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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1885.
WHOLE NO. 769.
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And offspring native to the solL
Thrice happy, surely. In bis breast
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JULlS
Story of a Hospital PatientThe
New Nurse.
Do not. for a moment associate any
thing fair or girlish with our Juliet
Big, brown and beardod, ho lay in Cot
No. 10, Ward K, of the Army Hospital
at Quincy, 111., saying little, and com
plaining not at, all. We girls, on our
daily rounds through the wards with
flowers and delicacies, came to speak
of him as Juliet simply by reason of
the great devotion of a convalescent
comrade by tho name of Romeo
Borneo Wilkins. Of course, at ,any
time, from the hospital register, we
could easily have found his proper
name and rink; but nothing so prosaic
was ever thought of. We chose always
rather to have our own distinctive
titles as "Achilles" for him of tho
wounded heel, "Schiller" because of a
taste in apples similar to that attributed
to tho great German poet, and "Dick
ens" because of a fancied personal re
semblance to that popular author. If
there was only an appearance of levity
in this, it was only an appearance, for
our sympathy was of a very sincere
and tender kind. In those early years
of the war, when we looked upon so
much suflering and could do so little to
relieve it, we must sometimes "laugh
to hide the tears we shed," and our pet
names were endearing rather than dis
respectful There was nothing at all romantic
about Romeo, lie was simply an hon
est, ignorant, but exceedingly kind
hearted fellow, not (mite well enough
to be returned to duty, but well cuough
to do many little kind offices for his
more helpless comrades. In particular
did he engage himself with services as
delicately conceived as they were often
awkwardly rendered for his neighbor of
Cot No. 10. It was this that in tho be
ginning, as I have said, led us to adopt
for the object of his devotion tho name
of Juliet. Afterward, when by chance
oue of us read "J. Hatch" on the cor
ner of his pocket-handkerchief, wo re
jected all suggestions of James or
Joseph or John, and chose to count the
initial as proof positive of Juliet.
He must have overheard sometime a
bit of our idle talk, for there was a sly
twinkle in his eye as he handed me one
lay a paekago marked, "For the
Young Ladies. With the compliments
of the 'fair Juliet'." It proved to be a
collection of mementoes, mostlypressed
flowers or pebbles from various battle
fields, daintily put up, and addressed in
a scholarly hand. Little amenities of
this kiud.the nicety of tho few per
sonal eflects that a soldier may carry
with him, the choice diclion and enun
ciation that belong only to the cul
tured, revealed Juliet to be of distinctly
higher social grade than most of his
comrades, and wc pleased our
selves with many a line fancy
about him. Sometimes these were
baed upon the ring, a lady's ring, set
with a small datnond, that he wore on
his little linger; sometimes upon a
small volume constantly under his pil
low, and frequently read. At first we
had a mvttv theoiy that this was the
New 1 estament tiiat lie was under filial
promise to read daily; but this we were
obliged to abandon on discover ng the
book to hi a copy of Spenser's "laerio
Queen." Of course, there was a cruel
fair one soniw-whero we made no doubt
of tha.
"I can not understand," said Doctor
W.. reporting the case to the chief sur
geon, "why th s man does not im
prove. II s wound s a comparatively
trilling ailair, there have been no com
plications, and no inllammat on, yet
th"re is st 11 no sign of healing."
We girls held to our or ginal diagno
sis, especially when the nice morsels
we ourselves prepared, in the hope of
tempting his appetite, were received
with courteous thanks, only to be sent
away, after our departure, scarcely
trusted.
Poor, simple, faithful Homeo! It was
all a sad puzzle to him. "T stands to
reason." he said confidentially, one
nionrng. "thet a man thct don't sleep
o' nights aint ago'n' to get well. When
he has a nice feather pillow brought to
him, say it's meant? to bleep on, and
not to keep verso under thet j'ou've
writ win n you think everybody's asleep
and nobody don't know it."
Here was another revelation. If we
had had any doubts before we had none
now. A man is not generally given to
writing verses to his mother or liis ms
ter, and if he had a wife she would come
to him. we reasoned. We knew now
that he loved her we had named her
Duessa by th:s time that she was un
kind, and we hated her.
One morning there was a general
confusion in the hospital. A telegram
had been received that a hospital boat
would be in at noon with one hundred
additional sick and'wouuded for us.
