Year: 1876


civilization. There is, however danger OF carrying
this matter 10 extreme man down town is a
"whrper of boys ana girls" by profession He charges
ten cents Tor each performance OF hts duty He has
thick rods tor the older more obst nate children Of
his constituency ana thln piabc ana tingling rods
Tor those whose cuiicle is sensitive. The tender
hearted parent WHO'S fearful that do
hIs dlsobedent offspring puts ten cent scrip
envelope, sends the boy with this professor of the
birch, whereupon he is suddenly seized and good
sound 1agellation Administered. How the boys are
coaXed into that den of discipline the second time
body has yet told The professor lately sued father
Tor the sum oi So 10, which represents just thirty
thrashinss IN a single family The wholesome disci-
pine oil youth Is not lost sight oil these evil
days When some OF those boys get big enough
though that professor may that he had earned
MS living in some other way.


And so sitting Bull was no ordinary man. after all
lie very properly dlsdained the luent English Ian
guage because, orsooth he had been cheated by the
race that bears that name He could chatter French,
though, and said he had read the campaigns OF Napo-
leon, and proposed adapt his the ravnes
and dchles OF the great West 1t is little sad
think that the gun, the bullet the powder which
Killed Custer a. well as the training necessary
them with effect were sold to him by the same race
which Is now mourning the great Generals loss, aud





the Indian in very peculiar way. Finding that be
has iurs and cattle winch want Tor ourselves wo
get hn drunk with bad whlskey then give him a lew
rifles for the result OF his whole winters hunt When,
with his savage cunning he that he has been de-
rauded he takes The only revenge that occurs to
a barbarian and burns down dozen houses and
scalps score or two OF men and women Tnis
regard as the ba.est ngratitudc to his best friends,
and forthwith proceed rob him OF his lands, hunt
him like wild beast and shoot HIN at sight


These are trying times, indeed Aner having
reasoned yourself into the convection that day is
not as hot yesterday, simply because cannot and
must not be, you your eyes at the thermometer
and you are hcrried to find that it just two degrees
hotter than it before. Then you give up in
despair and feel that the place ened by orlho-
dox theology the permanent residence OF the wicked
has lost all It's terrUrs our merchants, generally
have keen eye 10 business SIT listessy open
window, and are 20 demoralizcd that protested
note fails 10 excite a comment The mnlsters, those
who have not fled from the Sahara OF New York IN
July eeoly turn the clerical barrel over and preach
an old sermon, and feel weak hat they are unable
to refuse a handsome present But the editor All
he is the slave OF righteous cause all the year round
Chained to his nkstand, he imnioates himself the
altar OF the summer sum- aud the green fields and
hears the breaking surf only with the and OF
restless Imagination So are all sinking to a
general prostration, while the mercury steadily, and
with persistency worthy of better cause, climbs tho
nineies and every in awhile touches that fatal
one hundredth degree, which indicates that human
nature wrthes and rebels, but vain On Tor one
glimpse of the freezing Cauc


France is given to association hch delight to issue
eloquent pronuncamenios against the universe and
its Creator, against social order and the laws grav
tation TDcy have their origin in spontaneous genera
ton and their end in spontaneous combustion. One
has just come out OF Its chrysalis aud addresses
letter to the ''Students of the Two Worlds In which
the writer's say they have "broken with all absurd
preudices," such belief in God the restraints OF a
moral law and the dogma o immortality, and invite
the cooperation OF the aforementioned 'studcnts IN
their endeavor 10 resolve the nineteenth century
back INTO It's original chaos They say. furher:-''We
atheists - then give six why they are So
omittng, however, the reason which the Bible gives
viz:-because they 'foos - They also ''revo-
luonists, because they are at the wrong end OF the
line They a good deal like who said he
should live the first floor If TIE house was the other
SIDE up, and revolution means the attempt TO make
the house stand its ridgepoe They a restless
TO level the rich down their own position
than to level the poor up 10 competency. There is
too much selfish reform in the world Tnin-s are al
wrong until We ourselves enjoy nigh position and a
large salary but when We do things are all right
These French socialists are simply playing with dyna-
mite, and in the course OF few weeks shall hear Of
explosion, after which OF the new So
cety will remain