The frontier., June 02, 1881, Image 1

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

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VOLUME L
O’NEILL (CITY, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.
NUMBER 45.
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Riverton want* a good barber.
The Rlkhorn valley is alive with gnats.
The Bloomington brass band haa
reorganised.
Omaha has a new evening paper.
The TtUgram.
The M. F. chttrch at Alexandria ii
reedy to be dedicated.
Itooeta three dollar! a year to keep a
deg In North Bend.
Mr. Noil A. Pettygrove has been- ap
pointed poetmaeter at Oxford.
The bridge bonds at Snperkn carried
and their bridge will eooo go In.
Superior is soon to have a brass band.
Instruments have alreadv been received.
Will W. Wirt has again assumed the
entire editorial management of the Alexan
dria If mm
Hardy will have a bridge about thirty
days In advance of any town on the Repobllcan
river.—JTtrald.
There is a great demnnd for tenement
houses In Nebraska City. The ffen says It
anpracedenled.
There is great need of a school house
In 8chuyler. The JVswris using every effort to
have one constructed.
Sidney is the cleanest and dryest
tewn In the state. Buch, at least, la the claim
of that town's newspaper. -
The Herald predicts that there will
be a hundred buildings put up in Alma be
tween this aid June 1st, 1683.
lied Cloud’s handsomely uniformed
base ball club played a “scrub” nine recently,
and was Itadly scooped. The inembeis then
offered to sell out their uniforms.
Just as we expected. Whenever we
get in some appropriate remarks about the
dust, the general vapor condenser ami rain
sptller turns the faucet and sends down a
flood. - KmUr Euterpri*.
There are 42 school districts in Boone
county, and twenty-five teachers are now em
ployed and teaching. Of 1,423 children in ibe
county of school age, 703 attend. The value of
school property In the county Is IM47.3&.
The board of managers of the Ne
braska state fair have adopted a resolution in
viting President Garfield to attend the fair in
September. Senator Van Wyck is to present
him with a copy of the resolution.
Pebble Creek has been on the boom
lately. The water got up so high that a school
house was carried down stream about a mile,
and Snyder's mill was undermined. The Elk
boni has also been on the boom, und Hooper
was again under water.—North Bend BuUsUh.
Citizens of Exeter have decided to
build a school house, and a meeting In called
for June 7th to vote boods for the same, and
appoint a building committee. There seems
to be no doubt that the necessary two thirds
majority can be obtained. A . brick school
building Is wanted by a majority of the people.
The commissioners of Cheyenne co n
ty have decided to place fer sale In the bauds
of Mr. H. T. Clark, of Bellevue, the twenty
thousand dollar funding bonds, voted on the
5th of April. No bids were received m answer
to advertisements, and this step has been
thought advisable.
A young farmer named Staunton, of
Douglas County, upon returning borne from a
trip to Omaha, was seised by about 35 men,
taken two miles, tied to a tree, and tarred and
feathered. He had gained the ill-favor of
neighbors by having a woman arrested for beat
ing him while he, ss a constable,went to make
a levy on her property. This is his story.
The commissioners court of Harlan
county recently set few the purpose of deter
mining the esse of James Billings, county
tressurer, who was charged by Gilbert L.Law§,
of habitual snd wilful neglect of duty, and of
extortion. After listening to testimony and
arguments, the commissioners deckled that
Billings was guilty, and declared the office
vacant. J. A. Randall was appointed to fill t he
office until a county treasurer Is elected.
Hans C. Theusen was shot and killed
by a man named Nells Gotfriedseo, nesr Onl,
Valley county, the other day. A coroner's
Jury decided that the deed wss committed
purposely and with premeditated malice. The
murderer gave himself up, aud 1* now in jail,
having waived examination and been commit
ted without bail. The crime grew out of a
quarrel between the two men c ncerning some
things Theusen had stored in Gotfriedsen’s
granary, the latter refusing for some res-on to
let them be taken away.
Webster county Argus: A large army
of what common folks unscientifically de »omi
nate “bugs” passed over town a few evenings
since. Whence they came or whither they
were Journeying we are unable to say. A
yonkdr brought us one in a bottle for our
Inspection; but the unfortunate arttcuhtehsd
been so in temperately soaked in alcohol that
IU own venerable hog-mother wouldn't
have known it; all we coaid make out was
that it was a regular insect—having six legs
and a peaked thorax.
“The other day,” says the Sherman
county Timm, “while our industrious assessor,
A. R. Chariton, was sitting in his castle, fig
uring up his probable profits in taking the
census at (me cent per bead, be and his wife
were startled by a rattlesnake's thrill warn
ing which strikes terror even Co Wrculcan
hearts. They looked in the direction from
whence ensued the sound, and there spied a
big snake coiled up on a bench Just at the foot
of the bed on which Mrs. Charlton was
reclining, and but a few feet from their little
boy, who was sitting on the floor ss
unconcerned as could be, trying to mock the
snake with his tin rattle. Poles and hoes
were brought into requisition, and in a few
minutes all that was mortal of his snake ship
was dragged out into the back yard. Bert de
clared to us that it was eighteen feet long and
bad thirty-six rattles and three buttons, but
we have since been Informed by) s neighbor
who viewed the corpse of the dlparted serpent
that it was only a' o;:t four ffee^kmg, and had
but five rattles and a button.
"1m Belter wee Batpal.
Daniel Webster, traveling, had I lie
night stage from Baltimore to Washing
ton. with no oompanion save a driver,
and contemplated that worthy's f« abid
ing visage with a very uneasy mind. He
baa nearly reasoned Lis suspicious fours
away, when they came totbe dark woods
between Bladensbnrg and Washington,
" when Mr. Webster felt the courage ooz
ing out of his finger ends to he thought
what a fitting place it was for a
murder. Suddenly the driver turned
toward him and roughly temauded his
name. It was given. Tl(an. he wanted
to know where he waa'going. “To
Washington. I am a senator,” said
Daniel, expecting his first thoughts were
near realization. The driver grasped
him by the hand, saying: “Mow .glad
1 am, mister, to hear t hat I~ I’ve been
badly scared for the last hour, for when
I looked at you I felt sure yon was a
highwayman.”
All druggists in this Mate say that
Da^ Kidney Fad b giving the best of
NEWS OF THE WEEK!
The New York Evening Past hu paus
ed Into the control of Carl Scfaura.
In Brooklyn, the other day, 8,741
teacher* and 52,000children took part In a Son
day ackool paAde.
The assessed value of St. Louis prop
erty has I-lie* 819,000,000 in the past year.
