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KATES OF ADVKKTIS1G. Space. ltc -to lwio 3m Oni yr tcol'mn 41-J.lHi'j so J'Jft fVA ?t;o j $11.0 IS ISsUKU KVK11Y WISDNKaDAY, X I .IJ0 I VI I 1A -jo : 00 M. K. TURNER & CO., I u.oa !) 'i n 'JO I as 27 inehes I .VJT 7.JW ft 14 IS f i " rsopCrfi"; To vf; "is f 20 To Proprietors and Publishers. l .4 t.r.02.25 ! 3! KtHinex ami professional cards ten line or less space, per annum, ten dol lars. Leiral advertisements at statute rates. "Kditorial local notices" llfteen cents a line each insertion. "Local notices" live cents a line each Inser tion. Atlvertismcntrt classified as "Spe cial notices" live cents a line tlrst Inser tion, three cents a line each Hubsequent insertion. 2TOffice, on 11th street., ui Btairs in Journal building. Terms Per year, $2. Six mouths, $1. 1'uroe months, SOc. Single eoiiIes.Sc. VOL. XII.-NO. 2G. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1881. WHOLE NO. gf THE JOURNAL. W JJ i . i t V I i i Ky 1 4 H- advertisements. HENRY LITERS, BLACKSMITH AND "Wagon. jVCaker9 Shop nrar Koum'.rj, south of A. A . Ilepot. All kinds of wood anil iron work on AVnKoiiM, Jtiiivicx. rarm Machinery, Arc. Koti on haiidk the T1MPKEN SPUING BUGGY, aud other oast cm buyyics. AIO, THK "Furst & Tiradlev Plows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, coi.ij.tiiiiis, ivkii. A now houe, new ly furnUhed. (loot! accommodation. Hoard ly day or week at reasonable rates. tSSvtK a. rir.t-ClJi-s TlIe. Moals, iOent.. Loduins 2S C't8 !MI IS117S. "M. R. imATCli: HAS JTST IMXKIVKD A I.AKGK STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER MIUISYIDMCYMS. ZZTJl FVIA. ASSOKTMKXT OK KV KKYTIUNC. itlM.ONCilNC TO KIKST.l'l.ASSMlhLlN- KltY STOirK.jTrj TtctUth St., two doors cast State i:ank. F. GERBER & CO., DKAI.KKS IX FURNITURE , AND UNDERTAKERS. teats, Bnreaus, TABLES, Etc., Etc. :o:- OIVK HIM A (AM. AT HIS IM.ACK on south sihk mil st., One door cast of lleintz's ilrvtj store. CITY Meat Market ! One door north of l'ost-oflice, NEBRASKA AVE., - Columbus. :o: KEKP ALL KINDS 1)1" Fresh and Salt Meats, -ALSO Etc., in their season. :o: tSTCush paid for IIidt, Lard a ul Itaron. r.i-2-x AVILL.T. IMCKLY. H. B. MORSE IS STILL SELLING W.M. SCHIL7S OLD STOCK At Cost! At Cost! AND HAS ADDED A Line of Spring Goods WHICH HE IS SELLING AT EASTERN PRICES. "WM. SCHILZ Can still be found at Uic old stand, xrJicrc Jtc continues to do all kinds of Custom Work and Repairing, BECKER & WELCH, FB0PBIET0BS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS & -WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND.MEAL. OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB. & I II JJJ PROPRIETORS OF THE Columbus Drug Stors, :s::::crstoi.W. E3LAJTD. The Leading Drug House IN TUS WEST. A full and complete line of Drills, ChtMiiic.-iln, L'atuul Mudictucs, &c, Painter' Supplies, Window (J lass, Wall Paper, A XI) LAMPS. OF EVEHY DffllFTIi. When you need anything in our line we will make it to your inter est to call oil u. BBMr. A. A. SmitJi retains Jit's position as Prescript ion ClcrAtcJticJt is a positive ymv.'antce- ayainst mis lakes, and iriti our facilities every lliinq in Uic prescription tine is PERFECT. Don't for;jl I lie plans tt door norfh ot'l. O. TuT-y WM. BECKER, DKAI.KK IX ALL KINDS OK FAMILY GROCERIES! 1 KEKl" CONST VNTLY ON HAND a well selected stock. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Sp cialty. ooK Delivered IVee to any 1art ol'flie Tily. --o- I AM ALSO AUKNT FOUT1IK OICL KHKATKD COQIHLLARD Farm and Spring Wagons of which I keep .1 constant supply on hand, hut few tlieir eipial. In style and quality, second to. none. CALL AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Tliirlccntli and K Streets, near A. il- V. Depot. COIVCnE&BTTQ STATE BANK, Ci::e:::r! t3 Oorrarl Eosi isi Tuner i 11:1:'.. COLTJMBUJS, NEBRASKA. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIKCTOKS: Lcaxdrk Gekkviu), Prcs'l. (Jko. "r. Uulst Vice Pros' t. Julius A T:kkd. Edwakd A. CiKitUAini. Ar.xmt TuuxRit, CasJticr. Hank of Iopoii, Discount anl IIiaii(;c. Collections Promptly .llnIe on all I'olnls. 