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THE SICK CHILD.
Child O mother, lay your hand on my brow!
0 mother, mother, where am I nowr
Why.i.s the room so gaunt aud greatf
Why am I lying awake so late
Mother Fear not at all; the night is still,
Nothing is here that means you ill
Nothing hut lamps the whole town
through.
And never a child awake but you.
Child Mother, mother, speak low in my ear.
Some of tin: things are o great and
near.
Some are so small and far away,
1 have a fear 1 cftunot say.
What liave I done, aud w liat do I fear.
And why are you crying, mother dear?
Mothtx Out in the city sounds begin;
Thank the kind God the carts come in!
An hour or two mure and God is so kind.
The day shall bo blue In the window
blind.
Then shall my child go sweetly asleep,
Aud dream of the birds ami hills of
sheep.
Roliert Louis Stevenson.
THE "TWO SISTERS.
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Tweuty-soven years ngo this day oc
curred the mutiny on the ship Two Sis
ters. All the circumstances were pub
lished at the time, but. I doubt If there
are today a dozen ieople iu the United
States who can recall them. I was one
of the crew aud a participant, and am
now going to give the story of the crime,
and leave the reader to judge who was to
blame that the mutiny came about.
The Two Sisters was a fair sized ship,
carrying from sixteen to nineteen men,
and was owued and sailed from Glasgow.
I had come around to Glasgow on a
coaster from Liverpool, having no chance
to get a ship and being willing to take up
with anything to earn my way until times
got better. The Two Sisters was bound
for Rio Janeiro, and the day I got into
Glasgow was her day for sailing. Oddly
enough, a common seamau got a fall
which disabled him, and I was shoved
into his place, aud the ship was off almost
before I could turn my head, aud cer
tainly before I was prepared for such a
loug voyage. I hml leen to sea for sev
eral years previous to this shipment, aud
had rated as "able" more than once, but
in this wise I was rated as ''ordinary,"
aud the pay was to be for such. I was
then about 23 years old, a thorough Yan
kee by birth aud feelings, and as I had
neither parents nor home I did not care in
which direction I sailed.
Now, to help you comprehend what
finally happened, I want to say that no
sailing ship ever left port with everything
eutirely satisfactory to Sailor Jack, lie
is a chronic grumbler, Just as the farmer
is, but he meaus no more by his grumb
ling, lie will kick on the food, on tlte
weather, on the cargo, on his quarters, on
almost everything connected with the
ship and her voyage; but it is simply a
fashion, and ho doesn't expect anybody to
take him in earnest. And I say further
that there is no English, Scotch, German,
or American sailing ship afloat today in
which the captain cares two cents for the
life of a foremast hand. The mates arc
born bullies, ready to knock a man down
en the slightest provocation, and they will
make the provocation themselves. Jack
may be cut and bruised and ilL but it is
only when he falls helpless that he is per
mitted to leave his watch, lie is not sup
posed to have any more feelings than an
ox, and it would seem as if the aim of
most officers was to make him forget his
manhood. The ditch diggers in any
country live better than the average
sailors. Jack's hours are longer than any
workiugmau's, his pay is less, and there
isn't a day from the time the voyage is be
gun until it ends that his life is not in
peril. And, to cap the climax, he is a
man to put up with everything. He ex
pects poor grub, plenty of abuse, a great
deal of dirty weather, and a close shavo
for his life about once in so often. Ht
will stand more bulldozing than a black
slave, and more abube than an ox. Mutiny
at sea is a rare occurrence. The Ameri
can marine does not average one in five
years. This isn't liecanse the provoca
tion is lacking, for that exists on almost
every ship every day. but because Jack is
is willing to bear to the last moment be
fore he turns. In my time I have known
sailors to cut their throats, hang them
selves, or leap overboard to end their
wretched lives made wretched and un
bearable by a bullying mate. A soldier
woidd have shot down his ofllcer in such
cases. A slave would have run away.
We were not out of sight of the coast
before it was found that both mates were
bullies, the captain a tyrant, and our
grub the poorest which could be pur
chased for a ship. The crew were far
above the average in point of looks and
seamanship. As we were mustered to be
divided into watches I was surprised to
note the fine bearing of the men. It was
just such a crew as a captain could feel
confidence in during a long and perilous
voyage. If there was a shirk among the
lot, his looks did not betray him. When
we were divided off I fell to the captain's
watch, which is in reality the second
mate's watch, and I found two more
Americans with me Johnson and Greeu.
They were able seamen of middle age,
and there was but one younger man than
I iu either watch. In the first six hours
of our being afloat I saw four men knocked
down by the mates without provocation
enough to have called out a rebuke from
some officers, while the captain, who was
evidently a hard drinker, exhibited his
temper in various ways. It is usual for
the captain of a ship to make a little
speech to the men when the watches are
divided. It is done not to encourage, but
to intimidate. It is to further show Jack
that he has no moral or legal rights what
ever, aud that if he isn't brained next
day with a belaying pin, it is because his
officers are willing to overlook and con
done his heinous offenses. When our
watches were called CapL McKay stepped
forward and said:
"I have been looking you over, you
dirty scum of the docks, and I find there
isn't a sailor among you. I wouldn't
have shipped such a gang of sojers for a
mud scow. You have come aboard under
false pretenses, calculating to feast on
pie aud cake and have a trip for your
health. Look out for me, you d d riff
raff. I'll make some of you wish you
had never been born before this voyage is
over."
