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Corner of FiftH Street.
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National Bank
OF PLATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA,
SITCKSSOR TO
TOOTLK, IIAAXA A, C IAHR
.lOllV FlT7.OF.KALD..
K. i. Diwkv
A. V. M I. A l'lll I.l N .
JOMI O'KOUKK E
President.
Vice President.
Cashier.
....Assistant Cashier.
This P.ank is now open fr business at their
new room, corner Main anu Sixth streets, ana
I prepared to transact IX general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stockt, Bondt, Geld. Government and Local
Securities
r,or;iiT am solo.
Deposits Rceird and Interest Allow
ed on Time Certificates.
Availahle in anv part of the Tinted States and
In all the Principal Towns ami Cities
of Fnrope.
Ai:vrsToK. tiic
cf.i.kp.katf.d
Inman Line and Allan Line
OF STKAIEKS.
Person wishing to l.nns out their friends from
Kurope ean
1'CIU HASK TK'KKTS FIIOM I S
Tlirousli to I'lnttHiiionlli.
A. Schlegel & Bro.,
Manufacturers of
ZFlisTIE CIG-ABS,
Ami dealers in
FANCY SMOKKKS AUTICI.F.'S, SMOKINC.
and Clii.WlNC
TOBACCO'S.
f-pecial UKANDS ami sizes of CH'. AKS made ti
order, and satisfaction guaranteed. Ci0'ar
clippings inM for smoking tohaeeo.
Main St. one dooi west of Saunders House.
PLATTSMOUTH, XEIi. 101y
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C BOONE,
Main Stmt, opposite Sanwh-rs House.
ITAIU CTJTTI1TG-,
,S II A V INC A Ml S II A M P O l N O
Fsp( rial attention j;ivcn to
cutting children's and la
mas HAIR.
CALL AND SEE I'.OOXK, CENTS,
And a Ixn.'.ie in a
n:ci'i:iKT(it ok
palace billiard hall
(Main St., east of First Nat. rank.)
I'l.ATTSMOlTH, - - -
)V HAK IS Sl'l l-i.lKI) WITH TIIK
BF.ST WINKS, LIT'OKS, CIGAKS,
40yi ukek, nr., KTt
H. HEROLD,
dealer ia
iu:y coons.
F.OOTS.
SSHOSK,
JIATS,
CAPS5.
CLOYF.S,
FI KNISIIING coons,
GROCERIES, &:.
JEWELRY and 1T0TI0ITS.
I have larc-e stock of
Buck GlQYGSr
of my own m:ike to be closed out at cost. Al
kinds of
COUNTRY PRODUCE
taken in exchange for
Main Street, Corner of Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, -
Nf.r
Soil
WILLIAM HEROLD,
dealer ia
DRY GOODS,
C EOT I IS.
BLANKETS.
FLANNELS,
FURNISHING GOOD3.
:o :
GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS.
I -ante stock of
BOOTS arid SHOES
CLOSED OUT AT COST
:o:
Notions, Quocnsware,
aud In fact eTerytt.iun you can calllorln
the line of
General Merchandise.
cash t:d for hides jlxd f.us.
A"' ' tnds of cn'wtry produce take.'i in ex
ctcoic for good. 81 yl
VOLUME XIY. J.
PROFESSIONAL. CARDS
MA M. M. ;IIAI3IAX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
And Solicitor in Chancery. Office In Fitzger
"'iVyi0' PLATTSMOUTH. NEB.
I. II. WIII KLKK A '.
LW OFFICK. Peal Estate, Fire and Life In
surance Agents, plattsmouth. Nehraska. t ol
iectors, tax-payer-. Have a complete ah-tract
.,f titles. p,uy and sell real estate, negotiate
loans, &c.
JAMES K. 31 0 It It I .
ATTOKNEY AT LAW. Will practice in Cass
and adjoining ('ount.es ; Ivcs specia ';'',"
to collection- and abstracts of title. o.dc t h
Ceo. S. Smith, Fitzgerald P.lock. Plattsmouth,
Nehraska. '
iif.n. H. K1IITII.
ATTOUNKY AT LAW and Ileal Estate Bro
ker Special at rent ion Riven to Collections
and all matters affectim? the title to real estate,
om. e on Jd tloor, over Post Office. Plattsmouth,
Nehraska. 4" '
JOII-V XV HAIAKH
.ICSTK'K OK THE PEACE, am; collector of
debts, collections made from one dollar to one
thousand dollars. Mortiznu'cs. Decus. and oth
er instruments drawn, and all f.""",, 'IX',.V
usually transacted l.clore a Justice of the 1 eace.
p.est of reference ejven if required.
Offlej- on Main street. VVcof
I). II. WHF.F.I.KIt,
F.. D. STONE.
WHEELER & STONE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
llattmoul XehrawWa.
j. fiiAHi:,
Notaiiy l'vitr.ir.
Jl'PTICE OK TEACE.
