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THE JUNE CRICKET.
In the MadUon Square Park.
Tente1 in the short'grecn grass.
While the moon shone In the sky,
A cricket, close to thoe who pass.
Uttered the old familiar cry.
Little heeded he the noise
Of the crowded city street.
But blew his flute with strident voice
Unmindful of the tramp of teet.
Hundreds brikly hum by.
Listless to tin- smisr they pas;
No polieeniitn -.tops his cry.
Or orders hiiu: Keep off the Brass!"
I who note the steady tune
That he with such relish plays.
Wonder how this note of June
Came to take the city ways.
Far from native haunt withdrawn.
He sinus the old son-rut my feet
The prelude of a country lawn
Salutes th curious city street.
Hustle scenes are not at hand;
No rippling' rivulet wanders near:
Hard it is to understand
This voice in such an atmosphere.
Brave I.ttle cricket, pipe away;
Let your ulithciicsmelt in sonjrl
"Ti- the cheeriest roundelay:
1 .shall thank you for It lon-f.
Torn from tprinir-time. robbed of June,
Phut up to the citv street.
Much I thank you for your tune
Uttered from this strange retreat.
Joel Hentoii, in Harper' Miijtiztne.
TALISMANS AND CHARMS.
How Popular Suporstition is Kept
Alive Everywhere.
linrcMU anil Ouarkery Faith la
Metal Kings and Other Seinele
Charni Intlueiice of Iiuagl-
uation 0cr Disease.
Perhaps no class of superstitions ex
hibit human credulity niul weakness in
a broader light than that connected with
the hitorv of medicine aud surgery.
Until within a comparatively recent pe
riod the medical practice of many a civ
ilized eoimtrv was little else than a tis
sue of .superstitious beliefs anil specula
tive conceits, and such even at the pres
ent day is the character of the healing
art in many parts of the world. Like
other general features in the history of
mank.nd. these beliefs are founded upon
certaiu principles in our nature erring
through that ignorance which progres
sive experience and reason are destined
to diss'pate. Man naturally seeks to
avoid disease from the pain which it cre
ates, and the consequent fear of death
urges him to grasp at any pro.Tered
remedy. His own anxiety, increased by
that of his friends, makes him prone to
believe, and credulity is a weakness ever
ready to be practiced upon by the selfish
ntul designing. Thus quackery and em
piricism originate. There is. however,
another cause of the superstitions in
medicine equally general w'lh that al
ready mentioned, namely, the unknown
origin of many of the maladies which
assail us. The causes of external inju
ries are seen and known; those of inter
nal or constitutional disease are obscure.
In rude ages such afflictions are regard
ed as judgments and the work of malig
nant spirits; hence charms, incantations
and divinations are the curative means
resorted to. If the patient die it is his
fate: if he survive (whether from the
disease having run its course or from
the force of imagination acting upon his
bodily system), the charm is considered
I'llieacious, and what is said to have
cured one it is but reasonable to apply
to thousands. Thus it is that empiri
cism and superstition get established and
retain the hold even Ions; after science
has taught us to laugh at their absurd
ity. It may, therefore, be curious to
collect a few details respecting past
medical practice and its still surviving
su.er.stitio:is.
i"ne oi me earnest ana most preva
lent of these beliefs was that which at- persuaded that with the egg they shall
tributed medical virtues to rings made , bur the ague. If the experiment f.tils
of certain metals and fabricated after a (and the agitation it occasions may
certain fashion. Von Helmont. who 1 often render it successful.) they at
wrote in lite latter part of the Seven- 1 1 tribute it to .some unlucky accident that
teenlli centurv, amrmed that he was
possessed of a metal, of which if a ring
were made and worn, not only the pain
attendant upon hemorrhoids would
cease, but that in twenty-four hours,
whether internal orext rnal. they would
vanish altoget tier. This fait li in metal
rings is still far from being extinct even
in t his country. Some ears ago a young
man in Plaiufield. N. J., of abouttwen-tv-three
vcars of age, evidently in a bad
.state of health, went to a silversmith's
.shop, wishing the proprietor of the os
tabli.shmentto make him a strong ring
out of --everal pieces of silver which he
broujrht with him Hvouestioninir him
t little the silversmith ascertained that 1
he had beeu long subject to fits; that
nothing winch he had hitherto tried had
afforded him any relief, and that he had
been advised by a neighlor to try a
charm which she had known had been
efficacious :u several instances. The
charm was that he must beg seven dif
ferent pieces of silver from seven differ-
ent persons: that a strong ring must be I
made containing a part of each of the (
pieces: that the person who made it
must have no other reward for his labdi J
man ine pieces wnicn were left after
the ring had Jeen made: that he must
wear tin1 ring upon the forefinger of the
right hand, and that he might then have
no further fear of recurrence of fits.
