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THE ADYEKTISEK. G. W. FA1RBR0THER & CO., Pcbushbes. BROWNVTLLE, NEBRASKA A MAN'S LIFE. BT GEOKGE EDGAR MONTGOMEBY. One song above all songs I sing, One song that breathes, of love and sprlng- A man's life Is a precious thing. I know that we who live to-day Are born to dream and die as they "Whose forms have wholly passed away; That we, wuose hearts aie bold and stout, Are weak discoverers cast about Amid the windy seas of doubt. The simple faith of other years Is muffled music to our ears, A voice of longing choked with tears. For we have lost the holy trace Of God, the unknowable one, whose face Is hidden in darkness for a space; And many men are prone to swear That God is but the soul's despair, A being as chostly as the air Then out of passion and sweet breath Shall come, whatever wudom saith, One everlasting night c death. Alas! I know that sorrov dwells Within the soul as sounrt in bells, That hearts are often flu ning hells; I know that bitter crime and lust Are part of our polluted dust The damned arek indred to the just. I know it all, and yet I sing As freely as a bird in spring A man's life is a precious thing. For though life darken and death be fleet, There is a heaven for hearts that meet, A heaven of passion wild and sweet; And 6trong men feel a fierce delight In hard brunt and toil of fight: They conquer nobly where they smite. To live is to aspire, to hear Through harsh, discordant cries the clear True voice of hope forever near; To rise beyond the earth, to flud Ethereal heights wherein the mind May sweep and circle like the wind. And oh I it is enough to be, To feel, and hear, and think, and see, To know that it does dwell in me. And there is rapture in the thought That lam so divinely wrought Time cannot make me wholly naught! What thought I faint and peri6h, I Have that within 'me which is high As God and infinite as the sky. XOTED PEOPLE'S AGES. An Interesting fclstof tho Ages of Fa mous People Tho proverbial characteristic of hu manity is its curiosity regarding ages of different people. As this characteristic is not confined to any particular locality, it will no doubt be of interest to some readers to glance over the following paragraphs giving the ages of some of our best known men and women. Pe ter Cooper celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, and is the greatest and sublimest of all the working men that America ever produced. Foundei of Cooper Institute, and a public benefac tor in other wa3Ts, he added to his mu nificent charitableness, gifts $100,000. He lives to do good and is probably one of the most benevolent men the world ever produced. While Vanderbilt and Gould steal from the people, and do no goofirjrfi djiurjrtonev.lr hooper dis--mbutes his where it will do ueTno;t good. Thurlow Weed is still chipper at 84, and the emperor of Germany and Gortschakoff are of the same age. Ban croft, the historian, is still living at 81. Simon Cameron is 82; Victor Hugo is 79; Charles Francis Adams is a lively old patriarch at 78; Capt. John Ericson, of monitor fame, is still a close student to inventions at the same age, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sum ner's, great friend, "is only 78. -Those who have seen 74 years of ups and downs are John G. Whittier, and Long fellow, the poets, Garibaldi, and Gen. "Joe1' Johnson. "Jeff" Davis is only 73, as are also .Hamilton Fish and Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, the head of the family. Hannibal Hamlin, who boasts that he never wore an overcoat until this winter, is 72, as are also ex-Secretary of Navy Thompson, Tennyson. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gladstone and Baron Haussman, who turned Paris in side out architecturally during the "Na poleon Ring-" rule. Ex-Governor Sey mour has seen 71 years, so have also "Bob" Toombs, Ju.ge Jere Black, Car dinal McCloskey, a: 3 Darwin evoluted into existence at the same age. Dis raeli and De Lessr s, of the Panama canal scheme, are .ach 76 years old. Judah P. Benjamin the ex-rebel secre tary of navy, P. T. Barnum, John Bright, Wendell Phillips, and Liszt, the pianist, have passed their "three score and ten." Admral Porter has passed 69 summers, as have also Alexander H. Stephens, Octave Feuillet, author of the "Martha" and other famous operas. Henry Ward Beecher is 68, and so is AiDerc .Diersumu tuts uiai ot our lanu scapists. Bismarck and Wagner win. theorizes on the music of the future. "Sammy" Tilden still cries "Fraud" at 67, and Senator Christiancy, who was younf enough to get married two years ago, glories in the same age. Senator Kernan, who retires from political life March 3, and N. P. Banks are each 65. Fred Douglass has seen 64 years of pain and pleasure, and Jubal A. Early, the rebel general, is of the same age. Those who glory at 63 are, Secretary Evarts, W. H. Barnum, ex-Secretary Boutwell, "Ben" Butler, Chas. A. Dana, Froude, the historian, and the emporer of Russia; Carl Schurz is 62, so is Wade Hampton, Walt Whitman, John Ruskin and Cyrus W Field, of Atlantic cable fame. "Hendricks, Vice-President Wheel er, Generals Sherman, Devens and Longstrcet are 61. President Hayes and John Kelly are each 59. Secretary Sherman has seen 58 years, also Daniel Sickles, General Key, Ben Hill of Georgia, General Grant, Colfax, Fremont, and F. O. C. Darley, the pioneer of the great American artists. General Hancock, Burnside, and Alexander Dumas have each seen 57 years. Dom Pedro is hale and hearty at 56, as are also Senator Lamar and General G. A. Gilmore. General McClellan is 55. Senator Bay ard and "Sunset" Cox are each 54. Jules Verne invents his literary wonders at 53. Senator Conkling rules the state at 52, and Joe Jefferson is a good Hip Van Winkle at the same age. Senator Blaine, Gen. O. O. Howard, and Roche fort, who ought to know better than to do as he does, are 50. Dr. I. L Hayes, of Arctic frme, is only 49. Professor Fawcett, England's blind postmaster general, is 48. President-elect Garfield and "Phil." Sheridan, are each 50. Theodore Tilton is 46, so is ex-Secretary of WirMcCrary and Paul de Chaillu, who is in New xork now and thinks he is not too old- to make another trip to Africa. Gambetta and King Kalakaua are each 43. Stanley, the explorer, is 41, and the colored Senator Bruce and and the prince of Wales, are young yet .at 40. If I may take the liberty of peering into the ages of some famous women Jet me tell you that Fanny Kemble is 72; the baroness Burdett Coutts, who was a spinster until she was mar ried to Mr. Bartlett (only 39) is 69; Harriet Beecher Stowe is 68; Mrs. South- worth and Queen Victoria are each 62; Jenny Lind is 60, and so is Ristori;Rosa Bonheu, the famous painter, is 59; Sara Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) is 58; the ex-Empress Eugenie and Miss Mulock are each 55; Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Harriett G. Hosmer, the sculptress, and Mary How ett, the poetess, are each 61; Louisa M. Alcott is 58; Piccolonimi. the prima dona, is 46; Mrs. Braddon is 44; "Ouida," otherwise Louisa de la Ramee, is a spinster at 41; Kate Bateman and Clara Louisa Kelloerg are each 89; Chris