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Lieut. Bradley.

soldier boy is gomez" -" r"-1S
"hs foil he comradc? In the van
li'" ,a,th struck swift from man to man.
~ ave, | know he fell
thot red savage hell! ."st$... #"3yf !
nnr soldier boy is gone! ...,.,
,,onr soldier boy Is gomez" t''''' .'-
auos but Yesterday nc, went ..ots,ss p
lGft, Id With your old regiment
.,e, the west Virginia hills, .tIH.-ti"'' "
>tu,t. hearted to the btigle thrills! H..
=. Our brave, good boy is gone! 4..~t 8.f
Yam, soldier boy has gone! g Az 3ttkN
INT Yesterday, | said, ana Vet va
,d.zen harvest moons haye set - =
I, 40 on his shoulders shore TIE bars!
valiant sol;l in valiant WaPs,
our brave, good boy has gone:
,o"rE5X TEI'f&f @jtfDf-.At
youl soldier boy is gone! -
y pallid facet O cold, still heart! ~ s,st
j sweet, yelled eyes whence mo smiles start!
n,trickel, svshri-arm! Hear our prayer
AM, answerif We loved him, where ...
our soldieraboy IL gone! ,tf raa -a.yoI
"' -%tr9,tfa vi,
Your soldier boy is gone!
M what is left but sobs and tears, -
But aching hearts and broken years?
All, God, have pity! in Thine eye IL fl.-.
We arelhtshabes that moan andlcry!
our sol"at'h'y is so'''.
-fg,r"Yv sfr.vysst
Your soldier boy IS gone.
And nothing1ett but sobs and tears?
Ave, memories Of golden years,-G N1
Fame. honor, manhood's royal need
OF generous aim and glorious deed!
Our soldier is not gone!
Yoursoldier Boy is gone! @
Aye, risen toiheigllts. suhlimer far
Than any known to mortal are!
For, 10, ,thatliic Is deemed most blest
That serves its God and country best!
our soldier boy is gone!
ing! 80 4t-kATE NJ. SHERWOOD.
Toledo, August 10. lsT.i ".k-sa
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The ION CIR Gle
RALsTON START.

