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Year: 1874

MCECKRON.-The Kansas Chief makes the
ameHde honorable to speaker McEckron.


We had some opportunities of observing Mr.
McEckrons course last winter, aud we formed
the opinion that he was of the squarest men
that our politics had brought to the surfaces for
long time He made most excellent speaker
and we believe him to have been a Thoroughly
honest and high toned man.-Laurence Journal
Year: 1874

e The Atchison Champion, last week, gave a
lengthy description of the palatial residence of
John NJ. Price, in that city. So far, good: but
how long will it be before the property figures
as the capital prize in a lottery for some benevo
lent ~ oliectf
Year: 1874

Members of Congress who hawk public Offices
through their districts to he knocked off TO the
men who have the greatest capacity for caucus
packing have had their day. That system in our
politics must be wiped out. The people have
issued their edict against it, and the man who
attempts TO defy their authority had better never
been born"
Year: 1874

POSTAL LAw.-We are now satisfied that the
new postal law does not 60 into effect until the
first of January next Until that time, our sub
scribers in the County mus pay postage on the
Chief
Year: 1874

We all know what nickels are, in the
! plural, for we are continually handling
the five-cent coin known by this name,
and our five senses may all take note of
it; but as to nickel in the singular, it is
singular fact that most people know
very little about it. 1t is only of late
that it has come into general use, the
Swiss government being the first to use
it for coinage, some thirty years ago.
Its recent discovery is, however, a re-
discovery.


Dr. Flight, of the British museum, il
London, found three whitish coins
there, which had the appearance of
silver. But he had his doubts as to
their genuinepess, and snbiec ed them
to tests, when they confessed them
selves to be but nickel. AS these coins
bore date two hundred years before the
Christian era, the learned doctor put TO
fight all idea of the discovery of nickel
in modern times.


It is curious circumstance that
the name ''nickel" was originally a nick
name.


The workmen in German copper
mine found reddish ore which was of
no use to them, and which they, there
lore, 1maBlA6u WIS pun tHSI5 ny budG
mythical parsonage, supposed to live in
German mountains, called cold Nick, "
in order to deceive or hinder them.
They, therefore, gave the ore the name
of Kupfer-nickel, or copper nickel.
When the metal came into use the min
er's nickname was adopted, and even
for scientific purposes turned into the.
Latin word nicOLttnl.


The same is the case with the ore
from which cobalt is made, and which
is often found in conjunction with
nickel and copper. 1t was called cobalt
from its supposed production by the
elves, who, according to German legend,
guard the treasures of the mines, and
who are known as Cobbolds.


Nickel is valuable chiefly on account
of its hardness, and its freedom from
liability to rust. In many cases it takes
the place of silver, and when brightly
polished looks almost as well. In its
common form, it is mixed with large
proportion of copper. 1t is highly mag
netic, and serves for the needles of COM
passes, but for other needles the YER
dict is, "not sew we'll"
Year: 1874

The growth of tea and sugar in Eu-
ropean soil are perhaps branches of cul-
ture which we can scarcely expect to be
remunerative in a commercial point Of
view. Be this as it may, the sugar-cane
is now grown and sugar Manufactured to
some extent in the neighborhOod of
Malaga, Spain. Tea has also been in
troduced into the southern districts of
Sicily, and though the first attempt
made last year to raise the plants on
large scale was not successful, owing, it
is said, to the injury caused to the
plants and seeds by immersion in sea-
water on their transit from Japan, it is
confidently hoped and believed by the
promoters that another attempt with
healthy seeds and plants will prove
quite successful. Meanwhile tea is be-
ing grown at the Cinchona plantations
in Jamaica, and sample has recently
been received at the Kew Museum which
was grown and manufactured as above
from Assam tea plants received through
Kew in 1868. So far as the appearance of
the sample is concerned, it is roughly
manipulated, not being sufficiently
twisted or curled, and apparently not
sufficiently roasted. Nevertheless, its
manufacture is little inferior to that of
the earliest samples of Assam tea that
appeared in the English market. Its
quality, however, is another thing, for
it produces a very watery infusion of a
very herby flavor, and devoid of the
aroma for which tea is noted. Care,
however, in the cultivation of the plant,
as well as in the selection and manlpula-
tion of the leaves, may in time produce
a more marketable article.
Year: 1874

