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VOL. X.--NO. 42.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18r 1880.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
A. A. Paddock. U. S. Senator, Beatrice.
A i.viN Saunders, U. S. Senator, Omaha.
T. J. Majors, Rep.. Pith.
E. K. Valentine, Rep., West Point.
STATE DIRECTORY:
Aluinus Kance, Governor, Lincoln.
S.J. Alexander, Secretary of State.
F. V. Liedtke. Auditor, Lincoln.
(5. M. Bartlett, Trcnsurer, Lincoln.
C.J. Dilworth, Attorney-General.
S. R. Thompson, Supt. Public Instruc.
11. C. Dawson. Wardeu of Penitentiary.
iV.)V;,Abibie-T Prison Inspectors.
C.H.Gould, t
Dr. J. G. Davis, Prison Phynician.
II. P. Mathewaon, Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
S. Maxwell, Chief Justice,
Geor-c B. Lake.l Aggociate Judges.
Aiuasa Cobb. 1
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
G. W. Post, Judzc, York.
M. II. Uee.se, District Attorney, V ahoo.
LAND OFFICERS:
M. 11. Hoxie, Register, Grand Island.
Win. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island.
COUNTY DIRECTORY:
,J. G. Higglnw, County Juilc.
John Stauffer. County Clerk.
J. W.TJarlv, Treasurer.
Ilenj. Spiefman, Sheriff.
R. L. Rot.iter, Surveyor.
John Walker, )
John Wir. CountyComniissiouera.
M. Maher, J
Dr. A. Ileintz, Coroner.
S. L. Barrett, Supl. of Schools.
ByLtet, Juctlce.orthePe.ce.
Charles Wake, Constable.
CITY DIRECTORY
l (VA. Sluice, Mayor. ,
John Wermuth, Clerk.
Charles Wake, Marshal.
C. A. Newman, Treasurer.
S. S. McAllister, Police Judge.
J. G. Routsoa, Engineer.
.. COUNCILMKX:
. 1st Ward J. E. North,
G. A. Schroeder.
2 Ward Michael Morrissey.
R. II. Henry.
Sd Ward-K. J. Baker.
L. Gerrard.
ColmqttHM Pom I Office.
fltiMti n liiirtuve tram 11 a m In 19u
"I'1-" "" .- -- .--..i
and from -ii'M) to G p. m. Business I.
hours except Sunday C a. m. to 8 p. si.1
Eastern mails close at 11 a. m.
Western mails close at 4:15 p.m.
Mail leaves Columbus for Mndison and
Norfolk, daily, except Sunday, at 10
A. M. Arrivc's at -1:30 p. m.
For Monroe, Genoa. Waterville and Al-
utiin, daily exeept Sunday b A. M. Ar
rive, -ame, 1! p.m.
For Osceola and York.Tuesdays.Thurs-
days and Saturdays, 7 a. m. Arrives
Mondavs, Wednesdays and Fridays,
6 p. m."
For Wilf, Farral and Battle Creek,
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
C a. m. Arrives Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, at p. M.
For Shell Creek, Creston and Stanton,
on Mondavs and Fridays at 0 a. m.
Arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays, at
C p. M.
For Alexis, Patron and David City,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
1 P. M "Arrives at 12'M.
For St. Anthonv. Prairie Hill and St.
Bernard. Saturdays, T a. M. Arrives
Fridays, 3 p.m.
Tr7-.11. w. corm:lh.h,
A TTOIiXEY-A 7- LA W,
Up-stalrs in Gluck Building, 11th street.
jUTcAI.lMMTER BROS.,
A TT0HXE YS AT LA W,
Office up-stalra In McAllister's build.
inf. Uth St.
lELLEY & SLATTERY,
House Moving
and bouse bunding done to order, and
In a workman-like manner. Please give
us a call. ESTS hop on corner of Olive
St. and Pacific Avenue. 4S5.tf
GEORGE tf. DERBY,
CARRIAGE,
House k Sign Paintiig,
aiAisma, qlasdss,
Paper llaagiBSt
XAI.SOMINING. Etc.
