Nebraska Newspapers

    PRENTICE.
Incidents in tho Career of tho
Ilabowncd
Humorist.
TThero is a sort of general Iccx that
Tireuiicc was "a bad man with o gun,"
'a duelist, and all that sort of thing.
Nothing could be more erroneous. Tho
fact is he never fought a duel, tut was
sometimes, from the nature of bV busi
ness, forced to personal and audden
rencounters. He was frequenth chal
lenged, but always made fun ol mes
sage?. Once he wrote his chalfenger
that- it only took one fool to send a
challenge, while it took two to light,
and he didn't wish to be classed :n the
category. On another occasion lie ac
cepted he challenge, and having- the
choice of weapons, insisted that ach
man should be armed with a straw and
A cask of whisky, and that each should
suck with his straw from his own rask
until one fell, and that one should be
considered vanquished and the othor'fl
honor satisfied.
Prentico was an exceedingly candid
man, as the following anecdotes will
show: Once Will S. Hays, the famous
spng-wriUjr, in conversation with him,
said: "I suppose, Mr. Prentice, you
.have seen mv last song?" With a sly
and quizzical look at the minstrel, lie
replied: "Well. I hope so, li.ll."
Coming out of a public building on
,day, where there were double door
which swnng in and out, a young man,
who was coming in, pushed against the
left-hand side of the door in which to
enter, while Mr. Prentice was pushing
against the other side of tho door, try
ing to make his exit. The result was
a ridiculously awkward halt. Finally,
when the two had managed to got the
oor open, Mr. Prentice said to the
frorriiger: "My young friend, in mak
as8urPur way through the world, if you
. , jnly keep to uie rigm you wm
'r run against anybody but a fool.
to p you iieedn't apologize to him." I
niebody stole the unabridged die
" Ay once from the editorial room of
the Ittifil, and Mr. Prentice, having
from boys" &'e tnat valuable tome, dis
. .l ss. Forthwith he ordered
thenco to tho , of the book be pup.
bles, destroyib, "For." said ho, "no
property. "less egotist would at-
- a newspaper without a
Me. Iry."
ney, yrentice's hat was one o his ee-
other rlics' e Mwavs nat ' more
-J lf full of bits of paper not larger
He waostjj stamp, on each of which
a sulky pHten a word or two, in the
die deBd.'niorantk1' lesities be car
' .pocket-knife, pencils, scissors,
Accoke and porteitonnaie in it, and
menj. lines, in an absent-minded way,
ould put a well-masticated chew
SP'tobacco into it instead of throwing
the cud away.
Many persons from abroad used to
call on Mr. Prentice when they were in
Louisville, as though he was one of tho
curiosities of the citv, or just for the
mrpose of being able to say that they
lad talked with such a great man, and
this was peculiarly annoying to him, as
ho was inclined to be retiring and
really never thought of comprehending
nis own fame. Un one occasion an oiu
friend called on the editor, and brought
with him a callow young man from
some undefined locality in the rural
districts. This youth was particularly
curious, and actually asked Mr. Pren
tice to say something funny.
The ludicrous remark was smoothed
over as quickly :is possible by
Xho gentleman who brought the
young man in, and shortly there
after some liquid refreshments
were ordered to be brought up to
the sanctum. Mr. Prentice nad chosen
a mint-julep, and when it came he held
it up and asked tho gentleman wiry
that drink was like his young friend?
Of course the young man, feeling Hat
tered by the attention, was eager to
know, and begged for the answer to
the conundrum. Finally, turning to
tho irentleman. Mr. Prentice said with
a pleasant smile: "This is a green
horn!" Once Mr. Prentice met an acquaint
ance on the street who was very much
intoxicated, and he declared to the wit
'that he was all huiikidori." "What
do you mean by hunkidori?" said Mr.
P. " "1 mean, sir." said the inebria'te,
"that I am pretty drunk." "Well,"
said Mr. Prentice, "if hunkidori means
pretty drunk, I think vou are hunki
dori1 In 1868 Hon. llcnry Wattcr
son became editor and part owner of
the Jour mil, and Mr. Prentice, who had
grown quite feeblo, did very little
work. In tho course of six months
the Journal was consolidated with the
Courier and became what is known as
the Courier-Journal. About a year
after, Mr. Prentice died at the resi
dence of his .son. Colonel Clarence
Prentico, a few miles below Louisville,
on the Ohio River.
He was a powerful editor, and was
the most brilliant paragrapher of the
age indeed, the first one of any note.
His wit was bright and sparkling, his
satire keen, his eloquenc. grand, his
poetry beautiful, h s logic unanswer
able. A deep thinker, a profound
reasoner; genial, hopeful, human, and,
therefore, sometimes erring, he had the
best of friends, the bitterest enemies,
and he was, all in all, a great and
gifted man a genius. HI L. Visscher,
in Denver Opinion.
A LOGGING-CAMP BOSS.
A. Thrilling Incident in the Pineries or
Northern Michigan.
"For a vouusr man I have done some
pretty tough scrapping in the Rockies
and mining regions of New Mexico and
Arizona, but a few days ago I had the
worst scare of my life in the lumber
districts of Northern M chigan." The
speaker was a young man of some
twenty-seven years, dressed in rough-and-ready
style and wearing a frizzy
tow beanl. He shifted the position of
his broad shoulders as he lounged back
in an easy chair in the Sherman House
office, puffed his cigar vigorously, and
then continued: "It was one of those
bitter cold days we've just been having,
and I had got up at three o'clock to
rouse the men and get their t,prinkler
out. The air s-eerued full of blue steel
and cut to my marrow like a razor.
