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Ml m m : : iiii i . if . r ll r r, H i I i H f : f r FREEZING PASSENGERS. HOW A MONTANA STAGE DRIVER SAVEO THEIR LIVES. A Trip Made Under I'eruliar DIHcultiea. Fighting the Dangerou Drowsiness. Passengers Kept Alive by Vigorous Thumping Waking Woman. The drivers anl lwssongers on the stage lines running out of this town have had this winter some of tie worst experiences ever known in this section. The storms, have been of long duration and of great severity, and tho cold has been extreme. Sandy Fellows, one of the drivers on the Helena route, who had a depcrate time in getting through the other day, and was laid up at Helena for a time, has returned here, and tells how he managed to get his jiassengers out of the blizzard without loss. ttInliL busiest days," he says, 'John Sulli van ne.-r did the slugging i" forty-eight hours that I did. If it wasn't for these tender fingers, which were frown a little, I wouldn't be much afraid to tackle him myself. I fiud that I have worked up a muscle that is some thing terrific, and all as a result of that trip, too. "When we set out for Helena I had on Uiardfhenienandone woman. One of the men was a discharged soldier, another was a cowboy and the others were prospectors, I guess. For awhile the weather wasn't bad, but pretty soon it began to grow cold, and the wind was so high that the flying snow be came almost blinding. all went to sleep. After I had been driving along for a while 1 became conscious tliat the weather was get ting more and more severe. It was taking hold of me, and I knew when weather began to shrink me up with all the stuff I had on it might be going hard with tho crowd inside. So I concluded to get down and look in. Great Christopher, young man, every one of them, except the woman, was asleep, and she looked kind of drowsy. Well, you ought to Lav seen me hunt them out of that. I took one at a time, and, as I whirled him around, I lifted him one under the ear and gave him another one in the jaw. Pretty soon I had them all out in the snow, axeept the woman, and she was practically stiff. What to do with her I didn't know. At first I tried to coax her out, but she 'shooed' me off. Then I appealed to the men to help me get her out, but they were still too sleepy and stupid. Then I got mad and says: 'You've got to come out of that, my fine lady,' and I gave her a yank that put a little life into her. By that time the cowboy had kinder got his grip, and he came at ma intending to lick me. I knew I would have to stand that sort of a racket, because,! had lieen there before; but he was a little stiffer than I was, and, after I had given him a few more wipes across tho ear, he became more reasonable. Just as he was picking himself up, I told him why I was bruising him, and that if be wanted to lick anybody he would have an elegant opportu nity by helping me wake up the other fel lows. That seemed to strike him favorably, and e went at the men, occasionally giving the woman a run. I fairly wore myself out on that soldier. He was tough. The more I hammered the stupider he got, until 1 finally gave him one in the mouth that made him see stars. By this time the other men had been pretty well aroused, and leaving the soldier to the cow boy, who asked the privilege of pasting him a few times, I turned my attention to the woman. She was cr ing, and did not seem to know just where she was or what ailed us. I soke to her kindly, and tried to explain, but it was no use. She was as far gone ma she well could be. I took hold of her and ran her back and forth, half carrying her, until I got tired, and then 1 made the men that we had waked up do the same thing, so as to put their blood in circulation. She seemed to im prove a little under the treutmeut, and wo kept it up until I came to the conclusion that she must 1 wide enough awake to go on for a uays. Telling the men to keep a sharp lookout on her, and to be careful themselves how they let drowsiness get the better of them, 1 got on the lox and drove on. l'OUXMNO THE l'ASSENOEKS. "1 had an idea that I was then somewhere near Tweuty-eight-iuile station, and I knew that 1 niuvt reach tbnt place before dark un less I wanted to drive m with a load of dead folks. So I whipped up the horses they were stiff enough too, by this time and we got over considerable ground. The wind had goue down some and it was easier to see the country. I was having great faith in my ability to teach the station when I heard the cow boy yelling that I mast stop. The soldier hail fallen asleep again. I got down and yanked the fellow out, and as I did so the cowboy aked under his breath if he could polish him off. I told him to go in, and tho way that he did it was a caution. As I saw him mauling the chap 1 came to the conclu sion that he might have a grudge against him, and so 1 stopped him, after intimating as much. The cowboy gasped for breath a few times and said: 'I never had nothing against tills particular soldier, but he'll do, in the ab sent j of any others.' After that I attended to the pounding myself, and I had plenty of it, too. The cowboy got drowsy once, and I took some satisfaction in thumping him around. At one point on the road I bad to get them all out again, and the time I bad with the woman was a caution. As soon as we could get her out of the stage she would declai-e that she was all right, but we wouldn't anymore than get started before she would snooze oir again. At length I determined to wake her up in a way that would last for a while. "Getting her out and running her up and down in the snow beside tho stage, I kept at her until she fairly screamed that she was awake and that I was killing her. Then I told all the men to get iuto tho coach, and after they were seated I let go of her quick, and, jumping on the box, I gave the horses the lash and away we went, leaving her be hind. The scheme worked as I had hoped it would. The first impulse of horror over, she started after us. screaming at the top of her voice. I looked around once, just enough to make sure that she was following, and then I gave the team full headway and kept her chasing for about a mile. Then I hauled up and went back after her. When I met her the was as w ide awake as any woman that you ever saw. Her cheeks were flaming and her eyes looked daggers at me. Fortunately, she could not get her breath well enough to jaw me, but the men say that after she liad Quieted down some in the coach she gave them her opinion of me in n way that would have done me good to hear. That little chaso saved her life, though. Two hours later I saw the station in the distance, and in a little while we drew up there with nobody dead and no one frozen except myself, and that didn't amount to much. When the crowd got thawed out they found that they had some mysterious bruises on their heads and faces, ahd one of the prospectors said ho felt aa though he had leeu pounded. The soldier said he knew lie had been, because one of his teeth was gone, and he had as beautiful a pair of black eyes as you ever saw. I guess they never ipectcd in but the woman told me when she left that she would tell her hus band, a miner down at Anaconda, about me, and that she'd bet me five to one that I would repent of what 1 had done. That "s about all the thank that u fellow gets for anything in this world. Benton (31. T.) Cor. New York Sun. AMERICAN DRINKS IN ENGLAND. Experience of the "American Bar" Pro prietor The llnt Julep Story. "When I opened the American bar in Liverpool, such a thing as a cocktail, a sour, julep, a cobbler, a fizz, or even plain rye or bourbon whiskey was something tliat" had been beard of but by few, and tasted by none, among those who were to become nry imme diate and regular customers. Brandy and coda, 'alf and 'alf, gin, hot toddy, porter, and ale, were the favorite and only tipples, as they had been for untold generations, ily bar, backed by a true New York display of glittering glassware, plate glass mirrors, and bottles of many colored liquids, with white coated handsome young men ready to serve the customers, in place of the traditional bar maid, was flocked to as if it had been a mu seum of rare curiosities. "But my American drinks went begging. The old time English beverages were still good enough for the loyal Britons, and when the persistent tips they tendered the lar taoders were as persistently refused, it seemed to appear to theiu as if the very bulwarks of the nation were Iwing assailed, and that the throne itself was tottering. But by degrees, a exigencies occurred which enabled me to fcBin imli to customers the efficacy of Yankee decoctions in cases of expanded head, afeoaachic derangement superinduced by a too ranch prolonged dalliance with merciless EngiJih tipples, and other physical and mental ever have remained unknown had there never been either American or other bar, they came to recognize the fact that if there could bo anv excuse for patronizing a bar at all, it could only be found in patronizing one where Yankee beverages could be had. One prac tical customer, in referring to the coming around of the British public to this stage, said that it was as if they first depised, then pitied, then embraced. I had one customer who developed a great fondness for the mint julep. No matter whether the weather was hot or cold, he wanted his mint julep, and he wanted it with amazing f requencj-. He was a man of con sequence, and I thought he would certainly be able to appreciate an American joke as well as an American drink, so one day I re lated to him that bold but respectable anec dote about the man who went to Virginia, before the war, and became acquainted with a hospitable resident The resident had plenty of good material for conviviality, and the visitor, having a recipe for the concocting of mint julep, thought that his host was wast ing both stuff and opportunity in leing ignorant of the existence of the julep. The visitor found that there was a fine bed of mint on the plantation, and he led his host, accompanied by a jug and other ingredients, to the spot. There he brewed the julep ami captured the planter's heart. The visitor taught the Virginian how to distil this here tofore to him unknown nectar, aud in time took his departure. A year later he had business again in Virginia, and he lost no time in hunting up his old host He went to the plantation. His knock being answered by an old negro, he asked the servant for his master. "'01 mars's dead, sab,' replied the old negro. 'Dab was white- man come 'long h'yah 'bout a yea' 'go an' teach ol' mars' to drink grass in he lickah, an' ol' mars' done gwan drink hisse'f to deff, sah.' "I told that to my julep loving customer, expecting to 1 rewarded with an t appro ciative laugh. He was imbibing one of his beverages at the time. He quit drinking, looked solemn, cast a regretful look at the mint in his glass, and went out and never came back. He had taken the story literally, and drew a moral from it at once." New York Sun. RAREFIED AIR AND MANIA. This Blooded 1'eople Who Cut Up Strange Capers la Colorado. "It is strange how some people are affected by the light air and 6,000 feet altitude of Cheyenne," said Policeman Bean in a recent conversation. "A short time ago a book agent reached here from Denver. He was rather a cadaver ous looking chap, who didn't seem to pack around more blood in his constitution than the law allows. As the train nearod Chey enne he began to glare around the car as if he was afraid somebody was going to slug him, and when the news agent passed through peddling some oranges he fairly yelled for them to take him away. He was afraid of leing killed. When he reached here he got spells in the same way, and I bad a good Jeal of bother in soothing him. -When he wasn't flighty he told me that he had often been troubled that way when he reached any tolerably high altitude. The least excitement brought on a fresh spell. I learned afterward that he never had any such attacks at home. In my experiencs at the depot here I have known of many people who have been troubled in the same way. This seems to be especially true of ladies, who grow worse until they begin to descend the hill from Sherman to Laramie City, and on inquiring of the trainmen I learn that afterward they go through all right" "You remember that little fellow from Ne vada, who cut up such tantrums at the depot here a few months ago;" asked the Judge. The listener intimated that he hadn't for gotten the circumstances. - Well, that fellow began to show the effect of the altitude as the tiain lieared Cheyenne. By the time be had reached here he had bar ricaded himself in the retiring room and was about to throw himself out of the window when the trainmen forced their way in and caught him. He was sure somebody was going to kill him. I got him away from the crowd and told him I'd protect him, and finally got him quieted down. The trainmen looked after him until they began to descend from Sherman, and soon after he seemed to le as sane as anybody. "It was only a few days later that an old lady on the train was taken in the samo way. She got it into her head that a colored woman who sat in the far end of the car had foul de signs ukhi her. Until the train reached Cheyenne the unfortunate daughter of Africa did not dare move a muscle for fear of throw ing the old lady into convulsions. Cases of this sort turn up often.'' "What sort of people seem to be niott affected that way;" was axked. 'They are generally thin blooded, nervous people, who, if they are in fair health, have got hut little vitality back of them," was the reply. Very nervous old women are very often the victims. A slight jar or shock sets them going, and then the depot rustler has a picnic on his hands and no mistake. Their mania always assumes the same phase they always llieve somebody is going to kill them Cheyenne Sun. Tattooing with a Capital "I." The bouse committee has at last taken up the favorite idea among army men of punish ing desertion, and has recommended tattoo ing. "Don't call it branding." said Gen. Bragg, speaking of the suggestion. "No civilised nation used to brand a human being. It is bad enough to brand cattle. We recom mend tattooing. This is a practice that some men, sailors in particular, engage in for pure delight I don't see why it should not prove a good means of punishment. The army officers who study this -question of desertion want to tattoo every man who enlists. Then, if he deserts, he is already branded, or in delibly marked, and can be identified, and if he goes swimming can be detected. The English used to brand, and later have tat tooed a big 'D' on the deserter s hip. For a time it was put on the left breast We think it should be put on the back between the shoulder blades. You see, mere tattooing would do no good if it is where the deserter can get at it and tattoo some device over or around the big 'D' to obliterate it Wo have begun small, so as not to excite too much virtuous indignation. Our 'D' is to be only an inch long. It ought to bo two feet on one man. He has deserted seventeen times. The fact is, some men prefer a well kept mili tary prison to garrison life. If congress should pass this tatooing law it would require about five pounds of India ink so supply the army annually. There are about 700 deser tions annually, an average, you see, of about two tattooings a day, Sundays included." Washington Cor. New York Suu. How Heaven Interfered. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle put the follow ing good story into his lately published book of reminiscences: "James Allan Purk was a worthy old judge, a believer in special provi dences and extremely eccentric He was in the habit of talking aloud to himself without knowing it In one case that came before him the prisoner was accused of stealing some fagots, and Park, on the bench, was beard to mutter something to this effect that he did not quite see his way to a verdict, one fagot being as like another fagot as one egg is like another egg. Tho quick-eared barrister retained for the defense caught these murmurings from above, and instantly made use of them. 'Now, witness,' be cried out, 'you swear to those fagots; how dare you do such a thing. Is not one fagot as like another fagot as one egg is like another eggF Immediately the judge, who though a good man, had certainly no claim to be an angel, rushed in without any proper apprehensions. 'Stop the case,' he shouted, 'stop it at once; the coincidence is quite miraculous. I vow to God the very samo thought in the very same words passed through my mind only a few seconds ago. Heaven has interfered to shield an innocent man. Gentlemen of the jury,you will acquit the prisoner.'" Chicago Herald. Absolution Granted. The Accident News tells of two well known newspaper men of this city who met the other morning with contrite hearts and big heads, and swore off for six months. At 8 o'clock that evening one was sipping a glass of seltzer when the door opened and No. 2 entered very intoxicated. He paused to recover his bal ance, perceived bis friend, straightened up, and, advancing to the latter, said with great dignity: "I absholve you from your plesh. Drink (hie) all you pleasb." New York Sun. So far has the competition mania gone in England that prizes have been given for the best three epitaphs on the lata Fred Axchar on8oltbsmforrado, . A COAT OF ARMS. THE EASE WITH WHICH ANY PAR VENU CAN SECURE ONE. How the Duke of Satherlaad Was As- toulshed HU Coat of Arm Emblazoned J on an American Citizen's Carriage. i Hunting a Pedigree. Up to within a few days ago there was an Englishman in New York city who spoke his native tongue in all its formidable atrocity. He is the Duke of Sutherland, who has "done the States" many times, but he appeared for the first time during this last visit in private Itall aud drawing room. Hitherto he had preserved his insular prejudice against the new rich Americans. But last spring, at the inaugural ceremonies of the Panama canal, he made the acquaintance of our former min ister to France, Mr. Bigelow, who was at Colon at the time as the representative of the New York chamber of commerce. This ac quaintance induced him to break through his former habit, and in his last stay in New York he consented to be present at the wed ding of Mr. Bigelow's youngest daughter and Charles Stuart Dodge at St George's church in Stuyvesant square. It was his former re fusal to join in any society'festivities that led him to imagine that the costume which had served him as a similar occasion in the west, when a cowboy espoused a ranchera, would do hero likewise, and he appeared at the Bige low wedding attired in a deer stalking hat, tweed suit, and heavy hunting brogans. This was forgiven a duke, however, on the score of eccentricity, and, the ice once broken, distinguished social honors poured in upon him. The last and climacteric exhibition of the ducal coronet was witnessed at the recep tion of Mrs. Hicks-Lord, when the wild wails of the pibroch, perpetuated by Mrs. Lord's private piper, hailed his grace of Sutherland as he entered. It was theu be uttered a good old fashioued English word, beginning and ending with the letter d, followed by the name which we are forbidden by the bible to apply to our brother. , THE LAST STRAW. "This beats my time," said the Duke of Sutherland. "I shall take to the yacht to morrow. Why, this afternoon as I passed a shop ou Fifth avenue what should I seo standing in front but my own carriage yes, by gad! I saw a carriage with my own coro net upon it" The duke ought to have demanded an ex planation of the owner; bat as be did not we will furnish him with one. The coat of arms eniblarxjned on the family carriage of a sim ple, American citizen is a harmless exhibition of the proprietor's vanity and the carriage maker's complaisance. The citizen, however, is not wholly to blame. Fortune bad smiled upon him, and he had a carriage built Noth ing to condemn in that He, like a sensible iitau, had intended to have his cipher on the panels, but the "women folks" were more nmbitious, and never rested until in a mo ment of weakness he consented to emblazon the doors of his coach with a coat of arms. Now the question arises: How to get one. His ancestors and himself have struggled along for a good many years without feeling any special need for armorial bearings. This contentment or neglect seems to have closed the way now to coronets, and, besides, be lives in the United States, where it is consid- ' ered an honor not to be crowned. If he lived in Brazil he would endow a hospital, and the . emperor would reward him with knighthood J and a coat of arms of great complexity. If he lived in England be could get a pedigree I and a coat ol arms rrom toe college oi Her alds without doing anything so expensive as found a hospital Living in neither of these convenient countries, but in the United States, if he must have armorial bearings there is just one thing to be done he must steal them. HUNTING A PKDIGBXE. When he has made up his mind to it, this is as easy as stealing lead pipe from a junk shop. He goes to the carriage manufacturer and takes him into bis confidence. That worthy is not surprised bless you, nol This isn't the first nor the thousand and first time he has acted for the college of heraldry. He brings out his library, which consists of "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" and "Burke's General Armory" Burke is the in dispensable friend of Studebaker and Kim ball and their clionU he brings out his library, and in the seclusion of the carriage builder's private office the respectable citizen endeavors to recollect something about the ancestors of hi family. Auy little incident is enough, and it is astonishing how obedient memory becomes on such occcsions. -Now there's a coat of arms that I'm familiar with," says the customer, "and I don't know where I have seen it unless it be longs to our branch of the family." So our branch of the family appear soon in their true colors. But many people are not so easily satisfied. When they have started in search of quartering and mottoes, they be come very particular. Say, for instance, the rich Mr. Jones wants a coat of arms. The carriage man opens his heraldic record and reads: "Jones, Arthur Adolphus Patrick Dennis; first lord of Castletoddy, Castletoddy, County Mayo, Ireland. "No, no," says the honorable Jones. "Our family are English by descent" A few more pages of the peerage are turned over until the name of Jones appears again, this time as an Eufdish peer, prefixed by five or six Christian flames, and with an addi tional surname that the head of the English bouse has been permitted to assume by royal license. This nobleman has an estate in Devonshire, "There we have it," cries the conscientious Jnuto. 