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Bates of Advertising, Space. lto 2w liwo 3m frw lur IcoI'mn 12.00 W 5i" 35 $00 $104 (rultimliw K r s.ooi is i 20 1 35 tft 15 30 86 K I o.oo o k."S 4 inches 3.25 7.30 1 11 H ( 15 T 3 " 4.50 H.75JJ0 1 " lJ50T2l23lT' 12 f 15 1 t0 "5 1 5 10 Business and professional cards tea line.o or less space, per annum, tea dol lars. Leiral advertisements at statuta rates. "Editorial local notices" fifteen cents a line each insertion.. "Local notices " fire cents a line each iaser tion. Advertisraeats classified as "Spe cial notices" Arc cents a line first inser tion, three cents a line each subsequent insertion. OClL ESPUflk-e. on 1Kb street., upstairs in Journal luuldin;;. Tkums IVr year. $2. Six months, $1. Tliroc month.. Wk, Single copies, !Vc. VOL. X.--NO. 41. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880. .WHOLE NO. 509. TfiE JOURNAL. IS IS6UKD UVKUY WEDNKSUAY, M, K. TUENER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. lit tpil 4 J 4 II &!l V x i i f ' V CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. A. S. Paddock. l -S. Senator, Heatrice. A I.VIN SAt'MKit..r. S. Senator, Omaha. T. J. Major.-., Itep.. lVru. fc. K. Vai.kntisk, Rep., 1'olnt. STATU DIRECTORY: Ai.MiNUr Nasck, Uovernor, Lincoln. S..I. Ah-vander, Sueretary of State. F. W. l.iodtke. Auditor, Lincoln. . M. Hartlelt, Trci.urer, Lincoln. C..1. Wlwnrtli. ttorney-Gcneral. S. n.Tliinip-on. Siipt. Public Iiutriic. II. l DaUMin. Warden of Penitentiary. AV. W. Altbey, I iriwoll inspectors. " Dr. .1. (!. l.ivis. Prison Physician. II. P- iiatbewson,Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: Chief Justice, (uorjrc It. l.ake.l . on,.:,,!,. Juil?ifi. r. -.i. r j''- - r v.i i iiiiii. i S. Maxwell A um Ty M. CORIVKI.llJg, ATTOIINEY-AJ-LA ir, Up-stairs intJluck Building,. 1Kb street. FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (i. AV. Po.t, Juilr. York. M. U. Reese, Di-trict Attorney, A ahoo. LAND OFFICERS: 31. It. Hoxie, Ite'lster, Grand Inland. V:a. Ativan, Receiver, Grand Island. COUNTY DIRECTORY: J". O. lliirins. County Judire. John Stauffer, County Clerk. V. Ivunimer, Treasurer. Henj. Spiclman, Sheriff. R. L. ltoiitpr, Surveyor. "Win. Hloedorn j John Walker, CountyComntihsioncrs. John "VUr. J Dr. A.lleintz. Coroner. S.'L. Harrctt. upt.of Schools. S. S. McAllister,! i,,l.t;,-l.HfvfthpPpaep Byron Millett, ,"autH0Ilucl eace Cbarleh Wake, Constable. t.rk " r. A. Speicc, Mayor. John AWrmutli. Clerk. Charles Wake, Marshal. -C. A. New man, Trensiirer. S. S. McAllister, Police Judge J. C Koutfou. Eiurincer. couxcilmkn: -1 "' lt U'n7-J. E. North. G. A. Sehroeder. CITY DIRECTORY: jifcALLlJlTER IIKOS., A TTOIWEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build. Ing. 11th St. TAELLEY & SLATTERY, Tiono rovinar and house building done to order, and In a workman-like manner. Please give us a call. t5TShop on corner of jOHve St. and Pacific Arenue. - 485-tf GEORGE IT. DERBY, CARRIAGE, House k Sign Paiatiig, QEinmu, blazon, Paver naaclag:, XALSOMINING, Etc. 13" All work warranted. Shop on Olive street, one dour south of Elliott's new Pumn-hou.sc. prl6y 1- : T S. MUKDOUK & SON, " Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. AH kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us au oppor tunity to estimate for you. fcSTShep at the Rig Windmill, Columbus, Nebr. 4S3-y .ism '"liass ADVERTISEMENTS. COLUMBUS DRUG STORE. A.W.DOLAND, (SUCCKSSOR TO DOLAND SMITH,) DUGS, PATEIT MEDICI I ES, Wall Paper, Toilet Articles, PAINTS AND OILS, KTC, KTC., KTC. Best Of M And Low Prices. MR. SMITH will still be found at the old stand, and will make prescrip tions a specialty, at heretofore. 401-x U Ward -VI. R. C. Kavanaugh. II. Henry. Sd Wtird-i:. J. A tii. Raker, HllTKCSS. CoIuiii1u. Kont OfHrc. Open on Sundays tram 11 a.m. to 12 M. and from -i : C I to 0 i m. Rusiness hours cxeept Sunday! a. m to $ p.m. E.tMern mail- Iiie at'll A. m. Wchtern mails elos( at 4:1. p.m. Mail leae Columbus for Madison and Norfolk, dailj, eveept Sunday, at 10 A. M. Arrived at 4:30 p. m. 1-or Monroe, Genoa. Waterxille and AN blwii, dail except Sunday 0 a.m. Ar- ric, .aim", U p.m. For O.sccola ar.d York,Tuesdays,Thurs- davs and Saturdns. 