lufuui j ' iriiiijtiulJfliiaiMiiBwwMwwM!lBI mjlualws Jnmw THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1885. attsni it tis ?s:is2si, Gslcntu, Met., at iccss5 ctoH auttsr. HE WANTS TO BE A MUFF. Beneath her chin, b or bangle pin BeQects each glancing ware of light, - As If some charm lay far within The little doU of metal bright And faith! they seem to take delight In nestling there. la envy sin? I'm suro that I am envious quite To-bo the pin beneath her ofaia. Her little muff la wee eaough To grace a Tarls doll's trousseau. And yet her hand and snow-white ouff Seem quite content in there to go. It holds nor hand quite tight. I know. And when the wind Is blowing rough, ' As on we walk through drifting snow, I wish my hand could be her nn(. Washington BatetttL A-STBAIGHT DIAGNOSIS. An Attack of "Malaria," and What Caused It. "The doctor says it is malaria." V'How.did you get malaria?" -' "Oh, Aunt Mary, just as If one could tell anything about malaria! It is like tho wind. It coroeth from no on knows where, and bloweth where it listetlf;" and tho invalid turned her pretty flushed face on the pillow with a movement of unmistakable irritation. "Blanche, dear, have the kindness to look at me a minute," said Miss Mary Harrington, .firmly but kindly. "We don1 1 want to make any mistakes to start with. You know I am very blunt, and'you know that I hare opinions " '"And I know there is nobody In all tho world like you when one is ill," the young lady interrupted; "and that is why I begged and prayed mamma to send for you." "That is very pleasant and en couraging as far as it goes," said the lady, "but I can remain, Blanche, as your nurse, only on the condition that you obey me. I am ready to unpack and stay, or put on my hat and go." Miss Harrington's gray eyes were tender and smiling, ana her whole face was aglow with active benevolence; but the broad brow and the nrm mouth had also. much to say of careful study and strength of character. "Why, auntie, I should give up en tirely if you disappointed me now," the invalid replied, with quivering lips. "I have just lived on the thought of ybur'coming." "Well, will von obev me?" . "Ye3, auntfo, and I hope you'll re member that obedience is not my strong point" , "But I have your promise, and that will do," said the nurse, cheerfully; "and now we'll see." "Nineteen years old," Mis3 Harring ton said to herself, "and confined to her bed eight weoks with malaria? Bosh! A bad tongue, feverish,, more emaciated than I had expected to find her, pain in her side, intermitting pulse, constant oppression of the chest, back ache, acute headaches, cold extremitios and no appetite. And this is malaria? Bosh again! I wonder what the doc tors did before the word 'malaria' came into use. I must ask this physi cian his reasons for calling this a mala rial attack." Miss Harrington was as good as her word, and forcing her opinions and her doubts quite into the background, started on her tour of investigation with an appearance of implicit faith in the ability of the medical man to an swer flbr questions. "Is there anything tho matter with the plumbing?" tho lady inquired. ."There isn't a sanitary precaution that your brother has not taken," the dootor replied. "Do you know of other cases of malaria in this locality?" "Oh, yes; malaria is by no meana a rare product in this neighborhood." "But it is very high and dry, and constantly swept'by sea-breezes. ' "Yes; very high and dry." "And very gay?" Aunt Mary sug gested, demurely. "Yes; exceptionally gay." Thero was a comical twinklo in tho gentleman's eyo that told of a quick appreciation of his companion's re mark. "And late hours, and thin shoes, and low necks, and salads, and souffles sometimes induce malaria, I suppose?" "Without doubt." "Well; why don't you say so, then?" Aunt Mary had kept her claws heathed just about as long as possible. "A physician can not safely meddle with the private life of his patients ex cept in extreme cases," was the un ruffled response. "If I were to take the broad platform which you recom mend," the gentleman added, "I should not only not do tho least bit of food, but-1 shouldn't have a patient eft My reputation would be simply that of an old busybody and an old fool. But, madam, this is an excellent field for you, and I am sure we can. work together with the utmost har mony." "Perhaps yon are right" said Miss Harrington, thoughtfully, "but I don't exactly see it Of course, if yo'ur pa tients are all idiots, that settles it" 'Ofou would scarcely call your niece an idiot," said thb doctor, "and she is as fair a representative of the class as I could name." After a few days of Aunt Marv's efficient nursing, her patient felt able to sit up, and her maid was directed to get together tho necessary articles of wardrobe. Among tho first things presented were a pair of black silk stockings and a pair of kid slippers. "What are these?" Miss Harrington asked. ."Why, they, are tho newest style of slippers, auntie," said her niece. " "Paper soles, and three-inch heels tapered down to a cherry pit in tho middle of the foot I presume you wear these all the timo you are in the houseP" "Why, of course, auntie." "In the dead of winter as well as in the dog-days.1' The young lady laughed merrily at her companion's old fogyistri. "Cer tainly. Just see how pretty they look with the silk stockings." "How many corns have you, Blanche?" VOb, only