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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24
A Cherokee Home.

At the close of my last letter, l said
that we were about to try the hospitality
and comforts of Cherokee home at the
conclusion of long ride. Both were
abundant, and sketch may show what
plenty and independence are to be found
in far-away regions of the Cherokee
country. The house is situated in a
natural locust grove, such as sprinkle
the beautiful prairie to which their pres
ence gives aname. 1t stands on a slight
elevation in the midst of yard, garden,
farm-steading and field. 1t is not of
logs, as is most common, but what in the
West is called frame house," and is
built of sawed lumber from neighbor-
ing mill. Like all houses in a mild eli
mate that invite to spend so much Oh
life out of doors, it has an ample piazza,
furnished with split or hide-bottomed
chairs, and containing fixture for a
handy basin and towel. The yard is
decorated with native. and cultivated
flowers, rose trees in large growth and
of luxuriant bloom, and honeysuckls
wearing an odoriferous mantle of BIOS
SONS. Within, the house is comfortably
furnished with antique bedsteads and
eases of drawers that are evidently heir.
looms, and perhaps came to the country
with the emigration of the Cherokee
people. Two ancient oil paintings orna-
ment the walls, the father and mother
of our hostess, taken in old age by
some artist who visited the coun-
try, and representing in both in
stances striking countenances, the father
having been the captain of a Cherokee
company that fought the hostile Greeks
at the battle of the Horseshoe under An
drew Jackson. Tin-type portraits of our
host and hostess, and the heir of the
family, a bright boy now at school at the
male seminary at Tahlequah, complete
the picture gallery. A few books and a
number of newspapers furnish the read
ing matter. Everything is neat and
clean, showing the presence of notable
housewife.
In front of the house, in natural dell
overshadowed by trees of magnificent
growth, is a large spring of the clearest
water and spring-house of logs, from
which energies butter as hard and milk
as cool as if it had been kept on ice.
A well filled smoke-house, hung with
hams and fiitches of bacon, stands close
to the rear door, and broods of young
chickens, turkeys, and guinea fowls give
token of an unfailing supply o. poultry
and eggs. The farm buildings, chiefly
log structures, for the storage of tools,
stand in the farm-yards, and a large en-
closure containing hundred or more
calves is beyond them, and through il
passes brook fed by another spring.
On one side of and beyond this stretches
agarden field of an acre or more, already,
in the middle of May, furnishing green
peas and new potatoes, and containing
vegetables of every kind and variety.
Then come great fields waving with
wheat, or showing the green rows Of
corn, forming cultivated farm of up
ward of hundred acres. A pasture for
the mares and colts completes the en-.
closed land, but not the privileges of the
farm, which includes an unlimited range
of the prairie and woodland pasture for
the cattle and ponies. -Indian Territory
Cor. Providence (R. l. Journal.
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He asked the question by way OF TAX
ing every precaution against suspicion,
for, of course, he knew very well what
they wanted.
''Some wicked boys stole our clothes, J"
answered Deacon Snow; land we've been
here ever since half-past five. Whoever
you are, I'll give you dollar if You'll go
to Deacon Marley's, and tell him to send
us something to put on"
:" And I'll give you another dollar if
you'll hurry up" said Deacon Ellis.
The bows were off like a flash, and re-
turned in short time with all necessary
garments, and Deacon Marley following
in their wake.
1t was too late now for the Deacons to
attend meeting; the congregation had
dispersed So they went at once to Miss
FaithfuFs, where, over goodly supper,
they recounted the story of their wrongs.
Andy and Pop were sent to bed, after
receiving high praise for their timely aid.
"What made you think of coming to
the river?" asked Deacon Ellis, as he
patted Andy on the head in benign
manner
deacon Marley said you'd gone there
to walk" answered Andy, in very low
tone. land we thought you might have
fallen in"
/" Good boys" said the Deacon. "You
deserve holiday tomorrow for this"
The boys did not appear very appreci-
alive of the praise lavished so freely upon
them. Miss Faithful, made suspicious by
sad experience, detected embarrassment
in their manners, and guilt in their faces
A horrible thought seized her as she Iec-
objected their unexplained absence of the
afternoon. She waited until the Dea-
cons had lighted their pipes, and then ex-
cused herself for few minutes.
Going up stairs, she opened the door of
the back attic. Pops bed was empty.
In the front attic the condition of affairs
was the same; Andy's bed had not been
disturbed. Suspicion ripened into GER
tainty at once. Miss Faithful leaned
from the window of the back attic, and
looked down into the yard below. Moth
ing was to be seen or heard Going
softly down the back stairs she opened
the kitchen door and went out. All was
still. Exercising great caution in her
movements she made her way toward
the barn-yard turned a corner of the barn
suddenly, and almost fell over two small
boys, who, by the light of a lantern, were
digging with an energy she had never
seen equaled. The hole was already
nearly two feet deep. On the edge of it,
awaiting burial, lay heap of clothes.
" Andy! Poyn'
Perhaps it is as well to draw veil over
the scene that followed. Sufficient be it,
that both the Deacons were given a
chance to exercise their muscles on two
small boys, and that the boys in question
''took their meals standing" for week
to come.
More than all, the story got out, and
was the source of unmitigated delight to
Tim Waters and Bob Harris, who, after
all, had not gone in swimming on that
fatal day, and who were never weary of
haunting the unhappy revengers with
their unfortunate mistake--Balloa1'
Magazine.
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Brother Gardner on Intemperance,

