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i A *rf 1 i S VOLUME VI. NO 23. fiSlecklt) gicuiciu. TBLISKED BVERY WEDNESDAY BY JOS. BOBLETER. Office ovci City Drug Store. TKHMS: One Dollar and a half per year in edvance. CON off \a V'*rtlalnr FIMNISHEDUPON APPLICATION. Advertisements in double colaran, doable the tingle column rates. Buxines* Cunts offive lines, one year |5.00, each (idi) lonal line 75 cts. Ml transient advertisements to be paid for in advance Vlvertise-nents Inserted in the local notice col. inns, ten eta a Hue for the lira' tbxertion nnd 5 entx a line Tor each subsequent insertion bat no notice inserted for le than 50 cts A taouncementa or marriage* and deaths Inaert. free but obituary notice", except in special eaaea, will be charged at advertising rates. Caga notice* will be charged 75 cts per folio for the SMI Inaction, and 21 cts per folio for each nbs'qnent in-ertlon. All legal notices must be upoi the responsibility of the attorney oiderlng them published, nnd no nflldavit of publication will be given until the publication fees are paid. In connection with the paper, we have splen did assortment of jobbing material, and we are prepared to execute all kinds of printing in a.style ansurpassf 4 and at moderate rates J. R, FOSTER, E N I S NEW ULM, MINN. A full set of teeth for ten dollars. Gas administered by Dr. Berry, and teeth extracted without pain. Office Store over Kiesling A Keller's A MAKUBft, RESIDENT Office, W ULM. DENTIST, and Fi 8U corner Minu r|R. C. BERRT, MINN EM) PHYSICIAN & BURGEON Orru AT ag Orrt u*w ^r*nv 'EVt ULM. MlNNLMf DR. B.CARL, Physician and Surgeon. NEW ULM, MINN. Office and residence on German St. DR. J. W. WKLIJCOME, PHYSIC!.I* -IBGm Sleepy ye, Minn. Witt. WAKEFIELD, PHYSICIAN ami ^URGEON Will answer cilia in cty or country all hours of the d.ty A id night. OmcE with Di. C. Berry, over Kieshns, Klle & Co's Store. J.J. RAY, Notary Public, Conveyancer, and agent foi St. Paul F1RK& MARINE 1NSUUVNCE0O ^onntjhVld. lirownCo.. Mum. B-F. WEBBER, Attorney and Counselor AT I \W. MDtieytD Lioa.n Utri*e over Citizen's N.it'l Hank. NEW ULM MINN JOS A. ECKSTEIN, Attorney and Counselor -A. Law Titles examined and perfected. Particular attention given to collec- pjJTOrfifH over Brown Co. ink NEW ULM. MIN^. K eps on hand .i larg nnd well assorted ^t- ek of millinery, fancy goods aud zephyr wo d, opposite the Unioi- Hotel, bvtween -ecord *md rd North streets NEW ULM MINN. JOrH LIND I, RANDALL A HAGBERG Lind & Randall, ATT1A.1EY3 AT lA W COLL ECTORS- PRCriCE IN ALL THE COURTS NBWULU, W/AJV. DAKOTA HOUSE OPP. POST OFTICE NEW TLM, SU NN ADOLPH SE1TER, Prop'r. his rouse is the most centrally lo cated house in the citj and fords good simple R oris. CUT Anrt send it with nintteen green xt.impa. ind we will "end one ninple rat of Mx new Btylc MYRTLE triple nilver-plated tea pii Contain no I I hrnw, warrtntel crenmne. equal in ap. pear nice to $3 tpoone. Gunanteed A1IT" P^*e, or monev refnnd'd Only IIIJ* I one setatoeutdto MCHMTS' HOTEL CHAS. BRUST, PROP R. Cor. HiDD. I First South Streets, Hew Ulm, Minn. Pvenient R8T-CLASS accommodation*. Location con to basinets and depot Sample roo.nn bent in the city. MIL LIN ERY AND DRESS MAKING STrs. Anicr Oding, NEXT DOOR TO SOMMEK'S STORE, NEW ULM Ha* on hand a goed stock of MUlneryUoedacon tiag in pvrt of Hats, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks mkBi Fe ttier Fimsr. Hair, Flower". *c lso t*ern^ for Mainptng ono|munx. Stemy trg of oil kind. smbroWery Workand Fashion Mi k^'ft-n turgrton#t urMr BROWN CK BANK. C. H. CHADBOURN President. hides,etc mtrodnce. wanted goo pay lrcularfAgents fr AddrfBf* the manufacturer*, SHA WMUT SILVER PLATKCO. 33 Bromfleld St Boston. Mans. June 193 ROSS, Cashnr. Cor. Minn, and Centre Stis. NEW ULM, MINN Collection! and all business pertaining to banking promptly attended to. Individual Responsibly $500,000 Frank Burg, Manufacturer of and Dealer in CIGARS TOBAfCOS, & PIPES Minnesota street, next door to C. Sommer'b Store. NEW ULM MTNN CENTRE STREET Sample Room AND Billiard t*%tl hM liASKVlENT oi? 3Cieslingrs' siocis. The best of Wines, Liqours and Cigars constantly kept on hand. Lonis Pelkfl. Proper, Meat Market. CMS. STDEBt, Prop'r. A large supply of fresh meats, sau sage, hams, lard, etc., constantly oi. hand. All orders from the country promptly attended to. CASH PAID FOR HIDES ^tinn. Str Ne Ulm Minn EPPJLiE, Dealer in Live Stock, Hides, Lard, Wool. Cattle bought and sold in 1 rg or Small numbers. Contracts solicit d* Meat Market, ZIEHER&BREY, ProprS. MINNESOTA ST. NEW ULM, MINN THEe undersigned would respectfully inform th paMic that thty have established meat market one door iiorlh of the Union Honc Wo will gparr no pain* or mc.ms to keep onr market fiipplifil with only the btst Ireol. rtt ts, san-upc and ev rythingitae usually found in i flret class imeat market, and our price* will alwa} iomp in nvorably with thone of our competitor II so de mrrd, article* parchawd of as 111 be M?nt to the durrhase 'shouiewithoutextra charge. Th high et mark i price will alwave he panlfor faf cattle ANTON ZIEHEH ANTON PKY C. F. HEL^, Undertaker ind f)e.tlM in All KINDS O FURNITURE PiopriKorand Manufactm+i of THK FVRMKRSFItlKM) Fanning Miill The best raunin^ null in -.h^ tn nk^t. *torf ind Factory on Oentre Street n^ar the Ctty Mill NEW UI,M vil\\ NE W MACHIN E SHOP. 