From R 1,1; THE ADVERTISER c w. rjtxKOTJir&. y.&Kxcxxa. FAIRBROTSER &. HACKER, Publishers aai Preprltra. ?ubihbed ETsry Thursday Morning AT 3&0WXV2LL. ITEBBiBrt. TERMS, IW AirTANOE t Os ecpy. ea yaar,. Om copy, lx S103tlH a copy, tares saaalas- y Ho paper eeslfroisCn pac cntllpala luT, READn?GXJLTTEE OKETERYPAGE OmCIAL DIRECTOBT. District Ofieers. n "R.WJT n?D. Jndse. .District Attorney .District Clerk. WlLLIX H. HOOVER- Coantv Officer. miPtB BTOXL CottntTJnd?e aaiCt.CCI.BEKTSON .Cleric and Recorder A ii.nit.siuK.t- .Treasurer J. - KLECXXEE, O B.PARKEH J?n. Tl HHDOK SherlC fYimnpi Rnrrgrnr .Bsaool Superintendent .Cosamlsaloners PHtE.Tr CUOTTIEft TfJW V IT. RTTOOTC. tlOIW H. POUt-MaN W fRiSXREDFERS J City Ofieers. J ll CARSON. -Mayor O A. CECIL. -Police Jndse 3. BJKX3KEH B. A.OSBORV J. Or RCaaELI. -Cierr ..Treasurer Marshal couNciLirEN. W. HACKSEY.1 J03EPH RODY.J A ItO BISON. JL.lt aiLMOKLf- e KBionAirri E.KUDDART. -lit Ward ndWarf Jrf-V7ard BUSINESS GAUDS. J- H. BEOADT, Attornev and Onnnielor at J-air. OfleeorerStata Bank.BrownTilleJTeb. SA. 0SS01X, . ATTORSEY JlTLAW. Oa. Ko 81 Main street. Brownrne. Neb A.: S. HOLLADA1. Ph jrlelanT SBrgcsBi OtrstetrKslan. Oradnatrd In 1S1. T.ocald In BrcvnTlHe IsSS. CSce,t MAln street. BrownvlIle.Ueh. T S. ST TILL, V . ATTORITKirs AT a.A"W. OSce cf Cocntr Jode. Brownvllle. Nebraska. T L SCHICK, ! ATTOHSEl'ATl.AW. OWcc overrsst OClcc.Bro-amvnie.tirwka WT. ROGERS, Attorney anA CoBnn)ortliw. WllljlvedillseatawenUen to anylecalboslness atrsstedtobts care. Ofilce opposite Post Ofice. Srowtrrille. eb. J LE0Y, UNDERTAKER, Oo&ie, zzzie on short notice. "Hue allra west of ErownTlIlceb. T TV. GIBSON, BrJAcrcssirrn axd horse siioer Warkdoae.to order nd malefaction guaranteed Plrst streut. between Main and Atlantic. Brown Tllle.Neb. PJ A-T CLIXE FARRIONABI.R BOOT AND SHOEMAKER CUSTOM WORK raadeto order, and fits alway cnoranteed, Kepsirlnj: neatly id promptly done bop. So.S7Maln street. BrownTllIe.N'eb. JACOB MAROHS, MERCHANT TAILOE, and dealer In Fle:ErH.rPieBcli. KcotcnewcnraaeT.ciflnitTlati. Testlncs, Etc., Ktc. Brownville. Kebraska. B. M. BA.ILEY, auirrnn. akd dealer irs LIVE STOCK. XROWXVILLE, NEBRASKA. rarmers, pleaae call and get prices; I want to bundle yoar stock. Ofilce Flint Manorial Bank. IHARLES HELMER, TA8HI0XABEB Boot and Shoe Having bought the cus tom shop of A. Robison. I am prepared to do wort of all kinds at Reasonable Rates. JSRepalrlnj; neatly and promptly done. Shop No. C Main Street, ItrowttriUe "ebraslca. Asm ralner. Sett. Joinsca NEW RESTAURANT, Palmer & Johnson. First Beor West of the Old Bcildlng. Satlgnal Back atWrKfiSS81 warm meals can be hnd-at all hours, iney rlv their customers the best viands m the market. Including fresh oyattss sered In any manner called for. Try the New Restaurant All Order for an Express Left with Them Trill be Promptly Attended to We Mean Cured, Hot Merely Relieved JLni. Can JVorc WIU tee Claim. SfThtiToreBo fallnrrnml imdiiap. tntmatJk tt you are trouble! wtlU Cl IIKAWACHK roil -anl?eU and qotrkly T-uif"!. n hundred have bcn nlrrrnix. TVcfcfaall be plcacd lo snail a hTtof i-Liiinnlnl to nay Jatcrrntrtt. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Alw cure all ftrsrtof BKiocaes. prevent Oonstl palxt. Tv--ria.. promote LMpest-on. relieve J4sri Iroat itio ucarsy eating, correct Disorders of tlir Suwn' J. Ntinrulatc tb- IJr, and Rero t&trtli D-JVriR. TJiry tlnaXl this Vy taVinr Just oo iitUc p I Ma firNT Tn-v are purtiy vegeta ble. ta not srtpenr pnrc "tal are s sitarly pr-f-rti.U3sixjvUiiJrf.-rapI!lu)W. Price Sceaaj Sfir?t -' . 1 cr- --r--hTecireat byniiil. CAiiTr.n TiEnirtNE con erie. i?a- Blod by A.W. KlckelL r7yl. B. G. WHinEHORE, DE.VLEK IN GROC?ERIES, PKOVISIOIfS, SEWING MACHINES ETWIKB SICKKfE EEPaTBS a SPECIALTY, "stHlpay thaWsrheat market price for scrap IfOz. an-i ra-a, slain at.,'W5t Bro'smrlUs. n MHMDACfri !feik Ar m i -. I Xl KTHf H TB -diitt.i hV r W Br atenraiiRa :aL 93 0 V J J 3 " 1S5. ) OlAsft-Fsper i tie State. J Werrras SrfFerirs-Tfce Great European Esa ed7-Dr.J.B.Sir:pan'2 Specific Medicine. ItlsapoxltlYeeaxofarBperraatorrhea, Seminal weakness. Irapoteaey, and all disease resaltlag from aelf-aboteju skfobe. atrs. mental anxiety, lost or memory. Pains In Rack or side, and diseases that lead to con-inppUon4nsanl- xj ana an rarij jrave. The Spe cific Medicine Is belns tued -with wonderfal sneeess. Paraphleu sent free iX. IaI. Sem nd fall particulars. Price. .P??nc ''.-P0 p?r Packace. or ttr padtaKeafor $5D0 Addrew all orders to J.H.SIilPSON MEDICIKE 9:I0H?I", J06- Min . Bofflo. 