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n $ ADVERTISER. THE ADVERTISER. K l blishca cvcryTuuralay by HBBOTHER & HAGKEB, Proprietors. 3-- .43lpI,faenon'iBlock upStalra, DWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. Tornis, in Advance: year .. air months three months -.- 1 00 . 50 .XQt XATTER ON EVERY PAGE tssvyrittop for tne Advertiser TO X FR1EXD jLrt tfee bonds of friendship broken, S5red every sacred tie? JLrUSe -bright hopes that we cherished jSSmed to wither, fade, and die? StHfheonly friend I trusted, rimed away and left me too ? frtSl thought so truly-noble. . I deemed bo trzeu uuu u uc. n the sorrows that assailed me, fien my heart was sorely tried. d' l'ft brins sweet peacu uiitu mv, oa my comforter and guide. j jo worm gioy ,iwv ..vv. , -n rav false friends stood apart, u wcrt ever loved and trusted, er'shel in my inmost heart. 2 rn salting, and I'm thinking, '"Kcaih the pale moon's silver light ; J mm sitting, and I'm thinking, iin,irlv of thee to-night. AM the past made dark by falsehood, I've forgiven long ago. w I've loved, too well thou Knowesi; bow I've suffered, none may know. the sorrowful old story. Cold in sadness o'er again ; jWicrlips than mine have murmured, 1jfcrhlte and quivering, "loved In vain ;' "her hearts have broke in anguish. rfjjTBroke and died, and made no sign, Ofher lives liave been darkened. ay the same sad cause as mine. XM v.e dream a llttio longor, Jfrhnt one friend Is left to me; jUid forgetting In thy presence, 'jfOf the faith I've lost In thee. Ufcou we part, wealth, sunshine golden, JJFlowcry paths thou'lt enter In ; BB return to thorn paths olden. I)n. lining of what "might have been." Abijie. SOBODY B5JT JOSIA". me one ia coming," said I, as thrlack of the shutting gate fell on mylears, and I looked at Meggy's aeiisd, untidy dress, and tumbled jtggy started, and glanced hastily fxeSi-tho window; then sat down afaki in a careless way, remarking as iifdld so: "It's nobody but John." IGobo Jy ru? Jt.hu ! and who dc you tMk that nobody was! Only her kwfca'.id. HoboJy but John ! j?few moments afterward, Fairbum came Into the room John where Wtfwere sitting, and gave me iifa frank, cordial greetings. one of I had Icmwii hhn for many years, and long before his marriage. I noticed that iSjjgnve an annoyed glance at his WMe, b-it did not speak to her. The i SManing of this annoyance and ludif- - Ifersnce was plain to me; for John 'iMcomeof a neat and tidy family. His mother's housekeeping had al- s 3 m 4 A aatione r VTJL"' 3S S1 ft "'ft'h r A-ic tMi lways been notable. She was poor; tWt as "time and water are to be had .tiqt. nothing" this was one of her iBjjrings she always managed to have igs about clean and orderly. aggy Lee had a pretty face, bright ilte and eharmimr little ways that wre very taking with the young men, aati to was quite a bell before she got out of her teene. She had a knack of mf Using her ribbons or tying her scarf, '"Tjarranging her hair, fahawl or dress i way to give grace and charm to lw person None but her most inti- to friends knew of the untidiness titet pervaded her room and person iraen at homo and away from com- pn observation. tMPoor John Fnirbnrn was takeu in TPen he married Maggy Lee. He .thought he was getting the tidiest, tetest, sweetest and most orderly jjkl in town, but discovered too soon ilHatho was united to a careless slat itgn. She could dress for other peo fpp's eyes, beoause she had a natural kire of admiration ; but at home, and -Jbf her husband, she put on any old rd, and went looking often, "like me old scratch," as the saying is. 40n the particular occasion of which m speaking it was after she and fan had been married ever a year Her annearance was almost discustintr. ?a jane aid not have on even a morning atess ; only a faded and tumbled "dkiutz saque above a soiled skirt no -gjJlar 6llppers down at the heel, and dirty stockings. Her hair looked like -hurrah's neEt if any one knows -what that is I don't; but I suppose "gls tno perfection of disorder. No Ose could love such a looking crea--;tare. That was simply impossible. Nobody but John !" I looked at tli8 bright, handsome young man and udered. He ate his diuuer almost tfn silence, and then wont back to Jhi work. I hud never seen him so iHJOody. ' What's come over John?" I ask .Sllas he want out. fl'Oh, I don't know," his wife an swered. "Something wrong at the op, I suppose. He's had trouble sdth one of the men He's foreman, -you know." i1 A ra -.mi cura ffa rmltr thnt 9" ""S Vl OHIO " -J ed, looking serious. t'Tl.nf - , KI.,,-. n'nnnf Vita 4-uab, Ul OUlUCiUlU 14UWUV U1D Wrk. There's uothing else to wor ryhira." 1 was silent for awhile, debating with -myself whether good qr barm wuld como of a little plain talk with ;Jhn's wife. She was rather quick peredt I knew, and easy to take nse. At last I ventured the re- rk : Maybe things are not just to liking at home." 'Athome!" Maggy turned on me i a flash of surprise in her face, hat do you mean ?" 