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Henry J. Hudson,
Republican nominee for County Judge,
wub born in London, Nov. 28, 1822. He
moved to America in 1851, accompanied
by bis wifo and three oldest children.
He lived in Illinois until April 1857,
when bo removed to Nebraska, where he
has lived evor since, raising a large fam
ily, each one of them an honor to their
parents.
To give even an outline of Mr. Hud
son's public career would more than fill
all the columns of the Journal. In the
early days he was elected representative
from Monroe, Platte, Dodge and Wash
ington counties to the legislature, but
was --wliittled" out of the position in a
contest; later along, in 1871--2, he served
a term in the legislature, and was unani
mously selected by his fellow-members
as ono of tho managers for the House in
the impeachment trial of Gov. Butler.
Mr. Hudson has been three times post
master; Justice of the Peace eleven
years consecutively, and afterwards six
years, resigning the position; county
clerk three times; county commissioner,
three terms; as county supervisor, under
township organization, ho is now serv
ing his second term, and is chairman
of the lioard.
For the oflieo of County Judge Mr.
Hudson is peculiarly well qualified a
man of family and experience, he real
izes tho importance of faithfully guard
ing the interests of the widow and the
children in the settlement of estates of
decedents, and he would see to it that
justice be done. For an intelligent dis
charge of tho duties of the office, with
great credit to himself and with honor
to the county, no one questions Mr.
Hudson's ability to far exceed his com
petitor. He ought to be elected unani
mously. Lewis J. Cramer,
Republican nominee for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, was born at Tiffin,
Spnwa mnntv. Ohio. Dec. 7. 1847. In
his youth he attended school, and did
such work as boys brought up on a farm
are required to do.
Mr. Cramer has a diploma from Hei
delhurg College in his native city, and
holds a Nebraska State Teacher's Cer
tificate for life.
His present position as head of tho
public schools of this city he has held
for the past eleven years, an unusual, we
may well say, remarkable "tenure of
office," from numerous school boards.
He is well acquainted with the people
of the comity, thoroughly so with the
teachers, and with the needs of the public
school system of Platte county.
Every man, woman and child interest
ed in the welfare of the schools should
make an effort to have voters cast their
ballots for L. J. Cramer.
There is a growing tendency by the
Ieople to regard school and judicial
matters as a little aside from politics
generally. If this feeling is allowed to
prevail, Mr. Cramer will receive a unani
mous vote.
Henry Kirkert,
Tho republican nominee for County
Clerk, was born in Oldenburg, Germany,
in 1850. In 1858 he came to Nobraska
with his parents, his father pre-empting
1)0 where Henry now lives. In 18(35,
when Henry was fifteen years of age, his
father died his mother is still living
with her son and only child. Mr. Rick
ert now owns 400 good acres of land in
Shell Creek valley, and is a man highly
esteemed by his neighbors and his ac
quaintances generally. In Uismark
township, where ho resides, ho has held
the office of justice of the peace, clerk,
school director and treasurer, and has
always shown ability, honesty and faith
fulness in the discharge of duty. When
Mr. Rickert was a lad of fourteen he met
with an accident that permanently bent
his spine, but does not prevent his do
ing a man's full work.
We can assure our readers that Mr.
Rickert is, in every way, worthy the
offico for which he is nominated.
John H.Sacridrr,
The republican nominee for Clerk of the
District Court, was born in Duchess
county, New York, March 3d, 1839.
At tho ago of twelve he became a resi
dent of Illinois, living first for a short
time in La Salle county, afterwards in
Henry county. He passed his youth
partly on a farm, at school and as a clerk
in a store.
In 1862, he joined Company D of the
5Cth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers,
and served his country as a soldier,
faithfully and well, until March 28, 1865.
In 1871, sixteen years ago, Mr. Sac
rider came to Platte county, taking a
homestead under the government his
valor helped to save, tho hundred and
sixty acres in Monroe township that has
since been his home.
Mr. Sacrider is a man of good judg
ment, a scholarly, well-informed man
and an excellent penman. He will fill
the office of Clerk of the District Court
with honor to himself and the county.
Our Position.