2f . T. 3"SoldlnRrornrtHeor a. W.2!lekell,8yl-al 1EI. ABKWBIGHT, WATCH MAKER, 90 Main Street, BROWJNViJLLS, - NEB, Takes tais opportunity to Tliuuk the People of Brown vlll'e and Xemaha County for their Liberal Patroange dur ing the past year, and solicits a continuance of their favors. Having now & choice, new. sMHMiMnaKanMHmsBBUKanMssWBBBEB stock, of Watche, Clocks and Jewelry at prices that cannot be discounted anywhere. Call and See. Stages and Express es pass the door-; get the con ductor to put you down at 90 Mala St., opposite Lowman's.J T. A. Bath. Joseph Bodv. BATS BODY proprietors C!T! 1E1T HRIET. are now prepared to accommodate the pnbllc with Good, Sweet, Fresh Highest market price paid for JB eef . I i.ijcLagJ -AND T-A.XiZJ0"Vr. First door east of P.O. Brownville. VUTIIOBIZED BY TnE C. S. G0VEEX2IEXT. irst National Bank OF STi,OWJSTrLlL.TJJEl. Puid-vp Capital, $50,000 Authorized " 500,000 IS PREPARED TO TRANSACT A General Banking Business BUT AND SELI. GOIff & OUEEENOY DEAFTS on all the pri .cipal cities of the United States and Europe MONEY LOANED On approved secnrlty only. Time Drafta-disconnt d. and spedalaccnrnmodatlona granted to deposit rs. JDealers in GO VERXMENT BONDS. STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES DEPOSITS Received payableon demand and INTERESTa! lowed on time certificates of deposit. DIRECTORS. Wm.T. Den. B. M. Bailey. H.A Handley. Frank E. Johnson, Letter Hoadley Wa. Fraisaer. JOHN L. CAKSOX, A. R. DAVISON. Cashier. President. I. (XMeS AUGHTON. Asst. Cashier. ESTABLISHED IK 1856. OLDEST EEAL ESTATE . A.&E3SFOY XIV NEBRASKA. WiHiam H. Hoover, Does a sea era! Real Estate Busin esa. Sells Lands on Commission, examines Titles, makes Deeds, Mortgages, and all Instru ment pertaining to the transfer of Real Es tate. Has a Complete Atistraot of Titles to all Real Estate la Nemaha Cbnnty. UPHOLSTERING HD dlHG Neatly and promptly done hy MIKE EEI.THATJSER, CABINET MAKER, and CARPENTER and JOINER Shop 3 doors east of Post Office. BRO'WSrVZIil.E, NEBRASKA ESTABUSHED to all '-w--rrry -' Half-ay Doin's. Belnbbed fellow trabellers: In holdin' forth to-day. I doesn't qnote no special Terse for whnt I has to say. Da sermon will be very short an' dis here am de lex ; Dat half-way doln's ain't no 'count for dls world or de nex'. Bis worl' dat we's a llbbln In Is like a cot ton row. Where ebery called gentlemen has got his line to hoe; .And ebery time a laxy nigger stops to take his nap, Degress keeps on a growln' for to smndder np his crap. When Moses led de Jews acrcst de water ob desea. Day bad to keep a goln' Jea as fas' as fas' could be; Do yon s'pose dat dey conld ebber bab suc ceeded In delr wish. And reached de Promised Land at last, if dey had slopped to fish? My frlen'e, dar was a garden once whar Ad am 11 bed wid Ebe. Wld no one 'round to bodder dem, no neigh bors tar to thieve. And ebery day was Christmas, and dey got delr rations free. And eberyting belonged to dem except an apple tree. Ton all know 'bout de story bow de snake come snoopln' 'roan' A stamp tall, rusty moccasin, a crawlln' on de ground How Ebe an' Adam ate dc fruit an' went an hid delr face, Till de angel oberscer he came an' drove 'cm off de place. Now, s'pose dat man an "oonan hadn't 'temted for to shirk. But had gone about delr gardenia', and 'tended to delr work, Dey wouldn't hab been loafln' whar dey had no business to. "" And dedebbll nebber'd gota chance to tell 'em what to do. So half-way doln's, bredren ! It'll neber do I say. Go at your task an' finish It, an' den's de time to play ; Forebeu if tie crap Is good, de raln'U spile de bolls. Unless you keeps a pickln' In de garden of your souls. Keep a plowln' 'an' a hoeln' on a serapln' ob de rows. And when de ginnln's ober yon can pay np what yon owes : But if you quits a workln ebery time de sun Is hot, DeJsherlfTs gwyne tolebbycn ebery thing yon's got. Whatebr tli you's drlbln' at, be sure and drlhe ll troo. An' don't let nnffla' stop you, but do what you's gwlne to do; For wheqypp jiee a n!czcrIoQllnZ.den,ihore,J You's gwyne to see blm come out ob de small end oh de horn. I thank you for de'tentlon yon has gib dls afternoon Sister Williams will oblige us by a raisin' ob a luue I see dat brudder Johnson's 'bout to pass aronn' de hat. And don't let's hab no ball-way doln's when it comes to that. By Irwin RtutelL HILDA'S EXPIMMEET. It "was a tempestuous night in No vember,. The carved Dutch clock in Judge Harrison's study had just struck 9. Judge Harrison himself, an austere looking, silver-haired man, sat upright in his chair, gazing coldly at his guest. "Well," said Dr. Hooper, pulling on his gloves, "of course it isn't for me or any one else to interfere infamily mat ters. But your grandchild is left to tally unprovided for, sir." "I cannot help that," said the Judge, frigidly. "Eight years ago I offered to support the child, and the father, too, if he would only consent to leave that outlandish foreign wife of his. He inarned her against my will ; he clung to her against my will. Let him abide by his decibion." "It's only natural, Judge, that a man should cleave unto his wife," urged the doctor. "It is only natural, then, that a man should provide for the child of that wife, Dr. Hooper. At all events, I shall assume no -further responsibili ty." "But, Judge Harrison, vou are a rich man!" "Granted but, as Lmade my money myself, I feel that I-have a right to spend it to suit myself." "Hilda is a fine girl," pleaded Dr. Hooper. "No doubt, no doubt; but yon will pardon me if I