too or three little bits of ones. I send for a chiropodist once in awhile, and then I'm all right for ever so long." "A girl of nineteen with her feet in a chiropodist's hands!" said auntie, with a wry face. "That isn't anvthing. Why, almost all the girls " " "Not the slightest doubt of it" the lady interrupted. "You have nothing else, I suppose, to put on your feet but these things?" "No, auntie, and I wouldn't wear any others If 1 had." "I have now accounted for your backaches, Blanche," said Miss Har rington, "and we will proceed to elim inate the spinal column . from the charge of malaria; it is perfectly Inno cent' And now tho nurse examined the other articles laid out for use. There wasn't an inch of flannel to be seen; nothinsr but the finest and most elaborately bernflled and embroidered j caen. "And do you not own a flannel pet ticoat Blanche?" "What In "the world do I want with WSatbro kmoW I alMMt alwaji go out la Mm earrlare, and there an lots of warm robes.1 r "It is about as I supposed," Miss Harrington remarked, sadly. "Your break-down is dne to perfectly plain and natural causes. There is nothing in the least mysterious about it You have deformed your feet weakened your spine, ana consequently your whole nervous system, by the shoes you have worn. By a series of expos ures you have reduced your vital force to such an extent that reaction was im possible without further prostration and a complete cessation of irritating causes. Here are your corsets. How much do they measure, please?" "Nineteen inches, auntie,'' the young lady was almost ready to cry now "and they are a whole inch larger than most girls of my size wear." "What is your size? Here is a tape measure, and I will soon tell you. You hare lost considerable flesh, and I shall have to allow for shrinkage. Twenty four inches just as you are, Blanche. Think of it! A twenty-four inch waist squeezed into nineteen inch corsets! We will how clear the heart and lungs from the charge of malaria. Your ir regular pulse, the cutting pain in your side, your uneven and most inadequate' respiration can be traced directly to tight lacing. Now I have this to say, my child. I shall not permit you to wear one of these articles as long as you are under my care. If you will ac cept a pair of my quilted slippers, and allow me to wrap you in blankets till you have some clothes suitable for a convalescent to wear, all right If not you must' find some ene else to take careof you. My time is altogether too precious to throw away. This may seem very cruel, Blanche; but I really think it would be far better for you to die now than to be nursed back to the old shameful conditions. There is nothing before von but a life of invalid ism if you decide to go on as you havo begun." "But how can I wear horrid old shoes and old scratchy flannels, and "have a waist like a washerwoman's?" the girl inquired, between laughing and crying. "You haven't said anything about gol oshes and leggings yet, but perhaps you'd like to have me wear those?" "Shall I get the blankets and my quilted slippers, Blanche?" Aunt Mary inquired. "Yes; bring the gun-boats and the flannels," her companion replied. "And if you can find a few hen's feath ers to stick in my hair, the resemblance to a Sioux squaw will be still more striking." After this Miss Blanche had some lessons in physiology and hygiene, and very interesting and profitable topics they proved to be. She learned the reasons of things, and had sense enough to accept and utilize them. Eleanor Kirk, in Harper's Bazar. THE WEATHER. The Season Why Sudden and Marked Changes Occur. Good old New England weather of the kind that delighted the hearts and added years to the lives of our an cestors seems to be a thing of the past We manage to get about the same amount of heat and cold, of rain and drought as formerly, but they are not distributed as evenly. Weather comes in streaks of intense heat and piercing cold, making our usually even climate like that of Europe several hundred years ago. Tho records of former times tell us that vehicles crossed on the ioe in the Thames for weeks in 1003, 1607 and 1717, and the forest trees of England split open with fro3t The frosts were so severe in Flanders in 1544 that wine frozo and was chopped out with hatchets, and in Feb ruary, 7G4, the Black Sea was covered with ice that extended one hundred miles from tho shore. These sudden changes are not pleas ant to healthy people, while those of weak constitutions find them very hard to endure. In Boston this winter the thermometer has varied fifty degrees inside. of twenty-four hours. A elimate that handles the temperature so care lessly is wrongand should bo remedied. Residents of the country towns feel it more keenly than in larger places, and tho complaint of social scientists that the rural districts are becoming depop ulated and the cities overrun may bo accounted for on the theory that people flock to the cities from an instinct of self-preservation. It is all very well to muse and specu late on these things and quote the "oldest resident" In support of our theories, but after this is done the ques tion comes up, Can humanity do any thing toward effecting a change? Ac cording to science the earth is gradu ally cooling oft", preparatory to shutting up'shop entirely; but as the reduction of its temperature has been only one tenth of a degree in the past two thou sand