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The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

worried now. "wha; II he has s.,-.-
ed home and got lost. deelara b..
lev, I'd forgive him = dozen times over
70 know he was safe.
just then the door opened. and ,hsrs
stood somebody IT about Tro'fys s,s
Yur a minute OF two be sts--i hss,at-
ing. With doSrcast EYES, then. vs~
cautiously. he haxaried n g.au~~ PAD,
into Aunt RacheIs face. AD.t tb4E
why. he burst into tears I'm sr-
rcr n anything" be sohbVd. ps,ss
forgive me.
lie locked So pitlul. 80 + rh'r--r FL,
=. sorricr than anything. cha, Asa.
Rachel took him up in her arms az
Kissed away abe tears. k.ad.y ASuy
him he Was forgiven.
~ don't scr what makes NJ ~ =,
msnv naughty thing~." Saii 1u;,, ,,
hi, mot neg. ~ she tucked him .at- r~sI
that night u mean e. b. pAl asi
aai then something comes iat, ms
mind, and | does 70 before ! Huk.
.omctimcs-And sometimes | tr-t ta.
oniy | dnnt hard enough. Eu",t
should s'pose III learn. cause ! have ,
msch trpubl. and tT,hilAitnn H.-
naughty. guess ! have learned esae
thoagh. IA S-aaAsr. 81. :
=. Itusss.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Miss Braddon. the novelist. IL re-
ceivinz = larger inoorns from her books
than any Other English writer Of fiction
- The "Edipus Tyrannus" Of
Sophoclss Is To be acted By Harvard
students In the third week in May.
Three performances n 10 be given.
Lady Florence Dixie. distinguished
- \ fearless and accomplished horse
woman. is going TO the Transvasl n
war correspondent for the London
4orais1 Post
Prof. Richard A. Proctor. the emf
nent astronomer and lecturer. Il - re-
ported from ST. Joseph. Mo Is about
10 wed n lady of tina, city. = widow.
and wiz henceforth reside in this coun-
try.
WIFI S HAYES IN. written snd cpuf-
posed about three hundred and sixty
songs. and there are ten OF them ,hai
had \ sale Of two hundred Thousand
each. Mr.. Hays is on the editorial
stad OF the Louisville (Ky.) Courier
journal.
Rufus Choate believed in hard work
and struggle. When some n sail 70
him that 4 certain fine achievement was
the result OF accident. he exclaimed:
Nonsense You might n. well drup
the Greek alphabet on the ground snd
expect To pick up the lliai."
Mr.. MacGahan. the well-krown
newspaper correspondents, who wrote
SO wildly OF the Turco-Russian wa,
left a wife and child. lie was married
about = year before his death 20 an n.
eomplished Russian lady of rank n her
country. The widow and child visited
the mother and brothers-in- law a, To-
ledo, o.. last year- She Is described a.
a handsome brunette. highly educated
and accomplished. though finding tho
ways of this country very new and
strange.
jean Louis Ernest Mcissonier can
make a picture that Will sell for more
than the work OF any other living art.
ist A recent number OF the Hp3Iziae
Of Ar gives u biographical sketch OF
this picturesque artist He is now six
ty-eight years old. Mci>sonicr paints \
horse about - perfectly - IL is possible
to do. He seems Ia spare no pains ir
getting every detail Of his subject. For
instance. he once had n small railway
built. and he Was whirled in a car that
kept alongside n g~alloping horse so that
he could sketch every movement II the
charger.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
A Representative Constituent.

