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WEDNESDAY, SKrT. 17, l8Si.
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BANISHED.
FROM MAS9ACHCSETT8, 1690.
Orer tho threshold of his pleasant horns
Bet in green clearings passed the exiled
Friond,
In simple tract, misdoubting; not the end.
"Dear heart of mine I" ho said, "the time has
come
To trust the Lord for 6heltcr." Ono long rare
The pood wife turned on each familiar
thing
The lowing kino, the orchard blossoming,
Tho open door that showed tho hearth-tiro s
blaze
And calmly answered: "Yea, He will pro
vWc." Silent and slow they crossed tho homestead 8
bound,
lingering the longest by their child's grave
mound. "Jlovo. on, or stay and hang!" the 6herifl
Cried.
They left behind them more than homo or
land,
And set sad faces to an alien strand.
Safer with wlnd3 and waves than human
wrath,
With ravening wolves thun those whose real
for God
Was cruelty to man, the exiles trod
Drear leagues of forest without guide or path.
Or, launching frail bouts on the uncharted sea.
Bound storm-vexed capes, whose teeth of
granite ground
Tho waves to foam, their perilous way they
wound.
Enduring all things so their souls were free.
Oh. true confessors, shaming them who did
Anow the wrong their Pilgrim fathers bore!
For you tho Mayflower spread her sail once'
more.
Band I
AauldncoV'e isle, Nantucket's lonely shores,
Aptlndian-hauhted Karraganeett saw
Tab wayworn travelers round their camp
fires draw.
Or hoard tho plashing of their weary oars.
'And every place whereon they rested grew
Happier tor puro and gracious womanhood.
Ana men whoso names for stainless honor
stood.
Founders of States and rulers wise and true.
The Muse of history yet shall make amends
To those who freedom, peaco and justice
taught.
Beyond their dark age led tho van of
thought.
And Icrt unforfeited tho name of Friends.
O mother State, bow foiled was thy design 1
The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine.
Jhon G. Trhitllcr in Hanr'8 Weddy.
ATTITUDES AFTER DEATH.
Among the phenomena sometimes no
ticed at the time of death there is one
particularly interesting, which, till re
cently, has remained a mystery. It ap
pears especially, but not exclusively,
alter sudden death, either from wounds
on the battlefield or elsewhere, or from
other causes, but almost always when
4n intense emotional state, and often
also a great bodily faliguo, have pre
ceded tho last moment of life. Tho
principal feature of this curious fact is
the persistence of tho facial expression,
or of certain attitudes of tho limbs or of
tho body, or both, which existed at the
time of death. That persistence is well
shown in cases, for instance, when, not
withstanding a sudden cessation of life,
a lifted limb does not drop, or tho body
of a man standing up or sitting on a
horse does not fall. To understand
fully tho terms of the problem to be
solved about this phenomenon, it is
essential to know: First, That our atti
tudes and our facial expression are kept
up by a contraction of our muscles, duo
to an influence of tho nervous centersj
second, that this influence necessarily
ceasing at tho time of death, relaxation
would surely take placo In all tho
muscles that were contracted if another
Cause did not replace at onco that which
ceases, maintaining iu these organs the
tamo physical state which existed in
them.
The question is, therefore What is
tko cause which, as soon as the will
power vanishes, takes its place, or at
any rate produces in muscles an organio
condition preventing anv relaxation?
The object of this article is to answer
this question, and to show that the
cause to be detected is not a sudden
appearance of the state of muscular
stiffness, known by the name of rigor
mortis, or cadaveric rigidity, but is the
effect of a pcculisr action of the nervous
centors occurring just beforo or at the
very instant of death.
Ono of the most striking Instances of
the strange fact I have to study was
observed by Dr. Rossbach, of Wurburg,
on the battle-lield of Beaumont, near
Sedan, in 1870. He found the dead
body of a soldier half-sitting, half-tying
on the ground, delicately holding a tin
goblet oetwecn his thumb and fore
finger, and directing it towards an
absent mouth. While in that position
tho poor man had beon killed by a
cannon ball, which had carried away
tho whole of his head and face except
the lower jaw. Tho body and arms
had been suddenly seized at tho timo of
death "by a stiffness which produced tho
persistence of tho state in which thev
wero when tho head was cut off.
