Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1883.
ZsUrci st tie PezisSeo, Crfcstts, Heb., u aocsl
Ian Bitter.
OLD FARMER GRUDQE.
,OM farmer Grudge was determined 10 trudge
In the same old way that his father went;
.Ifrtoll and to slave, to pinch and to save.
Nor spend on pleasure a single cent.
Vis tools were few, and so rusty, too.
foe want of the needful drop of oil.
That creaky and slow they were forced to ffO,
And added much to his dally toil.
Sis crops wore scant, for he would not plant
Enough to cover his narrow field;
But grumbled and growled, and always
scowled
At harvest over the meatrrc yield.
And from paltry store on the threshing floorv
From gaping mow, and neglected bin,
nopia voices cry as ne passca mem uy;
"Xou can't tftlie out What you don't put in!"
Id farmer Grudge was a doleful drudge.
And in his dwelling and on his land
"Twas plain to be seen he was shrewd and
keen,
And managed all with a miserly hand.
4Fhere was little wood, there was little food,
Ob, bare, indeed, was the pantry-shelf,
Sut he took no heed of another's need
So he was warmed and well-fed himself.
CThe wife, it was true, would skimp and screw.
Piece and patch, and some way plan,
Aa a woman will with amazing skill.
Who is tied for life to a stingy man.
But, oh, how she Highed for the things denied
The books and comforts, and larger life.
Of which she dreamed, and lor which she
schemed
When consenting to be Farmer Grudge's
wife.
Sut Farmer Grudge not an
From the imth his nenuri
inch would budge
:enurious father trod;
But though very rich, would work in a ditch
All dav. and at dusk in a corner nod.
And his girls and boys, bereft of the Joys
That othors had, wurs disposed to roam.
And to spend, profuse, nor put to use
The lessons the' had boen taught at homo.
When Ellen, Ills pride, and his youngest, died.
Old Farmer Grudgu was ad much depressed,
Twas really believed that the old man grieved.
And thus his fatherly lore confessed.
Sut as over the dead he shook his head,
Economj still was in his thought.
For he said, with a groan and a mournful
moan:
"Now all that good l'arnin' Is gone for
naught!"
Death took his wife she was weary of Ufa,
Starved to death in a cruel way,
Fornever a word of love she heard
To sweeten her crust from day to day.
From his home one morn the farmer was
borne.
And though little to comfort another he
gave.
His ncighlMtrs more kind were not inclined
To grudge him the space required for a
grave.
Josephine PuUard, in N. Y. Ltdfjer.
HAZING FRESHMAN SOLBERG.
Solberg was effeminate in appearance
smd not more than five feet four inches
in height, with slight form and a pale
face. Notwithstanding this, he acquired
and retained, all through his Freshman
year, the reputation or being the most
expert boxer, and withal the "heaviest"
man in a melee, that ever entered our
college.
This disproportionate reputation was
rained by a single act. or adventure.
Out the facts in the ease were not known
until Solberg w:is in his senior year. Ho
then gave the true version of the story
at one of our class dinners. At com
mencement, the class historian incor
porated a humorous account of it in the
class annals, which was read, to the
great amusement of the audience.
Up to that time there had been a good
deal of "hazing" at P . The first
week after our class entered, Solberg
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wicTunrviui u n VW'Mm-' Jjv t hf JSDJJhO-
was iounu aeau, aim uy uib iuu wan
a woman dying.
The Union Pacifies of Omaha beat
the Chicago Unions the other day by
a score of 7 to 5.
Lubricating oil of a rich quality
was recently 6truck in the vicinity of
Zaneeville, Ohio.
The first bale of new North Caro
lina cotton, sold the other day at Nor
folk, Va., at 13 ceuts.
Pbof. Bell, the inventor, says five
hundred thousand telephones arc now
sected witfi tfie Turnip, down mi.
the Freshman neck, or up a leg of his
pantaloons, and then vigorously using
the pump handle for two or three
minutes.
Thcro was the "plain duck," which
was the simple inversion of a water
bucket two or three perhaps from
the second or third-story window upon
the head of the unsuspecting Freshman
who was walking below.
There was also the "midnight vigil,1
for the keeping of which the newly
arrived undergraduate was first seized
in his bed, blindfolded, and then "lost"
by devious windings through a neighbor
ing grove, to be subsequently bound to
a tree and left to confer with the owls
during the remainder of the night.
Somewhat similar to this last method
of ill-treatment was the "gathered-to-his-fathers"
method, which consisted in
taking out the bewildered victim of
Sophomoric displeasure, at dead of
night, to a remote old grave-yard, where
he was stretched on his back upon one
of the sarcophagus-shaped tombs, and
then bound fast to the memorial slab
which served as a lid to the stone chest.
He was left to "count the stars" and
commune with .silent nature for thereat
of the night, or until Jiis cries or strug
gles brought relief from some chance
source.
Then, too, there was the "barber's
frolic," during which the devoted
Freshman s head was either wholly or
half shaven.