The mayor’* message urges Inquiry.
After bring attacked by paralysis
several lime*, Thomas A- Scott, the great
Philadelphia, railway manager died. Be
passed away on the Slat.
A nolle pmequ* haa been entered in
the case of the state of New York against Ken
ward Phllp, who was charged with haring
written the famous Morey letter.
In the Baptist home missionary soci
ety, at Indianapolis, Hon. Geo. W. Williams
(colored), of Ohio, stated in the course of a
discussion on New Mexico that 80,000 colored
people of Louisiana and many from other
southern state* were preparing to emigrate to
that country during the coming summer.
Up v&rds of 160 prominent' men of
Boston assembled the other evening to con
sider the feasibility of inaugurating a world’s
fair to be held in that city in 1885. The ad
vantage of Be ston holding a world’s fair were
enthusiastically set forth by speakers and a
favorable view given to the suggest ion for
that purpose.
Two hundred and thirty-eight bodies
were recovered up to the 25th Inst., from the
wrecked steamer Victoria near London, Onta
rio, and others were thought to b4 still in the
water. Heart rending scenes ensued as friends
and relative! Identified the bodies. The city
was in mourning, business having been sus
pended. Many prominent men weot do era
the steamer.
Crop reports from the in erior of Ar
kansaw are rather discouraging. Continuous
rains have prevented working and crops are
badly in grass. To add to the misfortunes of
farmers a species of cut worm have v mp’etely
destroyed stands of cotton on a gnat many
large plantations and the trouble is there is
not enough seed to replant this year. Locusts
are appearing In many portions of the state.
The northwestern canal convention
assembled at Davenport on the 25th with
376 delegates ia attendance representing seven
ty-seven cities, towns and alliances, with fell
state delegations in attendance from Michigan,
Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois.
The committee on permanent organization
made a leport, which was adopted. It nam
ed for chairman Hon. R. O. Hoar, of East Sag
inaw, Mich., with the following list of vlce
pres'dents: T. W. Palmer, J. L. Switz, J. W.
Chapman, Geo. Scbineaer, W. T. Walker,
Chas. T. Seymore, Jno. Dement, E. O. Stan-,
nard, Chas. P. King, J. 8. Clarkson and Wm.
Pattit. Chairman Hoar waa escorted to the
chair by Meiers. Palmer, of Michigan, and
Mahon, of Iowa. He made a happy speech of
half an ho it.
An explosion of 1,000 barrels of Dan
forth’s fluid stored in a cellar on Edmond
street, St. Joseph, occurred at nine o’clock
the other night The floor over the cellar was
occupied u a saloon and billiard room by a
colored man,and a number of colored men were
in there at the time. All lost their lives. The
number cannot be obtained, but is variously
estimated at from fifteen to twenty-five. Five
bodies have been recover® 1, all burned beyond
recoginitlon. It Is said that one white wo
man waa in the place at the time of the casualty.
The building was totally demolished and in
stantly the Inmates wi re buried In the debris,
which was completely enveloped by the hot
flame of burning fluid. Water was freely used
by the fire department, but was of no avail.
Several thousand excited people surrounded
the scene of the disaster, and many women and
children weie scream ng and bewailing the
loss of their husbands, fathers or friends. The
concussion shook buildings for several blocks
distant.
On the evening of May 24, at six
o’clock the steamer Victoria with over 600 ex
cursionists on board,was returning to London,
Ontario, from Spring Bank, and when near
Cove railway bridge, oue mile below the city,
the boat suddenly collapsed like an egg shell
and became a total wreck level with the water’s
edge, and all the passengers were instantly
plunged into the stream, more than half of
them being underneath the debris. The first
news which reached the city was brought by
survivors, who struggled through the streets
wet and weary. It fell like a thunderbolt, and
a stampede took place for the spot. Arriv
ing there a terrible sight met the view. Fifty
or sixty bodies had already been recovered,
and were lying on the green sward some dis
tance up the bank. By seven o’clock about
eighty bodies were recovered from under the
wreck, where the water was twelve feet deep.
Almost every minute some victim was brought
to the surface and conveyed to a boat. The
steamer Princess Louise was early brought to
the spot and the victims placed on her u;>per
decks. Fires were lit • n the bank overlook
ing the river, and petroleum torches were
brought and the search continued. The
city of London was all confusion. The
landing at the foot of Dundas street was
crowded with people, all awaiting in breath
less expectation, the arrival of the Princess
Louise. The dead was estimated 1175. The
accident was certainly due to gross careless
ness. The boat was over-crowded to a disgrace
ful extent. Manager George Parrish was ex
postulated with by several at Spring Bank,
and urged not to let the boat go oat in that
ovei loaded condition, but be Is reported to
have replied, “All r'gbt; I know my bnsiness,”
or something of that sort. Mr. San uel Stew
art, a stove merchant, one of those who pro
tested, left the boat at Spring Bank with his
f unity. Several hundred more remained there
arable to get passage, and had to wilk home,
a distance of four miles, no conveyance of any
kind being available.
CHIMB*
Two young men, Austin arid Bran
non, quarrel* d at C'Hler, Scott county, Ar
kansas, about a young lady. To Fettle the
depute they measured Are or six paces of
ground, placed themselves opposite each other,
and at a giveu signal fired - five or s<x shots
each. Braunon fell mortally wounded. Aus
tin was arrested, but escaped, and is at large.
Mary Smith, the captain of a gang of
dileves, long infesting Leadville, C lorado,
has been arrested, and a large amount of sto
len property found on her person. This wo
man, who Is young and attractive, is said to
have a checkered history. Tnose who have
knowo her state that for years she has made a
living by criminal pursuits. On one occasion
she went to a hotel in Louisville and indn ed m
geitleman to come to her room. WL c he
disrobed she coolly pitched his clotb<> out of
the window, and then began to undri ss herself.
When she bad remove ! her outer garments
she demanded that be call the clerk and expose
himself. He was a man of family, a pillar in
the church, and rather than be disgraced he
paid the blackmail and ordering a new -nit de
parted. This fact is well known to the au
thorities east. A few da>s ago a ni 'n^bois
known to be crooked told the police that this
woman was implicated in a robbery in Tlgar
ai)ey a few weeks ago. His story wss that,
with a Bale companion, dreseed in trousers
sad coat, she >went through the victim while
the other held him up. Her house wss dark
sad apparently deserted all day, bat In the
night every chinch wns a line of light, and it
Is believed secret meetings at the gang were
held there. Tbs capture Is a very Important
one, sad will probably go a great way to break
up the gang.