That was his speech as one of the sail
ors wrote it down, and that was the cue
the mates were to take. When the off
watch went below the men remarked to
each oiher that it looked as if we had
signed articles with a bad man, but there
was no criticism. When supper was
served we found the beef outrageous. The
smell of it was sufficient to turn a sailor's
stomach, and you can imagine that it
must have been pretty high. The tea
could never have seen the inside of a
ehest. I doubt if it was anything more
than the leaves of trees and shrubs. The
ship biscuit had better been called ship
grubs. There was more worm than bis
uit in each case, and as hungry as we
were not a man made a pretense of eat
ing. It is the rule of every ship that
Jack may come aft with his complaint.
He was expected to in this case. The
captain was on deck when he should have
been below. He looked for a kick against
the provisions, and he proposed to shut
the grumblers right up. After a forecastle
conference it was decided to appeal to the
captain. Not a man of either watch could
touch the provisions. An oldish man,
who was a thorough sailor, very intelli
gent, and the last to find fault, was se
lected as spokesman, and he put some of
the provisions in a kid, and we followed
him to the mainmast. As I told you, it
was evident the captain and mates tooKen
for a protest, for all were on deck. The
name of our spokesman was Herbert, and
he was English born. The captain came
forward to meet us as we grouped
around Herbert with hats off, and after
looking us over he shouted out:
"Well, d n your eyes, why don't you
speak up What is wanted of me?"
"If you please, sir," said Herbert, "we
can't eat the grub."
"Oh, you can't You are probably dis
appointed. You expected oyster soup,
Java coffee, hot biscuit and honey, and
your stomachs have gone back on you."
"Your honor, but will you please smell
of this beef?" as!ted Herbert, advancing a
step.
"Smell of the beef, you hounds, you?"
howled the captain. "Did the owners en
gage me to sail the ship or to smell of the
forecastle beef I sized you up on the
start for a lot of skulking sojers, and
here's proof that I was right. You are n
lot of d d mutinous dogs, and now's
the time to give you a lesson."
With that the three officers began tho
attack, never minding who they hit, and
driving the watch on deck forward with
the others. The man at the wheel was, I
believe, the only man who escaped a blow,
while not a sailor raised his hand in reply.
The ship was running off before a light
breeze, aud for fifteen minutes the three
men had it their own way. Then the cap
tain's watch was called, the other sent be
low, and as we came on deckCapt. Mc
Kay said:
"There, enrse you for a lot of dock loaf
ers. I hope you have found out who sails
this ship. The man who dares come aft
with another complaint will get his brains
knocked out."
There were nine of r.s in the captain's
watch, which, us I told you, was really
the second mate's watch no captain
standing it watch at sea unless he so wills.
Every one of us had been struck or
kicked, and two of the men had been sav
agely beaten on the head aud were cov
ered with blood. The name of the first
mate, who now went below with the cap
tain, was McI,ogan. The name of the
second mate was Andrews. He was a
younger man than the others, aud per
haps had more heart, for after a bit,
while Herbert had the wheel, he stopped
near him and observed:
"The old man is a little rough, but one
of the le.-.t seamen out of Glasgow. You
complained too soon."
"But, Mr. Andrews, what are we to do
for grub?" asked HerberL "There isn't
a man in the fo'castle as can eat such
stuff."
"Well, it's not my lookout what the
owners furnish. Unless you men wuut
h 1 to pay you will turn to and make the
best of it."
That closed the conversation. Not a
man of us spoke of mutiny or even the
slightest resistance to lawful authority.
When our watch was up we turued in
and went to sleep. I, for one, cherished
the hope that the provisions would be bet
ter iu the morning. The officers had only
to taste them to realize that they were to
tally unfit, and I hoped the captain would
do this and thus do away with all cause
for further complaint. As the kids were
brought forward at breakfast time, how
ever, we scented the stinking beef long
lefore it reached us, and we found tho
biscuit and tea as vile as ever. Having
eaten nothing since the previous noon, and
all of us being hearty men, you can imag
ine that we were sharp set. Not a man
of us, however, could swallow that food,
and the kids and pannikins were left
standing at the windlass for the cook to
carry back with their contents untouched.
The men looked at each other with
troubled faces, but there was no threat of
mutiny. We went to our work on empty
stomachs, as also did the other watch,
and, though the officers knew it, not a
word was said. The men chewed an extra
quantity of tobacco, aud hoped that noon
would soften the captain's heart.
Noon brought no change, and when
supper was served and we found the same
grub placed before us, the men broke out
with curses. If the food had been eat
able, don't you suppose that sailors, who
had been from twenty-four to thirty
hours without eating a mouthful, would
have at least nibbled at it? I am telling .
you what I afterward made affidavit to.
I made repeated attempts to worry down
some of the meat, but each time it was re
jected. Some of the men who got a few
swallows of the tea down were made
dreadfully sick. Again we went supper
less, but now the men began to assert
that no law of the high seas permitted a
captain to starve his crew. We would
wait until morning, and, if the food was
not changed, something must be done. I
ntn sure the captain expected something
to occur that night, for he was frequently
on deck, and the three officers were more
than once in consultation. The cook had
reported, as we afterward learned, that
none of the supper had been eaten, and
the captain had replied:
"Well, the durned sojers will either eat
such grub as I set out, or live on their own
fat."