1'ny In tore I on Time Iepos- I. !T4 END SIMMNGS. TLATFOIOI SlMtlNGS, WHirXEY&HUEWSTEi: SIDE srniNGS. Light IMonsuiT. ami Business Wag ons of all Descriptions. Wc are pleasec to invite the attention of the public to the fact that we have just receired a tar load of Wasons and Itu-riries or all uescriplions, and tliat we are the sole ascnt for the counties ol l'latte. Uutler, H')one,MadNou.; Merrick, l'olk and York, lor the celebrated CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y, of Cortland, New Y'ork, and that we are oll'ering these wairons cheaper than any other was;on ttiiilt of same material, style and tini-h can be sold for in this county. iSTScnd for Catalogue and Price-list. 11111,. CAI3T, Columbus, Neb. 484-tf WILLIAM RYAN, BKALEK IX KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. ZSTSchilz's Milwaukee Hecr constant ly en hand.fP? Eleventh St., Columuus, Neb. ANDERSON & ROEN, BANKERS, KLKVKXTn ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. ZTDcpnsits received, and interest paid on time deposits. T&Tl'rompt attention qivai to collec tions and proceeds remitted on day of payment. TGS Passage tickets to or from European points by best lines at lowest rates. KIT Drafts on principal points in Eu rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS: First National Hank, Docorah, Iowa. Allan ,fc Co., Chicago. Omaha National Hank, Omaha. Firt National Bank, Chicago. Kountze Bros., N. Y. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DKALKR IN W IMS, I.MIIJOKS. Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggist. PJiysicians Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA SPEICE & NORTH, Oener.il Agents for the Sale of Real Estate. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific It. IL Lands for sale atfrom:?:MH)to$l0.00 per acre for cash, or on live or ten year time, in annual payments to suit pur. chafers. AVe have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. A'e keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platto County. COIjflMItl'S, AK1C. WHOLESALE & KETAlL GROCERS! ALSO HKALK15S IX Crockery. Glassware. Lamps, Etc., and I'oiintrv I'roilue.e. of all Rinds. tub: ici:st f it.ijic xt.- MAYS KKIT !"' 1IAA'1. FOIl THE LEAST .MONEY! tjTGoods delivered free of charge to any part of the city. Terms cash. Comer Eleven ft and Olive Streets, Columbus, Jrcb. TTI'.XKY GASS, Manujacturcr and dealer in Wooden nml Metnlic Hnrinl 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. COLUMMHIS, N E1L TTjEitHK Ac k;voiii:i AT THE On Eleventh Street, Where meats are almost for cash. ISccf per lb., from .. .. ltest steak, pe. lb., Mutton, iter lb., front ... . given away . S lOcts. 10 ' , . fi (i 10 " Sausaire, per lb., from . . . . S 10 " S7SieciaI prices to hotels. fC2-ly LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GKXKKAL COLLECTION OFFICE BY W.S.GEER "rONEY TO LOAN in small lots on JLtL farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought and sold. Ofice for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 473-x COLV .11 It IJ N Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. JSTWholessle nnd Itetail Dealerin For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. ZSTKentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltk Street, Sooth of Depot BUSINESS CARDS. pOierM'B.ltJN Ac NIJ.,I,IV,tiV, A TTOPKEYS-AT-LA )V, Up-btairs in Gluck lUiilding, lltb street, Above the New bank. TOflEX .V. MAUCxTIAIV, JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Platie Ckxtkii, Nkb. TT .1- IIIIOSO., NOTARY PUBLIC, 'H Street, "1 doors nest of IlAmnioml Mouse, Columbus, Neb. 491-y FjU. Itl. I. TlIBIKSTO.li, RESIDENT DENTIST. Ollice over coiner of 11th and North-st. All operations lirst-class and warranted. C IBICAUO lEAlClKKIC NIIOl"! HENRY' WOODS, PnofK. ISTEvery thing in lirst-class style. Also keep the best of cigars. rl(;.y a rcAiJJSTKi: mcos., A TTOJiNEYS AT LA W, Ollice up-stairs in McAllister's build itur. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. SI. MACI'AltLAXI). It. K. COWDKUV, Attcrss? ia4 ITatary ratllc. Csllc:.:r. LAW AX 1) COLLETION OFFICE OK JOHN M. MACPARLAND, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. o Ei.icuscne:, lltli St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Ulankets, Curry Combs, l'ruhcs, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Kepairs promptly attended to. -vr j. Thompson, NOTAJiY PUBLIC Anil General Collection Agent, St. Edwards, Pooncm Co., Neb. lintOX MILLKTT, .lustieeof the Peace and Notary Public. It V IC .11 1 1.l . KTT. ATTOUNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. IL He will give close attention to all business entrusted to him. '- T OU1S SCIIUEIIIEU, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. P.uirgies, Wagons, etc.. made to order, and all work guaranteed. iTTShop opposite the "Tattcrsall." Olive Street. '-- 1 J "f - w1 -i hjiiwr4:3 ti im . i n rsi ciA n a nd s un a eon, Columlus, lVcl. (;j7;rcCorner of North and Eleventh Sts., up-stairs in Gluck's brick building. Consultation in German and English. TAMES PEAUSALL IS IMtKPAKKD, WITH FIItST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. TyoTBCK to ti:,iciu:ks. