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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
No. 5.
BE PlWO- PALMyKE @a

A bedlam of weather. Old Winter fights
like n mailman for his life. OF such u sea-
son, Sir James Padgct says: People should
remember that if they are careless rs to al
lowing themselves TO get into a low state OF
health, they run the risk of picking up any
malady going about
Nothing trucr! and it is Just here that Pr
nO-Palminc steps right to the front. 1t gives
a man aliving chance bytoning him up and
keeping his system ut par. You sleep dry,
warmand we'll. You rise fresher and strong
crthan when you lay down. Therefore you
are not the victim OF every disease that is
going about.
Pino-palnine Las toned and lnyigoSated my whole
system"
That's just it. And that's the experience
of all who use the Pino-Palmine bedding.
The system don't ebb on it as with feathers,
hair, or other filling. Iouget confidence in
yourself and feel that you can brave any
weather which March can hatch.
And isn't this the true province ola bed?
Let those who don't think 50 stick to their
stale feathers and matted hair. Those who
do think 50 will call on our agent, and sat
isiy themselves that
TxGov. Newell. Of New Jersey. speaks the ruth
when he says: THE Pho bedding il cool, conf Ort-
able, elastic, enduring and he,Ith'giying'
'Iftherci is no agent near you, send orders.
with length and breadth Of bed, To Agent
Pino-PallAipe Co. 10 WatcrSt.B Boston, Mass.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
Sudden Conversions.
Henry Ward Beecher.

1lculy w dIu oScCHCi.
Now and then a man who has been a
gross drinker is converted by some cleo
trical experience. Men seeing these
wonderful transitions from midnight to
midday are fascinated by them, and
they have an idea that if man has
been very wicked the power of Gods
spirit will come on him and you will
see him turned in an instant to an ar
dent Christian. They say: "What a
splendid contrast" I don't think a
man who has been wallowing for thirty
years is very apt to fly the next thirty
years. A man who has crept on his
belly like worm will hardly be trans
formed into butterfly, and if he is he
will not be much more than butter
fly. don't believe the highest form of
spiritual excellence ever comes from the
lower practices of men violative of the
laws of morality. 1t is worth mans
while to be moral even if he is not 90
ing to be Christian.
You may ask, evil it save him?
will morality save men?" That leads
|me to say you must not suppose that
morality is substitute for the higher
form of religion. If [ plant holy
hook and it comes up in stock and leaf
it is pleasing so far, but if it is cut off
before poisoning it is good only so
far. You have lost the very end for
which you planted it.
Morality counts for something so far
|hs 1t goes. 1t is, like the spoiled flower,
"a process baked, imperfect. The spir-
itual has not blossomed. Preparation
for what fits you to live in this life is
well, but when it comes to the question
of the great beyond can you speak that
language? Have you got that money
which passes current there? The ship
wants to anchor, and the line comes
within twenty feet of the bottom.
What is it good for? 1t doesn't reach
bottom, and therefore it is good for
nothing.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
JOAQUIN MILLER's CABIN.
A Place to Give a Poet Inspiration.