The New York Telegram of the 83d
print! the following aeunttonal story under
dnte of Parle, on the strength of a letter from
8i. Petersburg: This morning’s Intmutgmt
announces that at seven o’clock in the morn
ing of the loth lust, just four days after the
birth of her child, Bear; Helfman, whom
everybody supposed to be alive and awaiting
the pleasure of Alexander, was hanged in
i rlaon. It Is said that she had been tortured
daily in the most llendiah manner to wring
confession from her. Night after night she
was awakened and warned that her hour was
near. For several days in succession she was
literally strung up and cut down only just in
time to prevent expiring. Oh the mnawlng of
the 18th the hanging process is said to hare
lasted a little too long, a> d when Bessy was
cut down It was discovered that she was stran
gled to death. The Inlratutgeit adds that
the indignation and excitement in 8L Peters
burg are immense. Troops are forbidden to
leave their barracks on any pretense, and a
revolutionary movement stems to be antici
pated.
The greater part of Pilsk, in the gov
ernment of Minsk, was burned May 23. Great
distress prevails among the inhabitants, who
number 18,000. The losses are enormous.
nixes.
Several speakers in the monetary con
ference recapitulated their arguments on the
19th, and a general d scnaslon closed the con
ference. In deference to the wishes of several
delegates it wss then adjourned to June 30th.
Judge Boar’s speech wss very able and the con
ference was inten. ely interested in lb lie said
the Untied States were not here In the behalf
of mine owners, or to bnll the market Agri
culture is our c lief int rest The annual cot
ton crop is worth seven times,the wheat twelve
times, and the corn eighteen times the average
annual product, of the silver mines. America
seeks for the world and herself a broad and
stable money basie.
IBULSKD.
Brennan has been arrested and
thrown Into pi toon. Be is charged within
citing to acts of violence, by advising people
to pay no rent except at the bayonet’s point
Mr. Doherth, secretary of Kilfinane,
county Limerick, branch of the land league,
Assistant Secretary Rennien and a member
named Allen, have been arrested under the
coercion act for Intimidation. ,
swans*.
The Swedish government is becoming
alarmed and com templates legislation In view
of emigration, which is assuming the propor
tions of in exodus. Several counties are
practically denuded < f able bodied inhabi
tants
IRSLAND.
Parnell is seriously on well at Dublin,
and baa been ordered to take rest by his phy
sicians. 4
Brennan has been visited in the Nass
jaO. Be expresses himself pleased with the
treatment genermllyf'bnt ’complained bitterly
of being obliged to retire to his cell at six
o’clock In the evening, there to remain nntll
•even in the morning.
THE DOCTORS’ LAW.
What Physicians are liegalnd In do
Under the New .tel.
After June 1st, 1881, it will bo unlaw
ful for any physician to practice medicino,
surgery or obstetrics without registration in
the physicians’ register, in the office of the
county clerk. The law ■ vys:
“it shall be the dnty of all persons claiming
to be physicians, and Intending to practice
medicine, surgery, or obstetrics in statfc of Ne
braska, before beginning the practice thereof,
In any branch thereof, to register as a physi
c'an by Sling with the county clerk of the
county in which he or she resides, or in which
he or she Intends to practice, a statement In
writing under oath or affirmation, giving his
or her full name, age, place of birth, place of
residence, place of business, and the lime he
or she has practiced, and the time of such prac
tice in each place, and if he or she is or has
been a member of any medical society or s >
eietles, the name and location of such society
or societies, and if he or she is a graduate of
any medical college or university, the date of
bis or her graduation, and the foil and trne
name and lo ration of such college, institution
or university. Such statement shall lie filed
by the county clerk, and by him recorded In a
book to he kept for that purpose to be called
the ’Physicians’ Register.’ ”
New fork Ladies la the Saddle.
From s New York Letter.
The appearance of the young Amazons
is the prettiest thing in the park. The
young riders are learning to sit square
on the saddle, and to hold a light hand
on the rein. Also to be independent of
the stirrup, that the foot can be easily ex
tracted. The habits are worn short and
the hats small and comfortable. They
are learning that the curb bit, the stir
rup aud the pommel are not the ie >1
things to depend npon bnt to cultivate
a strong knee hold and a firm nerve. 1
saw a horse go mad with blind staggers
in a carriage in the park, and dash in
among a groupe of equestriennes. No
one screamed, no one betrayed fear.
“Take ont your knife and bleed him in
the month,” said one fair-haired girl
who looked about seventeen. The
colored coachman did so, at her sugges- i
tion. Now, in such an unlooked for
danger, horses caught the contagion of
fear, and this girl’s fine thoroughbred
trembled all over, but she did not tremble.
One little gauntleted hand was on his
neck and the other held the rein. It
was as fine a sight in its way as Alex
ander and Bucephelas._’
Weston Editorial Ceartesies.
Colorado Independent.
Watkins, the editor of the Tuscan
Journal, dubbed Hughes, of the Arizo
na Star, for stating that he was inexpe
rienced anil fresh, which mores the Vir
ginia City Chronicle to ndd: “Mr.
Watkins most be very young in the busi
ness to go out with a club because of
a little item like that. A year or two j
ago Nevada journalism would cause him
to smile with pleasure at his growing
reputation, on learning from nis con
temporaries that he was a driveling
idiot, a purchased scoundrel, a coward
ly sneak, a toady, a thief, a suspected
murderer and a disgrace to the state in
general. When ho met any one of the
able editors who had thus advertised
him lie would shake hands and hospita
bly assist him on his joyfhl journey to a
drunkard's grave,”_
To discover a truth ami to separate it
from a falsehood is surely an occupa
tion worthy of the best intelle< t, and not
at all unworthy of toe best heart.
THOSE' HBSIOH ATIOS8.
Liteat DenkvMU C*w*rmUg lk«
Trutlili Sew tirt. ,
ALSTTSB FBONOBAXT.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, recently
received from ex-President Grant, a letter on
the subject of the New York appointment*.
With is was a private letter to President Gar
field, which waa handed to him by Mr. Jones,
and oas not been made public. The letter to
the Nevada senator is ss follows:
Crrv of lfaxioo, April 34.
My Dux Sbxatob:—I see by the latest dis
patcher recetved here frpm the capital of <mr |
country that the dead lock, in organising the
senate, is not yet broken and that nothing 1 as ,
been done by the president to allay the bitter- i
ness which must be engendered ny his most
recent appointments. When the first hatch or
nominations for New. York was sent, I was de
lighted. I believed then the president had de
termined to recognise the republican party,
and not a faction, bat his nominations of the
next day convinced me 1hat the first, set was
but a part of a Ue<. p laid scheme ly somebody
to punish prominent leaders for relng opely
f'iendl.v tome. Iran not belt-ve that Gen.
