The frontier., September 22, 1881, Image 1

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

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ONEILL CITY, NEBRASKA, I^URSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 22 1881.
NO. 9
Fays the Bed Cloud Argvt: A fai
mar Urtag act a thousand miles from Bed Cbm
laeastly sold bla farm at auction for ISOO. In
looking over the prasnlaea alter the aale had
been agreed spin an old Iran kettle waa bund,
partially Imbedded la the pound, for what pur
poae we bare not beau apprised. The little old
^iraa kettle, bowerar, moat be of ccweUwalda
i talar, aa the (aimer, who la aald not to baraa
' tarjr exalted opinion of thla portion of Nebras
ka as ah agricultural ragfam, Is not very aniow
to sell after all, as we understand the afecemfc]
article la likely to prerent the ■#!«, the rjor
chaaer claiming it asapart of tbeiaproveasM
on the (arm, and the owner claiming jt Mt
part of bla peraooal effects.
.The following an the Mt
ehangee In Nebraska during fa. Ljl
Ant 27th: EaUhlt^^*1^
Wayne,
Wayne connty, postmartw.
Name and Bit* Cb-^^^^,, GroTe^ H>1
county, to Inman t aud Clayton North appoint
ad poatmaat'^, Pu^rMiter, Appointed—
crania, -eneneeter county, t. W. Tmyl
numora county, Fbaba Taptmi Bad
Red Willow county, George fairland
yv a- Antir nrnmtj rinltninilTlimiiei
A Dispatch from Niobrara of Sept. 6,
waya William’ Selkirk waS’sbot end killed by
John Bcbumaker at a den** on the night o
Sept. 3d. Bchnmakcr waa arreated.
Kopejtkn, the man who waa reported
Stilled or fatally injured ta'a' light with O’Leary
abort time ago near La Platte, haa recovered,
Ua eacape (rout death being remarkable, aa the
daotora and people at La Platte aay.
Kearney’s high school haa been insur
•ed (or 115,000.
Clay county ranks 7th in point of
waalthjn the State.
Nttmerons burglaries are reported
born Thayer county.
A mountain lion id roaming on Camp
and Indian creek near Culbertson.
Weeping Water is grading a bottle*
rard and otherwise imploring the town.
The amount of hay which b being
pot np throughout the state la Intense.
A thirty pound wild cat was caught
In a trap near Madison, n few days 1(0.
The town of Hubbell waa incorpor
ated by the county commlestooen at their last
session.
Sportsmen In the southern and east
•era parts of the state complain at tbe scarcity
■of chickens.
Lincoln A Fremont railroad
•Mats thirty-five thousand dollars In bonds from
J’leinout
Mr. M. C. Rerdell, of Washington,
D. C., has purchased 4,000 acres of Mancecoun
ty lands.
Tho election in Lincoln for (50,000
In hoods to the Fremont railroad will be held
September 9fth.
'IV Presbyterian cliur<.li at St- Paul
has teen prerented with a Arc elver communion
set, of six pieces, by a New Yoi k lady.
During, a quarrel in a saloon at North
Send, Frank Hirers was fatally stabbed by A.
■ B. Dawson. Dawson Is under arrest.
Tl e S. C. A P. R. R. ia now completed
to Atkinson, 90 miles above O’Neill city, and
track laying la being pushed towards Fort Nio
brara.
The resident of Mrs. Tbos. Turner, j
In Fremont, was burglarised tbe other day dar
ing the Sreoce of tbe family, to tbe amount of
nearly 9300.
Three ohildren were buried by the
caring la of a sand bank near Dannebrog, re
cently. Two were execrated alive, but tbe
third, Julius Wilson, was •mothered to death.
A report comes from tbe Dismal
river country that two cattle mea wen recently
killed by toe Indians In that vicinity and that
numerous hands of redaklns art passing through
there.
Tbr|ladl visual Against tho State.
Popular Science Monthly.
Here, again, the law of progress is
misread. Nothing is more certain than
that it' has resulted in cutting down
slate sovereignty to make room for in
«1 victual rights.- Man’s development
lias never been an acquirementof rights
against the state, and, in all political ad
vancement, the state has consequently
become less nnd less, and the citizen
more and more. The progress of civil
liberty has been from the beginning a
wresting of power from despotic state
sovereignty. Men fought early and des
perately for tho right of life—that is,
that they should not have their heads
cut off at the caprice of a sovereign
will. They wrung from the state the
right of the individual ownemship of
property. They reduced the functions
of tho state when it repressed f,eo
speech for its own sovereign purposes.
They stripped the state of its power of
determining what religion it thinks best
for tbe community, and thns secured
tho rights of conscience. In all these
things, and in many more, government
has.been restrained and hampered in
its tyranical meddlings, and the people
have correspondingly gained in liberty.
The state has always assumed that it
knew more about what was good forthe
maple than they know themselves.
W hat we call liberty is nothing more
than the right of the people to be their
own judges, and to manage their own
concerns in the way that seems best for
the promotion of their own interests.
But Mr. Bryar t interprets state sover
eignly in s way that dissolves ail indi
vidual rights. If tbe state may inter
fere at its “sovereign discretion’’ to ex
tirpate the family in the matter of edu
cation. if it may take away a child as
anon ss it ia ready forthe Kindergarten,
and dictate tho whole course of its cul
tivation, stamping its character with a
J view to state objects, what else may it
aot do, and what becomes of the vaunt
ed freedom of the citizen F The doc
trine belongs to despotism, and was first
and filly praoticed fn Prussia as a means
of shaping subjects to the uses of kingly
power.
An inortted company orpfor ihecpc
breeding baa been formed in eonth Mis
uasippi, one bnndred and fifty mile*
from St Lonia. They propose to locate
80.000 acres nf land on the side of the
Oaark monn’ tins, and to start with
4.000 sheep, fenced in at less cost than
herdsmen can be employed. They ex
pect to bring the land nnder cultivation
at an early day, and to grate in bine
ami tame grass instead of bunch gmaa,
and to provide shelter and winter feed
for the flocks, and other improvement*
when needed.—Michigan Farmer. \
la IS PsaslUa
That a nmedr made of such common, atmole
“ HoP*> Bochn, MandnkcHjanfoUoaL
*° many and such nurreksu and
Bitter, dot It moat
WEEKLY REVIEW.
A train of nlno cars was wrecked neM
Oa*rovme, Texaa, Sept 7th.
Prince Frederick, uncle of the Her
Of the Nettherlands, U dead.
Hendrick B. Wright, Congressman,
«ed at WOkaabaite, Ph., Sept tad.