HEAL ESTATE
TAX PAYINC ANI COLLECTING AGENT.
WcrjiUuj Watrr, Cas Co., Scb.
Taxes paid for non-residents, and collections
made in anv part of the county. Ueal estate
boiflit and sold on commission Have a list of
"ood iiupiovcd farms and unimproved land- for
s ilc cheap for cash, or lomr time if desired.
CoiTe-poiideiice solicited. All business cut rust
ed to my care will receive prompt attention. and
charge- reasonable. !'''
.1. I.. JIoCIliiA.
DENTIST, and Homo pathic Physician. Of
fice comer Mam and MU sfs., over Ilerold s
store, Plattsmouth. Neb. -y
IC KI,IVI4iSTl,
PHYSICIAN & St'i:CEON. tenders his pro
fessional services to llie citizens of Cass county.
Kesideiicr soultieast corner Sixth and Oak sts. ;
otlice on Main street, two doors west of Sixtli.
Plattsmoutli Nehraska.
IK. J. M. WATI'.KMAX,
Physio Medical Practitioner.
lvfi;ti.vi!lc, Cass Co., Xeb.
f f.AI'.vays at the olliee on Saturdays. 4oyl
du. w. si. s :in.inXi: iiT.
Pi:.CTISIN; PHYSICIAN, will attend calls
at all hours, ni'.'lit or d.iv. 1'iat t-mont li. Ne
luaska. -''
PHYSICIAN .1 Sl'hCI (. will attend all
calls, dav or ni-lit. on ce with 1. II. Living
ston. Main St., one door above lUaek & Hutf
uers. Miy
I!t.t; II. IiILIC.!i;t.M.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Louisville. Neb.
Calis pro!M; t; attended to. r'l'y
II!.N. U.JI.VM r.
Medical Practitioner.
Thompson's Addition, I'lattstnouth.
;-fCalls answerttl at all times. l!ly
c: is a it y a tz si c.
Tonsorial Artist.
PLATTSMtH'TH M'.UKASaA.
Plaee of business on Main St.. between 4th
anil Mil .streets. Shampooing, Shaving, chil
dren's hair cult iii.r, etc. etc. lyly
IIURISARI) HOUSE,
D. WOOD AUD, - - - Prop.
Goo.! accommodations and reasonable charg
es. A good livery kept in connection with the
house.
Cyl
PL&TTE VALLEY HOUSE,
JOIIX ll()s. Proprietor.
Tin: oij) ur.s.i aiii.i: 1101 si:.
Gooil accoiiiinotlations for Fanners
ami the traveling public. Hoard 81 lor
day. Meals 2 jc. Entirely refitted and
re-fnrnished. and fanners are request
ed to call aidl ijet -i mt-a's and bed for
$1.00. 5m3
C03IMERCIAL HOTEL,
LINCOLN, NED.,
J. J. IMIIOFF, - - - Proprietor.
The best known and most popular Landlord
in the state. Always stop at the Commercial.
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.
FREMONT, NE15UASKA.,
FRANK FARCE LL - - - Prop.
loud rooms, good hoard, and every thing in
apple pie order. Co to the Occidental when
vou vi-it Fremont. lOtf
SAUNDERS HOUSE.
J. S. GREGORY, - - - Proprietor.
Location Central. Good Sample Kooin..
Every attention paid to guests. 43m3
Ft-ATTsMoiTH. - Neb
LENIIOFF cC- 1SONNS,
Morninu: Dew Saloon !
One door east of the Saunders House. AVe
keep the best of
Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars.
33m9 Constantly on Hand.
J. G- CHAMBERS,
Manufacturer of and Dealer In
SADDLES.
COLLARS,
HALTERS,
WHIPS.
ETC., ETC ETC.
REPAIRING
Dons with Neatness! Dispatch.
1h old v i:!ace in town w here "Turlev's pat
ent sclt adjustable horse collars are sold."
49ru6
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS.
l'LATTS MOUTH. NEB.
C. IIZIISEZ,,, - rropi fetor.
Flour, Com Ileal & Feed
Always rn hand and for. sr. V at lowest fa-u
I prices. Ti:e ...r .e?; . ;. . ,r ".'.:,-. :.;.d
i Corn. Particular uUeutiou lvcu tuavviu ysyrlt.
VEGETI1TE.
I xV fry Vcgetinc.
lie did,
AD WAS Cl'RED.
Delawaue, O., Feb. 16, 1?T7.
Mb. II. K. Stkvkss :
Hear Sir, I w ish to give you this testimony,
that you may know what Vegetine has done
for me. About two year a small sore
came on mv leg : it soon became a large Ulcer,
so trouble some that 1 consulted the doctor,
but I got no relief, grow ing worse from day to
day. I suffered terribly ; I could not rest day
or night ; I was so reduced my friends thought
I would never recover ; 1 consulted a doctor at
Columbus, I followed hi- advice : it did no
good. I can truly say I -was discouraged. At
this time I was looking over my newspaper ; I
raw your advertisement of Vegetme, the
Great Llood Purifier" for cleansing the blood
from all impurities, curing Humors, Ulcers. &c.
