The frontier., May 19, 1881, Image 1

About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965

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, VOLUME I.
REWS OF THE WEEK.
roraoif mwi
Locusts hare deromd the riot and
-?% ton crops of Bollria.
A morement U on loot tor tho eonfed
aradoa of tlx Spanish-American repoblice.
Cork, Kilkenny, and portion, of King,
■ad Qn ana Bounties, Inland, ban baanpro
dafaned under tba Anna act.
A Kibfliatio morement by mQon of
tba Banian daai ia predicted aa Hbaly to fol
low tha amat of tba Ofaad Doha OonetanUne.
Experimente orer the cable between
Dot or and CUaia ban demonstrated that the
Atlantia cables can ba oaad foe talaphonie pur
paai.aaaaailraa.boit land win. A patent
for an aiaatophana baa bean taken out in
Paris.
letter, born Algiera state that Col.
Flatten' Sahara npedition, harrtofora reported
daatroyad, waa driven to taka refuge in a ears.
Tba nan, bain, atoning, resorted to eaanibal
Inn, and fifteen of tha fores wan eaten.
Gladstone's motion relatire to a mon
tnnant to Lord Baaoonaflald waa adopted in tba
Hones of Commons by a rote of <80 to CL A
earlier motion waa adopted ia tha House of
Lords without a division.
Troop, hare been sent to Padclia,
Bnaaia, to pnteot tha Jawa.
Dispatches bom Booth Abie, state
that tba Boon and satires hare began boetilir
ties on the western border of Transvaal
{., A. A B. Schroder, merchants, of Ism
don, bars failed for AMO,000 because of tbs
anspansion of their Amsterdam house
Cardinal Hanning’egrder fortijding
tbaoMOf Cathbfce club-rooms forLandlLeague
meetings has caused great dissatisfaction
among tha Irish in London.
Prince Rudolph, of Austria, was mar
ried to tha Princess Stephanie, of Belgium,
with all tha pomp and atrcnmsunce be
fitting such an occasion. Tba eamnony
took place in the Church of St Augustins, in
Vienna.
Alexander Jonas, a Herman journalist
of Ms* York, wsa reoeutly arrested in Dresden,
Germany, on snap! ion of being a Sooislistio
■gent, and bis private papers were retained for
nino days. Be has applied to Minister White
for redress, and the matter has been referred
to the foreign offioe at Berlin.
The losses of the Jews by the recent
riot in Elisabeth grad, Bosnia, are estimated at
*,000,000 rubles.
f Hr. Forster and Lord-Lieutenant
, Cowper ere vigorously enforcing the Coercion
• set and the Disarming act in Ireland.
8b Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, has issued a "yellow book" on the
Tnuis-Algerian imbroglio, defining the French
view of the matter. France is cn'y doing in
Africa what England has dons in India.
Lord Dut d lie's bailiff was fatally shot
from behind a bedgo in Dekoen, Ireland. Five
men were srreeted in Dublin undor the pro
visions of the Coercion sob
An electric railway from Berlin to
Lichterfleid has been opened with great suc
cess. *
Emmett, the American actor, has
broken his engagement in Liverpool, England,
and has been placed In a lunatic asylum.
The Bank of France has hitherto issued
.no notes of less denomination than 100 francs,
but hat decided to put in circulation some of
H francs.
The persecution of the Jews in South
ern Burns continue*. At Cherson, shops were
pillaged; also et Jeuewinka and other cities.
The destruction of Jewish property at Kieff
amounted to 30,000,000 roubles.
DOMESTIC INTELUGEXCM.
- T'breo contractors for star-route serv
ice in Tessa—Joseph Funk, Joseph Blackman,
and William B. Cason—have been lire.ted in
Philadelphia on charge of defrauding the Gov
ernment.
The Governor of New York has issued
a proclamation forbidding lotteries.
The Pennsylvania State Senate has
pssasd s resolution which provides for the
transfer of the remains of William Ponn from
their present resting-place in Buckinghamshire,
England, to Philadelphia.
The United States Grand Jury at New
York has indicted fourteen Captains of Eu
ropean steamships for oarrying an excess of
passengers, ooutrary to law. Two indictments
an agsinst Capt Brandt and Capt. lleycrs,
both of whom committed suicide a few week*
■go.
A fishing party of four persona were
drowned at Trembly Point, Staten Island sound,
by the upsetting of a boat.
The limited express on the Pennsyl
vania road made the ninety miles between
Philadelphia and Jersey City in ninety-five
minutes.
Immigrants continue to arrive at New
York at the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 a day.
West
Lieut. Bulles followed a band of In
dian murderers across the Bio Grande and
killed four braves and a squaw, oapturing
tweuty horses.
Gilbert Hubbard, senior member of
tbs Chicago firm of Gilbert Hubbard A Co., is
dead. Charles Hitchcock, an old- and prom
inent member of the Chicago bar, has also
passed away.
A coal-shaft in Osage county, Kan.,
caught fire from a furnace in the sir shaft.
Tweuty-two men wen at work at the time,
but fifteen of them were rescued. The remain
ing seven, with throo others who had gono to
their asaiatsnee, wore taken out dead.
Troops have been sent to the Ute Res
ervation to protect the Indians from invasion
by whites.
Ueorge C. Harding, editor of toe In
dianapolia Saturday Review, la dead.
A oorreapondent which the Chicago
Tribune dispatched to the doodad ngioaa of
the Upper lfiaaonri river aenda to that journal
a graphic deacriptioa of the ruin wrought bj
the high water in Dakota. The bulk of the
angering from the flood, ha reporta, la eooflned
to the territory between Yankton and Eik
Point. In the -river bottom, between
theao points, hnndnda of once fertile
fanaa are now eorered with dm
feat of Band. In addition to their preeent
mournful condition the unhappy dwellera in
the Inundated diatriota have to face the diatreaa
tng proa peat of wholeeale malaria, reanltina
from the deeompoaitioirof thonaanda of dead
animals, and of fntnra want, becanae it baa
beei neeaarary to eat up all the grain and
tageiable eeed eared for thia year’a
caopa in order to ear* life. The ait
nation of theao people ie one that orita
aloud for immed'ate relief in the way of dona
tiona of money and articlea of food.—The
Quartermaster at Yankton haa issued nearly
MkOOO rations to tha angerers by the flood.
