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THE JOURNAL. is issuko k'i:ky wkixjhay, :M. K. TURNER & CO., - . Proprietors and Publishers. ' 3 :o: KATES OF ADVERTISING. Space. . to -w lino Sin 6 in lyr lcol'miiJ$I2.lM I $2li fVi $W $100 " ' s.o j it l.'"iij .V7 G0 if ' u.im ! 12 LI i5Tl55 tlmjbes VJ." 7..VI It i U liTj 27 i.5o j 6.;r. ; io 12 j is 1 jio T7oj 21 1 4 1 r ! 8 10 1 " I Business and professional cards tea lines or less space, p r annum, ten dol lars. Legal advertisements at statuU rates. "Editorial local notices" flrteen cents a line each insertion. "Local notice ' five cents a line each Inser tion. Advertisments classified as "Spe cial notices" live cents a line tirst Inser tion, three cents a line each subsequent insertion. JSTOflirc, on 1Kb street., upstairs in 'Journal building. Tekms Per rear, $2. Six montbi,?l. Throe months, .'ttir. Sinjle copies fie VOL. XII.-N0. 3. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1881. WHOLE NO. 575. III pL m 1 i v. f J f ADVERTISEMENTS. HENRY LITERS, BLACKSMITH AND "Wagon !Mxtker9 Shop near Kounilr), Mutli vT X. A X. Htsit AH kinds f vmh1 and iron work on Wagutia, ItHfrrics. Farm Machinery, tVo. -Kttui en bunds tbe TUfPICKN SPLTNG BUGGY, and ttthcr eiisfcrn buggies. alm. Tin: "Furst iSr. Rrndlov Plows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, com;.iiiiiis, ?u:u. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodation. Board ly tUy or week at reasonable rates. I&'SrtH n Firt-Cln.s Table. Meals, . . .2T. Cents. Lodgings 2T. Cta ss-2t f MILLINERY! MILLINERY! MRS. IU. S. "DRAKE 11 as .irT rkcfi hd a large TOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER V JSTA FFLL ASSORTMENT OF EY ERYTH1XG BELONGING TO Fl RST-CLASS M ! LLIN - EUYSTORK.JST Twelfth St., two floors east Mate Hank: F. GERBER & CO., -iiku.i:is ix FUENITURE , AND UNhKIITAKEKS. If 'j TABLES, Etc.. Etc. GIVE HIM A ALL AT HIS PLACE ON SOl'TH SIDE Uth ST., Owe tloor east of Ilcintz's drug store. CITY: Meat Market ! One door north of Po-t-niliee, NEBRASKA AVE., - CoImnlii. KKKP ALL KIN IIS OK Fresh and Salt Meats, AI.O- S1USUE. FIILTHY. F1ISI FBI. V.U, in their reason. :o: 13? Cuh pn;l for Ilidcx, I.ard itnl Ititcoii. S42-X W1LL.T.RICKLY H. B. MORSE IS STILL SELLIXG WM. SCHILZ'S OLD STOCK At Cost! At Cost! AXD HAS ADDED A Line of Spring Goods WHICH HE IS SELLING AT " EASTERN PRICES. "wm. sci-acinL-z Can still be found at the old stand, inhere he continues to do all kinds of Custom Work and Repairing. BECKER & WELCH, PB0PEIET0RS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL U2TB US, NEB. Chairs Mm Bureaus Hi I HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED THE STOCK OF HARDWARE, STOVES AXD ICDLTDRAL MINTS I or nut. rorert ijiii.k;, And will continue the business at the old stand, w here I will he pleased to see the old customer- 1110 objection to a few new one-.). 1 have on hand a large -toek of STOVES AND RANGES, ALL STYLES, SIZES AND PRICES. raruoiGHT! very lowijej NAILS, PUMPS, Rojir, Class, Painl, Piilly, BARBED WIRE, I bought before the monopoly price) II OF ALL KIXDS. The John Deere Goods a Specialty, PLOWS, HARROWS, RAKES. THE l ELEURTED Buckeye Cultivators, DRILLS AND SEEDERS. CLIMAX MOWERS ELWARD HARVESTERS AND CORD BINDERS. EUREKA MOWERS, wide eut and Ii;htet draft machine m.-ide. Come and .see lhi machine if you don't look at any thing else. THE OLD ItELTARLE .Chicago Pitts Thresher, with Steam or Hor.-e power. The Iron,Turbine Wind Mills, The mill that stand all the stoims and is always readv for action. Asjeut for DAYIS, GOl'LD CO'S Buggies, Carringns, and Platform Spring Wagons, whieh I e:in sell cheaper than you ean jro on foot. Xo trouble to hhoV goods ur talk price. If square dealiujr and "live and let live" prices will secure a share of your patronage, I shall he pleaded to re ceive it. FO. IK I'OSTI'ie. WKi Successor to R. Uhlig. aoJVcriiES'crs STATE BANK, C:::is::rst3 3 writ i t Seel i:i Tzxzi: & Hilst. COLTIMBUS, NEBRASKA. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: Lkaxpeu Gerhard, Prcs'l. Geo. W. Hm.sT Vice Pres't. Julius A Reed. Edward A. Gerrard. i - ' Abner Turner, Cashier. Itanlc of Deposit, Iisronni nail Exchange. Collecllonsilroinpil3 -IncleoB nil IoInt. l'ay Interest on Time Depos. it. 274 MEDICAL & Ht INSTITDTE. T. r. laTCBIlL. M. 2. d. T.UAsmt.a.ii Z. S. UEICEI. li. S., & J. C. ZZVIZ1, U. V., efCsoil. Co:i?iilli&f Physicians and Surgeons. For the treatmentofall classes of Sar gery and deformities; acute and chronic diseases, diseases of the eye and ear, etc., etc., Coltuubns, Neb. MM iiileiiiils mwm mm ANDERSON & ROEN, BANKEES, KI.EVKNTII ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. JSTDepnsits received, and interest paid on time deposits. TSTl'vompt attention piven to collec tions and proceeds remitted on day of payment. , ZSTl'assage tirkets to or from European points (y oest lines at lowest rates. T&TDrafts on principal points in Eu rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS: Firt National (tank, Decorah, Iowa. Allan & Co., Chicago. Omaha National Hank, Omaha. First National Hank, Chicago. Kountze. llros., X. Y. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEAI.KII IN D, MEDICINES. CHEMICALS WLKS, I,ltlJOICN, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Et6., Etc., And all articles usually kept on haud by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of Real Estate. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lauds for sale at from $3.00 to$10.(H) per acre for cash, or on live or teu years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lauds, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 033 coi.nitiitiTs, num. EJeiim Qehlsics & BMm WHOLESALE & RETAIL GBOCEBS! ALSO DEALERS IX Croekeiy, Glassware, Lamps, Etc., and Country Produce of all Kinds. THE IIEKT OF FLOUR AL WAYS KEPT OUT HAND. FOR THE LEAST MOXEY! iSTGoods delivered free of charge to any part of the citj . Terms cash . Comer Eleventh and Olive Streets, Columbus, Neh. EXD SPRINGS, PLATFORM SPRIXGS, WMTXEY & BREWSTER SIDE SPRIXGS. 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 ol Platte, Butler, Boone, Madison, Merrick, Tolk and York, for the celebrated CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y, of Cortland, Xew York, and that we arc otlering these wagons, cheaper than auy other wagon built of same material, style and finish can he sold for in this count j. ESTSend for Catalogue and Price-list. PI1IE. CAIN, Columbus, Neb. 1s4.tr LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE BY W.S.aEE.R. -yrOXEY TO LOAX in small lots on J31. farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvement bought and sold. Oflice for the present at the Clother House,- Columbus, Xeh. "473-x COLIIMRIIS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. j3"Whole9ale ind Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. $3TKentuck-y Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. Utk Street, Soutk of Depot GOODS BU8INESS CARDS. ptOKIVK'LllJS Jfc .4IJl.I,IVt:V, A TTOPiXEYS-A T-LA IV, Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the Xew bank. TOIliV .1. .TIA1JG1IAIV, JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Platte Ckntkk, Xkb. H. .1. bii;ino;, NOTAHY PUBLIC. 12th Street, 2 iloors nest of Hammcml Home, Columbus, Neb. A9Uy jrvH. ai. i. 'rinjiesTo.ir, RESIDENT DENTIST. Ollicc over corner of 11th and Xorth-9t. All operations first-class and warranted. c IIIICACjiO I1AICBEH .SIIOI! HEXRY WOODS, Pkop'r. "Everything in lirst-class style. Also keep the best of cigars. OlCy A Tc-AI.l.ISTKIC 1KKON., A TTORNEYS A T LA W, Oflice up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. YV. A. McAllister, Notary Public. t 11. ki;s;he, Uth St., nearly opp. Gluck's 9tore, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Urushts, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. "Vf- J. THOMPSON, NO TA BY P UBLIC And General Collodion Agent, St. Edwards, Boone Co., Neb. notice: I" F YOU have any real estate for sale, if you wish to buy either in or out of the city, if you wish to trade citj property for lands, or lands for citj property, give us a call. "Wadsworth & Jossely.v. NELSON MILLKTT. BYKON MILI.KTT, Justice of the Pe.ue and Notary Public. IV. M1LI-ETT Ac NON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus, Nebraska. N. B. They will give close atteutiou to all business entrusted to them. 24S. T OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. jSTShop opposite, the "Tattersali," Olive Street. ' Tj JT. SClIEtt, HI. !., PHYSICIAN AND SURUEON, ColumbuH, lVcl. Office Comer of North and Eleventh Sts., up-stairs in Gluck's brick building. Consultation in German and English. TjlTM. II U KG ESS, Dealer in REAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR, AMD IUSUBA1TCS A3EHT, GENOA. XAXCK CO., - NKB. TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIIiST- CLASS APPA BA TUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. VTOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his otllce at the Court Houe 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. fCT-y J. . MURDOUK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kiuds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunity toestimate for you. JSTShop on 13th St., one door west of Fricdhof & Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 4s:J-y A GOOD FARM FOR SALE 15 acres of good land, SO acres under cultivation, a S irnnil hnnip nnf null .1 hall story high, a good stock range, plenty ol water, and good hay land. Two miles east of Columbus. Luquire at the Pioneer Bakery. 