These are but a few of the way's of
"hazing" then in vogue, but they will
serve to convey some idea of the dangers
which beset a lower classman who "fell
into disfavor with the Sophomores, or
who showed any symptoms whatever of
"putting on stvle," or asserting his per
sonal independence.
By the second week of the term, Sol
berg had been twice "ducked" while
going to or returning from recitations.
His room, too. had been forcibly en
tered, and the reported tall hat roughly
eached for. Our wary classmate had,
however, taken the precaution to con
ceal the hat in the room of a friend.
The following morning he found the
mysterious notice posted on his door,
hinting darkly that if a certain Fresh
man was again seen supporting his tot
tering steps with a cane, "Cain" would
be raised in his behalf on short notice.
Hot with inward rage, Solberg
brooded over these insults, and vainlv
longed for the strength of Achilles to
set his tormentors at defiance. He
regarded it as brutal tyranny, a mean
triumph of the strong over the week;
and out of the simmering of his wrath
he conceived a method of retaliation
that was at once striking and effective.
There was then living in the outskirts
of the town a man who had achieved a
wide notoriety, in a profession which
the good sense of the country has since
aeen fit to restrict by htringent legal
penalities.
"Old Breeze Fogerty," as he was
called, had been a professional pugilist
and prize-fighter. For some years he
had held the heavy-weight ch'ampion
ahip in a certaiu 'great city, whose
BUgilistic celebrities often o'btain far
larger and more frequent mention, in
the public press, than the nature of
their craft, or the taste of the people at
large, seems to require.
In his retirement, this former prize
Ighter was tending a "saloon" a busi
aeas often entered upon by decayed
f entry of his stamp and by way of
eeping up his "manly practice," he
WOUid occasionally rjunish somebullv.
2 customer to the great admiration
the crop of younger roughs who made
his place their nightly jesort
Bat this was not often, for the brawny.
ponderous old bruiser was a rather good
iatpad animal at heart, and ifheiome-
lun, it was rather in tha
cause f Ms "science" than oak oi
malice.
To thif ttasavory personage young
Solberg applied, calling on him not at
his saloon, but at his hotel, on private
business. He had, I think, good rea
sons for patting the Sophomores and
their coarse tyranny on a level with
roughs and prize-fighters and their
methods of self-assertion. One was well
matched against the other.
Salberg stated his case to the ex-prizefighter
and unfolded a plan of opera
tions. As he was a young gentleman of
means, he had no difficulty in securing
the offices of the good-natured bully
all the more readily, perhaps, because
the old king of the ring may have been
sighing in spirit over the too peaceful
lite into which public sentiment had
latterly forced him.
It was arranged that immediately
after dark that evening "Old Breeze
should go quietly to Solberg's room at
the college, and place himself at tuis
young gentleman's disposal.
Meantime our threatened Freshman
went about thu business of his studies
for the rest of the day, but during the
afternoon he took occasion to indulge in
a walk about the col lego campus, and
carried his cane as usual. The better to
show his contempt of the insulting
notice placed on his door, he twirled it
after the most foppish fashion of the
day.
The Sophomores saw him and boiled
up with indignation. The Freshman
was defying them. Word was rapidly
passed among the faithful, and a class
meeting was called to take immediate
action.
The eharcro was, that Freshman Sol
berg had not only been out with a cane,
sinco he had been specially warned, but
had flourished it defiantly.
All the Sophs agreed that he must bo
dealt with summarily; and the unani
mous voto was that he should suffer
"Thompsonian treatment" that very
night, and then bo "gathered-to-his-fathers."
Solberg felt that the crisw was ap-
E reaching. At twilight ho retired to
is room and locked the door. About
half an hour later his heart was glad
dened to hear three taps on the pannel.
The pugilist had not failed him.
A whispered consultation was held,
the preliminaries were arranged, and
the man of the ring was hidden away
under the bed, upon a blanket and
pillow.
Solberg then trimmed his lamp, and
fell to work upon his next morning's
Odyssey lesson. Old Breeze snored.
Ten o'clock struck, and still no move
ment on the part of the Sophomores;
but not very long after, Solberg heard
mumeu footfalls outside his Uoor, and
low voices in the hall.
He blew out his lamp and hastened to
shake the slumbering Ajax under the
bed. "The Philistines are upon us,
Fogerty!"
"Ay, sor, and it's fun we'll have
thin! was the hoarse whisper from be
neath. A few minutes later they heard a loud
and peremptory knock. Solberg threw
himself upon the bed, but after a decent
pauso called out:
"Who's there?"
"The Vigilance Committee," was the
stern response. "Open!"
"I know no Vigilance Committee."
replied bolberg. 1 decline to open my
door at this unseasonable '
y
T . hi your nv - . f
It ib ffii tuoor within one minute,
" -C " llll 1 A.
uour.
K.vwiii uursi in was me nexisum
aons. Burst my door at your peril, gentle-
aj men!" cried Solberg. "I warn you."
