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VOL. XII.-N0. 35.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEE 28, 1881.
WHOLE NO. 607.
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BLACKSMITH
AND
"Wagon jVXaker,
Shops near Founilrr, south of A. k '. Depot-
All kinds of wood and iron work on
Wagon. ltugKlcs Farm Machinery, Ac.
Kenpi on bunds the
TIM P KEN SPUING JIUGGY.
and other eastern buyyics.
ALSO, THE
"Furst te TJradlev Plows.
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COLUMBUS, weii.
A new bouxe, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at rcattonahle rates.
JSTSetH a. Flrnf-ClasH Table.
MphIh, ...25 Cents. Lodgings 2f Cts
3S-2tf
MILLINERY! MILLINERY!
MRS. M. S. DRAKE
HAS Jl'ST KKCEIVKI A LAKGE
STOCK OF
1A1.L AXD WIiVrEIS
MIUIMY Mfl FARCY GOODS.
23TA Fl'Lh ASSOUTMEN'T OF KV
EitYTlIIXG IIELOXGIXG TO
FlltST-CLASS MILLIX-
EUY STOItK.gt
Twelfth St., two doors east State Bank.
27-tf
F. GERBER & CO.,
DKALEKS IX
FURNITURE,
AND UNDERTAKERS.
I
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TABLES, Etc., Etc.
GIVE HIM A CALL AT HIS TLACE
ON SOUTH SIDE lltlt ST.,
One door east of Ileintz's dnig store.
CITY:
Meat Market !
One door north of Post-oflice,
NEBRASKA AVE., - Colmnbus.
KKEr ALL KINDS OK
Fresh and Salt Meats,
ALSO
I w v mm
Etc., in their season.
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tSTCuwlt paid tmr tilde, I.ard
astl ncoB.
542-x
WILL.T.lllCKLY.
H. B. MORSE
IS STILL SELLING WM. SCUILZ'S
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 the olfl,stand,
xchcre he continues to ift)
all kinds of
Custom Work and Repairing.
BECKER & WELCH,
PKOPRIETOES OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS & WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB.
DIM, WEAVER & CO.,
PROPRIETORS OP THE
Columbus Drug Store,
h::u:ri U A. VT. DOLACT.
The Leading Drug House
IN THE WEST.
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A full and complete line of
Drugs, Chemicals,
Patent Medicines, &c,
Painters' Supplies,
Window Glass,
Wall Paper,
AND
IAMPS. Of EVERY DESCRIFTIOH.
When you need anything in our lino
we will make it to your inter
est to call on u.
SSfMr. A. A. Smith retains his
position as Prescription Clerk,ichich
is a positive guarantee against mis
takes, and with our facilities every -thinq
in the itrescription line is
PERFECT.
Dou't forget the place, 3 door.
north oi'l. O. KVT-y
WM. BECKER,
DKAI.KK IK ALL KINDS OK
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
u well selected stock.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Sp cialty.
boo1m Ieliverel Free to nny
purl of the City.
I AM ALSO AGENT FOIl THE CEL
'E (SKATED
COQUIIXARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant snpply on
:iud quality, second to uone.
CALL AND LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. & N. Depot.
STATE BANK,
3i::i::its,Qe4ri i Siel ail Tusk ft Halit.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIRECTORS
Leaxdkk Gerhard, Prcs'i.
Geo. W. IIdlst Vice PrcsH.
Julius A Heed.
Edward A. Gekkard.
Ab.ver Turner, Cashier.
BnHk of MepoNit, DltcoHBt
and Exchnnge.
CoIIcctloHN Promptly Made on
nil Point.
Pay Interest on Time Icpo
tfw. 274
END SPRINGS,
PLATFORM SPRINGS,
WHITNEY & BREWSTER
SIDE SPRINGS.
Light Pleasure and Bnsiness Wag
ons of all Descriptions.