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his ollice at the Court House on the first and last Saturdays of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, ami for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. f!7-j Drs. MITCHELL & MARTYN, COI.IJ.lIItlJ.S MEDICAL & SUR5ICAL ll.'IIil'J", UStngeons O., N. cO P.. II. li. Ii., Assl. Surgeons U. P. I"y, COLFMP.US, NEHUASIvA. TUTTS PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appotitc,Nau8ea,bowola costive, Pain in theHead.with a, dull sensation in the back part, Pain under the shoulder blade, follnesa after eating, with a disin" clination to exertion ofljody or nynd Irritability of temper. Low spirits, lioss of memory, with a feeling of having neg lected some duty, weariness. Dizziness, fluttering of tHe Heart, Dots before tho eyes. Yellow Bkin, Headache, Heat loaa ness at night, highly colorod Urine. LT THESE WAROTKGB ABE UHHEEDED, SERIOUS DISEASES W1US00N BE DEVELOPED. TUTTS FELLS are especially adapted to aucheagCBonedoffocaect8uch!ichnnge of feeling as to astonish the sufferer. They In create tlir Appetite, and cause the body to Take on Flrli. Ihva the system la noarlftbetl.and by UiolrToalc ActloHOii the DlBeatl vf Orcans. Keirulnr Ntoola are pro duced. Price a cents. 35 Murray SU, S.Y. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. Orat Hair orWinsmtRs changed to a Giwsy Black by a single application of this Dyk. It imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Bold bjr Dragguu, or snt by ezre on receipt of 1. Office, 35 Murray St., New York. Dr. TLTTS MARCIL t Valukl UrrsIUa 4 k CKhl KfftlpU will be Bt!!t4 MUX aa ppUnUoa.f A MUTUAL BENEFIT; Or, The Independent American Girl. A yonnjr girl, Mlirown on tlio world !' her own living to make nnd no recognized qualifications tor bucIi a duly ! What was to be done? Ella Vincent pat asking herself: 'What shall I do?' It 1s a question which so many girls in and just be yond their teens have been obliged to ask themsolvos during the last soven lean years 'What shall I do for a living?' 'l?ess, I've made up my mind,' Ella Vincent said one morning to her married sister. 'I am not going to wait here for any lover, possible or impossible, to propose tome. I have a growing conviction that tor a wo man to marry for tho mero purpose .of getting a homo, is doing wrong. Then there arc so many who have married 'just for a home,' who havo no homo after all except what they themselves earn. A dear price most of them pay for their homes ! No, I do not propose to sell myself so long as I havo a sound body, a fair mind, two hands, two feet, and iivut-euscs.' 'Well, what do you propose doing?' asked her sister. 'I am going out to service.' Her sister looked up iucreduously. 'You surely do not mean it, Ella.' 1 do mean it, Hess.' 'To service ! O Ella, not that.' 'Yes, just that and nothing else! Why not that, pray? Shall I set up as a seamstress at lifty cents a day, idle half tho time at that, and a board bill coming in every unengag ed day like a malieious fate? lie sides, I could not sit still all day, day after day. It would kill me. I'vo counted the seamstresses and dressmakers in this village of fifteen hundred souls. There are twenty three dressmakers and twenty-six seamstresses of whom I know. Then the teachers, if both sexes arc includ ed, arc more numerous still. There arc from two to live of them in every third or fourth family. I am not qualified for a teacher, and I don't think it worth while, as I have no passion for the work to go through the struggle of the studies first and the competition afterward. 'You might start a select primary school,' suggested her sister. 'Ten scholars on an average at five dollars apiece. That would be a hundred dollars a year not enough to pay my board. If I did sponge on my friends during vacations, where woidd my clothintr come from ? Then I should have my own clothes to wash and iron, and, as mother used to say, it is as easy washing and ironing for three or four as it i for one.' 'Another milliner's store is needed here,' pursued Mrs. Uess, with a troubled brow. 'If you only had the funds you might do well at that.' It! Yes. Well, I haven't the funds and I can not whistle them here. If I had three to five hundred at my disposal, I doubt if I should care to run the risks of a new estab lishment. There would be rents, credit, etc., and I should be as worn and worried as yon arc in two or three years and then tho board-bill, too ! That is such u giant in the way of poor girls I If I boarded myself I should have hypo and dyspepsia both in a little while. Now, in some one's kitchen yes, IJcss in the kitch en. I have not the assurance to be lieve I'd make a success as a parlor servant. I would get in the kitchen from $1.50 to $2.50 a week and my board, and a 'home' week in and week out ; no cankering cares ; con siderable time to myself, and work at which 1 would feel at home.' 