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- -VB. JaMb fci fgf THE ADVERTISES O.W.FA.rRBJBOTlIK2. T.C.KACZEK . FAIRBROTHER &. HACKER Publishers & Proprietors. THE ADVERTISER. T. C. HACKER. FAIIWJROTIIEIl & HACKER, Publishers and Proprietors. Published Every Thursday Morning AT imOWNVILL.E, NEBRASKA. TB!L3I. I ADVANCE One copy. oe)eavr Onecopr.'l . 1 00 50 One ropy. Uree bU . , i..nli1.t!1t)3.1d tuT. jy Xo papr seal irom tnc " r . CEAWIXG .UATTKK OXEYERYPAGE ACTHOniZEl. HY THK C. S. GOVERNMENT. First National Bank O F BROTVNVILIiE. raid-up Capital, $50,000 Authorized " 500,000 IS PXBPAltEUTO TRANSACT A General Banking Business BUY AND SELL OOIN & OtJEKENGY DKAFTS on all the principal cities or me United. States and Zuropo MONEY LOANED Or approval crlty only. Time Drafts discount t-a an4pctalM)oominMl.-ition5srante1tndeposlt-r. DeilmU OOVBRXMEXT BONDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES deposits; ltccw,v4 pjrble ondwttatwl and INTEUESTal-I-atcB Meitleataor deposit. WRBCTORS.-Wm-T. Den, R. 5T. Ballev. ZX.A if aiMttey. Fraak K- Jebuen, Luthor Iloadley Was. Prafefcer. JOHX L. CARSON, A K.pAVISO:?.CMhier. J. CMcN AUG HTON. Ast. Cashier. President. It. now proprietor of tbe itffflilfc L) and ib prepared to nccotnodate tbo public with GOOD, FRESH, SWEET Gentlemanly and accommodating clerks will t all timet. Ie In ultendiince. Your pttlnmaH solicit!. Remember tbe place th old I'ascot! sh-j. Mnin-s( , JSrotrnviitc, - .Ycbrasket. JL.JST1D TJxe Celebrated or "W. W Kimball, Of Chicago, Keep in stock a full line of PIANOS and ORGANS. For full particulars, "W & prices, call on or address, J. E. DYE, Local Agent, OR E. !&- Lippitt, PIANO nnd VOCAL TEACUEK, JSrownville, - - Nebraska. BUSINESS CARDS. 1.1 K. HObLiAUAi:, iX Physician, Surgeon, Obstetrician. Graduated In 1551. Located In Brownvllle 18S5. Oiflce.U Mala street. Brownvllle, Neb. L. HULRURD. ATTORNEY AT LAW And Jmtk-e of the Peace. Office ia Court House 'Building. BrowBville, Neb. SQTULL & THOMAS. Jlj ATTnn.VF.rs at law. 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All kinds of TONSOHXAL WORK done promptly and satisfaction guaranteed. THE BEST D'S'JES mado are always in preparation. l. iR0"z mUAi Keeps a full line of Ornamented and Plain. Also Shrouds for men. ladips and infants. All ordirs left with Mike Felthouser will receive prompt attention. 3 Bodies Preserved and Embalmed. 5R JLnin Street, IHlty.YXYILLE.XEU. ZBOZD" & BBO. Proprietors OXiD RELIABLE BROWSYILLB, NEBRASKA. GOOD, SWEET, PRESH MEAT, Always on Sand. Satisfaction Guarantied. THE ADVERTISER J OH PR3NTGHG DEPARTMENT. A fine assortment of Type, Bor ders, Kulea, Stock, fcc, for printing, BUSINESS, VISITING & WEDDING CARDS, Colored and Bronzed Labels, STATEMENTS. f LETTEK & BILLHEADS ENVELOPES, Circulars, Dodgers, Programmes, Show Cards, BLANK WORK OF ALL KINDS, With neatness and dispatch Cheap or Inferior Work XOT SOLICITED. FAIEBROTHSa & HACK3R, CaTson Block, BROWSYILLE, NED. 30,000 Feet COTTONWOOD Lumber For Sale. Apply to J.C. Bausfield. 2Z S CUrk StCbieago. I III ltySivrctitjr.n! 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The boy who loves his mother well. The little cavallor. To see no trace of sorrow Upon her loving cheek ; To gain her sweet approving smile. To hear her softly speak. Ah, what in all this wide world Could bo to him so dear? The boy who loves his mother well, The little cavalier. Look for him In the future Among the good, the true ; All blessings on the upward way His little feet pursue ; Of robed and crown'd and soeptored kings, He stands the royal peer, The boy who loves his mother well, Tbo little cavalier. George Cooper, in Nurzcry, THE LAWS OF NATUEE, A Sermon uy Prof. David Swiflg of Chicago. Text In His law he meditates day and night. Psalms I., 2. It is one of the painful facts of our world that the Creator of man should be bo invisible. To us, viewing the situation with an imperfect sense, it seems a misfortune that we must la bor hard to prove that there Is a God, and must then fail fully to convince others or ourselves, and that this ar gument must be made over and over by and for each generation. If tho human race is six thousand years old, then we are presented with the spec tacle of a six thousand year inquiry as to whether the race came from a per son or from substances. This has the appearance of being a great misfor tune, for it would seem that with tho human family, as perfectly convinced of the being and moral quality of a a Creator as it is of the existence of tho continents or the oceans, we should have before us a spectacle of morals and of development differing greatly from the humiliating scene we now behold. If atheism or the de nial of a God be an injurious form of opinion, then an