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0KEFEN0KEE SWAMP.
OASIS WHERE THE SEMINOLE CHIEF
TOOK REFUGE IN 1836.
Accouut of a Tramp Through the Swamp.
A Little Mont-Clad bUnd la the
MurshStuck In a Qnagaalre An Ex
lianited Party.
Okefeiiokee, the great swamp on the
touthern border of Georgia, extending across
iMo riorida, has for a century been a mys
tery. It was the great retreat for the Semi
nole Indians. In the center of this immense
s.ratup U an oasis, a beautiful spot midway
between Belly's island and the Koddenburg
settlement. It was in this spot that Billy
Bowlegs, tha great Seminole, took refuge in
18S( and succcxifuUy defied th attempts of
the whites to capture him. Strange tales
are told in the neighborhood of fugitives
finding safety there who subsisted on the
abundance of fish and game. The story of
an authenticated.exploration of this spot is
told by Mr. Charles Pendleton, who in com
pany with Ben Varborough, a local scout,
ami others jknietrated the thick jungle which
lea(U to it. His story runs thus:
"Camp Casena," us our party christened
it, was a dry knoll covering about an acre
iu the midst of a nuirsh extending for miles,
upiKircntly north and south, and several
miles enst and west. It wus nearer, as it
turned out, to the eastern swampwood than
to the weMf-rn. Its center was perhaps eight
fei't above the level of the surrounding
marsh, and it tapered ofT to the water's edge.
A dwarfed cypress which capped its summit
was immediately surrounded by smaller ones,
like courtieis around a prince: and next to
thesj. widening the circle, came the smaller
casenns, like thow of lesser rank. Then the
gallbsrry and tyty tajjeretl to the earth,
forming the outer guard, armed with bamboo
and shielded by creeping vines. Tho
phalanx wus so solid, the armament so per
fect that no man or leiist could penetrato it
save by a bidden (tath which peiliaps nature
had left for an ingress and egress to the
fauna of that region; or, more likely, the
more iom erf ul bear had broken through to
find a lair. Tho whole from the topmost
cypress bough to tho least tyty was draped
with graj moss mingling with tho nut brown
leaves of autumn, the myriads of crimson
cana berries and the evergreen tyty pre
senting a picturesque cone perhaps nowhere
else seen. The marsh surrounding this queer
spot vuries iu water depth from three inches
to four feet Underneath the water the mud
varies iu solubility, some places being ex
tremely soft and dangerous to the iedestrian.
But for bounet roots and the thicker growth
of maiden cane no man could cross it. The
wonder is that anything but a webfoot ever
did.
Our party did cut their way through tyty,
bam!oo and what not for three days prior
to the morning of entering the marsh, and
at first it was somewhat of a relief to bo able
V trudge forward with a long view ahead
w.thout having to fight and dodge tlirough
the entangled mass of undergrowth. The
change brought rested muscles into action,
and for a few hours we moved forward with
theater rapidity than at any time since enter
ing the swamp. Tho compass pointed the
way and that brave band of explorers
never hesitated when one sank to his armpits
and liad to Ik pulled out by his fellows the
civil engineer's chain often serving for that
extra use nor did they turn back when it
became necessary to detour around an occa
sional alligator hole, distinguished by a pair
or more of those huge amphibious creatures
circling the dark water with their young.
But the strain on the muscles of the lower
limbs never relaxed. TVe could not sit down
and rest. About noon the men began to
show signs of unusual fatigue. The dark
swampwood, such as we had been in for
three days, could bo seen distinctly ahead,
but it was quite as far or further than we
had tramped that morning, and the outlook
was not at all cheering. Some distance short
of that now coveted region a gray object
loomed up before our vision right on our
line and we rightly divined that it was a
little moss clad island in the marsh. We
must reach it at all hazards before night.
We halted for lunch hard tack and bacon
but there was no place, as stated above, to
sit down and rest the weary feet. One poor
fellow found a banner root near the surface
of the water, which he sat upon to crush it
and sink in the mud and water up to his
neck. A young man in the party, whose
spirits never flagged, no matter how sore his
feet were, sang out: "Push along, boys: keep
ino ing. Let's eat when we reach yonder
island." But Dr. Little, the sea geologist,
who was with tho party, insisted that we
should stop, if only for a few minutes, and
eat, for it would give us strength for the
afternoon's tramp. The wisdom of his sug
gestion was at once seen by all, and we ate
hurriedly from tho scanty store in our packs,
continually shifting the weight from one foot
to the other, and as often moving the re
leased foot to prevent its sinking too deep
into the mul. It was not a feast of the
gods.
We- pressed on with hoi and fear. We
thought we could reach the little island, as
it seemed to us, by nightfall if no lake or
impassable water lay on our route; and who
could tell what was ahead in that despicable
bog? The thought of encountering a deep
lake wus not at all pleasant. The day quite
gone, possibly, and not a dry tussock within
eight or ten hours' tramp! No place to sit
or lie, much less to sleep, on a chill Novem
ber night. No torch; no lantern; the com
pass in our hands would fail to keep us from
wandering round and round in the darkness
and gloom and mud as most men do, it is
said, until daylight. If human endurance
could stand the strain until them. It is not
pleasant to think about the possible situation
afterward.
