The Exeter Advocate, 1891-1-15, Page 3THE! A enesTI9 QM.;
Or, A Naturallet'a Dream.
1Pedieated to Mr, James B. Le Moine, Spencer
Orange, ,Quebee, and Mr. Thomas Moll -
wraith, Cturnbrae, Hamilton, Ont.
(By Bey. Duncan Andereon.)
What I frees the icy Pole? Now draw it mild,
And on plain travellers, pray, play no tick'.
feel as haughty as Minerva:0 self,
And, if you runle me, as cross as twice two
sticks.
(1, Just in by special," and his owlship winked
Twa4 oome,nat slow, aud took a good few
hours,
',From those 'high latitudes ' that Dullerin
knew,
Till I could rest iny pintoes in Canadian
bowers.
But then I dropped in at a station north,
To pay a visit to a friendly auk;
Some time was lost. but what's that to an owl
Who longs to eee his friends awl have a social
talk?
" Perhaps, tho', you may think it somewhat
etrauge
'rehear my speech; but let that wonder pass—
Some human owls speak, to, and why not I,
When words of wisdom came so glib from
Balsams as?'
And then he talked a strange things—new and
old—
Of Greenland's snowy plains and ice -ribbed
shore—
Of mighty Pachyderms that once roamed there,
And of their pond'rous bones that now lie
bleached and hoar.
Ah I could you see those placid seas that bathe
The sphinx -like Pole, and bright as mirror
gleam
Tiarathe long Arctic night, while stars shine
down,
Till like a double eky their twinkling shadows
seem.
No sound then breaks the awful etillness there ;
The ear the throbblings of the heart might
sum ;
Life plants no footstep on those silent shores ;
Time there seems past—eternity's long morn
has come.
Sweet Arctic night 1 that owls alone enjoy,
When human hearts beat cold, and alone and
sad;
When bears reluctant leave their ioy den,
And canines whine for sunlit homes, and then
go mad
.Now bursts the light upon some sprhogtide
morn ;
Higher and higher climbs the orb of day;
'.The curtain iises from the wak'ning earth,
And the huge iceberg breaks its bonds and
floats away.
,Hark, the loud thunder of tho mighty whale;
The wo,lrue sports, like lambkin on the lea;
Peerless the eeal basks on his rooky isle,
Nor dreads a human foe within that tranquil
sea.
'Tranquil—but for the rushing wings that bring,
From sunnier climes, a bright and joyous
throng;
"The cay're'd rock flings back Hee sea gall's
scream,
While hill and dale ring with the warblers'
nuptial song.
:or wings e.lone bring visitants from far,
As wheel fresh squadrons from the trackless
eky ;
'The shaggy musk ox o'er the meadow roams,
And wary reindeer browse where lowly lichens
lie.
And these cold waves that once kissed torrid
shores,
'Their trophies northward bear with favoring
breeze.
And the tall pine that graced some southern
hill,
Now lies, all chafed and worn, on sands of
polar seas.
Seas where tlae paddle's stroke has never
stirred
The mimic wave to tuneful melody ;
Unknown the spreading sell and bending oar ;
And eye of man hes nevergazed upon that sea.
No living eye—for merk yon battered wreck,
That sparless, cordless, dos like phamtom
by
Want -wasted forms crouch on its mouldy deck,
And glsring, sightless orbs stare upwards to
the sky.
'Onwards his helpless prey the ice -fiend bore,
And trebly looked them in their frozen cell,
'Till biting cold and gnawing hunger told
A tale of want and woe no human Lougee may
tell.
.And wives will wait to welcome husbands home.
And long in mothers' hearts hope's lamp will
burn,
.And maidens sigh to press the plighted hand;
But, ah 1 these shrivelled fornas will never
more return.
And wind and tido will steer that creaking helm,
Till the worn keel rests till on ocean bed,
.But the loved port that crew will never hail
Till Be shall give command, 'Yield up thy
hidden dead 1"
'But pray excuse what Lachrymarys fill;
My nietitator is a better ,lan;
.And we may weep, or whistle on the brakes;
Strange that an owl in aught should beat the
nobler man 1
But, to tbe point; I fear I've wandered far,
And left unspoken what yet brought me here;
,Please think not. if our latitude exceeds
The "eighties." that we have no "Gazetteer .'
