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1 7 ONLY PAPER AT THE COUNTY SEAT. VOLUME EL MILLBROOK, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1881. NUMBER 46. I I JRGWING GREATNESS. The Word Farew el I whelming, noises surrounded us as it RELIGIOUS NOTES.

BUTCHERING BUFFALO. crashes and cuts a swathe through JHE DARK DAY IN CAN AO A. The Unexplained Phenomenon of No vember 1810. trees of more than a foot in diameter If ever a latent feeling of love and friendship assume a tender reality, sweeping the innermost depths of the soul, and kindling sadly emotions In some interesting 'and graphic reminiscences of Montreal sixty years ago, Mr. J.

II. Dorwin writes to the two warm hearts, it is a memory lingering upon the parting hour, and we Montreal Star as follows: "What was the strangest occurrence of that time, Tho Presbyterian synod of Kansas may be called the polyglot synod, for within its bounds, which extend over the Indian territory, the gospel is preached by members of the synod in no less than nine different languages English, German, French, Bohemian, Welsh, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Nez Perce. A society journal mentions that Lady Rosebery's infant has been baptized and admitted publicly in the parish church at Epsom into the Protestant church. This is probably the first instance on or rather the strangest thing that ever and broke off like pipe-stems. The very earth groans and trembles at the stupenduous tumult, while the shrill scream of the air through its branches sounded as if the infernal spirits of Hades had left the bottomless pit and were now shrieking the death howlings of the damned, and behold, the monarch of the woods lay prone upon its mother earth after a rule of over three hundred years.

Baby Monkeys. Ctainbe: Journal. Monkeys are born in almost as helpless a condition as are human beings. For the first fortnight after birth they pass their time in being nursed, in sleeping, and looking about them. Dur Gratifying Deductions from Comparison ot the Exchanges Last Month With Those of April, 1880.

The New York Public says: With full exchanges for April before us, in which the business actually transacted in all parts of the country has recorded its own volume, it is not possible to conclude that everything is going to the bad. Comparison, it should be noticed, is with the month of ApriL 1880, in which business was extraordinarily large, although much of it resulted in loss instead of profit. The amount of transactions was much larger than it had ever been in the month of April, and a reaction from a period of extravagant inflation of prices had just begun. On the other hand, current reports have indicated that the business of the country in April, 1881, was completely prostrated by disaster; that many roads were ruined or blockaded, many farms and villages desolated by flood, and vast quantities of grain in stock destroyed; that almost every i record of a Jewish mother giving up her child to the Gentiles. Mr.

Gladstone is himself the godfather of the infant There are now sunnosed to be in A Hundred Thousand Killed Last Winter in the Yellow Stone Country. Sioux City Journal. It is estimated by competent authorities that 100,000 buffalo hides will be shipped out of the Yellowstone country this season. Two firms alone are negotiating for the transportation of hides each When to this is added the immense amount of skins and furs of other kinds, deer, antelope, beaver, some idea may be formed of the extent of the Yellowstone pelt and fur trada Most of our citizens saw the big load of buffalo hides the C. K.

Peck brought down last season, a load that hid everything about the boat below the hurricane deck There were ten thousand hides on that load, and they were all brought out of the Yellowstone on one trip, and transferred to the C. K. Peck. How such a load could have been piled on the little Terry not even the men on the boat appear to know. It hid every "part of the boat, barring only the pilot house and the smoke stacks.

But such a load will not be attempted again. For boats as ply the Yellowstone there are at least fifteen full loads of buffalo hides and other pelts. Iteckoning one thousand hides to three car-loads, and adding to this fifty cars for the other pelts, it will take at least three hundred and fifty box-cars to carry this stupendous bulk east to market. These figures are not guesses, but estimates made by men whose business it is to know about the Paris 75.000 Protestants, amom? whom ing the whole of this time the care and are 35,000 reformed, 30.000 Lutheran. and 10,000 of other denominations.