He gave all the hackmen at the
Union Depot a stand-off, brushed the
boot-blacks right and left, and Shout
dered his sixty pounds of baggage and
started up Jefferson avenue in search
of a tavern. He was a right up and
down man, and he wanted to strike a
tavern where they had an old-fashioned
boiled dinner.
Just come in from lansing" he
observed, as he fell in with a pedeS-
TRAN.
did eh?" Been out to the Legis-
lature?"
"You bet l have. I'm not a men,
Der, but l made things hum out tn ere
all the same"
Have a bill?"
"Not exactly. l come down from
- County to take the kinks out of
u member. He was sailing in with a
high head, and if I'd waited ten DAYS
longer he'd have been bossing the
whole State. What dye thinkr"
81 dunno"
"He wouldn't speak to me when l
first got there! Think of that, Up
home there we rated him about No. 4,
and sent him down to Lansing more
because none of the rest of us could
leave, and he wanted to cut me
colder'n a wedge! What do you
Think"
Rather mean"
"YOu beti But | lowered his hose a
bit. We'd heard how he was prancing
around and putting on airs and making
out that lao ,rn ~ .a,,t- al g.,
of us got together and wrote him a let
ter. 1t didn't seem to do any good,
and so we got together again and they
sent me down to put OIL the curry
comb"
"And you did?"
Didn't 1? He'd put in about a
dozen bills affecting our county, and l
mashed all but two. He had laid him.
self out for six or seven speeches, and l
mashed all but one. The first day |
got there he was supporting motions
and moving to amend and strike out,
but | mighty soon let him understand
that no such chaff passed for oratory
with us. He tried to bulldoze me at
first, but when he found that his con-
s%tituency had got after him he Gained
down. He'd been fOsling with the
game law and had got mixed up with a
dog-tax bill, and a saw-log law, and a
bill about inland fishing, and 1 don't
know what else. / took him out be-
hind the State-House and says L: Now,
boy; YOU squat! Your constituents de-
mand that you calm right down. We
don want no Cicero in ours, and we
won't have it. We sent you down here
to do a little quiet work, and not to
prance around and imagine you've got
Patrick Henry's hat on. We r a
humble people, taking kindly to log
houses and johnny-cake, and we don't
60 4 cent on words and long flour
That's what l told him, and he
Gained"
Did, ehr"
you bet he did! and if we hear
anything more about his rising to cx-
plain his vote on the dog-tax, or NOV
to recOmmit the muskrat bill our
county won't be no place for him to re-
to. This is the place. Ell? Well,
I'll fodder up and then take the train
hOmc."-DetroI Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
Dragging and being.

Have YOU not heard how some hp,f
hrag about what thew are igtguJinE Co
do9 They are aiwsys going To do Won
dcrs.
''You just watt say they. and We
will show YOU. some iay. what we can
do"
Now Is yonr chance. we would say 80
you. You are OLD enough nav. aud ,uu
will never have a better time hctir-
begin now We arc anNiuIs To- sec }uI-
first effort Let We NJ once see ,uJ
animated by the practical purpusr 20
doing. not by the dream. ana then w.,
will compute our future for YOU
Make an clort. Even II you shti,
fail the first time. a hundred tim ,tii
continue to try. The result - inr,i'l
BILE. IL Il only those who faltcr thai
come 10 grieL. BeH SPrag.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
HUMOROUS.

1T wa n wealthy Philaielphian who,
being asked on his return from Europe.
how he liked the Bosphorus. replied
that he didn't eat any, and preferred
the ordinary homemade slusages.-
american Queen
"A short time ago n clever article
appeared in the Nincicenth Century from
the pen of Mr.. Mallock. entitled. lis
Life Worth Living?" The answer u
the c%onundrum is: at depends on the
liver.h-St. LOnis Post DtspI,ch.
In the year 1880 America issued
seventy patents 10 women. Aud not
u OF these was an Indicator to be at
ta:hed to a bed post To shoH il there is
a man under the bed. And yet. think
how much getting down on hands and
knees such a thing would save
-BOston Posi.
There has been a good deal Of Bit
ter controversy in New York over Sarah
Bcrnhardt's exact weight, and one Of
those who believes her { be the cham
pion dramatic lightweight of the ago
asserts that not long ago at rehearsal
Sarah introduced the feature of firing
a pistol at the villain OF the piece.
Instead of the usual result. the wad re-
manned perfectly stationary while the
Bernhardt and the pistol we're blown
backwards through the side scenes
san Francisco Pos.
An Ingenious mother who had long
been bothered by the fastidiousness OF
her children at table has ut last dis
covered a way Of circumventing them.
She places what she wants each child 10
eat before its neighbor ut table. and of
each cries for what the other has.
and the ends of justice are promoted
Chicago Tribune.
We have just learned that on the
afternoon before the last holiday Col
Onel Scion noticed a sign on the door
of an Oil City bank. saying: ''Bank will
be closed To morrow; al paper failing
due then must be paid TO-DAY" The
Colonel rushed wildly into the bank.
ado you mean TO say that I
l must pay my note to-day, which falls
due Tomorrow" ..Certainly. sir"
l haven't a cent of money TO-DAY
and CONGRATULATIONS | think OF
it. l haven't any note To pay either"
And the good Colonel walked away with
a sigh of relief. -Uerrirt.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