'I have heard that ray grandfather came froni Devonshire." In much the same way, undoubtedly, the American citizen went to work searching the archives of his family, with a result that edified the Dukeof Sutherland by the sight of his own carriage, which he supposed to be Singly restiug iu the stables of Stafford house, rolling along Fifth avenue, emblazoned with the arms of his family and likewise the sup porters, which can only be used by a peer of the realm, the whole surmounted with a ducal coronet Willis Steelle in Chicago Times. THE BODY AFTER DEATH. 1'imr Methods Which May be Used la Lieu of Inhumation The Latest. Modern science has determined positively against the common practice of inhumation on sanitary grounds. Wherever the popula tion is dense, as it is in all great cities, it is k-en at once that the custom of burying the bodies of deceased jiersons is a certain and fruitful source of disease. Water and air are alike polluted and rendered dangerous to life by the placing in the earth the lifeless lumps of clay which will in time be resolved iuto their native element, but which, in the mean time, give forth noxious exhalations. For this reason the practice of intramural burial has been done away with, and modern ceme teries are placed as far as possible from muuiciial centers. Li lieu of inhumation, the scientists of the present day have devised four methods, namely, cremation, cementation, coking and electro-plating. Cremation is only the classic funeral pyre, but without any of its unpleas ant and revolting attendants. The body is reduced to a handful of ashes by intense beat in a furnace, so arranged that nothing dis agreeable transpires during the process. The process of coking is similar, but in stead of being burned the body is exposed to a nameless heat and reduced to a hard, brittle substance instead of to ashes. Cementation does not deal directly with the body but with its environments. It consists in hermetically sealing the coffin by a coat of the finest cement all round it The advan tages of a sarcophagus are secured in this way without its expense. But the latest method and one which is growing into popular favor is electro-plating. It is the application of a perfectly even metallic coating to the surface of the body itself by the same process which produces an electrotype plate. The method is briefly this: The body is washed with alcohol and sprinkled over with fine graphite powder, to insure the perfect conduction of electricity. It is then placed in a bath of metallic solution containing a piece of the metal to be used. To this is attached the positive pole of a strong battery, the negative pole is applied to the body and a fine film of the metal at once begins to cover the body perfectly and evenly. This ma be kept np aatil the coat ing attains any desired tlilrknw To this process there would seem to bono valid objection. In effect it transforms the corpse la a beautiful statue, form, features and even expression being perfectly pre served. No change is brought about in ap pearance, except that fact and figure are covered with a shining Tell, through which the familiar lineaments appear with all their well-remembered characteristics and ex pression. San Francisco Chronicle. Ravages af Leprosy 1st Hawaii. Dr. Frederick T. Miner, a prominent phy sician of Honolulu, Hawaii, is spending a few days in New York, winding up the first visit he has made to his native country in twenty years. "Hawaii is one of tho most beautiful and delightful spots in the world," said the doctor the other day to a party of friends who had given him a dinner, "and it is only a ques tion of time when it will become a very rich and profitable dependent of some country. The native dynasty cannot last much longer. At present it is little more than a name. The king is sunk in idleness and luxury, and for eign influences struggle for the control of things. The native population of Hawaii is rapidly passing away. Iu a very few year.;, comparatively, it will be practically extinct What carries off the people? Leprosy, for the most part, and then some such mysteri ous incompatibility of races as made tho North American Indians melt away before the Europeans. The islanders were a fine l-aee originally, but the vices they have learned from the white men have worked their ruin. "The ravages of leprosy in Hawaii have not been overdrawn. I don't know how they could be even adequately described to one who had never witnessed them. The terrible disease seems to be a poison in the blood that will eventually run through and wipe out the entire native race. The government does what it can in its feeble way to keep the dis ease from spreading. All authenticated cases are isolated on an island in the harbor. Phy sicians hired at the public cost watch for the disease and study its symptoms. But it still increases steadily among the natives. The foreigners catch it sometimes. It is a great mistake, however, to suppose, as most people do, that the disease is contagious. It can be communicated from one person to another only by contact and au actual transmission of virus, as by a wound or a sore. I have treat ed thousands of lepers, been with them when thy died, visked the leper hospital on the island and ate the food prepared for leper palates by leper hands. I have bandied liv ing and dead lepers with impunity, and so have hundreds of other Caucasians. On the other hand, hundreds of white men have been infected by the disease in the way that I have named and have died the most horrible and loathsome of deaths." New York Mai and Express. A QUIET STREAM. A quiet stream Flowed through a level meadow all day Ions; Its voice was heard in murmurous melody. That half a whisper seemed, and half a song Yet no one paused to hear its harmony. Or marked the brightness of its sunny gleam. Rut where its course Was half arrested by the ragged stone It swelled and bubbled till with new born power It leaped the barrier, all its weakness gone Its spray ascending iu a silvery shower. Its onward way pursued with added force. Its beauty then The artUt praised, the poet smug, until Came many to admire the pretty scene. Half marveling at the strength of such a rill A silver ribbon patting banks of green, Swift as an arrow, deeper than their ken. So we iu life. Unconscious of our