uncertainty as to the presence of such a Being would re semble atheism as a part always re sembles the whole. If the denial of a God be injurious, a partial belief is al so held at a loss. I am not decfaring what would have been or what should have been, for it is not given to man to know or say how the universe might have been better ordered. No one dares declare that a perfect mauifeet Deity would have given the earth a better human race, for such a positive decla ration would involve the ability of man to measure the universe, and to suggest to its Author certain amend ments. But while no one dares thus suggest amendments, yet we are all competent to confess what 6eems to our limited powers of survey a form of mental and spiritual misfortune. And it iB with the full"confession of the imperfections of man aa a judge that I state that the perpetual neces sity of attempting to prove the exist ence of a Creator soems to be one of earth's misfortunes. Having thus pointed out a seeming calamiti of the individual and of civ ilization, let us seek the best seeming antidote to this ill. When great plagues spring up amid the populace, or roll in upon the people from the outside, a wave not of frost nor of flood, but of disease, men endeavor at once to seek the best possible cure. After the bod' is racked with the fe ver, after the plague-spot has redden ed in tho forehead, it is too late to think of prevention, the question of the hour becomes one of cure. So in our moral world, unable to prevent any longer the inroad of doubt, un able to have a visible and tangible God, we must seek some power that will cast the mind and heart the most possible toward His presence. What leader most lik9 a God shall we fol low ? In this emergen oy I for myself feel that we can sll come nearest to this invisible God bj tracing out perpetu ally and obeying faithfully the laws of the universe so far as they can be learned. An assumption that these are the next thing to an audible voice and a visible form will go far toward preserving us from all the forms of mental and physical and spiritual loss. Unable to commune fully with the Lawgiver, shall we not amend the bad effect of such solitude by dai ly companionship with the laws? Will not the faithful study and ob servance of the laws lead to the best conviction and the best conception of a Creator? And will they not brine to us the best termination of this life, even should religious doubt accompa ny man to the end ? It is most prob able. One of the best explanations of the absence of the Heavenly Father from mortal sense lies in the assump tion that He passed adequate laws for human good, and' therefore left man alone. If there are rules of conduct for each daj and hour, then, in that fact, might be found some reason why the face is withdrawn of Him who made the rules of being and ac tion. Be these surmises as they may, the world of law envelops U9, and as the generations pass tbe envelopment seems more and more grand and com plete. Let us mark this, that mankind must necessarily obey some voice through all the centuries of its exist ence. It has never been without a guiding voice, and it never will belof faith and bis delineation of its pow 3R0WNYILLE, NEBRASKA, without such a commander. Look back, and you will find Egyptian, and Indian, and Greek, and Roman act ing under the advice "bf some human reason or mysterious oracle. The Greeks and Romansasked the flying birds and the entrails of brutes, the roar of Scy 11a, the mutteringB of Del phos, the tinkling of bells, hung upon sacred oaks, to tell them what move to make next upon the field of private or public life. Th'under at the left hand of a general, or the dream of a captain, or the sneerings of a man in the ranks might make an army halt or advance. Thus all the large period of human history is held firmly by this phenomenon of mankind being led by eome external guide. This be ing so we can olassify these popular leaders under the two heads of super stition and law. Religion, you will say, has been and ia a great leader of man, and this shall be admitted ; but I would place the religion which must enter into this form of argument un der the same two general heads su perstition and law. The religion most worthy of confidence must be itself full of conformity to law, and free from superstition. I affirm, therefore, that the human race during this par tial absence or eolipse of its God must follow one of two guides, superstition or law. Religion being essentially reasonable, it oannot be made a pecu liar form of life. The reaction in favor of law is in these days becoming very great. The kings which once studied tbe flight of birds, or listened for the first thun der on the right or left, are now studying the