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( ' • • - J Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Pear Shall Awe." M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY; 17, 1897, • 1 i Saved by tlie Cattle. Cattle have not the reputation of great intelligence or heroism, but, from an instance cited by Mr. C. G. D. Rob­ erts in a volume of. exciting tales en­ titled "Around the- Campfire," it would appear that they do sometimes rise to an emergency. We abbreviate the narrative of an old farmer in the interior of New Brunswick. One afternoon my father had sent me and my little brother Teddy to bring in the cattle. We were about half way home With them when there came a long, queer, howling sound from the other side of the clearing that nearly made my heart stop beating. The cattle heard it, too, and two or three young heifers started to bolt, but the old ones promptly hooked them back. Then, not a quarter of a mile away, we saw a pack of gray brutes dart out of the woods and make straight for us. What do you suppose thecattle did? Thej bid cows and the steers made a reg­ ular circle, putting the calves, with me and Teddy, in the center. They stood with their heads out and horns down, like a company of militia forming a square to receive a charge of cavalry. The old black and white bull was run­ ning the affair. "I expect father'11 hear the noise, and he and Bill"--the hired man-- "will come with guns ,and save us," said Teddy. The wolves charged straight at the circle of horns. Wo heard the old bull mumble something away down in his throat, and then one of his horns was through the belly of the leader. At this unexpected repulse the others drew back. After a brief hesitation they returned and stole round and round the circle, lookiiig for a weak .spot. On the other MILO J. L, HOWE, PIANO TUNER | Mc-nry And REPAIRER, 1 -- All Orders Promptly Attended to, A Strange Island. Saghalien, on the eastern coast of Si- teria, presents a very curious anomaly •'f climate. The island is bathed by two cold ocean currents, and in winter noth­ ing protects it against the icy northwest winds coming from Siberia. At the sea level the snow falls continually and stays on the ground till the end of May, and the seashore is very cold. Farther inland, however, especially as we go higher up, the climate is modified--just the opposite to what is observed else­ where. It has often been observed in Si­ beria and in central Europe that in win­ ter the cold is greater in the plains and the valleys, and that the highlands have a sensibly milder temperature. It is as if the denser cold air accumulated in the lowlands. This fact is very often ob­ served in our climate. There are several very good examples of it. All the trees and shrubs of a valley have been known to be killed by frost, while above a cer­ tain level, very clearly marked out, on the hill or the mountain, the vegetation has not suffered at all. The cold air often flows from the summits toward their bases. This is what takes place at Saghalien. The cold air accumulates in the low regions of the island and on the coast. The higher regions have a more elevated temperature. So it happens that the lower parts have an arctic veg­ etation, while the intermediate altitudes have the vegetation of a temperate zone, sometimes subtropical. The birch, the ash, the pine, the fir abound in the low regions and form often impenetrable forests, but toward the center of the island appear bamboos, hydrangeas, aralias and other plants that one is greatly surprised to meet and whose presence can .be explained only by the altogether abnormal- climatic conditions of the island. --Cosmos. PUBLISHED EVEHY WEDNESDAY BY - - J . V J I l J N S L t K E , - EDITOB AND PROPRIETOR. ' OFFICE IN THE NICHOLS BLOCK Two Doors North of .Perry & Owen's Store, A. 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McHEJURY, - - BILLINOIS This Bank receives deposits, bugs a id sells Foreign and Domestic Ex ohange, and does a General Banking Business We endeavor to do all business en­ trusted to our care in a manner and upon te:ms entirely satisfactory to our customers and respectfully solicit the public patronage. MONEY TO LOAN; On Real Estate and other first class security. Special attention given to co- lections, INSURANCE In first Class Companies at the Lowest Bites.' Tours Respectful y PERRY & OWEIV. Notary Public sido from our champion there stood a nervous young cow. Suddenly a wolf made a rush upon her. She sprang aside, tlm3 opening a passage, by which the wolf rushed into the very center of the circle, with his fierce red eyes fas­ tened upon Teddy. But the old bull had spotted him. Nimble as a 'squirrel, he bowled me and Teddy over like ninepins and was after the wolf, mumbling and grumbling away down, in his stomach. He fixed- the wolf! Just at that moment father and "s*Sill dashed up ithd snatched us two youngsters into their saddles. A Famous Old Bugle. A rare old curiosity is temporarily In the possession of the Kentucky Histor­ ical society at Frankfort. It is a bugle made of two slabs of cedar about three- sixteenths of an inch in thickness and bent into a funnel shaped horn. The bell, or mouth, is 18% inches in cir­ cumference. It is hooped with cow horn rings and iron bands. The bugle is tho property of Mrs. Anna Mayhall, grand­ daughter of the late Captain Robert Collins, who was a soldier in tho war of 1812-15. It was used in the campaign of Colonel Richard M. Johnson and was at the death of Tecumseh. Captain Col­ lins was a bugler for the regiment, and this is the instrument he used during the war and which ordered the famous charge of Colonel Johnson. Captain Collins was a mechanical genius, and with his own hands made the instru­ ment. Every morning at sunrise he waked the neighbors for miles around with his reveille call from tho bugle until his death, in 1864.