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The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
Two Good Illustrations.

The Catholic Review publishes some
" Five Minute Sermons" by the Paulist
Fathers. Last week it had one On Let
every man be swift to hear, but slow to
speak" The preacher made use OF these
illustrations:
A story is told of crazy man who, in
some very lucid interval, asked friend
if he could tell the difference between
himself and the people who were consid-
cred to be of sound mind. His friend,
curious to see what he would say, said,
" No, what is it?" " Well" said the
crazy man, cit is that [ say all that
comes into my head, while you other
people keep most of it to yourselves.
My friends, am afraid that the crazy
man was about right, but he was too
complimentary in his judgment of others.
By this rule there would be great many
people in the asylums whe are now at
large. Really, it seems as if it never
occurred to some persons, who are sup
posed to be in their right minds, whether
their thoughts had better be given to the
world or not. Out they must come, no
matter whether wise or foolish, good or
bad.
Yes, the madman, for once in his life,
was pretty nearly right. One who talks
without consideration, who says every
thing that comes into his or her head, is
about as much lunatic as those who are
commonly called 30. For such will have
one day to give an account for all their
foolish and inconsiderate words, long
after they themselves have forgotten
them. And to carelessly run up this
account is very crazy thing.
A little instrument has lately been
, invented, as you no doubt have heard
which will take down everything you
say. 1t is called the phonograPh. II
makes little marks in sheet of tinfoil
and by means of these it will repeat fol
you all you have said, though it may
have quite passed out of your own mind
There are great many uses to which
this little instrument may be put +; but
think that one of the best would be to
make people more careful of what thes
say. They would think before they
spoke, if phonogrsph was around. Few
people would like to have record KEEP
of their talk, ready to be turned off a
moments notice. 1t would sounC
rather silly, if no worse, when it was 1
day or two old.
Perhaps the phonograph will never b
used in this way, but there is a record o
all your words on something NOR
durable than a sheet of tinfeil. Thi
record is in the book from which yol
will be judged at the last day. Our Lor'
has told us at that day we shall have no
only to hear, but to give an account fe
all the idle words spoken in our lives
Baptist Weekly.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
Wild Horses in Kansas.

1t is well known fact that from time
immemorial herds of wild horses have
roamed over the plains of southwestern
Kansas. Their origin no man knoweth.
1t may be dated back 10 the early Span
ish conquest of the country. 1t has
been exceedingly difficult to capture
them, the method pursued having been
to run down and lasso them with feet
horses. Latterly, however, it is found
that they can be captured in herds. The
method is to get up an outfit of fast
walking team on iFsgon carrying pro-
visions and camp SUPPLIES, and three or
four riding ponies, and as many men.
When a herd is fognd they are kept
moving, no effort ping made to drive
them in any direction. The teams and
ponies are not driven faster than walk
and every opportunity is embraced OF
cutting across to ave distance. The
wild horses are kepsin motion till dark,
being given no oJportunity to Craze
during the days u night they are too
tired to Craze - " lie down. The
pursuers camp, Their horses from
grain which they Srry with them and
are up by daylightihave breakfast and
start again. This ! kept up every day.
Every day takes soae of the scare and
wild out of them; they become accus-
toned to the sightH the men on horse-
back and the teark find they are no;
going to be hurt byAhem, and, tired and
leg weary with con4ant travel and little
feed, and in from light to ten days vii
allow the men to nj in among them an6
drive them in anyHirection. They are
then headed for thi ranch and are quite
tame and docile h the time they gel
in. They are of tt pony order, such a
used In the cattlSbusiness, make gooC
riding ponies, ar when thorough,
broken, good team for light driving il
that country. Thy sell, when broker
to ride, at SIS to s25 per head, and whel
broken to drive at from $50 to s75 peI
span.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
Aqueducts, Ancient and Modern.
IT. J. Bowditch in the Troy Times, !

