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VOL. XV.-NO. 51.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1885.
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THE LOST BATTLE.
To hls&eart It struck such terror
That he laughed a-laugh of acora
The man In the soldier's doublet.
With the sword ao bravely worn.
It struck his heart like the trott-wlna
To And his comrades fled, ,
"While the battle-field was guarded
tty the heroes who lay dead. ,
He drew his sword In the sunlight.
And called with a long halloo,
" Dead men, there Is one living
Shall stay it out with you!''
He raised a ragged standard.
This lonely soul In war.
And called the foe to onset
By shouts they hear afar.
They galloped swUt toward bus.
The oanner floated wide ;
It sank; lie sank beside It
Upon his sword, und died.
Rote Jfaxcthorne Zathrop, in Harper! Magazine.
SOMETIME.
A. Practical Sermon 'Preached by
the Cellar Stairs. ,
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Strangely enough, the cellar stairs
preached it at least they contributed
that very important part, the applica
tion. Sister Searles had furnished the
text in the morning, but then the ser
mon might have gone on from firstly
to forry-seventhly without Mrs". Bar
ney's notice, had it not been for the
cellar stairs.
Mrs. Barney was hurried that day
she was always hurried and it was
warm and uncomfortable in the sun
shiny, stove-heated kitchen, where -she
was hastening to and fro, growing
fretted and tired without slackening
her speed. Nealie, standing at the
ironing-table, was tired also.
"1 here's so much to do," she said,
wearily. "I do not see why we need
do bak ng and ironing both in one day.
It makes sucn a crowd, and we could
have left one for to-morrdw."
To-morrow will bring work enough
of its own," answered Mrs. Barney,
quickly. "Besides, if we should get the
work all out of the way the first of the
week, a whole day to rest in would be
worth something."
"But then we shouldn't take it for
resting just because it would be a whole
day and something else would be crowd
ed into it," murmured Nealie, to whom
one hour now looked very inviting and
that possible day in'the future very un
certain. The mother did not answer, and the
girl's hand moved more slowly over
the damp muslins as her gaze wandered
away to the hills where great trees
were throwing cool shadows. How
pleasant the shade and greenness were!
The desire to bring it nearer suggested
another thought to Nealie "Some
vines would be so nice at this window,
mother. I could plant them if you
would let Tim dig a little spot out
there."
"Yes, but if we ever get the house
fixed up as we want it we shall have
shutters at that window."
"But we don't know when we can do
that, and the vines would be so pretty
now," urged "Nealie.
"Pretty: Well, yes, if we had the
whole yard trimmed and laid out as it
should be. I hope we shall have it
some day; but a stray vine here and
there seems hardly worth fussing over
when we can't have the whole done."
Nealie sighed but was silent, and
presently lim came in with an armful
of woodT
"Nealie," he said, pausing near her
table, "if you just sew this sleeve up a
little. The old thing tears awful easy,
and 1 just hit it again3t a nail."
He spoke low, but Mrs. Barney's
quick ears caugh the words.
"That jacket torn again, Tim? I
never saw such a boy to tear things to
Jiieces! No, Nealie can't stop to mend
t uow, and I can't either. I've been
intending) get you a new one, but
there doesn't seem much chance to
make anything new while you contrive
to make so much patching and darn'ng
on the old."
Mrs. Barney shut the oven door with
a snap. Tim was the hired boy, kind
hearted but careless, ad he was
rather discouraging. Board and cloth
ing sometimes appeared lo her a high
price for his services. "Hurry, now,
and pick some currants for dinner,"
she said.
Tim took the tin pail pointed" out to
him, but'he did not hum as he passed
with clouded face down the walk. The J
thought of a new jacket would- have
been very pleasant a few- minutes be
fore, but it had suddenly lost attract
iveness. The boy- drew his bushy
brows into a scowl, a::d as'soon as he
was out of sight of the house, threw
himself upon the grass and began his
currant-kicking in a very leisurely
manner. Then it was thatSiscr
Searles drove up in her rattling-old
buggy with a horse ' that was, as Tim
said, "a regular old revolutionary pensioner.-"
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"If J can't have fine horses and car
riage, I-can take a deal of cbrafort with
these," was always Sister Searles's
cheery comment upon, her" equipage.
She had an errand at Mrs. Barney's,
and had stopped on her way to the vil
lage. A plump, rosy-faced "little wom
an she was, not young,- only that she
belonged to the class of people who
never .grow old; neatly dressed, though
it was "but the old poplin made over."
Mrj. Barney noticed while she was
talking, wondering a little that she
should have "taken the trouble, when
she surely needed a new one."
