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The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30

TAe member for West Algoma tells q
good story about . species Of sturgeon,
nom 1nrty 20 Gxty pounds in weight
which 10 peculiar TO Rainy river and
lake. On . visit which he paid lasl
summer b . settlement on the river he
I'D occasion b visit . young bachelor.
VIA. IN true backwoods hospitality,
inafDoa that be should Say for dinner.
II. Cunmee then seated himself and
watched the preparations Of his enter.
tainsr. Filsf 10 81 down his homo.
made bgVad On The table. with tin mugs
1De - -. and thsn he put Q big pot
e1Il 6 water over IL 6re When Tie
wstee eams 70 tho boiling point he In.
inDed thntsA and ~ L aSida. Then he
MfDe6 mf aboue ok teet long. stepped
ouGside doNn % Ia rivers edke, which
wasnskovsf hn paess Distant and n
tuEne6Hh MD1onAes With . sturgeo0
hcAing09N0 Ais ri part a
wAfGhWa6N3&2 cd traaslsrrSd
- pot 6 bunl1eNonr % h ooohsl
~ dl1nse. Thie = IL u1nal fhinRsup
1hsaA IAlv always hsye "a 49,
baning1 1850 hey 80 - catch H. 80
. - oaly . coanmoo CeG-
0Wn1D 30akl Verdi
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30
cure For sick Headache.

For proof that DR.. Gums Improved
Liver. Pills cures sick headache, ask
your druggist for a tree trial packag e
Oq4xabrts for a dose. Regular size bot
fI25cents. Sold by Henry Cook ard
n: H. Re llogg 4 Co.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30
The Excitement Not over.

lug NOC OV0T.
The rush at Ferguson L. Co.'S drug
store still continues on account of per-
sons afflicted with coughs. colds,
asthma, bronchitis, and consumption
to procure a bottle of Kemp's Balsam
or the throat and lungs which is sold
on a guarantee and is giving entire
satisfaction. 1t is a standard family
remedy. Price SOC and 81. Trial size
free.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30
An End to Bone scraping.

Edward Shepherd. Of Harrisburg, Ill.
says: Having received SO much benefit
from Elect ic Htters, / feel it my duty
to let suffering humanity know it
Have had a running SIRE on my leg
for eight years; ms doctors told me l
would have to the bone scraped or my
leg amp.itated. / used, instead, three
bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes Bncklen's Arnica Salye, and my
ieg Is wv sound and we'll"
Electric Bitten are sold at fifty cents
q bottle, and BuckIen's Arnica Sa!ve at
CSC. per box BY Henry Cook.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30

d. A. Bradford. wholesale paper deal
er of Chattanooga, Tenn, writes that
he was seriously afflicted with a severe
cold that settled on his lungs: had tried
many remedies without benefit. Being
induced to try DR.. King's New Discov-
cry for Consumption, did SO, and was
entil ely cured by the use Of a few bot
ties. Since which time he has used it
in his family for all coughs and colds
with the best results. This is the ex-
perience Of thousands whose hives have
been saved, by this wonderful discovery.
Trial bottles free at Henry Cooks drug
store.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-07-30
Attention Teachers.

NeeAhA0lefvA uel IN osaan
lhs0sGevQo :
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
How Fast Thought Travels.

IIelmholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about minute
to traverse mile of nerve, and Hirsch
found that a'touch on the face was
recognized by the brain and responded
to by a manual signal in the seventh
Of a second. He also found that the
speed Of sense differed Tor different or
gans, the sense of hearing being re-
sponded to in sixth Of a second !;
while that of sight required only one
fifth second to lie felt and signalled.
10 all these cases the distaace traversed
was about the same, so the inference
is that imag.s travel more slowly than
sound or touch. 1t still remained,
however, to show the portion of this
interval taken up by the action of the
brain. Professor Donders, by very
delicate apparatus, demonstrated this
to be about seventy five thousandths
of a second. OF the whole interval,
forty thousandths are occupied IN the
simple act of recognition, and thirty
five-thousands are occupied in the
act Of willing response. When two
irritants were cadsed to operate on the
same sense, one twenty, fifth of Sec
ond was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required
to determine the priority In the case
Of the other sense. These results were
obtained from middle-aged man, but
IN youth the mental operations are
somewhat quicker than in the adult.
The average Of many experiments
proved that simple thought occupies
one fortieth of second.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
A True Snake Story.

