Nebraska Newspapers

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Tke fanei fl86.
The people of Nebraska are on the
eve of the most momentous political
contest that has been fonght in this
state since the memorable senatorial
campaign of 1876, when the cohorts
of monopoly were so signally over
thrown. Ten years ago Jay Gonld
came to Nebraska in person to pack
conventions and legislatures with his
cappers and henchmen. He succeed
ed in capturing the republican state
convention, but the people resented
the outrage and their uprising was so
general that a majority of the legisla
ture dared not cast their votes for the
monopoly candidate. Four years
later, after a most desperate and ex
citing struggle the railroad minions
were again overthrown in the elec
tion of Charles H. Van Wyck. The
fearless stand which Senator Van
Wyck has for five years maintained
aB the opponent of corporate aggres
sion, the relentless war he has waged
upon the cattle barons, land grabbers
and railroad highwaymen has made
him the target of all assaults from
these dangerous elements. Senator
Van Wyck'e term expires on the 4th
of March, 1887. The legislature to be
chosen next fall will elect his suc
cessor. Already the monopoly mag
nates and the leaders of corrupt rings
of all parties are organizing for Van
Wyck's defeat. No stone will be left
unturned, and no means unBpared to
achieve that result.
The issue in 18S6 in Nebraska will
narrow down to Van Wyck and anti
Van Wyck. The people regardless of
party, and more especially the farm
ers and laboring men will support
Van Wyck, while the railroads, mon
ey lenders, land grabbers and corrupt
jobbers, will oppose him. In this
great contest, the Omaha Bee plants
itself squarely on the sido of the peo
ple and in favor of the re-election of
Senator Van Wyck. In this it only
maintains its well known position as
an unflinching opponent of monopoly.
The election of Van Wyck five years
ago was largely, if not wholly, doe to
the efforts of the Bee to arouoo the
people to an organized resistance to
the ty mimical domination of the rail
road bosses and the diffusion of anti
monopoly principles among the
masses through its columns. To the
farmers and workingmen who consti
tute the bone and sinew of this state
the Bee again appeals to make ready
for the coming conflict. It will be no
child's play, but if the industrial class
es are roused to their danger and
present a solid and united frout there
can be no doubt aB to the outcome.
Organize Van Wyck clubs iu every
school district. Agitate the anti-monopoly
issues of which he is the
champion, and circulate anti-monopoly
doctrines through newspapers
which are not subsidized or gagged.
Among these papers the Bee has the
right to preference. It has been often
tried and never been found wanting.
It is not only reliable on the anti
monopoly issue but in every way
worthy of the patronage of the farmer
and laborer. Even its most bitter
enemies concede that the Bee is the
best newspaper this side of Chicago,
and its weekly issue has no superior
among the metropolitan weeklies in
this country.
The superb and costly premiums
which the Bee offers to the patronB of
its weekly this year, is unrivalled.
The aggregate value of the premiums
is $43,127.00. They comprise two
eighty acre (arms in Iowa and Kan
sas, and one forty acre farm iu Ne
braska; farming machinery and im
plements, among which are one J. 1.
Case thresher with 12-horse power,
complete; one new McCormick steel
harvester and hinder; one six-hole
geared mountain shelter and horse
power; and mora than sixty farm
mills, cornshellers and plows, varying
in value from $S.OO to $175 each.
There arc musical instruments, in
cluding one Emerson upright grnud
piauo, worth $800 00, live stock,
household goods, silverware, cutlery,
guns, knives, books &c.
The award of premiums will bo
made on Saturday, March 13th, 18S(,
by a committee selected by the sub
scribers, who may be present at the
distribution.
There will positively bo no post
ponement. A premium worth at re
tail, at le.-nt one dollar, i guaranteed
to every subset iber who remits two
dollars before the 13th of March.
This is neither a new nor experi
mental scheme, but will be our sixth
successive annual premium distribu
tion, the first having taken place in
the winter of 1879-1880.
While it amy seem incredible that
we can afford to furnish a metropoli
tan weekly for two dollars a year,
give to every subscriber a premium
worth at least one dollar, and to in
clude among these premiums severa!
hundred articles valued at from five
dollars to one thousand dollars each,
we are in condition to honestly carry
on every promise or obligation which
we assume aud still derive fair re
turns from the paper. Nearly all the
large premiums were secured in ex
change for advertising. The most
costly articles we have traded for so
as to involve only a comparatively
small outlay in cash. For instance,
our lands were bought of tbo J. I.