One of the teamsters got scared
out and played off sick. So I
had to take his place. When we
had
sot
a jrood, big load I took the
reins and sat down on the butts of the
logs, leaving tlu two loggers on be
hind. Of courst about twenty feet of
the load hung off the last bob. The
road was a sheet of ice, for the sprink
ler ran over it every morning, and the
horses were sharp-shod, so wo si d
along smoothly until we got to the
slide a pretty Jip incline ending in
a turn wh ch was m ghty sharp for a
road sixty feet wide. As soon as we
started down my hair began to stand
on end. for t!.e" horses gallope4 like
fury to keep ahead of the bobs which
were slew.ng all over the road. I got so
paralyzed and nervous that when we
approached the turn I reined in too
suddenly. I felt the front bobs jump
one wav and the back bobs the other.
The hind ends of the logs whistled
through the air like willow switches,
and I heard the loggers yell: 'For God's
gakCj .' The next thing was
a loud snap! snap! snap! like
three tremendous paper-crackers as
the big log-chains broke like so many
cotton thread. D.d you ever use a
switch sling? Whirl it round and
round your head, you know, till a sud
den twist sends the apple off the end
and spinning into the a:r? Well, that
is the way I felt and that is just
what I thought of as I was shot off in
to the air, over and over and over, till
I struck in a snow drift some hundred
MX more feet from the road. When I
GEORGE D.
had struggled bck through tho snow I
found the norses trying to kick loose
from tho few bits of harness that dan
gled about them, tho bobs tangled
around the trunk of a small piua tree,
and the logs scattered to the four
winds. One logger crawled back to
the road with a fractured leg, and the
other soon followed with a dislocated
shoulder. One had struck a tree and
the second had landed against a stump
SXSKTw JraS
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and, as I had some pretty heavy bruises
myself, I concluded that I was not
made to boss a lumber camp. So I was
driven to town next day to telegraph
the management that the'head team
ster was tilling my place, and. that I
was on mv wav to Chicago; and you
bet your life I am glad I did it. If you
have never passed a winter lntheMicu- .
igan lumber districts you don't know
ean lumDer uisinuuj uu uuu c .hut
what trouble is. In the first place a
man has to
work from three in tue i
morning till eight and sometimes
eleven at night. My daily life,
while I was fool enough to stay there,
was something like this: 1 kept stow
for twenty teamsters and bossed them
at their work. I .slept and ate in the
only approximately clean place in tho
whole ranch a little box built out into
the big room and all lined with strong
tobacco, curry-combs, socks, pins, but
tons, buckwheat, kerosene and bad
molasses. The box had no cover, so as
I lay on the only quilt between me and
the floor I could see the stars through
tho frosty cracks in the roof. Tho
onions, beans, cabbages and a small
kenr of sauerkraut were stored just out-
1 side my door in the big room, which
was heated red-not Dy an immense
open fire-place. At night tho man
would take off their soaking-wet rub
ber boots and stand them up by the
fire.
Those were awful old days lor me.
It ,ori lmn slpnnlnss nights, and then
had to eet up before daybreak, with
the thermometer twenty or thirty de
grees below zero, and go about my
work with a splitting ueadacLv, con
tracted in tho foul air in which I had to
pass the night. I am glad I am out of
it. It is an unhealthy, dirty, danger
ous business, and unless a man is in
with the management there is no mon
ey in it" Chicago Tribune.
A DROLL SUIT.
A Singular Breach-of-Promise Case A
FrNky Old Gentleman.
Surely the drollest breach-of-promise
case ever brought into court is one
now pending at Williamsport. Pa. A
tough old veteran of eighty becama
enamored of a buxom beauty of
twenty-eight, of the name of Kentner,
and promised to marry her. Wind of
tho affair reaching tho sons of the old
man and tho parents of Miss Kentner,
they put their heads together and
stopped the foolish busine?-?. Uy way
of a salve to tho lady s feel.ngs she gi
m
S3.000 damages. But the octoenan
mt his charmer ajrain. memory did
bring back the feeling, and they agreed1
to elope. The lady, like Miss Mel
notte in tho novel, kept her word ami
went to Detroit, where her aged lover
was to meet her. But he, 1 ke Sir Fe
lix, was not on hand. Whether he
had the same reasons lor not Keep-
in"- his engagement as that worthlpr
baronet, or whether his sons kept too
(tlosA'A vTAtah on him. wj are not inr
ffjStfpa. Wo are only told that the.ladyn
returneu nome ironi leiro.t -craju
with orief." The errief must hav
layjJ
tne
nhano-nd into tho histor.c fury of
woman scorned when she learned that
during her absence, while she was
crying "He cometh not!" in herJffacL
at Detroit, the wretched o'.d malnhad
actually gone otT and married anotuBr
woman.
e
ty
Hi
one srirl aim wniio ikt oacit is turiieu
"oes off and marries another. Tall
the wildness of youth! It is h'gh
me
the clergy began a eour-e of lectures to
old men on tho neeess ty of moderating
their passions. Thonias Hood had no
notion of these times when he wrj:
"When he is forsaken, withered Tnd
shaken, what cm an old man do but
d'eP" D.? Why. if he had lived in
these times he would haw got engaged
to a young girl and jilted her.J'hatis
better fun than dying. Wo rather SBF
pect that Willis Is somewhat respon
sible for the astonishing tendency of
the modern-race of old men to throw
their oap over the m 11 top. He meant
well probably when ho wrote:
"It stirs tliu blood In an old man's lieafr
And inukos his pulsed ily.