473-Cin F. SCHECK, Manufacturer and Dealer in CIGAES AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OF SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly TTENKY GASS, Manufacturer and dealer in Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskets All kinds and sizes of Kobe, 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. COLUME03, XEB. mrWagL Ittffl1 j1 '-p . . A KEKNE1, OF CORN. My story is about a kernel of corn. But that one kernel of corn waB the cause of a serious dispute, and gave rise to several questions of honor and fair dealing which I hope the reader will be able to settle satis factoiily in his owu miud. The kernel of corn may be said to be a historic one. It was the ances tor of that variety of field corn once well known, locally, at least, as the 'red Indian corn' something as now we have the 'pine-knot' corn, the 'yellow flint,' and the 'Compton,' and the Most uatiou wheat.' Ab I have said, it bad a curious history, of. which the followiug are the points of interest. So far as is known, its origin was on the farm of a man named Carroll, whose place joined that where the present writer lived when young. Jim and Ed Carroll were boy neighbors, and up to the time of my story, wore very intimate with my btolher Thomas and myself. That season, Mr. Carroll had a two-acre field of 'peach-blow' pota toes just below our line-wall, on the west side of tbe road, and I well remember how beautifully they looked when in blossom. People never seem to look for auy beauty in a potato-field; yet I know of few more beautiful sights than a large field of peach-blow or early rose potatoes in full bloom. When hoeing-polato lime came, Tom and I changed works, as we called it, with the Carroll boys; that is to say, for the sake of work ing together, wo worked for them one day, and they for us the next. Potatoes, as every farm boy knows, have to be 'billed up.' We used to work two to a row, one hilling up one aide of it, the other following him and billing up tbe other side. The four of us could thus carry two rows along at once, and that almost as fast as one could walk, aftor they had been cultivated out. One afternoon, as we hoed togeth er in Mr. Carroll's two-acre field, Ed and I came to a fine, fresh shoot of corn standing alone between two potato-hills in our row. 'Seems too bad to cut it up,' Ed said, 'it looks so green and nice. Let it grow with the potatoes if it will.' "We pulled out the weeds round it, hilled it up a little and let it stand. That a kernel of common corn had found its way into the field here and gei initiated, was no great wonder. But this was not common corn, though we did not then know to the contrary. It grew rankly and was soon visi ble a long way ofl', among the low potatoes. In August, it stood a tall, strong stalk seven feet in height, with remarkably fine, broad leaves and a bushy tassel, rich in polleu. Two line ears had formed on it. By the 8th of September the busk cracked, disclosing the corn, now fully turned from the milk. It stood erect in the field and when the boys came to dig the potatoes, we noticed it more particularly. For, instead of being a golden yel low, like tbe common eight-rowed corn planted thereabouts, this corn was of a deep, reddish tint and ten rowed. The ears, too, were very large, fully a foot in length and very finely formed. The kernels were evenly set in the rows along the cob and handsomely shaped. In fact, as every oue who saw it said, the) were two of the handsomest ears of corn ever raised in that region. Mr. Carroll told the boys to let the stalk stand till the corn was fully ripened, so as to save it for seed. Many visitors and all the neighbor ing farmers went to look at it. No one seeing it knew to what variety it belonged, and many were tbe speculations as to bow it got there. Some thought it was a stray ker nel left in the soil and somehow preserved down from the days when the Indians used to plant corn there, and partly from that conjecture and partly from its red color, it got the name of