It was a short notice, and taxed not on
ly the entire hospital force, but all our
volunteer service as well. It was de
cided to take possession of an adjoin
ing building and remove to it all of our
inmates who were able to bear the
change. Things got very much mixed
in the hasty transfer, and I undertook
the task of finding the proper owners
of the various articles as they were
gathered up here and there by the at
tendants. Sometimes there was no bet
ter clue for doing this than a letter
with only the indefinite address: "My
dear Tom," and an equally indefinite
signature. Sometimes there was neither
address nor signature, as was the case
with these verses:
"My ftad U tired.
My heart is fired
With no dream bright or blest;
My very breath
Is cold as tleatb.
And gruvc-like is my breast.
"I can not sing,
I can not bring
Brave thoughts to thee, my dear.
The light Is flown,
1 am alone,
I fall, 1 faint, I fear.
"Yet thou wilt take
Me for love'H sake.
How void so e'er 1 be.
And wilt not ask
Me any task
Bat Just to stay by thee.
I can not woo
As I would do
With thought that b'uca and glow
But I would rest
Upon thy breast,
Aad simply tell tha so.
"Like Jewels wrought
With gold, high though!
I'd set In song for thee;
But take not worse
This little verse
Of trust that lives la me."
Only after I had road these verses did
I recall Borneo's confidence about
Verses "writ when everybody was
asleep;" and thon, too, I first recog
nized the handwriting we had ad
mired so much on the package of
battlefield mementoes. I told no one
of this new knowledge that had come
to me in suoh a strange way, but simply
handed the paper to Borneo, to bo
placdd by him under his comrade's
pillow before it should be missed.
Not long after this the hospitable
matron received a letter from her old
friend Christina Bossiter. just back
from Europo. She wrot:
"Tho circumstances which led as to
go abroad were so embarrassing, ami
even painful, that neither to you nor to
any one did I wish to make them known.
I do so now because I wish to ask your
aid in making what little amends I may
for my own well-meant, but mistaken
acts. Tou know, my dear friend, how
entirely my whole llfo and thoughts
have been concentrated upon one pur
pose, namely the welfare of my
daughter Etta. You know the promise
of her early years, and how it justified
my motherlv devotion. It was my pur-
1ose to spare no pains in cultivating
lor unusual musical gifts; to give her
tho best training this country could
furnish, and afterwards the best
masters abroad. Knowing, as you do,
the unhappy experience of my own
brief married life while still In my
teens, you will not be snrprisod that an
other thing upon which I was firmly
resolved for Etta was that she should
never marry, or make an engagement
to niarry, until old enough to make
something more than a child's choice in
so important a matter. I kept her out
of eeneral society, gave up the house
in New York, and removed to tho lovely
and quiet village of Nyack, twenty
four miles away, which offered
likewiso tho attraction of a good school,
with a fine master of vocal culture.
Alas! it had also another attraction on
which I had not counted, and before I
was aware of it J3tta had given her
lovo to Professor Hatch, lecturer on
English poetry. I wonder now, look
ing back, that I had never thought of
this danger, for Etta's enthusiasm for
poetry is second only to her love of
music. 1 myself attended tne lecture
on Spenser. Indeed, it was during
theso that I discovered tho ever-new
meaning with which tho Professor ren
dered the old lines:
"And ever when his ele did bar boliold
His heart did soeme to melt In pleasures
manifold."
He may havo been a very worthy
young man; ho probably was. No one
seemed to know much about him, be
yond tho fact of his residence in New
York, whence ho came three times a
week to deliver tho Institute lectures
that furnished his support while he was
writing a poetical composition. In
my sorrow and disappointment I chose
to' treat the whole affair as a youthful
fancy on both sides, and exacted from
both that they would hold no communi
cation With each other during the
two years that Etta and
I should remain abroad. By
this test I wished to satisfy mysolf that
it was likely to be an enduring love; be
sides, I could not abandon my life-long
ambition for Etta's musical culture.
She did her best, poor child, to sat:sfy
me; practiced with faithfulness; but
with a distraught manner that convinced
me that her thoughts were
often far away, and read the
Faerio Queen' da'ly. Tho out
break of the war decided our return
somewhat before tho expiration of the
two years. Almost as soon as we had
arrived wc learned that on the first oull
for troops Professor Hatch enlisted,
and is supposed to have been killed in
the battle of Bull Bun. Poor Etta has
said littlo, but the stricken look in her
face is a constant reproach to me. She
seems now to have but one wish in life
to serve as a hospital nurse. 1 shall
make no obstacle; out I shrink from
the thought of her going to somo far
away post, alono and unprotected.