years it can not cause all our trouble. Besides intensely warm spells are as common as cold ones. From this we infer that some human agency is at work on the machine. The arti ficial heat produced is increasing every year. Most of this is obtained from coal, hoarded up millions of years ago as a part of the sun's surplus currency. This, too, must be counted out And now we come down to the last and most plausible theory of man's agency, that he has so modified tho surface of the earth that it can offer no barrier to break the shock of rapid changes. He has stripped the hillsides and meadows of their forests, and turned the land into pastures and tillage that present open surfaces to the action of the sun and windt Water that was retained for weeks among tho roots of the trees runs off now in a few hours, and droughts follow in the wake of deluges, converting our country into a camping ground for blizzards and other violent meteorological demonstrations. To obviate this we should plant trees and more trees, wo should put them by tho roadside and fences, on the rocky hills and along tho brooks, in short, at every place where a tree will grow and nothing elso will. A little attention to this matter during the life of one generation will add beauty to our barren landscapes and do much toward taming down the fierce ele ments that sadly perplex us now. Boston Globe. --- Catching an "Express" Train. Several men were at Wabuska the other day to say goofi-byo to one of their number who was going North. Just as the train was fairly under way the departing vaquero shouted back that he had left his overcoat A short search resulted in finding the article, and a hurried discussion arose as to the best way of restoring it to its owner, when it was suggested that had they been quick enough, one of them might have caught the train on his horse. The suggestion was like a flash of fire to powder. One glance after the fast disappearing train and Dan Farley was in the saddle, plunging both rowels in his steed and away and away, over ditches, through tho sagebrush, up the hills and down the hollows, riding as though for dear life, like a madman or, more reckless still, like a thorough blooded cowboy. It was a hard ran, but in a mile and a half Dan overhauled the train and the conductor slackened speed so that he could deliver the coat It is needless to say that Dan rode a good horse Territorial Enterprise. - The lcttcis posted annually in the world are 5,200,000.000. KHARTOUM. Bestrlptloa of the City la the SoaAsa T Many Months Held by General Gordon. Oa a barren, stonelcss and wide plain on the western bank of the Blue 'Nile, aad about a mile above its junctioa with the White Nile, is situated tho. now famous city of Khartoum. It river frontage is about one and a half miles; its depth inward from tho rirer about a mile. As its site is somewhat Idwer that the point reached by both rivers when in flood, a dyke fifteen to twenty feet in height has been made along the banks of the Blue Nile, and another somewhat lower, immediately at the back of the town, to protect it against overflow of the White Nile. When at their lowest point both streams are from six hundred to eight hundred yards in width, and have sev eral islands, which are cultivated. Tho White Nile is unfordable, except in one or two places far up the river, but the Blue can be forded in many places above the town. When.in flood, -the White Nile increases its width to a very' great extent but not so the Blue Nile, as its banks are much steeper. Around Khartoum are several small villages. Both above and below the town are small plantations of date palms and plantains, also a number of vegetable gardens. According to tne old custom, or privilege, none of these gardens pay 'any taxes. With the exception of the river banks the country is bare and treeless. Dumng the hot season, which lasts' from 'the beginning of April to tho middle of November, the heat is se vere, averaging in the shade from ninety to ninety-five degrees Fahren heit The rains generally begin about the middle of July and last till Sep tember. They are, however, said to be very irregular, and sometimes there is little or no rainfall. In the rainy sea son the barren ground stretching be tween the two rivers is covered with grass, affording very good pasture. The rivers begin to rise on the 1st of June, and reach their highest point about the beginning of September. They remain stationary at that point till about the 15th, and then begin to fall. The cold weather begins about the middle of December, and lasts till the middle of February. From No vember to March high north winds pre vail, and during the remainder, south. In tile winter the thermometer some times goes down as low as forty-six de grees Fahrenheit; except in the regular "rainy season there is no rain. The unhealthy season is during the months of June, July, October and November, when typhoid fevers and dysentery are prevalent The winter is the healthy season. The resident population is generally estimated at from fifty thousand to fifty-five thousand souls, of which two thirds are slaves. There is also a float ing population estimated from one thousand five hundred to two thousand souls, and consisting of Europeans, Syrians, Copts, Turks, Albanians and a few Jews. The free resident population are mostly Makhas3 or aborigines Dongolawecs, from Dongola; Shag hiyes, from a