nip above. 3-4
FOR SALS Improved Deeded Farm
and Hay Land. Timber and water. Two
farm houses , with other improvements.
Convenient to No. 1 school privileges. Sit
uated on Republican river , near > \outh ef
Red Willow , creek. Call on J. F. Blaak ,
on premises , or address him at Indianola ,
Nebraska.