Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 1SS5.
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SETTING TYPE.
Hark to the click
Of the typu3 in the stickl
They fall and they meet with monotonous
sound.
As swiftly the fingers that seize them go
round To hurry them into the stick
"With a click, click.
There they are in the stickl
What do the types tell the world aa the
stand?
Here It Is satire; there eloquonco srand.
"Weak as nothing when single, combinod their
command.
A wonder-power In iheir click.
As in order they march into the stiok,
Look again in the stick.
To the workers of evil they sorrow betide;
The cheat and oppressor in vain try to glide
Away from the dlok,but tho earth oannot
bi'Jo
Thorn away from tho click, click.
Of the types falling into tho stick.
As thoy click, click, in tho stick.
Monarch and tyrants their marshaling
dread:
They know that to freedom tho type hare
beon.wod.
And the visions they soo arc in color blood
red.
And thoy shako at tbo sound of the
click.
Foreror that click, click I
In the gas that makes tho day-shino or rah
sun's light
That stick is forever Increasing Its might.
And seeming to say: Horo we stand for the
right!
Oppressors, bewaro of tio stickl
Thoso gay-colored types In tho stickl
States, monarchies, potentates, Pashas and
Kinps,
The painter, tho player, tho poet who sings.
Stand in awe of those poor, little, dull, leaden
things.
And the ominous noise of the dick.!
Hut theo types in tho stick.
To tho just and the true all nations around,
To tho whole of mankind wboro tho virtues
abound
Most wclcomo to such is tbo musical sound
Of tho typos with their click.
Frank J. OUarton.
A KISS IN THE DAEK.
How an Unprincipled Man Was
Outwitted by a Woman.
Hon. Marniaduke Gervoise was a
man with two very decided ideas one
was that any young lady on whom he
might propose to confer tho name of
Gervoise ought to think herself a Tory
lucky girl, indeed; and tho other was
that she ougbt to have a magnificent
fortune to counterbalance in some
measure the immense advantages which
would accrue to hor from such a union.
. He was not, by any means, a bad fel
low in fact, men generally said
"Gervoise was a deuced good fellow
so good-tempered, you know, and al
ways ready to lend a hand." And they
were right in saying so, for he had
learned that a good-tempered man, who
is willing to be useful to his frionds in
little matters, is generally welcome, and
everybody' is only too glad to make use
of him, instead of undorgoing any
trouble themselves. But he had ono
disadvantage he was exceedingly
poor. Still he was to be met every
where in town and country, and in the
latter particularly Indies gqvo him a
hearty welcome. "Mr. Gervoise was
so jolly and so useful. We really don't
know how we should get on without
him.1' Besides, he was undoubtedly a
man of good family; and, even if queer
stories had occasionally been whispered
about him, how many people arc there
whose lives would endure rigid cross
examination? Only mothers with
daughters whom they wero desirous of
E lacing in society looked askance at
im, and warned their girls "not to
give any encouragement to that Mr.
Gervoise." The rest of tho world was
glad to see him, or was utterly indiffer
ent to him; and, as he shot well, played
a good game of billiards, was great in
the art of arranging picnics and water
parties, and had a good tenor voice and
6ome knowledge of music, both men
and women found him a good com
panion indoors and out, and pro
nounced him an acquisition.
At tho time of our story there was a
very large gathering of guests in tho
fine old house known as Bindon Court,
the property of Thomas Kudgelow,
Esq., an honesthcarted and hospitable
manufacturer, who had married a very
charming, beautiful and well-bred wife,
and who was never so happy as when
entertaining as many pleasant jxsoplo
as his picturesque, but somewhat ramb
ling, house would hold. Among the
number of his guests at this particular
time was Hon. Marniaduke Gervoise.
- He found the houso a very pleasant ono
to stay in, and made himself very use
ful in'many ways to the owner, putting
him up to many a wrinkle in the mat
ter of invitiug and entertaining his
guests, and managing to make all
things run smoothly and pleasantly
when difficulties cropped up, as they
occasionally did. But he had another,
and far more particular reason, for
wishing to be at Bindon Court on this
especial occasion. Mis3 Muriel Mor
riewethcr was very lovely, very youn,
very charming in manner, vcrVhighly
accomplished, and report saidshe had
twenty thousand pounds a year, abso
lutely her own. Moreover, sho was
an orphan, she " was a great friend of
Mrs. Fudgulow's, and she had prom
ised to spenu this October at Biddon
Court, so Hon. Mannuduko conde
scended to imagWo 5th"at he might be
induced to think seriously about her.
At any rate, the shooting at Bindon
was iirst-rate, and if the young lady
did not prove so attractive as he hoped,
he would at loast have some sport.
To Bindon. therefore he went, and
he at once sot himsvlf energetically to
work to carry the lovely Muriel and
hor fortune-lu as..:ilt. it must be re
membered that luwas a favorite with
women, tlsat he was a fine, manly,
handsome follow enoujrh, and one who
would hardly fail to make an impres
sion on any girl whose heart he had de
termined to win. Miss Merriewether
was not a Hrl easily won, however.
