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FAIRRROTI1ER & HACKER.
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FAIR BROTHER & IIACKER,
Publlsliers and Proprietors.
Published Every Thursday Morning
AT BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA.
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ESTABLISHED 1856. l
Oldest Papor in the State.!
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1879.
VOL. 24.-NO. 11.
OFFICIAL PAPER, OF TJIECOUaTT
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OFFICIAL. DIRECTORY.
District Officer.
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J. C. WATSON ..
WILLIA1I 1L HOOVKK -
Tndere.
Dlstrlct Attorney
District Clerk.
Countv Officers.
JOnST S. STru.L Connty Jndcte
WI USOV F.. V 4 JOBS
Clerk and Recorder
.. Treasurer
Sheriff
Coronei
A. II. RITjMOUK
It. V BLACK
O B.PARKER
JAM RS JT. HACKER
PHI MI' CROTHKR...
JOH VII. SHOOK.
JOHN' H. POHLMAN
J. II. PEBRY,
ZZ.School Superintendent
Commissioners
-Surveyor
City Officers.
W.T. ROT KUS
L. f.. HUI.HITHD
J. R. IMVfCRU
S. A.OSBORN"
JOKX. W. LOVE
COUNCILMEN.
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joepii ( in v. f
W.A.JPDlCTXS.l
a ir.orr.MORK f
j,kwi irar.. t
n. upudart,
Mayor
.Police Jndce
Merle
. .Treaimrcr
..Marshal
1st Ward
2nd Ward
3rd Word
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SOCIAL. DIRECTORY.
Chnrches.
IHotlio.li-t E. Church. -Kervlocseach abhath
at I m.. and 7-W p. in. "sunlay School at
2'i . m. leaver Mooting Thursday evenihR.
S. P.Wn.vs. Pastor.
Prrxlivtnrlnn Pluiff h. Services enchSabhath
at 1-h. in. .and 7:11 p.m. Sbbath School after
innrftdir srv'p. Pravcr Meetine Wednesday
evening at 7:I o'clock." W. J. Wrkiikr. Pastor.
CliriM'x Clin- h.-'crvlc-s every Sunday, a
lOiia a. m.nml "' " Siimlav School at2 p. m
Rkv. Matthk'v Hkn-wv. Mferionarv In charge-
Hit. llrnniit t'n 't' "nml P,-eMterinii.
Church four n'le ni"i-wstnrRrownvllIo. Ser
vices first Sabbslli -i-h month. B. J. Joiix
fCS, P.istor.
Christian nuirpli. It A.nawlev.TClder. Preach
ing every Sunday at II a. m.. and 7-M p. m. Bible
Readlneand Praver meetlinK every Wednesday
eveninc. Elder Ohas. Rowcprcachos thesocond
Sunday In every montli.
nthllc Services eyery 4 th Pnnday of each
month, at 10 o'clocU a. m. Father Cummlsky,
r.ricst.
iSelxonls.
Brown viileUiifon (1 rnilod School". J. JI'.'Mc
Kenrfe. Principal: AHss Jessie K. Rain. Assist
ant Illch School; jriw Ixmi Tucker. (Srammar
rteiMirtment: Mitts Hee Hiu lRt Intermediate:
Mii Kate Vx. 1 JitermeIiate: JIlss Kmmn
Smith, lit Primary: Sirs. Carrie Johnson, 2d Tri
njary. ToTrfDlo'nf Honor.
Jtrnwnvillr J.odce. o. meets every ?rnn-
lay eveoine InOld Tellow Hall. Vlsltlne broth
ers conllnllv welcomed. Jno L. Carson. W.CT:
Wr.m. II. Ifcwr0r W. Rec- T. C- Hacker, I. I).
J nycnile Temple, meets every Saturday after
noon. Mss r;r4ce Stewart C T : 3Iiss ilary
JIackor, Sc; Mr. T. S. Minlck, SupU
Red RibVjTi Clulj
If eet the first Tuesday of eaeh month. B. 31. Bal
ley.Pres.; A. H.OIImore.Sec.
I. O. of O. F.
HrnwnvlMel.ndceN'o. .". I. O. O. V. Retmlar
mertlii:;' r-ieslaveveniniOt each "veek. Vislt
lni? .-- --espeet fully in viteil. A.II.tJilmore.
S.ll. 3 a. OwhrH.ecy.
Nr.nihn Cltv l.eileo . -1 II. T- O. O. V.
XMs every staliirday. Philip Crother. IS. O. T.
C. Klwwy. R.ec.
"Knights orPvtluji-..
KxcrUlor l.o-lse 'o. IS. K. P. Meets every
Welheslav evejilne in AlHsitnirllnll. Vlsitinc
KtiiUtK iirdlallv fnvtteil. E. Iluddart, C. C.
II I.oH'man, K. of R. S.
Mnsonic.
0.,,-,i,n VtIIcj- boiler Vn.l,A. Tf.Sr A. It.
H-lel pieeliHt-s "Sinrdav on or lefire the full
nreaeh nlmn "' Inlee room open every SMnr-
d-jiy eveiiine for leelim-s, liwtnKSlion ano soelal
inferciwrHC J.CMcNaiiRhtontW.M. B.F.Sou-
der. Sec
HrntruviUe Clnntrr No. 4 . 11. A . "W.-Stated
PieeJIiiKSseeond Thnrwliv of eaeh month. A; II.