Clipp'i rubber works at H&norer,
Mem, horned Sept. 2d. Lom, (75,000.
A 920,000 fire occurred in Chicago,
Sept 7tb, and on the same night a 15,000 fire
Ia8t Louis.
A lire in Chicago, at the corner el
Lake end Franklin streets, on the night of Sept
2d, eatued a loea of orer 550,000.
Five car-loads of dromedaries were
recently shipped from Texas to Aresona, to be
need In transpprtlng-'Jiilted States m«n«.
Two thousand acres of forest, south
of Bradford, Pa, hare boned, destroylhg OS
oil walla aadtbalr rlgglnga Loea, HS/MBi
North Carolina crops are badly injur
ed by the dreoth. Recent reporta aay there
will not be a one-third crop of either core or
tobacco.
Sixty-one persons were burned to
death and six hundred and eighty-two botnet
were destroyed by forest flics In Algeria, in one
day recently.
A fire in Chicago, Sept 8th, destroyed
the building of the Tomer Packing Co. About
540,000 worth of hide were burned, as well as
other property. Loss on stock and bonding,
530,000.
A terrific explosion occurred in the
loading room of the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, New Haven, Conn., Angoat
80th, blowing off the roof. N'ne men wen
badly Injured.
. The Reading (Pa.) Newt says that if
the emigration from the mining regions of the
State continues as it baa begun, the end of the
year will And the anthracite mines closed for
want of laborers.
The Standard Coal and Iron Com
piny incorporated at Colombna, Ohio, states
Its capital at 515,000,000. It la said that the
company Intends to secure all the property In
the Rocking Valley region which can be pur
chased at reasonable figures.
The failures reported for the week
ending Sept. 2d were 103 against 113 the previ
ous week. They were as follows: Pacific Coast
Staten, 11; Eastern, 14; Western, 38; Southern,
11; Middle, 80. Most of them occurred In re
tail trades and have Very little significance.
The convention of short-hand writers
In Chicago, Sept 2nd, elected as honorary
members a tcmber ol eminent photographers.
Cincinnati was chosen as the next place of
meeting, and after some Interesting speeches
had been made the convention adjourned.
. A M. I'listen, of Galveston, has dis
covered a comet, visible from 9 to 10 r. k., In
the constellation of Urao Major. It la plainly
seen through a telescope. A dispatch from
Lexington, Ky., announces a comet visible on
the night of Aug. 19th, a little north of west
“One of the features of the Atlantic
Cotton Exposition,” says the Columbus Ifejwfr
<r Awn, “will be tbs manufacture of a suited
clothes from raw cotton In twenty-four hours.
The cotton will be picked, ginned, spun, dyed,
woven, and made into a suit of clothes for Sen
ator Brown Inside of one day.”
Marvelous gold discoveries are report
ed from the Central Hills, thirty miles from
Dcadwood, Dakota. A vein four feet wide Is
said to contain more precious metal than quarts.
It la said that it runs <130,000 to the ton In the
foundation. This mine was formerly under
bonds to the Homestake Company.
The latest report from Bosebud
Agency Is to the effect that Crow Dog and
Black Crow conspired with other Indians to as
sassinate spotted Tail, wich a view of making
Black Ci ■ 'W chief In place of the murdered man.
The criminals have been arrested and sent to
Fort Niobrara, where they will be trie&undsr
ths laws "f the Territory.
A let) r has been received at Wash
ington from Captain Hooper, of the United
States it earner Corwin, sent Into the Arctic
8eas In starch of the Jeanhette, stating that be
had bear.! nothing of that vessel on the Siber
ian coast, that be had discovered an Island near
Cape Senile and had victualled for the winter,
If he found that be had to be out so long.
Captain Samuel RMer, who was wide
ly known throughout the northwest and prftic
ularly In the river towns, died at Grtggsvllle,
111., Aug. 19th, In his 68th year, after a linger
ing Alness. He was master of the first packet
that ever ran on the Dlinola river and subse
quently commanded vessels on the Missouri
river. He wae n man of broad character and
highly esteemed wherever known.
Tiffany, Indian agent at San Carlos,
reports that Indian runners have come In from
the White Mountains with rumors of a fight
near Fort Apache. One Lieutenant and a num
ber of soldiers are said to have been killed In a
fight on Cebtsqne Creek. Owing to the late
heavy storms the military telegraph la down be
yond Camp Thomas, and this news comes from
Fort Apache by mountain courier.
A dispatch of Sept. 2d, from Rich
mond, fa, says: The drouth still continues
throughout the State. In many of the count!ce
the com end tobacco are burnt up. The streams
are drying up, mills and fanners are greatly In
convenienced. The water of the Janies
river is lower than for fifty years. The tobacco
and fall crops may be a complete failure. The
dust Is fearful and the situation very alarming.
A Tucson dispatch of Septem
ber 8th says: San Carlos is quiet but the
agent reports 260 bucks belonging to the
White Utes ere hostile. They killed two In
Toto Basin, where Price has four companies,
with more reservation Indiana coming to-mor
row. The agent says there were but seven yes
terday. It is believed that the most* of them
out on passes have tried to get back, and |
two dtlseni report that parties of them I
are eommlng down the Gila river who offered
no objection to bringing In part of Pedro’s own
band. Carr has now three additional com
panies of militia, and reports from old Fort
Giant that he is unable to ford the Gila.
Price’s command moved out of Venle on the
6th.
A special from Wilcox, New Mexico,
report* the killing of packers and prospectors
In different directions. Lieut. GoQfoyle, who
has gone to the Ban Carlos agency to recruit a
company of scoots, reports the buying often
or twelve men east of ben on his way to New
Mexico. The Bowie scare has subsided. The
ostites hare left the Immediate vicinity of
Apache, and everything is quiet there. A mad
carrier from Clifton reports thit the Twtea
have stolen all the stock and provMona at a
Mormon settlement sixteen miles east of here
yesterday. Nobody killed. The Slar’i special
bom Apache reports tbs bodlas of fsnr —»
found on s trail eight mOas from there. Gen.