'Men like beauty, and taste, and atness in their wives as well as in elr sweethearts," I said. The crimson mounted to her hair, t the same moment I saw her- lance ata looking glass that hung pposite to her on the wall. She sat ery still, yefc with a startled look in Twfe iB SS? XSTABLISHED 1858. l Oldest Paper in the Stato.J her eyes, until the flush faded and her face became almost pale. "Maggy," said I. rising and draw ing my arm around her, "come up stairs. I have something very serious to say to you." We walked from the little dlning- room and up to her chamber In sll- ence. I then said: "Maggy, I want to tell you about a dear friend of mine who made shipwreck of Happiness and life. It is a sad story and I'm sure it will interest you deeply. She was my cousin ; and her uame was M Maggy bent forward, listening at tentively. "What?" she asked, as I hesitated on the name. "Helen." "Xot Helen White, who married John Harding, and was afterward de serted by her husband ?" "Yes; my poor dear cousiu Helen. It is of her I am going to tell you." "I never knew why het husband went off as he did," said Maggy. "Some said he was to blame, ana some put all the fault on her. How was it?" "Both were to blame; but Bho most," I replied. "Johu Harding was, like your husband, one of the most orderly men. Anything untidy in his home, or in the person of his wife, annoyed and often put him out of humor; but he did not, as he should have done, speak plainly to his wife, and let her see exaotly how he felt, and in what he would like a change. If he had done so, Helen would hav tried as every good wife should to conform herself more to to his tastes and wishes. But, he was a silent, moody sort of a man when thidgs did not go just to suit him; and Instead of speaking out plainly, brooded over Helen's faults, and wor ried himself into fits of ill-homor ; and what was worse than all, grew at length indifferent to his home and wife, and sought pleasanter surround ings and more attractive compauy abroad. "Every man thus estranged from his home is in danger, and Harding was no exception to the rule. Temp tation lay about his feet and the com monest temptation of all, the elegant fitted up billiard and drinking saloon. "They had been married just about as long as you and John" have heeli, when the sad catastrophe of their liv es took place. I had called to spend tl e day with Helen, and found her in her uunl condition of pergonal un tidiness and disorder. When her husband came home at dinner-time, I noticed with painful concern that he had been drinking not very free ly, but just enough to show itself in captious ill-humor. Helen had not dressed for dinner, but presented her self at the table without even a clean collar, and with an old faded shawl drawn about her shoulders. She look ed anything but attractive. "I saw her husband's eyes glance toward her across the table with an expression that chilled me. It was a hard, angry, determined expression. He was scarcely civil to me, and snapped his wife sharply two or three times during the meal. At its close, he left the table without a word, and went up stairs. " 'What's the matter with John ? ' I asked. " 'Dear above knows." replied Hel en. 'He's been acting queer for a good while. I can't imagine what's come over him.' " 'Does he come in this way often?' I asked. " 'Yes, he is moody and disagree able as he can be most of the time I'm getting dreadful worried about it.' "As we talked we heard John mov ing about with heavy footfalls In the rooms above. Presently he came down, and stood for a little while in the hall at the foot of the stairs as if in hesitation. Then he went to the street door, passed out, aud shut it hard after him. "Helen oaught her breath with a start and turned a little pale. " 'What's the matter?' I asked, see ing the strangeness of her look. "'I don't krtow' sho fonllfitl in choking voice, laying her hand at the same time on her breast, 'but I feel as if something dreadful was going to happen.1 "She got up from the table and I drew my arm around her. I too felt a Fudden depression of spirits. We went slowly up to her chamber, where we spent the afternoon , aud I then took upon myBeif the office of a friend, and talked seriously of personal neat ness, hinting that the cause of. hnr nusband's estrangement from his I home, and altered manner toward herself, might all spring from this cause She was little angry with me at first; but I pressed the subject hom with a tender seriousness that did the work of conviction and as ev ening drew on, she dressed herself with care and neatness. With a fresh ribbon tied in her hair, and color a lit tle raided from excitement, she looked loving and lovable. I waited with interest to see the impression she ulu ua on ner husband. He coma not Help being charmed back Into the lover, I was sure. But he did not come to tea. We waited for him a whole hour after the usual time aud then sat down to the table alone but neither of us could do more than sip a little tea. "I went home soon after, -with a pressure of concern at my heart for which I oould not account. At nighrt I dreamed uncomfortable dreams. In the morning, Boon after breakfast, 1 ran over to see Helen. I found her in her room sitting in her night-dress, the picture of dispair. '"What is it?' I asked eagerly. 