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COLT MBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889.
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COLUMBUS
STATE BAM.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Cash Capital - $100,000.
DIRECTORS:
-EJCANDKB
OEU1XD, Fmt.
GEO. W. HULST, Vice Pree't.
". JULIUS A. REED.
R. H.HENRY.
J. E. TA8KKR, Cashier.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.,
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Authorized Capital of $500,000
Paid in Capital - 90,000
OFFICERS:
C. H. SHELDON, Pres't.
H. P. H. OHLRICH. Vice Pre.
C. A. NEWMAN, Cashier,
DANIEL SCHRAM, Ass't Cash.
STOCKHOLDERS:
C H. 8heldon. , . J- Bf r
Herman P. H.Oehlnch, Carl Rienke.
Jonas Welch, W. A. McAllister,
J. Henry Wnrdeman, H. M. Wiuslow,
fieoraeW. Galley. 8. C. Grey.
Frank Rorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlnch.
ryBank of deposit; interest allowed on time
deposits; buy and sell exchange on United State)
and Europe, and buy and sell available securities.
Wo shall be pleased to receive yonr business. W.J
solicit yonr patronage. 28dec87
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flaps Repaired skirt aetiee
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A RAGE FOR THE BRUSH.
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A FOX
HUNT IN GEORGIA.
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-Tbe brush! the bruahT
It was the Mrminitlon of the most ex
citing fox cbeee ever wimcescd In Hous
ton. Just before daylight a party of eleven,
all mounted om fleet hones, met at the
home or Mr. J. E. Andrews. The fox
bounds in the neighborhood had been
collected tue previous night There
were thirty-four of the finest dogs to be
found anywhere.
Aaiat.rayof light ooald be seen to
the east when the party, led by the three
veteran hunters of the county, Messrs.
J. E. Andrews, John Bountree and
Stonewall Hose, started off to the north.
The horn was tooted thrice, and the dogs
ran in front through the woods. For
three miles the ride progressed without a
sound from the dogs.
'IT'S A FOX, SUEE."
Suddenly the leading horseman reined
up. The almost distinct yelp of a dog
could lie heard in the far distance. The
dogs around the horsemen stopped and
listened.
"It's old Kater cried Andrews, "and
it's a fox. sure. She never lies.
The word had hardly been uttered be
fore the remainder of the pack started
off towards the sound at a full run. The
horsemen followed, and as the dogs had
not jumped the fox, but were only trail
ing, hoon caught up. For twenty min
utes progress was slow, as much of the
ground had been burned off and it was
dulicu It for the dogs to trail. However,
in a short time the track was scented,
and, with old Kate in the lead, the dogs
started through an open field like the
wind and every dog yelping at each
stride.
The fox had been jumped.
The music of the dogs was grand, wild,
exciting.
Through the great open fields, immedi
ately behind the dogs, eleven horsemen
ran at a breakneck speed. There was a
big ditch in the center, but over it they
went like the wind. Both men and horses
were excited to the highest pitch. Bonn
tree, on a sleek black mare, was in the
lead, and the others ran in a bunch close
behind.
The dogs seemed to increase their
speed. The horses were going at a wild
gait, but the riders were not satisfied,
and urged their flying animals on with
the spur.
Suddenly a fence was seen in the dis
tance. The dogs were scrambling over it.
"Hadn't we better rein up?" cried one
of the rear horsemen.
"Not a bit of it," yelled Andrews, who
was now running neck and neck with
Rountree.
"Come on!" he cried, and his fleet
footed gray and the sleek black of Boun
tree bounded the seven rail fence as
though it was not a foot high. Tho re
mainder of the party liad drawn rein a
little and were somewhat behind, but
upon seeing the ease with which the
leaders cleared the hurdle each put spurs
to his horse and away they went. Seven
of the horses cleared it without a scratch,
but two struck the top rail, fell and threw
their riders into the freshly plowed
ground, which probably saved their
necks. But neither horses nor riders
were hurt, and although delayed they
were mounted again in an instant and
renewed the chase with more intense ex
citement. THE GRAT WON.
The horses had run hard, but the fox
and dogs were too fleet for them. They
were away off in the distance and their
yelps were not distinctly heard. The
horseman drew rein and rode slowly
through a clump of woods to a knoll
which they mounted.
Suddenly the yelps of the dogs be
came more distinct.
"They have turned,' shouted Hose.
"Yes, and they are coming this way,"
cried Andrews.