81 will tell you true snake story"
was the answer of = seedy-looking in.
dividual, to an inquiry for news.
ga true snake story will be some.
thing new indeed" said the inquirer.
''Yes, | was going across the bottom
of Platte river. in Nebraska, one day,
where there were said to be lots of rat
tlesnakes, when all at once l heard
rustic in the grass, and knew it was
one Of those blasted rattlesnakes.
There wasn't stick or a stone within
mile of me, and | just got down and
ran as fast as l could; but twas no
use-Icouldn't gain an inch The snake
kept rattling along in the grass be.
hind me, just about so far. l tell you
| was scared! l ran till [ was out of
breath, and then stopped to put my
foot on him, and what do you think I
saw"
"a big snake with twenty rattles in
his tail?"
"Not bit of it. There wasn't
snake to be seen. l had my dustsr
on, and had been running away from
the coat tails!''
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28

a friend five years after the occurrence,
he SAYS: Il doubt if all dark lines
are erased from my heart yet. He re-
signed his pastOrate, and sought an
other field, smothering his pain by
hard study and work. And the only
sign of that pain the world ever saw
was the heart cry in the song of 10
rena." In 1886 he was residing in
/ Racine, Wisconsin, where he met j..
I. w bstsr, the composer, who, though
of same name, is no relation to him.
They soon became very intimate. j..
p. Webster was writing s,ng music.
and was troubled to find appropriate
words. Rey. Mr.. Webster told him
that ne would write song and in two
days he produced it, entitled: "Ber-
iha, mere fancy name. When the
composer came to set it to music, he
wanted a name of three syllables, ac-
cen,ed on tie second, and the author
then made up the name of "Lorena."
The young la1y's name was not Lo-
rena, however, nor Bertha, but Ella.
It is said that she lost her vivacity
and sunny, wi;ching ways after they
parted, and never regained them, aud
that she is now a sad, sickly woman,
past the prime of life. When last
heard from, however, several months
ago, she was travelling in Europe.
Her proud and naughty sister has
long since passed over the river, where
Ills heart to heart" instead of dol
lar to dollar. Her brother in law died
only few weeks ago. Mr.. Webster,
also past the prime of life is married,
and lives in Neenah, Wisconsin, u
minister, and the editor of u local pa
per.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
Volume XLu.---No. so.
Two StalWart Lies.

Whenever Mississippian tells lie
lit is generally robust and healthy and
can walk; but the moment Georgian
hears of it, 80 great is the rivalry be-
tween the two States that he girds up
up his loins and unloads a "whopper'
that it is so strong that it has ribs and
a backbone and breath. Not long
ago a man living near Ellsville. Miss,
said that the cold wave in January
swept over the State so quickly that
the ponds in the swamps were frozen
stiff before the snakes living in them
could duck their heads under the wa
ter. He further remarked that he
amused himself for a whole day by
walking on the ponds and kicking off
the heads of snakes which stuck up
out of the ice. This story travelled
from one place to another until it
reached Georgia, where for a time it
to use the language of the prize ring
knocked ont everything it met but
finally noble Georgian invented a
muscular lie that climbed on the COL
lar of the Mississippi prodigy and lit
eraly pulverised and crushed it to
the earth.
The Georgia man said that while
chasing fox across an abandoned
cotton field his horse and himself fell
into an old we'll about seventy feet
deep. The fall killed the horse in
stantly, but he escaped without injury,
and at once commenced looking a.
round for a way to reach the surface
of the ground. 70 his dismay he dis
covered that it was impossible for him
to get out by climbing the steep walls
of earth that shut him in, and he
commenced bowling for help at the
top of his voice, but none came. On
the morning of the second day the
stencil from the carcass Of his horse
vas sitting, and he made up his mind
to suffer q horrible death. when he
noticed number of buzzards hover
ing about the top of the we'll. Final
y the birds alighted in the we'll, and
a bright idea flashed through his brain
and he determined to make the buz-
yards ar him up to the grounds a.
bove. AS they settled on the carcass
OF the horse he seized them by the legs
until he had three OF the buzzards
firmly grasped in each hand, when he
gave them violent "shew," aud they
flew up, carrying him with them but
they did not stop when they got out
of the we'll, but continued to soar up
ward until he was Mortified to 6nd
that he was fifty yards above the sur
face of the earth. Suddenly, however,
it occurred to him TO release one buz-
zard from each hand. This he did,
and to his great JOY his weight drag
ged the remaining buzz,rds slowly
down until be was safely landed on
terra firma, when he at once dropped
on his knees and returned thanks in
prayer.
When the story Of the Georgia fox
hunter reached the ears Of the Missis-
sippi man who launched the cold wea-
ther lie it made him feel 80 utterly
mean and worthless that he sold out
and went to Texas.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
A Royal Printer.