'What has happened?' "She looked at me heavily, like one not yet recovered from the shook of a stunning blow. " 'Dear cousin ! what is the matter?' I said. "I now saw, by a motion of her hand, that it held, tightly olutched, a piece of paper. She reaohed it to me. It was a letter, and read : " 'We cannot live happily together, Helen. You are not what I believed myself getting when we Were mar ried not the sweet, lovely, lovable girl that charmed my fancy and won me from all others. Alas for both that it is so! There has been a Bhip wreck of two lives. Farewell I I shall never return.' "And this was all ; but it broke the heart of my poor jousin. To this day though nearly three years have pass ed, she has never heard from her hus band. "I saw her last week in the country home to which she has been taken by her friends a wreck bath In mind and body. She was sitting in an up per room, from the window of which she could see a beautiful landscape. She was neatly attired, and a locket containing her husband's picture hung at her throat. Her head was dropped, and her eyes on the floor, when I entered ; hut she raised her self quickly, and with a kind of start. I saw a nidrrjetitarj', eager flush in her faoe, dying out quickly, aud leav ing it inexpressibly nad " 'I thought it was John,' she naid mournfully. 'Wily don't he come?' " I had to stop here, for Maggy broke out suddenly into a wild fit of sob bing and crying, whioh lasted for nearly a minute. "What ails you, dear?" I asked, as she began to be a little composed. "Oh ! you have frightened mo so. If John should" She cut short the oSHtonce; but her frightened face left me in no doubt as to what was in her thoughts. She arose and walked about the room in an uncertain way for some moments, and then sat down again, drawing in her breath heavily. "If young wives," I remarked be lieving that in her present state the truth was the best thing to say "would take half the pains in mak ing themselves personally attractive to their lovers, more of them would find the lover continued In the hus baud. Is a man, think jrou, less an admirer of womanly grace and beauty after he becomes a husband than he was before?'' "Hush! hush !" she said in a ohok ing voice. "I seo it all ! I compre hend it all." And she glanced down at herself. "I iook hateful and dis1 gusting." After a plain earnest talk with Mag gy, I went home. I giVe her own words as to what happened after ward : "I was wretched all the afternoon. John had acted worse than usual at dinner-time; and what you told mo about poor Helen set my fears in mo tion and worried me half to death. Long before the time he usually came honle, I dressed myself with care, se lecting the very things I had heard him admire. As I looked at myself in the glass. I saw tiiat. I wai attract ive; I felt a I had never ftlt b"fnr that there was a power in dre&s th-jt no woman oan disregard without loss of inlluenoe, no matter what her po sition or sphere of life. "Supper-time came. I had made something that I knew John liked, and was waiting for him with a ner vous eagerness it was impossible tor re press. But the hour passed, and his well-known tread along the little garden walk did not reach my anx ious ears. Five, ten, twenty minutes beyond his hour for returning, and still I was alone. Oh ! I shiver as I recall the wild fears that began to orowd upon me I was standing at. the window, behind the curtain, wait ing and watching. All at once I saw him a little distance from the house, but not in the direction from whioh he usually came. He was walkiug slowly with his eyes upon the ground. His whole manner was that of oue depressed or suffering. I dropped the ourtaln and wont baok into our little breakfast-room to Bee that BUpper was put quickly on the table. John came in and went upstairs, as ho usually did, to change his coat before tea. In a feW minutes I rang the tea-bell, and then seated myself at the table to wait for him. He was longer than usual in making himself ready, and thou I heard him coming down slow ly aud heavily, as if there was no spirit in him. "My heart beat strongly. But I tried to look bright and smiling. There was, oh ! so dreary a iook on John's face as I first saw it in the door. He stood still just a moment with his eyes fixed on me,' then the dreary look faded out ; a flash of light passed over it, as be stepped forward quickly, and coming to where I sat, stooped dowu and kissed me. Never before was his kiss so sweet to my lips. "I have found my little wife once more," he said, softly and tenderly, and with a quiver in his voice. I laid my head back upon his bos om, and, looking up into bis face, an swered : "And