tine Neilson and Adelaide Patti are 88, and Mme. Gerster is only 24. Among those ages buried in an awful obscurity are Mrs. Susan B. Anthony and "Dr." Mary Walker. The Laws of Health by Right-living. Christian at Wori. There are laws of health, as evident as the ten commandments, inscribed everywhere around the homes of men, and if we ignore, neglect, or break them, it is at oui peril. The very poor are hedged in by stern circumstances, and are not able to command the conditions under which life thrives, yet the mor tality which arises so fearfully among infant? is not confined to them. Physi cians are often amazed and grieved at the lack of knowledge about simple things which is shown by people who should be intelligent and well-informed. A child is taken violently ill, and the first question is, "What has it had to eat0" The mother can think of notn ing indigestible, yet investigation re veals the fact that the little stomach has been burned with the' same sort ot food, in the same Quantities, perhaps, that grown people have partaken of. It has a full dinnei first, and for dessert pie or pudding, ice cream or lemonade. It has been allowed to eat unripe fruit, rich cake, nuts, or candy. Children are al ways running to ask for pennies, and indulgent parents think it churlish to re fuse a penny; but there is nothing much worse than eating trash indiscriminate ly between meals. Half the ordinary sickness in well-to-do families can be traced straight to over-eating, injudi cious eating, and miscellaneous eating all day long. Precious little ones die, and die in agony and pain, whose lives miht and would have been spared had fathers and mothers refrained from cruel kindness and behaved with common sense. It often amazes the thoughtless that there should be so much midsummer illness in country towns, where the pure air has its free course, and where no sewers and drain-pipes ramify with their vast network beneath thesurface. Some times a village is so situated that nature drains it, and every thunder-storm and rain flood, carries away the dirt and re fuse, which might else breed destruction. This is not invariably so, and people, acting like idiots, throw out vegetable matter to decay in their back yards, al low impuritips to poison their wells and cisterns, have the dishwater poured three times a day out of the kitchen window, and then wonder whence comes dysentery and typhoid fever. Diph theria carries off many lives, and so swift and sudden is the scourge that smites, we think it the visitation of God. It is the visitation of God, but nevertheless its source was the neglected cellar, the untrapped sewer, the stagnant pool, the death-spot, wherever it was, whence the germ of disease came, or where the mi asmatic gas was evolved, noxious and fatal. It is to our shame and disgrace that malaria has become a household word, so that whoever droops, adult or child, wo explain it airily by the con venient term. Such a one has headache, languor, slow fever, is irritable, loses flesli and strength, and drags about with incipient illness, instead of bound ing with health, and we attribute it to -malaria,, as though we had any right under iho eun, in our climate, witu our opportunities, to submit to malaria, ex cept as an occasional, and explainable, and transient unfavorable condition. The use of the fire in the kitchen stove as a purifying agent is most beneficial. Burn the parings, the peelings, and the table debris which cannot be utilized. Whatever chickens or pigs can eat let them have, but whatever must be thrown aside, as a fruitful cause of evil, bum. Keep all outhouses and cellars thorough ly clean, and do not be afraid of using chloride of lime and carbolic acid, where there is need of disinfectants. Be espec ially careful that the water you drink is pure. Do your duty as an individual by seeing that in your house there is good ventilation, that bathing is attend ed to, that clothing is frequently changed and that no tainted meat, no stale veget ables, or heavy bread, no crude acid fruit, is set before hungry people for their eating. We must be ill sometimes, and then it is our duty to bear illness patiently, but we are often ill when at teutiou to laws of which we are perfectly aware, though criminally negligent, would have kept us and our innocent babies iu health. Wealth and Meanness. Joaquin Miller, In the Callfomlan. I tell you that, in nine cases out of ten, great acquired wealth lifts up in monu mental testimony the meanness of its possessor. I knew two neighbors, old Californians, who had about equal for tunes. They were both old settlers, both rich, and both much respected. In that fearful year, 1852, when the dying and destitute immigrants literally crawl ed on hands and knees over the Sierra trying to reach the settlements, one of these men drove all his cattle up to the mountains, butchered them, and fed the starving. He had his Mexicans pack all the mules with flour, which at that time cost almost its weight in gold, and push on night and day over the moun tains to meet the strangers there and feed them, so that they might have strength to reach his house, where they could have shelter and rest. The other man; cold and cautious, saw his oppor tunity and embraced it. He sat at home and sold all his wheat and mules and meat, and with the vast opportuni ties for turning money to account in that new country, soon became almost a prince in fortune. But his generous neighbor died a beggar in Idaho, where he na-l gone to try to make another for tune. He literally had not money enough to buy a shroud, and as he died among strangers by the roadside he was buried without even so much as a pine board coffin. I saw his grave there only last year. Some one had set up a rough granite stone at the head. And that is all. No name not even a letter or a date. Nothing. But that boulder was fashioned by the hand of Almighty God, and in the little seams and aots and mossy scars that cover it He can read the rubric that chronicles the secret virtues of this lone dead man on the snowy mountains of Idaho. The chil dren of the "Prince" are in Paris. Up held by his colossal wealth their lives seem to embrace the universal wo.'ld. He is my friend. He buys all my books, and reads every line I write. When he comes to this sketch he will understand it. And he ought to understand, too, that all tho respect, admiration, and love which the new land once gave these two men gathers, around and is buried beneath that moss-grown granite stone, and that I know, even with all his show of splendor, that his heart is as cold and as empty as that dead man's hand. "Worlciiigrmen. Before vou begin your heavy spring ffork. after a winter of relaxation, yoursystem needs cleansinc and strengthening to prevent an at tack of Agu j, Bilious or Spring Fever, or 6ome other Sprinc sickness that will unfit tou for a season's work. Tou will save time, much sick ness and great expense if you will use one bottle of Hop bittersinyourfamily this month. Don't wait. Burlington Mavkeyt, WOMEN Ef POLITICS. Ladles TVllo Sawtlie Ceremonies. Pen Picture of Some of the Notables Presentat tho Swearineln of Arthur. Olive Logan In the