About in the afternoon a few drifting
clouils, apparently thrown together just over
in front of us by counter currents of air,
brought forth a light shower, and the declin
ing sun at our back? produced a beautiful
rainbow which spanned directly across our
route eastward. It was an unusual sight for
the time of year. When we at last ap
proached within a hundred yards of the little
oasis above described, we encountered the
severest quagmire we had yet seen. All
along we had been measuring the distance
traveled with a chain, that instrument being
handled by a coupla of negroes. Here there
were several applicants anxious to relieve
the boys, knowing tliat it would add to one's
safety to have hold of a chain with a man
at the other end. Dr. Little was the first
victim. He went down to the armpits and
struggled desperately to extricate himself,
but a comrade near, who stood upon a firmer
foundation, pointed the muzzle of his gun to
him, which lie seized and helped himself out.
It was decided then the eight in tho party
should disposo themselves along the chain,
one hand gripped to it, and with a strong
negro at each end pull to the shore. We
were about an hour traveling that one hun
dred yards. Sometimes as many as four of
the eight would be stuck at once, and the
other four would have to hold the chain
against the weight of those struggling to get
out, and ofttimea the pressure thus brought
upon those who stood upon firmer footing
would send them down, who would in turn
have to be helped out.
When at last we reached the little island
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we were utterly overcome with extrmstion.
There were a few feet of comparative dry
ground between the marsh and the dense
growth which walled in the bland' like an
osage orange hedge, and not one of the party
crossed it without falling prostrate upon the
I glorious terra Anna. For ten mnuutesno
words were spoken. The men were too ex-
uausieu vo uuk. iuc unici v iou&lu uiuu
the silence, as the sun had hid himself be
hind the swampwood, and the chill night air
was gathering over our wet and prostrate
forms. Joe was called up and instructed to
enter the island and build a fire with haste.
Cor. New York Sun.
THE SCIENCE OF THE PEN-
How to Tell Peculiarities of People by
Their Penmanship nourishes.
That the handwriting has certain marked
characteristics in every individual, and that
these characteristics, properly examined and
interpreted according to given rules and
methods, will tell us more concerning the in
dividual character of the writer, is an estab
lished fact, and the tabulation of these rules
and of this method is now complete in the
works of such acknowledged authorities as
Rosa Baughan, L'Abbe Flandriu and
Adolphe Henze. Adrien Desbarrolles in his
major work has devoted some 200 pages to
this branch of the science of the hand, be
sides being the author of a standard work on
the subjects, so that graphology, or. as it is
sometimes called'grammatomancy," boasts
a literature of its own that it is not my in
tention to supplement in this place. "The
inoro I compare different handwritings,"
says Lavater, "the more I am convinced that
handwriting is the expression of the charac
ter of him who writes. Each nation has its
national character of writing as the physiog
nomy of each people expresses the most
salient points of character iu the nation,"
and I may quote the remark of Rosa
Baughan: "That the handwriting really re
flects the personality of the writer is evident
from the fact that it alters and develops with
the intelligence, that it becomes firm when
tho character strengthens, weak and feeble
when the ienon who writes it is ill or
agitated, and erratic when he is under the
influence of great joy, 'grief or any other
passion.
Writing which has a tendency to ascend
toward the end of tho lines denotes always
ambition, prosperity and success, while writ
ing which, on the contrary, has a tendency
to descend betrays melancholy, ill health and
taciturnity. If a writing which descends
thus is disjointed and interspersed with mean
ingless ornament it is a sign of a tendency
toward madness. Flourishes are always bad,
denoting vanity, conceit and self assertion,
while peculiarly formed letters denote in
variaby and obviously eccentricity.
More can be told by the observation of
single letters, especially capitals, than any
thing else. Thus a capital A denotes great
sense of beauty, and strong will is shown in
tho strong barring. Wnen the bar is a loop
there is the same sense of beauty but less
will. The script capital A shows simplicity
aud clearness of ideas. A looped d shows
tenderness and generosity, while the Greek
d or D indicates eccentricity and imagina
tion. An F with a flying top betrays imagina
tion and indifference, while a curly one
shows cultivation and a sensitive mind. A
curly H shows poetry and art, and a curly I
gives grace und sense of Iveauty but the
straight, like Brother Haite's and Oscar
Wilde's, gives a higher and more precised
nature to artistic instinct and increases the
poetic faculty. These instances are sufficient
in this place for others I must refer you
to Miss Rosa Baughan's excellent work,
quoted above, to which I am indebted for
these examples. "
Disprojortionate loops betray self asser
tion, look out for them in letters like P and
L and Y. Letters stopping short at then
finals show economy, long or extended
finals with spaces between the words indi
cate generosity, if not extravagance. In
ward curves denotes egotism. t
Stops are also more distinctive. Heavy
and black, they betray sensuality; long, they
denote vivacity and originality. An i dotted
with a fleck iudicates recklessness. Absence
of stops shows want of caution and an un
suspecting nature.
Take care then, O my brethren, of "The
Sette of Odd Volumes" lest you recklessly
betray your vices in an invitation to dinner,
or confess your blackest crimes in the pages
of a birthday book, as au revoir. Yours
necromatically. Ed. Heron-Allen in New
York Mail and Express.
A Magician's Performance In Cheyenne.