you shall never loose hcT again." And I think he will not. The sweetness of that hour, and the less on it taught, can never be forgotten by my friend Maggv. Arthur's Maa- 1 azinc, BROWffVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874. BEECIIEIt-TILTON. Elizabeth Cady S teuton Interviewed. A reporter of the Brooklyn Argils called on Mrs Stanton, at her resi dence, in Tenafly N. J. "I am perfectly willing to be inter viewed," remarked the lady, with a smile. "Can you tell nie when you first learned of this affair, Mrs. 8tanton?" "I think it was a year before Mrs. Woodhull published her statement, that I knew of the matter. Not all the details, you understand, which have since come to light, but the sto ry in Btibstanoe." And are you willing to tell in what manner you became possessed of this knowledge ? Certainly. Some time I think it was in the fall of the year, though I won't be positive while Mrs. Milli ard was still conneoted with the Bev oluiion. Susan B. Anthony, Mr and Mrs. Tilton, Mrs. Bullard and myself wert in Brooklyn together. It was in the afternoon, and after calling at the office of the Revolution. Mr. Tilt- on and myself accoiripailied Mrs. Bul lard to her residence and remaiued to dinner. Through some ijtisunderstanding, Miss Anthony wert with Mrs. Tilton and dined with her, Instead of us. There waB sonle feding on the part of Mrs. Tilton in regard to this, altho' it was quite unintentional on rriy part. Well, at the table no one Was present but Mm Bullard, Mr. Tiltori and myself. Theodore told the whole story of his wife'e faithleesness. As I before observed, he did notgointo details, but the sum and substanoe of the whole matter ho related in the hearing of Mrs. Bullard and myself. We were 'reformers.' He gave us the story as a phase of 'social life.' This was the first j'ou had heard of it? This was the first. The next even ing, hearing that Miss Anthony was a little piqued at me for leaving her on the day before, I returned to my home here in Tenafly. To my sur prise I found Susan waiting my arri val. That evening, when we were alone, I said to her, Theodore related a very strauge story to Mrs. Bullard and me last evening. Then I recount ed to her all he had told us. Miss An thony listened attentively to the end. Then she said t have heard the Prime story from Mrs. Tilton. We compar ed notes and found that by both man and wife the samo story had indeed been told. What were the particulars of Mrs. Tilton's confession ? I will tell'youhow it was made. When Mr. Tilton returned home that evening, some angry words, growing out of the separation in the afternoon, passed between him and his wife. Both became intensely excited. In the heat of passion, and in the pres ence of Miss Anthony, each confess ed to the other of having broken their marriage vow. In the midst of these startling disclosures Miss Anthony withdrew to her room. Shortly after, she heard Mrs. Tilton come dashing upstairs, and Mr. Tilton following close after. She flung open her bed room door and Elizabeth rushed in. The door was then dosed an bolted. Theodore pounded on the outside and demanded admittance, but Miss An thony refused to turn he key. So In tense was his pa-siou at that moment hat !" feared lie intent kill his wife If he gained awes to the room. Sev eral times he returned to the door and anirrily demanded that it be opened. 'No woman hall stand between mt and my wife,' he said. But Susan, who is as eouragenus as she is noble, answered him" with the words: 'If you enter this room It will beover my dead body:' and so the infuriated man 9,sed his demands and witb- drew. Mrs. Tilton remained with Susan throughout the night. In the excite ment of the hour, amid sobs and tears she told all to Mies Anthony The Wholf story of her own fafthlesQness, of Mr Beecher's course, of her decep tion and of her anguish, fell upon the ears of Susan B Anthony, and were spokeu try the lip3 of Mm. Tilton. By Mr Tilton's cros-exa mi nation, observed the reporter, it appears that Mrs. Tilton was far from friendly to Miss Anthony. How oould she have made this confeasion to her? On the contrary, Mrs. Tilton thought a great deal of Miss Anthony, of Mrs Bullard and all these ladles. I was very intimate with her before Mrs. Woodhull's thunderbolt. At the time of our first knowledge of the affair. Mr. Wilkeson also heard of it. He besought the ladies not to make it it public. To him it was a matter of money. He was a stockholder in Ply mouth Church, in the Ckrisilan Uni on and in 'The Lifr of Christ.' Now. the destruction of Mc. Bef her would be the destruction of all thesp. As Mr. Wilkeson expressed it? 'It would knock The Life of Christ higher than a kite.' Hence his concern in keep ing the matter secret. All do not know that lemons sprin kled with loaf-sugar almost complete ly allay feverish thirst. They ara valuable In the siok room. Invalids affected with feverishnes3 can safely consume two or three lemons a day. A lemon or two thus taken at 'tea time is reoommended as an entire substitute for the ordinary supper of summer, and will often induce a com fortable sleep through the night, and give a good appetite for breakfast. Canada is sending out missionaries $o India. India ought to reciprocate, THE IillfE: BBTWEEJT. BY HOWABD GLYNDOS-. 