IT. ]. Bowditch in the Troy Times,l
Aqueducts for the conveyance of water
from one place to another were early
constructed by the sncients, and were
costly and stupendous sffairs-the result
of vast labor and money. They were
not unknown to the Greeks, having been
mentioned by many of their writers.
The pools of Sloan, near Bethlehem,
were three large reservoirs, connected
with each other, from which water was
supplied to Jerusalem, six miles distant.
One of these reservoirs was 600 feet long
and 280 broad. At the present day
Jerusalem is supplied with water from
them through ten-inch earthen pipe.
The Romans appeared to have fancy
for constructing aqueducts, and such
were on the most gigantic scale. They
erected nine over the desolate plain OF
the Campagna of Rome, between S12 B.
G. and 81 A. d. Some of these were
almost wholly subterranean, and their
length varied from eleven to sixty-two
miles. All of these supplied Rome with
water, which in many instances was con-
veyed on arches one hundred feet high,
The quantity thus conveyed TO the popu-
lation was so, ,O00, 900 cubic feet of water,
or three hundred and twelve gallons a day
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
Drinking Brandy in England

DEInklHS DEdnttN III GHS AdhN'
1 took the train to Birmingham at
about o'clock in the afternoon. My
carriage companion was q beautiful
woman, and her beauty impressed me
the more because of its delicate char
acter, and because she was the first really
pretty woman of her class that had yet
seen in England. She was just tall
enough to be noticeably so, and the noble
elegance of her figure could not be con-
cealed by her travelling dress. This was
long garment OF soft texture and light
color, buttoned from the throat to the
lower hem with buttons of the same tint
as that of the dress. Her hat, or her
bonnet, was also of the same material,
and was without ornament of any kind.
In her dainty ears were small, dull gold
earrings, set with turquoises, which were
matched by the brooch which confined
the lace frill around her lovely throat.
Her eyes were blue; her brow fair; her
mouth had the childlike sweetness which
Murillo gave to the lips of his virgins;
in expression her face was cherubic.
She apparently had no other luggage
than small leather bag which she put
into the rack above our heads. We sat
in silence, for there WAS no occasion of
my speaking to her, and she looked
mostly out Of the window.
After we had passed one or two more
stations she took down the little hand
bag, opened it, took out bottle snd a
small silver cup, and turning herself
somewhat more to the window, poured
something into a cup and drank it off
at draught. L did not see what she
drank, but in an instant ] knew. The
perfume filed the whole carriage. 1t
was brandy; and the overpowing Odor
with which was surrounded told me of
the strength of her draught as well as if
1 had mixed her grog myself, or had
Joined her in social cup. AT this was
not so much astonished as 1 should have
been two or three DAYS before, for at the
Birmingham festival had seen, during
the internal between the two parts of
morning performance, potations of the
same kind by ladies of whose respecta-
bility there could be no question: At
lantic Monthly.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
TO MATE IN THREE MOVES.

Crimron the heart Of the sea-eosl FIRE,
Bessie and l. In the ruddy glow,
Her mother reads, ard the old grand sire
Dreams Of his youth, in the long ago."
Quiet and warmth and love IN the room'
Now or never my suit to press;
Where ths h,aclnths shed their sweet perfume,
We plav two games-one love, one chess.
Queen of the red, and queen of my heart
When will you wear nv golden ring2
FLUSHING her cheeks the roses start,
SIyly she murmurs, Check TO your king.
NV pawps advance, press on and die;
The bishops battle in lines sb ique
Nv brave Knights fall; but / can't tell why
My heart grows strong as my game grows weak.
Darling answer me, lift your eyes;
our mother sleeps and the time approves.
Speak > a Get mouth, with a glad sur prise:
You'll be mated, sir, in three more moves"
Then let this be one-and her dimpled hand
Looks slltbe fsirer for plain gold ring
In vain raj Y my scattered Dand.
As again she checks my poor lost king
Nearer her gold-brown curls to mine,
The ebess-Inen seem in a dark eclipse.
Check shall die and make no sign
And steal kiss from her ripe red lips
Mattel and her joyous eyes proclaim
W no wins BY love and VIII o in chess;
An0 the prids of my life is the golden game,
Thai was4Ost, when l won my darling Bess
~ scrihrSr's MontSly,
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09