Iaviin, M.K.H. P. R. T. lUiney. Sec
lr. Co rmelCoiii'tmndervNo. :t, K.T. Ste1
meettnes f ond Mondsv In enrh moBjh. JL .
Fnrnas, K. C: A. W. Nickel!. Rec
Itnoe ntd KilyCoiirlnv... n. :i, M.M. O. U.
itrCi Meets HUMasonie Hall on the fifth Mon
davs. B-W. Furnas, M. P. So v. JLT.Kaluey.
Secnr.
Adnh cq.a?ifrv o. 'J.-Orderot the EastemStar.
Rtitr-1 mewtlncs third Monday in each month.
Mrs. E. C. Handler, W. M.
Sociotios.
Comity Ifnir AssooTatiou. R. A. ITawloy,
Presldef Tohii Bath. Yie Presto S. A. Ost-orn,
Secretary! J. M- Trowbridge. Treasurer. Mana-c-rsXj
o.. Minick. . Tehran. F. K. Johnson,
ThoinaH Ra4k.JRe. f rnv. J. W, Oavit.
lilhrnrv mniniinn -B.M. Balley.Pres.: A.1I.
Oilmore.sec: W. II. Hoover.
Choral rnion.-J. a afcXaiiKhton. Prest. J. B.
Docker, fee
Itlnhe Dranmiip Ax-oriattoii. W. T. Borers,
Prest J. B. Docker, Sec and Treas.
Metropolitan Cornet Hntul.-D.T. Smith. Mu
sical Director. K. Huddart. Treasnrerand Busi
ness Manacer.
awanoa
BUSINESS CARDS.
A fc. HOT.TjADAY.
ii. Plij-siclnn. Surgeon, Olistetrlclnii.
nradualefl In 1S51. I.ocat d In Brou-nville 18M.
Ofllce,41 Mainstreet,BrowijyIlIe. Neb.
T Ii. rTUTjUUUD.
Jj. ATTORXEY AT tiAXV
And Justice of the Peace Oflice intJourt House
Builillns. Brownville. Neb.
QTULTi & TTTOMAS.
O ATTORVKVS AT I.AXV.
O.Tlce. overThexl re Hill t Co.'s store. Brown-
ville.'N'eH.
1. ATTOIIM3V ATIiAW.
omc over J. I.. Mc'Jeecfe Hro'sstore, Brownville,
Nebraska.
SA. 03 HO UN.
ATTIHINKY ATI.AW.
onicc,.'o.Sl Main street, ISrownvlle. Neb
T IT. BROAUY.
J t Attorney ami Cotmselor at laiv,
Oniceover.Stfttu IlanU.BrpwuviIle.Jfeb.
WT. ROGERS.
Attorney anil ConnsclnrntL.iw.
Wlllclvedlllijent-atteiitlon toatiylecallmsinehs
entrusted to hiare. Oflice in the Boy building,
Brownville. NelJ.
T W. GIBSON,
IILACICS3IITII AXI) HOUSE SIIOEIl
Work done to order and satisfaction gnuranteeil
First street, between Main and Atlantic, Brown
villc.Ncb.
pAT. CLINE,
p,. FASHIONABLE rpfH-i
VJi liOOT AXI) SHOE 3IAKER H4.
tTTTr'T M'ADt ..,Ia tn nJa n i ii Hfc lln01g
pu&r&ntoet!. Ilepairinc nently awl promplly done,
tliop. No, 27 Main street, Rrovcnrille.Xeb.
B.
M. BAILEY,
SHIPPER AN"D DKALER IN
LIVE stock:
jtitoirxriLLir, xedraska.
Farmers, please call and get prices; I waul
to handle your sloct.
Offlcc-l Main street, Hoadley balldins.
HHARLES HELMER,
FASHIONABLE
Boot and Shoe
JVE-A-IKlEIt-
Vfl&tls' i ,om shop of A. Hobison,
; -i-J ?5ti3 sz I am prepareil to do work
Y r;t2c of all kinds at
TTovlt,rr Ivsiifrlif llieelis-
SsSrv Reasonable Kates.
O5. es-Kepairlni: neatly and
5ag-3 promptlydone.
--f2 ' Shop No. (12 Main Street,
JSrowHvillc, Nebraska.
JACOB MAROHX,
MERCHANT TAILOE,
and dealerin
FincEn5lIsIi,Ficucli, Scotch and Fancy Cloths,
fYcstinss-, Etc., Etc.
jjrou'iivIHc, IVcbraska.
AUTHORIZED BY THL' U. S. GOVEKXMEXT.
First National Bank
OF-
beo yv :nvxlx,:e.
Paid-up Capital, $50,000
Authorized '" 500,000
IS PREPARED TO TRANSACT A-
General Banking Business
BUY AND SELL
GOIrJ & OUEEENOY DEAFTS
on all the principal cities of the
United States and Europe
MONEY LOANED
On approved security only. Time Drafts discount
ed. and special accommodations granted to deposit
rs. Dealers In GOVERNMENT BONDS,
STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES
DEPOSITS
Received payableondemnnd.and INTEREST al
io wed on time certificates ofdeposit.