'Vntre Street, Oppositt Mueliei & Scherer's Lumher Yard \TEW ULM, 1//.VA Yt\eo. Kobar *t\\, PropY i am now prepareo to execnti di o.'erh with dispatch. Uepaiiinji ot Th 'shers and Reapers a spn( ialt My nachinery is all new and of the most improved pattern Ml wolk war ranted as tepresented. All th'sr ir want of anything in my line are cordi ally invited to give me a call. TlIEC KOBAItSCIl MAHBLK YVOKKK 1^ S^liwendiii^ei 1 DEAI.KB LV ^loitiinunfs. Tombstones, Mantels. Foreign and American Marbl.e State Street I etween fouit' and fifth streets. Nev TJIm Minn WEBBING, DEALER IV tt a 3 i* A at. DPY Goods,notions,Boots & ouooft WKUl Bill Ho, Medicines & Farming Implements. Golden Gate. Minn, H. Budolphi, MANl-FACTT. BEB OF& DEALER IN Boots and Shoes! Minn, 3d N. str?.. New Ulm, Minn. A. large assortment of men's and boys* boots and shoes, and ladies' and childrena' shoes constantly kept on hand Custom work -ind repairing !r mj.tly attended to "Nigger Mighty Happy." PLANTATION SONG. Hog start a-runnln' when de overseer callln': Wblpperwlll holler when de Jew-drops fallin' Duck keep a-quackm' when de hard rain po'ln' Crows flock togedder when de young corn growin' Pig- grwine to squeal when de milk-maid churn in' Nigger mighty happy when de blackberries turnin'I Squ'el go to jumpin' when de scaly-barks com in' Bee-martin sail when de honey-bee hummin Lean horse nicker when de punkin-vine spread in' Babbit back his eai when de cabbage-stalk headin', Rooster fetart a-crowin' when de broad day breakin' Nigger mighty happy when de hoe-cake bakln Biff fiSh flutter when he doneeotch de cricket Bullfrog libely when lie empin' in de thicket Mule git Pl'cker whtu de piantin'-time over Colt mi htj ga'ly when jou turn him in de clover An' it come might} handy to de nigger man nater When he soppin* in de gravy wid a big yam 'tuterf Black snake waitin' while de old hen hatchin' Sparrei-hawk lookin' while de little chicken scratchm Big owl Jolly when dehtt'e Mrd singin' 'Possum gwme to clam wliarde ripe'Simmons swii gin' Nigger mighty happyef he aint wuf a dol lar, When he tartin* out co'tin, wid a tall stan in collar! J. A. Macon, in The Century Bric-a-Brae. A MODEB N CINDERELLA. Tot that she was so scandalously ill usea as the poor little heroine of the fairy tale that has delighted so many generations in their childhood, but the circumstances were not dissimilar, as you will see. Violet Effingham had lived a very happy, unfettered life with her widowed father, the working partner of a pros perous firm in Birchin Lane, till she was twelve years old, when Mr. Effingham took to himself a second wife, partly with the idea that it would be better for his motherless girl to have someone who could better supply her lost pa rent's place than he, with his time so busily employed, could do partlyit is to be fearedthat he was fascinated by the full-blown charms of the widow whom he selected for that purpose, and whose earliest exercise of her delegate authority was to find out an eligible es tablishment for young ladies at Wimble don, to which, despite her tears, Violet was forthwith sent. She had been there a little over four years, tolerably contented with her life, after all, and always returning cheer fully enough after her holidays but on one such occasion she discovered that her stepmother, had issued invitations for a fancy dress ball, and actually wanted to pack her off to school again three days before the time on that ac count. It need hardly be said that to be pres ent at the ball was Violet's most ardent wish, and had her father been at home there is no doubt that a small amount of coaxing on her part would have assured the consummation of her desire but unfortunately Mr. Effingham was ab sent on business in the South of France, and, plead as she would, her stepmoth er was inexorable. Not indeed that that lady was so re morseless a tv rant as the grim baroness of the fairy tale, but like her she was the mother of two grown up daughters, so much grown up indeed, that they felt it was high time they had homes of their own, and like the wicked step-sisters of Cinderella thought it would be quite as well to keep poor Violet in the back ground as long as possible, at any rate until they were settled. Nine illce lacrymce that followed from Violet's pretty blue eyes as she in vain protested against her stepmother's de cree. "I am turned sixteen!" she cried, "and I was put into long dresses last month, nnd I am sure that papa would let me. if he were here, aud I will!" She frtooil in ti middle of the floor, with her Huih golden hair falling over over her eyes, lei cheeks "lowing a mild pmk, and her whole pcr-onnelle indic ative of resolve and dctci ruination in the extreuu'-it ree. s. E'finorhnm looked at her in des pair. The two Misses Smythson, Julia and Ara ella sat as stiff and prim as two carved marble images. "Violet's temper" was proverbial in the family, ami these very proper and precisely be ha\ ed young women were wont to af fect the greatest dismay at its vehement gusts. "Violet," said Mrs. Effingham, sol emnly, "in your dear papa's absence it is my duty to enforce his precepts, and carry out his discipline. You are a great deal too oung to be introduced into society yet. You are to go back to boarding-school to-morrow." "But!7 had chosesn '1 it?" said he. Violet furtively whisked away her tears, and answered "Yes." "Is anything the matter?" said Mr. Carrington. "Can I be of service? Pray command me, if" "If you could please take me home!'