Capt. Clagns, who was sent by Sen. Terry on
a tour of inreatigatioo, reports that Um officers
at Fort Randall aared 700 persona fmsn poau
ble starvation.
, Trees by hundreds of thousands in
■ontbem Wirconsin were destroyed by ground
mix during the snow blockade.
Keports from eighteen ooonties in
Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this year
\ j will be the biggest ever known.
|f|' There were 300 deaths in Chicago last
Bev. John McMullen, of Ohioego, has
bean appointed by tha Pop# Bishop of the
iv? r Catholic Dloeeta of Davenport, and Bev. Kil
- ; ' ian c. Flash, of Milwaukee, his been made
> 1 C- Bishop of tha Diooaaa of LaCroaae
The Missouri Pacific Bailroed Com
haa baaed the Missouri, Kansas and
Teiaa railroad.
p: . -fire in the Miseoori penitentiary de
•Inyad 369,000 worth of property.
Annie Myrtle, • young mu* of Bo
rina, died'from the afreet* of skipping * rap*
orer 100 time* consecutively.
■oath.
While some school children wed* plny
ing under i mi«lt tree In the jud of 1. F.
Horner, eight mile* east of Winona, Hun,
lightning (truck the tree and immediately
killed Mamie and Willi* Banar, aged ( and T
year*, and Mary Higbtman.
Fifty negroea took from jail nt Sparta,
U., a colored lad who admitted haring com
mitted an outrage on a child, and killed him
with shot-guns.
Bour negro laborer* on the Alabama
and Great Southern road were oorercd by a
landalldc and killed.
In Dooley ooonty, Jon, StonO
Wfif indulging in the pm time of heating hie
wife, when Lit brother Jeff interfered, where
upon Joe shot Jeff, inflicting mortal wound*.
The ceremony of dedicating the tomb
of the Aaaocution of the Army of Northern
Virginia, and the nnreiling of the etatue of
Stonewall Jackson. took plaoe nt Metairie Cem
etery, in New Orleans.
Two men named Hart and Bogie ter
fought n duel with knives in Sumter ooufity,
Ga., roaulting in the death of both par
ticipants. Hart waa disemboweled and died
instantly, and Register died four, hoars after
the affray,
Lieut Bnllia, of the Twenty-fonrth
infantry, commanding n body of Seminole
coonta, came upon the bend of Indiana who
murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. He
attacked their camp noar the Pecoa river,
tilled four bncka and one aquaw, and cap
tnrcd one boy, one aquaw, and twenty-one ani
mals.
A picnio party near Talladega, Ala.,
bad among its participant! n child of 7 years,
adorned with gold ornaments and n diainca 1
pin. On being missed, search was made, and
she was discovered dead in the arms of n negro
thief, who was about to throw her body over
tho falls. It took bnt a moment to hang the
scoundrel to a tree, where his eorpae waa left
to dangle in the wind.
A ludicrous affair of honor is reported
from the Carolina*, where two telegraph op
era tors exchanged insult* and challenges over
th j wires, and met half way between. Colum
bia and Charlotte and fought out the fnaa with
fiats.
James W. Powell, of Owingsville, Ky.,
who Buffered from a dreadful malady for more
than a year, claims to have been restored to
complete health by prayer.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Chairman Jewell invites Republicans
through the oountry to suggest the best method
for electing telega tee to th* next National
Convention.
The Btate Convention of the Green
back-Labor party, of Iowa, has been celled to
meet at Marshalltown, on tha 1st day of June.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A Washington correspondent of the
Inter Ocean says that President Hayes discour
aged the Republican Campaign Committee
from applying to the star-route contractors for
contribution!. He said they were mixed up in
a acandu), aud the party conld get along better j
without than with their money.
A Washington dispatch says that41 the
evidence whcli ia daily accumulating against
the ring of fraudulent mall contractor*, bid
ders, bondsmen, Postmasters and intermedia
ries is both direct, documentary and circum
stantial The prosecutions will be oondacted in
a dozen States, and in nearly, if not all, the
T rritories. Besides this evidence for criminal
prosecution the Postmaster General is empow ,
ered and in position to recover a very largo
amount of the money got from the treasury iu
‘he name of * expedited' and increased mail
Henrico. On one route a contractor has already
loon flnod $31,000, which will lead also to crim
inal proceedings against a number of Govern
ment officers whose connection with the fraud
is now clearly established.**
The President h s withdrawn the
nomination of W. A. E Gner, the original
Ga< field man, to be Third Assistant ^oatmasti r
General. Grier declined tho position.
According to the census returns, the
people of this country pay $26,250,100 annually
for their daily newspapers.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
called for reports from the national banks
-‘homing their condition at the close of business
Friday, the 6th.
Postmaster General James has planned
a saving of $75,000 per annum by discontinu
ing useless mail service on the Southern rivers,
and is about to make still further reduction*.
A Washington dispatch says tho ex
treme Lot weather is beginning to tell ou the
Senators, and both sides are talking of an early
adjournment
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued a circular, unbracing the 103d call for
oontinuance of 5-per-cent bonds issued under
acts of July 14,1870, and Jan. 20, 187L Inter
est on these bonds at 5 per cent will cease 4
Aug. 12, 1881.
miscellaneous otEAimnx.
Burned: Tlie First National Bank,
Taylor's drag store, and other buildings, at
Ottumwa, lows, lo*a #150,000; the works of tbe
Alta Mining Company, at Wickes.'Mont., lose
#300,000; Heffner's soap factory, at Buffalo,
N. V.. loss *50.000.
a mad dog in the street* of Spring
Hill, N. 8.. bit seven children, three men and
one women.
In the Palmer k Sullivan railroad
camp, near Anambaro, Mexico, Engineer Sark
erider, while laboring under an attack of insan
ity, killed Engineers Martin and Jones, when
he was dispatched by Engineer FUley.
The fifty-fourth annual meeting of the
Home Missionary Society was held last week
in New York. Yearly receipts, *290,953 ; ex
penses, *284,411. There arc 1,032 ministers in
the employ of the society. Kev. Thsodon D.
Woclsey was re-elected President.
The clearing-house reports from twen
ty of the chief dties of the country show that
i he exchanges for the first week in May were
the largest on rooord.
