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W&om3;vi-K- c a 111 - " - -..-.- .THE ADVERTISER SS9H9 THE ADVERTISES O.W.TAIRimOTHKS. T.C.HACKSB. FAIRBROTHER & HACKER, Publishers & Proprietors. 7. W. FAIBBEOTHBB. T. C. HACKER. FAIRBROTHER &. HACKER, Publishers and Proprietors. Published Every Thursday Morning ADVERTISING RATES. Onelnch.one year. Each succeeding inch, per year.. AT BROWNVH.LB, NEBRASKA. 10 0 5 00 t AA One Inch, per month. TERJIS, IN ADVANCE: Onecopr. one year One cony, six months .82 00 .100 50 -hacn additional Inch. per montn... 8o Legal advertisements at legal rates- Oneqnare (lOllnes or Nonpareil. or les)amlnsertlon. j? 00 eacbsubsequentlnsertlon.SOc. tS" All translentadvertisementsmust be vald forln advance. " One copy, three months. IIC'UV "-- . , . gj- Vn nanersent from thnoinceantllpMd lir. ESTABLISHED 1856. Oldest Paper in the State BEOWNVILLE, NEBEASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1880. READING tf-VTTER OXEYERYPAGE VOL. 24 NO. 29. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY - . r"v r 7 K r r. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. s. B.roTrvn T C WATSON William il hoovet Jndge. DItrict Attorney District Clerfc. Countv Officers. CT,TTrr. Conntyjunge II nV'iffl Sherlfl it. v nr-Af'K- . fo. .r- m ntTPIJ . -""" "-" JAf4 V. HAfKBrt. PIIIT.TP (MOT"TBR JOHV H.SHOOK. jouvir. piiiimian I. II. PERRY. i; iv. -v. '- " "L. -Surveyor Ischool Superintendent : Commissioners City Officers. W.T. WiW j t unt.nntn j. n. iwicrca "ravnr .Police Jndze Clerk ..Tr"Mirer Marshal JOHN. W. I.OVE rouxcuMEN. r..n.Rontv:ovi JOEPTT w in v. f W.A. TmKTVO A. TT.rr.MOUB f " ,WK him.. ) r.nrnnv ut. f H.A.nsMnu.. ..lstWard 2nd Ward 3rdWard SOCIAL. UIR"ECTO.Y. 4 -'.V-v -. - " Jv' "w Glmrches. MrtlindNt n. rhMrrH.-Scrvicesoachahbnth atlO-.TOa. m.. and 7-on p. m. iin1nv School at Zin.m. PrivT etlns Thursday evening. S. P.Wir.sov. Pastor. rimorhn rSnr-h.-Rcrvlces each Sabbath at !0;tn -x. m.. and Tli n.m. fi-hVtf h Pf.b'a',J mornin-'vicw. Priver V-tlnrVlnertav oronlnr at -A o'clock. W J. WKr.nER. Pastor. Clii-t' Chnr .?,.-S(rvirs "V Sunday, a IOiW a m. and 7f n. m Snndur csehool at p. m Rev. MAtthew nr.N-RY. Missionary In charge. nir. rionint c0'Hf riin'i r'",,Ttt,:,,',,12:7 Church lour tnilps onth-wetnrnrownvllle. rr vires first .ihn.-ith In each month. R. J. JOiiN- snv, I'astor. ChrKtmn Chiirch.-R.A.nawlev "Rider Pre-jrh- Ing everv Snndiv at 11 a. m.. and .iTOTn. m. Bible Roidlnsand Pravermeetlins every nelav evening. ElrterClias Rowepreaclies thesecond Sundav In every month. Catholic-Services every 4th nnday of each month, at 10 o'cloch a. m. Father Cummlsky, Tries t. 'Scliools. n-n.vnviu T7n?nn-nir-ii '"'"rTjT;,; Wallace. Principil:-"riss Alice Hltt. Assistant lUch School: Mls T-nn Tucker. '"TJTnJiwto tiTtment: Miss r-ll-Fnrnv. 2d Intf.rm,Vi, Miss Emmi T. TToltr.. 1st Intermediate: STIss i:mmn Clark. 2d Prlmirr: Mls Anni w. J Ronald and Miss Emma J. Morgan, 1st Prlmarj. Tom-nlo of Honor. nrmvnviJlo T.odee. o. - meets ej-"J n divevenincinOld Fallow Hall. VWtlnsbroth--rs cordlallv welcomed. Jno I.. Carson. .i. i Wm. IT. Hoover W. U" : T C. Hacker, I.. II. JnrrnlirTrmplr, meets o-erv ".Sgj jtoon. Miss Orvre trr. C. T: Jliss.tarj nackscfs;: Mrs. T. .Minlck.Supt. ZRwl Riblioii'Clnlj Meets the firt Tii"dav of ench month, ley, Pres.; A IT.OIlmore. Sea B. M. Rai- SI. O. of O.T. BrowuvlUo T.ode Vn.5. T. . O. O. W.'".'!?.: meetlnss Tnesdav evenin- ot each vf,ii,l,M Imr brothers reiectnr.lv invited. A.ir.OIlmore. S.(i. J as. Cochran, ecy. Meets everv ?ntur.!ar. Pliillp Crother. .. T. C. KrmseyJ R. Sec 'SJ KnisV.ts of ?TtWas." KxrrlHlor l.odce No. IS. K-l'cJfiS Wedrtelav evenlue In Afasonl" IJaH A I"timr Knlehts cordlallv invited. U. Huddart. C.C. E. Lowman. K. of R. S. Masoaic. Ni"rtalm Vnlley l.ndsrr No. 4. A. V. V . M. Stated meetlncs "s'nrday on or h" 'Mil of each moon." Tdceroom oien everv Satur ?Uv evening for lectures, lwiractlon and social intercourse, J.&McXaucliton,W .M. R.F.bou tler.Sec . . Brosrnvlllr Rhnntrr No. J-Thmnnti7 A R neetlnsssecondT'inrsdavoreach month. A. U. Pavlson. M.E.TT.P. R. T. Ttalney. Sec Ml. Cn rmrlCn-ntnrtiidcryNo.n, K.T.-Stated meetings -e-ond Mondav In earn monlh. R. . Furnas. E. C: A. W. Xlckell, Rec. Rosr and T.nvrnnrlayp.No.fiS.K.n.r. K. C.-Meets at Masonic Hall on the H t Mo tlavs. R. V. Turnas, M. P. Sor. R. I.iiainej. Mrs. E. a Handlcy, W. M Societies. Conntv Fnlr A.sorintion.-R. A. Hawley. PreMdenT; John Bath. Vi-e Pr-st.: . A. Os orn. Serrefarv: J. M. Trawbrldge. Tressurer r rs-H. O. Minirk . Cochran. F. E. Johnson, Thomas Bath. Geo. Crow. J. " . OavlU T.lbrarv sorlil.n -R.M. Bailey, Pres.: A.H. Oil more. Sec: V. H. noover. Choral Fnlon.