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The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13
The Duck Hunters Story.

"SPEAKING of duck shooting on St.
Clair Flats" sighed an old citizen. as
he took a seat in gun store yesterday,
IL don't think there are as many birds
up there IS there was ten or fifteen
years ago. Why, sir, the channels used
TO be just black with 'em. and they were
so tame that you could knock 'em on
the head"
Everybody signed to think those good
old days and ducks could never return,
and the veteran hunter continued:
81 remember | was GU one day i'm
April. got in among the bipeds. and
how many do you suppose / countcd?"
Three hundred" ventured one of
the audience after a long interval.
Three hundred! Why. [ always
killed v a thousand every time [
went out! No, sir, 1 counted over SIX
teen thousand great big, fat. plump,
delicious ducks, and then | had only
counted those on n side of the boatr'
"How long did it take you?"
81 don't know, sir, | had no watch
with me. Time is nothing TO a man
counting ducks. counted aloud, and
when the ducks were small | counted
two for one. BY and by | got tired
Of counting and got ready for the
slaughter.
.'How manv did you kill?"
"Well, now, l suppose | could lie
about it and say | killed nine or ten
hundred, but I'm getting too neal the
grave for that. No. | didn't kill a
blasted one, and that's where the
strange part of the story comes in.
When l began to lift that gun up those
ducks knew what l was up to Just as
well rs a human being, and what did
they do? Why. sir, about two hun
dred of EN- made n sudden dive, swan
under the boat, and all raised on her
port side at nee and upset heri Yes,
sir, they did, and there l was in the
North Channel, in ten feet of water.
boat upset, night coming on and | in
my wet clothes"
Wei ?"
"Well, 1 climbed up on the bottom
OF the boat, floated five miles, and was
picked up by two Indians. We lowed
that upset boat to an island, and here
another curious thing comes in. Under
the boat were 264 large, plump ducks.
They had been caught there when she
upset, and all we had to do was to haul
'em out and rap 'em on the head"
why. why didn't they dive down
and get from under the boat ?" asked
an amateur duck-shooter.
"Why didn't they, sir-why didn't
they9 Well, sir, L might have asked
'em why they didn't, but it was late. a
cold wind had sprung up. and l didn't
feel like talking! All l know is that 1
counted over $1,000 ducks. was upset,
captured 264, and have afidavits here
in my wallet to prove everything have
stated. Does any man here want to see
the documents ?"
No man did. They all looked out of
the windows and wondered if they could
lie that way when they had passed three.
score years.-.Detrot Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13
Draining Wet Land.

THERE are three methods of draining
wet land worthy of notice. The first
and cheapest is open draining or ditch.
ing. This method carries off super.
fluous water the most rapidly, and on
very cheap lands is the only advisable
method on any large scale. We will,
for Illustration, take a farm of low land,
such rs exists in any quantity in all the
Western States. The highest elevation
on a half section is only live feet. The
water line during half of the year is
within two or three inches of the sur
face. In summer it dropsdown for two
or three months to six, eight, ten or
many more inches. BY cutting bitches
two feet deep, around ten-acre fields,
drawing toward the lowest part of the
land. h average water line NAV be
lowered several inches. Every inch
that the water line on such land can be
lowered, to the depth of twelve inches,
increases its agricultural products one
sixth.
Stake out the ditch where desired.
throw out with a large pillow and a
strong team as deep as possible, the
first furrow. Throw another furrow
from the first one. leaving only a core
sufficient to hold the pillow steady;
throw out this core with a spade, ten
inches deep. This is the first step to-
ward a good open drain. Deepen it as
time and circumstances permit. The
cost OF this first operation, in land free
from stones, has not with us exceeded
two cents a rod. And by it we have
drained acres that before hadlaid under
water eight months in the year. Fences,
If needed. can now be placed on the
bank thrown up. The Usage orange
and black thorn grow better on
these banks than on the undrain-
ed low ground. . But the ground
may be rolling with low places
surrounded by higher ground, which
keeps the water from running off. If
this high ground be many feet high,
drainage only be effected by cutting
through the higA ground. and putting
in tiles. boards A-shaped, poles, rails or
stone, where they abound. and cover
ing. II this is not feasible and il is de-
sired to drain the punch bowl, resort
must be had to vertical draining. Bore
with an auger-a twO-inch anger will
do. but the larger the better--down
through the clay sub-soil, to the under
lying strata of water gravel; as soon
as this strata is reached the water will
sink into the hole and disappear; if the
hole is kept open. Any cheap iron.
lead or wooden tubing will suffice. I'm
derdraining, with tile, brush, rails,
poles or stones, for the central portions
of cultivated fields, is by far the most
desirable method of carrying off the
water, as it induces the water to perco-
late through the soil, depositing its fer
tilizing elements held in solution, and
raises the average temperature of the
ground from two to ten degrees, &C.
cording to English experiments.
For the purpose of understanding,
the ditch should be made as narrow rs
possible, and from two to three feet
deep. and ever a greater depth is de-
sirable. as the deeper the ditch the
more it drains and the further NAV they
be cut apart. Pine brush, tips down.
ward, beginning at the upper end of
the drain and deeply covered. lest a
good many years and e~frectually drain
the land, as we know.-Cor. Ohio
Farmer.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13
IHAT Old. OLD ST0RY
NEBRASKA