J2o All work warranted. Mhop on
Olive street, one door south of Elliott's
new Pump-house. aprl6y
T S. MURDOCK & SON,
" Carpenters end Contractors.
Have had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity to estimate for you. 3Sbop at
the Bin Windmill, Columbus, Nebr.
483-y
ADVE&TISEKEMTS.
COLUMBUS DRUG STORE.
A.W. POLAND,
(SUCCKSSOR TO DO I. AND A SMITH, )
SUES, PATEIT MEBICI1ES,
Wll Payer, Toilet Articles,
PAINTS AND OILS.
nc, XTC, KTC.
Best Of (tail And Low Prices,
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MR. SMITH will still be found at the
old staud, and will make prescrip
tions a specialty, as heretofore.
401-x
FOR SALE OB TRADE !
MARES i COLTS,
Teams of
Horses or Oxen,
SADIfl'I? PO.KICS wild or broke,
at the Corral or
429 GERRARD & ZE1GLER.
Columbus Meat Market!
WEBER & KNOBEL, Prop's.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DKALKU IX
HIES MICHIS. CIEMfCALS
WLIiES, LIQUORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And nil articles usually kept on band by
Druggists.
Phys-icians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Oae dear East of Galley, a
Klereatk Street
COLUMBUS.
NEBRASKA
NELLIE'S LEAP-YEAR PROPOSAL.
'Really, Catharine, I don't wonder
at Mary's surprise at your behavior.
You forget that you are Frank's
widow. You are too forward.'
I hesitated a moment, really anx
ious to keep my temper; for I was
Frank's widow, and the speaker was
his mother.
'Forward!' cried Mary. 'Indeed,
you would have been shocked last
night, mother. There was Mr. Vance
urging her to sing, and acting as if
Herbert Halstead was her only
friend, when it was only as a mar
ried woman "
Yes,' interrupted Julia. 'I think,
mother, if you can't make Kate re
alize that she is married, witii a
daughter nearly six years of age, you
had better '
'Send me away,' I broke in, unable
longer to control rayseif,.'it's not the
first time that hint has been thrown
out, and if it were not for little Nel
lie, poor chil, I would go away to
earn my living at ouce. You drive
mo desperate. I declare I will mar
ry again, and get rid of all this '
and then I burst into tears.
'Marry again! How will you do
it? Oh, yes! a good joko!' cried
Julia, with a shrug at my tears.
Don't you see, Mary, it's leap year!'
and she laughed derisively.
'Who'll ask you?' sneered Mary.
'Herbert Halstead? Julia, you'd
better look out!'
'You may sneer 1 cried, checking
my tears. I was not thoroughly
angry. "But I (ell you, if no one
again because she wouldn't sing, and
I hen they said she was fordard.
What's fordard ?'
'Forward indeed 'ejaculated Her
bert, under his breath. 'If it had
been some others now. But, Nellie,
how about leap year?'
'Oh, yes! I most fordot, didn't I ?
Well, you see, mamma said but,
oh, Undo Herbert, I never showed
you my two weenie now little kit
tens! Thoy's only little sings, wiv
out eyes. Come out to the piazza
and I'll show you.'
It was no use to be impatient. The
young man knew the child too well
for that, and so they went out and
inspected the kittens. Then he tried
to coax Nellie back to the subjoct.
'Oh, I fordot!' she said. 'Only
they made mamma say'
'What did they say, darling ? I'll
give you a big doll'
'With rea' hair?'
'Yes, yes ! Real hair and eyes,
and oh, nothing. But did they say
I wanted to marry'
'They say mamma wasn't a girl,
aud she was old; and mamma said
oh, there's mamma. Mamma
didn't you ask Uncle Herbert to
marry you? He wants to know.'
A HEARTRENDING PICTURE.
'What British Misrule and Landlord
Brutality has Done.
K
EEP ON HAND all kinds of fresh
meats, and smoked pork and beef;
also fresh fish. Make sausage a spec
laltv. 3rReniember the place. Elev
enth St., one door west of D. Ryan's
hotel.
417-tf
GOOD CHEAP BRICK !