* said eager Violet "Very slyly, indeed, mind!because I've been sent back to boarding-school before the holidays are out, just because Julia, and Bella, and mamma consider me too young to be at the ball they are going to give." "This is a serious trouble indeed!" said Mr. Carrington, laughing. "Oh, it is. indeed!" sighed Violet. "I am sixteen, you know, and I should so like to be a young lady like Julia and Bella! But, you see," returning to the subject, "Miss Gardiner is not here to receive me, and if you would please take me back in your carriage, I could creep in by the area-gate, and perhaps perhaps I shall be at the ball after all But," her large, dark eyes sud denly blazing into indignation, "you are laughing at me!" "Not laughing at you, Miss Effing- ham," he hastened to explain, "only with you!" "Miss Effingham!" Violet's heart leaped at this first de licious tribute to her young ladyhood. She felt a little frightened, though when Mr. Carrington, having escorted her back to London by the first train, brought her in a Hansom to Lowndes Square. "Leave me at the corner please," said Violet. "It would never do for mam ma and the girls to see me in a cab with you. And Bella would lie so vex- ed." And so the wild little gipsy stole in at the area gate, and bribed the cook with a kiss not to betray her surreptitious re-entrance into the family circle,'while Mr. Carrington went home to wonder what there was so fascinating in Violet Effingham's round, dimpled face and li quid, dark eyes. "A child, indeed!" he said to himself. "She is a woman, and a dangerously lovely woman, tooonly she doesn't know it. Eves like-pools of deep garnet brown hair all glittering like tangles of sunshine! Little Violet, if yon could only see yourself as others see you, you might be tempted to be vain. I shall make a point of attending Mrs. Effing ham's ball, and if she is not there I shall certainly inquire for her." The pink satin dress vindicated Mme. Chausau's me as an artistic dress maker the blue damask came home to be tried on and pronounced "perfect," on Saturday night and on Monday the Misses Symthson drossed themselves with judicious care, and many lavings with rose-water and continuous appli cations of pearl-cream and blush-pink. The drawing-rooms, decorated with hot-house flowers, and illuminated, not with vulgar gas, but with the white lus tre of many wax candles in myriad branched candelabra, had been person ally inspected by Mrs. Effingham before ti\e .vent to make her toilet, and the lit tle room at the back, where her hus band ordinarily kept his boots, and ov ercoats, and pipes, had been transform ed into a garlanded bower, where faint lights glowed through shades of Nile green glass, and the most elegant and Aesthetic refreshments were arranged in 1 eleissonnee enamelled ware, trays of repoussee silver, and baskets of Dresden china. And, just at the time when Arabella was saying to her sister, "How do I look, dear?" and Julia was twisting her self into the shape of the letter S,tosee the back of her false puffs and plaitings in the mirror, little violet was enthus iastically tossing about the contents of an old cedar chest in the lumber room, which contained the long-forgotten wardrobe of the first Mrs. Effingham. "Oh!" she cried, "this is beautiful!" and she unfolded a scented robe of long China crape, crimped like the shingly bars of the finest sea-sand and embroid ered in fantastic figures of scarlet silk. "I'll wear this!" I "But it's so odd and old-fashioned, miss," said Louisa, the maid. "That is the very charm of it!" pro nounced Violet "Oh, do make haste, Louisa, with my hair! Are you sure you can do it like the plate in the fashion- book?" 1 cried Violet, in dismay, "my holidays do not expire until Wednes- dav!"^ "That is very true," said Mrs. Effing ham, compressing her thin lips to a mere slit "consequently, vou can see how far you have abridged your own period of recreation by your ungovern able will." Violet, forgetting all about the sixteen years and the long dresses, burst into loud weeping. "Pray, Violet, don't be so silly," said Julia. "One would think," tartly spoke up Arabella, "that you were a child of ten years old. Of course, it is all for your own ood "My own fiddlesticks!" irreverently into' I upted Violet, as she fled from the apartment in Hoods of undignified tears. But numbers are certain to conquer in the long run and so Violet was pack ed remorselessly off to boarding-school, and Mrs. Effingham's two girls return ed to their consultations with the dress maker. Julia, a pallid blonde, with cold, wa tery-blue eyes and colorless flaxen jyas to wear blue damask, embroidered around the skirt in palm leaves of seed pearls. Arabella, who had a bloom and ventureideao 1 an cal"fat,littlehmore fai herself a brunette, pink satin wit cloud-like draperies of black lace while the ma- tronpet herself, no bad exemplification of the flnopppi I s to wear ruby velvet, richly trimmed w5rK nnintrmlini,* l* unid n. diamond with pointaplique lace an a diamond cross, which, in the absence of her Iras band, she had hired from an accommo dating jeweller for this occasion. While Violet poor, heart-broken child!was sent ruthlessly to Wimble don, where Miss Gardiner, the gover ness, was telegraphed to meet her. But Miss Gardiner, as it chanced, did not receive the message in time, and was not there and Mr. Herbert Carrington was there! Violet knew him very well. She had met him several times at home, and Bel la Smythson had selected him as the special target for the arrows of her hazel eyes, this season. Mr. Carrington recognised Violet at once. "Miss Smvthson's little sister, isn't 1 NEW ULM, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APKIL 4, 1883. Mrs. Effingham was still arranging the folds of the point-lace over her