Philadelphia Times. Washington, March 6. Whatever the discomfort of the streets, the hotels, the restaurants, the cars and every other human receptacle during this troublous time, every vestige of annoyance and of impatience at them and life generally vanished on inauguration day, when we were seated in our perch of honor, the reporters7 gallery of the senate sur rounded by all the noted pen-workers of the nation -end looking down upon the assembled wisdom of the republic. As a pageant merely, it was amasinglyfine. In defia.ice of the elements the ladies had donned costumes of a brilliance worthy of a day of glorious sunshine and the gay colors of ruby and imperial blue velvets, of tropic birds' wings and flash of diamonds mingled with the heavy gold lace of the diplomatists1 uniforms, the padded, high-hued silk gowns of the Chinese ambassador and his suite, the glimmer of shining medals, the wave of soldiers' plumes. The coup defil was superb, and from where we the journal ists sat it seemed as if tho whole scene wa being enacted for our benefit hy atroupeascouldnot be commanded foi money, n our tickets were unpurchasa ble for the same. THE rKESTDKNTIAI. FAMILIES. The first sensation of this great drama was the arrival of the ladies of the two presidential families, namely: Mrs. Hayes and her daughter and the two Mrs. Garfields and the young daughter, Miss Mollie Garheld, a pretty little beauty, if ever there was one. Behind these came some two or three score of persons, who may be said to comprise the immediate personal following of both families, prominent among whom, a immediate escort of the Mrs. Gar fields, was General Swaim, a handsome man in his early forties, radiant with satisfaction at this crowning glorv for his old brother in arms, Garfield. Gen eral Swaim and General Garfield fought together side by. side during the war and were both present upon the same field upon which the new senator from California, General Miller, lost his eye. How strange it must have seemed to these three old soldjerj, amid the cere- mnxT rtf ?nminmririr. to rprflll rlin5f bloody days of the long ago, and con trast their terrible dangers anu hard ships with the splendid pageant now en acting. Who would have thought in the sad war time that this trier of men would rise to such varied positions of eminence? Then all were unknown patriots fighting for a sacred cause; now one is a potentate whom kings may be proud to call cousin; another is a millionaire senator from the land of gold, and the third is the friend of his friend, an honor sufficient in itself, but General Swaim adds others to it, hold ing some important military position here, whose exact appellation I forget. Every eye was turned upon the moth er of General Garfield as she entered and took her place in the gallery reserved for distinguished persons, on the left hand of Mrs. Hayes, the younger Mi's. v Garfield sitting on the right hand of the wife of the retiring president. The beautiful, little, venerable mother re minds one of some of those sweet aged friends one still meets in the streets of Philadelphia, tiny creatures who seem so fragile one would think a rough gust of wind would blow them away, and vet ,l,nc fonhirp; hntnkpn sneh firmness firmness and decision of character as unmistak- t ablv indicate a forcible mind. Clad all in black, a snug little Quakerish bonnet neatly fitted her small head, a long, comfortable black cloak enwrapped her slender form; the aged mother of the president attracted more attention than the greatest beauty present. Besides such small ladies as the two Mrs. Garfields, Mrs. Hayes looked like a woman of almost colossal stature. Over a hundsome dress of black brocade she wore a large seal skin cloak which reached to the bottom of her skirts and widened her bulk, while her stature was increased by a white bonnet, upon which was fastened a waving white feather of that kind sometimes sentimentally called "theweeping willow," though the pro fessional French milliner name for it is simply "torn feather." She carried an exquisite bouquet of lilies of the valley, those sweet little harbingers of the love ly spring which, along with the prover bial good time, is coming, though the train is sadly delayed. MRS. GAKFIELD. Mrs Garfield was so modestly attired that no one would have dreamed by that token that it was a gala day for her. She was dressed entirely in black, the only point of color about her being the large boquet of crimson ropes which she held in her small black-gloved hands. It is evident Mrs. Garfield must have been in her younger days a very pretty woman. Her face is very sweet and winning now. She is a great scholar and probably the best educated woman who ever entered the white house as first lady. I hope she will get as roly poly as a plum-pudding there and never know a care to wrack her flesh away. Her daughter. Miss Mollie, is a noble faced gin of fifteen, the image of her father, beautiful and feminized. She was mostsimply and becomingly dressed for the ceremony in a maroon colored cashmere dress, with a gray felt hat, wide brimmed, tied tightlv down over her ears with a soft ribbon and turned sharply up behind, where the great plait of light brown hair fell down her back, tied oy a golden-hued ribbon. Her de meanor during the ceremoney was that of pure girlish elation, while her mother never smiled at all and her grandmother listened to the proceedings with a face which betokened deey emotion. What a contrast was presented be tween Hayes and Garfield as they enter ed the senate hall arm in arm! Hayes' face was very much flushed, whether from exertion or excitement it would be hard to say, while Garfield was as pale as death. He is a conscientious man, a religious man, and I believe what he told me when I last saw him, that he regrets his quiet little home at Mentor and enters upon his great new duties with an anxious heart. liis pauor anu ins emotion won to him all feminine sym pathies when he appeared, and I fancy there was more than one lady present who would have joined with Shake speare's heroine in the wish that heaven had made her such a man. General Garfield's figure is superb and his face srrikincrlv handsome. His pictures do not do him half jus ice, for they repre sent a fatherly sort of old half century man, whili Garfield is a warm hearted, impetuous, rosj-lipped man, but out of his forties yet. THF TRIBUTE TO IIA"COCK. What a coup de theatre when Han cock tramped in, with gold lace volu minously employed and major-generals' buttons all over him. With agrace inimitable Conkling arose, and was the very first to grasp the hand of the de feated candidate and to welcome him to the senate's halls of dazzling light. They formed a picture, I can tell you, the great senator and the major-general of the forces, first the presidential candidate, standing, hand grasped in hand, in the wind passage way leading to the speaker's desk. And verily, such applause I have hardly heard since my last Patti night, senators, representa tives, democrats, and republicans, all joined in the tribute as Hancock was es corted to one of the huge, comfortable, leather-covered arm-chairs, placed there for this