I said to mv family. 1 will try some of the Veg
etine. llefore 1 had used the first bottle I be
gan to feci better. I made up my mind 1 had
got the right medicine at last. I could now
oleep well nights. I continued taking the A eg
etine. I took thirteen bottles. My health is
good. The Ulcer is gone, !id I am able to at
tend to my business. 1 paid about four hun
dred dollars for medicine and doctors before I
bought the vegetine. I have recommended
Vegetme to others with good miecess. 1 al
wayc keep a bottle of it in the house now. It
is a most excellent medicine.
Very respectifully yours,
. F. ANTHONI
Mr. Anthoni is one of the pioneers of Dela
ware. O. He settled here iu 1X34. He is a weal
thy gentleman, of the linn of F. Anthoni and
Sons. Mr. Anthoni is extensively known, espe
cially among the Germans. He is well known
in Cincinnati. He is respected by all.
Impl'ke Hlooii- In morbid conditions of the
blood are many diseases ; such as salt-rheum,
ring-worm, bo'ils. carbuncles, sores, ulcers and
pimples. In this condition of the blood try the
KiiKilNK, anil cure these atlections. As a
blood purifier it has no equal. Its effects are
wonderful.
VEGETINE
Cured I3er.
DoueiiKSTEit, MAss., June 11.
Dr. Stevens :
Dear Sir,- I feel it mv duty to say one word
in regard to the great (enelit I have received
from the use of one of the greatest wonders of
Ihewoild; It i- your Ycgeiine. I have been
one of the greatest sufferers for the List eight
years that ever could be living. I do sincerely
UianU my God and your Vegetine for the relief
I have got. The lihfumaWxm luis pained me to
such an extent, that my feet broke out iu sores.
For the last three years I haye not been able to
walk; now I can walk and sleep, and do my
work as well as ever 1 did. and I mi.st say 1 owe
it all to voiir blood purifier, Vegetine.
V m;ktin K. The great success of the Vf.cf.
tin E as a cleanser and purifier of the blood is
shown beyond a doubt by the great numbers
who have taken it. and received immediate re
lief, with such remarkable cures.
VEGETINE
1 better titan any
3i i:5it a.i:.
Hexheksox, Kv., Dec., 177.
I have used II. Stevens' Vegetine, and like it
better than any medicine I have used for puri
fying the blood. One bottle of Vegetine ac
complished more good than all oilier medicines
i have taken.
THOS. LYNE.
Henderson, Ky.
Vecktixf. is composed of Loots, P.,irks. and
Herbs. U is ery pleasant to lake : every child
likes it,
VEGETINE
Ilecomniended by
3S. IKS.
M;i. 11. 11. Stevens :
Dear Sir. I ha e sold Vegetine for a long
time, and tunl it gives most excellent satisfac
tion. A. IS. Di; FI EST. M. D.
H ..elton, Ind.
VEOETINJ3
Prepared by
S3. R. STSiVKS, E2lo:i, Mass.
Vegetine is Soil iiy all MHists.
F ARMER,
LOOK HERE!
FRED GORDER
IS STILL HEltE.
Corn Planters, Cultivators,
Sulky Plows',
are now "off" but I still liave the
Harrison Wagon,
the best an J cheapest wagon in the
market by all odds.
Spring Wagons,
Buggies, and Three-Seated Wagons;
and the world renowned Courtland
Platform Spring "Wagon.
I HAVE EVERYTHING A FARM
ER WANTS.
NOV IS THE TIME
for all kinds of
Agricultural Implements
In every variety, and at
Ucd Hock Prices.
Mowers- Sulky rakes and all kinds
of Rakes, Forks, etc., etc.
Now is the time to Buy.
FRED GORDER.
52tf Plattsmouth, Nebraska
STR EIGHT & 3IIL1ER,
Harness Manufacturers,
SADDLES
LRIDLES,
COLLARS.
and all kinds of harness stock, constantly on
hand.
Fli HIT, CONFECTIONE Y,
GROCERY STORE,
NUTS,
CANDIES,
TEAS
COFFEES,
b' I'GALt,
TOBACCO ES,
FLOCK,
AC
1'eiaember the place opposite E. G. Dovey's
ou Lowr Main Street.
21-ly STREIQUT & MILLER.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , AUGUST
The Forsaken.
Cny forms were thronglnsr 'round.
He I lov'u was passing by:
Ho turned a cold glance on me.
And I thought I heard him sih.
Ills eye, that sparkled brightly once.
Had lost its luster now;
Joy had forever le!t that lip.
And marble Bccm'd that brow.
He turned his hasty frlnncc away
Fn m one he lov'd o well,
Fcaihia perhnps his form, so changed.
That hopeless love might telL
Upon his arm a f.dr-hair'd girl
Whs leaning-, gay and free;
Alas! she little thought how well
He whs beloved by me.