AT MY RESIDENCE, on Shell Creek,
three miles cast of Matthls's bridge,
I have
?, good, bard-barat brick
ttr vale
whirb will be sold in lots to uit pur
chasers. 445-tf GEORGE HENGGLER.
HARM & SADDLES
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II. P. Time Table.
Eastward Bound.
Emigrant, No.G, leaves at
rahKi-UK'r. 4. "
Freight, " 8, '
Freight, " 10,
Westward Hound.
Freight, No. 5, leaves at
Pasxenp'r, " 3, "
Freight, " !, ' "
Emigrant, 7. " "
Every day except Saturday the three
lines leadiiig to Chicago connect with
U P. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays
there will be but one train a day, as
thown bv the following chedule:
G:25 a. m.'
ll:(a. in.
2:15 p.m.
4:30 a. in.
2:00 p.m.
4:27 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
1:30 a. m.
O., N. A. B. H. ROAD.
Hound north. I Bound south.
kson 4:53 p.m.' Norfolk.. .6:30 A. M.
Chicago Barber Shop.
0;;etSti "lUsanl Sssii."
COLUMBUS, NEB.
HAIR CUTTING done in the latest
styles, with or without machine.
None but first-class workmen employed.
Ladies' and children's hair cutting a
specialty. Best brands of cigars con
stantly on hand.
472 Cm Proprietor.
D0CT0E BOrcSTlXL. f
V. 8. EXAMINING 'MlWflEW,
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA.
OFFICE HOURS, 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to
4 p. m., and 7 to 9 p. m. Office on
Nebraska Avenue, three doors north of
E. J. Baker's grain office. Residence,
corner Wyoming and Walnut streets,
north Columbus, Nebr. 33-tf
Daniel Faucette,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
larou, Saiiki, Bridles, and Collars,
keeps constantly on band all kinds of
whips, Saddlery Hardware, Curry
combs; Brushes, Bridle Bits, Spurs,
Cards. Harnes.3 made to order. Re
pairing done on short notice.
KBBRASKA AVENUE, Columbus.
63.4.
BECKER & WELCH,
PIOPMBTOKS 0
SHELL CREEK KILLS.
Jack
LostCreek 5:30
PI. Centre 5:37
llumphrey6:31
Madison 7:40
Munson 8:23
Norfolk . 8:53
Munson. 6:57
Madison .7:45
Humphrev8:34
PI. Centre 9:28
Lo.tCreek 9:55
Jackson. 10:30
The departure from Jackson will be
governed by the arrival there of the
U.'P. express train.
- BUSINESS CA1D8
rr a. iiuuso,
XOTA 11 Y P UBLIC,
lit Strrrt, icon nrtt of Hiiwuil Hobm,
Columbus, -Vei.' 491-y"
lr. K. Lm. NIG Gilt ft,
Physician and Surgeon.-
F. SQHECK,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
ALL KINDS OF
SMOKING ARTICLES. I
Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office
'Columbaa Nebraska. 447-1 y
MANUFACTURERS WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB.
WM. BECKER,
LAW, REAL ESTATE
ANT) GENERAL 0 - J
COLLECTION OFFICE
52TOfllce open
at all hours
Bank .oiliiag.
Wn' BlJ,tGi:s,!
Dealer in BE A L EST A TE,
CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR.
AKS XSS7SAXCX AS INT,
GK.NOA, NANCE CO., - UKB.
M
BRICK!
RIEMER & STOLCE keep constantly
on hand and furnish in the wall,
the best of brick. Orders solicited. Ad
ress, as above, box 95, Columbus. 478.
PICTURES I PICTURES!
NOW IS THE TIME to secure a life
like picture of yourself and chil
dren at the New Art Rooms, east 11th
street, south side railroad track, Coluhl
bus, Nebraska.
478-tf Mrs. S. A. Jossklyn.
otick:
IF YOU have any real estate for sale,
if you wihh to buy either in or out
of the citv, if you wish to irade city
property for lands, or lands for city
propertr, Five us a call
" WaPSWOKTH & JOSSELT.V.
NKLbON MILLETT. BYBOK MILLETT,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Public.
IV. MlLLl-rrT BOX,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus,
Nebraska. N. B. They will give
clce attention to all business entrusted
to them. 248.