To catch the thrill ol a happy voice
And tho light of a pleasant eye."
But there are old men nowadays who.
when their blood gels stirred and their
pulses fly, swoop down on women folk
like an Assyrian on the fold and ravage
whole citv fulls. The thing makes one
feel 1 ke "13ened:ck": "Hath not the
world one man but he will wear his age
with susp'cion? Shall I never see" a
bachelor of three-score again?" San
Francisco Chronicle.
GREELEY'S HABITS.
The Great Kdltor Not the Kind of a Man
to Grace a Fashionable Dintus-Room.
"Horace Greel
was a great
eater;
he d.dn't care
went in for
about quality, but
said John
Schlosser, caterer
Duquesne
Club, while talking of sdlie Tf his ex
periences the other day. nIr:Il5chkT3ser
was at one time caterer o a famous
New York hotel, and af terwhrdi held
the same position at iejckeifs, in
Washington, and naturalrjrehas a
large fund of anecdotes of distmguished
men.
"How did you become acqua
with Greeley's hab.ts:"' aske
writnr. '
"I was caterer at the house
when Greeley lived there," replied Mr.
Schlosser. "He was a very queer old
man and a good natured one generally.
He would sit in his room dressed, in a
dirty old dressing-gown with nu old
pair of slippers on, and read the papers
early in the morning. It 'was
wonderful the number ol papers
he would read and throw in
piles all around the room, and if any
of them were lost or were taken away
when his room was cleaned up, he
would bo furious. He was a greateat
er of fruits. Nearly every day baskets
and even barrels of fruit were sent to
him. He was very fond of pineapples,
and some friend sent him tr.o and three
barrels at a time, which he enjoyed
with great relish."
" as he a good liver and fond of
delicacies and French cooking?"
"Not at all. As long as aafsh
pleased his taste he never stopped to
inquire what it was called, or what it
was made of. If he wanted a repeti
tion of it he would say: 'I want some of
that j'ou gave me the other day,' and
that would end it. He was an enor
mous eater, but was too much of a
farmer to care to go into details. He
never gave any banquets orflidners to
his friends. Sometimes one of bis inti
mates, Mr. Bardsley. the lawyer, would
give Mr. Greeley a dinner, biit Greeley
never gave him" any in return. Mr.
Greeley was in bad health then, and I
think that his manner of eating did not
make him any healthier." FitUburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph. "rs"
The
grasshopper develops "-from
g larva to tue winged adult
the youn
without changing its mode of life.
The State of Maino paid last year
f 2,745 as 'bounties on bears, the num
ber of bears killed being 549.
orfiettntjfr u!usi burrmqevitiitintt
TearsWLao.Wfci'ees Jo eleTwci
witnn
olHfctlW."
THE OOWBOY.
Bill JCye' Ma of the Genesis of tlw
tir Monarch or the rutins.
So much amusing talk Is being made
recently anent tho blood-bedraggled
cowboy of the wild West, that I riso a
one man to say a few things, not in a
dictatorial style, but regarding this so
called or so-esteemed dry-land pirate
who, mounted on a little cow-pony and
"" 8rttt "OS8-
the green surge of the plains to scatter
the rocky shores of Time with his fel-
lowman.
A great many people wonder where
the cowbov, with his abnormal thirst
for blood, "originated. Where did this
Jesse James, with his gory record and
his dauntless eve come iromr was ne
Dorn n a buffalo wallow at the
gome rockribbed mountain, or
foot of
BOme rock-ribbed, mountain, or cuu. ne
Hrst breathe the thin air along the brink
f lk.i: ond. where the horned
of
toad and the centipede sans him to
sleep, and tho tarantula tickled him
under the chin with its hairy legs?
Careful research and cold, hard
statistics show that the cowboy was
horn in an unostentatious manner on
the farm. I hate to sit down on a
beautiful romance and squash the breath
out of a romantic dream; but the cow
boy who gets too much moist damna
tion into his system, and rides on a
gallop up and down Main street, shoot
ing out the lights of the beautiful bil
liard palaces, would be just as happy if
a mouso ran up his pantaloons-leg as
you would, geptle reader.
One night, while I had rooms in the
business part of a territorial city in
the Rocky mountain cattle country, I
was awakened at about one o ciocica. m.
by the most blood-curdling cry of
"murder!" I ever heard. It was mur
der with a big "M." Across the street,
In the bright light of a restaurant,
a dozen cowboys with broad som
breros and flashing silver braids, huge
leather chaperajos, Mexican spurs, wd
orange silk neckties; with flashing re
volvers were standing. It seemed that
a big red-faced Captain Kid of the
band, with his skin full of valley tan,
had marched into an ioe-cream resort
with a self-cocker in his hand, and
ordered the vanilla coolness for the
gang. There being a dozen young
folks in the place, mostltmale and fe
male, from a neighborulf hop, indulg
ing in oream, the proprietor, a meek
Norwegian with thin white hair,
deemed it rude and outre to do So. He
said something to that effect, whereat
the other eleven men of alcoholic oour-ao-o
let off a yell that froze the cream
into a solid glacier, and shook two
kerosene lamps out of their sockets in
the chandeliers.
