The frontier., August 25, 1881, Image 1

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

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Nebraska Newsfteau.
The employe* of the B. ft M. 11. R. in
Nebraska ire forming ■ department of the
Protective Association of the employee of the
CL, B. dt;Q. R R Co. end' leaned line*, thepnr
poae of which Is to provide a fund lor the baa
cflt of the fami]lea or legal representatives of
t . deeeaaed mem ben, and the aaeodatloo to doing
a good work. Tima far there haa been little
time to perfect the organisation of membenhip
* * la the B. ft M., but It will probably reach 900.
Hr. 6. W. Siurpleae, of the B. ft M. head
quarter!, to the repreaentattve of the aaaocto
tion.
Hon. T. L. Schick died in Brownville,
>a few deya ago at the age of 82. Mr. Schick,
•after graduating from Ann Arbor in 1870, came
"* 'to BrownvIUe, and in company itoth J. D. Stoll
; "opened a law office. Mr. Schick being ambitiooa
■ . and a dote atodenteoon obtained public raeogni
X ^ toon, and waa not aBa In climbing the ladder
St*;; V;: af fheaak Be ha* taken a prominent part in
•efco®1 ■■“sms ha* heat (My attorney the part
year, and wai an influential member of the tort
legislature. He leave* a wife and two amall
children.
• Two extensions,’ or rather, conetruc
ttons ot link* in tte eaatem lines ere engaging
the Borllngtoo ft Miaeouri’e attention tbto sea
aon. The road from Nemaha, on the Miaeourl
•through Nemaha county and part of Johnson
•county to Tccnmeeh, thirty-three miles long,
>to well under way but will probably not be fln
• Imbed thto fall. The road from Table Bock to
'Wymote, thirty-eight miles in extent, to ex
pected to bo ready for operation on November
Hat. . .
A fire at Jack ton and 13th etrecte,
'Omaha, on the mdrningof Ang. 17th, caused
/the following kneoa: Western Newa
paper Union, $9,000, burned for $5,000; Mr.
/ Joalyn, $1,000, Insured for $500; F. Melius,
/ building, $1,000, unlnaured; Larry Mmngan,
$200, covered. The Union will resume work et
the eerlieet and car ry It on aided by the Dee
Mdnee and Kaneae City houses with little inter
ruption.
Carrie Barltoneon, waa terribly burned
la Omaha on the evening of Ang. 17th by the
explosion of a coal oil can white trying to (tart
•a Ore. At latest accounts aba wu hi a critical
condition with the chances In her favor. The
boose of Paul Nelson where the girl waeem
£. ployed was totally consumed, but waa tomued.
The furniture to a total loan
A correspondent of the Omaha Herald
says: We will venture the assertion that North
Platte has more buildings ki course of conrtmc
Uon than any ether city In the state in proper
ties] to the population. Pour elegant brick
Mores are being built, afa: Odd Fellows’ Ott
man'a Patterron’a and Oberst’s; all of which
■rerented.
The Methodists at Wahoo dedicated
their new church, Aug. 14th, Elder Miller, of
Omaha, officiating. The money to pay all out
standing Indebtedness, $190, waa raised.
Nemaha county is flooded with Inher
es! seeking railroad work. Both the B. ft M
and M. P. err giving lucrative employment to SB
■who apply.
' The Nebraska BcpnWican State Cen
. trsl Ci inuilltcc me called by Chalrnmu Junes
W. Dawes to meet Ang. Slat at Lincoln.
F. A. Rogers, M. 1)., late of North
_ . Carolina, takes the. principatoblp of public
-schools at Tekunah for the next year.
. Bnumer's jewelry store and Chafe’s
dental room* in Omaha burned out oo the night
of Ang. 17th.
Modern Bravery.
A writer in BladncooiCt Magazine be
liever) that the invention of long-range
fighting has brought into the world a
type of fortitude which has been hither
to totally unknown, (exoepting in occa
sional isolated cases,) which is just as
much a product of our century as rail
ways or electric telegraphs, and which
Is as distinguishable from the animal
courage required for sword-work .as is
prophecy from fortune-telling. Instead
b( dashing' at the enemy in fierce ex
citement. instead of the not emotion of
■avage struggle, instead of furious mus
cular exasperation, instead of the inten
sest develonement of combative facili
ties, our soldiers have now to exhibit
their intrepidity by remaining placid,
motionless, undisturbed amidst a bail
of death and wounds. They have to
stay quiet under distant fire, to let them
selves be knocked to pieces, without the
chance or even the possibility of doing
anything whatever to defend themselves
m an eager, efficient, satisfactory form;
the one solution open to them is to treat
the other people in the same fashion,
and to pelt impersonal missiles at them
from afar. Not a* man on either side
•has the pleasure of identifying the par
ticular opponent who slaughters him.
There is scarcely any of that individual
ity of carnage whioh is so contenting in
a hand-to-hand fight.
And, worse than all, there is none of
the output of effort, of the bitter strain,
which necessarily accompanies the ex
hibition of brute hardihood. The
bravery of to-day is a nervous, contem
plative process; there is no action, no
movement, no tug about it It princi
pally consists in waiting obedience un
til you are hit by a chance shot Troops
do not like it They are always want-'
ing to get out of it, to rush ahead, to
■trike, to do something violent and com
forting on their own behalf. They feel
that it is absolutely unnatural to stand
■till to be killed, that it is totally anom
alous to rest unagressive under a temp
est of ambient peril, that it is contrary
to all the tendencies of humanity to
make no vigorous attempt to ward off
destruction; and yet that is precisely
what they have learned to do. They
may use shelter, if they can find it, (ft
is no longer cowardly to hide,) but they
may not use action. In one of Raffet's
caricatures a regiment is halted in the
middle of a river, with the water up to
the men's neefs. The colonel says to
them: “My children, I forbid you to
■moke, but I oermit vou to sit down:"
dnd that is very much the situation in
gji which European soldiers are placed in
battle now; it is permitted to be killed,
bat it is forbidden to fight.