district along the Nile, north of Khartoum, and the Rubatat, a district north of the Berber. The slaves belong mostly to the Nuba, Dinka, Sulook, Berta and other negro tribes. Both the free population and the slaves are Mohammedans of the Maliki school of divinity, and are also followers of either the Rufai, Kadri, Hamdi or Saadi sect of dervishes. They are very superstitious. Their political creed is to side with whichever side is tho strongest. The free inhabitants are mostly engaged in trade or commerce, and the slaves in agriculture, or elso hired out as daily laborers by their masters. But few are employed as domestic servants. It is said that a master always makes a point of marry ing his slave as soon as possible. It is also reported that slaves born in the country improve greatly in appearance as compared with the parent stock. Of tho floating population the Copts are mostly employed in Government service or trade. The Turks, Albanians, etc., are generally irregular soldiers or loaf ers. The European elemont is repre sented by about one hundred individ uals, mostly Greek. There are also some Italians. The chief export and import trade is in the hands of the Europeans, Copts and Syrians. Except the manufacture of mats, cot ton cloths, a rope made from palm leaves and some filigree silver-work, there is no manufacture worth speak ing of. Tho bazaar is of considerable size, and is tolerably well supplied with Manchester goods, cheap cutlery, etc. The export and import trade is con siderable, and, besides numerous cara vans, is said to employ over three hun dred boats of various size. A con siderable trade in grain is also carried on with Sennaar and Karkotsdh. These districts are practically the granaries of the Soudan. In shape Khartoum is very irregular. Its appearance is also poor and miser able. Except the Government house and one or two other buildings, there is hardly a house worthy of the name. The houses are mostly built of sun dried brick, generally without an upper story, and nearly all surrounded by court yards with mud walls. To prevent these crumbling away during the raiife, they are every year plastered over with dung I before the rainy season commences. This plastering process is doubtless the cause of a good deal of illness. As the town is so low, there is no drainage, and the consequence is that during the rains tho whole place is deep in water, and it is almost impossible to move about As there is no stone through out the whole district, the streets are full of dust during the summer and mud during: the rarns. J. lie cbiel build- ings are: (1) Government house and office, large brick buildings on the hunk of the Blue Nile: (21 arsenal. with smithy, carpenter's shop, smelt-ing-furnaces, stoves, etc.; attached to this arsenal are some fourteen steamers for the navigation of the rivers, and also boats of various kinds; (3) a large commodious hospital built by Colonel Gordon; (4) a mosque or jami built by Kurshia Pasha; (5) a sibil or small mosque, provided with a well, and some rooms for the convenience of travelers and poor people; (6) a large barrack of mud without an upper story and a large barradk square; (7) pow der magazine and workshop for the re filling of cartridges; (8) a large Roman Catholic missionary building, estab lished in 1848. a stone building with ganlen, church, etc.; (9) a small Coptic church. As to the attitude of the population, Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart wrote on January 16, 1883: "Of the fifty or fifty-five thousand inhabitants (includ ing thirty thousand slaves) of Khar toum, if 1 am to believe what I hear, I must consider the majority as un friendly to tho Government I have been assured that many Government employes, and nearly all the native traders, are secret partisans of the Mehdt, in the hopes that he will re establish the slave trade. It is ques tionable how far these statements are Justified, but perhaps I shall not be far from tho truth in saving that the mi- tority will take whichever side they see I the strongest Chicago Times. e The daily milk supply of tho city at Philadelphia averages about 200,000 carts, or one-fifth of a quart to each man, woman and child composing its 1,000,000 of inhabitants. To produce this vast daily supply requires the main toaance of from 35,"000 to 40,i00 eowa. STOCK SPECULATION. The Fascination It Possesses fop the As- erase Mortal. "Yes, I suppose there is a kind of fascination about stock speculatioa.at first," observed a veteran stock opera tor, as he fished up on. the end of his knife the crisp fragments of fried oys ters from his plate in the manner of a man who had lunched well, and is. therefore, rather disponed to be leis urely. "I suppose you have had some experience in the market," he added, as he glanced up at the Star man, who sat on the opposite side of the table. The conversation which had benm while the waiter was filling the orders, had yielded to the superior attractions of the lunch, and then was resumed with the toothpicks "and contentment which follows a well-ordered meal. "Nearly everyone has a Lttle episode of this kind in the course'of h's life," continued the operator, "perhaps sev eral, depending a great deal on the dis position of the man and his occupa tion. It is rather an interesting study for one situated, as I am to look back over the past and no'tice the changes which have taken place in ray business. I don't know as I should use the past tense, for the changes are going on daily. 