This defiance was soon followed by a
heavy blow as if from a log of wood
then another and another.
With the third blow the bolt was torn
from its socket, the door flew open, and
in TOialimf tliran Kmiba tn aai7ft tnn TAbol.
H linns nnnn.HniiriatiRr.
But at this juncture uprose old Breeze,
iiriicthem before thev reached the mld
t Hrof the room in thu conscious irlorv
1 is old renown whilo Solborg, rolling
Point n the back side of the bed, took his
said tc "nter it. lhe foremost boph, as
he rushed forward, received a blow
which fairly threw him out into the hall.
A like infliction on the nose of the
second man landed him In a breathless
condition over the table into the gKs
door of a book ease; the third Soph was
struck by the open plam of the prize
fighter on the ear, followed by a sledge
blow In the ribs, by which he was
hurled in company with a chair and
two hassocks out beneath the stair
case in the hall, where he lay very quiet
for some timo.
A shout rose from the invaders.
Within the room all was silent. It was
too dark for them to see what the force
was against them, but they rallied.
They were too plucky to give up, even,
if three of their men were disabled.
They had not given Solberg credit for
such pluck and muscle, but they would
not have the mortification of not taking
him from his room.
Eight or ton of them now made a des
perate rush together into the room, to
overpower him. Old Breeze allowed
several of them to come in, and then
went to work in earnest.
He was just warming up to it; and
his big, hard fists made the round of
their heads with astonishing rapidity.
Solberg lay under tho bed and shook
with laughter, being amply solaced for
the crashes among his furniture by the
resounding thumps on the craniums of
his enemies.
Two of the invaders were hurried out
throught the mosquito nets and landed
on the ground beneath the windows;
the rest were knocked sprawling into
corners.
By way of finishing up the encounter,
the old brute pitched these last out into
the hall, as if they had been so many
sacks of bran, and shut the door. He
then calmly sat down on the bed, while
Solberg came out from under it. They
remained silent, waiting further devel
opments. But no further developments came.
The wounded were too numerous to
make a rally acceptable on the part of
the Sophs. " They had enough. Some
of them, indeed," had quite too muoh,
and required to be assisted to their
rooms. There were no further demon
strations at Solberg's door, and after
waiting an hour or two, he dismissed his
rough assistant and sent him on his way
witu a noerai iee.
Ten Sophomores were absent from
prayers and early recitation the next
morning. The excuses rendered by
them were various. It is said that then:
recitation-roem, for the ensuing week,
presented so diversified and obtrusive
an array of black eyes and bandaged
heads, that the matter became the sub
ject of a Faculty meeting.
Meantime, it was rumored through
out the college that the new Freshman,
Solberg, was a trained pugilistr-a terri
ble fellow!
Solberg himself made no comment on
these stories. He flourished his cane,
and at proper intervau sported his tall
hat during the entire year; but for some
reason or other not one of the Sophs
seemed to see any presumption in his
conduct H. A. Gordon, in Youth's
Companion.
t
There is no greater mistake in the
worm, wrot Lizh Hunt, than tha
looking upon every sort of nonsense aa
want of sense. The diffcrenoe between
nonsense not worth talking and noa
sence worth it is simply this the for
mer is the result of a want of ideas, the
latter of a superabundance of them.
Germantown Telegraph.
In Great Britain the loss to Govern
ment by worn silver money withdrawn
from circulation because of deficiency
of weight caused by wear and tear
amounted last year to f 140,000.
The Yonnorlst.
"You are an youmorist, are you
lot?" queried a long-billed pelican ad
dressing a thoughtful, mental athlete
n the Milwaukee & St. Paul Road tho
athsr dry.
"Yes, sir," said the sorrowful man.
brushing away a tear. "I am an you
morist. I am not very much so; " but
till 1 can see that I am drifting that
way. And yet I was once joyous aud
nappy as you are. Only a few years
ago, before I was exposed to this mala
dy, I was as blithe as a speckled year
ling, and recked not of aught nor any
thing else, either. Now my whole life
is blasted. I do not dare to eat pie or
preserves, and no one tells funny sto
ries when I am near. They regard me
as a professional, and when I get in sight
the 'scrub nine' close up ana wait for
me to entertain the crowd and waddle
around the ring."
What do you mean by that?" mur
mured the purple-nosed interrogation
point.
" Mean? Why, I mean that whether
I'm drawing a salary or not, I'm ex-
Sected to be 'the life of the party.' I
on't want to be the life of the party.
1 want to let some one else be the life
of tho party. I want to get up the rep
utation of being as cross as a bear with
a sore head. I want people to watch
their children for fear I'll swallow
them. I want to take my low-cut even
ing dress smile and put it in the bureau-drawer,
and tell the world I've got
a cancer in my stomach and the heaves
and hypochondria, ami a malignant case
of leprosy."
" Do you mean to say that you do not
feel facetious all the time, and that you
get weary of being an youmorist?"