"Keep quiet, boys, and we'll see him."
The sun was up and the dogs could be
seen coming towards the party.
Suddenly the fox, a big gray, with tail
erect and tongue hanging far out, passed
the foot of the knoll He was blown,
but still running like the wind.
Two hundred yards behind were the
dogs. A big red hound was in the lead,
while at his side was old Kate, the
striker. Behind them the pack came,
forming almost a solid triangle, extend
ing fully twenty yards in the rear of the
leaders. But they were running like
lightning and gaining on the fox at every
jump.
It was an open field for two miles, and
into this, right behind the dogs, the
horsemen rushed. Both men and horses
were wild with excitement. Every one
wanted the brush, and all were running
for it. Spurs were pressed against the
ades of the already flying horses, and
the riders leaned forward and yelled to
their racers. The eleven horses were
running in a buncli, while far behind
could be seen two boys, one on a gray
mule and the other riding a steer both
without saddles. Tho field seemed cov
ered with small ditches, but the animals
jumped them without apparently notic
ing the ground.
We were within fifty yards of the dogs
and the fox' was not ten ahead of the
lead dog. But on they went, Suddenly
the fox seemed to lag and in an instant
thirty-four dogs were piled up on top of
him and tearing him to pieces.
The horsemen were then a hundred
yards behind, and that hundred yards
was run for the brush. It was a wild
race and eleven horses were thrown ob
their haunches almost in line right at
tho dogs, but the rider of the fleet gray
was there a nkk ahead. He seemed to go
right over the head of his horse into the
fighting pack of dogs, and in an instant
had the body of the fox raised above hit
head in triumph. Powersrille (Oa.) Cor.
Atlanta Constitution.
THE GORILLA.
A Hcktor
Way
m Toac
The goriDa is the prise fighter of
Africa,'' amid Carl StecWlmann, who has
personal knowledge of the Dark Conti
nent. He had been speaking of aleop
ard skin on exhibition in his widow, aad
bad been teUincof the danger
tared ia fighting with the original
of tkeskin.
-"OPlUa WiH jgjaJB ffJafJf aria
In comparison wJtn that in wnfen on
inust engage ta meeting the gorilla," he
mid. "The gorilla is found in only a
comparatively small portion of western
Africa. He lurks in the woods along the
coasts for several hundred miles north
of the mouth of the Congo. I have
never seen a gorilla in the open country,
and, by the way, I think that the fact
that he stays in the woods accounts for
the fact that he is almost a biped instead
of a quadruped. You see the gorilla in
passing through the forests reaches out
with his long anna, and, seizing the
branches of the trees, rises on his hind
legs and walks on them, supporting him
self with hisholdon the branches. Habit
has thus almost made an upright creat
ure of ""-
"The gorilla is as bravo as brave can
be. The male gorilla does all the fight
ing for the family. If yon approach a
pair of gorillas the female will run
screaming through the woods or will
climb the highest ..tree, ottering all the
whUe cries not unlike a woama in- great
fright But the male gorilla will come
straight at you. He does not know what
fear is. He will fight any number of
men."
"How do you fight them?
"With pistols. It is very unsafe to
trust to a gun or to a poor weapon of
any kind. The gorilla is so fierce and
powerful that you have but one chance
at him at the best The woods where he
is found are so thick that it is impossible
to see him accurately at any distance. If
you fire at him as he comes at you down
the tree a limb may turn the course of
the bullet Before you can fire a second
time he will be upon you. He drops
from limb to limb and comes at a rapid,
swinging pace. The safest way is to
hold your fire until he is at arm's length
and then fire steadily into him with a
pistoL
"The gorilla is easily killed. An or
dinary pistol shot will have about the
same effect upon him as it has upon a
man. The hunter's danger is in not
making the shot telL Once I was pass
ing through the forest with a bodyguard
of natives. The natives are furnished by
the Dutch traders with a miserable gun,
the barrel of which is made of gas pipe.
The natives had learned to be suspicious
of their guns. When they fire at any
thing they point in tho general direction,
pull the trigger and fling the gun at the
object They throw the gun because
they are afraid it will explode in their
hands, as it very frequently does. Well,
we came upon a gorilla. A native saw
him dropping from a tree coming at us.
Aiming at the descending form he fired
and missed. He had not turned before the
grim monster was upon him. Standing
and throwing his arms around the ne
gro's neck the gorilla seized his throat in
his manlike jawsand wascruahing the life
out of him when we came up and fired a
pistol ball into him at close range. But
the wounds inflicted were mortal and
the native died in great agony."
