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VOLUME 3. BOZEMAN, MONTANA TERRITORY, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1874; NUMBER 3' THE AVANT COURIER, PnbllMlird Kvfrj Friilatjr, AT BOZEMAN, GALLATIN COUNTY, M. T. JOSEPH WRIGHT, J* it 1* 11 sit «* r m ii <1 Pro |> riotor. TKUMS i I NVA U I A 151. Y IX ADVANCE. •h» y cor....................................$5 Blm MMMIIItM................................. 3 Three m»n(h* .......................... 3 ADVKHTIS1NU HATESi s c ! • i I I «S 1 null | ! 3 j! — " i * * -*_! * 2 $ a y a : $10 « 20 $30 U <; lu 1.1 2.A 4«l 4 ii 12 "7 »» 47 8 n II |S ««A .AS «; I'l 12 IS .HI 4.A S.A 7 12 1* 2.i 40 K0 <»0 <i H 3'l 4»i GO /hi. 140 K, 2.V 4U .A3 7.1 120 210 I Tiaw 1 Time*. X Time*. I Month ; Month« 1 Month« K Month« 1 Year ______ l/i '■! notier« I.', rent« |<er line lor the first inser tion an.I lurent« for racii a<Miti»nal insert ion. Î 7" Tran«;, nt advertisements must lie |iai<t for »n <1, »nee an<! all <lub 1'riiitiiiff when tbw work I« Jeli verni . MIWKPAPER DEITMOSK. 1 Anv one who take« a paper regularly from the Pit-tolliêe —whether ilireeteil to hi« name or anntli , '.—„r whether he ha« «ubvrribeil or not—i, re ,|ion«lble for the payment. 1 If n person or<l«*rs lii« paper illseontiiiueil, lie tun, I pay all arrearages, or llie pnlili«lier may con tinue to'srml it until payment i, maile, ami collect the whole amount, wiicihcr the paper I« taken from I he mliee or no/. 3. The court« have rtcriileO that rcfuslnir to take the newnpaper« or perioilic il« from the Postoltlce, or removing ami leaving them nnealle,! lor, I« ynmafiuin eviilenee of intentional framt. RKl.l l.ATINO I.M.tl. IMIILICATIONS. ACT to amenil an Aet entitleil, "An Aet to pro*hie for and regulate the rate« of charges for ■■■-—* -- if legal documents,'' approved the publication of Janua-y nth, 1SÏ2. fir it tnarltd by the l.njitlolire Ant mb! y of the Ter ritory of Montan«: *t:i Tin« I. I'nlilisliers of newsoapers in this Tcr rilorv «hall he entitled to the following fee, for pnlilleatii n of all legal advertisements: For the iir.-t insertion of each folio of one hundred words. Hirer dollar»; for ea-h siihseipient insertion, two dvllurs. • •••••• >n\ 3. file printer of snrli legal advertisements ( ali. II lie entitleil to |»«ymeiit of hi > fall lees before being required to furnish a certilleale of the pnbl' [cation Approved, Iteeember 4«, !S7I. UIRM'TOUV OF FF.nF.KAI. OFFICE»« OF MONTANA. itrru k .V .l JIK. j MOPKSCR. Virginia City riate .lil«tiee» léivrrunr .......... liKVJ. F. IViTT*. rretarv.........■/, K. Callaway. flii'f .fii tiee..... I». S. M'adi: .....Helena. K. ii. grnv.s..... Virginia City IIiiiiu Ksowlks. Deer I.odge. Di«t. Att'y. M. C. 1*A«.R....... Itadersburg. lirveyor General. .lolls K. ItLAINK.. Helena glsfer of Land». Sol. stau ........ Helena. treeiver " 'V. C. tntLliaa... Helena, . S. Marshal____ W*. K. Wukki.kii Helena. •Hector Ini. lit» f. P. Frt.LKii .... Helena, dlector Custom* T. A. Cimminos . Helena. .. , . . Thomas ID:k< k.... Helena, v. l.iaiiiiniug j |u< Mi ««h. niton Bozeman. Surgeon«........j h. Mi Kr.r.......Mi*«ou a. S Connu i«'inner .Ions PoTTKit......Hamilton. s.Commi'siouer II. X. Maui imk. Bozeman. IMHLt'IOKV OF COt NT Y OFFICERS. Probate Judge.........:........... loird of Conntv Commissioners .11. X. Maci 1RS I*, t■ Dl KK. r. w . McApow ,. W. WAktrlKLD hcr,g .................................C. L. Clank rputv vherih..........................4- IL Fisril link and Recorder.................. A «fit Giiaiiam >«a«ltrer.............................. »• U ; UowK " upcrintendent 1'tiblic Instruction... I■. L. « toxic .................................. l ' ltKD fnroner..........................A. D. M» I mkhsO* /First District.......Oi.n W. Dickson [»«essors, ^ {M . I,{strict....... Uoubiit Kkli.kk Idas, nsid Places for llolUIng CMrls In the Territory or Nonlana. M'I HLMK COfllT. It Virginia Cite, flrat Monday in Ja uary and sec ond Mmol in August. IMrV.I» STATICS DISTRICT COURTS. # |inf Dint riet —At Virginia City. Ilrst Monday in April, and «ec« id Monday in September. Irani/ IHttri ' M Deer Lodge, second Monday in April, tirs, M .iday in .September,and Ilrst Mon day in December. lii'rl PUtrici —At Helena, (Irst Monday in March, flrst Monday in June, aud fourth Monday tu No vember. TicnniToniAL courts. tin/ Tfiitrlet —In Madison County, at Virgin* City, ir«t Monday iu