-J. C. McXaughton. Trest. J. R. Docker, Sec Blake Drntmtlr Asorintion.-. T. Rogers, !;. t -rt iinrkpr sw. and Treas liess Manager. BUSINESS CARDS. S. HOTiTjADAY. A . Pliyxlelnn, SurReon. Ohstetrlclnn. Oradnated In 18. T.ocatd In Brpwnvllle 1S-v5. 011ce.-lMlntreet.Brownvineb. Jj. ATTORXBY AT'tAW And Jnstlre orthe Peace. Odlce In Court Ilouse Rail ding. Brmvnville, Xeb. i) ATTOKVK?" sT I. AW. OTlce. over Theodore Hill A Co.'s store, Brown vllle.Xeb. . T L. isCHTOK, 1. ATTORM5Y AT1.AW. O-Hce over J.T.. McGee.t Bro's store. Brownvllle. sebrska. C A70SUORN". Ot ATTHURT ATliW. omce.Xo.81 Main street, Brownvtle. Xeb T H. BROADY. ) t Attorney ami Counselor at Law, OniceoverStata Bank.BrownvllIe.Xeb. WT. ROGERS. Attomry anrt Counselor at l.aav. Vlllglve diligent attention to anylegalbnslness entrnstedtohiscare. OHcc In the Roy building, Broxvnville.Xeb. T W. GIBSON, Bll.VCKlSiriTII A.XD HOUSE SHOCK Workdone to order and satisfaction guaranteed First street, between Main and Atlantic. BrowD vllle. Neb. AT. CLINE, f FASHION RT,E eRi BOOT AND SHOE MAKER Pij CUSTOM AVORK made to order, and fits always guaranteed. Repairing neatlv aid promptly done. Shop, Xo. 27 Main street, Brownvllle.Xeb. B. ar. BAILEY, SHIPPER AXD DKALr.n IX LIVE STOCK lUtovrxriLLE, Nebraska. Farmers, please call and get prices; I want to handle ycur stock. Office First Mational Bank. FRATCZ EELMER, AGQH asgLACKSMSTHHOF OXE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE. WAGON MAKING, Repairing. Plows, and all work done in the best ownnerand on short notice. .Satisfaction cuaran eed. Give him acall. T34-ly. rirlARLES HELMER, FASHIONABLE Boot and Shoe MF tfi MTA-KBR. Having bought tlie cus tom shop of A. Robison, I am prepired to do work of all kinds at Reasonable Rates. jC2"RepaIrlnK neatly and promptlydoue. Shop No. C2 .Main Street, r-iivW&3 -nr.-iifisy SwW s&&m &mg f&- ' RroirxvHtei 'Vcbmska. ikjV-s ? cs- AUTHORIZED BV THE 0. S. G0TERX3IET. First M mmmm OF- BROTTISTVIIL1L.E:. Paid-up Capital, $50,000 Authorized " o00,000 IS PUEPAHEDTO TRAXSACT A' General Banking Business BUY AXT SELI. COIN & OUEBENOY DEAFTS on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe MONEY LOANED On approved security only. Time Drafts discount ed. and special accommodatlonsgranted to deposlt rs. Dealers In GOVERXMEXT B0XDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES DEPOSITS Received pavableon demand and TXTEREST al lowed on; tlmectrtiilcates ofdeposlt. DIRECTORS. Wm.T. Den, B. M. Ballev, V.A Handley. Frank E. Johnson, Luther Hoadley Wm. Fraisher. JOHN L. CARSOX, A. R. DAVISON. Cashier. President. I. CMcXAUOHTOX. Asst. Cashier. ITT & EiWY Workers in W ood. andiron, at the old place, foot of COLLEGE ST. WAGONS, MACHINERY, . PLOWS, ETC, promptly repaired. All kinds of BLACKSEIITHING done to order, and Satisfaction Guarantied. GHARL! Hereby calls the attention of the people of TtrownvWo and vicinity to the fact that he keeps a full line of the Oest FAMILY GROCERIES, jpizorisioxs, FLO JIB, CONFECTIONS, etc. And sells at the very Lowest Living Rates. lie also has a EST'AURANnp Where Meals at all Hours are furnished tii0ii liies-nrtest notice. People from the country are Invited to call and get a "square meal" for. only 25 CJDA'TS. Aaron Palmer. Bolt. Johnson NEW RESTAURANT. Palmer & Johnson. First Door West of the Old National Bank Building. This firm, havlng'ntled nn those rooms wll run a nrst ctas resiaui.nn, wuuie uw" warm meals can be had at all hours. They "ive their customers the best viands in the market, including fresh oisters served In any manner called for. Try the New Restaurant All Ortlerilfbr an Express Left with Tlicm will be Promptly attended to We Mean Cured, Not Merely Relieved A.nd Can JProre What tre Claim. C3 Tliero arc no failure p.n! nodIwp polntmenta. If joti arc troubled wltU SICK HEAHACIIE n can beoanlly and qnlcltly cured, an hnndredi linTe been already. We hnU be ileaed to mall a lieet of testlmontnln to any tuterented. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Also cure al I forms of Biliousness, prevent Consti pation and Dyspepsia, promote Digestion, relieve distress from too hearty eating, correct Disorders of the Stomach, Stimulate the Liver, and Regu late the Bowels. They do all this by taking Just one little pill at a dose. They are purely vegeta ble, do not gripe or purge, and are as nearly per fect as It Is possible tor a pill to be. Price 3 cents, 5 for (I. Sold by drucRist everywhere or eent by mail. CARTER 31EDICLVE CO., ERIE. PA. old oy A. . . i en. -... i MABSH HOUSE, JOSEPH O'PELT, PROPRIETOR. Llverr Stable In connection with thelTonse 3-Sta;e office for all points East, West,-S3 .SSr-Xo'-lhi.tSonih. Omnibuses to-5& Bconuect with all iraius.a& A.5IPI.E ROOMS ON FIRST FLOOR JACOB MAROHN, MERCHANT TAILOR, and dealerln FlneKuslish, French, Scotch and Fancy Cloths Vcfctincs, He, Kte. Broivnvitle. Kebraslta. M JSHEUftSjS PalnratinoUJavwliereltisuseil. TUslliecheau estineIifiieeverinnde Flvedrons cover a sur gice as lai-.eps Hie Jianrt. One dose i-nros common horeTIiro.