Case Threshing Machine Compauy
and they take out $1,000 of the pur
chase price in advertising. The same
is true of the Case threshing machine,
for which Vc pav less than oiio-fourth
of the retail price in cash aud balance
in advertising. Many other machine
we have on the list are purchased
without paying out any money. The
minor premiums, such as books,
albums, cutlery, plated spoons, etc.,
are bought iu very iarge quantities at
wholei-ale prices and with liberal dis
counts. The margin between what
we pay out for premiums, postage
and incidental expenses is large
enough to leave os a fair subscription
price for the paper. Our list contains
the names of thousands of subscribers
who have patronized us lor many
years. They attest that we have
kept faith with our patrons and enjoy
their full confidence. We could not
afford to do otherwise. The Bee is
now in its fifteenth year, aud its foun
der, and editor during all these years
is also the principal proprietor. He
has a reputation at stake, and could
not be a party to a disreputable or
fraudulent scheme without being
ruined, and destroying his paper
which now occupies the front rank in
western journalism.
The subscription price of the
Weekly Bee with premium is tw.o
dollars per annum.
Direct your remittance by money
order or registered letter to "The Bee
Poblishimr Co." Omaha, Neb, who
will forward a numbered premium
receipt which will be registered in
our premium book. Etch subscriber
aboald also give explicit directions as
pMtoflce address. 2
THE FAROES.
Ceataanalstlc System of Whale FIsbp
lag Kb Vogue In These Northern IfIe.
No one can visit the Faroej without
Becoming very familiar with the word
"grind" (short for Grindehval; Danish
for bottle-nosed whale) before he leaves
those happy, primitive Northern Isles.
He also gets familiarized with the sight
of bones and other relics of the creature
itself. For, wherever he goes, whale
heads, picked clean by the gray-crested
Faroe ravens, excite his attention.
They lie bleaching in the grass of the
quaint little meadow-patches by the
villages, indistinguishable at a distance
from the white lichened boulders which
surround them. They serve as build
ing material in the construction of
field walls. We have seen two set on
end to compose a stile. Cows arc
'tethered to them. And in some places,
more particularly after a comparative
ly recent catch, they are stacked many
feet high like a substantial and stimu
lftting trophy of success. Next to the
skulls the separated joints of the ani
'mal's backbone are most abundant.
.But these for some reason are not so
thoroughly divested of flesh as
the skull, and are therefore like
ly to displease one's sense of sight
,and smell. Again, hung outside the
'majority of the little wooden, grass
;roofed houses of the villages, are nu
merous wrinkled strips of a black and
brown substance, not unlike India rub
bet. Sometimes this substance, ad
heres to the sides of the house, and oc
casionally it gets a trifle green in parts.
But, be its condition what it may, to
a stranger its appearance and color are
very repulsive. This is whale-meat
undergoing the process of being wind
dried, whereby it may be kept and
eaten months after the slaughter of the
animal. And, lastly, for the tarred
bladders of different shapes, bound
round at one end with tarred cord,
dangling here and there bv the houses,
the fisher-folk are also indebted to the
grind; these are its stomach and intes
tines, and are used as floats for the
fishing-nets.
The excitement that pervades the
islands when a "message of grind' is
recognized is very remarkable. A boat
out at sea may be the first to discern
the creatures. Instantly a rag of some
kind (a shirt, may be) is hoisted on the
mast, and the happy news is thus sig
naled to the shore. Thence the intel
ligence is carried from village to vil
lage, over mountains, across fiords and
sounds, until hundreds and thousands
of the inhabitants are informed of it
The little children run about in a
frantic state of glee, shouting the word
"Grindabo!" at each other. The women
bustle and chatter and hasten to put up
some black bread and dried meat or
fish for their husbands, sons and broth
ers, who have already, at the earliest
warning, run down to the beach and
launched the whale-boats for the pur
suit of the grind. And soon, from the
still blue waters of the mountain fiords,
boat after boat is seen pressing eagerly
out to sea. This is especially the case
when the grind is sighted primarily
from the land; for then the boat which
first comes up with the herd is entitled
to the finest of the animals, after the
slaughter, over and above its equitable
share.
Strategy has now to be excrcisod.
The tide has to be considered, and the
place; for a herd will not face a strong
tide; and not every bay is suitable for
the successful capture of the animals.
If, however, no good landing place be
near, and the tide be opposed to a pass
age toward a better voe (as a whale bay
is called), the grind are driven into
temporary quarters; and there "laid
by" until conditions are more favora
ble. The seaward part of the bay is
guarded by boats, and the animals
calmly pack themselves together as
closely as possible, and await their
fate. So eager are they sometimes to
get what protection they can from their
own bulk, that they form themselves
into a huge cubic mass, the topmost
members of which are impelled out of
the water. Stra' individuals now and
again separate themselves from the
rest, and either float tranquilly on the
surface or tread water deliberately,
thrusting their square heads above the
waves; but all are safe from escape un
til daybreak, when they get restless,
and are ready to follow the guidance
of any bold grind who may make a rush
for the open sea.
