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THE JOURNAL,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1883.
Ictirtl it til Fsttefi:, Cchmtu. Kit., s nexl
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IN MEMORIAM.
Ring out, ye spheres! ring cut my mournful
bile;
And oh, ye groves, your solemn music lend
To my frrest grief, in plaintive, sorrowing
For he Is dead, my Husband and my Friend!
And oh, thou Lore, the sunshine of my youth.
Now lend thy strength to every note of woe,
While I in sorrow leam the fitter truth
The lonely hours this widowed heart must
know.
O Love, O Sorrow, wherefore are ye twain.
The rival heirs of my bereaved breast?
Where in successive anarchy ye reign.
Each strengthening each in anguish and
unrest!
The tones of bliss whfch I was wont to hear.
And hoar with rapture from his blessed lips.
Arc silent now! Where filial! I find his peer?
To me the world is shrouded in eclipse!
For dark arc all the scenes where is not.
And tamo are all tho sounds without MS
voice: ,
Palo Grief is now my silent, bitter lot.
Though the vain world should say, "Eejoice,
rejoice!"
But he has passori to purer Light above.
And so I bold it sin thus to complain:
With mo ho lcrt his great, undying love.
And nothing but the holier thoughts remain.
Thoso will I cherish till the IJridal Song
Of the Eternal Kingdom shall unite
My soul with his, and with the glorious Throng,
Fast by the throne or Majesty and Light!
There shall tho voice which bade the billows
cease
Their tumult on the Lake of Galilee,
Be beard in thrilling tones of Lovo and Peace
Of love so full of Joy and harmony!
Chamlttrt' Journal.
HOW KATT CAUGHT HIM.
You're sure you won't bo afraid,
Katy?"
" O no. father!"
" But Tilly is so deaf," added Mr.
Dillingham, pausing with his foot on
tho carriago step. " Sha'n't I stop and
ask AuntPriscilla to let one of the girls
come -up?"
No indeed father; I won't be a bit
frightened."
" Well, there's nothing to hurt you,
and I shall he back with your mother
some time to-night if it s a possible
thing. Good-by, daughter."
Mr. Dillingham seated himself in tho
vehicle, touched tho old-gray lightly and
drove away. Katy stood in the door
and watched her father off. She was
just thirteen years, of age, and sho
didn't feel a bit afraid, ana when the
carriage was out of sight she bounded
off tho door-step and across the road to
the b barn, whence she presently re
turned with hef apron full of eggs.
" Tilly," sho screamed, going into
Ae kitchen "oh, Tilly, let me make a
sponge-cake, all myselt, for dinner to
morrow. I've found some eggs and 1
want to make a sponge-cake."
" O 3'es," said Tilly, quite with the
air of one who can hear as well as
mother one, but who like to play some
times at being deaf, "make half a dozen
of sponge-cakes if you want to, dearie."
So Rut beat the eggs, whites and
elks separately, for ten minutes; she
put in the sugar and beat five minutes,
and the flour and beat three minutes
more, exactly by rule, and when all'this
was done, and the cake browned to de
licious perfection in the big oven, the
short November afternoon was already
half-way through.
" I'm going to put my cake in the
preserve closet, Tilly."
Till' didn't offer any objection and
Katy carried her sponge-cake through
the pantry into the little dark closet be
yond. There were rows upon rows
of preserve jars, and above them on
tho upper shelf Katy caught a white
gleam from the silver the ewer and
sugar bowl and cake basket and tea-
)ot, besides a quantity of spoons that
lad belonged to her great-grandmother.
They wero very heavy and all of pure
silver; and suddenly, as Katy stood
gazing up at them, she remembered,
with a little shiver of dread, tho face of
a tramp who had looked iu at the door
the day before while Tillv was cleaning
the silver at the table. He asked for a
drink of water, and when he had got it
he went away; but it seemed to Katy at
this minute that he looked at the silver
a great deal longer and sharper than
was at all necessary. What if he should
come back? He wasn't a vicious
looking tramp: indeed, Tilly had
thought ami said what a pity it was
that he should be a tramp at all such
a bright face he had and such a pretty
way of speaking, but
"You can't tell much by looks," said
Katy, wisely, to herself. "I believe
mother would almost rather lose the
farm than that silver. Anyway I'll put
on the padlock before I go to bed. I
suppose it's foolish though."
Perhaps that was the reason he for-
t;ot all about it. She sat at the window
or a long timo, busy with her knitting
and with thinking "of how glad she
would be to sec her mother again.
Two weeks is so long a time; and Mrs.
Dillingham had been a day more than
that with a sick sistcr'in Wakefield,
almost twenty miles from home. The
clouds had shut down heavy and gray,
and it would be dark early;
But by the time Katv was ready for
bed she had forgotten all about the pad
lock, though she was really a little
nervous and frightened, and wished
more than once that Tilly's cot bed in
the little room over the kitchen would
hold her with Tilly. But she felt better
when she had gone up stairs into her
own little chamber, and had fastened
the door; and pretty soon after saying
her prayer she crept into bed and fell
fast asleep.