feel no very great anxiety to see the child of the German singing woman who stole my son's heart away from me." Dr. Hooper hesitated. "Judge," he said at last, in a tone of appealing earnestness, "you have an other granddaughter." "I have. My daughter's child, Ma rian Lennox, makes her home with me." "And yet yon would deny a similar home to Hilda Harrison?' Judge Harrison's shaggy white brows met in a straight, frowning line. "Doctor," said he, "you will fail to make the distinction between a dutiful child and one who has been unduti fuL" "Let me see JMiss Lennox," said Dr. Hooper. "Let me interest her in the fact of this desolate, unknown cousin. She has a woman's heart in her bosom. I am sure I can move herP Judge Harrison smiled coldly as he touched a small gilded call-bell which stood on the table beside him. "Send Miss Marian here," said he to a servant, and the man noiselessly obej-ed. In another minute a tall, Princess like girl stood in the room a girl with hair of pale gold, deep blue eyea, like azure stars, and a dress of soft blue silk that fell in picturesque folds about her, and trailed noiselessly over the carpet as she walked. "Marian," said the Judge, "this is Dr. Hooper. He has come here to plead the cause of your Uncle Severn's daughter Hilda. Severn deliberately disobeyed me at first in marrying HQ dergarde Boehmer he rejected the of fer I afterward made of taking him and the child home, if he would but leave the siren -who had blichted all hi lifn 'Now he rs dead, and has left hia child BROWK VILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE unprovided for. so let hi3 child I say, as he Las sowed, reap. TTnat do you say?" "I think grandpapa is quite right," said Marian, in a soft, sweet voice. "Grandpapa is always right r "Then you have no word to speakfor this lonely little orphan?" cried out Dr. Hooper, deeply indignant. Marian laid her ringed hand upon that of her grandfather and nestled close to him. "I always defer my judgment to that of grandpapa " she said and Judge Harrison, passing his arm around the girl's waist, looked with ill-concealed triumph at the luckless special pleader. Dr. Hooper bowed, spoke his adieus, 'and departed. "When he returned to his own humble residence, a dark-eyed girl met him at the door, "Have you seen him, doctor my grandfather?" she cried, eagerly. Dr. Hooper nodded. "It's of no use, though," said he. "The old man has a heart like granite; and the .girl, your cousin, is of cast iron." "He will not take me?" "Xo." Hilda Harrison set her lips together. ""Well," said she, "then I must man age to provide for myself. "Xo hurry, lass; no hurry," said the kindly little doctor. "Go tell the wife to bring me a cup of hot coffee before I start out again." "Hilda," he said, presently, as he sat toasting his feet before the fire, with his wife knitting opposite, and Judge Har rison's granddaughter leaning against the window and looking out into the stormy darkness, "what are you going to do?" "I don't think I quite know, doctor." "You are 16?" "Sixteen and a half, sir." "And vou cannot teach?" "Oh, dear, no, sir!" Hilda shook her head decidedly. "I had no chance for much education, traveling about as I did." "Xor sew?" "2sot well enough to adopt it for a profession." "Then, for all I can see, there is nothing left but to go into domestic service." "I would take a place to-morrow. doctor, if I could get a good home and decent wages," said Hilda, quickly. "Good," said Dr. Hooper. "That is the right spirit, child ! I don't fear but what you'll make your way, in one di rection or another. But I think I can see something a little more promising ahead for vou than that" ""What is it, doctor?" "I noticed the way you took care of your poor father, Hilda, in his last ill ness. I thought then that you would make a good nurse I think so now. There is an opening in St Prancesca's Hospital. A good home and Si a day." "As nurse, doctor?" "As nurse." "And I Should See VOn-eoaiaUnaooy "frequently twice aweeTTaTleast." Hilda pondered a second or two, and then come forward with glistening eyes and red iips'apart "Doctor," said she, "I will try it." And so Clement Harrison's grand daughter donned the little muslin cap. print dress, and white ruffled apron of tue ot. x rancescan corps 01 nurses, anu set diligently to work earning her own living. A year passed by, and Dr. "Wallace sent word that a nurse was wanted for a small-pox case in the city. She Sister Superior of the St. Prancescans looked dubiouslv at her women. ""Who will go?" said she and Hilda Harrison stepped forward. "I will," said she. "I have no fears of the contagion, and I want to add to my experience." So little Hilda packed her bag and went The housekeeper of the great Pifth avenue palace was ringing her hands, half terrified out of her senses; the other servants had taken precipitate leave. "And Miss Lennox went this morn ing," said she. "I should think she might have stayed." "Who is Miss Lennox?" questioned innocent Hilda. "The old gentleman's granddaughter