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Vh ''Z i tit W_,*,J* YOLUME IV.NO. 13. ISftccfetg ftjkmciu. PCBLlSJilBD EVERY TTEDXESDW BY JOS. BOBLBTEfL Office OTCT City Drug Stero. TERMS: One Dollar and a half per ear in "advance Rates of Advertising KUUNISHED UPON APPI IC\riON Advtrtisementa ID double column, doublo the single column rate* Business Cards or flvo lines, one car S3 oo, each addition il line 75 cts 411 transient ad\ertiscrntnts to be ltd for in advince Aihertisemonts inserted intheloc il nutic col inns, ton tts a line foi the flr^t irserlion and cents a line for each subsequent insertion, but no notice inserted for loss than tt Announcements of irmgLs iml ileitis insei t. ed free but olituary notices txcept in spec! il oases, will be charged at advertising rates Legal notices will bechargod 73 cts per folio Tor the first insertion, and 25 cts per folio for eich subsequent Insertion All legal notices must be upon the responibility of the attorney oidtring them published, and no afhcltn it of publication will be given until the publication fees are p-ud. In connection with the paper, we I've a spkn. did assortment of jobbing matenil, ind we aro prepared to execute all kinds ot printing in a it) lo unsarpusscd and at moderate rates J. R. FOSTER, DENTIST, NEW ULM, MINN. A full set of teeth for ten dolLus. C4as administei^d by Dr. Beny, and teeth extracted without. uun 1 Office over Beussmann's hardware Store. TiR. O. BERRY, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. OFFIOB AT THB Girr Uvvo Scans. rfEW ULM, MINNESOTA IR. A. MARDETI, RESIDENT DENTIST, Office, coiner Minn and Flrti SI. Sto. SEW ULM, MINNESOTA. ELI KUHLMAN, PH C. M. PHYSICIANS turn 1ST. Office and Drug Stoie next door to Skandmavian House. WW UMI, MINS. DR. B. CARL, Physician and Surgeon. NKW ULM, MINN. Office and residence on 3d North St. DR. J. W WELLCOM E, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Sleepy Eye, Minn. DR. A HITCHCOCK, Physician it' Surgeon, Will attend to calls night or day. 01 FICE AT XV. Hitchcock's Drug store. Springfield, Brown Co., Minn. DR. G. C. WELLNER, eutdl^efS^t, Formals Acmen Arzt zur "North Star dispensary," Chicago, hat sich permanent in Burns niedergelassen und empfehlt sich hnudet semen Landsleuten. B-F. WEBBER, Attorney and Counselor AT LAW. Moneyto Loan. Office over Citizen's NaVl Bank.' HEW ULM MINN. GEORGE KUHLMANN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Contested cases made a speciality. Will bny notes and advance money on first class paper left with mo for collection. Office over Brown Co Bank. KVW VLM, MINN JJ. RAY, Notary Public, Conveyancer, and agent foi St. Paul FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO. Springfield, Brown Co., Minn. DAKOTA HOUSE. Orr, POST OFFICE NEW UL":, MINN. ADOLPH SEITER, Prop'r This house is the most centrally lo cated house in the city and af foids good Sample Rcoms. TO THE Traveling Public. The undarsigned would lespcctfully announce that, although the division has been moved to Sleepy Eye, he will continue te make the MERCHANT'S HOTEL one of Jhe most popular resorts in the Minnesota valley. He will give his especial attention to the toble, which will be first Jass in all respects, and afford all the delicacies of the season, especially game. The rooms are all splendidly furnished with clean beds, and the waiters are kind and obliging. Rates to suit the times. The old and now friends of this hotel aie cordially invited to give me a call when travel ing New Ulmward. CHAS. BttUST. 0, SBaasssp H. CHAMOUIHT. C. H. ROM, Cor. Minn, and Centre Streets. NSW ULM, MINNESOTA Collections and all business pertaining *o banking PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLY #500,000, W.lJoeseh. J.Premiinger. Decline. Eagle Mill Co. NEW ULM, MINN. Merchant and Custom Milling Promptly Done. Improved Machinery for the Manufacture of the Finest Graces of Flour. Feed of all Kind ]\Iai\ufac:tufed. Excellent Machinery for the sawing of lumber. The highest cash price paid or flour exchanged for milling wheat. John Bellm. If. AySubilia. NEW ULM CITY MILL, Centre Street, New Ulm. We are running day and night, and can supply any quantity of best brands of Flour at regular rates on shoi notice. Flour exchanged for wheat on very liberal terms. NEW ULM CITY MILL CO. Frank Burg, Manufactuier of and Dealer in CIGARS TOBACCOS, & PIPES.3 Minnesota street, next door to C. Somnier,s Stoie. NEW ULM, MINN- CENTRE STREET SIMPLE ROOM &BILLMD HALL, IN BASEMENT OF ISZieslingr's Bloclr The best of Wines, Liqours and Cigars constantly kept ou hand. ^mm&%p}%q^^ President. Caehitr. BROWN CO. BANK, Louis Felkel, Prop'r, Meat Market. CHAS. STIPE, Prop'r. A large supply of fresh meats, sau sage, hams, lard, etc., constantly on hand* All orders from the country promptly attended to. CASH PAID FOR HIDES. Minn. Str New Ulm, Minn. Cr Meat Market, M. EPPLE, Pnor'a A largo supply fresh meats, sausage, hams, lard, etc- ete constantly on bund. All orders from the Loan Uy promptly attended to CASH PAID FOR HIDE3. MJKN. STBE.ET. NEW ULM, lil^N CENTRE STREET I E :R Sale and Feed Stable, ANTON BREY, PROPRIETOR Opposite Union Ilall, 3ew Ulm, Minn. 1 would lespectf ally announce to the people of New