"This room is too warm to ask any
one to sit in," she said, apologetically,
placing a chair for her caller just out
side the door. "When we are able to
have the house altered to suit us I shall
have a stove here in the summer."
"In the mean time you have this nice
cool porch. What a "pleasant place it
is!" said Sister Searles, adm'riugly.
"Yes, if one had time to enjoy it,"
answered Mrs. Barney, with an uneasy
laugh. "I'm so hurried trying to get
everything about the place in just the
right order that I don't have time."
Take time. Sister Barney, take
time," said Mrs. Searles, smiling, but
earnestly. "Make the most of what
you have while you are working for
something better. Don't crowa out
any little sweetness you have to make
room lor some great pleasure that's
further off. You see." she added,
blushing a little, as if her words need
ed excuse, "it's something I had to
learn myself years ago never trample
on daisies in a wild chase after roses.
The roses I haven't found, but Jthc'ttai
sies have been enough to make the
path "bright."
Mrs. Barney looked upon her in
rouie perplexity as she took her de
parture. She nad listened with on-
half her mind on the loaves of bread in
the oven and the other half did not
fully comprehend what had beem said.
"Daisies aud ruses! I don't see. what
am sort of flower has to do with want
ing a new kitchen. Bnt there! I sup
pose minister's wires hear ao much
talk that it comes natural to t hem
Bits of old sersjons, like as anyway.
Dear me! I don't get much time fox
Setry in my life, I'm sure of that,
ow Jim does loiter!"
Tim, meanwhile, had sauntered oat
from among tha-bushes,-and was en
gaged in untying the old horse that
Mrs. Searles had fastened as securely
as. if it could be induced uader any cir
cumstances to run. He was moved to
this act of gallantry partly because he
really liked the cheery little woman
and partly because he heard Mrs. Bar
ney's call and was in no haste to go to
the house.
"That will do, thank you, Tim,"' said
Sister Searles, nervously anxious to ex
pedite his steps in the way of obedi
ence. "I think Mrs, Barney is. calling
you."
"Yes'm; she mostly always is,"
answered Tim, philosophically, pausing
to arrange the harness with painful de
liberation. "But, my dear boy," urged Sister
Searles, reading something in his
knitted brows, "you "should really try
to please and help her all you know.
She is kind to you."
"Oh, yes, she's kind. Only when I
see one of her kindnesses a-comin', I
dodge it; it generally hits a fellow hard
enough to be uncomfortable," re
sponded Tim. Then, having relieved
his feelingsby this statement, his con
science pricked him slightly, and he
added: "You see, she's always in such
a hurry. She can't come and bring
'em: she has to pitch 'em."
Mrs. Searles meditated as she drove
down the country road.
"Well, I never thought of that be
fore, but I do suppose that's why the
Bible speaks of the Lord's loving kind
ness and tender mercy because there
is so much kindness in the world that
isn't one bit loving, and so much mercy
that .is only duty and not tenderness.
I'll tell Josiah that" For it happened
that while the good ministerpored over
h's books ana studied theology, his
wife, going here and there, studied hu
manity. And though" he cooked his
own'sermons she often seasoned them.
The baking was done at last, the cur
rants picked and Mrs. Barney's dinner
ready.
"lor the bounty bestowed upon us
may we be duly grateful," murmured
Mr. Barney, with head bowed low over
his plate. " Then he looked up and re
marked that he was tired of a steady
diet of ham and eggs and didn't see
why they couldn't nave a little variety.
"You would see if you had to cook
in the hot kitchen as I do," responded
Mrs. Barney, more shortly than her
wont "I'm glad to have whatever I
get most quickly and easily. When we
have a summer-kitchen we can begin
to live as other people do."
"If "we ain't all as old as Methuse
ler," complained Master Tommy in an
undertone which was perfectly audi
ble; "anyway, the chickens will be,
if we can't have any cooked till
that time." He had sniffed the odors
of the baking on his homeward way
from school, and, settling his juve
nile mind upon chicken pie for din
ner, had been grievously disappointed.
Warm and weary with her morn
ing's work the questions and sugges
tions fretted Mrs. Barney. She felt
wounded and aggrieved, too, as she
moved about silently after dinner. No
one seemed to see she cared as much
for things nice and comfortable as did
the others, she said to herself. She
cared far more, indeed, since she
was willing to do much now. and work
and plan for the sake of having things
all that could be desired by and by.
How many present comforts and con
veniences had she foregone for that!
Those very cellar stairs toward whose
dark and tortuou3 steps she was
tending were an example; they could
scarcely be more badly built, or in a
more inconvenient place. Mr. Barney
had wanted to remove them, but she
would not allow him to incur the ex-
Ksnse, because a second removal might
3 necessary when the house was thor
oughly rearranged.