April, second Monday iu Sep tember. In Gallatin Conutv. at Bozeman, M Monday iu Mardi ami fourth Monday in October. In Jefferson County, at Itadersburg, third Mon day in February, lirs Monday in Oe Ml er. con-/ Dint riel —Deer Lodge County, at Deer Lodge I iiv, seeoud Mondav in April, ilrst Monday in SeptemlHT, and Ilrst Monday iu December. Ln Missoula County, at Missoula, fourth Monday 1 in slime amt Kfcood Mondaj in November, la Beaver Head County, Baunsck, tlrst Monday in Jnue, and second Monday iu October. Ii rd Ihtlrirl —In Lewis and Clark County, at Ilel rua, Ilrst Monday in March, Ilrst Monday in June, aud lirai Monday in November. In Meagher County, fourth Monday in May and lliird Monday m October. A. K At A. M. Mated comncnicalions of Gallatin Lodge No. • " A F A A M. neld at their hall on the llralSatitr Ij evening on or before the lull moon of each pnith. siting b; : ren are rordiallv invited to attend. TUGS. U. FlDWAUDS, W. M. I* Mknkfkk. Sis!. hi:i.i:na & bozeman real RÉctios of Sales. bn and after February 15,1874, the rate* s Itisscngcrj over thU line will be reduced j Ute lolluwing f tar. dard : Fare from Helena I tjalf-wav House..................... Beaver Yrezk....................... 'I'riiuville ......................... I(a<ler«hurg......................... '•allai in « it j........................ ■•«Iliiltnit............................ IUi/krax ............................ Mit inn*........................... • S 00 . 3 00 4 00 II 00 » 00 II 00 . 1« 00 M 00 Far« from Bozeman ' "•Kerill '« Bridge.................. »... '"li.iiin t in.......................... Itadeivlin,., ft'WxGiie" j *1|- l ay House...................... iHttlUSA piAn Titii* FREIGHT. fe 1 ™ deleiifc to Itos-.-itI -• it per pound......t Cenl ■' GslL.liu « itv..............S " Itadersburg ...............2 " •spriugMl:.................1 K» " H. F. GALEN, Proprietor. . .91 no .. 4 00 .. 7 00 .. U 'JO . II 00 .. 12 <W .3*00 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ATTORNEYS. R. W. HILL, Attorney fit Law, GALLATIN CITY. M. T. pAGE & COLEMAN. ATTOHNKYH A T LAW. BOZEMAN AND RADEKSBURG, M. T f^AVill practica in all Court, of Montana. J. ,T. DAVIS, Attorney und Counselor at Law BOZEMAN, MONTANA. Will nrae.liee in all court, of Montana Territory. JOHN 1». BRUCE, ATTORNEY ATLAW, BOZEMAN, M. T. Office in Courier Building, Will practice in the Courts held in Gallatin and Jefferson counties. Also, attend to the collection of claim« against the Cuited States at Washington, being associated with one of the best Claim Agents in that City. JOHN POTTER, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HAMILTON, MONTANA. ii 537 Will practice in all the courts of Montana Territory. g AMU EL WORD, Attorney and Counselor at Law VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice In *11 courts of Montana Territorr. G. P. GEORGE, ATTORNEY AX LAW, RADEKSBURG. M. T. Q.EOKGK F. COWAN, Attorney at Law, Office, Lower story of the Court House Building, RADEKSBURG. M, T. U F. WILLIAMS, •Attorney and Counselor at Law VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of the Territory. YY, F. K IUKWOOD, Attorney at Law, V T I R G IN 1A CITY. MONTANA, Can lie found at Judge Spratt's office or Probate Court Room*. Will practice :u all the Courts of the Territory. T. R. UPWARDS, ». r. viviosr. J£D WARDS & V1VION, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, BOZEMAN. M. T. Will practice in all the CourU of the Territory. tJT Collections promptly attended to PHYSICIANS. I)R. G. W. MONROE, ^HYSICIAN AND ^UI\GEON, Office in Fridley's building oppoeite Courier office. Main Street, BOZEMAN, M. T„ Oilers his professional services to the people of Bozeman aud the Gallatin valley. I)R. II. CREP1N, Physician and Surgeon, office: I'p »fairs in IVrkin»' brick limbling, MAIN STREET, - BOZEMAN. M. T. rj-Timlcr* hi* professional aervieea to the pco|ile ortlie Gallatin Valley. Q MUSSIGBROD, 31. D., Physician and Surgeon, Office at the Metropolitaa Hotel, BOZEMA V, MONTANA. J)R. THOMAS REECE, Physician and Surgeon, Office, No. 42. St. Louia Hotel, HELENA.......................... HONT AHA. YY, 1L BULLARD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon« HELENA. M. T. Office in Library Dnilding. Residence aeeond door above the brick church, Broadway. TAON L. RYAM, KC LECTIO PHY8IC.1AN, At bis residence Middle Cieek. TO THOM IT HAT CONCERN! The party who borrowed, or