"One of the funniest incidents that ever
came under my notice," said D'Alvini, the
conjurer, " was out in Cheyenne a week or
two ago. In our magic performance we use
a cabinet, and while the 'spiritual manifes
tations' are going on therein all the lights are
turned off in the building. This evening
two or three of us were feeling a little glum,
and we put our heads together and made up
our mind3 that we'd do something to liven
up the performance. In all conjuring shows,
you know, there is a board walk from the
stage down into the center aisle of the audi
torium. We call this the 'run down.' Well,
when this cabinet act was on two of us who
were not engaged started out to have some
I sport. The lights were to be out only thirty
seconds, and so we had no time to lose.
"As soon as the gas was turned out we
skipped down the runway and into the
aisle. There we ba nged around lively among
the spectators, hitting one a flat hand clip
on the face and then another, pulling their
hair, bumping two men's heads together,
and playing all t-uch pranks, and as quick as
lightning. Just before the lights were turned
on we skipix-d back onto the stage and into
the wings, and there stopped to watch the
sport. As soon as the light came we saw
that there was great commotion in the house.
Fifteen or twenty men were on their feet,
and hah a dozen were fighting with each
other. One man had knocked his neighbor
down under the seat, and another had his
two hands into the hair of the man sitting
next to him. Revolvers were drawn, and
it seeemed that everybody was accusing
everybody else of having taken advantage
of the darkness to play mean tricks. It was
ten minutes before we could get the house
quietu-d." Chiccgo Herald.
They Found Him Out.
A young man was detected masquerading
in woman's clothing in Boston the other day.
Suspicion was excited as he was standing in
front of a millinery window. The young
woman next to him exclaimed: "Oh, do you
see that perfect love of a bonnet?" And he
replied: "Yes, it's pretty enough, but it costs
$35." Then all the women about him
screamed, for they knew at once that he was
a man in female disguise. Somerville Jour
nal. Triumphant Art.
The new trademark adopted by the
Armour Ham company is a triumph of the
heraldic art. Upon a field engrailed vert,
with border porpure appears a shote ram
pant, with two link sausages issuant and as
pectant dexter; underneath is the motto "In
Hog Signo." Chicago New.
The number of those who are now invalids
as the result of the war is said to be about
265,854, the total number of soldiers bavins
been about 1.250,000
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JOE HOWARD'S LETTER.
INDICATIONS THAT THE RACE WILL
SOON BE EXTINCT.
He Writes of Gotham's Callow Striplings
t Who "Mash," Smoke and Drink Girls
at Matinees Dissipation After the Play.
Consequences
We are in the midst of winter, with un
questioned snow drifts in the streets. A great
etorm has covered the earth, extending from
New Orleans in the south to Portland in the
' east. I saw it snow in Boston; I saw it snow
J iu New York. I navo been up and down the
' streets, have driven through tho parks, have
speeded a modest roadster along our mag
nificent boulevards, have seen hundreds of
boys and girls, but not one snowball have I
seen thrown, not a single statuo molded from
the tempting muss, not a cave, not a huge
rolly-polly gathering to itself as it passed
from boyish hands along the pathway, no
tracks made by nimble 2eet across unbroken
fields, not a solitary slide, not a sled down
hill, not a pair of skates, nothing, absolute
ly, which would suggest the existence of a
rea! weather braving Ikv or a fair, ruddy
cheeked, sport loving girl. Nevertheless the
bo3"s and girls are here.
AVhat do the yo.uig people f to-day look
to for entertainment!'
I find upon inquiry and observation that
riding is one of the fuhion.iblu nmusemcuts
of the day. We have first rate riding
schools, and ha e had for many years, but
about them, as about everything el, there
is fashion. For years nothing was more
common than to see filing through tho
6eque-tered paths of Central park, and now
and then out upon the road, classes of young
ladies from ten to twenty in number under
the convo- of a riding master. That sort of
exercise is entirely done away with, in its
place we have club riding. .A cluss of ten or
twelve girls anl a clas of ten or twelve
boys, or young gentlemen I suppo- they
consider themselves, attended for propriety
sake by the riding master, go out together
and have jolly good times. There can bo
no objection to this; on the contrary, it L
healthful, entirely decorous and nioit enjoy
able. Every now und then an English fad comes
into such general acceptance us to le almost
universal. Jus now the iartieular weak
ness is for long walks, and the girls in differ
ent sections of the city, each with its own
party, of course, arrange to take each other
up at the corners of their several streets, as
policemen are gathered in at night or senti
nels are taken up by relief guard, and form
ing in procession, walk, regardless of the
weather, iu sun, in rain, in snow, in wind,
up Fifth avenue to Central park and beyond
for that matter not through tho jiark, but
up the aveuue by its side and back again.
They disdain male escort, affect the manly
type of dress, wear wholesome shoes and
plant the seeds of pulmonary trouble with
great enthusiasm.
Girls also find entertainment in matinee
attendance. If you study matinee audiences
hero you will find that 05 per cent, of the at
tendance is feminine. It is a rare thing to
see a young man at a matinee, or a bo3
The men who affect matinees are either un
worthy of the name or have passed tho lino of
manhood. Not that gentlemen may npt visit
theatres at matinees if they choose or if their
occupation is such that they can go at no
other time; but it seems out of place, and
whether that seeming is based on common
sense or not there is a general feeling iu tho
community that u man who goes to a mati
nee goes for some unworthy purpose. He is
either an idler, and un'idle man is the mean
est work of God, or a masher, and if there
is anything smaller than a masher I have
yet to encounter it, and nobody understands
this more thoroughly or better than the
women themselves.