carp"
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sier-
ras, has just got into his log cabin. l
called upon him in it and found tall,
weil-made, blue-eyed man of forty-fve,
with long, tawny hair flowing out from
under his SLOUGH hat, with pantaloons
tucked into pair of fine boots, and a
good-natured air of western wildness,
which well accorded with his pictur-
esque surroundings. He received me
cordially, and kindly showed me over
the cabin, saying that for fifteen years
he had been wandering about over the
ace of the earth, and that he was glad
to feel that he had at last place he
could call his home.
The cabin is on the heights at the
head Of Sixteenth street, the great
street of the Wa hington of the future.
AS Waukeen says, 1.-The presidents
house is at one end of it and his hut is
at the other, but that while he has a
cabin the president has only a cab
met" Sixteenth is great wide street
paved with asphalt, and lined alter
nately with $50, 1000 mansions and $50
negro huts. The White House, almost
bathed by the Potomac and faced by
Lafayette park, is its starting point,
and half way up to Mr.. Miller's
cabin is a green plat in
which bronze equestrian statue of
Gen. Scott looks at the executive man.
sion. The street steadily rises, carry
ing with it old St. Johns Episcopal
church, George H. Pendleton's man
sion, negro laborers' cabins, Senator
Cameron's great palace, and a like
mixture till it reaches the boundary of
the town, where there is a jump up
ward in the shape of a flfty-foot hill or
plateau, running back into the country.
On this plateau Joaquin Miller has
bought lot and put up one of the pref
test of log cabins.
The lot runs almost to the edge of
the hill, and the view is certainly one
of the. finest in the United States. Mr..
Miller says he has never seen anything
to equal it, and that if man can write
poetry anywhere he ought to be able to
write it here. Stand in front of the
large yard of the cabin, under one of
the great oaks which shade it, all Wash
ington lies before you surrounded by
hills which make it look as though the
nature around was mammoth COL
iseum of the gods and the national cap
ital the scene going on in the arena be-
low. The great white, classic capitol
is plainly seen, the Potomac flows on
along the edge of the arena, and off on
neighboring hills you can look into Alex
andria and at the tombstones of Airing
ton.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
Distinguished Bachelors.
Cincinnati Commandments.


Miss Kate Sanborn concluded her
course of ten lectures on literature at
Bartholomew school, with ssThe
Bachelors" the other day. The ssBach-
elor Authors" was, she thought, diff
cult subject. They were so numerous
and had done so many curious things.
Pope, Pollock, Herrick, Goldsmith,
Macaulay, that good man Watts, Hans
Andersen. Voltaire, Ballou, Swinburne,
Newton and host of others were and
are bachelors. Pope was known as the
Interrogation point of literature and
hated women. DR.. Watts is said to
have written one of his sweetest hymns
after being refused by woman. James
Buchanan, the bachelor president, was
something of an author, and used to
publish his love verses in the papers.
In art the bachelors were also nu-
merous. Raphael, Angelo, Landseer,
Joshua REYNOLDS and Beethoven were
never married. Congreve, the dra-
matist, was specimen of the bachelor
lady-killer, and Swift, bitter and ma
licious as he was, was really of the
same order. Cowper was of a tender,
sensitive nature, and was as shrinking
as the petals of a dainty flower. At
twenty EIGHT he met with love misfor-
tune, and the wound never healed.
Kootc a1co fondor,h .
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
In AgOnizing Suspense.
BOatop journal.

0O6tOu JOurudl.
Among the numerous applications
for pensions received by the commits
sioner of pensions is one sent the other
day by an ex- soldier, who has discov-
cred an entirely new ground for relief.
He stated that he had no wounds and
was not disabled by disease, but while
fighting in the Union ranks, at the bat
tie of Antietam, he lost his coat, vest
and one suspender. sThe other sus-
pender," he wrote, ''was my only stay
and support. Imagine my dismay
when bullet came along, and, slight
ly scorching my skin as it passed, cut
the last precious suspender clean in
two. There 1 stood in presence of
many thousands of men. My emotions
cannot be described. You, Mr.. Com
missioner, can imagine them. 1 am
certainly entitled to a pension for the
wounds given to my feelings on that
occasion. Possibly you may not de-
eide that large pension should be
given me, but, at least, l ought to have
enough to keep me in strong, reliable
suspenders all my life."
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
MEDITATION.