The young man also said that the phy
sician who attended him had signified
his assent to the trial. The silversmith
asked him if he eould really bring him
self to think that it could be of any seri-
ice to him. He replied that, when he 1
thought of it reasonably, he must con-
ios neuni not see now it counu out ,
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that, as he had been so tormented
with the fits, ami as everything that
he had tried had been of no serv
ice, he was willing to try any
thing, for drowning men catch at
straws. The .ilv
silversmith forthwith un-, tor inserted a small pocket thermome
ake him the ring, hut on . ter under the tongue of the patient, as
dertook to m.
condition that he would call after he
had worn it for a while to let him know
11 11 n:m oen the means of conquering
h's mortal enemy or nni. In -lhmit
. ,
three months afterward the young irjm
was passing the shop when the silver- J
smith called him in. Ho told him that
perhaps he (the silversmith) might
doubt what he stated, but that, never
theless, it was perfectly true that from
the time of putting on the ring unfit
then he had never once had a tit. though
before that time he hail had three 'or
four a week, and that he was rapidly
recovering his health. Tiie silversmith
was great ly.aniused with this confession,
for the ring which he made did not con
tain a particle of .the. silver which had
been brought to him? The ring was
made by the silversmith himself from
the shank of an old. silver syoon. and
yet the patient assured himself that he
was cured.
Upon reflecting upon this remarkable
superstition one must .evidently arrive
at the conclusion that the whole causo
of the cure was a strong effort of the
.imagination. The young man forced
himself to believe in the potency of the
charm, and in doing so exerted an in
fluence over the nervous energy which
produced the desired result. -Nfay not
this species of confidence account for
many alleged cures from the use of
charms? Sometimes a superstition ac
commodates itself to a change in the
the public mind, and thus endures Ion 2:
after its original form has ceased to be
regarded. It is by no means uuconimon
to meet with educated jieople who wear
rings composed of zinc ami copper,
which are supposed to have a favorable
effect in rheumatic affections, merely
because plates of these metals with a
fluid between them are employed to
form a galvanic circle.
Talismans, or the doctrine of signa
tures, had their origin from a belief,
says a French writer, that medical sub
stances bpre upon their external sur
faces the properties or virtues they
possessed impressed upon them by plan
etary influence. The connection of the
properties of substances with their color
is also an opinion of great antiquity;
white was regarded as refrigerant, red
as hot cold and hot qualities were
therefore attributed to medicincs'so col
ored. This opinion led to serious er
rors in practice. Red flowers were
given for disorders of the sanguiferous
system, yellow ones for those of the
biliary secretion, etc. We find that in
small-pox red bed coverings were em
ployed with the view of bringing the
pustules to the surface of the body. The
bed furniture and hangings were very
commonly of a red color red sub
stances were to be looked upon by the
patient. Burnt purple, pomegranate
seed, mulberries or other red ingredi
ents were dissolved in their drink. In
short, as Aviceuna contended that red
bodies moved the blood, everything of
red color was employed in these cases.