I would not have another know
How deep w-rs my despalr.
When I saw lnm by the nltar kneel.
And pledge his honor there.
That he would iruard with life, with fame.
Trotect in weal or woe.
Her his own bride, w ho knelt too there.
His best I elov'd below.
I saw his quivering lips were press'd
Cpon her I row so fair;
He thought not then, alas! that I,
His flr-t b ve, saw him there.
I hoped his bride, that happy girl.
Would love him as I loved.
And mom lis, and years, as they rolled by,
Would eee that love mimond.
I ne'er shall be that happy thing
That I whs wont to be;
Scenes that such joys to others briny
Will hHve no charm for me.
And though he said he loved me more
Than nil the world beside.
Can t! nt, nh.s! avail me now?
Ano. her is his bri le.
THE SCARLET I$UD.
BY ETTIE HOG E IIS.
The two brown cows came laprging
homeward through the dewy clover
urged on by a fair woman-child of
lithe figure and big, dreaming eyes.
Her homely garments were tucked up
about a supple waist, disclosing a pair
of dainty feet, bare and damp atiu
white as snow Hakes. She drove 11. e
lazy, docile creatures into the inclosure
in front of the farm-house door and
put up the rough wooden bars with her
own delicate, tanned hands.
Then she leaned against the upper
i ail and turned her tinlless, exquisite
face toward the cloudless yel'ow west,
where the young moon hung like a
crescent of peail guarded by a single
star like a speck of white flame.
"1 am so weary of this sort of life,"
she sighed, while yet she was enchanted
with the serene hush and dusky splen
dor of the early twilight scene.
A nightingale awoke in the rich wil
low shadows Lesido the chattering
brook, and Idled the mellow air witls
a delicious burst of song.
As she listened, a harsh, hard voice
aroused her from her momentary ecs
tacy of rest to the grosser duties of the
time.
"Why are you standing there, l?ab
ettfc? Make haste with the milking,
will you? What an indolent child you
are. to be sure."
The inquiry, command, and reproval,
till framed in one shrewish, unloving
sj.eech, came from a middle-aged wo
man who stood on the threshold of the
humble parlor door a woman robed in
tawdry silk, but in appearance qui e as
coarse, and rubicund and unpoetical as
ilie scentless peonies that glowed in a
row of red clusters between her and the
shrinking object of her will.
"I don't know what I shall do with
that lazy girl, llr. Kenwick," she said,
apologetically, to her one summer
boarder who looked out quite uncon
sciously from a w indow arch of vines
as he heard the rasping tones: "My
uoor, deceased husband Mr. Faxon
educated her for a teach--r. I got her a
school early in May, and two weeks af
terward the trustees asked her to re
sign, which she did, of course, liking
Iier ease too well lor her good. I am
sorry to say it of my own but for a
smart girl she is the most foolish fool
I ever saw. Why, sir, she can read
French and German, Latin and Greek,
and write compositions on subjects
that no one can understand, but they
make the tears and laughter eoim
though, and yet she couldn't manage a
little school-house full of boys and gills.
I am ashamed of her."
"How old is she?" inquired Roy Ken
wick. "Why she is nearly seventeen quile
old enough to teach the alphabet, 1
think."
"Quite old enough, certainly, if she
is gh'eil with the special talent neces
sary for success in that profession," an
swered the gentleman, noting critically
the impatient curves of the sensitive
Hps, the nervous restlessness of the
lovely figure, and the slender, pointed
linger; "but I opine she would make a
better artist than teacher. And, by the
way, where did you obtain this exqui
site little gem'r"'
He pointed to a rough bracket that
held a tiny hand carved of some paly
wood, and clasping an exquisitely
wrought bud of scarlet coral.
"Oli, that is Jial-ette's work," replied
the woman, carelessly, "or her play,
rather, for ever since the child could
use her hands, she has delighted in
nothing but bits of wood, and chalk,
and stone anything she can cut into
figures with a penknife."
"You should have made her a sculp
tor instead of a teacher," observed her
auditor, drily.
"A sculptor! I thought a sculptor
was a man," was the response.
"Nearly always, I admit; but if a
woman has beeu given the genius usu
ally supposed to belong to a man by
right, why should she not be allowed to
orofit by it?"
"Why!" iterated Mrs. Faxon, with
an air of a wiseacre; "because she is a
woman and has no business to meddle
with such matters."
"But surely that is not a woman's
work," said Roy Kenwick, with an ex-
J postulatory gesture toward the inclo
sure im-ougu wnich liabette was going
laden with milking pails, a picturesque
target for the belligerant horns of a
half-dozen vicious yearlings. "Your
Babette is too girlish and dainty for the
toil that belongs to the farm-hands.
Give her a chance in th parlor with
your boarders. Put her at the piano,
anything better than a mere chore
boy's work."