She had set un for herself a standard of
manly cxcellenre far beyond that re
quired by the average young lady. It
may be that her wealth had already
made her suspicious of men and their
purposes; but it is certain that her
standard included high integrity, reso
lute purpose, a noble aim in life, and
other things of which Gervoise had not
the faintest conception. It need not be
supposed from this that Miss Muriel
was a dull, heavy, solemn yonng wo-man--far
from it. She was as bright
and joyous, as full of vivacity and in
telligence as any girl of her age might
wish to be; but her vivacity was tem
pered by her own perfect honesty of
thought, and her acknowledgment of
the responsibilities of life.
Utterly unconscious of the character
of the girl whose affection he proposed
to lnmsell 12 ins idle, careless, con
ndent wav to win, uervoise com
menced the siege without a suspicion
that failure could possibly await him,
and that very confidence stoodnim in
good stead, for it gave him a firm and
upright bearing before the. girl which
she, in her innocence, might and did
take for outward evidence "of the mens
eonscia recti. Up to a certain point
Gervoise seemed to carry all before
him. The respectful admiraticn with
which he began his approaches soon
gave way to the less restrained inter
course of a naturally agreeable inti
macy, which, in its turn, drifted into
the lively friendliness possible tetweem
those trkose tastes in the less aerloaf
matters 'df life are similar. Gervoise.
wag now keenly anxious to advance
still farther; bat here he met with bis
first check.
To Miss Merriewether it was a very
different matter to consider man as a
pleasant companion for a day, and to
allow her mind to entertain for a mo
ment the idea of that man as the prop
and mainstay of a whole life. It was
not enough that the mental should ap
pear toTaa gold it mast be hall-marked
and trna to tha core. Nevertheless,
)xqt mind was often deeply moved by
the obvious advances ox the man wno
knew, in Us worldly wisdom, how to
work upon the sweet weakness of a
woman's mind, and who did not fail to
hint that had he suoh a on as a guide
and counselor, his lift might and should
bo more useful in tha future, and all his
forgotten yearnings after the good and
noala should revive within him. And
all this well-acted humility and delicate
lattery, applied to the point which was
her weakest, because she thought it was
her strongest, took more hold upon
IGss Merriewether than she dared to
admit to herself or he to hope. He
looked capable of great things. Strong,
handsome, genial, clever, andwell-oon-nected.
he might be tho very partner
of whom she had dreamed, who would
aid her with every gift belonging to him
in the great purposes of good which
sho had in her mind. Why'should she
mjrffco the means of rousing him from
tho slumbrous frivolity of his present
Iilef And yet her money! He was
poor, she knew. Was she never to be
sure of being .wooed for her own sake
alone? She must judge for herself, and
it must be no hasty judgment She
would be very circumspect, and yet as
the idea of cold calculation with regard
to this man passed through her mind,
she felt a pang at her heart whioh told
her, unwilling though she might be to
admit it, that the poison had begun to
work. How it is possible that inno
cence and truth should hold their own
against worldly wisdom and guile un
less a miracle should interpose on be
half of the former?
A morning shooting-party had ended
in a lunch in a charmingly-sheltered
nook, at which the ladies had joined
the sportsmen, adding materially to
the picturesqucness and vivacity of the
scene, but considerably interfering with
the continuance of the sport after
lunch was over, and eliciting sundry
savage and ungallant growls from cer
tain old and ardent sportsmen, who
considered women utterly out of place
anywhere but in a drawing-room. Ger
voise, however, was not one of these,
and he had willingly laid aside his gun
and consented to stroll home with some
of the ladies, the more readily as he
seemed to see an opportunity of press
ing his suit to a successful issue. This,
however, was denied him; but when at
C
ast he parted from his fair companion
e left her in little doubt as to his
speedy intentions, and in a great and
conflicting state of emotion as to the
result of them. Nothing was said,
however, that day, and, after a most
pleasant ovening, tho gentlemen re
tired to billiards and cigars, and tho
ladies to rest, or rather to those myste
rious rites which precede that act. Like
the others, Muriel retired to her room,
and, without much delay, to bed; but,
finding her mind unsettled with the oc
currences of the day, and longing for
sympathy and advice, she at last rose
hastily, and, donning her dainty dressing-gown
and slippers, made her way
to the room of her hostess, with whom
she often enjoyed a late chat, and iu
whom she washalf inclined to confide
her difficulties. This bestowal of con
fidence, however, was a harder task
than she had counted on; her friend
was tired and sleepy, and not by any
means in good mood for receiving con
fidential utterances, and it is only into
a really sympathetic ear that such ut
terances can be poured; so, finding it
getting late, Muriel said good night,
and, seizing her bedroom candle, rushed
off to her own room onco more. Her
very haste, however, led her into diffi
culties, for at tho first corner she came
to a sudden blast blew out her candle,
and left her in absolute darkness.
