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Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-23

Dean and Professor of Surgery of the United
States Medical College, Editor of Medical
proved Handbook of Hygiene and Do
nestle Medicine"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-21
A Thousand Wires.

Do what they may, no Mormon lead
er will ever equal the Sultan of Moroc-
CO, Sidi Muley Hassan, who has just adj
ded the one thousandth wife to his
harem, and has celebrated this unique
millenary by brilliant feast given to
the other 999, or rather to the other
Goo, for 400 are either dead or PEN
stoned off. Like the Mormons, the Sui.
tan does not keep all his better-halves
at one place, but distributes them
among his winter and summer resi-.
dences at Fee, Morocco, Tablet, and so
forth. Even then, unless he has more
palaces than fall to the lot of most En-
perors, there must be enough in each
house to seriously interfere with har-
mony now and then. We wonder if he
felt rs much pride and satisfaction
when he added the thousanth to the
number as Baron Tauchnitz did when
he published the thousandth volume
of his convenient Collection of British
Authors?'' Forwe imagine that after
man has married his three or four
hundredth consort-though on this
point we must speak with the doubt
arising from a total lack of experience
he cares very little for a new wife, as
wife, and regards each further addi-
ton much as collector looks upon q
new Elzevir, or new specimen of Jap
anese pottery, or another pipe, when
he does not care to smoke, another
violin, which will hang upon his wall
untouched. 1t is the pleasure of the
miser who heaps up stores; pleasure,
which. in this line of boarding, only
one man in the modern world, fortu-
nately, is allowed to have. 1t is Gu
rious. however, to observe that, while
what might be called the physical won
ders Of the arabian Nights Entertain
ments the carpet or the horse that
Travelled months journey in a day,
the talisman that conveyed ones words
at once 10 the distant lovcr-that,
while these and the like are coming
true by the power of modern science,
the social wonders, as they seem to
us Credentials, are beginning to fade
away. A son of this very sultan, the
Prince Muley Edris, not long ago mar
ried an Italian goyerness, who did not
give up her religion, and who stipu-
lated that she should be the only wife;
and brother of the Sultan, the Sherif
of Wezdan, has an English wife, who
no doubt was equally determined to
have her husband all to herself. Boston
Advertiser
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Ventilation of the Barn.

Man is apt to 90 from one extreme to
the opposite without realizing ut first
that a medium is more likely to be the
best. Our grandfathers had barns that
were ventilated too much, but we have
many barns that are not ventilated
enough.
To ventilate a barn through open
cracks that will let the wind blow di-
rectiy on the cattle seems to be cruel.
and certainly is not economy, because
the cattle. to keep in good condition,
must eat more to make up for the loss
of heat by the cold wind. To keep cat.
tie in n warm, tight barn seems to show
a kindly feeling towards the dumb beast.
and 1T also seems to be economy; but
there is point beyond which it is
neither merciful nor economy to 90. To
put fifty head of cattle in tight barn
with no attempt to ventiIate it is cruel.
and certainly not economy.
Many barns have ali the manure in
the cellar under them, and consequently
when a current of air that by any pos
slbility finds its way up into the barn, il
is charged with gases that are any,
thing but pleasant or healthful; and tie
DACdlu Vi 81 many stululdlS III Tight
tarn contaminates the air and loads it
with moisture. which settles on the hav
above and greatly Injuries its quality
and renders it less healthful That ami
mails kept in such barns should fire.
Iuently have their physical organs de-
canged is not at all strange; in fact. it
would be very strange if they did not.
The atmosphere in some barns is
made still more unpleasant and un-
healthy by the introduction of the silo
into ghe barn cellar, opening into the
barn itself. The owners of such barns
do not realize the extent to which the
air is polluted, because being in the
barn so much they become accustomed
TO the odors. and do not smell them as
do those who are accustomed to a we'll
ventilated barn.
While it is well, in fact important. TO
have tight barns, it is equally import-
ant that they should be well ventilated
from the top. and also from the bottom
and sides, whenever it seems necessary
to change the air. 1t is almost, if not
quite, impossible to make butter of the
first quality from milk taken from cows
that are MIXED in tight barns that have
no means of ventilation Massachusetts
PtOughnlGn.
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Was There n Cause a?