But why, or how we know, it matters not.
All things of sublunary strain beguile
An owl's lone hours, and little birds may tell
Your own Canadian tales on far Jan Meyen's
Isle.
And so it came to pass that whispers said
That Cairnbrae, famed Spencer Grange and
you
.Had won your spurs, but here I mean no joke,
But speak as it I'd graduated from the' Zoo."
And thus, in conclave grave of learned °NOS,
The Stria Cinerea and Nvotie. swore,
.And all the rest gave out responsive hoots,
That these thrice honored names be added to
OUT corps.
Adopted by our tribe, without one nay,
Pray here accept this decorated scroll;
.And Dr. Stewart's facile pen will give,
To wond'ring ears, its tale, when I am at the
Pole.
woke—the dream was past; nor mystic scroll
Nor Arctic owl, my blinking eyes could see;
:But all was phonographed on mem'ry's page,
And I to other's tell what then was told to me.
BITTING Biltap
Itim•••••••••01111.0.0,..1.14
Adirondack Murray's Estimate
Dead Indian.
.t the
A Great Historic Character -nil Seer anti a
Prophet,
"Everybody is well setisfied at his
death."
This is the sentepoe I read this morning
in a great American journal totiohing the
=neer of the great Sioux prophet, Sitting
Ball. I say murder, for murder it was and
murder it was intended to be, unlees all the
reports sent eastward for the last month
have been lies.
The land grabbers wented the Indian
lands. The lying, thieving Indian agents
wanted silence touching past thefts, aneee
immunity to continue their thieving. The
renegades from their people among the
Indian police wanted an opportunity to
show their power over a man who despised
them as renegades, and whom, therefore,
they hated. The public) opinion of the
frontier—the outgrowth of ignorance,
credulity and selfieh greed—more than as-
sented to a plan to rid the country of one
who while he lived, so great was he in fame
and in fact, must forever stand as a reminder
ot wars past, and a threat of war to come.
Oat of all these and other oeuses peculiar
to the condition of things there localized,
some aceidental and deplorable, others per.
manent and infamone, was born, as Mil-
ton's Death was born, from Satan and Sin,
the plot to kill him.
And so he was murdered.
His death is sad enough. It would have
been sad to many of no who knew him as
he was and admired him for what he was
had he died in peace amid the remnants of
hie people and the mourning of hie race.
But killed as he has been in obedience to a
conspiraoy and as the outcome of a plot to
make an end of him, untried by process of
law, proven guilty of no crime, unconvicted
of any overt aot, we pronounce fele killing
a crime and his sadden removal in the
manner and substance of it an outrage and
a murder.
THE GREAT MEDICINE MAN.
I knew this man; knew him in relation to
his high office among hie people and in his
elements as a man. As to his office or rank
I honored him. He filled a station older
than human records. As a man I admired
him. He represented in person, in manners,
in mind and in the heroism of his spirit the
highest type of a race vehioh in many and
rare virtues stands peer among the nations
of the world. As to his rank or official
station, we whites oalled him Medicine
Men. It is a name that does not name.
It is and has been from the beginning
of our intercoureed with the red race a de-
lusion and the source :of delusions among
even the scholarly. A word of truth as to
this :
When the French first mingled with the
aboriginals of this continent they found in
eaoh tribe a man honored of all, in many
respects greeter than the greatest war
chief. Ot his rank there was no donlit. Of
his functions only one was apparent ; all
others were hidden. They were connected
with the religions rites and mysteries of a
mysterious people. The one function of
hie high office that they could apprehend,
.the least of them all, as we now know in
feet was this : He was the physinian, the
healer of his people. Thie they could see
and understand and hence in their ignor-
ance of his reel office, of his nobler Junotione and rank, they named him the medi-
cine man, and thie misnomer clung to him
and his office and has been perpetuated,
blinding all eyes and hanging a veil of
darkness between us and true knowledge.
But to the red men he, whom the whites
in their ignorance misnamed the medicine
man, the physidan, the healer, was the
prophet of the Great Spirit to the tribe, the
seer of God, as Semnel was to the Jews,
holding the relation to the war chiefs that
Joshua held to Mown, and holding to their
religion and its rites the same great rank
and office as the High Priest among the
Jews held to the Temple.