that he had brought up and petted like a cosset lamb," said Mrs. Hurst "Oh, the ingratitude of some folk. And if Judge Harrison dies " Hilda looked up quickly from the bottles of carbolic acid she was un packing. "Is this Judge Harrison's house?" said she. Why, of course it is." answered Mrs. Hurst "Didn't vou know ?" "No I did not know," Hilda said. "But of course it makes no difference whose house it is." "Who are you?" Judge Harrison asked, hoarsely, as the light foot cross ed the threshold. "I am the nurse from St Prancesca's. Thev call me Hilda." "Hilda what?" "Never mind my other name," said the young girl, with a gentle authority that had come to her from months of practice at weary sick-beds. "They call me Hilda; and you are not to talk and excite yourself." "Do you know you are running a great risk?" "It is my business to run risks." Three weeks elapsed. The crisis of the disease was past. The old man, weakened indeed, and sadly disfigured, was able oncemoreto sit up in hiseasv chair; and Hilda, who had watched over him with a vigilance and tender ness which he fully appreciated, was arranging fresh flowers in a vase on the table. "Hilda," said he slowly, "where has my granddaughter Marian been all this time?" "She went awaj, sir, when you were first taken ill She was afraid of the disease. "And she left me?" "And left you, sir." "There was gratitude!" he muttered hoarsely. "And when is she comins: back?" b Hilda laid down her roses, and look ed with pathetic, feeling eyes at him. "She will not come back at all, sir," she answered. "We dared not tell you before, but but her flight was in vain. She died of small-pox. last week." The old man turned away with u smothered groan. "Hilda," baid he, "you will stav with me? You -will not leave mealnne? Nay, do not speak. I know who vou are. I recognized your name when you with your father's eyes many a time TTiWs T i;t,i. r-j -C J - -tXUOa, A UUnK IrOd has" sent yOU tome. "Oh, grandpapa I" And Hilda knelt weeping beside his chair, scarcely able to believe that his loving arms were around her neck; his tears dropped on ner Drow. "un, dear, dear, grandpapa! I have so longed for some one to love for some one to love me!" And good little Dr. Hooper was well satisfied with the result of Hilda's ex periment at earnine her own livintr. "Heaven manages these things better man we do," thought he, as he remem bered his attempt at softening Judge Harrison's flinty heart morethanayear before. Hsveii Tears a Bum-Seller. Boscoble(Wh.)DiaL Mr. Stacy relates what he saw and heard in his Sixth avenue dripking pal ace: S "I have seen a man take his first glass otliquor in my place who after ward filled a suicide's grave. I have seen man after man, wealthy and edu cated, come into my palace, who now cannot buv his dinner.' This was the beginning of an address of S. Stacy, before the Cadets of Tem perance, mere lads, who sat clothed in their bright regalia of blue and red in long rows on the settees in Franklin Hall, in South Brooklyn. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Sons of Temperance, and it had been announced that Mr. Stacy, having giv en up his drinking place in Sixth ave nue, New York, would give his per sonal experience. "For eleven years I sold liquor," he said. '1 had one of the handsomest saloons in New York. Some said it was the best saloon in the city. If it was the best, God help the poorest I can recall twenty customers, each worth from S100.000 to S500.000, and only two of them now are able to buy din nerrfor themselves. To you, Cadets of Temperance. I would advise that you take rather a glass of prussic acid than a glass of liquor. If you must die, it is better to die at once. If a Gospel friend ever takes you by the arm and seeks to restrain you from drinking, don't turn and say to him: "I know what I am doing. Be kind enough to mind'your own business.' "I have seen young men stand at my bar with this blue ribbon on the lapels of their coats drunk. "No, no,' these young men would say, "I've taken the pledge; I'm obliged to you all the same.' They had no business there. Mr. Stacy raised his voice. This was not their place. Liquor is at deadly enmity with a blue ribbon. Prettv soon it would be: "Well, I'll take a glass of cider. I knew I knew I knew I knew what that glass of cider meant "The rum seller is a good fellow. He's liberal with his money. He's jov ial. When a customer enters his door he says: "Hello, Johnny; where have VOUbeen. thesn twn nr thrpp ftarRV "But bea ealculatiifcrall -the time how much money the customer has in his pocket and how much of it he can put into his till. Jde is a thief. He takes money for which he gives no benefit in return. "In all my eleven years behind the bar I can recall only one agreeable thing. A young lady came to me and said: "I wish you would not give father any more to drink.' I laughed, as rumsellers are accustomed to do in such cases, but she persisted, and final ly 1 promised I wouldn't let him have any. I don't know what possessed me, but I promised. When