We are pleased to invite the attention
of the public to the fact that we hare
just received a car load of Wagons and
Buggies of all descriptions, and that we
are the sole accents for the counties ol
Platte, Butler, Boone.Madlson, Merrick,
Polk and York, for the celebrated
CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y,
of Cortland, New York, and that we are
offering these wagons cheaper than any
other wagon built of same material,
style and finish can be sold for in this
county.
SSTSend for Catalogue and Price-list.
PHIL. CAIN,
Columbus, Neb.
484-tf
WILLIAM RYAN,
DEALER IJf
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
JPinej, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
JSTSchilz's Milwaukee Beer constant
ly on hand.22
Eleventh St., Columbus, Neb.
ANDERSON & ROEN,
BA1STKEES,
ELEVKNTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
V3TDeposits received, and interest paid
on time deposits.
T&Tl'rompt attention given to collec
tions and proceeds remitted on day of
payment.
TSSTassage tickets to or from European
points by best lines at lowest rates.
T&TDralts on principal points in Eu
rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Bank, Decorah, Iowa.
Allan fc Co., Chicago.
Omaha National liauk, Omaha.
First National Rank, Chicago.
Kountze Bros., N. Y.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALER IX
WINES, LIQUORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMEEY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand 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. Lands forsale at from $3.00 to$10.(H
per acre for cash, or on live or ten year?
time, in annual payments to suit pur
ehasers. We 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 tho city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real os
tato in Platte County.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
GKOCEKS!
ALSO DEALERS IK
Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc.,
ami Country Produce of
all Kiiids.
Till? I EST OF FLOUR AL
WAYS KEPT ON HAND.
FOR THE
LEAST MONEY!
USTGoods delivered free of charge to
auy part of the city. Terms cash.
Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets,
Columbus, iVeft.
TTKNRY GASS,
Manufacturer and dealer in
Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskets
All kinds and sizes of Kebeo, 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. COLUMBUS, NEB.
WE
BEK &. KNOREL,
AT THE
HEAT MARKET I i
Ou Eleventh Street,
Where meats aro almost given away
for cash.
Beef per lb., from 3 10 cts.
Best steak, per lb., ....' 10 "
Mutton, per lb., from C 10 "
Sausage, per lb., from 8 10
gSTSpecial prices to hotels. CG2-ly
LAW, REAL ESTATE
AND GENERAL
COLLECTION OFFICE
BY
W.S.GEER
-VfONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
1 farm property, time one to three
years. Farms with some improvements
bought and sold. Office for the present
at the" Clother Houie-jColumbus, Neb.
COLUMBUS
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
JSTWholesale and Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, LiquorB and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
tSTKentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
UtkStrest, So tk of Depot
J2jgZ7f5
BUSINESS CAEDS.
pOaNEL.IIM dc SULLIVAN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W,
Up-stairs In Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above tho New bank.
row jr. rtiAUGii aw,
JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Platte Center,
Neb.
tt a. HUDSON',
NOTARY PUBLIC,
12th Street, 2 doom nest of Hammond Home,
Columbus, Neb.
491-y
JTVR. M. D. THURSTON,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
Office over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations first-class and warranted.
O
AHICACiO HARIIEK SHOP!
HENRY WOODS, Prop'R.
JSTEvery thing in first-class style.
Also keep tho best of cigars. 010-y
M
rm.m.smm . .- . vj.y
A lttTGR 1IRHM .
A TTORNE YS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing, litis St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
M. MACKAKLAND, B,
J.Attcrsey lai ITstiry Patlls.
R. COWDERY,
Collator.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OK
JOHN M. MACPARLAND,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
Tp H.KUSCHR,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck'3 store,
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
TIT J.THOMPSON,
NOTARY PUBLIC
And General Collection Agent,
St. Edwards, Boone Co., Neb.
MYRON MILLETT,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Fublic.
IIYRON MILLETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. He will give
close attention to all business ontrusted
to him. 248.
