Bates of Advertising. Xpace. lie 2u? lmo Zm Ujh Vjt T- lcoPmn $12.00 20 f $25 $33 ?C0 1 A X " I 8.00 12 1 15 1 201 35 1 oil 0.00 1 9 1 12 J ir j "24 r 3f 5.25 7.30 1 11 l 14 1 lo .271 4.50 0.75 10 j 12 1 JO 2.25 4 3 I Jiuslness and professional card tea lines or less space, per "annum, ten dol- -:o: " j.enai auvcruscments at statute raies. "Editorial local notice' fifteen cents a line each insertion. "Local notices" flve cents a linn .uli Inser VOL. X.-NO. 30. tion. Advertlsmcnis classified as uSpi- COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1879. WHOLE NO. 498. v.-i uuucc.v hts cents a line ursl inser tion, three cents a line eaca subsequent IU9V11IUU, The Journal 13 ISSUKD KVKItY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. ike Iwipal i fl I ! AbbbI mbbw lvvH bbbtVbbV bbbi bbbb I bbbb K " 1 4 Inches 3 " "j 1 T 15J 2 ! "l .0. 1 - ".. A f ! k 2T0lflcc, temporarily, in the Becker building, Tliirtccntb-fct.,Columbus. Neb. Terms Per ye.ir. $2. Six months, $1. Tbrce months. ,r0c Single copies, 5c CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. A. S. P ADnocic, U. S. Senator, Beatrice. -ALVIN Saunders, U. S. Senator, Ouiaba. T. J. .MajoRU IU'p.. Peru. E. K. Valustine, Jtep., "West Toint. lv STATE DIKECTOKY: Albisus Navce. Governor, Lincoln. J.J. Aiex.uiiU'r, Secretary of State. F. V. Lleltki', Auditor, l.inr-oln. G. M. U irtlutt, Tre'surcr, Lincoln. C.J. Oil worth, Attorney-Oeneral. S. It. Thompson. Sunt. Public Ins'ruc. II. O. Dawson, Warden of Penitentiary. W. VT. Abbey, i j,ri.on i,,nectors C. II. Gould, f in-on i-spectors. Dr. J. G. Davis. I'rlfion riiysician. II. P. Mathewson, Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: S. Maxwell, Chief Justice, ISaCCobb.kC'f Associate JdBe. rouuTn jcimcial district. G. Prtvt, .Tudee. Yoik. y. n. Keei.?, District Attorney, "VVahoo. LAND OFFICEKS: 31. B. Ho.vic, Register, Grand Island. vm. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island. COUNTY DIRECTORY: J. G. Illgiiu, Countv Judce. John Ptaiifl'er, County Clerk. V. Kummer, Treasurer. Itonj. Spielman, Sherl'J. U. L. Ross!ltcr, Surtvor. win. Bloedorn.) Jhn "Walker, CnuntvCoinniUloner. John AVise. ) Dr. A. Heintz. Corom-r. S. L. Barrett, Supt. of Schools. Bvfonil.eu!"',1 J"ctices of thoPece. Cborlcs WkKc, Constable. CITY DIRECTORY: C. A. Sneice. Mavor. John Wermuth, Clerk. Charles "Wake, .Urrhhal. C. A. Xewnitin, Treaburer. S. S. .McAllister, Police Judge. .). O. Rout-on, Engineer. couxcilmen: Mt IVard J. E. Noith. O. A. Schrocder. TTR. R. .1. REILJ,Y, Ojice on Thirteenth Street, Opposite Engine House, Columbia, Neb. Er fpricht Deutsch. 4S9-X Tf ELLEY & SLATTERY, " House Moving and hone building done to order, and in u workuinn-likc manner. Please jrive us a call. jarShop on corner of Olive St. and Pacific Avenue. 483 tf ADVERTISEMENTS. STAGE ROUTE. JOnX IIUBER, the mail-cnrrier be twecn Columbus and Albion, will leave Columbus everyday except Sun day at G.i'clock, sharp, passing through Monroe, Genoa. Watjrville, and to Al I ion The hack will call at clthet of the Hotels lor passengers if orders are left at the post'Olllcc. Rates reason- able, $2 to Albion. 222.1y GEOEGE N. DERBY, CARRIAGE, House k Sign Painting, P GSaISWG, GLA2IK3, Rnpor II:ms:incr, KALSOMINING, Etc. J3TA11 work warranted. Shop on Olive street, opposite the "Tatters-all" Stables. aprlCy 'mv3: td irart?-E. C. B. II. Kavanausb-Ileury. TOR SALE OR TRADE ! MARES COLTS, Teams of Horses or Oxen, SAVUL.S? POIVIES, wild or broke, at the Corral of 429 GERHARD A ZEIGLER. KELLY & SLATTERY, COLUMBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SIIEEHAN, Proprietor. JSTWholesale nnd Retail Dealer In For eign "Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Dub lin stout, jeotcii anu Engiuii Ales. $3T Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. 