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VOL. XIIL-NO. 23.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 647.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. II. VanUyck, U. s?. Senator, Neb
raska Citv.
Al.viN fAtSKKKs. U.S. Senator, Oniana.
II. Iv. Valknti.sk. it i.. Wc-?t Point.
T. -J. Majuks, Continent Hop.. IVru.
STATE D1UECTOUY:
Ai.iun'Us Nance, (JoM-rnor. Lincoln.
-..I. Alexander. Secretary or State.
John Wallhh-, Auditor. Lincoln.
U.M. Bartlett.Tre i-urer, Lincoln.
C.I. Pilworth. Attorney-General.
W'.W. V. .Jon.--,. u pt. Public Iiir..rue.
C.J. NoW. Warden of Penitentiary.
';V;.A,'i,'iC-V' Pri-on Inspectors,.
CH. Gould, i
J.O. Carter. Prison Physician.
II. P. Mathovv-.oii.Sunt. Insane Asvlum.
JTIMC'IAKY:
noorae B. Lake v,0(.;.tte Judge.
Aiiw-a olih.
S. Maxwell, Chief Justice.
rouurii judicial in.vrnicr.
15. Po-t..Iudce. York.
M. 15. Kece.Iitriei Attorney. V.'ahoo.
LAND OFFK EltS:
M. 15. Hoxie. Uexlster. Grand Island.
Win. Anyan, Receiver, Grand 1-land.
LKGILATIVi::
State Senalor. M. K. Turner.
Representative. G. W. Lehman.
COrNTV MRIXToRY:
.1. G. Hi--'in-. :ount .Imbre.
John Stamler. Count v Clerk.
C. A. Newman. Clerk Di-t. Court.
J. V". Karly. Treasurer.
I). C. Kavanm.'h. - lit-rill".
L.J. 'ritn-r. Mirvevor.
M.Maher. )
.Ioeph Rivet. Coiintv Cou!:ni--ioner..
II. J Hudson.
Ir. A . Heint. Coroner.
J. K. Monerief iil. f School-.
It v rnn .Milieu. J
W. M. Curneliu-.,!'
J n-t ice-of the Peace.
ITY HIUKCTOKY:
J. U. Mc:iL'licr, Mavor.
A. P.. Cotl'roth. Clerk.
J. 15. MeNnian. Tre-i-urer.
W. N. lien-ley. Police J udire.
J. II. North. Engineer.
ciirxciLvrx:
1st Ward John Rickly.
G. A. "-hrn-der.
M Hrf-P:it. Ilavs.
I. Gluck.
3d H'irf J. I! 4 mil ii.
A. A. smith.
'1iiiiiImi Pool OlfU'C
open on iiiKlaj - trmn 11 a.m. to 12m.
and from i;:!i to (1 i. m. Hii-iiic
hour.-except --iinda a m lo.s i. m.
E.i-tern mail- .-l--e at H a.m.
We-tern mail- -b-e at -l:l."i i.m.
.Mail leae- ColumKu- for Lo-t Creek.
Genoa. St. Edward-. Albion, Platte
Center. Humphrey, Madison and Nor
folk, everv d.ij "eei pt SuildaV s ) at
-1 :.".." p. in. Arrie-at 10:.5.
For Shell Creek and Cre-ton. arrive- at
PJ M. Leave- I i. M Tue-da-, Thur
da-.- and aturda -.
For" Alexis. Patron and Pavid City.
Tue-dav-. Thur-d-iv- and Saturday-,
1 r. m Arrive- at 12 M.
For Coiikliu.' Tue-da- and Saturdays
7 a. m. Arrives 0 i. m. -ame ilav-.
S . I. Tim
T:ille.
Eastward Bound.
Emigrant. No.ti, leave- at
Pa emi'r. 4, "
Freight, " N "
Freight. " 10. "
Westward Hound.
Freight. No. .", leav e- at
Pa-, .iir'r. .". "
Freiirht, " !, "
Kini-rrant. "7. " "
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Every day except Saturday the
lim-- leadinir to Chicago eoniieet
tli
w
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AVs
as
V P. train- at Omaha. On Saturd
there will be but one train a day,
-hovvn by tiie followim; -ehedule:
15. & M. TI.MK TA15LE.
Leaves
Columbu-, ...
.r):t:.A.M.
C::U) '
P.cllwood
llav id City, .
" (Jarri-on,
I'lv-e-,
' Staplehur-t, ..
' Seward,
Itubv.
Milford. .. .
" Plea-ant Pale,
" Emerald. . .
Arrives at Lincoln, .
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10:ir '
10:45 u
11:10 "
11:4.. M.
Leave- Lincoln at 2:ii r. M. and arrive-
in t'oliimbiis ::o r. m.
Makes elo.-e connect ion at Lincoln for
all point- ea-t. west and -omh.
O.. X. A 15. II. KOAD.
Time Schedule No. 4. To take etl'ect
June 2. S1. For the srovernmeut and
information of einplovecs only. The
Cinniiaiiv re-erve- ine riirni io Nar
therefrom at pleasure.
Train- daily.
Sundays excepted.
Oiihcard Hound.
Imcard Hound
Norfolk 7:2tA. M.
Mmion 7:47 "
Madi-on :2t "
IIumphrev!:iCi '
Pi. Centre 0:4S
LotCreeklO.0! "
Columbus 10:.Vi "
Columbus 4: r.M.