T OUIS SCIIREIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
jSTShop opposito the " Tatter&all,"
Olive Street. f2-'
F.
J. schug, n. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
ColximtniB, NcTb.
Office Nebraska Avenue, opposite the
Clother House, three doors north of
Bank, up-stairs. Consultation In Ger
man and English.
TAMES PEARSALL
IS PREPARED, WITH
FIBST-CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove houses at reasonablo
rates. Give him a call.
TVTOTICK TO TEACHERS.
J. B. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office 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 transacttonof any other business
pertaining to schools. EC7-y
Drs. MITCHELL & MAETYN,
COLUItlBUS
USDIGAL I Mm INSTITUTE.
Surgeons O., N. & B. H. R. R.,
Asst. Surgeons U. P.R'y,
COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA.
TUTT'S
PILLS
INDORSED BY
PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND
THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE.
THE GREATEST MEDICAL
TRIUMPH OF THE AGE.
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
JjQMof appetite JTaujgoa.bowebi ooatlve.
Pain in tnoHead.with a dull tenution in
Lou
net
i doty,
ea.
Fluttering of the Heart, Dote before the
eyes. Yellow Skin, Headache. KeaUegi
neae at night, highly colored urine.
IF THXSX WARirarGf AXE UVHEEDED,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTT'S FILLS are especially adapted to
auch eaiea,oBe dose effects inch m change
of feeling sa to astonlah the sufferer.
Tby Iaereaee lb Appetite, and emale the
body to Take ea Flesh, thai the lyitem la
arlae4.and by tbtirToaleAetleaoD the
DlgestlT Onui, BnsUr Ntsola arepro
doced. Price cents, fo Marrmy Wt-. II.T.
TUTT'S HAIR DYE,
Gray Hatb or WniBKEBa chanced to a O lobby
Black by a single application of this Dyz. It
Imparts a natural color, acta Instantaneously.
Bold bj Druggi.u, or sent by express on receipt ol $1.
Office, 35 Murray St., New York.
CDr. TCTT8 M1XC1L tt TslukW UteraslUa Sa4 fe
Cssal KItU wtU he suiM FBU ea swMwriss.f
the baok part, Pain under the ahoulder
blade. fullneie after eating, with a ditln
eUnation to exertion of body or mind.
Irritability of temper, Low epirtte.
of memory, with a feeling of haying
UNDER THE ASH -II OX.
Tell ub about it, Uucle Zinr, loll
usl' cried voices otie could see were
used to making themselves heard
above the clatter, rattle and clank of
the locomotive
'Well, well I I'll do it ho replied,
aa he slowly undid bis tobacco
pouch and began to OU his short
pipe, 'though I don't like to go ovor
the story. To this day there's al
ways Bomothing turns ovor under the
third rib hero when I thiuk of it.
'You see, boys, the hauds that
worked this pouch in those days
came near being tho hands of a
widow then, and my Carl and Julia
werou't born yet, though you might
even then havo called mo Stout
Franz.'
'It was upon New Year's eve, in
the year 1845, thirty good years ago,
and a heavy thunder-storm, driving
snow and sleet mixed together. I
wbb a young fellow ; I'd been mar
ried about a year. You know tho
station is a horrible place for service.
Let a storm como which way it will,
it always sweeps clean across the
6quaro, that's as opon and level as
the top of this table. In toward the
town there is a little cut with two
tracks, one or the other of which
always chokes up in tho first hour of
a drifting Bnow. Just as you got
through tho cut, in the third houso
on Gardeu street, behind tho old
mills that wo often cursed for a nui
sance, because we always had to
shut off steam going by for fear of
the sparks from the chimney catch
iug on the shingle roof, I lived with
my Louiso and. Franz, just born, who
is Superintendent now over at
Rudrich's.
