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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1870)
mtrM -lib xtbtt. K f JllI ' uare, (6 lis or le0 first lnsert.0- 1 1 iibequent insertion. Harness Cs of Bve 1Ine" Orl kim . -cn bead . AAinrnn mi rpnr..H...HM. . 6 00 , - a oo 21 00 T- fill H f "u - - column, i- months. ftS; three months 10 00 mri column, one year 30 00 v ...rtb column, six montbB.f-; three months U 00 Sfl OB Tilf coJnn.neyear w !' ,f column, six mont.s,r; three months tl 00 column, ne year ..pro unin.tiU months, fV); three months 00 ' -- ui transient advertisements must be paid for j imulvanr- ; ATTORNEYS. J. W. !fWAIT. HKWETT & NEWMAN, 5 i-TOUNEY! & COUNSELORS AT Uff, oflioe, No. 70. McTherson Block, up BUilrw, Vky KE'rH. W. T.ItOOKRS. ; FRENCH A ROGERS, . ,TT0BEVS & COl NSELOUS AT LAW. A 4 Office in Court Hon huHflln., civ, ri.hir.-nt attention to any leal buslne, ... ' Iu. their cure, nil""' JOB A. DILLON, . -XORNEY & COISSELOR AT LAW I and General Lairi A Rent, . Trmrnwh, Johnson County, Nebraska. T '"- J. N. REYNOLDK, .TTORXEVtCOUXSKLOR AT LAW, Q kick-No- g0 IteynoMw Hotel. "Tin)rAS & BROADT, ' i TTOITVEVf AT LAW AND SOLICITOUS !. I C IL1NCEKY, j OJTK'K District Court I loom. . T" VM. H. McLENNAN, ! lTTottEY AND COU NSELOR AT LAW, Nehriiska City, yehraska. i h. m. uicn, i ATTOKNKY AT LAW AND LAND AGENT, r ' orrnn-Ked Store, Main stwt. I F. rEKKINS, 1 1TT0R5EV AND XI1NSKIX)R AT LAW, THrnmwh. Johnson tTounty, Xeb. " yYE TlIUMrHRKY, JlTTOUNKYS Jc COCNXELOltS AT LAW, I Va uee City, rawnee CtK, Neb. f . N. K. GRIGGS, ' ATTOUNKY AT LA W AND LAND AGENT, Heutrice. (JuRe County, Nehruka. PHYSICIANS. I S. COWLES, M. D., ' nontoPATiuc PHYSICIAN, sim GEO M . ' K0 onsTETUICIAN. A rriuluMtt of level-lid College. ( Arruiiir,'re room. ih- lal al ' u di-s of Wouien andCliildrei.. OtHce at jiauK attention given I " W. II. KIMBERMN.M.D. PHYSICIAN A5DSCUGEOX TONED. ; P EYE AND KAIl INFIHMARY. ! rrn -tw Mitiii-st. Or K K Hoi RH-7 a.m. toC p.m. ' " . H. C TIIVRMAN. I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. i office o. 85 Main Street, omrr hours from 7 to 11 a. m. and 1top. m. II. I MATHEWS, PHYSICIAN AN1I SURGEON. . offlce in City Iru store, Matn-rt. C, V. STEWART, M. I., PHYSICIAN ASD SURGEON, Oflice in D. II. Lewis fc Co.'s I)ru Store. flffic- hours from 7 to a. nu; and 1 to 2 and 6 to '', p. nv. LAND AGENTS. I I V. HUGHES, REAL ESTATE AGENT Si, NATARY PUBLIC. I Office Ter nannaford McFalf s Furniture store. B ARRET & LETT, ' LAND AGENTS & LAND WARRANT Will attend to payinK Taxes fof -on-residents. lnli.nal attei.tiuii Viv.-n to tnak t.K !-ittions ltnds, tinnmved and unimproven, lor eitr w.. . iiiinlil tTiits. , ' WM. H. HOOVER, HEAL ESTATE Jt TAA mhuaui-". - Oflic in District Court Itooni. k ;!l rive promi't attention to the sale of eal Tv 1ta J'aym.tilof Taxes throughout the' niaha lmi iMfiuii-L. ! , JONAS HACKER, LAND AND TAX FAYINU AUK.vi'. : Olllce with Trobate J udse. IH attend to the THynient of Taxes forNon : ltei1eni liod (iwihts in Semaha County, torres- i pondepcesKlicuea. NOTARIES. JAN. C, M cN A UG 1ITON, NOTARY PUBLIC CONVEYANCER, Ofllce In J. I- Carson's Bank. T" E. K. KBRIGIIT. NOTARY PUBLIC &. CONVEY ANCER, No. 72 Mai li st., second tloor. Arit for the Kquhable and American Tontine Life insurance Companion, DRUG STORES. McCREERY A NICKELL, DEALERS IN DUUGSSTATIONERY,&c - No. :C Maln-st- Fuli assortment DruRS, Paints. BKks. Stationer-. K.,u ti-nd, and sold at w liuleyale or retail. " I). 1L LEWIS & CO., rWiU TO HOI.LA 1AY CO. JDF.ALERS IN Dttl liS, MEDICINES, Ac. No. 41 Maln-st. GRAIN DEALERS. 7 EVAN WORTHING. POR WARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Ad deJer In all kind of Grain and Country Profltiee, Brownville, Nebraska. " GEO. G. START & BRO., DEALERS IN GRAIN, PRODUCE, 4tc. Asplnwall, Nebraska. The blithe market price paid for "nythinft the T-rmer can ralsa. We will buy and sell everj tiling known to the market. MERCHANDISE. F. E. JOHNSON A CO. DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE No. 72 Maint-McPberson Block. " : I : . T ien, DEALER IN liENERAL MERCHANDISE, 1 arwardla I tV Cent mlsJoa Merchant, No. 62 Maln-st., Brownville, Corn Planterv. Plows. Stoves. Fumltnre Ac al "sviion hand, llinbest market price paid for Hides, !"tit. Furs, and Country Produce. HARDWARE fHELLENBER(JER BRO S., DEALERS IN IIARDYV ARE.JSTOY'ES. No. 74 Main-st. .tov. Hard ware. Carpenter's Tools Blacksmith ""uruiiihiiicK. Ac, cousuuitly on hand. w V.. Vj. - DEALER IN STOY'ES, TINWARE, c. , No. 75 Mahi-et. IOITV n TMTI'vSVTt SADDLERY. JOHN M MIDDLETON. Harness, bridles, collars, Ete. ' No. 4 Maln-trt, "Milpn and Lashes of every dcscrlptloji. and Plas Hair, kejrt oo baud. Cash paid tor Hides. " j; IlfBAUER, Qarxess, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Etc. No. 9 Main-sL Uendlnir dooe to order. fVatlsflwtion ruaranteed. CONTECTIONERIES. NACE & HANSEN. TY BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. , No. SI. Maln-st., opilte Cltf Drug Store, Pies, taken. Fresh Bread. Confectionery, Light and 1 aacy urucerius. consianUy on band. WILLIAM ROSSELL, CONFECTIONERY AND TOY STORE, No, 40 Vlln-ft. ?"h Bread, Cakes, Oyste,Frults,tc., on hand. J. P. DEUSER, Dealer in confectioneries, .c . MUSIC. : MRS. J. M. GRAHAM, -.TEA C.II E R OF .MUSIC. ' Itoorna, Maio-H. bt. 4tU and 2th. ' -Mona fivu on the Piano. Orjrau. Melodeon, "uir and Yocalintioi- Having bud eivht years 'nwTienee im teacher of Mubic lu New York is con- "ww giving aatlKlactioik ... ; B6UNTY CLAIM AGENTS. 