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1 1 i( ? : r A UTILE NAVAJO. INDIANS WHO DISLIKE THE LOOKS OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA. Aa Artist's Attempt to Secure the Plet tsre or avaJo Baby A Cunning Lit Ue Savage Obliged to Give Up the Chase. As we know, the Navojos are an American tribe of Indians, scattered for the most part over the territories of New Mexico and Ari zona. Quite a number of them live with their families, in the curious little habitations they erect, about tho frontier military station at Fort Wingate, Now Mexico. It is in this latter place that I have had the opportunity, for over two years past, of studs'ing many of their ways and customs.- And it was here, too. that a few days ago I went out among them with a photographic camera, armed with an English instantaneous shutter, with a view of taking a few picture of them while they were actively engaged in some of their very interesting cam.-.. After having obtained four or five more or Jess satisfactory plates the Indians became quite restive, as they rather object to that sort of thing; and, as if by common consent, they gradually disappeared, a few at a time, making for one of their low, couical haned mud huts, where they entered through the single small door at iu side. In less than half an hour there wo none of them to be seen outside at all, and knowing full well that they would not appear again so long as I remained upon the ground, I shouldered my instrument and prepared to come away. At the time I was standing between two of their huts, situ ated some 300 yards apart, with a well beaten though narrow footpath ias.sing from one to the other. There were no trees within a. quarter of a mile, the plain being sparsely covered with sage brush, the plants being from two to three feet high. A I.ITTLK TE.V-MO.NTH-OLD. Just then one of their babies toddled out of the doorway of the upper hut; the child could not have been over 10 months old, and wore only a very dirty little hirt, which came about half way down to his knees. It looked inoro like an infant Eskimo than any child, not white, that I know anything about; and it started right down tho path with a very unsteady baby waddle, making for the lower hut, where I imagine its mother had taken refuge from ray merciless camera. I bad often longed for a good picture of a Navajo baby in its nutiie plains, and here was an opportunity not to be lost. So step ping a few feet out of the waj, in an instant I bad my instrument in -osition, focused on the path, and, with instantaneous snap ready, 1 6tood quietly for my subject to pass. On be toddled until be came within thirty feet of me, when he suddenly stopped and, to my surprise, seemed to fully take in the situation. At this stage I felt quite sure that one of our babies, esjteciallj' at this tender age, would have begun to cry and more than likely retraced its steps to the hut from whence it had issued. Not m, however, this infant Navajo; and, mark the difference. He steadily watched my every movement, and was evidently determined to reach the lower hut. Very cautiously leaving the path on the side furthest from me, he was, in the next instant, behind one of the sage brushes, which was something over a foot taller than the baby. From this ignition he ieered through the leafless twigs at me to see what I would do about it A little annoyed at this turn'in affairs, I threw the focusing cloth over my head and turned the instrument on him. Taking advantage of this temporary conceal ment of my head, he ran, thoroughly baby fashion, to the next lower brush, a distance of some ten feet, where, hiding as before, he crouched down and stared at me like a young lynx through the twigs. He now looked, for all the world, tho young Indian cub at bay, with all the native instincts of his ancestors on tho alert, and making use of all the strat egy his baby mind could muster. AN INTERESTING PICTURE. It was a wonderfully interesting picture to stud; but, fearing that I would lose a jiernia uent memento of it, I turned to lift in in strument, with the view of taking a much nearer txfeition, hen, again facing the brash whore I had last seen tho baby, it was, to my great surprise, not lhert, but had scampered to tho next lower one, in tho direction of the hut for which it was bound. A full grown buck of tho tribe could not have possibly managed this last movement any better. As It ran to the still next lower brush, I was astonished tieyond measure (for, I tako it, I am a good stalker myself) bow it took ad vantage of everything that lay in the short intervening distance, and how, after it ar rived at the brush, it immediately took a position on the opposite side of it, from where it could make another quick start, and yet not lose sight of my movements. And, mind you, all this from a baby only 10 month; old at the most. As it was rapidly earning its point and approaching the lower hut, in sheer desperation I ran up on its last place of concealment, holding my camera in such a way that I could immedi ately place the tripod in position, which I succeeded in doing with the lens leveled di rectly at its head, and not three feet from it It now stood up to the full extent of its baby height, and giving vent to a genuine infan tile bawl, it made a break for the final point of its destination, for there was nothing else left for it to do. It is almost needless to add that, before I could focus and insert a plate, my Navajo baby was out of range. And, fearing that its angered mother might appear at any mint, at tho cry of alarm of ber child, I immediately forsook the ground. My object in making a record of such an in teresting case us this is to simply draw atten tion to the fact that the native instinct of these American Indians is exhibited in their young at a wonderfully tender age; and in this particular they differ vastly from our owu children at a corresponding time of life, and reared, as they have been for ages, in a civilized environment Nature. EDITING WITH THE SCISSORS. All Honor Should be Gives to the "Scis sors and Paste" Journal 1st. Tho above remark is frequently made in connection with newspajwrs, and is too fre quently meant as a slur. On the contrary, under proper circumstances, it should be re garded as a compliment of a high character. The same paper may be ably edited with the pen and miserably edited with the scissors. A mistaken idea prevails that the work of the latter is mere child's play, a sort of hit or miss