tSVi , jMMpi:-gawK-gww j y -.. rvsrssrva .r.3; Lfc Bpantiftil Things. Beautiful faces are those that vrear It matters little If dark or fair Wholo-Boulod honeHty painted there. Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth-flres glow. Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful Jips are those whose words Jycnp from the heart like songs of birds. Yet whose utteranoo prudence girds. Beautlful'hands are tlioe that do Work that Is earnest, and brave, and true. Moment by moment, the long day through. Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro Down lowliest ways. If God wills It so. Beautiful shoulders Are thostbat bear Ceaseless burdens of homely care. With patient grace and daily prayer. Beautiful lives are thoso that bless Silent rivers of happiness, Whose hidden fountains but few maygness Beautiful twilight, at set or sun. Beautiful goal, with race well won, Bcautirul rest, with work well done. Beautiful graves where grasses creep, Where brown leaves fall, and drifts lie deep O'er Arorn-out lands Oh, beautiful sleep! a fortdxate:ikiss. A Boy Charmed By a Snake. An Old But Good Story. The following pretty story is nar rated by Braner, who vouches for its truthfulness. In the great University of Upsala, in Sweden, lived a young student, a noble youth, with a great love for studies, but without means for pursu ing them. He was poor, without con nections. Still he studied, living in great poverty, but keeping a cheerful heart, and trying to look pleasantly at the future, which looked so grimly at him. HiB good humor and excel lent qualities made him beloved by his cotnrade3. One day he was standing at the square with some of them, prattling awayanhourof leisure, when their attention was arrested by a young and beautiful lady, who, by the side of an elder one, was slowly walking over place. It was the daughter of the Governor of TJpsala, living in that city, and the lady was her governess. She was generally known for good ness and gentleness of character, and looked at with admiration by all the students. As the young men stood gazing at her as she went by, like a graceful vision, one of them suddenly exclaimed : "Well, it would be worth something to have a kiss from such a mouth. ' The poor student, the hero of our story, who looked on that pure, angel ic face, exclaimed as if by inspiration: "I think! could have It." "Well, well,' exclaimed his friends In a chorus: "Are j'ou crazy ? Do you know her?" "Not at all," be answered, "but I think she would kiss me if I asked her." "What, in this place aud before all our eyes?'' "Yes." "Freely?" "Yes." "Well, if she would give you a ki?B in that manner I will give you a thou sand dollars," exolaimed one of the party. "And I, and I," exclaimed two or three others, for it happened several rich men were in tke group, and bets ran high on so improbable an event. The challenge was made and received in less time than we take to tell it. Our hero (my authority tells not if he wa3 plain or handsome ; I have peculiar reasons for believing he was rather plain, but singularly good look ing at the same time) immediately walked up to the young lady and said "Mine fraulein, my fortune is now in your bauds." She looked at him in astonishment, but arrested her footsteps. He proceeded to state his name and connection, his aspirations, and re peated simply what had just taken place between him and his comrades. The young lady listened attentive ly, and at his ceasing to speak, she said blushingly, but with great sweet ness: "If by so little a thing so much good can bo effected, it would be fool ish In me to refuse your request." And publicly, in the open square, ebe kissed him. Next day the student was sent for by the Governor. He wauted to see the man who had dared to seek a kiss from his daughter that way, and whom she had consented to kiss. He received him with a scrutinizing how, but after an hour's conversation was so pleased with him that he or dered our hero to dine at his table dur ing his studies at TJpsala. Our friend pursued his studies in such a manner that it soon made him regarded as the most promising stu dent In the university. Three years are now elapsed since the first kiss, when the young man was allowed to give the second kiss to the daughter of the Governor, as his wife. He became, later, one of the most noted scholars in Sweden, and was much respeoted for his character. His words will endure while time lasts among the works of science; aud from this happj union sprang a fami ly well known in Sweden at the pres ent time, whose wealth and high po sition in society are regarded as trifles in comparison with their great good ness andIove. Subterranean. Mr. Fleming, the well known hat ter of Felix street, has been digging a well at his residence, and after pass ing through several strata of hard clay, at the depth of sixty feet, the workmen came to a bed of sand that was perfectly alive with little red ants. Whether these little travelers came from the surface, or if they be Indig enous to the bowels of mother earth, does, not transpire. We do not doubt the evidence of naturalists who tell us of frogs and trllobltes which must have rested for ages in the old sand stone formation, but we have here