Dost eyer sit at twilight's hour,
And mediate alone,
And think how many, many friends
From life's long way have gone?
Dost ever see thy childhood IS friends
Within the Swallowed light,
And list them tell the golden tales
See olden pictures bright9
And then the friend of girlhood's years,
You used to love so well,
Whose ever ready ear was lent
To listen what you would tell!
And then the other dearer friend,
Whose hand enclasps your own,
Whispers words so very low,
None heard but you alone?
And then the friends of later years,
Who round your hearthstone came,
And taught your friendship oft can
boast,
OF else beside a name.
And then the years that came between
And blotted all away?
Some lights went out, but some in
heaven
Still burn with steadfast ray.
The backward path love to tread,
Its joys are ever mine!
The future may be rayless night,
The past through it shall shine.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

mother. Erasmus was very facetious
man and the best critic of his age. Hor-
ace Walpole, who for sixty years sat-
irized men, women and things, loved
to write letters. In his old age he be-
came infatuated with Miss Berry, but
feared that the world he had so long
ridiculed would laugh him down. Pope
delighted to write letters and would
send half a dozen copies to his lady
friends. Though many detested the
"wasp," he was devoted to his mother
and was self-sacriicing. Macaulev
was never married, but his noble ma
ture shone out in his letters to his sis
tiers. When one Of them got married
he said he had nothing left but his am
hilton
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
Our Wonderful Beef Belt.
Philadelphia Times

fhllaoelpnla Times.
1t is said that belt about 400 miles
wide and extending from the Gulf of
Mexico to the British possessions along
the slope of the Rocky Mountains con-
tains neat cattle worth more than
5000, 0O0, 900, which subsist wholly on
natural grasses. Much of this belt is
included in what was formerly known
as the Great American Desert. Nearly
twenty years ago an OK train was be-
lated on the plains and the driver of
the cattle turned them loose to shift
for themselves in a winter of unusual
severity, and great was his astonish-
ment the following spring to find the
animals in excellent condition. They
had fed on the grama, or buffalo grass,
which grows in great abundance in all
that region, and possesses qualities ;of
the highest nutritive value. 1t grows
luxuriantly during the rains of spring
and early summer, anu "cures" on the
stalk when the August drought ar
rives, remaining in good condition
throughout the season, owing to the
extreme dryness of the winter months.
The average annual rainfall of the beef
belt is only about one-fourth as much
as that of the eastern states.
The production of beef for export
and for the states which do not produce
as much as they consume is rapidly in
creasing the demand upon the grama
grass region. Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
and Kentucky have almost ceased to
contribute to the beef supply of other
states, and Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
are finding that they cannot compete
with the famous beef belt in the pro-
duction of beef for the eastern market.
Although the number of cattle other
than mich COWS has increased from
%, 49,, 591 in 1880 to 20, O46, 101 in 1883,
it is doubted whether the increase will
continue to keep pace with the increase
of population, and if the population
reaches 150,0O0,O0O as early in the next
century as some statisticians predict, it
is probable that we shall not have much
beef to sell to Europe, marvellous as
may be the productiveness of the Rocky
mountain beef belt. AS New York re-
ceived 67O,297 beeves, 1926 COWS and
190,2s7 calves, during 1883, exporting
only IS, 200 of the whole number, pecu.
liar interest in the grama grass country
is felt in this community.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

hard line OF money-making. Some
thing serious pervaded his writings and
paintings.
Lamb was defined as the self-denying
bachelor, because he gave up marriage
on account of his sister. Gray and
Erasmus were old-maidish bachelors.
Goldsmith was laundering bachelor,
and his life might have been changed,
good-natured and Iovable as he was, if
he had married. The ideal bachelor
was Whittier, who was everybody's
friend, gentle, good and kind. Next
came the clans, of whom Hume was a
distinguished example. Encased in
his shell he was a regular bivalve,
soothing at everything and even defend
ing suicide. Nowhere in his CORES
pondence could be discovered an evil
dence of warmth and sentiment.
The corpulent bachelor authors made
long list. Hume was the latest of
the fat. Not appreciated at home, he
was intoxicated with the praise of
Paris, and made failure in the salons
as society man. Gibbons corpulency
was even ridiculous, and he went
through several courtships, but forgot
that his lat kept pace with his fame.
Alter reading several chapters of the
'Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, ~
he got on his knees to make his pro-
posal. She refused, and Gibbon could
not regain his feet until helped by two
stout women.
Buckle, Boyle and Spencer were never
married, and the fact may have been
that many of them never had time.
Humboldt was a general favorite in
society, and was courted and feted; he
was witty and sharp at repartee.
Though his name was associated with
lonely rivers, unpeopled wastes, noun
tain peaks and tr avels, he was never
known as a husband. Buckle was al
ways an invalid and was devoted to his
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
An Awful Scandal.