"Aro the gorillas numerous in the
strip of country where they are fcund?"
"They are scarce. In making -i trip
once I saw two in one day, but that was
unusual. They are the fiercest and brav
estof animals. The male gorilla in going
into battle sounds a fearful warning by
beating its breast and giving forth sounds
that make the dense forest resound. He
is a dangerous antagonist, and you are
all the time reminded by his appearance
that you are contesting with a creature
that has a man's faculties and appear
ance, a giant's strength and a monkey's
agility." Indianapolis News.
Improvlag tb Eyes.
The trials of "hanging committees," in
determining the places to be held by pic
tures at any exhibition, are great and
rnanifnlil. An English artist says that
when he once served as "hangman," pre
paratory to an exhibition of the Royal
Academy, his greatest embmrrassment
was connected with a picture sent in by
an old Academician who had once done
good work, but whose hand had now lost
its cunning.
It was the portrait of a clergyman, and
was not so desperately bad but that it
might be admitted, if one peculiarity
could in any way be dealt with. His
eyes were exactly like those of an owl;
the eyeballs were intensely black, with a
circle of light bright blue encompassing
them about
"We tried him on the wall," says the
artist, "but distance lent increased ter
ror to his expression; he glared at us so
fearfully, that in regard for the conse
quences that might arise to unwary visi
tors, we hastily took him down again.
"'Now,' 1 said to a brother hangman,
what is to bo done? It's of no use ask
ing the old gentleman to withdraw the
picture he won t
" -No,' replied my friend, 'but I think
we might take some of the enthusiasm
out of those eyes. "
No sooner said than done. A finger
was' wetted, a little blanking taken from
a shoe of one of the conspirators, the
bright blue circle received a glaze of
blacking, and the glare of terror inspir
ing fury was changed into a softened,
appealing expression. With that little
alteration the picture took its place among
the sest Youth's Companion.
Dsagsrs ta taw Etactrle Wire.
The insidious character of the dangei
lurking in electric light wires in the
street was exemplified the other day in
Baltimore. Two individuals conversing
close by an irou awning post were ob
served to fall suddely to the ground. A
broken telephone wire had established
communication between the electric light
wire and the framework of the awning.
The strength of the current was doubt
less divided, and the victims eventually
recovered their senses. New York Tele
gram. Maalclaal Bectrlc Ughtlng.
The Lewiston city council that bought
the city's elecMfc lighting plant did a
wise act 'the benefit of which we are
reaping now and shall continue to reap
for many years. In his inaugural Mayor
Little was able to call attention to the
fact that the cost of fully and beautifully
lighting the city is no more than -he ex
pense of half lighting it under he old
system. Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
A well known Parisian bibliophile,
Baron Double, has just discovered the
presentation copy of a book written by
Marat and given by him to the queen,
Marie Antoinette. This book, entitled
"Le Feu," is bound in green morocco and
bears the arms of the queen of France,
that is, the crests of France and Austria
interlaced. Marat, who, before becom
ing a revolutionary hero, devoted him
self to the study of science, treats of fire
and light in this book. New York Comv
AdT
LISTEN TO THE LION.
HIS IMPETUOUS NATURE IS' HELD
IN CHECK BY IRON BARS.
Loofclaa Through Tkmm at Bis Captocs ba
Calm DUdala Ha ladalgaa la Cetroaaaa
ttoa Cenflacaeat la a Oea Is Irkaaaaa,
bat"u Has to Staad It.
"Aye, look at me! Crowd about and
stare, you ojiened mouthed, hard breath
ing mass of poor humanity! Note well
the tawny beauty of my lithe form; the
delicate fineness of my tremulous whisk
ers; the languid droop of my long sleek
tail Mark the powerful ease of my
stride and leap to the shelf, where 1 can
lie at all my indolent length, and see you
far better than you can me. Crowd and
crush about my cage"
"Ah! 1 heard you, little girt. I caught
the sorrowful, half whisper, 'Poor beast
be does not like to be shut up.' Point
with the rosy finger, half shy, half afraid
of the big, strange animaL You are a
tender morsel, you dimpled darling; but
1 heard the divine pity of your tone, lit
tle one, and I would not harm you even
if the tiny lund lay on my rebellious
neck. I have had prey almost as dainty.