the travellers who went that way. Sew.
eral years ago two young men came
from DoylestOwn to attend a party at
Erwinna, a summer resort on the Penn
~sylvania side, q few miles below here.
1t was a warm night and they did not
start back until late. They drove past
the house of the laughing family soon
after the regular attack had begun.
The windows were all open. and every
sound could be clearly heard. As the
young men approached they heard the
most unearthly noise their ears had
ever received. 1t seemed like a perfect
pandemonium. and they felt sure they
must have struck the entrance to the
lower regions. The horse took fright
and nearly run away with them. Com
ing to the conclusion that, at the least,
the place vas haunted, they hurried
home, and the next morning spread the
news. Parties were formed to investi-
gate the matter, but none of them
solved the subject until informed by a
man in the village near at hand as to
the nature of the case. They were
urged to remain reticent about the mat
ter, and have done so.
THEIR PRESENT CONDITION.
The years of incessant laughter have
told somewhat on the faces of the fam
lily. but not SO rs to be very noticeable.
There are scores of lines under the
eyes and above the cheeks, caused by
the drawing up of the skin. Then their
mouths have become wider, and they
keep them closed with difficulty. The
most marked result of the disease, how
ever, is in the voice. The entire fam
lily talk in the same tone, resembling as
near as anything the voice of an alto
singer. Males and females have the
same infection and information. Most
of them have more or less trouble with
their eyes, several having become very
near-sighted. The pupils have con
tracted and the entire eyeball is dimin-
ished in size. This is accounted for
by the contraction of the eyes while
laughing and the effort required in
working or reading while undergoing
an attack. Very little physical annoy
ance is caused the laughers. They read
and write, sleep and work without any
trouble. The only thing they seem I'M
able to do, while attacked, is to eat.
and that can be readily understood.
Several grandchildren have been born,
and in all but one instance they were
taken, soon after birth, with stated at
tacks at the same hours as their par
ents. OF course they do not laugh as
the older ones do, but they crow and
express all the signs of baby glee twice
a day and never cry while in that state.
Frenchtown (N. ~ Cor. Philadelphia
Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
Death OF a Misrr-A Singular Char
meter.

A recent dispatch from Omaha says
Information has been rsseised herr 20
h death ut Grand Island. Lsst week.
Of a real m scr. one at the Kind Who
Rugged not his gold after ihr fsh,on of
the miser of rouianee. but one Who
knew a good Investment. and h.,it,tci
not Ia put his money where the return
would be SURE. speedy and larg-. aud
yet who lN cal and lied la rags. s~Iuaior
and physical ~ubclenniiness. withvut
proper medical Attendance. because hu
loved his money too well To- part with
even so small n sum a. would ho ncsc,-
sary tn give him comfort and save h,
life. IL was ''Old Mackey." n chara--
ter well known u those familiar with
the history oi the Union Pacific Rail
way. He came West with Mr.. SIDNEY
Dillon. la the early DAYS when the CUn.
strHctiun 81 the road was BEGUN. and
worked With the miilionaire so bong "a
he was in charge of the railroad butld.
ing He was retained in the employ ~
the company AMI possessed the friend
ship of Mr.. Dillon from that tame Ia
the day 10 his death. '.Oid Mackey''
regarded the President OF the company
with all the anectiun of whirh 20
sordid n soni was capable. end hia
early employer never failed To sos and
cordially greet him when he passed
over the line. IL l. supposed Mr. Dill
Ion made Mackey's investments
for him. ''Old Markers service
with the Union Pacific Company
antedaies that Of most Of the present
employees. aud they all knew him we'll
lilo dressed in rags and boxed more
Ike n tramp or q street begyar han Ike
a man VI wealth. His dirty and IN
kempt appearance ocsasioned mach re-
mark. bns when remonstrated With AMI
urged w keep his clothing ass and
whole. has onIs reply VA. Il can not
Afford q" He slept in box cars. ou tho
ground. anywhere. for the purpose u
saving expense. aud his washing. what
ittle was dous, he did with bss own
hanfs on Sundays. He nsed no liquor
and M tobacco, and his living eI-
i1enses must hsFc been less even than
those at a frisco Chiuaman- The old
was honest. too. for his expense
when doing ettFs service cot
IN the road. sent the company FIR par
ment. never exceeded forty dollars per
month. His exposure and mode Of lie
brought on an attack Of pneumonia.
lils penuriousness displayed itsslf hsre
again. for he declined ID sear The ex-
psnse Of n physicias's attsnfbsn, Aad
lied from wsnt Of IL. when the end
came. and the pocr old missr had been
earriei 10 his grave. IN hss hove and On
lbs person were fond q few doIan IN
yp'd and grechbscks, s7essu In Go~-
bonds and iaAJ .irar.. IL
Union Pacific stock. together with =
val disposing Of his wealth. FIFE bad
wife. 20 child. no n~ez-rsiatiEes, and
had orlsred his properly Distributed
,nong Eastern friends ard distant relA-
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
The Beers, and What Thy Want.

