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YOL. XII.--N0. 2.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1881.
WHOLE NO. 574.
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l-TRNRY LTTKTJS,
BLACKSMITH
AND -
"Vaon jVEaker,
Shop n rut I'tiuudry, south of A. A . IlrjMit
All kind of wood anil iron work on
Waguiih, Kiiptrie. Kann Machinery, A.
Keeps sn liaudj the
TIMPKKN SPRING P UQQ Y,
aud other eastern Imputes.
ALSO, HIE
Fursr & JUrncilPv Plows.
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MAKMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
rorir.iuttJS, ivisit.
A new houe. newly furnished. Good
aoooiuuiodatioufc. Board by day or
week at reasonable rales.
Z3TSetH n rtr.l-Cluss Tiiblo.
ileal-
2J t'ent1". Lodgings.
3K-2I 1
2.' Cts
M."RS. Tl.
. DTJAlvK
HAS .Il'ST
RITKIVED
a large
THK OF
SPRING AND SUMMER
HILLIIi&Y IM FAMCY GOODS.
J3TA FILL ASSORTMENT OF V.X
ERYTI11VG ItLLON'MNG TO
FIRST-rUsS MILL1X-
ERY STORE.S
Twelfth St., tioo doors east State Hank.
F. CERBER & CO.,
DKU.KRS IX
FURNITURE ,
AND UNDEUTAKEIIS.
If
TABLES, Etc., Etc.
(JIVE HIM A ALL AT HIS PLACE
ON SOUTH SIDE llfh ST.,
One door east of Heintz's drug store.
CITY
Meat Market !
One door north of Post-ofllce,
NEBRASKA AVE., - Colmnlm.
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KEKP ALL KINDS OK
Fresh and Salt Meats,
Gaire
Beans
Brans
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lAISAKE. POETIY. FRESI FBI.
Etc., hi their "i-a-oii.
J3TCi1i inil for llitl. I.art!
itiid Ititi'oii.
542-x AVI LL. T. RICKLY.
H..B. MORSE
IS STILL SELLIVG WM. SCHILZ'S
OLD STOCK
At Cost! At Cost!
AND HAS ADDED
A Line of Spring Goods
WHICH HE SELLING AT
EASTERN PRICES.
"WM. SCHILZ
Can still he found at the old stand,
where he continues to do
all hinds of
Custom Work and Repairing.
BECKER & WELCH,
FBOPBIETOES OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UMB US, JSTJBB.
yigfcV
I HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED
THE STOCK OP
HARDWARE, STOVES
AND
I
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MR. rokk'kt ijiilicw,
And will continue the business at the
old taud, w here I will be pleased to see
the old customers (no objection to a
few new ouesj. I have on hand a large
9tocK of
STOVES
AND
RANGES,
ALL STYLES SIZES AND PRICE5?.
tSTBorGHT! VERY LOWljgJ
NAILS, PUMPS,
Ropr, Glass, Paint, Putty,
BARBED WIRE,
lbnii"ht before I lie monopoly price)
icDltoral I
fc!!
OF ALL KIND
The John Diisre Goods a
Specialty,
PLOWS,
HARROWS,
RAKES.
THE CELEI1RTED
Buckeye Cultivators,
DRILLS AND SEEDERS.
CLIMAX- MOWERS
EL WARD HARVESTERS AND
CORD BINDERS.
EUREKA MOWERS,
wide cut ami lightest draft machine
made. Come and ce this machine if
you don't look at any thing ele.
THE OLD RELIABLE
Chicago Pitts Thresher,
with Steam or Horse power.
The Iron Turbine Wind Mills,
The mill that stands ail the storms and
Is always ready for action. Agent for
DAVIS, GOULD CO'S
Buggios, Carriages, and Platform
Sp ring Vagons,
which I can fell cheaper than you can
go on foot. No trouble to hhow goods
or talk prices.
If square dealiii' and "live and let
lite" prices will secure a share of your
patronage, I shall be pleased to re
ceive it.