07STERS in their season, by the case can or dish. 11th Street, South of Depot Wm. SCHILZ, Manufacturer and Dealer in BOOTS AND SHOES! A complete jmorttaent of tellies' and Chil dren's Shoes kept on hand. All Work Warranted!! Our Motto Good stock, excellent work aud fair prices. Especial Attention paid to Repairing Cor. Olive and 12tU S(m. HESTER'S LOVE STORY. id H'ard-E. J. Raker. Wm. Burgess. Columbus Post Offlw. Ojon on Sundays f rem 11 a.m. to 12m. and from 4:30 to 0 y. m. Business hours except Sunday C a m. to p. m. E istern mails close at"ll a. m. Western malls close at 4:15 p.m. Mail leaves Columbus for Madison and Norfolk, daily, excent Suudav, at 10 a.m. Arrives at -1:30p.m. For 3Ionroe, Genoa, "raterville and Al bion, dailj except Sundu fi a.m. Ar rive, vanu. C P.M. For Osceola and York.TuosdaysThure days and aturdavs. 7 a.m." Arrixes 3IondHjs, U'ednevdava and Fridavs, tip. M. Fur WtlT. Farral and Rnttlc Creek. Mondays. "Wednesday k and Fridxys, C a.i." Arrives Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 0 P. M. For Shell Creek, lroson and Stanton, on MondNVb and Friday at C a. m Arrives Tucsdavs nnd Saturdavs, at C p. M. For Alexis, Patron and David City, Tuesdays, Thursdavs and Saturday's, 1 P. m Arrives at 12 M. For St. Anll.Mn.riaiiic Hill and St. Bernard. Saturdays, 7 a. M. Arrives Fridays, 3 p.m. U. . Time Table. JZasticard Donnd. HOLDS HIMSELF IN READINESS for any work iu his line. Refore letting your contracts for buildings of any description call on or address him at "Columbus, Neb. jSTFirst-elass ap. par at us lor removing inumins. Columbus Meat Market! WEBER & KNOBEL, Prop's. KEEP ON HAND all kinds of frcs-h meats, and moked pork and beef; also fresh lish. Make sausage a spec ialty. tSRcmembcr the place, Elev enth St., one door west of D. Rvan's hotel. 417-tf GOOD CHEAP BRICK 1 AT MY RESIDENCE, on Shell Creek, three miles eat of Matthis'b bridge, 1 have 70,000 good. li:iilliiiriit bt-icU tor sale, which will be sold in lots to suit pur chasers. 413-tf GEORGE IIENGGLER. COLUMBUS DRUG STORE. A. W. DO LAND, (SUCCESSOR TO DOLAND SMITH,) DMK, PATEKT MEDICINES, Wall Paper, Toilet Articles, PAINTS AND OILS, ETC., ETC., ETC. Best Of Goods And Low Prices, -:o: MR. SMITH will still be found at the old stand, and will make prescrip tions a specialty, as heretofore. 4(51-x G:2.1 n. m. 11:00 a- m. 2:15 p.m. 4:30 a. ro. 2:00 p. m. 1:27 p.m. C:00p.m. 1:30 u. m. Exiigrant, No. G, leaves at Pasent;'r, 4, " Freight, " S. " " . Freight, " 10, " 4l . II 'esticard Bound. Frcicht. No. 5, leaves at Passens'r, " 3. ' Freight. " 0, " 4. Emigrant. 7. " " . Evcrj day exuept Saturday the. three lines lending to Chicago connect with U P. train" at Omaha- On Saturdays there will be but one train n day, as shown by the following schedule: BUSINESS CAEDS TT J. tILDSO, NOTARY PUBLIC, 12th Street, S doon mmI of Hammond ITobw, Columbus, Xtb. 491-y Ir. E. L. NIGGI.XS, Physician and Surgpon. h. o. cassvt, j. 3. an?. 17::ir7 ?st2c. CAREW & CAMP, Attorneys and Counselors' at Law, AND REAL ESTA TE AGENTS. "Will plve prompt attention to all busi ness entrusted to them In this and ad joining cnunlie. Collections made Office on 11th strict, oppoiitc Ileintz's drug, store, Columbus, Neb. Spricht Detitsch Parle Fn.ncias. Chicago Barber Shop. COLUMBUS, NEB. HAIR CUTTING done In the latest styles, with or without machine. None but firut-cliias workmen employed. Ladies' nnd children's h:ir cutting a specialty. Best brands of cigars con atautlv on hand. HENRY "WOODS, 472 Gm Proprietor. DOCTOR BONESTEEL, V. S. KXA.1II.MAG Nt'ICG0. COLUMBDS, : NEDItASKA. OFFICE UOURS, 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., and 7 to 9 p. in. Ollice on Nebraska Avenue, three doors north of E. J. Raker's jjniin office. Residence, corner V'yominr and Walnut streets, north Columbus, Nebr. 433-tf Dr. A. HEINTZ, DKAI.EK IN WIXES. LSCta-ORN, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggist. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. l Oae door .East of ;GalIey'w, on eleventh Street, COLUMBUS. .NEBRASKA pFOmce open at all hours Saul: Suiiding. TX7M. Ol'RGILSS, Dealer th REAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR, ai.3 :i?crsii:c2 A;n:r. OEOA, NANCE CO., - NKB. BEICK! RIEilER ,t STOLCE keep constantly on hand and furnish In the wall, the best of brick. Orders solicited. Ad ress, a above, box 9.". Columbus. 47$. PICTURES! PICTURES! "TOW is THE TIME to secure a life IN like picture of yourself and chil dren at the New Art Rooms, east 11th street, south side railroad track, Colum bus, Nebraska. 