Carr waa scooting to locate the hostile*, who
appear to have kept to the southwest. Clrt
ssns report them In a rough country, probably
Earn of Rocky Canon. Gen. Wilcox, of tbs
Commanding Department of Arisons, yestsr
day afternoon. He will make arrangements at
Wilcox for forwarding troops and soppUcs to the
Raporta of the nngei of fire oon
ttoua to come far along the Saginaw Valley and
St Louis road. Twenty-one miles bare been
boned over a* both tides of the track, and
thirty or forty buildings burned, including
household goods, gralh end-dock. In Toeeola
county, Klch., itomagrc bare resulted to yhs
extent ol 180,000; and fires are sweeping orer a
large area. Owing to the excitement it Is diffi
cult to arrire at the josses East of Saginaw
great damage baa been done, hundreds at acres
baring been burned onr and many bulldinga
burned. The Tillage at Clio narrowly escaped
destruction. An Indian settlement seven miles
below Saginaw to au mounded by Are, end will
be wiped out. The telegraphic communication
with the wont parte of the burned region of
the State are esrtirely cut off. The reporta ere
somewhat fragmentary, and It to hoped exag
gerated. Many fear that the wont to far from
told. Same predict that a hnndred Urea will be
lost The complete deetractlon of Richmond
rffie seemed confirmed. The little rUtoget at
Genoa, Charleston and Tice sic reported com
« destroyed. Tbe townships of Delaware,
l and Costia in Santo county, and Bing
ham, lharssaw and Parts to Ifueas coanty, an
burned onr and deserted. The crops in these
townehlpe are neerly til loet The remains o( a
family of aeren named Kctnond, who were
drowned in a well where they had retreated and
been suffocated near Charleston. The remains
of Henry Cole were found near Charleston,
and a family named Tnaula In Paris township.
Mrs. Diebut and three children were burned
to death in Watertown, end the Dennison
family ere supposed to be burned. Two
families, named Thornton and Lee, it is
feared are loet near Richmondvllle. The wind
carried the fire with rapidity, preventing escape
In some lnatancea. The Board of Trade of
Saginaw appointed s committee to solicit relief
for the destitute. Hundreds of ftmllliee are
reduced to Immediate want
Chicago dispatches of Sept. 7th indi
cate that thegrandest and moat aggressive rail
road war of history has broken out and la al
ready raging with great bitterness among the
eastern trunk lines on rates between here and
New York. The Pennsylvania, tile Baltimore
A Ohio, and the Grand Trunk roads today met
the heavy cut made yesterday by the Vander
bilt lines. The Pennsylvania road made the
cut both to New York and to Boston. The
Baltimore A Ohio, and the Grand Trunk met
only the New York cut. The latter roads are
selling straight limited tickets The Vander
bilt roads still fell on the rebate plan. For to
morrow, there Is still a greater demoralisation
In store as the Vanderbilt roads will begin roll
ing tickets for 15.00 (rebate plan) to New York;
16.00 to Boston direct, and 110.75 to Boston Tla
New York. The Grand lnpik announces It
will to-morrow make a (500 rate to Buffalo
and a (9.00 rate to New York by the Erie from
Buffalo, or Tla Boston with two days off In Bos
ton. They will also sell a round trip ticket
from Chicago to Boston and return good for
thirty days for (10. The Michigan Central has
heretofore held the case of the Michigan Cen
tral tickets In the Chicago aid Grand Trunk
office here, but withdrew t ay and will
not hereafter sell Grand Trank tickets of the
Grand Trunk’s Issue over the Michigan Central
and Grand Trunk roads. In retaliation the
Grand Trunk gives notice that It will to-day
transfer Its line of Pullman sleepers from the
Michigan Central to the Chicago and Grand
Trunk and will use them as a line between Chi
cago and Buffalo In connection with the Erie.
The cheap tickets sold by the Vanderbilt roads
are good only over the New York Central.
This shuts ont the Erie and It will probably
form an alliance with the Grand Trunk and cut
rates against the New York Central from all
principal points m New York. ThePennsylvanl
company being subject to an arbitrary rate
from New York to Boston of (5.75 will if It
meets the direct rate to Boston of the Vander
blit combination get but 25 cents for the haul
from Chicago to New York. The (5 rate of
the Grand Trunk will necessitate the cutting of
the local rate by the Michigan Central from
Chicago to Detroit from (8 to (550. It is Inti
mated to night that the Pennsylvania lines will
attack the Lake Shore at Cleveland, Toledo and
Buffalo on local rates.
Crime and Crlnalmstle.
John Kemmel, a tavern keeper in
Jamaica, L. I. Septemper 7th, killed his wife,
aet lire to his hotel and hanged himself.
The wife of Milton Andrews, a Wall
street broker, New York, probably fatally shot
herself after a quarrel with her husband.
The New York Sun has a story of [a
duel at Warren, Va., between R. Y. Camp and
Jar. C. Scott. One of the principals was ln
Ju led, but not dangerously. All the parties
were arrested.
George Knowlton, known as Rebel
George, who killed David Ranett at Fort Pierre,
April 1st, 1871, was arrested In Chicago, Sept
2d, by a United States Marshal, and locked up
to await transfer to Dakota.
At New Hope, Georgia, September
1st, Bailiff Dennis and posse went to a hut to
arrest a negro charged with assaulting a woman.
A negro ran from the house, and Dennis shot
and killed him, but he proved to be the wrong
man.
On the night of August 80th in Mil
waukee a young man named Herman Hilton,
a German, ahot and killed hla father-in-law,
Paul KImmer, and mortally wounded Mrs.
Kfanmar. Hilton waa at once mrreeted. The
eauae assigned la famDy trouble.
Early on the afternoon of August
lHh a young woman appeared at tbe entrance
of the Executive Mansion grounds attired in a
bathing suit and applied for admission, saying
sbe must see the President Immediately or
swore he would be dead In an hour. Sbe had
In her possession a miniature saw and a Tlal'con
tainlng liquid. A curious crowd gathered
around the female, and one of the guards In
formed her she would have to go with Him
which she did after some parley. A later dis
patch says: The cranky woman at the White
House was handsome and young. Sbe gave her
name as Mary Louise Eemlnger, of 554 Broad
way, Brooklyn and came from Paris especially
to cure he President Sbe was sent to the
Government Insane Asylum. Under her bath
ing suit she won the costume of a ballet
dancer or variety actress. She waa not vio
John C. Neal, a erany stranger, it
Chicago arose from his bed in 'lodging houa
No 858 'ark street on the night of Sept 2nd
and with s yell suddenly placed i
revolver at the head of another Inmate of tb
room, David Fsgtn, and fired; be then'darte
down stairs to the efflce and with an Indian war
whoop shot the only occupant, an old Swede,
William 8prlngcord, In the back, took a run
ning Jump out of a window, struck squarely on
his feet and started down Clark street on a dead
run, firing aa be ran and bitting Henry Johnson,
a negro, who attempted to stop him. Beaching
Polk street he fired at close range at Thomas
Flynn, n railroad fiagman and Mr. Wolf, a
| depot watchman, who were sitting together;
| running atm farther he snapped his revolver
| twice at a policeman who dubbed tbe exdted
lunatic, and after a violent struggle got him to
tbe armory. The wotmds of Wolf, Sprlngcord
and Johnson are serious and may prove f«r*i
He claims to have been a grocer hi Troy, New
York.
