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PICTURES! PICTURES!
-VTOW IS THE TIME to secure a life
i like picture of yourself and chil
dren at the New Art Booms, east 11th
street, t-outh side railroad track, Colum
bus. Xdiraska.
4TS-tr 31 rs. S. A. Jos.nklyn.
KELLY & SLATTE11Y,
Iffiffii ffl SI1PI1I.
TTOl.DS HIMSELF IN READINESS
1JL for am work in his line. Before
letting your crntracts for buildings of
any description call on or address him
at Cnliimhu, Neb. JSTFirst-clsss ap
paratus f,.r removing buildings.
EOS SALE OR TRADE !
MARES S COLTS,
Teams of
EEorses or Oxen,
SASH.a: S5KS, wild or broke,
at the Corral of
4) i;i:im:aud & zeigleh.
Chicago Barber Shop.
C?t::!'.s "Simai Zzzzi,"
COLUMBUS, NEB.
HA1II CUTTING done in the latest
styles, w itli or without machine.
None but first-class workmen employed.
Ladies' and children's hair cutting a
specialty. HENRY WOODS,
472 Cm Proprietor.
STACK SCOKiTK.
JOHN lU'BEII, the mail-carrier be
tween Columbus and Albion, will
leave Columbus everyday except Sun
day at M o'clock, sharp, passing through
Monroe. Genoa, Wat.r ille, and to Al
bion The hack will call at cither of
the Hotels for passenger.s if orders are
left at the post-oiiiee. Rates reason
able, to Albion. 222.lv
GOOD CHEAP BRICK!
AT MY RESIDENCE.on Shell Creek,
three miles east of Matthis's bridge,
I have
TO.OOO g(i:. tt:ir1-l:irnt kr!ck
for ale,
which will be sold in lots to suit pur
ehasiTs. 41S-tf GEORGE HEXGGLER.
Columbus Meat Market!
VEBER & KKOBEL, Prop's.
KEEP ON HAND all kinds of fresh
meats, and smoked pork and beef;
also fresh fish. Make sausage a spec
ialtv. 3Bemenibpr tue place. Elev
enth St., one door wet of D. Bvan's
hotel. 417-tf
DOCTOR EOKESTEEL,
ct. . aiXAac.-vii.'VG .sajitGEorv,
COLUMBUS, : NEUttASKA.
FFICE IIOl'RS, 10 to 12 a. in., 2 to
J 4 p. in., and 7 to 9 p. m. Olliee on
Nebraska Avenue, three doors nonh of
E. ,1. Baki-r's :rain oflice. Residence,
corner Wvomin and Walnut streets,
north Columbus, Nebr. -i:S3-tf
Oiotrlolit. Moat SiirUct.
WashicKton Ate nrnrl)- njiposltr Court House.
OAVING TO THE CLOSE'TIMES,
meat will be sold at this market
low. low down for cash.
Best steak, per lb., 10c.
Rib roH.t, " . . . Sc.
Boil. ' Ce.
Two cents a pound more than the above
prices will be charged on time, and that
to gond responsible parties only. 207.
MRS. W. L. COSSEY,
Dress and Shirt Maker,
S Doors West orstlllnian'g Dm; Store.
Dresses and shirts cut and made to
order and satisfaction guaranteed. Will
also do plain or fancy scwiug of any de
scription. $3T PRICES YERY REASONABLE.
Give me a call and try mv w ork.
4-r-ly
IMIinERN!
BE OF GOOD CHEER. Let not the
low prices of your products dis
courage you. but rattier limit your ex
penses to your resources. You can do
so by stopping at the new home of your
fellow farmer where you can find good
accommodations cheap. For hay for
team fcr one night and day, 23 cts. A
room furnished with a conk stove and
bunks, in connection with the stable
free. Those wishing can be accommo
dated at the house of the undersigned
at the following rates: Meals 23 cents;
beds 10 cent. J. B. SENECAL,
mile cast of Gerrard's Corral.