This annoyed the ice-cream agricul
turist, and he took the old axe-handle
he used to jam the ice down around
the freezer with, and peeled a large
area of scalp off the loader's dome of
thought, and it hung down over his
eyes,so that he could not see to shoot
with any degree of accuracy.
After he had yelled "murder!" three
or four times, he fell under an ice
cream table, and the mild-eyed Scandi
navian broke a silyjBJlated castor
over the organ of self-esteem.- and
poured red pepper, andjt aricTvinegar,
and Halford sauce, and other .relishes
on the place where the scalp.was loose.
This revived ttie brave out murucrous
cow-gentleman, and ho begged that he
might be allowed to go away.
Tho erentlo Y. M. C. A. superintend
ent of the ton-stamp ice-cream freezers
then took the revolvers away from the
bold buccaneer and kicked him out
through a show case.
All cowboys arc not sanguinary; but
out of twenty you will generally find
one who is brave when he has his re
volvers with him; but when he forgot
and left his shooters at home on the
piano, the most tropical violet-eyed
dude can climb hira with the butt end
of a sunflower, and beat his brains out
and spatter them all over thawsehool
district.
In the wild unfettered Wefft, beware
of the man wo never caTies arms,
never gets drunk, and always minds
his own business. He do't go around
shooting out the gas. orntimidating a
kindcrgarteh school; b when a brave
frontiersman, with a rovolver in each
boot and a bowie down the back of his
neck, insults a moddlt young lady, and
needs to" bo thrown through a plate
glass window and lien walked over by
the populace, calhm the silent man who
dares to wear a cleau shirt and human
clothes. Bill Nic, in Puck.
THE PUBLIO SCHOOLS.
What Teachers Are Doing to Decrease the
Percentage of Illiteracy.
The members of the teaching profes
sion in this country are exhibiting, at
the present time, a most commendable
zeal in all good works. A review of
the proceedings of the district conven
tions, count3' institutes and State asso
ciations reveals an extraordinary spirit
of progress. The columns of the edu
cational periodicals abound in papers
which are full of interesting sugges
tions, original ideas and theories of all
kinds. Every teacher seems to have
his or her peculiar view which, on the
proper occasion, is very courageously
advanced. Opinions, diametrically op
posed, constantly clash, but all are the
outcome of one unanimous desire im
provement. The country at large is to
be felicitated on this condition of
things.
It occasionally surprises the tuition
and tax-payers to find how far some of
the vital questions in the administration
of the public schools are from being de
finitely settled, but this surprise grows
out of the American disposition to re-1
gard ten years a century and fifty years
an age, and to forget that we are yet,
and naturally, in the period of institu
tional beginnings and experiments.
The public at large should not, there
fore, grow restive because the teachers
are given to debate and disagreement.
They will come to conclusions, doubt
less, in good time. Their energy and
devotion to educational interests must
be considered as devoid of the selfish
ness that characterises place-hunting
politicians, for the reason that their
positions are usually arduous and their
financial expectations inconsiderable.
They certainly present themselves in
the attitude of soldiers enlisted on the
side of a great and worth' cause, their
loyalty being due to purer and higher
motives than individual bonefiL
The question of a large appropriation
by the National Government to be de
voted to the suppression of illiteracy
has aroused them as never before.
They now find themselves facing a
great evil with the possibility of secur
ing effective mejing for its overthrow,
and they feel something of that ardor
which our forefathers felt when the
Stamp Tax enabled them to draw a
line, and which the old Abolitionists
experienced when the proposition to
extend slavery brought their affair to
an "issue. Heretofore the teachers,
though imbued with a desire to ban
ish ignorance from the land, were con
tent to ploU along in their mission, be
lieving that the light would gradually
spread as the years wore on, yet with
the discouraging consciousness that
the .lane waF very long. Now, sud
denly, an over-plus in the Treasury
iuggests a plan whereby a grand ad-
I J fa a general stimulation of en-
? j .- .w; .- fh t
ranee can be made, and the conse-
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tion by the Government is altogether
. . Tm . ... .? ?l .1. ..
They have settled that to thur own sat-
advlsaoie is not tne question wuu lucm,
iffaotion, and believe, if we may trust
the reports, that the country's glory
can bo subserved in no way so well as
bv educating tho great body of illit
erate voters. Whether or not the ap
propriation shall be made, the teachers
will have been greatly elevated in tho
public regard by tho philanthropic po
sition they have taken, and the assur
ance they have given that they are
striving according to their best lights
to improve the intellectual and moral
life of the Nation.
Realizing, therefore, the progress tho
teachers are making in the work of
educating the people a progress which
has the positive testimony of figures
the relation of the teacher to reforma
tory measures in the prisons is a mat
ter for the curious to consider. If ed
ucation means the increase of the
citizen's responsibilities, it may be per
tinently suggested that, with the in
crease of educational opportunities,
prison discipline should grow sharper,
and punishment rather than reforma
tion be the policy of the prison-keepers.
If the percentage of illiteracy,
accordingly, continues to be reduced
by the teachers, the social scientists ol
the country should not fail to give this
matter thefr attention. O. C. Malthsws,
in the Current.
FOREST CULTURE.
What Has
Been AocomplUhod in Ne
braska.