Never mind. She could find her room
in tho dark; it was not very far. She
could hear the gentlemen still making
a noise over their pool; all would be
safe; and so she groped her way along
the passage, turned another corner, hit
upon thft door of the room, opened it,
felt her way along the bed to the dressing-table
for her matches, and found
herself encircled by a pair of strong,
warm, and evidently manly arms, while
a voice said in surprise:
'Hullo! Why, who the deuce are
you?" adding, as tho sense of touch
assured him that it was no robber, but
simply a woman. "Don't be frights
ened, my dear. What brings you
here?"
"My dear," indeed! Did he take her
for one of tho maids? If he was the
man she thought him to be (for she re
cognized Gervoise's voice in an in
stant), he would let her go instantly,
without a word, without even asking
who she was. Thank goodness! he
could never find out in the dark, and if
she did not speak he could not tell. So
sho only struggled hard in his grasp,
but never uttered a sound.
"Don't bo frightened," he continued,
in a soothing, but to her a horribly
familiar manner. "I won't hurt vou.
Of course, you mistook the room. Only
tell me who you aro, and give me a
kiss to keep your secret, and I'll let
you go."
A kiss, indeed! And this was the
man sho had believed to be so chival
rous. Never should he loarn whom he
had held in his arms. And she strug
gled harder than ever to escape.
"Quiet, silly one!" he said, with
some impatience in his tone. "Don't
I tell you I won't hurt you. Come,
give mo a kiss, and tell me your name
Rke a sensible girl, and I promise to
let you go. I can't do fairer than that,
can I?" But still no sound from her,
only a further strugglo as he strove
hard to kiss her and she to push his
face away, severely scratching his
cheeks in the dark in her efforts to
avoid his caresses. And now he, too,
began to got angry and to strive more
masterfully for the toll which ho was
determined to take, with the result of
finally reducing his victim to an utterly
exhausted condition of body, though
her spirit was such that she allowed no
sound to escape her. But her prolonged
and silent resistance had thoroughly
roused his spite, and the tru 9 temper
of the man came out unchecked; and,
as he impressed a kiss upon hor cheek,
wet with angry tears, "Little fool!"
he 6aid, "if 3-011 had not been so ab
surd I would have let yon off, bat now
lam determined to know who you are;
there, that little pinch will last long
enough to enable me to recognize
you in the morning, and make
you repent of your folly," and as he
spoke he gathered up the tiniest bit of
her velvet check in his teeth and bit it
sharply, causing little pain, but mak
ing a mark which would be visible for
many davs. And then he let her go,
and she darted as quickly as the dark
ness would allow her into the passage,
and away to Mrs. Fudgelow's room,
leaving, in her wild, angry haste, her
candlestick and one little slipper be
hind her. Gervoise, who had come up
from the billiard room to fetch a ciga
rette, now decided, remembering the
scratch he had received, to go to bed,
but, having brought no light with him,
he had to manage his undressing as
best he could in the dark. Whilst
groping along the room, he felt with
is bare foot tho soft slipper; "Ono
more link in the. chain of evidence, my
lady," he remarked with a chuckle,
tne supper unuar ms puiow.
Meanwhile, Muriel had flown in a half
hysterical state to the arms of her
friend and hostess, and had poured out
her indignant story into her sympa
thetic ears.
'How could he? How could he?" she
kept ejaculating, as she gradually told
all the details of the matter, and showed
her pretty cheek with the little angry
red mark in the center of it, and then
her slipper, he had that also what
could she do? How could she escape
the shame of detection? She knew
from his tone how insolently triumph
ant ha would be. Mrs. Fudgelowwas
full of sympathy and indignation.
"He shall leayo here to-morrow, my
dear, I promise you."
"But that won't prevent his knowing
who it was he kissed Oh, he is horrid,
horrid!"
"Never mind, dear, leave that to me.
I think we can outwit him. Men are
clumsy things at the best; they have
their bruto force, and that is all they
can rely upou. A woman can always
outwit any man; and now, come, I
will take you to your room and see you
safe in bed, and then you must go to
sleep and hope for tho best." And
Muriel went to bed in all due submis
sion, but hardly slept much.
Gervoise wolte early, as was his wont
in the country, and his mind instantly
reverted to the incident of the previous
night. How sorry she, whoever she
was, would be to think that she had
not submitted quietly. After all, what
was a kiss in the dark? Nothing for a
girl to mind. He would have the up
per hand of her now, though, perhaps,
he was sorry ho had marked her. No
girl would like that. Nover mind, it
was done now, and could not be un
done, and with that satisfactory re
flection he put on his dressing-gown
and hurried off to the bath-room before
tho house began to stir.
