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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
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A month or two ago Mr.. Alexander
Blister was out in Arkansac travelling as a
salesman for Philadelphia house. One
morning as he emerged from the door of
his hotel he heard report of pistol and
a shot whizzed by his ear. He looked
around and saw man aiming at him
with revolver. He turned to fly Just as
another shot cut through his hat, but as
he did so second man hit him upon the
shoulder with his fist and nearly knocked
MIN down. A moment later Mr.. Blister
clenced with his new antagonist, and a
rough-and-tumble fight began. The
stranger removed handful or two of
Mr.. Bister's hair; then he kicked his left
leg three times with violence: and then
put his elbow against Bister's third rib
and scourged it with intense force
Blister resisted, but as the man who
shot at him would hit him on the head
with the out of his revolver whenever
Blister happened to get on top, he had
not reg lily frst-class chance. Pretty
soon the combatants rolled in the gutter,
with Blister underneath, lying in the
mud. While he reclined there his an
tagonist took hold Of Bister's nose with
his teeth and chewed it as if noses were
his favorite diet and he were seriously
hungery. When he let go the other
man tapped Bister's skull few more
times with his pistol, and then the two
picked up their victim and soused him
in the canal, from which they fshed
him, a few minutes later by inserting
a boat hook in the back of his coat AS
they dragged him out, nearly dead, the
man with the pistol picked up Bister's
hat, and after studying intently for a
minute the name pasted upon the inside
of the crown, said:
"Why, see here, Harry, there's some
mistake /! I'm afraid we've got the wrong
man. say-you, sir-is your name
Alex Bister!'
Mr.. Blister gasped out that it was.
swell, its too bad" said the man
Now, do you know l mistook you for
Judge McGrath, of Little Rock, who
cheated us in a land claim"
"Do look like him. asked Blister
in faint voice.
6 You're as much alike as twins. It's
a laundering shame. hope you'll accept
my apology for treating you so impo
litely.''
ct occurred to me that it was rather
impolite," whispered Blister, shut dom
mention it. How's your nealth and YOU
family's?"
'sAnd what makes it worse is tha
you're stranger said the man, no
needing the last inquiry. I'm afraid
you'll gather from what has occurred
that we are wanting in affability GU
here.'
"The thought perhaps might have en-
tered my mind after had had time fo
reflection said Blister, " because in til,
East, where I live, it is a very rare cir
cumstance that person indicates hi
affability by biting off the human nose
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
Uncle Pete Objects to the Postum HINT.

