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i- i 1 4, .. THE JOURNAL. IS ISSUKU EVERY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and .Publishers.- l S-Office, on 11th street., up stairs in Journal building. Terms rer rear, 52. Sixraqntbs.Sl. Three months. 50c. Single copies, 5c. F. SCHECK, t Manufacturer and Dealer in ; "CiGARS'AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OK SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly HENRY XLTERS, BLACKSMITH AND "Wagon Maker, Shoi nr KonnJrr. fconth of A. N. ipot. All kind of wood and iron work on w WsonvBurc". Farm Machinery, Ac. Keeps on hands the ' TftPPKEN SPUING BUGGY, and other eastern buggies. ALSO, THE Eurfjt fc Bradlev Plows. MtLLMRY! MILLIMY! MRS. M- S. DRAKE HAS .It'ST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF. SPRING AND SUMMER MILLIIESY III FilCY -:: X3TA FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTH1NG BELONGING TO FiRST-LLASaMlLLlX- - . KRY STOKK.JE3 Tieelfth St..,tieo doors east -StQt( Bank. JVjGERBER.& CO.,. 7 -dealers in FURNITURE, AND UNDERTAKERS. ..Gins, BBflsteails, Bums, TABLES, Etc., Etc. -:o: GIVE HIM A CALL AT HIS PLACE ON SOUTH SIDE II Hi ST., I 'One Wn east of lleintz's drug store. - J sCITY Meat Market ! One door north or Fot-ollicc, IXZBIIA$KAAVE., .- Colunilm. -:o: KEEP ALL KINDS OF Fresh and Salt Meats, ALSO Etc., in their season. 53TCat.li paid Tor Hides, Lard .- KBtl'ltHCOB. 542-X WILL.T.TtlCKLY'. JJmh QauMi'BtQi "WHOLESALE SL RETAIL G'EOCEES! Al PKALKRS IN Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc., aud Couutrv Produce of ' - all Kinds. THE nFJiT OF FLOUR AL WAVNCl'T OI I1AXD. I ' , An l..n run i iii. LEAST MONEY! rgroiwds delivered, free or charge to Tah"y pah. ofHlie city! "Terms cash. 'Corn Eleventh ami OUve Streets, Columbus, Neb. 'STATE BANK, Su:wsn to 0i:w4 Stl isl Tsrtir Edit. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. CASH CAPITAL, - $50;000 DIRECTORS: iLXATTDJEB GEnRARD, Prcs'l. Geo. "W- IIdlst Vice Prcs't. 'JviAVBfA Reed. - ' Edwaku A. Gerhard. Abker Turner, Cashier. bjkA Excksafce. . CellectloasFrempiIy Made ea II Platn. Pay latereMt ea Time Depos its. 274 GOOD GOODS fit VOL. XII.-N0. 1. LU.BKER & CRAMER, Booksellers S Stationers, -) DEALERS IN(- Sewing Machines. Organs, Small Musical Instruments, Sheet Music, Toys and Fancy Goods. t3-l r vou want anything in our line, give us a call. We sell none but irt cln. e'oodN, at Hie lowest living price. SING-ER SEWING- MACHINES at $25. CORNER. 13th AND OLIVE STREETS. ADVERTISEMENTS. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLUMHUS. WEB. A new. house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. BoaVd by day or week at reasonable rates. Z3Setn a FJrstClnnn Table. Meals,. ...25 Cents. Lodgings.. ..25 Cta as-2tr IIGIISI BUGGIES 1 WACOIS! END SPRINGS, PLATFORM SPRINGS, W H 1TN E Y & RRE W STE U SIDE SPRINGS. Light Pleasure aud business Wag ons of all Descriptions. We are jessed to invite the attention of the public to the fact that we have just received a car load of Wagons aud lluggies of all descriptions, and that we are the sole agents for the counties ol Platte, Rutler,llooue,MadNon, Merrick, Polk and York, Tor the celebrated CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y, of Cortland, New York, and that we are offering these wagons cheaper than any other wagon built or same material, vtyle and liuish can be sold for in tbi county. , . ... jSnSend for Catalogue and Price-list. 1I1IL. CALX, Columbus, Neb. 484-tf .AiCERICAJST mm a huiul rams, T. r. KITCBILI.. it. D. . T. A2S7H. U. S S. D. KIECES. y. 0.. 4 J. C. SIHISX, it. D., ef Caiti, Con:-ulting Physicians ui Surgeons, Pnr the treatment of all classes of Sur gery and 'deformities; acute and Chronic diseases, diseases ui mc ojfo and ear, etc., etc., Columbus, Neb. H.-B'i-MORSE IS STILL SELLING WM. SCHILZ'S OLD STOCK . At Gozth At: Got ! AND HAS ADDED A Line of Spring Goods WHICn HE "IS SELLING AT -BASTBRN prices.- a VM. SCHILZ Can still be found at the old stand, whcrehe continues to do ell 'kinds of Custom Work and Repairing. BECKER & WELCH, i PROPRIETORS OP SHELLCREEK MILLS. i.'.r.. ii ".