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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-08-01

The Clarion Democrat says; Our
old newspaper friend, Clark Wilson,
was in town on Tuesday and gave US
a call. He is now editor of the Nc.
Kean Democrat. His newspaper ex-
perience has been varied He began
in Strattonville, setting type and "roll-
ing" for the Clarion Republican-the
name by which the present Democrat
was then known Afterwards he run
the BrookUille Jefersonian; then the
Mahoning Register, at Punxsutawney;
then the Clearfeld Republican, the
present organ of Democracy in that
county; then the Democratic Messen-
ger at Indiana, now Republican in pol
itics; then the Union Herald, of But
ler, now Uncle Jake Zieg!er's paper;
then the Democratic Seminal, at
Ebensburg; next the OIL Mans Jour-
nal, at Parker, and now the McKean
Democrat, at Smethport. He has
worked long and hard in the harness
and has done good service for the De-
mocracy in many parts Of the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Buck Ague,

The London Lancet, speaking Of
those nervous sportsmen who are una
BILE to avoid trepidation or palpitation
when walking up to a dog at its point,
Or if o bird or covey rises suddenly
without being pointed by the dog, says !:
Such nervousness ought rather to be
designated as excitability. 1t is nearly
always constitutional, and therefore in
durable. In short, it is not disease or
morbid condition, but state of impress
sibility, though it may be temporary
and connected with some deficiency of
the power Of control. Steadiness, as
regards the nervous system, is much a
question of reserve force. In some
cases the nervousness of the sportsman
is direct consequence of his enthusi-
asm. He is so anxious that, in the en-
deavor to acquit himself creditably in
the field, he his unable to make even a
respectable appearance. The heart
beats, the eyes dance, the hand trem-
bles, and, of course, good shooting is
out of the question. This is why many
4 man who is fair shot when alone is
unable to hit haystack, as the saying
goes, when criticising eyes are upon
him. Practice may, in certain cases, re-
duce the magnitude of the trouble, but
nervousness is constitutional with many
a too enthusiastic sportsman. and he
will be increasingly nervous as his en-
thusiasm augments."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14

There could hardly be devised q more
clumsy method of finishing of the walls
Of building than mailing coating OF
laths to tho joists and smearing over
this half an inch or more of plaster,
marred and cracked and broken by
everything that touches it. The
Introduction Of lath and plaster was q
vast improvement over the old style of
having no interior coating at all, for il
made damp rooms dry, and cold rooms
comparatively warm. But it has been
in use now so many years it is time for
some change for the better. Plaster
walls are bad enough in any house, in
city or country. But in city residence
built to be let, where there is pretty
sure to be new tenant every year or
two, there is no excuse for their
existence. Where one tenant desires to
hang a picture or mirror, and drives
nails for that purpose, the next tenant
very likely prefers to see the bare wall I;
but he Is pretty sure to see, instead, an
unsightly space marred by gaping holes,
and perhaps crack or two. Where
the back of the predecessors sofa
rubbed against the wlll there is q
broken place; and under where the
water overlooked one day there is an
ugly map of the polar regions IN the
ceiling. The use of leather for wall
coverings would do away with this
trouble, but leather is far too expensive
to come into seneral rise. What is
wanted is some pam and inexpensive
and durable mate la to take the place
of lath and plaster, that may be orna.
mented to any extent desired after it il
put in place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
A Remarkable Couple.

Living near Blue Knob, in this
county, is a remarkably aged and we'll
preserved couple, "Uncle" Johnnie
Hill, aged SO, and his wife, Fannie
Hill, aged 81. They have been married
nearly eighty years and lived together
in the greatest happiness during this
long period of years. Uncle Johnnie
is hale and hearty, enjoys the company
of young people, and, although he does
on work himself, every morning, no
matter what kind of weather, he goes
out and superintends the feeding of his
stock. His wife is very cheerful and
bright, superintenas her Homework
and does some of it herself. She can
read very well without specs. Uncle
Johnnie tells some very interesting in
cidents connected with his young days,
among other things his trip up the Miss
issippi from New Orleans on the first
steamboat ever on that river. This an
cient couple have lived to see their fifth
generation and have undoubtedly been
married longer than any other couple
in the -Elizabethto,cn (Ky.)
NetUs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
ClOte Scanrp and the Beasts.

