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The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13
Sharp Tricks by Fashionable
Women.

Startling stories are told in select
social circles uptown of recent cases Of
mistaken identity in clothing that, many
ladies think, appear like downright
stealing on the part of certain women
who move in good society.
1t is said that q lady can no leave n
valuable outer garment in the dressing.
room, when she attends an evening
party or q ''tea" at the house Of a
friend, with any certainty of finding it
on her return from the drawing-room.
In its place she very often finds a gar
ment of the same general texture and
pattern, but shabby and unp~leasantly
venerable with wear and age. This
general resemblance, however, in the
vent of the person who made the substi-
tuition being discovered, is made the ex-
cuse for the substitution, and the lady
gets her Own again with many apollo
gies. So frequent are these cases that
it has become positively unsafe to leave
valuable shawls or sacques even under
the surveillance of merely the maid sta
toned to aid ladies in their toilet.
An instance is known Of a lady, whose
name nearly every reader would recog-
nize were it printed, who left a $4,000
camel's hair shawl in the dressing-room
of a handsome house on a fashionable
thorOughfarc, where q tea was being
given by a hostess also we'll known in
the social world. On retiring the lady
found in place of her new expensive
shawl one faded and worn, with the fringe
torn in places. On discovering the sub
stitution the guest sought the hostess,
and, with much emphasis, declared that
as the shawl had been lost in the latter's
house, she would hold her res ,Onsible.
Nerved to desperation by this ultima
sum, the hostess called upon that n of
her guests who she believed from the
description furnished by the maid in at
tendance in the dressing-rOOm had ex-
changed her old shawl for Mrs. Ms
new. She explained her errand, and,
while affecting to assume that the ex-
change had been a voluntary one, spoke
with an assurance that argued entire
knowledge as to the identity of the per-
petrator. The accused woman at once
admitted the possibility of a mistake
having beer made, one of her daugh-
ers coming to the rescue with the as
sertion that, on leaving the tea, she
had wondered what made her mothers
shawl look so much eve and fresher
than usual! Mrs. X. is again the pos
SCISSOR of her $4,000 shawl.
Another story is that a young lady,
who is the very opposite of Mrs. Y. as
regards decision of character, found
that, during her absence from the dress
ing-room, an old and dingy sacque had
been substituted for her handsome fur
lined cloak Being unlike Mrs. X, she
submitted to the sitn; ton in silence, and
meekly and mildly went home in the
old sacque. The person who took her
fur-lined cloak has not yet discovered
her mistake.-NcW York Sun.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

WEAK CONsTITUTIoNs-How THEY
MAY BE CARED FoR.-The fact that the
late Richard Henry Dana was regarded
IS an invalid until he had reached 30,
and yet outlived ell his contemporaries,
is not 80 uncommon az it appears. The
opinion that it is usually the healthful,
robust men who attain longevity. while
it Is prevalent, is not correct. Many OF
our citizens now over seventy, and like
ly to last much longer, are not and never
have been vigorous Of body. They have
been, on the contrary, delicate from
childhood, and keep themselves in active
life by prudence and the excellent care
they take of themselves. Peter Cooper
is q conspicuous example. He was puny
at his birth, and has continued more or
less feeble ever since. Nevertheless, he
has engaged in various enterprises;
has created from nothing q large for
tune; has been q most generous bene-
factor to his native city; and will
have completed on the 18th instant
his S8th year. The persons who 60 TO
their graves at 40 and so, have frequent
ly had any amount of physical stamina,
and have depended on it 20 entirely as
to neglect all hygienic laws, and disre-
gard any thing like discretion. There
is q certain arrogance of health which
ruins health by excess Of confidence.
Men Of this sort arc persuaded they can
do and endure any thing and every
thing, and acting on their persuasion
they break down suddenly and unex-
pectcdly and slip out of existence. The
semi-invalid or valetudinarian, on the
other hand, seldom incurs any risk. He
guards himself at every point; he sees
where danger is and sedulously avoids
it. His condition has rendered him
heedful, and heedfulness has grown into
unchanged and Interchangeable habit.
Ease of circu instances also contributes
greatly to longevity where a man either
has simple tastes or is judicious in his
mode of living. Adversely to the adopt
ed notion, poverty is rarely good for
any body for it entails not only absence
of comfort, but constant friction and
endless worry. Other things being
equal, the rich long survive the INDECENT.
-NeW York Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

