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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1881.
WHOLE NO. 580.
THE JOURNAL.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
IIKNIJY Ll'HIJS.
BLACKSMITH
-AMI -
AVnroii Mnkor,
liup iirnr I'iimIiiIi), -nt!i til' I. A N. Ili-jxit.
All kind tf wood and iron work on
(W(Kjr.ii.. ItHreU-.. Farm MacHincr-., A".
(Keeps hii bands the
wm pkkx sppixg i ran r,
hh1 ttther cHsierti liHyitics.
ai.mi. iiii:--
Fm-Pi tV F.i'.-ullcv Plows.
NEBKASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY. Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., Souih of Depot,
coi.i niti's. i:.
A new hon-e. ncwtv rnrniMicd. (Jood
aceniumml ilioiis. Board by day or
week at re i son able rales.
l3TS't' u I'ii-si-t'lii. Talilo.
.Meals, .SMVnt-. J Lodgings 2Ti CU
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MKS. M.S. DKAKK
iia mm i:rri:irn a laimjl
SPRING AND SUMMER
men n
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15" A I i I.I. A--HKIMI I' OF I
KlftllllM. P.M.Ol.lU ill
HIM -rl.A- MII.I.1S
l.K "'loKh.jrj
Tteettth St.. iwi ('tfs ' Nfff J!nk:
F. CERBER & CO.,
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AND UN DI KTAKKKS.
lea
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lyuuuiuuuui uiii uuumi
TABLES, Etc., Etc.
GIVE HIM A I' A I.I. AT IMS I'LAlE
ON SOUTH MIK lllli ST.,
Our iir tW f Ileintz's drutt store.
Meat Market !
Out-dool norlb of I'ovt-nllico,
XEIWASKA A'E.. - oIniiilui.
:o-
KKKI" AM. KIMK OK
Fresh and Salt Meats,
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Kt .. ill their s( iuii.
JST'"'! Inil Hil-. I.ard
:iiiI It:i'n.
JH2-Y
WILL. T. BM'M.Y
H. B. MORSE
15 TU.L sKU.lNfJ M. M HII.7S
OI.O M'Oi K
At Cost! At Cost!
ANI II " ADII I)
A Line of Spring Goods
Willi II UK Is KI.l.IMJ AT
EASTERN PRICES.
"WM. SCT-IILZ
Can still he f,wnd at the old stand,
where he conliriHes tit do
all hinds of
Custom Work and Repairing.
BECKER & WELCH,
PBOPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UJfB US, XF.B
MILLINERS
N IKY
FUMITURE
Ghairs
ham
HP
I HAVE KKi r.NTLY lTlti HASEU
TIIK TO( Iv OF
HARDWARE, STOVES
AMI -
AKlfflM IMPLEMENTS !
OF
ii it. icoitr.itT iin.in.
Anil will continue the business at the,
obi st mil. li ! I will In- ii'a-i'(i In see
tin- olii i-ii-tuiiit-r viio uli.ii-ctiiiii to a
t iii-m uiii-s). 1 itL'on ii.iiul a large
tiirl. 1
STOVES
AMI
BANGES,
Al. I. STYLES, SIZES AND IMMi'Ks.
Eruorr.in" veijy i.owygj
NAILS, PUMPS..
Hope. Class, i'aiiil, Tiilly,
BARBED WIRE,
vlion:lit liffiirc tin-iiionopolj price;
Agriciiil Iiiulfiiieits ! !
OF ALL K1NPS.
The Job hn Mi a Specialty.
PLOWS,
HAEROWS,
RAKES.
Tin: i Ki.nii:rEi)
Buckeye Cultivators,
DRILLS AND SEEDERS.
CLIMAX MOWERS
ELWARD HARVESTERS AND
CORD BINDERS.
EUEEKA MOWERS,
u nlc cut ami li:litt draft macliiiic
ni'i.lr. ome ami ve tlu nmcliinc if
n don't look at am lbm;'ele.
TIIK OLl RELIABLE
Chicago PiKs Thresher,
with tp:iin or Hnrc power.