Told by Martin Heiskiil.
C"Now look-a-here, Mahsr Tom, and you
all, you all wouldn't a-ketched me out on
this yere hunt eff Id a-knowed ye was
a-gwine to hunt 'possums. 'Taint no luck
to hunt 'possums: eberybOdy knows dat.
De debble gifts after man as will go
a-chasin' 'possums wild dogs when he kin
cotch 'em heap more comfortab. er in
trap. 'Taint so much difference bout
'coons, but de debbll he takes care o. pos
sums An l spect de debbil know'd bout
dis yere hunt, fur de oder ebenin' was
a-goin' down to de rock-sbring, wild a
gourd to git drink, and dar on de rock,
wild his legs a-danglin' down to de water,
sat de debble hisself chawin' green ter
backer!' Green terbacker?' says |. why,
Uncle Pete, amt the debble got no better
sense than that?' Now, look here, Mahsr
Martini says he, de 'debbil knows VIII
he's about, an eff green terbacker was go
fur anybody to chaw he wouldn't chaw
an he says to me, "Uncle Pete, been
huntin' any 'possums2" And says I, IN :
Mahsr, [ nebber do dat An den h
looked at me awful, fur I seed he didn't
furgit nothin,' an he was sottin dar,
a-shinen as eff he was all polished all over
wild shoe.b lackin, an he says Nov,
look here, Uncle Pete, don't you ebber
do it; an waits dat about dis yere Baptis'
church at de Cross. roads, dat was sot
afre?' An I tole him Cat din't know
muffin bout dat-not one single word in
dis whole world. Den he wink, an he
says, "Dem brudders in dat church hunt
100 many 'possums. Dcy is allus a.huDt-
in 'possums, and OATS de way dey lose
der church. sot dat atire mesef. D'y'
hear dat, Uncle Pete?" An was glad
enough to hear it too, for der was bruders
in dat church dat said Yeller Joe an me
sot it afrc, COS we wasn't 'lected trustees,
but dey can't say dat now, fur it's all plain
as daylight, an Ell dey don't blcab it, 1 kin
show EN- dc berry gourd TUX down to
de rock-spring when I seed de debbil.
An it don't do to hunt no more possums,
fur lie debbil d jjst as Leah scratch de
end Oh his tail agin black mans church"
From "That Same Old 'Coon," by f. Il.
,Storhton; Scrsbner for June.
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But am forgiving man; so we'll let
it drop Beautiful weather we're hay.
ing now"
I'm mortified about that noise" said
the man; but if you will come into the
drug store minute. think can make
It hold together somehow with sticking
plaster"
us it much hurtl" asked Blister feel
ing tenderly.
It's perfect nasal ruin" said the
man. Harry, think you chewed II a
little to hard Why didn't Won bite him
somewhere else?"
: Perhaps you'd like to take another
bite now said Blister. You NAV enav
away at the calf of my leg if you think
it would make you feel better. The nose
is of no consequence. Perhaps it is a
good thing to have it changed little, tor
then l won't look so much like Judge
McGratb. This seems to be fnc farm
ing country. How are the crops2''
You appear to be perfect gentle
man., said the man. eff you'll come up
to the hotel I'll introduce you to some Of
my friends"
Certainly said; Blister: 'sIll 90 I'D
right away if you'll get me pair Of
clutches and sling for my arm. I'd
like to know them. Maybe they'd be
glad to fire four or five shots into me or
hold me under the pump? want to
obhge everybody. Do you often have
these little laughable incidents in your
town?"
Most every day in some way or other.
There are not eight whole noses in the
place, except the womens."
"How charming! When the news gets
around should think the tide of immi-
grafton would flow right in. You say
you don't care to bite me again9"
80 no.n
Don't you want to empty the other
barrels of your revolver into my backs"
mo think not.''
May be you'd like to kick me, or roll
me in the gutter? No? Well just toss
me in the canal couple of times again
as kind of an expression of esteem
Its hardly worth while"
And you think you don't care to
pound me with brick or anything for
five or ten minutes?"
II rather think not.''
"Well, then" said Blister, ~ think I'll
crawl home and fix up little. Good
bye! 1t you ever come on East stop and
see me! Come and stay week and bring
your relatives. Good bye!"
And Blister went to the hotel, packed
up and fled in the first train. He wrote
home that the Arkansas trade could prob
ably be opened up more successfully by
an iron-clad man and salesman who
was fond Of war.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
Taking COId.

If a cold settles on the outer covering
of the lungs, it becomes pneumonia, in
flammation Of the lungs, or lung fever,
and inmanvcases carries off the strongest
men to the grave within a week. If cold
falls upon the inner covering of the lungs,
it is pleurisy, with its knife-like pains
and its slow, very slow, recoveries. IF a
cold settles in the joints, there is rheuma-
tism, with its agonies of pain, and
rheumatism Of heart, which in an in.
slant sometimes snaps asunder the cords
of life with No friendly warning. It is
of the utmost pratical Importance, then,
in the wintry weather, to know not SC
much how to cure cold, as how tc
avoid it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
To- Ddy's Children.