This is an approximation. About seventy-five pastors attend to the spiritual wants of the Protestant branch of trade was stagnant and dead, attention of the mother are most exemplary, the slightest sound or movement excites her immediate notice; and, with her baby in her arms, she skillfully evades any approaching danger by the most adroit manoeuvres. At the end of the first fortnight the little one begins to get about by itself, but always under its mother's watchful care. She fiequently attempts to teach it to do for itself; but never forgets her solicitude for its safety, and at the earliest intention of danger and that wholesale dealers waited in vain for buyers, who were crippled by widespread disaster. How did it come to pass then that $4,820,128,680 was The Roman Catholics of Paris are divided, eclesiastically, into three Genevieve, and St Denis with six hundred priests in active service, besides the numerous chaplains of hospitals, colleges, and other establishments.

The Jews in Paris are supposed to number upward of 32,000. They have four large synagogues and six oratories paid through the banks, against in the same month of 1880? Speculation in stock does not account for the fact; for, as will be shown, exchanges arising from sales of stock were precisely the same proportion to the transactions of April 1, 1881 and one chief rabbi of the Paris consistory, 1880 nor can it be said that New York amount of hides and furs awaiting shipment. Nothing like it has ever been known whisper that little, but expressive word farewell. Brave heart that has buffeted the storms of life, and did not tremble for the issue when troubles came, how powerless at last to check the rising tear or suppress a sigh as you uttered an adieu to the friend who had shared your joys and sorrows your little playmate in childhood's happy days, when earth seemed a paradise of winning confidence, innocence and truth. Any one who stands in health's silent chamber, and while gazing on a dead face, upon which the sad word "ended" is written by icy fingers, and is ready to forget and forgive all the follies of a mispent life, and even draw the "soft mantle of charity" over the record of an enemy who wronged us even so when we come to part with those who only had a small share of our affection, and readily forgive any differences that existed, or hard feelings that blunted the warm current of our regard.

If, then, such are our emotions upon saying adieu to some ordinary associate, how much more intense the feelings of regard when the eye is resting upon the features endeared to us by a thousand hallowed remembrances, and the hand clasps hand, perhaps never to hear the kindly voice, or welcome the smile that gladdened us of yore. But is it the mere fact of parting that gives us pain? Ah, no! rather is it the question that intrudes itself upon us, how, when and where shall we meet again? We are loth to say good-by; for knowing how frail the tenure we hold upon earth's dearest joys, and that death is ever near, lurking in the fairest flowers, we cannot always banish an apprehension for our safety and happiness, however groundless that apprehension may be, and when presentments of evil and danger, almost amounting to superstition, will sometimes take possession of the bouyant and fearless heart. How will it bo at the next meeting? Reader; you may well ponder this, you have some dear one who is going from you, it may be some bright, sweet face you hope to call your wife at no very distant day, and she is going from you, or you from her! Have you pledged a vow of constancy, that nothing can turn aside, or will time and distance have taught you that "absence conquers love?" What is your next thought? When? Will it be a week, a month, or a year? Will it be forever? Mauna Loa. Private dispatches from the Sandwich Islands report that tho famous volcano, Mauna Loa, is still in eruption and has been continuously so since the early part of October. The inhabitants say that the present erup in the history of the fur trade.

Last operations, possibly inflated by speculations in merchandise, account for the increase; for the aggregate of exchanges at twenty-two other cities were 11,114,078,655 in April, 1881, against $1,006,814,926 in April, 1880. At New York the increase was 9.8 per and precisely the same if double the value of stocks sold be deducted for season the output of buffalo hides was above the average, and last year only about thirty thousand hides came out of the Yellowstone country, or less seizes it in her arms and seeks a place of refuge. When about six weeks old the baby begins to need more substantial nutriment than milk, and is taught to provide for himself. Its powers are speedily developed, and in a few weeks its agility is most surprising. The mother's fondness fer her offspring continues; she devotes all her care to its comfort and education; and should it meet with an untimely end, her grief is so intense as frequently to cause her own death.

"The care which the females bestow upon their offspring," says Duvancel, "is so tender and even refined that one would be almost tempted to attribute the sentiment to a rational rather than an instinctive process. It is a curious and interesting spectacle, which a little precaution has sometimes enabled me to witness, to see these females carry their young to the river, wash their than a third of what is there now four rabbis, seven officiating ministers, and three other rabbis for funerals aiid hospital services. There are 1,578 ministers among the Tunkers, or German Baptists. Of these 300 are in Pennsylvania, 248 in Indiana, 227 in Ohio, 142 in Illinois, and 133 in Iowa. The denomination is represented in twenty states.