Lo-tCreek.'.:21
PI. Centre ::42 "
Humphrevi;2." '
Madi-on 7:04 '
Jlu n-on 7:4!5 "
Norfolk :04 "
ALKION HKANCH.
Colunibu-i 4:4." v.
Lo-H'reek."i:,"l '
Genoa 0:10 '
St.Ertward7:00
Albion 7:47
M. , All'ion . 7:4:5 a.m.
jSt.EdvvardoO
' (ieiioa !:14 "
! Lo-t CreekH :"'. '
: Columbus lo:4." "
H. JLUERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
AND
Ara2;oii 23uildeiSs
'cw Ilrirk Shop ojiiiooitc HrlntzS Drue store.
ALL HMDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh street, Columbus, Xebraslca.
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NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
coi.u.mii'js. rvci!.
A new houe. newly furnished. Good
accommodation-. Hoard by day or
week at rea-onable rates.
SgTJiet a. Firjt-Cla.i Table.
Meals, ... 2J Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cts.
3S-2tf
coli; ?i u s
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SIIEEHAX, Proprietor.
"Yholcsale ind Retail Dealer in For
eicn Wines, Liquors tfiid Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
TSTKentucky IVhiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Street, South of Depot.
BUSINESS CARDS.
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IE. CAStl. CIS4ITK,
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Otliee at Dovvtv, Weaver & Co's store.
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I5ANKEUS. Collection, Insurance and
Loan Au'ent-, Foreign Exchange and Pas
sage 'I iekets a specialty.
f oKii:in;!i Ac mi;i.i.iva,
ATT0HXEYS-A1-LA W,
Up-stair in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
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XOTAIiT PUBLIC,
lith Street, i iloors nest of Hammond House,
Columbus, Xeb. 4fll.y
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k. m. n. tiii;bsto.i,
JiESlDENT DENTIST.
Ollice over comer of 11th and North-st.
All operations, tirst-class and warranted.
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aiim a;o itAi:itE:it siioi:
IIENUY WOODS, Prop'r.
tSEvervthing in lirst-class style.
A l-o keep the be-t ofeiirar-j. filO-y
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A TTORXEYS AT LA W,
Otliee on Olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska.
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;. A. lllLLHOKST, A..M., 51. D.,
0J1E0FA Till C I'll YS1 CI AN,
ISTTwo I51ock- -outh of Court House.
Telephone communication. f-ly
lreALLISTKK ltltOS.,
A TTOliXE YS A T LA W,
Office up-stair in McAlIi-ter's build
imr. 11th St. W. A. .McAlli-ter. Notary
Public.
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P1I YSICIA X tt- S UEGEOX.
3T Front room. up-stair in Gluck
builiMug. above the bank, 11th St. C-ills
an-vvered nint or day. 5-Gin
.1. M. .MACKAItl.ANP,
11. It. COWnKKY
C:l!c:::r.
LAW AXI 10LLECTI0X OFFICE
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MACFARLAND & COWDER7,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
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PA IN TEE.
iSTC.-irriae. hou-e and sign paintiiiir,
vlaing. paper hanging, kal-oniiuing, etc.
done to order. Shop on i:ith St., opposite
Engine Ilou-e, Colunibus, Neb. 10-y
i ii.ursciii:,
Ilth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
Sell- Harness. Saddle.-. Collar, Whips,
Iilaukct. . urry Comb-. Hrushe, etc.,
at the lovve.-t po-sible prices. Kepair.
pr mptlv attended to.
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I..1KK A: IKi;UEKT,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENTS,
HUMPHREY. XEB J!.
Their land- comprise some line tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ot PI'ttc county. Taxes
paid for non-resident-. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
HYRON MILLKTT,
Justiceof the Peace and
Notary Public.
iYKO .lin.i.K'rr,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. 15. He will give
cloe attention to all business entrusted
to him. '-4S.
T OUIS SCIIRE1BEU,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
tlTShop opposite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street. 25
TA:EK Ac WTSTCOTT,
AT THE
CHECKERED JJAEX,
Are prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasion-, e-pecially for funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 4i
TA31ES PEAKSALL
IS PKEPAUKD, WITH
FIEST-CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give nim a call.
VfOTICE TO TKAC11KRS.
J. E. Monerief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the first Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. e07-y
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. rl Gmo.
WIXIiIAM RYAN,
PEALEK IX
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
JPines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
25j"SehiIzs Milwaukee Beer constant
ly on hand.fp?
Eleventh St.,
.Columbus, Neb.
Drs. MITCHELL & MARTYN,
COLUMBUS
UEDICAL I SUM. INSTITUTE,
Surgeons 0.. X. B. H. B. i?.,
Asst. Surgeons U. 2. J?'y,
COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA.
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
AH kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is,"Goo"d work and
fair prices. Gall and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. JSTSbop on
loth SL, one door west of Friedbof &
Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 4S3-v
ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. . MUNGER,
SUCCESSOR TO
F. GERBER & CO.,
UNDERTAKER AND
DEALER IK
FURNITURE,
leads, B
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TABLES,SAFES,MATRESSES,&c
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G1VE HIM A CALL AT HIS PLACE
ON SOUTH SIDE 11th ST.,
One door east of Heintz's drug store.
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UMB US, XEB.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALKK IX
WI.ES, UIO.UORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand bf
Druggists.
P?iysicia8 Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on live or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
PMDOT BM!