Mr. Ralston3, inleiS, was clerk on board
A Mississippi steamboat. He was generous
and poor. One day he went into the bank
ing house Of Lake & Martin, in st. I.onis,
and accosting Mr.. Martin familiarity. said:
II say. Martin, can't you let NE have
s5O0:' ~. Z. 5...'. ..5.' E" ..s .n -5.' n. u
."5 II don't see how we can. Billy said MIR.
Martin, sunless you can give some security.
Who can you get to endorse fol. you:
Ralston scratched his head a moment and
admitted that lie couldn't give any security.
Said he: 49, %@&A 80 "a
"Martin, the tact is I'm broke-dead broke
but Eve got a chance to 60 iii with c. K.
Garrison down at Panama, and | must have
{ s5oOtosget tlfe,eMh vi 3l1lE2
After a while Mr.. Martin decided that he.
would lend Ralston $500 on his W. account
and run the risk Of payment, and, giving it
to him, RalSton started down the river to
join Commodore Garrison. This was in As.
Did alston ever pay Martin? asked
III }ttoold.t u8On/0 IEIJT33
"Fn tell you how it was" said Mr.. Goold.
''Ralston forgot all about it, or else he lost
all track of Martin. But fourteen years af-
forwards | met Martin in New York. He,
was broke then hinlself-all9 gone to pieces
hadn't a dollar. Ralston at this time was
At the meridian of his glory, spending money
by the millions. WE'LL one day Martin came
to ME, looking very seeuy, and asked me if
Ntln my travels inC alifornia li1ad met a man
ny the name of Billy Ralston."
Billy Ralston?" said +. ''B-i-l-l-y Rail
s-t-o-n! Why, i know mar by the name
:" William G. RAlston-used 70 be with
n'mlnodoore Garrison in Panama. It was
ffez, Ralston 81 Garrison in San Francisco,
OUT now Ralston is at the head of it,
wen, MIR. Goold, that's The same Billy
l'alston that borrowed $500 of me down in
81. Louis in us. DO you think he could pay
it back now 90 E
Pay it baekP Why, you're johug. Pay
!. back! Ralston pay $500! Why, Martin,
'aisSon can pay back So, O0o, 900. ia
"eil,' said Martin, "when you see Billy
q M fisro, you jest tell him about me-and
nne amt strapped. and if it wont break
~ Up ! Jess wish he'd. pay me that $780,
Inc TACT is" said Mr.. Goold, as he told
"eS'ory, Il thought Martin was joking. ]
Ivy no idea that Ralstonna owed him any.
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thing, but when got back to, California /
thought Id banter Ralston about it. Soone
day when | was in Ralston's room, | said,
jokingly: '''.ia..,s...
'.iou're q; nice. fellow, Ralston. to be
cheating an old friend out of $500, amt
you:'Iy,a..f.[ ..fs - .4.....
~ what do you mean?' said Ralston.
yt''NNhy, when l was in New York the other
day. a man by the name OF Martin
What y exclaimed Ralston. jumping to
his feet, ''Warwick Martin" # ,&.
''Yes. Warwick Martin-' .0e.g.
''Whcre's his address? Here!" he shout
ed to the cashier of the. bank, Telegraph
$4,000 to the credit of Warwick Martin
quick ~ and Ralston danced around like a
crazy man. iA.A '-1= A'tA
''The next day. continued Mr.. Goold,
''WarWick Martin received a telegram from
lees & Waller 81 Pine street, to call and
receive something deposited to his credit"
by jipgo,." said Martin to his wife, ''I,ll
bet Billy 1aasisent me that $500. If he has,
Betty, you can pick out a silk dress at Stew.
arts" and tlien he hurried off to Lees &
Walters. -f..,h -.a,, ,,,.,.z ,......
Il called to see about some money said
Martin, looking through the bank screen at
Mr.. Lees. ".You say | have some to my
credit here :.|. .gsf., gu-f.....e y.,a,a.
''IIow much are you expecting, and who
from? p asked the banker, carefully, as is the
custom with people who receive money By
telegraph 54Adya5 t.ias n4r.I
.I'm cooking for $500 from Billy Ralston,'
said Martin. E''. 'tt
"No $500 to your credit here" said the
banker. ''but there is $40 700 to Warwick
| Martini .,so]J
''ren thousand dollars!'
"les. $10,OOO.' -. .-t -q... .,
"Nell, faint me,'' said Martin. sorrowful
ly. Sits some other Martin, and faint from
Billy, after all. just my luck" and Martin
drew his hand across his brow and sighed
% oft your name is Warwick Martin you cal
take this $10,0O0," said Mr.. Lees. '.
"By Jupitern' said Martin, as he narrated
the Incident to Mr.. Goold, II didn't thinl
twas mine; but I thought of Betty-of tn
dress / promised her, and then l took tn
money and sneaked home like a culprit.
handed it to Betty, but | never smiled 70
two days, | was too afraid the mistake woul
be detected. But when | got Il letter fror
Ralston himself, | tell you there was a hig
old celebratiolpin our house !" Fsr5esE 4
'Did Ralston have a great funeral whe
he died?" l asked MI. Goold. .s3
"Funeral, sir! l should say he did. VIII
I was in that funeral, procession for fou
hours. and never moved out of my tracks.
sIIow was that?o .Ez.2t~t ~ z.k
"Why, the head came to a halt before tn
tailstarted. 1t was the first procession eve
seeal1EiinS San Franciseo where the tail PR
cessed tour hours without moving
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-09-13
AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN.