exceptional occasion, in a semi circle around the speaker's desk. But nevertheless it struok me that the ap- plause given Hancock was not half so heartfelt as that which rang through the air when Phil Sheridan dashed in. There is enthusiasm in the very atmos phere where this gallant soldier is, and he wears his uniform with such ease and grace one would think he had donned it as early as when he left off swaddling clothes. Yes, the inauguration of Garfield was a scene to bo long remembered. The face3 of the notables rise before me one by one as I write. First that of Garfield himself, pale and intense, buthandsome open, disingenuous, honest; Hayes, flushed to redness, one wonders why; Conkling, as fair as Lily Langtry, with curly white hair, the distinguished man ner,the perfect savoir fairt; Logan, the staunch advocate of his party, with a face as stong as that of a Roman statue; Burnside, on the British pattern, with gray side whiskers; Miller, of California, interesting, graceful, fine figure; Evarts, his last appearance as secretary of state, thin, nervous, wiry, aged so the throng of potentialities presses upon my mental retina as I look back upon the ceremo ny, and among the crowd of very much alive people who figure in the senate I recall the vacant chair of Matt Carpen ter, with scarves of .black crape draping its impressive and prophetic emptiness. UTAH CELEBRITIES. Pen Picture of Gov. Murray aud Polyg amlst Cannon Brigliain . Young' Son' Wives. That fearless looking fellow, says the Washington correspondent of the Cin cinnati Commercial, who has.caused all of this commotion, has been for years a leading republican in that spot where republicans are none too plenty Ken tucky In appearance he is a perfect Appollo. Tall, handsome figure, brill iant black eyes, waving black hair and magnificent beard; dressed always in the height of fashion, lie would be no ticeable in any assemblage. After a gay life as a heart-breaking bachelor, He married, a few years ago, one of the prettiest girls that Louisville ever pro duced. His term as governor of TJtah has not advanced very far, but he has caused a sensational stir. As tp what congress will do, there is a diversity of opinion. Mr. Caunon is a mild blue eyed gray-haired patriarchal individual, who has a pretty good time and takes life easy. He has only one wife here now, the old wife, with her family of grown up sons. She is a tall, slight, fair lady, with careworn features, and a troubled face. She does not go into society; and seems to shrink frcm notice, in a manner foreign to the otlis: bolder, younger rivals in her husband's favor. At home Cannon is the leader among the Mormons President Taylor holds merely a nominal power. George Q. has a finger in every pie, and from his knowledge of the world, is lookedjup to by the elders and apostles of the Lat ter Day Saints; and by the people is counted as almost a god. The citizens of. Utah Gentiles, as they are called in distinction by the Mormons are at work trying "to circumvent the wily fidints, and iu some way stamp out the church power. District Attorney Van Geel, of Salt Lake, urges ibsi the statute of limitations, so far :i3 they affect bigamy, be repealed: that per sons living in polygamy be disfranchis ed. Also, that a marriage license be enacted, providing filing in the United States district court, a certificate, and making such certificate proof of mar- riage. following uov. luurruy h ru '.. - - . fusal of Cannon's certificate of election is the arrest of John W. loung in Den- ver lor Digamy, at tne instance oi nis wife, Libbie Canfield Young. But this lady married him knowing that he had at that time two wives, as allowed by his religion. He professed to repudiate them for the love of her, aud she in turn was repudiated byjiim a few years la ter for love of a' young romp named Luella Cobb. JOHN AV. YOUNG is a large, handsome, stylish man, not very deep, but juite a man of the world, fickle by nature, and incapable of con stancy, no matter how close the law bound him to one wife. Mr3. Young No. 3, who is the Nemesis at this time, is the most elegant lady in appearance that I saw in Salt Lake during a long stay there. She is slight, of tall and willowy figure, remarkably stylish car riage, clear olive complexion, satiny black hair, and soft dark eyes. She is a Philadelphian, and a highly educated person; is not, never was a Mormon, and holds herself aloof from them. She was perfectly infatuated with Johnny Young, and married him in spite of opposition, but she is not one of the meek souls who sigh and die without a word. I saw her give a look once at No. 4, as she drove by, a bride, in her pony phaeton, that convinced me that John W.'s path would not be one of roses. There was no flush of indigna tion on the dark cheek; no tell-tale tremor of the heart, and no comtempt uous curl of the face; but a paling of the whole face, a drawing up of her form to its full height, and a steady blaze of the velvety eyes, that meant much more. And the new wife an ignorant, red-cheeked girl of sixteen, drove on unconcernedly, chewing wax, and set tling the red roses of her hat more firm ly in their place The contrast becween two women could not have been greater. A Small German. Andrews' Queen. The occupant of an 'average-sized or small city or country house, anx ious to have the reputation of entertain ing pleasantly, nothing is superior to the small german. It affords opportun ity for delightful conversation; for the bringing together of people in an infor mal, easy way; for dancing to delightful music on a comparatively clear floor, and for giving to each guest an equal share in the enjoyment of the evening. The method of procedure in giving a small german is an exceedingly simple one. Send out WTitten invitations about two weeks before hand, bearing in the corner the word "cotillion'" Cover your parlor or parlors with crash, which should be tightly and carefully stretched. Remove all furniture from the room, except a small table for the favors, and place folded camp-chairs along the walls for the use of the guosts when dancing begins. Select a careful leader one who is experienced and under stands the necessity of simple figures. Engage a good pianist, and if you wish, a violinist in addition. Procure simple favors, they may be cheap or expensive; but avoid display in this particular, have a well served supper, with wine or not, as you prefer; but have bouillon and lemonade in any event. Following these plain directions, and the eventful even- tmr lifivinor nrrivofl- linvp n. fpur dqnnoe ' beforehand; but as soon as possible com mence the german. Watch carefully if any of the girls are unprovided with fa vors or partners, and ask your particu lar friends to remedy the omission; and see that waltzes are played for the fig ures, or, perhaps, a gallop now and then, with a polka at the close. You will, we predict at the evening's end, agree with us as to the merits of the "small ger- man. The peculiar adaptation- of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup to so many phases of Throat and Bronchial diseases has ren dered this remedy immensely popular. Sold everywhere. 