I am telling you truthfully that not a
word of mutiny was whispered during the
night. We made no threats, and had no
plan, but yet we all felt that the morning
would bring a crisis of some sort. Dur
ing the night, in the case of both watches,
the officers were very abusive, and the
men were struck or kicked without the
shadow of an excuse. When daylight
came, and we began to scrub down, the
breeze died quite away, and we lay be
calmed. We were at this time about 90
or 100 miles from the British coast.
When it was time for breakfast both
watches were on deck, and as the men
went to the cook's galley to receive their
kids and pannikins all three officers showed
up on deck. I was at the wheel, and I
saw that the captain and first mate hod
their revolvers. The kids were taken for
ward without a word. The food had not
been changed, and the men pushed the
dishes away. If there was any growling
I couldn't hear it. The captain waited
about ten minutes, and then seeing that
the men were not going to eat, he told the
second mate to order them aft. AH came
in a body, and all bore themselves respect
fully. "Look here, Herbert,' said the captain,
addressing the sailor who had acted as
spokesman on the previous occasion,
"what is the matter with the grub?"
"It's bad, sir unfit.to eat," replied the
man.
"That is, you lazy lubbers have agreed
among you to call it bad, and to make me
put into some port."
"Sir, there's never a man of us but
what is willing to stand for the voyage
and work our best, but the grub, sir, beg
ging your pardon, was spoiled long enough
before it came on board. Will you please
inspect k, sir?"
"Not by a damned sight, and now we'll
see which end of this ship sails the other."
With that he rushed upon Herbert to
strike him with his loaded weapon, while
the mates seized belaying pins and dashed
iu to knock down as .many men as they
could. The sailors ran forward, and I
heard some of them beggingTor mercy.
The officers followed them, evidently de
termined to wreak savage vengeance, and
it was only when driven to the windlass
that the men turned. It was a case of
self defense. I could not well see what
followed, but I heard pistol shots, savage
cries, a great struggle, and, as it now
came on a dead calm, I left the wheel and
ran forward. AM was over when I got to
the foremast. The three officers were
dead or dying, Herbert and another sailor
were dead, and of the remainder of the
men at least five were seriously wounded.
The mutiny had not lasted above five
minutes. For a long time after I reached
the bow the men stood looking around
them without uttering a word. Then, at
last, a Yankee sailor named Ben LobdelL
who had a bullet in his left shoulder,
stood out a little from the rest and said:
"Mates, we have been driven to mutiny
and murder. Aye, every man of you
knows we had to turn to save our own
lives against those officers lying dead. It
has all come about through the bad grub.
I shall now order the cook to prepare us
breakfast, and after that is eaten we shall
consult as to what is to bo done. Mean-
hile, as in duty bound, I will set a signal
of distress."
The steward got the flag from the locker
in the cabin and it was properly set.
Then the hurts of the wounded were
looked to, and by that time breakfast was
ready. It was served in our dishes and
eaten on deck, and not a man of us had a
word to say. Just as we were finishing
the cook and steward came out in com
pany and hoped we would spare their
lives. Ben got up and replied.
"Don't take us for either mutineers or
murderers. What has been done was
only in self defense. The life of every
man here is as safo as iu his own home.
Now, then, the first thing is to see who of
the poor fellows lying on the decks has a
bit of life left in him."
"Tho captain and first mate were dead
enough, ns was the case with the two
sailors, but the second mute had life in
him. When the men were driven to bay
they turned and used their sheath knives
aud the capstan bars. The second mate
had his left arm broken, and had received
two stabs. We took him down to his
berth, removed his clothes, and dressed
his hurts, and when the steward had pre
pared him a drink he opened his eyes, and
when he found that we were in possession
of the ship he said, in the presence of four
men:
"I expected it woidd turn out this way,
but I had to obey orders. While you have
done for me I bear you no grudge. If you
draw up a statement of how it came
about, I will sign it."
1 drew up n statement of fact, and the
mate, who hadn't two hours to live, af
fixed his signature, and it was followed
by the name of every man in the ship.
Before noon he was dead, and after din
tier we buried all the bodies and made tho
ship tidy. By mutual consent Ben was
mado captain, and a sailor named Jack
Wonder was selected as mate. It was
our purpose to sail the ship back to Glas
gow, and not a man was allowed in the
cabin, nor were any of the stores dis
turbed, except the provisions. The signal
was kept flying all day, but owing to the
calm we did not move half a mile. Just
at sundown a steamer came up with us,
sent a boat aboard, aud when told of what
had happened she put several men aboard
aud got out it tow line aud made fast to
us. It was thus we returned to port, and
the news of our arrival and the mutiny
kicked up a grand excitement. Wc wero
at once put under arrest, as we expected
to be, and for the first week or two all
the talk was to the effect that every man
of us woidd be hanged. It didn't seem
to occur to the people at large that wc
could have any defense, aud wc were
condemned long enough before the trial
came on. The owners of the ship were
rich as well as penurious, and they wanted
us executed as a warning to other sailors.