When she awoke, the clouds had
cleared away and the moon was shining
full in at her window. She awoke sud
denly, with thoughts of the silver in
ner mind, and presootlv she heard the
chimes of tho old clock ring through
the house like a bell twelve.
"I declare." said she to herself then,
sitting upright in bed, "I didn't think
to lock that closet door. But it's safe
enough mother never thinks of lock
ing it."
She lay down and tried to go to sleep
again, but it wasn't a bit of use, though
she counted more than two hundred
sheep jumping over a gate. She could
not help thinking of kow badly her
mother would feelshould that silver bv
any chance be stolen. It seemed to
her that there wero strange noises all
about the house; and once a sound as
of a window being moved softly up set
her heart to thumping in a very lively
way.
What a goose I am!" she said at
length, aloud, and jumping out of bed
as she spoke. "It's, nothing but a Tat.
But I'll go down and lock that door. I
can't go to sleep till I do."
She slipped into a wrapper, laughing
at herself all the while, and went softlv
down-stairs so softlv that she could
scarcely hear the sound of her own
stockinged feet as she walked. She
took down the padlock and key, which
were seldom used, from a nail in the
kitchen, and went bravely into the
pantry. The moon shining in at the
window lighted her way, Imt it was
surely not the moonlight which shone in
hat dreadful preserve closet, streaming
out at the door which stood wide open.
Katv's heart stood still with horror!
Therein the closet, on the wide lower
shelf was a lighted lamp, and beside it
jrlistened the heavy olu-iasnionea cKe
dish that had belonged to jvatys greai
grandmother, and before it stood Katy
was sure the tramp.
She could hardly keep from scream
ing, and her hands shook, as wita the
ague; but with one quick- dart she
slammed the closet door, put the heavy
JjUMP iB'pJace. and sprung the padlock.
3bSw wwi startiea exclamation from
her prisoner as she did so. It was all
Katy heard before she fled from the
pantry to the outer door, unlocked it,
and sped away through the moonlighted
night toward Aunt rnscuia s, a miie
distant.
"He can't hurt Tilly," she panted,
"and she won't wake up and he can't
get out. But maybe he'll burn the
ouse up. O why can't father come!
and what makes it so far to Aunt
Prissy's!"
She didn't get to Aunt Priscilla's.
Just at that moment came the sound of
carriage wheels, and before Katv had
time to do more than recognize the old
gray.she heard a startled cry from her
mother. .
"Why, Katy! child alive, what brings
you hero?"
Then poor little Kaly, how she trem
bled when her father picked hor up
and "placed her in the carriage;, and
how, almost sobbing with the fear and
excitement of it, she told her story;
and how, by the time they reached
home, sho was as nearly in hysterics as
it was possible for a well-ordered little
girl, with no nerves to speak of, to be.
"There, there, dear! And in your
wrapper, too!" said her mother, anx
iously. "You might have put on a
shawl, Katy. You'll catch your death."
"You must have dreamed it all,
daughter," said her father. But he
lost'no time in entering the house, and
he provided himself with a huge pistol,
which hadn't been discharged for a
dozen years, before he unlocked the
closet door and began to open it cau
tiously. Then Katy and her mother,
uniiiiiir hv tin kitchen door, which
they took the precaution to hold wide
open, ncani an e.xciamnuuu ui nurpnac.
"Aha! you'd better come out, sir,
and give yourself up peaceably."
"With the greatest pleasure." It was
a laughing voice, anil it was a laugh-inn-,
mmarkablv "-ood-lookinfr face that
presently showed itself over Mr. Dil
lingham s shoulder in the panuy aoor
way. Katv's mother took an eager step
forward. "I believe it is rrank! she
cried. "Why, Frank, Jrrunk Sawyer,
where did you fall from?"
Th minute Katv saw her mother half
crying on the young man's shoulder,
with 'her arms around his neck, she
knew that this was the undo she never
remembered to have seen, who had
been abroad" for years. Poor little
Katy once more! How as iished and
ashamed she was! lo im .. sue uau
locked her mother's only brother up in
the preserve closet for a thief! How
dreadful "it was! nary wua ourning
cheeks, drew back in tho shadow of the
open door.
"But how 1 declare, lauguea
Mrs. Dillingham, "I don't much
blame Katy."
"It goes without telling," saidKaty's
uncle, laughing too. "Icarac on tho
ten-o'clock tram, and ma'do up my
mind to walk over from the station.
When I got here 1 knocked at the door,
but nobody woke up, so I just made
mv vr- in through the window. I was
hungrier than a cannibal, and thought
I'd get something to eat without wak
ing anybody up. I was alter preserves
you know I have a sweet tooth
wl'inn I saw prandmother's silver, and
I was taking a look at it for the sake
of old times, when presto! I found
myself a prisoner."
"Hwas Katy," said airs, uming
ham, laughing until she cried. "Katy
why. what are you hiding for.
child? Come here."-
And Katy reluctantly obeyed.
"Now how was it, daughter?" asked
her father, when this strange uncle had
siiaKcn nanus wuu xvuiv nun kisscu
her half a dozen times on each cheek.
So Katv told the story over again,
this time with a good many laughing
interruptions.
And vou were kind of a buro-lar."
she said," slyly glancing up, "because
you were alter the preserves, you
know."
