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The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
A Novel Theory Regarding Insanity.

A GERMAN physician has started a
pleasing theory with regard to insanity.
1t is, he thinks, a mistake to look upon
it as an unmitigated evil. 1t is in many
cases a boon rather than the reverse to
the person Immediately affected. The
loss of reason lands the sufferer from a
sea of trouble into n of comparative
calm-often into one of decided hap
piness, and attempts to restore such a
person to sanity would be cruel rather
than kind. Moreover, he insists that
without a certain amount OF insanity
success in life, in the ordinary accept
alton of the term, is quite impossible.
ALI 'eminent men," he contends, are
decidedly more or less mad. Many of
them are dangerous monomaniacs,
whom it would be desirable on public
grounds to shut up, but who neverthe-
less achieve grand careers, and are cred
tied with doing q vast amount of
good. This false notion he attributes
to the fact that the greater mass of
mankind are also insane and quite I'M
able to distinguish between good and
evil. Whole nations are, he saws, oc-
casionally seized, like individual per-
sous. with attacks of madness, and led
by eminent madmen either de-
stroy themselves or their neighbors.
These paroxysms are, he admits. un-
doubtedly dangerous, but when mad
ness is blended with just sufficient self
control to keep it within bounds and
prevent it from betraying itself, it
displays itself in nervous energy and
enables the lunatic to exercise inn
mense influence over his fellow crea-
lures.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
Mince.Pi and Destiny.

WITH the appearance of the oyster
the mince.pie evolves itself out of the
vastly deep, and its old familiar name
again decorates the menus of our res
t~aurants. Justice never has been done
to this dish, and this is probably why it
wreaks itself upon the human race. 1t
is a triumph of eclecticism, a cosmopol-
itan dainty which has chosen its SUBJ
stances from the four quarters of the
globe, and which is graved with a re-
spectacle richness, an oily, sleek fat
ness redolent of high living, dyspepsia
and govt. Everybody makes fun of the
mince- pie, even those who eat it most
readily, and it is currently believed that
all possible Jokes about its makeup
were exhausted before the war, but
nearly everybody eats it. Some appar-
emily happy in the possession of cop
per-bottomed stomachs thrive upon the
pie; others are simply pale and sicklied
slaves of a habit as hard to break Off as
the use of opium. When a man or
boy gets the custom fastened upon
him he is gone. No n knows
the amount of mince-meat daily assimi-
lated into the St. Louis system. but an
idea of the quantity can be gained from
the fact that it is invariably the first
article exhausted on the bill of fare in
every restaurant where it is sold. The
waiter will inform you sadly that the
mince-pie is all out in nine cases out of
ten when you are late for dinner. No
body ever heard of the a~pple-pie being
exhausted, or the sago pudding. This
fatal mania for mince-pie has a queer
history, and is working out a singular
destiny. In two or three centuries it
will have utterly changed the American
character and person; it will alter our
civilization. weaken our morals and
diminish the calves of our legs. 1t is
even now our National dish, as poker
is our National game and politics our
National business. And it need sur
prise no one if VI harmonic equivalent
for the roast beef of Old England fifty
years from now will be the mince-meat
of OLD America. We are gradually
coming to this. and there is no use in
lodging the issue.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
match.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
Personal AND LITERARY.