1t would seem as though the next gen
Grafton ought to be far better than the
generations that went before it, when we
think of the pains that are being taken
with it and the perpetual thought that is
being expended upon it, with all the add
ed appliances and wonders that the world
has gained in the last half century. 1t
sometimes seems, indeed, as if, even
before our own threescore and ten wears
have been numbered, we might expect to
see race Of men and women whose men
tality would Tar outstrip our own, whose
power to wiring her secrets, from nature
would be revealed only by natures in
finite wealth in secrets and who would
entirely fulfill the commandment to sub
jeCt the earth.
Doubtless in the past people loved
their children quite as tenderly as they
do to-day; but it had occurred to them
only in limited degree toimprove upon
their own experience for those children.
The way in which they themselves were
reared seemed good enough, on the whole,
and if they ever thought of it at all, they
would perhaps have held it as an irrever-
ence to their own parents to change it.
Children was not regarded to them as oc.
cupying position of their own, complete
and individual as children, and growing
things, but as untiedged human beings
not worry Of much consideration till fully
plumed. and particularly was this the
case of female children, who were taught
little ornothing but how to make the other
sex comfortable. Now, on the contrary,
people live vastly more for, and to, and
in their children, extend the advantages
acquired Independently of sex, and APP
pear to recognize certain new account
ability in the matter, and not taking
them exactly as blossoms on a tree, that
bloom whether or no, and one day, under
sun and rain, will mature into fruit with
out much lingering and fussing, but rath-
er as souls of almost infinite potenhalities,
for whom they are responsible, and with
keen desire to see some Of those poten-
tialities wrought out, and a feeling OF
compensation for trouble as if they hoped
to live their life over to these children.
It is quite possible that this loss Of
self in children may be carried too far
that hot-bed system may develop 8
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
Il Deputy She,'iH's LncE.

John Connors, deputy sheriff of St
Clair County, Missouri, was on his way
recently, from St. Clair County to Jeffer-
son City, conveying to the penitentiary
prisoner named Jones, and at one OF
the small stations thirty or forty miles
from st. Louis, on the Missouri Pacific
road, the prisoner got away. Connors
was dumfounded, and got off the train
and plunged out wildly in the dark, not
knowing just why, but anxious to do
something. He wandered out IN the
country, until, tired and wet, he reached
4 cabin. when he concluded to stop and
learn his whereabouts He knocked Wig
orously at the door.
who's dar?" inquired, excitedly, a
voice within.
Mr.. Conuors explained his mission and
his situation.
"Well, you jes' can't come in heah
My ole man S away, an Ise all by my
self. Use feared to let yer in heah, fur
suah!'
The deputy sheriff pleaded manfully,
though, and the colored woman in the
cabin finally relented and let him in. He
took seat, and, tired as he was, soon
fell half asleep. The old negress went
out, and he dozed alone, when there
came a laundering knock at the do r.
Conuors started up, and shouted, "Come
in!'
The door opened and man entered.
He stared at Connors and Connols stared
at HIM. Then the visitor gasped out:
H~how did you come here?"
The man was Jones, the escaped pris-
oner! By one Of the most remarkable
condolences on record he had, after
escaping: walked into the very jaws Of
danger again. Not one time in a thou
sand could an officer have been so lucky
as Connors. He seized the prisoner with
a yell, and hung on to him. Twenty
four hours later, Jones was in the peni
tertiary.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02

Colds always come from one cause,
some part Of the body being colder than
natural for a time. If person will
keep his or her feet warm always, and
never allow himself or herself to be
chilled, he or she will never take cold in
a lifetime; and this can only be accomp-
lished by due care in warm clothing, and
avoidance Of drafts and exposure. While
multitudes of colds come from cold feet,
perhaps the majority arise from cooling
off too quickly after becoming a little
warmer than is natural from exercise or
work, or tro confinement to a warm
apartment.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
Memories Of Mount YerMom