Returning some ten minutes after
wards, and procecd'n?to shave, he was
considerably disgusted to find a long,
curved scratch across his right cheek,
which did not add materially to his
personal appearance, and .which, he
feared, could not in any way be attri
buted to a slip of his razor. No matter;
he had marked her, too; and, by the
way, thero was the slipper. He would
havo a look at that; r o doubt it was a
pretty littlo thing, and there would he
no difficulty in fiud'ng tho fellow to it;
and, as he thought' thus, he moved
toward his bed, and passed his hand
under tho pillow in search of it. He
drew it out, and stared at it in amaze
ment. It was an enormous old, worn
out, frowsy carpot-slii per, which would
have fitted a giant. Could this bo the
one that he had placed beneath his
head last night? Ho shuddered at the
idea; ho was suro that it was nothing
of the kind; he could not be so de
ceived! But his visitor had dropped her
candlestick; ho had heard it fall, and
she certainly had no chanco of .picking
it up again. Ho searched for it
anxiously. It had got kicked under
tho dressing-table in the struggle. He
went down on his knees and groped for
it. Ho brought it to light a horrible,
battered tin candlestick of the very com
monest mak and literally covered
with grease! He was utterly lost in
astonishment, and then it suddenly
dawned on him that it was a trick.
Oh, ho, that was the game, was it?
Two could play at that. Now he was
glad he had marked her. Cover her
face as she might, it would be impos
sible to escape detection. What a lit
tle fool she must be to think she could
get tho better of him! Wait a bit, till
breakfast. If bhe came down he would
recognize her at once. H she had a
ladys "headachi," and avoided put
ting in an appearance, he would still
know who she was, of course. What
a littlo fool! Weil, well, she must take
tho consequences. And ho went on
with his dressing. He purposely lin
gered over his toilet, and gloated over
his coming triumph. lie determined
that he would be a littlo late, so that
his victim might suffer from the ex
pectation of his coining. The break
fast bell, therefore, had rung some
time before Hon. Marniaduke Gervoise
strolled into the breakfast room to find
all the guests assembled. As he ten
dered his apologies to his hostess, ho
noticed that she had a small piece of
black plaster on the center of her left
cheek! Good heavens! it could not
have been she! What a terrible mis
take! And yet ho recollected that it
certainly was tho left cheek of tho
mysterious visitant that he had marked.
Her greeting, too, was decidedly dis
tant. He cast his eye hurriedly and
anxiously around the table. All the
ladies wore a piece of black plaster iu
tho center of the left cheek!
That very morning the Hon. Marnia
duke Gervoise found himself obliged
to hurry away from Bindon Courts
without even saing "good-bye" to
anyone but h's hn;t. and it was noticed
that his nam; was not mentioned ir.
conversation t'lat evening, nor was
j any regret expressed at his departure.
onl3' Miss Mcrru-wethcr was confined
to her room by reason of a bad head
ache. London Truth.
CONCEr.N'.NG PUNS.
Something' Which l'uurtrrs Should Bead,
Reflect Upon, and Lt Governed Accord-
insrly.
When a young man finds that he has
given expression to a pun, he should
take a piece of as:if tida about a? big
as a hickory nut and chew it He will
not feel like making another pun as
long as the tasto of the drug remains in
his mouth. He should carry some of
tho drug m his vest pocket when ho
goes out in company, and keep a piece
in his mouth constantly. It may be
offensive to the company, but it will not
bo half so offensive as his old back
number, teeth-worn puns, and he will
become a favorite. If this course will
not cure him he had better go and
drown himself,
There is no such thing as a new pun,
as every word that is susceptible of a
pun has been puui;e I for thousands of
years, so when you hear a person make
a pun you can be sure it is a thousand
years old. If a man or woman, when
making a pun on a word, realized that
an Egyptian mummy in the museum,
when alive, had made the same pun
and laughed at it boisterously, he would
be ashamed of his own attempt. Tho
Persian language is good enough if
you take it straight, and it is foolish to
torture it Theman who makes puns
habitually is usually a weak man, who
imagineshe is smart, as you can see by
watching him as he laughs at his own
smartness.
As good a way as any to squelch a
punster, is to listen to his pun, look
thoughtfully and say, "Before the
Flood," or "Credit to Adam." Toung
men who get in the habit of making
puns on all occasions lose their posi
tions, girls go back on them and they
go through life alone, except in rare
instances. A girl hates to face the
prospect of a lifetime of poor puns,
and will think twice before marrying a
punster, as he js liable to practice his
Sans on his wife. Persian Mediator,
800 b. a
A very sensible physician of great
experience once assured the writer that
it was of no more use to argue with vo.
angry woman than to debate with a
northeast snow-storm. Providence
JturnaL
An expert on insanity Isolds that
an imperfect supply of oxygen, or
simply breathing a vitiated atmosphere,
may suffice to produce the mental dis
order known as melancholia. Ckicaf
AT. THE RINK.
cfohnsoa Tells Hla Friend Boa well the 8iurv
of His Experiences on Roller Skates.
"To begin with," said Johnson, to a
Tribune reporter, "I must tell you that
a man whom I had always looked upon
as a friend gave me a couple of tickets to
a roller-skating rink. If you are at all
acquainted with roller-skates I need sav
no more, but for fear you are not I will
relate my sad experience with them. Let
me remark parenthetically that if I am
ever given a good chance I will subject
my false-friend to gross indignities, as
he is the sole cause of my miscellaneous
aspect this night I will not tell you
the name of the particular rink I visited,
but as there are only about eighteen in
the city you may bo able to guess it
"Well," continued Johnson, "having
nothing particular to do this evening, I
thought I would use one of the rink
tickets, and I accordingly visited the
horrible resort from which they were
issued. I reached the place about eight
o'clock, and already the smooth floor
was filled with merry skaters, whirling
graoefully over tho surface. It looked
very easy, and I knew I was a very
clever performer on the ice, so I thought
I would take a little whirl myself. First,
let me ask you Box, if you have been on
roller-skates?"