7 a. M. Arrives Mondiys, Weiluckday and Fridays,! op. St. For "Wclf, Farral and Rattle Creek, Mondavs, Wednesdays and Fridays, a.m." Arrics Tuesdays, Thuridays and Saturda s, at P. M. For Sholl Creek, 'restou and Stanton, on Mondavi and Fridaj at 0 a.m. Arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays, at ' P. M. For Alexis, Patron and Daxid City, Tuesday. Thursdss and Saturdays, ll'.u Ariives at 12 M. For St. A nt bom. Piairie Hil! and St. Bernard. Saturdays, 7 a. m. Arrives Fridays, n p.m. , t II. I. Time Tabic. . Kat.ticiMnl Hound. Kmigrant, Nn.fi, leaves at . . . fT:2. a. in. Passciiiz'r, 4, " ".... ll:(Hia.in. Freight, s, " '.... 2:1. p.m. treigbt. "in, " ".... 4:30 a.m. Westicard Hound. Freight, No... leaxes at ... 2:00 p.m. Passt.ng'r, " 3, " ". . 4:27 p.m. Freight, " !, 4 " ... 6:00p.m. Emigrant. "7. " "... 1:30a.m. Everv dav except Saturday the three li'ios luadiiig to Chicago connect with IT P. trains tit Omaha. On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, as shown bv the following schedule: FOR SALE OR TRADE!" MARES I COLTS, Teams of Horses or Oxen, SA1II: P:ES,,wild or broke, at the Corral of 429 GERHARD & ZEIGLER. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DKALKR IN TWO CROSS WORDS. Columbus Meat Market! WEBER & KNOBEIi, PrepV KEEP ON HAND all kinds of fresh meats, and smoked pork and beef; also fresh fisb. Make sausage a spec ialty. jg-Reniember the place. Elev enth St., one door west of D. Ryan's hotel. 417-tf GOOD CHEAP BRICK ! AT MY RESIDENCE.ouShell Creek, three miles east of Matthis's bridge, I bftTe ,j 70,00 t;eed. kanl-burnt brlclt Tor xaile. which will be sold in lots to suit pur chasers. 448-tf GEORGE HENGGLER. HISS. MEIICIIES. CHEMICALS WIIVES, LIQUORS, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand b Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Oae deer. East ef Oalley't. en Klereatit Street, COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA HABNSS8 k SADDLES Chicago Barber Shop. Ojpalti "Einseal Sreii," COLUMBUS, NEB. HAIR CUTTING done in the latest styles, with or without machine. None but tirst-class workmen employed. Ladies' and children's hair cutting h specialty. Rest' brands or cigars con stantly an baud. HENRY WOODS, 472 0m Proprietor. PpCT0iVBpHESTEEL.'t r ij. s. Eunni.'VG mubgeox COLUMBD8, t NEBRASKA. FFIOE HOURS. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to O1 4 p. in., and 7 to 0 p. in. Office on Nebraska Avenue, three doors north or E. J. Baker's grain office. Residence, comer Wvotuing and Walnut streets, north Columbus, Nebr. 433-tf Daniel. Faucette, Manufacturer and Dealer in Barnin, Saddles, Bridles, and Collars, keeps constantly on band all kinds of whips, Saddlery Hardware, Curry combs, Brushes, Bridle Bits, Spurs, Cards. Harness made'' to order. Re pairing done on short notice. NEBRASKA AVENUE, Columbua. 68.4. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK KILLS. O.. N. & Bound north. Jack-on 4:."m im LtCrcek.i:30 " PL Centre .i:.7 lIutnphreG;."il ' Madi-on T:4 ' Jlunson 8:2S It. II L. ItOAD. Bound south. Norfolk 0:30 A Munson 0:.i7 " Madison ..7:45 " Humphrey8:S4 ' PL Centre J):2S Lo-tCreek !:.V " M. O J J " 1 - Norr.dk 8:." " Haekson. 10:30 " The departure from Jackson will be governed by the arrival there of the l'. P. express train. BUSINESS CARDS H. j. iii;io., t XOTAliY PUBLIC, 12th Strrrt, t looi wrt of llimmond Ilouiif, Columbus. 2eb. 491-y Ir. K. I.. SI?LS, Physician and Surgeon. M' STOflicc open at all hours Sank Suilding. VyW. BIJKttlS, Dealer in HEAL ESTATE. CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR, ACT IKSTCIXCE ASX7, KNOA, NANCK CO - NKU. BEICK! RIEMER & STOLCE keep constantly on hand and famish in the wall, the bet or brick. Order solicited. Ad ress, a aboe. box !5, Columbus. 478. PICTURES! PICTURES! NOW IS THE TIME to secure a life like picture ot yourself and chil dren at the New Art Rooms, east 11th street, fouth side railroad track, Colum bus, Nebraska. 