-i. One bottle lias cured Bronchitis. 50 cents' worth liasruml an Old Standing Coush. It positivelvrnieaCatjiirli. Abthmaand Croup, nr- tVfPllls Wl!. lino ..! i.t.1. t ..- t. .'.' . - vw... ... , ,ulni vhuk. ill ue i.iir.ir. nun matter here it may be. nor frem what cause it Jnayanse.it always does you good. Twenlvfive cents north lias cured bail cases of chronic and Moody Dysentery. One tesspoonml cure? Colic In lirtcen minutes. Itwillcuieativca.se of piles that Is possible to cure. Six or eight aimliuition are warranied to cure any case of Kxcorlatcd Xipplps orlntlaiiied Breast. ForBnilsrs.lf applied often and iHJitnd iii. there Is never the slightest di-coloi-atiouto theskiu. It stops the pain of a burn us soon asapniled. and is.t positive rure for Chilblains. I- rosted Teet. Boils. Warts. Corns and wounds or every description on man or beast. Price, tt) cents and SI. Trial size, ir.rents. F0STER.3IIXBURX CO, Sole Proprietors, Buffalo. X. Y." bold lit Brownvllle by A. W. Xlckell. At The RROCERYAND PROVISION U STORE OJF l Is the place to got Groceries, . Provisions, Confections, Fine Cifras, Toilet Soaj), Canned Goods, Fresli Butter, Etc., Etc., Etc. Wo also' keen all the hesf. hmmi r.ri flour, and everything usually kept iu' a first class grocery .store. I We have in con- S"J" FEED STORE nectlou niih our bousea first class ESTABLISHED IN 185S. OLDEST BEAL ESTATE A.G-ElsrCY IN NEBRASKA. William H. Hooirer . Does a general Real Estate Business. Sells Lands on Commission, examines Titles, makes Deeds, Mortgages, and all Instru ments pertaining to the transfer of Real Es tate. Has a Complete Abstract of Titles to all Real Estate lu Nemaha County. IsTO. 43. Proprietor Old Reliable URKET. Give Him a Call And you will be well 0 Served with the best ! tlie Market a (fords. ir nsro. 43. T0TT?ST PILLS . INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEfTaND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE,! THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. TUTTS' PIUS CURE SICK HEADACHE. Dr. Tctt has sne- ceeded in combining in these pills the hereto fore antagonistic quali tiesof a Stuehqthino, PtmoATivE. andaPu- TUTT'S PILLS CURE DYSPEPSIA. TUTT'S PILLS CURE CONSTIPATION. TUTT'S PILLS CURE PILES. biftinq Tome i Thoir first ODnarcnt effect is to increase the appetite by cnusiugtho food to properly as similate. Thus the sys tem is nonrihcd, and by their tonic action on the digestive orcans, regular and healthy e vacnationa are pro duced. TUTT'S PILLS The raDidirr vrilh CURE FEVER ANDAGULoTrHwtun'n TIITT'W PS I I QIpUls, indicates their o- W I V I IbbVldl aptability to nourish CURE BILIOUS C0UC. the body, hence their efficacy in curing ner vous debility, melan choly, dyspepsia, wast- TUTT'S PIIFS cre kidney ctephhtiaesrattrte fllTTin mi t tlchronic constipation. lUM'd riLLd CURE TORPID LIVER. TUTT'S PILLS .IMPART APPETITE.. and impartinchcalth & strength to the system. Sold everywhere. Price 25 cent. Offico 53 MnrTay Strect . . KEW YOBK. B. Bell Andrews, ML D. HOMEOPATHIC i & mm. atB-WIll give prompt attention to all night calls"Sa Special attention given to Medical and Surgical DLteases of Women, and Sfelical and Sutgical DIs easeof the Eye. Oflice over Gates store, next Dr. Collins. Residence lonr door north ol Brattons. store on Sixth street, tn the Vancll house 20mS T.ETTER HEADS, ff " m BILL HEADS Neatly printed atthisolnce. P HJ JOSEPH BODY, m HEIT PITSC A KEAYY BUEDEN. "Rather a heavy burden, isn't it, my boy ?" Clarence Spenoer, to whom the words had been addressed, turned from the Ledger, and looked toward the speaker. Clarence was a young man not mora than 25 and lie was book-keeper to Solomon Wardle, a pleasant-faced, keen-eyed man of 50, who had spoken. "A heavy burden, isn't it, Clar ence?" the merchant repeated. AndBtill theyoungman was silent. Hia looks Indicated that he did not comprehend. He had been for some time bending over the ledger, with hiH thoughts far away ; and that his thoughts were not pleasant ones, was evident enough from the gloom on his handsome face. "My dear boy, the burden