John of (iadderden. physician to Ed
ward II., directs his patients to Ie
wrapped up in scarlet dresses, and he
says that "when the son of the re
nowned King of Kngland (Edward II.)
la sick of the small-pox, I took care
that everything around the bed should
be of a red color; which succeeded so
completely that the prince was restored
to perfecthealth without the vestige of
a pustule remaining."' Wraxall. in his
"Memoirs," says that the Emperor
Francis I., when infected with the
small-po, was rolled up in a scarlet
cloth by order of his physician as late
as 17G.r, when he died. Flannel dyed
nine times in blue was held to be etli
cacious in the removal of glandular
swellings. Amulets in earlier times
were borne alike by rich and poor, and
even in our own day are not wholly
discarded showing how firmly super
stition lays hold of the enlightened
mind. The elder tree, to the history of
which man' superstitions belong, forms
a charm for a variety of diseases, but
has been especially employed in epi
lepsy. During the severe visitation of the
plague in Loudon amulets composed of
arsenic were very commonly worn over
the region of the heart, upon the princi
ple thai one poison would drive out or
prevent the entry of another. Quills of
quicksilver were commonly worn about
the neck as a preservative asrainst the
plague. The powder of toad was em
ployed In a similar way. Pope Adrian
is rejwrted neverto have been without
it The ingredients forming his amulet
were dried toad, arsenic, tormentil.
pearl, coral, hyacinth, smarag and
tragaeanth. Charms were e pialty pre
valent with tailsmaus and amulets, and
in rural districts the belief in their effi
cacy is far from being extinguished.
The possibility of transplanting or
transferring the ajme was
once com
monly entertained. It is usual with
many persons in Germany who are
affected with ague to visit at dead of
niglrt the nearest crossroad five different
times, and there burv a new laid esir.
I The visit is paid about au hour before
- the cohl fit is exoected: and thev are
, niay have befallen them on the wav. In
the course of the walk, and in the per
formance of the rite, they observe the
strictest silence, taking care not to
s-ieak to any one whom they may
happen to meet. By breaking a salted
cake of bran, and giving it to a dog
when the tit comes on, the malady has
been supposed to be transferred from
the patient to the animal.
Fish charms have been met with
! among many nations.
The fish called
the bullhead is used by some of the
Russian peasants as a charm against
fever. Again, if suspended horizontaTTy
and carefully balanced by a siujrle
thread, while allowed some freedom of
motion, the hsh is credited with the
power of indicating, by the direction of
the head, the point of the compass from
which the wind will blow.
That these charms are totally useless,
and can produce no effect on the disease
for the cure of which they are adminis
tered, must be evident to every educated
mind. In the nature of things, such
cases are imiossible, unless, be it always
remembered, the malady is of a nervous
character, and one over which the hu
agination is capable of exercising some
control. Tlu- power which the mintl
exerts over the body is too well known
to bj for one momeut discredited, and
certain diseases may yield to this influ
ence, when the patient's imagination is
.sufficiently excited by belief in the po
tency of the talisman applied. Number
less instances of this kind of influence
are on record; that.given by Dr. Paris
in his Pharmacologia" is perhaps the
most strikine-lv illustrative As n.-m .
. 3 - .w. ...r
the powers of nitrous oxide were discov-1
ereu uc. ueddoes at once concluded
that it must necessarily be a spe-'
cilic for paralysis. A patient was '
selected for the trial. Previous '
to the administration of the fas the doc-.
he was accustomed to do upon such ac
casious. to ascerta'n the deorreenf qni.
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mal temperature, with a view to future
mmiMncnn Tho ,.i-.ii.-:.. .
wholly ignorant of the ua'ture of the
process to which he was to submit, but '
deeply impressed from the represents-1
tion of the physician, with the certainty '
of its success, no sooner felt the ther
mometer under his tongue than he con
cluded the talisman was in full opera
tion, and in a burst of enthusiasm de
clared that he already experienced the
effect of its benign influence throughout
the whole body. The 'opportunity was
too tempting to be lost; Dr. Beddoes
desired his patient to renew his visits
on the following day, when the same
ceremony was performed and repeated
every succeeding 'day for a fortnight,
the patient gradually 'improving during
the period, when he was dismisaed as
cured, no other application having beea
used. Cures effected by the imposition
of royal bands, by stroking, by mesmer
ism and tho like, are proofs of the same
principle, a principle of which the ju
dicious physician may sometimes avail
himself for his patient's sake, bat which
he will never exercise as an instrument
for his own aggrandizement. Advert
ing. therefore, to the numerous
phases which superstition in past
ages has assumed, there is none which
exhibits the human understanding in a
more degraded light than that con
nected with the cure of bodily infirmi
ties. Few if any of these cures had a
how of reason to recommend them to
the cultivated mind: and even these few
were so clouded with mummery and
jargon that one is apt to treat them
with ridicule, believing that more vir
tue was ascribed to the mode of admin
istration than to the potency of the
article prescribed. Nor did these su
erstitions exert the sway over the vul
gar mind alone; the rich and great
were equally under their influence, and
indulgetl inthem all the more that their
circumstances afforded them the means.