- ;' . - - MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB. PI81C1S Snmeons 7E11EK &. KHOKEL AT THK Ul HEAT MARKET On Elevonth Street, Where meats are almost given away for cash. Beef per lb., from .T 10 cta. Best steak, pe. lb., 10 " Mutton, per lb., from .. .. C 10 " Sausape, per lb., from 8 10 " 3STpecial prices to hotels. M52-ly TTEXRY OAS, Nanujacturer and dealer in Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskel.s All kinds and sizes of Kolie, also has the sole riht to manufac ture and sell the Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair. Cabinet Turning and Scroll work, Pic tures, Picture -Frames and Mouldings, Looking-glass Plato, Walnut Lumber, etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN USES. HEDICIIES. CHEMICALS WIXEN. LIQUORS, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA ANDERSON & ROEN, BAlsTKEKS, ELEVENTH ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. JSTDeposits received, and interest paid on time deposits. VSTFrompt attention given to collec tions and proceeds remitted on day of payment. tSTFassagc tickets to or from European points by best lines at lowest rates. J3TDrafts on principal points in Eu rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS: First National Bank, Decorah, Iowa. Allan & Co., Chicago. Omaha National Bank, Omaha. First.National.BankvChicago. Kountze Bros., N. Y. SPEIGE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of Real Estate. r v Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R.R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for c'asY, or ou rfve or ten years time, Iu annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and .choice lot of .other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Alto business and residence lot6 in the city. We keep a complete 'abstract of title to all real es 'tale in Platte County. G33 COLU91RUS. NEB. EAND, FARMS, AND CMMMRSALE AT THE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Lonq Time and low rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands or Improved Farms will And it to their advantage to call at the U. P. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I make a specialty of buying and selling lauds on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms ,tr unimproved land will find it- to theiradvantage to leave their lands with me Tor sale, as my .fa cilities for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make final proor for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. 82Henry Cordes, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Agt. U. P. Land Department, 555-y COLUMBUS, NEB. aal 1 m AiiKa-A.jj'aaw COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1881. BUSINESS CARDS. pOKIVELlUX & S1JLL1VA., ATTOIiXETS-AT-LA W, Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. rOIlN J.JlAUCJHAiV, JUSTICE OI THE PEACE AX D NOTAHY PUBLIC, Platte Center, Neb. H. J. HUDSON, NOTARY PUBLIC; 12th Street, 2 doors ntst of Hammond Home, Columbus, Neb. 4!l-y D R. HI. I. TIUJKSTO.H, BES1DENT DENTIST. Office over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations first-class and warranted. C IIIICAtiO RARRER KHOP! HENRY WOODS, Pkop'r. JSTEvervthing in first -class style. Also keep the best of cigars. BlCy M cALLlSTER 11 It OS., A TTOBNEYS A T LA IV, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build lug. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. TP 1I.KI1SCHE, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whip, Blankets, Curry Comb Brushes, -tc, at the lowest po.ible price. Repairs promptly attended to. TIT J. THOMPSON, NOTAHY PUBLIC And General Collection Agent, St. Edwards, Boone Co., Neb. NOTICE! IF Y'OU have any real estate for sale, if you wish to buy either in or out of the city, If you wish to trade city properly for lands or lauds for city property, give w a call. WaDSWOKTH & JOSSELYN. NELSON MILLETT. BYRON M1LLKTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. W. M1LLETT Ac HOX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus, Nebraska. N. B. They will give close attention to all business entrusted to them. -48 J OUIS SCIIREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. USTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. "2-" F J. SCIIUC3, HI. !., PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON, Columbus, Net. QfljceCorner of North and Eleventh Sts.Tup-stairs in Gluck's brick building. Consultation in German and English. TI7M. RURGESS, Dealer in HEAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR, AUD IUS7BAUCE A32HT, GENOA. NANCE CO., - NEB. TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST- CLASS APPA RA TUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. VTOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrlef, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first and last Saturdays of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. fC7-y T S. MURDOCH & SON, " Carpenters and 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 aud fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunity to estimate for you. JSTShop tm 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y A GOOD FARM FOR SALE 159 acres of good-land, 80 acres under cultivation, a irnml hnnsp nne and a hall story high, a good stock range, plenty oi wsl.r nnri crnrwl hav Intnl. Two milpfi east of Columbus, inquire at the Pioneer Bakery. 