Ulm and vicinity, that I opened a first class liver*, sile and Feed Stable at Ed Casey's old stand, opposite Union ill, and that I am now fully prepared to furnish good livery teams with top or open buggies or easy wagons on short notice. ANTON BREY. O. HELD, IJndei taker and Dealei in ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE Proprietor and Manufacturer of THE FimiERSFRIEXD Panning Mill. The best fanning mill in the market. Store and Factory on Centre Street near the City Mill. NEW ULM, MINx, Miss T. WcstphaV Keeps on hand a largo and well asorted stock of MILLINEKY, TANCY GOODS and ZEPHR WOOL, opposite the Union Hotel, between s-econd and Thud North streets. NEW ULM, -MINN. MILLIE ike HA JIIWORK. exchange goods Ornamental hair jewelry, such as charms, chains, pins, ear-rings, biacelets, rings and all kinds of sol id work promptly m. de to order Combings 50 cents an ounce, MR S. K. PICKER. Centie Sjr, New Ulm, Minn. Talbot & Rinke, Dealers in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES, LADIES' AND GENTS' UNDERWARE, NOTIONS, &c, &c, &cThe Highest market price paid for farm produce. Sleepy Eye, Minn. f^OFES BUOT&ERS& CTJTLEB, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, ST. PAUL, MINN J. FEENEKES, Manufacturing CONFECTIONER and dealer in NETS. GREEN FRUITS, etc., etc. etc. 351 &353 East Water Str. Milwaukee I1*- GOETZ. ADOLFHC. *t E3:R,"s AND DRESS MAKING Mrs. Anton Olding, NLvrnoou TO SOMMERS STORI',, NEW ULM His on hand i good stock of Rlillnoi Goods con sistmg in put or Hits Uounett, \tl\ets, Silks ltilbous 1 cither, Human m, I lowers &c \lso nttei n for stamping monogr uns. St-mp. nut of all kinds kmbioidery Woik .md Fasluou iblo Dicss makint done to ordei Farm ProducItrRn MEINEKE. PENZHORN MEINECKE & CO.kob-kobs.dand Importers and Jobbers of Toys.FancyGaodsjankee Notions WILLOW WARE* CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. No. 92 HURON ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. S". ft !3eu$iqknn 9 & Coiner Minn. & 1st Noith stis., NEW ULM, MINN. This business is estnbhshed nnd -will be conduct* ed is heietofore in the re-ir end of Mi H. Beuss. manns hirdware store. It shill be our aim to constantly keep on hand a well assoited stock of Harness, Saddles, Collais, Whips, Blankets, etc which well be sold at bottom pricos, Upholstery and all kinds of custom work prompt ly find sa tisfactorily attended to. BECSSJHANN & CO* JUENEMANN, MANCFXCTin^n AND DSil iB TW Harnesses, Cellars, Saddles, Wnlpe, Saddlery, Blankets, etc, etc., etc. "Upr.olsterj, and all custom irors DertainlDg inj bu8iut,i pj oinptly attended to dmn St., Nt-it Door to Zihcr'* Saloon, NEW ULM. H. H. Beussmann, Dealer in ShelfiHeavy Hardware, Iron Steel, Carpenters and Farming Tools, FARMING MACHINERY, -&c. Cor, Minn. & 1st X. Strs., NEW ULM, MINN. WAGON AND SMITH SNOP. The undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he has opened a a^on and Smith shop on State Street, *ind is prepared to do iny and all work in his line promptly and at living rates All work wairante'. New wagons will always kept on hand A kind patronage is respectfully soli* cited. John Lauterbaeh.' S.D.Peterson, Dealer in AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Agent for the STOUGHTON WAGONS AND SLEIGHS, Dixon$ ill,, and Rock Island PLOWS- WATONWAN FANNING MILL, AND WeediDoiBestic Sewing Machines NEW ULM, TV1INN. 1 would also inform the public that I have established a blanch agency at Sleepy Eve, where everything in my line can be obtained. S. D. PETERSON. NEW ULM, MINN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1881. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. The colored people' of Boston aro forming a Congregational Church. The late Mrs. Lydia Maria Child bequeathed $2,000 to Hampton Insti tute. There are 1,037 students in attend ance at the \aiious schools and depart ments of Yale College. There is said to be church accom modation in London lor only one-fourth ot the population, yet there are many vacant pews every Sunday. The Shaw Univeisity, at Raleigh, N. one of the Noilhein Baptist schools for freedmen, has sent out more than 1,000 teaeheis among the colored people It has now 275 pupils The Southern Baptist Mission So ciet\ has contracted tor the erection of nine spacious buildings at a pomt with in the Choctaw lines, sixty miles south west of Mtiacogee Theie are at present in South Caro lina twelve colleges, two professional iiii a ieiv con^ges two prolessiona A Curious Custom in Syria. Accidents Utilized. schools, tlnee industr at tracing-* ^Even in the coldest weather the door is schools, eighty one private academics liit\-mne i nblic a' denne3, thiee even ing elementary schools. 