Al Am.re.a. Mss Ha-kEes. las
uoa fhs Ioas-sssed-for prsse Zoe sxcel-
tsnce on the vsoiia. .; The f.-s Zoe
s~crVaory.
PKos.slr the oldes; ccpy q ,As n
bic In this copntry 10 osu~t BY william
y. Clay. Of Csznten. y J. IL waS pub
iE.hed in London IN 1853
ECsE~E ScHUILKRs Life II Peter The
Great" willie simultaneously psblsSSi
In dvs Different euniries Immediately
after its compls;iUa "a magazine fora.
JUIEs yEESE. the novelist. has r1Sie
s.s0.Oo from his ~niinS. Tie ts afiy-
a years old. ENJOY. god health. aai
works ~ hard Is II be hsdata cent
LAID up
JouS BgisHT. the grcA, EaglisA
statesman. ka, ~ great an simsrAisoa
for Ml,ons writings ihz; he carte
with him wherever ne gocs = copy 6.
Paradise Lest
The Ciy Of Csen j. enioying "a es'
hibii on of arc book. puut-d In NOE,
MANDY. arranged 10 ~celebrA,iua ~ tbs
four hundrci,h anniversary ot tho In
PRODUCTION Of the NJ; into the CITY
JosErn PkRKr. of the University Col
legc Of Wales. has composed WELSH
opera called 'Blcdscn. or The Whit
Flower" which - 10 b. produced N
Cleveland and Cincinnati TIN. month.
Ma L.RsIS j. ME.p. IN FIOrcac.. 1.
engaged upon a colossal figure which
will symboliEe the Mississippi River. and
which. i, Is said. i. being done on Mr..
Elliott =. >hepari's order for Central
Park.
JAMES RUSSELL LowELf. SAYS the
London Idgng Far. lis n learned.
kindly, strong. pleasant houes; nan.
He writes with grcs, ~qaickaes. and IA
ciliiy. and always with great correct
ness. that English language oi which he
is 80 proud and Sd fond; and he - per
s~onally altogether one Of the most de-
lighiful Of men
HERBERT SPENCER. the distinguished
philosophical writer. i. described ~ be-
ing Of medium statue. slilnly built long
legged and n great walker. He - 4
bachelor. living IN a quiet boarding
house in the West End Ut London. he
talks with the same force and perspicu-
ity ~ he writes.
The Bradford forkshire) ObScrrcr
saws that Adelaide Nelson. while nur-
sery maid a, Mrs. Paigett's. ilawkhiil.
Guiseley. in that county, was most at
tentive To her duties. and very active.
never requiring prompting la ANYTHING.
In her spare time she learned accurate
" passages from Shakespeare. 10 de
termined ~as she To 20 on the stage-an
intention she often announced 10 the
family she seryed-that n evening
after leaving her employment 3, tho
usual hour she started for London. She
slept the first night under the trees in
HYDE Park. and subsequently, got work.
in answer 10 an advertisement. ~ a
seamstrcSs.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
Remarkable Presence Of Mind.

A LAMPLIGHTER in Leeds, England,
while making his rounds, at half-past
four in the morning. noticed flames
bursting from a booksellers house. He
gave the alarm, but the firemen arrived
too late to saw the house. two stories
of which were already blazing. The
bookseller and his wife, who slept on
the third floor, appeared at the win
dows in their night-dresses and called
upon the firemen to rescue them. The
husband ran down the stairs leading
from the bedroom to the second floor
to ascertain if it were possible to escape
through the shop into the street, but he
found that the stairs leading from the
second floor were on fire, and he was
severely burned. fastening back to
his wife, and closing the bedroom
door to prevent the dense volume of
smoke which now began to roll up stairs
from s~uffocating them. he tied a num-
Der of sheets and blankets together,
and fastening one end round his wife,
lowered her from the window into the
street beneath. When she was still
some distance from the ground he was
compelled to let her drop, but she was
caught By the tiremen and escaped un-
injured. He then leaped on the coping
of the shop, and thence into g blanket
held out to receive him by those below.
All this time the fire was raging fierce
" in the small shop aud the room
above, and a few minutes after the in
mates had been saved the flames burst
through the shutters. Few men in SO
great Al emergency would have shows
such presence of mind.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
A Poetic Story.

There is a quite singular fact in on
nection with Stiles Hill. in the town Of
Southbury, known to the country resi-
dents living within sight Of that emf
nence. For six decades W tall elm
trees stood side by side, "a little distance
apart. upon the topmost point OF he
elevation; these trees were visible for
many miles around. aud from this fact
they became noted landmarks More
than sixty years ago W little girls
were wont to pass over the summit OF
this hill daily. during the summer sea-
son. to drive their fathers cows to pas
ture. They were impressed by the
slightly attributes of the elevation, and
often tarried 10 gaze at the widespread
landscape. One day they conceived
the idea of planting each a tree upon
the hill summit. which should be TO
them n reminder of their childhood
DAYS in the years TO come. They put
their idea into effect. and two slender
elm shoots soon waved their green
branches as solitary sentinels in the
open space round about. Years passed
by and the shoots grew into tall, stall
wart trees. The girls grew to woman
nOOu anu pdSscu Out VI tHc pdicHlai
home into the great, wide world. De-
~casionally they would meet n another
and allude to the living reminders of
youthful days. and often they would
visit the familiar haunts of their girl
hood and would sit beneath the wide
spreading branches of the mammoth
elms. About five years ago one of the
girls died, an aged lady of almost
eighty. Scarcely had the intelligence
Of her death reached the neighborhood
of her youth than the residents OBJ
served that one of the old elms was dy-
ing. Its leaves wilted and withered az
though scorched by flame, and although
midsummer, yet the foliage fell to the
ground, leaving the naked, l~ifeless
branches and stock looking desolate
enough. Decay quickly followed in
the great tree trunk, and during a high
wind one night the following winter it
fell to the earth. The other girl,
though an oc~togenarian, still lives. and
the old elm which she planted in her
fresh young girlhood still lives. But
| the people TO whom the above circum-
stances are known watch il with inter-
est. feeling that a subtle relationship
exists between the two lives. and that
the one will with the other
Waterbury Conn. american.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18