Just as if editors were not in the habit OF
going to heaven! Well venture to say that
a g greater portion OF them go to that home
of those who have performed their mission
of mercy on earth than any other profession
or calling that poor m~nrtals fill.
An editor in heaven! There's nothing
strange about that at all. It's almost a,
moral, as we'll as professional, im%possibility
for them to GO anywhere else. f..
Once upon a time, after the demise of a
member of the ''corps editorial" he pre-
sented himself at the gates Of the Holy City
requested admission. The doorkeeper asked
him what had been his occupation on terra
f,7ma. He replied that he, was an editor.
"Well,' said the Waterman, 1--WE have a
crowd of yonr kind here now, and, they all
came in as deadheads. If you can pay your
passage you can come in; if mot, you must
place yourself under the control of a per-
sonage you ruledrtyrannically down below
(meaning the deviD.o-t II Il g9tsaE .
Not having the wl,ercWith to lgo-in,1 our
brother Of the quill and scissors posted off
and presented himself at the entrance of
Clootie's dark domains Aivery7dark-com-
plexioned gentleman stood sentry, and
asked, in a gruff voice: 49,.
Who comes?''yF HaTrfW
"An humble disciple of Fust," was the
calm reply. &&8aHtM NT342I gu
"Then hold on! you can't be ADMITTEDLY
exclaimed the gentleman iii black, evincing
considerable agitation, and fiercely scowl-
ing on him.
"Why not?' demanded the typo, who be-
gan to get hufiisl4, and looked around for a
sleeps foot with which to force an entrance.
swell. sir" replied his sable majesty,
" we let one Of your professioninhere many
years ago, and he kept up a continual row
with his former delinquent subscribers, and
as we have more of that class OF persons
here than any other, we, have passed Il law
prohibiting the admission OF any other, on
ly those who have advanced our interest in
their papers OF earth, and even, those we
keep in q separate room by themselves.
You have published many things thai op-
crate against us, and always blamed the
devil for everything that went wrong sc
you can't pm ill.,. We enforce this rule
without respect to persons for our own
peace and safety. You can just ~travel.''
r. Casting q droll gleer at the gontsidea senti
mel, our Typographical friend started of
again, determined to get in up above. Thi
time he took with him an old file of his pa
per, and, presenting 1T to the guardian o
the Celestial City, requested that it nigh
be carefully examined and they should Sc,
II whether he was entitled to a free ticket.
Les .Jt~55 /!
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GOLDEN leaves.
And Ye, on divers shores now cast,
Shall meet, our perilous voyages past,
All in OUR Eathnr i hnIsG ut last -

,. All in our Father, 5 house at last.
The trouble With our PRAYING is, not so
much that we do not pray enough or hay.
not faith enough, lis that we all want to be
on Gods Ways and Means Committee.
False honor assists, and lying ISLANDERS
alarm none save the reprobate and liar. The
man Of strict integrity equally detspises
praise and disregarts aspersions, if they are
founded in falsehood. '1" I"4ts@tah
1t was q good saving, Of one, "wilt rl,ou
be great? Begin from below AS the
roots Of the tree descend, 50 the branches
ascend. Tl,e lover any man is in This 2seet,,xe
the higher shall that man nian be raised. iinrhe
lowest valleys have tile blessing Of fruitful
ness, While the high mountains are barrel.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30

Gen. SingIcsO;, SIZE. i:.c Company for
sJC,O0O COR legal ScrSiees-T;,e APP
piicasion for 3: Receiver.
louincy Herald

On Wednesday Gen. Singleton commenced
suit, in the United States circuit court, at
Springfield, against the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad Company to recover 500
600 for legal services. He also made appli-
cation for an attachment against the prop
erty OF the company, and has filed his bond
with Hon. o. III. Browning, Hon. j. NJ.
Smith, Hon. Josiah Bradford, of Quincy;
Robert Mccoy, Of Ellington, and Jacob
Bum, ofSpringfeld, as his sureties.
The general has notified the company of
the suit, and submitted proposition not to
lew the attachment in case the company
will give him good security that whatever
iudgmen. he may recover Will be paid. He
also offers 10 go to trial at the first term OF
the court on the merits of his claim and the
value Of the service rendered by him. He
will wait until the 2Sth inst. for an answer
from the company.
Gen. Singletons attention having been turn
ell TO a statement of the president of the Ham
nibal and St Joe road regarding the appli-
cation Tor a receiver, published in the New
York Tribune of the Dist inst he sent the
following dispatch to the Tribune in reply ::
QUINCY, August 24.-The statement of J.
Richardson, president OF the Hannibal &
St Joseph railroad, made to Your reporter
and published in The Tribune of the DIST
inst. so far as the same relates to Hon. A.
W. Lamb, late president, and Hon. X. 5.
Stevens, the present superintendent of said
road, is gross fabrication and malicious
calumny.
Nv claim against the company is based
on a contract SUI ceptible of the clearest
proof, which has been and will be faithfully
performed on nv part, yielding rich re-
turn to the company, and does not require
the advice or assistance of Mr. Lamb or
Gen. Stephens to enforce it. A further
communication by mail will explain the
ISLANDERS and fraudulent devices Of Richard
son to mislead the public and secure the
confidence of the stockholders.
j. W. SINGLETON.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
SIIGHT MISTAKE.