It was left for the progress of science
to dissipate these errors, and though
the simple and uninformed, in remote
districts, may still cling to some of
these beliefs,' and quacks and empirics
be ever ready to impose on their credu
lity. as a nation we are now: happily- on
the path to more rational and effective
modes of procedure. Brooklyn Eagle.
CROWDED TOWNS.
Srlou Question That are Fresln- for
Solution.
It is easy to understand why town
and cities are becoming overrun wit h
an extra number of laborers, mechanics,
tramps and idlers. At the price of farm
produce farmers can not pay as high
wages as are offered laborers or clerk
in the towns. The young man in the
country who is toiling ten or twelve
hours per day. and out of the reach of
saloons, billiard halls and other places
of evening amusement, is not content
to work for twenty dollars per mouth,
when he learns that some of his young
acquaintances are clerking in town for
fifty or sixty dollars per month, with
all the advantages of city life. He is
uneasy and disappointed with farm life,
and rashly breaks loose from home and
friends and goes to the town. He prob
ably fails in getting employment, anil
goes to the next town, or to some large
city, where he thinks he has better op
portunities of employment. He has but
little money, which is soon gone. He
has to abandon respectable boarding
houses and re-pectable company. He
is thrown among the worst characters,
who are shrewd and plausible in
sehemes for making or getting money
easier than work on a farm, or even by
clerking. The consequences are honest
young ineu are fre iicutly led astray,
first apparently in honest enterprises.
then by tlioe of more ilo.ihiful pro
priety, until he is a tramp or a criminal.
In this way the ranks of the idle and
vicious are cis antly recnf ted. and
the towns are full of them, which the
police are not able to detect or subdue.
The cities are already, in all depart
ments of industry, over supplied with
help. Chance; to obtain lucrative or
large salaries are scarce, and constant
employment fo. the common laborer it
almost imposs'b'e to be had. Public
improvements do not employ half the
force they did three to five years ago.
The depressed price of farm produce
will not justify paying higher wages or
employing more hands on the farms.
The reduction of the tarifl" two years
ago to the amount of about "JlO.OUb.WK
takes that amount yearly from the
laborers, artisans, mechanics and man
ufacturers of this country and gives it
to that class in Europe. These things
are creating uneasiness, restlessness,
and idleness. And idleness is the pa
rent of vice and crime. It is a difficult
problem in -tolitical economy to solve.
Crowding to towns for higher wages,
abandoning the frugal and honest in
dustry of the farm, is rapidly recruiting
the army of idle men who will lucoinj
desperate in .sentiments and action
and thinking "the world owes them a
living," whether they make an honest
effort to earn it. they will imbibe the
communistic principle, and make war
on capital and economic industry. Tlie,
are .serious questions to be solved in tho
future Iowa Stale lleghier.
A NOBLE ACT.
The .lustillahte Punishment of an Accord
ion l'layer.
Not long ago a young man was on
his way home at a late hour in the
evening carrying an accordion. He was
met by three public-spirited young nien.
who at a glance recognized him as an
habitual and reckless accordion player.
We all know what these young men
should have done. They should have
gone at otjee to the nearest police sta
tion, notified the sergeant iu charge
that they had met an accordion player,
and left the matter in the hands of'the
police. They knew, however, that in
the meantime the criminal would doubt
less escape, and they therefore, believ
ing that the interest of the public should
be paramount, arrested the accordion
player themselves and proceeded to
puivsli him.