The American Sunday-school union reports for the year just closed 1,415 new schools organized, in which there are 52,438 scholars. In the previous year there were organized 1,277 schools, with 46,727 scholars. The national conference of Second Adventists, recently held in Worcester, adopted a declaration of faith, the chief features of which are the near awaiting shipment. both years. The following shows the amount of The past severe wmter caused the buffalo to bunch themselves in a few exchanges for the week ending April 30, and for four weeks ending on that date at Hartford and New Haven, with valleys where there was pasturage, and there the slaughter went on all winter.

There was no sport about it, simply shooting down the famine-tamed ani mals as cattle might be shot down in a returns for the full month at all other places: City. Week. Month. New York 878,802,835 3 2,706,050,025 Boston. 80,149,257 333,529,942 Philadelphia.

215,353,110 Chicago 38,335,070 138,050,847 barnyard. To the credit of the Indans it is said faces in spite of their childish out that they killed no more than they could save the meat from. The greater happened in the lustory of this country, was what has been always known as the Phenomenon of On the morning of November 8, 1819, the sun rose upon a cloudy sky, which assumed, as the light grew upon it, a strange greenish tint, varying in places to an inky blackness. After a short time the whole sky became terribly dark, dense black clouds filling the atmosphere, and there followed a heavy shower of rain, which appeared to be something of the "nature of soapsuds, and was found to have deposited after settling, a substance in all its qualities resembling soot. Late in the afternoon the sky cleared to its natural aspect and the next day was fine and frosty.

On the morning of Tuesday, the 10th, heavy clouds again covered the sky, and changed rapidly from a deep green to a pitchy black, and the sun, when occasionally seen through them, was sometimes of a dark brown, or an un- earthly yellow color, and again bright orange, and even blood red. The clouds gradually deepened in color and density, the latter on a heavy vapor seemed to descend to the earth, and the day became almost as dark as night, the gloom increasing and diminishing most fitfully. At noon lamps had to be burned in the court-house, banks, and public offices of the city. Every- body was more or less alarmed, and many were the conjectures as to the cause of the remarkable occurrence. The more sensible thought that im- mense woods or prairies were on fire somewhere to the west; others said that a great volcano must have broken out in the province; still others asserted that our mountain was an extinct crazier about to resume operations and to make of the city a second Pompeii; the superstitious quoted an old Indian prophecy that one day the isiand of Montreal was to bo destroyed by an earth quake, and some even cried that the world was about to come to an end.

About the middle of the afternoon a great body of clouds seemed to rush suddeuly over the city, and the darkness became that of night. A pause and a hush for a moment or two succeeded, and then one of the most glaring flashes of lightning ever beheld flamed over the country, accompanied by a clap of thunder which seemed to shake the city to its foundations. Another pause followed, and then came a light shower of rain of the same soapy and sooty nature as that two days before. After that it appeared to gro nr brighter, but an hour later it was as dark as ever. Another rush of clouds came, and another vivid flash of lightning, which was seen to strike the spire of the old French parish church, and to play curiously, about the large iron cross at its summit before de- scending to the ground.

A moment later came the climax of the day. Every bell in the city suddenly rung out the alarm of fire, and the affrighted citizens rushed out from their houses into the streets and made their way in the gloom toward the church," until Placp d'Armes was crowded with people, their nerves unstrung by the awful events of the day, gazing at, but scarcely daring to approach, the strange sight before. them. The sky above and iroimd was as black as ink, but right i one spot, in mid air above them, was the summit of the spire with the lightning playing about it, shining like a sun. I Directly the great iron cross, together with the ball at its foot fell to the ground with a crash and was shivered to pieces.