Canyou, my friend, find a place for her
with you? ft would givo her the use
fulness the seeks, and would be a great
comfort to
Your sorrowful friend,
CrfuiSTiN'A Bossiter.
Our good matron was very glad to
a(ept the proffered service, and
tl ought best to confide to us the whole
story, lest sometime we should unwit
tiagly wound the feelings of her new
a-isistant Tho story excited our warm
est sympathy. We waited with eager
ness tho expected arrival, and were full
of all sorts of tender plans for such
comfort and happiness as we might be
able to brine: her. Our affection for
the unseen Etta was almost as great
as our hatred ior tho unseen Duessa.
Iwas at the hospital when she came. A
slight, fairyoungcreature.nearly ahead
shorter than I, yet with a firmj steady
look, in her large, sad eves that one felt
that here, notwithstanding her youth
and petitcness, was a woman to lean
upon. How picturesque and lovely she
looked when she had donned the
nurse's cap, and was ready for duty!
It was my privilege to take 'her
through the hospital. "This," I said,
as we came to "K," "is to be your
ward, I believe. I am glad of it, be
cause there is one man here who inter
ests us all so mueh. No one can tell
why he does not get well. He "
But I had no need to say more ; the
little nurse had darted from my side.
She was kneeling by the bedside of
Juliet, and had drawn his pale, wasted
face to her breast. I heard her sob
"John! Oh! John, John!" Then L
turned and let them. Anna B. McMa
hon, in Chicago Current.
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How to Have Plenty of Leisure.
Abnsy man's leisure is much more
fruitful than an idle man's busy time.
That is one of the reasons why a busy
man lias always so much more time
than an idle man. Ten minutes' con
versation, hmlf an hour's visit to a
library, will gain more for a busy man
who knows what he wants to be at,
than a whole day's aimless seeking on
the part of an idle man. If you want
your time to be so much occupied that
you can not find time for anything else,
fust give yourself up to the serious busi
ness of being idle; if, however, you
want to have sufficient leisure to do
some other things than those which you
arc absolutely compelled to do, just
take care always to have plenty of work
on hand. Hard work intensifies a
man's life; it supplies him with an aim,
sharpens his faculties and makes bin
time-trebly precious, whether it be the
time of work or the- time of leisure.
8. S. Timet.
PITH AND POINT.
The new reading is "bride- and
coachman." instead of "bride and
groom." Cincinnati Commercial Oa
ztUs, If the son could pick up the stitches
of experience that the father drops, he
would not be obliged to unravel his
work so often. Whitehall Times.
"All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy," is what the lad remarked
to his father who refused to take him
to the theater. Yonkers Statesman.
Let none of the great family of
Browns be alarmed if they see ghosts
of relatives this season. All shades of
brown are said to be in the height of
fashion. Burlington Free Press.
It costs over $5,000 a day, it is
aid, to keep and clean the crown
jewels of England. This is another
disadvantage of being a crowned head.
We don't suppose there are a dozen
editors In this country who pay half
that rum to have their jewels kept and
oleaned. 'Norristown Herald.
"Now let's go downstairs and ride
en the electric railway," said a city
lady to her sister from tho country.
"On, no," was the reply; "my son John
has got me to rido on a steam railroad
for tne first time, but I always said you
could never get mo to ride on a tele
graph wire, and you can't Boston
Vtobe.
"Thatyoung man yourecommended
to me as a clerk hasn't got a particle
of business talent," said a Galveston
merchant to a friend. "No, of course
he hasn't If ho had had any capacity,
he would not have needed my recom
mendation. I thought you had sense
enough to understand that" Texas
Silings.
"Pa, you will have to give my
teacher a talking to," said Johnny Fiz
zletop on his return from school.
"What has he been doing?" "Just
look at my certificate. It is worse than
last week's. He will keep right on giv
ing mo bad certificates unless you say
something to him about it He needs
taking down a peg or so." Texas Sil
ings. "As the twig is bent, so is the tree
inclined." This is a metaphorical
proverb. We never knew a tree had
any inclinations at all, unless it had an
inclination to leave. Any one can see
that there are a great many twigs on a
tree, aud they are bent in a great many
different directions. Now, a tree hasn't
?;ot time to pay attention to all of them,
f the proverb had stated that as the
treo is bent so is the small boy inclined,
one might have been able to see some
sense in it.