HENRY GASS,
UNDERTAKER, KEEPS ON HAND
ready-made aud Metallic Coffiua,
Walnut Picture Frames. Mends Cane
Seat Chairs. Keeps on hand Black Wal
nut Lumber.
"nMlfafia ire. cj;:js'. Cttri Ecat, C:hstzs, Krt
EiLLmjfi
BUSINESS CAEDS
BEICK!
RIEMER S: STOLCE keep constantly
on hand and furnish in the wall,
the best of brick. Orders solicited. Ad
rcs.s, as above, box 95, Columbus. 478.
Ir. EL I.. SEGIS,
Physician and Surgpon.
l"Oflice open
at all hours
ing.
notice:
IF YOU have any real estate for sale,
if you wih tobuy either in or out
of the" city, if you w'ish to trade city
property for land, or lands for city
property, give us a call.
WaDSWORTH & JOSSELYX.
II. SIMPSOX,
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AT LAW.
Will practice in all the courts of the
State. Prompt attention given to all
business entrusted to his care.
Office: Up-stairs, one door east of
Ioukxai. ottlee, Columbus. 479-im
NKI.SON .MILLKTT. HYItON MILM-7TT,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Public.
IV. ItfBI.I.ETT A SOIV,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus,
Nebraska. N. 15. They will give
close attention to all business entrusted
to them. 2JS'.
1 S.MUKDOCK&SON,
' Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had an extended expi ienee, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
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KALSOMINING, Etc.
13 All work warranted. Shop on
Olive street, opposite the Tatterall"
Stables. aprlCy
F. SCHECK,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
GI&ARS AND TOBACCO.
ALT. KINDS OK
SMOKING ARTICLES.
Store on Olive St.. near the old 1'ost-officc
Columbus Nebraska. 417-ly
2. 0. CA2EV7.
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OAREW & OAAIJ?,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
Will give prompt attention to all busi
ness entrusted to them in this aud ad
joining counties. Collections made
Office on 11th street, opposite Jleintz's
drug-store, Columbus, Neb. Spricht
Dcutseh Parle Francias.
LAW, REAIL ESTATE
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M
ONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
farm property, time one to three
vears. Farms with some improvements
bought and sold. Ojjice for the present
at the Clother House. Columbus, Neb.
473-x
CALIFORNIA WINES!
EoiasiVThite,'
S1.2ogS1.75
A GALLON
-AT-
SxUIL. (J ASS'S,
rierentli Strut.
LUEES&SCHEEIBER
lacksmiths and Wagon Matsrr,
ALLKIXDaOF
Repairing Done on Short Notice.
EiSEics, Vae:ir, Zi:., 'JLzii t: Crlsr.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
They also keep on hand
Purst & Bradley Plows,
SULKY PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, &C.
Shop ou Olive Street, opposite Tatter
sall. COLUMBUS, NEB.
WM. BECKER,
JPKALEtt IN(
GROCERIES,
Grain, Produce, Etc.
2.
NEW STORE, NEW GOODS.
Goods delivered Free of 'Charge,
anyxchere in the city.
Corner of 13th and MadiBon Sta.
North of Foundry. 397
jy
Americans a Century Hence Indulge in
a Reminiscence.
question:
Now, papa, tell me truly, did the people
use to travel
In steamboats and in railroad cars, on
water and on land?
And did they wallow in the sea and drag
along the gravel,
Like fishes in the river or like lizards
on the sand?
Confined to a dead level they must have
hud a bother
To keep from breaking down and run
ning into one another.
ANSWER :
They did, my daughter; oft I've heard
my father tell about 'em,
And how they used to jump the track
and run each other down;
But with our levitar.t balloon we've
learned to do without 'em.
For now we lly around the sky in an
ctherion.
Like "Queen Celeste," in whichwe tloat
along tne azure now, 1
Five hundred fnt from stom tn ctiirnsi
and paddles at the bow.
But, JIary, dear, some other things arc
quite as full of wonder:
They used to have a clumsy rig thev
called a "telegraph"
A slow communication between places
far asunder
Its poles and wire and chemicals I'm
sure would make you laugh.