1 :. ET. 1. SMITH, ; - ; " P.S. WAR CLAIM AGENT, i.. Washington Clty.U.C. fj" i' att1!! to Mm ftrwwbriori rclaimsle-jreke fM-)at(u in pxrson. for Adilitioral Bounty.. latk rav andteiisloiis. and nil rlatma mixTUlug BJ-iiist raiprti aunng in mt war. V ESTABLISHED 185C. ScucrnI iJusincss ifarbs, St? HOTELS. STAR HOTEL. STEVENSON & CROSS, PROPRIETORS. Front-st, between Main and Atlantic. This House has Just been remodeled, inside and out. stnsre Olllce for all points West. Omnibusses to all trains. REYNOLDS HOUSE. NATHAN N. GREEX7 PROPRIETOR, 88 & 90 Main Street. Brown ille. Best accommodations In the city. New House, newly furnished. In the heart of business part oi city. Livery stable convenient. 4.-Sm AMERICAN HOUSE. ' L. D. ROBISON, PROPRIETOR. Front-st., bet. Main and Water. A irood Feed nnd Livery SUible la connection with the House. BOOTS AND SHOES. A. ROBINSON, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, No. 58 Main-tit. Has constantly on hand a rood assortment of fJenfa, Jjirtie'H, Misses' and Children's Boots and Shoes, custom work done with nemueHS anu ais patch. Repairing done on short notice. JUSTICES. A. W. MORGAN, PROBATE JUDGE AND JUSTICE OP THE PEACE. . Office In Court House Building. STATIONERY. A. D. MARSH, PIONEER BOOK AND NEWS DEALER, City Book Store, Xo. SO Maln-nt. BRIDGE BUILDING. a V. WHEELER, BRIDGE BUILDER &, CONTRACTOR. Brownville, Nebraska. Sole acpnt for It. W. Smith's Patent Truss Bridire- ThestroiiKist and bit w ooden bridge now in use. TAILORING. CHRIS. IIAUBOLDT, MERCHANT TAILOR, Xo. (KMain-st. 1Tji on band a sideodld stock of Goods, and will make them np In tiie latest styles, on short notice and reasonable terms. AUCTIONEERS. BLISS & HUGHES, . GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. Will attend to the sale of Real and Personal Prop erty in the Nemaha Itnd District. Terms reason able. BLACKSMITHS. J. W. A J. C. GIBSON, BLACKSMITHS &, HORSE SHOERS. First-st,, bet Main and Atlantic. All work done to order and satisfaction guaranteed. SALOONS. JOSEPH HUDDARI) & CO., PEACE AND QUIET SALOON. No. 47 JSain-st. The bent Wines and Liquors kept on hand. R. C. BERGER, ALIIAMBRA BILLIARD SALOON, : N0.4S, Whitney's Block. The best Wine and Liquors constantly on hand. Sliellenberger Bros. No. 74, UlcPIicrson's IHoclt, BROWNVILLE, NEB., SOLE AGENTS FOR CANTON CLIPPER PLOWS!! THi: BEST, PLO IF MADE! OK &. HOWARD, &HCEIITECTS &BUILDEBS Are prepared to furnish DESIGNS & SPECIFICATIONS . for all kinds of . BUILDINGS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, of the latest and most approved styles. ALSO TAKE CONTRACTS All kiwi Job M'trk done U unlcrt J-Sbop, corner Main and Second streets. HKOWKTJLLE, XEB. 4.t-y C. SNOKE, BOOT & SHOE A . r MAKER. ? v, .'A No. 15 Main Street, BROWNVILLE, NEB. - r 1 .-v" Has constmitlv on band a superior stock of Boot and shoes. Custom work done with neatness and dispatch. H. H. BRYANT, HOUSE, SIGN, AND CARRIAGE PAINT E H, Oraincr V Paper Hanger No. 60 MAIN STREET, Brownville, Nebraska. f3Mf J. K. FRETZ, AND SIGN PAINTER '. ; . otER nixsiKE's wagon snop, nrowiiYille, IVcbrasKa. rvFFKRS services to the public J with the confident lx llcf that his work will meet the approbation ot his patrons. - Xtl . DR. J. II LAKE) DEIITIST In-. V-! JJ Would respectfn"'y Lj. ..3nnotinr-ethat lie b:s i f located in BrowrivlilP iY"ttllAi' Cji-t'-timl v.nMf prepared . - toperform.ia tbebest ; t.-" tiie science of len , , , , . ... tistry. Orrt-K Overf'ity Pruc Store, iroat room. lfit FliAlfZ HELMEIt, 7aG0M ;jLACKSF.uTHHOP ONE IXX1R WEST OF COURT HOUSE. TTfAnOX MAKING, Kenairinpr . I ' PIowf. and all workiloncln thelx-st manner and on short notice, satisfaction cuaran anteed. Give him a call. l-'y- Clocks, Valches, Jewelry No. 59 Main Street, Brownville. JOSEPH SHUTZ, f"? lias Jitst ojionol anJ will constantly lryi. kwp on hand n larve nnd veil assorted fcjastock ot genuine articles In his line. Repairing oi Clocks, Vatche, and Jew elry done on Kliort notice. ' , . ; ; v ALL WORK WARRANTED. - "TlTATS ANli CAPS. All: VHrieties X L intl 6tiL.B ct T"T7m U & - - mm IQEIT VI , Y; CUDA. Cuba lies bo near us, is so completely gympathy with our institutions by virtue of our mutual commercial, so cial and industrial relations, that she :iaa ever desired to be like us. luis ppirit has often manifested itself, but has generally been crushed by our authorities in refusing to lend it en couragement and succor. . Is this right? A nation in its conduct toward other people, is like an individual in us relations to his fellow men. if a man sees an incendiary about to ap ply the torch to his neighbors dwelling he does not rulhll all the duties of & citizen by folding his arms, permit ting the injury to be inflicted, and quietly saying, I burn no man's buil dings, I am not my brother's keeper." The law of Humanity, trie law or tne and and the law. of God, says you are a partaker in that crime, if you do A. . t it -1 " . J'.l.l noi give me aiarm lmmeuiaieiy, pre vent this great wrong to your brother and stay the work of the destroyer of ns peace. Is It the duty of a nation ess imperative? Are its obligations more circumscribed? Cuba is strug gling for freedom. Her revolutionists have made "freedom for all" their watchword. Hpain is attempting to crush this principle in a colony so near us that our vesselssail under the shad ows t)f her guns in their trips to and from the ports of our btates on the Atlantic and the Gulf. For more than a year the revolutionists have kept the armies of their oppressors at oay. mey noui nearly two-tnirus oi the Islond of Cuba, and have a large and powerful army of brave men in the field. Tbeircovernnient is repub- ican, as federal, as democratic as our own. incy nave auonsneu slavery, and this too, by no uncertain decree, for thev have never issued a decree of emancipation, for foreign sympathy, and a counter decree for home con sumption, as Hon. Charles Sumner recently said he had been informed. They have adopted a constitution, elected a President, formed