shoulders, when Julia rushed up-stairs. "Mamma, Bella!" she cried, "who is the lady downstairs?" "The lady downstairs!" repeated both mother and daughter in amazement. "Receiving Mr. Carrington in our drawing-room!" cried breathless Julia. "In the loveliest dead-white dress, bro caded in scarlet silk, and long, golden hair, braided with antique Roman pearls." "My dear," said Mrs. Effingham, "you must De crazy!" And both she and Arabella hurried downstairs, just in time to see the beau tiful young intruder courtesy a gracious greeting to two of the most aristocratic and exclusive of the jeunes$e dorce of the world of fashion. "Ah!" said Violet, with the utmost self-possession, "here is mamma now, and my sisters. Don't move, Mr. Car rington," she added, in a lower tone, "I'm quite safe now. Mamma won't dare to scold me before company." And Mrs. Effingham and the Misses Smy thson were forced to digest their rage and mortification as best they could. For Violet outshone them as a real, crimson hearted rose outshines the mil liner's false presentiment -as the dia mond outshines the wretched paste orna 1 y."- forthair, menW-and they knew it but too well. i But success excuses everything, and Mrs. Effingham could not but perceive that the quaint young beauty, in the antique dress, was emphatically a suc cess. "Violet," she cried, when she found an opportunity, "how dared you play us such a trick*?" "I did it for fun, mamma," said Vio let, "and if you scold me, I shall tell Mr. Carrington. It was be that brought me back from Wimbleton, and he is my friend!" "I never heard anything so insolent in my life!"cried Arabella, turning pale with anger. "She ought to be locked up for a week on bread and water," said Julia, pas sionately. But Violetonly arched her eyebrows and smiled. I For the child had bloomed out into a woman. Violet had discovered her own talisman of power. They could none of them ever tyran nize over her again. She had no more fears of being sent back to boarding school. Bnt Miss Arabella Smythson could hardly concea||her spite the next day when Mr. Carrington called and asked for Violet, nor when bouquets, with cards attached, kept arriving for Violet "Mamma," she said, "what istobo done?" "Nothinff. that I oan see," said Mr*. Effingham,"drily. "The child can't help being a beauty, I suppose." "She will have to go everywhere with us now," said Julia plaintively. "I tried rav best to keep her back," sighed Mrs. Effiingham "bntshehas pre cipitated her&elf into society." And prett\ Violet Effingham reigned the belle of the season, and in the Spring Mr. Carrington asked her father for her hand in. marriage. The honest man stared in amazement. "II thought it was Arabella you fancied!" said he. "I knew she liked you." "I am tr much honored," said Mr. Carrington, without changing a feature "but I have never aspired to that honor." "Oh!" said Mr. Effingham. "Well, suit yourselfsuit ourself!" And so, before she was quite seven teen, Violet was married, and Arabella and Julia had the field all to themselves. But they were not satisfied, after all. Some people never are satisfied. An Incident of Chnibetta's Downfall. A trifling circumstance rendered the situation more tense. The Mayor of Belleville, a Gambettist, got up in the interest of his party a popular banquet in the Lime Tree Garden at Menilmon tant, the most democratic part of his arrondhsement. The great orator was there to explain his policy in away to meet the attacks which the press was beginning to make. In the invitations, of which about nine hundred were is sued, the hour stated was seven o'clock. This was understood to mean half-past seven. But the dinner was not served until after half-past eight. Gambctta had not come. The landlord insisted i upon not waiting any longer. Two Eonors. lace were kept vacant at the table of At nine "the guest of the eve ning" and Spuller entered to fill them. Whether, habituated at the Palais Bour bon to the dishes of Trompettc, they had grown too dainty for the plain cook ing of Menilmontant, or for what other reason it does not appear. They had both dined with a few friends at a res taurant. They did not at the banquet even go through the polite comedy of {ered pretending to eat. No apology was of either at the time, nor afterw ard in the press a polite fib, though a transparent one, would have calmed ir ritation. Punctuality, it was remarked sotlo voce, was the politeness of kings, but the elect of the millions thought themselves higher than horn sovereigns. The speech which followed the banquet was listened to with icy coldness. The orator went back to the Petit Bourbon heavy and di^ontented. He had for ten years given a mighty impulsion in a de mocratic sense. Ministers had been made to feel that universal suffrage was everything, and the executive but its instrument. As president of the Bud get Committee he had made them re alize that power of the purse was vested in the Chambers, and he had hotly con tested the position of M. Jules Simon that the Senate had a right to amend the budget. He had agitated for revis ion of the judicial bench, and the de mocratization of the army. Suddenly he turned round and attempted to push back the torrent which he had set flow ing. Its impetus was too great for him to withstand, and it has pursued its course, bearing with it other men less* renowned.March Century. A Pointed Tale. Jack Pringle is a man who never wasted an opportunity, or puts off for to-morrow the joke that can be done to day. Going down street last Wednes day he was accosted by