3ust beTdre I go to sleep, Whispering Unto God your name; Pause I wondering if fdr me You are doing ju8t the same. Far-off sounds of laughter come Faintly through the open door; We but thought that each should look On the other's face no more. And how dear I was to you I cottld measure by the pain That o'erdowed me when I thought, ''We shall never meet again I" But I hushed ray heart, and said, Looting firmly In your eyes : "One thing I can do for you, Though I am not overwIs9. I will take your name to God, As a surety, every night, For your safety, and with Him Help io keep your memory bright." Standing rip", you took my harid Yours was oold as any stone You said: Oh, how hard to part And be evermore alone ! "But, If nightly thoughts rrlay cross, Travelers 'twixt you and me. Comforted, a little space, Shall each exiled spirit be !" Every night I say your name; Softly plteously to dod; I would turn my face your way,' But the world Is very broad ! And I wonder, half asleep. While I try your dyes to see, . If your heart is with me there If y'b"ti send a thought to me ! ' 0m 0US NEW YdRg LETTER. Bce&her-Tllton Kidnapping The Poor and ivhat is Being Done for Tliem The City in Summer Busi ness. Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser. Rtt York, July SI, 1874. BEKCHEP.-Tilil'ON. Long before this scrawl reaches you the telegraph will have brought you the full text of Theodore Tilton's statement of the trouble between himself and Henry Ward Beecher, tvilh Aft TtbnnViop' s rdply thereto, is the effect of All I can give you these publicatione upon the publio of New York and Brooklyn, where both parties are well known. The state ment of Tilton is more direct and damaging than those closest to him supposed it would be. It was expect ed that be would undertake to show that Beecher had made an attempt upon Mrs. Tilton. and that he had invaded other homes, all of which he would endeavor to substantiate by circumstantial evidence. But his sworn statement that the great min ister had actually eeduded Mrs. Theo dore Tilton, struck the community like a thunderbolt from a clsar sky. And 8o skillfully is the statement made, eo carefully are all the loop holes olosed up, that Mr. Beecher's best friends are oompelled to admit that it has an ugly look and that Til ton had cause to do as he has done. Of course, the question is asked, "Why did ha not right himself be fore? Why did he not east off his unfaithful wife and drag down the se ducer at the time lie mude the discov ery ?" If askers of these questions knew Tilton and his wife the ques tions would not be asked at all. Mrs. Tilton is a woman of a most intense relig'ous nature, of a siugularly sensi tive nafUrert wrtman. in short. Who lives in a morbid, unhealthy Wor!d. which i peopled bj" her imagination with all sorts of angels and demons. A sweet, itpirituelle woman is Eliza beth Tilton, but her nature is so in tense, so morbidly religious, that she is precisely the woman that a bad spiritual guide could do anything with he chose to do She believed in Henry Ward Beecher she idolized and worshiped him. He was her idea of a perfect man to her he was more than a man, he was a demi-god. With her nature she could be made Wax ih thp hands of a man like Beet'her. And knowing this appreciating the peculiar nature of his wife, Til ton believed he had been outraged, but had,tbat pity ppon his wife that kept the seoret in his own bosom till he waicompelled in .self-defense to make part of it public. It will be re membered that in his first statement he only hinted at the matter, without goifig into detail. This was intended as hiB warning to Mr. Beecher's friends to keep away from him. Had they done so the quarrel would have stopped there. But these Mends be lieved they could get possession of Mrs. Tilton in suoh a way as to dis credit any statement he ceuld make, and they defied him. Mrs. Tilton left his house and sided with his ene mies, whereupon Tilton was driven to the wall, and made desperate, made the statement which is now before the world. Beeoher, of course, denies every thing, and Mm. Tilton has followed suit. But the public do and will be lieve Tilton, for there have been ru mors aiecting the character of Mr Beech'er in circulation for years, and the opinion is that these rumors have a foundation in fact. Then the case has been pettifogged in all sorts of ways by his friends. The Committee of Investigation was selected by him self, and the Committee have, from the beginning, acted more as hia at torneys than as hiB judges. It Ib safe to eay that Henry Ward Beeoher'a sun is sinking, and in a few months it will go down forever. It is o pity that a brain so large, and a bouI