The men Sitting Ball was a wer prophet,
not wer chief, to his people. The seer, in
the line of Beers of a race, beside whioh, as
to antiquity, the Jews are but mushrooms.
What Was the misnomer, a joke, a term of
contempt to tis in our ignorance of faot end
ancient things, to the red mon—for the
term Indian as applied to them is ale° a
misnomer and & proof of fourteenth cen.
tary 'ignorance—was a rank above all
ranks won or bestowed by the tribe; an
office above all earthly offices, connected
and eymbolic of the highest truths and
deepest mysteries of their religion.
Should be Exempt.
New York Herald:
'Since butchers are barred from the juryiliet
When murderers are tried,
A few other people would not be missed
Wore they likewise denied;
The dentist who slaughters his groaning prey—
Is he not a man of blood?
The barber who chins through the livelong day—
Who can stand his wordy flood?
'Then the candy butcher, who holds up trains—
A fiendish man is be!
And the joker who addles his dearth of brains—
What a juror he must bet
And last, but not least, the deadly boro,
With a tongue as fine as silk;
No alcused man could dodge the evergreen shore
If the jury were made of his ilk.
IIOME.
A man can build a mansion,
And furnish it throughout;
A man can build a palace,
With lofty walls and stout;
A man can build a temple,
With high and spacious dome;
But no man in the world can build
That precious thing called home.
So 'tis a happy faculty
Of WOMOU far and wide
To turn a cot or palace
Into something else beside,
Where brothers, sons and husbands tired,
With willing footsteps 00Me,
A place of rest where love abounde,
A perfect kingdom, home.
Lon.
A timid stet that fears the night,
And flees out far in search of light
Beyond the bar of earthly sight
To worlds unknown.
A broken lute that needs some hand
Its stringso mute to understand,
And to it suit a song more grand,
A loving tone.
A sky of blue that strangely thrills,
A song or two leaf hidden rills,
Paint laughter through far purpled hills
Of early youth.
A shadow pain, a inlet of years,
A falling rain of voiceless tears,
A heart that fain would still its fears,
And rind the truth.
ineignia of hie office, Ito a king hie robot', or
a judge his geese.' In eating he wee tem.
perate ; from spirituous drinks an abstainer
His word once given was n true bond. PI
was a born diplomat. No foe ever fathoms
his theught. I have watched him by tb
hour when I knew hie heart was hot wit
wrath, but neither from eye nor hp no
oheek nor nostril nor sinewy hand neigh
one get hint of the storm raging within
There wait no sallow to him. He vette th
embodiment of depth.
Was he eloquent? What is eloquence?
Who may say—who may agree to it? Men
tell me that Mr. Depew is eloquent, and
that New Yorkers go wild with she glasses
in front of them when their Mr. Choete is
speaking, I have read their words. Their
eloquence is not that of the greet Sioux
Prophet, Here are some.words of his, You
can compare them with your orators' best :
"You tell me of the Mohawks. My
fathers knew them. They demanded
rtribute of them. The Sioux laughed.
They went to meet them, 10,000 horsemen.
The Mowhawks saw them oomina, made
them a feast and returned home. Yon tell
me of the Abenaznis. They are our fore-
fathers, and the forefathers of all red men,
Thew were the men of the Dawn. They
(Arne from the East. They were born in
the morning of the world. The traditions
of my people are full of the Abeneznie.
They rooked the oradlee of our race."
And again—
"What treaty that the whites have kept
has the red man broken? Not one. What
treaty that the whites ever made with ns
red men have they kept? Not one. When
I was a boy the Sioux owned the world.
the enn rose and set in their lands. They
sent 10,000 horsemen to battle. Where are
the warriers to -day? 'Who slew them?
Where are our lands ? Who owne them?
What white man win say I ever etole his
lands or a penny of his money? Yet they say
I am a thief. What white woman, how-
ever lonely, was ever when a captive in -
Bulled by me? Yet they say I am a bad
Indian. What .white man has ever seen
me drunk? Who has ever come to me
hungry and gone unfed ? Who has ever
seen me beat my wives or abuse my obit-
dren ? What law have I broken? Is it
wrong for one to love my own? Is it
wicked in me becauee my skin is red;
because I am a Sioux; because I was
born where my tethers lived; because I
would die for my people and my country ?"