;i:o. I. FOSTER,
."id Successor to R. Ulilig.
aoive'iiff.Bvs
STATE BANK,
C:::!i:rjts Qtniri & Sscl 2:1 Ttrsir & Hsht.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
CA STI CA PITA I, - $ 50.000
DIRECTORS:
Leander Gerhard, Pres'l.
Geo. W. Hui.st Vice Pres't.
Julius A Reed.
Edward A. Gerhard.
Abner Turner, Cashier.
It u nk oT Iepsll, DiKCOHBt
uh1 Kxchtiiipe-
Collection lroniptl3 3Inde on
all I'olBts.
Iay Int rest on Time Depos
it w. 274
MEDICAL !, SUM INSTITUTE.
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P. 7.KAST71T.K.S
FlfiW Hi Suns.
S. V. UEECXS, U.C.t :. C. EEK15E, 1. D., cfOlh,
Coulting Physicians and burgeons.
Forthetreatmentofall classes of Sur
Eery and deformities; acute and
chronic diseases, diseases of the eye
and.far, etc., etc.,
Columbus, Net.
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HID
ANDERSON & ROEN,
b'ankers,
Kl.EVKNTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
Z3rDeposits received, and interest paid
on time dejiosits.
fST Prompt attention giren to collec
tions and proceeds remitted on day of
payment.
$5T Passage tickets to or from European
points by best lines at lowest rates.
ISTDrafts on principal points in Eu
rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Bank, Decorah, Iowa.
Allan fc Co., Chicago.
Omaha National Bank, Omaha.
First National Bunk. Chicago.
Kountze Bros., N. Y.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALER IN
WOIX, LHtUOUH,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMMJS, : NEBRASKA
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
Real Estate.
Union Pacilio, and .Midland Pacitii
R. R. Lauds for sale at from $:UHHo$ 10.00
per acre for cash, or on live or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, tor sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also busine and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COLIOIUUS, KKIt.
Hsmh Qehlrich & gMa
WHOLESALE. RETAIL
GrROCEBS!
ALSO IlKALKRS IN
Crocker)', Glassware, Lamps, Etc.,
ami Country I'roiluce of
all Kinds.
TIIK UV.HV F IT.OIIR A I.
MAIS KKPT . IIAI.
FOR THE
LEAST MONEY!
t3"Goods delivered free of charge to
any part of the city. Terms cash .
Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets,
Columbus, Neb.
END SPRINGS,
PLATFORM SPRINGS,
WHITNEY & BREWSTER
SIDE SPRINGS.
Light Pleasure and Business Wag
ons of all Descriptions.
We are pleased to invite the attention
of the public to the fact that we have
just received a car load of Wagons and
Buggies of all descriptions, and that we
are the sole agents for the counties ot
Platte, Butler, Boone, Madison, .Merrick,
Polk and York, for the celebrated
CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y,
of Cortland, New Y'ork, and that we are
ottering these wagons cheaper than any
other wagon built of .same material,
style and finish can be sold for in this
county.
BSTSend for Catalogue and Price-list.
run, caiiv,
Columbus, Neb.
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LAW, REAL ESTATE
AND GENERAL
COLLECTION OFFICE
"W. 9. GEER.
MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
farm property, time one to three
years. Farms with some improvements
bought and sold. Office for the present
at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb.
173-x
COLIJ M BUM
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
igrwholesale iud Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, Liquors aud Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch aud English Ales.
3TKenlucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
eau or dish.
lltk Street, South of Depot
liijiiy
BUSINESS CARDS.
pOKiEl.UT!iA:!SUl.l IVAf,
ATT0R2TJEYS-AT-LA W,
Up-btairs in Uluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
ronrv jr. jiAUGfiAiv,
JUSTICE 01 THE PEACE AND
N OTA PI PUBLIC,
Platte Center,
Neb.
TT 3. IIUUSO.I,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, - doors nest of Hinimuml House,
Columbus, Neb. -91-y
pvR. M. I. THUKSTOA,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
Otllce over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations urst-class and warranted.