Every intellectual person should
know how to ascertain the state OF the
pulse in health then, by comparing it
with what it was when he is ailing, he
may have some idea of the urgency of
his case. Parents should know the
healthy pulse of each child, as now and
then person is born with a peculiarly
slow or fast pulse, and the very case in
hand may be that popularity. An in
fant's pulse is one hundred and forty ;
a child of seven, about eighty; and
from twenty to sixty years it is seventy
beats a minute, declining to sixty at
four-score. A healthy, grown persons
pulse beats seventy times in a minute /;
there may be good health down 10 sixty /;
but if the pulse always exceeds seventy,
there is a disease-the machine is work
ing too FAST; it is working itself out ;
there is a fever or inflammation some
where, and the body is feeding on it
self, as in consumption, when the pulse
is quick-that is, over seventy-gradu-
ally increasing with decreased chances
of cure, until it reaches one hundred
and ten or one hundred and twenty,
when death comes before many days.
When the pulse is over seventy for
months, and there is a slight cough,
the lungs are affected.
Year: 1874

On one occasion Lent was part
owner of a travelling circus and menag-
erie. One dsv he met man out west
who had grizzly bear for sale. As the
animal was a splendid specimen of q
young grizzly, Lent purchased him,
and after he got him he found himself
in the position of the man who drew
the elephant. There was but one cage
in the menagerie that could contain
the bear, and that already had an oc-
cupant in the shape of large and
fnely-developed Bengal tiger. Lent
told one of his partners that he was
going to quarter the grizzly with the
tiger.


'tThe devil you are, was the answer.
" Why that tiger will make q square
meal of him before you can wink. "


"All right. If he does, Tn salts
fed says Lent. "You look sitter
your tiger and I'll take care of my
bear"


The grizzly was accordingly lifted
into the cage, the tiger having pre-
viously been driven to the opposite cor
ner by the application of hot irons.
Then all the employees of the circus
gathered to witness the fight. The an
imals sighted each other at the same
instant; but, while the tigers eyes
blazed with fury and his tail lashed
the bars in his exciterlent, the grizzly
simply nodded in sleepy manner, as if
in recogn ton of the presence of the
other beast, and crouched against the
bars waiting developments. They re-
mained as far apart as the cage would
permit for at least five minutes but
every moment the rage of the tiger
seemed to increase, while the bear
seemed to be sinking into q deep slum-
Der. At last the tiger began to growl
and slide toward the bear, moving from
side to side of the cage as he did
The growing aroused the bear to life,
and he had just time to measure his
enemy, when, with the rapidity of
lightning, the tiger sprang forward and
alighted on his head and back. For
moment there was a terrible bowling
from both animals, as they rolled over
and over in the cage, and then they
separated for an instant, the bear SEEM
ing to have shaken off his antagonist.
During this brief cessation of bOstilities
it was seen that the bear had got
decidedly the worst of the combat, as
he was bleeding freely from several
gaping wounds.


The backer of the tiger was delighted,
and wanted Lent to consent to having a
stop put to the fight. "No," answered
he. "Let them fight, and I'll bet on
the bear" So at it they went again,
and there was terrible fighting for sew
eral minutes. It finally ended in the
tiger giving several mournful howls,
and, when they were separated, he
skunk away to his corner as meek and
submissive-looking as an animal could
be. After that day the bear bossed the
cage, and if the Tiger becaue unrHly
he received blow from the grizzly's
paw that set him to thinking over past
events ct once
Year: 1874

Jadge Edmonds, writing in Brittan's
Quarterly of Especial Providences, p"
says: "When my young friend DIR.
John F. Gray was lad some fourteen
or fifteen years old he was employed in
a cloth factory, where it was part of his
duty to attend to the dyeing apparatus,
which was in an adjoining building.
His particular business was to tend the
fire under the dye-kettle and to turn a
crank whereby the cloth should revolve
on wheel through the dye. One day
while thus employed he heard a voice
say to him, Go out of the building )
he answered. what shall [ go out
for? I won't do it. After little
while the voice again said to him, Go
out of this building, tell you Again
he answered, What shall lido that for !?
I tell you I'm not going to do it. Again
an interval of time passed, and the
voice said more earnestly, Go out of
this building, 1 tell you, Immediately.
Go out Go out = well, he replied,
4 won't quarrel about it, I'll go out ;
and so he stopped his work and went
out. He had to ascend few steps to
get out, and he hardly reached the up
per steps before the whole building fell,
and crushed to pieces the kettle, furn-
ace, and wheel were he had been at
work ="
Year: 1874