complete cabinet of Ministers, -established courts of justice, organized a complete system of postal affairs, sent and envoy to Washington, ana in ail otner re spects established a facto government. Do they not deserve the recognition of the republic of the United States, if we are interested in the developement of republican institution in the West. Greece had not accomplished one- half so much as Cuba when we sent ler our sympathies, our money, our soldiers and our prayers. Mr. Monroe said "the United States considers any attempt on the part of European pow ers to extend their pystem to any por tion of this- hemisphere ns dangerous to their peace and safety." Ever since his day our statesmen have at tempted to negotiate for Cuba. 1 hat Island commands the annroach to the Gulf of Mexico, and has been thought worth two hundred millions of dollars to this government, by former admin- strations; and even a hundred mil ions have been offered for it by this. Ultimately, Cuba becomes ours with out the expenditure of a dollar, by the simple recognition of her belligeren cy. Why do we hesitate Y The people of Spain revolted and drove Isabella from the throne, ihis government made haste to recognize their indepen dence, liut when one of the Sprnish colonies ground to the dust by tyran eous exactions and forced into slavery more barbarous than that imposed up on captured Africans attempts to li ft the yoke, we check every ellort and aid those people to be free, and stifle every aspiration to clothe them with republicanism as we, ourselves, are clothed ! And whose arms do we strengthen by this reprehensible inac tivity I he arms of a nation seeking to keep alive the flame of personal servitude long after it has been quenched in almost every other cor ner of the glow. I1 rom the Saracene dominion in Spain, through theinex tricable onarchy when the Aragsover ran her, down through the dark days of the Inquisition, even to the sensual and barbanous reign of Isabelle, the Spanish government has never sent forth one spark of light to illuminate the darkness of the world, nor a single liberal idea to-aid the people in their struggle for a higher hie. rerdinand and Isabelle sent forth Columbus, but lie returned to those benighted re gions a captive, loaded with chains That is a fair sample of the aid which freedom haseverobtained from Spain After wasting herself in schemes of the maddest ambition and the fiercest fanaticism, she sank into paralytic torpor, which even a l'nm and Ser rano cannot rouse her from, as indica ted by the fact that no man in Europe desires to wear her crown. Mr. Sum per says we must not recognize Cuba, (ill we know whether she is a free or a slave republic. Can he, can any iody, tell us, what is the government of Spain? e send a Minister . t Madrid, but lie has not yet learned where or what is the government. If there ever was a beligerent, then is Cuba a belligerent. She lacks not : single esseutial to the rank of a belli gerent power. She wiU be free from Snain. Ihis administration has in its power to derive immense advanta ges from the results of a perception of that fact, and a recognition of the bel ligerence of the insurgents! St. Joe. Herald. Mr. Seward's Sliort-Iiand Re t porter; f";;- V - A Washington correspondent writes as follows: )n looking over a copy of the correspondence just issued, I was told that many of the dispatches therein were "written by a lady." As the t-tory is an interesting oneI send It. 'A year ago last AugustMr. Sew ard went tQ Auburn, -to receive a visit at his homo there from the Chinese Embassy. Two weeks were spent en tertaining the Celestials, and the Sec retary" then took a final adieu of Mr. Burlingame, and returned to Wash ington , As a result of hia absence, there ' was a big mountain of unan swered dispatches on hia desk await ing attention, some .of considerable importance, for just at that time a rev olution had broken out in Veneyuela and our Minister needed instructions. Since his. assassination Mr. Seward lias u?ed a phoriographer, being un able to.write himself for any length of time with his injured arm . without great fatigue. Unhappily two days after his return his Secretary fell sick with the typhoid fever. No one in the department: could -write short hand, i NeaJ-ly-jUl.oftlieVashiugton phbnographers1" were off oh their vo cations. He 'thought 'of sending to NeW York' for A man', "for" his embar rassment was becoming serious, .But the uextday his i Secretary V wife i yonfig woman of about twenty-three years, came to the' department, said she had studied short hand a little, and offered her services. Mr. Seward gladly5 accepted them. 1 On trial h proved to be as good as her husband. For six wefeks durii ghls sickn.es and convalescence she worked eteadily at BROWN VILLE, NEBRASKA, the department at a time when; there was more to do than months before, writing, as a clerk said, "cords of dis patches.' from the notes during the day, and sometimes taking tne more hurried work home in the evening. Meanwhile she got the meals for three borders with her' own hands and doctored her husband and sister entirely herself, leaving a colored nurse to look after them during her absencp each day. at the Department. And besides this she snatched a raw minutes every day to make two dress es and garments that she needed. Secretary Seward was quite proud of his little Bcribe. He took her home daily in his carriage, and showed her every attention in the Department, and remarked at the end of her six week's work that he thought she knew more about our foreign relations than any woman in the country. 