BUY THE
Patent Roller Process
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Because it makes a superior article of
bread, and is the cheapest Hour
in the market.
Evert sack warranted to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3ra
WM. BECKER,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Goods Delivered Free to any
part of the City.
I A3I ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUHXARQ
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal. In style and
quality, second to none,
CALL AND LEARlf PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. & X. Depot.
Rhairs
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MY SWEETHEART.
0he is neither short nor tall,
Kather what I think you'd call
Just the size;
And her hands and feet are well.
Til say ditto, and not tell
Any lies.
Though her eyes are soft and blue,
They hare not the brilliant hue
Of the sky;
Yet when in their depths I look.
Like a picture in a book,
There am 1.
Not so very small her nose Is;
Neither are hor cheeks, like rosea,
Bed und white:
And my muse does not embolden
Me to call her brown hair golden.
Though I might.
Just a village maiden she
Many ladies that yon see
Rank above her;
Men have seldom called her pretty;
lhave never thought her witty:
But I love her,
D. C. Hanbroudx, in Century 3Iagazlna.
I SEXTON'S LEAGUE WITH THE SUN.
Simon Kenton was one of the most
noted of the early heroes of Kentucky,
a man of much intelligence, wonderful
courage and almost matchless muscular
capacity. He died near Bellefontaine,
Ohio, in 1836, at the advanced age of
eighty-one years. The annals of the
borders abound in accounts of his thrill
ing adventures; but one incident in his
life 1 have never seen in print, and
therefore will repeat it as it has been
told to me by old hunters and Indian
lighters, who knew him personally and
heard it from his own lips. In ruy tell
ing, however, it will lack much of Ken
ton's graphic way of putting tilings.
He was a great sn . the most im
portant supplies, neL to his weapons,
being his pipe, pouch and tobacco.
Food and clothing he could capture
with his gun, but not so his to
bacco; and hence his zeal to lay in a
stock of his luxury before setting out
on an' expedition. But fire to light his
pipe was not so readily obtainable, it
being no little trouble to ignite tobacco
by Hint and steel. It will be remem
bered that friction matches were not
in common use until years after Ken
ton's day.
At one time when a prisoner in the
hands of the British at Detro't, he was
particularly admired by English otlicers
on account of his great strength aud
courage, and the many remarkable ex
ploits for which he was famous: and
one of these ollicers, observing his fond
ness lor smoking anil the diihculty in
lighting a pipe, presented Kenton witli
a powerful pocket burning-glass or lens,
by which he could easily focus the rays
of the sun on the tobacco and set it on
fire. This thing worked charmingly,
and for many years, wherever he went,
held its place in the pouch with his pipe
and tobacco.
It is an incident in which the sun
glass acted a significant part, which I
have resolved to relate.
A summer or two after he became
possessor of the glass, he was again
taken captive by a party of Indians,
who, recognizing him at once, resolved
to torture nim to death immediately, so
as to rid themselves of so formidable an
enemy before he should have time or
chance to escape. A stake was driven
into the ground and a quantity of dry
leaves and wood piled about it, and
then the chief spoke, in broken Eng
lish: " White chief hungry; eat fire, he feel
better!"
Kenton replied by asking the privi
lege of smoking his pipe belore burning.
Now the Indians of certain tribes were
always singularly generous in response
to such requests, especially as tovvard
nine and tobacco thev nteri.imml ort.
bf religious deference. Of these they the seed-capsules, ami the other finds an
never robbed prisoners nor despoiled frxPlaatlo"1VV,too?ieLiter
the bodies of the slain; and among the I Han "f1 A" ?' 2?"?)' whe,re
few sacred objects buried with the Jead, ' weeail that at l.hat Tlod. lt T the
pipes were always included. It was on d"t-v. f yvo esPe?'al,y, appointed court
account of this superstitious sanctity i omciiafc to superintend the making of
that, the pipe bore such an important ' Yu m,e (lPPfed) cakes for the Em
part in the ceremonies of a council, and ' Peror s "se- ,0f co"e tlxe. secd1s .lh.e
was always smoked as a bond of strength
between tribes entering into treaty "to
gether. They never denied a captive's
request for a smoke, and therefore Ken
ton was immediately gratified bv a
grunt of assent.
After securing his feet more firmly I
with leathern thongs for they knew I
too well his daring and prowess to give '
nim any advantage tney uuo.mml his
fill and ii"-ht his
f onrihircmni-.
nanus mat ne might
pipe and enjoy hi last
Deliberately he proceeded to "crumble
up the tobacco and pack it into the pipe
bowl. This done, he placed the long
wooden stem in his mouth, aud seemed
ready for flint, steel and tinder with
which to light the luxury. With an
other grunt a red man passed him the
customary implements; but, to his great
surprise. Kenton refused them.
Then, with a dramatic gesture, he
extended his right hand toward the sun
in miu-neaven, it Being about noon.
and holding it thus witE the burnin.rl '
glass clasped between the thumb and !
fore-finger, he dextrouslv brought it to a '
focus on the contents of his pipe, which
in this way was quickly ignited, and in
a moment he was pulling clouds of
smoke from his lips.