478-tf Mrs. ?. A. Johsklyn. NOTICE! IF YOU have any real estate for sale, if rou wish to'buv either in or out of the'eitv, if you idi to trade city property for lands, or lands for city property, cive n a call. "WaPSWORTH & JOSSELYK. NKLfcON MILLKTT. BYRON MILLETT, Jutice of the Peace and Notary Public. J. niLLE'IT Ac SO. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus, Nebraska. N. B. They will give c!oe attention to all business entrusted to them. 248. " STAGE KOIJTE. JOHN HUBER, the mail-carrier be tween Columbus and Albion, will leave Columbus everyday except Suu da3' at 6 o'clock, sharju passing through Monroe, Genoa, "WnLirvUIe, and to Al bion. The hack will call at either or the Hotels far pas.eugers if orders are left at the post-olfice. Rates reason able, f 2 to Albion, 222.1y F. SCHEGK,,; 3Iauufacldrer and Dealer In CIGARS' AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OP SMOKING ARTICLES. .Store on Olive Sfc, near tie oldJPost-office Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly LAW, REAL ESTATE AND OKNJBRAL1 C0LLECTIQ$fi0FFICE AV. S. GEER ONEY TO LOAN in small Iota on farm property, time jne to r three vcars. Farms wttn some improvements bought and sold. Office for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 475-x 4 , . . COLSJJIBIJS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. j3-Wholesale nd5leUi? Dealer In.Kor- eicn "Wines, Liquors and Cigars,"Dulr- lin Stout. Scotch and English Ales. 83rA"etucJty Whiskies a Specialty OYSTERS In their season, by the case can or dish. lltk Street, Sontkof Dejot COLUMBUS wLWf (One mile west of Cilumbus. j TnOMAS. FLYNN A SON, Propr's. i GOOD, HARD-BURNT BRICK; i ; AJLtvnys on Hand in r : QUANTITIES la snit PURCHASERS . .371-tf Wm. SOHILZ, - Manufacturer and Dealer in BOOTS AND SHOES!' MANUFACTURERS A WHOLE SALE DE ALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMD US, NEB. WM. BECKER, -DKALXR IN(- GROCERIES Grain, Produce, Etc. hMMFM I. NEW STORE, NEW GOODS. Goods delivered Free of Charge, anywhere in the city. Corner of 13th and Ifadiaon Sta. ' 'North of Foundry. S97 STATE BANK, aueMNft to itmti A ImS as! Itnir k Iilit. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. CXStf&AiMTAE; i '. $60,000 X romplf te amortmrBt of La4io' aid Cat), drea's Kko kept oa ktsd. All Work Warranted !!; Oar Motto Good stock, excellent work and fair prices. Especial Attention paid to Hepairitg, Cer. Olive aad 19tk Its. DIRECTORS: Leandeu GcRkARn, Pres'i. Geo." W. Hdlst, Vice Pres't. JiiriU8 A Heed. Edward A. Gerraud. vAbnee Turner, Cashier. Bak f a9eplt, Iaceaal mad Kxcasuase , CelIeciloaal?raatlj- Made nm all PIata. Pay rlateret a Time lteaos iU. 274 "Lucy, if you menu to sew on this butlou, I do wish ypu'd do it I can't wait all day." Tom didn't speak a bit cros?, only emphatic; but I was out of temper that morning, and my head ached badly from sitting up late the night before. Tom had gone to a supper for the second time since our mar riage, given by some of his bachelor friends, and had come homo the worse for it. It had provoked me intensely. So I had followed him to bed in sullen silence, and awoke uone the better pleased after my sleep, on tho morning alluded to. To mako tho matter worse, just as he spoke to me about the button, the knife, with which I was cutting bread for his luuch, slipped inflict ing a deep gash on my hand ; and the baby awoke, and set up her sharp littlo cry from tho cradle, all in ouo and tho same moment. 'You can wait as long as I did last night, I reckon,' I. replied sharply, really angry at last. 'Don't hurry mo I do all I can, and more than I am ablo to do with one pair of Tom dropped his button and turn ed toward me with a startled "Why, Lucy !' 'Don't Lucy mo,' I retorted, throw ing down the bread, and catching up the baby, while tho blood streamed from my hand over her white gown. 'You've done enough you've broke my heart! I wish I had never seen you I wish I was back agaitrwith my father and mother.' I broke down with a burst of hys terical tears, and seeing the blood on my hand, Tom came over and knell down besido inc. 