An old Mohawk lives among the Mad
'awaska Melicites, whose version of
Clote Scaurp's departure, as Martin
rendered it to us, is wild and beauti-
full legend, dimly reminding one of the
Passing of Arthur" This is the drift
of it: After great many years the
ways of beasts and men grew bad, and
Clote Scaurp spoke to them, and talked
to them, till at last he was angry and
very sorry; and he could endure them
no longer. SO he came down to the
shores of the great lake and there he
made great feast, and all the beasts
came and feasted with him. But no
men came to the feast, for they had
grown altogether bad, and Clote Scaurp
talked to the beasts very heavily And
after the feast was done he got into a
big canoe, and took his uncle, the Great
Turtle, with him, and and sailed
straight out from shore over the big
lake into the setting sun, and the beasts
looked after them until they could see
them no longer. But Clote Scaurp was
singing, and so was the Great Turtle,
and the beasts listened to them singing
as they sailed away, after they could see
them no longer. And at last they
could not even hear them; and all the
beasts were silent. Then very strange
thing happened. All the beasts that
had always spoken our tongue were no
more able to understand each other,
and they fled apart, each his own way,
and have no more met in council. And
Clote Scaurpis dog, his hunting dog,
whom Clote Scaurp would not take him
because his ways bad been evil with the
other beasts, goes wandering up and
down the world searching for his
master, and often he bowls aloud in the
night-Forest and Stream.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Central American Women.

just within the courtyard of white
marble palace, in the leafy shade of a
mango grove, hangs a silken hammock
lined with the brilliant plumage of
tropical birds. In it reclines a Great
ure whom to call divine would be base
flattery to the gods. Note the classical
features, the delicate, very light olive
tint of her skin; see the long black
silken tresses, in which an immense
diamond-headed pin holds rose: see
the long lashes, half shading those
lustrous orbs, which give forth all the
varieties of expression of refined
thought as she listens to her maids
reading from Espronceda's poems.
Her shoulders, arms and bust are
covered, but not concealed, by the
finest of lace, and long white skirt
trails the ground, but allows one micro
scopical foot to peer forth, just enough
to show the point of a gold-embroidered
slipper The gentle breeze gives ever
SO slight a motion to the hammock,
and each little movement of its ravish-
ingly beautiful occupant reveals
| thousands of new charms. What
"ohuci bnae Hen, especially bnOSe
possessed by a tropically infiammable
temperament, become inspired with the
Irvine affiatus-sing of her, rave about
her aye, kill for her?
The traveller from the cold North
who has visited the tropics, upon read
ng the preceding lines, will continue
,he perusal of this sketch, to ascertain
how outrageously l can disregard truth,
Tor the foregoing imagery can be found
,nly in ideal descriptions of Central
American women; the real ones are of
far different type.-Fred G. Kalen-
tine, i'm the Continent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Esthetic COWBOYS.

Cowboys have their love of the beau
.iful in revolvers, if in nothing else.
This is apparent from an experience of
The Colts Arm Manufacturing Company,
IF Hartford. Two cowboys of Wyom-
ing asked for estimates of the cost of
tworevolvers of elaborate workmanship.
The Hartford Post states that "from
the designs furnished the stock of each
revolver must be of pearl, a horse and
rider chased in gold on one side, and a
heavily -draped woman and birds, in the
same precise metal, on the other side.
The barrel and working parts Of each
are also to be heavily chased and inlaid
with gold, SO much so, in fact, that the
steel of the revolver is to be nearly hid
len from sight by the gold figures. The
butt of each revolver is to be of solid
silver, elegantly chased. At the least
.lculation each revolver, made accord
Gag to the designs furnished, but with.
out the gold filing, would cost $62, and
with the gold filling, $500. The only
revolver ever made by the company in
any way similar to these designs was for
the fouader of the company, Col. Sam
uel Colt, and was placed on exhibition
by him at the great London EXPOSE
iion."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
"Waea Ball.