a little nervous man who had an impediment in hisagain. speech. Said the stranger: "C-can you t-tell me w-where I can g-get s-s-some t-t-tin Macks*" "With much pleasure, sir," replied Jack, who realized the position at once, and having directed his interlocntor to the shop of a neighboring ironmonger by a somewhat circuitous route hurried off to the spot by a short cut. Now the ironmonger was having his dinner in a little back parlor, and rubbing his hands together in that peculiarly servile manner that is characteristic in the British shop-keeper. "Do y-you s-sell t-tin t-tacks?" said Jack, assuming a stammer. "Ob, yes, sir certainly, sir." "G-g-good lon ones?" "Yes, sir all sizes, sir." "W-with s-s-sharp points?" "Yes, sir, very sharp points." "W-w-well then, s-s-sit down on 'em and w-w-wait till I c-call again." Having "given his order," Jack thought it prudent to retire at once, as there were several heavy articles with in easy access of the proprietor's hands. The old man had hardly cooled down and returned to his meal, which had also cooled down unpleasantly, when the "real Simon pure entered the shop, and again the ironmonger came forth, "washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water." "Do y-you s-sell t-t-tin t-tacks?" said the little man. Luckily the door was openv so the customer successfully avoided the seven Eurled oun weight and the two flat-irons at hirn^ FO THEIR AMUSEMENT. Edward Cogswell in a recent number it Our Continent thus relates an inci dent of a gallant officer, now dead, Gen. T. W. Sherman: Tt General was a disciplinarian of the strictest, and a martinet withal, of whom his personal staff, as well as the rest of his subordinates, stood in whole some awe. His division was in winter quarters near one of the larger South ern seacoast towns, captured and occu pied early in the war, and with it was a regular battery of light artillery, which the general, being an artillery officer by training and choice, used personally to i drill once or twice a week, just to keep his hand in as it were. A superb bat tery it was, with perfect appointments bronze guns shining like gold, fine horses and a full complement of men trained in the strict school of the "old army." Now, in the outskirts of thetownwas a large mansion, with a fine lawn, as Southern lawns go, in front of it, whose then inhabitants were three young and charming ladies, and one or two elderly chaperoncs, whose husbands, brothers and cousins were all with Lee in Vir ginia, but who, either because they could not see so many handsome young fellows in blue uniforms and abstain i from conquests, or because they thought it good policy to be on friendly terms I with the authorities, did not treat Yan I kee admirers with the utter contempt I and scorn commonly maintained by the Southern belle. That they were rebels at heart goes without saying, but a se lect circle of officers, including certain of the General's staff, was welcomed on many a pleasant evening to their wide drawing-room. On one of these occasion* the talk 1 ^42U&' turned on light artillery, and the ladies expressed a wish that the General would mail himself sometime of their special and peculiar lawn to drill his battery. T'ie two staff officer* present promis ed to see if th\v could procure the Gen eral's consent, and laid their plans ac cordingly on their way back to quarters. Next morning at "the headquarters' mes* one of them remarked casually: "We were at Mrs. Dorroughbie's last oenwg. General, and found the ladies very agreeable "H'm' damned rebels, every one of 'em, 111 be bound," was the loyal ans er. "Well, that may be but they are very agreeable girls for all that" "More fools you!" "Do you know, General," said the Adjutant, "they are in mortal terror lest G'iplain Aims should tak** a notion to drill his battery on their lawn. They are afraid he would cut it up with his wheels." "H'm! Ser\e'em right, too!" "I might give the Captain a hint not to go there if \ou say so, General." "Nev/ mind I II attend to it." Not another word did the General sa during breakfast, but immediately a: terwaul he called his orderly, who en tered, snluted, and stood in that grace ful pose known as "attention." "Give my compliment.1* and ntr I to Captain Aims," said Sherman, "and tell him that I will drill his battery this after noon at half-past two Tell him to have plenty of cartridges, as I shall do some firing"." So far so good, thought the Adjutant At a quarter past two the General mounted his horse and rode down to the battery camp, accompanied by the two oung" men. The battery was all ready, looking its best, and at half-past two "precisely the bugle sounded forward, and the pieces wheeled into column. "Head of column right. Captain!" said the General. That settled it. for the usual drill ground was in the other direction, and the Adjutant and Aide dently exchang ed a triumphant wirk Such a drill as th.tt battery was put through on the Doiroughbie's lawn that aftt noon1 They tired by sections and in "letion ft out T' They advanced tmng. they unlimbered and limit red up thr\ wheeled and doubled nn i e\ nr tUe in the tactics, until horses were in a lather, and some hundreds of dollars' worth of Uncle Sam's powder had been expend ed in smoke. And all through it the Dorroughbie ladies sat in the mild winter sunshine on their verandah, apparently enjoy ing the show much to the General's bewild erment. During the pause for rest, the ladies urged the Adjutant, who had ridden up to pay his respects, to bring up the General and introduce him