They hadn't harnessed up the will, nor
guessed that power was in it
To hail a distant friend and get an au-
swer in a minute.
There's telescopes why, look at ours
ee what we arc arriving at!
We see our neighbors now on Mars
and Mercury and Venus,
We swap some signals with them and
iind out w hat they're driving at!
Our microscopes reveal the ways of all
the. monad genus,
And show us how spontaneously the flea
is generated,
And now the bugs and butterflies from
nothing are created.
My child, lean out the living ship; far
downward larboard-looking
You see the bankrupt blackened shafts
whence Lackawanna coal
Was spread throughout the land, to light
and warm and do the cooking;
That was before we learned to bore a
thousand-fathom hole
In every town a hot-air shaft right thro'
the shell of graititc
Draws light and heat from out the inner
furnace of the plaint.
What progress we have made! Our biol
ogists have found
The "missing link" of Darwin in the
talking ape of Munesscy;
And now- we know a murderer is men
tally unsound
Instead" of clicking him to death we
doctor him for lunacy.
Our philanthropic scientists have prov
ed in many treatises
That crime is a disease as much as
iiiiinips or niPiiingitls is.
AI one time people Used to kill the sheep
ami nogs mm cattle,
And boil and try them on the fire and
eat them like savages;
But now we have our patent rotary food
condenser, that'll
(5ive every mouth enough to eat and
banish hunger's ravages.
Pour in a pint of nitrogen and mix in
the accoutrement
Carbon and salts in appetizing forms of
human nutriment.
But let us not be proud. If man, aspir
ing to the stars.
By hi.s own will succeeds in overeom
ing gravitation;
If Brown, who visited the moon, suc
ceeds in linding Mars,
And plants among the asteroids a
Yankee signal station,
Our commonplace inventions will seem
tame enough, and many'll
Think us behind the times as we the
folks of the Centennial.
THE .scissE!.s.c;3s;vai;K.
"Is lie really so handsome?" said
Eleanor May incredulously.
"The handsomest man you ever
saw in your life!" cried Olive Sat
terly. She was siding on the back door
step, shelling pea, with n groat cin
namon roso bush showering its
pink petals down on her brown
braids of hair, and her hazel eyes
sparkling beneath their long lashes,
while Maude, the beauty of the fam
ily, leaned out of the window, her
pretty tresses screwed up in crimp
ing papers, and the gingham wrap
per buttoned carelessly at the throat,
with no ornamental accessories in
the way of collar?, frills, or ribbon
bows ; for Maude had been to a
party the night before, and had slept
late, scolded her mother because the
coffee was cold, and absolutely de
clined any interference with the
household affairs that morning-.
"Exactly like a corsair J" said
Maude, suppressing a yawn. "Tall
and dark, with such a great diamond
on his little finger, aud eyes like
cherry wine. And he was so sur
prised to think that I recognized
him through his disguise!"
What costume did he assume?"
asked Elanor Mav. who, not having
received an invitation to the fancy
dress ball at Mrs. Pipington's, was
naturally exceedingly inquisitive on
the subject.
"A pirate,' said Maude, "with a
black velvet cap, you know, and
scarlet sash and cutlass. And he
declared that he would disguis
himself so completely the next time
that I couldn't possibly identify
him, and he wagered a box of kid
gloves on the question."
"I suppose he means at Lizzie
Hooker's birthday party?" said
Olive.
"Of course," said Maude.
"I wish I could go," said Olive,
working diligently away at the peas,
that dropped like emerald rain into
the shining tin pan.
"Well, you can't," replied Maude,
shortly. "Mamma says she cannot
afford two fancy dresses, and I'm the
oldest."
'Yes, I know," said Olive meekly.
"And Mr. Medlicotc danced only
once with you last night," added
Maude, unable to repress her exul
tation, "and he waltzed with me
three times, besides the German!"
Little Olive looked slyly up at her
sister, and secretly wished that
Providence had seen fit to make her
also a beauty.