is not only heavy now, but it will grow heavier and heavier the longer you carry it." "Mr. Wardle, I do not oomprebend you." "Ah, Clarence!" "I certainly do not." "Didn't I call atyour house for you this morning?" Clarence nodded assent. "And didn't I see and hear enough to reveal to me the burden you took with you when you left? You must remember, ray boy, that I am older than you are, and that I have been through the mill. You find your bur- ben heavy, and I've no doubt that Sarah's heart is as heavily laden as your own." And then Clarence Spencer under stood ; and the morning's scene was presant with him, as It had been pres ent with him since leaving home. On that morniug he had a dispute with Iiis wife. It had occurred at the breakfast table. There Is no need of reproducing the scene. Suffice it to say tliat it had come of a mere noth ing, and had grown a cause of anger. The first had been "a look and tone; then a flash of impatience; then a rising of the voice; then another look; the voice grew higher; the reason was unhinged; passion gained way and the twain lost sight of the warm, enduring love that lay Bmitten and achiug down deep in their hearts, and felt for the time only the passing tornado. And Clarence remembered that Mr. Wardle had entered the house and caught a sight of thestorm. Ann" Clarence Spencer thought of one thing more; he thought how miserable ho had been all the morn ing ; and he knew not how long his burden of unhappiness was to be borue. "Honestly, Clarence, isn't it a heavy and thankless burden ?" The book-keeper knew that his employer was his friend and that he was a true-hearted ohristlam man ; and after a pause, he answered: "Yes, Mr. Wardle, it is a heavy burden." "My boy, Inm going to venture up on a bit of fatherlyjcounael. I hope I shall not offend." "Not at all," said Clarence. He winced a little, as though the probing gave him new pain. "In the first placo," pursued the old man, with a quivering of emo tion in his voice, "you love your wife?" "Love her? Yes, passionately." "And do you think Bhe loves you in return." "I don't think anything about it I know!" "You know she loves you ?" "Yes." "Then you must admit that the trouble of thismorning came from no Ill-feeling of heart?'' "Of course not." "It was but a surface squall, for which you, at least, are very sorry?" A moment'shealtation, and, then "Yes, yes; I am heartily sorry." "Now mark me, Clarence, and ans wer honestly : Don't you think your wife Is as sorry as you are?" "I cannot doubt it." "And don't you think she is suffer ing all this time?" "Yes." "Very well. Let that pass. You know she is bearing part of the bur den?" "Yes, I know that." "And now, my boy, do j'ou com prehend where the heaviest part of this burden Is lodged ?" Clarence looked upon his interlocu tor wonderingly. "If the storm had all blown over, and you, knew that the sun would shine when you next entered your home, you would not feel so unhap py !" Clarence assented. "But," continued Mr. Wardle, "you fear that there will be gloom in your home when you return ?" The young man bowed his head bb he replied in the affirmative. "Because," the merchant added, with a touch of parental sternness in his tone, "you are resolved to carry it there!" Clarence looked up In surprise. "I I carry it?" "Aye; you have the burden Inyour heart, and you mean to carry It home. Remember, my boy, I havebeen there, and know all about it. I have been very foolish in my lifetime, and I have suffered, until I discovered my folly, and then I resolved that I would suffer no more. TJpon looking the matter squarely and honestly in "B Iace. a round that the burdens whioh had so galled me had been self imposed. Of course suoh burdens can be thrown off. Now you have resolv ed you will go to dinner with a heavy heart and a dark face. You have no hope that your wife will meet you with a smile. And why? Because you know that she has no particular eause for smiling. You know that her heart la burdened with the affliction whichgivesyou so much unrest. And you are fully assured that you are to find your home shrouded in gloom. And furthermore, you don't know when that gloom will depart and when the blessed sunshine and love will burst in again. And why don't you know ? Because it is not now in your heart to sweep tbo cloud away. You say to yourself, 'I can bear it as long as she can 1' Am I not right?" Clarence did not answer in word?. "I know I am right," pursued the merchant; "and very likely your wife is saying to herself the same thing. So Clarence you see it does not rest on the willingness to