Sometimes the boats have a hard
chase before they can head the herd
In one instauce the men were rowing
in pursuit for three days, and covered
nearby fifty miles of waterway ere they
succeeded in the capture. But when
a good bay is at hand and the tide is
favorable the business is carried through
very quickly. The boats form a half
circle round the herd to cut off its re
treat toward the sea, and the men
reduce it to a state of terrified obedi
ence by throwing stones after it, and
by beating: stone and iron or tin to
gether under the water. The sound
distresses the grind and the bubbles
caused by the falling stones excite an
almost insuperable fear within them.
They hurry before the boats and the
shower of stones like sheep before a
shepherd's dog; and thus they soon ap
proach the place destined for their de
struction. The boats now marshal themselves in
three rows between the head of the bay
and the fated grind; so that if by
chance they take fright and attempt a
bolt, some opposition may be made,
and a turn if possible effected. Then
one boat pulls into the herd and a man
stationed in the prow wounds one of
the animals with his lance. This
wounded grind charges through the
others, spreading the utmost terror in
all directions. A panic ensues, and a
rush forward is made by some of the
animals, who thus get stranded on the
sloping beach of the bay, where they
arc speedily killed by the islanders in
wait for them. The other boats of the
first row in the meantime pull into the
herd, and in a few hours several hun
dred grind will be lying gashed and
still, drawn up on the shore, there to be
numbered and valued by the Crown
officer and special appraisers.
The apportionment of the grind,
which immediately succeeds the death
of the last animal, is a little compli
cated for the understanding of any but
Faroemen. But, briefly, when a tenth
of the whole has been deducted (which
tenth is divided equally between the
Crown, the Church and the pastor of
the parish), and certain allowances for
damage to boats and individuals, board
and lodging to the slaughterers, and
general charities, also subtracted, the
remainder is divided into four equal
parts, of which the men engaged in the
capture and the population of the parish
jointly take three parts, the other part
going to the land owner on whose
property the slaughter and division are
accomplished.
An average grind will yieldjneat and
blubber (which is for the most part
melted into oil) in worth 3 7s. 6d. A
herd of only two hundred grind, suc
cessfully landed, will therefore be worth
to the Faroese nearly 700 no small
sum, remembering that the whole fund
of the Faroe Savings Bank stands at
only 106,861 kroner (about 6,000).
But, in this primitive community, actual
money (though well appreciated) is of
less consequence to the people than
money's worth. The whales" supply
them with a store of meat; it is on ac
count of this that they are specialby
jubilant. For months after the capture
there will be plenty of feasting in all the
houses within the district of the killing.
Some of the meat will be roasted and
tkae eaten freak, though most of it will
be pickled. As to the blubber, what Is
not reduced into oil will be conjoined
as butter, or dried, salted and eaten like
fat bacon in England. London Satur
day Revieic.
A WAR ENGAGEMENT.
AB Incident from Twain' "Private
tory of a Campaign That Failed."
For a time life was idly delicious; it
was perfect; there was nothing to mar
it 'ihen came some farmers with an
alarm one da. They said it was
rumored that the enemy were advancing
in our direction, from over Hyde's
prairie. The result was a sharp stir
among us, and general consternation.
It was a rude awakening from our
pleasant trance. The rumor was but a
rumor nothing definite about it; so, in
the confusion, we did not know which
way to retreat. Lyman was for not re
treating at all, in these uncertain cir
cumstances; but he found that if he
tried to maintain that attitude he would
fare badly, for the command were in
no humor to put up with insubordina
tion. So he yielded the point and
called a council of war to consist of
himself and the three other officers;
but the privates made such a fuss about
being left out, that we had to allow
them to be present. I mean we had to
allow them to remain, for they wcro
already present, and doing the most of
the miking, too. The queition was,
which way to retreat; but all were so
flurried that nobody seemed to have
even a guess to offer. Except Lyman.
He explained in u few calm words, thai
inasmuch as the enemy were approach
ing from over Hyde's prairie, our
course was simple; all we had to do
was not to retreat toward him; any
other direction would answer our needs
perfectly. Everybody saw in a moment
how true this was, and how wise, so
Lyman got a great many compliments.
It was now decided that we should fall
back on Mason's farm.
It was after dark by this time, ani
as we could not know how soon tbo
enemy might arrive, it did not seem
best to try to take the horses and things
with us; so we only took the guns and
ammunition and started at once. The
route was very rough and hilly and
rocky, and presently the night grow
very black and rain began to fall; so we
had a troublesome time of it struggling
and stumbling along in the dark, and
soon some person slipped and fell, and
then the next person behind stumbled
over him and fell, and so did the rest,
one after the other, and then Bower
came .with the keg of powder in hi
arms, whilst the command were alt
mixed together, anns and legs, on the
muddy slope, and so he fell, of course
with the keg; and this started the whole
detachment down the hill in a body, and
they landed in the brook at the bottom
in a pile, aud such that was undermost
pulling the hair and scratching and
biting those that were on top of him;
and those that were being scratched
and bitten saying they would die before
they would ever go to war again if they
even got out of this brook this time, and
the invader might rot for all they cared,
and the country along with him and all
such talk as that, which was dismal to
hear and take part in, in such smoth
ered low voices, and such a grisly dark
Elacc and so wet, and the enemy may
e eoming any moment.