'I suppose," said Miss May, curi
ously, "that he is very rich ?"
"Oh, very!" nodded Maude.
And Olive's thoughts jumped at
once to the idea of how beautiful her
sister would look in the regulation
orange blossoms and white tulle.
"I wonder if I ever shall be mar
ried?" pondered Olive, shelling peas
faster than ever.
ivimB
t il h
that coming round the
corner of the house?" cried Maude,
with some asperity, "one of those
everlasting peddlers again ? Oh, it's
only a scissors-grinder."
"And very fortunate, too," said
Mrs. Satlerly, a pale, over-worked
little woman, with light hair and
faded complexion ; "for my .shears
are so bad I can't cut with 'em. And
there's the embroidery scissors, and
a pair that belongs to the mending
basket, and"'
"How much do you ask a pair?"
demanded Maude, sailing out upon
the garden path, with her pretty feet
thrust into slipshod slippers, soiled
wrapper torn down one side, and
her hair yet in the loose, tangled
curls which had hung like coiled
gold down her neck the night before.
The mau a swart-browed, stoop
ing foreigner set his wheel upon
the grass, bowed low, with a smile
which disclosed teeth gleaming
whilely -through his thick, bushy
beard, alid held up six lingers in
pantomimic gesture.
'That's too much," said Maude.
"lie can't understand you," said
Eleanor, laughing.
Miss latterly shook her head,
stamped the little untidy foot, held
up six pairs of scissors in various
stages of dilapidation, and displayed
a silver quarter of a dollar.
The scissors-grinder smiled again,
and made an obeisance nearly to the
ground, and assented to the bargain
with numerous nods and signs.
"Isn't he funny?" said Eleanor.
"Horrid velveteen coated fellow I"
said Maude. "To think he belongs
to the samu humanity with my di
vine Algernon 1"
'He looks tired and thirsty," said
gentle-hearted Olive. ''I've a great
mind to offer him a cool drink."
"You'll do no such thing," said
Maude, imperiously. "I'll have no
.. . .
sister ot mine running to wait on
scissors-irriudersl Mamma, is that
chocolate ready yet?"
"Chocolate?" lepeatcd poor Mrs.
Satlerly, with a conscious-stricken
air. "I declare, Maude, I forgot all
about it. But I'll run directly and
set it boiling."
Maude Satterly crimsoned to the
very temples.
"Forgot!" repeated she. "You're
always forgetting! I neversawany
one like you in my life! No. I
won't have it now. If you can't
prepare my chocolate when I want
it, you shan't prepare it at all. I
should think you might have tho't
of it, Olive."
"I am very sorry, Maude," began
Olive, apologetically; "for all that,
I think you ought not to speak so
crossly to mamma."
"Hold your tongue!" said Maude,
stamping her foot again. "Do you
suppose I am going to be tutored by
you ? I shall speak as I please, and
so I give you fair warning. Dear
mc, how that scissors-grinder's buz
zing makes my head acho !"
And sho swept into the house like
a fairy fury.
When Olive came in, a few min
utes afterward, with the six pairs of
scissors all sharpened and burnished
up to a scientific state of brilliancy,
her sister was lying on the sofa,
with her face turned toward the
wall and her eyes resolutely closed.
"Oh, dear me!" thought Olive,
"I'm afraid she's in one of her regu
lar sulkingfits that lasts twenty-four
hours at a time."
And she took advantage of circum
stances to pour out a goblet of ice
water, and offered it surreptitiously
to the swarthy Italian when she car
ried out the silver quarter that he
had so hardly earned.
He bowed low once more after the
Oriental fashion, drank it eagerly,
and astonished Olive very much by
raising her hand to his lips, as ho
uttered the words "Buon giomo sig
norina!" and departed.
"L suppose it's his foreign way,"
said Olive, turning very rosy.
"It's lucky for you that Maude
didn't see him," laughed Eleanor
May.
"Oh, Eleanor, don't tell her!" said
Olive, blushing deeper than ever.