"Yes, hungry interlocutor. Yes,
low-browed student, yes. I am not al
ways tickled. Did you ever have a
largo, angry and abnormally protuber
ant boil somewhere on your person
where it seemed to be in tho wayr Did
you ever have such a boil as a traveling
companion and then get introduced to
people as an youmorist? You have not ?
Well, then, you do not know all thero
is of suffering in this sorrow-streaked
world. When wealthy people die why
don't they endow a cast-jron castle with
a draw-bridge to it and call it the you
morists' retreat? Why don't they do
some good with their money instead of
foolimr it awav on those who are com
paratively happv?"
"But how did you come to git to be
an youmorist?"
"Well, I don't know. I blame my
parents some. They might have pre
vented it if they'd taken it in time, but
they didn't They let it run on till it
got established and now it's no use to
go to the Hot Springs or to the mount
ains, or have an operation performed.
You let a man get the name of being an
?roumorist and ue doesn't dare to reg
ster at the hotels, and he has to travel
anonymously and mark his clothes with
his wife's name or the public will lynch
him if he doesn't say something you
morous. " Where is your boy to-night?" con
tinued the gloomy humorist. "Do you
know where ho is? Is he at home under
your watchful eye or is he away some
where nailing the handles on his first
little joke? Parents, beware. Teach,
r"r.y.i?.n &th Mm night
aou uay, or all at once, when he is be
yond your jurisdiction, he will grow
Eale. He will have a far-away look in
is eye and the bright, rosy lad will
have become the flat-chested, joyless
youmorist
"It's hard to speak unkindly of our
parents, but mingled with my own re
morse I shall always murmurto myself
and ask over and over why did not my
parents rescue me while they could?
Why did they allow my chubby little
feet to waddfo down to the dangerous
ground on which tho sad-eyed youmorist
must forever stand?
"Partner, do not forget what I have
said to-day. Whether your child be a
son or daughter, it matters not. Dis
courage tho first sign of approachiug
humor. It is easier to bust the back
bone of the first little, tender jokelet
that sticks its head through the virgin
soil than it is to allow the slimy folds of
your son's youmorous lecture to be
wrapped about you and to bring your
erray hairs with sorrow to the grave."
bHIx
fye, in Detroit Free Frcss.
a
A Young Traveler.
'Do you call this a life-savin' sta
tion?" asked a little eleven-year-boy of
Captain Devan, yesterday, after sizing
up the boat-house from one end to the
other.
"That's just exactly what it is, and
there ain't a better one in the service,"
replied the Captain.
" Pshaw!" muttered the urchin, "you
don't know what a life-savin1 station is.
You oughter see them on the ocean."
"On the ocean! What's a little shaver
like you know about the ocean?"
"Well, I just made twelve trips over
an1 back, and you bet yer life I know all
about it. Pd be on the ocean now if it
wasn't for my mother; but you see after
my father was lost at sea she wouldn't
let me ship any more."
"Where is your mother now?"
" She's here in Louisville. Been here
over a year."
" Where' d you live before you came
here?"
"In Germany'."
" You say you were a sailor and made
twelve trips on the ocean?"
"No, I didn't say I was a sailor, but I
was a potater-peeler."
"On what ship?"
"On the steamship Servia, running
between New York and Hamburg."
" You must have been pretty young
when you started out?"
" About eight years old."
! "How'd you come to go on tho
ocean?"
"Well, I'll tell you. My father was
mate on the steamship Cimbria. His
name was Lewis Fuar. My name's
Alexander Fuar. There was three of
us boys, and wo wanted to go to sea.
My father took one of my brothers with
him, and shipped us other ones on the
'Servia as potater-peelers. After we had
shipped and made a few trips he brought
my mother to this country, and brought
her here to Louisville. Then he went
back to the Cimbria and crossed the
ocean in her. On her way back to
America she was run into by another
ship, and my father and three or four
hundred passengers were lost. There
wouldn't have been any need of any of
'em being lost, but they got scared and
'umped overboard. My father and
irother were both on one mast together,
i but my father got washed off, and he
i was drowned. I guess he was drowned.
'for we have never seen him since. I
.was on the Servia then, and we got to
the Cimbria a few days after she had
tgone down. She hadn't gone all the
way down, but was still floatin1 around
with a little of her hull out of the water.
We helped to raise her."
" Your brother wasn't lost then?"
"No, he got out all right, and he's
there in Louisville now. We made two
or three more trips, and then our moth
'ermade us quit the ocean. She was
afraid that we would get lost like father
did."
"Weren't you afraid yourself?"
"Afraid of what?"
Afraid that you'd be shipwrecked
some day."
"Naw. After you get used to it yon
'.don't mind it at all."
Were you ever mistreated on board
the ship by the mate or Captain?"
"They didn't have anything to do with
'me. I was a potato-peeler, as I told
Sou before, and I was Kept in the cook
ouse most all the time. The second
joook was my boss."