1 have seen tho young fawn pant and
struggle and die in my relentless grasp;
I have tasted the hot blood that flowed
from its dappled, wounded side, and,
licking my chops with satisfied tongue,
I have crouched in my deep forest lair
and slept content.
"Lying snug on a winter night when all
the world was wrapped in snow and bit
er, piercing cold, 1 have heard tho
mountain shudder and complain in
their icy winding 6heet and the streams
gurgle and battle chokingly under their
heavy frozen fetters. I have seen the
6tars in the violet sky shine out like
great globes of fire, almo3t within reach,
bunting in tho glorious arch with a full
soft luster the dwellers in these lower
places can never know. I have watched
the small denizens of the hills steal by
on fearful feet to the air hole in the
water course below and because of my
great content have let them go unharmed
adown the perilous slopes. And now, to
lie on a shelf and be stared at Bah! 1
hate you all. Gu-r-r-r-r.
You needn't jump, I can't get out; but
if I could, oh! if I could! how you would
scatter before mo like spray before the
wind! Do yon think I would stay here
in this hot stifling, curious eyed city?
Ah, no! I know a better place than this,
far away in tho path of the setting sun.
A canyon so cool, so deep and dark that
lapping at midday from the turbulent
mountain btream I have seen mirrored
therein the silver stars in tho noontide
sky. Ah! that is the place for me! Steep
and dark are its 6ides, murmurous with
tho wliispering of tho great pines, fra
grant with balsamic smells, and alive
with stealthy, gliding forms and whir
ring wings. There are mossy caverns
and flashing waterfalls, a soundless car
pet of pine needles and freedom!
"Sometimes I see the gleam of your,
lake tlirough my prison bars. I do not
care for it. 1 know another, not so vast,
but thrice as lovely. Bluer than yours,
too, and cool and calm and clear, fed by
silent springs that steal tlirough the gold
veined heart of the mountain; encom
passed by wooded slopes that hide many
of my kin in their tangled depths. 1
swam it once.
"There is a fort there, but I heeded
not. 1 plunged into the pure wave in
tent only on reaching the opposite shore,
but some one saw me, and then what a
fuss they made. They woke tho sleep
ing echoes many tongues in that land
with their clumsy firing. The echoes
were frightened. From peak to peak
they called and murmured and reiterated
the startling news. I did not care.
Down under the blue wave for a moment
or two, and then I rose far beyond their
guns and shouts.
"There were fishers on the lake. A boat
with three children for crew. Hardy
nestlings of the great eyrie of the west,
they knew not fear, and the baro legged
beys only shouted as I rose beyond them,
and the tousled, curly head and brave
blue eyes of the little girl turned and
stared in wonder at the 'great cat swim
ming the lake.'
"Doubtless they were gathered close
to the maternal bosom when the adven
ture was recounted and duly told what
a fearsome thing I am to meet at home
in my own mountains. But here, bah!
SYMPATHY FOR OTHER CAPTIVES.
"I am told there are two Polar bears
in as dire imprisonment as myself.
Cooped in a rocky cage fenced in with
iron bars, they who have known the
wide, white sUences of the frozen sea
have no hint of their lost home save a
tiny stream that dashes its puny spray
over the pallid exiles.
"As they sit motionless do they muse
in desperation on the far off icy north,
that wondrous region that defies tho en
trance of man; that holds in its vast
bosom most of those who dared try
to unlock its mysteries and assail it in
its might? Do they dream and long for
the sullen roll of the icy sea, the crash
and grinding of the great white floss,
the pale phantoms of towering berg, and
the wondrous radiance of the Polar
lights?
"Does a loaf of bread tossed and crum
bling on .the sweltering stones compen
sate for a juicy seal caught napping or a
white fleshed fish drawn from the great
refrigerator of the universe?
1 know there is an eagle here, for once
I heard him cry: just once, but it was a
strange, sail Bound, stifled with captivity.
I have seen and heard him in our western
home, when with outspread wings and
curving neck he dropped straight from
the imperial vault of the mountain sky
to his eyrie on some bald, scarred crag
and feeding there the brood of callow
eaglets, gave voice again and again to his
triumphant bcnse of power and freedom.
"I hear it all again at times in my
sleep. The rush of the wind, the roar of
the storm, tha murmur of thu pines, and
the musical tinkle of tho tireless down
leaping streams. I snuff thu fresh pine
rents of the mountains, and turning un
easily in my narrow prison I wake to
captivity and despair "Chicago 7:uerf.