DIRECTORS.-Wm.T. Den, B. M. Bailey. M.A
Handley. Frank E. Johnson, Luther Hoadley
Win. Fraisher.
JOHN L. CARS0X,
A. R. DA VISOX. Cashier. President.
J. C.McNAUGHTON.Asst. Cashier.
ESTABLISHED IN 1856.
OLDEST
EJEA.L
ESTATE
- AQ-EjSTGY
IN NEBRASKA.
William H, Moover.
Does a general Ileal Estate Business. Sells
Lands on Commission, examines Titles,
makes Deeds, Mortgages, and all instru
ments pertaining to lue traubfer of Ileal Es
tate. Has a
Complete Abstraot-of Titles
to all Ileal Estate In Nemaha County.
.J". Zj. IR,0"X",
m fU ?
Keeps a full line ot
Ornamented and Plain.
Ali-oSIirotid.sfor men, ladles and infant.
All orders left with Mike Fclthouser will
receive prompt attention.
JC3 Bodies Preserved and Embalmed.
.jG 3lainStrccl, UR0WXVILLE,.ER.
JLt, Tlie
ORQCERY AND PROVISSOi
SJ STORE 03T
nn "B" . t
U- Ao 9J
ones
is the place to get
Groceries,
Provisions.
Confections.
Fine Cifjars,
Toilet Soap,
Canned Goods,
Fresh Butter,
Etc., Etc., Etc
Wo also keep all the best brands or
Hour, and evervthinc usually kent In .
a first class grocery store.
Wchave in con
582 feed store
nection
house
T. .A.. SA-TZHI
is now proprietor of the
InntMrnilr
I
JfflOttLJMyi,
and is prepared to accomodate the
public with
GOOD, FRESH, SWEET
MEAT,
Gontlemanly and accommodating clerks
will at all times be In attendance. Your
patronage solicited. Remember the place
the old I'ascoo shop, Maiu-sU,
Rrow't utile, - Nebraskte.
IGHTINGOliU
Pain cannot stay where it Uused. It is the cheap
est medicine ever made Five drops cover a sur
face aslarscas the hand. One dose cures common
SoreThroat. One bottle has cured Bronchitis SO
cents' worth has cired an Old Stamlinir Coush It
positively curea Catarrh. Asthma and Croup. Fif
ty cents' worth has cured Crick in the Back ami
thesamequautlty Lame Back oreiRht vears stand
inn. It cures swelled neck and all other Tumors
Rhumatlsm. and Pain and soreness in any part no
matter where It may be. nor from what cau-e it
may arise, it always does you good. Twenty-n ve
cents' worth has cured bad cases of chronic and
Bloody Dysentery. One teaspoonfnl cures Colic In
fifteen minutes. It will cure any case of piles that
Is possible to cure. Six or eight application are
warranted to cure any case of Excoriated Nipples
or Inflamed Breast. For Bruises. ir applied often
and bound up. there is never the slightest discolor
ation to the skin. It stops the pain of a bnrn as
soon asappiied. and isa positive cure for Chilblains.
Frosted Feet. Boils. Warts, Corns and wonnds of
every description on man or beast. Price. 50 cents
a.n,1?'-oT,rIaJ MEeT 'Scents. FOSTER. illLBUBN
& CO.. Sole. Proprietors. Buffalo. N. y!
Sold In Brownville by A. W. Nlckell.
-AVIV
w-jfes o?zr?s-Sfv?G&mr
Undertaker
imlilMkimmi
VeRTHITWE
rvr- r SS J. sF "". m irni i i . .71
Agricultural Depression in England.
The present agricultural distress in
the British Isles is the chief topic of
discussion not only among landown
ers and tenant-farmers, whom it af
fects most intimately, but also in Par
liament, the public press and among
the entire intelligent community.
Every week the subject is anxiously
ventilated in agricultural meetings
throughout the country ; acrimonious
debates havo taken place in the
House of Commons concerning it; a
Royal Commission has lately been ap
pointed to investigate its cause and
devise Bome remedy ; a measure pro
viding for the appointment of a Min
ister of Agriculture with a seat in the
Cabinet, has been adopted by a large
majority of the Commons, despite the
opposition of the Government; the
newspapers and agricultural journals
are full, every issue, of lengthy re
ports of the speeches of various nota
bilities on the matter, as well as with
editorial amplifications, suggestions
and lucubrations; while wherever in
public or private tho educated classes
congregate, the agricultural outlook
is as common a theme of conversation
as the state of tho weather, the news
from Zululand or the latest sensation.
Nor is the universal interest mani
fested in the question without ample
cause. At no time in the modern his
tory of the kingdom have the owners
and occupiers of the land been so
grievously harrasscd as at present.
Five unfavorable seasons in success
ion have not only cut short the prof
its of the tenant-farms, but in most
cases inflicted a money loss upon
them. The evils which, under the
most favorable circumstances, must
naturally result from so many consec
utive poor harvests, have been disas
trously increased Ly competition with
the cheap products of foreign nations,
especially with those of this country.
From these two causes combined it is
estimated that the loss incurred by
the agricultural community during
the ladt season alone, has not been
less than 50.000,000, or $2SO,720,000.
Should the causes that have produced
this state of affairs continue, it re
quires no gift of prophecy to foretell
tho speedy ruin of British agriculture.