A letter from Harlem, N. Y, signed
by three reputable citizens, inquired how
Brother Gardner stood on the subject of
intemperance, and asked if he did not
know that thousands of young men were
drifting down to the pools of degradation
| through the influence of drink.
"Yes, l know it, replied the old
man, as he passed the letter along: ~
know it, and l wonder over it, an | am
amazed at it. A young man finds hisself
in good health, has a crar eve
an an honest face, an his pros
poets fur de fucher am full o.
promise. He am de hope of his fader-
comfort of his mudder-de pride of his
friends. Everybody wishes him well.
an cherry hand am stretched out to gin
him start in life. have seen dat Young
man when he started on his race of life.
an | felt proud ODER HIM. have seen
him when dat race was finished-cut
short by thirty Vars. De eye had be-
come bleared an dim; de face had de
look Of beast; de strong limbs
trembled; all de sunshine of de
past had been drowned out by
tears-ail de hopes of thou
sand friends blasted by disappoin tment.
Drink was de cause-wine. beer, whisky
an de gutter. De young man who puts
a glass of liquor to his lips am unloosin'
a snake which am sartin to bite him
unchainin' tiger which will devour
him. Drink am a fiend which laughs an
smiles an sings until its teeth am fast
ened into its victim. 1t am dry-rot
dat eats to de heart 1t am debil which
won't be content wild one victim, but it
drags families an friends down to de-
strucshun.
Show me man who am always put
ting liquor to his lips an L II show you
man who will sooner or later become q
wreck. Show me youth who drinks
an I'll write de word: Destroyed arter
his name, | am only poo ole black
man, ignorant an uneducated, but poor
an lowly as am, would not trade
places with the rich white man who has
fondness fur drink. l did not mean to
deliber a lecktur; nor do l wish to be
counted 'mong de fanatics who have
worked injury whar' dey hoped to do
good. l simply want to be put on record
us one who's seventy years of life
have taught him dat of all de cold an
clammy snakes which man kin take to
his arms to paralyze his mind, benumb
his brain, break the hearts of friends an
at last make him de victim of a grave
neber cared for an neber visited except
wild walls of sorrow, dat sarpint called
Drink am de wurst. 1t am now time to
go home. "-Detro1 Free Press. i''
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THE REVIEWERS.