set1LS sang the little loye-birds.
pIuninlcr zcphyrs kissed the earth
fsii on groups Of little children
Flaying in their nTfIcss m1rfb
Close behind the damask curtains
In a ON Of luxury.
cat "a delicate yonng maiden
on the Verge of t~wcnry-three
eal n watched there In the IN
IN me hour of eight was told:
h.iaflcholy DER tier stealing:
ies, The maid was growing old.
cundcnly sees n figure
- SoInliig through the guih'rinv gloom.
'nsh inc melancholy maiden
PROUDLY pranccd around the room.
"hcn he pulls the good bell handle.
inplnpt n y the massive door.
in parlOr they are seated.
All her troubles now are DER.
cn his knee she Vayly pcrches:
FROM another room her pa
Looks upon his ariful daughter
with establishment and awe.
As his arm was round her gliding
ana MS lips to hers were glued.
iught behind the chair the old man
Like an awful specter stood.
Need VIC tell the old, old story.
VI man : trust and womau'e guile,
should say not: they were married
IN the most expensive style.
Chicago Tribune.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

In R0~Aev R0V..

VEGErISE put up In this form IL within the
reach Of all. BY making the medicine your
self, you can. from . 5ocent package contain
Ing the barks, roots and herbs, make two bot
ties OF the liquid Vegetine. Thousands will
gladly avail themselves Of this opportunity,
who have the couyenienccs Ia make the med
icine. Full directions in every package.
Negetine In powder form 10 sold by all drug
gists and general stores II you cannot huy
IL Of them inclose 20 cents In postage stamps
/ viii send it 6y return mall. Il. r. Stevens
Rnsfnr Ma
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

An American grain elevator has been
taken 70 London and put 70 work The
Telegraph szys: $50 strange . structure
noored In the river caused much exci.emen.
among the water population, aid the tower
Of corrugated zinc vas supposed By some 10
be tin p~aeking-csses going from woolvich 10
bring home Cefyvayo While others mtstook
II for . new foafilG parish church
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

THAT was . pretty little lesson I'm geog.
rsphy that Albert Wolf wrote with his auto.
graph for the Murcia relief fund of the Paris
press: THE town OF MurcIa IL sttuAted In q
Spanish province Of the ideal empire Of
charity, which has no frontiers, In which
there Is DO difference Of races, where ell the
inhabitants speak the same language. that %
the heart, and all the citizens are equal be-
fore the human solidarity"
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