Twenty-four hours had elapsed after
tho battle when Dr. Iossbach found
this corpse in that condition.
In the first paper of some importance
on this subject. Dr. Chenu states that a
French military surgeon. Dr. Terrier,
was greatly surprised, while walking
over tho battle-field of tho Alma tho
day after that great struggle, to see
that a good many corpses of Russian
soldiers had attitudes and an expression
of face similar to those of life. Some
of those bodies had the facial character
istics of the anguish of pain and de
spair; othors had, on the contrary, tho
appearance of the greatest calm and
resignation. One particularly attracted
the doctor's attention; he was lving
down, the knees bent, tho hands lifted
and clasped, the head thrown back
wards, as if death had seized him whilo
uttering a prayer.
Besides similar facts, most persons
who have seen battle-fields, soon after
the end of the lighting, have also noticed
that a number of the dead bodies still
hold their guns or their swords, that
some seem to be still biting their cart
ridges, while others remain on horse
back in the attitude they had at the
timo of death.
Such phenomena have been particu
larly well studied by Dr. Armand at
Magenta, by liaron H. Larrey at
Solfcrino, and by Dr. Baudin at Inker
man. I owe to tho kindness of Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell the knowledge of a valuable
paper of Dr. John Brinton, of Philadel
phia, on ''Rigor Accompanying Sudden
or Violent Death," in which "the ques
tion I am treating of has been thor
oughly investigated.
Speaking of the lield of battle at
Antietam, Dr. Brinton says that he
counted forty dead bodies in an area of
fifty or sixtvyards square, and he gives
the following picture of what he saw
there:
Manx- of these fdead bodies' lav in
extraordinary attitudes, some with their
arms raisea rigiuiy in me air, some wun
legs drawn up and fixed. In not a few
the trunk was curved forwards and
fixed. These attitudes, in a word, were
not those of the relaxation of death, but
were rather of a seemingly active char
acter, dependent apparently upon a
final muscular action at the last moment
ef life, in the spasm of which the muscles
set and remain rigid and inflexible. The
death, in the majority of these cases, had
resulted from chest-wounds, in fewer
instances from shots through the head
and abdomen. The latter were accom
panied by considerable hemorrhage, as
was evident from the pools of dark-colored
blood by the side of the bodies.
These examinations were made about
tUrtreix hour3 after death and also
later."
The three following cases related by
Dr. Brinton, and furnished to him by
some friends, are most remarkable:
A detail of United States soldiers, for-
ftfVPf bmt Goldsboro', N. G, can
suddenly upoi a party ef Southern cav
alry (dismounted. The latter immedi
ately sprang to their saddles and, after
a volley had been fired at them, they all
but one rode away. That one was left
standing with ono foot in tho stirrup;
one hand, the left, grasping the bridle
rein and mane of his horse, tho right
hand clenching the barrel of his carbine
near the muzzle, the but of the carbine
resting on the ground. Tho man's head
was turned over his right shoulder, ap
parently watching the approach of the
attacking party. Some of the latter
were about to fire a second time, but
wero restrained by the officer in charge,
who directed them to advance and take
the Southern soldier aiive. In tho
meantime ho was called upon to surren
der, without response. Upon a near
approach and examination he was found
to dc rigid in death, in the singular atti
tude above described. Groat difficulty
was experienced in forcing tho mane of
the horse from bis left hand and tho
carbine from his right When the body
was laid upon the ground, the limbs
still retained the earoo position and tho
same flexibility. This man bad been
struck by two balls, each from a United
States Springfield rifle; one entered the
body at the right side of tho spine, and
emerging near the region of the heart,
dented the saddle-skirt and dropped
upon the ground. The other entered
at tho right temple, and had no appar
ent exit. The horse had remained quiet,
being fastened by a halter.