venture, requiring hardly any brains and still less judgment; that the promiscuous and voluminous clippings are sent in batches to the foreman, and with that the editor's duty ends and that of the foreman begins. Instead of this, the work requires much care and attention, with a keen comprehen sion of the fact that each day's paper has its own needs. The exchange editor is a pains taking, conscientious, methodical man, al ways on the alert, quick in appreciation, re tentive in memory, shrewd in discernment He reads closely, culls carefully, omits and amends, discards and digests, never ignoring the fact that variety is a great essential. There are sentences to recast, words to soften, redundancies to prune, errors to correct, headings to be made, credits to be given, sea sons to be considered, affinities to be pre aerved, consistencies to be respected. He knows whether the matter is fresh or stale, whether it is appropriate, and whether he has used it before; he remembers that he is cater ing for many tastes; he makes raids in every direction; be lays the whole newspaper field under contribution; he persistently "boils down," which with him is not a process of re writing, but a happy faculty of expunging without destroying sciue or continuity. His genius is exhibited in the deportment, the items of which are similar and cohesive in the suggestive heads and sub heads, in the sparkle that is visible, in tho sense of gratifi cation which the reader derives. No daily papercan be exclusively original; it would die of ponderosity. Life is too short, and hence -an embargo must be laid upon the genius of its rivals. A bright clipped article is infinitely better than a stupid contributed article. The most successful paper is the paper that is intelligently and consistently causa in au us uepartments, whether by pen or l x-juiaaeipnia uau. Where Napoleon's Son Died. One of the most horrible sights I have seen was the field of the disaster of Isandlwana, in ZaTwland It was four months after the dis aster. The 1,000 dead bodies bad been lying Wrhfng in the hot sun unburied all that The Zulu vultures bad not touched Their oodiss bad withered away to sarasad in skias thai had bamm ka leather. One could trace how they bad fallen, and occasionally rallied in groups to assise a desperate stand against their enemies. The corn which bad fallen out of the wagon had sprung up among the dead. I bare seen battlefields after the fight strewn with dead and dying, heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, but that sight was nothing like the horrible field of Isandlawana, Later on I saw the dead body of the young prince im perial He was a lad of great brightness, and on the voyage out be expressed anxiety about receiving a wound from an assegai. He lay on the field quite naked, covered with wounds. Round his neck was a thin gold chain and a locket, attached in which was a picture of his mother. We took this off and sent it to the empress and then carefully car ried him from the field. It was curious, and cast a gloom over me. that I should see this young prince receive, as his father called it, his baptism of fire at Spicheren and then a few years later see him a corpso on a foreign field. London Cor. New York Mail and Ex press. ' EUROPE AND THE ORIENT. CoavenatioB Between a Chinese aad a Japanese Diplomat Novel Conclusion. Some time ago a friend of mine, who speaks the Chinese language, listened to a conversation between a Chinese and a Japanese diplomatist which forcibly illus trated the progress that European ideas have made in the far east The two men were dis cussing the question as to how much of western civilization it was desirable to intro duce into their respective countries. The diplomatist from China was greatly im pressed with the immeasurable superiority of European sciences over anything of the sort existing in that empire. The Japanese fully agreed with his friend that both China and Japan should profit to the uttermost by the fruits of modern inventions and discovery; but he re marked that that was not enough and that something more was needed. Pressed to say what it was be replied that to the science they ought to add the religion of Europe. The Chinaman differed from his friend on that point, but the latter repeated his opinion in yet stronger language. He said that al though the Japanese government did not know much about the Christian religion and attached no more importance to it than they did any other form of supernatural belief, they at one time seriously thought of taking it over and making it the religion of the state. The Chinaman still expressed his incredulity as to the wisdom of such a proceeding, but the Japanese clinched his opinion by refer ring to the case of the Turks. Look at the Turks," he said; "they have availed themselves of all of the benefits they could derive from modern science. They have gunboats and ironclads and artillery, but yet they are losing ground every day. Science in this instance does not suffice to arrest national decay, and therefore I am forced to believe that the Turks have made a mistake in stick ing to their religion instead of adopting that of the stronger race." This remarkable conversation took place in London. As evidence that, so far as the Japanese diplomatist was concerned, it was not empty hound, I may mention that, at the request of the Japanese authorities, a com mittee has been formed in this country for the purpose of establishing female boarding schools in the city of Tokio. They desire to see established institutions in which Christian ladies would impart instruction, both secular and religious, to Japaneso girls of the upper classes, and I am assured by a friend who is interested in the matter that before long the experiment will be made. The Japanese ag nostic, although utterly skeptical himself, is quite willing that his daughter should be taught any religion which would enable them to better their condition in this world. New Tork Mail and Express. The Story of a Flay. James Barton Key tells an odd story about the first English production of "Jack," which enjoyed such a prosperous run at the Grand last week. It seems that Mrs. Henry Beckett, the author, took her inspiration from an old French play, but ber work on the piece was entirely original, she having changed the con struction entirely and keeping only the motif. She originally sold the play ten years ago to Harry Montague and it was played by him iu this country under another name. He, however, received