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d,ve his aslI sata the hrush sHi 'hoa
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n. h~lpln.. AMI sxarslas. aad thr r p ~
mother. usually lssksi thin ansi wear
and troublsd irsm moTaine ha q 90
yoa will near ss,ch gucsiions a. ""ia-
where - nly histoFtF "MoihHt ~'a
you sea ca my shoe hustoasF "Aoih-f
won, you .ss = haiica GA nay Aef
.Saan't YOU pat up raY lsnohe,sn. ! am
in such q harry Every one ~ iheFr
thing. the boys anil girls cuiii hat"
done quite a. well fsf shrmsrftes 9
thev had only thought 49, Ihrre - ~
rraspn whY a hoy should noi isasa -
sew on a lake; button as wei n AS
sister. IL - not half 80 hard as learn
ing Ia skate OF white. tSots an : g.FiN.
Il you wish your beloved mother ."
live long ani hapgaiy With you ian ~
once The "tlelp Yourself sociesY
BAPTIST Hesiig
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
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NJ u2Ff1ns saz=s
Par. ays I NAV srsse ani tel VOC
TIA, .e az a. vel AL yoa mss.s enFs
Yourself ABi not ~oTry seoa ns s"s ~
arr xc,s a. sloas spissiailt.
That's iasi shzl be Tad me ~ uT'e.
and he AAs directed N sa,saoPs az
ready .os INC - pat tho letter "a ha'
I don't $50 shzt DC msan. ht .yaHs
~e are al scll. toe thercs = ~ Cd
things the matter viii a. ih~rS :
measles. .sa msmps. All malaria and
II there acre ans morv sirkaesses ihA'
brsAn wlIh NJ. ] guess We ~osiid have
them. too
Crandma-shr's got the malaria.
that . the prvsts-s; name, AMI ihinG
il The p~rr,,is.s looking sacknes. u
makes her farc ~ycilos. ba, u doa pua
her out like mumPs kiIth and me
think Il makes her cros. lhs grown
folk. get cruss wh-n thcy arp ssck just
like childrras She axes Oseehrch Ia
break up chlli.. she SAYS. bat ! am
AFRAID she wall break up herself for abe
shake, a. II she ~ouli ~ - piccvs
some DAY. I think shes got al The
malaria there j. in the house fOf none
Il the rest o. us have hal ANY but
there Was measles enough To 20 round.
and ~,'y. al had EN- except mc !
suppose | should have had sOno oi
them. too. but grandma says ! hal can
nine years 40 When ! was ONLY a year
old.
Billy, the boy that carries news
pspers. brought us the mumps. ani ~
amt much obliged 10 him. | asked him
what be wore his face In sers;s't CON.
fcrable for. an he said caused be u
got n com behind has ear. and thea he
a,ked me IL | saw an, thing green. but
of course | cuulin through las BIZ
comfortable. AM how. ! don't believe
il VA green corn in the middle Ut
winter, hannah said. the next To-
morrow. when she saw him. that twas
mumps. an he had no business TAI come
here. and ia. said. You'd catch IL,
Miss. for talking Ia that naughty boy
in the hall when you sas told not to-
| did catch IL. too. and ] wish hadn't
talked Ia him. for INV mnmpz VA awful.
but they are most better now. Once l
sneczed while hal them. aud | thought
I had torn of both ears and turned my
nose wrong side out. IL hurt So; but l
hadn't
This is a picture of Edith. with both
her mumPS.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
HUMOROUS.

