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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-06
THE BALLOT.

''rhe weapon that eomes dswn az attn
As snow fakes fall upon the sod,
But executes the freeman's VIII
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force nor doors nor locfs
Can shield them--'tis The ballot box. ="
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-06
Personal.

Judge C. c. Goodwin is now at Wood
River, but will shortly return to Salt
Lake and resume editorial control of the
Tribune.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-06
BORN.
DIED.
NEW TO-DAY.
o CONSTABLE.

VoHN FITZ MORRIS MAKES ANNOUNCE
81 ment tina he will be u candidate for the
office of Consta lie of Eureka Township. sub
ject to the decision of the Republican County
GoDvAntion
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
A Blind Shot.

An English traveller in Southwestern
Africa, Mr.. Frederick Green, relates
how by marvellous shot in the dark
he put out of the way two dreaded lions
that had long haunted the Bushman
village of Otjituo and devoured more
than hundred human beings. These
brutes would pass by whole droves o.
cattle, and 60 directly through focks
of fsheep without touching one,in order TO
find and pounce upon human victim.
They We're mates, and the death of one of
them identified as the others provider),
in consequence of Mr.. Green's lucky
shot, frightened the other away so that
he did not return. This is the hunters
story:
1t was 3 o'clock in the morning; the
moon had sunk below the horizon, and
it was quite dark, when the humor took
me TO have night ramble. Selling my
double-barreled gun and my revolving
rifle, 1 stood for some minutes a silent
and solitary listener to the terrific roar
ings of two lions, who after while
passed along the bark of the river op-
posite to that on which we were en-
camped.
Suddenly hating again, they COM
menced another duet in as loud a strain
as their lungs could pour forth. I was by
this slime joined by John Mortar, Bonfeld
and two of my native servants, all in
readiness with their guns, like myself,
in case the brutes should attempt to
attack US. I now advanced few PAGES
from the wagon toward the river, and
raising my double-barreled gun, called
10 my Damara, Gukub (for from deaf.
ness in one ear I cannot distinguish
accurately the direction of sound), to
point as near as he could to the quarter
whence he heard the lions. This done,
I placed the gun on an elevation OF about
800 yards, the distance, as I supposed,
of the animals, and fired. No sooner
had the explosion taken place than one
of the lions abruptly ceased roaring,
uttering at the same a startling growl,
such as always announces the receipt of
a gunshot wound by these brutes. The
"clap" of the bullet against the beasts
hide, so we'll known to sportsmen, was
not to be mistaken, and the bystanders
simultaneously shouted:
"The lion is struck"
stood amazed, scarcely able to
credit the fact, and might, perhaps
have thought that my hearing had de-
ceiyed me, had not Mortar, Bonfield and
others present declared with one voice
that the lion must unquestionably have
been hit.
After describing the discovery and
dispatch of the wounded beast when
daylight came, and his thrilling en-.
counter with its mate, when his revolv.
ing rifle twice missed fire, Mr.. Green
says:
On examining the dead lion I wat
much surprised to find that my night
shot had hit him close behind the left
shoulder. 1 had the skin OF the
animal carefully removed, and intend tc
keep it as a Renaissance of one of the
most extraordinary incidents of my
hunting experience.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The dazzling effect of the electric
arc is source of objection to its use
as a locomotive headlight by the
French engineers who have been trying
it.
The raw material used for porcelain
manufacture in Japan is obtained from
the neigborhood of Arita, in the prov
ince of Hezen, and appears to consist of
elastic acid eruptive masses of tertiary
age, containing large proportion of
potash mica, probably due to the action
of later eruptions.
The sand OF the Desert of Sahara is
of yellow color and consists of about
ninety per cent. of well rounded quartz
grains and nine per cent. of feldspar.
Other minerals found in it, but in very
small quantity, are chalk, clay, halitz.
sylvite, magnetic, chromite, garnet,
divine, amphibole and pyroxene.
Professor Whitney does not lay any
weight on the removal of forests as a
cause of the dryness and desolation of
former fertile and populous regions of
the earth. He admits that the greater
proportion of land to water in late geo
logical eras may have little to do with
the decreased rainfall; but he attributes
the diminished precipitation mainly to
a lowering of the intensity of solar
radiation during geological time.
Engineering skill has not yet sue
ceeded in utilizing as motive powers
the vast forces represented by the ebb
and flow of the tides and the action o.
sea waves. Various attempts to accom-
plish this have, however, been made,
and two recent schemes have been late.
ly described. In the plan proposed by
M. Victor Ganchez, large bell moves
up and down in stone inclosure, and
is connected with large float in the
sea. The rising and falling OF this bell
is used to force air into chamber, and
this compressed air may be employed to
drive machinery. In the scheme adopt
ed by Professor Wellner, of Brunn,
there is fixed along a sea wall e,sort OF
air-trap-a metallic case, open below,
now in air, now in water, as the waves
beat upon it. At the top this com,
municates through valves and pipes with
a reservoir, in which the air is com.
pressed, and the force thus supplied may
! be directly utilized for many purposes
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
"I never told you so," said Tom.