took without leave, the Running Gear of a Sixty Hundred Shut tier Wagon will oblige bv returning it immediately. Anv parties who iiave borrowed and arc using, or uonneatesl with Colonel Black's O:: or Mule Train, or any other property of his, will return auch immediately have iu their possesion any property et ' . ..... Mule Train, Auy intorniaiion given to the undersigned that will lead to the recovery of any such borrowed, or appropriated-withont-leave, property will be glad 11 ». «.pans... Agent for Cel. I«. M. Stack. Bozeman, M.T., May I, 1*74. _ , Printing! Printing IN EVERY STYLE Or THE ART, Nearly KxOouted at thl* Ofllo. SETTLE IIP! MI tjprsons knowing themaelve* Indebted to the umU isigoed «re requested to eon* forward immediately and aetde uw costs. **• ANNI8. FITZROBINSON S CHICKEN TIE If there is anything ill the world that Mr. Fitzrobinsou, of Columbia street, loves more than another, that thing is chieken-pie. They always have it of a Thursday for dimier. A protracted meeting has been going on in our new church ever since the dedi cation. Mrs. Fitzrobinson said she wanted to have a few of the visiting brethren dine with the family some day, and so it was arranged that they should come on Thursday. Six of them were invited, and Mrs. Fitzrobinson said she and lier mother would take oyster pie, and she knew well enough one of the, brethren would take, the same, so that the chicken-pie would go around nicely aud le«ave a piece lor Peleg. Mr. Fitzrobinson felt a little dubious ou the score, but he said noth ing, trusting to a desperate chance. Thursday came, and with it the six shepherds. The memory of dedication night still rankled in Fitzrobiusou's bosom, and lie telt unkind toward any thing animate or inanimate connected with the church. Well, the chicken pie came on, smoking and savory, awakening pleasant anticipations in Fitzrobinson's digestion. With it came an oyster pie. After grace, Fitzrobin son proceeded to carve the chicken-pie, cutting it in six pieces, as directed by Mrs. F. He had a grim presentiment, that each particular piece was whis pering maliciously, "I'm not for you," and the strange conceit made him thoroughly' uncomfortable. He helped the ladies to oyster-pie, remarking its delicious flavor, and throwing m a neat compliment to Mrs. F's skill in this branch of the culinary art, and then proceeded to serve the chicken-pie. Being interrogated on the point, the Rev. Mr. »Solemnfaee signified his pre ference for cliicken-pie. A look of set tled sorrow crept over Fitzrobinson's massive features as he parted with the first piece. '•I don't know whether it's a fancy of mine or what, but it seems as tlio' the oysters 'this season were better than ever before. Haven't you ob served it, my dear !" to Mrs. F. Mrs. Fitzrobinson admitted that she had. "Mr. Mock, may I help you to some ot the oyster-pie f" lie asked, with the most winning grace. "Thank yon," rejoined that gentle man, blandly, "I'll try a bit of the chickcn-pic, if you please." "I knew it," thought Fitzrobinson, losing faith momentarily. "Just see if every one of'em don't take cliicken pie. I hope Old Testament will get a thigh-bone crosswise in his windpipe— 1 do, so help me-" as in "My dear," says Mrs. F., sweetly, "you're si>illiug the gravy ou the cloth." This didn't help Fitzrebinson's mood iu the least. "She's chaffin' me," he thought; " confound the luck!" "Mr. Sleek, I take it you'll try some of the oyster-piet" to that gentleman, in anything bnt a gentlemanly tone. "A little of the chicken-pie, by your leave," Mas the soft rejoinder. Fitzrobinson glared at him, as every savory sjtoonful wrung his heart to the very core. He felt like pouring the contents of the gravy-dish over his shining crest. He gave him the back aud turned to the next guest. "Oyster-pie, sir!" softly carving a nice, large piece, and remarking that Washington beats the M orld for cherry stones. " I think I'll try a small piece, a very small piece, of chicken-pie," answered the Rev. Mr. Oilyjolin, m ith a captiva ting smile. " I beg pour pardon, did you say oyster ! " almost rudely. Mrs. BroM'nsniith, Fitzrobinson's mother by marriage, whispered in the reverend gentleman's ear that Fitzrob inson was a little deaf. " Ah ! " he ejaculated, how unfortu nate!" And at the top ot his voice, to Fftzrobiuson, " I said chicken!" " I wonder M'ho that can be making such a racket," observed Fitzrobinson, sarcastically, to his wife, pretending to listen, and thinking fiercely all the M'hile; "I reckon that blamed old chicken-slayer thinks I am deaf and dumb. I wish I was, and blind, too." Fitzrobinsou thought it in his deutéra tion. While Fitzrobinson was helping the Rev. Mr. Oilyjolin, that gentleman in quired, in a low tone, of Mrs. BroM'n smith, " Has lie given his heart to Je sus!" referring to Fitzrobinson. Mrs. Brownsmith M'as forced to ad mit she feared he hadu't, as she recall ed the cycle of nights she had, sliiver ingly, admitted him at two, aud even four »'clock in the inoruiug. [N. B.