"No," answered Boswell, "I have
never had an opportunity. But I have
written up several carnivals, and it
looked like a very easy accomplish
ment" "O, it did; did it?" said Johnson, sar
castically. "Well, I'll give you this
other ticket, and I'll bay a box when
you make your first appearance. I sap
pose some of your friends skate?"
"Yes, I have a female relative who is
learning the art, but she is lame now."
'Til bet she is if she had half my ex-
erience. But to proceed. 1 signed a
ease for a pair of skates and buckled
them on. Then I arose. It would be
hardly fair to ask me how long I stood
up, as I did not have time to calculate
the exact period. However, I sat down
again. Not that I cared at all to sit
down, as I was far from tired, but my
recollection of sitting down is very dis
tinct Just feel that eye-tooth. I know
it was not loose when I dined. Well,
with tho aid of the railing I stood up
again, and a pleasant-faced young man
with gold braid on his cap "kindly in
formed me that my skates were on
wrong side before. He courteously
volunteered to adjust them, and then
told me I must strike out boldly.
"That pleasant-faced young man left
his countenance firmly fixed in my mind,
and if fato wills that we shall meet
again I will do a desperate deed. Ac
cording to his instructions I struck out
boldly. At least I remember that was
what I started to dp. Something struck
me a violent blow on the back of the
head, and well, talk about yoor Stod
dard lectures! I'll bet I saw the whole
of the 'Castle-Bordered Rhine' inside of
thirty seconds. You oan't imagine
well, just feel that"
Johnson bared his marble brow and
placed Boswell's palm on a lump as big
as an egg-plant which had arisen in its
might on the back of his head.
"Just feel that annex I built on the
back of my head without a permit It's
pretty large now, but you should have
seen it when I came to. Talk about
your double-headed boys! I was a sight
When I regained consciousness I ih
kluntarily looked around for the
pleasant-faced young man with the
gold-braided cap, but hehadmadegood
his escape. I was assisted to the railing
by a young man with a polo cap, who
looked as though his name might be
Chauncey, or Herbert, or Reginald, or
some other such name that suggest!
nessel-rode pudding or tutti-frutti. I
know that week-days he viciously pecks
at a counter with a stub-pencil and yells
"Cash."
"I suppose you quit then," said Bos
well, eyeing the well-developed lump
critically and comparing it with the
egg-shaped shadow that Johnson's head
cast on the opposite wall.
"Quit," snarled Johnson, scornfully.
"Do 3'ou suppose I'd give up when I
saw such fellows as 'Cash,' who had
legs like matches, skating so gracefully?
After I had reduced this bump a little
by the use of ice-water, I again took tie
floor and skated all the way around the
rink. Of course I had one hand on the
railing," ho added, noticing Boswell's
wondering look, "but I made it. I tried
this four or five times, and then I grew
bolder. 'Cash' glided b3' me with such
ease that I gained confidence and started
to glide after him. Will you believe me
I thought I had the hang of the thing,
for I went along nicely until I reached
the center of the rink. When Isaw
that panorama I had resolved to give it
up, and so I put on my Newmarket. I
started out again without removing it,
and I'm sorry I did now, as I might
have saved that from the wreck. I
reached the middle of the rink, as I said,
and was going along nicely when a dis
pute arose between my feet One
wanted to go toward the entrance, while
the other seemed bent upon going up to
the band-stand, and they started. Of
course I wanted to stay where I was,
but the feet wouldn't have it that way.
The3' went as far as they could, and
then sudden' started forward in
parallel courses. The3' went too fast for
me and I was obliged to sit down again
in order to stop them. As I did so I
heard something break, and I learned
too soon that the sections of my beloved
Newmarket had takon sides with my
feet and had separated. This shattered
Derby rolled away and gained for me
tho only bright spot in nij memory of
the occasion, for it interrupted the pro
gress of one of my friend 'Cash's'
skates, and for a moment the air was
completely filled with drygoods clerk
and polo cap.
"That wound me up. I sat right
there and removed my skates, picked
off the sections of my Newmarket, re
covered my di3abled"Derby. and limped
over to the dressing-room. There I
paid the rent for my skates and for
feited the lease. I have to carry this
coat on mv arm, and as both of them
are lame it is not a pleasant load. I
think I am injured internally.
"WI13' don't you go to the afternoon
sessions and "learn how to skate?"
queried Boswell.