And again:
"They tell you I murdered Custer It is
a lie. I am not a war chief. I was not in
the battle that day. His eyes were blinded
that he could no see. He was a fool, and
he rode to hie death. He made the fight,
not I. Whoever tells you I killed the Yellow
Hair is a liar."
" IS THIS TOUR SON, MP LORD p"
heinlr 4 T. ML:.
5G41.1l0.111, 011
Mao against all revolutionary methods of
honorable progress." He thinks that as
"Uccle Tom's Cabin" did more than all
the pulpits to make slavery odious, so may
books like the one under review help to
revolutionize society in another re-
speot. " No one will endure, or pity or
embrace the vice and the heartlessness
portrayed by Helen Gardener. It is BO
thoroughly deteetable that to one nn -
familiar with corrupt and hollow life it
seems almost impoeeible, and it reminds us
of the wretched criminal portrayed in
Tolstoi's last novel. To the inexperienced,
this book will be sad revelation; to the
vicious classes which it portrays, it will be
a warning that they are observed and
saorned, but whether it will give them a
blush of shame may be a queetion."
Matilda Joslyn Gage, the President of
the Woman's National Liberal Union, says
that the good influence of this book must
be incaloulable, as " it is not an attack
upon either sex, but an attempt to show
the result of conditions. Her pioturee
are chastely drawn, and some of the
finest characters in her book are
men. Neither does she fail to expose the
petty thought of a certain class of women
whose sole aim is social position ; mothers
whose vanity and weakness prove ea
destructive to sons as more gross teaching
from others."
Robert C. Adams, President of the
Canadian Seoular Union, says the merit of
the book is ite absolute !rankness; the
plain spoken declaration of what everyone
thinks about and nobody epeaks of. " It
is the one honest book of the day that does
not attempt to curry favor, offers no apolo-
gies to respectable error, advances its
opinions El:merely and takes its stand fiat.
ooted for needed reforms."
Donn Platt firet describes the
author, whose acquaintance he
made in his own office & year
and a half ago. "From these reveries
I was awakened by the musical rustle of
feminine drapery, and wheeling in my
chair, I saw before me e girlish face and
figure, one slender and graceful, and the
other not only beautiful in its delicate out.
lines, but so alive with expressions of sense
and sensibility, that it photographed itself
upon the heart through that instantaneous
raceme Nature gave es long in advance of
its coarser imitation. My visitor an-
nounced herself as Helen Gardener, and
slielendered me some of her work for pub-
lication in Belford." While so much ad-
miring the author, Donn nett cells the
book horrible. "The saddest pert of all,''
he says, "101 reading this dread-
ful book, is that one is im-
pressed with the belief that itis
written by a good woman. Women make
bad reformers, because of their emotional
nature and the conrege of their convictions,
that renders them bigots." He closee thus :
" Thie is written more in sorrow than in
anger, and with the hope that the ill. enecess
of this terrible book will induce the gifted
Gardener to leave the deodorizing of social
use -pools through literary efforts to the
male Tolstois, and give us, ae she nen,
sweet, pure, touching stories of human
life."
A Misplaced Pension.
Ottawa Free Press An agitation in
favor of abolishing the pensions of the heirs
of" Nell Gwynne," who was the favorite
mistress of King Charles the Second, has
been started in Englend, and recusivee the
support of Conservativee as well as
Radioals. The chief pension is the two
thotwand pounds paid annually to the Duke
cf St. Albans, whose only claim upon the
British treasuary is the fact of hie being
descended from one of Nell Gwynneni
royal infants—the particular one that
Nell held out of a window as Charles II.
passed, and told the king that if
he didn't make him a duke she would
drop him ; that is, the infant, not
the King. He was made & duke, and en-
dowed with a pension of £2,000 a year as
royal falconer; and that pension the nation
has been paying for over two hundred
years. It is very doubtful if the " ih.erry
Monarch" ever entioipated that in 1890
the British people would be still paying
£2,000 a year to the deeoendant of his
mistress. The Duke of St. Albans is still
nominally "royal falconer," but there are
no hawks, no falcons and no pigeone to
take care of, yet the payment goes on,
and the Government proposes to commute
the pension for twenty-seven years pur-
chase. This while survivors of the Light
Brigade are dependent on public chetrity
for support.