— Fitzrobinson is a jolly old dog, and be longs to a chapter that meets five or six nights iu the week.]. Fitzrobinson surveyed the situation and mentally calculated his chance. "Only two pieces left," he ruminated mournfully. Then lie looked, ruefully, at the two remaining guests. " if they ain't got chicken-pie unmistakably written all over their features, I'm no judge of human nature," was his mut tered conclusion. The Rev. Mr. Ives was the next guest. Fitzrobinsou felt he would willingly part with the hist piece of chicken-pie it he could only slip a button or something into it, to avenge the wrongs he had guttered at his hands on dedication night. Fitz robinson w'as too mad to trust himself to say much, so he merely pointed to as the >f the to of ten and six ing own at to to son, his to who fell the of a a as fell and for ter." with help • from with two ing the oyster-pie, saying, iu a withering manner: "Oyster!" "liord bless your ;onl ! No, broth er; chicken, by all means, replied the Rev. Mr. Ives, fevently. "Sister Fit/robin son's chieken-pie is too famous to-" " Peleg, dearest, brother Ives said he would take cliicken-pie," interrupt ed Mrs. F., seeing Fitzrobinson was about to load the reverend gentleman's plate with oyster-pie. Fita»Gbi*»sou paid not the slightest attention to her, pretending not to hear. He was play ing a desperate game. The Rev. Mr. Oityjohn, taking in the situation, came to the trout. As he was sitting near Fitzrobinson, he shouted out on a high ke.v, at the host: "Brother Ives said cliicken-pie!" Oh, the look that Fitzrobinson gave the man! I'm sure it would have with ered a bionze statue of the indomita ble Jackson. He M as driven to the wall, however, and doggedly' parted with the last piece but one. Now for the last chance. It was evident that the «leaf dodge M as a failnrr. What should he try for a forlorn hoi»e ! Alas Mliat! No one can never know the vicious resolves he made in his heart as he contemplated that last piece of cliicken-pie. It is not enough that they should peon him to the church for life, but nmv they must needs take the last loaf in the house, so to speak, in the name of the Lord. He'd see M'ho was master in that house. He imvardly sM'ore he would stand it no longer, lie M as thoroughly roused. He fairly hissed at the I»ev. Mr. Ferguson, who was reciting to Mrs. Brownsmith thrilling tale of his experience, m hicli began : "i remember, some twenty years ago," cfe. If I don't think you'll take chieken pie, too, I hope I may be d "Peleg," warned Mrs. F. " Mr. Fitzrobinson?" groaned Mrs. Brownsmith iu the same breath. " Yes I tlo, and I don't care who knoM's it—no, I don't." Fitzrobinson stood in a threatening attitude, with uplifted carving knife, as though about to brain the Rev. Mr. Ferguson. "Say it," he thundered at the gentleman, as though the saying >f it was to he the signal for the fray. Consternation sat upon the MethodiT-t brow. »Silence reigned for a time. The spirit of cliicken-pie was striving with the Rev. Mr. Ferguson. At last it goined the mastery. He cried in a loud voice, "Amen!" Fitzrobinson understood this to be a confirmation of his suspicion that the reverend gentleman would take chick en-pie, and he understood aright. Up to this time, Fitzrobinson had been bravo, but now he broke down com pletely. He spooned out the last piece of his favorite viand, and withdrew in silence. lie went out and borrowed ten dollars from Beiden across the way, and hurried down Ninth street. About' six o'clock in the evening he might have been seen confidentially impart ing his plans for the conquest of his own household to a tobacco sign on Seventh Street. Later, he apiteared at the church, where he had been the object of many earnest prayers that night. Imagine, then, the