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CHICAGO IIAKIIEIt MUOP!
HENRY WOODS, Prop'r.
S3Everything in first -class, style.
Also keep the best of cigars.
516-y
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cALLlSTUK IIKON.,
A TTORim YS A T LA W,
Otlii'c up-stairs in McAllister' build
in if. 11th St. Y. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
T ii. itusciii:,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
SelN Harness, Saddles, Collars, W'btps,
Blankets, Curry Couibt, BrutliLs, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
TIT J. THOMPSON,
ArO 7-l I? Y P UP LIC
And General Collection Agent,
St. Edwards, Boone Co., Neb.
I' O TICK!
IF YOU have any real estate for sale,
if you wish to'buy either in or out
of the city, if you wish to trade city
property for lauds, or lands for city
"pioperty, ijive us a call.
WaDSWOKTII & JOSSEMW.
NKLBON MILI.KTT. BYRON MILLETT,
Justice of the Peace aud
Notary Public.
K. ailLLETT Al SO.K,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus,
Nebraska. N. B. They will give
close attention to all business entrusted
to them. 243.
T OU1S SCHREIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
USTSliop opposite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street. "2.1
17 .i. scin;, iii. i.,
PHYSICIAN AND SUB UPON,
Columbus, Neb.
Office Corner of North and Eleventh
Sts., up-stairs in Gluck's brick building.
Consultation in German aud English.
yusi. ituiti:s,
Dealer in REAL ESTATE,
CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR,
AUD ntSUBAUCE AQEltT,
GENOA. NANCE CO., - NKH.
fAMES PEARSALL
IS PREPARED, WITH
FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give him a call.
TOTICE TO TKACIIKRS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his otlice at the Court House
on the first and last Saturdays of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, anil
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. fC7-y
J.
S. MURDOCK & 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 and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity toestimate for you. BQTShop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y
A GOOD
FARM FOR SALE
liSfl acres of good land, SO
acres under cultivation, a
good house one and a half
story hign, a good stock range, plenty ot
water, and good hay land. Twm) miles
east of Columbus. Inquire at the
Pioneer Bakery. 473-Cm
3ET1. SCHECK,
Manufacturei and Dealer iu
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
ALL KINDS OF
SMOKING ARTICLES.
Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office
Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly
TTRNRV CJASW,
Manujaclurer and dealer in
Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskets
All kinds and sizes of Kobey, also
has the sole right to manufac
ture and sell the
Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair.
Cabinet Turning and Scroll work, Pic
tures, Picture Frames and Mouldings,
Looking-glass Plates, "Walnut Lumber,
etc., etc. COLUiLBUS, NEB.
Mm TT'-'atJ1
Written for the Journal.
COME AGAIN, DEAR DREAM.
MRS. MAKV 0. FINCH.
I often dream of Summer flowers
In sunny vales and shady bowers,
And meadow grass among:
Twining the wild-wood's sombre hill,
By noisv brook or busy mill.
Wheie inurin'riiig songs are sung.
On mossy banks they wavend gleam;
Their purple bills hang o'er the stream,
And toss In every breeze;
With playmates loved of long ago
I ramble where the blue-bells grow,
'Neath flow'ring vines and trees.
Where slopes are gemmed with mist and
suray.
A field of blossoms on the gray,
l gather flowers there,
And see the new replacethe old,
The faded crowns give way to gold,
Aud buds bloom everywhere.
I wander in an olden town
Whose crumbling walls and turrets
frown
On silent streets and lone;
But journey sadly as 1 may
I find sweet flowers beside the way,
O'er winding hillsides grow n.
Sometimes a hedgerow comes between,
With waxen leaes of dark'est green,
To hide them as I pass;
Yet when T look beyond the wall,
1 see the shining leaflets all
That star the waving grass.
Again t am a happy child
Roaming the woodland's rocky wild
forgetting care and griet;
1 ask not wealth, so rudely blown
When for a time I hold and own
This dream-world's tinted leaf.