his San Francisco offer and left to accept it. Sothcrn fell in love with the piece and was to have produced it had his death not occurred just then. By the terms of the contract it reverted to Mrs. Beckett and it was again sold by ber to Mr. Plympton. About two months before it was produced in London she was asked by a pub lisher for whom she worked to write a short novel. The price was alluring, but she bad no theme handy. In despair she took the play and turned it into a novel, putting in only enough description to connect the scenes. "The novel came out before the play did," said Mr. Key, "and some back writer in Lon don perceived its dramatic value and turned it into a play. As luck would have it, our play was produced anonymously and the hack writer was there. He was astounded, and when he saw Mrs. Beckett responding to the calls for 'author,' he raised such a row that we were obliged to conduct him behind the scenes to her. He was so enraged that be could hardly speak. He claimed to be the author of the play and threatened her with all sorts of terrible things. At last be said, 'Why, madam, I can bring you the novel I took it from.' 'Very well,' said Mrs. Beckett, 'bring the novel and play to my house to morrow.' Sure enough he turned up with the documents, whereupon sho produced her play with a United States copyright ten years old, together with a novel and a letter from the publisher certifying that she was the author, and her own play. 'This,' she said, holding up her piny, 'was what my novel was written from.' He wilted at that, for this is the clinching clause of copyright law. Notwith standing all this, however, he sold it to Fritz' Emmet for 250." Chicago News. Barbarous Ballet at Tangier. One savage ballet I noticed; about twenty of these ruffians divided into two platoons face each other, and at the sound of pipe and drum, dance forward and back, passing through each other's lines, brandishing their guns high in the air, until at a point in the dance, when one platoon gives a wild shriek, reversing the muzzles of the guns to the ground, and giving a simultaneous leap in the air, they fire off their guns all together. Then this platoon runs off to on attendant who stands by with an open bag of powder to re load, and its place is taken in the dance by a fresh troop. I saw this thing kept up for an hour to the intense delight of performers and audience. The feet and legs of some of the partici pants were bleeding from wounds made by careless discharge of guns, but this was quite disregarded. Generally some eyes are put out and some lives are lost by explosions at these celebrations. I saw one fellow carried off bleeding, but I was told that he was the victim of a bloody feud, for this is the open season for the vendetta, a popular institution in this country. Indeed, it is said that these feuds exist among the mountain tribes dur ing generations, and that a man feels it a point of honor to kill a few of the tribe which a hundred years before may have put an end to his great-uncle's mother-in-law. Tangier Cor. Boston Transcript An Insane "Woman's Strength. "One of the most striking things about in sanity is the wonderful strength of the luna tics," said an ex-employe of the Buffalo State insane asylum while detailing his experience with the demented. "One day I was assisting to carry a trunk through one of the wards when a little woman patient laid bold of my coat and expressed the intention of putting me in the trunk. I tried to pull away, but ber delicate hand held on with an iron grip. Force was the only alternative of remaining there until some other whim took possession of ber, so we resorted to muscular persuasion. Would you believe that it took -three strong men and a woman to make ber let go! "We pulled her slender fingers back one by one, each man hanging on to a single finger, until finally the parting of the thumb and the first finger released the garment To bend back a single finger was like bending a heavy tele graph wire. It appears as though the lunatic has the power of concentrating all his strength in a single part of the body at the expense of other portions in a manner impossible to a rational person." Buffalo Courier. The grave of Capt Crawford, who was shot by a Mexican troop while leading his com mand in pursuit of Geronimo last summer, u to have a monument. The demand for frogs k so great in the vicinity of the larger eastern cities that ftxjf farms are springing up everywhere. ON THE CORAL KEKS. ODD CUSTOMS OF PEOPLE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. Types eff Men that Us la JIataal Hate. Basinets Hahits ef the KetMeats of Key WestFacts Abeat the Island. Flat as a Pancake Perhaps there is no place in the United States so much talked about in New Tork and so little known as Key West It is generally associated with cigars. It is the largest of a series of coral islands, called keys, which dot the ocean at the southern end of the peninsula of Florida. It is entirely away from the mainland, which is only to be reached by steamer. But on this coral reef is a city containing 20,000 inhabitants, consist ing of Conebs, Cubans and negroes, with a few Americans. Perhaps the island has a bright future before it, for it has bad no past and very little present While other cities in the Union have been up and doing, this coral key- has been asleep in the gulf. It is the most southerly part of the Union in fact, the very end of the United States. The city is the only one iu the country where neitner snow nor frost has ever been seen; the tem perature is about 73 or SO degrees in the day and about 05 at night Communication is kept up with the rest of the world by means of a line of steamers from New York, another from New Orleans, and a mail steamer two o.