"A correspondent writes from Colo
rado that there are as many laborers and
mechanics there as can obtain work and
earn a livelihood. The wages are al
most the same as those paid east, while
the expense of living is twenty-five per
cent. mora. He adds that tho gold and
silver mines are developing fer more
riches than was anticipated by the
most sanguine.
Year: 1874




There can be no doubt that light is
as important to the health of animals
as to man. We all know the exhiler-
ating effect of sunlight upon our
selves. We know that plants cannot
grow in healthy way without light,
and that in cellar where q ray of
ight,cOmes through oreVioe, plants
will stret0h toward this light. We
should endeaYor to render stables
pleasant for our animals, not only out
of motive of kindness, hut from mo-
times of interest. An animal will
thrive better on the same foods In a
light cheerful stable than in q dark
one. In building new barns care
should be takensto arrange the stables
on the southeast side, so that direct
sunlight may be admitted. A stable
should be made light as the living
room Of house; when this is doHe
cattle will not be anxious to get out OF
the stable I'm winter. So little atten-
ton is paid to light that we often find
it painful to the eye to go into such
stables. Many horses have Undouht-
edly lost their eyesight by being taken
from dark stables to tho light. The
horse shies at objects simply because
of the food of light thrown upon it's
eyes. These sudden changes from
darkness to light soon produces blind.
ness. We shall flnd it for our true
interest to study all the wants of our
animals. Buffalo LGDe Stock Your
nal,
Year: 1874

While the war against intemper-
ance in drinking is being Waged, why
does not some one rise up to
combat against intemperance in
eating? How does it happen that amid
the everlasting cry against drunk
enness we never hear a word against
its sister eviI-gluttOny think says
q we'll known physician, can assert
with truth that, In a long practice,
three have died among my patients
from over-eating, where one has died
from drink. Whence come apoplexY,
paralysis. dyspepsia. and a host OF
other diseases, but from too much
rich food, taken under most imprH-
dent circumstances? ? And we hear
of no society formed to prevent this
growing evil. A man eats until he
drops down with apoplexy by the
roadside, when up comes the coroner
with jury of twelve good men and
true, who pronounce verdict, EsDied
from intemperance." So he did, but
what kind of intemperances was it
/ have heard more than one minister
in the pulpit expatiate with great
vehemence against the, sin of drunk
enness whose, very appearance was
proof ofpositiVethat he was pre-emin-
entity guilty ofglutOnysa -faz7sB IT,
Year: 1874

DRoPs of quicksilver, if they are
put anywise near together, will rum
into each other. And this is the law
of the kingdom of good. CIrcum-
stances are far more fluid TO the bless
ed magnetism than we think. The
whole tendency of the right, neigh
borly life is TO reach forth and draw
together; TO bring into one circle Of
communication people and plans OF
one spiri. and purpose. Then before
We know how 1t is, we find them link
ing aud fitting here and there, help
ing wonderfully to make beautiful
organism of results that we could not
have planned or foreseen beforehand.
any more than we could not have
planned our own bodies. Ii Is the
growing up into the body of Christ
From Other Girls.
Year: 1874

There's nothing like being a coed
boy. l hope that all good boysSAsd
girls who read this will try from thiB
time forward to be a good boy, so
that when they die they may have
marble lamb with a bushy tail on
their tombstone.
Year: 1874

The name of this very good boy
was Charles Henry NorthiHgton
Adams, and he had white hair, a
freckled face. an innocent look, and
his highest aim was 10 please his
father and mother. His father never
had to tell him to take off his coat and
come to the barn5.tO get thrashing,
and his mother Rever broke any OF
her fingers cutting his ears.
Year: 1874

CHAPTER Iu.-RETIRING DISPOSITION.