No reasonably intelligent person can
doubt the advantage and benefit to the
country at large of the maintonance ol
a considerable area of forest. No one
can ignore the value of timber as s
material for use in various arts and fot
the domestic supply of farmers and
others who require rough and cheap
timber for many purposes. It is quite
unnecessary to do more than refer tc
these points or to the universally ad
mitted advantages of the forests and
timber plantations in regard to climate
and water supply. All these things arc
known and well understood. But tlij
are almost entirely ignored and
neglected and the positive necessity
for general action in rogard to the
planting of waste lands with timber it
lost sight of in tho noisy calls upon the
Government to step forward and "do
something." The old story of the cart
man whose cart was stuck in a mud
hole, and who called upon Jupiter to
get him out of his trouble, applies to
this business. Farmers are the most
interested in this matter; they have
an abundance of waste land, or of land
that lies useless at present, that might
be very profitably planted with timber.
But because some other persons may
derive some benefit from tho planting
of timber upon their lands and enjoy
some of the advantages with them of
it, this beneficial work is left undone.
A valuable lesson may be learned from
Nebraska in this regard. This young
Western State was almost wholly with
out timber; a treeless waste of green
grass and blue sky which met at tho
horizon all around the solitary traveler
who crossed its lonely prairies a dozen
or a score of years ago. Ex-Governor
R. W. Furnas, one of the pioneers who
settled this State and have covered it
with fruitful fields, blossoming or
chards aud gardens and leafy groves,
was one of the lir.it to arouse popular
favor in regard to tree planting, and it
was, we believe, during the administra
tion of his government that Arbor Day
was established as a public festival, of
which the planting of trees was tho
chief object. This idea struck the
popular fancy, and it has spread into
other States.'but flourishes most fruit
fully in its birthplace, so much so that
during 1884 the amount of tree plant-in"-
done consisted of 2,500,000 cotton
woods, 400,000 box elders, 800,000 soft
maple, 250,000 ash. 175,000 elm, 85,000
sycamore, 225,000 other deciduous
trees, 1.850 bushels of walnuts, 250
bushels of acorns and 125 pounds of
catalpa seed. At this rato of progress
Nebraska will soon be melodious with
the varying music of the forest and be
come a place of woods and groves,
while elder States will have unclothed
themselves and lie bare and barren to
the winds and sun. All this h:is been
done by private effort, stimulated by
an ambition and rivalry keenly sharp
ened by a public spirit which has pre
vaded all the people, until even the
children have their groves, planted by
tiny hands and nursed into growth by
generous care. Government has had
no hand in it It is the outgrowth of
tho truo American idea of popular
sovereignty, and that what the people
want dono tho people must do for them
selves. If only the people most inter
ested in other States would follow this
bright example all that tho State Gov
ernments should do where there aro
public lands would be quickly done,
and the remaininir forests would be
preserved from the cruel axe and the
wasting fire.
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BLAKE'S PILLS.
The Astonishing Cure Wrought by a Box
of Globules Which Were Not Even Swal
lowed. The present mania for doctoring
and dosing, recalls an incident in the
experience of Mr. Josh Blake, son of
the lato Madame Blake, of Mount Ver
non street Mr. Blake was not feeling
remarkably well, and while contem
plating a trip to Calcutta and other
places, thought he would study up hii
own ailment from a modical treatise,
'over vfhich he spent considerable time.
At last, finding a. case repjgseuting
a Jie supposed-rhis own, and which
vsrjJfc fully described, atffl with it had
the prescribed remedy annexed, he
was satisfied ihat he Could cure himself.
He accordingly copied verbatim the re
ceipt giveVand'hied him to one of the
leading droggista. He displayed the
copied receipt afid ordered it prepared,
sayingAe would "wait for it" The
clerk looked Ya little suqirised, but
merely said:"It will require some time
to fill this prescription if'vou want the
whole quantity, and as'wc are pretty
busy it will not beteady before to-morroafteruoon."-
Atythe appointed time Mr Blake
callqd for his "lHtle package of medi
cinfc" and was considerably non
plussed when tho clerk brought out for
him a box measuring nine inches in
len"-th and about five inches in width,
an(f the same in depth, filled with pills!
and with it a bill for ten dollars. As
he had ordered the whole quantity
there was nothing to do but to take it
and pay for it; but afterwards in re
counting the joke he had so unwit
tingly played upon himself, he made
uscof some short but very emphatic
words in plainest English, and even
then declared that he could not do the
subject justice. He took the "pills"
with hira to Calcutta; the passengers
and crew were all well on the trip out
and back. Whether on account of the
big boxful of pills or not we will not
pretend to say. Boston Courier.
m
"Grin and Bear It."
The following is vouched for by a
minister's wife, and therefore must b
so If it isn't so:
A clergyman visiti
woman
in a
severe illness, asked :
"Do vou derive any comfdvLfrom the
instruction of the Bible?"
"Oh, yes, indeed," was the reply.
"What particular passage do yo
rely upon at.present? asked the minis
ter 'Grin and bear it" replied the suf
ferer. The clergyman departed to look up a
j concordance. Oil Citu Derrick.
THE CALLEYS.
How FrUom-rs Wcr; 1'nrmcrly Tur aied fea
Hi r.M'fii :a!!-yi.
We suppose ho imt-fu'or lempori:
ar P w 1! nuver entirely disappear.
Thee Wfl alvays 1 e found tho-o who
w.ll ma r.ta'n th ttho former days were
bettor lh:i:i lit-' prcsu1, and t..at the
aff:i rs o th s world .do not move so
."luoothly a .n iAd tun. s.