'But think how it would sound, Ella.' 'I can not help the sound. I can not afibrd to struggle for years through some foreign clement for the sake of tho sound. What will any body care whether I am 'res pectable' or not, so long as tJtcy haven't the thing to do, it won't hurt their feelings a particle. They will rather enjoy my having to do it; so then, Sis, both myself and everybody will bo suited by my going out to service.' 'I will not be suited at all by it,' said Mrs. Cess. Which is better? to have a good, healthy, happy sister at service and independent of all the world, except ono family, and that family depend ent a good deal upon her, for I mean to make my mark in my line, Bess, or to have that sister a miserable half-famished, discontented, round shouldered seamstress or factory girl, or lace-worker, who would have to depend on you or your hus band for shelter half the time, and whose board-bill you would have to takeout in work' whether you could afford to or not?' The result of this sensible decision of Ella Vincent was an advertise ment in the local paper that week. 'An American girl desires a posi tion as kitchen servant. Is a good cook and understands all kinds of housework. Apply, by letter, to the editor of this paper.' To this, in less than a week, Ella received fifteen applications. Sho accepted tho first oiler, as it was from an entire stranger. I have lived here all my life, sho said to her sister, 'and to go among those who have always known me, will bo more vexing than to be with perfect strangers. Some of my old friends would snub mo, somo would pity; others would bo exceedingly condescending, and my employers would fancy that I would expect privileges which they might not feel willing to accord. I am going to bo au ordinary servant in ono sense, and a Bible one too; diligent in bus ness, not an eye servant. At any rate, I shall havo an easier conscience and a lighter heart than if I depend ed on you or married lor money or a home.' Minnie Grey, aged thirteen, read ing the paper, came to the notice inserted by Ella Vincent. Minnie always read every line in the papers, advertisements and all, therefore she alighted upon what one or two of tho others had unused. 'Mother, hasn't this tho true ring in it?' she asked ; and as her mother listened she read the first article among the Wants. 'Oh, dear 1 I don't know,' said Mrs. Grey, in a discouraged tone. 'She may not know how to cook, after all, and her ironing may be like the last Bridget's not fit to bo seen. Some how these ignorant people seem to think they can do the very things they know the. least about.' 'But perhaps this ono is not ignor ant,' suggested Gracie, the eldest daughter. 'It is likely sho is; for American girls who can leach or do other things are not very apt to go out to service. Even if she can read and write well, she is probably gifted with superabundant curiosity, and will make herself mistress of the contents of our letters, notes and bills. Or she may be such a lover of trashy literature as to neglect her duties for the dime novel or the four-dollar-a-ycar Weekly Cancer.' And discouraged Mrs. Grey leaned wearily back in her chair and closed her eyes. 'Well, mamma, she could not pos sibly be worse than the last Bridget.' 'Well, perhaps it will do no harm to try,' sighed Mrs. Grey, as though from a new rirl sho expected only new trials. 'I can not make a drudge of myself. To take care of your own room and mine is as much as I can expect of you school-girls at present. I believe I will write In this American girl.' Minnie ran for pen, ink and port folio for her mother. 'She may bo too fine for a common servant girl,' eaid the doubting mother, 'she may expect to help en tertain our company, plav on the piano, take her meala with ii, and be a port of chief adviser in family matters.' 'Oh, if she attempts such airs you can very readily dismiss her,' said Grace. 'At any rate you must have somebody before next Friday, papa says, or you will be ill with fretting and working so hard.' 'She says kitchen servant," re marked Minnie, glancing at the paper. 'Ah, yes,' reflected Mrs. Grey, tak ing the newspaper from lier daugh ter and reading the notice carefully. 