anguish of her disappointment broke
forth in single word" Lloyd !"
To his dying day he never forgot that
cry. A slight culver @snt the mouth,
a swirt quailing of the sss were all the
signs he gave that he rd her. She
knew that all was owe zetween them.
One thought took posse bn of her; to
act SO that the companSgould suspect
nothing. So she decINd herself re-
stored upon their arrivy at the hotel,
and insisted upon going &ith the party
into the cave. n.
At one o'clock thek3started, with
lighted candles and lades. Weston
kept near Nellie; WhEow was here,
there, everywhere. HeAad become in
terested at last in some Sgnifcent stall
aetites and his party 81 far ahead of
him. He discovered rs and hurried
after them. He could 4 their lights
in the distance. When n&rly up to them
his candle went out. went saunter-
ing along until he sFalEithin hearing
of the two nearest recognized
his wife and Wessss1 IL
You cannot RS Gay
ing, that you have efs'Nraged me to
think that you cared9rr me, Nellie,
and, by heaveni you all not say me
nay W
"I confess to having done wrong. L
was 30 afraid l did not possess my hus-
bands whole heart, that determined to
test his love for me by frJng to make
him jealous"
80 you made a cats paw of me
Very kind of you. May 1 ask what
prompted you to select fne?'
because you were respectable enough
in the eyes of the world % make it look
right, and you were unpriicipled enough
to make it practicable, and heartless
enough to have no feeling in the matter. "
"Then you love your husband ?"
"Love him7 idoliza himl / would
give my life to occupy the place in his
heart did a month ago l love him so
we'll that | cannot imagine how heaven
can be heaven to me without him !"
THAT is enough, Mrs Whitlow. 1
believe that you will enjoy yourself
more in his company than in mine; so
1 will step ahead and send him back to
you."
Weston went on, when out of the
darkness q pair of arms encircled her.
Nellie looked up, terrorstricken, and
saw the face of her husband, wearing so
different look, that she knew he had
heard all.
Nellie, darling, you are my own pure
wife after all, but you we're very, very
indiscreet."
"I was trying to make you jealous"
"And you succeeded with a vengeance.
never thought my love needed that
trial"
But you acted so differently from
what you did before we we're married"
&" 1 was your lover then, Nellie"
{" Yes, Lloyd" she said, as she clung
closer to him; "and you are infinitely
more TO me now-you are my husband. "
"I believe Fundcrzssad. You" he said
with smile. 60 What you ask is easily
given; suppose 1 commerce now" and
Lloyd Whitlow cls'ped his little wife tc
his breast and nearly covered ner with
kisses.
THANK God, Lloyd, that we once
more understand each other! will re-
pay you the pain have cost you by {
lifetime of devotion.
Which must encourage by a little
petting now and then, eh ?''
Yes, Lloyd, please"
That excursion party thought in th'
morning that Mr.. and Mrs. Whitlov
were the most matter-of-fact bride anC
groom they ever saw but concluded il
the evening that they were the most de
voted.
Nellie's advice to newly married wive
is "don't test your husbands love"
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
SUNDAY READING.
Would to God. p

Would that my master could but see
The Prophet of the LsTd; for he
Would heal him of his leprosy !"
So spake the little captive maid
Unto her mistress, half afraid
And so to-day speak We.
"W Would that my shild,' so prays her sire,
NV ehfId-the child Ct my desire
But felt Gods love, or feared His ire
Life. with its sins fast from her throbs,
And the end thereof "-the old man sobs-
1.-The end thereof is fire
"W Guild" saith wife, my husband could
Amid life's hunger have the food
Amid Hie's fever, the calm mood
Which come to them that love His name
Who bore dishonOr for their fame,
And evil for their good =
GO, would to God my brother knew"
His sister saith, s. what fair flowers grew
In Gods dear garden, and be too
Would come and gather them all day,
And we would wander In the way
Where walk the happy few"
One to another thus they speak,
Or muTmur out of hearts that breek-
Nay, lift your heads the thiog ye seek
Is higher to you than you dream;
Look up 10, the q is JordAns stream,
And there the Prophet meek
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09