Sews fboaa Abroad.
IRELAND.
Brndlangh has 1 tailed a manifesto to
nieRngiiJi people announcing hla intention to
go to the Honor of Commoaa again at tha negt
■i—lop of Parliament, rod aaking therm to pro
tect him against unlawful violence.
KHOLXND
Eight cartridges, marked U. 8., have
been discovered In a tale of cotton it the Ahhsy
Spinning Company's works, near Oldham. It
la believed they were ptmd there with the design
of asttlng Ore to the mUL Tbs anal Fenian
reports are earreet.
Turn.
A Paris correapondent saya: President
Grtvy la quite ready to offer Oambetta tba
Premiership, but will wait nntil Jolea Terry en
ooontera hostile votes in the Chamber of Dep
uties. ,
AFKIGA.
The attention of the French govern
ment la caned to the possibility of a famine In
Algeria. The occupation of the city of Tonis
and some other points became aeeeaaeiy.
Bonetan recommends the French force In the
regency to be made 130,000. V
BCMIA.
One hondredJewe have eeeape&Aoafej
lfaarta and are eh their way to America. Forty
Jewish employee et the Kieff tobacco factory
were ordered to quit the town In two weeks.
Cheek to Blind Veosenoe.
From the Philadelphia i-edger itlspj
It is certainly a proper exercise of
discretion for the authorities at Wash
ington to increase the military gaurdat
the jail where the assassian Goiteau is
confined; but it is not creditable to the
city or to the country that there should
be a suspicion that there are enough
lawless people in the National capital
to make such ordering out of troops
even a seeming necessity. What a
burning disgrace it would be, H the
dreadful tragedy that has been weigh
ing down the heart of the American
people throughout all these long weeks
should be degraded by such an act of
barbarism as the murder of apmoner
in the custody of the law I The men
who are talking of lynchiug hare no
conception of what the honor of the
Nation demands. What could come of
tearing out the life of such a miserable
wretch as Ouiteah by an act of blind
vengeance? Could there be anything
like expiation in that? Could there be
anything but the deepest National dis
grace? Wbat sort of men are they that
hint such a thing? Surely, none of
those who feel the sinccrest and pro
foundest sorrow for the suffering of the
President and the possible bereavement
of the Nation by the murderer’s act.
These include the vast majority of
the -American people, and they, as be
come citizens of a country where the
law is paramount sovereign, are satis
fied to let the law deal with the assas
sin, monstrous as the crime is—or may
turn out to be.
The Washington authorities, there
fore, take the right view of their duties
aid responsibilities when they adopt
secure means to see that the miserable
wretch Guiteau is kept by the ministers
of the law for the judgement of the
law. The case was aptly put by Col
onel Ayers to the man who suggested
that the soldiers under the Colonel’s
command would only make a show of
resistance to the mob, and, after this,
allow “the people to take their man.”
To this scandalous suggestion Colonel
Ayers replied as the true soldier
should. He said; “Those who have
such ideas will be sadly mistaken, and
while I should deeply regret the loss of
a single man in such a cause, yet my
orders are imperative, and as a soldier
they will be obeyed. Guiteau is a
prisoner of the United States Govern
ment. He is conffned within a United
States jail. The Constitution and the
laws guarantee him afair trial. This is
the capital of the Nation, the center of
law and order. The Government has
determined that no mob law shall
reign here, and I have been directed to
protect the prisoner and the United
States property, and you may rest as
sured it will be done. I sincerely trust
no such demonstration will be made by
the people, because in their attempt to
carry out their purpose innocent lives
may be lost” •
This is well said. It precisely fits the
case; and, if lawless men from any part
of the country have gene to Washing
ton to join similar spirits there, under
the delusion that it is for them to wreak
vengence in behalf of the people, they
had Detter take warning and halt The
people of the country have no sym
pathy with such barbarism. What the
excited ‘lynchers propose would
only add to their great sorrow a sense
of National degradation.
The Old Highland Chieftains.
No men were pfouder of their rank
and descent Not a few of them were
educated in France or England, and
had once been in the habit of mixing in
a society from which they seemed to
be hopelessly banished. Impoverished
and disappointed, thrown back upon
their own diminished resources, the
petty monarchs and tyrants of all they
surveved, they lost their slight culture,
and their failings grew into vicos. With
many of the outward signs of native
high-breeding, the Highland chief grew
more and more narrow-minded, as he
lived on, year after y-ar, in a contract
ing circle of ideas, striving to interest
himself in his shooting, fishing and
cattle-breeding. He was imitated in all
respects by his tenants and kinsmen ac
cording to their lights But the smaller
man, while dutifully submissive to his
chief, showed his inborn haughtiness
still more objectionably; and as he had
known nothing of the world beyond his
native wilds, was more absolutely wed
ded to his antiquated prejudices. One
and all were lavish in their hospitality,
though their opportunities of practicing
it were less frequent than they could
have desired; for the visits of strangers
were few and far between, at a time
when admiration of the beauties of na
ture was still a taste of the future. As
for Highland fe<ivili-s. when they did
come off, they to tie form of hard
drinking—necessarily su -h talk as there
was turned on topics thit wcie strictly
local; so that,even when the guest
chanced to be a man of ideas, he did
little to enlighten the darkness of his
hosts.
Among tne Harris.
Among the Marris of India, if ayoung
man wants to many, his father takes
with him some friends, and they set ont
toward the village or house indicated by
the youth. If they hear a bird chirping
on the way, they return dismayed—it is
a bad omen. If they meet a hare or •
squirrel, a wild boar or a mountain
cat, it is likewise an et il omen. But if
they meet a stag or a bullock, a buffalo
or a young maiden, it is a good omen,
and they go on theirwayrejoicing. The
chirping of the bird, a cat or hare, wild
boar or squirrel, may make two fond
hearts disconsolate; for, once aban
doned, a search in that direction again
for a wife would be profanity.
Said the General to tne Major,’
“What is your rank, sir?” and the Ma
jor replied, “I am a Major, General."
Don’t be in too great a hurry^to suc
ceed. Work hard to deserve success
and fortune is sure not to forget you.
The speculators have taken out poli
e)M amounting to (400,000 on the Ufa of an old
woman tn Scranton, Pa. Scarcely an old penou
dies now that is not insured for |G0,000 a
•100,000.