In Alia, it is true, there is still a
chanoe of getting to close quarters, and
of using the right arm—as a good man;
' Englishmen who have been in Afghan
istan can testiff. But in modemnght
ing on the Continent, the rule is thatthe
foe is so far off that no hitting can reach
him. The oonsequenoe is that our new
shape of courage is based upon the sup
* preesion of direct effort It has become
a passive process, in which we endure,
V instead of anting. The old sword-dar
’ • ing was impetuous, emotional and in
7' tuitlve. The ni w gun-courage is delib
* state, logical aud subjective. The one
. Was material and substantial: the othei
. " is abstract and theoretical They are
as different from each other as credulity
‘ and faith, as astrology and astronomy,
as dreams and thought ,
Wheat Moffjxs.—One teaspoonfu
melted butter, one egg, one ana a hal
1 cups flour, one teasopoonful cream tar
" . . tar. half teaspoon soda, half oup swee
milk. Bake quickly in muffin pans.
.f- ' When a cow “kicks the bucket," shi
i'7 > usually tons a little pai). •
LATE NEWS.
A Santa Fee special gives the follow
ing account of the light In Lake Valley a few
days ago. Lieutenant Smith and force at SO
men had been oo a trail for aereral days, and by
a forced natch overtook the Indiana near Xc
Ever’s Ranche In Lake Valley District: The
Indiana were numerous and Smith made an at
tack, expecting reinforcements from troops fol
lowing. The soldiers were being rapidly shot
down whan, at a critical moment, Ueo. Daily,
with his farce of 20 miners arrived and joined
lu the light. The Indians were routed with
great toes. They carried off their dead and
wounded so that the Ion eonld’hotbe ascertain
ed. The whites lost Geo. Daly and Lieut.
Smith, four men killed and eleven wounded,
the killed and wounded, except Daly, are all
suppoeed to he emddlers. Daly's pert In the
sltenk gaew autoi an attask by the Apachceou •
hie camp, in which the Indians were, by all
Ipeane of the cam pa Daly commanding and re
pulsed- Daly at once collected twenty men
and started in pursuit, overtaking them as
above stated. Smith was one of the beet offi
cers of the 9th cavalry, has been in several In
dian campaigns and was several times during
the war brevetted for bravery, yeut . Dlmmlck.
with a company of cavalry, and Dent Saylor
with twenty Indiana The scouts, who were
but a few boats behind Norris’ main band, ar
rived during the evening and without jtopping
continued the pursuit. They pjobebly overtook
the Indiana before this, as the latter would be
considerably delayed by burying their dead.
Tpe hoetlles arc near the Mexican lines and evi
dently making tor the Chihuahua, and are well
armed and mounted. .
A special from Santa Fe says that on
the 18th of August Lieut. Taylor bad a fight In
the Sen MAteo mountains, capturing a camp
of Indians and twenty horses. The Indians are
in severs! parties, moving southwest. Every
available man under command of the gallant
Batch, la either in the field or guarding the
settlements. The number of troops Is too mull,
however, and the people are arming for self
protection. A delegation of the citizens of
Bocooro are st Santa Fe asking the Governor to
call out the militia to protect the settlements
and mining camps. Three volunteer companies
are arriving at Albuquerque for service, should
the Navajoea become restless. So fir the troops
have had six fights with the hostlles. During
the raid some thirty people have been killed,
and soldiers have loet about twenty in killed and
wounded. Advices from Cuchel Negro, under
date of August lfith, state that the savages are
not on the war path. Some Indians and Mexi
cans had a tow, to which two Indians and one
Mexican were killed.
The following dispatch from CoL
Batch, reporting a fight with the Indians, In
which Lieut Smith was killed, has been re
ceived at the War Department: “This morn
ing, Ang. 20, Lieut. Smith, whom I had pushed
out of Cummtnga to head off the hoetlles, met
the bend about fifteen miles west A sharp
light followed, In wh'eh Lieut Smith and four
men were killed end seven wounded. George
Dally with a party of dtiiena joined Smith
when In pursuit of the Indiana Daily was
killed. Lieut Taylor, with a detachment of
the Wth cavalry aljjj.ioouts, came up after the
Indians Were driven bff4eet night end wHl teke
up the pursuit. The Indians were going to
wards Momboes. I ordered the troop yester
day from Bayard and Cummings to watch the
country between those points.
The International Review for Septem
ber has eight articles of Interest and value,
some of which at least ought not to escape the
careful attention ot all students of American
affaire, while all are Important In the sphere of
discussion to which they pertain. Mr. Alexan
der Bliss writes upon “Naturalization,” a theme
rapidly assuming proportions of vital interest,
In view of the great stream of emigrants cod-*
stantly arriving in this country. Mr. Wm. J.
Armstrong contributes a very readable sketch
of ‘iSpnln of To-day," which gives e good idee
of the political jirogms of that land since
Queen Isabella aldlcated the throne to 1888.
Mr; John Codmcn writes of “Hormonism.”
The other article? are all entertaining and in
structive.
The Colored Press Association met in
Chicago, Ang. 23.1. Eighteen papers were rep
resented, deleg at s coming from Kentucky,
Ml'souri, Missis, ppl, Washington, Indiana,
Illinois, Mlnnesot ', Kansas and Texas. J. Q.
Adams, President of die Association, presided.
The committee on resolutions reported, calling
upon the colors? press to unanimously demand
the opening of Oklahoma Territory to thefreed
men of the United States, for the support of
the Mahoae movement In Virginia; and Tor the
employment of colored teachers to colored
schools. Resolutions of sympathy for Presi
dent Garfield were telegraphed to Secretary
Blaine.
Irvin, the oounty seat of BpteU county,
Ky., was visited by a destructive fire, on the
night of Angast 19th. Loss estimated at $85,
000, with but little Insurance. On the same
night the lightning struck Barreltsvfllem negro
suburb of Princeton, killing an aged negro wo
man, and crippling a little negro boy.
Among numerous messages of sym
pathy from all parts of the country called forth
by the critical condition of the President was
one tram New York, the sender g stout, healthy
man, offering to furnish some of his blood if
transmission would save the President’s life.
An accident occurred on the Denver
dt Bio Grande railroad at a bridge five miles
southeast of Denver, August 22nd, a locomotive
and two can being thrown from the track by n
cow. The engineer and fireman are not expect
ed toUve.
i Hartmann's attorney in New York has
written Secretary Blaine taking him to quiet
I the arch-NIhfllst’s apprehensions by telling hint
that there la no extradition treaty foe political
crime between the United States and Russia.