strength may pass along. Our silent efforts vain our labor lost Content to rest unnoticed by the throng. Whose paths in life our daily course have crossed Till trouble comes to rouse us into strife. Theu ie posses. Through labor, power from pain and weariness We learu the lessons that will make us strong, Endow ua with capacity to bless The world will listen to the stirring song. Born of a soul replete with earnestness. Frances Lee Robinson in Southern Bivouac. A MEXICAN "FIESTA." A SEASON OF RELIGIOUS CERE MONIES ANO INDULGENCE. Brutality of the Bull Fight The Native Mexican aa Inveterate Gambler Va rious Games of Chance Aa Orderly Crowd. Every Mexican town has a patron saint whose duty it is supposed to be to watch and guard over the interests of the town and its inhabitants. The patron saint of the old town across the river, Paso del Norte, is Our Lady of Guadalupe. The natives begin their cele bration on the 6th and keep it up till tho 24th, when they have to quit so as to lie ready to begin the Christmas festivities on the 2Tth. The celebration or "fiesta," as it is called, consists of: 1. Religious ceremonies con ducted daily iu tho celebrated old church known to be over 340 years old. 2. At tending threo or four bull fights a week. H. Gambling, and lastly, drinking plenty of pulque, mescal and tequile and having a good time generally. Than the bull fights nothing could bo more brutal or disgusting. Take a dog fight, a cock fight or a fight between two men, and you know that they are but follow ing out the instincts of nature, and if either contestant gets enough he can show the white feather and generally get away. The bull fight is different; the poor brute is goaded and scored before lie is turned into tho ring; there be is again goaded and speared and finally killed. He stands no more show than a mouse in a box with a cat. AN INVETERATE GAMBLER. Sunday I wont over to see life on the plaza. The native Mexican is an inveterate gambler. He will rMc nlniost anything on the turn of a' die. The plazn, a square in the center of the village, was turned into an ex tensive gambling establishment, and the games were numerous, and tlioso run by Mexicans depended entirely on ehance. The American faker was, however, on band, and would sell you a $3 bill rolled iu a piece of paper for $2, and a few other snaps of that description, but the main games wero Mexi can. First in importance was tho national game of monte. It consists primarily in dealing two cards from tho bottom of the pack and then betting as to which of tho two will bo turned up first. There are many modifications of the gamo which would re quire an experienced person to describe. I havo not been hero long enough to acquire that experience. Another ganw very popular, especially with the ladies, is a kind of an odd or even affair. There is a funnel shaped contrivance with the bottom sloping to the center; in the center are several stops were a single marble can drop in and a general receptacle to hold them all. A handful of marbles is thrown end the gambler bets whether an odd or even number will drop in the general receptacle. The game most numerous, however, and which seemed to draw the largest crowds, especially of the American population, among whom was a largo delegation from the Cali fornia excursion in town over the Illinois Central, vrat played with dice. The layout consisted of a table, six cards numbered 1, 2, y, 4, 5 and 6, a dico box, three dice, a few silver coins and any amount of tlacos (pronounced "clackers"), a Mexican coin nominally worth 'Js cents, being a quarter of a real, which is one-eighth of a dollar, but in hard American money 5 cents will buy four of them. DKALXB AND DICK. The dealer shakes the box and throws tho dice on the table still covered by the box. Tho excursionist puts his money, say on the card marked three. The box is lifted; if there is a three up the dealer pays even; if there ore a pair of threes up he pays two for one. If there ore three threes np he pays three for cue. It is apparently a square game, and tho onlooker who is interested may spend a handful of "clackers" before he discovers there are several per cent, if not more, in favor of the dealer. There are several other games of less Im portance, among which I noted a modifica tion of the wheel of fortune. In tins, how ever, every turn drew a prize. A "clacker" purchased the right to turn the wheel, and wherever the arrow stopped it would point to au article of some value, ranging from two hairpins to a cheap cotton handkerchief. What tho young cowboy whom I saw gather in about a dozen hairpins will do with them is still a mystery to me. The crowd in attendance was a very orderly one. If any one got more tequile on board than he could handle he could lie down anywhere and calmly sleep off the effects of his potations and be perfectly happy. I only saw one quarrelsome fellow, and he was a drunken American. -El Paso (Tax.) Car. Detroit FVm Press. UGLY ELEPHANTS. THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR WICK EDNESS IN CAPTIVITY. Treachery of Romeo, Mogul, Queen, Empress aad Other .So-Called "Tama" Pachyderms All of them Afraid of a Kat or Blouse. ' The worst elephant that ever walked in a circus parade in the United States was Fore paugh's well known big elephant Romeo. He was as full of mischief as a monkey, and as dangerous as a dynamite mine. He was not bad in spells, but always bad, and his at tendants never k ew when his big trunk was going to swing at them with the force of a battering ram. Ho considered every man who traveled with tho Forepaugh show his born enemy. He hod a special dislike to Adam Forepaugh, Sr., and nover lost an op portunity to attempt tho veteran showman's life. Whenever 3Ir. Forepaugh went near him he would make a swipe at him with his trunk or throw at him the first missile be could find. When tho show came to Phila delphia to winter Romeo had to be chained in the middle of a big room alone, out of reach of the sides and top. His chains had to bo fastened to a post anchored about ten feet in the ground. His hind legs had to be fastened with chains stretched obliquely out and back from him. Whenever an especially violent fit of tem per seized Romeo it was necessary to throw him and beat him into submission. The throwing was accomplished by fastening blo:k uud tackle to the chains onthe hind legs aud drawing those members up under his big body until be wa compelled to let him self down. Once down he was chained tight and held, while a dozen men would surround him and thrash hiiu with poles until he trumpeted "enough." It frequently took ten hours to lieat him iuto submission, and he was often kept lying on the floor for three or four days before he would give in. The last seven years of his life Romeo de pended ou ono eye to guide his elephantine way through life. The other was shot out by his keeper, Stuart Craven, one day in tho fall of 180.",, on Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, after Romeo had broken down the brick wall of the animal hous where Forepaugh was win tering. Romeo took a notion to wander, and after raising merry war among the other animals, he butted down the brick wall of the house and started dowu the Ridge. Stuart Craven followed him with a shotgun and emptied