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Ten Years Credit at 6 per cent Interest.Six Years Credit at C per cent Interest,

and 20 per cent Discount.Otlier Li beml nineoont For Cash,Uebatet. on Karew and Frefsht.and Premlnmi tor Improve

meats.Pamphlet and .Van, containing full partlo-ular- s.

vill be maileil free to udt part of theworld on application toLAND riOMJUSSIOXER. B. & M. R. R.Oil Li'colk, Nebraska

Advice to Young Ladies.

BT CLARA HASKELL.

Chewing on the corners.Smoking In the street.

Spitting on the pavementsTo stick on iteople's feet.

They will tmoke In the kitchen.But that Is not enough,

They will go Into the parlor.And there they'll sit and puff.

And now all nice young ladies.When gents come in to woo.

You pop the question flint.Sir do you smoke or chew.

Mark well each word and look,And If they don't say no,

Just cross him off your bookAnd tell him why you do.

Some gents carry suicesSome cinnamon, some cloves.

Make good use of your eyes,And good use of your nose.

For when the wedding Is oe'r,Perfumes they'll throw away,

They will spit upon the floor,They will smoke and chew all day.

Now ladles, when you marry.Tobacco worms dou't take.

Think not, that Dick, or Harry,Will quit it for your sake.

Though you know him very well.And you think hiin very dear,

Just wait till be resists.Temptation for cn year.

Multum in TarTO.

Sound policy is never at variencewith substantial justice.

"No shooten aloud here" is the warn-ing which confronts the sj ortsman atthe gate of a suburban park.

To mingle the useful with the beau-tiful is the highest style of art. Theone adds grace the other value.

More epitaphs are witten to showthe wit or genius of the living than toperpetuate the virtues of the dead.

Very few in the world have theirpassions adequately occupied; every-body has it in them to be better thanthey are.

Many who tell us how much thevdespise . itches and preferment, meanundoubtedly the riches and prefermentof other men.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bondsthan happiness ever can, and commonsufferings are far stronger links thancommon joys.

Friendship is the cordial of life, andthe lentive of our sorrows, and themultiplier of our joys; the sourceequally of animation and of repose.

If men would hate themselves asthey do their netehb rs. it would be agood steD toward loving their neigborsu they do themselves.

There are moments when the twoworlds, the earthly ai.d spiritual, sweepby near each other, and when earthly- -

day and heavenly night touch each oth-

er in twilight.

To be in company with those welove, satisfies us; it does not signifywhether we speak to them or not,whether we think on them or indifferent things; to be near them is all.

Wise Been mingle mirth with theircares, as a help to forget or overcomethem; but to resort to intoxication forthe ease of one's mind, is to cure mel-ancholy with madness.

It is the most momenteous questiona woman is ever called on to decide,whether the faults of the man she loves will d-a- g her down, or whether sheis competent to be hia earthly redeemer.

Revenge is a momentary triumph ofwhich the satisfaction dies at once,and is succeeded by remorse; whereasforgiveness, which if the noblest of allrevenge, entails a perpetual pleasure.

It will afford sweeter happiness inthe hour of death to have wiped onetear from the cheek of sorrow, than tolave ruled an empire, to have con- -

quored millions, or to have enslavedthe world.

It is not insolated great deeds which.do most to form a character, but smallconternimous acts, touching and blend-ing into one another. The greennessof a field comes not from trees, butblabes of grass.

No strttue that the rich man placesostentatiously in his windows is to becompared to the little expectant facepressing against the window-pan- e,

watching for his father, when his day'soccupation is d'nf.

Oultiv.'!'- - rvm.Mdf rition for the feel- -

incs : utiH i ..;', n you would nev-

er hav y ur own injured. Those whocomplain most f jit are the ones

ii alms'' tin-ins- ves and others the

T5: '';. i alnav.5 something greatL:: tlK-i- t m in whom the worldexclaims, at whom every one throws astone, and on whose character all at-

tempt to fix a thousand crimes, with-out being able to prove one.

Have the courage to give, occasionallythat which 3?ou can ill afford to spare;giving what you do not want, nor val-ue, neither brings nor deserves thanksIn return; who is grateful for a drinkof water from another's overflowingwell, however delicious the draught?

If some are refined, like gold in thefurnace of affliction, there are manymore that like chaff, are consumed init. Sorrow, when it is excessive, takesaway fervor from plenty, vigor fromaction health from the reason, and re-

pose from the concience.

A Temperance Lectnrc.