Undoubt dly th r mav be reason in
such as-ert;o: s, as n some iist:incas
our days .ih w a deg--n. at on from
those of o.ir for'fr.ther ; tlu b lief in
the overruling prov.d -nee and good
ness of God, uie respect of youth to
ward old av,e. he sent.meat o; obe
dience to t e commands of law, we fear
have 5ou o:n wiat of their inllu.mce
over the actual genrat'on.
But wi hout. stopping to enumerate
the tuanv points r. whic'i our own age
has m .de a decid d advance over those
that have prec d-.d it, let u-i merely re
flect on the po iton of prisouers and
sailors of the present day as compared
with thost when men wore condemned
and not alwa s for crimes committed
to the l.ving death of tho galleys:
Baras de la V mv, who served forty
years as a:i oliicor in a galley, thus
writes in 1713 of them:
"Those who enter a galley for tho
lirst time are surprised to see so many
souls on board. There are, in fact, in
Europo an infinity of villages which
do not conta n so many inhabitants.
But that which cause st-11 more aston
ishment is to find so many men in so
small a paeo. It is truo that the
f renter part have not the liberty to lie
own at full length. Seven men are
put on each bench; that is. in a space
of about four feet wide by ten in length.
At the prow are to be seen even thirty
sailors, who have no other lodging
place than the plans des rambades,
which are two spaces of two feet in
length by eighteen wide. From stern
to prow one can see noth'ngbut heads.
The captain and oflicers are hardly
any better lodged, their only refuge is
the poop, which, considering its size,
one is tempted to compare with the
tub of Diogenes. When the pitiless wind
from Lybia. sweeping across the Ro
man beaches, surprised the galleys on
the sea: when the .mpetuous Aquilon
assailed them, or the Gulf of Lons de
livered them to the humid wind of
Syria, the galleys must have been an
image of hell itself. The mournful la
mentations and frightful cries of the
crew, the horrible bowlings of the
chain-gang, the groaning of the vessel's
frame, mingled with the no se of chains
and tho roaring of the- tempest must
have produced a sentiment of
terror in the most intrepid heart.
Rain, hail, lightning, the hab tual
accompaniments of these violent
storms, the waves washing over the
decks, added to the horror of the situa
t'ou. Although people are not gener
ally very devout in the galleys, some
would then !; ov,n praying to God.
while others were offering vows to all
the saints, ."-ome ewn. in spite of the
rocking of tlu vessel, would try to
make pilgrimages on board! Much
better would it have been for them not
to forget God and his saints as soon as
the danger was past
"Calm weather ite!f has its inconven
iences: Uad m -lis are then so offen
sive that the. can not be escaped from,
in spite of the snuff w th which you
are obliged to fill your nose from morn
ing to night. There are always on a
galley certain little pests which aro the
torment of the inhabitants. Flies exer
cise their empire by day, bugs by
night, fleas and lice day and night.
Whatever precautions may bo taken,
one can not succeed in getting free
from these annoyances. The frightful
vermin do not respect even cardinals,
ambassadors, or crowned heads."
With respect to the size of the gal
leys, the largest of taose in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries had a
length of about forty-seven to fifty-five
meters, by not quite six meters in
width. They were of very light draft,
and consequently shallow, were moved
by fifty oars of twelve meters in length,
ami carried a crew in all of about lour
hundred in that circumscribed space.
Here is the testimony of Jean Mar
seille de Bergerac, who in 1701 was
condemned to servo in the French gal
leys for the crime of beinr a Protest
aut. and therefore speaks from a bitter
experience of many years:
"All the convicts are chained to
benches, six to each. These are four
feet from each other, and are covered
with a sack stuffed with wool, over
which is thrown a sheepskin that de
scends to the footrest. The comite,
that is, the maiter of the chain-gang,
stands at the stern, near the captain,
to receive his orders. There are two
sous comites one in the middle, the
other at the prow. Each is armed with
a whip, which is applied to the naked
bodies of the slaves. When the cap
tain gives orders to weigh, the comite
gives the signal with a silver whistle
that hangs from his neck. This signal
is repeated by the sous-comites, and
immediately the staves Deat tne water
with their oars together; you would
say that the fifty oars were but one.
Imagine six men chained to a bench,
naked as when they were born, one foot
on the rest-thc other on tho bench in
front holding in their hands an oar of
enormous weight, stretching their bod
ies toward the stern of tho galley, their
arms extended so as to push their oar
above the backs of the rowers before
them, who themselves take the same
attitude. The oar being thus advanced,
they raise the end they hold so as to
plunge the other in the sea; this done,
they throw themselves back and fall on
their seat, which bends beneath their
weight The galley slave thus rows
sometimes ten, twelve, and even twenty
hours in succession without a single
stop. On such occasions the comite
would thrust a piece of bread soaked in
wine into the mouths of tho poor oars
men to prevent their fainting. Then
the Captain would command the comite
to redouble his blows. If one of the
poor wretches fell exhausted over his
oar, which frequently happened, ho
was flogged until he was supposed to
be dead, and then cast into the sea
without ceremony."
What an idea of human misery and
suffering does the foregoing picture
convey! Boston Transcript.
Growth of Mormonism.
Mormonism is adapted to the in
tellectual capacities of the masses, the
multitude of the ignorant aud poor,
the wretched, the "pariahs of society.