about a pound of shot into Romeo's leather hide. One load took effect iu one of his eyes aud blinded him, and at the same time conquered the big brute so that be al lowed himself to be driven back to his quarters. A couple of years later Romeo killed au at tendant named "Canada Bill" at Hartboro. Pa., by throwing him against a wall and then getting him in front of him and kneel in? upon him. ''Elephant George," an attend- ant, was nearly drowned by him while riding across a river on the elephant's neck. Romeo dived three times in the attempt to drown George, who was rescued just in time by the other people of the show, who went after him in boats. Romeo died in Chicago in 18W from lock jaw, caused by the sores made on his ankles by the shackles. His skeleton is now mount ed in the College of Surgeons aud Physicians in Chicago. Iu his time be killed three men and destroyed $50,000 worth of property. Mogul, an elephant that was owned by John O'Brien, had a propensity to knock down aud kneel upon anybody who was near him when he took one of his fits of bad tern k.t. He was a hard animal to conquer, and it frequently took several days' thrashing. He wns killed in 1871 in an attempt to subdue him. He was kept lying down for four days on damp ground after a thrashing, and he I caught cold and died of pneumonia. I Chief and Queen, two elephants of the Bar- ' nuin herd, wero sold to Mr. Forepaugh last spring for $2,000. This low price was ac cepted for them on account of then danger ous temper. Queen had an unexplainable hatred for James A. Bailey, of Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson, from the first time she suw him, and the big brute never lost an op portunity to make an attempt upon his life. At the opening of the season two years ago in Madison Square garden, she nearly succeeded in accomplishing her designs on Mr. Bailey. Queen was in the procession coming down the track, and Mr. Bailey was walking in the op posite direction. Wheu Queen saw him com ing she edged out toward him, and as Mr. Bailey got opposite her there was a post be hind him. Queen saw her opportunity and l swerved suddenly toward him. attempting to catch him between her huge body and the post and squeeze him to death, but Bailey saw her purpose just in time and sprang aside, es caping by a hair's breadth. Pickanimry, the little down elephant, known all over the country on account of his funny peformances with the clown, Charlie McCarthy, was performing at Slocum's min strels several weeks ago, and kept his temper well enough until the last night, when betook a notion to play the bad elephant He started by knocking his keeper down, and then picked him up and threw him against the walL The man was nearly dead when McCarthy res cued him. Emperor, who was Jumbo's side partner with the Barnum show during the season be fore last, took a fit of stubbornness ou him in Troy, N. Y., while being driven through the street, and he broke away and went on a rampage. He got into an iron foundry and burned his feet, and theu ran into a crowded street Before he was caught and chained he had injured four men and a woman, and had done M.WO north of other damage. When Adam Forepaugh started iu the menagerie business he had but two elephants with him. They were Romeo, the wickedest in the couutry, mid Anuie, a black African elephant, the trickiest on the road. It was Annie's delight to frighten farmers' teams iuto running away, and she was never happier than when she could scare a cow out of seven years' milk. Whenever she saw a cow on the road out went the big ears like sails, trunk and tail were elevated, mid with a soul har rowing series of trumpeting Annie would tnako at the cow, and in about five seconds that cow, surrounded by a cloud of dust, would disappear over the horizon. The biggest and wickedest elephant in the country will back off from a rat or mouse, aud will tremble and trumpet if advanced upon by the little animal Philadelphia Record. Warnings in Dreams. Many people still believe that they receive warnings in dreams, and it is impossible to rebut the arguments for such a belief, but we may confidently assert that any general reliance on the confused and contradictory indications of dreams would involve the most inconsistent vagaries of conduct, wholly un worthy of a rational being. Our reason and our dreams are often so hopelessly at vari ance that, to desert the former for the latter, would be equivalent to relinquishing the bright shining of the sun in order to pursue a treacherous will-o'-the-wisp. The writer once had occasion to engage a passago for a long sea voyage, and the only vessel available at the desired time was a steamer which bad been a great favorite in her day, but was then so old that doubts were entertained re garding her seaworthiness. In spite of warn ings on this point be engaged his berth, and on that very night he had an intensely vivid dream of shipwreck and drowning at sea. Undeterred, however, be set sail without serious misgivings and had a most agreeable and prosperous voyage. In this case the dream was evidently no supernatural warn ing but rather the result of the effect pro duced upon the imagination by the bints thrown out regarding the vessels supposed unseaworthy character. Presentiments of all kinds are almost invariably groundless, and when on rare occasions a presentiment is verified by the result, the explanation is the very simple and obvious one that in this in stance our fears correctly forecasted the future. We fear and we hope many things more or less probable. All the Year Round. Portrait of Wendell Phillips. His appearance physically was in all re spects in his favor. There was hardly a point iu bis make up that one would desire to have other than it was. He bad a most command ing presence in whatever situation he was placed. Tall, spare person, well propor tioned, head large and symmetrical, hair abundant, not dark. The expression of his face charmingly beautiful, an eagle eye, very penetrating under a high but not massive brow. His nose was large, but well formed; his mouth always so beautiful and pleasant that it was really the moat gratifying feature of all. A raoregracefal agora on the public plat- form was aot to be found, aad as a public iLLL S style of spaasiagwas remarkably quiet aad ooBvenatioaaL Ha was saver noisy, bolster- and ranting. When speaking his voice was subdued in tone, bat distinct and musical. charming to all Heteaers even when his sub ject was distasteful, as often the case in his anti-slavery uttarences and temperance phil ippics or other reformatory addresses where be spoke the truth without restraint His speeches, always delivered without notes, were made with very little gesticulation, and . yet the gentle swing of his arms and the mo- j tion of his hands played an important part in , his oratory. J. W. McLoud in Tho Current j The Life of Krapotklu. Prince Krapotkin lives at Harrow, Eng land, supporting himself and his wife solely on the proceeds of his writings, for his estates have been confiscated an', his wealth has dis appeared as completely as if it had I een swal lowed up in quit-kanr! Chicago Tribune. MARTHA WASHINGTON NOT AN EDUCATED WOMAN IN THE SENSE OF TO-DAY. She Was a Poor Speller aad Her Gram mar Would Hardly Pass Master-dadls-rrimlaate Us of Capital Letters la Wrltlaawrfce Hose Sphere. Martha Washington was not an educated woman in the seme of to-day. She did not spell well, and her grammar would hardly staud the parsjng of the public schools. Copies of two of ber letters to her sister, Mrs. Banett. lie before me. They were written at about the beginning of the revolution. She begins one thus: "I hav wrote to you several times, in hopes it would put you in mind of me, but I find it has sot had its intended ef fect" Further on she says: "The rivers has never been frozen bard enough to walk upon the ice since I came here." Among the mis spelt words of the letter are: uNaveyn for navy, "loded" for loaded, "coles" for coals, "distant" for destined, Mere" for clear, "beare" for here, "pleaed" for pleased and "greatfurfor grateful. Company she spells "companey," and persuaded 'pers waded.' In the fac-siniile of a letter that she wrote to William B. Reed, of New York, in 1777. 