'It is not to assist in the house work, or in any place not menial : Yes, I rather like the sound of it. I'll engage her by the week at pres ent ; oiler her two dollars and give her to understand that she is to use her head as well as her hands.' So Mrs. Grey was the first to write, and Ella Vincent, expecting no better oiler and well satisfied with that, accepted it at onco. It was soon evident to the family that their new help was neither ignorant nor silly. She was quiet, unobtrusive, neat, tasteful, always interested in her work, and always good-natured and polite. She called the young ladies 'Miss Grace,' and 'Mies Minnie,' quite as respectfully as any inferior servant would havo done, until, at the request of the two and with the ready permission of their mother, the prefix was drop ped. But even then when speaking of them to others she preferred to seem less familiar. I have never yet seen Ella mako her finger into a hook and stick it inside the sugar-bowl when she passes it,' said Gracie, one day, about a month after Ella's. advent among them. 'Her nails are always asclean as a lady's, and she is quite dainty in her ways. I liko her.' And she does not smuggle tea, coffee, butter, fruit and other luxu ries by the pound out of the house to her relations,' said Mr. Grey. 'The grocery bill is less this month than it has been in an age.; less than it was during the four weeks Bridget and I wcro here alone.' 'Is such tho fact?' inquired sur prised Mrs. Grey. 'It is a great re liof to me to have some ono who cares how things aro done, and who takes a prido in seeing that every thing is attended to in tho right time, too. Yes, it is a positive lux ury to have a girl liko her around. Wo ought io show our appreciation of her intelligent services by increas ing her wagee. Sho saves two or three dollars' worth of worry every week, and I bclievo sho is perfectly trustworthy.' 'I'll try her,' exclaimed Minnie. I'll try her on my portfolio or one or two of my letters. I'll leave them in tho kitchcu or on the walk with a. piece of thread or a tiny straw inside.' Don't you feel a little ashamed to propose such a trick, Minuie,' asked her father, 'after her kindness to you in helping yon in your fractions aud preparing, of her own accord, that surprise for you on your birth day ?' No, papa, I do not feel ashamed, because I do not think she. would read my notes any sooner than she would tako my pocket-hook. It is only proving hor, you see, just as I provo my sums. She said tho other day it was good to prove all things, then wo would have no doubts.' 'You may not bo far from bolng just, Minnie,' added tho father. 'It is well to know whom wo can trust in these times.' So Ella was 'proved' by this little girl who, by having seen so much deceit, was rendered suspicioui and distrustful; and sho was found hon orable as well as honest and capable. She has been with the Greys near ly five years; is happy and content ed ; has carneil more than her wages one-half of which sho has laid up sho has earned the respect and es teem of tho Greys and of all their friends and her own, and proved herself a self-respecting, independ ent, honorable girl. She has 'made her mark' in her line. She has also her full share of gen tlemanly gentlemen admirers, but is in no haste to wed. She is taking plenty of time in' which to choose rightly, and expects when she mar ries to havo enoutrh saved to furnish the home of her own, which her husband must be thrifty enough to provide. Grace and Minnie love and treat her as an older sister; nnd Mr. Grey says, as his wife is twenty per cent, younger and fifty per cent, happier since she has reigned in their kitehpii, ho ventures to ofl'er twenty dollars toward tho furnishing of Ella's future parlor for every additional year she remains with them. So she has a home aud friends, health, happiness and prosperity, aud a respectability that is by no means cheap. In what better way could she have 'earned her living' or made a place for herself in the world ? -N. Y. Witness. A iVew Way to Propose Marriage. The tido is turning at last. A young man in Nelson county, Iowa, armed himself with a revolver to shoot a young woman who had de clined the offer of his hand. But she was up to snuff. Sho read the paper and frequently saw accounts of similar affairs, quietly resolving that no discarded lover could make a victim of her, not if thn court, or rather the courted, understood her self. When the young man arrived at the house on his deadly mission he found the fair but cruel one in the kitchen doing the week's ironing. She didn't appear to suspect and he expected to havo an easy time pre paring her for the coroner; but when he reached around to the pis tol pocket, with the remark that her time had come, sho stated, "I gness not," aud knocked him down with a flatiron, demolishing his nose and front teeth. Then she gave him the scalding contents of a tea kettle that was singing a cheerful air on the stove, aud when the family came in sho was mopping the floor with him. The next time he proposes and is refused he will probably conclude that settles it. What appears to be a case parallel with the terrible .leniiio