We do not believe in trying to ride
both sides of the fence. No reliable
newspaper will be guilty of such a farce;
on the contrary they should declare
their position on all public questions
which may come within their jurisdic
tion. The Argun has from time to time
expressed its political principles. It has
been honest and sincere in these ex
pressionswhether they grated on the
ears of friend or foe, and because of this
honesty of purpose we do not entertain
the idea of deserting the policy which
we think is right because it clashes with
the convention held in Platte Center
Wednesday.
Therefore with all due respect for
others who may differ with us, and
granting every citizen a right to his
opinion, we must say we think the nom
ination of Mr. Kavanaugh for the office
of county treasurer was a fatal blunder
of the democratic nominating conven
tion of Platte county.
We do not believe Mr. Kavanaugh is
the choice of the democratic people
while evidently he is the choice of the
political jobbers and wire-pullers. These
men are not always fair representatives
of the rank and file of democracy.
The Argus does not propose to be a
secret enemy, politically, of Mr. Kar
anaugh. We will not work against him
smiling in his face and irairlny him in
the back at the same time commonly
called "work on the quiet," but, be
lieving that Mr. Kavanaugh lacks in
every essential qualification to fit him
for the office of county treasurer, we un
hesitatingly declare that we cannot sup
port him, and would be glad of the op
portunity to help elect a man more
fitting. Platte Center Argus.
The Strongest and Best.
The work of the republican conven
tion Friday was a guarantee of victory
at the polls and that the management of
the affairs of Platte county will fall in
honest and trustworthy hands'. The
ticket is clean and as capable a ticket,
from top to bottom, as has ever been
put before the people, and the sole ob
ject of the convention seemed to be, not
how can we score a point and win a
nomination for a certain candidate, but
to the contrary, which is the better and
most capable man and what action shall
we take to the more fully meet the
wishes of the people. We have not the
information at hand to give a personal
history of the candidates who appear at
tho head of our columns, but they are
all old residents of the county, and are
known- to be strong and capable men,
each for the office for which they were
selected.
GU8. a. BECHBR
needs no endorsement from us,-for he is
known to be ono of the most prompt and
thorough business men in Platte county,
and if placed in the treasurer's office
the people will have the satisfaction of
knowing their county interests are in the
care of ono of the most competent ac
countants and business men in the
county. He is not only prompt, thorough
and capable in business, but he is
obliging, genial, pleasant and social
which are all desirable qualifications for
a county official. Becher's election is
beyond a boubt. Everybody knows
M. C. BLOEDOHN,
our candidate for sheriff, who has grown
to manhood and spent the better part of
his life in Platte county, and who is as
popular as he is well known. In all his
years in our midst, conducting as he has
a lively business interest, there is not
one man to say he has ever done a dis
honorable or mean act, and with a heart
as big and generous as it is brave and
kind, ever prompting him to magnani
mous and noble deeds, there is not a
man within the borders of our county
who will go further or do more to oblige
a neighbor or assist a friend than M. C.
Bloedorn, of Humphrey. Capable, hon
est, popular and qualified the Fates
have decreed that he shall be next
sheriff of Platte county.
H. J. HUDSON',
our nominee for county judge has lived
and withstood the wintry blasts on the
cold and treeless plains of Nebraska for
lo these thirty years. He is the pioneer
of pioneers; before city, county or state
had boundaries and organization he was
here, and he has never been given a
trust or charge that he did not execute
with ability and fidelity, and tho faith
ful old citizen will be honored with a
complimentary and majority vote for
his long and useful life in our county.
Ij. J. CRAMER,
the superintendent of the Columbus
schools was asked and entreated by men
who have the educational interests of
the county at heart to accept of the
nomination for county superintendent.
His position as teacher is as good as the
office tendered him by the convention,
and ho reluctantly consented, as poli
tics has no charms for him. He is ever
whit a gentleman, and possesses the
qualifications mentally, morally and so
cially to place the schools of Platte
county on a more elevated and better
plan and would do honor to our schools,
honor to our county and honor to him
self, and he is a worthy candidate for
your support and suffrage. If our
readers expect him to succeed to the
suporintendency through the same ques
tionable mode of electioneering as has
done Bervico in the past in this county
he will never be the guardian of our
schools, but if the people are looking
for an educated, refined and capable
officer, and desirous of having a gentle
man to superintend the educational in
terests of our children L. J. Cramer is
such a man.