laws of industry and commerce and force and liberty, and feel that they must adjust heir em pires to these dictates of reason. Therefore, it has come to pass that absolutism has almost ceased to exist, and limited, almost democratic, mon archy, has come in Its stead. What absolutism remains in Russia and Germany is, it seems, on the verge of decay and death, being thus brought low by the fact that our ceutury 13 studying the rights of the universe more than it is studying the rights of kings. All the laws of industry, of personal independence, of self-development, of popular rights, are rising up to overthrow thrones founded up on some old assumption, or, perhaps, fraud or superstition. The people once thought that the same Jehovah which had made for them such a strange heaveu, and yet more strange hell, had made also kings for them who could do no wrong; but all these entities have been affected by a deeper study of universal principles ; and by as much as both rulers and subjects cast them selves upon the statutes of the great universe, by so much do they ail find more of success and happiness. It ha3 been perfectly demonstrated that the more the people have to do with the laws of education and labor, the more they call to their aid the truths of soi ence and of soil, and of machinery and honest barter, and the honest dicta of reciprocal right, the greater and happier they become. It is demon strated that the greatest nations are those which have discovered and are obeying the most natural laws. And the nations under the darkest cloud to-day are those which, like Russia and Turkey and India, have attempt ed to make a throne stand firmly up on the quicksand of all possible forms of caprice. Under this head of law I would place Christianity itself, and make it a leader, not so much by its inherent authority as by ita rational qualities. If in tbe absence of God from sense we are to follow the laws, tbeu we must bring all things to the law, for, should we not. thon we have no trust worthy standard by which to inter pret the commands of Christianity. It was once thought a most shocking sentiment of the late Albert Barnes that if his New Testament taught the right of slavery he should declare that some error had crept iuto the Testa ment, and not into the law of human conditions; but it is not to be doubt ed that the most of Christians will now make the same affirmation, and should their Testament Beem to justi fy Blavery or Intemperauce, they would defend liberty and sobriety, un der thefeelingthatthe unwritten laws of God are greater than all the manu scripts of antiquity. An error might find its way into a Greek epis tle more easily than into the human soul in its long study of right and wrong. The God who Is assumed to have made the Christianity is assumed also to have made tbe morals which sur round us. The evidence that God gave us tbe Bible is no greater than the evidence that He passed the laws which seem to envelopus; and, there fore, it is that we may often ask the latter fact to help us interpret the He brew or Greek text. Just as there are courts of equity to which cases may be referred, in which the written law might work a hardship to one party, so in tbe moral world there is a high equity, to which bar even the digni fied form of Christianity may be call ed, that it be prevented from working ill to anyone, slave or subject, or Pa gan or infant. The most I10I3' word of Christianity "faith" should itself have been interpreted In the large vol ume of nature, and have been saved from association with great crime. It was hurried away from its import by fanaticism, and was emptied of all its deep friendship for Christ or God, and was made to mean an espousal of words and tanets. Luther's definition f THURSDAY, JUNE ers are the curiosities and the shame of religion. The number of men and women and children tortured and slaiu for not having the right kind of faith has almost equaled those slain in war, whereas could the Christian term have been adjudicated in the courts of reason, it would have im pliqd only a friendship for Christ, and would have bound into one brother hood millions rent by discord. But faith waBdefined by superstition not by nature. Greatly as our age has been reform ed by permitting Christianity to be interpreted by natural law, there are yet traces of the, injury which can be and has been wrought when natural lawbas been set aside. Now and then comes some one who supersedes in dustry by prayer, and teaches men to pray for that which they Bhould work or cease to wish. At times there comes along Borne one who will cure disease by a magic water, or by a mumbling of petitions, which would have shamed old India; but these phenomena have almost wholly dis appeared