The1 girls save their money for matinee
seats. They crowd every theatre in which
pretty women are displayed upon the stage.
They visit in thronged houses of entertain
ment in which siectacular pieces are given,
and after the i)erfornmnce promenade the
streets, joining the great army going up
town and the other great army going down
town, the ceaseless beating of the human
tide upon the shore of endeavor and of effort.
I look in vain for the occupation of the
boys and entertainment of the young men.
I don't recall a boy with n hoop, a boy
with a sled, a boy with a kite in five years
a the very least. In the skating season
thousands of boys and girls of the poorer
classes go to Central park, and they are met
in cars and 011 the streets with their skates
slung over their arms, but skating in New
York is an exceptional occurrence. Some
winters we don't have an hour of it, other
winters W2 have a few days. Thus far this
winter not a moment.
Actually I am staggered to tell what tho
boys do with themselves.
Sitting in John Stetson's box the other
night, during the performance of "Princess
Ida," I looked through the audience and re
marked at tho time that there were over 150
boys there not over 18 years of age. all
dressed in the height of fashion, and every
one of them went out, as a sensational writer
would say, "between every act," took his
drink aud his smoke, and going out for those
cheerful purposes they actually couldn't
wait until they got outside the door, but pull
ing cigarette case from oup pocket and a
match froifi the other, passing the door
struck the match, lighted the cigarette and
started forth upon the process of healthful
depletion.
After the theatre I went around to George
Brown's, where one can get an appetizing
Welsh rarebit, a good dish of terrapin and a
succulent pig's foot, but the boys bless my
heart it would make you ill to see them.
They absolutely troop in flocks after tho
theatres. Each dressed a la mode, white tie,
white waistcoat, pronounced shirt front,
dangling seals, lahdy dahdy manner and
stinking cigarettes, loud, hilarious, imperti
nent, intrusive, obtrusive, disgusting sugges
tions of what tho coming generation will be,
if, indeed, they are able to secure a coming
generation at all. How do our boys and
young men amuse themselves? By drinking,
by smoking, by sitting up late at night, by
idling their time in all manner of extraordi
nary avenues to premature decay.
It seems to me as if, little by little, the
race, so far as cities are concerned, is losing
its grip. It is refining itself to too small a
point.
Do yon rememlwr the story of the lady
who, floating over the sea in a boat, woke
suddenly to find her magnificent rope of
pearl necklace by some accident unfastened
at one end, and from the loose string hang
ing down into the water pearl after pearl
slipped off forever into the abyss? That
would seem to be a fair illustration of the
losses to mankind in general by the gradual
falling away of boy after boy, or girl after
girl, slipping from the solid substantialities
of old fashioned honor, modesty, decency,
courtesy. Drink and tobacco are undermin
ing the physique. Idleness, dissipation tako
hold hand in hand with these curses on tho
race, with the certainty that sooner or later
this defrauder will be exposed, that gambler
will blow his head to fragments, that scoun
drel will flee the country with the wife of
his friend, the cash box of his employer, and
with the equal certainty that this flirt will
find herself in the embrace of a selfish fort-
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! une hunter, this indiscreet will wake to the
realization of a frightful publicity, thatreck-
j less dissipator will wallow in the very mud
-j of degradation, and wheu he goes and when
warning.
Lots of fun Ls there not? Joe Howard
In Boston Glolie.
INDIANS AS GAMBLERS.
The Hand Game of the Shoshone and
Bannocks How It Is Played.
The Shoshones and Bannocks, on the
Okoskoue reservation in Idaho have, like
most Indians, a fondness for gambling. To
au observer tho "hand game" so common
among these Indians would seem more like
a recreation than a propensity for gam
bling, for no matter how interesting the
game may bo good humor invariably pre
vails. A party of Shoshones aud Bannocks
were encamped near the station one after
noon, five of whom two men and three
squaws were deeply engrossed in the "hand
game." After half an hour's close attention
,i i-2'utged to obtain a fair idea of tho game.
The two men were iwrtners and sat facing
their opponents, tho three squaws. In front
of each of the opposing sides was a pile of
twenty small sticks, to be used as "count
ers," und iu the center of tho space inter
vening was the money, some $1 or $1. Two
well polished pieces of convex shaped bone as
large as a lead pencil in the largest part,
and io..ibly three inches in length, well
wrapped with cord or sinew for au inch or
more in the center und two pieces of the
same dimensions unwrapped or presenting
tho white surface only, constituted the gam
bling outfit.
Two of the three sqXiaws grasped a
wrapped and unwrapped bone, one in each
hand, and together with the third squaw
began moving their hands rapidly from'side
to side, describing a half circle and accom
panying the motion with a ieculiar nasal
humming. Tiie men were now all attention,
it being their duty, it seems, to guess which
hand of either tho three squaws contained
the white bone. Whenever the guesser lost
one stick from his joint pile of twenty was
transferred to the pile in front of the squaws,
and when he won, the bones, together with
one of the sticks, immediately passed into his.
