31 S1 a. W. FAinBROTTlER & CO., Proprietor. CALVKIIT, : : NEBRASKA. W1IWU ONE ? Ono of us, dear Hut ono Will sit by a bed with a nnmclcs fear, And olasp u hiind Growing cold as It fi els for tlio spirit lnnd; Darling, which ono? Ono of tie, dnr Hut ono Will stand by tlio other's coniii blor And look, and wqup, While those marble Up strango sllonco kocp: Dai Hug, which ono? Ono of us, dear Hut ono Uy an open grave will drop n tear, A i:d homeward go, Tlio nngultdi of an utuharod grlof to know; Darling, wkiuli ono? Ono of tis, dear Hut ono Shall spunk Kind words thoothor cannot hoar, And fully know All wo have dimly groped for hero bolow: Darling, which ono? Ono of in, darling. It mint bo. It miiy bi1. ymi will slip from mo; My littlo II lo may tlrst bu douo; I'm glad wo do not know Which ono. Julfa 11. May, in Golden Rule. U LAL" RYDQTJIST; A Story of the Land and Sea. y WAI.TKIt HKSANT AND .tAMI'.S HICK, IN AM. . TIIH YlIAIl IIOUM). CHAVTKU lX.-CONTINUKII. They examined every islet of the lit tle groups. They ventured within the great lagoon ot Ilogolou, a hundred miles neross, where an archipelago of islets lie in the shallow huid-loeked sea, clothed Willi forest. Tlio people eaino oil' to visit them, paddling in canoes of sandal-wood; there were two or three ships put in for pearls and becho do mer. Thou they touched at the Enderby Islands, the Koyalist Islands, the Swede Islands, and the Uliea Islands. " Perhaps," said Captain llolstius, as they sighted-cvery one, " ho may have drilled here." But he had not. To those far-ofl' islands few ships ever come. Yet from time to time thevo ap pears the white sail of a trader or a missionary schooner, or the smoke of an English war-vessel. The people are mostly gentle and obliging, when they recognize that the ship does not come to carry them oil' as coolies. But to all in quiries there was but ono answer, that they had no whito man among them, unless it was somo poor bcach-coinbor living among them, and one of them selves. They knew nothing of any boat. Worse than all, Dick shook his head at ,t every place; and showed no interest in ' the inquiries they prosecuted. A voyage in those seas is not without danger. They are shallow seas, where new reefs, new coral islands, and new shoals arc continually being formed, so that whore, a hundred years ago was safe sailing, there are now rocks above the surface, and ovon islands. There are earthquakes too, and volcanic eruptions. There are islands whoro plantations and villages have been swallowed up in a moment, and thoir places taken by boil ing lather; in the seas lurk great sharks, and by the shores aro poisonous lish. Tho peoplo are not everywhere ;ontle and trustful; thoy have learned the vices of Europe and tho treacheries of whito men. Thoy have beon known to sur round a becalmed ship and massacre all on board. Yet Captain llolstius went among them undaunted and without fear. They did not offorhini any injury, lotting him como and go unmolested. Trust begets trust. So they sailed from end to end of this great archipelago and heard no news of Ilex. Then their hearts began to fail them. But always in tho bows sat Dick, searching the distant horizon, and in his face there was the look of ono who knows that he is near tho place which he would lind. And ono day, after many day's sailing 1 think they had been out of San Fran cisco seven,ty-fivc days thoy observed a strange thing. Dick began to grow restless. lie bor rowed tho Captain's glasses and looked through them, though his own eyes were almost as good. Ho rambled up and down the deck continually, scanning the horizon. "See," cried Lai, "ho knows the air of this place; ho has been hero be fore. Is there no land in sight?" "None." Ho gave her tho glass. "I see tho lino of sea. and tho blue sky. There is no land in sight." Yet what was tho meaning of that restlessness? By some sonso unknown to thoso who havo the usual fivo, the man who could neither hoar nor speak know ory well that ho was near tho place they had come so far to lind. Captain llolstius showed his com panion their position upon tho chart. " Wo aro upon tho open sea," ho said. "Here aro tho Uliea islos two hundred miles and more from any where. A littlo more and wo shall bo outside tho shallow seas, and in the deep water again. Lai, wo have searched so far in vain. IIo is not in tho Carolinos, then where can ho boP Nothing is be tween us and tho Polows excopting this littlo shoal." The charts aro not always porfect. The littlo shoal, since tho chart was laid down, had become au atoll, with its reef and its lagoon. It was early morning, not long after fcunrise. While thoy woro looking upon tho chart, which thoy know by heart, tho Malay burst into tho cabin and seized Lai by the hand. He dragged her upon tho deck, his eyes llosuing, his lips parted, and pointed with both hands to the horizon. Then ho nodded his head and sat down on deck once more, imi tating tho action of ono who paddles. 