The wise may sneer, and yet 1 tell
The dream that pleases me so well
To cheer some weary life;
Where gilded art hides Nature's joys
And chaos dwells aud humdrum noise,
in cities7 wrangling stria.
Come, then, with me in mystic dreams,
We'll seek the hills and flashing streams
And vista's shimmerini: blue.
I cannot tell you half how fa il
ls life of mine in ether air
And dreamy mazes through.
Bellwood, Nebr.
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TIIK JUSKK'N HiUllJKST.
A bright fireside, with fender nnd
fire-iroiiri shining like gold, windows
hung with draperies of Turkey red,
wall of crimsou-ilock paper, starred
over with gold, and a Utile walnut
slatid of hooka opposite Mrs. Mil
ford's parlor was a cabinet gem in
ils way. Xol that the Milfords weie
rich. On the contrary, Morion Mil
ford wa? a batik clerk, on a salary
so small that it sometimes became an
almost iiirioluhle problem to make
both ends meet.
Almost, we say, but never quite;
for Lucy Mil lord had learned the
lesson of household economy, and it
was her pride to be able to say that
they never had beeu in debt. Yet
Lucy had a woman's laste, and a
woman's cravings, aud a woman's
innocent longings alter the beautiful
and costly; and on this especial
evening, as she sat by the fire, lean
ing ono cheek on her hand, aud Iter
foot mechauically agitating the rock
er of the baby's cradle, she was
thinking of the possible the unat
tainable. 'If we were only rich,' thought
Lucy to herself, as she glanced across
the room. 'How I would like a pair
of bronzes on yonder maulel, instead
of those ugly, stiff little vases that
Aunt Betsy gave me for a wedding
present. How I would like a Persian-pattern
carpet, instead of this
staring red aud green ingrain. And
a little oil-painting or a bunch of
water-colored flowers over the table,
where the map of the city hangs
now. And then I could afford a
Valencieuues cap for the baby, and
a real Tonson silk for myself; and
I could surprise Mcrton with half a
dozen new silk handkerchiefs, and 1
would send papa a new meerschaum,
teal sea foam, with an ambre mouth
piece aud odd carvings on the bowl
and mamma should have an Indian
bordered shawl, and'
Bang went the front door. Tramp,
tramp, came a well-kown footstep
along the hall, with just sufficient of
a pause to fling the hat carelessly on
the little circlet of pegs which, in
that unpretentious household, took
the place of a marble-topped, mirror-
backed hall rack.
'It's Merlon,' said Mrs. Milford,
starting up ; and Merton it was.
'Hallo, Puss J'said Merton, coming
in flushed and breathless. 'And
how's the little kitten ?'
'Kitty is well,' said Mrs. Milford.
'Shall I order tea, dear?'
'Yes.'
The little maid-servant Lucy
Milford only kept one brought in
the urn, aud when she had tip-toed
out again, Mrs. Mijford looked her
husband iu the face.
'Merton,' said she, something has
happened ; I can read it in your
eyes. What is it?'
'What a little fortune-teller you
are, to be sure,' said he. 'Yes, some
thing has happened. I've got a tel
egram from Fortley, aud old Uucle
Jesse is dying.'
'Uncle Jesse, the rich old miser?'
'Uncle Jesse, the rich old miser.
And Wirt informs me that his last
will, made in a fit of pique against
the directors of the Fortley Orphan
Asylum, leaves everything to us.'
'To us, Merton ?'
Lucy drew her breath with a little
gasping sound.
'Why, it must'be a half a million
of money !'
That at least
"We shall be rich
people, puss.'
'Oh, Merton, it scarcely
seems
possible 1 It's like a dream.'
'It's a dream that has a pretty solid
vein of reality running through it,
you'll find, my dear,' said the hus
band. 'And just before you came in, I
was sitting here aud thinking what
I would do and how I could orua
uieut my home, if only we were
rich!' cried Lucy, clapping her
hands.
Merton pinched her cheek and
laughed complacently. Evidently
he was in the best of humor.
Half a million, Lucy I' said he.