The keg of powder was lost, and the
guns too; so the growling and com
plaining continued straight along
whilst the brigade pawed around the
pasty hillside and slopped around the
brook hunting for these things; conse
quently we lost considerable time at
this, and then we heard a sound, and
held our breath and listened, and it
seemed to be the enemy coming, though
it could have been a cow, for it had a
cough like a cow; but we did not want
to wait, but left a couple of guns be
hind and struck out for Mason s again
as briskly as we could scramble along
in the dark. But we got lost presently
among the rugged little ravines, and
wasted a deal of time finding the way
again; so it was after nine when we
reached Mason's stile at last; and then
before we could open our mouths to
give the countersign, several dogs came
bounding over the fence, with great
riot and noise, and each of them took a
soldier by the slack of his trousers and
began to back away with him. We
could not shoot the dogs without en
dangering the persons they were at
tached to; so we had to look on, help
less at what was perhaps the most
mortifying spectacle of the civil war.
There was light enough, and to spare,
for the Masons had now run out on the
porch with candles in their hands.
The old man and his son came and
undid the dogs without difficulty, all
but Bowers'; but they couldn't undo
his dog, they didn't know his com
bination; he was of the bull kind, and
seemed to be set with a Yale time-lock;
but they got him loose at last with
some scalding water, of which Bowers
got his share and returned thanks.
Peterson Dunlap afterwards made up a
fine name for this engagement, and
also for the night march which pre
ceded it, but both have long ago faded
out of my memory. Mark Twain, in
Century.
The Greatest Woman on Record.
The New York World has discovered
a woman, whose home is in Vineland,
N. J., who has with her own hands
built an eight-room addition to her
house, laid the bricks, mixed, made and
applied the plaster with the skill of a
mason, roofed it and driven every nail
from the foundation to the top; also
dug a well thirty-five feet deep, and
fixed herself so that she will be more
comfortable hereafter. During all this
time she has lived at a cost of nine
cents a day, six cents for a quart of
milk and three cents for a loaf of stale
bread. " This remarkable woman, whose
name is McMahon, has wealthy rela
tives in New York, and is related to
eminent people on both sides of the
house. She is educated and refined,
dresses plainly but tidily, keeps her
hands soft and" white notwithstanding
her hard labor, is something of an art-
tist, though not painting much at pres
ent; has a musical voice, a bright ej'e
and rosy cheeks, notwithstanding her
white hair, and is as chirrupy as a lark.
Her relatives have repeatedly offered to
assist her, sometimes almost forcing
money upon her. but she declines their
assistance, preferring the glorious priv
ilege of being independent.
Diseases in Canada.
Blindness in Canada is commonly
caused by small-pox, cataract, or in
jury. Contagious diseases such as
smallpox, measles, and whooping
cough are more common than in
Europe, especially in winter, when fuel
is saved at the expense of ventilation.
In the whole of Canada the proportion
of the insane is one to seven hundred
and twenty. Dr. Hingston states in a
recent work on "The Climate of
Canada" that the mortality commonly
diminishes with the temperature, and
that the colder parts of the country are
in reality the more wholesome. iv. T
Post.
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A couple in Franklin County, Ga.,
were married a few days ago, during
the dinner-hour, while they were mak
ing sorghum. They were dressed up,
married and then dined and went out
again into the field, where the groom
began the honeymoon by feeding the
mUJ, and the bride- by skimming the
orgbum. N. T, Grophi
ISMAEL PASHA.
The Once Profligate Khedlre of Egypt la
the Bole of an Economical Gentleman.
lsmael Pasha's eccentricities and ex
travagance while he was Khedive of
Egypt have become proverbial, and it
must strike the reader as something
very new and extraordinary to hear
that this great spendthrift has grown
to be as penurious and saving as he
was liberal in his early days. The
world knows that for years the ex
Khedive threw millions of money out
of the windows, so to speak, of his
numberless palaces. His extravagance
had reached its culminating point at the
time of the opening of the Suez Canal.