joy of the congregation when he made his way to the altar, weeping like a child. "Our prayers have been answered!" shouted Dr. Ives, ardently, "Oh, brother, how lovingly we welcome thee to our midst ! " sobbed brother Fergu son, tearfully. Brother Little nibbed his hands, and seemed too full for ut terance. Brother Langley advanced to embrace the contrite Fitzrobinson, who received him with open arras, and fell ujion his breast—no, " pitched " is the better word. It had required all of Fitzrobinson's strength to maintain a perpendicular, but now that he found a support, he gave way altogether. Fitzrobinson is no Jight weight, and ■brother Langley had his hands full to manage him. His legs were as limpy as a twenty-five cent doll's. His head fell over brother Langley's shoulder, and reached half way down his back, for Fitzrobiuson is tall and brother Langley isn't. "C'hiekcii-pie, hie! every one of 'em," Fitzrobinson muttered, "'s what's mat ter." Brother Martin came to brother Langley's relief, and Fitzrobinson wound then both in his fond embrace. " I like to see these rousing convic tions," said Dr. Ives. "He's wrestling with the spirit; help him brethflB; help him!" • Some sister struck up u Rock of Ages." This aroused Fitzrobinson a little, and he chimed in with stray linMÉB bits of the chorus of " My SwnWhmilla May." With a gigantic effort brother Langslcy freed himself from Fitzrobinson's embrace and whis pered something in Dr. Ives' ear« Then with the help of brother Gatchell and two stout trustees, they walked him slowly down the aisle and out into the vestibule, where a trusty policeman received him. Fitzrobinson went out humming, "In a— hie !— bed of roscj. Sweet as —hie !— as breath of poses—l»ic !" And, as ho fell upon the policeman's neck, "Hie !— as breath of po—ot p— ot—hie !" Until his voice died away on the crisp night aii-, »ml he woke up next morn ing iu the station-house. or of During the Igst six months 0,000 letters were held for postage. of a as the or the the and find but A and title eled ed, of feet man are iu then the his ly, lie as into into for but life. snid, they gree HEART DISEASE. A F AS II I ON AHLE COMPLAINT AMONG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. In the course of a lecture recently delivered in New York, Dr. I yraan said: "Heart disease, among both ladies and gentlemen, is the one most in vogue at present. A synonym for pseudo heart disease is indigestion. False modes of dress, by crowding the heart, causing it to beat irregularly. Remedy the dress and the heart will healthfully perform its functions. The heart is almost the last organ to be come diseased, because it has a great work to do. Nature made it strong and supplied it with as few nerves as possible. Women who faint, as a rule, have too small cavities for heart and lungs. Fainting is a provision of na ture for the reinstatement of the body, by allowing the heart a brief respite. When the stomach is unduly distended by food, the heart is crowded and com plains. Good straight shoulders are highly essential to woman. If she possesses an erect form, a woman's heart has a better opportunity to beat evenly and healthfully. "Many mistake a palpitating sensa tion of the muscular wall of that por tion of the stomach nearest tlio heart for an affection of the heart. Adipose or fatty accumulation around the heart will often render its beating labored or heavy. The heart is not, however, diseased; it is only working under dif ficulties. Prostration also affects the heating of the heart, causing it to pul sate more rapidly. Strength will re move this difficulty. It is a theory with some physicians that in a natural life the heart beats only a given num ber of times. If this be so, running up and down stairs, ftitensc excite ment, hurry, by increasing the number of heart-beats iu a minute, diminish the length of one's life. It is a well known fact that a race horse is not long-lived, because having such a de mand made upon the action of it.-» heart, the heart-muscles wear out sooner than they otherwise would." is an a Vespers.