Gulteau, the assassin, made a violent
attack on McGill, one of hie keepers, Aug. 17th
with a knife. Bther be waa irritated by the
entrance of the officer Into hie cell, or wriahed to
convey the Idea that he la really Insane.
General Maximo Jaurez, the Nica
langnan Minister to the United States, died
suddenly at hla residence In Washington, Aug.
11th. Cause, supposed to be heart disease.
Dr. Kornm has been appointed by
the Pope, with the approval of Germany, to the
Bishopric of Perea In Rbetnlsh Prussia. This
Is supposed to be s step toward reconcillatiou
between Germany and the Vatican.
The British Government will, it is
•eld, cease prosecutions under the coercion act.
and If, after the passage of the lend bm, there
la a Show of law and enter, the prisoners arrest
ed under the act will he liberated.
Cuba is suffering from a virulent sea
ion of yellow fever, which appears to be oe the
Increase there and in other porta^cf the West
Indies. The dreaded disease bee also appeared
on the Gulf of Mexico
' A boiler exploded at Bay City, Mich
igan, Aug. 22nd, killing James Kelley, manager,
end Wm. J. Abrams, engineer. Two or three
other persona were severely injured. Cense oi
explosion unknown.
Ayoob Khan's star is waning. Be it
short ofarms, and some of the chiefs and people
are disaffected toward him. On the other haoc
i. the Ameer has collected 1J00 regular troops si
KheUt-t-GhOxar, ^
John Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio, who
he* heroically aaved from drowning at different
timea nearly 100 peraooa, hu been preaentad
with a gDU medal worth 0150 by the Cleveland
Board of Hade.
In the ancient city of Quebec a great
"deal of ijnpathy and internal la being mani
teatedon behalf of tbe Fnaident, nnxmua ln
qnlrera crowding tbe newapeper officer for latent
nen. ‘
The limit warehouse of Warner ft
Merritt, Philadelphia, burned Aug.28d. Lose
on bonding $100,000, on etock and machinery,
$25,000. The Ore originated from eiploalbn of
‘Secretary Blaine is i offering from
malaria and china, and the i . yeldane adrise
his remove] from Waehibgtoo to the eceeide.
He will probably go to Pbrtreee Monroe shortly.'
. Heavy rains in Colorado have caused
great damage, tha railroad! am the beeriest
anitne, all tbe reads in the State being mose
“arTSss damaged by floods flbd washouts.
Countess d’Eu, daughter of Dom
Pedro, Emperor of BraxO, haa presented bis
Imperial Majesty with another grandson a
Paris, being her third child.
Rust has done considerable damage
to the wheat crop in the Province' of Ontario.
The bugs are making sad havoc With the pot^
toes in the same Province.
Telegrams announce the death, Aug.
21st, at Hampton, forty miles from Boston, of
Oliver D. Filley, one of the oldest and best
known dtlsens of St Louis
The will of the widow of Ex-Presi
dent PQlmore leaves public bequests to the
amount of $50,000, among Which is $30,000 to
the University of Bocbester. •
The extensive foundry in St. Louis,
known as the'GsSe Stove Works, burned on the
morning of Aug. 2lst Loss estimated at $100,
000; Insurance, $50,000.
Danville, one of the most important
centers for leaf tobacco In Virginia, reports the
certainty .of a short crop thereabouts. What
there is will be of poor quality. .
The St. Louis Board of Police Com
missioners have Instructed the police to arrest
every man known to have, or suspected of hav
Ing firearmstm their persons.
The City of Mexico is to be blessed
With a national bank of its own, under the
management of the representatives of the Fran
eo-Egyptlan Bank.
Taking Europe as a whole, the har
vest promises to be above the average, hut
this will be chiefly due to the largo- acreage
under cereals.
Several bilildiugs were destroyed by
Are in Wheeling, -West Virginia, Aug. 21st.
The total loss is estimated at $50,000.
The tug A. B. Ward exploded its
boiler at Chicago, Aug. 20th. Three men were
killed. Loss, $0,000.
The salt product of the United States
In 1880 was 29,800,298 bushels. In i870 it was
17,600,105 bushels.
The chief interest of Guiteau, the as
sassin, just now Is with regard to his meals.
He Is growing strong and healthy in prison.
Henry Genet, one of the Tweed gang,
mhn tf.s wn m long imprisoned as to.be jIt .
most forgotten, will be released Nov. 11.1
A destructive fire occurred at Cleve
land, Ohio, August 16th, caused by spontaneous
combustion: Loss, $50,000.
The town of Raymond, HI., suffered
by Are, Aug. 23d, to the amount of $35,000; in
surance, $10,000.
The New Hampshire Legislature ap
propriated $7,000 for the Torktown Centen
nial. •
A large frame hotel at Buena Vista
Springe, Ky.,"burned, Aug. 23d. Loss, heavy.
A Rockford, HI., man was fined $85
and costa for giving another man liquor.
Hon. Leslie Coombs, of Lexington,
Ky. died August 21st, aged 88 years.
Crime amd fhrlmlmals.
Telegrams give the particulars of a
doable murder In Scott county, Arkansas,
eighteen miles from ,Waldron, August 22d.
Two men known in that part of the State by
the names of Kshorn and Hobbs, had been
gambling for several days with John Stewart,
who was proprietor of a country store and dealt
qnlte largely in whisky, also a successful gam
bler, wbo bad won steadily from the men named
above until about one hundred dollars had
changed hands. Finally they arose from the
table and one of them said “1 am broke.”
They took several drinks to brace np with
mounted their horses and rode off. The night
after the termination of the game they returned
to the store, woke Stewart and asked for whisky.
He got a lamp, went Into the store, drew liqnor
and placed it on the chanter. At this Instant
one of the desperadoes fired a shot which killed
his victim. They then dragged him out into
the street and shot him six times. Billy Mes
singste,*wbo lives near Waldron, and who was
on a visit to Stewards family, heard the row
and ran out to see what was the matter. He
saw Stewart on the ground and went back to
his house and told his wife the circumstances.
While be was talking one of the men stepped
up to the door and said: “G-d d—n yoo,«do
you want to take it up!” and without waiting
for a reply shot Measingate in the back of the
bead, the ball passing through and coming out
at the upper lip. Stewart was known as a des
perate mao. The Scott county courts show sev
eral indictments against him.
A. Lanten, a manufacturing jeweler
of*New York, (boot a year ago hind Ferdinand.