473-tim LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE BY W.S.G-EER MONEY' TO LOAN in small lots on farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought and sold. Ofice for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 473-x COLUMBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. USTWbolesale ind Retail Dealerln For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. K3TKentvcky Miskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltk Street, South of Depot MY TWO JOREAMN. CHARLOTTE M. STANLEY. I was sixteen. Not a very wise or reverent! age, certainly ; not au ago when one is liable to be looked npou as an oracle (by the members of one's own family in particular) rather, iudecd, an age at which one is well used to being snubbed, more especially when one makes an at tempt at being more than usually brilliaut that was the manner in which our folks treated my flight of geniuB at sixteen anyway, and I bad got so philosophical that I really never thought of minding it. So when I announced at the break fast table one morning that I had had a peculiarly vivid dream, it did not surprise or oflend me that nobody seemed to care, or offered to yield me even a polite show or civil atten tion. Such gentle ameuities of life would appear to bo too precious to be wasted on 'chits of sixteen,' in the bosom of their own families (per haps, if wo used them too lavishly among ourselves, wo should have none left to show ofl with among strangers and out-of-doors: the gen eral practice of domestic life appears to' be governed aud directed by some such dread, at all events.) But I, as I have intimated, philo sophical beyond my years, aud armed against the contempt and in dill'erenco of my auditors iu a com plete pauoply of conceit and self eBteem more potent (for my require ments) than 'proof of steel;' pansiug after my remark, and glanc ing around the table to catch a look or word of answer (quite iu vain, as no ono seemed aware of my very presence), I took tip the thread of my story very calmly, aud (address iug myself more particularly to the coflee pot) went on : 'It wasn't anything wonderful as a dream,' I said: 'but it was so clear, and I recollect it so vividly just like a little scene or a picture. There was you, Mima dear' (addressed my invalid and elder sister, whoso atrocious name of 'Jemima' we had softened and shortened into this pretty diminutive) 'there wae you lying on your couch and on your pillows, and beside you was papa, who had just come in from a jour ney, aud who held a locket in his hand. He tried to put it around your neck, but you pushed it away. 'I shall never live to wear it?' says you so sadly and then I woke. It was a dark blue emeril locket, with a gold ' 'With a gold anchor on the back !' cried poor Mima, bursting into a passion of tears. 'The locket I gave to poor Walter before he went away! Oh, Lillian!' And then they all overwhelmed me with re proaches; all but Mima, who pres ently managed to say 'don't blame her. She don't know of the locket; none of you knew of it, or even saw it, and it is very, very strange that she should have seen it in a dream. And seen papa restore it to mc. Ah, Lillian, as well look for my dear, dead lover himself! He wore the locket next to his heart, my dear, and I know it lips on his dead bosom now, in the depths of the cruel sea!' And then papa opined, aloud and despairingly that I was a 'hopeless idiot!' and mother, soothing poor Mima, and casting reproachful looks at me, hoped I waB 'satisfied with my work;' and only two sources of consolaliou were left open to me first that Mima drew me to her breast and kisspd my teara away, and secondly, that at that very miuute the mail arrived and dis tracted our parents' attention. One letter seemed to disturb both papa and bur mother' very much, I noticed, though Mima did not, that they cast , anxious glauces in our direction while reading it. At last, after a long whispered consultation, papa announced that he was sud deuly summoned to New York. I couldn't keep back a loud cry of surprise. I was only sixteen, and (according to my own father) a hopeless idiot, and what did 1 know about discretion? 'There was a journey for papa in my dream!' I cried. 'And he brought the locket back! How do we know but he'll bring back news' I said no more. Papa arose, with something terribly like an oath upon his lips, and mother seizing me by the shoulders, hustled me out of the room. She acknowledged to me after ward, however, that the letter had brought later news from the scene of the wreck the cruel shipwreck, in which the hopes of poor Mima's life had goue down with her lover! Three weekg ago the dreadful disas ter had chanced, and my Bister had been very near to death since then, and could not, even yet, be said to be out of danger. 