7S-tf ilrs. S. A. Jossklyx. aotice: IP YOU have any real estate for Kale, if vou wish to'buy either in or out of the'eity, If you wish to trade city property for land, tr lands for city property, give us n call. "WAnswonTii & Josselys. CIMPSOX & LINLET, l TTOllXE TS AT LA W. Will practice in all the courts of the State. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. Office: On 11th street, opposite Lln deirUotcl. 4711-Cra XKUjOX MILLETT. BYKON MILLErr, Justice of the Peaco aud Notary Public. IV. M1L.L.ETT Ac SOX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Qolurabus, Nebraska. . B. They w ill give close attention to all business entrusted to them. . 21S. T S.MURDOCK&SON, w Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction In riork. All kinds of repairing done on uhort noilce. Our motto is. Good work and fair prlcea. Call and give im an opportunity-to estimate for vou. '.SSTShop at' the Big WiodaiH. Columbus, Ncbr, SIctrlcIo 7Icat IVInrkct. WMhlBgtcn lit., nearly onnlU Court llouw. O-WING TO THE CLOSE TI11ES, meat will be sold at this market low. low down for cash. Beit steak, per lb., . . 10c. Rib roast, " 8c. Boil, ' 6c. Two cents a pound more than the above prices will be charged on time, and that good rciponslble parties only. 267. IT. SCHECK, Manufacturer and Dealer In CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OF SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office Columbus Nebraska. 417-ly MRS. W. L. COSSEY, Dress and Shirt Maker. S Ocon Wctt orStillHun'i On? Store. Dresse and shirts cut and made to order aud satisfaction guaranteed. Will also do plain or fancv sewing of any description." PRICES VERY REASONABLE. Give ine a call and try lay work. 42J-1V & Daniel Faucette, Manufacturer aud Dealer in Bamsss, Saddles, Bridles, and Collars, keeps constantly on hand all kinds of whips, Saddlery Hardware, Curry combs, Brushes, Bridle Bits, Spun, Cards. Harness made to order. Re pairing done on short notice. ilics Payne was 35 if a day, but she had managed far belter than many of those who were girls with her to keep some of the old fresh ness in the roses of her cheeks and the old brightness and luxuriance in her brown hair. Slio was thinking of old times this morning ns she rolled out her flaky crusts. Fifteen years ago she had been getting ready for a picnic, just ns she was doing now. But there was another in the kitchen then a young man with a handsome fane and laughing eyes, and she remem bered how saucily he interfered with her work, nnd how she threatened to shower him with the contents of I he flour-bowl if he didn't behave himself; and lie had dared her to put her threat into execution and she hnd kept her word. She could see him now as he stood thnt morning looking like a veiitable miller with his eyes full of mischief as he begged so humbly for her to dust it off. And she remembered, as if it happened yesterday, how, when she had un dertaken the job, all of a sudden he took her in his arms and kissed her; nnd when she shook herself away from him she was such a sight to see, with powdered hair and snowy eyebrows and cheeks as white as any ghost's. And just then her father had come in aud stopped in surprise on the threshold, looking from her to John with n twinkle in his eye. And all he had said was "Seems to me you forgot to pow der a spot on your cheek, Hester," aud then he went away chuckling, and Hester had proceeded to brush herself up, with sundry threats of dire retribution directed at the laughing culprit who had retreated to a position outside, where he felt safe from feminine wrath. And the next day the quarrel came which had set his feet iu paths fat- away from that in which she had trod for 15 years, and iu which she had expected to tread until the end. And she thought it all over this morning with a little sigh here and there. JJer romance was not forgotten if C7 " " it was kept out of sight of curious eyes. Yesterday she had heard thnt a new preacher wa9 coming to the picnic. Ho was to preach his first sermon on Sunday, and every body said he was a "powerful