So, on Sylvester evo, 1845, 1 camo
into the station with a heavy freight-
train from Griesthal, after standing
for fourteen hours ou the engine in
a storm at six below. I was frozen
stiff as an icicle, and glad enough,
you bet, to got hold of the Sylvesier
puncb. It was getting dusk already
aa I came in, and, through the whirl
of glistening flakes, saw tho station
with its hundreds on hundreds of
lights, like a huge Christmas-box.
A poor Christmas-box for me 1 There
wore collected through the holidays
a regular town of cars, something
liko 500 of them, and they'd got to
be all made up so that everything
could bo off directly after New
Year's. Hardly had I got off my
engine in tho engine-house, when
up comes the statiou-master, and
says to mo:
Hnuser is taken sick, and you will
have to take No. 3 in bis place.'
Ton thousand thunders I' said I ;
'but I hope it won't last till mid
night, Mr. Station-master, for then I
must be at home, or there's ill luck
for the New Year.'
'Fiddlesticks!' said ho; 'only you
bo sure you're on hand, and away ho
was gone in tho driving snow.
'I thought I'd taken tho matter
more to heart than it was worth, and
laid the cold shiver that crept over
my skin to the uncanny blaet that
came snorting at mo as I came out
with the engine. The whole air was
full of fine snow, and, as the wreaths
of it drove like white ghosts acrosB
the eugine, I could hardly see' the
smoke-stack.
'Of the light-signals ono caught
only now and then a glimpse, red,
white or green ; of the horn and pipe
signals, what with the howling of
the wind about the cars and car
wheels, and its singing in the tele
graph wires, and tho rumbling of
the cars and tho whistling of the
engines, one beard only just enough
to be sure ono had not understood
thorn. Of tho shouts of the men one
could make just nothing but that
they shouted.
'Then thero were a couple of hun
dred car 8 being shunted about in all
directions at tho same time; on all
sides they came looming like great
shadows out of the darkness and
thick snow, and straight vanished in
it again. The poor switch-tenders,
wet to tho skin, up to their kneesin
snow, sprang this way and that be
tween the rolling cars. You know
how a distributing-station looks of
a winter night, God only knows
how 'tis we're not all made mince
meat of in the course of it; and I've
all my life long been surprised when
next morning I haven't heard that
this one or that one was killed on
the spot. And if anything does
happen, then the strict gentleman at
the green table in their warm office
up thero out with the rules out of
their pockets. To be 9 tire, it's the
only way. But if they would only
just for once in their lives take he
trouble to look on themselves out
side! 'That night, then, it was right bad,
and the Sylvester-punch, too, may
have touched the men's breads a lit
tle before-hand, for the ranging went
at a rate aa if Satan himself was giv
ing the orders. The cars flew so
Titn ,. tinfl tliaf avwt tlist 1Srt.n
um tray auu vuoi, ami iuu ullin l
went by like flashes, and everywhere
one heard the groaning, and clinking
of tho buffers crashing together, and
the men crept about undor and be
tween the cars as if the wheels wero
gingerbread and the buffers downy
pillows. But before all tbore was a
wretched Httlo assistant station mas
ter I could not bear tho man, bo
cause be once camo very much in my
way in a certain matter but I could
not help looking in amazement as I
saw his Bignal-Iantorn everywhere,
swinging in an inch, swinging hori
zontally, swinging crosswise, up,
down, behind, beforo, and hoard his
shrill voice through all the storm.
And see, I'd just called to the man,
as I saw him slip through between
two buffers, that ho ought not to bo
so very reckless in a storm where
ono conld neither see nor hear a
thing, and might slip down into the
bargain'. But ho had laughed at me,
and called out : 'You attend to your
own work, Zlmmermann, and never
miud mo; wo must bo through be
foro midnight forward, forward I'
and away he was gone. I had called
after him with a good will : 'To the
dickcnB with you, then P and that I
shall not forget my life long, but
shall think of it with sorrow on my
death-bed.' Here the old engineer
mado a pause, wiped his forohead,
took a draught from his glass of
punch, and went on:
'I heard him still giving the order
'Forward 1' yonder among my com
rades, and heard tho car-chains clink,
and then a sound what like was it ?