The fifty-seventh anniversary of the
American Sunday-School Union was celebrated
at Central Music Hall, Chicago, May 12. There
was a large and inlercated audience. Eloquent
addresses were delivered by the Bcv. Hr. John
Hell, of New York, and others.
The gross earnings for April, 1881,
of forty-two railroads amount to *12,235,494.
For tbe seme month last year they were *9,819,
224.
The brewers of the United States, who
were in convention at Chicago last week, re
paired to fight all prohibitory legislation and
interference to the bitter end. With that view
they will have a teat ease under the g--—
prohibitory tew taken to the Supreme Court
tor adjudication,
The United Brethren of Chriet are
bolding their eighteenth qtudrannitl tesaion
at Lisbon, love. The denomination ban a
memberahip of 160,000 and 2,212 ehniehea.
Gen. Grant haa returned from Mexico.
He reporta haring signed a new contract with
the Mexican Gorernment embracing oitawlona
of the Mexican Southern railroad.
nomas nrcoiroKEM.
In the Senate on the morning of Tridar, May
a, Mr. Dawes made an attempt to aeetue action on
the resolution for the alaeflon of Sonata ofltoara, bat
tbs Pampers tie Houston raanmod their taetloo or
aitornadag metlona to go into oxeentiro aeeaionaad
to adjourn, until Downs garo np the debt for the
dag, and, open his motion, the Sonata want into an
aoutlve aaesion. Whan the dotes reopened tba Him
ataadjonrasd. - "■*
On tbe meeting of the Senate on Monday,
the 9th in*t, Mr. Ransom called np the resolution*
offered by him March 13, directing the Committee
on Commerce to inquire into the condition of th*
Potomac river front of the city of Washington, the
navigation of Mid river, and the effect of a bridge
acroee the same with regard to navigation, floods
and the health of the city, and to report at the next
session what steps, if any, should be taken
with reference thereto. Adopted. Mr. Kel
logg o.Terd a resolution calling on the
Poetmaoter General. Secretaries of War, Navy, Slate
and Treasury for the names of all clerks and other
employe* In their respective departments, together
with the date of their appointment, the 8Ute to
which each i* charged, and the persons on whose
recommendation each was appointed. On objection
from Mr. Ferry, the resolution was laid over under
the rules. The Senate, in executive session,, con
firmed Postmasters Henry Davis, of Bedford, Ind.;
Benjamin W. Sholty, of Decatur, In<t; George Z.
Wood, of Mitchell, Ind., and Into T. Brown, of
Colnmhna, Ind. After a very short session
s caucus of Republican Senators wss held which re*
msiurd in sesslou about six hours. Senator Conk
Uug instead of going Into caucu-, entered a com
mittee-room and remained there until the caucus
sent a request that he would join in its d«-liberation.
A proposal or suggestion to rule out Robertson’s
case for sc ion by agreeing to act only on nomi
nations to A1 er tiling v: cr ik'm was speedily dis
carded, ay such a n.e would include fully
half the nominations made. However,
a gc acral disc.iesion arose, participated
in by Messrs. Blair, Hawley, Frye, Ed
munds, Dawes, and. In tact, by nearly ail tbe Sen
ators present. The discussion took a wide range,
and embraced all the topic< now of interest to the
Republican party. Much of the time wss consumed
lu debating the policy of continuing the light for the
e eciinn of Gorham and Riddlebtrger. Some Sen
ators opposed the policy of renewing tbe fight, and
severs! r. ho are warm friends df the President de
clared that they would not again Join in the fight for
Gorham and Kiddleberger; that new and more ac
ceptable nominations would have to be made
to ind cos them to resume their former
stand. Conkling made a speech of over
an hour, etsting his objectiuua to Robert
son, admit ing that Arthur and Platt
carried his ultimatum to tbe President, and
appealing to the Republicans to sustain him
He dwelt more particularly on what he called the
“Preddent’s usurpation and invasli n of the Sen
ate’s rights and privilege* ” and said: “If the Sen
ate did not maintain ita rights, they would be taken
from that body.” Edmunds and Dawes, it is under
stood, spoke, Mylug that, if the President attempted
to usurp any functions of the Senate, they would
resist, but tbeir speeches were rather noncommittal,
though some construe them os favorable to Conk
ling. The caucus adjourned finally without reach
ing any conclusion, to meet again next day.
The Senate met at the usual hour on Tues
day, May 10, and at once went Into executive ses
sion, and confirmed the following nominations:
Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal for Georgia;
Absalom Blythe, United States Marshal for South
Carolina; Samuel W. Milton, United States District
Attorney for South Ca -olina; Philip H. Emerson,
Assoc, ate Judge of the Supreme Court of Utah;
and Albert R. Woodcock, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Third district of Illinois.
"Ihe President nominated Judge Thomas A. Mc
Mtnis^f Colorado, Commissioner to accept and
ratify the agreement submitted by the Ute Indiansof
Colorado. Also, the following Postmasters: Jerome
H. Fee, of Adrian, Mich., and Joseph C. Dickey, of
Watcrvil’e, Kan. The Republican Senators were in
caucus again for nearly six hours, and, contrary to
expectation, reached ro c u c’usion. No committee
was appointed to-day to wait upon the President, nor
mss any time fixed for an adjourned caucus.
Everything was !e;t to future consideration, and ibe
canons adjourned subject to thecal of tbe Chairman,
Mr. Anthony. During the proti acted ecssion near y
every Senator spoke. No speech exceed-d five min
utes in length. Tbe burden of all the t *'eechos was
a great desire to avoid a split in the party, and a
consideration of the various propositions wai of
compromise.
The Senate went into executive session soon
after tbe hour of convening on Wednesday, May 11,
and confirmed the following nominations: Michael
J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark, for Minister
to Swltxerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey,
to be Secretary of the United States Lega
tion at Paris: Thomas A. M. Mer is, of
Colorado, to bo a member of tho Ute Com
mission, vice J. B. Bowman, realguod;
George W. Atkinson, United States Marsh .1 of We; t
Virginia; John B. Stickney, District Attorney for
Northern F.ortda; Charles M. Wilder, to be Post
master at Columbia, 8. C.; and 4. Newton Kimball,
to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Jackson, Miss.
The case of Stanley Mat;i ews, nominated for Jud e
of tbe Supreme Court, then came up. Mes.-rs.