'There is no profit in the piano,"
answered the woman, with a dubious
grimace, thinking how many" precious
dollars she had saved by the coarse la
bor she compelled her daughter to per
form. "Then let her have her wood and
enknile," he responded, earnestly.
"It won't be long before she will take
the chisel and maible.and then she will
curve money, or I am mistaken. Give
her her own way, Mrs. Faxon, and you
will be repaid some day. Would you
object if you thought she might w in the
love of some rich and distinguished
man?"
"Certainly not," returned Mrs. Fax
on, as her peony red cheeks Flushed
with a deeper dye. "It is the aim and
end of woman's life to marry, and I
suppose Babette must bo a wife some
time. Ana I am sure I never cared to
see her tied to a country clod-hopper."
She went back to her kitchen duties
full of new tnodghts.
"1 think it is plain to see that Mr.
Kenwick is in love with my girl," she
ruminated; "such a chance must not be
thrown away. I must get a kitchen
girl to do Babette's work, for he will
be belter pleased with the child when
he sees her in the parlor. How queer
that this fine city gentleman should
fancy her even in the cow yard."
But in her enforcement of a new
regime, Mrs. Faxon only dropped one
tyrannical blunder to take up another;
for Babette was as illy fitted to act the
frivolous, fascinating queen of the par
lor and piano, as she was to serve as
maid of the milking and the scullery.
Only for the kindly notice of Roy
Kenwick she would have been utterly
disconsolate.
This gentleman was past forty,
grand and handsome, but quite austere
in his mien, and the girl never even
dreamed of loving hiin, while some
thing in the quizzing but interested
expression with which he always re
garded her latterly, filled her with awe
and a shy fear.
She came down to the parlor one af
ternoon, to find him and Mrs. Faxon
together. She was dressed in a simple,
cool, white muslin, looped here and
there with pale pink ribbon knots, be
wiiehingly becoming to her dreamy,
purple blue eyes, and artistically ar
ranged braids of purplish black hair in
w hich was fastened a single scarlet bud
of pome late w ild flower.
"1'ou must sing for Mr. Kenw ick,
Babette," said her mother.
"What shall I sing?" inquired the
gitl, timidly.
"What you can execute the best, of
course," returned Mrs. Faxon, w ho, be
lieving herself to be a paragon of ma
ternal discretion, abruptly left the two
alone.
Babelle attempted a simple Italian
aria, and in ,he midst of it, catching a
quizzical glance from Roy Kenwick's
handsome, cynical eyes, broke down
and burst into tears.
Her sensitive soul scarcely liked be
ing the football of her mother's ca
prices. Instantly Roy Kenwick was at her
side.
"Are you ill, BabeUe?" he asked,
kindly.
"No, sir," she replied, turning her
tear-wet face from him in a shamed
way.
"What ails you, then?" he persisted,
smoothing her heavy braids with his
firm white hand. "Tell me freely, my
child. You know I am very fond of
you in the brotherly or fatht rly sort of
way that can never be anything else.
Come, tell me. Do you think you
would be happier shut up in some soli
tary place working at such beautiful
things as those are?"'
He pointed at the crude specimens
of her handicraft that adorned the
homely walls, and there was something
speaking dumbly on his keen and
friendly countenance that told her that
he had not been quite oblivious to her
mother's darling schemes.
"Much happier," she answered, lift
ing her passionate, dark blue eyes tf
his face. "That is the only sort of life
I care for an artist's life."
'That you shall have on one condi
tion." he said, holdiTisr towaid her a
smal blood stone, rough, and fresh
from the mine, and streaked through
its green surface with red jasper like a
dash of gore.
"Take this and carve it into a scarlet
bud, like that yonder, in a set of leaves
of its own natural greenness, and w hen
you bring it tome perfected with the
artistic touch of which I think your
genius capable, anything you ask shall
be yours. I am going home for a
month or more, but I will fix things
with your aunt, so she sh . 11 give you
sufficient leisure."
And with true politic duplicity, Roy
Kenwick did arrange matters with
Mrs. Faxon, so that Babette was safe
in a dolce far niente of liberty that she
had never known before.
The month and more time still
passed sw if lly, and under Babette's deft
fingers the rough silicious stone had
been transformed into a gem of iimaz
ing art and beauty; for Roy Kenwick
h d sent her the sharp, cunning imple
ments necessary for its peifectiuii. tind
her surprising talent had made the
most of their use.
Her task was done, and hiding the
pretty toy jealously against her bosom,
she left her chamber for an hour of rest
among the wild roses, in a woody place
beside a gurgling brook that bounded
the farm meadows.
"If this pleases him, he will give me
anything I ask," she mused. "I shall
ask him to find me steady employment
in this sort of workl"
15, IS78.
Just then she stopped, startled.
On the low, green bank she saw a
young and handsome man sitting ii
careless indolence, his lazy fishing lints
low iu the water, and a big dog, lolling
beside him.
"Walter!" she gasped, drawing her
breath hard.