— To the traveler in Span ish America, the striking of the vesper bells exercises a potent charm. As the usiige requires every one to halt, no matter where he may he, at the iii^st stroke of the bell, to interrupt his con versation, however important, aud listen without stirring until tlie con clusion of the chime, the singularity of a whole population, surprised in a inomeut as it comes and goes, held in a state of petrification, and paralyzed as if by an encounter, may be imag ined. On every side you see gestures interrupted, motttlis half opeued for the arrested remark, smiles lingering or passing into an expression of prayer. You would fancy them a nation ot statues. A town in South America, at the tinkle of the Angelus, resembles the city in "Arabian Nights," whose inhabitants were turned into stones. The magician here is the bell-ringer. But hardly has the vibration ceased when a universal murmur arises from these thousands of oppressed lungs. Hand meets hand question seeks an swer, conversations resume their course; horses feel the loosened bridle and paw the ground ; dogs bark, ba bies cry, the fathers sing, the mothers chatter. The accidental turns thus given to conversation are many. it his ed on but the A ReligkAts Story.— We did not find the following story in an exchange, but any religious paper that likes to copy it, can credit it to "an exchange." A San Francisco clergyman was re cently walking after nightfall down a dark street. The clergyman walked along pondering on his next sermon and trying to get a good sensational title for it, when suddenly he was con fronted by a desperate man who lev eled a revolver at his head an exclaim ed, "Hand over your money." The clergyman, who thought a good deal of himself, and of his power over his audience, drew himself np to his full height, which was not much, only five feet six inches, and said: "Wretched man ! kneel and thank God that you are prevented from committing the crime which your guilty mind has planned. Kneel, I say, kneel." The idiotic footpad, Mho was quite green iu the business, actually did kneel, and then the man of God kicked him in the stomach and ran away, leaving his victim writhing in agony on the sidewalk. We scorn to point out the moral to this story. "That woman," says Professor Toll mans, in The Popular Science Month ly, «'lias a sphere marked out by her organization, however tho notion may lie scouted by the reformers, is as trite as that the bird anti, the fish have spheres which are determined by their organic natures. Birds often pluugc into the watery deep, and fishes rise into the air, but one is nevertheless formed for swimming ami the other for flight. So womeu may make tran sient «liversions from the sphere of ac tivity for which they are constituted, but they are nevertheless formed and designed for maternity, the care of A "on boy, that seat he aud and lite; had rest and ing hair ed; that do, can ten can city tea with a ner "will of life the cial been children, an I the affairs of domestic ! life. They are the mothers of human- ! kilW, the natural educators of child hood, the guardians of the household, snid, by thodeepcst ordinance of things they are this, iu a sen«e and to a de gree that man is not." that sold A REMARKABLE CLOCK. The Apostolic Excelsior clock, in vented by a Pennsylvania miner, who j spent three years and three months of j labor and study to complete this me- ! chanical wonder, his principal tools | consistiug of two common pocket knives, will be on exhibition in the ' Academy of Music building for two I weeks. This remarkable piece of mechanism ir. five feet high and throe ! feet wide, and is supported by a stand four feet high, through which pass the weights. On the right side of the dial-plate is the figure of Moses hold ing the stono tablets, and on the left a figure of Elias. The dial-; »lates pre sent four indicators, one showing the hours, another the mitâtes, the third the day of the week, and «a fourth the day of the month. The clock strikes the quarter hours on two small bells, and tlio hours on a small one. Over the top indicator is a small disk, in dicating the age of the moon, ami on either side the statues of Archangel Micliacl aml'old Father Time. All this is surrounded with Gothic windows and finely carved pillars, and on each side stauds an Egyptian obelisk.— Above the dint is an inscription, "The Apostolic Excelsior Clock." Jn the middle of tie upper section stands the figure of Christ holding a flag in his hand and above it in a half cirele, is an appropriate inscription in German; a miniature gallery surrounds the whole upper part. Shortly after 12 clock, at noon, a door at the left of the statue of Christ opens, and twelve Apostles move out and pass about the statue while the hells toll a eliiiue.