Bayard and Edmunds made strong speech***
opposing tbo confirmation, saying that
Matthews bad not the necesary qualifica
t.nns for tbe exalted position of Supreme Court
Ju' ge; that be was only a mere politician. Mr. Ed
gerton, the new Senator from Minnesota, also spoke
a-tain^t Mat thews, claiming that be was not acquaint
ed wdb the circuit to which he had been nominated.
He held that the nominee shou d come from among
the lawyers of that circuit. Mr. Ingalls made the
principal speech in favor of Matthews. Senator
S berm a t put a few questions to tbe opponents of
Matthews in order to reply to points made against
him.
On tho morning of Thursday, May 12, Mr.
McDlU called up the resolution directing that here
after there shall be contained in the official register
of the United States information as to the Congres
sional district from which each Government em
ploye is appointed. Mr. Brown offered an amend
ment providing that it should also contain informa
tion aa to whether such employes are white or col
ored. Mr. Hoar offered a reeo ution directing tbe
Committee on Privileges and Ejections to inquire
and report at t':e next session of Congress
what nnamres are n<e tful to secure the ascertain
ment and declaration of the result of the election of
President and Vice President Adopted. There
was a sharp discussion before going into executive
session over Kel:» gg’s reeoluti. n for information
about clerical appointments in the fevers/ depart
ments. Stanley Malt' ews1 confirmation took up the
whole executive senior. This was effected, by a
vote of 24 to 23, notwithstanding the adverse report
of the Judiciary Committee.
Josh BUlingg’ “Trump Cards.”
After > man gits to be 38 years old he
kant form any new habits much; the
best he kan do is to steer hiz old ones.
Enny man who kan swap horses or
ketch fish, and not lie about it. iz az
pins az men ever git to be in this world.
The sassyest man I ever met iz a hen
pecked husband when he iz away from
home.
An enthusiast iz an individual who
believes about four times az much az he
kan prove, and ho kan pro\e about tour
times az much az anybodey believes.
Thoze people who are trieing to get to
heaven on their kreed will find out at
last that they didn’t have a thru ticket.
Too long courtships are not alwnss ju
dicious. The partys often tire outskore
ing ’fore the trot begins.
Young men, learn to wait; if you un
dertake to sett a henn before she iz ready
you will lose yor time and confuse the
hen besides.
How Raisins Are Hade In California.
The grapes are allowed to remain on
the viue until of a golden color and
translucent. Then they are picked and
put on wooden trays two by three feet
m size, placed between the rows, sloping
to the sun. When half dried, they are
turned by putting a tray on top, and, by
inverting them both, are transferred to
the new tray. When the grapes lose,
their ashy appearance, and after remov
ing the green ones, the rest are put into
large sweat-boxes, placing sheets of pa
per between every twenty-five pounds of
raisins. They are left there for two
weeks, when the stems are tough and
the raisins soft. The packing follows,
in which iron or steel packing frames
are used, the raisins being assorted,
weighed, inspected and made pre
sentable.
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
HIMW
In tbo nrlr ntnmo
Come the Meadow Qoaken;
Not the shaken, not the Suaken
No, no, no.
rbeeequt t little people
BUnd straight as a church steeply
And no one ever saw then cone,
Or ever saw then go. •
White their hau snd broad-hrinnsd,
Lined w>tb pale aiik lining.
On then dewdro. s often shining—
Yea, yea, j'-s.
No butteifly goes near then,
No brown bee bums to cheer then,
And what these Quak r folks are celled
I want you all to gum.
—Harm' tafM>
BRUTUS MO HIS SUCCESSOR*. ^
Some years ago I owned a large flock
of sheep, aud though I should hesitate
to give in full my experience as a sheep
farmer, yet there are a few “episodes”
in that experience which may probably
amuse aud interest the boy readers of i
the Companion. One occurred the
second week after getting my first flock
home.
I had bonght “Brutus,” a very large
South Down buck, about as handsome
an animal as I ever saw. He would
have weighed, alive, at least 200 pounds,
aud was as portly as a lord. It did me
good to look at lus fleece; it was magnifi
cent
I did not know when I bought him,
that Brutus had a very sinister reputa
tion. This I afterwards learned. He
was a dangerous “butter," and had
shortly before killed two bucks, and had
nearly broken a man’s legs. Yet one
would never have thought it, on seeing'!
the beast; for Brutus had no horns and
had a most amiable expression. I led
him home myself. He seemed very do
cile.
The same week I alsobought “Ctesar.”
■ He was a young Cotswold, valued at
twenty dollars. He had asuperb eream
whito fleece, very long aud thick. His
former owner assured me that the wool
on Ctesar was ten inches in length, or
rather depth.
Though not yet fuliy grown, birhorns
were large and finely curved. He was
not so big and portly as Brutus; but I
liked him better in many respects.
Brntus I kept chained in one of the
barns; while Cteser dwelt in a pen, in
another barn, but had liberty to come
out into the barnyard, which was sur
rounded by a strong board fence, eight
or ten feet in height.
I knew they would fight if they were
to meet; but I thought they were se
curely confined. The barns were distant
from each other a hundred feet or more.
One morning I had let out my flock
into the fields, and was leisurely return
ing, salt dish in hand, to the house, when
I was startled by an ominous crash of
boards up at the barns. I Bet off in
haste to ascertain the cause, when an
other violent crash warned me to hurry.
I reached the yard just in time to see i
young Cffisar knocked headlong through
the board fence, at the lower end of it.
He lav partly in the gap and quivered.
I'thought at first that lie was stunned
merely. But he was dead. History
had repeated itself there in my sheep
yard; Brutus had slain Csesar; and, still
war-like, he stood inside the hole srd
dared me to come in.
It took both Mr. Bean (the hired man)
and myself to capture him.' We found
that ho had broken his chain, or
wrenched the staple from the post, and
got into the barn-yard by butting a
broad hole through the bpard fence.
The next day, or the next day but one,
he bunted down the useful Mr. Bean—
who had led him out to water—and
bruised bis leg rather badly. But,
though knocked flat, Bean had seized
the buck by one of his' hind legs and
held fast, and in a moment or two had
regained bis feet.
In that plight the two went over the
yard aud had a lively tussel for the mas
tery. At length Bean got hold of the
other hind leg and let go the chain.