After the fight John Brown was last seen
slowly ascending the north bank Of the Mari
as DIES Cygnes, with his sword thrown over
his shoulder and a revolver in his hand. All
supposed he was slain, until he made his ap.
pearance in Lawrence a week afterward, and
was rapturously hailed as the hero of oSawat-
omie.
The above is from H. NJ Greene's history
of the battle of Osawatomie in the Journal
OF Kansas City. So far as We are aware the
history may he correct except perhaps in
the above quotation That evening after
the battle, old John Brown passed the cabin
OF Captain J. NJ. Anthony, about two miles
north of Osawatomie, at shutdown on
his way to aid the peo-
pie of Lawrence He was hailed by Cap
tain Anthony and urged to stop and take
supper, which he declined. He was urged
to take a cup of coffee; this he also declined.
He had slept with Captain Anthony the
night previous, and the Captain had been
in the battle under him. The Border Ruff
fans had left the scene of the battle long
before this hour, and il is not he presumed
that the old hero was there evading their
pursuit
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30

At a recent meeting of the Catholic Colo,
nization Society, OF st. Louis, day or tw1
ago, the report OF the committee sent ont
West by the Society was read and adopted
by vote OF ninety-two TO twenty-nine
The committee was sent out for the pur.
pose of selecting land for the occupation ot
large immigration party which will short,
IL leave St Louis, and which will bring 3
considerable amount OF money with them
sufficient to render themselves comfortabl,
in their new homes
The committee Travelled all through Tex
as and were very favorably impressed, but
owing TO the lack OF railroad facilities in
that State, and some other minor disadvan-
tages, the committee decided in favor OF
Kansas. The portion OF the State in which
they will settle has not yet finally been de-
termined upon, but it Will be either upon
the lire Of the Santa Fe or the Kansas
Pacific roads. The advantages offered by
Kansas are so many that immigrants COM
ing either from the East or Europe rarely
ever fail to take advantage of them.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
ay:ENEFIT TO AMERICA,

Louis J. Jennings, ESD, formerly editor
OF the New York 1imes, and now the London
Of the New World World, in
a letter sent from the British metropolis TO
that journal, dated August IL, referring TO
the commercial and industrial effects Of the
war between Russia and Turkey, says:
The longer the war lasts the more certainly
must the United States become the great en-
porium of the world. OF course, the adj
vantage is merely temporary, and il would
not do TO depend too much upon it. Still a
temporary advantage is not to De despised in
hard times. Grain, iron, even coal, will yet
be required in vast quantities. Where is il TO
come from in Europe? Iron We could supply,
but as for grain and coal, we have not enough
to Ego round" at home. Everybody sees all
that, and If il had not been for the recent
strikes and riots American railroad stocks
and bonds would have had great rise in the
markets here
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
leon. r. n. uURDOCK.

The last number Of the Walnut Valley
Times comes to us the past week well filled
with the choicest of reading matter. Our
readers Will find in our columns several in
tercsting articles from that paper. Hon
T. b. Murdoch, its talented editor, is a gen,
Jus. The typographical appearance OF hi'
paper is unequalled in the State.
The writing Of the foregoing reminds III
that we have always had the kindliest feel
ings towards him, except, perhaps, upor
one occasion, when he, in an unguardet
moment, said he would "neyer forget moi
forgive" Since that time, however, We ar
glad TO announce that Senator Murdoch ha
repented-become satisfied that such aspiri
did not become a Christian gentleman, ant
that he will hereafter love his enemies an,
bless those that curse him.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
The Turkish Language.