We may see the significance of tbs
inquiry which the Almighty is said to
have put to Job-.Where vast thou
[man] when l laid the foundations of
the worldp' The supposed colloquy
between job and his Creator embraces
a pretty searching question, which may
be asked of the evolutionist; for, upon
the evolution theory, these things, tho
tendency and capacity of the molecules
and the environing conditions, are 1.-The
foundations of the world" 1t is no
answer to say, as Mr.. Spencer does,
that these tendencies or capacities of
matter, and the laws of the favorino
conditions, came from the Unknown
Cause. Known or unknown, did they
selves? Did these, the foundations of
the world, have an origin, or were they
without any origin? If they had an
origin, was it from the will and power
of being capable of summoning them
into existence and prescribing their
modes of action? If they had no origin,
if they existed from all eternity. how
came it chat they formed this extraor-
binary habit of invariably acting in q
certain way, which, amid all its multi
formity, shows an astonishing persist
ency? If we deny. with Mr.. Spencer,
the absolute commencement of organic
life on the globe, we must still go back
of all the traces of organic life, and in.
quire whence matter, molecules, organ
lied or unorganized, derived the capac-
ity to become organized, and how tho
favoring conditions become established
as auxiliary or subsidiary forces. This
difficulty has not been met By Mr..
Spencer, or by any one else; for wheth-
or we .call the cause an unknown or
known cause, the question is, was
there a cause, or did the foundations of
the world lay themselves? The reason
ing powers of mankind. exercised by
daily observation of cause and effect, Of
creative product, seen, for example, in
the works of human power and skill
are entirely equal to the conception of
First Cause, as a being who could
have laid the foundations of the world;
but they are utterly unequal to the con-
ception that they had no origin what
ever George 1ycknor Curtis, in Tho
Manhattan.
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Well Cultivated LAM.