208piivate ele meitary schools, and 2,793 public schools. The law of California provides that the same pay shall be given for similar work, whether done by men orwomeji and, as a consequence, the women vice-principals in the San Francisco schools receive a3 much pay as the male vice-principals. It is said by the Alia that a proposition is under considera tion to give the title of "master" to male vice-principals, and thus enable them to draw higher pay. The new arrangements of the Louisiana State University provide for a classical and scientific course of five 3 ears each, including one year of pre paratory teaching also for an agricult ural and a mechanical course of three years each, including similar prepara tion. A plan for a training ship for nautical instructionis mentioned in con nection with the University. last general educational report shows that Massachusetts, of all the States, has the highest percentage of population of school age enrolled the schools, and also the largest average daily attendance. Massachusetts also shows the greatest difference in the salaries given to male and female teachers. The former receive $75.64, the latter $33.04. In Syria people never take off their caps or turbans when entering a house or visiting a friend, but they always leave their shoes at the door. The reason is that their floors are covered with clean mats and rugs, and in the Moslem houses the men kneel on the rugs to pray, and press their foreheads to the floor, so that it would not be de cent or respectful to walk in with dirty shoes and soil the sijady on which they kneel to pray. They have no foot-mat or scrapers, and it is much simpler and cheaper to leave the shoes, dirt and all, at the door. It is very curious to go to the Syrian school-houses and see the piles of shoes at the door. There are new, bright red shops and old, tattered shoes, and kob-kobs, and black shoes, and sometimes yellow shoes. The kob kobs are wooden clogs, made to raise the feet out of the mud and water, having a little strap over the toe to keep it on the foot. You will often see little boys girls running down steps and pave streets on these dangerous Sometimes they slip, and then down they go on their noses, kob kobs fly off and go rattling over the stones, and little Ali or Yuset, or what ever his name is, begins to shout: Ya imme! Yaimme!" ("Oh, my mother!"), and cries just bke the little children in other countries. But the funniest part is to see the boys when they come out of school and try tofindtheir shoes. There will be fifty boys, and, of course, a hundred shoes, all mixed together in one pile. When school is out the boys make a rush for the door. Then comes the tug of war. A dozen boys are standing and shuffling on the pile of shoes, looking down, kicking away the other shoes, running their toes into their own, stumbling over the kob kobs, and then making a dash to get out of the crowd. Sometimes shins will be kicked and hair pulled, and tar booshes thrown off, and a great scream ing follow, which will only cease when the teacher comes with Asia," or a stick, and quells the riot. That pile of shoes will have to answer for a good many school-boy fights, and bruised noses and hard feelings in Syria, You will wonder how they can telftheir own shoes. So do I. And the boys often wear off 3ach other's shoes by mistake or on purpose, and then you will see Selim running with one shoe on and one of Ibrahim's in his hand, shouting and cursing Ibrahim's father and grand father until he gets back his lost prop erty. It is often said that many of the most serviceable inventions originated in an accident. It should be remembered, however, that there is one remarkable fact about such accidentsa man with brams always witnesses them. One day, at an English print-works, a piece ot calico became displaced as it was pa-sing under the printing cylin der. The displacement caused a diag onal repetition of the pattern, and pro duced a forked-lightning effect. The master-printer saw it. It struck his fancy, and he suggested to the pattern designer that it should be imitated. It proved one of the most successful calico patterns overprinted. The Journal of Chemistry tells the story of how the reflecting apparatus for lighthouses originated in a wager. An Englishman made a bet that he could read the small print of a news paper by the light of a farthing candle placed ten yards distant. He coated a board with pieces of looking-glass, thus forming a rough substitute for a con cave mirror. In front of this mirror he placed a lighted candle, whose rays were reflected to a focus ten yards dis tant. In that light he read the news paper. There was a practical man present who had the brains to see the bearing of a fact. He thought if the light ot a small candle could be thrown ten yards, the light of a large lamp may be projected miles. The thought grew into the reflecting apparatus lor lighthouses. "Not every man," sa\s the Journal, "can take the hint afforded by a chance occurrence. The result depends not so much on the accident, as on the man who observed it, thought upon it, utilized it." THERE is in Boston an organization for the relief of the poor named the Stonewall Jackson Association," aft er the Confederate chieftain. Water filtered through charcoal be comes perfectly pure, igloo is usually budf of snow, i ho word, however, means house, and as their houses consist of a single room it also means room. Sometimes at points that aro regu'arly occupied during the winter months igloos are built of stones and moss piled up around and over them, so that when covered by the winter snows thoy make very comforta ble dwellings. This is the case at Igloolik, which means the place of igloos, aid also near