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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
Thought Twas Only Preaching.
rom the Buffalo Commercial

From the Buffalo Commercial
An esteemed friend, one of the cler-
gymen of Buffalo. writes as follows:
"In your issue of Saturday last a
sweet Titles tory is pervertedinto Hard
on the Ministers. The occurrence was
not in Rochester at all, but in Brooklyn,
and the story is not as related. This is
the true rendering: Brother J. Hyatt
Smith, then pastor of Lee Avenue Bap-
fist church formerly pastor of Wash.
ington Street Baptist church in this
city9, preached a very impressive SER
mon, one Sabbath morning about twelve
years ago, on 'The New Birth in which
he urged that it is an experience not to
be understood till actually possessed,
and then it is known just as we
know any fact of experience. Among
many striking illustrations, he related
in his own inimitable way an occur
renee of his early life. He said
When 1 was a child we were very poor
and lived in a little log house. Ny
brother James, two years older Than
myself, was blind. We had no marbles
or playthings, such as other children
have; so we got some onions and rolled
them upon the floor, while my mother
smiled and piled her needle. After o
little the spray from the bruised onions
began to irritate my Sind brothers
sensitive eyes, and he i~nstinStively
thrust his little fists, all covered with
onion juice, into then, and rubbed
them vigorously. The juice was fire
to his eyes, and In an agony of pain he
screamed leaping to his feet, and rush
ing to his mother with uplifted hands
he cried out, not with pain but with JOY,
I seel / seeP The juice had cut the
films which had grown over his sight
and they had dropped upon his cheeks
with his tears, and his grief and blind
ness were both changed to Joy. So il
was with this birth from above
~"OnreachIng home his little two-year-
old Nanny crept into his arms, and,
turning her large dark eyes up to her
fathers face, inquired, with peculiarly
tender tones and deep solicitude: Papa,
was it truly story you telled about
Uncle James?' Why, yes, my darling,
replied Brother Smith. With a look
of great relief she responded: %,
thought twas only preaching and
quietly slippedf from his lap and walked
away with an air of supreme composure.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
The Beer Flew to HIS Head.

"Mr. Snicklefritz,' said the Austin
recorder to the accused, a saloon keep
er, ''you are charged with having as
saulted this lawyer, and byt he looks of
his head you must have used great vio-
lence."
"A glass peer fly to his head,
schudge"
II know" said the recorder, pen
sively, s.that beer will hy 10 a persons
head If not taken in moderate doses,
but that does not explain the scalp
wounds"
dot glass fly NIT der peer to his
head"
ssOh, you hit him on the head with a
mug of beer. Why didn't you say SO
at once instead of dropping into
poetry. What was the provocationP"
ssDot shayhawk lawyer" said
Snicklefritz. sscome to my saloon
drunk, and say: Hello, Dutchy! why
don't you put your Limbergcr sheese
on ice SO it don't spoil so tam soonp'
I say | would not hef dot, and a glass
of peer fly to his head."-Teras SIT.
iu0s.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
Born TO Suicide.

An interesting document has been
found among the..effects of Andrew G..
Lawson, of Brocton, Mass, who died
suddenly at Campello. 1t was thought
his death was caused by heart disease,
but this paper shows that it was q case
Of suicide, to which the victim says he
was impelled by irresistible prenatal
influences. The paper is written in
Swedish, is headed, 3My biography"
and tells a unique story. when /
was 5 years old, says the writer, Il
heard my mother tell of going
to the river to drown herself
two months before / was bern.
just as she was about to spring into
the water the thought cam to
her that she had no right to sacrifice
two lives, and she turned and ran
away from the river as fast as her feet
could carry her. The drunkenness
Of my father impelled her to
self-destruction. FROM the time
when / was born / have always felt q
fearful desire to make away with my
self. When / was only 4 years old l
threw myself into a ditch full Of water,
but was seen and rescued in time.
When still a boy / tried poison, but q
stomach pump saved my lfe." Since
then, Lawson says, he has attempted ey-
cry possible means Of suicide, but always
without success. He tried shooting and
hanging. ate quantities of ice when
overheated, tried to catch cold in order
to bring on pneumonia, and again at,
tempting drowning, but all his varied
attempts we're failures. Lately ne
bought four boxes OF Rough on Rats
and began taking it in honey, with the
desired effect. The biography covers
twenty-se4en pages of foolscap, and us
varied descriptions Of novel methods OF
suicide have not yet been all translated.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31