We once experimental by hauling
twenty-four large loads of the best ma
nure upon two acres of clay-loam land,
had it well cultivated into the soil,
which had been worked in the ordinary
way, but was somewhat lumpy. This
and the adjoining two acres were TO be
sown TO corn for fodder. Upon the
other two acres no manure was put.
but 1t was plowed and cultivated till the
soil, four inches deep. was as fine as a
garden bed. One and half bushels OF
corn were drilled per acre upon each
piece. drills sixteen inches apart. When
this corn was in blossom and ready to
cut, the unmanured two acres stood
eighteen inches higher than the MANFRED
piece. On selecting two sample rods in
different places upon each piece, cut
ting the green corn, and carefully
weighing 1t. the MANFRED piece gave
two hundred and seventy-five ponnds
per rod, and the unmauured. but finely.
pulverized. gave three hundred and fifty
pounds per rod-the MANFRED giving
twenty-five tons per acre. and the OTHER
tweniy-eight tons per acre. The cost
OF extra working was two dollars and a
half per acre. Could there be anv
doubt that the extra labor was well
paid for?
1t must be evident to every thought
tul farmer, that the first thing to be
done In furnishing crop food for crops
IS TO work more thoroughly and give
liner pulverization, and when this rs ac-
complished, then an application of some
iertiiizer.-AGfto'sdt Lfre-Stock Jour
nal
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long they thought she had drowned
herself. OF course there was a big
sensation, and everybody denounced
me. Dick, a cowardly knaye, hadn't
the nerve to tell the truth about il
and acknowledge his part in the
affair, but the girl Who abetted his
hendish deception went straight to nv
uncle and told him everything as soon
as she heard l was gone.
when he saw ht.s Il was 10 sore
that we should both be found, dead OF
alive, and If we were alive the marriage
should be consummated. They started
detectives after Us and advertised us
everywhere, and at last they got on tho
track Of the girl and they We traced her
to this very town. Think of III Dick
says they are sure she is here, and he
was here looking for her when he acct
dentally stumbled upon me. They'll
lind her OF course; il is only question
OF n few hours. and then l must be
dragged Up, like schoolboy that has
been pla.ing hockey, and married to a
wife of some other mans choice, or
leave here between two days and give
up good position"
He turns toward her, but she man
ages the palm-leaf so that he does not
see her face, and asks presently in a
hesitating way: but If she is as pretty
rs they say she is and-you would get
the money besides, why do YOU OBJ
ject?'
because am in love with somebody
else, and I'm done with matrimon al
negotiations by proxy. will attend TO
my own love affairs hereafter"
lie proceeded TO carry out his resolu-
ton by insinuating an arm between the
shelving and the slight figure that is
resting against it.
I've been in love with somebody else
ever since found her cry ing in a corner
not thousand miles from here, and il
she can only say the same Of me I'll
whistle the fortune down the wind and
defy all the detectives in Christendom.
lie draws his arm n little closer about
the yielding figure, and, screened from
view by the swaying fringe of gloves. he
feels safe in bringing the other arm into
position, so forming n complete circuit.
The acc 1mmodating palm-leaf is quite
large enough to conceal two heads, and
II sound like n half-audible OSCILLATION
| issues from behind IT,
- ApA--s INV NllANAlt bitsAkN Ailt Slltlltt
Proceedings are Immediately adiourne !,
and haunted by visions of presuming
and prying cash-boys, they both start
up and confront-Dick.
Have you found her?' asks the cash
Ter, dejectedly.
20 yes, I've found her." saws Dick.
leaning heavily upon the counter, as he
wiped the moisture from his brow.
Miss DavisSn, allow me TO introduce
my cousin. Tom Winfield; Tom, Miss
Alice Dawson. The introduction seems
to be little subsc Iuent. but we have
done the best we could"
80 another wedding feast was spread
beneath the hospitable roof of Mr. Hum
phrey Dawson, and this time To some
purpose; for n marriage was solem-
nized, at which ceremony Dick. his sins
forgiven, OBLIGATED rs best man, and his
periidious accomplice. minus paint.
curls, and all Objectionable features,
made a charming bridesmaid. - Chicago
Tribune.
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have had this power. We NAV wonder.
but the fact remains. There was power in
His case. and the power remains still.
1t is the greatest power on earth. There
Is no such motive power among men.
Men are so made that they can not sit
down and passively accept the pure love
oi anotheri they may refuse to listen, but
II they listen it evokes response; they
become restless under it; it melts hearts
OF stone. This is true of what is, thank
Uod, The common love of men and wom-
en-. The love of parents for their chill
dren wakens the love of children for
parents, and at last will control and
soften the stubborn will, which no COM
pulsion could bend or break. The
mothers amending love for even a
profligate son or fallen daughter will
prevail at last. penetrating through
every barrier of sin and selfishneSs.
The devoted love of brothers and sisters
of mercy who in any form give their
lives for Others viii at last win the
hearts of the hardest and most aban-
doned. Ii is as irresistible as summer
warmth on snow. Yet all this human
love is but the image and shadow of
Divine love; 1--WE are but broken lights
of Thee" If the power of human love
is so great, if man who has the rare
and godlike gift of pouring out of his
little human heart any tiny streamlet
OF genuine human love can SO attract
and sway and impel the human hearts
and wills around him, what wonder il
the Divine stream of love that poured
In full torrent on the world in the life
and death of Christ has moved the
world ever since. When you once open
your ears and your heart to the story of
Christ's love, when you listen to it, not
with languid, half-awakened intelli-
gence, but listen to it as you would
listen to the one fact that most of all
concerns you TO know and understand,
then at last its power is felt-Rev. j.
III Utls0n
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THE DRUMMERS STORY