PRAIRIE chickens are game 10 the
last.
A WAC a V of n top0r: His hose has
passed the rubicund. Chicago Tribunc.
PARApoxICAL: The person who wish
es To stay in this world will avoid the
deadly corset. Boston Courier.
ALMOST time for husking bees.-fsa-
ca Journal We'd just like to see YOU
husk a bee once.-N. y. Graphic.
You can't play that on me!' said
the piano to the amateur who broke
down on a difficult piece Of music.-N ".
y. NcIDS.
He who has ridden in n country
stagc-coach knows how cream feels
when il is being churned into butter
Boston Transcript.
THERE are hundreds of entertaining
writers who would be good historians
if they did not know so many things
that have never happened.-N. D.
PicdVuDe.
A CALIFORNIA woman seven feet tall
and weighing two hundred pounds
broke her heart for love Of u little runt
Of a man. wearing number four boots
and leading IA poodle by a cham.
"WHAr il meant by the power be-
hind the throne?' asked the teacher.
The ace" replied the smart. bad boy.
(which is greater than the king l..
S.-The $. b. b. stayed in after school.
-HIWbeyc.
EVEN q deacon won't say grace when
he steps into a railway eating house.
He knows that it would he asking too
much to request that he be made thank
full for anything he will get there
Boston Post.
THAT Spanish baby over which such
a great fuss was raised is puy-nosei and
almond-eyed. and we cant help but
feel glad ont. One baby ought To be
AS good as another the world over
Detroit Free Press.
"ISoUIREs" asks: lis the Great
Eastern the largest vessel ever builts'
An impression has got abroad that she
is, but such is not the case. The May
flower, in which the Pilgrim fathers
came TO this country. was the largest
ship that ever plowed the waters. The
old furniture scattered over this coun-
try brought over by the Mayfiower
would fill the Great Eastern n dozen
times or more.-NOrrIs,o,CH Herald
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
Something About Poultry Breeding.

POULTRY has its place upon the farm.
in the village yard, and in the hands Of
the fancier; bat the fowl for the breeder
or fancier are not generally the kinds
for the farmer, and those for the small
quarters of the village lot are not the
varieties for the wider range of the
farm. And from the great interest in
poultry-breeding during the past dozen
years have come many advantages
which the farmer and villager may
claim and turn to useful account. For
instance: patient. careful breeding of
many years trial has been necessary
to produce in so great excellence the
many different breeds of poultry which
we now have, adapted to different pur-
poses; and these results could not have
been reached otherwise than through \
careful love for the business, as mani
tested BY those whom we term fan
ciers," or lovers of a particular variety;
and no breed, however undesirable for
general purposes, like the Houdans.
but has its .'fanciers;" and these fan
ciers. producing with care different
breeds. having distinctive character
istics. have been OF great service, be-
CoOSc Adluicks, sAAAaeStS, Sid al VIM
keep hens, or love fresh eggs, or roast
chickens in August, r reaping the
benefits and advantages of their pa
tient labors. The ..best breed for all
purposes has been obtained through
this careful breeding and selecting the
best mothers; the best layers-ihose
yielding the greatest number of eggs In
q given time, or the best table fowls;
and how could these have been pro-
duced had no one shown more interest
in hens than the common farmer. who
is aot particular about the number of
s~errations in the comb. or the pencil
ings of the neck hackle? There has.
undoubtedly. been much folly exhibited
BY many breeders devoted to 3 class.
but generally it may be said that posi-.
tive benefit has come to our poultry in
serests through their eft0rts.-Nec En-
gland Farmer.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18

