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VOL. XII.-NO. 2G.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1881.
WHOLE NO. gf
THE JOURNAL.
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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
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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.
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KEKP ALL KINDS 1)1"
Fresh and Salt Meats,
-ALSO
Etc., in their season.
:o:
tSTCush paid for IIidt, Lard
a ul Itaron.
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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.
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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.
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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, - $50,000
DIKCTOKS:
Lcaxdrk Gekkviu), Prcs'l.
(Jko. "r. Uulst Vice Pros' t.
Julius A T:kkd.
Edwakd A. CiKitUAini.
Ar.xmt TuuxRit, CasJticr.
Hank of Iopoii, Discount
anl IIiaii(;c.
Collections Promptly .llnIe on
all I'olnls.
1'ny In tore I on Time Iepos-
I.
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END SIMMNGS.
TLATFOIOI SlMtlNGS,
WHirXEY&HUEWSTEi:
SIDE srniNGS.
Light IMonsuiT. ami Business Wag
ons of all Descriptions.
Wc are pleasec to invite the attention
of the public to the fact that we have
just receired a tar load of Wasons and
Itu-riries or all uescriplions, and tliat we
are the sole ascnt for the counties ol
l'latte. Uutler, H')one,MadNou.; Merrick,
l'olk and York, lor the celebrated
CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y,
of Cortland, New Y'ork, and that we are
oll'ering these wairons cheaper than any
other was;on ttiiilt of same material,
style and tini-h can be sold for in this
county.
iSTScnd for Catalogue and Price-list.
11111,. CAI3T,
Columbus, Neb.
484-tf
WILLIAM RYAN,
BKALEK IX
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
ZSTSchilz's Milwaukee Hecr constant
ly en hand.fP?
Eleventh St., Columuus, Neb.
ANDERSON & ROEN,
BANKERS,
KLKVKXTn ST.,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
ZTDcpnsits received, and interest paid
on time deposits.
T&Tl'rompt attention qivai to collec
tions and proceeds remitted on day of
payment.
TGS Passage tickets to or from European
points by best lines at lowest rates.
KIT Drafts on principal points in Eu
rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Hank, Docorah, Iowa.
Allan ,fc Co., Chicago.
Omaha National Hank, Omaha.
Firt National Bank, Chicago.
Kountze Bros., N. Y.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DKALKR IN
W IMS, I.MIIJOKS.
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggist.
PJiysicians Prescriptions Carefully
Com pounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA
SPEICE & NORTH,
Oener.il Agents for the Sale of
Real Estate.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
It. IL Lands for sale atfrom:?:MH)to$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. '--
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-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.