GEO. 8. TRUMAN
is without doubt tho best surveyor in
Platte county, and why wouldn't it be a
good idea to elect one who is thorough
and learned in every branch and detail
of the business.
HENRY RICKERT,
the candidate for county clerk, was
warmly endorsed by the convention as
a man eminently qualified for the posi
tion, and unless the voters of Platte
county desire to establish a little official
monarchy and crown John Stauffer as
their King during natural life and his
heirs and assignees thereafter, Mr. Rick
ert will bo elected.
J. H. SACRIDER,
is a splendid penman and a good schol
ar, and, if elected, will make an efficient
clerk of the district court.
DR. . J. SCHUO
was elected coroner two years ago by a
handsome majority, and the next inquest
he is likely to hold officially will be on
the poor misguided democratic candi
date, one J. C. Caldwell, who is now sick
unto death at Lindsay. Humphrey In
dependent. The Ticket and the Platform.
The Republican party of Nebraska
should be well satisfied with the work of
its state convention. There were care
fully planned and urgently pressed
schemes the success of which would
have placed the party in a false, and
perhaps perilous position, but although
it required a long and arduous struggle,
such as happens very rarely in a con
vention like that of Wednesday, to over
come them, wiser counsels prevailed and
they were defeated. We have very little
doubt that upon the sober second
thought most of those who supported
these projects will see the mistake that
would have been made in their adoption
and will with all the more heartiness and
zeal devote themselves to the duty of
securing the popular endorsement of the
convention's action.
The ticket will receive the full sup
port of the party. The renomination of
Judge Maxwell was in responce to the
undoubted wish of a large majority of
the rank and file of the party, and was
a just recognition of long, honorable and
useful service. It is not necessary to
enlarge upon his claims, so thoroughly
are they known and appreciated by the
older citizens of Nebraska. For more
than thirty years he has been under he
public scrutiny in positions of trust and
grave responsibility, and his record is
without a blemish. His judicial career
has pre-eminently exemplified the
highest standards of merit inthat-capacity,
furnishing an example of integ-
rity, impartiality and industry which
will exert its influence upon the judi
ciary of the state long after the learned
and distinguished jurist shall have re
tired from the arena of this world's la
bors. The character, experience and
acquirements of Judge Maxwell all com
mend him to popular support, and he
will be re-elected by an undiminished
majority. The candidates for regents of
the university, Dr. B. B. Davis, of Mc
Cook, and Dr. George Roberts, of Knox
county, are gentlemen fully qualified for
the position. The former is a graduate
of tho University of Nebraska, and the
latter of the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania. Both are
scholarly men, who have always taken
an earnest interest in educational af
fairs, and they will undoubtedly be val
uable accessories to the lioard of re
gents. The platform takes a position regard
ing the railways which every citizen
concerned for the welfare of the state
will approve. On the subject of the
tariff it shows nn advance in declaring
that the business of tho country de
mands a revision and that the republi
can party will see that such revision
shall be made at the earliest practicable
day.- The just demands of tho soldiers
to generous treatment from the gov
ernment are recognized, Ireland's hopes
are encouraged, and tho omissions and
faults of tho democracy receive ade
quate attention. Tho proposition for an
extra session of the legislature, which
was the source of a prolonged and very
heated discussion, failed chiefly for the
reason that there was a majority who
had no faith in the present legislators
and believed that if called together they
would accomplish nothing.
Having an entirely acceptable ticket
and a platform which all Nobraska re
publicans can approve, there does not
appear to be any reason why the party
should not move forward to an over
whelming victory. Omaha Bee.
A desperate attempt was made the
other day at Reading, Pa., on the Penn
sylvania railroad. As the road approach
es the river a high embankment and
several city streets pass beneath in un
der arches. A heavy coal train came
along, and when it was on the steep em
bankment, nearly two squares long,
there was a heavy crash as the engine
splintered a heavy plank which had been
placed across the track and securely
fastened. Fortunately the
heavy engine mounted the plank
and crushed it. If the engine and care
had been tumbled over the bank they
would have crushed the whole row of
houses with terrible results to the occu
pants. An investigation will be made.