Nor aro the tenant-farmers the only
sufferers ; for the Iaudlords also have,
as a rule, had their incomes curtailed
by necesstiry reductions in rent, by
the numerous bankruptcies of their
tenants, by greatly increased poor
rates, and because, in many cases, as
it lias been impossible for them to let
their farms, they have been forced to
manage the land themselves at a
much &maller profit than that usually
returned by the skill, labor and capi
tal of those who hired it from them.
Moreover, manufacturers and the vast
multitude employed by them have al
so suffered v. ore or less severely from
the distress among the farmers. The
agricultural industry forms tho chief
element in the home market, which,
in the United Kingdom, is eight times
as valuable as the export trade, and
tho embarrassment in this country
has necessarily augmented the de
pression in manufacture and com
merce, which now affects our transat
lantic cousins. One-third of (he cap
ital of the country is engaged in its
agriculture; certainly for threo, and
probably for five years, this third lias
been nearly unproductive, and the
whole nation must suffer from the
comparative unprofitableness of so
much of its resources.
But the short crops due to unfavor
able seasons, and the low prices neces
sitated by close competition with
cheap products, are accidental causes
of the present distress. There are
others, however, that lio in the very
nature of some of the national insti
tutions. The former causes may be
obviated in the future by a change in
l he weather and a change in the tar
iff; the latter can be removed only by
the abrogation of the land laws,
which means a social and political
revolution; for it is the existence of
these laws, that for ages has kept so
cial distinction and the government
of the couutry in the hands of the
landowners. Their repeal therefor
would, In time, work a mighty revo
lution in English society and in the
form of English government. But as
the English people have an exagger
ated estimate of the excellence of
their social and political conditions,
as they are thoroughly conservative
in regard to social and political mat
ters, and as these laws have the sanc
tion of time-honored usage and the
support of vested interests, it is safe
to predict that dire necessity aione
will force their abrogation, and then
only after a struggle of extreme bit
terness. This necessity may be deferred by
the speedy repeal of some of the most
injurious of their provisions. At
present, owing to the absence of com
pulsory registration aud to the mass
of antiquated verbiage and intricate
technicality that renders the trausfer
of land impossible without the expen
sive aid of a skilled conveyancer, it is
a costly and tedious undertaking to
invest in a freehold. A case has re
cently been mentioned in which a
poor man who bought three acres of
glebe land, had to pay $565 merely for
the legal examination of the title
deed. The passage of a compulsory
registration law, like that in force in
many Continental lands and in this
country, would so facilitate and
cheapen the purchase of land that
the number of freeholders would be
constantly increasing and the burden
of rent proportionately diminishing.
Moreover, this Increase of freeholders
would lessen the social distinction at
present attached to tho possession of
land, and gradually deprive it of the
"fancy" value it now bears, and in
this way enable the farmers of the fu
ture torealizeafairintereston thecap-
ital invested in the purchase of their
homesteads.
Within thelast25year3 thenumber
of land-owners in the United King
dom has been constantly dwindling,
while the aggregate value of the land
has increased nearly 15 per cent., and
the rental, on an average, five shil
lings an acre. At present the rental
of tho agricultural lands in England
amounts to the enormous sum of
$350,000,000 a year. This is the tax
which the farmers of the country
have to pay to tho landlords for the
privilege of investing their labor,
skill and capital in the effort to wring
a livelihood from the soil, while ham
pered by a meshwork of restrictions
created by laud-owning legislators for
the benefit of their own class. The
British farmer is not permitted to fol
low the system in agriculture which
seems to him the most advantageous
for his own interests, but must con
form to tho regulations which the
landlord deems most conducive to
his own benefit. The tenant, in near
ly all cases, is compelled to use a stip
ulated quantity of fertilizers, either
bought or made upon the farm; he
must follow the rotation of crops pre
scribed, Dot by his own judgment,
but by his landlord's wishes, and he
must dispose of part of his produce as
directed by the latter, who generally
insists that a certain proportion of it
must be used on the farm for his own
benefit. Owing to the rigid and com
plicated law of fixtures, passed by
landlords for their own gain, all the
improvements put on thelaud belong
to the laud-owner. The Agricultural
Holdings Act of 1S75 pretended to se
cure to the farmer some compensation
at tho end of his lease for the im
provements he might have put on the
land, but the measure was hampered
by so many clauses and provisos that,
in practice, the amount of such com
pensation usually depends on the
landlord's pleasure. To prevent, as
much as possible, all chances of risk
to the latter, the law gives him a first
lien upon the crops to secure any debt
due him by the tenant, while the
claims of all other creditors must be"
postponed to his interests.
These interests having been secured
by these and similar precautions, the
law provides carefully for his amuse
ment by a rigid system of game laws.
Not only is the farmer severely dealt
with for interfering with the partrid
ges or pheasants that may bo met
with on his own acres, but even rab
bits the greatest pest of the agricul
turistare protected, and the despoil
ed farmer has no redress. Nor is this
all ; for, having wastefully fattened
the game for his lord's sport, he must
patiently see, without legal indemni
ty, his meadows, pastures and grain
fields poached and his fences injured
by the reckless rush of that lord and
his friends, amusing themselves by
boldly following, with horses aud
hound, the fox or the timid hare.