Perfectly all Ordinary ConVersatioa. Lctsr-s Con
ecrta etc. BY Ser Caansel' 20 lbc Nerves u Hearing
BY means Of . recent wonderful -f-nfinc Invention :
the Drnis?hobe- For nrmArkshs> pablo iests %
the Deaf. also on Ihr Deaf and Dgmh. go thu " y.
Heydid Sept. -. thu v y CSrfstlas Aasors<, Nov.
n etc Send for rnEH p.mphjct 90 the Au-ricaa
Dcnlaphonc Co. - Vino sIcet Cin<iansfL Oh.o.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

The Florida orsnge crop this year 10 much
larger than ever before. From such counties
rs are easily accessible the figure. point To .
crop Of about 4+0.sD boxes In Putnam
County alone the 1873 yield Vas nearly $500
DO ranges, and next year, With the large
number Of blooming trees that will come into
bearing. the crop viii amount % 2,0O,@
oranges
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

The power Of plants TO force their usy
through q resisting medium IL very remarka.
bic. A writer IN . foreign journal aseert. that
be has known q dandelion TO gro. through
two inches Of asphalt which had been spread
ever IL.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

The man who married a needle
woman said he wa not welded under
stress of circumstances. though il
might seamstress of circumstances.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

EVERY man who has become President Of
the Cnitesi States has been elected during q
leapyesr. This Is something for the girls to
wonder over.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

n uas asayinR o. Ccnsuc.us, II an . happy msn. for
n ] have . fault m.n oos-rve IL" NcU u u Q sa,ina.
. Am . harp man. f< if ! an sick ard AL Nd thers
y HUNTS kkxRBf 10 cure me- T1Ai ese. Is osua
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

SPRING IL come, and prudent parents should
see that the hinges 70 the from; gate are prop
erly strengthened for the campaign AyounS
man on the from; gate Il worth two In The
pArlor Chicago 7rS~aN.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

ITis said that four million packages OF Fra
GERS Axle Grease we're sold In 1879, and 10
believe IL
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

FROM the London Aootemy: I" A logical def
milton of poetry Is still vanting, and It IL far
safer TO affirm wha; poetry 10 not than shat
il is
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

SEND six cents for specimen Of Tk iu.sfya,~f
Catholic American, IL Barclay 81, New York.
Bright pictures, stories, poems and skeiches-
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

A PANTHER measuring seven feet
from tip to tip was shot on Humbus
Greek, Siskiyou County, Cal.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

REDDTSG's RrssfA SALvR IL the universal
remedy for burns, scalds. cut. bruises, etc
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

In IL said that since his bankruptcy Edwin
Booth has earned $4,000 On the stage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-13

Jar GOULD has an income OF g, 600 perday.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22
Didn't Think he had Better Have
ANY More.
We met HIM on the train.

We met HIM on the train.
He wasn't very healthy specimen OF
manhood, and looked as if there had
been a Dire ught when he was planted.
He had found this out in some way,
and had evidently determined to make
up the deficiency by keeping himself
continually moist in his journey through
life.
He walked up to the water tank and
told the man in the looking glass to
give him some gin. The man didn't
answer him, and he told him tina. he'd
be darned if he wouldn't 60 next door
and git what he wanted. He walked
into the next car, and saw another man
in a lookingglass "Want some gin
Yes, that's what | said: Want some
gin,'' he repeated, As the lookingglass
man repeated his words. He saw this
by the movement Of the other man S
mouth.
don't YOU sink 1 had better have
any MOI" he asked, shaking his head
ami putting on a complacent grin.
The man in the looking glass shook
his head and grinned too.
"Well, so long as you are SO polite
bout it, I'll drop on myself I'll break
that next do feler's jaw one Of these
days, n don yer furgit it"
He took off his hat, smiled, and the
other man did the same.
THAT feller's brick, he CALCULATED,
as he re-entered our car. AS he passed
the looking glass he shook his fist at the
man he saw walking along, and said
"You look 'nough like that other fel'
ter he his brother, but Yer no good, n
that S what's matter tn me.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

the exercise of Justice that leaves every
thing of the kind in modern times at an
unreasonable distance.
The father immediately resigned his
office; and, after his death, which speed
lily followed that of his son, the citizens
fixed over the door of the house a
deaths head and cross bones, car, ed in
black marble, to perpetuate the remem-
hrance of this SIGNAL act OF Justice.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22
Who Murdered Morgan ?