Havo you over heard a butcher hack
through a thick bone with bis ax?
and then a dull cry, and then, again,
only the cling and clang of the buff
ers clashing together. A cold shud
der ran over me ; then I got the sig
nal to go ahead there was no stop
ping. 'Forward, forward I' In a
moment I was far away at the other
end of the yard, where no one could
know what had happened.
'But I did ray duty still, only as if
I was dreamiug, and when, a half
hour later, wo had got through and
I entered the engine houso again, the
boss said to me, 'Havo you beard,
Zimmermann, Assistant Station
master Forges has been killed ou the
spot, crushed to death bolwoeu the
buffers?'
'1 didn't ask many questions ; my
very heart shuddered, and I don't
know how I took caro of my ongino
and got on tho way homo. As I
passed by the stairs, I saw a group
with lanterns standing there, and
something covered with a cloak
lying on the snow. I didn't stop ; 1
shivered all over; and I can tell you,
boys, I'd have given, Heaven knows
what, if I hadn't wished him to the
dickens half an hour before. I tried
bard to get that out of my head. I
meant nothing particular by it;
'twas a way of talking common
enough with us. Among you young
chaps it's worao yet, and it would
enre you if you once felt the crawl
ing inBide of you that I have. Well,
at last I made out to get thinking of
tho warm room at homo there with
the felt slippers all ready,and Louise
and the youngster, and the flask of
arrack and the sugar and the lemons
on the table, and the cat and the tea
kettle singing, and by degrees I be
gan to feel a little lighter.
'Now, with all this thinking of
thin and that, you'll readily believe
I hadn't paid much heed to wind
and weather, road or pathway; and
all I knew was, it waa whirling and
howling yet in tho air as I entered
the cut by the old oil-mill through
which I might havo seen the win
dows of my house, if one could have
seen anything at all ten paces off. 1
went ahead on the right-hand track
of the two in the cut bocauso that
was freer from snow, and from that
side I could see my bouse sooner.
And, in truth, I went along quite
carelessly, for I was going from the
yard, and that was the in-track, so no
train could come on me from behind
and at that hour none waB to be ex
pected in front. Besides, I must
have heard it coming.
'Just as I waa in the middle of the
cut, which lies, you know, in tho
curve, and where, that night, one
could not see a car-length off, I heard
a whistle behind me, and right after
it the clip and clap of the approach
ing train. I noticed, too, that the
engine was pufhiug the train before
it, because the stroke of tho engine
was much farther behind than the
rolling of the wheels. I thought,
'Ah, that is the reserve train of some
twenty pair of wheels that stood
yonder ahead on the track, and that
thoy are shunting over to the freight
house.' But all this passed only
vaguely through my mind, as ono
always thinks mechanically of his
work, even when his head and heart
are full of other ;thiiigs. I say
vaguely ; in reality I didn't feel the
slightest interest in it, for the train
must directly pass me on the other
track. But when the ping and pang
of the wheels on 'the hard-frozen
truck had got quite closo up, and I
already heard tho coupling-chain on
the foremost car clinking back aud
fo rtb, and saw tho light of its signal
lantern begin to glide by me on tho
snow, I partly tnrned my head to
call out a 'Happy New Year ! to the
follows up ou'tboitrain.
'But there was no train on the
track; and at the same instant I got
a violent blow in tho back. The
sparks danced beforo my oyes
slap I I lay flat on my face on the
track, and, pungt pung! the cars
began to pass over me.'