All the animals were sitting around
quietly after the afternoon perform
ance, and the giraffe was thoughtfully
observing her colt snuffing about the
lamps at the top of the center-pole.
"ioung man, ' she said at last as no
thrust about eleven and a half lineal
feet of neck through an opening in the
canvas to look out upon the world,
"telescope yourself in out of the damp
air. A colt with a swallowing thing
like a telegraph polo has no business
tamporing with the croup." Burling
ton Hawkeye.
A MAN OF NERVE.
Haw an Elephant Hunter Extricated Illin.
self From a Perilous Position.
The coolest thing I ever saw done in
elephant-shooting was one day myself
and a friend were sitting in thebunga
low, when a coolie rushed in and in
formed us that there was an elephant
in the collee. The only "battery" we
had in the bungalow, which was mere
ly a wooden shanty run up for a tem
porary shelter at the new clearing, was
an old percussion shot-gun, used
chiefly for firing "sparrow hail" at the
logs of natives caught coffee-stealing at
night and the only bullets we had, if
I may be pardoned the "bull," were
small shot with a few swan-shot mixed.
Thore was, however, a bullet mold
which fitted the gun, so we set to work
and cast some rough bullets, as we
were determined to nave a shot at the
elephant even if it was with a pistol.
Our next proceeding was to toss up
wlo should have the shot, and it fell
to my friend J.
When we went out it was found that
the elephant was not in tho coffee, but
on a strip of "patna," or grass along
side of it. J. accordingly went down
to the tournament while I stood at a
safe distance to cheer on the knight.
When J. got on the "patna" he saw
that the brute he was going against was
evidently a "roque" of the worst de
scription, as he began to trumpet verv
loud. That is the first thing a "roque'
does. I suppose he thinks it will put
the fear of death in the hunter. The
next part of the show is for Jumbo to
charge right down en you, still trum
peting and waving his trunk until he
comes within about twentyyards, when
down goes the trunk, and, at the same
time, he lowers his head. This is the
time to fire, and the only place vou have
any chance of bringing him down by
hitting is a small oval space just above
the trunk. This is a vital spot, and if
you hit this it is sure death to the ele
phant J. was an old hunter, so he
calmly awaited Mr. Jumbo's approach.
Just at the right moment up went his
gun to his shoulder, and I waited
breathlessly to see the flash and
behold the roque fall. But no flash
came, and presently I saw J. running
backward facing the elephant and evi
dently feeling in his pocket for some
thing. The explanation was now easy,
the infernal percussion cap has missed
fire! Luckily he had another, and in a
moment, jflst as the elephant was upon
him, 1 saw his gun again go up. There
was a flash, then a report, and down
tumbled the huge beast just at J. 's feet;
in fact, so close was he that he had to
jump aside to prevent the body falling
on him. There are few men I know of,
and I have met a few men of nerve in
my time, that would have the coolness
to run backward in face of a charging
elephant, remove the old cap and feel
in his pocket for a new one, and then
kill his quarry. I know of nothing
more inclined to make one run the first
time of trying than to wait on an ele
phant which is charging, but a better
spirit comes over you and you shoot
without a tremor, From "Elephant
Bunting in Ceylon in American
Field.
During all the recent political gath
erings in our city, the presence of young
and old ladies has been a conspicuous
feature thereat, which fact bears evi
dence of the increasing feminine inter
est in the most important affairs of the
Nation. It is a generally mistaken idea
that only female suffragists care to at
tend public political assemblages. On
the contrary, our most refined ladies,
those who would scorn the idea of put
ting a vote in a ballot-box, now take
delight in listening to campaign
speeches, and the result is, political
meetings are more orderly and bereft
of old-tune hoodlumism. N. Y. Letter.
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Keeps a full line of stationery and school
supplies, and all kinds of legal fdnu.
Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Uloclc,
Platte Ccntei . 19x
J. M. MACFARLAND, B. R. COWDKRY,
Attsniy si Hotwy PaWe. Collirter.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
or
BIACFARliAND & COWDERY",
Columby, ; : : Nebraska.
F. F. RUNNER, M. .,
(Successor to Dr. C. G. A. Hullhorst)
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON.
Regular graduate or two medical col
leges. Office up stairs in brick building
north of State Bank. 2-ly
J. J. HIAUGHAN,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
igTParties desiring surveying done can
notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb.
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Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to.
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Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Office with S. C.
Smith.