forgive, hut upnu the inability to bear the burden. By-and-by it will happen, as it has hap pened before, that one of the twain will surrender from exhaustion; and it will be likely to be the weaker par ty. Then there will be a collapse. and a reconciliation. Generally the wife falls first beneath the galling bur den because her love Is keenest and most sensitive. The husband in such case, acts the part of a coward. When he might, by a breath, blow the cloud away, he cringesland cowers until his wife is forced to let the sunshine ia through her breaking heart." Clarencejlistened.and was troubled. He saw the truth, felt its weight. He was not a fool, nor was he a liar. Du ring the silence that followed he re flected upon the past, and he called to his mind Bcenes just as Mr. Wardle had depicted. And this brought him to the remembrance of how he had seen his wife weep when she had failed and sank beneath the heavy burden, bow often she had sobbed up ou his bosom In grief for her error. The merchant read the young man's thoughts, and after a time he rose and touched him upon the arm. "Clarence, suppose you were to put on your hat aud go home now. Sup pose you should think, on your way, only of the love and blessing that might be with this thought, you should enter your abode with a smile upon your face ; and you should put your arms around your wife's neck and kiss her, and softly say to hor, 'My qarling, I havo come home to throwdow'n the burden I took away wlthjiSehTs morning. It is greater than I can bear.' Suppose you were to do this, would your wife repulse you?" "Eepulse me?" "Ah, my boy, you echo my words with an amazement which shows that you understand me. Now, sir, have you the courage to try the experi ment? Dare you be so much of a man? Or do you fear to let your dear wife know how muoh you love her? Do you fear she would respect aud es teem you less for the deed? Tell me do you think the oloud of unhappi nees might thus be banished? Oh, Clarence, if you would but try it?" Sarah Spencer had finished her work In the kitchen, and in the bed chamber and sat down with her work In her lap. But she could not ply her needle. Her heart was heavy and sad, and tears were in her eyes. Presently she heard the front door open,' and a step in the passage. Cer tainly she knew that step! Yes, her husband entered, and a smile upon his face. She saw it through her gathering tears, and her heavy heart leaped up. He came and put his arms around her neck, and kissed her; and he said to her, in broken accents, "Darling, I have come home to throw down the burden I took away with me this morning. It is greater than I can bear." And she, trying to speak, pillowed her head upon his bosom and sobbed and wept like a ohild. Ob! could he forgive her? His coming with the blesBed offering bad thrown the bur den of reproach back upon himself. She saw him noble and generous, and she worshiped him. But Clarence would not allow her to take all the blame. He must share that. "We will share it so evenly," said he, "that its weight will bo felt no more. And now, my darling, we will be happy!" "Always!" Mr. Wardle had "no need, when Clarence returned to the counting- house, to ask the result. He could read it in the young man's brimming eyes, and in thejoy-inspired'face. It was a year after this and Clar ence Spencer had become a partner in the house that Mr. Wardle, by acci dent, referred to the events of that gloomy morning. "Ah !" said Clarence, with a swel ling bosom, "that was the most bless ed lesson I ever received. My wife knows who gave it to me." "And it serves you yet, my boy?" "Aye, and it will serve us while we I live. We have none of those old bur dens of anger to bear now. They cannot find a lodgment with us. The flash and jar may come as in the other days for we are human, you know but the heart, which has firmly re solved not to give an abiding place to our ill-feeling, will not be called upon to entertain it. Sometimes we are foolish ; but we laugh at our folly when we see it, and throw it off; we do not nurse it till it becomes a bur den." m Texas has a man "born without a brain," an early precaution against getting them blown out probably. redpedros:reyexge. A Birthmark lVhicli Betrays the Pa ternity of n Child. An extraordinary and savage a ro mance of crime as waa"ever recorded, comes from that section of the Span ish coast washed by the restless wa ters of the bay of Biscay. At a village called San Salvador, a handsome young priest took oharge of the spirit ual welfare of the fishermen who made up the settlement. He was highly popular among