A lecture on temperance is quiteapropos just now. Several days afterNew Year's almost any body is willingto hear something on this very inter-esting subject."When the derll waa sick, the deril a saint

would be."Now that we have all had our little

headaches, and have gone the roundsof soda cocktails, seltzer-wafce- r, redpepper, and a general inclination tokick every dog or any other man thatcame in our way, let us go over thesubject calmly.

v I- AN AWFUL EXAMPLE.

The general rule is that the manwho talks on the subject of wlmkey,should, himself, have been an old stager in the business. He should be ableto say things that will thrill the mar-rows of weighty and pious old womenand awaken the sympathies of theyoung ones.

For my part, I have a very thoroughcontempt for anything in pantaloonsand whiskers who will get up in publicand say:

"My friends I am an awful exampleof the effects of Intemperance. Onsuch a night I lay in the gutter. Onsuch a night, when it was blowing,snowing, storming, and freezing I kicked my wife out of doors, and slung thewailing baby bv the heels out into asnowdrift.

Or"On such a time, I was in jail for ar

son. Once I went about in rags, stealing dinners from blind dogs in order topawn them for whiskey."

"Vfu- - T lmvo an nnininn tliMf. tlipman who will geUup before an audience and boldly avow that he was adirty dog on any former occasion, is anequally dirty dog at the moment hemakes the avowal."

I am free to confess that in assum-ing the role of a temperance lecturer, Inave no nastmess to present. I neverpounded that amiable but over confiding woman, who was swindled intotaking me for better or worse, I neversat down on a pair of twins and smoth-ered them. I never committed mur-der, or rape, or arson or "whaied" mygrandfather, or "squared off" beforethe "governor" for the purpose of clos-

ing up his toplights. In view of allthese I do not feel as if I were a tem-

perance lecturer of the popular sort, ofthe regular persuation.

Nevertheless, let us talk togetherover this matter.

II.SWEAiriXQ OFF.

To me the most interesting phase ofthe temperance question is that relat-ing to quitting, or as we lively old andyoung bucks are in the habit of term-ing it, "swearing off.', This featuro isof its self, sufficiently fruitful to f ur-- ni

sh matter for half a dozen lectures.From Noah, who became indecently

intoxicated to D.ivid, who also ot ona regular "tear", and made an unsemlyexhibition of himself, and from Davidall the way down to Rip Van Winkle,Grant and the undersigned, swearingoff has been a common development oftheir drunks. The man who getsdrunk always swears off again on thenext day and the next.

Like the veteran Rip he is generallyin a position in which this time won'tcount. Some of the boys come roundand capture him; oi'his nerves demandscrewing up, or he will "have it outto-da-y and quit w. Amongws joily knights of the bowl, the reformwhich begins is fixed for aday that comes. Ah! these tomorrowshow laden with excellent resolutions;and how invariably they are caught inbogs nul storms, and never reach thewished for shores! Let him who hasaught that is precious not risk itupon that treacherous craft to-mo- r-

row.. l he bottom or times ocean iscovered with the wrecks of these fatalvessels, whose safe arrival no shoreshave ever witnessed.

And now my fellow-bumme- rs let ussee how the thing works.

. III.nOW IT IS DONE.

You drop into a saloon to play agame of billiards; you meet a friendfrom the country ; you go in somewhereto have a friendly chat with, a neighbor, and and you fall in with Mousi- -eur Alcohol. Ihere is nothing pre-a- r-

rangedabout the meeting. You find yourself in company with him, while you nomore expected it than you did to meetyour great-grandfathe- r'a maternalgrandmother.

Monsieur and yourself spend theevening together. It's jolly. Yourimagination springs into life, andthe whole world becomes roseate.Rich, happy, inspired, with every nervethrilling with happiness. And hourspnss, and you reel away to bed.

A few hours, not of sleep but of stu-por, and you awake mouth parched,head swollen, appetite gone, and the dto pay generally. Hat slouched overyour eyes, curses lolling from yourtongue, you go down town. You dropinto a saloon. There is Monsieur Al-choh- ol.

"See here, old fellow, you served mea cursed mean trick, last night!" yousay.

"No, did I ? I'm sorry. Take ahair of the dog that bit you."

"Nc, thank you, I am done with you.I won't associate with anybody thatserves me as you have. Good-bye- ."

And Monsieur, without a word departs. He is gone. A day, a week,two weeks pass, and you do not seehim. You congratulate yourself on.your resolution, and flatter yourselfthat you will never see him again.