"BabetteT'he said, with glad empha
sis, springing to his feet. "Oh, Bab
ette, when I despaired finding you, fate
has sent you to me, love "
"I have nothing to do with love,"
she cried, with bitter impatience.
"Nothing!"
Sha pushed back his outstretched
hands, and stood before him white as
the dead.
"Babette!" he remonstrated, in won
der. "Don't speak to me, Walter," she
moaned, and her voice sounded like a
sigh out of a sepulcher.
"Whatdo you mean?" he demanded;
"sorely you have not ceased to love
me? Good heaven! I have suffered
enough without such a sorrow as that
would cause me."
"It would have been better for me it
I had never loved you," site said. "You
were a gay collegian, and I an inmate
if the seminary opposite your abode,
when you first saw me. To you, our
first acquaintance was an amusing flir
tation; to me, it was a sweet and sober
reality of love, although I must have
been mad when I went with you to a
distant village, and in that obscure
little parsonage became your wife. I
must have been mad, Walter Walroth.
That night you left meat the private
gate of the seminary. The next day
you were gone. On the next, I gradu
ated and came home. I have never
from thut time until now known
whether you were dead or alive. v?ny
should I still love you?"
"Because love is love, and because I
Am yours and you are mine," was the
impressive answer. "Babette, I was
called home, by the sudden illness of
my father, from which he as suddenly
recovered. Then I tried to tell him of
my new relation. At first he laughed;
then fi ding me earnest he became an
gry, and vowed he would di50" ti me if
1 did not at once beco me the husfrand
of his ward, who, by the way, was :h
averse to such a union as I was, and
who has since happily m. 'tried. I. in
tnv ipinnP!it h'l'I LL roof forever to
subsist as Dest lcouia on me small her
itage left me by my mother. I tried to
find you, Babette, but you know that
our courtship was so deliciously sweet,
that in its briefness I had quite forgot
ten whether your native Greenville was
in Thule or Cathay. 1 have been in a
score of Greenvilies in as many States
and have just found you. I have never
deceived in but one thing, my darling,
and if you will consult the register of
ihe clergyman who married us you will
find that the name of your husband is
Walter Walroth Kenwick. Babette; my
wife you are, and as such I claim you.
.Surely our love was not such a light
thing as to be outlived by you in so
short a time?"
Babette had not outlived it, nor would
she ever, that she knew; and she said
so in a passionate speech broken by a
rain of tears.
There was one moment lost in a rap
turous embrace, and then Babette felt
the scarlet bud stir on her bosom.
Roy Kenwick was coming to-night
and he had promised to give her what
she asked if the toy should please him.
She had ofien tieard him speak of the
disobedient son whose strange and un
lilial absence had whitened his hairs
before their time, and hardened his
heart into an unforgiveness that he af
firmed should be lasting.
A great light deepened in her pansy
blue eyes.
"I must go and prepare my friend
for your coming, dear," she said; "come
u. bo" bout sunset."
As she sped home through the wild
roses, the broad coarse figure of Mrs.
Faxon intercepted her way.
"Who was it vou went to meet. Bab?"
she demanded shaking with rage. "Oh,
that I have lived to see this day, you
sly ungrateful creature! You shall go
back to the kiU hen and the milking,
miss, afier this. To think after the
schooling I gave you. you should turn
out like this. And there is poor Mr.
Kenw ick waiting for you now, and you
might just as well have married him
is not if you had behaved yourself; but
lie will find out how you coquette with
.-drange gentlemen. Oh, shame!"
Babette looked at her mother gravely,
bat never answered, nor evea paused
iii her rapid pace.
She realized that if her romantic
clandestine marriage brought her no
ill, the fact would ue as exceptional as
providential.
Breathless and fearful, she rushed
tito the parlor, and placed her treasure
ra the hands of Roy Kenwick.
He took it, and gazed at it long and
critically, and then uttered an excla
mation of praise and delight.
"Well done," he said; and I have not
forgotten that I have promised you any
reward that you might ask. Now name
it my lovely little lady!"
"Do you mean it?" she asked white
and trembling.
"I do," he replied firmly; "you de
serve it, and I never yet retracted from
my given word.
Babette glanced toward the west; the
sun was just sliding out of sight and s
flood of rosy f-plendor fell upon her anf
him, and frowning Mrs. Faxon, and i
graceful, gallant figure '.hat had pauses
just beyond the threshold.
The girl took a step toward him, h'
exquisite face suffused with the glow ty
the sunset, and blushes more heaved;
still.
"I ask you to take your sou back tf
your heait,aud bless him and me hi
wife."
The man started a3 if slung, ant?
turned his face away, but when he
looked again and s;iw Walter Walroth
his first-born and his last standing
before him with Babette weeping on
the breast of her lover-husband, he re-
" ion have won, uj sUvignter,'' he
said, huskily. "I bless you both."
XUMBER 21.