Another incident is the following:
At the battle of Williamsburg, Dr. T.
B. Reed examined tho body of a United
States Zouave, who had been shot di
rectly through tho forehead, as he was
climbing over a low fence. His, too.
was the last attitude in life; on leg half
over tho fence, tho body crouching
backward. Ono hand, partially clenched
and raised to the level of the forehead,
presented the palm forward, as if to
ward off an approaching evil.
Again, Dr. Henry Stifle, while seated
on tuo top of a freight-car on tho Nash
ville & Chattanooga Railroad, saw a
brakeman instantaneously killed by a
shot between tho eyes, fired by a
guerilla from the woods through which
tho train was passing. Tho murdered
man was screwing down the brakes at
the moment of the shot. After death
the body remained fixed, the arms
rigidly extended on the wheel of the
brake. The pipo which he had been
smoking remained still clasped between
his teeth. So perfect was tho rigidity,
and so tight was tho clasp of the Hands,
that tho Body was with uiflioulty disen
gaged from its post-mortem position.
The conservation of the last attitudo
can take place in other circumstances
than sudden death from wounds to the
brain, tho heart or the lungs, although
an Injury to a vital organ is tho most
frequent cause of that phenomenon.
Dr. Brinton has seen it produced by
wounds of tho abdomen, and Dr.
Armand in one case fouud it caused by
a wound of the thigh. But it docs not
appear only in cases of death from a
wound. It was observed in a terrible
accident, which occurred in London, iu
January, 1867, when forty-one persons
who were skating on the large pond of
Regent's Park perished from a sudden
breaking of tho ice. The following ox
tract from the London Times is full of
interest:
"The attitudo of most of those taken
out of the water has proved a topic of
conversation among medical men. In
nearly every caso tho arms were ele
vated, sometimes with the elbows
cramped to the sides, in others with the
elbows squared and projecting as if in
tho act of skating. Tho inference is
that thoso poor people supported them
selves by their arms upon the ice, not
daring to trust to their hnnils, and that,
when finally thev dropped back ex
hausted, they died less of actual drown
ing than of cold and terror, and bo re
tained the position In which they had
been found.
Already Dr. Taylor had mentioned
the case of an individual who had. for a
long time, kept his arms extended to
try to escape submersion, and in whom
those limbs after death wero found rigid
in that same position.
It appears that carbonic acid can
produce the peculiar kind 'of rigidity of
muscles that keeps tho trunk and limbs
in the attitudo in which the last action
of the will has placed them.
In 1832 Dr. Von Graefe, in tho Pyr
mont grotto, saw the corpse of a young
man who had willfully destroyed his
life, by remaining in trie poisonous at
mosphere of that cavo filled with car
bonic acid. The body was found half
seated on tho earth. One of the hands
raised supported tho head, as if he had
wished to avoid touching the wall
against which the upper part of the body
was leaning. The trunk was bent on
the right side. The position of the
corpse was such as that which the young
man must have taken on going toslecp.
The body had tho appearanco of a per
son asleep and restmr quietly.
How to explain tnis most curious
series of facts? Wo well know that
sooner or later after death a stiffness
known by the name of cadaveric, or
post-mortem rigidity, always appears in
every limb and other parts of the body
where there are muscles. Is the stillness
which appears on the battle-field and
sometimes elsewhere immediately after
death, nothing but a sudden interven
tion of cadaveric rigidity?
Those who know tho law I have es
tablished as regards tho rapidity or de
lay in the appearance of cadaveric
rigidity after death (see my Croonian
Lecture in the Proceedings of tho Royal
Society for 1861) will find it evident
that in most of the cases of conserva
tion of attitudes after death which I have
mentioned the circumstances were
favorable to the rapid apparition of
Eost-mortem rigidity. Still, even in the
est of those circumstances, cadaveric
rigidity could not have appeared soon
enough to allow of the conservation of
an attitudo anterior to death. This is a
sufficient reason to decide that the fact
we have to explain is not due to the
sudden supervention of cadaveric stiff
ness. But how, then, are we to explain
that fact?