"I got in through a window too
Katy. And I ate a whole sponge-cake
while I was locked up."
"It was mine." said Katy, laughing
again.
Mr. Dillingham sat down and took
his daughter on his kneo. "Well,"
said he, "you'd have done just the
same if he'd been a genuine tramp, as
lie ougiit to nave oeen, poKing arounu
folks' houses in that fashion. I'm
proud of you, Katy-did."
"So am I," said Uncle Frank Saw
yer, and heTolled up his eyes in a com
ical way at naiy.
"And so am I," said her mother and
she kissed Katy. Ada Carlcton Stod
dard, in Harper's Young People.
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A Dynamite Story.
In 1865 a prisoner who was con
demned to hard labor in a German mine
(a fate that befalls many evil-doers in
the Rhiueland) managed to effect his
escape. He had held a position of some
little confidence in the mine, .and when
he decamped he succeeded in taking
with him a small tin can, containing
-about three pounds of nitro-glycerine.
Profoundly ignorant of the nature and
fell destructivenessof the explosive, and
believiugjrom the care with which he
had always seen it served out in the
mines that it was of considerable value,
he clung to his treasure with, tenacity,
and eventually embarked for the United
States, carrying the can with him and
using it on his long sea voyage as a
pillow. Arrived in New York, he sought
accommodations in a Greenwich Street
sailors' boarding house. There, pend
ing his search for a purchaser, ho put
the can in the public bar-room, where it
was used by the boarders as a foot-rest
when they blacked their boots. This
went on for fully two weeks, and prob
ably the little can was knocked about
all that tint by careless mariners, who
little knew the danger that they were
incurring. 'One day there was a fight
in the bar-room, and. the can was kicked
by a stalwart German in his effort to
reach one of his opponents. That fight
ended instantly. Simultaneously with
the kick there was a general scattering
of all the inmates of the room, a crash
ing of falling bricks and splintering
timbers, and. a report like a seventy
four's broadside. A horse that was
passing in the street was struck b3some
of the bricks hurled from the building
and pieces of an iron pillar that had
been shattered, and instantly killed;
but, strangely enough, the men in the
bar-room escaped with slight bruises,
the kickers even, being only stunned by
the shock Philadelphia Press.
Poised en His Cellar.
I noticed an approved specimen of a
dude going up-town recently in a horse
car, accompanied bv a very charming
young girl. He 'herd a ten-cent
Eiece for his fare in his carefully gloved
and. As the conductor approached
he seemed to become nervous, and
dropped the coin. Of course his im
pulse was to pick it up. He stooped
and put his hand down to the floor.
But his high collar held his neck like a
vice, and stoop as he would he could
not get his eyes lower than the knees of
the people opposite. He groped with
his hand, struggled desperately to get
a better view, and grew red in the face.
His companion smiled, a girl opposite
giggled and a big man on the corner
gave vent to a guffaw. The dude
straightened himself with much digni
ty, and, putting a trembling hand in
his breast-pocket, produced another
com. FreutuTs Daily.
For macaroni, with cheese, or for
Welsh rarebit, cheese which is too dry
for the table may be used; when it u
grated and melted, if it seems at all
stiff, add a very little cream to moisten
lU-N. T. Post.
Matters Leaf Delayei.
The persons who settle in a new see
tion of the country are a long time in
surrounding themselves with what
fiass for the comforts of life. This de
ay is often occasioned by lack of suita
ble means. The new settlers hare to
provide themselves with homes before
they can adorn themselves. They must
have the necessities of life before they
can pay much attention to its comforts
and conveniences. They have land to
Eay for and improve, fences to make,
ouses and outbuildings to erect and
farm machinery to purchase. While
they are accomplishing all these things
they have their families to support and
their children to educate. They there
fore try to make themselves contented
with poor homes and ordinary faro.
They dress plainly, and everything about
their places presents a very plain ap
pearance. Having fallen into the habit
of getting along with few things that
Eertain to comfort, convenience and
eauty, they continue in the habit long
after.thcy are in a condition to obtain
them. In some sections of the country
the work of adorning and making com
fortable country homes is delayed till
the second generation. The children
of the persons who settle iu a new re
gion havo more time and money, and
they are likely to travel in parts of the
country where there are fine and com
modious buildings, good orchards, vine
yards and plantations of small fruits,
shade and ornamental trcoj, vegetable
and flower gardens, well-kept lawns,
and other evidences of taste and refine
ment. They return home, and imme
diately commence to improve the places
which present so many opportunities for
improvements of various kinds. They
plant flowers and shrubs as well as corn
and potatoes; they have' regard for
beauty as well as utility.
It is certainly very desirable to com
mence to improvo country homes as
soon as they become homes. People
who live on farms have, few means of
enjoyment outside the laud they own
and occupy. Their living is chiefly
confined to the articles of food they pro--duco
on their own places. - Observation
shows that in many cases it consists
largely of "hog and honiiny." Now,
it is comparatively easy to provide
many articles of food that in excellence
may pass for luxuries. A very small
sum of money and a little time will en
able now settlers to obtain many table
comforts. If the seed of water-cress be
sown on the hanks of a stream or spring
brook -a lasting supply of one of the
finest relishes may be secured. As a
condiment it has no superior. It is ex
cellent for eating with meat and fish,
and even with bread and butter. It re
quires no preparation, for the table, and
needs no addition but salt. Asparagus
occupies a leading place among table
luxuries, and a plot of land planted to
this delicious vegetable will furnish
more food than if planted to anything
else. A bed once prepared will con
tinue to be productive for twenty years.