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All kinds of repairing done on short
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LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
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Cory.
THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.
A. Battqaat oa Human Flesh In Sumatra
Described.
A friend of tho writer, who for
moro than forty years has been in tho
employment of the Dutch Government,
bears personal witness to the provalenco
of the custom in Sumatra up till re
cent times. He was once makinjr sci
entitle investigations in the interior ot
that island, and was being entertained
in the most hospitable manner by tho
native Rajah, or chief, of the place he
was then in. A feast had been made,
to which he was bidden, and to which
ho went, taking his own native servant
with him. Tho banquet had proceeded
for some time without interruption,
when at last, as crown of tho feast,
a beautiful brown roast joint wa
brought from the back of tho house to
tho open airy place where tho repast
was being held. This was cut up with
out remark and handed round, and the
Dutch gentleman was on tho point of
eating his portion, having raised part
of it to his lips, when his servant
rushed forward and stopped him, say
ing: "Master, master, do not eat, it ig
a boy." The chief, on being questioned,
admitted, with no small pride at tho
extent of his hospitality, that hearing
that the white man would feast with
him, ho had ordered a young boy to b
killed and cooked in his honor, as tho
greatest delioacy obtainable, and tha'
tho joint before them was tho best part,
the thigh. One is apt to associate all
sorts of ferocious qualities cruelty
deceit, brutality and inhospita!it
with tho mero word cannibal,
thus stigmatizing with theso
vioious qualities wholo races of people
who do but retain this one among oth
er anciont habits and customs; whereas
in reality cannibals are much tho same
as other folk whoso food Ls of a les
barbarous nature. The very Caribs
themselves, from tho (Latinized name
of whom tho name is probably derived,
tho archtypes of what cannibals should
be, are described as possessing very
different qualities. Their tribos, tho
remnants of which still linger in one of
tho West India Isles, inhabited tho
northern part of South America and
many of the Antilles before tho arrival
of the Spaniards, who destroyed almost
tho whole race. Tho description their
conquerors gave of them is more like
that of a nation of lotus eaters than of
a sanguinary and ruthless people.
"They are quiet, calm and
sedentery, and given up to idle
ness and day dreams," say
their historian, "but are well made and
Possess great powers of endurance."
'he testimony of the writer must bo
given on the same idea; he has had the
pleasure and privilege of knowing
many cannibals, Fijean, Now Herbri
dean, Solomon Islanders and others,
quiet and inoflensivo when not engaged
in tho practice and observance of the
special principle that they uphold. It
must be confessed, however, that he
had not the same appreciation of their
character on the one occasion when he
ran the narrowest chance of minister
ing t( what he then considered a very
depraved and morbid appetite. Early
travelers in New Zealand always express
astonishment when they discover the
cannibal propensities of the inhabitants,
that so gentle and pleasant mannered
a people could become on occasion such
ferocious savages. Earle, who wrote a
very readable, intelligent and but littlo
known account of the Maoris very early
in the present century, speaks of the
gentle manners anil kindly ways of a
New Zealand chief, whom afterward he
discovered to be an inveterate canni
bal. He relates that he visited the place
where was'cookingthebodyof a young
slave girl that his friend had killed for
the purpose. The head was severed
from the body; the four quarters, with
the principal bones removed, were com
pressed and packed into a. small oven in
tho ground, and covered with earth.
It was a case of unjustifiable cannibal
ism. No revenge was gratified by the
deed, and no excuse could be
made that tho body was eaten
to perfect their triumph. Earle
says that ho learned that tho
flesh takes many hours to cook, that it
is very tough if not thoroughly cooked,
but that it pulls in pieces, liko a piece
of lAjttinj-paper, if well done. He
continues, that the victim was a hand
some, pleasant-looking girl of sixteen,
and ono he used f requently to seo about
tho Fah. To quote his own words:
"Whilo listening to this frightful detail
wo felt sick almost to fainting. We left
Atol," (tho chief who had killed the
girl) "and agaiu strolled toward the
upot whoro this disgusting feast was
cooking. Not a native was now near
it; a hot steam kept occasionally burst
ing from the smothered mass, and tho
same dog that we had seen take the head
of tho girl now crept from beneath the
bushes and sneaked toward the vil
lage. To add to the gloominess of tho
whole, a large hawk rose heavily from
tho very spot where the poor victim
had been cut in pieces. My friend and
I sat gazing in this melancholy place.