next the father came in he walked up to take a drink. "No, sir, not here,' said I. "What?' said he. I repeated what I had said and also ordered my barkeeper never to let him have drink on pain of dismis sal. The result was a quarrel, and I threw him out into the street. He was a smaller man than I. There was a struggle outside the door, but as he rolled over the curb at the edge of the sidewalk he seemed to lose all his strength. Looking up to me, he said: "Here I am in the gutter, and turned out of a Turn shop!' "That man to-day is a member of Dr. Armitage's church.' Domestic Oilcloth. In answer to inquiries made some time ago how to make domestic oil cloths for floors, I will give you my mode. I take old rag carpet, not total ly worn out, but faded and dingy, have it washed clean, dry thoroughly-, then make it the desired length. (I have mine three yards long.) Hem or bind the ends, then tack the pieces upon some smooth surface. I tack mine up on our large barn doors, fasten secure ly at each end with tacks, then have ready a gallon pan of starch, made of flour, as you would for starching clothes ; take a whitewash brush, brush thoroughly over the pieces with this starch; make it thick enough to fill up all places among the woven rags, then let them dry thoroughly; then next day give it a coat of paint; let that get thoroughly dry; give another coat, and you have a nice piece of oilcloth. I generally have mine painted a light brown. About fifty cents' worth of paint "will make three strips three yards long. I have used this kind of oilcloth for years around my kitchen stove. Mrs. J. JLf. Mice, Lamville, Illinois, in IntetzQcean. Admiration. Every man of sense and refinement admires a woman as a woman; but when she steps out of this character, a thousand things that in their appropri ate sphere would be admired become disgusting and offensive. The appro priate character of a woman demands the delicacy of appearance and man ners, refinement of sentiment, gentle ness of speech, modesty in feeling and action, a shrrking from notorietv and public gaze, aversion to all that is coaree and rude, and an instinctive ab horrence of all that tends to indelicacy and impurity, either in principle or ac tion. These are the traits which are admired and sought for in a woman. Baby Prizes, 8600. An eminent renter's wife of N. Y., has induced the proprietors of that great medicine. Hop Bitters, to offer S600 in prizes to the youngest child that says Hop Bitters .plainly, in any language, "between May J, 18S0,andJnlyi, 1331. This is a liberal and interesting offer, and everybody and his wife should send two cent stamp to the Hop Bit ters Mfg. Co, Rochester, N- Y..TJ. S. A., for circuit., giving juji parusaiars, anu negin t nnee to teach th rhJ?rtnn tn.-a TTnr, "mt J ters and lecuxe the prise. Itirat 17, 1880. The Vacation of Mustapha, Bob Bnrdette In Hawkeye. Now in the sixth month in the reign of the good Caliph, it was so that Mustapha said, 1 am worried with much work; thought, care and worry have worn me out; I need repose for the hand of exhaustion is upon me, and death even now lieth at the door." And he called his physician, who felt of his pulse and looked upon his tongue and said: "Two dollahsl" (for this was the oath by which all physicians swear) "Of a verity thou must have rest Flee unto the valley of quiet, and close thine eyes in dreamful rest; hold back thy brain from thought and thy hand from labor, or you will be a candidate for the asy lum in three weeks." And he heard him, and went out and put the business in the hands of the clerk and went away to rest in the valley of quiet And he went to his Uncle Ben's, whom he had not seen for lo! these fourteen years. Now, his Uncle Ben was a farmer, and abode in the valley of the rest, and the moun tains of repose rose round fabout him. And he was rich, and well favored. and strong as an ox, and healthy as an onion crop. Oftimes he boasted upon his neighbors, that there was not a lazy bone in his body, and he swore that he hated a lazy man. And Mustapha wist not that it was so. But when he reached his Uncle Ben's, they received him with great joy and placed before him a supper of homely viands, well cooked and piled up onhi3 plate like the wreck of a box car. And when he could not eat it all, they laughed him to scorn. And after supper they sat up with him and talked with him about rela tives whereof he had never, in all hia life, so much as heard. And he an swered their questions at random, and lied unto them professing to know Un cle Ezra, and Aunt Bethseda, and once he said tliat he had a letter from Uncle George, last week. Now they all knew that Uncle George was shot m a neighbor's sheep pen, three years ago, but Mustapha wist not that it was so, and he was sleepv and only talked to fill up the time. And then they talked politics to him, and he hated politics. So about one o'clock in the morning they sent him to bed. Now the spare room, wherein he slept, was right under the roof, and there were ears and bundles