'To arouse a hope in her mind, aud then disappoint it,' said my mother to me, 'would kill her certainly.' And when that hope was based and on a more substantial founda tion than a dream, how doubly wild aud cruel ! Hopeless idiot as I was, I coubee that and hold my tongue accordingly. " Our home was a very lovely coun try house, standing on the side of a hill, surrounded by thick woods, and fully five miles distance from the village. An old-fashioned, rambling place, built for eccentric rich man's whim of solitude, and having a bell tower, with a huge, rusty bell in it, by means of which we could have summoned help (had the need arisen) from miles away. So, at least, papa said. To me looking up at the rod-brown old bell, hanging voiceless aud motionless in its open sided house it seemed difficult to believe that the thing had a tongue at all, or that its clamor could arouse the country-side, at a minute's uotice, after having hung there, rustiug sileutly, for so mauy years. Our family was not a large ou&. There were my father and mother, Jemima, and myself, and three women servants, within doors, and the gardener and hia son (a cross old man and a surly young one) working outside the house, and sleeping over the stable. Uoing but newly come to the place, and not knowing the neighbors if indeed, you could call people 'neighbors' who lived Ihree or four miles away we found our summer residence lonely enough. It had been mother's intention to make it pleasant and lively by entertain ing a lot of old city friends, but the wreck of the 'Iris' aud poor Mima's illness and grief for the loss of her lover had made that impossible. So we were lonely enough, aud mother was almost as uneasy as mysel,f at the idea of being left without a man in the house,' by papa's sudden call to town ; the worst of it was that he was certain to be absent for two nights, at least, aud wo knew but little of the gar dener and his son, and liked them eveu less. By papa's advice we said nothing to the servants as to how long he would be away or where he was going, and he, taking a small Batchel started on foot to the high road where he could find a conveyance to tho depot. It would have been easier and pleasauter for him to have ridden iuto the village, but to do that Jake would have had to sad dle the horse for him, and would have necessarily known of his de parture. We flattered ourselves that by the present arrangement the two men-servants would never miss him from the house. The night passed peacefully and quietly enough. I am competent to make the statement for I don't think I closed my eyes or lost my con sciousness in sleep from midnight until long after morning dawned ; a fear a nervous dread an indefina ble sense of danger threatening kept me alert and awake. The first consequence of which was that I was intolerably sleepy all next day, and in the early hours of the afternoon, stole away to my own room to take a nap ; juBt as I reached my own door, who should 1 see upon tho stair-case (the upper stair case, as If coming down from the top of the house) but Jake the gar dener's boy carryiug an open knife. I dtopped, in Bheer surprise. Cer tainly he had no business in the house that could take him, beyond the kitchen. 'What are you doing here?' I demanded, promptly. He gave me a furtive glance out of his round black eyes,as he shuflled past, slipping the knife into his pocket, but no word of answer. I watched him down the stairs and out of sight, and then went into my room, full of a strange uneasiness. Falling asleep at last as I lay won dering what could have been hit errand there the second of my dreams came to me. A horrible, terrifying dream. It was night, aud there were robbers in the house and in the room, men with lanterns, and long knives, and crape masks upon their faces, thro' which their fierce eyes glared hide ously. It seemed to me that, look ing from my bed, I saw mother on her knees before them, and beseech ing them, in low tones of terror, to work their wicked will as quietly as might be, for poor Mima's sake. Mima was still sleeping, I thought, in an inner room, and a chill of horror crept through me as I realized how fatal in her weak and nervous state the shock of this midnight alarm might prova to my poor sister. At the same instant I realized something else namely, that no one seemed to take note of me, or be awaro of my presence. Taking ad vantage of this, I Blipped from the bed and the room unseen, and away swiftly and silently, up stairs. I was going to the bell-tower, to ring the bell and summon help. In this vivid dream I seemed to fly up WHOLE NO. 573. the dark staircase on the wings of fear, and lo ! I was in the