It was a lowering, gusty dayv and tho
moaning of the wind" through the
bushes, as it swept round the hill on
which we wero, seemed in unison with
our feelings." Earle goes on to
relate how he and three other
compatriots whom he summoned
from the beach for the purpose,
with the Englishman's usual im
pertinence and intolerance of customs
differing from his own, determined to
frustrate Atol's intention. They to
gether visited the hill where the llesh
was cooking, apd, destroying the oven,
buried the remains in the earth. They
found the heart put on one side for the
special delectation of their constant
friend and companion, Atol. Earle
was afterward good humoredly told
by the chief that their interference had
been of no avail, as they had found the
grave where the flesh had been buried
and opening it soon after he and his
friends had left, had finished cooking it
and eaten it all. Earle argued long
and probably loudly with the chief up
on this question. Atol asked him what
fliey did with the thieves and runaways
in England, and he told him "flog them
or hang them." "Then," replied the
Maori, "the only difference is that we
eat them after we have killed them."
The same chief told him that before the
introduction of potatoes the people in
the interior had nothing to eat but fern
roots and kumera (another edible root) ;
fish they never had in the rivers, so
that human flesh was the only kind
the' ever partook of. Gentleman1
Magazine.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but
fools will learn in no other, and scarce
in that, for it is true we may give ad
vice but wc cannot give conduct. How
ever, they that will not be consulted
cannot be helped, and if you will not
hear Reason she will surely rap your
knuckles. Happy the man or woman
that can graduate after a few sharp
lessons, but most of us have finis
written at the end of our lives before
we get through. Golden Days.
HOW TO WRITE LETTERS.
Instructions In Useful Art Which Are
Especially Designed for Women.
As a source of amusement, enter
tainment and instruction, letter-writing
plays no mean part in the life of
a woman. Man can dispense with
the art much better than woman, for
his life is not so made up of trifles as ia
hers, and if ho wishes to communi
cate with a friend, ho will probably
drivo over to the corners, or walk
"down street" for tho purpose, while
a woman's recourse would bo a friend
ly letter or dainty note. Many think
fair penmanship and correct spelling
the only requisites; others add a knowl
edge of grammar and rhetoric, and
think, with these attainments, their
letters must needs bo interesting.
Theso of course are necessary, but
so far from being all that is needful,
they may be compared to tha founda
tion of a house. It would be a useless
structure if built without a founda
tion; and a failure,? if this alone were
thought necessary. To be a real pleas
ure, Tetters must bo prompt, easily
road, and filled throughout with such
items as will interest tho one to whom
thev aro writton.
To many, a sheet of paper and
aro a horror, and they put .- iriendlv
as well as business letters with tho ex
cuse that "writing is such hard work,"
without giving a thought to their un
kindncss. They may havo some loved
ono a long distance away who, among
strangers and in a strange land, looks
in vain for the missivo that tells him he
is not forgotten. Or somo friend may
ask a question of importance, inclose a
stamp for reply and beg for speedy
answer. If tho answer could be given
verbally, they would tako a deal of
trouble to oblige; but as it necessitates
letter-writing, the inquiry is answered
after so long (if at all) as to bo quito
useless. Others again write when
weary, or in hasto, or from a foolish
notion that bad penmanship shows
superiority, and tho letters that would
otherwise bo interesting are so hard to
decipher that much pleasure is lost.
Others, again, send away prompt and
beautifully written lotters, but void of
interest.
Among my correspondents I remem
ber ono of this kind. When I was a
mero child, ono of my schoolmates
moved to Virginia, and we, of course,
promised each other an unending cor
respondence. During all the years we
kept it up, I ever tried to mako my
letters such a breeze from the old homo
that not only my friend but herparents
would hail their coming with delight.
In return I received letters telling the
names of her acquaintances, and all
the petty things they said and did, and
seldom a word about schools, society,
tho customs of the people, or the soil,
crops and climate. Even now I am ig
norant as to whether peanuts are
grown in that section, although I asked
her to tell me.
There are persons who would never
be so impolite as to let a question go
unanswered, but make their friends
wait weeks and even months for an
answer to a letter. Others make in
quiries of interest to none but them
selves, and neglect to inclose a stamp
for return. Still others discloso on
postal cards the summary of a private
correspondence, much to their friends
annoyanco. One must apply the
Golden Rule in learning what to avoid
as well as what to practico in writing
letters, that theymay be received with
joy and perused with pleasure.