bo all embraoing, could not have been so balanced as to have run on to the end. Alas! for poor humanity KIDNAPPING. An Incident occurring in Philadel phia rnay not seem to be exactly the thing for a New York letter, but tills case of kidnapping In the Cliy of Brotherly Love Is so pecdliar that I went to investigate it. Some wee&s ago, little Charlie, the son of a merch ant residing in Germantown, named Boss, was missed from his hotiie. The parents in their agony tried ev ery possible way to find the missing child. The bailee were put ori the track and special detectives were em ployed, but all to no purpose. The child was no where to be found. As a last resort, the newspapers were us ed, and advertisement- were inserted dffering a reward for the recovery of the boy, and these brought responses A few days after the appearance of the first advertisement, a notice ap peared in the Ledger as follows : Roas "We be ready to negotiate." Further advertisements drew out answers until a correspondence was effected which revealed a horror scarcely to be credited in this day and age of the world. The child had been enticed into a wagon by two men who had driven it off and had it safely hidden. The ransom deniaiid ed was $20,000! The kidnappers in formed Mr. Ross that they knew he could not of his own means raise $20, 000, but they knew he had wealthy friends who would advance that amount fdthef than have the child come to harm and that unless their conditions were complied with the bo3T would be destroyed. The father and mother in their terror, consented to the terms, and the negotiations for the payment of the money are now in progress. Mr. Ross, the father, is a member of a large Wholesale dry goods house In Philadelphia, who lost the bulk of his fortune in the panic last fall. The payment of this enormoUS sum will ruin him, but love for his child Is par amount, and he will doit. The question that comes up is, whoso children are safe ? Here is a little four-year old boy taken up on tho public street and spirited away, and so securely hidden that the po lice fail to get any clue to his wherea bouts. They cannot even get any trace of his abductors, and the father, to regain possession of his child, is compelled to pay an enormous ran som. Such things were dolle years ago in the semi-barbarous parts of It aly, and Gypsies have traded in the lives of children of the rich, but it has been unknown till now in Amer ica. Is it to be made a regular busi ness ? It seems to be safer tha"n house oreaKing or forgery. i or an the po lice have done or seem likely to do, the kidnappers will makeap'ecunidry success of the venture, and get off scott free. THE lOOR dF NEW YORK are not altogether neglected. The New York Times some years ago in augurated a system of excursions for the poor ohildren which was grandly successful. They chartered boats and loaded them with children and took a long sail, a half-day sail up the river or sound to some beautiful grove, and disembarking gave the children games and sports, and what was bet ter for them, d plentiful lunch 6f good things These excursions take place twice a week, and no one can estimate the good they have accom plished. A proposition has been made to give regularexcursionstothe sea, of the working women o"f the city. They labor year in and year out in the factories or in their garrets for the merest possible pittance, just enough to keep soul and body togeth er, and suoh a thing ai d day on the water or in the green fields is some thing beyond their means. To this class excursions, such as the poor children have been enjoying for three yeara. would prove an inestimable boon. It will be done for New York is a charitable city" when called upon. THE CITY IN SinnfEIt. New York is all away from home just now. Jones is at Long Branch, Smith at Newport, Brown In the White Mountains, Thompson in Eu rope, and where the rest are the Lord only knoWs. One thing is certain, they are not at home, or if they are they keep the front shutters closed and are in the back parlora, to make believe they are out of town, for no woman of fashion, though she has the coolest and most delightful house on the Island, would consent to live In the city during the months of July and August. No matter though she has to take a room at a Watering place scarcely larger than the Saratoga trunk that contains her thirty dresses, no matter if she is compelled to en dure heat, dust, worry and discom fort, of all kinds, when she might be entirely comfortable in her own home, fashion decrees a residence out of town during the summer, and she bows to this as she does to alt its oth er decrees. She comes back irr the fall worn and jaded to a degree, but she has been "out of town," and her duty is done. BUSINESS is a little duller than last week, if any difference. Which 13 to Bay there was nothing doing last week, and this week the business men have stop ped talking about the dullness. But they all expect a heavy fall trade. They say