an ooular demonstration of animated na ture at such depth below the surface that we would naturally suppose it oould not exist. Si. Joe. Herald. A correspondent of the Reading Daily Eagle, writing from Windsor, Pa., gives the following remarkable story of a large black snake charming a small boy. 1 h e w ri ter says : 'For the past two weeks a son of Allen Rogers, aged eleven years, a wood cutter on the Blue Mountains, about three miles from Hamburg, has been In the habit of leaving his fath er's house every morning about 9 o'clock and not returning till noon. The parentsof the boy have question ed him several times as to where he went, the boy would reply, to play with a neighboring boy named Sprin ger. On Frida' last the father watch ed his boy, and followed at a short distance. When about half a mile from the house the boy en tered a piece of thick sprout land, in from the road some two hundred yards, where he seated himself upon a large rock, and in less than ten minutes the father was horrified at seeing a monster black snake crawl on the rock and put its head on the boy's lap. The father states that the snake was the largest he ever saw on the hills. He states that it was easily fifteen feet long, and as thick as his arm, which is well de veloped. The boy had taken bread with him and was feeding the snake, which at short intervals would stick out a large tongue, as if hissing for more to eat. Then it would coil itself around the neck and body of the boy, aud play with the boy's hands with its head and neck. The father had often heard of snakes charming chil dren, that if they were disturbed while in the act they would kill the child. As the father turned to leave his boy with his deadly companion he looked back, and the snake, hear ing a noise, at once uncoiled itselfand raised its body at least four feet from the rock and looked in all directions, and then it returned to the boy's lap. The father returned home and await ed the boy's return, which was, as usual, at noon. When told that he had been seen playing with the snake, the boy said the first morning he met the snake ho liked to play with it; then he took it food, and he was so much pleased with his companion that something told him he must meet the snake every morning. One morning he said he was late, and when he reached the place the snake was standing up, and it came out to meet him, then followed him to the rock. On Saturday morning the fath er and two of his neighbors went to the place with guns, and at the usual time the snake made its appearance, when all fired atone time, killing the charmer. On taking it home Mr. Rogers found the above measurement to be nearly correct. There is something very strange abouta snakecharming not only chil dren, but I have heard of adults com ing under their charms. There i3 certainly some truth in thefascijating powers of snakes," TVhyPoor Stock Does Not Pay. The follow iug dialogue, which we find in the National Live Stock Jour nal, illustrates the subjeot of stock growing, in its relations to profit or loss, in a way which no farmer can fail to comprehend : Stranger. What are farms worth in this part of the country ? Farmer. Well, about $50 per acre. Was offered that for mine a few days ago, Stranger. I saw a statement in the National Live Stock Journal, from Messrs. Jas. N. Brown'sSons, that on the gras3 plain that Is where cattle run to graBS the whole year around it takes four acres to carry a steer thro' a year, Is that about right ? Farmer. I do not take the paper you speak of times are too hard to permit a farmer to take papers but the estimate of the Messrs. Brown is just what I allow on this farm. Stranger What kind of stock do you graze? Farmer. I have the common stock of the country that's good enough for me. I dou't want any of the new fangled cattle on my farm. Stranger. Well, this is my first visit to these parts. I don't know any thing about what kind of stock your native cattle are, or how profitably they can bo handled. Am looking for a location hereabouts, and shall be glad to get j'our idea about handling stock here to the best advantage. At what age do you market your steers ? Farmer. I keep them until they are four years old past. Stranger. And what do they weigh at that age ? Farmer. Well, they varj', you see, considerable. Some of them will go 1,200, and,others not quite so much. Handling steers on grass is not as fa vorable to extra heavy weightas grain feeding; but then, you see, less labor is required, and, on the whole, I am of the opinion that it pays as well or oetter than feeding grain. Stranger. You sell in Chicago, I presume? How do prices average? Farmer. Well, we have to take prices as we can catch them they are up and down. If I have a good lot 1 sometimes get five and a half cents per pound for them. Stranger. What interest can be se cured on money loaned here on mort gages ? Farmer. Well, ten per cent, is the going rate. Stranger. Then I guess I will not invest in a farm, if I have got to han dle these native steers you speak of. That business will never do for me. Farmer. Well, how bo? Stranger. You callyourland worth $50 an acre. It takes four acres, or $200 worth of land to keep.a steer a year. Money commands ten percent and