Thousands of his foreign guests en
joyed his liberal hospitality for months,
and became so enamored with the coun
try of the Pharaohs that their pro
longed stay, after the close of the fes
tivities, had to be shortened by the soft
but decided hint from a trusted Govern
ment official, "that it was time the
guests began to think of returning to
their respective homes." One fine day
lsmael Pasha had to relinquish his place
to Tewfik Pasha and to take up his own
gripsack. Since then he has traveled
all over Europe, and havingtakengood
care to lay op a dollar or two in case
of unforseen eventualities, he has
been enabled to continue his lux
urious style of living pretty much
as of old. His favorite resorts
are Naples and Vienna. At the latter
city he never fails to take up his abode
in the hotel of the "Goldenen Lamm"
(gilded sheep), which he had frequently
visited while Khedive of Egypt, having
been invited by the Emperor, Franz
Joseph, to take part in some festivity
or other. Times have wrought many
changes since. But last year it w.
discovered that one of the followers of
the Khedive had made a serious finan
cial miscalculation in his own not iu
the ex-Khedive's interest, and that a
sudden change was noticed to have
overtaken the latter. Society of Vien
na upon a sudden heard with great
amazement that lsmael Pasha had be
come economical; that he had dis
charged his paymaster; that he audited
every bill, even the smallest, himself,
and that he scrutinized every charge
and claimed it extravagant. It must
not be supposed, however, that the ex
Khedive has suddenly become apauper;
to the contrary, although, as compared
with his former mode of living, he may
be called so, he still manages to get
along very comfortabl'. He occupies,
with his suite, thirty rooms in the
"Goldenen Lamm," and recently pur
chased three thousand dollars' worth of
stoves for the new building he had
erected in Naples for his harem. He
knows that even Naples is occasionally
visited by frosts, and being a personal
friend of warmth he also wants his
wives and their slaves to be comfortably
housed. He does not take much inter
est in his harem. It never did interest
him much, and he only maintains it
because it is a requirement of a Mussul
man of distinction. Upon his recent
sojourn in Vienna he was accompanied
by his favorite wife, the mother of
Prince Ibrahim. He docs not appear
in public with her, but the well-preserved
lady is often seen in company
with her waiting-maid upon the streets
of the Austrian capital, dressed in the
roost elegant French toilet, and no one
would suspect she was the wife of the
well-known ex-Khedive. Figaro.
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FAGGING AT RUGBY.
A System of Abuse Practiced Upon Yonng
Scholars.
A very important custom in which
new-comers have to be instructed is
that of fagging. They are purposely
allowed a fortnight's grace that they
may carefully study the duties exacted
of them. It is with fagging as with
foot-ball and harc-and-hounds. Its
greatest days are past. Think of a boy
having to warm three or four beds on a
cold night by lying in them until the
heat of his body has destroyed their
chill, and then having to rise at four
o'clock in the morning to run two miles
to the Avon to attend to the fishing
lines of the sixth-form boys, and then
to be back in time for first lesson!
Fancy his being obliged to form one oj
of a team of four or twelve in harness,
to be raced around the sohool-yard, or
"close," by the praepostors of the Four-in-hand
Club, and compelled to make
flower-beds for the same mighty beings,
having half a pewter spoon and a
whole fork for his onby garden tools, and
the flowers to be supplied by fair
means or foul ! Yet these wcro a few
of the services expected of fags in the
days when "there were giants in the
land," as a Rugby song says. Now
they arc treated with much more leni
ency. Only the sixth-form boys are
allowed to have fags. Thc younger
Doys must wait on mens at DreaKiast,
tea and supper, run their errands to the
nearest pastry-cook shop, clean out
their studies, attend to their wants in
the dormitories, and sometimes "field"
for them at cricket. As in several other
Eublic schools, when the sixth-form
dy or praepostor wants anything, he
calls out "F-a-a-g!" in answer to which
call all the fagging boys must run, the
last to arrive having to do the work.
It is but for a short time, fortunately,
that fagging is really a serious and per
haps tiresome duty. For the rule is
that during a boy's first term, he must
run at the tinjst call; during his second,
he need only answer the second, and so
on; so at the end of his second school
year he has comparatively little to do
as a tag. Elizabeth Robins Penneli, in
St. Nicholas.
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EXCITING ELECTIONS.
How Mexican Partisans Fight Parliamen
tary Election Battles.
Parliamentary elections must be rath
er exciting in Mexico, judging from the
liveliness which accompanies municipal
contests in that delightful country.
Even when local feeling runs high it is
rare that these latter struggles give rise
in the United States to anything worse
than strong language. In Mexico, on
the contrary, deeds are considered far
more effective than words, especially
when carried out with revolver and
bowie knife. Thus, we read without
surprise that at Buztamente the other
day the two factions turned out heavily
armed, and fought in the streets for
several hours. After a time, too, they
appear to have fired and stabbed quite
promiscuously, without caring whether
they killed friend or foe. The fighting,
we are told, "was of a perfectly indis
criminate character. When hostilities
were at last suspended by nightfall the
state of the battlefield demonstrated the
prowess of the combatants. Six dead,
fifteen mortally wounded and a large
number of less damaged Mexicans were
included in the list of casualties. The
result was not considered satisfactory,
however, from an electioneering point
of view, and the leaders consequently
agreed to renew the struggle on the fol
lowing morning. We are not aware
how often municipal contests take plaee
at Buztamente, but if they are of fre
quent occurrence the population must
be in a fair way to reach its vanishing
point. Brooklyn Eagle.