Here tho old engineer mado anoth
er pause. It wan as still as death in
the room, and facos breathless and
riveted loaned forward round the
table. Ho filled the glasses again,
pressed down tho tobacco in his
pipe, and wont on :
'You see, boys, when wo sit bore
this way round tho table, or Bland
on the engine, or even, liko poor
Hornig here to-day, have to go thro'
a squeeze by those examiners, our
ideas como along ono aftor tho othor,
slowly and in some sort of order, so
that ono can tako a good look at 'era.
Thoy even say wo engineers are
slower than other men, because all
the quicknoss is go no out of us into
our engiues. But, boys, in tho sec
ond or 90 between tho blow and my
lying flat on tho ground, I did more
thinking than over I did boforo or
since from Easter to Whitsuntide.
First about home, tho warm room
and overything in it, and the New
Year's chimes and the going to
church hi the morning; then the
assistant station-mastor as he lay
thero under tho cloak on the snow ;
and then I began reckoning as dis
tinctly aa if I was giving the orders
for making up all the trains, about
tho train that was passing over me.
How waa it it was on tho wrong
track, the ono I'd been on, comiug
out on tho in-track? And then all
at onco I thought, what before in the
midst of my cogitating I had forgot
tenthe outward track I had seen as
early as noon already deep buried in
snow, and that was why thoy wero
comiug out on the in-track. Then I
saw plain enough the train just as it
stood ; thero couldn't be moro thau
ten or eloven freight-cars, all our
own cars, they all weut high above
the raila they would do mo no
harm. I lay flat enough between tho
rails. But the engiues the ash
boxes of the engines! I knew all
threo engines that still stood fired up
at the station as well as my tobacco-
pouch. Tho Wittekind' would go
harmless enough over mo, even
though I had been stouter thau 1
was; the 'Hormann,' too, might bo
morciful to me, at any rate if it was
carrying little water and fire, and
tho sleepers under mo didn't stand
up too much ; but under the 'Sirius,'
one of the new, low-built elephants,
I was a dead man. Ay! dead? That
wouldn't be the worst. I should be
slowly crushed and torn into shreds.
Which engino waa it, then, coming
there?
'All this, you see, boys, I had tho't
between the blow and the lying flat;
but when I was once down all cal
culation ceased ; and it was just by
instinct I stretched myself out and
held my breath and mado mysoll
thin aa an otter that's trying to get
out from a trap, and counted the
axlea that passed on over me. Every
ping and pang spoke distinctly out
in sylables, 'A wretched death, a
wretched death!' And now some
thing heavy catching hold of me!
No, it is nothing yet it only grazes
mo, and glides clinking its length
along over me and .off, striking a
chill to my marrow it is a chain
banging down. But now it comes!
the ground begins, at first gently,
then stronger and stronger, to trem
ble under me; it comes very slowly.
Tbon I saw at the side that tho rails
and the snow and the rolling wheel
shadows over me grew ever redder,
redder. It was tho engine-Are shin
ing from the ash-box. Now I felt'it
grow hot on my bare head and neck.
The sleepers yielded under me; the
rails groaned and bent; the ground
shook violently ; it is on me. It
strikes mo violently in the back,
presses forward God have mercy
on me! Then rip, crack! something
on mo gave way. Pang! pang!
rolling! thundering! stamping I
tho engine had passed over me and
off. From the free heaven once
more the snow-cloud plunged down
upon inc.
How I got on my legs I don't
know. I stood there. I shook my
self, and saw the red lights of the
eugine disappear round the curve.
They looked to me like the eyes of
a veritable bodily death. Then I
felt myself to see what the engine
had torn looso; and, behold, the
regulation buttons were gone from
my coat behind.
'I went to the nearest switch-tender
and got a lantern and looked for
the buttons in the snow; hut when
we were sitting round the bowl at
home, and I was putting iu first too
much rum and then too much sugar,
Louiso, wondering, asked :
'Husbaud, what's tho matter with
you? You tremble so, and don't
speak a word.'