This was beyond the wits
of the
savages. The lens being of glass and
transparent, they had not observed it,
and evidently believed that he had
lighted his pipe by simply letting the
sunlight pass through the "circle formed
by his thumb and finger. All uncon-
pornnrl ho rmffVxl o-q,. ,i.UI1. !.....
jrathered in an pveirprl orrnnr n fnw
yards distant and discussed the wonder ' pleasure of sight seems to have pre
rn grunts and mutterings. dominated. While on a journey this
In a few minutes he had exhausted i Poet was so enchanted by a field of pop
the contents of the pipe-bowl and pro- i pies, possibly because they reminded
ceeded to refill it. At this the red men ! ni f similar scenes in his native pro
became silent, and watched him as if ! vince of Sze ch'uen, that he forgot (he
he were a supernatural being. ! says) all the griefs of ten thousand miles
While crumbling the tobacco the of'traveL The poet Soc Cheh (1033
glass lay unseen at his side, and when ' 1112) dwells m an ode. on the curative
hewasreadv to litrht nn .i.min with and invigorating eflects of the poppy-
another stilf more dramatic Gesture, he
seized the lens and held it toward the '
sun, and, with three or four cries of
mysterious and startling import to the i ue sPeaks o M Dem- grwn "every
Indians. betrnn whififno- th MnUh where" (ch'oo ch'oo). The first medi-
began
smoke as coolly as before.
T .......... MW UUU
By this time the superstition of the
savages was in full operation, and they
were ripe for almost any display of
Kenton's supposed supernatural power.
Probably no people on the whole globe
were ever more sensitive to such influ
ences than the native tribes of North
America. What they could not com
prehend they dreaded with craven fear,
especially if it emanated from the tun
or clouds. Seeing his advantage, Ken
ton stretched forth his hand again, hold
ing the glass so as to kindle the leaves
near him. Then with a strange, wild
cry, he swung his arms above his head,
adroitly shifted the lens to his left hand,
and then quickly started a smudge in
another place.
Next, struggling to his feet, tied
though they were, he gave an almost
superhuman leap jumping being Ken
ton's special forte and brought him
self to the heap of fagots that had been
gathered for his particular entertain
ment, and seating himself near them,
went through a pantomime more weird
thau before, whereupon a flame blazed
up around the stake, aa if the victim
were already fastened to it, and ready
for torture.
His next performance was to beckon
to I4e chief to come and unbind his an-
kles. The mystified Indian hesitated.
but finally ventured cautiously forward,
as if not daring to disobey such a man,
and began with nervous fingers to fum
ble at the deerskin door.
While thus engaged, Kenton lifted
one hand, and instantly a lurid, blister
ing point of fire fell on the red man's
wrist. With an "Ugh!" he jerked his
hand away, only to feel the burning
focus on his head.
This was too much for even an In
dian's nerves; aud with a cry of terror
the old chief sprang away and ran to
the nearest tree, behind which ho took
shelter. The rest of the savasres imi
tated their leader, leaping' behind ad
jacent trees: and while with wondering
eyeathey stared at Kenton, he pro
ceeded leisurely to unbind his own an-
This done, he waved his arms towards
the sun as if giv ing thanks or invoking
further aid; and then went to a powder
horn, dropped by one of the Indians,
and withdrawing the stopple, placed it
as he wanted it, fixed his sun-glass so
that the focus would enter the horn,
and stepping toward the Indians ges
ticulated fiercely at them. Instantly
there was a vivid Hash and a roar, the
powder-horn disappeared, and the
frightened savages lied as if the "Great
Spirit" had suddenly come to destroy
them.
At this, Kenton considered himself
master of the field, and, in less time
than it takes to tell it, Hung upon the
lire whatever the Indians had lefl be
hind them, seized his own nroDortv
that they had taken from him, guu aud
garments, and made haste from the
scene.
A few years later, when peace had
been restored between American and
English, and the Indians were on pa
cific terms with the "Hunters of Ken
tucky," Kenton had the pleasure of
meeting at a " pow-wow" with some of
the warriors who had composed the
party so signally worsted by a sun
glass. They knew him at once, and
showed au ungovernable fear as he came
forward to shako hands. During the
"pow-wow" he often detected them
gazing at him with furtive glances, and
as he still had the lens, he mischievous
ly seized the first opportunity to call
down fire from the sun to light his pipe
again, accompanying it with strange
gestures.
Afterward he learned that they be
lieved him in league with the "Great
Spirit," and able, if he wished, to sum
mon the sun to battle for him. Wide
Awake.
The Poppy in China.
The date of the introduction of opium
in China is a moot point. Even Sir Rob
ert Hart, the Inspector-General of
Chinese Customs, in his reports can say
nothing more definite about it thautha't
" native opium was known, produced
and used long before any Europeans be
gan the sale of the foreign drug along
the coast." Chinamen themselves are
' no better informed; and it is only there-
, fore, by references to the poppy and to
opium in the literature ot the country
' that we can gain any positive informa
tion on the subject. The dictionaries
j tell us that the poppy has at different
periods been known under the names of
' Yu me hwa, "imperial grain llower;"
Me nang hwa, "grain-bag flower;" and
i. ing sun hwa.
liitnlipr-ormin llmrnp '
. , ,...... D...... ......
i "ol lue iast raes r lu "wsiiane oi
r I rJ uu nub ;uiiL.iiu iri'iuiii, uui tu ia
obvious that some glutinous substance
must have been used in making up the
cakes, and it is not a rash conjecture
that the juice from the capsules was
that used for the purpose. This is the
more probable since the juice has long
been employed in a like manner in mak
ing the cakes known as "poppy-juice
lisn." According to K'aughe's" cele-
' uratetl Encyclopedia (published in
I 1726), these cakes are made of flour
formed into dough by the admixture of
TAmtinJ intn jlctitfVM ! 1
the juice oi the poppy, and are then
kneaded into cakes shaped in the like
ness of fish. Under the later Han Dy
nasty just referred to, the capital was in
the province of Sze ch'uen, where the
poppy is at the present date largely
grown; but we learn from the "Shvvuy
king choo," a work referring to a some
what later period, that the plant was
not confined to that district, since men
tion is therein made of its flourishing
also in the province of Kwang-se.