bell-tower. I stretched forth my hand to grasp the rope, but T grasped a hand in steada hand with a knife in it ! With a wild shriek of terror I sprang from tho bed to the floor, and awoke almost my first waking thought was of Jake, as I had seen him coming down tho upper stairs, just now, carryiug an open knife! I stood quite still for a few min utes, trembliug, but with a certain resolution growing in my mind. I had never been up Into the bell tower, and had, indeed, a nervouB prejudice against tho place, but I was going there now, and alone, to see if the rope was iu order. I looked out of my wiudow first. The afteruoou had worn away while I slept, to judge by the huh ou the lawu. If help were needed, from the seven miles distant lowu, it could not reach us before nightfall, I tho't, and who was to summon it? Out on the lawn stood Jake and his father, talking together, and casting side glances toward tho houso; I felt an instiuctive distrust of them, yet now whlie I could be sure they were not spying ou me, now was the time to investigate the condition of the bell. Away I went, up the seldom-used stairs, almost as swiftly as in my dream. Being afternoon, the little belfry was, of course, from its open sides, belter lighted than my own room. There was no need to do more than look in. The rope was newly cut, one short end hauging high above my reach, the ret lying in a great, useless coil, ou the floor underneath the silent bell. Eveu mother was not disposed to laugh at 'me and my dreams' when I told her that. She was a brave and sensible woman, fortuuately I don't know what the fate of cowards might not have been and we took counsel together quietly, without letting Mima hear a word. I had to go and bring help from the village there was no other way ; and it was six o'clock when we had finished our consultation, and I must walk a half mile or more, through the woods to the highway, and then take my chance of a conveyance to town in order that the men might not even suspect my departure. Mother called them both to the back of the house while I slipped away through the garden. We fonnd that Jake had said something to the girls about Bleeping inside the house that night, 'for their pro tection.' Fortunately mother was quite equal to the task of frustrating that design, when once she knew he had formed it. She did it admirably. Walking into the kitchen at ten o'clock, and finding him seated with the irle, she pretended to hear my father calling at the gate, and sent Jake out to see ; as soon as he was fairly out of the door she kept him there, by locking the door against him. That very act, however, showed her suspicion, and aroused theirs, so that they commenced operations earlier than they had probably at first intended when I and the' police arrived, at a little after twelve o'clock, the house waa in a state of siege. There were five ruffianly fellows, inclusive of our gardener and Jake, and they had the masks, knives and lanterns of my dream. As the police came upon them from behind, without their oven having suspected that help had been sent for, they were captured with scarce ly a blow. While I found myself, quite sud denly, a heroine. I had walked almost all the way to town, when a gentleman came along in a buggy, and to him I appealed for help. It happened to be Fred Leston, a rich neighbor of ours, as we afterwards found, and together we set about and accomplished the rescue. We accomplished more than that together with success, too. We dated from that night a mutual affec tion, and a courtship, which culmi nated in a wedding a year later, when I as sweet seventeen, Mima went ahead of rne, though. Papa brought home the blue locket with the golden anchor (exactly as I had seen it iu my dream!), and, of course, he brought home Walter, too, who had not been drowned, after all, though he went terribly near it- And Very much surprised papa was, and very much pleased with me, (I don't think ha ever call ed me a 'hopeless idiot' again !), when ho had heard the whole storvrand saw the forlunale results of my two dreams. "I wish I was a star," he sajd, smilingly, at his own fauqy. "I would rather you werea.comet,' jhe said dreamily. Ilia heart beat tumultuously. "And why ?" he ask ed, tenderly. "Oh," she Paid, with a brooding earnestness that fell upon his soul'ftke a bare foot upon a cold oil ploth, "because then you would come 'rouud only once every 1500 years." RATES OF AIVERTISi:. Space. lie 'Jto Imp on 6h lyr lcoPmn $r.MXi j $ ?2S I $f $C0 i $1M) X S.Oo i 12 K 20 S5 60 P .;.m) " D jl2 f 15 ! -20 35 4 inches . 