A correspondent of the London lime,
gives an interesting lesson in Turkish for
the benefit of readers of Oriental war tele-
grams. His vocabulary is as follows:
Adam, man, agha, subaltern officer
aman, mercy, alas, we'll; ARABIA, country
cart, wagon; ayee, good, well PEEK ayee,
very good, very well baba, father bagcha,
garden; bash, head chief, dress, appear
ance bozuk, Irregular, disorderly. uneven,
bad bashi-bazouks. irregular fighting men,
not in uniform; buyur, yours to command /;
buyurin, welcome /; buyuruldu, written Or
der of permission: chabuk, quick; dagh,
mountain; deb, mad; dur, stop; eski,
old; evett, yes; ghiaour (pron. gharour),
infidel, Christian or Jewish dog, miscre-
ant; kaleh, fort, fortress-cither small, as
Soukheum Kaleh, or large, as Chanak Ka-
len kara, black, shore land killissi, Christ
ian church koi, village; kupru, bridge !;
su, water; tabia, redoubt, battery ya-vash,
slowly; yeni, new; yok, no; vol, road.
Turkish differs great deal in construction
from English. Thus, to say Il am going
from the Dardanelles to Constantinople," a
Turk would express himself, "Chanak Kali
ebsindaff Stamboulda ghitiorim;' literally,
'The Dardanelles from Constantinople to l
60" And for "Not good" he would say,
"Ayee DAHL" putting the negation last.
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OPEN LETTERS.

EDITOR ZINES:
Is it always advisable TO write open let
tiers? Post Office officials advise the public
to seal tight all letters. An open
manly, fearless fight of whatever nature, i.
considered right, for when it attacks or as.
sails directly or Indirectly, the personal in.
terests OF private individuals, when nothing
is TO he gained only in their own estimation
certainly does not require half column Of
a newspaper to inform the public that this
man, or that man, is the only proper per
son available for certain position | dc
not wish TO even insinuate that this is the
aim or object of these open let.os, but to a
man whose observation is not blinded
by prejudice, it would seem 4
reasonable conclusion. Drop it gentlemen
you have both had your say; our eonven-
ton will decide upon a suitable man with
out a fight of this character Nip and tuck,
and tuck always ahead. This fight re-
minds me Of an anecdote OF one of our auc-
tioneers: 81 cannot lie about the horse gen.
tlemen, he is blind in one eye" The horse
was finally knocked down TO one of our old
citizens, who was struck with the honesty
of the auctioneer. After paying for the
horse, he said to the auctioneer: "You
were honest in telling me that the horse vas
blind in one eve, is there any other defectg'
Yes sir, he is blind in the other" was the
prompt reply, A Democrat
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The Rarbarsu. K.rd..

The Kurds have been heard of unpleas.
antly during the Armenian campaign. They
enact the part in Asia which the barbarou:
Bashi-B azouks play in Bulgaria. A troop
of Kurd horsemen, with their barbarous
horse trappings, hair-tufted lances, and wild
gestures. might easily be mistaken for de
tschment of Con,anche or Sioux Indians
The savage nose and crocodile eve, the
bloated face scanned with lines of brutal
sensuality, bespeak the unmitigated savage,
without single grace Of those barbarous
virtues which often more than half redeem
the child Of nature in his widest extrava-
gances. There is 4 chivalry which naturally
belongs to the most savage races; il Is
totally absent in the hordes which dwell
beyond the Araxes, and the unhappy Arme-
nian Christians OF the Province Of Van, can
testify by their hacked limbs and
powder-blown checks that to be q fellow
subject of the Sultan is no protection
from such neighbors when atrocities can be
practiced with impunity. The Ottoman
government has armed and commissioned
tribes Whose ordinary avocation is plumber.
The summer months permit = scanty exis-
tence among the mountains while the pas
turaee Is green. The remainder of the wear
blackmaii exacted from the villagers of the
plains and from the Persian caravans. af-
fords subsistence to these robbers by nature,
Tie cause Of "Islam in danger" may ex.
cuse m.ny extreme neasures In The ewes
tAat turn towards Mecca, but At juneture
lie thi, while Turkey seeks to redeem >
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one of the desired positions Mr.. Thil;iIs
snufIed nepoiism in this offer, and declined it
with Indignation. The moral OF al this
seems TO be that If you step on the toes Of a
Congressman, there win BE- music i'm the air.
". J.. Tribune.
SECRETEY SchurZ is said To have exaspera-
ted Representative Phillips, Of Kansas, by
declining 10 appoint his proteges to land
Offices, saying that hereafter he intended TO
fill such vacancies with experienced clerks
from the Interior Department. Then it is
said that Representative Phillips got mad
and Secretary Schurz tried TO conciliate him
bytofering 10 appoint one Of Phillips, rela-
tives, who is clerk in the department, thus
killing two birds with one stone. This offer
| it said. the Representative deciined.-N. J.
i IL IL