Mr. W. H. Boat, secretary to Harrison
at Barber, horse slaughterers, told torn
Pall Mall Gazette reporter the other day
that they have seven slaughter houses in
the metropolitan area, the largest being
that in the York road, Camden town.
They slaughtered 25,000 horses a year.
When a horse broke a limb or sustained
other irremediable injury on the street
the police at once communicated with
their .nearest depot The company had
fitauently riaai ahaami with cruelty.in
slowing maimed horses to tie alsout for
aWrs before sending men to end their
searings. The truth was they were
particular in this respect, and if
delays occurred it was through no
fiamlt of theirs. Was horseflesh much
aad for food? Yes. to a considerable
extent, he should say.
Their charter did not allow of their
selling horseflesh for food purposes, but
there were such establishments in the
city. Qe had himself eaten horsemeat
utjFrance. and at the company's annual
dinner it waa served. to the guests, some
of wjjom declared they would not have
known it from beef, bad they not been
told. Fine fat horses were slaughtered
every week, horses that were perfectly
sound, except for some accidental injury,
and He saw no reason why this flesh
should not lie eaten. He had often seen
street gamins buy a slice of dried horse
flesh,' place it between two bits of bread,
and eat it as a sandwich! Of course,
most of the prepared horseflesh passed
fender the name of catameat but it
"seemed incredible that the cats could
consume it alL
Every part of the horse was put to
some use flesh, hide, hair, hoofs and
bones. Now that (and Mr. Boss held up
a small vial of beautifully transparent
oil) was horse oil. One would scarcely
think such oil as that could be got from
the horse. Those other bottles contain
oils of inferior quality. They were used
for lubricating purposes and for soap
making. Most soaps nowadays contained
horse grease.
Armed with a cigar and an order from
the secretary of the company, our re
porter made his way to the premises in
York road. The obliging manager said
they had had only four horses in today.
But about 7,800 were slaughtered here
annually. Most of the animals were
cab, 'bus or tram horses. The establish
ment turned out about twenty tons of
horseflesh every week. They had forty
six dead and twenty-one live horses in
now. They contracted with the various
cab, "bus and tram companies for injured
horses at 80 shillings each, alive or dead.
Most of the live horses they got in were
injured internally by overwork or fall
ing. A few were gone with congestion
of the lungs. The work of slaughtering
went on day and night, there being two
gangs of men for that purpose. Horses
were killed at night by three "knack
ers." Fifteen horses were considered a
good night's work. The sufferings of
the poor brutes were soon at an end. as
they were rendered insensible by ; blow
from a heavy ax. Pall Mall Gazette.
j A Prophetic Dream.
Some days before the late disaster at
Samoa the wife of an officer at Mare
Island awoke from her first sleep,
trembling and jn tears, and related to
her husband a fearful dream experience.
She thought 6ho had been in her dream
transported to the island of Samoa, and
from the shores of tho harbor of Apia
; looked upon the American and German
fleets. Suddenly a storm arose, and the
harbor was swept by a fierce tornado.
.Ship gaiter ship went ashore, and the
spectators united in offering up prayers
for the preservation of the remaining
vessels. Lastly the Vandalia and Tren
ton dragged their anchors, and, as the
former vessel was dashed upon the reef
and almost immediately sank, Mrs.
witnessed the death of Capt. Schoon
maker, Lieut. Sutton and Paymaster
Amies, the three officers who were the
victims of the actual disaster of March 16.
The picture was so vivid and real that
Mrs. for days was nervous and agi
tated, thinking only of her dream, and
relating it to others, always insisting
that the vessels and friends so recently
gone from Mare Island must certainly be
exposed to some fearful peril, and when
the fictitious story of the sinking of th
j Nipsic reached us she concluded this to
be the interpretation or her dream. The
falsity of this story being proved, Mrs.
was, of course, disposed to mako
light of her vision; but now comes a tale
of disaster infinitely more sad than the
fiction which agitated our country for so
many days an event corresponding most
closely with this apparently prophetic
dream.
In this storycapable of perfect au
thenticationwe have a good record for
the archives of the psychical seventy.
Yallejo Times.
A Ship lii a Cyclone.
What a Samoan hurricane is like and
what chance a ship has while ut its
mercy, may be imagined after reading
Abercromby's "Seas and Skies in Many
Latitudes." He says:
"Much has been written about han
dling ships in hurricanes and elaborate
maneuvers have been described which
they are to perform near the center of
typhoon. Many a ship has been saved
by skillful sailing on the outskirts of a
cyclone, and even after the characteris
tic squalls and driving rain have begun.