Tullock Point, on King William's Land, wheie the rnin of these underground houses were quite numerous. They had been built a ^reat many years ajfo by the Oookjoo'iLs when they occupied the land be'oie tho Netoh llik invasion. A low*, low i^,sage way leads into each dwelling, so constructed as to ex clude the iml i the interior, though ventilat'on is permitted by leaving open the door. This by the way, is an lnnit custom. im, "j Ui way, is an lnnit custom. open except when the occupants are asleep, an I they are only closed then to keep the dog* Irom mailing a raid on the igloo It tiie door iaceo the wind a shelter is elected outside to cut off the wind so that the door need not be closed. The coldest day I ever saw, when the thermometer was seventy-one degrees below zero, the door of our igloo was open all the time we were not asleep. A snow igloo is made of snow blocks about three feet long by eighteen inches wide and five inches deep. The sno ,v knife is simply a large thin bladed knife, like a cheese knite of the giocery stores, with a handle made large enough to be conveniently grasped with both hands. Before iron and knives became so plentiful as at present snow knives were made of bono and reindeer or musk-ox horn, but such knives are quite rare now. The Net-world chillin, Ookjoolik and Ooquesiksillik tribes are still quite deficient in iron weapons and implements, and many of their knives are marvels of ingenuity. I saw several made of a little tip of iron, perhaps an inch square, mounted on a handle two feet long, and so shaped that the iron would do mo3t of the cut ting and scratching, and the handle acted merely as a wedge to assist the operation. I also saw a man making a knife by cutting a thick piece of iron with a cold chisel, afterward to be pounded out flat and ground down on stones. The entire operation would probably take about three or four weeks with the poor tools at their disposal. The builder selects snW of the prop er consistency by sounding-a drift with a cane made for the purpose, of reindeer horn, straightened by steaming, and worked down until about half an inch in diameter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or the tooth of a bear on the bottom. By thursting this into the snow he can tell whether the layers deposited by successive winds are separated by bands of soft snow, which would cause the blocks to break. When the snow i3 se lected he digs a pit to the depth of eighteen inches or two feet and ab ut the length of the snow block. He then steps down into the pit and proceeds to cut out the blocks by first cutting down at the ends of the pit and then the bot tom afterward, cutting a little channel about an inch or two deep, maiking the thickness of the proposed block. Now comes the part that requires practice to accomplish successfully. The expert will, with a few thrusts of his knite in just the right places, split off the snow block and Tift it carefully out to await removal to its position on the wall. The tyro will almost inevit ably break the block into two or three pieces utterly unfit for the use of the builder. When two men are building an igloo one cuts the blocks and the other erects the walls. When sufficient blocks have been cut out to commence work with the builder marks with his eye, or perhaps draws a line with his knife describing the circumference of tne building, usually a circle about ten or twelve feet in diameter. The first row of blocks is then ar ranged, the blocks placed so as to in cline inward and resting against each other at the ends, thus affording mutual support. When this row is completed the builder cuts away the first and sec ond blocks, slanting them from the ground upward, so that the second tier resting upon the edges of thefirstrow can be continued on and around spiral ly, and by gradually increasing the in wai'd slant a perfect dome is construct ed of such strength that the builder can lie flat upon the outside while chinking the interstices between the blocks. The chinking is, however, usually done by the women and children as the building progresses, and additional pro tection secured from the winds in very cold weather by banking up with a large wooden snow shovel, the snow at the base often being piled to the depth of three or four feet. This makes the igloo perfectly impervious to the wind in the most tempestuous weather. When the house is completed the builders are walled in. Then a small hole about two feet square is cut in the wall on the side away from where the entrance is to be located, and is used to pass in the lamps and bedding. It is then walled up and the regular door cut about two feet high and niched at the top. It would bring bad luck to carry the bedding into the igloo by the same door it would be taken out. Be fore the door is opened the bed is con structed of snow blocks and made from one to three or fonr feet high and occu pies about three-fourths of the entire space. The higher the bed and the lower the door, the warmer the igloo will be. Practical Education. It is a great mistake to presume that the school-house is the only important factor in the practical education of the masses. The gifts which men have do not come from schools. The