" STAGE KOUTE.
JonN HUBER, the mail-carrier be
tween Columbus and Albion, will
leave Columbus everyday except Sun
day at 6.clock, sharp, passing through
Monroe, Genoa, Waterville, and to Al
bion. The haek will call at either ot
the Hotels for passengers If orders are
left at the post-office. Rates reason
ble,2 ;o AjbiQa. 222JJ
BY - '
W.S.GEER
ONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
farm property, time one to three
vears. r arms witn some improvements
bought and sold. Office fbr the present
at the Ciother House, Columbus, Neb.
473-x
COLDMBIIN
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Preprieiep.
K3TWholeBle nd Retail Dealer In For
eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
J3T Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or aisn.
11th Street, South of Depot
COLUMBUS BM YARD,
(One mile west of Columbus.)
THOMAS FLYNN 4 SON Propr's.
GOOD, HARD-BURNT BRICK
Always on Hand In
QUANTITIES to snH PURCHASERS
371-tf
Wm, SOHILZ,
Manufacturer aad Dealer In
BOOTS AND SHOES!
A roupltaaMrtBt or Ladies' aa Call
area's Saow kcyt kaad. -
All Work Warranted!!
Oar Metle Good stock, excellent
work and fair prices. j
-)DXALKR IN(-
groceries;
Graim, Prodno, Etc.
(MM anil Fair Healing.
NEW STORE, NEW GOODS.
Qoods delivered Free of Charge,
anywhere in the city.
Corner of 13th and Madleon Ste.
North of Foundry. 397
cpecial Attention paid to lUptiriag
Cor. OUT umA lfl&M lie.
STATE BANK,
fcttusHt to tmui Bill ui Tubu e Sultf.
COLUMBUS, VS1RABKA.
CASH CAPITAL, - $60,000
DIRECTORS:
Leandkb Gkbbab-d, Pre&'i.
Geo. W. Huxbt; Vice Pres't.
Julius A Reed.'
Edward A. Gerrard.
Abnek Turner, Cashier.
ik DepcwM, DIeceaitif
ihcI Ezchaase.
would ask me to marry him, I be-
lievo I should ask Mv. Halstead, and
he'd have me!'
I had fairly taken up their own
weapoiiB of personalities which I
scorned. The moment after asham
ed of myt-elf, I ran to the room to
put on my bonnet and get out of the
house. I looked in the glass, as I
put the crape bonnet, with its wid
ow's cap. aud heavy veil on my head,
I saw a face to which black was
very becoming, though it was not a
remarkably pretty face. It looked
not more than 25, some say not moro
than 20; but I was really over 23.
Married at 18 to Frank Stevens, I
had been a petted wife for four
years, and now a widow of two.
The thought of the happiness of tho
four and the loneliness of the two, as
I looked at the face surrounded by
crape, made the tears come again ;
but I brushed them away resolutely
and went out, knowing that a brisk
walk would do me. more good than
anything else. I went out without
my darling, my inseparable com
panion, my little baby girl, Nellie.
This alone showed how troubled I
was. Truth to tell, I was too angry
to trust myself with tho little one
who might have asked to have onr
conversation explained, for she had
been In the room at the time. I
could'only hope that at five years old
a child did not understand mo.
Soon after I left, my mother-in-law
and her daughters went out for a
drive. They invited Nellie to go, i
but she, feeling, perhaps, that they
had not treated ma'ma well, refused.
Soon the front-door bell raug, and
like all children, Nellie must run to
see who was there. She managed to
open the door herself, and there
stood her prime favorite among the
gentlemen that visited the house,
Mr. Halstead, or, as she had called
him since her babyhood, uncle Her
bert. He bad been her father's
chum and dearest friend, aud loved
the child for Frank's sake.
Ladies home, Nell ?'
'I'm home,' she said, 'and I dess
mamma 'II be in soon.'
Very well. Let's go in the parlor
and have a chat.'
Nellie sat iu his lap, discussing the
merits of cocoauul cakes and sugar
almouds a little while ; but, suddenly
dropping her candies in her lap, she
asked, 'What's leap lean leap, I
fordet. Do you know what'a it ?'