Surely it is time that the laws that
sanction these? grievances should be
wiped from the statute book whose
pages they disgrace. If this be done
before agitatiou on the land question
arouses bitterness throughout the com
munity, it is not improbable that the
measure will give a new lease of life
to existing laws concerniugentail and
settlement, the two features in Brit
ish legislation that are mainly respon
sible for the accumulation of real es
tate in the hands of the aristocracy,
In addition to high rent, short
crops, foreign competition and legal
ized hardships, the British farmer
finds another cause of distress in the
increased expense of working his
farm. Within the last quarter of a
century its ratable value, aud conse
quently the taxes on it, have increas
ed considerably ; local taxation for
sanitary and other purposes have
multiplied ; labor costs about 25 per
cent, more, and is worth fully 12 per
cent, less; the requirements of pres
ent agriculture demand a considerable
increase of capital, for which its pro
ducts return little or no interest.
All these causessufficiently account
for the present distress among our
farming friends across the water. The
exteut of the losses of even some of
the best of them is shown by the bal
ance sheet of a farm of GOO acres, late
ly published in the London Times,
and which isa fair specimen of many
similar accounts which have appeared
in other papers. This shows an an
nual deficit of $1,700 for the last three
years. During that time the annual
outlay on this farm of alluvial river
loam was $17,700, exclusive of the ex
pense of the farmer's family, while
the income was only $10,000. Nearly
half the outlay was made up of rent,
$7,500, while the taxes amounted to
$750. What industry can prosper
with such a tax paid by labor to idle
ness, while so many other drawbacks
trammel its efforts? literal Kew
Yorkcr. Deau Stanley relates that during
tho oonduct of a cause by the late
Lord Lawrence for a young Indian
Rajah, the latter endeavored to place
in his hands under the table a bagof
rupees. He answered at once:
"Young man, you have offered to an
Englishman the greatest insult he
could possibly receive. This time, in
consideration of your youth, I excuse
you. Let me warn you, however,
never again to commit eo gross an of
fence againstan English gentleman."
Treed by a Tiger.
In the year 1857, after an enforced
idleness of some months, the result of
a severe attack of typhoid fever I was
agreeably surprised at the receipt of a
letter from a relative in the timber bus
iness, which requested me to under
take the duties of agent for the pur
chase of teak in Burraah.
Foreign travel, and more, the excite
ment of killing largo game, had al
ways been my ambition, so I lost no
time in making preparations for leav
ing England. My station was to be
Moulraein, in Tenasserim, then under
the control of Major Fytche as chief
commissioner.
I soon foundrthat.my agenoy was
no easy task, as the trading ability of
the native merchants was of higher or
derthan my own, and that Iliad much
to learn before I could nay I under
stood the business. However, bjT the
help of a friendly American, who was
established there in another bnsiuess,
I found, after a time, that I had suf
ficient leisure for the exercise of my
proolivities for sport, and at a day's
distance I could get a shot or two at
deer my business not being thereby
neglected.
My American friend, who was a
capital shot, proposed a longer excur
sion up the course of the Saliveen
River; and with a couple of servants,
we started on Pegu ponies, provision
ed for a week. At the end of tho sec
ond day's journey my companion be
came ill with fever; and at his earn
est entreaty I left him behind with
one serVaut, determined to go in for
another day into a region where deer
were said to'be in abundance. Tomy
annoyance I discovered when I halt
ed for tho night, that my servant had
left behind my friend's rifle, and had
only brought on my own smoothbore.
It was a single barrel of large calibre
with which I had won many a pigeon
match in England. True, I had my
friend's bullet-mold, in my bag, but it
was too small for tho bore of my fowling-piece,
and I was compelled to con
tent myself withtho expectation of
such chances as swan-shot would af
ford mo. Shortly afternoon the next
day, as we were cooking our dinner,
onoofthe natives informed my ser
vant that a deer had been killed dur
ing the night. by a tiger a few miles
off, and having been disturbed, it was
certain ho would return at night-time
to t'he carcass. There was no time
for.piuchrpeliberation. With some
compunction I sacrificed a pewter
goblet, that years before, in my
school days, I had won in a sculling
matth at Henley. With this I cast a
dozen bullets and fitted them to my
smooth-bore by stitching up each in
well oiled fragments of one of my
gloves. I started, with the native as
a guide, and just.before sundown I
was comfortably seated on the broken
branch of a tree at about thirty feet
from the ground, with two small
boughs conveniently placed as rests
for my feet. It was a splendid posi
tion, aud perfectly safe. I had the
carcass of the doer dragged to a spot
about twenty yards distant, so that
with my back against the body of the
tree, the end of the broken brauch I
sat astride formed a good rest for my
fowling piece. Mj' guide left mo and
returned to. my camping-place.
When tho sun set it became too dark
to see the bait; but I heard unmis
takable sounds of the tiger's pres
ence. Those who only know the deep
silence of a forest in England would
be amazed at the night sounds to bo
heard in a tropical jungle. Low
moans, as of ahuman being in intense
pain, seemed to float in the air, and
eeveral times a weird, unearthey
shriek made my flesh creep. The
noise ot the water-fowl on the river,
only about sixty yards in front of me,
was unceasing. After some weary
waiting, tho moon rose, aud I began
to calculate my chances for a pot shot.