1t is not generally known tina, Prince
Ludwig. of Battenberg. son of Prince
Alexander, of Hesse, is a practical
printer. Like most of the Princes of
the Prussian Royal house, who have
been taught either an art or trade,
Prince Ludwig, of Battenburg WAS
early called upon to choose calling,
and his choice fell upon the art Of
Gutenberg. In the palace of his fa-
ther the Prince has printing Office
completely fitted up for ordinary
printing and book. work. Prince Lud-
wig prldes himself on his ability to
compete with compositors and print
ers who follow Typography Tor live
lihoed What is still more interest
ing is that the Princess, the eldest
daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse,
is printer too, and that the high.
born pair work regularly together at
the case. The latest work which has
come from Prince Ludwig of Batten-
berg's press Is volume of notes on
travels written by the Princes sister,
the Countess of Erbach-Schonb berg.
The book is said to be executed in q
thoroughly printer-like way.-PaU
Mall Gazette.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
A Man Turned to Bvne.

On a pillow, in little back parlor,
At No .92 Lafayette avenne, Brooklyn,
rests the intellectual heat of DR..
Charles +. Reed. 56 wears old, who
has not been able to move hand or foot
or turn in hi, bed since he was 81.
lie lives only in his head, for every
Joint is fast bound and his body and
limbs are wasted TO bone.
His eyes are sightless, his neck stiff,
his jaws set so close Us TO prevent him
from taking any food unless it be in
very soft or liquid form. and shoulder
joints. elbows. wrists, finger joints,
hips. knees and toes are immovable.
The knees are drawn up. the left knee
Joint is almost thrown from the socket,
the right foot Is turned So far outward
as almost 10 turn backward. \ White
moustache and beard that Rip Van
Wrinkle would have envIed cover the
part of "a face st.ong In outline and
full Of char cter. Around the suf
ferer's bed. where 50 heavy u cross has
been laid. gather almost daily people
who come Ia get consolation In trou
bic. DR.. Reed is philosopher, and
his cheerful disposition IN spite of the
extreme hardness Of his lot has made
him the woader of every body who
knows him Th pse who have lost
friends call there to learn Lesson in
fortltude, and al! who meet the Doctor
sav they 90 away with new ideas of
life and lis purposes. He is we'll read
in eyerr branch of literature.
DR.. Reed was born in Woburn, Mass,
and worked on farm until he was OF
age, when he began the study of med
iclne. which he continued in New
York aud Cleveland In 1864 he was
in charge Of sanitarium at kenosha,
Wis. and his sickness, which has led
him life in the midst of death, first
came upon him at kenosha He hsd
inherited Rheumatism. and contracted
malaria in the West. These diseases
seized him about 9 O'Clock at night on
September ., 1864, and he has not
moved since. When the burning fever
ne suffered began 10 pass away ana
the sensitiyeness of the Joints grew
gradually less, he felt the joints stiff
euing, and in the fingers aud toes he
now has complete auchylosis. In
other words, the joints have grown in
to solid bone. He weighed 200 pounds,
aud was tall and vigorous when he
vas taken sick. In few years he
was reduced to skeleton.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
Daughter Sarah is Out There.