The punishment was unquestionably
a severe one. The strongest of the
young men played the accordion, wh'le
the others compelled their vict-m to
dance. For half an hour that un
happy be:ng 'danced to the tune
of "Sweet Violets." The. effect of
the accordion upon his nerves was
as terr.ble as it would have been
upon the nerves of an innocent man.
for it is a well known fast that" although
au acoord'on pl.iver do-s not sutler
while iu the act of playing, he suffers
as acutely as any other man when he is
compelled to listen to the playing of an
other accordion player. Not only were
the wretch's nerves lacerated by
"Sweet Violets." but his legs, which
were attenuated by loug indulgence iu
accordions, were completely exhausted
by the labor of dancing, and wh -n the
avengers released him and permitiod
him to limp home he was a pitiable
object.
It is painful to learn that the three
avt-ngers were afterward, on the com
plaint of their victim, arrested and fined.
The court, however, hal no option in
the matter. The conduct of the young
men, though noble, was nevertheless
technically illegal, and the court was
compelled to punish them in accordance
with the statute. The duty of the pub
lic in this matter is. however, very dif
ferent from the duty of a court. There
can be no question" that the avengers
acted from the loftiest and holiest of
motives. That their public-spirited,
though illegal conduct should be recog
nized in some conspicuous way as for
example by a public dinner no right
minded man can doubt. They have
struck a lasting blow at the crime of ac
cordion playing, and a service such as
this can hardly be overestimated. iV.
T. Times.
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TITcAIlSTER BROS.,
A TTOItNE YS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build-in--,
llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
JOHN TIMOTHY,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
Mip,lk'!, and all kinds of legal forms.
Insures against fire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block,
Platte Centei. ll)-x
J. M. MACKAKLANP, B. R. COWDERY,
Att-rsey ui H-iiry PaW e. C:Uirter.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARLAND & COWDERY,
Cohnnbus, : : : Nebraska.
J. J. MAUCillAIV
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
igri'arties desiring surveying done can
notify ine by mail at Platte "Centre, Neb.
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Tf H.RHSCHE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy "tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, .((.. at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAJIK SALJIO,
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. .VJ timo.
T H. LAWREKt'E,
DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOIi.
Will do general surveying In Platte
aud adjoining cnuntie. Office with S. '.
Smith.
COLUMnUS,
XPHRASKA.
17-tr
JS. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havebad 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
tuuitytoestimateforyou. ISTSbop on
lath St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-v
o. c. SFTAisrisroyr,
MANUFACTURES OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing; and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
Shop on Olive Street. 2 door-
north of Brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.
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r W.CLARK
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEBR.
His lands comprise some tine tracts
Iu the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion of Jlctte county. Taxes
paid for hon-rjsidUts. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 7
COAL LIME!
J.E. NORTH & CO.,
-DEALERS IX-
Coal,
Lime,
Hair,
Cement.
leclrSpiig Ctal, $7.00 prrtei
Carbon (Wyeaiig) Ceal 6.00 "
EltloB (Iowa) Ceal 5.00 u
Blacksmith Coal of beat quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
14-."m
UNION PACIFIC
LAND OFFICE,
SAML. C. SMITH, Ag't.
AND
General Heal Estate Dealer.
BSTl have a large number of improved
Farms for sale cheap. Also unimproved
farming aud grazing lands, from ?4 to !."
per acre.
BSTSpecial attention paid to making
final proof on Homestead and Timber
Claims.
All having lands to sell will lind it
to their advantage to leave them in my
hands for sale. Money to loan on farms.
P. H. 3Iarty, Clerk, speaks German.
30-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
AU kinds of Repairing done on
Short Notice. Baggies, Wag-
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders the
best made.
Shop opposite the " Tattersall," 011
uuve ht.. UUL.UJIBU3. &-m
IvfiJY Tt. A. FOWLER,
ARCHITECT,
1J03 rireim St., - 0VABA.1TZB.
PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED
for all kinds of Public Buildings and
Private Dwellings. Architect of Willard
Block, Child's Hospital, Residence or
Hon. J. M. Thurston, Residence of Hon.
John I. Rcdick, Omaha; Residence or
Hon. G. W. E. Dorsey, Masonic Hall,
Freraout, Neb; Residence of C. ('. Crow
ell, Esq., First National Bank, Blair,
Neb; Residence of Tlios. Bryant, First
National Bank, Schuyler, Neb., and ma
ny others. 4.'!-mI
in present given aicay.