"Pop!"
Yes M .'., @ ...
"Take that big basket with the broken
bale, an dig me bout peck O. pota-
toes. Look lively now Don't stand
there staring at me like dumb thing. Fly
around"
Eyes M
Pop, thick-set little fellow black as
the ace of spades, seized the basket Miss
Faithful Sharpe designated with her lean
foretinger, and started out.
In the garden, Andy, Miss Faithful
nephew, and the cause of much of her
tribulation, was engaged in wedding.
He averaged one weed minute. At
that rate it would take about three
months of constant work to clear the
beds. But Andy didn't care. He hated
work, and it wouldn't have distressed
him if the garden had remained I'M
weeded from the beginning to the end of
the year. His aunt's example, and her
many maxims, and long lectures on the
nobility of honest toll, never had any
perceptible effect upon him.
"W hat are you going to do, Popp''
he asked as his co-sufferer, who viewed
things pretty much as ''Mars Andy did,
emerged from the house.
:" Coin to dig taters.'
Digging potatoes had always been
hateful work in Andy eyes before But
now it did not strike him so. Anything
was better than wedding.
Say, Pop, I'll dig the potatoes, if
you Il weed some'' f'
Pop shook his head.
Cant, Mars Andy he answered.
sole Missus, she tole me I'd got to 90
and get desc yere taters my own self,
an not stop foolin' roun wild nobody.
She say she spec Mars Andy gwine to
AK me to weed, an so she tole me not to
stop nohow" ''ei
This was delivered very glibly, for Pop
hated wedding as much as Andy did,
and never found any difficulty in franz
ing an excuse
80, pshaw," said Andy, who did not
think OF doubling Pops veracity, know
ing as he did his aunt's opinion of his
industry. "That's the way she always
talks. She don't mean nothin'. Gin
me the basket"
81 dasn't, Mars Andy" and Pop chung
with well-simulated SILVER of fear to
the broken bale. sole missus, she'd
take an tar de head squar off n me.
Deed she would"
'She! Now you know you're gassin',
Pop: There ant as much fight in her
as she makes out. But go long. Ibe-
heve ID druther weed anyhow said
Andy, making the best of the inevitable.
II only know one thing: you're that
mean jew wouldn't buy you"
80 Pop proceeded to the potato patch
with heavy heart. Andy's last
words cut deep, He wondered how he
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24
The Pope as An Eel-Farmer.

How many people are there who know
that the Pope is a farmer? Such is the
fact, however, and there is reason to be-
lieve that his holiness makes a very good
thing of it. Leo XIII. "goes in,'' how
ever, neither for the growing of cereals
nor the raising of stock, but for the
breeding of fish. The lagoons of Com
machio are thus turned to profitable use.
Eels are the staple food, and several tons
of cooked ellis are sent from the lagoons
every Lent. The fish come up in inn
mense shoals from the Adriatic, and are
fed in the lagoons on other fish provided
for them, until they are nicely fattened,
when they are killed and cooked in a
vast kitchen. The laborers on these
water-farms dwell in barracks built on an
island. This is yet another instance Of
the strange use to which land may be
put.-Land.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24

Seventy out of every one hundred rail-
road passengers growl about twenty min
utes for dinner because the time is so short.
The other thirty, who have their lunches
in baskets growl because it is too long to
delay. Man is a considerate creature.
Boston Post. .-.--
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24

One of the pleasantest incidents of a
walk down town on rainy morning is
the inevitable disposition of your UNI
brella to caress and toy and linger with
the umbrella of the best looking girl you
meet. In some respects umbrellas are
almost human in their manifestation of
intelligence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24

1t has been suggested by cynical
paragrapher that only about one out OF
fifteen of the American girls who 60
abroad TO become great singers or
painters are ever heard of after returning
home. The other fourteen marry italian
Counts, and when night comes are too
busy taking care of the monkeys sod
mending tambOurines to hunt up their
old aoquaintances. - Chicago Inser- 0cean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24

DR. Euston Buckner, of Greenville,
Miss, was a slave to opium While UNI
der the influence of the drug he wan
dered into neighbours house and was
killed in the dark as a burglar.-M Y.
Herald. -.'l' '..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24
THE ARCTIC TRAGEDY.

Iee-bound! And thus they lie
Cold in the awful majesty of death
Calm in the sleep that knows not to awake
Poor .pallid faces, rugged forms,
Touching the tender heart with pathos
There portrayed. And thus to die!
With the slow monster creeping on,
Numbing the life-bloOd inch by inch
Tingling the heart and brain
With that sweet music-touch that thrills
With subtle power, and warns
But to destroy!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24

"A COW at Vicksburg, Miss, put her
tongue through lattice work, and q
mule bit off four inches Of it.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02
Pleasant Valley Items.

