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Yet the very points that have made
the Light Brigade famous are the loss
and the readiness-the sending of a cav
airy command to ride Unto the Jaws of
DEATH" to ride to certain and inevitable
slaughter, and the soldierly readiness to
go where they were sent. Our men over
and over did the same thing; did it, MS
the losses prove, in cases where the
danger was greater and the ready cour-
age equal; yet the trumpet of fame is
filled with the name of the Light Brigade
and our heroes are forgotten. This is the
justice of glory, but a common incident
enough.
An ancient nee observed that other
men had fought as well as Achilles, and
wondered why the world always talked
about him; and the answer was that the
other men had no Homer. Our regi-
ments were in fact rather worse off than
to be merely without a Tennyson. For
the component parts of the glory of the
Light Brigade are n little fighting and a
good deal of literature. The soldiers did
their part there and here-the literary
men did the rest for the Light Brigade.
Our men fought for a nation that il prac-
tically indifferent to literature. England
is a literary MS well as n military nation.
New York Express.
, 1888-06-05

1t is a well known fact that no French
or English servant a find a place with
her own country people after she has
lived in an American family. Good SER
wants are rare in every country, and they
are SO rare here that a lady, when she
gets one, generally turns to spelling her
as the only mean of keeping her. The
bad servant is spoiled in the hope of
wheeling her into doing better. One
mistress who pays the modest sum of $25
a month for her cook says that the morn
ing after she has given a dinner party
she presents this ~autocrat of the dinner
table with 81.
Another consults the convenience of
her cook always before inviting her
guests. The demand to go out from one
to three times a week is q claim never
questioned by the most obdurate of mis-
~tresses, but the servant who asks this here
would only have a holiday once a month
in England and the privilege of going to
church once every Sunday. In Franco
the conditions are the same. In this
country there must be trouble until some
of the women who are obliged t o earn a
living are willing to become servants and
submit to being called by their right
name, and not consider that, if they are
''helps," they have equal rights with
their mistresses. Then, too, the mis-
tresses must learn how to treat their SER
want with perfect kindness and still
without the familiarity that breeds CON
tempt.-New York Press.
, 1888-06-05

A New York paper speaks of a couple
Of orioles that bpve built a nest in a tree
at Central park. III order that no ami.
NAL able to climb a tree might reach
their nest, they built their habitation al
the extreme end of a light branch, and
when the work was half done they saw
that the little house was bending the
branch SO far toward the earth that wher
the hous was full of young ones i
would be 80 near the ground that dog
and cats might reach it.
Here is where the reasoning power
showed itself. The birds sat on tn,
branch studying their house for a time,
and then flew off in search of a string.
They found some Irvine in the park, and
with 1t they united the too elastic boughs
to a sturdy branch overhead, resuming
their nest building after the string had
been firmly woven. The branch can now
sag only to the limits of this c~leverly
contriyed stay, and will not bend fan
enough toward the earth to expose
their young to danger from cats or other
predatory animals. There are brains in
that engineering operation .-HaIl's Jour,
nal of Health.
, 1888-06-05

An excellent device for keeping the
contents Of the water jug cool is to make
a sack of some strong, close stuff, large
enough to make n space of two inches
under and around the jug, which sp"o
is packed with sawdust. Put a st
around the jug at the bottom. ..
length of this string, plus six inches, will
be the proper measure of the sack at
that point. In the same way the proper
measure of the sack along the curve of
the jug can be obtained. The bottom of
the sack is cut by placing the jug on the
cloth and cutting around, two and one
half inches from the jug. The sides of
the sack are best made in four pieces.
Sew these pieces to the bottom and to-
gether for two or three inches. Then
pack in the sawdust as far as the pieces
are sewed together, and make another
sewing, etc. The sack must be sewed
close around the handle and the lips of
the jug. Water in this jug will be cool
after an exposure of six hours to the hot
sun American Agriculturist.
, 1888-06-05
The POLICE OF BERLIN.
Every Man of the Force n Trained Sc
dier-SurveIIIance.