in the comparison of our times with the past. Then supersti tion 'was everything and natural law nothing. That most sickening tragedy of Po casset, when the father and mother of a beiutiful and tenderly-loved child felt called upon to offer their little daughter to God in sacrifice, may well remind the Christian world what sad work Christianity may perform when it cuts loose from natural law and acts upon Borne theory of voices heard in the night, or upon the order of somo-epecial revelation, or upon some incident in a miraculous history. This father and mother had been fed upon some form of Christianity, out of which God's daily rules of action have all been stricken a Christianity which had made the universe all re-, volve around Abraham offering up Isaac. The recent letter of the guilty mother isoneof the most pitiful pages in all terrible volumes made up by modern events. She says that her husband daily felt that he must make some great trial of his own faith, and step by step ho reached the conclu sion that he must offer up his daugh ter to Jehovah. He went onward with tho terrible preparation, not fortifying himself by any study of tbe laws of human life and right, the rights of children, the rights of socie ty, the tender duty of parents, but fortifying himself by a study of the .toryoi t patriarch who-lived 4.UUU years" ago. The mother says : "My dear husbaud thought that before the knife should reach the child's heart God would bo satisfied, and would stay the outstretched hand, but when this was not done, and the child lay dead In the house, we then faithfully believed that God would raise up our dead daughter, and through her res urrection preach with power the gos pel of salvation." But this restora tion did" not come, and the lovely child sleeps In the cemetery. But if the resurrection of tbe little girl did not come to make effective the gospel, its decay and dust do come to render powerful the union between gospel and natural law, and to teach us anew and afresh that Jehovah loves His laws of chifd-llfe and child-preservation as much as He loves the story of Abraham and Isaac. Had the child been in any way spared or recalled to life there is no infant in the Second Advent Church whose tender life would have been safe on Its mother's bosom. We should have hadmothers feeding poison to their children that they might see for themselves tbe in tervention of God, and have seen eaoh home seek its own miracle. It will not be a sufficient explana tion of this distressing murder to state that the parents were insane. Indeed their reasoning was unsound, and to that degree they were insane. But we need a better solution of the crime, and that solution issimply that when Christian teachers fill the minds of the common people with the idea that natural law is for atheists and infidels, nnd that Christians are partners of God, and enjoying miraculous advan tages, then those teachers become tbe fountain of all such child-murders. In England recently the civil law was compelled to interfere to break up the delusion of some Chiistian9 who were treating their sick by means of prayer. They denied cleanliness and bath, and nutriments, and medicines, and were going to God in prayer. The law was compelled to Intercede and set up against such a religion the natural laws of man. At Pocasset, in our own land, the name tendency of a miraculous religion has repeated Itself in a way horrible enough to arftuse the continent. Insanity!! Of course it was, but of sucha quality that in different degrees it holds in its sickly spell tens of thousands of Christians. It is rumored that we have clergy men in this city who have discarded natural law and have cast themselves upon the same kind of miraculous Christianity which has just borne its bitter fruits in that little grave. I shall not mention any name lest tbe rumnr might be false, and from hope that it may be false. But It Is certain ly reported thatsome preachers in our city decry all study and literature, and all this naturalism, and are en joying the direct help of God In their meditation and their preaohing. If the story is not true in our latitude, it Is true out of it, and tells us that there are extant among us causes which will spring into awful life from time to time to make wider than erer the dis tance between the church and the best manhood and womanhood. 