The biggest boy In The school NJ Tat
tell, Nd, disob~yed the mistress. Who
attempted 70 punish him He knosks.i
her down and wen: home. His father
returned with him 20 The school. pu: =
whip into The teacher hands. and told
her 20 chasass him al she wanted 70.
She though: ~ 6rs. ths, she would de-
cline the privilege. and trus: 10 ,ae sf-
feet Of her f~osbesrance for the boys ref
ormasion; but she changed her mind.
and piled the whip until she tainted from
over-sxertior-
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

A NEWSPAPER correspondent tells OF
q Boston schoolgirl Of IS year OF age
who. with her strap Of sc~hool-books on
her arm, sat reading in 3 horse-ca- .
book called the "Demon Bride, or Wed
ded TO Her Doom" Il had this touch
ing motto: "Has thou suffered? II not,
this book Is not for thee"
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

JAMES WILLIAMS, Of Cas;lei0n, W.
leaves an estate valued ~ 5000, a
which bis wife has q life Interest, ana
which, 4. her death, is TO 60 TO the baP-
fist Church at Castle.on. The eh1rch
Ia, BEEN 50 poor tba. for q numoer Oh
years NJ service has been held there,ana
it has never had a settled pastor
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13
An Italian claims to have made q VAL

An Italian claims TO have made 3 val
liable discovery. He says he has learn
ed how to tune up nerves, like the
chords Of . violin, and bring them into
harmony. The nerves lose their tone,
he thinks, like any musical instrument,
and if they all run down alike, it is Of
little importance, as they viii still &C;
together. But when the general har-
mony is destroyed, by accident or un-
even strain, the whole system is dis
turbed, and health suffers. This difficult
ty he claims power to rectify, and calls
himself ga nerve tuner"
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

An impossible feat for . female Pc
destrian Is to walk . thousand miles in
. thousand hours past n thousand
millinery stores displaying the latest
styles of spring bonnets.-PhIadeiphia
Chronicle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

THE heather Begun of Bophal is q
model for some Christian monarchs.
She has built the best hospital in India,
outside of Calcutts, has made excellent
roads throughout her kingdom, and is
about to build . railroad.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

In the United States there are OF won-
en- in the various professions, 80 doc
tors, 420 dentists, IS preachers, and ID
or 20 lawyers.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13

without trouble or delay. l have taken
my own life by taking morphine and
laudanum. I tried hardlto make a liv-
ing, but utterly failed. No person had
compassion on my old age or would give
me employment. was reduced to ut
ter restitution. There is not a cent to
bury me-"
Mrs. Mix has the reputation of q
miracle worker in Litchfield County,
Conn.,, and wonderful stories of her
powers are told. She is said to cure by
the laying on of hands. The strange
thing is that she will take no pay, be-
lieving that she has been divinely APP
pointed TO heal the sick, and that she
could effect nothing if she had a mer-
censry motive. The physicians say that
her influence is remarkable, but ascribe
it to the creduhty of her patients. Her
success is usually confined to supersti-
tious persons.
A WELL authenticated report comes
of a recent case where q doctor from
New York City, called to q supposed
dying patient in Hartford, Conn, got
SO impatient waiting for the decease that
he finally filed out and signed the GER
ti6cate of death, leaving the date to be
Inserted thereafter, and FASTENED back
to the delights of New York. In view
of this act the family abandoned hope
and ordered their mourning goods, but
wben the nearly dead patient heard of
8 this he was so irate that his health
an to improve, and he is now con-
cred out Of danger. for the time be-
1t least.
You've Mr.. French made hls appear
, 1879-09-18
PORT TOWNSEND, W. T., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 49, 1879