Youth" Got-suoh a thing as light
about yer, guv'nor g' Crusty old boy
" A light What, dye want to go to
bed 9'
South Londonderry's (Vermont)
candidate for being the meanest man in
the country, sneaked into the village
cemetery tomb recently to cut off his
dead wife's hair fer the purp 1se of cell
ing it.
"A leopard and a fox had contest as
to which was the finer creature Of the
two. The leopard put forward it's nuns
berless spots; but the fox replied: at
is better TO have a versatile mind than a
yariegated body"
:. The philosopher of the New York
Times has calculated that the flies in the
boarding houses Of the city of New York
alone would, if gathered together. form
pyramid with base of one thousand
feet square and a height of six hundred
and fifty feet.
"A young man walked through
Broadway, New York, not long ago, with
placard around his neck bearing this
inscfiptiohs' 's1.=m rsiadnced ucbleman; I;
my father is dead, and my mother bag
one foot in the grave. Will some one
give me a situation"
..'Its all very well TO talk about how
the thermometer stands in the shade, !"
remarked gentleman with boiled-lob-
ster-colored face who dropped in the
other morning. "What want 10 know
is how it stands in the sun. That's the
way have to take IT,"
There are many women In the better
walks of life who have imbibed the love
of strong drink, and it is charged that
the drunkenness among them, to a con-
siderable extent, is due TO the practice
of physicians in recommending the use
of liquors as stimulants.
Some people are always putting
their duties off. They are "just going
to F" all their days. but the last day comes
and nothing is done. Lavater says
He who prorogues the honesty of to-
day till tomorrow will probably pro-
rogue his TO morrows 10 eternity"
The richest bachelor in the country
is said to be Peter Goelet of New York
his property being estimated at Sl5,0o0,-
600. He is now seventy-eight years Of
age. and is perhaps still a possible
catch" for some aspiring young hus-
band-seeker.
80" When" asks the Warrensburg
(Mo.) Press, "when is the time TO
travel ?'' When you hear her fathers
foot on the third step, young man, is
about as good time as any to start, and
you can prolong the tour to suit your
own convenience and the length of the
old mans cane. From the innocence
with which you ask the question, we
suppose yeu didn't travel until he was
clear into the psrlor. Served you right
II Hawkeye.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
How Wasps Get their Building
Material.

Reaumur states that for twenty years
he endeavored, without success, to dis
cover the materials employed by wasps
in forming the blue-gray papery sub
stance so much used in the structure of
their nests. One day, however, he saw
a female wasp alight on a sash of a win
dow, and it struck him while watching
her gnawing away the wood with her
mandibles that it was from such materi-
ais she formed the substance which 80
long puzzled him. He saw her detach
from the wood bundle of fbres about
the tenth of an inch in length and finer
than a hair, as she did not swallow
them, but gathered them into mass
with her feet, he had no doubt but that
his opinion was correct. In short time
ne saw her shift to another part of the
window, and carry with her the 6bres
which she had collected, and to which
she continued to add. He then caught
her, and began to examine her bundle,
and found it was neither yet moistened 4
nor rolled into ball, as it is always done
before being used by the wasp in her
building. He also noticed that before
detaching the fibres she bruised them
into a kind of lint with her mandibles.
All this he initiated with his pen-kniie,
bruising and pairing the same wood till
it resembled the fbres collected by the
wasp; and so he discovered how wasps
manufactured their paper; for these
ibres are kneaded together in kind oi
paste, and when the wasp has formed q
ball of them she spreads it out into 8
leaf nearly as thin as tissue paper, and
this she accomplishes by moving back.
ward, and levelling it with her mandi.
bles, her tongue and her teeth. And sc
the wasp forms paper, placing layer upon
layer, fifteen or sixteen sheets deep, and
thus preventing the earth from falling
down into her nest.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
miscellaneous.

Twenty-three clerks were dismissed
from the patent-ofice Saturday.
Mexican silver dollars and United
States trade dollars are purchased as bull
lion at the Philsdelphia mint and assay
Office at New York.
The Indian agent at UmatiIla agency
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09

Perhaps the oldest and best known,
as we'll as the best lighthouse keeper on
the Atlantic coast, is woman, Kathleen
Andre Moore, of Black Rock lighthouse,
near Bridgeport, Conn. She is sixty
FIVE, and lives alone in her little house
with two dogs and pet lamb.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
Q sonnd.,, aid the gehooImaster, ''is

-" Sound" said the schoolmaster, ls
what you hear. For instance, you can.
not feel sound" "Oh, yes, you can, =
said q smart boy. John Wilson," re-
torted the pedagogue, how do you
make that out7 What sound can you
feel ?" ga sound thrashing," quickly
replied the smart boy.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
A girl in a bread and butter neriod .

"A girl in bread and butter period of
sixteen or thereabouts, very gauzily at
tired, boarded Lincoln avenue car and
pIumbed herself upon a seat to which
the sun had for time been devoting ind
vidual attention. In few seconds she
sprung up, searched in vain for fire,
blushed. sat down, and gazed nervously
at vacancy. The sympathetic conductor
hurried to her side and asked her if she
was sunstruck. "Mind your business y
she ierked out pettishly, and the boy in
blue went aft to meditate-[ Chicago
Times.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
WAITS AND wHIms.