"Of course I shan't," said Eleanor.
"Well, what luck?" demanded
Guy Mariner, as he sat smoking at
his window that evening, and hailed
with acclamation the approach of
Algernon Mcdlicote.
"I've won my wager."
"No P "" .
"But, by the shades of Mohammed
I have!" assented Mcdlicote, sitting
down where the cool breeze of twi
light could fan his brow.
"How did you manage?"
"I disguised myself as a scissors
grinder, and put the family shears in
perfect order."
"Did they suspect the young
ladies, I mean."
"Not in the least."
"And how does the fair one with
the golden locks appear iu the se
clusion of her own home?"
"Like a slovenly yirago," he said.
"Had it been anything else than the
testimony of my own eyes I couldn't
have believed it. But Olive little
brown-eyed Olive she is a jewel of
the first water!"
"So you have transferred your al
legiance from one sister to another?"
laughed Mariner. "But isn't it rath
er hard for the divine Maude to lose
both her waiter and her loyer at the
same linieV
"It's a rosebud mouth'said Mcdli
cote, gravely shaking his head, "but
the sharp words spoiled its perfect
Cupid's bow ; the hair was like spun
gold, but crimping papers are not
becoming to the female face. And,
upon the whole, Mariner, I think I
have reason to be grateful for ever
and ever tn the scissors-grinding
fraternity.''
And beautiful Maude Satterly
could not understand why it was
that Algernon Mcdlicote proposed
to little brown-cyed Olive instead
of her.
"Everybody thought he was de-
voted to me," said she, disconso
lately. "Perhaps he changed his mind,"
said Eleanor.
Of course Mr. Mcdlicote confessed
the episode of scissors grinding to
his blushing and happy little wife
after their marriage well-regulated
husbands never do keep anything
from their wives but Maude never
suspected. For what says the adage ?
"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to
be wise.
uiJi:ii:rn: nd:,vsick.
The "Hawkeye" Man "Think3 He
"Will orc Selw "
We left Portland in the morning
in a bit of a storm. There was a
heavy sea, with its usual depressing
influences. Before we were well
outside the port, I made up my miud
that the best thing I could do for my
unhappy country was to lay her
little serene highness away in her
peaceful berth, that I might have the
hours of gathering twilight to un
disturbed reflection. I think I laid
her away with some haste. I will
confess, indeed, that the customary
devotional exercises were dispensed
with owing to the pressure of busi
ness. I remember that I was glad
when she was snugly stowed away
for the night, and I can recall the
peaceful look that played over her
lace as she remarked, referring to
the rolling ant pitching of the ves
sel, "Isn't it nice?" For her little
serene highness is a good sailor, and
was rather disposed to make merry
over the eager but somewhat spas
modic haste with which I tucked
her away.
"Isn't this nice?" she repeated
with ridiculous feminine emphasis.
AWFUL MCE.
It was rather nice, I believe, but
I hadn't time to observe it just then.
I wanted to think about something.
And then, to my great annoyance, I
couldn't remember what it wa3 I
wauted to think about. It was
something beautiful aud sad, I know,
but I couldn t exactly catch on.
Somehow or other it seemed to run
by.
The sea grew rougher, and ad the
pitching and rolling of the steamer
increased, ray spirits did not rise.
Your spirits are not apt to rise, I
find. They are the only things
about you that don't rise, however.
My subject of reflections having
eluded my rather inactive mind, I
became sensible of a kind of a sort
of languor that suggested repose. I
did not feel like standing up and
singing. I wanted repose. I wasn't
particular what kind of repose. The
repose of the grave suited me per
fectly well.
But there was no grave handy.
And when I went out and looked
out to seaward and gazed at the end
less expanse of angry tossing waters,
I didn't see any material to make a
grave. And then, when I relumed
to the state-room, it begau to dawn
upon me, dimly, that the repose was
about as seldom as the grave.
SYMrATIIY.
" Robbie," placidly spako her little
serene highness, in tones marked
with a shade of affectionate appre
hension, "Bobbie, are you feeling
quito well?"