'Why Lucy,' he said, his voice and eyes full of ten derness, 'you've cut your hand. Why didn't you say so? Here, give me the child while you bind it up see how it bleeds !' He held out his hand for the baby, but I snatched her away and went on sobbing. 'Don't you cry, Lucy,' he contin ued, stroking tho hair back from my forehead, 'please don't; I know l'vo dono wrong.dear but I didn't mean it. I fell in with some of the old boys and they persuaded me against my will. But it's the Ja9t time the last timo.' Why didn't I turn to him then, and help and encourage him? Be cause my men, tyrannous temper got tho better of my woman's heart. Oh, yes!' I said, sneeringly, 'It is easy to mako fine promises you told mc the same thing before How can you expect me to trus.t you now?' Tom was spirited and quick tem pered, great, loving-hearted men always are. He sprang to his feet like a flash, and, before I had timo to speak or think, had loft tho room. I tossed the child into the cradle, and rushed to the door, but it w&s too late, he was gone. I just caught sight of him turning the corner. I went back to the little breakfast room; how blauk and drear it look ed, and what a sharp stinging thorn there wa9 in the very core of my heart I I loved Tom and he loved mo. Wo had beon married only eighteen months, and this was our first quarrel. I sat down with my baby in my arms, heedless of my morning work, and fell to thinking. All tho old, happy days came back, and the one in particular when we sat in Dumbcrry wood. It was in Autumn, and all tho world seemed in a blaze of gold, as the sun slid down, and the squirrels chattered overhead, dropping a ripe nut now and then, iuto my lap, as I sat there, with the last roso of summer in my hair, knitting a purse for Tom. 'Lucy,' he had said, as I wove in the last golden stitches, 'you've knit my love my very life up in that purse. Tell me now, before you finish it, how is it to be? am I to have you and oh 1 I won't think of it even, Lucy, It would be too dreadful !' 'No, Tom,' I answered, 'you are to have the purso and tho hand that knit it, too.' Poor Tom, he cried then just like a littlo child he, the bravest man in the village. 'No fault in him, only a little too wild, too fond of gay company; but you must tame him, Lucy, as your mother did me.' That was my old father's advico on our wedding day. My heart smote me dreadfully as I recalled it to mind that morning. Had I done my duty? Had I followed the example of my mother, who uever let fall an unkind word? But Tom would be home to his dinner. The thought brought me to my feet. I did my work briskly, and went about cooking just such a dinner as he liked. Tho plum pud ding was done to perfection; the baby in a clean slip, and myself all smiles to receive him when the clock struck one. But he didn't come. I put by the tmtasted dinner and prepared supper, and lit a bright fire in the little parlor. He should have a pleasant welcome. But he did not come. Eight, nine, ten o'clock, and I put by the untasted supper, and baby and I went up to the nursery to wait and watch. How the little thorn rankled 1 Tom had broken his promise, and myunkiud ness was the cause I Nothing else rang in my ears through tho long hours. About two o'clock, I heard a noiso bolow and went to the window. There was a mnu on the porch ; I could see him in the dim light. 'Tom, is that you ?' I asked softly, putting out my head. Yes ; open tho door, Lucy ; quick, the police are after mo.' My heart suuk. The polico after him! what could ho have done? I ran dowu swiftly and unlocked the door. But as I did so two men, wearing official badges, stepped upon the porch, and one of them laid his hand on Tom's shoulder, and said : 'I arrest you, sir.' 