But when near the center she gets in the
kernel, as it were, of the hurricane, and
the wind comes in great gusts which no
canvas can withstand, when the roaring
of the wind is so tremendous that 'no
voice can be heard, when the sky and
cloud and spindrift are mixed up in
distinguishably from one another in a
general darkness, then it is as impossible
to give an order as to obey it. and the
sailor can only hope that her timbers
may not ojen so as to spring a leak, and
that her steering gear may hold so tiiat
she may not broach to and l over
whelmed by tho waves." New York
Telegram.
Sexuality la Atom.
Mr. Mason Kinne is a quiet gentleman
who has lived for many years in this city.
He is an enthusiastic member of the Mi
croscopical society, an honorary member
of several foreign scientific societies and
contributes to several scientific journals.
He is an indefatigable investigator. Some
time ago he declared that he had discov
ered sexuality in atoms that is, after
examining the smallest fragments of in
organic matter, iron and other mineral
snbstances, he had discovered certain
traces that led him to believe that all
atoms, animal and vegetable, are either
male or female, and reproduce their spe
cies. The importance of such a discovery
cannot be estimated. If verified, and Mr.
Kinne is confident that it can be verified,
it means the revolution of science a
new alphabet for geology, chemistry and
natural philosophy. San Francisco Call
The Xattea's Great Mea.
"Pa, where was Capt Anson bom?"
"I don't know, I'm sure,"
"Where was John L. Sullivan bom?
"I don't know that either."
"Pa, 1 wish you would buy me a his
tory of the United States." Chicago
Herald.
BLESSED GREENHORNS.
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SO SAYS "AMBEB," AND ALL WHO
READ ECHO THE SENTIMENT. .
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Batter Fall Dasra Oaaa ta a Walla
Who I Not Qalta Parfaet la WeUwaas la
This Shrswd aad Practical World. j
"I may not be .quite so wise as Solo
mon," remarked a man in my hearing
the other day, "but anybody who ex
pects to get the best of me will get badly
left!" I looked at the speaker, at his
shrewd eyes, with their all-ways-at-once
manner of looking at things; his
mouth, pursed and puckered like a dried
up pepper pod; his smile, as sharp and
wintry as a frost sparkle; and I said in
my heart "Well, sir, I would rather be
the biggest greenhorn that ever trod the
sod tlian be you!"
Veoplx wk no kot nkkd.
When a man gets so wise that he has
nothing left to learn, the best place for
him is a bookshelf. When he gets so
cunning that you can never catch him
napping, the best place for him is among
the stuffed owls in the National museum.
The world has no need of fossils outside
of caves and archaeological collections.
What a dried up channel is to a land
scape, such, to the world he lives in. is a
worldly wise nature which has become
in vulnerable to a sensation and incapable
of a mistake or an enthusiasm. He has
outgrown his chief charm who has out
grown his freshness. He lias become a
mere petrifaction, who has attained unto
a state wherein he is unassailable by the
blunders to which other men succumb.
W( do not need Mich people any more
thau a full mooned August night needs
signal lights. Better fall down once in
awhile thun git to be so ossified you can't
bend out of the perpendicular. Per
fection is all right in butter and eggs,
but a man. to be a good comrade, wants
enough of the imperfection of human
nature left in him to render him capable
of an occasional blunder. 1 would rather
live with the statue of Liberty on Bed
loc's Island than attempt to dwell with a
a person who has outlived the possibility
of ever being "taken in," or has soared
above the weakness of once in awhile
taking a leap without knowing exactly
where he is going to land.
Why, bless your heart, my dear, the
man who always looks before he jumps
misses a fine tumble in, the clover! Chil
dren playing together in the haymow
would mi&i tho lest elixir of their sport
if they measured every distance and
computed the safety of every risk. And
life, a good part of it, anyway, is nothing
more than the venture of children romp
ing in the dark. A pretevnaturally wise
child and a sharp man make poor com
rades in either play or work. What
gives to childhood its first and greatest
charm? What more than its freshness
and its capacity to enjoy a delusion?
When the child outgrows its belief in
Santa Claus and fairies it ceases to have
tho nature of a child, and the wiser it
gets and the further from the humbug
geries of youth the more of that first
divine fresline-ss and innocence it loses,
until it becomes, like too many of ua
older ones, a withered stalk, with neither
dew nor blossom left upon it
KEEP US FROM TOO MCCU CONCEIT.