The instinctive admiration which the
Chinese have always felt for coloring,
especially in flowers, has gained for the
PPP.V a high place in their estimation.
nut, irom tne nature oi tne literature,
i the expression of their admiration must
be looked for mainly in the works of the
poets. Their enthusiasm for the poppy
blossom, however, is vastly heightened
by an appreciation of the charms of the
juice and the strengthening qualities of
the seeds; at all events, these virtues of
the plant find prominent mention in
Chinese poetry. With Yung Taou. of
the Tang dynasty ( A. D. 618-907'). the
seeds and iu5ce: and So Suno of about j
tne sanie Penod. a native of Iruh-keen,
praises the beauty of tho plant, which
i cal man who speaks of the juice of the
, " .--.-.
poppy m a professional point oi view is
a certain Choo Chin-hang, a native of '
Che-keang, who lived during the end of t
the twelfth and the beginning of the
thirteenth century. "At the present
day," writes this author, " many peo
ple suffering from cougli and weakness
take the juice ot the poppy as a remedy.
It is also a cure for fever arising from
damp, and for dysentery. But," he
adds, " though its value as a medicine
is great, it yet kills men like a double-
edged sword (Sha jin joo keen), andits
use should therefore be avoided at all'
hazards." St. James Gazette.
The total length of telegra'ph wires
in the city of New York, including tele
phone and burglar alarm wires, is 10, 100
miles. The Metropolitan Telephone
Company leads with 8,600 miles, fol
lowed by the Western Union Telegraph
Company with 2,300. The weight of
this vast amount of iron is about 3,000,-
000 pounds. Of the number of. poles it
is hard to estimate, lhe Western Union
uses over 5,000. .Y. Y. Sun.
The Decline f Schooling;
At the recent meeting of the New York
State Teachers' Association, the report
at tne utaniiins: committee on the Lon-
dlt OI1 of r-uu;at on showed that, not-
j withstanding the steady increase in the
populat.on of our State, the number of
cuiuren in uauy attenuance upon tne
public Schools is declining. The de
crease was attributed by the Chairman
of the comm ttee to "the increased de
mands made by manufacturing inter
ests,- oy wnicn
was meant, we pre
sunic, an increased employment of chil-
drnn in fnrtnrus
r , .'"'"o """"'"" U"'"V'T-.
school is not peculiar to Nework State
6r to factory towns. At other teachers'
gatherings this summer the same con-
dition of things has been noted and va-
nously commented upon as being more
rni l i , ., , .
or less, visible throughout the country.
ana more or less to be deplored.
The general feeling seems to be that
the schoolmaster is losing his grip, and
that the country is likely to sutler in
consequence. That the schools arc or
can be in any way to blame for the de-
chn.ng popular interest m schooling,
the school authorities are naturally not
disposed to believe; nor does it seem to
occur to them to think that their appar-
ent loss of influence may really be an
indication of the spread of juster views
than formerly prevailed of what is prop -
er for youthful culture.
To say that fewer children "of school
age,- in proportion to tne scnoot popu
lation, are now to be found any day in
scnoot man was me ruie twenty years
ago, is very lar from saying that propor-
tionally fewer children are being proper
ly educated now. The legal "school
age" begins in this State at three years.
Formerly the custom was to send" little
boys and girls three and four years old
to the public school; and such is largely
the custom still among the poorer class
es. With well-to-do-people, we are
napm to oeiieve, tne sending ot such
mush ciuiurcn to scnoot is Becoming ; nent, it sinks into insignificance bv the
more and more the exception. The s;(ie of the employment of marked cards,
growing feeling is that, even when the ; With these the clement of chance dis
school house is kept m a condition san- appears, and any game played with
itanly ht for the reception of infants them Ls nothing' more nor less than
which, we tear is rarely-the case the 'stealing, those understanding the
beginning of school hie had better, lor marked backs of the card being the
the children s sake, be put off until they , thieves, and those who do not the vic-
aresix, eigm, or, wnen nome conditions
are right, ten years old. For this rea
son a vast, multitude of children, whose
educational prospects are the brightest,
are now kept from school. If the school
work were differently planned and reg
ulated; it might be better for some of
these children to be in school a little
everyday; but not under present con-
ditions. The fact that they are not in
school, however, must not be taken as
evidence that popular interest in ednca-
tion is declining, or that popular edu-
cation is likely to suffer for it. As a
rule children who begin serious school
work at eight or ten years of age are as
far advanced in their studies at twelve
as those who begmat three or four, and
usually they are both physically and
mentally in better condition forinstruc-
tl0J' . , . , ,
t N ot so satisfactory is the frequent cut -
mi" uii ui uic uuici cuu vi i no jeriUU.
spent in school; and yet even that is not
au unmixed evil, as the schools are
usually conducted. When the free
school" system was first developed, the
belief was general that schooling was
the one thing needful to enable young
people to get on in the world; and it
was a common thing for parents to
make great sacrifices to keep their chil
dren year after year in school, only to
find in the end that their
OI1S Were tOO
old to do bovs' work, and too proud to '
begin at the bottom of any trade or oth-
er inn usinai caning and woncup i ney
musk uo sonieiuing
crowded into
pursuit oi cieiKsnips ami ijuasi-proics- :
sionai engagements, in wnicn a nine
present salary was accompanied with '
extravagant expectations seldom or nev- I
ertobe fulfilled. Others as unwisely
pressed on in their school course, mort- ;
paging
their future to prepare them-
selves for
learned profession--, vainly
SeeKlllg to Win lame and fortune HI
places for which thev had no real fitness.