I said that I was somewhat op
pressed by the grand magnificence
of the boundless ocean. And I
mopped the icy perspiration from
my marble brow.
" Does an inteusc appreciation of
the magnificent in nature usually
excite profuse perspiration in you?"
she asked, innocently. " The ocean
doesn't make mc feel so!"
I replied that just at present the
ocean made me feel as though I had
swallowed it whole, and I wa3 afraid
I would have to spread a little to
hold it.
I believed I would retire and
abandon the struggle with my fccl-
ings, for I felt that I was on the
verge of quoting poetry.
Disnoiuxfj.
I stood on my feet and took off
some of my things. Then I leaped
up against the door and took off a
few. Then I stood on. my head 'and
got off one or two. Then I lay down
on my back aud kicked oft' thcYcst
of them.
fiOIXC TO i:kd.
Then I looked up at my berth.
It was six hundred 'feet from the
floor and still going.
I cast an anxious, despairing glance
at it, reached out aud drigged a
traveling shawl over me, and tried
to warble a merry stave of a rollick
ing sea song.
" What arc you crying for?" ask
ed her little serene highness. "Arc
you homesick, or are yon sorry you
were so cross ?"
I ceased my song, and started to
say something in reply, but it was
too much exertion to talk, so I lay
still and looked at my rapidly dis
appearing berth, climbing away
like a balloon.
"Aren't you golug to bed?" came
a cheerful voice from the loivcr
berth.
I said that when I bought my pas
sage of the International Steamship
Company I did not contract to sleep
in a sky-rocket, and that I should
not get into my berth until it came
down close enough for me to grab
at it. And then I relapsed into a
slate of comparative apathy as it
were.
LYING LOW.
"I never saw you lie down so
flat," came the cheerful voice again :
" you are closer lo the floor than the
carpet. How do you do it, Robbie ?"
There was really nothing remark
able in it. It required no effort
whatever to get down. The only
trouble was to get down flat enough,
and the next greatest trouble was to
get up. I said I would like to lie
dormant till the damp waves were
at rest. And on hearing that inno
cent remark, her little serene high
ness, in tones of rebuke, said such
language from a junior of the Bap
tist Church, and in the midst of a
storm at sea, was as unfitting as it
was presumptuous, and I had better
say nothing if I could not frame my
thoughts to better utterances.
CARF.LF.SS r.HF.TOItlC.
I am willing to admit that my lan
guage was not polished, nor, in every
instance, refined. It was even, in
one or two case?, ungrammatical,
and in one particular instance, when
I was looking over the side of the
vessel for a pin I had dropped, my
remarks may have been offensive,
and were, I confess, positively rude.
But last Wednesday night I was not
conducting a rhetorical exercise.
CONSOLATIONS.
The sense of utter forloruncss ;
the feeling ol desolation and gone
ness; the impression, gcucrally cor
rect, that every well person in the
ship is laughing at you ; the sadden
ing thought that there is no chance
of dying ; the depressing knowledge
that there is no help for it, anyhow ;
the confidence that nobody is going
to do anything for you, and the
philosophical resolution that you
don't care a constitutional red cent
if they don't; the hope that you
will be over it by morning; the fear
that it will last a week ; the forlorn
hope, now aud then, that the pilot
will get frightened and tie the ship
up to a tree some place, if only for a
little while; the despairing sense of
disappointment that steals over you
as it becomes evideut that the pilot
hasn't the remotest thought of doing
anything xf the kind; aud at last
the fervent, earnest, despairing wish
that the boiler will blow up, the
ship strike a rock, catch on fire, cap
size, be run down by an iron steam
ship, get struck by lightning, aud
sink in COO fathoms of water, and do
it all most powerfully quick too.
This is the final spasm. When
you get so that you can earnestly
and sincerely wish that, then you are
all right. The berth makes a turn
and comes down within easy reach;
half frozen, you climb into it, and
the motion of the vessel becomes
delightfully soothing and you sleep
none but the man who ha3 gone
to sleep with that kind of a sleeping
potion knows how delightfully.