To these are offered just what they are
sure always to hunger for, bold as
sumption aud boundless assertion, great
show of authority, these helping to
certitude in faith; salvation by forms,
by the legerdemain of rite, the hocus
pocus of initiating and anointing; lit
eral interpretation of the Scriptures,
and profuse quotat:ons of texts, and
specially such as are set in the poetical
and obscure diction of the prophets.
The same minds delight in prodigies.
"Quod ignotum, pro rtt"r(fco." The
more mysterious the more true. Tho
secrecy, too, of the endowments has a
charm, and as well the offices and titles
which each one may possess. Of such
fjewgaws and tinsel this church has un
Imitud store. And who is not flattered
by the assurance that he is ef the few
wise and blessed of the radl, tfutt the
many outside his coterie aryitojfch and
doomed? No doubtaRoT besetting
the standard of moralityb lamentably
low, and offering sal vatiomthe worst
on such easy terms as external obedi
ence and service, thousands have been
captured and held. The promise, too,
of land is a lure to many. Bibliothtca
Sacra.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Weather Prophet Wiggins sees fit
to deny the rumor that ho has joined
the Salvation Army.
Lieutenant Governor Ames, of
Massachusetts, who is worth ten mil
lion dollars, wears a twn-cent ueektu.
Napoleon, the great leader of men.
judged them and chose them according
to the character indicated by their
noses.
Matthew Arnold, who came to
America to win fame and farthings,
wound up by losing h:s daughter and
gaining a distinguished son-in-law.
Ar. V. Tribune.
One of Nellie Grant's little boys is
said greatly to resemble his grand
father. General Grant, in his love for
soldiers, horses, pups and oigars.
Harper's Bazar.
The daughter of Bians, the ex
hangman of London, recently testified
in court that she had frequently been
frightened out of the house by her
father's experiments in hanging dogs
and oats.
William H. Crain, the Democratic
Congressman-elect to succeed Colonel
Thomas Ochiltree, from the Galveston
(Tex.) District, is the first native from
Texas ever elected to Congress from the
State. St. Louis Globe.
Joseph Richardson, of St Paul, but
known to everybody as "Uncle Joe,"
who never wore an overcoat or a suit
of clothes worth more than twelve dol
lars, is the possessor of six million dol
lars. Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Texas County Judge recently
delivered a farewell address which ex
cited the admiration of all his friends
until some otliciqus person discovered
that Washington had delivered thesame
address many years ago. N. Y. Sun.
A Pennsylvania girl had not spoken
to any one for years until her mother
died the other day, and was supposed
to be dumb. At the death of her
mother she talked as though she had
always done so. Philadelphia Press.
The oldest woman in Connecticut
lives at Middletown and is named
Smith. She is the mother of eleven
children, enjoys good health, never
rode on a railroad, and is one hundred
and three years of age. Hartford
Courant.
Georgo Dolby, who, In the capacity
of secretary and manager, accompa
nied Charles Dickens during his American-tour
in 1867, says the gross re
ceipts of his seventy-six readings in this
country were two hundred and twenty
eight thousand dollars, and that Dick
ens' personal profits were ninety-five
thousand dollars.
Nicholas Van Horn, a well-to-do
farmer and widower of Habershan,
Ga., and tho father of two children
over thirty years of age, was married
recently tb Miss Ivy, a child of twelve.
During the ceremony the child began
to sob, when the old man patted her
on the head in a fatherly manner, aud
wiped away her tears with his big ban
dana. Chicago Times.
Mr. Thonias Barbour, thread
maker at Paterson, N. J., who dud
recently worth one million dollars, if
not .several millions, was the son of a
threadmaker at Belfast and traveling
salesman in America. His father
wanted to thrash him, big as he was,
for setting up a thread-mill in America
against the British manufacturer.
"Father," said the son, "I'll make
more money for you than I ever did,
and make monev for nivself, too." lie
did. if. Y. Graphic.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
A Brooklyn scientist says that in
about thre million years the earth will
be one gigantic iceberg. According to
his belief, it will be a cold day wiieii
evervbodv gets left. Xorristown Her
ald. "
No modest, prudent young lady
will accept a scapegrace for an escort,
but if she will go to masquerades in the
character of Maud Muller we don't se
how she can avoid going with a rake.
Burlington Hawkeya.
A Boston girl who saw a fellow
with delirium tremens exclaimed: "Un
happy min! Why do 3-011 permit your
self to get the 'James-James?' " The
shock restored the sufferer to his right
mind. N. Y. Journal.
He had an auburn-haired girl, and
promised to take her out riding. She
met him at the door when he drove up.
and he exclaimed: "Hello ! Ready?"
She misunderstood him, and they don't
speak now. Chicago Tribune.
Landlady "Do you find your
steak tender, Mr. Dumby? If not I
will " Dumby (who was wakened
about five o'clock that morning' by tho
cook pounding it) "Er it might be
well to let the cook hit it a few more
times, I think." X. Y. Sun.
"So you didn't succeed very well
with your school in Illinois?" "No; I
had tb give it up at the end of the first
month. "Did you use the blackboard
much?" "No. "It was too large. But
I used all the other furniture about the
room that wasn't nailed down." N.
IV Graphic.
Looking on the bright side: "My
wife is really getting complimentary."
remarked Fogg. "Ah! how's that?"
asked Brown. "Why, she came very
near speaking of my beautiful raven
locks." "How near, for instance?"
"Why, she said my head looked lik a
crow s nest." Bo'ston Transcript.