12, 1879. In a book upon the interposition of God In favor of praying Christians a story is told of a widow who, in her morning prayer for food and other es sentials, had omitted to ask for coal, but by a subsequent postscript to her prayer she soon brought to her cottage a good cart load. Now the difficulty with this story Is just this: You and I know of good praying women In the depths of poverty who, after sewing all day and all night nearly, and whose prayers are sincere and min gled with many a tear, must yet go forth and buy ten cents' worth of coke or a bushel of coal at a time, and have done this often all through winter and storm. And If in this same city there are poor women who by prayer can get a whole load of coal at a time, then such load of coal destroys the justness and goodness of God, and makes a Christian woman who sews long and prays fervently a subject of utter contemnt in the. kingdom of God. In a world where there Is such respect of person with God you and I would want to be counted along with the praying women who buy ten centB' worth of coal at a time. Such books enhance prayer, but destroy GoJ. All this divorce of religion frorasol ence or from rationalism Is making religion work an injury to mankind. Prayerand all service and all natural law are inseparably blended. All these are God's and He loves the nat ural law as much as He love3 prayer. It was my good fortune odce to fall into conversation with a mechanic who had quit regular toil and was just entering upon what he called a life of trust. He was attending meet ings each night and was conversing with a few lost men eaoh day, and was about to trust God for the welfare of his wife and children and self. It was my task for an hour to combat his new philosophy. I could but tell him that God hated simple, abstract prayer. He was amazed. If you pray for God to bless your industry and your economy, j'our early rising and faithful work in your trade, then you will get help and answer all along, but if you pray for God to bles3 your prayer, God will mock at the petition. Infinite wisdom will not reward prayer as asimple intellectual or spir itual act; but it will reward a prayer that asks help upon one's industry and economy. God is not so fond of compliments that He will like an old Oriental King deal out free viands and free raiment to those courtiers who will most flatter him. It is tbe prayer of a laborer who rises early and lives temperately that God loves. He'.wants no complime.nts. A Christianity well regulated by the unbending laws of the universe is what we all need in these times. Christ Himself indeed came per-salt-um, by a miracle, into tbe world, but we ask reason to interpret Him most perfectly to our intelligence. The turning of the other cheek to the Btriker, the hatiug father and mother for His sake, the forsaking all to fol low Him, the leaving the dead to bury the dead, the life of faith, are all handed over to the great laws of the universe to be interpreted; and thus Jesus, having fallen into the world, at once mingles with his elements and becomes a part of the noble earth. And in the presence of such a religion that little girl in our East would not have been bound by a father's hand and killed by misguided faith, but she would to-day havo been seeing the New England hills in their leafy green, and have heard the birds in the forest chanting the harmony be tween the God of the hills and the God of the Testament. A religion left to theguldanceof in dividualImpulse that Is, to the dic tates of men whohearvoice3 from the eky will always be the parent of vice and cruelty, or of abject indolence, The laws of nature, which regulate labor and property "and rights and happiness, are the laws which must regulate Christianity as well. If God be absent from eye and ear and touch, then these laws are the instruct ions left us until the day of his com ing. Not knowing that any one may repeat the act of Abraham and if so what one may do it, we must fall back upon the general law that all parents must hold precious tho life of each child, and must love them always, and must lament that life is so short. Having no general instructions to live by prayer without work, and seeing the law of labor all around us, we must follow the general instructions until the days shall come of some un mistakable repeal of this order by the Throne. There have been times upon earth when some subordinate has departed from the orders of his chief, and has fought a battle, or made a treaty or a large purchase in the absence of his superior, but this has come to pass from tbe assumption that the absent one were in ignorance of the fact, or may have left commands that sprang from envy or fear. But the laws of the universe come from a source that Is a stranger to Ignorance or fear and jeal ousy, and they will He before us all, the map of our whole campaigns in the field3 of time. Instead of being the study of infidels, the charm of atheists, the laws of nature may well be the comfort of the devoted Christ ian, the Instructions of that mighty and beloved General who has never lost a battle In any world, and