Iosessiou. As soon as his partner was
equally successful it became the men's turn
to hold the bones. The actions of the two
men now were slightly dissimilar to those
gone through by the three squaws. The
bones were held 0110 in each hand as had
been done by their opponents, but instead of
swinging the hands lack and forth, they
were placed under the arms, accompanied by
an up and down motion of tho body and tho
same ieculiar humming. When a squaw
made an unlucky guess she would pay the
usual forfeit, and the man by a dexterous
movement would throw both bones a short
distance in the air, showing which hand held
the corded and which the plain bone. Wlien
changing the bones from hand to hand be
neath tho folds of his blanket or behind his
back, his maneuvers were continued until
the bones passed out of his possession.
And so the game progressed, first one side
holding the bones an then the other. As the
bones were changed from hand to hand be
neath the blanket or be'iind the back, no
effort leing made to cheat, and a lucky
guesser being the onlj- requirement of a suc-c-ssful
pkryer, the games were always of in
finite duration, this one in particular lasting
several hours. I was unable to find out pre
cisely what part the third squaw took in the
game, for at no time did I discover the bones
in her iossession, but as tho hands of each
of the three squaws were held close together
end iu the swaying motion often came in
close proximity to those of the squaw sitting
next, it is probable that the third squaw was
used to mislead tho men, who, it would
appear, were regarded as tho more skillful
players.
Vnntlprliilt as a I'asseiiEer.
Speaking with a veteran conductor on the
Hudson River railroad the other day, he said:
"William H. Vanderbilt was the best pas
senger 1 ever had on his road. He was al
ways contented, pleasant and satisfied, and
not like a good man' other travelers,, per
petually grumbling Ijecause affairs were not
right. I will never forget one incident
which occurred just before Cornelius Van
derbilt's death. William II. was on the way
to Saratoga und was on a special train. At
Rliinebeck he received a dispatch. As he
opened it and read it the tears rolled down
his face. The dispatch said that the com
modore had had a chill and that his position
was precarious. "William H. told mo to go
on when I asked him what I should do with
the train.
I knew if he went on he could not get
back until the next morning unless ho took
a special engine. Mr. Ellis, of Schenectady,
was with Mr. Vanderbilt and called me back
and asked mo where I would meet a train. I
told him I would pass the Saratoga special
at Tivoli bound for New York, but that it
did not stop at Tivoli. Ellis suggested that
I stop at Tivoli and flag the train and com
pel it to stop. He said it would be all right,
though Mr. Vanderbilt would not like to
offer to interfere with the running of trains
and the comfort of passengers. I did so,
and Mr. Vanderbilt was shortly on the Sara
toga special and thus arrived at New York
about 0 o'clock in the evening instead of on
the following morning. As I helped him off
the car at Tivoli and explained what I had
clone he said: "That was well done. I thank
you. '" Mr. Vanderbilt was always thought
ful in his intercourse with his employes.
Albany Journal.
Iutvlligence of Artillery Horses.
I once saw a young soldier who belonged
to a batter3 of artillery engaged in patching
the holes in his guidon (a marker's flag) with
cloth from the lining of an important part of
his uniform. (If he was familiar with the
history of France in 1792 ho might have
thought of tho insurgents' standard, which
was a pair of black breeches, upon which was
the inscription: "Tremble, tyrants, for we,
the people, still wear the breeches." When
I asked him why he made such a sacrifice
ami spent so much time to repair that old
flag his answer was that'as we were so far
from the base of supplies ho could not get a
new one, for when the battery went into
action with the thirty-six horses and the six
guns he .always stuck tlip pike to which the
guidon was attached firmly into tho ground
to mark the lino of battle, where the battery
was to form and go into action, and even if
the man who rode the leading horse was
killed or disabled and the din of battle was
so great that the bugle call could not be
heard the horses were so well drilled that
they would wheel around tho flag, make or
execute the maneuver known as by left in to
line, and when the muzzles of tho six guns
wero on a line with the flag, and then as
soon as the guns were unlimbered he would
agnin place it about 200 paces to the rear,
and the horses would gallop to the rear with
the caisoiis and halt again on a line .with it.
Perhaps there is not much sentiment in the
mending of that old flag by the battery boy,
but is there not a beautiful sentiment in the
thought of those noble horses doing their
store of the fighting side by side with us,
learning to know the flag and rallying upon
it? Cor. Chicago Journal.
There are 10,000 In the United States who
annually receive 125 bouquets each, accord
ing to statistics in The New York Herald.
JOURNAL,
. WITH THE
PRAIRIE FARMER,
Both One Year For
i2
A SPREE FOR SCIENCE.
DR. HAMMOND'S ASTONISHING EX
PERIENCES WITH COCAINE.
-Produce as Kxhllaratloa
of Spirit A Stimulant for tho Imagina
tionAbnormal Loquacity A Severe
Test Experiments.
Dr. Hammond had used coca wines, fluid
extracts, and other forms of the drug, but
had discarded the fluid extracts because they
were badly borne by the stomach, and the
wines because they contained tanniu und
extractive matters and differed so much in
their effects. He found that two grains of
hydrochloride of cocaine to the pint of pure
wine was the proper preparation and pro
duced all the beneficial effects and none of
the deleterious results. Then he began a
series of experiments with hypodermic injec
tions of the hydrochloride to ascertain
whether the stories about the cocaine habit
were true or false.