But the darkest hour conies just before the dawn. The glow above gradually subsided and died out, the people grow less fearful and returned to their homes, the real night came on, and when next morning dawned everything was bright and clear, and the world was as natural as before. The phenomenon was noticed in a greater or less degree from Quebec to Kingston, and far into the States, but Montreal seemed its centra It has never yet been explained. St. 15,779,019 09,115,635 Cincinnati 15,000,000 05,000,000 Baltimore 12,005,167 58,095,987 New 7,506,044 41JJ1003 San Francisco 9,438,742 44,272.808 part of the slaughter was done by white hunters, or butchers rather, who followed the business of killing and skinning buffalo by the month, leaving the carcasses to rot.

the buffaloes are all killed off, as they bid fair to be in a very few years at this rate, then everybody will wonder that the gov ernment did not do something to preserve this, the noblest annimal game, or at least prevent the killing of the buffalo for the hides alone. Pittsburgh 0,790,009 31,031,929 Louisville 6,454,090 30,561,216 Milwaukee 4,058,932 21,193,622 Providence 3,514,000 10,584,100 Kansas 2.200,000 9,000,000 2,174,903 9,016,028 Cleveland .1,615,881 7,624,790 Hartford 1,308,200 5,856,216 1,025,684 4,774,691 Columbus 3,961,610 Worcester 3,127,097 Springfield 2,899,077 Lowell 318,123 1,679,685 Syracuse 253,623 1,439,702 Total $1,124,626,901 14,820,128,680 Outside N. Y. 244,764,006 1 1,114,078,655 The conclusions to which these returns irresistibly lead is that the pub cries, and altogether bestow upon their cleanliness a time and attention that in many cases the children of our own species might well envy. The Malays indeed relate a fact to me, which I doubted at first, but which I believe to be in a great measure confirmed by my own subsequent observations; it is that the young siamangs, while yet too weak to go alone, are always carried by individuals of their own sex; by their athers if they are males, by their mothers if females M.

d'Osbonville states that the parents exercise their parental authority over their children in a sort of judicial and strictly impartial form. "The young ones were seen to sport and gambol with one another in the presence of their mother, who sat ready to give judgment and punish misdemeanors. When any. one was found guilty of foul play or malicious conduct toward another of the family, the mother interfered by seizing the young criminal by the tail, which she held fast with one of her paw3 till she box his ears with the other." Some Simple Simons. There was a circumstance happened in JNew lork the other clay, which second coming of Christ and annihilation of th a world.

Among the recent deaths are those of Robert Irvine, D. a Presbyterian minister of Augusta, Ga and the Rev. Milton Buttolph, of the same denomi-notion, at Lima, N. Y. Mr.

Buttolph was in his 88th year. A bill is pending in the Hungarian diet to remove the disabilities of marriage between Israelites and Christians. It proposes to place such marriages on a civil basis. The English Piesbyterian church, whose synod holds its annual meeting this montb, consists of 271 congregations, with 55,199 members, an increase of about 900. It has been resolved to place a bust of the late Sir Rowland Hill in Westminster abbey, where he is buried, the necessary permission having been given by the dean.

Bishop Merrill has just organized the Methodist Episcopal mission stations in Italy into an annual conference. There are in all less than 1,000 communicants. The lord mayor of London will give a banquet to the distinguished African missionary, Dr. Moffat early in May. Dean Stanley will be present The London Religious Tract society has circulated nearly 80,000,000 books and tracts in one hundred and thirty different languages.

The Jews talk of erecting a national synagogue in Washington. throws considerable light on the co nundrum "Whither are we drifting It appears that for some time past the tion exceeds in grandeur, extent, and New lork aristocracy has been imbibing English ideas and styles. Coach activity, any that they can remember, or of which there is any record. The American residents say that the spec lic has been greatly deceived by current reports in regard to the condition of business throughout the country. There is only one city (Milwaukee) in which any considerable decrease in the volume of business appears.