But Monsieur A. is cunning. It isjust four weeks from the day you"shook" him. You drop in somewhereand, before "you know how it cameabout, or even suspect his presence,you find yourself cheek-by-jo- wl withyour old friend.

And he isn't a bad fellow after allHe's been gone a whole month. Youhave no habit formed for his society.You can "shake" him when you please

that's clear. You will have a littleset-dow- n with him. He's a bully boy!How his presence warm3 the dry cookies of your heart! More inspiration,more dreads and then to bed drunler than before.

And, now, youwhelp, I am done with you, surel" yousay from your disgust and pain, on thenext morning.

In just two weeks he has capturedyou again. And then he captures youagain. And then it is twice a week,and then God only knows what ! It isa critical moment. It is your very lastchance for safety. No "Good-by- e, oldiellow," will send him off now. He hascome to stay. There is just one singlechance remaining. It is not a good-natur- ed

adieu. It is not a feble effort ;

it is not reasoning, persuasion, or ap-

peal. It is sheer brute force. Youconcentrate all your strength, you gath-er every energy ; and then you clutchMonsieur Alcohol by the throat:

"Deceiver! False friend! Devil!Hell-bor- n monster! Damn you! Go!"

And, once or twice, right between theeyes, nana mm one straight irom ineshoulder.

IV.TO MY FELLOW BUMMERS.

You see, my fellqw-bummer- s, whatI wish to impress on your souls is thefact that you can'i coax this gentleman to leave you. but you can drivehim. Especially is it very fruitlessand silly to say to him:

"Mv dear sir. you have treatea meinfernally mean lately. I'm going topart company with you. I can't andwon't stand this soft thing any longer,1 11 tell you what i ll do. lou maystay around till the first day of nextmonth, and then you must put out,Do you understand that, my- - gentlecovey

O yes, he understands that, and heseems perfectly wining to agree 10your proposal. He will go, he says,when the time comes; and when thetime does come he goes in a horn.Give me a week to stay, and it isthousand to nothing that ha will staya month, and then stay all the time, ifpossible.

I appeal to the experience of Brother Moody. John Wentworth, BrotherHatfield, Emery Storrs, John V. Fare-well, Daniel O. Hara, and other mem"bers of the organization of Good Tempers, if I am not correct in my conclu

sions.What lam very desirous of impress

ing upon my fellow-bumme- rs is this:The great dificulty about quitting oc-

curs before you quit, and not after. Ifany of us ever contemplated a visit tothe-dentist- . we remember that we suffered an eternity before the fang came,and the twentieth part of a second whenit did come. So about quitting. Allthe trouble, and difficulty, and pain isin making up your mind to quit. Whenonce vou have screwed your courageup to the sticking point, the labor, thebread, the difficulty's are all over. Infine, all there is about quitting is inmaking up your mind to doit, and notin doing it.

With which few plain remarks, thematter is herewith submitted with-out further argument. Toliuto.

FROM THE BLACK HILLS.

Rapid City. Pennington Co., )

D. T. July 25th, 1877. f

Ed. Herald: Knowing that theexciting and interesting news transpir-ing in our section of country, would beinteresting to many readers of the Her-ald, I will try to furnish vou with afew items of the same, just as theytranspired and almost as witnessed bymyself. From Rapid to Dead wood onetravels a broad valley, with the mainhills on the left and the foot hills onthe right. For the last two monthsup and down this valley hardly a sin-

gle night has passed without from oneto one hundred horses or mules beingstolen, by a band of well organized,horse thieves. About the 1st of Julya man from Rapid was up in the

house-log- s, he saw threemen coming towards him on horseback,he thinking they were Indians becamefrightened and ran to Rapid for help;a crowd of men were soon organizedand equipped, and started after thesupposed Indians. When they cameupon the three men they became fright-ened and acknowledged they had stolenthe horses up near Crook City. Theywere taken back'by the crowd to Rap-id and lodged in the city jail. Thatnight a well organized crowd came togreet their new found guests with aneck-ti- e sociable, the ball room select-ed was about one mile west of the cityon the top of a mountain, on the leftside of the road under the spreadingboughs of a scrub fine tree, standing!all alone on the sumxit cf 'the barren

lonely peak, three men drew the threeneck-tie- s, the entertainment soon end-ed, the only music furnished for the oc-