Two men were seen to run away in the
darkness just as the engine struck the
plank.
A terrible accident occurred the other
evening at the Roanoke mines, Ky., re
sulting in the death of one man, three
fatally injured, and twelve others more
or less hurt. The cause a premature
blast, and sixty miners were in close
proximity to the blast at the time. Van
Smith was stunned, fell into a pool of
water and was drowned. Brock Edgar
was caught in an elevator and his legs so
badly crushed that he will die, and
others were badly bruised by the force
of the explosion, which threw them
against the walls. Most of the injured
are colored men.
SUMMER HOTEL EMPLOYES.
What Become of Clerks and Stewards
tVlica tho Leaves Begin to Fall.
"Papa, what becomes of these hand
some hotel clerks after the season closes?"
asked a bright young woman of her
father, pointing" to a young man at the
Long Beach hotel recently.
"My dear, I don't know what becomes
of them. That particular young man is a
depositor in our bank, and is altogether a
model young man. Many of them, how
ever, live in idleness and luxury as long
as their earnings last and then accept sit
uations in fur stores, where their exten
sive acquaintance with fashionable butter
flies makes their services valuable. Some
of them find employment in large dry
goods stores as floor walkers.
"Many hotel bookkeepers find employ
ment in brokers' offices, where they dis
appear behind Inclosed desks and are lost
to the public until the next summer. I
know one bright hotel clerk whose winter
occupation is a very pleasant one. He is
the escort of a wealthy but aged lady.
The pair may be seen almost every even
ing at one of the theatres. After the
theatre they go to Delmonico's, where a
sumptuous supper is indulged in. A car
riage takes them to the lady's residence,
and he leaves her at the door. This ends
his night's work, but he must report for
duty at 7 p.m. the following evening.
His salary is $200 per month, out of which
he is expected to dress in the latest
fashion.
"A few of the summer hotel employes
find positions in city hotels here and in
other large cities, but at reduced salaries.
A clerk who has squandered his earnings
in poker or on horse races is likely to ac
cept the very first position offered him,
which at hotels is usually the position of
night clerk.
"Many of them seek employment at
southern winter resorts and live in a very
economical manner until these open. Oth
ers take the places of city hotel clerks
who are on vacations, while a few collect
hotel bills on commission from guests who
fail to commune with bookkeepers before
leaving.
"The collector must be a thorough gen
tleman, well versed in the usages of polite
society. His first move is to go to the city
or town where the delinquent lives, well
fortified with letters of introduction to its
prominent people. He participates in all
social events that occur, and becomes
quite intimate with the culprit and his
family before the business in hand is men
tioned. He learns all about his private
affairs and his escapades when visiting
the city, and when he unbosoms himself
seldom fails to return with the amount of
the bill or its equivalent well indorsed.
"A few become connected with the the
atres as ushers and ticket sellers, and
some of them go on the road with travel
ing companies.
"Hotel stewards who fail to secure win
ter positions in their professions become
drummers for wholesale houses. They
make the life of employed hotel stewards
a burden by persistent drumming. Nev
ertheless they make good salesmen, for
the reason that they know the leisure mo
ments of their victims. Others are
secretly employed by wine houses. Their
busiBsss Is to boom a certain brand of
wine ia such a manner that their eonnec
tfon with it will sot be dlsssTsisd.
"One prominent hotel steward, who is
Abo a good cook, makes quite a respect
sjble living teaching wealthy but inexperi
enced epicures the art of dining. .His lot
as happy one. He dines with his patrons
fashionable restaurants; orders the vari
ess meals and explains the various dishes,
sauces and soups. He also interprets the
French names of the dishes, who their in
ventors were and when, where and why
they are so named. When not otherwise
engaged he visits the houses of people
who give little suppers without the aid of
outside caterers. He teaches the serv
ants the art' of salad making, and con
verses with the housewife on the
food in season and the best and
tost appetizing manner of preparing
and serving it Children, and even
grown people, are taught the art of carv
ing by him, how the knife should be
sharpened, held and how cared for when
not iu use. Periodical excursions are
made to the prominent markets, where he
teaches the housewife and her marriage
able daughters how to select the best of
everything at reasonable prices." New
York Evening Sun.