THE COUNSELLOR OF CHIEFS.
Hence, by virtue of his office, old custom
and tradition, this man, Sitting Bull, was
conneellor of chiefs, the Warwick behind
the throne stronger than the throne, the
oracle of mysteries and of knowledge
hidden from the mass, hidden even from
ohiefe, to whose words of advice and
extbority all listened as to the last and
highest expreeeion of wisdom.
Stich WEIS Sitting Bull as to hie office, as
interpreted and understood from a stand-
point of knowledge of the religion, the tn.
ditions and the superstitions of his people.
That he was faithful to his high office all
knew. That he was, in fad, conneellor of
chiefs, that as Joehne did to Moses, so he
in hour of battle upheld their arms till the
sun went down and the battle was lost or
won, let all who fought hie tribe declare ;
that the gods of his race found in him a
high priest faithful to his trust none oen
ever deny. He lived and be has died a red
men, true to his office and his race. That
leaf of laurel none can deny to his fame—
not even hie renegade murderers.
Bat no office, however great, is as great
as the man if he fills it greatly, and this
man Sitting Brill was greater as a man than
he was even as a pronhet. I met himoften ;
I studing him cloudy as one of intelligence
studies the type of & race. --I may add of a
departing race and I knew him well. And
this I say of him. He was a Sioux of the
Sioux, a red man of the red men. In him,
his race, in phyeique, in manners, in
virtue, in faults, etood imamate. In face
he was the only man I ever saw who
resembled Gladstone — large featured,
thoughtfully grave, refleotive, reposeful
when unexcited. In wrath his countenance
was a collodion of unexploded or exploding
thunder—the awful embodiment of meas.
urelese passion and power.
In conversation he was deliberate, the
neer of few words, but suave and low
voiced. In moments of social relaxation
he was oompanioneble, reoeptive of humor,
a genial hod, a pleasant guest. n his
family gentle, affectionate and not opposed
to merriment. When sitting in counoil his
deportment was a model; grave, deliberate,
courteous to opponents, patient and kindly
to xnen of lesser mind. I suggest that our
Senators copy after him,
ELOQUENT AND PROUD.
In pride he was equal to hie renk and
race, a rank to him level with a Pope's, and
a race of rehe oldest and bravest in the
world. Of vanity I never saw one trace in
him. I would couple *he word with Glad.
stone or Webster as quickly se with hiin.
He was never over.dreesed. He wore the
When in the Box.
Mr. Robert Jaffrey, of Toronto, writes to
the Ottawa Journal in reply to Mr. MaCer-
thy's defence of his examination of Mr.
Jaffrey in the street railway arbitration.
Mr. Jaffrey concludes es follows: "The
evidence will show that I made no retort
upon Mr. MoCerthy till he had gone beyond
all license allowed to any lawyers in any
court ; and, as he himself shows that he
first introduced the allusion to retainers,
his letter is a poor defence either of himself
or the aowardly practice fortunately fol-
lowed by but a few of the profession, and
in following it in this case I don't think
Mr. McCarthy has added to hie reputation
either es a man or as a lawyer. I am
pleased to be able to eay I have had general
congratulation for standing up for the
rights of the witness, and from none so
generally or so strongly se from the legal
profession."
Fruit for Farmers.
As every farmer shoul0 raise some fruit
for the nee of hie family,lhe should observe
two general rules in making a selection and
planting. The first is, to plant no more
ground than he can prepare in the beet
manner, and always keep in good order;
and she seeond is, to select only such fruits
as are hardy enough to grow well and bear
well in all seasons. There are some fruits
that are easily injured by cold winters, if
not killed by them; and others bear irreg.
ularly, or bear small crops, or have scabby
specimens. Omit these, and select the
reliable ones, and old well -tried kinds, and
especially do not pay high prices for nos,.
elties until you can afford to expend some.
thing on empty experiments, or for knowl-
edge merely, rather than fruit.
Playgrounds for Poor Children.