The Iron Turbine Wind Mills,
Tbe mill tlrtt stands all Hie storm and
is alw a s read fur action. Agent for
1)AVI. (iOl'LD CD'S
BukrIos, Cnrriaiios, and Platform
Spring Wagons,
which I nil sell cheaper than "oit can
no oil foot. No trouMe to show irnods
t.r talk prices.
It square dcaliu and ''live and let
lie" prices will .secure a share of your
ptrouui.re, I slnll he pleased to re
ceixe it.
2i:o. i. rovrr.it,
.ML"i Successor to It. I'lilig.
OOJiTTMCB'CrS
STATE BANK,
Si::e:s:r! ta 3 irriri S Seel sl Tsrscr i Halsl.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
CASH CAPITAL. - $50,000
J1UKCTOKS:
Lkaxof.h (iF.KKAitn, P res' I.
(Ir.o. AV. IIui.st Vice Pros' t.
Julius A Kf.f.d.
Emvvitn A. Cfjikard.
Ahnf.r Tuknei:, Cashier.
Itnnlc oT IopoxIt, Iimoiint
nml EtrlianRP.
CNilloclivuKl'roinptlj'.lInfleoii
nil loInl..
l'ny Intorovt on Time Iepo
Itt. 274
AJLKIICAjN'
MEDICAL 1 MUl INSTITUTE.
Z. MITCHEU. it 5 5, 7. HASTTH, X. E
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s. s. ueecie. :i. a., s j. ;. zzvuzt, a. s., :f cii.
Conultinfr Physicians and Surgeons.
For the treatment of all classes of Sur
gery and deformities ; acute and
chronic diseases, diseases of the eye
and ear, etc.. etc.,
Columbus, Neb.
PHysii
SflfflOflS
ANDERSON & ROEN,
BAJSTKEES,
KI.EVKNTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
tSTDeposits received, and interest paid
on time deposits.
1ST Prompt attention airen to collec.
tions and proceeds remitted on day of
payment.
3T I'assage t islets to or from European
points by best lines at Imcest rates.
T3T Drafts on principal points in Eu
rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Hank, Doeorah, Iowa.
Allan A- t'o., Chicago.
Omaha National Hank, Omaha.
First National ISauk, Chicago.
Kouutze Uros., N. Y.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
IIKAI.KK IN
wi.i:s, Li(ii;oits,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMDUS. : NEBRASKA
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
Real Estate.
Union I'aritic, ami Midland Pacific
R. It. Lamb for sale atfrom$3.00to$lU.OO
per acre for cash, or on live or ten year.
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. AVe have also a large and
choice lot of other lauds, improved and
unimproved, lor sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Alio Inisine- and
residence- lots in the citj. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Tlatte County.
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roi.uMiiim, im.h.
Hsmh Qehlrich I BMm
AVHOI.ESALE & II ETA I L
G-KOCEKS!
AIO IlKAI.F.US IS"
Crookery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc.,
and (louiitrv Produce of
all Kinds.
TIIK IIF.ST ir I'l.OUK AI.
WAW KKI'T OX IIA.lil.
KOK THE
LEAST .MONEY!
gn'0"ls delivered free of charge to
any part of the city. Terms cash.
Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets,
Columbus, Neb.
END SriMNGS,
I'l.ATFOUM STRINGS,
WHITNEY A: BREWSTER
SIDE SPRINGS.
Light Pleasure aud Business Wag
oils of all Descriptions.
We are pleased to invite thp attention
of the public to the fact that we have
just received a car load of Wagons and
Ruggies of all descriptions, and that we
are the oIe agents for the counties ol
Platte, lltitler, llooiie, Madison, Merrick,
Polk aud York, for the celebrated
CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y,
of Cortland, New York, and that we are
ou'eriug thee wagons cheaper than hiij
other wagon built of same material,
style and finish can be sold for in this
county.
ESTSend for Catalogue and Price-list.
iiiii.. cAiar,
Columbus, Neb.