Caused by Shaking Hands.
In speaking with an old army officer on
the subject of the frequent Indian out
breaks within the past few years, he ad
vanced a singular theory, which, to bis
mind, at least, accounted satisfactorily
for much that has heretofore seemed in
explicable. Said my friend: "In old
times, when it was necessary to prove the
assent to a written contract of persons
who could neither read nor write, this
was done by affixing their seals. When
the Indian makes a contract he does so by
word of mouth, sealing the contract with
that solemnity which, to a redskin, means
all things he shakes hands upon it This
is a custom with the Indian which is re
served exclusively to ratify his contract,
and never, as with us, in salutation.
"When an occasion of importance de
mands that the chiefs shall come to Wash
ington, before starting they represent to
their tribes the business in hand, and state
that they will go and see the Great Father,
with whom they will enter into treaty.
Arrived in Washington, an interpreter
presents their case to the president, who,
in good will to show that he is not above
giving a kind reception to the humblest
man in the country, advances and proffers
his hand. The chiefs are delighted, and
return to their tribes, setting forth that
the Great Father has acceded to their
wishes, because, after hearing the case, he
shook hands with them. If, after the ex
ecution of a contract in the presence of
witnesses subsequently sworn to and re
corded, we should then break it so that a
suit in court would be the only remedy to
the party injured thereby, the situation
would not be more serious here, while the
president shakes bands with an Indian
who afterward does not get or enjoy what
he understood would bo given by that act
of handshaking. All of which goes to
prove, in conclusion, that the president
should never shake hands with an In
dian." Washington Letter.
la a Steamship's Engine Room.
My reverlo is broken by a touch on the
shoulder, and looking round I find the
good natured captain, who says: "Would
you like to go down with me? I Inspect
the engines every day." We descend to
the main deck, and by an iron door enter
the engine compartment. A bunch of
cotton waste is placed in each hand as a
protection against the omnipresent oil.
Carefully we descend the iron stairs, keep
ing a firm hold of the balustrade, lest a
sudden lurch of the ship should precipi
tate us among the great levers and cranks
that weave with relentless speed. Like
the huge monsters of a nightmare, they
would grind their teeth and tear their vic
tim limb from limb. At every stroke of
the piston a cold shower bath thrown
upon the bearings prevents the masses of
metal from becoming heated.
Through a dim alley lu the hold runs
the steel shaft, extending from engine to
screw, each of whose sixty revolutions a
minute drives the enormous iron ship near
ly thirty feet ahead in the sea. Here in a
side room are the dynamos for electric
lights of the incandescent arc pattern dis
tributed throughout the ship.
'Be careful," says the captain as we
enter a dark passage between the hot fur
naces and a moment later emerge into the
glare of open fire doors. Stokers stripped
to the waist, smeared with coal dust and
streaked with sweat, are working furi
ously. Out they drag the burning coals
that hiss as they drop on the flooded grat
ings. In they thrust the fiery giants'
food and with a crash of closing doors it
is suddenly dark. Back by the hot pass
age and staircase we regain the deck. It
seems weird to suddenly lose the tumult
of the engine and find ourselves In the
cold night air, with misty stars overhead
and wind moaning in the cordage. Albert
H. Munsell in Outing.
Chasing the Sword fish.
"The pursuit of the swordflsh," Pro
fessor Goode says, "is much more ex
citing than ordinary fishing, for it resem
bles the hunting of large nnimals upon
the land and partakes more of the nature
of the chase. There is no slow or careful
baiting and patient waiting, and no dis
appointment caused by the accidental
capture of worthless bolt stealers. The
game is seen and followed, and outwitted
by wary tactics and killed by strength of
arm and skill. The swordflsh is a power
ful antagonist, sometimes, and sends his
pursuers' vessel into harbor leaking, and
almost sinking, from injuries he has in
flicted. I have 'known a vessel to be
struck by wounded swordflsh as many as
twenty times in a season.