Some experiments, .the details of
which I cannot givo here, have shown
me that it is a fixed contraction, a per
sistent tonic muscular action similar to
that which occurs during life, which
then is produced. At the very moment
that death takes place, that fixed or
tonic contraction supervenes; it is the
last act of life. I have sometimes
seen it come and then vanish, while
later on the genuine cadaveric rigidity
appeared.
Death occurs in at least two radically
different ways: First, it max' come sud
denly, either from emotion, from the
shock of a wouud or a blow, from the
impression caused by submersion in
cold water, and still more in almost
freezing water, or sometimes, in highly
nervous people, from the slightest injury,
especially in certain parts of the body.
In this kind of death there may be no
trace of the vital manifestations after
the last breath, except a weak and soon
disappearing action of the heart AH
the powers of tho brain suddenly col
lapse: conciousness, intelligence, will
powers the faculties of preception, of
sensorial and sensitive impressions, the
respiratory movements, all vanish at
once. There is no agony; nothing of
the ordinary struggle of death. The
body loses its temperature rapidly, but
cadaveric rigidity comes late and lasts
considerably.
Secondly, In the other kind of death,
which is the common, the ordinary kind,
there is, on the contrary, a real battle
in the system, especially when life ceases
from certain wounds or a great hemor
rhage, or from a. complete and sudden
deprivation of breathing. The heart in
those cases beats violently, the efforts
to breathe are extremely strong, con
sciousness and the other powers of the
brain may remain for a short timo, after
which a great agitation or general con
vulsions appear. The temperature of
the body raises, and the rising may con
tinue for a short time after the last effort
to breathe. Cadaveric rigidity appears
soon, but never immediately.
My experiments, and the details oJ
the cases I have partly related, show
that the persistence of an attitude docs
not take place in all the instances of the
first of the two kinds of death I have
just characterized, but It is only in thai
kind that that singular fact is observod.
In one of the conclusions of his excel
lent paper. Dr. Brinton had already
stated that in the coses of battlc-ficla
persistency of attitude that he has re
ported, death most probably was in
stantaneous, and unaccompanied by
convulsions or agony. It results from
the facts I have studied in this article,
and from experiments that I have onlv
been nblo to allude to:
First, That the conservation of at
titudes of life and of facial expression,
after death, depends not upon the sud
den apparition of tho so-called cadav
eric or post-mortem rigidity, but from
tho supervention of a life-rigidity or
tonic contraction, similar to tho fixed
spasm which wo often see in hysterical
or paralytic Individuals.
Secondly, That many causes of death,
acting without tho production of tho
ordinary struggles of agony, can pro
duce the strange phenomena, character
ized by tho persistence, after tho cessa
tion of 1 If o, of the attitudes and facial
expression which existed at the moment
of the last breath. Prof. C. E. Brown
Scquard, in Youth's Companion.
Prof. J. W. S. Arnold, of New York, was
at my laboratory the day I discovered that
fact, and witnessed my first experiments.
The Land ef the Chectaws.
The Choctaw Nation is one of the five
nations into which the Indian Territory
is divided. Its territory is bounded on
the east bv Arkansas, on the south by
Texas and on the west and north by the
lands of other nations, including
tho.se of tho Chorokees and the Creeks.
It contains 11,000 square miles.
It is divided into sixteen coun
ties and three districts. Its
surface is diversified by large rolling
prairies, alternated witn low flat bot
toms, meadows, forests, hills and
mountains. Tho forests extend over a
large portion of the Territory. The
most valuable timber Is walnut, hickory,
ash and cottonwood. The ground is
underlaid with coal, with In some place.
very thick seams. Tho coal and timber
are hardly touched as yet Some day
they will bo very valuable. In the river
bottoms the soil is probably the richest
in tho world. When only half culti
vated it produces immenso" crops. Cot
ton and Indian corn arc the main crops.
Tobacco, sorghum and the cereals, as
well as root crops, also do well. The
development of the country is, however,
a thing of the future. A few mines
have been opened, principally in tho
neighborhood of McAlistcr. In the last
year tho improvement of the Poteau
River, which runs for about fort' miles
through the Territory, has beon mooted.