' iLre vou ever eoiner to sea acrain?"
"If my mother lets me I will. Td go
il sne'tt say so."
"Can you swim?"
"Well, I should say so. I learned to
swim when I was six years old."
"Jump overboard "here," said Cap
tain Devan, "and let's see if you can
get out without us helping you."
"No. My mother might find it out
She's scared to let any of us boys go
near the water since father got
drowned."
"Where do you live?"
"Up here on Jefferson street, near
Hancock." The youthful mariner
espied the cook-house of a steamboat
lying above the station. "I'm -oing
up there on that steamboat," said lie,
as he started oil", "to see what kind of
cook-houses they've got on these little
fresh-water crafts." In tho course of a
few minutes he could be seen aboard tho
boat iii earnest conversation with the
potato-peeler. No doubt he was relat
ing to the hitter his experience on the
ocean in the same capacity.
Alex, is a bright little German lad,
with large blue eyes and an honest ex
pression of countenance. He will be
eleven years old on the 2b'th of next
month. He loves to be about the water,
and can handle a pair of oars like an
old tar. He is very small for his age,
and nobody would ever suspect that he
has had the experience o:i the Atlantic
which he says he has. Louisville Commercial.
Cholera.
The alarm created in Great Britain
and on the continent of Europe by the
information that over one hundred per
sons are dying daily fiom cholera in
Damietta, Egypt, and the probable
spread of the disease to other Eastern
countries and thence to Europe, should
warn the Government of thfc country to
lose no time in taking measures to pre
vent its advent to our shores. Tho
dangers to be apprehended are real.
Cairo, in Egypt, and Alexandria, are
both alarmed, but the authorities in
both places are engaged in a disreputa
ble quarrel over the best means ot pre
vention. Only a short time ago tho
steamer St. Bernard, from Bombay,
with cholera on board, arrived at Havre,
but, thanks to the vigilance of French
officers, she was not permitted to land.
Asiatic or epidemic cholera has been
known in India for many centuries, and
has several times devastated the coun
try. In 17(5-1 it destroyed ."0,000 lives
in upper Hindostan. " In 1S17, in the
delta of tho Ganges about one hundred
miles north of Calcutta, originated tho
great epidemic of cholera which trav
ersed almost the entire world. For cent
uries the disease was epidemic in the
marshy region of the Ganges, but in
that year it left its usual confines and
raged at Calcutta for several months.
Thence it extended northward to
Xcpaul and southward to Madras, Cey
lon and Malacca. In 1819 it reached
the Burmese Empire and the countries
to the east, and in 1820 it arrived at
Bombay, where 150,000 persons died
from its ravages. From Bombay it
passed to Madagascar and the east coast
of Africa to Borneo, Cclebar, China
and the Philippine Islands. In 1821 it
advanced to the northwest, mirsuinjr tho
course oi nvjji- 'ifitf.-tl..lV0iea ro:ias to'
I ersij,rr.lj(;a ana Asia Minor. Hero
"Js'l a time it seemed to have met with a
check, but in 18l" it reappeared and
devastated Central Asia. In 1821) it ap
peared in Southern Russia, and at Mos
cow in 18:50. In 18;51 it spread over
Central Europe, and appeared at Sun
derland, England, in October. In Janu
ary, 1832, it had found its way to Edin
burgh, and reached London in Febru
ary. In March it was in Paris, and
spread rapidly all over France. On the
8th of June, 1832, it made its first ap
pearance on this continent at Quebec,
and two days aftenvard in Montreal.
Only eleven days later it suddenly ap
peared in New York, and from thence
spread to Philadelphia, Albany and
Rochester in July, and in August had
found lodgment in Boston, Baltimore
and Washington. By October it had
spread from Cincinnati to New Orleans.
It again visited this country in 1831,
and since that time, though it has ap
peared at different times in certain lo
calities, it has not reigned as an epi
demic. English statistics show that of those
attacked by cholera, 38. per cent. die.
In Great Britain there died from this
disease 20,000, of whom f,000 died in
London. In Paris the mortality was
18,000, about 4!) per cent.; and in Rus
sia it was 08.G per cent. Enough has
been said to show the terrible ravages
and rapid extension of this plague, and
the great necessity for prompt action of
those to whom the management of these
important matters are committed. Let
us hope that nothing will be left undone
by the constituted authorities, and let it
be shown that modern science and san
itary hygiene can, when properly ap
plied, accomplish a great dual in limit
ing the spread of disease. National lie
publican. -
That Awful Boy.
He was naturally cruel, and he told an
acquaintance one day that ho had a new
trick to play on the public something
entirely new. He had a longstringand
a brass key tied to the end of it. which
he said was the instrument of torture.
Over the front sidewalk a large tree
sent some pretty strong branches, mak
ing a seat hidden by leaves. Into this,
after dark, the boys climbed.
"Now wait," said that awful boy,
" till the first victim comes, and don't
make a noise."