Burlington Hawkeye.
Conlillnjr Speaks.
Saratoga, Sept. 3. A. B. Cornell,
chairman of the State Central Com
mittee, called the Republican con
vention to order.
United States Senator Conkling,
who as he entered the hall wa3 loud
ly applauded, was unanimously
chosen temporary chairman. He
said: 'We must as representative?
of a historic organization, in which
many of us have grown old, but
their hcart3 were vet warm and true
as in days long gone by. Recipro
cating all yonr kiudness, I like to
receive it as an omen of concord and
harmony iu all the convention pro
ceedings to he crowned by popular
success. I congratulato you on the
auspicious promise for the pirty and
the republic. Threatening danger
now appear in public affiir!?. First,
the pretensions of state lights; sec
ond, inflation ; third, disposition lo
trample on the liberties of a part of
the people."
The senator referred to the re
sumption of specie paymcuts, and
said : "Our fiances, if let alone, will
be safer aud better than they have
been for many years. Abundant
crops have been gathered, and Him
abuudauccjwill bring prosperity."
The senator proceeded to discuss
the financial Issue at some length.
His reference to the "quiet man'
(meaning Grant) and his veto of an
act intended to check and defeat
resumption by repealing the law
Gxing its dale, was greeted with
vociferous applause as was his claim
for the republican party that it had
effected resumption and made even
paper dollar good as gold. "Follow
ing resumption, has come renewed
business prosperity, and all that i
wanted is to keep oft the hand3 of
scheming men nou-iutcrference
with business by legislation, and all
will be well. Republican ascend
ancy means the maintenance aud
resumption of prosperity, and repub
lican ascendancy would be sure and
easy if all the votes of the country
could be freely cast aud fairly count
ed. But this, unfortunately, could
not be, because in part of the coun
try the vote was not free. The pre
tensions of state? rights again once
more raises its head. It declares
there shall be no free elections,
there shall be no fair count. Thu
majority in the two houses of con
gress at its late session took thu
government by the throat and then
threatened to strangle it to death
unless the president would sign bills
which he knew to be unrighteous
and unjust. The jury laws which
have stood for more than eighty
years were prostrated and the jury
box prostituted. This was in order
to give license to unlawfulness on
election day and every day. Tba
army was manacled not only on all
days, but on that very day when it
should be most read to act in sup
port of national liberty. This was
all for the purpose of strangling
elections in behalf of brutal candi
dates. Four southern states arc
certainly republican by a large ma
jorily,and two more arc on the same
side if their votes could be recorded,
but there will be no contest in the
presidential election in the south.
There will be no election there worth
the name. Evcrv vote will be reg
istered for the democratic candidate,
whoever he may be. This done,
only forty-seven more votes will be
needed. Xew York ha3 thirty-seven
of those votes, and this must be
Known and understood. Thus a
great responsibility rests upon her.
She will decide the contest of 18S0.
j.ne action ot icw York thu year
will go far toward deciding the
question. The action of New York
thi3 year will decide whether tax-
paying people shall rule this country
or not."
Referring to party differences in
the past, Conkling claimed that all
of them had been settled and. the
party wa3 a uuit. "No matter which
was right or wrong in the past, now
all republicans stand together on
every essential or living issue. We
know that democratic success would
mean sectioual domination, conse
quently, with the ticketand platfon
to be here made the state could, be
lost only by inattention and neglectJ
New York, imperial a3 she is, must
this year go to the head of the re
publican column. To this let ut
now and here pledge ourselves ami
each other."
Good men will work harder for i
kind, considerate employer than foi
one who is ever petulant and dis
satisfied. This is human nature I
is generally easy to determine th
character of the employer by thi
character of the men he employs.
It is not perhaps much thought of
but it is certainly a very importan
lesson, to learn how to enjoy ordi
nary life, to be able to relish yoni
being without the transport of some
passion or gratification of some apl
petite. Steele.