but the old fellow was not to be caught, and when the drill was dismissed rode away, re marking: "That will do for once, I reckon," and so went back to his quarters. At supper-time an old negro servant presented himself with a beautiful bou qiut of early roses for the General, hereto was attached a dainty note, ex pressing the gratitude of the Dorrough bie ladies for the entertainment that had been afforded them, and begging him to accept the roses in token of acknowl edgment. The General never "let on" that he saw through the ruse. A keen light ning-like glance at his Adjutant and Aide was all he vouchsafed, but the bat tery was never drilled on that lawn Poor man! A year later I saw him carried to the rear on a stretcher with his leg shattered bv a rifle-ball, and he never was able to drill his beloved bat tery again. He was a faithful and accomplished officer, and did good administrative ser vice even after amputation left him crippled for life, and with his martial spirit broken by the pain which he never ceased to suffer. It is all over now, thank Heaven! the excitement, the weariness, the hard ships. Only the wounds remain, and these, be they of heart or body, death alone can cure. The mounted troopers ride forward, each waving a white handkerchief, the rattle of "rifles dies awayPeace has come! Xankee Uoeraeas. A good story is told of Capt W. G. Nichols, of Searsport, Me., while a prisoner on board the Confederate cniiser Shenandoah. After burning the Delphine, the Confederate steamer was headed for Melbourne and soon sighted a bark to which she gave chase, and after a long nin came up, only to learn that it was a British vessel and that the coal burned in the chase had been wast ed. Two or three days after, upon coming on deck one morning. Captain Nichols found the steamer off ner course and running for another vessel just visi ble in the dim distance. Picking up the telescope lying on the after house, Capt Nichols, after a long, careful look, be came satisfied the sail in sight was the ship David Brown, of which nis brother in-law, Capt. Phineas Pendleton, Jr., was in commtnd, and of which he own ed a part. Not desiring to have any of his relatives meet him in such company, and not wishing to see any more of his property burned by the Confederates, Capt. Nichols put down the glass and burst into a hearty laugh. Capt Wad dell, who was near bv. asked: "What are you laughing at. Captain?" "Oh, no'hing," said Cant Nichols laughing again. "I believe, said Capt. Weddelf, "you've made out that vessel to be the Englishman we overhauled the other day." "Well," said Capt. Nichols,"have ityour own way.Captain, I'm only a pas senger, you know." Capt. Wadaell, satisfied that his surmise was correct ordered the steamer put up on her course again, allowing the David Brown to go onTier way, with Capt Pendleton all unconscious that he had been within a few miles of a rebel steamer carrying his sister, her husband and his little nephew to afar foreign port, and that bv the coolness and quick wit of his brother-in-law he had been prevented from losing his ship and making one of their party. After getting asnore at Melbourne, Capt Nichols told the story. "Then." said CaptWaddell, "you must have lied to me." "No, no, I didn't," said Capt. Nichols, "for, don't you re member I said to you, 'Have it your own way. Captain, I'm only a passen fer x& or.' And CaptWaddell did remem it. and could but own that he was outwitted. A new opera house is to be built in Rochester, N.Y. About half of the nec essary capital is alreadv subscribed. It will be 110 feet long and 72 feet on one side and 84 on the other. The plans have been prepared by Oscar Cobb, of Chicago, who has supervised the COM atructioa of over 100 theatres. A*ngioa in the Bends. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post writingfrom Chicot, Ark., on the religion of the Southern negro, say the exegesis of the Scriptures by some of thffse black pastors will be new to the most advanced theologians. A sermon, for instance, of much local celebrity among the dusky race here is Eorse reached by one of their elders on "de a pawin' in de valley "and opens somewhat as follows: "Dis horse of theSeiiptur," breddering, I fignrate to be the oster (ostrich). Dis oster laid five eggs in the desert, cnbbered dem in de san' for the sun of glorv to hatch out den went off to hide'hind a stone. Dese e^cr, breddering, was de seeds of de church, least I ligurate dey was. But five Arabs who were the persecuters of de church, wanted to smash dem egg. So dey try to seek dem ont, and drove the poor oster ten mile thro' de valley of Jchosaphat. Dey corner dat poor oster at de head of de vallev, and think they hab him suah, but suddenly de os ter rose high in de mid air and laugh dose wicked Arabs to scorn. De egg dey den hatch out, and so, breddering, came de seeds of de church to bear fruit The description by the pastor of the "oster's" chase thro' the valley the preacher all the while flapping "his arms rooster fashionwas an immense sensation in its v. There is one sau side to negro reli gion as manifested in the Bends. The universal testimony of the planters is that it demoralizes'the negro far more than it leads him into the path of virtue. Some morality is preached, but the bulk of the sermonizing consists of distorted imagery, exciting for the moment, but more hurtful than healthful to ignorant minds: while the church is too often used as a cloak for most abominable liecntiouness A preacher here, as a rule is a poor worker in the field, as well