casion was the wind whistling throughthe matted limbs above, and the dis-tant strains from the golden harps ofthe other world. In a few momentsthe crowd dispersed, and all remainedas quiet as the silent tomb on thatlonely mountain top; three human be-

ings hung suspended in mid-ai- r, withtheir black and swollen faces turnedtowards the blue vault of heaven as ifimploring it for mercy. The next dayabout 10 o'clock the Deputy Sheriffwent up and cut them down, and buriedthem about GO yards down the moun-tain side, with an appropriate inscrip-tion on their tombstone, warning theircomrades of their fate if they fell intotheir hands. This to a great extenthas checked their bold deeds in this locality. The Knights of the road atebecoming both numerous and danger-ous. There is a well organized bandof them here; five of them have .beenseen and are known, they are the onesthat robbed the stage on the night ofthe 12th of July, between Battle Creekand French Creek, 15 miles below Rapid City, (within four miles of our camp)they stopped the stage near a little deep,stony ravine; one of the band rode outof the ravine, hailed the driver, whilstanother one, drove the team out of theroad ; then the other three took all thepassengers out of the stage, stood themin a line, two stood guard over themwith loaded guns, whilst the others appropriated all of their money and val-uables, then took off the treasury box,two large trunks, five valises, etc., thenmarched the nine passengers back intothe little wagon, robbed the driver of81.25; after about two hours delay theywere allowed to go on their way rejoicing. I he agents after taking all theydesired from the treasury box, trunksand valises, left the rest sitting by theroadside. The night was very darkand stormy. The passengers describedthe robbers as fine looking men, welldressed and well mounted, they aresupposed to be under the leadership of"Percuiuine Bill," a well known des-perado. The amount they obtained isnot known. They made good their es-

cape into the hills, not far distant fromthe scene of the robbery. There wasn'ta shot exchanged between them. July17th, a Mr. James Wagner, wife, andhis brother, of Crook City, having cometo the Black Hills, and like many others were disappointed in the fabulouswealth of the hills, gathered- - theirwordly goods up and started alone witha yoke of cattle and wagon for Bismark,Just west of Bear Butte and 10 milesfrom Crook City they were foully murdered by a party of Indians, they werebadly mutilated, especially Mrs. Wag-ner, her body was savagely outraged,her head cleft in twain and scalp taken. The savage fiends had barelycompleted their cowardly assault whenthe stage came rolling along; they pick-ed up the dead bodies and took themto Crook City. A hay ranchman mowing hay at a distance witnessed thekilling of the family, he ran for hislife, leaving his team and all behind,the Indians came up. took one horseand left the rest, the ot her being too poora horse for their Lordships. The nextday (having prepared coffins) the threeunfortunate victims were taken to alittle flat on the mountain side, east ofCrook, followed by 15 hardy mountaineers and myself, all well armed, to paythe last tribute to our fellow mortals.The funeral and its surroundings is ascene never to be forgotten. Insteadof the gilded carriages, were the packsaddle; the prancing horse, the scrubpon'es of the planes; the cortege, thehardy mountaineer. In lieu of the funeral services, the muttered curse ofrevenge. There were few tears in thecrowd, yet every face bespoke a determination greater than tears, that sterncold smile of revenge that played!around the cold white lips of thosegathered there was not hard to inter-pret, the bodies were silently consign-ed to their last abode without any cer-

emonies whatever. In the little valleyon that lonely mountain 'side, neaththe lofty pines, and in the deep shadows of the lonely gulch, silently slum-bers in that peaceful sleep that knowsno waking, three more victims of anunprotected border.

July 17th, the Indians committedone of the boldest and most skillfulrobberies ever committed m this country. A mule train of fourteen wagonsand 51 head of mules, bound from Sid-

ney to Dead wood was attacked by themat Spring Rancho, about 23 miles be-

low Deadwood, this train run some ofthe best stock on the road. They wentinto camp ia the evening about seventy-fi- ve yards from the rancho, and putthe night herder (a Mexican) out withthe mules, the herd at the time of theattack was between the camp and thefoot hills, between the camp and herdthere run a small stony ravine, distantabout 50 yards from the camp, on theedge of this ravine the night herderwas holding the stock, between 11 and12 o'clock at night the herder stoodholding the lariat of his pony, at about80 feet range, an Indian crawled upthe little ravine, between him andcamp, and fired a shot at him, seeingthat he had missed his man he jumpedto his feet, run and grabbed the lariatand attempted to jerk it from the herd-ers hand ; the herder fired on him andhe run ; the herder then mounted hisj'vuj , itiiw litis uiw ttw uitu i