484-tf
LAW, REAL ESTATE
AND C.F.NKKAL
COLLECTION OFFICE
BY
W.S.GEER
MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
farm property, time one to three
vears. Farms with'some improvements
houuht aud sold. Ojfrce for the present
at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb.
4TS-x
COLIIMB IJ
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
23TWholesale ind Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, Liquors ami Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
33" Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
11th Street, South of Depot
GOOD
GOODS
BUSINESS CARDS.
nOKKKULS tV Kri.l.lVAIY,
A TTOPXEYS-A 1-LA W,
Up-stairs in Glttck Huilding, 11th 9treet,
Above the New bank.
roiiiv .1. .11 AUGII AW,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND
NOTAH1 PUBLIC,
l'LATTK CKXTKIt, - - NKB.
IT a. iii:i.ho.,
NO TA U Y P UliLIC,
l'.'lli Strfft, t doors nest of Hammond Home,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
tk. i i- 'rinjK.srox,
Ji ESID EXT D EN TIST.
Otlice over corner of lltli anil North-st.
A 11 operations lirst-class and w arranted.
IIICAUO llAKICUie NIIOI!
HENRY WOODS. Pmu-'u.
JSr"Eerythiiig in tirit-ilass style.
Also keeji the best of cigars. f10-y
7ir'Ai.i.itt'ri:ii mtos.,
A TTOliXEYS A T LA W,
Otlice up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing. 1 It la St. W. A. .McAllister, Notarv
Public.
1
? la.itu.sciii:,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Rlankets, Curiy Combs, Rrushes, etc.,
at the lowest jiossible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
11 .1. THOMPSON,
XOTAltY PUBLIC
And General Collection Agent,
St. Edwards, lloone Co., Neb.
HYKO.N MII.I.KTT,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Public.
hyico .nii.i.F.rr,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. He will give
close attentiou to all business entrusted
t.o him. 24S.
L
GUIS SCHRE1BER,
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 "Tittcrsall,"
Olive Street. "'-'
T .1. SCIUJ, .li. IK, '
PHYSICIAN A ND SUI1 (I EON,
Columbus, IVel.
Office Comer of North and Eleventh
Sts., up-stairs in Gluck's brick buildiug.
Consultation in German and English.
TfJI. HIIRGKSS,
Dealer in HEAL EtilA it:,
CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR,
AD I1JSU2AHCE A3EUT,
(JKNOA. NAXCK CO., - NKB.
TAMES PEARSALL
IS I'KKI'AUKD, WITH
FIRST- CLASS A PPA PAT US,
To remove houses at reasonable
rales. Give him a call.
TOTlCr: TO TEACHERS.
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, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. f(i7-y
T S.MUItnOCK&SOX,
' 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 to estimate for you. EfTshop on
1.1th St., one door west of Friedhof A
(Vs. store, Columbus. Nebr. 481-y
WILLIAM RYAN,
DKAI.KU IN
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
E5?Schilz's Milwaukee Beer constant
ly on liand.FJ
Elkvknth St., Columbus, Nk.
A GOOD
FARM FOR SALE
IffO acres of good land, SO
acres under cultivation, a
good house one and a halt
story high, a good stock rauge, plenty ol
water, and good hay land. Two miles
east of Columbus. Inquire at the
Pioneer Bakery. 473-Oiu
F SCHECK,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
ALL KINDS OF
SMOKING ARTICLES.
Store on Olive St., near the old Post-office
Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly
TTlttY CJASS,
Manujacturer and dealer in
Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskets
All kinds and sizes of Holies, also
has the sole right to manufac
ture aud sell tbe
Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair.
Cabinet Turning and Scroll work, Pic
tures, Picture Frames aud Mouldings,
Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber,
etc., etc. COLUMBUS, XEB.
ASL-jX
fltfSKJuML.
ouit 3ii:v .m:k;iiiioies at
IMMUAPOG.
"When I saw the little house build
ing, an eighth of a mile beyotnl ray
own, on the Old Buy Road, I won
dered who were to be the tenants.