preacher." "And his name was Ashley. "But of course it can't be him," she said to herself, as she clipped the edges of her pies; "for he was one of the wildest, most rattle-brained fellows I ever knew, and I'm sure there wasn't any thing about him that could bo made into a minister. But ho had one of the kindest hearts in the world, and I wa9 the one to blame." "Some one coming here," cnlled out Susnu, her niece, from the bed room up-stairs. Every thing was in baking-day confusion, and the room wasn't swept out yet, and she couldn't at tend to visitors uutil her cake was out of the oven. Click went the gnte I'll bo at liberty and we'll have a good, old-fashioned visit." "I'll come into the kitcheu and we can talk and you can work at tho same time," said John ; and without waiting for any reply ho proceeded to do so, and put himself a chair close to tho table, where he could watch her to the best' advantage. For there seemed to be something wonderfully attractive to him in her face. How the morning flew I It was noon before Miss Payne knew it. But then they had talked so busily that they could keep no note of time. Susan from the kitchen door, far enough back to be out of sight of John, aroused her by making all sorts of mysterious signals, pointing first at the minister nnd then to wards the road, to which she added a series of appalling performances by opening and shutting her rnnuth, which was afterwards ascertained to be a representation in pantomime of the way that young woman supposed horses ate. Unable to understand what she wanted to communicate, Miss Payne went out- to find out about it. "There's his poor old horso a standin' at the gate the whole inorn iu'," asserted Susan, with indigna tion, "an he a-setlin'hero an' laugh ing. If he was a hor.se now--" But Miss Payne didn't stop to hear the metaphysical argument Susan was about to announce. "Why, John!" she said, cominjr back into the kitchen; "don't you know you've got a horse out there? I'd forgotten all about it till Susan spoke of it. Just yon fake it round and turn it out in the pasture, and I'll have dinner ready by the lime you're back." She watched him as he went down the path, with a soft light in her eyes and a strange happiness at her heart. She didn't know why. She couldn't have told if she had tried to analyze it. It must be that she felt the gladness, near at hand as the trees know when spring is coming. "I'd like to know if that man's goin' to stay here forever?" said Susan to the old brindle cow that night, as she drove her up from the pasture. "I should s'poso he'd feel it his duty to visit other folks. 'Slid o' that he's a sittin' rouud here, an' A Western Wonmn'ft Pluck. I A letter from Chicago to tho Mad ison (Wis.) Journal contains the following: "Six years ago, a gentleman who had been a war. governor of one of the Upper Mississippi Stales, was afterwards minister to a Europeau court, and subsequently at tho head of one of the most important de partments of tho government, and a member of tho National Cabinet, died, leaving a wife witn from $15, 000 to $20,000, and this mainly in an unproductive homestead in South ern jNcw ji-ork. Through the ad vice of a eupposed friend of her husband, this lady was induced to sell her property and put the pro ceeds in a herd of cattle in Southern Nebraska. She came out to look Aunt Hester an' he's a-talkiu' the NEBRASKA AVENUE, Columbus. 63.4. BECKER & WELCH, PB0PBIET0HS OP SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB. LAW, REAL ESTATE ANDGKXEHAL COLLECTION OFFICE "W" farm, propel ty, time one to three BY S. GEEE. " fOXEY TO LOAN in small lots 'on years, harms uitu some improvements bousht and sold. Ogicc for the present at the Clother IIoukc, Columbus, Neb. 473-x C0LUHBD8 BMGK YAED, (One mile weatof Columbus.) TBOalAS FIrXN & SOX, Tropr's. ' GOOD.