Send us 5 cents postage.
iuuu anu ny man you win gei
free a package of goods of large value.
mill will atari yuu in uiiv luni niu ai
once bring you in money faster than any
thing else in America. All about the
200,000 in presents with each box.
Agents wanted everywhere, of either
sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare
time only, to work for us at their own
homes. Fortunes for all workers ab
solutely assured. Don't delay. II. Hal
lktt fc Co., Portland, Maine.
NO HUMBUG!
But a Grand Success.
RP. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA-
ter Trough for stock. He refers to
every man who has it in use. Call on or
leave orders at George Yale's, opposite
Oehlrich's grocery. u.r,m
rpRAaiKlT HOUSE,
PLATTE CENTER NEB.,
JOHN DUGHAN,
Proprietor.
The best accommodation for the travel
ing public guaranteed. Foud good, and
plenty of it. Reds clean and comfortable,
charges low, as the lowest. lo-y
A PRIZE.
Send six cents for
postage.and receive
free, a costly box of
goods which will help you to more money
right away than anything else in this
world. All, of either sex, succeed from
firfet hour. The broad road to fortune
opens before the workers, absolutely
sure. At once address, Tkuk & Co.,
Augusta, Maine.
TOTIC'E TO TEACHERS.
J. B. Moncrief, Co. Snpt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. 667-y
H
AMUTO MEADE. M. .,
PH YSICIAN AND SUll GL'ON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y
Bttmi ai WamMffl
won nnn
A TEXAS RAZOR-BACK.
Hw a Yak Palmed One or Them Off
m Native, for a Futl-Btooded Berk
shire. I had not been local editor of the
Bugle very lonj; before I discovered that
there were lots of people who were will
ing to help in molding public opinion,
if I would let them. Some of them
seemed to think that they had a right
to do so.
In Texas, as elsewhere, there are any
number of queer roosters who think
that the editor of the local paper wears
the habiliments of poverty aud nibbles
at the llea-bitteu crackers and pallid
cheese of the free lunch counter for no
other purpose than to furnish Thomas,
Richard aud Henry with facilities for
ventilating their private' grievances in
his paper.
The worst one I ever saw was Sim
Hoi man. who had a ranch on Calaveras
Creek, and who came to town once a
week to transact business a part of
which was gettiug drunk, and giving
me advice as to how to write local
items.
One afternoon while at work at my
desk there was a smell of whiskv in the
air, aud a few miuutes later on in came
Sim Holman, shoving his whisky-laden
breath iu front of himself, so to speak.
It was evident that he had something
on his mind besides whisky.
He sat down very close to me, and
although I managed to shut eft some
of the distillery aroma with a palm-leaf
fan, I got enough of it to make me
think 1 was in Austin duriug a session
of the Legislature. He was just drunk
enough to talk tlueutly. He remarked:
"There's a hatehet-faeed Yankee liv
ing near my ranch, who should be de
nounced by the Bugle as an enemy of
the South. He has swindled me iu a
hog trade. You can draw a little, can't
Vllr,M
"Just a little."
"I want you to draw somo pictures
of the hog he sold me. He sold me a
razor-back for a Berkshire. He sold me
one of these slab-sided razor-backs,
that prowls ahout the woods, living on
acorns, but can spare time to climb un
der the fence aud help harvest the corn
crop rather than let it spoil for waut of
attention. It was one of them pis that
is so thin it can't crawl through a little
hole if you tie a knot on the end ef its
tail. That's the kind of a swine that
Yankee abolitionist sold me for a full
blood Rerkshire."
7' it " . -
"I suppose you drank a glass of cold
water," I remarked: "and not being
used to it, you got so drunk you
couldn't tell a razor-back hog from a
bronze statue of Niobe. If you don't
know anything more about hogs than
thatyouare tooling away your time
farming. You ought to edit a stock
raising journal."
"I wasn't drunk." replied Sim
Holman; "I was as .ober as lam now.
I gues I can tell one kind of a hog
from another. Your name is Sweet. I
don't mistake you for anybody else.
But as I was taying, that slab-sided hog,
built on the Swiss cottage style of
architecture, wanted to rub its back on
something, and not knowing any bet
ter, he allayed the irritation uy rubbing
against a bee hive.
v-
"The bees," coutiutied Sim. "hap
pened to be in. They just dropped
whatever they were at, and proceeded
to entertain their visitor. The hog
sang for them a plaintive ditty.