--Frankfort (Ky.) Call. "Hail Columbia's" First Rendition. "Hail Columbia" was written in 1798 by Joseph Hopkinson when congress, in session at Philadelphia, was debating what attitude to assume in the struggle between France and England. Party feeling ran high, and the air was sur­ charged with patriotic enthusiasm. A young actor in the city, who was about to have a benefit, came to Hopkinson iu despair and said that 20 boxes remained unsold; and it looked as if the proposed benefit would prove a failure. If Hop­ kinson would write him a patriotic song adapted to the tune of "Tho President's March, " then popular, it would save the day. The following afternoon the song was ready. It tVas duly advertised, the house was packed, and, in wild en­ thusiasm, the song was encored and re- encored.--Ladies' Home' Journal. A Chinese Superstition. The strange unwillingness of the Chi­ nese to afford help to a drowning man, or any one ill absolute peril of. his life otherwise, is based upon a belief that the ghost of the last man killed always acts as "watchman" of the hades or purgatory into which, according to Chi­ nese belief, the spirit of the departed first enters, and from which he can only be relieved by the arrival of a fresh ghost: If, therefore, a man's life be saved from accidental death, the spirit of the person who died immediately be­ fore him is, in a manner, cheated out of his relief, and will assuredly haunt the person whose misplaced humanity has condemned it to a fresh term of dismal servitude. This belief also obtains among the highlanders of Scotland.-- Exchange. How to Please. ' 'One great source of pleasing others lies in our wish to please them," said a father to Ids daughter, discoursing on the "small, sweet courtesies of life." "We want to tell you a secret. The way to make yourself pleasant to others is to show them attention. The whole world is like the miller of Mansfield, 'who cared for nobody--no, not he-- because nobody cared for him,' and the whole world would do so if you give them the cause. LSt the people see that you care for them."--•'Exchange. ~ A Narrow .Escape. The company had assembled in the chtirch, but the bridegroom was no­ where to be found. Finally a messenger announced that the young man had been run over and killed while on his way to the church. "And just think," she said a month afterward to a friend, "what a narrow escape I had from becoming a widow 1", --Pick Me Up. ^ Cause of Legislative Decay. All the great modern democracies have to contend almost for existence against the popular disposition to treat elective offices as representative and to consider it of more importance that they should be filled by persons holding cer­ tain opinions than by persons most com­ petent to perform their duties. The dis­ tinction between representing and ad­ ministering seems plain enough, and yet the democratic tendency has been ev­ erywhere since the French revolution to obscure it. This has not unnaturally led to the idea that the offices are re­ wards for the persons who have done most to propagate or defend the views which they represent and ought to be given to them independently of their fit ness. To this confusion of two distinct functions I must ascribe the deteriora­ tion which has been remarked so fre­ quently in the legislatures of all demo­ cratic countries in modern times. The number of men of experience or special knowledge as well as of conspicuous men which they contain seems to de cline steadily, while the interests com mitted to their charge as steadily seem to increase. This disregard of special fitness, com­ bined with the unwillingness to ac­ knowledge that there can be anything special about any man, both of which are born of equality, constitutes the great defect of modern democracy.--E. L Godkin in Atlantic. His Views. The Rev. R. S. Hawker, rector of Morwenstow, in Cornwall, was the poet of his rocky and beautiful corner of England. It has been said of him that he was a poet first, a divine afterward. His great and stirring song, "And Shall Trelawney Die?" will never be forgotten in Cornwall, and all his lyrics of the region are touched by such true and haunting local color that they can never be dissociated from the place. But, aside from his poetic gifts, this noted churchman had a fine sense of humor. Many persons doubted whether he was at one with his own church, or whether he had inner leanings toward the papal communion. Querists, however, got lit­ tle satisfaction out of him. One day some one asked him point blank, "Whatj are your views?" He walked up to his window and looked out on the Atlantic. "If," said he, "my eyes were strong enough, I should have a perfect view of Labrador."--Youth's Companion. Racial Longevity. The colored race is shorter lived than the white and has a very high infantile death rate. It is especially liable to tu­ berculosis and pneumonia and less liable than the white race to malaria, yellow fever and cancer. The Irish race has a rather low death rate among its young children, but a very high one among adults, due, to a considerable extent, to the effects of tu­ berculosis and pneumonia. The Germans appear to be particular­ ly liable to disorders of the .digestive organs and to cancer. The Jews have a low death rate and a more than average longevity. They are less affected^ than other races by con­ sumption, pneumonia and alcoholism, but are especially liable to diabetes, lo­ comotor ataxia and certain other diseases of the nervous system. -- New York Ledger. All the Characteristics. Tommy--Mother, what is an angel? Mother--An angel is a being that flies. Tommy--But, mamma, papa calls my governess an angel? Mother--Then, my dear, she is going to fly immediately! -- Chattanooga Times. ^Exhausting. * "They say early rising is very un­ healthy." "Of course. Many a woman has bro­ ken down her constitution getting her husband up in time for breakfast."