Daniel Webster greatly improved Il.
farm at Marshfeld by planting q so,a..
of trees, mostly evergreens, about s.
feet in width, on the north and wa....-
sides of the fields. The operation !,
screen plantations, observed Marsh.,l
is not merely that of giving sbaltas.
the animals lodging beneath them l.,
likewise in breaking the uniform e"s'
rent of the wind, ~shattering the entt,s.
blasts and throwing them into ada;aV
thus meliorating the air to some AZ
lance from them. Living trees cow
municate a degree of actual warmth !.
the air which envelopes them. W.
there is life there is warmth, not onlv
in animal but in vegetable nature. Tha
severest frost rarely Affects the san y
trees. Hence it appears that trees and
shrubs properly disposed in a bleak sim.
alton tend to improve the lands i
situated in a three-fold way, for .hs
purpose of agriculture, namely. hv
giving shelter to stock, by breaking tbs
currents of winds and by communicat.
ing a degree of warmth, or softness. 4
the air in calmer weather.
Nor ought it to be altogether kept ont
of view, that the retaining and iudi.
ciously arranging a portion Of growing
timber on a farm confers a richness and
picturesque beauty on the landscape
We have e 10 some lands, on which
nothing was sought for but profit and
shelter, where the greatest beauty was
produced by adopting this system.
Where, however, trees for shade NAV Be
requisite for agricultural purposes.
they should be sufficiently open to al.
NIT a free circulation of air. For this
purpose, trees with lofty stems and
large heads, pruned to single stems, are
preferable. To shelter live stock, the
screen should be open at the bottom;
otherwise it is injurious rather than
beneficial. The blast not only requires
additional current but now is liable to
be blown through . nd TO be lodged in
drifts on the leeward side, to the annoy
ance and danger of sheep that have re-
pared thither for shelter.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
Flirting With a Senorita.

Though the laws of propriety are SO
vigorously strict that a gentleman may
not ride in the same carriage with the
lady to whom he is betrothed, yet most
desperate fiirtations are openly in
dulged in In Mexico to an extent that
would put to blush New York, Chica-
go, or San Francisco. Following a
senorita up and down the promenade
AID staring intently in her face is an
accepted mode of COMPLEMENTARY
less gratifying to the recipient, but
fraught with danger to the adorer.if
she happens to have other devoted
swains--and it not infrequently hap
pens that duels are the result, she
being prominently the belle who can
boast the greatest number of such en-
counters. The canal was completely
hidden by heats, big and little the
majority being long, clumsy raft-like
barges, each with a covered space in
the middle and a deck at each end,
propelled by three or four Indians,
who push their long poles against the
river bottom, singing as they go.
Others were inclosed in an airy lattice
work of woven rushes intertwined
with flowers, thus shading the happy
occupants; many, gay with flags and
awnings, were exact limitations of Ven
etian gondolas, and thousands were
simply dug-outs-the same primitive
chdtapas which Cortez found the ma
tives using nearly four centuries ago.
Most of the canoes carried guitar
players; a few were seen with harps,
or ~yiolins, or reed instruments, which
may have been patterned from that Of
1.-THE great god Pam among the river
rushes. Here everybody sings, for
these happy-go.lucky children Of ma
ture are full of music, and the air was
vocal with their meaningless folk
songs rendered in soft Castilian, or
high pitched patriotic hymns, which
just now incorporate a great deal
about the t~ranscendent virtues Of
.sForfirio Di-i-azr' Which rank Of So
ciety shows the best taste in its mode
of enjoymentshe hos simple people or
the proud patricians shut up in closed
carriages, in full dress and solemn
silence ON shore-I leave for others to
determine, but Betsy and ! invariably
Join the plebeian crowd, preferring to
float lazily along the yellow water and
enjoy the sweet air, soft breezes, and
golden sunshine rather than the gild-
ed discomforts of fashion. Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
Facts for Fly Time.