Texas siftings.
"Why, la, Mrs. Jinks, have youheard
the news?''
s'No, Mrs. Brown; do tell me, for 1
am dying to hear"
"Well, you know never gossip, my
dear"
"Of course not; l do not think it
right to talk about ones neighbours af-
fair. But what is the latest: Of course,
we will tell each other what is going
on.''
"Why, you know Col. Jones' house
is near to ours, and we can see right
into their side windows. Well, would
you believe 1t, 1 actually saw him kiss
his wife this morning before leaving
the house,
"You are sure it wasn't the hired
girl?''
"No, 1 could see her plain enough
l know they have had terrible row
and were making up. The idea of 8
man kissing his own wife, and before
everybody, too"
"Yes, dear, it is an awful scandal,
goodbye" and Mrs. Jinks hurried of
to see her friend Mrs. Smith, and tell
her about the big row, and how Col
Jones nearly killed his wife.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

Osborn, Neb. Range: Red Willow creek,
in southwest corner Of Frontier county, cat
tie branded go L o. on right side. Also,
left, Horses branded ''S'' on right shoulder.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

Wendell Phillips left but little MS.
behind him in collected form. There
is much good material, however, in the
newspaper reports of his numerous
speeches, and they will be used in a
forthcoming volume.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

Ranch, Spring Canyon on the Frenchman
River, in Chase county, Neb. Stock branded
as above; also "717'' on left side; go. LIZ
on left hip; opp on right hip and ''L. - on
right shoulder; 'cL. on left shoulder and
''X.' on left jaw. Half under.crop left
ear, and square-crop right ear.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03

FOR SALE.-My range of 1000 acres of
decided land In one body, including the
Black and Byfeld hay lands; timber and
water with two good farm houses and other
improvements. Convenient to No. school
privileges. Situated in the Republican val
ley west of Red Willow creek. Call on or
address .-zt j. F. BLACK,
Bed Willow, Neb.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-23
TOBACCO FERTILIZERS.

Superphosphate, says n tobacco
grower, is very quick in its efforts,
and it has always been remarked
that a spoonful of it in the hill
would ripen the tobacco plant a
week or too sooner than when well
rotted manure was alone used. 1t
has also been the experience of our
growers that superphcsphate gives
fine, thin leaf. This quick ripen
ing is now though Objectionable by
many since if the plant remains of
a dark green, exhibiting healthy
growing appearance for long time,
the leaf will be heavier and of a
dark color. This is effected, as is
claimed, by the use of castor
pOmace and eottonseed meal. Per-
haps the theory needs longer test
ing before it becomes a fixed princi-
pie, yet this is the common Wow OF
growers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-23
FRUIT GARDEN HINTS.

The pruning of grape vines and
training them upon their trellises,
and the transplanting of blackberries
raspberries and currants should be
attended among the first warm
DAYS, says the American CultiUa-
tor. They STRAIT out their now shoots,
which will beat the next years fruit
very early and it is better for them
to be placed where they are want
to grow, before they do SO. An
abundance of these fruits for family
use is one of those luxuries which
every farmer should enjoy. A lit
tie land, little manure and a lit
tie labor will furnish them, and as
the land may be in hooks hereto
fore occupied by unsightly hedges
and weeds, and the labor will be
but little more than a pleasure, taxi
ing up the half hours after supper
when one can stroll about the
greunds, admiring the growth of
the things in the garden, the chick
ems, the fower-beds and other orna-
mental and useful appendages of the
farm and door yard they viii be en-
joyed at a small cost.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-23