If a disagreeable thins: is to be said.
the plcasantcst words should be chosen
for that sentence. It is well never fco
give sly hints; the reader may miscon
strue the moaning, and no end of an
noyanco result. It is unkind to say
hard things of mutual fridnds, or of
any one in fact, for such letters often
confront one later in life, much to one's
sorrow and chagrin.
There is so much said of the com
monest rules of letter-writing tho
giving of correct dates, plain writing
and careful spelling of proper names,
and of one's own signature and ad
dress, and precise direction on the en
velope, that it seems useless to speak
of theso things here. Whoever has
mastered those rules, and will write
promptly and plainly, giving kind
words and items of interest, may be
sure her letters are interesting, and a
correspondence with her will ever be a
delight. Aunt Oliva, in Country Gen
tleman. i
Comfort For Bald Heads.
According to a French paper there ia
a German professor who maintains that
the reason why the sheep is so intel
lectually backward and stunted as we
know him to bo is, that the strain which
the growth of his coat imposes on his
organism absorbs its entire stock of en
ergy and leaves none to support the
mental functions. And so it is with the
bear. The sagacity of the animal world
is, the professor insists, the appanage
of the hairless creatures, and he in
stances the elephant and the serpent in
support of his theory. Extending his
observation to inanimate nature, he
points out that the grander and loftier
mountain summits are totally bare of
vegetatioQ, while it is only the top of
the hills and mountains of the second
class that aro covered with verdure and
are susceptible of cultivation. And ap
plying his theory to the human race,
the professor undertakes to demonstrate
that baldness it a mark of intellectual
superiority. It is a result of the intel
lectual fermentation of the brain, which
gradually bulges out the upper surface
of the skull. Baldness is not simply
loss of hair, as is vulgarly supposed; it
is caused by the excess of cerebral en
ergy, which forces the skull through
and causes it to grow above the hair.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Two Limping Ducks.
One day when Uncle Daniel Drew
was in the zenith of his power, so to say,
a gentleman stopped him on the street
and said:
"Mr. Drew, I believe yon are a Chris
tian man."
"Well, y-e-s," answered the specu
lator. "Then I ask you to do the right thing
by me. A month ago I sold you some
Blank & Blank Railroad stock at 38.
In two weeks it jumped to 60. It is
only fair that you should present me
with at least $1,000."
"My Christian friend," replied Uncle
Daniel, with a lonesome squint to his
left eye, "I remember that transaction.
Next day after buying the bonds, I
concluded that I had made a fool of
myself, and therefore resold for 35. Let
us embrace and console each other, and
divide my loss between us." Wall
Streei News.
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Lcadville has no cats. It is said
that tabby can not live in the thin
mountain air of tho heights of Colora
do. Chicago Times.
BEES AND WASPS.
What n KaturalUt Ha to Say About Then
Insects. rr
Grant Allen docs not agree (With, the
common estimations of these" insects.
In describing some "Queer Flowers,"
in tho Popular Science Monthly, ho
says:
Now, the fact is, wo are all a little
tired of that prig and Aristides among
insects, the little busy bee. We havo
heard his virtues praised by poets, mor
alists and men of science, till we aro
all burning to ostracise him forthwith,
for the sake of never more hearing him
called industrious and intelligent. Ho
and his self-righteous cousin, the ant,
aro in fact a pair of egregious Phari
saical humbugs, who have made a vir
tue of their own excessive acquisitive
ness, and have-induced Solomon, Vir
gil, Dr. Watts, and other misguided
human beings to acquiesce far too read
ily in their preposterous claims. For
my own part, I never was more pleased
in my life than when Sir John Lubbock
conclusively proved bj- experiment that
they were both extremely stupid and
uninventive insects, with scarcely a
faint glimmering of brotherly love or
nnv other irood ethical aualitv.