For twenty years an old man OF our
county, whom we will call Jack Bald
win, has cultivated the soil and drawn
therefrom support for himself and
wife; he is childless. Not long since
Jack left his house in search of miss
ing COW. His route led him through
an old worn out piece of clay land, of
about sixty acres in extent, in the CEN
ter of which was well, about twenty
or thirty feet deep, that at sometime
had probably furnished the inmates of
a dilapidated house near by with water.
In passing the spot an ill wind drifted
Jacks hat from his head and malicious
ly waited it to the edge of the well and
in it tumbled Now Jack had always
practiced the virtue of economy, and he
Immediately set about recovering his
hat He ran to the we'll, and finding
1t was dry at the bottom, he unrolled
the rope which he had brought for the
purpose of capturing the COW, and after
several attempts to catch the hat with a
going down into the well himself. To
accomplish this he made fast one end
of the rope to stump hard by, and
was soon on his way down into the
we'll. 1t was fact Of which Jack was
less obvious than the reader hereof
that mischievous fellow whom we will
call Neal, was in the old build
ing and saw Jack 60 down into the
well, and it so happened that Jacks old
blind horse was near by with bell on
his neck. The devil himself, or some
other evil spirit, put it into Meals head
to have a little fun; so he slipped up
to the old blind horse, unbuckled the
strap and approached the well with the
bell in his hand, ting-a-ling. Jack
thought the old horse was coming, and
said in an audible tone: Hang the
old blind horse, he's comm this way,
sure, and he amt got no more sense
than fall in here on me-whoa, Ballr'
But the sound of the bell came closer,
and Jack was resting at the bottom OF
the well. '.Great Jerusalem!" said
Jack, ''the old blind fool will be right
on top of me in minit-whoa, Ball,
whoa, haw, Ballr' just then Neal got
close to the well and kicked a little
dirt on Jacks head. Jack thought
Ball was about to come, got close to
the side of the well and began to pray:
'.Oh, Lord, have mercy on-whoa,
Ball-a poor sinner-rm gone now,
whoa, Ball-Our Father, who in-whoa,
Ball-Heaven, hallowed be Thy-jee
Ball, iee.-what'l / do?--name. Now
l lay me down to slice Ball, out o.
your livers! Gust then in fell more
dirt). Back, Ball. Oh, Lord, if you
ever intend to do anything for me-
back, Ball, whoa, no! Thy kingdom
come-jee, Ball. "
"Oh, Lord, you know was baptized
in Smiths mill dam--whoa, Ball, hol'
up! murder! whoa, farewell worked"
Neal could hold in no longer anc
showed himself at the top of the well
with big hoarse laugh, which nigh
have been heard two miles. This wa
more than Jack could bear and h
started up the rope like a monkey
BLAST your pictures, I'll give you fits
I'll make Your ears ring worse'an tina
bell, Neal took To his heels and raj
ike a quarter horse, and the last tina
was seen Of him he was hall a mil
1 from The we'll. with two dig dogs grab
ping at his coat. and Jack WAS close be
hind him, yelling at the dogs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14

Habits are curious things. Ben
Franklin or some other philosopher said
that man was bundle of habits. Good
habits stick to man and so do bad
ones; and, therefore, it is well to be
csutious about forming EN-. / heard q
preacher say once that not one man in
10000 ever changed his habits after he
was As years old. At home he wante
the same chair to sit in and the same
bed to sleep in and the same kind Of
clothes to wear If children are raised
to brush their teeth and comb their
hair and keep their fnger-nails clean,
they will do it all their lives. II they
begin early to chew tobacco and smoke,
they will never quit it. A man is right
handed or left-handed, according to
habit, and he will put on the same
shoe or boot or stocking first every
morning without thinking about it
Settled habits, If they are good ones
are like settled religion. There is I
power of comfort in 'em, and man j,
not happy if he makes change.-Bit
Arp.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
The Swamp Angel.