"Well, the busy little bees not ouly
improved the shining hour, but tliey
also improved the breed of that pig.
When you were a boy. and got siting
by the.b.'cs on the epo-ed parts they
swelled all up. You see ti:it thill,
razor-back hog iv:i. poed all over. m
he swelled up all .er. until he looked
fat and plump l.ke a Herkshire hog.
"I happened to tome along, and
that cu-sitl Yankee incendiary sold me
that hog for a thoroughbred swine. Iu
a few days he bean to fall off as the
swelling went down, aid now he is th
i'aine old razor-back he always was. If
the pre- of the country doesn't pro
pose to redress thov kind of wrongs, it
has no lofty mission anv more."
A. E. Su'ect, in lexa Sifting.
A gentleman in Virgiuia who wm
making preparations to marry, fre
quently talked over the matter with his
intended bride, and together they sug
gested useful article-, for their pros
ee:ivc hous hold. Recently he asked
lis lady loe: -Does anything else
suggcal itself to you, Amelia, that I
might get to make our home happy?"
The young lady blu-hed, and with a
oft love-light in her eyes, respond
ed: "Nothing. Edward, dear, unlesa
00 think it . would be pleasant tm
ave your life iusured." Tha weddinf.
day has baen postpfwt-L
m m.. h a
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VsRVBRii.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Au unfortunate Brooklyn man who
was burdened with the, name De Witt
Charles Clinton Fletcher Piper has boea
allowed by tho courts to drop riper and
Le Witt -'-Brooklyn Eagle.
ilts. .leunie S. Bailey was born in
1847. was one. of seven slter. was
marrie I i 1 ItftiT, removed to Kansas iu
187.". itie.l March 17. aged thirty-uiven.
and was buried in Lit 127. X. Y. Sun
Charles Cranston, of Hannibal. Mo.,
dreamed that he would be killed by a
load of coal being dumped ou him from
a coal car. Wednesday he was killed
in just that way. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
It runs iu the family. Miss Susan
Hale, who has written a very readable
biography of Thomas O. Appletou.
turns out to be a s'ster of hdwsrd
Everett Hale, with literary proclivities,
and she also paints pictures. -Boston
Journal.
The pallid, careworu appearance
of the American editor just now indi
cates how tremendous is the strain
which is put upon his intellect by the
necessity-he is under of directing Mr.
Gladstone how to run the British. 'o
Francisco Evening lost.
Mrs. (J rote, the wife of the histor
ian, was a Ifgh-spirited. hoydenish sort
of a girl, rode without a saddle, and
sailed a boat Sidney Smith once said
of the pair: "1 do like thorn both so
much, for he is so lady-like, and she is
a perfect gentleman."
Warren Green, of Kentucky, the
new United States CousulGeueral for
Kauagawa. Japan, is a sou of Dr.
Noniu Green, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Compauy. Ho is
about forty years of age, aud is now
President of the Louisville Hoard of
Trade.
- Madame Patti is infatuated with
bill aid-. She vNited Irving Hall sev
eral times duriug the recent tourna
ment, and was oue of the most enthusi
astic admirers of tin playing Patti
plays a lrong game. It would lake a
plaer far aboe the average am.ituur
to defeat her. -A". )" Tribune.
A Washington correspondent s;ys:
Mr. (Jeorge Bancroft, the histori tit . h is
a fuuuy w:y of making mock . -owls,
and saying to people of fifty ami si-ty
years of age: "Why. my child. 1 in :n
old as the h lis. I'm the oldt s: p is n
you ever knew." The next minu'.e .0
may be sj. caking iu the most eroiH
and uncoiLseious manner of 'poor old
Mr. Corcoran." wh is just his own
age.
- The geneaology of the. Hopkins
family, of Massachusetts', has never
been completely a-certain d: and it- de
tails are now under the hboriou- e 11
tiny of one of the ennec'ion". who III
prepare a new anil fuller record. Tho
names of the eight children of the an
cestor, Timoihy Hopkins, born iu l.'J'.i,
have long beeu preserved in memory
by the amusing line:
"Ehud, Ieliabod. Dorcu.s iinU Tim:
itarah, Mary, Jemima ami Jim
A'. Y. Independent.