Charles Henry Worthington was Of
very retiring disposition, TO bed at
early candle-light. He never made
any fuss about going up stairs in the
dark as most boys do, and even if his
parents had a strawberry festival in
the house, or hi8 father was reading q
dime novel aloud the little hero would
seek his couch at the ulual hour With
out a murmur.
Year: 1874

DR.. Beard states that from an analysis
of the lives of thousand representative
men in all the great branches of human
efforts, he made the discovery that the
golden decade was between 30 and 40,
silver between 40 and so, and brazen be


tween 20 and 80, and the iron between
80 and 60 The superiority of youth
aud middle life over old age in original
work, appears all the greater when we
consider the fact that all positions Of
honor and prophet and pres,ige-pro


fesserships and public stations are in the
hands of the old. Reputation, like money
and position, lis mainly con6ded to the
old. Men are not widely known until
long after they had done the work that
gives them their fame. Portraits of great
men are delusion statues are lies
They are taken when men have become
famous, which on the average is at least
twenty FIVE years after they did the work
gave them their fame Original work re
quires enthusiasm. If all their original
work done by men under forty five were
annihilated, they would be reduced to
barbarism Men are at their best at that
time when enthusiasm and experience
are most evenly balanced this period on
the average is from thirty eight to forty.
After this the law is that experience
increases, enthusiasm declines In the
life of almost every old man there comes
point soner or later, when experince
ceases to have any educating power.
Year: 1874

Look most to your spending. No matter
what comes in, if more goes out you will
always be poor. The art is not in max
ing money, but in keeping it; little
expenses, like mice n a large barn, when
they arc many, make great waste Hair
by hair heads get bald straw by straw
the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop
by drop the rian comes into the cham Der.
A barrel is soon empty if the tap leaks
but drop minute when you mean to
save begin with your mouth many things
pass down the red line The ale Jug is
great waste. In all other things keep
within compass. Never stretch your legs
further than the blanket will stretch, or
you will soon be cold In clothes, choose
suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry
Gneries. To be warm is the main thing,
never mind the looks. A fool may max e
money, but it needs wise man to spend
it. Remember it is easier to build two
chimneys than to keep one going II
you give all to back and board, there is
nothing left for the savings bank. Fare
hard aud work hard while you are young,
and you will have chance to rest when
you are old.
Year: 1874

All housekecpers have some time real
lied the difficulty of lighting fire in
still, damp morning, when the chimney
will bot draw, and vigorous blowing proves
Intellectual Science explains the trouble
as "caused by the difficulty encountered in
overcoming the inertia of the long column
of air in the pipe or chimney by the small
column of air that can be forced up
through the interstices of wood and coal.
at the bottom of which the FIRE is kindled. :"
This may be remedied by first lighting
few bits Of shavinss or paper placed upon
the top; thus, by the heated air forcing
it self iuto the chimney and establishing
thee an upward current, the room is
kept free from the gas or smoke which
is so apt to fill the room, and the fire can
then be lighted from below with good
success.
Year: 1874

man who had adopted him as a child when
but twelve years old Gus. had left
home and come west to grow up with the
mou ouutains, long after Saeger's flight. and
he knew all the circumstances of the
crime. Potter is nephew of Pheiffen,
who was Saeger's right hand bower in
the robbery, and who is now serving out
fifteen years term in the Pennsylvania
Peuitentitary. He stayed with the Pot
ters away into the night, then mounted
his horse and rode out to the camp. Then,
again, he was EcGee. He made no at
tempt to escape, but relied on being able
to bribe the Potters into silence, and so
| appeared at the restaurant early the next
day. But within an hour after the first
separation Potter notified Deputy Sheriff
Cook OF the unexpected and amazing re
cognition Cook who is the best known
aud most skillful detective ia the Rock v
mountain country, had singular to relate,
been on the look out for Seager since
1868, at which time he received descrip.
tiou of the man from Chief of Police
Hague; Of Pittsburgh To day Cook took
Saeger into custody while he was stip
ping friendly glass with his adopted
son, Potter, who had got him drunk so
as TO facilitate his arrest.