a correspondent asks what the Trans
yaai IL, what its inhabitants. the Beers,
have done. and what the English have
done. and why theY want % tight about,
it. Without entering NJ this time into
minor details OF difference or the later
incidents that have pushed ~eNaspcra-
ton 10 hostility We will name the broad
er features of the controversy. The
Transyaal is a region that includes al
the country to the north Of the Wall
River-and hence the name as far n,
the Limpopo Tor Crocodile) River. AMI
embraces both sides n the Quathlamba
Mountains. IL lies between latitude
twenty-five degrees fifteen minutes and
twenty. eight degrees forty minutes
south. and longitude twen,y-six degrees
to ~thirty-two degrees fifteen minutes
east. Its area is about one hundred
and fifteen thousand square miles: and
its population is estimated NJ three hum
dred thousand, Of whom about one-tenth
are whites.
Now. certain Dutch Beers who lived
in Cape Colony and Natal BECAME dis
satisfied with British rule. They did
not take kindly 10 n change which to
the old Hollanders of Manhattan made
% little difference Like the people
of the Orange Free State they Thought
they would like 4 government Of their
own. The Scotch were consoled for
the merging of their nationality bg the
consideration that a Scottish dcnasty
was seated on the British throne; and
II was long ago pointed out to Dutch
colonists whose country was coded 20
England that the circumstances of a
Dutch Prince having rs ended the En-
giish throne should reconcile them
selves in a like manner. But the
Beers failed 10 see the matter in this
light: such comfort they though. !
might have been very well for con-
temporaneons enjoyment but Was of lit
tie worth merely as n "reminiscences. !
Thus IL was that in 1910 these diSsa,- :
isded Beers marched. ike so MANY |
modern Hebrews, oct of the land OF |
their masters and set up a Republic for
themselves on the further side Of the
vaal- They deemed this 10 be free
territory. and thought that at leasttneyl
would only nave to contest their footing /
with savages- For = long time the
cherished hopes that Crest Britain !
would allow them 20 eaioy their in ie-
pendeace in peace. But for ssss
easons. apart from her custom
ary Inst for territory. Great Britain |
to feel otherwise disposed One |
plausible reason given out for inserfer-
ence was the fear Of general war be-
tween the natives OF Africa aud The |
European colonists: and, II last. In
lS47. the Transvasl Was formally an
aexed 70 the Cape Colony. /
Such. in brief. is N outline Of the I
events that have led 10 the present wai.
ant the Transvas!. ike its
Natal and Cape Co.ony, to
De added TO the list of lmperia! posses
.ions, and asserts = claim 20 the sol
prior to the Boer occupation: and the
Beers van their Independence. We
have said enough 10 Indicate alike the
Of their claim 20 this inaepea-
fence and slso. unfortunately. their
chance 81 foreibly maintaining
IN. i. ku<siH2 Post
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
A Most Singular Accident.

An accident occurred Yesterday
which. for singularity almost surpasses
belief, and discounts any story ever
told by the President of the Club of
Forty Champion Liars. l.. Solomon. a
clothier doing business at No. Ga
Franklin avenue. and who. by the wax,
is a rather Staid and sober business man
OF middle age, was, about four O'Clock.
sitting in front of his open stove and
meditating on a possible rise in cloth.
ing, when atoo heavy dinner or natural
somnolency caused him to fall asleep.
Whether dreaming induced q change
in his position, or whether the weight
of his head in nodding forward over
balanced him, neither he nor any one
else knows. but he was certainly very
rudely awakened and quickly discovered
that he had fallen forward in his chair
and thrust his head through the stove
door. Fortunately the fire was almost
out. and Solomon being ashamed TO be
found in such a position, endeavored in
vain to extricate himself without call
ing for assistance. He soon found out
that the stove was hot enough to burn
his hands. and the heat becoming un-
bearable on his face he shouted for Mr..
Kruger, his clerk. The latter was not
a little astonished at the sight that met
his gaze when he approached the stove.
but retaining his presence of mind he
tried to drag his employer out Of his
predicamenf, but did not succeed.
Finding that Solomon was getting pref
ty badly burned and crying to him to
render him speedy help, he at last
broke the stove and got him out His
hands. face and neck were considers
bly, injured, but it is thought he will
recover. A carriage was. Immediately
called, in which he was taken to his res.
dence, No. 1904 Morgan. where's PHYS
ician dressed his burns and left him As
comfortable as could be expected. His
experience has certainly been novel;
81. Louis Gio5o.Jcmocrdt.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
Our Young Readers.
A QrEER STObf.