A man writes to the Philadelphia
Press from Oxford, Pa., tp inquire in
regard to the word "elmidical." We
can tell the man all about the word.
It was coined by an enterprising poet
who was in search of a rhyme for gid
dy gal. It would have appeared in
both .Webster and Worcester tut was
crowded out of bothelictionaries owing
to the pressure of their colnmns It is
patented but county rights are for salt
at prirfse to rait the times.
COURAGE.
Aa Kxampfe Showing: That Timid Boys
Often Stake Courageous Men.
Who is afraid? Even body! There
is not a creature living who 'does not
suffer from fear, reasonable or unreas
onable; and, upon the whole, there is
not more fear in the world than there
is need of. It is indispensable. We
could no more do without fear than a
watch could do without its mainspring.
Some good and brave boys suffer from
the fear of being afraid; 'others, from
the fear of being thought afraid. Hav
ing learned to admire courage and
courageons deeds of heroes, when they
find themselves alarmed-at anvthing,
they say to themselves: "Am I really
a coward, then? If I am afraid of a
cow, a dog, a dark room, or a clap of
thunder, what a sorry figure I should
cut if I had to be a soldier!" But let
us reflect a moment. A boy even a
man ought to be afraid if a big, strange
dog coming toward aim, with red
mouth open, panting and glaring. Per
haps he ought not to run .iway, because
tkat is a dangerous kind of strategy;
but he ought to be so much afraid of
the dog as to keep a sharp lookout
until he discovers the intentions of the
brute. Courage does not consist in
not being afraid, but in meeting a dan
ger we arc afraid of. That person is
brave who does a duty he mentally
dreads, and many a gallant fellow has
gone into peril trembling and pale
with alarm. But he went!
When the late J. P. Kennedy, of
Baltimore, formerly Secretary of the
Navy, was :."!. .!: of age, the
country beiit - .i.-.;)ly agitated by
the prospect ' w.iv with England, ho
made up his mi:id that when war canio
he would join the army. One thought
held him back: H. was awfully afraid
of the dark, having been terrified by
ghost stories in his childhood. In order
to cure himself of his fears, he used to
go at midnight to an extensive forest
near his fatiiL-r's house and walk about
until morning. This he did until he
was as much at ease in the woods at
two o'clock in the morning as he wjis
in his father's garden after breakfast.
Although at first he saw enemies and
ghosts at every step, he persevered
until even these startling experiences
ceased to alarm him. When the war
was declared in 1812. lie went to tho
front, took part in the battle of Blad
ensburg, and ran away, with the rest oj
his regiment.' But his running away
was glorious, too! "We made a fine
scamper of it," he says. "I lost my
musket in the melee, while bearing oft
a comrade whose leg was broken by a
bullet" Another proof that even
heroes run away sometimes. If heroes,
why not boys? Every good soldiei
knows that there are times when dia
cretion is the better part of valor.
Youth's Companion.
MODOC STRONGHOLDS.
Scenes of Numerous Iudlun Slassaeres
Subterranean Lakes.
Commencing in the northern part of
Siskiyou County and running south and
east into Modoc and Plumas counties,
is a succession of lava beds, of which
little is known except bj those who
have seen them. As they are actually
beyond description, when described as
wild, desolate and barren, it does not
give one that creeping sensation which
an actual peep at them does. To cross
one of these lava beds much caution is
necessary. The lava is an obsidian cast,
very hard, sharp and rough. The up
heaval has been so violent that great
caves and fissures are formed. The
arches of these caves are very danger-
out to pass over, as the displacement ol
a single rock would cause the whole top
or roof to fall in. Subterranean lakes
are found. One was discovered the
past summer near Dry Lake, Modoc
Count-. This lake is fifty feet wide
and runs back under the cave apparently
a long distance; as the end can not bii
reached no one can tell how far it doe
run back. Again, fissures and crevices
reaching for miles and several hundred
feet deep will appear. South of Chalk
Mountain there is an immense ice cave,
which contains tons of fee the year
round. This cave is surrounded with
lava of several different kinds and ol
all shades of the rainbow. Large blocks
of obsidian or volcanic glass are mixed
in with the lava, making in all a beauti
ful and wild scene.
Glass Mountain, a few miles to the
northeast, is indeed a great curiosity.