'New men come in; old ones drop out. I say drop- out; to use the parlance of the street 'squeezed out would be the proper term. No one ever goes out voluntarily that is, very seldom. Idon'tmeanthattheywaituntil tiieyhave lost all their money. Very few go into stocks to that extent Or dinarily a man does not linger in a fight until he .has been knocked down three or four times before he realizes that he is whipped. Some men, how ever, never know when they are whipped. It is a good deal the same way in the stock market. Stocks are very perverse. They usually act in an exactly opposite way from "that which the astute judgment of the operator has defined. A man may not be con vinced that he is wrong by appeals to his reason, but when his bank account is dwindling away he is liable to have his eyes opened. One of the most beau tiful spectacles in my business is to see a man who is new to the market He has probably made his first venture on a point given him by a friend. It proves to be a success. He is then at once firmly of the opinion that he is a freat financier. What he does not now of Jay Gould, the freight business of the railroads, and the various causes which affect the stock market, is not worth knowing. He takes a newspa per for the quotations, he haunts the stock-room, and he talks of nothing else. He is not satisfied with giving orders to his brokers, but he must run down two or three times a day to see how the market is going. Then, after awhile, he seems to lose his interest in the stock market, and ho probably an nounces confidentially to his friends that he has given up stock operations. He has been 'squeezed,' that is all. "Some one else steps in to fill his place, however," said tho operator, after a pause, "and so the world moves pn, Speculation in stocks has never been more general than it is at pres ent I remember the time, and it is not more than three or four years ago, when there were only two places in tne city where direct daily quotations from the New York stock market were re ceived. Now there are at least five es tablishments where tho quotations are received by special wire and a regular business done, besides about ten places which we call bucket-shop?. All these places seem to bo well-patronized, but the class of customers is constantly changing. A man will deal at one place for a time, and then, when he meets with a loss, will conclude that the brokers are not dealing square, or some thing of the kind, and will go to some other place." "What class of men are interested in stocks?" asked the listener. "All classes and all kinds," was tho reply, "and women, too. It seems that everybody goes on the market at one time or another. But, generally speak ing, the department clerks are most largely represented. Just now, how ever, business is dull, as people, es pecially those in office, seem to be in clined to save their money. I havo never been in a faro place, but I imagine that the fascination of that game must be something like that which is associated with tho stock mar ket Of course stocks are not a dead open and shut thing, but, like all spec ulation, there is more or less chance connected with it A man who is in the market all the time loses more than he makes. I guess there is no doubt about that. Seven-tenths of those who speculate lose." "The secret of successful stock spec ulation," remarked the operator, as if ne was stating an every-day fact known to all men, instead of being what all men want to know, "is to go on the market only occasionally. That is my rule, although." he added, with a shade of regret in his voice, "I don't always live up to it But it is a good rule. Go in occasionally. Put your money in when there is a favorable opening, and when you have made a reasonable profit get out, and stay out until you get another chance. I get caught, of course, sometimes, but I ex pect that I never get excited. It is foolish in the first place, and, in the second place, you are apt to lose money. With these few simple rules J think that you would bo able to get along in the stock market" added the operator with a smile. Washington Star. The Value of Lemons. Tho value of lemons is thoroughly appreciated in the South, and now that lemons and oranges from Florida are as common and almost as cheap as ap ples, their use can not be too much in sisted upon. A leading physician rec ommends that the way to get the bet ter of the bilious system without blue pills or quinine is to take the juice of one, two or three lemons, as appetite craves, in as much cold water as makes it pleasant to drink without sugar, before going to bed. In the morn ing on rising, at least half an hour before breakfast take the juice of one lemon in a goblet of water. This will clear the system of humor and bile with efficiency without any of the weakening effect of calomel or congress water. People should not Irritate the stomach by eating lemons clear; the powerful acid of the juice, which is always most corrosive, inva riably produces inflammation after awhile; out properly diluted so that it does not burn or draw the throat it does its medical work without harm, and when the stomach is clear of food has abundant opportunity to work over the system thoroughly. Chicago Tribune. ess A jet of melted lead recently lodged in the eye of a French workman with out doing any damage to the organ, and the case was investigated by Dr. Perrier, who ascertained that tho im munity was due to tho lead entering into the "spheroidal state" in presence of the moisture on the surface of tho eyeball. The temperature of the lead was found to be higher than 170 de grees centigrade, which is the point at which the "spheroidal "state" takes place, and hence tho moisture was evap orated and formed a cushion round the lead, keeping the latter ont of contact with the flesh. The phenomenon is a case similar to that of a person piling lag his moist arm into melted lead with impunity. CasseWs Mttqaaine. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Bank of England now covers three acres of ground. in i'.ir.s 3bcnavo!ent xiciety called a "M nth ful of Bread" has been or gan ed. the object or which .3 to ren der turn ::;ry ass stance to thoe out of o:nj loymc.'it An i n anniversary Society is the late t llni h invention, founded for the e urrf.- u rnosj of uot -cl bratlnz Chr stni5f Svv Year's Day o. other BoraJ.-l - occfi- ons liuid a makes annually 126.C00,000 wooJe i no .n.t for the central Adia market i'he com.: o 1 gr de., aro madp from bhch and jh.ar, and the best quai.llcs from boxwood, . "I neve." it.low business of any kind to ever tin ciumber door." said Mr. Gl.ui.-t .ii;: rijeiutly. "In all my pol.ti cal l'fe i have never btwn kept awke five m-nutes by any debate in Parlia ment" Two human monstersa man and a woman have been arrested in France for entic ng two boys of eght and tea from thjir nomei, and then subjecting them to tortures, in order to moke crippled of them for beg n purposes. One can hardly imagine aa EdI.sh man (Lmng on a leg ot mutton which came frozen from Buenos Ayres. but the thing can be seen any day now. Shipping fro en carcasses of Jiieep is now a regu.ar business, and as there are lOO.Obo.lXk) sheep in the Platte dis trict it is likely to gow. Some me. of France keap two or three hundred fowls simply on the oats gathered from butwuea the stones where they are dropped by the "horses at the cub-stands, and Mons. Imbert mentions one collector who not only supplies his poultry yard, but sows an nually two or three acres of oats by this means. A singular example of method in madness was afforded- in Yorkshire re cently. Arailway signalman went out of his mind suddenly, so far as those about him could judge, and departed from- the scene of his duties: Bufore doing so, however, he had put all the signals at "danger, and thus rendered an accident impossible. A chemist in Munich has, it is stated, succeeded in ob a nicj from distilled coal a white crystalline pow der which, as far as regards its action on the human system, can not be dis tinguished from quinine, except that it assimilates even more readdy with the stomach. Its efficiency in reducing fever heat is represented as quite re markable. An old country 'Squire, who never looked at newspapers, came up all the from Cornwall recently to attend way thesexcentenary of his college at Oxford. As he entered the college gates he was politely presented with a b-11 for good-; that had been supplied to him as an un dergraduate forty-live years previously. He turned on the dun with indignation, not altogether speechless. "God bles you, sir!" he roared. "Lord love your heart!, do you think I come up here once in every s x hundred yearj to be dunned?" INDIAN DANCES. Somothin? About the Old Cnxtom of the Alior.lnec of Yucatan. From time to t.me, during such fes tivals as the Izamal fair, Carnival, and the like, an opportunity offers itself for learning something about the old cus toms of the aborigines. The Indians still remember some dances of thejr an cestors, as well as a few ceremonies, which they perform on the sly, because formerly the Spaniards punished them for what they called idolatrous and su perstitious rites. One of their dances, called Ixlol, is especially interesting, being a vestige of sun-worship. Men and women take part in the dance; provided the number of each is equal, it matters not how many. All have on masks, anciently well made, to-day mere square pieces of deer-skin with three holes cut for eyes and mouth. Often these holes are so much awry as to produce a most ludi crous appearance, and none can guess what the features be neath may be like. All wear san dals. The women have necklaces. principally of large red beads, and ear rings, formerly noose-rings too, but since the conquest these have been pro hibited. The chief, or master, as thoy call him. wears a circular cap, stuck all round with peacock's feathers. making a lofty, waving head-dress. In front of him, from his waist, hangs a representation of the sun. In its cen ter is an eye, inclosed by a trianglo, from which depends a large tongue. All these things are symbols of a most ancient freemasonry. One carries a white flag with a sun painted on it and a man and woman worshipping it An other has a sacalan, a kind of drum, used also in Africa; another aflute; an other a sistrum, a sacred instrument among the ancient Egyptians. With the sistrum he beats time for the dancers. In the other hand he has a small three-tailed whip, calling to mind the Egyptian flagellum of Osiris. This is to chastise the dancers if they step badly. A necklace of large sea shells hangs half way to his waist Each dancer has in the left hand a fan made of turkey