Correspondence of the Louisville Courier Journal.
We wandered although the sad, silent
mansion. We looked at the spindle
legged furniture, and rusty KEY on the
wall, the key Of the bastile. We see
Washlngton's vest and small clothes in
the glasses, and lock of his hair, and
original letters by his hand and Lafay-
cites. We see pretty Elenear Eusts
wedding gift, harpsicord that her
stepfather brought from foreign lands for
surprise when she left her girlhoods
home. The pretty Eleneor is buried long
ago. All traces of her pink and white
beauty has lett the earth; here stands the
dusty harpsicord, brought back by
strange hands to her old home. The
room that interests me most is the tinv
attic chamber where the devoted widow
passed her days after her husbands death.
The large chamber below was closed
after his decease.
None entered it from that time on. A
rug and single bed Mrs. Washington had
moved to the attic room. and here, win
ter and summer, she watched with long
ing crazy eyes, the tomb that held her
dead. There was no place for stove or
CRATE; all day, in the room under the
roof, she sat by the small window Cher
feet in winter on zinc foot stove filled
with coals), with a shawl wrapped about
her bent form, true Martha Washington,
first lady of the land! First in elegance
in times of peace, in courage in time of
war; in faithfulness in time Of death. All
women look with tenderer eyes at the
small marble resting-place than at the
grander casket by their side. One bears
upon it draped flag, cut in the stone, a
shield and crouching eagle; the other
side only the words
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rank growth without sustaining power, a
fruit without flavor, and that even with
superior powers, should they be reached,
may be nourishcd vast conceit and sell
fishness in consequence, which may make
the generation to come as unlovely and
unwholesome as it is brilliant. Yet we
trust that the very love and sense of re-
sponsibility which, by every means pos
sible in literature and art and daily lite.
stimulates the intellect, will also warm
and nourish the moralities and the affect
ions of the children Of to-day.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02

DR.. Cuyler, who has lived in Brooklyn
long enough to know exactly what sort
of a place it is, delivered the charge a
few evenings ago to the Rev. Mr.. Nc
Cullagh, on the occasion of his installation
as pastor of the Ross Street Presbyterian
Church. He said: Remember that you
are in Brooklyn, city notorious of its
gossip and its meddling and its knowing
every body elses business" He further
more raped one or two of his disting-
uished neighbors over the head by saying
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
MARTHA,
CONsoRT OF WASHINGTON.

Yet these words dim the eyes Of loving
wives; they pierce the eyes of lonely wild
ows, and bind all true and tervent wom-
anhood close to the form that sleeps
dreamlessly beside the form she loved
truly and long.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02

A piece of rag soaked in solution of
cayenne is a capital thing to put into rat
or nouse hole. They will not attempt to
eat it.
"Why," said a lover to his mistress,
fare you like that hinge?" Cant even
guess" Because you are something to a
door," (adore).
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that he hoped Mr.. McCullagh would,
under no consideration, make mounte-
bank of himself. as s.roolling lecture
from town to town, trying TO exc out
salary enough to live on.
New-York tribune., 1878-03-04
AN EyTRADITIoy QUESTION.

\ PRISONER FROM PERU, ~ CHARGE OF IhN 'NilFO
STATES vIcE-CONsUI, RELEASED BY The coLUM-
BIAS PRESIDENT.
PANAMA. Feb. 25.-Gcneral excitement has
beca creacd here by the exIaGtion case of . o. Scfa
ford " T. Clayton, United states V!ceConsul at Calao
Peru acting IS special messenger under authority OF ms
Government arrived Panama February 20, having III
charge c. c. scraord who has been surrendered by the
Government Of Peru the request Of the United States
on the charge Of forgery, In the State OF Kan
sas on arrival at this port Mr.. Clayton pro-
eeeded with tie prisoner to the Office OF Dr.
Lon.. United States Consul, and requested him
70 obtain from the Panama authorities safe keeping Tor
his charge until he could proceed with him 10 the United
etate 10 this request Dr. Long assencd aAd tie prs
ouer WAS taken to the Governors Office, where, IN tho
absence OF the latter official, he was committed by the
Governor, secretary or assistant and receipt Was
given FOR him.
on the morning Of February 81, when knowledge OF
the AFFAIR for the first time came TO the President of the
state IL, without any delay or notification to w Clay
Mr Cayi0n addressed letter TO the PRESIDENT Oh tne
STATE OF Panama, asking whether scral0fd WHu0 aSAn
b., placed in his hands. or whether II was he Ies'ho
intent to prevent Sciaord being carried 10 Ae tinted
states through the territory OF Panams !" tiis ine
President replied through his secret.gy o. ea uec'In
INK TO return scraorlto to the custody 0i Mr' Clayton Oh
te the degree OF Colonel scr,ords guilt
an alleged forger, given up by tho Peruvian HoVeFn
rlent IN compliance with an eXtradltlon treaty hs Ias
cannot bee allowed 20 remain IN prison or under
arrest on Colombian territory or within '0don '9,
Ian waters since no treaty for tho eItr3dlron
Of criminals has been made between our Republic ana
tho Norh American Union, and such an acc won6 De IN
iotion OF the established rules governing such cases
under international laws. Moreover, the constitution OF
CumnIa declares the recognition and guarantee 0i inc
,udral n ghts apprgtalning 10 all inhabitants OF Co.
i",re resident or transient 10 be an essential ana uh
atera6lr basis OF the union between the s'&eS ana
"monc those rights thus guaranteed there Is
set forth that OF personal security, III accord
"Drsoned or arrested except for some criminal cause
nr b vav OF correctional puni-hIent nor tired Dy ei
traordtnary commissions or tribunals, nor ooldeuhet
without being duly tried and conyctod, and Ia All cases
by virtuo OF proiXist!ns Law ,. .orro,
on tie 22d inst, In answer 70 summons scis.u i.
mon him ir Clayton appeared before maSlstFats
81 the city, who had been mstrue'ea oy he ,no
corrccess Of his statements III regard TO tue prisoner
SCratf5rd This Mr.. Clayton gave under protes anu
Ier addressed general etcr OF protest to the Pfesl
dent against his action. 60, , -, ,,. IN.
Mr. Clavton sailed the Colon, ard VIII b;1ng tAe
trnnsactIon TO the knowledge of hls Government
New-York tribune., 1878-03-04
FREE COINAGE.
SPRINGER TO ASK FOR VOTE or 1T Io-DAY-THE
OBJECT OF TIE DEMOCRATS.