Jansen, builder, to pat up a boose fot him.
While the work was in progress Jansen had
many opportunities of seeing Mrs. Lanten.
They became eery intimate and anonymous let
ters werp sent Lanten. About six weeks ago
Mrs. Lanten absented herself from home. It
]raa ascertained that she and Jansen had been
staying at a hotel at Farmingdaie^JU L, as man
and wife. Recently Jansen. caUffip at Lantro's
house; Inn ten met him and In a discussion,
which followed, made some bitter remarks
about his wife's conduct. She heard them and
bent to her room; returning with a pen and pa
per she said to her husband, “Now, I want to
see whether you an man enough to state on pa
per that you will sell me to Jansen for one dol
lar.” lanten agreed, and now Jansen la living
with his dollar wife. Lanten is now seeking a
divorce, and Mrs. Janaen began suit Friday.
Further charges are made against
Capt. Howgate for the additional embezzle
ment of $50,000. The evidence substantiating
this charge comes from New Tork. Detectives
found vouchers for payment* for supplies in
Urge sums, furnished by parties in New York.
These parties disclaim an knowledge of the
transaction, making affidavit that the supplies
in question were never furnished by them, and
that no such monies had been received by the
disbursing officer. The signal officer tn one
instance forged a' voucher for $10,000. The
amount specified in this charge covers all un
earthed to date, ft Is charged that a doable set
of vouchers were obtained by Capt Howgate
on the plea that he finds the various years most
be kept separate.
Charles Wright has been arrested *ii
Chicago charged with embezzling $5,000 fron
Fred James* Co., Insurance agents, fur wboa
he wii cashier. He has confessed, attributing
Lis falhto gambling.
Investigation shows that Capt. How
gate has robbed the government of a tap
amount of money through the fitting of the
Oflnare, which was oatenslUj paid out efhle
owa pocket.
Alderian Pitis* a Wealthy nuA respect
ed tanner near Murfreesboro, Jeon., waa shot
and Instantly Wiled while In his melon-patch,
Aug. gM, The shot vm fired by an unknown
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JSNOtAKbt ^
The London fames says: The Meth
odist conference, Which Is to fcneefc In this diy
next week, promises to be one of the most in^
terestiok religions gatherings held since the
days otWestey. The Tarioos denominations,
of Methodists number ovct 4,&00,000 at actual
communicants, and the Methodist population Is
computed at 18,000,000. The members of the
conference number 400, half of whom represent
the British and continental Methodism and half
of the churches in the United States and Cana
da.* The main object of the conference will be
to devise means for prosecuting foreign work
so as to restilt in the greatest economy and effi
ciency to increase the moral and evangelical
power of common Methodism, and to the more
speedjaconversatlbn of the World.
It is said that Rev. George Grandville.
Bradley, M. A., Master of the University College
of Oxford, and sometime ago honorary chaplain
to the Queen, has accepted the Deanery of
Westminister. A basket was left at the Mid
land railway station by two men, Who Im
mediately decamped, was fottndto contain a
large quantity of gunpowder and cartridges.
FRANCE.
A Paris dispatch of Aug.' 23d, says:
The latest verified accounts show 648 elections
held, 483 Deputies elected and 44 second ballots
necessarv. The members elected comprise 38
Monarchists, 42 Bonapartlsts, and 403 Republi
cans. Of the last being 44 Left Center, 150 Left,
187 Republicans, Union and Extreme Left. Re
publicans that go in, 68; Monarchist gain, 11;
loss, 18. The Bonapartist gain, 3; loss, 40. The
Republican gains include 18 seats formerly
Monarchist and 38 Bonapartist; also 12 in the
new districts. The TVm;* says G&mbettia has
became a representative by a large majority in
the country. The elections have placed him al
most under the necessity of assuming power
and will result In the formation of a ministry
headed by Gambettla.
SWITZERLAND.
Special dispatches from Genera re-'
port that the socialists addressed a threatening
letter to the federal tribunal in regard to their
appeal from the decision of the grand council at
Zurich, prohibiting the social congress there In
September. The latter warns the Judges of the
tribunal that '‘they will be first to be blown up,
and states that the socialists hare enough dy
namite to blow up half of Switzerland, and It’s
in Switzerland that a conflagration will bom np
the world.
He Represented the Government.
Detroit Free Preis. , _..
One of the postoffice agents who. wasj
makings trip through the northern’
part of the lower peninsula this summer
came across a mail route through the
woods from one hamlet to another, with
a weekly average of two letters and one
paper in the bags. The carrier wore a
coon-skin cap and rode a pony about
as fat as a case knile, and he took things
so easy that the agent saw fit to ques
tion him a little: “My man, dd you
realize that you represent the United
States?” “Wall, I kinder reckon.”
“And yon feel the responsibility, I pre
sume?” “Bet yer gogles I dew.”. “Yon
know yon must brave all perils to get
your mail safely through.*’ “That
thar’ boss an’.me ar’ good fnr anything
twice our size, I reckon.” “If attacked
bv robbers, what would you do?”
“Bury’em!” “Suppose you were of
fered money to give up the mail bag?”
“No danger o’ that, mister; I don’t be
lieve the hull country could scrape up
50 cents.” “There are awful fires in.
these woods sometimes.” “K’rect.
I’ve seed b’ars roasted alive when they
wasn't within a mile of the flames.”
“Well, now, If you wero surrounded by
a fierce forest fire what would vou do?”
“Fire all around?" “Yes.'’ “No
chance to burrow under or flv over?”
“No.” “Wall, mister, it would be kind
er tuff, but I’d remembe- that I repre
sented the government. Td kill my
hoss, eat the mail, and die shouting,
‘We have met the inemy. and he is
our’n!’ ”
Medicine Among the Celegtials.
Good opportunities probably exist in
China for enterprising medical students
to acquire practical experience in the
various branches of Jheir profession, as
according to the Lancet, Macgregor,
who has been for sixteen years working
as a medical missionary at Amoy,
speaking at a meeting of students in
Edinburg, said: “The dense and crowd
ed population, and the filthy condition
of the people of China, constitute a
fruitful source of skin disease, which is
very common; so much so, that the
Chinese themselves have a proverb—
‘out of ten men, eleven of them have
the itch.’ Various forms of eye dis
ease are very prevalent, and to cure
these the native doctors are quite help
less. Some complaints are due to cli
matic causes, as, for instance, dysentery
and malarious fever. All kinds of tu
mors are common, and present an ex
cellent opportunity for" showing the su
periority of European skill, as suigery
is quite unknown to the native doctor,
who invariably prescribes so much med
ciDe to be swallowed, whether the trou
ble is an aching head or a broken limb.