1 .nl Qne tintlilnfT. The Captain followed with his classes. "Land ahead," he said slowly, "off the starboard bow." IIo gave her tho glasses. She looked, made out the land, and then o.lured the glass to Dick, who shook his head, point ed, and nodded again. "We have found tlio place," cried Lai, "Iknow it is I feel it is Oh, Hex, Box, if wo should find you there!" As tho ship drdw nearer, tho excite ment of the Malay increased. It became certain now that ho had recognized the place, of which nothing could bo hoon except a low line of rick with white wa ter breaking over it. The day was nearly calm, a breath of air gently floating the vessel forward; lirnM'iitlv thn rook became clearlv do- liued;,a low reef, of a horse-shoo shape, surrounded, save for a narrow entrance, a large lagoon of perfectly smooth wa ter; within tho lagoon woro visible two, or perhaps threo islands, low, and ap parently with littlo other vegetation than the universal pandang, that be neficent palm of tho rocks which wants nothing but a little coral sand to grow in, ana provides the islanders with tood, clothing, roofs for their huts, and sails for their canoes. As soon as Dick saw tho entrance to the lagoon ho ran to the boats and niadu signs that thoy should lower aitd row to the land. - "Let him have his way," saidjtho Captain, "ho shall bo ourleador now. Let us not bo toy confident, Lai, my dear, but L verily believe that wo have found the place, and, perhaps, the man." They lowered the boat. The first to jump into her was tho Mala', who seated himself in tho bows and seized an oar. Then ho made signs to hiS'mis trcss that she should como too. Thoy lowered her, and sho sat in tho stern Then the Captain got in, and they pushed oil". " What do you say, Lai?" asked llol stius, looking at her anxiously. " 1 am praying," sho replied, with tears in her eyes. " And t am think ing, brother," she laid her hand in his, "how good a man you are, and what re ward we can give you, and what Ilex will say to you." "I need no reward," ho said, ".but to know and fe.ol that you aro happy. You will tell Hex, my dear, thai L have been your brother since ho was lost. Nothing more, Lai, nover anything else. That has beon enough." She burst into tears. " Oh! what shall I tell him about you? what shall I not tell him? Shall l,in very truth bo able to tell Mm anything to sneak to him again? Kiss me, be fore ail these men that they may know howmueh I love my brother, and how grateful I am, and how 1 pray that God will reward you out of His infinite love." She laid her hand on his whilo he stooped his head and kissed her fore head. "Enough of me," ho said, ".think now of Kox." By this time they were in tho mouth of the lagoon. They passed over a bar of coral, some eight feet deep, and then tho water grow deeper. Tn this beauti ful and remote spot, Lai was to lind her lover. All tho while tho Malay looked first to the islands and then back at his mistress, his face wreathed with smiles, and his eyes Hashing with excitement. The sea in this lagoon was porfeatly, wonderfully transparent. The (lowers of tho sea-weeds, the lish, tho great.sea slugs the beehes do mer collected by so many trading vessels; the sharks moving lazily about the shallow water were a easily visible as if they were on land. This small land-lockod sea was, apparently, about three miles in diam eter, bounded on all sides by tlio ring of narrow rocks, and entered by rino narrow mouth; the islets, whicli had been visible from the ship, woro Mir in number. The largest one, of irregular shape, appeared to be about a mile and a half long, and perhaps a mile broad; it was a low island, thinly set with tlio pandang, tlio screw palm, .which will grow when nplliing olso can