Imagine a terraced mountain seven
thousand feet above the level of the sea
and composed entirely of this volcanic
glass, shining and glittering in the sun
lijjht, casting off the sun rays as if it
were a diamond. Terraces, castles and
forts are faithfully represented. A
glance at this mountain by moonlight
is grand; a sort of soft, wierd light is
cast on. which fills one with unspeak
able admiration.
Ice Cave No. 2 is situated from Glass
Mountain north and west twelve miles.
This cave has also an inexhaustible
supply of water and ice. Here our
party found water and plenty of food
for our exhausted animals. Aftor
searching nearly two days for water
this cave was accidentally discovered,
and a Godsend it was for both man and
beast. Our party camped here one
night recently, and were kept awake
most of the night by the screams of
several Uantornia l:ons, who came un
comfortably near our beds, and would
scream and decamp; we had shut of!
their water supply. The unearthly
scream of these animals and the howl
ing of several large owls, taken with
the thought of numerous Indian
massacres which had taken place in
this vicinity, caused our brave hearts
to quake.
Ten miles north of Ice Cave arc Tule
Lake and Captain Jack's stronghold,
and directly across the lake is the
famous Bloody Point.
Captain Jack's rille pits are of natural
formation in the lava, being sinks and
flows probably five hundred in number.
They command all entrance to the
cave. A handful of men could hold
twenty times their numbe at bay here
lied Bluffs (Col.) Sentinel.
SELECTION OF LAND.
Geology an Unreliable Guide to the Nature
of Soil.
In choosing land for agricultural pur
poses it is very unsafe for the farmer t
be guided by any loose notions of the
geological features of the locality. Ge
ology in this respect and for this use is
one of those things of which a little
knowledge is dangerous. There are
few places where the overjying soil has
been derived from the breaking down
of the underlying and outcropping
rocks, and these can only be detected
by an expert geologist and mineralogist.
Generally the soil is made up of drifted
materials, which have been brought
from distant places by the force of
great floods of water of vast bodies of
ice, and have been spread over the sur
face and moved back and forth in much
the same manner, but to a much smaller
extent, as we see them now. It Is onlj
where the rocks lie near the surface
and in the inst ancient geological
formations, as in Northern Michigan,
Eastern Canada, and all along the Alle
ghany ranges, as far south as Alabama,
that this primitive condition of the soil
exists. Elsewhere the character of the
rocks of the neighborhood can not be
safely taken as a guide to the nature of
the soil. JV. Y. Times.
One-half of the world does not know
how the other half lives. Of course,
this does not hold true in communities
which boast a ladies' sewing-circle.
Bolton Trcnu&ript.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A man at Merced. CaL. who
! sprained his ankle while gunning
lately hait to crawl on all fours a dis
tance of eight miles to the nearest
house.
1 The man who advertises counts his
money at the beginning of the year.
The man who does not will be equally
J busy counting his stock on hand. CAi-
eayo Inter Ocean.
The Indians call Boston Mess-atsoo-j
see-hence "Massachusetts." Thevwho
, do net find this satisfactory can fix up
something of their own. Lowell
Courier.
j Baggage may now be checked, ac-
cording to the American plan, from
Now ork to Liverpool at the rate of
J fifty cents apiece. This includes the
j cost of delivery in Liverpool. V. Y.
OUU. -
Uncle Sam has just run his hand
into his long wallet and counted down
ten thousand clinking dollars, and all
for a hole in the ground a one thou
sand five hundred-foot artesian well at
Marc Island, Golden' Gate. San Fran
cisco Call.
Parents who can't givo their chil
dren decent names ought not to have
any. The other day a young man died
in this citv burdened with the name of
Philadelphia Careless, and a boy named
Prosperous Crammer was run over bv
a wagon Thursday. Philadelphia Bulle
tin. A well-dressed lady with her dress
securely fastened by two shawl-pins to
the frock of her little girl, attracted
attention in a New York dry goods
store the other day. The careful moth
er was from the country, and she had
struck upon this plah to keep her
daughter from being drawn away from
her in the crowd. X. Y. Mail.
A colored prisoner in jail wrote
the following letter to his father: "Dear
Father i will ask you if you please get
up the Money to By me out Because i
see tha Will find me guilty in spite of
all the lies we can tell i ffrst thought i
could lie out of this But now i dont
think i can get up all the Money you
can if you dont i am gone up." Chica
go Junes.
The Crusader is the name of a
large brig which has been equipped for
carrying oil from Philadelphia to Liv
erpool in a new wav. She has fortv-
five tanks, which hold 177,000 gallons
of pil each. These will be pumped full
in America and emptied on the other
side by a large pump run by a twenty-horsc-powor
engine with which the ship
is equipped. Philadelphia Press.
Every mechanic should remember
that there is nothing better for burns
and scalds than the white of an egg.