The modest structure was set well
back Irom the road, among the tree,
as if the inmates were to care noth
ing whatever for a view of the
stylish equipages which sweep by
during the summer season. For un
part, I like to see them passing, in
town or country; but each has his
own taste. The proprietor, who
seemed to be also Ihe architect of
the new house, superintended the
various details of the work with an
assiduity that gave me a high opin
ion of his intelligence and executive
ability, atid I congratulated mysell
on the prospect ol having some very
agreeable neighbors.
It was quite early in the Rpriug, if
I remember, when they moved into
the cottage a newly married couple,
evidently; the wife very young,
pretty and with the air of a lady;
the husband somewhat older, but
still in Ihe first flush of manhood.
It was understood in the village
that they came from Baltimore; but
no oue knew them personally, and
they brought no letters of introduc
tion. (Kor obvious reasons I re
frain from mentioning names.) It
was clear that, for the present at
least, their own company was entire
ly suflicicnt for them. They made
no advances toward the acquaintance
of any of the families in the neigh
borhood, and consequently were
left to themselves. That, apparently
was what they desired, and why
they came to Ponkapog. For after
its black bass and wild duck and
teal, solitude is the chief staple of
Ponkapog. Perhaps its perfect rural
lovclincpsshould be included. L inir
high up under the wing of the Blue
Hills, and in the odorous breath of
pines and cedars, it chances to be the
most enchanting bit of genuine
country within ilO miles of Boston,
which, moreover, can be reached in
half an hour's ride by railway. But
the nearest railway stalion (Heaven
be praised ! ) is two miles distant,
and the seclusion is without a flaw.
Ponkapog has one mail a day; two
mails a day would render the place
uninhabitable.
The village it looks like a com
pact village at a distance, but un
ravels and disappears the moment
you drive into it has quite a large
floating population. I do not allude
to the perch and pickerel. Along
the Old Bay Road, a highway even
in the colonial days, there are a num
ber of attractive cottages straggling
ofT toward Milton, which arc occu
pied tor the summer by people from
the city. These birds of passage are
a distinct class from the permanent
inhabitants, and the two seldom
closely assimilate unless there has
been some previous connection. It
seemed to me that our new neigh
bors were to come under the head
of permanent inhabitants; they bad
built their own house, and had the
air of intending to live in it all the
year round.
'A re you not going to call on them ?'
I asked my wife one morning.
'When they call on ?.?,' ehc replied
lightly.
'But it is our place to call first,
they being strangers.'
This was said as seriously as the
circumstances demanded ; but my
wife turned it oil' Avith a laugh, and
I said no more, always trusting to
her intuitions in these matters. She
was right. She would not hayc been
received, and a cool 'not at home'
would have been a bitter social pill
to us if we had gone out of our way
to be courteous.
I saw a great deal of our neigh
bors, nevertheless. Their cottage
lay between us and the post-oflice
where he was never to he met by
any chance and I caught frequently
glimpses of the two working in the
garden. Floriculture did not ap
pear so much au object, as exercise.
Possibly it was neither; maybe they
were engaged in digging for speci
mens of those arrowheads and Hint
hatchets which are contiuually com
ing to the surface hereabouts. There
is scarcely an acre in which the
plowshare has not turned up some
primitive stone weapon or domestic
utensil, disdainfully left to us by the
red men who once held the domain
an ancient tribe called the Puuky
poags, a forlorn descendant of which,
one Polly Crowd, figures in the
annual Blue Book, dowu to the close
of the Southern Avar, as a Slate pen
sioner. I quote from the local his
toriographer. "Whether they were developing a
kitchen-garden or emulating Prof.
Schlieman at Mycenie, the new-comers
were evidently persons of refined
musical taste ; the lady had a voice
of remarkable sweetness, although
of no great compass, and I used often
to linger of a morning by the high
gate and listening to her executing
an operatic air, conjecturally at some
window up-stairs, for the house was
uot visible from the public road.