from between him and camp, fortunefavored him and he reached the campsafe and sound. When the first shotwas fired, the Indians rose all roundthe herd and began shouting and yell-ing, until che whole herd was stampe-ded, in less than 10 minutes after thefirst shot was fired the whole herd wasgone. Twenty-seve- n of the mules bo-long- ed

to Mr. Hedge of Denver, he isan old freighter, and the herder is agood trusty man and has been withMr. Hedge over three years. Mr. Smithand Mitchell of Denver lost four headapiece, Mr Parrot of Cheyenne lost 10

head. A party of men were dispatch-ed from Deadwood to follow the stock,they arrived in the afternoon, and fol-

lowed the trail out about 20 miles andfound a hat known to be an Indiansby the unmistakeable perfumery itbore; they gave up the chaee as uselessand too expensive, and returned toDeadwood. From Mr. Parrot they gotfour fine blooded American horses, ingood condition ; twenty miles out theymade a halt, changed on to those fourhorses and are driving right along;they drove them straight towards theMissouri river, almost directly east;had not changed their course when thetrail was abandoned. They also gotf;om the rancho five head of stage stock.About fifteen months ago sixteen headof stock was taken from Mr. Parrot bythe Indians, since which timo he hasgot nearly all of them back again, liemerely places a man at the Red Cloudagency to watch for them, and theyare soon found among the "good In-

dians" at the post. The ones our gov-

ernment has made such gallant sol-

diers of. They expect to get back mostof this lot of slock ia the course oftime in the same manner. News justcome in that two more men are deadand scalped near Crook, whether reportis true or not I cannot sav, but can saythat they are making it lively up thoroad. No one can predict the fate ofthe smaller trains when eight or tenIndians run off and successfully escapowith all the stock of one of the largestand best trains and among the mostexperienced freighters on the rod.,More as it comes.

Joe II. Fairfield.

Dead-Head- s!

There are people in every communi-ty who think that every newspaperman is a dead-hea- d. The New YorkEvening Post hits this class of pco loa severe back-hande- d blow which wothink they well deserve. "In case .any-

thing happens to a person, he hastensto the nearest newspaper and demandsthat the editor shall wield his pen andshed ink in his vindication and defense.And if the jaded editor does not withalacrity espouse the cause of his patronhe will make an enemy for life. 'Mem-bers of the press' are literally hunteddown by all sorts of people who haveaxes to grind. The managers of pub-lic meeting who do not find reportersat the desk suffer pangs of disappoint-ment, the judge who sonoriously blowshis nose before reading his opinion,looks anxiously for the stenographer;the preacher who descants upon somespecial subject, loses spirit if the rep-

resentatives of the press are not t. ere;even the burglar on his way to State'sprison, covets a talk with tho newspa-per man. Yet tho outside barbarianthinks all newspaper men are "dead-heads," and envy them the fine timethey have In the .way of free tickets toall manner of shows. There neverwas a greater mistake. People don'tseem to realize that on the part of thejournalist, it is merely a matter of business that tho reporter goes to theseplaces, so attractive to outsiders, muchas the horse goes to the show becausehe must do so. We venture to say thatfour-fifth- s of these entertainments areto journalists an intolerable bore. Thopress is the victim of the public's rapacious and unceasing demand withoutpay. Let us have the boot on the rightleg."

runishlng Children.

Anna C. Bracket, in the AmericanJournal of Education, calls the atten-tion of teachers to the liability of children to be punished or corrected without their clearly knowing why. "Theymay thus perhaps understand," sheadds,"what often seems to them so in-- .

comprehensible why a child who hasbeen rebuked for soma disorderly conduct repeats the olTense almost immdi-atel- y,

giving the impression of willfulness and m alicious wrong-doin- g. Thosame mistake is frequently made ia re-

citations. A pupil's answer is pronounced wrong, and the question passed toanother, when he doe3 nut know whathis error is, and often fancies that itlies in quite a different direction frornthat in which it really lies. One otthe most suocessful teachers we knowis almost invariably In the habit, afterhaving passed a.question and receiveda correct answer, of asking tho pupilwho failed;. 'Why did I pass that ques-

tion?' A few trials of this simple in-

terrogation will soon, we think, con-

vince any teacher of the truth of whatwe say. The most astonishing misun-derstandings are thus continuallybrought to light, and wo become con-

vinced of how double-edge- d a thin;j ii.this language which we use so thought-lessly and freely.