The city Of Charleston was under
siege 5S5 days, and for over five hum
dred days under fire. When Gilmore
got his Swamp Angel" planted and
sent word that he would open fire on the
city, the citizens Of Charleston laughed
over the message His guns we're five
miles away, and the idea that he could
do any harm was too absurd to enter
tain.
It is Just midnight.
W-r-r-r-r! S-s-s-s! Scream-rush--
bang!
Gilmore has sent his first shell into
the city. 1t strikes a brick building
opposite the postofiice and explodes
with crash which turns. 5000 people
out OF bed. Men who heard the horri-
bic screaming OF that great shell as it
came over the waters OF the bay will
never forget the sound.
In hve minutes second one came. but
TINS failed to explode aud is now on ex-
hibition at Major Willis Office on the
wharf, 1t just fits into and fills nail
keg. BY the time the third one arrived
all Charleston was awake and full OF
alarm and horror. This was the begin
ming OF siege which has no parallel in
American warfare. Day after day
week after week-month after month,
with only intervals of few hours at
time for the guns to cool or some
new move to be made, the lombard
ment continued.
By and by the people became used to
the situation, and seemed to 90 to bed
without any more fear than would have
been shown in New York. While the
street cars ceased to run, all other bus
mess was transacted as usual. and dur
ing the hottest fire of the whole siege
men were loading vessels at the wharves,
various factories were running and
children were playing in the public
parks. Federal history pictures
Charleston in ruins and filed with woe
and desolation within thirty DAYS after
Gilmore opened fire. Az matter of
fact business was not suspended for
single hour. While few families left
the city, others came in, and after the
first fortnight the shells were looked
upon as matter of course, Probably
not more than thirty inhabitants were
killed by the missiles direct, and both
the big fires had their origin in other
causes. As Charleston began--haughty.
imperious and defiant-so she remained
to the last, and wnen evacuated the
southern Confederacy was drawing its
last breath of life.-Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
A Neat Missiye.

Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll was invited to
attend recent dinner at the Glover
Club, famous Eastern organization,
and he thus expressed his regrets: Il
regret that it is impossible for me to be
In clover with You tomorrow. A won
derful thing is clover. 1t means honey
and cream; that is to say, industry and
contentment; that is to say, the happy
bees in perfumed fields and at the
cottage, Old Bos, the bountiful, serenely
chewing satisfaction's cud, in that
blessed twilight pause, that, like a
benediction, falls between all toll and
sleep. This clover makes me dream Of
happy hours-of childhood's rosy
cheeks-of dimpled babes--of whole
some, loving wives-of honest men---oi
springs and brooks and violets, and all
there is of stainless JOY in peaceful human
life. A wonderful word is clover. Drot
the G. and you have the happiest Of
mankind. Take. away the &C and r
and You have the only thing that makes
heaven Of this dull and barren earth.
Cut off the r alone and there remains
q warm, deceitful bud that sweetens
breath and keeps the peace in count.
less homes whose masters frequent
clubs. After all, Bottom was right
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fell.
low"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Chinese Traits.