It drains a large section of country near
the eastern boundry stored with abund
ance of coal, timber, stone and ore.
This improvement will doubtless create
a spirit of progress and advancement
which will favor the further develop
ment of tho country.
The Government of the nation is mo
deled after that of the United States. It
is composed of a Senate, a Houso of
Representatives, and an Executive,
called Chief or Governor, elected by the
people. Citizens only aro allowed to
vote. Out of the population of about
15,000, probably not more than half aro
citizens. Tho citizens of Choctaw
lineage number not moro than 7,000.
The remaining population is composed
of whites and negroes. A non-citizen
resident is required bj' law to havo a
pormit for which he pays a certain sum,
and by virtue of which he is allowed
to remain one vcar in the nation. This
permit is issued on tho application of a
citizen. The occupation to bo pursued
by the man must be distinctly stated.
He then takes his application, duly
signed, to the Clerk of the County
Court, who records It on receipt of a
fee of fifty cents, and recommends to
the Sheriff that a permit be issued to the
applicant, who must provo that ho is
honest and swear that he will abide by
the law. . If he can do this, and nobody
can show good reason why he should
not be allowed to stay in the nation, he
receives the permit If he is to bo a
common laborer, or servant to a citizen,
it is so stated in tho permit, and ho pays
82.50 for it For a renter the eharge Is
85. Any ono engaged In the various
trades and callings, as well as tho
learned professions, and all except
those under the two former heading,
and licensed traders are charged $10.
Choctaw Nation (. T.) Cor. N. Y. Sun.
The Thin Man on Marriage.
Tho thin man without the shirt collar
was evidently perturbed in spirit He
elevated his chin and scratched It with a
match; then worked the match for a timo
in his ear and stared hard at the man
with the cold-tea scheme.
"Divorco is a queer subject," at last
he said, reflectively.
"So it is," said. tho cold-toa man.
"Got one, or want ono?"
Tm not speaTringfor myself," replied
the other, with native dignity mixed
with tobacco juice.
"OWI Sort of feeling for your fellow
beings?" Without deigning a reply tho collar
less man continued: "A queer subject
A queer subject, sir. If people can't
live happil v together, what do they marry
for?"
"I chip," said tho cold-tea man.
"I'll tell you what causes the most of
this divorcebusiness. It's the bossy na
ture of women. There's lots of women
in tho world whoso whole duty in lifo
appears to consist in nagging their hus
bands. They seem to think a marriage
license is a permit to pester the life out
of a man. They don't wait for causes for
comylaint, but" get up imaginative ones
and "enjoy themselves with them. They
seem to know they have a man foul. If
he has children of course he does not
want to leave them, and if not they know
he cannot help himself, for if he flees
their torture he has to give up friends,
position, and all else, and go bury him
self in some strange community. 'You'd
naturally think that a woman having
got a man in this awful position of help
lessness, she'd have somo mercy on him.
But if she belongs to the complaining
kind she won't Not a bit of it Sholi
jump on the poor fellow with both feet
and grind her heels into him. There's
only one cure."
"As how?" asked the cold-tea man,
deeply interested.
"A man should be a man and assert
himself," replied the thin man with em
phasis. "Nature has created him the
superior of woman, and he should not
allow her to assume a government over
him. She is his inferior and dependent
on him, and if necessary for happiness
he should make her understand it How
men can bo so chicken-hearted as to al
low women to crush their independence
I do not, for the life of me, under
stand." At this moment the front door opened,
and from behind the barricade of boxes
came a shrill, feminine voice, asking,
"Is Mr. Jrfly here? I want him this
minit! Jarfly, you good for noth
ing "
"Great Ctesar ! I came near forgetting
a very 'portant 'gagement" hastily ex
claimed the thin man, a he made a bolt
out the rear door. Chfctgo Tribune.
OF GENERAL PTEBEST.
Travis County, Tex., has a post
office named "Jumbo."