Prof. Bicknadel has been lecturing
to the public school teachers Of New
York on flies and mosquitoes.
How does q fly fly? asked the Pro-
lessor. While the wing was so COM
paratively narrow, it made up for it in
lateral motion. The wings did not beat
back and forth in one plane, but made,
as it were, a figur 5. The wings Of q
fly yibrated $50 times a second, which
went to show its muscular power. II
caught fast q fly would keep buzzine
for a long time before it stopped To
rest, with this 8-like movement. The
eyes of a fly had considerable motion
and could see some distance around.
When magnified, they showed q series
Of facets, which were the lenses. These
facets combined produce sight. A fly oil
serious importance was the tsetse fly
which was, however, confined to a limit
ed area. To pass through q swarm o
them was deadly to horses and oxen
but not to sucking calves. They dit
not effest mankind. Livingston, tn,
explorer, spoke of one occasion when il
was certain that only twenty or thirty o
these flies appeared. and yet they cause,
the death Of a large number Of cattle
The effect of their bites ON the beast
would be. first, loss Of appetite and fur
and then death from inanition. TIL
Southern and central portions Of AffiicI
would be quite accessible were ii no
for this pest. 1t was a question hoy
these insects could be destroyed.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
How the Lame Mare Made him
Rich.

In 1873 the Rev. A. B. Scutt was
pastor of the Methodist church at Ridge
bury, Orange cennty. N. Y. He wasa
lover and a Judge Of good horse iiesifE
but was too poor to indulge his liklngs
in the matter. He owned q black mare
which was badly disfgured by Q knee
swollen to three times its natural SIZE.
The animal would not have brought Sov
at an outside figure, but Dominic Scu.'
believed that she came from good stocA,
her pedigree, according to him. Deins
the Mulbee horse as sire, and her Dam
by Abdallah. He was anxious to get
colt from her by q good horse, anu
finally had her bred to Woods sIaiil i
Knickerbocker. About the time inc
colt was foaled Dominic Scutt was pros
trated by paralysis. He was pennies,
and could not pay for the services %
the stallion. Wood thought so well OF
the colt that he discharged the deDs
and rave the dominic 500 besides loI
the little frisker. This colt was SOLD II
Georgia, where it was trained.
proved to be very fast. III.
Since then the big kneed mare ",
been bred Ave times to Knickerbockel.
The second colt is a black stallion wnlc co
last year yielded Dominic Scutt ", 7
in the stud, and was driven, after tro's-
ing air miles. q mile in 2:204 on Q nYe-
eighths Of a mile track. This horse y
known as Dom Pedro. The third coie
Dominic Scutt traded for q farm near
Binghamton, a portion Of which ne sou or
for "a, 500, and has an offer Of III, ovO
for the remainder. The other two coits
belong to the dominic. and are vaiueo
At 81, 500. She still lives at the age q
90.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
How the CID Wings Did.

Uncle Rube Claiborne, of Upatoie,
was in town Saturday. He is a jolly
old bachelor, and always has his body
full of fun when he comes to this town,
where he was brought up. In a street
conversation Saturday the talk turned
upon the administration of Cleveland,
and something was said about the
delay in turning out republican office
holders.
Uncle RUDE said:
"Well, they ought to do like we
wings did when we beat the demo-
Gratis. There was no waiting. When
the wings got in, it wasn't i've days
before every democrat went OUT. And
as to the postotices, why, we just took
'em. No waiting for a commission,
we walked in and took possession"
Capt. James Mcneil smiled and
said: Eyes. You remember how
Uncle Billy Walker did Uucle Dick
Rolfe about the Talbotton postofice IN
1910, Uncle Billy Walker was a great
wing, and quite a popular old gentle
mar here. as we'll as a good joker.
Uncle Dick Rolfe then held the post
Office as a democrat. Uncle Billy had
an old negro servant, Neddy, by name,
whom everybody knew and who N
physique was said to have resembled
Henry Clay. The night after the
election of Harrison, in 1910, Uncle
Billy was sitting in front of his hotel
in Talbotton, for he was the keeper of
the hotel, and he called Neddy and
said:
"Noddy, take hat large hamper
basket of mine and 60 over yonder
and tell your Mars nicky Role to send
me the postotfice-"
"Neddy presently appeared al the
postoffice. Uncle Dick was sitting
quietly in front with a party of friends,
fe ceiling sore V e their defeat and dis
cussing the incidents and result of
the hot contest through which the
country had just passed, and he was
really IN the midst of a very fiery de-
nunciation of the whig party when
Neddy apperaed with a large hamper
basket on his head. The democratic
postmaster suddenly stopped and
asked:
What do you want, sir?"
MARS Billy Walker SEM me ober
here an say fer yer ter SEN linz dat
ar posoffis in dis ere baskit, and e
wants yer ter SEN it ter i'm rite away
You black wing rascal, ifyou don't
get away from here I'll smash you to
the earth,' said Uncle Dick full of
spirit.
well, boss, Mars Billy son't me
fer de pos offs in dis basket, and e
tole me not ter cum back dar don't it
needer. An boss Use gorter hab it,
shore. Now den, boss, doan do de ole
niger datter way. Doan fool longer
de ole darby datter way. Des git up
dar and go fetch it ter me, won't yer,
boSs?'
Uncle Dick arose in silent wrath.
"'You old scoundrel, if yo1 stay
here another instant I will kill you
with this chair
"'Well, boss, Mars Billy sont-'
"fGit QUIT Git out!' shouted Uncle
Dick, at the same time starting
for Neddy with his chair. Ned drop.
ped his wing basket and left his hat
and skedaddled in double-quick time
back TO Mars Billy and a large crowd
of exultant and happy wings who had
been witnessing the fun at a safe dis.
lance. 1atboton ga. New Era.
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07
BERGEN's STAR CONCERT.
At the Academy of Music, Philadel-
adelphia, March 81, 1885.