Cramer tragedy, has just come to light at Albion, N. Y. The body of a pretty girl, a farmer's daughter and the mistress of a young man of good family, was found in a canal basin, with plenty of evidence that the death was not caused by accidental drowning. Search for the cause of death is in progress and the girl's lover is in custody. If the young girls of the country would take warning from these sad tragedies, the deaths of these two would not bo in vain. Men grow weaker by every con sent to wrong, stronger by every resistance of wrong. Mourn of CSnrfifld'N Tlioushli. Tho privilege of being a yong man is a great privilogo, nnd tho privilego of growing up to bo an in depondout man in middlo life is a greater. Spoech at Pookskill, Aug. 4, 1SS0. No man can mako a speech alone. It is tho great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him and makes the speech. I feel a profoimder rovorenco for a boy thati a uiau. I never met a ragged boy in tho street without feeling I owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may bo buttoned up under his coat. Poverty is uncomfortable, as lean testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard aud compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintances I never knew a man to bo drowned who was worth while paving. Wo hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the o'irlh that you or I can do for tho dead. They are past our help and pa?.t our praise. We can add to them no glory, wo can give them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever moro wo need them. Speech at Genova,Aug. :, IS80. Bo fit for moro than the thing you are now doitig. If you aro not too large for tho place you are too small for it. In order to havo any success in life, or any worthy success, you must resolve to carry into your work a fullness of knowledgo- not merely a sulliciency but more than a suffi ciency. Young men talk of trusting to tho spur of the occasion. That trust U vain. Occasion cannot make spurs. If you expect to wear spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your heels before you go into the light. To a young man who has in him self the magnificent possibilities of life, it is not fitting that he should bo permanently commanded; ho should be commander. You must not continue to bo employed. You must be an employer. You must bo promoted from the ranks to a command. There is something, young man, which you can com mandgo and find it and command it. Do not, I beseech you, bo con tent to enter upon any business which does not require and compel constant intellectual growth. F.HUCATIO.V. Grand ideas travel slowly and for a time noiselessly, as tho gods whoso feet were shod with wool. It is to me a perpetual wonder that any child's knowledge survives tho outrages of the school house. That man will be a benefactor of his racu who shall teach us how to manage rightly the first years of a child's education. Greek i perhaps tho most perfect instrument of thought ever invented by man, and its literature him ncvor been equaled in purity of style ami boldness of expression. The student should study himself, his relation to pociety, to nature and to art and above all, in all, and through nil these, he should study the relation of himself, society, na ture and art to God the author of them all. One-half of the time, which is now almost wholly wasted, in dis trict Mrhooh on English grammar attempted at loo early an age.would bo sufficient to teach our children to love the republic, and to become its loyal and life long supporters. Ntr:tiic I'rejili of rVjitu?. About fourteen miles from Livo Oak, Fla., there lives n woman with a strange family. One day she went out walking and had occasion to cross a creek on a log, and whilo thus crossing, a huge alligator at tacked aud pursued her for somo distance, frightening her very much. Subsequently she gave birth to twins, both males. They were por fect children down to their waists, and there the human ended, and they are complete alligators on downward, tail and all. There are short webbed feet and legs at tho lower portion of the abdomen liko alligators. They crawl with their hands, dragging themselves about just as alligators do. They mako a squealing, inarticulate noise. Tho mother has had a lnr;e trough or tank filled with water, in which she keeps them, and they live pretty nearly all the time in it. They feed and cat icgularly, and seem to bo doing well, and are seemingly hap py. They aro now about 14 or 15 years old. Comparatively few out side of the immediate neighborhood know of it. The mother has rofused large oU'ers of money for their ex hibition. Jferiden Mercury. Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