Wore Work of the Missouri Dos
TRAIN ROBBERY.
persdoes.
On the (Has* * Alton Bead at Olea
uk,n*
t* #4,000.
Altar tMr DMtaidly Om« the Mtal
AFosm of 1,600 Men from Immm City In
f Dispatches of September 8th report
Meagre particulars of another train robbery,
whtth occurred at Glendale, a few miles from
Independence, Mo., on the night of September
7th.
The following farther particulars are re
cthed: The train waa the west-bound ex
press and had about 100 passengers on board,
all ox whom lost Something, and many quite
heavily. Frank Lombard, news agent of the
train, made the following statement: “I was
sitting in the smoking car talking to Conductoi
Jack Haxelbaeker; we were on the grade four
miles from Independence: all of a sudden the
train stopped ana we heard loud voices and pis
tol shots, and saw lanterns flashing. We knew
the train robbers were on us. Hazelbacker ran
back Into the.train and warned the passengers.
They were alt looking out of the window until
the robbers ordered them to pull in their head*
and keep quiet. The robbers had stopped the
train by putting obstructions on the rails
and signalling. I ui sure there were
a dozen of them, although some of the
passengers place the number at six
teen. Everybody was panic-stricken and
helpless and ran out of the car and found
men guarding the engineer and fireman. They
were poorlyaskem d, a talubl rmed with Henry
rifles. They were swearing loudly and shooting’
at random. Some of them passed into the mail
car, but did not touch anything. Express
Messenger Fox had in the meantime locked the
express car. They climbed upon the
car, ran around and began to shoot. They then
broke Into the car and knocked him down by a
violent blow on the head. They robbed the safe
of everything and ran back to the smoking car
and hid most of the money. The robbers came
in and ordered me to lie down. I did so. They
noin ted revolvers at me and ordered me to
fork over. I Bald my money was under the
cushion. They told me to get it, and I got it in
a hurry you can bet. They then went west ba k
to the other cars and made wholesale robbery of
money, watches and jewelry. Some of the
passengers secreted their money, but the major
ity lost all. The ladies were compelled to sit
down on the floor and tome had ear rings taken
from their ears and many lost their jewelry.
One man lost 8150.
In the meantime a freight train was coming
up behind us, aud Burton, the brakeman, ran
down the track, with a storm of bullets behind
him, stopped the train and probably saved many
lives. After the cars were gone through the
robbers jumped off and struck for the timber,
where their horse** were. The men in front
helped the train men roll off the obstruction
and then joined their companions. I should
say we stood still half an hour.” F. T., or
Frank Burton, Baid: “I was standing on the
front platform of the sleeper when the train
stopped, and heard voices and oaths on the rear
platform. 1 said, ‘we are going to be robbed.’
Then one of the robbers cried out. ‘we are com
ing in and going through you all.’ I remem
ber d that a freight train was just behind ns.
and I heard it coining up. I jumped off and
ran with my lantern down the track and they
commenced Bhooting at me. The bullets struck
the rails around me, and they must have fired
twenty-five shots.”
The engineer said, “for God’s sake don’t
shoot the boy he is saving the lives of these
peot le.” Then one of them threw up one of
his arms and cried, “stop shooting.” I rolled
into the cut and waved my lantern. The train
was stopped only a car length off. W hen I
cameback the robbers said: /‘Have you lost
anytlflSgP I answered, fifty cents,” and he
cave me one-dollar, and fifty cents for interest
Then I heard one of the robbers say :o the en
gineer: “Choppy Foote, you are too good a
man to keep up this business; here’s two dol
lars to buy a tlriuk in the mornlDg, and drink it
for Jesse James. I warn you that you’ll be
killed If you don’t leave this road; we are going
to tear up and burst the Alton and Rock island
roads, for they’ve been offering rewards for us.
We’ve no grudge against the Pullmans, and will
switch off their cars and burn the rest I am
the man who killed Weetlake at Winston. He
was too smart, and drew a revolver.” Burton
did not ;hink It was Jesse James or any of hie
gang. Th»y all acted green at the business,
and he thought they were men living In the vi
cinity. They all Beeraed quite young, and ma e
no attempt to disguise their voices. Passengers
tell substantially the same story as the above.
St. Louie, 8ept. 8.—The Fo8trDi»palch'$Kan
sas City special has the story of L. Foote, en
gineer of the robbed train. Three or four mile*
from independence, just before the crossing of
the Missouri Pacific track, he saw a five foot pile
of stones with a stick lu the top and a red tag
upon it, and behind the whole stood the leader
of the robbers who said, “8tep down off time
engine and do as I tell you or I will kill you,”
with a revolver pointed at his head. The robber
made him get the 'coal pick and break down
the door of the express car. Messenger Fox
had bid ia the woods, but they threatened to
kill roe If he did not appear, so I called on him
to come out, which he did and they forced him
to open tho safe. They were cha
grlned at not getting more booty, and
jumping on Fox beat him with revolver*
fearfully. They then marched us to the
c< aches and covered us with revolvers while
they robbed the passengers They went throueb
every car and then marched us back to the en
gine. The leader said: “Now get back there •
we will remove the stones; you have been a
bully boy—here’s a little present for you,”
handing me two silver dollars. The skipped
over the embankment and were out of sight In
twinkling. What was taken from the pas
sengers was put in a two-bushel sack, whi b
was nearly full of watches and other valuables,
it is stated that the chief of police has arrested
six of the robbers.
8t. Louis, Sept. 8.—Gov. Crittenden has is
sued a proclamation, calling upon the people
to rise and exterminate the train i
_ robbers. He
has gone to Kansas City to consult with the
Jackson county authorities tn regard to the ajr
prehension of the robbers. One thousand men
are organized en posse from Kansas City and
adjacent counties, and are now in the field un
der the command of the sheriffs and marshal.
Among the passengers robbed are Dr. Letnis
tran, Milwaukee; M. Mead, Savannah, N. Y.;
A. 8. York, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Peter Berry,
Iowa; Wm. Haynes, Gunnison, Col.; J. C.
Long, 8t. Louis; L. A. Yerkes, Detroit; Julia
and Fannie Smith, Indianapolis: Mrs. Fleet,
Ohio: Mrs. Ellngton, Mrs. Holly Dais, Mrs.