When we pray for pure hearts let us
add to our petition that, in the grind
and turmoil of sordid living, we may
preserve a little of the "greenness" of
life's springtime in our nature. Keep
us, good Lord, from too much conceit in
our own cunning. Help us now and
then to take the attitude of little chil
dren who have something to learn.
Make singing birds of us rather than sly
old foxes; shrubs of living verdure rather
than dusty specimens mucilaged inside
of a herbarium. Half the people one
meets are only specimens. They are
types, samples in stock, anything but
individuals. They have been brought up
to be conformists, and they are perfectly
content with their labeling in the com
pany of the t rreat Alike. Usage plucks
them early, as a botanist picks a rose to
classify it rather than to enjoy its beauty,
and conformity is the musty old herb
arium wherein they ore pasted and let
tered for all time. Give me the weed
blowing in the meadow, wet by showers
and shaken by storms, trodden under
foot by happy children and browsed by
contented herds, rather than the finest
specimen of flora that any scientist has
in lys withered and dried collection. A
green leaf with sap in it is better for re
freshment than a forest of dead cedars.
Bless God, then, all you who retain
enough May time in your hearts to keep
you green late into the season. Blessed
be the young man or maiden, the elder
ly man or matron who. in this age of
precocity and progress, policy and nerve,
retains euough of the primal innocence
to blush and be abashed on suitable oc
casion, and are not so wise in their own
conceit but what they may sometimes
get the worst of a bargain. The presence
of such a person in this shrewd and prac
tical old world is as welcome tm the
sight of a buttercup in the alkali desert
April is never behind with her willows
and catkins, May never forgets her con
tract with the apple orchards, and June
Is never late with her roses. The robin
always arrives promptly, although he
comes in a snow storm, and the bluebird
tarries not in uncertainty, but flashes
his azure wing on time along the misty
hedgerows. If human friends were half
as constant to the tryst of love as birds
and blossoms are to their season this
world would never need be exchanged
for heaven. Amber in Chicago Tribune.
intemperate Tie ot Coaea and -sea.
Intoxication may ensue from drinking
either tea or coffee. There has existed
for several years in London a club of
newspaper reporters, which meets every
Saturday night for the purpose of in
dulging in tea drinking; its members not
infrequently become intoxicated. Cases
of delirium tremens from the use of tea
have been reported. The poisoning
qualities of tea aro most apparent when
it is eaten. When first introduced into
England, about the year 1665. it was
served in n bowl like spinach, as an arti
cle of food: and the effects of eating It
were such that for a long time after
ward, it was considered to be a deadly
drug, and its sale was regarded as dis
reputable. Those who chew dry tea leaves extract
from them the alkaloid, which is a very
powerful poison. It first produces a
pleasant exhilaration, but its subsequent
effects are deepfessness, delirium, an un
natural state of mind and abnormal de
sires. The habit seems to be most in
dulged in by servants, who, having the
at
help themselves from it pmen as n
tune. The smell alone of coffee, when it
is stored in great bulk as in the hold of
ships produces deadly nausea, dizziness
and faintness. When cargoes of coffee
thus stowed become shifted in a storm,
one of the most dreaded duties of the
sailor is to go down into the hold and re
store them to their places; the boys and
weak stomachs find it impossible to keep
at work above half an hour.
The habitual coffee drunkard has thin
features, a drawn and wrinkled face,
and grayish yellow complexion. His
sleep is troubled with anxious dreams.
His pulse is weak, frequent and com
pressible. It is asserted that coffee more
frequently injures people's eyes and ears
tlian does either tobacco or alcoboL It
does not produce absolute blindness or
deafness, but very annoying disturb
ances. That coffee Is the cause is seen
from the fact that when it is lefftxT the
trouble ceases. The symptoms of chronic
caffeistn, or coffee drunkenness, are loss
of appetite, insomnia, trembling of the
lips and tongue, dyspepsia, neuralgia,
pain in the stomach, giddiness, convul
sions and obstinate constipation. Boston
UerahL
Why Be Was Not There.
Sheridan Knowlesliad many acquaint
ances, and his memory did not always
serve him in recalling their names, but
as the following incident shows, he was
never at a loss in such circumstances:
It is said that Knowles was talking to
a friend in tho street when a gentleman
came up to him and exclaimed, in rather
an abrupt, and even angry manner:
"Why did you not keep your promise
to, dine with us last Thursday, Mr.