lind moist- ure in me sanuy sou;- inoro were no -signs of habitation visible. Tho other three islands, separated from tho larger one, auu irom eacn oiner, oy narrow straits, wore quite small, tho largest not more than two or threo acres in ox tont. The place was perfectly quiet; no sign of life was seen or heard. Dick pointed to a largo island, which ran out a low bend of capo toward the entrance of the lagoon. His face was terribly in earnest, ho laughed no long er; he kept looking from t lie island to his mistress and back again. As they drew nearer, he held up his linger to command silence. The men took short strokes, dipping thoir oars silently, so that nothing was heard but the grating of tho oars m tho row-locks. On rounding tho capo they found a narrow lovol beach of sand (stretching back about a hundred feet. This was tho sumo place whore, live months be fore, Captain Wattles held his confer once with tho prisoner. " Easy!" oried the Captain. The boat with her weigh on slowly moved on toward tho shore. There seemed on the placid bosom of the la goon to bo no current and no tide, nor any motion of the waters. For no fringo of hanging sea-weed lay upon the rocks, nor wus there any belt of the flot sam which lies round the vexed shores whoro waves beat and winds roar. Strange, thcro was not even tho gentlo murmur of tho washing wavelet, which is never still elsowhore on tho calmest day. All hold thoir breaths and listened. The air was so still that Lnl heard the breathing of tho boat's crow; the boat slowly moved on toward tho shoro. Tho Malay In tho bows had shipped his oar and now sat like a wild creature waiting for tho moment to spring. "Hush!" It was Lai who hold up her linger. There was a sound of distant voices. Tho place was not, then, uninhabited, The boat nearcd the shore. When It was but two feet or so from the shelving bank the Malay leaped nut of the bows, alighting on hands and knees, and ran, waving Tils arms, toward the wood. It was now threo mouths hinco the offer of freedom was brought to Kox and refused on conditions mo hard. So far the prediction of Captain Wattles was fulfilled; no sail had crossed the sea within sight of the lonely island; no ship had touched there. It was likely, Indeed, that the castaway would live and die there abandoned and forgotten. Kox kept the probability before his mind; he remembered Hobinsou Cru soe's famous list of tilings for which ho might bo grateful; he was well; the place was healthy; there was food in sullicieney, though rough; and ho was not alone, though perhaps that fact was not altogether a subject for grati tude. Tlio sun was yet in tlio forenoon, and Hex, inventor-general of tho Island, while perfecting a method of improving the fishing by means of nets made of tho pandang fiber, was startled by tho rush of twenty or thirty of the people, seizing clubs and spears, and shouting to each other. The rush and the shout could mean but ono thing a ship in sight. He sprang to his feet, hesitated, and then wont with them. He saw, at first, nothing but a boat close to land, and a figure running swiftly across tho sandy beach. What they saw, from the boat, was a group of very forooious natives, yelling to one another and brandishing weap ons, intent, no doubt, to slay and de stroy ovory mother's son. Thoy were darker of hue than most Polynesians; they woro tattoood all over; their noses anil ears were pierced and stuck witli bits of tor,toisc-sholl for ornament; their abundant and raven-black hair was twisted in knots on tlio top of their heads. Ami among them stood ono with a long brown beard; ho wore a hat mado out of a palm-leaf; his feet were bare; his clothes were shreds and rags; his bare arms were tattooed like tho island ers' arms; his hair was long and mat tod; his cheeks, his hands, arms and feet woro bronzed; ho might have missed for a native but for his face and hair. It was exactly what Captain Wattles had seen, only the men were tiereer. When thoy saw from the boat tho white man, thoy grasped each other's hands. "Courage, Lai," said Captain llol stius. "Courago and caution." When Hex, among tho natives, saw and recognized Dick, his faithful ser vant running to greet him and kissing his hand; when he saw tho people sud denly stop their shouts, and gather curi ously about their old friend, who had been kidnapped long