boy forced to attend school, with no dominant purpose of his own, with no ambition to learn, becomes a mere machine. He may become a receptacle of other men's ideas, but unless his own originality, his own thinking capacity, is stimulated to action, his education is superficial and theoretical. Self-made menthose wh.o move the worldare commonly these who, first recognizing the value of knowledge, have compassed every means within their reach to attain it. To such men schools might be a bless ing but more important than the scnoolhouse is the disposition to de velop the latent individual capacity, to work out the power within us, to make ourselves wiser, better and more use ful. The lathe may polish iron and steel, but does not create them. Education increases a man's powers, widens his capacity, broadens his judgment, yet no college can make a wise man of a fool. Education develops, presents greater opportunity, but ft cannot de velop in man that which was notready created in him at the start. Wealthy people often err in educating their HPJPwwMwpaffpjici^ ___ ___.. *=T"- in nf- ITTJIT^T-IIT' jTr An Esquimaux Snov, HOJSO. childr -n, doea ig the po^sejsion of individual. A student \a oure to be improved through educational facil ities, when his own self re*t eet, ht own desire for advancement, once awakens his individual thought aid re search Boys should learn n.t *hca is most important for their lite wmk. thai wheh will be ost useful *vhe-i tae\ gro.vto manhood. They should be dis -ouraged in the expectancy of line, easy situations simply because they have passed so many years in school. In this busy, utilitarian age, they will pass for what ihej can actu ally perform, they will be estimated at what they know, not bv the number of books they have studied. Practical education witLinthe reach of any ^e^son whu ically determines to observe, listen, wink, leiloet. Every man has it within his power to know more this ye ir than last, to acquue in creased strength day bj tor grap pling with hte's knotty problem.*. A pers who will think tor LimseUVwho will improve every opportunity as it is preente 1, who will occupy the spare momen's in earnest endeavors at ad vancement, will soon take rank with those scholars who are mere book worms, and whose heads are full of other men's thoughts without the ca pacity to digest or utilize them. No one should be discouraged in the mat ter of education who was not favored in his youth by superior facdities. Many an able man. at present wielding a power in the land, did not wake up to the possibilities of self-culture until late in life. Strong common sense is of vastly more importance and value than simple know-ledge with no capacity for its utilization. Every village and town has striking examples of wise and suc cessful men who have truly educated themselves, men who have taken the as a teacher, treasuring up its lessons for future guidance.Excliange. The Miner Who Didn't Understand Railroad Lingo. One night about half after twelve, I judge, I heard somebody step along to the window of my boudoir. Hearing it that time of night I reckoned thatsome thing crooked was going on, BO I slid out of bed and got my Great Blood Searcher and Liver Purifier, with the new style of center fire and cartridge ejecter, and slid up the window, calcu lating to shove a tonic into whoever it might be that was pick-nicking around my claim. I looked out so as to get a fim,danda The Usefulness of a Committee Clerk. A well-known Washington newspaper man, says a Washington letter, had the clerkship of one of the Senate commit tees last year. The committee was one which had very little work to do, and the Senators were not very often all present at committee meetings. One day there were only two Senators pres ent, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. The cleric was in his place when they came in. "Well, Mr. Clerk," said the Democratic Senator, "have you prepared the majority re port on that case?" "Yes," answered the clerk. "Won't you please read it, Mr. Clerk?" The clerk proceeded to do so. The report seemed to be satis factory to the Senator. As there were only two Senators present of course no work could be done, so the Senators startedtoleave the committee room. By the way," cried the Republican Senator, coming back, "you seem to have a genius for writing committee reports. Write my minority report on the same case for me, and have it ready at the next meeting." The clerk had the minority report ready at the time named, and it proved as satisfactory as the majority report which he had al prepared on the same case. This clerk was generally known as the Chair man of the committee. ["^nrrrnniTiii iHHiI i'rrlfliWiriii in niiiimiiiwiirrjji 'TTTjiiWEi^Hi TOt*r ^-w-^" -Tv^jf oo ide of where I wanted to sink on then I thought before I man gled him I'd ask if he had any choice about which part of his vitals he want ed to preserve, so I sings out to him: "Lookout below there, pard, for I'm going to call the meeting to order in a minute. Just throw up your hands, if you please, and make the grand" hailing sign of distress, or I'll have to mutilate you! Just show me about where you'd like to have the fatal wound, and be spry about