How stiIl the morning Of tho haliowed davf
Mute is the voice of rural labor. husled
The ploughb0y's whistle aud the Fnilkm aids nons
hushcd.
Ike gcythe lies Elsttcripg IN the da~y wreath
or tedded grass, With faded dowers
That yestermorn blo0m'd wfTing In Tho Jsoeze,
And when the old man COMES along
And finds IL there, he will startle the qmce
OF the hall0wed day with shouts and Iosrs
And takingo on Of one kind and another
That will make a hired man sink into his boots
Sounds the most fai7 attrnCt the ear-the hum
of early bee looking for some one TO sting
The trickling OF the (mountains -esw, glug, Rlug.
Glug gluggerty, glugzerty, gug, glugl
The distant bleating, mid way up the hill,
OF the heartbroken goat when h he hret discoTer1
Ion City Derrick.
The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09

Cyprus, just transferred. to England,
is about as large as Connecticut. This
is conceded in return for England's great
kindness in bossing all Asiatic Turkey.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24
The Market.

The weather continues cold with the
mercury Juggling low down in the tw,ntics.
The people OF this community are being
favored for the first time in years, with sew
cral days good sleighing. The snow fell
yesterday and day before 10 the depth o.
several inches, on the frozen ground, and
has packed down to capital slcighing. Thg
river is closed to St Louis, and as the water
is backed up in the Mississippi from the
rise in the Ohio, few days of this weather
will freeze it over here, leaving the Ohio
open and clear water from here to Memphis
and New Orleans
Leading branches Of the general market
are looking up. Especially is this noted IN
-four, oats, corn and hay.
FLOUR-There isa good demand for all
grades, and an increased activity in the
higher grades, and decided improvement
N low grades, with small advance in
prices all around
HAY-A steady and firm market, with
continued demand for choice at higher
figures, and a neglect of common hay At any
price.
CORNING not a sale on private terms
of 10000 bushels for export, a better feeling
peryadcs the market aud prices with the
demand are looking up.
OATS--Choice oats are selling at higher
prices, and the demand is Increasing.
MEAL--Unchanged, but dealers are cX.
pccting a change for the better soon.
BRAN-The market is firm and active at
higher prices Of.rngsfall short Of the de-
mand.
BUTTER Choice is in fair demand at
lGmlsc, The market is oyorstockcd with
q common article for which there is no sale
EGGS Receipts are large, and pricesarn
weakening. Sales to-day were made ii Is
cents.
POULTRY-DuIl and plenty. The de-
mand is mostly for dressed chickens and
turkeys.
APPLES Plenty offering, and sales are
made at a little better figures.
POTATOES Not much doing.
ONIONS Unchanged.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24

CHRISTMAS ORANGES, ETC,-,Iust received,
80 cases choice Louisiana Oranges, choice
Malaga ROiSins choice Michigan cider,
Ohio cider, cream cheese, pigs feet, per
kcg and per half barrel, G nuts per 100 and
hogslead, Malaga and Mcssina lemons for
thc holiday, Also to arrive December 20,
80 bbs choice coast selected oranges, by
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24
The Cairo Prices Current.
Office Washington Avenue,
(CornerTwelfth street,

The C4lRo pRicEs CuEESr Is published every
Tuesday and Friday from the Office Of Tue CSEo
BglLErN, and IL intended to give true report Of
the condition Of the market ON day Of publication.
and the publisher trusts that fall and complete
quotations viii be given By the business men OF the
city,
TERAS.-0ne cent per copy. On all orders Of
% or more, Of same date the subscriber name
will be printed without extra charge, Orders for
extra copies must be received by 10 o'clock NJ,
on day Of publication.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24

WICKED FOR CLERGYMEs.-"I believe it
to be all wrong and even wicked for cler-
gymen or other public men to be led into
giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile
stufIs called medicines, but when a really
mcritorious article is made up of common
valuable remedies known to all, and that
all physicians use and trust in daily, we
should freely commend it, | therefore
checrfuly and heartily commend Hop Bit
tiers for the good they have done me and my
friends, firmly believing they have no equal
for family use. will not be without
them Rev -, Washington, d. c.
CHEW Jacksnn's best Sweet Navy To-
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