The practice of the native doctors some,
times tries the patience of the medical
missionary very mneh. The usual way
for a Chinaman to enter the profession
is to secure a ptur of spectacles with
large bone rims, some grasses and herbs,
an assortment of spiders, and a few
venomous snakes in -bottles, which are
placed in the shop window; then the
medicine he givfis must be nasty, and
there should be plenty of it, as the Chi
nese go in for quantity, and reckon how
they should he getting on by the amount
they have taken. If not making satis
factory progress, he applies to a new
doctor, but still continues to take the
medicine prescribed by the one he first
consulted, so that unless he is nndei
your entire control, he may be taking
your medicine, bnt in all likelihood he
is, at the same time, dosing himsell
with the nostrums of half-a-dozen igno
rant charlatans.”
FABM, GARDEN AND HOUSE
HOLD.
.Vitfoul Lift Stock Jonraal* Chicago,
Brood mares,' while suckling their
foals) may safely be used for moderate
(Work, but Under s leh conditions they
must be generously fed, and care should
be exercised to prevent the foals from
sucking while the mares are over-heated.
It tqll usually be found more conven
ient to leave the foal in the stable while
working the mare; and in such cases
she should be permitted to stand until
thoroughly coaled off before the foal
has access to her. Care must be taken
when the little fellows are first left alone
that they do not cripple or injure them
selves in their efforts to get oat and fol
low the dam, but they will soon learn
it quietly, ana then there -is no
danger.""... ■
FlnaBatto-Wlthsst.Icc,
Kxofcmnftv.
. In small families where the dairy is
small, a good plan to have butter cool
and firm without icg is by the process of
evaporation, as practiced in India and
other Warm countries. A cheap plan is
to get a very large sized, porous, earth
em flower-pot, with a large saucer.
Half fill the saucer with water, set it in
a trivet or light stand—such as' is used
fur holding hot irons will do; upon this
set your butter; over the Whole invert
the flower-pot., letting the top rim of it
rest in and be covered by the water; then
close the hole in the bottom of the
floWer-pot with a' cork; then dash water
over the flower-pot, and repefft the pro
cess several times a day, or whenever it
looks dyy. If set in a cool place, or
where the wind can blow on it, it will
readily evaporate the water from the
pjot and the butter will be as firm and
oool as if from an ice house.
noth Worms.
Indian* Tinner. *
We are continuously in receipt of let
ters asking about the moth worm, What
can I do to rid my hives of the worms?
The worms killed one swarm for me,
etc., etc. It seems impossible to con
vince many of our readers that the loss
which they attribute to the worms, is the
effect and not the cause. Worms are
natural to the hives and are hatching
on the combs to a greater or less extent
all the time, but so long as a colony is
in good condition they keep them
cleaned out and they do but little dam
age. But let a hive become queenless
for any length of time, or so reduced in
numbers as not to be able to protect the
combs, and they will soon be over-run
and fall a victim to the worms. When
a hive contains more comb than the bees
can cover it gives the worms a fine
chance which they are not slow to ac
cept. The worms take possession of
the combs only wh’en the bees can no
longer defend them. Getting a good
hold in some part of the hive, they soon
build such a mass of webs and cocoons
that the bees are unable to dislodge
them and although in fair condition, the
beeajare crowded over to one side, be
ootupHsceuraged and leave-forparts
hakmown, while the careless apiarian
on examination, finds a few bees in the
hive', which were out in the field, hatch
ed oat after the swarm absconded, at
tributes his loss to the woims, for you
know we are very loth to charge any
thing to our own carelessness.
Geese* .
Field and River.
It may do for some to condemn geese,
and to refuse to raise them on' account
of their foraging propensities, yet there
are many farmers’ wives who know
where the warm, cosy featherbeds come
from which are so enjoyable during the
frigid winter weather; wjiile many of
them can, with pardonable pride, point
opt scores of useful and valuable things
in the house, which would not have been
bought at all had it not been for the
profits realized each year from the sur
plus s eese which were marketed by them
during the holidays, afld which they at
tended to and successfully reared by a
judicious use of the spare moments dur
ing the spring and summer. On afarm,
where they can have plenty of space and
an abundance of grass for forage, they
will do well, and will cost comparatively
little to raise; and a grain or dairy farm
is just the place for them. They cannot
bear confinement, and care must be
taken that they do not get at the young
chicks when the old geese are sitting or
have young, for they may destroy many
a young chick, as we have occasionally
suffered considerable loss that way.
Science and Agriculture.
Macmillan's Magazine.
This lack of adequate development in
agriculture is due to two main causes: to
the rarity of scientific investigation into
the principles upon which the tilling of
the ground (and the care of cattle) ought
to be carried out—i. e., into the laws
governing the growth of crops and oP
beasts—and to the want of adequate
scientific training on the part of the
farmer. So far from being an occupa
tion which any fine may follow without
adequate preparation, being governed
simply by rude empiric rules, farming is
in reality a difficult art, demanding wide
scientific knowledge and sound scien
tific judgment on the part even of him
who merely practices it, and taxing to
the utmost tne skill and power of origi
nal inquiry of those who desire to ad
vance its scientific basis. There is an
urgent need in thi§, as in other conn-,
tries, of scientific investigation, as dis
tinguished from mere empiric trials, of
sustained inquiry as distinguished from
scattered and fitful experiments, into
the relations of soil and crops, of beast^
and food, in order that the tillage of the
land may, like the practice ofotherpro
fessions in which man has to struggle
against nature, expand with increasirg
insight into the laws of nature instead
of being hampered by blind obedience
to traditions and narrowed by timid ex
perience. There is ho less nrgent need
that the practical fanner should be so
far trained in science as to be able to
make an intelligent use of the advan
tages which science offers him, as well
as to be able to avoid the snares which
false science continually spreads for
him.
Ijime mm a Jlunc.
Mr. R. Gordon, of Gordons ton, Aber
deenshire, Scotland, writes on this topic
as follows, in the North British Agricul
turist:
“Lime is one of the most important
natural manures we possess, and the
value of its application to the soil has
been known from very early periods.