- three times a week by way of Tampa, Flo. By the but we get New York papers about three days old. FLAT AS A PANCAKE. The Island is as flat as a pancake; the high est point being only twelve feet above the level of the sea. One would think that during a storm the sea would roll over the island and drown out poor little Key West The city proper is densely populated, but is as unlike an Americau city as possible. All the houses are made of wood and built quite plainly. There is no show of ornamentation or decora tion, to say nothing of what is called archi tecture. Once in a while you may detect something that looks like lattice work, but it is plain, and is not intended to display any thing. Many of the stores have no signs upon or about them, and the storekeepers look as if they did not care whether they sold anything or not There are no hotels, and those who desire a temporary residence have to bunt about for a boarding bouse. When it is found, the boarders would con sider a New York boarding house, derided as it so often is, a palace in accommodation for eating and sleeping compared to one in Key West The streets are wide and dusty, for there are no sprinklers. In fact, water is such a luxury in the dry season that it cannot be wasted in sprinkling the streets. It is rain water caught in cisterns when the heavens furnish a supply, and fa often carried from place to place in pails supported by a yoke from the shoulders. An attempt was one time made to drive an artesian well; but the water when reached was so brackish that it could only be used for the extinguishing of fires. The dust flies continually. Tho road way is hard.being the solid coral rock itself. There fa no surface soil. What passes for soil i is nothing more than this rock ground up. It is a nice thing to have blown over new black clothing, and still a nicer thing to get out of the cloth afterward. As before stated, the , population consists mainly of Cubans, Conchs and negroes. The Conebs are in reality na tives of the Bahama islands, but everybody in Key West calls them by that name. A SOCIETY OF HATZBS. The Cubans dislike the Conchs and the Conebs detest the Cubans, while both together hate the negroes. A happy state of society may therefore be imagined. They are as dis tinct as can be, but their localities are known asConchtown, Niggertown and Cuban vil lage. Each has its distinct amusements, oc cupations and turmoil. The few Americans ' seem always to be planning bow best to get away from the island. Cigar making is the principal employment of the Cubans, and there fa plenty of work for them, as Key West contains 125 cigar factories. It is said ; on good authority that 90,000,000 cigars are shipped away from the island every year. j The Cuban is not very strong looking. His sports are gambling and rooster fighting. The women are fairly good looking, given to wearing high heels, bice shawls and face pow-1 der. Both men and women smoke and chatter like magpies. They stand around in j crowds and make a noise more like a lot of geese than human beings. Their food is prin cipally oil, pork, bananas and coffee. Their coffee is good, but made so strong that it will stain the cup from which it is drunk. When in a restaurant the Cubans appear to talk all at once, each trying, as it were, to drown the other's voice and gesticulating as if about to strike each other on the face. The odor of the Cuban restaurant is generally too strong for the olfactory nerves of one brought up in New York. The Conchs are the fishermen of the island and the gatherers of sponges. They ore a large, rough class of men and appar ently very ignorant. One marked feature is their accent, which fa considered the charac teristic of the Londoner the dropping of the aspirate where needed and using it excessively where not wanted. They use their fists when fighting, while the Cubans are too ready with the revolver or stiletto. The negroes are em ployed in Key West, as elsewhere, in menial labor, and are as lazy as in the other southern states. Together these three races form a very mixed and far from harmonious society one that fa not likely to be met with any where else in the United States. New York Mail and Express. CONTROL OF THE EYES. Something That Is Particularly M sary in the City of New fork. The greatest secret of enjoying existence in Xew York is that one must be absolutely the master of his own eyes. Hungry Joe, the arch confidence operator, used to say that be could distinguish a stranger by his hat or shoes. The idea that these betray men is so deep rooted that many strangers always buy New York hats and shoes as soon as they ar rive, while others who expect to come often to town order these wearables from city shops. But you can get correct bats and shoes in any large city, and off styles in the Bowery. But whatever one looks like he must con trol his eyes or life will be a perpetual tor ment to him. Our dudes and Anglomaniac society carry the thing too far. They go about forever looking over every one's bead, or else staring with a dead and live glassy look, insulting alike to whomsoever they glance at and to their own intelligence. This they think "the grand air" and their admirers dub it aristocratic A ward politician tbe other day said to me that the leader of a cer tain political faction was "gitting 'ristocratic." I asked him bow he was showing this. "Ob," said the heeler, "be has a tired look, aud he don't seem to see you 'less he wants." But by eye control I mean tbe seeing of everything without being seen to do so. This necessity is bred by tbe horde of street bandits that prey upon every man out of doors. Their number is legion and their ways are the ways of brigands. If a man lets his eyes fall on a boy who utters a peculiar street cry he is apt to have from two to six newsboys leap for him like so many human catapults. As he steps from a hotel, theatre, depot or club, if he allows his eyes to wander an instant he will be at once surrounded and hemmed in by cabmen, each seeking his custom, even by violence. If he turns his head to look at tbe mendicant who addresses him he may not be able to get rid of the fellow for a block. Resting the eye for an instant on a group of well dressed men (who may be interested in a "quiet game"), or on a boisterous drunkard or a vol uble crank, may prove to have very annoy ing results. I was talking the other day to a lady whose receptions are very popular, and I remarked that people commented very curi ously on tbe difference between ber manner indoors and ber carriage on the street In doors she was all affability and unconscious ease, and out of doors she was a poker. "It's all put on out of doors," she said; "it goes on with my bonnet and wrap. I was in endless trouble as long as I yielded to my in clination to be natural and careless. Some adventures that I had were quite ilirmlng t can tell you. But now I am on my guard as long as I am out of doors. Minneapolis Tri bune. Elopers Sore Eneagh. "There had been an account of an ope ment in the morning papers," said the com mercial traveler, "and I was thinking of it when a couple drove up to the country hotel andregBBrsd,4Mr.and Mrs. So-and-So.' I winked at the boys and said: 'Here's for a