'Leap? leap frog? leap year? Is
that it?'
Yes. What bit?'
Wby, it's a year when you ladies
can ask (he gentlemen to marry you.
But you see, Nellie, you're too young
or wouldn't you ask me?'
'Ob, no! I wouldn't ask you.
Mamma's going to ask you.'
The young man nearly droppod
the child, and then folded her close
to him, lest perhaps he should for
get her again. 'What do you mean,
darling?' he asked. 'Now think,
Nellie, but don't tell Uuclo Herbert
anything of your own make up
'Oh, no! really, truly, bless me,
6he's alive isn't that what you say
when you are true? Well!' the
little tot gave a long sigh aud paus
ed, Herbert not daring to interrupt
her lest she should see his anxiety,
and miniature woman that she was,
should refuse to satisfy him.
'Well,' she repeated, 'you 6ee they
does scold mamma, so they does.
I had come in, looking for the
child, pud that was the speech I
heard. I felt ready to sink with
mortification.
'Kate, darling, can't I hope you'll
let me ask ? You must know that I
hoped, when these (touching my
veil and black dress) were put aside,
that I could ak you to let me care
for you, and at once. Come, darling,'
as I hid my face in my hands.
'You've asked me to marry you, aud
1 must name the day, and I say now,
at once. Let's "ive them a rood.
thorough surprise. lean guess how
they've treated you. Come, now,
get ready this fairy, this blessed lit
tle darjing, that has brought me my
happiness, and we'll go to your own
minister.'
I tried to refuse, but I was so
weary of living with mother-in-law,
that at last we three slipped out of
the house; and dear Dr. S , who
had baptised me, married me to
Frank, and knew Herbert well,
married us.
Wo drove back and reached the
front door as the family were re
turning. Julia, who would appro
priate Herbert, stepped forward.
'Good evening, Mr. Halstead. So
you met Kale on the steps? Strange'
with a glance at me, as if I had
planned to meet him.
'Not at all, Miss Julia,' said Her
bert. 'My wifo and I just call iu to
receive your congratulations and to
leave little Midget here for a few
days.'
No tableau I have ever seeu was
half so comical as tho one those
three made. I really felt for Julia,
for I knew she cared for Herbert.
Sho gained self-possession quickly,
aud congratulated me, whispering,
as she kissed me: 'So you asked
him?'
My husband heard aud answered :
'No, Miss Julia, she did not ask
me. Through other means, manic
God, I learned the one I loved was
unhappy ; aud, as I hoped for more
than a year past to soon ask her to
be my wife, I persuaded her to
marry me at ouce. Leap-year priv
ileges are still open for those who
choose to use them.'
We are quite an old married
couple now, for three years have
passed ; but Herbert and I still
often laugh over Nellie's leap-year
proposal.
llecti-ae'Preaa-Mlj Made
ill Poiats.
r Iret m Tieae Dteti- cry, to-morrow (she would call yes
it.
271
To-day morning they maked mamma
The Democrats 'allow'
terday to-morrow) they scolded her Blaine's health is pretty fair.
IIIbIh Tor Vohbc Preacherv.
An old preacher says that "no man
is tit to preach who does not covet a
pulpit more than a throne, aud who
does not sit down to a sermon with
more enjoyment lhau a hungry man
sits down to his dinner. When you
lose your interest in your work,
your people will very soon lose their
interest in you. If the ministry is
not tho highest of enjoyments, it
will soon become the. dreariest of
drudgeries. Doth not the Master
love those who love His service.
The most valuable hints I ever re
ceived came to me from a baker at
Saratoga. I had been preaching there
during my miuistereal boyhood.
The baker met me the next day at
the railway statlou, and said: 'I
believe you are the young man who
spoke in our church yesterday.'
'Yes ; I am.' 'Well,' said he, 'I felt
sorry for you, because I thought you
did not kuow what cultivated and
critical people there are here in sum
mer. But I have noticed thatJXa
minister can convince the people in
FKIGUTFCL CONDITION OF THE POOR IN
IKK AND LIVING ON 8KKD-POXA10KS
GA'iUKIUNG BK4-WKKD FOR FUXL AN
AMKRtCAN AB'IV OI FfCER'8 OPINION
THK rtCMKF WORK In THIS COUNTRY
OTIIKK rOKXIGN XiCWft NOTKS.