Presently I saw, or thought I saw,
tho beast's head ; and judging, as
well as the imperfect light would per
mit, the position of his shoulders, I
fired. A fearful growl, aud a rush in
to the jungle, told me that my shot
had not been a deadly one. In a few
minutes the tiger returned to his
meal, and I saw him from time to
time turn around aud lick his side.
He was evidently wounded. Before
I had time to observe this, I prepared
to reload, and found, to my intense
mortification, that I had either
dropped my bag of bullets or had left
them in the hands of my guide, who
held my gun while I climbed the tree
by the aid of a gigantic creeper. I
had now nothing to do but wait till
daylight, when all felidte retire into
the thick jungle. The uight became
cloudy and I had only to wait patient
ly. As daylight slowly came a thick
white mist in snow-white clouds cov
ered the groutid, with only occasion
ally openings that gave me a passing
glimpse of the tiger. To my horror
he did not retire, but lay still and
watched me. I was defenceless, and
he appeared to understand and appre
ciate my helpless condition. I
dreaded the return of my servant and
the guide to certain destruction. I
racked my brain to remember such
words of Burmese as would enable me
to shout a word of warning, but in
vain. I searched my pockets and
made a mental inventory of my store
of missiles. A couple of swan-shot In
a corner of my pocket, a heavy gold
ourb chain, an old steel swivel seal,
and a large steel pencil case, comprised
the whole. I loaded with the chain
and the two swan-9hot first, and fired
steadily at the left side of his head,
whloh was exposed to me for a mo-
mont between the clouds of white
mist. His growls were terrific, yet
ho stirred not ; and it was nearly an
hour before I could get a shot at him
with the steel pencil case and seal.
By this time, however, the mist had
so far cleared off that I had a fair and
steady shot behind his left shoulder.
It was a fatal one, for in two minutes
his death struggles were over. The
pencil-case had penetrated his heart,
aud by the time my servant and the
guide had arrived with my pony, I
had half skinned him. The chain
had fearfully mutilated the brain.
My first shot" had gone quite through
his flank without injuring any vital
part. I was recalled shortly after
wards, and my first task in England
was to get the fragments of my chain
made into a ring which I always
wear. The tiger's skin is now on my
library hearth, and I am often re
minded, as I look at it of the joke
of my American friend, who dsed to
declare that.I am the only man he
ever knew who had been "treed" by
a tiger. Septuagenarian, in "Land
and Water."
A Wise Dog.
While wo sometimes see men aot
ing like brutes, we often see brutes
showing intelligence almost human.
Animal instinct as it is called seems
closely akin to reason at times. A
friend of mine, Mrs. B., W. of Mt. U.
had a fine intelligent dog, also a pet
canary of which she wa3 very fond.
In caring for the bird, sho left one of
the seed cups ajar and the bird seizing
the opportunity, turned tho cup and
made his escape. Mauj' times during
the day she exclaimed :
"My poor bird, my dear little bird.
Oh, if I could only find my bird
again."
Prince heard the twords, wagging
his tail as if to soy, "I understand
you."
Near nightfall, Mrs. W. accompan
ied by her husband and the faithful
dog walked toward a wooded ravine
near tho house and she again spoke of
her lost bird. Prince looked up into
her face and then bounded off, return
ing with tho lost bird which he laid
at Mrs. W's feet. She screamed,
thinking the bird dead, when away it
flew again. The dog followed and
soon returned with ayellow and black
wing protruding from his mouth. The
bird he carried carefully, in the hol
low of his jaw, and again laid it at
his mistress' feet." This time the bird
seemed to be quite dead, and Mrs. W.,
after fondling it awhile, laid it in its
cage. When sho returned a short
time after, the bird was hopping about
merrily from perch to perch, while
Prince was seated as quietly as
though entirely unconscious that he
had done any thing nt all remarkable.
Yet his achievement proves that dogs
understimd language though they
cannot talk. How he caught the bird
remains a puzzle. Mrs. E. J. Rich
mond in Rural New-Yorker :
Scliurz on Grant.
When Car! Schurz indulges in fifty
or 6ixty glasses of beer and a pretzel
or two, ho falls back on his mother
tongue, which bespeaks with great
fluency. An Enquirer reporter met
him under these favorable conditions
yesterday and said :
"Secretary, I understand you do not
favor General Grant for the Presi
dency ?"
"Ieh babe doo, dree, several dimes
said I vould not spreachen mit
reborders, ober I told you gonfident
ially dot Shcneral Grant shall not
been elected."
"Upon what do you base your opin
ion?" "Sheneral Gront treat me mitgon
tempt, und gie tooken mino brudder-in-law'a
gommission as Revenue Col
lector, py Chicago.''
"How do the Germans feel toward
Grant?"
"Pitter as gall. Grant get not a
confounded Dutch vote ainahow,"
and the Secretary placed his hand in
his breeches pocket to assure himself
that the vote was intact.
"Do you regard John Sherman a3 a
great mau?"
"Mine frent,' replied the Secretary,
as he pushed the ha'rr back from his
massive brow, "mine frent, aldough I
said it, who shouldn't, yet dere's only
one man iu dis goundry who is hees
suberior in indellegtual gabacitj'.