-- Chicago Record.. The South African boer does just as little work as will keep himself and his family alive, and most of that he gets done by Kaffir servants, who, in the more out of the way districts at any rate, ate practically slaves. He Had His Revenge. ' 'When a young and callow freshman, used to try all kinds of fool experi­ ments," laughed the usually staid pro­ fessor. "The inspiration to these out­ breaks of lunacy was in the surround­ ings. I would fall in a fit just to see some of the old people scamper about and look frightened. Among strangers I would sometimes pretend to be dumb, sometimes deaf and on occasions assume both of these difficult roles. TomHilter always used to help me when he was available. "One day when we were on our way to college, a bevy of pretty, laughing girls took the train at a village station " and fluttered into our car. I winked at Tom, and the farce began. After we had •'-••• murdered the sign language of the mutes in a few meaningless finger ges- f '-;vS tores and facial contortions, Tom left for the smoker, for he never could control his risibles. ' " 'What a pity,' said one of the,girls. " 'It is hard,' chirped up the prettiest of the lot, 'to be deaf and dumb and in addition to being so mortal homely. Note the size of that mouth, girls, the slope of that forehead, the failure to mate in those eyes and the hump on that nose that is Roman--all over his face.' "I came mighty near having a natural fit, for I was a fairly good looking boy and proud of it Some of the other young ladies undertook my defense, but my defamer rode rough shod over them all. I was sallow, shallow, narrow and criminally disposed. If my picture did not some time adorn a rogues' gallery, justice would be cheated. And that young fellow who had gone out was no better. I invented a case of nosebleed and fled. . * vf •# \ "It was Tom's sister who had been visiting friends, and he put up the job. I got even with her, for she's my wife." --Detroit Free Press. Why Jews Cannot Be Christians. The divine origin of Jesus can never find acceptance with our people. TTia claim also as the greatest teacher of hu­ manity can never be substantiated as long as we have Moses and the prophets, Job and the Psalms. Our laws Come through the son of Amram, our exhor- ••Mu­ tations to righteousness from the sacred seers, our submission to God's will from the dweller of Uz, our sweet sentiments of love and gratitude from the royal singer. The Old Testament indeed places emphasis on the element of righteous­ ness, yet love finds expression through­ out these writings, particularly in the Psalms. Nowhere can we find a better definition--if definition be possible--of religion than in Micah's utterance, "He hath told thee, O man, what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee; only to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with thy God." Hillel also taught the golden rule before Jesus. Have we not, for this and still better reasons, chosen him as the exponent of Jewish ideal and practice? In studying his life and pondering upon his sayings can we not learn much of loving kind­ ness, gentleness, humility and piety? The ethics of the fathers set forth what the Torah took as its premise, "He that loveth God loveth his fellow beings; he that loveth his fellow beings loveth God."--American Hebrew. Wasting Time. They were dining off fowl in a res­ taurant. "You see," he explained, as he showed her the wishbone, "yon take hold here and I'll take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pull and when it breaks the one who has the bigger part of it wiirhave his or her wish gratified." "But I don't know what to wish for," she protested. "Oh, you can think of something," he added. "No, I can't," she replied. "I can't think of anything I want very much-" "Well, I'll wish for you," he ex­ claimed. "Will you really?" she asked. "Yes." ^ "Well, then, there's no use fooling with the old wishbone," she interrupted with a glad smile. " You can have me.' * --Comic Cuts. "Vl?1. Long Term Pastorates. WB One of the advantages of a long pas­ torate is that it compels the dig into the depths of gospel truth, to avoid sameness and repetition. This is exactly contrary to the popular impres­ sion. We have often heard men say that by a change of pastorates they would gain time for study and a more thor­ ough investigation of the great Chris­ tian themes. As a matter of fact, the men who change pastorates every few years do not usually study as broadly and deeply as those who remain in one place for years. The former find^hat they can use their old preparations and that there are a good many claims upon them besides those of patient thought and investigation. The latter are forced to study. There is a limit beyond which , old sermons cannot be preached to the same congregation.--Watchman. ^ Held the Barber Responsib e. A bright little fellow who has not yet seen his third birthday often amuses the household of which he is an impor­ tant feature by his questions and ob­ servations. At dinner one evening recently it wa3 noticed that he was intently studying the expansive bald space on his vener­ able grandfather's head. When a lull occurred in the table talk, the pride of the family promptly took advantage of it "Grandpa," he said, •'who cnt yonr hair that way?"--Philadelphia Call Count Browlaski, the famous Polish dwarf, was bom in 1739, and visited every court in Europe in the last cen­ tury. When 6 years old, he was only 17 inches in height, though at 80 years of age he grew to be S feet 8 inches. He had a sister, also a dwarf, and so much smaller than himself that she COuM stand erect under his arm. ^ . • . . .