\ Dttroiter who was returning from
Dakota she other day met an old chap
on the train in Illinois who Ques ion
ed him as TO where he hal been and
inquired:
NAV be YOU run across my daugh-
ter out thers: Her name is Watson" F."
Il didn't see her.
"pidn't you happen to ride by any
house where woman was whistlirg!
No"
Sarah whistles, but you may have
missed her. Did you see a man and
a woman having fight anywhere
No"
Sarah and her husband have reg
ular set to every two or three days,
but you may have taken another road.
Didn't hear any woman hollering,
"Durn it to Gosh. | suppose?:'
Don't think So
Sarah hollers that when she stubs
her toe, and she can be heard two
miles and half if the wind is right
Meet any woman on the highway who
was smoking clay pipe and sIoshing
right through the mud puddles?'
NO.
That's Sarah, you know. Didn't
stop in any neigh 5orho d where the
school teacher had teen licked and
the sewing society all busted to gosh,
Ell? Iguess you didn't travel around
much"
"But Dakota is a great territory,
you know"'
"Yes, suppose, but if you had been
at one end while Sarah was hollering
her husband to dinner at the other
you must have heard her. Maybe you
are little deaf. '--DetroH Free Press.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
HARTFORD, CONNT.

INHE COMPANY was organized ia 1866 and
Il did business upon the Endowment and A n
nuity Plan until the iail of 1879 when they
adopted the safety fund system, by which plar
they can now carry insurance ut less than hal
the cost of the old time companies.
The safety fund renders the pay ment of every
policy to the very last man, an absolute GER
taiuty.
man Of forty years old can carry ona
thousand dollars on bis life, and thus secure
that amount to his family at his death, by the
pay ment of about ten dollars "A year, and W her
he has paid his ten dollars additional into the
safety fund, and hns been member for Eve
years, his payments will be greatly reduced by
dividends declared every six months The
safety fund is already over S4OO 900 and is rap
idly increasing. They have a cash capital o
$3.50, 600 and assets samounting TO over one ant
a quarter million.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28
1t is the "duck of a bonnet" that
makes young girls head swim.

A minister not long ago preached
from the text, s'Bs ye therefore stead.
fast" But the printer made him ex.
pound from "Bs ye there for break.
FAST
The Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to
exceed other men in horse-car polite
ness; for, when he rises to accommo-
date the fair sex, he always gives seats
to two ladies.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28

The fashionable young man will be
clothed so loudly this season that you
can hear his pants in the summer.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-28

"There two things which positive
ly will not eat for SUPPER" said Cub
bins. "And what are they?" asked
his friend. "Breakfast and dinner
was the reply.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
A Necessary Concomitant.

A glance at the surroundings Of the
old haymarket in Chicago, the scene
of the recent dynamite outrages. is
sufficient to reveal one of the invariable
concomitants and, we may say, the
surest occasions of riot and rapine in
America. There on that corner, :"
said our informant, twas where the
bomb fell" We looked, and were sat-
isfied that he was telling the truth. 1t
was such place as the emissaries Of
Satan would most properly choose for
their infamous work. On the first cor
ner was saloon; on the next opposite,
saloon; on the corner across the BIZ
secting street, a saloon; and on the
corner opposite that, saloon. There
were no more saloons on the corners,
because there were no more corners,
but liquor halls were strung up along
either side of the street, as If whisky
drinking were the principal occupation
of the people of the vicinity. Verify,
If America has an arch-enemy, it is the
grog-shop. Happily the people of the
States arc beginning to realize it.
CHICAGO Standard.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
lnfideIity and Anarchy.