Some minutes later he came down to
the house wheeling Brutus before him;
that is, he had both the ram’s hind legs
in his hands, and so forced the animal
to walk laboredly before him like a
wheelbarrow; or, as the boys at school
used to say, “walk Spanish.” The chain
was dragging after.
“Here’s your cretter—’sarn him!” he
exclaimed. “He like ter broke my
laig— saru him! Wy! a man s in danger
of liis life!”
Mrs. Bean came ont and said the
same; she declared she was in danger of
her life when she went to feed the hens
and hunt eggs.
I was obliged to dispose of Brutus.
In place of these two fallen heroes, I
next bought “John Gilpin,” a prompt,
straight-limbed South Down, with a
black face and smut legs. His name,
like that of his predecessors, come to me
on him. His former owner told me that
he knew his name as well as any boy,
and perhaps he did; for he really would
run to you when you said John Gilpin—
and shook the salt dish.
As a stock animal he was ranked high,
and I paid a correspondingly high price.
I may as well tell you what became of
him. For a year he was monarch of my
flock, a very proud and arrogant one.
He had grown. I valued him highly.
Every one who saw him admired him.
But a queer fatality hong over my stock
animala.
One day in October, the next fall,
after we had turned the sheep into the
fields, Mr. Bean came running to. the
house.
“There’s trouble, sir, up in the upper
field!” he exclaimed “There’s a strange
cretter come.”
Tronble, indeed! On reaching the up
per field, there lay John Gilpin with all
four of his black legs in the air and his
neck crooked under him, while over bis
prostrate body stood another great, bony,
bnt ill-conditioned ram with horns like
an argali’s.
Without exception, this was the most
rnflianly-looking brute I ever saw—a
creature all bone and horns, with little
flesh and less wool. Nevertheless, this
Ishmaelite had killed the well-bred John
Gilpin the very first “pass” he had made
at him.
We reconnoitred the beast at a respect
ful distance*. “I declare!” said Bean.
“He's a pill. Whar d’ye s’poee he oome
from?”
That was an open question. The ani
mal had what looked to be a towstring
tied round his neck, with the end drag
ging. Presumably, he had been hitched
somewhere, by somebody.
We drove the entire flock down to the
born-yard, and at length got the truculent
stranger into a pen in the barn, where I
meant to keep him till I could ascertain
who owned him, and recover damages.
But we had not got many steps from
the barn before we heard a crash, and,
turning, saw the new-comer just walking
out He had knocked the barn-door
down! Evidently we did not know him
yet
! “Sarn him!” exclaimed the astonished
Mr. Bean. “Why, he’* * regular old
Peelygarlic!”
We headed him off, atoned him back
into the barn, and then chained him to a
poet with two ox-chains.
Next day Mrs. Bean came to tell me
that there was a man below who wanted
to apeak with me. Going to the house I
found the Rev. Mr. Paul, a "superan
nuated” and retired clergyman of the
Methodist Church, who lived some two
miles distant, and who was trying hard,
in his way, to get a living from a small
farm. I knew him for a fair man and a
good citizen.
“Mv friend,” said he, "I hear that my
.beast has killed your beast.”
'VJ‘Ah, than, you own UiitntMHj taut'
that came along yesterday!” said X
•Tm sorry.”
“Well, Pm sorry," said Mr. Paul.
“Of course it is a damage to you, one I
must pay, if I can—unless you are willing
to go by the scriptural rule.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“The Levitical rule was that if one
man’s beast kills another man’s beast,
then he whose beast did the killing shall
take the dead beast and leave iu its
stead his own live beast, and thus the
affair shall end.”
“That may be Scripture.” said I, “but
it seems hardly the fair thing—in this
case. For my ‘beast’ was a valuable
animal; and I should oall your ‘beast’ a
scapegoat covered with sins and in
iquity.”
We both had a laugh over it.
“It scarcely seems fair, 1 admit,” said
Mr. Paul. “It is Scripture, neverthe
less.”
He went on to tell me that he had
been away from home, at an “ordina
tion meeting,” when his beast broke his
rope. Since morning he hod been
searching for him.
“Well, neighbor Paul,” said I, “we
will follow the ‘Levitical’ rule this time.”
So he took the dead John Gilpin in
his wagon aud drove off, leaving me the
liviug. Bnt I had much better have let
him take them both.
Next morning at breakfast Bean re
ported that Peelygarlic had, in some
way, got free from his chains, bunted
down the barn-door again, and left for
parts unknown; for he was not with our
flock.
“Let hipi go!” said L “Don’t follow
him. And pray fortune he may never
come back!”
But I had not stopped to consider the
consequences.
We heard no tidings from him for a
week or more, when one afternoon there
rode into the yard a man whom I knew
was in a passion the moment I saw him.
Ho demanded to know if I was the
owner of a beast which he proceeded to |
describe in such unhandsome terms that j
I instantly recognized Peelygarlic.
At first, I was on the point of dis
claiming all ownership of the brute, but
on a second thought I concluded ho was
mine, by the Levitical law, and I hai ac
cepted him as my property. I had to
acknowledge him.
The irate former had mistaken the
cause of my hesitation. He fairly shook
his fist in my face.
“I’ll give ye tivenfy-four hours,” he
shouted, “to come to my place and set
tle for his killing my full-blooded Me
rino!” and he drove off at a great rate,
the angriest man in the county.
Nothing remained but to go and “set
tle.” Accordingly Bean and I setoff next
morning. It was rather over three
miles. The fact of our coming put the
man in a rather better humor; and a few
fair words on my part pacified him so far
that he now admitted that liis “full
blooded Merino buck” was only half
blooded, and accepted $10 as a fair
equivalent.
But, meantime, Feelygorlic had gone
from there, in quest of new adventnres;
and fully awake now to the fact that
he was a dangerous representative to
have abroad, Bean and I gave chase.
We came up with the old chap about
two miles further on, in a pasture where
there were two cosset sheep and six or
eight young cattle, among whioh was a
black-and-white bull; and Peelygarlio
was fighting the bull.
Killing bucks had ceased to amuse
him. He had turned bis attention to
larger game; and certainly it was the
most am using encounter I ever witnessed.
The bull went roaring and charging
after the ram, while Peelygarlic, being
the lighter fighter, dodged about and
butted os ho got a chance.