The husband, somewhere about the
grounds,would occasionally respond
with two or three bars. It was all
quite an ideal, Arcadian business.
They seemed very happy together,
these two persons, who asked no
odds whatever of the community in
which they had settled themselves.
There was a qucerness, a sort of
mystery, about this couple, which I
admit piqued my curiosity, though,
as a rule. I have no morbid interest
in Ihe all'airs ol my neighbors. They
behavad like a pair of lovers who
had run oil and got married clande
stinely. I willingly acquitted them,
the one and the other, of having no
legal right to do so; for, to change
a word in the lines of the poet :
It is a joy to think the best
We may nt human kind.
Admitting flu-hypothesis of elope
ment, there was no mystery in their
neitherseuding nor receivingletters.
But where did they get their grocer
ies? I do not mean the money to
pay for them that is an enigma
apart but flic groceries themselves.
Xo express wagon, no butcher's
cart, no vehicle of any description,
was ever observed to stop at their
domicile. Vet they did not order
family stores at the sole establish
ment in the village an inexhausti
ble little bottle of a shop which (I
advertise it gratis) can tutu out any
thing in the way of groceries, from
a handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief.
I confess that I allowed this unim
portant detail of their housekeeping
to occupy more of my speculation
than was creditable to me.
In several respects our neighbors
reminded mo of those inexplicable
persons we sometimes come across
in great cities, though seldom or
never in suburban places, where the
field may be supposed loo restricted
for their operations persons who
have no perceptible meant of sub
sistence and manage to live royally
on nothing a ear. They hold no
(Jovernment bonds, they possess no
real estate (our neighbors did own
their house), they toil not, neither
do they spin; yet they reap all the
numerous soft advantages that usu
ally result from honest toil and
skillful spinning. How do they do
it? But this is a digression, and I
am quite of the opinion of the old
lady in David L'opperfield, who
says, Met us have no meandering!'
Though my wife had declined to
risk a ceremonious call on our neigh
bora as a family, I aw no reason
why T should not speak to the hus
band as an individual, when I hap
pened to encounter him by the
wayside. I made several approaches
to do so, when it occurred to mj
penetration that my neighbor had
the air of trying to avoid me. 1
resolved to put the suspicion to the
test, and one forenoon, when he was
sauntering along on the opposite
side of the road, in the vicinity of
Fisher's saw-mill, I deliberately
crossed over to address him. The
brusque manner in which he hur
ried away was not to be misunder
stood. Of course I was not going to
force myself upon him.
It was at this time that I began to
form uncharitable suppositions
touching our neighbors, and would
have been as well pleased if some of
my choicest fruit frees had not over
hung their wail. I determined to
keep my eyes open later in the sea
son, when the fruit should be ripe to
pluck. In some folks, a sense of
the delicate shade of difference be
tween vicum ef linnu docs not pcciii
to be very strongly developed in the
Moon of Cherries, to use the old
Indian phrase.
I was sulliciently magnanimous
not to impart any of these sinister
impressions to the families with
whom we were on visiting terms;
for I despise a gosaip. I would say
nothing against the persons up the
road until I had something definite
to say. My interest iu them was
well, not exactly extinguished, but
burning low. I met the gentleman
at intervals, and passed him without
recognition ; at rarer intervals I saw
the lady.
After a while I not only missed
my occasional glimpses of her pretty
slim figure, always draped in some
soft black stuir with a bit of Fcarlet
at the throat, but I inferred that she
did uot go about the house singing
iu her light-hearted manner, as for
merly. What had happened? Had
the hone) moon suffered eclipse al
ready ? Was sbe ill ? I fancied she
Was ill and that I detected a ceitain
auxiety iu the husband, who spent
the mornings digging solitarily iu
the garden, and seemed to have re
linquished those long jaunts to the
brow of Blue Hill, where there is a
superb view combined with sundry
veuerable rattle-snakes with twelve
rattles.