before with their own brother, he stared about him as if in a dream. Then Dick seized his master's hand and pointed. A ship was standing off the mouth of the lagoon; a boat was on the bench; and in the boat But jtiot then Cap tain llolstius leaped ashore, and a girl after him. And then then -the girl followed the Malay and ran toward him with arms outstretched, crying: "Hex! Hex!" This must bo a dream. Yet no dream would throw upon his breast the girl of whom he had thought day and night, his love, his promised wife. ' "Kox! Hex! Do you not know me? Have you forgotten?" For a while, indeed, ho could not speak. Tho thing stunned him. In a singlu moment he remembered all the past; the long despair of the weary time, especially of the last three months; tho dreadful prospect before nun; tne thought ot tlio long years l ereoping slowly on, unmarked even by , spring or autumn; the loneliness ot ins life; the gradual sinking, deeper and I deeper, unto tho level of tho pour fcl- lows around him; Ihing or dead no one would know about him; perhaps the girl ho loved being deceit od into marrying tho liar and villain who sat in tho boat and ollered him conditions of freedom he remembered all these things. He remembered, too, how of late he had thought that there might come a time wnen it would be well to end every thing by a plunge in the transparent waters of the lagoon. Two minutes of struggle and all would be over. Death seemed a lunr and conscious sleep. To sleep unconscious, and without a wak ing, is nothing. To sleep conscious of repose, knowing that there will be no mare trouble, is the imaginary haven of tho suicide. Then ho roused himself and clasped her to his heart "My darling! You havo como to lind me! ' But how to got away? First, ho took the ribbons from Lai's hat and from her nook, and presented thorn to tho chief, haiing a few words of friendship and greeting. Tho finery pleased the man, and ho tied it round his nook, saying that it was good. The phenomenon in bright colored ribbons, he did not understand. Could she, too, mean kidnapping? Meantimo tho boat was lying close to tho beach, and beside the bow stood Captain llolstius, motionless, waiting. " Lai," said Hex. " (Jo quietly back to tho boat and tret in. Tako Dick and make him got into the boat with you. I will follow. Do nothing hurriedly. Show no signs of fear. She obeyed; tho people mado no at tempt to oppo.io her return; Captain llolstius helped her into the boat. Un fortunately Dick did not obey. IIo stood on the beach waiting. Thou Hex began, still talking to tho people, to walk slowly toward tho boat, lie was promising to bring them presents from the ship; ho begged them to stay where thoy were, and not to crown round the boat; he bade them re member the bad man who had stole two of their brothers, and ho promised to find out where they were and bring them back. They listoncd, nodded, and answered that what he said was good. When ho nearcd the boat thoy stood Irresolute, grasping the Idea that thoy were going to lose tho white man Who had been among them so long, I believe that he would have got off quiotlv, but for tho zeal of Dick, who could not restrain his impatience, but sprang forward and caught Ms old master In his strong arms, and tried to carry htm into thu boat. Then tho islanders yelled and mado for the beach all together. No one but Lai could tell, afterword, exactly what happened at this moment. It was this. Two of the islanders, who were in advance of the rest, af rived at the beach just as Dick had dragged his master into the boat. Captain llol stius had pushed her off and was stand ing by the bows, up to his knees In water, on tho point of leaning in. In a moment more the' would havo been In dcop water. '1 ho black fellows, seeing that thoy were too Into, stayed their feet, and poised their spears, aiming them, in the blind rage of the moment, at tho man thuv had received amongst themselves nnif treated hospitably at Kox. Hut as the weapons left their hands, Captain llolstius sprang into the boat, and stand ing upright, with outstretched arms, re ceived in Ids own breast the two spears whicli would havo pierced tho heart of Hex. The action, though so swift as to take but a moment, was as deliberate as if it had been determined upon all along. Then all was over. Hex was safely seated in tho stern beside