Mrs. Faxon, dully comprehending
that the favor of her .suminer-bo trder
was gained, and that something w is re
quired of her, came toward her all con
descension. 'Babette couldn't be a teacher but I
guess she won't bo a very bad w ife for
your son," she said. "May be she will
take more kindly to the kitchen when
she has one of her own."
It was rather a queer and uncalled
for speech, but there was a world of
wisdom in it. Of course the occasion
demanded not a few explanations that
were given with much faltering and
many blushes, for although the two
loved fondly and truly, they were not a
little ashamed of having forestalled
fate by a hasty and sec et marriage.
"Well well, my children," said Mr.
Kenwick, pater, at length, impatiently;
"your escapade was quite sis silly as it
was improper, but we will rectify it by
having a grand second wedding. But
perhaps Babette would prefer the soli
tude and study of an artist's life to the
cares of marriage eh?"
The old look, quizzical and half-sarcastic,
was on his face, and seeing it,
BabeUe flushed rosily.
"She shall have no cares, and she
snail be an at list if she likes," observed
Walter, gallantly. "You can deny her
nothing; you promised it by that fateful
gem you hold,"
He smiled, not averse to being con
quered by the two lie loved so well,
and as a proof of his sincere affection
and forgiveness, on a gala day not long
afterward, he placed conspicuously
among other bridal gifts, a beautiful
souvenir set richly in glittering gold.
It was a curiously wrought blood
stone Babette Scarlet Bud.
A Committee of Congress under the
lead of Hon. Abram Hewitt, of New
York, are now sitting in N. Y. City to
investigate the cause of our labor
troubles. They hear testimony from
mechanics supposed labor reformers
and otheir. Hen; nr.; si m of the
schemes proposed by the wi'nessrss to
solve thenroMem of hard tin e and 11
lieve th I'naneial bur 'ens of our peo
ple. Geo. E. McNeil, president of the in
ternational w ot ki iigmatis tu:i;i. resi
ding iti West SouutvPN', Mass., ts. i :,l
the whole difficulty, in hii opinion, is
the wages system of labor, ur iu other
words the wages system and the steam
engine were extemporaneous, and tin;
productive power has ex-eded lh; pow
er of consumers, lie favored an eight
hour law throughout l!:-' country.
Peek, of D.ii.biuy, Conn., followed.
He thought ii stead of lending hund
reds of millions of dollars to banks, the
government should lend some millions
free of interest to workingmen. He
read a long petition to congress, ask
ing the government to lend any man
$5,000 to build a house with, the
amount to be paid back by inst ilments.
M. Sallick was for abolishing the
United State senate, restricting the
powers of congress and the president,
issue per capita, curtailing home
labor to six hours, and allow no tine
outside of the labor bureau to employ
laborers.
Mr. Kemp believed the cause of de
pression was the war. over issue of cur
rency, extravagance caused by the
short period of inflation, and a high
protective tariff, all of which ought to
be remedied.
Hewitt read the following, which
the committee submit to the public
The congressional committee earnest
ly request the co-operation of the pub
lic in all sections of the country in ob
taining information to aid in a practi
cal solution of the important question
submitted to it. It specially invites
suggestions from representative men
in all departments of business. It pro
poses the following question to em
ployers of laborers throughout the
country. First What were the sid
ling prices of your products in l'JO,
and in each subsequent year down to
1873, inclusive ? Second What were
the wages paid by you in each of those
years for labor employed ? The com
mittee invite suggestions from employ
ers and employed as to the extent and
and cause of the depression of business
and as to any special federal legislation
which in their opinion would tend to
relieve the same.
Mr. Schroeder advocated building
homes in the west for the unemployed
Mr. Whitting sai l machinery was
the couise of labor, and should be
crushed out. He would also demone
tise gold and silver,
Mr. Harlan, a Blue Ribbon man,
said the present destruction was alto
gether due to rum guzzling and beer
swilling. Abolish all traffic liquor
ai d beer, and prosperity would re
turn. The committee then adjourned
until August 20Lh.
Almost every one-horse town in the
State has a brass band Eagle.
Whether this is a one-horse town or
not, we have a Four Horse Band.
It was the original plan of the U. P.
company to build the Republican Val
ley branch to Valparaiso, and from
that point run a branch to Lincoln,
and another to Columbus. Now we
have tolerably reliable information
that the Republican Valley road will
be extended across the main line into
the Loup valley. Of course this means
on to the Black Hills. We have al
ways believed that the U. P. Company
would adopt some scheme by which it
could possess the magmificent country
lying northwest of Fremont, and em
bracing the headwaters of the Elk
liorn. Frement Tribune.
I'.xtraei picn.flhe Hku a i.n for ;ile bv .1. V.
oun;. I'osti'itiee news ih-pot. und O. F.'Johli
son.coriier of Main ami X" it 1 It Street
Tiie Chinese Embassy.
The Chinese Ambassadors to thi.i
country arrived at Omaha on tho 7th.
The party consistod of forty-flva
persons including servants.