gathered them from tribe near
by. She was SO glad to see me she
cried. The little children came
around me shaking my hand-call-
ing me mamma. They call all the
lady missionaries mamma. | told
them they must call me Miss Alice
She would have me to stay and take
breakfast with her. A poor woman
has just come into the mission home
with measles to be taken care of.
The minister did not know it. So
l went into disease the first thing.
My faith was steadfast in the Lord.
Very soon the minister, Mr.. Pitnan,
came for me. | went to his home
and waited till be found me board
ing place. The best he could get.
The price is S17OO per month. l
will have to pay from s15O to $500
per month for washing, and furnish
soap, starch and blueing, myself.
The Lord is good to me here. He
has blessed me more than / can tell
far more than [ expected.
In love, ALICE.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-23
LNSOMNLA.


The pr0ximate cause OF sleepless-
ness is plethora of the cerebral
lbloOd-vessels, and palliative cure
can be effected by anything that
lessons the tendency of the circula-
ton towards the head. But per-
manent cure may require time and
patience. By night-study brain
workers sometimes contract chronic
insomnia in that worst form which
finds relief only in the stuper of a
low fever alternating with consSeu-
tive days of nervous headaches Re-
forming topers often have to pass
through the same ordeal, before the
deranged nervous system can be re-
stored to its nermal condition.
Fresh air, especially of low tom
'perature, pedestrian exercise, and
an aperient diet, are the best natural
remedies. Under no circumstances
should sleeplessuess beHovercome by
narcotics. An opium torpor can
not fulfill the functions of refresh
ing sleep; we might as well benumb
the patient by a whack on the skull.
-fDr. r. Il. OsrdEd, an Popular
Science Monthly for april 4
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-23
PAUPERIZING CATTLE.

One of the religious papers, deal
ings with the subject of mission
work in the western States and
Territories, draws an illustrations
from the experience of men who
know all about cattle: In New
Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming
Territory, and ali along these lines
Of longitude, millions of cattle subsist
through all the winter seasons on
the native grass without being fed.
The cattle kings Of Wyoming told
me when | was laboring there that,
from the severity Of some of their
winters, they lost from three to five
per cent. of their cattle. | asked why
they did not keep a supply ofhay to
help the weaklings through. "Give
them hay and they quite work,
and their example tends to demor-
aIize the herd cheaper to let them
die" A friend of mine in Nevada,
who had a stock ranch, told me
once, in the severity of hard
winter, he bought stack of hay to
tide his weakly cattle through a
cold snap. His supply of hay was
not at all adequate to the length Of
the winter season, but would sustain
life till the snow should pass away
and allow the cattle access to the
grass; but to his great disappoint-
ment, all the cattle admitted to the
hay-staclz lay down by it as soon as
they fill themselves Then when
hunger returned they would walk
to the water trough and drink, and
return to the hay-stack and eat.
Thus they spent their days till the
hay was all devoured, and there,
one by one, they lay down and
died. Hiae
The next winter was also very
severe, and my friend saw that he
was likely again to loose a large
number Of cattle, but, having learn
ed a lesson of wisdom on the distri-
button Of charity, he determined to
adopt a different method; SO he Sc
cured supply of hay, but kept it
entirely out of sight of the herd,
and during the very severe weather,
be had each "cowbey" sling two
bundles of hay across his shoulder,
and have them hang down fore and
aft of his body, so as attract the at
tention of the cattle, and pass quiet
ly among them as they were scatter
ed widely over the plains, and when
they found one in a starving condi-
ton, just to lay down little hay
and pass on. In that way he did
not pauperize, but he did vitalize
and keep his needy cattle to work
on the line of self-support. lie did
not lose one that winter.