'lou shall have a set of diamonds
that will rival those of Mrs. Merri
well, the banker's wife, and a real
cashmere shawl. And I'll order a
pony phaeton for your own driving,
and you'
'But we shall buy a country place,
shan't wc, Merton?' wistfully asked
Lucy, the soft carmine shadow
deepening over her cheek.
'A country place! What for?'
said Milford, a little contemptuous
ly. 'What on earth should we burj
ourselves iu the country for, wheu
wc can buy a place at the West End,
and surround ourselves witli all the
refinement of city life?'
A shade of acute disappointment
came oyer Lucy's face.
'Oh, Merton, I have always dream
ed of a country house,' sighed she.
With burglars and mildew and
spiders thrown in, oh? Nonsense,
my dear, nonsense! The city in the
place to live in.'
'And we can have papa and mam
ma to live with us, can't we?'
'W well, I don't kuow cxactl)
about that,' said Milford, thought
fully, stroking his mustache; 'I'll
buy 'em a snug little place, if you
my so, my love; but I never did
believe in fathers and mothers-in-law
living willi their children.
Every household is complete in
itself. That's my notion.'
'Oh, Merton, how can you talk so ?'
cried Lucy, with a pained face.
'Oh, well, Lucy, there's no ue in
sentimentalizing on theso points,' re
torted her husband a little brusquely.
'I don't care to be rich, if I can't
enjoy tho pleasure of my money,'
said Mrs. Milford, pouting.
'So you may enjoy them, if you
only will he reasonable about it.'
'Aud I've always thought so much
of having mamma with me.'
'Belter leave oil" thinking about it,
then," said Milford, lighting a cigar
and leaning back in a chair, the bet
ter to enjoy it.
'I suppose I can have as many ser
vants as I please now ?' hazarded
Mrs. Milford, wisely steering the
conversational barque away from
the shoals of dispute.
'Twenty, if you like, my dear,' re
plied Merton.
'And a housekeeper, like Mrs.
Miller's!'
'Not a housekeeper,' said Mr. Mil
ford, shaking his head. 'No fine
ladies for me, disguised as depend
ents. As many servants as are nec
essary, but no one to domineer over
them a proxy for yourself.'
'I will have a housekeeper,' said
Lucy, excitedly.
'No you will not, my dear not in
my house.'
You don't want me to have any
thiny I waut!'
'Oh, yes; but there's no use in
being unreasonable.'
'And can we have a cottage at
Brighton ?'
Why do you say Brighton?'
gravely questioned Mcrton. 'To my
mind, puss, Brighton is nothing
more than a hot-bed of folly and
frippery. At Hastings, now?'
'I don't care for Hastings,' said
Lucy, moodily ; 'the air never did
agree with me.'
Lucy burst into tears.
Mr. Milford got up and strode out
of the room.
'Merton, Merton !' cried the wife,
'where are you going?'
'To the billiard-room at the cor
ner,' said Milford, hotly. "I can
find friends enough there.I daresay,
to give me the sympathy my wife
seems Inclined to withhold.'
Lucy cried bitterly. Iu all the
bright years of their married life
they never had any serious differ
ences until now. Was ft possible
that riches were destined lo bring
them only a meed of misery, instead
of the expected harvest of happi
ness ? Next came a feeling of bitter
ness and resentment. She would
show Merton that she was not to be
treated like a child.
He came home late, but Mrs.
Milford feigned to be asleep. She
did not come down to breakfast the
next morning, making an excuse of
a slight headache, the remains of last
night's tears, aud Milford ate and
drank alone.
'Humph I' commented he, swallow
ing his coffee in a succession of
dyspeptic-breeding gulps. 'A pretty
sort of life this.'
For three days Lucy cried and
Merton sulked. At the end of that
time he came home with a curious
expression on his face.
'Plica 9 coirl a
Lucy looked tip, her pensive face
brightening at the old, caressing pet
name.
'I've just had a second telegram.
Uncle Jesse is dead.
Poor old man,' said Lucy, soberly.