dier-SurvemaDce.
The German police are, in effect, a
wing Of the German army. Every man
In the force is a trained soldier, disci-
plined by service in the ranks or as a
commissioned officer. The Berlin police
number about 5000 men. The chief of
this force, or president, as he Is there
called, ranks as an army colonel. There
are IS captains and 1873 l~ieutenants, who
rank oo~rrespondingly with army captains
and h~eutenants, and receive higher pay.
There are 801 sub, or non-commissioned
officers, and over 1000 ~privates. Then
there are n first secretary, five assist
ants, ten councillors, twenty chiefs of
precincts or department clerks, forty-fve
assistants, twenty-five cashiers or book
keepers, and 172 bureau employees or
laborera A private in the police must
first have served nine years in the army
and received honorable discharge. After
a certain period Of police service officers
and privates are retired and pensioned.
This Is but one of several rewards offered
the German policeman for good behavior
and efficient service.
The Berlin police on duty are like
statues, silent and immovable. They
stand In the middle Of abe streets or sit
on horses, apparently like machines, and
obllyious to everything but their own
line of performance. But there is very
little information desired by the ordinary
mortal not to be obtained from the Ber-
lin policeman for the asking. He will
not be aware of your existence unless
you accost him with an inquiry. Then,
he is all attention, intelligence and
civility. Speak to him in English and he
will Immediately answer in German, at
the same time interpreting, with his
hands and eyes, until you are sure to
comprehend, and learn all you want to
know. The policemen are as neat in per-
son and well uniformed as the army.
The detective branch Of police wear the
civilian dress.
NO stranger, man or woman, enters
Berlin and stops twenty-four hours who
is not registered by the police. 1t is
easy to look up the person if at a hotel,
where he is asked TO register his name,
residence, birthplace, occupation, destina-
ton, and whether he travels for pleasure
or on business, and the nature of his
business. II the person is not ready
about giving this information he is asked
for his passport. In the boarding houses,
most of them kept by women, the police
officer asks tho landlady to furnish this
information about her boarders. Every
boarding house is visited on an average
of once a week by a police officer in
civilian dress. There is a quiet formal
politeness about these visits that goes far
to divest them of all semblance of intru-
sion or inquisitiveness. But there is also
an authoritative ceremony not to be mis-
understood. This system of surveillance
is no disadvantage to the ordinary honest
stranger. Not only could he not get lost
in Berlin, but he could not lose his friends
there either. One has only to go to police
headquarters to learn the whereabouts Of
every nonresident visitor or stranger In
Berlin.-New York Sun.
, 1888-06-05

The '~'aissaoui' assembled under a
great olive, and formed a circle of about
thirty musicians, most of whom played
rhythmic n deafening music on large
tamborines. There was a general call for
n certain Mohammed, one of their regu-
lar half witted dancers and fanatics. lie
appeared, bareheaded and the upper part
of his body almost naked. He crouched
with the musicians, and began nodding,
first with the measure of the
music, then, with groans of "Allahl
Allah Mohammedl' he became
half frantic, jumping to the center of
the ring, his head swinging all the while
as il tied on his shoulders with strings.
AS he sank to the ground from exhaus-
ton his friends made several efforts to
replace his dirty rags by a clean white
gown, which they thought him Justly
entitled to, but it was all in vain; he
fought against it, preferred his rags, and
went away in them. An old man near
us was also suddenly seized with such
violent emotions that he fell, shaking
and screaming to such an extent that his
brethren, not wishing him, for some rea-
son, to get up and dance, held him down,
with their knees on his chest and legs,
until the fury Of his religious convictions
had subsidized.
This emotion seemed genuine, and we
were assured that it was, although other
parts of their religious services, or rather
feats, appear to be accompanied with
jugglery and deception. Several other
members of their sect entered the circle
moved by some inspiration to dance off
their frenzy, II of them crying out for
a red hot shovel, which he bent with a
blow on his forehead, licked with his
tongue, and bent again by slapping with
the palm Of his hand; he then turned his
heel on 1t until his flesh burned like n
horses hoof being shod, giving out a
similar odor. This performance ended,
another asked for a cactus leaf and n
piece Of glass; these he bit into, devoured
half the leaf with the long thorns, chew
ing and apparently swallowing the glass,
and took his seat again in a swooning
condition, moaning after his excitement.
What gave a local character to the whole
scene, where the thousands were packed
in amphitheater round The bowling ais
saoui, was the high pitched "You-you-
you-you-youl" uttered by the women at
intervals as the animated actions below
progressed in interest and intensity.-F.
A Bridgman in Harper's Magazine.
, 1888-06-05