mother. &C. You came in and told me you
were going to be married."
"Yes, SO I am" said Tom, still at
cross.purposes.
"Now. Tom Dean," said mother, ris-
ing and confronting him, "what do you
mean ? who is going to be your wife p
"Why, May, of course" answered
Tom.
"Mayl" and then, after a pause of
inexpressible astonishment, it was
mothers turn to laugh. EDO you mean
to say, Tom, it was that child you were
thinking of all the WHILE"
"Why, who else could it be ?" said
Tom, simply.
"Well," said mother, " 1 ought to
have remembered you never did do
anything like anybody else. But, still,
why in the world did you go to work in
such roundabout way p
"I wanted to see how you took to my
idea2' said Tom.
"And how do you suppose we were to
guess your idea meant May?" mother
asked.
"Who else could it be-" repeated
Tom, falling back on what he evidently
found unanswerable argument. 1t was
no use talking to him. Mother gave it
up with shake of the head.
"And you won't want another house
then, Aunt Anne7' said Tom, suddenly.
That set mother off again; Tom Joined
with her, and altogether 1 don't think
we ever passed a merrier evening than
the one that made us acquainted with
Toms wife.-Kate Putnam Osoood,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
Fish and Meat as Food.

There is some danger of the fieh aues.
ton falling out of memory, This is
not to be tolerated after the interest
which has been excited, and for some
time maintained, in connection with
this important phase of the food prob
lem. Whatever may be the nutritious
value of fish as food-and We believe
it to be very great-it must be evident
that a full and cheap supply of fish
would react so as to produce a lowering
of the price of butchers meat. The
"purveyors," as they like to be
called, are encouraged. and in
truth enabled to keep up
the price of flesh because there is moth
ing to compete with it as a staple of the
common food of the people. A revival
of the old and healthy habit of living
largely on fish would place the meat
supply on an entirely new footing.
This is manifest on the face of the
facts; but what may not be equally ap.
parent, though it is scarcely less note.
worthy, is the consideration that
nervous diseases and weaknesses
increase in a country as the pop.
ulation comes to live on the
flesh of -blooded animals. This
is a point to which attention has
not been adequately directed. "Meat"
using that term in its popular sense
is highly stimulating, and supplies
pIoportionately more exciting than
actually nourishing pabuIum to the
nervous system. The meat eater lives
at high pressure, and is, or ought to be,
a peculiarly active organism, like a
predatory animal, always on the alert,
walking rapidly, and consuming large
quantities of oxygen, which are
imperatively necessary for the
safe disposal of his disassimilated
material. In practice we find
that the meat eater does not live up to
the level of his food, and as a conse-
quence he cannot, or does not take in
enough oxygen to satisfy the exigencies
of his mode of life. Thereupon follow
many, if not most OF the ills to which
highly civilized and luxurious meat. eat
ing classes are liable. This is a physi-
illogical view of the food question, and
it has bearings on the question OF fish
supply which ought not to be neg.
lected.-Lances.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
Heroes and Their Rewards,

The columns of the daily papers, in
the brief records OF current events, con-
tain the plots of comedies, novels and
TRACED les forfner and more significant
han any which fiction has produced.
81 ere, for example, is the story of a
poor barber in New Jersey who, twenty
| five years ago, was keeping a country
inn. A passing stranger stopped with
him, was attacked by some severe
ailment, and for four or five months
was not able to go on his way.
He had no money or friends,
| but the innkeeper refused to allow him
to be sent to hospital, supplied his
wants and nursed him faithfully. The
stranger recovered, left his benefact. RS
house, went West and was not heard
of again until short lime ago, when
| fication was sent to the poor barber. an
he was the heir to thirty thousand dol
lars, bequeathed to him by the man he
ad succored
Here is another story even more dra.
matte. On a cold evening in last
January, when the sleet was falling fast,
an engineer named Irving, on railway
in Virginia, was taking long passenger
train up a heavy grade. Seeing that
the train in advance Of him was not able
to make the ascent on account of the
ice on the track, he uncoupied his
engine and hurried on to give it, in
schoolboy parlance, boost. After he had
pushed it up the hillhe was returning
to his own train, when, looking up, he
saw part of the train he had just left,
Consisting of twelve heavy freight cars,
rushing down the track, having broken
rom their engine. In another moment
they would come in collision with the
cars filled with passengers below. The
engineer could save himself by leaping
from his engine! Or--he might push
the engine forward to the descending
mass and SO perhaps partially break its
force. Never did soldier hurl him
self into more deadly breach. But the
man did it. The lives of the scores of
unconscious passengers waiting below
we're saved, and the brave engineer was
taken from his crushed engine, strange
to say, with scarcely bruise.
1t does us all good to read such his.
tories as these, where eternal justice
manifests itself in this world, incisive,
swift, complete, where man has an
opportunity for noble action, and its
reward follows, tangible ind real.
Thousands of men have succored the
poor and sick, but have inherited no
fortune. AS many thousands would
uuhesitatingly have risked their lives
to save threatened train, if so supreme
chance had ever come to them
Youths Companion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
Given a New Trial.