sIEINGER 10 ASK FOX VOTE oH II lO-Da1 ~A"1
OBJECT OF THE DEMOCRATS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The agitation of the sil-
yer question is likely to continue in Washington in
spite of the passage of the bill partially remonetiz-
ing the deprecated metal
The intention of Mr.. Springer to have n vote
in the House of Representatives. tomorrow
on his bill providing for unlimited free coin
age and the issue of bullion certificates.
has already been announced and the friends
of the measure confident that they will secure
the twO-thirds vote requisite to pass it. A majority
of the Senate is also believed 80 favor measure of
this kind although amendments proposing TO effect
the same object voted down when the Bland
bill was under consideration.
Some indiscreet Democrats have remarked within
day or two that if they could get the Springer bill
passed by both Houses of Congress snd vetoed by
the President, they would be satisfied They would
ask for nothing better than the opportunity go to
the country in the Fall elections on such an
issue this. As the matter stands now
neither party in Congress has gained any i'm
portant political advantage by the silver agita-
ton. Republicans and Democrats have alike
supported the legislation In question, and the
Republican party can hardly be responsible COR the
veto of the President when so large q majority OF
its members from the South aud West refused TO
sustain the veto. But if free coinage and bullion
certificates they say, be defeated by the Presi
dents yeO then the lines between the parties will
be drawn. They can accuse the Republican party
through its President and those who sustain his
veto of refusing to give to the people the relief for
which they ASK.
1t may turn ont that these willy politicians may
be mistaken III their estimate of the temper of the
people even in the West. There many sigrs
that the bill already passed is satisfactory 20
jOrty of the people of tne Wost who have desired
the reconciliation OF silver and that they VIII
prefer TO try the experiment for time with The pres
eut law before taking iurther steps III the direction
Of intiatIon There Is also much talk about tie H.
terprc alton Of the law. II may he taken for granted
that the Secretary, wllIc executing Il ~ the splgt
in winch il was enacted VIII not pay The intores,
the public bonds IL silver dollars. he las also
decided that the silver coin certificates are 10 lie
made payblc only at the place Of issue. The Object
of this regulation is 20 prevent the Government
from beng rcqUr,G to pay the eNpeAae OF transport
ing tie bulky SILVER com from one part "l tac
country to another at tAe convenience Of private
citizens.
The disposition OF the silver coin, as il 5 mauu-
featured, has nos yct been decided upon. /, Is prob
aDo that Ot II, a least viii be used IA pay ing
salaries and other currency obligations of the Gov
ernmcut, but IT may I've used for Tie purchase Of
silver bullion as IL may be required at tho Ilints