it, too, because I \e got my brief costume on, and the evening air is chill!" He didn't understand me apparently, for a gurgling laugh welled up from be low, and the paity sings back: "Hullo, Fatty, is that you? Just lookin' to see if you'd fired up yet. You know 1 was to come around and flag you if second seven was out. Well, I've been down to the old man's to see what's on the board. Three is twoin hours late and four is repoited on time. There's two sevens out and two section* of nine. Skinney'll take out first seven and Shorty'11 pull her with 102. It'sma you and me for second seven, with Limber Jim on front end and Frenchy to hold down the caboose. Firstfiveis wrong side up in a washout this side oi Ogallala, and old Whatshisnamc that runs 258 got his crown sheet caved in and telescoped his headlight into the New Jerusalem. You know the little Swede that used to run extra for Old Hotbox on the emigrant for a while' Well, he's firing on 258, and he's under three flats and a coal-oil tank, with a brake-beam acioss his coupler and his system more or less relaxed. He's gone to the sweet subsequently, too. Rest of the boys are more or less de moralized and sidetracked for repairs. Now. you don't, want to monkey around much, for if you don't loom up like six bits and go out on the track, the old man'11 give you a time check and the Oriental Grand Bounce. You hear the mellow thrill of my bazoo?" Then I slowly uncorked the Great Blood Purifier, and, moving to the foot-lights where the silvery moon beams could touch up my dazzling out lines, I said: "Pardner, I am pleased and gratified to have met you. I don't know the first ding busted thing you have said to me, but that's my mis fortune. I am a plain miner, and my home is the digestive apparatus of the earth, but for professional melody of the chin you certainly take the cake. You also take the cake-basket and what cold pie there is on the dump. Mynarrative, name is Woodtick Williams. I discov ered the Feverish Hornet up on Slip Eery Ellum. I am proud to know you. [eep right on getting more and more familiar with your profession, and by and by, when nobody can understand you, you will be promoted and respect ed, and you will at last be a sleeping car conductor and revel in the biggest mental calm and wide shoreless sea of intellectual stagnation that the world ever saw. You will But he was gone. Then I took the pillow-sham and wiped some of the pulverized crackers oft the soles of my feet and went to bed in a large gob of gloom.""Bill Nye," in Chicaao Tribune. w^fe^^i^J psp*^! *^&*s*~'% THE GOAL-ROLE TOP. A CITY LYKIC. How dolta the little coil hole top Its slipperincasur-gu se, And feet on boot' S3 erran Is scad Ho often to the skies' Th" little echo I'-JJ il stops on It Wl ban el tsi gift B'if eiesh c~i" po*fa glass. an She sits upon her slat J. The little boy, w.ih pail of milk, Trends It jns In pi i He HW8 sonu stai*. lur j i^ers-by Gaze on toe 'Mniiky Thebello. with rich emboli wnent, Gomes up witu mmem/ tici Hfrshof sMiiMrmdeot ho i to lcikil Her Blockings clocked li red. The bijr policeman, proud. (1 et.t, W nli yum shoe' on his le t, DiHiruisesit with conhdenc How quick he's off hi-, bt The grunfyrr w.tta his iwhidt oouU By thunder 1 Did you see How spry that little iron ng Got out tiom uader me? No matter what the size of te*, Nor with wbnt they are shod, The coal-hole top has ne\ ei jet With upiitfhtness been od. it jam Aryus AN OLD MERCH4?,X'S THKSfe. RECOLLEC- Our great cities have anew wonder of late years. I mean those immense dry goods stores which we see in Paris, London, New York, Vienna, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, in which are dis played under one roof almost all the things worn, or used for domestic pur poses, by man, woman or child. An old dry-goods merchant of Lon don, now nearly ninety, and long ago retired from business with a large for tune, has given his recollections of busi ness in the good old times. There is a periodical called the Draper's Magazine, devoted to the dry-goods business, and it is in this that some months ago he told his story. When he was a few months past thirteen, being stout and large for his age, he was placed in a London dr\- goods store, as boy of all work. No wages were given him. At that time the clerks in stores usually boarded with their employer. On the" first night of his service,, when it was time togo to bed, he was shown a low, truckle bedstead, under the counter, made to pull out and push in. But he did. not even have this bed to himself, but shared it with another boy from the store. On getting up in the morning, instead of washing and dressing for the day, he was obliged to put on some old clothes, take down the shutters of the storewhich were so heavy he could hardlycarrythemcleanthe brasssigns, and .the outside of the shop windows, leaving the inside to be washed by the older clerks. When he had done this, he was allowed to go up stairs, wash himself, dress for the day, and to eat his breakfast. Then he took his place behind the counter. We think it wrong for boys under fourteen to woik ten hours a day. Butor in the stores of the olden time, both bo\ and men worked from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, and