remunerated ? And they are, com.
paratively speaking. True, scarcely
month passed during the whole
winter but that some fireman, brave
ly fighting his smoky foe, was killed
or manned. They handle fires with
marvellous skill and a bravery that
amounts often to recklessness, and
when a man puts his life and limb,
and his wife and children's whole
earthly hope against property, prop
erty can afford to pay and ought to
pay for it. The msn get about 500
a month, officers a sight advance,
and this is little enough for the char
acter of service they render and the
risks they encounter. A movement
was made last winter towards the
reduction of their salaries. 1t was
shameless demagogery, which fortu-
nately was fruitless. The city pays
thousands of dissipated, worthless
fellows who can handle primaries
and are incapable Of doing courage.
Gus and manly deed, larger salaries
by far than these men who have tho
fiery element and the tottering wall
by night and by day; who plunge
every month into some death trap
to rescue human beings from the
flames; who do hard, honest, manly,
dangerous work the year round.
ECONOMY" is good, "Retrenchment"
is first rate; but he who would not
advertise himself demagogue will,
before cutting down the we'll earned
salaries of our Fire Brigades, make a
crusade at the half.earned and un-
earned emoluments of the political
pots and the ward 'bummers. Till
that is done the insincerity of his
''retrenchment" cry is plainly known
and read Of all men, and will but
pull down upon himhelf the con-
tempt Of NIL decent men.-But did
not mean to philosophize with the
thermometer trying its best to count
a hundred in the shade
MORLEY.
, 1879-09-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 30, 1879.
The telegraph has informed the
country Of the reversal Of the sem
tence of court martial on which six
teen years ago Surgeon General
William A. Hammond was oashiersd
and the universal feeling is that
this long delayed act is we'll done.
The question arises, however, why
Gen. Townsend should be put on the
retired list WITHOUT PAY. If the
sentence against him was unjust and
his dismissal from the service a
grisvous wrong, it is difficult now
that the sentence is reversed and he
is put on the retired list to see the
justice of making such a distinction
between him and other retired off.
GERS as to make him the only one
retired without pay.
In this case and in Genl Porter's
it is the opinion of most people here
that the reversal of the sentence is
proper. Now, these are only two
cases in which Congress has inter.
fered. Does not the result in these
cases show that Congress ought to
provide some way for others convict.
ed by court-martial-voluntoer sol.
diers and oficors--to prove their in.
nocence. The benefits of govern.
ment should not bs confined to those
who have political and social inAu.
ence. Why not have a Board of
officers, or other persons, here
charged with the duty of inquiring
into any court martial sentence that
the convicted man may declare un.
Just and against the facts ? 1t would
cost the government very little. 1t
would secure justice to hundreds of
, 1879-09-18
innocent men.

AAhONOht a.H.f
One million two hundred thousand
dollars in gold bars arrived at New
York by steamer Canada from Eu.
rope yesterday. This sa part of the
hundreds of millions of coin and U.
S. bonas now coming to this country
each year, to pay for our agricultural
products and manufactures, sent
abroad in excess of all the goods we
buy from other nations. Truly the
outlook towards the future for the
financial and business prosperity Of
this country is brighter than at any
time during its past history. The
party which has covered the country
through the greatest of modern wars,
and has soon brought US to this graf
flying condition, must be held to be
more worthy of confidence than an.
other party which not only brought
on that war but destroyed our credit
before the war began. LEO.
, 1879-09-18