feathers, with the bird's claw for handle. In the right hand each has a sistrum, not quite like those used by the Egyptians, but ex actly like those of Central Africa, as' described by Du Chaillu. Those in Yucatan are made of small calabashes, ornamentally painted, and secured to the handle by pieces ol bamboo; they have pebbles inside to rattle. The flag is held upright by the bearer or planted in tho ground. Beneath it sits the drummer, cross-legged, his drum on the ground before him. Close to the flag-staff stands the master, the con ductor, and the flute-player. With the flag for center, the dancers go round three times, bodies bent forward, and eyes on the ground, as if groping in the dark; the drum meanwhile beats a peculiar quickstep. Then the flag is unfurled the sun appears! All draw themselves up to their fullest height, and raise eyes and hands with a shout of joy. Then the dance commences rounil and round the flag with various steps and motions, at the same time energetic and solemn, imitating the course and movements of our planet, among other things. Meanwhile the chief sings, and the people answer in chorus, over and over again the same thing, in Maya tongue. Chirf. "Take care how you step." Dakckks. "We st.p well, O master." The melody is both mournful and stir ring. Tiie rattling oi tne sistrum is very effective, now imitating the scat tering of grain, now, by a sudden movement of every arm, giving forth one mighty rattle as of a sudden rain fall and clap of thunder, together with a shout raised by the dancers after each chorus is sung. The fans are kept in motion as symbolical of the wind. There is a pigys-hcad festival, now much fallen into disuse. At a certain season of the year the head is cooked, decorated with many-colored ribbons and flowers, and, with an orange be tween it jaws, placed upon an altar prepared for the occasion by a man who dances meanwhile. In this man ner it is borne by a procession of peo ple to some chosen individual. Vari ous other presents arc also given, such as fowls, cigars, sweet-bread, and so forth. The more numerous the gifts, the worse it is for the recipient because on the following year he is expected to give just twice tho amount received. AHct D. It Fkmgeon, in Harper1 $ Mmqm SCHOOL AND CHURCH. .":t.r '... t ; .iptwt 'ihurefcea, ordaiMsl With '.)..'.'S-'t ii t,::..;. i:;h1 106 iiui'e. - S r ntti," vs!'.ifrr'e-j "t'jlsvi o .: Tit:r ;-. hi are annually south of h..n .'-. ' !,"' -j " :! :i: ":j '.rr:c -ervice at v'c-m have aoi iav l!it t-af U" : Uwa or.'tV. l:--- .s..-iu--l iu tiafuturo. The ;r'vi f many "ii"! ing" i ot na: of New York s s -noo.'s vcere yono; lad oa an ij eu.i.a.l to -; the flaal touch ot pv!5 h ro fit tham exquisitely for society, include? la iuir coutm elf lectures one on the an of slumberiag pnye.itablv. .V. )'. Sun. The following statistic are given Douoeraiag the Catholic Charca la tkte jountry: Cardinals, archbishops aad aishops. 76; priest. 6.8&; churches aad shapels, 7,763; seminaries, colleges aad seademies for both sexes. 708; aaylbaae, 194; hospitals, 1,290; oomaaaUaala. ).000.000. Bishop Lymaa, of North Caroliaa, takes exception to the statement of Dr. rhompson. Bishop of Mississippi, that aegro rectors are not deeirabla ia the Protestaat Episcopal Church taraagh the South. He says that tcnblackaia bis State are satisfactorily miaisteriar to congregations of their ova color, aad he would not like to see aay olaar system tried. CJiicago BeraM. The value of chewing gum at a factor in education has been settled at last A Macon (Ga.) schoolmarm had 3ix bright scholars come to scaeolaco vided with gum and six without Taea ihe threw twenty-aineproblesas attaeca with astonishing results. Theoaewors of gum correctly answer tweatr-oae,-while the guraless six had mastered oaly eight This is another vital eduaatioaal' problem solved. St. Louis Ptst. President Eliot of Harvai I Uaiver siry in an address before the Massaeho jetts Teaohers' Associatioa the other day, said that it would be mack better for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high school. The only thing that standi in the way of men a umoa is local jealousy, and the sooner that is set aside tho hotter. Button Journal. The will of tho late Governor Abaer Coburn, of Maine, bequeaths tho bulk of bis property to the cause of education in the South. To Coburn Classical ! 3titute he bequeaths $75,000; to Colby University, of Waterville. $200,000, which, with other amounts for the boa sfit of the university, make his entire bequests thereto over $300,000. The State Agricultural College at Orono re ceives $100,000. and the Maine General Hospital in Portland $10,000. The New York Sun is discussing the grammar of the family prayer, "Now I fay me down to sleep." It pronounces it all right It undoubtedly is; but grammatical or not it has gone up to the great judgment seat freighted with the sweetest confidence and trust that only infantile humanity can understand. That simple petition will endure as long as Christianity prevails, and will be familiar to rao're hearts and lips than probably all other prayers combined. Few English-speaking men and women but learned it at mother's knee and Jew wholly forget it Indianapolis Journal. m m PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. An Ohio girl, while out riding with a young man, got out of the buggy and killed herself with a pi3tol. He proba