joke.' Tbe old hotel keeper was a vsry dear friend of mine and took say word for gospel truth, so when 1 said: 'Look oat for -ami I think I know 'em, and they are eloping and ; they are not married,' etc, yon ought to have seen the old fellow. He scowled and lifted his chin, and wagged it up and down . half a doasn tune, sort of as though be was I thinking it over, and then he walked off. All the other boys in the hones were put onto the joke and we agreed to watch the old "" . and see what be did. i "Supper rang, and .the party of traveling men took seats at one table and left the new arrivals to the sole occupancy of another. The hotel proprietor, who helped serve at the table, took bis station as much as possible be hind the young couple, his eye all the time watching their every movement 'Will you have some sugar in your tear at length said the young man to his companion, as he punted the saccharine for her use. " 'No, thank yon; I never use sugar in my tea,' was the sweet response. "We were watching the old man as he stood near them and heard this answer. He grew aboat a foot in a second. 'He's got a clew,' said I to myself. And it was a clew such as would make the eye of a Pinkerton detective sparkle The idea of a husband not knowing whether his wife used sugar iu her tea or notl The old man didnt linger long about coming to a decision. He leaned over and said: 'Young .man, you leave the table. That woman fa not your wedded wife.' "The couple never whimpered. They called for their team and drove on. The moat sur prised party in the affair was ours. We hadn't dreamed that we were so near the truth. The next day the same pair were arrested in a neighboring town and car ried back to their homes. If I should tell that landlord now that the Methodist minis ter that boards with him was Jesse James in disguise be would believe me." Lewiston (Me.) Journal Teapot and Paach BowL Afternoon teas are filling up toe remaining days of the season at Washington and the teapot and punch bowl still "draw," as theatrical peoplo put it A lackadaisica youth who was making eyes and saying soulful things in a languid way to a pretty assistant at a reception was handed a glass of punch to change the conversation. Tasting the compound, he roiled bis eyes up, and said, "This punch is a symphony." He was only equaled by a Kansas man who was taken to one of Mrs. Cockrell's receptions, and being given ber famous punch did not know whether it was a symphony or not In fact, he did not know what the stuff was that he was drinkiug, as be was a rigid total abstinence man. He was shy as well, and seeing that every one else bad a little glass cup of the harmless looking liquid he took one too. The poor man thought it was some kind of tea, and the bowl seemed more innocent to him than a bottle. He remarked to a friend afterward that it was very nice, but that he believed that it made him feel very queer!'. One hostess has introduced this winter the fashion so common in Paris of having hot punch. She is an original woman all around, though, and caps the climax by giving her hot punch at her Sunday evening receptions. "Ruhamah" in Globe-Democrat A Host of Women's Class. It is noticeable that while tbe number of men of leisure fa increasing, women of leisure are rapidly disappearing from tbe face of tha earth. This is a natural result of tbe con ditions which have released certain men from tbe necessity of work, even if it be re ferred back to that division of labor which has assigned tbe men tbe making of money and to women the spending of it. The in crease in wealth brings with it an increasa in those activities social, educational, phi lanthropicwhich are largely in the hands of women, and which make huge demands upon time and strength. These causes would be enough to explain the phe nomenon I have mentioned, but there is an additional one in the host of women' clubs which have sprung up within the past few years, and which are now, let us hope, at their zenith. One lady of my acquaintance lajjongs to nine. I am by no means sure that this number fa ber limit ; but these nine I know of, and all but three of them are of a severely disciplinary character. Of these three, the one nearest approaching a scheme for amuse ment is a whist club; and at the meetings of the other two, papers are read and the enjoy ment fa primarily of an intellectual character. Of the remaining six, two have perhaps some practical bearing though there is nothing so mundane as a cooking club among them and the rest are clubs for theorizing. Boston Transcript. Physician and Patient. The question of how long treatment should be continued in a neurotic case when no evi dent benefit fa produced has recently been raised in a Hamburg law court A medical man, having as a patient a merchant suffer ing from "nervousness," treated him by gal vanism. Altogether be galvanized him 445 times, but the nervousness did not disappear. Then came the matter of fees. The sum churned was $550. Tbe merchant disputed this on the ground that the treatment ought not have been continued so long, as it was not producing any benefit Tbe court re ferred tho matter to the medical board, which gave as its opiniou that tbe doctor ought to have asked the patient, after some fifty sit tings, whether he would like to continue them, as it was doubtful whether tho treat ment was doing any good. The court, how ever, declined to accept this view, holding that it was for tbe patient to say when he had tried tbe treatment as long as be was dis posed to pay for it, aud so gave judgment for tbe full amount claimed. This judgment seems to accord with the principle that ap plies to newspaper subscriptions. A man must pay for bis paper as long as be takes it from the postoffice. London Lancet. The Manicure Club. Not a day passes that some new club fa not started here. Many of these organizations live but a season and then go to pieces like a house of cards. Some one with a gift for figures might count up these clubs and ar range them in alphabetical order, for one of these times, in after ages, archaeologists may wish to know about them, and what do you suppose they will ever think of the "Manicure club," the very last to be born into the social circle, if nobody places it on recordf This special club consists of ten members, devoted to tbe culture and improvement of finger nails, as its name implies. It meets once a week, and tbe prize condition of those 100 finger tips is something for the "professional'' operator to dream