-HARD-BURNT BRICK Always on Hand In QUANTITIES- suit PURCHASERS " - S7i.tr WM. BECKEE, )DKALER IN- GROCERIES Grain, Produce, Etc. HooiisuSe alii NEW STORE, NEW GOODS. Ooodi delivered Free of Charge, anywhere in (he city. Miss Payne dusted off her Iinnd., smoothed her ehining hair, gave her collar a twitch and was ready to answer the vlei tor'a knock. Something iu the laughing eyes which met hers ns sho opened the door made her stnrt and turn pale. "Hester Payne, I'm pretty sure," he said, crossing the threshold. "Yes, sir," she answered, with a little catch in her voice,"'and you" "Don't you know me?" he cried. "I'm John Ashley. I didn't sup pose I'd changed so much that au old friend wouldn't discover 6ome familiar look about me. I should know you anywhere." "I'm glad to see you, John," she said, giviug him her haud, with a very suspicious moisture lu her eyes. "I've been thinking of you, for they said the new minister's name was Ashley. It can't be that you're the one, can it?" "I'm the man," he answered, with a twinkle of humor in his eye. "I don't suppose it ssems possible to you, or any one else that used to know me, that I have become a min ister, but it is so. It seems as strango to me ns any ono else, but I honestly believe God had a work for roc to do, nnd I'm trying to do it as best-1 can," he added, earnestly. "I'm 'glad of it," she answered. "I always said you'd steady down, but I never thought you'd bo a minister, John." "That's right," he said heartily. '.'Don't -go making me any body but John ; I'm the same tnau you used to know, come back . to renew old friendships aud do the work I've undertaken." "I'm getting ready for a picnic," explained Miss Payne, "and I'm busy just now, so. you'll have'fontertain yourself for an hour or so till I set Corner of -13th and Madison Sts. Hortt of Foundry. 897 ' the things out of the oren. Then beaven. whole endiirin' time, an'he aintsaid a word about any of them things all the other raiuistors used to, as I've heard." But old brindle didn't seem to be able to enlighten Susan on any point and that young person went to bed feeling that ministers weren't what they used to be. The minister and Miss Payne sat and talked quietly in the still twi light. He told her all about his life since she had known him 15 years ngo, and how the change had come into it which transformed him into a minister. And then there fell n littic silence about them which neith er broke for a long time. By and by he spoke. "I don't know why I came here first, Hester. I suppose I ought to have gone to Sawyer's"; but I couldn't get by here. From the time I knew I wa3 going to be stationed over this part I've been thinking of you and longing'lo talk over old times with you as I have done to-day. And somo way it seemed to me as if God had a plan to carry out in stationing me over here. I don't know what you think about it, Hester, but I be lieve I could do belter work iu the world if you would help me. "We've been parted for a good many years, but I've never loved any one else and I never shall ; and it seemed to me to-day that I took up lifo just where we left it 15 years ago in this old kitchen. I've always blamed my self for what happened afterwards, and I want to confess it to you now whether you think as I do about what 1 haee told you or whether you don't." "No, John, I was the one to blame," she said. "I wa9 telling myself that this morning, not half an hour before you came. I saw it all afterwards." "Is it yes or no, Hester?" he ask ed, tenderly. "We're old enough to know ourselves better .than we did then. Can you help me in my life work without regret for what you must give up?"' "I will help you 1" she cried, her whole face aglow. "I shall giyo up nothing but loneliness, and I shall gain you 1" What a speech to make to a min ister ! If Susan could have heard it she would h?vo become an immediate convert to the theory of total de pravity. And to come from Miss Payne, tool "God bless you, Hester, and may you never ho sorry for this," bo said, and kissed her with a long, linger ing kies, while tho. moonlight fell about them like a-beaediction from naoffan after her investment, and finding the condition of the herd unsatisfactory, assumed $13,000 of liabilities and bought out and took the manage ment into her own hands. In a few months the herd was in a good and thriving condition. But nt the same- time she found herself fiuffcrin? from pecuniary embarrassment, and appealed to