Snow and flood seriously affected operations dur tacle is magnificent, and well worth a voyage thither. The principal crater -s men have been put in livery; carriages have a coat of arms emblazoned on them; the tally-ho coach has been introduced the nifty young men affect the dress, mutton-chop whiskers, and single-barreled eye-glass of the English snob, and other mannerisms and mon is sixteen thousand feet long, and nme thousand to ten thousand feet wide, is constantly belching forth smoke, ing part of the month there and in the region tributary to that city. Philadel phia and New Orleans also fail to exceed the record of April, 1880, but do not fall far behind, and the transfer of cotton key-shines are aped. But all these are harmless, except so far as they act upon the stomachs of sensible people as an emetic, and produce retching. Re steam and flame, and occasionally throws up vast rocks, while the lava pours down the side of the mountain nearly fourteen thousand feet high, in broad streams.

Some of the eruptions have lasted thirteen months, and it is business alone from New Orleans to Galveston, a city from which no clear cently, however, an English custom has been adopted by the New York noodles tiought that the present one will be ing-house reports are given, fully explains tho decline at that point. At Providence, Lowell, and Columbus, the volume of business was slightly smaller than in April, 1880, but not enough to indicate any important change in the that will not do in this land of the free, and if it is attempted to be put in practice to any extent aristocratic fully as long, for it has steadily augmented from the outset. It has been compared with the action of 1859, when three new craters were opened situation. Everywhere else more business was transacted, as is proved by on the side of the mountain, the loftiest one being ten thousand feet above the sea level, though tho two lower were the more violent. From one of these backbones are liable to get jarred A refined, highly respectable and educated young lady, was a boarder in an aristocratic.

Fifth avenue boarding house, where the boarders were of that class that they would lick up the spittle of a dead-beat lord, or lady, and thank them for the privilege. Now, among the payments actually made, than in any previous month of April in the history of the country. If the decline in prices of many leading articles of commerce be taken into account, it will be seen that the volume of business, measured in quantities exchanged, was larger than ever before at every city, rose a column of liquid fire five hundred feet high. There are now six craters active, and it is said that the chief "one throws out occasionally a stupendous mass of flame six hundred feet in altitude. Several of the rivers of lava are five or six miles wideband these actually form cascades, and in Tobacco Smoke.

Dr. Le Bon continues his researches regarding the products of tobacco. The new alkaloid found in tobacco smoke (with other aromatic principles and prussic acid as well as nicotine) is a liquid of very agreeable and penetrating odor, and as poisonous as nicotine, the twentieth part of a drop sufficing to paralyze and kill a frog. It is the prussic acid and the various aromatic principles that cause headache, giddiness, and nausea in smoking certain tobaccos that contain a little nicotine. Other tobaccos, rich in nicotine, have no such effects.

The tobaccos co taming most prussic acid and collidine are those of Havana and the Levant. The dark, semi-liquid matter which condenses in pipes and cigar-holders contains all the substances mentioned, as well as carbonate of, ammonia, tarry and coloring matter, etc, It is very poisonous. Two or three drops of it will kill a small animal. The combustion of the tobacco destroys but a small portion of the nicotine, and most of this appears in the smoke. The proportion absorbed by smokers varies according to circumstances, but hardly ever falls below fifty centigrammes for every one hundred grammes of tobacco burned.

About the same quantity of ammonia is absorbed at the same time. Naturally, more of the poisonous principles are absorbed when the smoke is breathed, as in a room; less in the open air. A frog placed in a receiver containing a solution of nicotine, with about a drop of that substance to a little water, succumbs in a few hours. Tobacco smoke contains about eight miiilitres of car-bonic oxide per one hundred grammes of tobacco burned. The poisonous properties of tobacco smoke are not due to this gas, as has been maintained in Germany.

some instances are so voluminous as to When certain powers are claimed for an article, and everybody testifies that it does more than is claimed for it, to gainsay its worth is useless. This is the substance of the SL Jacobs Oil record. South Bend Evening Register; English aristocracy, it is considered very low for a person to know anything; and a school teacher ranks as a governess, arid a governess as a menial and servant. So, when it was discovered that a "menial was eating at the same table with them, the sweet-scented scions of some successful scavenger insisted that she must be bounced; and she was bounced. The affair was an outrage on our boasted equality of all," and the fact that no one in the boarding-house was found to raise an objection to the proceeding, shows that the blood of New York people is getting pretty thin.