There is mistaken notion in the
East that the Chinese are always hum.
bic and submissive, and much put upon
and abused by the whites of the Pacific
coast. There was q time when the
hoodlums of San Francisco maltreated
the Asiatic immigrants shamefully, but
that time has gone by. Now the Chi
naman appears to be as secure In his
rights OF person and property as any.
body. Instead of being deferential and
flmid he is often pushing and insoIent.
de does not give way in the street. He
hustles you as rudely as an English
NAVY. A body of Chinese laborers
marching down narrow street viii
crowd ladies into the gutter. The Chi
nese merchants, doctors, aud others be
longing to the better classes, are as DO.
lite as Frenchmen, brit the masses OF
the Chinese population ON the Pacific
coast are rude and brutal. The chief
thing In their favor is their habit of per.
sonal cleanliness. The railroad labor
ers, who are the poorest and most ig-
norant class, wash themselves from head
to foot at the end of each days work.
al oiaoscS are frequent customers OF
the barber, who gives minute attention
to their heads, faces. ears and necks.
Among the common laborers there is
little sympathy for sick and injured
comrades. If o man is likely to be-
come burden, the other members OF
his gang want to get rid of him as soon
as possible. 1t is commonly believed
by the white bosses on the railways
that the Chinese doctors put sick
men out of the way by poison when
they think they cannot be speedily
cured. A case was told me in Ore
gon of a Coolie railway laborer who had
an arm broken. 1t was set by the COM
pany's doctor, and was doing well, but
the mans comrades insisted on bring
ing Chinese doctor to attend him.
The doctor came from distant camp
and gave the patient dose. In an
hour the poor fellow was dead. In
such cases there is no investigation
nobody cares that there is one China
man less. The death of a cart-horse is
Of much more consequence. Y.
Snldttey, in the Centllru.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14

The shock made me think, ana that
clearly. If the teamster was walking
behind his team, he would be on the
inside, next to the mountain wall, and
the team would be in the middle of
the road. If he was riding, the team
would be kept near the mountain wall
and at a safe distance from the outer
edge of the track Either way my best
chance was to pass on the outside.
As approached. therefore. l ran close
to the outside edge of the track, and
flew by in safety, hearing the teamster
shout as | did so. Here it was lucky
that | was going at such great speed.
for the teamSter saw the red light ot
my lantern when | was nearly mile
distant. aud recognizing it, he started
his team toward the outer edge of the
road, so as 10 give me the safest pas
sage ON the inside; but was upon and
past him before the team could be
driven over. otherwise | should have
surely run into them.
Aud now the wheel ran along the
level at the bottom of the mountain,
and my frightful velocity did not pre-
ceptibly diminish. ran out past the
works and into and along the village
street. Luckily the street was covered
thinly with sand-not enough to make
it bad riding, but sufficient to gradually
stop coasting wheel. My speed
slackened perceptibly. Still l ran
nearly through the village, and then
managed to turn broad corner and
run up the slope of a side street, which
finally checked my speed so that l ven
tured to drop my feet cautiously and
take the pedals, after touching them a:
they came up for number of revolu.
ii ons, TO help to check the machine
And so finally stopped and leaped tc
the. ground exactly in frount of DR..
Cameron's house. On mounting at the
mine-house | had looked at my watch
after habit | had; and now, from tn,
same habit, l looked at ii again. wa.
not astonished to find that had mad,
the nine miles from the mine to the doc
tors in few seconds less than thirteen
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Canine Intelligence.

have two setter dogs, says Mr.. E.
II. Eldridge, of Newton, Mass. One
morning they were both missing. After
having been gone the greatest part OF
the day Grouse returned home, pretty
well tired out, but was able to jump
around my coachman, looking up into
his face, barking and running ahead, as
if he would say, "Do follow me-" So
he followed Grouse far into the woods.
At last they came to stone wall.
Grouse jumped over and he followed
and there they found poor Scott, caught
in trap by one of his fore feet, crying
most pitifully. When extricated his
foot was found to be very much swol-
len, but fortunately no bone was bro
ken. If it had not been for faithful
Grouse he never would have seen his
home again. need not say that Grouse
jumped around with delight to see his
friend again free.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14
Elephants Not So Large.

While the elephant is the largest
beast known to the world, its size has
been greatly exaggerated. Ten feet il
q good height for one of the brutes, and
q twelve-foot elephant is big one.
Jumbo, the notorious, is about seven
teen feet high, and still growing. >
These quadrupeds reach between 20
and so years Of age before they die, but
there are instances OF elephants living
for over 200 years Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-14

minutes, Allowing six and a quarter
for the first two miles before the brake
gave way, and must have made the
last seven miles in less than six and
three-quarter minutes. firmly believe
that / covered seven miles in less than
six and half minutes. incredibly as
such speed seems.