1 his lady with considerable pluck, after having graduated at two medical col leges in this couutry, has gone alone to Vienne to complete her studies. . i a - Stimulants. George D. Prentice, according to all accounts, ought to be pretty fajniliar with what men usually terra stimu lants, writes thus truly and beauti fully: - "There is a time when the pulse lies low in the bosom and beats low in the veins, when the spirit sleeps which, apparently knows no waking, sleeps in its house of clay, and the windows are shut, the doors are hung in the invisible crape of melancholy : when we wish the golden shunshine pitchy darkness, nnd wish to fancy clouds where no clouds be.' This is a state of sickness where physic may be thrown to the dogs, for we wish none of it. What shall rise the spirit? What shall make the heart beat music again, and the puise iiirougn an tne myriad thronged halls in the house of life? -what shall make the sun Kiss the eastern hills for us with all his old awakening gladness, and the night overflow with moonlight, love and flowers? Love itself is the greatest stimulant, the most intoxicating of all, and performs all these miracles, and is a miracle itself, and is not at the drug store, whatever they say. The counterfeit is in the market, but the winged god is not a money chan ger, we assure you. "Men have done many things, out still they ask for stimulants. "Men try to bury the floating dead of their own souls in the wine cup, but the corpse rise. We see their faces in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets the world whirling again, and the pulse to plaj'ing music, and the thoughts galloping, but the clock only runs down sooner, and an unnat ural stimulant only leaves the house it filled with the wildest revelry, more sad. more deserted. "There is only one stimulant that never intoxicates duty. Duty puts a clear sky over every man into which the skylark happiness always goes singing Tiie Forgotten Promise. A young man and his wife were preparing to attend a Christmas par- tv at the house-ot a mend. "Henry, my dear husband, don't drink too much at the party to-day," said she, putting her hand upon his brow, and raising her eyes to his face with a pleading smile. "No, Millie, I will not, vou may trust me," and she wraped her infant in a blanket, and they descended. The horses were soon prancing over the turf, nnd a pleasant conversation beguiled the way. "Now don't you forget your prom lse,7' whispered the young wile, as they passed jup the steps. Poor thing! she was the wife of a man who loved to look upon the wine when red. The party passed pleasantly ; the wife descended from the upper cham ber 10 join her husband. A pang shot through her beating heart as she met him, for he was intoxicated; he had also broken his promise. ' Silently they drove homeward, save when the drunken man broke into snatches of song or unmeaning laugh ter. But the wife rode on,' her babe pressed closely to her grieved heart "(iive me the baby, Millie! I can't trust you with him," he said as they approached a dark and swollen stream. After some hesitation she resigned her first-born her darling babe, so closely wrapt in a great blanket to his arms. Over the dark waters the . noble steeds bore them, and when they reached the bank the mother asked for her child. With much care and tenderness he placed the bundle in her arms, but when she clasped it to her breast n babe was there: It had slipped from the blanket, and the drunken father knew it not. ; A wild shriek from the mother aroused him. ami he turned just in time to see the little rosy face rise one moment above the dark waters, and sink forever- and that by his own intemperance. The anguish of the mother and the remorse of the father are better im agined than described. Overtaxing Children at Sciioor. At a recent meeting of the Wiscon sin State Medical Society,;a paper was read by Dr. Waterhouse, on the sub ject of" Debility in Children, especial ly with reference to the evils of over taxing our children in our schools, the facts and "suggestions of which were deemed so valuable that a resolution was adopted, requesting its geueral publication by the press' for which purpose it has been revised by the au thor. W e. copy a few passages "In our common schools of the re sent day everywhere, but more espe- tt 1 ciauy in chics anu-uie larger villages, wlrere the best teachers are sought and generally obtained, every inducement, every incentive that can be devised and brought to bear to stimulate and encourage study is-faithfully and per sistently applied. -'The consequence is that many of our brightest and best children, of; from six to tea ; years of age, art' performing more study, more mental labor, than most or the bus! ness men, or more than theirteachers. I am aware that; many children are sluggish in .temperament,' and- will bear and seem to rtquire urging to get them to learn ; yet, with much of thia class, it is their rapid growth that takes away . their ; energy, and . even ability to study ; and consequently you must fail Jo get' them to learri much until they (fease to grow so rapidly: or. if you succeed in getting study out of them, you 'induce amemts. -What else can you expect? You cannot get more iron tne oiooa man there- is in it; and since the "-blood must.fmpply nourishment. to. the brain .and the bo dy and all its organs, for their exer tions, it iojiows mat, whenever you tax that, nuid . beyond Its income disease la the result." yt r-v,: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1870. SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY. In an old churchyard stood a Btone,' Weather-marked and stained : The hand oi time had crumbled It, 80 only part of It remained. Upon one side I could Just trace -. "In memory of our mother" ; An epitaph which spoke of "home" Was chiseled on the other, ' I'd gazed on monuments of fame. High towering