her Eastern friends for aid. Thoy looked upon her venture as a visionary one, aud declined to assist her, but advised her to give it up, save what she could from the wreck, and return to them. She did not believe there was any such word as fail, and applied herself all the more diligently to her business. She rode to the herd every day, except Sundays sometimes in a buggy, bnt generally on horseback 1G miles each way-and gave the most min ute instructions to her men. Her troubles she kept to herself. Her help or her neighbors did not know but she had a bank to draw upon for all the money she wanted. "At the end of the year she sent for the father of her late partner, and they divided the herd equally and settled, with a loss to her of over .$3,000, which she paid to get the partnership dissolved. She then borrowed ?G,000 to enable her to pay some small debts, make some improvements in buildings, and start afresh, entirely unembarrassed. "At the present time her liabilities are only $3,000. She has a herd of over 1,000 head of cattle, has an abundance of convenience for them, and no stock farm or range within 100 miles is provided with as good barns, sheds, corrals and ranges for cattle. Her herd is clearing her over $6,000 a year, and constantly increas ing in size. At the railway station, where she resides, she has a farm of What "Washington Didn't Know. "Wc don't like to boirrcvercut, but would like to ask. What did our forefathers know? What, for in staucc, did Gcorgo Washington know? He never saw a fast mail train ; he uever held his car to a tel ephone, he never sat for his picturo in a photograph gallery; he never received a telegraph dispatch; he never sighted a Krupp gun ; he nev er listened to the "fizz" of an electric pen ; he never saw a pretty girl run a sewing machine, he never saw a self-propelling engine go down the street to a fire; he never heard of evolution; he never had a set of store teeth; he never attended an International Exposition ; ho never owned a bonanza mine; ho never knew "Old Prob ;" he but why go on ? Xo ; when he took an excur sion it was on a flat-boat. When he went off on a train it was a mule train. When he wanted to talk with a man in Milwaukee he 'find to go prcssion. there. When he had his picture The vc The Care fur Goswlp. Everybody must talk about some thing. The poor fellow who was told not to talk for fear tho people would find out that he was a fool made nothing by the experiment. He was considered a fool because ho did not talk on some subject or oth er. Everybody must have some thing to say, or give up society. Of course, tho topics of conversation will relate to the subjects of knowl edge If a man U interested In science ho will talk about science. If ho is an enthusiast in art, ho will talk about art. If he is familiar with literature, and is an intelligent and persistent reader, ho will nat urally bring forth literary topics iu his conversation. So with social and religious qucstious. "Out of the abundance of tlm honrt ih mouth speakcth." Thnt of which the mind i3 full, that with which it is furnished, will como out in ex- taken it was done in profile with a piece of black paper aud a pair of shear.?. When he got the returns from back counties they had to be brought by a man with an ox cart. When he took aim at the enemy he had to trust to a crooked barreled old flint-lock. When ho wrofn it was with a goose-quill. When he had anything to mend, his grand mother did it with a darning-needle. When he went to a fire, he stood in line and passed buckets. When he looked at a clam he never dreamed it was any relation of his. When he went to a concert, he heard a crack ed fiddle aud an insano clarionet. When he had a tooth pulled, he sat down and never left off yelling. When he got out of teeth ho mum bled his victuals. When he wanted an international show he sent for Lafayette and ordered bis friends un from Old Virgiuia with tho speci mens carefully labeled in bottles. When he onco got hold of a nugget of gold from an Indian chief he felt rich. When ho wanted to know anything about the weather he con sulted the ground-hog or goose bone. When