No, she preferred to submit to the
discomfort all this time.
"Too long a time itproved, f or, while
she meditated, an insecure board slip
ped beneath her feet, plunging her
down , the. dark, narrow stairway,
against the rough stone wall, and then
upon the hard floor of the cellar. 'One
swift moment of terror, the crash of the
dishes that fell frem her hands, a flash
of excruciatingpain, and then she knew
nothing ' more. She did not hear
Nealies wild cry from the room above,
nor see her husband's pale face as he
l.fted her in his arms.
When she' returned to consciousness
a strange voice the physician's was
saying;
No bones broken, though it's a won
der her neck wasn't, falling in the way
she did."'
Slowly she opened her eyes upon a
confused mingling of anxious faces,
wet cloths and bottles of arnica and
camphor, and gradually comprehended
what had happened and her own con
dition .not dangerously injured, but
bruised and lamed, and with a sprained
ankle that would keep her a prisoner
for some days at least. It was a sud
den pause in her busy life an enforced
rest. She scarcely knew, how to bear
it, for a moment, as she remembered
all sue nail planned to do, until a sec
ond shuddering thought suggested that
she might have left it all forever ; then
she grew pat'ent and thoughtful. Yet
it seemed strange to be lying quietly on
the lounge in the best bed-room the
room that had been kept so carefully
closed to preserve its furniture until an
addition to the house should transmute
it into a back parlor ; to watch through
the open door, only a spectator, while
Nealie flitted to and fro in thekitchen
bevond, spreaking the table for tea.
How good the children were that
evening, how tenderly thoughtful her
husband was coming to her side again
and again to talk or read to her! They
had not found jrrueh time for,talkingor
reading together thee .late years; she
and David; she' had always been so
bus- when he was in the house. She
had dreamed of a' leisure time coming,
though, when they should have many
evenings like this, except the illness'
She had not thought much of illness or
accident coming to mar her plans, or of
death .suddenly ending th'em. But it
flashed upon 'her now how many little
loving words and offices and daily en-
i'oyments had been crowded out of their
ittle home, and in that brief retrospec
tive glance she understood the meaning
and the earnestness of Sister Scariest
entreatv. -
"Why, it's all kind of real nice and
jolly if you wasn't' hurt," 'declared
Tommy, unable to express his enjoy
ment of the pretty room and .the
unusual family gathering any more
clearly.
Tears gathered ia the mother's eyes.
out sne nad xoumd ner cine aad she
meant to .follow it She bad ample
time for thought in the days that fol
lowed, whem she was oalyable to sew a
little now and then wr 'garments for
Tim, or 'look over seeds for Nealie's
viaa-laatiag; aad slowly bat sorely
she leaned her lesson, and brought it
back to health with her togatherlife's
pleasantness as God sends his sunshine
day by day. Pacific Evangel.
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"A MOUNTAIN PINK."
A New Jersey Negree a Who Is Said to Bo
llCYoara.Old.
The oldest person perhaps now liv
ing in the United States is Sylvia Du
boice, a negress and a former slave,
who in August last celebrated
her 116th birthday, and who
lives in destitution on the bleak sum
mit of the Sourland Mountain, in Hun
terdon County, New Jersey. In a lit
tle frame cabin, with one room hardly
large enough for 'the swinging of a oat,
and which is hidden amid the stunted
underbrush and huge bowlders that
lend a rugged "and barren picturesque
ness to the lone spot, this famous
"mountain pink" drags out her bur
densome life, attended by her "baby,"
as she calls her youngest daughter,
Elizabeth Alexander, who is herself
seventy"yearsvof age.
When a Record reporter, after a
wearisome climb of miles, reached the
cabin the other day he found the ven
erable human relic stirring up wash
clothes that were in a boiler on the
stove, while tne "baby," lusty and
stout-limbed, was chopping wood,
swinging her axe with the skill'
and strength of an Amazon. For
half a century old Sylvia has lived
upon the identical spot upon which her
cabin now stands. The structure in
which all these years were passed
had begun to tumble in sheer decay
about her, for it was a bold target for
the fierce winds that sweep with hurricane-like
fury over the top of the old.
gray mountain. It at last became not
even lit shelter for a beast. Her con-!
dition excited the commiseration of
nev. Mr. terns, a mountain mission
ary, who succeeded in interesting the
ladies of the Presbyterian Church at
Flemington, ten miles away, in her be
half. They raised the money for the.
building of a new cabin, and into this
she nas just moved. A lie structure is
not lathed or plastered, and there is
no carpet on the floor. The old lady
sleeps on a cot, while her daughter re-
loses on an old straw mattress in the
oft, which is without a window, and is
reached by the aid of a primitive lad
der. There is not a single article of
comfort about the place, and hardly
the necessaries of life. But the new
house is a palace in comparison with
the old one.