The roots are somewhat expensive if
ordered from a nurseryman and sent a
long distance by express. But a farmer
can raise the roots from seed as well as
a professional nurseryman. A paper of
seed costing ten cents will produce
plants enough to afford all the aspara
gus a family will consume. An ounce
of seed will produce about two hundred
plants. The seed should be sowed in
rows about a foot apart, and the young
plants carefully cultivated during the
first season. If attended to faithfully
they will be largo enough to place in a
permanent bed or row the following
spring. Some stalks can be used the
first season, and the roots will bear
close cutting every season afterward.
Grapes, currants, gooseberries and
othei small fruits that are propagated
by cuttings can be started at the ex
pense of a very little time and money.
The cuttings can generally be obtained
of persons who have old vines and
bushes at a nominal expense. They
can generally be obtained from old
friends living at a distance without cost,
and. can be forwarded by freight for a
small sum. An excellent substitute for
small fruits is furnished by rhubarb or
pie plant. This can be propagated from
seed as easily as asparagus and in sub
stantially the same way. Lilacs, snow
balls, syringias, honeysuckles and vari
ous other flowering and other ornament
al shrubs can be propagated by cut
tings as easily as currant and gooseber
ry bushes. Ornamental shrubs will live
as long as trees, afford material for mul
tiplying the species, and will give very,
little trouble. Most of them, are hardy
and very productive of flowers and foli
age. There are few places, even in the
"treeless portions" of the far west, that
are very remote from situations where
wild vines, bushes and shrubs grow.
Some of them are very beautiful when
transplanted, pruned and cultivated.
Most varieties of forest trees are very
easily raised from seed. With an ounce
of seed of each variety one wishes to
raise a nursery can be started that will,
in a few years, afford all the trees that
will be needed to afford shade and or
nament on a farm of ordinary size.
Seeds of trees that do not produce nut
can be sent by mail, and acorns and
other nuts can be transported as freight
at small expense. By the judicious use.
of trees and vines a prairie farm may
be rendered very beautiful, and the cost
of them may be rendered trifling. Good
taste in planting will accomplish more
than a large Amount of money spent in
the purchase of expensive nursery stock.
Chicago Times.
Hnntlns; With s Canara in Algiers.
The Coiirrier de Bone gives the de
tails of an extraordinary bunt with a
cannon which has taken place upon
Lake Fezzara. Having resolved to hunt
water-fowl wi tH a breech-loading cannon
carrying four, thousand yards, "Lord
Paget, Lieutenant-Genera.1 and gentle
man groom to her Majestr Queen Vic
toria,' had transported by" about eighty
Arabs a- steam-launch, which was.
launched in the lake. Once in the
water, the cannon turned on a pivot in
stalled in the bow of the launch, loaded
with small shot, and worked by two
funners from the noble Lord's yacht
anta Maria, the modern Nimrods pre
pared to kill the large flocks of birds
which abound in that region. Here is
the-account as given by the Courritr de
Bone: " Soon," says that journal, " after
having let pass bands of small water-,
fowl, such as tea, grebe, pioneers, gea
ducks, etc, we saw a large flock of wild
geese. ' The launch having eased up a
little, the cannon was pointed to the
center of the flock, at a signal given by
Lord Paget. A loud detonation, which
made the mountain echo, was heard,
and the air was obscured by the flight of
these large birds, who for'the first time
found themselves troubled in their re
treat The surface of the lake was cov
ered with geese, flamingo, etc., flapping
about, plunging and trying in all haste
to escape. Unfortunately the sportsmen
had left their dogs on board the Santa
Maria, and it was with difficulty that
they could gather one-tenth of the vic
tims. They got sufficient, nevertheless,
to fill the boat.
"
The Guardian (Episcopal, New
York) prints a communication headed:
"Favorable Testimony of Our .Mode of
Worship, from the Penitentiary in
Iowa."
Too much attention can not be paid
to regularity in the care of stock. Any
delay beyond the usual tim of feeding
or milking makes the animal uneasy.
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Trying to crowd five hundred roses
In a spring bonnet four inches square it
what is making ravins maniacs out el
th williMra. PkiLuUlpkia ffirfM.
Wealds'! Tell.
Socrates used to put his questions In
such a wav that they co dd be answered
only by "yes" or" "no." By skillful
questioning, he proceeded step by step
from one "yes" to another, until his
opponent found himself in a corner
from which there was no escape. This
method is called "the Socratic method
of debate."