'Do you know, Merton, I begin to
doubt whether Uncle Jesse's mouej
will do us any good.'
I don't think it will,' said Mil
ford, 'because you see the old gentle
man rallied at the last, and made a
new will in favor of the Refuge for
Old Men.'
Aud there is nothing left for us?'
queried Lucy.
'Not a penny,' answered Merton.
'I am glad of it,' said Lucy.
'Aud I don't kuow that I am
sorry,' said Mertou, half laughing,
'because, if the reverse of the old
adage holds true, and love flies out
of the window when riches come in
at the door, I say let's draw the bolt
against riches.'
And Lucy's tearful kiss sealed
his words.
The; Meuuingr or It.
Senator Mahonc has made a state
ment to Charles Nordhoff, in auswer
to the democratic charges of bar
gaining with the republicans, lie
states that he was kindly asked hit
wishes by members of both parties,
no. one making any improper ap
proaches to him aud nothing being
done or proposed in the way of an
arrangement. He is, as he has beeu
from the first, absolutely uncom
mitted to either putty, and means to
remain so. As to the committees,
he was assigned by the democratic
caucus to membership in four com
mittees of equal dignity with those
to which he was assigned in the ar
rangemeut of committees by the
republicans, with this difference,
that by the latter he is assigned to
the chairmanship of a committee ot
minor importance. A3 to the re
sults of the debate, Senator Mahoue
.expresses himself as more than sat
isfied. He has beeu able to satisfy
the country that his scheme of the
readjustment of the state is fair and
honorable. His chief pleasure and
satisfaction, however, relate to the
fact that the country's attention has
been drawn to the intolerant, vio
lent, proscriptivc spirit shown by
the bourbon democratic senators in
this debate. On this point, Senator
Mahouo says: "I have been sur
prised at myself; but it deserves the
attention ot men of both parties
everywhere. When such a spirit is
shown here iu the open daylight of
the senate, what must it be in the
southern stares, uuu were l not a
senator, and the object of it, but the
poor, ignorant, weak and helpless
among the voters, white and black?
Bourbon intolerance hereafter needs
no description. The senate debate
shows in its mildest and least tyran
nical form. Every freeman and ev
ery man who wants a free ballot can
judge for himself what it must be
where it is exercised unchecked by
the forms and restraints of the sen
ate, and by the publicity of legisla
tive proceedings. The debate, in
my judgment, has been of the great
est use to the countr)." Omaha
Republican.
The Secret. "I noticed,' said
Dr. Franklin, "a mechanic among
others, at work on a house erecting
but a little way from my office, who
always appeared to be in a merry
humor, who had a kind word and
cheerful smile for every one he met.
Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy
or sunless, a happy smile danced
like a sunbeam on his cheerful coun
tenance. Meeting him one morning,
I asked him to tell me the secret of
his happy flow of spirits."
"'My secret, Doctor he replied,
is that 1 have got one of the best of
wives, and when 1 go to work she
always has a kind word of encour
agement for mc,and when I go home
she meets me with a 6mile and a
kiss, and then tea f. ready, and she
has done so many little things
through the day to please me, that I
can not find it in my heart to speak
an unkind word to anjbody.'"
"What an influence, then, hath wo
man over the heart of man, to soften
it and make the fountain of cheerful
and pure emotions! Speak gently,
then ; a happy smile and a kind
word of greeting, after the toils of
the day are over, cost nothing, and
go far toward making a home hap
py and peaceful."
A Nevada miner with a termagant
wife has this to say : "I used to
believe that the further I got down
info the bowels of the earth the
nearer I was to the infernal regions,
but now it's just the reverse of that
belief, for the nearer to home I come
the hotter it is for me"."
Atalwnrt Senator MauBilcn.
'Omaha Republican.