We presume it is the case that nearly all the enterprise, genius and energy of the United States have been drained off to supply the bold and adventurous army of men who have developed the western states and territories, leaving the lame, the halt and simple minded behind. And of course nobody is to blame for being a simpleton or a sucker; he is just as bis creator made him. How the Married Life of John Wesley Ended. Mr. George Dawson, in a late lecture on the great founder of Methodism, gave the following details.

When Wesley settled he said, "It would be more useful to marry." There is nothing like giving that sort of pretty facing to your wishes. I have known a friend when he was going to move from a little living to a large one, say that it was because he was going to "a larger sphere of A certain witty man used to say that whenever a clergyman went from a little living to a large one, he did so because he had got a call, but that he would want loud hollo to take him from a large to a little living' Wesley married a widow, who, through her jealousy, led him a life of wretchedness and misery. At last his spirit was up, and he wrote to her: "Enow me-and know yourself. Suspect me no more; provoke me no more; do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money or praise; be content to be a private insignificant person-known and loved by God and me." It was not likely that a woman would be pleased at being recommended to be an insignificant person. After twenty years of disquietude she one day left him.

He bore it philosophically. He went even beyond it he took his diary and put the most pithy entry into it I ever met with in a diary: "Hon earn reliqui, Hon demist, non revocabo," which may be translated thus: "I did not leave her; I did not send her away; I shan't send for her back. And 0 ended the married life of John Wesley. run up MIL The lava has also forced its way through subterranean outlets, and tumbled with a hissing, roaring sound into the sea. Mauna Loa has been far more energetic of late years than it used to be, and is now distinguishing itself uninvitedly.

Some of the lava beds are enormous. The lava streams frequently cool on top, and when new lava is added the crust breaks with loud explosions. Considerable uneasiness is felt among the residents of Honolulu lest their dwellings be destroyed, and the opinion is generally expressed that in no volcano on the globe have finer natural pyrotechnics been seen than now and there. An exchange says lovers of celery will ba happy to learn that it is not only a lux ury, but a very useful article of diet, It Is with the possible exception of Milwaukee. Fall of a Mighty Pine.

Waterloo (If. Observer. Mr. F. H.

Furniss, of this town, while at his cabin in the woods near Crystal Springs, Yates county, last week cut down one of the large pine trees near his cabin. The tree inclined toward the house, and, although over one hundred feet from it, was dangerous, as a storm might send it crashing through the cabin. It was felled by sawing and driving wedges, in order to throw it in an opposite direction. The tree, a white pine was sound as a dollar, over four feet through and 175 feet in height, the rings on its stump indicating its age at 315 years, and the experienced men who felled it say it will cut 4,000 feet of lumber, nearly all clear stuflV and at the price of lumber would make it worth $180. It was a monarch of the forest and was 50 yeara of age when Shakespeare died.

Its fall was simply grand and terrible, the day being clear and bright, not a breath of air stirring. The word claimed that celery Is a euro for rheuma tism and small-pox. It should not be eaten raw, however, but boiled and served with hot milk. The remedy, it is said, has been tried by physicians with uniform sucr cess in severe cases of rheumatism and gcuf, and for mall-pox it is a pronounced specific. Advertising Cheats.

It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article and then run it into some advertisement Upon being spoken to concerning St. Jacobs Oil, our fellow townsman Mr. Theodore Wakelee, said: I had been suffering with rheumatism, and obtained the greatest relief from the uso of St. Jacobs Oil. It has also -been jised in my family for' some time, and has never been found to fail in giving prompt relief.

Battle Creek Mich.) Daily Journal The man who frightened a lady to death In Baltimore, by forcing his way Into her house has been discharged by paying a fine of $1.33. It was found that he could not be held criminally responsible for her death. Before you attempt, consider what you can perform. max we avoid such cheats and simply call attention to the merit3 of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as possible, to induce Fifty-four per cent, of the gross products of California are from agricultural sources and -fourteen per cent, from minerals. This shows the power of agricidtar.

was given: "All ready; look out for yourself a blue, dull, unearthly roar filled the air, a whirlwind of over- pcopio mj tjivemem one mai, as no one who knows their value will ever use anything el ze. Providence Advertiser.