It works well when he who asks tho
questions has clearly in view the point
which he wishes to establish. But when
the questioner is in the dark as to the
subject he is inquiring about, and is
seeking for light, then the Socratic
method is useless. If, however, he can
guess at the answer, "yes" or "no"
may show whether the guess is right or
wrong. It was after this fashion that
the teacher of a New England district
school correctly "jumped at a con
clusion." This teacher, whom we will call Miss
L , taught fifty-seven boys -and girls,
from six to sixteen vear.s of age, divided
into half-a-dozen different classes. One
day, while she was hearing a class in
arithmetic, some one in the back part
of the room whistled. As this was not
the first time such noises had been heard,
Miss L resolved to end them by
making an example of the . offender.
Being uncertain as to who was the guilty
one, she began a series of inquiries.
"CharlIo"Smith, did you whistle
then?" she sternly demanded of the boy
who generally had a finger in all the
mischief.
"No, ma'am."
"Sure? You didn't whistle a parti
cle?" "No, ma'am," he persisted. "I didn't
do it a bit."
'"Well, do you know who did?"
"No, ma'am, I don't."
Then Miss L called up another
scholar and put the' same question, with
a similar result.
Thus questioning each one in turn she
went through the school. Al denied
having made the noise; 'some did not
not know who did and others refused to
tell. Miss L said:
"Some one here has told a lie in an
swer to my first question. Who that
some one is you all probably know. My
second question you have either refused
to answer, or have told a falsehood. I
consider you all equally guilty and shall
punish you all alike five sharp strokes
of the ratan. Number one come for
'ward!" One by one the scholars received five
stinging blows on the hand. Only one
disobeyed a little girl whose unruly
temper was well known. She stoutly
-refused to hold out her hand.
" Then you must go homo immedi
ately," said Miss L , "anil don't ev
er expect to return. Here! get your
books and take them with you?'
Sobered by this summary treatment
the scholars bent over their books and
indulged in no more disorder that day.
Miss 1 dropped the subject until,
after school was closed, she met one of
her pupils alone.
"Why didn't you tell me, Johnny,"
slit inquired, "who whistled in school?"
" I wouldn't be so mean a9 to blab on
anybody."
"But you ought to; then you wouldn't
have been pumshed, and only the guilty
one would have suffered. Will yon tell
me now?"
"No, ma'am; I don't want to tell tales
out of school."
"But the one who whistled didn't get
punished, did she?"
"No, ma'am."
"I thought so," and Miss L nod
ded her head triumphantly. Youth's
Companion.
How to Cure Stammering.
Probably no human infirmity has been
the object of such diverse or such blun
dering and unscientific treatment- Even
so good a surgeon as Diefenbach cut
wedges out of the tongue of the patient
Itard made them speak holding a gold
fork in their mouth; Serres advised a
waving motion of the arms during
speech; Bertrand caused them to regu
late the words to a rythmical motion of
the fingers, or to keep time to a stick as
in the orchestra. He also placed sub
stances in the mouth. This had been
done centuries before by Demosthenes,
according to that unveracious gossip,
Plutarch. Those might be termed me
chanical attempts at cure.
Next to them came (in the lecture of
which this is a condensation) musical
methods,, and foremost among them
singing; it being well known that many
confirmed stammerers sing with perfect
articulation. Secondly, a so-called se
cret method, which consisted in either
whispering or speaking in a gruff, un
melodious tone. Thirdly, the very op-
Sosite of this, as recommended by
larshall Hall, namely, chanting or
monotoning. Fourthly, preceding all
abrupt and consonantal sounds Dy a
vowel such as E, recommended by
Arnott. Fifthly, the plan of running
all the words of a long sentence into
one, and thus acquiring as it were an
articulatory momentum.
Intellectual or rational methods
brought the lecture to a close. First
among these is pausing and deliberate
ness. The stammerer may be compared
mechanically to a steamship which over
runs her crew, and treated similarly.
Secondly, the imitation of good models,
by reading in unison with an articulate
speaker. Thirdly, and perhaps best of
ail, prefacing every, sentence by a deep
breath, which relaxes all the muscles of
speech, and enables them to start fairly
one against another. Fourthly, a plan
was suggested which had succeeded ad
mirably in the lecturer's experience
namely, that of learning a new lan
guage. For this purpose none was bet
ter than French. Its pronunciation is
so thoroughly different from that of En
glish that it requires and establishes a
totally new co-ordination 'of muscles.
Moreover, -its mode of habitual acquire
ment is entirely different from that of
English. Any one who will watch a
French child just rising out of infancy
must notice that whereas the charac
ter of an English child's incipient
speech is "smudging" and confusion,
the other's is slow, pompous and delib
erate. It is not till later in life that the
French acquire that lightning-like
rapidity of speech which is the terror
of foreigners; while young they speak
well and slowly. The third lecture en
ded with a few directions how to pro
ceed in a case of stammering, and some
suggestions as to the prospects of cure.
As to the former, it is obviously desir
able to examine carefully for the exact
seat and the exciting cause of the de
fect; most of the systems in vogue hav
ing erred by exaggerating a particular
treatment to the exclusion of others
equally admissible. As to the latter,
there is no doubt that stammering can
be cured. This was proved by such in
stances as Demosthenes, Wilberforce
and Kingsley. But it was equally
proved by the three names thus enumer
ated that to conquer the vicious habit
required no usual amount of patience,
ability and determination. London
Hature.