— Peter is at the head carrying a key, and all others have an emblem indi cating who they are. When each one c arrives opposite the figure of Christ, it turns its face toward Him for a sec ond and then passes, except Judas, who passes straight along. After Peter lias passed the bells cease to toll, and a cock crows loud and flaps his wings. The door then opens on the opposite sido and tin* Apostles pass in, when the cock crows again.— This march can he produced at any time at the will of the operator. The upper part ot the clock is elaborately and tastefully carved and is surmount ed by a globe, over which Is a cross ; on one side ot the upper part is the aforesaid cock, and on the other is an eagle. The whole appears to be round, but it has sixteen corners at regular intervals, being a very similar work to the great Strasburg clock, which was built sometime during the fourteenth century, the like of which has never beeiP reproduced since.— WiUiamxport Gazette. Letters of Recommendation.— A gentleman advertised for a boy to assist him in his office, anti nearly fifty applicants presented themselves to him. Out of the whole number he se lected one and dismissed the rest. " I should like to know,"said a friend, "on what ground you selected that boy, who had uot a single recommen dation." " You are mistaken," ssiid the gentle man; "lie had a great many, lie wipetl his feet when he came in, anti closed the door after him, showing that he was careful ; lie gave up his seat instantly to that iaine old man, showing he was kind and thoughtful ; he took off his cap when lie came in, aud answered my questions promptly and respectfully, showing he was po lite; lie picked up the book which 1 had purposely laid upon the floor, and placed it on the table, while all the rest stepi>ed over it or shoved it aside; and he waited quietly for his turn, in stead of pushing ami crowding, show ing that he was orderly. When I talked with him, I noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice order ami his teeth brush ed; and when ho wrote his name, 1 noticed that his fingernails were clean, instead of being tipped with jet, like that handsome little fellow's iu the bine-jacket. Don't you call those things letters or recommendation ! 1 do, and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than all the fine letters he can bring me." lit of Wasn't That kind of a Fellow.— During a social-evil revival iu the city of Glasgow, Scotland, it was the custom of clergymen to go about the streets at night and invite any i»oor unfortunate who might be wandering amid the lonely echoes to a midnight tea party, where prayers was mingled with hospitality. On one occasion a respectable and portly ohl divine found a young woman standing at the cor ner of a street in rather an undecided attitude. "Young woman," said he, "will you come with me to the house of prayer! I would save you from a life ot misery here and damnation here after." "O, if you please, sir," replied the unprotected female, "I ain't a so cial evil; I'm only waiting for the bus." Bismarck has assured the Alsatian malcoutents that "when they have been with Germany for two hundred years, the results of their comparisons would be iu Germany's favor." It is doubt ftil whether much comfort from this assurance. f-c we to of not a his to his on its ply in m ple and the Alsatians derive fact ly ted Artemi s Ward once observed that he approved of temperance hotels, although he thought as a rule they sold Averse liquor than other kiuds. THE LOUISIANA OVERFLOW The great flood of lower Mississippi j Valley is now on the subside; but im j inense devastation is left in the cours a ! of the overflow. The extent of the | damage which resulted from this nn precedented overflow is beginning ft» ' be understood. All along the river I where the great flood of 1S71 damaged rthe levies, crevcses have becu broken ! and at some places the country was inundated for forty miles in width Many thousands of i»eople have l»eeii driven from tlieir homes to witness the destruction of their proj»erty, leav ing them in a destitute mid starving c uidition. Congress has made liberal appropriation in aid of the destitute ami almost all the northern cities have res]iouded to ai. appeal, aud given lib erally to the suffering poor. It