red Indian corn. Others thought that some passing crow or jay might have dropped it having brought it from a great distance. But nobody knew. About the middle of September, while the stalk stood out there, now quite ripened, a thievish cosset-sheep got out of the cow pasture into the field and going along, pulled down the stalk and ate both ears. The boys did not see the old creature till just as she was munching off the last kernels. Then they ran at full speed, but were too late, almost, not quite, for they found seven kernels in tbe dirt, which had fallen from the greedy old creature's mouth. These they picked up and carried to the house. Now Tom and I had taken almost as much interest in that stalk of corn as the Carroll boys themselves, for every one said it would prove a grand new variety to raise. It was stouter and evidently hardier than the common corn, and it would yield more corn and moro fodder by oue-half to the acre, we thought. At least, we were enthusiastic to try it. So we now asked Jim and Ed to give ub one of the seven kernels to plant next year. Considerably to our surprise and greatly to our indignation, they refused. But the Carroll boys had been thinking, or perhaps their father or others had told them, that, as the corn was a new and superior variety, they would bo ablo to make money by raising and selling it for seed. So they would not let us have so much as a single kernel, lest we should bo rival sellers and come in for a share of the profits. They had a perfect legal right to keep it all ; yet Tom and I did not take that view, and we were so In dignant as often to speak of them as 'pigs!' The matter made a sad breach in our hitherto friendly relations. The heads of the two families took no notice of Ihe quarrel; but we boys did not speak to each other for over a year. We grew thoroughly im bittered all the moro so that we had formerly been so intimate. But worse ditfictiltics followed. Next spring Jim and Ed planted the seven kernels with gieat care. They could not put it in their gar den, lest it should mix with the Bweet corn, nor yet out in the field on the west Bide of Ihe road, where the ordinary corn was. So they re served a little plat, about a rod square, in the wheat-field on the east side of the road, up next the line-wall. This plat they dressed richly and planted the seven kernels in three hills. It was a warm, shel tered Bpot. But just a3 the shoots were break ing the ground, tbe crows, or one crow, lit down on the plat one Suu day morning before breakfast and pti'led up all but two of the spears, which were just breaking ground. My brother and I were made aware of this disaster next moruing by seeing Jim and Ed putting up a horrible 'scarecrow' in the plat, and I fear wo were not very sorry on account of it. The two remaining kernels, how ever, came up and grew with the same vitror and strength which had marked Ihe growth of the stalk among Ihe potatoes. Tom and I often watched them from our side of the line-wall. Later in the season, Jim and Ed set stakes about them to support them in case of a violent shower. Both stalks matured and had each two fine large ears. From August till into September, the boys used to come out every day to see that the corn had not been molestrd. Already the shuck had begun to crack off from the ears, showing the rich dark red tint. One morning near the 12th of September, they went out and found every kernel shelled off the cobs, on the stalks, and gone; nor was there a track or a trace to indicate the character of the robber. Probably two more angry boys could not have been found in the whole State. The next thing, in fact the first thing Tom and I heard was that Jim and Ed had charged us with taking the corn ; that they had called us thieves in public. All the neigh boring boys were talking of the matter. We felt outraged. To call a boy a thief is decidedly worse than call ing him a hog. We knew no more than they what had become of their corn. Even our parents were, 1 think, a little offended about the charge; for no father likes to have his son called a thief. I remember our folks asked us about it and that, finding Tom and I really knew nothing about the corn, father bade us keep very quiet and make no threats, saying that the truth might ere long come out. October and the greater part of November passed. The days had nov grown very short, and the weather was biting cold. But snow had not yet come ; and one afternoon which had been rather more sunny, father had set Tom and me grubbing up somo