A Mississippi poet publishes a
pome" on his girl's "unforgotten ame
thystine eyes."
In Montana the law prohibits a
woman from marrying until she is eigh
teen years old, and a man cannot marry
until he is twenty-one.
George Hammond, a convict in tho
Ohio Penitentiary, has been pardoned,
but refuses to leave until cured of an in
jury received while at work in tho
prison. Cleveland Herald.
A Minnesota paper has dedicated
itself to the "abolition of poverty, ig
norance, wickQdncss, drunkenness, in
justice perversion of law, oppression
and evil."
The hotels in Naples charge a dol
lar for a piece of ice of the same size
that could be procured for a cent in
America. A rink would bo a costly ex
periment in that section.
A Kansas man inquired of a Mis
souri editor as to the exact spot whero
the Garden of Eden is located, when ho
was promptly informed that the said
garden is located on tho northern coast
of Switzerland. Chicago Herald.
Pittsburgh boasts of the possession
of a marvel in a boy who "from sunrise
to sunset enjoys good health and romp3
around liko all children of his age, but
at dusk becomes entirely unconscious,
and remains so till morning." Pitts
burgh Post.
A pretty tough customer, that Mmo.
Paul Minck, tho Paris anarchist, must
be. She named her first-born son Luci
fer Satan Vereingetorix, and now an
nounces the advent of a second who is
to be called Spartacus Blanqui Revolu
tion. N. Y. Ncios.
The verdict of the Coroner's Jury
on the body of the Indian lynched a't
Sumas Prairie, British Columbia, was
that ho camo to his death by hanging at
the hands of a party of seventy dis
guised men, believed to be from tho
American side.
The heathen Chinee may bo pecu
liar, but he has his redeeming traits.
In San Francisco tho Chinese gave $45,
000 to aid their countrymen who were
suilorcrs from the recent great floods
near Canton. Several Chinese mer
chants gavo $2,000 each. Chicago
Netcs.
The United States Treasury has the
biggest spittoon on record. It is a great
oblong wooden box as big as a bed,
filled with sawdust It lies in the base
ment at the foot of tho four flights of
stairs which lead to the various stories,
and accommodates the Government em
ployes and others.
A Texas man was recently convicted
of two offenses in Galveston, for one of
which he was condemned to fifty years'
imprisonment and for the other to be
hanged. Tho latter sentence the court
ordered to bo carried out on tho 25th of
April, but the prisoner objects, contend
ing that tiro first sentence has priority,
and he must serve out tho fifty years
before he can be executed.
The Anaheim. (Cal.) Town Board
have enacted a tramp law that
persons wandering the streets without
visiblo means of support shall be offered
work on the roads for $1 per day, and
in caso of refusal to accept such work
within three hours they; shall bo con
sidered tramps, and liablo upon con
viction to confinement in tho county
jail for forty-eight hours on bread and
water for each offense.
A writer in the Popular 8cience
MonUdy tells of a man claiming that ho
was ablo to recognize an antagonist
who struck him in the dark by means
of the light emitted from his own eye
as the result of the blow. If this means
of discovery had only been communi
cated to M r. William Patterson it might
have saved him years of worry and vex
ation, and at the samo time settled a
very perplexing question Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A few days ago Rolla Coleman,
aged ten years, sat down rather heavily
in his seat in a Newaik, New Jersey,
school. A lead-pencil that had been in
serted into one of the slats by a mis
chievous schoolmate pierced his body to
'tho extent of several inches. Six surgeons
performed an operation upon tho boy,
and about three inches of lead-pencil
were removed. The operation proved
of no success, however, for ho soon
after died in terrible agony. N. Y. Sun.
One of the most curious customs that
attract the attention of strangers in
Panama is to see the native women
walking along the streets smoking long,
slender cigars, in much tho same fash
ion as men do hero. It is the custom of
the people there, and especially of tho
women, to gather in the public markets
as early as sunrise to gossip, and talk
over affairs while enjoying their morn
ing smoke. As there aro few newspa
pers in Pauama, and a proportionately
small number of readers, tho market is
the place whero tho news of tho town is
to be learned.