"Are you superstitious, Mr. Bad
ger?" asked Miss De Silva. "Not in
the least," replied that gentleman.
"Would you prefer a dinner arty of
six to one of thirteen?" "es, de
cidedly." "Ah! I knew you were
supers'titious. Why would "y". Mr.
Badger?" "Get more to eat" Tioy
Times.
Her Ancestry.
A maiden of uncertain age
Of ancestry was wont to brag:
When that attention would engage
The conversation would not Hajj.
"One of my ancestors," bays she
'Came on the Mayflower." "Can it Ve?"
Asked one, " T 6 a distinction jjreat.
Why. l'UU wu- the date."
"Pray tell me," Mvly asked another,
"Was it your fattier or your mothei "
"Why do you suppose the feminine
is used in speaking of the mooii?"
asked Kosciusko Murphy of Miss Es
meralda Longcoffin. "I5eeau.-e she is
so beautiful, I suppose." replied Es
meralda, who is on the shady siilw o!
thirty-five. "No. it's because thce's
no finding out how ole she is," re
plied the lunatic. Texas Sitings.
How the Sultan Looks.
"The day before the one appointed
for our leaving Constantinople," said
Senator-elect Stanford. "I was much
surprised at receiving, through a cjurt
official, an invitation for the follow
ing afternoon to a private audience
with the Sultan, during which he
wished to question me concerning ma
terial developments of Turkey. There
was nothing remarkable about the room,
except perhaps, the fail that it was
furnished in French U le nor was there
much of Oriental -plcmlor in the dress
of the Sultan. He wore a blue undress
uniform of European cut. the only
traces of Eastern cottumc being a plain
fez, and-a magnificently mounted scim
etar. He appeared to be a ratherslight
man, some thirty, five years of age, with
an intelligent face that showed a some
what timid character, I should judge,
and a decidedly Jewish cast of fea
tures." San Francisco Call.
Old Liberty bell was cracked in
1828 while ringiug in honor of a visit
of Henry Clay to Philadelphia.
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Short-hand, $12 for twenty lciion- t'vpe
writing, with use of iu-.u-umottt, $1 lor
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H3TI a'so am prepared to insure prop
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Loss of Memory, Softening of the Hrain,
and all those diseases of the brain. Pritf'e
$1.00 per box, six boxes $.t.uo.
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 3.
For Impotence, Sterility iu cither ex.
Loss of Power, premature old age, and all
those diseases requiring a thorough in
vigorating of the sexual organs. Price
$2.00 per box, six boxes $10.00.
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4.
For Headache, Nervous Neuralgia, and
all acute diseases of the nervous system.
Price ."ic per box, six boxes $2.."i0.
DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5.
For all diseases caused by the over-use
of tobacco or liquor. This remedy is par
ticularly elHcacious in averting palsy and
delirium tremens. Price $1.0) per box,
six boxes $."i.0O.
We Guarantee a Cure, or agree to re
fund double the money paid. Certilicate
in each box. This guarantee applies to
each of our live Specilics. Sent by mail
to any address, secure from observation,
on receipt of price. He careful to mention
the number of Specilic wanted. Our
Specifics are only recommended for spe
cific diseases. Heware of remedies war- T
ranted to cure all these diseases with one
medicine. To avoid counterfeits and al- '
ways secure tue genuine, order only from
DOWTV X. C:iII3i3f,
DRUGGISTS,
lfM ColumbiH, Neb.
Health is Wealth!
Dk E. C. West's Keute and Krai Tncvr
snorr, a cnarantocd epocilic for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits. Xervons- curalKin.
Headacho.Nervotw Prostration caused by thouea
Of alcohol or tobacco. Walcfulnet3. -Mental Do
pressiou. Softening of tho I Jraxn resulting in in
sanity and leading to misory. decay anil death.
Prematura Old Aro, Harronne?, Losa of power
in either eei.Involunt.-iry Lohsci nml spermat
orrhoea caused byover-esertion of thobrain.eeif
abusa or over-indulgonce. Each box contain?
ono month's treatment. SlXOabox.orBixboxea
for $5X0, sent by mail prepaidou receipt of price.
we guarantee: six iioxes
To euro any caso. With each order received byua
for 6ix boxes, accompanied with 5.00, so will
eend tho purchaser oar written Kunranteo to re
fund tho money if tho trratmentdocanotoffeci
acure. Guarantees issued only by
JOHN O. WEST & CO.,
862 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILLS.,
Solo Prop's West's Liver Pub.
S500 REWARD!
WE will rr tHt Vt rwrd for ny eio of llrf r Colp!l2ci
rjifpiU.SkkHfiK!i.,IaJttjo3,ConitiptloQcrCollitn.ii,
weooMlnn with Weit'j Vtuble Lfrtr FUIi, xha tb direc
tion! u itrlctlr complied wits. Tly r portly VfUM . isJ
MJttUil to e1t uoUiactloa. 8o;ir Ccaud. Ijirg boiti.coo
Ubc&jpllIi.UcccU. Ftr ix'. by U dresgl.u. tkninol
JOHN C WEST CO.. 1SI i 153 W. M,d)Ma lCbZJl
m trial pad " k cud prepmid oa nctttl at 3 nat itis7
"ITTTTV1" more money than at anything
W I e'sc ,,v t;lkin" an agency for
" -X"L the bust selling book out. Be
ginners succeed grandly. None fcil.
Terms free. IIallktt Hook Co., Port
land, .Maine. 4-32-y
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