as a very doubtful moralist A Juatioe Who Didn't Know. Miss Isherwood who was assaulted and robbed recently in the railroad tun nel in New York, identified the robber in tho police court. The following rather amusing colloquy took place be tween the youn lady and the Justice: "You carried your pocketbook in your hand?" asked Justice Duffy. "Yes, sir," replied the complainant, "and I only released it when thrown down by this man and forced to do so." "I wish to say right here," said the Justice, "that ladies offer inducements to thieves by carrying their purses so openly They ought to put them in their Inside pockets." "Ladies don't have inside pockets," said Miss Isherwood in a surprised tone. "Oh, don't they? I didn't know," said the Justice, who is a bachelor. i FORESTS AND FLOODS. The Destruction of the Formerthe Gauss of the Latter. Many persons assume that a great flood contradicts the theory that cutting away forests causes exceptionally low water in the denuded country. The truth te, the destruction of the woods means water com ses to run ex traordinarily low and high, according to the season. In 1881 we had the lowest water ever known in the Ohio, and to-day we have the highest water ever known. These extremes equally illustrate the theory we urge upon the attention of the peo ple. The reasons are perfectly distinct, a mass of mountains on the Allegheny, Monongahela or Kanawha. Let us sup pose them clothed with trees from foot to crown, and with underbrush and mosses, with beds of half-decayed leaves, resting upon soil that represents depos its of leaves and vegetable growth for thousands of years. Each mountain is an enormous sponge. The rain may fall for days, and the greater part is ab sorbed, saturating the soil, the grass, the leaves, lingering in the bushes and the trees. The half-decayed logs will hold barrels of water, and for weeks after a heavy rain the moisture is tricl ling away in thousands of flush springs. Cut away the treesthe underbrush perishes, the moss is dried up, the soil washed away and the rocks are exposed. The rains descend, and the mountains shed the water like the roofs of houses. All that falls makes its way into the tor rents at once. Take a thousand mountains at the head-waters of the Ohio and reduce them to barrenness, and it follows that the river is lower in dry weather and higher in wet weather, and more and more subject to extremes of high and low water. Disastrous as the flood is to-day unprecedented as it isintelligent peo ple must be aware that very slight changes in the atmospheric phenomena of the last fortnight would have given us a still more formidable river. The rise that is so wonderful comes from three rainstorms extending over a weekand the sudden frost after the second rain prevented the advance of the waters from being much more rapid than it has been. Europe is suffering more from floods than in former generations. They are the clearly traced results of the destruc tion of forests, and made more destruc tive by a system of levees that are equally false and futile. The experience of Hungary and Northern Italy is es pecially instructive. The preservation of mountains from destruction that is, from becoming ut terly barrena desolation of rocksis a duty that public safety demands. The greater part of Switzerland would have been uninhabitable long ago if it had not been for the systematic cul tivation and preservation of forests. There are many mountain sides in Switzerland that are wonderfully sup ported by trees and shrubbery, cared for with a full appreciation of their im portance. The wasteful, reckless cutting of trees, and carelessness, or worse, in burning away wood lands, must stop, for it is a public mischief. Forest culture in the mountains is needed and the whole trouble is not in the higher lands. The hillsides must be cared for, as well. There is away of plowing them that is conservativeand when there is a ten dency to wash they should be supported by grasses. Here the rotation of crops comes in, the preservation of brooks by the cultivation of willows, the restora tion of land that is growing ragged under the rains by the native forest trees, or, if the case is bad, trees of quick growth. A magnificent forest of black locust can be raised from the sprouts in from fifteen to twenty years. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. I don't rekollect doing ennything that I was justi a little ashamed ov but what somebody remembered it, that rare W while, to pat me in onc mind of it.-Josh Bitting*, WHOLE NUMBER 390 An Indian Winter Game. The boys ot the United States and Canada are indebted to the Indians for a number of their most interesting sports. But while manv of their games are well known, the Indians still have others peculiar to themselves, and with which even their near neighbors are but slightly acquainted. Throwing the snow snake is one of the latter. The "snow-snake," or ka-whant as it is called in the Onondaga dialect, is made on the principle of the sleigh runner, and consists of long hickory pole or stick, with a slight upward curve and point at one end, while the other is provided with a small notch. The under side is made flat and smooth, so as to slip easily over the snow or ice, upon which, when skillfully thrown, it will slide for along distance. To make it glide still more easily, the under sur face is waxed and rubbed with a piece of cloth until beautifully smooth and polished. The pointed end is furnished with a tip of lead or solder, sometime* of a fancy design. The length and