What is said to be tho oldest clock
in the world is now in the possession of
a Boston undertaker. It is called the
"Mycall clock," from the fact that it
was" taken to America from England by
John Mycall, who settled in Cambridge
Mass., in 1740. He moved to Nowbury
Iort in 179.'$, and presented tho clock to
his intimate friend, Benjamin Dearbon,
the inventor of the balance scales, on
condition that he would name his son
John Mycall Dearbon. The clock
passed through the hands of successive
L generations, and in 1881 it was sold at
auction to Lewis Jones, its present
owner. Bodon TrantcripL
.
Tender Mrs. Topnoody.
"My dear," said Mr. Topnoody to
his wife as he looked up from his paper,
"I seo here that Henry Bcrgh is in favor
of the whipping post for husbands who
beat their wives."
"Who's Henry Bcrgh?" she inquired.
"Is he an officer of the law who expects
to make a fee by tho valuablo services
ho may render the State?"
"No, my dear, he is tho President of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruolty
to Animals."
"Doesn't he call it cruelty to whip a
husband at the post?"
"Husband's aro not animals, my
dear."
"Oh, aint they? Well, my experience
and observations led me to believo they
were."
"I don't see how you can say that"
"Well, they roll in the gutter some
times; they grunt agooddeal; theysnarl
and snap very often; they "
"That's enough, my dear. I see you
are not in good humor. I don't think,
though, you would like to see mo led to
the whipping post"
"No, Topnoody, I would not for vari
ous reasons."
"I knew it my dear. I knew it You
may say hard things at times and you
may hurt my feelings, but, I am sore,
underneath it all, you are tender and
loving and your heart Is full of gentle
ness and sympathy."
"It's kind of you, to say so, Topnoody.
It might not be so severe on me to have
you suffer to some extent, but I wouldn't
want to see you killed."
"KiHed, my dear? It doesn't kill a
man to whip him at the post
"No, Topnoody, not under ordinary
:crrcumstaoees; but if you had to go to
the whipping post, after I got through
with you, in case you attempted to beat
,me, I feel more than confident it would
be a larger dose than your constitution
.could stand, and Iwouldhe left a widow
and I don't want,to be left a widow un
til after spring cleaning and early gar
dening are done."
Topnoody returned to his reading.
Merchant Traveler.
KBAXX
AGAIfl TO
The season for self-hinders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation
in the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect operation of each ma
chine and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each purchaser, being over, we are
again ready, and offer to the farmers of Platte and-adjoining counties goods which arc now in season
and which we propose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
Mowers,
Hay Rakes,
Hay Sweeps,
Farm Wagons,
SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
At the Lowest
We sell the
Threshing Machines,
DEEPING,
WAEKIOK,
CLIPPEE,
CLIMAX,
WOODS,
Tiger,
11 oil i n gs worth ,
Hoosier,
Climax,
Surprise,
Taylor,
Champion,
and Daisy,
THE WELL KNOWN'
ABBOTT, STUDEBAKER AND RACINE
Buggies and Spring Wagons.
THE CELEBRATED STUDEBAKER !
AND TUE
Light - Running Orchard City Wagons.
HALLADAY, ECLIPSE, "I. X. L.," U. S.
STAR and ADAMS
EVERYTHING WE SELL
We cordially invite everybody to call on us.
in our line, and wiU give you BOTTOM PRICES.
Thirteenth Street,
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WE ARE PREPARED
THE LARGEST STOCK OP
- STOVES, -
Cutlery
IN COLUMBUS,
Living Prices.
celebrated AULTMAN
Horse
f2
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near B. A M. Depot,
III
THE
TO GIVE BARGAINS
Spring Wagons -Buggies,
Sulky i Walking Plows,
Wind Mills,
Pumps and Pipe.
Come and Convince Yourselves.
& TAYLOR, and C. A'OLTMAN & CO.'S
Powers and Engines.
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We are always ready and glad to show anything
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