the people have used up the atoeks on hand, and that they must begin to buy thig fail. They are right. The enormous crops now be ing harvested will get us money, and Jhe wfceela of trade will begin to re-i VOL. 19 -NO. 6 volve again. We are all living in hopes. The month of September will show & revival, and by October men will forget the terrible year they have passed through in the pleasurable ex citement of their fresh prosperity. So mote it be. Pietro. SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE. Minutes of Institute Nebraska. District ill. B Cnurdtt Institute met In the M. E. Church, Falls City, July 23rd, 8:30 A. m., P. 3D., M. Priohard in the chair. Institute was opened with prayer by Rev. D. B. Lake. On motion" T. Audas was elected Secretary pro tem. On motion a committee was ap pointed on credentials consisting of Revs. D. Hart and Rodabaugh. DELEGATES PRESENT. Peru Revs. L. F. Britt and Mar tin Priohard. Grant Rev. B. B. iiak6: Brownville Rev. W. B. Slaugh ter. Alice Bpaoh, Alice Janey, Cora Gates, E. E. Ebright, Fanny Ebright and Thomas Richards. St. Deroiu Rev. R. Bufge. Cincinnati Rev. C. W. Co'mstock, Mrs. Comstook. Falls City Rev. D. F. Rodabaugh, Mrs. Rodabatigh, Bro. Grable. Sister Grable, Isaac Martin, E. C. Gilbert, Sister Milburn, Sister Ingham, Sister Kingman. Rulo Rev. Roberts and Mre. Rob erta. Pawnee City E. J. Shellhorn, Mrs. Shellhorn, Mrs. Fulton and T. Andas. Table Rook Rev. J. W. Martin, Mrs. Martin arid Miss Causey. Tecumseh Rev. Hart. On motion Rev. R. Burge waa elec ted delegate from St. Deroin. Institute proceeded to the regular order of business. Address of welcome by Stlpt. H. B. Grable. Question Should the discipline of the M. E. Church bo enforced in or ganizing our Sunday Schools? Dis cussion opened by Rev. M. Pricbard. Quito a number of the brethren par ticipated in the discussion. Moved and carried that after the discussion is operied the time of each speaker be limited to five minutes. Moved and carried that one-half hour be devoted to the discussion of each subject. Question Should Sunday Schools be organized iuto Missionary Socie ties? Opened by the Rev. T. Andas followed by several other speeches. Moved and carried that we will not insist on a written essay from the members'. Moved and carried that it is the eonsfl of this institute that the discip line of the' M. E. Church touching the organization of Sunday Schools, should be enforced. Moved and carried that one or more delegates from each school represent ed in thi9 Institute be reoueated to T give a written or verbal statement of the condition, state ornumberof such school, during this session. Moved and carried that Pastors and Superintendents within the bounds of Nebraska District, be requested to organize, as far as practicable. Mis sionary Societies in their Sunday Schools. Question TJuty of Pantrirs to the Sunday School. Discussion opened by Rev. D. Hart, followed by some very interesting speeches by brethren presont. Question Relation of th Sunday School to the Church. Rev. W. B. Sla'vighter opened the disoussion. Doxology sung, and benediction by Rev. J. W. Martin. Thursday, 1:30 p. jr. Institute met and was opened with devotional exercises by Rev. W. B. Slaughter. Encouraging reports were verbally received from delegates present from different points in the district in rela tion to the prosperity of f heir schools. Essay road by Mrs. Milburn, of Falls City ; subject, "Responsibility of tho teachers In the regeneration of their classes." Tijo essay was well written anu wen recievcu Dy tne au dience. EJ&say by Mrs. Ringmnn, of PoXt City; subject, "Some of the elements of success in a teacher." This subject rwffswelf. treuted; full of tenderness and sympathy: Movert'snd'carried that we, as an Institute, heartily endorse the essays read by Mra. Milburn and Mre. King man, and that they have our thanks for tho same. Singing, "Work, for the night is coming on," joined in by the congre gation. Question" Shall we continue the use of the Beslan Lesson Lever In our Sunday Schools? Opened by Rev J. B. Lake, followed by others in short speeches. Motion carried that the time be ex tended for the ladies' to" peak. Mrs. Milburn. Mrs. Ehright, and Mra Kingman offered some good'sng gestions on the question. Question Should members of the Church only be allowed to teach in our Sunday Schools ? Opened by Rev. L. F. Britt. Question Are' monthly concerts profitable to Sunday School ? Rev. J. W. Martin. This elicited quite an animated discussion-. Adjourned with doxology, and ben ediotion by Rev. L. F. Britt. Thursday, 8:3(r p. m. Institute met. Devotional exercises nv F&tt D. Hart. Singing, "Pass along the watch word," congregation joining in the song. ADVERTISING KATES. Spac&. r l w 1 m Per I Per Month. I Tear. 1 Inch. $1 00 250 4 00 700 12 00 2 00 4 00 COO 10 00 18 00 3 Inches ff Inches- fl 00 1 SO 275 5 00 800 $10 00 20 00 36 00 60 CO 100 09 12 Inches. 