sumachs in the east field. We made a pile of these, ready for burning. Down next the line-wall there had lain, on our side, an old red oak log, for some years. This oak had stood nearly on tbe line and had been felled because it shaded bo much tillage ground. The trnnk had been left lying where it fell, But it wbb now a good deal decayed. Father bade us take the oxen and drag it up to our pile. This we did just at sunset; and then set to work to split it up, in order to throw it on the brush-pile, to burn. We had been pounding away at it for Borne minutes, when there sud denly darted out of a hole in the end a little striped squirrel, or 'chip munk.' The little creature rudely awakened from his winter, torpor, by our heavy blows, took refuge in a near stoue-pile. We supposed it might have a nest inside the old log. But we were hardly prepared for the sight that met our eyes when at last we got the log open ; there, inside it, nicely packed in punk, together with fully half a peck of wheat, was that red com nearly a quart every kernel of it, I dare say ! We shouted. Then we called father. He laughed well. Don't touch it,' said he. Then he called Mabel, our little sister, and bade her run down to 'neighbor Carroll V and ask him and the boys to come up as quickly as they could. On our stepping back from the log for a few minutes the poor chill little squirrel ran from the cold stone-pile back into his neat, with a faiut little chuckle. So that when Mr. Carroll and the boys came up the innocent little robber was trying to cttddlo himself iulo the punk, but still in plaiu sight. Tom just pointed to the log and said : 'There's the corn we stole from you.' They saw how it was in a minute, and certainly looked anything but comfortable; even Mr. Carroll, him self, looked down aud seemed far from easy. At length Jim stepped up to the log, as if to take the corn. 'Hold on there?' said Tom and I 'That's ours now. A crow or a squirrel dropped that tirst kernel just over the line on your side. Il was yours then. But you were too stingy to give us one kernel. Now a squirrel has brought it to our side of the Hue and put it in our log. So now we'll keep it.' But father laughed aud said : 'I guess half and half is fair.' 'Fair enough,' said Mr. Carroll. 'And boys!' ho exclaimed, rather angrily, to Jim and Ed, 'you've been to blame in this. I declare for it, if I ain't ashamed of ye 1 and I don't ever want to hear another word about this silly grudge; aud I hope neighbor Edmoud'd boys will over look it in ye I' We overlooked the ugly word thief which no boy ever ought to call another till he is perfectly cer tain of the fact and they forgave the almost equally unhandsome term pig. That was the first and last 'trouble' we ever had with the Car roll boys. Icd Indian corn was planted on both sides of the line-wall the nexl spring, and we afterwards did well with it, both as a field-crop and in selling it for seed. And the chipmunk? Some little girl may like to know that we trans ferred him and his wheat from the log to a box aud gave him to sister Mabc, and that she kept him as a pet nearly all winter. Ab he had a natural right to the corn, we could not bear to kill him for following the instincts of his nature and he became such an amusing and affec tionate pet, aud showed so much confidence in us, that we gave him his liberty in the spring. He several times made us visits during the summer but disappeared in the autumn and we never saw him again. Youth's Companion. An Imlian ltrilVt Ievotion. There are but few instances of devotion that prove the existence of love in a higher degree than that given by Kit Carson's Indian wife to her .brave and manly lover. While miuing in the west ho married an Indian girl, with whom he had lived very happily. Wheu he was taken ill, a long way from home, word was sent to bis wife, who mounted a fleet mustang pony and traveled hundreds of miles to reach him. Night and day she continued her journey, resting only for a few hours on the open prairie, flying on her woudcrful little steed as soon as she could gather up her force anew. She forded rivers, she scaled rocky passes, she waded through morasses, and finally arrived, just alive, to find her husband better. But the expos ure and oxertiou killed her; she was seized with pneumonia, and died within a brief space in her husband's arms. The shock killed Kit Carson, the rugged miner he broke a blood vessel, .and both are buried in one grave. "But, my deah fellaw," said the newly-arrived cockney to a North River