Christianity builds up where infidel.
ity tears down. The anarchist is the
progressive and radical inidel. He
has reached the extreme of liberty in
thought and action, which prompts
him to deny the existence of a Creator,
to throw off all civil and religious re-
straint, and to destroy every form Of
government, the republic as well as
the despotism. He spares neither the
church, the state, nor the home. The
observance of religious forms as they
exist in the churches, and the insttu-
ton OF marriage, are equally hateful to
him. His element is destruction, vio-
lence and bloodshed. Dynamite, the
incendiary utterances, the revolution
airy teachings of August Spies and
Herr Most, are only the logical Sc
quence of the infidelity of Voltaire and
Tom Paine and the blasphemy of Rob-
ert Ingersoll. Interior.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The first Temperance agitation in
the United States of which there is any
record, it is stated, occurred in 1861, at
Orient, L. l.
The Knights of Labor claim that
ninety per cent. of the restitution
among the laboring men is caused by
the drink traffic.
PARNELL says if home rule is secured
one of the first acts will be to pass .
Sunday-closing act and put heavy re-
strictions on the liquor traffic.
TWENTY thousand children are daily
taught the effects of tobacco and al
cohol upon the human system, through
the adoption of scientific Temperance
instruction in the public schools Of St
Louis, Mo.
The Alliance Ne,cs England) refers
to the report Of q life assurance COM
pany recently issued as proof Of the ad-
vantages of Temperance. In the Tenn
perance department the death rate fol
the year has en- less than four In the
thousand
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
TEMPERANCE READING.
WHO Is AFRAlD7

Who 10 afraid?" the young man said,
And no laughed, and tossed his handsome
head,
And the ruby wine from the cup he drained,
And with many an oath his young lips
stained;
"Wh6 is afraid? Not II" he said,
And laughed, and tossed his thoughtless
head.
"Give me draught that is stronger yet,
There are fearful thoughts that l must for
get.
There is death in the cup. know full WELL
I've tasted already the fires OF hell.
Yet give me draught that Is stronger vet,
He said. II have thoughts that l must for
get
am afraid" the young man said.
Visions of horror are round nv bed!
Mercy's hour have sinned away,
Death is coming to claim his prey.
! am afraid afraid!' he cried.
With the pitiful words on his lips he died.
Joy 4Htson, In COngre0dti0ndtist-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
NOT WORTH WHILE.

To Insist Upon Having the Last Word.
Having Your Own Way, or Doing the
Work OF Others.
It seldom is worth while to insist
upon uttering the last word in an ar
gument or controversy. You may be.
and know yourself to be, entirely
right, and your opponent may exhibit
spirit at once unlovely and impru-
dent in persisting in the discussion,
yet usually it is far wiser to allow him
whatever semblance of victory there
may be in the privilege of speaking
the last word. The real aim of a
Christian in such case should be not
to appear to get the better of an ad-
versary, but to be right, 10 uphold the
truth. If you have done this, you can
afford to let your words lie in the
memory Of your opponent and every
other person who has heard them, in
the confidence that they probably will
bear their appropriate fruit, while you
will have avoided the appearance of
wrangling.
1t seldom is worth while to insist on
having things, in which others are
concerned equally with yourself, done
precisely according to your notions.
In your own personal affairs, the con-
duct of your own business, it is proper
for you to have your own way. Your
clerks have no right to object to your
requiring exact obedience. But in
church work, for instance, where you
have no more right to control Others
than they have to control you, even il
you do happen to have the larger ex-
perience and the broader wisdom, il
is better not to insist too forcibly upon
your own way. 1t may be the best
way in itself, but, if people are allowed
to learn this by experiment with other
methods. they will be convinced much
more thoroughly and pleasantly than
if you seem to domineer over them al
the outset.
1t seldom is worth while, also, to
neglect work, which properly belongs
to you, in order to finish what others
have left undone. Your responsibility
is for your work, and to that you will
be held, and rightfully. Some persons
are so busy helping Others, or acting
as the actual substitutes of others, thai
many of their own duties are neglected
We do not say that one never should
lend hand to ones friend in order t6
help him on with his task. BY nc
means. But such aid must not be
rendered in any manner which may
check the zeal of him to whom i
rightly belongs. Nothing so helps tc
develop the disposition to shirk as the
consciousness that our work will bt
done by some one, whetherwe do it Of
not. 1t is a Christian duty to help those
who need aid, according to our oppor
tunity. 1t may also be Christian duty
not to help those who do not need as
sistance. Conqreqationalist.