The singing class conducted by :.
Fraser gave an entertainment on the
evening of the 9th at Pleasant Hill
school house, which was highly com
plimented.
The term of school at the above
named place closed the nth with an
expression of general satisfaction by
the patrons of said district
The peoples convention Ia nominate
township officers was held at usual
place of voting and was very well at
tended. There was quite an interest
manifested and THE candidates ex-
pressed themselves n satisfied with
the result This especially in regard
TO the candidates for trustee. The fol-
lowing is the result: Trustee, James
Devlin: treasurer, Geo. Giessler; clerk,
John Anthony; justices, :. X. Thomp-
son and NJ. a. Kearns 'constables, :.
Fraser and w. w. Morris. There was
no opposition for road masters. The
convention was the largest ever held
i'll Pleasant Valley township.
q. L. & q.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

The Century Magazine may now he
considered fairly started on its way
with the new name, and with the
February (Midwinter) number, and
the adoption of the new cover-design,
by Elihu Vedder, the name Of Scrib-
ner's Monthly will no longer be con-
tinued ~ the subtitle. Since the
change of name there has been q de-
cided increase i'm the sale of recent
numbers of this magazine. The aver
age edition during the last year of
Scribner's monthly was -, 900, while
the first four numbers of the Century
has been more than s2,OO0. OF De-
cember "A new edition Of 5000 was
printed, and "a new edition of the Jan
uary ISSUE j. now called for. In Eng
land 20,5oo copies of November were
sold, against an averavc of l6,:;aO for
the twelve months preceding. The
recent growth of 81. Nicholas in Eu.-
land has been even greater in proper
ton; for while 5000 copies were suilic-
lent there year ago, s,@0 and l0,""
copies are now needed every month.
The publishers are printing 1884, 90
copies of the Midwinter Century.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

AT meeting called for and at the
regular place of voting known as the
Csrnony school house, district ii,
Smoky Hill township. Saline county,
Kansas, February LIST, at o'clock u.
M, for the purpose of placing in nom
ination township officers. the meeting
was called to order by Thee. Schwartz
and the object stated. Samuel Gierre-
man was elected Chairman aud Thos.
Battersby, See. The following nomi-
nations were then made: Robert :.
See, trustee; James Haskit, treasurer:
Edward Cartwright. clerk road dis
trict No. 4, James h. Hooking, No. ),
Josiah Struble, No. 6, David Ritter
bacher.
There being no further business the
meeting then adjourned.
THOMAS BATTERsBY, See.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02
Shiloh's Consumption Cur.

This is beyond question the most
successful Cough Medicine We have
ever sold. a few doses invariably cure
the worst cases Of Cough, Group. and
Bronchitis. while its wonderful sue
cess in the cure of Consumption is
without parallel in the history of
medicine. Since its first discovery it
has been soId on n guarantee, . test
which no other medicine can stand
II you have a Cough we earnestly ask
you to try it. Price, 10 cents, 50 cents
and $lOO. II your Lungs are sore,
Chest, or Back. Lame, use Shiloh's
Porous Plaster. Sold by August Eng
strom 4 Co., Salina.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02
VOLUME XII.

With this issue the JOURNAL enters
upon its twelfth volume. During the
years that have gone the relations Of
the JOURNAL with the people Of Saline
county have been Of a very pleasant
nature. The paper has done what it
could TO promote the advancement and
prosperity Of the county and its citi-
zens, and 1t has been repaid for its
efforts by most generous patronage.
The chief aim of the paper has been to
be live, progressive, local newspaper,
and we think the testimony of all is
that il Is 50. 1t will endeavor to keep
up its good reputation In the future,
hoping that its readers and patrons
may be just as generous in their good
wishes and patronage i'm the years to
come.
The JOURNAL in the official organ of
Saline county. II has q circulation
more than double that of any other
English paper i'm this county. The
circulation Ii rapidly increasing. Thus
the paper IL especially deserving of the
patronage of advertisers who desire TO
reach the ears Of the greatest number
of people. This Office has facilities for
job work not equailed by any other
printing Office this side of Topeka SO
that those who have any manner of
job. book or pamphlet printing in this
section of the country will find that
they can procure the same in the
JOURNAL Office at Topeka prices.
To one and all the best wishes of this
paper are extended, as the new volume
IL commenced.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02
A Couch. Cold or Sore Throat.