FIRE. FIRE
No longer is this cry heard in our
midst, and rarely has your correspon.
dent found more interes ting sub.
iect than the management Of our
Fire Brigades, by which the bolster.
Gus alarms Of other days are made
unnecessary. So fascinating was the
story to me that cannot refrain
from showing my three hundred
thousand readers through one of the
engine houses near my city home,
and asking their verdict upon the vir-
tues of our brave fire laddss.
"Comc in'and look through the
house," courteously said one Of tha
1.-THE, supple fellows who work
steamer No.. A right manly look
ing crew they were; finely buis men,
all muscle, and having that elastic
tread which delights lover Of mas.
culine physique. In front of the
broad ope doors stands the steamer,
the water hot in her boiler by con.
nectiou with a boiler in the cellar,
and her own fires ready for the match
The hot water connection is instantly
severed and the match applied the
moment she leaves the house. In
the rear corner stands the single.
horse hose cart, with its shafts in the
air high enough for its horse to run
under. Back of the house is little
paved courtyard, and then the sta
BILE, containing three noble horses,
each of whom knows his name and
his place vastly better than some BIZ
peds.
"Shall we let the horses out ?"
asked the foreman; and disposing
my boys so they should not get run
over, he closed all the doors, and
stepping to the alarm. gong, gave one
pull at the chain. Open flew every
door, and through them
DASHED TIE HORSES
at a tearing gait. One rushed to
one side Of the steamer, his mate 10
the othsr; both swsng themselves
aginst tho pole and stood impatient
ly shaking their eager heads while
the men snapped" trace fast here,
hook there, and the steamer was
ready for action The other horse
darted quickly under the shafts Of
the hose'cart, which dropped, and
with two or three "snaps he was
ready. Every fireman has his own
special part to play whenever the
gong strikes and by this minute SUBJ
division of labor they accomplish the
wonderful feat Of dropping their or.
binary avocations about the house,
reading, smokin, mapping, etc, hitch
Ing up thoir horses, cutting off the
not water connection with the boiler
uoWn stairs, starting the fires and
landing a steam fire engine, hose
cart and twelve equipped tiremen on
'ne street, ready for a run,
IN NINE SECONDS
from the FIRST tap of the bell They
harness and prepare for work every
ume the alarm COMMENCES to strike,
, 1879-09-18

S"'oP W she oceuS VI ConHagratloR'
If the alarm strikes some numbernot
in the district they unhitch and;tak
the horses back. Minutes and even
seconds, are of so much value in
lighting fire that every time an alarm
is struck in any part of the Island,
thirteen miles long, every company
prepares for action; over three hum
dred horses dash alone and indirect.
ed out of their stalls and are hitched
up, and nearly eight hundred men
stand on the alert for the final taps
of the arlarm which tell in whose dis
trict the fire is located. In such a
city every man and horse is thus
called to his post many times every
day and night. The horses are
trained so that at the tap of a gong
in the stable (ths striking of which
loosens every chain, the horse
nearest the door backs out of his
stall first, the next follows, and the
inmost horse after his next neighbor.
Neither Of the latter horses will, un-
der any circumstances, pass his lead
Grand if he gets fast from any cause,
his followers
CIRCLE BOUND AND ROUND
till the obstruction is removed. The
horses are great noble creatures, the
very best, most valuable and most
Intelligent OF their kind, who quite
make you hope there is q heaven
where good horses may go.
The gong arrangements are a Gu.
riosity. All alarms are telegraphed
by the policeman in whose district
the fire breaks out to Police Head
quarters, and thence are instantly re.
peated over all the ''circuits" in this
city. With the first tap Of the gong
little brass weight hanging OH the
hammer is detached and falls the
length of its chain. The smart jerk
caused by its reaching the end of its
chain, starts lever which throws
open every door of stable and en-.
gine house, strikes the horses gong,
d and loosens their halters. 1t also
stops clock on the instant, so that
when the company return after the
fire they can note the exact moment
tho alarm was received, and make an
entry thereof in the records. In this
house one of the firemen has q little
dog to whom he says: "Let out the
horse !" and he runs to the gong,
seizes with his teeth Q rubber ring
attached to the above weight, pulls
it down and then rushing to the sta.
bic barks at the horses, to hurry
them up.
The entire cornparys sleep on the
second floor, on neat iron ed.steads.
The room is airy and comfortable
and kept with scrupulous neatness.
When a fireman retirss he takss off
BOOTS AND TROUSERS TOGETHER,
folding each trouser's-leg outside its
own boot. These he stands at the
bedside. A man remains on watch
below all night, and on receiving an
alarm strikes a gong in the dormi.
tory. Instantly eleven men sit on
the edge of their respective beds,
plunge feet into boots (which opera.
tion it will be seen puts him inside
his pants also) and then pulling up
his unmentionablss and fastening
them about his Waste as he runs, he
goes down strairs in two jumps, does
his special part in preparing horses
and engines Tor duty, ssizes bat and
coat from a peg by the door, and
does all that in bat but THREE SEC
oNDs longer than is required for day
alarm. ....
ANhn rhnll "a ~ ALnL - - -
, 1879-09-18
"M0RLEY'S" LETTERS FROM NEW
YORK.