It is soothing and easily applied. It is
the contact with the air which gives
the extreme discomfort experienced
from the ordinary ace-dent of this kind,
and anything that excludes the air and
prevents inflammation is the thing to
be at once applied. Chicago Times.
AVhen a man get "good and rich,"
ns the darkies just over the Delaware
line say, about the first thing he does is
to build a big house. Such is the case
with the millionaire electrician of
Cleveland. Charles F. Brush, who has
about finished for himself the finest
house in Ohio. The building, which is
of Amherst buff stone, glorifies the glo
rious Euclid Avenue up by the lake. It
is probable that Mr. Brush will not
burn tallow dips in his new house.
Cleveland Leader.
An eminent citizen called upon an
eminent physician the other day to con
sult Jiim about his eyes. "Theyseemed
all right up to three" or four days ago,"
said the eminent citizen, "but then I
noticed that the left one was failimr."
"Do you wear glasses?" asked the
physician. "O, yes." "Let me see
them." Thov were passed over and
after a brief inspection the physician
burst into a hearty laugh. "TUtf trouble
is with the left eye, eh?" he queried.
"Yes, sir." "No wonder. Look at
your glasses. " The left-hand glass had
been lost out. Detroit Free Press.
An Eastern paper says there is
only a single instance of one man rep
resenting more than one State in the
United States Senate, and he was the
late General Shields. He was first
elected for a full term by Illinois, but
declared ineligible because not natur
alized the necessary period, He was
re-elected, admitted and served his
term of six years. Some years there
after he served an unexpired term as
Senator from Minnesota, and his last
official service was a very brief term
as Senator from Missouri.
Time out of mind a big white stone
at Woodstock, in Talbot, down on the
eastern shore of Maryland, has been
used as a carriage block in front of a
moss-covered dwelling. The other day
along came a geologist, playing a tune
of joy upon the stone -with his mallet
and astonished the townspeople by
telling them that Agassiz would have
gone into ecstasies over the prize. For,
indeed, as the geologist said, the stone
is a piece of white rock picked up by
an iceberg in the Patapsco River and
and carried clear across the Chesa
peake to the fiat lands of tidewater
Talbot.
Robert Garrett has at Mount Clare,
near Baltimore, a school for fhe train-
inw of apprentices in the employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company.
Of the five hundred apprentices on the
line, forty are now in the school.
These pupils are taught the common
English branches, algebra, geometry,
physics. drawing, the chemistry of oils,
mechanics and. indeed, everything
needed to discipline their minds for in
telligent work when they shall be men.
Nor are the hands idle, for the lads are
trained as machinists', brass finishers,
steam and gas pipe fitters, molders,
upholsters, draughtsmen, painters,
bridge builders and engineers. Balti
more Sun.
Peculiarities of the Gulf Stream.
Some fresh information about the
Gulf Stream is given by a Boston scien
tist. It is a stratum of warm blue water
not more than fifty fathoms deep and it
flows due cast at a rate that would take
it to England within one hundred days.
Off Cape Hatteras this northward flow
ing stream Ls in the form of a fan, its
three warm bands spreading out over
the Atlantic surface to an aggregate
breadth of one hundred and sixty-seven
miles, while two cooler bands of an
aggregate breadth of fifty-two miles arc
interposed between them. The inner
most warm band is the one that shows
the highest temperature and speed, ita
velocity being greatest where it is
pressed laterally hy the Arctic current,
so that the rate of four miles an hour is
occasionally observed. The peculiar
blue color of the water probably is be
cause the river silt washed into the Gulf
by the Mississippi is held in suspension.
Chicago Herald.
Not Anxious to b a Guest.
"What do you mean by this sort of
treatment, waiter? Here you've kept
me waiting a full half hour for my din
ner, and yon haven't brought me a sin
gle thing I ordered after afl."
"I done de bes' I could, suh."
"Perhaps you did, but yon ought to
be more considerate. Remember that
this is a country where the most unex
pected things frequently happen, and
you may not always be a waiter."
"How so, suh?'
"Because some of these days you
lay have the bad luck to be a goast
yourself."
"Fo' deak life. I hope aot, nkF
Chicago Ledger.
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health, and tho true way to :n.:re health
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pari!!. Mrs. Eliza A. CSou-a. Si Arling
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winter and sprin? my family, including
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u;v sure to be greatly benet-ted by its
ue." J. W. Starr, Lucoma,lowa. vri:.s:
For year I was troubled with ' ero.'u
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preparations, which did mv little, if any.
good. Two bottles of Aycr's S:irai:i
rillu effected a complete cure. U U :uy
opinion th:i thU iiicdicina U the host
blood
Purifier
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writes: "For a number of jeap I
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puriilers." R. Harris, Creel City, K:imey
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past three years. Six months aijo I began
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Grand Openings for all kinds of Busi
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