The condition of much schooled but ill
educated girls was, if anything, still
worse.
A natural reaction against this mis
direction of youth and natural result of
the failure of tho public schools to shapo
their work to meet the practical wants :
of the multitude, is the deposition to ;
cut short the school period early to be-
gin in earnest vvjku seems io ue me real .
business of life. Ihongh ninety-nine in ,
every hundred youth cannot hope to go
to college, their educational needs are
largely saenncea to niaxe tne sciiooi a
possible tributary to the college.
linie i
wnicn tne majority oi youtn need lor
practical preparation for their life's
work is thus very largely given to stud-
les of value only in their relation to a i
subsequent college course which is ,
UCICI IU UC CIIJUJ UII. 11 13 11W UVIUU1IUU .
ot popular unwisdom, as most teachers
seem to think, that there is an increas
ing popular indisposition to surrender
so much of youth's precious time to
such unpractical work. There is noth
ing so valnable to yonth as education, '
but unhappily schooling and education
are yet far from being synonymous; and
if the schools are declining in favor, it
is because the intelligent public see thi3
fact more clearly than the mass of
school officials do. Scientific American.
Gambler's Tricks.
Of the hundreds of individuals who
daily frequent the gambling dens of
more genteei. anu nf mnrcn ti.o.'a nn ,,. f .n.-noMar
the towns and cities in nhvimr Liinst. th(m Tiiov'wt i;tti.
..1 , .1 r I -' 1-1 " '- ....... ... ..... .......
Chicago, probably not one, outside of The friends of a certain man chip in
the professional gamblers, believes he ' four cents apiece andpurchase a sponge
is playing against a game that is not t to present him on his birth-day as em
"square." The announcement comes blematical of his daily life. The cer
every little while, as if serai-officially ' tain man lets himself loose on the donors
from the police, that only those gamb- ' and damages each one's head to the
ling places where square games are amount of 3.47. How much is each
played, are allowed to run. And the i donor out of pocket?
fools who gamble are none the less fools A man pays fifty cents extra to take
for believing it. The fact is, however, ' laughing-gas while having a tooth
that there is hardly a gambling house ' pulled. The dentist could have pulled
in Chicago, where crookedness is not six as well as one, and without any
praciice.T. In some of the games, such , further cost How much did the patient
as faro, the percentage against the play- lose by being so stingy of his molars?
er is very small, if no cheating device ' The candy eaten by a school-giri costs
is employed. Does any one suppose lust as much as her school-booki: the
that the proprie'orsof a gambling house
I aie too conscientious to employ a little ,
trickery to increase the chances of neec-
f ing their victims? The devices for I
cheating at cards are so numerous and up twice the cost of learning her to
so difficult of detection that they can be j paint landscapes on old jugs and pitch
employed by the professional with very . ers. Therefore, how many daughters
little risk: and those who play faro, rou-! must a man have to be rich?
ll' .llvr' . lu luegamoung rooms
f Chicago may rest assured hat these ,
"i"1-" """ "i. ii imvjuu iu .
tne proiession are more or less useo.
There is absolutely no chance for them
to win in the long run.
In faro the most common method of
increasing the chances of the dealer to
win is by the employment of a box so
constructed that upon being pressed at
a particular spot two cards can be re
moved at once instead of one. In this
way tne wnoie course ot the game can
be changed.
Having provided himself
with such a box, and most of the boxes
are of this convenient pattern, the
dealer sand-papers his cards They art
glazed cards, slippery, and he cannot
be sure that two will come out together
when he wants them. So he takes the
pack and divides it into two parts.
With a piece of the finest emery paper
he sand-papers very slightly the back
of half the pack and the faces of the
other half. You would never notice it,
but it makes them adhesive, and by
merely pressing the cards together h
can move two at a time whenever he
pleases. But this is not all. Ho takes
one-half the pack, and. with a very
j ah Ttyzov or liIe bevJls lhe cd
I . , . ...... ...
J one end. It may be only the thousandth
i part of an inch, but it is enough to
lloH- the dL.aler to djville the k
I into two sections whenever he pleases.
and. of course, he knows the content
of eacn p:u.u imtlgine what a chanc
t th;3 iYs tho deaier.