Garfield is the author of this policy. I give
him the credit for being loo big a roan to de
scend io such modes for the punishment of
men who gave him a hesrtv support In hlagwfr
lion and who are disposed »o give
support now, for the offense of havMjgMwfi
president and is responsible for all the acts of
tile administration. Conkling and Platt are
the chosen senators from the great state ol
New York, nd that too against all the oppo
sitiot of an administration created by the same
party that elected them. This should give
them all the strong*-r claim to he consulted In
the matter of appoin'menta in their state.
When it cornea to filling the most influential
office in their state without consulting these
senators, it is » peat slight. When
ho select* the most offensive man to
be found, it becomes an insult and
ought to be resented to the bitter end. I sin
cerely hope the president will see this and cor
rect his mistake himself and restore harmony
lo the party. * lie owes this to himself and to
tho e without whom be could not have been
e’ected. Nobody believes he could have car
ried the state of New YoTk without the active
support of her present senators. Their passive
support would not have answered. Without
the sta’e of New York Gen. Garfield would not
now be president. His rewarding Robertson
is not only offensive to the New York senators,
but it is to New York republicans. The change
of Bade iu and l ramer, t’ e appointments in
ahleh I ;e’» a strong person • l interest, was
very di-tast- ful to me. The first because of
our personal relations, and my wish that he
should be kept where his office would support
him until he finishes some work he is eugag d
iii*oii and which he could do without interfer
ing with his pu'-lic duties. The second be
c us it was at the exfenteof removing the
son of my old secretary of ftate who probably
never had a i-uperlor, certainly never for moral
woith. In the department It is true be re
s’gned. but he did this fioui a sense of honor,
supposing it to be the; duty of representatives
abroad to g. ve a new admmistrati >n the oppor
tunity of paying whether they were wanted or
not Very truly yours _
[Sigued ] U. 8. Graft.
To bon. J. P. Jones, United 8tates senator,
Washington, D. C.
A FEW WORDS PROM CONKLING.
8eo»ti>r Cock'll gw*» to h»ve led. fnr New
York clly i n the l«ih. Fur tw i days [rior he
lalked very litile about his plant and purposes
except to HU st confidential trie,ids. He said
nothing shout the criticism of himself by the
pn ss and did not seem to notice it. Talking
to a friend who serve 1 year • with h m in the
senate he said he did not lnteud to turn his
band over i obtain a reclsctiou; th t he had
submitted the issue to the lepubllcau party of
New York, and would abide by Its judgment
without any atlemi t to Influence it. It New
York republicans choose to send another man
ss senator, a man who would labor and strive
to en ure and suffer to keep New York in the
list of republican states, he would utter no
wor 1 of protest. On the other hand, i: the
pei ty decided to re elect him, he wouldresume
ids senatorial office, but he Is not beeping for
it. He Is not worth exceeding *40,000 today,
having si rved hie pirty and state so long he
is a poor nian^ He could make at least $100,
300 a year Id law practice, and it not re-elec
ted wl.l devote himself to that. Men work
ing for his re election are d**ing s> without
his advice or request
No attempt had been made, up to the 30th,
by senators to get Conkling’s seat In the
chamber, the prevailing opinion among re
publicans being that he would be returned to
ail it himself. His seat is one of the best In
the senate.
CANDIDATES AGAIN.
The New York Times of .he 23d says:
rbe question of the intentions of Conkling
tnd Platt in regard to endeavoring to induce
the legislature to return them to the United
States senate which they voluntarily relin
luisbed a week ago to- lay was definitely set
i led yesterday. The two gentlemen began an
ictive c 'mpatgn in Albany to-day for the office
ind vindication. Conkling was consulting
with friends informally until a very late hour
pes'erday morning. It was well on to sunrise
when the distinguished ex senator sought re
pose and when he did so his plans for the cam
paign ou which he is about to enter in behalf
if himself and Platt w« re thoroughly matured.
At one o’clock yesterday morning Conkling
Mid Platt entered a coupe and were driven to
die midencc of Vice President Artnur. Here
they were met by the Tice president. Assem
blyman Carpenti r, Speaker Sharp of the as
sembly, Police Commissioner French, Charles
Dennison and Arthur B. Johnson of Utica,
lohn F. Smyth of Albanr, ex-United States
Marshal Louis F. Paine of New York, and Sen
itor John P. Jones of Nevada, and the anxious
ly expected conference was held. Conkling
iitnounced that personally be preferred to re
tire to private life to ugaiu entering upon the
lutiqs of senator. He had served his
date in the senate to the best of his
ability for many jears, and he was
now ready to step dowu and allow some other
naB to lake his place. But, notwithstanding
Ills personal feelings in the matter, he felt it
iras due his friends to take their advice on a
ires'ion of togre it importance, and he was
billing to sacrifice his personal feelings to
their demands. He wanted it distinctly un
1. rst od that in case of his again becoming a
•andtda'e for the senate, Platt must be united
Nil h him. He will be a party to no arrange
ment by which he should be returned to the
senate and Platt be sacrificed. The cause of
the younger man was his own, and the two
must stand or fall together. He would coun
tenance no combination which should send to
Washington as his colieigue any other man
;h»n the one who acted w th him in detnand
ng that, the state should be respected by the
•resident. It was the opini< n of Vice-Presi
Jent Arthur and all the gentlemen present,
that both Conkling and Platt should go
to Albany st once and personally engage in
he contest before the legislature. This
ichcme was somewhat distasteful to Mr. Conk
ing. He said: “Of course, lam in the hands
>f my friends now, and I feel bound to defer
o their wishes, but I do not like the idea of
roing to Albany on this mission. However, it
(half he as you decide.” Avery careful can
rass of the members of both houses was made
luring the conference and the result was that
he gentlemen came to the unanimous conclu
sion that both Conkling and Platt could be
llected.
Auti-Conkling men claim that fifty-two re
publicans of the legislature are pledged against
;he ex-senators.
A HISTORY OP THE RESIGNATIONS.