who has never outstretched His arm ex cept in tbe cause of justice and love. The soldiers of this King may well regret that their poor, dim eyes can not see their Commander pass once VOL. 28 NO. 51. before them in bis chariot, cannot hear Him deliver a battle charge on the eve of these mighty conflicts with the ranks of sin, regret that they can not see that Right Hand part the clouds and show them where the path of Christian heroism shall end In vic tory and peace, but, unable to behold Him upon whom is written King of kings, they can only look into the book of tbe laws and find there the marchings of tho day and hour; find there the music of the perpetual ad vance. The act of an Abraham was that of an hour and of one man ; no Christian dares imitate it; the Elijah who received his food from the wild ravens wa3 the incident of a strange day ; no Christian will dare ask the ravens for bread ; but the laws of na ture are from everlasting to everlast ing, the basis of all action and faith and hope. The dootrines of Christi anity must mingle with these kin dred drops in the great cup of life. A DAI'S EPISODE-. BY WILIilS GRIBBLE. If it wouldn't be asking too much, now "said Mrs. SylvesterStephens, looking down at her filigree fan. She was sipping iced lemonade out on the veranda of the Bay View House, Fla. coast, she and.Mr. Gains Wiltoo,. "Too much !"eohoed Mr. Wilton, in mild disdain. "My dear Mrs. Steph ens, as if such a thing could be!" Mrs. Sylvester Stephens laughed a tiny, delicious ripple of harmony. "There, there, Mr. Wilton, don't rush intojthe vortex of avowals again ! Have some pity upon my nerve3, and remember that women of forty odd 11 "What possible trouble could it be ?" querried Mr. Wilton. Mrs. SylvesterStephens sipped the last draught of lemonade, from her glass before she answered his counter query. "To be truthful, I 'thought you might not care to go out of your way to serve me, after after the event of last week." "Oh! about my proposal to Verna, and your refusal to let me havo her?' "Exactly," said Mrs. Stephens. For you must know that Mr. Gaines Wiltou had followed Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Stephens to Florida for but one purpose namely to make love to pretty Verna Stephens under the aweet scented magnolia trees; and he had carried out his purpose most effectually, so for as the love-making went; beyond that, it was a complete failure. " Verna.shan't marry any one," said Mr. Sylvester Stephens. "And of course you are too honora ble to thiuk of an elopement" said Mrs. Stephens. And that is bow matters stood on this warm October morning, when Mrs. Stephens and Mr. Wilton were sipping iced lemonade on the veran dah of the Bay View House. "I'll go at ouce for the check," said the lady suddenly. "And do be care ful of it, Mr. Wilton, and tell no one of your mission ; remember that, above all things." And she walked past him Into the house, carrying with her a strong breath of wood vio lets and a heavy rustle of trailing vel- vet. Ffvft minntPs later she returned, just in time to slip a neatly folded block of paper Into Mr. Wilton's hand and see him leap aboard the creaking stage coach as it jolted by. An hour later, Mr. Wilton sprang from his high perch beside the driv er, and hurried up the narrow Bteps leading to the Fim National Bank of Sea Bend. "I should like to have thi9 check cashed at your earliest convenience," said our hero, thrusting the check through the trellis window. The teller looked at the check and at Mr. Wilton, then at the check again. "Certainly of course. Three hun dred dollars to order of bearer, signed Sylvester Stephens." "Eh? What's that?" and straight way upon the scene trotted the bear er of that imposing title. "A check signed by you in favor of bearer for $300." "Who's the bearer?" cackled Mr. Sylvester Stephens, growing purple to the chin. "The gentleman at your Bide." Mr. Stephens adjusted his gold bowed spectacles andjtooka moment'a Inventory of Mr. Wilton. "Yes, yes, I know you tho fellow that's been hanging on to the heels of my family for the last half year, os tensibly to make a fool of himself by aspiring to my daughter's hand. I know yon, sir you insignificant six foot cur! I know you! I know " and with a sudden gasp Mr. Sylvester Stephens suddenly subsided, and fora brief moment contented himself with glaring at our luckless hero from over the gold rim of his glasses. "What's to be done sir?" broke In the teller. "Done!" echoed Mr. Sylvester Stephens. "A pretty question for a man of your knowledge and years! Done! Why, arrest this forger at onoe!" "But listen amoment!" blurted out Mr. Wilton, "I'll explain no I won't either!" he added valiantly, a moment later. And so it happened that Gains Wil ton