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RATEM OF ADVEHTU1N6 E3TBasineas and profcaaionalcarda of fir lines or leas, par anaam, fiva dollars. 13 For time advertiseasBts, applr at this ofice. ,. C?Iigal advertisements at statute rates. jSTPor transient advertising, sea rates on third page. . K3TA11 advertisements payable monthly. I6SUED EVIRY WEDNESDAY, (f-. -.: M. K. TURNER & CO. . Proprietors and Publisher!. O' , " 13" OFFICE, Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. t k k si s : Pefjrear Six months Three months Single copies . I a VOL. XVI.-N0. 12. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JULY 15, 1885. WHOLE NO. 792. The journal. . ; . a o " fit 210ttttJiitlL PJH X w V w W B ' '.' - m -. s . 11 f J wL I' : k COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DIKKCTOUS: Le'ander (r ekkaup, Pres'l. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice PresH. Julius A. Heed. K. II. Henky. .1. K. Taskeu, Cashier. Baak ol' Deposit. IMscoemt SMStl Ecfcre. Ollectlea Promptly made II PelatK. Py lsUereNt Time lefM- ICN. 274 HENRY G-ASS, TJISTDERTAJSIEII ! 40FFIXS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads. Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac, Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSTRepalrtng of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS. NKB. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Psajps Repaired on short lotice "One door west of Heintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. ! Be Warned in time. Kidney diseases may be prevented by purifying, renewing, and invigorating the blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. TVb.cn. through debility, the action of the kidncv 19 perverted, these organs rob the blood of its needed constituent, albumen, which N passed off in the urine, while worn out matter, which they should carry off from the blood, i9 allowed to remain. By the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the kidiu-v-are restored to proper action, and Albu minuria, or Bright' s Disease is prevented. Ayer' Sarsaparilla nl-o prevents inflammation of the kidneys, and other disorders of these organs. Mrs. Jas. W.Wcld, Fore-t Hill st.. Jamaica Plain. Mass., writes : : ha c had a complica tion of disease, but my greatest trouble hts been with my kidneys. Four bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla made me feel like a new person; as well and strong as ever." W. M. McDonald, 4C Summer St., Boston, Mass., had been troubled for years with Kidney Complaint. By the ue of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, he not only Prevented the disease from assuming a fatal form, but was restored to perfect health. John McLellan, cor. Bridge and Third sts.. Lowell, Mass., writes : "For several years I suffered from Dyspepsia and Kidney Complaint, the latter being so severe at times that I could scarcely attend to my work. My appetite was poor, and T was much emaciated; but by uiug AYER'S Sarsaparilla my appetite and digestion improved, and my health has beeu perfectly restored." Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; Six bottles, $5. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver '& Co., Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. A WOKD OP WARXEVCI. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the " Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Oniaba is the only company doing business in this state that insures Horses, Mule and Cattle against loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against loss by fire and lightning). AH representations by agents of ether Companies to the coutrary not withstanding. P. VT. HEXRICH, Special Ag't. 15-y Columbus, Neb. LYON&HEALY Stall Hearee St..Cfclcafe- WO! M4jnHU Uu; miirtm tMr ANDCATALWUE, to IMJ. 00 rf. "" , r imnwiHi aaiu. upa, mim. Dram UHk Staff., ui SaaJrr hlj OsttU, Itmafctar rMniiil aJ isciboa imukw sxw ufftt m-tUmk, i rr iff bu jpjJBiEjj3T tRt 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 , -- ".. 1.1 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. - - ... 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. m It is proposed to utilize the Yellow atone Park for the preservation of tha bison, which is now very nearly extinct. San Francisco Call. FIRtT National Bank! COLUMBUS, If SB. Aitkarized Capital, -Paid la Capita, Sarplas and Profits, - $250,000 50,000 - 8,000 OFFICERS AND DIRKCTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. .I.W.EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, .G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 20-vol-13-lv lusnriss cuiDS. D.T. Martyx, M. D. F. .1. Schcg, M. D. Drs. KABTTN ft SCHUG, U. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and It. & M. R. R's. Consultations iu German and English. Telephones at office and residences. GTOlliee over First National Hank. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y p . 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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 JHMt; 'V f Ml I B HRBSneW rj It 4" 3 I 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 t -1