You vill oxcuse me from shboken
aina farder ou dat guestion. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Spanking Fifty" - Year - Old
Sctioolboys. At Sulphur Station,
in this County, there is a colored
brother teaching school. In addition
to the regular day school, he holds
night sessions for the benefit of the
grown-up darkies of the community.
Of the latter class quite a .number at
tend, all of whom are compelled to
respect the discipline of the school,
which is quite rigid. One night last
week three aged pupils (at least one
who is a trustee of the school)", not
having learned their lessons suffi
ciently well, were compelled to take
a severe castigation at the hands of
their saddle-colored teacher, who also
requires tnem to kneel down and. re
peat after him the Lord's Prayer.
Some of these pupils are over fifty
years of age. Eminence Ey.) Con
stitutionalist. Boya who cry because their bread
falls with the buttered side down
should think of other little boya who
have uo butter. N. O. Picayune.
Kezekiah Bedott..
From tho Widow Bedott Papers.
He was a wouderful hand to mora
lizehusband was, 'specially after ho
begun to enjoy poor health. Hemado
an observation once, when he was iu
one of his poor turns, that I shall nev
er forget the longest day I live.
He says to me, one winter evenin',
as we was a settiu' by the fire ; I was
a knittcn', (I was always a wouder
ful great knitter,) and ho was a
smokiu', (he was a master hand to
smoke, though the doctor used to tell
him he'd be better off to let tobacker
alone ; when he was well, used to take
his pipe and smoke a spell after he'd
got his chores done up, and when he
wau't well, used to smoke the biggest
part o' the time.)
Well, he took his pipo out o' hia
mouth, and turned around toward me,
and I knowed something wascomin'-,
for he had a pertikkeler way of look
in' round when he was a guinu to say
anything oncommon. Well, he 6ays
to me, says he "Silly'' (ni3' name Is
Prissillynaterally, but he most giner-
ally always called me Silly, 'cause
'twas haudier, you know.)
Well, he says to me, says he' "Sil
ly," and he looked pretty soliem. I
tell you, he had a pretty soliem coun
tenance naterally, and after he got
to be deacon 'twas more- so, but sincp
he lost his health he looked sollemer
than ever, and certingly you
wouldent wonder at it if you knowed
how much he underwent.
Ho was troubled with a wonderful
pain in his chest, and amazin' weak
ness in the spine of his back, beside
the pleurlssy in the side, and having
the ager a considerable part of the
time, and being broke of bis sleep o'
nights, 'cause he was so put to't for
breath when he laid down.
Why, it'sanonaccountable fact that
when that man died he hadent seen
a well day in fifteen year, though
when he was married, and for five or
six year after, I shouldent desire to
see a ruggeder man than what he was.
But tho time I'm speakin' of he'd
been out of health nigh upon ten year,
and, Odearsakes! how he had altered
since the first time I ever see him!
That was to a quiltin to Squire
Smith's a spell afore Sally was mar
ried. But I was gwiue to tell you
that observation o' hisen. Says he to
me, says he, "Silly." I could see by
the light of the fire, (there dident
happen to be no candle burnin,' if I
don't disremember, tbr.ugh my mem
ory is ruther forgetful, but I know we
wa'n't apt to burn candles 'oeptin'
when we had company.) I could see
by-the light of the fire that his mind
was oncommonly solleraized. Says
he to me, says he, "Silly ;" I say3 to
him, nays I, '"What?" He says to
me, says he, " TVe'rc all poor crit
ters."' Advice to Bathers. Avoid bath
ing wjthin two hours after a meal, or
when exhausted by fatigue or from
any other cause, or when the body is
cooling after perspiration, and avoid
bathing altogether in tho open air if,
after being a 6hort time in tho water,
there is a sense of chillness, with
numbness of the hands and feet, but
bathe when the body is warm, pro
vided no time is lost in getting into
the water. Avoid chilling tho body
by sitting or standing undressed on
the banks or in boats, after having
been in the water, or remaining too
long in the water, but leave the water
immediately there is the slightest
feeling of chillness. The vigorous
and strong may bathe early in the
morning on an empty stomach, but
the young and those who are weak
had better bathe two or three hours
after n meal ; the beat time for such
is from two to three hours after break
fast. Those who are subject to at
tacks of giddiness or faintneaa, and
whosufler from palpitation and oth
er sense of discomfort at the heart,
should not bathe without first con
sulting their medical adviser.
A Queer Little Beast. The
Norwegian lemming is an animal
about the size of a mouse. It lives
under stones in the summer, under
snow in tho winter. It hisses and
bites. About once in ten 3'eara they
immigrate in large armies. They
march in a straight line. They cross
lakes and rivers. They go through
haystacks rather than go around.
Nothing stops them, not fire, cascad
es, nor swamps. If a man stands in
the way they will jump at him as
high as his knee. If struck they will
turn around and bark and bite like a
dcg. Foxes, lynxes, owls, hawks,
and weasels will follow them and de
stroy large numbers of them, but it
does not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the fcea,
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive a3 ever, until the
waves drown and exterminate them.
"Love is the rudimental elementof
the human soul the very essence of
divine law the eource of inspiration
even the fountain of life itself; it
endows humanity with countless vir
tues and throws a mystioveil over
many faults. It is thia love element
thia immutable law, which controls
the destiny of the human race. Lit
erature owes to love its choice gems.