"At first I injected one grain and experi
enced an exhilaration of spirits similar to
that produced by two or three glasses of
champagne," said Dr. Hammond to a re
porter. "My powers of imagination in
creaser. The physical sensation was a de
lightful, undulating thrill. I was in a very
happy frame of mind a socjable mood
oud 110 doubt would have leeii quite agree
abla company. The after effects were in
ability to sleep until 5 in the morning, and a
headache when I got up. The next night I
took two grains, and in addition to tho sen
sations described I felt a desire to write. I
had begun a letter to a friend, and under the
iufiuenco of the drug I extended what would
have been a missive of moderate length to
an epistle covering a wide variety of topics
and fort3-eight pages of paper. It proved
to be correctly written and coherent and
gave much satisfaction to the receiver, but I
found that I had treated diffuse of many
things that ordinarily I woidd not deem
worth mentioning.
STIMULATING THK IMAGINATION.
"If a man were desirous of writing to fill
space or utterly exhausting a given subject
even to the most thrilling details, I would
reconuueud him to fill his inkstand, get a
ream or two of paper and plenty of tens,
and have a ph3rsician give him a hypodermic
injection of cocaine. If you want to con
dense your subject don't take cocaine in large
doses. No doubt a moderate quantity taken
in wine will stimulate the imagination and
enable one to write more brilliant and with
less effort than he otherwise could. Eugene
Sue never wrote without a bottle of cham
Iagne at his elbow, aud the luxuriance of his
imagination displayed in the 'Wandering
Jew' may be attributed, in part, to the
effects of tho wine. The difference between
cocaine and alcohol as stimulants is that
alcohol has a tendency to lower the mental
and moral tone anil brutalize the nature,
while cocaine lias a refining, softening effect.
Under the influence of moderate doses 1 be
came rather sentimental and said nice things
to everylKHly. The world was going very
well, and I liad a favorable opinion of my
fellow men and women. There was not a
bit of pugnacity about me, and I didn't
want to fight, argue or dispute w ith any one.
"The next time I increased the dose to
three grains, which unlimlered 1113' tongue in
the most astonishing wav. I wanted to
talk, and I did talk, not in the oratorical
manner, but I was just purely loquacious.
When nolxxly was present I talked to 1113
self. There was no disarrangement of the
mental faculties, no disorder of the process
of thought. I talked coherent and cor
rectly, and I am certain that if I had been
iu the lecture room I should have spoken
much better than I usually speak. I was
perfectly able to restrain the impulse to talk,
but it was pleasant to speak, and I enjoyed
ni3'self hugety. There was an abnormal
quickening of the faculties; the mind's ra
tions were rapid and the imagination vivid.
Headache followed.
"Then I doubled the quantity of the
cocaine and became somewhat intoxicated.
The scribbling propensity returned, and I
wrote voluminously. I was preparing a
medical work, and my mind was full of the
subject matter. What I wrote was an intro
duction to the book, and I thought it a very
brilliant production. Ideas came thick and
fast, and I was iiersuaded that my composi
tion work was going toeclipseanythingtliat
I had ever done in that line. When I put it
away and went to bed I congratulated
mj-self that I should be satisfied with my
night's work when I should read it over.
A LOT OF ARRANT XOXSEXSK.
"I didn't sleep at all that night. When I
looked over my famous introduction I found
it to be arrant nonsense. Each sentence was
complete and coherent in itself, but none
had any relation to the others, although ull
were in the general line of the subject I was
treating in the book. The stuff read as a
whole very much like a dream. It was 11
mess of ragged, disconnected ideas and
notions, set down in a disorderly fashion and
containing matter that did not belong to an
introduction. But in spite of the rampant
disorder of ideas I had no hallucinations such
as are produced b3- hasheesh, no grotesque
delusions or insane imaginings. The mental
machinery was running with the governor
belt thrown off, aud the brain raced, so to
speak. Eight grains three nights later pro
duced similar effects, but I did not write and
the sensation became rather painful than
agreeable.
"The next night I determined to make a
more severe test, and so injected eighteen
grains within twenty minutes. The results
were stunning. I became intensely exhila
rated aud finally oblivions. What I did or
thought or felt I don't know, except from
circumstantial evidence. I got to lied in
some w'ay. In the morning I found the
librae in disorder. All the volumes of two
large cyclopaedias were opened and scattered
about the floor as though I had been search
ing for something and could not find it. I
had not the slightest recollection of touch
ing a l)ook or wanting to look up anything.
Any briUant idea I might have had under
tho influence of eighteen grains of cocaine is
irrevocably lost to the world. But I have a
vivid remembrance of a most preposterous
headache that lasted two days and refused
to succumb to cold baths. I cured it with
strong coffee. Then I stopiied the exjieri
ments. I acquired no habit and had no
difficulty in quitting the use of cocaine.
Experiments upon others and olervation of
tho results of administering cocaine in
cumulative doses for three months in case
requiring such treatment have satisfied me
that there is 110 cocaine habit. When used
to cure the opium habit by ersoiis ignorant
of the proper way of using it cocaine has
produced lwid effects; but an opium eater
has a habit of having a habit, and no will
power, and if he were to take sawdust as a
substitute for opium he would acquire a saw
dust habit. Take the opium or morphine
habit away from the patient aud administer
cocaine properly and you will cure the
opium habit without introducing a cocaine
babit.
"One singular effect of cocaine is that it
will induce ieople to speak who are afflicted
with silent melancholia. A woman who had
not spoken for nine months began to talk
within four minutes ufter I had injected four
trains, end in ten minutes she talked at a
2 a year.
ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL
If you wont to sell or buy
anytlilnm If you -want: to lend
or borrow anything: If" you
want a situation, or If you
wanthalp,
kH
A Din ail -van
rate that made up for lost time. Nothing
could stop her. Whether this property of
cocaine is beneficial and desirable depends,
perhaps, upon circumstances." New York
San.
ADVERTISING IN CHINATOWN.
A Pole Which It the Principal Medium
, of niisiueitt Announcements.
The great advertising medium of China
town is u tall telegraph pole in front of tha
1 Wo Kee store in Mott street, a few doors
' from Chatham square. -The pole is about
j two feet in diameter, and it isalwaysgirdled
I by a belt of advertisements written iu Chinese
characters on sheets of yellow, white, or lira
' cracker red paper. The girdle is three or
! four feet bt oad, and thus the available ad
1 vertising. space is from eighteen to twentv-
four square feet. This does not suffice for
the needs of Chinatown, and another tele
graph pole an the other side of the street out
toward the corner of Park street gets part
of tho business.
When the Chinese avail themselves of this
advertising medium theyre reminded of
the.perversityof this western people in doing
almost everything in a wa3 diametrically
different from their time honored Oriental
method. There is never 3:13 doubt as to the
circulation of this advertising medium, for
nobody claims that it circulates. It stands
there year in and year out. and tho readers
do the circulating. Thus there is no chance
for hocus jiocus. It is pos-,ib!j that, with
their not very exact, ideas as to modern west
ern appliances, they may suspect that there
is some beneficial influence iu the mysteri
ous buzzing that N heard upon the lofty
wires. The prohibition "Pest no Bills" does
not appear on the iole. If it is there it is
covered up bv 1110113 thicknesses of "dead
ads."
On Sundays, when, the Chinese from all
parts of the city flock to Chinatown to pick
up the week's news concerning their race,
each visitor steps up to tho pole and consults
the announcements made thereon. They
run largely to for sales, to lets, und wants.
When a Chinaman has anything for sale,
from a laundry to a pair of chop sticks, he
pastes an announcement 011 the big telegraph
pole. Comparatively few of them are able
to write the notices themselves, but they
know where they can find scribes who will
do it for them iu good shape for reasonable
pa3. The notices are almost invariably
written with admirable neatness and with
out display. No cuts are inserted. There
seems to be an understanding that no man
shall occupy more of the common space thun
a reasonable setting forth of his announce
ment requires. New York Sun.
Itcateu at Their Own Game.
It was at a seaside resort. A lonely mer
chant was in search of health, and he took a
great deal of exercise in playing ioker. He
had two opponents, and they always won.
There is nothing so liable to rain a man's
reputation as to win regularly at poker.
Your dearest friend mistrusts four aces, and
to have four kings frequently sjioils the
pleasure of the game to others. Thoe
two gentlemen always won. a friend of the
Iouel3 merchant w hispered to him one day
that they were not so lucky as lie was green
and that the were well known sharers. Ho
was out fctiO. He did not like to lose it. So
he said to his friend one da", as one of the
sharers came up behind him:
"Follow my lead. Keep the conversation
to suit.'"
He pretended he was not aware of the
sharper's presence, and he said in a casual
way to his friend:
"I've been darned unlucky lately at cards.
But. to-morrow 1 have $W)0 coming aud you
bet I'll clean those fellows out."
The sharper stole away. That night he
played again, and his luck changed. He
backed his lifk, and it stood by him. He
won $80. Then he quit.
"You're ahead," said one of the sharpers
blandly.
"A little."
"AVell, 3-ou must give us revenge."
"When that i(M)!J conies." he said, and
winked. The two sharers kicked them
selves metaphorically all over tho hotel.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Klupka Projiosul to Gen. 3I-Clllaii.
Soon after Gen. Scott retired I received a
letter from the Hungarian Klapka informing
me that he had been approached by some of
Mr. Seward's agents to get him into our
army, ami sating that he thought it lest
to come to a direct understanding with my
self as to the terms, etc. He said that he
would require a bonus of 1 00,000 in cash
and a salary of $'J5,000 ier annum; that on
his first arrival he would consent to serve as
chief of staff for a short time until he ac
quired the language, and that he would then
take 1113 place of general commanding-in-chief.
He failed to state what provision he
would make for me, hat probably to de
pend uion the impression I made upon him.
I immediately took the letter to Mr. Lin
coln, who was made very angry by it, and,
taking possession of the letter, said that he
would see that I should not be troubled in
that way again.
Cluseret afterward minister of war
under the Commune brought me a letter
of introduction from Garibaldi, recommend
ing him iu the highest terms as a soldier,
man of honor, etc. I did not like his ap
pearance and declined his services; but
without my know ledge or consent Stanton
appointed him a colonel on 1113' staff. I still
declined to have anythiifg to do with him,
and he was sent to the mountain depart
ment as chief of staff, I think. Gen. Mc
Clellan's Book.
A Pawnshop for the People.
While all this talk is on about a people's
pawnshop I want to sa3 that here is an op
portunity for a goodly number of the young
men of Chicago to do a good thing for
themselves. Tho object will be simply to
have a concern which will loan mone3 on
miscellaneous articles of value, und, ierhaps
on furniture without removal, at fair rates
of interest, with none of the robbery or
rapacity which now disgraces thut business
conducted in this city b3 private concerns.