about! After each fair member's nails have been duly examined and criticised by the sommittoe," a paper on tbe subject of hands, their care and culture, is read, and then the club adjourns to a luncheon that drives filbert nails and half moons into tbe background for tbe time be ing. Boston Herald. lastitutioB of the G. A. K. Tbe fact that the Indiana 6. A. R. an nounced its meeting this week as the eighth annual encampment, while tbe Illinois en campment was announced as tbe twenty-first, called out a statement from Maj. O. M. Wil son, in which be asserts that tbe G. A. R. was instituted and inaugurated in Indianap olis in August, 1666, by Gen. Robert 8. Fos ter, when twelve members were initiated, among them J. H. Holliday, editor and pro prietor of The Indianapolis News, and C. A. Zollinger, now pension agent for Indiana. Gen. Foster got the idea from an Illinois officer named Stephenson, who said be didn't have money enough to push it, and that Indi ana soldiers would take hold of the matter better those in Illinois. At the Pittsburg convention of soldiers in September, 1666, Maj. Wilson, as Gen. Fosters adjutant gen end, organized the G. A. R. in eight states. Cor. Chicago Tribune. Farmers la the Senate. The remark fa current that "Judge Reagan of Texas will bo the only fanner in the sen ate," but its propriety is most doubtfuL There are numerous other senators who have farms. They do not work them personally, nor de pend upon them for a living, nor yet derive any especial pecuniary profit from them. But then neither does Mr. Reagan. His wife runs tbe farm and says they lose money on it; for tbe soU is too sandy to raise any crops, and the sand is too poor to make into glass. New York Tribune. The 8ewers aad Cataeesaas. Tbe prefect of the Seine allows 800 excur sionists a day to visit tbe sewers and cats combs in aid of tbe sufferers from tbe floods in the south of France. In Germany during a year are made 540, 000 real meerschaam pipes, 500,000 'Tttsttr saesrsrlismiTS and 500,1)00,000 wooosBntpss. THE "NIGHT DOCTOR." SINGULAR SUPERSTITION AMONG WASHINGTON NEGROES. A Mytk TraeeaMe to the Tndttto-ss tat aad Heels! Ity Among the Colored Pea-el of Capital. "I heard the night doctor go by last night and I knew the boy would die before morn ing," said an old Washington darky once to the writer. And when I asked him who the night doctor was be rolled up his eyes lathe most painful manner to behold, shook his bead and muttered some gibberish which I could not understand and made some queer motions with his bands. Among a certain grade of negroes in Washington, particularly those who drifted there after the war from the extreme south, there prevails a supersti tion that b as ominous for them as the death tick used to be for the ignorant peasants of England. It fa that there rushes through the street at midnight a supernatural being, formed like a man, having long, hook like fingers and a poisonous breath, and that whenever he turns and breathes upon a house where a child lies sick .the child is doomed to death before another night It is not ominous to one to bear the night doctor, as this being of superstition is called, and always after the death of a child the negroes get together and ask who of them beard the night doctor pass by. Some one is sure to assert that he or she heard the low, moaning, rushing sound made by the night doctor's quick flight But it is regarded as a surely fatal sign if any one sees tho night doctor. THE MIGHT DOCTOR COMIS O. Sometimes at midnight darkies who are on the street will suddenly turn their faces to a wall and stand with their bands over their eyes fir some moments. They have fancied that they have heard the night doctor comingi and they believe that if their eyes rest upon him he will turn and blow his malodorous blast upon them and that death will surely, speedily follow. These people are singularly reluctant, too, to speak to any one but those of their own superstition about the night doctor, and if they are tempted to say any thing they speak with undoubted manifesta tion of terror. I once beard an old colored man who was head waiter at one of the hotels say that he knew that a man of whom I in quired would not recover from his sickness because the night before be was taken he bad seen the night doctor go flying through the streets. The man did die in a day or two, and had been dying for a year with consumption, but no reasoning could persuade these colored people that be was inevitably doomed before he had tbe vision of the night doctor. But tho victims of this creature are children, ex cept when an adult sets his eyes on it, and there occurs no death among the children, according to their belief, which was not on the night before indicated by tbe passage of the night doctor. Tbe myth seems to be traceable to tradition brought by tbe ances tors of these people from Africa. The Washington negroes offer most inter esting opportunities' for study of the effects of freedom and political equality, and It is not altogether encouraging for those who looked for a rapid and happy development when tbe colored people had equal chances with tbe whites. Most of them have learned to be thrifty, or at least to rely upon daily work for support Laziness does not prevail among them to tbe extent that it does further south. There are more opportunities for making and saving money in Washington for these people than any wh;re else in the country, although tbe negro population is one-third that of the city, and no city in the United States larger colored population. They are tenacious of their civil rights, especially in public, on the horso cars, in the theatres and at the Capitol. They are very anxious to own homes, and they are divided into social sets with as much rigor, if not by stricter lines, than the white people of the city. The coal black negro despises the mulatto, while the mulatto fa disposed to snub the pure blooded African. But they are all clannish, and are most abject imitators of the white people, even in the matter of social etiquette, and are slaves to superstitions as much as they ever were u-ion the plantations, though many of them strive to conceal this trait littxk originality. They show but little evidence of originality of thought, though many of them have re ceived fair -rudimentary educations. Tbe majority of the younger generation can read and write. There are, of course, some ex ceptions to this rule, but these exceptions prove it. They show as a rule no aptitude for