nothing was thought of it. This store, for example, was opened soon after eight in thecolored morning, and the shutters were not put up till ten in the evening. There was much work to do after the store was closed and the young men, inerations fact, were usually released from labor about a qua ter past eleven. On Saturday nights the store closed at twehe o'clock, and it was not uncom mon for the young men to be employed putting away the'goods until be tween two and three on Sunday morn ing. There used to be," the old gentle records, "a supper of hot beef steaks and onions, and porter, which we boys used to relish immensely, and eat and drink a good deal more of both than was good for us." After such a week's work, one would think the clerks would have required rest on Sunday. But they did not get much. The store was open from eio-ht until church time, which was tn'en eleven o'clock and this was one ofswer the most prohtable mornings in the week. The old gentleman explains why it was so. Almost all factoiies, shops and stores weie then kept open very late, and the last thing done in them was to pay wages, which was sel dom accomplished until after midnight. Hence, the apparent necessity forthe Sunday morning's business. Another great e\ il mentioned by our chronicler grew out of this bad system of all work and no play. The clerks, released from business towards mid night, were accustomed to go to a tavern and spend part of the night in drinking and carousing reeling home at a late hour, much the worse for drink, and unfit for business in the morning until they had taken another All day the clerks were in the abit of slipping out without their hats to the nearest tap-room for beer. Nor was the system very different in New York. An aged clerk to whom I gave an outline of the old gentleman's informs me that forty years ago the clerks, as a rule, were detained till very late in the evening, and often went from the store straight to a drink ing house. Now, let us see how it fared with the Jor rablic who depended upon these stores their dry-goods. From our old gentleman's account, it would seem that every transaction was a sort of battle between the buyer and seller to see which should choat the other. On the first day of his attendance he wit nessed a specimen of the mode in which a dexterous clerk could sell an article to a lady which she did not want. An unskillful clerk had displayed too sud denly the entire stqck of the goods of which she was in search upon which she rose to leave, saying that there was nothing she liked. A wore experienced salesman then stepped up. "Walk this way, madam, if youbig-hearted please, and I will show you something entirely different, with which I am sure you will be quite delighted." He took her to the other end "of the store, and then going back to the pile which she had just rejected, snatched up several pieces, and sold her one of them almost immediately. Customers, the old merchant says, were often bul lied into buying things they did not want "Many a half-friehtened girl," he remarks, "have I seen go out of the shop, the tears welling up into hereyes, and saying, I 1 shallneverlike it some shawlamrsure dress having been forced upon her contrary to her taste or judgment." The new clerk, although by aature a very honest young fellow, soonbecame expert in all the tricks of the trade. It was the custom then for employers to allow clerks a reward for selling things that were particularly unsalable, or which required some special skill or im pudence the seller. For example, they kept on hand a great supply of what tney were pleased to call 'Remnants." which were supposed to be sold very cheap ami as the public of that day had a passion .for remnants, the master of Che shop'took care to 1 VC* WHOLE NUMBER 167 have them made in sufficient numbers.] There were heaps of remnants of linen, and it so fiuppened that the rem nants were exactly long enough for a shirt, or some other garment. Any clerk who could push off one of these remnants upon a customer was allowed a penny or two-pence as a reward for hss talent and there were certain cost ly articles, such as s'-awis and silks of unsalable patterns, upon which there was a piemiura of several shillings for selling. There \/a3 one frightfully ugly shawl which had hung the so long that the mastei of the shop offered a reward of eight sh llings (two dollars) to any one who s'lould se'l it at the full price, which was t'venty dollars Our lad coveied himself with glory one morn irxc-. by se Lng this horrid old thing. A bailor came to buy a satin scarf for a present. Tne boy saw his chance. As 3 on want something for a pres- ent," sd.id he to the sailor, "would you not like to give something really useful and valuable that would last for years"' In three minutes the sailor was walking out of the store, happy enough, with the shawl uier his arm, and the .sharp youth was depositing the pi ice thereof in the money-drawer. Very soon he had an opportunity of assisting to gull the public on a great scale Hi3 employer bought out the stock of an old-fashioned dry-goods store in another part of the town for a small sum upon which he determined to have a grand selling