However, when the ferial came on the gen
eral public got something to open their
eyes. Our lawyers had hud the provisions
inspected by medical men, and had saved
samples for the jury. The medical gen
tlemen affirmed that no human stomach
could retain such provisions, and recom
mended that the owners be promptly
prosecuted. Then wc had the name of
the mate to the statement of facts, the
testimony of the steward and cook, and it
was shown that we had set a signal aud
behaved ourselves in an orderly way.
The case was decided in ten minutes,
and every man of us was set at liberty.
There was talk of suits against the ship
owners, but they sent on agent around to
each one of us with a 10 note, and we
made no move against them. Our trial
and the facts brought out brought to light
other facts, one of which was that British
sailors were treated worse than curs, and
were fed mostly on condemed stores. A
social and political agitation resulted, and
from it grew the government inspectors
and the laws which give Sailor Jack the
rights of a human being. The move
which Plimsoll made against overloading
was an offshoot of our mutiny, and I have
heard it declared that our adventure was
the best thing that could have happened
for sailors on any ocean. New York Sun.
What Key West took Like.
The key has about as much shape as a
camel, and in a general way lies east and
west and contains about six square miles.
It is as fiat as a shingle, the highest point
being about fourteen feet above the mean
sea levcL To the casual visitors it looks
as though the sea, particularly in a storm,
would submerge this insignificant rise,
but it is a matter of record that it never
has done it. The city proper covers the
western end of the key, and it was, pre
vious to the great fire of March 30, 1836,
very densely settled, and about as un
American looking as could well be
imagined, hearing a strong resemblance
to a West India town. The houses are of
wood and quite plainly built. There are,
I think, only four or five brick buildings,
and certainly not more than six.
The streets are of very good width,
tolerably straight and. passably clean.
The roadway is coral rock. There is no
soil to speak of; what passes for soil is
triturated coral, very rich in phosphates
and making au excellent fertilizer, but by
itself deficient in fat. To garden one
must use a pick rather than a hoe. Very
few vegetables are grown here and vege
tation is confined mainly to cocoanut
trees. Here and there can be seen a pine
or an Alexander or a star of India or a
royal pout-ana; a few mulberry and prickly
ash trees and popenack bushes. Flowers
and flowering shrubs grow in abundance.
Rochester Post-Express.
Safeguards Against Cholera.
Max Von Pettenkoffer, a German med
ical authority, considers that cholera is
not contagious in the sense of being com
municable directly from person to person,
but that it belongs to the malarial group
of epidemics, the germs of which find
their way from the soil into the air, aud
thence through the lungs into the system.
He regards good drainage and pure water
as the most efficient safeguards against an
outbreak. Boston Budget.
Mistaken Ideas of the Editor.
Some people seem to think that the editor
of a country newspaper ought to be a sort of
clown, give open air performances iu the
streets, tell long yarns, say smart things,
laugh at all ho sees and hears, and be a sort
of center figure everywhere he goes. In
other words, be must be a regular bootlicker,
think just like you do, nod sanction to all
you &ay, beg everyone he meets to take his
little paper, play the hypocrite in a thousand
ways and live on wind. Baxley (Ga.) Ban
ner. Do Von?
Miss Chillingly So, Mr. Robinson, tyou
kept a diary for four whole years and then
gave it upl
Mr. Featberstone Robinson Ya-oa. And
it's weally quite interwesting to look it ovah
and see what a fool I was then.
Miss Chillingly It's a pity you gave it up.
Only think I In ten years you might read it
over ami see what a fool you are now! Life.
Impossible Under the Circumstauce.
First Omaha Man Why, I thought Dr.
Blank was your physician?
Second Omaha Man He was, but I gave
him up. He said there was nothing the mat
ter with me but excessive eating
"Maybe it's so."
-Sof Why, I board." Omaha World.
PHIL ARMOUR'S PLANS.
HE TELLS A PARSON HOW TO RUN
A SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION.
The Pork King's Idea Villa the Beaches
and the Service la a Most Interesting
OneThe Prayers are Made Short The
Mission Non-Sectarian.
When the Armour mission, up on
Thirty-third street, was started with $500,
000 endowment, it was hard to decide
just how to manage the religious end of it.
Joseph Armour had directed in the will by
whiclt he gave it $100,000 that it should
be non-sectarian. Phil Armour, who
added $400,000 to the original fund, was
altogether opposed to the mission being
anything but a broad, humanitarian
charity, with plenty of religion, of course,
but of that generic sort only which would
be as acceptable to the Romanist as to the
Methodist, and as agreeable to .the Epis
eupalia.'t as to the Baptist. The reverend
gentleman who was finally selected to take
charge of the religious welfare of the in
stitution was given, in general terms, an
idea of this purpose of the founders.
They did not want sectarianism of any
kind or degree. Good doctrine from the
Bible, without any theology, was what he
was asked to give. He legaii with en
ergy, aud ran along for some time on his
own iileu of what the little children and
the parents who filled the benches needed.
One day he received a summons to como
down town to the office. He got there
promptly aud was beckoned over to the
big packer's desk. Armour wheeled
around in his chair a couple of times as if
to .select his vocabulary, looked the man
of Cod over carefully and then launched
forth his own ideas of theology.