'For what?' I cried. IiV. mittlni I ' The floor seemed sliding from be neath my feet, but I caught at the door (o steady myself and looked at Tom. At that instant the official uncovered his lantern, and, oh, my God ! thore was blood on my bus. band's hands. All the rest is a blank. When I came to myself again I was in my own room, and kind, companionate faces were around me. I asked for Tom. He was in prison, awaiting his trial. There had been a quarrel at the tavern, whither my cruel words had driven Tom ; and Tom had struck his antagonist. The man wasn't dead, though thoy thought-he was at first but he was badly hurt about the head. But if he recovered ; well, it would not go so hard with Tom. I arose and went to the prison ; but they would not admit me. No one was to see my husband till after tho trial. Another day crept by ; a night; and when morning came, I went down to the door and opened it, with a vague feeling of expecta tion which always accompanies se vere afflictions, and looked out. Tho sun was rising; God's sun; rising grandly and brightly over the black stone jail. The frost hung thick and sparkling over everything, even on the scrap of folded paper that lay at my feet. I stoopod and picked it up idly as we catch at a straw or a twig, sometimes, without any mo tive or power of volition. The su perscription caught my eye ; it was my own namo, and my husband's handwriting. I tore it open and read: 'Dear Lucy : I have broken out of jail, and am going well, no mat ter where. I didn't strike Hastings witn an intention to kill him. i was ntoxicatcd and it was more his fault than mine; but he may die, and then ; at any rate it is better for you, Lucy, for me to go. I never "was worthy of your love. Now you can go back to your father, and forgot mo and be happy. You will find the bonds for what money I have in (ho bank in the desk ; it is enough to mako you and the child comfortable ! Forgive and forget me, Lucy. God bless you you and the baby. Tom.' This was the end ! That wa9 the reward that my cross word had pur chased for me! Truly, truly, the wages of sin is death. We shall not need one pang of corporeal pun ishment, one spark of real fire, to perfect our torment if wo are lost. Conscience is all sufficient remorse, that worm that never dies. It is not for me to attempt to talk about what I suffered in the days that followed that morning! Words could not express it save to one, that has pass ed through the same furnace of affliction, no one else could begin to understand it. But I lived, for sor row and death rarely walk in each other's steps, and nursed my babe, aud did the work my hands had to do. I did not go back to my father. I remained at Tom's home, and'kept his things all about mc, even his cap hanging on the wall. Forget .him? Does love ever forget? Hastings did not die. Ho recov ered, and made a public statement. He was more in fault than Tom was. Then he put a notice in all the pa pers, telling Tom to como back; but he did not como. The wiuter passed away with long nights of bitter remorse, aud tender recollections of the dear husband, whose strong arms had once been my stay and support. The spring came tho summer another winter. Three years went by crept by, ray child, Tom's little baby, grew to be a fairy little thing, with blue eyes and golden hair, and a tongue that never wearied of its childish prat tling. All day long she sat on the doorstep, whero. tho evening sun beams slanted in, lisping to her doll while I told her of her father who would come back to us some day. For surely ho would come. Surely God's mercy would vouchsafe some compensation, some pardon for such repentance as my soul had poured forth. That third spring was peculiar somehow, tho far-off sky seemed to drop dowu in nearer, bluer folds; the sun wore a softer radiance; the trees, tbo grass, the flowors, a divin er, tenderer beauty. I roso every morning, and looked out of my littlo window at tho kindling glories of morn, with a feoling of straqge, tremulous expectation. I.seomed to feel the shadow of some groat event that winged its flight oyer mc the otie prayer of ray heart seemed to be answered. One evening oh, that evening! A May sky, soft and blue, hung over a green blossoming earth. The tur tle dove cooed in tho distant wood, aud.tbe robin twittered to her young brood amid tho milky bloom of the orchard. God's love shone in the golden brightness of the wostsvard going sun. My child, littlo Effie, sat on the door step talking to her doll, and watching the birds. All at once she clapped her dimpled bauds and bounded to her feet. 