Knowles? It was a distinct engagement
made between you and me. You kept
the restof tho company waiting for near
ly an hour. It is really too"
"Me boy," said Knowles, "ye don't
know how vexed I am. No, I did not
forget ye. Ask Mrs. Knowles if ye don't
believo run. I was ill, me boy; but it's
thankful I am to say 1 am better now.
Give me another chance. Name your
own time. Any day next week."
"You really will? Well, say Thursday
again; and you will not fail us? Same
hour 6. Will that suit you?"
"Perfectly. Oh, you may depend upon
me, never fear! I'll be to the fore that
day."
With a hand shako to Knowles and a
bow to his friend, tho would be host
walked away. Knowles looked after
him, lost in thought, till ho disappeared.
"That man's face is familiar to me! Do
you know who he is?" 6aid the author to
his friend.
"No, I don't," said tho friend.
"Devil take me if I do, cither," said
Knowles. Frith's Reminiscences.
Traveling Electric Light.
A traveling electric light has been used
in Germany with much success. The
arrangement is a very simple one. A
dynamo, with an engine to drivo it, is
mounted on a wagon, something like
that of a 6teara fire engine, containing
boiler, fuel box and water tank, com
plete for a night's service. A supply of
wire and a number of poles correspond
ing to the number of arc lights required,
are added to the equipment, which is
then drawn by a pair of horses to any de
sired place. On arriving there, the poles
are set up where required and stayed
with wires fastened with stakes driven
into the, ground; tho lamps aro then
hung to them and properly connected,
and the engine is set in motion. The
lights immediately kindle, and from one
to fifty lamps can be operated, accord
ing to the power of the machine As
the lamps can be suspended anywhere,
and are not affected by wind or rain, tho
advantage of the apparatus to contrac
tors and others who have to carry on
night work 9 is apparent. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Sand Showers aad Drifts.
Dry, loose sand, wherever it occurs, U
constantly being shifted by the wind, and
often buries cultivated lands, buildings
and forests. On the shores of Lake
Michigan are drifts 100 feet deep, and
those of Cornwall reach 300 feet in depth,
while the drifts of the Gobi desert are
40 miles long and 000 feet high in places.
On tho shores cf the Bay of Biscay the
drifting sand travels inland 16 feet a
year, in parts of Denmark 24 feet, and
in southern India 17 yards. In some
places walls and barriers of vegetation
have been created to stop tho destroying
drifts. Fine sand is taken up to a great
height in the air, and deposited many
miles away. In 1883 Iceland was visited
by a remarkable sand storm, lasting two
weeks, which bid the sun and objects a
few yards off like a dense fog. and caused
the death of thousands of sheep and
hones. New York Telegram
She Dreamed It.
He (about to ask for a kiss) I have an
important question to ask you.
She (playfully) I know what it is,
Charley. You want me to be your wife:
I dreamed it. Well, take me.
He (rather taken aback) You dream
ed it?
She Yes, I dreamed it last niht. and
I answered you a3 Iain answering vo:i
now. and you took me hi your aruis and
kissed nu.
What cou!J Cliar!ey do? Chicago l
uer.
Force of Habit.
Congressman It affords me pleasure,
Mr. Scribb'eum. to present you this com
mission as postmaster. I have brought
it to you myself as a little surprise.
Editor Scribbleum CoL Greathead,
you have, indeed, taken me by surprise
and placed me under infinite obliga
What! is tho blamed document rolled?
Sir, I reject it! Chicago Tribune.
Tha Swaying of Chimneys.
Observations upon the swaying of tall
chimneys during high winds show tiiat
one 115 feet in height and four feet in
total diameter at the top waved twenty
inches during a heavy gale, and another
164 feet high, but with six and one-half
feet diameter of flue, moved through an
arc of only six and one-lialf inches.
A Washington territory farmer was
digging a post hole on the banks of
Smoke river, when he unearthed a skele
ton richly dressed in old fashioned cloth
ing. The coat was especially fine, and
was adorned with velvet collar and cuffs.
The place where the skeleton was found
had been used as a horse' coral for the
past fifteen years.
Mrs. Sheets, bom Handolph. mistress
of Gunston hall. Virginia, b the couein
of five presidents, among them President
Harnviii, whose inauguration she wit-
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