7.50 H 14 15 l "27 ;t " 4.50 6.75 j 10 j Ji; 15 f 20 f a i ijffl 25 4 j 5J 8j 10 Busine and professional card ten lines or less space. pr annum, ten dol lars. Leal advertisement at statutu rates. "Editorial local notices'' tlfteen cents a line each insertion. "Local notices" live cents a line each Inser tion. Advertismcnts clarified as "Spe cial notices" live cents a line ilrst inser tion, three cents a line each subsequent insertion. flow ili lrcIleHt KIetl III Mother. The evct fact about the matter is this : Ai the onter edge and iu the centre ofljie great platform erected at the eat front of the capitol for the inauguration ceremonies there was a small one, rising a few inches above the floor. Aloug tho center of this were three chairs. Geueral Garfield sat in the middle one, with President Hayes at hia left and the chief justice at his right. Mrs. Hayes sat back of the chief justice with Geueral Garfield's mother next on the left, and Mrs. Garfield next to her. The ballustradiug along the front, heavily draped as it waa by Hugs, almost eutirely. If it did not wholly couceal these lidfes from tho vast audieuco in front, while those who stood back ot them shut them in from the sight of the masa of of ficials on the platform. A few of the correspondents who had been given seats close to the presidential party, and a few of those uear Gen eral Garfield as he turned from tho platform in common with all the rest, saw that he stopped to kiss hia old mother, and then his wife, who sat next her. It was au act aa far removed as possible from the spec tacular, aud there was scarcely a dry eye in the whole circle which no ticed this bpautiful act of filial and manly devotion. There had been' a multitude of moist eyes in the senale chamber, aa one after another of the great crowd there recognized tho white haired mother of the President. There had been many more aa &he was helped down the Hteps of the east porch and forward to a seat near her son. Her presence was the one touching fea ture in the magnificent pageant. American manhood aud the repre sentatives of the foreigu nations un covered as she nasflCtl t0 do ner honor. To every one, while the teara started, there evidently rose up a vision of the long road from widowhood aud poverty over which she had struggled with her boy.aee ing him rise step by step from one success and honor to another, up to this position of crowning triumph. It was the subject of general men tion in all the crowds throughout th day, and to the honor of all, rough and cultivated, the act was referred to iu tones that indicated deep feeling, and with eyes which told how strongly the incident ap pealed to the most sacred feelings in the heart of man. What memories must have rushed through hia mind as, turning from that platform a President, his eyo rested first upon that aged, white haired mother, and under these cir cumstances he stopped and kised his mother and the wife who waa supporting her, while tears stood in the eyes of the little company of witnesses. And in thus honoring his mother he surely honored both himself and the high office which he holds. The brutal writing, even if smuggled into respectable prints, will not cauBe the great mass of hia countrymen to forget their manhood and decry that of the President himself.. V. B. in the Cincin nati Gazette. Diversified agriculture aud hns bandry, in the long run, we believe, to be the surest for the average far mer in Nebraska, rather than ex clusive grain growing or devotion to one particular brauch. The far mer with his homestead acres, who eudeavors in his limited capacity to surround himself as fast aa he can, with a few head each of cattle, boga aud poultry, and then succeed in raising as hia principal crop corn, together with a few acrea of po tatoes, gjiions and other vegetables, as well as lots: of butter, eggs and like products for which there is a constantly increasing demand west of iiq is the veritable man "to grow np with the country" and obtain a future competency. We fail to see why any enterprising homesteader cannot accomplish this much for the droughts, grasshopper years and wet seasons, when they come, can not prove entirely fatal. JSc h uyler Sun. An Old Story Remodeled. An old monkey,de9igning to (each hia pons the advantage of unity, brought them a number of stlcka and deired to see how easily they might bu broken one at a time. So each young monkey took a stick and broke it. "Now,'' said tho father, "I'll teach yon a lesson," and he be gan to gather the sticks, into a bun dle. But the voting monkeys, thinking be was about to beat them, set upou him altogether and dis abled him. "There," said the aged sufferer, "behold ihe advantage of unity ! If you had as-ailed me one at a time I would have killed, every mother's son of you." "The court ordera yon to con clude," said a judge to a tedious lawyer. "Very well, your honor; then I conclude the court shall lis ten to me."