The correspondent of the New York
Tribune, at Albany, telegraphs to his paper the
following: Mr. Conkling has made a state
ment which will perhaps surprise some, that
ie di 1 no approve of the anion of republican
senators with Senator Mabone. He h»s stated
if re in positive terms tha he advised against
h * alliance as unwise and likely to prove
; ouble-ome, but t ic administration favored it
ind he yielded. Yet when the Robertson mat
er ca »e up the administration apparently did
ill in its power to embarrass the republ cans in
mion with Maho e by constantly sending nom
nations, thus giving the demo, rats every few
lays fre h excus e lor their demand to go into
•xecutiv.* session. Conkling ►aid If there had
een a chan docket the dead-lo k need not
lave la-ud, and the business of the senate
•oukl have been com pie led. Hut the
nost unexpected statement Is that it
vas Platt who • riginated the plan of re
signing. C inkling has told his friends that
ihortly ! efore Judge Robertson was confirmed
i*latt assured him that an adjustment of the
rhole ma'ter was near at hand. Conkling
save no hint as to what the proposed adjut-t
beot was, but soon after and on the same day
>n which, at a later hour, the letter of resig
lation was written, Plat't came into his room
ooklng, as he said, “all gone.” The promis
ed adjustment had fallen through. Thepresi
lent receded. Then Platt said: “I shall re
sign and state my side of the ease In the sen
ile next Wednesday.” My Informant states
[hat Conkling said, “It has not entered my
lead beforeko resign. If youreaign Til resign,
foo.” Conkling ac'ded after a moment: “Bui
rou can’t resign now and state your case next
Wednesday. In the election of senators Tnes
iays count. The legislature might have ad
Joiuj^iby Thunder, and It wnM be too late
to fUaracancy. Ttie better war will be to
write I letter and forward it at once.” IMe
wae apmd upon, and Colliding abut hlmaelf
In Me loon, and then and there wrote a letter
-r-m
WASHINGTON ROTES.
Ll DCC VOECED TO EBHOE.
. president sent for Commissioner
he Mn the morning of the 19th to come to
the *Mte honse. Le Doc pat In an appear
ance end the president told him he must nave
his reehmetlob immedletelj. It m written
then «M there.
tss last noons.
On Ote 30st instant the senate ad
omeaikw dfe. Contrary to the nnulc nstom
no iWretmnt pro tnw wee elected. Before final
ad)<ran£MtWallace R. White, of Maine, was
confirap as U. 8. attorney of Idaho; Albert
W Beflh Of Indiana, collector of customs at
PugetffMnJ, Washington territory; Schofield,
Judge of the court of claims; and the follow
ing ‘J. & consuls: John B. Glover, of Indiana,
at Havre,. France; Geo. F. Mosier, of New
"-■' at Nice, France; William & Wells
at Rotterdam; M. & Whalon,
oonnebnrg; E. H. Rogers, of Ne
eraCrnx; H. 8, Kaley, of Nebtas
wasrejei
■onsDUniMcuinm.
The investigation of the accounts and*
conduct of O. L Pitney, custodian of the
treasury department, ordered by Secretary
Wlndom, Is developing ugly facts and Involv
ing persons who have held places. Pltney’a busi
ness Is to buy everything needed In the treas
ury, Including furniture, carpets, soap, etc.
It has been ascertained that he has for six
years violated the law requiring him to pur
chase by contract from the lowest bidders.
He has bought horn friends and favorites
without making contracts, paying tnem what
ever they charged. No system of books or list
of purchase have been kept, and everything
has been run loosely and against all business
rules. Outrageously exhorbitant prices have
been paid, ranging from thirty to fifty per
cent, higher than the ruling market price and
the difference between the market prices, and
those paid has been allowed to Pitney In the
way ofgoods for his own use. One of Pitney’s
cabinet makers says be has been
working for outside parties nearly all
the time for several years back and getting pay
bom the government He worked a month in
the house of a high government official and
frequently went from one home to another of
persons in government employ doing whatever
they wanted and the money paid for bis sendees
was charged down to the different government
bureaus. He nude fifteen fac similes of the
desk used by Jefferson in writing the declaration
of independence, each costing 900. The ma
terials were paid for from government money,
bnt given out as presents by treasury authori
ties to blends. Treasury furniture has been
loaned to private individuals, and facts Indi
cate that there is a regular ring of treasury
subordinates who are benefitted by frauds like
the above and by the the reckless manage
ment. A number of removals will doubtless
result. A number of ex-cabinet officers are
mentioned In the testimony as having profited
bgr work at their houses.
THU BOND BOOM. '
Two hundred and fifty million dollars
of registered five per cent bonds have been
received at the treasury department for con
tinuance. This is all the secretary will ac
cept.
APPOINTMENTS.
The president has made the follow
ing recess appointments: Consuls of the
United States: Jesse H. More, of Illinois, at
Calleo; John M. Bailey, of Massachusetts, at
Jerusolem; George W. Rosevelt, of Penn
sulvanla, at Bordeaux. Collectors for Internal
revenue for Texas: Wm. H. Snclair first
district, B. C. Ludlow second district, Wm.
Umbneretook foprth district.
OOMINO HOME.
Secretary Kirkwood was to have left
for his Iowa home on the 9j>th- He will look
after his private affairs.
BESIONED.
General J. A. Williamson, commis
slbnergeneral of the land office, on the 34th‘
tendered the secretary of the interior bis resig
nation, which was promptly accepted. Gen
eral Williamson states that this step Is volun
tary on his part, and that he has had It in con
templation for some time.
Good Physicians.
Chris. Advocate.
The satirical remark quoted by Mr.