New York, Feb. 9. A Dublin
letter to a morning paper gives a
terrible picture of destitution in
8omo parts of Ireland. The famine
fever prevails to an alarming extent
in some places, and harrowing de
scriptions are given of distress.
There are four parishes in Conne
mara, lying along the southern coast
of Galway Couuty? It is 9aid not
ono of the three commissioners de
puled by the Government to inquire
into the state of things in Connaught
has visited those parishes.
Similarly, two gentlemen who
traveled through the reported dis-
irutsseu uisiriuis, un uonau 01 me
Duchess of Marlborough, are said to
have left these parishes out of their
inspection. They lie far away from
all the regular routes. The work
house, the legal refuge for the desti
tute, is tweuty-six miles away. The
process-server, however, has visited
these wilds, pud these four parishes
cover an area of about forty miles
square, and there is not iu the whole
of Irelaud a more woe-begone re
gion. The following is the report about
the condition of a parish named
Carnagah: With perhaps1 a couple
of dozen of exceptions, the whole
population of 5.000 are on tho high
road to death by staiyation. Hun
ger has overtaken more than a third
already. Those who havo anything
to eat arc living oa seed potatoes.
Every day some family is eating Its
last meal of them. A number of
families squat in their cubins, around
the morsel of live turf, all day, in
order not to awaken pangs of hun
ger by active exercise.
Poor peasant mothers stumble
over miles of sharp-pointed rocka
with their bare feet to implore In
dian meal for their whining chil
dren. They also carry lairs of turf
or dripping sea-weed on their backs
for ten or fifteen miles like beasts of
burden.
Starvation is growing far aud
wide. Tho weather is cold, and the
people are half-naked. There are
no beds even for the sick. They lio
in dirty clothes witb an old tattered
rug around them. Assistance is
promised the famishing in the
spring, but it is a question how ma
ny Connmara peasauts will live to
see spring, and those who survive
will be emauiatdd aud incapacitated.
Nine-tenths of the whole coast
population of Connaught, from Gal
way to Sligo, are on the brink of
starvation.
WHAT A UNITED STATES ARMT OFFI
CER SAY8 OF IT.
Washington, D.C.,Feb. 9. Lieut.
Thomas Garvey, U. S. A., who has
just returned from Ireland, where
he has been on a visit to bia mother
and relatives, was interviewed last
night by a Post reporter. He de
scribes the sufferings a?id destitution
as even exceeding the published ac
counts, aud says that Irelaud is in a
very uusottled state.
The peoplo have become indiffer
ent through oppression, aud exhibit
an unconcerned, crushed feeling that
bodes no good. He predicts that
the suffering must last- at least six
months longer, until the next crops,
and says that every cent which can
be raised is needed. He also states
that when the landlords commence
a general eviction the peoplo will
resist, and serious trouble will en
sue. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS ARE HAV
ING A GOOD EFFECT.
London, Feb. 9. A Dublin dis
patch says: Though there are still
deplorable accounts from some dis
tricts, there Is generally a more'
hopeful spirit among tho people.
Tho new applications for loans by
laud-owners during the past week
reached 203; amount applied for,
111,000; siuco Nov. 22, 376,000.1
Sllmgy 31ea,
Bob Iugersoll says: I despiso a
stingy man. I don't see how it is
possible for a man to die worth fifty
millions of dollars, or ten millions
of dollars, in a city full of want,
when he meets almost every day the
withered hand of beggary and the
white lips of famine. How a man
can withstand all that, aud hold iu
the clutch of his hand twenty or
thirty millions of dollars, is past my
comprehension. I do not see how
he can do it. I should not think he
could do it any more than ho could
keep a pile of lumber when hun
dreds aud thousands wore drowning
in tho sea. Do you know I have
known men who would trust their
wives witb their hearts and their
honor, but not with their pocket
books not with a dollar. When 1
see a man of that kind I always
think he knows which U tho most
valuable. Think of making your
wife a beggar ! Thiuk of her having
to ask you every day for a dollar or
two dollars, or to humbly beg for
fifty cents ! "What did you do u ith
that Qollar I gave you?" Think of
having a wife that is afraid of you!