From our regular correspondent
New YORK, Aug II, 1879.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21

and one after another they offered to take
a head or two of his stock and winter
them for him, thus greatly reducing his
loss and assuring his heart Of the
more durable riches Of brotherly
love and neighborly goodwill. Meme
can compute in money the value of one
such example Of liberality in the com
m l1nty especially in its influence on the
young. And when this spirit prevails
there is sure to be progress in a place,
even II all the Improvements are in their
infancy. People will come and settle in
q place that bears such a name. Now, if
you desire to see your place growing in
popularity, do all you can to show your
self good neighbor, especially to those
who need a little extra help If man
starts a tin shop ora blacksmith shop in
your place don't harness up and drive off
i've miles to buy your pans and
get your horses siod,I Just because
you have been in the habit of
doing it. Patronize the new conner when
you want anything in his line. Speak
encouragingly to him and we'll of him to
your neighbors. Little words of approval
or censurc go a long way; when once you
nave spoken them you cannot recall them.
Help the sick, especially when they are
poor, fo- poverty and illness are indeed
heavy burden. Perform all acts Of loving
charity which fall day by day in your
path, remembering Who it has said, aye
snail IN no wise lose your reward ~ :,
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lsnpov) are nowhere so frequent as in
Russia. Among the artisans, the servants
and coachmen in the cities, or among the
laborers in the country, hundreds Of
steady sober men are to be. found, who
lead in every respect an orderly, respect
able life, and for months consecutively
never touch drop Of any Intoxicating
liquor, but who suddenly almost uncon-
sclously, against their will, and without
having the power to resist the strange
spell, as # demon had possessed them,
drink necessarily for days and nights.
They generally feel some time in advance
the approach of the 's6t." II often han
that poor sufferer Of that kind implores
his employer OF. his fellow working men
70 lock him up, or to watch him closely.
and to stop by force every attempt on his
part to procure liquor. But all such pre-
ventlve measures are generally fruitless.
IN one way or another he contrives to
5clrcumvcnt them, and drinks, drinks.
until he falls into a. heavy sleep, from
which he awakeesi again a sober, orderly
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TO ACOUNTRY DAFFODIL,

With hanging head and futtered stalk,
a golden hcarald Of the spring, @''''
Telling how thrushes build and sing j.
Among the laurels in the walk 9lSaltg.
Where we have also loved and sung,
Come, dafodil and whisper true. @<s
Here among city fog and SMOKEY, ~
What tidings of our trysting oak old
Where squirrels sport and pigeons COO, ., J
ta AS though the world were ever young
Tell me how all your brethren fare, i.j1G3
Outstanding in the garden-beds;
And ifthe snowdrops' modest heads
Look earthwards. yet, or higher in the, air,
qis,r And II the crOcusscs are there?
And ii, the forest glades are gay =, .ss.,}-.5
With hyacinths, or silver strewn ~
With wOod-anemones, too soon 0&i5&5
That bow their heads and pass away ~
Dying the death of all things fair?
Tell me all this and something more
.a What would wish you most to tell
!. Say, "He is true and he is WE'LL @,..
And still he loves you as before; ,dy a..
q & Then nestle near me, where you will.
Or if it please you to be seen, ID ''*s
And hold heard above them all, .s9*
I'll take you to aroyal ball, ~ -.
Where you may meet future Queen,
~ High honor for daffodil!
.>.~ ..-, ..s .f. London World.