Francis Galton in his “Art of Travel,”
to the effect that there is a great differ
ence between a good physician and a
bad one, but very much less.between a
good physician and none at all, is foun
ded upon a great truth, and one which
human nature is very averse to accept
ing. The demand is universal that
something shall always be done, when
ever the customary ease of our life-pro
cesses gives place to disease, that shall
appear to be powerful to restore health
again. Equally universal is the expec
tation that physicians should be able at
once to thoroughly divine the exact na
ture of any trouble that shall be brought
to their notice, and that they ought al
ways to be ready on the instant to tell
what the matter is, and what is the very
best thing to do for it. The result of
this is that, whenever a physician is
called to the sick, he is compelled to do
something; the more skillful he is, the
more conprehensive his knowledge of
the infinite variety of manifestations of
the same disease, or of the many differ
ent diseases which may have common
symptoms, the less likely is he to be
positive at first in his opinion as to the
exact nature of the trouble with which
be has to deal, and the less likely is he
to resort immediately to active medi
cation; the more ignorant he is, the
more restricted his medical horizon, the
more quick y and positively does he
form an opinion, and the more actively
does he proceed to attack the trouble
which he believes to exist. During the
last hundred years physicians have been
particularly interested in studying what
is termed the natural history of di
seases; that is, the course which diseases
lake when left to Ihemselves without
medical treatment. The result of this
study has been to demonstrate that in
most cases the powers of nature are
quite sufficient to effect a cure, if only
nature is left alone; modem observa
tion thns giving added force to the max
im of Hippocrates, uttered aver two
thousand three hundred ye-irs ago, that
the first care of a physician should be
to “Do no harm.” We see now how
il is Lilac onen ine wisest pn^siciau may
be he who docs the least, and so exem
plifies that it is true that in some cases
there is very little difference between a
good physician and none at all; beyond
the power which the physician may
have to save his patient from the ofn
ciousncs* of friends, ever ready to ad
vise and suggest in matters of which
they know the least. The necessity
which is imposed upon the doctors to
give an opinion at sight often develops
in them an ability in the line of evasive
oracnlarity which would have made
their fortunes in the days of the sooth
sayers and priests of the oracles among
the ancients. To seem to know every
thing while one is certain of nothing,
and to seem to be doing something
while in reality convinced of the propri
ety of doing nothing, are some of the
absurdities which are yet. required of
their physicians by a credulous and ex
acting public. In the golden age of the
future it may be that pretence to super
natural knowledge of disease will be es
teemed a proof of an imposter, that an
acknowledgment of uncertainty and a
desire to wait for more distinct symp
toms to develop before hazarding an
opinion will be esteemed as a proof of
wisdom, and that resort to medicine of
some kind for every derangement of
bodily function will be esteemed a proof
of dementia.
NATURAL HISTORY)
A Tobacco Batiks Rat.—The ven
erable argument against the nee of to-'
banco, that it invariably makes the low
er animals sick, would fall to the
ground if a certain St. Louis rat were
brought forward aa an illustration.
That singular creature is the pet of the
tobacco shop in which he has taken Up
his abode. Seated upon a pile of leu
tobaooo, he nibbles away as if a bit of
toasted cheese were the viand before
him. He is sleek and plump, and pos
sessed of extraordinary intelligence.
His moral character, too, is excellent,
aside from this one besetting sin. •
A Cuhxino Bkak.—The captain of a
Greenland whaler put a pieoe of meat
in a rope noose, spread upon the snow,
and waited for a bear. Bruin saw the
bait, approached and seised it in his
mouth, but at the same time got bis
foot entangled in the rope. He quietly
pushed it off his paw and retired, and
sat down at a distance to dine. After
finishing his meal he returned where
another bait and the noose had been re
more caution by the evident observa
tion of the bear, the sailors buried the
reap beneath the snow and laid the
meat in a deep hole in the centre. Once
more the bear approached, and the sail
ors were hopefoi of their success; but
bruin, more sagacious than they ex
pected, after snuffing about the place
for a few moments, scraped the snow
away with his paw, threw the rope
aside, and again escaped with his
A Bird’s Wit.—Some .time since,
while riding slow); along a dusty ma
cadamized road. I was startled by the
hurried flight close by my side of a
small bird which dropped in the road a
few paces ahead, and after a flutter in
the dust sat perfectly motiouless. I
drew up my horse to watch events,
when a moment later a hawk swooped
by, but missed its prey, and went off
into an adjoining field. The sparrow
remained still in its place, and, all
covered with dust, looked for all the
world like one of the many loose stones
in the road—so much so, that no won
der it should have escaped the sharp
sight even of the hawk. But one expla
nation of such a freak seemed possible,
and when we reflect that these birds
generally take to the bushes or to the
Bchen-spotted rail fences, when pursued
by bawkes, and that dust is not a con
stant factor of the environment, we stop
to admire so bright a spark of intelli
gence kindled under such trying circum
stances.—Pop. 8c. Monthly.
Animals and Time.—It seems evident
that some animals, at least, know when
Sunday comes. A friend of mine has
a dog that always runs with the wagon.
On week-days the wagon runs to the
faotory. On Sunday it turns to the left
and gees to church. The dog runs
ahead, on Sunday he turns to the left,
and no intimation is given. Six days
the sagacious animals runs on in ad
vance to the factory. Even the horse
understands the day as well as the way
to church. No one that has passed a
week-day in Venice will have failed to
see the pigeons fed at the hour of noon.
More than one hundred of these little
birds have come at noon for their food.
They never mistake the honr. They
never come at ten or eleven. When the
the bell of St. Mark’s begins to clang
out the hour of noon, not a bird can be
seen, before the bell ceases the air will
be black, and doves by the hundred fly
to the windows. On Sunday no grain
is given. The old bell jars out twelve
o mock, but no birds appear. They can
count—they know when Sunday comes.
Tom Corwin on the Western Reserve.
Cleveland HeraM.
Corwin was fond of relating anecdotes
in regard to the western i eserve. One
of these ran something as follows: *'1
was unfortunate enough to speak on
a certain occasion in the little
town of D., on the western res rve.
You have all heard of the western reserve
and her Yankees, I presume, and so I
need not particularly describe them.
Well, the meeting was to be held in the
Presbyterian church. I was escorted to
the house by one of the very respectable
citizens, ana took my seat in front of the
big, high pulpit, which was boxed up on
the side of the wall half way up to the
ceiling. Finally after a prolonged
deathlike stillness, a man arose back in
the center of the room and said, ‘I nomi
nate Mr. Jonathan Edwards for chair
man of this meeting. ’ Anot her man got
up in another part of the room and said,
*1 second the motion.’ After awhile
another man got up and said, ‘You hcv
ail heer.l the motion and the second.
You that favor it say aye, contrary no.
Mr. Jonathan Edwards is elected presi
dent of this meeting.’ Mr. Edwards
cuuc solemly forward, and after being
se t'ed a few minutes arose and sain,
‘Ladies and gentlemen—You hev come
together to-night to listen to the Hou.
Mr. Thomas Corwine on the political
issues of the day. If Mr. Thomas Cor
wine will come forward I will introduce
him to the audience.’ I went forward.
The chairman said further: ‘This is the
Hon. Mr. Thomas Corwine, who will ad
dress you.’ I thought I would break
that dronishness or Kill myself. I told
my funniest stories; I cracked my best
jokes in profusion; I lavished remarks
that would lay a southern Ohio audience
up with the pleurisy. But all were as
solemn as though I was pronouncing the
funeral oration of Cock Robin. Occa
sionally! would see a fellow put his
hands to his face and bend down as
though in devotion, but when bis face
came up it was again solemn. At length
I gave up in despair. After we were all
out of the church, one of them came up
to me, and doubling himself up with
laughter, he said:
“ ‘Mi. Corwine, you'said some of the
(te-he-he-he) funniest (te-he-he) things
I ever heera (te-he-he-he). I du de
clare you come pretty near makin’ me
laugh right out in meetin’.’