Mrs. Custer's little book is full of
vivid and realistic anecdotes which show
the keen spirit of fun which po s .-. ed
the young wife aud her hero id t 0.0
days of happiness and hur.lship-. All
iu all to each other it was cnou.-i. or
one that the other was successful or lc
serving of prate. At one time th !!
era I returns home and .-ays to 1 i- ap
preciative wife: "Let me get a look
that I have ben read'ng and wh eh I
have marked for you." At th stiuo
moment Mrs. Cu-ter prodticeJ : nov.4
which had been the companion .i:r
lonely hours. I.o! the two book w re
identica', an I the two congenial te d-er.-
had marked ahi.o-t without excep
tion the same passages. Otiaiyo
Tribtuu.
HUMOROUS.
Some Vas-ar ejrls have Iven photo
graph ng the moon. It's funny how a
girl longs to po-se-s a man's picture,
even though she may not know him. -Boston
l'ol.
"Do you know why a barb r is
called a tou-orial ar.ist?" "!. t me
see -'" "As Shakespeare says: Ci:lg.l
your dull brains no longer!' It's be
cause he's j;ool at making ciif." .VI
J. Graphic.
Yale "What is the diHereiiee be
tween an idiot an I a pretty giil?"
Ilarvaid. with alacrity, having jut
read Lampoon "Tin; one I- imiiii n-ely
simple aud the other is sluiph im
mense. " Buit'in Hearon.
Blown "And he actually gave you
the lie. did he? And of coui-m- you
knocked him down iu his tr: c '."
I'ogg "Oh. d-ar, 110; he meant to .0
kind, no doubt. Poor fellow, it was
all he had to give." Boston 7 "
script. "Miracles in Turkey" is tin: e:p
tion under which a foieign correspond
ent writes. Criuisouheck say- the
greatest miracle iu tut key that ever
came under his observation was wlum
hU boardiiig-hoifec mistress made a
nine-pound bird last twelve boarders
seven days. Youkcrs Statesman.
Doe'or "You av your wife i- not
feeling well. What aic the symptoms?
Is her tongue coated?" Ba- "Teli you
the truth, doctor, I did n't think ii wus
safe to meddle with that. I tl'd n't
waut to ask her to put her tongu out.
you know, for the very lat time velud
a little chat her tongue put. me out."
Boston I'osl.
Knfant T rrible "Pa, is suiter Suo
jointed like the doll ougave me('lir-t-mas?"
Father "Certainly not. ' leo
patra Maria. Whvdoyoii ask?" n
fant Terrible "'CaiiM: la,t nig! l at
the musical, when she got in the iu d-l'o
of the crowd, Dr Dibbles asked t ho
could take her apart for a few minute.?.
Oil City DerH k.
"When was Koine built?" asked a
high school teacher of the first elus in
ancient history. "Ir. the night," an
swered a bright little girl. "In tho
sight!" exclaimed thea-touished teach
er. "How do you make that out?"
"Why, I thought everybody knew that
'Home wasn't Luilt in a day!' " replied
the child. - t 'hirago Tribune.
A Jefferson young man kissed hi
dulcinea about twenty times, the other
night, on a stretch, and when he
stopped to get breath and dut the chalk,
off his coat to make a new start, t. ar
tilled her eyes as she said, in a sa.l ton
of voice: "Ah! , I fear you l:avj
ceased to love me." Moral -Marry
her at once. -Jackson County Go.)
Herald.
Bridget Oi have a shurprise ia
shtore for ye. Patrick. Patrick Hava
yeA an' phat is it?" Bridget It's a
?atent sthove damper, me darlinU
'he agin tould me it wud save wan-half
the expiuse in coaL Tnink av tha:,
Patrick. jUt wan-half the expinso.
Patrick Faith, and did yez buy but
wan av thim? Bridget That's alL
Patrick Shure an' ve are not shmart,
BrldgeL Why didn't yez buy two av
them, an' we wud save the whole ex
pia&ej DraW$ Magazine
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