'Mammy,' sho cried gleefully, 'pappy comin, pappy comiu ; Effie go meet him !' Tho words stirred my heart to the utmost depths, and dropping my work, I followed her out of the door. A man was coming up the garden path his garments tattered bis steps slow and uncortain, beggar, no doubt. I called to Effio to come back, but sho ran otr, heed less ot my command. Tom's little spaniel that I bad petted and taken care of for his sako, darted from his kennel with a peculiar cry, such as I had never heard from it before. What did it all mean? My heart throbbed and my knees trembled. Little Effie ran on, holding out both dimpled hands, her golden curls blown all about her rosy face. 'How-de-do, pappy ! I'so your'e Effie,' she lisped as she reached the man's feet. He stooped and raised her in hia arms and then his glance rested on me. And such a glance Buch a face! Pale, haggard, worn by sor row and suffering to a mere shadow. To in '8 ghost come back from the grave. Not that, either, for my arms grasped some tangible form. Oh, Tom,' I cried, 'is it you? Speak, speak and tell me.' 'Yes, Lucy, it's mo. I could bear it no longer, I'm dying, I believe and I couldu't go without seeing you aud the little ono again.' My arms held him fast, tattered garments and all ; my kissos fell on his poor face like rain. I would never let him go again. Tom, Tom,' I sobbed, getting down on my knees bofore him, 'oh, forgivo me ; forgive me ! I have suffered so much.' 'It's mc that must ask forgiveness. Lucy,' he said, humbly ; 'not you I was wrong' But I stopped him short. 'No, Tom, my cross word did it all,' I said, 'but for that we might have been happy together all these weary years' 'Mammy, mammy interposed Efflo, twisting horself around on her lather's.Bhoulderdoult cry no more ; pappy's come back.' Yes, thank God, ho had come back, poor, and tattered, and hun grylike tho prodigal but my Tom, my husband, nevertheless. I would never speak cross to him any more. It is springtime again. The sweet May sunlight steals iu at my wiu dow, as I write, and I hear tho tur tle cooing in tbo distant wood. My husband is a man now, staudiug up proudly, his feet upon the grave of old temptations. I know that God's mercy is equal to His justice, aud His love greater than either. Hew I Wav Kalaed by a Qomc-feerry. Not Tkat Klad of a Starcaer. An absent-minded man, travoling with his wife in a railroad car, left her side to get a drink. When he returned he dropped iuto a seat, im mediately in front of his better half, beside an unprotected female over whose heau the snows of about thirty-eight winters had glode. His wife was looking out of the car win dow at the scenery and didn't notice his awful blunder. Presently, with out turning bis head, he impatiently remarked : "Jane, how often have I told you not to starch my shirts so infernally tiff." The ancient female whose uatac happened to be Jane, bcrcamed "Monster" and fainted on the spot, and the absent-minded man looked uncomfortably warm as he changed seats. My name is Smith. The family name is old and honorable. Wo arc very proud of it. It baa been traced back to Shem, of the sons of Noah, with tho usual philological modifi cations. Three brothers of tho uame camo over in tho Mayflower or soon after. It was always a tradition in the family that sorao one of tho name would bo elected to the Amorican Congress. Five had already been hung before.it fell to my lot to be tho honored Yico President by the votes of my countryman. " I had been re-elected, aud by tbo advocacy of moral popular measures had myself become popular. One of my speeches had beon published at government expenco and widely circulated. My reputation was un tarnished aud tho future looked to be full of promise. Just at this juncture the hand pf fate iutervened, and I fell a victim to horticulture The causo of my political