2-1 Inches. Iiegalatfvertlsements atlafcslrates: Ctae scjukrtf (lOUne'of Nonpareil space', or les.) first" insertion 1,00; each subsequent Insertion, 50c. J3AU trdnsclent advertisements must be paii forln advance. OTTlglA'EPA'EIt OP THECofrfTY. Essay read "by Mra. Ebright, of Brownville ; subject, "Music." Ths essay was well written and well read, and very tauten appreoIaietT by th audience. Singing, "The Beautiful World." On motion a rising vote of thanks' was tendered Mre.' Ebright for her excellent essay. Adjourned with doxology, and ben- edictlon by Rev. W B. Slaughter. Friday, 8:30 a. ar. Institute met; Devotional exercises were conducted' by Rev. D. F. Rodabaugh. "Motion prevailed to excuse RevI Roberts from hia essay, business call ing him away frorh the Institute. Question Shall we permit our Sun-' day School scholars to play at garnet of chance? Opened by Rev. G'. Com atock ; quite a disoussion followed, and participated in by the lady mem-' bers of the Institute: Moved and carried that we fix th& tfme and place for holding the next Institute. P'awnee City was Selected as ths place, and Wednesday evening fol lowing immediately after the District Ministerial Association, and closing' Thursday evening, as the time. Moved and carried that a-committee of three be appointed by the Chair to draft a programme fox ths' next Institute. Chair appointed t he following brethren, E. J. Shellhorn, E. E. Ebright and L. F. Britt. E. E. Ebright was eleoted Secreta ry and Treasurer fenf the next Insti tute. Singing by the audience, "When Jesus cornea." Motion carried that we rfedsesi the" committed on .programme to make' clasB drill and illustration of the prin ciples of teaching on the blaok board, the l&ading features of the exercises of the next Institute, and' that mU4lo be introduced between the exerciBes, Motion Carried that Prof. MoKen-' zie, of Lincoln, be requested to at-' tend our next Inatltufe and eenduot class drill. Singing by the congregation, "Rools of Ages." Moved and oarrled that the Secre-' tary be requested to have the minutes of this Institute-printed' by" thediffwr eut papers in the District. A vote of thanks was given the Secretary for the efficient manner in whioh he has kept the minutes'. A vote of thankr was given tho Chairman, Rev. M. Priohard, for the impartial manner in whioh he has conducted the business of this Insti tute. On motion, adjourned doxology sung, and the benediction pronounc ed by the Rev. M. PrlchaTd. L. F. Britt, Sec'y. Nchraska City. Tocumseb, Pawnee' City, and Falls City paper3 pleaAe copy. -v m mv DRINKING WATER. Dr. Hall ia opposed to the" immod erate use of Water for e drink. Hs says : Tho longer one puts off drinking water in the morning, especially in summer, the less will he require dur ing the day : if ratlcb"ls drank during the forenoon the thirst often increas es and a very unpleasant fullness ia observed, in addition to a metalic taste in the mouth. The ffesrs Water a man drinks the better' for him, beyond a moderate amount. The more water a man drinks the more strength he has to expend in getting rid of it, for all the fluids taken into the system musS be carried out and as there is but little nourishment in water, tea, coffee, beer and the like, more strength is expended in conveying them out of the system than they impart Co it. The more a man drinks the more he must perspire, either by the lungs or through the skin ; the moro he per spires the more carbon is taken from the Bystem ; but this carbon is' nec essary for nutrition, hence the leas a man is nourished the less'strength ho has. The more liquids used the greater" must be the amount of urination, but this detracts a proportional amount of albumen from the system, and it is the albumen in (he food that strength ens ub. Drinking wgfer' largely di minishes the strength in two waya, and yet many are under the impres sion' that the more water swallowed the more fhoruugbly la the system "washed out." Thus, the less we drink at meeje, the better for us. If the amount were limited to & single cup of hot tea, or ho milk and water at each meal, .as liarhdzdrifsJblg' good would result to alH Many persons havo fallen hi'o the practico df drink ing several glioses of cold' water or several cups of hot tea at meals, ont of mc7e habit; all such will be grea.? ly henefitted by breaking it ap ai once ; it may be well to drink a llttiff at each meal, and, perhaps, it will" be found that in all cases it is better to take a single cup of hot tea- at each meal than a glass of cold vrf r. how ever pure. '-I'm n"6t in mourning," said young lady frankly to a querist, "but as the widows arB getting all tho offers nowadays, we poor girls hava to resort Co artiSce. A ' peerless" potatoe is on; exhibi tion in Maryavflle, which- grew in the foothills in 83 days', and weighs. li pounds'. Another instance show-, ing what the foothills can do. Between her rnpT end the white" frill insider btr hat, the f&3hio&ab2. belle peeps out like" chicken comr& i out of the shell. w CI. . Adancln master a hojrBererisa?,