"ioutc giving these youngsters too
much grape and canister," he began,
slowly. ''Hell fire and brimstone are all
right for the old sinners, but the mission
isn't for them. Now," he added, with
the same emphasis he'd use to one of his
office clerks, "I want you to change around
and try another plan. If you don't, you'll
drive all those children away. When you
begin your service in the morning
you can read a chapter from the Bible.
Then have a little prayer, something
short; not longer than that" measuring
oif ubout a foot with his forefingers.
"Then I want you to sing sing a good
many times," ho repeated, emphatically.
"Then tell a story," he continued, "some
thing with a point to it and a moral, but
short. Then you enn have another little
prayer, but, mind you, not longer than
that" holding up his hands about six
inches apart this time.
IT FILLED THE IIEXCHES.
"Mr. Armour," remarked the preacher,
rather jocosely, "I suppose you can run a
packing house, but you don't know much
at)out religion."
"Well," said the builder of the misaiou,
very sharply, "will you try it?"
"Oh, yes," was the answer.
Phil Armour's theological scheme has
leen in vogue ever since that interview
and has been a great success. He goes up
every Sunday to the morning children's
service and watches the thing grow.
"Don't you mind the old fellows or the
played out sinners," he constantly adjures
the minister iu charge. "If you see an
old fellow in the gutter, even, don't stop,
but keep your eye on the little fellow
ahead. Look out for him."
Armour's theology has filled up the
benches, aud they hold l.eOO people. The
preacher, ever since the sharp interview
at the La Salle street office, has been
working on the new tack. Tho service is
u most interesting one. According to
orders, the grown folks are entirely ig
nored. The whole service is for the little
ones. The prayers are short not longer
than Armour indicated with his two fore
fingers. There Ls singing pretty nearly
all the time. The little fellows are drilled
to recite verses or to sing solos. And yet
the benches are almost filled with the pa
rents and grown brothers and sisters of
the little ones. There are twice as many
tit this children's service in the morning
ns iu the evening, when a sermon is
preached.
"You can do what you like at night,"
Armour told the preacher iu an encourag
ing way after this interview. "You can
preach a sermon if you like, for I'll never
be there except in the morning. But nt
that children's service I want it my way
until I see it won't wtfrk."
But it did work. The dominie at the
mission now admits that, after all, Phil
Armour knew better what would fill the
benches than a trained theologian. Best
of all, and this pleases Armour most, all
creeds gather at the mission to bring or
see the children, hundreds of Catholics
among the others. New York Sun.
REST FOR BRAIN TOILERS.
flood Work Cannot he Done When the
Itraiti Is Exhausted Newspaper Men.
There nre no workers who require an
nual, or even more frequent, periods of
rest more than newspaper men. Toiling
as most of them do, under pressure, the
nerves and brain are continually at the
highest tension. Unless this strain is re
lieved from time to time, the wearied
brain, if it does not snap, becomes relaxed,
and it is impossible to produce first class
work.
A man may be able to write when his
brain is exhausted. Some men get so iu
the habit that they can write when they
are asleep, hut all vigor, force and origin
ality is lacking, or if the strain of brillian
cy is kept up, it is done at the expense of
life itself. This ls not news to most of
our readers. There is hardly a journalist
of any experience who does not fully re
alize the truth of this statement, and it is
safe to say that there are very few who
would not be willing to take the vacations
if they could get them.
The trouble lies with the proprietors of
the papers and with the space system.
The writer who is dependent upon his col
umn string, who has no fixed salary to
rely upon, rarely has an opportunity to
save enough to pay the expenses of a va
cation, nor can he afford to stop the pro
duction of column fillers long enough to
take the rest which he requires. It is on
this account that we see so many young
men broken down in newspaper work,
prematurely old, worn.out and useless.
There are in New York alone over five
hundred space writers, brilliant, cultured
and enterprising, who come within this
category and who cannot do more than
take a day or two off at the furthest. Not
only is the absence of money, during the
brief vacation they might take, a serious
consideration, but the possibility and prob
ability that some rival may take their
place in whole or in part, or that they
may lose some valuable opportunity in
which they can obtain large returns, are
even more potent reasons for their re
maining at the treadmill.
An ingenious knight of the pen suggests
the formation of a "Mutual Vacation As
sociation." A hundred members contrib
uting $1 a week apiece would accumulate
enough capital to give each member a
pleasant week or two in the woods or at
the seashore. At the same time the asso
ciation as a body could fill all his assign
ments and represent him to a considerable
extent in the discharge of nearly all bis
professional duties. The idea is worth a
trial, at any rate. The Journalist.
Something About Canes.
"You see, a cane crank is in a certain
sense as bad and as much a nuisance as a
cigarette fiend. It's a mighty interesting
study to watch and size up these cranks.
If once a man carries a cane be is booked.
The habit grows on him, and its very rare
that he snaces it on. "
"What variety of canes command the
most ready sale?"
"The-25 and 50 centers. They are most
ly in apple, hackmatack, Imitation Malac
ca, hazel, maple and other common wood.