Jones was tried for homicide in st.
Louis. Alpeora Bradley was his coun-
sci. Bradley is eccentric, and his knowl-
edge of law is meager; but he makes a
stirring speech, and his reliance is on
his power with the jury as an orator.
Throughout this trial he made the most
ridiculous motions and objections, one
Of his propositions, for example, being
that the State could not introduce proof
of the killing without first showing that
the man was alive. Eloquence in sum-
ming up could not fave the prisoner
thus defended, and verdict of murder
was rendered. The prisoner demanded
a new trial on the ground of his coun
sells Ignorance, imbecility, incomre-
tence and mismanagement." The
supreme court denied the motion, but
this decision has been reversed by the
court of appeals, which held that
the record of the case showed Bradley
to have made "an exhibition of ig.
norance, stupidity and Stiffness that
could not be more absurd or fantastical
if it came from an idiot or lunatic. u
The court admits that such conduct on
the part of counsel would not call fol-
a new trial unless the prisoner had lost
legal rights or advantages by it; but in
this case witnesses whose testimony
might have saved Jones were not called
and "the prisoner in effect went to hi
trial and doom without counsel such al
the law would secure to every person
accused of crime" Counselor Bradle,
replies very holly in a card, quoting
Shakespeare in this remarkable manner
"The thief who robs me of my none,
robs me of trash, it is mine and his anc
slave to thousands. But that judg,
who robs me of my good name robs M
of that. .whichtdoes not make him tn
richer, but leaves me poor indeed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
SUNDAY READING.
Serm onic Results.

A sermon that is to accomplish an
end, and to be worth listening to, must
embody real thoughts, thoughts that
have some connection with the interests
and issues of life, and must be instinct
with the living convictions of the
preacher. To be such q sermon, it
must come from the preachers mind
and heart, warm with the very life
blood of his soul at the very moment of
his delivery. But how preacher can
stand up before an audience and pro-
ceed to read as a message to living men
sermon which he wrote thirty, twenty
or even ten years ago, I cannot under
stand. When written the sermon,
doubtless, was real transcript
of the writer's thoughts, con-
victions and emotions. But during the
rush of intervening years, what changes,
If there has been soul within him, have
passed over his spirit? To write that
sermon now would be simply impossible.
And yet he tries to put himself into it,
and in that guise he presents himself to
an audience of thinking people. An
old coat that he wore twenty years ago
might be aired and the dust whipped
out of it, and he present himself in it
with much more propriety than in that
old sermon. No treatment of the SER
mon can relieve it of its smell of age.
Like an old bouquet of flowers, its once
delicate fragrance has sunk into sick.
ening odor.-Presideat Robinson.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29


There are over 100000 children in
America still outside of any direct Sun
day-school influence.
Over 100000 Bibles were given to
emigrants during the past year upon ar.
irving in this country by the American
Bible society.
Bishop Payne, of the Methodist Epis.
copal church South, is very old, and in
the Christian ministry sixty-fve years,
thirty-six of which he has been bishop.
The National Baptist says that the
man who complains of paying ten dol
lars for his church pew went to the
circus last week, taking his wife and five
children, and paying dollar apiece for
reserved seats. He is going to take a
cheaper pew next year, and to advo.
cate reduction in the salary of the
pastor.
King John, the monarch who rules
Abyssinia with rod of iron, is severely
opposed to missionaries. He has ban
ished party of them who recently ar
rived at Massow wah. These missionaries
had distributed some Bibles to the ma
tives, but, under the influence of the
native priests, King John caused search
to be made for these in the houses and
huts. In cases where copies of the
Bible were found the owners were
chained and otherwise treated with
great cruelty.
The Dunkards have different way OF
holding their great ecclesiastical gather
ings from that pursued by any of the
other denominations. They go in mass,
and crowd IN immense numbers. They
have been holding their national con-
ference at Arnold, near Wabash, Ind.
About 10000 of them were present.
They are very plain, both in their dress
and their manners, but are conspicuous
ly thrifty, and many of them are pos
sessed of great wealth. They do not
invest in costly clothing or jewelry, but
despise everything in the way of per-
sonal adornment and luxury. They
are, however, very fond of good eat
ing. They settle all their disputes in a
friendly manner, and never go to law
against each other.
The following figures are from the
United Presbyterian church for 1882:
Synods, Q; presby teries, 60; pastors and
stated supplies, GAL; without charge,
l79; total ministers, 1,799; ministers or
dained, 32; ministers installed, So;
ministers released, 35; licentiates, SO;
students of theology. so; congregations
with pastors and stated supplies, 66l;
congregations vacant, 1865; total con gre
cations, S26; congregations organized, 16;
mission stations, 96; new stations during
the year, 20; houses Of worship erected,
81; average cost, $3,O87. Total mem
bers reported, S4,573; adults baptized,
629; infants baptized, 3,720; total num-
ber of Sabbath-schools reported, 800;
officers and teachers, S,647; scholars re,
ported, ~ 956; contributions by Sun
day-schools, S36, lat. Contributions
for congregational purposes, $3.50, 125-
an advance of $76,584 over the preced-
ing year; for missionary objects, ST..
898. The average contribution pei
member was $11.40. The average salary
of pastors was 1868.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
Backbone.