over; and so you should have $20 a year for inteaest on your $200 worth of land. You keep your steers uutil four years old and over; and they, therefore, cost you $80 at the lowest calculation. They weigh 1,200 pounds and you sell them at five and a half cents, after paying freight to Cb.Ica.go, commission, exchange, eta., which according to my arithmetic, makes $66 a plump loss of $14, and the freight to Chicago on every steer you raise. If I was in your place I would look up some newfangled stock, if there is any to be fouud anywhere. You would look a long way, I think, before you would find anything else that would do as poorly as the kind you have. I am not surprised that times are too hard to take a newspa per. If you were to raise a steer or so less you might have a little money to spend. Farmer. Weil, I never juet figured It out before; but it does 6eem to me that this thing of grazing these steers its not quite as good as it ought to be. But, could I do any better ou any other kind? Stranger. Why, of course you can, Good grade short-horns will mature a year younger; and, at $20 a year in terest on your four acres of ground, would cost you at three year old but $60; and even if they weighed no more at that age theu your scrubs do at four, and even if they sold for no more per pound, they would sell for $66, leaving $6 profit, when the scrubs make $14 loss a difference of $20. Now, this is not all but I have not got time to stop and discuss this ques tion with you. I have a few old copies of the Dive Stock Journal in my poc ket, and I will leave them with you and go on my way. If you glance over them, you will find some excel lent articles bearing on this subject. Do not remember now just the full particulars, but you will find it all figured out there, the names of the parties given, the prices paid in the markets, etc.; from which you will find that your grade Short-Horns at three years will weigh something like 200 pounds more than your scrubs at four, and that they sell for one to one and a half cents per pound more in the market. The grade short-horn costing $60 to raise, by your showing, will sell for $91 a profit of $31 while your scrub makes a lossof $14. If you handle one hundred steers a year, there is, as I figure it up In my head, about$4,500 difference between scrubs and good grade short-horns. Good morning. g da The Summer Rose. BY.ll. II. WILDE. My life is like the summer rose, That opens In the morning sky; But ere the shades of evening close. Is scattered on the ground to die. Baton the rose's humble bed ThesweeteBt dews of nightnre shed ; As if she wept such waste to see; But none shall weep a tear for ine. My life is like the autumn leaf. That trembles In the moon's pale ray; Its hold is frail, its date is brief, Restless and soon to pass away. Yet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade. The parent tree shall mourn Its shade; The winds bewail the leafless tree; But none shall breathe a sigh for me. My life Is like the print whlch;feet Ilnve left on Tampa's desertjstrand ; Soon as the "rising tide shall beat, This track shall vanish from the sand. Yet still, as grieving to ellaca All vestage of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea ; But none shall. e'er lament for me. Story of p. Thousand-dollar Bank Note. The death Josiah Cobb recalls a sin gular incident of his life. About 1829 a colored woman named Sarah Ridge ly called at Mr. Cobb's grocery and purchased a small amount of groceries, giving him a thousand-dollar bank note in payment, thinking that it was a one dollar note. Supposing that it was stolen, he detained the bill and advertised for au owner repeatedly; but, no one claiming it, he invested it In city stock. Several false claim ants appeared for the note and it was the subject of several lawsuits, which terminetediu Mr. Cobb retaining cus tod3'. The history of the claimants is as follows : Mr. Cobb one day was conversing about the money with a man who made so many particular inquiries that Mr. Cobb mistrusted his motive, and told him the woman was dark and had a large wen on the side of her neck when in fact she was a mu latto, and had no such wen. Soon after a dark woman with a large wen on her neck appeared from the Balti more alms-house and professed to be the Sarah Ridgely, but the fr'aud was easily exposed, aud up to this time the woman who left the bank note has not been heard from. Mr. Cobb al lowed the money to remain with ac cumulated interests until 1866, when it amounted $3,740, and then he pre-, sented itto the Union Orpan Asylum. $275.00 Parlor Organ easily earned by a lady in Two Weeks Canvassers Wanted male or female. Send 10 cents for sample Magazine and full partic ulars. Address ZEB CROMMET'S MAGA ZINE, Washington, KewJersey. PERRY & BERGER, ARCHITECTS) CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS, AND GENERAL JOB SHOP! Foot Main Street, north side, BROWiVVILLE, NEBRASKA. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTINGS SOH.IOIT3EX. m "X l t WSmk ,ltu I Clocks, Watches, Jewelry JOSEPH SITTJTZ, No. 59 Main Street Brownvillo. Keeps constantly on hand a largo and well assorted stoeK or genuine articles in nis une. 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