weight of the snow snake varies in proportion to tho strength of the person for whose use it is intended. Those made for young boys are not more than four or five feet long, while for larger boys and young men they range from six to eight feet in length. They are made somewhat tapering, being largest near the curved end, where they are usually about an inch or an inch and a quarter in width while they diminish gradually until, at the notched end, the width is not more than five-eighths or three-quarters of an inch. In throwing, the ka-whant is held at the smaller end by the thumb and first and second fingers. At the Indian Reservation in Onon daga County, New York, where the winters are long and usually severe, the snow-snake is a great favorite, and a continuous source of amusement. As soon as the jingle of the bells is heard along the frozen highway, and the run ners of the heavy "bobs" and wood sleighs have furrowed the roads with deep, polished grooves, the Indian boys are out, following the sleigh-tracks in small parties, throwing the ka-whant in the deep ruts, which it follows through every curve, skipping over the lumps of ice and other inequalities, more lite a living creature than a plain hickory stick, and suggesting at once the very appropriate name of the "snow-snake." Although the beaten road-way is usually preferred, the snow-snake may be thrown in almost any situation where the snow is firm. The game, as generally played, is merely a trial of skill between the play ers. A line being drawn to mark the starting-point, the players step back a few paces. Each grasps his snow-snake, runs forward in his turn to the mark, and, with a vigorous sweep of his arm, sends it sliding and dancing over the snow with the swiftness of an arrow. Each snow-snake bears its owner's mark (an arrow, cross, or star), so that he readily recognizes it, and he whose missile is farthest in advance is declared the winner, In this way a regular champion is chosen. The distance that these contrivances are thrown is almost incredible, skillful players sometimes making casts of nearly a quarter of a mile. Should any of the readers of St. Nich olas attempt this game, they must not be surprised or discouraged if, at the first few trials, their snow-snakes stick their heads through the crust and dis appear in the powdery snow beneath, instead of sliding along the surface in the proper way. By digging along for a distance of from twenty to fifty !fet, the sticks may usually be recovered, while the slight difficulties of the art can soon be overcome by a little practice and experience.De Cost Smith, tn St. Nicholas for March. Although three or four crystals of the genuine precious topaz, remarkable for size ana clearness, have been found near ke's Peak, Mr. R. T. Cross asserts that the stone which is cut in Colorado and sold as topaz to tourists, is not topaz at all, but simply smoky quartz, or the cairngorm stone of Scot land. A Doer's Revenge. A large Newfoundland and a Gordon setter have for the last week occupied quarters next to each other, on account of their non-combative dispositions. Half a dozen yards away is the tem porary home of a two-year-old collie, who has the privilege of wandering about the yard without restraint On Friday last he took the liberty of poking his nose into the feeding-pan of the Newfoundland, a liberty that was re sented by a sound thrashing. The collie seems, as subsequent circumstances proved, to have determined upon a plan of revenge from that moment He went into his kennel and remain ed there the best part of the afternoon. Towards evening he came out, and go ing to a corner where there is a pile of loose bricks, he seized one with hif teeth, carried it cautiously over to the Newfoundland's box, and succeeded in dropping it in frontof the opening with out being detected. After nightfall, when the big dog had curled himself inside to go to sleep, the little collie continued his work. He had carried no less than sixty of the bricks and deposited them in front of his enemy's house before he was dis covered by the proprietor of the estab lishment who had occasion to go into the yard for water. The animal's actions were watched for nearly twenty minutes before he was disturbed. He dropped as many bricks inside the kennel as the space between the opening and the occupant would admit of, and piled the rest up outside. Then he stationed himself in front and barked with all his might. The Newfoundland responded to the challenge with a deep growl and made and effort to come out, but the bricks prevented him, while the collie jumped about an gave vent to his delight in shrill yelps.PhiUtdtlpkim Press. Dogs With Handles. A Cincinnati milliner, who had just returned from Paris, was asked what was the strangest fashionable novelty that she had seen. "A dog with a nat ural handle," she replied? "The Pa risian ladies are wild on dogs fornets. The brute is led by a string, and grabbed up at each crossing to be earned over the pavement. When shaggy dogs were in vogue the habit was to pick them op by. the hair and they were trained not to yelp. Pugs as smooth as new-born pigs are now the favorites, and of coarse tbey have no hair to be lifted by. Bnt a clever surgeon cut the end from a IK* tie dog's tail, made an incision in the middle of his back, stuck in the tail tip, let it heal fast, and there was as handy a handle as could be wished for." Tho Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle pro poses "to help make the pistol a dis grace to the man who carries it" i &$'