‘‘What a terrible calamity that would
have been! But to the western reserve
Yankee, a laugh in the house of worship
or ‘meetin’-house,’ as he calls it, would
be an unpardonable sin.”
Dickens’ Lets of Ltnitn.
Dr. B. E. Martin writes as follows to
Scribner's Magazine of the affection of
“Boz” for London streets:
“There is no end to thestrolls through
London streets which we may take with
Dickens, and I know no more delight
ful guide than this alert figure, as he
takes in turn the arm of each of his my
riad creations—those creations ‘which
ought to be counted in the census,’—
ana leads us with them to their favorite
haunts. We may fondly fancy that we
know something about London, but we
find even the self-sufficient Forster con
strained to own that there is much to
learn concerning it from each of his
successive books. If not a born Lon
doner, Dickens was bom for London,
and derived his best inspiration from its
familiar scenes. To him, as to Macau -
1 lay, *its smoky atmosphere and mnddy
river had more charm than the pure air
of Hertfordshire and the crystal currents
of the Bib.' His love for its streets Was
keener than that expressed by Horace
Walpole or Leigh Hunt, by Charles
Lamb or Thackeray. Only Dr. John
son’s affeotion equaled it in intensity
and steadfastness; but, unlike the stur
dy doctor, Dickens was passionately fond
of oountry life and country scenery, and
there is no pretense in any of his enthu
siasm about it He would go away at
times for a trip through, or a residence
in, France, Switzerland, Itdly; but the
quiet and isolation he sought, the beau
ty of form and color in lake and moun
tain and snow-peak he loved so well,
did not suffice him to live on; bis best
brain-work failed him, and he was al
ways finally forced to go, for his intel
lectual food, back to his beloved streets.
‘For a week or a fortnight, I oan write
prodigiously in a retired place, as at
Broads tains; and then a day in London
sets me up again and starts me. But
the toil and labor of writing. after
to queer ‘night-walks.* He writes to
Felton of himself, while composing his
■Christmas Carol’: ‘And thinking
whereof, he walked about the black
streets of London fifteen and twenty
miles, many a night, when all sober
folks had gone to
Oar Northern Frontier.
Not one in a thousand perhaps, of the
fifty miilien people living in the United
Slates knows bow their country is
bounded on the line between the United
States and the British territory. It'will
be interesting, therefore, to know how
the northern boundary has been traced
and marked. The work is now com
pleted except as to the territory of Alas
ka, ceded by Russia to us under the
treaty of 1867. Ever since tho treaty
Ghent of we have been establishing our
northern boundary with Britain until a
year or two ago, when the work was
finally completed by a joint commission,
consisting of Mai. Donald R. Cameron,
royal artillery; Capt. S. Anderson, roy
al engineers, and Capt. A. C. Ward,
royal engineers, for Great Britian, and
Archibald Campbell and W. J. Twining,
United States army, for our country.
The commission experienced considera
ble difficulty in discharging theia duties
from errors committed by former com
missioners. In April, 1870, while en
gaged in locating a military reservation
for a post near Pembina, our engineers
discovered that the commonly received
boundary line between the British pos
sessions and the United States at that
place was 4,700 feet south of the forty
ninth parallel, and if run on west from
such an initial point, would throw the
fort of the Hudson bay company at
Pembina iuto the United States Here
was indeed a difficulty, and the offioers
at once communicated the fact to the
government. The president, General
Grant, sent the information te the Brit
ish government, and Great Britian
asked the consent of tho Uuited States
to occupy the fort of the Hudson bay
company until the matter could be de
termined. Of course such a reasonable
request was at once granted. The pres
ident then sent a message to congress
recommending the establishment of a
joint commission to fix the true bound
ary line between the two countries, and
congress assented, appropriating $100,
000 by joint resolution to carry on the
work. The appropriation.was not avail
able until 1872, when the work was be
gun as above stated, by a joint commisr
sion of the two governments.
The northern boundar. is marked by
stone cairns, iron pillars and wooden
pillars, earth mounds and timber posts.
A stone cairn is 7} feet by 8 feet high,
8 inches square at the bottom and four
at the top, timber posts 8 feet high and
8 inches square. There are 828 of these
marks bet seen the Lake of the Woods
and the Rocky mountains That por
tion of the boundary that lies east and
west of the Red river valley, is marked
by cast-iron pillars at even mile inter
vals. The British placed one every two
miles and the United States one between
each British post Our pillars or mark
ers were made at Detroit, Mich. They
are hollow iron castings, three-eights of
an inch in thickness, in the form of a
truncated pyramid, 8 feet high, 8 inches
square at the bottom i ad 4 at the top as
before stated. The have at the top a
solid pyramid cap, and at the bot
tom an octagonal flange one inch
in thickness, Upon the opposite faces
are cast in letteis two inches high, the
inscriptions, “Convention of Ixindon,”
and “October 20, 1818.” The inscrip
tions begin about four feet six inches
abo/e the base and read upward. The
interior of the hollow posts are filled
with seasoned cedar posts, sawed to fit
and securely spiked through spike-holes
cast in the pillars for the purpose. The
average weight of eachpillar when com
pleted is 86 pounds. The pillars are all
set four feet in the ground, with the in
scription faces to toe north and south,
and the earth is well settled and stamped
about them. For the wooden posts well
seasoned logs are selected, and Che por
tion above the ground painted red, to
prevent them from swelling and shrink
ing. These posts do very well, but the
Indians cut them down for fuel, and
nothing but iron will last very long.
Where the line crosses lakes, monuments
of stone have been built, the bases in
some places being eighteen feet under
water, and the tops projecting eight feet
above the lake’s surfaoe at high water
mark. In forest the line is marked by
felling the timber a tod wide and clear
ing away the underbrush. The work of
cutting through the timoered s ‘ amps is
very great, but it has been well done,
and the boundary distinctly marked by
the commissioners the whole distance
from Michigan to Alaska. •
One of Hr. Reuber’s fine buggy mares
last week met with an accident. The
animal was insured by the Western
Horse and Cattle Ins. Co., of Omaha,
Neb., Mr. C. Kugland, agent. Hr.
Kugland, veterinary surgeon, reported
the case to the company, and immedi
ately received orders to pay the full
amount of the insurance money to Mr.
Beuber. We note this just to show the
promptness and- justness of the compa
ny, and its agents in transacting busi
ness. General Agent Dorn arrived here
Thursday evening, and the full insur
arce was paid.—Hamilton Co., Neb.,
New*.