The members of tho embassy are at
follows: H. E.Chun Lan Fin, Chief
of Embassy, Canton; Yeh Yuan Tsun.
Consul of San Froncisco, Canton ;Chiu
Shu Ting, Canton ; Lin Leang Yuan
Canton; Chun Wal Krouu, Canton;'
Lin Tesang, Canton; Woo CheahShon,
Clieaki.mg"; Shen Chen Woo, Chekiang;
Chun Ho Chun, Nanking; dial Sin
Yoong, Amoy ; Lin Rwan Chung, Can-"
ton; Yung Hai, Canton; Sing Tali, Pe
king; Yen Sz Chee, Ceekiang; Sin
Citing Foo, Chekiang; Riii Yen Sn
Chekiang; Woo Lai Tang, Nanking;
Yang Waing Tai, Canton; Chung Ling
Leang, Canton ; Chin Shin Yin, Canton ;
Tseng Youri Nani, Canton ; Chin Mo,
Canton ; Yung Woong Choong, Canton';
Lee Yan Lun, Canton.
Inbreeding, manners, physiognomy,
education and dress tho members aro
vastly superior to the ordinary
"Heathen Chinee" that we generally
see in this country. IIU excellency,
the ambassador, is upward of til) years
old, with scanty whiskers about tho
mouth and chin. His features arereg-,
ular, his countenance intelligent and;
pleasing. He is a man of deep learn
ing, being a graduate of tho llan Lin
College, of the highest class, and ho is
a man of extensive travel and instruc
tion as well.
death ix Tin: ditch:
Particulars of the Disaster.
PiTsnrno, August 7, l p. m. Tho
fast train on the Pitsburg, Cincinnati
& St. Louis railroad, which left this
city at 1 1 :17 last night, mcL a teiriblo
ac-ident at a point one mile, and a half
miles west of Mingo Junction, Ohio.
The train consisted of two sleepers,
one hotol car, one baggage car, two
postal cars, and two coaches, the latter
being occupied by emigrants. At ono
o'clock a. m.. at the point named, th;
train, which was 20 minutes behind
time, and running at tno rait of 40
miles ;ui hour, collided with freight
trdin. The entire train, except the ho
tel cars and the sleeping cars, win
thrown from the track and fearfully
wrecked. Eleven or twelve passengers'
are repotted killed, and fifteen to twen
ty seriously wounded. No l'.'ime.i'
have yet been received. The loss of
life was confined to those in tho for
ward ens, occupied by pojtal clerks
and emigrants. All passengers hi tho"
sleepers escaped without serious in
jury. The 11. & M. railioad company have
already begun work on their ne w liead
quartes building at the northwest cor
ner of Tenth ami Farnham streets
Omaha. The wooden buildings are be
ing moved off, find other preliminaries
an; being arranged. It is a fact to a"
great extent that Omaha indebted
for this important improvement to Mr.
William Irving, general suprintenilent
of the B. & M., as the idea originated
with him, and it was ho who induced
the company to put up a headquarters
building insteal of renting rooms for
offices. He has attended to the whole
business from the very start, and tho
plans are drawn according to his ideas,
Mr. Irving, although a young man,'
has made rapid advance, and is destin
ed (o make his mark in the railroad
world. The B. & M. put implicit con
fidence in him, and he is a gentleman
well liked in Omaha and Nebraska
Bee.
Treasure Mining".
It mcy seem incredible to the ordina
ry reader, says the Germantown Tele
graph, yet it is a fact, that we have
w ithin our present National territories,
far greater riches cf gold and silver
thai are not mined at all, than all tho
known and producing mines yield. Ia
Arizona and New Mexico tl.( f 3 unde
veloped resources are immense, and tho
mines now known in our other ten ito
ries are but few in comparison with th
auriferous and argentiferous lie isures
that he neglected. In Colorado and
Nevada thete are no obstacles to the
openhigand working of the mines. In
Utah the Mormonr. are no longer able
to prevent the increase of the mining;
l-1 tnent. In Idaho, Mor.t::na and Da
kolah the, trouble is with the Indians.
If the Indians could be managed peace
fully and the westward emigration
movement revived, the production of
both metals would undoubtedly be very
greatly increased. SLou'.d til ver re
cover from its depreciation, as it rnry
do when the German government sales
cease, the demand would undoubtedly
stimulate a large extension of silver
mining. What apj-cars at present lo
be most needed is a largo increase of
!h product of gold. It sec-ms to escape
observation that gold and silver rt
blended in the ores, and that of the ins
tills produced by tho mill3 at the Neva
da mines from forty to fifty per cent ia
gold. There is a great decline in Iho
production of the California goldmines,
and yet they are said to bo scarcely
half-worked. New Mexico is very r.cU
in gold mines, mostly undeveloped.
Kgypt has 70-j non-navigable canals
used solely foriirigatiou, and sixty-two
canals used Loth for irrigation and
traffic. Of these canals over 100 have
been opened dunng the reign of. tha
Khedive.