Harper's Weekly: The movement for
small parks in the orowded parts
of the folly was successfully made
during the mayoralty of Mr. Hewitt,
and the sum of $1,000,000 was appropriated
for the purpose. It is thought twenty or
thirty such parks as are now proposed
might be maintained by the income of this
sum. They ere to be laid out simply as
playgrounds, and the speotaale 61 last
summer in the hilarious enjoyment of the
children was very touching. There must
be some sapervision, of coarse, bat the
project ie not an experiment. It has been
thoroughly tested, and it ie one of the
happiest suggestions of the oharitable and
humane spirit of the time.
Buffalonian for Oronhyateklia.
Buffalo News: One of the interesting
men of Canada is Dr. Orouligetoklia, of
Toronto. He it an Indian who in his youth
was chief of the Mohawks. The Prince of
Wales urged him to go to England to be
educated at the royel expense, and he was
subsequently graduated frchn Oxford and
from a London medical school. He is a
good.looking, broad -shouldered six.footer.
The best puitures so far taken of the
moon ehow thet wallet walls, whose tops
are no more than 200 ger& or so in width,
and wbieh are no more than 1,000 or 1,200
yards apart, are plainly visible.
414
From Gompars' Address.
Oar centres of industry with their mills,
factories and workshop are teeming with
young and innooent children, bending their
weary forms with long hours of daily
drudgery, with pinched and wan cheeks,
and emaciated frames, dwarfed both physi.
oally and mentally, and frequently driving
them to premature decay and death. The
innocent smile of youthful happiness is
soon transformed into wrinkles and other
evidences of early decay. The life's blood
of the youth of oar land is too frequently
sapped at the foundation. The hope of a
perpetuity of free institutions is endan-
gered when the rising generation is robbed
of the opportunity to enjoy the healthfal
recreations of the play.grounds or the men-
tal improvements of the school -house.
AN IterEILESTING QUESTION,,
Nast 117nolle Sam Coin Silver Bullion for
Citizens' Ilse 7
A Philadelphia despatch eaye : Judge
Harley B. Morse and Otorge C. Merrick,
of Denver, Col., callecl yesterday at the
United States mint here with a briok
weighing 614 ounces, eight ounces fine,
presented it to the weighing clerk, and
demanded that it be coined ,into money
for them. Their demand being refused,
they waited upon Col. 13oebyshell, superin.
tentient of the mint, and made the same
demand of him. Col. Bosbyshell refused
to accept the brick for private coinage,
and Morse and Merrick then presented
hire with a formal demand in writing
In this document Muerte Morse and Mer.
rick " demanded as of right under the
constitution and laws of the United Statee
that the silver bullion be reoeiyed and
ooined into silver dollars of the weight of
4123 grains, Troy standard silver, for the
use and benefit of the depositors, and
without unnecessary delay." Mr. Mer.
riok aeked Col. Bosbysliell to give them a
certificate or letter certifying that
he and Judge Morse had offered
their silver for coinage, and that
it had been refused by him, so the,t they
would be saved the trouble of proving that
fact in court, where they proposed to test
the right of the Government to refuse the
bullion. Col. Bosbyshell gave them a letter
acknowledging the receipt of their offer of
silver bullion to be coined into silver dollars
for their use and benefit, and deolining such
offer "on the ground that it is in violation
of the laws and regulations of the mint
service to deposit silver for private ac-
count." Messrs. More and Merrick then
departed with their silver. The ground
upon which they based their demand is
thrtt the claim is a constitutional one, and
denies the right of the Government to make
what is known as " seigniorage."
At present the market value of silver
bullion is 103e- cents per ounce fine, while
the mint value of an ounce is 129 29400
cents. When the Government buys bullion
it pays the merket bullion price, and makes
the difference which is the " seigniorage "
between that prioe and the legal tender
value. This " seigniorage" the two gen.
tlemen think they have as =oh right to
as the Government.
Snippings About Silk.
Figured bengalinee do not "take," in the
language of the retailers'.
Double•faced satin ribbon certainly looks
handsome on velvet hats.
The new reddish purple shades in silk
and velvet are taking quite well.
The run on black silk handkerchiefs,
especially the twenty-four inch size, is
unprecedented.
The mail order departments report silks
selling better in combinations than singly.