George Bancroft, at SO, still rides
horseback, gives but never goes out
to dinner parties, and writes a little of
history every day. He graduated from
Harvard s~ixty-one years ago, was col
lector of the port Of Boston fifty years
age, secretary Of the navy forty-three
years ago, and minister to Great Britain
forty-two years ago.
Only last year Mr.. Bancroft accom-
plished the journey to Nashville, where
he visited Mrs. Polk, the venerable
widow of his old chieftain in politics.
He Is not afraid of any horse. Within a
year he bought a new and untried steed,
and mounted and rode with entire conf
dence. Not long ago, while riding with
Senator Gibson, Of Louisiana, the his
torian was thrown.
"Are you hurt9" the senator asked In
great alarm as he ran to the old man.
mo" was the answer, as Mr.. Ban
croft got up from the soft turf. 'Don't
tell the newspapers or they will say /
have forgotten how to ride" Mr.. Ban
croft Is the father of the American re-
public Of letters. Washington Cor. Bos-
ton Globe,
, 1888-06-05

Superintendent Charidi, of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren, would AVE his hands full if COM
plants could come from the cradle. The
baby's torture begins directly after birth.
1t Is soaped and soaked, sopped and
scrubbed, wiped and wabbled and wal
Hoped, all to get it clean. Then it is
bound in strong bandages so that it will
not burst in crying. The bandage about
the loins is pulled as tightly as possible
and pinned. Swaddling napkins, flannel
underclothes and skirts are then girted
around it, and pulled as tightly as they
can be pulled. The head is combed and
curried and smeared with some sort OF
ointment, and then the little sufferer is
wound up in wooden wraps and laid
away. 1t is 50 bound up and wrapped
up and covered up that It can scarcely
get breath TO squall. Pins prick and it
kicks with pain. Then come the pare
goric and soothing syrup, castor oil, mo-
lasses and whisky. 1t is rubbed and
rocked, trotted and tossed, and dosed
with drug stuff to cure the supposed
collie. If there be no one about with
any common sense, the chances are good
for a child's funeral.-Thought Of the
Times
, 1888-06-05
TO-DAYS CONVENTION.

st. Louis is the Mecca of Democracy
to-day. The national convention to be
held there will have the satisfaction OF
naming the two gentlemen who, in all
human probability, will be president and
vice president of the United States for
the four years dating from the 4th of
next March. As to the head of the
ticket there is absolutely no difference of
opinion. With Grover Cleveland as our
standard bearer. the party first came into
power after a generation of defeats. With
him again at its head, 1t will achieve tri-
umphant success at the polls next No
vember.
For second place Allen G.. Thurman
seems to be the practically unanimous
choice of the delegates. Thurman is the
compliment Of Cleveland. Even the
most exacting could neither hope for nor
suggest an improvement. 1t is a ticket
that will sweep the country like a prairie
fire after a drouth and Republicans who
have tears to shed may prepare to turn
them loose when the St. Louis convention
gets down to work.
The ASSURANCES of national success will
stimulate the party in state and local con
tests and cause the members to redouble
their efforts to win a sweeping victory
along the whole line. This should be a
Democratic year from away back.
, 1888-06-05

The late NJ. Bord, the piano maker Of
Paris, left to every one in his factory who
has worked there for five years, 5000; to
every n who has worked there for six
years, $500, and so on, increasing $50
for each year that the recipient has
worked. The system Of profit sharing
was introduced into NJ. Bord's factory in
1854; 1t included all the employees, and
the distribution Of profits was annual
and complete; 10 per cent. was first set
aside to cover the risks of trade and pro-
vide interest on the employers capital.
This was reckoned as the wages of capt.
tai. The remainder of the profits was then
divided In the ratio of the wages re-
eeived. the wages OF the capital being
reckoned in so that NJ. Bord received a
share of this SECOND division. The divi-
dend is said to have amounted on several
occasions to from 20 to "a per cent on
the wages, though during the last few
years the pressure of foreign competition
has reduced il. Boston Transcript.
, 1888-06-05
Garnet Lodge. In Alaska.