his rude flock as a jovial companion, a monk of the antique stripe, whose vocation did not make him averse to a good din ner, a deep wine-cup and a.Ioud joke. The women made him an equal fa vorite. When their men folks were abroad upon the waters, Padre Hiero nlmo was certain to loiter from door to door, beguiling the tedium of their loneliness with a ready jest, a pleas ant story, or a serious word. Among his female communicants was the daughter of the only wine shop keeper In the village, a pretty girl of 17. Manuelita Lebos was be trothed to a fisherman commonly known as "Red" Pedro, from the complexion of his beard. Their mar riage was solemnized by the priest early last summer. Two months later the wife gave birth to a child. This quick work very naturally astounded her husband, and her explanation that it was a freak of nature was far from satisfyiug him. The youngster was too healthy an accident, and the age of miracles was past. His suspic ions had no definite direction, how ever, until he noticed one day on the neck of Padre Hieronimo a peculiarly-shaped, tinted birthmark. The similar portion of his wife's child's anatomy bore a like mark. Red Pedro began to smell a rat, and before long bad succeeded in hunting that wily rodent down. His wife, for months before their marriage, had sustained the pleasing relations of the bride to a churohman, if not of the church, and the miracle of the two months' baby was explained on very commonplace grounds. By the time he found this out the christening of the child had been ar ranged. Ostensibly in honor of the priest, it was to receive hia name. On the morning of the christening, how ever, it was found to have disappeared from its cradle, and ail search for it was vain. Thesuperstitions fishermen believed it hadjbeen spirited away by witchcraft. Manuelita wept, the priest looked solemn, and Pedro smoked cigar after oigar and said nothing. Tliia excitement had hardly died down when on Sunday morning the hell of the little church failed to toll as usual. Investigation led to the discovery in his hut, of the servant of Padre Hieronimo, who officiated as bell-ringer, bound band and foot, and insensible. When he came to he de clared that he had been thus secured by a band of demons, who bad then swept on to the priest's house, drag ged that holy victim from his bed, and disappeared with him in a oloud of fire. Diaphanous as this story was, people believed it in the absence of auy other. The priest had certainly vanished, and that was as dramatio a way as"any for that end to be achiev ed. A few days later, however, the dogs of a charcoal burner, scented in the wild-infested pine forests back of the coast, the corpse of a human being and a few rags of what had evidently been a priestly robe. They were scat tered about the base of a tree, around whoso trunk a strong cord was bound. What was left of the skeleton of some small animal or other, was mingled with the larger human remains. The news of this discovery! reached Pam peluna, and an official of the police was sent out to investigate it. He investigated into viribiiity some very curious faots. One was that since the translation of the priest, Red Pedro's wife had not been seen, having been bo closely confined to her husband's house that no one but him self ever approached her. Another was that Padre Hieronoimo's servant had, since he lost his place, been liv ing at old Salvadore Lebos' tavern like a prince, eatiug, drinking, and making merry without rendering any equivalent for his protracted revel. Putting this and that together, with certain facts which he learned qb to the premature iufant and the missing priest's early attentions to the mother, the official recommended the arrest of Red Pedro, and his wife and father-in-law. Soldiers were sent from Pampeluna to perform that duty. Somehow or other the menaced parties had got wind of their peril and introduced themselves in Lebos' house. Red Pedro had removed hia wife and set fire to hia own domicile A formal seige of the tavern followed. It was a stout stone and timber structure, and the garrison was well victualed and armed. For three days they held out. On the fourth; a smuggler, who had a grudge against old Salvadore Lebos, appeared on the scene, and offered for a consideration, to lead the besiegers into the beleaguered strong hold. His proposition was accepted. Old Lebos bad, it it seemed, been a re ceiver of contrabaud. There was a subterranean communication be tween the cellar and one of a number of curious caves in tbo low oliff upon which San Salvadore was built. By this