disaster was so unexpect ed, so contemptible that I am ashamed to tiamo it. One of my constituents was an enthusiastic gardner. He had his hobbies: ono of them was the gooseberry. A hob by that may he be compelled to rido aftor death. He had innumerable seedlings. To those he had yoked the names of all the public men in the land. My own name duly writ ten on a zinc tag hung on one of lhoscr bushes. It was sent out to tho world as the great success of tho season ; the John Smith Gooseberry, large, smooth, hardy prolific, sweet. Thousands of those gooseberries were disseminated among my con stituents. They bought it on credit of tho name. It must surely be a fine thing named after our Congress man, it was thorny, moldy, small, bitter, barren. It was however 9 hardy. It would not die. That gooseberry made me one thousand enemies at first hand. Those thous and made me five thousand more. It cost me my seat in Congress. The district became full of thorns forme. Instead of Hon. John Smith, our representative, I became Gooseberry John. I tried to convince the pub lic that I had uo hand in the swin dle. Men would not listen. I ought not to lend my name to such things. Sure enough one's namo is not to be easilv loaned. It Is the last thin? to be borrowed even after his cow and his spectacles. I was obliged to move from that region. My reputation hung like a last year's scarecrow on a prickly goosoberry bush. It was too lato to begin political lifo over again else where. I am now raising sheep iu Texas. There is not a gooseberry allowed to grow on myranche. Will not seedling raisers let alono the names of houest philanthropists and patriotic office holders? They have worked hard to secure a name. It is their sole capital. It should not bo borrowed, at least not without tho consent of the owner. "It is bad enough to- be compelled to share with babies, without losing all on a gooseberry. Call your seedlings Ralph Farms, Wonderful Amaze ment, but not John Smith. Cor. Gardner's' Monthly. WI vearfer Barkeeaers.1 Some one a9ks how the barrooms can be closed. Bar roorasrarer sot kept for amusement. There is not a man in the Slate who woeld keep a bar if there wa9 no hope fof a profit. Let overy maa who has brains enough to attend to his own business refuse to drink at a bar, and the bar rooms will soon be closed. Men who aro ashamed of their habits of drinking, and must havo a screen to hide them, will not ofteu havo an opportunity to drink elsewhere, and ono great step in the temperance reform wili have been taken. Barkeepers in this city pay, on an average, $2 per gallon for' whisky. One gallon contains an average of sixty-five drinks, and at ten cents a drink the poor man pays six dollars and a half for his whisky. la other words, he pays $2 for the whisky and $4.50 to a man for handing it over tho bar. While it would be better for all not to drink, some men will have whisky, and my advice to them is this: Make your wife your barkeeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey for a beginning, and every time you want a driuk go to her and pay her ton cents for it. By tho timo you havo drauk a gal Ion, she will have $G.50, or money enough to refund tho $2 borrowed of you, to pay for another gallon of liquor, aud have a balance of $2.50. She will be ablo to conduct future operations on her own capital, aad 'when you become an inebriate, una ble to support yourself, shunned and despised by respectable people, your wife will have saved moitey enough to keep you until you get ready to fill & drunkard's grave. But had you paid all this money to a bar keeper he would not have given a cent to bury you, or a crust to keep your children from starving. Few people ever stop to calculate the cost of dram-drinking. At ten cents per drink, one drink per day will cost $36.50 per year, two drinks per day will cost $73, three drinks $109.50 aud four drinks $144.00 per annum. A man came to mo the other day to pay tho interoit on a noto for one hundred dollars I bold against him. Said ho, 'I only re ceive six hundred dollars a year, and