In an$- game in which hands are dealt
out to the players the professional can
ami flrtna Tioita nn tmntunca adinntami
' uv ,...,.?;.,. rJ,,f ;a l-t ..oi.:?t
- in. the cut '? By skilled manipulation of
t tho cards jn shuflling begets them so
that he knows just where certain cards
in tho pack The cards are cut
and this disarranges the order. By
"ghiftincr the cut 'pthe cards are re
stored t jUst the on
fore the cut was ma
order they were in be-
m.xlo 'l'lita nnnrittnn
i ,, h nnrfnrmo.l ; u-- r,;J., ,i.,;M
1 detection, even though the one execut-
I ing it u closcXy watched bv all sitting at
the table with him. Of cmirse the deal-
er who can practice this trick has an
j immense
advantage, as it enables him
to keep track of the cards as he had
originally arranged them in the pack
while shuffling.
Poker playing is exceedingly popular
in Chicago and is played in hundreds of
localities besides in the gambling deiu.
Poker rooms in the rear of many of the
more pretention's saloons and in hotels
are common. While sh..ing the cut is
a great assistance io the dealer in tak-
, ;ng an unfuir advantage over
an oppo-
t;m A wn- lnr. nnmlF nf l
marked cards are manufactured aud
sold.
And this is only one of his tricks.
Shift the cut? Yo'u can cut the cards
before his eyes; he will pick them up,
nml whiltt vnn nrp wntnliinrr tho nii'lr
i ;.,Bt ., ,An ,,. ,.., i, ,:ii a,;tt m,-
cut within twelve inches of vourface,
an,i yo can never see it done. You
i,ave heard the sleight-of-hand men tell
' about motion being quicker than sight,
. rt ;s oniv a (loj2e in their hands, but it
, j3 certainly true. The most wonderful
i card tricks done by a prestidigitateur
are mere child's tricks compared with
what a skillful gambler will do with a
. pack Gf cards. France, England and
the United States furnish nine-tenths of
j an the card sharpers what we call the
experts. This is, perhaps, because wo
, nave the most perfect cardsin the world.
thfit o-in hn lium oil nn mmw ms
wv - WV UIHUIH1 U U Vrf v W W WI1UV
every
The French cards, which are also used
in England and America, are better
made, better printed and more reliable
than any others. The best cards of all
are made in America, but they are still i
called rreuch cards as distinguished
from the Spani-h, Chinese and others.
The Spanish cards are ornamented with
soldiers, swords and guns, and are gen
erally rough and very poorly made.
Snmi nf nur hoaf Mr.?., in tliTu nnunlrv
are what we know as "crooked." made
bv special dealers, expressly for profes-
gionals. These are marked cards, and.
,u0re thau the others, but they
Wavs better made and worth
mn'nnv
more
The marking, indicating both the size
nr imnnrt-inro nf the ril n.m.iu,tii
sujt to which it belongs, is generally in
the upper left hand corner of the card,
aud is, of course, minute and almost
ininnihlinf.lpl..ctmn Iii.-nni.wl.nl.n4
'i::r:.;: ..r i;.v.r .,':.. vr:
nut me secrcu nn luese inarKS me
gambler
can do
just as well as if hia
opponent s cards were dealt face up
ward. With very little practice a man
can learn to read these tiny marks as
plain as print. The hand-marked cards
mentioned above were given to the
-rit,.r -.ml .;ti. i..,.ii;nn. ti.., !,.
three or four times, explaining theii
secrets to friends, be became so accus-
tomed to the simple marks as to be able
to distinguish the cards without difli-
culty. While the prevalence of gam
bling to such a wide extent in Chicago
is. as a matter of nublift morals, a mat-
js as a utatur OI"
ter to lie dentilv reo-retted. tlnri is no
one feature of the demoralizing custom
more calculated to excite pity than that
a ,,reat majority of the young men who
nave ac .u;red it are virtually robbed of
ti,c;r money in "skin" games Chicago
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Ht'mJll.
Some Xcw Arithmetical Problems.
A Wisconsin school teacher had nine
teen scholars and she figured up at the
end of three months that she had be-
stowed 128 lickings on the school. Al
lowing that one boy received seventeen
of them, and that three of the girl3
escaped entirely, how many lickings did
each of the others receive.
The average fisherman gets four nib
bles to one bite, and three bites to a
fish, and half his lish are not worth
carrying home. At this rate how long
will it take a fisherman to exhaust the
supply of sheep-heads and dog-lish?
peanuts she devours.cost more than her
singing lessons: her ice-cream costs
more than her French, and the eras and
fuel she consumes while snarkinir foot
Ayoung man wagers nity cents mat
he can put a bilUarS ball into his mouth.
ami ue wins ine ueu a surgeon cuarge
him . for four hours work in remov
ing it. What was the exact gain in be
ing smart?
An Alderman pays a reporter $5 to
write him a speech favoring the erec
tion of a new sciiooi house, but after de
livering eleven cents' worth of the ora
tion he is informed that there is no ques
tion before the meeting, and he falls
back and breaks a pjir of suspenders
worth thirty-five cents. How much is
the great mau out of pocket? Detroit
Free Press
are al-
A Yagkaribee Bedaween at DeTttoa
The Arab race is commonly divided
into two sections . The "Ahl Hadr," or
"dwellers in towns," and the "Ahl
Bedoo." or "dwellers in the open."
I From the latter words is derived the
well-known name Bedouin or Bedaween.
I The latter are the best known to Eu
j ropean travelers, and have usually been
' described with great exaggeration.
. Among them all, widely dispersed as
they are, community of origin and ol
modes of life results in producing a cer
tain similarity. In person the Beda
ween are rather undersized, active, and
enduring, with well-formed features.