off." To this end he filled the old shop with all his old, faded, unsalable goods, besides looking around among the wholesale houses and picking up several cart loads of cheap lots, more or less dam aged. The whole town was flooded with bills announcing this sellino- off of the old-established store, atwhich many goods could be obtained at less than nab! the original cost. As this was then a comparatively new trick, the public were deceived by it, and it had the most astonishing success. The selling off lasted several weeks, the supply of goods being kept up by daily purchases. Our junior clerk was an apt learner in deception and trickery. Shortly aft er this experiment upon the public credulity, a careless boy lighting the lamps in tne window (for this was be fore the introduction of gas) set some netting on fire, causing a damage of a few shillings, the fire being almost in stantly extinguished. As business had been a little dull, the junior clerk con ceived the idea of turning the conflagra tion to account. Going up to his em ployer, and pointing to the singed arti cles, he said to him: "Whynot have a selling off here, and clear out all the stock damaged by fire?" The master laughed at the enormity of the joke, but instantly adopted the Suggestion, and in the, course of a dav two, flaming posters announced the awful disaster and the sale. In pre paring for this event, the clerks applied lighted paper to the edges of whole stacks of goods, slightly dis the tops of stockings, and in fact, they singed to such an ex tent as almost to cause a real conflagra tion. During these wicked night "op- a great deal of beer was con sumed, and the whole effect of the ma neuver was injurious and demoralizing to every clerk in the store. This sale, also, was ridiculously suc cessful. A mob surrounded the doors before thej were opened, and to keep up the excitement some low-priced goods were ostentatiously sold much be low cost. Such was the rush of cus tomers that at noon the young men were^exhausted by the labor of selling the counters were a mere litter of tum bled drv-goods and the shop had to be closed for a while for rest and putting things in order. To keep up the excitement, the mas ter and his favorite junior clerk rode about London in hackney coaches, in search of any cheap lots that would an their purpose. In the course of time this clerk, who was at heart an honest well-principled fellow, grew ashamed of all this trickery and fraud, and when at length he set up in business for himself, he adopted the principle of "one price and no abatement" He dealt honorably with all his customers, and thus founded one of the great dry-goods houses of London. Two things saved him: first, he loathed drinking and debauchery secondly, he was in the habit of reading. The building up of the huge establish ments, to which some persons object, has nearly put an end to the old system of guzzling, cheating and lying. The clerks in these great stores go to business at eight o'clock in the morning, and leave at six in the evening, witn an interval for dinner. They work all day in a clean and pleasant place, they are neither required nor allowedto lieor cheat. A very large establishment must be conducted honestly, -i cannot long go on. Its very largeness compels a strict adherence to truth and fact. James Parion, in louth's Companion. How a Missionary Lost a Wife. George Bovard is the name of a young Methodist minister who attended the annual Conference of the M. E. Church at Mercer a couple of years ago. While there he and a oung lady teacher of the Soldiers' Orphan School, located in Mercer, fell in love with each other. Her name was Clara Shaffer. He was about to start for India to Christianize the heathen. A correspondence was kept up between the two, and he want ed her to come to him and be married, and assist him in his labors. He had no money to pay her expenses, and she had none. In this emergency, a few months ago, she made a confidant of "Dick" Wright, a heavy clothing merchant of Mercer, and he being a man with generous im pulses, offered to supply her with what money she needed to reach her far-off lover. She gladly accepted his offer, and at once began her preparations for the long journey. "Dick" and Miss Shaffer were thrown much together for a whde, and about the time she was ready to start he was deeply in love with her himself. But he said nothing, and she started for New York with enough of "Dick's" money in her pocket to take her to India. Two or three days after her depart* ure he grew despondent and chideil himself for having given away his chance for marrying Miss Shaffer him self. A thought struck him, and that was to follow ner, and* if possible, over take her before she boarded a steamer in New York for distant India. He acted promptly on the thought, took the cars, reached New York and found the vessel on which she was to sail. Miss Shaffer was already on board he made known his affection, asked her for her hand for himself, was accepted, and the two returned to Mercer a few days ago as man and wife., The outcome is a little rough on .the young minister whd is wrestling with superstition and idolatry in thejunglAs ot Lnd&.mt&in-gh Comtnerciai. "5 I I 1