of ears of seed corn hung from the rafters and he bunged his eye with the same, and he hooked his chin in festoons of dried apples, and shook dried herbs and seeds down his back as he walked along, forj it ts utter. Ana wnen ne sat up in bed in the night he ran a scythe in his ear. And it was so that the four boys slept with him, for the bed was wide. And they were restless and slumbered crods-wise and kicked, so that Mustapha slope not a wink that night, neither closed he his eyes. And about "the fourth hour aftpr midnight his Uncle Ben smote him on the back, and spake unto him, saying: "Awake, arise, rustle out of this and wash your face, for the liver and bacon is fried and the breakfast waiteth. You will find the well at the other end of the cow lot. Take a towel with vou." When they had eaten, his Uncle Ben spoke unto him, saying, "Come let us stroll around the farm." And they walked about eleven miles. And his uncle Ben set him upon a wagon and taught him how to load hay. Then they drove into the barn and taught him how to unload it. Then they girded up their loins and walked four miles, even into the forest, and his uncle Ben taught him how to chop wood, and they walked back to supper. And tfie morning and the ev ening were the first day, and Mustapha wished that he was dead. And after supper, his uncleBen spake once more and said, "Come, let us have some fun." And so they hooked up a team and drove down to Belcher's Branch where there was a hop. And they danced until the second hour in the morning. When the next day was come, which wasn't long, for already the night wa3 far spent, his Uncle Ben took him out and taught him how to make a rail fence. And that night there was a wedding, and they danced and made merry and drank and ate, and when they went to bed at three o'clock, Mustapha prayed that death might come to him before breakfast time. But breakfast had an early start, and got there first. And his Uncle Ben took him down to the creek and taught him to wash and shear sheep. And when the evening was come they went to spelling school, and they got home at the first hour after midnight, and Uncle Ben marveled that it was so early. And he lighted his pipe and sat up for an hour and told Mustapha all about the forty he bought last spring of old Mosey Stringer to finish out that north half, and about the new colt that was foaled last spring. And when Mustapha went to bed that morning he bethought him of a dose of strychnine he had with him, and he said his prayers wearily and took it. But the youngest boy was restless that night and kicked all the poison out of him in less than ten seconds. And in the morning, while it was vet night, they ate breakfast And his Uncle Ben took him out and taught him how to dig a ditch. And when evening was come there was a revival meeting at Ebenezer Methodist church, and they all went. And there were three regular preach ers and two exhorters and a Baptist evangelist. And when midnight was come they went home, and sat up and talked over the meeting until it "was bedtime. Now when Mustapha was at home, he left his desk at the fifth hour in the afternoon, and he went to bed .at the third hour after sunset, and he arose not until the sun was high in the heav ens. So the next day when his Uncle Ben "would take him out into the field, and show him how to make post and rail fence, Mustapha would swear at him, and smote him with an axe-helve, and fled, and got himaelf home. The champion egg-eater of the coun try is a girl employed at the Georgia -wjjcaiuer, j v,uo aie mxy raw eggs in fifty minutes for a wager of a , calico dress and the valup. of the emrs. HEggscellent. wretch; perdition catch! our soul, bat ve den't love thee. J VOL. 24 NO. 52. The Troubles of a Poet, Max Adeler. While Colonel Bangs, editor of the Argus, was sitting in his office one day, a man whose brow was clothed with thunder entered. Fiercely seizing a chair, he slammed his hat on the table, hurled hia umbrella on the floor and sat down. Are you the editor?' he asked. Yes.' 'Can yon read -writing? Of course. 'Bead that then,' he said, thrusting-at the colonel an envelope with an inscrip tion upon it B ,' said the colonel, trvine to spell it That's not a B. It's an S," said the man. S; Oyes; I seel Well the words look a little like 'Salt for dinner,' or 'Souls of sinners," said the colonel. No, sir,' replied he "nothing of the kind! That's my name Samuel H. Brunner. I knew you couldn't read. I called to see you about that poem of mine you printed the other day, on the 'Surcease of Sorrow.' I don't remember it,' said the colonel. Of course you don't, because it went into the paper under the infamous title of 'Smearcase To-morrow.' ' 'A stupid blunder of the compositor's I suppose. Yes, sir; and that's what I want to see you about. The way in which that poem was mutilated was simply scan dalous. Ihavn'tslept a night since. It exposed me to derMon. People think I am an ass. Let me show you.' 