Artists: Miss Carrie Melvin of Providence,
violinist and cornetist; Nine. Nellie Brown
Mitchell and Nine. George Legett of Buffalo,
Prima Donna Sopranos; Miss Henrietta
Vinton Davis, of Washington, humorist and
elocutionist; the Dunges Troubadour Quar-
tet of Baltimore; the Amphion Singing
Association of Philadelphia, "a voices, Nine
V. A. Montgomery of New York and Prof
Dunge of Baltimore accompanies; Prof. F.
j. r. Jones full orchestra, 20 pieces. Tick
cts 90 and IS cents, on sale at Ditson's, 1928
Chestnut street. Proceeds for the benefit
of Central Presbyterian and Allen Chapel
Churches, Kew. J. B. Reeve and Rev. l.. J.
Coppin, pastors. Prizes to best ticket
workers, 500, $50, SO, $40, $40, $40, $40.
j. G. Bergen, Manager
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07
President CleYelap d.

The fourth Of March las come anC
rome. a revolution in the policy and
administration of our go eernment has beer
effected by the transfer of the insignia Of
Office to other hands tGsn those which have
held them since 1904 What mighty and
far-reaching changes have taken place since
that time ia the institutions sad feelings ol
the Natien need no elaboration here. We
. all know them fall well, for they brought to
as liberated limbs and mi1ds and the mag.
nifcent and sacred trust of American citi-
.zenship. esd be praised Sor the great ben
eft which Faavs come to as since the Demo
cratic party went out Of power in 1860 and
came aga:n into power Al 1885.
President Cleveland has mede an admira-
bic beginning. His Cabinet is as strong in
brains and as liberal and progressive in sen
ment as it was possible for him to select
from the material from which he had to
draw.
We have reasonable grounds for hoping
that the comprehensive and statesman-like
outline Of his policy in his inaugural address
will receive the hearty support of Mr.. Cleve-
and's advisers.
We are now justified by President Cleve-
lands reference to us in the view we took
when he was declared elected, that he would
DC the President Of the whole people. He
recognizes that we are citizens in the broad
est sense and entitled to all the rights and
immunities guaranteed to others of our fell
low citizens, the same obligations binding
upon others equally binding us. There is
no equvocation in his reference to US.
We take President Cleveland at his word.
We shall watch narrowly each phase of his
policy as it is unfolded, and in so far as the
interests of all the people are maintained
shall accord praise where praise is due. We
shall hope for policy which will usher In
a new era for us and the entire country.
Where his Administration departs from the
principles of sound doctrine of policy we
shall not hesitate to condemn it.
The colored people have reason to rejoice
In the elevation Of such man as Mr.. Cleve-
land. A man Of less pronounced accept |
ance of the present changed conditions re-
sultant upon the war would have been |
calamity to us not easily estimated. As it |
IS, we can safely feel that no backward step
will be taken and that substantial advantage
mar IoIIowf This is os,-- ~isesso h0p,s.--
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07