"Boswell," said Johnson, pathetic
ally, yet sternly, "we have been warm
and. fast friends for many years. Do
not sever that friendship by again re
ferring to the pleasant pastime of roller
skating. I hope that I shall never try
it again, but if I ever do I shall use a
net. I have resolved never to read the
newspapers again or look at hangers in
the street-cars, because if I should ever
see a roller-skating rink mentioned I
could not be held responsible for my
actions. The mission of my life now is
to mete out justice to the alleged friend
who gave me the tickets and to the
pleasant-faced man with the gold
braided cap. Let's go," and Johnson
went home on the two o'clock Gurney,
while Boswell, the historian, resumed
his pilgrimage to his "third-story back."
Chicago Tribune.
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A fanner on Russian River, Cali
fornia, ten year ago owned one hun
dred acres of wheat land from which he
derived an annual profit of $1,000. He
cut it into five-acre tracts and sold it to
hop and fruit growers. Now the same
one hundred acres supports eleven
families and yielded this year a profit
of 32,000, a single acre producing $600
in plumbs. San Fi ncisco Chronicle.
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As an illustration of the depression
in land values in England, it is stated
that an estate in Devonshire, of 420
teres, for which 18,000 was refused a
few years ago, has just beam sold lor
8,000.
A SAVIOR OF CHILDREN.
What Gearge Smith Did fur the LUtlv
Toiler of tJi I.mitlnn CrioUyards.
The wonder gro.vs upon him who
watches the current of events, as de
scribed in the columns of the news
papers of the dny, why any one need
go elsewhere for stories of noblo
human effort and beautiful self-sacrifices
and heroism. No classic pages
contain a more inspiring recital than
the account given iu a recent number
Of the Pall Mall Gazette of the labors
of Georgo Smith in behalf of the bard
worked infant slaves of Great Britain.
The degradation and misery of the
children, who, until George Smith ap-
I teared as their savior, toiled from ear
iest history in the brickyards and on
the canals of Great Britain, can never
be appreciated by those who have not
seen it What t'he child's life in the
brickyards really meant may bo im
agined faintly from the fact that it was
no rare thing to see a little child toil
ing under the weight of forty pounds
of clay, which it was the duty of the
children to carry to the table where the
bricks are made. These mere babes
some of them only four or five years
old would do such work as this for
thirteen or fourteen hours a day, and
work nights in addition. George'
Smith was the son of a poor brick
layer, and began his life as one of the
little serfs of the brickyard. For six
pence a day he would carry these heavy
weights of clay, walking the equivalent
of fourteen miles, and on every night
of extra work, carrying a weight which
mounteduptoa total load of five tons.
His sixpences he spent in books. The,
vitality that gave him a margin of
energy above that needed for the
drudgery of his daily tasks pushed him
up into the position of manager of a
brickyard, but his personal success did
not deaden his sympathy with the cruel
victims of the system from which he
had escaped, ite set himself at work
to lighten their loads and ease their
lot, and as a result lost his situation.
Thenceforward he gave his whole
life body, soul and mind to the cause
of the poor children in whose behalf he
had sacrificed himself. There were
80,000 children living in the bondage of
the brickyards, and in their behalf this
noble-hearted though imperfectly
equipped philanthropist laid siege to
the public and the Legislature, and by
the mero dint of enthusiasm, and hard
work, and what the unjust Judge in
the parable called "continual coming,"
compelled the country to listen, and
succeeded in obtaining three acts of
Parliament His first achievement was
the Brickyards act of 1871, by which
these 80,000 children were taken out of
their pens and sent to school. When
he had done this for the 30,000 brick
yard children he turned to the rescue of
60,000 children who lived ou the canal
boats of Great Britain in an ignorance,
degradation and brutality even worse
than that of the brickyard children.
In 1877, six years after the passage of
his Brickyard act he got from Parlia
ment the Canalboat act, by which these
60,000 children, too, were allowed to
escape from the little six-feet square
cabins of the canalboats into school.
Tho Canalboats act as it came out of
Parliament was not all that was needed,
and this indefatigable man set himself
to work to have it amended. This took
seven years more, but at the end of
that time the work was done, and,
thanks to the unselfish heroism of
George Smith, 80,000 brickyard chil
dren and 60,000 canalboat children are
now given through education an escape
into the life of a real humanity which,
but for him, they never would havo
breathed the air of.
While George Smith was doing this
for others he was doing nothing for
himself, and to-day he is a while-haired
man, too old to obtain employment,
unfitted by his peculiar occupation for
the last twenty years from doing
manual work, penniless, and with
a family living in distress and poverty.
His mission is not ended. The gypsy
children of England are still to be
rescued, and he had set his heart upon
doing that work before he shut his
eyes. He has recently had a grant
from, the Royal Bounty Fund of one
thousand five hundred dollars to save
him from immediate destitution, but
this makes no permanent provision for
him. The nation which spends three
million a year for the support of its
royal idlers should not be willing to
sec the man who has done the royal
work accomplished by George Smith
abandoned to actual want and com
pelled to cease his philanthropic efforts.