with a family to support I am not able to pay my debt." I asked him to take a pencil, aud make a slight calculation for me, and then asked how often he drank at the bar. His average was three drinks per day, which, by his own calcula tion, amouu ted to $109.50, or enough to have paid both principal and in terest of the note, and have $1.50 left. He was astonished at this dis covery, aud is now determined never to drink at a bar again. From T. C. Campbell's lecture at ZIarysville,Ky. Hull read latelllsxeace. KatllcaaakcK a MlMnleaarlefi. Iu 1850 there lived in the south ern part of MiBsouria a family by the name of Weaver very hard characters the old man, hia wife, and five grown-up boys. During the spring John Weaver was bitten by a rattlesnake. Everything was resorted to for relief, but all to no avail. When they saw be must die they sent for an old Baptist preach er to pray for him. Ho prayed as follows: "We thauk thee, Almigh ty God, for thy watchful care over us; and for thy -goodness and tender mercy, and especially do we thank theo for rattlesnakes. Thou hast sent ono to bite John Weaver. We pray thee to send ono to bite Jim, one to bite Henry, one to bite Sam, ono to bite Joe, and we pray thee to send tho biggost kind of a rattle snako to bite the old man, for noth ing but rattlesnakes will ever bring the, Weaver family , to repentance. There are others in Missouri just as bad as the Weavers. We pray thee to stir up Missouri, and, if nothing else will bring the people to repentance, we pray thee to shower down more rattlesnakes. Amen." The gigantic railroad combina tions of Jay Gould are beginning to excite feelings of distrust and alarm among the leading business men 6f New York. The feeling is growing daily that it is time to put some limitation upon the power ot indi viduals to exercise absoluto dicta torship over the highways of traffic. A petition to congress calling atten tion to this subject is beiug circu lated in all the exchauges, and is receiving many signatures. The petition recites that great alarm ia folt at the rapidly growing power of railroad corporations, which feeling is greatly intensified by their policy of consolidating under the control of a few individuals all the princi pal competing roads to the Pacific seaboard, thus forming a gigantic and powerful organization to control absolutely the iudustrial and com mercial interests of the country and the value of its products. They ex ercise and abuse their power by discriminating unjustly between in dividuals and corporations. The remedy sought is the early passage of the Reagau inter-state commerce bill. "Where's your partner, this morn ing, Mr. Hyson?" the neighbor nsked the grocer. "Don't know for certain," cautiously replied the old man, "he died last night." Ex. The smallest perfect achievement is nobler than the grandest failure. There is a mountain pass in Switz erland over which tho traveler is conducted blindfold. He might lose his footing if he caught but one be wildering glimpse of the chasm be low. In like manner, a wise love conceals from us those circumstan ces which, might dfstract our atten tion from the immediate line of duty, and withholds the knowledge that might occasion bewilderment and a fall. A BcaMtlfal TkeMKht. When the Summer of youth is slowly wasting away on the night fall of age, and the shadow of the path becomes deeper and life wears to its close, it is pleasant to look through the vista of time upon the sorrows and felicities of our early years. If wo had & home to shel ter, and hearts to rejoice with us, aud friends have gathered round our fireside, the rough places of way faring will have been worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life, and many dark spots we have passed through will grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy, indeed, are those whose intercourse with the world hasn't changed the tone of their holier feelings, or broken those musical chords of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious, so ten der, and so touching in the evening of their lives.