Plantation Philosophy: It's tryin'
ter be interestin' in conversation dat
makes a liar outen many a man. De
appetite ob man an' de vanity ob wom
an is what keeps de world's trade in
motion. It ain't de pusson what bows
low dat is really de humblest. De snake
is all on de group', but, Lawd, how
pizen he is. Arkansaw Traveller.
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Lyman Potter, .of Albany, wne
Sushea a wheelbarrow from the Hudson
iver to San Francisco in 1878, started
recently to walk from New Yerkto
New.Orltans wkhin a certain time, bnt
was struck by a train inSTorta Carolina,
adWed.-AltanfitN. T-.) JwrnfK
BFXI6I0US AND EDUCATIONAL.
Recent discoveries of vsry ancient
copies of the Old Testament Scriptures
in llebrew and Hebro-ltussian have been
made ut Yemen, in Arabia.
Notwithstanding Texas has a mag
nificent school fund and a surplus of
$2,500,000 in the treasury, her public
schools are in session only five or' "six
months of the year.
The excellent painting of "St. Paul
in Chains," by Murillo, which was placed
in St. Paul's Cathedral in Cincinnati,
man years ago, at a cost of $25,000,
has been ruined. ' The sexton, in trying
to place a screen over it on baturday,
slipped from the scaffolding which he
had erected, and fell through the pic
ture to the floor," fifteen feet below.
The new Compuliory" Education
law of Rhode Island requires that every
child between the ages of seven and fif
teen years shall have sixteen weeks of
schooling each year. No child under
twelve is to be allowed to work in any
manufactory, and no one -under fourV
teen who cannot write his- name, age
and place qf residence, or read somo
part of the State Constitution.
" Away then," said Prof. Parish to
tho twenty-live young women to whom
he was giving diplomas as graduates of
the Philadelphia Woman's Medical Col
lege, "with the fallacious reasoning
that a woman niaj with propriety
devote her 'capabilities to the study of
the lily or the rose, the spider or the
beetle, but cannot study man, the noblest
work of God."
About two years ago, one nativo'
Chinaman in the village of Kokei;
China, was the solitary follower of the
Christian religion among the dwellers
in that place. Through his influence
and that of the ministers, a neat little
chapel has been built, which now has
thirty church members and over fifty
regular attendants on worship. The
native Christians' have contributed two
thirds of what tho building cost. They
now carry on their Sunday services
themselves, and provide for the ex
penses. The" Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided in a certain suit that a
Catholic priest cannot recover salary
from his bishop. A religious organi
zation which forbids its priests to do
secular work," tho Judge remarked,
"ought to provide for their support; but
when the attempt is made to enforce
the payment of a salary, a contract has
to be shown. If "the priest relies upon
the church to give him a living, he must
invoke its aid, rather than the court's,
if he seeks redress."
A High-Priced Stamp.
A-private sale of a Brattleboro stamp
was recently made in this city for a
trice which may or may not be the
argest ever given for a piece of paper
an inch square, but which was certain
ly without any warrant in reason. The
story is one which will appeal to all
collectors. In 1846 the postmasters of
certain cities issued stamps by authori
ty while waiting a supply from the de
partment. Of the Brattleboro issue
eight hundred were printed, and lialf
were burned. Considering the nature
and uses of postage-stamps it would
seem nearly as hopeless to raise the
dead as to tindoneof those four hun
dred after the lapse of a quarter of a
century. No sane man would attempt
it, and the problem is enough to destroy
the last distinction between a collector
and a lunatic. While others searched
for the stamps, one shrewder than the
rest looked for the engraver. He found
him alive in Springfield. He had .'still
seven of the precious squares, and he
parted with them for his own price of
sevonty-five cents each, besides furnish
ing indisputable proof of the genuine
ness of an issue the very existence of
whieh was doubted. The fact was heard
of, and a dealer offered a dollar apiece
for six. The purchaser demanded five
times that sum, and before the money
reached him though it was 'promptly
sent he had an offer of ten dollars
apiece. But he was honest, and parted
with six for thirty dollars. The most
Erecious, bearing the engraver's name,
e kept, and has now sold it for one
hundred dollars, or for five times the val
ue of a double eagle, and perhaps a thou
sand times, more or less, the weight of
the stamp in gold. Regarded purely as
a speculation, we do not- know of any
neater operation than this, showing. as
it does a clear profit of several thousand
per cent. Most people will think the
giving of such a price for such a thing
sufficient proof of monomania, but the
task which the purchaser is supposed to
have set himself leaves no possible room
for doubt. These Brattleboro stamps
were printed in sets of ten, we believe,
and each of the set, of course, differed
to an extent appreciable with the mi
croscope. No ordinary " collection is
complete without a Brattleboro stamp;
but this quite too altogether priceless col
lection has now three, and may yet
have a complete set of the Brattleboro
issue. A collector of this sort is either
a stark lunatic or is filled with a holy
rage whieh none of the common herd
are capablo of appreciating. N. Y.
Times.
Water Pollution.