As the days went by it became
certain that the lady was confined to
the house, perhaps seriously ill, pos
sibly a continued invalid. Whether
she was attended by a physician
from Canton or Milton I was unable
to say ; but neither the gig with the
large white allopathic horse, uor the
gig with the homeopathic sorrel
mare, was ever seen hitched at the
rate during the day. If a physician
had charge of flip case, he visited his
patient only at night. All this
moved my sympathy, and I re
proached myself with having had
hard thoughts of our neighbors.
Trouble had come to them early. I
would have liked to offer them such
small, friendly services as lay iu ui)
power; but the memory of the re
pulse I had sustained rankled iu me.
So I hesitated.
Oue morning my two boys burst
into the library with their eyes
sparkling.
'Von know the old elm down the
road ?' cried one.
'Yes.'
'The olm with the hang-birdV
nest?' shrieked the other.
'Ye?, yes!'
'Well, we both just climbed up and
there's three young ones in it!'
Then I smiled to think our new
neighbors had got such a promising
little family. V- P. Aldrirh, in At
lantic Monthlu.
THE KANSAS CYCLONE.
Details of the Swath of Death aud
Destruction.
Btrni.iN'i.AMK, Kav.,.Tuuc II. The
cyclone in this county was more
serious than telegraphed from To
peka yesterday. Could not send
from here on account of wires being
iu bad order. The cyclone first
formed between Arvonia and Oli
vet. It then passed northwest, go
ing out of the county in the direction
of Potnera, Franklin county. Iu its
course it killed live persons, includ
ing John Koscucrauts, John Harper,
a man named Brown, two colored
children and a person whose name
has nol been learned.
Fifty hoiiaes are known to be de
stroyed and undoubtedly rr.Aiiy oth
ers. These were all farm houses iu
an old settled country, and many of
them line residences.
At Qjiciifitio the Presbyterian
church wii3 destroyed, and one oth
er building. Of the lirst twenty
seven buildings destroyed, a major
ity were upon opposite sides of a
road leading from lho west into
Quuuemo. The road divides two
school districts, and all the families
were absent atteudiug their Sunday
schools, which aero u n't h for the sav
ing of life in that section. There
arc a large number badly hurt. The
citizens iu buildings uninjured turn
ed out, and all are comfortably car
ed for. The loss of property in
enormous, but cannot be safely es
timated. One instance of the cyclone will
give some idea of it. At the resi
dence of II. M. Austin, Mr. Enos
Hammond had just driven up aud
hitched bis team. Mr. Austin had
an underground cellar away from
the house into which he sent his
family. Austin and Hammond re
mained at the house. Seeing the
storm funnel coming directly for
the house both he and Hammond
tried to reach the cellar, but failed.
Austin fell under the hedge aud
hung on to the roots. Hammond
fell at a fence post aud hung to it.
The wind threshed the ground with
him several times, but he and Austin
escaped with only bruises. Ham
mond's buggy went with the house
aad has entirely disappeared. The
two horses remained hitched to the
post uninjured.
For lilleen miles through Ihe. most
densely settled and best part of
Osage county the cyclone cut a
swalh of desolation and death. En
tire farms havn been stripped of
buildings, rattle and much of the
vegetation. At one place, only a
piece of tire a foot long and a hub
were left of a lumber wagon.
Osa:f City, Kav., June M. A
careful examination of the portion
of Ihe country traversed by Sun
day's cvHoiip discloses the fact that
about fiity houses were destroyed,
with all other buildings, orchards
and crops. The wheat in the 9tack
is totally destroyed, and the corn
badly damaired. Probably theuum
ber wounded will not exceed thirty
or forty some dangerously and not
expected to live. The total loss to
the people of this county will not be
less than fwOO.OO'J. While many
families are left wholly destitute,
only three persons were killed
outright.
After a state election in New
York in which the Republican parly
was defeated, Mr. Liucoln was asked
how he fell after having heard the
news. He replied: "Somewhat
like the boy. in Kentucky who stub
bed his toe while running to see his
sweetheart. He said he was too big
to cry aud too badly hurt to laugh."
Tin: mi.i.u ti:a'ui:k.