but why go on? What did such a man know ? Who was he, auyway? very simple reason why the 140 acres, on which arc a good dwelling, barn?, sheds, cheese fac tory, corral,etc, nil in perfect order. The farm is all under fcuco: she buys all lumber used herself, aBd has eveiy improvement, large and small, made under her own eye and as she directs. In truth, she is her own superintendent, and personally looks after everything both on tho farm and at the cattle ranch. At the ranch she has a comfortable house, which she occupies when her busi ness confines her there. Sho visits tho ranch about five times a week, generally on horseback, and goes and returns the same day. No bus iness man in Nebraska is in belter credit than this enterprising nnd excellent ladv. liny u, Home. Hon. George Barstow gave good advice in a speech on the subject of "Home." He said c jry man should own his home if he can. That phil osophy which tells a man to drift over this uncertain lifo without a home of his own, is wrong. The man who owns not his own home is like a ship out in the open sea at the hazard of too florin. A man who owns his home is like a ship that has arrived in port, and is moor ed in a safe harbor. One man should no more be content to live in a home that is not his own if he can build one than one bird should take the risk of hatching in another one's nest ; and, for my own part, I would rather be able to own a cottage than to hire a palace. I would say to every man, buy a homo if you can, and own it. If a wind-fall has come to you, buy a home with it. If you have laid up money enough by toil, buy a home. If you have made money in stocks, buy a home. Do not let anybody tempt you to put all Avour earnings back into the pool. Take out enough to buy a home and buy it. Pat the rest back if you' will. Gamble on it if vou must: Smoking: by Jtoyn. How few persons realize that the money spent on tobacco in this country, would feed aud shelter every poor family in the land; that thousands of finer organizations among men, awaken in middle life to the consciousness that their brains are being gravely affected by the uso of tobacco, only to struggle in vain against its fetters ; that, directly and indirectly, tobacco hastens the death of large numbers of persons every year. With these facts in viow, parents should remember that tho habitual use of tobacco has reached down to mere boys, many of whom strut the streets with cigars in their mouths, while others think it manly to have their sraoking-partics. Now, excesses of every kind dur ing the 'period of growth, smito fearfully at the very foundations of future health aud life. It is well known that Germans arc inveterate smokers. They arc often pointed at as a proof of the harmless ness of the habit. But a corres pondent of the London Times af firms that the authorities iu Germany are taking measures to arrest the practice among the young, on the ground, as attested by the German physicians, that it incapacitates them for the defence of their country. "Smoking," he adds, "weakens the powers of the stomach at that im portant crisis of development when the largest quantities of food havo to be assimilated to build up the frame. It lowers the vitality of, the heart. 3Iusclc, energy, endurance, indeed, all that makes tho man and the soldier, are thus at stake." Not only pareuts, but boys themselves, should heed this warning. world is full of gossip h, that those who indulge in it have nothing else in them. They must interest them selves iu something. They knoir nothiug but what thev learn from day to day iu intercourse with nnd observation of their neighbors. What these neighbors do, what they say, what happens to them in their social and business affairs, what taey wcar these become the question of supreme interest. The personal and social life nround thern this U the book under constant perusal, and out of thi3 comes that pestifer ous conversation which we call gos sip. The world is full of it, and in a million houses, all over the coun try, nothing is talked of but the personal affairs of their uoighbors. V hat js the cure for gossip ? Sim ply culture. There is a