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.. 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.
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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."
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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."