Love ia the sun of woman's existence
only under its influence doea she
unfold the noblest powers of her be
ing
M
Never diapute with a tombstone. If
it says a saint liea there, take it as an
eternal truth. N,0. Picayune.
The Last Shall be First.
Tho Christian Advocate has the fol
lowing, as a "bona-fido sermon" by
the Rev. Plato Johnson :
"Bruddera, de lub ob de Lord am a
wonderful fciug Nobody would tink
dat a poor olo darkey's life was wuff
much euuyhow; but do Scripter says
de fust shall be last, and vice versy,
and dat is de chief hold we hab ; for I
'elude from dat savin' dat cullud pus
son wot shines boots and charge only
de reg'lar price, has a tol'ble show for
de next world, though, ho hain't
much ob a chance here. From a
'ligious pint of view, it's just as 'port
ent to shine boots as well as run a
first-class saw-milt. De Lord be neb
ber axes jou wat you beeu doln', but
how you been doin' it; an' when you
git to de judgment day, somo of you
poor washerwomen, who wasn't mean
'bout de starch, but put pleu& ob it ia
clothes, will be a-flutterin' ob j-our
wings in Paradise, while de white
man wat made yer wait fur yer mun
ny, will be a-lookin' for a ahady spot
an' a-wishin' he had a bit ob fee. You
know what I'se tlnking just at dis
time? I'se tinkin' dat some of deso
white folk what 'magines dey'll havo
a fedder bed in de next world and
free or four angels to keep the flies off,
will fin' when dey'a fookin' rouu' fur
dere reserved seat in glory, dat dey'a
got a cinder iu dero eye, an' can't seo
it. How'll you feel white man, when
you fin'yo'self 'mongst a big orowd
ob onary folks, way up in de family
circle, while eomo poor darkey, who
did your chores like an honest man, Is
'ducted by de hebbenJy ushers to an
orcheatra seat, right dowr clua to the
music? An how'll you feol.brudder,
when dose angels say to you, 'Taiu't
no matter what color you be,, your
name's ben called, an' wese directed
to show you a seat on de platform?'
Yerole black facea'll shino like do
moou' an' you'll feel like strikin" our;
wid a dubblo shuffle right on de gold
en pavement. 'Member all ob you,
dot it ain't de pocketbook, nor de col
or, but de shape ob de soul, wot gibs
you a right to afrontseatupyander."
Judicious Advertising. A man
was denounclug newspaper advertis
ing to a crowd of listeners. "Last
week," said he, "I had an umbrella
stolen from tho vestibule of the
church. It was a gift ; and valuing it
very highly, I spent double its worth,
in advertising, but.have not recoved
it." "How did you word your ad
vertiament?" asked a merchant.
"Hero it is," said the man, producing
a slip cut from a newapoper. Tho
merchant took It and read : "Lost
from the vestibule of church last
Sabbath evening, a black silk um
brella. The gentleman whotook it
will bo handsomely rewarded by
leaving it at No. San Fernando
street." "Now," said the merchant,
"I am a liberal advertiser, and havo
alwaj-s found that it paid me well. A
great deal depends upon the manner
in which an advertismeut ia put. Let
ua try for your umbrella again, and if
you do not acknowledge then that
advertising pays I will purchase you
a new one." The merchant then
took a slip of paper from hia pocket
and wrote: "If the man who was
seen to take an umbrella from the
vestibule of the church lanfc Sab
bath evening, does not wish to get
into trouble and have a stain cast up
on tho Christian character which ho
values so highly, ho will return it to
No. San Fernando street. He Is
well known." This duly appeared in
the paper, and on the following
morning tho man was astonished
when he opened the front door of his
residence. On tho porch lay at least a
dozen umbrellas of all shades and
sizes that had been thrown iu from
the sidewalk, whilo the thefrontyard
was literally paved with umbrellas.
Many of them had notes attached to
them saying that they had beeu taken
by mistake, and begging the loser to
keep the little affair quiet. Saturday
Ifayazine.
J - c
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune has been seeing the sights in
tho kitchen of the United States Ho
tel at Saratoga, with the chief cook,
one M. Antoine Eunesee, of Paris, as
guide. On learning that the 1.100
people who came) to diue there that
day would require only nine dozen
pies, one of the company expressed
surprise at the smallness of the de
mand for that particular product of tho
pastry department. ''Oh," said Mr.
Ennesee, "our guests don't come
much from Massachusetts. They are
mostly from New York. They don't
care much for pies. Here is what
tbey like." aud be pointed to where
people were working on what he said
would turn out to be S00 Charlotte
russes. So it may be known hence
forth that the man who eats pies ia
from Massachusetts, or possibly from
Vermont. When Dave Gage kept the
old Tremont House in this city he
used to havo a way of telling where
bis guests came from by the way they
handled their napkins. "The New
York man," said David, "lays his
napkin on his lap: the Boston man
tucks his under his chin: but the
Oshkosh man puts his into hia pock
et." Midsummer Madness. "My dear
Mr. Hendrioks,"said Tilden at Block
Island, "your numerous virtues in
duce me to think you would make a
good Vice. No off-ffence, I hope."
"No," was the response, "but I ciph
er the other place." Ind. Journal.