Neither worth nor wisdom come with
out an effort; and patience, and piety,
and salutary knowledge, spring up and
ripen from under the narrow of afflic
tion. _
There is perhaps no tonic offered to the peo
ple that possesses as much real Intrinsic value
as the Hop Bitters Just at this season of the
year, when the stomach needs an appetizer, or
the blood needs purifying, the cheapest and
best remedy Is Hop Bitters. An ounce of pre
vention is worth a pound of cure, don’t wait
until you are prostrated by a dlieme that may
take months for you to recover in.—JBotton
Web*.
V
EARNEST THOUGHTS.
“Mil Rye" Talks I* IflUf Km la la ;
(■rl a a Career.
Young man, what are you living for?
Have yon an object dear to yon aa life, ;
and without the attainment of which r
you feel that yonr life will have been a ,
wide, shoreless waste peopled by the
spectres of dead ambitions P You can
take yonr choioe in the battle of life,
whether you will bristle up and win a -
deathless name and owe almost every
body, or be satisfied with scabs and me
diocrity. Many of those who now stand
at the head of the nation as statesmen >}'*
and logicians were once unknown un- r
honored and unsurg. Now they saw
the air in the halls of congress, and their
names are plastered 'on the tomple of
You can win some laurels, too, if yon
will brace np and secure them when
they are ripe. Daniel Webster and
President Garfield and Dr. Tanner and
George Eliot were all, at one time, poor
boys. They had to start at the fact of
the ladder and toil upward. They strug
gled against poverty and publio opinion
Merely on till they wpn a name in the
Ifttali bf history; WwtaMhto their
loved palatial homes, with lightning
rods and mortgagee on them. So may
yon, if yon wifi make the effort. Live
temperately on 99 per month.' That’s
the way wo got our start. Burn the
midnight oil if necessary. Get some
true, noble-minded young lady to assist
you. Tell her of your troubles and she
will tell you what to do. She will glad
ly advise you. Then you can marry her
and she wifi advise you some more.
After that she will lay aside her work
any time to advise you. You need not
be out of advice at all unless you w£nt.
She, too, will tell you when you have
made a mistake. She wifi oome to you
frankly and acknowledge that you have
made a jackass of yoursolf. As sho gets
more acquainted with you, she wifi be
mors candid with you, and in her unstud
ied, girlish way, she will point out your
errors, and gradually convince you,
with an old chair leg and other argu
ments, that you were wrong, and your
past life wifi come up before you like a
panorama, and you will tell her so, and
she will let you up again. Life is in
deed a mighty struggle. It is business.
We can’t all be editors and lounge
around all tho time, and wear good
clothes, and have our names in the pa-.
pers, and draw a princely salary. Some
one must do the work and drudgery of
life, or it wont be done.
“A Learned Pig” at Moscow,
A letter from Moscow, in the Neue
Wiemer Tagblatt, says that one of the
great attractions of the old Russian
capital for some time past has been a
“learned pig.” The grunter, whioh
seems to do some very wonderful tricks,'
has been educated by M. Tanty himself,
the proprietor of Tanty’s circus, and is
regarded by him with a good deal of af
fection. Three very rich merchants,
who wanted to do something trully
Lucullian in the shape of an unusually
rare and expensive banquet, came to
the resolution that they' would buy
Tanty’s learned pig, if it were to be got
for money. The daring proposition
was carried into effect. The proprietor
was waited upon, allowed himself to be
talked over into selling the breast, and
received as its price three thousand
roubles. The pig was duly delivered,
was intrusted to the skilful handling of
an eminent chief and served up at table,
to the amazement of the guests, as the
famous pig. The three virtuosos were
complimented on the splendid originali
ty of their conception, and the pig, in .
spite of the scholarship with which it
was supposed to be weighted, proved
exceedingly palatable. On the next '
day, however, to the chagrin of the
three entertainers, and perhaps of their
guests, the walli in Moscow bore the
daily placard inviting the citizens to go
and see “Tanty and bis learned pig!”
rhe indignant merchants held a coun
cil, called upon Tanty, and expostulated.
“Genth men,” hu exclaimed, “at the last .
moment I heard that you wanted the
pig for a dinner. I thought it very un
coDscientious in me to take so large a
mm for such a tough old swine. Bo I
procured the very best, and dearest I
could get, and substituted it for the bad
one.” All Moscow has laughed at the
epicures who deluded themselves that
they were eating a philosopher when
they were feedin^ugon^a^jgnoramus.
HisSIgn.
Three or four days ago a colored man
living on Illinois street, Detroit, hung .
>ut a sign on his house roading: “For
sail.” Ho happened to be at tne gale
when a white man came along and
said:
“You’ll never get an offer for your
house with any such spelling as that.”
The owner of the place was greatly
puzzled to improve the orthography,
but finally took his wife's advice and
made it read: “For sell.”
This seemed to be all right for a day
or two, and then a school boy halted
and said:
“If you don't fix that sign all the
school children will be laughing at
you.”
. There'was another convention of the
family to see where the mistake
came in, and the sign was made hi
read: “Fur Sail.” It hadu’tbeen up an
hour when an old colored man camu
along and queried:
“Does you mean dat dis place am for
Sally? What yor gwine to gib de place
to Sally furP”
“Am you findin’ fault wid dat sign?”
asked the other.
' “Well, I doan’ quite coteh.on to de
spellin’.”
“You doan’, eh? Has you got 9700
to pay cash down fur dis piece?"
“No, sab.”
“Den you pass on an’ shot up! Maybe
I doan’ spell jist de same as yon do, but
Fze got prospects of handlin’ 9700 while
you has got boaf knees out to de weath
er. I doan’ ker to use high-flown lan
guage an’ have to w’ar a shoe on one
rut an’ a bute node odder. Go ’long,
ole man—you am too fly on gog’apby!”
Observation*.
Joab Billing!.
The sasseyist 111:111 I rver met is a
henpect husband when he is away from
home. An enthufiast is an individual
who beleeves abowt four times az much
az he kan prove, and lie kau prove
abowt four times as much as anybody
beleeves. The dog that will follow any
body ain't wuth a cent. Tbos people
who are trieing to get to heven en their
breed wil find out at last that they
didn’t hev a thru ticket. Too long
kortships are not always judicious; the
party often tire out skoring before the
AOrtala Care.
The first thing to do in the spiiog is
to clean house. For intern'd elea ismg
and renovating, no other medici no is
equal to Kidney-Wort. In either dry or
liquid form it cures headache, bilious
attack, constipation and deranged kid
neys. See adv.
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