"There is even the spice of personal
danger to give savor to the chase, for the
men are occasionally injured by the in
furiated fish. One of Capt Ashby's
crew was severely wounded by a sword
flsh, which thrust his beak through the
oak floor of a boat on which he was stand
ing, and penetrated about two inches in
his naked heel. The strange fascination
draws men to this pursuit when they
have once learned its charms. An old
swordflsherman, who had followed the
pursuit for twenty years, told me that
when he was on the cruising ground he
fished all night in his dreams, and that
many a time he has bruised his hands
and rubbed the skin off his knuckles by
striking them against the ceiling of his
bunk when he raised his arms to thrust
the harpoons into visionary monster
swordflshes." New York Mail and Ex
press. Moaey la Cuba.
Money in Santiago de Cuba is a scarce
article, and to change a $5 gold piece
would take a day's travel, and Invariably
the change (if American) would haves
hole punched in each piece. This is done,
I am informed, to keep the money in the
country. I do not remember of seeing on
the island of Cuba a piece of American
money in circulation without a hole in it
American paper money is of no value for
general trade in Santiago, and Cuban pa
per money will not pass atalL Money
being so scarce the greater part of the
trade is carried on by barter among the
general public, and the money is firmly
held by the few exporters and larger deal
ers. Cor. Detroit Post
The tab kept on the fruits of the bull
fights in the City of Mexico from April 24
to 27, inclusive, reads as follows: Horses
killed, 10; bulls killed, 10; horses wound
ed, 11; bull fighters wounded, 4; total
animals, 44.
The productive faculty is of little avail
without the divine spark, the flash of In
which gives it value. Christian Bsfd.
STEALING REGISTERED LETTERS.
How the Dishonest Foetesaea Employe
Ara Sometimes Caaght.
"There is one place in the postoffice ser
vice where stealing can be carried on with
little fear of detection," said one of the
division superintendents recently, "and
that is in the registered letter department
The opinion of almost every one is that
the safest way to send a letter or package
is to register it But there is a loophole
through which the mall can slip with
great ease. The weak part of the system
is in the receiving department Say that
a registered package is received at the
postoffice from some place out of the city.
It passes to the clerks in the regular way
for distribution. If one of them is dis
honest he collars the package and, of
course, does not send the notice to the
person to whom it was directed. Not re
ceiving any notice the owner does not call
at the office for the package, and the per
son sending it, having perfect confidence
in the delivery system, believes it to have
been safely delivered. No complaints are ,
made to the ofBeiraaA Hen tone trouble.
All the thief hss to do is to satisfy the
department which has a check upon him,
and this is done by forging the name of
the owner of the package to a receipt and
sending it to the proper authorities."
"Is it easy for a clerk to pick out a let
ter containing money?"
"Yes. They will do it as certainly as a
cat will scent a fish head in an ash bar
rel. It's all done by the sense of touch.
A clerk must not be seen weighing up
letters, but must go through a pile with
all possible speed. As his fingers glide
quickly over the letters, if he has been
long at the business, he will know intui
tively a letter which contains anything
that makes an uneven fold within, as is
usually the cose with money. It may not
be money, but if it feels like it; that is
enough, and the letter is dexterously
dropped on the floor or slipped into a con
venient place, where it can be picked up
without exciting suspicion."
"How are the thieves usually detected?"
"By means of decoy letters. These let
ters are fixed up in the inspector's office.
Marked money is put into them. A bag
that comes to the office is opened and the
decoys are put in before the bag is sent to
the distributing department The bog
comes to the suspected clerk in the regu
lar way. Search is mode for the decoy
in the place where It should be if it had
been properly distributed. If not found
the clerk is searched, and if the right per
son was suspected the money will bo
found on him. It is hard to work a decoy
on an expert thief. I know of one man
who passed thirty-five decoys before he
was caught In fact he let them slip by
so regularly that he disarmed suspicion
and the decoys were tried on every other
clerk. Complaints were coming in all the
time and the case was puzzling.
"None of the clerks would touch a de
coy. Finally the first man suspected, took
one and was arrested. He confessed, and
said that he could tell a decoy every time,
because it did not have the marks of
travel on it, and the stamping was smooth
and sharp, showing that a stamp rarely
used had been applied to the letter and
not the one regularly used in the course of
business.