81 know Morgan was killed, said
Mr.. Weed, "and when and where he
was killed, and who killed him. 1t was
dreadful murder.
Chow do know e he asked, repeat
ing my last question. 81 know because
the criminals themselves confessed it to
me before they died."
els it possible p said, "will you
tell the public about it.
Eyes; l have told it partly before
1t was in 1884, about five years after
the sudden disappearance of Morgan,
that, on my trial for libeling the Ma
sons, two men. volunteered to be my wit
nesses. One of these men was John
Whitney"
l think Mr.. Weed said the other was
the man who had charge of the old fort
where Morgan was confined by his cap
tors.
He went on:
81 invited them to eat some oysters
with me after the trial, and while we
were at the table John Whitney con-
sented, in reply to our urgency, to make
a clean breast of it about the murder of
Morgan. He declared the terrible Sc
cret had been burden on him day and
night, and then he told who the men
were who left the lodge one dark night
to put Morgan out of the way, lest he
might reveal the secrets of the Order.
He said he was one of the men. The
others were Colonel William King,
Garside, Howard and Chubbock. They
went to the. fort, bound the prisoner
hand and foot, laid him in boat, carried
him to about the middle part of the Mag
ara river, where 1t was two milesto either
shore, and then tying weights to his
head and heels, they flung him over
board. When he had told the story,
Whitney said he felt relieved. The
other witness turned to him and said ::
"John, Weed can hang you now
eyes," said Whitney, "but he won't"
l thought much about my duty to the
public, but it was obviously impossible
to convict him unless he would say sol
EMMY in court what he had said to me.
1t was nearly thirty years afterward
when l met John Whitney in Chicago,
when ] was there at the Convention in
1860. He came to me and said he
wanted to make a careful confession for
me to write down, to be published after
his death. There was nobody else he
dared to trust it to, he said. | agreed
to commit his dreadful secret to paper
as soon as the Convention adjourned.
The hour it adjourned he was waiting
for me at my hotel. l was in the depths
of disappointment, and was busy with
hundred things, and l told Whitney
that l should come back to Chicago
shortly, and would then attend to it.
We exchanged letters after that, but he
died suddenly and l never saw him
again.
"The Chicago papers," 1 said, "ought
to look up his relatives or friends there,
and see if he left any document or told
his secret
EYES," he replied, "it would be well.
1t is strange, by the way, that every
one of those five murderers is dead, and
all but one died violent deaths. Col.
King committed suicide, and Garside
was kicked to death by horse. Corr.
<. D.,.1 D.o.oo, D..e,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

Don't play any tricks with collins A
retired Paris tradesman, who was get
ting old, and bought his coffin, lay down
in it to see how it felt He couldn't get
out again, being feeble and stiff, and as
he had locked himself in the room. he
could only groan. His servants sup
posed he was gone into the country, but
as he didn't come back at his usual time,
they Knocked at his room door, heard
him groan, broke the door open and res
cued him, after several days in his coffin.
A little longer and there would have
been no use taking him out. ii
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

A Jersey City girl ran darning-
reedle INTO her limb, and amputation
was the only means of saving her. life.
This should be warning to girls.
Nothing but very lazy woman viii
darn her stockings while they are ON.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