Ins sweet heart; Dick was crouching at his feet; the boat was in deep water; the men woro rowing their hardest; tho savages were yelling on tlio beach; and at Lai's feet lay, pale and blooding, the man who had saved tho llfo of her lover at tho price of his own. She laid his pale face in her lap; sho took his cold hands in her own; sho kissed his cold forehead, whilo from his breast, there ilowed tho rod blood of his life, given, like his labor and his sub stance, to her. IIo was not yet quite dead, and pre sently ho opened his eyes those soft blue eyes which had so often rested upon her as if thoy were guarding and sheltering her in tenderness and pity. They were full of lovo now, and oven of joy, for Lai had got back her lover. " Wo have found liim, Lai," ho mur mured " wo have found him. You will bo happy again now you havo got your heart's desire." What could sho say? How could sho rowlv? "Do not cry, Lai, dear. What mat ters for me if only you are hap py?" Thoy woro his last words. Presently he pressed her lingers; his head, upon her lap, fell over on ono side; his breath ceased. So Captain llolstius, alono among the three, redeemed his pledge. If Lai was happy, what inoro had he to pray for upon this earth? What mattered, as he said, for him? At sundown that evening, when tho ship was under weigh again and tho reef of the lonely unknown atoll low on the horizon, thev buried the Captain in the deep, while Rex read tho Service of tho Dead. The blood of Captain llolstius must be laid to tho charge of his rival; the blood of all tho whito men murdered on Polynesian shores must be laid to the chargo of thoso who havo visited the island in order to kidnap the people, and those who have gone among them only to teach them some of tlio civilization out of which they have extrat'ted noth ing but its vices. As regards this little islet, tho peoplo know, in some vague way, that thoy have had living among them a man who was superior to themselves, who taught them things, and showed them certain small arts by which he improved thoir mode of life; if ever, whicli we hope may not bo their fate, they fall in with tho" beach-combers of Fiji, Samoa or Hawaii, they will easily perceive that liox Aiiniger was not ono ot them. 1 hoy will remember that he was a person of such great importance, that two chiefs came to see him; ono of them carried off two of their people, the other, with whom was a great princess, carried off their prisoner himself. In a few years' time the story will be come a myth. Some of tho missionaries are great hands at collecting folk-lore. They will land hero and will presently inquire among the people for legends and traditions of the past. They will hear how, long, long ago (many years ago), there had living among them a wliito person, whose proper spliere by birth was tlio broad heaven: how he st.ijcd with them a long timo (many moons); how ono after tho other white persons came to see him, both bad and good; for some kidnapped their people and took them away to be eaten nllvo; how at last a goddess, all in crimson, blue and gold, came with a male deity and took away their guest, who had, meantime, taught them how to make clothes, roofs and bread, out of the bo noliecnt pandang; how tho companion was killed in an unlucky scrimmage; and Jioiv they looked forward for their return somo day. thlrf will storv and scud it homo: wi.su inon get hold of It, and discuss itfl meaning.' Thoy will bo divided into two classes;! those who see in it a legend of the stud god, the princess being nothing but the moon, and her companion the morning star; the other class will seo in the story a corruption of tho history of Moses. Others, more learned, will compare lids' legend with others exactly like it in al most nil lauds. It is, for instance, tho same as tho talo of (Juinovoro returning for Arthur, and will quote oxtimplos from Afghanistan, v Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, Borneo, the valleys of (ho Leba non, Socotra, Central America and the Faroo Isles. Five weeks later Lai was married at San Francisco. Tho merchant who lent her tho schooner gave her a country house for hor honeymoon. "She ought," said Hex, "to havo married the man who gave hor himself, all his fortune, and his very life. I am ashamed that so good a man has been sacrificed for mv sake. "No sir," said the Californlan; "not for your sake at all, but for hers. Wo may remember some words about laying down your life for your friends. 