dined on bread and water, and rested in the narrow enlcosure of the Sea Bend jail room that day. iA pretty piece of business !" gnr- ADVERTISING RATES. unelacb.one year- .110 00 Each succeeding Inch, per year- 5 0 10O One Inch, per month. Each additional inch, per montb. Tii """'" 'i ra.tra . uEOU&re. (lOUnes or NonpareB.or les)arstlnsertJon ,i 00 . eachnbseqnentinsertlon.50c. .fi.v. J83- All transientadvertisementsraust be riaid forln advance. Tiill IIl1VB.tUanAnt. a. 1-Mnl K.. OFFICIAL PAPER'.OF THECOUXTY ssBEBaaesaa gled Mr. Stephens, toddling Into hla wife's presence two houra after. What?"querried Mrs. Stephens la blissful serenity. "That villainous scamp, Wilton!" "bafc new enormity havo yon found in him?" "Enormity? It wasn't an enomity Sophia, but a. check for $300 with my name forged to It!" Down went Mrs. Sylvester Steph ens' hand with a sudden quick move ment. Down went Mrs. Sylvester Stephens herself into the nearest chair. "A forged check, Sylvester?" with a gasp. " Ys, my dear, think of yt& A ver itable disgrace to us as well as the perpetrator! To think of his. asking for our daughter only a week ago and to-day testing the Boftness of a wooden bed and the strength of aa iron cell!" "He he isn't arrested, is he Syl vester?". "Arrested? Ye3, madan! Gad me! I believe the woman's sorry for him!" "Sylvester, you're a goose," said Mrs. Sylvester Stephens. "I am not angling for compliments, just now," emphasized that gentle man. "You deserve them, nevertheless Sylvester, that check was no forgery. I tore it from your draft-book, whera there were a dozen like it all signed and ready to be filled In." "Eh? How? What?" gargled Mr. Sylvester Stephens. "What did you say, Sophia?" "She says she Is the wrongs-doer not Gaines Wilton," said Verna Stephens, who had entered unnoticed. What? Wbata wretched predica ment we are in !" groaned Mr. Steph ens. "You have yourself to blame, r sobbed his wife. "It is uncertain which of you tbe prisoner will blame," said Verna "and it seems to me you are wasting a vast amount of time in fault finding and tears. If either of you place-the least value upon your honor, you had better go to Sea Bend Immediately." "And and conciliate him?"breath ed Mrs. Stephens from behind her handkerchief. 'What can he do, anyhow ?" quer ied Mr. Stephens, waxing brave and defiant. "Do? Tell that you are a miser, and mother a forger and thief !" said Verna. "Heavens !" and Mrs. Stephens rose hastily. Sylvester" "Yes, my dear." And they went to Sea Bend by the afternoon stage, and from her window Verna watched them, her face over spread with dimples prophetic of coming smiles. "A lady and gentleman to seo you sir," said the keeper, through the bars of Mr. Wilton's impromptu res idence. "My poor boy !" wailed Mrs. Steph ens. "A most unfortunate occurrence, said Mr. Stephens. Sophia, do be qniet. You see it was all a sort of of a misunderstanding, with some thing of a scandal attached to It. We hope no " "I have entered a suit already," said Mr. Wilton, deliberately folding his arms upon his breast and glaring aa savagely as possible at the two mis- creants beyond the bars. "Suit?" Bhrleked Stephens. "Suit?" echoed tbe lady. "That is precisely what I said. The suit was entered some six months ago for the possession of you daughter's hand. If you do not relinquish all right thereto, I shall edify Sea Bend with a recital of Mr. Stephens' pe cuniary meanness and Mrs. Stephens'" forgery." "What d'yo say?" stuttered Mr Stephens. "He wants onr consent to his mar riage with our daughter." "The scoundrel ! Sophia, it is air your fault! I declare, I'm going out of my wits!" And Mr. Stephens vocabulary was exhausted as is my space. The upshot of it all was a quiet wedding a month after. And that wa3 how the gulf between two hearts was bridged by a strip of paper. Waverly. A Big Job. That is what Lincoln would havo called a 'big job,' and Chandler used the right word when he said to the confederate majority : 'What is the job you have undertaken? You are going to undo all that tbe republicau party has done? Where do you begin f Do you begin at Appomattox, or before? It is very Important to know where you commence, and then to know where you propose to stop. Yqu have undertaken a very large job for a party of your size, and with the people who sit in judgment on youraots. But youvnll deny that you have undertaken the job.' The willow is fast becoming a rival to tbe eucatyptus for its anti-malarial properties. In the region of Asfa Minor about Ephesus, the prevalence of malaria has steadily diminished aa the tree has been Introduced. Through the efforts of Mr. Van Len nep, Sweedish Consul at Smyrna, the willow is now extensively grown In districts which were treele3srtwenty years ago.