Soon an ordinarily-dressed woman
came along, and, just as she had passed,
he let drop the key on the hard side
walk, immediately pulling it up again.
Both now watched devclopements.
The woman came to a sudden stop,
began fumbling in her pocket, and won
dered what she could have dropped.
She started on, but had not gone far
before she came back, impelled by curi
osity, and begau a careful search of the
walk.
Meanwhile the boys in the tree had
stuffed their lists in their mouths to keep
from spoiling the game, and dared hard
ly look below for tear of laughing.
A sympathetic sister came along, and
together they picked up sto'nes, and
turned over all the bits of wood and
paper and orange peel on the walk.
No money, no key, nothing did they
find, and so went on to their homes,
perhaps to worry all night; or perhaps
a giggle in the tree turned their looks
of disappointment into a cheap smile,
and a laugh from the same place made
them have awful wicked thoughts about
boys.
One victim found a piece of tin, and
laying the cause of the noise to that,
was saved a great deal of worry. But
when she picked it up, and threw it
down several times to test the sound,
the boys nearly fell out of the tree.
A man, when caught, would slap all
of his pockets, and glance around a
little, but it was seldom that he was
brought to jv right
search.
down thorough
When any one saw the trick, aftei
searching half an hour, and saying all
kinds of little things for the amusement
of the boys, he simply went away
hurriedly. To get out ofsight as soon
as possible seemed to be most desirable.
That awful boy is still around. Bewari
of him. Eugene Field, in Carl Pretzel1
Weekly.
In the suit of Mrs. Matthias Wohlr
fahrt against Charles A. Beckart, I
druggist of the town of New Lots, L. L,
to recover $5,000 damages for the deatl
of her husband, the Court of Appeal!
has given a decision in favor of thi
Elaintiff for the full amount and costs,
eceased, while ill, obtained from de
fendant a bottle of "Black Drops." Il
was not labeled poison, and. the siol
man took an overdose. N: Y. -Timt$.
FAltJl AX!) HOUSEHOLD.
Bees are safest, as th.e winters aver
age, in :: ood cellar.
IHi-kv.:i'.:t. when filling, wants t lie
moist, cut'i weather of autumn, hence
the propriety of seeding with reference
to that want. Exvltmiye.
Giiin .shellac and alcohol is said to
make one of the best coatings for tree
ivounds. It effectually excludes the air
ind the wound soon heals over.
Foaming Sauce: Beat whites of three
eggs to a stiff froth; melt teacup of
mgar in a little water, let it boil, stir in
ine glass wine, and then the whites of
:hree eggs; serve at once. Chicago
Journal.
The bug and worm crop this year
seems to be very light. It is probable
the extremely cold and open winter de
stroyed many y:-. while it is claimed
that the continued war waged on de
structive insects is diminishing their
number.
It is not indispensable that a rag
carpet be woven: it may be knit or
crocheted in not too wide strips, using
very coarse bone or wooden needles, or
hooks. Sew them together with very
coarse carpet thread or twine. Thi
Hotochohl.
In order to get the earliest sweet
corn, break the top down or cut it off
as soon as the ear is formed, leaving
the st.lk civet. o that the pollen of the
tassel may dust the silk of the ears,
otherwise I hex may not be properly im
pivgualed. -J:s(,)ii Transcript.
A fact that should be borne in mind
by thi-s." engaged in horse training is,
that the horse lias a very acute faculty
for understanding and interpreting the
tone of the voice.. If you talk confi
dently, the animal acquires confidence;
if oitroicc shows fear, he notices it
and is afraid. Talk kindly to your
hor.se and be siuv that he understands
the meaning of the tone if not of the
words. Toh do Hlntlr.
The Massachusetts l'loiuInnun re
marks that the habit of whitewashing
shade and fruit trees is on the decline,
as it should be, as the growth of the
trees is thus retarded and their health
not infrequently permanently injured.
The white coating by no means im
proves the appearance of the trees, and
there is no necessity of whitewashing
their trunks than there u of similarly
treating any other planLs.
How to Bottle Fruit: Take cherries,
strawberries, gooseberries, plums or
apricots before they are dead ripe, put
into large-mouthed olive bottles, and fill
them very full, then cork tightly, place
in a large pan or kettle of cold water
with hay between the bottles, and let
the water come up to their necks. When
the water boils, take the kettle from the
lire, and let the bottles stand in it until
cool. Then mix two-thirds beeswax
with one-third tallow; heat together,
and dip the corks into tins boiling mass.
Keep in a cool cellar. Country Gentle
man. Our Health.