She stood in the effulgent light of a
short dip waiting for him at the front
door at A. N. lie came. He was
husky. She didn't mind that. He was
drunk-she was used to it. Jim" she
said, softly, knocking him down so as
to drag him up to bed easier, Jim,
did YOU vote p "Yesh, dear" "Hou've
been long time. "Yesh, love, poll
didn't close till jes now" "Where's
the money! "What p "The money"
''My dear, I don't anershand." didn't
they pay you for your vote 2 "No."
She looked at him playtully, with boa
constructor tickle in her eve. "Its time
women had the franchise, she muttered;
''the men amt mp to it, Then she
rolled him under the bed to be out Of
the way, and in the morning she got
him into an asylum under the new
Punch and Judycature act. " He gave
his vote for nothing she said to the
magistrate. Dangerous lunatic, wrote
his worship, and at the next election
there was a voter short.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

Wellington attributed his success to
the fact that he knew the value Of mir
utes.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22

Along with the helping hand, there
should always 60 helping sympathy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18
Duration Of Eternity.

Various illustrations have been sug.
gested 10 convey to the mind some idea
ofillimitable duration. 1t has been said,
suppose that Que drop of ocean should
be dried up every thousand years, how
long would it be ere the last drop would
disappear and the oceans bed be left dry
and rusty? Far onward as that would
be in the coming ages, eternity would
but have just commenced. 1t has been
said, suppose this vast globe upon which
we tread were composed of particles OF
the finest sand, and that one particle
should disappear Mt the termination OF
each million of years, oh how inconciev.
ably immense would be the period which
must elapse before the last particle would
be goneI And yet, eternity would be in
its morning twilight. 1t has been said,
suppose some little insect, so small as to
be imperceptible to the bare eye. were to
carry this world by its tiny mouthfuls to
the most distant star in the heavens.
Hundreds of millions of years would be
required for the single journey. The in.
sect commences on the leaf OF % tree aud
takes its little load, so small that even
the microscope cannot discover that it is
gone, and sets out on an almost endless
Journey. After millions and millions Of
years have rolled away it arrives back for
its second load. Oh, what interminable
ages would elapse before the tree would
be removed When would the forest be
gone? And the globe? Even then,
eternity would but have commenced.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

- The suicide of Robert Low, at West
Albany, Mimi, was the upshot of a long
struggle between good and bad nature ia
the man. He was from his boyhood of a
peculiarly morose and vindictiyc dispo.
sition. As a man, he quarrelled and
fought with his neighbors, was cruel to
dumb animals, and became an object of
general aversion. The community was
astonished when Mrs. Gray, an amiable
and pious widow, consented to become
hi. wife. She was strongly advised
against the step; but she was certain that
Low loved her sincerely, and believed
that she could reform him. For awhile
after the marriage he was different
man, and it was thought that his wite's
influence was powerful enough to keep
him in good behavior. But at length he
fell back into his old ways of violence.
She parted from him, and began proceed
ings for divorce. He went to her resi-
dence, aud begged her to give him an,
other trial He protested that he wanted
to be a kind husband, and felt sure that
he could conquer his temper. She re-
pulsed him decisively. He had struck
her and her son, and she considered him
incorrigible. Thcreupon he shot her
through the heart, killed the son and
then himself.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

Sufficient returns have been received
to show that the Constitutional amend.
meut prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of liquors in Kansas has been adopt
ed by at least 10000 majority. The
friends of temperance made special efforts
in favor of tile amendment on election
day, that being the principal question in
most localities. In all the cities, and
many small towns, the ladies election:
eered for the cause of temperance, and
had tempting lunches spread in the
vicinity of the polls, which voters par
took of freely, the only consideration
being promise 10 vote for the amend
ment. The opponents of the measure
made no effort to defeat it, and will con-
tent themselves with devising means to
evade its operation and surmount it with
such legislative enactments as will render
it of no effect. The amendment will go
into effect when the vote is canvassed aud
published by authority of the State
Board, and in the opinion of many law
yers this will abrogate all licenses hereto
fore granted by any municipal law. 1t
also virtually repeals the present dram
shop act of the State relating to the
granting of licenses. The other provis-
ions of the act prohibiting penalties for
sale without authority of law remain in
full force and effect. 1t is not known
how the Legislature-elcct stands on the
questions growing out of the amendment,
and strong fight will be made by the
two factions.