The centenarian is remarkably pre
served for so great an age. She says
she can hear "purty good." Her eye
sight is excellent, and she never wore
"specs." She can boast of the posses
sion of one sound tooth, and says -that
since she was thirty years old she has
drawn "crumbs of "comfort" from a
clay tobacco pipe. "I think as much
of dat old clay pipe as I do of my dar
ter over yander," she remarked. The
old lady is densely ignorant, never even
having" been taught to read or write,
and this, combined with her clouded
memory, prevented her telling much
about herself. But the daughter says
that her age is fully attested by an en
trv of her birth in the familv Bible of
Major Baird, to whom her father, a
slave, belonged, blie was born nearKock.
Mills, at the edge of the Somerset
Mountain, in Somerset County, N. J.
When a girl she was sold or given to a
man named Duboice, who lived at Great
Bend, on the north branch of the Sus
quehanna River, in Pennsylvania. She
says she operated a ferry for her mas
ter, and took his name. When she
reached her eighteenth year and was
her own master Duboice furnished her
with a paper setting forth that she was
a free woman. Armed with this she
returned to Jersey, which was at that
time a slave State.
Her father served as a lifer in the
Continental army, in the command of
Major Baird. his master. He partici
pated in a number of battles. She has
no memory for events, and gets the
Revolution sadly mixed with the War
of 1812. She is the mother of three
children, the eldest, Judith Roberts,
whose age is eighty-thnw years, living
at Princeton, N. J. She can not recall
the ages of her father aud mother when
they died, but says her son-in-law,
Francis Crazer. died in PhiladelDhia
during the Centennial at the age of one
hundred and four years. OldSyJvia is
as "pert as a cricket." can walk about
unaided, and is but little stooped from
age. Two years ago she made a jou;t
ney to Larabertville, and later to New
Egypt. Mrs. .Alexander told the re
porter that she had to take as tender
care ofher mother as though she were
a baby. The doctor will not permit her
to take medicine, .but pre -crapes nour
ishing food. These old women subsist
wholly upon charitj'. The daughter
regretted that, owing to the care re
quired by'the mother, she is unable to
go out to work for their support, and
the consequence is that they are in
great destitution. Philadelphia Record.
' THE SWINE PLAGUE.
Hog-Cholera Not Caused by Feeding In.
Ulan Corn.
Since hog-cholera has reappeared, to
plague the farmer, the theory that tit;
malady is cansed By feeding corn too
exclusively, is again brought forward.
It may be .quite possible that a diet
composed very largely of corn wil
"cause such derangement of the d ges
tion, and consequent loss of vigor, a.
to make' an animal more susceptible t
disease than if'fed upon a mixed diet;
but if sufficient proof has beeu-fouml to
show that hog-cholera has been caused
by a diet-of Corn,' the world .has not yet
learned-of thefact In the recent out
breaks the disorder named, there is
that, ' in fact, seenvng to dis
prove' 'the assertion. Several droves
of ..swine - in Atlantic Sta e.s.
where corn is not fed to. any great
extent, and where swine are certainly
hever-'kept upon -a diet of corn alone,
have-suffered . severely "from sw;ne
plague. -It can not even be sa d, in the
case. of the "Eastern swine, that their
digestive powers have been impaired
:by a- -heavy 'died -of anysingle food,
but it can, probably, be truly asserted
that .the germs of the malrdy have
been -gradually scattered through t!.j
Eastern States, by the' traffic in hogs
from the. West It , is known that
in Ohio, the disorder mentioned
appeared first "'beside the ra 1
ways"over which swine were taken
from Western markets. . In several
cases, if not in most, outbreaks of the
plague could be traced clearly to infec
tion from thee-spurees. Is jtnemore
than likely that the faw outbreaks in
the seaboard States resulted through
similar infection? Pratrie Farmer.
A 'family consisting of one man,
his wife, nine children,,, one hound and
two muskets camped on Howard street
the other morning. Their baggage
was hauled ia a tsweL Item (wa.)
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ultivation, Jn sums representing one
third the fair value of the homestead.
Correspondence solicited. Address,
M.K.TURNER,
50.y Columbus, Nebr.
V. A. MACEEN,
DKALER IK
Foreign and Domestic Liquors and
Cigars. '
llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y
M
cALMSTER BROS.,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office un-stair8 in McAllister's build
ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
ruuiic.
JOHN TIMOTHY,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
supplies, aud all kinds or legal forms.
Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block,
Platte Centei. 10-x
J. M. MACFARLAND, B. R. COWDERY,
AttentraaiKottrrFrtre. Collster.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARLAND & COWDERY",
Columbus, ': : : Nebraska.
F. F. RUNNER, 91. IK,
(Successor to Dr. C.G. A.Hullh'orst)
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON.
Regular graduate of two medical col
leges. Office up stairs in brick building
north of State Bank. 2-ly
JT. JT. M AUG HAN,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
yarParties desiring surveying done can
notify me by mall at Platte Centre, Neb.
.. 51-6m
C H.RUSCHE,
"llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises', buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAMES SAL.MON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 52 6mo.
R.
II. LAWRENCE,
DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR.
Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Office with S. C.
Smith.
COLUMBCS,
NEBRASKA.
17-tf
JS. MJJRDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have bad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimataforyou. iSTSbop on
13th St one door west of Friedhof A
Co's. Btore;tColumbus. Nebr. 483-y
o. o. sit a isnsronsr,
MANUFACTURER OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Eoofinr aid Gutter
ing a Specialty.
3a"Shop' on Olive Street, 2' doors
north of Brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.
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G
W. CLARK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEBR.
His lands comprise some fine tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion of Plrtte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed.- 20 y
LIFE !N ICELAND.
OMtei
of thm Feepls la the Laaul
of Ktraal Saowa.
Miss Olaf Krarer is an intelligent
little Esquimau woman, twenty-seven
years of age. Shu relates that she was
born in the northern part of Greenland,
and lived there until she was fifteen
years of age, when reports having
reached her father of the- warmer,
better country of Iceland, the family
emigrated there on a dog-sled. During
her stay of five years in Iceland she
was, to use her own word, "eddicated,"
and learned, among other th'ngs, of
America and her people.
Having a great desire to satisfy her
curiosity concerning us, she came with
a number of Icelanders to British Amer
ica, and from' the Eastern coast
finally came to Manitoba. To an En
quirer reporter she said: "Mv country
Livery different from this. 1 will ex
plain now we build houses in my-country.
We press the snow into hard
bricks and build a tent-shaped house.
Insido we line the walls and floor with
fur. We aave an opening left for a
door which is high enough for a child
eight years old here to go in and out.
We bang a fur curtain up at the open
ing. We make our fire in the center of
the snow-house. The fires are made of
lean meat, oil and bone.', for we have
no wood in my country not as much
as one match. Fires arc started with a
flint, but Hints are very scarce and the
man who owns one is cons dered wel
off. The smoke from the tire is kept in
"ho house, and as we use oil on our
faces, the smoke and oil make us of i
dark color. We never wash, for there
is no water and it would freeze on our
face3- A lady in my country uses plenty
of oil, just as ladies here think they look
nice with powder and paint. The
ladies of my country have an easy timo,
no work but the making of the clothes
and the eare of her children; only, if
a baby cries she will not take care of it
She throws it into the corner of the
snow house, and when it is quiet she
takes and pets it 1 will explain for
you how we marry in my country. The
man must steal his wife. If he is
caught trying to get her he is killed,
for if he is not sharp enough to steal
her they think he is not sharp enough to
take care of her. After he has married
her he can never leave her. If he does,
he is killed. We have no religion in
mv country, but we think a good man
win go to a goou piace, a uau man to r
bad place. We are kind to each other,
only we are not kind to the sick, for we
think if they were any account they
would not be sick. We have but
one sickness. Sometimes it lasts for
two years, sometimes six years. I
thiak it is what you call consumption.
When a man des we stick him away
in the snow and his spear with him.
"I will explain for you how we hun
in my country. The men kill whales,
walruses, bears and seals. The first
man who sticks his spear into the ani
mal gete the skin, aud the meat is
divided with the others. The meat is
eaten raw. The people like best the
blood and fat. The skin are used for
clothes, which are sewed up with a
an.iuai s sinews. Our sleds are mad..
of-s!cins and bones, and are drawn by
dogs. When the dogs are well trained
they are driven without reins.
"The beds of my country are made
of the furs; a whole family sleep in one
bed. If a man lives alone he makes
the furs into a sack and crawls into it
when he wants to sleep. We sleep
when we are sleepy, aud eat when we
are hungry. Our night-time lasts for
six months, but we always have light
enough from the snow and stars. Our
daytime we do not like the sunlight
and snow make our eyes burn like they
would drop out of our heads. The
two months, twilight is the most pleas
ant time."