"There is more or less stealing all the
time in the postoffice, but such a close
watch is kept on the men that the amount
stolen is now comparatively small.
Thieves crop out in the most unexpected
places, and men in good positions are
sometimes caught sacrificing their good
name, home and future for petty sums of
money." New York Evening Sun.
Theory of Spontaneous Combustion.
The Lime Kiln club's committee on sci
ence and philosophy being called upon for
their quarterly report promptly responded
with a document of great interest Several
months bince the committee was instructed
to enter upon a series of experiments to
test the theory of spontaneous combustion,
and they now reported the result of their
labors as follows:
1. An old red flannel shirt was carelessly
wrapped up in a copy of The Police Ga
zette and thrown under the bed. At the
end of ten weeks it was hauled out and
Inspected. No signs of combustion.
2. Several cotton rags were stuffed into
an old plug hat and placed on the top
shelf in a pantry, between an old teapot
with the nose broken off and a two quart
jug containing cough mixture. Eight
weeks brought no change, except that a
rat ate part of the brim off the hat
3. Cotton and woolen rags were
sprinkled with whisky and packed away
in a trunk with summer clothing and the
trunk marked on either end with white
chalk. At the end of seven weeks it was
discovered that the whisky had been
wasted.
4. A pine bedstead, stained to resemble
walnut, was exposed to the sun forty-two
days. No combustion.
5. A white hat, left over from the Gree
ley campaign, was filled with certificates
of honesty belonging to ward politicians
and placed on the roof of a campaign wig
wam, but was stolen before fermentation
set in.
The committee could not report a single
satisfactory result in the experiments and
were discharged from the further consid
eration of the subject Detroit Free
Press.
Ho News of Importance.
Probably one of the most remarkable t
men of one idea was Lord Palmerston,
who could think of little else but foreign
politics. An amusing story is told of him
in the "Greville Memoirs." "The queen,"
says Greville, "told Clarendon an anec
dote of Palmerston, showing how exclu
sively absorbed he is with foreign politics.
Her majesty had been much interested in
and alarmed at the strikes and troubles in
the north, and asked Palmerston for de
tails about them, when she found that he
knew nothing at alL One morning, after
previous inquiries, she said to him:
'Pray, Lord Palmerston, have you any
news?' To which he replied: 'No,
madam, I have heard nothing, but it
seems certain the Turks have crossed the
Danube.' The fact that Palmerston at
this time was not foreign minister, but
home secretary, adds point to the anec
dote." Chambers' Journal.
The Increase of Whales.
Not very many months ago a trade jour
nal made the statement that the whale
were fast being exterminated and that it
is only a question of time when a substi
tute must be found for whalebone. Then,
when I was in your city last February, a
young man who was selling one of these
substitutes repeated this chestnut to me.
I have shown this article around in the
fleet and repeated the statement, much to
the amusement of whalemen. The men
who have these substitutes to sell are do
ing their best through the public prints to
exterminate the whales, but the whale
men find it impossible even to keep up
with the increase of the whales, to say
nothing about exterminating them. 1
wish the former success in their under
taking. Cor. Chicago Times.
The Faalt Finders.
Almost every parish has its pious wood
peckers. To these creatures there is
nothing in the Lord's Cedar of Lebanon
worthy of "note or commeat" except its
possible spots of decay. No faith in the
solid roots; no delight in the spreading
branches; no comfort under the shelter
ing leaves; no sweetmeats, no satisfaction
anywhere where there is not a dainty
grab beneath! Over any such spot, how
ever nnnoticeable or unimportant, they
wfll make more ado than all the other
fowls ia the branches thereof. From all
such "the Lord deliver us." Chicago
Living Chnreh.
ducafiorjeti cparfirni
Discipline
We have seen schools that were a
quiet as a room full of horrors. We
have seen tho pupils sitting in strained
positions, with head erect, hands by
aide, or arms folded, turning neither to
the right nor the left, or, if moving,
moving slowly, almost wearily with
downcast eye, on tip-toe, with hands
clasped behind the buck, whispering
not, smiling not, with the light of the
eye dull, and all tho joyousness of child
hood driven from the faces of the pu
pils by the fierceness of the methods of
the petty tyrant in charge.