The distinguished criminal suecumbed
to the officer like a little man. For the
first time in six years, he said, he was
without his pistols and bowie knife, and
resistance was useless But, he coolly
observed, that had he been armed. as
usual, somebody, and as not the officer
himself, would have bit the dust. His
herders, who were desperadoes every one
of them, would fight for him at the drop
of a bar, and fears are rife to night that
they may be bold enough to undertake
IA rescue, though such an attempt would
prove futile, as the Jail is strongly sen
tineled.


Saeger is a man of about forty years of
age. FL is six feet and over in height,
aud stands as straight as lightning rod !;
his black, grizzly-looking beard, and a
bright, piercing eye, which indicates
great determination of character He
says he is the man they have been look.
ing for, but he'll be something very un-
pleasant if they recover any of the money
he stole. That, he says, is beyond their
reach but he Claims to have made pro
vision for his wife and children, whom
he left at Petroleum Centre, and who
have believed him dead Saeger says he
has been twice apprehended one time he
knocked the detective down, and escaped
on horseback and on two other occa
sons he paid them for his freedom, the
price of liberty in these instances being
about $40, 900 each time.


For four years past standing reward
of Sl00,0 900 has been offered for Saeger's
arrest and return to the authorities at Pc,
troleum Center. Bennington has been
notified by telegraph, aud requisitiou
will be forward Immediately, no doubt
Sheriff Cook stands good show Of strik
ing big stake by this fortuitous circum-
stance A detective, Hale, from Phia
adolphia, believe, who is here look ling
up another case, spent nine months, in
1869, in an effort to find Saeger. but with
out so much as striking trace. And
now he is nabbed right under his nose
Year: 1874

One may live conqueror, or king,
or a magistrate. but he must die man.
The bed of death brings every human be-
Ing to his pure individuality. to the in-
tense contemplation of that deepest aud
most solemn Of all relations, fhe relation
between the creature and his Creator
Webster.
Year: 1874

A young girl, who had an offer of mar
riage which she wished to accept, sub
mitted the matter to her father, who ad-
vised her against matrimony, using as an
argument the quotation from St. Paul.
They who marry do well, but they who
do not do better Well said the damsel, l
love ty do well let those 90 better, who
can
Year: 1874

A man named Tucker was married
last week in Woodford county, HI, and
the boys" presuming on his good nature,
gathered to give him a grand charivari.
They were progressing finely when they
discovered the bridegroom in their party
pounding and old tin pan as hard as any
Of them. The subsequent proceedings
interested them no more
Year: 1874

1t is in vain to put your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, look for hole;
and equally vain to suppose that. how
ever large space you occupy, the world
will miss you when you are dead.
Year: 1874

SARATOGA, N. Y, July IS, 1874.


A mile up Saratoga Lake, on the west side, hid
den away out OF the world, and thick with reeds
and marshy bogs lies region deserted, damp and
lonely. No man, probably, ever did live in it, and
no man. probably, ever Will. 1t Is called the
Crowned lands" Working its way here
and there through these lands, runs a
tortuous creek, shallow in some places, very
deep in others and much overgrown about
the edges with Shiny weeds. Most men would
look at the place once, and, thinking of chins and
snakes and dread malaria, avoid 1t carefully ever
AFTER Away up this creek in q shady, secluded
spot where mans foot seldom treads he who by
chance at an early hour this morning had stra ed
might have seen scattered about, on the shelving
bank, O little group OF men. They were all hardly
more than half clad, and by their sharp, 1ulck
glances and sudden movements, and their
skin bronzed to copper hue, suggested
that they might all their lifetime have been sons
OF the forest. Hidden away in the fens by the
waters edge, lay long, slender craft with pro-
jecting arms OF iron, with here and there near by
six gracefully turned spruce oars For three
whole days these men lay hereabouts IN ambush.
Now they would all board the craft, and, creep
ing stealthily outwards by the edge OF the
lake, peer anxiously It's surface II eagerly
seeking some one; then after lying long hidden
under the tall weeds, they would work back TO
their hiding places. SO they employed most of
thursday afternoon and evening. Last night they
did the same their only company being some
startled quail or wild fowl and numerous piping
frogs. The sun went down and in the long
twilight they lay out by the lake edge until they
shvered from head to foot. Then they worked
back TO their lar.


THE BOATS ON THE LAKE


this morning at an early hour crept out again.
This time of up the lake stretched along IN a
spgle line under Snake Hill lay sight thas made