The stock of silk in the Lyons Magasin
General on the last day of November, 1890,
was 4,922 bales.
Pretty house dresses are made of brocade
and silk warp woolen geode in medium and
light oolorie—Dry Goods Economist.
A McAllister Orew.
Excited Lady (at Atlantic, City)—Why
isn't something done for that ship in die.
trawl? Why don't some of you—
Life Saver (burriedly)—We have sent the
crew & line to come ashore, mum.
Excited Lady—Of all things! Were they
waiting for a formal invitation?
Direct from the Contribution Box.
"The idea 1 "said the African missionary,
ndignantly.
"What's the matter? "
"The idea of sending celluloid poker
chips to aid the heathen in an ivory coun-
try."—New York Sun.
An Inconsistent Old Fellow.
Wool—They say old Closefiet left a
clause in his will direoting that hie body be
cremated.
Van Pelt—And yet he made his boast
that he believed in giving the devil hie due
The Bad Lands.
"What are the Bad Lands, of which so
frequent mention is made in the telegrams
about the United States Indian uprising?"
asks a correspondent. The Bed Lands of
Dakota are composed of white °ley, which,
by the action of rains, has been out into
hillocks. They are not high, seldom more
than 40 or 50 feet, but it is up one and
down another the whole way. There are
no water ammo, the nearest approach
being a gully forty feet deep, with a foot
and a half of mud at the bottom. At
every few yards you mud stop, and, with
spade and shovel, out a path down the side
of a hill in order to deeciend, and then up
the side of the one opposite in order to get
up again. The mud is es sticky as tar, and
in going a few yards the wheels of a waggon
become solid round cakes, and all the mules
you can hitch to it will not be able to pull
it a foot farther. Then the spades are
brought and the wheels cleared, the
operation being repeated two or three
times in 100 yards. The extent of the Bad
Lands in Dakota is probably 100 miles
from north to south by fifteen 'to thirty
mile(' wide. The district is a good one for
a crafty foe like the Indian warrior to hide
in, but as a location to make a living it has
not a redeeming feature.
She Changed rt.
Housekeeper's Weekly: "Mamma, whett
is the use of keeping the whip you use on
me behind the motto ' God Mese Oar
Home?' " "Well," said mamma, "I'll
change it." And elle put it behind the
motto "I Need The Every Hour."
From Frying -Pan to Fire.
Detroit News: Wife—I thought you said
you would fill up the coal stove after you
got home from the lodge?
einsband—I did.
Wite—I guess not. When I got up this
morning I found a scuttle full of aoal all
over the floor, as if somebody tried to fill
the stove without removing the top, and I
found the scuttle hanging on the gas jet.
Husband (thinking: The old girl is on
to me, but I will have to get out 01 11 some
way)—A friend of mine said he could guess
what kind of a temper you had.
Wife—The wretch 1
Husband—And he bet me $10 when I
was ooming home that I detesen't play off
drunk.
Wife—The scoundrel! Well, he found
out his mistake.
Husband (ander his breath)—I got out of
that nioe.
Wife—Well, I am Alad you won the bet,
John; the $10 will buy me a new bonnet.
"Away! Away! Thera is danger here!
A terrible phantom is bending near;
With no human look, with no human breath,
He stands beside thee—the haunter—Deathl"
If there is one disease more than another
that comes like the unbidden guest at a
banquet, it is Catarrh. Insidiously it
steals upon you, "with no human breath"
it graduaVy, like the ootopus, winds its
coils about you and crushes you. Bat there
is a medicine, called Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, that can tear yon away from the
monster, and turn the sythes' point of the
reaper. The makers of this wonderful
remedy offer, in good faith, a standing re.
ward of $500 for an incurable ease of
Catarrh in the Head.
Women Health Inspectors.
Chicago has had the good sense to
appoint five women health inspectors:
Mrs. Byford Leonard, Mrs. Clara M.
Doolittle, Mrs. Marie Owens, Mrs. Mary
Glennon and Dr. Rachel Hickey. The
salary is $1,000 per annum, and the duties
are the inspection of places where women
and children work, and the establishment
of neceseary sanitary improvements.