to the skies, . I'd seen the sculptured marble stone. Where a great Hero lies ; But by this epitaph I paused, And read It o'er and o'er. For I had never seen inscribec, Such words as these before. "She always made home htippy,'. A noble record left, A legacy of memory sweet To those she loved bereft. And what a testimony given By those who knew her liest. Engraven on this plain rude stone That marked the mother's breast. It was an humble resting place - I knew that they were poor, But they had seen their mother sink, And patiently endure; They had marked her cheerful spirit, When bearing, one by one, Her many burdens up the hill, Till aU her work was done. So when was stilled her weary heart Folded her hands so white, And she was carried from the home Khe'd always made so bright. Her children rained a monument That money could not buy, As witness of a noble life . Whose record is on high. A noble life: but written not, In any book of fame; A mong the list of noted ones None ever saw her name ; For only her own household knew ; The victories she had won. And none but they could testify How well her work was done. Better than costly monument. Of marble rich and rare. Is that rude stone whose humble face Such words of honor bear. Oh ! may we chisel In the hearts Of those of home we love An epitaph whose truth may be Witnessed for us above. communicated. The London Academy. This school commenced its first term January 4th, under the charge of Dr. McGrew and Prof., Piersou, both energetic and accomplished teachers. Scholars and teachers are ready for work and full of hope, and all the friends of education are rejoice- On the evening of the first day of school, a meeting was held at the Christain Church, which house the Christians have kindly opened for the school. Much commendable en thusiasm and good feeliug was mani fested, and all went away thinking it was good to be there. The meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. A. McKiuuey, next a song by teachers and students, then a very able address was delivered by Dr. McGrew. The address was replete with rich thoughts, and gave many evidences of the close student. The thoughts were expressed in careful and cultivated speech. Prof. Pierson followed with some well timed remarks. The Professor is a man for the times and for Nebras ka; full of energy and zeal, and good works; a finescholar ; a good speaker, and an experienced teacher. Some remarks made by Mr. A. Mc- Kinney, as he contrasted the present prospects of education in London, and its early days, were calculated to arouse much feeling and sympathy for him and others who had many trials and struggles to keep a school interest alive. Mr. McKinney is a firm friend of education, ever ready to speak a word of encouragement to scholar and teacher; never discour aged by difficulties ; makes the most of present apportunities, and works and hopes for better things in the fu ture. A few appropriate songs were sung, and a vote was taken and carried that a report of the meeting should be made out and sent for publication to county papers, Advert user and Demo crat, of Brownville; the report to be made out by Jennette Hardino. London, Kcb. mm -- COMMUNICATED. Our Public Schools. The question are our public schools a success or a failure ?" is one of vast importance, to every individ ual whose home i3 in the "Great West." By "our public schools" I mean the public schools of the North-west for that they are a success in the eastern and middle States, no "sane man wlil deny ; but the same cannot be said with so much certainty of the vast scope of country from Pennsyl vania westward. And there are those who are ready with powerful argu ments to show that so far as a vast portion of this territory is concerned, they have been a failure; not that any one would be so reckless ns to as sert that they have not accomplished something, but they claim that they have failed to accomplish .the object for which they were designed. But, however, much which they claim that the schools have failed to accom plish, cannot by any fair, reasoning, be said to be the result of a failure on the part of the schools, for they never had any juries' dictation on the mat ter, nor was it the fault of either teacher or school officer that they had not. ... What I mean is simply.tbis, that in many localities a large portion of the young men have grown up ignorant, immoral and vicious, and are now a pest to society instead of an orna ment, as they ought to be ; and this is pointed out as 'positive evidence of the iuefiiciency of our school system. .Now, it never has been the design of the system to go out and drive these young - barbarian 'into the -' school room and there force knowledge into their heads and morality into their hearts ; or, in other ' wordsto' take the crude material of the! coursest kind and make of It, gentlemen. . No, that r ,! , ! ,vt! r, i . has been tried and failed too often, ! and a repetition of such a folly would not become the people of this enlight ened land and age. But there Is one thing that our school system has done, and in which it never has failed. It has made men of 'every one who ha9 availed him self of the advantages which it offer ed, and that, too, when everything was adverse. Let those who are so ready to cry out "failure," only reflect for a mo ment upon the vast disadvantages un- under which teachers had to labor in the majority of cases ; how much all outside circumstances have done to eradicate every trace of morality which he had been so careful to in culcate; how few, the inducements to the young man to cultivate his mind and elevate himself in the scale of humanity. Let them look around and see if every little village has not some vile den, with its vile attend