Should he stopped. Neglect fire.
quently results in an incurable Lung
disease or Consumption. Browns
Bronchial Troches does not
disorder the stomach like cough
syrups and balsams, hut act directly
on the infianed parts, allaying irrita-
ton, give reliefin Asthma, Bronchitis.
Coughs, Catarrh, and the Throat
Troubles which Singers and Public
Speakers are subject to. For thirty
years Browns Brono HAL Troches have
been recommended BY physicians, and
have always given perfect satisfaction.
Having been tested by wide and con-
slant use for nearly an entire genera
ton, they have attained well merited
rank among the few staple remedies
Of the age. Sold mt p cents a box,
everywhere. a.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

THE motion for new trial has been
fled In the Guiteau case. The chief
ground upon which Scoville claims
that q new trial should be granted IL
+" misbehavior of the jury in reading.
ar having read TO them, newspaper
calculated TO prejudice their minds
against defendant" etc. This Is alto
gether too thin. and will probably re-
ceive no attention from the Court.
The trial has been so carefully con-
Quoted on the part of the prosecution,
and such great latitude given the pris-
ouer In his defense that there Is hardly
Q possibility of Guiteau obtaining a
new trial Hut such are the laws in
the District Of Columbia that his exc
cutiou can not possibly take place Ice
fore July Hence. the hempen cord
will not lee frightened, and the cherub
Guiieau swung into the unknown
country until the sweltering days, and
the American people must hear few
more Of his delightful addresses.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

THE apportionnent agreed upon by
the Census committee provides that
AFTER the Sd of March, lSSs. the House
shall be composed Of 80 members, TO
be apportioned among the several
States as follows: Alabama 8, Arkan-
sas Z tgain of n, California gain Of
u, Colorado I, Connecticut 4, Della
ware I, Florida I loss of u, Georgia 10
tRain Of n. Illinois 81 gain Of p, Indi-
ans Is, Iowa n (gain of q, Kansas 9
(ssim of 81. Kentucky II (gain Of -.
Louisiana q, Maine 4 (loss Of u, Mary =
land 8, Massachusetts, Il gain Of u,
Michigan II gain Of g. Minnesota s
fRain of 3, Mississippi 3 gain Of u,
Missouri IA (gaiu Of u, Nebraska 8
(esin Of q, Nevada !, New Hampshire
2 don Of n. New jersey :. New York
a (Rain Of u, North Carolina 8 lgain
Of u, Ohio q (gain Of ~, Oregon I.
Pennsylvania . (gain Of p, Rhode Is
laud / Qoss Of ~, South Carolina o
(eaiu Of u, Tennessee 10, Texas 10
is.ln Of q, Vermont 2 (loss Of u. Vir-
Ginia 10 (galn Of u. West Virginia
lnnln of u, Risconsin g
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Free Of Chspoe.

The genuine proprietors Of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. specially request that all suffer
ers from consumption, coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis, loss Of voice, Diff
Guilty Of breathing, tickling In throat,
night sweats, phtyisic. quinsy, hoarse-
ness. Group, or any affection Of the
throat. chest or lungs, to call 1t any
drug store and get trial bottle free Of
charge; which will convince you Of
its wonderful merits, and show you
what regular one dollar size bottle
will do. Thousands Of hopeless sun.
ereTs Who once locked forward to .
dark and unpromising future. are nov
the most happy beings on earth, hsv-
ing been completely cured by Ds.
KISG's New DrsCovKRv for conssnp-
tjOn,
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Teschers' Association,

This organization Is for the benefit Of
the teachers of Saline county, aud il Is
their duty to be present at its meet
ings, and by 50 doing keep 1t from
dying out. We certainly can have no
meeting If there IL no one to meet 1t
is therefore earnestly hoped that all
members will attend the next meet.
ing, held Saturday, February lth.
The following is the programme:
Grammar-anyalsis.
Constitution.
PhilOsophy-electro- magnetism.
In connection with the regular
topics, DR.. Bishop will give lecture
upon his educational system.
NJ. +. PECK, See.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

NEW YORK TRIBUNE: Gov. John
p. 1t. John. the temperance-ioving
Governor Of Kansas. il of rather short
stature He wears n heavy moustache,
and his keen eyes are set deep under
bushy eyebrows. In conversation he
Ii earnest, and has modest West
ern manner; but when he speaks from
the platform people feel that they are
In the presence of an orator.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-02-02

GEN. X. h. MITCHELL, a well-known
early settler Of Kansas, died In Wash.
ington last Thursday. He was men,
Der Of the Territorial Legislature.
When the war broke out he became
Colonel of the Second Kansas regi-
ment. which ne helped organize. He
was promoted to Brigadier General In
lss2. aud participated in the decisive
battles Of Tennessee and elsewhere till
the close of the war. when he located In
Paola and practiccd law in partnership
with Major b. r. simpson. He had
been resident Of Washington several
years previous Ia his death.