What kind of children do you ex
pect to have with a beggar and a
coward for the'r mother? Oh, I tell
you, if you Lavo got but a dollar in
the world, and you bavo got to
spond it, spend it like a kiug; spend
it 83 though it wero a dry leaf, and
you the owner of unbounded forests.
That's the way to spend it. I had
rather be a beggar and spend my
last dollar like a king, than to be a
king and spend my money like a
beggar. If it's got to go, let it go.
Get the best you can for your fami
ly t.y and look as well as you can
yourself. When you used to go
courting, how nice you looked!
Ab, your eye was bright, your step
was light, and you just put on the
very best you could. Do you kuow
that it is insufferable egotism in you
to suppose that a woman is going to
love you always looting as bad as
you can? Think of it! Auy wo-
man uu eauu win ue true to you
forever when you do your level best.
ytPrmu
t'ae to Effect.
N
The rational look of the world is
denied by no one. Eyes look as it
they were made to see with. Ears
as If -'hey wero made to hear with.
Legs look as if they were made to
walk with. The nutritive apparatus
looks as if it wore made to keep the
body in repair. The lungs look as
if they wero mado to aerato the
blood; and the blood-vessels as if
made witb an eye to their actual
functions. And in general, agency
everywhere assumes that nature is
Economy la the Family.
There is nothing which goes so
far toward placing young people
beyond the reach of poverty as econ
omy in the management of their
domestic affairs. It matters not
whether a man furnish little or
much for his family if there is a
continual leakage in his kitchen or
iu the parlor; it runs away he know)
not how, and that demon waste cries
"more," like the horseleech's daugh
ter, until he that provided has no
more to give. It is the husband's
duty to bring iuto the house, and it
is the duty of the wife to seo that
none goes wrongfully out of It sot
the least article, however unimport
ant in itself, for it establishes a
precedent ; nor under any pretence,
for it opens the door for ruin to
stalk in, and ho seldom leaves an
opportunity unimproved. A man
gets a, wife to look after his aflkirs,
and to assist him iu his journey
through life, to educate and prepare
his children for a proper station in
life, aud not to dissipate his prop
erly. The husband s interest should
be the wife's care, and her greatest
ambition carry her no farther than
his welfare or happiness, together
witb that of her children. This
should be her sole aim, and the
theater of her exploits is the bosom
of her family, whero she may do as
much toward making a fortune as
he can iu the counting-house or the
workshop.
It is not tho money earned that
makes a man wealthy it is what he
saves from his earuings. A good
and prudent husband makes a de
posit of the fruits of his labor witb
his best friend ; and if that friend be
not true to him, what has he to hope ?
If he dare not place contideuce iu
tho companion of his bosom, where
is ho to place it? A wife acts uot
for herself alone, but sho is tho ageut
of many she loves, and she is bound
to act for their good and not for her
own gratification. Her husband's
good is the end at which she should
aim his approbation is her reward.
Self-gratification in dress, or indul
gence iu appetite, or more company
than his purse ean well eutortain,
are equally pernicious. The first
adds vanity to extravagance the
second fasteus a doctor's bill to a
long butcher's account and the lat
ter brings intemperance, the worst
of all evils, in its trpiu.
rational, and that everything is
adapted to everything else. We
must remember that science- is not
merely observation ; but is chiefly
the conclusions from the observa
tions. Science aims by the aid of
reasoning to pass behind the pheno
mena aud form some conception of
the supersensible realities upon
which appearances are based. But
it enters iuto this bidden world only
by thought; aud it implicitly as
sumes, therefore, that the laws or
thought are valid for all being.
Science, then, is built upon the no
tion that the real is ratioual and in
telligible; and it aims to grap the
ratioual system which is iu things.