Like all pastoral tribes which lead a
roving life, frequent quarrels arise
among them. The loneliness of the
desert, and the absence of fixed law or
civil order, render it necessary that ev
ery man be always ready to assert his
rights and defend his uerson. Yet tha
j raids on travelers which have made, the
name of Bedaween almost synonymous
with brigand are comparatively rare,
and are regarded by them as a Kind oi
customs dues levied on those who will
not pay for protection. In Asia most of
the Bedaween pay little attention to the
precepts of the Koran, and their religi
ous belief is confined merely to a pro
fession of faith in the unity of God. In
Africa the tribes which wander along
tho northern border of the Soudan and
the Algerian Sahara are mixed with oth
ers which are not of genuine Arab
blood, though they speak the Arab
tongue and call themselves Arabs. Llko
the genuine Arabs, they dearly love
their horses, and on horseback they are
indefatigable. Barelegged and bare
footed, with their white uurnous wrap
Eed round them, its hood over their
ead, the Bedaweon as he walks in un
conscious dignity is a striking object.
In Africa they are more religious than
in their native land, and countlass sects,
under the protection of countless saints,
extend their branches through the coun
try. Some of these fraternities, like
those of the Aissawi, practice still bar
baric rites; others adopt or retain the
ordinary forms of Mohammedan wor
ship. The postures of the Mohammedan
at prayer are striking aud reverent.
His face to the east, he stands or kneels
on the ground, with his hands held up
as though the palms were a book from
which he is reading. At the name of
God he prostrates himself in such a
manner that seven parts of his body
head, hands, feet and knees touch the
earth together. These genuflections
form a part of every act of prayer,
which always begins with the first words
of the Koran : "Praise be to God, the
Lord of all creatures, the most merci
ful, the Lord of the day of judgment!
Thee do we worship; Thy aid we im
plore. Guide us into the right way, the
way of those to whom Thou shovvest
mercy, not of those with whom Thou
art angry, and who go astray." liar,
per's Bazar.
The Indian Territory."
What is known as "The Indian Ter
ritory" is a region nearly the size of the
State of Indiana, bounded on the north
by Kansas, east by Missouri and Arkan
sas, south by Texas, and west by Kansas
andTexas. It was set apart by the Gov
ernment nearly half a century ago, or
a part of it.asa home for the Cherokees,
Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws,
whose presence in Georgia aud other
Southern States had become offensive
to white settlers coveting their lands.
The Indian population has since then
been augmented by other tribes and
remnant of tribes removed thither from
the Northwest, Southwest and South,
as the Senecis, Delawares and Shaw
nees, Osages and their beggarly half
brothers the Iviws, Sacs and Foxe,
Pottowatam es, what is left of the
Florida Scminoles the Comanches,
Lipan-s a remnant of the Pawnees, and
the M docs and Nez I'erces of Oregon.
It is a region rich in soil, well watered
and timbered, and having a good cli
mate, with mild winters and not very
heated summers. The four original
tribes, with the Cherokees at their head,
have become not merely civilized, but
quite as enlightened as their white
neighbors of Kansas, Missouri, Arkan
sas and Texa. They are good, solid
farmers, producing lino crops of maize,
wheat, oats, cotton, tobacco; and in live
stock cattle, horse-, mules and swine
they rank, in proportion to area and
population, rather above than below
the Texans and Missourians whose
lands lie contiguous to theirs. The
Delawares, Shawnees, Senetxis, are not
inferior in enlightenment to the Chero
kees. They carried with them into that
region a good fund of civilization and
wealth from their former reservations
farther north, and have increased it
very much in the last twenty years. It
is one of the astonishing facts brought
out by the census of 1870 that the Cher
okees" pay higher .salaries on the aver
age to their school-teachers than any
Western State, and that their schools
are as well attended as those of any
State in the Union. They have their
distinct and separate local governments,
republican in form and fact, with a sys
tem of jurisprudence that challenges
favorable comparison with our own.
The executive branch of the govern
ment of the Cherokees as, in fact, all
the other tribes is lodged in the hands
of a "Chief." The present Chief of the
Cherokees is an old Californian, former
ly a resident of Calaveras, and well
known to all the pioneers of that county.
His name is Denis Bushyhead. He has
no Indian feature save the heavy crop of
long, black hair which gives rise to his
name, and is as white in complexion as
the average Californian
This is the present Indian Territory,
and an outline of its inhabitants and the
quality of their civilization. San Fran
cisvo Chronicle.
A Peculiar Conspiracy.
The London Times is the victim of a
peculiar conspiracy, which, in its oper
ations, illustrates anew that it is the im
possible that hapueiis. For it would
seem to be impossible, in any well regu
lated newspaper ollice, that indecent
expressions could be repeatedly smug
gled into articles and the author not dis
covered. The London Times claims to
have the be-t supervision of any news
paper, the best proof-reading, the be3l
of everything. Yet it is said "its mana
gers look at the wsne every morning
with feir and trembling," lest they find
in some prominent place expressions
that no newspaper tolerates. The
annoyance began with what is described
as a "horribly indecent" interpolation
in a speech by Sir William V. Haroourt.
Three repetitions have occurred, each
"quite as scaudalous," and yet the per-
fietrator or the outrages is undetected,
t seems incredible that m tlicious trick
ery of this kind should be carried on
without knowledge of responsible per
sons. Collectors of brie a-brac may be
pl-aed to know that there .ire estimated
to be hid avviy in raves of Egypt soma
731,000,000 mummies.