25 cents a bottle. Hardware The friction on"a school boy's knees. We must not judge a man by a word or a single action. Life is composed of so many inconsistencies, that he would oft3n take the exception for the rule. Progress comes by labor. DAXIEL WEBSTER'S WAYS. His Curt Reply to a Delegation That Had Not Supported Him. From the Stocklio.der. ... An incident unquestionably authentic wliich has never before been related in print may be told of Mr. Webster. On their way home from the convention, which was held, we believe, at Philadel phia, the Mississippi delegation called upon Mr. Webster at his modest house on Louisiana avenue in Washington, ox was near the close of a summer's day, when ushered into the little front par lor, and introduced to Mr. Webster, the chairman, Judge Sharkey the same, it may be, who years afterwards' was con spicuous in the reconstruction politics of his state addressed the great orator in terms of flattering eulogy, among other things saying how pleased he and nis fel low delegates would have been to see Mr. Websters great abilities recognized in the nomination of their party for the presidency. As a matter of fact, the delegation had steadily voted against him in the convention. It was upon this fact that Mr. Webster's curt reply turned. "You have expressed, Mr. Chairman," said he, "the sentiment that your desire and I must suppose that your action was in conformity with that desire in the recent convention of the whig party for the nomination of a candidate for the presidency of the United States your desire and effort was that the honor should fall upon me. In response to wliich I have only to say that the record, gentlemen, is the other way. Good night, gentlemen!" And bowing himself through the folding doors into- the rear parlor where Mrs. Webster sat in the deepening twilight, he vanished to Mississippi eyes, leaving his visitors, sternly rebuked for lip service, to find their homeward way as best they might. It was in the preceding presidential canvass, in 1848, when" Gen. Taylor was the whig candidate, and elected, that the writer heardMr. Webstermake, on his farm at Marshfield, the speech in which he declared that the selection of Gen. Taylor who in private conversa tions at Washingtsn had been charac terized, but unjustly, as "only a swear ing frontier colonel" was "a nomina tion not fit to be made." The speech, the only one, we think, h - made in the canvass, was listened to by a large as semblage who had come to Marshfield for the purpose, many "straight" whigs from Boston and elsewhere being of the" number, with a considerable sprinkling of so-called "conscience whigs," out of whose secession from the party grew the historic coalition which soon after put J Chafces Sumner and Henry Wilson in the senate of tho United btates. Manv of these Boston gentlemen, we remem ber, wore white or light-colored kid gloves on the occasion, and their ap plause was diverse, as one and another of the orator's utterances affected the divergent preiudices of his auditory. The question above quoted remained in the printed speech as Mr. Webster made it, but another, still more offensive to the whigs proper, was eliminated from the verbatim report as it stood in type in the office of the Boston Allah. The whig committee sent a delegation to Mr. Webster asking that the obnox: us phrase might be cancelled, before he speech went to press. "No," said Ir. Webstur, "let it stand as 1 spoke it!" Not to Ijc baffled in their solicitude for its expurgation, one of the committee renewed the request in a uote to Mr. Webster, enclosing a check for $500. Mr. Webster's reply to this was that the expression could as well belelt out; that the speech with that omitted would suf ficiently express his views on the points to which it related. So the speech went to press without it. There may be those among our Boston contempora ries, solicitous for Mr. Webster's fame, who may bo moved to dispute the sub stantial accuracy of what is here relat ed. The fact, in its main details and chief significance, we believe to be sus ceptible of proof, the lapse of thirty-two years nevertheless. 4 -Robert Collyer." N. Y. Correspondence. "Robert Collyer," as he is familiarly called, is a wecl-known name a man of wide and popular fame. He is an Englishman, asturny Yorkshireman, of large and burly form, fond, I believe, of telling the story of his early da3's, that hewas almost bom a blacksmith, and for many years worked at the an vil, which said anvil he recently bought from its owner, while on a visit to Ins native home, and brought it back with him as a precious relic, and which I un derstand he still keeps, and intends to hand down as an heirloom to the future Collyers, at least so it is said. I believe he is a generous, large-hearted man, and, like a true born Englishman, docs not despise roast beef and pudding, al though he is always willing and pleased to share it with others. As a preacher he is bold and outspoken, and somewhat political in his utterances, for the pulpit. I was a little surprised to find that he reads hissermons somewhat closely, and with such rapidity that it was difficult to follow him. He is not a good reader either, nor has he any tact or skill in the management of his voice. Although he made some good points, and evident ly believed he did, his exposition and enforcement of the lessons of the text were about as weak and faulty as any thing I ever heard from the pulpit. But I am told that he excels more as a lec-turer-thanas a preacher, and it is by the former that he has earned his famous reputation. The congregation wasvery large, his church being crowded, one haif being stranger i, who had come to see the man who is doubtless a power both in New York and Chicago where he formerly lived and labored. The sinking, however, was an attractive fea ture of the service. Breaking off Bad Habits. To break oft' bad habits, understand the reason and all the reasons why the habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt iu your mind. Avoid the places, the persons and the thoughts that lead to the temp tation. Frequent the place, associate with the persons, indulge in thoughts that lead away form the temptation. Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the strug gle when you have broken your resolu tion once, twice, a thousand times. That only shows how much need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter over, and endeavor to understand why it is you failed, so that you may be on your guard against a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not think that it is an easy thing that you i ive undertaken. It is folly to expe to break off a bad habit in a day i.ich may have been gathering for long years. - Saturn Seen by Telescope. Providence (R. I.) Journal. We had a view of Saturn, a few even ings since, through the line telescope in Mr. Seagrave's private observatory, that will long be remembered for its exceed ing beauty. The night is rarely favora ble for star-gazing, the definilion per fect and the air serene. The picture is one of surpassing loveliness, the most superb telescopic scene in the heavens. The orb is resplendent in coloring, blu ish at the poles, pale yellow elsewhere, crossed by two creamy central belts, and flecked with spots that suggest light scudding clouds. There Is no appear ance of a flattened disc, but the rounded outlines of a sphere, seeming about the size of the full moon, stand out in bold rplief against the azure blackness of the sky. Around the softly glowing centre extend the wondrous rings, opening wide their encircling arms, and cradling the planet in their protecting embrace. Every detajl of the complex ring system is sharply defined and vividly painted on the celestial canvas. The outer ring, the inner ring, the dusky or crape ring, the space between the outer and inner ring, and even the division in the outer ring, are plainly visible, while six or eight moons dot the dark sky with points of golden glow. The six moons we see one of them is larger than Mercury circle arouud their primary within an extreme span of four million miles. Th beautiful rings lie within the path of the nearest moon, and span a space of about one hundred and seventy-six thousand miles. The narrow, dark space be tween the inner and outer rings is sev enteen hundred miles broad, and the dusk or third ring extends nine thous and miles within the inner or second ring A Civil Marriage in Georgia. Walkir(Ga.) Messenger. A newly elected justice of the peace in this region, who had been used to drawing deeds and wills and little else, was called upon as hi3 first official act, to marry a couple who came into his office very hurriedly, and told him their purpose. " He lost no time in removing his liar, and remarked: "Hats off in the presence of the court." All being uncovered, hesaid, "Holdup your right hands. You, John Marvin, do solemnly swear that to the best of your knowledge and belief you take this yer woman ter have an' ter hold fer yourself, yer heirs, exekyerters, admin istrators and assigns, for your and their use an' behoof forever?" "I do," an swered the groom. "You, Alice Ewer, take this yer man for yer husband, ter hev an' ter hold forever; and vou do further swear that you are lawfully seized in fee simple, are free from all incumbrance, aud have good sell, bargain and convey to guarantee yerself, yer heirs. right to the said adminis- trators and assigns?" "I do," said the bride, rather doubtfullj'. "Well, John, that'll be about a dollar 'n' fifty cents." "Are we niarrieu?" asked the bride. "Yes, when the fee comes in." After some fumbling it was produced and handed to the "court," who pocketed it and continued: "Know all men by these presents that I, being in good health and of sound and disposin' mind, in consideration of a dollar 'n' fifty cents to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do and by these presents have declared j'ou man and wife during good behavior and until otherwise ordered by the court." A Business Proposition. In Galveston, says the Xeias, there is no coin of a lower denomination than a nickle iu circulation. This is of course, a great inconvenience. For instance, two men quarreled yesterday on the avenue. The bigger man of the two said to the smaller man: "For three cents I would give you the confoundedest licking you ever got in your life." The little man looked wicked. He had his coat oil' in a minute. Then he took out a nickle and tendered it to the other party, who said: "I said I'd lick you for throe cents, and I'll do it. That's five cents. Give me three cents and I'll fix you so that a coroner will have to hire a hack to get enough of you together to hold an in quest over." "You cau keep the change," said the little fellow, edging up. "I'm like the country, I don't want any change. I stick to my proposition. Gimme three cents and I'll destroy you." "After I've licked you once there won' t be enough left for a dog to lick. I'm not going to rob your- widow and orphans of two cents. Gimme three cents and the trouble can bagin right now. It's not my fault there are no copper cents iu circulation." (Jiieen Louise of Prussia. From Chambers' Journal. Louise was iu all respects a good and devoted wife, domesticated and econom ical in her habits, and a shining exam ple to her sex. Besides nature had en dowed her with much grace and beauty. She was tall and well formed, with a sweet and noble face, large blue e3'es and a head of lovely golden curls, that were simply combed back. She want ed artificial adornment to make her look a queen. Her state robes, neces sary to one of her position, seemed a burden to her, and wheu she returned from sucl. court festivities as obliged her to appear in courtly apparal, she did not feel happy and at home until she had taken them oil', and was again in her usual elegant yet simple attire, her favorite summer costume of white muslin. At home in a little family cir cle, surrounded by a few old friends, there Louise felt happy once more, and there Frederick William felt again in possession of his pearl. Well might he have exclauied, when finding themselves tete-a-tete: "Now, Louise, I am happy; now 1 know you are my wife." "But am I not always your wife?" said she. "No," he replied; "you must too often be the Crown princess." 4 'Color Blind." Australasian. A legal practitioner holding a high position in his profession lately visited a hard-drinking town in Riverina, ac companied by a valuable and highly prized white dog. The dog was lost, but late in the evening a liver-nolored dog made its appearance in the tavern where the bereaved owner and his friends were enjoying themselves in the usual manner. One of the party, moved by pity or fun, suggested, "Here, Mr. "-, here's your dog turned up." Mr. brightened at once, stroked the dog, saying, "Rough, old man good dog Rough. Come back, eh but how beast ly dirty you've got?" After seeing him provided with a good supper and a bed in a box. he retired contented and happy. But on going with a friend-next morning to inspect his recovered favorite, he dis covered his mistake and accounted for it "Peculiar error, eh? I am always color-blind after 10 o'clock at night." 'oTime. "I have no time to devote to my chil dren," says the business man, with a sigh; for he really feels the privation of their society keenly. But the excuse is an insufficient one; ne should make time let other duties go. for no duty is more important than that he owes his offspring. Parents should never fail to give the child such sympathy in its little matters of life as will produce in its confiding mind that trust and faith wliich is a nectssary element in paternal influence. Filial devotion is a great safe-guard against, evil influences, as a great civilizer to its possessor. Do not forget, too, thatthe childish mind, in process of development, absolutely needs the cheerful and happy influences which are produced by amusement', as sure as the plant needs sun and light for its proper growth. Friendship supplies the place of every thing to those who know how to make a right use of it; it makes prosperity happier and adversity more easv. A man hardened against affliction, and a body against pain and sickness, are the two securities of earthly happi ness. As a Cure for Piles. Kidney-Wort acta first by overcoming In the mildest manner all