ants that will counteract the best en deavors of half a dozen teachers ; and then consider the very small amount of healthful and moral amusements which are offered to our young men. And when they have considered all these things, they will no doubt change their minds materially, and their great wonder will be that as much is accomplished as is by our common schools. Before men point to the schools of New England and exclaim so confi dently, "here is perfection; this is what our schools ought to be," let them give us laws to protect the mor als of our youth outside the school room, and show that they are anxious for a reformation in the morals and minds of the rising generation, and teachers will be found ready to do their part of the work. It is poor encouragement for a teach er to try for six hours of the day to teach a young man science and morals, when he knows that for "nine hours of the twenty-four, he is permitted to as sociate with the basest of human be ings. and imbibe their hateful no tions, and breath the atmosphere, contaminated by profanity and low slang. Then let us hear no more complaint of the future of our schools and teachers until an effort is made to pu rify the atmosphere outside and let the pupil come into the school room with a right conception of life and its aim, and then if the teacher fails to point out to him the road to honor and happiness, let the blame rest on him and publish it to the world, that he is a failure. Occasional. Hillsdale, Jan. 4, 1870. -- COMMUNICATED. a ia:sso. It is not every one who can write a book. Many, and for various reasons, have not the thoughts, ideas and aspi rations for this. And many, who have these, have not the literary at tainment to express their thoughts in written words. Yet, every human being is recording his own history, and although an attempt may be made to conceal some of its pages, yet they must all be read words and deeds live forever. It is wise to learn lessons from the varied histories of humanity. It would be wise for all, particular ly for young men, to learn a lesson from a few. pages in the history of J. K. Bear but a short t.me since a respected, honest citizen of Brown ville now a fugitive from justice, dis graced, dishonored, fallen. And it would be well, too, for rum-sellers, saloon-keepers and proprietors of gambling dens to learn a lesson. It is no use for them to say they are not to blame "let every one look out for himself." Are they utterly ignorant of the power of physological impress ion. How utterly impossible it is foi ... 1 . f x some conditions oi.juiuu iu resist doing an evil act when the temptation is presented. Who will doubt this? Who has heard John B. Gongh, the reformed drunkard and eloquent temperance lecturer, tell how absolutely impos sible it is for him to resist the wine cup when offered him, if he get but one drop. The only safety for such ones is to keep temptation from them. How absurd for a man to open a place of destruction, and then say he is not to blame if people are destroyed in it. The case of J. K. Bear i3 a sad one, view it iu any light, from any point or with the most charitable construction. What parent' heart would not be crushed were it his or her sou in his place? running his career? writing such dark pages in history ? I had two bright, beautiful, little Ixjys, but. the angels came and car ried them away to live with them in the beautiful summer-land. ' One of these little boys, a lovely child of four summers, came with us in our long, weary journey from the east to the far west. In a few short months he grew sick , and pale he went awaj. A little grave was made on the prairie of Nebraska in the Brownville cemetery they laid the dear . little form of my darling, out of my sight. However, long 1 may be permitted to remain on the earth, I can never outlive these bereavements. The wound will ever be fresh ; the blow bearing upon me. Oh! how much one can sutler and yet live; how one can smile and be cheerful when the heart U breaking. Yet how much better can I endure all this than I could to have seen my little boys live on the earth to make out such a history as that of J. K. Bear. When will men cease to open ways of destruction for his fellow man? When will men have moral power enough to resist temptation and cease to rush on to ruin. " If the destroyer thinks hi3 history les3 black, his career less ruinous than bis victim, he will find him-elf mis taken. Jennette Hardino. London, Xcb. VOL. U.-NO. 13. The Josh Pilling- Papers Fe male Ret-iarks. Dear girls, are yu in search ov a husband? This iz a pumper, amlyu are not re quired tew say "Yes" out loud, but are expekted tew throw yure eyes down into the earth, az tho yu waz lookin fur a pin, and reply tew the in terrogation with a kind of drawd in sigh, az tho yu wuz eatin an oyster. juice and all, off from the half shell. Now tew press so tender a theme until it becomes a thorn in the flesh, we will presume (tew avoid argument) that yu arc on the lookout fur sum- thing in the male line tew boost yu in the UD-hill ov life, and tew keen his eyes on the britching when yu begin tew go down the other side ov the mountain. Let me give yu sum small chunks ov advice how tew spot yure future husband: 1. the man who iz jellous ov every little attenshun which yn git from sum other fellow, yu will find, after yu are married tew him, luvs himself more than he duz yu, and what yu mistook fur solissitude, yu will dis- kover, haz changed into indifference. Jellousy isn4t a heart disease, it iz a liver komplaint. z. A niustash iz notindispensibie; it iz onlv a little more hair, and iz a good deal like moss and other excres sences often duz the best on sile that won't raize ennything else. Don't forgit that those things which