As the train whirled on by wood and lake.
And picturesque mountain gap
And had settled myself 10 take
An aftorsandwich nap,
To foat away from this dreary world
To realm where bu bulls sing
Loves lyrics % roses dcw-lmpearlcd,
And al that sort Of thing,
A goods drummer came and sat
Right down In the seat by me.
AMI straghtway he began 90 chat
In amanner Wild and free.
And whom he'd removed hts ovcrcoat.
Aud hung his hat ON his knee.
With an air most bold he glihly told
This curious tale 10 me.
once knew a man with merry gait,
Aud movement quaint 90 SEQ;
His height was sometimes hyc tc't eight.
And sometimes i've feet three"
'Denr sir, do you think I've an empty patel''
He responded; NO, sir rcci
But his height rts sometime i've feet eight.
And sometimes i've feet three"
Explaln9' cried. for couldn't wait,
Explain the riddle % inc
or The man who WIS sometimes Ave feet
And sometimes nyo fee, thrcc.'
Then the drummer smllci q s-rro scdatc.
And murmurri: "Crrtuiulrc
~ cNpuatns your lunutuf With JOY 20 sutc,
This wonderful my1cry.
" Tho tale shall unto you relate
rs the same rCCurs % mo-
OF the man who was something's i've feet
eight,
Aud sometimes I've feet three.
" tie was born in the distant state
Ot Maine, whore the Moose runs Free
This man who was sometime ave feet eight,
Aud sometimes ave feet thrc'-"
" Come, got o. your story. delay hate"
lie responded; "prcscutlcc:
THIS man who was sometimes I've feet eight,
And sometimes i've feet three.
7" Was born, as 7 said. In n former line.
ln AroostOOks wilderness:
OIo lcN was ns luur ns yours or mine
Tho other ave inches loss.
" And that you NAV know this Wild ana great
And wonderful mystcrCe.
On HIS long ley he stoud i've feet eight,
ON hls short one ave feet three
"a. n MuHh dfTirt. ia ruck.
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Religious Reading.
LITTLE MARGERY AND TIN
SINGER.


Margery covered and crouchei in the door Of
the beautiful porch.
There were beautiful people in there, and they
all belonged TO the church.
But Margery waited without: she did not "be-
long" anywhere
Except in The dear Lords bosom, who taketh
the children there,
And through the open doorway came floating
lovely sound;
She shut her eyes and imagined how the an
gels stood around
" it'll their harps like st. Cecilia's in the pict-
ure on the wall
All. Margery did not doubt that so looked the
singers all.
"SuTer the little children," sang a Heavenly
voice somewhere,
Or the soul of a voice that was winging AWAY
in the upper air:
Let the children como to mel" sang the
"angel" in her place,
And Margery, listening, stood with upturned
eyes aud face.
Let them come! let them come to Mel" And
up the aisle she sped,
With eyes that sought for the Voice, to follow
where it led.
She did not say to herself: I'm coming. Wait
But it shone in her face, and 1t leaped in her
eyes, dear Margery!
the hem of her dress,
But the choir were bending their heads the
preacher nad risen TO bless
The reverent throng, and-alas bewildcred
Margery,
The Voice has ceased. and the singers have
turned their eyes on thee.
They look with surprise at her feet and again
ut her ragged gown,
And one by one they pass with careless
smile or a frown;
But the sweetest face bent near and-s
came, said Margery,
For thought twas an angel sung: Let the
children come to Mel"
With a tender sigh the singer took the child
on her knee;
% sang the words for the dear Lord Christ.
my Margery,
And so, for the dear Lord Christ, take thee
home with me-.
-" Ii UGS an angel sang" sobs little Margery
Anna r. BtaTham. IN " ide Quake.
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Gods Design.

We are quite certain that what we
are can not be the end of Gods design
When l see block of marble half
chiseled, with just, perhaps, hand
peeping out from the rock, no man can
make me believe that that is what the
artist means 1t should be. And know
| am not what God would have me to
be, because 1 feel yearnings and long
ings within myself 20 be infinitely bet
ter, infinitely holier and purer, than |
l am now. And SO it is with you; you
are not what God means you to be; you
have only just begun to be what He
wants you TO be. He will go on with
His chisel of affection, using wisdom
and the graving-tool together, till by
and by it shall appear what you shall
be; for you shall be like Him, and you
shall see Him as He is. o what COM
fort this is for our faith, that from the
fact that our vitality, and the fact that
God is at work with us. it is clear and
true and certain that our latter end shall
be increased. do not think that any
man yet has ever got an idea of what
man is to be. We are only the chalk
crayon, rough drawings of men; yet
when we come to be filed up in eternity
we shall be marvellous pictures. and our
latter end, indeed, shall be greatly in
creased. --SpurgeoR,
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The North Pole.