Notwitl.s .piling all the atttention
''that is paid to the subject ol'riealthV ail
the books and articles that are written
upon it, all the people who make it
their business to understand it, all the
discoveries that arc constantlv being
made in regard to it, how few people are
thoroughly well, or how few, who are,
take the pains to remain so! The
healthy person often seems to regard ill
ness as something quite foreign to him
self, which he is m no more danger of
falling heir to than he is of having the
almond eyes and queues of the Chinese,
the color of the Maylay, or the habits of
tho Hottentot; and he is always very
ready to give everybody the recipe for
being as healthy as he is. One will say
that health consists in eating Graham
bread; another, that it is sleeping in a
cold room, with the windows ajar all
the year round: with another it is the
cold or hot bath; this one assures us that
it is friction, that one that it is exercise,
while a third believes it is thinking
nothing at all about it; some rise to say
that it is using tobacco, avoiding eolleo
and tea; that it is a vegetable diet, a
good temper, easy circumstances, spring
water, occupation, or happiness. All of
these methods for procuring health
have their disciples, and yet we all
know individuals who pursue them
without attaining the coveted condition,
who deny themselves of all the luxuries
of the talde, and are no better for it;
but the heroic treatment will not an
swer for everybody. There are people
who catch cold it their sleeping-room
window is left open in the winter, and
there are prophets who tell us it is dan
gerous to sleep in a room with a tem
perature below fifty. We are inclined
to believe in the regimen of happiness,
for although all the happy people are
not well, it is a great preventive and
restorative, addedto easy circumstances
scientists having lately ascertained
that nothing is more baleful than wor
ry. It is a fact, we think, that the ill
tempered are always out of health, al
ways complaining of their liver or di
gestion: in truth, we suspect that all
sickness arises from indigestion in the
'ginning, that is, from mal-assimila-tion,
owing to which the system is im
IHjrfectly nourished. There may have
been a time when ill health was the
fashion, was thought to be poetical, an
indication of refinement and aristocracy,
but we know better to-day, having
found that vigor is the passport to suc
cess. Harper's Bazaar.
Noonday on the Farm.
Noontime should be kept by every
farmer, and work should be suspended
when the steam whistle of some neigh
boring factory, the bell of some village
church, or the housewife's horn an
nounces that it is twelve o'clock. To go
to the house, indulge in a wash at the
pump, eat a hearty dinner, and rest
afterward, perhaps enjoying a smoke,
requires an hour good, honest sixty
minutes. Nor should this be intrenched
upon by grinding scythes, feeding hogs,
or doing other chores. "The laborer is
worthy of his hire." we are told, and ho
is alsoentitled to his nooning.
The children enjoy their noontime,
and after eating the contents of well
filled tin pails or little baskets, they
skip out upon the grass, some to romp
ing games, while the little ladies group
themselves around some favorite pas
time, their merry voices keeping good
company with the minutes as they fly.
There is no care there for tho morrow;
no shrinking from the ghost of the past
Every one is having a good time, and is
ready when the befi pleasantly tinkles
at one o'clock to return to study. How
different is noontime in the city, where
the turbulent currents of business boil
and bubble The merchant, greedy of
the prospects of gain, hurries his clerks:
"Has that order been filed? Have those
foods been delivered? Where are the
ills of lading? Were those notes taken
up? Are those accounts current made
up? Go to the bank and see if the notes I
offered were discounted. Hurry! Hur
ry!" are the sounds at noontime in the
counting-house. In the bank the dis
count clerk opens his ledgerf and a
crowd of anxious applicants listen to
his announcement "Ten thousand dol
lars to raise, and notes I offer thrown
out," says one, and off he goes to dis
pose of his paper to a note-broker.
"Fifteen thousand," says another;
"well, I knew they had to do it, they
owe me so much that they have to keep
me going," and so on it runs. This man
nervously grasping his refused note,
and anxiously debating with himself as
to how he may best meot his obliga
tions for the day, the other speculating
as to what may be the most profitable
investment of his plethoric bank ao
count Ben. Ferley Foore.
TRIPLE TRAIN
EXCURSION
TO
WASHINGTON,
BALTIMORE,
HARPER'S FERRY,
LURAY CAVERNS,
MT. VERNON,
FORTRESS MONROE,
OLD POINT COMFORT,
AND OTIIKl: l'OI.NTS UV
Sfi'iiic aud Historic Interest
CHICAGO
-OVKK
Picturesque g J Q
At the IJeinark;ili! Low K.-ite of
HALF FARE
Or oiii rc:iil:ir t:iiv for tin Round trip
from Chi.:.",'., to Itiiltiinnre :ml return,
SEPTEMBER 10TH.
KirM train lf:i ins; ('liii-:ii;n :it S:."0 in
llii- moru'ii:;.
Sri'onil ir.iin h:i!ii; ClnY.io at .": 10 in
In .-ilteriKKtn.
Tluril tram liMviii!? (.'hiciu at i: 0 in
till- L flllliu.
All ilu. tr.-ihis ilf):irtin; from Chic ii,'o
at Mirli hoiiis mm to ciiaMr direct cnniu-e-tion
from the triins arriving in Cliieajro
hi lhe ( liu-auo, Knek Island l'.teilic, the
Chica.L'o ,V Alton, the C'hiea-fo, Ihirlini;
ton & (Jiiinry, the Wahash. the Chicago,
.Milwaukee ,fc M. Paul, the Chieao .v.