Bean and I stood and watched the
fight and laughed. We both hoped the
bull would kill him. At length Peely
garlio got in one of his Bkull-smnaliing
blows plump between the bull’s horns,
fairly knocking the animal down; and he
followed it up with another on the bull’s
sides which made the creature’s ribs re
sound like a bas3 drum. In fact, I guess
he would have killed the bull if we had
not interfered.
We chased him into a corner of the
fence, captured him and took him home.
What to do with him now, unless we
killed him, we hardly knew. Finally we
put him in the barn cellar, and he stayed
there for as much as a week, till one day
there came along an odd featured man,
in an old thorough trace wagon, from
the township next above, to “ borrow ”
some seed wheat
He happened to look into the barn
cellar. What he saw in Peelygarlic that
made him wish to buy him, is more than
I know. But he came in and offered me
five dollars for him. It is needless to
say I took it.
Disciplined.
The children of the Crown Princess
of Germany are trained with a discipline
similar in severity to that which their
mother experienced in her English home
from her father. Prince Albert. Few
children in private families are kept un
der snch a strict regime as are these
royal children. Them imperial birth
and high rank secure them no privileges
in the nursery and school-room.
They rise and retire early and at regu
lar hours. Breakfasting at 8 with their
parents, a little leisure follows; but at
10 they are summoned to their books
and kept hard at work till 5, with an
hour’s intermission for dinner.
Their meals consist oi plain dishes,
simply cooked, of which they have free
choice. But, having chosen, thev must
eat what is set before them, for they are
not allowed to call for another dish,
even if they do experienco a change of
preference. ‘ Between meals no eating
is allowed.
Only inexpensive toys are permitted
for play, and they are required to take
good care of toys and book-*. The Prin
cesses have no waiting-maids to help at
their toilet, but are required to dress
themselves with neatness and taste. It
might be well for American parents to
import imperial fashions from Germany.
It certainly would, if adopted, improve
the health and manners of young
I imerica, a.
NEBRASKA NEWS.
Pawnee City has organized abase
bali company.
At Bloomington wolf hunting is again
growing in favor.
Tan Friendville cheese factory will
soon be at work.
Reabney Temperance Alliance is in a
flourishing condition.
The sleighing was good in Ponca so
late as the 15th of April.
J. E. McIlvaine, David City, has re
oeived $800 back pension.
J Freight is leayingBiduay in .large,
quantities for the Black Hills.
Farhers everywhere are taking hold,
of the sheep business in solid earnest.
At Bloomington 400 trees have been
planted on the Conrt House square.
Nobth Platte has granted a number
of licenses to run a year at low figures.
A circulating library is established
at Arapahoe, beginning with 200 vol
umes.
Lapse areas of millet are being sown
by cattle men in the western part of the
State.
J. W. Sides, of Wilber, killed a peli
can that was nine feet from tip to tip of
wings.
Grazing on the Platte bottom is
now very good, and cattle are fast pick
ing up.
The anniversary of Odd Fellowship
was observed by nearly every lodge in
the State.
A broom factory will be established
at Burton’s Bend, a few miles west of
Arapahoe.
A TREE planting mania seems to have
struck Bed Cloud, and everybody is
planting trees.
J. Baney, of Hardy, has killed and
received the bounty on eight wolves so
far this season.
The large church that floated down
the Missouri during the first rise was
from Green Island.
York county threatens to organize a
vigilance committee for the benefit of
lightning-rod men.
A large number of locations have
been made on Beaver creek, Furnas
county, this sprmg.
An Arapahoe saloonist refuses to take
out license under the new law. He wants
to see how it will operate.
It is estimated that the number of
people in Cedar county who lost all
their property by the flood is about 500.
York editors are receiving wild geese
from their admirers in sufficient num
bers to materially fill out the family
larder.
Bichard Dibble’s little boy, of Gage
county, found a she-wolf's den, and his
father dug it out, catching the old wolf
and four whelps.
Ten miles of track has been washed
out in Logon valley, and cuts are filled
with snow and mud. Bepairing will bo
almost like rebuilding.
Central City school-house grounds
have been ornamented with trees, and
the town generally has been greatly im
proved in the same way.
Dakota county lias happily escaped
with but little damage from the torrible
floods that have afflicted the neigboring
settlements of Southern Dakota.
Little Maud Yau Allen, ll-yeav-old
daughter of L. C. C. Van Allen, of Stew
art precinct, York county, set out 4,800
cottonwood slips on Arbor day.
Mb. L. B. Coy, of Stromsburg,
caught two hawks in a trap. One
was nearly shite, and measured thirty
nine inches from tip to tip Tof wings.
The other measured forty-seven inches.
As the occasional thunder-shower
goes roaring around, it is followed hy
the lightning-rod man, and he is followed
by the wails and curses of the farmer,
who gets $50 worth more rod than he
wanted.
A heavy hail and rain storm visited
Sheridan, Nehama county, April 30, do
ing great damage. Windows in houses
and cliurohcs were broken, two mules
wero killed on the new railroad, lumen
were unroofed, and hail weighing two
and a half ounces fell. N. Smith’s row
house was unroofed.
Work on the Jnlesburg short-cut to
Denver is about to commence, and will
be pushed through to completion with
the utmost vigor. It is understood the
company are hiring all the able-bodied
men who offer their services, paying
liberal wages, and furnishing free trans
portation to the front.
Noticb has been given by M. A.
Brown, President of the Nebraska Press
Association, that the annual excursion
of the association will leave Lincoln on
Wednesday, May 18. The destination
will be Chicago, where sufficient time
will be given for the excursionists to
visit the places of interest in and around
the city.
The saloon keepers of Nebraska City
propose to evade the Slocumb high-li
cense law in reference to putting up
screens in front of their doors or painted
glass in their windows. This is forbid
den by the law, and to evade this obsta
cle they have all ordered blue glass to
place m the front windows and doors of
their places of business.
Mr. D. SHEKDT.the cattle king of West
ern Nebraska, has bought of Coo & Car
ter their ranche near Itock creek, Wy.,
and their herd of 2,500 head of cattle
and seventy-five head of horses. Con
sideration somewhere between $50,000
or $69,000. The cattle consists princi
pally of beef steers, and a large per
centage will be shipped this season.