'Then my senses and speech came
to mo again, and I showed Louise
the buttons, and told her the story,
and, holding up a button 'twixt fin
ger and thumb, said :
'See, within so much of a horrible
death has your husband been to
night!' Look ! 1 have tho buttons yet, and
mean to carry them till death cornea
in reality.'
The old man opened his coat and
drew out two buttons, stamped with
tho King's arms, which ho woro
secured by a string about his neck.
Applelons' Journal.
Another Oplnlou or Gee. KII
putrlck. General Kilpatrick, who died the
other day at Santiago, Chili, whero
for the second timo he represented
tho United States, was peculiar in
his character. He was a Jersey far
mer, patterued upon )he Horace
Greeley plan of granger. He had a
great pride in his costly pigs and
his model cows. He would havo
been unable to support thorn iu lux
uriance but for tho aid secured by
revenue from tho rostrum, which he
haunted. He was a dashiug, but not
discreet, general at 24, and since
then an active, but not politic po
litical campaigner. It was he who
from the Htump of Indiana told
Hayes in 1S7G that nothing would
win but a bloody-shirt campaign,
with plenty of money in it. At his
Jersey farm, a biographer says, he
lived somowbat pretentiously ; kept
a colored waiter in full dress in bis
dining-room, served dinners of ma
ny courses, with various kinds of
wines, and a house full of curious
aud costly things that ho had bro't
from Chili. His most marked char
acteristics were those of the tradi
tional soldier. He was quick-tempered,
wanting in bueincss judg
ment, prodigal in his means, and not
always guarded in his speech. Liv
ing iu clover in his master's stablo,
a year or more Bgo, was "Spot," the
General's war horso, that carried
tho soldier through all the battles in
which ho took part under Grant,
and again under Sherman. Ho waa
not a useful diplomatic agent for tho
government, for ho was anything
but diplomatic Chicago Times.
"Home Sweet Home."
In the spring of lSb3 two great
armios were encamped on either
sido of the Rappahannock Eiver,ono
dressed in blue and tho other in grey.
As twilight fell the band on tho
Union side began to play "The Star
Spangled Banner" and "Rally Round
the Flag," and that challenge of
music was taken up by those on the
othor side and they responded with
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" aud "Away
Down South in Dixie." It was
born iu the soul of a single soldier
in one of tboso bands of music to
begin a sweeter and more tender air
and slowly as ho played it they
joined in a sort of chorus of all the
instruments upou tho Union side,
until finally a great and mighty
chorus swoiled up and down our
army "Home.Sweet Home." When
they had finished there was no chal
lenge yonder, for every band upon
that further shore had taken up tho
lovely air so attuned to all that ia
holiest and dearest, and one great
chorus of the two great hosts went
up to God ; and when they had fin-
Jshed, from the boys in grey came a
challenge, "Three cheers for homel"
and as they went resounding thro'
the skies from both sides of the
river, "something upon the soldiers'
cheeks washed off the stains of pow
der." y. Y. Methodist.
A former president of a New Eng
land college after getting 11 seat in a
horso car uoticed one of the fresh
men of bis college curled up in front
of him, and exhibiting obvious signs
of vinous exhileration. A close in
spection revealed the fact that the
state of inebriety waa not hastily put
on (like a bat), but had been worn
closely (like an undershirt) for sev
eral days. For a few moments the
president surveyed the undergradu
ate with an expression of mingled
commiseration and disgust, and fi
nally ho exclaimed, "Been on a
drnnk!" The half-conscioua stu
dent rallied bis straying senses, and
with a gleam of good fellowship in
his eye, somewhat unrespectfully
ejaculated, "So hie have I !"
How depraved is tho literary taste
of youth. Take a hundred boys,
aged about fourteen each, and itmay
be safely wagered that ninety-nine
of them would rather read a story
called "Red-Headed Jim, the Assas
sin of Cabbage Alley," than to
peruse Prof. Gold win Smith's "Mor
al Interregnum."
Acorn ou the tree Is worth (wo on
tho toe.
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