Xcithwi-Merti, the Illinois (V-ntral,' ami
all other lines ftoin the
NORTHWEST AND S00THWEST.
NO CHANGE OF CARS
OK ANY CLASS HCOM
Chicago to Baltimore and
Washington.
ELEGANT NEW DAY COACHES,
Magnificent Palace Sleep
ing Cars. Superb New
Dining Cars,
3ROYAL TRAINS
AND
I-aiilitninr Time.
The r.altiin.ire ,fc Ohio Cotiipanv has de
tei mined t make tln.se triple trains the
grandest Kxeursion event in railroad
annals, and to this end will rail into jdav
all the em. run. us resources of its great
sstri:i
The date of the Kxeursion is most haji
pil timed, tn.-ildni' all who i articipate
to attend tin- rt m irkuMe sen'e.s of
OlilOLE FESTIVITIES
AT KAl.TIHUKi:.
Kmhraeed in tin-brilliant and unprece
dented programme, is one nijjht of 1'n
paralleled ELECTRICAL DISPLAYS
And another night of Wondrous
MYSTIC PAGEANTRY!
NEVER EQUALED IN THE WORLD.
On the Electric Nljjht, Lord Baltimore
will arrive in the llarlior of Baltimore
upon one of the line.st .steamers alloat, and
which will literally he a Maze of electri
cal illumination. The Koyal Steamer
will he escorted up the harbor by Irom
sixty to eighty tug boats, four abreust,
and "each carrying electric lisrhts in vari
ous colors. From all sides of the harbor
Fire-Works in great profusion will be
discharged from special barges stationed
for Mich purpose, and the spectacle as a
whole will be an unprecedented one.
Arriving in the city. Lord H.tltimore,
his Courtier, Household and Ollicers will
be escorted to the City Hall by a most
novel Military l'arade a thousand sol
diers covered with Electric Lights in
di lie re nt colors; hordes with electrical
luiiies. and the whole city presenting a
ncue simply indescribable.
o. ia.ji:a vr rvicsirr.
Another remarkable spectacle will be
witucssed, and ell'ccts produced never
before attempted in any city of the world.
lhe parade will be the grandest in ex
tent known in the history of mystic
pageantry. The costumes, "all entirely
new, were made in l'ari,and beyond ail
comparison tin tincst ever imported to
this country. The unparalleled number
of Forty Tableau Floats will be in line,
and will be larger aud more imposing in
construction than ever before known.
Some conception of the amazing extent
of the pageant may be gleaned from the
fact that upwards of thirteen hundred
men, two hundred and thirty horses, six
bauds, and six hundred carried lights are
requited to place it upon the streets.
No advance will be made in the usual
rates for hotel accommodations, either in
ISaltimore or Washington, visitors being
enabled to stop in either city, the ISalti
more aud Ohio running
FIFI V-.MI.i;ii: TKAIYS
between tue two cities. Trains run at
least every hour.
IIAKFEK'M FKRRY
Is directly upon the line of the 15. & O.,
only a little over two hours' run from
Baltimore and one hour from Washington.
The old John Urown Fort still stands.
As all the parades, displays and Pageants
at Baltimore take place at night, there
will he abundant opportunities to visit
Harper's Ferry.
oL.i ioiivr conFOKT
AND
FORTRESS MONROE
Are but one nights sail from Baltimore
or Washington on Magnificent Steamers.
Excursionists so choosing can take the
Bay Line Steamers at Baltimore, witness
the irrand electrical and pyrotechnical
displav in the harbor, arrive at Old Point
Comfort and Fortress Monroe eaily the
following morning, spend the day and rs:
back in Baltimore again bright and early
on the morning of the night of the great
Mystic Pageant.
Mourvr vi:k.ox
Is but a few hours' ride on the historic
Potomac from Washington. Splendid
Steamers leaving every morning and re
turning during the utternoon.
I.URAY CAVERNS,
The most famous of all the subterranean
wonders of the country, are readily with
in a dav's time from Washington or Bal
timore.' Special fast Excursion Trains,
making the round trip, with four hours
at the caverns, which are now lighted
throughout by Electricity.
WASHlZVttTOlV,
Ever a place of greatest interest to all.
never looks more beautiful to the eye or
offers more inducements for a visit than
during the lovely weather always the
rule in September. The B. fc O." is the
onlv direct line from the West to Wash
ington, and the only line running
Fifty-Minute Trains
KKTWKKN
"WASHINGTON and BALTIMORE.
No such an opportunity for a visit to
the most attractive centres of interest in
the East and South has been otfered for
years as thi a
Grand Triple Train Trip.
Write for full details and all informa
tion as regards Sleeping Car and other
accommodations to
T. H. DEARBORN,
General North- Western Passenger
Agent, Baltimore & Ohio li. Ji.
16-4 83 Clark Street, Chicago, 111.
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Dinlii;; C'arj east of Missouri Kivor
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