Dunkirk, Leroy, N. Y.; R. R. Petty, Holyoke;
Tbos. Shields, Chicago; J. H. Bum, Chicago;
Martha Perry, John O’Brien, wife and daughter
Penn Yan, N. Y.; C. H. Brown, Jordan, NT Y.;
O. A. Grinneald, A. Miles, John Ploehart. Col.
Jamas Harris, Chicago; A. L. Davis, Albany,
N. Y.; A, T. Smith, Chicago. C. O. Camp, of
the Ft. Scott & Gulf railread, was accompany
iny a party of thirty-five land buyers from New
York who were going to Kansas to make pur
chases. Including Camp’s loss, the robbers ob
tained from the party between $3,000 and $4,
000. U. 8. Express Co.’s lo«s, $500.
A Kansas City dispatch of Sept. 8th says Gov.
Crittenden arrived that night, and
and was in con
ference with the local authorities. He con
fessed himself powerless under the law to offer
any large reward, and simply said he had come
to be near the scene of action and to Impress
the Importance of duty upon the local authori
ties.
H1LK SECRETIONS.
The importance of perfectly quiet
handling of cows is apparent when it is
understood that the milk is secreted
from the blood. Dog or excite cows
just before milking or during that
period,and the butter-producing quality
of the milk is seriously affected. There
are many instances mentioned where
the milk from cows thus excited,given
children has been the occasion of seri
ous cases of fever. Physicians have
traced such diseases directly to this
cause. It should De kept well in mind
that mild drawn from cows dogged or
excited in any way, is nearly unfit for
fny use. The greatest of quiet and
gentleness should characterize the
handling of milk cows at all times, in
order to secure good result*.
khuccted oioim.
Like some great tear tranafermsd to liquid gold
The evening iter float! tremmoualyeieei.
And round It forme of crlmeoo cloud appear,
Whoee beauty makes the heart leap to behold;
Reflected and repeated many fold
Upon the gentle rtrer flowing near,
To lorlng eyea a beauty shines, non dear
Than etar and cloud tntbelrown place can bold;
Tor lo! the glorlee of the waning Wast
Are wrought to lovlier laatte hy the play
Of wavering light*, and oeaeeleae Interflow
Of fond and color on the river’s breast,
iVhere Mystery aeema her heavenly hand to lay,
And eomewhat of diviner grace beetowr.
nr THK OLD CHUBCH TOWKB. /
In the old church tower,
Hanga the bell)
And above It on the tone,
In the ennahlne and the rain, ...
CutlngdldSt. Yeter
With the keys In hla two handa,
And all la welL
In the old church tower
Hanga the belL *
Ton can hear lta great heart beat,
Ah I so loud and mild and sweet,
As the parson says hla prayer
Over happy lovers there,
While all la well 1
In the old church towaf
Hangs the bell.
Deep and solemn. Hark I again.
Ah I what passion and what paint
With her hand upon her breast,
Some poor soul has gone to rest
Where all la well I
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell—
A quaint friend that seems to know,
All our Joys and all our woe;
It Is glad when we are wed,
It Is sad when we are dead,
And all is well.
TO LET—KIPPLE GRANGE.
Mr.. Pixley tu a real estate agent.
Mr. Pixley had had a goodly number of
Houses on his list in his time, hut never
Dne so persistently, unalterably, per
severingly on his list as Kipple Grange.
Tear after year it had figured on his
woks as a “Desirable Country Resi
lenee at reasonable terms;'1 year after
,ear it still hung hopelessly on his
lands.
Nor was Mr. Pixley the only real es
tate agent who had wrestled, so to
tpeak, with Kipple Grange. Other
land brokers and rent collectors had
had their “try” at it, with equally sat
isfactory results. It had been advertis
ed in newspapers, and posted up on
bulletin boards and still it remained
“Kipple Grange—To let.”
“Hang the old place!” said Mr. Pix
ley, vehemently scratching his bald
head. “1 wish it would bum down, or
blow away, or something! Its a dis
graco to a business man to keep such
an eyesore on his list. I've a great
mind to put Miss Briggs into it to Keep
it in order until I can get a better ten-,
ant. She wants a place cheap. I'll let
her have Kipple Grange for nothing.”
So When Miss Briggs came tiptoeing
into the real estate office—a faded, met
ancboly little old maid, leading her
terrier dog by its string, and wearing a
green veilto neutralize the spring winds
—Mr. Pixlev told her that Kipple
Grange should be hers, for the present
at least.
“ You’ll probably find it lonely,”
said he.
“ I dote on the country, * said Miss
Briggs.
“ And very much out of repair,” he
added.
“ I don't doubt but that it will do
for me,” said the little old spinstef, her
faded eyes brightening.
“ Probably, also, there’s a ghost
about the premises,” jocosely uttered
he agent
Miss Briggs shook her head with a sad
smile.
“Itslivo people I’m afraid of, not
lead ones,” she replied.
“Well,” said Mr. Pixley, “Kipple
Srange shall be yours this quarter, if
you’ll fix up the garden a little, and
give the place a lived-in sort of look.
Of course it-will be for saie, and I shall
expect you to do your best for our in
terests.”
And Miss Briggs courtesied, and said,
“Yes, she would,” and withdrew, great
ly elated in spirit
Upon the same day, the 25th of April,
Mr. Beggarall, the real estate agent of
Dorchester, let Kipple Grange to old
Mr. Hyde, who was a naturalist and a
botanist, and an entomologist, to say
nothing of half a dozen other ists, and
who wanted a quiet country home, with
woods and meadows in its vicinity
wherein to prosecute his beloved
sciences.
And Macpherson Sc Co., of Long Is
land, made a bargain with the Rev. Mr.
Bellairs, an invalid clergyman, who was
in search of country air and complete re
C. Mrs. Bellairs was a pattern
lekeeper, and gloried in the pros
pect of gross bleaching, new laid eggs,
wild raspberries, and plenty of plums
and apricots for preserving purposes.
And, strangely enough, it occurred to
none of the real estate agents to let the
other two know of his action.
“There is never any demand for Kip
ple Grange,” said Macpherson * Co.,
indifferently.
!
“I'll write te mxiey and old Mao
rhen I get time,” said Beggarall. <
“There’s no hunr about Kipple ]
irange,” thought Pixley. “If Miss ]
Iriggs keeps it from tumbling all to i
>ieces, she will do very well."
Meanwhile Mrs. Kipple herself, the i
dump widow whose grandf***"*- on the
tusband's side had bequeathed her this
mpracticable piece of property, began
:o think of running down to look at it
herself. “They tell me there's no such
thing as letting it," said she. “I’ve a
mind to go down and see for myself.