Howard University is one of the great in.
stitutions devoted specially to the higher
education Of colored youth. 1t has done in
valuable service and we trust its future NAV
be even more successful than its past. This
University has just lost by death one of the
members of its faculty, Prof. Wiley Lane,
Professor of Greek. Prof. Lane was q
young man Of the brightest promise, and his
sudden death was severe shock to wide
circle.
The question now is, who will be selected
to fill the post made vacant by the death of
Prof. Lane7 The answer to this question
will carry with it much significance.
OF all the persons mentioned for the posi-
ton Prof. W. S. Scarborough of Wilber-
force University appears to be the favorite.
Prof. Scarborough is one of the ripest col
ored scholars in the country, and is the au-
thor of Greek textbook published by A.
S. Barnes & Co. of New York. The author
tiles of Howard University could secure no
more capable and worthy man than Prof.
Scarborough to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Prof. Lane.
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07
sT.JoHN AND THEcoLoRL1SE E
A Talk With Pullman Palace Car
Porter.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 23.-As your cor
respondent was returning home on one of
the Southern trunk lines he thought of
cleaning something of Importance for THE
FREEMAN, so he entered into conversation
with Pullman sleeping car porter. kFne
porter did not detect me to be newspaper
man, so applied the news pump to him
and it operated well. So hears what I
CLEANED before he had bid me good day. He
said the company requires us to sign what
some of us call death warrant. This war
rant exempts the company from beingtsued
for any injuries porters may receive Whilst
in their employ. He pulled a'little regula-
ton book out of his pocket and said: nThis
is cut throat affair on porters and guide
to go by. You see this uniform, it is fur
nished by the company at our expense, which
is in the neighborhood Of $40. They don't
pay US any wages until the $40 is paid back
into the company's treasury. Our wakes is
only SIS per month. Besides this Te are
responsible for everything on the eaf. and
all the damages done to the car aftBr our
assignment. In port or out, we haze to
keep the sleeper polished in and oakside
Our privileges are to black boots, aid if
passengers dom see cause to pay us wJSdare
not ask it, although we buy brushstand
OidChlLS Will our OWN luOHey. OHSS~&lQ q
while a good-hearted passenger givgs up
something for PHYS sake. Out of twenty-
four hours we get about four hours Sleep.
We are not allowed a voice in any cases of
conductors VS.. porters; neither are Ne al
lowed to leave the sleeper at eating stations
for warm meal Conductors get fren $50
to $40 per month to impose on PETERS
Conductors get all the wages and have all
the chances
Ny say is as follows: John 2. St.SJohn,
the late Prohibitionist candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States, drew tbe color
line in Louisville at Masonic Temple pTeatre
Monday night, Feb. 16. If this sorcalled
high priest of temperance submits 10 such
conduct, he Is doubled-eyed hypocrA, who
caters to the prejudice of the ignorant
whites, who would cut their own thr$ats to
satisfy their evil passions. Your Sorres-
pondent was invited by several leadm!IPro-
hlbtionists to be present at the fol kwing
lecture. | accepted and presentod-hyself
for admittance. The door-keeper as& ush-
srs told me that colored people co'ld not
enter unless they would occupy the gallery. |
This refused, and asked to see st. John,
Col. Balm and others, but the usherss Said | |
could not see them, and being deniSd this,
left the theatre. If this is the pslicy of |
st. John and his party the people ought to
continue to hang him in et1igy. | warII the |
people in the New South to stand s,I6of of |
his coming hydra. G. W. HL, Jr.
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07

The esteemed New York Sun, which
shines for all, except the people of the OPP
pressed provinces of the corrupt Egyptian
government, declined to answer our ques-
tions, "What business has England in the
Soudan?" ''What interests of humanity
will be served by the suppression of the
forces under Ell Mahdi ?' and kindred in
terrogations propounded by as in our issue
of Feb. 81. The London Truth asks sub
stantially the same questions. The English
Government would have more equitable right
in sending an invading army to compel Vir-
giria to pay the full value of bonds issued
by her and held by Englishmen than she has
to carry on a war in the Soudan to compel
the people of that province to pay money
borrowed by the rotten EgyI tan govern
ment. The principle is the same. How
many papers in this country would have
such British policy?
The New York freeman., 1885-03-07

To THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN:-I have
just read E. B. Jourdan's article, in your
issue of Feb. 81, endeavoring to prove that
there are no Negroes in America. Since
races are not confinded to geographical linn
itations and national subscription, and since
Negro is racial and not national term,
let our friend go to work now and
show that there are no Cancasiansin America
and the inconsistency of his statement will
be apparent to him. ROBERT ]. SMITH,
Montgomery, Ala, Feb. &c.