mechanical work, and though there are a few good carpenters and other mechanics among them the colored man's hands seem to bo clumsy with any skilled tool except the razor and shaving brush. They have had twenty-five years of freedom and especially favorable opportunities to develop under this new condition, with strenuously exacted and willingly given civil rights of all kinds, and yet tbe great mass of these people continue to be laborers, barbers, waiters, servants, cooks and washerwomen. Their slavery to super stitions such as that of the night doctor, no amount or education or reading seems to free tbcm from, and if their churches do not directly encourage, they at least do not frown down such disposition. It seems impossible to eradicate it There seems to be a feeling among the negroes all over the country that Washington fa their true home, and you will find it expressed here and there if you talk with negroes of comparative intelligence. Only a few days ago I met a colored man who had been living in Bridgeport for nine years, and be said he was going to Washington to live. Said he: "I thought when I came to New England that a colored man, if he behaved himself and was a thrifty citizen, would be treated like other men. But I find that everywhere in New England the colored people are compelled to live in settlements by themselves. I wanted to buy and build a house in a nice, respectable part of Bridge port, for I did not want to live in tbe dreary and unpleasant quarter where colored people are obliged to go. But when it was found that I proposed to livs among these white people, such a breeze was raised that I bad to give it up. They told me that it would ruin property on that street if I went there; not because I was a bad or worthless man, but because I was colored. It is so everywhere in the north. We have been made free, but no power but God can make us equal." And there was a note of despair in this man's con versation which I fancied would not be very hard to change into one of desperation. Cor. New York Sun. SUNRISE. Boundiaxlyup through Night's wall dark. Embattled crafts aad clouds, outbroke tbe sua Above the unconscious earth, sad one by oae Ber heights and depths absorbed to the last spark Bis fluid glory, from tbe far fine ridge Of mountain granite which, transformed to gold. Laughed st first tbe thanks back, to tbe vales dusk fold On fold of vapor-swathing, like a bridge Shattered beneath sos&e giant's stamp. Night wist Ber work done and betook herself in mist To marsh and hollow, there to bide ber time Blindly in acquiescence. Everywhere Did earth acknowledge sun's embrace sublime. Thrilling her to tbe heart of things; since there No ore ran liquid, no spar branched anew. No arrowy crystal gleamed, but straightway grew Glad through the inrush glad nor more aor less Than, neatb his gase, forest and wilderaess, BUI, dale, land, sea, the whole vast stretch aad spread. Tbe universal world of creatures, bred By suas msalflceaoe, alike gave praise All crtetUTte but one only; gase for gase. Joyless and tnankjees, wbo ail scowling Protests against tbe innumerous prates? Man, Sullen and silent. Staad thou forth, then, state Thy wroag, thou sole aggrieved disconsolate While every beast, bird, reptile, Insect, gay And glad acknowledges tbe bounteous day! Browning. And This la Bostoa. Boston people will find it difficult to be lieve that the following advertisement ap peared in The Evening Post of Bostoa in 1742: --TobesoMbytbePrintsrof thia Paper, tbe very best Negro Woman in this Town, who has had the Smallpox and the Measles; st as hearty as a Horse, as brisk as a Bird, and will work like a Beaver. Aagust 28, 1743." Atlanta Constitution. CaasMevatlea eff Mercy. "Have you anything to say before tha ccurt psasss sutence upo-a yoa?" Prisoner Well, all I got to say is, I hops yer boswr-U consider the sxttesas youth of 'say lawrsr. an' 1st aas osT assy. The Jndre. the Other One Was. Child aft WssUagton Who are all those around outside the Capttolt are United States nrychikL "Are there any thenar "Onlyeae." Where k her "Hek inside, leaking a speech.". World. ! A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces With Asiatic cholera raging in South Amorioa and several cases reported at different parts of the United States, re cently at Detroit, Mich., people began to consider what they would do in case it should appear in epidemic form here and to ask what can be done. First, the sanitary condition of the premises i should be looked to; all decaying ani mal and vegetable matter removed. Second, drink no water until after it has been boiled. Third, procure a SO-cent bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhooa Itetuedy and yon may consider yourself and family fortified against the disease. Sold by Dowty & Becher. A fuel that baa lieen the cause of sat isfaction to the republicans and disap pointment to deiuM-rat3 has been tho almost total failure of the adwiuistra tion to justify the plea on which it was put into office. A'. 1". Sun, dem. The aepa)lsulMi erUe)lmba-s Is about 3,000, and we would say at least one half are troubled with some afcctiua ot the Throat aad Luugs, as those com plaints sre, according to statistics, more uusierous tban others. We would ad vise all not to acglect tbe opportunity to call on us and get a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat aud Luugs. Price 00c sad 11.00. Trial size free. Bcs pectfully. Dr. A. Uein:z. uMy dear," said Punster to his wife, at the breakfast table one morning "can you tell me why George Washington is like Napoleon?" "I am sure I don't know," said she. "Because he is dead," remarked Punster. Then followed fullv ! five minutes of silence. Where are we Going! If you hare pain iu the back, pale and sallow complexion, billions or sick head ache, eruptions on tho skin, coated tongue, sluggish circulation, or a hock ing cough, you are going into your grave if you do not take steps to cure your self. If yon are wise you will do this by the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," compounded of the most efficacious ingredients known to medical science for giving health and strength to the system through the medium of the liver and the blood. The masses world over. ugaiust the classes the Brace Up. You are feeling depressed, your appe tite is poor, you are bothered with head ache, you are fidgety, nervous, and gen erally out of sorts, and want to brace up. Brace up but not with stimulants, spring medicines, or bitters, which