How He Managed the School at Cran
berry Gulch.
"Misler, no doubt you have all the
learuiu' that's required iu a school
teacber.but it wauts more than learn
in' to make a man able to teach
school in Cranberry Gulch. You'll
soon find that out if you try. We've
had three who tried it on. One layj
there in the graveyard ; another lost
his eye and lett ; the last oue opened
school and left before noon time for
the benefit of bin health. He hasn't
been back since. Now you're a
slender build, and all your learniu'
will only make it worse, lor all our
young folks are roughs and don't
stand no nonsense!"
This was what oue of the trustees
of the district said to my frieud
Harry Flotoe, when he made appli
cation for the vacant position of
teacher.
"Let me try. I know I am Blon
der, but I am tough and I have a
strong will," eaid Harry.
".lest as you like. There's the
school-house, aud I'll have notice
given it you want it doue," said the
trustee.
"1 do," said Harry, "aud I'll open
next Monday at D a. in."
The notice was given, and there
was a good deal of excitement iu the
gulch and along the Yuba flats.
More than fifty jouug people of both
sexes made au excuse to drop iuto
the tavern to get a sight at the fel
low who thought he could keep
school iu that district, aud many a
contemptuous glance fell on the
slender form and youthful facu of
the would-be teacher.
Eight o'clock on Monday morning
came, aud Harry Flotoe weut dowu
to the school-house with a key iu
one band mid a valise in the other.
"Beady to slope if he finds we're
too much for him," said a cross-eyed,
broad shouldered fellow of eighteen.
The school-house was unlocked
and the uew teacher weut to the
desk. Some of the young folks
went to see what he was going to
do, though school was not called.
Harry opened his valise and took
out a large belt. Theu, after buck
ling it around his waist, he put three
Colt's navy revolvers there, each sir
barrels, and a bowie-knife eighteeu
inches iu the blade.
"Thunder! he meaus business!"
muttered the cross-eyed chap.
The uew teacher uow took out a
square card about four inches each
way, walked to the other eud of the
school - house and tacked it up
against the wall. Beturniiig to his
desk he drew a revolver from bis
belt, and quick as thought sent ball
after ball into the card, I ill there
were six balls in a spot uot much
larger than a silver dollar.
By this time the school house was
half full of large boys ami girls.
The little ones were afraid to come
in.
Then the teacher walked half way
down the room with a Lowie knife
in his hand, aud threw it with so
true h hand, that it stuck quivering
in the centre of the card.
He left it there and quietly put
two more of the same kind iu his
belt and reloaded his yet smoking
pistol.
"King the bell; I am about to
open school."
II- spoke to the cross-eved boy,
the bully ol tbe crowd, and the boy
rang Ihe bell without a word.
"The hcholars will take their
seals; I open school with a prayer'
he said sternly, five minutes later.
The scholars sat down silently,
almost breathless. After Ihe prayer
the teacher cocked a revolver aud
walked dowu on the lloor.
"We will arrange the classes," he
said; "all who can read, write aud
spell will rise. Of them we will
form the first class."
Only six got up. He escorted
them to upper seats, and then he
began to examine the rest. A whis
per was heard behind him. In a
second he wheeled, revolver in
hand
"No whispering allowed here!"
he thundered, and for an instant his
revolver lay on a level with the
cross-eyed boy's head.
"I'll not do so any more,"' gasped
the bully.
"See you do not. I never give a
second's waruiug," said the teacher,
aud Ihe revolver fell.
It took two hours to orgauie the
classic, but when done they were
well organized. Then came recess.
The teacher went out too, for the
room was crowded and hoi. A hawk
was circlinir overhead high in the
air. The teacher drew his revolver,
and the next second the hawk came
tumbling down amoug the wonder
ing scholars.
From thai day on Harry kept
school for two years in Cranberry
f.'ulch, his salary doubled after the
first quarter, and his pupils learned
to love as well as to respect him,
and the revolvers were out of sight
within a month.
They had found a man at last who
could keep school. This is a fact.
San Francisco Chronielz.