hack driver who had called him "colonel," "I don't belong to the army, you know." "That don't make any diflereifce. Here we call almost every loafer and dead beat colonel or major." Action ia, after all, the main bus iness of our lives we are to 'work while it is called day,' and thought is worth nothing unless it lead to and embody itself in practice. YounfC HuHlmaiN. During tbe past season we have had mauy marriages where the graom waa not of age, aud was earn ing, perlnps, only eight or ten dol lars a week. He had no capital laid up when he entered the state matri monial, and of course, depended oa his mere bagatelle Balary, never dreaming of drawbacks, in the shape ofsicknes8, etc. This is eminently wrong. There should be a law re quiring a young niau to state before court his ability to care for and sup port a wife, before he married her. The fart of the matter is that this buiue:)8 of mere boys getting mar ried ahould bo slopped. Many and many a time, alter marriage, they have hard work to support their family. They lose their situation, got ill, or something of the sort. Then they get into debt, never get out, live a hard, weary life, and heartily wish they had never heard of marriage. Love is all very well, but one cau't make three inealB a day out of it, and it won't pay house rent, or board bills worth a cent. Some of these young worthies think only of the blissful future, with no storms, no heavy expense and all that. We do not desire to discour age early marriages, but do say most emphatically that the young man who goes into this business had bet ter underslaud the cost, responsibil ities and tribulations. And when Ihcy can barely support themselves it is nothing but ridiculous madness to tie themselves to others. If tbe young gentlemen will kindly roll a. little of the above into their cigar ettes, after dinner, and smoke it, they will find it to set well. Bloom ing ton Eye. If they will quit their cigarettes and other so-called luxuries com monly indulged in they can support a family on small earnings, not withstanding what the Eye says. Rich Without Money. Many a man is rich without mon ey. Thousands of mon without nothing in their pockets, and thou sands without even a pocket, are rich. A man born with a good, sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart, and good limbs and a pretty good head-piece,isrich. Good bones arc better than gold, tough muscles than silver, and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every function, are better than houses aud lands. It is belter than land estate to have had the right kind of father arnd mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as among herds and horses. Education may do much to check evil tendencies, or to develop good ones; but it is a great thing to inherit the right proportion of fac ulties to start with. The man iB rich who has a good disposition who ia naturally kiud, patient, cheerful, hopeful, aud who has a flavor of wit and luu iu his composition. The hardest thing to get along with in this life is a man'd own self. A cross selfish fellow, a timid, care-burdened man, these are all born deformed on the iuuide. Their feet may not limp but their thoughts do. A Sure Cure. "Don't you know it's very wrong to smoke, my boy ?" said an elderly looking lady, in a railway waiting room, to Young America, who persisted in puffing a cheap cigarette, much to the old lady's discomfort. "Oh, I smoke for my health," an swered the boy, emitting a volume of smoke from his mouth which almost strangled the old lady. "But you uever heard of a cure from smoking,'' continued the old lady when she had regained con sciousness. "Oh, yes, I did," persisted the boy, as be formed his mouth into a young Vesuvius working on full time; "that's the way they cure pigs." "Smoke on then," quickly replied the old lady ; "there's some hope for you yet?" An Irishman, driven to despera tion by the money market aud the high prices of provisions, procured a pistol aud took to the road. Meet ing a traveler he stopped him with : "Your money or your life!" Seeing Pat wa? green at the bus iness, the traveler said : "I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll give you all my money for that pistol." "Agreed." Pat received the ruiney and han ded over the pistol. "Now," said the traveler, "band back that money or I'll blow your brains out I" "Blaze away my hearty," said Pat, divil a dhrop of powder is there in ill" Harsh words have many a time alienated a child's feeling and crash ed out all love of home.