The action of lime as a manure is entire
ly regulated by the form and manner in
which it is applied to the soil. Quick
lime should be used for heavy and ten
acious soils, as well as those containing
! a fur quantify of vegetable matter in it,
| caustic lime would in such a case do
’ more harm than good. Mild lime ought
j to be used, treated with a mixture of
; earth, and exposure to .the atmospheric
. air, from which it takes carbonic ascid,
which takps away a great deal of its
caustic properties. The different cir
cumstances and conditions of coil will
not allow 'a uniform practice to be
adopted; but judgment and experience
ought to regulate the application of all
manures. Every farmer should study
his own soil) and thereby he would M
able to avoid the misajiplicatibh of
good manure. Before the introduction
of artificial manures, lime was more
universally used than now, whioh helps
to account for the poor crops of clover,
and the difficulty of raisjpggood turnips.
It is essentially necessary that a supply’
of lime should exist in the soil to meet
the requirements of the various crops.
Every cultivated plant needs a supply
of lime for the proper building up of its
structure, and. in combination with
phosphoric acid, lime forma a large por
tion of the skeletons of the animals ■
who feed upon the crops. A soil may
contain large supplies of every ingtedi
-entr which a Crop- requires; and1 CnH ber
unable to yield th^i to the plant, they
begin in an inactive state, as it is only
that portion of the soil which is soluble
in water which is available as plant
food, Any analysis of a soil .which is
soluble in Water Which is available as
plant food. Any analysis of a soil
which only tells its composition, is of
little value unless it can show the active
matter ready to be taken up by the crop.
Lime acts upon the dormant matter in
the soil, and performs the important
function of rendering these ■ active.
Clay soils generally contain within
themselves potash and soda, and we
know by experiment that lime liberates
these inorganic elements. According
to Prof. Way, lime helps to form a valu
able class of salts known as double sili
cates or alumina, which has the power
of absorbing ammonia from the atmos
phere. Lime neutralises the acids in
the soil and sweetens .the herbage, be
sides supplying food for the perfect
growth of the crops. It is thought by
some to be a wasteful practice to allow
lime to come in immediate contact with :
farmyard manure, thinking it would
cause a' less of ammonia; but they over
look the controlling influence Conse
quent upon the action taking place in
the soil. The action of caustic lime
upon a mixture of farmyard manure
and decayed organic matter produces a
most valuable fertilizer, viz., nitrate of
potash. Lime besides being a plant
food, and bringing into usmul condi
tion the several organic and inorganic
matters in the soil, also improves its
physical character, rendering stiff and
tenacious clays more friable add easy to
work. However, the use of lime’ ren
ders a supply of ether manure neces
sary, and under a good system of hus
bandry the increase of crops will in
crease the quantity of manure. Taking
into account the various functions it
performs, itisone of ouy best natural ma
nures. However, it cannot be expected
to produce its full effects immediately
after being applied.
“Mottoes.”
It is ft solemn fact that nine-tenths of
those people who spent three years in
putting np such mottoes as. “God Bless
our home," “Feed My sheep,” “Bless
My Lambs,and so on d<®0- tfi. “For- _
get Me Not,” have spent the last two in
taking them down and looking for some- .
thing different. There is a demand for
something different, and genius should
arouse herself and get down to business.
“God Bless our Home” was all right
until the frame was smashed in a family
light, or until it was discovered hatt
blessings wouldn’t come without hard
work and lots -of planning. “Feed My
Sheep” does very well for a motto f or
those who depend upon the director of
the poor, but the rest of us know what
groceries and provisions cost. We have
got to feed ourselves, and all bills are
cash at the end of thirty days,
Let’s have something new and some
thing appropriate. “Turn Down the
Gas’’ could be extended to include!
“And also the Kerosene Lamp,” and
when worked in colors and framed in
gilt, it would beat a chromo of the Yo
semite Valley all hollow. “Shut That
Door” is a little old, but let us add:
“Or I’ll wallop you!” and it at once be
comes a thing to be gazed at and pon-.
dered over. “Forget Me Notf’vavehhs
significance at all and should nee nor a
appeared as a motto. No one will for
get you if you are like the rest of the
world. Let us replace those meaning
less words with: “Remember those
Carpet Tucks.”
“Honor Thy Father and Mother"
seems to have played out entirely as a
motto, and can no longer- be found at
the fancy stores. What is now wanted
is a card reading: “Give the Old Folks
a Show.” Remember the Sabbath”
hangs in thousands'of homes where the
old man goes fishing, the mother darns
stockings, and the children play ball and
marbles all day long. “Remember
your Water Tax” would be far more
appropriate for such a family, and per
haps save* considerable expense and
trouble. “In the Sweet By-and-by”
reads very well, but there is too much
chance for disappointment. Better re
place! it with “We’ll all Gather on the
Veranda after Supper.” If you have
no veranda of your own gather on the
one next door Take ’em all down and
pack ’em away. They are like a prom
issory note without a date. Some chap
will 'soon strike a lead in something
new, and all will want to redecorate. •.
Origin of the Name Torpedo.
While all the world nowadays knows
of the torpedo, invented and named by
Fulton, as a machine to blow uj> ships,
comparatively .few know that it takes
its nanfe from a fish, of marvelous elec
trical properties, which was anatomi
zed by the famous surgeon John Hun
ter. The torpedo is found in the Medi
terranean, the bay of Biscay,, and the
southern English aDd Irish waters. The
ancients employed it as a therapeutic
agent. It is believed to use its extraor
dinary powers to benumb a big enemy
or to capture a smaller fish. It loves
to lie in sand, in which it will bury it
self by flapping its extremities, throw
ing the sand over its back. Trend on
it then and you will lie prone in a mo
ment. It is sometimes sold for food in
French markets.
Certain circumstances not generally
known have influenced many persons
in taking a more lenient view than they
would otherwise have done of Pasha
Valentine Baker’s case, anfl materially
affected the vote of readmission to the
club. There was reason to believe tha
bis offense was committed under a mis
apprehension, to which the really in
nocent behavior of the ladv gave rise.
She was a jolly country girl, who,
meaning no harm, had permitted men,
whc*equally meant bo harm, to take'
freedom with her which a young lady
better acquainted with the ways of the
world would never - have permitted.