1t is misapprchension to suppose
the chief purpose of Arctic exploration is
to reach the north pole. The north pole
has figured in the schemes of scientific
explorers only as desirable incident
i'll the carrying out of their work. Geo
graphers talk of the north pole quest
pure and simple as an unscientific and
a puerile idea. What explorers are real
ly expected to do is to advance as far
as practicable into the unknown region,
10 study Its geography and make i'm
portant scientific observations. Captain
Mares, nine years ago, had to halt 400
miles this side of the pole. But his
expedition was called brilliant sue
cess, because he entered the great
frozen sea north of this continent. ex-
plored the coast line for distance of
thirty-five degrees of longitude. and
brought home a great mass of inter
esting scientific data.
The leading geographers assert that
Arctic exploration is of immense value
70 the world. both in its scientific and
IN It's commercial aspects. They say
tnat winds, tides, terrestrial magnetism.
meteoiology. and other important phe-
nomena cannot be thoroughly investi-
gated except under many different con-
1ltious OF temperature and locality.
Among many triumphs of Arctic re-
search they mention the fixing of the
position of the tree magnetic pole by
Ross. the finding of a simple means Of
keeping the needle pointing to the true
North in high latitudes, the discovery
OF the commercial mineral cryolite, and
o. the great whaling and sealing grounds
IN The Spitzhergen and North Green
land seas. They assert also that. in
spite OF the frightful disasters that have
oeiallen some exploring parties, the loss
OF life has been small. About three per
cent OF the Actic explorers have died
In the course of their work-not large
proportion when compared with tho
mortality among African explorers
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Fruit trees, as well as animals. re.
spond to judicious care.
-Soapsuds are a valuable fertilize,
for all forms OF vegetation, especiall,
serviceable for small fruits. and in the
fruit garden proper will never bc
wasted.-N j. Herald.
If you W sh to give an extra touch
to your cottage pudding, after it is il
the TIN ready TO bake, put little lump:
OF butter on the the top and scatter
cinnamon and sugar over it.-Bostor
GLOBE.
"A correspondent says that the best
means of removing moss and earth &C
cumulations from an old Single roo
Is % sprinkle. lime freely along the
comb OF the roof and let the rains dis
solve and carry it over the shingles
n. \. Times.
"A good cough medicine is made OF
boiling two ounces of fiaxseed in ono
quart of water; and rock candy "a
sweeten it to your taste. After strain.
ing, add also the Juice of several lem.
ons. This should be taken at night
and II possible it should be hot wher
taken. Detroit Post
Have you any cabbage stumps? Sci
them out. in the garden, as soon as the
frost leaves the ground, where they will
not interfere with other crops. Cover
them half of their length. Green,
tender leaves will soon appear which
Will give the earliest of greens. The
blossom shoots will appear later
Cteceld7d Lcddar.
"A writer in scientific journal rid.
icules the idea that apples sweat and
that they must undergo sweating
process before they are put in barrels
in order to keep well. He states that
only injury comes from leaving apples
in piles in an orchard, and that the
moisture found on them comes from
the atmosphere. He recommends plac-
ing them in barrels as soon as they are
picked.
Plain Plum Pudding.--Take -four
cupfuls of flour, one cupful of thinly-
sliced suet, one cupful OF sweet milk,
one cupful of mOlasseS. one cupful OF
Lante currants, two cupfuis of raisins,
and one teaspOonful each of cloves, Gin
namon. alspice and nutmeg. Dissolve
two teaspoonSful of baking powder in
the milk. Mix well together, and boil
in a mold or pudding cloth for three
hours. -Ihe Household.
The winter rad sh is rarely found in
farmers gardens, though it is consid-
cred treat by all who are fond of this
vegetable at this time of the year. Try
It in the garden of the coming season.
The seed need not be sown until the
time for turnips. Trimmed and well
cultivated they will grow from ten to
twelve inches long and three inches in
diameter; when they are gathered bury
them in sand in TIE cellar. Before using
place them for an hour in cold water.
They will not grow well during the hot
season and nothing is gained by haste
in planting. --Lucd Herald.