have for their basis very cheap, bad whisky, and which stimulate you for an hour,and then leave you in worse condition than before. What you want is an alterative that will purify your blood, start healthy action of Liver and Kidneys, restore your vi tality, and give renewed health and strength. Such a medicineyou will find in Electric Bitters, and only 50 cents a bottle at Dowty & Becher's drug store. A man who does not love praise is not a full man. Why will you be troubled with Sprains and bruises, Old sores and ulcers, Neuralgia and toothache. Salt Rheum or Eczema, Scald head or ringworm, Pain in the back or spine, Swelling of the joints, and not try Beggs' Tropical Oil, if it does not re lieve it will cost you nothing as we war- I rant every bottle. Dr. A. Heintz, drug gist. It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that made. is Chainlierlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhwa Remedy can always be de pended upon, it is pleasant to take and will cure cramp, cholera morbus, dysen tery and diarrhoea in their worst forms. Every family should be provided with it during the summer months. 25 cent, 50 cent and dollar bottles are sold by Dowty A Becher. Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horces, Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc Save $50 by use of one bottle. Every bottle warranted by C. B. Stillman, druggist, Columbus, Neb. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Life seems hardly worth the living to day to many a tired, unhappy discourag ed woman who is suffering from chronic female weakness for which she has been able to find no relief. But there is a certain cure for all the painful com plaints to which the weaker sex is liable. We refer to Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Pres- cription" to the virtues of which thous ands of women can testify. As a tonic and nervine it is unsurpassed. All druggists. That cannot be a healthy condition in which few prosper and the great mass are drudges. Inflammation of the bowels, Diarrhoea Dysentary, Colic, and all kindred dis eases are relieved at once by the use of Beggs' Diarrhoea Balsam. We guarantee every bottle to give satisfaction. Dr. A. Heintz. 3feb23 Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy is a public benefactor. Worth Tear Atteatiea. Cat this oat sad saail it to AUea & Co., An gasta, Maiae, who will eeadjoa free, aooaething ww. that Jest coins BXKiey for all workers. As wcstderfsl ss the electric liaht. aa seaaiae as pore gold, it will prove of lifelong; vsloe ami i-aportaaoeto-foa. Both sexes, all ages. Allen 1 Co. bsir srpanis ttT starting 70a ia basiaesa. It will bciagyoa is saore cash, right away, than aartaiag else it this world. Aayoas anywhere eaa do the work, sad live at hoaseslso. Better write at ease; tasa. kaowiag all. saoald soa eoaclade that soa aoat ears to eagaae. way ao harmisdaae. 4-ly it Sail Is in store for all who use Kemp's Bsl aaa for the Throat aad Lungs, the great ; guaranteed remedy. Would you believe ' that it is sold on its merits aad that ! each dru-giit is authorized to relund your money by tbe Proprietor of this wonderful remedy if it fail to cure you. Dr. A. Ueintz has secund the Agency far it. Price 50c aud SI. Tiial size Jree. One of the original tendencies of tho human mind, fundamental and univers-. al, is the love of other people's privato affairs. Tieir B.i-ttne Roaa:n. Probably no one thing has causal such a general revival of trade atD;vty& Becher's drug store as their gi-iig away to their customers of so unuy free trial bottles of Dr. Kind's New Discov ery for consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures aad never disappoints. Coughs. Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, ami all throat and luni; diijases quickly cured. You cau test it beforo buying by getting a trial bottle free, large sie SI. Evory bottle warranted. The gtvutecit event in a hen's made up of an egg and a cackle. life is But eagles never cackle. (mn1 Wage Ahead. Oeorjce Stinson Co., Portland, M line, can (rive you work th it you can io uad liv at home, making Kreat p-i). You iirv start oil fret. Capi tal not needed. Moth extw. All m-v. Cut this oat and write at one: no lnr:n wilt Ih iloa if you conclnili not to go to work, aft r you l.'arn all. AH DRrticulan free, ilent ittyin work in this world. t-Iy Nothing tends to enlarge the miiul so much as traveling. If you have lioils. If you are bilious. If you have fever. If your head u-'Iies, If you are constipated, If you have no appetite. If your digestion is bud. If your tongue is coated, If you are thin or nervous. your skin is yellow or dry. If you will try one !ottle of Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker and are not relieved it will cost you nothing as we guurautee it to give sat isfaction. Sold by Dr. A. Ileintz. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. BueklerTrt Arnic.i Stive. , The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Coma, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dowty & Becher. july27 TNK OHKAFCST ATIMQ ON KAftTH! ASK YOUR GROCER POft THFUI . fiia w riwi, x.x-ouza'.jai .XD BUSJHESS C0LLE8E. "F'xe-ca.ori.t ITeTs. Thiri imtitution preiarrti young people thoroughly for Tc-ncliinK, for Hurtinefln Lift-, fur Admitwion to Colle-rc, for I-iw or Medical Schools, for Public Six-akin, in Intitraau-ntal und Vocal Munic, in Drawing and Painting, and in Klocution, Short-hand and Tj pc-writing. In thn Normal Department, thorough in truction is given iu all branches rvuin-d for any certificate from Third ('ratio to Sfhte Pro fessional. The Buoinwn Course include Penmanrihip, Commercial Correspondence. Commercial Law and Book-keeping, with the bett methods of keeping Farm, Factory, Banking and Mercantile accounts. (Five premiums were awarded to thia department at tho recent State Fair.) Kxpensea are very low. Tuition, Hoom Kent and Table Board are placed at cost, as nearly aa possible. Spring term begins April i. 1WJ7. Summer term begins July 5, 1W7. For particulars ad dress M. E. Jones. novS-Wtf Fremont. Neb. LOUIS SCHHJGIBER, l!fct All kilds of Repairing done 01 Short Notice. Biggies, Wag rag, etc., Bade to order, aid all work Guar anteed. Alio sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Kowen. Reaper, Combin ed Kachinafl, Harvester-, and 8elf-bindtri-the beet made. 8hon opposite the Tatterssll," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 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