Consequently she, up to a certain point,
misled Baker, who, nad she compo sed
herself from the outset with prudent
reserve, would never have molested
her. He refrained from the slightest
imputation upon her; whereas it would
have been easy for him to have averred
that she encouraged him, and tens of
thousands, especially of her Qwq sex,
1 would bate believed him.
DOMhdTIC RECEIPTS.
Baked Sponge Pudding. — Three
eggs, t^eir weight eacn in butter, sugar
ana flour, beat the eggs very light, and
the butter beaten to a cream, and sugu
and flour; this will make four larjjf
cups) fill them half full, /tnd bake in -a
moderate oven ten minutes. Wine
aauoe.
Bice Murran.—Boil soft and dry
one-half eup rice, stir in three spoon*
fuls sugar, piece of butter size of an
egg, and a little salt, one pint of sweet
mUk, one oup yeast, two quarts flour.
Let it rise all night If sour in the
morning, add a little soda dissolved in
milk, andoake in muffin rings.
Lemon Butter fob Tarts. v-Lemon
butter is excellent for tarts. It is made
as follows: One pound pulverized white
sugar, whites of six eggs and yolks of
two, three- lemons, -including grated
rind and juiCe. Cook, twenty minutes
•over a slow Are, stirring all the while.
Tomatoes au Gratin.—Cut half a
dozen tomatoes in halves, and fill the
inside with a. mixture of biead cmmbs,
grated Parmesan cheese, pepper and
salt, in due proportions; place a small
piece of butter on each half tomato,
and lay them close together in a well
buttered tin. Bake in a slow oven about
half an hour and serve.
Chocolate Cake.—Two oups sugar,
one cup butter, three and one-naif cups
flour, live eggs, one teaspoon cream
tartar, half teaspoon soda; leave out the
whites of two eggs for the frosting.
Make this of the whites with one and
one-half cups sugar, and six large
spoonfuls grated chocolate. Spread it
on while the cake is hot
Delicious Cucumber Preserves.—
Gather young cucumbers, about*' the
length erf your middle finger, and lav
in strong brine one week; wash and soak
them a day and night in fair water,
changing this four times. Wipe, and
with a small knife slit them down one
side; dig out the seeds, stuff with a
mixture of chopped raisins and citron,
sew up the slit with a tine thread; weigh
them and make a syrup, allowing a
pound of sugar to a pound of cucumber,
and one pint of water. Heat to a boil,
skim, and drop in the fruit; simmer half
aD hour; take out and, spread upon a
dish in the sun, while you boil down the
syrup with a few slices of ginger root
added. When thick put in the cucum
bers agaih, simmer five minutes, and
put up in glass ]ars, tying them up when
cold.
Execution by Electricity<
From the London Standard.
Electricity, and the uses to which it
has been applied by scientific men,
have done mnch for the comfort and
convenience of society, and the time,
perhaps, may not be far distant, when
omnibuses and cabs, trams and trains,
will be seen in streets or on railway
lines, speeding along without either
horses or locomotives to draw them.
A-scientific German gentleman, who
is, besides a philanthropist, being
grieved to the bottom of his sensitive
heart at the* suffering of condemned
criminals who expiate • their . crime
either bv the guilotine or the rope,
lias reached the conclusion that it
would be much more humane to carrv
put the sentence of death by means of
»n electric battery, the shock of which
would kill instantaneously, without the
patient experiencing the Slightest sut
(cring or even discomfort. His inven
tion has been tested in Germany, the
result being that it is pronounced de
cidedly ingenious, whatever may be
the objections made to the innovation
with regard to its pramicab lity. A
German contemporary thus describes
the humanitarian apparatus: In a hall
set apart for executions an allegorical
statue of Justice is erected, holding in
one hand a sword, in the other a pair
of scales. In front of the statue there
is afauteuil, destined to be occupied by
the condemned man. After sentence
has been passed the Judge, (who would
fulfill at tlfe same time the duties of
the public exeoutioner) lets a wand
which he holds in his right hand, fall
into one of the scales; it goes down; at
the same moment a powerful electric
battery coneealed in the statue is
brought into action, and, this battery
being connected wit h the fauteuil, its
occupant is struck dead os if by light
ning. Experiments have been made
on an ox, jl horse, and some dogs,
death in each case being instantantan
eous. Moreover, adds the journal from
which we quote, an accidental cir
cumstance has proved the rapidity with
which human life is destroyed by the
invention. A magistrate who witnessed
the Experiments, having imprudently
gone too near the fauteuil, was killed
on the spot before he had time to utter
a sound or make a movement. The in
vention may be clever and its accesso
ries artistic, but there®is very little
chance of its adoption as yet, and crim
inals must wait awhile before being
accommodated with an easy chair for
their execution. *
How to Succeed.
Hay aid Taylor made the following re
marks respecting the rules of success,
that are worth their weight in gold to
any and every young man, as the ex
perience of one wnon all delight to
honor: ' *
“1 have always reverently accepted
them. First, labor. Nothing can be
had for nothing; whatever a men
achieves, he must pay for it; and no
favor of fortune can absolve him from
duty. Secondly, patience and forbear
ance, wnicn is eimpiy uepeuuein upuu.
the slow jnstice of time. Thirdly, aftd
most important, faith. Unless a man
believes in something far higher than
himself, something infinitely purer and
grander than he can ever become—un
less he has an instinct of an order be
y#nd his dreams, »f laws beyond his
comprehension, of beauty and good and
justice, beside which his own ideals are
dark, he will fail in every loftier form
•of ambition, and ought to fail.”
Foot Prints in the Rocks.
Colorado Springs Mountaineer f *
Mr. A. K> Fro t has left at this office
a specimen that is both unique and in
teresting; in fact we seould consider it
quite vtuuable were it our property. _ It
is a piece of common sandstone, nine
inches in length, and one and one-half
inches thick. One face of this stone is
the imprint of a human foot, six inches
long. The impression made by the sole
of tne foot is simply perfect. The five
toes are nlfinly impriedted, the inden
tation made by the heel and ball of the,
foot are plainly shown. It is the foot-1
print probably of an Indian child, and j
was no doubt made in the soft sand
during the long ago. The specimen
wos found on the mesa this side of the
■ Garden of the Gods. It may be that
one of the little maiden gods was out
plaving on a hill-side in her bare feet,
and! was caught by Noah’s flood, which
is supposed to have caused the extinc
tion of the family of goods which in
1 habited our garden, and that- is the
print of her foot made in the wet sand.