r The wasp.l though undoubtedly an
irascible and ill-balanced creature, and
a chauvinist of the fiercest description,
is yet a person of far more width of
mind and far wider range of experience
in his own way than the borne and
conventional b"ee. His taste, in fact
(like the taste of that hypothetical per
son, the general reader), is quite om
nivorous: whilo he does not refuse
meat, ho has an excellent judgment iu
the sunny side of peaches, and he can
make a meal at a pinch off the honey
in moro than one kind of wasp-specialized
flower. But the peculiar likes and
dislikes of wasps have produced a curi
ous effect upon the shape aud ln: of
tho blossoms which owe their traits to
these greedy and not very uisthctic in
sects. Your bee has a long proboscis
and a keen tansa of color; so tho
flowers that lay themselves out on his
behalf store their honey at the end of a
long tube, and rejoice in brilliant blue
or crimson or purple petals. Your
wasp, on the other hand, in his matter-of-fact
Philistine fashion, cares for none
of these things: he asks only plenty
of honey, and no foolish obstructions
in the way of gettiug it. Accordingly,
wasp-flowers are remarkable for hav
ing a helmet-shaped tube, exactly fitted
to a wasp's head, with abundant honey
filling the bottom of the bell, while in
color they are generally a peculiar liv'd
reddish brown, more or Ies suggestive
of a butcher's shop.
WHERE MOTHERS ARE MASTERS.
Tho Curious Lawn of Kinship Observed
by the Mnluya of 3Iil.Sumatra.
Although we have long since ceased
to accuse the dwellers on the opposite
side of the globe of walking about with
their hoads downward, we do find
some of our most stable customs turned
topsy-turvey by our antipodes. Prof.
E. B. Tylor, in his address before tho
British Association, mentions some
strange rules of relationship observed
by the Malays of Mid-Sumatra:
"Among these people not only kin
ship but habitation follows absolutely
the female line, so that the nuiiu-:ous
dwellers in one great house are all con
nected by descent from one mother,
one generation above another, children,
then mothers and maternal imch's and
aunts, then grandmothers and ma
ternal great-uncles aud great-aunts,
etc. There are in each district several
suku or mother-clans, between perMuis
born in which marriage is forbid
den. Here, then, appear the two
well-known rules of female
descent and exogamy, but now wccoino
into view of the remarkable state of so
ciety, that, though marriage exists, it
does not form the household. Tho
woman remains in the maternal hoii.su
she was born in, and the man remains
in his; his position is that of an au
thorized visitor; if he will, he may
come over anil help her in the rice-tiehl,
but he need not; over the children ho
has no control whatever, and were he
to presume to order or chastise them,
their natural guardian, the mother's
brother (iuamak). would resent it as
an affront. The law of female descent
and its connected rules have as yet been
mostly studied among the native Amer
icans and Australians, where they have
evidently undergone much modifica
tion. Thus, ono hundred and fifty
years ago, Father Lafitan mentions that
the husband and wife, while in fact
moving into one another's hut, or set
ting up a new one, still kept up tha
matriarchal idea by the fiction that
neither he nor she quitted their owu
maternal house."
WILL POWER.
It Is Falling: Into Decay In This .Modern
Arc of Kapld Iro;res.
Strong wills are becoming as rare a3
healthy physical organizations. Tha
world is "fussy," but only because hu
manity is working itself too much.
Brain tissue has increased; but healthy,
vigorous thought has diminished. Af
fectations have become realities, and
realities affectations. A toothache con
verts us into invalids, where our ances
tors laughed at the gout. We have
beaten tho gold leaf .o thin that it
has lost its own color, and
shines with a ghastly green
light. Sentiment has carried us
past common sene; we have had
such a terror of the llesh that we have
cultivated brain at the expense of motive-tissue,
and have produced agiant's
skull that is too heavy for the dwarf
kigs to bear. Emotions have been n
fined, but they have not been improved;
brain has increased, but strong, vigor
ous thought has diminished. Educa
tion has become diffused, but what the
many have gained the select few have
lost; and though there are abundance
ot readers, the race of prophets has
died out. Suicide has increased because
will and healthy thought have dimin
ished. It is a disease born of modern
affectations, of the disappearance of that
self-control and self-respect that are
better than cart-loads of mock senti
ment and morbid melancholy. Aside
from the irresponsibility of insanity, an
unsuccessful self-murderer needs a
large dose of iron and a large dose of
wlup; and to crush out all future at
tempts needs a strong dose of publia
contempt mid a strong dose of tha
treadmill. In a certain sense nature
uses suicide to rid the world of fools;
but it is. nevertheless, a blot on civiliza
tion ami a warning that there is a limit
to all things, even to human progress.
Humanity has made a rapid journey to
ward pcrftvtiou; but the point has been
now reached wh.n rest and relaxation
become a i:ec - .-ity. We have con
qn.'r. ! H,;Iil-: li-t"us now return a
U i Li :- tlii l.rvek proverb, and try
:o im . ;us n.r l-.es. Boston Gazelle.
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