Dne really pines for the country, now
that they are selling lilac blossoms and
pansies in the street; and I’m quite sure
a change of air would do me good. I’ll
take Dorcas, my maid, and a few cans
of peaches and sardines, and we’ll pio
nic at Kipple Grange just for the fun
of the thing."
“It never rains ’but it pours," sots
the ancient proverb; so upon this windy,
blooming April day, when the sunny
meadow slopes were purpled all over
with wild violets, ana the yellow nar
cissus was shaking its golden tassels
over neglected borders of Kipple Grange,
the old brick house, which had stood
empty for six good years at least, be
came all of a sudden alive.
It was an ancient, mildewed structure
on the edge of the wood, gn old red
house, whom front garden, tangled over
with rose briers, and grown with the
fantastic trunks of mossy pear trees
and apples that leaned almost to the
ground, sloped down to the bank of the
nferrv little rivulet Here the tiger
lilies lifted their eearlet turbans in the
July sunshine, sod the elumps of vel
vety Sweet Williams blossomed first
an.' sweetest Gnat cream-hearted
loses'swnng against the tumble down
wall, ‘ana iove-in-a- mist London pride,
ana all th< s rare old fashioned flowers
of our anco-tors ran riot sprawling
across ti e grt.ss-grown paths, and peak
ing themselves into the angles of the
fence, where the honeysuckles had trail
ed and the scarlet poppies looked like
drops of blood. The old garden of Kip
ple Grange ufas like a horticultural show
gone mad at midsummer. And even
now it was sweet with tufts of crocus,
blue velvet iris and daffodils, while at
the rear rose up the silent hemlock
wood, still and scented and emerald
green, in the twilight
Miss Briggs, ‘with her terrier do g
her band boxes, and her poor little hair
trunk studded with brass nails, had got
there early. She opened the windows
to let in toe yellow glow of the April
sunsetp kindled a fire with straight
sticks on the deep tiled hearth, and was
sitting on a starch box turned upside
down, and was drinking cold tea, and
feeding her doe with occasional scraps
of canned beefand baker's bread.
“It seems rather lonely here,” said
the little old spinster to herself; “and
the rooms are very large and dreary
looking; but I dare say i can hiie a lit
tle furniture in the village, and the
garden is really superb. 1 never saw
such tulip roots in my life. And the
little brook twinkling at the foot of the
wall is an idyl in itself.”
Miss Briggs, who had a good deal of
poetry in her starved soul, set down
the can, and reached over to look out
of the Window at the golden western
sky.
“So quiet, too!" said she; “so seclud
ed!”
But, tober amazement, even as she
looked* she perceived the figure of a
stout old gentleman, bald ana spectaaj
led, and carrying an immense fl _
travelling case under bis arm, who wa '
picking bis way among the rose brier
that lav prone ' across the path, stop
ping here and there to examine tne
growth of the silver-green house-leeks
on the garden wall.
Miss Briggs, who was somewhat near
sighted, jumped at once to the con
clusion that this interloper was a tramp.
She hurled the tin can recklessly down
into the budding entrant bushes.
“Go away!” she cried.
Mr. Hyde peered upward, with one
hand back of bis ear. “EhP” said
he. >
“Or r 11 set the dog on yon,” squeaked
Miss Briggs, encouraged by the shrill
bark of the terrier.
“Woman,” said the scientist, “who
areyouP”
“111 let you know,” said Miss Briggs,
waxing more and more excited in her
great indignation. “How dare you
trespass on my premises?”
“How dare you trespass on mineP”
returned the old gentleman, curtly.
“He's a madman,” thought Bliss
Briggs; and she remembered, with a
thrill of terror, that there was no key to
the big front door, and the bolt was
rusted into two pieces,. ..
At the same moment the sound of
whooping voices was heard, throughthe
wide, echoing halls, and three chubby
lads rushed hilariously in, tumbling over
one another as they came.
“Hurrah!” they shouted; “hurrah!
Ain't this a jolly old cavern of a house!
My! here's a fire; and here's an old
woman!”
Miss Briggs, who had drawn her head
in from the window, stared at the three
cherry-cheeked invaders, who returned
her gaze with interest.
“Boys,” said she severely, “what are
you doing hereP”
“Why, said Master Bruce Bellairs,”
aged eleven, “it’s our house. And pa
and ma are helping unpack the cart at
the south door. And I’ve got a redbird
and Johnny’s got a brood of Brahmrf
chickens in a basket, and Pierr e has a
monkey.”
“But boys," said Bliss Briggs, with a
little hysterical gasp, ‘ this is my
house.”
“No, it ain’t,” said . ae three Master
Bellairs in chorus; it’s ours. We’ve
rented it for a year, and pa and ma are
unpacking down stairs.”
“Is that yourpaP” asked Bliss Briggs,
with a sudden inspiration, as she point
ed to the old gentleman in tie yard,
who stood stockstill, like the Egyptian
obelisk.
“No indeed!” said Pierre very con
temptuously.
“Nothing of the sort,” said John
ny.
“Our pa ain’*- tusJ» agnyastha ”
chuckled Bruce.
“I think I must be asleep and dream
ing," said Miss Briggs, as the door
opened, and a stout, blooming matron
entered upon the scene, with a kerosene
lamp in one hand and a basket of care
fully packed china in the other, while
from her finger depended a bird
cage.
“My' Lood woman,” said the Rev.
Mrs. Bellairs, “I suppose you have
come here to see about a situation. If
you can bring your references as to
character—”
“Youare entirely mistaken, madam,”
said Miss Briggs, with energy. “I am
here because—?’
But at that moment, Mrs. Kipple her
self, with Dorcas, her maid, entered the
room. She was a tall, handsome wo
man, dressed in elegant mourning, and
she used an eyeglass as she talked, and
somenow she seemed to take up a good
deal more room than anybody else.
Mrs. Bellairs set down the kerosene
lamp and the bird cage. Bliss Briggs
terrier stooped barking, and the three
boys instinctively retired behind the
starch box.
"WDO are you aur saiuiuiB. ivippic,
surveying the scene through her eye
glass. “And how came yon to be
here?”
“I have taken this house,” said Miss
Briggs, with dignity.
“So have I,” declared the bald-head
ed old gentleman, who had by this time
made ms way up into the ruddy light of
Miss Briggs’ fire and stood there, close
ly hugging his flat traveling case.
“Dear me!” said Mrs. Kipple, “this
is very singular. “And I nave come
here because the house wasn’t rented
at all.
And then ensued a general chorus of
explanations, laughter, and depreca
tions, whose general effect was height
ened by a single combat between Mas
ter Pierre Bellair’s monkey and Mias
Briggs terrier.