Tho Republican a fortnight ago
published the vigorous and telling
speech o Senator Saunders on tho
Mahonc situation. The numerous
comments of the state press which
we have qnoted show that the sena
tor's telling words struck a respon
sive chord in the "hearts of oak" of
Nebraska's stalwart. The Republi
can has also received a letter from
the senator stating that ils publica
tion ha failed will expressions very
grateful lo him. We take the liber
ty to present extracts Irotn the san
atur's letter:
Washington-. April L'tfih,
D. C. Brooks. Esn
My Dkar Sir: I upgleeted it tha
proper lime lo acknowledge iu in
debtedness to you for your kindne.-ta
and courtesy in publishing my speech
recently delivered iu the senate in
defense of the right of a constitu
tional majority to rule in American
politics. But if I had written then
I would not have been prepared, .h
I now am, to tell you of the good its
publication did. I feared, from let
ters I had received, that our people
were laboring under tho impression
that the main object in view was the
securing of the few offices that be
long to the senate, aud it was to
disabuse them of that idea more than
auy other purpose that moved me to
make the remarks I did. Since its
publication in tho Republican I have
received a large number of letters
from republicans who have read it,
thanking me for clearlv and fairly
placing before the public the posi
tion, as I understand it, ocenpied by
the republicans in the senate. Tho
position taken by Senator Mahoue,
if sustained, will indicate as clearly
as Ihe "handwriting on the wall"
that the beginnniug of the end has
come, and that Ihe days of the rule
of the Solid South are numbered,
and none kuow this better than those
who are persisting in their efforts to
defeat the proposed action of a ma
jority of the 9fiDate.
It is my opinion that ere long we
shall go into executive session for
the purpose of taking action on
nominations which are unobjected
to ; but there will be no back down
from the determination heretofore
expressed of jlyhtiny the principle
out if it takes from now till Decem
ber to do it.
Respectfully yours,
Ai.vin Saunders.
Cultivation of Self-ICepct.
A child that is uniformly treated
with courtesy, with consideration,
with justice, will unconsciously
deem himself worthy of such treat
ment, and will become worthy of it,
uuless he is by nature wholly base;
aud he will unconsciously treat
others as he is treated. It is a fear
ful thing to give a child the lie, to
accuse him of stealing, to accustom
him to unexpected aud unmerited
blows aud cuffs. He may merit
punishment, but the wive parent
never will admit into the household
vocabulary the terrible would "liar"
and ''thief," aud witl never ermit iu
himself or others the hasty blow, the
bitter taunt, the stinging epithet.
The refined and educated parent can
never tolerate such language as we
have indicated. Bitter woids are
more cruel than blows, aud inflict
more lasting injuries. Care in the
choice of associates will do much to
foster self-respect in a child. Some
mothers think their sons and daugh
ters can go where they choose and
play with whom they please, and
come out all well iu the end. There
never was a greater mistake. As
well might one think it no difference
what air we breathe. Children are
quicker than we to catch the tone of
associates, to pick up slang words,
bad grammar, vulgar ideas the-e
often seem to be taken in through
the very pores, a typhoid poison is,
wheu least expected.. Care in the
choice of reading will do much tn
foster due self-respect iu a child.
The boy who grows up with a famil
iar knowledge of Washington, of
Franklin, of Lincoln, and other
great men who have been the glory
of the nations in which they have
been conspicuous, will be far more
likely to find his mind filled with
noble images, with high ideals, with
lofty ambitions, than one who reads
sensational newspapers, dime novels,
and the comic almanac. Any soil
that yields abundantly must contain
in itself elements of fertility, and
ban en soil may have elements arti
ficially supplied to them.
"A blizzard," says a Dakota man,
"is the Northwestern name for a
gale of Wind filled with snow and
icy particles a fine as rice powder,
with a temperature ten to twenty
degrees below zero. A genuine
blizzard is so fierce that you can
neither face it nor distinguish objects
ten feet away from you. In Dakota
and Minnesota during the preva
lence of a blizzard, farmers only
venture out of their bouses with
guiding ropes around their persons
to enable them to fiud their way
back."
The new settlers in Texas will
find plenty elbow room, if nothing
else. One of them writes that he
has "the Rio Grande for a bath-tub
and all Mexico for a back-yard,""