way the smuggler led the soldiers in upon their prey, who after a fierce struggle, were secured, not, however, before Red Pedro had succeeded in riddling his wife with stabs. The wounds were mortal, but they restored the woman to a reason which had forsaken her some time before, and previous to her death she made a deposition which put an end to all the mystery of the child and lover's disappearance. It was her husband who, on the night of the'ehristening day, had strangled her baby before her eyes and buried it in the tan-pit where he dyed the sailB of his boats. It was he also who, assisted by her father and the priest's servant, who was his cousin, had fallen upon Padre Hieronimo, and seized and dragged him to the forest. There, after hide ously mutilating him, they had left him bound to a tree at the mercy of the wolves, attracted to the spot by a freshly killed kid. They had bound and left the servant as be was found, and his subsequent prosperity had been his guerdon for his assistance of their purpose. The woman who had been compelled to be an eye-witness of her lover's fate bad become an im becil, and for fear her gibberings would betray him, her husband had held her a close prisoner. Comforted with these facts, the as sassins made no effort to exculpate themselves. Red Pedrosaid: "He deserved all he got. I would have served the pope himself the same." The servant gave perhaps the most curious explanation any man ever offered for participation in a crime. In reply to the question why he had assisted in it, be said : "He was my cousin." "And was that a reason to kill him." "Yes. What right had he to bring the family into disgrace ? But he was a bad one, anyway.' "How'so?" "He was a perfect miser. Judge for yourself. When he got a cask of wine or a keg of brandy from the smug glers, he locked it up and no onecould taste it but himself. Is it a wonder, then, that I felt an affection for those who were liberal to me?" All three prisoners were sentenced to the minea for life. Medical Letter. Thirty Reasons for the Prohibition of the Traffic of Intoxicating Liqnor. 1. They deprive men of their reas on for the time being. 2. They destroy men of the great est intellectual strength. 3. They foster and enoourage ev ery species of immorality. 4. They bar the progress of civili zation and religion. 5. They destroy tho peace and hap piness of tens of thousands of famil ies. . 6. They reduce many virtuous wives and children to beggary. 7. They cause many thousands of murders. 8. They prevent all reformation of character. 9. They render abortive the strong est resolutions. 10. The millione" of property ex pended in them are lost. 11. They cause the majority of cases of insanity. 12. They .destroy both the body and the soul. 13. They burden sober people with millions for the support of paupers. 14. They cause immense expendi tures to prevent crime. 15. They cost sober people immense Bums in charity. 16. They burden the country with enormnus.taxes. 17. Because moderate drinkers want the temptation removed. 18. Drunkards want the opportun ity removed. 19. Sober people want the nuisance removed. 20. Tax-payers want the burden removed. 21. The prohibition would save thousands now falling. 22. The sale exposes our families to destruction. 23. The sale exposes our persona to insults. 24. Tbo Bale upholds the vicious and idle at the expense of the indus trious and virtuous. 25. The sale subjects the sober to great oppression. 26. It takes the sober man's earn ings to support the drunkard. 27. It subjects numberless wives to untold suffering. 28. It la contrary to the Bible. 29. It is contrary to com mon.eense. 30. We have a right to rid our selves of the burden. I will send you a recipe for curing warts, which I have tried and know it to be a sure care. Procures wild turnip out of the woods, cut a piece of it off and rub tbe inside of it on the wart a few times, and in a Bbort time the wart will be gone and will not leave any scar at all. If the wart la large and raw it will be a little sdre. "Female barbers," aald Snodgrass, repeating a paragraph announcement hejust read in the paper, "Idon't be libve In 'em." "Why not?" we asked. "Because I remember what trouble Sampson got into by letting a woman cut his hair." Some one has asserted that knowl edge Is equivalent to force ; but tbe aphorism will uot bold good at night in a bedroom Infested by mosquitoes. Milk soup is a very nice dish children or sick persons. for A FIGHTLXG TAR. The Amcrlean Sea Captain TOto Clean ed out the Queen's "Sayce." From the Boston Times. We have recently heard an