'Go ahead,' said the colonel. The first line, when I wrote it, read in this way: 'Lying by a weeping willow, underneath a gentle slope.' That is beautiful, poetic, affecting. Now how did vour vile sheet present it to the public? There it is! Look at that! Made it read this way: 'Lying to a weeping widow to induce her to elope. Weeping widow, mind you! A wid ow! 0, thunder and lightning I This is too much! It's enough to drive a man crazy!' Tin sorry said the colonel, 'but 'But look a-here at the fourth verse,' said the poet 'That's worse yet What I said was 'Cast thy pearls before the swine and lose them in the dirt.' I wrote that out clearly and distinct ly in a plain, round hand. Now what does'.your compositor do? Does he catch the sense of that beautiful senti ment? Does it sink into his soul? No! He sets it up in this fashion. Listen C4?t thy pills before the sunrise and lovo , them if they hurt. "Now isn't thata cold-blooded outrage on a man's feelings? I'll leave it to vou kif it isn't' 'It's hard, that's a fact Baid the col onel. 'And then take the fifth verse In the original manuscript itsaid,plainiis. daylight Take away the Jingling money; it is only glittering drooa A man with one eye, and a cataract over that, could have read the words correctly. But your pirate up stairs there, do you know what he did? He made it read 'Takeaway thy Jerking monkeys on a sorely glamtered hoss I" By George, I felt like braining him with a fire-shovel! I was never so cut up m my life. 'It was natural, too,' said the colonel. 'There for instance, was the Bixth verse. I wrote 'I am weary of the tossing of the ocean as It heaves I It is a lovely line, too; but imagine my horror and the anguish of my family when I opened your paper and sawthe line transformed into 'I am wearing out my trowscrs till they're open at the knes !' That is a little too much! That seems to me like carrying the thing an inch or two too far. I think I have a con stitutional right to murder that compos itor; don't you?' 'I think you have. 'Let me read you one more verse. I wrote 'I swell the flyins echoes as they roam among the hills. And I feci my soul awakening to the ecstacy that thrills.'. Now, what do you s'pose your miserable outcast turned that into? Why, into this: I smell the frying shoes as they coast along the bulls. And I peel my soul mistaken In the erctary that whirls.' Gibberish, sir! Awful gibberish! I must slay that man. Where is he? 'He is out just now, said the colonel, 'Come in to-morrow.' 'I will,' said the poet; 'and I will come armed.' Then he put on-his hat, shouldered his umbrella and drifted off down stairs. The Heliograph in War. A correspondentof theLondonZ)afy News, in illustrating the value of the heliograph in Afganistan, gives the following account of the mode of using it: "A ten-inch mirror and this is the diameter of the ordinary field helio graphis capable of reflecting the sun's rays in the form of a bright spot, or flare, a distance of fifty miles, the sig nal at this interval being recognizable without the aid of a glass. That is to say, two trained sappers, each furnished with a mirror, can readily speak to one another, supposing the sun is shining, providing their stations are sufficientlv high, and no rising ground intervals to stop the rays. The military heliograph is a very simple matter. An army ieu ea its Dase station is placed where a heliosraDh and after travelimr i some with miles, desires to communicate' the stav-at-homes. a hill in ! the vicinity is chosen and a sapper as- ueuus wiui nis neuograpn, which is simply a stand bearing a mirror, swung like the ordinary toilet looking-glass, except that it swings horizontally and it is also pivoted, so as to movp nr-) pendicularly as welL Behind the mir- J "There goes the bell Plfbe left let ror, in the very center, a little of the me kiss you fjood-bye, dear! and he quicksilver is removed, so that the sap- was out of sight in an instant per can go behind his instrument and A man across the aisle, who seemed look through a tiny hole toward the j to know how mattera stood, looked at station he desires to signal. Having i his watch and then called out: sighted the station, by adjusting the! "It lacks twentv-two minutes of mirror, he next proceeds to set up in 'train time" " iUiOUi' 0i front of the heliograph a rod. and upon rn,.r . ,, , . .. this rod is a movables stud. This stud ! ne. -wife rose up and walked to the is manipulated like the foresight of a .tW. dear of the depot rifle, and the sapper again standmrldlCOuIdid-r'7asiosloaaof behind his InstnSentfSStt! ft So? her J ?,f ? J fack. Iauttfir; justment of his stud until the hole m ru pi iam faT t&w rH return ur the mirror, the stud. and the station are in a line. The heliograph U ready 10 wore, ana in order to flash signals ao that they may be been at JK2 the sarinm- hri nr.1-.- t9i. , tl the mirror reflects, the ,SSSn fK stud m front of Ma. .., . THE ADVERTISER FJLIKBKOTHEK . HACKXF, ADVERTISING BATES. 