yu ad mire in a fellow before marriage, yu will probably hav tew admire in a husband after, and a mustash will git tew be a very weak diet after a Ion 4 time. 3. If husbands could be took on trial, az Irish cooks are, tew-thirds ov them would probably.be returned; but there don't seem tew be enny law iur this. Therefore, girls, you will see that after you git a man, you have got tew keep him, even if yu lose on him. Consequently, if yu hav got enny cold vittles in the house, try him on them once in a while, during scouring sea son, and if he swallers them well, and sez he will take sum more, he iz a man who, when blue Monday cuius, will wash well. 4. Don't marry a pheller who iz al- wuz a telling how hiz mother duz things. It iz az hard tew suit thezo men az it iz tew wean a young one. 5. If a yung man kan beat yu play ing on a piauner, and kan t hear a fish- horn playing in the street without turning a back summersett on account ov the musick that iz in him, I say skip him ; he might answer tew tend babe, but if yu sefi him a hoeing out the garden, you will find that yu hav got tew do it yourself. A man whoze whole heft lies in musick (and not very hefty at that), ain't no better for a husband than a scedlitz powder, but if he luvs tew listen while yu sing sum gentle ballad, yu will find him, mellow, and so soft. But don't marry ennvbody for 11st one virtew enny quicker than yu would flop a man for 11st one fault. 6. It iz one ov the most tuffest things for a female tew be an old maid successfully. A great menny haz tried it, and made a bad job of it. Evrybody seems tew look upon old maids jist az they do upon dried herbs in the garret handy for sickness and therefore, girls, it ain't a mistake that yu should "be willing tew swop yurself oph, with sum true phellow fur a true husband. The swop iz a good one, but don't swop fur enny man who iz respektablc jist pecause hiz father iz, Yu had better be an old maid fur 4 thousand years, and then join the Shakers, than tew buy repentence at this price. No woman ever made this trade who didn't git either a phool, a mean cuss, ora clown for a husband. 7. In digging down into this sub ject, I find the digging grows harder the further I git. It iz much easier to inform you who not to marry, than who tew, fur the reason there iz more ov them. I don't think yu will fuller mi ad vice, if I give it; and therefore 1 will ket'p it, for I look upon advis az I do upon castorril a mean dose tew give, and a mean dose tew take. But I must say one thing, girls, or spile. If yu kan find a bright-eyed, heaalthy and well-ballasted boy, who looks upon poverty az sassy az a child looks upon wealth, who had rather sit down on the curb-stun, in front ov the otii avenue hotel, and eat a ham sand wich, than tew go inside and run in debt for hiz dinner and toothpick one who iz armed with that kind ov pluck that mistakes a defeat fur a vic torj, my advise iz tew take him body and sole snare him at unst, fur he iz u stray trout, ov a breed very skase in our waters. Take him, I say, and bild onto him, az hornets bild onto a tree. JAle Thoughts. Happiness consists in being perfect ly satisfied with what we have got and what we haven't got. Troubles are like babies ; they grow bigger by nursing. Conscience is a judge placed in the interior of our being. Learn to control your temper now, children, or by and by it will control you. I would rather my daughter should have a man without money than mon ey without a man. ThemUtoclea. Give your son a trade, and you will do more for him than by giving him a fortune. Franklin. One reason that the world is not re formed Is, that every hotly would have others make a beginning, and thinks not of himself. Always endeavor to learn something from tiie information of those thou conversest with ; and to put the com pany upon those subjects they are best ables to speak of. No person ever got stung by hornets who kept away from where they were. It is so with habits. The greatest thoughts, it has been said, spring from the heart ; but the maxim is far more true with respect to the noblest actions. One half of mankind are not born with saddles "on their backs, to be rid den by the other half..' Jfcmon. ' Most of the shadows that cross our path arc caused by our standing in our own light. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision ; and yield with graci ousness and oppose with firmness. Talkative j-ersons seldom read. This is among the few truths which appear more strange the more we re flect upon them. For what is reading but silent conversation. . Value no man for his opinion, but esteem him according as his life cor responds with the rules of piety and justice. A man's actions not his coq ceptions, render hinl valuable; FUBNAS, C0LHAPP h CO., PabUftber ami Proprietor. Office Ne, 7 1 McPJienn IHork, Stairs, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. Terms, in Advance i One copy, one year.. g1! 