Such an enterprise, manuged with skill and
discretion, would surely be a profitable one.
It is just such a business as 200 or I'OO young
men of Chicago should engage in on the co
oierative plan,, with a savings feature. The
suggestion Is that an association be organized
after the general model of the building as
sxiations, the stockholders to pay weekly
dues on their shares, and the funds thus ac
cumulating to be loaned out on the Mont de
Piete or Parisian public pawn shop plan.
Interest at the rate of 1 jer cent a month
could doubtless be realized, which would be
much b?ttter for Iwrrowers than the 2 or
" jr cent, now charge" 1 by the brokers,
and still high enough to afford handsome
returns to the investo.-s. Chicago Herald.
Sta- Folk anil Sicklies.
The w ouder is t hat sickness so rarely causes
absence from the stage. Surely these indus
trious people who make up the numerous
comiwutics catering to the public en joyments
must be of different ckiy f-ora their fellow
mortals. Night after night one finds tho
same names on the bills and the same faces
on the stage, and it seeHis as if they were
blessed by some special protection from tho
aches and the disorders which drive the
sturdiest in other pursuits to gruel and
blankets. Philadelphia North American.
clclea Aralca Sal Ye.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cute, Brulaei, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to five perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cMit per
box. Foi Sale by Dowry & Heit
kemper. mayl7-ly
e rmsT
National Bank !
-OF
!
COZ.X7IBTJB. MSB.
HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And the largest Paid la Cash Cap
ital of any banK in this part
of the State.
DeDOnits received and Intereit naid
TTt .1 -. . r
uu ii iuc uepusus.
ESTDrmfts on the principal cities in this
country and Europe bought and aold.
'Collections and all other buslneu
given prompt and careful attention.
8TOCKUOLDKRS.
A . ANDERSON, Pret't.
HERMAN P. H. OEHLRICH,
Vice Pret't.
O.T.KOEN, Cashier.
J. P. BECKEK,
HERMAN OEHLRICH,
O. SCHUTTE,
W. A. MCALLISTER.
JONAS WELCH,
JOHN W. EAitnY,
P.ANDERSON,
Q.ANDERSON,
ROBERT UHLKi,
CARL REINKE.
Apr2S-'86tf
IU8OT88 CAJLD8.
D.T.Martyn, m. D. F. J.SCHUG.M.D.
Dm. MABTYH SCHUG,
U. 8. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
A B. H. and B. & M. R. R's.
Consultations iu German and English.
Telephones at office and residences.
tzaTOtfice on Olive street, next to Brod
feuhrer's Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, . NEBRASKA.
42-y
OULLIVaN Sc KEKUEK,
A TTORXEYS AT LA W,
Office over First National Bank, Colum
bus, Nebraska. 00-tf
W.
.11. COKIVKI.llJN,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building 1th street.
C.
. KVAIi, l. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
USTOoiue and rooms. CSluck building,
11th street. Telephone commuuic-tiou.
TTA.WIIYTO: 3IEAUE,n. .,
PJ1YS1 CI AN AND SUP (fON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. -y
J. M. MACKAKLAXD, B. It. COWDKKY,
IU--B-7 isl Vtiiitj ?utl e. C'Uctsr
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OK
MACFAILLAND& COWDBR7,
ColumbM. : : : Nebraska.
D
K. J. CHAM. Wll.ll,
DEUTSCHER ARZT,
Columbus, Nebraska.
fcSTOllice 11th Street. Consultations
in English, French and German. 22inarS7
DOWELIi IIOIT.Ht:,
PLATTE CENTEIt, NEB.
Just opened. Special attention given
to commercial men. Has a good ham pie
room. Sets the best table. Give it a
trial and be convinced. .lO-Iimo
Tom i:iini)i:,
COUNTY SUPVEYOIl.
Parties desirinir siirvevinir done
can address me at Columbus, Neb., or
can at my onice iu court House.
3nia.y8tt-y
"VTOTICK TOTKACIIlRS.
W. fa. Tedrow, Co Supt.
I will be at my office in the Court House
the third Saturday of each moutlr for the
examination of teachers. ."! tf"
F. P. RlJrVXER, 31. O.,
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Ckroalo Diseases aad Diseases ef
Childrem a Speeialtr.
!57Oflice on Olive street, three doors
uorth of First National Bank. 2-ly
rcll.MMTEK BROS.,
A TTORXEYS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in Henry's building,
corner of Olive and 11th Sts. TV. A. Mc
Allister, Notar Public.
JOHN . HIGCIXS. C. J. GARLOW,
Collection Attorsey.
BIGGINS & GARLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specially made of Collections bv C.J.
Garlow. JM-iii
C H.RIJgCHC
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips
Blanket, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, ,tc, at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
pAUPBELL A CO.
DEALERS IX-
Eas and Iron !
The higbett market price paid for rags
and iron. Store in the Bubach building
Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf
A.J.ARN0L1),
DEALER IX
DIAMONDS
fine WATCHES,
CleckM, -Jewelry
AND
SILVERWARE.
Strict attention given to repairing of
Watches and Jewelry. pfWlll not be
undersold by anybody.
Xet-Aveaae, Oppeelte Cletker Hems.
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