1 see that she knew no other punctuation mark than the dash, that the apostrophe was a stranger to her, and that ber writing, though not illegible, was far from beautifnl .or ele gant The use of the capital was as embar rasaiug to her aa the use of the punctuation point, and ber letters look as though the cap itals had been shaken out of a mammoth pep per box and permitted to lie wherever they fell. OXK OK 1IKU LKTTEB3. One of her letters, commencing "Mydear Fanny," was lately communicated by the Rev. H. E. Haydeu, of Pennsylvania, to The Magazine of American History. It b dated "Mount Vernon, Aug. 7, 1784." and the ver batim spelling and punctuation are preserved m the publication. Borne of the sentences liegin with capitals and some without She writes of uMy little nelly," referring prob ably to Nellie Custis, and in the same line says that "Tut is the same claver (clever) boy you left him;r thus capitalizing the boy's , name, while she gives no capital to that of j t i-i ai :.. 17...... L- ulu.. r... end had received a letter from her papa," dated at "richmond," begins the next sentence with a small letter, aud in it eapitahzes "Brothers," "Family," and "General." A person uses his best grainmar while writ- ing, aud be who makes mistakes here makes more in conversation. Martha Washington may have been well educated ia the school of society and in that of life. She was certainly not so in books or literature. There wai no man than a student We have 110 record of his wife being a reader, save that she read a j chapter in her Bible every morning after j breakfast She knew nothing about novels, and the American monthly magazine, the great family educator of the present, was not yet born. Martha Washington had, however, the best advantages of the day. Her whole life was spent among learned men aud bright women, but there is no record left that she was bril liant in social conversation, and you will read in vain for the reported bou mots of Martha Washington. The truth seems to bo that Martha Washington thought woman's sphere was home, and that knitting and cooking were more important than wi iting letters and a knowledge or French. She is said to have been a good business woman, and to have inauaged the large estate of her first husband very ably before she handed her share of it over to George Washington. Frank O. Car penter iu The Cosmopolitan. Note for fisherman You can general ly find a bit; hlack bass in the colored church choir. If you have lxiils, If yon are bilious, If you have fever. If your head aches. If you are constipated. If you huve no appetite, If your digestion is bad. If your tongue is coated. If yon are thin or nervous, If your skin is yellow or dry. If you will try one Inittle of Bej;f;a' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker and aro not relieved it will cost you nothing as we guarantee it to give sat isfaction. Sold by Dr. A. Heiutz. When the knights of old wanted to protect his girl he put his armor round her. Worth Your Attention. Cut thi' out and mail it to Allen .V Co.. Au Kista, Maine, who will send ou free, xoiuethim; new, that just coimt uioey tor all workers. Am wonderful as the electric liht, a genuine as pure Kold, it will prove of lifelonic value and importance to you. Both nexeii, all uses. Allen dt Co. bear expeae of starting you in huiinertn. It will brinx you in more ca.h, ritdit ft way, than anything elite in this world. Anyone anywhere can do the work, and live at home also. Better write at once; then, knowing nil, houM you conclude tliat you don't cure to engage, why no harm is done. -My Ripe for mischief--The early water melon. Sossae l-'MlIali People Allow a cough to run until it gets beyond the reach of medicine. They often say, Ob, itawill wear away, but in most cases it wears them away. Could they be In duced to try the successful medicine called Kemp's Balsam, which we sell on a positive guarantee to cure, they would immediately see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Trice 50c sad fl.OO. Trial size free. Dr. A. Heintx. Woman may be a puzzle, but man is not willing to give her up. From the earliest historical times down to the present, there has been nothing discovered for bowel complaint equal to Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhcea Remedy- There is no remedy as near perfect, or one that is as strongly endorsed by all persons who have had occasion to use it. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has a great an tipathy for cats. Being entirely vegetable, no partic ular care is required while using Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets." They operate without disturbance to the constitution, diet or occupation. For sick-headache, consumption, impure blood, dizziness, sour eruptions from the stomach, bad taste in mouth, bil lioUB attacks, pain in region of kidneys, internal fever, bloated feeling about stomach, rush of blood to head, take Dr. Pierce's "Pellets." By druggists. Inflammation of the bowelu, Diarrhcea Dysentery, Colic, and all kindred di- lfcvl " once by the use of i BKR' IHnrrhfea Balaum. We tfiumintee ! every lxttk to five satisfaction. Dr. A. Heintz. MebSl Rev. Dr. Dix, rtctorof Trinity church. New York, Hots u salary of :53i),0(10 n year. Why will yon lie troiib!o.l with Sprains and bruiser. Old sores and ulcers. Neuralgia and tiwthache. Salt Rbuiii or Eczema, Scald hind or ringworm. Pain in the back or spine, Sveellin;' of the joint and not try Bejjtfs' Tropi.-.il Oil. if it dcn-w n.t iv lieve it will cost you Ruthin.; .is e war rant every bottle. Dr. A. Hcints, drn; tfist. Mrs. Tliurber has the mo't uadyinv confidence in the American oj. rn. 