No, they are not carried by young men
alone, by any means. Why, it's only yes
terday I sold a 25 cent applesprig stick to
a Wall street man who can draw his
check for $300,000. Then there's a weU
known literary man in New York who
also swings one of the same kind, and he
actually has the nerve to tell some of his
friends that it is a rare whitethorn switch,
the only one of the kind in the land. In
striking contrast to these is a clerk in a
Vcsey street tea house, who sports a gold
headed rosewood cane with two small dia
monds in the top. Another queer thing is
that heavy men fat, ponderous fellows
usually affect light switch canes, while
lean men and youths lug around a regular
war club. It's funny, but none the less a
fact. Two men of my acquaintance,
members of the Hoboken Fat Men's asso
ciation, are never seen on the street with
out little rattan switches. These cane
cranks are superstitious, too: and some of.
them if they happen to be without a walk
ing stick ever so short a time, are in con
stant fear of a run of bad luck." New
York Evening Sun.
Increasing Danger or Tape Warn.
In the Texas grazing region, from which
has sprung, within the last two decades,
the entire stock of range cattle of the
western states and territories, the beef
tape worm is a most common occurrence.
In fact, I do not believe I exaggerate when
I say that at least every fifth person is af
flicted. The cause of this is that on open
ranges the eggs of tape worm are most
easily and widely distributed, and hence
the cattle more frequently become infested
with cysts. Stall fed cattle, on the other
hand, where the water is usually less sub
ject to contamination, aud the food
cleaner, are only seldom infected, and
hence tape worm was not so prevalent in
regions where the latter were used.
In tho last few years, however, the
shipment of range cattle, by means of re
frigerator cars, has become the chief beef
supply of the east, and the danger and
frequency of tape worm greatly increased.
Of course no one should stop the use of
well cooked meat on this account, but
rare and half cooked meats can easily be
avoided. "R. T. H." in Science.
A Parisian Clockmaker'a Expedient.
A Parisian clockmaker, evidently nn
admirer of Gen. Boulauger, has hit upon
a happy expedient for increasing his por
tion of wealth aud fame. Having noticed
that only the jingo men are popular in
this fickle day, he posted a notice that
many of the clocks that were being sold
as American product were really German
make, and announced that he would
handle no more of them. To prove his
sincerity, he went to the trouble of smash
ing two or three "suspected" timepieces
in the presence of a goodly crowd of ad
mirers, who cheered him in his patriotic
work. Since theu,Vork, which he often
lacked Iwfore, has heguu to flow In plenty
to his doors, aud he is coining money at a
lively rate. In a city like Paris this was
easily done, for, in spite of its surround
ings, the Parisian rabble is easily gulled.
But it is dangerous work, nevertheless;
for if the same people who nre now cheer
ing this hero were to learn that his action
was only an advertising ruse, they would
soon make it warmer for him and his
shop than he probably desires it to be
come. Philadelphia Times.
Breeding Buffaloes for Market.
Buffalo meat, which was once a drug
on the market, and cheaper than beef by
more than half, is now, on account of
its scarcity, esteemed a luxury by a class
of people who believe that anything that
is expensive and hard to get must be
good. Time was when a western game
dealer was glad to get 4 cents a pound
for buffalo lieef. Now he could get 25
cents a pound. To meet the demand, we
learn that a party in Kansas, and another
in Dakota, have gone into the business of
breeding buffaloes for the market, and
expect to put some two-year-old heifers
on sale uext spring. It is strange how
people will long for the hard to get. For
instance, in St. Louis no one thinks of
eatiug wild pigeons, and there are scarcely
any put on sale, because New York und
Boston take all that can be shipped, even
should the amount sum up to 5,000 bar
rels iu a single season. New York Mar
ket Journal.
Forgetting Their Owu Language.
The Germans of St. Louis fiud it very
difficult to prevent their children, born in
this country and educated in English pub
lic schools, from forgetting their own lan
guage. In a great many German fami
lies the children are forbidden to speak
English in the house and are punished if
they do. My father, for instance, has a
system of fines and punishments for
speaking anything but German in the
house, which he applies to oil the mem
bers of his family. All the older sons
and daughters, who are either given an
allowance of money or are making money
for themselves, are fined five cents for
every English word they utter in the
house, and the smaller children are pun
ished in various ways. If they are sit
ting at the table when the forbidden word
is spoken, they are sent away without
their meals. In this way all of our fam
ily have preserved their fluency in Ger
man speaking, but they speak English by
choice. Globe-Democrat.
Convicts of Siberia.
The most interesting sight, and one of
the most painful, was the long lines of
convicts making their way to the settle
ments. When sitting at the post town
we would hear in the distance the clink,
clink, clink of the chains, and looking up
we would set the long procession wend its
way slowly along the road, preceded by
soldiers armed, the rear brought up by
wagons laden with the wives and children
of the unhappy exiles, who had elected to
share their fate. The children looked
happy enough and merry as the wagons
slowly crawled along the roads; and no
doubt they would not fare badly when
they came to their Journey's end. They
were planted out as free colonists on far
more fertile land than they had left be
hind in Russia. The sight, however, was
sad enough, and one of the most charac
teristic of Siberia. Hon. James Campbell
in Pall Mall Gazette Interview.
The Clond Dispelled.
Alonxo Dearest Edith, candor compels me,
on the eve of our wedding, to confess that I
am a
Edith (in consternation) Not a married
man?
Alonxo No; but a somnambulist.
Edith And hi that all, dearestf That
should not separate us. Why, papa was
brought up an old fasbioued Methodist and
mamma has always been a close communion
Baptist, and they've got along very well to
gether. Harper's Bazar.