good deal of gossip that has no malignity in it. Good natured people talk about their neighbors because, and only because, they havo nothing else to talk about. Gossip is always a personal con fession either of malice or imbecili ty, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve thcrascJves from nil temptation to indulge in it. It is low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neigh borhoods in which it rages liko a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors make enemies by it for life. In many persona It de generates into a chronic discaj which is practically incurable. Let the young euro it whilo they may. ""'"f rflr8t- v ''--rSMSSJfcSMfeSSS sell it not. Ihjn the roses that bloom there-arc yours, the clematis and jasmine that climb upon the porch belong to you. Yon have planted them and seen them grow. When you aro at work upon them, you aro working for yourselves, not for others. If there aro children, there are flowers within the house aud without. Buy a homo. ICecHperatlBsr tke Brain. An intelligent writer on this sub ject thinks the use of stimulants to fortify the exhausted brain an un wise measure. The best possible thing, he says, for a man to do when he feels too week to carry anything through is to go to bed andjlceJL na Iniar oo .n Willi 'I ' I. ..'?-. U L I recuperation of the brain power, the only actual recuperation of the brain force; because qrjngglejsp.tne. brain J3iqjtjtatft of rst, jn a condi tion to receive appropriate particles oTTnminlentiromlhcblbod.'wbicb nakonliu'placg'ortngevlITflrmive been consumed by previous labor, 8inccJJiBj.erx&aLLtbinkngburjaa IheesuirdrcOnTdmnlionDv fire of Ine fncTfJbcrqrnacc supply d"r ""consumed brain substance can only be had from nutritive parti cles in the blood, which were ob tained from the food eaten previous ly, and the brain is so constituted that it can best receive and appro priate to itself thoso nutritive par ticles during the state of rest, of quiet and. stillness of sleep. Scien tific American. JLoTiagr Home. Nothing appears to ns so beauti ful in human experience as the re ciprocal affection of parents and children especially after tho latter havo attained maturity, and, it may be, form new relations in life. Wo have seen the loving and lovely daughter, after she had become a wife and mother, seize every oppor tunity of viBiting the parental home, to lavish her affectionate attention upon her parents, and, by a thous aud graceful and tender kindnesses, assure them that, though she was an idolized wife and a happy mother, her heart still clave with every strengthening fervor to father and mother, who watched over her In fancy and guided her youth. It ha been our privilege to know such, nnd as we have witnessed the out pourings of love and happiness be tween these devoted and glowing hearts, we have felt that surely much of heaven might be enjoyed here if all families were equally attached. And would that every daughter knew what puro joy she might create in the parental bosom by a constant keeping alivo of the spirit of filial devotion, and seizing frequent opportunities to mako it manifest In little acts of gentleness and lore, notwithstanding the child may have become a parent. Tho child never grows old to a fond par ent. It Is always the dcachlld, and never so dear as when it Keeps sp the childish confidence and lore of its earliest years. GilJUltan. JLearalac t Save. The first thing to be learned by a boy or young man, or anybody else having the least ambition to become a useful member of society, is the habit of Baying No matter if a boy or girl baa wealthy pares ts, each should learn to save, if for no other reason than that riches are well known to "tako to themselves wings and fly away." Few are so well-to-do as to be snro against poverty and wanl. The children of the wealthy parents are often miserably poor; while men of large means have commenced life without other ad vantages than habits of industry coupled with the disposition to save. It is especially important that the children of people in moderate cir cumstances aad of the por should learn to take care of (he money they get.