would be difficult to give anything like a de tailed account of the great damage which has resulted from the ravages of the ffOotl. That it was vast, was readily conceived, but that it should involve five millions of acres, and a population of L7S,(HK) was apparently beyond reasonable calculations; but such is really the ease. Poor Louisi ana seems to be coming in for a suc cession of ills. Worn l»y war, plun dered by oppressors, overloaded by debt; desolated by the very river whence are lier life and fertility, slut presents but. a pitiable appearance as compared with what she was in the days of her prosperity. Among the many calamities, curses and catastro pliics, that have visited her since the commencement of the era of recon struction, the last disaster is not the least. This almost caps the climax of her ruin. It is the great flood, which flowing down a hundred swollen rivers, spreading desolation along their banks, has descended into the Mississippi, whose vast volume thus augmented makes onr mighty track of devastation aud ruin as it sweeps from the mouth of the Red River to the Gulf of Mexi co. The broken levees and crevesses made by the flood of 1S71 should have been rebuilt and repaired; but al though the inhabitants were taxed for that purpose, the levee commissioners neglected their duties and the flood of 1874 came with nothing to resist it, deluging Uiotnan ls or square miles of land, devastating crops whereon mil lit »ns of money had already been in vested, drowning not only the beasts of the forest and field, but many hu man inhabitants of the desolated re gion. Thus came the great flood, making apparently an inland sea of the most fruitful portion of the South, riding on its billows such spectral ships as bankruptcy, famine and death. We are glad that the worst is over, and hope the people of more favored sections of our country Avili contribute lil»orally to the relief of our unfortu nate fellow-citizens of the southwest. —Yankton Herald. Self. —You all know how near anti dear a thing one's self is. The mo ment we step away from our own con f-c ousuesH we lose our mental grasp upon the phenomenon of right or wrong. We can look upon suffering mau sick or wounded with hut com parative peace, because our knowledge will not travel away from onr own consciousness. We may say, "l'tsir man, poor child, we pity thee," but we are so cut off from his pain that au intiuite gulf lies between our feelings ami the sufferer's agony. But let that pain, that sickness, that tiding come to self, and l»ow quickly tho heart measures all the depths ot tho new sorrow ! Oh, what a teacher is one's breast ! It is now reported that one of the victims of the Unban massacre offered $1,000,900 if the savages would spare him his life. The death of oth ers, the common calamities of life had not filled with tremor that heart nat urally brave; the grief of death at large had been, as it were, spoken iu a foreign language not to l»o under stood by him, but now the grim mon ster was coming up against self, it was hiv heart that was to be pierced with balls, not yours, nor mine, hut his own, bound to earth, to friends, to country, to home and its loved ones; his was to pour out its blood aud Rink into the awful mystery of the grave. This was the vivid measurement of things tliat made the hero try to buy sunshine and home and sweet life with gold. When it comes to any adequate measurement of life's ills or joys, the ouly line which man can lay down up on the unknown is the consciousness within, the verdict of the inner self.— ProfcMor Swing. The Ijondon Saturday Redete heads its article on the liquor-crusade as "Intimidation l»y Prayer," and says : "What chiefly deserves to be noticed about this agitation is, that it is sim ply a form of mob intimidation which, in liny country where personal rights m ere resjiectcd and reasonable freedom maintained, M*ould be surpressed at once l»y the authorities. If tho peo ple M'ho are now praying down th© rum-shops and whiskey-bars really Itcleived in the efficacy of prayer pure and simple, they would be content to prav comfortable at home, instead of ' The ----- going out into the streets. The mere fact that the prayers have to be deliv ered in the presence of the saloon keeperor in front of his door sufficient ly proves that the prayers are direc ted not to Heaven, but at the persons who ire to be coerced."