An Epidemic of Rheumatism.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks there is an
epidemic of rheumatism this winter, and says
that "rest for tho brain, tho body and the
digestion, and a diet of hot water and cheer
fulness, is the treatment best warranted to
bring the sufferers right."
Keyed Weddings.
Royal weddings ought to be numerous
within the next few months. Recent sta
tistics point out that there are now in
Europe 108 princes and 66 princesses of
marriageable age. Only six of these are
betrothed. Chicago News.
ON SLEEPLESSNESS.
A BRIEF MEDICAL LECTURE IN AN
ELEVATED CAR.
A Physlelan Discourse of Insomata aasl
Its Ceases, and GItm Some Good Ad
viceSeveral Fopalar Notions Shown
to bo Erroneous.
Two men were in an elevated ear om
their way down town to business. The
man next to the reporter turned to his
neighbor with the question:
"Did you sleep any last nightr"
"No; did you?"
"I did, about three hours. When I
woke up I felt more tired than when I lay
down."
"Yes, it's pretty hard this summer for
people who have to stay in the broiling
city. But from all I hear, the folks in
the country are not doing muck better.
My wife's letters are full of musquitoea
and sleeplessness."
"Gentlemen," broke in a man with
gold rimmed spectacles, who looked the
physician every inch of him, and around
the corners of whose bearded mouth
humorous smile had been flitting during
the dialogue, "this talk of sleeplessness
proves how seldom people will take a
medical man's advice, or even ask for it.
It's so simple to induce sleep, with very
little trouble, that every man of intelli
gence can obtain it unless he be a very
sick man indeed. "
"Well, sir," rejoined the last speaker.
"it you wm gratuy uur curiosity that far,
tell us your remedy."
"As to musquitoes my advice is: Kill
them before you go to bed. Sleep where
there is a current of air and haveamus
qttito netting, around the bed, but leave
yourself plenty of breathimc space. If
suffering much from the heat, take a
cooling bath before retiring. I And, how
ever, that this talk of sleeplessness comes
iu nine cases out of ten from persons of
an unduly nervous temperament. They
fidget about and imagine beforehand that
they will not obtain sleep instead of com
posing their minds to properly receive
the soothing influence.
SEVERAL rOPULAR ERRORS.
"If given at all to sleeplessness do not
smoke in the evening, and do not excite
yourself. Lie down with the firm reso
lution to sleep, and sleep will come quite
naturally, provided the body requires it.
There's tho rub. A great many people
think there is a cast iron rule as to the
number of hours they ought to sleep.
That's all wrong. Never try to sleep
unless you feel tired and notice that your
system wants It. Four hours of sleep,
under certain conditions, are more ben
eficial to a man than the proverbial nine
nours. I've nau many cases in my prac
tice which have shown me the folly of
expecting so many hours of sleep night
in and night out.
"It's the same with sleep as with food.
The appetite varies, and so does the desire
for sleep. Nature knows her business
best, and when a man cannot sleep he very
often ought not to sleep. A few weeks
ago a well known business man came to
me and wanted opiates to give him back
his usual dose of sleep. I satisfied myself
pretty soon that it would be only doing
harm to comply with his request. There
was nothing troubling his mind, and his
health was good. He simply had the
notion that he didn't get sleep enough, and
had begun to worry about it. I gave him
a few simple rules to observe, and he soon
had once more all the sleep that was good
for him without using any poisonous nar
cotics. "Judging from my experience, the need
of sleep is very different in different per
sons, even among those of like habits and
equally good health. I kuow a very active
business man, a patient of mine, who re
quires but six hours' sleep, while another
one needs all of eleven hours out of the
twenty-four."
"City hall and Brooklyn bridge,"
shouted the guard, and everybody
scrambled for the door, while the audience
murmured: "Much obliged for the lecture,
doctor." New York Commercial Adver
tiser. A Great Ball of Magnetism.
Most well informed people are doubtless
aware that the globe on which they live is
a great ball of magnetism, but compara
tively few have an adequate idea of the
influence this property is continually ex
erting on all sides, that many common but
inexplicable phenomena can be traced
directly to this source. Statistics go to
show that in the matter of steel rails, as
many as thirteen will become crystallized
and break where they go to make up a
railroad track running east and west be
fore one of those on a north and south
track is similarly affected. This is en
tirely due to the magnetism generated by
friction, and the fact that the polarity of
tho magnetic current is in the former in
stance resisted in the headlong rush of the
train, whereas in the latter case it is un
disturbed. Auother strange effect of this peculiar
and occult force is that exerted on the
watches of train men. A timepiece car
ried by the conductor running a train
twenty miles an hour, however accurate
it may be, will, if the speed of the train Is
increased to say fifty miles, become use
less until regulated. The magnetism
generated by the flight of a train may be
said to be in proportion to the speed with
which it ls propelled, and the delicate
parts of a watch, numbering all the way
from 400 to 1,000 pieces, and peculiarly
susceptible to this influence by reason of
the hammering and polishing they have
received, are not slow to feel the effect.
Globe-Democrat.
A Purchaser Who Objected.
In one of the big dry goods stores a few
days ago I saw a man refuse to take a
bundle done up in a way to display the
Ann's "ail." When asked why he ob
jected, he said: "I pay what they ask" for
their goods and do not intend to give them
any advertising unless they pay me for it.