0atl2eh.es ysar.. laebsseseedmc; lacs, par yr. 3 1Q Osc Inch, per month- Each adfiiUcnal lsch.persaatb.... ,. Legal advertlsesesu atlagal rat Oaw iatt (13 lines of NoaparJJ, or lHS)SrstlBMTt) ,1M8 each sabs equeatfcertion.ae j&-JLUtrassltatadTciliSBSstjBft9t nH forln advance. OFFICIAL PAPER OFTHECOIISTI g !' ISgBBBjigBBBBSBBgSHSesj I BOSS TOE FTvT MiUILg, How a Tramp's Wish Was Gratified sad HowH Utilised tfca Tea? Detroit Free Press. Soon after the dinner hour yesterday a specimen tramp appeared at the door of a house on John B. street, and be fore he could be ordered off the steps; he began: "Sir, I am a tramp.' "Yes, I see you are "But I am not here to ask for either food, money or clothing. I have just had a bi;e, my clothes are good enough, and if I had money I should get druak; ana sent up "Well, what do you want? "There are four tramps down t&& street and I know they'll call here. It is now five years since I began travJ ing around. I suppose I have Item called a loafer and a thief and a dead beat ten thousand times, and I feve been shot at, clubbed, brooaisticked aod scalded times- without record. Now I want a change.' "How?' "Well, all I ask is that you let ae represent your house when the traaps come tip.' This wa3 agreed to. He sat down on the step3, removed his- hat, lighted the stub of a cigar and was reading a circular when the fourfellows slouched up and entered the yard. "What in Arkansas do you fellows want in my yard?' exclaimed the tramp, as he rose up. "Suthin to eat, was the humble re ply. "Something to eat! Why, you raiser able, thick-ribbed cadavers, go and! earn it, then! Do you suppose I have nothing to do but keep a free hotel for loafers?' "Can't get work,' murmured the big gest of the lot. "Oh! you can't? Been looking all around, I suppose? Everybody got all the help he wants, eh? Want to bo cashiers and confidential advisers, don't you?' "Nobody gives us a show,' growled the third man. "That's it! That's the cue! Nobody will take you in with your old rags and dirt and sore heels and weep over you, and ask you to please be good, and put you in the parlor bedroom and feed you on chicken broth! How aw ful it is that you can't be put on ice and laid away where you wont melt!' "Will vou give ua something? im prudentlr demanded the fourth. "Willi? Yon are just right I will! Fll give you just five seconds to get outside the gate, and I'll tell you in addition that if I ever see you in thin neighborhood again Pll tie you in bard knots and hire a sore-eyed dog to bite yon to death! Git up and git! Move on hurry out with you! . They strained out a3 fast 33 they- could, and when they had turnedJSr-'1" """ corner the tramp put on his hot, put out his inch cigar for another smoke, and said to the gentleman: "You have done me a great favor and I am grateful; I already feel better for the change, and I solemnly believe that if I could only have got an excuse to throw 'em over "the fence I should have been ready to reform and start out as a lecturer. Good by. I shall never forget your kindneWi' Going Away, There isn't a day in the year but what one can see just such a parting as took place yesterday morning at the union depot. Man and wife had come down to the train which was to bear her to her mother's. The husband had fully persuaded her that her health was failing, and that she ought to go home on a six week's visit She thought she felt even better than us ual, but husbands know bent about these things, of course. This wife seemed to have made her preparation quickly, and had not yet said what waa on her mind to say. It lacked thirty five minutes of train time, and as they sat down in the waiting room shesaid: "Now, Henry, the last time I went away ' "Just wait I wantto see if that's our train,' interrupts the husband as he lose up. Going out he waa absent sev eral minutes. When he returned she was ready to say: "I wanted to say to you that the neighbora "Did I give you the check for vour trunk?' he suddenly inquired. She found it in her pocket, restored it, and began again. "Of course I have confidence in vou. but' "Yourememberyoumustnot change caw at the Junction, he said, as he looked at his watch. "When you reach there you will hear men yelling change cats for this and that place, bnr, you sit right still.' "Haven't I been over the road four different times, and don't I know all the stations? Now, Henry, althouEh there will be nobody in the house but you, I have "Did you forget that lunch basket?' he excitedly asked, as he looked around and under the seat She had it on her Lip all the time. As soon as she had assured him of its safety she said: "You now come from the ofice every evening at six, and of course, I shall expect ' "That's our train! he exclaimed, ns he leaped up and erabbed for thsatch- el. "Dear me. but I wanted tns.iv to von ' she replied as shp foiinw-Pfi htm nnt He rushed down to the depot and put her aboard the coach as fast as possi ble, but while arranging her seat, she said: N ow, Henry, I am going awav for six weeks, but I want to sav thnr texpecteoiy: If vou would -row f i,v i. r,ff!nSS ?L It-VLr "tu uu W 0y SSiffF.-lRftJ ccicsto lS : gT