'i'lse tuni-. i.u i.a 4'..liiu A Well a the ll.it. it" Hirst, and ethers are invited to call on l A. H.inU uud get free a trial bottle ot heiup lt!aiii for the Throat and I.iihs, a rcim-dv that is selling entirely upou it merit and is jMiaranteeu to cure and relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bronchith and Consumption. Price .) cents aud SI Dci SO i I shall lie with you in spirit." as the ear of corn said to the whiskv Hack. Fifty cents is a small divtor bill, but that is all it will cost you tocureanr 'ordinary case of rheumatism if you take our advice and use (h:iiiilKrlain's Pain Balm. Everyljody that tries it once, continues to use it whenever they are in need of a remedy for sprains, painful swellings, lame luick. or sore . throat. It is hiihly recommended by all who have tried it. Sold by I)owty .v Becher. Anions; the Zulus youni; people tiyht . and yet married. Here they yet married i :,,, "Good deeds," once said the celebrat ed Richter. "rini; clear throuuli Heaven like a bell." One of the best deed is t alleviate human sutfi rius. "Last fall j my daughter was iu decline." says Sirs. ' Mary Hinson. of Montro'e. Kansas. "And everyliody thought she was jjoiui; into consumption. T ;ot her a liottle of Dr. K, V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip tion and it cured her." Such facts as , the abovo need no comment. Which is the more avaricious? A man will run after a dollar while a do; will follow a scent. . T"llirliult SCtmVlTl T.itilltt.ttit riiiiinvu !ill ! -...... - ... IIard; - or Calloused Lumps and j Blemishes from hor-e-t. Blood Spavin. j Curbs, Splints. Sweenev. StiHes. Sprains y and Swollt.u Throat. Co.t-hs. etc. .-,., - , . ., w b' of ,M,ttk'- tvtry j bottle warranted by C l. Stilhnaii. drui;3st, Columbm , N l. jt vear 77;) w,en attended lee- 4t(Mid Wajres Ahe.td. Geornr Minnon A Co., Portland, Maine, cm IKivcyou work t hit ou ckii do ninl live at home, tnakiuK Krent imt. You hrt- r-larti-d fiee. Capi tal not nvdfd. Hoth xxt. All axr.. Cut thio j out and write nt once; u hrm will l- done if ou coach"!.' not to to to work., after you learn all. All 1.111 ti.-uliiiB fret. Up? i..i,ii)M work in I thin world. i-iy Queen Victories favorite dish is tapi oca pudding. WD BUSINESS COLLEGE. ITrenaorrt 2Te"b. Xlili institution iwiMin-h ouii iwople thoroughly for Toarhiiiir, for ltu-.iu.-fM Life, for Adinimion to College, for Law or Medii-ul School, for Public S-aWintr. in Inxtrunifritul and Vocal Mtiiic, in Dmwinc mid I'aiutint;, jiad iu Klocution, Short-hand and Tj .e-vritinc. In the Normal IH-iMirtm-mt, thoronuli in struction is iriten in all limuctiet. niiutred for any certificate from Third tirade to Stntt Pro fessional. The Hu-iiiHiw Course iin-luilt-r I'enmnnxhip, Commercial Correfiondi'ni-e. Commercial Law and Ilook-keeiiui;. with the U-vt uiethodri of keeping Farm, Factory, IJonkiiiij Mid Mercantile aci-ountn. (Five premium were awarded to hi deimrtment at the recent State Fair.) Expended are very low. Tuition, Koom Kent and Table Iloani are plnced at cost, us nearly as potwible. Spring term beinn April ai. P-K7. Summer term lieKint July 5, 17. For imrticnlam ad dren M. K. Josi-s. IiovS-Nltf Fremont, Neb. LOUIS SCHKEIBER, H AU kimls of IUjiain'B done oh Short Notic. Busies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, aid all work (iiiar auteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and 8elf-binders-the best made. jgrSiion cQitf the "Tatters!!." on Mllve St. riil.UMBWS. &-ro ATTENTION WrtitfDO pr- nared to furuidh all clause with employment at home, tho whole of the time, or for their Mare momenta. Hui ne h new, ln:ht find profitable. Person, of either ttex eaeily rn from 50 ont to 5".00 per evening and a proportional ram by devotimr all their time to the DUfine. Boa and fnrlt eurn nearly aa much as men. That all who see Una may Bend their address, and test the basine, we make this offer. To such as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars and outfit free. 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The llouven ite nerd jit for general family ue. The Cannier needs It for h! tettnitnnJ hli moo. Tho .tlecliuulc need It alway on hi nork bench. The ?Ilnernei.iIlt lncaeof emergency. The 1'iaueerneoNU van'tKet along without lc The Farmer nued it iu hU home, hi ttabU. and hi stock yard. TUe Steamboat rutin or the Raaimaa nJ It in liberal supply afloat aud mhore. The Ilarae-laucler uee.1 it-It 1 hi bt friend and safest reliance. The Sleek-grower need It It will save htm thousand of dollar and a world of trouble. The KallrttadnaaneediltaudwIUneedltaa long as hU life Is a round of accident and daugars. The Ilackwaodamaa needs It. There U noth ing like It a an antidote for the danger to llf. limb and comfort which surround the pioneer. The Merchant needs It about bta store among his employees. Accidents will happen, aud whea these come the Mustang liniment Is wanted at one. Keep a Bottle U the llaase. TU the best oX economy. KaeaaHettlela the Factarr. Itslamedlata use la case of accident aares pain and loss ot wages. Ktts a Battle Always la the Stahle far as win wasted. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. Ai Offer Worthy Attentiou from Every Ke.iiler of the Journal. ovr uHoicKor rouu hhi iMFm.s, fhuc HUNHH1NK: For J()Utli;iiI-o for thoee of nil itxen wliofi- heart ;tre uot withered. i a lurtiil Muie, ure. Uciful and uumt inteTextiliK aer; it i imhlit-lied nioutlil) by K. t Alien X t.. AiiKUctti, Maine, at 'Ai ceut-ae(ir; it i- liutid souiely iilu.-truttd. DAL'tiHTEitS Or- AMKKIt'A. Liy .full .f ti!-efiilnr- are north) of reward anil imitation. "Tin' linnd that rorlr. the cradle tul-t. the world." throtili itt. Keutle. KUitii: inlltii'nce. Kmplist iridly h woumnV t j-r iu all tmaiclu l licr work and exalttd Matmu in the world. ""Kiel mil tituc--"! the t1.1111dr.ti1m fr 111 wl.it li ti, litiiM. Ifundxitm !j illit.-trnttd. 1'iddNlird imutli! l True A. .. AiiKiirta, .Maine, tit -0 celili. l-r jenr. 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HpUWj sM3jna7 H9fi9 Fae-slmile of Patent Chess and Checkerboard, ad Tertlaing the, celebrated Synvlta Block Ramedlee and a HEWABD OP fil.Sej. If you fall to And It on this small board call on your druggist for f ull-Mie. Handsomely Lithographed board. i'KK E; or send cants for postage to us. COUGH BLOCKS. From Mason Long, the Converted Gambler. FORT WATXI, Ind.. April 5. 1S84.-I have given .3r Djnriia yioun niocas a inorouan trial. Tliey cured my little girl (3 years' old) of Croup. My wife and mother-in-law were troubled with coughs of ion standing. One package of the Blocks has cureO them so they can talk "as only women do." StAao.v Long. WORM BLOCKS. Lima.O.. Jan.2S.lS8T-The Synvita Worm Blocks acted like a charm in expelling worms from my lit tle child. The child Is now well and hearty. Instead or puny and sickly as before. Jorxx G. KOBBI.VgO.V. IUCKIEMY IL0CKS. Tke Great Diarrhoea aad DjMitcry. Checker. Delphos. O.. July 7th. 'SC Our six-months old chtld had a severe attack of Summer Complaint. Physician could do nothing. In despair we tried Hynvlta Blackberry Blocks recommended by a friend and a few doses effected a complete cure. Accept our heartfelt Indorsement of Tour Black berry Blocks. MiUA.SDJlK3.J.BjtXZHAr. The Synvlta Block Remedies are The neatest thing out, by far. Pleasant. Cheap. Convenient, Sure. Handy. Reliable, Uarmleas and Pure. No box; no teaspoon or sticky bottle. Put up in patent package. S Doacs & Crsts. War ranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your dru-t-'t. If yon fall to get them send price to THE SYNVITA CO., Delphos, Ohio. and arcEtvr tuxx postpaid. W CHECKERBOARD FREE unth tath URVER. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUBTaavs-n. Tfcis Xagaziae partraya Ameri can thoaKht aad life from eceaa to oceaa, is filled with pare higa.elass literature, aad caa ae safely wel comed ia aay family circle. MICE 25c. 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