DdchsDOHes
When you see o fellow mortal
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the skirts of Others
Walking in their cast-off shoes,
Bowling low to wealth or favor,
With abject, uncovered head,
Ready to retract or waver,
Willing to be drove or led;
Walk, yourself, with firmer bearing.
Throw your moral shoulders back.
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the things which his must lack.
stronger word
Was never heard
In sense or tone,
= Than this Backbone.
When you see theologian
Hugging close some ugly creed,
Fearing to reject or question
Dogmas which his priest may read,
Holding back all noble feeling,
Choking down each manly view,
Caring more for forms and symbols
Than to know the good and true;
Walk, yourself, with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
SHOW your spine has nerve and marrow
just the things which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense or tone,
Than this: Backbone.
When you see politician
Crawling through contracted holes,
Begior some fat position,
In the ring or at the polls,
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing stable, broad or sound,
Destitute of pluck or ballast,
Double-sided, all around
Wslk, yourself, with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has pluck and marrow
Just the things which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense or tone,
Than this: Backbone
modest song, and plainly told
The text is worth a mine of gold;
For many men most sadly lack
A noble stiffness in the back.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05

Scene in Dodge City: HE-D.rling Of my
life, do you 80 that start {No response
from d. Of m. ~ He-Love, don't you
wish l vas that star. vouldst thou gaze on
me then, darling! She-(LAnguidly) yes, l
think distance would lend enchantment.
(Protrscted silence.)
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05

The best joke Of the season was played on
. number Of Great Bend citizens last weeS,
ny steel man selling soap. The Tribune
says he threw cat ball oftwine end reques-
ted every one present to take hold and hang
On till he drew them up TO his wagon. The
boys all took bold, among them many Of the
prominent citizens, and when the line was
filled, the soap man remarked that that was
the '1argest string Of suckers he had ever
had the good fortune TO haul in" Ii was
not necessary to tell anybody to let 90.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05
L. N. Ferrier. Plaintiff.
LIZ Kautnan defendant

J. p, Kaufman, Defendant.
Before IL. NJ. clark, Justice Of the Peace,
speareviie Township, Ford county, Kansas.
Said defendant 10 hereby Motif Il that on the
Goth day Of December. lsst. an order of attach
ment for the sum Of Two Dollars was issued by
the above named Justice OF the Peace against
his goods Ia the above entitled action. and that
said cause will be heard on the cath day of jan
uAry. lss., at 10 o'cl5sk, T. m.
L. NJ. fERKlER. Plaintiff.
Attest: II. NJ. CLARK. justice OF the Peace.
dscs,-St
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05

MorHERs Dos'T KEow-How many
children are punished for being uncouth.
wiiful and Indifferent to instructions or re-
wards simply because they are out Of health.
An intelligent lady said Of a child Of this
kind: "Mo,hers should know that if they
would give the little ones moderate dores of
Hop BEters for two or three weeks the chill.
dren would be ell parent could desire"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05
l.. NJ. Ferrier. Plaintiff,
VS..

l.. NJ. Ferrier. Plaintiff,
VS..
Jacob Fink, Defendant.
Before Il. NJ. Clark, Justice Of the Peace Of
s;ear-ville Township, Ford county, kas.
said Defendant Is hereby notified that on the
30th day Of December. 1881. an order OF sttsch-
ment for the sum of Three Dollars was issued
by the above named Justice of the Peace against
his goods in the above entitled action, and that
said cause will be heard on the 2ith day OF jan
nnary. 1881, at : o clock, y m
In FERRIER, PLAINTIFF.
Attest: ii. NJ. CLARK, Justice OF the Peace.
dec2a-S
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-01-05

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