If wo should assume that the real
is irrational, and unintelligible, all
our science would perish. What
would become of astronomy if we
assume that the flying planet is not
bound by the rational principles of
mathematics? The atomic theory
and ether theory are no facts of ob
servation, but ouly rational infer
ences from phenomena; but if the
real is not rational, of course these
aud all other scientific theories fall
to the ground. We conclude then,
that there is mind back of nature
wjiirli rralizas-in .nature its precon
ceived plans and purposes.
ftapeleoa'M Farce of Will.
One day at St. Cloud he had had a
The Board of Public Works takes ' dangerous fall. He had been thrown
the first five minutes that ho only
aims to save their souls, he wil1 'M I
all the critics in the housed That
was one of the wisest things ever
uttered. It ought to be written on
the walls of every theological semi
nary and every pastor's study."
care that laborers are paid iu cash,
and that the amount of the first issue
has been expended in substantial
work before hey give a second installment.
that
L. St. ft. W. R. R. Time Table.
The mail train leaves Lincoln at
S p. m. and anives at David City at
10 :30 p. m. Leaves David City at
5:20 a. m., arilving in Lincoln at 8
a. m. The "freight and accommo
dation train" leaves Lincoln at 3
p. m., and arrives at David City at
8 p. m. Leaves David City at 7 :45
a. m., arriving in Lincoln at 12 :50
p. m. The "through freight" leaves
Lincoln at 8 a, m., and arrives at
David City at 12 :10 p. ra. Leaves
Dayid City at' 1 :45 p. m. and arrives
at Lincoln at 6:45 p. m. Lincoln
Journal.
from a carriage on to a post which
bad nearly entered bis stomach, and
the next day, when I asked him how
he was, he answered, with the ut
most gravity : " I yesterday com
pleted my experiments on the power
of tho will. When my stomach was
injured I felt life escaping from mo;
I had only time to say to myself
that I would not die, and I am alive.
Any one else would have died.
Prince Metternicn's Memoirs.
I
The following item is pretty good
evidence that Nebraska securities
are considered "gilt edge" by capi
talists: "Sidney Dillon, President
of the Union Pacific Railroad, has
recently sold the Polk county bonds,
issued to the Republican Valley
Railroad, to the amount or 1100,009,
to eastern parties at $1.07."
Tfce track-layers on the L. & N.
V. road have probably reached the
Platte Valloy opposite Columbus by
this time. If the weather permits
the road will no doubt be completed
to Columbus by the first of March.
This road it is hoped will prove the
salvation of the town. This sudden
calling off of such vast areas of trib
utary territory, must have produced
no small shock to that town for a
timo, but looking over the local col
umns of the city papers, the reader
perusing such items as that of the
streets being full of wagons loaded
with grain and bogs, and reading
also of largo shipments of fat cattle,
must come 'to the conclusion that
there is yet there in the valley a live
town. The following extract from
the Journal states the situation, and
prescribes the future policy of Co
lumbus, which if carried out will ere
long make the place what its found
ers proposed it should be, a great
center of trade, aud the Capitol of
the State.
"While this event is soon to take
place to the profit of every mail
within our business radius, Colum
bus must not lose sight of the fact,
that while it is important we should
have excellent facilities for tho
transportation of our products aud
supplies, it is far more essential to
us that we have plenty of raw and
manufactured products for sale
that we utilize all our vacaut lands;
that we make commercial stock of
material that now goes to waste; I
that we make use of tho forces that 1
nature has placed wilhiu our reach I
to keep the balance of trade always j
in our favor. Let the good work go (
forward and the good word be reit- I
erated by all until a manufacturing ' 4
nucleus is assured." Pen and Plow. ;
We notice that there is a general
disposition on the part of newspaper
men to break loose from the long
reigning subserviency to the dicta
tion of politicians, and say what
they personally thiuk. A right
eously sensible move, and one with
which the Telegraph heartily sym
pathizes. A politician has no use
for a newspaper except to subserve
his own personal ends. Sidney Telegraph.
The Elmira Advertiser asks very
innocently "How could matrimonial
swepts be preserved without a fami
ly jar?" They couldn't, they
couldn't! But the trouble is there
aro not usually enough sweets in the
average family io fill up one small
jar. There's where the trouble lies.