We have wondered whether the so
called school was not a prison, or a re
formatory institution of some kind, and
we can remember how glad wo were to
get out again into the free air and the
.bright sunshine of the onter world,
where we could again see a child smile
and hear the merry laugh, and earnest
happy voices of thosu who were free.
We have heard such schools praised
as models of excellence, as schools of
faultless discipline, whoso teachers, so
earnest, so skilled, were worthy of
memorials in brass or marblo.
Wo never heard what became of these
teachers. They -are not mentioned
with Arnold, or Froebel, or Pestalozzi.
Wo are inclined to think that the pro
grossing waves of modern educational
thought have overthrown or overlapped
them, and has loft to us no trace of
their doings or existence.
It was not discipline, it was cruelty,
torturo, or deviltry. It was the op
pression of a weak child by a strong
grown mun or woman. It developed
neither strength of character, nor no
bility of purpose. It drove out all joy
ousness, all love, and made the child
worse by far than if it had trained with
the gamins of the gutter. Who can say
that lives have not been wrecked by
some pet cruelty of some petted teacher.
Who can say that the moroseness, the
Bullenness, the petty spite or mean ac
tions of some manhood may not have
been the result of acts of oppression,
committed thoughtlessly by the teachoi
of his boyhood ?
Too much discipline, too much rule
and regulation, too much of the marti
net in the formalities of the school
room is far worse than the absence of
all restraining rules. For, if a child is
guided properly, carefully, thought
fully, it will develop for good, but if it
is continually and forcibly held back,
if it is deprived of all freedom of speech
or action, it will pluce itself in antago
nism to the teacher, to the authority of
the school, to society. The antagonism
wins in the contest, but it is at the ex
penso of society. The bad boy, so
made by this faulty discipline, becomes
a bad man. Who is responsible ?
We have, in our later days, come to
sec some points on child manners and
movements, which we wish we had
seen when wo were younger. We might
bo happier. We know we should be
prouder.
Many of the so-called disobediences
of children are not wilful. Many of
their bad deeds are the result of un
controllable impulses. Very few ol
their bad acts are the results of delib
erate thought. Many of them are the
results of parentage of home-training
and surroundings. Should we not
then, carefully and patiently guide a
child into the right path if we suspect
such influences? Shall we beat it
back, or scold it back ? Or shall we,
when it wanders from the path, place
it again and again on the track until
the little feet, by constant going, hare
worn a path from and for its own
traveling.
Grown people have many faults.
Teachers are not perfect. They make
many mistakes. They slip from the
path occasionally they commit- dis
obediences to authority. They would
be much chagrined, if they, on all such
occasions, wero hold up to public re
buke or reproof. Should not the same
consideration, the same compassion, be
extended to the little ones? The graces
of patience are best seen in the treat
ment of children. It makes men look
like gods.
But who are children ? When do we
draw the line? When do wilfulness
and thoughtlessness cease. When does
reason become the controlling force ?
We imagine that many of the difficul
ties of keeping school with large boys
have their origin in the supposition
that such pupils have passed into the
age of reason, when, in fact, they were
yet children.
The training of all the faculties is the
teacher's province, but training is not
the work of a moment. Training is
slow, careful, deliberate, thoughtful
work, and the best work of training in
any direction is the one which com
plies with all these conditions.
Haste makes waste, here as else
where. The Leader.
Be prompt in commencing and
closing all exercises.
Teach pupils to observe: Observa
tion is the secret of success."
After the pupil has studied the
history of the period, event, or char
acter, require him to write the biogra
phy of each leading person:
A Popular Error.
There -S a popular prejudice that if the
stones of cherries are swallowed It will
obviate the danger of Intestinal disturb
ance which this fruit is liable to cause.
Nothing could be more absurd than this
theory, and the practice is a most per
nicious one, as it invites ."crious inflam
mation, if not fatal consequences. Herald
ot ileal th.
-..a vurrKt rronuBciatloB.
Mrs. Bingham I s'pose, Miss Amelia,
you saw some gran' specimens of arkatec
ter when you's down in New York city?
Miss Amelia (who has been studying
French without a master) Oh, yes, In
deed, Mrs. Bingham: 'specially some of
them French flahsi (flats.)
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