tendency to constipation : then, by ita great tonic and invieoratini; prop erties, it restores to health the debilitated and weakened parts. Try It. Item, The Assassinated Czar. Omaha Herald. At three o'clock, Sunday afternoon, Alexander II., czar of Russia, died from wounds inflicted by assassins. The ap palling horror will shock universal Christendom, and men and nations, who are enemies to despotism vill see in this terrible calamity au event that will re tard the growth in Europe of constitu tional government for half a century. It is the fruit of nihilism the outgrowth of the barbaric license of lawlessness and crime, which rebels at all law and order, aud which includes in its revolt ing purposes, the atheism and moral in fidelities of the French reign of terror. Conspicuous from its effort at social tumult in Germany, Russia and France, it is known chiefly by the bullet of the assassin and the dagger of the outlaw. It has corrupted tho literature and de based the philosophy of an age of reas on. Springing from the diseased imag ination of pretended social reformers, it has widened in infamy as it has extend ed in influence, until, like a hideous ulcer, it has eaten into the social fabric of European government. Its legitimate fruits were seen in the lurid horrors of the French commune, and in this last fatal and inexcusable atrocity. The moral sense of the world rovolts to-day at its savage methods and barbarian purposes. Tor two years its terrible shadow has been thrown across the life of its victim. Night and day he has been haunted by one ghastly spectre. His palace undermined his physicians bribed to become poisoners his sol diers tempted his servants seduced to treason. These were the invisible assassins which dogged his waking thought, and hovered in dreams over his sleep. So menaced, death became his familiar. He looked it in the face every hour iu the day, and came to consider it an inevitable calamity which sooner or later would be accomplished by vio lence. It has come at last not unex pected, but none the less terrible and appalling. It has ended a heroic life, and one linked with some of the most memorable achievements of the age. Al ander II. was the oldest son of Nicholas I. and was born April 29, 1818. His mother was a sister of William I. of Prussia, aud now emperor of Germany. He married, in 1841, Marie, daughter of the grand duke of Hesse Darustadt, and ascended the throne on the second of march, 1855, during the Crimean war which Russia waged against France, England and Turkey, and which was terminated by the treaty of Paris, signed iu March, 1856. His domestic policy has been more moderate and liberal than that of any of his ancestors. He punished official corruption and libera ted public instruction from military dis cipline. Among tho memorable events of his reign was the liberation of the Serfs, which he decreed in 1861. It was, perhaps, this act which has been the in direct cause of the troubles which have menaced his empire and destroyed his own life. In the beginning of his rsign he had all the elements of the philan thropist. The emancipation of the Serfs led to an agitation for governmen tal reforms from which has grown the nihilism f tho present day. But like French communism, nihilism seeks the abrogation of all law. The idea of lib erty which it advances, is a saturna lia of license. Their demonstrations checked the liberal policy of the czar before they reached maturi ty, and necessitated those repressive measures which have converted .Russia into a volcano of political erup tion. Suppression became the principle of government the censorship of the press was one of its incidents, and the police, and the army became its organs Hatred at home and repelled abroad the stern czar lapsed into the despotism which was the heritage of his empire. His youth was gifted, imaginative and enthusiastic; his noon of life, wise, sa gacious and prodigal of liberty, but the evening of his reign was stern, repellant and despotic as that of Ivan the terrible. That there was some deep and overrul ing cause which produced these strange antagonisms of character, is evident in the social convulsions which disturb the nation aud in his own violent death. The dead emperor will be succeeded on the throne by Alexander III, the' present czarovitch and second son of the czar. He was born. March 10, 1845, and married in 1866, the Princess Dag mar, daughter of Christian IX, of Den mark. He became after the death of his elder brother, Nicholas, in 1865, heir apparent to the throne. He has two sons Nicholas Alexanderovitch, born in 1868. and George Alexanderovitch, born in 1871. The new czar, like his father, possesses liberal views of gov ernment, and is in hearty sympathy with those reforms designed to more nearly approximate the established order of things, to the necessities of an enlight ened and civilized empire. In the prime of life, an able politician, discreet, pru dent and inflexible in his purposes, it may be that under his administration Russia will not only secure peace at home, but become the most liberal as it is now the most important factor in the civilization of the east. Successful Journalism. From the Boston Post. There is one editor who has achieved the feat of running a newspaper to suit ev erybody. Occasionally, to be sure, he has complaints but he never fails to satisfy the complainers that they aiv in wrong. It wasn't always so with him. He only adopted the system after he got desperate, ft was one day after he had received seven complaints, that he tried it. A man came in and said: "Why in tophet didn't you print the whole of the proceedings of the society for the pre vention of crue ty to hogs, instead of an abstract?" The editor replied: "Oh, jou made a speech that wasn't in the report, eh?" Then he went around the counter. The dust flew for a few mo ments and then it became more quiet. The editor relaxed his grip on the man's throat ..ufficieutly to let him speak, and he said that he gusesed the article was all right, and he had only come to re new nis subscription. He was let up, paid the money and left, and as he went out he collided with a man who had an ugly glare in his eyes, and dancing up to the editor said: "What d'ye mean, sir? I pay for a sensible newspaper and herel get a lot of stuff about cruelty to hogs. You ought to be put in jail for printing such rot." The editor went around the counter again, and again the dust flew and cries of "Take your teeth from my ear!" "Let go o' my hair!" etc., were heard. It was fall five min utes before the editor could get the man's coat torn off and put him on the floor with his head in the coal scuttle, but he did it at last. Then he jumped high in the air and sat down on the man's stomach, and the yell the man gave, echoing in the coal scuttle, sound ed awful. The editor was about to repeat the operation, but the man said: "We needn't prolong this agony. Your pa per is the best in the world. It is all right. I'll take it ten years in advance.' Eight more visitors had the same experi ence. Then came one the editor could not thrash. It was a woman. "What d'ye mean by publishing fashion arti cles from