The effect of water pollution, upon
the health has been repeatedly pub
lished. Goitre is caused by drinking
water impregnated with animal matter,
and disappears when pure water is sub
stituted. Jn Great Britain 164 epidem
ics of enteric fever were traced in four
years to impure air or water usually
both and 6,897 deaths occurred'in. a
single year from these causes. In the
historic outbreak at Over Darwin 2,000
cases of sickness and 100 deaths result
ed from a polluted water supply v A
simple test for pure water, such as
might be used by ordinary household
ers, is very desirable; but none existr,
and it requires much skill to prove that
water is absolutely pure. Chemical
tests are uncertain. The taste is not to
be depended upon, as the most palata
ble water is often the most impure. In
India examination of some of the wells
used by the pilgrims showed that tho
so-called holy water consisted of almost
pure sewage. The frequent outbreaks
of cholera among these visitors is there
fore explained. So difficult has it be
come to obtain pure water on the Con
tinent of Europe that the eminent En
glish physician. Sir Henry Thompson,
in a letter to the London "Times, warns
travelers never to toueh a drop -in any
lace, or under any circumstances, un
ess it can be boiled before using.
Korth American Review.
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Southern Lumber Resources.
It is computed that the forests of
Texas will supply the whole country
with timber for one hundred years.
North Carolina -has an acreage of
growing timber amounting to about 75
per cent, of her territory.
The yellow pine forests of Florida
extend over three-fifths of the six coun
ties of Putnam, Marion, Sumter, Polk,
Hernando and Hillsborough.
Louisiana's timber lands cover 15,000.
000 acres. It is said that the lumber
business of Maine and Michigan will
ultimately be transferred to Florida and
Louisiana.
A great pine belt stretches across
Southern Georgia and Alabama to the
rivers that flow into Mobile- Bay. The
pine forests of Georgia alone cover an
area of about 11,800,000 acres.
There are immense 'tracts of cotton
woods along the Mississippi and its
tributaries. The cottonwood' tree
reaches the .height of seventy feet, and
planks from four to six feet wide are
asily cut from it it is perfectly free
groarknots u4 pite
H0TICE.
In the District Court ot Platte county,
NeTir. In tie matter of the estate of
3Iilly "Metz, Lottie Jlctz, Phillip 3Ictz,
Gus 3Iclz and Frank Metz. minor heir
of Phillip Mc.z, deceased. Order to
show cause wiy Ifcen-u to sell real
estate should not he granted.
Now on this iu duv r ilav, A. D.,
1683, Gus. G. llucuur, " guardian oi" the
said Stilly Metz, Lutie Metr, Philtlp
Metz, Gu Mt tz and jfrauk Metz, minor
heirs or Phrllij 31etz, eeeasc"d, present
ed to the District Court in and for said
Plutte county, his petition- praying for
license to yell in one parcl a said guar
dian an undivided one-bnlt interest of in
and to lots seven 7J and e'ht 3, block
one hundred and eihty-eVenr and Iota
two 1 21 and threeWl. block twofcuudred aud
I seven SOT, uccordtug to the recorded
piat oi lue city oi I'uiana m jjougia:
county, N i bra-tka, subject to their moth
er's right of dower therein, together with
the tenements, ucrcditiuieui ami appur
tenances thereto leloti:rin:r, saU cause
came ou for hearing iu open coii;ttand
the petitioner appearing and submitting
said cauae to the court for cou.tideratiou
ou said petition, and the court hiuiiisj
duly considered, the fact utated iu .-aid
petition and beiu; fully advised iu the
premises, tiuds that it it p. ears irom .tee
ltee of .said petition that the said Gus. w.
Ucchef has beuirduly appointed guardian
of said minors by the comity court of said
Piattc couuty, and th it said wards are
boua tide residents of said couuty of
I'latte, al.xo that s.tid minors are without
thti necessary me.:ti- of maintenance anil
education, and th:tt tliey are s'ole heirs
at law of said Phillip Meiz, deceased, and
owner oi the above dc-cribed real estate
together with tho tenement.-, heredita
ment aud appurtenances thereto belong
ing, subject only to their mother's right
oi dower therein, aud also thtt it vvili be
for the best intcrc-ls aud for the b'enent
of baid minors tha.t their interest in said
property be sold and the proceeds thereof
put at interest or invested in oine stock,
now therefore it is- ordered that Urusa
Olivet Millc . Julia Josephine Miller,
Josephine Miller. Mary Ureiuer, Katha
rine tpeice, Klenora Koeuig tud Freder
ick Metz aud all other persons interested
iu the above described estate of said
minors, appear before the District Court
on the id day of July, lSJCj, at i o'clock
a. m. of said day. at the Court lit Use iu
said Platte couuty. N'ebraka, aud show
cause if auy tnere be why a license to sell
the above described real estate should
not be grained.
Aud it is lurther ordered that a copy ot
this order be published at lcst three
successive weeks in TUK COLUMliCs.
JuckxAL,- weekly newspaper published
in and ot general ciiculatiou in the coun
ty or Platte, Nebraska.
A; M. POST, Judge.
State of Nebraska, Platte Co., ss:
I, C. A. Newman, Clerk or the District
Court, "in and for Platte Co-., Nebr., do
hereby certify that the above and forego
ing is'ii true and correct copy of the order
as appears ofrecoid in Couit Journal
"." ua pages C:,,, 040.