OSE afternoon a hyena net a jacksI
in a lonely path in the woods and thus
began at him:
"Dear me, but how your breath
smells, You must have been eating
some old bones picked clean by a
lion"
"a grave robber shouldn't be the
first to cry stop thief saucily re-
piled the jackal.
.sYou have to feed on the crumbs
which fall from another mans table,
sneered the hyena-
..But / Am not detested hy man and
hated By nv own kind"
They thus continued their insults un-
til both were ready for battle. when
along came q hare. Under other cir
cumstances he would have been
pounced upon and eaten, but in this case
be was appealed to BY both to decide
which was the most worthy. The
frightened hare well knew that he
would be the sufferer. no matter which
wav he decided, but he did not lose his
wits.
While / must admit that both of
you have points of advantage" he re-
piled. al am forced to say that 1 am
too low and humble 20 be made judge
between two such superior animals.
Back here is a wood-chopper. and l
have no doubt he viii speedily settle
the dispute"
The disputants agreed TO leave It to
the Ak man. and at once set out When
they came before him. the hyena stated
the case and asked for \ decision
when two men go to law said
the chopper. rs he laid both beasts out
with his AZ, lit is not the business Of .
lawyer to inquire which is right. but TO
profit by the loss Of either"
Moral-Don't pick q fuss with \ hor-
because he wasn't bonn for a horse
fy.-Detrsst Free Press
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18

dog belonging to his father. which Was
living uton the porch in front OF the
house. and which the lad painfully
struck in the face n he was passing.
The dog had exhibited No signs OF the
rabies. Although the wound vas an
ugly one. the hip being 80 badly
hcera;ed that il was necessary Tor The
attending physician to sew It up. no
serious consequences were anticipated,
and the injury healed satisfactorily: On
Wednesday the boy complained OF
feeling unwell and was alternately AZ
fected BY severe chiils and high fever
He vas unable To eat. his eyes became
greatly dilaied and he strenuousiy re-
sisted taking the liquid medicine which
the physician prescribed and which u
reeni-ei some force to administer. the
little sufferer shuddering yisibly and
and frequently screaming. Yesterday
afternoon DIR. Foreman. who was the
attending physician, pronounced the
case TO be one of hydrophobia. and his
diagnosis wa confirmed by DIR. Alice.
who had been called in consultation A
South American yegc able poison called
..curare," claimed 10 be a specific RENE
DIV for the disease. was administered by
means Of inje ction under the skin OF the
arm and appeared Ia produce a beneficial
effect. but the relief was only tenn
porary. for during the night the spasms
! increased in force and number. and
from midnight on till i've O'Clock this
morning. when death relieved him. he
was in continuous agony. The sufferer
imayinei the room 10 be full OF horrid
forms. and the most trifing objects as
sumed shapes that were menacing him
self and his mother. for whom he ap-
peared to manifest the utmost solicit
tude. imploring her To flee from
the danger TO which she was
placed and shrieking with ter
ror. At oncltime he jumped IS high as
the headboard of the bed, and toward
the end il required the united strength
of two men to hold the suffering child
on his couch.-LdHcasier (Pa.J Specia!
10 Philadelphia Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
EDITH AND uER MuMrs.

She took them from me. grandma
says. but ! don't see how she could. for
! kept 'em till long after hers began.
They said she was only going 10 have
'em on one side. but she vas most
through with the measles 50 she had
room enough 10 have 'em on both sides
just like me.
You know I can't draw as well as
papa because he is a celebrated artist.
but | thought IL would be II comfort 10
you to see how she looks.
Jimmy and Josey have each got n
mump apiece. and they are drcadfully
measled too. Their faces are as red as
red can be. and the little spots on them
are redder still. and their mumps aro
all red and spccklcd o. lent u fun
nv? Perhaps its because they are
twins. I've drawed 4 portrait 81 them.
and IL | had time I'd paint IL. too. 50 you
could see how bright their measles IL.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18

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Er. J. = 49, hpssss - Ma ~
10 n. Hssss giris dfas use 49,
hi.A rsps .sA waite ssr@ $50 So
eAal~z - vsr.s psss@n~saass-
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The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-18
4 PERPETUAL skating Pend.

THERE Is q lake on the Saw Tooth
Mountains that has probably no equal
in the United States II is about sixty or
~sixty-fye miles from BONANZA. and AZ an
altitude of nearly twelve thousand feet
The lake lies in q basin among TIE
sharp crags of the snowy Saw Tooth,
and Is . sheet of perpetual ice II was
discovered in August of last year By .
party of prospectors. and named tbs
Ice Lake. The sun seemed 10 have no
effect upon il except in places adjoining
the shore II is simply great bowl
In the hard mountain rock brimfui Of
solid ice. upon which the raysof the sun
descend with no power 10 penetrate--
Tankee Fork (CaL) Hsrald