The extensive garnet lodges at Fort
Wrangell are an inexhaustible source of
beautiful and ornamental curiosities. The
cropping of the ledge is about ten feet
wide, standing perpendicularly and rum
ming northeast and southwest several
miles in length; the depth of it no man
has ever found out. The rock is of a
mica slate formation, and contains from
two to four dozen garnets to the cubic
foot. The gems are regular ~polygons,
beautiful in color, and when fresh from
the mines nave a dashing and brilliant
~luster; but when exposed for q time
they become dull and opaque. The
crystal varies in dimensions from the
size of n pea to that of q hens egg, and
to the novice are quite fascinating and
have the appearance of much value for
ornamental and other purposes.
The lapidaries, however, have failed to
utilize them for any purpose whatever,
except as a curio and to demonstrate the
certainty of the unerring law of nature
which governs every phenomenon. Every
plane of the polygon is of the same form ;
every angle of the same degree, and
every gem is the equal and like of its
fellow. The mining and shipment of
this rock has become quite a business.
1t is worth $50 per ton on the wharf at
Fort Wrangell, and is shipped to all
parts of the country to fill the cabinets
of the wealthy and the collections in
public institutions Detroit Free Press.
The popular blood purifier, Hoods Sar.
saparllla, is having a tremendous sale this
, 1888-06-05
Discoveries More Valuable Than Gold

Are Santa Able, the California discovery
for Consumption and diseases Of the
Throat, Chest, and Lungs, and Calitor-
MIA Cat-R Cure, the only guaranteed cure
for Catarrh, Cold in the Head aud kin
drcd complaints. They are sold at 81
per package, or three for 81. so, and are
recommended and used by the leading
physicians of the Pacific coast. Not
secret compounds. Guaranteed by DR..
w. N. Hunt.
, 1888-06-05
PROPOSALS FOR CoNsTRUCTIoN

and completion of buildings at Fort ID.
A. Russell, Wyo. Depot Quartermastor's
Office. Cheyenne, Depot, Wyo., May "a,
1888. Sealed proposals, in triplicIte, sub
iect TO the usual conditions, will be received
at this office until ~ M, Friday, June -,
1888, at which time and place they will
be opened in the presence of bidders. for
furnishing material aad labor for compile
ton and construction of buildings at Fort
ID. A Russell. Wyo., viz:
Construction of one set of captains
quarters.
Uompletions Of three sets of captains
quarters.
Completion Of one building for barracks.
Completion of remodeling quarter
master storehouse into barracks.
The government reserves the right 10
reject any or all proposals. Preference
given to articles of domestic production
and manufacture, condition OF price and
quality being equal, and such preference
given to articles of American production
and manufacture produced on the Pacific
coast TO the extent of the consumption
required by the service there. Speciica-
tons can be seen, circulars containing in
structions to bidders, and blank forms OF
proposals can be obtained on application
at this Office. Envelopes containing pro
posals should be plainly marked "Propos.
ais for construction and completion OF
buildings at Fort ID A. Russell, Wyo., -
and addressed to the undersigned,
CHARLES +. HUMPHREY, Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster, u. s. A.
, 1888-06-05

G. j.. Sears is down from IVA.
Joe NJ. Scott of Omaha is in towr.
Richard Ashworth is in from the ranch.
f. Tillotson arrived from Fetterman
yesterday.
Richard Whalen is in from the Hart
vile country.
Walter GlaIcke was in town Sunday
and yesterday.
Attorney FrAnkIl. CLARK returned from
Rawlins Sunday.
Chus. f. Frank, Chicago, is registered
at the Inter Ocean.
Chas. Moore has returned from a visit
to Black Hills towns.
Mrs. w. +. Miller. Omaha, is in town,
and will spend the summer with relatives.
II b. Semple, travelling passenger agent
for the Union Pacific, IS up from Denver.
w j. Oliphant, travelling for a Denver
liquor house, visited Cheyenne yesterday.
Special Agent Fry, Lieut.. Ruehlin and
A. Il. Powers are outing on the Laramie
river.
Alice Smith left for New York yes.cr-
day morning. She will be absent several
months.
Attorney Geo. @. Smith. Rawlins, is
in the city for the purpose of attending
supreme court.
Frank Stanfeld, on the road for the
Nebraska Directory company, arrived
from the East Sunday.
President Hicks of the First National
bank. and Cashier Hay Of the Stock
Growers bank, left for the East last even
ing.
Charley Carey, son of Delegate Carey,
has been quite i'll in Washington for some
time. but is now recovering. He suffered
from an attack of diptheria.
, 1888-06-05