A kcmber of our citizens witnessed a
very singular phenomenon,'on Tuesday
last, in the Bhape of a meteor, resembling
in appearance a sky-rocket. Shooting
stars aro not infrequently seen in the
evening, but this occurred long beforo
dark, and was distinctly visible in all its
imposing grandeur. Its course was reg
ular from west to,east and moved at great
velocity toward the earth, leaving lumin
ous traces or phosphorescent bands be
i hind it, winch could also be distinctly
: seen. Its distance from the observers
! did not seem to be more than one mile,
] and it must have been a body of large size.
| —Humboldt Sentinel.
Cats.
Your books say that cats are “noc
tnmal in their habits,” and this state
ment \rill not hnrt yon, for it is trtte. It
means that cats wish to take their recre
ation when people wish to sleep. This
difference of taste accounts for the guer
rilla warfare which is waged' against
them night after night and year after
year from all the back windows in town.
It also accounts for the curions things
which you sometimes find in the back
yard in the morning and which t^o cook
tells you are meteorites. Nothing hits
been devised that kills cats, and weap
ons are limited to such hand projectiles
as inspire respeot or terror. The old
stone-throwing machines of the Greeks
and Romans were originally devised for
this kind of combnt, and were hence
called catapults. Every adult cat has
had more costly articles thrown at
it than any opera singer that over lived ;
for, when a man’s state of mind becomes
suoh that he gets out of bed to serve his
country in this cause,'the first article he
touohes is the thing that goes, whether
it be a coal scuttle, an ivory-backed
hair-brush or a diamond bracelet Mon
has the right of this conflict, and he will
surely win if he lives long enough.—
,Exchange. ..
The Cat
Gats are curious cattle. They are sel
fish. They are grasping. When the at
tributes were parceled out among the
animals, the catgut the gift of music.
She got it by violins.
No one knowB where oats come from,
but since the fashion of seal sacques
came in every body knows where most of
them go to. But this is kept a profound
secret among the owners of seal gar
ments. They set the seal of secrecy up
on it Purr-naps they are wise.
The cat has nine lives—that is to say
she lives nine times longer than she
ought.
This suggests a problem, whioh lovers
of mathematics—there are those, alas I
who love them—can puzzle over.
If it -take nine tailors to make one live
man, and nine lives to make one cat,
what does a catamount to? (Corre
spondents sending answers will please
inclose a 3-cent stamp, not for publica
tion, but for the use of the oompiler of
this authentic history.)
The cat is not subject to tax. Efforts
have been made to insert a clause in the
Dog law to inolude oats, but thus far
the cats have inserted their own daws.
Not only do they escape tax, but the
taxidermist also. They do their own
stuffing.
At the time of the flood Father Noah
endeavored to keep the cat out of the
ark, but the cat got her bock up and
passed in under the guise of a camel.
Until very recently, every ship has
since that time carried a cat.
Many stories are told of the seafaring
cat, including nine-tails, which are often
In Egypt cats were regarded as sacred
animals. To kill one was an offense pun
ishable with death.
The cat remembers this, and to this
day takes a fenoe on the slightest prove
cation.
Formerly, when a cat died, all the in
mates of the house went into mourning.
Now the household go out into the night
and erect bootjacks to its memory. They
don’t wait till morning.
The Egyptians worshiped a cat-headed
deity, and mariners, who cling to old
superstitions, still set up cat-heads in
their ships.
The Egyptian cat lived in a dork age;
the modem cat closes her existence in a
sausage.
Cat-skins were a favorite dress-trim
ming in the middle ages, whence arose
the proverb that a skinned cat is better
than it looks.
The cat's kin are now exclusively used
as a trimming for back fences.
A catkin is a young cat, and is great
on the spring. In the spring she may
be seen among the topmost branches of
the willows.
Cats were introduced into England
from the Island of Cyprus. They are
not found in the oypress now; only on
willows.
In ancient Wales a oat fetched the
same price as a calf. Her modern wails
now frequently fetch a whole cowhide in
the shape of boot leather.
Cats are Baptists by profession, but
tho--e who indulge their predilections
during early kittenhood seldom survive.
Cats are very mewsicaL They are all
base singers. The nocturne is their fa
vorite composition.
Nox is their especial deity. Knocks
always accompany their concerts.
Cats do not open their eyes until 9
days old. Do they ever close thorn
again ? Nein. Throw a boot-jack at a
sleeping cat and you will be convinced
of this.
Oats are supposed to be accomplices
of witches, which is probably because
they love the darkness rather than light.
It is said that cats are cleverer than
dogs and more easily trained. They
are great pedestrians, and can make
more laps in a given time than any other
animal.
They are generally healthy, notwith
standing we hear of “ the cat ill upon a
thousand hills.”
A great many more things might be
said about the cat.
But silent be, it is the cat I—Boston
Transcript.
Concerning the Hoon.
The moon, says Prof. Proctor, does
not revolve around the earth, but the
two circle about each other, and the
real center of the revolution of each is
the sun. If there were a railway suffi
ciently “ elevated ” to reach the moon,
which is 233,818 miles distant from us,
we should be fifteen months makum
the journey at ordinary railroad speed.
Upon arriving, we should observe sev
eral interesting phenomena. First, it is
a very respectable luminary of a diame
ter of 2,081 miles, with a surface of 14,
000,000 square miles, a volume one
forty-ninth of that of the earth, and a
mass one-eighty-first of it.
Then, the foroe of gravity being one
sixth of the earth, we could be thirty
six feet high, and still quite as active as
we ore here. But our longer bodies would
have a longer day in which to disport
themselves, for there is a lapse of twenty
nine and one-half of our days between
the lunar sunrise and sunset. Our ex
tremities, however, would certainly suf
fer after sunset, for the surface of the
moon is 250 degrees below zero at mid
night, ahd the reaction toward noon
would try even our prolonged propor
tions, for at noon the surface would be
38 degrees above the boiling-point. We
should be very lonely, probably, fcw
there is no living creature there now.
Still, as Prof. Proctor says that all
planets pass through five stages, the
last of which is death—a stage which
the moon has reached—the apprehensive
mind naturally inquires how soon the
earth will probably reach it. The pro
fessor answers, reassuringly, that the
earth is now about 500,000,000 years
old, and that it took themoon 80,000,000
to reach its present state. He therefore
concludes that it will take the earth 500,
000,000 years more to reach the same
condition. There is thus no immediate
| cause for apprehension.
Tub more gray hair we wear the more
we are convinced that many people know
so little of what they ought to know that
half the time they don’t know near as
much m they think they know.