The Pall Mall Gazette well says the re
ward of philanthropy such as -his
should certainly not be literally star
vation, and a man of his disinterested
enthusiasm and capacity for philan
thropic work should at least be al
lowed his rations. Even convicts have
as much as that It is worth passing
notice that this magnificent philan
thropy is not the fruit of any profes
sional labor agitation nor of any use
of the great power and wealth of the
trades unions, but of the simple, unas
sisted, individual self-sacrifice of one
man. Communism, Socialism, trades
unionism never spoke a word or lifted
a finger in behalf of the ninety thou
sand children whom George Smith
has given his life to save. Chicago
Tribune.
Bill Nye's Philosophy.
To the young the future has a roseate
hue. The roseate hue comes high, but
we have to use it in this place. To the
young there spreads out a glorious
range of possibilities. After the youth
has endorsed for an intimate friend a
few times, and purchased the paper
at the bank himself later on, the hori
zon won't seem to horizon so tumultu
ousty as it did aforetime. I remember
at one time of purchasing such a piece
of accommodation paper at a bank,
and I still have it, I didn't need it
any more than a cat needs eleven tails
at one and the same time. Still the
bank made it an object to me, and I
secured it Such things as these
harshly knock the fluff and bloom
off the cheek of youth, and prompt us
to turn the strawberry-box bottom side
up before we purchase it Youth is
gay and hopeful, age is covered with
experience and scars where the skin
has been knocked off and had to grow
on again. To the young a dollar looks
large and strong, but to the middle
aged and old it is weak and inefficient
When we are in the heyday and fizz
of existence, we believe everything, but
after awhile we murmur: "What's
that you're givin' us," or words of a
like character. Age brings caution
and a lot of shop-worn experience
purchased at the highest market price.
Time brings vain regrets and wisdom
teeth that can be left in a glass of
water over night. The Inglesiae.
A New York correspondent refers
to a society war between Gotham's
parvenus" and the "noblesse." In
New York the "parvenus" are those
whose money was made by their father.
The "noblesse" are those whose monev
was made Vy their grandfather, ft
may seem rather a narrow line, but it
is the best we can do in this "blahsted
kentry."
A very brilliant light is obtained is.
China from candles only of late years
imported into Europe made of wax
applied by insects specially reared
through Chinese ingenuity.
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-Artificial oysters andmuahroome
are now sold in Paris.
BUYING NEW TOOLS.
Matters Whln't I r i n Should Carefull?
Loo!; Into llefurr Purchafttnjr
The farmer who now selects new
tools for another so.isous work, will
find it a matter:.? economy in labor, to
choose those wHeh are as light as a
sufficient tlegree of strength will admit
Wietding a needlessly- heavy tool is a
waste of strength. But there is a great
difference in the work to which it may
be applied. A hand-hoe, for instance,
may make two thousand strokes in an
hour, or twenty thousand a day. A
needless ounce in weight will therefore
require the constant movement of this
ounce twenty thousand times daily, or
equal to more than half a ton, which
the operator must expend in personal
strength. Somo tools are half a pound
heavier than use requires; and day
laborers, who use them, waste an
amount of strength equal to whole tons
in each day. There are other tools not
requiring the constantly alternating
movement of the hoe, when additional
weight is not so detrimental, as for ex
amplo the crowbar, which being used
as a lever, does not require constant
motion. But in all cases, tools are to
be constructed in accordance with their
intended purpose. The crowbar must
be heaviest where the weight rests, and
decrease in size with the distance from
this point. Thero is often too little
taper towards the hand, and conse
quently tho bar is usually bent under
the weight, and nowhere else. Properly
constructed, the handle would be bent
as soon as any other part and no
sooner. The same principle will apply
in the construction of hoe-handles,
which should be strong where the right
hand moves, and if the tool, slightly
tapering toward the blade, to which
most of the motion is given, it will
prevent a needless expenditure of
strength.
The principle with which Dr. Holmes
imagined the maker of the hundred
year "one-horso shay" adopted in con
structing every part of the vehicle ac
cording to strength required, may be
aUo applied in the construction of
tools as far as practicable. The part
which most frequently breaks should
be made stronger next time. That
which never breaks is needlessly heavy.
A light plow, strong enough for con
tinued use, economizes the strength of
the team. If twenty pounds too heavy,
the friction which these twenty pounds
create on the solo in dragging over or
through the soil, will require a force at
least equal to ten pounds more than is
necessary. Thcwj ten pounds con
stantly bearing on the horse all day
will amount to about as much as plow
ing one entire acre in a twenty-acre
field. Some plows are made much
heavier.
All these matters should be carefully
looked into in purchasing any tools;
and such as are in frequent or constant
use require more euro in selection than
such as are rarely enplov'ed; and more
care should be given to the form and
strength of those parts which have a
quick vibratory motion, where momen
tum must be continually created and
arrested, than in such as have a con
tinuous or revolving motion. As
human strength is more valuable than
horse or steam power, hand tools
should be selected with particular care,
and light and effective, as well as dur
able ones, preferred to those which are
heavy, clumsy and inefficient espec
ially if in da:ly use.