a three-year-old magazine?" she asked. "I made a bonnet accord ing to your directions and it is just three years behind the style. Oh, you wretch! You mean, horrid, insignificant O : oh!" "My dear madam," he said, I "you are right. I am not fit to run a paper; I'll stop it at once." (To a re ; porter) "John, don't send up any more I copy. Kill that piece saying this lady was" the belle of the ball last night." I "Stop!" she cried, "your paper is a ' household treasure. I don't care much about the bonnet, andcame to asjyou to our house to tea to-night.' The ed itor says he wouldn't drop the rule for anything. Everybody leaves satisfied with his paper. Elizabeth of Austria. From Le Figaro. The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, is the most beautiful crowned ldy in the world. Yet one loves to contbjnplate her, not adorned with costly laces na resplendent in hereditary jewels, but ar rayed in the dark cloth dress of casfeL lans' wives of the olden time, proudhr and bravely reining in a fiery horse. . The retreats of old Hungary have a Toat fascination for her. It is among, fhem that she gallops with heroine's recklessness; now dashing at full speed beneath the shade of ancient trees, now leaping over hedge and ditch. What an apparition in this matter-of-fact age of ours is this chivalrous beau ty, stated and imposing as the fairy of the Black Forest and fully as benevolent. Her horse, which flees so often from places, ever stops before the cottage door. The empress is a sunbeam to the suffering. This woman, with a gentle heart under an Amazon's breast, cher ishes in a beautiful jeweled box, not a stone of great price, but a little faded nosemv of edelweissthat mountain flower.'white and delicate asasnowflake, which Austrian peasants attach to their buttonholes as a sign of love. The lit tle noseo-ay was given the empress by herhus&ndatthetiuie they were be trothed The empress, as beautiful now as ever, still wears a tribute diadem- of blaefc tresses. Were it not that she is dark instead of blonde one could compthterr to Tasso's Hermmia. in spue ui- sporting proclivities, her womanly na ture continually shows itself by this .ami that feminine peculiarity. Thus sy daily attaches to her waist three dark- red roses, and wherever she happens to be these flowers must always be furnish ed her. A fan is invariably danghn from her horse's saddle. It is designed with the arms of Austria, and she u-p it often to shade her weary eyes from the sun's rays. The empress has an adventurous im-ao-ination: She loves the poets of ol. and the legends of the past. It is per haps because she herself isalivingpoem which has starved away from some long forgotten legend? What Shall We Do With Our Daughters!: Don't teach Jhem self reliance. It is so much easier fo.r them to rely on some one else. , . . Don't let them learn how to make bread. Their beaux m mu tmv were not well bred. Don't allow them to lern how to make shirts. It is better th'ey should not know. Then, when they .w mar ried, their husbauds can work twenty hours a day to get money with wUcji to buy ready-made ones, while they 'tf1"' red dogs. Above all things, do not fail to leanr them how to wear false hair, and if your daughter objects to bang her hair, bang her over the head. Do not allow them to learn how to make thoir own drosses. It is fashion able to have a dressmaker. Teach them that a dollar is only 100 cents and does not amount to much. Do not learn them how to cook. Should they understand the cuisine art and know what is needed in a family, the servant could not supply all herreuv tives with edibles. Teach them to darn their neighbors, but not stockings. Don't allow them to learn to sew on buttons. They might get needles in their fingers. Teach them to regard the money and not te morals of thoir suitors. Teach them none of the mysteries of the kitchen, the dining-room and thi parlor. Teach them that the more one lives' beyond his income the more he will save. Urge them to go with intomperato young men. It is convenient to Iiutc a. drunken husband as the wife is enabled to take pin money from his pocket while he is taking a drunken snooze. Finally, teach them that God, who made them, is an old fogy, ami made them in His image, which necessitates, tight lacing. What Royal Childrem Do. The education of Queen Victoria's grand-children is conducted on. the prin ciple that the Prince Consort introduced in her family. Particularly is this true of the children of the crown princess of Germany. They have to rise early and retire early. During the day they have punctually to perform their duties, and to keep strictly the time allotted to the various branches of study and recrea tian. Ihey breakfast at 8 with their parents, and the time between 10 in the morning and 5 in the afteroon is devot ed to their lessons, with an interruption of one hour for dinner. Accomplish ments, such as riding and skating, re ceive the same attention as art ana sci ence. The meals consist of simple dishes, of which they have their choice without being permitted to ask for a substitute if what is placed before them does not suit. Between meals they are not allowed to eat. Only inexpensive toys are placed in their hands, and the princesses dress themselves without the aid of waiting maids. Miss Gladstone. Miss Helena Gladstone, a younger daughter of the prime minister of En- f land is causing quite a sensation in Ingland and on the continent by the moral courage developed in her recent determination to enter an active anu useful career, and to give the young wo men of England a very noble example. A London correspondent oi tne leading nolitical iournal of the continent, the Belgian Independent, announces this voung ladv bas passed that her examinations, and now returns to Newham college to study for the position of preceptress of that institution. The idea of the daughter of the prime minister becoming a teacher, or, as some other authorities state, sec retary and active agen', is somethingso new to the aristocratic feminine world of Europe that it is makiugan "epoch," as they say. Men and Women. What is it that makes all those men who associate habitually with women, superior to those who do not? What makes that woman who is ac customed to stand at ease in the society of men, superior to her sex in general? Surely because they are in the , nabit of free, graceful, continued conversation with the other sex. Women in this way, lose their frivolity, their faculties awak en, and their delicacies and peculiari ties unfold all their beauty, andcaptiva tion in the spirit of intellectual rivalry; and the men lose their pedantic, rude, declamatory, aud sullen manner. The coin of the'understanding and the heart changes continually. The asperities are rubbed off, the better materials are polished and brightened, and their richness, like that of gold, is wrought into finer workmanship by the fingers of women, thanit eve eould be by those of men. A southwestern editor, speaking of a Iarge.and fat cotemponiry, remarked that if all was grass he- must be a load of hay. "I expect I am," said the fat man, "from the way the donkeys nib ble at me." 1 ry I A 4 1 41 i w r 4