0 Ou copy, si mouths 1 OQ joij rrti-VTiivG, Of all kinds, done on short notice ami at re&soca-. tie rote. Ghromos Iloir 3Sale. Mr. James Parton, the most reada ble of all American magazine writers, has published in the Atlantic Monthly an interesting essay on "Popularizing Art," in which he describes the com- plex process by which modern science succeeds in producing tho-e exquisite fac-similes of oil paintings, known and admired everywhere aa Praug'a American chromos. Lithography was invented by acci- dent. An impatient washerwoman . and the absence of a pieeo of paper caused a poor actor, named M. Sene felder, to write his "list" on a smooth 6lab of limestone with a composition of soot and grease with which he had been making experiments In printing. Now oil or grease has a chemical atll- nity for lime; that is to say, it will mix with it, while oil and water, on the other hand, are antagonists. The whole secret Qf lithography lies In these two facts of chemistry. To pro duce a common lithograph'the draw ing is made on a smooth siau or lime stone with a greasy pencil; the surface of the slab Is then dampened fiith water which the drawing sheds whilo the blank spaces retain it. The color, which Is mixed with oil, is then ap plied and the opposite effect is pro duced; tho plain parts refuse to take the color, while the greasy parts that is the drawing retains it. An impression is then taken and a per fect copy made from a perfectly smooth surface. It is singular that . the ouarrv from which Senefeldcr took the slab is the only one yet dis covered that produces a limestone fit for the purposes of lithography, r or the limestome must be hard enough to receive a fine polish, and only tho Bavarian quarry furnishes that qual- ' ity of stone. Cbromo-lithography, says Mr. Par ton, by which our houses and school rooms are now filled with beautiful pictures, is a combination of Senefel- der's invention with an ancient me thod of printing in colors by using two or piore blocks. Antiquity, how ever, only gave the hint, which has' been developed with wonderful rapid ity by accomplished artists nnd arti sans iq Germany, France, England and the United States the German Engelmann being the chief origina tor of methods. The first patents relating to chromo-lithography bear date lSio, and in these thirty-four years the art has made such progress that copies of fine oil paintings are now daily reproduced, which contain all of the original picture, which the public can see, and which none but u close observer can tell from the origi nal. Mr. Parton adds ; "At Prang's manufactory of chro mos in Boston, there is a gallery in which the proprietor sometimes hangs, side by side, an oil painting and the chromo-lithograph taken from it, both framed alike. 1 think that not even tho artist who painted the picture could always tell them apart, and I am sure that fow others could. It . would be a safa thing to wager that the critics who have endeavored to write down these beautiful produc tions would not be always able, with out handling them, to decide which was brush and which was printing press." After describing how " Tho Bare foot Boy" (Prang's celebrated and beautiful chromo of Eastman John son's painting, illustrative of Whit tier's poem) is gradually produced, that is, by being printed, here a little, now with one color, then with another tint, until it has gone through tho press no less than twenty-six times, Mr. Parton says that it is then passed through the press still again, upon a stone which is grained in such a way as to impart to the picture tho rough ness of canvas, after which it is mounted upon thick pasteboard and varnished. "The resemblance to tho. original is then such that it is doubt ful if Mr. Eastman Johnson could pick out his own boy if he were sur rounded with a number of copies." Mr. Parton adds that it is not every picture that admits of such successful treatment as this, nor does every chromo-lithographer bestow Uw)n his pro ductions so much pains and expense.' A saleable picture could ho made of this boy in ten impressions; lut, as we have seen, he receives twenty-six. "It is an error," he says, "to regard these interesting works as mechani cal. A more mechanic, it is true, by a certain Chinese servility of copying, can produce an extremely close, hard imitation of an oil painting; and much work of this kind is done in Germany and Kmrland. But in our Boston establishment no mechanic puts pencil to one of tho stones em ployed in producing fine picture. The artistic work is executed by art ists of repute, who have themselves Iiroduced respectable painting of tho 'ind which they are employed to imi tate. Any one who watches Mr. Harring transferring to a long scries of lithographic stones Mr. Hill's painting of Yosemite Valley will perceive that he is laboring in tho spirit of an artist and by the methods of an artist. It would be highly ab surd to claim for any copyist equal rank with the creator of the original, or to say that any copy can possess tho intrinsic value of an original. But it is unjust to reduce to the rank of artisans the skillful, and patient artists who know how to catch tho spirit and preserve the details of a lino work, reproduce in countless copies" all of both which the public can dis cern. Mr. Parton suggests that the art of , chromo-lithography harmonizes well with the special work of America at the present moment, which i;, not lo create, but to diffuse; not to produce literature, but to distribute the sfell ingbook: not to add to the world's treasures of art, but to educate tho mass of mankind to an intelligent en joyment of those which we already possess. W hat our sweet and tender- ly leloved tory friends style the "scuin of Europe" who are pouriug ujkh our shores these people, as well as the emancipated slaves of the South, it devolves upon us of this generation and the next to convert into thinking, knowing, skillful, taUeful, American citizen. "Mr. Prar.ghasfurni.hcd his manufactory just in time. By his as sistance we may hope to diffuse among all classes of the people that feeling for art which mu.,t precede the pro duction cf excellent national works.' Anthony Trollope says: "Years are wanted to make a friendship, but days suffice for men and women to ge$ married!" Henry Ward Eeecher, in one of his discourses said that "some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spehd all the week in shaving the;r. fellow-men: and many think' it Very wicked to black their boots cn Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to n,..t. v.: : v . ..: f weekday."