'Per haps It is worth the sacrillco of a llfo to have done so good and great a thing. If there were many more such men in the world, we might shortly expect to see the gates of Eden open again." "Unfortunately," said Kox, "thoro aro more like Captain Wattles." " Yes sir; I am sorry ho is au Ameri can. But you can boast your Horliud or, who is, l believe, an Englishman." Tho account of Lai's rot urn and tho death of Captain llolstius duly appeared in the San Francisco papers. It was accompanied by strictures of somo se verity upon tlio conduct of Captain Barnabas 11. Wattles, who was com pared to tho skunk of his native country. It was this account, with these strict ures, which tlio Son of Consolation found in tho paper after posting his packet of lies. Further, a Sydney paper asked if tlio Captain Harnabas B. Wattles, of tho Fair Maria, wos the same Captain Wat tles who behaved in the wonderful manner described in the California papers. lie wrote to say ho was not. ' From further information roooivod, it presently appeared to everybody that ho. was that person. He has now lost his ship, and I know not where ho i.S nor what occupation ho is at present following. Jt remains only to suggest, rather than to describe, tlio joyful return to Seven Houses. We may not linger to relnto how Mrs. Hyd'qplst, who still found comfort in wearing additional crape to her widow's weeds for Hex, now kept ib on for Captain llolstius, calling every body's attention to tho wonderful ao-' curacy of hor predictions; how Captain Zaehariaseu first sang a Nunc dimittis, loudly proclaiming his willingness to gu since Lai was happy again; and thou explained, lest he might bo faken at Mm word, that perhaps it would bo well to remain in order to experience the full ness of wisdom which comes with nine ty years. IIo also takes groat credit to himself for the able reading ho had given of the mummicking. The morning after their arrival, Hex, looking for his wife, found hor in the kitchen, making the pudding with her, old bib on and her white arms flecked with Hour, just as ho remembered hoi three years bofore. Beside hor, tho Patriarch slept in tho wooden chair. " It is all exactly the same," ho said; "yet with what a difference? And L have had three years of tho kubobo. Lai, you aro going to begin again tho old housekeeping?" She shook her head and laughed. Then the tears came into hor eyes. "Tho Captains like this pudding,1', she said. "Let mo please thorn onco mora, Hex, while I stand hero looking through the window at the trees in tho church-yard, and through tho open d'i in tlio garden, and when I listen to tho noise of tho docks and tlio river, and for tho white sails beyond tho church, aad watch the dear "old man asleep there beside the fire, I cannot believe but that I shall hear another step, ami turn round and see beside me, with ids grave smile and tender eyes, Captain llolstius, standing, as ho used lo stand, in the doorway, watching mo without a word." Hex kissed her. IIo could hear this talk without jealousy or pain. Yet it will always seem to Mm somehow, as if his wife had missed a better husband than himself, a feeling which may bo useful in keeping down pride, vain con ceit, and over masterfulness; vices which mar the conjugal happiness of many. " lie could never have beon my hus band," the young wife went on in hor happiness, thinking she spoke the whole truth; " not even if l had never known you. But I loved him, Hex." Tin; KND. The first church-bell used in tho ?arisli of Quassaick, now Ncwburg, N. '., has been turned over to tho trustees of Washington's headquarters. It was cast in Amsterdam in 1710, and was given by the Government to tho Palatino parish of Quassaick. It has beon kept nirciuuv, and is cap ab lo of still doing Jhicuou Times. valiant service. Wo must not bo surprised to hear of a paper furniture factory starting into existence before long. Paper can now bo made of strong fibres ami compressed into a substance so hard that only a diamond can scratch it. A foreign jour nal says that wood will be superseded by paper. N. I'. Hun. Wm. Kaiser Is tho oldest reigning King or Emperor over known in, tho his tory of Christendom. Tho missionaries will writo down tl Li