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A.. aa.s All Alss<x A&AS AeAl&
a ffo~u tia, rests GA the ban3 sN
Nos. I ~ouidn't b<itcSe thfs story tcaasaa =
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Iisi its trsS. for t~ss tNaS mo n"s
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The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
A SKETCH.

The mule seemed pcnsive, even sad,
As il by conscience pricked;
But. when they came to share his woes,
He raised objections-kicked.
b cat came up to sympathize,
With NEW and gentle purr:
Alas, she got within his reach,
Observation-Disclosures and furi
The dog, in pity, neared him to
Alleviate his care;
he tried to pass around him Once,
BuI-sausage-meat and hairl
And John, the honest farmer-bOy,
Who had the beast I'm charge,
Tried recklessly TO harness him
His funeral was large.
o trifiing were the causes which
His fiexile legs unfurled:
And many were the quadrupeds
Thai sought another world.
He never did q decent thing;
He wasn't worth a ducat;
He kicked and kicked until he died,
And then he kicked the bucket.
N. Y. Sun,
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

Twelve persons in the city of New
York answer TO the name of George
Washington
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

The Meutone papers report two
suicides al Monte Carlo. Recently .
man rushed out OF the gaming room
exciaiming. Il am done for; I have lost
20. 900 francs" On the staircase ne
drew q revolver from his pocket and
blew bis brains out. The other man.
wandering on the shore. was seer 70 sit
down on 3 rock and rest his head on
his hands A minute after o detona-
ton was heard He. too. had blown his
brains out.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

At the time Of the recent big ho;el
apartments in the burning building were
many articles that he priced. rushed 10
his rooms. seized an empty bird-cage
snd a clock key. and barely escaped
with his life through the smoky halls
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12
A Safeguard for Bvaksp,~u.

The Richmond K Dansille Railroad
Company IL Introducing n hsirfreight
trains u safeguard for their brakeuen.
IL - vel Known tina; manF fafai zee.
denis which occur 10 brakemea ar,
those IN ~bieh The ~braksnssn stauainv
on . top Of freight ears are kposked
va w. bead by covered bridges. The
safeguard consists II = post erected
about hall = mile on ei,hsr side a
covered bridge To this post - hon-
zSniai piece IL attached stretching
across y track. 81 course above the
reaeh ans head on .op II q car. FROM
ms norIzoniai piece cords are sEpnz.
40 ms; IN case the brakeman I. mat
tentiFeiy Standing upright While near
ny The bridge, the cords will strike h.m
ana 'enisa him To dsck his had
Mrs Judith Tvonbly r~ecensiy eels-
oraitd her lotd bir-hiay .. he rssi-
q OF her sos-in-fsw. Mr. james
SssexPcis. . prominent citizen Of
cheinsford- Mass Her 1rear~grsAt-
gr~satgrsnfson, aged iye YEAR.. was 0
OF the guestsL She san has oo..~-.5On
Cd her nnenizI facsities ard Il con-
sPfcuous for her devotional employ
ments-
W T. billiard, Of Tstusvilie. Pa.
mas been engaged for the ias. fifteen
yearsin P~erfee;iag a piece Of musical
mechanism whish combines the work
o. a First and ~eeond vioiin and = Euse
"a one performance, and gives 10 The
s;osin the same n.sze and facility tos
playing y a orxas sc piano.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-12

The State OF Massachusetts, forbids
pigeon-shooting within its borders.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-04
THE Sav,nos Rank Building

Yesterday Mr.. Fassett showed a reporter for
the PRESS the plan of the alterations in the
Savings Bank building on Exchange street.
The directors room in the bank and the rear
half of Princes old express office next door,
will be used for the express, with entrance on
Post Office court. These rooms will be plain
and neat, giving the express rooms 40 % feet
in size.
The wall between the old express Office and
the bank, will be taken down, and the entrance
to the bank will be pp-street, making yesti
bule at the upper end of the old express Office
x 9 feet in size. The cashiers room will be OPP
posite the vestibule, and III by % feet. Be-
yond the cashiers room will be the reception
room % IS feet, and in the rear of this, the
directors room, IA 16. The bank proper and
vaults will be on the right of the reception and
cashiers rooms, and will be 10 AZ feet in size
The reception room and bank will have mar
BILE tiled floors, will be elegantly finished in
Black walnut and beautifully frescoed. The
directors and cashiers rooms will be carpeted.
One great feature will be the superb screen of
wrought and cast iron and nickel brass, now
making in New York. 1t will reach to the
ceiling, and embraces many lovely designs, al
most as delicate in character as frost work