bly persisted in driving with both hands. Dtiroit Free Press. "Well, now, that sticks in my crop!" remarked the old farmer, as a customer showed him over six bushels of twigs and branches extracted from a ton of his best hay. Burlington Free Press. Bachelors can breathe easy again. For three years they need not blush and start coyly and timorously when the fair maidens tell them they hare some thing to say in confidence. "If you would be truly happy, my dear," said one lady to another, "you will have neither eyes nor ears when your husband comes home late from the dub." "Yes, I know," answered the other, wearily, "bat what am I to do with my nose?" At tho riak: Adarlnrrounsr man named MeCollusL. Wko was Ionr and lank, and lookod solesaa. . Bit the floor with bis bead. And the words that be said Would fill a Ions' newspaper col uraa. Iforrlttovn Jleratd. It was just after the tiff. "I won dor," snarled Romeo, "if we shall know each other in heaveu." "I'll re member you, of course," replied Juliet with tender emphasis, "but of course, I couldn't know you without meeting you," and a period of silence as long as a centennial poem crept into the room. M Y. Herald. Business has beeir rather dull In Texas this year. A Galveston drummer who had made a tour of the State, on his return to Galveston was asked by bis doss: "vyuu, uiu you get any orders?" "I should smile. I doa't think I wont into a single store, that I wasn't ordered out by the proprietor himself." Texas Silings. When Mrs. Oleo. the. boarding house mistress, was told that the inspec tor of provisions had seized 468 pounds of veal, ninety-two pounds of poultry, fifty-two pounds of bear meat, thirty seven lambs, six barrels of peat, and 200 boxes of herring, she remarked: "Pretty good appetite; but nothing to some of my boarders. You'd ought to see them when they're good and hun gry." Chicago Tribune. 'iSmith, how is it that you always get such good bargains?" queried Jones. "Because I was taught in my infancy habits of thrift patience and economy," replied Smith. "My father was always drumming it into me to 'wait a little while and you'll purchase cheaper. Why, even my mother used to sing 'bye low, baby,1 before I could walk." Jones was perfectly satisfied with the explana tion. Boston Courier, At a restaurant the other day tho antics of a green-looking customer, who was twisting up in his chair, and turn ing round in all sorts of contortions, at tracted attention. Approaching hira, finally, the restaurant man asked in deep perplexity: "What do you do that for? For heaven's sake! what is the matter? Was it the lobster?" "Lobster bo Mowed!" growled the victim, with well feigned anger; "I'm only takiag my dessert" "Your dessert?" "Yes; look at your 'bill of fare." Wo threw our eyes over it It enumerated some dozen good things for dinner, and at the bot tom were printed in fair large typo the words: ''For dessert turn oyer." N. T. Ledger. Bryant's Tender Confidence. The following very pretty anecdote ie told of the late William Cullen Bryaat, the poet, by a former associate la hie newspaper office, which illustrates the good man's simplicitiy of heart. Says the narrator: "One morning many years ago, after reaching his oHtce and trying in rain to begin work, he taraad to me and remarked: 'I can not get along at all this morning.' 'Why not?' I asked. 0,' he replied, 'I have doae wrong. When on my way here a little boy flying a kite passed me. The string of the kite having rubbed against my face I sensed it aad broke it The bey lost his kite, bat I did not stop to pay. him for it. IdidwTear. I eight to have paid aha.'" This tsaneraese af conscience went far toward poet tbe kJedly. noble. aonorea amaa that he feet as ales c i i aaaaaaaaaaaaavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! EsaaauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaSsuBai saasssaaaaassasBssasasasassssal THX SPRHTG TERM OP THE FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, AtFremont PTebrsMlcxt, Will begin APRIL 14th, '85, and End July 3d. UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES WILL BE AKFOKDED PERSONS WISHIXG TO PBEPABE FDR TOE FALL EXAMI NATIONS FOB TEACHERS' CEItTI CATES The Business Department will afford every opportunity for improvement In Peaniaaship, Bmlaes Arithmetic. R nlc. keepinr, Commercial' Correspondence, aad Isaitatlou of actual busine Mxisic. We caa speak with the utmost conti deaee of the instruction ?!vcn in our Mnaie Department. Mini tlm I'nnrui ! Instructor of tbe Piano Forte, a ?r.adut;e oi lae corneu conservatory ot MUiie, is not oaly- a- brilliant performer, hut a paias-takiBK and superior teacher. Th instructors iu Vocal Culture. Note-rs.i ! iag aad tflagiaj? are thorough :iud suc i essral. Expenses. Tuition for twelve weeks, $11. Ixit if paid strictly in advance, $12. Tim in cludes admission to Normal und Casiau.s.. classes. Afusic, 12 for twenty lc..sns. Short-band, $12 for twenty Icidon Type writing, with use of imtruiuent, $10 tor twelve weeks. Good dty hoard can be obtained in the College Horn.; at $2.25 per week. Booms 50 cts. to 75 ct-i. per stud ent. For further particulars addre-vi, W. sr JO.IEO, A. n. President of Normal College. Fremont, Neb. tnrioir pacific LAND OFFICE. IaprtYfti aad TJninprored Farms, Hay aad Oraziof Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office. 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