The slight grounds for hope that Gen.
S~hcridan's case has shown for the past
few days seem to have vanished entirely.
The gallant old commander is struggling
bravely for his life, but he Is fighting
against an enemy whom no human being
can hope to conquer.
, 1888-06-05

Our wide awake little boy, aged o
years, wanted to know, during a thunder
storm, whether God was not angry "with
the naughty people," and on being told
yes, but that was not the reason of the
storm, he e~xclRSSled: "Ah, 1 knowl /
guess 1t Is the angels horses running
races On tho dark clouds"-New York
World.
, 1888-06-05
" NON

M WO>> would enjoy your dinner
y ~ and arc prevented by Dys-
pepsia. use Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are a positive cure for Dyspepsia, In.
digestion, Flatulency and Constipation.
We guarantee them. 20 and 90 cents.
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1888-06-05
$1,000
$1,000

For a better or more pleasant remedy for
the cure OF consumption, bronchial troub
les. cough. Group and whooping cough
than Santa Able, the California kins of
consumption. Every bottle warranted.
II you would be cured OF that di. gushing
disease. catarrh, use California Cat-R Cure
81 aiar, by mail sl.l0. Santa Able and
Cat-R-Cure are sold and warranted by w.
N. Hunt.
, 1888-06-05

Everything which belongs to pure,
healthy blood is impaired by Hoods Sar-
saparilla. A trial will convince you of its
merit
, 1888-06-05

INCIDENTALLY it may be remarked
that there are no flies on the Bandana
Democratic club.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-26
JUDGE ELIAS SMITH.

The pioneers of Utah, the men of
brain and Drawn, of courage and pro-
gress, who opened the way and made it
possible for their children and the later
generations to live and thrive in the
once desert lands of the far west, are
fast passing away. In few years we
will know them only by name and the
records they leave. Among those
names and records few will be
longer remembered than those of
Judge Elias Smith, whose long
and toilsome career terminated
in his death on Monday morning. The
history of Salt Lake and of Utah can
not be written without devoting many
pages TO the man who is mourned by a
numerous family and by friends and
admirers without number. Coming
here in 1857, when Salt Lake was vii
Iage and Utah little better than will
derness, Judge Smith at once assumed a
commanding position in the little COM
munity struggling for existence, and
from that time until disease and over
work compelled him to the ease and re-
tirement which his age long before
entitled him to, he made his strong
individuality felt for the good
of the people and the well
fare and advancement of the
commonwealth. In whatever place
duty or inclination led him, his big
brain and broad mind impressed them
selves, and caused him to be respected
and headed as one possessing wisdom
of high order, most excellent judg-
ment, keen sense of right and justice,
and a progressive mind. The COM
munity owes much to him, for he did
much fer it. We must all mourn the
loss of a useful man in the death of
Judge Smith. A brief sketch of his
long and honorable career appears in
another place in this issue of THE
HERALD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-26

WHEN THE grandfather of the present
Harrison was running for President
the campaign emblem was log cabin
and the faYorite indulgence was hard
cider. That was an inspiriting canvass,
not counting the cider, which was gen.
orally very hard. "Old Tippscanoe"
was man of the people; the cabin was
reminder of the fact that although he
was aspiring to the Hottest place in the
land, he still had not forgotten his
own humble origin, nor that
of the majority of his countrymen, and
lie wanted it understood that he was
one with them. The cider-home-
made and pure-was a representation
of good cheer and homespun conyiy-
iality. How different now! The old
mans grandson wears silk stockings,
takes snuff out of gold snuffbox,
wears eyeglasses, fashionable clothes,
perfumes his kerchiefs and seldom
recognizes a man in the ordinary paths
OF life, never a poor one. There
is no crime in all this, but there
is something in it which those
looked down upon do not like, and their
votes will utter an effectual protest
against such sfectation of royalty being
transplsnted to the White House. Per-
haps the present Harrison remember
the only occasion on which he was
brought into position wherein the
popular vote could be brought to bear
upon him-when he ran against
blue Jeans" Williams for Governor
in 1876 and was ignebly de.
feated by that honest and ur-
pretentious granger; if he does, he can
easily form conclusion as to his State
now, with senatorial record streaked
with unpopular votes and speeches ad
ded to his previous unpopularity. His
greatness will hardly ever be great
enough to accomplish the purpose for
which he was nominated-the pulling of
Indiana within the Republican lines.