Witness mv hand and otticiul seal at
Coluuibu-.. Nebr., this iSth ilav of May,
A. D., 1SS.1. C. A. Nk.wmaN
5-4 Clerk of the District . ourt.
NOTICE.
In the District Court of Platte, county.
NebVaka. Iu the matter of tfie estate
of Chas. Compton, Hugh Compton, Flora
fompton, Hyron Compton and Ella
Compton, minor heirs of Hugh Comp
ton, deceased. Order to show cause if
siiy there be why license to sell real
estate should not be granted.
This calls.' came on to be heard ou,thN
2Uh day of May, 1S35. in said eoutt, be
fore Hon. T. L. Nurval, Judge of said
court, on the petition of Chas. II. Young,
guardian of said minor heiri, praying for
license to sell as said guardian the fol
lowing described real estate to wit: Lot
three (a), block eighty-tbur (84), and
twenty-two (22) feet north and south by
sixtv-six (G6) feet east and west from the
north end of lot four (4), block eighty
four, also lots number seven 7 and eight
8, in block one hundred and three 10H,
all in the city of Columbus, Platte coun
ty. Nebraska, and it satisfactorily appear
ing to the court from said petition that
the said Chin. II. Young had been duly
appointed guardian of said minors and
their estato by the county court of said
Platte county, Nebraska, that there are
no goods, chattels, rights and credits in
the hands of said guardian belonging to
his said wards, and that the income trom
the estate of his said wards has beeu
entirely consumed in maintaining and
educating said minors, and has been in
sufficient therefor, aud that the said
minors have just claims anditebts against
them aud their said estate iu the sum of
$700.00, and that it is necessary and for
the best interests of said minors that the
above described portion of their real
estate be sold to satisfy said debts, now
therefor.; it is ordered that Klla Young,
John G. Compton, James Compton, Rob
ert Compton, Walter Compton, Lina
McMcCaslin, Clarissa Compton, Kmeline
C. Saley, Bert S. Young, Maud Young
and Compton, whose true name is
unknown, and all persons interested in
the estate of said minor appear before
the Dist,r;et Court ou. the 2d day of July,
1885. at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of said
day at the Court House in Columbus, in.
the county or Platte and State ofNebras
kaj and show cause if any there be why a
license should not be granted for the sale
of the above described real estate.
It Is further ordered that a copy of this
order be published at least three succes
sive weeks in Tuk Columbus Journal,
a newspaper of general circulation iu the
county of Piattc. Nebraska.
T. L. NORVAL, Judge.
State or Nebraska, Platte Co., ss:
I, C. A. Newman, Clerk or the District
Court in and lor Platte Co., Nebr., do
hereby certiry that the above and tore
going is a true and correct copy of the
order as. appears of record in Court Jour
nal "B" on pages 627, 023.
Witness my band and official seal at
Columbus, Nebr., this 28th day or May,
A. D., 188a. C. A. Newman,
5-4 Clerk or the District Court.
PROPOSALS.
Department of the Interior,
Office Indian Affairs,
"Washington. D. C., May l'J. 1883,
383.)
SEALED PROPOSALS indorsed "Pro
posals for Genoa School Buildings'
will be received at this office until 12
o'clock on Saturday, the ICtb of June,
1883, for the thorough repairing of what
is known-as the Pawnee School Building,
on the old Pawnee Reservation, near
Genoa, Nebr., and adding to the building
two brick wings 79 x 20 feet each.
Complete plans and specifications of
the work to be done can be examined at
the office of the Depot Quartermaster at
Omaha, Nebr.. and offices of "Kansas City
Journal" of Kansas City, Mo., "Glohe-
DemocraU" St. Louis, Mo., and "Journal,"
Sioux City, Iowa. Good clay for the
manufacture of brick is obtainable on
Government land, near the building.
The Contract to be awarded to the low
est responsible bidder, subject to the
approval or the Secretary of the Interior;
the right is, however, reserved to reject
any and all bids if deemed for the best
interest of the" service.
Proposals must state the length of time
required for the completi n or the build
fug alter the approval of the contract.
Every bid must be accompanied by a
certified check upon some United States
Depository for at least Jive per cent of
the amount of the proposal, payable to
the order of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, which check will be forfeited to
the United States in case any bidder re
ceiving an award shall fail to execute a
contract with good and sufficient sure
ties, otherwise to be returned to the
bidder.
The Contract will provide for four pay
ments, threu or which will be made at
such stages or the work as will fully
nrotect the United States, the last pay
ment to be made when the bqilding is
accepted.
H. PRICE,
Commidsioner.
FIXAJL PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,
May 29th. 1SS3.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
following-named settler has filed
notice of bis intention lo make final proof
in support- of Ms claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Clerk of
the District Court of Platte county, at
Columbus, Neb., on Thursday, July 19th,
1883, viz:
Ezra Fellers," Homestead No. 7121 for
the W..J4 S. W. L Section 10, Township
18 north, of Range 3 west. lie names the
following witnesses to prove his confine
uous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz: John 11. Sacrider, of
Platte Center, Platte Co., Neb., James A.
Baker, Rdbert E.. Wiley, John . Dack,
0Kay, PJatta Co., Neb.
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