[ The specimen can be seen at this office.
| It was Artemus Ward 'who. said that
there are two things in this world for
which no 059 is ever prepared—twins
A Summer Idvf.. .
Afgonant. »
H$ was a decidedly poetieal ooking
chap, from head to foot - He ecye
glasses, and had curly hair. B gazing
upon him yon could almost tell he ex
act number of sonnets contain} in his
pocket He had on a. blue flau ilsult
and a pleasant smile. She was coun
try maiden, practical and in n cent
They walked down a fragrant meadow
and paused beneath a spreading oak
He was the first to break the silence: '
"Isn’t this lovely?”
“Oh, ain’t It!” she replied. •
“Yes,” he went on', as he planted
his chin in one hand and contemplated
the vista of skyland; “this is simply di
vine. To sit here and breath the. Mft(
cool, summer wind, fraught with the
charming fragrance of violet and rose. Is
just entrancing.”
She said nothing.' • ,
; .,'dsn’t that a majestic raotantala ovSr
there towering into the fleecy clouds?
Isn t that a lovely little brook pattering
in baby syllables over the innoeentjit
tlepbhelesP”
“Kinder,” she responded.” •
‘.‘Yes,” he went on. as he planted his>
ohin in the other hand fora ohange,
“summer is the-heaven of the year.
Just look at those happy birds darting
through the air from tree to tree. ana
flooding the valley with exquisite bursts
of tong. Wouldn't you like to be a bird,
pet?” .
“I'd rather be a girl and eat ice
cream,” she replied, with a twinkle of
Arcadian simplicity in her merry hazel
eyes. . . •
This seemed to ruffle the poet con
siderably, but he managed to regain
his mental equilibrium sufflcienty to go
on.
“Behold these golden-winged but
terflies; don’t they fly languidly, as •
though their lives are but one smooth'
period of bliss and uninterrupted happi
ness?”
“Yes,” she responded, “and they
flap their wings like doormats, don’t .
theyP”
After ten minutes of silence of the >.
most profound deqpription he ventured
to speak again.
“And there go the meny bees in gold
en flotillas, coquetting with the breeze
swayed flowers. ’
She kept still.
“But soon all pretty things will vanish
like a lover's dream. The flowers will
fade, the leaves will fall, the birds will
migrate, and the emerald tapestry of
the lea will become the couch of the
snowflake. The lilies will finish from
the lake, and the sunset will glimmer
on the barren limb and melt the snow
in the empty nest.” -
. He paused for breath and she whisper
ed:
“And then we’ll have to wear heavy
underclothes, won’t we?”
He couldn't go any further with his
remarks, so they got up and wandered
away.
Speaking in ike British Parliament.
Leisure Hour.
When Riohard Steel first rose to speak
he was greeted by cries of “Tatler! Ta!
ler!" and he heard men saying around
him, “He fancies because lie oan scril)
ble he can speak in this House.” The
fastidious Addison was aware of the in ■
tolerance of the assembly, and though
he rose to be Secretary of State—aware,
perhaps, that he would be greeted pos •
sibiy with similar insolence—ho wisely
sat as a silent memher. One cannot brl
wonder what sort of a figure Dr. John
son, who in all societies he entered
spoke as an imperial dictator, would
have made in that assembly. There Is
an order of mind, and that, of the high
est, which is unfit to.shine, or to com
mand a distinguished place there. Ma
caulay prepared ana .elaborated hie
speeches' as carefully as his essays, ami
they contained passages of rhetoric as
glowing and finished, but they made
little impression on the House; and the
fame of the orator bears no proportion
to the fame of the essayist and the his
torian- Recent times have produced
few men who could more completely
captivate and carry away an audience
upon a torrent of eloquent speoch than
George Thompson. We once heard
Lord Bgragham, in a crowded assem
bly in Exeter Hall, pronounce upon him
a most glowing elogium. He was borne
into the House for the tower Hamlets, it
was said, by the mightiest majority that
ever returned a member, yet as a speak
er there he failed utterly, and almost
ignomiously. For this reason it was
supposed that when John Bright enter
ed, This masterly over popular harangue
would exhibit as complete a failure; but
by a wise modification of his style and
the practical adaptation of it to the more
grave discussion of great questions, he
almost at once took his place as perhaps
the greatest speaker of the House.
Neither Erskine nor Mackintosh, un
questionably magnificent as they were
as orators—and some think the first and
greatest orator of modem times—im
pressed themselves on the Commons—
Erskine especially, whose wonderful at
tributes of speech could commanfr a
court, and so often succeed in overcom
ing the prejudices of a jury, is said to
have" been quite unequal to anything
like the same power in the Commons,
and, in fact, the eloquence which tells
in the House of Commons is neither
that of the platform, the pulpit nor be
bar. •
The lu on the Bicycle.'
The man on the bicycle is invariably
a silent man—a oreeecupicd man—a
man upon whose face is written an ut
ter indifference of all things met with
on his bright and sunny way. He may
attract, and rivet, and clinch the curi
ous attention of hundreds, but he is
never attracted by anything or any
body. It is a part of his strange fate
to appear simply an automatic section
of his machine. He cannot even tell
f'ou why he works his legs in that pecu
iar way; indeed for the most part, he
seems totally oblivious of the fact that
he has a pair of lesp to work at all, and
yet the spasmodic regularity in the
swiftly alternating undulations of his
knees will command at-once the atten
tive admiration of every lowly pedestrian
he passes in the street. The man on
the bicycle seems always to be going
somewhere a very neat number ot
miles from here. Evidently he has not
hoisted himself up there astride of that
great spindle-shanked wheel either for.
the mere fun of the thing or to accent
bis beauty or grace of figure before the'
multitude. He is there for a purpose,
rest assured, however inscrutable a
mystery ps it may seem to us. It is
enough for us to recognize in his pro
found abstraction and melancholy bear
ing that he knows the goal of his am
j bition and will arrive there in proper
time, no fear. Whatever emotions may
be surging at his heart, whatever tem
pestuous yearning at riot in the soul
within, the stoic face goes glimmering
by us, betraying nothing but the grave
content of one whose clear convictions ■■
have never failed Mm yet He knows
his purpose and his destination. That
'isenough.