These inspectors are clothed with police
power and already have a000mplished great
good in the remedying of &mem They
find that the chief difficulty they have to
encounter is not tyranny or hard.hearted.
nese on the side of the employer, but the
inoonoeivable ignorance' of both employer
and employed.
—1' Oh, come off the perch," mentally
exolaimed the cook as she busied herself
cleaning the scales from the fish.
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson has
settled for the winter at Cheltenham,
England, where ehe is (said to be engaged
n writing a novel.
RED AND WHITE.
An American Guys pecription of "Color
Hall" at Nice,
"1 wonder," wad a young woman who
had resided abroad for two year') and hail
just returned, "that New York does not
attempt a color ball, snob as are fre-
quently given at Nice. I attended two
there, one red, the other white. `,12he red
vvas the more brilliant, but the white was
exceedingly beautiful, too. At the former,
the men appeared in red satin coats, white
satin breeches and red eilk stookinge and
shoes. The ladies wore white with red
roses. All the decorations and hangings
were red, lamp shades and all, and the
eupper ornamentatione were all of the
Name bright color. At the white ball every-
thing wae white. The men wore suite of
white satin, with white shoes, and the
ladies, of course, white dresses and flower&
Both were given by the nobility, and were
very gay and attraotive. As a novelty,
was told a black ball was onoe given, white
ehirts for the men and white flowers for
the women being the only relief. New
Yorkers adore doing uncommon things—
they ought to try a Nice ball."—New York
Times,
What Shall the Harvest Be?
Why 1 White oan it be, but suffering and
sorrow, diseeee and death, if you negleole
he symptoros of a disordered liver? Take
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
outsells all other remedies. Sold under
tondition that it must either benefit or cure
the patient, or the money paid for it wilt
be promptly returned. It cures all diseeteee
arising from deranged liver, or from impure
blood, asbiliousness; "liver complaint," all
skin and scalp diseases, ealt rheum, tatter.
sorofulons sores and swellings, fever sores,
hip -joint disease and kindred ailments.
Landlordism in Scotland.
In this great, gray valley not one hundred
families are to be found. Aorose the
seventy or eighty miles from see to se&
there are just two estates—that of the
Chisholme of Chisholm, and Kintail of
Ross -shire. These cover the strathe and
glens, reaohing far over upon the mountains
to the north and south; and from 600 to
800 equere miles of land are possessed by
those two families. More than one-half
of this is enclosed as game preserve, and is
controlled through rental as such by one
man. That mettne that down through the
lest goentnry thousands of people, who,
through the inherent rights of clenship,
had precisely the mime original rights to
lands they occupied as had the heads of
clans themselves, have been driven from
their hornet!, that one man, able to pay
£10,000 per year in rentals, £10,000 a year
in the expenses of hunting lodges, game-
keeper and gillies, and as muoh more in
ligitetion could come here once a year
and butcher red deer, and those
reddeer as tame, from the absence
of hamankind, as the mild -eyed cows that
stand in crofters' byres.—Correspondence of
Philadelphia Star.
A Doubtful Point!
Montreal Herald: The Rev. Mr. McKay
writing from the Northwest to the Oban
Times, concerning the Scotch settlers ont
there says of them they all say, " Ohn
ohreid, nanin tir na Gaidhealteachd, gu
breth, gun bheil sinn oho math, air ar
doigb, 'BM the einn." We will not queetion
the accuracy of this peculiar statement.
Many men have thought so, but the theory
has not passed unquestioned. Equity and
law do not always coinoide in their decd.
eions. Whether there was justification for
the gun being there remains to be proved,
but we never saw Bin spelt with a double
n. At any rate the man who first printed
such a etatement as the above should be
prepared to prove it, and he oannot provs
by us.
How to Buy a Cow.
Before you buy & cow find out all you
min about the man who has the 00W to sell.
If he walks up to the cow and pats her,
and the cow takes it as a matter course, it
is a point in the cow's favor. If the cow
needs a little coaxing before ehe will allow
the man to put hie hand on her, it is pretty
strong evidence there has been some "fun"
between cow and msn. It is simply this:
If the cow is well treated she will do better
than if roughly treated, and if you buy a
00W that is not used to kind treatment you
hew got to overcome her distrust before
you oan get her to do her beat.
D. V. 21. 1. 3. 91.
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