I think it cheeky of a firm to expect a
person to do so. You saw that clerk get
angry at me because I made him undo the
parcel and then wrap it up with the plain
side out. Well, he is not the first one
that has been so and he probably will not
be the last. Candidly, do you not think
if they wish you to be an advertising me
dium, that they should either pay you by
a discount or by money?" Buffalo Ex
press. Always Get a Check.
Thieves are up to a new trick. A man
sends a valuable watch to a jeweler for
repairs. A messenger boy goes after the
watch, pays the charges and brings the
timepiece to the man who sends for it,
but who ls not the owner. When yon
have your watch repaired get a check for
It. New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Japanese have lately been examin
ing the German breweries with a view to
native production.
Society is aptly described In New York as
"a vast ararecatlOB of newcomers, toes of
whom wiUaevar have their
latfcedl-
rectory."
Fire files and katydids are articles of
trade in oriental countries. They are
sold in Japan in little bamboo cages fog
two cents.
There are twenty morning and tea even
ing papers published la New Tor k.
The newest erase in New York city to for
white furniture.
National Bank!
-HAS AH-
Authoriztw Capital f $2SO,tOO,
ASursJtiaFiifttJwf - ttt,00t.
And the largest Paid Jm OmtsQbfftkal ef
ny obbk m uuo pars ex we I
VDeposiU received
time deposit.
tDrarUoathepriacipelcfciestetfclM
try and Europe boaaht sad sold.
Cr-CoUeetioae and all
prompt and caiefelstteatfoa.
rrooxeof naee.
A. ANDERSON. Prest.
HERMAN P. H. OKMLEICM.
Vie Prest.
O.T.BOEN.Osesier.
OaCMOTTtf WKAJSSrS'
. Btn U11E, W. A. aUAIjUlfigJL.
J0NA8 WELCH. JOHN W. EaLT.
P. ANDERSON, O. ANDOSON.
ROBERT UHLlG. CAILJUmOL
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phoae at omoe and
Esrpttce on Olive street, next to
rer's Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS. ...
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TTA.HlLTw.1 MKAaftCM. aft
PHYSICIAN AND SVBOMON.
Platte Center. Nebraska.
ATTORNEY t NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office np-stairs in Henry's bsrildlag, earner of
Olive and 11th stream. TTgl" Tr
W.
M. COatMKI.IU.t,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst buildiae. ltth street.
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B
II.1.V JOKER,
(Orders left at Arnold's or at hie home
will receive prompt attention. MaH87-Sm
QIIMVAK s BCEvKB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office over First National Bank, Cokiadma,
C.
PHYSICIAN AND SVROEON.
l3""Orfice and rooms. Clock baildins;, 11th
street. Telephone communication. 4-j
J.
M. MA:t?AHI.Ania.
ATTORNEY r NOTARY PUBLIC.
EOffice over First National Bank. Coins,
bus, Nebraska.
J
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COUNTY SURVEYOR.
SPartiee drwiring surveying done can ad-
. rzr ""." woiuiuuus, xveo., or cau at a on
in Court House. SataygS-y
MOTICE TOTKAi'HEM.
W. B. Tedrow, Co atapt.
I will be at my office in the Court Hones the
uuiu oaiuruay or eacn month tor the exami
tion of teachers. aajf
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K. J. CHAM. VlaM.W,
DEUTSCHER ARZT,
Colombo, Nebraska.
tT-Office Uth Street. Coasaltetioas ia S
gush, .French and German. 22mar87
TyALimAP MKO4,
ZSTEXPIiESSMEN.-WB,
Convey goods between any point of the dty.
Hand soitable for plastering and building par.
poses, famished in any part of city or oa board
cars at reasonable prices. thnar87y
JOHN G. HIUGINS.
C. J. GABLOW.
Collection Attorney.
moans tOAXzow,
ATTORiNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collection by C. J. Garlow.
r. r. KurvNEet, y. m
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Ckreale Diseases aael
Childxem a IpesJaltr.
ty Office on Olive street, three doors north ef
First National Bank. 3-ly
P M.BUPICHC,
'llth St., wait Li-dell Hotel.
Bell Harness. Saddle. Collars. Whip. Ms
vvurrjr iiimis, nrasnee, irnnas, Tsui, gaaw
tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, 4c. at the
lowest possible prices. Repair promptly at
tended to.
R. C. BOYD,
MASCTAOTDBSB OF
Til aid Skeet-Im Ware!
J.svWtrk, XediRf sad OmtUr
iig a Sftcialty.
tVShop on Olive street, t door north of
Brodfnebrer' Jewelry Store. X2-tf
Wgcan live at home, sad make more
Wllllmoney at work for a, than at aay
I lllltidng eh ia the world. Capital not
I VVneeded; yon are started free. Both
sexe: all age. Anyone cam do the work. Large
Mu-mnys snre from arst start, t oauy caret aaa
terms free. Better not delay. Coat yoa nothing
to send n yoar address and And oat; if yoa are
wise yon will do so at once. H. Haixsrr A Co..
Portland. Maine. dtcSS-'Hr
book ef MS l
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advertiser to eeav
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It contain lisuox newspapers sjdeuAMe
of the cost of xlverttoing.The advertiser wW
wants to spend one dollar, amdefca Kthetn-
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