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Caption: Sophograph - 1891
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f I * I HI! OI'IKKIKAIMI. his studies, this waa done withoul the parade (.!• ostentation of being a hard student. JI«• 1 always found time for (In innocenl amusementa of society, for which few men were better fitted, being possessed of thai happy faculty of making himself pleasing and instructive to others, while he could enjoy the society of others himself. What Mr. Blackstone has done toward lucidating the science of law cannot he overestimated. That science, once almost incomprehensible, he has polished, cleaning it from the dust and cobwebs of tin; office, lie ha decked it out in figures and classical allusions and sent it abroad to instruct, and, above all, to please the mosi varied and fastidious societies. SKETCH OF CI MPAIGN AND URBA: AN INCIDENT. I saw a strange thing at one of our restaurants the other dav. A man entered and seated himself at one of the tables. H gave his order to one of the waiters, who oon brought it steaming from the kitchen. The man began to eat, but was soon overcome by »me strong emotion; the tears * irted from h i s e v e s a n d h e wejit aloud. The proprietor's attention was attracted, ml. dug up to the weeping man, he inquiredth cause of hi grief. " O h ! " sobbed he, "Oh ! that my wife would cook lit this' Ye>." approved the proprietor, "we get things up in good style heir." -Oh you don't understand/' said the other, "my wife * OOks SO m u c h d "4 psia." better t h a n this thai I can fainted. never keep from overeating and bringing on The proprietor EE twin cities of Champaign id Orbana are situated in the m < f til< • legion of the Prairie S one hundi i * and twenty-eight miles south oi Chi > . The settlement of (Jr na waa stai d by a few men, a little north of the pr enl busin part of the town. It waa j ginning to ' prosperous, and consisted of from a d < iI twenty huts, when an "Indian disturl 1 the peace of the colony. The Indian-, about this tin were being constantly pushed westward by the incoming Easterners, and news reached tnes n approaching band of savag rerror spre 1 through the little colony; children Bat ar nd the fireside with ey< and mouths wide open, listening to harrowing tales of the terrible redman. The suspense of the settlers was at len h relieved. The hand of Indians finally arrived. bearing the wampum bell of peace. A greai council was held and a treaty was signed under the spreading branch > the greai elm st f of I rbana. T; e [ndians camped a littl>uth tin white man's encampment and all was ver] peaceful. Bui the settlers finally grew rest! & a and told the [ndians thai they musi "pucka<diee." so t hey sadly puckach 1. The chief of this little band ¥ L nobl Tl Indian named Shemanger, Although a savag he was possessed of many hardy virtues, which •
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