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VOL. XII.-N0. 3.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1881.
WHOLE NO. 575.
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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
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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.,
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FUENITURE ,
AND UNhKIITAKEKS.
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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,
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S1USUE. FIILTHY. F1ISI FBI.
V.U, in their reason.
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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.
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- ' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.