"My people grow no taller than a
child of eight iu this country, and they
never live to be over sixty years of
age. This climate,11 concluded Mi3s
Krarer, "weakens me. It is very
warm." And indeed the little lady
wore her sleeves .short, exposing her
arms. Short arm. they were, and pe
culiarly shaped. The arms of the Es
quimau men are straighter, from being
used more. Miss Krarer's height is for
ty inches, her weight one hundred and!
twenty pounds.
"What dul you think of the people
of this country" when you first saw
them?" was asked Miss Krarer.
"Oh," she replied, they looked so
big they almost seareil me to death;
and I was much frightened when I
first saw a black woman,
she was very dirt y."
I thought
Miss Krarer has sent for her sisters
who are in Iceland to join her. Cincin
atti Enquirer.
"GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK."
Why It Is Superior as a Time-Keeper to
Modern Tims Pieces.
If it were not for what may be desig
nated as meteorological changes, the
problem of the accurate measurement
of time would be solved if wc had a
heavy pendulum driven uniformly over
a small arc But here are two, "ifs."
We will take the second of them first
as it is more easily disposed of. Pos
tulating at the outset machinery in the
train very nicely executed, and with
jeweled bearings so that it will act uni
formly, or with the least possible vari
ation, we have before us the question
of .propelling it uniformly. That the
best power for a clock is woight, is be
yond dispute. The invention of the
coil-spring came near annihilating the
race of good common clocks. "Grand
father's clock," with its wooden wheels
and other crudities, is still the superior
of the gmndson's clock as a time
keeper, for "grandfather's clock" had
the great advantage of a uniform power
sufficient and just sufficient to propel
the clock when it was properly cleaned
and oiled! The grandson's clock has a
coiled-spring as a motive-power, hav
ing, when it is tightly wound, not less
than three times the amount of power
required to drive the clock, and dimin
ishing in amount, thereby altering the
rate of the clock with each successive
hour. The grandson's clock will march
on, oiled or unoiled (and therefore usu
ally unoiled), until it comes to a prem
ature end as complete as that of the
"one-hoss shay." The "grandfather's
clock," on the other hand, which de
clined to go unless its rations of oil
were doled out to it once in a year or
less by the peripatetic tinker, is good
for another eentury, since its bearings
have been saved from cutting them
selves away from lack of oil The
kitchen-clock of to-day can only be
made to keep respectable time by so
regulating it that the gain it makes
when tightly wound shall be offset by
the loss as it runs dow Theodore M.
WHson, m Hopulmr Science Montid
MEDICAL HUMBUGS.
ToWaat. la taa Oplalea of a Payslelaa.
Their Saeeeee May B Ascribed.
A few days ago a doctor was called
upon by the reporter. The title used
was honestly acquired as attested by
the time-tinted sheep-skin and many a
victory over the grim messenger
through the healing art The doctor
ceased his professional work years ago,
but he still delights in living over the
past by recalling its Incidents. He
was in slippers and gown. His silvery
grey hair was where his exploring fin
gers had left it. his well-worn stock
was awry, aud the tips of his old-fashioned
standing collar were broken over
by frequent turnings of his venerablo
head. When he walked about the
room it was with short steps and his
slipper heels perversely declined to
leave the floor. When he took tho old
brass-knobbed poker and prodded the
grate tiro, it was apparent 'from tho
vigor with which he smashed tho lumps
that he had some forcible ideas. Final-,
ly they demanded expression.
'Did you see an account of the quar
rel some of the physicians engaged in
the other night?"
"Yes. sir.ff
"To me that is a sad commentary
upon the profession. I grew tired of it
principally because our ranks were so
thickly crowded by charlatans and
quacks who proclaim on walls, fences
and curbstones their infallible antidotes
for all the ills to which flesh is heir.
Imagine how 1 felt when reading some
self-styled professor's bombastic asser
tion that he could restore old age to
youth, feebleness to strength, impend
ing death to exultant life. Diseases
the most desperate and radical were
sought for to exhibit the efficacy of
some pill or compound of whisky and
cherry bark that was vaunted as an un
failing specific for an endless 1st of dis
orders whioh had no more relation or
similarity than the Queen of Sheba and
the man in the moon. These humbugs
never read medicine. They were in
spired by a genius of evil aud had gen
erally failed at honest employment
Their chimerical schemes found favor
with the people because they love to be
humbugged. 1 had and still retaiu an
exalted opinion of the medical profes
sion. Popular ignorance was largely
responsible for the success of the
quacks, but the greatest protection
against them lay with the legitimate
practitioners. Their jealousies pre
vented that harmony, that concert of
action, that united front against the in
roads, of these vultures that would
have done so much to maintain the
dignity and supremacy of those who
are properly trained to a noble art
Doctors may not be as bad as actors,
but they are bad enough, and nothing
but the gravest causes justify an exhi
bition of internal differences. It low
ers the dignity of the calling. This
self-pride is a foible grafted upon our
human nature, and it is the mark of
true worth to overcome it Self-restraint
charity and liberality of views
are exalted virtues that doctors should
cultivate.1' Detroit Post.