“What are we to do?” said Mias
Briggs, plaintively looking at the hair
trunk studded with brass nails.
“Do?” said Mrs. Kipple, briskly.
“Why there is but one thing to do that
I see; the house is big enough tor ns,
and half a dozen families to boot. .Let
us all live here together.”
“I am sure I have no objection at
ML” said Mrs. Bellairs.
“Neither have I,” said the old gen
tlemsn, setting down his flat traveling
ease with a sigh of re ief. •
“Birds in their little nests agree,
quoted the Rev. Mr. Bell sin, who had'
by this time entered upon the saene,
with one Joint of a bedstead balanced
across his shoulder, “and it really seems
to. me as if wet might do the same
thing.”
So Kipple Grange was let, and good,
earnest Mr*. Kipple and Dorcas estab
lished themselves in two sunny rooms »'\t’
giving to -he south, where the apple
boughs i ushed against the lozenge
shaped sues of the easement, fiie
Bellairs amily settled down all over
the rest f the first floor, in a miscella
neous, cosmopolitan sort of a way,
mixing up biros, old china, sermon pa
per, patch-work, and theology in a
manner whioh amazed the precise soul
of gentle Miss Briggs. The soientiflo
man perched himself on the top floor,
where he could have a good outlook
with his telescope, and set up his eases
of specimens without let or hindrance. „.
Ana Miss Briggs herself made a home
like little home on the second story,
and devoted her whole energy—and
not without some success—to keeping
the peace between Chico, the monkey, •
and Nip, the terrier;
Mr. Kipple, however, got tired of ru
ral felicity, and returned to the city in
the Autumn. I
Mr. Bellairs received a call to a Del
aware parish, where peaches were thick
er than blackberries, and the olimate
was as soft as that of Italy, and he ac
cepted it promptly.
“What shall we do nowP" said Miss
Briggs, who was disposed to take a
timorous view of things.
Mr. Hyde pushed the spectacles on
the top of his head. “Don’t you like
the houseP” he asked.
“Yea,” Miss Briggs admitted, “I like
the house.”
“And don’t you consider the situation
salubrious P”
“Certainly," said Miss Briggs.
“Then,” said Mr. Hyde, making at
the edge of his geological hammer,
“why don’t you stay hereP”
“What, all alone by myself P" said
Miss Briggs.
“No, said the scientific gentleman;
“with me!”
“Good gracious!” cried Miss Briggs.
“We both like the place,” said Mr.
Hyde, “we like the situation, and we
like each other. Why shouldn’t we
settle down here for life!”
“But I have never thought of such a.
thing," said Miss Briggs, in trepida
tion.
“Think of it now,” said Mr. Hyde,
in accents of scientific persuasion, as
he laid down the hammer and took her
black mittened hand tenderly in bis.
And Mr. Bellairs jnarrieu them be
fore he went away, and Kipple Grange
has never been to let
A True Story,
P*Il-]l>n Guette.
Mr. Matthew Arnold has told ns that
“the school astern all through Ger
many * * * is, in its completeness
and carefulness, such as to excite a for
eigner's admiration.” The following
illustration of this is literally true:
Herr M., of Weberstrasse, Bonn-oa-the
Rhine, has four sons, each of whom
have passed through the gymnasien
course and matrioulated at the Bonn
University. Adolph, the eldest, is a
Landgerichts-Referender (a sort of
County-Court Judge); Lorenze holds
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,
and is a professor in a publio school;
Julius is an “advocat,” and Theodore
holds a Government appointment at
Berlin. Adolph and Julius know French
and English almost as well as their own
language, and they both have such
knowledge of Latin as to be able to
write it. In one of his examinations
Adolph had to write an account of the
Punic Wars in Latin, without the aid of
a dictionary or any other book of ref
erence. Lorenz has a knowledge of
English enabling him to read Shakes
peare in the original, and he has pub
lished a number of essays on the poet's
works. He likewise knows French,
reads Italian and Spanish, Hebrew,
Anglo-Saxon, and is the author of a
Latin treatise on Greek verbs. Theo
dore speaks with facility English,French
and Spanish, and has published a work
on political economy..
I entered Herr M.’s school in May,
1877. One day when I had been there
about six weeks our class had for trans
lation Grimm's fable of the Wolf and
the Man. The wolf, it will be remem
bered, had been persuaded by the fox
to attack the man, and had in the en
counter come off second best. Relating
afterward his misadventure to the fox,
the wolf describes the hunter’s knife as
a “bright rib, which he drew from his
body, and smote me with it so sorely
that I was well-nigh killed.” Aftercom
menting on the wolf's mistake Mr. M.
said: “I suppose you know that a wo
man has a rib morn than a manf”
Thinking he wasjokingl merely smiled;
but when he began with great serious
ness to give as a reason for this _ extra
rib the old story of Adam sleeping in
the garden and having a rib extracted
out of which to have a wife made, I
laughed outright and the old man was
greatly taken aback at my incredulity.
He assured me that it was really a fact
that men were each a rib short, and any
doctor would tell me the same. Two
of the sons were present, but notwith
standing their great learning in other
matters they appeared to be no better
informed as to this than their father.
The discussion went on, and every body
stopped work to listen to it. But no
one supported me; on the contrary, I
was openly laughed at by some who
were university students (that is, who
had gone through the gymnasium) for
setting my knowledge against the mas
ter’s. For several days the subject was
continually cropping up in class or at
dinner, so that every body in the school
knew of it. It was becoming a stand
ing joke, and as yet the laugh was
i
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against me. At i<»t iui> ftnuwum.fc»
in the open school that he had the prev
ious evening asked some of his medical
friends at the Club (die Lese and Erho
lnngs Geselischaft) about the ribs, and
he found that men had as many as wo
man. “But,” he added, half-trium
phantly, “Adam may have been one
short for all that!” The “school sys
tem” which Mr. Matthew Arnold con
siders so admirable for its “complete
ness,’ is one under which, by his own
showing, out of twenty-eight working
hours per week, ten are given to Latin
and six to Greek, while “the natural
scienoes get two hours in prims and one
in secunaa; in the rest of the school they
are the most movable part of the work,
the school authorities having it in their
power to take time from them to give
to arithmetic geography and history.”
CsuesadEfect,
Disease never comes to us without? a cause.
A*k any good phy*iclan the reason ud hewiU
tell yoa something infe-rfere* with the working
of toe great organs. Kidney-Wort enable* them •
to overcome all obstructions and preaerre* Jjgr^
feet healths Try a box or bottto at oo«e.-Jfln
tym Jfcnwr.
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