Where the efficiency of a tool de
pends entirely on the momentum which
ma3' be given to it, a different rule ap
plies, as with a hammer, which must
have s weight corresponding with its
intended use. A heavy hammer would
not drive a small, slender nail, but
would bend or double it; while the
quick blow of a light hammer would
accomplish the desired purpose. On
the other hand a large spike could not
be driven with a light hammer. Rivet
heads are spread only with the quick
blows of a light hammer, in the same
way that a stake or post has its head
battered and split with a light axe. A
heavy pounder is required for a heavy
post A tack-hammer would mak no
impression on it, whatever might be
the vigor with which it is used.
Country Gentleman.
THE TEETH.
Cleanliness
Is All-Important to Their
Preservation.
Cleanliness is all important in the
preservation of the teeth. Perfectly
clean teeth will not decaj. Food re
maining in contact w'th the teeth by
lodging between them, or somewhere
about them, is a ver prolific source of
caries or decay of the teeth. An arti
cle in the British Medical Journal says:
"The general prevalence of dental
caries is chiefly owing to food remain
ing on and between the teeth after
meals from breakfast-time till the fol
lowing morning, when according to
custom the teeth are bru-hed; brushed,
but probably not cleaned, as the brush
is more often used to polish the surface
merely than to assist in removing what
has accumulated between them. Ex
periments have been referred to that
prove tho solvent action of weak acids
on the teeth: and I think it will be
conceded without proof, that were por
tions of our food mixed and moistened
as in mastication kept during the night
at the high temperature of the mouth,
the compound would become sour. It
follows that dental caries must con
tinue to prevail as now, while it is the
custom to allow food to remain in con
tact with the teeth all night. The fol
lowing observations show the de
pendence of caries on food re
maining in contact with the teeth.
When the teeth are wide apart
food is not retained, and they gen
eralh remain free from caries. The
lower front teeth are seldom attacked
by- caries when, as Is generally the case,
the spaces between them are closed to
the entrance of food bv- tartar. The
backs of all teeth, upperand lower, be
ing kept free from food by the tongue,
are seldom affected by caries. Lodg
ment of food ta!es placft between the
bicuspids, between the molars in the
depression on the masticating surface
of these teeth, and on the broad walls
of the molars, and these are the chief
seats of caries. While mastication is
performed b3 the molars and bicuspids,
the upper front teeth remain free from
food and caries; but when they them
selves are made to do the work of lost
or diseased molars, aud the food gets
between them, caries is certain to fol
low before long. Further proof can
not be required that, if no food re
mained in contact with the teeth after
eating, they would be free from caries,
unless acted on bv acidity from other
sources. The only indications, there
fore for the prevention of dental caries
are the neutralization of acid applied to
the teeth, and the removal of food be
fore it has become acid."
In conclusion it may be said that the
greater part of the decav of teeth might
be prevented by scrupulous cleanliness
and attention to the diet The teeth
ought to be freed from all particles of
food between them by the use of a wood
or quill tooth-pick after each meaL and
the use of the brush at least every
night It is advisable to use a little
castile soap on the brush, which will
neutralize any remaining acidity and
assist in preventing decay. Phreno
logical Journal.
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Turnips f or feedingpurposes should
be used at the rate of a peck a day to
each full-grown cow or to each tea
sheep. Cincinnati Time
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THE
FREMONT NORMAL
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AT FREMONT, NEB.,
Opened successfully October 21, with ten
teachers and a (rood attendance, w ich
doubled during the firit live wec-K.-, and
is still Btesdily Increasing.
Fifty Students in the Business College
and Short-hand Classes: nearly fifty in
the Normal or Teachers' Department and
common branches, and a good attendance
in tha Music and Art Departments.
iTke Faculty.
PRESIDENT JONES has hud over
twenty years experience in Educational
work.
PROFESSOR HAMLIN. PrincipU of
the Business College, has had over nfteen
years' experience and is a Superior Pen
man and Expert Accountant.
PROFESSOR MOHLER is an or:in:il
and inspiring teacher in tho Nutunil
Science and Business Department.
PROFESSOR LAWTON, or Boston,
Mass.. Is a superior instructor in Mumc.
Miss Sarah Sherman, of Chicago, is an
artist of rare talent and skill, and a mo.t
successful Teacher. MUs Lydiu L.
Jones aud Miss Jessie Cowles are grad
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and able teachers. 31 r. A. A. Couks is
a practical short-hand reporter and an
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era are thoroughly qualiticd.
EXPENSES VERY LOW.
Tuition for twelve weeks $12 Boaid
costs from $2.50 to $'1.00 a week. In
clubs and by self-boardinir it costs lcs.
Places can be found for iever.il more
students who wish to pay part or whole
ot board by housework or chores.
No Vacation w.
The SPRINO'TERM of 12 weeks will
begin April 14, but students can kntek
at any time, and are doiDg so contin
ually, paying charges only from time of
entering to time or leaving.
For particulars address the under
signed. W. P. JONES, A. M
Prest. "of Normal College, Fremont, Neb.
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far All wishing to buy lands of any de
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fri also am prepared to insure prop
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