A "COWBOY DETECTIVE.'
AaKleven-Year-Old Dime-Novel Reader
Rung Away From Home The Mesiiage
He Left Behind HJm.
Two detectives arrived from the East
last evening in search of a boy named
Shepard, who ran away from New York
several weeks ago. Mr. Shepard is a
New York banker and has offered a
reward of $10,000 for the safe return
of his son. The detectives will sepa
rate here, one going to Texas amodg
the cowboys, and the other, after
traveling through Wyoming, will go
to Arizona. The officers were inter
viewed by a reporter of the Leader
last night, and the following particu
lars of the boy's escapade were
learned:
It is the old story of dime-novel
reading. Fred, the missing boy, ac
cumulated a choice library of all sen
sational literature extant The last
novel he read was found on his desk
at school, open at the place where a
young cowboy detective unmasks his
father's murderer and carves him into
mincemeat to quick music while hold
ing the minor villains in subjection
with two revolvers held in one hand.
Scrawled at the bottom of the page
was the line: "Ime goin West to be a
cowboy detective."
Fred's tin savings bank, which must
have contained S2U in dimes and quar
ters, was found broken open and en
tirely despoiled of its contents. No
body saw him make his departure, but
it was made in the old romant c way of
coins: to re&t early on the plea of a
headache, and then climbing out of the
window on an L, and then down the
spout
His mother is greatly distressed over
Fred's rash act and she has baked
cookies and made preserves enough to
keep him at home a year after lie is
brought back. She regrets deeply her
refusal to give him a qu.nce tart only
the day'before he ran away, and the
remembers that he hai hinted that she
wouldn't be troubled with him very
long.
Mr. Shepard takes the matter more
coolly, and says it will be a good les
son for the boy. Nobody would hurt
the youngster, who is a pert youth of
eleven birthday anniversaries.
The detect.ves are urged to activity
bv the large reward, and will make a
thorough search of the West for the
child who wanted to be a "cowboy de
tective." Cheyenne Leader.
Progress in Servia,
Servia has made great progress in
the last half century. Fifty years ago
a Serv would as soon have expected his
pigs to read as his daughter. Nor was
this wonderful, if we remember that
Prince Milosch, the swineherd whom
God inspired to del'ver Servia, could
neither read nor write, and that this
ruier was.not more ignorant than his
subjects. In 1834 there was not a pri
mary school in the country except in
the ohief towns of the district in all.
perhaps, twenty-five. In 1884 scarcely
a village is without a primarv school.
Troy (N. Y.) Times
1 wonder why when I get a picture
of myself it should have a scrub nose
and eyes turned in, with an expression
that would alarm a stone dog. A sweet
cfeld I adored came to me onco and
s?id: "Ma wants to know where you
had your pqtygruft tooken." "At
& Co.'s," I responded cheerfully; it was
a pleasure to know that one person who
had seen my picture appreciated it
Co v' pursued the sweet child as he
3tepp -d on the cat; "she's goin' some
where else, so it won't look like yournl
Detroit Free PrM.
PITH AND POINT.
Never judge a man by his salary.
And never judge his salary by his airs.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
-Thr is it that the asaa who
whangs a old copper cent iatu the
contribution-box generally learns back
with a twenty-dollar look of bsasv
lenee. Chicago Tribune.
A Rutland man is credited with
sleeping four hours With his feet ia th
water. But then, some folks are ia hot
water all over all the time they are
awake. Rutland (VL) Herald.
Nothing exasperates a womaa who
has been shading her eyes from the.;
gaslight with her hand all the evening
so much as to find that after all she
had left her best diamond ring on the
washstand.
The "All Sorts" man of the Boston
Post asks us how we make "greens"
and "smithereens" rhyme. The gen
tleman is out of order. If such ques
tions were allowed they would kill all
newspaper poetry ia a week. Lynn
Bee.
Kate Field tells how the Mormoaj
iniquity can be got rid of. "Giv.
them," she says, "whatever they are!
most opposed to; whatever they don't
want make them have.' Just what
we have always sa'd. Give them mil
linery stores. Philadelphia Call.
The Journal of Pekin,- China, was,
established in 911, and the present pub-!
lisher opens his eyes with surprise whea
an old gentleman from the rural dis
tricts enters the ollice and says he has.
been a subscriber since the first number
appeared and shows a receipt to prove
it Norristovm Herald.