Writing by Classic Models.
Without a “liberal education, ’ can
one write the best English? The Bos
ton Adtcertieer maintains the negative.
Here is an essential for those schools of
journalism that we read about Bays
ths Boston paper:
... “Given agood subject and aoompetent
mind, it is doubtful if it could be written
out tc the highest advantage, with true
propriety and in perfect taste, unless the
writer has been trained on the simple
and peerless models of the Latin and
Greek classics.”
This allegation shows that the allega
tor is np in the classics, and it puts into
the category of ths Philistines all that
deny.
But if the study of Latin and Greek'
gave logioal sense, it would perceive
that this assertion refutes itself, for 3
the peerless models had any virtue, it
would be developed in English litera
ture. The assertion that the suokling
writer must go behind this to the Latin
and Greek forms is the same as to say
that they have made no impress on the
English writers of these centuries. Thus
does this pompous saying deny itself.
Dogberry was wiser when he said, “to
write comes by nature.' Like poets,
orators and generals, writers are born.
_ First catch your hare—first be bom
right. Then all training is good that
helps. But just what kind of training
helps is what the school men have not
found out Educating hath this slight
imperfection, that no certain result can
be predicted. So much of writing comes
by nature that no man can tell what
Latin and Greek have done for him, or
■whwflmc'fip would not have pat,. in hie'
Time uetterfe English literature,
he would if the Latin and Greek classics
had formed the best English, for in this
he oould go directly to the treasures that
centuries of following the peerless
models have gathered.
Plenty of college men are in journal
ism in this country, but there are few
writers who have a “competent mind"
to choose “a good subject” and write it
“out to the highest advantage, with true
propriety and in perfect taste," or
indeed who oan write anything worthy
of distinction. If performance were
any test of this dictum, we might cite
out American classio. Our greatest
subject was the proposed national con- ■
stitution. It was “written out to the
highest advantage by competent minds” -
in the Federalist papers. They are re
garded as models of cogent reasoning
and perspicuous and elegant style.
How much Latin and Greek could Ham
ilton have had, who wrote the most and
best of these papers; who was a West
India counting house boy from twelve to
fifteen, a soldier at nineteen; who wrote
a remarkable literary paper at fifteen,
and distinguished himself at seventeen
and eighteen as a writer on the questions
between Great Britain and the Colonies?
A million might go through the classio
models without' producing one suoh
genius.
Men of inherent capacity do survive
Latin and Greek. Whether better or
worse for it is what nobody can find ont.
Many who have made highest attain
ments in these studies and nave beoome
eminent have denied their value. On
the other hand, a multitude continually
affirm their value, in whose performance
no one can Bee it. It gives some ideas of
the powers of words—of etymology; but
how much no one can tell, for in reality,
usage, not origin, governs. To allow
that it gives more than the same study
in English would allow that the classio
models have had no influence on English
literature. If it has the effect of “true
propriety and perfect taste,” it must be
in the arrangement of the words in sen
tences. If the writer were actually to
form these upon the peerless models he
would be like the soldiei of to-day in the
armor of the Greek warrior.—Cincinnati
Gazette.
-I
Depot and Station.
Mr. Kicliard Grant White say* that
Hie words railway and railroad are
both used, the former generally
in England, and the latter in thia
country; that railway is certainly
right and railroad measurably wrong.
“For a way is that which guides or directs
a course, or that upon which anything is
moved or carried. A road is the ground
ridden over.” But a way is a road and
a road is a way. And a railroad is the
ground ridden over, by means of rails to
direot the train. “But," he says, “the
calling of a wav a road is a venial of
fense compared with that of calling a
railroad station a depot. A depot is a
place where stores and materials are de
posited for safe keeping. A lonely
shanty, which looks like a lodge outside
of a garden of cucumbers, a staging of a
few planks, on which two or three peo
ple stand like criminals on a soaffold—to
call such places depots is the liight of
pretentious absurdity. But it is not less
incorrect to give the same name to the
most imposing building which is used
merely as a stopping place for trains and
passengers. There is no justification for
calling such a place a depot. ” Now a
depot is a place of deposit, and passen
gers and freight ore deposited at a depot.
If it is an objection to call it a "depot”
because a depot is a pluce where stores
and materials ore depo ited, the same
objection applies to “station,” because a
station means a place where materials
are stored. As a matter of fact, how
ever, “station” is growing more an more
into use.
Ears.
Large ears can hear things in general,
and denote broad, comprehensive views
and modes of thought, while small ears
hear things in particular, showing a dis
position to individualize, often accom
panied by love of the minute. Large
ears are usually satisfied with learning
the facts of a case, with the general
principles involved—too strict an atten
tion to the enumeration of details, es
pecially all repetition of the more unim
portant, is wearisome to them. People
with such ears like generally, and are
usually well fitted, to conduct large en
terorises, to receive and pay out large
sums; in buying or selling would prefer
to leave a margin rather tuan reduce the
quantity of any sort to the exact dimen- •
sions of the measure specified, and in
giving would prefer to give with a free
hand and without too strict a calculation
as to the exact amount. Small ears, on
the contrary, desire to know the particu- .
lars of a story as well as the main facts;
take delight often in examining, hand
ling or constructing tiny specimens of
workmanship; are disposed to be exact
with respect to inches and ounces in
buying or selling—to the extent,' at
least, of knowing the exact number over
or under the stated measure given or re
ceived. People with such ears would,
in most cases, prefer a retail to a whole
sale business.—Phrenological Journal,
What b a Yacht I "
The Troy Prean spins the following
nautical yam. “Is that a yacht?” we
inquired of a long, gaunt codder who
was lounging about the wharf, and we
pointed to a small steam vessel coming
in. “No,” was the reply. . “Is that a
yacht?” we inquired again, pointing to
another sort of craft that we thought
might be a yacht. “No, that ain't no
yot, nuther,” was the answer. “Well,
what is a yacht?” was onr next inquiry.
“What’s a yot?” said the fisherman,
Well, yon gets any sort of craft yon
please, and fill her up with liquor
and seeg-yars and git yer frenB on board
and have a yell of a tune—and that s a
yot!” We thanked him with fervor, for
we had long been trying to find out what
• yacht really was.
Opportunities are very sensitive
things; if yon slight them on their first
visit, you seldom see them again.