inter esting anecdote by which one can de duce a novel and adorn it into a tale, of howsecond thought often prevents vast complications. There is a Yan kee skipper from Maine, well known bb a coal trader, Captain Pitcher. He is, like most Maine men, large pro portioned and powerful.cjSome years ago he ran the Krauz from Washing ton to Boston, but has been abroad since, trading between this country and the continent. As the etory goes a British troop-ship, commanded by an irritable Impetuous old duffer of the Queen's "navee," was at anchor in a foreign port. Captain Pitoher'a bark was being piloted in, and, thro' some mismanagement, fouled the jib boom ot the troop-ship, doing, how ever, little or no damage. The old officer, in a fury of rage, howledj: "Come on board, sir." The Yankee skipper, not exactly knowing what to do under the cir cumstance, pulled in his gig to the ladderof the troop-ship and mounted to the deok. He was somewhat Btart led when, as be stood upon it, the old officer called : "Sentry, arrest that man." The skipper was; astonished, but quickly answered : "I am an American citizen. lam unarmed, but no man shall arrest me." "Arrest him, sentry. Don't you hear me?' roared the Captain. The sentry advanced to seize the skipper, but was met with a left-hander that would discount a pile-driver. Quickly the Yankee made for the gangway, striking down every man who interfered, leaping into his gig and pulled off to his bark. Straight to the American Consul he went, and put his case before him. The latter told him he would attend to the mat ter, and the next day the skipper call ed. The Consul sat at the center of the table; to his right was the En glish officer, no other than Vice Ad miral Sir James Hope, K. C. B., in all the splendor nf full uniform. "Admiral Hope, Captain Pitcher," introduced the Consul. 'Captain,I am delighted to meet you," responded tbe Admiral. "And now let the war go on." He spoke in the suavest manner and with tbe sweetest of smiles. The skipper bluntly said that he thought tbe English officer should apologize. "Not at all; not at all; no, dear friend. You came on board my ship, whipped the entire Queen's navy, and escaped without a scratch. Is that not sufficient satisfaction ? Don't let us have any Alabama claim busi ness; please don't ask an apology; you are too good a fellow, I know, to force it." "Well, Admiral," began the Cap tain, greatly molified, "well Admiral, I sorter guess that perhaps it's all right." "Of course it is. We are diplomats and I have some splendid brandy in my cabin. Theseare excellent cigars ; we will adjourn tto our braudy and cigars, and our two natlonB wilUpost- poue wio war. j.i an oi your sailors. are like you, I should prefer that the war be indefinitely postponed." Nebraska Wheat. . 'Let's see, they raise some wheat la Nebraska, don't tbey?' asked a Scho harie granger of a Bug-eater who was spending bis vacation at Saratoga. Raise wheat! Who raises wheat? No, sir; deoidedly no, sir. It raises itself. Why if we undertook to culti vate wheat in that state, it would ran us out. There would not be a place to put our house.' 'But I have been told the grasshop pers take a good deal of it." Of course they do. If tbey didn't Idon'tknow what we would do. Tho cussed Btuff would run all over the State, and drive us out, ohoke us up. Tbe grasshoppers are a God-send, on ly there ain't half enough of 'em.' 'Ia that wheat nice and plump?' 'Plump! Why I don't know what you call plump wheat, but there are seventeen in our family, including ten servants, and when we want bread wejust go out and fetch in a kernel of wheat and bake it.' 'Do you ever soak in water first V 'Oh, no; that wouldn't do. It would swell a little, and then we couldn't get it into our range oven.' Rural Exchange. When Kate and Joe were children small. And crept about the floor. One chair would scarcely hold them both. Nor was there room for more. Now Joe Is twenty, Kate eighteen. Yet, strange as it may seem, I saw the sight the other night Myself and 'twas no dream. For though they both had larger grown. Yet I will take my oath That In the parlor on that night Ono chair was holding both. i te The Rev. William McKay, after reading several notices from bispulpifc In the Methodist Church, at Geneva, Ind., eaid there was another matter as to which be desired to inform his congregation. His wife bad eloped with Mr. Hatton, a neighbor. A cord of wood contains 128 oubio feet. To ascertain how many cords there are in a pile of wood, multiply the length by the height and that by the width, and divide the product by 12S.