"What did vou have to give for,
that bonnet Mrs. Crimsonbeak?"
asked Mrs. Yeast while jn their way
to the matinee. "Twentytwo dollars!"
replied the fashionable lady, proudly..
"I don't mean the trimmings, dear. I
mean the bonnet alone." "Oh; six
teen cents!" Yonkcrs Statesman.
Smith and Jones were strolling up
Fifth avenue. Said Jones: "How
much does it cost you a year for cigars.
Smith?" "Oh, about four hundred
dollars, at a rough estimate." "Well,
that's a wicked waste of monev. I
never smoked a cigar in my life. Why,
the money you have fooled away on to
bacco in the past thirty years would al
most buy one of these fine mansions."
"Yes." replied Smith, "I suppose it
would. By the way, Jones," he added,
which one of these mansions do you
own?" A". Y. Times.
"Horatius," said the school mis
tress to a nine-year-old boy with two
imposing freckles on the knees of his
pants, "Horatius. please form a sen
tence with the word 'toward' in it and
write the sentence on the board."
Horatius went to the board, and, after
much scratching of head and friction
of brain, printed with the crayon, in
letters that looked like a lot of half
feathered Shanghai chickens running
after a piece of dough, the following
sentence: "I toward my trousers."
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
SKATING.
The Distinction Between Skating- On taa
Ice aad Ia the Rink.
Skating on rollers round and round a
rink is ono thing; skating on the ice,
over a long, straight-away course, un
der cliffs, past meadows, among hills,
is quite another. The relation of the
former to the latter Is the same that
shooting at clay-pigeons bears to quail
hunting in the stubble. In the one case
we find pleasure in dexterity; in the
other we get near to nature and catch
the spirit of adventure.
The writer never had but one thor
oughly satisfactory skating experienco
in his life. It occurred on the Kentucky
River. He was one of a party of ten,
all young enough to be l.vely, all old
enough to appreciate the rare condi
tions. The river wa struck where a
break in the bluffs gave an easy descent
to the ice the objective point (ad it
is always well to have an objective
point in life, whether one is skating,'
soldiering or sermonizing), seven miles
away. The sky was gray; just a
thought of snow in the" air; the
'wind with us; the scenery rugrered
and picturesque. Here was felic.ty
unmixed! We seemed to sink into the
embrace of nature. The region was as
wild to the view as when Daniel Boone
first looked upon it We gazed down
the perspective of the vailevs, that oc
casionally opened as wc swept out of
one defile into another, half-expooting
to sec a village of wigwams in the dis
tance. There was a charm in every
foot of the landscape which, liko a vast
Eanorama, swept behind u- a we flew,
ut the charms were those that hold us
irresistibly when we contemplate the
"deep sol.tude-." of nature, profoundly
sensitive of the august majesty of the
Creator's own handiwork. We began
with a whoop; but, as the true senti
ment of the seene touched our souls,
we jrew subdued by the environing
grandeur, the pace conform ng to the
general mood, and it was not until
there was a sudJen realization that the
goal was near that the wild halloo of
the foremost, himself abruptly aroused,
awoke the spirit of frolic.
If skating were only attractive under
these circumstar.c -s there would b few
skaters in the world; but the same up
lifting cxper enee mav be attaiuudin
other ways and a all seasons. Tho
busy Amercan needs the suggestive
diversion that sport iu the open air
gives whether it be skating, bicycling,
hunting, fishing or tours afoot " And
he need-: to open his soul to the senti
ment of the past-me. To play merely
to perfunctor ly acquiesce in a physi
cian's prescription is not the doctor's
intention. Wc should learn to enjoy
hunting uu te as much because wc go
to the hill and fields as for the oppor
tunity to fill a game-bag. Skating in
a rink, shooting at a target under
cover, or racing aga.n-t t mearound tho
tan-bark circle, are we)l enough in
their way. but the better thing is to go
a-sporting where the eye can discover
a distant horion. The anise-bag has
its proper use in default of the fox.
That there is, at the -present time, a
popular tendency- to play out-of-doors
is very evident, notwithstanding the
fervor with which some in-door pas
times are held. It is giving, as has
been noted by intelligent observers a
grateful element to American litera
ture, and is awakening in the Ameri
can youth an ardor in the pursuit of
these healthful pleasure; which are
only to be found where Nature main
tains something of her original condi
tions. It was not many years ago
when there were but comparatively few
resorts for the summer-tourist in quest
of an idling-place. Now they abound
everywhere. The reason lies in the
fact that people no longer, as a rule,
desire to go with the crowd, but prefer
the small groups in the. places to
which the noise of commerce does not
reach, and where the beat of Nature's
heart ean he heard. G. C. Matthews,
in Chicago Current.
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